I do not own Transformers (Hasbro does) except for Pulse and Berserk. By the way, I took several Beast Wars Transformers parts and applied them to Lockdown. I'll try to post up a picture sooner or later.
On Cybertron, Pulse was in one of the shadier, abandoned, obsolete areas of the planet. She held in her arms some titanium from Earth as she walked the empty streets. She came across a long abandoned factory that was used to produce weapons in Cybertron's ancient eras, and she went inside. There were furnaces, chains, and everything that a factory needed to produce swords or blades of a sort. Everything was covered in dust, dirt, and rust as Pulse walked through its empty hallways and rooms. Better get busy thought Pulse.
Throughout the month, Pulse worked hard to forge the titanium from Earth into blades of the sharpest kind. She had to hunt down a Decepticon for some transformer metals to be infused into the blade, but it was easy since Cybertron was overrun with Decepticons. It took time to combine the metals together, then to mold and sharpen them to make deadly blades, but Pulse managed to finish and stood back to admire her work. Picking up both blades, she warped back to Earth. She still had a job to finish.
When she got back to base, all of the transformers were out except for one that was getting drunk on some of the high-grade energon. Pulse approached this transformer, and found out that it was Optimus, but in a worse shape than she remembered. Optimus had a few large dents in his armor, and some parts of his metal were twisted to show some of his exposed circuitry. "Optimus?" said Pulse as she placed a servo on his shoulder. Optimus Prime hissed, before he turned and saw Pulse staring at him in horror. "Hey, (hic) Pulse. How's (hic) it going (hic)?" said a drunk Optimus. "What happened to you?" asked Pulse. "Sentinel was (hic) really angry that (hic) I lost the (hic) Magnus Hammer (hic). He gave me (hic) these dents and (hic) forbade anyone to (hic) repair them (hic). He also (hic) demoted me to (hic) Optimus Minor (hic). He also (hic) made Blackarachnia to (hic) live out on her (hic) own in the (hic) sewers of this city (hic). He told her that (hic) if he ever saw her (hic) up here again, he'll (hic) offline her (hic)" said Optimus before he passed out. Pulse shook her helm, before she picked up the fire truck and carried him to the medical bay. His wounds really needed to be fixed, and now was a good time as ever to give Optimus those blades for his body.
Optimus groaned as he placed a servo to his helm as he woke up mega-cycles later. "Ow, my helm…what happened?" he said. "I found you drunk and hurt, Optimus. You needed help," said a female voice. Optimus looked over to find Pulse staring at him. "Pulse? What are you doing here?" he said. "I told you that I would be gone for a month, and I came back. What happened to you?" she asked. "Sentinel slagged me for losing the Magnus Hammer. He also demoted me and forced Blackarachnia to leave. I can never forget the look that she gave us…she was crying and begged for Sentinel to not to do that, but he drove her away. He said that she was no longer the femme that he once loved, and that she was an abomination to Cybertronian kind. He originally wanted to offline her, but I got in between them, and he scrapped me pretty badly. He forced Blackarachnia out in the rain. I remember that day very well…it was raining hard, and there was lightning coming out from the sky, and Sentinel forced her out in the rain. She begged him to not to do that, but he tossed her outside as if she was some sort of rusted metal. She screamed and banged on the door, asking to be let back in, but Sentinel shouted at her that she could live in the sewers that surrounded the city for all that he cared. The banging stopped after a few mega-cycles, and we haven't seen her since. I tried to go looking for her, but Sentinel beat me up every time I tried. I've been getting drunk on the high-grade energon ever since he got rid of her" said Optimus before he broke down crying. Pulse placed a servo on his shoulder as he leaned into the femme as he cried some more, before he continued "How could he do such a thing? It's almost as if she was a disease or something. Can't he see that she has a spark like me, or him, or anybot? How could he do that to her?"
Pulse was silent as tears rolled down her optic as she cried along with Optimus. Optimus cried and cried and cried until he felt a servo rub his helm. He looked up with lubricant blurring his vision as Pulse said, "We'll search for her together. I know that we can find her."
