Driven to Murder

The Key to Saving Prime

I was out on the streets on my motorbike, the buildings I pass would either be in flames or in ruins. Seeing all this destruction and hearing faint screams made my eyes water, but I would blink the tears away quickly. I turned a corner and a rather large, hand came crashing down, knocking me off my motorbike. I slid till I hit concrete at full force. I gave a cry of pain when I hit the concrete.

A shadowy figure lingered over my body, my eyes blurry. I shook my head and blinks multiple times to help me focus. When I did, I saw two feral, blood red eyes staring me down. I ripped off my helmet's face shield, to get a better look at who those red beady eyes belonged to.

"Well well well, isn't this a nice surprise?" It- I mean he said.

"Optimus? What the hell are you doing?!" I quickly got to my feet.

"Your little weapons will do nothing to me, Crystal." Optimus growled.

My eyes widened, but then returned to normal as I faced him with determination. I know I have a chance to end this and hopefully bring back the one I once loved. I whipped out my twin pistols and ignore what he said about my weapons.

"Your gonna shoot me?!" His face contorted into a sinister grin.

What happened next surprised me.

Out of nowhere Ratchet comes swinging in and punches Optimus in the face, creating a distraction so I can shoot Optimus in the head.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

All you heard were three shots fired, and the sound of burning flames all around. Optimus tensed up, his scorching blood red eyes went wide and then they flickered there once beautiful, electric blue ones.

"Thank.... You Crysss- taall...." His voice fizzled and cracked with the darker voice and his original, kind voice.

Ratchet looked at me, his eyes filled with sorrow. We both knew he had to be killed, and I knew he would have wanted the same. All those years he was fighting the demon within him, who had caused all this destruction. I honestly thought I was going to have to put up a fight.

"Crystal..." Behind me I heard Arcee call my name.

"Yeah, I know I killed him. I had to and maybe he wanted the same." I said looking back at Arcee.

Then Arcee pointed at what Ratchet was doing. I looked at Ratchet and I saw him using his scanner, it beeped like a heartbeat. I stared at Ratchet and he nodded at me saying it was safe for me to walk over to Optimus.

"Those three bullet shots caused him to go into stasis lock. Optimus is still alive, but I am just not sure when he will wake up or even if he will return to normal when he does wake up." Ratchet said.

"I-I didn't kill him?" I said, starting to come down from my adrenaline rush that lead to me shooting Optimus in the head three times.

"No you forced him into Stasis lock. Maybe he will stay in it long enough for Jasper to recover from the restless murders and destruction he had caused over the past seven months." Ratchet said.

"I wished we knew why boss bot did all this?" Bulkhead said.

"We all wish we knew why Optimus caused this." Arcee said.

"Maybe if we could use a Cortical Psychic Patch we could learn what happened to him." Megatron said, surprising all of us.

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"Are you sure we should do this? I mean what if we wake him through it and he attacks one of you." I said as I stepped back, not wanting to get caught in Optimus' deadly hands and die.

"None of us are doing it Crystal. It is you who is going to enter his mind." Ratchet said.

I stared at the unconscious form that is Optimus, or well what resembles him. I unconsciously touched the little pin on my pants buckle. Then I picked it off. I brought it up to my face. Ratchet noticed this and quickly saw the pin that he made for me, was in my hands.

"That pin, I specifically made for you. I made it when you and Optimus were still together. Now you can use it to safely travel through the Cortical Psychic Patch as if you were one of us." Ratchet explained.

"You hold the key to possibly saving Prime, Crystal." Knockout added.