a couple days later
…
"Wow, that's awesome," Miko gasped as Aiyr mystified into her holoform.
"Right?" She looks at her human arms and body. "This is the coolest thing ever," Aiyr walked onto the raised platform where her new friends waited, if you analyzed hard enough you can see the shift of the advanced technology simmering dully.
Aiyr froze in her tracks, her holoform flickering then misting into thin air, for one reason only. Megatron was crawling his way to take over Aiyr's mind, Aiyr's optics flickered in different locations around the floor of the hallway, sharp pain frying her circuits. There was this beast… beneath her, cyberalter ego, something clawing to get out and take control.
A part of her, she didn't like. A part of her, she wasn't born with. A part of her, she was subconsciously aware it was a matter of time before she released her. She couldn't accept her gaining control. She watched the light blue glow of her optics dim to a golden glow, she froze. Focusing everything not to transform, she fell to one her knees as she fought all she could.
"What just happened?" Rafael asked, blinking at Aiyr's form disappearing into mist.
Miko was walking down one of the many hallways in the base when she heard air rushing through vents and moving machinery. She rounded a corner and her hazel eyes widened as she seen Aiyr but her optic color scared her the most. They were glowing gold, the shade of the Decepticons. Aiyr heard her gasp of terror and then she clenched her hands to her helm and she doubled over as a pained cry pierced the air. The Autobot femme Miko had quickly liked and looked up to, she was scared for what was going on with her. Miko stepped back when Aiyr fought not to transform again, Miko's eyebrows furrowed.
"It is a matter of time before Optimus discovers all is not right with you, young one. I must reclaim my body… which means taking total and complete control of yours."
Hearing her cry, Arcee came running. Arcee gasped seeing her childhood friend on her knees, wincing in pain and clenching her helm. Miko pressed up against the wall more curious and surprised than scared now.
"Are you alright?" Arcee asked and helped her friend to her feet.
"Yeah, I'm okay, just a helmache, it'll pass," Aiyr straightened but Arcee held her arms to keep her steady.
"Are you sure?" Arcee asks again.
"Yeah," Aiyr turned to Miko. "Are you okay, Miko?" Aiyr had fought her way to control her mind when she seen her through Megatron's eyes through her own. Trying to unleash the monster within her, she fights back daily. That alone made her helm hurt more, more concerned, more paranoid, more afraid.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just didn't know what happened," Miko gave Aiyr and Arcee a reassuring smile.
"I just have to sit down for a second, must be a side effect to the cortical psychic path. If it progresses, I'll see Ratchet, but I'll be okay," Aiyr glances back at Arcee. "I believe you wanted to take me to get a vehicle form?" Aiyr's head tilts at the word, she was curious and she was also confused.
"Oh yes, come on, I had seen more great vehicles a few days ago," Arcee bridges them to a location leaving behind a confused and scared Miko.
…
"Sweet!" Jack and Raf climb into Aiyr new vehicle form like two monkeys.
Apparently the cars Arcee saw were a nation wide car show, and they were in town, so Aiyr was lucky to get a decent vehicle form. A custom 2013 Toyota Supra, Aiyr chuckles revving up her engine loving the sound of it.
"I thought this was one of the best ones there," Aiyr comments, and then the two climbed out so Aiyr can transform back
"So are we playing basketball or what, Bee?" Bulkhead asks as he holds a makeshift metal basketball in his hands, throwing the ball towards Bumblebee.
"Basketball! By way of Cybertron! Let the games begin!" Miko then proclaimed before blowing a whistle.
Bumblebee twirled the ball around on his forefinger before tossing it to Bulkhead, who laughed in excitement as he dribbled the basketball before making the shot.
"Yeah! Go, Bulk!" Miko cheered from her position on a lower level of the raised platform.
"Come on. Best two out of three!" Bulkhead challenged as he tossed the metal ball to Bumblebee.
Bumblebee caught the ball before it hit his chassis and began practically waltzing around the court past Bulkhead, who tried to catch him.
"Bee! You're in the clear! Dunk it, Bee!" Raf cried, excitement.
Aiyr laughed as she and Arcee watched Bumblebee prepare to dunk it. Suddenly, Aiyr let out a groan as she clutched her helm in pain. It was pressing and pinching. More intense then it was the first couple of times this happened. She noted that the more this recurred, the more intense the pain became.
