Silver Heart
By TimeAndLife21
Nyx woke up in the desert dreamscape again; she didn't think that she would be here since she was shot two months ago. Sitting up, she looked around the crags and the faces of the rocks that seemed to echo; looking heavenward she saw beautiful colors. Purples, blues, yellows, reds, they all meshed into a haze she couldn't help but smile and that there were clouds that spread across the skies and the horizon. She didn't see the All Spark here. She didn't know how long she walked, or where she went, she just walked. She heard the voices again, but they were softer and gentle this time and much more clearer.
"There she is."
"Little Well."
"The Second All Spark."
"Such a precious little one."
Nyx felt a little uncomfortable with those voices. She was lost in her thoughts until she fell off a cliff. She expected to keep falling but she wasn't. As she opened her eyes, the sight around her was a treat to see. She was floating in a cloud of sparks. Pulsing, living sparks. They were like little balls of light with blue electricity sparks flowing around them.
She felt breathless. The song 'Higher' by Creed came to mind. She chuckled and she sang a little bit.
"Can you…take me higher? To a place where blind men see? Can you take me higher? To a place where…borders meet." She sang a little.
She giggled as a couple of sparks came up to her and snuggled themselves against her body. She felt elated being around these sparks. She could feel their happiness and calmness. She reached out to hold a spark and it let her. She brought it close to her face and she could see something inside that spark. She saw a young cybertronian femme who was with her creators and was hugging them. She could feel the tears come to her eyes. Is this what Cybertron was like before the war, family units that cared greatly for each other, never fighting?
'But if this spark is here…what is this place?" she thought.
"It is your mind." She heard the voice of the All Spark.
She turned around, seeing the femme that looked so much like her.
"All Spark." She breathed out.
She nodded tiredly. Nyx let the little spark go and floated over to All Spark.
"Welcome Phoenix." She said giving her a small smile.
"Where am I?" She asked.
"We are in the Matrix. A place where sparks, or souls as you humans call it, go when we die." She said softly.
She looked so tired. Nyx floated closely to the more beautiful being and gasped. All Spark was cracked. Nyx could see the prominent cracks that split across her body. Some were burns on her thighs and upper arms, there were deep gashes elsewhere.
"Your body!" She couldn't help but place a hand on her shoulder.
"I'll be fine. I've taken worse beatings than this." She said looking at her from under her lashes.
"I don't have much time to spend with you, but I have a little surprise for you." She said as she held out a fist.
Nyx was curious. All Spark's long spindly fingers revealed a particularly large spark. It was about the size of both of Nyx's fists. It looked very familiar to her.
"J-Jazz?" She spoke uncertainly.
The spark reacted and flew toward her.
"'Ey Shawty! What took yo' so long?" She heard the familiar twang of a certain saboteur.
She felt her face break out into a bright smile.
"JAZZ!" She cried as she held out her hands to hold the spark.
"Ah 'ave been tryin' to get yo' attention fer a while now. Yah nevah replied." The spark said.
She scoffed. "I couldn't hear you." She said honestly.
All Spark chuckled. "You couldn't hear him because you weren't stilling your mind. If you are calm and still young one, you would be able to hear the sparks." She explained.
Well, that made sense like mud. She was still confused. All Spark seemed to notice this and floated to her.
"What I mean is, right now, your mind is a complete blank. You are here deep in your mind to see the Matrix and the sparks." She explained.
"Huh, I guess I should thank Ironhide for pushing me hard than." She thought.
"Wait! I heard a voice back there on the rocks that I was the Second All Spark. What does that mean?" She asked.
All Spark tilted her head.
"I'm afraid that is a question for another time." She said closing her eyes. She floated away from Nyx and disappeared into thin air.
"Hey! I wasn't finished talking with you!" She shouted. Nothing replied back.
"Great." She muttered.
"Ey, Shawty, 's okay. The All Spark's eons older than yah, she still 'as a job tah do." Jazz said.
Nyx looked down at the spark she held in her hand, she felt like another burden was placed on her. She felt more presences behind her and saw all the sparks flying over to her like lambs following a shepherd.
"Shawty, don't worry 'bout it fer now. Ah'm sure da answers will come soon." He said shining brightly to comfort her.
