Chapter 12 The Surprise

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As both me and the glowing light continued down the cavern, I got more curious as to what the glowing light was and where we were going.

"Glowing light, do you have a name?"

I asked and the glowing light stayed quiet, still floating deeper and deeper into the cavern.

"I truly do not have a name. I have always been called the 'Guide' of the chosen ones of Primus, but I never had a name."

"Well, what is a name you would like?"

The glowing light continued forward and I followed, but he then said, "Then, could you call me... Crea."

"Crea? Why 'Crea' if I may?"

"I... always call myself that in my mind."

"Then Crea it is." I said and walked side by side with Crea and asked my other questions.

"Crea, where are we going?"

"Why to free the others who have been trapped here."

I wanted to ask more, but we then came to a big metal door, the exact same one I saw when I freed the other Decepticons trapped in stasis. However, the door didn't glow or ask me anything; it just... opened, revealing a very big laboratory.

Crea floated inside and I followed him, but I felt uneasy being in here. Like I was invading a very old and ancient place that has been buried for centuries.

The room was a laboratory, much like Shockwave's, but this one was even bigger, with much bigger stasis capsules and more of them than the last cavern. I followed Crea as he led me to one of them and when I looked inside I couldn't see anything, but a Cybertronian. The only thing I could see was that it was a femme and that it was an Autobot.

Excitement creeped into me and I was happy that I could bring back more Autobots and allies as I looked over the panel that was holding captive the poor Cybertronian. The formatting was the exact same as the other stasis capsules, so I entered the code into the panel and the capsule opened.

The femme fell out and I changed into my bi-pedal form to catch her. I covered up my insignia, just so she wouldn't freak out, and led her to one of the slabs to sit. I had her lay down and grabbed a scanner to make sure she was alright.

I quickly scanned her and saw she was stirring, but before she woke up, Crea said, "You must tell her about your entire past before you free the others."

I looked at him, confused, and said, "Why do I need to tell her my entire past?"

Crea nodded and added, "You must reveal who you are so she doesn't harm you and to earn her trust. You will understand when she tells you her designation"

I nodded and finished scanning her as her optics online. She grunted a bit and I was looking around for any energon to give her, and I did find some, but I was immediately pinned to the wall.

I grunted a bit, but got her out of her hold and said, "Wait, don't fire!"

She stopped, looking at me and said, "Why Decepticon! You imprisoned us and now you ask for me to not harm you?!"

"Please, just listen. My name is Enigma, I am an ally of the Autobots and just found you imprisoned so I freed you."

The femme looked shocked and put her weapons down, but stumbled a bit and I caught her. I brought her back to the slab so she could sit and I gave her the energon that I found. She gladly accepted it and drank the entire cube down.

Once she finished I took the cube and put it to the side and said, "How are you feeling?"

She chuckled and said, "To be honest, I am not sure. I am also not sure as to whether to be thankful or weary of you."

I nodded and said, "Well, if you want I can tell you everything you have missed."

She nodded and I explained everything to her, and she explained to me what she knew before she was put in stasis lock. I told her about my life, how I was human, and how I was turned into a Cybertronian, and about the end of the war. She was shocked and felt bad, but I reassured her that I was fine and happy.

After a while of going back and forth, she said, "So let me get this straight, I have been trapped in there for over eight vorn, the war is over after all this time, and you helped end it?"

I nodded and she continued, "You were actually once human, a race on this planet called Earth, and that Cybertron has gone dark and you also worked with the Decepticons!"

She was getting angry, but I nodded and she then said, "However you were captured and turned into a Cybertronian and while on a flight you somehow stumbled onto this... laboratory of sorts and found me and were able to free me."

I nodded and she sighed while putting her helm in her servos. I stepped forward and pulled her into a hug as she started to cry a bit at all the information. We stayed in that position for a while, but she eventually pulled away and looked at me.

I smiled at her and said, "Why don't you tell me your designation, then I can call for backup and get everyone else out."

"Y-yes, the others have been in there for a long time."

She stood up and said, "I'm Elita-One, Commander of the Autobots beside Ultra Magnus."

I felt like my spark had stopped and then came back online, Elita, the Elita-One, the sparkmate of Optimus Prime, was right in front of me.

She must've seen my reaction because she then said, "Enigma, what's wrong?"

I stood there, still shocked, but slowly said, "Elita, you've been assumed terminated... for over eight vorns."

Elita's optics widened at what I said and she seemed so lost in thought of the new information given.

I carefully made my way over to her and said, "Elita-"

"Is he alive?" I looked at her confused, but knew who she was talking about.

"Yes, alive and well."

She sighed in relief, but then said, "Can... Can I see him?" I smiled and activated my com-link to the ship.

'Enigma to Nemesis, does anyone read me.'

'Soundwave: reads. Enigma: alright?'

