Chapter 6

I woke up and recalled the recent events. Let's see, we defeated Unicron using the Matrix of Leadership. Optimus lost his memory. I was really upset about that.

Alright, Luna, time to face the rest of the team and help explain what happened.

I walked out and everyone quieted down.

"Don't stop on my account", I said with a shrug.

I leaned against the wall and waited for them to continue talking. They stared at me for a couple minutes but then continued.

"If Optimus did not know his own name, perhaps it is because the title of Prime hadn't been granted to him yet", Ratchet said.

A lot of confusion went around and I laughed bringing the attention to me.

"Optimus wasn't always Optimus. He was Orion Pax, my best friend. We met Megatronus, and became like the three muskateers, as the humans put it. Of course, we also already knew Ratchet but he was just the plus one." Ratchet glared at me for that and I grinned at him. "Anyway, he wasn't born as a Prime. He was Orion Pax, and he was mentored by my sire, Alpha Trion at the Iacon Hall of Records."

The silence was overwhelming me as everyone stared at me.

"What?!", I finally snapped.

Ratchet answered. "Alpha Trion... is your sire?"

"I believe I just said that", I say getting slightly annoyed.

"How long have you known?", Ratchet asks.

I sigh as I launch into my story.

"I went with Optimus and Megatron into Unicron's spark chamber. I was surprised by how huge his spark was... Optimus tried to use the matrix of leadership on it but Unicron's spark protected kind of slapped him I guess. He also slapped Megatron and tried to slap me but this blue energy protected me..."

"Wait, blue energy?", Arcee interrupted.

"Yes. Now let me continue", I said, "so the blue energy protected me and Unicron took over Megatron's body and said, 'what?! A direct descendant of Primus himself? Here?!' I fainted after that but my dream was weird. I met Alpha Trion and he told a bunch of stuff and then told me to ask Megatron who my parents where. So I did just that. And he said Alpha Trion was my sire."

Everyone stares at me again and I sigh, finally asking the question I had been dreading.

"What's the plan to get Optimus back?", I asked.

"We're not sure yet. Optimus gave the key to Vector Sigma though", Jack said.

"So you need to go to Cybertron?", I ask.

"What? I thought it was just some sort of supercomputer!", Jack exclaims.

"Vector sigma is an ancient source of mystical power on Cybertron", Ratchet says.

Jack looks doubtful at first but then he looks determined even as his mom starts yelling at him.

"Jackson Darby, you will NOT be traveling to another planet", she yelled.

"I'm in", Miko says.

"You will not be going either! Not one when one of you can!", June yelled at Miko and the Autobots. The Autobots looked at each other in surprise.

"June's right. Why send a boy to do a bot's job?", Fowler cut in.

"Because only a Prime can access Vector Sigma or one chosen by a Prime", Ratchet said, "Optimus gave the keycard to Jack. It is now imprinted with his unique biosignature."

"So you mean, Jack's, like, some kind of honorary prime?", Miko asks.

"Let's just say Jack is the only one who can return Optimus to the Autobot we knew", Ratchet says.

"But why would Optimus willfully endanger a human, a child?", June asks.

Jack protested, stating that he's not a child.

Arcee cut in, saying, "Maybe Optimus believes there's more to Jack than meets the eye."

"All of which is moot", Ratchet says, "the keycard is useless to us without a means of reaching Cybertron, whihc we at present do not possess."

Miko pointed down the ground bridge and Raf pointed out that it barely got us into Entry's orbit. Miko then suggested that Ratchet could turbocharge it.

Ratchet thought about it a lot and I smiled.

After a lot of thought, Ratchet started tinkering with the ground bridge.

I smiled and left him to his work, instead going for a nice long drive and wondering what was happening on the Nemesis.

After a couple of hours, I went back to base just in time for a call from Fowler.

"Ratchet! You awake?", Fowler started, "This is an emergency!"

"Agent Fowler. Is it Optimus?", Ratchet asks as Arcee, Bulkhead, Bee, and Sapphire walk into view.

"It's 'Cons and they're busting into the same military research lab they hit two months ago."

Bee buzzed something and Bulkhead translated.

"Another space bridge?"

"But for all we know, Optimus is riding with them", Arcee says.

