Out of the Blue: Part 3
Earth's Moon;
The surface lay quiet and still for the moment, the only sounds came from the remains of a crashed ship not to far away. Usually the sounds consisted of large amounts of ranting and yelling, for the moment how ever the only sounds were those of the mechanisms of the ship it's self. The quite was over come momentarily as a hole is space suddenly opened and something walked out. The dark being from before stared at the ship and then proceeded to make his way in.
It found what the person it had come looking for, alone for the moment, staring into space. Perhaps he was contemplating some new strategy in the war or some other problem as he stared at the stars. The leader's concentration was broken when he heard the foot steps coming up behind him.
"Whoever you are," Megatron growled, "You'd better have a good reason for bothering me."
"Oh I have an excellent reason," The dark creature told him, "and I need your help with it."
The commander slowly spun in his chair and turned to look at the person in his personal quarters.
"You?" he blinked, "What are you doing here?"
"Strange that you should ask me that, you see I've come here looking for my brother."
The Deceipticon leader stared at the dark one for a moment then asked, "Why?"
"He has something that belongs to me." Some where on the dark face an evil smiled blossomed.
"He won't give you the matrix; you might as well go back where you came from and forget it." The leader told him flatly.
The smile on the dark one's face grew broader and he burst out into laughter for a moment, then he suddenly returned his attention to Megatron.
"What makes you think I want that ridiculous thing? I don't want some ceremonial bauble. I'm here for something else entirely."
The leader stared at him for a moment and then for some reason this statement had an unexpected affect on him.
"GET OUT!" He roared.
The dark merely smiled again, "Now don't be so quick to make your choice. You don't know what I would be willing to give you if you help me."
The voice lowered and the creature moved in closer to Megatron.
"Do what I want and I'll show you where to find what you lost."
The change in the face of the leader was one that if any of his troops could have seen would have either amazed them or sent them screaming in fear. It went from shock, to amazement, and then to complete and utter black hate in less than two seconds.
"I said get out of my base."
"You do realize what you're throwing away here, don't you Megatron?" The being backed off and looked at him once again, "Are you completely sure?"
All emotion, all color all any thing, drained from Megatron's face, "I would rather spend ETERNITY not knowing than ever owe any thing to you monster."
"Too bad," The dark one shook his head, "Because if you did that…"
"NO, I may wish him out of my way. I may even want him dead at times. Helping you however, THAT however is a line that even I will not cross." He paused and glared at the dark one. "If any thing will push him to destroy you this time, that will."
The being moved into the shadows so only the red of his eyes could be seen, "We will see. I was successful once, I'm not afraid to take what's mine again." He paused and smiled, "In fact it's already begun"
The dark being disappeared and left the leader sitting alone thinking about what he had just heard. Left him alone to wonder if any thing could be done to change what he had just heard and how it should be done.
Earth: Autobot base, the next morning.
It was a Saturday morning, thus the all of the kids were out of school and all of them were at the base. The guys had made the mistake of introducing the bots to an old game of Tetris and so they were in the process of showing them just what it consisted of an how to play the silly thing. Alexis was off talking to Starscream right then, trying to get the big jet to come out of his room and actually spend some time in the base. That left only one person who was not around, Frankie.
It was about an hour later that it occurred to Optimus that the young woman had vanished. She had shown up with the kids when they had first got there, and now she was no where to be seen. So he took off to find her, eventually locating her on the ridge out side of the base staring off into no where like she was half asleep.
"Miss Frankie?"
She jumped about three feet in the air and then whirled around to see him, "OH! Optimus! You scared me!"
"I didn't mean to startle you. I was just looking for you." He motioned to the base, "You vanished on us."
"Sorry, I just got a lil' Closter phobic, so I came out for some fresh air."
Prime nodded and was about to leave when he got a good look at her. She was a lot paler than he had ever seen her, and there were two dark semi-circles under her eyes. She looked like some one who hadn't gotten any sleep, or was deeply worried about something.
"Are you sure you're alright?" He asked her.
"I'm fine really," She told him waving off the concern.
"Really, because you don't seem fine to me, in fact you seem well… I'm not sure." He paused,
"But there is something wrong."
"Please don't…" she shrank away from him, "I'm alright okay? I just didn't get much sleep last night."
"I'm sorry, were you up late working?"
She shook her head at him, "You don't give up do you?"
A grin came into his voice, "If I did I wouldn't be here now."
She sighed and gave in, "Well if you have to know I had a bad dream last night okay?"
"I see. Would you like to talk about it?"
She looked up at him, "To be honest no, it's not something I want to discuss."
"If you're sure then I won't press the issue, but I think it might help if you told some one."
The teacher let out a long sigh and then looked up at him, "You really don't give up."
"Not when I can see one of my friends needs help, now," He knelt down closer to her, "please tell me what's wrong."
"Let's just put it this way, I've had something that's bothered me for years. There have been times when I thought I was over it, or at least could deal with the things in my head I can't explain." She paused and ran her hand through her hair, "Lately though, it seems like instead of them getting better, like I had hoped moving out here would do. They've been getting worse."
"What are these dreams about Frankie?" The leader asked.
"Well until a few weeks ago it was just some one chasing me, I'd always wake up. Last night it, he caught me." She looked up at him with a very odd look on her face. "It just got worse from there."
Optimus shook his head at her, "I'm sorry Frankie. No one should have to deal with that, much less on a nightly basis."
"Its okay," She shook her head at him dismissively, "it's just that, well I think meeting you and the rest of the transformers may have affected me more than I want to admit."
"I don't follow you," Now Optimus was getting confused.
"Well its silly, because I know you'd never hurt any one let alone one of your friends."
"But?" Optimus prompted.
"But the thing in my dream that was chasing me, well…" She trailed off.
"What Frankie?"
"Optimus, he looked like you." She dropped her eyes away from him, "I'm sorry. I don't understand why."
He looked away from her for a moment, doing his best to compose him self before he looked back at her. He had hoped and prayed and now he had the proof. Unfortunately the proof that He had wanted of who and what this girl really was, seemed to have come at a horrible price. He did his best to try and choose what was best. What he wanted more than anything was to tell her what he knew. Explain to her just what it meant, why she was having these images in her mind, and indeed had all of her life. But the chances were that if he told her that it would more than likely ruin whatever life she had now. So he swallowed his own feelings and looked back to the young woman.
"I don't know why that would happen; it could be that you were just hanging a new face on old anxiety?" He lied.
"I suppose so," She sighed, "I would dearly love to know why I keep having these awful dreams. I would love to get it, him, out of my head for just once in my life."
The leader softened and bent down to her again, "Maybe A time will come when you can make sense of all of it." She looked up at him and he smiled at her behind his mask, "Just don't forget that you have some one here for you, when ever you need them."