Chapter 16
Wow, I can't believe I am on Chapter 16 already!
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Optimus disabled his commlink as they loaded him into the hauler. He was injured, but it was on purpose.
"I hate for us to be separated again," Gabby said fighting tears on their last night together.
Optimus took her hands in his holoform ones, and said, "We have to infiltrate the main base where this super weapon is, and I can find out what it is, and destroy it. You and I both know taking out the technology is not enough."
"I will have to try to come back for you, to make it look good," she said softly.
"I know, and you will make it look good," he said smiling at her.
"I hate this, but I know we have to do it," Gabby said sadly.
"I do too, but I will gladly take the focus off you for a while, and the rest of the Autobots. Once I give the signal, come and get me," he said.
"What if it doesn't work and Lockwood doesn't want you, and just tries to destroy you?" Gabby asked shaking her head in doubt.
"I have a feeling he will try to get something out of me," Optimus answered as he held his human mate.
"You know I will be there when you're ready," Gabby said smiling through tears that ran down her cheeks.
Optimus reached into the semi and took out a small radio device.
"This will help you communicate with Orianna if she tries me again. I had Ratchet make it, so you can talk to her if something happened to me," he said.
Gabby sobbed slightly. "Where do you think she is now?"
Optimus looked up into the night sky. "She was still traveling slower than light, but she may have sped up. It could be any day or week now Earth time."
"I can't wait," Gabby said with a whisper cradling the radio.
Gabby reached into her pocket, and put her father's rosaries into Optimus' hands.
"Gabby, I can't take these," he said scrunching his eyebrows at her in confusion.
Gabby smiled. "They kept me safe for a long time, and I want you to take them to do the same. I know we are from different worlds, but it's the same concept."
Optimus Prime smiled again, and put them in a safe place.
"It's almost time," he said.
"I meet with Lennox in two days after this. Then I am coming for you," she said with conviction.
"I know you will," he said.
Optimus kept himself in an almost stasis like state as he was carried somewhere in the back of the hauler.
His optics were half closed, but he could still sense things around him.
He was right Lockwood wanted him alive.
He hated keeping secrets from the rest of the Autobots, but him and Gabby both knew that if they didn't keep their plan a secret something might have went wrong.
He would make it up to them later once this was over.
The humans were able to develop material that would hold the Autobots and Decepticons prisoner.
It was from the Decepticons technology that the humans had been studying, and Optimus knew he would never be able to get it back from them.
He wished there was some way they could leave the planet and all of this behind them once and for all, but had an obligation here, and that was the mother of his sparkling.
Unless he found a compatible planet nearby Gabby would never survive more than weeks in space, if that.
He still wanted to give humans a chance. He wanted to see the good in them, but that line was becoming very thin.
He hoped after this was destroyed he could try to negotiate some kind of peace with the humans to leave them alone once and for all.
However, he had no idea if Orianna was able to defeat Unicron. He could not get a good enough answer out of her.
Now, he had to wait again for it.
No matter how he felt about the rest of the humans there were other life forms on this planet that needed protection, and that included his family.
Optimus Prime swore to protect this planet from the dangers in space, and that would never stop.
He chanced lighting up an optic and looking around. Gabby had been right there were more cyborgs than previously thought.
He had to grudgingly admire their technology. Besides, the yellow eyes they truly looked like any other human.
He knew the eyes were on purpose, but it was a marvel to see this species come so far.
Richard Lockwood knew how to play with human genetics to bring metal and organic material together. That is why he had to see their so-called super weapon. If it was something like Orianna then they could be in for a fight for their lives.
He didn't dare scan the area for fear of being discovered, but he knew they were heading east. His sensors picked up the familiar scent of farmlands.
Then they turned off the main roads, and it became bumpy for a while.
Finally, they stopped, and Optimus heard something like a huge metal door opening.
He heard the whispers from the humans that they were there. Wherever there was, because he had to keep the injuries prevalent so he could get a signal out later.
He surprised at how much they descended into some kind of tunnel. The noises became loud enough to hurt even his processors.
He was then wheeled out of the hauler, and the chains were tightened on him.
He dared a look again, and could only see a huge warehouse like structure above him. It had to be almost hundred feet tall. It was tall enough to fit the Autobots comfortably as a home if they had to hide again.
He surmised that they must have descended about a mile below ground, and the structure opened up underneath.
He quieted again as he was moved to the ground by the chains holding him by human vehicles.
He tried not to grunt and get angry by the way they were dragging him around.
He was then placed on a huge gurney, and still not dare to activate his optics.
