Transformers: Power Armor

Episode 2

LightSeeker tossed and turned in the berth that night, worried that her nemesis might have survived whatever torture the Decepticons have put her through. The femme's failure to find the Power Armor before the Decepticon has kept with her for a long time. She should have killed NightSight during her stasis, while LightSeeker still had the chance. She didn't want to let her Prime down a second time, though.

LightSeeker can remember that mission like it was yesterday.

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"LightSeeker, it is time for you to fulfill your namesake," Optimus Prime said to her on that fateful day. Both factions were running out of resources and preparing to travel to a planet called Earth. "We need something to end this war soon before more planets are put in harm's way," he continued. "I need you to follow these coordinates, and search an ancient cybertronian vault for a list of 13 recipes for the legendary Power Armor."

"Sir, I don't know if I am ready to fulfill such a task," LightSeeker spoke humbly, although she had been training all her life for this moment.

"Unfortunately we no longer have time for waiting. You must leave at once, and find the armor."

LightSeeker nodded, "Okay, Prime sir, I will not let you down!"

The femme set off with a small Auto-bot team for the vault, in a distant star system. She was afraid and nervous. She could only pray that the Decepticons had not arrived first. However, when the team arrived, the door to the vault was already opened.

"Autobots, stay with the ship, I shall investigate the vault," LightSeeker ordered, stepping out onto the cold, foreign planet.

LightSeeker entered the vault and followed its long twisting pathways until finally, she found the final room. Unfortunately, she was too late.

"Oh look what we have here," A Decepticon femme cooed. "A little Autobot come to find the Power Armor. Well, it's too late." The femme tossed the tube of recipes into the air, and with one blast of her rifle, the ancient cybertronian text was lost.

"No!" LightSeeker shouted, and sent a quick click to her team for backup, "That was our last hope! I'll- I'll destroy you for this!"

LightSeeker charged towards the Decepticon, who easily put her sword through the small femme's chassis. The small Autobot fell unconscious.

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"I still don't understand," NightSight said, "So let's go over this one more time." The femme was being measured by a few humans to be equipped with her own Power Armor.

"Of course, dear," Nana, as the Decepticons have come to know her, said.

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NightSight laughed as she easily took down the Autobot femme. The young Decepticon specialized in stealth but was at least trained enough in battle to handle the smaller Autobots. The recipes for the Power Armor was already stored in her memory banks, so all she had to do was hit the road. Megatron assigned her with this task as soon as Soundwave picked up the Autobots trail. The Decepticons had already left for Earth on their ark, so NightSight would have to get this information to her commanders on her own.

Shouting was heard from down the hall, along with an explosion. Well, there goes her ship.

"Decepticon scum! We'll get you for this!" An Autobot shouted. A troop of 5 minibots headed her way, and she was stuck at a dead end.

"For the love of-" Gunfire seared through her wing. The femme winced in pain, she was now flightless and without a ship, at a dead end of a vault about to be ambushed by a troop.

Quickly, NightSight tried to find any information on Earth she could, and managed to send out a signal to some random Earth web forum, leaving the ancient recipes in a direct message.

The femme battled the minibots as best she could, but they were overwhelming the stealth con. Before she felt herself entering stasis, she erased the memories of the Power Armor and fell unconscious.

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"And then, I was the one who received your message, through my facebook!" Nana exclaimed, "then my grandson Megatron approached me, I gave him the instructions and we worked together to figure out how to stitch each piece together."

"Wow, that's amazing!" NightSight exclaimed, "Thank you, Nana, for keeping the secret safe with the Decepticons....Why did you choose the Decepticons?"

"Well, I needed grandchildren! My son, Jason wanted to go fight with those Autobots and left his wife before they had kids. So I went and found my own grandbabies."

NightSight thought the fact that the old woman found her grandchildren in the Decepticons was certainly odd, but, as long as NightSight didn't fail after all and Megatron was happy, the femme really didn't mind.

LightSeeker, still suffering from her insomnia, couldn't help but still feel that NightSight was in fact alive. The two had a knack for making it even though the most terrible of injury, after all.

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LightSeeker next awoke with the medic Ratchet leaning over her.

"You're all fixed!" He exclaimed, "That was a nasty gash you had, nearly right through your spark! But I managed to find the perfect donor and keep you both alive."

"Donor?" LightSeeker asked, looking to the berth next to her.

The Decepticon femme was also repaired, but still recharging peacefully next to LightSeeker. LightSeeker shrieked.

"Wha!? Why would you do that! I would have rather died than- The PowerGear! It's in her memory banks, did you get it? Did you extract it?"

"Calm down, LightSeeker," Optimus Prime entered the med bay, "Unfortunately this femme, NightSight, has already deleted the file from her memory banks."

In frustration, LightSeeker lunged for the recharging femme, but Ratchet stopped her.

"She's already is in lockdown," Ratchet told her, "She won't be hurting anyone."

"At this time, this Decepticon is not useful to us dead, LightSeeker," the Prime said sternly, "The Power Armor is gone, so there is no need to fear her. She will be kept in the brig until it is appropriate to wake her."

LightSeeker scowled but attempted to maintain her composure.

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LightSeeker began to sob, recounting her failure over and over again. The Decepticons had the Power Armor and the Autobots were suffering because of it. If the femme was stronger, this wouldn't have happened. She will never be able to live up to her title, and it was all that Decepticon NightSight. The only thing the femme could do now is hope the Decepticons really did kill her.