Thirty minutes later, Pulse and Optimus were in one of the large sewer systems of Detroit, and Pulse was scanning for any large organic life forms. Optimus was thinking some deep thoughts as they walked through the water systems. Optimus wasn't paying much attention to where they were going; he was just playing over the scenes in his mind of the day that Sentinel forced Blackarachnia out of the base. Optimus had never felt his spark grow so cold before in his entire life, as his love was out in the rain, screaming to be let back in. Sentinel had given Optimus a horrible arm wound to prevent him from going after her, but that pain paled in comparison to what was going on in his spark.
Suddenly, Pulse tensed up and stopped Optimus from walking any further. Optimus looked confused; then Pulse whispered "I think that I found her. Don't move." Pulse then took a few steps forward, before she tapped a few spider strings. Nothing happened, before a loud splash caught their attention. It was Blackarachnia, but something seemed wrong. Optimus approached her, then recoiled in horror. Blackarachnia had some wounds on her that looked as if a lance did them, but the wounds didn't seem fresh. Rather, they looked as they were at least a week old. Optimus picked her up, and held her close to his chassis as he was getting over his shock as pure rage and hatred filled his optics. "Optimus? Optimus Prime? What's going on?" asked Pulse. Optimus looked at Pulse then said "I now know why Sentinel didn't want me to come after Blackarachnia. He was the one that tried to offline her."
Pulse was in shock, then said, "He tried to offline her? When did this happen?" "I'll tell you back at base. Right now, Blackarachnia needs a medic" said Optimus as he held the femme's frail body in his arms. Pulse was horrified as she saw the holes in Blackarachnia's body. How could she even be alive with wounds that deep? Her shock was overcome quickly as her optic narrowed as she held on to Optimus before she warped them all back to base. She had to do some major surgery on Blackarachnia.
Sentinel came back from patrol as he entered the base. "Looks like that sniveling Optimus isn't in his usual spot. He might be purging his fuel tanks after getting that drunk" said Sentinel as he walked further into the base. His audios picked up a conversation going on, before he activated his shield and lance and crept stealthily into the base. He came to the medical bay, and heard two voices talking, but he couldn't understand the conversation. Taking in a deep breath, he stormed into the doors and said, "Freeze, Decepticon scum!" Sentinel was surprised to find Pulse, Optimus, and Blackarachnia in the bay, before he said "Optimus! How could you let that thing back in here, along with the traitor! You do not deserve to be an Autobot! I shall have you arrested for such a crime!" Optimus took a cold hard look at Sentinel and shouted "How can you do that to Blackarachnia? You nearly offlined her in the sewers, and left her for dead! She was your friend once! You tortured her, and she might have some mental scarring because of what you did! You're no better than those Decepticons!" Sentinel looked at Optimus hard before a smug look crept upon his faceplates as he said "So, what if I did try to offline her? I'm just disappointed that she's still online. She isn't even a Cybertronian anymore, just a freak that's nearly a complete organic. She should be squashed like those spiders on that planet. Of course, she did her best to put up a full fight, but I proved to be too strong for her. She deserves to be offline. What is she to you?"
Pulse took notice in Optimus' anger as he clenched and unclenched his servos, before he said, "She's going to be my sparkmate; that's who she is." That's when Pulse saw it happen: Optimus attacked Sentinel! Sentinel managed to block Optimus' punches with his shield, when something happened that caught the Magnus off by surprise. Two long blades emerged from above Optimus' servos, and it cut across Sentinel's shield. "What?" said Sentinel before his servo was sliced off by another blow from one of Optimus' blades. Another slash of Optimus' blades cut Sentinel's helm from his body, sending the head bouncing around on the floor. "Ow! Optimus! Was that really necessary? I still have nightmares from the last time that this happened," said Sentinel. "Optimus?" a voice said weakly. Optimus turned around, and saw that Blackarachnia was online. He immediately calmed down, then approached the spider femme. He stroked her helm with a servo, before he noticed the blades on his arms. Optimus looked at them in shock, then looked up at Pulse. "Do you happen to know anything about this?" he asked in a shaky voice. Pulse nodded, then said "That's why I was gone for a month, I had to forge those blades for you, Optimus. You needed some sort of weapon if we are to go to Cybertron to get back the Magnus Hammer." "We? Listen Pulse; you had no part in me losing the Magnus Hammer to Lockdown. It was my responsibility to keep it safe from the Decepticons. You could warp me to Cybertron, but it's my responsibility to get it back" said Optimus as Pulse shook her helm. "Optimus, I want to fight alongside you to get back the hammer, and you're going to need backup on Cybertron. There's no way that I'm allowing you to go there alone," said Pulse.
