On the road
They drove down the deserted road, and then Nova saw Optimus. Her hologram smiled and Bee turned on his comm. "you see them?" "Yeah I see'm bee. Tell Optimus he's got one more bot, but don't tell him it's me just yet. I want to see the look on his face." Nova said looking at the laptop on the seat next to her. "Silver bolt snuck in my alt. I'll yell at her later. We got bigger problems." She said and spotted the bots turning around and coming up behind them. Once they got further down the highway, they started going into traffic. Nova saw Bone crusher tackle Optimus and down into the lower level while she drove on.
Barricade chased her then backed off when they got in the city. She rolled in with the bots and they all stopped near the soldiers. She heard Epps complaining about the radios from her radio and she giggled. "Don't worry Epps. They're not that bad" she said and Epps snorted. "Yeah, okay" he said and started talking into them.
"I'm only gonna get 20 or 30 miles out of these things. Are there any aircraft orbiting the city?" Epps asked and she did a search. One f-22 passed over her and she got this really bad feeling. "F-22 at 12:00. All right, I want planes for air cover and get black hawks on station to extract that cube. You got it." Lennox said and she sighed. "This is gonna be bad" she said as her holoform sank into the seat. "You ready for this?" Bee asked and she smiled. "As ready I'll ever be" she said and she heard Lennox announce "Air force has arrived, pop smoke" and Epps held his radio, "Raptor, raptor do you copy?" he asked and the other end was quiet. "We have visual. Green smoke is the mark. Provide air cover and vector black hawks for extraction." Epps said and she saw Iron-hide transform. "Aw crap" she said and transformed herself. "It's Starscream!" he shouted and he rotated his cannons. "Please tell me you copy?" Epps asked. Iron-hide and bumblebee walked to a truck with a ferby on it, and lifted it as a barricade (hehe) against the missile. Iron-hide kept telling people to back up and then the soldiers registered what they were saying. "Incoming!" Hide yelled and two missiles hit. One next to them and one hit the truck while flinging the two back. Several chunks of concrete hit her armor but it didn't hurt her. She looked around and watched all the humans get blown back. "Sam, Kaela, you alright?" she asked crawling to them. "Yeah, were fine Nova" Sam said and a yellow bot looked over at her curious. All the humans sounded a general call and Nova walked around helping people out of under pieces of rubble. She looked over and her spark sank. "Bumblebee, no, your legs" Sam said and Bee was dragging himself out of the rubble. He told Jazz to get back and Bee crawled towards him. "Ratchet, Bee needs your help!" Nova said and he nodded at her. Lennox and Epps started fighting and Nova picked them up by their shirts. "Don't make me knock some heads. You two behave" she said and put them back down. "F-22 pilots would never fly below buildings. That's alien, that ain't friendly." Epps said and she saw Sam trying to get bee back up. She heard the radio in Epp's hand and smiled. "Army black hawk inbound to your location. Over."
"Alpha 273 degrees, 10 miles. November Victor, 1.2 clicks north." Epps said and then cannon fire was heard and Nova was grazed on her hip. She held it and when she looked at her hand, there was energon on it. It wasn't too bad so she turned off the pain receptors and continued fighting. Lennox and Epps ran off behind the barrier while Jazz and Ratchet drove after the tank. Ratchet let Jazz deal with it, and he went to her side. "I don't want to know how this happened, but let me look at this wound" he said she shook her head, "It's not even that bad. Go fight doc, I can handle myself" she said and Iron-hide dodged a missile. Jazz drove after the cannon and jumped on it. It transformed after firing a round and threw Jazz against a store. Ratchet and Ironhide joined Nova in cutting the con down to size. Then she heard Lennox yell over the explosions. "Concentrate your fire!" and bullets shot into the con. She activated her cannons and started shooting at the tank Decepticon. "Eat this!" she yelled sending a high intensity bolt of energy towards the con and Ratchet hacked away at it with saws that were his hands. She looked up when she heard Lennox yell fall back. Her blood ran cold when she saw Megatron standing and speaking in cybertronian. She felt a shiver go down her back struts and Ratchet jerked her out of her fear. "Come on!" he yelled and Jazz ordered everyone to fall back. "It's Megatron, retreat! Move! Fall back!" he said and she didn't complain. Jazz fired at him and Megatron shot him back. She felt something take over her mind and she ran forward with Ratchet calling her to come back. She tackled Megatron and he got out his sword. She blocked a blow to her chest, and defended herself pretty well until he got the upper hand and stabbed her right in the torso.