"Thanks Jazz. I truly thought you were dead." She said holding him close to her face.
"Well, Ya gave meh quite an earful when I was dying. Sorry fer puttin' yah through dat." He said guiltily. She chuckled, forgetting the frustration of the All Spark disappearing from her.
"It's okay Jazz. I just was going through grief. You EVER do that again, I'll turn you into scrap metal before you know it." She playfully glared.
"Not if Ratchet da Hatchet gets ta meh first." He shuddered in her hands.
She giggled as she looked around. She could feel the warmth of the sparks around her – it gave her a tingling feeling- and she felt safe. She never felt safe when she was traveling to get away from towns that could find out her secrets if she stayed to long. Here, she felt like she could stay forever.
"Jazz…I have an idea of how to bring you back to life." She said to the spark in her hands.
She could feel it get warmer. "Shawty, Ah wasn't sup'osed ta offline." He said.
"You damn right that you weren't supposed to die. Do you have any idea how we felt?" She scolded him.
The spark shrunk a little bit. "Ah was just doin' mah job. Ah had to dis'ract Megatron to get ya out of his grimy claws." He said defensively.
Nyx's mind went reeling. Jazz wanted to save her? She scoffed.
"Okay, you get less punishment from me, but I can't count on Ratchet hitting you over and over again after he fixes you, Short Bus." She said poking the spark.
"Ah can feel dat. And don't call meh short." He muttered.
She giggled. "Aw, is Jazz sensitive about his height?" She chuckled.
"I'm not dat short." He proclaimed.
"I'm joking Jazz." She said smiling and giggling.
"So what 'appens now?" He asked. Nyx thought for a little bit.
"Well, like I said, I'm going to try and bring you back to life. I'm not sure how to do it though." She said looking up at the skies.
"Don't worry Jazz, I'll bring you back." She said softly.
"Aw Shawty, Ah didn't think ya cared." The spark glowed warmly in her hands.
Nyx giggled. "I don't. I just want to bring you back to life so I can kick your aft." She smiled.
"Scrap." He said jokingly.
Nyx smiled and held his spark close to her chest and closed her eyes, falling into a deep sleep.
Nyx was with Optimus Prime and Morshower were in the debriefing room of the Hoover Dam base. She was typing in potential locations to find a base that would be sufficient enough that is out of the way of civilization and well off enough to use as a base for the new NEST (Non Biological Extraterrestrial Species Treaty). It was thanks to Will Lennox that NEST was made possible. Morshower promoted him to Major and field commander (Nyx was the one that suggested that he could handle it). She tossed out potential locations such as, the Canary Islands, Madagascar, and a few other islands that seems either too small for NEST's purposes, or that fact that it was populated enough that it was impossible, people would ask questions about giant robots. That and NEST had to get permission from that country to make the navel base there.
"Any luck Agent Lazarus?" Morshower asked as he walked up to her staring at the screen.
Oh yes, not only was she a liaison for the Autobots, she was also a field agent. Whatever missions involve at least one of the Autobots to go to a specific place where there are possible Decepticons in hiding; she was the one to get out there and stealthily sneak in the shadows before anyone else was to enter. The name 'Lazarus' fit her. Though she'd rather stick with her name 'Phoenix' but it didn't seem badass enough.
She shook her head.
"Actually, I did." She said bringing up a picture of an island.
It was a footprint shaped outline located south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean.
"You've gotta be kidding me." Morshower said, as he leaned on his palms on the table.
"It's the only place I could find that's away from civilization. Granted it's in the British Territory, but we already stationed the US Navy there and I'm sure the British Intelligence Agency would work with us on this." She said as she placed her hands on her back and popped the bones.
She was having nightmares again. Being in the tank of water, having unknown substances being shot up her bloodstream, and the worst, seeing Benny again and he shouting at her that she didn't deserve to live the long life that she now currently has. She shook her head to rid of those thoughts and looked behind her.
Morshower looked up at Optimus. "What do you think Prime? Give us about 6 more months and we will have the tightest security for NEST. The All Spark shard will be locked up tight." Morshower said as he suggested the idea to Optimus.
Optimus' faceplates crinkled in thought. He must be looking up a few things for Diego Garcia.
"It is satisfactory. Though I believe that if we wait any longer, tensions will break." Optimus said as he smiled a little.
