Hey guys it's been forever! I owe my break in my writers block to BlueStar19. They were a big help! So here's the update you've been waiting for! Bonus for whoever can guess where I got Black Sunshine's name from.
I paced the medical bays halls for what seemed like hours before I got any news on the damage done to Bumblebee and Starlight. They were going to be fine, it was just going to take sometime to dislodge their tires from their arm joints. I was more concerned about what I was going to do with Sunshine. I had him locked up in the cells, but I couldn't release him and strip him of his position only because of what it was that he was really guarding. Yes he was in charge of weapons but he was also the guardian of the All Spark. Currently it was locked up in a vault and the only ones who new the codes where him and me. I sighed and ran my hand over my face and helm. I was in quite a predicament. I though back to my conversation with Black.
I walked down the dim lit halls of the jail cells that were all empty save for one. Black Sunshine met my optics with his own dim red ones. Something was different about him. Ever since Bumblebee and Starlight were sparked he seemed distant and full of rage but he had apologized for his crimes against them before. This time, the look he gave me had no remorse in it what so ever. It was cold and full of spite.
"Come to punish me Prime?" He hissed. If I didn't know better I would have thought he was a Decipticon.
"You're giving me little choice Black. I had hoped that like last time you would be remorseful but I can see other wise." I looked towards my peds and sighed. "I have but one option and I don't want to do it."
Black Sunshine chuckled darkly. "It's because you're weak!" He growled and lunged towards the bars. When his hands hit an electrical shock sent him stumbling back.
"You're memory shall be wiped and you will be left outside of Iacon. I'm sorry my old friend, but this is the choice I have made." After his outburst I no longer felt bad for what had to happen.
"You wouldn't do that Prime...Prime! Come back here! I'm not done with you! PRIME!" He called after me as I left. As the door closed, I heard him punch the wall in rage.
"Optimus, wake up. PRIME!" Ratchet yelled as he shook my arm.
I opened my optics and looked up at the exhausted medi-bot.
"Sorry..." I said as I stretched. I had fallen asleep in the waiting area after my talk with Black Sunshine.
"Oi...you could have gone home and I would have sent Star and Bee home with Hot Shot." Ratchet glared at me. "I told you to get more rest any way. Why are you still here?! They won't be released from my care until tomorrow any way."
"I needed to talk to you about Sunshine. I want you to do a memory wipe on him." I was prepared for an outburst about how dangerous that was but instead I got an exasperated sigh.
"I knew he was trouble from day one..." He sighed again. "You know the dangers of it. He could die during the process or not all of his memories will be erased. I hope it's the first one to be honest." The old red and white bot chuckled humorlessly. "Are you sure about this Optimus?"
I nodded. "It's the only way. I can't hold him in the cells forever with the information he holds in his processor. It's too dangerous. If nothing else, erase that and the location of our base if you can." I didn't care if he remembered names as long as he couldn't give away our location and the codes to the All Spark.
"Understood. He'll be first priority in the morning. I'll get Jazz and Hot Shot to help me hold him. Until then you are ordered to go home and rest!" He said as he lifted me out of the chair with my left servo and lightly pushed me towards the hall. "I got this covered." He smiled.
I was awoken by a loud siren and a blinding red light. The alarms! I got up and ran out the door. All I could think of was going to the medical bay and making sure nothing had happened to Starlight or Bumblebee. My instinct to protect my sparklings was what led me to the scene of the crime. There was a creator in the floor of the medical bay and four bots lying on the floor. All four were fine just shingled. I quickly ran over and helped the oldest of the bots up.
"Ratchet, what happened?" I asked as I helped him sit up. Hot Shot, Jazz and Red Alert were getting up by this point.
"I-it's Black Sunshine...he's escaped sir." the old mech said as he rubbed the side of his helm. "We were about to wipe his processor when he broke the restraints. He aimed his cannon at me but Jazz pushed his arm down and made the resulting creator. He must have run off while we were out."
I balled my hands into fists and glared out the door. "Jazz, Hot Shot, with me. Ratchet and Red Alert, make sure all young bots are out of harms way." I said as I leapt up and ran towards the weapons depot. I knew what he was going after and I had to stop him.
The second Hot Shot, Jazz and I walked into the room we were under fire. I didn't choose Black Sunshine just because he was good with guns; he was also an excellent taction and could make attack plans up on the spot. He was second best to Prowl.
"Give it up Prime! You can never stop me!" sadly he was right. I'd need more than a saber and a rookie warrior to take him down. All I needed to do was take down the control panel to the All Spark though and that would stop him for now.
I looked at Hot Shot and Jazz and motioned towards the panel. Both of them nodded, grabbed a gun off of the closest shelf and drew Black's fire towards them while I took aim at the panel. Disabling the panel would put the whole room on lock down, sealing the doors and windows from the inside but it was all we had.
I took aim and hit the panel dead on. The alarms went off along with flashing orange lights as the metal doors started to close. Black Sunshine growled, aimed and shot towards Hot Shot. I moved and blocked the fatal shot with my body and ended up with a shot to the shoulder joint. It was better than Hot Shot taking it in the spark.
I turned to fire back but as I aimed Black Sunshine leapt through the small opening left between the metal door and the window, breaking the glass and falling towards the ground. Last I saw of him was him transforming in mid air, landing hard on the ground and driving off in the direction of the Decipticon base.
The whole meeting room was a blaze with questions as to why we didn't stop him. There was no way we could have even though I wanted to.
"Everyone shut up!" Ratchet's voice boomed over the noisy crowd. Everyone fell silent. No one messed with the old medi-bot.
"Er...thank you Ratchet. As I was saying there were only three of us. We tried to trap him in the weapons room but he still managed to escape. We must find him before he reaches the enemies base." I looked over the crowd and saw all of their worried optics. "We can stop him; we just have to work together to find him." The one set of optics that I focused on where the only pair of emerald green in the far back of the room. Starlight looked scared but she had a fire burning in her optics. She wanted revenge and at that moment she reminded me so much of her Creator. "I promise all of you, he will not get away with this unharmed."
Happy 4th guys! 30th Anniversary of Transformers today!