"Okay, Let's go over it again." Sam starts as everyone crowded around each other in their make shift shelter for the night.
"Please no." Acirah deadpanned with her arms folded round Wheelie who'd passed out. She'd woken up and felt better with lots of water and rest thanks to Simmons being over prepared all the time. Who knew that sneaky ex-agent had tossed a few bags into Skids' trunk filled with survival junk?
After she was looked over, Acirah had been filled in on what all she'd missed from Jetfire. Their new mission was to go out into the desert and find the Matrix of Leadership, something that may help them in their quest.
Perhaps they could save Optimus after all...
"When the dawn alights the Dagger's tip the Three Kings will reveal the doorway." They, they being Simmons and Sam, said at the same time.
"They did it anyway." She grumbled while Mikaela snickered.
"That's what he said." Leo nodded.
"You know what that means?" Simmons asked.
"Sure. It means that when the dawn alights the Dagger's tip the Three Kings will reveal the doorway." Acirah drawled. "Of course we don't know what it means."
"Easy there grumpy." Simmons patted her head, snickering as she grumbled.
Acirah had been in a bad mood since she woke up, and since Mudflap showed her a recording of what Sunstreaker said during her delirious state. She wasn't very happy with him right now. She was also very much confused. On one hand, she knew she had feelings for Sunstreaker, but on the other hand she knew she had feelings for Sideswipe. Acirah was at a loss for what to do and she was also frightened at the same time.
Acirah Byrne was panicking.
She was terrified of being hurt again... but Sunstreaker and Sideswipe had brought out such a nice feeling within her that she never wanted to let it go! It was like... It was... as if her heart was pulling her towards both of them. She clenched her eye's shut, ignoring the blabbering of Sam and Simmons as her eye's swept to Sunstreaker's form who was in recharge.
Could she even pick between the two brothers? Could she even come between them? She frowned even more, after all of this she reallllly needed to speak to Ratchet about what was going on with her... despite him being Cybertronian and not a human, she knew he was MORE then capable of caring for humans as well as his own kind in the medical area. For now, Acirah had to force herself to focus on the current mission.
"-think we should just sleep on it." Sam's voice sighed as he rubbed his face tiredly.
Acirah blinked over to them and looked out the window, she hadn't noticed it getting late and just sighed before turning towards Sunstreakers form again before walking over near him with Wheelie snoozing away and laying down, using her jacket as a pillow before she fell asleep.
It wasn't but 2 hours after falling asleep that movement stirred and before Acirah knew it, something fell on top of her.
"ACIRAH WAKE UP!"
"Holy crap!" Acirah yelped as she flew up, her fist flying out in instinct and her knuckles made contact with flesh.
"Oi oi oi! What gives!" Wheelie protested as well when he was disturbed.
"OW!" A girly male shriek echoed and Acirah blinked confused while Sunstreaker had transformed in being startled as well. "What the hell Acirah?!" Leo shouted as he held his now broken nose.
"What is your problem!?" She barked at him, very much upset with the way he'd awoken her.
"You hit me!"
"Oh don't be a baby!" She growled as she stood up. "What did you expect waking me up like that?"
"Someones not a morning person." Simmons whispered to Mikaela who raised an eyebrow at him.
"Shut up Seymour."
"Seymour?" Sam and Mikaela choked.
"Acirah!" Simmons blushed embarrassed.
"Why did you wake us?" Sunstreaker groaned tiredly.
"Okay, so you see those three stars?" Sam pointed out the window.
"You woke me up for stars?"
"Sh! Anyway, see how the last one touches the horizon? Well that's Orion's belt, but it's also called the Three Kings. Kay, so the reason for that is the three Egyptian kings who built the pyramids of Giza had them built to mirror those stars..."
"It's like an arrow staring us straight in the face." Acirah murmured in realization.
"They all point due east, towards Jordan." Simmons pointed. "The mountains of Petra."
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...
"Are you seeing this? Tell me your seeing this!" Acirah said in amazement, before her and the others stood giant ruins with a doorway large enough for a Cybertronian to fit through.
"My god." Simmons took off his sunglasses as he too took in the sight just as Sam, Leo, Skids and Mudflap walked into the door way.
Acirah, now ignoring everyone around her, caressed a few of the markings upon the stone slabs in her awe. She'd always been fascinated in some hystorical things like this and she was enjoying it greatly.
"It's here somewhere." She heard Sam mutter as she got closer to him.
"Yeah, why? Cause we're trusting a grandpa blackbird who doesn't even know what planet he's on?" Leo sniped back.
"Shut up." Acirah glared over to him.
"In his defense, this is the biggest fricken doorway I've ever seen in my entire life." Simmons spoke up.
"Oh. Okay." Leo started. "Well that's great! Let me do a quick search, all right?"
Acirah felt her temper boiling over, she was really tired of this kid.
"Uh... nope." He said while looking in one direction. " Nope... huh... oh hey, uh. Ever cross your mind, guys, that archaeologists have been her before? There's nothing."
"Real life is heartbreak, despair, kid. Sometimes you get to the end of the rainbow and the leprechauns went and booby-trapped it." Simmons replied.
"Why am I listening to you? You live with your mother!"
"So you mean to tell me, that if the Decepticons attacked the home your mother was in, destroyed it along with almost destroying your mother, you wouldn't let her move in with you until she got back on her feat? Boy must your mother be proud." Acirah snapped back. "Leave Simmons alone, I'm tired of your complaining and whining!"
