A/N i like how you can moderate review now instead of being publically humiliated with flames lol

One shall rise

Bulkhead then bumped his fists together, "let me at old bucket head!" he exclaimed as ratchet opened the groundbridge.

"Bumblebee, as soon as all of us come through that groundbridge, close it immediately." Ratchet told bee.

He nodded. As ratchet followed bulkhead and Arcee through the groundbridge.

Bee kept to his post as moments went by, finally Ratchet, Arcee and dad came through...then bulkhead dived through. Bee then closed the groundbridge.

Bulkhead then took Arcee's place in aiding dad, "easy Optimus from the looks of things you've been exposed to a massive amount of dark energon" ratchet said helping dad as well.

Dad then gazed his eyes upon raf, "i am not the only one." He said as bulkhead and ratchet helped him to the floor.

He gently smiled at raf and nodded, "hey." Raf said with a smile.

"He's lucky to be alive." June told dad sternly as dads smile faded.

"Megatron found more of the dark stuff?" jack asked coming down the stairs with miko.

"A volcano full." Arcee said.

"The question is how?" bulkhead said.

"No, the question is what? As in what in the world is the blood of unicron doing here on earth." Ratchet said.

"The cons killed a unicorn?" miko said as all eyes in the room looked at her in confusion. "White horse with a horn on its head prances around all sparkly." She described in action.

"Unicron, an ancient evil whose fossilised blood comprises the matter which we call dark energon, as legend would have it." Ratchet said.

"So you saying this unicron is some kind of boogie man?" June said.

"Boogie man?" Ratchet said not understanding.

"Creepy make believe guy that hides in your closet." Miko then explained.

"No nurse Darby unicron is very real, was...that is, well i do believe he once existed i just don't subscribe to the theory that his, primordial life force is the substance which harmed raf." Ratchet said.

"I've heard enough, jack please help me get raf to the car." She said as she wheeled him over.

"What? Why?" bee said.

"Mom, i thought he was doing better?" jack said.

"raf needs to be examined by real doctors and rafs family needs to know what's happened, his real family." June said pretty harshly.

"Mom rafs family can't protect him, not like they can." Jack said motioning to the autobots.

Then dad heaved himself up from the ground, "June, it deeply grieves me that i have failed. But i will do everything in my power to ensure that no harm comes to our human friends, or any human ever again." He told her.

"Optimus, their children, they do not belong in your world. They should be worrying about grades, prom dates, pimples, not their own survival." June said, was she including me?

"Mom, dark energon is pouring out of the earth, it doesn't do that, this could be about everyone's survival not just ours." Jack argued.

"You're coming with me all four of you!" she ordered. "And they will not be coming back."

"Excuse me, four? My parental guardian is right here if you haven't noticed." I felt a bit offended.

"He shouldn't have even been granted your custody, like i said about raf your real family should've taken you in." She said.

How dare she, "and what do you know about it? Nothing! I've had a normal upbringing like anyone else, and i wouldn't change this life for anything!" i had a little outburst if it's one thing i get offended about its people who judge dad parental skills.

"Ellen." Dad then said.

"Perhaps it would be best if you were to go with her." He then said.

I was dumbfounded, "that's it! You're not even going to try to fight for me, 'see ya Ellen we've only been through hell and back together but hey it's been real'." I then said.

"The situation is different than anything we've encountered before." He said.

"Oh really how? I'll always be in danger no matter where i go, you know that, you have to realise you can't control that. So you better accept that I'm staying...I'm sorry." I said as i crossed my arms, after i tried defending him, he throws it back in face!

June then sighed "fine, as for the rest of you." She said as she helped raf into the car. "Get in." She pointed.

Miko then tutted. "Do you really except me to get into a non-transforming vehicle?" miko said.

"Miko I'm serious." June said firmly.

"You're not my mother." Miko said very immaturely.

"miko." Bulkhead then said as i could tell he was about to suggest the same thing to her as dad did to me.

"Neither are you!" Miko told him sternly.

"Well i am yours." June then said to jack. "Let's go jack."

Arcee then approached him as he thought, "she is, your mom." She said.

Jack then stared at his mom as his mind was made up, "I'm staying...I'm sorry." He said sadly.

June frowned as she then headed back to her car, she closed the door firmly on raf as he pressed his hands against the windows and looked to bee, he hadn't had a choice in this discussion.

"Ratchet activate the groundbridge." Dad told ratchet.

"No thank you." June said swiftly as she drove out of base.

Rafs eyes shined with tears as he and bee looked at each other for the last time, but no one had a second to grieve as another video call from fowler popped up.

"Prime do you copy?" fowler said.

"I hear you agent fowler." Dad said as he made his way to the computer screen.

"Been watching the news mother nature's got a twitch in her britches." He said.

"We know about the volcano." Dad said.

Me, jack and miko went upstairs as miko checked the news.

