Well, Crystal Prime and I have finally finished our co-op chapter. :) Huh... I just realized I didn't mention last chapter that we were writing a co-op... Oh well, now you know haha.
I'm sorry for taking so long in getting this posted, it wouldn't have taken so long if I didn't have a six day case of writer's block while it was my turn to work on our co-op. T.T But on the plus side, this chapter is over eleven thousand words, so it has that going for it. And also, since this is a co-op, Crystal gets just as much credit for this chapter as I do.
Thanks go to Crystal Prime for beta reading.
Jaacs McHenry - It did take Shadow' a while to finally beat Springer to a pulp, didn't it? I guess it's a good thing that Shadow' beat him up and you didn't, I've heard that metal hurts when you punch it. Lol.
Mikaela the Cat - I would too, though, I don't know how effective a stick would be against him. It's the thought that counts though haha. And yes, yes he is an afthead, I feel like I need to wash my hands after writing his comments at times. *Shakes hands*
Crystal Prime - Since you reviewed six chapters, and I talk to you on a regular basis, I am just going to go with a 'thank you' and talk to you later. :)
Anissa - I'm glad you liked how I wrote Shadow's visions of past episodes, since I assume that is what you're really happy about. Took me long enough to write that idea, huh? Haha.
p folk - Yup! No more Springer for a while. And that's right, Prime family reunion. Plus one non-Prime lol.
jayna prime - The beginning was sad, wasn't it? But the fight made all the sadness go away, I enjoyed writing that scene way too much. Lol. And you're welcome, it's about time to tone the sleazy jerk down a few notches. :)
Disclaimer: Transformers belongs to Hasbro. I only take credit for this story and my OCs.
Transcending Time
Pocket Universe
The moment I fell into my recharge, I felt my parental bond with Solus open and I found myself standing in the Pocket Universe again. But I was in an unfamiliar area of the Pocket Universe, instead of standing in a desert like I had the last three times I had been here, I was surrounded by a thick forest.
Looking down, I saw that the forest floor was covered in a mixture of grass, moss-covered rocks of varying sizes and dozens of different kinds of ferns and bushes, some of which had unusual-looking fruit hanging from their branches. I was momentarily confused by the presence of fruit in the Pocket Universe, but I just made a mental note to ask the Primes about that later and continued looking around my surroundings.
The countless trees around me had few branches until the treetops, but that was a long way away since the trees were quite simply gigantic. Now, I had been to Sequoia National Park and seen the famous General Sherman, but compared to the trees around me, General Sherman looked like a sapling. The trunks of the trees were about three hundred feet in diameter on average, with some of the larger ones pushing one thousand feet, but it was the height of the trees that left me in awe. Each tree in sight was no less than a kilometer in height, and that was a conservative estimate as there were several trees that were clearly far beyond that height.
The longer I looked at the immense trees, the more I felt like if they were in an actual universe, they would be more ancient than most civilizations. There was just something about them that seemed unbelievably old and mysterious, like they had front row seats to events that occurred before some stars even existed. I immediately liked them.
I suddenly heard a twig snap behind me and I whipped my helm around to see what caused the noise... Only to gawk at what I saw. There... Standing in front of me as it ate the fruits on a branch... Was a dinosaur.
The dinosaur was mostly green in color with splotches of brown, it also looked very similar to a Stegosaurus with its spiky tail, short forelimbs and the double row of plates along its back. But it was quite a bit smaller than a Stegosaurus as it was about twenty feet long and about eight feet in height and a Stegosaurus was at least ten feet longer and five feet taller.
I concluded that the dinosaur in front of me wasn't a Stegosaurus, but a member of the same genus, the Stegosaurs. But I didn't know which Stegosaur it was since there were well over a dozen members in the Stegosaur family, and they all had a close resemblance to one another.
My thoughts came to a screeching halt as a massive, two-legged theropod dinosaur seemed to come out of nowhere and completely ignored the bony plates the Stegosaur had on its back for defense and bit down on the Stegosaur's back. Its enormous jaws were large enough to completely encompass the middle of the Stegosaur's body, leaving only the Stegosaur's head, neck and tail exposed as it effortlessly lifted the smaller dinosaur in its mouth and stood to its full height.
The Stegosaur cried out in distress and flailed the parts of its body that weren't in the massive carnivore's mouth, but the far larger dinosaur opened its mouth slightly and then slam it shut again with a sickening crunch, causing the Stegosaur to instantly fall silent and go limp.
With its prey now very dead, the theropod adjusted the position of the dead Stegosaur in its mouth in a manner very similar to what I had seen crocodiles do with their meals. And once the theropod stopped adjusting the position of the dead Stegosaur in its mouth, it raised its head up to the point of nearly being vertical and swallowed the Stegosaur in one huge gulp.
'It just swallowed a twenty foot Stegosaur like a piece of popcorn!' I thought in shock as I stared at the dinosaur.
The theropod in front of me was grey-blue in color with a yellow underbelly, it was very similar to a Tyrannosaurus Rex in appearance, but there were small, bony protrusions covering its body and it looked to be more bulky and heavily built than a Tyrannosaurus. It was also far, far larger. The T-Rex-like dino was at least thirty feet tall at the hip and probably over one-hundred feet long. Its massive skull and jaws was around fifteen feet long and filled with dozens of teeth that were three or perhaps four feet long. The final difference between the dino in front of me and a Tyrannosaurus Rex was its arms. While a T-Rex's arms were short, stubby and had two claws, the arms of the theropod in front of me were three-clawed and more than large enough to reach its chin, leading me to believe it used its arms to drag prey that were too large for it to swallow to different locations.
The enormous carnivore seemed to notice me staring at it and it looked back at me with what I could have sworn was an embarrassed look in its eyes. We stared at each other for several long moments before the carnivore opened its mouth... And let out a loud burp. The theropod stood there for another micro-klick and then walked away, shaking the ground slightly with each step. It soon disappeared behind the trunk of one the monstrous trees.
I stared at where I had last seen the dinosaur for nearly a klick. I was completely dumbfounded, a theropod dinosaur at least twice as large as any carnivore in the fossil record just came out of nowhere, ate a Stegosaur I was looking at in one bite, burped at me and then walked away.
'I guess I can cross that off the bucket list,' I thought in amusement as I started to focus on locating Solus through our bond, though for some reason our bond was slightly fainter than it had been when I was last here.
Almost a full klick later, I finally managed to locate her, but she was very far away, which was probably why our bond felt a little faint, she was so far away in fact that it would probably take me several solar-cycles to walk there. So, instead of starting to walk in Solus' direction, I folded into my F-22 mode and started what would be a long journey up to the treetops.
