Along Came a Spider - Reverse

Summary: Elita did not fall that day on the Spider lair. Optimus did. See how things turned out from then on. TFA AU where Elita is Team Leader of the repair crew. Rated T cuz there will be no slash - or shouldn't be - in this one.

Rating: T for a bit of violence but nothing too much

A/N: Okay, this idea came to me me after I read a comic of a reverse situation of Elita-Optimus in TFA. Where Optimus becomes the spiderbot and Elita team of the repair crew. Only Sentinel stays the same asshole we all know and love to hate XD So here is goes, I hope you enjoy. It will be a short story, but I'm sure of it'll be a oneshot just yet...

I wish it was me instead of you...

"OPTIMUS! NOOOO!"

Elita screamed when she saw that Optimus's grappling line had been severed by a falling sharp rock and that her friend was falling back into the pit below, soon to disappear into the fire and mass of spiders waiting below. She pulled herself up to the ledge and then looked down into the hole just in time to see Optimus disappear into the flaming pit below.

"Elita!" Came Sentinel's voice behind her and she turned in time to see him run to her. "Where's Optimus?! We must go find him!"

She restrained him as he was about to jump into the pit below. It pained her to the very spark to have to say those next words.

"No, Sentinel we can't! The energon's going to blow up! We must run! Now!"

She forcefully had to pull him along as he was shouting for Optimus and trying his hardest to go back and save him. They stopped far enough from the blast range not to get vaporized when the energon did explode, causing a tremendously powerful blast and a shockwave that sent the both of them flying backwards. Sentinel was the first back on his pedes and he looked with such a terrible agony shading his optics at where his best friend had most likely been killed. He then turned on the small femmebot and harshly pinned her to the rock wall behind them.

"Optimus! OPTIMUS! He's not deactivated! he can't be! Elita, look for a life signal!"

Elita took a scanner out of subspace to try and locate a Cybertronian life-force below ground. She begged the machine to give a sign, anything to let her know her friend wasn't dead. She tried several times, setting the controls more and more precisely, but after half a groon, she had to admit defeat. She lowered the scanner and her head at the same time, optics dimming in saddened realisation.

There was no life-signal to find.

Optimus was deactivated.

"This is ALL YOUR FAULT!"

She gasped when she was pinned to the rock wall behind her hard enough to dent her plating, and stared up into Sentinel's contorted faceplates. She forced herself not to look away. The look in his optics said that he was putting a huge effort into not tearing her head off right now. She saw only pain and the weight of a terrible realization, the same as hers just moments ago. She tried to placate him, calm him down somehow.

"Sentinel please! There was nothing-..." She started, but she was cut by the larger mech, clearly angered and pained beyond listening to reason.

"NO! Save it Elita! You didn't do nearly ENOUGH to save Optimus!" He let go of her and if he saw the deep dent his powerful grip left in her collar armor, he showed no concern for it. He was shaking with rage. "I'll make sure you're thrown out of the Academy if it's the last thing I do for this!"

He stomped away towards the ship and Elita's spark sank, she knew that Sentinel and Optimus were very close, like brothers, and that his loss must be even more painful for him that it was for her. She let her shoulders slump and follow him in silence. A few moments later, their ship blasted into the atmosphere and disappeared into space.