Chapter 17-The Gears are Set into Motion
It had been two weeks since they had agreed to a truce, and it was a unique experience. Slowly both Megatron and Optimus became more comfortable around one another, though trust was still slightly an issue. Eleanor seemed to be the glue of the whole thing, keeping both parties in check and making sure to be the mediator if such a situation arose.
As well, this past few weeks they all slowed the large pill handed to them by Primus himself, learning of their fates, and of the true purpose of these tools they were tasked to finding. Apparently though Primus didn't say how they would work to ending the war and saving Cybertron so they just focused on finding them.
As well, both the leaders notice a change in their factions members respectfully as both became wary, untrusting and strange for about a week now and it was concerning to say the least.
"What do you think caused the change?" Eleanor asked the two as they walked around the home clearing.
"I don't know, but it happened one week ago and at the same time which is strange, how could they coordinate that?" The Prime mused, they had slowly starting walking in circles close to the edge of the home clearing.
"I know for one thing, I don't like it." Megatron said with hardened eyes, he sighed. "My greatest fear is that they know, somehow…"
"How would they?" Eleanor asked.
"It's impossible for them to know, we've made sure of it." Optimus said, trying to reason it all.
They fell into a silence, trying to unravel their comrades odd behavior. It was then that Eleanor looked lazily into the forest only to stop, something didn't look right. She moved slightly into the wood only to come across something that terrified her.
"Guys…." She called out, they came to her side and she pointed down where they all stared in realization.
She was pointing at tracks, not of an animal but Cybertronian in nature.
"They know, but how?!" Megatron shouted running his hand through his silver hair.
"It doesn't matter now," Eleanor's voice was darker than usual, "All that matters is that we have a target painting on our backs."
"We can't go back, you especially Megatron. The Decepticons could be planning something if they kept quiet this long." Optimus said, staring at his brother who looked like he wanted to break something.
"That goes for you too, Prime." He said back to his brother.
"Would the Autobots do such a thing? I mean from what I've heard and all…."Eleanor wandered off as Optimus closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead.
"I don't know at this point, but suffice to say we are all in danger so long as we and you, Ellie, stay here." The reality hit them hard at that point, they weren't safe here, Eleanor definitely wasn't.
"Then we have no choice, it's time we accept our fate and head for the sea and the first tool, the Lightbringer Staff." Eleanor said as she headed to the house to pack her things.
The two bots turned human stared at the Light as she walked away, turning to both each other Megatron asked.
"Are you sure this is the right course of action?"
"Yes, we can't stay here and as Eleanor said, we need to find the tools in the first place if we are ever to end this war and revive Cybertron. It is the only course of action." Megatron chuckled.
"You really are our guide, aren't you?" He said with a coy smile.
Optimus merely shrugged returning a smile before the two headed off to see if Eleanor was ready.
High above the Earth itself, far from the planet and it's lone moon near the edge of the system itself was something coming out of the darkness, appearing just as fast as a blink of an eye was a smallish ship of pitch black color, in white alien text the name of the ship could be seen and those who could read it see its name.
The Upheaval, and on it's bridge stood a lone figure.
It was a cybertronian femme, taller than your average femme, she wore medium armor that was colored red with silver highlights. She was very well built but had a smooth curve to her, making her a more desire frame type by other femme. Her wings were built into her legs and her peds were healed, her servos sharper than knives and enblazened on her forearms were the Decepticon symbols.
Her piercing red optics stared at the computer screen depicting the vacuum of space in front of her ship, she brushed away some of her cord like hair, similar in design as the only femme Prime. She had claw marks running diagonally on her faceplates she smiled wickedly as she read the amount of time it would take to get to her ultimate destination.
"Finally, I have you now." She laughed into the empty space surrounding her.
It seems like a dark force was headed for Earth, and she would be one of the forces that is going to change the tide of the war, she would make sure of it.