"It's not over." Sam said in determination.
"It is over." Leo ignored Acirah. "It's done."
"Why are we still listening to you, little punk-ass? I mean, what you ever done for us except ding my rim?" Mudflap asked Leo.
"Killed Megatron, How about that?" Skids retorted.
"Well, he didn't get the job done, you know what I mean? 'Cause he's back now and he-"
"Are you scared?"
"Look out!" Acirah shouted as she tackled Simmons and Mikaela out of the way as Skids and Mudflap began to rumble.
"Scared? Scared of your ugly face!" Mudflap punched Skids angrily.
"Ugly? Well, we're twins, you stupid genius!" Skids pushed mudflap.
"Bring it!" The two began rumbling and tumbling around, ignoring the humans that they'd almost squashed.
"Knock it off you stupid Autobots!" Wheelie yelped as he almost got rolled over, had Acirah not picked him up again to get him out of the way.
"Your an Autobot now too." She pointed out.
"How you like that!?"
"Oh yeah, take this!"
Mudflap slammed into the wall, almost squishing Sam in the process, before Sunstreaker and Bumblebee had enough and stormed over. Sunstreaker sneered as he grabbed Skids while Bumblebee grabbed Mudflap and the two slammed them into each other.
"OW!"
The two threw the bickering bots outside of the ruins.
"That didn't hurt!" Skids denied. "Ahhh Come on Sunny- AH! STREAKER! SUNSTREAKER!" Skids yelped when Sunstreaker pointing his gun at him with narrowed optics for calling him Sunny.
"Bumblebee!" Mudflap whined while Bee stood in the door way with his hands on his hips in a sassy matter, using his chirps and whir's to mimic Mudflaps whine.
"Bee." Sam called, catching everyone else attention, before he pointed to the hole in the wall. "Shoot the wall!"
Bumblebee tilted his head confused, looking at the wall before activating his gun and shooting at it and causing the wall to collapse as dirt and dust to fly through the air.
The group of humans began coughing and waving their hands in the air, Acirah taking point, as they walked forward where Bumblebee shot.
"Acirah!" Sunstreaker called. "Be careful."
She stepped forward and, before she could enter the hole in the wall, Sam had turned on his flashlight to see better. The sight before the two made them pause and gasp. Inside of the hole, though still dark, were frames of metal surrounding the cavern walls. Their bodies made of metal, clearly Cybertronian, with many sharp pieces jutting out here and there and their mouths seemingly open as their empty gazes lay staring. Each of the were large and looked menacing as they all stared downward towards their hands where a beautiful glowing object sat in the middle of their combined hands. As Acirah and Sam walked forward into the cave, they looked around a bit more, the sounds around them were absolutely silenced with the exception of distant wind howling into the cave and setting a grave feel.
"This is it." Acirah said, just being in the presence of their bodies and she could feel their power, feel the pressure of their strength! It was claustrophobic to her, more so then Optimus' presence, but she had to do this. They had to do this to get him back.
"The Tomb of the Primes." Simmons breathed in amazement, he was in his element now.
"Yo!" Leo shouted. "Yoooo!"
"Leo!" Acirah hissed.
"Sorry.."
"Look." Sam gasped, pointing to the glowing object upon the palms of the Primes. "The Matrix!"
"Wait Sam!" Acirah shouted, having a bad feeling as he ran forth, climbing up the Primes and to the Matrix and grabbing onto it cautiously.
"Its here. It's really- No!" Sam shouted as the device began shaking and deteriorating. "No, no, no... no!"
"Thousands of years, turned to dust." Simmons said sorrowfully.
"This... no!" Acirah denied. "This can't be the end..." She reached her hand over, caressing the dust and felt something burn her hand and pulled her hand back with a hiss.
"Do you hear that!?" Simmons interrupted what she was going to say next as the sound of a helicopter pierced the air. "Air Force! C-17s!"
"Sam?" Mikaela called. "Sam... you can't bring him back. There's nothing left.
"No!" Acirah denied, Sam right behind her as he stood and looked determined. "Look around you, we didn't just go through all of this for nothing, just to have it all end like this!" Tears began stinging her eye's. "He died for us!" She croaked. "He died for us you guys... For me and Sam... We have to bring him back, it can't be the end!"
"Acirah-" Sunstreaker started but Sam interrupted.
"She's right." Sam said. "There has to be a reason we're all here. The voices and symbols in my head led us here for a reason. Everyone's after me because of what I know... and what I know is that this is going to work."
"How do you know that? How do you know it's going to work?" She questioned gently, holding his hand.
"Because I-" He paused as he looked at Acirah. "-we believe it."
"You think you can bring him back to life with that pixie dust?" Simmons asked as Sam placed as much of the dust into his sock, while Acirah helped put some into a small bag she'd had.
"Absolutely. Let's go."
The Matrix of Leadership may have turned to dust, Acirah thought to herself as she raced over to Sunstreakers now transformed body, but they were still going to revive Optimus!
One way or another-
The sounds of battle began sounding from the distance and Acirah clenched her portion of the Matrix dust to herself with one hand while the other clenched her weapon when the voice of Skids and Mudflap sounded from the radio.
"Decepticon signals detected!"
"There's gunna be a battle!"
-they would get to Optimus even if they had to fight their way to him!
"Let's go to war." She said darkly as Sunstreaker revved his engine eagerly.
"Lets."