Shadowstalker grinned at Optimus. "You know I never thought I would see you with a daughter except for the Talida Prime stories." She looked at Alora. "No offense Alora."
Alora waved it off. "Sapphire reads those too."
"So much loss..." Alpha Trion said as he opens his palm and projects a hologram of a Young purple and violet cybertronian femme. "Will it ever end."
Ahsoka jumped to his shoulder and placed her hand where his scar used to be. "We all lose in life... But we also gain in life."
Alora looked up at them and put her right hand on her left hip. "I would know."
Ark looked at her with a guilty expression. "You know, I could have stopped Dooku from hurting you and Anika."
"Ark, it's not your fault that Dooku burned us with his lightsaber." Anika said.
Arcee's optics widened. "He did what?"
(In the Past)
Nola was meditating while Ark and Alora were taking a nap when she felt something enter the Earths atmosphere. Her eyes flew open and she ran to the command center. "Dooku's back! He's back!"
"Are you sure Nola?" Cliffjumper asked.
"I felt him enter Earths atmosphere!" Nola exclaimed, at the confused look she got she explained more. "I was using the Force."
"Ratchet, is what Nola said true?" Optimus asked.
Ratchet checked the monitor where a ship did indeed enter Earth's atmosphere. "Will the wonders of the Force ever cease?"
"The Force is in everyone Ratchet, only some know how to unlock it, it is which path they choose that they become a Jedi or a Sith." Nola said.
"So Ark and Alora can have it?" Bumblebee beeped.
"Uh, Bee, I think that the time Ark threw his sippy cup at Jaid, while she was on Optimus' shoulder, was him using the Force." Arcee pointed out.
"Yeah, it was." Nola said.
"Well, from the looks of it, Dooku should be here in a few hours." Ratchet said.
"Well, I better come up with something to tell Dooku before he gets here." Nola said.
A few hours later Ratchet opened the ground bridge and Dooku walked through.
"Dooku!" Nola exclaimed as she hugged him.
"Hey, where's Jaid?" Dooku asked.
"She was reassigned to a different base, and there's someone I want you to meet." Nola smiled.
"Who would that be?" Dooku asked.
"Well, why don't you come meet her." Nola said as she walked up the steps to the platform with Dooku behind her. She walked over to a playpen and picked up Alora. "This is Alora, she is... um, well, she's your daughter."
Optimus saw that it pained her to say it in front of him, but he understood why she had to do it.
"Oh, Nola, if I had known I would have come back sooner." Dooku said as he held Alora.
"I've been fine, I did have the help of the Autobots after all." Nola said. "More help than you would ever know." she thought.
Next chapter: *Shoulders slump* I got nothin.