Sari was flying over the city heading for the wharf. She spotted Bumble Bee, Prowl, and Ratchet in their vehicle modes. She descended to join them. "There you guys are, I've been looking everywhere for you." "Hey Sari, about time you got my messages." "What messages?" She gave him an annoyed look. "Are you still made at me?" "Maybe." "That's enough the both of you!" Ratchet yelled. "Sorry Doc-bot." Bumble Bee and Sari said in unison.
The auto bots gathered at the docks after receiving a distress signal from Optimus Prime. He explained everything that happened.
"WHAT?! The Quintessons got Crysta? And they left?" Bumble Bee exclaimed. "What is a Quintesson?" Sari asked Prowl. The ninja-bot looked down at Sari and said, "Picture an octopus with fives faces." Sari cringed at the thought. "Ew, sorry I asked."
"Oh dear, this is terrible!" Zeeda panicked. "This is my fault." Optimus lowered his head in shame. "What do you mean?" Sari raised an eyebrow in curiosity. "I may have something to do with her running away." "Optimus Prime, thou art smitten with her majesty?" Zeeda said in a Shakespearian way. "It is a possibility." He said turning his head away, hiding his blushed faceplate. "But there's nothing we can do, by now they're probably already on Quintesson."
"Not quite, according to my readings, the Quintesson didn't leave. It is actually hovering over the city, wearing a cloaking device." Bulkhead said as he looked at his scanner.
"So boss-bot, what's the plan?" The yellow-bot asked the fearless leader. Optimus looked up into the sky, feeling guilty and yet he felt a strong bond between him and Crysta. He turned to his team and his expression changed from doubt to determination. "Autobots, we're going to catch that ship." Optimus said.
They transformed and drove Sumdac Tower and traveled up to the top of the Tower where the Tran warp gate is built. Bulkhead typed in the coordinates and the gate opened.
"Wait a nano-sec, what if the Quintessons know we're coming and they're ready to blast us."
"Sheesh Bumble Bee, you're such a chicken." Sari teased Bumble Bee.
"Just be on you're guard." Optimus said and entered the portal, and the others followed. When they arrived inside the ship, it was dark and creepy.
"Something has been bothering me; the Quintessons have Crysta, so why haven't they left yet?" Sari asked.
"The Quintessons have a nasty habit of killing the innocent, especially destroying their planets." Prowl said.
"You mean…"
Sari got cut off when a door opened and the light blinded our heroes. A figure stood within the doorway, and behind the figure several Quintesson soldiers ran out and were holding laser guns. "That is right, it does include Earth." When they got their vision back, they were shocked.
"Gordo?! You're behind this?! Why?" Zeeda couldn't believe that her old friend is a traitor. "Many reasons; the Quintessons offer me a life time supply of energon and I am tired of being a guard. I tell you more, but I've better things to do." He turned, snapped his fingers, and walked away. The Quintesson soldiers fired at them.
"Take cover!" Ratchet screamed and our heroes tried to dodge every blast. They pulled out their weapons incase the evil inner galactic creatures try pull something. "Prime, you go get Crysta, we'll take care of it from here!" Optimus nodded at Ratchet and waited for the right moment to make his move. He ran toward the doorway, dodging every blast, and knocking down two soldiers.
"Hey! Where's Prowl?" the yellow bot asked Sari. "How should I know?" "Well, you two have been spending a lot of time together." One of the Quintesson soldiers fired a laser at Sari. "Sari! Watch out!" Bumble Bee pushes Sari out of the way and got hit by it. "Bumble Bee! No! Bumble Bee, I'm so sorry." "I…it's alright…Sari, I…I'm fine. I'm just glad you're safe." Sari smiled. Bumble Bee and Sari make up.
"I hate to break up this tender moment, but we still have a mission to complete!" Bulkhead said while fighting off the Quintessons. "Right." The two said in unison.
