Broken Mirrors
By: MyNameIsJag
Disclaimer: I don't own TFA, if I did…it would have been a lot more darker…and you wouldn't be here at the moment… This is the world where Soundwave succeeded in reprogramming the Autobot's, here Sari failed to save them…here, they failed to save us…
Warning: Mild sexual themes and cussing.
Chapter 4
Still Holding On
"A mirror is the self reflection of this world, where things are flipped over to another direction…is it possible there is another world where decisions are reversed and time changes the course of the universe…if those worlds were to shatter, to break…would we as well with it and the possibilities of what should have been or what could have been…"
"Ok, the main program for reconfiguration is almost ready to begin, we just need to ready the subject." BlackArachnia walked over to another computer, after the boys leaving and finally finding SoundWave, who for unknown reasons had turned himself into his own personal radio and was listening to music while annoying the others with it. He seemed really happy about it until StarScream and Blitzwing decided he needed to die.
She had to spend some time chasing the trio down and convincing the other two not to kill the small Decepticon, she then turned around and threatened him because he had made her waste time when that was the very thing she was running out of.
So now he was over at his computer sulking to himself about how a 'inferior' being and femme was pushing him around. She ignored his comments and looked back over at their little test subject, the young girl was sleeping away, occasionally twitching…probably from a nightmare…but for all she's been through…the nightmare was more then likely better then her current reality.
She shook the thought from her head and turned back to the computer, checking the indoctrination, making sure everything was in working order. She was there to make sure everything would go smoothly for the techno-organic, since she was one herself, she was supposed to know more about it then the others. True she did, but even she was worried about what could go wrong with the procedure.
SoundWave looked over at the femme, she seemed to be lost in her thoughts, he couldn't have that, "Are you ready or are you having second thoughts?" She snapped her head toward him and hissed, "I'm ready, I have been, I've been waiting for your slow aft to hurry up!"
He glared at her and muttered under his breath and walked over to Sari, placing sticky wires on her head, "If you are right about the construction of techno-organics, then we might be able to do this through electrical charges." The spiderbot nodded and preceded to type on the computer, "Yeah, yeah, let's just get this over with." He turned his head to glare at her once more, "Don't rush me, femme, there is much at stake here then you wanting to get back to mindlessly flirting with a mech, who interest in you is smaller then what the organics call ants." She turned and hissed again, glaring at him intently, he returned the glare but broke it to walk over the other console, "Let's get this over with." She sneered at him then put in a code, soon electrical streams went through the wires to the sleeping subject.
The small femme's body jerked from the sudden flow, her face twisting into pain and anguish, soft yelps came from as though a horrid creature was torturing her. BlackArachnia gave a concerned look at SoundWave, "What does this exactly do?" He shrugged and looked away uncaring, "Think of it as the worst possible situations you wish would never happen and living them, all while being fed lies." The spider shook her head, "Sounds like life already…what could be worse then that?"
-S-OP-S-OP-
Optimus sighed as he headed back to the labs, he hated when he was called on…even with the reprogramming, the others were still wary of him returning to his former ways of an Autobot.
Like hell he would, not after all what has happened and now with the possibility of Sari returning back to his side, it was all too much for him to give up.
He thought she was gone from the beginning, he couldn't forget the fear and hurt in her blue optics when she discovered what had happened…yet he relished in it…
Part of him was overly happy about the fact he was a threat to her…the other part…after the smoke and dust had settled, it hit him that she was gone…and he would never get her back…
She would run from them…from him…her fear became hate…detest toward him. Her once loving gaze that held him in place from the care and devotion she felt for him turned to revulsion and dread.
He remembered the days before when he could hear her laughter ringing throughout the base, a sound of pure bliss and one that he missed dearly. When he closed his optics he could see her spinning around, her dress lifting enough in the spins for quick glimpse of her matching panties. She got mad at him one time when he asked if the pair she was wearing had a chibi version of his face on the front.
She blushed, pointed at him yelled at him for looking then meekly said yes, she thought they were cute and she liked the fact his face was on them. He chuckled to himself as she stomped off to her room at the base, casting a look over her shoulder, still blushing with a small smile on her face.
He would push little things like that until he had her blushing mad or had both of them laughing.
The Valentines Day during the first year of her upgrade, a holiday he really didn't see the point of…until Sari showed up with energon candies she had made herself. Though a little odd looking, they were delicious…mostly because she had made them just for him and the others didn't get such treats like him.
But those days were to be lost to him now, fading memories that were never to replay once more in life…
But now…suppose there was a slight chance to rekindle the dieing affair…to bring her back into his arms, the place she truly belonged…then again…it was all just wishful thinking…
He blinked as someone rushed past him, he turned to see Ratchet moving ahead of him toward the labs…he paused in the middle of the hall as he watched the elder run into the exact room he was hoping he wasn't going to…
-S-OP-S-OP-
Screams…that's all that seemed to emit from the small femmes form, it was enough to tear into the souls of others with it's trembling horrific sound. Her body jerked as though an unseen demon was clawing it's way from inside her. Her shut optic lids would flutter like that of someone caught in a deep sleep, her small servos clinched together in small fists…
The wires that were connected to her crackled as the electrical pulses were disturbed from what seemed to be an unseen source from within the small femme form. One could tell she was in extreme pain, though not actual physical anguish but emotional…the kind that can leave invisible scars on the mind of the one at the receiving end. Forever leaving them to be someone completely different from who they were at the start…forever leaving regrets to the ones who knew them before…forever leaving an empty shell…
The two in the lab were rushing to stop the flow as the elder medic immediately rushed over to the tormented form of the fallen heroine. By the time he reached her, the wires were shut off…yet she continued on with her devastating screams…he held her down before she could unknowingly injury herself or one of them. Ratchet looked over at the other two, yelling at them to help him.
As the two rushed over to their failed experiment, the doors swung open to let in a worried Optimus. He paused at the scene for a moment, all he could see was his little love fighting for whatever life she had in her as the nightmare she was cascaded into held onto her. It seemed like one step to him as he rushed over to her, anything to help the hellish world she was in dissappear from her mind.
He couldn't exactly remember what happened after he grabbed her into his arms. Someone was yelling at him as she screamed for one final time…then everything was silent…it all happened in just a few seconds but it felt like hours in slow motion… When he finally came to he senses, he was looking down at a peacefully sleeping Sari…as though nothing had happened…
He looked over at the others, they were at the computers, Ratchet was the first to break the lasting silence. "All of you are fucking complete idiots." BlackArchnia glared over at the older mech, "Like we knew that was going to happen!" He glared back at her, "You should have been prepared for anything and you should have known the possible consequences."
Optimus looked back at Sari as he tried to block the argument, it didn't matter any more, the damage was done now…sighing he picked her limp form up, ignoring how dead she felt…all they could do was wait for her to wake up…