Chapter 15: Daughter of Evil

POV Harmony

Five years had already gone by since the war started. My father, Lord Megatron, gathered up his loyal followers from all over Cybertron and began his plan on taking over the government with force.

I was caught in the middle of this war because of two reasons. One, I don't want to abandon my only family member I have left in this world. Two, I don't want to see all of this bloodshed and destruction of cities that I once knew.

And the worst part of all was my broken friendship between Arcee and Bumblebee. I went to them a few days after the war had already started to have them willingly join the Decepticons. They refused to join my father's war force. I understood why they joined the Autobots rather than the Decepticons, but they still left my spark heartbroken from their choice.

Now only Starscream and Soundwave remain left of this shattered friendship.

I was in my new room in our new Decepticon headquarters, New Kaon. I was just lying there on my bed with my sketchbook. I was in a trance on drawing beautiful flowers blooming with tiny drops of energon on the petals.

Then I heard a knock at my door. I stopped drawing and said, "Yes?"

"My lady Harmony, your father wants to have a word with you," said one of the Decepticon troopers.

I sighed a bit before I replied to the trooper, "I'll be there in a minute." I heard him leaving as I slid off of my bed and started to walk towards the throne room where my father was.

I saw him talking to some of his officers. He was probably telling them to go seek out the Autobot base and destroy it.

I walked up to him timidly. He saw me walking up to him as he ordered his officers to leave us alone. My father really has changed since the start of this war, both physically and mentally.

He wasn't the kindhearted mech that I use to know and love anymore. His spark had become cold and mean. His once brilliant silver and red armor became a dark shade of silver with dark purple armor instead of red. Even his once kind, gentle blue optics turned to red angry, bitter optics.

"You wanted to see me, Father?" I asked him.

"Yes, I want you to do something for me," he replied to me.

"What is it?" I asked curiously.

He started to circle around me and replied, "I want you to go to a town that I believe could be one of the Autobot's secret base operations."

I nodded in reply before I asked, "So you want me to scout for any Autobot activity, correct?"

He nodded in reply.

I bowed a little before I said, "I'll do as you command, my liege."

He then handed me a digimap and compass. I put them on my wrist and headed out of the room.

I was almost out of New Kaon when someone called out my name.

"Hey Harmony!" shouted a mech.

I turned around to see Starscream and Soundwave walking up towards me.

I smiled and replied, "Hey guys."

"Where are you going?" Starscream asked while pointing at my wrist when he saw the digimap and compass on it.

"Oh some town that may have Autobot activity. What about you?" I replied to Starscream.

"Lucky! Soundwave and I have to go on patrol at post A-12 for a couple of hours," Starscream said to me.

"Oo, good luck with that. I got to go now before it gets too dark," I said to them.

"Okay, we wish you luck on your mission," he said as I nodded to him in reply.

~ "And please be safe," ~ said Soundwave worriedly.

"You too," I said before I transformed into my jet form and took off into the skies.

It didn't take me that long to reach my destination that my father instructed me to go on the digimap. I landed in a dark alley and transformed into my robotic form. I stealthily walked out of the alley and started my scouting operation of the town.

For most of the night I was observing the civilians on top of rooftops to see if I recognized anyone of them to be a suspected Autobot. I used my night vision glasses to see in the dark. I watched the streets for a long time before I started to get tired.

I yawned before I decided to turn in for the night. I agilely skipped across rooftops until I finally found a place to power down. It was a nice abandoned house in the middle of a quiet urban street.

I stealthily creeped in the shadows of the street until I finally made it to the house. I started to pick at the lock for a few minutes before I heard the deadbolt unlock itself. I opened the door to find a bunch of furniture still inside the house.

A yawn escaped my mouth again as I rubbed my tired optics.

"Well, I shouldn't complain that there are furniture around inside the house," I said to myself as I went towards the couch, collapsed on top of it, and closed my optics to sleep.

The next morning shone brightly as I walked around the town. I was observing the beautiful scenery of the town until I saw a public garden. Naturally I entered the garden to see all of its wonders.

The flowers bloomed brightly in the rays of the warm sunshine. I smiled as the garden reminded me of my mother and my life before I became a Decepticon. I giggled a little to myself as I thought how lucky this town was to even have this beautiful garden during a time of violence and bloodshed.

Then I heard someone humming. I started to walk towards the femme who was humming until I saw her. I ducked behind a tree to watch her without her noticing me. She was a very beautiful emerald green femme with some teal floral designs on her armor. Her beautiful teal optics shone almost like the way that my mother's did when she was alive.

