I sat in my room, blankly staring at the wall. My mind buzzing with questions, why is Optimus here? What need does he have to protect the same beings who would scream at us if they knew of our consciousness? I decided to go against my ‘coding’ and leave the base with no pilot. I went to my pod and looked around in the cold, wintery night. I sat on the snowy grass under the moons sliver rays and waited for any slight sense of another life. Hours passed, I was half asleep when I heard the roar of an engine, I looked up, my optics now wide and bright, I stood up, “Who are you?”, Familiar buzzes and beeps raised form the blinding darkness of the forest, “Bee?”, He buzzed back at me, I could understand him. “Looking for the pod? Why” He buzzed and beeped, I sighed, “Bee, is Optimus Prime here?”, He nodded, “Why?”, He beeped and motioned behind him. . .there stood Optimus Prime himself I sighed as I glanced down at him, he was one of the only bots to know that I was made by Primus and Unicron themselves, A mistake, forged by Dark Energon and Energon, I was the only reason why they laid dormant. The constant need to fight for control against the irrational voice of Unicron, and the protective voice of Primus was exhausting, I was always so tired. “Prime.” I say calmly, I was never one to be impolite, but a slight edge was on my voice, I needed to know why he was here, if Earth was troubled then I need to know why and what from, so maybe I could hunt down whatever Decepticon was-, “Hello, Kurosk.” he said, I was surprised that he even knew my name, my real name, shocked by his calmness I responded with the shock clear in my voice, “h-hello, Optimus.. What brings you here to Earth?” “A great threat hit Earth.” I paused, knowing he would not explain further, “Very well, who is it?” “It is not a who.,” “then what is it?” I ask, getting annoyed by him and his fluttering around my questions, “You should know I can no-,” “Then why call me here? What am I supposed to do if I am fighting blind?!” I said with a low growl, I was growing annoyed and tired, it had not recharged nor rested in years, I was surprised I was still functional. “Kurosk calm-,” “No! Why should I fight something I have no knowledge of?! Have you no idea how dangerous that is? Including the fact, you brought me here, with little power! You know exactly why I do not like this!” Optimus took my shouts with a stoic look, I growled again, I hated how calm he always was, it was so annoying, “Primus curses your calmness Prime. TELL ME WHY I AM HERE OPTIMUS PRIME.” A spark of Dark Energon zapped out me hand, I froze, my optics could clearly show my regret and fear as Bumblebee Buzzed at me, asking if I was okay, I realized how close I was to falling, to giving into Unicron, I had not even noticed how loud his voice was. In a state of panic, I transformed back into a Chinook and flew off. I soon landed deeper into the forest, I was crying, Unicron was so loud, and it was hurting my Audio receptors. I transformed back into bot form, covering my antenna with my servos, I sunk them as deep into my helm as I could, my optics wet with tears, I could not hear the river nor the wind, I wanted Silence. “Shut up, Shut Up, SHUT UP, SHUT UP!” I hit my helm against a tree, Energon dripped down my face as his voice fell silent, I looked down at my servos in fear, I was so tired, I just wanted sleep, I wanted silence, I needed the silence, my whole body hurt, I fell to my knees and cried silently, quietly muttering and begging to be able to rest, for once in my life cycle, I wanted to be left alone, I had no care if Primus needed me, nor if Unicron wanted me to follow his steps, I wanted to rest, everything hurt so much. I heard a familiar buzz, Bumblebee sat beside me, no longer buzzing nor speaking, he just hugged me close, almost trying to get me to sleep, “please. . .for the love of Primus, make him stop. . .I-I just want to sleep. . .” Bumblebee just held me close; he covered my antenna as I shook violently from exhaustion and fear, I leaned against him, I may be older than Optimus, but that time was spent being a peace child between the God and Satan of Cybertron, I was expected to always be calm and collected, to never show emotion. I buried my helm into his shoulder blade, my rotors twitching as sobbed into his shoulder, the next thing I knew, I woke up in a sick bay, I jolted upright and glanced around, I had no idea what just happened, I felt exhausted but. . .better, I made a confused buzzing sound as I looked down at my Chassis I saw several tubes attaching me to several machines I noticed how