AN:
I suggest listening to 'Never Let Go' by Bryan Adams for this chapter.
It's been five years...five long years. The solar cycle after I connected with Shadowstreak, I heard some of the most devastating news: The cons had somehow gotten a hold of the coordinates holding energon stores and, surprise surprise, the last shards of the Allspark. It had been thought that all of the last pieces had been found, but no, there were three...and the cons now had them. In the last five years many things have happened, new bots arrived for starters. There was Bluestreak, the Dino-bots, the Ariel bots, Cliffjumper, Blaster, and Smokescreen. All were pretty nice and I enjoyed their company, though I have to admit...I was very sad. In all of the chaos and recent battles I hadn't had a chance to talk to my brother, nor had I gotten to talk to any of my family besides my mates and three younglings. Much to my amusement, but the twins chagrin, Calibrator decided to begin training under Prowl. Sunburst wanted to be a medic, so naturally the best would be the one teaching her-Ratchet. Lastly was Shellshock, he was quite the handful and turned out to be quite similar to Sunstreaker, he wanted to be a front-liner like his fathers.
A soft sigh left my lips as I stalked to the monitor room. The years working under Redalert have left me exhausted, but a better bot. I wasn't as weak as I had once been, I was stronger both in mind and body. Stalking to the security room I pressed in the code and walked in, the hiss of it closing was the last thing I heard before everything went to silence. The monitor room was always silent, almost eerily so with the blue hue of the screens dimly lighting the room. Stalking to my chair I sat and automatically started looking over the screens, my wings flicked and arched up high and tight with my concentration.
With Redalert gone now I was in charge of watching the bots. Yes...Redalert had offlined. It was tragic to not only Inferno, but myself. He was my mentor after all. Heaving a sigh I observed the mechs moving to and fro from the monitors. In a way I began to understand how Redalert must have felt. Watching these bots go about daily life: Working, loving, morning and refueling together. Watching them gave you a sense of being a part of that, but at the end of the day you were the security bot who got no thanks. No thanks for keeping them alive and safe. That was okay though, I enjoyed this. I got all the thanks I needed by watching them move and breathe; because at the end of the day for me, that's all I needed.
Leaning back in my comfortable chair I watched the on goings of the base, as they switched shifts, as they moved as one body. The one thing that always threw me off about this was that no humans were on this base, not even Major Lennox and Sgt. Epps. Between the time of the coordinates being found and Nest breaking up the humans had moved off base, leaving this entire facility for us bots. A shift out of the corner of my optics brought me from my reminiscing as I looked to monitor four-hundred and sixty-three, lense A. Amusement filtered through me as I watched Sideswipe getting up in the cameras face and make weird faces. Shaking my helm I quickly typed a command and watched him jump back and yelp. Good, he's seeing the words that I'm typing then. I thought bemused.
Back away from the camera or I'll contact Hide.
Much to my amusement he stuck his glossa out at the camera and sauntered off like a kicked cyber puppy. Shaking my helm at his antics I turned and looked back at the cameras, the form of a black and gold mechling came up on the camera that lead to the security room door. After a soft buzz and my call to come in, Calibrator entered.
"Shouldn't-you be-with Prowl" I murmured with my broken speech. Calibrator walked up to my side and shrugged his slender shoulders.
"No carrier. I'm on break for the next jour. I thought I would come visit you." A soft smile made its way to my lip components as I reached to the side and smoothed a servo over his helm, my optics never leaving the screen.
"Have you-had any-energon?" I asked softly, my servo gently smoothing over his helm getting a soft purr from him.
"No Carrier. Not since this morn." I nodded my helm spoke calmly to him.
"Why don't you-go get some. I'll be-here- when you- get back." He dipped his helm and walked back out the door, silence once again ensued at his departure. Of course silence on base never lasted for long. An explosion from the west side knocked out the zero one zero three two B lens (01032B) of hall way thirty-two. Groaning I opened a com link to Inferno.
:Inferno. Wheeljack's lab just went up again.: Saberquake.
:Ah 'eard it, do't ya worry ya pe'tty li'l armor.: Inferno.
I snorted and emitted a softly faintly static laced giggle as we cut the com. Inferno was always the sweet uncle like figure to me, we grew even closer once Red passed. A sad sigh left my vocal processor as I commed Wheeljack.