Blackarachnia listened to the two talk, as she relaxed on the berth. She had to admit; she was a little jealous that Pulse was willing to go wherever Optimus would go, and she suspected that Pulse had some strong feelings for Optimus, but she wasn't sure if he had some feelings for the long-necked femme. She leaned her helm more against Optimus' servo as she offlined her optics as she listened to them. Blackarachnia was happy that Optimus came back for her, and didn't leave her to die in that sewer. She was still in shock that Sentinel did what he did to her, but she knew that she had to tell Optimus about a few things when he got back. If he weren't angry enough with Sentinel now, he would definitely want to offline Sentinel with what she had to tell him when she had recovered more.
"Hey! What about me? I'm Magnus here!" shouted Sentinel from the hallway. Both Pulse and Optimus poked their helms out in the hallway, and the both of them glared at Sentinel. "You deserve much worse than this," said Optimus venomously. Pulse looked hard at Sentinel and said "We're not letting you in the medical bay after what you did to Blackarachnia. We're letting you rust out here until she gets better." The both of them went back into the medical bay, letting the screaming Sentinel head shout obscenities at the two. Optimus stroked Blackarachnia's hair one last time before he said, "I'll promise to come back" before he kissed her. The kiss was a rather long one, and Pulse couldn't help a twinge of jealousy in her antlers as she wiggled them. When the mech broke the kiss, he gazed one last time into Blackarachnia's optics, before he walked over to Pulse and said, "Let's go get back the Magnus Hammer." Pulse nodded, and the two of them were gone within the blink of an eye. Blackarachnia rested on the berth and offlined her optics. She wanted Optimus to come back safely, and soon.
Both Optimus and Pulse were on Cybertron, and they were high on their guard. Pulse managed to warp them to one of the lonelier places of the planet, before she turned her helm to Optimus and said, "Get on." Optimus got on Pulse's back, as the femme began scaling the buildings. She was a very good jumper, and the both of them leapt across the buildings as if they were pole-vaulting in a competition. They managed to get to one of the more populated areas, and Pulse stretched her neck out and focused her optic on some of the more battle-ready Decepticons. She pointed her antlers below, and managed to pick up some of the conversation. "…I'll tell you, when I walked in on Lugnut and Strika, my optics short-circuited. I can't think of anything more horrifying than what they were doing." Ok, maybe that wasn't the best conversation to detect thought Pulse as she focused on another pair of Decepticons. "…Shockwave got the Magnus Hammer? How could Megatron do that? If anything, I should be the one that should have gotten the Hammer!" "Well, the only way to get it from him is to wrestle it from his cold, offlined servos. He's currently working with Waspinator on some project that involved Lockdown. The three of them are in the Kaon labs, but I wouldn't go there alone, especially with all of the intergalactic zoo organics there. How can such creatures exist? Waspinator was also babbling about a spider femme, but I think that it's that slut Blackarachnia…" Pulse withdrew her helm, then looked at Optimus and said "I know where the hammer is."
Pulse warped to Kaon, and unfortunately for them, a few Decepticons spotted them. "Hey you, what's up with that Autobot Optimus?" said a Decepticon with some large wheels and a large build. "I'm taking him to the lab so Waspinator can experiment on him" lied Pulse "The only problem is, I easily get so confused in such a large city such as Kaon. I can never find my way around such a place." "Oh, you need to take one of the tunnels to get to the organic labs," said a red Decepticon with red wings. Pulse managed to get all the information from him, then thanked the red Decepticon as she pushed Optimus in the way of the tunnel. "Let's go, Autobot," said Pulse in a cold voice as she moved past the Decepticons. When they were out of audio range, she lowered her helm and whispered into Optimus' audio "I'm sorry about the treatment, but I have to fake being rough and rude to you to get to the labs." "I know that you don't mean it Pulse, but I know that we're going to need to get some stasis cuffs, and possibly some fake Ids," said Optimus. "Hey, I know you! You're the one who tried to offline me" said Swindle as he spotted the Autobot and future warrior. Pulse pushed the Combaticon into a wall as she said in a threatening voice "Comm anybody about this, and I'll offline you before help shows up." "Well, I couldn't help but overhear you that you need some stasis cuffs and some fake Ids. Luckily for you, I have both…for a fee of course," said Swindle as he felt Pulse's sharp tail blade press against his spark chamber. "Then again, I could always give you a free sample," said Swindle nervously.
