In this chapter we introduce our OC's. Sirena, a Decepticon Prime and sister of Optimus. She is currently the highest ranking Cybertronian left. And Shadow. The Queen of the race and ties with Sirena on rank. She is an old friend of Optimus's and Like the sibling's sister. As always, this is desiccated to SparkySparkfire. This is also me trying to get my word count up but hey! Enjoy!
Chapter 26
Suddenly the computer showed a starship entering the atmosphere.
"Woah that ships coming in way too fast" Bee said as she looked at the computer.
"We better go check that out" Soundwave says as they watch the ship crash.
"You think?" Bee asked sarcastically, Optimus gave the order and together Bee, Optimus, Soundwave and Madelyn went through the ground bridge to the sight of the crash. Madelyn was allowed to go if she listened to what Optimus said.
"IT WASN'T MY FAULT!" Was the first thing they heard.
"Well what were you doing near the controls then?" a femme asked another, her hands on her hips.
"We were falling outta the sky! What did you want me to do? Runaway screaming?!" The other replied to the first in a Texan accent.
"Not touch the controls! We had an agreement" the second to speak sassed back in a posh basically British accent.
"Well I'm sorry miss high and mighty!" The southerner snapped back.
"Don't start with me" she warned, they kept bickering without noticing the appearance of the others.
"Bite me!" The first hissed.
"Original it's only the millionth time you've used that during our journey" the second sassed back.
"Go frag yourself!" The southerner shouts at she threw a rock at the Brit. the Brit ducked quickly when she saw the flying object. the rock flew past and hit Soundwave.
"Hey! Watch where you throw that thing Prime!" Soundwave hissed. The Brit quickly stood up and looked at the new group of people in surprise, she had not noticed them there. She had a confused look on her face as to how the man possibly knew that the southerner was a Prime.
"Frag off Wavey!" The southerner shouts back.
"Wavey?" the Brit muttered quietly, she was wary of the newcomers while keeping an eye on the femme Prime.
"Aw! You missed me!" Soundwave teased the southerner.
"What is going on?" Bee quietly asked Optimus.
"I have no idea" Optimus muttered back. The southerner was getting so worked up she went to tackle Soundwave, but the brit took her down and sat on her back first.
"Shadow. I swear to primus if you don't get off me..." the southerner threatens.
"Not happening Sirena" The Brit, 'Shadow', said not moving, "You're gonna hurt someone and I'd much rather that it was me"
"OK then" Sirens said as she bent her legs back and wrapped then around shadows neck and flipped her off. She landed not far from the bots, from the ground she mumbled, "Should've seen that coming"
"You shouldn't sit on a Prime, shadow. It can be considered treason" Sirena tells her as she walks over. Shadow mumbled some things under her breath as she picked herself up from the ground, "Treason to the cons perhaps or even if we had a Council or royal court... but we have neither" she replied.
"Technically we have a Council but optimus went MIA years ago so..." Sirena says as she hugs Soundwave.
"Optimus wasn't officially on the court before the war reached its peak" Shadow pointed out.
"When the rest of the court and council was killed by Megatron, he got promoted" Sirena explained.
"Yeah I was there remember?" Shadow asked.
"Yeah..." Sirena said looking at the ground. "I remember. You shot my mother's murderer" she said as tears fell.
"Yeah I did" Shadow said quietly. Soundwave hugged Sirena and then turned back to Knockout. Sirena hugged Shadow "thank you" she whispered.
"you're welcome" Shadow whispered back as she gave a little hug.
"So, where are we?" Sirena asks.
"And what are we?" Shadow asked.
"And who the hell are you?" Sirena finished.
"Good questions" Shadow said.
"Now somebody please answer" Sirena demanded. Shadow gasped, "you said please, oh I'm so proud" she said hand on spark. Sirena slapped her.
"I expected something worse, still proud" Shadow said as she recovered and went to hit Sirena back. "Okay so that's nice and all but I think a better question would be who are you?" Bee spoke up.
"I'm Sirena Prime, Member of the Royal Court and high seat of the Cybertronian Council and Decepticon, not that it means much anymore, any of it really. And this is Shadow, partner in crime and slightly freaking me out" Sirena replied.
"Thanks" Shadow whispered, she hated when people knew her real title. the others *cough* *cough* Bee, were surprised by the news.
"You know I still out rank you right?" Sirena whispered to Shadow.
"Not if I were to be queen" Shadow pointed out quietly, "I would've had final say in every decision"...
"Not exactly... the queen still had to listen to the Primes, though it's not like I could say no to you anyway. You're like my sister" Sirena says. "So, who are you guys?" She asks the group.
"Is it strange that they're standing right there and even I couldn't hear what they said?" Madelyn asked.
"that's rude" Sirena says "Now who the pit are you?"
