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THE CHILD OF ALL SPARK
"Did she take the food?" Ironhide wondered as the little scout returned to the bridge.
"Yes and she did seem a bit calmer. She didn't scream this time but now she seems desperate for answers."
Optimus sighed from the captain's chair of the deck. "Perhaps now would be a good time to talk with her."
"So who's going?" Ironhide asked. He was eager to meet this little all spark. In spite of his gruff tone and cranky manner Ironhide has a real soft spot for sparklings and younglings. Long ago before the war he had been caretaker of these most delicate beings when they were away from their parents. He would be teased by some of the younger bots who couldn't remember before the war but he was more than a glorified nanny. At the start of the war the deceptions had begun to target autobot sparklings and youngling. Ironhide kept quite a few of them safe even after their own parents had been lost. Bee having been one of those younglings in his care.
Optimus sank back in thought. There were only four of them still active on this ship. Himself, Ironhide, Bumblebee and Ratchet.
"She can meet all of us. I do not think four will be too great a number for her to handle. We will introduce her slowly when we meet up with the others near terrain five."
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Sarah felt them coming. Something inside her knew that they were coming. Part of her was glad it would be best if she found out where she stood in the eyes of these robots. Part of her was also terrified of the answers they might give her questions. She really didn't want to be a pet.
As the door opened Sarah swallowed hard. She would not be afraid.
"May we come in?" Optimus asked. After the door was already opened. Had Sarah been more comfortable she probably would have rolled her eyes at the comment. Instead she settled for a small nod. With that Optimus followed closely but Ratchet, Ironhide and Bumblebee entered her room. Suddenly the vast ceiling and large open floor seemed very small. Sarah felt herself pulling her knees in tight as they approached the bed. Soon she was surrounded on all sides by four titans watching her. The tallest one who was red, white and blue kneeled down bringing his face more to her level. Optimus saw how hard she was trying to be brave and carefully muted his voice hoping to soften his words. He wanted to sooth this being not frighten her.
"I am Optimus Prime. I gather from my scout your designation…Your name is Sarah?" She nodded, so he continued, "We are Autobots, Advance Robotic beings from the planet Cybertron. I will do my very best to answer all your questions, simplifying where need be." Ratchet looked at Optimus. Was he really going to let her lead the conversation?
Sarah just looked at him so long that Optimus wondered if perhaps she had gone into shock. He was about to as Ratchet to scan her when." Your scout told you my name? Who is your scout?" Out of all the things she could ask this surprised him. "Bumblebee is the best scout we have." At his name Bee clicked and whistled. "Then there is Ratchet our chief medical officer." Ratchet gave a small nod. "And Iron hide out weapons specialist."
"Hey kid." Ironhide's gruff voice from behind her sent a sudden shiver up her spine but she gave him a small smile.
"Am I really in space?" She asked. Optimus followed her gaze to the window.
"Yes." He assured. The room became quiet again as she watched the stars go by.
"Am I your prisoner?" She asked in a whisper, fear finding its way into her voice.
"No." Sarah looked into Optimus's optics. He was not lying. She felt that all the way down to her core and suddenly a bit of her was mad.
"Then why am I here?" She demanded, her outburst starting the bots. "I mean thanks for the save from that four legged cat bot that hurt me but…Why am I on your ship? In outer space? Where are you taking me? And what happened to my clothes?"
"You're here for you protection." Ironhide spoke causing Sarah to whirl around on the bed to face him.
"Yes, should you have remained on your home planet, on earth; the decepticons would have ripped it apart looking for you." Ratchet added.
" Decepticons? The bad robots? And you are fighting them?" She asked. They nodded.
"Why me?" Sarah asked feeling defeated.
"Sarah we have been waiting a very long time for you. I know this will be hard to understand but you are a child of the all spark and we have been searching for you ever since the matrix told of your coming. I must beg your forgiveness though. I had no idea the being infused with the all sparks light would be a human. I fear we are not properly prepared for this trip." Optimus sighed.
"Okay…what's an all spark?" She asked.
"The all spark is a power source that gave birth to our planet. When it was destroyed or planet died. Without the all spark there can be no more of us and there can be no life on Cybertron."
"You don't reproduce will...um...female robots?" She asked feeling suddenly like perhaps she should not have asked that personal a question.
"We can but unfortunately one of the first acts of the war Megatron ordered was the systematic elimination of all femmes. Autobot and Decepticon alike. There was no place for the weak in his new idea for Cybertron. He was relying on the fact we still had the all spark to create more life. And now with you hopefully we can bring our world back to life."
"How can you be sure I'm this all spark star child or whatever?" She couldn't be, it had to be a mistake.
"There is no mistake. The matrix showed you to us." Optimus was so reassuring.
"Have you never done anything different? Anything considered an odd ability?" Ratchet asked.
"Not a thing, unless you are referring to my odd luck of having street lights turn off or on when I walk under them." Sarah smiled at her joke only the bots looked very serious at each other. "I'm getting a headache." she mumbled. This was all too much for one little human to take in.
A moment later Sarah found herself covered in a yellow beam of light. It made her feel strange but it did not hurt. After a moment it stopped. And Ratchet spoke. "I registered no pain Optimus but it does seem her body is in need of evacuating waste."
Sarah buried her face into her hands. Could this be any more embarrassing and weirder at the same time?
"Bumblebee please take Sarah down to the shower station so she can take care of her needs. Then bring her to the bridge so we can continue out talk. Ratchet, Ironhide please go about building and installing a proper disposable system."
Before Sarah could process anything more there was a very strange sound followed by a car horn honking. Somehow Bumblebee had changed from a robot to a sleek car. Sarah stared at the car her mouth hanging open like an idiot. "What? How?"
"Just enjoy the ride kid. "Ironhide laughed giving her a small push off the bed towards the waiting car.
She hesitated a moment fingering the edges of the door. Bumblebee beeped happily as she slipped into the driver's seat. He spun the tires and then peeled out of the room Sarah's scream of fright turned into squeals of enjoyment.
In a very short time, Bumblebee had brought her to the shower station. He transformed and taking Sarah to one of the massive drains he pointed. Then turned away while she flushed her waste systems.
"Done." She called and he turned back towards her. "Hey Bee?" She questioned. He beeped once showing he was listening. "You really aren't going to hurt me, are you?"
He whined and brought his face down towards her. Slowly she reached up and when Bee did not move she gently placed her tiny pale hand on his metal cheek. "You're so warm." She whispered more to herself than to him. "I just…wish I could talk to you."
A bright glow burst from nothing and pushed the two apart. Sarah tumbled to the ground and although he did not fall Bumblebee was knocked back.
"Oh Primus, Sarah are you okay? Please be okay." Bumblebee begged scooping the small form up.
"Bee? What did you say?" A dizzy Sarah murmured.
"Are you okay?"
"I think so." Realization crossed her face. "Bee I can understand you." But before he could respond she slumped still in his hands. Primus, what had he done?
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