"And the quakes? Seven major temblors of the exact same magnitude at the exact same time as a volcanic eruption. All over the globe on different tectonic plates." As he said that fowlers transmission went to another screen as a 3D image of earth popped up. "In theory unrelated if they hadn't happened..."

"At the exact same time." Ratchet finished.

"Check it out, more good news." Miko said pointing to the TV.

"Freak storms unlike any the region has seen, tsunamis threaten the Canadian coast while lightning storms pummel the Gobi desert. Meanwhile electro-magnetic anomalies plague urban power grids, these abnormal global phenomena are leaving most to wonder, why now? And what next?" the news reporter said.

"Don't tell me your cons have built a weather machine?" fowler said.

"One that powerful, highly unlikely." Ratchet confirmed.

"I do not believe the appearance of dark energon at this point in time to be coincidental." Dad said.

"hold on, if the weather is affecting us global, then we need to get June and raf back to base as it's the only thing strong enough to withstand such immense weather." I said.

Bumblebee didn't need to be told twice as he transformed and drove out of base.

"But i cant hear any kind of bad weather happening outside." Miko said.

"It's very insulated against loud noises; remember that this used to be a missile silo." I told miko. "still all this bad weather caused by dark energon it doesn't make sense, earthquakes are caused when the tectonic plates below the surface shift and then a tremor occurs, there has to some major force coming from below the earth for them to shift like this." I theorised.

Jack then leaned against the banister as he tapped allot, "they'll be fine, bumblebee's gone after them." I said to him.

"it's not that, i feel guilty for not going with her. Did i do the right thing in telling her no?" jack said.

"She was worried for our safety and that's the only thing that was on her mind, people don't think straight when they're worried for someone's life and sometimes it may do more harm than good." I told him.

"Like when i told you to go with June." Dad then put in as he approached us.

"Exactly. Put your game face on man, this is war!" I told him.

"You're my Starlight; i can't help but think that way." He then said as he walked away he always says that name to try and butter me up or guilt trip me either one.

"Starlight?" jack said raising an eyebrow at me.

"It's... my, cybertronian name, he gave me that name because when cybertron finally went dark, the stars still shined brightly through the lifeless planet proving that no matter how much more darkness there is from light, the light will always manage to shine through."I told him. "Which is kinda ironic too because Ellen means light."

"Heart of a poet that one." Jack said.

"Yeah well he's always been good at honeyed words." I said.

"Optimus, bumblebee is approaching base." Ratchet then said.

"Are Raphael and June with him?" he asked.

"I'm not sure." He said.

Bumblebee then came driving in as the doors opened to reveal raf and June, jack went running downstairs towards his mom.

Raf jumped then jumped out of bee, "uh, we're back." he awkwardly said, not surprised after the discussion that took place before he left.

"And we are glad." Ratchet said.

I then checked the news out for any updates "world leaders are classifying these bizarre weather patterns as a global emergency." The news reporter said as jack and June ran upstairs to get a look for themselves.

"Global?" June said.

"And scientists believe the phenomena to be somehow related to the current planetary alignment." The news reporter continued.

Just then the elevator doors which lead to up top opened and fowler came out "what have you learned prime? And you better not blow smoke of my o-other..." he then stopped as he noticed June's presence, "uh. Miss Darby, what a, nice surprise." He said in a more toned down voice then his normal moaning voice.

"Special agent fowler." June greeted.

"We have learned this, as of the so called magma from the volcano, these earthquakes originated far below the earth's crust, from the very centre of the earth's core in fact." Ratchet explained showing an outline of our planet and a flashing red centre.

"Things don't start there, do they?" fowler said not entirely confident with his own knowledge.

"Tiny tremors rising and falling in a consistent pattern, almost like..." ratchet then suddenly stopped as he stared at the waves on screen. "By the allspark." He said in horror. "If i convert these data points to audio files."

"What? What is it?" fowler asked.

"listen." Ratchet said.

The room was silent as a bass echoed around us, it was steady and loud, the audio waves rose up and down as if it were for...a heartbeat, there's something alive down there.

"A cybertronian heartbeat?" jack said breaking the silence.

"How is that possible? A heart pumps blood, there's nothing inside the earth to pump except..." June started.

Then raf rose from the couch as the realisation suddenly hit him. "The blood of unicron." He said.

Miko sat on the banister as she put her hands together "okay hold on. You mean something's living down there, inside our planet?"

"I fear that the earth's very core is not comprised of magma, as your science has suggested. But, of dark energon." Dad said.

"Then if we're hearing spark, then unicron is the rising darkness that the prophecy foretold." Ratchet said.

"Oh now he mentions a prophecy." I said under my breath. "i told you the earth grew arms and legs." I then said to jack.

"Okay I'm sorry miss oracle." He then said.

"So, how do we stop this thing from rising?" fowler then asked.

"That I'm afraid was not foretold." Dad said gravely.

