Preface: The last part of Darkness rising is upon us. After this the sky is the limit.
Nervousness over took Jacob. His foresight was a curse, nothing but pain and stress from knowing it all. He didn't wish to go far from the path the go blind out of fear. Nothing was certain or set in stone these days. So much was different it felt as if he was truly blind anyway. He wanted to survive this and go home, dying would be a useless gesture. It was 5 minutes from 6 and the Nemesis was visible on the scanners. Megatron was temping them and mocking them. Ratchet was doing the last round of calculations and adjustments. He'll never see it coming. Jacob smirked. He heard Optimus enter the room. The kids looked at him, still not used to his towering stature. Jacob looked and he and Jack made eye contact. The chair he sat in was his only range of movement aside from a crutch from Fowler who was taking with Ratchet in a very formal way. He was supposed to be unconscious...lucky him then. Grabbing the crutch he pulled himself to his feet.
"Feeling ok?" Jack asked.
Jacob shrugged.
"A bit raw but I'm alive aren't I?" Jacob slyly responded.
Jack nodded not seeing the humor. He's not crazy. Jacob remarked. Moving to the railing he used it for support. He caught Cliff's optics and the bot drew close to the weakened human.
"So how'd the shower go?" He asked in a hushed tone.
Jacob cringed and sighed lightly.
"Fine, we just cleaned off" Jacob responded honestly.
Cliff chuckled and nodded. Yeah right, He thought. Not even tailgate couldn't tap that aft. Cliff thought in amusement. Jacob with an effort moved over to the other end as each of the bots got ready for the "jump". Miko who was sitting looked incredibly reserved. I'm not complaining but I'm still not gonna get used to it. Jacob mused looking her on for a bit before looking to Ralph. Raf who had his redemption looked less undone more relaxed as one could be in a situation like this. The only unknown bit as of now was Cliffjumper, The chances of his death were still high and impossible to calculate. There is a bit of him that wished he was with Cliff as a charge, but that was out of his hands. Nobody to talk to about it, he was alone in meta physical sense.
"Good luck" Jacob said to the bots gathering at the space bridge ready to transform when it rips open to the icy void of space.
Luckily thanks to several safety procedures in the air wouldn't leave the room and suck everything and one with it. That's how Ratchet explained it. Either way Jacob didn't want to unwillingly explore the final frontier anyway. Optimus looking over his shoulder saw the hopeful but unnerved look on the Interdimensional boys face. Turing his attention to Ratchet he kept a stoic posture and tone
"Till we meet again old friend" He warmly said with a dash of hope.
Ratchet looked up from the ground bridge control panel and to the prime.
"If you leave me here on this planet of humans I'll never forgive you" Ratchet warned giving Prime a little reason to return.
He will return, iknow. Jacob thought. Ratchet threw the ground bridge lever. In a brilliant blue and green flash Ripped open the hole between here and space. Arcee gave him one more glance before transforming and following her comrades to the space bridge. He didn't know how she would react to him not warning her. He hated it soo much that he wanted to scream!.
"Autobots magnetise!" Optimus ordered over comm as he landed with a silent thud.
Bulkhead looked around and suddenly felt very uncomfortable and dizzy.
"Don't look down, or up, or right... just don't look anywhere" He said Now focusing on shoving all of his nausea away.
"You looked didn't you?" Jacob said over comm getting a hardy laugh from both Cliff and Bee.
"Kinda hard not to kid" Bulkhead retorted and quickly added. "I'd like to see you try it"
Jacob took a hard pass on that. Back in space Optimus and the bots began to spread out a bit. Just beyond by 4.7 km was the nemesis which had noticed them. Megatron stood on the bridge with both Soundwave and Starscream. Drones moved about doing their assigned tasks. Megatron looked in amusement as he clasped his hands at the small of his back.
"Well played Optimus. I'm almost impressed" Megatron mused aloud in a dark tone.
Starscream pushed that tone away as he cleared up his voice box.
"Shall we send in the armada my lord?" Starscream inquired.
Megatron rolled is optics.
"Yes send in the armada" he said half sarcastically.