Ratchet says, "Rollout", and I decide I like it better when Optimus says it.

We go through the ground bridge and to the military base.

"Drop the power source!", Bulkhead says as soon as we get through and transform.

"Aren't you missing someone", Knock Out says mocking us.

I let out a scream of anger and Knock Out looks shocked. Some flying vehicons then shot at us and I let Arcee, Bee, and Bulk deal with them.

I charged at them and Knock Out calls for a bridge.

A bridge opens and Breakdown runs through while Knock Out says something that makes me even angrier.

"We'll be sure to tell "the big 'O'" you said hello!"

I screamed again and he ran through the bridge and I followed shortly after. I transform halfway through and scrape over Knock Out. "Scrap", he mutters.

Vehicons shot at me while I drove through quickly but I avoided all their shots.

I brought my front tire up and transformed midair and shot one of the vehicons in the back and leap-kicked the second one. The third one I just kicked in the chest and stepped on his face.

"Where's Optimus?!", I demanded. He refused to tell me so I grab one of my katana's and held it to his throat.

Some more vehicons showed up and started shooting at me. I grabbed the vehicons I was standing on and used him as a shield.

I attacked all the vehicons that showed up and transformed and sped away.

I was hoping to get close to where Optimus was because if I just saw him one more time I would be fine for a while longer.

Vehicons were shooting at me and I was avoiding all their shots, yet again.

I saw Soundwave ahead of me and knew I wouldn't make it past him so I stopped right in front of him before he could make a ground bridge.

"I heard a commotion", Optimus said.

"Orion!", I cried happily.

"Moon Princess?", Optimus asks.

"Orion, how many times do I have to tell you, call me Luna!", I say with a smile.

I heard thundering footsteps coming and I turn to Soundwave.

"Care to give me a hand?", I ask. Soundwave nods and creates a ground bridge back to where the base was.

"Thanks", I tell Soundwave. "See ya, Orion!"

I enter the ground bridge and see the team still there.

"Hey guys!", I say with a grin.

"Did you find Optimus?", Arcee asks.

I nod and call for a ground bridge. A ground bridge opens and I walk through it, a smile on my face.

"Where you able to determine if Optimus was even aboard ship?", Ratchet asks as he checks me over.

"I was. He's on there alright. I didn't talk to him long but he was definitely on there", I was still smiling.

"Where you able to determine the ships location?", I shake my head.

Ratchet sighed but a call came from Fowler.

"Ratchet, what happened out there? Reports indicate at least a dozen wounded. The heats on ms to provide some explanation. You bots better get your act together, or the Pentagon will make me shut down your base", Fowler yells.

"But where would you go?", Raf asks.

"Who knows?", Ratchet says angrily, "Maybe they'll ship us out to some island or fire us into space. Wouldn't that be a welcome relief?"

"I don't blame Fowler. Optimus would have evacuated all humans from the area before engaging the cons", Arcee says.

Bee buzzes and Bulk says, "We don't actually know what Optimus would have done because he's not here!"

"You're pretty good at stating the obvious, Bulk", Arcee says, "Anything else you'd like to mention that we already know?"

"Nothing I can say in front of the children.", Bulk says.

"Hey! Calm down!", I shout.

"Guys! Aren't we overlooking one positive? Nobody's talking about what the cons just got their claws on", Jack says.

Ratchet scoff and then speaks, "Yes. We managed to allow them finally acquire a power source for their space bridge!"

"And how exactly would that be a positive", Arcee asks.

"Because we could use that to send Jack to Cybertron, if we just knew where it was", I stated.

"That's actually a really good idea!", Miko says.

"Well, if Miko's saying it's a good idea...", Arcee said sarcastically.

"Nobody's saying it will be easy, but you've seized a space bridge before", Jack says.

"We blew one up", Bulk says, "That's a whole lot different than five of us seizing and holding one."

Bee buzzed and Sapphire nodded. "Bee's right. We'd have to find the thing first."

Miko apparently thought that it had to be in space because it was called a space bridge. Ratchet got that sorted out quickly.

"So the bridge had to be somewhere here on Earth, right?", Jack says.

I nod and get lost in my own thoughts thinking about where the space bridge could be.

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