When All Lights Go Out I (TFP)

In Azura's Dream

Azura remained fixated one what she was seeing. The image that faded in was an image of a large planet. This planet looked very different from Earth. It appeared to be made of some kind of metal, and it seemed to be very bright and healthy. The image changes and showed a close up of the planet. She saw the cities of this planet and thousands of Cybertronians going about their business. She realized she was seeing Cybertron as it used to be before the devastation of the war. It actually was interesting. Azura has never seen the world before, so seeing Cybertron as a safe place to live was interesting to her.

However, that image did not remain very long. It changed to show the very same city, but it was burning with black smoke and bright, orange fire. Azura watched as she saw decepticons plundering the city. They were shooting at fleeing civilians who were unarmed, taking cover behind autobots who were protecting them. She heard the sound of a laughter that made her shudder. A large decpeticon with silver armor and bright, red optics marched with his canon raised, firing mercilessly at the autobots in front of him.

"Show no mercy, decepticons!" The con ordered loudly, his voice echoed between the smouldering buildings. His cold voice made Azura nervous just to hear it. "Leave none alive!"

"You heard, Lord Megatron!" She flinched hearing Starscream's voice. She saw his jet flying above with dozens of other decepticon fighters flying behind him. "Fire upon the autobots, my armada! Destroy them!"

She whimpered as she did not wish to see any more of the war. She hated watching the autobots go down, and the bots who were defenseless fell from fleeing. It was horrible watching their energon stain the ground and the laughter of Megatron. She could see the devastation, and why Optimus would need to destroy him. If Megatron had no problem destroyed those who were defenseless, he would certainly come after this planet.

As she was thinking that, the image changed, much to her relief. But she was not relieved for long as she saw Megatron again in what looked like a lab. A large con was working on something, and he only had one optic and no face. He seemed like a cyclops, and yet, there was something about him that screamed danger. She hoped she would never meet this decepticon because his large, bulky body and canon was something she already hated.

"Shockwave, I am intrigued in whatever it is you are designing," Megatron spoke to the decepticon with his arms behind his back. "It looks like a pulse emitter of some sort. It this something that is going to be beneficial to us?"

"I do not know if it will be logically beneficial long term," The cyclops responded in a cold, calm manner. "But it may provide an interesting experiment for us." Megatron raised an eyebrow at the con's response, but he said nothing as Shockwave continued to speak. "I have been able to successfully create a piece of technology that can launch a burst of energy, creating parasitic, habloid sparks within bots and cons."

"Habloid sparks?" Megatron sounded utterly surprised by the answer he had received from Shockwave. "How would this be of beneficial to us? It seems illogical to me. But do tell me what the parasitic part of these habloid sparks are meant to do. I would be interested to know if femmes can be affected too."

"The simple answer is, these habloid sparks will not be able to be sustained, even within a mech or femme with a gestational chamber," Shockwave explained, turning his eye to look at Megatron. "The habloid sparks will be created against the spark chamber, and the sparks will be in self destruct mode, which is detrimental, even in a normal case of self destruct." He turned back and pressed buttons on the console in front of him to bring up an image to explain. "Self destruct normally does not affect the carrier intensely, but these habloid sparks will. They will have enough self destruct material and poison to flood the system of any autobot or decepticon, causing a rapid shutdown."