Chapter 7
I do not anything from Transformers. Just my OCs.
So, this is another flashback from two years prior. This is Optimus Prime's POV after NEST was attacked.
Two years prior
There was so many times in Optimus's life that he had been betrayed that he had since lost count. Now, the humans had turned against him and the other Autobots. It not only hurt, but it was maddening, as they would never find peace on this planet either.
Yet, he knew there was one human who would stand by him no matter what, and he had to find her.
He remembered the attack, and how the humans had developed weapons that could defeat them now.
He was angered at himself, because it was them who gave the humans the technology that was used against them. It also angered him that so many people on NEST Base had been injured or even killed because of this betrayal.
Humans made sure life was expendable. It never ceased to sicken him.
The Autobots were now separated and on the run from the people who were behind this betrayal, and from what he could understand it had been approved by those in power who were supposed to be on their side.
He told the rest of the Autobots to hide wherever they could to escape this threat. He had to find Gabby, because he heard there had been arrests of survivors for treasonous actions against for siding with the aliens. Another thing Optimus could not understand.
He had to take the chance and head back to NEST and find her despite the protests from the other Autobots. They were loyal to Gabby, but they knew their lives were in danger, so he could not fault them for it.
He disguised himself as another Semi, and rode around the base, but there were too many humans there that were the enemy that he could not take a chance to put Gabby's life in danger.
Gabby still had to be close.
It would be another two days before he finally had to give up. There had not been a word from her, and Optimus was getting more and more worried. Again, he had to give her parents the bad news that she was missing, and it killed him to do so.
He took a chance and went back to their house, but those men swarmed that place as well. He could not figure out who they were and what they wanted. He knew they had Gabby, and he would search the ends of the Earth to find her.
Then something came to him that had been bothering him. Who was that Dr. Lockwood? He had seemed like a suspicious human at the time he had visited Gabby.
He tried to get close to his friends, but he heard that Mearing was being held for questioning, and Lennox was under guard and injured. Optimus was getting more and more frustrated. When Thunderwing took Gabby, he knew his enemy, but this one was a mystery that he could not solve so easily.
Try as he might to make contact, it was no use. The other Autobots waited further instructions, and he told them to keep hiding until he could reach them.
Then he realized exactly he could go see, and suddenly took off out of Chicago.
When he reached the home, he made sure his old friend was home.
Optimus was still in disguise, and would have to continue to do so.
He knew there had to be a way to get a signal to Seymour Simmons, because he knew they would be watching him for any activity.
He suddenly remembered that Simmons gave him an untraceable phone to use when he needed something.
"I thought you were dead!" Simmons answered in his usual no nonsense fashion making Optimus smile.
"So, you heard," Optimus answered angrily.
"Yes."
"Is it safe for me there?"
There was quiet and then an answer. "I know they haven't bugged it yet, but they are watching."
"Who are they?" Optimus asked.
"I was going to ask you the same thing. I have been trying to hack the systems to see who they are," Simmons answered.
"I need information…."Optimus stopped for a moment. "I think they took Gabby."
"I need to find who they are," Simmons answered. "Give me another day or so, and we will meet in a safe place."
Optimus was getting restless when Simmons finally came up with information and met him later on.
Optimus scanned the area, and could not locate the enemy in the vicinity. He felt it was safe enough to change to holoform, and get into Simmons car.
"Who are they?" Optimus asked straight out.
"Ok, the only information I could come up with is a new group of scientists wanting to create a new weapon just like your kid," Simmons answered. "The rest is as secret as Sector 7 was."
"Are they government?"
"From all over the world," Simmons answered.
Optimus thought for a moment and said, "There was a genetics professor that did some testing on Gabrielle right before the attack."
This piqued Simmons interest. "What was his name?"
"A Doctor Richard Lockwood," Optimus answered grimly. "He was a professor of genetics studies, and apparently a CIA informant."
"Ha!" Simmons said. "He was more than that. He was responsible for mutating genes in many animal and human forms."
Simmons then thought for a moment. "It makes sense they would put him in charge of this operation. He probably needs Gabby's DNA for testing, and maybe more than that."
"What do you mean more than that?"
"He will try to replicate your kid, Optimus. She was the perfect weapon being half human, and half alien. He will need Gabrielle for that, because she was the only human to succeed having an alien child….well….that we know of," Simmons said.
Optimus growled lowly. "My sparkling cannot be replicated as you are saying. We know, we tried," he said.
"Then they will do it in other ways if they are successful," Simmons shot back.
"Then why are they trying to destroy us?"
"It's simple really. You would destroy their experiment," Simmons answered again rubbing his chin.
That did make sense. There was only one Orianna, and she could not be cloned, and the Autobots would never allow it.
"Do you know where she is?"