When I finally got above the tree line about five klicks later, I briefly took note of how clear the blue sky above me was before I accelerated in the direction of my carrier and left the sound barrier behind in a loud sonic boom and I continued accelerating until I reached my top speed of mach 6.8.
It wasn't long before the forest came to an end, likely because I was speeding through the air at more than two kilometers a micro-klick, and the treetops below me changed to an immense savannah. But I couldn't make out any of the savannah's details because of the speed I was flying.
After about twenty more klicks of flying, the clear skies of the savanna eventually faded away to a blanket of dark clouds floating over a sea of sand and rocks surrounded by cliffs. I was flying over the desert.
Suddenly, I felt a flood of annoyance along with a bit of pain from Solus' side of our bond, and instead of feeling myself get closer to Solus, I felt myself getting further away. I must have flown over Solus... While doing mach 6.8, that would explain the annoyance and pain I felt from Solus since a sonic boom was loud enough to drown out even the loudest thunderstorm.
I sent apologetic feelings to Solus through my end of the bond as I turned around and reduced my speed until I was back to flying at subsonic speeds.
Not long after I reduced my speed, I saw Solus, Megatronus, Vector and, surprisingly, Shadebreaker sitting on different rocks at the base of a small cliff. All of them were holding at least one of their audio receptors and sending an annoyed look in my direction.
I started hovering when I reached the four Primes. And after a brief moment, I changed into my true form and dropped to the desert floor, bending my knee-joints slightly as my pedes hit the ground to cushion my landing.
I looked at the Primes, who still looked slightly annoyed, and rubbed the back of my neck sheepishly. "Sorry about that sonic boom," I said apologetically. "I didn't pay attention to where I was flying.
Megatronus took in a breath and let it out in a loud sigh, causing his follow Primes and I to look at him. "Son... I are disappoint." He said in a voice filled with false sadness and disappointment.
I narrowed my optics slightly at my sire, I knew right away that he wasn't in any way referring to the sonic boom I caused, his tone held a faint trace of his dry humor.
"And why are you disappointed?" I asked cautiously.
My sire then gave me a look as dry as the desert around us. "You have made no progress with Arcee since you were last here. That is unacceptable." He said with a shake of his helm, causing my carrier to roll her optics at her mate's antics and laugh.
I was aware that Shadebreaker was laughing along with my carrier as I rolled my optics at Megatronus' words. "There is no progress to be made when only one of us has a crush on the other," I said stiffly as I folded my servos over my chestplates.
Shadebreaker scoffed lightly and I saw her roll her optics out of my peripheral vision. "Are you sure about that?" She asked as she crossed her servos over her chestplates. "After all, I thought that my feelings for Ratch' were one-sided and I ended up being wrong, you could be wrong about how Arcee feels." She finished in a tone that led me to believe she was hinting at something.
I turned and gave Shadebreaker a bland stare, she responded to my stare by giving me a grin that said she knew something I didn't. I was tempted to ask her what she meant, but I choose not to and instead commented on something else she said.
"You and Ratchet finally realized your feelings for each other," I said.
Shadebreaker's grin widened and she gave a single nod in response.
"You see, son? If Shade' can get past obliviousness, then it should be no problem for you." Megatronus said, optics shining with mirth.
Both Shadebreaker and my carrier laughed while Vector seemed to be holding in a chuckle as I glared daggers in Megatronus' direction, but it seemed that all my glare did was amuse my sire further since he just smiled in return.
Thankfully, Vector changed the subject.
"Okay, enough of that for now." He said to Megatronus in what I believe was supposed to be a reprimanding tone, but I could hear the amusement he was trying to keep out of his voice.
"Fine," Megatronus grumbled in what was obviously a joking manner as he wrapped a servo around my carrier's shoulder-joints and then looked back at me. "So what took you so long to get here, son?" He asked.
"Distance, I arrived in a forest somewhere in that direction," I replied and pointed a digit at the base of the cliff behind Shadebreaker. "I was flying at hypersonic speeds and it still took me more than twenty klicks to get here."
"Wait, there's more than just desert here?" Shadebreaker asked in surprise.
I nodded. "Yeah, there's wildlife here too."
Shadebreaker perked up at my response. "Really? What kind of wildlife?" She asked with an excited glint in her optics.
"Well, I saw some kind of Stegosaur for about a klick before it was eaten by what looked like a T-Rex on miracle grow." I said flatly, smiling slightly at the how Shadebreaker widened her optics in shock for a few moments before her optics returned to their normal size.
Shadebreaker sighed. "Poor Stegosaur," she said in a quiet voice as her door-wings drooped in sadness. "Never stood a chance..." She bowed her helm and was silent for several moments, clearly in respect for the lost creature. "Can we go see the dinos?" She suddenly asked, door-wings perking up in excitement as she looked at her creator.
Vector shook his helm and chuckled at his daughter's enthusiasm. "We were planning something else, but we can do that first. If the others don't mind that is." He said and then both he and Shadebreaker looked at my creators expectantly, with Shadebreaker looking noticeably more hopeful than her sire.
"It couldn't hurt, we do have plenty of time." Solus said as she gave Shadebreaker a smile.
Megatronus shrugged. "I don't mind at all," he said.
"Yay!" Shadebreaker suddenly exclaimed as she started clapping her servos and jumping up and down in excitement. After a few micro-klicks, she seemed to realize what she was doing and immediately stopped and started rubbing the back of her helm sheepishly. "I mean..." She said quietly as I heard her cooling fans activate in embarrassment.
Both my carrier and sire laughed at Shadebreaker's youngling moment while Vector and I simply chuckled at her antics. Shadebreaker pouted at my creators and I for a few moments before her sire patted her on the top of the helm.
"It's alright, Little One," he said. "There is nothing wrong with being joyful."
"Yeah," I added. "Everyone is entitled to have a youngling moment every now and then, most just prefer not to." I finished with a small shrug.
"Okay," Shadebreaker said quietly. And then added in a more subdued and controlled manner. "Does this mean we can see the dinos?"
"Yes it does," Vector said affectionately.
I suddenly realized something. "I just thought of something, how are all of us going to get to where the dinosaurs are? I know you three can just teleport there," I gestured to my creators and Vector, which caused Shadebreaker to give her sire a curious look before he smiled and quietly said that he would explain later. "But Shadebreaker and I would have to use our vehicle modes. I wouldn't have much of a problem, you'd just have to sit and wait for twenty klicks or so for me to arrive. But it would take Shadebreaker breems to get there since she can only use a ground mode."
