-1You were wondering how heading to the planet's core would save them from Unicron? Well, HERE'S how!
Bear with me, I have no idea how to handle this sort of stuff.
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"In that case we have to hurry," Megatron said eventually. "How far now?" Zephyr snapped out of being sad, realizing that there really wasn't any time for that. "It's just ahead. Right around that corner," she answered, pointing. Casting a quick glance behind them, they then took off running again. Rounding the corner, they paused, for the tunnel abruptly widened into a huge circular room, at the center of which there seemed to be a huge upraised pedestal. "Here," she said. Megatron looked around. He didn't see anything that could possibly be of any use to them. "This is my part," Zephyr said. Moving with almost unnatural grace, she took to the air and slowly glided over to the pedestal. The minute her feet touched the metal she was frozen in place with a soft gasp, her power pouring out of her body to form a shining globe around her…
It was a spark. He'd seen enough of them in his days of killing to be able to recognize one on sight, but this one was almost bigger than even him, and the All Spark's blue fire hummed through it. It occurred to him that he now saw the All Spark's true nature, all its power, all its glory, freed from the shackles of a physical form. In its center a single form, a human form, hung suspended… not Zephyr, but Sarah. Her hands were clasped as if in prayer and her head was bowed, apparently frozen in time like a fly in amber. The ground beneath his feet began to shake violently, almost throwing him to the ground. What was going on? It was then that his link to Zephyr, who had returned to being Sarah, opened up. The mind he felt on the other end of that link wasn't hers. No, it was utterly alien to him, many thousands of times stronger than anything he had ever dreamed of, making him feel like a puny, insignificant speck in comparison to its vastness. An ancient power thrilled through him and in that moment he saw through the eyes of another.
It had been forever since he'd last done this, he realized. He'd slept for so long, having placed everything he had in the All Spark, but now, with the threat of Unicron looming, he had called that part of him back into himself. Transforming for the first time in untold eons, he could both hear and feel the awe and fear of his children as he, their god, revealed himself as the very world beneath their feet. Grinning, he met Unicron's gaze. "Hello, brother." Jade eyes narrowed with pure hatred. "Primus," he snarled.
Shocked awake by the realization of whose eyes he was seeing through, Megatron received one last sensory impression as the link closed, a momentary image of Unicron seeming to fade away, banished from their reality by the power of the All Spark and Primus. He now knew the All Spark's true nature, and the knowledge filled him with terror. The All Spark is the essence of Primus himself, he thought. This planet is Primus. It was all he could do not to fall to his knees. What I've done… He'll destroy me for sure!
As if Megatron hadn't been terrified enough, the human form suspended at the core of the colossal spark chose that moment to stir and open brilliant pale blue eyes.
He recoiled in unashamed fright as those cold eyes focused on him. Though her lips moved, the voice came from all around him, a voice speaking his name… Her eyes were fixed upon him, and he could feel that he had more than merely her attention. The attention of a force more ancient than any possible imagining was focused upon him, seeming to look through him, weighing his deeds and judging his spark… "Your mad quest claimed the lives of many of my children and threatened their very existence. The war you started ravaged me and almost condemned me to oblivion." Megatron would have said something, but he thought it better to stay quiet and be given his inevitable judgment. There was a pause. "The girl speaks to me on your behalf…" Sarah's face looked perplexed even as Megatron looked up at her with an expression of wonder and hope. A smile came. "Saucy little thing… She says the ocean was enough…?" The tone in which the words were spoken indicated that Primus didn't know what Sarah was referring to. Megatron smiled at that and chuckled silently, at least until she spoke again. "She believes in you… So much so that she would willingly stand by you to face the same judgment, as if she herself had committed your crimes." Megatron's face fell, once again feeling grateful for the existence of both Sarah and Zephyr.
What she said next surprised him. "She says she would die for you…" She seemed genuinely surprised at this. Megatron cringed a little at the slight distaste in that surprised voice. Her focus left him, attention turning inward. "She knows of your crimes. She says she has seen them…?" Her focus left again. "This girl is really something else! She just volunteered to take your place?!" Megatron's jaw almost dropped and he stared incredulously up at her, marveling at the depth of her love for him. She paused. "A moment, please." Her eyes closed. "She wishes to speak to you." Megatron slowly walked over to her and nodded. When her eyes opened, the pale blue glow in them was gone. She looked just as she had on the day she restored the planet, clothes and all. She smiled up at him. "I live only because you chose for me to do so. I live because you wished it. Megatron, my life belongs to you…" He looked at her with soft eyes, lifting a hand to brush against her cheek. "Sarah…" he whispered. She smiled wanly. "Take what is yours. I give it freely…" He shook his head. "I will not let you die for my crimes, Sarah," he said, wrapping his metal arms around her human form. She returned the embrace. "I told Galvatron no one owned me, but I was wrong… I belong to you." He just held her for a moment. "And I to you, my darling," he whispered to her gently.
Her body stiffened, the blue glow returning to her eyes even as she gazed at him. Just like that, she was gone again. He released her at that moment, knowing that she was possessed again. Her next few words seemed to make little sense. "I have seen all I needed to see." Megatron tilted his head in curiosity. She responded with a warm smile. "The darkness that was in you is gone now, replaced with a glorious light. I see now. This girl was your guiding light, the beckoning star in your night sky." Megatron nodded, wordlessly admitting the truth. Her voice grew stern. "Were it not for her deeds, I would now be counting you among the damned…" Megatron slowly nodded again. "I understand, great creator." Another look of surprise crossed her face. "She has spoken up in defense of another… Your son, Galvatron." Megatron could have fallen over from surprise at that point. Sarah smiled understandingly. "I see what she means. He truly could never have been anything other than what he was. He wasn't given a choice." Megatron hung his head. "Because I made him that way…" he started. Sarah smiled. "I will grant her request. On one condition…" Megatron looked up at her. "What's that?" The response was instantaneous. "He will be born again, as he should have been the first time." He looked at her for a moment, then nodded slowly, not saying a word.
She suddenly seemed to droop. "The girl grows weaker. I can't keep speaking to you through her." Megatron nodded again. "I understand, my creator." The smile that crossed her face was truly radiant in that moment. "I created the All Spark to pour forth my power freely upon this world, and this girl is doing well. All is as it should be, so I have completed what I awakened for. Now, I will return to my slumber, and in so doing return her to you." Megatron bowed, a move that seemed somewhat odd coming from one as proud as he had once been. "Thank you, oh great creator." The light flared one more time and Sarah was gone, once again replaced by Zephyr. Drifting down to the ground as gently as a falling leaf, she appeared to be out cold even as Megatron brought her into his arms and cradled her. A soft sigh escaped her and her eyes slowly opened to behold him smiling down at her. "Welcome back," he said gently. "That was odd," she had to admit. Her smile broadened. "Megatron, I'm… with child." He blinked for a moment, somewhat surprised at that, but then he hugged her tightly to him. "Oh Zephyr…"
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