11 – Re-announce

Have you given up yet?

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I will serve you …

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Oh, don't let me hold you back … I can fight like a man …

Optimus woke up.

The sudden return to consciousness was a little unnerving, but he dismissed it. He had to focus on what that dream had been about. It had been so vivid …

Optimus glanced down at his brother. He was lying next to him, still deep in recharge. Maybe he would be able to help with his Psychic powers? But Optimus thought it best not to wake him. He needed time to think this over …

He quietly sat up and slipped off his recharge bed. If there was any place to go to think, it was the topside …

***

Sitting on a broken ledge, Optimus watched the sun rise. He knew that the person in his dreams was the Bearer of Light, but … something was wrong. The life force he felt from the being was that of a tormented soul. Well, if whomever it was had as much trouble as him with its element, then he was sure that was the reason …

But why did his mind scream at him that that was wrong?

"Optimus?"

The said transformer turned to that familiar voice. Magnus was standing on the rubble, looking at his brother with concerned optics.

"Magnus? I thought you were recharging." Optimus said, surprised.

"I woke up as soon as you left the room." Magnus said, coming over to sit next to his brother. "You know I cant recharge unless your there. I can't stand it as it is."

Optimus laughed and said, "Yeah, I remember that time when you didn't recharge for a week because there was a solar storm approaching. Everyone else fell to recharge in less than a day, but you stayed up the whole time!"

Magnus smiled, pleased that his brother remembered such things.

"Everyone was in awe of you." Optimus said, looking up at the stars and sighing.

Magnus noticed and said, "What's wrong?"

"I … don't really know …" Optimus said, looking at his brother, trying to say his dream in words. "I had this dream just now, about the Bearer of Light … but there was something wrong with its essence …"

"Did it feel evil?" Magnus inquired.

"No," Optimus said, "More … tormented. Like the Light is hurting it." He looked up and said, "Do you think it was all some dream?"

"No, it sounds real." Magnus said, and then thought about it himself. "But I don't think the element is hurting the bearer. Light isn't supposed to do that."

"How do you know that?" Optimus said, looking at Magnus in surprise.

"Because," Magnus started, picking up a rock and holding it up. "You hold the Cloak of Darkness, and now someone holds the cloak of Light. They are opposites, so it makes sense to assume that it isn't the element itself that's causing the bearer pain; it would be the opposite of what your cloak did in every way."

"It … doesn't make sense …" Optimus said, confused.

"Well," Magnus replied, trying to make it easier for him, "look at this rock."

"What about it?" Optimus said, glancing at it.

"Can you see how there is a shadowy side, and a side that reflects the light of the sun?" Magnus said.

"Yeah," Optimus replied slowly, not sure where his brother was going with this.

"Can you imagine the rock without one of those shades?" Magnus asked, moving the rock around in his fingers, so it reflected the light of the rising sun on its shiny surface.

Optimus tried, and tried to think of the rock without shadow, or light, but found he could not.

"No," Optimus said, surprised, "I can't think of it without one of them."

"That's what I mean," Magnus said, smiling. "They're duel elements; one cannot exist without the other to guide it. There is only one pair of them, and that's Light and Dark. They are true opposites; whatever makes something dark will always have a light to go with it. They cannot be separate, and they must exist together. You feel the Light Bearer because although you have never met him or her, you are bonded with the strongest bond in the universe. It is unbreakable … and because of that, you will probably get visions of what he or she is up to."

"Primus …" Optimus whispered. He had never really thought about his element that way before, but now that he did, he realised that he was holding one of the two most powerful elements in the universe. "I've never thought about my element that way before …"

He looked up at his brother, who was looking content somewhat. "How did you know all that?"

Magnus laughed and said, "You know, for someone who claims to be the more mature brother, you certainly have just proven that you never payed any attention in our history class …"

***

"Sleeping on the job Red?"
Red Alert woke up from his slumber. He had been at work the whole night at his console, trying to find out what the New Ones were up to. Ever since they appeared, Red Alert had been working with some other technicians like Soundwave to try and find out as much as they could about the silver invaders. It was hard work, and Red Alert had detected seismic activity in the planet's core. This was very unusual for Cybertron, and Red Alert had stayed up the entire night. Right now, he had been woken from his recharge that he had fallen into an hour before.

He groaned and said, "No, just resting Medivo."

Medivo laughed and said, "Yeah, yeah you keep saying that Red, but me and my brother both know the truth."

Red Alert sighed as Medivo and Razorblast laughed together. "Why Optimus asked me to create you two I'll never know …"

"Hey!" Razorblast cried, offended. "We're not that bad!"