"Leave that to me," Vector said. "I am not the guardian of time and space for nothing." And with that, he held up a servo and opened up a blue portal next to him, the other side of the portal was clearly in a forest, but I couldn't make out many details.
"That's cool," Shadebreaker said in a calm, almost uninterested voice, though her optics were shining with both amazement and excitement.
After Shadebreaker spoke, the five of us stepped through the portal and exited out the other side in the middle of a dense forest, but I could tell the forest wasn't the same one I arrived in. The trees around us were much smaller than the ones in the other forest, though most of them were still at least twice as tall as the tallest trees I had seen on Earth, and instead of having a great resemblance to Giant Sequoias, they looked more like Evergreens.
I looked over to my right and saw a large sauropod dinosaur eating the branches of one of the smaller Evergreen-like trees around us. The sauropod was bluish grey in color with several areas in its body that were brown. It was very large, I estimated its length at around eighty-five feet, though it was still about twenty or twenty five feet shorter than the Tyrannosaurus I had seen earlier. The sauopod's neck and tail were incredibly long and easily made up three quarters of the sauopod's total length. The head of the dinosaur in proportion to the rest of its body was tiny, but it was still larger than the head of most animals on Earth. Since one of my favorite things to read about before my human mother was killed were dinosaurs, I recognized the sauropod as an Apatosaurus, one of the more famous of the sauropod dinosaurs.
"Wow," Shadebreaker said as she stepped up next to me and stared at the Apatosaurus in awe.
Vector chuckled at his daughter's youngling-like wonder. "It is an amazing sight, isn't it?" He asked her. "I never get tired of seeing these magnificent creatures."
Shadebreaker didn't seem to pay attention to her sire and ran up to next to the Apatosaurus. "Hi dinosaur!" She said excitedly as she reached the giant animal and looked up at it in amazement.
The Apatosaurus continued to chew on some branches as it turned its head and stared at Shadebreaker while she stared right back at it.
"Now, what kind of dinosaur are you?" I head Shadebreaker muse to herself in a voice so quiet that I almost didn't hear her.
"It is called an Apatosaurus," I informed Shadebreaker, causing her to look at me curiously. "It's one of the more famous sauropod dinosaurs."
Shadebreaker stared at me for a few moments before a soft roar drew her attention away from me, although the word 'roar' didn't do a very good job of describing the sound. Whatever the sound was, it sounded like a cross between the trumpet of an Elephant, the growl of a Water Buffalo and... Whatever the sound was that Hippos made.
Looking away from Shadebreaker and to the legs of the Apatosaurus, where the sound originated, I saw a tiny version of the Apatosaurus staring up at Shadebreaker curiously. It was clear to me that the larger Apatosaurus was the baby's parent, though it was hard to tell whether it was its mother or father.
"Awww, it's so cute!" Shadebreaker said ecstatically, it seemed that the sight of the baby Apatosaurus was enough for Shadebreaker to go into a mode secretly programmed into every mech and femme, mush mode.
The baby Apatosaurus took a cautious step toward Shadebreaker after she spoke, and Shadebreaker in turn crouched slightly and held a servo out toward the baby dinosaur. The tiny dinosaur looked away from Shadebreaker and up at its parent for a moment before it looked back at the femme and continued moving forward a bit more bravely. When it was close enough, the baby stuck its neck out toward Shadebreaker and sniffed her outstretched servo. Very slowly, Shadebreaker reached out with her other servo and started to pet the baby Apatosaurus' head, it seemed to like the attention and moved a little closer to Shadebreaker so its neck wasn't stretched out.
"It's so cute," Shadebreaker reiterated, albeit in a quieter and calmer tone than she used earlier, as she continued petting the head of the baby Apatosaurus with a look of joy painted on her faceplate.
Shadebreaker jumped slightly when the larger Apatosaurus suddenly moved its head in between Shadebreaker and its offspring, Shadebreaker instantly retracted both of her servos and held them up in surrender as the large sauropod stared at her. The baby rubbed its head against its parent's and the parent returned the gesture before it looked back at Shadebreaker. And after it stared at her for a few more moments, the adult Apatosaurus leaned its head forward and gently nudged Shadebreaker with its muzzle, causing the optics of the white and purple femme to widen in surprise and then look over at us.
"Ah... What do I do?" She asked, she didn't sound like she was afraid of the dinosaur, but was just so surprised by its action that her processor was drawing a blank.
"Pet the mother like you pet the baby," Vector replied encouragingly.
Shadebreaker looked back at what Vector had identified as the baby's mother and slowly reached up and put a servo on the mother's muzzle. The mother seemed to let out a contented sigh and closed her eyes a moment before she moved her head away from Shadebreaker and went back to eating the branches of the tree.
"This is amazing," Shadebreaker said as she continued looking at the mother Apatosaurus, clearly in awe of the giant sauropod.
I was about to make a comment, but I turned to look at the baby Apatosaurus as it started to walk over towards me. When it reached me, it looked up at me and made the strange noise it made earlier and tried to lean against my pede, only to go straight through it in a puff of black smoke that disappeared by the time it fell to the ground. The young Apatosaurus made the strange sound again as it picked itself up off the ground and poked its head into one side of my pede and out through the opposite side, much to Shadebreaker's amusement, who I had seen watching the whole spectacle out of my peripheral vision.
"It looks like it's discovered it can't touch you," she said with a laugh.
"Evidently," I replied, not looking up at the femme as I took a giant step away from the baby Apatosaurus.
The baby dinosaur wasn't deterred though, and it stared at my pede as it started to walk around me, like it was trying to figure out if I was real or not. But after the baby Apatosaurus circled me a few times, it gave up on its quest to find out if I was real or not and started walking back to its mother.
I looked away from the baby dinosaur and back up at Shadebreaker in time to see the mother Apatosaurus nudge her with its muzzle while holding a number of branches in its mouth. Once the mother had Shadebreaker's attention, she set the branches down at her pedes and motioned between the branches and Shadebreaker with her head, clearly it wanted her to eat.
I laughed. "I don't think she knows Cybertronians can't eat anything organic," I said humorously.
Shadebreaker laughed a little bit as well. "Apparently," she said to me before turning to the dinosaur. "Well, thanks for the offer, but I can't eat vegetation."
The mother Apatosaurus just made a noise in response and continued staring at Shadebreaker as its offspring walked over to the branches and started to eat the vegetation its mother offered to Shadebreaker.
The white and purple femme smiled and gave mother Apatosaurus and its offspring another pat before she started walking over to rejoin the rest of us, only to stop mid stride and get a confused look on her faceplate.
