Alright, just so you know, this chapter is shorter than usual, but still around 3k words. That's all, I'll see you at the bottom.

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Transcending Time

Pocket Universe

I swung my swords at The Fallen, only to see both of them pass clean through him as if he was made out of smoke. I, too, passed through the mech and landed in a crouch behind him. "I must give you credit, Zechariah. I wouldn't have been able to block that attack...if you were really here that is" The Fallen said, slightly impressed, as he turned to look at me. I noticed his optics were a sky blue similar to the Primes, and his chassis was gold and blue in color instead of black and red.

Solus must have felt my confusion as I heard her say to the others, "Give us a few klicks." They nodded and walked away. I deactivated my swords since they were useless, but didn't stop giving The Fallen a wary look as I stood from my crouching position. "Ask your questions" my femme creator said, while standing to The Fallen's left. "How is he here? Why is he here? Why are you standing next to him and not attacking him? Why does he look like an actual prime and not a traitor? And what does he mean that I'm not really here?" I asked at a speed that Miko would have been proud of.

The Fallen and Solus rose one of their optic ridges and looked at each other at the same time, making me narrow my own optics in suspicion at their synchronized movement. "How 'bout we answer those out of order?" Solus said, turning back to look at me. The Fallen then spoke. "To answer your last question, you aren't physically here with us. You are standing in front of us only in your CPU, and that is only possible because of the bond you share with Solus." I crossed my servos as I said to The Fallen coldly, "That explains why my sword didn't cut off your helm. I would very much like to know how and why you are even here."

I caught some emotions from Solus that communicated, 'Tread carefully.' Strangely, they were not directed at me. The fallen prime leaned slightly on his staff with both servos. "Are you aware that The Allspark only appears in the reality your original one created films about?" he asked with a neutral look. He continued before I responded, "That is because we sent it there." Suddenly, I was standing next to Solus and The Fallen watching scenes from an event that occurred so long ago there was no way to measure the vorns.

The Fallen continued, "Cybertron is far larger than any planet in the earth's solar system, and unlike any other planet, Cybertron has countless levels that go straight to it's core. When the Cybertronian race was very young we only numbered in the dozens. We explored our home for centi-vorns, but it was very dangerous. On what would have been our last expedition into the depths of Cybertron we discovered The Allspark deep under the surface of Cybertron."

For the first time I saw every member of The Thirteen. All of them were standing in a massive cavern that The Allspark was occupying. When The Fallen continued his voice still held the awe I could plainly see on every member of The Thirteen, even Prima and Alpha Trion. "The Allspark was the essence of Primus. It wasn't possible for you to feel alone or unwelcomed when standing in that cavern."

His voice then filled with regret and sorrow as I saw that he had been carrying a piece of dark energon when they first found The Allspark. "Earlier in our travels, I discovered a small amount of dark energon that I was going to study when we returned to the surface. This was my downfall. The dark energon corrupted my CPU, increasing my power and giving me false promises of glory if I destroyed The Allspark. My fellow Primes and the first generation of Cybertronians that followed our creation saw my sanity disappear. They stood between me and The Allspark to protect it... I offlined many of them in my madness."

Prima then took center stage in the vision. He was standing over the offlined chassis of two Primes I didn't know the names of and my femme creator as she clutched at her spark and seemed to be in terrible pain despite the fact she had no wounds. The Fallen, looking like the mech I remembered, leapt at Prima with murderous intent, only to be stopped well short of his goal. Then his optics briefly returned to their sky blue. "For a short time, I regained my sanity and told Prima what the dark energon had done to my CPU and that when I descended into madness again I would go after The Allspark no matter where it was. He opened a portal and sent The Cube into a parallel reality, and I followed it." The visions ended and we back to standing in the desert.

"What you must understand is that The Fallen and I became two separate beings when I entered the portal. The Fallen has been trapped in the parallel reality with The Allspark since we sent it there. He arrived well after The Cube started creating Cybertronians in that reality, mostly destroying his hopes of glory and power. I have been living in this pocket universe since that cycle, waiting for a chance at redemption" The Fallen concluded. "If you've been here since you sent The Allspark away, why didn't I see you first time I was here?" I admit his story was convincing but I couldn't be sure. He rose an optic ridge "Why did you attack me on sight?" He made a valid point, I attacked him because I believed him to be The Fallen.

