Asking Too Much

Chapter 4

Disclaimer: I don't own the Transformers. What I DO own though is a couple of OC's.

Pairings: Optimus X Sam, Ironhide X Will, Bumblebee X Mikaela, Ratchet X OC Autobot femme, Megatron X Huntress

Notes: I am now using, with permission of course, Mrs. Bumblebee's OC character Huntress.

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND BELATED MERRY CHRISTMAS! THIS IS MY GIFT TO ALL MY READERS! I rushed this just to catch up to 2011! Just so you know I posted this 12 midnight local time!

Blue eyes

A sweet smile

Sleek curves reminiscent of Earth Felinoids

Fire. Screams. Pleas for help.

'Megatron, my dear one. Find me. Find the truth. Help our race. The time of the end draws near.' A shrill sound echoes and two beings awake at the same time.

Megatron sat on his berth clutching at it. His park was pulsing erratically. 'Huntress… My Huntress…' His optics flickered blue for a few astroseconds before returning to red. 'Why haunt me so my beloved. Even from the beyond, the well of Spark. I have already vowed to you my vengeance why ask more of me?' His helm had been refitted anew and his body repaired and fully recharged. He stood up and left his chambers to find out what had happened in the last few joors he'd been out of commissioned.

Sam sat on his bed clutching his bed sheets still reeling from the dream. 'Huntress' his mind supplied the designation of the gorgeous femme. In the instant that Megatron and Sam's psyche met in the dream, Sam know who this femme was, no is. As Sam reviewed the last memories of the All Spark of its people before it was launched into space. Sam found inconsistencies with what many Autobot and Decepticons remembered. It seemed that many bots, mechs and femmes, just disappeared, just POOF! They were gone. Within the remaining Cybertronians' minds because of the connection of their Sparks to the AllSpark, Sam knew neither side held the disappeared mechs or femmes. In fact many of the "deaths" and "disappearances" that occurred in the "in-between" stage of peace and war in Cybertron caused Sam to shiver in fright. He doesn't feel their sparks. Stasis or not, especially if they're already off-lined Sam should still be able to feel individual sparks through the AllSpark, which had a direct connection to the Well of Sparks.

There was something that wasn't right. He could feel the AllSpark stirring inside of him because of his realizations. As if the AllSpark never saw that coming, as if that it didn't know. That was the scary part. The AllSpark knew everything, its connection to Primus made sure of it. But then if the AllSpark didn't know then… Oh Pit, Primus doesn't know about as well. He could feel as the AllSpark scrambled to communicate with their Divine Creator and the feedback was full of disbelief, shock and horror. The air around Sam became heavier and thicker as a familiar and ancient presence returned to Sam's side. Sam's vitals were going to the Pits, alerting Ratchet and the human medics. Fate as it had it; Ratchet was in a middle of a meeting with all the Autobots and the NEST top brass. They hurried to Sam's side and were horrified. Sam was calm as a clam but his temperature, his heart rate, his brain functions were through the roof.

"Sam, we would like to say welcome back but this is not a happy gathering."

"What you have realized. What you have discovered."

"Even we, the Dynasty of the Primes, do not know."

"And as you have felt, Primus did not as well."

"They have hid so many of our own."

"To have been able to hide this much of our people for so many eons, it is astounding as it is frightening."

"We had thought it was only ancients ones that are our enemies or maybe the Quintessons but this is much more frightening."

"We do not need to tell you of the dangers that will come ahead."

"Only now, everything has turned for the worse."

"The most we can help with is that you will be prepared, for the turning of tides shall happen in 3 years' time."

"Gather as much forces that you can."

"Find allies within your current enemy."

"Do everything you can before it's too late."

"We are grievously sorry for how much of your life we have taken, Sam."

"Only the promise of Primus to us is our comfort to you."

"We shall try and keep in touch."

"Hopefully, that you accept the AllSpark in you so that our communication will go ever smoother."

And much like in Egypt, Sam surged up from where he was lying surprising everyone there. His vitals started to go back to normal but Ratchet still started up all his bio-diagnostic scans, and all it was reporting was the same as Sam's monitors except that the energy anomaly that he'd found days ago was 200% stronger. This shocked him into a state. The others having noticed that Ratchet stopped moving out of shock made everyone worry. Jolt, who was a nature sympathizer and temporary secondary medic of their Earth based team, activated his own bio-diagnostic scans. It read the same as Ratchet and he also caught onto the large energy anomaly. Ratchet, feeling that Jolt made his scan was out of his stupor and reached into his subspace pocket pulling out his favorite wrench.

