Hello people, just a quick notice.

Chapter nine – which was originally an authors note has been changed into a full chapter now, so if any of you haven't read it yet I would do so now before reading this chapter, other wise you might be a tad confused. This chapter is like a long explanation from the bots so if any point you do get confused just let me know and I'll try and explain it a bit better.

Next. Thank you everyone who's reviewed, followed and fav. And thank you 'Nexia Jazilynn prime' – for some reason I had 1987 in my head, I will correct that mistake but I glad you like the story :)

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Now onwards

Previously: 'Lightning turned to Optimus "what's a spark keeper?" She asked'

Chapter 9: Solus Pax and the Spark keepers

Optimus sighed as he stared at the purple haired girl, Lightning. 'The way she acts is just like Solus as well, I wonder if they are connected in some way' he thought, "you might as well get yourselves comfortable, this is going to be a long story" he said and watched as the three younger siblings got down from the platform and went and sat next to their oldest sister.

"Yes, story time" said Jazz as he pumped his fist in the air and sat at the back of the berth behind the kids who just stared at him, "what, I love stories on the history of cybertron" he explained as he shrugged his shoulders, Bee chuckled and made himself comfy next to Jazz on the Berth and waited for Optimus to start.

"Back on Cybertron" Optimus began "there were two main optic colours – blue and red – blue soon became the coding for an autobot while the red was coding for a decepticon, you also had the two uncommon colours green and purple, with purple being the colour for any neutral cybertronians however you also had the optic colour gold sometimes golden brown as well. The gold was a rare colour and only a spark keeper had gold optics.

Spark keepers were around long before the war had started, they were the guardians of the all spark. We are not sure how the all spark was created but we know that spark keepers were also created at the same time, they had some sort of bond with the all spark and were able to draw energy from the spark it self to protect it. The energy drawn from each spark keeper reacted differently, giving them all different powers, for example the ability to control certain elements like fire or water, some even had the ability of a 3rd change into giant creatures that could soar though the skies.

The spark keepers began to decrease in numbers because unfortunately to become a spark keeper you had to be sparked as one so either one or both of your parents had to be a spark keeper, the original spark keepers however thought of themselves as superior to the rest of us and refused to produce offspring with the 'weaker bots' as they liked to call us, they treated others differently almost like the way you humans had upper and working classes in the past. It was only when there were a few keepers left that one keeper changed their viewpoints when he fell in love with a femme who was not a spark keeper, and had offspring. Originally they were against the idea but after realising that in the future generations there may be no spark keepers left they changed and started to mingle with the rest of us and soon they acted like ordinary civilians and soon spark keepers were once again growing in numbers." Optimus explained and then turned to Ratchet for his input.

"Solus Pax was the very last spark keeper, just after Optimus was sparked. And it was only when me and Ironhide were younger and before Just before he was sparked that catastrophe happened" Ratchet then began to explain "it was when one of the oldest spark keepers lost their way, his name was Megatronus one of the original 13 primes and soon became known as the fallen. He was much stronger than his brothers because he could also draw on the energy of the All spark, he commanded the mystic, entropic arts. None of us are sure on the extent of his powers but it was said that at full strength he could un-make creations at his focused will. He was the one against the idea of mingling with us and decided that those who did had no right to live.

Within a few vorns He went and killed all the remaining spark keepers, even their children who were not even old enough to defend themselves, luckily the other primes stepped in and took him away from Cybertron in an attempt to talk some sense in to him. But after that we never heard from them again but the damage was already done, for all the other spark keepers were dead, not even a sparkling had survived. Except for one femme. She was one of my closest friends, her name was shadowblades and she was a spark keeper.I received a call from her a few weeks after the last attack from the fallen requesting help, her and her sparkmate had a secret bunker in her home which she managed to hide in, unfortunately her husband did not get there in time and was offlined and she was too injured to move.