Later, with some fake Ids and stasis cuffs, Pulse led Optimus through the tunnels. Many Decepticons couldn't help but stare at Pulse with her prisoner, but one glare from the femme silenced them. It took a while but Pulse managed to find the experimental labs. The guards allowed Pulse through with her fake ID, and her prisoner, as she went to the section where Shockwave, Waspinator, and Lockdown were.
Waspinator was working on his latest experiment with Shockwave when they received a notice from one of the scientists. Shockwave read the little notice, then looked at Waspinator and said "Do you know of a scientist by the name of Pulse? I don't remember of anybot with that name." "Waspinator know not of this Pulse, but send in the mech with the experiment" said Waspinator. The doors opened, and a white-chromed femme with Optimus walked in. Shockwave and Waspinator were floored when they saw Pulse, before they stuttered "You, you, you're Pulse?" Pulse looked at them, then said "For Decepticons, your security sucks" before she removed Optimus' stasis cuffs, and the two fought the Decepticons. Waspinator and Shockwave fought hard, but Pulse was both too fast and too powerful, and Optimus proved himself to be a worthy opponent with his new battle blades. Pulse's staff electrocuted Waspinator, and Shockwave managed to get some pretty nasty cuts from Optimus' blades. The two were immediately slapped in stasis cuffs, as Waspinator shouted "Lockdown! Exterminate Autobots!" "With pleasure, master," said a sinister voice before Pulse found herself on the floor with some sharp claws in her back. "So, it's the long-necked femme again" said Lockdown as he licked the femme's neck. She turned her helm to find Lockdown with a few "upgrades." He had some techno-organic parts on his being, with a long metallic tail, and a pair of metallic ram horns on his helm.
Lockdown looked to his right, and dodged a hit from Optimus' blade, as he jumped and landed on his hind legs before he removed his metallic manta ray-like tail, which formed a sword of some sort. Lockdown gave a deep growl, before he fought Optimus in a fierce battle. Optimus gave off a loud scream as Lockdown's right leg clawed his chassis (it looked as if it belonged to a skeletal raptor made out of steel.) Using the few precious seconds that she had, Pulse knocked down Lockdown before she jabbed through Lockdown's spark chamber, both of which were done with her tail. Pulse got up and took in a few deep breaths before she looked to find Optimus with the Magnus Hammer. "Good, glad that you got it back. Let's get out of here while there's still time" said Pulse as she walked out of the lab, with Optimus behind her.
The two of them blasted and fought through the multiple guards before they made it to the lobby area, before two truck mods, a car, a tank, and a small humanoid robot fly through the doors. The tank transformed into Blitzwing, while one of the two trucks transformed into a mech with a body structure similar to Optimus Prime's but was black and purple, but the last three transformed into something that horrified Optimus. One of them transformed into a white Bumblebee with red optics, while the humanoid transformed into a darker-skinned Sari with red optics and purple hair, and the last one was a purple and teal Optimus with a bit of a beard and red optics. The last three all had collars around their necks. Pulse cocked her helm, then asked, "Who are you?" Icy responded "Well, since you're not familiar with us, I'll introduce you to all of us. I'm Blitzwing, that there is Motor Master, and I'm sure that you're already familiar with Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Sari Sumdac." The face shifted to Random and said "They've all come from a different universe while Shockwave was trying to develop a new weapon" before he shifted to Hot Head and said "And they'll offline the both of you. Attack!"
