A ringing began to fill the room. Eva groaned still tired she grabbed her phone on her lamp table and answered. "Hello?"
"Good morning Eva." Her hair turned white in surprise. She knew that voice really well.
"Where on earth did you get this number? I never gave it to you."
"Grab your bike, it's time to go." Eva walks over to her window and sees Optimus parked outside her work shop.
"Do I have too? It's my day off and I always sleep in."
"Until we can figure out what is going on with the Decepticons, you have to be with us from dawn to dust." Eva sighs in defeat.
Before she headed outside, she packed an emergency pack to take with her. Two tessens (metal fans), two hand guns (with the safety on) also with 6 packs of amo, her pocket knife, brass knuckles, a notebook, a couple off led pencils and small black box. After she puts on her backpack she puts a weird board-like invention on top of it.
She opened her garage door and walks her motorcycle outside. She then turns on her watch. "I'm going out Judy" see you soon Eva. She puts on her helmet and hops on her bike. "Let's ride." Her bike started, then her and Optimus were on their way to the base.
Eva was humming Michael Jackson 80 songs to herself while they were driving. Optimus interrupted her.
"You have a beautiful voice."
Eva smiled at this. "This is just humming, you should hear me when I'm really singing. My dad says if I was male, I could be the twin brother of Michael Jackson. So sad that he died, Michael Jackson, not my dad. Dad is still very much alive."
"Speaking of your father, you think you can answer me and Ratchet a few questions when we get there?"
"Are they personal, and if they are, how personal are they gonna get?"
"Some might be a little personal, but you don't have to answer them if you don't want too."
"I only ask is that you don't ask them in front of Jack. If some questions are about father, I think he might be a little offended. Jack and my mom don't really get along with my father ever since he left us."
"No problem Eva."
Things were going smooth until Eva felt a cold chill going through her head. "Can we slow down a bit." Eva pulled over to the side.
Optimus pulled over to the side. "Eva, what's wrong?"
"I'm fine, I just need to…" She closes her eyes, then for a moment, she can see a little robot of death running towards Ratchet. Before she could see anything else, her eyes opened. "Ratchet… I saw him… he's being attacked by some kind of robot that represented his equipment. We got to get to base now!"
"Eva, are you sure…"
"Let's ride!" Her bike starts and she drove as fast as she could to the base.
The demotic tool began to destroy things on Ratchet's lab table including a microscope.
"I needed that!" None of them even noticed the motor sound that came in the room. Eva grabbed one of her tessens and threw it at the robot. It not only hit it, but it chopped on two of its legs.
"Phew, that was a close one, huh doctor?" Eva got off her bike and grabbed her other tessen. She hops on her hoover board, yeah that's right, a real hoover board, then they charged at each other when a giant blue foot stomped on the robot. "What?"
"And stay broken. What could have caused that?"
Optimus retracts his mask. "I have a great suspicion, Dark energon." He then notices the look on Eva's face. "Are you okay?"
Eva takes off her helmet and her hair is light green. "As you noticed my hair is light green. Do you know what that means?" Both bots shook their heads. "It means that I'm either disgusted or annoyed. Look prime, you may be my guardian, but I am not a damsel in distress. Once I start a fight, I finish it." She walks over to the crushed robot and takes out her tessen still undamaged. "Please remember that." She starts to walk away.
"Eva…" She looks at her guardian. "How did you know that Ratchet was in danger?"
"Darn, I hoping you would forget that." She scratches her head her hair turns a dark purple. "This means I'm worried, by the way. Ever since… an incident when I was 17, I started having vision on those I've met. I see vision in the future that happens 5 minutes before the event occurs. But I always call whenever I see someone in danger. When I was in the fast food joint, I had a vision of giants attacking me and my brother. Then I saw those Decepticons on my phone's reflection, they were the same color of the giants."
"Has your hair been changing color since that incident at age 17?"
"Oh no, I've had that ability since I was six years old. Kids made fun of me for that and I barely made any friends." Her hair turns blue when she says that.