"Huh," she said after a brief moment. "I just made friends with dinosaurs..." She blinked several times before she smiled again. "Miko will never believe me."
"No, Miko will believe you, but she'll probably be mad that you didn't take pictures." I joked as Shadebreaker rejoined us.
Shadebreaker chuckled. "You're right, Jack is the one that won't believe me when I say I made friends with dinosaurs."
The white and purple femme let out a cry of surprise as her sire suddenly pulled her into a side hug. "And I am so proud of you for doing that," he said and planted a kiss on the top of his creation's helm.
"Sire!" Shadebreaker protested. "Not in front of the others!" She waved one servo around as she became embarrassed by her sire's action, which made my creators and I laugh lightly before Vector released his daughter from his side hug with a chuckle.
"Well," Solus said after Vector let Shadebreaker go. "We should move on, there are several more dinosaurs to see before we leave."
"That reminds me," I said, looking over at Solus as we started to walk away from the mother Apatosaurus and its young. "Why are dinosaurs even in the Pocket Universe?"
I saw Shadebreaker looking at my carrier out of my peripheral vision, it was clear that she was curious to hear what Solus' answer as well.
"Before the dinosaurs went extinct on Earth, we brought several hundred members of each species here, just like we do with every species of animal that is on the verge of extinction." Solus said.
Shadebreaker tilted her helm in curiosity. "And why do you do that?" She asked.
My carrier looked over at Shadebreaker. "Because all life is precious in its own unique way, and it is tragic whenever a species, sentient or otherwise, becomes extinct. By bringing different species of animals here, we can protect them from extinction in an environment we can control. And we also, occasionally, protect them from each other." She explained with a smile on her faceplate and feelings of happiness flooding through from her end of our bond, clearly she found great joy in performing the task she described.
"And where was that protection when I saw that Stegosaur get swallowed like popcorn?" I asked humorously, causing Shadebreaker and Solus to laugh at my joke while Vector and my sire just chuckled.
Solus clarified her earlier statement after she and Shadebreaker sobered themselves. "While we protect all the creatures in the Pocket Universe, the numerous carnivores here need to eat as well. But, we make sure that the herbivorous creatures outnumber the predators by a minimum of two hundred to one at any given time."
I gave my carrier a confused look. "The ratio of predators to prey on Earth is only about one carnivore to every nine herbivores, why is the ratio so different in the Pocket Universe?" I asked.
Megatronus answered my question instead. "Because, some of the predators tend to... Eat more than others." He said as he gave me a meaningful sideways glance.
"Ah," was all I said in response, immediately understanding what he meant, there were very large predators here, and they ate a lot.
After we continued walking along in silence, we came to a large pond, though to a human it would have been a small lake, with a waterfall falling from a cliff on the opposite side of the pond from where we stood.
I looked up and watched as a few abnormally large Dragonflies flew above the five of us before I noticed two groups of dinosaurs gathered on the left and right side of the pond.
Looking over at the group on the right, I saw six adults and eight or nine of their young either walking on all fours on dry land, or standing on two legs and eating reeds out in the pond. At about thirty-five feet long and less than a third as tall, they were significantly smaller than the mother Apatosaurus, but they were still larger than any current land animal on Earth. Each adult had a surprisingly small mouth and a large skull about five and half feet long, with the last two and a half feet being taken up by a crest protruding from the back of the skull. I instantly recognized the dinosaurs as Parasaurolophus, the most unusually named dinosaur in the fossil record, in my opinion anyway.
Over on the left side of the pond, there was a small herd of about a dozen adult Triceratops and just as many of their young either grazing on grass, or standing with their front legs in the pond and drinking water. But they looked different than any Triceratops that I read about as a human child. The adults were at least twice as large as a normal Triceratops, the smallest adult was about fifty feet long and half as tall while the largest member of the herd was about sixty-five feet long and, again, half as tall. But their unusual size wasn't the only thing I found to be odd about them. Their skin seemed to be almost armored and their skulls were even more bulky and heavily built than a normal Triceratops. And lastly, the two horns above their eyes were almost ten feet long instead of about three feet and the crests on their skulls changed color depending on what angle the sun hit them.
"This is amazing," Shadebreaker said as she looked back and forth between the two groups of dinosaurs in wonder before she suddenly whipped her helm to the left and stared at something in shock.
I followed her gaze and raised both my optic ridges in surprise as I saw a baby Parasaurolophus riding on the back one of the baby Triceratops-like dinosaurs as it walked over to the other Parasaurolophus, presumably to return the young one to the rest of its kind.
"That's interesting..." I said, unconsciously using one of Captain Jack Sparrow's favorite phrases as Shadebreaker and I watched the pair of young dinosaurs walk past us.
"What species are they?" Shadebreaker asked as she turned to look at me.
"The ones in the water," I pointed a digit at the duck-billed dinosaurs, "Are called Parasaurolophus. And the other group appears to be Triceratops, but they're about twice as large and even more heavily built than a normal Triceratops, and their crests seem to change color when the sun hits them at different angles, kinda like your door-wings."
Shadebreaker nodded her helm as I told her what the dinosaurs were called. "Okay, thanks." She said to me with a smile and turned back to look at the dinosaurs.
"Not a problem," I replied with a shrug and joined Shadebreaker in looking at the dinosaurs.
We stayed at the pond for a few more klicks before we moved on. We saw a number of small dinosaurs as we walked through the forest, though I only recognized a few of them. And on occasion, we saw several different kinds of Pterosaurs flying in between the trees, but I didn't recognize any of them.
About ten klicks after we left the pond, a small two-legged theropod dinosaur that I recognized as an Oviraptor suddenly ran out from behind a tree and raced across our path as it carried an egg so large that it was using its neck to help keep it in its tiny arms. It quickly disappeared behind another tree.
"What was that?" Shadebreaker asked curiously as she looked at the spot where we last saw the Oviraptor.
Before I could respond, an audio receptor shattering roar pieced the air from the direction the Oviraptor had been running from. And a moment later, another T-Rex-like dinosaur similar to the one I saw earlier burst through the tree-line and let out another roar that made us cover our audio receptors before it started running in the direction that the Oviraptor went with the egg. Its steps shook the ground so much as it ran that Shadebreaker lost her balance and fell on her servos and knee-joints. The T-Rex-like dinosaur soon disappeared behind the same tree as the Oviraptor.