Nyx laughed. Optimus was right. Ironhide was getting tired of the cramped space of the Hoover Dam and nearly blasted a door open in frustration.
The query of the All Spark shard was released to General Morshower not too long ago. The Government promised that the All Spark Shard would be under the protection of the highest ranked soldiers and tightest security systems in the world. Nyx had some doubts. Government officials were pigs and they want power, they had asked Optimus to reveal information that contributed to taking down the Decepticons. She scoffed a little. They also wanted to weaponry systems that the Autobots have. Optimus flat out refused to service the humans with the technology that the Autobots have. Claiming that should they give the technology out, humans would be in many worse wars than they have had in the past.
"All right, as soon as we confirm things with the BIA, we'll start building the bases there." He said as he looked back at the screen that held the picture of Diego Garcia.
Sighing to herself, she leaned against the iron railing back of the high floor; unfortunately she heard a groan and the bar gave way. She didn't have time to react as she fell.
Closing her eyes tightly, she thought to herself, "Oh great, dying after falling off a 45 foot high floor, what a stupid death."
But instead of splattering all over the floor, she felt herself crash and hit metal instead. Of course, this didn't mean she got out unscathed. She hit her head, feeling her skull split open. She felt the violet blood drip down her face as she slowly sat up.
"Lazarus! You okay?" Morshower asked as she felt herself being lifted up.
"Yeah, other than the fact that my head spilt open, I'm fine." She said sarcastically.
She looked up at Optimus who caught her.
"Thanks for making sure I don't go splat Big Bot. That would've felt really unpleasant." She said as she could feel her head wound slowly stitch itself up.
She glared at the placed where the iron bar was.
"This place has so many safety violations, it's not funny." She said as she wiped her face with her hand then looking down at the violet blood.
"Phoenix! You alright?" Morshower asked.
She looked up at him with a frown. "Oh yeah, you know, I love jumping off of heights and killing myself just for the hell of it." She said as she held her head.
"I'll take you to Ratchet right now, you need that wound to be look at." Optimus said.
"Yeah I think that would be best right now." She said as a headache started to set in.
"I'll give BIA the pitch of Deigo Garcia. Thank for helping Lazarus." Morshower said as he saluted her. She gave a mock salute as Optimus whisked her away from the room and set on his way to Ratchet's medbay.
"You need to be more aware of your surroundings Phoenix." Optimus said as he looked down at her.
She flushed as his gaze landed on her.
"I've had worse." She muttered as she looked at the violet blood on her hands again.
It amazed her and disgusted her at the same time. It once again, proved that she was a freak of nature. She leaned against Optimus' servos, heaving a sigh. After finding those papers, Morshower had a few people set their sights to find the doctors that tested on her from back in the 1940s. She was excited yet a little anxious at the same time. She couldn't understand most of the side note that the doctors would write separately from the original notes. They used codenames and substitutions. Most likely to throw off enemy eyes and send them in circles. Each Doctor had a specific way on writing down information that was in hand with her, Subject 27.
"Are you feeling well Phoenix?" Optimus spoke to her.
She looked up and sighed. "I'm just thinking. Not long ago I was looking over the papers that held information about me. I can't decipher them worth a damn. I wonder how long it will take to find those doctors? I have a bone to pick with them." She said as she felt the biting pain of the head wound starting to seal itself together.
She took in a deep breath hoping that the pain will go away momentarily.
"I believe the term that you humans use is 'Patience is a Virtue.' I believe that it applies to you." He said smiling.
"Ha! I've waited over 80 years to give those doctors a piece of my mind." She said as she punched a fist in her left palm.
She realized that her temperament has been shortened since after the Mission city incident, but she had a good reason to. She couldn't blame the autobots for the recent events, but she could blame Sector Seven for all the things that she went through.
She sighed again. All this anger is not good for her. It was bringing her down to a new low and she needed to calm down a bit more. She would rather be out shooting targets or something to get rid of her anger. She didn't realize that she was glaring at Optimus' thumb for the past five minutes.
"Phoenix? Are you listening?" He asked. She sharply looked up at Optimus and a sharp pain radiated in her neck that she cried in pain.
"Ouch!" She said rubbing the muscle that was in pain.
