Hey y'all. Sorry it's been so long since i updated, my mom had hip surgery so I've been sitting with her a lot and watching a lot of NCIS, it's addicting. so when i do manage to pry myself away to write this i can only think of who killed petty officer lieutenant Briant and why its the wife, it's the wife, always suspect the wife! Unless the wife's the victim, then suspect the husband. and now i also have all of Gibb's rules stuck in my head, like R9 and R44-R44 is bad, really bad. But enough about me, you came to read the story, so i'll let you go. hope you enjoy...
ALSO, I've posted the first chapter of When Worlds Collide: Worlds Nexus. It's a Transformers and Avengers crossover for ya nobies...i also heard from a little birdie that Loki's going to play a part so hilarity will ensue. i suggest you read ;)
Shout Outs!:
Guest
Please update the new gargoyles chapter I'm dying know when it update
It'll be a while but i'll get to it eventually, i promise.
Aloris
Nah, it's fine. Haha, that's cool, i just wanted to make sure that if they were someone else that i wasn't forgetting them ;) Let's see, you can have Silas, yes...opps, i forget, there's already a line... XD Thanks, can't wait to hear from you again!
NovaShifter15
Yes! I couldn't help but give him more Predacons because well, i felt really guilty about making him the lone survivor again. That's great! I'll have another chapter out soon!
Cutie Kyuubi
Yeah, oh gosh, bayverse, gives me the willies thinking about the looks *shivers*
Icy's last breath
Yes! Yes she does! Progress!
Cashagon
I always want to laugh when people say that the G1 looks big and bulky, i just snicker and point to RiD.
Yes, i thought the Aerialbots would be a good transition for her into a leadership position. also, i really like them and was sad when they weren't in either series.
More Predacon fluff soon
BraveSeeker3
The best one! sorry Bee team, no where near the best.
Aliena let go of the side of a large metal structure. Ratchet smiled, "The Space Bridge is officially moved."
Optimus smiled, "Thank you old friend. With the Nemesis being inoperable it is best to reuse its resources."
Ratchet smiled, "I'm rather happy to see it go…to many unpleasant memories."
Aliena shuddered, "At least you haven't had to live in it."
Ratchet nodded understandingly before asking, "When are you planning to return? The children are becoming antsy, especially Jayce."
Aliena frowned and looked down, "Soon I hope."
Optimus nodded, "I believe some time off would be good for everyone." Aliena grinned before he continued, "But I have patrol at the moment, would you like to join me Aliena?"
"I'd love to." She grinned.
Optimus turned to Ratchet, "Have a safe trip back to Earth, old friend."
Ratchet nodded, a fond smile gracing him, "I expect to see you both soon."
Optimus transformed and Aliena followed suit. They drove/flew for a while, keeping to the edge of the Sea of Rust. It looked more alive, Aliena noted, not quite so rusted and dead as it had looked. Optimus transformed and she landed near him on the edge of a precipice just outside Kaon. She stood next to him and hummed contently as he wrapped an arm around her. "Iacon is almost rebuilt, I never thought I'd see it bright again."
Aliena smiled and laughed quietly, "Preceptor is acting like Christmas came early with the Hall of Records' restoration."
Optimus grinned, "Yes, I didn't expect most of the records to still be there and functioning."
Aliena picked up on the bit of sadness in his voice, "Don't tell me you're going to get jealous of him?"
Optimus blinked down at her, "No, though I do wish I could spend more time there."
She grinned, "Soon hopefully."
He hummed in agreement before a movement deep in the Sea of Rust caught his optic. Aliena sensed his movement and turned to look, something large—but smaller than a Predacon—was taking off. He frowned, "It seems as though Starscream might finally have revealed himself."
"I'll try and catch up to him."
Optimus nodded, "I will follow below."
She transformed and shot off for the rough Decepticon. She made faster time than Optimus but to her surprise Starscream wasn't pulling away or pushing his speed to escape, and it was impossible that, by this point, he didn't know who was following him. She commed Optimus, "Are you, seeing this?"
"Indeed, proceed with caution, it may be a trap. I will have a com ready to call for back up."
She hummed in agreement and closed the distance between her and Starscream, only to mentally freeze when he pulled up and shot over her—heading towards Optimus. Mentally berating herself she turned sharply and commed Optimus, "It's not Starscream."
Optimus' normal baritone voice answered her, "I know."
He transformed in front of the landed seeker and Aliena transformed a fair distance behind him, blasters ready and tanks churning dangerously.
"Optimus, I wondered how long it would take you to start patrols this far out."
"What do you want, Megatron? You have disbanded the Decepticons…?"
Megatron nodded, "Yes." He turned and nodded at Aliena with a slight smile, "Jemina."
She fought herself not to shake and tensed her whole body.
"She is Aliena Prime now." Optimus corrected, a bit of harshness in his voice. Megatron blinked in slight surprise but said nothing, Optimus continued, "You obviously wanted our attention, what is it?"
Megatron laughed, "Always to the point, you haven't changed a bit Optimus." Optimus said nothing, only gave him a cold look. Megatron sighed slightly, "I have heard that you are offering returning Decepticons the chance to live peacefully on the revived Cybertron."
