I would like to apologize for any and all grammar and spelling errors. Haha. Again I plan on having doing the next couple chapters with Frost in her teenageer years, so give me a sugggestion on what her alt mode should be, and remember this is in the 80s, so old school vehicle models please. In the mean time, enjoy Chapter! :)
Disclaimer: Don't own the Bot that will be in this chapter, only one I claim is Frost, along with the plot.
Ch. 13
"What is that?" Hound asked the obvious question.
Frost didn't seem to understand what was happening, but she knew that the others were unsettled. When the object hit the ground Frost's personality changed. She slid out of Prowl's arms and walked a couple feet. "Sire."
"What is it?" Prowl walked behind her.
She shook her helm, "No, Sire. He's here."
"Wait, Vector Prime? He wasn't due for another week." Ironhide looked at Optimus with clarification.
"He's here, he's here!" Frost clapped her servos as she jumped up and down.
Prowl's wings dropped, wondering why the Prime came early. He was jumping to conclusions that he was going to take Frost away, or to a yell at him for not keeping her safe. Jazz and Prowl's brothers put supporting servos on his shoulders and wings. He looked at them and gave them a thankful smile.
Optimus watched at the crash site, unable to decide what to do. He was about to send a team to retrieve the Prime, but a bright light appeared in front of them. Out of the bright light came a white mech with gold markings on his shoulders, legs, and arms. He had light blue wings that were edged with a maroon color. In the center of his stomach was a red orb surrounded by teal glass. And strapped to his hip was a long crystal sword with matching gold markings.
"Prime, who is that?" Trailbreaker glanced at his leader.
"I am Vector Prime, Trailbreaker. Guardian of time and space, once a Prime before Primus gave me another duty." The mech looked down at the black mech; we was a mere two inches taller than Skyfire. He felt tiny arms wrap around his leg, and he looked down with a smile. "Hello young one, had quite the adventure I see?"
"Mhm." Was all that Frost could say.
"Why are you here so early?" Prowl stood where he was, but really wanted the comfort of his youngling.
The Prime turned his attention to the mech. "Do not worry Prowl, I have not come to take the child away. And you have down amazingly well with caring for her needs. The reason for my early departure, was that Megatron has been planning on taking Frost and turning her from the light."
"But we took the chip out from her spark?" Ratchet took a step forward.
Vector Prime nodded as he knelt in front of his followers. "You are right Ratchet, but Megatron planned one step ahead. He knew that you would quickly find the chip, and he had Shockwave do some experimenting on Frost. I do not know what, as I was blocked off from her when she was under the mech's 'care'."
"Can you tell us what he did now that she's safe?" Prowl couldn't handle not knowing what may be happening inside Frost.
He shook his helm with a small frown. "No, he has buried it deeply in her programming. It could take mega cycle to a vorn to figure out what it is."
"How did Frost know it was ya?" Jazz released his friend's shoulder.
"Because she is a part of my spark, Jazz. As long as I'm online and in the same area as her, Frost will always know that I am close." Vector Prime explained as he looked down at his smiling creation. He saw the cooling magma covering the base, he sighed sadly. "I see that you are having troubles. Let me assist."
Vector Prime turned and arched his long wings until they stood up straight. The red orb in his chest lit up and shot a beam at the volcano, and blue light shit out from his wings. The magma heated up and flew back up the mountain. Once the magma was back inside Vector Prime shot the red beam at the mouth of the volcano, and rocks fell into it.
"How, how'd you that!?" Huffer looked a little shell shock.
"I am the Guardian of time and space, Huffer, so I have gained some abilities that enable me to do what is required of me." Vector Prime explained. He lifted Frost up to his face. "I see you got my gift."
Frost saw that he nodded at the gold insignia, and she smiled happily. "Yeah, it's so pretty."
"Why did you give her an insignia so early?" Prowl stared at the taller mech.
"My reason for the insignia, was to bring happiness to my creation. I heard her wishes to be part of the team, wanting to be like her adopted family, and be like the one else who raised her." The Prime said as he rubbed the side of her cheek. "She always looks up to you Prowl, even when you are crossed with her. Learning from her mistakes, Frost always asks what her Sire would do. She may not say it as much as you may want, but she loves you with all her spark."
Hearing that made Prowl's spark swelled with happiness. He did love it when Frost told him that she loved him, and it saddened him when she wouldn't say it. "You said you had to tell Optimus something once you came to Earth?"
"Oh yes, but I must speak to him in private. And it requires Frost to be with us." He sat her back down.