Pulse got into her battle stance as the Decepticons and…well, she didn't know what to call them, but the bad Autobots attacked as well. She fought off Motor Master and Blitzwing, while Optimus had to fight off the bad Optimus, bad Bumblebee, and bad Sari. Optimus was overwhelmed, as the darker version of himself and two of his teammates fought a little dirty. Pulse managed to hear a loud "OW!" as she turned her helm to find her Optimus bent over with his servos over a certain area as the white Bumblebee gave off a dark laugh. The bad Sari snickered, while the purple Optimus gave this sinister smile as he said "Good job, Bumblebee. You fried his unborn sparklings." That ticked off Pulse as she gave off this energon-freezing stare as she grabbed Blitzwing by the faceplates before she began crushing them beneath her servo. "Gaaaahhhh!" scream Blitzwing as he tried to free himself, but the next thing that he knew, he was crashing into the purple Optimus. The white Bumblebee and dark Sari looked up to find Pulse jabbing her tail into Motor Master's spark chamber, as the purple mech offlined from the future warrior. Without warning, the mini-bot transformed and drove off, leaving Blitzwing, dark Optimus, and Sari behind. "Useless fool" said dark Optimus as he got up, scooped up Sari in his servo, and ran off screaming "Get back here, you pathetic excuse for a coward!" Pulse glared at them, before she went over to her Optimus and asked, "Optimus, are you going to be alright?" "Give me a night alone with Blackarachnia, and I'll tell you the results" said Optimus in a weak voice. Pulse shook her helm, before she noticed something. "Optimus, where's the Magnus Hammer?" she asked.
Both dark Optimus and Sari caught up with Bumblebee as the mech panted "Next time I'll offline you." Bumblebee transformed, then smirked as he pulled out a very large hammer from his subspace. "Bumblebee, where did you get that?" asked Sari. He smiled a sinister smile as he held the hammer, before saying "I grabbed it from that other Optimus after I gave him that little 'initiation.'" Dark Optimus smirked, and then he felt a blast coming from behind him as he was slammed into the walls at the end of the hallway. White Bumblebee looked up to find Pulse, but before he could react, her tail punctured his body before it withdrew itself. Sari looked behind her and saw how badly damaged dark Optimus was, before her fingers transformed into claws, and balls of energy formed above them. She screamed before she began blasting Pulse, but the chrome serpentine warrior kept on dodging every blast, before Sari was knocked back by Pulse's tail (not the blade, just the tail.) The human tried to stand up, but Pulse's pede kept her pinned down to the ground. Pulse's blaster popped out of her back, with it aimed at Sari. "No!" screamed dark Optimus as he lunged at Pulse. Pulse found her neck in his servos as the mech tried to strangle the femme.
When Optimus got to the scene, he found Pulse fighting his dark counterpart, along with Sari at the end of the hall. White Bumblebee was curled up in a ball, watching the whole event. He only looked up to find Optimus glaring at him, but he curled up tighter as the other mech passed him. He bent down to pick up the Magnus Hammer, before he heard the shuffling of pedes as he saw white Bumblebee running off. Optimus shook his helm as he frowned, then looked to see that his dark counterpart had the upper servo in the fight. He lunged forward with the Magnus Hammer, and whacked his dark counterpart hard. Pulse pinned down Sari again with her servo, as the little human tried to free herself. Optimus was breathing in some deep breaths as he tried to calm himself down, before he turned to Pulse and said, "Just how did the Decepticons manage to clone myself as well as two of my team members? Did anything like this happen in your world, Pulse?" Pulse looked thoughtful for a moment, then looked at Optimus and said "I do remember my sire telling me on how the Decepticons were experimenting with this 'multiverse' theory, but the project was shut down before it could be fully utilized. There were a few reports of missing Autobots and Decepticons, but the matter was never fully investigated." Sari looked up at Pulse as she raised an eyebrow and said, "You do realize that I am from a different dimension, as well as my Optimus and Bumblebee are, do you?" Pulse looked down at Sari for a few moments in silence before she said, "You are? …I guess that this explains a lot, except for how did you get here in the first place."