Optimus kneeled down to her. "Eva. If you are not comfortable with these question…"
"It's okay. It's good to get these things off my chest especially to those who won't spill it out to the world." Eva looks at the robot. "Well let's take a break and clean up this mess. I can't look away from it." Ratchet rolls his eyes and helps her clean up.
Eva sat on Optimus's shoulder as he explains what happened. "If the residue Arcee found on Cliffjumper brought your broken equipment to life, it would stand to reason that the same substance brought Cliffjumper back from the dead."
"Wow, and I thought my life was weird. Maybe a few paranormal things here and there, but I never seen a zombie before. This dark energon must be very… well dark to be messing with life itself."
"I agree Eva. Dark energon is so scarce to be non-existence. What would it be doing here on earth?"
"It was transported… by Megatron." Eva widen her eyes at this.
"For what purpose?"
"To conquer this world by raising an army of the undead."
"Evil blood + Evil M = major mayhem for the planet Earth. But for there to be an undead army, doesn't there have to be… well a dead army? Where is he gonna find one on this planet?"
Before Optimus could response, the three bots along with their humans enter the base with happy faces on them. Eva smiles to see that the children have instantly got along with their guardians. But then her smile went away the moment she saw that Miko brought her guitar. Eva heard that the girl loves heavy metal music and Eva hates heavy metal.
Eva held on when Optimus began to walk. "Autobots, prepare to…" He stops as he looks at the three children.
Arcee began to feel concern. "Roll out?"
"Remain here. Ratchet, you come with me. Arcee, we will be outside of communications range for sometime, so I'm putting you in charge."
"Optimus, with all due respect, playing bodyguard is one thing, babysitting is another." Jack felt offensive at this. "Besides, Ratchet hasn't been in the field since the war."
"My pistons may be rusty, but my hearing is sharp as ever." (my favorite line in the series)
Eva lets out a little snicker. "Great line Ratchet."
"What about her? Did you forget her?"
Optimus looks at Eva, who does the 'please let me come' look on her face, then looks at Ratchet who does sigh in defeat. "It's only reconnaissance. Eva has proven she can take care of herself in the field."
"Why do I feel an edge in your voice?"
"Arcee, much has change in the last 24 hours, and we all need to adapt."
"Whoops, I almost forgot." Eva makes a certain whistle and her hoover board flies toward Optimus. He picks it up and gives it to her. "Thanks. Now I'm ready."
"Ratchet, bridge us out." Ratchet activates the ground bridge and both of them, along with Eva still on Optimus's shoulder, walk through the ground bridge.
When they walked all the way through, Eva felt a little nauseous. "I feel like phone is vibrating… and I'm the phone. Is that what walking through a ground is like every time?"
"You'll get use to it, Eva."
Eva gets comfy on his shoulder. "Something tells you guys brought me out here to continue our questions. You guys should know that I have my share of questions as well. So how about we exchange? I ask one, you ask one and so on."
Optimus nods at this. "Okay Eva, what is your first question?"
"Well I was going to ask something else but this question actually popped up right now. What are we doing here, I mean what are we looking for?"
"I too also share the same question, Optimus."
"The site of the largest Cybertronian battlefield in this galaxy."
Ratchet's eyes open widely. "On Earth? You must be joking."
"Do you recall the period later in the war, where both sides began hiding their energon spoils off world?" Eva sat silently as the two bots talked. This was getting really interesting.
"Of course, it's the reason energon deposits exist on planets such as this one."
"It's also the reason battles came to wage in planets such as this one, and I fear Megatron's memory is as long as history."
"Wow, that was dark and deep."
Ratchet looked at her. "Okay Eva, now it's time to answer one of our questions." She nods at him. "Is Henry Dawson really your father?"
Eva lets out a chuckle. "You are not the first one to ask that question. My fellow students in elementary, Middle, High school, even college ask me that. Some people don't like him and they think we don't look alike. But yeah, Henry Dawson is my father." Optimus and Ratchet show worried looks. "But I see him like no one else sees him. I see him as a loving father who will do anything for his daughter. He taught me everything I need to know in life, Kung Fu, Auto repair, and how to follow my heart." Eva closes her eyes and a memory comes to mind.