Red Alert smiled and then asked, "Well, how's your sister fairing against Starscream?"

"Oh I hear she's almost completed her training with him." Medivo said, "Only a matter of time …"

***

A brilliant crash of lightning shook the training room. Electrica jumped up, and kicked an imaginary opponent with a perfect spinning kick. She dropped from the sky, and landed on the ground in a crouch. She paused for a brief second before launching into another spectacular array of kicks and punches. She finished the attack with a blast of lightning, shattering the target that was stuck to the wall. She didn't hear the door open, but she did hear her teacher's comment:

"You're up early. Trying to beat me again Electrica?"

The femme dusted herself off and, not turning around, said, "Only my teacher would be so arrogant to say that at this hour."

She heard him growl, and spun around to block the predicted attack. Starscream smirked and lowered his arm (which he had used to try and punch her, only to be blocked by her own arm.)

"Your training is almost done, why are you waiting around for me?" Starscream inquired. He usually came and woke her up at this time. Starscream had said that she could recharge for longer if she wanted, but he'd be up and probably train while he waited.

Electrica then seemed to phase out for a second. That one line he had said … it felt like she had heard it before …

She snapped out of it and looked up into his face. She didn't realise how handsome he was until now. For some reason she had ignored it for a while; partly because she just wanted to smash his face from beating her all the time. But now, she was pretty much his equal (although he'd never admit that) and she could focus on the more personal points to the red seeker.

"Um … are you okay?" He said, slightly unnerved by the way she kept staring at him like that.

She shook her head and said, "Oh slag I'm sorry! I kinda lapsed out for a second …"

"I gathered that." Starscream said, looking at her with a smirk, "well, we may as well continue where we left off yesterday."

"Argh!" Electrica said, collapsing. "I can't thunderbolt as strong as you can! How am I supposed to continue that?! Yesterday was torture to my systems …"

Starscream crossed his arms and sat down too, facing his student and saying, "Well then, what do you suppose we do?"

"Erm …" Electrica murmured as she thought about it, "I dunno!"

Starscream slapped a hand on his forehead.

Electrica saw this and laughed. When he looked bewildered she laughed harder, falling forwards and rolling around on the floor.

Starscream stared at her, and said, "did you take red energon again?!"

"Red … energon?" Electrica giggled, sitting up.

"Er yeah," Starscream replied, looking at her, "Primus, what the hell did you find so funny anyway?!"

"You … oh its just, I've never seen you show any funny emotions like before. And it was funny!" Electrica said.

"Any real emotions?" Starscream echoed, quirking a non-existent eyebrow. "Is that so?"

"Apart from fighting ones I mean." Electrica replied. "I've hardly ever seen you have any fun …"

Starscream suddenly smirked in a seductive way and purred, "Fun? Well, what do you call fun?"

Electrica was taken aback by Starscream's sudden change of tone. It made her shiver. This could get … interesting …

"Lots of things," She replied softly, aware of the sudden change of atmosphere in the room. "I like to play games, train … do thing's like that … what about you?"

"Me?" Starscream chucked softly, "the same things really … except that I enjoy battle as much as Galvatron did …"

"Galvatron …" Electrica murmured, aware that Starscream had moved closer to her, and now was within inches of her face. "I know him …"

"You do?" Starscream's voice was suddenly sharper, and held a surprised note to it. "Electrica?!"

The femme then fell offline into Starscream's arms.

***

"Medivo?!"

"Razorblast?!"

Red Alert watched as some of the medics caught the two said bots in mid fall. They too had gone into a dreamy state and then fell offline. It was unclear to why it had happened, but Red Alert put a hand up to his chin and glanced at Soundwave, who gave him a knowing look.

Their memories must be coming back, Red Alert thought, but became concerned, but why now?

"Take them to the med bay." He ordered out loud. Blades took Medivo over his shoulder as First Aid took Razorblast. It was then Starscream came tearing into the command centre with Electrica in his arms.

"What the?!" He said upon seeing the other two offline also. He ran past them and up to Red Alert, saying, "I don't know what happened! We were just training when she –"

Red Alert held up his hand to silence him. "Just take her to the med bay, Starscream. It is nothing serious."

The red seeker growled and said angrily, "What's wrong with her?! I know you know!"

"Her memories are starting to come back." Red Alert said calmly. "She will wake up soon."

Starscream glared at him, then turned around and walked away.

That stupid medic knows something. Starscream thought angrily, following Blades and First Aid.

