Chapter 12

Starfall

It has been a few months Since Shields collapsed And Back at the Autobots base, Optimus Prime Carefully examined the The console Which was performing A scan on the night sky And then Ratchet I'm going to walk next to Optimus.

"Optimus, what Are you doing?" Ratchet questioned, Wondering why Optimus was running a scan on the night sky.

Without looking back at his friend Optimus responded, " 3 hours ago scans picked up a powerful Relic Orbiting Earth, It is protected to come down any second," And just as Optimus said that A Blue star Streaked towards the Earth And crashed.

"I'll get the others," Ratchet said but Optimus stopped him.

"No, my Old Friend, This is something I must do Alone," Optimus said.

Ratchet hung his head and activated the ground bridge for where The Relic Had crashed. "Good luck Optimus," Ratchet said to his Leader, who walked into the Swirling teal Portal.

When Optimus stepped out He looked around and saw nothing but Rocky Tan Mountains and Hills. And yet The Relic was nowhere in sight. Optimus figured That something had gone wrong he was supposed to pop out right next to the Relic, Yet he was nowhere near it. He had a long walk ahead of him.

As Optimus walked He thought about The situation,He could have contacted ratchet and requested the ground Bridge be a little bit closer To The Relic. But he didn't. The Matrix told him that this could not be Completed with help. He had to do this on his own. He walked forward aimlessly Hoping that He was going the right way. At one point Optimus heard a noise behind him, He spun around ion Blaster at the ready, Only to find a small Earth creature, It Roared at Optimus before running away, Optimus simply shook his head Before stowing his ion blaster.

Before Optimus could turn around He felt something in The Matrix. It was slow but at a consistent rate, Optimus took the Matrix out and held it in front of him, And the feeling got Faster not by a lot but definitely faster. It wasn't something like the Darkness That he feels when he fights Megatron.This felt more like a guide And Optimus decided to listen to that guide, He Placed The Matrix back in his chest and changed direction.

Optimus was getting tired. It had been approximately four, maybe five Earth hours. Since he had left the base it was dark now so Optimus decided to go into stasis until morning.

Optimus Drove through the war-torn streets of Iacon City The bodies of Both Autobots and Decepticons lay Both friends and enemies among both sides. icon was the last True Autobot area left on Cybertron, And when Megatron came to claim it Optimus Ordered the fierce defense,It was an effort to buy time for the civilians To escape, That decision led to The complete destruction Vast majority of the autobot Army, Those that survived scattering to the Stars But that didn't concern Optimus right now, He arrived at the city center and transformed Where he saw the bodies of Ultra Magnus, Cliffjumper, Kup, Windblade, And Worst of all Elita-one.

Optimus transformed and ran over to Elita, He held her body in his arms as he looked into her sparkless Optics, Optimus Muttered "Ariel," Elita-one's original name Before she was rebuilt By alpha tron After the day the War Began.

Above Optimus a noise was Heard,He looked up to see the Decepticon Armada Flying over the Skies of icon As a Giant Decepticon Insignia appeared over the destroyed City.

All of a sudden Elita-one's hands Reached up and grabbed Optimus's head Forcing him to look directly into her Sparkless Optics "You Failed us," Elita-1 Choked out before Falling back to the ground dead.

Optimus awoke with a jolt. He looked around and realized that he was still on earth. Ever since Iacon fell he had been having the same dream over and over. Optimus got to his feet And continued to move in the way the Matrix Guided him.

Eventually He arrived at A spot that overlooked the crash site, Like fortunately The Decepticons got there first There was an army of Decepticons And they had already set up base Optimus watched as multiple vehicons tried to pull the Relic up They failed.

Optimus decided that stealth was his best option He attempted to Climb down the hill but He stepped on a rock and it broke off causing him to Tumble down And the noise alerted the entire Decepticon base.

The Vehicons took out their blasters as a few approached Optimus, One got a little bit too close Which allowed Optimus to uppercut the con Into the air, This distracted The rest, Long enough for Optimus to pull out his ion blaster, and fire Into Massive Crowd killing several, The vehicons refocused on Prime, Optimus Dodged And kicked the vehicon That he uppercuts originally Into a small group of con Knocking them down, Optimus then transformed And rammed into the knocked down group tearing them apart.