15 years ago
Eva was only 6 years old and she woke up in the middle of the night. She walks to her parents room and sees that her mom and dad weren't in bed. Her mom was probably at work, but where was her father. Then she hears music coming from the garage. She slowly opens the door and sees her father playing a piano while singing.
Even though I can't compare
and I'm sorry if I stare
I just want to do everything
maybe I could learn how to love
He didn't notice Eva walking toward him.
People say this love is wrong
but all I want is to belong
I can say without any doubt
everyone should learn how to love
like… you
Love… like you
Love… like yoooooooou
He continues to play the piano with a sad look in his face.
"Daddy?" Henry looks behind to see his daughter. "Are you sad?"
"I'm fine my little ninja. Daddy just had a nightmare and had to come play the piano. What's wrong, did I wake you?"
"No, I had a nightmare too. A tall scary man try to grab me."
Henry picked up his daughter and puts her next to him. "Don't be afraid of the scary monsters. If you see that scary man in your dreams, stand up against him and use the power of your heart to defeat him." He began to play a Celtic song. Eva smiles as she slowly began to sleep on his shoulder. "I will always be with you, my little ninja."
end of flashback.
"… ever since that night, I've never had another nightmare. My dad was always there for me when I'm sad or scared." Optimus and Ratchet are surprised by this story. "Well it's time for my question. I hope this doesn't scare you, but… who is Flameshot?"
"Where did you hear that name?" Optimus sounded stern at that.
"Originally, my dad said it was the name of my mother's motorcycle, but I have figured out that it is not only true, but my mother, Adeline Dawson, use to be an Autobot. Can you guys tell me the whole story?"
Optimus lets out a sigh before speaking. "It's true, Flameshot was an Autobot; in fact, she was one of the greatest scouts the team ever had. Back on Cybertron, she always kept to herself, with the exception of Bumblebee. But when we arrived on Earth, she was the first one to scan a vehicle mode and drove around Nevada. She felt free when she on the road. But one night, she was ambushed by Decepticons. She got away, but she brought home a young adult human. We found out that he was chasing Flameshot for weeks hoping to find out who is this mysterious biker." Eva snickers at that. "Flameshot explained that the human saved her life from Starscream by shooting him in the faceplate." Eva couldn't hold it in that time. "Yeah that is funny. Since he was discovered by the Decepticons, he became part of the family. Flameshot immediately volunteered to be Henry's guardian. After five years, we started to know changes in Flameshot. Not only in emotion but physically as well. Ratchet did a scan on her and noticed something wrong with her spark." Optimus stops for a minute. "Flameshot was pregnant with Henry's child." Eva notices the sadness in Optimus's eyes.
Ratchet butted in. "The baby, or should I say you, were wrapping around something important so it was a possibility that she was going to die the moment you were born. That was when the drama began."
Eva gave a confused face to Optimus. "Ratchet wanted to give, as humans would say it, an abortion."
"Oh I get it."
Ratchet was surprised at this. "You do? I was gonna…"
Eva looks at Ratchet. "Hey, if I had a teen girl that might die because of a baby, I would suggest the same thing." Eva looks back at Optimus. "Please continue."
Optimus shuts his eyes as he remembers the day Flameshot left them.
22 years ago
Ratchet, Bumblebee, Arcee, Bulkhead, even Cliffjumper stood to the side as Flameshot and Optimus have a fight.
"I'm not doing it, Optimus, and you can't make me!"
"You will die if you have this techno-organic sparkling. Are you willing to sacrifice your life for this abomination?!"
"I don't know what my child will be like, but it will NOT be an abomination!"
"How do you know that?! You can't see that far into the future. You don't know what you or your child will become. This child might become a hazard to us all…"
"You are not even listening!"
"I am leader of the team, you will listen to me!"
Flameshot groans in frustration and kicks a device into the wall. Ratchet almost said he needed that, but now wasn't the right time.
