|-Combined-| {A Transformers Fanfic}

Chapter 18

"This is unbelieveable" Vivian spoke in awe as we walked along the ship's floor. Currently we were trying to find a way into the internals, to continue our mission to find Merlin's staff. "Yeah, it is unbelieveable" Cade agreed ebfore grunting in annoyance.

"What does the old man want us to do?" He questioned exasperatedly before deciding to light a flare to mark where we came from. "Watch out!" I called to Cade as the wall he used to light the flare on suddenly collapsed before moving, throwing dust and small debris to the ground around us. 

"Bee, Stone, go around, find another way! Come on!" Cade ordered the lovebots, the gap unfortunately not large enough to fir the pair. "Really, man?" Stone grumbled, Bee whirring in agreement beside him.

"Think I like winding up in a place like this?" The yellow and black bot whirred before deciding to climb up some metal cables, Stone right behind him. "It wants us to go this way" Cade commented as he entered the gap, myself following after Vivian as Cade led the front. 

"Hey Cade, Im reluctant to say this to you, but I think that you're quite, you know, brave" Vivian complimented with a bit of a blush as we all walked down the long gap, avoiding circular tubed holes in the floor that led to other places. 

"Is that a compliment?" Cade questioned holding his gun at the reading as I did as well. "You could throw one back my way?" Vivian declared, holding the light for us all. "Well, that's got to happen organically" Cade responded. 

"Uhh, Out of us two, I was the first one off the sub" She informed him making me chuckle. "She has you there Cade" I muttered. Cade looked over his shoulder at me with a glare and a grunt making me shrug with a grin before he resumed walking.

"I think it's here!" Vivian called to us as Cade tried to climb up some cables to get around a vent. "Down there?" I questioned curiously as she hummed. "I just feel...that its down there" She muttered as I nodded my head at her showing that I understood what she was getting at. 

Cade finished climbing to the other side of the vent by the time Vivian and I had grabbed a cable and began our own descent. Once we got to the bottom we were now standing in an expanse of area immensely larger than the previous gap we were walking along. 

"its a tomb" Cade deadpanned as we stood and looked around the area in awe. "And their guardian knights, positioned there to guard something" I added, pointing to the kneeling cybertronian figures that seemed to be alive but also statue-like at the same time. 

"Come on" Cade spoke, gesturing us to continue walking. "We're definitely getting closer" Vivian informed us as she looked around. "Good" I returned before faltering in my steps and groaning loudly as my spark began to thrum painfully.

"Shaye, what's wrong?" Cade immediately questioned, hearing my small distress and jumping to my side. "I-I don't know..." I trailed off before the pain slowly left me and a dull feeling took its place.

"Can you continue on?" Cade asked quietly, bending down beside me and holding my shoulder for comfort. "Let's hope so" I muttered, getting to my feet and walking a few feet before faltering again. "Damn..." I cursed before Cade threw my arm around his shoulder and helped me walk.

"Let's go" He ordered as we continued on. "Formality" Vivian stated as we stopped at a junction, observing the guardian knight's in their places. "Knight's are always guarding something" She added before pointing down a way and saying that was the way to go.

"Hang on. Look at this" She stopped us, crouching down and blowing the dust from the ground and showing us all the Celtic writing engraved into the metal floor. "It's Celtic" She told Cade, noticing me already muttering what it said.

Before she could translate for Cade, the floor began to spark with electrical power and caused the middle part of the area to turn like clockwork and allow a large stone coffin to ascend from the hidden compartment beneath. 

"Im alright Cade" I told my friend as he looked at me worriedly, "Go open it". He nodded, abandoning my side as I balanced myself on my feet and watched them observe the coffin. "It's Merlin" Vivian said in both awe and thankfulness, "it's real. All of it!".

"Wait, what does this say?" She mumbled, her eyes seeing something on the tomb making her wipe away the dust. She then read aloud the sentence in what I guessed was also Celtic before translating it for us, "It means, "No one shall have it"".

"Wait a minute. We came all the way down here, all this, and your not gonna open it?" Cade questioned, looking at Vivian like she'd grown an extra head. "Of course im going to open it" She returned making me chuckle.

"Good. Let's go" Cade declared, moving back to her side. "ready? Let's do this" He grunted as he and Vivian began to push the coffin's lid. I watched with amusement as their combined effort barely moved the lid several centremeters.  

"Shaye...Some help...would be nice" Cade groaned as he continued to try and push the lid. I laughed in amusement before walking over carefully and placing myself between them both and pushing the lid off easily.

"How did you do that?" Vivian questioned in amazement. "Like I said, Im special" I grinned before watching her follow Cade's line of eyesight and gasping as she looked into the coffin. "you've got to be kidding me" Cade grumbled as he walked to the head of the coffin, staring at Merlin's decomposing remains.

"We've come all this way for this? For your ugly great-great granddad's bones in a box and some stupid stick?" He growled reaching into the coffin and grabbing the stick staff embedded with jewels. "You got to be kidding me. How are we gonna save the world with this? I could've cut an oak tree down at my house and just..." He trailed off angrily before throwing the staff away from us and turning back to us.

"Don't say a word. The smooth little romantic accent's not gonna work right now" Cade snapped at Vivian as she looked thoroughly disappointed. "Im speechless" She returned, her disappointment evident in her voice. "Thank god" Cade exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air. 

"Perhaps it was stolen before we got here?" I suggested, attempting to smoothen the tense atmosphere. "No, there's something else. Its got to be here somewhere" Cade yelled back as he walked over to one of the guardian knights.