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When it was all said and done, there was silence.
The room echoed with the loud thunderous sound of four air ventilation systems elevated to their cacophonous state by the cold looming presence of… something.
It couldn’t remain quiet forever and even then, it all rested on one.
Sari was the important one here.
Her choice now meant everything.
She looked horrified, she looked torn, she looked ruined.
“You still…” She uttered, “It was still you… you…”
Galvatron could see it in her eyes, she wanted to be furious, there was still a burning rage that wanted to be vented, but a wet sadness also threatened to smother her face.
She looked tired.
“It’s never easy is it? It’s never FUCKING easy” She shrieked, “It can’t just be black and white this once, everything’s gone to shit and I CAN’T be thrown ONE DAMN BONE and be given a easy time… A easy choice…” Her small hands were rubbing at her face as she began pacing around in circles.
“I’m sorry” Galvatron said.
“No! No, you shut up! And stop apologising!” She hissed.
“No” Galvatron snapped back without hesitation making Sari stop to glare at him, “I… I mean… I know it’s my fault… I… I should be sorry… I caused this… And I don’t know how to fix it…”
“Fix… it? … FIX IT!? You think you can just fix the death of millions!?”
“No, I…”
“The death of my father!”
“No! I…”
“The death of my friends!”
“No…”
“The destruction of my home!”
“No…”
“Then what!? What are you even thinking!?”
“I… don’t know…” Galvatrons voice had increased in pitch and he began to feel himself crumple, he pulled his knees up and drew his hands to his helm, clutching it tightly as he squeezed his optics shut, “I don’t know anymore”
“Yeah, well, you and me bloody both, eh?” She glared at him, raising up in the air to be closer and glare more directly at him fire in her tiny optics, she had played his memory circuits like a home movie and hated what she saw.
It left them both in silence again.
What was there to say?
It wasn’t like they’d particularly interacted before all this mess began.
Before… he started it.
“Is… is it okay?” Galvatron whispered quietly.
“Look around you!” Sari snapped, arms outstretched and she spun in the air as if showing off the mess around them, “do you think anyone is okay in this wasteland!?”
“No… I mean… Should we have left…. left him?” Galvatron almost couldn’t hear his own voice.
“I…” Sari faltered.
“There isn’t anyone out there who’d accept us like he would is there?” Resignation prickled through his spark.
“No…” It was Sari’s turn to whisper now she had seen everything, from their view and hers.
“Ah… He’s right… we are… our place is with him”
“No it isn’t!” Sari reflexively snapped she couldn’t tell if it was in response to hearing such defeatist talk or being able to vividly hear through his memories of a terrible voice speaking in such callous disdain.
“Just… I don’t know…” Galvatron uttered, struggling with his vocaliser and lip plates practically trying to escape his helm, “Take them instead”
“What?” Sari squinted at him, as the only other awake person here it was clear he was going to get the brunt of whatever she decided to dish out.
Galvatron was more than willing to accept it.
“It was me, I made a deal with that thing… they didn’t” He gestured to the two unconscious forms beside them, “Do what you want to me, just please accept them, take them, do whatever, just don’t let them suffer for what I did, what I caused, they could earn a place that’s not at his side…”
Sari’s expression didn’t change, her demeanour instead seemed… angry.
“What? Are you for real? Do you expect me to fall over myself for you because of that? That I’ll bend over myself to forgive you like nothing happened as you wallow in stupid self-pity?”
“No,” Galvatron snapped, a tiny prickle of anger… no panic… no… something rising in his Spark “I think I made the point clear I don’t want you to ‘fall over yourself’ for me, but for them, I told you, do what you want to me bad or good, I don’t care! I don’t want your sympathy or anything! I just… I… My responsibility…” Nope, whatever that feeling was it vanished once more.
Sari turned away from him and let out a long puff of air from her fleshy nasal unit as she stepped down onto the ground once more.
“What are you expecting of me then? What do you think I should do, Mister ‘I want to fix it’, I’ve watched almost all the people I cared about die horribly, I’ve seen one home get hoovered up like a wayward crumb on a carpet and another become choked by war… And now I’ve come to find that the ones who were a part of all this, were nothing more than puppets, lead along and… and… screwed about by the real monster behind all this. A bunch of bad bots who should’ve been punished for things they’ve done but instead… dealt with that”
“And that’s…” Galvatron’s optics sunk to the floor, she was absolutely right, about everything. Seemed more and more that that was the case, he was wrong far far more than he cared to admit, but there was an idea in itself, “And that’s what I don’t know, we hardly know anything outside what ‘he’ made us do… teach us”
“WHAT!?” Sari spun back to face him.
