~°♡Dear Sister♡°~

~°♡Opal?♡°~

A couple days later...

Knockout woke Megatron from stasis and helped him off the medical slab. "The download is complete, sir. Every memory I have been able to find has been corrupted."
"Excellent," Megatron grinned. "Were there any problems?"
"Of course there were!" Knockout frowned. "I've had to put her on energon support so that her processors would survive the procedure! Doing this almost offlined her around ten times!"
Megatron's stony glare made the medic wisely shut his intake and he pulled the dark energon shard from his subspace,"Then I suppose the final step is to awaken her. My mate."
Knockout shuddered at the way he said it and stepped back as Megatron approached Opal's body.
He paused a moment, looking her over slowly, then gripped the dark energon tightly and rammed it through her chest-plate.
Opal jerked upright, then fell back down on the slab, shaking and thrashing her arms wildly as the dark energon flowed through her veins. It glowed on her skin and her dull optics shone a bright violet purple.
"Yes...rise, my queen," Megatron grinned, his Decepticon insignia glowing the same violet. "Rise and help me create a new Era of Decepticons."
Opal stopped shaking and collapsed on the medical berth, breathing heavily. She coughed and grimaced, wincing as if in pain.
"What's she doing?" Knockout asked cautiously.
"Resisting. It seems as if some of Opal's subconscious still lives," Megatron chuckled and reached down, grabbing Opal by the throat and lifted her up to be face to face with him.
"Listen to me," he growled, his optics glowing purple. "You are not Opal of old. You are Oceanic, my Sparkmate and rightful Queen of the Decepticons. You will not defy me!"
Opal clawed at his digits, then went limp, gasping for air. Megatron set her down gently on her peds and released her throat slowly.
Opal looked around in confusion,"Where am I? What happened?"
"By the...Primes it actually worked!" Knockout whispered, his intake hanging open.
Megatron shot him a swift glare, then returned his attention to his femme. "Oceanic...it has been far too long since I last saw you. I feared you were dead."
She looked up at the warlord and her optics glinted with recognition,"My lord! You're alive!"
"Indeed," Megatron smiled and waved just servo to dismiss Knockout, who left in a hurry. "Hundreds of megacycles apart from you since you disappeared, my queen. We found you in the Arctic on the planet Earth, nearly offline."
"I...don't recall much," she touched her helm and frowned. "Last I recall we were going to retrieve the Matrix of Leadership...then it all went dark."
"The Autobot leader, Orion Pax obtained the Matrix before we could get to it," Megatron explained. "There was a great battle and in the chaos you fell from the platform and vanished. We searched for days for you but never recovered you and so I had almost left you for dead...but there was a a part of me that never stopped hoping..."
"How did I come back?" She asked.
"I have bonded our sparks with the most powerful substance in the universe," Megatron chuckled, wrapping a servo around her waist. "Dark energon."
"The blood of Unicron himself..." her optics widened.
"Indeed," he tilted her chin up with a digit. "And with it we hold the power to create a whole undead army and control it to slaughter our Autobot foes."
"Is it safe?" She frowned, seeming skeptical.
"Perfectly. To us," Megatron chuckled. "Unicron himself has given me a vision of a source of dark energon more abundant than any energon mine...and it is out there, ripe for the picking."
"And you're certain it can destroy the Autobots?" A small, twisted smirk crept across her dermas.
"I have tested it myself, my queen," Megatron grinned.
She hummed and rubbed her chin, then giggled and smirked widely. "An energon that can make our enemies our puppets...I would love to see Arcee's face-plates as I make her beg for mercy for her little scout friend~."
Megatron chuckled and pulled her frame to his,"You haven't changed, Oceanic. Not one bit."
She blushed slightly and wrapped her arms around his neck-cables,"I missed you, my lord. Thank you for reviving me. I am glad there was still room in your spark for me."
"I would never forget my queen," Megatron smirked and kissed her dermas roughly.

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Optimus left his recharge slab and got ready to start the day. His optics still felt heavy and even the weight of his armor felt like a burden. He was losing himself again...feeling the emptiness in his spark. Yet, he had to keep going, for the sake of his Autobots who depended upon him for leadership and inspiration.
He buffed his armor the best he could and left his room, steeling himself for the day ahead. The Decepticons would stir up more trouble no doubt. Rarely a day passed that they didn't. The children were at school and wouldn't be here for a few hours. He could at least relish these couple hours in the peace and quiet and get some paperwork done.
Ratchet was up bright and early as well, working on trying to pinpoint energon signals no doubt.
"Good morning, Optimus," Ratchet greeted him, barely looking up.
"Any sign of Opal's signal yet?" Optimus asked wearily.
"Not yet. She's likely on the Decepticon ship, which would mask any signal she gave off," Ratchet replied, then stopped typing and looked to Optimus. "You still miss her don't you?"
Optimus froze mid-step for a second, then looked back at his old friend. "I don't follow your meaning?"
"Opal," Ratchet frowned. "Of all the bots you fooled you couldn't fool me, Optimus. You may have announced your choice to bond with Elita but deep down I know it was always Opal who really occupied your spark."
Optimus was speechless for a moment, then hardened his face-plates and turned on his console,"With whom my romantic interests lay are none of your concern, Ratchet. I made my choice, and Elita made me the happiest mech in the world."
"Not as happy as you would have been with Opal," Ratchet prodded. "Why didn't you choose her instead?"
Optimus exhaled deeply and looked at Ratchet sadly,"She never returned my affections. Elita did."