Pulse unclenched her servo, as Sari reclined on the future warrior's servo, and began explaining everything from her dimension. She explained on how her father found her protoform, the Autobots, and kept them as his slaves as he tortured all of them while he conquered Michigan. She also explained about on how the Autobots were evil, and the Decepticons were the good guys, and how everything was the opposite of the current world that she was in. The whole conversation went on for a few hours, before Sari stopped, looked at her Optimus, then looked back up at Pulse and said "Of all of what my father did to us, it was what he did to me in the last few months that made Optimus angry. He of course was always angry at my father for enslaving him and reverse engineering his body, but what pushed him too far was when…my father dissected his…our sparkling." Both Optimus and Pulse looked down at the little girl in shock, before Optimus stuttered "Wait…I, I, I was going to be a sire in your dimension? And your father dissected…wait, what do you mean by 'our' sparkling?" Sari looked at the mech, before she looked back at Pulse and said, "Is the Optimus from this dimension really this stupid? He may have the looks, but he doesn't have the brains of my Optimus." "Well, I come from the future, so Optimus gets a lot smarter by the time I get sparked" said Pulse as Sari stared at her. Optimus, on the other hand, looked steamed that he'd been insulted on how he was an idiot when he heard some dark chuckling when he turned his helm to find his dark counterpart had regained consciousness. "Seriously, are all of you Autobots from this dimension so stupid?" dark Optimus chuckled. Optimus just looked at his counterpart then said, "I am not stupid! I just have a hard time understanding some things, that's all." Dark Optimus gave this look that said 'riiiiiiiiiiiight' before he turned his helm to Pulse as Sari continued.
"As I was saying before this idiot interrupted, {Optimus gave a snort, as Sari rolled her eyes} I was pregnant with my Optimus' sparkling. We were alone one night, and well…he was very good, I must say. He got me pregnant, and my father found out about it, and wanted to experiment on it. Optimus tried to kill my father, but since we have these stupid slave collars that my father put on all of us, we couldn't stop him from what he wanted to do. He…removed what was inside me, and experimented on it. It died early on, and Optimus was filled with such a rage, that my father had to torture him to show him with 'who's the boss.'" Sari fell silent then, as dark Optimus continued "I couldn't stop hating Isaac Sumdac after what he did. He had no right to do any of the things that he did to us. Of course, it wasn't until a portal from this world opened up, and the one known as Waspinator came through, with this world's Shockwave and Lockdown right behind him. They approached us, and all of us which included myself, Bumblebee, Sari, Prowl, Bulkhead, and Ratchet fought them, but they proved to be too powerful with the weapons that they had. We lost, and somehow we made an impression on this world's Decepticons, and they offered if we could join their cause. Naturally, we agreed, but that fragger Sumdac came out, and forced us to obey him. Waspinator took Bumblebee, Shockwave took me, and Lockdown took Sari and pulled us through the portal. When we got to this side of the portal, Shockwave sent in this bomb that he got from Earth, and shut down the portal. All I know is that the second that he did that, the machine overloaded and sparks flew everywhere. I don't know what type of bomb that was, but I hope that fragger died in pieces."
Pulse was silent, and then dark Optimus looked at Optimus and asked, "Just what type of weapon is that? It's not the Magnus Hammer, right?" Optimus looked at his dark counterpart with a sad look on his faceplates before he said, "Actually, it is. Ultra Magnus gave it to me, before he…before he offlined." Dark Optimus looked at him with a shocked look, then said "He gave you that hammer? All that he did was kick me out when Elita-1 offlined on that spider-infested planet, which was not my fault." Optimus looked at him then said "I may not know of what her fate is in your world, but she…mutated into a techno-organic, and she's still alive, back at base. I'm planning on bonding with her when Pulse and I get back to base." Dark Optimus looked shocked, then said, "You're planning on bonding with that glitch instead of that?" as he pointed to Pulse. Optimus looked at the other mech with a dark look, then said "And, just how did you know that Elita-1 offlined, if I may ask?" Dark Optimus had a little fear in his optics, before he said "…uh, none of your business." Sari laughed, as five optics stared at her before she laughed "Oh, come on Optimus, I remember on what you told me. You left her there, and she tried to come after you as a mutant spider freak, before you sliced her in half with your axe." Optimus looked at dark Optimus before he shouted "BEFORE YOU DID WHAT TO HER?" of which he assaulted him with the Magnus Hammer, giving him several excruciating painful dents in his armor.
