Author's Note: Sorry I don't know how far the Roman numerals go from here, so it's just numbers from now on. I was probably doing it wrong past twenty though I think.
Anyway, back to the story.
I watched in horror as Hexia lifted Chardirakii up by her neck-cables, my Sparkmate's frame limp and battered, energon pouring from a large hole in her side.
"Chardirakii!" I shouted over and over, trying to make some noise come through the infernal gag,"Chardirakii! No!"
Hexia laughed, then Chardirakii's helm flopped backwards, her helm-armor falling off and clattering into the dirt below her.
Her optics were open, still black, but I feared the worst.
Hexia dropped Chardirakii, who crumpled limply on the ground and lay there, unmoving.
The tentacles binding me fell away and I ripped the gag off, tossing it aside as I ran and skidded to a stop on my knees by Chardirakii's motionless frame.
"Chardirakii? Chardirakii...answer me," I whispered, tenderly lifting her helm into my lap.
There was no reply. Her black optics showed no emotion, only a dead emptiness.
"She can enchant you no longer," Hexia stated calmly, her war-hammer melting away into nothingness.
"Does it not...disturb you...to know that you have just killed your own sister?" I asked, struggling to keep my voice from shaking as I gently pushed some loose hair from Chardirakii's face-plates.
"Optimus, how do you think I became the best of the best? By sucking up to my siblings?" Hexia scoffed,"No. I killed them. Any who got in my way. Char here was the last."
I lifted the rest of Chardirakii'a frame onto my lap and hugged her close, rocking her cold body. She wasn't dead. She couldn't be. Not my Chardirakii.
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I had a brief flying sensation, then my back-plates hit cold, hard stone and I grunted in discomfort.
But I could move, and neither my vertebral column nor my side hurt like Pits.
I slowly opened my optics, then squeaked slightly as a bright white light hit my vision, temporarily blinding me.
Once my optics had cleared enough again, I saw Primus standing a little ways away from me.
"Sire," I called weakly, reaching for him.
Only then did I notice the large cracks running down my arm, down the rest of my frame.
Primus' white optics were sad. He walked over to me, then knelt and took me in his arms.
"Oh my darling child," he whispered,"What has your sister done to you?"
I hugged him back, and allowed some tears to fall,"I'm scared, sire."
Primus pulled away then held me at arm's length, with his servos on my shoulder-plates,"I know, Chardirakii. I know."
"Please," I choked out through my tears,"Send me back. Please."
Primus wiped my tears away,"So Hexia can kill you again?"
I closed my optics and recomposed myself, forcing my mind to think clearly.
"I need to have full access to my powers," I said calmly,"I need to be able to fight her. If I fail, Hexia kills me and I shatter. If I win, I can become mortal again and life can go back to what it once was."
Primus sighed, then touched my chest-plate where my spark was hidden,"You have changed much since I last sent you back to Earth, my daughter."
Then he smiled,"I only have one condition."
"Name it," I replied, lifting my chin stubbornly.
"I would greatly love to see some grand-sparklings, once you defeat Hexia, could you and Optimus...y'know what I mean."
I laughed a little,"Of course, sire."
Primus kissed my fore-helm,"I love you, little dark-spark."
A warm glow filled my spark-chamber, then suddenly I felt myself get yanked backwards into a vortex of wind.
The wind seemed to grab all parts of my armor and tear at me with frigid claws, but I felt all my strength return, and I felt like a goddess again.
Suddenly I was falling, falling, falling, then the loud sound of a mech and femme shouting at each other.
"I could never love a femme like you!" Optimus was shouting.
"Well you don't have much of a choice now do you?" Hexia hissed triumphantly,"I can offline Arcee too if she catches your fancy."
My breath returned to me, but the pain had not. I found myself able to move my digits, which meant I could move my arms and legs.
"YOU KILLED HER!!!" Optimus shouted at the top of his voice-box, the boiling rage and grief clear and unmasked in his tone.
"Oh quit shouting, you big idiot," Hexia scoffed, then there was a bang and a muffled cry from Optimus.
My vision finally returned and I sat up to see Hexia had knocked Optimus onto his back-plates and was kissing him, while holding him down with her tentacles.
I stood and crossed my arms over my chest-plate,"A-hem!"
Hexia pulled away and looked up, her face-plates paling like she'd just seen a ghost.
"Chardirakii!" Optimus cried joyously.
I uncrossed my arms and flexed my digits,"Let's try this again shall we, sister? On equal footing."
"There never was an equal footing, Char," Hexia replied, standing and hefting her war-hammer into her servos,"I was always better than you."
I smirked slightly, loving the feeling of my powers flowing through me,"We'll see about that."
