Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers
Summary: Starts right in the middle of the battle of Chicago after the prologue, random plat bunny that was starting to hurt if I didn't write.
Ok, just finished watching the Devil Wears Prada and am using the "xxxxx" character of Miranda Presley as basis or Mearing's attitude problem...
Chapter One
Icons of Self Indulgence
xxx 2011, six weeks before Chicago.
Sam Witwicky slept peacefully on the couch in his and Carly Spencer's loft apartment, every 28 days he was kicked to the couch at night, not that he cared...
Tonight he was plagued by a mild dream, one that would unknowingly change his life forever.
...
The open field went on forever, seeming to blend in to the dark blue sky.
No one was there besides Sam, until a figure waked towards him, a woman...
She was older than him, black hair streaked with silver as her white flowing dress brushed the ground.
"Samuel Witwicky, I need your help, as I request from one of Cybertron's lost Primes."
"The Primes?"
"Yes, I am the only female Prime in Cybertron's history, but I do not have the time to explain, please help me."
Sam only stared as she removed a silver chain from around her neck, revealing a glass pendant with a tiny metal replica of the Matrix of Leadership as she handed it to him.
"When you fear you will lose the last true Prime and his Lord Protector to each other, smash this one the ground near them...they must get along or will perish..."
"What? Hey! Where are you going!"
"Help them Samuel, they must reconcile..."
She disappeared...
...
And Sam woke up, holding the necklace.
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Chicago
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Sam gaped as heavily as Ratchet did at the forming Cybertron just outside of Earth's atmosphere.
Familiar jet engines roared above them, and Sam jerked his head to follow the noise when something smacked a stone building.
Dino glared up at the sky. "'Bout Time!"
Sam held back a shout of relief, "Optimus!"
His cell beeped once, the autobot leader was alright.
And pissed as he slid across the pavement, kicking aside debris as he shed the flight gear and swung at 'cons, cutting them in half with ease as he made his way to Sentinel and the pillar.
Taking a 'con half out with a fist, Optimus threw him to the ground, ripping his spinal wires out when the helm cracked and twisting the gun arm back to fire at the cupola concealing the control pillar.
"Get down here Sentinel."
"Optimus, you forget your place!" Sentinel snarled, swinging his blade before jumping off the building, slamming the sword into the stone to guide his descent down.
"I bring you Cybertron, your home." Sentinel snapped, "And still you choose humanity."
Sam knew he shouldn't be as close to the fighting mechs as he was, but he couldn't help it, the pendant in his pocket was starting to heat up on its own...
"You were the one who taught me freedom is everyone's right."
"I will retrigger that pillar!"
"Then you'll have to go through me!"
Optimus was kicked aside, and Sam ducked around the pile of debris to where Carly hid.
"Alright, I have to help..."
"Don't go-"
"Listen to me."
"Don't go.
"Stay here...You'll be fine, ok? I promise...I got to get to that pillar."
Her eyes told him to stay but she didn't say anything as Sam ran, gun shots covering his pounding feet and drowning out her racing heart.
Sentinel's voice boomed out from where he was trying to rip Optimus sword off his arm, "Charge the pillar!"
Sam raced through the battlefield, ignoring several 'bots gazes just for the fact their optics might make him stop, he couldn't afford any more time wasted...that pillar had to go.
"Reinforcements!" Sentinel was getting desperate, he'd taught Optimus a little too well, "Decepticon ships, fire at Optimus!"
Distantly, Sam could hear the bots and soldiers yelling to get near their leader, trying to provide cover for the incoming, and most likely vicious shots.
Optimus was groaning, either in strain or in pain as he ducked by a statue to pull out a fresh weapon as Sentinel went after Dino and Bumblebee.
"Decepticons! Trigger the pillar! Restart that pillar!"
Sam slid to stop at Optimus' yell, "I can't hold them! The ships have us pinned!" The leader disappeared from sight as he went down among shots, and Sam winced at the sharp heat from the pendant, but the pillar was still sparking, it was still active.
Dylan was already at the pile of masonry the pillar had crashed against, crawling up desperately to the device as Sam slid around and made to grab him.
"Dylan! Wait"
"No!" The foot collided with his chest, sending him back a bit.
"Dylan!"
All he could do was yell stop, the gun was leveled with his chest even after his hand were up.
"You can't do this, okay?"
"There's only one future for me..." Blowing paper caught Dylan's attention and the gun swung away, Sam took the chance to slam a rock into the man's knee.
