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Transcending Time
Pocket Universe
I looked at Solus for a moment before I spoke. "Am I going to remember what we discuss this time?" I asked jokingly.
Judging by the regretful feelings I was getting from Solus' end of the bond, the partial erasing of my memory wasn't their choice and she felt guilty about it. "I am sorry about your memory loss, Primus forbid allowing you access to the knowledge we gave you unless you needed it." Solus spoke with a tone that mirrored the feelings I felt from her.
"Don't worry about that, I know you had your reasons for keeping the knowledge you gave me locked away." I tapped the silver mark on the side of my helm for emphasis as I sent Solus feelings of reassurance that I wasn't mad about not knowing what the knowledge they gave me was.
Solus gave a small smile as she sent relieved feelings through her end of the bond and gestured for me to stand the stone platform again.
"So you were saying something about having much to discuss?" I asked Solus, as I went to stand on the stone platform next to her.
Megatronus -who was standing on the stone platform on the other side of Solus- answered my question instead. "You remember when we told Sam Witwicky that Optimus wasn't the last of our descendants?"
I raised an optic ridge at the question of my as of yet unofficial sire. "Of course, my memory already was photographic when I was still a human. The only time I've ever forgotten anything was when you erased part of my memory. Does this have anything to do with what we're going to discuss?" I asked with a slightly confused look on my faceplate, I had a feeling this conversation was going to be a little strange.
"Because my son, you are about to meet one of our few descendants other than yourself." Solus said as she gave another smile.
Her words surprised me a bit. "I'm going to meet one of your other descendants? Is this descendent a mech or a femme?" I asked curiously. I couldn't think of a better question, but since I knew nothing about this other descendent, any kind of information about him or her was good.
Vector spoke up from where he stood on the stone platform opposite of me. "The descendent you are going to meet is a femme, but you will need to know a few things about her before you meet her." Vector opened another window in front of me like the one that showed me what happened to me in my original reality.
This window was showing me an image of a human woman that seemed to be about Miko's height with brown shoulder length hair and wearing an Autobot insignia necklace. I couldn't tell what color her eyes were because she appeared to be sleeping in a tree, a strange place to be taking a nap if you ask me.
Vector spoke again. "This is Amelia back when she was still a human, her life was not... Easy before she met the Autobots. Her story is similar to yours in quite a few ways, however, you both have been members of the human and Cybertronian races. Both of you are fiercely loyal to the Autobot cause and have good relationships with your fellow Autobots..." Vector was temporarily cut off by Megatronus.
"But only one of you likes Arcee more than as a friend," my sire said in a teasing tone as he smiled smugly.
I could feel Solus' amusement from her side of the bond and noticed that the rest of the Thirteen were chuckling lightly as I sent an absolute glower Megatronus' way, even as I felt my cooling fans kick in lightly. But my glare only made the Prime with an unusually developed sense of humor smile wider, fragger.
I shook my and helm looked back into the window as Vector picked up where he left off, albeit while he was obviously trying not to smile. "You are both our descendants, but Amelia is a Prime," he said with a bit of pride, he must have a connection to Amelia.
As if Vector's words were some que, the window showed Amelia fall out of the tree, scrap her arm on a branch and hit her head on the ground. "Ow!" she half yelled, as she sat up in a sitting position. "Ugh, note to self, don't fall asleep in trees," I heard Amelia say to herself as she rubbed her head and arm with a pained expression on her face.
I looked through the window at Amelia for a moment longer before glancing up at Vector. "Aren't Primes usually a bit more... Graceful?" I asked dryly.
Vector narrowed his optics slightly at me as Zeta gave a brief laugh at my question. "Being a Prime is not about how powerful a warrior you are or how your frame is built. It is about how selfless your spark is, and Amelia's spark was in the right place even while she was a human," Vector said in a protective manner, a parental manner.
"She is your daughter," I said matter-of-factly.
Vector nodded. "You are a perceptive one, yes she is my daughter, but there are a few complicated details that I will explain later. Keep watching," Vector said, and pointed at the window in front of me.
I complied, and looked into the window again. It seemed that time had skipped, because now Amelia was walking across a street over Miko and Bulkhead's alt mode when a red sports car that seemed to be a European model appeared further down the road and sped straight toward her. Amelia tried back pedaling away from the car's path, but she wouldn't make it back to the sidewalk before the car struck her.
Just before Amelia was struck by the car, a man ran off the sidewalk and pulled her out of the car's path at the last moment.
"That's way beyond the speed limit you idiot!" The man yelled. The unnamed man had dark brown hair, equally dark, but not unfriendly eyes and a beard. I remember seeing him in an ad for Falling Skies, his name was Tom Mason.
I was distracted by my thoughts and missed whatever happened next in that situation and the window changed again. The next scene was very brief, it only showed the Autobot insignia necklace Amelia had been wearing fall out of someone's pocket, I assume it was Amelia's pocket. The necklace glowed a bright blue as it left her pocket and fell to the floor, she apparently didn't notice since she was perched on someone's shoulder-joint.
I didn't have time to puzzle over why her necklace was glowing before the scene changed yet again. Now I was watching Amelia, Optimus and Ratchet look at the screen of the workstation in the med-bay. The reason they were looking at the screen was obvious, on the screen was an image of a human skeleton that was exactly half metal and half flesh.
"Is this when she started her transformation?" I asked, as the Ratchet in the window explained something to Amelia and Optimus.
"No, this is a little over a mega-cycle after her transformation had begun," Vector responded, as the window shifted to show Amelia laying down on the couch in the ops center as she watched a TV show.
Suddenly, her face contorted in pain. "Ratchet," she started speaking in a very weak voice as the medic went to her side. "I think you had good reason to worry after all." She blacked out right after she spoke.
I could hear the pain Amelia was trying to keep out of her voice, she did a very good job of keeping an even voice while the final stage of her transformation took over, but I heard it. I really felt for her when it came to her transformation, changing between human and Cybertronian was by far the most painful thing I ever endured.
"That was when she entered the final stage of her transformation," Solus said in a sad tone, as she looked in the window from where she stood next to me.
"I know, I feel for her when it comes to her transformation. There is no proper way to describe pain like that," I gave an unwilling shiver as I thought about the pain of my changing. Solus sent me feelings of comfort to avoid having me relive my transformation.
The scene in the window changed again, now Arcee was standing next to a femme that stood about two feet taller than her, this must be Amelia as a Cybertronian.
Amelia's Cybertronian frame was colored white, she had door-wings similar to Bumblebee's, but hers had purple flames on them. From what I could see of the parts of her alt mode on her chassis, she had chosen a Ford Focus, but I didn't know what the model or the year of the small car.
The scene changed before either femme had said a single word and I looked up at Vector curious as to why he'd change the scene so quickly.
"There is much that we must catch you up on, and some things are more important than others. Now look back at the window, we're not even close to being done." Vector instructed, and gestured at the window in front of me.