The more Megatron tried to take over her mind.
She saw a horrific vision. And she was seeing it through his blood red optics. Megatron punching Optimus square in his face. The Decepticon Space Bridge crumbling all around him. The undead army reaching out towards him, trying to break through the barriers of the portal. Then the bridge exploding, consuming her within its blasts.
"Bumblebee! Quit hogging the ball," Bulkhead moaned as he saw Bumblebee stare at Aiyr.
Suddenly, Bumblebee heard her scream in pain. In fact, everyone in the room heard that scream. Bumblebee turned around and saw Aiyr kneeling by the staircase clutching her helm in severe pain. This concerned the muscle car. He threw the ball in a random location… almost hitting Bulkhead in the head during the process.
He ran towards her and placed a comforting hand on her back, causing her to jump in surprise and almost scream. Arcee stood by worried just like the others.
"Flagrant foul!" Miko cried.
"Dodge ball by way of Cybertron," Jack remarked, looking at Rafael whom frowned.
"If I am to return to my body, I must first restore its functionality. How did I escape annihilation?"
Aiyr found herself watching another one of Megatron's painful memories. Only this one was set after the Space Bridge explosion. Megatron was drifting into space along with shrapnel from the structure of the bridge. Pain filled every cranny of his being. He felt someone reach in and pluck the purple glowing shard from his spark.
He recognized the shard that was pulled out of him. And he also recognized the person who did this to him.
A Decepticon?
"Of course! Dark Energon! Starscream…"
Miko, Raf, Bumblebee, Optimus, Arcee, Jack, Bulkhead and Ratchet observed in worry as Aiyr slowly slipped into a stasis lock.
"Aireon has been complaining of intermittent visions. Waking nightmares, if you will. Which were causing her severe headaches. Even more intense than a migraine," Ratchet informed the worried father who just happened to be his old friend.
"But you said Aiyr was fine when you checked her over!" Arcee protested.
"Physically. But the experience she endured seems to be having a temporary effect on her psyche. This induced coma should allow Aiyr's mind to rest and recover," Ratchet reassured them.
Suddenly, a beeping sound could be heard. The Autobots approached the computers and saw that an incoming call was coming in. And the person making the call happened to be Agent Fowler.
"Prime! You spot any Decepticons wearing hula skirts lately?" He demanded angrily.
Miko busted out laughing imagining the Decepticons wearing hula skirts and doing the hula on a beach.
"No, Special Agent Fowler. Why?" Optimus asked, generally confused.
"'Cause I was hoping you'd have a lead on the 'Cons that busted into the Hawaiian Naval Observatory. Place looks like it was hit by an army of wrecking balls."
"Why would 'Cons break into an observatory?" Arcee voiced the question everyone was thinking.
"Does the Hoit Niko Gosium ring any bells?"
"The space telescope!" Raf gasped.
"As of last night, missing its primary lens."
"It's difficult to guess Starscream's intent without knowing where the lens has been taken," Optimus announced gravely.
"Good thing the lens has a tracking device."
Within moments, a map of the world was displayed in front of them. Automatically, the map zoomed in on a specific part of the globe. A red square indicated where the lens was currently located in Decepticon hands. And it was a place Optimus and Arcee weren't looking forward to returning to. For they nearly lost their lives the day of the Scraplet infestation.
"The Arctic? Great. Another chance to freeze our sparkplugs off," Arcee cheered sarcastically.
"That's a ND7 class. Biggest unmineable Energon deposit there is," Bulkhead remarked.
"Unmineable until Starscream melts his way down to it," Optimus corrected.
"With the help of the lens," Arcee piped in.
"Melting a glacier that size would cause sea levels to rise and to demolish coastal cities."
"What about Aiyr?" Bumblebee bleeped, "We could use for this," The Autobots glanced over at their new member of Team Prime.
"Once she's rested and recovered, she'll be in the field in no time," Ratchet reassures Aiyr's ex-lover, oblivious to the edge in his voice.
Bulkhead glanced up at his leader whom was scrutinizing Bumblebee.
The sun shone brightly in the Arctic, blindly. The glaciers reflected the sun's rays that dared to shine down onto one of the coldest parts of the Earth. The glaciers were shadowed by the Nemesis flying over the Arctic, blocking the sun's rays.