Starscreams wings lowered as he nodded and keyed his comm.
"A and B flight launch immediately" Starscream ordered eagerly.
The lower hatch slid away as jet troopers blasted out and towards the autobots. Their was almost 2 dozen of them as they raced through space.
"Prepare to hold them back...no matter what they can't open the bridge!" Optimus said his tone raised as he shifted both arms into blasters.
Jacob with both hands together kept a straight face. He knew it was out of his hands now, he never wanted it anyway. Hopefully everything would go as he had seen it, no unexpected surprises which he didn't know. All he could hear was voices over comms as he stood their in dead silence. The room is atmosphere was a tense as a shouting match between parents and seemed only to grow more and more with each passing minute. Fowler took up next to him and clasped a hand onto his shoulder.
"Thanks for yesterday, I see it now" Fowler said knowing to trust prime more now.
"It would have happened regardless. I just forgot it exclude myself" Jacob responded in reflection.
Fowler took his hand off and felt odd all of a sudden. A dimensional traveller who held a hard burden wasn't something you got used to easily. Fowler had fought over seas and made many tough calls...lots of them he regretted. Moving away to Ratchet the young traveller got the CMO's attention.
"I'd look into a way to blow that glorified halo ring to hoth and back" Jacob whispered still being as cryptic as ever.
Ratchet was about to protest its destruction but held back knowing Jacob held the keys to their future and he alone could help. Meeting optics with Jacob he saw the stress as plane as a summers day.
"I'll do it" Ratchet sighed out.
Jacob nodded and seated himself. Soon the kids, maybe with Fowler would move onto the next stage. It would just be a failure anyway. A well meaning attempt to be kind. If only screamer hadn't broken his leg then maybe the space bridge could be left intact. That was a pipe dream now.
Cliffjumper tracking his target aimed ahead of the jet trooper and blazed away with brilliant flashes of blue energy beams. Several shots landed and punched straight through the main armour and into the spark killing the trooper in an Instant.
"Got one!" He cheered out and lined up with another.
"Great don't get cocky!" Arcee responded back.
She swatted at least 2 already whist Prime had taken 6. Optimus was a good shot but she had underestimated his aim too much. Within minutes both flights had been destroyed. It was hard to believe at first as they all looked at one another. Optimus remained straight faced as the others looked between relieved and in disbelief.
{Is that it?} Bee warbled as his optics eyed the nemesis beyond their range.
"No it's not, I'd keep ready if I were all of you" Jacob said over comm and that was a given.
Optimus agreed and kept his optics moving to anywhere the cons may strike form. The matter was there were countless places to strike form. The ring like gate was smooth on the inner area but rocky and uneven on the outer side.
Jacob could inVision it in his minds eye as he held a small photo with he, his father and mother. Hopefully I can go back. He thought as he looked on longingly at the photo. Quickly wiping away the forming tears he slid the photo away into his wallet. Just behind him was the conversation of about the kids stopping the cons here on earth. Fowler elected to go as well.
"If they get through we'll all be fragged!" Miko said.
"Besides your up their and we're down here. I doubt their even there" Raf said opening that possibility.
Jacob held back the urge to laugh and simply responded.
"Don't be too sure of yourself. It's nasty to wake up from it" Jacob had warned getting a nod from Raf.
Optimus soon spoke.
"Alright, be careful and don't engage any Deceptacon" Optimus said reluctantly.
And then after a quick ground bridge they were gone to do their part. All who is left was him and Ratchet. A small smile formed.
"I know how you feel now in these type of situations" Jacob jokingly said masking much deeper pain.
"It has its perks" Ratchet responded with a shrug.
Raf sat at the lone computer in the room. Fowler peeked into the hallway and found the dead quietness to be eerie.
"Our defence budget at work lady's and gents" He remarked with a small smile.
"Don't remind us" Miko said sick of hearing it.
Fowler shrugged it off as Raf typed away. Jack stood behind him eyeing everything he did in detail. Computer's we're never his forte and was the closest thing to a wizard when using them.
"Their trying to lock on but I can manage. Unless they have a nasty trick up their sleeves" Raf said adjusting his glasses and went straight back to typing.
