A/N: Huge Shout out to Hopeless Echo for reviewing all of the previous chapters! You are awesome and I'm glad you're liking the story so well, even if my editing skills arent' exactly up to par. So, thanks again, Hopeless Echo. Read, REVIEW, and Enjoy, everybody! ~Gin


Chapter 7:

"Speaking"


Two years passed and Ace was just as vital part of the Autobots as Ratchet and Optimus themselves, every single one of the Spec Ops treated Ace like family despite the fact that she was human.

Time and time again Ace had proven herself on the battlefield, whether it was her vicious protective streak that caused her to lay down fire from her plasma pistol or dragging an injured bot to safety.

Anytime someone just needed to talk, Ace was there to lend an ear and always seemed to have excellent advice, seriously there wasn't a single bot who didn't like her.

Even Red Alert seemed to like her, well as best as could be guessed with his paranoid nature and his penchant for being a bit harsh with newcomers.

Walking through the halls, Ace walked into Wheeljack's office having needed to bring him in for a checkup as he had done pretty good about not mortally injuring himself.

However it was always bound to change and the faster she could get in to tell him he had a checkup, the faster she could retreat to the safety of the hall.

"Wheeljack."

"Oh. Hello Ace, can I-"

Just as Wheeljack turned to look over at Ace, the metal of the tool he was using had touched the last remaining shard of the Allspark before an massive explosion rocked through the room.

Slamming into the hard wall, stars burst across Ace's vision before pain like nothing she had ever felt before pierced her chest causing her to scream out.

Ace lay on her side in a daze, unaware that she had been completely skewered through with the last shard of the Allspark before she began to crawl forwards, noting that Wheeljack had been badly charred.

Pain wracked Ace's body with every breath, every movement it took to drag her body towards the alarm before she reached up, flailing as her vision doubled and she kept trying to grab the wrong switch.

A warm taste of copper filled Ace's mouth as she coughed, angling her body up to grab the switch before her legs gave out, allowing her to pull it down as the alarm began to sound.

Wheezing even as she felt as if she were drowning, Ace slowly crawled towards Wheeljack, laying next to his helm in exhaustion after just a few feet of movement.

"Jackie…help's coming…Jack…"

Darkness tunneled in on Ace's vision, the world spinning until she felt like she was moving even though she knew she wasn't.

Hearing the heavy thud of footsteps rushing towards Wheeljack's lab, Ace smiled weakly, as she pet Wheeljack's face before vaguely hearing an anguished cry before the world finally went dark and everything faded.

Optimus had been closest when Wheeljack's alarm had went off yet again causing him to leap into a run, however when the door opened he was not expecting a trail of blood to lead to Wheeljack's side, showing Ace with the shard of the Allspark completely pierced through her.

An anguished cry tore itself from his vocalizer as he rushed forwards, kneeling beside Wheeljack and Ace before carefully picking Ace's body up in his servos as Ratchet lifted Wheeljack into his arms.

Roaring back to the med bay, Ratchet had First Aid tend to Wheeljack as he scanned over Ace his optics going wide at the feedback.

"Optimus…"

"What? What is it?!"

"She's…she's bonding with the Allspark shard."

"She's what?"

Moving forwards, Optimus's optics widened at the sight of the silver light pulsing into Ace's body as she lay on her side, his own sensors reading the Allspark merging with Ace.

"What do we do Ratchet?"

"I have no idea. I've never dealt with the Allspark bonding with a human before but I believe it would be most wise to let it do what it will."

Optimus nodded before walking out of the room, only to nearly be run over by nearly every Autobot in the base, piled up outside of the med bay.

Giving them a quick rundown on the situation, Optimus sent them back to their posts, assuring those that were more upset than those who had managed to go back to their posts.

Finishing the incident report, Optimus headed back to the med bay, his frame aching with every step out of exhaustion, however he ignored the normal ache of his frame.

Hearing the door open, Ratchet looked over to see Optimus looking rather worn out but this time he didn't say anything, merely nodded to Optimus who nodded back before walking into the ICU where Ace had been moved.

It had only been a day since the incident but already, all of Ace's veins had taken on a silver hue and the shard seemed to have shrunk a bit.

Seeing Ace lying on the small berth was spark breaking, she looked so small and fragile, even more so than usual and her normally vibrant persona was gone, replaced by a pale shell.

Sitting down in the offered chair, Optimus quietly spoke of his day and how things had gone as well as how worried he was about her until he ran out of things to talk about and bid Ace a good recharge before heading to his own quarters for recharge.

Every day had Ace changing into a Cybertronian form and in two weeks the human body of Ace was no more and in her place lay an interstellar femme.

Optimus had mourned the loss of the human Ace, but had welcomed Ace's new Interstellar frame, holding onto her clawed servo, unaware of the conversation she was making to the ancient Primes.

Ace had floated in darkness for an unknown amount of time and honestly, she had thought that she had died and if it was death, it had fucking sucked.

At least until the towering forms of the ancient Primes had walked into her vision and had began to explain exactly why she was there.

"So you're telling me that basically this is an accident. Honestly, I'm basically the new Allspark now?! I'm human in case you haven't noticed!"

"Dear spark, you aren't human anymore."

"I'm- what?!"

Looking down at herself, Ace definitely did not see human hands but rather a claw tipped Cybertronian's hands or rather servos as they were called.

"Now, now, there is no time to panic we have a lot to teach you as a new Prime and very little time to do so."

"Prime status is earned not given."

"And you have indeed earned it. Did you not think that we have not watched over you as well as our descendant?"

"Perhaps. Anyways, let's get to work."

Unknown to Ace, a year had passed while she had learned what she could from the Primes before they finally allowed her to regain what consciousness she could in her new body.