I focused back on the window and studied the new scene as Vector started explaining when and where it was from.
Vector showed me more scenes from Amelia's life since she met the Autobots for the next two breems. I found out Ironhide and Jazz were at the Autobot base in her reality and that at one point Amelia had a glitch in her processor at that didn't allow her to dream. The glitch affected her reasoning and caused her to believe the other Bots were trying to hurt her. The other Autobots chased her around base until they could sedate her and allow Ratchet to fix the glitch.
It was after Ratchet had fixed Amelia's glitch that I noticed the white and red medic in the other reality was giving Amelia very caring looks when he believed no one was looking. I think the Ratchet in Amelia's reality had feelings for her like the Ratchet from my reality had feelings for Moonracer, but I couldn't be sure.
Another thing Vector showed me was Amelia crawling through an air-duct on a Decepticon ship, whatever mission she was on ended with Ironhide helping a yellow Autobot support a red Autobot as the red Bot limped along, and Amelia supported Ratchet since his pede was injured.
There were several other events Vector showed me that occurred in Amelia's reality. A few of them showed Ratchet giving Amelia the same look I had seen the medic give Moonracer in my reality and Amelia seemed to be confused over the feelings her spark gave her when Ratchet was nearby. There was no doubt in my CPU that those two cared greatly for each other, even though they didn't know how the other felt, or in Amelia's case didn't know she felt about him that way.
Vector finally closed the window and spoke. "Now that you know everything you need to know about Amelia, there is one more thing we need to tell you about her past even she does not know."
"You said earlier that there are some complicated details you were going to explain later, is that what you are going to explain now?" I asked Vector.
The light grey and black Prime nodded. "That among other things. Unlike how you were born a human and became a Cybertronian. Amelia was born a Cybertronian and changed into a human shortly after she was born," Vector said with a look of recollection on his faceplate.
That shocked me. "So Amelia was originally born a Cybertronian, but was somehow changed into a human? How is that even possible?" I was tremendously confused by what Vector said, which wasn't something I was used to.
Vector seemed to collect his thoughts for a micro-klick before responding. "My sparkmate gave birth to Amelia, who we named Shadebreaker when she was born, several centi-vorns after we discovered the Allspark. In those times there were some... Fluxes in the boundaries between the realities of the multiverse." Vector paused a moment. "My sparkmate and I were worried that The Fallen might break free from the reality we trapped him in and take Shadebreaker in revenge for our trapping him. So, to protect our newborn daughter, we found a way to change her into a human and placed her in a human family located in a reality where our race did not exist. I have been watching over her from this pocket reality since I entered it, wishing I could speak with her faceplate to faceplate," Vector spoke with a little regret in his voice.
I looked over at my carrier and Megatronus. "How did Vector and his sparkmate find a way to change a Cybertronian into a human?" I asked with genuine amazement that Amelia was a Cybertronian before she was a human and changed again back to her original race. Considering I was once a human this wouldn't seem amazing, but hearing that someone had changed races twice was not something you hear often.
"Vector and his sparkmate brought their newborn sparkling before the Core of Cybertron and asked Primus to help them hide her from The Fallen. Primus changed Shadebreaker into a human infant and told Vector to send her into a different reality." Solus explained.
"But what caused her to change back into a Cybertronian? Your nanites is what caused me to become a Cybertronian, something must have caused her transformation." I said with a bit less confusion now that I knew who was responsible for Shadebreaker's change.
Prima spoke for the first time since I arrived. "You saw the necklace Shadebreaker was wearing when she was sitting in the tree?" He continued at my confirming nod. "When Primus changed Shadebreaker into a human she was wearing that necklace. The necklace is what brought Shadebreaker reality she now calls home, even if she doesn't know that fact just yet. The necklace is what was also the only thing keeping her from changing back into a Cybertronian, when it fell from her pocket her transformation began." Prima said in his very Optimus-like voice, seriously, it was a little creepy how alike they sounded.
"When is Shadebreaker going to get here?" I asked, after I thought about Prima's words a moment. I didn't bother asking how a necklace was keeping Shadebreaker from changing back into a Cybertronian. Primus was involved after all, and he could do things that wouldn't seem possible to our CPUs.
"It will not be long now," Vector said, sounding excited by the prospect of seeing his daughter again.
"Is there anything else I need to know about Shadebreaker before she arrives?" I asked, as I folded my servos behind my backplates in a casual pose I'd grown fond of over the jours since I'd became a Cybertronian.
"No, you know everything that is essential for you meeting her." Vector said with a shake of his helm.
Knowing that there wasn't much to speak of until Shadebreaker arrived, I just stood on the stone platform beneath my pedes and waited for her to arrive.
About ten klicks after one of us spoke, a sound similar to a slightly staticy speaker came from the empty stone platform that we surrounded.
In a flicker of light like a hologram I saw the shape of a Cybertronian femme, there was only a flash of white before it was gone. There was another flicker of light, this time I could make out purple flames on two door-wings before the light disappeared. There was no doubt it was Shadebreaker now.
The hologram-like flicker of light appeared again and stayed this time. Shadebreaker seemed to materialize from the light, with a few last flickers of light finished she appeared before us and started looking around like she couldn't make out the shapes around her. My earlier height estimate of her was accurate, she stood at about twenty seven feet, which was exactly two feet taller than Arcee. The purple flames on her door-wings were more pronounced than when I saw her in the window, and they would change their shade of purple when she moved even slightly. Her left door-wing didn't move as much as her right one for some reason, she likely injured it somehow. Her optics were cyan blue, but like her door-wings they would change their shade of blue when she moved.
"I see why they named her Shadebreaker," I whispered to Solus without moving from my position. It was interesting to see how the color of the door-wings and optics changed with her movement.
Shadebreaker seemed to at last hear my tone and turned toward me, she stared at where I stood and blinked several times like she was trying to focus her vision. Shadebreaker got a very confused look on her faceplate after she stopped blinking rapidly and glanced up at me, she must have focused her vision.
We stood and looked at each other for a while, Shadebreaker's perplexed look never leaving her faceplate while I looked back at her calmly as I stood in my relaxed military-like pose with my servos behind my backplates.
"Hey... What's up?" I asked with a polite and causal tone.
Shadebreaker looked like she was about to ask me a question, but then she noticed Solus standing next to me and Megatronus standing on the other side of my carrier. The very confused white and purple femme kept noticing another member of the Thirteen after the other, after Megatronus it was Alpha Trion, then Prima then Vector, Zeta was the last new mech, and then she looked back to me.
"Um... Something tells me this isn't a dream..." Shadebreaker said with a bit of uncertainty, and shifted her optics between the mechs and femme surrounding her.
"No, this is not a dream Amelia," Prima said, not calling her by her Cybertronian name likely because Vector wanted to tell her himself.
Shadebreaker -or Amelia since we were calling by her human name for now- looked at Prima. "I know there are probably better questions I could ask right now, but why do you sound like Optimus Prime?" She asked, looking like was trying to not strain her neck while she looked up at the enormous Cybertronian.