“Teach us!” Galvatron shuffled onto his knees and bowed to her once more, forehelm touching the floor and servos clasped together, “Will you teach us? We… We will be yours to command! Guide us! Help us help you! We don’t want to be this anymore! Believe it or not but our intention was not to slaughter our own world! It was… It was…”
“He made it feel good… didn’t he?… Like a daze hardly aware of what you were doing…” Sari ‘finished’ his line, “Too caught up in a whirlwind of… of pain and artificial pleasure…”
“Y… yes…” Despite having his face pressed to the floor Galvatron somehow managed to get his optics to sink lower.
Sari breathed deep, rubbing her eyes, shoulders bunched up in frustration yet sagging with defeat.
“Why aren’t they like you?” She finally asked.
“W-what?”
“If I’m to teach you or do anything with you, tell me what their deal is” She gestured at the two beds.
Galvatron leant up and looked over Scourge and Cyclonus once more. He’d seen the straps binding them, yet somehow never thought of asking about them.
“Why… are they strapped down?”
“Because they attacked me” Sari closed the distance a little “They woke up and were immediately out to fight, but I can’t get answers from dead things, so I knocked them out and tied them down. They didn’t even say a word, something I noticed when you were fighting them too, not a peep. Why aren’t they like you? Why are you different?”
Sat back on his haunches Galvatron rubbed his chin then his head.
“The only… This all… oh… OH… This all started when I got that jolt of energy from the AllSpark!” He snapped his fingers.
“The AllSpark? How’d you get to that!?”
“That guy whose, uh, currently leading the Autobots, I don’t know their name, but he had it around his neck!” Galvatron pulled his legs out from under him and sat cross-legged, gesturing vaguely with his hands, “I hit it then I blacked out! It’s energy counteracted ‘his’ and I was cut loose! It took a while to completely cut him out of my processor but I can definitely… yeah! That’s what caused this!”
Sari looked to the floor, thinking, pondering. She didn’t know the name of the bot who lead the Autobots now either. She had left them for a nomadic lifestyle away from either side a long time ago, it had just gotten too much.
Of course she still kept contact with what was left of her friends, but that was about it.
“So… I can help them” She eventually responded.
“Y… you can? Oh! Does… does this mean… you’ll do it? You’ll help us? Be our leader? Teach us?” Galvatron clasped his hands together, trying to hide the smile, hide his joyous anticipation. It was hard, so hard, this might just be the first good news… ever, the excitement threatened to tear and rip open his spark with the utmost ferocity.
“I’m still connected to the AllSparks energy, it’s weak, but I could banish this demon from their minds… But it may well be the last time I can use any power from it” She looked pensive, nervous. Debating if her last use of the AllSpark-energy within her should be risked upon these miscreants.
“T…take a chance?” Galvatron uttered as if sensing her internal debate over using her power and the potential outcome.
Sari rubbed her face again, pulling her features about, trying to hide the tired tiny upwards curl at the side of her mouth.
“Wow… That was so pathetic I might just do it”
“But I shouldn’t get my hopes up, right?” Galvatron sunk away a little, he was pathetic, useless, nobody to accept him, no one but…
“I’ll try” Words snapped him from beginning his negative spiral.
“W-what?”
“I said I’ll try. If you guys do turn out to be an utter waste I can just reabsorb the energy back from them! And maybe charge myself up a bit and take what AllSpark energy went into you!” She threatened, “So don’t think you’re getting off for anything!”
“Wouldn’t dream of it!” Galvatron found himself brimming with energy, it made him shake uncontrollably, what were these feelings?
Happiness, excitement… hope.
He liked these…
Galvatron never wanted them to end! Even if the force of these new emotions bubbling through him refused to let him stay still making him trip and stumble as he attempted the simple action of standing up.
“Get in the corner” Sari ordered, pretending she wasn’t gaining some sort of amusement from watching such a big previously-intimidating form wobble excitedly like a newborn fawn.
She didn’t strictly have sleeves to roll up anymore, but the action of rubbing her arms in a similar motion still felt good, felt ‘preparatory’ she still shuffled nervously, shaking her arms and legs, hopping from foot to foot, exhaling sharply multiple times.
Was she really going to do this?
She COULD just take her energy back from them, right?
Did she even have enough left to free them?
Did she even want to? Should she be taking pity on them?
They had done bad things and been mean, but they were brutally tortured… she felt like she’d seen something similar to this before, echoes of yellow chasing green and swapping helms, a spider and a truck one always trying to chase the other to bring them back…
They’d been mean too, then got tortured and…
Raising into the air Sari hovered a good distance above the berths.
