Heart of a Prime

Chapter 44

It was late at night, Optimus was laying beside Saphira in the bed as she slept peacefully. She had her arms wrapped around him, wearing a lovely pink, nightie with black ruffles along the sleepwear. Optimus ran his hand along her arm gently as she slept, he considered trying to recharge in his holoform, though he knew it wasn't exactly the best option. That was mostly because he was still using energy to keep his holoform formed. He kissed her cheek gently, he wanted to remain here all night with her, though he had to return to his alt form to recharge. He carefully lifts her body and moved her to rest her head on the pillow. Saphira shifts a little from the movement, though her arms around his loosened and he gently moved them from around his body. Optimus carefully slid from the bed and pulled the covers up, tucking them in and kissed her cheek gently.

"Tomorrow is another special day," Optimus whispered to her. "Nothing but just us, the sky and trees." He smiled and walked away from the bed. "I love you, and I'll be back by your side before the sun rises."

Saphira did not hear him of course, but Optimus wanted to say these things to her regardless. It brought him happiness, and he knew that Saphira may still feel the love he has for her despite the absence of hearing his voice. He watched her sleep for a bit longer before he left to return to his alt form. Though as he left, he was no aware of the dream Saphira was currently having.

In Saphira's Dream...

Saphira was running through a city, it was burning and there were people fleeing all around her. She could taste the metal fumes on her tongue as she breathed heavily and yelped as an already destroyed car is flung into a building. She glanced around in a panic, looking for any signs of the autobots and Lennox to try get to safety.

She grabbed out a radio and yelled into it. "Optimus!" She coughs and took a deep breath. "Optimus, where are you? They have cut off the exits around the city, I am going to try something else to get out of here." There was no response aside from static. "Optimus! Bee! Barricade! Does anyone read me?"

Nothing again and Saphira just shuddered fearfully. She had to keep running, she yelped as a missile explodes upon impacting a tall building and watched as it began to topple. She turned and ran as fast as she could. Bursts of purple smoke and shards explode from cracks in the road and footpaths, she jumped around them. Saphira glanced at the cracks, looking at the smoke and shards curiously before glancing up as several transformers walk towards her. She widened her eyes, their bodies were ruined to the point they should be dead, she could see their protoforms that had been torn and it was almost like staring at a corpse. Maybe she was. Their chests did not have their original sparks in them, but it seemed it had been replaced with something else with a deep, dark purple that was coursing through their bodies. Their optics were glowing of the same colour.

She turned away when she saw them arming themselves, aiming towards her to fire at her. She heard their blasts and she ducked into an alleyway to avoid being fired at. Their footsteps were loud and clear as they run after her. She looked to her wrist, she saw she did not have her bracelet with her. She could not defend herself. Plus, her wrist was covered in burns and blisters, she did not feel the pain of them at all as she ran.

She covered her head as blasts were fire at her again, she darts to the left to try and get away them and yelped when she heard a familiar cannon charge. She looked up and saw Megatron shooting at the transformers. He was heaving heavily, his shoulders had been damaged and his chassis had a huge hole in the right side, fire was burning lightly on his chassis. Energon was leaking from his side and he ran at the transformers, arming his energon sword and slicing the three bots in half. Saphira was confused, he protected her, and she kept running.

Saphira's throat was burning as she kept running, she needed to stop for a breather. But with strange undead transformers and Megatron near, she did not know if she could. She ran into a building, finding it was a small library and she took the moment to take a breath. She breathed heavily and coughed loudly, covering her mouth as she did so. She took deep breaths and gasped when she saw blood on her hand.