IWalkAlone

Chapter One:

Arrival

The rain was cold and the small stream she landed in wasn't helping any. She wanted her daddy; he would take care of Mommy and make everything ok again. Megatron had ordered the destruction of all femme bots and sparklings, Decepticon and autobus. They had separated her and her mother from her father so he wouldn't try to top them. They had managed to escape and came to earth even though the mother was horribly wounded and dying, she used the last of her strength to take her daughter somewhere she knew would be safe. She didn't last long at all after they had landed. The sparkling curled up against her body. She was barely alive. Every now and then she would whisper to the baby bot through their bond in an attempt to comfort her.

"Everything will be ok, love." Her optics faded out once again and a voice was heard soon after.

"The signal came from over here, bu- Hey! It's gone!"

The sparkling cuddled closer against her mother's body upon seeing a team of mechs coming over the hill. The smaller mech noticed them first, "Optimus! There!"

The others stayed back while Optimus Prime stepped closer to the purple sparkling, slowly. He didn't want to scare her; he could only imagine what she had been through, seeing how terrified she already was. He watched as the tiny bot cuddled against her mother, looking up at him with fear in her optics. He kneeled down to get closer, "Hey...are you alright, little one?"

His question went unanswered as she took off down the stream and into a small cave-like opening at the very bottom. He jumped down in front of it, trapping the little femme inside. She was just out of his reach.

"I'm not going to hurt you." She still didn't come, "I'm here to help you. You can trust me."

Prime held his hand out once more, gently and she crawled forward to poke at it and make sure he wasn't going to hurt her. Eventually, she crawled up in his big hand and he stood up. He turned to see Ratchet holding the femme in his arms, bridal style. "Prime, the femme is barely alive. It was her distress call we picked up. But...I'm afraid I cannot save her..."

Optimus looked at the shivering figure in his palm, "Is that your mother, little one?"

She nodded.

The femme was a dark purple color with shimmering, tubular crin type material streaming in strands from the top of her head in a sort of ponytail effect, blowing in the breeze that seemed to get colder as her spark faded into nothing. He spotted the Decepticon symbol on her chest plate, "Who did this?"

"Mega...tron."

Jazz's optics widen, "What?! What'd you do to piss him off?!"

"He ordered for all femme's and younglings to be terminated..."

Prime's anger for his brother only deepened upon hearing her words, "That happened a long while back..."

"He decided to kill of the Decepticon femmes recently to make sure the Autobots had no way to reproduce. He found a way to make sparklings through test tubes of sorts. They...thought they had killed me...I managed to...get here...without them noticing." She raised her quivering hand to her sparkling and stroked her fingers against the tiny cheeks, "I love you..."

Her ruby optics dimmed and she went offline.

The team carried the two back to the base. Elita was the first to see Prime enter, "Optimus! Thank Primus you're-" She stopped talking after seeing the site before her, "What happened?!"

"Megatron happened..."

Her optics went to the sparkling in his giant palm. She reached out and pulled the baby bot close to her chest, comfortingly, "Optimus, this sparkling is a Decepticon..."

"Yes, I know. But I sense no evil within her." Optimus looked down at the sparkling against his lover's chest, "What's your name, little one?"

The little bot shuddered before she spoke, "Cubic Zirconia..."

Optimus traced a finger across her cheek, "Welcome to the autobots, Zirconia."