Optimus was alarmed when the AllSpark glowed, but that was only a few Astro-seconds and everything returned to "normal", but he did not stop worrying, everyone claimed to have felt the signature of the AllSpark and grieved the Prime to think that undesirable people had felt it too. His thoughts were interrupted when Bumblebee caught his attention, the yellow bot apologized to him for everything he said at the meeting, clarifying that he had lost control by remembering the things that had happened to him and was so far frustrated by that, and that Jirachi seemed to be 'The exit to all their problems.'
That he was the way out of all problems, but it was up to them to use it or not and to know if it was the right thing to do so. Optimus accepted his apologies and Bumblebee left with Bulkhead supporting him. The prime thought of the words the yellow bot had said, a part of him was relieved by the screams of the young bot, for a part of his processor thought like Bumblebee, and he hated himself for those little selfish thoughts.
Optimus believed fulfilling his own wishes would be selfish, especially that involving Elita...
Not that he was the only one, everyone struggled to hide those thoughts, and the only one who manifested it so far was Bumblebee.
His horrible thoughts were separated by the call of Sari, who demanded to be picked up. Prowl offered to pick it up, but after a few kliks, the Cyber-Ninja called them to inform them of a fire, so they had to go quickly. They managed to protect humans and put out the fire, everyone looked at them as their saviors and Optimus was ashamed of that, but he liked the feeling of being called 'hero'.
How he had wished to be one.
Many humans gathered to celebrate their feat the next day, Sari's father congratulated them and everything seemed to be going normally, that is until a certain strange jet seemed hostile towards them.
And he revealed himself as a Decepticon.
"Greetings Autobots!" The Decepticon exclaimed, "Do you mind if I spoil your party?" He smiled wickedly. "My name is Starscream, glorious leader of the Decepticons!"
Sari watched in terror as her friends were cornered by the certain huge robot that attacked them. "I must get Jirachi!" She exclaimed, but then stopped and looked at the others. "But ... But I can't leave them," she complained and didn't know what to do.
The yellow Pokémon was in the Autobot's new base they had obtained yesterday, and they couldn't bring him since they wanted to get up late and take advantage of waking up when they wanted to, how was the desire that the girl asked for.
"Mmm..." She clenched her fists but then turned to keep running. "They can hold on for a while."
Sari ran off despite her father's screams.
Jirachi slept peacefully in his soft new bed. He had fulfilled Sari's wish, or so they thought, they didn't know if it had worked since Jirachi could "rest" in the 7 days he stayed awake every time he used up his energy, and with the wishes fulfilled, they didn't know if there was any change. Well, they'll have to know when the 7th day is done, which in fact, was tomorrow.
"Jirachi!"
The Pokémon jumped out of his bed when someone shouted his name and was half sleepy when he discovered the figure of Sari was in front of him.
"Sari...?" The Pokemon yawned. "What is it?"
Sari was breathing heavily while looking at the Pokémon, implying that something had happened.
"...Sari?"
"It's the Autobots!" The girl screamed, "They are being attacked by someone bigger than them!"
Jirachi was shocked to hear about this. "What?!"
Sari picked up the Pokémon in her arms and started running off. "Come on, we have to help them!"
Jirachi was wiggling in the girl's arms. "Sari, wait!"
The girl stopped. "What?! If we don't hurry, they could be destroyed, and we can't make a wish without knowing about the situation, they may be winning and we will ruin it!"
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about, make a wish to get there faster!" The Pokémon exclaimed.
Sari blinked and hit herself in the head mentally. "Yes, of course, sorry, I couldn't think clearly." She apologized and looked at the Pokémon. "I wish to get to the Autobots right now!"
The ribbons on Jirachi's head glowed.
In the blink of an eye, they were both closer to the action than they wanted, and soon the girl was running for her life from being very close to the huge robot that was carrying a train, wait... was that the nose of a train?! Sari fell on her butt of how overwhelming she was when the squeaky voice of the robot squawked something about the AllSpark, but Sari could only concentrate on the yellow figure of her best friend and her father.
"Sari!" Jirachi managed to get her out of the trance. "Sari! What's wrong!?"
Sari pointed to the tower where Starscream had taken the train. "My dad and Bumblebee are there!"
Jirachi looked stunned at the building with the huge robot. "What!?"
Sari shook his head trying to concentrate.
