When All Lights Go Out I (TFP)

Chapter 34

While she was recharging, Optimus carefully bathed her, dried her and clothed her in pyjamas. When it came time to place her inside his chassis, he did hesitate at first. Mostly because of the memories coming back to him. But he eventually opened his chassis, kissed her cheek and placed her inside. It was a surreal feeling for Optimus and he was happy to be carrying her within him, and he hoped she would have a restful sleep. But he would learn that hope would be vanquished soon enough.

Azura's Dream

Azura gasped as she opened her eyes. The air was heavy with metal, smoke and sulphur, the ground was hot to her feet and she saw she was on Earth this time. Before, she had been in some dark, abandoned temple. But this looked like Earth. There were deep cracks in the Earth, spewing with dark energon, something Azura thought was strange. She heard explosions in the distance and looked up, seeing fighter jets flying around, firing upon decepticons who were fighting them.

She didn't know if this was Jasper or somewhere else, but this was terrifying. She looked at her hands and saw she had human hands, before concentrating to try and transform. She needed to fly and see what the cause of devastation was, and why there was dark energon rising from the crust. But she couldn't. In fact, she tried using her abilities to create a cluster of rain clouds to bring down a shower to put out the fires around her.

"Azura!" She turned as she heard Optimus's voice. "Get out of here!" She looked around in a panic as she could not see him. "I am sorry."

She swallowed nervously and she didn't know why she was hearing this. But she ran towards the direction of Optimus's voice. She wanted to find him, and hope that was he was okay. She ran between burnt trees that were falling to pieces and many were still smouldering with heat and fire, but she ignored them. She needed to find what was happening right now. And it was really scaring her at the moment.

She screamed as the ground began to shake, making her skid to a stop and stumble back onto a boulder. The ground before her was splitting and she managed to run behind the boulder to try and hide from it. She assumed it was just an earthquake, but a shadow fell over her and she watched it grow, with a glow of purple looking down at her. She shivered as she knew what that light was, and she did not wish to look at it.

"Child of the one who banished me from my quest of chaos, you shall find punishment for what was done to me by her and the Primes of old," The deep, menacing voice spoke to Azura, making her shiver in fear. "Come and face me just as she did! Or are you too cowardly?!"

Azura didn't know how to respond. She was terrified. She yelped and ran as the boulders exploded suddenly, and she tried to get away. She glanced behind her to see a massive being. She didn't why she kept seeing him. He was completely dark with purple, glowing eyes. He terrified her, and she didn't know who he was. She only knew that he was evil, and she had to get away from him, or try to.

She yelped as she tripped over a branch and rolled forward down the hill. She shrieked as she tumbled down as there were so many sharp rocks that she was hitting, making her grimace from pain. Once she reached the bottom, she groaned and looked over herself to see she was unharmed, but as she looked up, she was met by a horrific sight. She hasn't had anything this bad until now.

Before here were the bodies of the autobots. Ratchet, Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Arcee, they were lifeless with their chests destroyed and energon leaking from their bodies. She was horrified, and tears fill her eyes. She ran over to Ratchet. His optics were dark and his body was cold. She whimpered softly and looked around, wishing she had not seen this.

She jumped as Optimus was suddenly through into a group of boulders, and she gasped when she saw his severely injured body. He was struggling to stand, by he was not going to give up until the end. However, his optics spot her and they widen just as she saw a large, silver mech run at Optimus. She screamed as their mech thrusts his sword into Optimus's chest while he was distracted and Optimus groaned loudly, punching at the enemy to try and get him away.