Prima looked amused by her rather unusual question. "Optimus Prime is my descendent, no matter how many generations separate his creation from my own, he will inherit traits from me. Now let us introduce ourselves, I am Prima," the first Cybertronian said kindly.
I wasn't surprised to hear that Optimus was Prima's descendent, they were almost exactly alike in terms of personality and wisdom, but I think Prima learned to have a bit better sense of humor somewhere along the line.
I was brought out of my brief thought by Amelia's shocked gasp. "Prima?... Wait, you're the Thirteen!" That was all she could say in her shocked state before she looked around at the other members of the Thirteen with pure awe in her optics.
"Yes, we are the Thirteen, what remains of them at least. But not all of us are members of the Thirteen," Alpha Trion said to Amelia and gave me a brief look.
Amelia followed Alpha's gaze and gave me another confused look like she had earlier.
"Questions can wait for a few moments Amelia. Please allow my fellow Primes to introduce themselves to you," Prima said, at the same moment Amelia opened her mouth to speak, likely to ask why I wasn't a member of the Thirteen.
Amelia looked back at Prima and narrowed her optics slightly at how the first Cybertronian seemed to know she was going to ask a question. She eventually just shrugged indifferently, likely having deduced that you should expect the unexpected with the Thirteen and looked at Alpha Trion.
"My name is Alpha Trion, Amelia," he said with a slight nod.
'I've been in this situation before' I thought, making comparisons between how the Thirteen started their introductions to me and right now.
The introductions continued. "My name is Megatronus Prime," my sort-of sire said while giving Amelia a calm and friendly look.
"Megatronus?..." Amelia asked, looking like she had heard the name before and was raking her CPU for an answer, this likely won't go over well. Amelia widened her optics while her door-wings arched back in fear as she looked at Megatronus. "You're The Fallen!" She exclaimed, and ran off the platform she had been standing on, and took cover behind Prima's pedes.
"It seems I am doomed to be mistaken for The Fallen for the rest of my life," Megatronus said with a sigh of mock hurt and disappointment.
I rolled my optics at his subtle reference to when I tried attacking him when we first met, but at least he wasn't teasing me about my crush on Arcee.
Amelia poked her helm around Prima's pedes, surprising me slightly when she used her servos to support herself on a part of the first Cybertronian's armor. "Um... Sorry?" She said uncertainly. Her door-wings twitched slightly before she ducked behind Prima's pede again, clearly confused by Megatronus' statement. But she was still too afraid to come out from behind Prima's pede.
"Amelia," Prima began. "Megatronus is not The Fallen, not anymore. You have no reason to fear those around you, we would not have brought you here if you did have something to fear." The first Cybertronian spoke in a logical and firm, but still caring tone, which made me wonder how he just pulled that off.
"Are you sure?" Amelia asked with a trace of reassurance entering her voice at Prima's words, but still gave Megatronus a wary glance.
"Yes Amelia, I am certain. Can you come out from behind my pede now?" Prima asked, as he looked down at the white and purple femme.
Amelia stepped out from behind Prima and stood back on her rune-covered platform again. "Hi...?" She gave Megatronus a tentative wave, still obviously nervous about his presence.
"I will take that over your previous reaction," Megatronus said with a smile, trying to appease her worry.
A trace of a smile graced Amelia's faceplate at Megatronus' words and then she looked at Solus. "Since you're the only other femme here, I'm guessing you're Solus Prime?" she asked my carrier with her optic ridges raised slightly in almost youngling-like excitement.
"And you would be correct Amelia, and don't worry about Megatronus, I wouldn't have become his sparkmate if I didn't trust him," Solus said, as she smiled at Amelia sweetly.
"Oh... That makes sense I guess..." Amelia's optic ridges came together, likely thinking about Solus' words. After she stood with the thoughtful look on her faceplate for a few micro-klicks, she ducked her helm sheepishly and her door-wings drooped slightly in embarrassment. "Sorry I freaked out then," she said apologetically. She kicked at the sand under her pedes like a child who was caught trying to steal a cookie from the jar, another youngling-like moment.
Megatronus laughed. "Do not worry about that, your reaction was better than his was," he said, and gestured to me with his helm.
Amelia looked at me and asked, "How did you react?"
Megatronus responded before I could. "He tried to decapitate me," he said, as if that was obvious.
Amelia's door-wings twitched a little and looked at me with a confused look on her faceplate as she tilted her helm in what was obviously deep thought. She seemed to be wondering if she should be worried about my presence or not. Both her door-wings suddenly lifted slightly and a moment later I heard her stifle laugh before she gave a small humored smile. "I suppose I don't feel so bad then," her door-wings moved slightly to mirror her emotions.
"To be fair, he did sneak up on me," I said in my own defense.
"Hmmm... I will give you that one my son," Megatronus said, revealing to Amelia that I was his direct descendent, even though it was actually still a technicality.
Amelia looked at me with widened optics and door-wings that were twitching slightly in surprise.
She blinked at me before speaking. "You're..." she pointed a digit at Megatronus, "His son?" Her voice was both curious and surprised.
"Yes, though there is a long story behind that. My name is Shadowstreaker, it is nice to meet you Amelia," I said and gave the white and purple femme a polite nod.
Amelia gave me a small half-sparked wave, like she was really confused about something and was trying so hard to figure it out that she was spacing out. I heard a whirl coming from Amelia's helm, she was thinking so much that her processor had started to overheat.
I was about to ask her if she was alright before Alpha Trion stole the words out of my mouth. "Amelia?" He asked, as the whirl from Amelia's processor stopped and she took a deep breath. "Are you alright?" Some concern was in Alpha Trion's voice as he asked this.
Amelia looked up at Alpha Trion. "I'm just... Having trouble wrapping my processor around this. It's a lot to take in," she said honestly.
'You don't even know the half of it yet,' I thought, as Prima gave Amelia a slight smile.
"That it is, and I am sure you and Shadowstreaker will have time to talk it out." Prima said in a rather cryptic tone.
Amelia tilted her helm in a very Wildwing-like fashion before gazing back to me with a bit of confusion painted on her faceplate.
"That is an even longer story," I said, knowing that from what I'd seen of Amelia she would want to know, but I also knew this wasn't the time to explain.
"Isn't it always?" Amelia asked with a grin on her faceplate as she straightened her helm.
"Now, we should get on with introductions," Prima said, likely wanting to get back on track.
"I am Zeta Prime," the slighter mech next to me introduced himself to Amelia.
Amelia turned to Vector, who's optics were filled with joy as he looked at his creation. "And I am Vector Prime, Little One," he wasn't doing a very good job of keeping affection he was obviously feeling out of his voice. From the way he spoke, I could tell he wanted nothing more than to crush Amelia in a giant hug, but that wasn't an option since she still didn't know she was his daughter.
"Now, do you have any questions for us?" Prima asked in a friendly manner, which made Amelia turn her attention to him.