He could hear movement from all kinds of entities around him. Humans speaking into loudspeakers, all kinds of whispering and talking going on around him in every place his active sensors could pick up.
His hands and feet were chained by the cyborgs.
He lay there for a long time just waiting to see what would happen, even though he wanted to rise and shoot everything in sight.
He knew he had to be patient, and he knew that he could count on Gabby and the other Autobots to come through for him.
Finally, he heard footsteps on the metal stairs that came up to the gurney.
"You can activate now Optimus. I know you're not that injured," the familiar human voice said.
Optimus growled slightly, but his optics lit up, and he turned to see Lockwood smiling at him.
"You knew I wouldn't destroy you didn't you?" Lockwood asked with a smirk.
"If it keeps Gabby safe, then I gladly did this for her," he answered in a low voice.
"I realized I made a mistake by trying to destroy the first time around, but now I have you, and that is a good thing," he said with a smile. "As far as Gabby is concerned, she can't hide forever. She will come for you, then I will have you both."
"That won't happen," Optimus answered trying to control his anger.
"Well, right now, I don't know how much time I have before your human lover and the others try to attack, so I need something from you," Lockwood said.
"What?"
"Tell me how the child was made," Lockwood said leaning close to Optimus' faceplates.
Optimus almost laughed. "That is what humans call private isn't it?"
"You know what I mean," Lockwood answered angrily.
"I think Gabby already told you that we don't know," Optimus answered. "Even if I did know, then do you think I would pass on that information?"
"Maybe you are lying and then maybe you're not, but I am going to try something," Lockwood said.
"Try what?"
"You called yourself a Prime. That means that you are the most powerful out of the aliens, right?"
Optimus didn't answer, and just turned slightly away from Lockwood.
"I could find no abnormalities in Gabby's genes to recreate what you both did, so I am going to try something else," he explained smiling, as Prime did not answer.
"What are you going to do?"
Lockwood paced the gurney a little, and thought for a moment.
"Well, what I am thinking of doing is completely draining your energon, and combining it with Gabby's leftover eggs, and see what happens," Lockwood explained.
"Then what?" Optimus was trying to control his anger. He had to or he would die.
"Then, if life happens I will take your matrix, and place it in that," Lockwood said pointing off in the distance.
Optimus looked to his right, and was shocked by what he was seeing.
On the other side of the bunker a carbon copy of Orianna in robotic mode stood quietly surrounded by human machinery, and scaffolding. However, Orianna was not as big as her clone.
The optics were completely dark, but he knew it was would be ready to activate if what Lockwood said is true.
Optimus knew it had to be destroyed.
He turned to the Doctor. "Why are you doing this?"
Lockwood raised his arms and looked around proudly.
"You said it yourself Optimus, we are all still in danger from your species. I had to do something to save my planet, because frankly, you are not doing the best job," he answered.
"You have no idea, what you are doing. If Unicron finds out about this, he will surely destroy you all," Optimus answered.
"So, your child was unsuccessful then?" Lockwood asked with a raised eyebrow.
Again, Optimus did not answer.
"It is not about that. There are things in this universe that should not be replicated, and my sparkling is one of them," Optimus said trying to talk some sense into this human.
Optimus shook his head a little in disgust.
"Optimus Prime, you chose to take a human lover, and she chose to take you. When you consummated that you made something that every scientist in this world envied, and we know there is a way to recreate that with or without you or Gabrielle," Lockwood said.
"Do you want me to say that I regret my decision?"
"Not at all. It is only fitting that living on this planet that would happen eventually. However, the consequences of what you both did is coming to destroy Earth," Lockwood said. "We may envy what you Gabrielle were able to do, but not without some blowback from it."
"Even without my sparkling, Unicron would come here to destroy humanity anyway. Cybertron is destroyed, and this planet was selected to be our new home," Optimus tried to reason.
"Yes, but it gave your enemy even more reason to come here. I need to fight fire with fire, and you are too blame for this," Lockwood said.
"This isn't about my enemy at all, it is about your own thirst for power over the human race," Optimus shot back.
Lockwood smiled at the revelation. "Oh yes. There will need to be leadership after this battle. There will need to be order out of chaos, hence my creation of the cyborgs."
"Who will be their new leader?" Optimus already knew the answer.
Lockwood laughed. "Whoever controls these, will have the power."
Lockwood climbed down from the gurney and started to bark orders.
Optimus knew he was trapped for right now.
So, it was just as he and Gabby thought. This super weapon was an Orianna clone.
He had to somehow get out his signal soon as to his location.