Oil Slick
I was actually kinda hoping that Aquila wouldn't know about her father's past in the Great War. I knew it would make her feel terrible. Her father had regretted the "Arcee situation" (as he fondly called it) at first, but as time went on, he just stopped caring a little. I liked to think that master Lockdown never forgave himself for it, but was just really good at hiding it. But morals and emotions didn't exactly matter to him until he met Shadow as Melissa Ulrich. Then he became a parent and now he was having daughter issues.
We sat out on the front lawn with Prowl and Bumblebee, both of whom were glad to explain what their leader had told them that happened.
"Ratchet told Optimus about his own encounter with your father during the Great War only after our leader was captured by Lockdown himself. It was long, long before your time, Aquila. War was destroying our home planet, and the era of the Bounty Hunter was starting to rise. Your father was hired by the Decepticon leader to capture Arcee, an Autobot intelligence officer who knew valuable access codes. All the while, Ratchet was sent to retrieve her off the field and bring her back to the Autobot headquarters" Prowl explained.
"Yeah, but Ratchet had to take the tunnels, and that's where he met your father for the first time. At first, he thought that he was just another Decepticon, but he wasn't. He was a Half-Blood. You know what that is, right?".
"Yeah" Aquila answered, "I am one".
"Okay, so anyway, Ratchet and Arcee, the intelligence officer, were both captured by your father. While Ratchet was knocked out, your dad stole his electromagnetic pulse generator-".
"You're a LIAR! MY FATHER WOULD NEVER-".
"Calm down, Aquila. Your father wasn't the same as he was back then. He still had the upgrade addiction, and he hated the war as a whole, but was forced into it. Everyone was forced into it. If it was still going on, you would be forced into it as well" Prowl tried to calm her down.
I just sat there. I already knew this story. You should've seen Master afterward. Believe me, it was…psychological, sort of speak.
(Flashback)
There he was, installing his new EMP generator, which he had rightfully stolen from his latest prey. He was crooning over it, stroking it like a precious pet. That's when I caught on that he was addicted.
"I told you Artemis was with us, Slick. Look how well she's rewarded me, kid" he showed it to me.
"I see…so, now what are you gonna do with it?".
"It's got a ton of uses. I can use it for whatever I want. Now, I gotta go back to my quarters. My altar's waiting".
He went back into the dark hall to his room, just to practice his black magic.
(End of Flashback)
"What happened then?" Aquila asked, calm now.
Prowl took it up. " Just as Arcee was about to interrogated by Megatron, she told Ratchet to use the generator to swipe her memory of the access codes. Your father interfered with the process and forced him to wipe her whole memory core".
"That's…terrible. Why would anyone want to do that?" Aquila asked.
"It was an accident" I said at last, "a very tragic accident that he later regretted. Despite Artemis's gift of a good hunt, he cost an innocent to lose her memory when it wasn't necessary to go that far".
"But why? My dad was never that brutal, right?" Aquila asked.
"Unfortunately, he kinda was. But then he met Melissa and his life turned around" Prowl explained.
"Was that my mother's name before she met him?".
"Yeah. I wasn't around when she was human, but Aimee was. She knows a lot about your mother".
"Hey Prowl, Bee, what can you tell us about the Quentissons?"
A?N: Oh yeah, this is gonna get interesting! Next Chapter: All about the Quentissons and why they're after Aquila.