Chapter 14, thus shatters the endless calm
Over the past year and a half, 8 year old Sparkplug Prime had become so accustomed to her mech suit, that the only time she wasnt wearing it, was when she was at school or out with Sam, because Ironhide had convensed her the other kids might tease her if she wore it around them. As the bright pink minimech fell asleep with her head in his lap, Bee couldnt help but be grateful for the prank that had given him a closeness to her that hadnt been possible before. They had been watching Disney's Cars, the twins had been trying to strangle eachother, before Ratchet smacked their heads together, told them to behave and had claimed he had work to do, locking himself in Medbay. Optimus and Ironhide had gone to follow a signal picked up on that they thought might be refugee autobot's, somewhere in Arizona and had left Ratchet in charge. The twin's were now discussing the best way to disassemble Teltraan 1 without getting caught. Bee had just started to drift into stasis, when the world exploded all around him. He barely had time to sheild Sparkplug as the ceiling fell and the glowing red eyes that had haunted many of his nightmere's met his. His spark jerked in his chest, as the sound of Sparkplug's scream knocked him back to reality. He didnt think, he grabbed her and ran as a single thought echoed through his processor. Starscream.
Sparkplug "BEE!"
He looked down into those blue optic's, much the way he had all those years ago, as a clawwed hands ripped him from her and a decepticon slammed him backwards against the wall. He fought furiously, struggling to get free, to get find her, to somehow save her.
As burning pain ripped through him, he screamed "RUN SPARKS!"
Sideswipe and Sunstreaker moved like rabid wolves, cutting down everything in their path with an almost blood thirsty movements. The prankster twin's had a deadly grace that almost didnt fit them as they led a dance of death through the attacking decepticon's. When it was finished, nothing remained by a trail of destruction and they began to search for Sparkplug, Bumblebee and Ratchet. They found Ratchet first, energon trickling from small wounds, frantically digging through rubble, calling for Sparkplug. They found Bee next... Face down in a pile of broken concrete and twisted steel. Smoke gushed from a massive hole in his side and his right arm was nothing but a shredded mess of wires and energon, but within him a spark still pulsed. They found Sparkplug...in a back room in Ratchet's medbay, where they discovered, she had been hiding underneath the shredded remains of Jazz that Ratchet had been working on piecing back together. Suprisingly, it had saved her life. Ratchet worked frantically through the night, the twin's keeping watch as he moved back and forth, trying to save Bee and working to keep Sunshine stable. For some reason, her suit was malfunctioning, the latches holding her in it had somehow fused together, trapping her inside. Optimus and Ironhide arrived three hours later, having broken the speed limits in a way that would make a drag racer piss himself, followed suprisingly, by a bright burnt orange 2005 Ferrari Enzo and forest green 1965 Ford Mustang. Ratchet had never been so happy to see Wheeljack as they got to work repairing the damage left by the suprise attack.
Optimus "As you can see... The war is not over."
Hot Rod "Yeah, I noticed that Prime. Whose the sparkling?"
Optimus, sounding sad "Her name is Sparkplug. Bee found her." With eyes on the tiny pink form laying on the stasis bed infront of him, he told the story of Baby Mine and how a tiny human baby in need of a home had become one of the Autobot's.
Ratchet "Optimus..."
Optimus looked up. He could see from the sadness in his old friend's face, that sadness he had seen so many times before, that he had lost a patient.
Ratchet, his voice box crackling. "Optimus we are going to lose Sparkplug."
Ironhide swore loudly in Cybertronian.
Optimus, ignoring the heaviness on his spark that he had felt far too many times before "Going to?"
Ratchet, his voice heavy with the weight of his failure "The Mech Suit fused to her body and she is bleeding internally. I cant get it off without killing her and she will not survive if it remains on.Prime... She has been moaning your name since we found her."
Optimus "What about Bumblebee?"
Ratchet "He's going to pull through. They missed his spark casing, but he'll be down for a while. I will need to rebuild his arm. Until we get Teltraan 1 back up, I wont be able to see if there's anything deeper wrong with him..."
Optimus nodded and with a heavy spark, approached Sparkplug. His deep blue optic's filled with sorrow as he looked down at her tiny pink body and he gently lifted her into his arms, holding her soothingly as she lay her head against his chest. Bumblebee would be fine, but if these were the last moments of little girl that had wormed her way into his spark, he would make certian that she would not die frightened and alone.
Spark, her voice barely a whisper "O...Optimus..."
Optimus Prime steeled himself, preparing to do something he had done, so many times before, with so many friends as he held them in his arms and watched their sparks fade away. "I am here little one"
Spark's "Jazz says... To... Hold on...To...Your...Lug...Nuts"
Optimus barely had time to wonder what that ment, when the world flipped upsidedown and he was blinded by the explosion of blue light that burst from the Matrix within him.