Shadow was severely injured and had lost too much energon, she managed with what she had in the bunker but the injuries were too serious for her too move, and she was slowly dying, there was nothing I could do for her once I got to her. I thought she was being stubborn, staying like that and slowly offlining, any bot in that condition would of have offlined themselves because it would have been easier but it was only when I got to her I understood why she didn't. Shadow was sparked and had her sparkling a couple of days before the attack. She believed it was the safest place to stay and had used the last of her energy to call me for help. It was a little after she gave me her sparkling that she finally offlined. But before she offlined she begged me to get her sparkling to safety simply because both her and her sparkmate were spark keepers meaning the sparkling will also grow up as a keeper, the last spark keeper.

After that I took her too sentinal, who had just become prime and told him of the situation. We named her Solus because the way she looked at you was like she was staring into your very soul, We also decided that she would be safer growing up with him as it meant more protection for her and she would less likely get into trouble, it was a few vorns later that she met Optimus, who unfortunately got the femme into tons of mischief" Ratchet explained and glared at Optimus, while Ironhide and Optimus laughed.

"Oh come on Ratchet, Solus was already mischievous before meeting Optimus" Ironhide said in an attempt to defend Optimus, sort of.

Ratchet huffed "she became a lot worse when she met you, even if you too did become inseparable you were worse than Sunstreaker and Sideswipe" Ratchet said as he pointed at Optimus, the four siblings laughed at this

"Seriously?" Asked Lightning "I didn't think anyone could be worse then then the terror twins" she asked. Optimus crossed his arms and chuckled at the memories that played through his snorted

"Oh they were worse trust me, it was only once Optimus became a prime that he acted more serious" Ratchet said

"Wait, so you weren't born a prime?" Angel asked

Optimus sighed "no, I was sparked in Iacon City as Orion Pax, and grew up with Solus knowing me as only that" he explained

Light pondered for a few moments until her eyes widened as she just realised something "wait, you said her name was Solus pax, so that meant she was..no way! Seriously?!" She asked as she pointed towards Optimus, who smiled and nodded his head in confirmation

"the tradition is too take the surname of the mech, right?" He asked, light grinned before doing a little fan girl scream, which gained the attention of the humans,

"omg that is adorable, childhood lovers. Those stories never get old" Light said as hearts formed in her eyes, the other humans looked at her confusedly.

"Did I miss something?" Epps asked as he looked from Lightning to Optimus, having no clue about what is currently taking place, the other nodded in agreement.

"Optimus and Solus were sparkmates" light explained, but just received blank looks "oh for the love of, they're married" she then said in exasperation, she kept forgetting that they don't know much cybertronian terminology, yet. The humans nodded 'ohh' they went before doing a double take

"Wait married?" Lennox asked as he pointed at Optimus

"Took them long enough" said Ironhide as he swung his arm around Optimus' shoulders "we started taking bets on how long it would take for them to finally hook up, it was so funny watching them when they were together, they used to get so embarrassed. It took forever till Prime finally made the first move, and all it took was to pay some bot to hit on Solus for prime to finally step up" he said, Ratchet glared at Hide as Optimus turned to him

"That was your guys doing?" He asked as he glared at hide. Ironhide chuckled

"Ah come on prime, if we hadn't intervened the some other bot would have taken her" Ironhide argued, Optimus turned away and muttered something that the others couldn't hear. Light and the others laughed at their antics, however Angel was deep in thought till she looked up to Optimus

"What about Elita-one"she asked curiously, gaining the attention of the other three siblings. Optimus stared confusingly. Light sighed before answering the question instead.

"In some of our universes, Optimus is sparkbonded to Elita, especially in the g1 series. It makes sense really, they never looked at Orion pax's past and focused on Optimus more. The only Solus we know of is Solus Prime one of the original primes and that was only briefly mentioned. Solus pax was never mentioned, that's why we've never heard of her in any of the universes because all the stories start during the middle or end of the war not before, and for the ratings they needed at least a little romance" Lightning explained to everyone.

