Wild Ride (Cyberverse Mech!reader X Hot Rod)

33: History Lesson

"Hot Rod, you can't go back in the loop!" I protested. "They know we've breached that node and will no doubt look for any bots there."

"I know where another one is Y/D." Hot Rod said. "We can access it from there."

"Hot Rod, this is insanity! You'll get yourself k... kuhhh...." My words began to slur as my head throbbed wildly, and my vision went blurry. I felt a searing pain in my processor, the same as I felt before. I grabbed at my head and gritted my denta as the pain only grew and grew.

"Y/D? What's wrong?" Hot Rod asked.

"It's in my head again!" I managed to whimper. "Get it out, get it out!" I begged as I thrashed about wildly as I struggled to fight whatever was attacking my mind.

"Clobber, hold him down." Perceptor said.

"It's in my head! Get it out!" I begged as Clobber pinned me to the floor, and I struggled wildly against her.

"What do we do?" Clobber asked.

"Keep him still so I can power him off." Perceptor said. Clobber did her best, and eventually, Perceptor managed to power me down and stop my thrashing.

"What do we do now?" Clobber asked as she released my unconscious form and laid it flat on a bench.

"I don't know." Perceptor said. "We need help."

"All the more reason we need Optimus." Hot Rod said. Before anyone could protest, the younger mech tore out of the oil house to attempt to free the Prime.

"Idiot is going to get himself killed." Dead-end muttered.

"Oh, I don't think so." Macadam said. "He'll realize that he has to take up the mantle eventually. But we should worry about Y/D should we not?"

"Yeah, what's up with him anyway?" Clobber asked.

"From what I can tell, it looks to be some sort of program that is attacking his neural net, most likely from when he entered the loop." Perceptor said.

"Can we do anything about it?" Clobber asked with a worried look on her face.

"We need to keep his physical body safe. The rest is up to him." Perceptor said. While I was powered down physically, my mind was trapped with my own memory interface.

'Dammit! Why won't this work!' I growled as I tried to override something.

'Because Anominon, you would only get in the way.' A voice said, one I recognized only as The Scientist.

'Ok, squidface, what are you doing in my head?' I growled.

'Oh tsk tsk! How rude!' The Scientist said in a sarcastic and demeaning tone. 'You would think a god would have manners!'

'A god? What are you talking about?' I asked with confusion. There was a long pause before The Scientist spoke again.

'You truly do not remember, do you? Perhaps it is time for a little history lesson.' I then saw several memory cells get shifted about and put into a sort of large display showing what looked to me some sort of network. 'This is the multi-verse, ever expanding and ever branching. The center is what your friends refer to as 'unspace' or the in-between. It used to be a universe. Your universe.' The image then shifted to the section in question, followed by Quintesson symbols and schematics. 'But your universe was an Anomaly. It did not fit the perfect network. It had to be destroyed.'

'You destroyed it because it wasn't to your liking?' I asked defensively.

'It was beyond that. It was... unstable. Ever-changing. Completely outside of the fabric of space and time. It had to be destroyed, along with you. However, we did not anticipate that your life force would resist the universe's destruction.' The image then switched to that of my spark, followed by a sort of diagram on how to dissect it. 'So we tore you apart and sealed you in your dead universe. 16 segments, creating 16 forms. We expected unspace to consume the smaller fragments, yet it did not. Instead, it sent the fragments out into the multi-verse. Each time the fragment perished, it would return to unspace only to be sent out once again. Over time, your fragments have fused together, yet you are still not complete. You will never be complete. And now? Your mind will break!'

The memory cells all around me started to crack and glitch out, a piercing pain pulsing through me with such intensity that I felt like I was being torn to shreds. But I wasn't going to let myself break. I resisted much to the surprise of The Scientist.

'What are you doing?!' It exclaimed.

'You forget.... you are in MY mind! MY realm! And I CAST YOU OUT!' I forced The Scientist out of my mind with all of my might, my physical frame twitching as a result

"Uh, Perceptor? He just moved." Clobber said as she pointed to my frame.

"He must be fighting whatever is infecting his mind." Perceptor said as he ran a scan over me. "This is incredible! He's using telekinetic energy to completely purge his neural net and completely reworking his-!"

"In a language we can understand?" Dead-end muttered. Perceptor glanced over to his general direction and glared at him.

"He's fighting using a highly advanced form of telekinesis, something that Titain Masters are known for. But this? This is beyond anything I've ever seen!"

"So wait, he's literally using his brain module to fight the thing in his head?" Clobber asked.

"In extremely simple terms, yes." As Perceptor said this, I started to power back on, and a quiet groan left me.

"F....frag that hurt." I rasped as I sat up with the largest processor ache of my existence. I then noticed that Hot Rod was missing and concern crossed my face. "Where's Hot Rod?"

"He went to try and free Optimus. Fool is going to get himself killed." Dead-end said.

"Dammit! He shouldn't have gone alone!" I said, followed by a hiss of pain as my head throbbed. I shook it off and stood with a rather determined expression on my face. "I'm going to find him before he gets hurt."

"Y/D, don't be an idiot!" Perceptor said as he  stopped me.

"Perceptor, if you don't move, I swear to Primus." I growled lowly, Clobber and Dead-end both backing away.

"I'd let him go Percy, don't want you to go flying into the sun." Clobber said.

"For once, she's right." Dead-end said. Perceptor then sighed and stepped out of my way, allowing me to leave.

"Stay here where its safe. If either of you get hurt trying to follow me, i will deactivate you." I said coldly before quickly shifted forms and took to the skies in search of Hot Rod.

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A/n more Y/D lore to come! Ahhhh!