3rd POV
After Optimus sent Emily on her way, he turned to Ratchet, Ironhide and Jazz. Questions regarding the prophecy were stirring in his processor and he didn't like it. He didn't like the fact that a youngling, who had already lost so much could possibly lose her life. Optimus had grown on the girl, he could tell. Jazz, on the other hand, had formed a special bond with Emily. Within short time, they had already grown close, almost inseparable. They shared a love for music, being sassy and rash at times. Ever since Emily's parents appointed him as her guardian, Jazz took his job seriously, but was always fun and caring around Emily.
"Optimus, I would like to discuss Emily's current situation with you." Ratchet's voice broke through the Prime's thoughts. The CMO had finished aiding Prowl, who was sent to the control room, with Jazz in tow. Optimus nodded for him to continue.
"What is it, old friend?"
"Emily is tasked with a great purpose. She seems to think she isn't worthy and not able to do that task. Emily's powers stem from the Allspark and with that amount of power within her, in the end, she may be..."
Ratchet trailed off. He didn't want to finish the sentence, no one dared to.
Ironhide, who had been quiet for a while, spoke up.
"She's so fragging stubborn. The kid's got spirit. She won't go down without a fight."
"With you training her, we might even have a mini-Ironhide." Ratchet smirked. The weapons specialist glared at Ratchet and took a menacing step toward him. Optimus sighed in defeat. He can never get those two to stop being at each other's throats.
"Speaking of training, Ironhide, you should go meet with Emily to begin. Lennox will join you momentarily." Optimus mentioned to him. Ironhide grunted and slowly left, but as he did, the bots all heard a
Whiz!
Pop!
CRASH!
It had come from the training room. With that, the three ran, their thundering footsteps echoed throughout the base. As they neared to room they noticed it was pitch black. Lennox was by the door and tried turning on the lights but to no avail. So he went in and pulled a flashlight he conveniently had on his belt. Ratchet, Optimus and Ironhide filed into the room after the man and they were careful not to move around so much, as to not hurt Emily, wherever she was. Lennox turned the flashlight on and called out to her.
"Emily? Are you ok?"
"I'm ok!" The voice came from everyone's left and when Lennox swung his flashlight, sure enough, there was Emily. She looked like a deer in the headlights. Relieved to see she was alright, Lennox relaxed.
"What happened in here? Why are the lights out?" He asked. Emily nervously chuckled. She hung her head and kicked the ground.
"Heh, about that. I honestly have no idea how it happened!" Emily put her hands up in defense. She was afraid of how they would react is she told them.
Emily's POV
"While I was waiting for Ironhide, I decided to warm up before training. I put my headphones on to play some music while I did so. During one of my exercises, I jumped and landed. One minute, I'm just doing stuff and the next, the lights go out." I paused.
On the other hand, there was a flow of energy from my feet..."
I sucked in a breath to regain air she used up ranting. I was a little afraid of what was happening to her. Was I physically changing along with my powers? Or was this part of Primus's "plan" for me? Why now and what exactly happened just now? Ratchet was pondering over my little incident and he had a light bulb moment.
"You are a musician, Emily. Correct?" He asked. What? What does that have to do with any of this?
"Yeah, so what?" I responded. I wanted to hear where this was going.
"When you landed, the energon in your body became energized, if you would, and made its way from you and into the floor." He explained. What he said made a little more sense to me but I still didn't understand what caused it.
"Ok but I'm wondering what actually caused it. I mean what caused the energon to get on a sugar high?" I wondered. Optimus seemed to catch on to what Ratchet was trying to tell me and he stepped in to help.
"I believe your passion for music activated your power and used it in another way. What exactly were you doing while this happened?"
"I was listening to music...Oh..." something inside my brain clicked and it made sense to me. I wanted to recreate what happened to show them but obviously with the lights out in the room and Lennox standing there with his flashlight, I needed a better place to do it. Suddenly, I started to port and before I glitched out, I managed to say
"Meet me outside!"
And with that, for the second time, I left Lennox and the Autobots in confusion as to my weird motives.
3rd POV
Once again, the group was left in confusion. Lennox blinked and shook his head in disbelief.
"She is a one-of-a-kind kid. What am I going to do with her?"
He walked over to the exit of the room and turned off his flashlight. The group headed outside and found Emily right by the entrance of the base. She was grinning.
Emily's POV
The bots and Lennox arrived and approached me. I pulled my mp3 player once again and chose a song.
"You might want to step back."
Pressing play, I waited and started to sing along while I swayed to the beat.
I'm staring down myself, counting up the years
Steady hands just take the wheel
Every glance is killing me
Time to make one last appeal for the life I lead
Suddenly, the same energy from before erupted from my feet and hands this time as I tapped my foot and flicked my hands to the tempo. Shock was plastered on everyone's faces as the end of the song came.
Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah, I know that everyone get scared
But I've become what I can't be
Oh, do you see what I see.
I stopped the song and looked up shyly at them, unsure of what to say. I was still partially in shock on what had happened and seeing it a second time only made my wonder and curiosity grow. Ratchet came over to me and almost immediately started to scan me. A red laser light shown across my body and went from my head to my toes. It felt a little tingly but otherwise, not harmful. He finished and stared at me before speaking.
"Optimus was right." He stated simply.
Wow. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Somehow, the Allspark was kind of connected to my music. Since I was a kid, I knew about my powers, but seeing this brought everything to a whole new level. But I still had some questions that need to be answered. In order to find out how I was supposed to do this resurrection "ritual", I needed to look at mom and dad's file on me to get them. But where was it? I looked to Lennox.
"Do you grab my parent's file on me from the house?" He nodded.
"Yeah and if you don't mind, I need to look through it also. Orders."
It was my turn to nod. I understood that Lennox didn't want to invade in my life but seeing as though he was military and here to help me…I gazed at Optimus, Ironhide and Ratchet.
"I know I'm supposed to train with 'Hide but I need to find answers. Why was I chosen? When will the time come for me to, you know, do my thing?"
Optimus appeared to understand and dipped his helm in consent.
"I want you to come by the medbay after your training, youngling, for some scans." Ratchet requested.
"Ok." I did a 180 and Lennox joined me in returning inside. But before we got 2 feet, I had an idea.
"Lennox, you trust me right?" I asked with a slight smile.
"Yeah. Why?" he asked wearily.
"I wanna try something." And as I gripped his arm, I willed myself to port the both of us inside the base. I had never ported with someone with me before, so I wanted to test it to see if it would work. I know, really great timing to do that now, but if something happened that I need to port them somewhere safely, I needed to know that I can do it. So I ported Lennox and myself. Just when he realized what I was doing, Lennox was screaming like a girl had just spotted a spider. Seconds later, we were inside, limbs attached and all. I released my hand from Lennox's arm and smiled up at him. He turned to me and glared.
"Don't EVER do that to me again!"
"Whatever you say, Lennox. Whatever you say." After that, we silently made our way to the HQ of the base to view what would be the holy grail to everything that would define the fate of everyone.
Unknown POV
"The fleshling knows. She is the one. The Autobots do not know what kind of power they possess. They will only use it to bring back Cyberton only to dispose of me."
"What do you propose we do?"
"Take what should be rightfully ours."