I looked over at Shadebreaker as her sire walked over and offered her a servo up. "Well, the first dinosaur that came out was called an Oviraptor, human paleontologists believed it would steal the eggs of other dinosaurs for its food, they apparently were correct. As for the second dinosaur... I have no idea what it's called, all I know is that it's really freaking big." I said, briefly looking back to where the Oviraptor and the T-Rex-like dinosaur went as I faintly heard another roar before glancing back at Shadebreaker.
"I noticed!" Shadebreaker responded as Vector pulled up back onto her pedes, fear, excitement and amazement mixing together in her voice. "That thing was bigger than the mother Apatosaurus!"
"Indeed it was," Vector said. "We haven't properly named that species of dinosaur, but we refer to them as Behemoths because of their size and apex predator status."
I nodded. "That does seem to suit them," I said as we started to walk.
We were mostly silence as walked through the forest after that, only making occasional comments about certain dinosaurs we saw on the ground or certain Pterodactyls we saw flying above us.
Eventually, we came to a vast desert filled with white sand dunes that towered over the trees around us. As we walked out of the forest, I was slightly surprised by how abruptly the forest ended, and the desert began. The forest was literally only a few steps away and all the vegetation had already been replaced by hot, white sand.
I was brought out of my thoughts by Shadebreaker. "Uh... What's that?" She asked.
I looked over at her and saw that she was staring at a certain part of the desert. I followed her gaze, and immediately joined Shadebreaker in staring when I saw what she was looking at.
Jumping in and out of the sand dunes was a creature that faintly resembled a massive armored worm. Even from where we stood at least four kilometers away, I knew the creature was at least one-hundred and forty feet long when it was out of the sand dunes, and it was clearly only about a third of the creature's length since I never saw the other end of it. The creature had two vertical slits for eyes that were facing forward like a predator's eyes should. And it had one massive mandible on either side of its huge head, clearly meant to help drag its prey into its enormous mouth. I realized I was staring at a Thresher Maw from the Mass Effect series.
"That... Is a Thresher Maw..." I finally responded to Shadebreaker's question. I didn't even look over at the white and purple femme as I continued to stare at the massive predator with a blank faceplate, which my carrier found to be very amusing judging by the feelings I was getting from her side of the bond.
"Oh," Shadebreaker replied as if she knew what that was, but I knew she didn't have a clue. And sure enough, she soon added, "What's a Thresher Maw?"
"Thresher Maws are titanically large subterranean carnivores that spend their entire lives eating, or searching for something to eat. They are from a video game called Mass Effect. At least, they were in a video game when I was back in my original reality, clearly not the case now." I explained as the Thresher Maw jumped one more time before it went behind a sand dune and disappeared from sight.
"What does something that big even eat?" Shadebreaker asked, sounding more like she was musing to herself than actually asking a question to anyone.
I answered her question anyway. "Anything it feels like eating," I joked with a small smile, causing Shadebreaker, Solus and Vector to give a brief laugh before my sire spoke.
"Well, we should probably get back. There's something else we wanted to show you two." He said with a mischievous glint in his optics.
"And that would be?" I asked my sire as I narrowed my optics in fake suspicion and distrust.
"Now that would be telling," Megatronus responded with an innocent smile plastered on his faceplate.
I raised one of my optic ridges. "Thank you, Captain Obvious. We would be so lost without you." I said sarcastically.
Megatronus ignored my sarcasm and nodded his helm. "I know you would be lost, I know." He said, continuing our good-natured banter.
I was about to say something else, but instead turned my helm at the sound of Vector opening up another blue portal, Shadebreaker's near-hysterical laughter and my carrier's loud sigh and face-palm.
"The two most important mechs on my life... Behaving like younglings," Solus said, shaking her helm in a disappointed manner as she turned to walk through the portal, but the emotions I was getting from her side of the bond gave away her amusement.
"It's his fault!" Megatronus joked in an imitation of a youngling pouting and pointed a digit at me.
Seeing that this was going to go on for a long time if I kept replying to my sire's jokes, I just rolled my optics at his antics and walked through the portal after my carrier. I was followed closely by Megatronus, and he in turn was closely followed by Shadebreaker and her sire.
After we had all walked through the portal, Vector closed it and a brief moment of silence descended on us before Shadebreaker spoke.
"So, can you tell us what you wanted to show us?" She asked her sire, and then added with puppy-dog optics. "Pleeeeease?"
Vector simply smiled at his daughter, and suddenly, the scenery around us changed from a desert to a city completely out of silver and gold metal.
I recognized the city from War For Cybertron, it was Iacon, the capital city of Cybertron, but it wasn't any place I had been to when I played the game.
Every single building around us absolutely dwarfed anything I had seen on Earth, artificial or otherwise.
When I looked up at the massive buildings, I could see roadways twisted through the gaps between the buildings with Cybertronians in alt modes speeding through them.
Beyond the roadways, and even beyond the distant tops of the buildings, I could make out a number of seekers flying above the city in their jet forms. I also could just barely see something moving beyond the seekers, but it was too far away for me to make out any details. But whatever it was, it was monumentally huge, my best guess was that it was either a space station, or a really big ship, I was leaning towards space station.
Looking away from the tops of buildings and back down at our level, I saw mechs and femmes of various sizes and colors milling about. Some of them were entering or exiting buildings by themselves, while others were in groups of five or six and talking and laughing with each other in Cybertronian. There were even some younglings running in between the pedes of the older bots, they were laughing and shouting to each other in Cybertronian in what seemed to be a game of tag. And every so often, a Cybertronian in an alt mode would pass by, easily avoiding the bots milling about.
One thing I noticed about Cybertronian alt modes was how different they were. No two alt modes were the same, some were curved and artistic, others were made more for efficiency more than looks. Some alt modes hovered, others had wheels, there were even a few that had treads. I now had a better understanding of why Autobots and Decepticons took alt modes based on Earth vehicles, they would have stuck out more than a black sheep if they kept their Cybertronian alt modes.
I looked off to our left and noticed that there was a large gap between a nearby building and the ground we were standing on. I walked over to the gap and looked down. I immediately found out that we weren't actually standing on the ground.
As I looked through the gap, I saw another level below us that was nearly identical to the one we were standing on, and another level beyond that, and another, and another. I could see dozens if not hundreds of levels and roadways crisscrossing below me. And far, far beyond the last level within my sight, I could see a blue light emanating from an unknown source.
"Quite a sight isn't it?" My sire asked me as he and Solus walked up next to me and joined me in looking down at what I presumed was the Core of Cybertron.
"Is that what I think it is?" I answered with a question, briefly looking off to my left as Shadebreaker and her sire walked up to the gap and looked down as well. It seemed that they were having a similar conversation as my creators and I, though I couldn't hear what they were saying due to all the bots passing us by.