:Sabe to Jacky.: Saberquake
:I'm here!: Wheeljack
:Good. Once you're all taken care of, fix my camera.: Saberquake.
:Oooh...I knocked it out again didn't I.: Wheeljack.
:Yes, yes you did.: Saberquake.
:Sorry! I'll get right on it!: Wheeljack.
:Affirmative. Saberquake out.: Saberquake.
Cutting the com link, I rolled my optics heavenward and shook my helm. Primus, what am I gonna do with these mechs. Sighing I settled back and sat watching the monitors well into the evening. Leaning back in my chair I stared at the screens in silence, my optics scrutinizing every last detail. Behind me the door opened and our lovely SIC walked in.
"Hello Prowl." Silence sat in the room before a shadow passed over me. The reflection of Prowl glaring off the screens.
"I came to relieve you of your shift." A scowl set across my features as I stared at the monitors. My wings twitched faintly in irritation, as I tried not to be out right rude when I spoke.
"No offense intended sir, but I do not require relieving. I am fine, you should go rest." I could feel his intensely penetrating stare on my back plates for a moment, and then the door opened and closed with a hiss. Sighing I stared at the screens yet again in the dull silence. In all honestly I was exhausted, but I was obsessing over the monitors. I couldn't help it, something told me to stay and stay I would. Running a servo over my face plates I couldn't help but to snort. Primus, I'm just channeling old Red...that's all...I'm being paranoid..right? A blip on the far left monitor, had me craning my helm to stare at the screen. The red blinking dots made me freeze. Cons...and they were headed our way.
"Slag!" I snarled. Standing up I quickly left the monitors and rushed to the intercoms. Pressing the button I linked myself to every bots com link.
:This is Saberquake to all bots! Prepare for battle stations! This is not a drill. I repeat-this is not a drill.: Pulling my index digit off of the big red button, I quickly moved back to my station and began entering emergency codes that Red had taught me. Rushing pedes filled the halls as the screens filled with mechs and femmes running to their stations. Lights started flashing, and protective energon force fields were activated as I entered the commands. Swiveling in my chair I started flicking on switches and pressing command codes. The communications systems lit up right as Blaster came running in.
"Sup?" He rumbled as he moved over to the station and began speaking to all the fellow bots. I gave him a curt nod and turned back to the screens, pressing a few keys the inside base cameras flickered and turned off as the outside ones came online. The whole outer perimeter of the base now on my monitors. I smirked and began typing quickly, my optics tracking the now landed Decepticons as they trekked toward our base.
"Blaster. Roughly twenty mechs- headed our-way." He nodded and quickly relayed the information. My optics narrowed as I watched them split into three groups. Some of the cons I recognized; such as Blackout, Bonecrusher, Soundwave, and the seekers. Though there was a few I did not recognize, a part of me shivered at the looks of them though. The helm mech was a deep purple and bigger than Megatron. I was sure I had never seen him before. As I observed all of this I was relaying it to blaster for him to transmit to everyone else. He is our communications officer after all. The new mech seemed so familiar, as if I had seen him before. That's when I realized where: My dream.
A shudder went through me as I concentrated on all of the mechs, both our own and the cons. Dread pulled in the pit of my abdomen as I watched Seacrest and Wisteria rush out of the base, their weapons loaded and ready to fight. A part of me mourned this sight, as my own three younglings rushed out with them. My processors told me they would be fine, but the pulsing of my spark told me otherwise. I felt it course through my veins, this was the last time I would see them. I didn't know how or why, but it was. I clenched my door wing hinges so they arched up high on my shoulders, and flicked my antennae back as they began to light up acid green with my fear.
"You 'ight ova there, Sabe?" Blaster called from his controls where he was sending, intercepting, and receiving transmissions for our fellow bots. I gave him a curt nod as I stared at the screens, my optics narrowing dangerously. That mech...he was from my dream cycles...what was his designation...Galvitron? My servos clenched in my lap as my optics followed the mech. His red optics who had haunted my dreams and recharge cycles, now they stared upon me in real life. My camera was between him and I, and yet I felt as if I was right there.
Sucking in a deep breath, I watched as one by one my cameras were knocked offline, until I was staring at a snowy screen. Standing up I slicked my door wings once and turned, blasters soft neon blue optics tracking me to the door.