The femme then turned towards my direction. I ducked behind the tree and prayed that she didn't see me.

The femme giggled before she said so sweetly, "You don't have to hide from me. You can come out from behind that tree."

I hesitated for a second before I slowly came out of where I was hiding. She smiled at me before she said, "That's better now. There's no reason to hide, sweetie."

I nodded my head as I walked closer to her.

She looked at me and asked, "What is your name, dear?"

I rubbed my arm shyly before I said timidly, "Har-Harmony."

"Harmony. That is such a beautiful name," she said to me.

"Thank you," I replied to her.

"My name is Emerald Heart," she said to me.

I nodded as I replied, "Pleased to meet you, Emerald Heart."

There was a few seconds of silence before Emerald Heart asked, "So, what brings you here in town. I never seen you before."

I quickly started to make up a story in my processor as I replied to her, "I'm searching for my mother."

Emerald Heart looked at me sincerely as she asked, "Oh no, is she alright? What happened to her?"

I looked down sadly as I replied, "She was taken away by someone when I was only a thousand years old. My father took care of me from then on, but he recently died in a cross fire in this horrible war. Ever since then, I've been searching for my mother, seeing if she's still alive."

"Oh you poor sparkling!" Emerald Heart said to me as she came up to me and hugged me lovingly.

It felt so strange being hugged by her, but it also felt so right at the same time like as if we knew each other for centuries. I began to weep as she comforted me with words of kindness.

After I cried for a few minutes, Emerald Heart whispered to me, "Hey I know what will cheer you up."

I looked up at her, wiped away some of my tears, and replied to her, "What?"

She giggled as she replied, "How about we get some energon ice cream together."

I looked up at her and replied, "But we hardly know each other. Why would you do this for me?"

She looked at me and said, "You look so lonely and sad all by yourself. Besides, don't friends start out as total strangers?"

I looked at her for a moment before I said, "Friends?"

She smiled and nodded her head as she replied, "Yup, if you want me to."

I looked to the side for a moment as I thought. It has been a long time since I have any female friends since the war. Then I looked up at her and said, "Okay."

She smiled brightly as she lifted me off of the ground as we began to walk out of the park. Emerald Heart would ask me simple questions like what is my favorite color, if I have a boyfriend, what's my favorite hobby, etc.

In return I would answer her questions while I give her some of my own questions about her. I found out that she really likes to sing, just like me, she also likes to go shopping, and her favorite color is pale green. Sometimes the two of us would start singing some of our favorite songs together without a care in the world.

I almost forgotten why I was here for as my new friend and I enjoyed the peaceful atmosphere together. The sun started to set as I turned to my friend and said, "I better get going. It's starting to get late."

"Yeah, I better go too," she said to me as she got up from the bench and started to walk away. She then turned around and said, "Hey do you want to hang out again tomorrow?"

I nodded my head as I said, "Yup, how about we meet each other again in the park at eight A.M.?"

"Sure" she replied to me cheerfully. "Bye, Harmony," she said as she walked away.

"Bye, Emerald Heart," I said to her as I walked away out of sight.

A few weeks had passed by since I came here to this little town. Every day I would meet up with Emerald Heart to hang out with her or go to work together. Yes, we work together at an energon candy shop down the street from the park. It was Emerald's idea to get me into this job in the first place. But I have to admit, I really enjoy working there with her by my one day, we were supposed to meet each other at the park to go shopping together when I saw someone.

Emerald Heart was standing in front of the fountain, alone, waiting for me. I was going to go towards her when I noticed a familiar mech walking up to her.

I ducked behind a nearby patch of trees and peered to see who it was. My optics widened in surprise when I realized who it was. The black and blue mech was Darksky, a Decepticon.

"What is he doing here?" I asked myself as I watched him walk up to her.

Emerald Heart looked up at him, smiled sweetly, and said, "I thought we agreed that we couldn't see each other again."

Darksky looked at her with a smile and replied, "I couldn't stay away from a beautiful femme like you, Emerald."

She looked at him with sad optics before she said, "Even though I am an Autobot and you a Decepticon?" My optics widened in horror at what I heard. "Emerald Heart is an Autobot!?" I whispered to myself. My spark was breaking apart at the femme that I thought was my friend. I quickly got my visor glasses out and put it on. I zoomed in at the couple as I took a picture of them silently.

"Even if you are an Autobot and I a Decepticon, I will always love you for who you are," he said before he leaned in to kiss her on the lips.

Lubricant started to form in my optics at what I saw. I took another picture of them as I zoomed in to her hidden Autobot insignia underneath her left arm.