Hexia swung her war-hammer at me with a shout, but I ducked underneath it.
I snapped my wrists and two long, sharp, black kopesh appeared, glowing with a magenta light.
I smiled, then leapt at my sister, blades crossed in the air.
And of course, I began to sing.
"🎶I
Don't
Like your lit-tle games
Don't
Like your til-ted stage
The
Role you made me play,
Of the fool
No I don't like you.🎶"
Hexia blocked with her hammer, but I still shot one ped past our crossed weapons and kicked her square in the face-plates.
"🎶I
Don't
Like your per-fect crime
How
You laugh when you lie.
You
Said the gun was mine.
Isn't cool.
No I don't like you.🎶"
Hexia stumbled backwards, then swung at me again, this time for my legs.
I jumped amd flipped over the weapon and landed in a tiger-like crouch.
"🎶But I got smarter
I got harder
In the nick of time.
Honey, I rose up from the dead
I do it all the time.
I've got a list of names and yours is in red
Underlined.🎶"
I sprinted and crashed my shoulder-plate into Hexia's mid-section, digging my left kopesh deep into her thigh as I did so.
"🎶I check it once,
Then I check it twice
OH!!🎶"
Hexia got a blow in, punching me across the face-plates.
I spat energon onto the ground, then smiled at her.
"🎶Oh, look what you made me do
Look what you made me do
Look at just what you made do
Look at just what you made me do
Look what you made me do
Look what you made me do
Look at just what you made me do.🎶"
"S-stop it, Chardirakii. You're freakin' me out!" Hexia cried hurling a large rock at me.
I crouched and the rock went sailing over my helm to crash in the dirt behind me.
My hair began to glow, whipping around my helm like snakes.
"🎶I
Don't like your king-dom.
Keys
They
Once be-longed to
Me.
You
Asked me for a place to sleep
Locked me out
And threw a feast.🎶"
"What?" Hexia asked.
I stood up and spun my kopesh skillfully in my servos.
"🎶The world moves on and on
Another day
Another drama drama.
But not for me not for me
All I think about is karma
And when the world moves on well one thing's for sure.🎶"
I pointed at Hexia with a kopesh.
"🎶Maybe I got mine but you'll all get yours.🎶"
Hexia ran at me with an enraged scream and swung at me with her hammer.
I deftly stepped inside the swing of the weapon, then jammed my right kopesh into her side, all the way to the hilt and left it there.
Hexia staggered backwards, her optics huge in shock and pain.
"🎶But I got harder
I got stronger
In the nick of time (nick of time)
Honey, I rose up from the dead
I do it all the time (all the time)
I've got a list of names and yours is in red
Underlined.🎶"
I hooked a claw under her chin and brought my face-plates close to hers,"🎶I check it once
Then I check it twice
OH!!!🎶"
With that I flicked my servo and sent her stumbling backwards.
"🎶Look what you made me do
Look what you made me do
Look at just what you made me do
Look at just what you made me do
Look what you made me do
Look what you made me do
Look at what you just made me do
Look what you made me do.🎶"
My hair rose up around me, forming a glowing black halo behind my helm and my optics turned an electric violet. A purple glow surrounded my body and gave it a majestic, yet terrifying look. All my biolights glowed brightly and thick black clouds covered the sun.
"🎶I don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me
I'll be the actress starring in your bad dreams
I don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me
I'll be the actress starring in your bad dreams
I dom't trust nobody and nobody trusts me
I'll be the actress starring in your bad dreams!🎶"
The ground around me turned black with violet cracks and I tilted my helm to the sky as thunder and lightning crackled through the clouds.
Hexia got up and tried to run away.
"Sorry...the old Chardirakii can't come to the phone right now," I said in a computer-generated voice,"Why? Oh...'cause she's dead."
I shrieked,"OH!!!"
Hexia was grabbed by thin tendrils of black wires and dragged back to me.
"🎶Look what you made me do
Look what you made me do
Look at just what you made me do
Look at just what you made me do
Look what you made me do
Look what you made me do
Look at just what you made me do
Look what you made me do.🎶"
On the last verse, I grabbed Hexia by the neck-cables, then opened a deep pit in front of me.
"No! Please! Chardirakii, we're family!" Hexia cried, clawing at my servo.
My optics were cold and emotionless as I dropped Hexia into the pit, hearing her scream all the way down before closing it.
Then, the clouds cleared away, my hair calmed down and once more fell over my back-plates in waves. The cracks vanished and I once more appeared to be myself.
I staggered slightly, feeling extremely exhausted, then fell.
Two strong arms caught me, then more voices arrived, coming closer.
I closed my optics and fainted.
