Chapter 4 Primus
Author's Notes: Hello everyone! Sorry for keeping you waiting. The county fair just opened and lucky me gets to work in it! I hope you enjoy this new chapter. Please let me know what you think and without further ado..
Alpha Trion breathed a sigh of relief as they quietly entered his apartment in Iacon's towers above the archives. Solus was hunched over her sparkling, who was blissfully asleep in his mother's arms. She wore a hooded cape made of delicate metal alloys in an attempt to conceal her identity.
"Solus, rest now. You will need your strength." Alpha whispherd and opened his door to his room. She looked up at him her optics wide and unsure.
"It's fine, aunt, I will keep a look out and I will wake you promise."
Solus nodded and walked into the room.
"Alpha," she hesitated.
"Yes?"
"Leave the door open, please?" she asked quietly, rubbing her chest.
"Of course," Alpha Trion said letting go of the door handle and noting her vigorous rubbing. He glanced at the sparkling who was blissfully unaware and sleep.
All for the better, he thought sadly. He knew that the sparkling's father must be dead by now as Solus had been rubbing her chest plates the whole way. The ache left behind by your missing half was one a mecha wouldn't wish on his worst enemy. It is rumored that every spark brought into creation had an equal and opposite partner and that brought together one was truly whole. The pain of losing such a loved one has driven many mechas to madness and even death, as desperate sparks sought the relief of their missing halves. Solus was a strong femme with a strong reslution and was handling it well. And well she was a Prime. And Primes rarely showed emotion. And little Optimus never having met his father, never had to suffer the ache that losing a parent left. The lesser ache that was eating at Alpha Trion now.
Alpha Trion pressed a button on the side of his wall-length windows to let the metal shutters down on all but one window which overlooked the city, a sea of golden light. In the room Solus curled around her sparkling under her hooded cape. With a heavy spark Alpha Trion opened the Covenant seeking guidance from Primus.
Alpha Trion couldn't understand why Primus was allowing this. He had the power to make it stop! He had the power to bring back the Primes! He had the power to bring back his parents! Alpha Trion leaned his head back and allowed himself to feel the ache resonating in his spark where his bond to his parents had been. Yet he knew that Primus would not interfere. Primus believed that freedom was the right of every sentient being.
And as the wisest of the Primes, Alpha Trion knew that without evil, without sorrow, there could be no true good, no true happiness…
Suddenly the Covenant glowed and Primus himself appeared.
Alpha Trion gasped and stood up quickly, scrambling to show his respects in a half bow. Primus reached out and grabbed his shoulder stopping him.
"Be still, grandson." he said gently. Alpha Trion glanced over at Solus who was still recharging in the room as he took his seat once more.
" She will be fine," Primus reassured him and took a seat next to him by the window.
" I can feel the bitterness in your spark, young one. Rest assured I'm just as disappointed as you are."
Alpha Trion looked up at the gleaming face of his god, of his grandfather.
"Then why are you allowing this to occur?!" Alpha Trion demanded, not really caring that his father, Primus rest his spark, would pale at his son's rudeness.
" You know why I cannot do anything, Alpha Trion." Primus said simply. Primus looked out at the sea of lights and felt a twinge of sadness mixed with the pride he felt at how far, at how at home, his creations had gotten. Yet knowing that this glory would not last forever, not now that his Primes had come home and Megatronus had set the events into motion.
Alpha Trion stared out at the glow trying to hold back the coolant that threatened to spill over his optics.
"Where can we go, Primus? Megatronus will look for us here once he figures out where I live. The sparkling will need shelter. We won't be able to hide in the shadows forever. "
Primus picked up the Covenant and it opened to fresh page and words began to appear before Alpha Trion's optics. He read the glittering symbols and he felt his spark freeze in his chest.
He hands began to shake and he shook his head. He stood up and backed away from Primus.
"No, no,no,no,no. Absolutely, not." Primus closed the book sadly without looking at the text.
"Alpha Trion," Primus said gently.