"We have to help Bumblebee!" The girl shouted, "I wish—"
"Sari, let's get to the Autobots first, they'll know what to do!" The Pokémon shouted. Sari looked at the Pokémon in her arms doubting, it would be easier to simply want it and solve everything, but Jirachi didn't belong to her and therefore, she had to obey it in some way.
"Y-Yeah...!" Sari ran to where the distressed group of Autobots was at.
Until they laid their hands to the center, a gesture Sari recognized, and she was glad that Bulkhead raised her to make her part of the gesture, contributing her hand to everyone's support symbol, even Jirachi did.
"Sari, Jirachi!" Prime exclaimed.
"We're here, Optimus!" Sari shouted, "Jirachi can solve the problem, leave it to him!"She looks over at the Pokémon. "I wish the hostages are here, safe and sound!"
The ribbons glowed again, and right next to them appeared three humans and a yellow bot. Sari jumped with joy and relief at seeing her friend.
"Dad, Bumblebee!" The girl shouted and soon ran towards them. Sari was greeted by a hug from Mr. Sumdac.
"Sari, what happened!? What are you doing here!?" The man asked frantically.
The girl denied it, and then her gaze landed on her friend's motionless body "Bumblebee!?"
Soon she and Ratchet were on the smaller bot. "What's wrong!? Why won't you wake up!?"
Ratchet observed the damage. "There are internal failures, that attack trying to protect your father left him more damaged than usual."
Sari paled at that. "What!?" Sari shouted, but then looked at the Pokémon "Jirachi, I wish—"
"Damn Autobots!"
An explosion sent them all to fly, Sari landed on a nearby car and to her horror, her friend's unconscious body landed too close and his arm was trapped. Sari felt an incomparable pain and she cried trying to get her arm broken.
"Sari!" She heard Bulkhead's scream, but then more explosions were heard, and she knew that everyone around her was busy fighting.
The girl tried to locate the yellow Pokémon, He was her only hope, but she found him unconscious too far and being held protectively by Prowl. She desperately called to her friends, but they were being slaughtered by the horrible bot who had fun hurting them, demanding only the AllSpark. Sari knew she could not receive help, his father and Captain Fanzone had fainted not far away and the mayor had already escaped the scene. The girl kept crying and watching her arm under Bumblebee's body, and breathing quickly, she gathered enough courage and strength to start pulling her arm and pulling it out. She succeeded and was alarmed by the blood—
The missing blood...
Unconsciously neglecting the pain, Sari began to tremble in horror at the sight of his broken cybernetic arm. Another explosion had taken her out of the trance, she was in the middle of a battle, she had to act fast. Sari trembling looked at her unconscious friend and in tears she said.
"Come on Bumblebee, wake up!"
Then her key glowed again, sending a ray of light to the body of the yellow bot. The girl was shocked as she was dragged up to Bumblebee's body. Then something slipped into Bumblebee's head, and Sari shouted in surprise. She had no idea what to do, but after looking at the port of Bumblebee's head and her key, she realized they fit. Her mind shone and she hurriedly inserted the key into the yellow bot's head.
"Wake up Bumblebee, please!" She begged him, and the yellow bot's body shuddered and soon rose suddenly. Dropping Sari, and making the key stay in his yellow head. "Bumblebee!" She cried in happiness.
"What!? Huh?! What's going on!?" Bumblebee shouted, and then noticed something hanging on his forehead.
Sari got up. "It's my key, give it back to me!" Sari exclaimed holding her broken arm.
"Sari, you're hurt!" Bumblebee shouted looking at the cybernetic arm in surprise and alarm, but right now they were under attack, there was no time for those questions, so he hurriedly took the key out of his forehead and delivered it to its owner.
"We must get my dad and the Captain now!" She responded by pointing at the bodies of those named.
Bumblebee attended foolishly and soon ran from the place with the bodies of fragile organics.
"Sari, stay here!" He ordered the girl.
"But Prowl has Jirachi, and he's unconscious, you should help him too!"
Bumblebee nodded, observing his goal. "I will, but stay with the humans!"
Sari watched as her friend ran to fight alongside the others, and then watched her broken arm in anguish. She looked at how it was made of metal and cyber parts, it was certainly very advanced... she was advanced. Sari looked at her father's unconscious body, fury and sadness invaded her, but all she did was fall on her butt and cry bitterly for emotional and physical pain.
