"To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere of the lofty structure of all that there is." -Albert Einstein
Preface
(Half a year and/or plus into the future from present time)
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Space. It is infinite, very few things occupied it when you look up at the stars an know and think deeply about it. It is one of the last great things that hadn't been contaminated by man or any other creature for that matter. Everything about the vast abyss that our own home excises in, is uncertain, unknown about it. There was nothing about the blackness with littered stars above our heads that would even be clear to us, never be known to the fullest.
Despite the vastness of the universes that the Milky Way shares existence with there were very few planets that actually had intelligent life on them. And if there was intelligent life it was most likely very primitive and the creatures that inhabited the planets had yet to look up at the stars and be able to question their existence or look up and wonder and ask 'what was up there if anything at all? Are we alone?'
There were few exceptions to this. One planet had long since asked that phenomenal question. This planet lived out of normal space and time existing in its own universe with a beautiful star to help power its cities when solar power was used or needed. Its universe was unreachable by man or machine protected by space and time itself.
One of their many main goals of the planet was to unravel space itself, map it, and explore it. But there were other goals of this planet, always is, and some goals are unknown to civilians. As the civilians of this colossal silver duo ringed pearl continue with there daily lives completely oblivious that there is something amiss that could change the fate of more than their world happening.
As of now the universes not just theirs or two others were trembling with fear while only a select few know of the turmoil-taking place. They were going to stop if with any means necessary but that wasn't there choice it was . . .someone else's.
Silence was space but as if some type of natural or unnatural phenomena a loud pop empty space was tore open revealing a large gray white hole that didn't seem to enter into anything. That's the only way it could be explained unless you saw it, space just opened up without warning. The borders of the white gray portal glowed with black spiky matter kin to electricity of unknown origins.
Black sparks were thrown out as a fuzzy grayish figure started to come into view within the portals gut like a figure in the fog. Slowly yelling could be heard from within in the gray and white smug of the portal. Like an anime flick a mostly light blue blur fell or tumbled out the lack of gravity making the figure float on. Now floating aimlessly on in space giving a quick shake of his head to clear it the metal figure looked up at the portal up side down.
Letting out a gasp the sky blue figure started trying to turn him self right side up and get out of the way before he was 'attacked' by another figure that sounded like a female scream. It was too late though with a loud clang of metal impacting with metal the slightly smaller figure collided with its companion sending them both a little father from the portal.
Silence fell from them both the electrical cracking of the portal the only sound. The smaller slenderer figure put black hand to its mouth, turquoise optics closed shut tightly.
"I think I'm going to purge my tanks," it mumbled with a femme voice from behind its hand.
The female figure was on top shook its head so it wouldn't see stars any more sighed and frowned "I think we should have mastered portals vorns ago." Shrugging, "But that's my opinion," he deadpanned dramatically.
Slowly the two untangled their limbs from the other and somewhat righted themselves. As the femme let her intakes slowly settle her companion watched quietly by her side offering quiet comfort to her. They both watched quietly as the portal they had arrived from was quit literally disintegrating right there just like a painting flaking off an old wall.
Oddly the black electricity remained as if unscathed that almost its entire mass was floating away. The two beings watched it with no concern completely us to this. The little flacks that slowly started to get smaller blew away with a nonexistent wing and turned into small insignificant subatomic partials.
The sky blue and black mech with electric blue optics looked down putting a hand around the smaller femme's shoulders. "Roulette you okay there?" he asked
She was still holding her abdomen and bent over "I'm never going to get us to that."
Giving a chuckle the sky blue mech turned around surveying the empty space around him. They went through portals plenty of times over the vorns but for some reason the small and considerably younger femme known as Roulette, never had been able to get us to it. He knew she'd be okay in a little while anyway.
Slowly the maroon black and bright red-rimed femme straightened up and put her hands on her hips. Looking over her shoulder at her sky blue companion who was looking around like he was lost. "We go through this every time," she murmured. "How many times have we done this again?"
The last few pieces of the portal were now in the process of disintegrating into nothingness. A loud annoying beeping tore them to other matters that needed tending to. The beeping had an easily remembered pattern but it lacked rhythm that's what made it so teeth grinding.
Roulette reached around to her side and pulled out a small silver device that fit easily in the palm of her hand from her sub-space pocket. Taking a quick glance over at Oblivion who was waiting patiently, serious, she flipped it open like a cell phone that didn't exist in the time frame they were in well sort anyway.
Speaking into the device little lights on its top blinking, "Agent Roulette and Oblivion here my lord" she said in a voice that didn't seem to fit her
There was a pause with only static coming out of the small device but that was understandable. They were in a different setting, fore say, and they were a long away from home.