"They have locations all over the world. She could be anywhere, and if I know Lockwood he would not take any chances with her location. He will cover all of his bases, but I would start in Washington DC, though that would be too obvious," Simmons said.
Optimus shook his holoform head in frustration. This was like Thunderwing all over again.
"Let me start in Washington, and you go to this location on the west coast," Simmons said handing Optimus a map with the locations marked.
"Are you sure you want to do this? You could be arrested again," Optimus said raising a holoform eyebrow.
Simmons scoffed and shrugged. "Eh, I got nothing left to lose anymore. Where are the other Autobots?"
"I have told them to keep hiding until they have my word to find Gabby and get her out," Optimus answered.
"Good! They are after all of you, and are determined to destroy you to further their agenda," Simmons said.
Optimus nodded, and continued to feel his anger rising.
"Thank you, Simmons. I look forward to your information," Optimus said exiting the car and disengaging his holoform.
It would be two months and he drove all over the country trying to find Gabby, but nothing came up. Simmons had gotten himself arrested again for snooping around in Kansas somewhere. Optimus had gone there thinking she may have been there, but nothing again.
His anger was turning to rage as he heard that Brains was missing now, and the twins had been caught and taken as well.
Then another month would pass, and Sideswipe was now gone, and who only knew where. He made sure the other Autobots would still continue to hide out even though they were getting restless, and that meant they were making stupid decisions, and that meant them disappearing.
He knew he was taking a chance and went to see Lennox. Will was now under a watch that he could not penetrate, but he did manage to somehow to get a message to Ironhide. He told him that Gabby was not where he thought she would be. He had to look into other things, such as private entities.
Ironhide had also been attacked because of making contact with Lennox, but barely managed to escape from what Optimus had heard.
This was now the second time he was separated from Gabby, and now he was getting desperate, and it was making him do stupid things.
He prayed to Primus for answer, but this time none came. He had to stop sending signals into space, because he could no longer take a chance. He did not want to put Orianna at risk now either. The last message he did send her was to stay in outer space until further notice, but of course, there was no answer back.
Then something came to him that gave him some hope after months of searching. Mearing managed to get through to his commlink. She said that Gabby was in New York City, and it was a business that Lockwood was consulting with. She didn't know much else, but she surmised they had Gabby there.
He had been so close when he finally drove through a small town in Pennsylvania. However, because he let his emotions overpower his preparedness, he was not ready for what came on the lonely country rode that he was traveling.
They had been ready for him. He wondered how long they had been waiting when he slammed on his brakes, and transformed into robot mode.
Jets surged overhead, guns were ready to fire, and big vehicles blocked his path.
He turned to see more of them coming at him from above and on the ground. He was completely surrounded. He readied every weapon he could think of.
He looked to see that Doctor Lockwood was in a helicopter above him, and the smile was something Optimus would remember, because he swore he would never kill a human intentionally, but he might make an exception in this case.
"Thanks for everything alien, oh, and a special thank you for making the thing you did. Your information has been more than what we needed," he said through a speaker in the helicopter.
"Give me the girl!" Optimus yelled back at him.
Lockwood laughed, and said, "Kill him."
Every cannon and gun in the human's possession began to fire on him. Explosions were all around him, and he did his best to escape the line of fire, and shoot back.
He fought his through the vehicles with his energon charged sword, throwing some of the humans like they were dolls. At that moment, it was no longer about his personal morals, it was about total survival, and now he knew what the twins and Sides must have went through when they were caught.
He was hit more than once, he tried to get out of the line of fire, but his optic was taken out, and he could barely see. He screamed as the pain tore through his body. This was the ultimate betrayal that he dreaded all along on this planet.
How he managed to break free, and transform back in vehicle mode, he would never know, but he rode as he could to try to avoid the fighter jets as they passed above him. He knew he still had one working cannon, and used it, and was able to take them out.
Scanning the area behind him, he knew he had time, but his processors were starting to overload, and he could not think straight. He was too injured, and getting weaker as energon slowly leaked from him.
Doing one last scan, he realized there was ledge into a ravine nearby. Luckily, the ravine was dry, and he would not rust.
Taking the turn off the road and down a dirt road, he broke through some trees and down into the ravine he went.
He barely made it out of the other side, and had to transform again as he climbed up the other side. He turned and could see the enemy behind him and begin to fire their weapons. He made it up the other side.
He then got back into vehicle mode, and took one last shot with his cannon to take out the bridge the vehicles began to cross.
He drove off, and had to find someplace to hide. He swore before his processors and circuits began to fail that he would find Gabby no matter how long it took.
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Ok, so next chapter will be Gabby's POV again in a flashback, and her escape from Lockwood, and how she was on the run for a long time before her and Optimus came together again. I do have a surprise in an upcoming chapter.