Transformers: Eternal Eclipse

Chapter 2

(Five years before Age of Extinction)

Optimus drove through the deserted streets to a meeting with Cerement Wind. His only companions were two N.E.S.T. soldiers in his cab, Tracy Evens and Mitch Anderson. They had insisted on coming along and Optimus found he couldn't turn them away.

"It seems kind of strange that they wanted to meet in the middle of nowhere," Tracy spoke up after a long silence.

"It could be because of all the bad press," Mitch answered. Nothing else was said as they moved towards their designation only to find the area abounded. "Where is everyone?" Mitch asked as he and Tracy climbed out.

Optimus started getting an uneasy feeling, before he could transform suddenly there was gunfire everywhere. The Prime was struck several times, seems he was their target. He quickly realized this was the same kind of ammunition the humans used against the Decepticons. To his horror Mitch went down.

Tracy tried to get to cover but she too was also hit. Before Optimus tried to transform when something struck him in his grill to close to his spark leaving him in great pain. He realized couldn't transform.

Then he saw Tracy pull something out of her pocket. She had a grenade. With barely any strength left she pulled out the key out and tossed it in the direction of the shooters. There were cries of alarm as it exploded. She pressed her hand against his door. "Run," she whispered before she went limp.

"NO!" Even in his agony he scanned the two humans only to find they were both dead. With great despair he drove off before the soldiers could regroup. As he drove Optimus sent out two messages, one for his Autobot's the other for his human allies; Sam and the soldiers.

(Present)

"And that's when Optimus left," Cade finished his account for what had to be the hundredth time that day.

"Thank you Mr. Yager," The woman said as she stopped recording "We may need to talk to you some more later."

"Yeah I know," Cade said, "I'm not going anywhere." He had been through this more times than he could count. It wasn't like he was going anywhere anytime soon, he didn't have a new home yet. Cade left the building to find Drift waited for him in vehicle mode. The door opened and he quickly climbed in, leaning against the seat he took a deep breath.

"Are you troubled?" The Bugatti Veyron asked.

"It's just been a long day." Cade said, he was quiet for a moment, "I guess I shouldn't be surprised."

"Given everything that's happen no."

It still felt odd to be back in Chicago. Not long ago the bots had been storming the KSI to rescue him. They soon reached the building and entered the garage and loading bay where most of the ship's wreckage has been stored, it was close to the labs were Sam was working with Joyce's scientist.

Cade, his daughter and Shane were staying there as well till everything was worked out. A big screen TV had been set up for the Autobot's and humans, currently it was on a news program where the reporter was talking about Lockdown's attack.

Cade sat on the couch with a groan. "Tough time?" Sam asked from where he was writing notes, every few minutes his eyes flashed a bright blue.

"It's like they expect me to change my story."

"Don't worry, they'll get board. . . eventually."

"Thanks, I think. . . hey Sam, can I ask you something?"

Sam looked up from his work, "Sure."

"It's just. . . the glowing eye thing, what's that about?"

Sam was quiet for a moment deep in thought, "Well, have you heard of the AllSpark or Matrix of Leadership?" At Cade's blank look he continued, "According to their history the AllSpark appeared on what would become Cybertron, it created the Matrix to help the Dynasty of Primes to activate Star Harvesters to create energon to repower it. The Fallen tried to use it on our sun despite the rule not to use it on a sun supporting life and after a long battle the other Primes took it and hid it away. When the Autobots and Decepticons arrived on Earth I found myself trying to keep the AllSpark away from Megatron until I thrust it into his chest and it's raw energy made contact with his spark destroying him. . . for awhile at least. Two pieces of the AllSpark had survived, one was stolen by the Decepticons to revive Megatron and the second unknown to everyone had been caught on my jacket. My close proximity let it increase my intelligence and when I found and touched it my mind was flooded with all the ancient knowledge."

"That must of been interesting," Cade commented.

"Oh it was, the Decepticons discovered it and tried to capture me. During a fight Megatron. . . killed Optimus when he was trying to protect me and my friends. After that I searched for the Matrix of Leadership with the hope it could revive him. We found it in Egypt where I also died. . . the Dynasty of Primes brought me back and I used the Matrix to revive Optimus. When I used it the information passed onto the Matrix. . . Well we thought all of it had passed but some of the information remained. I'm not sure how much, I still have trouble with it and Optimus thought it was best not to let the Government know."

"Wow," Cade said. He was surprised Sam had mention that last part to him, they didn't really know each other. He realized the trust Sam was putting in him. "What happened to the Matrix?"

"Optimus should still have it. He kept it close to his spark chamber." Cade then remember seeing something in Optimus chest near his spark when he had repaired him. He had thought it had been a knife of some kind. Sam continued, "They weren't fond of me for not turning myself in after the Fallen's message."

"Who?"

"The government."

"Why did they care, it worked out didn't it?"

Sam shrugged, "Some people just stay in the past and say how things should of been done,

they want to pretend they have control over everything."

""Yeah, sad but true," Cade agreed. There was silence for a few moments when suddenly they heard a car horn.

"There here!" Sam exclaimed jumping to his feet as a car pulled up.

Everyone watched as a blonde woman stepped out. Carly held a three year old girl in her arms, she had blonde hair like her mother and her eyes lit up when she spotted the Autobots.

"Auo-bots," she squealed.