'Ohhh' everyone said as they took that new information in. light looked back towards Optimus.

"What was she like?" Light asked, Optimus smiled warmly as memories began to flood his mind

"Crazy" Optimus said "if I had to use one word to describe her it would be crazy. Even when we were growing up she was the one that came up with the crazy stunts I just encouraged her. She's also the one who came up with the nickname Ratchet the hatchet" Optimus quickly ducks a flying wrench that was heading straight for him and glared at his CMO before continuing "but she was amazing none the less, even though she grew up knowing what happened to her creators she always smiled and she could make anyone smile. And she was always eager to learn, she loved history and became a teacher at the local education centre, she was kind to everyone and was always ready to listen to you if you needed to talk. Ironhide trained us both to fight from a young age unfortunately Solus wasn't that good at fighting, it was like our style of fighting just didn't suit her, it didn't help that she was a peacemaker, when somebody tried to upset her she would become timid and forgot everything that Ironhide had taught her.

But if ever try to upset one of her friends (laughs) well she was something else, she was fiercely loyal to her friends and family and if anybot was ever threatened or hurt in anyway it was always Solus who dealt with it. It was funny really, she could never stand up for herself but for a friend it was different, it was like she had two personalities. And she was stubborn, especially when she overworked herself and then didn't get any recharge, I had to carry her home sometimes because she stayed to late at the centre and had fallen into recharge. You can also blame her for Bumblebees stubbornness" he finished as he looked over to said autobot, who held his servos up in mock surrender

"Wait a sec, so Bee really is your son?" Oliver asked. Ratchet and Ironhide laughed

"Trust me kid, if you ever saw prime as a kid you wouldn't know the difference between the two. They are so alike it's uncanny?" Chuckled Ironhide, Oliver groaned as he heard Hide.

"Yes!" Exclaimed Light as she pumped both her fists up in the air before pointing to her brother "you owe me a tenner, I told you Bee was his son" she said as she grinned like a madman. The others looked at the pair of siblings

"What are you talking about" asked Ratchet curiously. Oliver mumbled something and glared at Lightning before she laughed

"The universes never really mentioned that Bee was Primes son, but you could see from the interaction because it was like a father/son relation, Olly never believed me and I betted him a tenner that it was true, and thanks to you I'm now £10 richer" Light said as she continued to grin, however her grin slowly turned into a frown. "What happened to Solus? Hide mentioned something about her being offlined, is it true?" She asked Optimus

Said Bot sighed "we…do not know, just a matter of days after she sparked Bee she vanished, all she left was a note saying that after getting a vision from the all spark it would be was safer this way if she left. No one understood why she left, it was just before the war had officially started, even sentinel was baffled as to why she left. She could of have used her powers to help win the war.

I know she is not dead because the bond is still there, weak and closed but still there if she was dead then that bond would no longer exist, and even Bee has a bond with her, unfortunately his is much weaker then my bond but that's only because he spent less time with her." He explained sadly.

Light looked with understandingly at Bee "so just after days of being sparked she just mysteriously vanished stating it would be safer if she wasn't with you guys" she summed up, bee nodded in confirmation, "did she have any enemies? Anyone she didn't get along with?" light asked curiously.

The bots were silent as they thought about it till Jazz spoke up

"Now da' I think bout it she neva' got along with Megsy" he said, using the nickname Light used earlier for Megatron " she used to avoid him when eva' she came to visit Optimus at the city halls" he explained.

"After a checkup one time before she was sparked with Bee she told me she felt uneasy when Megatron was ever near her, something in her spark just told her to run from him in the opposite direction" Ratchet then also contributed. Optimus stared at his CMO and lieutenant, this was new to him, he knew that Megatron and Solus rarely knew each other but he didn't know that it was because Solus may have been scared by the mech .