"All of you out! The only ones allowed to stay are Bumblebee, Mikaela and Optimus!" Ratchet said as he saw Sam gently used his hands to signal who he wanted to stay. After his outburst, he commed Jolt to inform him to not tell what he found to anyone..

:: Jolt, don't tell anyone of this. Code U1C7N. :: (1)

:: Alert and Security Level Acknowledged, CMO Ratchet. But, why? ::

:: It's not my place to say. ::

After that Ratchet data-bursted the Med Bay doors to close and lock, activating a soundproofing program on the walls.

"Sam, what happened? Everything you've told us until now, everything that we know… None of this is not adding up. Unless my other theory was true…" Ratchet started.

"What theory?" Mikaela asked.

"That Sam is somehow a conduit to the AllSpark, am I right?" Bumblebee was the one to answer. This caused everyone to stare at him.

"Yes, that's my other theory." Ratchet said in an even manner.

"You're speaking the impossible Ratchet." Optimus said.

"Then tell me, being clinically dead then surging back to life in a matter of seconds with most of his external injuries healed almost instantaneously is considered impossible, how is this that much more far-fetched?" Ratchet in a cold tone.

"Now, Ratchet don't to speak to me with that tone." Optimus said, his ever-patience loosing quickly.

"Now see here, Optimus! You might be my Prime but don't you dare and try using your authority on me just because you deem something impossible." And everything had gone downhill from there. Sam could feel the energy around him feeding the fight. He quickly realized that it was a negative energy feedback from the power the AllSpark used to communicate with Primus and his soul reaching out to the Primes in the Well of Sparks. His eyes widened in horror and turned to Bumblebee at the insistence of the AllSpark. He could see that Bumblebee was feeling the effects of the negative energy as well but couldn't discern what to do.

"Bee, its the negative energy feedback from the AllSpark that's causing this fight! It's in me and things are going to go out of hand if you don't do something!" Sam said urgently. Bumblebee understood immediately and started a series of clicks, warbles and whines that carried a tune. Sam could feel the negative energy start to diminish to the minimum that hummed just beneath his skin. After the first few stanzas of Bumblebee's song, Optimus and Ratchet stopped arguing. The melody flowed through all of them who could hear it. It was familiar in a sense but none of them recognized them except for Ratchet. Ratchet remembered this being sung by Red Cross vorns ago. She said that it was the song of time, of life, of everything. As Bumblebee let the melody die, everyone felt like they were calmer than they have ever been.

"Bumblebee… That song… but why sing it?" Ratchet asked.

"It was because it was the only way to air out the negative energy feedback from the AllSpark in me." Sam quipped.

"Sam, don't go along with Ratchet just because he said it so."

"It's true though. And I need to tell all of you the truth. Now please don't stop me from speaking." Sam said in a sad but serious tone.

"When I died in Egypt, I met the Dynasty of the Primes and was told I held a destiny. It wasn't until after I crashed on our way back when things were cleared to me. The Matrix is a right for all Primes. It is only held and activated by a Prime. Hence, the destiny that the Dynasty of the Primes for me. I am a Prime apparently, a human Prime but more than that, I also have the AllSpark in me. In Mission City, the AllSpark sent its energy through me to ready me to be its new vessel. No, not vessel it was readying me to be the new AllSpark. This was all planned by Primus since the beginning it seemed. To have a coherent and self-thinking AllSpark instead of one that is constantly manipulated by those it created. It was all planned out to the last detail that a small shard of the cube should fall into my jacket for me to touch, for it to activate the AllSpark to reconstruct itself in me. And once it finishes I'll merge with it and it's consciousness will fade away only leaving mine. Everything was planned out to the last detail. That Megatron should be raised from the dead as well, that you'd offline." Sam paused and looked straight at Optimus.

"You would not believe how angry I was at the AllSpark, and in turn, at Primus that they'd plan your downfall just to shock the AllSpark to start reconstructing itself by use of the Matrix. Gods! All are all divine beings so sneaky and cruel? And… they told me about the future. The dangers we will be facing and the promise of true peace between the Autobots and Decepticons." Sam said quietly but everyone heard him. Everyone was having a hard time grasping at the fact that Sam was not fully just Sam anymore.

"It's the reason I wasn't too surprised that mom and dad left that they'd left at all. All I know is that mom and dad will never return to my side anymore but the future is so much more promising! 'Side's twin, Sunstreaker, he's alive as well as Inferno and Red Alert! Ratchet, Red Cross, she's coming soon and you'll be so happy! Mikaela, Bumblebee… It's not wrong. It's not wrong at all and Primus Bless you two but he blesses you both!" Sam hoped that they understood and realization dawned on them and they looked at each other to only look away again. "Megatron, gosh what could I say about him… Optimus he'll always be your brother, always." Sam had tears down his cheeks remembering a lost member to the first of the Autobots who landed here. "Gosh… Jazz… he'll come back online and I can't even start to describe how happy Prowl and Bluestreak are going to be."