No, she was doing the right thing.
Her friends would understand if they were looking down on her.
The familiar, yet distant, thrum of the AllSparks energy flowed through her, the room almost fading to black in comparison to the bright light that began emanating from her, her body engulfed in a crackling sphere of blue light. Her hands splayed out, each in the direction of a berth smaller spheres of light broke off from her body, travelling to her palms and building up in size and strength.
She was taking a chance on these weirdos just like her friends had taken chances on others before, it wasn’t a bad thing to do.
It was the right choice, it had to be.
Energy arced in wild streaks and patterns, like a wild untamable storm raging through one small room. With only minimal directing the beams pierced the chest plates of the two unconscious forms and rushed through their systems.
The binds around them snapped and their bodies lifted into the air as if coming forth to meet and greet the energy that came to them.
There was nothing wrong with at least trying to extend a hand of peace and friendship, even to those who had been bad.
“Amusing”
Sari flinched.
She hadn’t heard the voices belonging to the two below her, but in an instant she could tell who’s that was.
She could feel a dark tingle brushing around the edge of her power, through them, the malicious energy of that planet-eating ghoul clawing at her cleansing attempts like spiteful animals as they backed away from the light.
“Take them.” It sighed like a know-it-all parent watching their child do something stupid, “They’re useless. They know I’m all they have. They’ll crawl back no matter what you do.”
It was gone. In an instant.
All gone.
He dropped them and without his essence plaguing their systems her energy gave one last powerful pulse throughout her, and them, like Unicron had been containing it and without him it rushed forth uncontrollably like wisps of serpentine smoke and light being purged, tinged green energy fading out as a purer blue energy took over.
Sari could only gasp in surprise as she shut away her energy and dropped to the floor, disorientated and woozy, she struggled on the ground before managing to seat herself upon it.
“Sari? Sari!?” Galvatron’s voice sounded muffled as her sensors buzzed and hummed, trying to reboot themselves, but she could see his hands twitching and hovering around her as if wanting to reach out and touch her, to check if she was alright but unable to bring themselves to do it.
Sari waved her arm, signalling she was fine and his hands promptly pulled back and his fussing ceased.
Useless? He’s all they have?
Well, now she had made up her mind, she was going to help them. To spite that bastard at the very least.
When it was all said and done, there was silence.
The room echoed with the loud thunderous sound of four air ventilation systems elevated to their cacophonous state by the cold looming presence of… something.
It couldn’t remain quiet forever and even then, it all rested on one.
Sari was the important one here.
Her choice now meant everything.
She looked horrified, she looked torn, she looked ruined.
“You still…” She uttered, “It was still you… you…”
Galvatron could see it in her eyes, she wanted to be furious, there was still a burning rage that wanted to be vented, but a wet sadness also threatened to smother her face.
She looked tired.
“It’s never easy is it? It’s never FUCKING easy” She shrieked, “It can’t just be black and white this once, everything’s gone to shit and I CAN’T be thrown ONE DAMN BONE and be given a easy time… A easy choice…” Her small hands were rubbing at her face as she began pacing around in circles.
“I’m sorry” Galvatron said.
“No! No, you shut up! And stop apologising!” She hissed.
“No” Galvatron snapped back without hesitation making Sari stop to glare at him, “I… I mean… I know it’s my fault… I… I should be sorry… I caused this… And I don’t know how to fix it…”
“Fix… it? … FIX IT!? You think you can just fix the death of millions!?”
“No, I…”
“The death of my father!”
“No! I…”
“The death of my friends!”
“No…”
“The destruction of my home!”
“No…”
“Then what!? What are you even thinking!?”
“I… don’t know…” Galvatrons voice had increased in pitch and he began to feel himself crumple, he pulled his knees up and drew his hands to his helm, clutching it tightly as he squeezed his optics shut, “I don’t know anymore”
“Yeah, well, you and me bloody both, eh?” She glared at him, raising up in the air to be closer and glare more directly at him fire in her tiny optics, she had played his memory circuits like a home movie and hated what she saw.
It left them both in silence again.
What was there to say?
It wasn’t like they’d particularly interacted before all this mess began.
Before… he started it.
“Is… is it okay?” Galvatron whispered quietly.
“Look around you!” Sari snapped, arms outstretched and she spun in the air as if showing off the mess around them, “do you think anyone is okay in this wasteland!?”
“No… I mean… Should we have left…. left him?” Galvatron almost couldn’t hear his own voice.
“I…” Sari faltered.
“There isn’t anyone out there who’d accept us like he would is there?” Resignation prickled through his spark.
