I Can Only Imagine | Transformers Prime Fanfic

Chapter 8

"It is Dark Energon."

"Yes. I can see that, Shockwave." Megatronus mumbled and plopped down in one of the seats in front of Shockwave's computer in his lab. The one eyed Decepticon didn't acknowledge the response and simply examined the images, zooming in on them.

The pictures that Soundwave had been given by Ratchet of what the humans were concerned about was the hole that they predicted Unicron originally pulled himself out of.

Even out of all the years, the hole still dripped with both regular energon and dark energon, practically oozing it out of the walls. No other images could be registered farther than 50 feet down, even with Cybertronian technology.

"I have never seen an anomaly of this." Shockwave murmured, scrolling through the images. Soundwave was standing next to Megatronus, her arms crossed as she re-examined the photos as well.

Laserbeak awoke from his nap in the corner of the room and glided down from his perch, landing on Megatronus's shoulder with a tiny squawk as a greeting.

The new Prime scratched the minicons chin as Ravage also found his way over, purring as he nudged Megatronus's servo.

The former warlord smirked up at his sparkmate. "I told you they love me more." The quiet femme rolled her optics, extending her servo for Laserbeak to climb onto and he did.

Megatronus huffed as Ravage also padded over to his creator, letting out a happy meow as he got scratched behind his ear. "Whatever." He mumbled and Soundwave grinned.

"Don't worry, boss. I love you!"

Megatronus rolled his optics as Rumble hoisted himself up onto the computer desk. "I am aware." He said and the minicon huffed. "I'm a little hurt that I don't sense any reciprocation."

"Aren't you supposed to be organizing my tools?" Shockwave interrupted, looking unimpressed at Rumble. The minicon rolled his optics.

"Do you see how he treats me? Unpaid labor, Shockwave. Look it up!"

Shockwave just stared at him until Rumble stuck his glossa out and hopped down, mumbling as he sped walked out of the room.

"Are there any signs of life form that have been detected at the site?" Shockwave asked, turning to his sister and brother in law. Soundwave shook her helm, placing Laserbeak on her shoulder as one of her tentacles reached into a compartment in her back and pulled out a shard of dark energon, extending it to hand to Shockwave.

The scientist took it and immediately went toward his examination table, calling for Rumble. Megatronus stood and gave a look to Soundwave.

"You shouldn't carry it so carelessly."

"You're one to scold me." His sparkmate shot back and the former warlord rolled his optics, turning to the computer. Soundwave grinned and began typing in some things on the computer, searching through the files of what the humans and Ratchet had written down as observations of the strange phenomena.

Megatronus was watching her, leaning against the controls around her and peering over her shoulder just to be obnoxious. Soundwave simply sighed and continued her work, making Megatronus smirk.

"Has Ratchet not been able to run any test?"

"A little." Soundwave responded, still typing. "Has he concluded anything?" The new Prime asked and his sparkmate shook his head.

"Their technology isn't of what Shockwave's could do. He asked me to come receive samples to run test." The quiet femme responded, stopping typing and scrolling down. Megatronus gave a nod as he looked at the screen to watch before suddenly perking up.

"Wait—"

The former warlord wrapped his arm around his sparkmates waist and physically swung her out of the way, making her squeak in surprise. Megatronus scrolled back up through the files, mumbling something as Soundwave tried to free herself from his grasp with an annoyed look.

"'Tronus!"

"Sorry. Hang on." He mumbled and carefully let her down without breaking eye contact from the screen. Soundwave huffed, crossing her arms as she turned with an annoyed look on her face.

Megatronus stopped scrolling and zoomed in on one of the pictures, going to the upper right corner that had some numbers. Suddenly Soundwave looked surprised and pushed herself underneath her sparkmates arms to type in the numbers on another channel.

Megatronus raised his digit to his comm.

"Optimus...you should come here real quick."

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Optimus was greeted by Ravage, who let out a meow and padded over, rubbing his face plates along the Prime's legs. Optimus gave a smile and scratched the minicons chin as he made his way past another set of doors to where Shockwave, Megatronus, and Soundwave were standing in front of the computer.

"Is everything alright?" He asked, approaching behind the three and giving a nod of a greeting to Shockwave, who returned it.

"As of now, yes." Megatronus said, servos on his hips as he turned. Soundwave pulled the images they were looking at before up onto the screen, scrolling to the one that caught their optics.

Optimus gazed at them, a bit surprised by what he saw. Ratchet had mentioned they had been studying the strange hole but there was only so much they could do with the technology they had on earth.

"Ratchet gave us these images and a shard of dark energon from the hole to study. We were scrolling through and these numbers caught my optic in the corner."

Soundwave zoomed in on the numbers Megatronus pointed at and Optimus frowned.

"What significance do these have to the hole?"

"They are coordinates." Shockwave told the Prime as Soundwave showed where she had typed them in and the satellite zoomed in the spot on Earth.

Optimus raised his optic ridges.

"What kind of importance are these coordinates to us?"

Megatronus sighed. "Either it's a crazy coincidence, or Unicron is behind this—"

The former warlord looked at the spot on the screen, swallowing.

"This is where we first found Amalgamous."