"If you are asking whether or not we are looking down at the outer shell of the Core of Cybertron, then the answer is yes." My carrier said with a smile.
I nodded but said nothing as I continued looking down at the Core of Cybertron's outer shell in awe. I suddenly became of how far away the Core was. I wasn't afraid of falling of course, I could have simply flown away if I was actually on Cybertron, but I was curious to know just how far it was to the Core.
"How far away is it from here?" I asked a few micro-klicks after Solus responded to my last question.
"From the outer shell to where we stand, it is approximately one-hundred and ninety-three thousand kilometers, give or take a few hundred kilometers." Megatronus replied.
I let out a loud whistle at that piece of information. That would make Cybertron more than twice as the size of Jupiter, closer to three times the size in fact. "How many bots lived here?" I asked, continuing my bombardment of questions as I looked away from Cybertron's Core and glanced at the mechs and femmes milling about.
"At the peak of the Golden Age, more than eighteen trillion bots called Cybertron home." My carrier answered casually.
My optics widened and I looked over at Solus with a slack jaw, much to her amusement as she almost immediately stifled a laugh, both through our bond and out loud, as I looked at her.
I tried to ask a question, but I found myself too shocked to form words. So, I just settled for looking at my carrier in shock.
After I hadn't spoken for a good twenty micro-klicks, Megatronus raised one of his optic ridges. "Are you malfunctioning?" He asked dryly, causing my carrier to give a brief laugh.
I shook my helm to wipe off the shocked look on my faceplate off. "No, I was just shocked by finding out that more than eighteen trillion bots once lived here ," I said and gestured to the city around us. "It's hard to get my CPU around that."
Solus nodded. "Showing you and Shadebreaker that our race was once numerous was one reason why we brought you here," she said, smiling slightly as a pair of younglings, a mechling and a femmling, ran past us. "But it is not the main reason we brought you here." She finished cryptically, and without another word, both she and Megatronus started walking into the crowd of Cybertronians.
I gave my creators a confused look as they walked away. "What was the main reason?" I asked.
She turned around and gave me a smile. "Sight-seeing," she answered simply and continued walking away as Vector and Shadebreaker joined Megatronus and her.
Not wanting to be left behind, I started after them and soon reached the four of them.
"So, what are we going to see?" I asked no one in particular once I had caught up with the Primes.
"We are going to the Decagon, it's the control center for planetary security and defense." Vector replied.
"Wait, I thought we were going sight-seeing, why are we going to see a military base?" Shadebreaker asked, tilting her helm at her sire in confusion.
Having seen what the Decagon looked like when I played War For Cybertron, I looked over at Shadebreaker and smiled. "Because Cybertronian military bases are very different from human ones," I said vaguely.
Shadebreaker shifted her confused gaze at me and seemed to be waiting for me to continue, but when I did not, she rolled her optics at my unclear statement and turned her attention to the buildings around us.
Both Shadebreaker and I didn't speak very much after that, only making an occasional observation about a few different buildings that caught our optics, but beyond that, we were completely silent.
Our creators were a different story, they would point at the massive structures around us and talk to each other about how they remembered when that building was in its planning stages with a nostalgic look in their optics. It was clear that they were enjoying looking at Cybertron just as much as Shadebreaker and I. But, I could feel sadness from Solus' side of the bond, she wanted to see her home world again, and not through a hologram, but to actually stand on its surface again.
I put my gawking at the nearby buildings on hold for a moment and sent comforting feelings through my side of our bond, the sadness I felt from Solus disappeared as she sent feelings of gratefulness and love back to me. With my carrier's sadness now gone, I sent the latter emotion Solus sent me back to her and once again started looking at the buildings around us.
We continued walking for another half breem before Solus, Megatronus and Vector came to an abrupt hault. And since Shadebreaker and I were still looking at our surroundings, we didn't notice that our creators had stopped until Shadebreaker walked into the backplates of her sire, and I stepped straight through mine.
When I accidentally walked through my sire, I looked back and noticed that everyone was looking up at something ahead of us.
I followed their gaze and widened my optics in awe, because standing in front of us, was the Decagon.
War For Cybertron didn't do the Decagon justice. The gigantic fortress was no less than a hundred kilometers tall, making the buildings near it look small, and considering how large those buildings were to begin with, that was saying a lot.
At the top of the Decagon, there were five pillars that were constantly moving in several different directions in such a way that it made them appear to have CPUs of their own. Above the pillars, there were two sections of the Decagon that floated over the main structure. The first section had smaller versions of the pillars it floated above, and the second section was spinning over the first and seemed to be changing its very shape every couple of micro-klicks. All in all, the Decagon was breath-taking.
"Whoa," Shadebreaker said, bringing me out of my stupor. "You weren't kidding when you said Cybertronian military bases were very different from human ones, were ya?"
I looked back at Shadebreaker. "No, though to be honest, I am surprised by the Decagon's appearance." I said as I turned my gaze away from Shadebreaker and went back to looking at the Decagon.
I felt rather than saw Shadebreaker give me an inquisitive look. "It seemed like you already knew what the Decagon looked like when you found out we were coming here." She said. "But now you're surprised by its appearance? How does that work?"
"A video game can only do so much to give you an idea of what something looks like, and the video game I played that had the Decagon in it doesn't do the real one any justice." I replied with a shrug and turned away from the Decagon again.
"I have to agree with you there, the Decagon is breath taking." Shadebreaker said as she looked back up at the fortress with amazement in her optics.
"That is what Megatronus and I were going for when we designed it," my carrier told Shadebreaker with a smile.
"Wait," I said. "You two," I pointed my middle and index digits at my creators. "Designed the Decagon?" I asked in surprise.
Vector chuckled. "They did. In fact, there are few structures on Cybertron that we didn't have a servo in helping to create." He said with a bit of pride in his voice, clearly referring to all of the Thirteen and not just the three currently present members.
"Really? Are there any more that are as breath-taking as the Decagon?" Shadebreaker asked her sire in an excited tone.
Vector smiled down at his creation. "Not as physically large, no. But, there is one other place we created that in some ways is even more magnificent than the Decagon, and it is a place that I am certain you will enjoy, my Little One." He said with an affectionate smile and started to walk in a different direction than we arrived.
"Oooh," Shadebreaker said as she walked after Vector, her sire's words obviously grabbing her attention. "What place is it?"
Vector gave her another smile. "It is the Hall of Records," he said simply.
Shadebreaker took a sharp breath. "We're going to the Hall of Records?" She asked, the tone in her voice led me to believe that she was on the verge of going into another youngling-like moment.
