Transformers: Prime: The New Beginning

Chapter 32: Nightbird

It had been 23 hours since the day after the Autobots destroyed M.E.C.H's military base and defeated their human enemies to rescue their human ally, Agent William Fowler. M.E.C.H had fallen into obscurity and they were no longer active after their new leader had been betrayed and killed by the evil Doomsayer when he vaporized Colonel Adam Bowen with his optic lasers.

However, Adam Bowen and his soldiers had finished Project Nightbird and when the Autobots took down M.E.C.H and their military base, Nightbird herself rose from the rubble of the burned building where she had been built and she began her mission to terminate the Autobots and Megatron.

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Meanwhile, US President Gabriel J. Henderson and the humans still see the Autobots and the New Decepticons including any Cybertronian as a threat to humanity and Earth. Agent Fowler returned to his wife and son and they were relieved that the Autobots rescued him when he was held captive and interrogated by Adam Bowen and M.E.C.H. As for Orion Eclipse, he and his father were shocked that Doomsayer was the one who murdered Firestar and not the Autobots. Megatron swore revenge on Doomsayer for terminating his sparkmate to make him and his son suffer for his banishment from Cybertron.

Later that day, Altair Comet went to check up on Orion Eclipse as she had heard the news about what had happened near the volcano in Iceland. She knocked on the door to Orion's room and he answered. "Altair?" said Orion. "Orion. I heard of what happened when you and your father fought against Doomsayer. I was so worried about you." Altair said to her boyfriend. "Doomsayer. He...he killed my mother!" Orion told Altair. "What?" Altair Comet asked in shock. "Doomsayer told my dad and me that he was the one who killed my mother, Firestar. He...framed the Autobots. He fooled my father into thinking that they were the ones who caused her death. My father and I were so close to destroying Doomsayer. But when his armada came, they had us both surrounded before the Autobots came to our aid. We fought our enemies until Doomsayer got away with his New Decepticons. I wanted to kill him to avenge my mother!" Orion Eclipse explained before he started crying.

Altair Comet gave Orion Eclipse a comforting hug as she wiped away his tears. After 3 minutes of her comforting her boyfriend, the two lovers sat down before Orion looked at his childhood sweetheart and began to speak to her softly, "Altair? Thank you." Altair smiled at Orion. "You're welcome. I'm just so happy that we're finally together after being separated for over a millennium," she said. "Altair?...H-Have you ever wanted to...be my sparkmate someday?" Orion asked. "Y-Yes, I...I have always dreamt of having an engagement with you, Orion Eclipse. Ever since we were young, I would always send you gifts and love letters without anyone knowing. You and I had a strong connection and we were so in love with each other ever since we were sparklings. But the Great War was so terrible that Autobots and Decepticons were forbidden to ever be together with each other...and they were forbidden to fall in love and have sparklings with each other." Altair Comet told her lover.

"I still remember how my dad would be overprotective of me because he didn't want to lose me just as we had lost my mom...and how he wouldn't allow me to be with you, Altair. But now that my dad is reformed and he's finally learned to let me go...to be with the fembot I love the most, then maybe...when we save the Earth and Cybertron when we finally destroy Doomsayer and his New Decepticon armada, when we keep Unicron locked away forever or destroy him and when we find out how to use The Sword of Primus, and we find a way to put an end to this civil war between Autobots and Decepticons...then perhaps you and I will get married one day." Orion Eclipse said to Altair Comet. "Orion? I wish that my father and mother were here." Altair said. "And I wish that my mother was here. I'm just glad that you're here with me and that you're always by my side." Orion replied before he felt Altair caress his cheek and pull him over for a kiss. Orion Eclipse and Altair Comet romantically kissed each other.