"You should have stayed on Cybertron femme" he said and she fell to the ground with her servos on her stomach. Bright blue energon seeped out and Megatron moved on to his next victim. The soldiers ran around barking orders and getting civilians out of harm's way. "Get our guys out of the way! Get out of here! GO! Get them out of the buggy! Move out!" he yelled. A truck drove up to Sam and he flinched. Mikaela jumped out, and walked around the side to see Bee. "Sam, help me with this" she said and he nodded.
One of the soldiers on Lennox's team looked through binoculars and shouted; "Sir, that tank thing is getting back up" and Lennox ran up. "Oh, these things just don't die." He said and saw Black hawk standing on a building behind them. "Oh were so dead" he said and they ran to where Sam and Mikaela are.
"Wrap it around the head" Sam said. "Sam!" Lennox yelled and he looked up. "Where's Nova?" Sam asked jumping down. "She's not with you?" Lennox asked and Sam shook his head. "Where's the cube?" Lennox asked and Sam pointed in front of him. "Right here." He said and Lennox sighed. "Okay…" "Take that and wrap it around the base and then put it around his neck. Okay?" he asked. "Epps get those black hawks here!" Lennox yelled. He stopped and saw a white building with statues on top. "That building (runs back to Sam) Okay..." "What?" Sam asked. "Alright I can't leave my guys back there, so here, take this flare" Lennox said and handed Sam a flare. "Okay there's a tall white building with statues on top. Go to the roof and set the flare." Lennox said. "No" Sam said. "Signal the chopper and set the flare" "No, no I can't do this!" Sam said. Lennox grabbed him by the shirt and yanked him. "Listen to me, you're a soldier now! Alright, I need you to take this cube. Get it into military hands while we hold them off. Or a lot of people are gonna die." Lennox said and turned to Mikaela. "You got to go, you got to go" "No I'm not leaving till I get bumblebee out of here" she said and Lennox nodded.
Epps sat on a damaged car and spoke into his radio. "Army black hawk request immediate evac for civilian boy with precious cargo. Headed to rooftop marked by flare" Epps said.
The fight escalated massively when Sam ran into a building and hid from Megatron behind a statue while on the edge. Nova still laid there in pain as the battle raged on down the street and away from her. She heard a voice in the back of her mind to stay online until she was found and realized it was Jazz. She off lined her optics for a little while to conserve energy and before she knew it, she blacked out.
The battle ended when Sam shoved the cube into Megatron's chest and when his optics went dark, Optimus looked around at the destruction. He counted all of his Autobots, and found one missing and one human missing. "Has anyone seen Nova?" Optimus asked and Sam looked up. Ratchet ran back from where they came and saw the trail of energon leading to a femme on her back with an open wound and her hand on it.
"Nova, you better not be dead or I will bring you back and smack you myself for being stupid" Ratchet said getting his supplies out. "It's…nice…to know….you…care doc" she said and he looked at her softly. "Stay here. I need to get Optimus" he said and stood up. He ran to in his direction while yelling "OPTIMUS, I FOUND HER" and returned to her side with Optimus. "Nova, what happened?" Optimus asked taking her hand. "I…thought, that…with…two primes….that it would…get the job….done faster" she said while Ratchet shook his head. "She took on Megatron before you got here. She's definitely you're sparkling, just as hard helmed and stubborn." Ratchet said and Nova looked at Optimus with sadness. "You're Orion?" she asked quietly. "Yes, that was my name before the war. It was the name I programmed into your pod before you left. I never wanted you to be involved in this war in the first place." Optimus said and Iron-hide ran up. "Prime, I think you need to see this" Ratchet said and Nova's chest plates opened to reveal her spark and a small cybertronian curled in the chamber next to it. "She's carrying?" Optimus asked and Nova had a look of confusion on her face. "What? Oh! That's silver bolt. I rescued her from Sector Seven" she said and the sparkling trilled when she saw Optimus. "Wow, that's amazing" Ratchet said and her chest plates closed after the sparkling crawled out and curled it's self into its mother's arms.