Soundwave asks and I say, 'Yes, I am alright, but head to my coordinates quickly.'

'Quere: Why?'

'Because I found more Cybertronians in stasis lock and someone who wishes to see their sparkmate.'

Soundwave seemed in shock and said, 'How do you find them?'

'Let's just say I followed my instincts.'

I said simply and Soundwave, knowing what I meant, said, 'We'll be there within five hours.'

I ended the com-link and turned to Elita and she said, "Well?"

"They'll be here in five hours." She seemed happy, but she also gazed at all the other Cybertronians that were locked up.

I knew what she was thinking and said, "Well,we better get to work."

She looked confused and I added, "You think that we're gonna sit here and let these other Cybertronians stay in stasis, you are very wrong."

She laughed and said, "Well, let's get started."

Optimus POV

We were all woken up by Soundwave, which I wasn't very fond of due to what Wheeljack pulled last night. When he finally got caught he was locked in his room with Frenzy and Rumble. I do not know what they said, but it was enough to get Wheeljack to apologize profusely to the entire crew and the Autobots as well.

Now, we were all on the main bridge, still tired from last night, and some were not in the best of moods. We had to reschedule our meeting to see Silas, so we let Earth's government interrogate him and his men.

"Soundwave, you have been my friend for a very long time, but you better tell me why you woke us all up from recharge, AT FIVE IN THE MORNING!!!" Megatron yelled at Soundwave and his symbiotes, who were all hiding behind him, and shaking at how angry Megatron was.

Megatron's temper had been tamed for a while and he has been doing well not shouting all the time, but today, he decided not to temper his anger. He was shouting for a good fifteen minutes at Soundwave, who didn't move or shake in fear at Megatron's temper. Once Megatron calmed down, he played a message on his visor.

'I found more Cybertronians in stasis lock and someone who wishes to see their sparkmate.' It was Enigma's voice and what she said shocked me and everyone else in that room.

After a moment, I heard Nitro Zeus say, "More bots in stasis, how?!?!"

Dreadbot added, "I wonder who was found, but what did Enigma mean by 'Someone wanting to see their sparkmate?'"

I was also confused by what she meant, but also excited to see who else was alive.

"Soundwave, when do we reach the coordinates?" I asked and Soundwave showed us the coordinate where Enigma was and where we were.

"So, we'll be there in five hours?" Starscream asks, while yawning, Soundwave nodded at him.

I then said, "Alright, we should prep Med-bay in case they are injured. For now, everyone prepares the other rooms and energon for them."

Everyone nodded and left to go do something, but not before grumbling in the process due to them all still tired at the early wake up call. I decided to get a few more hours of recharge before we arrived and headed back to my berthroom.

While there I saw Starscream with Thundercracker and Skywarp, all laughing and bickering at each other, but all smiling at one another.

When they saw me, Thundercracker said, "Hey Optimus, getting some recharge before we meet up?"

I nodded and Skywarp said, "What was she thinking of going for a flight this early in the morning?"

Starscream sighed and said, "She told me before leaving and when I offered to go with her, she denied my request."

They both grumbled, my guess is from not getting that information, but then I said, "Could it be possible she was venting out her emotions?"

They all looked at me, confused, and Skywarp said, "Venting? Why would she vent?"

Starscream thought for a moment and then his optics widened in realization. "Oh my Primus, I'm an idiot."

"Star, what is it?"

Thundercracker asked and I said, "Perhaps adjusting to her new body and the fact that she is still new at being Cybertronian that it is weighing her down a bit."

Both Thundercracker and Skywarp then looked at each other, shocked and hurt at the same time.

"Screamers right, we're such idiots for not seeing it. Why didn't she tell us!"

Skywarp asked and Starscream put his servo on his shoulder and said, "We all know that she didn't want us to see her in distress about it, but we should do something to help her, but what."

They all thought and I said, "If I may, why not where you asked her to be a part of your Trine?"

They all lit up at my comment and Starscream said, "Yes! Thank you, Optimus, we have some planning to do." They all left to go do something and I made my way back to my berthroom.

When I finally got there and closed the door, I sat down on the edge of my berth and sighed, thinking about everything that has happened in these past few weeks.

I looked over my room, which was a simple room, but some of my personal belongings from Cybertron were in there. I looked over my stuff and decided to grab one of my data pads that contained all my photos from Cybertron, but also pictures from the Decepticons and... there was a lot.

Apparently, Soundwave hooked up all Decepticon data pads to the main frame of the ship so that everyone could see the photos of Cybertron and on Earth. I looked through some and it was funny to see how Enigma reacted to the entire crew and how she earned their trust. I decided to look through some of them and then made my way through my private photos. Most of them were of me and Megatron, but then I came across one that I had forgotten about, the last one taken on Cybertron.

(Here is the picture, also picture not mine)

I gently traced over the picture of the femme with my servo, remembering all the good times we had together. "Elita, I'm sorry."