Optimus used a ramp and transformed mid-air Flipped over The cons, he Fired Below him Taking down a con With each shot Before landing on his feet And continuing to fire. Optimus Rolled to the side In order to dodge Incoming fire They began to become a blur for Optimus and before he knew it there were no vehicons left standing.

Optimus Walked over To the Relic It looks like The hilt to a weapon that had embedded itself.Optimus reached down to grab it when He was hit hard in the back Which sent Optimus flying Forwards, Optimus rolled to a stop And looked at what had shot him.

A tan heavily modified M1 Abrams With two rocket pods and two extra tank turrets rolled down the hill. Optimus recognized who it was immediately, Brawl, one of Megatron's most loyal soldiers And was upgraded with dark Energon, The blood of Unicron. At the Battle of Iacon he was the one that broke the Autobots lines and helped achieve the win for the Decepticons.

He transformed as he came to a halt, and continued towards Optimus. He stood at 33 feet, the same height as Optimus. His whole body was a tan-beige kind of color. He was big, with wide and broad shoulders with tank tracks on top. He had two tank barrels on his back, a glowing red visor. He had purple around his torso, and his Decepticon insignia glowed bright purple on his chest.

Both cybertronians charged at each other. Optimus fired off his ion blaster which hit brawl twice in the chest but didn't slow him down, for all fired off one of his shoulder missile pods, optimus destroyed one and dodged two others but he wasn't quick enough to evade the fourth one which went under his legs and exploded behind him which sent Optimus flying forward Forcing him to drop his blaster, Optimus used at this momentum to deliver a devastating punch to brawl's face knocking him down, Optimus rolled and jumped up and turned his hand into a blade and attempted to stab down.

But Brawl rolled out of the way, causing Optimus to get his blade stuck in the ground, Brawl got to his feet and kicked Optimus away, snapping the blade off and leaving it stuck in the ground. Optimus looked at his broken off blade and looked up in time to see Brawl about to deliver a devastating kick to the face. Optimus raised his arms to block the hit. Optimus felt the impact and slid back but stayed on his feet.

Optimus ran forward and dodged a swing from brawl . He then got behind him And tore His missile pod off, Optimus then hit brawl With it causing the missiles to go off and shoot in random directions. Brawl stumbled back and Attempted to kick Optimus, who Grabbed His leg and Flipped him over his head And slammed him into the ground Before tossing him away.

Brawl landed on his feet And his two tank Turrets slid forward and onto his shoulders And fired Hitting Optimus directly in the chest Sending him flying back and landing right next to the Relic.

Optimus grabbed the Relic, It humed with power As Optimus begin to pull The Relic slowly Revealed to be the Starsaber the ancient weapon of the Primes, Brawl Backed away as Optimus Held the Starsaber above his head And Light filled the crater, Brawl Stared at Orion In amazement as he held the most powerful weapon Known to cybertronians.Optimus swung it at Brawl,The Starsaber created a beam of light That flew forward and cut off brawl's arm, And brawl fell.

The Starsaber stopped the glowing Optimus inspected his New weapon, With this A win was almost guaranteed. He looked back over at brawl Who sat there with dark Energon Pouring out of Where his arm should be.

Optimus Walked above the Decepticon and Readyed For the killing blow. Until "Orion," Optimus stopped the starsaber inches away from Brawl's chest,Optimus looked at Brawl's face in complete shock Except it wasn't Brawl's It was Dion's.

"Dion?" Optimus asked in complete disbelief. He grabbed Dion And dragged him out of the pool of dark Energon And propped him up on a Rock kicked up From their fight.

Optimus kneeled in front of Dion, he was still leaking Energon but it was no longer dark. It had turned back To pure blue. "What happened, old friend?" Optimus questioned.

Dion coughed out Some Energon and looked to the Stars " It doesn't matter now Orion," he said With a slight smile.

Optimus Sat next to His old friend And held his hand in order to comfort His old friend in his final moments, "I'm Sorry,"Optimus apologized but Dion only Shook his head.

"No, You did what was needed." Dion Said weakly "Just promise me you won't lose Who You Are."he said, Slowly looking over at Optimus His Optics flickering off and on.

"I promise." Optimus said to Dion, Dion Smiled as his Optics shut down And his body went limp.