"Um," Amelia said, she looked to be in thought since her door-wings were moving ever so slightly. She seemed to remember something and looked at me. "You said earlier something about someone naming someone Shadebreaker... What did you mean by that?" She asked, curiosity written on her faceplate.
Vector cleared his throat to get Amelia's attention, he spoke when she turned to him. "Amelia," he said, as he waved her over. "We need to have a talk. Privately?" He said, most likely wanting to explain how she was his daughter.
Amelia hesitated and looked at me again, the look in her optics asking me if she should go. I nodded affirmatively and she looked over at Prima, likely wanting to know what the massive Prime thought of her leaving.
Prima smiled as he nodded as well. "Go on, Little One," he said with an encouraging tone.
Amelia looked very nervous as she walked over to Vector after Prima spoke. The light grey and black Prime lead Amelia through the boulders surrounding the small clearing we were standing in and soon disappeared from my sight.
"How do you think Shadebreaker will react to the piece of news Vector is about to give her?" I asked my creators when Vector and Amelia were out of audio receptor range.
"I think she will handle it well, she is a Prime after all," Solus said, still looking at the spot where we'd last seen them before they disappeared.
Megatronus added his two cents. "Not only that, it takes something significant to dampen her spirit. I have a feeling she will be happy with the news."
"I think she'll be happy as well. From what I've seen of her, she always tries to find the silver lining in every situation, even if the situation was already a good one." I said, while I nodded in agreement with Megatronus' words.
"She is very much like her carrier in many aspects," Zeta said, a small fond smile forming on his faceplate as he spoke.
I looked at Zeta. "Like what?" I asked, taking my servos out from behind my backplates so I could cross them over my chestplates.
Alpha Trion answered my question instead. "Shadebreaker shares the same colors as her carrier, but her carrier's were not in the shape of flames and didn't change their shade when she moved. They are similar in height as well, Shadebreaker is slightly taller than her carrier, but only by two feet or so. They are also very similar in their personalities in the way that they care about those around them, and the way they go out of their own way to comfort others."
We didn't say anything else after Alpha Trion spoke, there really wasn't that much else to talk about while Vector and Shadebreaker were away.
I saw Vector and Shadebreaker reappear from the direction where they had gone off to have their discussion. Shadebreaker was walking with a happy spring in her step, it was obvious Vector told her that she was his daughter and she was very happy about this revelation.
"Vector told you that you are his daughter," I stated matter-of-factly, as they returned to their respective platforms.
Shadebreaker beamed with happiness. "Yup, so that makes you basically my cousin doesn't it?" she asked cheerfully, door-wings moving slightly with her words.
"I guess it does," I said, giving Shadebreaker a friendly nod.
The white and purple femme's door-wings twitched a bit in happiness before she looked at Prima.
"What other questions do you have Shadebreaker?" The huge Cybertronian asked, smiling lightly as he used her proper name.
"Only a like bajillion!" Shadebreaker said, sounding incredulous that he just said that.
Solus laughed. "How about we just stick with one at a time?" She asked in an amused tone.
"Okay," Shadebreaker said, and paused as she likely was thinking of a question. "Why are there only six of you? You're missing seven," she asked, looking confused by the absence of the other six members of the Thirteen.
I was interested to hear what the answer was going to be. I had been wondering where the other members of the Thirteen had gone ever since I had seen all of them in the visions my creators showed me when they found the Allspark.
I saw Megatronus flinch slightly at Shadebreaker's question, more than likely thinking about the two Primes he had offlined when he briefly descended into madness.
From the look Solus was giving him, I knew she was sending him comforting feelings through their bond. It made me wish I had a bond with Megatronus like I did with Solus and help him out, but for some reason I had yet to form a parental bond with him.
Prima looked at Shadebreaker for a few micro-klicks before answering. "That requires a longer answer than you'd expect," that was all the warning he gave us before we all were standing in the Allspark cavern on Cybertron. We were all now watching the event my creators had shown me the last time I was in the pocket universe.
Shadebreaker's optics immediately fell on the Allspark. "Whoa," she said in a barely audible voice, clearly in awe of the monumental cube, even though we were not really here.
"This is the Allspark, it contained part of the essence of Primus when we discovered it deep beneath the surface of Cybertron." Prima said, looking up at the Allspark.
Shadebreaker shook her helm after Prima spoke, seeming to snap out of a trance. "How are we here?" She asked confusedly, turning to look at the first Cybertronian.
"We're not really here," Vector began, gaining the attention of his creation. "This is merely a hologram that Solus and I created. It allows us to play back events that occurred countless centi-vorns ago, such as this one," he said, looking around the cavern as he spoke.
Shadebreaker widened her optics slightly, without a doubt shocked by how long ago this event occurred.
"It is a long time isn't?" I asked Shadebreaker, knowing that was the cause for her shocked expression.
The white and purple femme looked at me in surprise before glancing at her sire with a questioning look on her faceplate.
"He is very perceptive my Little One, don't bother trying to figure out how he knew that," he said, giving his daughter an amused, but loving look.
"We were exploring the depths of Cybertron when discovered the Allspark," Prima gestured to Shadebreaker that she should watch the unfolding scene as he spoke.
Megatronus took over explaining to Shadebreaker when she had turned to watch the scene. "The Allspark was the essence of Primus, it is impossible to feel unwelcomed in this cavern," he said, giving the Allspark an awe-filled look. He grew sad and regretful when he looked at the hologram of himself as it held the shard of Dark Energon.
Shadebreaker looked at Megatronus briefly before he continued. "Earlier in our travels, I came across a small amount of Dark Energon. It would be my downfall," he said with a depressed sigh, knowing what would come next.
I saw Shadebreaker shivered at the mention of Dark Energon it made me curious, but this wasn't the time to ask her why she shivered at the mention of Unicron's life-blood.
Shadebreaker looked at Megatronus again, this time a bit curiously. "Is that what made you become The Fallen?" She asked.
Megatronus have a grime nod in response and continued looking at the scene with regret. It again made me wish I shared a parental bond with him so I could help Solus take away some of the guilt Megatronus no-doubt felt.
Alpha Trion took over for Megatronus. "We saw his sanity disappear and moved to protect the Allspark from his corrupted state." He said, as the holographic forms of the other members of the Thirteen blocked Megatronus' path to the cube.
I sighed sadly as I watched the same short scene my creators showed me of The Fallen initiating a destructive struggle with the other members of the Thirteen that caused two Primes to be offlined and Solus to fall to the ground as she clutched she spark.
I saw Shadebreaker's door-wings droop sadly when she saw the two unnamed Primes get offlined, but she didn't turn away from watching the unfolding scene.
When the past Megatronus' optics returned to their normal blue color, the actual Megatronus spoke again. "Briefly, I gained control of myself. And told Prima of the corruption done by the Dark Energon, and that when I descended into madness again I'd go after the Allspark no matter where it was."
