Here's another chapter guys that reintroduces a much-anticipated character and some insight into optimus's past life before the show. Hope you like it.
Also please review to say what you think should happen next.
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TFA: Deals with Our Devils, Chapter 12: A Time Before, and a Time for a Plotting, and a time for Parley
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Optimus washed his hands of the last bit of blood from yesterday's incursion on the water of the small stream in eerie silence as the two dinobot's kept their distance from the dark creature. It smelled all wrong, like something that got burned after it died with a bit of sulfur in there. Snarl and swoop were trying to cover their noses with their hands since it was so bad.
Oh, that's right, there was something burned, it was the swab of their forest that he wrecked during his fight with those two other creatures!
"…You know it wouldn't be so bad if you guys didn't get involved in the first place". Optimus responded with a grumble to their sniveling.
They just continued to cower there as they waited for grimmlock to arrive, now that the demonic presence was diminishing from the area the remaining trees were returning to normal.
Optimus shook his head due to their sorry states. "Was I really that weak willed at one time". He thought to himself thinking back on a time before, a time when he was a young bot who was at the schoolground after being found on the streets back on cybertron. A time when he was innocent and naive, a time when he experienced the feeling of love for the one who gave him hope, …for a while at least.
He closed his red eyes and remembered.
"Love". "What a failure I am in that department". He thought to himself.
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A young orphaned optimus sat alone in the school yard as the other bots played and enjoyed the recent freedom cybertron had from the decepticon threat over many cycles ago. The only problem was, he had no one to play with…
No family to speak of since he came online. From the sacred temple. Because quite frankly no one wanted a frail bot like him. He wasn't strong like other autobot children or smart to become a scientist, or even had unique abilities like some others who were blessed by the allspark. All he had was a grappling hook on his arms and that was it.
He was just a young, sad autobot.
The longer he watched them the sadder he felt.
Before he knew it, he looked down and started leaking energon tears while sitting against the wall. He didn't know how long he sat there before someone with a young, sweet, feminine voice spoke up. Apparently noticing his sorry state.
"What's wrong"? "Are you okay"?
Optimus looked up wiping away tears as he did with his hand. Sniffling all the while through his metal nose.
Standing there was a young femme that brought the word beauty to his mind, she had yellow metal and a metal pony-tale with a beautiful sweet appearance that lifted his spirits a little the moment he saw her.
He slowly shook his head still fresh with tears. Something she caught on.
The young femme tilted her head in concern at this when she asked, "don't you have anyone to play with"? "Any friends"?
Optimus shook his head again sadly.
The femme looked sad herself now, then she had an idea.
She held out her hand and said, "Well I'll play with you and be your friend".
Optimus stared up at the young beauty before him like a savior from his lonely darkness.
He swallowed up his fear then took her hand to help him up.
"I'm optimus". He said to her.
She smiled back, "Hello optimus I'm Elita, Elita one", and we'll be best friends.
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"…..".
"…Drip…".
A drop of liquid was heard that woke optimus up from the memory.
"…..".
"…Drip, Drip…...".
There it was again.
He looked down at the now clear water into his own reflection and clean, blackened, charcoal colored, hands that ended in fine sharp points like triangles on the ends of his figures which rested in the surface of the water.
Into the eyes of a monster, no, the eyes of a hell spawn. Which was leaking a bloody set of tears into the water every few moments. And he hated it.
"…SLAG IT ALL TO HELL"! He screamed out-loud for showing such weakness as he slashed the reflection in the water with his claws and stormed over to a boulder then punched it with an earth shattering "SMAAAASSSHHH"! With both fists downwards. Reducing it to pebbles as it cracked together, with bits of shrapnel flying everywhere.
"Great"! "Now I need some way to get rid of the bodies I just killed"! He practically screamed out as he stormed off through the forest, "Mabey I'll hack them up and put them in a sewer"! He yelled out disappearing into the darkness as he did leave a shocked pair of dinobot's with an equally shocked grimmlock who just arrived in his robot form long enough to witness the outburst and stood there in silence.
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Unknown to them due to his rage induced fit. They were being watched for some time by a series of reinforced cameras in the bushes and in the air that was connected to the decepticon ship called the nemesis. And in the ship a red eye shown with interest on a purple body while watching the readings on the screen intently along with several files on what the earthlings called "demonology and mythology" from various religions.
And behind him was a battered megatron being worked on with cybernetic implants and barely holding together as it was from the last time, he encountered the young mech and had various holo-screens around his face as the mechanical arms worked.
Fortunately for him he still had his transponder working.
Megatron muttered only one word in response. "…. Fascinating….".
The purple mech who was shockwave in front of the terminals turned his head to look at his master. "Lord Megatron, should I trust the info I gathered is to your liking".
"It's truly fascinating". He replied to shockwave.
"He's a creature of rage, a creature of chaos". "The perfect war instrument". He said aloud.
"I just had an idea creep into my neurons for once I recover". Megatron said next.
Shockwave blinked at this wondering what he meant by that given the implications of this discovery then waited for the answer.
"You ever heard the saying; the enemy of my enemy is my friend"? "Or unite and conquer"?
Also, I hope you still have those contacts on and off-world lying around somewhere.
At this shockwave understood. And if shockwave had the capacity to, he would smile himself in understanding what lord megatron was getting at.
"I think its time we contacted our agents we've assembled".
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