"No! Save them! " Alpha Trion pointed towards the last reminders of his family still asleep despite his screams. The coolant that he had been holding back finally spilling over.
" Don't you dare leave us alone! Don't you dare write us out of history!"
"Alpha Trion, out of all your uncles, Megatronus took the least interest in you. He wouldn't be able to recognize your optics if you were to change your appearance. Megatronous is the only Prime who has never laid an optic on Optimus. It's the only way!"
"No, hide her! Hide her signature, hide Optimus. Why must she die? She just had her sparkling. Let her be there for him! Let her see him grow!"
"Alpha Trion, you said it yourself." Primus said standing. " The sparkling needs shelter, you cannot hide in the shadows forever."
"Don't! Don't use my words against me! T-to justify what you are allowing to happen!"
"Oh my creations, " Primus groaned. He placed his hand on Alpha Trion's shoulder and Alpha Trion felt his frame refreshen and his mind clear.
" I love you. I love all my children. But sometimes when you love intensely you have to do things you don't want to do. You have to let your creations go. "
Primus turned towards the room where Solus and the new spark slept.
"And go you must, for Megatronus has found out where you live and he knows the child is here. He will be here soon. "
With that Primus disappeared leaving Alpha Trion in the dark, the only light coming from his dimmed optics and the glowing city below. Shaking himself, Alpha Trion put the Covenant into his subspace and rushed to wake his aunt.
"Come Solus," he whispered lightly shaking her.
"He's coming, isn't he?" She asked, immediately alert. She picked up her sparkling and carefully tucked him away into her cape. Suddenly, the silence was broken by the sound of screams. Alpha Trion ran to the window and saw residents running and fires starting. The sound of running bots filled the hallways outside and screams told Alpha Trion is was too late to run out that way.
"Come Solus!" He grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his office. He closed the door and ran to his desk where he pushed a button located right under the desk. When Alpha Trion wanted to go to the market without having his fellow archivists rush to him with new problems or questions he made his way down the tower through this tunnel.
He took Optimus from Solus and she lowered herself into the tunnel. Just then there was a loud banging on the door.
"Hurry!" Solus pleaded as she reached up to grab her son. Alpha Trion felt static in the room and then suddenly an explosion rocked the tower and Solus screamed. Megatronus had blasted through the front doors. Alpha Trion who had been knocked down, scrambled to the trapdoor.
" I know you are in there! Hands where I can see them, let me see the new Prime!" Megatronous taunted as he charged up his weapon ready to blow the second door down. Alpha Trion jumped in and closed the entrance just as Megatronus blasted the door apart. Solus thrust her bundle at Alpha Trion and he instinctively held Optimus against his spark. Solus reached into her sub-space and pulled a glowing stick.
The glowing stick expanded and transformed and suddenly Solus was welding her forge. Alpha Trion stood back, unsure of what Solus would do. If Megatronus came in, should he just run with Optimus? Alpha Trion remembered the words in the Covenant and shook his head. No, Solus would be ok, and she would make it through.
Solus gripped her forge with both hands and pulled the forge back over her shoulder. She waited, steadying her breath, and narrowing her optics. Solus felt the pure energy that washed over her forge, her gift from Primus, as it recognized her signature, ready to do her bidding. The trapdoor screeched as sharp hands started to yank it up. Alpha Trion felt his tanks drop and gripped the sleeping bundle tighter. Solus however, didn't flinch and concentrated on her target. Her brothers hand. As soon as Megatronous put his hand under the door in his attempt to open it, Solus brought her forge down with a mighty scream.
Agony.
The screech that erupted from Megatronus was unlike any scream Alpha Trion had ever heard nor desired to ever hear again. Solus calmly put her forge down by the entrance and took Optimus out of Alpha Trions shocked arms. Making soothing noises at her sparkling as the screaming continued. And Alpha Trion could see why.
Solus had crushed and welded Megatronus hand to the door and opening edge. Effectively closing the entrance and buying them more time. With one last timid and horrified glance at the mighty forge Solus had left behind, Alpha Trion ran into the darkness after his family.