Redemption

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the result of… well, I don't know what to honestly say it's the result of. For some reason my brain had this brilliant glitch to combine Transformers and elves. The elves turned less LOTR/Inheritance-like as I went on. Have to say, I was real hesitant to put this one out because it initially seemed a bit too far-fetched/off-canon for my tastes, but have given into my addiction to reviews.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Transformers. Not even action figures. I don't own any songs Bumblebee uses to communicate. Alounara and the Dagaan, however, are of my own invention.

COMMUNICATION KEY:
"English/Lyrics"
"Alounarian"
Comm Link (Cybertronian)
ONBOARD COMPUTER


STASIS LOCK. 00:10:35:00.

STASIS LOCK. 00:10:30:00.

The words had been flashing in his line of vision for the last several hours of travel. First it had been "recommended," then "urgently required." Finally they were accompanied by a time, a countdown- mandatory. A planet. He desperately needed to find a planet. His stored Energon was rapidly becoming depleted, despite giving over control to his travel form's autopilot.

Several more grueling minutes passed with no sign of anything ahead besides the same sort of empty space he was already burning through. At that point, even an asteroid would do. Anything large enough to land on and prevent him from hurtling through space indefinitely and without direction while his shut-down systems recharged.

STASIS LOCK. 00:04:45:00.

SUN DETECTED.

Less than five minutes before a total system lockdown his instruments located the light and heat of a distant star. Immediately overriding the autopilot, he altered his course in hopes the star had any form of planetary body orbiting.

STASIS LOCK. 00:03:25:00.

A small sun came into view on his monitor, flanked by a solitary planet, green showing through the atmospheric cloud. The stasis system automatically locked onto the planet and began to direct a landing. The mech also discovered that to provide the energy to do so, the onboard computer had closed down the communication system. He would be forced to wait until he had reached the surface to contact the others. It could mean his systems locked down before he could transmit the message. It could mean by the time a message was sent, his fellow Autobots had missed this tiny solar system entirely, or gone into stasis lock themselves. It could doom Optimus- he was already heavily wounded from Earth and in no shape to travel. But with the lock system overriding everything, there was nothing he could do about it.

STASIS LOCK. 00:01:15:00.

Cutting through the atmosphere, the planet below was a blur of greens, browns, and blues. Eerily like the planet they had just left behind. The land mass below, as it streaked by, looked to be primarily coated in forest, a fact which the stasis system failed to take into account while directing the emergency landing. This was going to be rough, and not unobtrusive as he had hoped. If there was any luck on his side, though, the planet would be unoccupied.

At STASIS LOCK. 00:00:30:00. several tree trunks splintered and a dull thud echoed across the land as the Autobot's bulk impacted with the earth, forcing him to a stop. Stasis immediately began shutting systems down, and he immediately began fighting to send a comm out. The stasis system, its single-minded purpose to prevent a full Energon loss regardless of any consequences associated with a full stasis lockdown in the current location or situation, tried to override every step. The usually effortless action of sending a comm out became a tiring multi-step battle. His processing was slowing, making the transmission take even longer to put through. In a final desperate bid to prevent Optimus from tumbling uncontrollably through space and becoming lost from their ranks forever, he forced a com through to the other Autobots containing only what he could manage to relay quickly- his coordinates.

STASIS LOCK. 00:00:03:00.

Vision dimming and blurring, he mustered the last of his energy to shift into a safer mode, the most recent vehicle form he had scanned.

STASIS LOCK. 00:00:00:00.

The final pieces of the vehicle's exterior slid into place before everything on his onboard computer went suddenly and indefinitely black.

On some distant planet, a brilliantly yellow Camaro stood locked and still amidst the wreckage of ancient forest trees.

But it was not alone.