Sari looked at a poster in Optimus' room, the poster was very pretty, and on it, there was a femme with a white frame, the poster was a drawing with no outlines, and for the background there was a bright yellow and orange striped pattern.
The femme was holding a flag, the space bridge repair crews' flag and on top, there was the caption: "fly high, miss Aurora prime" on Cybertronian letters.
The poster was clearly old and slightly withered, but it's colors were still bright.
Sari felt like she had seen that femme before, so her searched started. Bumblebee's room went first and she found some cyber pens with the same caption,
The next was bulkhead, who had some pretty old paintings about her standing next to some other bots.
Prowl... Had nothing of her...
And ratchet... Well he caught her.
"What are you doing here, Sari?"
She said a little too nervously.
"Mhm, what are you here for?"
"I... Well I saw a poster with this lady bot... Her name is Aurora prime... I was wondering if you had anything of her?"
"Well yeah! She seems important"
"She used to discover planets for us to settle into, basically, she allowed us Cybertronian to mass colozine other planets"
"Woahhh! And what happened to her?"
"She retired to a nice blue planet with beaches"
"Woah!!! I wanna move to the beach too- oh hi Optimus!!"
Sari happily ran out, without a care in the world.
"Do you think... She did that?"
"Honestly.... I hope that's what happened"
7 years later... Planet 4546B was destroyed by the war ....
2 months later... An un-identified object reached Earth's orbit,
2 weeks later, the object fell into the ocean, creating large waves.
2 days later, the object was pulled out of the sea with the help of the autobots and costal police.
2 hours from that... Optimus and ratchet have just started at the now identified Cybertronian Aurora prime... Who'se once pristine plates are now adorned with barnacles and rust.
Her frame now sports bite marks... And both of her pedes are missing.
To say that the people were confused was an understatement. Optimus had to go in public and explain the situation.
"As many of you know, an accident happen. A Cybertronian crashed into the ocean, and uh... I know you have questions about her... Unfortunately, she is not here to clarify them, so I will try to do this as best as possible"
A chorus of voices and questions echoed, Optimus raised his servos asking for silence, pointing at a woman that was with the press.
"Optimus prime, sir, who is this new Cybertronian?"
"Her designation is Aurora prime, she... Uh... She had gone missing 15 vorns ago after she went to explore a planet that was 95% water.
She was presumed offline and... Any attempts at contacting her stopped"
A man quickly took the chance to speak
"Is she going to recover?"
"Lucky for everyone, the rust damage she has is only superficial and has practically been kept out of her internals"
A voice rose through the bunch
"ARE YOU GUYS PLANNING TO INVADE EARTG BY SETTLING ON IT?"
"Well... That's a mean thing to say, we don't really have interest on this planet, mostly because there is no energon here, but we do need to find a way to stop the decepticons before we do"
A woman decided to lift up the mood with a question of her own
"Who was Aurora prime? Like... What did she do before going missing"
Optimus expression softened before he looked away, recalling some things.
"Well... She was an astronaut, a scientist, a teacher, she wasn't exactly one, but she helped around with politics... Uh, she was way too many things, and trust me, it's not normal for our kind to stick to such a vast amount of jobs.
Uh... She helped perfect space bridges too, she... Tried to stay away from the war"
"For how long was she missing?"
"I already answered that, 15 vorns... Which is about 15 human years and you-probably-didint-know-how....much...a vorn is"
Optimus placed his servo on his forehelm.
"Are you going to be okay?"
The crowd parted ways for a small child who was on the front, Optimus looked at him.
"Things... Are getting messy.... And I am hoping that they will go better but... I will be okay"
Optimus gave a soft smile... Unfortunately, the moment was interrupted by a tall shadow being casted over everyone, a figure so big, Optimus mistook it for megatron, he raised his servos for a fight, turning around and seeing grey plates.... But the frame was different... And it was just Aurora with her paint stripped off
"Hi Optimus, ratchet told me you would be here, you have grown so much" she picked him up dangling him Infront of her
"I- shouldn't you be resting?"
"Optimus, I have been in recharge for 14 vorns.i am well rested and-"
"Oh- uh...that is the natal species of this planet... They call themselves humans and we were just talking about you please-put-me-down"
She took a step back setting Optimus behind her, looking at the humans with a certain caution
"Uh no, why would you think that?"
"My last encounter with organic creatures on a planet with similar characteristics ended up with they trying to bite me"
A voice rang out from the crowd, and Optimus could see Aurora's frame puff up with excitement.
Aurora pulled out 3D scans of the multiple creatures from planet 4546B, going out on a long explanation on their biological characteristics of the strange creatures.
The conversation shifted into space bridges and before Optimus could stop her, she had pulled out a projection of a whiteboard... And she was now explaining the math behind this subject... Primus this was a public university lecture, all of this while just having woken up
"Aurora prime, please, uh... Please let's go back to base, you need to get your paint coat redone..."
Aurora prime and Optimus walked away, all of this while a crowd followed them, asking Aurora prime all kinds of questions which she tried to answer
Aurora prime had spent her sweet time with the autobots. To say that everyone on Cybertron was shocked was an understatement.
Aurora chose to stay on earth with team prime to "re-learn the basics" plus, ratchet had already started her treatment.
When they found out about what happened... It was a mess... Aurora didn't answer questions regarding the matter, she just said what happened once. She.... Didn't seem to want to remember it...
Christmas rolled around, snow fell, she loved it, curling up under the snow and letting herself be buried under it, some humans even helping with the task by shovelling her full, children climbed on her and slid down, the sleepiness of wintertime leaving her recharging out in public... Humans loved her, she loved children, she loved science, she loved progress.
It was clear in a silent sorta way that... She wanted her sparkling back... Her baby... She clearly was still grieving the situation, not that she had time to process it in the first place...
Surprisingly... Her team didn't call her back...
Falling into recharge, falling... Under ... The water
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THE COLDNESS ETERNAL THAT SUCKS YOU BELLOW... UNDER DEEP. UNDER. DEEP. WATER. COLD. COLD. COLD. YOUR SERVOS
####: "your servos are so cold! Hehe!"
Aurora opened her optics... Getting up and going back to base.
Sari was there... The techno-organix immediately started rambling on and on and about...
Aurora didn't really get it.
Until she saw... Them.... Little... Bits... Blue and yellow metal, Sari scrambled away... Aurora stood still... Sparklings...
Sari: "AURORA!! RUN!!! THAT'S SOUNDWAVE!!!"
Aurora didn't seem to care pulling the bunch of little blue bits into her servos... They broke... Like glass, crumbled to bits...
Aurora heard sari say something... Something along the lines of "yay!" But... It was... A blurr.
Sari clung to Aurora's thigh, looking up at her... The femme slowly turned towards her.
"We have got to save the others! Soundwave has them! Come on!"
Aurora got up, flickers of a black frame echoing through her mind, regret regret ...
She should have done what was best...
Sari and Aurora stood Infront of the rest of the team, their optics red with hate, besides them, a small army of robots.
Aurora's optics were set on Soundwave... Oh dear... He was so small... So .. tiny... Basically a child...
Aurora and sari bravely fought against the decepticon, managing to break his though outer armor, freeing the rest of team prime from his control and turning Detroit back it it's peaceful state...
But Soundwave wasn't destroyed; in her grief eternal, Aurora could fix him, save him, she could redeem herself, make something right... Help... Help Soundwave... Cradling the small toy on her servos with gentleness, she found herself alone staring down at the con, coolant dwelling up in her optics, falling at his sides, tears so big he had to dodge them...
He can work with this....