Subi: >S complications are fun, yes?

3. Desert Dreams

It was after "dinnertime" as Blazestorm's 'mother' called it, and Blazestorm had gone up to her room. Collapsing onto the bed, facing the ceiling, Blazestorm wondered how long it would be until she escaped this queer place. She blinked thoughtfully at the ceiling, wondering if everyone else that'd fallen victim to Vector Prime's error was in any better of a situation. She vaguely felt her bondmate's weak attempt to see how she was doing, and fought back the distressing feeling that she was losing him. She sent him the strongest feeling of exhaustion she could before feeling herself drift off to sleep...

- ... She found herself in a dark place; Underneath her, she could feel the large, smooth grains of sand, and she was conciously aware of the coral-like rocks that made up the "hallway" she was now walking down. Gradually, she realized the walls were widening, and she was going up a small rise of a hill. As she looked ahead, she could see the end of the coral wall, revealed by a steady glow of a faint, blue light. She reached the top of the rise-- and stopped with a gasp.

Stretching out below her was a huge city, built of metal, stone, and fossilized coral. The closest part of the city was the huge, metal wall that surrounded the entire city, running against the coral-rock "bubble" that protected the city inside from some outward force. She could pick out the different sizes of living quarters- some human sized, others for Transformers. Near the center of the city was a marketsquare, with an incredible, rune-like design incorperated into the pavement of the city. An Egyptian pyramid was to the left of the market, and a step pyramid (A/N: like the Mayan/Aztec pyramids, for example)was to the right. Both had one side of its structure against the metal citywall; the other side at the market's edge. Further away from her was a span of pavement that could allow two or three transformers to stand side by side comfterably. In the span of walk-space were three rectangular slabs cut into the pavement, two holding swords in the water inside them with their hilts facing away from the farthest corner of the city. At the furthest point of the city, built into the rock-metal wall that protected the city, was a huge, temple-like structure with two steps from the street, a small platform, and then one last, transformer-sized step before disappearing into the darkness of the opening in the temple.

She slowly walked down the sandy rise towards the city, approaching the huge gates of the city wall. She stopped a few transformer steps away from the doors, noticing that something about the gates looked... wrong, somehow.

'They're broken...' She realized, and slowly moved forwards again.

Indeed they were broken, both sides of the gates having the clear markings of being forcibly opened; In fact, they were so damaged, that the right door curved inwards toward the city, and the left door didn't close at all. It creaked as a faint breeze pushed the creeky, damaged door open and shut- hitting the other door with a thunderous boom and bounced back open slowly, creeking as it went. She passed through the gateway as the door opened again, and found that the great city she'd seen from above was no longer had the beautiful, wonderous appearance as it had seemed a few moments earlier from the rise of sand.

As she silently walked through the ruins in what was once a powerful, inspiring city, looking at the crumbling buildings, She found that everywhere she looked, she saw what'd happened in the city as if she'd been there... As if she was there now... As if it was happening now... ... ...

Fire. It was everywhere. The market stalls were burning; Transformers were running through the flames, armed, to protect the humans that were running away from the city gates toward the temple; People were shouting "Guardian of Atlantis, Subitayo! Awaken and save us!"; Many of the small buildings wereon fire-- only the pyramids and the temple were unscathed by the blaze.

"Awaken, Subitayo! Save Atlantis!" The people of the city screamed again. Transformers were crying out in pain as the flames began to take them, alive or dead. Beyond the raging blaze, a huge shadow could be seen making its way through the fire. The flames leapt away from it's passing form, allowing it to pass, before resuming its burning hunger on the fallen and falling. The shadow stepped past the last of the inferno, revealing that it was wearing a suit of blue, plated armor.

"Guardian of Atlantis!.!.!" The people cried, and the blue shadow turned its head to look at the opening of the temple. A black, green, and gold shadow stood in the entrance to the huge temple, filling the highest step with it's cloaked, black, imposing form. A gold line of light glowed across it's hooded face, and the seeming statue-like shadow turned its head towards the blue shadow at the edge of the smoldering marketplace.

"Save us, Subitayo!" The people cried again, and in that instant, it was obvious that the black shadow was the Guardian of Atlantis; the great, fallen city a unseen Blazestorm was now standing in, looking on at the last moments of the city before it fell completely from a future marketplace of dreams. The blue shadow lifted a black, green, and gold sword in it's hands.

"I hold your mighty sword, Guardian. The fate of the people lies in my hands now; Your time has fallen," It told the black shadow in the opening of the temple.

"Their fate has already been sealed," The Guardian of Atlantis responded. "They fall with me and this great city- But we shall not fall alone." The Guardian lifted it's right hand and flung it to the side. The blue shadow was shoved into the pyramid to it's right; sending both crumbling to the ground. The building itself was only partly standing, even as the blue shadow struggled to it's feet and chased the Guardian into the temple for the final Battle of Atlantis.

A great while later, the Guardian of Atlantis reappeared, it's sword returned to its hand. Crimson blood dripped from the black sword's blade, and the Guardian's own black blood ran freely from a deep wound in its shoulder. Part of the Guardian's green, black, and gold mask was shattered, revealing a cracked, green optic.

"Atlantis has fallen... Because of Blue Rift," The Guardian whispered to the empty, burning city. It placed the sword in the remaining, water-filled indentation in the street before the temple steps. Turning, the Guardian climbed the steps to the highest one just before entering the temple and stopped.

"Atlantis has fallen... It cannot be rebuilt until it is once again forgotten," The Guardian said quietly. It paused for a moment before whirling around fiercely. "I shall not forget; Forever Atlantis lives in me- for I am the Creator of the Sea; I am a Protector of Life; I am the Guardian of those Lost- I shall not forget the forgotton!" And with that, The Guardian of Atlantis turned to stone...

Blazestorm gasped as she felt the Guardian of Atlantis turn to stone before tearing it's own spirit out of its body and fleeing Atlantis. She felt it take her with it, dragging her across the galaxy, past thousands of stars, to a mechanical planet she knew very well: Cybertron... ... ...

Blazestorm woke sharply, realizing exactly where the Guardian of Atlantis had gone. Instead of getting up and trying to convince herself it was all just a dream, she lay in 'her' bed, listening to her spark pulse deep in her chest. A long time ago, she remembered laying on her bed in Cybertron, wondering at the double pulse inside her sparkbox; Now she understood why.

"Guardian," Blazestorm whispered, "I know the hidden purpose; I will try to accomplish this for you, so you can return to yourself and rest in peace..." ... ...

Subi: Evil! Muahaha! >S Maybe now some things might make some more sense for later... ... Sorry, I had a lot of sugar today... >>;