Primes (In order of receiving Matrix) :
Prima
Primon
Onyx
Vector
Megatronus
Solus
Alchemist
Amalgamous
Quintus
Micronus
Nexus
Sentinel
Alpha
Time Units (Found on Tf wiki):
Astro-second: .498 seconds
Breem: 8.3 minutes
Cycle: 1.25 hours
Deca-cycle: ~3 weeks
Groon: ~1 hour
Klik: 1.2 minutes
Meta-cycle: 13 months
Orbital cycle: ~1 month
Solar cycle/lunar cycle: 1 day/1 night
Stellar cycle:~7.5 months
Deci-vorn: 8.3 years
Vorn: 83 years
Currency:
1 credit: ~60.25 shanix
1 cred card: 400 credits
Song: A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman
Note; this chapter is going to be in 2 parts and this will have 2 major deaths and a MAJOR time jump, which will be explained in a later chapter
Ch. 15
I close my eyes and I can see
The world that's waiting up for me
That I call my own
Through the dark, through the door
Through where no one's been before
But it feels like home
They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say I've lost my mind
I don't care, I don't care, so call me crazy
We can live in a world that we design
'Cause every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make
There's a house we can build
Every room inside is filled
With things from far away
The special things I compile
Each one there to make you smile
On a rainy day
They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say we've lost our minds
I don't care, I don't care if they call us crazy
Runaway to a world that we design
Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make
However big, however small
Let me be part of it all
Share your dreams with me
You may be right, you may be wrong
But say that you'll bring me along
To the world you see
To the world I close my eyes to see
I close my eyes to see
Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
A million dreams, a million dreams
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make
For the world we're gonna make
Meister and a femme he had sing with him took each other's servos, and bowed to the clapping audience. He turned to the femme and hugged her before they went their separate ways. The droid went over to the bar where Alchemist was conversing with Maccadam at the bar. Meister sat down with oil in an opaque cube being sat in front of him. "Magnificent as always Meister. I miss you preforming since we have been so busy with expanding the council. Amalgamous and Quintus have missed you at the towers since you've been spending so much time away from Iacon."
"I'm sorry that I haven't visited the council in a while, Wicker has been keeping me extremely busy as of late. Though he told me has a business trip off world, so I will be able to spend more time with the Council." Meister smiled enthusiastically before drinking the oil with a satisfied hum. "Thank you Maccadam for the oil."
"You are welcome my friend. I enjoy having you perform in my bar; it lightens up everyone's mood." Maccadam smiled before going over to another patron.
The Polyhexian wished that Casper could have come to see him perform, but he had a bounty that he had to collect. After nearly two centuries of courting, Meister felt that he was ready to move onto the next step; kissing.
"You plan on boiling that oil?" Alchemist's teasing pulled the droid out of his thoughts. "Credit for your thoughts?"
The silver mechanism smiled with this feeling of embarrassment for being caught thinking. "I was just thinking of finally kissing Casper, but I feel nervous and excited at the same time. What if I upset him with the kiss, but then what do I do if he likes it? Is this what Cybertronians feel when they experience a kiss for the first time?"
The older mech chuckled softly at his charge's innocence, "it is normal, yes. There's more to your question though, I can tell from your facial expression. What is it my friend?"
"If I kiss him, it will mean that I wish to be his conjux endura. He knows about my issue; how can we be conjux endura when I can't form the bond?" Meister frowned as he thought about it some more. "And the idea that he will not wish to be with me because of this fact, it makes my core hurt."
The Prime put a servo on the smaller mechanism's back, "if the mech remained by your side after this long without leaving or rushing you, then he does not care about whether or not you have a spark or not."
Meister nursed his oil as he thought about what he had said. He looked at his friend with a smile, feeling better after the brief reassurance. "Thank you Alch, hearing that come from you makes me feel good."
"Good my friend." Alchemist and Meister tapped their drinks together before finishing off their drinks.
It was well beyond late, and Meister was quietly entering the apartment knowing Star and Saber would be recharging. What he wasn't expecting, was Casper standing by the table with a small crystal in his servo and his mouth was glowing a soft blue. His optics were wide as if he had been caught with his chest plates opened. The droid grinned brightly at the sight of the Predacon. He hurried over to him and jumped into his arms. "Woah, I was only gone for a few solar cycles." The bounty hunter carefully sat the crystal on the table before rearranging the full grown frame in his arms. "I-"
The mech was interrupted by the silver mecha curling his digits around his face, and pressed their lips together for only a moment before pulling away. He frowned when he got little, scratch that, zero reaction from Casper. The Polyhexian jumped to the ground with a sad expression, "Oh no, did I read your field wrong?"
Meister turned away to go sulk by himself, but Casper quickly grabbed his servo and spun him into his arms before dipping the silver droid into a kiss. Compared to the chaste kiss Meister gave Casper, Casper's kiss caused so many systems and he felt strange when the bounty hunter pulled away. The Predacon removed Meister's visors with a confident smile. "You didn't read anything wrong."
"Wow, I have never felt so tingly before." The droid finally found his stabilizers, but he wasn't about to remove his hold from the mech's arms. "Can we kiss again?"
Casper chuckled as he led them to the couch. When he didn't fear Meister falling, he used only a couple digits on the droid's chin to pull him closer. The Predacon used his wings to hold the Polyhexian close to him. Meister pulled away when he felt Casper grow hot, which concerned him. "Cas, are you okay? Your frame has become hot."
"It's just from my Predacon coding, nothing to worry about. I'm guessing ya liked the kiss?" Casper rubbed the small horns on top of Meister's helm.
The mechanism nodded with a smile before placing a servo on the mech's chest plate, "the kisses were enjoyable. I'm sorry that it took me so long to kiss you, I didn't want to make you feel rushed or uncomfortable."