"How could I have missed it?" I said to myself as I started to write a note for Emerald Heart. "How did I miss seeing that insignia underneath her left arm?" I whispered as I put the note on the tallest tree in front of me.

"I must report this to my father" I said as I left the scene as silently as possible.

POV Emerald Heart

My lover and I kissed for a few more minutes until I broke away from him.

"I have to go," I said to Darksky

He looked at me confusingly before he replied, "Why?"

"I'm seeing a friend this afternoon so that we could go shopping together," I replied to him.

"Oh? And is this friend a mech of yours?" he said while crossing his arms and raising a metal eyebrow.

I smiled as I shook my head and replied to him, "No honey, this friend of mine is a femme."

"Oh good, because I thought for a second that your friend was your special boyfriend," he replied to me.

I giggled as I said, "You are my only special boyfriend for me, Darksky."

He laughed out loud and said, "And you are my special girlfriend, Emerald Heart."

I laughed before I told him goodbye as he left to get back to the Decepticons before anyone notices his absence. I waited for my dear friend to come, but she never showed up.

I checked my watch to see that it was getting late. I sighed as I started to head home when I noticed something in a patch of trees several feet away from me. I walked up to the tree and saw a note from Harmony saying that she didn't feel so well and was going to rest up for the day.

"Oh my!" I exclaimed as I finished reading her note. I put the note down and said worriedly, "I hope she's alright."

POV Megatron

I was in the communications room with some of my Vehicon troopers as I gave them specific orders of what they are going to do.

Then I heard the door open to reveal my lovely and loyal daughter coming up to me.

"Alright, you have your orders, now go!" I commanded them.

They all bowed respectfully at me before they walked out of the room to allow my daughter and I to have some privacy.

I smiled at my daughter as I came up to her and hugged her. "I was starting to get worried," I said to her after the fact that she's been gone for nearly three weeks.

"Dad, I'm fine, really!" she said as I let go of her.

My smile disappeared when I saw that something was upsetting my daughter. "What's wrong, Harmony?" I asked her.

She looked at me as she handed me a couple of pictures. I took them and saw a green femme with one of my seekers, Darksky. Then my metal eyebrows furrowed in anger as I saw the Autobot insignia underneath the green femme's left arm.

I looked at my daughter proudly as I said to her, "Good work my dear. If you haven't caught this traitor, then I would have never known about this. Vital information about the Decepticons would have been leaked into Autobot's hands if this traitor wasn't caught."

She nodded in reply as she turned to leave the room before I called her back.

"Harmony," she turned to me and waited for what I would say next, "wait here while I contact Starscream."

She nodded as I touched the side of my helmet to contact one of my junior seekers.

"Starscream" I said in the comlink.

"Ugh, yes my lord?" Starscream replied to me.

"I need you here in the throne room, now" I said into the comlink.

"On my way" he replied as he turned the comlink off.

A few minutes later, Starscream appeared in the room.

He walked up to me, bowed down in front of me, and said, "You've summoned me, my liege?"

"I have a mission for you," I said to him.

"Your wish is my command," he replied to me.

I nodded as I showed him the pictures of Darksky and the green femme.

He looked surprised from seeing one of his own comrades with an Autobot.

"I want you to hunt her down and extinguish her spark," I said to him.

Starscream nodded his head and replied, "I will leave immediately."

He then started to make haste and ran out of the room on his mission.

"Father," said Harmony.

I turned towards my daughter as I replied, "Yes, my loyal daughter?"

"I know where this femme lives. I will get to her faster than Starscream can," she said to me.

I nodded my head as I replied, "Very well then. Go find this femme and bring me back her spark!"

She nodded at me, bowed before me, and said, "Your wish is my command, my lord."

She then disappeared out of the room to go and kill this femme for me.

POV Starscream

I was running as fast as the wind to try and find my friend, Darksky. I checked the places he'd been, but he wasn't in any of them. Then I checked outside in the garden where he likes to be alone.

I finally found him in the balcony overlooking the patch of emerald green cyberflowers.

"Darksky!" I shouted at him.

He turned around, smiled, and waved at me to come over there by him. "Hey Screamy my old friend!" he shouted at me.

I panted so hard that he looked at me with worry in his optics.

"What's the matter, Screamy?" Darksky asked me.

I took in one last deep breath as I replied to him, "Darksky, your girlfriend is in grave danger!"

His optics widened in horror as he said, "What!?"

"Yes, somehow our lord found out that you have been secretly meeting with an Autobot for the past few years and now he wants to kill her!" I exclaimed.

He looked at me worriedly as he asked, "Who was assigned to assassinate my lovely Emerald Heart?"