"Let the reign of Lord Starscream, begin," Starscream sneered.
At Knockouts indication, the ultimate weapon appeared onto the roof of the Nemesis and one large hot beam shot down from the weapon to the glacier. Smoke and water rose from impact, drilling a hole into the ground with intense heat.
"And so I blow past the finishing line. Then my other sister, Poliais, asked how I gotten so good at racing games. And I told her I know this really awesome guy that knows cars," Raf explained excitedly.
"Rafael, Aiyr is in a coma. She can't actually hear you," Ratchet reminded them, "You know, it's getting late, Rafael? Why don't I bridge you home?"
"Ratchet, I promised Bee I'd stay. She's family," Raf answers.
"Don't be ridiculous. She's not human," Ratchet scoffed in disbelief.
"But she can feel and act like a full human. She can smile. She can laugh. She can grief. She can love," Raf smiled proudly before showing him a picture on his phone, "Besides, that's not about being related. This isn't the same thing. I'll show you. This is my family."
"Very nice," Ratchet mumbled uninterestedly.
"Very large," Raf corrected, "Sometimes, I can shout and no one hears me. Bumblebee always listens, and he cares deeply for Aiyr." Raf turns to Ratchet. "It's true, it's like she's always been here, like she always had a place. It doesn't matter if she isn't human, she's more human than you'd believe," Ratchet took Rafs words to heart.
Ratchet looked over at Aiyr, she certainly didn't have Optimus or Elitas height, she was definitely smaller than them. Elita was Bulkheads height, not as big but her height and structure was definitely all femme. Aiyr had her own structure and build, she might have similarities to Optimus, her spark and smarts was from him. She had Optimus' wisdom and leveled temperament, at times, but from his memories of her she also was a firecracker, she was funny and she was loving and lovable.
And he couldn't believe he had lived long enough without Elita or Aiyr's presence around the base. It got lonely and he needed that occasional pick me up, and Aiyr's childness usually did the trick. But he needed Elita to lighten a mood with a just a smile, or a simple stupid joke. He wished he was able to save her all those years ago. He wished that the human kids knew the great femme soldier and commander, he also wished that Aiyr had gotten to them sooner.
"A lot different from our last polar visit," Arcee remarked as she, Bulkhead and Optimus walked through the Arctic, "Feels like summer."
"Here, that's a bad thing," Bulkhead remarked as they hid behind a glacier.
They saw the machine the Decepticons had in their possession. A giant laser shooting a heat beam at the glacier below, melting the glacier to oblivion to reach the Energon hidden underneath.
"Autobots, remember the end run on Polyhex?" Optimus asked.
"Our first assignment together as a team. Why?" Arcee wanted to know.
…
Raf continued to monitor Aiyr, who remained in a stasis lock. Everyone is still unaware of the fact that the intense headaches and visions Aiyr had been experiencing because of Megatron, whom is causing this from inside her mind.
"Rafael, I'm going to go to the supply vault to see if I can find parts to repair this…, although I doubt it. She crushed it pretty good. Anyway, do you know what that means?" Ratchet asked with a stern facial expression.
"Don't touch anything," Raf chorused before Ratchet walked away.
No one noticed the fact that Aiyr's optics slowly flickered to life. He didn't notice the fact that her actions weren't caused by her own free will.
But because of Megatron inhabiting her mind.
"Aiyr, wait until you see the laptop I'm saving up for," Raf gushed as she walked past him, "Aiyr?"
She didn't go far. She just walked to the GroundBridge controls. After typing in the specific coordinates, the bridge before her came to life, holding a portal to beyond.
"Aiyr, come back!" Aiyr cried as Aireon walked through the portal.
"What did you do?" Ratchet demanded as he came into the room.
"Nothing! Aiyr just got up and-!" Raf freaked.
"She was in stasis lock!" Ratchet retorted before asking, "Where does she think she's off to?"
The answer to Ratchet's question is a familiar place for Ratchet and Optimus. Megatron had possessed Aiyr's mind and made her teleport to the place where Optimus and Ratchet first encountered an army of Megatron's undead Cybertronians. Desperately and failing, Aiyr fought against the control he possessed. However, the more she fought him, the more pain she brings upon herself. Nothing, not even the burning pain, would make her give up the fight. Her spark would have to give out before she stopped. Megatron won complete control of her.