“No…” It was Sari’s turn to whisper now she had seen everything, from their view and hers.
“Ah… He’s right… we are… our place is with him”
“No it isn’t!” Sari reflexively snapped she couldn’t tell if it was in response to hearing such defeatist talk or being able to vividly hear through his memories of a terrible voice speaking in such callous disdain.
“Just… I don’t know…” Galvatron uttered, struggling with his vocaliser and lip plates practically trying to escape his helm, “Take them instead”
“What?” Sari squinted at him, as the only other awake person here it was clear he was going to get the brunt of whatever she decided to dish out.
Galvatron was more than willing to accept it.
“It was me, I made a deal with that thing… they didn’t” He gestured to the two unconscious forms beside them, “Do what you want to me, just please accept them, take them, do whatever, just don’t let them suffer for what I did, what I caused, they could earn a place that’s not at his side…”
Sari’s expression didn’t change, her demeanour instead seemed… angry.
“What? Are you for real? Do you expect me to fall over myself for you because of that? That I’ll bend over myself to forgive you like nothing happened as you wallow in stupid self-pity?”
“No,” Galvatron snapped, a tiny prickle of anger… no panic… no… something rising in his Spark “I think I made the point clear I don’t want you to ‘fall over yourself’ for me, but for them, I told you, do what you want to me bad or good, I don’t care! I don’t want your sympathy or anything! I just… I… My responsibility…” Nope, whatever that feeling was it vanished once more.
Sari turned away from him and let out a long puff of air from her fleshy nasal unit as she stepped down onto the ground once more.
“What are you expecting of me then? What do you think I should do, Mister ‘I want to fix it’, I’ve watched almost all the people I cared about die horribly, I’ve seen one home get hoovered up like a wayward crumb on a carpet and another become choked by war… And now I’ve come to find that the ones who were a part of all this, were nothing more than puppets, lead along and… and… screwed about by the real monster behind all this. A bunch of bad bots who should’ve been punished for things they’ve done but instead… dealt with that”
“And that’s…” Galvatron’s optics sunk to the floor, she was absolutely right, about everything. Seemed more and more that that was the case, he was wrong far far more than he cared to admit, but there was an idea in itself, “And that’s what I don’t know, we hardly know anything outside what ‘he’ made us do… teach us”
“WHAT!?” Sari spun back to face him.
“Teach us!” Galvatron shuffled onto his knees and bowed to her once more, forehelm touching the floor and servos clasped together, “Will you teach us? We… We will be yours to command! Guide us! Help us help you! We don’t want to be this anymore! Believe it or not but our intention was not to slaughter our own world! It was… It was…”
“He made it feel good… didn’t he?… Like a daze hardly aware of what you were doing…” Sari ‘finished’ his line, “Too caught up in a whirlwind of… of pain and artificial pleasure…”
“Y… yes…” Despite having his face pressed to the floor Galvatron somehow managed to get his optics to sink lower.
Sari breathed deep, rubbing her eyes, shoulders bunched up in frustration yet sagging with defeat.
“Why aren’t they like you?” She finally asked.
“W-what?”
“If I’m to teach you or do anything with you, tell me what their deal is” She gestured at the two beds.
Galvatron leant up and looked over Scourge and Cyclonus once more. He’d seen the straps binding them, yet somehow never thought of asking about them.
“Why… are they strapped down?”
“Because they attacked me” Sari closed the distance a little “They woke up and were immediately out to fight, but I can’t get answers from dead things, so I knocked them out and tied them down. They didn’t even say a word, something I noticed when you were fighting them too, not a peep. Why aren’t they like you? Why are you different?”
Sat back on his haunches Galvatron rubbed his chin then his head.
“The only… This all… oh… OH… This all started when I got that jolt of energy from the AllSpark!” He snapped his fingers.
“The AllSpark? How’d you get to that!?”
“That guy whose, uh, currently leading the Autobots, I don’t know their name, but he had it around his neck!” Galvatron pulled his legs out from under him and sat cross-legged, gesturing vaguely with his hands, “I hit it then I blacked out! It’s energy counteracted ‘his’ and I was cut loose! It took a while to completely cut him out of my processor but I can definitely… yeah! That’s what caused this!”
Sari looked to the floor, thinking, pondering. She didn’t know the name of the bot who lead the Autobots now either. She had left them for a nomadic lifestyle away from either side a long time ago, it had just gotten too much.
Of course she still kept contact with what was left of her friends, but that was about it.
“So… I can help them” She eventually responded.