"Luckily I was. But we have no time to lose. I want you to fly as fast as you can to get Emerald Heart and get off of Cybertron. I know of a hidden spacecraft that will help you get heck out of here" I said to him.

"Why are you doing this for us, Starscream?" he asked me.

I looked at him, put both my servos on his shoulders, and replied, "Because I am your friend, Darksky. And friends would do anything to protect the ones they care about."

Darksky nodded his head as he broke away to make haste and find his love so that they could meet me somewhere so that I can get them off of this planet.

I then hurried to my room to pretend that I'm getting a few things for the journey.

POV Harmony

I quickly flew towards the town again and transformed into my robotic form in the same dark alley. I then started to climb up towards the rooftop of the building so that I could stealthily run towards where Emerald Heart lives.

I silently climbed down the building and knocked on her door. I left a letter there on the ground as I heard footsteps coming closer to the door. I jumped to the shadows of the building to hide myself from her.

Emerald Heart opened the door, saw the letter, opened it, and read it out loud, "My dearest friend Emerald Heart, I am sorry that we missed our scheduled outing today, but I'm feeling much better now. I need to talk to you immediately. Meet me in the park by the fountain in ten minutes. From your friend Harmony."

Emerald looked at the letter for a moment before she said, "I hope she's alright."

She disappeared inside the house to get ready while I quickly ran towards the park to meet her there.

Several minutes have passed by as I waited in the shadows for Emerald Heart.

"Harmony?" she called out to me.

I swallowed a lump in my pipe as tears threatened to fall down my optics.

"Harmony, where are you?" she said to draw me out of my hiding place.

I slowly came out of the shadows of my hiding place so that I am a few feet away in front of Emerald Heart.

She smiled at me and said, "There you are! I was starting to get worried."

I was silent as I remained still where I was standing.

Her smile disappeared as she looked at me with concern in her brilliant optics. I then took out my knife and ran the blade right up into her chest plate.

I was holding her there into the blade as my tears started to drip down onto her armor.

I then leaned in closer to her autoreceptors and whispered in between sobs, "I'm so sorry. My lord Megatron wills it."

I heard Emerald Heart gasped in pain as her death grew ever so nearer. She then placed one of her servo on my shoulder while the other one on my cheek lovingly.

I cried even more before her starry optics dimmed as her metal lids slowly closed completely shut. Her body went limp in my arms as I held on to her heavy body.

I carried her body up against the fountain. I was about to cut out her spark, but I did not have the strength to do it. Then I hear footsteps. I turned to the source of the noise to see Darksky.

He used his dim flashlight and saw Emerald Heart's sparkless husk before he looked at me in hatred. I quickly gave him the slip before he had the chance to blast me to pieces.

I heard him fire his blasters after me as he screamed in agony and frustration of what happened. I wept as I ran for my life.

POV Starscream

I was flying towards the town when I heard blasters go off at the park. I turned towards the park until I saw a clearing where I descended and transformed into my robotic form.

I saw Darksky weeping as he held Emerald Heart close to his chest plate. My optics widened as I said, "We need to get her to a medic immediately! Quickly Darksky while we still have the chance to…"

"It's too late Sreamy. Emerald Heart is gone!" he bellowed while clinging on to his beloved girlfriend.

I looked at my friend sadly as I said to him, "I wish we had gotten here sooner. Did you see who killed her?"

Darksky nodded his head as he replied, "Yeah, I think so. I couldn't really see who exactly but the murder was a small blue femme with I think black areas on her arms and legs. And I believe I saw a bite of pink on her helmet as well as in her optics.

I looked at him in disbelief as I realized who killed his love.

He noticed my expression as he asked, "Who is it Starscream?"

I looked away from him, not wanting to see him.

"Starscream, just tell me, please," Darksky begged at me.

I sighed, turned to face him, and said, "The femme that you saw earlier was Arcee."

"Arcee?" he said in confusion before he asked, "Isn't she an Autobot?"

"Yes, she is, which means that the Autobots knew that you and Emerald Heart were together," I said to him.

"Yeah but why would the Autobots kill her like that?" he asked me.

I shrugged and replied, "I don't know. Maybe they didn't want her to leak out any Autobot information to you so that you would tell our Lord Megatron the information to use against them."

"Maybe," said Darksky.

"Now we better get going before he finds out about our absence," I said to him.

He nodded his head as we were about to transform into our jet forms when we heard a few engines coming towards us.

Darksky turned to me and said, "I think they already know of our absence, Screamy."

I looked up at the night sky in horror as I awaited them to come here and catch me red handed with assisting Darksky.