"Yes," Vector replied.
"Yay!" Shadebreaker yelled happily as she repeated her excited clapping and jumping from when she found out we were going to see the dinosaurs. After a micro-klick, she again realized what she was doing and stopped. "Not again..." She said quietly as she covered her faceplate with her servos in embarrassment.
Vector, my creators and I laughed at how Shadebreaker repeated the same youngling-like action she had earlier, and I was about to make a comment when a bot we were about to walked past caught my optic.
I turned my helm to look at the bot, and promptly double-taked at the sight of Arcee sitting on a bench.
But after I looked at her for a brief moment, I quickly realized it wasn't Arcee. The femme sitting at the bench was darker blue in color and she lacked the same wing-like appendages on her backplates. But other than that, she looked exactly like my secret crush. She was the same height, she had the same angelic faceplate, complete with the smile that could make my spark flutter, she had the same pink highlights on her wrists, pedes and the top and sides of her helm. And she had the same azure blue optics that held the look of a battle-hardened, yet still caring and slightly mischievous, warrior in them.
I continued staring at the Arcee look-alike for a few micro-klicks before a shouted greeting drew her attention, as well as my own, off to her right. And once again, I double-taked. Walking towards the Arcee look-like... Was me. But just like how the Arcee look-like looked slightly different than the real femme, my look-alike looked different than I did.
My look-alike was about forty feet tall, making him two feet shorter than my sire and five feet shorter than me. My look-alike's armor was also light grey in color instead of jet black like my armor, and he also didn't have a silver mark on the sides of his helm like I did. And he seemed to only have a ground-based alt mode since he only had wheels on his pedes and lacked my wings. But other than that, we looked identical.
My look-alike reached Arcee's look-alike and they both uttered a short greeting, which I couldn't hear, before they both leaned forward and pressed their lips together in a quick kiss and started walking in the direction the four Primes and I had come from.
I stared after the look-alikes of Arcee and I for several micro-klicks as they walked away with their servos intertwined before a flood of amusement came from my carrier's side of our bond and the sounds of several bots howling with laughter filled my audio receptors.
I turned around and saw that Vector was snickering while my carrier was doubled over and my sire leaned heavily against his staff to keep himself from falling over from laughing too hard. The only one of the Primes that wasn't laughing was Shadebreaker, who was just standing there with an innocent look on her faceplate.
"What did you say that caused this?" I asked the white and purple femme, gesturing to my nearly hysterical creators and the snickering Vector.
Shadebreaker smiled. "I said that even the holographic versions of you and Arcee are together, so maybe you should take the hint and make your move!" She replied happily, causing my creators to laugh a bit harder before they finally managed to sober themselves.
For some reason, that comment frustrated me, I couldn't place the reason for my frustration, it was just there. So, for her teasing comment, I sent a half-glare in Shadebreaker's direction. She just continued smiling at me, though it seemed that my half-glare intimidated her judging by how her door-wings twitched backwards slightly. After a moment, my sudden frustration left me and I sighed and shook my helm.
"I will not make a move when she doesn't have feelings for me," I replied to Shadebreaker's statement as I rejoined the four Primes and we resumed our walk to the Hall of Records.
"You don't know what you're missing," Shadebreaker said to me in a teasing, sing-song voice as she started to walk next to me.
"Now you don't know that for certain, son." Megatronus added, grinning at me as he crossed his servos over his chestplates. "Stop being so stubborn and make your move with Arcee."
"We all know you liiiike her already," Shadebreaker said cheekily. "It's only a matter of time before she figures it out on her own anyway."
I rolled my optics at my sire and Shadebreaker's teasing of my crush on Arcee, which seemed Solus found to be hilarious since she had been chuckling since we started walking again.
"Maybe that's a good thing. Then she can turn me down and I can get over my stupid crush." I said in an irritated voice, hoping my tone would discourage Shadebreaker and my sire from teasing me any further.
I raised an optic ridge at how Shadebreaker face-palmed and shook her helm, it sounded like she was muttering something about 'stubborn mechs' under her breath, but I didn't know for sure.
"Why are you so certain she'd turn you down if you told her?" Vector suddenly asked, raising an optic ridge at me in slight curiosity.
"Because she's a warrior that's been fighting since long before the human race had even developed writing, and I am a human turned into a Cybertronian that isn't even a quarter of a vorn old. How could she have an interest in me?" I asked rhetorically, taking note of how Shadebreaker got a thoughtful look on her faceplate before I continued. "Besides, I don't want to ruin our friendship over a stupid crush. So I plan on keeping it to myself as much as possible."
There was a brief moment of silence before Megatronus scoffed lightly at my words.
"Why can't you just admit that you love her?" He asked in an exasperated tone. "All the signs are there."
I almost glitched right then and there at Megatronus' words. He just blatantly said that I was in love with Arcee, but I wasn't... Was I? I know that my crush has lasted for a long time, but that didn't mean I was in love with Arcee... Did it? I mean, I just met Arcee in both human and Cybertron terms, that would be insane if I was in love with her just nine jours after I first met her.
'Would it?' My own CPU seemed to whisper to me as I continued to ponder over what Megatronus just said.
"He probably just feels awkward after basically seeing himself kiss Arcee," Shadebreaker said to Megatronus, pulling me from my thoughts and causing me refocus on those around me. Then, Shadebreaker mused to herself in a voice so quiet that I doubt I would have heard her if I was standing just a few feet further away. "Though, probably not as awkward as when he saw Arcee in the washracks..."
My thoughts about my feelings for Arcee were temporarily put aside as my cooling fans kicked in quietly and I gave Shadebreaker a full glare, causing her to flinch before I spoke.
"How do you know about that?" I asked in a tone that was a little more harsh than I intended as I shifted my glare to Vector and my creators, who were all either smiling or chuckling at my reaction despite the glare I was sending them.
"Well," Shadebreaker responded, drawing out the short word. "They said they showed you portions of my life. So, they thought it would only be fair if I saw some from yours." She paused a moment and her door-wings drooped slightly. "You're not mad, are you?"
I gave Shadebreaker a blank look for a moment before I sighed. "No, no I'm not mad." I said.
Shadebreaker's faceplate brightened and her door-wings perked up. "Good! Because you're scary when you're mad." She said.
My left optic twitched as Shadebreaker's words caused me to briefly think about the reason for the last time I lost my temper, Springer, particularly his last comment to Arcee before she elbowed him in the tank.
"They showed you my fight with Springer," I said matter-of-factly as I, out of habit, moved to avoid a Cybertronian walking past me.
