Previously from Transformers Prime; LEd by Fate or Destiny

"But that doesn't make any sense. Why?" Jack asked. 

"Because he doesn't plan on coming back."  Ratchet said gravely.

Nova felt her heart ache as she lowered her head. 'Optimus had planned this all along that he knew wouldn't be back. But why?' Nova mentally questioned herself.

It felt like an hour had passed by and there was no news from the others. All communications were still down and the earth was still in disarray. Then suddenly, the volcano outside erupts violently, and the ground enclosing the Autobot base begins to quake. The massive quake caught them off-guard and Ratchet tells the humans to take cover, and he moves to shield them from falling debris. It wasn't certain how long the earthquake lasted, but the volcano, along with all the Earth's other natural phenomena, subsidies back to normality. Ratchet and the humans watch as the monitors flicker online.

"Do you think?" Jack looked at Ratchet who intern replied. "I do."

The team's life signals appear on the screen and are all safely re-established.

"Yeah!" Miko shouted for joy and jumped.

"Sweet!" Jack cheered.

"Yes!" Fowler hugged June before letting go blushing, "Uh..."

Nova sighed in relief when she felt the pull on her chest lightened. Nova stood up as she examined her arm until she saw the purple veins were no longer there anymore. Miko was the first to notice and said, "Dude, your cured!!!"

Everyone turned to see that Nova's face was no longer covered in purple veins. Ratchet scanned her and said, "You still have dark energon in you, but your body is fighting it off. They are diminishing the numbers from your blood stream. It'll be matter of time until the dark energon is gone from your body."

Nova said relief, "Well that's good news for me." Campy jumped onto NOva happily that his master was healthy again.

Ratchet managed to find their coordinates and activated a ground-bridge, everyone gathering in front of it. Arcee, Bulkhead, and Bumblebee were the ones who entered but there were no signs of Optimus.

"Arcee!" Jack now stood in front of the two-wheeler who had a look of distraught of her face plates, yet she wasn't the only one. "I was worried, Bulk," Miko said in relief. "Y-you alright, bee?" Rafael asked with concern.

A deep frown was written on Nova's face. She clutched the railing with both hands and Campy who was on her left shoulder. Optimus wasn't present and this made her anxious. Ratchet too noticed this and proceeded to ask the others. "And Optimus is he..."

"Dead? no." Arcee shifted her gaze away from them. "But he looked right at us without recognizing us. Didn't even know his own name." Bulkhead added in which the humans, except for Nova, exchanged looks to one another.

Ratchet thought about it before responding, mostly to himself. "When Optimus surrendered the Matrix of Leadership he lost more than the collective wisdom of the Primes. He lost his own memories."

Unaware of the pair of dull eyes of unhappiness that fell at the words, Nova's heart seeming to shatter in her chest.

'No! This can't be happening.....Not again...'