Vector followed up Megatronus' words. "We opened up a portal to another reality and sent the Allspark through it," he stated, as the past versions of the Thirteen carried out what he just said.
"I followed, and it was when I entered the portal that The Fallen and I became separate beings," Megatronus explained, just before the cavern and holograms around us flickered from existence, only for us to start watching a new scene unfold that I hadn't seen before.
The new scene was a vastly different location from the Allspark cavern. The surrounding landscape was very flat and with few buildings nearby, and even fewer still that were still standing. What buildings that were still standing had varying amounts of debris laying at the base of their structures, obviously the result of massive weapons fire.
I noticed the past versions of the Thirteen and a small number of other Cybertronians were fighting an army of obviously less heavily armed and trained Cybertronians that, to my surprise, were being lead by a mech I recognized as another member of the Thirteen. The sheer scale of the battle was shocking, hundreds of mechs and femmes were fighting for their lives in the huge battle.
"After the incident with the Dark Energon, Liege Maximo started secretly plotting against us," I heard Vector say, making me look at the Prime. He was looking at Shadebreaker, who had likely wanted to know why a member of the Thirteen was leading an army against his fellow Primes. "He waited for more than a centi-vorn until he had gathered enough followers, and then he turned on us, making a grab for power while aiming to destroy those that opposed him." Vector said, sounding just as hurt by watching Liege Maximo's betrayal in a hologram, then as he must have hurt when the actual event occurred.
I could feel Solus' sadness as she watched the events of the battle, at least one Cybertronian on either side was being offlined every couple of micro-klicks. With so many mechs and femmes getting offlined, the battlefield was becoming littered with severed servos, pedes, helms, parts of armor and energon. It was far from a pleasant sight, sure I had offlined Cons, but this battle was on its own scale.
We all watched the battle for a few moments before Alpha Trion continued the story Vector had started. "Those that did not follow Liege Maximo's tyranny came to our aid. We fought to protect that which Liege Maximo sought to destroy." He paused, voice revealing his sadness at the events unfolding. "But our fallen brother and his army of supporters proved difficult to defeat."
The scenes of battle changed several times, showing numerous Cybertronians being offlined on either side, including a few non-Prime Cybertronians I had seen in the Allspark cavern.
"Many of those that stood by us were lost in that war," Prima began. His voice was calm, but a trace of the sadness he no-doubt felt was in his voice. "Including some of our brothers," he said with a saddened sigh.
The scenes around us changed again, each time the scene changed it showed a Prime being offlined, but they obviously did not go quietly. Dozens upon dozens of their enemies lay offlined at the pedes of each Prime, many of their opponents were either missing limbs, completely cut in half or blown apart by the powerful weapons the Primes used in battle.
One last time the scene changed, it showed Prima, Alpha Trion, Vector, Zeta and Solus locked in battle with Liege Maximo. Maximo was fighting them all on his own after his army had apparently been defeated.
"Eventually," Alpha Trion said. "We were able to stop Liege Maximo, in what would be the mech's last stand before offlining." I could see Alpha Trion watching the scene of battle steadily out of my peripheral vision.
Liege Maximo fought off the Primes around him with an incredible amount of skill. He was taking advantage of the surrounding debris to avoid getting shot by the cannons of the other members of the Thirteen. The fallen member of the Thirteen was using a pair of swords that crackled with electricity which easily cut through the armor of lesser armored Cybertronians, but not Primes.
The battle was over when Prima pulled out the hilt of the sword he carried on his backplates. The elegant and artistically carved sword hilt produced a blade made from pure energy, which took the shape of a double-edged greatsword that gleamed like the core of a star.
Prima and Liege Maximo fought one on one in what was now a one-sided battle for a very brief time before Prima stabbed Liege Maximo through the chestplates and into his spark. The remaining members of the past Thirteen looked sadly at the offlined chassis of their fallen brother for a few moments, morning for the mech that had once been their brother.
"It was thus that our number dwindled to where it is now," Prima said in a solemn tone, as the scenes as battle faded and was replaced by the clearing where we actually stood.
We stood in silence for a klick, each of us lost on our own thoughts. I was surprised and angry that one of the Thirteen had willingly and deliberately betrayed the others. Megatronus had done the same of course, but because of the Dark Energon he didn't have a choice in the matter, while Liege Maximo did. I couldn't imagine the hurt and betrayal the Thirteen felt when this event actually occurred
Sensing my bitterness, Solus sent me feelings of peace, love and regret, she was telling me three things at once through our bond. She was telling me that I shouldn't be angry over an event that occurred so long ago that the universe didn't even exist... According to human scientists anyway. She was also saying that while she was saddened by the betrayal of Liege Maximo, her being my carrier was one of the things that was bring her joy, the others being Megatronus and the Thirteen.
I sent the same feelings she sent me through my end of the bond as Shadebreaker suddenly walked up to Prima and gave the first Cybertronian a tight and reassuring hug.
I had seen Shadebreaker do this in the window when Vector was catching me up on the events of her life. She had chased a yellow Autobot all throughout the base to give him a hug. It was a very humorous event that ended with the yellow Bot giving up and letting her give him a hug.
Shadebreaker moved on to Alpha Trion and gave him a hug as well, she knew the Thirteen were still affected by Liege Maximo's betrayal and was giving them all hugs to cheer them up.
Shadebreaker proceeded to hug Megatronus, Solus, Zeta and finally Vector, who she gave an extra long hug. The white and purple femme turned and looked up at me with a look in her optic that told me she was debating if she should give me a hug as well.
I held up a servo. "That's alright, I don't need a hug," I said dismissively. Kindly turning down the hug I knew she was going to offer, but also knowing my words would just make her want to give me a hug more.
"Why not?" She asked, walking over to me and poking me in the chestplates, only for her servo to pass right through me in a puff of black smoke. Shadebreaker's jaw dropped as she stared at the spot she poked while the smoke disappeared.
"That's why," I said, smiling slightly as she kept looking at the spot where she poked me with a shocked expression on her faceplate.
"Oh..." She said, as her optic ridges came together clearly in thought. "How come I can't touch you? I can touch everybot else..." She asked, tilting her helm in confusion as she spoke.
"Because, Little One. Unlike you, Shadowstreaker is not a Prime. As such, he is not really here." Prima said, answering her question for me.
"Oh," Shadebreaker said, giving me a last look before walking back to her platform and turning to Prima. "Why isn't he a Prime?" She asked curiously, but tone suggesting she felt bad about not being able to give me a hug, something that wasn't a problem for me.
Alpha Trion spoke up from his platform. "He has not yet gained that status," he explained in a causal manner.
Megatronus looked at me. "I do believe he will though," he said with a proud smile forming on his faceplate.
To say I was shocked by Megatronus' words would be an understatement. "I will never be a Prime, I am not worthy of such a prestigious title." I said humbly. Megatronus had to be joking. Saying I could be a Prime was like going scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef, then going to a swimming pool and saying the swimming pool was more interesting, it wasn't going to happen.