"Where ya goin'" Pausing my servo an inch away from the key pad I stared intently at the door. Silence rang through the room for a time before I spoke.
"Cameras don't work. I'll give support-as I can." I rumbled softly, the glitch in my vocal processor slowly working itself out. With that I strode from the room before Blaster could say anything else. The whole base was eerily silent as I stalked through the halls, everything seemed deafened, not even my pedes made a sound. The racket outside was on silent when I entered the battlefield, those red optics locked on my own and suddenly I was in the dream again. I tensed as the huge mech made his way toward me, everything slowed down, only he seemed to be in fast forward.
Moving backward I turned and ran through the explosions, my fellow bots shouted words I couldn't hear. I forced the bonds closed, as I suddenly turned around and brought my electric staff from subspace. Flicking it open I swung it around and slammed it against his helm. The loud crackle of energy breaking the silent trance I had been in, sound washing through the barrier.
The mechs roar was like a crash of thunder assaulting my audios. Before I could move his massive servo slammed into me, knocking me backward and into the foliage. A low growl rippled through my chassis as I stood up, a line of energon dripping down my jaw from my lips. Flaring my door wings I lunged up from the foliage and rushed the mech, swinging my staff I slammed it into his abdomen. As it hit him I sent a burst of electricity through the blue rings, the high voltage slamming into him and destroying a slab of his abdominal armor. His roar of pain filled me with satisfaction, until he began beating up on me. I quickly found myself having to retreat, he was to powerful for my slender frame. I was a security bot, not a major warrior.
I ducked and dodged as long as I could, trying my hardest to stay out of his reach. A snarl escaped his lips as he pulled out his blaster and started shooting. A yelp left me as he shot me through my left shoulder joint. My whole left arm went numb, forcing me to retreat to my comrades. Running as fast as I could, time seemed to stop as I sprinted to them.
Cons littered the ground offline as I ran past them. My comrades looked up when they heard my steps, and suddenly horror struck their expressions. I was confused until I heard the sound of a blast and excruciating pain broke through the silence, then I realized why they had that expression. The cry of my mates broke through the dimness of my optics as I looked down. A whole was centered right over my spark chamber. I could see the flickering blue light as energon gushed from my chassis. Looking up into the optics of my fellow bots, my mates and my siblings I collapsed. Blasts ensued as my fellow bots, no family, attacked Galvitron. Looking up into the optics of my mates I saw coolant tears in their optics, for the first time I saw them begin to cry. I knew if they were crying, it had to be bad, really really bad. I tried to speak, but nothing came out except energon and a gagging noise.
:I love you. Take care of the sparklings.: I whispered through the bond, living up yet again to my former designation that Ironhide had given me. Sunstreaker shook his helm and rumbled softly.
"No! Ratchet can heal you, don't you dare give up!" I coughed weakly and sent my mates all the love and gentlness that resided in my spark.
"Please, sweetspark...don't leave us..." Sideswipe whispered brokenly. I looked up into their optics and gave a weak smile. My optics flickered and my vision faded to black.
:I can't hang on any longer my sparks. I am sorry it had to end this way. Please...take care of our little ones and know that I have always loved you, and always will.: Soft sobs met my dimming audios as crushing love swept through the bond, from both my mates and my sparklings.
"We love you as well...till all are one." My mates rumbled softly, soft patters of coolant tears dropped on my cheek plating as I slowly began fading.
:Till all are one: I rumbled weakly back. With that I faded into darkness, the glowing light of the matrix leading my way. I shall wait for you my sparks, for all eternity if I have to.
AN:
I know, I know, I'm gonna get attacked with reviews by all of ya'll. This ending I have been planning for awhile, it didn't come out exactly as I had planned, but I hope ya'll like it anyways. After 63 chapters of SSU and now 21 chapters of FIT we are finally finished...I feel...depressed that this had to end. It was such a good run in my opinion...I really hope ya'll have liked this story as much as I have.
I don't know what I would have done without ya'll. Bee4ever, Solarflare, Shadowstreak, Goldeneagle(?), Kimmie88 and more. Ya'll have given me inspiration and helped me through the hard times more than ya'll will ever know. -sigh- With the ending of this one I can now focus on BA and a few other ideas I have. Thank-you again for sticking with me as long as you have.
~D.R. Out