Nightmares, those were the first things for Myra to dream of. She remembered darkness, confusion, she did not have the capacity then to understand but she had the capacity to sense danger.
"Ethy…" a voice whispered, it sounded weak.
Myra shivered and tried to turn towards the voice.
"Ethy go.." the voice whispered.
"ETTY!" Myra shouted.
The presence faded away and Myra struggled towards it
"ETTY!"
Myra sat up with a gasp before she covered her face to hide herself. She shuddered for a moment before she regained her control and looked around. She was on the ship, in Knockouts lab, and he was nowhere in sight. She sighed and lay down again and stared at the ceiling, looking at the plainness before she finally sat up again. She began to wonder why she had suddenly had that nightmare, and why she had felt the strange pull while she was watching the fight. She scowled and began to think when she felt something out of the ordinary. Quickly she stood up and tuned in her senses, searching for the source of the disturbance. She climbed off of the table and went to the door and walked through it, looking for any signs of Decepticons before she walked off. She closed her eyes and let her senses lead her to the source of the disturbance and, as it became stronger she felt stronger. After a while she opened her eyes, sensing there were others nearby as well. She peeked from behind a corner and looked to see two drones standing guard outside the energon storage. She frowned before activating her space bridge and hopped through, having set the coordinates to be near the back of the room, where her chances of being spotted were low. She hopped through and quickly moved to a hiding spot behind some storage crates and looked around. Her whole body tingled with power and she shivered in delight as she searched for the source. After only a moment she noticed something was considerably odd about several of the crates, they were violet, like dark energon.
Quickly she stepped back, her eyes widening in shock at the familiar substance. Megatron must have brought it onboard for his conquest purposes and she shuddered as the powerful feeling faded a bit as she backed away to the wall. She stared at the crates for a moment before frowning, was the energon her source? Why would dark energon make her feel so powerful when it harmed humans so negatively?
Myra scowled before another thought came to mind, she was not human, not entirely. Maybe the dark energon did not affect her negatively because of her origins. She had never known the materials for her creation but perhaps something made her immune to the effects of the energon. But if it could not simply be immunity if it made her feel powerful, her body was not defending against it, it was using its radiating energy and converting it to biological power.
Myra narrowed her eyes and approached the nearest casing before reaching out a hand towards it experimentally. She felt her hand absorb the radiating energy and absorb it before she quickly pulled it away, losing the powerful feeling. She looked at her hand and searched for any signs of difference, any discoloration or change in feeling. She scowled when all she felt was the waning energy she had gained from its presence. She looked back at it before she slowly stepped forward, letting her whole body become enveloped by the radiating energy. She blinked as the power began to overwhelm her; she looked at her hands and realized they seemed to become unstable. Frightened she quickly stepped back and looked to see the strange vibrations on her hands disappear. She frowned and looked at the crate again before an idea came to her.
What if the energy was so powerful she could shift her physical molecular makeup? She became thoughtful and decided to test her idea, but she wanted to be at a more secure location. Quickly she entered the coordinates of her desired destination and leaped through, landing on the barren soil of the Nevada deserts.
The instant her feet touched the ground the energized feeling returned to her once again. She also felt the pulling presence but it was weaker this time, she wondered if location affected its power. She crouched to the ground, bending her knees and stepping one leg forward before going down low enough to place her fingertips on the ground and began to concentrate. She could sense the presence of the dark energon; she theorized if dark energon was coming from a magma source it must be in the soil everywhere, but at different amounts. She also theorized it appeared most in barren areas, mostly because of the affect it seemed to have on organics and because of the location of the volcano. She concentrated and tried to find the dark energon through her connection to it and pinpoint its location for extraction. After a moment she felt it around her, all around her and she concentrated harder, trying to locate the nearest piece.
