Rise | Transformers Prime fanfic

Chapter 59

"You just had to show off, didn't you?"

"Of course I did, Decepticons love to be the center of attention. Have you met Megatron?" Amal told the black haired boy as they walked down the hallway to the lab that Ratchet told them to come to if they needed him. "Facts." Miko said nonchalantly as they approached the room.

Amal wiped the sweat off her forehead while Jack opened the door, allowing the others to enter before he followed. "Ratchy, what's up my man?" Amal asked as they rounded the corner, only to stop and give a confused look.
"Whoa." Miko said as they stared into the room.

At a lab table, Megatron's holoform sat, with a helmet type thing on the back of his head, his eyes glowing purple, staring straight ahead, not acknowledging anything around him.

"What're you doing to him?" Amal asked as she quickly went toward him. She was suddenly stopped by the second in command that she hadn't seen until he got off the wall to get into front of her. "Amalgamous, it's alright. Megatron asked for this." Starscream told her as gently as possible.

"Do what? What's happening?" She asked, pushing past the seeker, approaching Megatron and examining the helmet that connected to a tube and ran to Ratchet's computer he stood at.

"Megatron came to us with a feeling of disturbance in him, from the Dark Energon lurking in his veins." Ratchet told Amal. "And he didn't tell me?" Amal said quietly while looking at Starscream. "He asked for it to be kept quiet, and even then he only had told us but a few hours ago." The seeker told her while looking at the warlord on the table.

Amal looked at him again and waved a hand in front of his face, but he didn't react. Ratchet seemed to know what she wanted to ask as he opened his mouth. "He is in a sleep mode while we try to figure out what is stirring in the Dark Energon running through him."

"What else did he say?"

Optimus approached next to Amal, looking at his long time enemy before telling the humans what he was told by the warlord. "Megatron believes that the sudden feeling from the Dark Energon within him is caused by none other then Unicron himself."

The humans paled. "You can't be serious?" Amal asked with shaking hands as she stepped back. "That is what Megatron told us." Optimus said simply. "And why does he think that?" Miko asked as the humans walked up next to the table.

Optimus's holoform breathed out and he looked at the warlord and saw a glimpse of his long lost brother before opening his mouth. "Megatron told us of visions he had been having, of many unnatural things happening on the Earth, with Dark Energon pouring out of different places. And a voice spoke to him. Not of Unicron, but of something else." Optimus explained as he looked at the humans.

"And what did it say?" Amal asked with raised eyebrows. For the first time since Amal had met Optimus, she saw the Prime look genuinely concerned and confused. She knew Optimus wasn't emotionless, but she also knew that in order to lead, you had to push back lots of emotions in order to make order. And when emotions started to show from someone like Optimus, a Prime, then you know it was back.

The Prime swallowed hard. "At first, he couldn't clearly hear the message when the voice first started, but he did hear the last bit." He told them while watching a Ratchet type on his computer before glancing back at the humans listening closely.

"'And a darkness shall rise, along with a leader, and they shall bring peace to the rage of many eons.'"

The humans stared for a moment before Amal scoffed. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?" The Autobots shook their heads. "We don't know." Arcee said as she walked up next to Megatron and crossed her arms. Her and Starscream briefly looked at each other before averting their gaze quickly, hoping no one saw.

"Well I don't know about you guys, but we need to get Megatron unhooked and start talking to the humans, I have an idea when I was—"

As Amal suddenly touched Megatron, a sudden shock went through her body, and her eyes flashed blue for a second while her body paled and stiffened. "Amal!" Optimus called out as she stood there for a second before her muscles visually relaxed and she collapsed onto the ground.

"Somebody call a medic!"