"Sorry Optimus. I've been pretty lost in my mind lately. All this…scrap that is going on just takes time to take in." She said as she rubbed the spot on her head that healed up. Though she still had her blood on her hands.
"It would seem that you have been busy with most of the work around here Phoenix. We appreciate your help immensely." He said sincerely.
Nyx blushed a little. She wasn't usually thanked when she did a job.
"Well, someone has to help out. If you think about it, you guys are here to stay…right?" She asked.
"If your government will allow us to stay, we will stay. Earth has much to offer and as long as its inhabitants are our allies, we will protect them from the Decepticons." Optimus said with a bit of pride.
Nyx chuckled as she leaned against his digits. "And one very special human out of Seventy billion to help out whatever may be." She said tiredly.
She and Optimus fell into a comfortable silence as they reached the medbay. She heard a high-pitched mechanical squeal behind the door.
"What the hell?" Nyx said turning to look where the sound came from.
"Oh quit your whining Bumblebee. Don't make me bring out my wrench and knock you out like I did last time. Take it like a mech." She could hear Ratchet say.
"Sweet, Bumblebee is here." Nyx smiled, forgetting her headache and sharp pins and needles that were running up her spine.
"It would appear so." Optimus said with a smirk.
"My bet is that Sam is here too. Wouldn't surprise me." She laughed.
They entered the medbay and lo and behold, Bumblebee was on the berth with Ratchet at his side working on his left leg.
"Stop squirming, don't make me put you into stasis." Ratchet warned as Bumblebee tried to get away from Ratchet's servos, he stilled at the warning.
As Optimus walked closer to Racthet, Bumblebee gave a chirp of greeting.
"Hello little lady. – SIR YES SIR!" She heard voice tracks from him.
Ratchet looked behind and saw the two of them walking up to him.
"Ah, Optimus, you are up next…" He did a double take at Nyx.
"Nyx, you are bleeding. Set her down near Sam." He gestured to the far side from Bumblebee.
She looked up and Optimus and she could tell that he was uneasy about getting a check-up from 'Ratchet the Hatchet'. She couldn't help it, she chuckled to herself as she remembered Ironhide telling her that Ratchet was the best medic in his field, but his bedside manner was to be feared. As she was being put down, her eyes spotted Sam and she waved at him. "Hey Sam!" She smiled as she got off of Optimus' servos and went up to him to the mini-bay for when Ratchet need to look at some soldiers who also needs check-ups. Surprisingly, he's doing pretty well with the knowledge of the human body.
"Hey Sam! Finally got away from Judy, I'll take it?" Nyx joked as she pulled up a chair.
He frowned at her. "You have no…idea how hard it was to tell her that I will be gone for only one day. She already threw a fit when I got home. I was grounded Nyx…for three months. And you are covered in pink." Sam complained.
"Hey, you survived a robot battle Sam…actually that would look good on your resume. And this 'pink' you call it, I prefer light purple, is actually my blood. " Nyx grinned.
Sam stared at her blankly as if he was expecting a joke… she wasn't joking. Feeling awkward about the subject, he changed it.
"By the way Nyx…when are you coming home?" He asked.
Nyx was about to reply that she would be coming home soon, but realized that since she left Tranquility and stayed with the Autobots since the Mission City Incident, her house was empty…then,
"Oh my gosh! My Home!"
She had been so engrossed into her work and obsession about Sector Seven that she completely forgot about her home. Thoughts started to run through her mind as she thought about the bills that she may have been getting and hasn't been paid in 5 months, the food that was in her fridge that was most likely rotting away (She really liked that fridge, it was at the top of it's line in the 1960s.), the DUST. Oh no, the dust that may have accumulated since she has been gone. She went into shock. She always made sure that the homes she would buy over the years would always be clean. She made sure of that. She learned that a nice clean house, no one would suspect anything.
"My home must be filled with cobwebs and dust…I'm a horrible home owner." She moaned as she placed her head in her hands, felling her dried blood cracking on her skin.
"Gosh, The bills. I need to move out anyways." She said as she looked up at the high ceiling.
"Wait…you're moving?" Sam asked. She looked at him with an eyebrow raised.