"I'll give you that one, but if you're not The Fallen then what should I call you?" my cold tone from earlier had disappeared. "My actual name, Megatronus Prime would be nice" he said simply. I gave a nod of acknowledgement in response and turned to Solus. "This explained my questions, but now I have a new one. Back when you were in the battle at The Allspark cavern, you seemed to be in great pain but you didn't have any wounds. Why is that?" I asked. Immediately I felt her become very nervous. "We have one more thing to discuss with you" she said, giving me a cautious look.

"Megatronus and I are sparkmates" she said, as Megatronus put a servo on her shoulder-joint. I didn't say anything for a long while, just looked at two of them blankly and thought about what this meant. This technically would make Megatronus my sire, since Solus was my carrier. It made sense, as Solus had no visible injuries in The Allspark cavern but was still in pain. For a Cybertronian that could only mean that a bond had been violently closed, which The Fallen likely did when he took over Megatronus' CPU. So why couldn't I accept Megatronus as I've accepted Solus? Was it because I've only just meet him? No, I accepted Solus and I've only talked with her once before now. Is it because my father was still alive when I left my original reality?

Apparently the other Primes had rejoined us as Vector waved a servo in front of my optics. "Hey! We need you out here. Are you still with us?" his faceplate appeared in the lower part of my vision since he was slightly shorter then Solus. I shook my helm. "Yeah, just thinking" I said, looking at Solus and Megatronus. "Good, because we are running out of time again" Alpha Trion said from behind me. I turned and noticed that like last time I was surrounded by The Thirteen. Solus and Megatronus was directly in front of me. Vector and Zeta were standing on either side, and Prima and Alpha Trion were behind me.

"Um... we were kind of talking" I gestured to Megatronus and my femme creator. "It will have to wait" Solus said calmly, but the bond told me for some reason she was worried about me. "You remember, of course, when I said that I could see parallel realities and all possible outcomes in each one?" Vector said, then continued before I could respond. "Well, Primus has told us to give you limited knowledge about the future of your new reality. This knowledge will likely be inaccurate since you have already changed things with your mere presence."

"You know everything that's going to happen not only in the future, but in the future of every reality" I said with realization. He shook his helm and started to explain "That isn't possible. The multiverse is infinite, so in theory..." Prima cut him off. "Please, not right now Vector" he said, then looked at me. "Zechariah... the only way we can give you this knowledge is very painful, so do the best you can to remain calm" he said, with an even tone. I tried to ask what the rush was but he held up a servo and said "You can ask questions later, remember, stay calm." He, along with the other Primes closed their optics. A micro-klick later, incredible pain went through my processor. I fell to one pede and grabbed my helm with both servos. All I could see were visions of the Autobots, along with Jack, Raf and Miko.

The first visions were things that already happened. I saw Cliffjumper being offlined, Jack talking with Arcee in the alley, Miko following Bulkhead to The Nemesis. I was faintly aware of Solus sending me feelings of comfort trying to take away some of my pain, it wasn't working. The visions were increasing in speed. I briefly saw Bumblebee walking at base then he suddenly stopped and his optics became dark. Then I saw an unfamiliar mech strapped to a table with humans cutting off parts of his armor and taking notes. The last vision I could make out was Arcee somehow stuck on Bulkhead's backplates.

Then the visions moved at a speed I couldn't follow, and finally stopped completely. My helm felt like someone packed explosives into it and detonated them as I got back on my pedes. "I apologize for the lack of information a moment ago, but we didn't have much time" Prima said, crouching next to me. "And why...didn't you?" I asked, wincing in pain at the severe processor-ache I now had. Vector spoke from my left, "Because, the technique we just used to give you knowledge takes certain preparations, ones that only last for a short amount of time. Now, as I was saying before..." He tried to continue from where he stopped talking about the mutiverse but I held up a servo.

"Not now...I have the worst processor-ache... and I think it's about time I went back to recharging in my berth" I said, with closed optics and and a servo on the side of my helm. "Very well, then you can continue your conversation with your creators another time" Prima said, and I found myself back on my berth before I could say a word.

February 28, 2012 2:15 A.M

Autobot base, outside Jasper, Nevada

My processor-ache wasn't as bad now, but it still hurt like hell as I slowly sat up from my berth. My internal clock read that only fifteen klicks had passed since I came here for recharge, but there was no way I would get any recharge with this processor ache.

The hallway outside my quarters was empty as it should have been at this hour. The ops center was also empty, but I did see that any alarm would be forwarded to Ratchet's quarters. I walked into the elevator, but not to go down to the safe. It wouldn't help my processor ache if I shot missiles at tanks. I hit the button to go up and waited for the elevator to arrive at the level of the helicopter pad.

