Prophecy of Unicron
Summary: The continuation of Dragoon Galaxy's Blooming Mountain Love. Coby and Lori's parents don't take the news of their new relationship too well. To escape the tension, the couple leave for the mountains again, only to find out that Coby being absorbed into the Matrix carries a price.
Chapter 6: A Little More Complex
Red Alert sighed as he checked the readings. Coby and Lori had been in the recovery chamber for two hours, and yet everything stayed the same. This would be hard to explain, but it had to be done.
The door opened and Optimus stepped in, followed by Coby's and Lori's parents, and Vector Prime. Lori's mother instantly gave her unconscious daughter a worried look. "What happened?"
"She died and got brought back to life," Red Alert answered.
Optimus pinched the bridge of his nose, "No jokes, please, Red Alert."
"This isn't a joke, Commander. It really happened," Red Alert replied, tapping away furiously at his computer. "Being inside the Matrix has changed Coby's physical structure, and Lori's as well. They've been changing for the past two months. I can't believe I didn't see it before. Perhaps it was because I wasn't checking both of them at the same time, getting only half the data."
"What are you talking about?" Optimus asked, his processor going in circles.
"Remember when I told you that Coby seemed to giving off a radar signal?" Red Alert asked. Seeing Optimus nod, the medic continued. "He wasn't. It was a sparkbond signal, and it's bouncing between Coby and Lori. They're sparkmates. They've been sparkmates ever since Coby had been in the tank for a month."
"Two months before they actually joined for the first time, that makes sense," Optimus mused.
Unable to pass up the opportunity, Red Alert grinned, "You would know, wouldn't you? That is, if the rumors about you vanishing for two months to be with Eltia-1 are true."
Optimus Prime's face turned a deep purple as he opened his mouth to reply.
"Will someone please explain this in terms we can understand?" Lori's father yelled.
Vector Prime decided to explain, "When two Transformers are married, they become sparkmates. A bond created from their mutual energies links the two of them together. This is called a sparkbond. Through the sparkbond, they can sense each other's emotions, thoughts, needs, things of that nature. However, Primus, our Creator, did not wish for something you humans call 'divorce' among his children. The sparkbond between them prevents that by increasing their desire for one another. Therefore, if they are apart for long periods of time… The longer they've been sparkmated, the easier it is to control that desire, but for Coby and Lori, there was no way to stop them from joining together for much longer after they became sparkmates."
"How did this happen?" Coby's father asked, his head spinning along with the other adults.
"I don't know, but I can make an accurate guess," Vector Prime answered. "When Coby left the Matrix, he still carried a portion of the Spark of Primus with him. Lori was the first to reach him, and because of the love they shared, absorbed some of that power as well. You could say that they were literally married by Primus himself."
"I'll admit that hearing that makes me feel a little better about their relationship, but what kind of 'changes' are happening?" Lori's father asked. "Lori's not pregnant, is she?"
"No, thank goodness," Red Alert replied while thinking, If they were, we'd all be in a great deal of trouble. "Like I said, Coby's physical structure has changed, and because of their bond, Lori's structure has changed to mimic his."
"They look the same," Coby's mother said.
The medic nodded, "True, but that's not the point." He brought an image up on the main screen. "This is my latest x-ray of the two of them."
They stared at the image for a while before Coby's father spoke up, "Is this them, or a car?"
Lori's mother turned to the medic, "Does this mean what I think it means?"
Red Alert nodded, "Could be. Every single organ and tissue in their bodies, even their skin, has become a mechanical equivalent, as if they were Autobots. Instead of brains, they have powerful processors. Instead of blood, they have some type of Energon I have yet to identify. Instead of hearts, they have spark chambers. Their skin is now some sort of bio-metallic alloy that I can't identify, but have studied enough to know that it is ten times stronger than standard Autobot armor. Not even Megatron's Armor of Unicron was this strong."
"So, they have spark signals now?" Optimus asked.
"They do," Red Alert answered. Seeing the confused expressions on the parents' faces, he explained. "A spark signal is a band of energy that constantly radiates from the spark chamber. It carries all the information about a Transformer, much like human DNA, only in a form of energy. No two Transformers have the same spark signal. That brings me to my next point of concern. Lori fell from a cliff on accident, breaking her neck and splitting her head. There was no doubt she was dead the second she hit the ground. Somehow, Coby completely healed her and brought her back to life, most likely using their sparkbond. However, when he did that, I detected 3 spark signals coming from him." The medic tapped a key, and the main screen began showing the three separate wavelengths.
Optimus pinched the bridge of his nose yet again, "Red Alert, not all of us understands what we're looking at here."
"The top wavelength is Coby's personal spark signal," the medic explained. The words Unrecorded Wavelength appeared next to it. "The other two, however, I was able to cross reference. This is why I am concerned for Coby and Lori." He tapped a final key and the words Match Found came up next to the other two wavelengths. One displayed the words Classified Data: Access Denied, but the other held an all too familiar picture of a Transformer.
"Megatron?" Optimus asked in surprise. "Megatron is inside Coby's body?"
"Sort of," Red Alert answered. "Megatron's spark must have latched onto Coby when he died, before Coby was ejected from the Matrix. However, because Coby could enter the Matrix, Megatron can't possess Coby, nor leave him. For lack of a better word, Megatron is in stasis until he gets a new body, which is why Lori should still take her birth control pills. The second she conceives, Megatron will most likely be reborn."
There was a sober silence among the group as Optimus muttered under his breath, "Prick just doesn't know when to die already. But could we fight him again if he's reborn as Coby's and Lori's son?"
"Finally, I would like to know what that final wavelength is," Red Alert said, pulling everyone out of their thoughts. "I can't pull up the data, because it's classified Code Black. Only the holder of the Matrix can classify something like that."
"Don't look at me," Optimus said, holding up his hands. "I haven't classified anything Code Black my entire time as the Caretaker of the Matrix."
"I know," the medic said. "The encryption and date of the file is also too old. You wouldn't even know the access codes for this encryption, so the file: File UC-287-142 wouldn't open for you anyway. But it would open for someone else." Red Alert looked at Vector Prime, "You told us that you were Caretaker of the Matrix once. The date on the file fits into the time period that you held that position."
Now Optimus was looking at the old Transformer. "Vector Prime?"
The Time Keeper stood silently, choosing his words carefully. "I'm sorry, but I cannot open the file. It's too dangerous, which is why I locked it down in the first place. Yes, I locked it. I recognize the file number. But the contents of the file could prove to be the death of Coby, Lori, and the rest of the universe as a result. I'm sorry, but I can tell you nothing else."
"Vector Prime, I need that information," Red Alert insisted.
"I'm sorry, but the answer is no," Vector Prime replied.
Optimus folded his arms, "Vector Prime, whatever is happening to Coby and Lori, the rest of us need to know. I'm ordering you to open that file."
"No."
For a while, the room was shocked, and then Optimus sighed, "Then I'm sorry, old friend." He tapped the base intercom, "Scattershot to Med Bay." He then walked over to the old Transformer, "Vector Prime, you are under house arrest until you unlock that file."
Author's Note: Don't try to say I'm bashing Vector Prime. Vector Prime is my favorite character, and he's the only one who would do this. That makes him a brave Transformer in my book.