"Well considering the fact that I haven't been to work for the past five months, I'm pretty sure I'm fired from all my jobs. I'll have to talk to Morshower about that. Damn it. I hate moving." She muttered as she closed her eyes.
"Besides Sam, Wouldn't it be strange if your next door neighbor came home after being gone for 5 months without any notice? Besides, I don't really trust most of the military guys here to move all my stuff." She said thinking at a fast pace.
"Well if it makes you feel any better, everything is how you left it." Sam said as he stretched.
"Yes, well I have to clean everything before packing up." She said as she rubbed her head. The headache that was pounding was killing her.
Then, "Phoenix, are you well?" She heard the familiar voice of Optimus.
She turned in her seat and, for the third time in a month, she was scared to death from the Holoforms of the Autobots. She fell of her seat in shock and glared at the holoform in front of her. It was clear to see whom this holoform came from.
Optimus Prime's holoform was definitely something. Out of all the Autobots that she knew, Optimus was the tallest. He was around 6'5 and his build was muscular. He was wearing blue Levi's, blue shirt and his jacket had the same color scheme as his alt form, his black boots shined like a new penny. His hair was a navy blue black color and he had slight stubble around his jaw. He had some notable scars. One scar reached from his left hairline down to his jaw, another was a short sharp one on his right cheek, and the last one she could identify was from the bottom of his jaw to his collarbone and disappeared underneath his shirt. He wore dog tags just like Ironhide. The last characteristic that identified all the Autobots was the electrical blue eyes.
"Damn it all Optimus, what is with you Autobots and scaring the life out of me." She said as she got up to turned around only to give another shout of surprise as a young man appeared before here.
He gave her a bright smile and she was reminded of a certain Camaro that would do the same puppy dog look. He was sandy blond haired and blue eyed. He had a scar that was slashed across his throat. Wearing blue jeans and a grey shirt, it fit to his toned body, over his torso he was wearing a yellow and black leather jacket, and dog tags dangled from his neck.
"Damn it!" She said as she backed up.
What is WITH the autobots sneaking up on her? After calming down, Ratchet looked her over making sure there was no real damage. She healed up just fine and was allowed the day off.
She was in here room figuring out what to do about moving all her stuff again. She really didn't want to uproot, but since she climbed into Bee's alt form that fateful day, she knew it was done for. She sat down and heaved a big sigh. Things were going smoothly. NEST will be established at Diego Garcia and they will be protecting the world from the Decepticons. Now top everything off with Jack Danial's whisky for her and life will be great. Unfortunately, the next week… she never realized that she would be facing her fears.
TAL21: Well this was a hard chapter to work on, if it sucks, i'm sorry, stress does that to me. BUT YOU GOT TO SEE JAZZ! In his spark form! YEA! :D So she now has a couple of jobs and her home is now accumulating dust and that just grinds her gears. BWAHAHA! Now we will be meeting a few people in the next chapter that will be haunting her. Can you guess who they will be? What do you think may happen? The new arc will be coming up in the future and it is not pretty. And LOL at the Autobots sneaking up behind her. XD Now for the SHOUT OUTS!:
Bee4ever: 'Grandma Nyx' never gets old. And it won't be the last that she will be called that. XD
Kae88: I'm glad that you like the Description of Ratchet! It took me some thinking about how to describe him accurately. XD
Keepingthematbay: Her blood problem will be described eventually. As for her sleeping problems, they will be increased sooner or later. XD As for Epps calling her Grandma Nyx, it really does ring a bell. XD
Angel3055: Yes, Ny'x Ex is a huge Jack Ass. That and the fact that she couldn't have children is what really took her down the deep end. She couldn't have children and the idiot who married her left her for someone else. How harsh is that?
OKAY! We are done with this chapter! Get ready for the next chapter, because we are going into the life of Nyx! Remember the POLL that i have on my profile to find out WHAT DO YOU THINK NYX WILL BE PAIRED UP WITH? What do you think will happen in the next chapter? Will she go home and rage war on the decepti-dust bunnies? WILL SHE EVER HEAR AN AUTOBOT HOLOFORM BEHIND HER FOR ONCE? See you next chapter! :D
QUESTION TIME!: Do YOU Have an Autobot/Decepticon OC? If so, describe your OC and why you created him/her?
REMEMBER TO KEEP ON READING AND WRITING! :D