"Do we tell them?" Bee asked Optimus quietly, "I mean she just said that they were cons".
"Oh, Sirena is a con, I'm an Autobot" Shadow spoke up and it earnt her a slap to the back of the head from said con.
"And what would happen if they were cons ya moron!" Sirena scolds Shadow.
"Good point" Shadow grimaced, while rubbing the back of her head.
"Sorry. Continue." Sirena tells the group.
"Well uh you obviously know Soundwave" Bee gestured to said bot.
"We went to school together. Top 2 tied" Sirena replied.
"Every bot knows Soundwave, and they know him to be Decepticon, so the question stands who are you?" Shadow said very wary, she just revealed that she was Autobot, yet they weren't aggressive in any way.
"This is knockout, another Decepticon" Soundwave says.
"I want to go back to the ship" Shadow whispered to Sirena, there were now three cons and the others were not speaking up, so she couldn't tell if they were friendly or not.
"To be fair we're autobots" Optimus said.
"Oh, thank primus!" Shadow exclaimed.
"This is Bumblebee and I am Optimus Prime" he said, and Sirena stared at him wide eyed.
Sirena sort of froze. Shadow was unaware as to why, Sirena never told her everything. Shadow pushed Sirena till she snapped out of it.
"is this a joke?!" Sirena hissed as a feeler shot out and wrapped around Shadows wrist as a form of comfort.
Shadow looked at the feeler in confusion, but it didn't faze her. She took a few steps away from Sirena because she was somewhat losing her cool.
"Shadow I'm not going to hurt you" Sirena says calming down for her friend.
"Yeah but you're going to blow up" she replied. "I'm sorry but did I say something wrong?" Optimus asked cautiously.
"optimus was my brother" Sirena says looking over at the group.
"Say what?" Bee said completely confused. "Huh! How didn't I know that?" Shadow asked, she was surprised that her best friend and her 'sister' were related. She was also surprised that Optimus was here, he obviously didn't recognise that it was her after all it was rumoured that she was dead. She did stay behind on Cybertron while they left.
"did the last name PRIME not ring a bell to you?" Sirena said surprised.
"Prime isn't a name, it's a title, how are we meant to know that you're related to him?" Shadow asked.
"Point, now tell me the truth" Sirena says to the group.
"The truth of what?" Bee asked confused.
"him" she says pointing to Optimus.
"Huh?" Bee asked, "What do you believe we are not telling the truth about?" Optimus asked, he was confused, he didn't have a sister.
"I was there when optimus died. so was Shadow" Sirena hissed.
"Sirena there was always rumours of Optimus making it out of there" Shadow said to Sirena quietly, "after all we did flee with others before we could find out"
"You have a point" she says as she stands with Shadow.
"What are they talking about Optimus?" Bee asked while the femmes were distracted.
"The murder of the Primes" he replied grimly.
"Oh Primus" Bee whispered.
"Hey Shadow? Where is razor?" Sirena suddenly asks.
Shadows face dropped at that question, "You were supposed to watch him!" She yelled.
"Think he's still on the ship?" Sirena asks hopefully.
"I'll go find the cat" Shadow said as she walked to the smoking crater not far from the group, leaving Sirena alone with them.
"So, Optimus Prime Huh?" Sirena says awkwardly.
"Yes" he answered simply, he was confused about the entire meeting, he could swear that he knew these femmes from the past and had started thinking that Shadow was who he thought she was.
"Well I guess you don't know me then. Last time a saw you, you were five" Sirena says sadly.
The girls /Madelyn and Bee/ had gone over to Soundwave and KO so it was just Sirena and Optimus. "I don't understand, I think I would know if I had a sister" Optimus said.
"You weren't told. You were supposed to believe you were an only child in case something happened to me. You would have been told at the crowning of the new queen but..." Sirena replied.
"The downfall of the council and the court" Optimus said, "Shadow, she isn't just your partner in crime, is she?" he asked.
"No. It was my responsibility to get her off Cybertron. But I can't tell you why. She needs to tell you herself, but I can't believe you don't remember her" she said with a smile.
"It was long ago and we all believed her dead" Optimus defended, "Besides, we're human, it's harder to recognise each other in these forms"
"Good point. I only got soundwave because we're both telepathic" she complains.
Optimus laughed a little, he was going to speak again when Shadow came back. "Hey, I got a cat" she said holding up said cat, "Or at least I hope its Razor" she mumbled. Sirena looked at her and the cat weirdly and asked, "How do you know its Razor?" to which Shadow replied, "He hissed and clawed at me, so the usual"
"Aw! Ain't you just a good lil' boy!" Sirena congratulated him. Shadow glared at Sirena. Shadow and Razor never got along but they never harmed each other. "I hate you" she dead-panned to Sirena, then to the cat in her hands she said with hate, "And I hate you too"
"Sick her razor!" Sirena says and the cat jumps on shadows face.