Meanwhile, Optimus ran down the hallway until he found the prison cell. He found Crysta sitting on the ground moping. When she saw him standing outside her cell, Crysta smiled and stood up. "Optimus." "Are you okay?" "I'm fine, but I can't use my powers to escape, this cell has a special shield to interfere with them." "Hang on Crysta, I'll get you out in a nano-click." "Optimus, listen, Gordo…" "I know, he betrayed you and he's helping the Quintessons." He was able to unlock it and, like a gentle-bot, he held out his servo to her. ""Come on let's go." Crysta took his, and they both dashed out. "We've got to meet up with the others." They were almost out of the woods when the leader of the Quintessons stood in their way. Crysta gasped and Optimus pulled out his axe. "Crysta stand back." She took several steps away. Optimus and the Quintesson leader began to fight.
Around the same time, Prowl was sneaking through another hallway searching for something and until he spotted it. He pulled the lever and entered the room, but it was no ordinary room, it was the control room.
Optimus fell to his knees after getting whooped by the Quintesson leader. He was about to get up when the creature was about to strike him from behind. "Optimus! Look out!" Crysta cried out. She used her powers to turn the ground beneath where the Quintesson leader was standing into quicksand. It sank until it was up to it's mouth and the ground dried up. Optimus stood up and looked at Crysta. "Nice work, you're so amazing, and…well…I guess it's one of those things I love about you." She blushed a little, because in his own discrete way, Optimus told her he loves her.
Suddenly the engine of the ship made a strange whooping noise. Optimus receives a call from Prowl. Optimus! Everyone is out of the ship, it's about to get transported, get Crysta and get out! "Right." Optimus grabbed Crysta by the waist, and held her close. They both ran for the airlock. "Hang on! This is going to be a rough landing." They jumped out and crashed landed on the roof.
Zeeda ran to Crysta's side. "Your majesty, are you alright?" "I'm fine Zeeda, I'm really fine." Optimus was still holding Crysta as though he was carrying her over the threshold. The others gathered around them. The Quitesson's cloaking field shutdown and they vanished into thin air.
"Prowl, just out of curiosity what happened?"
"I hacked into their system in the control room and sent them to a hazardous remote location."
"Hey, I wonder what happened to that Gordo creep?" The young yellow-bot said.
Meanwhile, Grodo was about to leave with his own space crusiur when he looked from outside of the porthole, the Quintesson ship somehow transported them to an asteroid field in the middle of nowhere. And one of those asteroids blinked at him, uncurled itself, and roared. Those were not asteroids.
Back on Earth, Bumble Bee walked out feeling a lot better after getting treated by the doc-bot. Sari was sitting on the arm of the concrete couch waiting for him.
"Sari? Will you forgive me?" Bumble Bee gave Sari a sad puppy dog look. She smiled and giggled a bit. "Water under the bridge Bumble Bee. And I'm sorry too." Even though things got a little rough between them, this ordeal proved to them that their friendship is stronger than sterner stuff.
"Come on you two." Ratchet said. The two young-bots followed him out the factory and joined the others. "Thank you all so much, and I will miss you." "We'll miss you too." Ratchet said as he patted on her shoulder. "Have a pleasant journey." Prowl bowed. "See ya soon." Bulkhead, Bumble Bee, and Sari said in unison. Crysta laughed a little. She turned her head to Optimus. "Here let me escort you to the ship." He took her servo and led her to the door.
"I guess this is goodbye." Crysta said in a melancholy tone. "Yeah." "Optimus, I want to thank you." "For what?" "For everything, I will never forget you. I do hope our paths will cross again." "I'm looking forward to it." She smiled and kisses Optimus. To them, it felt like time was standing still but in reality their kiss lasted for a minute. "Queen Crysta, get in the ship now!" Zeeda called out. Their lips parted, and so did Crysta. She turns around and steps in the Mecha-nite ship. The doors closed. It blasts off and disappears into the dim lit sky, just before dawn broke.
"What a night, I'm going to take a stasis." Ratchet said and yawned. The others followed him into the factory except Sari and Optimus. "You're going to miss her? Aren't you?" Sari asked. "Yes, but like she said, maybe our paths will meet again, someday."
The End