"Where is it? Where?"
She found herself watching another one of Megatron's memories. Glowing Dark Energon was held high in his hands. He threw the Energon to the ground. She kept fighting to take control over her mind. The memory came to an abrupt stop as Aiyr stared at the crater before her. Unlike other craters that illuminated orange and yellow as if there was fires inside, this crater glowed a bright purple with an navy edge. She looked inside it and found the shard of Dark Energon Megatron desperately wanted to revive and return to his own body. With little to none at all, Aireon slid down inside and plucked the shard from the ground. The shard purred in her hands.
Suddenly, another problem occurred. She clutched her head in excruciating pain. The pain was worse than the other times she felt pain with Megatron in her head. Her blue optics with lighter circles squinted tightly due to the intense pain and she was grimaces. However, when she opened them again, her two different toned blue optics were gone. Decepticon eyes replaced her Autobot optics. Blood red with silvery white circles replaced the navy blue.
"That's better…"
"These are the coordinates for the sight of our previous battle with Megatron's undead," Ratchet gasped after studying the coordinates Aiyr had typed in.
"Maybe we should call Optimus. I mean, this is his daughter we're talking about. He has the right to know what's going on, plus she's a Prime, he could stop her," Raf pointed out.
"Optimus is busy preventing a Polar Ice Cap from melting," Ratchet retorted, earning bleeps and protests from Bumblebee, "I realize he's her father! But what if this turns out to be nothing? Besides, the needs of many outweigh the needs of few. We need to handle this on our own."
"Look! She's coming back!" Raf gasped as she saw the GroundBridge come to life.
"Aiyr, what have you been doing?" Ratchet asked before gasping in horror, "By the AllSpark!"
Two observations about Aiyr made everyone in the room gasp in horror. Glowing Dark Energon was resting in the tight grip of her slender, silver servos. Something that Ratchet had not laid eyes on since the Space Bridge showdown. But the second observation concerning Aireon was the worst one of them all, the crimson red and silvery white optics darkening in anger and blood thirst.
Aiyr was now Megatron.
"Dark Energon?" Bumblebee bleeped in horror as he grasped her arm.
"Don't touch me!" Aiyr yelled as she drew her legendary sword to knock Bumblebee into the wall.
"Aiyr?!" Rag gasped as Aireon approached them.
Raf yelled out in surprise as Aireon picked him up off his feet. Her Decepticon eyes showed intent to bring harm to everyone in the room like she did to Bumblebee moments before. In fact, she was ready to do that now. But for a moment – just for a sliver of a moment – her eyes flickered back to their normal color and she placed them near the vents.
"Aiyr, please! I know you're in there! You have to fight whatever's making you do this!" Raf pleaded.
"I can't!" Aireon screamed in pain before her eyes returned to the blood red with silver/white circles and another voice replaced her normal voice.
"But I win…" A devilish, cynical grin spread across the pink tint on her lip plates.
"No!" Ratchet murmured before realization hit him as he saw Aiyr run through the portal with the Dark Energon shard.
"Bumblebee!" Raf cried as he saw Bumblebee groan and try to get up, "Are you okay?"
Bumblebee bleeped that he was fine, causing Raf to virtually melt in relief. The Prime's daughter almost killed them. Rafael saw something in her eyes, he knew it wasn't really her; he knew that Ratchet caught on to this as he approached them to help him down.
"The most important question is whether or not Aiyr is alright. I fear the time she's spent in Megatron's mind is causing her to think like a Decepticon," Ratchet sighed sadly as he held out his hand. "But then again, she didn't use the cortical psychic patch."
"No! She's not a Decepticon!" Rafael shook his head in denial as the group climbed onto Ratchet's hand.
"Agreed. But we need to find out exactly what Aiyr intends to do with that shard. The only one who knew of the Dark Energon… was Megatron," Ratchet proclaimed.
"Aiyr has Megatron's memories?" Raf asked in confusion.
"Worse. Megatron's occupying Aiyr's mind," Ratchet declares. "If Megatron takes complete control of Aiyr's mind… we can only pray to Primus."
"What?" Raf breathed.
