The Daughter of Primus

S. 1 EP. 12 Mystery Femmes

The next morning, day two of Julie's unjust suspension from school, they finally got in contact with Fowler and he had come to deal with poor Nate himself.

They returned Nate the security guard with the replica of the harvester to the museum.

Later in the day everything had settled down immensely and Julie was getting bored sitting around after some profuse begging Julianna had convinced Optimus Prime to let her come along with him while he patrolled for energon. She sat in the passenger seat in the cab of the semi and she looked out the window as Optimus drove. He had an experimental holo form activated that Ratchet had developed and it needed further testing. The holo form looked like a man in his forties with slightly greying black hair. In all accounts he looked like he could have been Julianna's father if someone pulled them over. He wore blue jeans and a red t-shirt.

"Can we listen to music please Optimus?" Julie asked him, looking over at his holo form. It had taken a little getting used to.

"Of course Julianna. What would you like to listen to?" He asked, his holo form looking over at her. His blue eyes glowed a little.

"Actually I was wondering what kind of music you liked. I'll listen to any kind of music. I like it all." She smiled.

"Very well." Optimus replied he turned on the radio to country music. Julie thought for a moment.

"That's Josh Turner isn't it?"

"Indeed. Country music is a guilty pleasure of mine." He smiled a little.

She smiled listening to the music taking note of which ones the prime actually hummed along to. Julianna sang along to a few songs and he commented on how pretty her voice was.

After a few hours a dark blue custom sports car with green undercarriage lights zipped in front of them.

"Follow me. I'm a neutral party. I need some assistance." A female voice came through the comm system into the cab. "don't call for backup. The con's are monitoring the long range airwaves. We don't want unwanted guests." She sounded almost panicked and nervous.

"Very well." Optimus confirmed. He began to follow the little sportscar though he was still wary of her.

The sports car led them to a wooded area near a cliff face. There had recently been a rockslide of some kind it seemed because of how the clearing was covered in rubble.

The femme transformed. She was smaller than Knockout but larger than Arcee. Her color scheme stuck to a blue and grey format and her biolights and optics were a vibrant green.

"My sister is trapped under the rocks." She gestured to the massive pile of stone looking panicked and worried.

Optimus opened his door and Julie hopped out, his holo form fizzled out then he transformed as well.

"I am Optimus Prime. Who might you be?" He asked the femme.

"I-I... E-Echo. Everyone calls me Echo. I can't recall my given designation from when I was created." The femme said in even more distress. "Please help!"

They soon began digging and sifting through the stone. Julianna watched them from a distance as to be sure she wasn't crushed.

Once unearthed a red femme sat on the ground holding her helm.

"Fire! Fire!" Echo panicked

"I'm fine. I'm fine." The red femme said before staggering to her feet. "I'm good." She vented and stretched. She was taller than her sister. She'd be only somewhat shorter than Breakdown.

"Do you require medical attention?" Optimus asked steadying the unearthed femme.

"No. I'll be fine. Thank you for the offer though. We do owe you something..." The red femme lookedat her sister.

"We could tell him the covenant's prophecy.." Echo replied.

"That would be appropriate. He is the final prime. It would be his duty to seek out and assist the one it speaks of." The red Femme agreed

"The covenant? Are you speaking of the covenant of Primus?" Optimus asked.

"Yes." Echo nodded. "The covenant says that When all hope for cybertron seems lost and there is no way left to revive the dead world. Seek out the First Daughter of Primus. For she will be the key to your salvation. Bring her to the well and the four will awaken. A hard choice must be made and a risk must be taken."

Optimus mulled it over for a moment committing it to his memory.

"Thank you. I will remember what you have told me." He nodded.

Julianna looked at the femmes confused.

After some talking and the placing of one human on Optimus' shoulder the two femmes had to leave.

"We have to motor. We've stayed in one spot too long." The blue femme stated. "We can't risk getting into a fight with Decepticons at this time."

"Very well. May we meet again." Optimus bid them farewell.

Julie looked at him from her perch on his right shoulder.

"Back to the road?" She asked him.

He looked back at her in turn and nodded "back to the road. We'll drive back to base."

Julie grinned. "Awesome. And it's nice to meet new cybertronians that aren't trying to shoot at us."

"Agreed. This place has a faint energon signal but the rock in this area is too unstable. They may have been attempting to mine for their own energon but the rock face collapsed." Optimus observed the area once more.

"Just trying to survive..." Julie said sympathetically.

"As are we. The Decepticons monopolize most of the major energon deposits on this world. With luck the harvester you helped acquire will change that. If we come across them again we will offer to aid them." Optimus said.

"Well we could use the harvester here." Julie stated

"Agreed. We will prepare to harvest the energon here." Optimus looked back at the rock face.

"And plan a bait and switch on the Cons if they show up with the second fake that Ratchet built." Julie grinned

Optimus nodded before turning back to return to the road so they could go back to base.