Suddenly the ground began to rumble and she stood up in shock, breaking her concentration and the ground became still. She scowled and looked around, waiting for the ground to start shaking again for a few minutes. Once she was sure the ground would not shake again she crouched and began to concentrate again. Within moments the ground began to shake again and she stood again, waiting for it to stop. When the ground stopped shaking she frowned, noticing the shaking only stopped once she stopped concentrating. Slowly she crouched again, waiting for any more tremors and she began to concentrate, but this time when the ground began to shake she continued her concentration. Suddenly the ground crackled and spires of dark energon sprang from the ground, surrounding her and she yelped and fell back as another piece began to rise in front of her, narrowly avoiding her face.
Myra sat on her back and panted, staring at the sharp spire before she frowned and crawled towards it cautiously. She could see her reflection in the dark crystalline object and she was surprised to see her features blur. She stood and looked at the surrounding spires before she approached the largest one and looked at her reflection again, also seeing it blur. She stepped back experimentally and saw her reflection solidify and she wondered what would happen if she touched it. She ruled out the possibility of a molecular melt down, she felt no negative effects and she knew she could always just step back.
Slowly she stepped forward and reached out her hand, and letting the tips of her fingers lightly brush the large violet shard. Instantly she felt the power at its maximum and she nearly recoiled as the energy flowed throughout her, but the presence seemed to bind her to the shard. She yelped and she saw a vision of the volcano then as it crackled with light followed by the earth before it exploded.
Myra cried out and fell back, hitting the ground with tremendous force before she felt as she began to stabilize again. She looked up at the shard and she saw it glow before it faded back to its shiny violet form. She blinked in surprise before she looked at her hand. She could see no difference in her hand, quickly she looked over her whole body and found no change and scowled before she stood and reactivated a space bridge.
Myra landed in Knockout's lab where he was looking over earth news coverage.
"Glad you could join the party, apparently your world weather is going insane." He said, motioning towards the screen.
Myra looked at it and frowned, she listened as the reporter spoke of insane weather, including tsunamis near Canada and lightning in the gobi. She scowled and looked at Knockout as she tried to make sense of the information.
"Any idea why this is all happening?" she asked.
He shook his head.
"Nope, but it might have to do with the earthquakes and the volcano that was spewing the blood of Unicron earlier." He said.
She frowned then went to her data pad and began to look up the information of the volcano then the earthquakes.
"It says here the quakes and the volcano eruption happened at the same time…exactly the same time with constant and consistent tremors." She said, scowling at the data and converted it to an image file.
"Well that's interesting, considering it doesn't make sense." He said, scowling.
Myra ignored him and stared at the image files before she looked at him.
"Knockout, can you convert the tremor files to audio? I think you need to hear this."
Knockout cocked an optic ridge but converted the file to audio as requested. As he was converting it he noticed something about the file and stopped converting it.
"What in Cybertron…" he murmured before finishing the conversion and they both listened.
After a moment they looked at each other in shock.
"Lord Megatron needs to hear this." Knockout said and sent the data to Soundwave.
"Knockout…I don't think it's a coincidence Unicron's blood is coming from the earth." She said.
He scowled and shook his head.
"It can't be possible…could it?" he asked, looking at her.
Myra scowled and the memory of the exploding earth returned to her before she looked at him, a determined look on her visage.
"I need time alone, I will be back soon." She said and checked the level of her bridging device.
"To where? Where are you going?" he said frowning.
Myra could feel her connection to dark energon was not a coincidence, or a simple evolutionary ability.
"It's a family matter." She said before leaping through the bridge.
The sky was dark and windy when she landed among the spires of dark energon and looked around her; she knew Unicron must be at the center of the earth. She did not know how he got there but by the eruption of the volcano and the strange quakes she guessed he must have been in the earth for a very long time. She sat in front of the tallest spire and looked at it, watching as her image began to blur as her physical form began to breakdown. She began to think about possible ways of stopping the catastrophe she had envisioned and wondered how she could stop Unicron. As she watched her forms fading progress she noticed she was becoming lower and lower, curiously she looked down and realized she was slowly being covered by the earth. She watched as the soil began to envelop her before she quickly stood and backed away from it. The soil lay still and she looked to see her form had solidified once again.