"This is so unfair!"
"What are you talking about?!"
"You were never there for me! Back on Cybertron, it was always work and you never had time for me. The only reason we ever made contact at all is the power I have inside me. Is that the reason why you want me alive?! To use that power against the Decepticons?!"
"Flameshot, you're over exaggerating."
"I'm over exaggerating? This power is all you cared about but I don't want it anymore. I will make sure my child will have the purest of heart and will be a much better holder of it than I ever had."
"Flameshot, you leave no choice. But as leader of the Autobots, I order you to abort the baby a once."
Flameshot looked in horror at her leader. She never seen him so stern before. She looks down and places her servo over her spark also where her insignia of the Autobot is. She looks up at Optimus with her stern voice. "Then I'm no longer an Autobot." She scratches her servo over her insignia deactivating her signal. She uses her power to activate the ground bridge. "Goodbye… Autobots." She transforms into her vehicle mode and drives into the ground bridge.
Bumblebee tried to stop her but Optimus stops him. "She has to follow her own path. All we do is hope she doesn't go down the wrong one."
End of flashback
Eva couldn't believe what she was hearing. She thought her life was filled with drama, but her mother was ten times more stressed than she was. "… she… didn't die after I was born. She lived till I was 2 years old."
"We know. She didn't really deactivate her signal. We've kept an eye on her while she was with you and Henry. When we were looking for her, she was dying rapidly. By the time we got there to save her… we were too late. Henry was holding on to her hand as she died with tears forming in his eyes and you were strapped on his back. We tried to comfort him, but he just looked up and had once last request. That his beloved wife be buried at the place where first met, officially. On top of Flames Peak overlooking the prairie."
"Oh yeah, I remember that place. Dad took me there and tells me for the first time that June wasn't my birth mom."
"Eva, there is something that you should know. While we were checking your mother's corpse, the power she poses wasn't inside her anymore. Which comes to our next question. Have you been experiencing powers other than visions and emotional hair?"
Eva pulls her legs in and shakes a bit. "Yes. I have powers unknown to human-kind." She was about to explain them when a cold chill went through her head. She closes her eyes and sees a glowing purple army heading toward Optimus and Ratchet. She opens her eyes slightly then widens them in shock. "Oh no."
"Eva, what did you see?"
"It's not only what I've seen, it's what I see now." She points in front of her and they all see a graveyard of Cybertronian fallen.
"For the first time in my life Optimus, I hoped that you were wrong."
Eva taps Optimus. "I have to hide, he's coming." Optimus puts her down and points at a boulder.
Just as she hides, a giant plane flies over them. Then it transforms into a spiky robot and lands on the edge of the cliff. "Optimus, been well? I see you brought your trusty watchdog. I was certain he would be convalescing in a scrapyard by now."
"Why don't you invite him down here for a chat?" Ratchet punches his fists together. Eva holds her snicker in. Maybe this bot and her can get along after all.
"I know why you are here, Megatron."
"Hardly a surprise, Optimus. After all, you and I have been at this for a long time, and your time has come to an end." Megatron shows a glowing purple crystal then throw it to the ground where the dead warriors are at rest. The ground began to shake and crack. Eva had to hold on to the boulder to remain balanced. Megatron began to glow more purple. "RISE MY ARMY!" All the dead corpses began to come to life, climb out from the ground ready for battle. Optimus and Ratchet were shocked by the result of what is happening. Eva couldn't help but peek around the boulder to see it and now she wished she haven't. "BEHOLD! THE POWER OF DARK…ENERGON!"
All the Cybertronian zombies began to walk slowly to Optimus and Ratchet.
"Oh man, this isn't good." Eva quivers in fear.
I know not my best chapter but it's what I can get when Optimus and Ratchet only have 5 to 10 minutes in the whole episode. Also I should warn you that in the next chapter, it will be a little intense and mild human blood spill.
light green - disgust or annoyed
dark purple - worried
Love like you is own by Cartoon Network in Steven Universe
Now you know why Eva has this power, but what exactly is it? Find out in the next chapter.