Thankfully it didn't take long, and I walked over to the lone tree on the far side of the mountain and leaned against it. The tree groaned in protest since I was now taller and heavier than it, but it didn't break. I realized at that moment I could not longer feel Solus. The bond between us still existed but it was completely blocked. Deciding that it was a matter I could take up with her another time I closed my optics and hoped the crisp night air would help clear my processor. My CPU had other ideas. I kept thinking about why I couldn't accept Megatronus as I did with Solus.

The only thing that made any sense to me was that my father was still alive when I died in my original reality and my human mother had been dead for eleven years. There also was the issue why I even had a processor ache. I couldn't remember the knowledge the Primes gave me. When I was in the pocket universe I knew what it was, but now I only knew that I received knowledge from the Primes. I suspected they were responsible for my sudden memory lose. I have remembered everything since I was four, so for some reason the Primes erased the knowledge. I didn't know Optimus was up here until he was standing next to me. "You should be in your quarters recharging" he said, his tone saying he was curious at my presence here.

"Processor-ache...among other things" I said, opening my optics to look at my leader. "Among other things?" he asked me. I told him everything that happened while I was in my brief recharge. I explained my arrival in the desert, my talk with Sam Witwicky, and then I explained to him who Sam Witwicky was. What really shocked him was that I meet Megatronus Prime, and found out that he and The Fallen are separate beings. I had just finished explaining that the Primes had given me some kind of knowledge but I couldn't remember what it was.

"Why do you believe the Primes gave you knowledge when you can not recall it?" Optimus asked, not understanding what I meant. "I only know that the way it was given was very painful, hence my processor-ache. It was a series of visions. I know that much, but beyond that... nothing... it's as if someone erased it from my memory banks" I said, not knowing if this knowledge I received was even important.

"I do not know why the Primes would erase your memory about this knowledge, but there must be a good reason. And it's a reason I believe will not be revealed to you until the time is right" Optimus said easily, having sensed my frustration. "You still have training in three breems, get back to your quarters soon Zechariah." He started walking back toward the elevator. "Shadowstreaker" I said, correcting my name. Optimus stopped walking and turned to me "You've chosen a name then?" I nodded at his question.

"And your alt modes?" he asked. I thought for a micro-klick "I've decided on my jet-form, an F-22 Raptor. Since I'm not limited by human technology, with a few slight modifications I could cruise at mach 5.2, 6.8 if I pushed myself" I said, having already done a number of simulations with different jet fighters. "Have you not decided on a ground form?" Optimus was back to standing next to me. "No, but I have it down to two possibilities, modified of course- A Conquest Knight XV and a MRAP Cougar HE. Sorry, I couldn't find anything more subtle. Since I'm a triple-changer, my alt modes have to be as close in size as possible" I leaned my helm back against the tree and closed my optics.

"I understand Shadowstreaker. After your training we will see that you get your alt modes" Optimus said. This time I let him walk to the elevator. A breem later my processor-ache finally went away, and I returned to my quarters to get what recharge I could before training.

The Fallen and Megatronus Prime are separate beings. The Fallen is the evil mech he was when featured in G1 and ROTF. Megatronus is a true Prime and technically Zechariah/Shadowstreaker's sire. About Zechariah's new name, if someone has already used that name in a fic, I'm not copying you, I just like the name. I found it interesting that The Allspark is only mentioned on a regular basis in the Bay Films and Transformers Prime, so I came up with an explanation for why that is. I bet some of you are like "Mach 5.2! there's no way he could be that fast!" Here's my reasoning. In Transformers Prime, Starscream flew to Skyquake's grave in a very short amount of time and he only used the Decepticon ground bridge to return to the Nemesis. So Cybertronians must be able to fly at hyper-sonic speeds. At least that's what I think.

SparkMated, is essentially being married, but it's more complicated than that. The Sparkmated Cybertronians share memories with their bonded, feel each other's emotions and take away the pain of their Sparkmate on a far higher level than with a parental bond. These two Cybertronians can communicate with their Sparkmate without speaking out loud or with a comm-link at any distance. Unlike other bonds among Cybertronians, the bond between Sparkmates can only be blocked, never broken. The only exception to this is when one of the two is offlined.

I love any and all feedback, especially constructive criticism. Thank you for reading and I'll see you soon.

This chapters credit song "Red - Break Me Down"