Hidden Spark

Chapter 20- An Old Friend

I followed my dad as he lead me to another room, inside sat an old engine part. "Where'd you find this?" I asked, running my hand over the tech.
"It was in human possesion, I caught Shockwave trying to steal it." He replied, his voice full of anger.
"Hey, calm down. Why are you so annoyed about this?" I asked, placing my hands on his arms and looking him in the eyes.
"They said that they'd shared everything with us...I'm sorry. You don't know what this is, do you?" I shook my head in response, "of course, you were just a baby. This is part of the only other ship to escape Cybertron during the war...and they lied to us!" He transformed, and I sighed, doing the same and following him to the bunker.

"This gun is my perfect invention, Ironhide." Que was saying, and I smiled. Ironhide wasn't impressed, "right," he muttered. I watched as Lennox arrived alongside a woman, a face I didn't quite like. "Oh, good! You're here! Me name's Que. I do hope you have answers for him. I've never seen him so upset before." Que stated. Lennox looked up at me, "can you come down here, please?" He requested, I shook my head. "Fine. Optimus, you remember Charlotte Mearing? Our Director of National Intelligence?" Lennox now turned to my father, not a single movement.
"He's in a bad mood. He's-a not talking to anybody today." Dino informed.
"What is this, the silent treatment?" Mearing asked, "aren't you his daughter, surely you can get him to talk?"
"Let me think about that...no." Was my reply, and Dino chuckled behind me.
"We've seen the silent treatment, and this is not that." Ironhide cut in, shaking his head at me.
"Definitely not." Que agreed.
"This is worse. Prime! Make something of yourself!...He's pissed." Ironhide hit the top of Optimus, and he transformed.

"You lied to us. Everything humans know of our planet we were told had all been shared. So why was this found in human possession?"  He questioned, leaning forwards.
"You're just as stubborn as him." Bee whispered in my ear, I rolled my eyes, shushing him. "We were in the dark on this also. It was Director Only clearance at Sector Seven, until now." Mearing turned to her assistant, "the bag." She ordered. The assistant looked at the many bags she carried,
"Which bag?"
"Hermès. Birkin. Green ostrich! My God..." She took the bag, before turning back to us. "This is a secret few men knew, and fewer still remain alive. Allow me to please introduce to you two of NASA's founding mission directors and astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin, one of the first two men to step foot on the moon. Sir? Optimus Prime." She introduced.

"From a fellow space traveler, it's a true honor." Dr. Aldrin stated.
"The honor is mine. Allow me to introduce my daughter, Lexie." I was nudged forwards and I smiled down at him, "a pleasure to meet you doctor." I said, he nodded, still amazed by us.
"Our entire space race of the 1960's, it appears, was in response to an event." Meaning drew our attention to her.
"Our astronauts investigated a crashed alien ship. No survivors on board." The NASA officer spoke up.
"We were sworn to secrecy by our Commander in Chief." Aldrin added.
"Soviets managed to land unmanned probes. Somehow they must have... picked up that fuel rod." The officer continued.
"We believe the Russians deduced that the rod was a fissionable fuel assembly, believed they had it mastered and tried to harness it at Chernobyl." Mearing showed pictures on the screen, and we watched closely.
"We landed six missions in all. We took hundreds of photos and samples. We locked them away forever when the moon program was shut down."

"Well, did you search the crash vault?" Ironhide questioned when they stopped talking.
"The ship's name was the Ark. I watched it escape Cybertron myself. It was carrying an Autobot technology which would have won us the war. And... its captain." I took Optimus' hand in mine, feeling his pain.
"Who was its captain?" Mearing asked.
"The great Sentinel Prime. The technology's inventor. He was commander of the Autobots before me. It's imperative that I find it before the Decepticons learn of its location. Our Autobot spacecraft has the ability to get there. And...you must pray it's in time. " I stared in shock. Yes I was from another planet, and yes I had to go through space to get here, but I didn't remember that. "Please say I can come?!" I squealed, the other autobots laughed.
"Of course you're coming." Optimus nodded.