Optimus nodded, Aliena's optics widening slightly at the hint of where he was going with the thought. "You have heard right."
Megatron looked down, a pained look in his face, before he looked up again. "I have realized what I was truly fighting for, and how much I want nothing to do with it. To you, and all of Cybertron, and all of the sparks extinguished and mislead, I deeply apologize. I understand if you cannot accept one such as myself back but I does not hurt to ask."
Optimus nodded, in deep thought, while Aliena swallowed thickly—desperately fighting to just stand still and not run away. "If I extended a welcome to Decepticons, it will be for all Decepticons, though I cannot guarantee your reception."
Megatron nodded, "Thank you Optimus, I understand. But I have a request."
Optimus' optic ridge quirked at the comment, "Yes?"
"Megatron is dead, your scout saw to that and he will not be revived."
Optimus nodded, understanding, "You wish to have a new name."
He nodded, "I am Galvatron."
Optimus extended a servo with a smile, "Then welcome home, Galvatron."
He returned the smile and clasped his servo, "It is good to return." He turned to Aliena and said rather suddenly, "I believe I also need to offer you a deep apology for my actions, they were uncalled for."
She nodded mutely, barely managing to deactivate her blasters. She took a hesitant step back and said, "I think I'll return to Iacon now…Silverbolt and Fireflight promised to show me some moves…"
As fast as Cybertronian possible, maybe then some, she transformed and shot away—ripping through the sky back to Iacon.
Optimus turned to Galvatron, "We should return and have Knockout examine you, I don't think you've had any treatment since the battle?"
Galvatron shook his helm no, "Knockout is the medic? Where is Ratchet?"
Optimus smiled, "Back on Earth."
Galvatron looked at him with surprised optics and muttered, "He actually wanted to stay on that planet?"
Optimus shook his helm and transformed, Galvatron following suit and keeping a slow pace as they headed back to Iacon.
*O*O*O*O*O*O*O*
Their first stop was the med bay were some loud protesting was coming from, no surprise. However, it did surprise Optimus slightly that it was Bulkhead's protesting. "Come on Knockout! I just need a patch job! Stop messing with the paint!"
"But it looks awful like this!" Knockout complained.
Bulkhead growled lowly, "It's fine, I just needed to get the leaking to stop."
"Come on, just let me-"
"No! Arcee! Help me!"
"Watch the finish!"
Optimus and Galvatron shared a look as they waited and listened outside.
Arcee snickered, "It does look pretty bad."
"When do I care about looks?! I gotta get the support beams and wall frames set up and done by night so we can get the city looking like normal again." There was a shuffling of tools and peeds and Bulkhead cried out, "It's fine! Completely functional! Leave it alone!"
Knockout gave a strangled grumble as Bulkhead marched out of the room then stopped dead in his tracks, optics wider than if he had seen a ghost. Arcee followed him out and instantly snarled, blasters aimed. Knockout hear their whine as they charged and ran out, only to crash into Bulkhead from pure shock.
"M-M-Megatron! You're, you-!"
Galvatron looked at him flatly, "I am now Galvatron and I have not come to harm anyone." He finished looking at Arcee who looked more than skeptical.
Knockout was the first to recover, nodding, "Well, this is, quite the shock…"
Galvatron followed him into the med bay, Arcee and Bulkhead leaving to finish the building and Optimus trailing the two former Decepticons inside. Knockout was scanning Galvatron and frowning slightly as he inspected some worse looking areas. As he inspected the scanner he started talking just so things weren't quite so awkward. "So…I take it J-Aliena accompanied you Optimus."
"Yes." Optimus answered the more statement than question. "Why?"
Knockout frowned slightly, "I was supposed to examine her today."
Optimus frowned, "I thought you had examined her?"
Knockout bobbed his helm in a so-so fashion, "When she was hurt and over extended her abilities. I don't have any kind of standard since she became a Prime."
Optimus nodded understandingly before he frowned slightly, but not at Knockout, "You haven't completed her examination yet?"
"Nope." He answered simply, "She kept pushing it off, insisting that I focus on the returnee's. I finally put my peed down and told her to come today."
Optimus laughed quietly and Galvatron blinked and Knockout scowled, "You wouldn't happen to know where she's at now, would you?" He finished, almost glaring at the present Prime.
Optimus shook his, "Probably sparing with the Aerialbots."
Knockout growled, "Figures, how does Ratchet do it?" He mumbled to himself.
"He had a more confined space to pin her." Optimus answered simply.
Knockout handed Galvatron, who looked slightly confused, an Energon cube, "Your Energon levels are low, but most of your wounds have already healed. I would suggest getting rid of the sea muck from your armor."
Galvatron nodded, contently sipping from the cube.
Knockout turned to Optimus, "If you want her to have at least a basic examination so in case anything, Primus forbid, comes up then I'd suggest you help in this endeavor."
Optimus sighed and shook his helm, "Knowing her, it probably will."
Knockout hummed.
"Come to the Hall of Records tonight, I'll make sure she's there."