silent my mind was, I felt better, I decided to try something, I laid back down on the charging block and went into recharge mode, I fell asleep for the first time in nearly 100 millennia, I wasn’t plagued by Unicrons dark thoughts and hateful voice, I slept for hours, but when I woke up, I realized that my hours of rest was weeks of being in a coma-like state, I rubbed my helm and glanced around, I still felt so tired but I knew I couldn’t rest, not now, I yawned and stood up, falling to the floor from how weak I was ,”Oh Primus!” I hit the floor with a thud. “By the Allspark, how long was I asleep for?” “3 weeks.” A voice spoke, it was Ratchet, the medic of Team Prime, “Goodness. . .how am I still tired? -,” “you have not slept in Millenia, your body requires sleep.” “Oh. . .” My lower left rotor twitched, Ratchet looked at it, his optics widened slightly as he spoke, “That rotor is on backwards” “I know.” “Have you not tried to fix it?” “Nope.” “Why?” “It does not really affect me, it just looks funny”, “Huh. . .” He looked at my rotor and thought for a second, I yawned again, “ugh. .” I checked my power; I was only on 34% “Primus. . .Recharging for three weeks and only on 34%?” “Thats weird, there is a problem with your battery. I should check it out.” “Sure.”, I opened my Chassis, Ratchet then checked my engine and battery, he then saw my spark, “What in the Allspark?!” “What?!” “Your Spark, it’s Lavender!” My face dropped, I quickly pulled Ratchet out and the panic was clear on my face “What do you mean my Spark is Lavender?” “I mean it is Lavender! It looked marbled between Blue and purple but most of it looked Lavender.” I shook my helm and sighed “Whatever.” I say benignly, I closed my chassis and stood up. “Is there a problem with my Battery?”, “No, you just. . .charge really slowly”, “Great, I’m going.” I walked away, mumbling to myself, I looked around when I heard someone yelp, “What in the Allspark?” I then saw three young humans; I was used to seeing humans but never children, I had no idea what to do “uh . . .hello?” The human girl screamed and ran, the older human boy ran after her, leaving me with the youngest boy, “uh. . .what is. . your name?” I knelt, looking at the small boy, before he could speak, Arcee came over and shouted at me, I flinched as she did, “WHO THE FRAG ARE YOU?!”, “I-I am-”, “HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE?! TELL ME BEFORE I GET OPTIMUS!”, “I-I am tryin-” I kept getting interrupted by Arcee, I soon grew tired of her yelling and yelled back, “WILL YOU PLEASE SHUT UP AND ALLOW ME TO SPEAK, ARCEE?!”, She nodded, I sighed “I am Kurosk, I suspect that Optimus Prime brought me here for medical assistance.”, “oh.”, “yeah, now please tell me why theses weirdly small humans are here.” “They’re a part of our team.” I paused, I looked at the children the back at Arcee, “Pardon?”, the small female human spoke, “Yeah! We’re a part of the team”, “My dear, you don’t look any older than 15!”, “So?!”, “You are like ants!”, Arcee spoke, “He’s right-” the young girl tried to fight back but groaned and walked off, “Why are the humans so moody?-” “They are not!” Arcee said angrily before also storming off, I did not notice Ratchet walk in as I said; “Why are females so moody!” He laughed, which was a surprise even to me, I whipped around and looked at Ratchet, “What? What is so funny?”, Ratchet spoke through chuckles, “nothing, nothing at all” I sigh, I looked back to where Arcee and the female human ran to, “They’ve gone and told Prime, haven’t they?”, “Most likely”, “Great.”, “You should get back to sick bay, I still need to run a few tests”, I nodded, A few minutes later, prime walked into the sick bay, Ratchet was checking my Spark beat, it felt a bit weird but it was manageable, “Kurosk, Why did Arcee and Miko come to me saying you ‘acting weird’?”, “I have no idea, Prime” he sighed, I looked at him, before I could speak Ratchet shoved a random tube into my mouth, “Mh!”, “shush, I’m testing something.”, I was so confused, well, I was until I saw a golden liquid, the same consistency as glue, seep into the tube, I was even more confused and kinda afraid, It glowed like energon but clearly was not, I looked at Ratchet who was just as confused as me, then at Optimus Prime, he seemed just as afraid as me, I looked at Ratchet for answers, “I. . . I don’t know what that is, I’ll need to test it.” I nod, he tried to get the tube out my mouth but could not, I paused and ripped it out, the strange golden liquid dripped slightly from my mouth, “What the Allspark is this stuff. .” I ask, wiping the