"We can talk." Optimus looked at the team of Autobots, who were secretly planning on trying to listen in on the conversation. "There are patrols and training to do, so keep yourselves busy until we are done."
They all said "Yes Sir." As the two Primes turned and head in. Frost looked at Prowl for an answer. All he did was nod and smile. She ran to him and jumped into his arms, and hummed happily. "I love you Sire."
"I love you too sweetspark." Prowl kissed her chevron before setting her back down.
Frost ran off to follow the Vector Prime and Optimus Prime. The three went into the main room where Telatraan sat. Optimus locked the door so none of the others could walk in.
"It is an honor to meet you, Vector Prime." Optimus sounded almost like a fan boy.
"You have done well leading the Autobots to successful victories. The rest of the Primes are proud of their successor." Vector Prime put a servo on his successor's shoulder as he smiled. "But I didn't come here just for Frost, I came here to tell you that the Primes are dying."
"What do you mean?" Optimus looked at him in confusion.
"With so little bots in the world, and the others scattered across space, the Primes that have joined the Allspark cannot choose a successor for you. And none of those that follow you here on Earth, are not qualified to relieve the Matrix of Leadership after your time comes." The white and gold mech explained. "But we have felt the presence of another Prime, but he is not on Earth. He is in stasis with others, when his time comes to join the fight only then will you know which of the group is your successor."
Optimus nodded, understanding what he was told. "Heat about Frost? Is she not eligible to protect the Matrix?"
"No, she has another path she will take. Which is why I have come to her." He explained as he knelt in front of her. "Frost, you are going to Cybertron soon. I that correct?"
"Mhm, Sire is taking me home in a couple solar cycles." Frost nodded with a bashful expression.
"When you are older, I will bring you to my dimension and train you to be my successor. Do you wish to know why you have been wanting to go home?" Frost nodded as her wings twitched nervously. "I have left a part of you, of sorts, back on Cybertron. It's safely hidden in Iacon, in the Prime towers. Your connection with your Sire and me are the keys that will show you where the object is. Once you find it, you will acquire new gifts."
"Does that mean I have to leave Sire?" Frost looked up sadly.
"Yes, but that won't be for some time. I won't be able to stay for long, as me being here could destroy the balance on Earth." Vector Prime said calmly.
"If she was going to be your successor, why did you bring her on Earth?" Optimus crossed his arms in a friendly manner.
"I wanted Frost to learn from personal experience, rather than watching. And she seems to enjoy this planet, right?" Vector Prime looked down at Frost, who was nodding happily.
Frost looked back and forth at the Primes, and then remembered that her tanks were getting low. She patted her Creator's leg to get his attention. "I'm hungry. Can I go find Sire now?"
"Of course, can't keep your Sire waiting now can we? I'll just be a bit longer with Optimus." They smiled at each other before Frost ran off to find Prowl.
Frost ran through the base, and found Prowl sitting impatiently with Jazz and Bumblebee. She ran up to him and hopped up onto Prowl's lap. "Frost, you're back."
"Mhm, Vector Prime told me why I want to go to home. He said that he left me something there, and he said other Autobots are coming to Earth soon." Frost's expression changed from a smile to bummed and thought expression. "But he didn't say when though. Do you think they'll want to be my friends too Sire?"
Prowl nodded with a smile. "I think they will love to be your friends. So when Vector Prime landed, did you know that you called him Sire?"
Frost looked at him in confusion. "No I didn't, you're my Sire."
"So you don't remember you saying Sire, and me asking you what was wrong, and then you said no not you?" Prowl saw Frost's face twist in confusion.
Frost shook her helm furiously. "No, no you're Sire."
"Okay, okay calm down sweetspark. Are you hungry?" Prowl decided to change the subject, not wanting to upset her.
She nodded, happy for the change of topic. "Mhm." Prowl sat her down in the empty space beside him so he can get her energon. Frost stared at Bumblebee as he looked at a datapad. "How are you Bumblebee?"
"I'm doing better now. What's Vector Prime like?" Bumblebee leaned forward on the table slightly.
"He's as tall as Skyfire! And he's really nice like Optimus." Frost smiled childlike. "When can we play hide and seek again?"
"How about after you're done refueling I have nothing to do, and Ratchet said that I can return to duty." Bumblebee was barely in his adulthood, but still retrained his curiosity and playful personality.
