Transformers Prime: Hard Truths, Shattered Lies(#2)

Chapter 43

*Autobot base*

Bulkhead took another step forward, with Arcee and Bumblebee helping him. Since Miko wasn't going to be there 24/7 anymore, they both took up the role of helping Bulkhead to recover.

Ratchet was monitoring all signals and frequencies in case he picks up some Decepticon activity. The Decepticons have been pretty quiet lately.

In their vault, they only had 7 of the relics, one of them in Megatron's vault due to the incident in China.

Jack and Bumblebee had also managed to obtain the relic in Brazil, which turned out to be the Chimera Stone, the relic of Micronus Prime.

When Wheeljack, Miko and Erin had returned from their revenge mission, Erin didn't know that as she used her key to save both Bulkhead and Wheeljack, she also received two things. One evil, one good.

They had found another of the relics in their ship when they landed back, which was the Omni Saber, a relic wielded by Nexus Prime.

Everyone was wondering how it happened, including Erin herself, but they didn't argue.

However, despite all that, they were not even close to restoring Cybertron as they needed five more relics, one in Megatron's possession.

That's why, Optimus has been working extra hard to decode the rest of the Iacon Database to find the other relics before Megatron did.

Everything was going peacefully, except for the fact that Windblade was still missing.

"Windblade still didn't return from her patrol?" Ratchet asked the other four who were sitting down.

"//No. Come to think of it, I hadn't seen her since yesterday//" Bumblebee told him.

"Her life signals are still high, but her comm links have been switched off," Ratchet said.

"Maybe she got lost?" Bulkhead wondered.

"Hmph. Maybe..." Ratchet muttered under his breath.

"But she's a jet..." Smokescreen scratched his helm.

"Anyway, what's important now is for Optimus to finish decoding the Iacon database to recover the remaining five relics," Arcee said, brushing it off. She was still a little upset about the incident when she and Windblade were on their mission.

"You've been more quiet ever since you came back from your mission with Windblade..." Smokescreen noticed.

"//Yeah, is everything alright?//" Bumblebee asked, concerned. Arcee sighed, wondering if she should tell them.

But the team was already quite stressed and she didn't want to add more to it so she brushed it off.

"Yeah, why wouldn't it be? It doesn't matter now," Arcee said. The others were still unsure but decided to put the matter on hold.

That's because a signal was detected in Ratchet's computer. Ratchet went to check it out.

"Odd, this signal is Cybertronian, but it is neither Autobot, nor Decepticon," Ratchet analysed, confused.

Optimus stopped what he was doing and looked at it.

"Have you checked whether they could be of other acquisition?" Optimus asked the medic.

"I have, and it is neither. However, there are multiple security cameras around that area," Ratchet looked at his friend knowingly.

"Contact Agent Fowler. We do not know if this new acquisition is friend or foe," Optimus said.