"They promised that and so much more guys and I know it's all true! But…" and Sam stopped as he remembered his realization.

"But what, Sam?" Optimus said in a low voice. He could feel that Sam left something out and his spark ached to hear it.

"I had a dream this morning and I suspect I shared it with Megatron." Sam stopped to look at their reactions. It seemed even after the bomb that he dropped on them, they found it in themselves to be shocked still.

"Huntress. Does her name ring a bell?" Sam asked, hoping for a good answer.

"Yes, she was brother's sparkmate. We had supposed she died, it happened just before the war. In fact we think it pretty much started up the whole war, along with many other deaths and disappearances." Optimus answered Sam, unsure how Sam knows the name of his sister-in-law.

"She was a techno-organic, a great fighter and one of the sweetest femmes you'd ever meet. No one ever thought that our dear Lord High Protector would be attracted to such a femme. But they were just meant to be, soul mates borrowing the human phrase." Ratchet continued.

"As I told you, I contain the AllSpark now, then you must understand that the AllSpark has direct communication with Primus and has a direct connection to the Well of Sparks. Well, Huntress isn't dead, so is many of those so-called deaths and disappearances. None of those that disappeared are dead or held by the opposite army in fact they're just not there. I feel every single Cybertronian Spark whether still online or had become on with the Well of Sparks. At first, I thought that you guys only numbered up to ten thousands or hundred thousands but after accessing every memory that the AllSpark still had, I learned that you guys numbered by the Millions. There are so many unaccounted Sparks that there has to be something. This is the reason for the fiasco earlier… When I had that realization, the AllSpark, which still has its own consciousness for now, contacted Primus. And man, what a surprise but Primus didn't know as well. And let's not even start on the Dynasty of the Primes. They were absolutely terrified. They though it was just another ancient mech or the Quintessons and right they fear that what we're facing is much larger. And that something is, they think, is something that is divine in nature." Sam stopped there watching them.

Mikaela moved up and hugged him with all her might.

"All of this… Sam, why didn't you tell us earlier?" Sam just hugged her back not knowing what to do.

"I was afraid, Kaela. So very afraid that you'll all just throw me somewhere, use as an experiment or that you'd not want to do anything with me." Sam said in a small voice.

"Sam! I already told you. We'd all sooner damn the whole world and lose this fragging war rather than leave you to the wolves or do anything to hurt you. You're precious to us." Ratchet said in an almost fatherly tone. Bumblebee clicked and warbled, offering his hand to his charge to climb on. He held Sam close to his Spark just like days before. "Sam, I love you. I love you, brother. There's nothing you can do and anybody can do to dissuade me."

Optimus held himself back not wanting to intrude. I love you. Bumblebee finally said it and Optimus' spark felt like it was shattered. He didn't hear any of the rest of his speech. Until Sam called him out of his stupor.

"Optimus?" Sam said in a small voice but heard between the 5 of them.

"Sam." Optimus answered, not knowing what to say.

Sam just held his arms out; wanting to be carried the way Bumblebee was carrying him. Optimus moved to hold Sam and at that moment they didn't notice anyone else. Ratchet signaled to the two to follow him out to leave the two alone. Mikaela had a silly but saddened grin on her while Ratchet and Bumblebee had cheerful bright optics. Optimus held Sam close to his spark.

He felt Sam caressing the covering to his Spark Chamber and a small shudder wracked his gigantic frame.

"Optimus. I'm so scared. Everything is happening too quickly. 3 years, Optimus that's all we have to prepare. To find allies in the Decepticons, to rebuild even just a fraction of the Autobot army and to ready myself to become what Primus had planned me to be." Sam said in a scared voice.

"Please promise me to never leave my side. To stay as long as I live. I can't stand anyone leaving me ever again, especially you, Orion." Sam said, a little afraid that he'd used Optimus' real name. Optimus jerked that Sam said his true designation but he calmed down instantly.

"I'll never leave you, Sam, never. And I'll never let you down." Optimus said resolutely.

"Oh Orion, I'm afraid that I'm just asking too much." Sam said as he quieted down and discreetly planed a small kiss on top of Optimus' Spark Chamber causing said mech to freeze up. Sam felt it and felt his heart clench. What if all of this happening would... 'No, please no... I cannot lose him, again... especially not like this.' Sam felt himself tear up.

"I'm sorry. Please just let me back on my bed. I'm tired." Optimus didn't answer and just did the request and left.

(1) Kudos to those who can read my mind and see who or what I'm referring to U1C7N

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