The Autobots cheered in victory as they had listened to what their Prime had said – the war was over and now it was time to rebuild Cybertron. All bots now knew the truth – that Optimus had been a twin and that Optimus had once been a pleasure. And for all that Optimus, Mirage, Illusion, Orion, and Hide had feared if the truth was revealed, things now showed that their fear was for naught. Optimus had been accepted for who he was. Mirage had been curious as to why bots were so accepting, and so he asked around. The answer he got was "he first accepted us as we were, how could we offer any less to him." These comments made Mirage smile.
And while the others were starting to rebuild the busted down city, Optimus was with his mother Orion and his adoptive father Ironhide. "Son, I don't understand something" Hide stated, curious about a remark that Optimus had made on the way back to the base after destroying Megatron.
"What is that?" Optimus asked.
"Megatron could have slaughtered you, killed us all and destroyed Cybertron…. And yet, you are sad you had to kill your twin?" Hide stated, a bit confused.
"Just because he was evil makes him no less my brother" Optimus stated, "he was my brother just like Bee is or any other sparklings you had. I feel bad that in order to make peace, I had to lose my own brother."
Hide was a bit taken aback, as he hadn't really understood. Orion was there, listening as well. "I can understand how you feel, Optimus, as he was my son. No matter how evil, he was still my son. Yet, sometimes sparklings do go before their creators. I wish he had had a chance to know love, but his sire took that away from him. Hellion raised Megatron to be as he was, and that was all he ever knew. There was nothing you could have done to save him, Optimus. There was nothing I could have done to save him."
Optimus felt better listening to what his mother said, as Orion had much the same feeling Optimus had. Hide just offered a hug to the pair and they embraced him. Optimus felt better.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the base, Mirage was helping others while still watching his little ones. Now that the threat of cons attacking was over, Mirage no longer felt he had to remain trapped in the quarters with the young ones to protect them. They could come out and be part of the rest of the Autobots. Flasher, Keeper, Slugbug and Kryptonight loved it and helped their siblings to love it too, though Silverstreak could be a bit fussy at times.
"Wow, Mirage, I didn't realize you two had so many wonderful sparklings" a random Autobot stated.
"Yeah, we believe in big loving families who help out" Mirage answered. He was proud that most of his sparklings behaved so well. Luckystar and Silverstreak occasionally got into petty little fights or arguments, but usually a threat to go to their rooms or to send them to dad would stop those.
"I am excited that we are going to be rebuilding Cybertron" another mech said happily joining in on the converastion. "And with all the new sparklings, bots will soon repopulate the whole of Cybertron."
"I hope Optimus keeps his promise" a random femme stated, coming up to the group. She was an older femme who had lived through the class system before, when Sentinel was around and she hated it as it prevented her from working in the field she wanted to work in – the medical field.
"And what promise is that?" Mirage asked, a bit worried by the femme's tone and how rudely she seemed to butt in on the conversation.
"That the class system that we had preciously under Sentinel Prime is gone" she replied, her obvious dislike of the system showing through in her comment.
Mirage was relieved when he heard that. "I can assure you that Optimus has no intention of starting that up again. Remember, he started life in the lowest rung of that ladder. I know Optimus, he wants all bots to be able to do and go and work as they please, so long as they follow a few commonsense laws that are on the books" Mirage stated.
"I don't mind laws, but I hate class systems" the femme stated, relived that maybe now she could finally follow her dream and become a medic like Ratchet.
"Those are gone. Optimus abolished the class system as soon as the war broke out" Mirage answered. The three random bots were pleased to hear that. "Plus, the young bots know nothing of it, so I doubt it will ever come back, at least while Optimus is Prime."
The three smiled and soon left as they had things to do now that restoration was in progress, first on the city of the Prime which the Autobots had made their base, well, underneath it had been their base.
Meanwhile, over at the other bot base, Autobots were destroying equipment that had done harm to thousands of bots during Megatron's days as the Cons leader. They were ripping out and destroying anything that had been used as a torture device, though the stored the information about each item in case something like this popped up again. It didn't take long for the Autobots to completely disassemble the con base. The remaining cons that had been captured were in a brig awaiting trial. Optimus had ordered that they all be secured until they could face punishment for their crimes.
No one realized it yet, but in the chaos of everything with the war ending and Cybertron being rebuilt, Starscream and his two brothers, along with Sundimmer, had managed to make it out alive and for now, they were just bidding their time in space, as they knew they needed to build up an army, a big army before they could go on the attack again. "Mark my words, Prime, some day you will be mine" Starscream screeched darkly.