"There not even here besides who with that tech take a direct approach?" Miko said semi mockingly.
Little that they knew that Soundwave crouched not to far away as he aligned the dishes once more only for them to revert. Annoyed he brought up every camera and cycled through them till he saw the 4 humans. He recognised that one agent Fowler but the others were all knew. Fascinating. He mused as he deployed one of his tentacles towards the room just down the hall.
The next few words sent a shiver up Ratchets spine.
"They cut the hardline...they got it locked on cybertron" Raf said dryly with dead seriousness.
Jacob knew this and looked to Ratchet.
"We have to blow it. We have to blow it now!" Jacob said his tone rising.
Ratchet looked at him with hesitation. Luckily the COM unit was on and Optimus heard him.
"He's right. We cannot hold back what comes through. I'm sorry ratchet but we need a way to destroy it" Optimus said backing him up.
Ratchet sighed and pulled up the schematics he had been looking at. With a reluctant sigh he began to explain how to blow the bridge sky high.
Optimus watched as the dark energon crystal raced past at high speeds. All the bots saw it. Heading to cybertron to bring its dead to earth. Megatron had no respect for the dead and was willing to exploit it in what ever way he seemed necessary. Then half a second later he saw Megatron swoop down and transform 50 feet ahead of him.
"All of get out of here!. I'll deal with Megatron" Optimus ordered and his bots complied now headed to the upper side.
Megatron laughed and drew his blade. Taking a fighting stance he looked the prime dead on as he drew his own blade.
"Once again you autobot's abandon you prime. I'm impressed your so bold to send them away" Megatron said with a confident tone.
Optimus looked at the tyrant with a noble look and slid his battle mask into place.
"You should ask yourself that megatron" Optimus retorted.
Megaton flared and charged the prime. Jumping into the air bringing his blade downwards. Optimus brought his blade up and parried the attack with ease. Slamming his foot into the warlords midsection sending him spinning backwards. Shifting into jet form he used his boosters to keep himself spelling off into space and back the the ground where he transformed and re-magnetized. Raising his blade once again Megatron knew Optimus wasn't kidding around. With the Green and blue kaleidoscope less than 50 feet away they began towards one another with blades ready to strike.
C and D flight had taken off as per starscreams command. They were not interfere in Megatron's duel. If so they would face death. Starscream stood valiantly on the bridge of the warship as he watched a close up view of Megatron and Optimus fight. He personally hoped Optimus would win, not only to take control of the Deceptacon's himself but to destroy that monster once and for all. Come on prime end him!.
"Reversing the flow will overload the whole thing. It will be like having a legal fireworks on the Fourth of July" Jacob said over comm as Arcee eyed the device keenly. "Just turn the thing counterclockwise and watch the fireworks" Jacob added.
"Got it. Cover me" She said as the other nodded.
Jacob looking forwards closed his eyes and envisioned it all. Arcee turning it as the others held off C and D flights. He knew it was to come next. It was hard not to see it, it's still made him feel uncomfortable.
Soundwave picking up on what does box were doing alerted Megatron over radio. It was a mixup of voices in a very monotone manner.
"Lord Megatron the autobots below are trying to destroy the space bridge before the dead can come through" The many voices of Starscream, the boy named Jacob and knockout sounded alerting the tyrant.
Blocking a swing from Optimus steel kicked him away and transformed rocking away towards the upper side. Optimus immediately keyed him comm.
"Megatron's knows take cover!" He quickly said.
Suddenly there was some laser fire and a sudden scream of pain. A female scream. Arcee!. He knew as the Ground bridge began to shake and shutter. The metallic plating began to screech off brilliantly.
Jacob felt it as scream had managed to echo inside the camber. The other kids gasped in horror as Jacob buried his face into his hands in shame. This will never get easy. He resided with a dark thought.
Megatron was far too late the space bridge began to tear itself apart. Optimus and the rest of the Autobots leaped into their ground bridge is it closed. Megatron could see his creations just beyond the dimensional plane. Reaching out with his hand everything turned into a brilliant flash of white.
End of darkness rising