"Bee," Sam turned to the yellow scout. "Meet Olivia Bree Witwicky"

Bumblebee beeped in astonishment and with an encouraging nod from Sam reached a finger towards the girl. She clapped her hands together and grabbed his finger. "Bee!" she chirped happily.

"Hey! What about me?" A small form tumbled out of the car, "What am I, spark parts?"

"Wheelie!" Brains cried.

"No respect," the small bot grumbled then he spotted the equally small bot, "Brains!"

It was going to be a reunion today as a Chevrolet Impala drove in not long after and transformed. "Roadbuster!" Hound pulled the Wrecker into a crushing embraced. "Where have you been?"

"Stop trying to crush me and I'll tell you," Roadbuster finally managed to get free. After a moment to collect himself he looked over everyone there, "I was with a family in Nebraska, they hid me until we saw the news and I knew it was safe to contact Sam."

Sideswipe threw a arm around the Wreckers shoulders, "Well it's good to see you, the others should be arriving."

"Others?"

Roadbuster turned as a truck pulled in followed by three motorcycles that transformed into Arcee, Chromia and Elita One. "Everyone, it's good to see you," Elita said with a nod.

If anything Sideswipe's grin grew, "And it's good to see you."

Chromia held up a servo to stop him, "Back off."

Arcee put in, "There are others."

Epps who had driven the truck opened it and several pairs of optics blinked at them. It was the Hatchling's, only they weren't Hatchlings anymore. They had change much from the squirming little terrors everyone remembered. Like the Autobot's they were more human in appearance, most with blue optics and bright colors. They still weren't as tall as the adult humans.

Elita One kneeled by them after they hesitantly climbed out of the truck, "May we introduce Star Saber, Lightspeed, Sonic Bomber, Clipper, Strongarm, Chase, First Aid, Flareup, Glyph, Beachcomber, Lickety-Split, Nosecone, Cerebros, Windblade, Rapid Run, Clocker, Side Burn, Bulkhead, Nightbeat, Bumper, Skyburst, Tailgate, Lightbright, Tow-Line and finally. . . hey, where's Hot Rod?"


Darcy Tirrel entered Joyce's office to find him face down on his desk. "Problems?" she asked halfheartedly.

Without raising his head he held up several papers, "With all the charges and rules we broke were lucky were not being tried for treason."

"We?"

He finally looked up and frowned, "Fine, it's all on me. Happy?"

"Almost."

"I get it, I was wrong. Even I know when to admit when I'm wrong and . . . Wait, what did you need?"

"I came to tell you were about to start."

"Oh right, we should head down there." He rose from his seat and the two walked to a elevator to take them to the labs. Technician Gill Wembley and his team had fussed about the last of the transformium being used for this. It had taken Hound and Sideswipe casually cleaning their weapons to get them to finally shut up. As they waited for the elevator to reach it's destination Joyce said, "You know I've been thinking, since the robot thing didn't work out," he winch a little at the look Darcy shot him, "We have that ship, we should be looking into installer transportation."

Darcy gave him a long look, not a bad idea really but that was something to think about later. There was too much to do now. Before either could say anymore the door opened signaling their arrival at the hanger that was serving as the Autobot's temporary headquarters.

It had been decided to bring Ratchet back first, with Sam's input they had finished the Autobot's body in record time. Now came the important part, placing the spark in.

The two steeped out. . . into a makeshift nursery. Joyce could only gaped at the small beings that were currently causing chaos. Olivia was having the time of her life with her new friends, she had quickly taught them tag and hide-an-seek which the hatchlings had combined into a new game that consisted of them running around and shirking at the top of their voice box's.

It really wasn't helping those trying to find Hot Rod, but the hunt for the red and gold hatchling would have to be narrowed down. As soon as the hatchlings were under control the work resumed.

Sam picked up the spark casting and entered the lab, on the large work table before them was a perfect replica of Ratchet's body expect it was gray with no paint yet. That would come later, the important thing was placing the spark and hoping everything would go smoothly.

"This will work," Sam said as he placed the spark casting in Ratchet's opened chest. As he set it tubes and wires snapped into place and the new body shook as energy surged through it.

Hound gently pushed Sam back. "You might want to stay back kid."

Suddenly Ratchet's optics snapped open as he online in a panic swinging his limbs around and knocking Crosshairs down with a yelp.

Hound and Sideswipe were there in an instant grabbing the medic's arms and trying to restrain him. "Ratch calm down! Your safe!" Sideswipe tried to reason with him.

After a moment Ratchet focused on the bots holding him. "Sideswipe? Hound?"

"Yep," Sides grinned, "It's us."

"W-What happened?"

"What's the last thing you remember?" Sam asked.

"I was. . . Sam! Is that you?"

"Yeah," the young man replied.

"But-but what happened? Where's Lockdown and those human soldiers that attacked me?"

Sam placed a hand on Ratchet's ped, "It's. . . a long story."


Deep in space Optimus stood on an asteroid gazing out into open space, it was a beautiful sight. The last Prime hoped it would clear his head. He had hidden the Seed so it could never be used, now it was the next part of his journey. Finding the Cybertroians Creators and stopping them, yet he also hoped to get answers. There was so much going on he needed answers for.

Optimus held up the Matrix and gazed at it for a long time, he had never felt so lost in his life. He sighed and thought longingly of Earth. . . before the betrayal.

A voice suddenly spoke behind him, "Optimus you look troubled?"

The Autobot leader froze in shock then slowly turned to the bot he never thought he'd see again. "A-Alpha Trion?"