"You don't know that," Shadebreaker said, drawing my attention to her. "No Bot knows the future." She crossed her servos over her chestplates as she spoke.
'Your sire does at times,' I thought, and paused a moment before replying to Shadebreaker's words. "I will give you that one, but I still don't believe it will happen," I said, adamantly refusing to even think about how disastrous it would be if I was a Prime. With my leadership skills, I'd get everyone offlined within a mega-cycle.
Shadebreaker gave me an exasperated look and huffed slightly, but didn't say anything else about the subject.
"Do you have any more questions, Shadebreaker?" My carrier asked, changing the topic completely.
"Um, yeah," Shadebreaker said. She looked between Megatronus, Solus and I, but her optics stopped at me. "Um, you said earlier that there was a long story behind you being Megatronus' son. How is that a long story?" She asked, looking up at me in slight confusion.
My creators and I shared a brief, amused look.
"Perhaps we could go for a walk and tell you all about it," my sire suggested, as he and Solus walked off their platforms and went to stand a bit further away from the others.
I followed their example and walked off my platform to join them, while Shadebreaker hesitated a moment and looked at her sire. She went to join us after Vector smiled and nodded at her, but she stopped again and went back to give him a hug before finally joining us.
"So, tell me about this long story," Shadebreaker said, after she joined us and we started walking in the same general direction I arrived from.
"Well, let see where do we start?" I asked no one in particular, looking up at the swirling cauldron of dark grey clouds as I thought. "Ah!" I exclaimed. "It all started about four jours ago..." That was how I started telling Shadebreaker my rather long story.
It took Megatronus, Solus and I twenty klicks to tell Shadebreaker my story from where it began, to where it was now.
We had just finished explaining to Shadebreaker about how I shared a parental bond with Solus, but not Megatronus since it was her nanites that caused my transformation. It was then that the white and purple femme spoke for the first time since we left the others.
"But..." Shadebreaker said, giving me a confused look. "I don't get it. Why don't you have a bond with Megatronus? He is technically your… Sire." She paused briefly when she used the Cybertronian term for father, seeming to finding the word a bit strange.
"I don't know why Megatronus and I do not share bond, there are a number of possible reasons for why that is." I said, giving Shadebreaker a small shrug as we kept walking along.
Shadebreaker looked like she was about to ask another question, but something caught her optic and she stopped to look at whatever she had seen.
My creators and I stopped as well to see what had caught Shadebreaker's optic. It was the statues of Primus and Unicron that had gained her attention.
We watched Shadebreaker observe the statues for a few moments before she pointed at Unicron's statue and looked at me with a serious glint in her optic. "In the case you are ever inside that creep, don't ever ride on his anti-bodies, it's not fun."
I raised an optic ridge slightly, a bit surprised by her words. "You've been inside Unicron?" I asked, giving her a curious look.
Shadebreaker nodded and shivered. "Not a pleasant experience, but yes," she replied.
"Huh. That would explain why you shivered when Megatronus mentioned Dark Energon," I said.
Shadebreaker's door-wings tilted downward a little bit. "Can we stop talking about it? It's rather creepy," she said, evidently not wanting to talk anymore about Unicron's life-blood.
Megatronus glanced at me with a mischievous gleam in his optics, I didn't like where this was going. "Perhaps we could talk about how a certain mech has feelings for a certain blue femme," he suggested in a teasing voice, and nudged me in the side with a scrap-eating grin on his faceplate.
I narrowed my optics at Megatronus in irritation as Solus stifled a laugh with her servo.
"What?" Shadebreaker asked, clearly interested by Megatronus' suggestion as we started walking again.
"Nothing, nothing at all," I said a little too quickly, which made what I said seem a bit suspicious and untrue.
Shadebreaker gave me an appraising look before her faceplate lit up with realization. "Oh, you like Arcee!" She said, laughing softly after she spoke.
My left optic twitched slightly and I scoffed. "My CPU says it's a stupid temporary crush I should just ignore, but my spark has been saying otherwise as of late. I'm more inclined to listen to my CPU and ignore what my spark says." I said, wanting to get this topic out of everyone's systems after I felt my cooling fans activate.
Shadebreaker narrowed her optics at me and crossed her servos over her chestplates. "You should never ignore what your spark is telling you," she said firmly, almost shocked that I would shrug off what my spark was telling me so easily.
"Says the femme who is on love with Ratchet and doesn't even know it." I countered almost immediately, as I ducked slightly to avoid hitting my helm on a rock-arch with Prime-runes covering it.
The white and purple femme tilted her helm at me in pure confusion. "What?" She asked, completely oblivious to what I meant.
I gave her a 'Really?' look, like she should have known this long a long time ago and glanced over at my creators as they walked next to me. "Is she seriously that oblivious?" I asked them in Cybertronian.
"Hey! Don't cut me out of the conversation!" Shadebreaker protested, obviously irritated by being left out of our conversation.
"She's that oblivious," Megatronus replied in Cybertronian, sounding amused by how little she knew about her own feelings.
"When I get back I am so going to ask Ratchet to teach me how to speak Cybertronian," Shadebreaker grumbled unhappily.
Megatronus and I laughed at what Shadebreaker said while Solus kept herself from laughing, but the emotions I got from her said that she was very close to laughing with us. Without knowing it, Shadebreaker added on to her obliviousness, it was just too perfect not to laugh at.
My laughing caused Shadebreaker to stop walking and give a loud huff of irritation. "Haha," she said dryly. "It's not funny from my end..." She said, narrowing her optics at Megatronus and I in displeasure.
"Really? It sure is from this end though," Megatronus noted humorously, which made Shadebreaker huff again.
"How's that?" She asked, looking between Megatronus and I for an answer.
"Because you and Ratchet both like each other, but you are oblivious to your own feelings," Solus said casually.
Shadebreaker looked at us with an incredulous look on her faceplate. "You know what I think?" She asked, still looking between the three of us. "I think you're all crazy." She said, dismissing the subject with a wave of her servos.
"And you're in denial," I stated, all I got in response was Shadebreaker rolling her optics at me.
"I think that maybe it's time to head back," Solus said, causing me to turn and look at her. "It's almost time for the two of you to return to your realities," she started walking back the way we came after she said this.
I shared a brief look with Megatronus and Shadebreaker before I shrugged and followed after my carrier.
The four of us spent the time walking back to the others by talking about random subjects. What are your built in weapon systems? I had asked Shadebreaker that one of course, she had a pair of Ion Blasters build into her servos and an Energon Battle Pistol on her backplates. The look on her faceplate made me laugh when I listed off my extensive weapon systems.
Shadebreaker in turn asked me what my alt modes where, and after I told her I had an MRAP and a F-22, she said her alt mode was Ford Focus RS.
We even asked what our favorite colors were, so it was a bit surprising when Shadebreaker said.
"Hey I have a real question," her words caused my creators and I to look at her. "Do you any of you guys know what MECH is?" She asked.