I spoke and turned off the data pad and drifted off to recharge, thinking of my lost sparkmate.

*Timeskip*

By the time I woke up, we had already arrived and I made my way out near the coordinates. The only ones that were going down to meet up with Enigma were all Autobots, Megatron, Starscream, and Soundwave.

We all groundbridged down and when we walked out, we were greeted by the mountain opening up, like how the abandoned silo base we used.

"If I knew this was another way to enter, I wouldn't have gone the long way." She said to herself, but when she saw us, she smiled very big at us and I knew that she found someone we knew.

"Glad all the Autobots are here actually, now as I mentioned to Soundwave, I found more Cybertronians, but I didn't specify which faction."

I looked at her confused and she turned around, but not before saying, "Also they have all been briefed about the war and everything else."

She then looked into the dark cavern and said, "Alright, you're all good to come out, remember, reptiles first."

I looked at the others at what she meant, but then the ground shook as we heard loud ped steps coming from the cave.

"Uhh Enigma, what's-" Wheeljack was cut off when we heard five, loud, roars.

I covered my receptors and optics, but when I opened them, I saw five bot I thought were long gone.

"G- Grimlock?" Megatron asked and the giant Tyrannosaurus Rex looked at him and laughed, saying, "Megatron, me thought you were scrapped! Slag, Sludge, , , come see what Grimlock sees!" Then a Triceratops, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Pteranodon all emerged in their dinobot forms and I could not believe it. The Dinobots were great allies of the Autobots on Cybertron, but we did not know whether or not they were alive ever since Cybertron went dark. I was relieved that they were all alive and well, but when I saw Enigma smirking, I knew she had something else planned. "Alright, next group come on out." Enigma said and Bulkhead said, "Wait, what?" "It's wrecking time, boys!" One bot said.

"Quiet down, soldier!" Another bot said and when I saw who it was, I was again in shock.

There I saw Ultra Magnus, Hound, and Seaspray, but when I looked at Bulkhead and Wheeljack, they looked even more shocked than me.

"Ho- Seaspray? I thought-"

Wheeljack got cut off as Seaspray said, "What, you'd think an old explosion would keep me down?"

Hound laughed at that and Ultra Magnus still had a stern look, but seemed relieved to see me and the other Autobots.

"Alright, alright, move so the next few can come." I was still shocked that there was more, but then I heard some rustling behind and heard two very familiar and loud bots.

"Hey, I'm not going out!"

"Quit whining and show your faceplate! Someone help me!" As I heard more struggling, I finally saw the bots come out.

In front of me I saw Ironhide, Jazz, Crosshairs, Drift, and Chromia. Ironhide was dragging someone else, but I already knew who they were. After a few moments Sunstreaker was being dragged out, by a very annoyed Sideswipe.

"Honestly, brother just say hello and be done with it." Sideswipe scolded, but I was too shocked by all the faces to hear their fight. All these bots, my close friends, were all still alive and right in front of me.

I was so caught up in my thoughts that I didn't hear what anyone was saying, but someone put their servo on my shoulder.

"Optimus?"

I looked up to see Megatron shaking my shoulder and immediately snapped out of my thoughts.

"I am sorry, I... am still in shock that they are all still alive."

However, Enigma looked at me, smiling very wide and said, "It's not over yet. There's one more bot left."

I was even more shocked and Bumblebee said, 'W-what! Enigma, you have already brought back so many, who else is left!?!?'

Enigma just laughed and walked back into the cavern, but we could not hear anything that was being said.

I looked at all the other Autobots and they were all smirking at me and I said, "Who is in there?"

They all didn't say anything, all just looking back at the cavern. After a few moments, I heard the clanking of peds and saw Enigma, waiting for someone. I was confused, but when I saw who it was, my entire body froze at the sight. I didn't know what to do or what to say... I just stared at the femme in front of me. She also stared at me, not doing anything as well.

Enigma then pushed the femme and Megatron said to me, "Go and greet her, Prime."

I slowly made my way over to the femme, still afraid if it truly was her. Once I approached her and when we were face to face with one another, I didn't know what to say.

However, I did not need to, because she jumped onto me, shouting, "Optimus!" She wrapped her arms around me and in that moment, I knew it was her.

"Elita." I whispered and hugged her back tightly, not wanting to let her go. I closed my optics as I tried to reopen our bond and she did as well and feeling her fill the empty void, made me feel more alive than I have in centuries.

When I pulled away, Enigma approached us, smiling and said, "I hope you liked this surprise, all of you."

We all turned to the others and they were all smiling and very ecstatic about seeing some old allies, even the Decepticons seemed excited to see some old friends.

I looked at my sparkmate and my sister, saying, "Shall we join them?" They both nodded and we all went near all the bots, excited for what the future holds.


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