Light sat in thought, as she processed the new information. "Maybe the all spark told her to leave" she said, but then sighed as she received some very confused looks

"Think about it, the very last spark keeper just has her first child and is sparkbonded to the Mech who joint rules it with the one who planned to start a war and take Cybertron for himself. The way I see it, Solus left so she could protect you. The all spark probably showed her that the war was going to Happen and she knew that she would be a target cos 1) she's sparkbonded to Optimus and 2) she just had sparkling who was too young to even look after himself. She saw herself as a liability and left so that Megatron had no leverage over you." Light explained, the autobots nodded their heads as Light explained her theory

"I guess we won't know until we find her" Ratchet said, light smiled until she thought about something the bots mentioned earlier

"Why did you think me and Solus were connected?" Light asked curiously, Ratchet sighed as he crouched down at the side of the berth so that he was closer to her

"Because you both are very alike, Optimus mentioned earlier that she did not grasp our fighting style, so she made her own up, which much of its technique you had performed earlier against those soldiers, the way you also protected you family was another trait you both seem to have, the fierce loyalty you both posses makes you a force to be reckoned with when pissed off and finally the all spark sees you like a spark keeper, the gold tendrils are enough proof, it's just the power you now possess. The electricity power you used is what Solus herself used whenever she used the all spark, and we've never seen two keepers have the same powers.

It could very well because you are from a parallel dimension and in reality you are Solus' counterpart from said world and that the all spark almost recognises you as a spark keeper, but we don't know for sure, I would like to do a few tests first if that's all right with you as I also want to make sure the All spark won't have any negative side effects" Ratchet explained, light was quiet before she looked back upto Ratchet and sighed

"As long as your not gonna continuously poke me with needles and promise you guys are gonna help me and my family get home, you have yourself a deal" Light said, this time Optimus spoke up

"Do not worry, we will get you home safe and sound, autobot honour" he promised, Light smiled at the autobot before she heard a yawn and turned to her left to see her youngest sibling had fallen asleep and was leaning against lights arm, Optimus chuckled quietly "maybe we should let the little ones recharge now, it has been a long day for us all" he said as he also saw Oliver and Angel slowly drifting off to sleep.

Lennox and Epps made their way down the steps to the children,

"If you come with us we can get you some decent quarters to sleep in" Lennox said as he pointed to the door, Light smiled and nodded her head, then quietly shook Oliver and Angel awake

"Let's get you guys to bed" Light whispered, Lennox came over and carefully picked up Lily so that he didn't wake her up while Light stood up with the sparkling recharging in her arms.

"Lightning" ratchet began "bring the sparkling back tomorrow morning and I can give her some proper energon" he said, Light nodded before following Lennox and Epps and quietly thanked them when they showed them to three rooms, one for Oliver, and one for Lightning and luckily enough a twin room so Angel and Lily could sleep in the same room together. After making sure the kids were all in bed and asleep, she then quietly went to her quarters.

It was nothing fancy, a dull grey colour unfortunately but had a very comfy looking bed up against the wall, and opposite the bed was a wardrobe and desk. She quietly placed the sparkling on the bed and tucked her in, then placed a kiss on her helm

"Sleep tight sweetspark" she whispered before she lent back and massaged her temples, that bloody headache was coming back again. 'Better go back to the medbay for those painkillers' she thought as she quickly made sure that Echo was asleep before heading back the way she came, she thinks.

-with the bots—

"Interesting kid" Ironhide said as he crossed his arms and watched the humans leaving.

"So, ya think she's really connected to Solus?" Jazz asked Ratchet, who just shook his helm

"I don't know" he replied with "the way she acts reminds me so much of Solus but she's not, you know what I mean?" Ratchet then asked, the others nodded

"It's like she is Solus but she isn't" Jazz said, just as he said that Epps and Lennox re-entered the room

"Their all asleep in their rooms now, don't worry the rooms are literally down the corridors from you guys just in case on an emergency" Lennox explained.