Knockout scoffed slightly, "Knowing her, one look at me with a scanner and she'll become Mirage and disappear." Knockout began scraping off some of the muck on Galvatron, the sight of it driving him insane.
Optimus watched Knockout work and Galvatron asked Optimus with a slight smirk, "Now that the people are returning, are you planning to settle down?"
The tool Knockout had been using slipped made a streak in Galvatron's armor, his face a cross between horror and utter amusement, he chose to express the latter as he burst out laughing.
Galvatron looked at the medic with confusion then up at Optimus who now found the roof to be very interesting…how to tell him… "Did I miss something?" There was a beat before he smiled suddenly, "There already is someone. My, my Optimus. Moving rather quickly aren't you? None of these femes have been here for that long bar Arcee, and I know she isn't quite your type."
Optimus swallowed thickly, choosing to evade to topic for the moment, "She is quite special…what do you plan to do now that you have returned?"
Galvatron smirked, "Misdirection Optimus, you always were better at that than lying. Though still not great. So, who is the lucky feme?"
Knockout finally managed to control his laughter enough to resume working, "Oh Primus, please have someone record his reaction."
Galvatron turned his helm slightly, suspicion aroused, "So it is someone I know, or knew. Now this is interesting. Who could it be?"
Optimus turned, "I believe I should find Aliena for her examination."
Knockout hit the switch to close and lock the door, "Oh no you don't, not until you tell him. Because if it's anyone but you who does it she'll probably kill them and I'd rather not have to repair even more bots. Primus knows I get plenty of Vehicons in here every day."
Optimus weighed his words and nodded, "You're probably right."
Galvatron looked rather pleased as he took another sip from the cube, "I don't recall knowing that many femmes that you knew, especially those that had that kind of fight. Since it's not Arcee and defiantly not Chromia or Firestar…you leave quite the conundrum."
Knockout grinned and coughed "Prime" to which Optimus glared.
Galvatron frowned, not understanding, and took another sip.
Optimus sighed and finally relented, "You already met her," Galvatron smirked while he drank, "She's Aliena Prime-" Galvatron began to choke on his Energon as Optimus continued, "and she is already my Sparkmate."
Galvatron completely lost it and spit out some of the Energon while he finished choking from the shock. "I'm sorry, did you say that you were a Sparkmate with a fleshling human?! A Techno-Organic?!"
Optimus nodded, "Yes, we bonded shortly after, she…escaped the Nemesis from the Damocles incident."
Galvatron's face lost some harshness but the shock still remained. After some time he finally spoke, "And I thought you were predictable."
Optimus smirked slightly.
Knockout cleared his throat slightly and said, "I think most of that has to do with Aliena, she has taught him some…not so Prime like things."
Galvatron rubbed his helm, "Out of all the femmes on Cybertron and off…you had to choose the one that was like Elita One."
Aliena walked down the slightly busy streets. The Aerialbots were busy repairing houses and she needed to think. Absentmindedly, she wandered through the city until she reached the edge, touching the Sea of Rust. Looking around she saw that this section of the city hadn't been restored yet. Sighing, she flew up to the top of a building and sat down, if she looked out into the heart of the Sea she could see the remains of the Omega Lock and a pang of sadness hit her—reminding her of her lost chance.
Pulling her knees closer she buried her helm in them. She couldn't tell if she wished that Mega-no, Galvatron had been Starscream or not. Turmoil stirred inside her. Seeing him was like seeing Silas. Her servo gripped her side that was scared, taking deep intakes.
"Hey, thought you might be up here."
She jumped and turned to see Bee standing behind her. "Uh! Hi."
He smiled and sat down next to her, "So, I heard about what happened. How are you doing?"
She shrugged, "Alright I think. I just, need to think…how are you doing with it."
He shrugged, "Shocked, but I think I'm fine with it. Nervous though."
She hummed and nodded.
Bee turned to her, "So why are you up here?"
"Just need space." She growled quietly and buried her helm in her knees again. "This is stupid, I shouldn't be running but…he terrifies me."
Bee nodded, "He terrifies a lot of bots."
Aliena shook her head, "That not what I mean Bee. It's like, well, I'm a Prime now—as much as I think I hate it—and I just can't do things like this. Optimus is going to need me to give him a chance so others will and it just. Well he's not like the other Decepticons! I'm still wary around Knockout but, well, he never actually hurt me. And I don't really know the others that are returning, at all, so to me having Decepticon is just kind of like a name. And while I do tend to be more cautious around them, I can try to at least be courteous to them…I just don't know if I can with him."
Bee sighed and placed a servo on her shoulder, "I think a lot of bots are going to have troubles with that."
"At least they can escape it."
Bee flinched slightly but sighed sadly, "Yeah, they can."
"I just, I need some time to process it."
Bee smiled and stood, holding a servo out for her, "Well, we can start by having some fun. I heard that a race track's been built, the first race on Cybertron in centuries is about to start. Wanna come?"
She smiled and took his servo, grateful for the momentary distraction. "Sure, why not."
So, how many of you were expecting that? this will be an, interesting procession from here on out...leave your thoughts so we can talk! Till next time, which is hopefully sooner ;)
