Who Guards the Guardians? (TFP/Bayverse crossover)

One Will Rise

[Rachel POV]

No.... No, it's not real.... He can't be... I never... I couldn't... I didn't...

I never told him....

I feel something inside me stir, and a voice speaks to me, pulling me into my mindscape. I open my eyes slowly, my vision blurred from the river of tears running from each one. "Rachel.... You did what you could...." Onyx Prime stands before me, and my wings droop. "That.... isn't what I wished to hear your say..." The Prime nods his head, and he gazes around. "I apologize.... And I do not believe Primus will be able to save him either.... I am sorry, Rachel..." 

I take in a deep breath, trying to control myself, but the grief was slowly changing to anger. "Don't worry... I will not let his life go to waste...." I feel Jazz and Broadwing both begin to fully merge with me. I knew now that there was nothing I could do so safe him...

But I could avenge him.

When I open my eyes again, I find myself still laying on Optimus' lifeless chest, as if time had stopped. Slowly I stand, and I can feel optics boring into my back. Heat was welling up in my chest, and I feel the mechanical parts inside of me moving. Jazz grunts, and I hiss in pain. 

'This... feels weird....'

'I... do not know what is happening....'

'I do....'

Neither speak, but I turn around and face those before me. My face is glistening with tears, and my hands stained with the energon of the one I had come to love. I find the eyes of that man, Silas, but I don't linger on him long. He would be an easy target. 

I raise my eyes to the true target. 

Megatron.

His violet gaze was locked with my own, and I narrow my eyes. I could feel the cybertronian pieces inside me moving, merging, shifting beneath my skin. The humans gasp around me, and a few drop their weapons in shock as they gaze at me, but my gaze doesn't leave Megatrons.

"You.... You took everything from me.... You will not get away with this...." He smirks, raising his blade to point it at me. "And what, pray tell, do you plan to do about it?" I can feel something sparking off me, but I ignore it. I know what's about to happen, and I lift my hand to touch the com on my ear.

"Rachel! What's happened?! We lost Optimus' sign-"

"He's gone, Ratchet...."

Silence is what I'm met with. I hear a gasp, and a sob, but I speak again.

"Send everyone in fifteen seconds, Ratchet. I will not let his death be in vain... I refuse."

I shut off the com before he can reply. I couldn't bare to hear the cries on the other end from Miko. My spark was still hurting, and I needed it to hold on a bit longer. 

Because this was really going to hurt.

"Well?" Megatron says, mocking me. I give him a deadpan look, no emotion on my face. However, one tear escapes my eye, and I slightly shift one foot back. I raise my wings and lift my tail. The end of it grazes Optimus' faceplates, and I feel the ache in my chest grow. I use that to fuel the rage I felt. He murdered him..... 

An eye for an eye....

"A spark... for a spark!" I shout before launching myself forward. Megatron swiftly sheathes his blade and powers up his canon. It fires and the blast comes at me so fast that I have no time to react. The shot collides with me head on, and I feel it burn away my skin, and I release a roar of pain. I feel my flesh sizzle and melt away, but as it does so...