"How could I have been such a fool? A cortical psychic patch acted as a two-way conduit. When Aiyr returned to her own mind, Megatron followed. And now Aiyr, no Megatron, has bridged to nearly the same coordinates Optimus used," Ratchet observed as he reactivated the portal, "Stay here."
"No! Aiyr needs us," Miko objected.
"Of course she does," Ratchet sighed in defeat.
A GroundBridge portal appeared in the hallway of the Nemesis. Jumping out of the portal was Ratchet first with Miko and Raf sitting on his shoulder. Bumblebee immediately followed the commanding medical officer with Jack sitting on his shoulder.
"The Decepticon warship!" Ratchet groaned.
Immediately, the two Autobots took off running. If they didn't reach Aiyr in time and cure her current ailment with Megatron inhabiting her mind, Megatron would use a cortical psychic patch to return to his own body and make Aiyr use the Dark Energon shard to revive him. But what they saw stunned them all, but they already knew that it was his plan. Dismembered decepticon minions littered the hallway.
"Megatron's making Aiyr destroy any drones that stand in their way," Ratchet retorted, looking at the fallen drones, "Aiyr is one of the most skillful swordsman I've ever seen, we'll have to distract her long enough to grab it. If not, we'll die trying, Megatron's mind is dominant. And clearly, for one purpose: to use the Dark Energon to resurrect his own body."
"She won't let Megatron revive himself. Like she didn't let Megatron hurt us back at the base," Raf protested.
"I know," Ratchet huffed.
He placed his hand on the ground so the three humans could climb off without harming themselves. Immediately, he ran. Bumblebee and Ratchet followed him without hesitation. They reached the labs unnoticed by Decepticon drones. They peaked in and gasped once again.
They saw Aiyr connecting herself and Megatron through the cortical psychic patch that was used earlier when Bumblebee went into Megatron's mind to search for the cure for the Cybonic plague to save Optimus. Ratchet realized that it was slowly becoming too late to stop Megatron from using her to revive himself. So Ratchet took off running.
"Ratchet! Don't hurt Aiyr!" Miko called out, earning bleeps in agreement from Bumblebee.
"That's not Aireon!" Ratchet retorted as he went to pound her into the ground.
However, she seemed to sense his oncoming attack, she used her elbow to knock Ratchet into the opposite wall. The medic hit the wall with a grunt before falling to the ground unconscious. Satisfied with her work, Aiyr held up the Dark Energon shard and approached the Decepticon master currently in stasis.
"Aiyr! Please! No!"
Aiyr turned around in shock at the voice. She saw Raf, Jack and Miko, and Bumblebee running towards her. Their eyes filled with desperation to save her from the Warlord.
"Remember who you are! Remember Optimus! Remember Arcee! Remember Bumblebee! I know you can do this! I know you can fight him!" Miko cried.
What she said seemed to be working. Aiyr fell to her knees clutching her head in excruciating pain. Her eyes flickered between the blood red and white and the sparkling blue. Her eyes and face clearly showed pain.
"You have to keep fighting him! Come on! I know you can do it! Fight him, Aireon!" Raf begged her.
"Unbelievable! Remember what Bumblebee did to you!" Megatron roared, "he embarrassed you! Don't you remember Aiyr? He has the most powerful Autobot next to Optimus, he was going to be your spark mate. He cheated on you!"
"Cheated?" Jack demands looking up at Bumblebee, Mikos eyes went wide.
"You cheated on her?" Miko demanded pointing at Aiyr, "how could you?"
"Raf… run! Please! Jack. Miko. Please run!" Aiyr grubted in pain.
"No one is leaving you!" Everyone turned to the figure at the door, she came out from the shadows. "Not again."
Elita-One, salmon pink, silver and almost the height of Optimus Prime himself, Bumblebee and Elita shared a look before both getting into position.
"No! Run! He's taking over! Please! Run! And don't look back!" Aiyr ordered as Elita ran forward.
She let out a energon curdling scream of pain before her eyes were blazing red. She threw Elita into the wall, swiftly followed by Bumblebee. Suddenly, she turned around and saw Ratchet clutching the main cable for Megatron's life support.
"Farewell, Megatron," Ratchet sneered before pulling the cable.
She didn't like that at all. She drew her sword, navy blue bright ribbons erupting from her sword and circling around her, she threw Ratchet into the wall next to Raf and Bumblebee. As soon as he made contact with the wall, Ratchet fell to the ground unconscious again. Miko stood up and ran towards Aiyr.