"Starscream," said Darksky.

I turned to face him and replied, "Yes?"

He looked at me sadly and said, "If you are to be spared by Megatron's wrath, then you must kill me."

I looked at him with complete shock as I replied, "Are you malfunctioning! No, I am not going to kill my best friend to save my own metal husk!"

"YOU MUST!" he shouted at me

I took a step back from him as I retorted, "I WON'T!"

Darksky narrowed his optics as he said, "If you won't do it willingly, then I will have to make you do it!" His servos then changed into blasters as he started to shoot at me.

I ducked out of the way as Darksky continued to fire at me.

"Come on out and face me, Starscream!" he cried out loud.

"Darksky, please stop this. I don't want to kill someone who I consider as a brother!" I shouted while trying to avoid being hit by his blasters.

Darksky looked at me and said, "Consider this as my sacrifice for a brother who I want to survive this war!"

I then left my barrier to move to a new one. As I ran to a different tree, Darksky fired at my feet, making me trip.

As I fell towards the ground, I accidentally fired my missile. I heard a big explosion after I released my missile.

I looked up to see what I hit. My jaw dropped at what I saw in front of me. I saw Darksky on the ground in a pool of his own energon.

I got up and rushed over towards him to see if I could save him. I knelt down on the ground besides him to see how much damage he took from the blast.

"No, no, NO!" I shouted out loud as I tried to add pressure on his wound underneath his chest plate.

"St…Starscream" he said hoarsely at me.

"Don't try to talk, Darksky. I-I'll get you some medical attention as soon as I…" I said before I was interrupted by him.

"Starscream, just promise me that you'll find the bot who did this to Emerald Heart," he said to me.

"Darksky…" I said while shaking my head from side to side.

"Promise me," he said while looking at me sternly.

I looked back at him before I sighed and replied, "I promise, my friend."

He nodded before he said, "Thank you, Screamy." Then his optics dimmed out as his body became limp.

I closed my optics for a second before I heard footsteps coming my way. I got up off of the ground to see who was coming.

I saw my liege smiling proudly at me.

"Well done Starscream. You killed two birds with one stone," he said to me.

I only nodded in reply.

"Now come with me, we have some planning to do," he said as he and the few troopers he dragged along transformed into their jet forms and took off into the skies.

I started to follow him when I stopped. I turned to face the sparkless husk of my friend as I whispered softly, "Your death shall not be in vain, my friend. I hope that in your spark, you may learn to forgive me for what I have done to you." I paused in silence before Megatron's voice interrupted my trance.

"Starscream!" he shouted.

I replied meekly, "Ugh, coming my liege!" I then transformed into my jet form and took off into the skies to follow my lord.

POV Harmony

I went back to the park after everything had died down. I looked at my dead friend with sadness in my optics. I knelt down towards her body, caressed her faceplate, and whispered an old Cybertronian prayer for forgiveness.

Then I started to gather up some of the most colorful night blooming flowers and surrounded her and her lover in them. I placed a pale green flower in the middle of Emerald Heart's servo. I got up off of the ground and started to walk away from their bodies.

I was walking for what felt like an hour when I came to a house out in the middle of the woods. Instinctively I walked towards it to seek shelter when I heard voices.

I slowly stalked towards the building to hear what was going on in there.

"Orion, you and I both know that this is the only option that we have left!" said a mech.

"I know old friend, but we cannot risk it," Orion Pax replied to the mech who questioned him.

"And why not? It's not like we got anything else to lose?" said another mech.

"Yes we do!" Orion retorted before he said, "Tomorrow I'll go down to the Well of Allspark to see if I can reverse the ill effects that this war has done on Primus' core."

The room was silent before a femme broke the ice. "I see that we need to aid our life giver, Primus, from all of this chaos, but what about Megatron? What are we going to do to him if he is the cause of our problems and the reason why Primus is ill?"

"We will worry about him after I reverse all of these catastrophic effects from Primus in time. Then we will deal with Megatron," replied Orion.

I gasped as I silently ran back to New Kaon to process this new information in my possessors that night.

My father summoned Shockwave to examine the energon on me to confirm that it was not mine nor was it either animal or fuel. He told my father that it was indeed the green femme's energon that was covering my body and not anything else.

Then he sent me to my room so that I could get some rest.

As I lay in bed, I thought about what had happened in the last couple of weeks. I thought about how I met Emerald Heart, how we became friends, how I betrayed our friendship, and how I killed her.

I started to cry in my sleep at what I had done and what was about to come in the future. I just hope that this war would be over with soon. I don't know how much longer I can take all of this.

~ To Be Continued~