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Wow, you guys are the best when it comes to patience. I'm real sorry for making the wait this long. What did help was accidentally defeating the chapter...
But it's here now! So lets get into chapter 3!
Chapter three: Familiar faces.
Desert area, Jasper, Nevada
Two days after the incident in the vault:
Optimus Prime woke with a gasp. For the past two nights, he had been having nightmares about what he saw in the vault. Every time he drifted off, he saw the mutilated remains of those 'Cons.
It was only this one nightmare that he realised that they looked different with the silver and blue colour scheme. But after this realisation, he began to form a reason why
In his days as Orion Pax, he had read that using a space bridge to travel through time could sometimes cause changes in the space-time continuum . Be it accident or on purpose. But what could he have done to change the timeline that afftect his team so badly?
Whatever the answer, he was more determined to find them then ever. He then transformed and went out to start scanning for any Cybertroneon life signals. Because if he had messes which time, who knows what he could uncover.
2 hours later:
Optimus was beginning to lose hope when he finally picked up a signal. He couldn't tell if it was Autobot or Decepticon, but he went towards it nonetheless.
As he followed the signal, he realised what had been creating it. It was a squadron of those silver and blue Vehicons. It was only now he saw the blue optic.
This doesn't make any sense. The Decepticons were always known for the red optics, but these ones had the optic colour of the Autobots. Optimus decided to approach them, but remained in his alt mode and did so slowly.
The Vehicons then noticed the red and blue semi coming towards them. They went to aim, but one told them to stop.
'Wait.' He said
'Are you serious, commander?' Another asked. 'Prime's sitting right there, and you want us to wait?!'
'Yes.' The commander replied.
'What the slag for?'
The 'commander' then turned around and Optimus realised who it was
It was Starscream. Optimus hadn't recognised him because his colour scheme was the same as these strange Vehicons. Not to mention the blue optics.
'I'm guessing that's you there, Prime.' Starscream said, acknowledging his enemies presence. Optimus then transformed to robot mode and engaged his battle mask.
'Starscream, what do you want?' He asked
'To merely talk'
Ok, this was way off. Starscream didn't 'talk' to you unless he had something to gain from doing so. He obviously wanted to know something.
'And what do you want to 'talk' about? Optimus questioned. 'What information do you seek?'
'They said you were clever' came the seekers reply.' I was wondering if you could give me your whereabouts for this time last week'
'And why do you wish to know?' Optimus asked, raising an optic ridge.
'Oh I already know' Starscream answered matter-of-factly.' I wanted to see if you knew.'
He already what? This was making less sense to Optimus ever second. What did he change to make Starscream act so out of character. There was no menecing tone, no sarcastic comment. Nothing that was screaming Starscream in any form. Before he could answer, a Con butted in.
'Why are we just standing here?! He is standing right there, right slagging, there, and you're just talking?'
'I am in agreement.' Optimus added. 'What do you desire?'
At that moment, the seeker looked like he's just seen the penny drop. Optimus put the pieces together and realised: Starscream was testing him. The seeker had been trying to work something out. And from the looks of it, he just had.
'Now what?' The Con who argued earlier demand.
'Question for you: what colour is Optimus Prime?' Starscream asked.
The Con looked puzzled. 'Black and silver' He answered anyway.
'And what colour is the mech standing in front of us?'
The Con shut up after that
'Who are you?' Starscream said, returning his attention to Optimus.
Optimus didn't answer, but he did reply. He was slowly seeing where the seeker was coming from.
But there was no way that was even possible. And yet, it seemed to be the only thing that was.
Starscream thought he was from a parallel dimension.
Oh my god, that took forever...
Sorry if you guys think it's short, but exams are still going, so I don't have a lot of time
Fml...
Hope you like it, tell me what you all thought
Cheers everyone