“Y… you can? Oh! Does… does this mean… you’ll do it? You’ll help us? Be our leader? Teach us?” Galvatron clasped his hands together, trying to hide the smile, hide his joyous anticipation. It was hard, so hard, this might just be the first good news… ever, the excitement threatened to tear and rip open his spark with the utmost ferocity.
“I’m still connected to the AllSparks energy, it’s weak, but I could banish this demon from their minds… But it may well be the last time I can use any power from it” She looked pensive, nervous. Debating if her last use of the AllSpark-energy within her should be risked upon these miscreants.
“T…take a chance?” Galvatron uttered as if sensing her internal debate over using her power and the potential outcome.
Sari rubbed her face again, pulling her features about, trying to hide the tired tiny upwards curl at the side of her mouth.
“Wow… That was so pathetic I might just do it”
“But I shouldn’t get my hopes up, right?” Galvatron sunk away a little, he was pathetic, useless, nobody to accept him, no one but…
“I’ll try” Words snapped him from beginning his negative spiral.
“W-what?”
“I said I’ll try. If you guys do turn out to be an utter waste I can just reabsorb the energy back from them! And maybe charge myself up a bit and take what AllSpark energy went into you!” She threatened, “So don’t think you’re getting off for anything!”
“Wouldn’t dream of it!” Galvatron found himself brimming with energy, it made him shake uncontrollably, what were these feelings?
Happiness, excitement… hope.
He liked these…
Galvatron never wanted them to end! Even if the force of these new emotions bubbling through him refused to let him stay still making him trip and stumble as he attempted the simple action of standing up.
“Get in the corner” Sari ordered, pretending she wasn’t gaining some sort of amusement from watching such a big previously-intimidating form wobble excitedly like a newborn fawn.
She didn’t strictly have sleeves to roll up anymore, but the action of rubbing her arms in a similar motion still felt good, felt ‘preparatory’ she still shuffled nervously, shaking her arms and legs, hopping from foot to foot, exhaling sharply multiple times.
Was she really going to do this?
She COULD just take her energy back from them, right?
Did she even have enough left to free them?
Did she even want to? Should she be taking pity on them?
They had done bad things and been mean, but they were brutally tortured… she felt like she’d seen something similar to this before, echoes of yellow chasing green and swapping helms, a spider and a truck one always trying to chase the other to bring them back…
They’d been mean too, then got tortured and…
Raising into the air Sari hovered a good distance above the berths.
No, she was doing the right thing.
Her friends would understand if they were looking down on her.
The familiar, yet distant, thrum of the AllSparks energy flowed through her, the room almost fading to black in comparison to the bright light that began emanating from her, her body engulfed in a crackling sphere of blue light. Her hands splayed out, each in the direction of a berth smaller spheres of light broke off from her body, travelling to her palms and building up in size and strength.
She was taking a chance on these weirdos just like her friends had taken chances on others before, it wasn’t a bad thing to do.
It was the right choice, it had to be.
Energy arced in wild streaks and patterns, like a wild untamable storm raging through one small room. With only minimal directing the beams pierced the chest plates of the two unconscious forms and rushed through their systems.
The binds around them snapped and their bodies lifted into the air as if coming forth to meet and greet the energy that came to them.
There was nothing wrong with at least trying to extend a hand of peace and friendship, even to those who had been bad.
“Amusing”
Sari flinched.
She hadn’t heard the voices belonging to the two below her, but in an instant she could tell who’s that was.
She could feel a dark tingle brushing around the edge of her power, through them, the malicious energy of that planet-eating ghoul clawing at her cleansing attempts like spiteful animals as they backed away from the light.
“Take them.” It sighed like a know-it-all parent watching their child do something stupid, “They’re useless. They know I’m all they have. They’ll crawl back no matter what you do.”
It was gone. In an instant.
All gone.
He dropped them and without his essence plaguing their systems her energy gave one last powerful pulse throughout her, and them, like Unicron had been containing it and without him it rushed forth uncontrollably like wisps of serpentine smoke and light being purged, tinged green energy fading out as a purer blue energy took over.
Sari could only gasp in surprise as she shut away her energy and dropped to the floor, disorientated and woozy, she struggled on the ground before managing to seat herself upon it.
“Sari? Sari!?” Galvatron’s voice sounded muffled as her sensors buzzed and hummed, trying to reboot themselves, but she could see his hands twitching and hovering around her as if wanting to reach out and touch her, to check if she was alright but unable to bring themselves to do it.
Sari waved her arm, signalling she was fine and his hands promptly pulled back and his fussing ceased.
Useless? He’s all they have?
Well, now she had made up her mind, she was going to help them. To spite that bastard at the very least.
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