The Tales of Opti Prime and Nio

Frozen Metal, Frozen Spark

Keila, Opti and Nio all were far out into Cybertron. Opti and Keila were sparring and Nio was watching. At least half of Cybertron was covered in ice, and no one knew it. The ice was slowly covering the planet, and getting close to Opti, Keila and Nio. Opti swung her sword up, blocking a swing from Keila. "You can do better than that, Keila!" she exclaimed.

"Isn't it getting kind of cold?" Keila asked, blocking a swing from Opti.

"Eh... Sort of. But that doesn'...t matter."

"O-okay..." Keila took a step and swung at Opti, but she slipped, stabbing her sword through Opti's side. Opti screamed and fell to her knees.

"Opti!" Nio said, slightly worried.

"Keila!" Opti yelled. "What in Primeus' name did you do that for?!"

"I slipped!" Keila said, nervously

"On what?!"

"On whatever that is!" Keila pointed to the ground. It was covered in ice. Opti's eyes widened.

"It can't be..."

"What? What is it?" Opti took some energon that was leaking from her side and let it drip from her finger to the ice-covered ground. It froze almost instantly.

"It's ice."

"Ice?! Like in the humans' Arctic?!"

"Yes... Grab Nio and run."

"But-"

"Run!"

Keila picked up Nio and started running. Opti straight behind them. They could now clearly see that the only area of Cybertron that wasn't covered in ice was Keon. "Go, go, go!" Opti yelled.

"What's the point?!" Keila asked. "Cybertron's freezing over and we're going to die!"

"Sissy..." Nio said, fear in his voice.

"You'll be fine, Nio. Keila, go, run!"

"What about you?"

"I'm going to use my Red Spark powers to place a barrier between this weird ice and my friends and family. Now get inside Keon!"

"Okay..." Keila ran inside Keon, holding Nio tightly, protecting him from the cold.

"I need a barrier... For my friends and family!" She raised her hands and a barrier went up. The question now was; How long could she hold that barrier?

Opti had been out in the cold, holding her barrier up for hours now. She was on the side of the barrier that she was keeping warm. But, it was growing weak, as she was. The cold was getting through at the point of her hands. Her hands were frozen solid and her arms were slowly freezing. It was a wonder she could still hold the barrier up. Speed Demon walked out to her. "Opti, come inside Keon," she said to her.

"No. I have to protect... them," Opti argued.

"Opti, you're exausted..."

"Speed Demon, I can't let them freeze to death. Just... Just find out why Cybertron's freezing over!"

"Alright, fine." Speed Demon went back inside. She brought out her data pad and started typing on it. It seemed to be some sort of weird ice. It was made to freeze someone's spark, if it could freeze someone that far.

After reading this and soaking it in, she jumped up and dropped her data pad. "Opti!" she exclaimed. The barriers were gone from around Keon. It was getting extremely cold. Speed Demon ran outside. It was like a human blizzard, she couldn't see a thing. Wind was howling as the icey kiss of it hit her like a sowrd. She struggled, trying to see Opti. Then, in all the white and grey of the sky and ice, she could make out Opti's bright red color. She ran over to her. Opti was completely covered in ice. "Opti! Why didn't you listen?!" Speed Demon grabbed Opti's hands and dragged her back into Keon. "This isn't like human ice."

Opti looked at her. "Then what is it?" she asked, very weakly.

"Like some sort of random ice. Like... Like human magic."

"Second Gear, it has to be."

"She doesn't have any kind of powers."

"W-we don't know that? D-do we?"

"Well, no, but-"

"Get N-nio... S-surely he can s-stop her..."

"Opti, are you-"

"I'm s-sure! Go!"

Speed Demon got up and ran around Keon, trying to find Nio. She knew she had to listen to Opti. She was a Prime, after all.