Finding a Way

Chapter 1

Darkness was calming. It surrounded me for eons. A chilling air makes me twitch as it irritates my circuits.  On lining my optics I find myself in a cold crypt lying in a metal box. I shot straight up clutching my abdomen. The memory still very real. My love one's optics those strange silver color as he shot me with his cannon over in a fight we had. Liege somehow managed to trick him. I had to warn my brothers. I looked at my abdomen to see no scar.
Strange there would be a scar. I look around the room I was in. It was beautifully crafted. Pillars of gold climbed the walls of platinum. The ceiling depicted stars and constellations. I got out of the strange box I was in to see engravings on the side. I knelt beside them to read better.

A loving sister
A beautiful mate
A strong Prime
A fearless daughter of Primus
May she rest in peace
Free from the troubles we face
We love you Solus
Your death shocked us all
We wish you happiness in the Well
Tell our creator when you see him
We miss him just as much as we miss you
Rest our sister you are free
We will guard this place
We all cried as we laid you down
We use your Forge to heal you wound
Prima said words of honor
Yet never he cried
Megatronus was in shock and cried the hardest
Liege shall pay Megatronus told us the truth
He is sorry dear sister
Liege used his silver glossia on him
Rest sister dear may you be free
One day we shall join you
Till all are one

I covered my mouth as energon tears spilled forth. My brothers thought me dead. How is it they could think I'm dead when I'm very much alive. I stood up. How much time has pass? I looked for the exit and saw the archway. I walked into it and followed the tunnel heading up. I found it sealed but I quickly kicked it down. I straighten up to see I was in some sort of worship room. I look at it puzzled but I could see this was where my brothers went if they wished to see me.
I saw light filtering from the ceiling and activated my thrusters to fly me up there. I squeezed through the hole and was welcomed with a horrific sight. I stared horrified at the crumbling, burnt building of Cybertron. I floated to the ground and fell to my knee joints. What could have caused such destruction?
I then shot to my feet. "PRIMUS!!!" I yelled barreling to the Well. Primus wouldn't let this world crumble like this. Jumping and dodging scrap piles of both mechs and femmes and parts of the large buildings, I finally entered the Sea of Rust. I stopped and heaved air into my vents. I could fly and I was running either I was too panicked to think or I'm as oblivious as Prima. I snickered at that and started to fly a crossed the vast sea.
I landed near the lip of the Well of Allsparks and began my decent. Out of respect I climbed and walked down instead of flying. It took a while and even included and encounter with a hive of scraplets. The little buggers were clingy and I smirk as they nuzzled my armor yet didn't bit into it. I built them to help me clean my workshop. They only got hungry for bots because Amalagamous was going to prank me and was hiding in a scrap pile that I had my scraplets ate. It was funny watching him race around trying to get them to stop. In the end I had to emit a frequency from my body to keep the calm and not attack.
I picked up the scavenger scraplet that settled in my neck armor. I rested it with its family and waved them all goodbye. I continued down into the long path way. I finally reached the end and gazed at the dim light Primus's spark casing emitted. Though sealed tight it should have glowed more than the star saber on a dark night. I walk the platform that led to the closest point by Primus's spark.
I heard the beating of the powerful spark as I flew up to be near it. I rested my hand on the casing as I felt energon tears drip out of my optics. "Father? Can you hear me? Primus what has happened since I fell into stasis? Why did my brothers think me dead? I need answers and I wish for your help. For any of my brothers to explain. I feel so alone Father." I sobbed.
He did not answer and floated down to the platform, was on my knees and buried my faceplates in my servos. I never felt this lost or lonely before. I felt some one wrap something around me. I look up to see the avatar of my father looking down at me sitting and holding me. "Hush my daughter. I hear you well and I do not wish for you to be lonely. But our time is short for my power is weak. Much has changed the Cybertron you knew. Many of your brothers have fallen after you. Liege paid the price for his deception. Megatronus exiled himself as punishment for harming you. Prima and Onyx died in the Great Cataclysm. Vector now watches over all space and time. Nexus scattered himself in the Age of Exploration, each of his individual parts dying from different causes. Amalagamous, Alchemist, and Quintus died against the Quintessions. Micronus has traveled far leading him to another world where cosmic rust inflicted him. And that was directly after. Another bot rose to leadership against the Quintessions after Alpha Trion refused the Matrix. Zeta claimed the title of Prime and the Quintessions were defeated. A council was issued and for the longest time ruled over Cybertron. Alpha Trion was the Head archivist at the Hall of Records, he took on a youngling named Orion Pax who helped led Cybertron into a revolution from the councils corrupt ways. He soon became a Prime who now faces the one he considered a brother who took a variation of Megatronus's name and turned it to Megatron. They now fight on earth after eons of civil war. The Autobots led by Orion are fighting for freedom and those who live on earth. While the Decepticons led by Megatron wish to conquer. But this is just basic information for you, Solus."
