by Night Raid » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:03 pm
- Motto: "You can't hit what you can't see!"
- Weapon: Twin Sonic Cannons
In case anybody was wondering... Megatron has Sarah. Sarah pretty much IS the All Spark, since it merged with her and she has its power. So since Megatron has Sarah, he also has the All Spark.
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Chapter 9: Nobody expected THAT
The worst of the damage was gone. The rest could conceivably wait, although fighting would have to be out of the question. He looked down at her and she smiled up at him as if to say ‘It’s okay, I don’t mind helping out’. For a moment, he found himself smiling back at her… Only to start in shock as she abruptly collapsed. Moving swiftly, he was able to catch her before she hit the dirt. Handling her as if she were a sculpture crafted of the finest spun glass rather than a living being, he picked her up. “…Sarah? Sarah?” She wasn’t waking up. What could he do? One wrong move and his claws could tear her to shreds. “Sarah, you shouldn’t have tried to do that…” He marveled at the soft tone in his voice. When was the last time he had been gentle? When was the last time he had actually cared about somebody other than himself? She was his shot at redemption, sure, but did it really stop there? She had walked through his dreams so many times that he felt as if she were an old friend now, even though they had only really met mere hours ago…
It was only then that he noticed the Autobots staring at him. Uncertain, he hesitantly stood up, holding Sarah cupped in his hands, and slowly walked closer. Her passing out had negated whatever she had done to their guns, so Ironhide and Bumblebee both charged their cannons and took aim. Optimus wondered how to get the human away from Megatron. Ratchet, for his part, just stared. The damaged Decepticon held his precious cargo out to the Autobot leader. “Here… Take her.” This confused the lot of them. If this small human did indeed possess the power of the All Spark, then why would Megatron willingly give her up? Putting aside his questions and doubts, Optimus gently took the unconscious human. At that point, Ironhide and Bumblebee closed ranks before him, between him and the Decepticon, cannons aimed at Megatron’s chest. A shot at that range would result in an instant fatality, and the lot of them knew it. Ratchet stepped forward, toward Optimus and his cargo. “Lay her on the ground so I can scan her.” The Autobot leader did just that, laying her on her back, arms by her sides. His shadow fell over her still form, and both of them noticed something. The blue marks that adorned her were glowing with their own light. “Odd…” In seconds the beams of Ratchet’s scanners played over her still form, laying muscle and bone bare for all to see… “She seems to be a typical human… or to have been one at one point. Her body is… changing. Her bones are now made of the same alloy as any one of us, and her heart…” Ratchet paused. “Well, she doesn’t have one anymore. She has a spark, and a spark chamber to house it. The patterns on her skin appear to be pure energy. It’s muted right now, probably from overtaxing a system unused to handling energy in this way, but… our scanners are right, Optimus. This human… is the All Spark.” The Autobot leader was downright shocked. “How is that possible?” A deep voice cut in on their conversation. “She found a fragment of the original All Spark,” Megatron said, restlessly jockeying to see past the two Autobots holding him at gunpoint.
Optimus turned to his brother. “Megatron… how are you alive?” The Decepticon grinned. “You should know me by now, Brother. I don’t die easily. I came close, but she saved me.” A realization dawned. “So when the humans dumped your remains in the ocean, you were… the whole time?” Megatron nodded, his grin fading as he looked down in shame. “I had a lot of time to think down there… And to remember. I can’t believe how stupid I was! The things I did… How did I rationalize such mass destruction? How did I lose sight of my duty as Lord High Protector? Thinking back on it all, it just seems so… so…” He abruptly turned away. “It would have been better if I had died down there…” Optimus had no idea how to react. After millennia of growing up and then working side by side, he could read his brother like an open book. There was no deceit here, no attempt to lie. The words, and the emotions behind them, were genuine. The Autobot leader stepped forward. A glance toward Ironhide, then toward Bumblebee, and the two backed down without a word. Not a word was spoken as Optimus walked over to where his brother now sat.
