Deliver Us

*The sun blazes hot in the sky, swirling with clouds.*

*Thousands of Predacons toiling in the mud and sand as overseers beat them with whips.*

Predacons: [singing] Mud! Sand! Water! Straw! Faster! Mud and lift! Sand and pull! Water, and raise up! Straw!

Guard: Faster!

Predacons: [continues singing] With the sting of the whip, on my shoulder!

*The guard whip cracks a Predacon.*

Predacons: [singing] With the salt of my sweat on my brow! Elohim, Primus on high, can you hear your people cry? Help us now! This dark hour! Deliver us! Hear our call, deliver us! Lord of all, remember us here in this burning sand! Deliver us, there's a land you promised us! Deliver us to the promised land!

*In a nearby village, guards run, shouting in the distance.*

*Solus Prime hides in her home, cradling and holding a small Predacon sparkling as she sings. A young Elita One and a young Rodimus are watching her.*

Solus Prime: Yal-di ha-tov veh ha-rach, al ti-ra veh al tif-cha-d. My daughter, I have nothing I can give. But this chance that you may live. I pray we'll meet again. If he will deliver us.

*A scream is heard as the guards rush into the homes of Predacons. A guard shoves a Predacon away and storms inside, raising his blade at a cradle. The Predacon mother sobs as the guard storms off.*

Predacons: [singing] Deliver us, hear our prayer! Deliver us from despair these years of slavery! Grow too cruel to stand! Deliver us, there's a land you promised us! Deliver us out of bondage and deliver us to the promised land!

*Solus, Elita and Rodimus run, fortunately evading more guards. Soon, they make it to a river. Young Elita One puts the basket down and opens the top. The Little Predacon sparkling coos and whines.*

Solus Prime: [singing] Hush now, my baby, be still, love, don't cry. Sleep as you're rocked by the stream. Sleep and remember my last lullaby. So I'll be with you when you dream. *She kisses the sparkling's forehelm before she slowly closes the top as the little sparkling falls asleep. Solus carries the basket into the water.*

Solus Prime: [singing] River, oh, river, flow gently for me. Such precious cargo, you bear. Do you know somewhere she can live free? River, deliver her there. *Tears roll down her face as she watches the basket drift away. The sound of a mother's song is heard as Elita One watches the basket drift along the water.*

*Cybertronian Crocodiles and Hippos burst from the water, and the basket jostles with the rocky waves. Elita One gasps in fear. A net picks up fish and the basket but the basket falls from the net and drifts in the way of two ships. Elita wades into the water, her optics wide. The ships' riders paddle over the water, the paddles nudging the basket around and a ship swims past it, causing the waves to sway the basket elsewhere. The waters calm and the basket drifts past silk curtains and birds that fly up into the air.*

*The queen of Cybertron is with her young daughter, Bluebell, who reaches for a flower and the queen picks it up and gives it to her. The basket drifts up to the queen, making her gasp in surprise. She gently places Bluebell by a servant who immediately tends to the young sparkling as the Queen reaches for the basket.*

*Elita One gently lifts up the curtain and when she sees the queen and the basket, she gasps softly in fear. The queen lifts up the top and blinks in surprise before she smiles. The Predacon sparkling slowly opened her optics and she cooed at the queen.*

Elita One: [singing] Sister, you're safe now. And safe may you stay. For I have a prayer just for you. Grow, baby sister. Come back someday. Come and deliver us too. *She cautiously closes the curtain and leaves.*

*The queen cradles the sparkling. The servants look at the baby with adoration but lower their gazes when the queen looks at them sternly before she starts walking. Little Bluebell follows her.*

Bluebell: Mommy?

Queen: come, Bluebell. We will show Pharaoh your new baby sister. *She gently taps the little Predacon sparkling on the nose and the sparkling coos.* Primrose.

Predacons: [singing] Deliver us send a shepherd to shepherd us and deliver us to the promised land! Deliver us to the promised land!

Solus Prime: [singing] Deliver us!

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