Casper snorted at how thoughtful the droid was. He rubbed his back with another quick kiss, "don't be sorry Meister, you were nervous to have your first kiss. I was honestly expecting another century before this happened."
"It probably would have been another century." Meister rested his helm against the broad chest with an arm resting between them. "Did you hear about the live debate about Artificial Life and freeing droids? The Council is wanting me there as proof."
"I'm hearing a but coming on," Casper lifted the silver droid's chin up a little so they could look into each other's optics.
"But, what if bots stop following the council just because they want us to be treated like Cybertronians? I fear that it's too soon for this secret to be made public." Meister sat up; his servos pressed firmly against the chest plate. "And what about all of the young AIs? They can't protect themselves like droids my size can."
"We'll figure something out." Casper sat up with his arms wrapped around the small waist. He pressed his lips against the silver helm to reassure the stressed droid. "Knowing the Council, they won't let anything stop them from telling the planet that Artificial Life made sentient beings and selling them like objects."
Meister let a smile fall on his lips, feeling better after getting his worries off his processor. "I know we'll be able to live the way we want without fear once the Council tells all of Cybertron."
Cheers filled the city streets of Iacon as the Council stood on their platform, waving to the crowd below. Prima and Primon both took a step forward with servos going into the air. "It is with great pride of the Council to finally bring you, people of Cybertron, to light of the rumors that have been circling our great planet!" Primon took another step forward before gesturing at the large screen where the Artificial Life logo appeared. "We have been building a civil case against Artificial Life for the past seven decades. They have unlawfully created millions, if not billion, sentient beings in the forms of these supposed AI droids! We have significant proof that they are capable of having emotions, hopes, dreams, fear, desire and yet we use them as objects."
"But no more, from this point on Artificial Life will be brought to justice and all of these droids will free from slavery. Anyone who refuses to give up the AI, will be sentenced and imprisoned of illegal enslave-" Prima was interrupted by a high-pitched scream. The crowd opened up to see a muted green Praxian grabbed his neck and it exploded, the crowd screamed loudly as several more helms exploded.
Meister covered his neck cables; he grabbed Alchemist's arm and spoke into his receptor. "Those are all droids. Alch, it's them they're killing us."
"Prima, we need to save them." Amalgamous was trying to comm for enforcers to do crowd control.
"Onyx, Megatronus we need to control the panic." Solus went to the top of the barrier to get everyone's attention. The two mechs went to join her, but a loud banging sound caused everyone in the crowd to scream in fear again while the Council recoiled away to protect themselves.
Meister felt something drip down the side of his helm. His gaze went up to the sorrowful expression in Alchemist's optics. He grabbed the large mech as shock filled him, "Alch, Alch nonononono why would you do that?! Vector, Alchemist's been shot."
"Megatronus, help me get Alchemist inside." Vector rushed over to the silver mechs as more panic down below while the helms of droids were exploding, and shots being fired at the primes. Meister followed after the two Primes; the rest of the Prime Council was trying calm the panic. The droid didn't understand why Artificial Life would want to silence the Council, and then get rid of the proof by blowing them up.
Prima and Primon hurried inside with the others hurrying their brother to the infirmary. Meister stuck close to his best friend while medics were trying to repair the Prime. The first of the Primes grabbed a hold of Meister's arm, pulling him away while the droid was yelling. "No, let go of me! Alch! Alchemist! Prima let me go! I can help him! Please release me!"
"Meister, they know what they're doing." Prima kept his hold on the droid and pulled him out of the room. The droid shouted as the door shut with two medics connecting cables to Alchemist's spark. "Meister, we need you to go home where you will be safe. The Council will need your help."
"No, you mean that you want to question me. I have been allied with the Council for centuries Prima, had faith in you and all of the Council, and now that Artificial Life is killing my kind you think I'm a danger." Meister pulled away with his frame rippling to express his distress. "I will not let my home be my prison Prima."
The Prime put a servo out wanting to calm the droid down, "that's not it my friend. We only want you home, so you are safe from AL. Please calm down, Alchemist wo-"
"No! You don't get to use my friend, my mentor as a way to control me!" Meister shifted into a technohawk and flew out an open window. The droid felt dizzy with a flurry of emotion; anger, fear, pain, worry, rage were exploding out of him. He had to go to his family to protect them from Gearshaft and Artificial Life. The Polyhexian rushed up the stairs, throwing the door open, and was for once thankfully pulled into a hug by Casper and the twins. "Thank Primus, you're both okay!"
Casper pulled Meister inside, locking it immediately before kissing the droid several times. "We were watching the news and saw it all. I was so scared that you and the squirts would deactivate. I can't believe AL would be so crazy to cause a panic like this. Why didn't they-" Casper looked at the two youngling droids before back at his lover and decided to best to reword himself. "Why didn't Artificial Life get rid of you and them?"
"When I went to Maccadam and he fixed me, he removed the tracker. It was also a micro-explosion." Meister sat on the couch, pulling Casper down beside him. He held onto the mech's servo with a deep frown as the guilt started eating at him. "But Alch got hurt. He got hurt because of me."
Casper hugged the mechanism to comfort him when he saw the silver frame rippling. "Meister, it's okay. Primes are strongly stubborn when it comes to deactivation. Alchemist will live." He pulled the younglings onto his lap and then used his wings as a form of a cocoon to give the three droids a sense of security. "I will protect you all from Gearshaft, I promise."
"Casper, what about Papa Alchemist? Will he be okay?" Star questioned while holding onto his brother's frame.
"He will be okay Star. How about we watch a movie?" Casper unfurled his wings to let them all get comfortable.
I just realized that this is chapter 15 and I haven't hit the part where the war starts. Damn this is either side or impressive. lol