The fist fight was brief, and Sam couldn't keep a strong enough foot hold and one shove was enough for Dylan to crawl forward and slam a hand down on the pillar, sending it back to work.
The two could only stare as the pillar levitated, lighting up and only adding to the cacophony of noise.
Dylan turned his attention back to Sam, knocking him over and repeatedly jamming his foot into Sam's torso.
"You chose sides? You chose wrong."
Sam lay with the wind knocked out of him, half hearing Sentinel's fire truck motor fade away as Optimus most likely chased him. He hoped the peterbilt caught him before they got across the river, the cleaner roads meant the double turning axled fire truck could out run the semi truck due to manueverability.
The two Primes' fight echoed over the din of guns and blasters, their shouts coming clear and strong, but there was a strain to both of the vocals.
"Always the bravest of us! But you never make the hard decisions!" Sentinel scolded, sounding like an elder telling a bad child yet again to behave."
"Our planet will survive!"
"No!"
Sam cringed as soon as he could breathe properly, Optimus' roar of pain silenced the fight for a brief moment and the human feverently wished he was alright.
"Get up Sam!"
The man jerked up as Ironhide thundered towards him, armor a bit dull but intact.
"Ironhide! What happened? How-"
"No time kid, jus' get yer head in the fraggin' game!"
The weapon specialist flicked his wrist, rotating his arm into a roaring plasma cannon and leveling off a shot into a 'con about to take off Ratchet's head.
"Hide! What the frag!"
"Don't ask Hatchet jus' shoot the fraggin' 'cons!"
Bumblebee shouted out in a rapid fire of beeps, making the racing Wheeljack smile before jabbing a 'boom' stick into a 'cons back and then yank 'Bee down as it detonated.
"We were god once! All of us! But here-"
"Please!"
The Primes' shouts were getting louder again, laced with Optimus crying out in pain and the grind of metal on metal.
"There'll only be one!"
Sentinel must have about to do something since he swore loudly as a plasma gun went off, and it wasn't Ironhide's.
"This. Is. My planet!"
Sam winced as Megatron's voice cut off Sentinel attacking Optimus, the human forcing himself to his feet and looking up at the sky, Cybertron was getting bigger.
Much bigger.
Sam looked around, smirking as he saw a feasible weapon, grabbing it and climbing up to Dylan.
He turned at Sam's approach, glancing down to the concrete encasing one end of metal pipe, one wicked bat.
"I just saved a whole other world! You think you're a hero, huh? You think you're a hero!"
Sam let him yell, shifting his grip like he'd seen Ironhide do with a makeshift mace.
"No," His voice was quieter, but steadier, "I'm just the messenger."
He yelled out as he swung, hitting Dylan square in the temple and sending him back against the electricity charged pillar, ducking as it sparked and looked ready to blow as Dylan shook before collapsing, dead.
Epps voice called from behind Sam and he glanced over his shoulder.
"The pillar's still connected! Let's bring it up!"
"Bee! Let's do this!"
Sam stood in a partial daze until Ratchet came running with a laser on his wrist, aiming to fire. He jumped off to get out of the way, and yanked the now hot pendant from his pocket as he watched Ratchet fire at the device before Bee tackled it.
The pendant was getting desperate...
The moment the pillar was ripped down and crushed, the beams that had been pulling Cybertron to Earth began pulling the Decepticons off the planet...
That was a relief.
Sam watched the energy begin to whiplash back at the mechanical planet, Cybertron was beginning to break down.
A garbled yell drew his attention back to the three titans, and Sam took off at a sprint while Ratchet was checking over Bumblebee.
Oh, the medic was going to kill him for that...
Sam slid to a stop as he saw Optimus force himself back to his feet, Megatron was halfway holding Sentinel up before he shoved him aside.
"Now, we need a truce...All I wanted was to be back in charge...Besides, who would you be without me Prime?"
The voice of that woman echoed in Sam's head, his mind realizing what she had known the entire time, "Now Samuel, they'll kill each other..."
Optimus was glaring at Megatron, before his mask clicked into place over his jaw.
Sam ran forward onto the bridge...
"Time to find out." Optimus ground out.
"Nooo!"
The pendant fell from his hand, hitting the ground and sending up enough of an energy blast that they might as well have been in a sandstorm...
Sam now regretted this as Optimus began yelling, matching Megatron's bellow of pain.
"I'm gonna die..."
Tada!