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Year 2006, San Francisco
Battle of the Spacebridge
Everything is in chaos.
The deafening sound of gunfire and blasters fill the battle field, the sickening, putrid scent of spilled energon and blood fills the air, bodies of fallen soldiers littered across the battle field. Autobots, Decepticons, and humans, it doesn't matter which sides had fallen in this war, casualties will always be casualties no matter what. So many lives wasted in this seemingly endless war. Many innocent civilians lost their lives, families mourned their departed love ones, and there is no sign of the war coming to an end.
However, as hopeless as it seems, that thought is about to change soon.
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Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobot faction, bearer of the Matrix of Leadership; a relic belonging to the original Thirteen Primes, is carrying a very special cargo in his arms. The Allspark, an ancient cybertronian relic and the life source of all beings living on Cybertron. It's a wanted possession of both Autobots and Decepticon, thus becoming a center of the Transformers Wars. The Decepticons wanted to use the AllSpark to create a legion of new warriors, while the Autobots sought to protect the universe from its misuse.
Optimus lend the Allspark to his most trusted scout, Bumblebee. Entrusting the safety of the ancient artifact to the young scout.
Shortly after that, Bumblebee is evading blasters and sneak attacks from the remaining Decepticon legions. One of the insecticons attempt to ambush the yellow scout, but he dodged on the nick of time. "Sorry, Shrapnel!" Bumblebee wasted no time rushing toward the activated Space bridge.
Autobots and Decepticons are fighting left and right. The surviving human soldiers did everything in their power to assist their Autobot allies, shooting at the Decepticons direction either with their sniper, artillery, and shotguns. But none of them were enough to keep the Decepticons at bay. The humans are forced to take cover when one of the seekers open fire on them.
Bumblebee has a bit trouble in keeping the Decepticons away from the Allspark. The other seekers and Decepticons tried to slow him down by attacking him at every direction. Despite that, he manage to dodge every attack without getting injured in the process.
"Bumblebee, up here!" The yellow scout look above him and tossed the Allspark toward Optimus' direction.
The prime continue on with his attempt to reach the Spacebridge, Allspark in hands.
He managed to hitch a ride on top of one of the seekers, Skywarp. Far behind them is Nova Storm, who had her blaster in the ready. The gold and black seeker keeps shooting at Optimus's direction, but it didn't hit him as he dodge every blast. The blast hits her fellow seeker Skywarp instead, causing her to lose altitude and crash.
Then, the Allspark slipped from Optimus' grasp once he and Skywarp crash landed. During that, Starscream seize the opportunity to get his servos on the Allspark, looking all proud of himself for doing so. "Yes! I have it!" That is until Megatron arrived just in time and knocked Starscream down. The former warlord immediately took the Allspark away and ran towards the Spacebridge.
Starscream recover from his stupor and not long after that, he start firing at his former leader. "Autobot lackey!" He shouted out, voice filled with unbridled anger.
Just when he is about to reach the Spacebridge with the Allspark, Megatron was tackled by Nova Storm, as she attempt to retrieve the Allspark from him. Starscream come to his fellow seeker assistance, and they successfully tackled the former Decepticon leader to the ground whilst Soundwave keeps Megatron down using his sonic wave manipulation.
"Decepticons! Bare witness to the fall of Megatron!" Starscream announced triumphantly.
During the scuffle, Megatron gathered his remaining strength and he successfully hurled the Allspark into the Spacebridge portal. With that cue, Optimus readies his ion gun, aiming it at the Spacebridge and getting ready to destroy it.
The Prime suddenly grow hesitant. It's not because of the possibility of accidentally destroying the Allspark along with the Spacebridge, it's something else.
A young femme, around Bumblebee's age, with features reminiscing of both Optimus and Megatron. Her most predominate feature is her boxy helmet that closely resembles Megatron's own helmet, with added features like thin finials on the side.
She calmly make her way toward the still active Spacebridge, completely unfazed by her surrounding. Nor that she cared about the puzzled looks the Autobots, Decepticons, and humans gave her.
