Nine Months Alone
Chapter Seven
In Blackest Night
And maybe, I'll find out
The way to make it back someday
To watch you, to guide you
Through the darkest of your days
If a great wave should fall
It would fall upon us all
Well I hope there's someone out there
Who can bring me back to you
If I could, then I would
I'll go wherever you will go
Way up high or down low
I'll go whoever you will go
- Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
[Knock Out to Breakdown, are you there? Come in!]
[Primus, you're alive...! Haven't heard from you in cycles. Check in more often, you aft, I thought I lost you!]
[Yeah, thanks for the warm welcome.]
[So where's the fire?]
[Breakdown, about the briefing we had with Megatron and everyone else...]
[Yeah, what about it?]
[Remember that it said it would bring the Dark warriors through the space bridge? I... I'm... I'm at-]
[You're at the bridge and you're attempting to stop them from coming? Are you insane?]
[Breakdown, listen! I know the consequences, I know the cost, but I have to do this. For her.]
[... Anyone could be listening on this frequency right now. You know what will happen if they ever found about your moonlighting romance.]
[I don't care if anyone gets this on record, I have to do this. For her. ... and I'm not gonna survive this one anyways, Breakdown.]
[Withdraw, Knock Out, withdraw! For the love of Primus, get out of there!]
[Everything I did, I did for her. She's lost so much, Breakdown... You saw what was done to those Autobots, they were slaughtered. She probably knew one or two of them, and once all of them are gone... They'll come for her. And if they didn't came for her, she'll loose so many partners... Of course, that would conflict on me sacrificing myself, but...]
[Then get out! You're gonna die, Knock Out. Once we win the war, you can keep her for as long as you like, make her your slave, but GET OUT.]
[... I'd rather have her safe... than be under Decepticon rule. She's too free and untamed to be under our... their clutches. And if my life is a cost for her freedom, and for that human friend of her's and his planet... I'd give it wholeheartedly.]
[... Whatever that femme did to you... I hope it was worth the nights I had to cover you.]
[I am very grateful for what you did for me, my friend. I can't thank you enough... Oh, one more thing, Breakdown. She's lonely... On the outside, she may seem to have it together, but inside... she's screaming. Take care of her, for me. ... It's been an honor serving with you, partner.]
[Knock Out...!]
BOOM
[...zpft... vvppppp...zzzzzzz]
"The rest of us were cleaning away the wreckage up around the Earth's atmosphere, and I happen to come across this..."
Presented to Arcee from Breakdown's mighty hand was a sparkchamber. The dim from the light of life was low, showing signs of ailing. Regardless if it was attached to a body or not, she gently grasp the soul container into her hands. For a Decepticon, it was a surprise that his sparkchamber seemed so... pure. Even as it was floating between life and death, it's golden hue and dimming sparks made it looked like as if Primus constructed the spark itself. Anyone could mistake that the spark belonged to a Bot of good intentions.
But he did have those intentions, and he was good, deep down inside. He had it all along. Maybe she was the only one to see that.
Tears just about formed into her eyes as an image of his face flashed through her mind. Even in death, the teasing smirk and tone in his voice still lingered with the living.
His chuckle just about echoed throughout the room.
"What's the matter with you? Feline gasket got your glossal, schatz?"
He was a Cybertronian, had mild disregard for the indigenous species on Earth... yet he spoke a human language other than English. It made him seem so much more romantic when he spoke to her in German.
"Thank you... This means a lot, Breakdown. Now, he'll be here... always. Not bad for a first maternity present. I love it..."
Chuckles left the both of them.
"I'm glad I found it floating in space... And if you want, we could always have a small ceremony for him."
"... Of course. He is the hero for this war. Without him we wouldn't be standing here today..."
"Out of everyone in the galaxy... you were the only one who had power over him. Not the kind of power that's overbearing, but just a word. Just one single word... You don't even have to raise your voice in order for you to make him listen. Just a few simple words... and he listens. Even though I was partly against you two being together from the start, after all this time... You made him decent. You were his saving grace. I can't even do that and I'm his closest friend... and I'm so glad you saved my friend."
"Thank you... thank you so much...!" Happy tears flowed out of her optics as she felt herself overjoyed with so many emotions.
After a warm embrace, they decided to see what needed to be done around the base before sundown. Plans for Knock Out's ceremony would be planned later on. Out of all the tension the past few weeks, of all the pain and tears... Arcee was happy. After all the loss, the tense words thrown at one another, truths painfully being hooked out of her system... Life was brimming at her fingertips. She was so happy! Nothing could taint what she was feeling, and she wasn't going to let them go.
All of a sudden, she started to feel dizzy. The room was spinning around her as if she was being spun around on her feet. Primus, what was happening to her? Why...? Out of all the times to be like this, why did it have to be now? Not when everything was back to the way it was... Not now! A spontanous jolt zapped through her mind.
"Ahh..."
The sound of Breakdown's voice and the room around her began to fade away... Slowly turning to black.
"Arcee...!"