"She kind of adopted me as her mom" Nova said and Optimus nodded. "Come on Nova, we need to give Jazz a proper burial" Optimus said and She nodded. The two mechs helped her stand up and she carefully put silver bolt on her shoulder.
They walked to the group of bots and Optimus stood over Megatron's body. "You left me no choice brother" he whispered and when Iron-hide brought what was left of Jazz in, she had to deploy her battle mask so no one would see her cry. She hung her head, and quietly sobbed. Optimus kneeled down to Sam's level and Sam looked at Nova. "Sam, I owe you my life. We are in your debt." He said and Mikaela drove up with Bee on the back of the trailer. Nova felt a little pain in her stomach and Ratchet supported her. He held her up with an arm over his shoulders and she was almost taller than him. Optimus held the remains of Jazz and stood in front of everyone. "We lost a great comrade, but gained new ones. Thank you, all of you. You honor us with your bravery." he said and Nova nodded from her position with Ratchet. "Permission to speak sir?" a voice asked and she looked at Bumblebee. "He's British, never would have guessed" Nova muttered and Ratchet tried his hardest to keep from laughing. "Permission granted old friend" Optimus said. "You talk now?" Sam asked. "I wish to stay with the boy, and Nova." Bumblebee asked and Nova blushed. "If that is their choice" Optimus said and Nova looked at her dad. "It would be great" Nova said and Sam just said "Yes". Optimus knelt down to Megatron's body and pulled out an all spark shard that was left over from the cube and concealed it in his hand.
Tranquility Nevada 2 days later
Sam and Nova arrived back at their house with Bee and Nova's new altmode. A Corvette-Stingray with her new paintjob of red and blue; Instead of red flames, there were stripes and the autobot logo was proudly displayed on her grill and steering wheel. Nova walked up to the house in her holoform that Ratchet created and winced when her side still hurt a little bit. The door flew open and Judy barreled out of the house to hug her kids. "My babies are home!" she exclaimed and noticed Nova was in pain. "What happened?" Judy asked and Nova looked at her like she was crazy. "Didn't Ratchet tell you? I got impaled" she said. (Shout out to all Olaf fans from FROZEN) "The doc said to stay off my feet for a while until it's healed. Also, he's coming to check up on me in a few days to make sure it's not infected." Nova said and Ron helped her with her bags. She noticed her silver laptop sitting in the cab of her car and walked back to get it. "I keep forgetting this thing" she said and Sam sighed. They all helped Nova in her room and once the door was closed, Silver bolt transformed and snuggled with her mom on the bed while she rested. "Goodnight sweet spark" she said and they both snoozed the day away.
The next day
All the bots were gathered on the hill overlooking the town and Optimus stood next to Nova by the tree.
"With the all spark gone, we cannot return life to our planet, and fat has yielded its reward, a new world to call home. We live among its people now, hiding in plain sight, but watching over them in secret, waiting, and protecting. I have witnessed their capacity for courage. And though we are worlds apart, like us, there's more to them than meets the eye. I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars. We are here, we, are waiting."
That night
They had gotten back from the hill that night Nova was in her room tossing and turning with a voice ringing in her mind. "I am coming, your fate has been sealed" she shot up in her bed sweating and breathing heavily as she tried to persuade her heart to stop thumping in her chest. "This is not good" she said and Silver bolt transformed into her bot form out of worry for her mother. "It's okay silver, just a bad dream" she said and went back to sleep with the femmling curled up next to her.
"I AM COMING!"
FREAKY! Anyways, I hope you guys like Nova Prime. The next one will be even more interesting and action packed.
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