::Please don't call me that, 'sir' will suffice nicely Roul'.::
The voice that came of the devices audio was uncannily young sounding but at the same time you could practically heard the wisdom and knowledge seeping from an experience soul. At the same time the voice sounded so familiar but not to Roulette and Oblivion they knew no other mech with the same voice. To them it was there leader's voice.
Roulette grinned ignoring her sky blue comrades snickering off to the side of her, "My apologies sir, old habit I suppose."
There was a light chuckle from the other end of the line ::Quit all right Roulette:: there was a short pause before the mech on the other line started back out again ::We got that you arrived slightly off course from your destination but it shouldn't be to far. Can you confirm your assignment is within visual Roulette?::
Humor gone only to be replaced with seriousness the femme turned around to her comrade who was already in the process of finding out this information. He turned around with his right arm, smiled as he pointed toward nine o'clock of the maroon and black femme position.
Roulette gaped at what she saw; mesmerized by it she almost forgot that she had to answer her superior, "Beautifully confirmed sir."
::Good I am sure you don't have to be told your next time for your report is due?::
Roulette turned her turquoise optics back toward the device and let a small smile grace her dark gray lips, "No sir."
::Till then::
"Till then sir. Oblivion and Roulette out."
Putting slight pressure on the back of the devices lid with a snap it closed and with one fluent motion she placed it back into sub-space. Turning back around Roulette floated over to her comrade's side an join him in their site seeing. They weren't quit sure how long they floated their awestruck at what they saw.
"It's beautiful," whispered Roulette as if afraid to break the silence.
Just out of the distance of the planets primitive satellites the two just stared down at a blue and white gem of a planet. They'd heard so many tells, seen so many pictures of this planet but never had actually seen it. From their distance they could see the landmasses, continents, the different shads of blue from the oceans below that covered 70 percent of the planet surface. Mountain ranges, volcanoes, rivers, lakes, just to name a few.
It was a spectacular site.
Oblivion made a face after a few minutes like he was deciding something serious. "It's so . . .small." Using two fingers to depict the size.
Grunting Roulette put her hand on her hip and pushed the light blue mech sending him floating away from her by accident. . .sort of. "Oblivion!"
Oblivion chuckled letting him self float until he was upside down a few feet away from the femme "What its true! You could fit like ten-thousand of that little planet inside ours!"
"Yes I know just don't insult the planet, its very important," sighing. "We have a time frame let's get going!"
Oblivion mumbled something under his breath in his native language. Up righting him self, or what felt like it since space had no up or down. Raising his arm out in front of him he narrowed his electric blue optics before completely off-lining them and became serious as he concentrated on whatever he was about to do but at the same time relaxed. Roulette floated over beside him quietly waiting and watching her comrade do his work.
Suddenly Oblivion snapped on his optics but instead of electric blue they were a foggy white. Abstract blazing light blue symbols shot up his out stretched arm ending at his shoulder and parts of his neck structure. His hand was glowing light blue with energy, you could almost feel it.
Slowly the space in front of them started twisting, that's the only was to describe it. You could almost feel the space twisting and distorting it look like ripples in a bond or pure clear water going down a drain. It was a rather unique site to say the least.
Suddenly a loud crack sounded making the ears ring. The crack was almost just like when the portal opened up that let the two of them through to where they were now. Instead of looking like fog or thick milk it was electric looking almost and rather dangerous at that. The energy from the portal and space tearing apart unnaturally started crackling sparking out everywhere dancing around the two 'bot giving them a brilliant light show.
Slowly but notable the portal was growing with size far larger than the last, a gray figure that was almost as large as the portal itself was casually coming into being. What ever was on the other side dwarfed the two bot's significantly.
And just as it had been activated the portal with a flash of luminous light the portal turned off. What Oblivion had summoned for its own sup-space was a large enough vessel to transport them both comfortably to the planet a few hundred miles that way. With the advanced technology they ship possessed they didn't have to worry about hiding.
Optics switching back to their normal electric blue Oblivion looked over at the maroon and black fem-bot floating beside him and grinned, "That never gets old ya know."
Rolling her optics, "Come on bro let's go." Oblivion frowned but followed her all the same.
The side airlock door to the ship was already opening slipping in quickly the two admittedly got to work starting up the small vessel. With only a few moments the small sleek vessel was off with a fluent motion heading toward the blue and white gem that you would know as. . .Earth.
T.B.C . . .
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A/N:
eta: 2009, 23 August. Changed some dialogue and sentence structure.
Slightly belated Christmas present for my friend, MyBlueOblivion. You've been a big influence on me as an author. I owe you a lot my friend! Oblivion is also dedicated to you as well.
Preface will be explained way later on in the story. This story takes place still early on in the G1 universe, though there's several time hops.
Transformers and all related char(s) belong to Has/Tak and ass. co.
Except for Oblivion, Roulette, and the plot, are mine.
Names and/of characters are entirely coincidental.