Shadows wacks him off, glaring dangerously. "like I said, don't start with me" she said still glaring, Razor slunk over to Sirena. She picked him up and handed him to Optimus. Optimus took him cautiously; Razor's only reaction was a snuggle. "Damn cat" Shadow whispered.
"What do you expect? He always used to jump in Optimus's crib. And Optimus hugged him as he slept" Sirena said as she hugged Shadow. Shadow was trying to be mad at Sirena. She also didn't know that Optimus had figured who she was.
"Shadow~ love meeeeeee!" Sirena whined as she clings to Shadow. Shadow looked at Sirena and patted her head...
"Shadowwwwwwww!" She moaned again.
"Yes?" Shadow replied.
"I don't feel so good" she says as she goes pale.
"Woah, are you okay? What's wrong?" Shadow asked worried.
"I don't know" she says and collapses. Shadow somewhat caught her before she fully hit the ground, "Sirena!" Shadow said even more worried, "Knockout! You're a medic are you not?" Shadow asked quickly.
"Yeah. What happened?!" Knockout asks quickly.
"I have no clue" Shadow said laying Sirena down, "She just went pale and collapsed!"
"How long has it been since she slept?" Knockout asks sceptically.
"Well, I would presume last night, while I slept" Shadow said un-certain, it was what Sirena had led her to believe. Sirena would pretend to rest while Shadow did, so that Shadow wouldn't worry.
"She's gone into an internally forced stasis" knockout explained.
"But she'll be alright?" Shadow asked hopefully.
"In a few days" he replied.
Shadow visibly relaxed at the news. "thank you" she said.
A few days later as Sirena was waking up. Shadow hadn't left her side since they came to the autobot base. Ratchet had threatened to literally throw her out, but she stood her ground. Optimus hadn't said anything about her being THE Shadow, so the others treated her as a stranger. "Hey, you feeling good?" Shadow asked as she noticed Sirena stirring.
"I feel like I got hit with your blasters" she muttered.
"well that isn't the case, this time" Shadow laughed.
"Thank Primus. What happened?" She asks.
"You lied to me is what happened" Shadow said hurt showing in her eyes. "You didn't recharge, and your systems forced you into stasis"
"Of course, I recharged. I did it while you did" she said nervously.
"Don't lie to me, please" Shadow begged, "I'm not mad about you lying, what I'm upset about is that you won't take care of yourself! You have a major death wish, trying to protect me is the biggest show, but you don't eat unless I make you! Honestly the only thing I thought you did to look after yourself was recharge" Shadow said, she looked extremely upset.
"It's hard to recharge when you fear for the life of the queen" Sirena says quietly.
"You don't need to fear for me" Shadow said taking Sirena's hand, "I may be royalty but I am far from those in the tales, I can take care of myself" Shadow said with a small smirk.
"Is that why you're almost killed every eon?" Sirena asks her with a raised eyebrow and a sad look.
"The title has its downsides, like a huge target on my back and honestly I'm as carefree as you are" Shadow replied.
"So, in other words you don't recharge or eat while you worry for my life? That's not how a queen should act" Sirena bites back.
"You're right, but the previous queens were not in war, and they certainly aren't me" Shadow bit back. "And if it makes you feel better it's not just when I'm worried about you, I tend to forget of that... how about we both agree that we're at fault and just try to do better?" she asked after she got the point of what Sirena was saying.
"Deal" Sirena sighed.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't act the way I do but..." Shadow started but couldn't finish as she couldn't come up with a reasonable excuse, so she changed the subject with a smile, "Razor and if bonded over the time you were out, his personality will most likely change now that he won't have to worry about you though" Shadow said.
"Good. You too needed to stop fighting" Sirena says.
"He's a nice cat, I suppose we were just both jerks" Shadow replied, "I hope it stays this way, now Imma go get Ratchet and tell him you're awake!"
"OK" Sirena says as she watched shadow leave.
Shadow walked out the door and stopped for a minute, she hadn't left Sirena's side since they got here, and she didn't know her way around base.
Sirena wondered how long it would take for Shadow to get lost.
It took all of 2 minutes. Shadow realised that Sirena had seen this coming, Shadow huffed and tried to go back the way she's came, she remembered the turns she took.
"So how did finding ratchet go hmm?" Sirena says as she tries not to laugh.
"You could've reminded me that I didn't know the way around base!" Shadow said as she pouted.
How was I supposed to know you didn't get a tour?" Sirena says as she fell off the birth in laughter.
"Because you know what I'm like!" Shadow said continuing to pout. She went over and helped Sirena off the floor with much difficulty as the femme was still laughing. The doors opened.
And in walked Ratchet, Optimus and Soundwave. The latter two arguing with the former.