"Primus might as well have just said 'you're all screwed'" i said putting on my best impersonation of a god.

"How can something be in our earth's core, and be alive?" June asked to herself.

"Such a thing is not unprecedented..." i then leaned against the railing as i could feel a story coming on. "Before the beginning, there was primus and there was unicron. One the incarnation of creation, the other of destruction. For eons primus and unicron battled, the balance of power shifting between them more times than could be counted. Only by creating the 13, the original primes preceded me, was primus finally able to defeat unicron, and cast him out. Primus became one with the very core of our planet, creating life through the well of all sparks, while unicron was never to be heard from again. Until, now." Dad explained.

"Maybe we can find the hole this uper-con left when he dug himself all the way down there and fill it full of explosives." Fowler said a bit too ambitious.

"This isn't a Michael bay film fowler." I said.

"Agent fowler, i do not believe that earth became unicrons home. But rather that with time and gravitational force, debris collected around the slumbering titan." Dad started.

"Forming your earth itself." Ratchet finished.

"So you guys got a god and we got the devil? And our existence was by chance an accident? I feel so much purpose right now." I said sarcastically.

"And he's only awakening now due to the magnetic pull created by the planetary alignment." Arcee said.

"Okay well, what happens now when unicron wakes up from his billion year nap?" jack asked.

"Yeah does he stretch and kapow! Earth poofs to dust?" miko said imitating an explosion.

Dad was silent for a while.

"You don't know do you?" June then spoke up.

"my guess is that unicron has transcended physical form as we know it, nonetheless we must find a way to ensure that this force of nature never fully awakens." Dad said. "the fate of your planet depends on it."

"So what did you have in mind?" i asked.

Dad and the others went out to scout for any possible leads of unicron himself, so to maybe find a way to put him back in slumber, or try to reason with the titan. I however wanted to check the weather outside, since i had nothing better to do.

"Well the tornadoes stopped and, i can't see any lightning storms" i said to myself as i ventured outside i was a tiny bit disappointed, i know it was threatening weather and all but tornadoes and lightning are cool! As i looked around on the earth itself there were many tiny cracks in the earth and although thin, they were very deep, i got down on one knee as i peaked within the crack, there were tiny glints of purple that brightened every minute or so. "So unicron is everywhere." I said as i headed back towards the entrance of the base.

Then i heard sounds of a crumbling wall, i looked around the corner as the sound was coming from the mountain itself. "Is the base going to collapse?" I said, no... the crumbled wall made itself into a face.

Needless to say i had no words.

"What is this?" the rocky face spoke in a booming voice and an even more demonic then Megatrons. "I sensed the taint of primus, your no prime what trickery is this, speak vile creature!"

I really didn't know what to say; although the rocky face was the size of my head it was really intimidating.

"a-are you...unicron." i mustered.

"How dare you speak my name!" he yelled at me, then he suddenly stopped speaking...then had a look to him that he had just required some information. "So you are one of many that infect my body, fleshed creatures that desperately cling to my form like a teat." He said disgusted. "But that still doesn't explain why primus's will is pulsating from you!" he boomed.

"The taint of primus?" i thought as i then grabbed my arm, dad's genetic signature, which must be why he mistook the signature for a prime.

Unicron growled frustrated as i then instead of answering his question, i had my own "what do you want with the prime?" i then managed to yell.

"You disgusting form of life, how dare you ask me questions! Do you even know who you are in the presence of?" he yelled back.

But i wasn't stopping yet "what do you want with the prime?" i yelled again.

Unicron then roared angrily as the rocky face disappeared and instead part of the mountain side broke of as its form changed into that of unicron himself. "I've become nothing more than a memory and so will start by reminding the universe of who i am, unicron! The chaos bringer!" he yelled as his arm turned into a spiked sword.

"h-help..." i then said very timidly. I'd never felt such an evil force like unicron before, not even megatron could get a tiny plead out of me.

Unicron then threw his arm down as the ground beneath propelled me into the air, i was thrown back at quite a speed and as such the landing did a pretty big amount of damage on me as i dragged myself away from unicron, "suck weakness to not even withstand a lowly attack like that." He said as instead of using his arm on me again, he kicked across the ground as i whacked against a nearby rock.

As i hit the rock i heard a cracking sound from my back and i hit my head at the same time, i felt light headed as i blindly looked upon unicron, he growled in disgust at the sight of me as his rocky form slowly crumbled and fell back into the earth.

A sudden wave of pain went straight up my back, as i curled up in a ball and held myself, i started to shake as i rolled over, a bit of blood then came from the back of my head down to my forehead as i rolled, "u-ugh." I gasped. Then darkness swept over me like a wave i couldn't stop it "n-no not yet, not like this." I thought as it was inevitable...i couldn't fight against the unconsciousness, "guys, sto..."

A/N with all this random weather happening lately it makes me rather paranoid :S lol