Prowl returned and handed Frost her energon as he slid back in his seat. Frost took it and took a few sips before nodding with a blueish-pink energon mustache. The three all laughed at the site. Frost wiped it off before drinking more. She leaned her body against Prowl's arm as she looked around the room in thought. A sharp pain hit her chest, where her spark was.
Frost dropped her energon on the table before grabbing at her chest. "Ow, owie that hurts."
"What's wrong?" Prowl turned to look at Frost.
Frost tapped on her chest as the pain increased slightly. "Owie it hurts."
"Bee go get Ratchet. Frost I want you to lay down. Okay?" Prowl tried to soothe Frost as she plopped on onto her side. He rubbed her wings softly as she cried into his stomach, going on and on about how her chest was hurting.
Bumblebee returned with Ratchet hot in his tailpipes. "What happened?"
"Frost was trust refueling when she started to complain about her chest hurting." Prowl explained as they moved everything off, and laid Frost on the table.
Vector Prime and Optimus came walking in, having a casual conversation when the ancient Prime fell to his knees, holding his chest also. "Agh, what is happening?"
"I need to take Frost to the med bay, Vector Prime are you well enough to walk?" Ratchet cradled Frost in his arms and knelt in front of the hurting mech. He nodded and stood up, following the medic.
Frost onlined after going into stasis a few kliks ago. She looked around and realized she was in the med bay and Vector Prime was sitting on a berth with a few cables connected to his arms, legs, and chest. "You're online, that's good. How are you feeling?" Ratchet walked over to her and scanned her real quick as she registered what he had said.
"Okay I think. My chest doesn't hurt anymore." Frost rubbed her chest thoughtfully. "What's wrong with Vector Prime?"
"While you were hurting, he began to feel the same pain. Though it was not as bad as yours." Ratchet explained as he tapped her chest and examined her spark. "Hmm, nothing indicates that your spark came into contact with anything foreign."
Frost looked around and saw that Sparkplug was here repairing Gears' arm. He stopped what he was doing and looked over at them. "Did you try checking other parts of her? Since you guys are similar to humans, it might be another part of her that's affect her heart… erm I mean spark? Sometimes when I get chest pain I'll take medication and it'll turn out to be a headache."
"You are very smart human, it was Shockwave that was with Frost and while I was in the other dimension, I watched him insert strange codes in her system." Vector Prime stroked his chin in thought.
Ratchet nodded and sat Frost up, and gave the back of her helm a light tap. It retracted to show her processor, everything was connected and working properly. Except for another chip that was connected to the main cortex, and was slowly embedding its webbing throughout her processor. "Primus, I should've done a complete overhaul. If I had, I would've been able to remove this before it got this bad. There was a second chip, and the webbing is embedded in her processor."
"That could explain the pain she's having, but what about him?" Sparkplug pointed his wrench at Vector Prime.
"She is my creation, straight from my spark. Whenever she is in pain, I experience the same pain. But while I was in my dimension, it was just as if you were to touch a sharp object. Now that we are in the same world, our connection as increased and so does the pain." He explained a he continued to rub his chest. "I'd use my abilities to extract the device, but I am both weak from earlier and it has gone in too far for me to do it without hurting her."
"Wait you said the same spark, could we return her spark to you until we remove the chip?" Ratchet suggested, and before the Prime could give the medic the bad news, Prowl rushed in, with Jazz and Wheeljack falling onto the ground.
"What's happening? Is Frost okay?" Prowl stood where he was, looking like he was on a balance beam.
Everyone was silent, even Frost, and she didn't even understand what was going on. The only thing she knew, was that her Sire was going to be very mad at the Decepticons. "The bad guys put something in my processor. And Ratchet wants me to give my spark back to Vector Prime until he gets the thing out."
"What do you mean 'thing'?" Prowl turned his attention to Ratchet, he took a couple stiff steps towards them.
Ratchet sighed sadly, "Megatron had Shockwave insert not only a chip in her spark chamber, but also in her processor. I'm guessing that whatever coding he had used was a backup when we found the first one."
"What are you saying?" Prowl looked at the old medic in defeat.
"What I mean Prowl, is that if we don't figure something out so, Frost will become a Decepticon." Ratchet also looked defeated.
The room was soon filled with sorrow and silence. The tension was so thick, not even Vector Prime's sword could cut it. Prowl clenched his servos and sped out the room, transforming in the wall. He was heading for the area where the Decepticon sighting was. Prowl was ready to take down the entire crew, even if he deactivated while doing it.
"Megatron will pay for this, I promise."
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