Chapter 10 ~ Family Reunion
"English Speech."
"Cybertronian Speech."
"Lithuanian Speech."
Thoughts.
*Com link*
*Radio Clips.*
Hey there peoples of the Interwebs! Just in case it was confusing, Star aka Starlight is a 1968 Pontiac Firebird, not a bike or anything. Huge thanks to everyone who has favorited, followed, and reviewed. They make me a very happy little authoress. Thanks Transfan1623 for volunteering to be my beta and thanks to xVentessx for helping me make the summary for this 100x better. I was messing around in my doc manager and noticed that the fixes I made to this, like the spacing and lines didn't save, so I fixed it. Welp that's all from me. I hope you like!
"Is your name really Star?" Sam asked after a minute of silence.
"Kinda."
"Kinda? It's kinda your name?"
"My full, real name is Starlight Prime."
"Doesn't Lux mean light? What about your last name?"
"Yup. Prime in Lithuanian." Sam snorted and shook his head.
"You sly bastard. You just translated your name into different words. Figures. So… how did you… recognize… Bee?"
"Well number one, he has the Autobot insignia like, everywhere. That's the face symbol by the way. And number two… well he's always been yellow but the color scheme just totally gave it away. Besides, he's like my little brother. I don't need sensors to recognize my little brother… especially since my sensors are broken anyways."
"Sensors?"
"Uh yeah. I'm basically a super advanced, sentient, robot… kinda."
"Why are they broken?" Mikaela asked.
"I was attacked a long time ago. The shots also screwed up my communications. Completely blew off some of it. If I had it, not only would I be able to talk to Bumblebee without talking, but I could also do things like, remotely access the internet."
"Oh that's cool."
"Yeah but it's broken so FML." Sam snorted and tapped his chin.
"So your ear?" After spending the several months together, he had seen it… kinda freaked him out too.
"Is my coms… or what's left of it."
"Your ear?" I pulled my ear cuff off and showed Mikaela the damage. "Holy crap… and your sensors?"
"Those are here." I patted the front of my left shoulder. "All the bits are there but I can't fix it on my own… and it's time consuming." She was about to ask another question but we came to a stop in an ally way. I could feel them. Broken sensor or not I could tell who at least one of them was. My spark pulsed happily at the thought of having my family back. He's here, they're here. Sam noticed the huge smile that had spread across my face.
"What are you so happy about?" I looked over to him, my smile never fading.
"He's here."
"Who is?" It took me a while to answer.
"My Opiluk." He stared at me.
"Your what?"
"My father." I noticed Mikaela's eyes darken a bit but ignored it.
"Your dad is here? Wait… so… how much of what you told us was a lie? Like I doubt his name is really Ryan, like you said." I chuckled.
"I have a feeling you'll find out very soon. Pretty much everything else I told you was accurate… just on a… larger scale. Okay let's go and don't say my name! Play it cool." They both nodded and we all climbed out of Bumblebee. I looked around, searching through the slight mist. And then I saw them. Behind us was a silver Pontiac Solstice, a Black GMC Topkick C4500, and a yellow search and rescue H2 Hummer. In front of us… a blue and red flamed Peterbuilt 379… My spark leaped with excitement, but I contained myself and stood behind Sam, next to Mikaela. The semi approached us stopping a few inches away causing Sam to take a step back. They transformed and in a few seconds I was surrounded with some of my closest friends and family members. I glanced at Bee who flashed one of his optics.
"Are you Samuel James Witwicky? Descendent of Archibald Witwicky?" The all too familiar voice asked.
"They know your name!" Mikaela whispered.
"Yeah." Sam answered.
"My name is Optimus Prime." Sam shot me a glance to which I just smirked. "We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron."
"But you can call us Autobots for short." I heard Ratchet's voice add.
"Autobots." Sam repeated.
"What's crackin', little bitches?" I had to slam a hand over my mouth to silence the almost laugh that came out. I looked over at my 'older brother.'
"My first lieutenant. Designation, Jazz." Optimus introduced. Jazz spun around and jumped up onto the hood of a car and crossed his arms.
"This looks like ah cool place ta kick it." Very smooth Jazz.
"What is that? How did he learn to talk like that?" Sam asked.
"We've learned Earth's languages through the World Wide Web." Lucky I had to legitimately learn it…
"My weapons specialist, Ironhide." I turned to Ironhide and smirked.
"You feeling lucky, punk?" He said pointing his cannons at us.
"Easy, Ironhide." Optimus warned.
"Just kidding. I just wanted to show them my cannons." He said looking at said weapon. I couldn't suppress the snort that came out. "What's so funny?" I quickly shook my head and tried to will the smile off my face. He just let out a classic Ironhide grunt and put the large guns away. I turned to look at Ratchet who was eyeing me. A moment later I felt the telltale tingle of a scan and quickly made a non-conspicuous shh motion at him. His optics sparkled at me but he quickly nodded ever so slightly.
"Our medical officer, Ratchet." Ratch sniffed at the air a bit and looked at Sam and Mikaela.
"The boy's pheromone level suggests he wants to mate with the female." I burst out laughing and collapsed onto the ground, holding my stomach.
"Holy shit!" I squeaked out. "Your face is priceless!" Sam's face really was, it was a mix between horror and 'kid with their hand in the cookie jar'. Five pairs of optics looked at me with amusement, three held curiosity.
"Yeah, yeah laugh it up." Sam snapped at me. Optimus decided to continue onto the last of the introductions… or so he thought.
"You already know your guardian, Bumblebee." He said pointing at my adopted baby bro.