She stood in front of everyone, her lifeless ice blue optics gaze at them intensively. "Hey, everyone. I'm here to make a short announcement and I'll make this quick." The femme sounded tired, as if she has her whole soul taken away from her.
"I'm here to say good bye." She announced wryly.
But she didn't just stopped there.
"I know I have caused a lot of trouble with my mere presences alone. A lot of you even fear me because I look exactly like my sire and you know who I'm talking about."
The Decepticons weren't sure with what exactly the femme meant by that, but the other Autobots and humans looked down in shame, feeling guilty with whatever they have done to her in the past.
"But that's okay. I didn't blame you for acting like that towards me. After all, I am just the murderer' daughter who don't deserve to live in the first place." Optimus' panic start to grows through all that.
"Oh Primus, please! Don't let anything happen to her, please!"
" I have decided that it's time for me to disappear forever. Out of this life, out of your sight. Just like you always wanted."
There is no joy or pride in her voice. Just hollow emptiness and a hidden twinge of pain. Turning to her left, she can see OP froze in his place. As if he didn't dare to move a single joint at the moment.
She can't tell what he is thinking right now, but the Prime's body language and posture is enough of an indication that he is panicking over her.
"Reverie. What ever you're planning right now, please, don't it." Bumblebee begged, almost pitifully. "We can still figure this all out. You don't have to do this!"
"Bee, I'm tired." The femme; Reverie, said with a rather depressed tone. "I can't keep living like this anymore. I just wanted everyone to be happy and proud of me for once. But all I get is fear, disgust, mistreatment, and even more pain. I want to end this. I want the pain to stop once and for all."
Reverie slowly pulled something out from her own subspace. Everyone watch in silent horror, once they got a clear view of what exactly the femme is pulling out. In her left hand, she held what appears to be an active bomb and in her right hand was a small device, possibly the bomb's remote control. Without much hesitation, the femme slapped the bomb onto her own chest and once the bomb is strapped onto her chest tightly, the countdown sequence had begun.
The Autobots, Decepticons, and humans scramble left and right, leaving the area as soon as possible. They no longer thought about fighting each other, they're focusing on staying alive and avoid dying from a bomb explosion. However, one bot still remain despite the potential danger.
"Reverie, wait!"
Without a second, Optimus dropped his gun and rushed toward Reverie as fast as he can. Desperate to reach the young femme before it's too late. He refuse to let her resign to her fate, and he's going to save her no matter what.
But, all of that is too late. "Good bye, Optimus Prime." Reverie said, voice too soft for the frantic prime to hear.
The bomb reaches 0, Reverie pressed the remote control' button and after that destruction quickly follow. The explosion immediately destroy everything around it, from the Spacebridge, the area surrounding it, and finally the femme standing before it.
The explosion finally died out. Once the dust settled off, the horrifying scenery become much clearer. Not a single thing is left intact except for the broken remains of the spacebridge and the dark, lifeless body of Reverie lying on the ground.
Optimus stand before the dead body in shock before falling down to his knees, kneeling before the broken metal components of the spacebridge. Thoughts and emotions are running wildly in his processor, his trembling servos carefully cradled the cold, lifeless body and pulling it into an embrace.
He tried to brush his EM field against the femme's weaken field, hoping to find any signs of life from her. When that failed, he tried using his carrier and creation bond.
The same result as before.
Primus, no, no! Not her! Don't take her away from me, please!
Sadly, Reverie didn't respond back to her carrier's desperate cries. She remain motionless no matter how much Optimus begged her to open her optics.
He cried. He cried his spark outloud until he become irresponsive and numb, staying in that position. Not moving an inch from his spot.
He didn't remember how long he had been cradling the body of his daughter, whilst staring into the empty sky. He didn't realize he had been doing so for hours until the Autobots, Megatron, and Lieutenant Dot come to get him back to base.
Back in headquarters, the Autobots didn't dare to disturb Optimus once they return. Their leader who had carried countless burdens and lead them through the long years of war against the Decepticons now carried one too personal to share. His optics dimmed, his voice faltered, and for the first time, the Autobots saw him not as a commander. Not their Prime that they rely on for advice and wisdom either.
Right now, he is a carrier grieving for his departed daughter.