I sighed slightly. "I'll give you the short version." I began, making Shadebreaker look at me. "They are a group of human terrorists bent on stealing our technology so they can make their own versions of us and usher in the newest world order." I rolled my optics before continuing. "They believe that it's only a matter of time before the Autobots try and take over the world. They steal every piece of useful technology they come across, and the leader of MECH dreams of capturing one of us and learning how we work." I said, making the disgust I felt towards the leader of MECH clear in my voice.
"They sound like idiots to me," Shadebreaker said, seemingly not concerned with the existence of the group, but I saw that she shivered ever-so slightly. "Who leads them?" She asked, dropping her bravado and looking at me with a bit of fear in her optics.
"A psychopath named Clancy Arkeville," I answered, folding my servos behind my backplate as I had them when Shadebreaker arrived.
The fear in Shadebreaker's optics faded as she let out a small laugh. "Clancy? I bet he hates that name," she said, now with an amused grin on her faceplate.
'Huh, I never considered that,' I thought, smiling slightly as I said. "Yeah, I bet he does." I kept the smile on my faceplate as we continued walking back toward the others.
When we arrived back at the clearing the others had been waiting in, they told us to say our goodbyes, which we did. I said goodbye to Shadebreaker just before she ran to give her sire another hug, and then I went to say goodbye to my creators.
"You better be back here soon. Understood young mech?" Solus said, in a mock angry tone which made me chuckle.
Megatronus looked at me. "I want you to make some progress with Arcee by the time you get back," he said in a dry and teasing tone.
I didn't have time to respond to his words before I was back to sitting in the chair at my desk.
July 6, 2012 5:13 A.M
Autobot base, outside Jasper, Nevada
I onlined and opened my optics, I was quickly greeted by the sight of Wildwing's upside-down faceplate in the top of my vision.
"You're online!" He said, for some reason sounding far more enthusiastic than he usually was, which was saying something since he was always enthusiastic.
"What are you so excited about?" I asked, offering him a servo to climb into.
The seekerlet climbed into my servo and responded as I stood from the desk. "I can feel my creators getting closer to Earth! They're going to be here soon!" He was practically bouncing in excitement as I held him in my servos.
I was slightly surprised by the mechling's words, his creators weren't supposed to get here for at least two solar-cycles or more. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised, if I was separated from my son by hundreds or thousands of light-years for any amount of time I'd push my ship beyond its limits to reach him. It's what most would do in that situation.
"Well then, let's go see if they've tried to send us a transmission." I said with a smile, as my door opened and I stepped out into the hallway.
I knew Wildwing was ecstatic about his creators coming to Earth, but to be truthful I was a little disappointed they didn't take longer in arriving. I had greatly enjoyed spending time with the little seekerlet since he arrived, I was going to miss having him around and I knew Arcee would as well.
I entered the ops center and saw that all the Autobots minus Bulkhead and Moonracer standing around the main screen.
Scratch that, Moonracer was driving into the ops center through the entrance tunnel in her alt mode, a 2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe. I had been confused when she had picked out the sports car as her alt mode since she was the same height as Arcee and she had a motorcycle as her alt mode. But it made sense after Moonracer explained how every Cybertronian varied in how much they could change their mass. Moonracer said she perferred not changing her mass very much when transforming into her alt mode, but Arcee loved changing her mass significantly. That was why their alt modes were very different in size, but they were still the same height in their true forms.
Moonracer transformed into her true form and walked over to the workstation that made all except Bulkhead present at the moment, and all of them looking at the main screen, which made me curious.
"What's going on?" I asked a groggy looking Raf as he walked back to the couch next to the Xbox where he had been staying for the past few solar-cycles.
Raf had taken my advice about how to tell his family he didn't want to go Boston. His family had been angry at him at first since he had basically hacked their computers, but calmed down once they heard what he had to say. After what had apparently been a very long discussion about more personal things than just not wanting to go to Boston. Raf's family agreed to let him stay at a friend's house while they were on their two mega-cycle trip, which was why Raf was sleeping on the couch in the ops center.
"A ship that isn't broadcasting any IFF signal, Decepticon or Autobot, is half way to Earth and going well past the recommended speed for a ship that size. Now I'm going back to bed, you guys are active way too early for my liking." Raf said, not even looking at me in his drowsy state as he walked to the couch.
"My creators are almost here!" Wildwing said happily, making the other Autobots turn towards us.
"Your creators? How could they be here so soon?" Ratchet asked the seekerlet, his faceplate scrunched in confusion.
"Most creators will do almost anything to protect or be reunited with their creations Ratchet, including push their ship past the speed which is considered safe." Optimus said to Ratchet, coming to the same conclusion I had earlier.
Ratchet considered the Prime's words before giving out a simple 'Huh' and looking back at the main screen.
I glanced over at Arcee. "Have we contacted the ship yet? I'm sure Wildwing's creators want to know he's safe and protected," I asked, as I walked over to stand next to her.
"No, Ratchet and Moonracer had already tried over a dozen frequencies before they got close to the moon. But we haven't been able to make contact, their either ignoring us, or we're not using the right frequency." Arcee said, putting a servo on her hip as she looked at the main screen.
It was at that moment that a message on the main screen told us we were being hailed by an unknown ship, the same ship we appearently haven't been able to contact.
Ratchet looked surprised by the unexpected contact from the ship as he typed commands into the computer and accepted the hail from the ship.
Immediately after Ratchet accepted the hail, the voice of a mech came through the workstation.
"To the commanding officer of the local Autobot base, this is neutral scout vessel The Collected. We are searching for a mech sparkling that we know crash landed two mega-cycles ago and is located somewhere on this planet. Any help you can provide in finding his whereabouts would be greatly appreciated." The mech on board the ship, now identified as The Collected, sounded very calm as he respectfully asked for our help. But I could hear the near-pleading tone in his voice as he requested our help, this must be Wildwing's sire.
My suspicon of the mech's identity was confirmed when Wildwing spoke. "Sire! You're here!" The mechling said joyfully, looking up at the screen with happiness filling his fuschia optics.
"Wildwing?" A new voice asked, this new voice belonged to a femme that must have been Wildwing's carrier. She sounded incredibly relieved to hear her son's voice. "Are you okay? How long have you been with the Autobots? Who's been taking care of you? Have they been doing a good job of taking care of you? Are you getting your energon? Is there anyway of making the ship go faster?" She asked all her questions very quickly, and had obviously directed her last inquiry at her mate. Wildwing's carrier was definitely a worrier.
Wildwing and his sire both laughed lightly at the femme's antics at the same time before the mechling responded. "Hehe, I am fine carrier of course I've been getting my energon. I've been with the Autobots since I landed on the planet, the native species are so fascinating! Shadowstreaker and Arcee have been great care-takers while I've been here, they're awesome!" Wildwing said.