"Aireon!" Miko cried.
At the sound of her voice, she turned around. She held the shard high in her hands and glared at the young adult with dangerously blazing blood red eyes. That was when Elita realized. She didn't need to hear the following words to know the truth, she was losing her daughter.
"Aiyr can't hear you anymore."
"As much as I want you to leave Aiyr's body, I can't let you go back to your own!" Elita declared as she ran towards the purple cable.
She grabbed the cord and pulling it to break the connection between Megatron's sick mind and Aiyr's pure mind. However, her plan didn't go that well. Aiyr turned abruptly and her mother was sent flying. He landed on the ground roughly face first. With them out of the way, Aiyr turned to the warlords body, using all of her strength, she stabbed the Dark Energon shard into the gapping hole in Megatron's chassis that exposed his spark chamber. The shard buried itself snugly into Megatron's spark chamber and worked its magic.
Megatron's eyes snapped open and Aiyr stepped away. Everyone stared stunned, fearful as Megatron rose from the slab. Their retreating steps fell in tone with Megatron's approaching steps. Decepticon drones came rushing in at the sound. They froze in surprise when they saw Megatron standing there. Alive. No longer in stasis.
"Decepticons, your rightful Lord and Master has returned!" Megatron declared before going to the swarming Decepticons, "Finish these pests! I have my own extermination to perform."
"Scrap," Aireon swore before getting into her legendary position, the three humans stared in awe as the navy blue ribbons cleared the electricity in the room and navy blue soundwaves under her feet. Miko pulled out her phone and started recording the scene before her.
Aiyr absolutely loved the surge of power pulsing throughout her body, Bumblebee, Elita and Ratchet flanked her. Aireons battle mask slid into its place just like Optimus', but with optic guards. Her optics narrowed in determination and distaste for Megatron.
"I've been waiting to scrap some screwups," Aiyr sneered, twirling her sword in her servo.
Elita laughed at her daughters words before pulling her canon launcher from her back. "You and me both, sparkling," She smiled at her daughter before entering the fray.
"Megatron's greatest mistake was allowing you to live, Prime!" Starscream proclaimed as he prepared to fire a missile.
"Optimus!" Arcee and Bulkhead cried as they realized what was going to happen.
Thankfully, they didn't have to worry about preventing Starscream's attack. Bulkhead was relieved that he didn't have to hold Arcee back from taking the missile hit herself, which delivered him the satisfaction. That was because familiar figure intercepted Starscream's assassination attempt. And that the figure was.
"Elita," Optimus stared in shock.
Then a familiar jet came out of nowhere, it knocked Elita off, a figure landed beside Optimus where her sword drawn. She waiting for Megatron's attack.
"Megatron!" Elita growled, coming to Aiyr's side.
"He's back!" Arcee gasped as she helped Optimus up. "Elita, your alive!"
"Not good," Bulkhead remarked as he assisted Optimus and Elita.
Once in his bipedal form, Starscream was thrown onto one of the wings of the burning Nemesis. He coughed and gasped for air. He witnessed Megatron transform before him and land ever so gracefully on the wing in front of him. No matter how much Starscream would try to cover up his mistakes and betrayals, he knew that it would not save him from Megatron's rage. No one was safe.
"Lord Megatron! You are… you're healed! Praise the AllSpark! It is a miracle!" Starscream cheered nervously.
"Oh, it will be a miracle alright, Starscream, if you survive what I have planned for you," Megatron growled dangerously.
Starscream was nervous like Primus only knows what. He knew he was screwed. So he decided to make an attempt to escape while he still had the opportunity. Transforming into his vehicular mode, he prepared for a hasty take-off. However, Megatron stopped him by grabbing the rear tails connected to his main engine. After spinning a few times, he threw Starscream onto the next wing on his left.
Starscream transformed back into his bipedal mode as he landed roughly.
"But the Autobots! Optimus! Elita-One! Aiyr! Right there! Waiting for you!" Starscream reminded Megatron as he approached them.
"My greatest mistake? I've made a few! But there is one I do not intend to make again!" Megatron proclaimed as he grabbed Starscream's face and began dragging him away.
"No! Master! No!" Starscream screamed.