Myra cocked her head to the side and began to think, if Unicron was at the center of the earth could she possibly get there by using her newfound abilities? She scowled and sat on the ground again before she began to gaze at the spires and a new thought began to from in her mind. She looked back at the spires and remembered how they had responded to her influence and wondered if she could influence the soil to take her to Unicron.
Immediately the negative thoughts swirled in her mind, how would she breathe, what if she got stuck, how long could it take? She scowled and looked at the ground before another thought lit a light bulb in her head. She knew she could control the earth, but she had never attempted on using it on a large scale. The highest she had used it was to create the Cybertronian alloy for Knockout, she had sat outside and concentrated vigorously. Her will and thoughts alone had easily guided the metal's molecules to form into the shape she had ordered it to and after a time she had created the alloy. She began to wonder if she could create a suit, or even a new form, with the power of the dark energon. Curiously she waved her hand over the soil and it moved in waves, conforming into a spiral shape before the soil compacted and became darker before forming a sharp spiking piece of Cybertronian alloy.
Myra plucked the shard from the earth and looked it over for a moment before she stood and moved towards the spire. She looked at her hand as it shimmered and she watched as the shard seemed to vibrate along with her hand. She concentrated and watched as the fist sized shard conformed to her hand before forming a solid epidermal layer.
She pulled her hand back and looked at her hand; at first glance it looked like she had simply painted her hand with grey paint. She moved her fingers and realized her fingers were no longer joints and bone, but metallic joints with strange organic flesh. She looked at her hand in wonder before she began to think again. Quickly she made a fist and punched the ground, she winced and looked at her fist and inspected it closely. She looked it over and felt as it throbbed minorly, but did not see any breaks in the skin. She quickly made an equation on stability and calculated the metal to flesh ratio before she looked at the ground. Quickly she stepped near the dark energon spire closed her eyes and began to concentrate.
The earth began to tremble beneath her and the soil began to flow over her, reaching up from underneath her feet and began to envelop her legs before covering her whole body. The soil began to form layer upon layer and her form began to grow, within moments she was the size of a Cybertronian and her dough looking body stopped growing. Suddenly the soil began to fall, revealing metallic limbs with claws, small wing like projections flexed on her back. The soil continued to fall revealing her slim metallic chassis, she had a layered hip armor design and her helm decoration looked like a crown. She onlined her optics and they glowed with a bright violet glow and she looked at her sharp servos curiously and smirked, clasping her hand into a fist.
"Time to get to work." She purred, her voice metallic, almost unrecognizable, even to herself.
She scrunched her wings close to her body and put her arms flat to her sides and concentrated. The earth below her trembled and she began to sink until she was completely enveloped and she disappeared within the earth.
Myra continued to sink for a long time; she could sense Unicron's presence but was unafraid of discovery. She could sense his attention was preoccupied elsewhere, she assumed the Cybertronians were attempting to complete the same task she had. She continued her descent and as she neared her goal she moved faster and faster until she was forced to slow herself or risk injury or worse. When she sensed a space within the soil she moved towards it, her new form protecting her from the strange atmosphere. She emerged feet first before she passed out of the soil and she activated the boosters on her heels before she could fall more than a few inches. She looked about, she was in a tunnel of some sort and she could tell by the soil to metal ratio she was near the edges of Unicron's solid center. She transformed into her sleek jet form and flew down the large tunnels, towards the source of Unicron's life force, his very spark. As she flew she could see the flashing lines begin to appear as she moved further and further towards his spark.
After a moment she could feel her presence was no longer a secret and she transformed midair before landing on the ground and looking about.
"I sense your presence parasite." A deep voice said but Myra could tell the source was within her mind.
Myra smirked and bowed.
"I am humbled by your powerful presence oh mighty Unicron." She said.
"I sense my very essence within your form, along with the fabric of my very form." The voice said, angered.
"Yes, your greatness, for I am of your creation, therefore of your form." She said, kneeling her face to the ground and her optics offlined.