"Bumblebee, right?" Sam asked
"Check on the rep Yep, second to none" Bumblebee did a little dance that made me snort again. Bee's optics' looked at me expectantly.
"So you're our guardian, huh?" Bumblebee nodded letting out a whirr of agreement.
"His vocal processors were damaged in battle." Ratchet said. A red laser coming out of his arm. "I'm still working on them." Bee started coughing. I looked around and whispered in Sam and Mikaela's ears.
"Can you guys back up a bit please?"
"Sure, why?"
"Remember earlier?" She made an 'oh' with her mouth and I looked up at Optimus. "Room for one more?" He looked down at me, confused. I quickly concentrated on my damaged bond with him and tried to send him as much love as I could. He backed up a bit, I felt a slight tug which I returned. His optics grew wide as dinner plates. His mouth opened slightly. He struggled to find his voice as he looked me over.
"S-Starlight?" He asked. I heard Jazz and Ironhide back up a bit, hitting a car and the wall, but ignored it.
"Hey Opi." I smiled. He gawked at me. So I motioned for Sam and Mikaela to move out of the way and transformed. When I stood at my full height I onlined my optics and stared into his dark blue ones. "I-" My voice cracked and we just stood there staring at each other. In a flash he had me in his arms.
"My Starlight! You're here! You're alright!" He started rattling off clutching me to his chest.
"Yeah Opi I'm here. I missed you so much."
"My precious sparkling, I missed you as well. How… Are you…" My father struggled to form sentences so instead just sent his worry and questions and love across our bond, which was re-strengthening from the close proximity.
"I'm fine Opi. I'm ok. Everything is ok. I-I love you so much." I confirmed my statement with our bond as he did the same.
"Starlight?" I heard Ironhide question. I looked back at him and nodded. "Primus femme! It's good to see you!"
"It's good to see you too, 'Hide."
"Sta'."
"Jazz."
"Ya gave us quite da scare back on Cybertron, little lady."
"I know Jazz and I'm sorry but I really had no other choice."
"We are aware. We all saw the security footage. We also saw what happened after the launch." Dad started to push me towards Ratchet. I groaned but didn't fight the shove.
"I'm goin' I'm goin'. Hey Ratch'."
"Starlight." He greeted and half grabbed my helm.
"Hey! Easy!" I almost fell over but dad caught me. "I know it's been a while but you don't have to yank my helm off!" Ratchet just shook his head and started working on my audio receptor and sensors.
"The damage to your sensors is extreme and your long range communications are gone. Nothing I can't fix, but I cannot fix it here. I can however repair some of your short range com link." As soon as he said com link Ratchet replaced some damaged cables in my audio receptor… quite painfully I might add.
"Ow! Come on Ratch'! What happened to turning the pain receptors off?!" He just grunted and finished the work
*Is this thing working now?* ~ Starlight
*Indeed it is. I think Bumblebee wants a word with you.* ~ Ratchet
*Yeah. Thanks Ratchet.* ~ Starlight
*Of course, Starlight.* ~ Ratchet
I rolled my optics and walked over to Bumblebee.
*Hey baby Bumblebee!* ~ Starlight
*I'm not a sparkling anymore.* ~ Bumblebee
Bee gave me a fake glare before hugging me.
*I'm so happy to have you back Star.* ~ Bumblebee
*I'm glad to be back, Bee.* ~ Starlight
I gave Bee a smile and looked down at Sam and Mikaela. "So how are you guys holding up?" Sam looked at me and let out a huge breath.
"W-well you know. I'm doing ok."
"Yeah… Just one thing… why are you here?" Mikaela asked. I looked at my father who leaned down again.
"Now that we have found Starlight, we are here looking for the AllSpark. And we must find it before Megatron." Optimus answered.
"Mega-what?" Sam questioned. My father put his servo to the side of his helm and began a holo-projection.
"Our planet was once a powerful empire, peaceful and just," In a moment we were standing in a… very… familiar landscape. Cybertron. "Until we were betrayed by Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. All who defied them were destroyed. Our war finally consumed the planet, and the AllSpark and Starlight were lost to the stars." Megatron threw his spear at… somebot. "Megatron followed them to Earth, where Captain Witwicky found him."
"My grandfather." Sam muttered.
"It was an accident that intertwined our fates." My dad turned the hologram off. "Megatron crash-landed before he could retrieve the Cube. Captain Witwicky accidentally activated Megatron's navigation system. The coordinates to the Cube's location on Earth were imprinted on his glasses." I gapped. The glasses?! Are you kidding me?! I'm just here because of that article about Captain Witwicky.
"How'd you know about his glasses?" Sam asked.
"EBay."
"EBay."
"If the Decepticons find the All Spark, they will use its power to transform Earth's machines and build a new army." Ratchet added.
"And the human race will be extinguished. Sam Witwicky, you hold the key to Earth's survival." My opiluk stood up motioning me over. I quickly accepted a hug from him before looking down at my human friends. Mikaela looked towards Sam.
"Please tell me that you have those glasses."
There you have it folks! Starlight is with her dad again! Yay! So… I was thinking… my summary for this kinda sucks… I still want it to be spoiler free but I'm not sure how to make it more interesting. If anyone has any suggestions it'd be greatly appreciated. Well I'm just going to keep this short and sweet. Please, please, please leave a review for at least this chapter if not all. Let me know what you think so far, if I made any mistakes in catching my mistakes, any ideas as to what you think will happen to Star, funny shit you want me to make her do, prank ideas… cause I need those, or just say hi! Alrighty then, I'll talk to you later Interwebs! Bye! o/ ~Joyce