The white and purple femme nodded. "Yup, he totally deserved that by the way," she said. "Especially for his sleazy comments," she added with a bit of anger creeping into her voice.
"What else did they show you?" I asked curiously.
"Oh!" Shadebreaker said and then happily recounted what our creators had shown her about me as we walked towards the Hall of Records. She covered everything they apparently had shown her, sometimes in what was perhaps a little too much detail, which was slightly unnerving since she was describing events in my own life. But since I could recount events in her life as well, it wasn't as unnerving as it could have been.
After she had finished explaining what Vector, Solus and Megatronus had shown her, it seemed like she was going to add something she forgot to say during her explanation, but her sire stopped her from doing so with a look that was both amused and reprimanding. After Shadebreaker looked at her sire for a few moments, she sighed and let whatever she was going to say go.
I was curious to know what she wanted to say, but I choose not to ask her about it and just looked at the buildings we walked past on our way to the Hall of Records in an effort to keep myself from thinking about what Megatronus said earlier.
It didn't work.
I couldn't keep myself from wondering if Megatronus was right. What if my crush on Arcee is something more? What if I've been misreading what my spark has been telling me since June? What if I actually loved her? If I did love her, what then? Pull her aside once I get out of the brig and finally tell her how I felt? Or just keep ignoring what my spark was telling me and hope my feelings will disappear with time?
I shook my helm to get my thoughts under control and forced myself to think about something else as we continued walking to the Hall of Records.
It was nearly a breem after I forced myself to think of things other than my feelings for Arcee that we finally came to a stop, though this time, Shadebreaker and I didn't have to walk through the backplates of out sires to realize that we had stopped. When we did come to a stop, I found that we were standing in front of a building that was clearly the Hall of Records. It wasn't any taller than most of the ones we had seen, but it was far, far wider. It was made out of a golden-hued alloy and had the same curving architectural style as the rest of the city. But, it seemed that each angle was designed with more care than most of the buildings, like they wanted to make the Hall of Records particularly appealing to the optics.
"So, are we going to go in?" Shadebreaker asked, voice filled with excitement as she looked up at the Hall of Records in awe.
Vector chuckled at his daughter and gave her an amused look. "I'm afraid we can't do that, you'll never want to leave." He said in a humor-filled voice.
"That is true," Shadebreaker responded absently as she continued to stare at the Hall of Records. "But it's just so cool..."
I raised an optic ridge at the mesmerized look on Shadebreaker's faceplate. "What has you so amazed?" I asked. "I get the feeling it isn't completely because of how the Hall of Records contains our entire history."
Shadebreaker shifted her excited look to me. "This is where Optimus worked when he was Orion Pax. And it was also home to Alpha Trion for a time." She said and then looked back at the Hall of Records in amazement.
I gave Shadebreaker a confused look that she couldn't see, I had never heard Optimus being called 'Orion Pax' before. Was that his name before he became Prime?
I mentally shrugged, there was no reason to wonder if that was once Optimus' name when I could just ask the Prime when I returned to my reality. With that, I joined Shadebreaker in staring at the Hall of Records.
As I looked at the Hall of Records, I couldn't help but feel that there was more to this building than could be seen with the optic. I couldn't place my digit on it, I just felt there was more to the Hall of Records than just data archives. Although, the fact that the Hall of Records held the entire history of our race could have been misleading me. The more I thought about that fact, the more I believed that was the reason for why I felt there was more to the Hall of Records. I mean, it was incredible to think about the sheer about of data this building contained during the Golden Age, and we lost almost all of that data when the Golden Age ended. If we ever found a way to return to Cybertron, I could almost guarantee our first stop would be here to find what historical data we could recover.
I don't know how long we stood there and admired the Hall of Records, but it was a long time. And when we suddenly returned to the desert the Thirteen had frequented in each of my visits to the Pocket Universe, I felt a small pang of disappointment as I realized the visit was about to end for Shadebreaker and I.
I looked over at Shadebreaker as I saw her door-wings droop. "Aw, the visit's over already?" She asked sadly, having reached the same conclusion as I had.
Vector sighed lightly. "I'm afraid so, Little One," he said, placing a servo on his creation's helm and rubbing it affectionately. "You and Shadowstreaker need to return to your respective realities."
"Oh," Shadebreaker said quietly, door-wings drooping further in disappointment.
"Don't sound so depressed," my carrier said to her and then smiled. "Besides, I'm sure you'll be happy to see Ratchet." She finished in a teasing tone.
Shadebreaker's door-wings twitched as I heard her cooling fans kick in. In response to Solus' teasing, she stuck out her tongue at my carrier, which caused my creators and I to laugh at her reaction.
Suddenly getting a mischievous look in her optics, Shadebreaker looked over at me. "And Shadowstreaker will be happy to see Arcee again." She teased as she gave me a grin.
Any amusement I felt instantly evaporated at Shadebreaker's teasing and I narrowed my optics at her in displeasure.
Shadebreaker just continued to smile in response until her creator wrapped his servos around her in a tight hug.
"So," Solus said as Shadebreaker and her sire started a conversation I couldn't hear. "I think you should think about what we talked about."
I gave my carrier a curious glance. "There are a lot of things we talked about while Shadebreaker and I were here, which one are you referring to?" I asked.
Megatronus wrapped a servo around my carrier's shoulder-joints and gave me a playful look. "She means what I said, you know, about you being in love with Arcee and all that." He said, giving me a smug smile as I gave a frustrated sigh. "Good luck with telling her, by the way." He finished with a wink and a thumb's up.
I didn't have time to say anything back at Megatronus before Shadebreaker and I were sent back into our respective realities.
Oh what's this? Is Shadow' starting to have doubts that his crush on Arcee is just a crush? Well, why don't you keep following the story to find out. Hehe,
I know there's parts that probably are random in this chapter, like dinosaurs in the Pocket Universe. But dang it! It was fun to write! :)
And on a side note, Fate Calls is now over 150,000 words long. O.o And I feel like I'm just getting warmed up. Lol.
BTW, I'm sorry for ending it pretty abruptly, but the chapter was already over eleven thousand words and we've been working on this for three weeks. Not only would I have delayed Crystal Prime's chapter, but I would have rushed the scenes I have in mind for after Shadow' wakes up again, so I am just going to have those be in the next chapter.
This chapter's credit song is... Nothing... Why you ask? Because it's really hard to find a song that suits getting teleported out of a Pocket Universe... Lol. Or even a song that suits Shadowstreaker's thoughts when they're walking to the Hall of Records.
So, please be sure to leave a review and thanks for reading. I'll see you soon.