I shared an amused look with Arcee. "We're awesome apparently, that's two levels above cool." I joked, making Arcee laugh at my joke, which in turn made my spark flutter. 'Stupid damn spark and it's stupid damn fluttering.' I thought. No matter what Shadebreaker or my creators said in the Pocket Universe, I was still going to ignore whatever my spark tells me when I was around Arcee. On that note, I'm going to have to tell Optimus about my visit with the Thirteen later.
Optimus brought me out of my thoughts when he spoke to Wildwing's creators. "My apologies for interrupting your conversation with Wildwing, but I must ask. My name is Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots, why did you not establish contact with us when we hailed you earlier?" He asked.
"Sorry about that, we have a limited communications range in this scout vessel. We inherited this ship and our main vessel from an organic race on the other side of this galaxy three vorns ago, we still haven't upgraded all the technology that was already installed." Wildwing's sire said apologetically, clearly having heard the transmissions Ratchet sent out while I was still recharging, but couldn't respond until they were within range.
Optimus opened his mouth to speak, but there was an explosion from the ship's side of the communications channel, which caused Wildwing's carrier to let out a surprised yell.
"What was that?" Wildwing's sire asked, sounding like he was asking someone who was far away from the communicator.
I could hear that there was a response to the mech's question, but I couldn't make out any of the words.
Wildwing's sire spoke through the communications channel again. "Optimus! A Decepticon stealth frigate just dropped its cloak and attacked us." He said, trying to keep any fear he may have felt out of his tone for the sparkling's benefit.
"We can assist you against the Decepticons if you can land your ship somewhere on this planet." Optimus said, voice turning serious at the news of the Decepticon attack.
Wildwing's sire replied. "We have already chosen a landing zone. We will be landing within the next ten klicks in the... I don't know the name of the area, but it is a vast desert located on the second largest continent of this planet." There was another explosion on The Collected's side of our communications channel. "I am going to have to close the channel Optimus, I need to focus on getting my ship down planet-side." He said, then barked out a few commands that must have been meant for Cybertronians he was leading.
"Sire... Don't go..." Wildwing said quietly, the joy and excitement had left his voice and optics at the moment of the first explosion. His voice and optics were now filled with fear and anxiety.
Wildwing's carrier spoke through the channel. "We have to go Wildwing, but I promise we'll be back." She was using a very calm and soothing voice as she spoke to her creation.
"But... I don't want you to go..." Wildwing said, almost shedding tears as he spoke. Obviously distressed by the situation.
"Don't cry 'Wing," Wildwing's carrier said, either knowing from their parental bond or from her creation's tone that he was on the verge of tears. "We are not going anywhere, your sire and I are getting closer to you. But we can't talk through this channel anymore." There was another explosion from her side of the channel, but she didn't seem to notice. "I promise you this 'Wing. When we get down to that planet, I am going to give you the biggest hug you've ever had and never let you go. Does that sound good?" She asked, sounding like she wasn't the least bit worried about the explosions we occasionally hear in the background.
"Yes... But I don't want you or sire to be hurt." Wildwing said sadly.
I leaned over to Arcee. "Listening to this conversation is sparkbreaking. That ship can only take so many hits." I whispered so Wildwing couldn't hear me, not wanting my words to distress the saddened mechling any further.
"I know," Arcee said in a sad tone, while she gave Wildwing a look with the same emotion.
Wildwing's carrier responded to her creation's words right after Arcee spoke. "Your sire and I will be fine 'Wing." I could almost hear the reassuring smile she had on her faceplate as she talked with her creation. "I am going to close the channel now 'Wing, but do not worry, we will be there soon." Wildwing's carrier closed the channel after she spoke.
Wildwing kept looking at the screen as his carrier cut the channel. As if he was trying to will her to open it again and tell him there was no attack, that they weren't in any danger and they'd be there soon. It made me feel sorry for my temporary charge, and angry at the Decepticons who were attacking his creators.
Optimus looked at Ratchet. "Can you determine the exact location where they will land?" He asked the medic.
"Of course," Ratchet replied, not even scoffing at Optimus' simple request as he immediately typing commands into the workstation.
After Ratchet had typed in a few commands, the main screen started tracking two inbound ships highlighted by red circles that were just entering Earth's upper atmosphere. They were entering the Exosphere if I wasn't mistaken.
Ratchet typed something else into the workstation and the main screen showed two dotted lines that extended from the red circles. "The projected landing areas are both in the Sahara Desert about five miles apart from each other." He said, pointing at the screen as he spoke.
"What can you tell about the ships?" Moonracer asked.
Ratchet looked over at the femme I truly believed he had feelings for. "The only thing I know about the ship we've been tracking for the past breem is that it's almost a kilometer in length, and the new ship that I just detected is roughly a quarter of the length of the first." He gave Moonracer a helpless shrug, obviously sorry he couldn't find out anything useful about the two ships.
Optimus looked at the screen a moment in thought before he turned to Wildwing. "Wildwing," he said gently, gaining the seekerlet's attention. "We are going to help your creators in their fight, but your temporary care-takers will need to fight as well if we are to have the greatest chance." It was clear what he wanted of Wildwing, to let Arcee and I go with everyone else to the Sahara.
Wildwing looked at Arcee and I. "Go help my creators," he sounded very worried and frightened for the safety of his creators.
I walked over to where the mechling stood on the catwalk and leaned down closer to his level. "I will do everything in my power to help your creators Wildwing, I promise that." I said earnestly, standing back to my full height and walking over to rejoin Arcee.
"You have my promise to help your creators as well Wildwing," the blue femme next to me said, giving Wildwing a sincere look.
"I know you all will..." Wildwing said dejectedly, and turned back to stare at the main screen as the two red circles approached the Thermosphere.
Optimus activated his battle mask and looked at Ratchet. "Activate the ground bridge," he said, walking past Arcee and I to stand in front of the deactivated ground bridge.
I went to stand at his left side while Arcee stood at his right. The others joined soon joined us, all except Ratchet and Bulkhead were going to the Sahara. The white and red medic activated the ground bridge.
"Autobots!" Optimus bellowed when the green portal opened. "Transform and roll out!" He finished saying and transformed into his alt mode.
I transformed into my F-22 form as the other Autobots around me followed Optimus example and changed into their alt modes.
One thought was going through my processor when Optimus started driving toward the green portal leading to the Sahara. That thought was that even with the help of The Collected and Wildwing's creators, we were about to face a very tough battle in going against a Decepticon frigate... But we were about to bring the rain.
Why yes, yes I did leave you hanging two chapters in a row, aren't I terrible? Hehe.
This chapter was a lot of fun to write, frustrating at times, but a lot of fun to write. I love making Megatronus really mischievous when it comes to teasing Shadowstreaker for his crush on Arcee lol.
This chapter's credit song is "Les Friction - Here Comes The Reign" Did you see what I did with the last line in the chapter? :D That's not the only reason of course, this song is simply awesome.
So, please be sure to leave a review and thanks for reading. I'll see you soon.