liquid away with the back of my servo, a few more hours passed as Ratchet tested the liquid, I was talking to Optimus and Bumblebee, Arcee then came over, “hey, why are you still here?”, Optimus spoke in his normal low but caring voice, “Kurosk is here, because something may be wrong, he is here so he can found out what is the problem”, “What even triggered this?”, “There's a weird golden liquid coming from my mouth, and I have no idea what it is.”, “Golden liquid” She repeated sceptically, I looked down at Optimus who nodded slightly, I knelt down, Raf noticed and gave me a stick, I smiled slightly at him, “Thank you, Raf.” I put the stick in my mouth and pulled it out, it dripped with the weird glue-like golden liquid, Arcee looked both disgusted and worried, “Ew. .” I laughed at her reaction, Raf looked at the liquid curiously and with a bit of disgust, I looked down at Raf, “Why are you so interested in it?”, “It looks cool!” he said with a smile, I would never understand humans, thy were such weird little creatures. I chuckled as Ratchet came back, he looked confused, “well Ratchet, what is this stuff?”, “I. . . Don’t know. There's nothing that matches it and no history of any other Cybertronians producing that liquid.”, “huh. . .weird, so it’s like a FLD?”, ”What’s a FLD” “Foreign Liquid Detected.”, “Exactly like an FLD!” I hummed slightly, I heard Raf whispering to Optimus, I was confused but didn’t question it, I was about to speak when I felt someone touch my helm, then. . .stroke my helm? It was so weird but not in a bad way, I stood there for a second, I relaxed a bit, I didn’t even notice my rotors buzz together, making a soft purring sound, I then realized that Raf had told Optimus to do it, I knelt, making it easier for him to reach my helm, Miko came back in and spoke “Wow, the big scary robot acts like a cat.”, “shush” I say quietly, Miko tried to touch my rotor, I glared at her, “Okay, don’t touch the Rotors. Got it.” I sighed, my antenna flicked a bit and sunk slightly into my helm, I continued to let Optimus touch my helm, at one point I was so close to falling asleep, Optimus smiled slightly as I closed my optics and relaxed. A few hours passed; I was helping to clean up with Bulkhead when I felt someone place their servo on my helm, I paused, unsure if it was Optimus or a false touch, “Optimus?”, “Yes?”, “What. . .are you doing?” “What? Am I not allowed to offer you comfort?” I sigh slightly, I looked over at Optimus, his servo still held against my helm, I felt him move his servo behind my antenna, “What are you doing?” I felt Optimus scratch behind my antenna was weirdly nice to feel, I leaned into his servo, Miko’s comment made sense to me now, I was kind of like a cat, not physically, but I did react the same way to touch. My rotors buzzed together, making the purring sound again, I leaned into his touch, Optimus chuckled slightly, “You are like a cat”, “shush” I mutter, leaning into his touch, I didn’t understand why I enjoyed it, but I did. A few days passed; I was walking around the base as I helped where I could, one day Bulkhead had thrown Ratchet’s wrench onto a support beam on the ceiling, “How, exactly did this happen?” I asked with a small amount of confusion, “Bulkhead was dared to by Miko, the and the Idiot did so!” I sigh, the rotors on my back span as I jumped up and grabbed it, handed it to Ratchet, “here you go” My rotors stopped spinning, as I landed on the bases floor “at least someone isn't reckless” rachet would mutter under his breath as he had put the wrench down then kept working on the computer for the ground bridge, I turned to Bulkhead, my optics narrowed and sharp, “Why would Miko dare him to throw your wrench onto a support beam?” I questioned as my rotors twitched and shifted back into place. “I do not know, I find it best to try and ignore their antics, unless they do their antics on something I need” rachet would say that last part while staring at the mischievous duo, “Primus, I swear they keep getting louder with each song” I say to rachet, sometimes glancing at the duo through the sentence, a loud crush is heard, bulkhead stood on a doohickie that was left on the floor from their antics, “BULKHEAD! I NEEDED THAT!”, “Oh for the love of Primus. . .” I mutter, my digits placed on my noseplate, my antennae twitched angrily “sorry Rach, I didn't see it” Bulkhead muttered to Ratchet, an alert is heard from the computer, rachet goes to the computer to investigate, “a Decepticon energon mine, located in Scotland, the mountain which humans call, ben Nevis”, “hey, I flew over there once!”
