Healing Hearts

Chapter 6

"Hey Bee, anything happen while I was in school?"
"Anything exciting?"
Sam smiled at Mikaela as she slid into his robot car, slinging her bag into the back seat.
"All my rowdy friends are coming over tonight."
"Your friends? There are more of you?"
"Yessiree bob."
"Will we get to meet them?"
"Of course... you... can. What'd ya take me for? A baby?"
Mikaela giggled as Sam 'drove' them over to where they would be meeting the other robots.

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"Mom? Where's my backpack?"
"Isn't it in the kitchen?"
"Oh- yeah, thanks!"
Sam quietly raced down the stairs and spotted his backpack laying innocently next to the dining table.
Grabbing the glasses, Sam went to run back upstairs, but was stopped by a knock on the door.

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"All right, here's the situation. You've all had direct contact with the NBEs."
"NBEs?"
"Non-Biological Extraterrestrials. Try and keep up with the acronyms. What you're about to see is totally classified."
"Dear God, what is it?"
"He crashed in the ice, probably a few thousand years ago. We shipped him here to this facility in 1934. We call him NBE One."
"Well, sir, I don't mean to correct you on everything you think you know, but, I mean, that's Megatron. He's the leader of the Decepticons."
"So, why Earth?"
"It's the All Spark."
"All Spark? What is that?"
"Well, yeah, they came here looking for some sort of cube-looking thing. Anyway, Mr. NBE One here, AKA Megatron- that's what they call him- who's pretty much the harbinger of death, wants to use the Cube to transform human technology to take over the universe. That's their plan."
"And you're sure about that?"
"Yeah... You guys know where it is, don't you?"
"Follow me."

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"NBE One is melting, and the backup generators aren't going to cut it!"
"Take me to my car! You need to take me to my car! He'll know what to do with the cube!"
"The kids right, you need to free his car."
Guns were pointed in the middle of the scientific panic, soldiers aimed at each other, and enemies were weary as a teenager screamed for his car to be released.
"I'm going to give you to the count of five-"
"Yeah, well I'm going to count to three."
"Under Sector Seven Protocol-"
"Sector Seven doesn't exist."
"And we don't take orders from people who don't exist."
"...Get the kid his car."

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"Optimus Prime, Bonecrusher is closing in on us."
"I see him, you go ahead. Ratchet, take charge. I'll only be a bit."
"Good luck Optimus, see you in Mission City."
"Roll out."

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"Sam, don't worry about Bee- just go!"
Sam grit his teeth in annoyance before gripping the cube tighter in his sweaty palms.
Turning around to sprint, the angry bellow belonging to a certain enraged silver robot served to push Sam faster than he'd ever ran before. He couldn't let Megatron get the Allspark.

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"Give me the cube, boy!"
Sam dodged around another pillar, attempting to hide from the glowing, red optics of Megatron. "I can smell you, human! Hiding will do you no good!"
Sam cursed as he dashed for the stairwell, charging his way to the top of the marked building.
"Come here!" Megatron burst through the roof, peds catching purchase on the rubble of other floors while his optics scanned for the tiny fleshbag.
There. Megatron's face plate widened as he smiled in sadistic glee. The little fleshie had no place to run.
"Megatron!"
Megatron's smile faltered as a red and blue bot came flying at him, blue optics glowing with angry determination.

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Megatron and Optimus Prime were wrestling on the concrete, all thoughts of humans and the Allspark absent from their processors as they struggled for the upper servo. Because of this, they did not notice the little fleshie fearfully crawling on Megatron's neck, a glowing cube held in its arms.
Megatron growled as he smashed his weight upon his prey, their metal armour screeching as it ground against each other. Smashing his fisted servos into the smaller bot's chassis, he did not expect Optimus to push back, causing the silver bot to crash onto his back, wings jarring painfully inside their sheaths. Megatron bared his denta at the infernal Prime before pain assaulted his sensors.
The moment of Megatron's stillness had allowed Sam to scurry out from the neck of Megatron's armour and smash the Allspark into the area of Megatron's spark chamber as hard as he could.
The cube glowed a brilliant blue before its energy, wildly crackling and snapping, struck Megatron like a lighting bolt and completely fried his spark, his life force.
As Megatron's last moments slipped away, he stared at the tiny human in shock, nearly missing Optimus' sorrowful apology as it swam along his private messaging channel.
Megatron was only able to send out a confirmation of silent regret before he was offlined forever.

-

"Sam, I owe you my life, and the Autobots will forever be in your debt. You do your race proud, and I personally thank you for your service in our war. I am grateful to have called you one of my comrades."
"Thanks Optimus. I'm glad I could help. Take care of Bee for me while I'm in college, will you?"
"It would be my pleasure, Sam Witwicky. May Primus bless your path."
"And yours too Prime, and yours too."