He’d never seen Megatron look so… forlorn before. It made sense, though. To bear the guilt of such monstrous deeds… These were the thoughts passing through Optimus’s mind as he sat down next to his brother. Not a word was spoken for a long moment. A bitter chuckle broke the silence. “It’s ironic,” Megatron said. “I spent millennia searching the whole galaxy for the All Spark, fought, betrayed and killed for it… All of it for nothing. Yet the moment I decide to cease my hunt…” He gestured toward where the girl lay. “There it lies, right in front of me, ready and wide open for the taking.” Optimus tried to look him in the eyes, but he refused to meet his brother’s gaze. “What now, Megatron? You live, you have changed your ways, and Fate has handed you the All Spark in the form of a living being…” Megatron cut him off. “Sarah.” The sharpness of his voice surprised them both. “…Her name is Sarah.” Optimus started over. “You live, the All Spark exists once more, in the form of Sarah… What now?” There was no pause. “I’m going to protect her,” he said in a determined voice, curling his hands into fists. “I won’t let the other Decepticons continue to follow my former ways, and I won’t let them have her. I won’t let the humans have her either. They’d want the same thing. I’d like to bring her home, to regenerate our world, but not until the other Decepticons go down.” He paused. “The strange part is, I’m more worried about dealing with the humans. They don’t just want her, they want me too. They attacked the both of us right before I flew over here and they tried to freeze me again, to take me back to that bunker to study me.” He spat that word as if it were the vilest curse imaginable. “Sarah saved me with the power of the All Spark. Optimus, the All Spark has powers we never dreamed existed… It can give life, it can regenerate… But it gives Sarah complete control over all things mechanical. That was how she saved me. She took control of the humans’ war machines.” He chuckled. “It was the darnedest thing, Optimus. A few words from her and they all just turned around and went home, quiet as can be.” The Autobot had a question. “Was it anything like what she just did to our weapons?” Megatron nodded. “Exactly like that.”
There was a long pause, during which he finally met his brother’s gaze. “I know I have no right to ask this of you or your colleagues, but… for her sake… help me. I can’t fight all of them alone. I mean, if it was just the Decepticons, or just the humans…” There was a sharp clang as metal hand met metal faceplate. “…Who am I kidding? I shouldn’t even have come here. I wanted to seek redemption, but I doubt your colleagues would believe that, much less accept it, so I guess there’s only one way for me to fulfill my promise to her.” He paused. “I will leave her here, with you…” This clinched it in Optimus’s mind. In essence, Megatron was giving him the All Spark. “As for me, I’ll lead the humans on a merry chase for as long as I can… get them as far away from you as possible.” It seemed to take quite a bit of effort for Megatron to just stand, but stand he did. “I don’t belong here anyway… not after what I did. I’ll… I’ll just go.” Also standing up, Optimus watched his brother slowly limp away, but only for a moment. Megatron actually flinched slightly at the sensation of a gentle hand coming to rest on his shoulder. “…Optimus?” The Autobot leader’s voice, when he spoke, was rather quiet. “We need you here. The All Spark girl… Sarah you called her… is still out. But we’ll need your help once she wakes up. Judging by how she was acting earlier, you’re probably the only one she trusts.” Megatron chuckled again. “That’s odd, especially considering that she knows about all of my deeds.” Optimus froze. “Wait a minute, she knows about the war? Before we even came to this planet?” The Decepticon nodded. “It’s like your medic said. She is the All Spark. And surely the fact that she was in my dreams means something…” The proverbial bomb dropped. “She’s been in all our dreams, Megatron. Mine… Yours… Ratchet’s… Ironhide’s… Bumblebee’s…” He paused. “Megatron, the long and short of it is that we need you here when she wakes up. If you’re not here, she’ll probably panic, and since she has the All Spark’s power, her panicking could do some major damage.”
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Heheh, confusion all around!
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Night Raid on Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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