KILL 'EM WITH KINDNESS | OPTIMUS PRIME

THIRTY SEVEN

Fallen From The Heavens

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"Hello? Lordes? Lordes, are you there?" Cade spoke through the radio before he sighed and threw the communicator to the table.

"Cade..?" He heard as he looked and saw Raquel walk in, a worried look on her face as she approached. "..What's going on?"

"I heard her, Raquel. I heard Lordes." Cade said breathlessly before Raquel's eyes went wide. "What?"

"Check outside. See if you spot anything in the sky. She was able to communicate me which means she must be close." Cade said frantically as Raquel nodded and ran back out. Cade grabbed his jacket before running out of the work area and outside where he saw a bright blue light entering the sky.

"That's her!" Cade exclaimed as both him and Raquel watched.

"Incoming!" Hound shouted from afar as the light got closer and closer to where they were. Cade watched as it flew overhead of them and laid just outside of the scrapyard.

"I'm gonna go check it out. Stay here!" Cade told Raquel as she nodded and Cade ran off, Hound and Drift following after him.
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Cade, Hound, and Drift approached the flamed area, their weapons drawn in case. Cade was the first to see it. Cade's eyes went wide in terror as he saw the horrible condition. He saw Zara, but she was dented up, she was covered in scratches, she also was scorch marks on the turquoise part of her paint job and she was leaking energon.

"Drift, get Lordes up. Hound, call Bee and Crosshairs. Let them know what's going on." Cade said as Drift placed his katanas back in place and picked Zara up from the ground.

"Hang on, Zara. We've got you." Drift muttered before they ran back into the scrapyard.
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I screamed as I pulled at the chains, feeling like they were trying to give way, but were still holding strong.

"I..am Zara Prime. Daughter of Optimus Prime. I sworn to protect the ones I love the most. And if that means dying for them.." I muttered while I watched my servos glow brighter than ever before. "Then I guess that's what it takes."

Before I knew it, I had flown into the air, the chains were broken off and I was free. I began to blast at Quintessa, making sure to aim for her directly. Of course, she avoided them as I thought she would, but what I was prepared to see was her power up just like me and blast at me.

Wait, what?

I avoided it, though I was grazed by it in the shoulderplate. How could she have the same powers as me? Who is this?

"You don't remember me, do you?" She asked as I glared at her. She smirked and shook her head before she placed her servo on my faceplate. I tried pulling away until I felt a sharp pain flow through me and began to see images.

Images of knights. Cybertronian knights. And I was one of them. There were 12 of them and I was the leader. I also saw images of a staff and a man was holding it. He looked like Merlin from the Brothers Grimm fairy tales I read as a human child. Then I saw a woman. She was a teacher in Oxford and she was teaching a class in this one. I don't know who she is. Maybe she has a connection to all of this. I didn't know.

I screamed in pain before I removed my faceplate from her servo and held my face, waiting for the pain to subside.

"Uh!-Who are you? What do you want from us?!" I shouted before Quintessa chuckled.

"Your father is worthless to me now. It's you who I want." She said as I glared. "Well, you're going to have to take me dead."

"That can be arranged." Quintessa said with a smirk before chains started flying at me again. I dodged them, blasting them if I could and strike them with my fists.

"I am your creator, Zara. You must obey me. It's what you were built to do." Quintessa stated as I rolled my eyes.

"Bitch, please. You won't know about creating me if it slapped you in the face." Quintessa didn't seem to like that. She blasted me to the ground instantly, causing me to cry out in pain. Before I could get back up, Quintessa had blasted me again, but full force into the ground.

"You will obey me, Zara. You have no choice." I looked at my Dad. I saw that he felt helpless. I looked at the ground before I glared again at Quintessa.

"Why do you want me so badly?" I asked as Quintessa smirked.

"I want you to help me destroy your planet called Earth."

-

"How long has she been out?" The person asked Cade grabbed a wrench. "For about a day now. She hasn't waken up, but she's still responsive. Is there anything you can do to help her, Raven?"

Raven, who now in her human years, is now 22 years old, held up her cell phone which was really a vital scanner and scanned her friend's body.

"What the hell has she been through?! I'm scanning multiple sparked wires, a damaged voice box, and her spark is chipped, but not by much." Raven said as Cade looked at Zara in confusion.

"What did happen to you, Lordes?" He asked as he looked over her horrific condition. Raven sighed before she dropped her bag.

"I'm going to try and tap into her mind." Raven said simply as Cade and Raquel exchanged a look.

"Are you sure about this?" Raquel asked as Cade nodded. "Do what you can. We need her."

Raven nodded before she placed her hand of Zara's servo and closed her eyes.