The flight to the Hoover Dam takes far less time to reach than I am comfortable with. I keep trying to figure out how I'm going to react in the moment to a defenseless popsicle Megatron. Am I just going to bullrush him and extinguish his spark or am I going to free him and see if there is anything left of my adopted son worth saving.
'I guess I'm about to find out…aren't I?' I asked myself as I flew down close to the roadway and transformed into vehicle mode to drive up to Sector 7's entrance to the dam.
Reaching the entrance transforming into an altered warrior mode that makes me about the same size as The Rock.
With my sword forming on my right hand, I cut down the front door. And entered the building moving to the elevator. Once inside of the elevator I pressed my hand against the elevator's secured terminal cracking the fire wall in less time than it takes for a human's heart to beat.
Commanding the elevator to descend it does so, my left hand forms into a cannon and I adjusted the settings to make it a non-lethal taser-like weapon that'll knock out hostile humans.
'Keep human casualties to a minimum.' I told myself as my energon pump increased its pumping rate by 15% which put me at optimal energon flow for combat.
Before the freight elevator even reaches the bottom of the dam the humans unleash all the weapons they could assemble on me.
But my optics are glued to the Allspark or rather the Cube, the protective casing that holds Primus's spark.
I begin to return fire aiming in ways that direct fire won't instantly vaporize instead of knocking unconscious.
Soon the human interference ceased, and I made my way to the Allspark.
Raising my now returned normal left hand, as if I were trying to touch the Cube the Cube responds by shrinking down to a size a human can carry.
After gently transferring the Allspark into my Subspace, I turned and faced the frozen Megatron…instead of rage, instead of hate, all I felt at seeing him in his current state was pain.
Pain that is felt so intensely that my optics begin to leak energon.
My size increases as I make my approach, standing in front of the frozen Megatron standing above him so much so that my head scrapes the rafters of the dam's construction.
"My son." My emotional processors became overwhelmed with love, disappointment and pain.
Gently cupping what equates to Megatron's chin before I moved him into my Subspace our first conversation in what feels like Eons will not be held in the place he was kept prisoner.
Leaving the Hoover Dam turning on my stealth systems, as I return to my ship. Before putting Megatron in restraints then I putting him into an empty stasis pod to heal him, this stasis pod isn't the one I that I put Mikaela in in the medical bay this one is in the brig of my ship.
And is reinforced to hold a reluctant detainee. Pressing my hand against a control panel restraints within the stasis pod lock Megatron in place preventing him from making movement even on the micronic scale, while deactivating weapons systems and the ability to increase and decrease size/density.
Mikaela enters the brig, comes up behind me and wrapped her arms around me resting them around what would be my abdomen.
"He's changed a bit since you last saw him…physically I mean." Mikaela mumbled softly.
"Yeah, I knew what you meant…on a scale of one to ten. How pissed off at me are you right now?" Mikaela just shook her head and placed a kiss against my cheek.
"I'm not pissed, but I'm not exactly fine with the fact you left in the middle of the night. To raid a secret sub government base to retrieve your son and the soul of your father. Just don't go running off without me again…or else." Mikaela's threat might be delivered in a sleepy mumble but the threat is clear…I will suffer if I leave her out again.
"I'm going to enter Megatron's memory banks…to see if he was worth saving or not. Please don't disturb us." Mikaela nods her head against my back before kissing it and slipping out of the brig.
Closing my optics I reach out with a power that Primus granted me during my creation, one that Shockwave made in Transformers Prime which was a crude tool to replicate called the cortical psychic patch.
Seeing Megatron as he looked in G1 standing on the left side of my throne, while Optimus stood on my right.
Quintessa down on her knees in chains, "Quintessa first of the Quintessons, daughter of Quintus Prime, former Queen of Cyberton and Sparkmate to I, Monarch Prime sentence you to Spark extraction for the following crimes."
Optimus takes over reading off a list of crimes on his data pad. "Regicide, enslavement of free sparks in the billions, the sale of sentient beings…" The list of crimes goes on and on, while Quintessa is entirely too calm.
"Even if you strike me down, my love. You will never stop the enemy of life itself." Quintessa cackles and I see myself beginning to stand from my throne.
Then Megatron rests his hand against my shoulder, "Father, allow me…I know your spark still holds love for the Betrayer."
"Make it quick, Megatron." My voice is the one I used to use while holding court, it was full of regalness and power.
Quintessa's head rolls up to my feet, her fading purple optics staring into my golden ones, in them I see the coming chaos. Brother against brother in an endless cycle of war and tenuous peace.
Megatron's mental landscape shifts to when I took him and Orion Cybertrout fishing, and I gave them their first Cyberbeers.
"A simpler time, Father." The real Megatron comes to stand beside me.
"Aye, this memory and the others like it are how I survived my imprisonment…then when I finally escaped. I learned that my two sons have destroyed my planet. Ravaged my people and created two warring factions. And that the gentlest of my two sons has committed crimes so revolting and cruel against his own people it made me want to eradicate his spark from existence."
"Father, there is much that you still do not know. Any crimes I committed were to save our race." Megatron doesn't plead but I can hear that he believes what he has said to be the truth.
"Then open your Database to me fully and willingly or I will burn through them to learn that which I know not." Megatron didn't hesitate to open his files to me, going so deeply that even his base code is open to me.
I couldn't hold back the laugh that left me as I pulled out of Megatron's database and his base coding.
"Quintessa's machinations, all of it, all of it was your doing brother. I should have known, should have realized."
"Father…" Megatron's voice trails off a question in it.
"Megatronous, or as you know him, The Fallen. Pitted Sparkmate against Sparkmate and brother against brother…I could see his alterations he made to your base code as clear as day."
"I just don't understand why he would turn against me or where he and my siblings went when they left Cybertron."