"Ratchet, we need a bridge," Optimus spoke into the commlink.
"You are not the only ones."
To everyone's surprise, they turned around and saw Ratchet and Bumblebee approaching them. Sitting on Bumblebee's shoulder was Rafael, Jack, and Miko. Ratchet had transformed into his vehicular mode and had Bumblebee pull out a blanket to wrap around the children to shield them from the harsh cold.
…
"Everything's back to normal," Ratchet announced as Aiyr stepped out of the medical chamber.
"Seriously?" Arcee and Aiyr said with identical smirks.
"Well… normal for Aiyr," Ratchet corrected with a smile.
"Hey. I'm sorry," Aireon apologized as she stood before her parents.
"It wasn't you, there's nothing to apologize for," Elita responded, smiling down at her daughter.
"You guys were scared, huh?" Aireon asked, knowingly, turning to the children.
"Of course I was!" Raf practically screeched.
"You're freaking scary with that sword out!" Jack admitted.
"Pussies," Miko commented, grinning, "I wasn't worried at all. You're pretty badass if you ask me."
"Well…, I'll take that, I guess. Thanks for having my back, kid. All of you," Aireon smiled.
"I'll always have your back. We all will," Miko swore, "Besides, you'd do the same for us."
"Absolutely," Aiyr laughed when Arcee tackled her to the ground.
"Can we all just take a moment to realize that Aiyr just apologized for something," Arcee teased.
"Oh shut up," Aireon shoved Arcee playfully before holding up her fists as she challenged Arcee.
"You are so on," Arcee raised her own and they began to spare in the far corner with Bulkhead riling them up.
"Bumblebee," Elita-One calls crossing her arms over her chest, Bumblebee froze while walking up to Rafael on the raised platform. Miko snickered when his optics widened, "I believe we need to have a conversation about your previous Cybertron endeavors."
Bumblebee chuckled nervously before turning around to face Optimus Prime's wife. Aiyr, Arcee and Bulkhead turned around to Bumblebee squealing in pain as Elita tackled him and got him locked in a painful position. Miko ran up to Aiyr as Optimus chuckled at his wife correcting Bumblebee for his previous actions against his daughter.
"Can I get a picture of you in your stance?" Miko asks holding up a pink flip phone with a dangling chain.
Aiyr glanced at Arcee with a raised brow, just then the computers alarm started going off of an incoming call.
"Its unknown," Ratchet stated.
"It could be an Autobot," Optimus says, slightly eager.
Ratchet accepted the call, static came through the speakers before a voice spoke.
Static. "Lord Megatron?"
Aiyr went cold, rigid, she knew who that was; Elita-One, Bumblebee and Arcee noticed Aiyr leave the command center into the hallway.
"This is Optimus Prime," Optimus steps forward as Ratchet steps away, Optimus knew who it was and he dismissed her question unconditionally.
Why did she ask for Lord Megatron? Why did she call him that? Did he finally after all these decades take control of her? This is bad, this is real bad. There was one thing she had to do right now, this wasn't Megatron but her own instincts within.
Aiyr retrieved her second sword from the weapon station, hilting onto her hip as her optics turned to golden. She walked through the halls with her body beginning to shift merging with a different downloaded form. Unhilting her first sword a cybertronian inch, different multiple shades of blue ribbons twisted into a ball before silently exploding into her personal portal. A hidden power, Bumblebee and Arcee froze in their tracks witnessing this move and her quick step into the portal to unknown location. Then the ribbons collapsed in on themselves and silently exploding and disappearing.
"What the frag?" Arcee's eyes widened.
…
somewhere in the mountains of russia
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Aiyr walked through the woods of a heavily snowy forest, snowing falling from the dark clouds above, she stopped in her tracks fifteen minutes in overlooking a drop off into thickly populated trees. She looked beyond it only allowing her cyberalter ego's heightened sight, stronger than normal cybertronian sight, the forest went on for miles. She weighed her options, she knew she was under Optimus' hand and she knew she had to give notice before choosing to leave for a period of time.
She knew that Ratchet was watching her location, it was a femme sense.
"How are you in Russia?" He was astonished, it was comical to Aiyr.
She sat down on the edge of the cliff looking over the snowy abyss and trees, chuckling. Her mood went serious after a moment, "Magical powers. I'll be back soon."