"What's his name now Primus?" I ask. "And what happened to Optimus? You never mentioned my youngest brother."
"Optimus chose to be reborn to understand the younger cybertronians coming forth. He arose to greatness when Cybertron most needed him."
My optics widened. "The youngling Orion he's Optimus."
"Yes but I had to block the memories of his time before. Even now he does not know he is one of the thirteen." Primus explained.
"I understand why you would do that. But how am I alive? My brothers thought me dead." I was puzzled on that.
"They forgot the thing that makes you more unique then the other primes."
"Oh what's that?" I got even more confused.
"That I wasn't your creator and they weren't always your brothers." Primus smiled.
I snorted. "Right. Most would believe that the only reason I am a Prime is that I turned my back on Unicron. It's still weird how my sisters and I were the very opposite of the others. But it's thanks to you that I now see the truth."
"You may not be my creation but you are still my daughter. And Solus you had goodness in you all along."
"I know Primus but that's not exactly what I meant. I may have been good the whole time but I was told you were evil. But I saw how you would turn your back on Unicron to protect the primes and me from my sisters blast."
"I would have protected you even if my creation weren't there for I could tell your spark was pure and just misguided." I heard him stand and I joined him. "Solus will you head for earth to assist Optimus?" Primus was very serious now.
"Of course. But something's wrong isn't it?" I was worried.
"Yes I fear your sisters are heading there as we speak. The Matrix picked up their signals a few moment ago."
"I will go." I hugged him. " Goodbye for now Father."
He hugged back. "Goodbye for now Solus Prime."
Primus pulled away and faded away. I turned my thrusters on and flew through the Well once more. I hovered high in the atmosphere as I exited. I transformed into a spaceship form and activated my hyper space time drive. I zoomed free on Cybertron and past galaxies and stars. As I enter the solar system of where earth was I stopped and transformed.
"My name and appearance will raise questions." I shifted my front armor guard to the back and shorten my cable wire hair. I kept my color. "Now a name is what I need to go by... Um... SOLAR. That's it my nickname shall suffice until I can gain their trust enough to tell them."
I flew on and headed to the small compared to Cybertron marble of green and blue. I entered its atmosphere and stopped suddenly. I turned around go see these strange cybertronians in their alt-modes flying towards me. I floated and stared at the strange group until they opened fire at me.
I yelped in surprise as one of my thrusters on my heel was shot. I spun wildly and tumbled through the air the the ground below. I hit a tree, then a rock and felt everything get dizzy. I heard those cybertronians land and a ground bridge open and heavy peds hitting the ground. I get to my knee joints and groaned as I felt my helm.
I looked up to the ones who attacked me, which all looked a like, this dark dark blue mech with a screen for a face, a red sports car mech, a mech with only one optic in the center with a cord coming from his back to a gun on his left hand, a silver mech with wings and a red spiky thing on his head who had heals on his peds, and a huge silver mech with a purple symbol in the center of his chest. I shivered a little sensing the dark energon pulsing within him.
I looked up into his scarred faceplates to see a smirk. "I see that my men have shot you down. Do forgive them for they have been ordered to shot down anything that is cybertronian origin that doesn't check in with my warship." I could hear his pride and blinked at the servo he offered me. I hesitantly took it and he pulled me up from the ground. I stabilized myself and realized he was shocked as the others were as well.
"Is there something wrong?" I asked looking behind me just incase.
"No no it's just rare to see a femme as tall as you." I blinked in surprise at that. Long ago in my era femmes were just a little shorter than me. Then I realized that most femmes were built for tougher jobs in my time then now.
I came up to the huge mech's chest. "I understand. I've gotten so use to the fact that others find me fairly tall when we first meet. The statement I just haven't heard in a while."
The silver mech nodded. "I see. My name is Megatron leader of the Decepticons."