Over the other side of the room, Magnus suddenly came tearing inside in vehicle mode with Optimus hot on his trail. The latter transformed and tackled his brother, who had also transformed and the two rolled on the floor. Magnus finally pinned his brother down on his back and put his wrist guns up to his face, saying, "I got ya!"

"You win." Optimus said, a smile evident even if it wasn't seen.

Magnus cheered and got off his brother, falling over laughing. All present in the room laughed along with him. No one knew what was so funny, but to see the two supposed leaders of the base play fight was probably as funny as seeing Galvatron hand out candy.

Suddenly, a giant earthquake shook the floor, ending the happiness in the room. Magnus and Optimus both got up and stared at the screen. The sky was black with stormy clouds that pelted black lightning to the ground in waves of pure force.

"W – what's going on?!" Flare said, looking over at the screen from atop her platform.

Suddenly, Iseno appeared on the screen clad (like always) in the shadows of his station. The room gasped as he held up a glowing orb in one hand.

"Ultra Magnus." He announced, "We now have the Orb of Life from this planet. Now that we have what we came for, we are going to leave. Thankyou and goodbye …"

The screen went blank.

"We have to get the orb back!" Optimus shouted over the rumble of the floor.

"I've got the co-ordinands of that transmission sir!" Soundwave shouted back.

Magnus, the elementals and Optimus ran over to the screen. It was right on the equator of the planet.

"Magnus, will you be able to teleport us all there?" Optimus asked.

"I can try," Magnus answered, and then said, "everyone link hands!"

Scavenger, Flare, Vortex, Thundercracker, Starscream (who had come back from the med bay when the earthquake hit) Poryon, Optimus and Magnus held hands in a circle.

Magnus focused on the equator, and then on his power once he got a clear image. He heard the others gasp and knew that they were feeling his power flow though them also. He gritted his teeth in the effort. It was harder than he thought! He hoped he'd make it to the equator …

"Teleport!!!"

They disappeared.

***

A few seconds later, the elemental bots appeared at the equator – five feet in the air!

They fell with a crash. Magnus collapsed on the ground and tried to regain his balance. That teleport had drained him quite a bit.

"Remind me never to do that again …" Flare muttered as she rubbed her head.

"Never mind that now." Optimus said and pointed. The others got up too, also rubbing their heads to shake the dizziness from the teleport. They saw what Optimus was pointing at and gasped. It was a space ship.

And outside stood Iseno.

He smirked at them and called, "If you want your orb back, you'll have to follow us!"

With that message delivered, he ran inside the ship. Fire belched out of the engines, and Optimus shielded them all with a dark barrier as the ship rose up. They could do nothing to stop it, but before Optimus had the chance to stop him, Starscream ran forward and shot a bolt of lightning at it. It didn't even phase the now rapidly rising ship, but the red seeker wore a satisfied smile.

"What did you do?" Thundercracker asked him.

"I've put some of my element power on their ship, meaning we can now track it to wherever it goes." Starscream said smugly.

"Good work!" Scavenger said and Starscream looked proud of himself for being so smart.

"So now what do we do, Prime?" Poryon asked, looking at the black-cloaked leader.

"Prime?" He murmured. He hadn't been called that in so long, but now he thought it was time to re-announce himself. It was time to be the leader he should've been and stop Magnus from doing a job he hates.

"Everyone," He announced, "We are going into space."

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Now the Space race is on!!

Okay, now I'm gonna get my hands dirty and really pump the action out! What's up with the three newbies? What is it that Red Alert knows about them? What memories are coming back? What is the Orb of Life? Who is the Bearer of Light? You will find out! Maybe not all in the next chapter, but you will find out! I'm entering the home stretch of this story, and it's gonna be a Rollercoaster ride to boot! Man, I'm excited writing about it!

Anyways, I'd like to point out that I'm a girl (I noticed in CodeRed 73's review, he/she referred to me as a male.) And I've done a new piece of art. It's in the sketching stage at the moment, but I need the critiques of fellow artists, not artists and anyone who wants to pay attention to this pic at all. : 

Http://    skinsthunderbomb.deviantart.com/ (Take the space out)

Grrr! Stupid website wouldn't load up the pic, so It should be in there somewhere.

A preview of the next chapter:

12 – Repel

The TF's launch into space to follow the New Ones in space chase that leads them to Elementus! Who will they find there? And just who is the Bearer of Light? Will it lead to Optimus's destruction? A techno geek called Brainstorm researches a way to repel the New Ones new weapon. Along with Sideswipe, Brainstorm tells Optimus and Magnus his plan, but will this help them stop the New Ones?

Strap yourselves in my Transformers, your going for a ride!

REVIEW PLEASE! I only got two for the last chap …. Skins is sad …

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