Chapter Ten: It's All Over But The Crying.
"Sorry what sir?" Hot Shot said stopping and picking up the two sparklings.
"Where is your creator?" I asked again still not giving any optic contact. I wasn't sure if I could hold together if I did.
"Not home yet. Why is something wrong?" he said walking up to me and handing me a giggling Starlight. That's where I noticed that Raindown wasn't home yet either. She was usually home first and feeding Starlight.
"Sir, Optimus!" I heard some one call from the hall. "Sir…we…we need to talk. Y…you too Hot Shot." Ratchet gasped for air once he reached us. But something was off. Ratchet was in charge of helping the injured or get the off lined to the morgue where bots would say goodbye after a battle. So why was he here?
"No…" I said realizing what was happening. "Hot Shot…c…come on." I hoped I was wrong about this terrable feeling.
"But what about…" Hot Shot started.
"Arcee is on her way to spark sit." Ratchet interrupted and lightly pushed him forward. As he said that, the pink femmie ran down the hall and smiled softly.
Starlight clicked and reached for me from Arcee's arms confused by why I was leaving and who this strange new femme was.
"Sorry sweet spark, I'll be back." I sighed kissing her helm before leaving with Ratchet and Hot Shot.
We where walking towards the morgue when it finally hit Hot Shot that some thing was seriously wrong.
"No…no, Optimus please no!" He said grabbing my arm. "Not this, no!" The poor youngling looked like he was about to lose it.
"Hot Shot I'm so sorry about your Sire." I sighed feeling tears come once more. "I…it was Megatron."
"NO IT'S NOT TRUE!" He said running forward and ahead of us. "YOU"RE LYING!"
I was still wondering why I was called down. Was it because of Rocket or…no where is it ? My ring…it's gone. But the rings only came off when…
"Raindown!" I whispered.
I ran after the poor mech into the room and found over one hundred fallen comrades, three of which we knew personally.
"NO!" Hot Shot cried knelling in-between the two beds that held his parents.
"No…Raindown…NO!" I cried knelling by my bonded. She was the worst of the three. She looked as if a bomb had fallen right on to her and Coraline looked like she'd been with her for she had the same burn marks.
'Why Raindown? How?' I thought taking her servo and holding it up to my forehead as I cried. 'Who love, who did this?' I put her hand back over her chest and noticed something in her broken hand. Her ring. The one I'd given her when we bonded. The one that would only fall off when one died.
I couldn't hold it any longer and cried along side Hot Shot. I cried for all three but more for the future of our sparklings. I cried for all those that were lost and for those that lost someone. A lover, a bonded , a son, a daughter, a Sire or Creator, or maybe some combination of them, all by the hand of my brother. I swore then and there I would bring him down and stop this madness once and for all.