Prowl knew that he should get Jirachi to safety, that was the priority. The Decepticon should not find out about Jirachi's power, otherwise, everyone could be lost. The other Autobots tried to fight with the so-called Starscream, and so far they had managed to harm him, but nothing significant compared to the counter-attack of the huge Decepticon. So he was trying to get away from the scene to hide Jirachi somewhere, but it didn't help that Starscream fired on his way, and in one of his savage attacks, he tripped the Cyber-Ninja, but he quickly rebuilt and tried to move on. Taking a brief look at the Pokémon to see if he was injured.
Seeing none, he sighed in relief as he murmured. "I wish you were awake..."
The ribbons on Jirachi's head glowed.
Prowl was shocked when it happened, and stopped and watched Jirachi's eyes opened widen.
"W-What...?" He murmured sleepily.
The Cyber-Ninja was shocked by this. 'What?! You can grant wishes even when you're asleep?!' he thought in shock and surprise, but he was taken out of his trance when the Pokemon screamed in pain. "What's up?"
"My head hurts!" The Pokemon cried. "It hurts a lot!" He touched his little head and was shocked when he felt liquid in his tiny fingers, only to see blood, his blood.
"When you hit the ground, you made some cuts and scrapes," The Cyber-Ninja resumed his journey "don't worry, we'll get you out of here."
Jirachi kept watching his hands shocked, he had never been hurt until now and seeing his blood left him baffled.
Optimus kept barking orders to the bots that were still fighting Starscream, the huge robot was certainly difficult to bring down, but Optimus hoped he could do it. Until now he had been surprised by Bumblebee's return, believing that it was Sari and Jirachi who healed him, but then he angrily remembered how his organic friends had been mistreated by the explosion, and at that moment he knew that he had failed as a leader. Optimus reprimanded himself for putting Jirachi in danger by not acting himself, for not seeking his solutions, and relying on Jirachi's miracles. The Prime knew they had been confident in the Pokemon's wishes, even when they swore to protect him, and had failed splendidly by not being prepared.
Then he watched Prowl return and fight alongside them.
Soon, all together they managed to face Starscream with real teamwork, proving to be at the heights to defend this planet and Jirachi.
"Ahhhhggg! You've ended my patience, dirty Autobots!" Starscream growled shooting at his enemies. "Bring me the AllSpark out right now!"
"Not even in your dreams, Decepticon!" Ratchet shouted, throwing him a car at him with his magnets.
:: Prowl, where is Jirachi? :: the Prime asked as he dodged the shots.
:: He's hidden, but he's not very healthy:: Prowl replied throwing his shuriken.
Optimus had a second to breathe relieved to learn that Jirachi was not in the middle of this fight, but then he was interrupted by the shrieking scream of Starscream.
"WHERE IS THE ALLSPARK!?" He yelled making everyone cover their audio receptors. "I WISH THE ALLSPARK WAS HERE NOW!"
Jirachi was safely hidden in a place not too far from the fight. The Pokémon still looked shocked at his hands with his eyes full of tears from the pain he felt before he continued to cry, then he heard someone's loud, agonizing shriek and was horrified when his ribbons began to glow.
"No, no, NOOO!" Jirachi shouted as he clenched his teeth and he pulled on his ribbons, hating himself and ignoring the pain and blood that was now coming down his white face.
The wish was fulfilled neither the less.
Starscream jumped to the side when an orange box appeared above him, falling and was about to crash, but the Decepticon quickly dodged it. He heard gasps of surprise and the Decepticon was confused at first, not only because of the strange appearance of nothing, but also not knowing what that box was, but then he marveled when he knew what that gift from heavens was.
'The AllSpark!' he thought, and then he became more confused about how it was given to him, but he was very satisfied. "Apparently my wish was fulfilled!" He laughed.
"Get away from that!" Bulkhead shouted as he attacked again with his wrecking ball, but Starscream was faster and managed to catch the rope and pulled it and throw Bulkhead away from him.
He heard more screams, but Starscream quickly took the AllSpark with his hands, ecstatic about the power he would soon get. Then he shouted when something was thrown at him, and noticed that the red and blue Autobot was attacking him, Starscream tried to get rid of him, but the Autobot did not give in and began to hurt his wings with his ax. In the end, both Starscream and Optimus collided to a building because of the wet thrusters of the Decepticon, both mechs quickly wanted to pick up the AllSpark, each taking a handle from the box.