But, she wasn't the only thing coming for the blue planet, unknown to the dark femme another was aboard her ship having stoad away, this tall pink colored femme with blue optics stared from the shadows, watching this mad femme laugh with glee.
She would make her move, just not yet.
Not until, she reached Earth, and hopefully she will have back up to help her take down the mad femme in front of her. She knew that this femme lusted for power just as much as brother does, Cascade was much like her brother, Megatron, in such an aspect.
But, she would make sure the pair could never come together, Elita-One would make sure of that.
They stood at the edge of the wood, both Eleanor and Megatron in human form stood side by side, Optimus behind them in his vehicle form. Eleanor looked apprehensively at the open fields beyond her wood. Megatron grabbed her hand and squeezed.
"It's going to be alright, my love. I'm here, we both are." He said, looking back to the disguised Prime.
She gave a worried smile, "I know, I just….this wood was all I have known since I could remember, it's hard, you know?"
"I do, I felt the same way when leaving Cybertron, but don't worry, nothing will stop us from what we are destined for." Megatron kissed her forehead, and she sighed.
"Thank you, lets go." The two got into Optimus's truck alt and he sped off onto a nearby road, as they drove away Eleanor felt something break within her, like a chain had just been unlocked and something she was unable to access was available to her, though she couldn't reach it just yet.
She looked back at the wood through the mirrors only to see that it was no more, where the wood once stood was gone and nothing but field was there in its place.
"Primus brought you to that place, it's only reason that he created it himself." Optimus commented as he too noticed the disappearance of the wood.
"Doesn't surprise me, there was something different about that wood." Megatron said with a shrug.
She leaned on him, looking away from the place she once knew and to the road ahead and the fields of farming around them, she smiled.
"It is the past now, and now we can only look to the future, whatever it may bring."
Far off on the other side of the world, deep within a bunker in the American country was a facility housing hundreds of people who all worked for one entity. They wore their entities colors of black and grey, and the symbol that emblazoned all their clothing and objects.
It was of simple design, three circles interlinked with one another.
At the deepest level of this bunker was a war room filled with maps and papers, around a table sat three figures talking amongst themselves. Suddenly a man burst through the door, holding a strange device, he wore a lab coat with goggles on his face, his black hair a mess and he was out of breath.
The one who headed the trio was a man with pale skin, pot marked with chemical burns, he wore red spectacles that enclosed his eyes, he wore a black trench coat with a black shirt and pants with nice shoes, his black gloved hands folded in front of him and his hair was pure white.
"What is it, Doctor?" He asked, his voice filled with venom.
The Doctor was shaking slightly, "Sir, the signal from Project Superior has just come online."
The two figures left and right stood in shock, they were twins but male and female, both wore grey long sleeve shirts with gun holsters around their armpits, both had cargo pants with combat boots, they had a darker complexion with no hair on the male and curly hair on the female that was pushed into a ponytail, their grey eyes widening in shock.
"Impossible, that Project was deemed failed and the subjects destroyed!" The male twin shouted.
"Are you sure, Doctor Evans?" The female asked, he nodded his head, the white haired man raised a hand to quiet the twins.
"Please Dawn, Dusk, calm yourselves. Doctor Evans, where is the signal coming from?" The Doctor pulled a world map down from the wall and pointed to Britain, near the west coast.
"Their, and it's closing in on the coast as we speak, sir." He said, the man was silent for a moment.
"Send a scouting party, I want to know if this is one of the subjects from Project Superior." Dawn and Dusk looked shocked at their leader.
"Overseer, you can't be serious?!" Dawn asked, the Overseer looked back to the woman.
"I am and as Overseer of the Order of the Embrace I command it done, now, get going, I want you to get our best scouting team on this, so, I am putting you two in charge, now go!" He sneered and the twins along with the doctor pulled out of the room.
He fished a locket out of his pocket and opened it, staring at a picture of a young woman with red hair holding a baby in her arms.
"She may still live, my darling, we'll just have to wait and see."