"Thank you captain" Optimus responded with, then turned back to his comrades to discuss about tonight's events. Lennox and Epps walked back up the platform towards Sam and Mikaela

"We're never going to get a normal life again are we?" Mikaela asked, epps chuckled

"Nah, who wants to be normal that's boring" he responded with, as he looked over towards the giant beings. However everyone was knocked out of their thoughts when a knock came from the door and Lightning had re-entered the medbay.

"Why are you still up human?" Asked Ironhide, hadn't they just let to go recharge, Light chuckled nervously and rubbed the back of the neck

"My headache is back, so I came to get some more painkillers, trust me sleep will not happen unless I get rid of it, that and I also came to grab the bag I left here" she explained, as she also remembered that the bag had the laptop with all the stuff about this autobots on it, that wouldn't be good in the wrong hands. Ratchet sighed before grabbing the small red bottle from earlier, which had been left on the berth along with the bag and passed it down to Lightning "thanks" she said before she popped out another two tablets and swallowed them dry. Just then another soldier entered.

"Sorry to interrupt sir, but I found her in the corridors said she was looking for Lightning" the soldier explained, clinging to his left was Lily-Ann, tears streaming down her eyes, Light sighed and quickly checked the clock

"midnight, again huh" she said then turned to Lily "nightmare again?" She asked,Lily nodded before she ran into her sisters arms and started sobbing.

"What's wrong with da' younglings?" Jazz asked curiously as he crouched closer to the them, light sighed as she rubbed circles on her sisters back

"It's been going on for the past couple of years now, every couple of nights or so at around midnight to two o'clock in the morning Lily gets these nightmares and wakes up screaming. I don't know what's causing them and she won't tell us what their about for us to help her" Light explained "I hoped that because she was so tired that the nightmare wouldn't happen, my mistake" she said, suddenly Bee crouched down next to the siblings and placed one of his fingers on her head,trying to comfort her.

"Can bee stay with me?" Lily asked,

Light chuckled at her younger sister "sorry baby but Bee is to big to fit in your room", Lily started to tear up again

"But if Bee could stay he could chase away all the baddies" Lily tried to argue, Light sighed before rummaging through the backpack

"Well how about this, because Bee is too big how about this Bee stays with you instead" said Lightning as she pulled out a small plushie of Bee from her bag, Lily smiled and hugged the little plushie, the bots watched curiously

"What…is…that?" Bee asked as he pointed to the bee plushie,light laughed as she picked up her sister, who snuggled into lightning cuddling the toy.

"That is a plushie, a teddy in a way, of you. I got it at comic con in May and was gonna give it Lily as a present, I guess I forgot it was in my bag, good thing I brought it with me then" Light explained "remember I said in my world you guys are a franchise which means there is gonna be merchandise of you guys as well, for example these plushies are a form of merchandise." She then further explained

"But why Bee?" Jazz asked almost jealously.

"Cos Bee is Lily's favourite autobot" Light explained as she turned around and started to walk back to their room, she didn't even need to look behind to know that Bee was silently fist pumping in the air while Jazz looked down dejected. She stopped for a sec "Angel's favourite however happens to be a certain silver saboteur" she said and continued walking.

Jazz looked confused until he realised Who Light was talking about and began to grin and stuck his glossa out at Bee. Ratchet sighed and placed his head in his hand "their all kids" he muttered before walking away, the humans who were up on the platforms laughed at the scene before them before deciding to call it a night.

Meanwhile with Lightning, she had just entered the girls room and quietly tucked Lily into bed, before turning around and placing her fingers to her lips, Angel had woken up when she heard the door open and instantly realised that Lily must have had a nightmare again.

"Night Hun" Light whispered before leaving and then entering her room, Echo luckily enough was still asleep.

Light smiled at the scene in front of her before quickly kicking her trousers off and got into bed, as soon as she entered the bed the sparkling instantly curled up to her, light yawned and protectively placed an arm around the sparkling before drifting into a peaceful sleep.

And done. Hope you liked this chapter and that you understood the idea of a spark keeper

Well, you know the drill by now, so till next time

Li0ness95 out

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