"Let go, Autobot! Starscream shouted.
"Never! The AllSpark is life!"
Starscream growled furiously. "Then, let it end yours!"
Without wishing it, both managed to activate the AllSpark, causing the box to open shining brightly and blinding both mechs in a burst of energy, creating a great explosion in the process. The rest of the bot team stayed down watching with concern and horror as the explosion occurred. Sari couldn't stand being alone anymore, and she ran towards her friends, very worried about the welfare of the Autobots. Jirachi from his hiding place managed to hear the explosion, and was stunned with fear and anguish, he wanted to know what happened to his friends, but at the same time, he was afraid of leaving again.
After the explosion, Optimus could be seen hanging barely with the AllSpark, and without the Decepticon insight, surely destroyed by the explosion. The Prime could no longer hold on to his ax and fell from the building while letting out a loud scream, but still clinging to Cybertron's sacred object.
Jirachi recognized that agonizing scream and quickly left his hiding place without caring about anything.
The impact of the fall left a huge crater on the ground, and as the dust cleared, the emaciated body of Optimus Prime and the AllSpark were safely observed near it. His friends soon arrived and approached him. Sari was the first to run without stopping to see her friend.
"O-Optimus?" The girl stuttered, trembling at the sight of her very damaged friend.
Optimus observed the blue sky for the last time, feeling like death was extinguishing his spark.
"So, this ... is what it feels like ... to be a hero."
The Autobots gasped in disbelief as they watched their leader die and his colors became colorless in his being, without believing that this had happened. Ratchet approached to confirm the death of Optimus, Prowl spoke about the Prime's sacrifice, Bumblebee and Bulkhead only worried, even more, when they saw Sari had liquid filtration in her organic optics, believing that she was more damaged than normal ; remembering the damage, the mech present now reacted to see that the little girl had bare metal and circuits, no doubt significantly broken, and certainly Cybertronian. But what did that mean...? Sari was supposed to be human! Why does she have Cybertronian fabric in it!?
Sari let some tears out without accepting the death of Optimus, so she jumped onto the leader's body and looked at the key that had previously helped Bumblebee.
"Sari no—"
"Prime didn't give up!" She screamed with pain and sadness. Then she aligned the key, and Prime's dead body responded by opening and letting see where to insert the object.
The girl didn't hesitate to insert the key, leaving the only one who could understand this was the yellow bot, the rest very confused about the brightness on the girl's key.
"... And I won't give up either!" The next light in joining the girl's will was the AllSpark, going directly to Prime's body.
Everyone was surprised by what happened, including Sari, and she backed away instinctively, the light also came to wrap her next to the Prime's body, but when the glow disappeared, so was the pain. Sari noticed that her arm was now completely healed and that a spark was shining in Prime's chest. The plates on Optimus's chest closed and the colors were back again, leaving him completely repaired.
Prime optics opened feeling alive.
"Ah... is this... the well of AllSpark?" He asked himself.
His still blurry optics caught someone's shape, and Optimus managed to visualize Sari about him.
She laughed bitterly, but with a soft smile on her face. "No, it's Detroit..." Then her face wrinkled more and she began to cry in tears as she hugged Optimus's lively face. Optimus only dedicated himself to feeling the warmth of his friend.
Jirachi managed to arrive at that moment, and observe the scene.
"Optimus!" Little Pokemon shouted and floated at full speed to the Prime's body "Optimus, are you alright!? I heard your scream from afar, you sounded scared and sore, are you alright!?" He spoke as he quickly analyzing the body of the Autobot, without finding any scratches.
Sari turned away from Optimus's face and looked at her friend. "He's fine, Jirachi," then she looked at the rest of the group as they approached their leader so they could feel alive for themselves "now he is."
Prowl was worried when he saw a lot of organic blood on the Pokemon's head.
"Jirachi, your wound increased!" He exclaimed worriedly.
Jirachi finally felt the blood on his body, but he didn't care, he just floated down and hugged Optimus's face.
"It doesn't matter, all that matters is that you all are well," the Pokémon meowed, releasing small tears of relief and pain.
The group then piled up the Prime to comfort him from his return from death.
To be continued ...
Many thanks to Sarah-TheDemonTiger for helping me with the chapter!
