Sari's POV
"And it was written in the Covenant of Primus that when the 47 spheres align, a perpetual conflict will culminate upon a world forged from chaos, and the weak shall perish in the shadow of a rising darkness," Optimus explained as I sat on his shoulder. We were looking at a diagram of the different planetary systems between Earth and Cybertron, and, sure enough, they were getting ever closer to aligning.
"No skies raining fire?" Arcee asked.
"Goes without saying," Ratchet explained. "It is a doom prophecy, after all."
"I've never heard anything like it myself," I said. "Back home, all we had to worry about was 'Acting Magnus' Sentinel, the Decepticons, and the occasional supervillain."
"I say it's a load of hooey," Bulkhead seemingly agreed with me.
"I'd always assumed the ancients were referring to our home planet, but being that Cybertron has been dark for eons..." Ratchet started.
"And considering what has befallen this planet since Megatron's arrival here..." Optimus finished.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Bulkhead said. "We've known about these superstitions for ages and never gave them a second thought."
"Why all the ominous rumblings now?" Arcee asked.
"Because the planetary alignment to which the prophecy refers is nearly upon us," Optimus explained.
"And it would seem its end point... is Earth," Ratchet pointed out, my spark filling with a sense of dread.
"Uh... Crazy coincidence, heh, r-right?" Bulkhead asked.
"How long are we talking?" Arcee asked, a serious expression on her faceplates.
"A few days," Ratchet revealed. "At most."
"However unsettling this revelation may be, I am more concerned about those who might believe that the prophecy speaks to them alone," Optimus said, and I immediately knew he was talking about Megatron.
*time skip*
I was sitting on the couch with the humans, my arm wrapped around Melody in a sort-of side cuddle. We were looking at a blog site for potential alien sightings on Raf's laptop.
"Pass," Jack said as Raf stopped on a picture of a "UFO" in Washington state. "Kid in a costume." "Alien" spotted outside someone's window. "Balloon." "UFO" spotted in China. "Nope." "Creature" sighting in Missouri. "Uh, hold!" Raf stopped on a picture of Bumblebee, the caption reading "Phantom Car." "The camera sure loves 'Bee."
"If you ask me, I think whoever posted this must've found it off of some security camera feed," I said.
"What can you do?" Melody asked. "When you're a superstar, you're paparazzi bait."
"Wait," Ratchet said. "Is that Bumblebee?"
"On a conspiracy website, where users post evidence of close encounters," Raf explained. "But we have it under control, Ratchet. We just scrub and replace 'Bee with..." Raf deleted the photo of Bumblebee and replaced it with a GIF of a knockoff Nyan Cat.
"Mars Cat says, 'Take me to your feeder,'" the cat said, resulting in a rather loud laugh from Ratchet.
"Ratchet actually laughed?" Melody asked.
"Uh..." Ratchet stammered, clearly embarrassed. That's when Jack got an idea.
"Um, Optimus, do you want to see something funny?"
"No," the Prime deadpanned.
"Don't take it personally," Arcee said. "Primes are built that way."
"Never seen Optimus laugh, cry, or lose his cool," Bulkhead continued.
"While Optimus certainly keeps his emotions in check, I've known him far longer than any of you have, and he was different before he was made a Prime," Ratchet explained.
"Optimus wasn't always a Prime?" Raf asked.
"On Cybertron, one isn't born into greatness," Ratchet said. "Rather, one must earn it."
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Transformers Prime: Princess of Cybertron
FanfictionIt's Transformers: Prime, but things are a little different. For starters, Sari Sumdac has ended up in the Aligned Continuity with no knowledge of how she got there, but also no way back. Additionally, our favorite Japanese punk rocker seems to be m...
