Hey! Just letting you know I'm alive! I have been busy with work for awhile, and had absolutely NO ambition to get typing. Anyway, here's the next chapter of Warlord's Bloodline for you all. Enjoy! BTW another time jump, just before Megatron enters the base. Are you all tired of time jumps yet?
"Carrier, why is everyone so nervous?" Rose asked curiously. "Megatron will be here soon." Optimus said, his voice deadpan with worry. Rose knew of the Decepticon warlord, but had never actually seen him. And much to Optimus' surprise no one who didn't already know made the connection between the likeness of the two.
"I want you to stay with the humans until we leave." He stated. "No, Carrier. I'm strong enough, I want to help." In all her life she'd never spoken something if she didn't believe it with all her spark. For this reason Optimus let her stand by the other Autobots.
Just before Ratchet opened the Ground-bridge Arcee went to stand by Rose. "It's okay if you're scared. Everybot gets scared sometimes, even Optimus." The blue two-wheeler said. Rose felt annoyed. Why did everyone assume that she was afraid?
Megatron looked around the small base. "Quaint." He said. As his optics wandered around the room he spotted a very small Autobot standing between Optimus and the medic. Her tiny frame looked much like his. "And what might your name be, Little One?" The warlord's voice rumbled and vibrated her small frame. "Rose, my nickname's Rosie." She replied with a steady, somewhat chirpy, voice. Her optics met the much larger bot's unwaveringly. Megatron admired her bravery.
Megatron smirked when he saw Jack. "I never forget a face, even that of a human." He said.
That's when Miko ran towards the large gray Decepticon. "If you double-cross anyone mine's the face you'll never forget! Never!" she shouted as loud as her voice would allow. Much to everyone's surprise, when Fowler couldn't pull her back, Rosie ran right past Megatron to help Fowler pull her away from him. 'Very brave, or is she just that selfless?' he wondered to himself.
As he watched the smaller red and gray bot whispered something to Miko; and then returned to the group. "Carrier, when are we leaving?" Rose asked the Prime. "As soon as Ratchet gets the coordinates from Megatron." The larger bot answered.
Rose worried that Miko might do something foolish, or even more foolish.
Megatron looked a little surprised when Rose came with them through the ground-bridge. "The youngling's coming with us," Megatron said incredulously "She'll get killed." Megatron protested.
The warlord knew as soon as she called Optimus "Carrier" that she was his daughter. The other Autobots noticed the concern Megatron had for Rose, and were suspicious of his motives. But Optimus had guessed Megatron figured it out. "She's strong enough, Megatron." Was Optimus' way of telling him to stay out of their business. "Okay then." The gray mech replied.
"Let's hurry up before Unicron knows we're here." Arcee sounded a little nervous.
"He already does." Rose replied. "How would you know?" The two-wheeler shot back, a little annoyed by how Rose seemed to know and she didn't. "That's a good indicator." The small bot said, while pointing to the ceiling. Arcee screamed, effectively startling everyone. But Rose, who had seen far fewer horrors in life, seemed unafraid. That caught the mech's attention, and made them look up too. Instead of a roof, as they had expected, was an eye. Rose turned her head to the side, almost unnoticeably. "What do you hear?" Optimus asked his highly observant daughter.
"Clicking, chittering, and whirring. Sounds like Unicron sent something and it sounds like they're flying." Rose answered simply.
Megatron wondered if she was always that observant, but before he had time to ask Unicron's antibodies attacked.
They fought their way though the swarm, nearly losing Arcee along the way. Nobody thought Rose would fight as well as she did, considering it was her first ever fight. But her and Bumblebee seemed to make a bit of a competition out of it.
"Is everyone okay?" Optimus called to the others. There was a variety of sounds from actual replies to Bumblebee's beeping.
"Alright then, let's keep moving." Optimus ordered.
Rose noticed that Megatron had not answered out loud, but had nodded instead. She also noticed that the Decepticon leader kept glancing back, as if to make sure she was still there. And it was bothering her!
To get him to stop she moved up by him and Optimus, who were both at the front of the group. Megatron was actually a little startled when she decided to talk to him.
"What do you do all day?" She asked seemingly out of the blue. Optimus chuckled at her out-going and curious nature.
"I do a lot of organizing and file keeping, along with making sure others do their job properly." The large mech answered after a moment's consideration. "
"That's not very different from what Carrier does, right Carrier?" She looked to Optimus to confirm her conclusion.
"We do similar things, but we do them very differently." He answered smoothly. Optimus had always had a way of saying something without actually saying it.
The door was directly in front of them now. Megatron opened the door.
Optimus tried to get his daughter to stay and help the others defend the door, but she refused to stay. She seemed convinced that she would be of more use to Optimus and Megatron than to the other bots.
"Plus too many bots in such a small place would be counterproductive, nobody would be able to do anything." Rose concluded her argument.
"The kid's right, Prime." Megatron agreed, he wanted to ask some questions, and he wanted Rose to hear the answers. Little did he know Rose had a similar thought process. Optimus gave in to that logic.
Once inside the door it sealed itself and Optimus began to drain the Matrix into Unicron's spark.
At the same time Unicron used his link to Megatron to make him kill Optimus, but Megatron was stronger willed than the destroyer had anticipated. Not My Daughter! He thought harshly to the Cybertronian deity.
When Megatron opened his optics Rose was right there with her tiny servos on his knee-plating.
"Are you okay?" she asked worriedly, but before he could answer Optimus fell to the ground. The large mech was clearly exhausted.
"Carrier!" the small bot cried as she ran to the much larger bot.
At the same moment Optimus fell Megatron was released from Unicron's influence. "Carrier?" Rose tried to get his attention. But as he got up he looked confused. He looked from Megatron, to Rose, and back again.
"Megatronus, where are we? And whose this?" he asked, shocking the other two bots. "Carrier?" Rose questioned, hoping he would snap out of it and remember.
Megatron stepped forward and helped him to his pedes. "Optimus," he said, to gauge his reaction. He got a confused look in answer. "Orion?" he tried again, this time earning a small smile in answer.
"Rose, you and your Carrier will come with me. I'll care for you until he regains his memory." Megatron said. Rose just nodded in understanding.
The other Autobots broke in just in time to see Optimus and Rose go through the Ground Bridge.
A/N Here's the latest chapter. Please R&R, no flames.