Sari could only look on in shock, before Pulse screamed "OPTIMUS! STOP!" Optimus kept on pounding his dark counterpart, before Pulse blasted him. The mech cringed in pain as he held his right arm, before he felt a servo on his wound as Pulse said, "Listen, your Blackarachnia is still alive and back at base where it's safe. She's waiting for you to come home, and she doesn't want to see you like this. You need to calm down before she sees you like this." Optimus looked hard at Pulse before he said "I'm sorry, it's just…how I left her behind all those stellar cycles ago on that planet…I might as well have done that to her. She didn't deserve to become like that, nor be alone for all that time. I…I still can't believe that she was online all this time and that she came back. I don't know what came over me." Pulse then said "I'm not the one that you should be apologizing to, it's your dark counterpart that needs your apology." Optimus then looked from Pulse to dark Optimus, then said "Listen, I'm sorry that I attacked you. I find it to be a sensitive issue whenever anybot talks about Black-er, Elita-1, in a negative way." Dark Optimus said something in Cybertronian, which Sari couldn't understand, but Optimus and Pulse looked shocked before the lighter-colored mech said, "Those had to be some of the filthiest words that I've ever heard."
Pulse managed to get over her shock, then nuzzled Optimus saying, "I think that it's time to return home." Optimus then stroked Pulse's antler, then nodded in agreement as he held on to Pulse's servo while he held the Magnus Hammer in the other one. Within the blink of an eye, the two were gone, leaving Sari and dark Optimus behind. "I can't see why that idiot doesn't bond with that femme instead of that Elita glitch," said Optimus. "Maybe he likes the personality of his Elita, instead of on how you would just use your Elita to satisfy your needs," said Sari. Optimus looked at Sari, then said "I suppose that you're right; after all, you are a better frag than Elita" before the two kissed.
Back at the Autobot base, Sentinel still had to bounce his helm to move around. "Fragging Optimus. He thinks that he's better than I am, with his reputation for attacking all those Decepticons and retrieving the Allspark. Well, I could have done that too, and kept Cybertron Decepticon-free. He had to leave Elita behind on that stupid spider planet too, now we have that organic freak running around. I'm sure that she waits until Optimus falls into stasis before she tries to offline him. What does he see in that freak anyway?" "Maybe it's because he sees me for who I am instead of what I look like" said Blackarachnia as she leaned in the doorway. Sentinel bounced his helm around until he could get a good look at her, then said "Oh, and that would be a selfish spider glitch that should be squashed, right?" Blackarachnia gave him a cold stare, before she said "Actually, he sees me as Elita-1 and he says that he will always love me for who I am instead of what I am, unlike you. You won't believe how much I regret losing my purity to you instead of Optimus. It wasn't until after I became part spider that I now realize that you were only interested in my looks instead of…my optics are up here, Sentinel." Sentinel redirected his optics as Blackarachnia pointed to her own optics. She gave this look of disgust as she said "You disgust me, Sentinel, you really do. I don't even know why I was attracted to you in the first place. At first, I thought that becoming a spider was a curse, but now, I see that it took that mutation for me to see on what you really are Sentinel." Without another word, she passed Sentinel's head and headed for Optimus' room.
Both Pulse and Optimus were back at base, and they headed for the medical bay. Optimus winced at every step that he took, as Pulse held on to the Prime to give him stability. The both of them saw Sentinel's body on the floor, with Sentinel's head still bouncing around on the floor. He saw Optimus and sneered "So, it looks as if you got into a fight. Well, the old medic isn't here and I'm going to court marshal you for attacking a superior officer." Optimus glared at Sentinel before he said "While you were here bouncing around, I was on Cybertron getting back the Magnus Hammer with Pulse's help." He looked in the medical bay, then said, "Where's Blackarachnia?" "That mutant freak that you call a berth-warmer is in your room, by the way. She's probably crying her optics out, or making those webs coming out of her…" said Sentinel before Pulse whacked him over his helm with her tail. "Ow! Well, anyway, I don't know what that glitch is doing now. I still don't see why you would want a freak like that to be around you, Optimus," said Sentinel. Optimus glared at Sentinel with icy optics before he said "You'll never understand, will you Sentinel? What I love Blackarachnia will always be beyond your comprehension" before he walked into the medical bay with Pulse.
