THE WILL OF PRIMUS

I dodge a energon blast from the Vehicons we're fighting. I shoot one with my Plasma cannon then sliced another one in half with my Energon Axe, the majority of the Cons were focused on me while the others fought Breakdown and Knockout.

Optimus: Autobots, stand your ground. The artifact must not fall into enemy hands.

I transform my right hand into my Impact shotgun and shot a couple of Vehicons away from Arcee as she made a run for the cylinder, only to get tackled by Knockout.

Knockout: Come to papa.

He then got punched by Bulkhead.

Bulkhead: Run to mommy.

I throw a Vehicon at Knockout then returned to helping Optimus and Bumblebee. Bulkhead then got grabbed by Breakdown.

Breakdown: Say Uncle. Say it!

I quickly shoot him and freed Bulkhead but he lost his balance and fell right into the path of a beam that got ejected from the cylinder. Knockout grabs the cylinder and retreated with Breakdown and with what was left of the Vehicons.

Optimus: Bulkhead, are you... ?

Bulkhead: I'm fine. Didn't even hurt.

I send Bulkhead back to base with Bumblebee and Arcee while Optimus and I stayed behind to look for the cylinder. I transform into my Predacon form and began sniffing around trying to find a scent but there wasn't, I look at Optimus and shook my head. Optimus calls for a ground bridge while I grabbed a Vehicon body to eat later. The ground bridge appears and we head back to base.

Ratchet was scanning Bulkhead's mind when we got back and beckoned us over.

Ratchet: This hotspot you see here? It's information. Data. Living energy.

Miko: Hold on, it's alive, it's on fire and it's in Bulkhead's brain?

Bulkhead: Chill Miko. The data's only inhabiting a fraction of my brain. Infinitesimal by standard neural net densities.

Arcee: It's going to be hard to get use to hearing Bulkhead speak like that.

Optimus: Based on what we witnessed during our skirmish, the living data must have been programmed to eject when it sensed unauthorized access.

Titus: A security measure. Many cylinders with the same security measure can be found in the Iacon Hall of Records and the Primal hive on Cybertron.

Arcee: Primal hive?

Titus: It's like the Hall of Records except it holds all passed down and written knowledge of the Predacons.

Optimus: If the beam was pointed upwards, it would have been lost to the stars.

Bulkhead: Except my fat engine block got in the way.

Arcee: Every Con there made a grab for it, but the cylinder doesn't go off until Miko touches it?

Titus: The cylinders were designed by Prima and Alpha Trion during the golden age. They were programmed to only give access to a Prime or me and my knights but since I couldn't get near it during the battle, I was unable to get access to it.

I look at the monitors and looked over the information that was in Bulkhead's mind.

Titus: This isn't just any type of information, it's a formula.

Ratchet: To what?

Titus: To a new type of Energon

Everyone cheered at this discovery.

Bulkhead: Miko do you know what this means?

Miko: Um.

Bulkhead: Energon provides our fuel, our ammo, our life force. With the natural stuff on such short supply here on Earth, this could solve a whole lotta problems.

Optimus: Such as providing us with the edge we need to turn the tide of this war.

Ratchet: Or hand us the key to revitalizing Cybertron.

Before anything else could've been said, an alarm goes off. Ratchet checks the monitors and found three Decepticon signatures.

Titus: I shall handle this. I advise you keep Bulkhead here until I return, I have a way to transfer the formula.

I walk through the ground bridge and was met with immediate blaster fire. I quickly take cover and got my machine gun out.

???: It seems like those decoys worked.

I peek my head out a little and saw that I was being attacked by M.E.C.H, I get out of cover and fired at them. I was against killing humans but M.E.C.H was anything but human. I killed a few of the soldiers while I let the rest run away.

Titus: False alarm it was just M.E.C.H.

Ratchet: Well now I can send you to Bulkhead's location. He somehow got out of the base.

The ground bridge appears and I run through. Once I make it to the other side I saw Knockout and he was about to cut Bulkhead's head off, I transform into my Predacon form and tackle knockout away from Bulkhead. I walk up to Bulkhead and used my systems to write a code then transferred into Bulkhead's mind.

A beam of light shot out of Bulkheads optics into mine, once the beam disappeared I scanned my mind to see the formula for synthetic Energon. The others soon arrive and helped me take Bulkhead back to base.

Ratchet: The data has been fully expelled

I take my last bite of the Vehicon I was eating then walked over to the monitors. I connect my mind with the monitors and showed the formula to the others.

Ratchet: Or maybe not.

Arcee: Titus did say he had a way to transfer the formula. So he must have transferred it into his mind when he was with Bulkhead.

(Time Skip)

I sigh as the others returned from their mission, they had some injuries but nothing too bad.

Titus: Ratchet how much energon do we have left?

Ratchet: Enough to last us a week, if we don't burn through it all.

Titus: Optimus I'm afraid that I must put everyone under lockdown until Ratchet and I have completed the synthetic Energon.

Optimus: That seems like a wise decision. Autobots, Titus will be in command until we can once again head into battle.

The others nod and went off to relax with the kids.