"You believe yourself my prodigy? Blasphemy!" he snarled.
"I did not say you created me of your will." She said.
"What do you say?" he said.
"I was created directly by another, one who stole your very essence and material from which I was created. Though you did not directly influence my creation I am of your essence thus I am yours to command." She said her body unmoving.
Unicron was silent for a moment before he spoke again.
"You may be of my essence, but my essence is mine alone, I do not wish it shared and I do not wish for a weak follower!" he said coldly.
A wicked smile appeared on her face before she replied.
"I never said I was a follower, oh mighty Unicron, I simply said I was of your essence." She said, standing straight.
"What is this? If you are not a follower what use do you have to me?" he snarled.
"I am of my own use, I will do to you as I did to my direct creator." She said, keeping her tone level.
"Do you expect to destroy me fleshling?" he said coldly.
"No, I do not expect any such thing." She said.
"Then how do you expect to accomplish your task?" he questioned coldly.
"By other means, my task is not what you think, I am not going to destroy you, I'm just going to let you fall to sleep." She said.
"A foolish task." He mocked.
"No, a plan, one that I know will work, for because of my connection to you through your essence I can weaken you enough for those who will carry out the task to accomplish their goal." She said coldly.
"You will not win." He said coldly.
"Once I have rid myself of the Prime I will show you the might that is of Unicron!" he said loudly before his presence receded from her mind.
Myra smirked and went to a wall and concentrated as her touch established a physical connection to Unicron. She could feel as his immune system was attempting to expel the Cybertronians as they neared his spark. She concentrated and confused them and used her connection to split their minds and allow the Cybertronians to defend themselves. After a few moments she could sense that Megatron was attempting to access Unicron's spark and she helped him enter by distracting Unicron temporarily by establishing a wall from Unicron's mind to Megatron's mind. She felt as Unicron battled her mind as he tried to force his will over Megatron's mind.
"Access denied." She said to his presence.
"Obey me!" he said.
Myra felt the force of his mind as he tried to take over her mind and she gritted her sharp denta as she managed to shield herself from his psychic blows. After a moment he retreated from her mind and rushed to Megatron, attempting to force his will under his own but Myra fought him and forced his will to split in two as he fought them both.
"Megatron obeys no one!" Megatron cried.
Myra strained as she battled the titan with Megatron before he forced her back and enveloped Megatron, finally gaining control over the Decepticon commander.
Myra forced her will on Unicron and weakened him again, but she did not focus on his control over Megatron, she focused on the other Cybertronian, the Prime. She could sense he had something that could finish Unicron and she focused her will to weaken the bonds Unicron had on him. Within seconds the will of Unicron shattered and she was forced to retreat back into her mind.
Myra fell from the wall and landed on one knee and sat there panting for a moment before she began to cackle and burst into mad laughter seconds later. She let her laughter bounce from the walls before she waved a fist towards the silenced pulse.
"The earth is mine now." She cackled and she flew up, the soil obeyed her will instantly.
Within moments she was back on the surface and she looked towards the sky, once dark from clouds it cleared and she laughed.
"All mine." She sneered.
"Ethy..." a voice whispered within her mind.
Myra spun and looked around looking for the source.
"Ethy…"
The presence she felt faded away and Myra was left dumbfounded before she shook her head, she had been so euphoric she was imagining things. Myra concentrated and the soil rose over her once again before receding, leaving her human form behind and she smiled and she activated the ground bridge and landed on Knockouts lab table.
"Did I miss anything important?" she purred and looked towards the doctor.
Instantly she froze, Knockout seemed to be speaking to a figure, a very recognizable one. She looked at Knockout and he gave her a look before he spoke to the bot.
"Orion, this is our earthling ambassador, Myra." He purred, smirking at her.
"I am honored to meet you." Optimus said, sending her a nod of respect.
Myra looked at Knockout before smiling and nodding towards Optimus or Orion as Knockout said.
"The pleasure is all mine." She said.