When All Lights Go Out I (TFP)

Chapter 91

The pain Optimus was feeling right now was ripping through his core. While Megatron was not at fault for this, Optimus could not help but feel that if Megatron never found dark energon, this wouldn't have happened. And now, he was looking at his daughter. The dark energon has reacted in such a way that was different to how it reacted to Megatron and Starscream. And Optimus did not know what he could do to help her. And her abilities were now raging, and there were signs multiple tornadoes were starting to form around them. The hail hitting their bodies were being ignored, even if the hail stones were big and making loud noises as each stone hit their bodies.

Azura hovered in front with a glare that was mixed with pain, confusion and anger. Her whole body seemed to be surrounded in a ghostly, black, blanket, giving her a near full dragon appearance. Though the ghostly blanket moved like smoke around her body, and it was spilling from the crystal in her chassis. The crystal was glowing brightly. Blue and purple lights glowed, with part of the dark energon shard still sticking out after it had impaled the Cybertronian crystal. Around the rim of the crystal itself, a red light could be seen, with steam rising and showing that her system was extremely hot.

However, this was not the worst of it. Around her neck and chassis seemed to be bright, purple chains that had formed from her chassis. And they looked to be tight around her body. It was like something had trapped her, and was forcing her to do its bidding. It was horrible to see. And her optics were glowing white, and she was looking at all of them. She growled loudly and it seemed that she was going to attack. But it was not Azura in control, it was something else.

"Optimus..." Optimus flinched as Arcee spoke. He looked at her, and saw Arcee holding her arms over her helm to protect herself from the hail stones. "Um...what do we do? This is not something the dark energon should be doing."

"That's simply because Azura is not just mixed with the CNA of Optimus and myself..." Arcee glared at Megatron, even though Megatron had an expression if concern at the moment. "But also part of the Matrix, and the DNA of the dragon. That mixture with the dark energon clearly is not meant to be." Megatron glanced at Azura before clenching his fist. "This was not meant to happen...Starscream, I..."

Befoee Megatron could finish, he was alarmed as Azura suddenly breathed out a huge wave of fire at them. The wave was at ferocity that Azura has not produced before, but the fire was mixed with energon, causing it to be hotter and stronger. Megatron was quick to dodge it, as did the autobots, as Azura was moving her head as she breathed the fire at them.

"What in Primus?!" Bulkhead stared back to see the fire spreading over the grass, burning it completely to ash. Azura let out a loud roar that was high pitched, and it sounded like she was both angry and in pain before the sparkling lands on the ground. "She just attacked us. What...uh, I don't want to hurt her..."

"And you won't." Optimus walked towards Azura as the sparkling grimace and he saw her jaw clenching, like she was also fighting herself. She turned her head and glared at him. "I'm right here, Azura. Let me help you. I'll take that shard out right now, and..." Azura roared and lunged suddenly, surprising Optimus, and the sparkling swiped, striking her claws at his face plate, leaving a claw mark on the plate. He stepped back in surprise, and the sparkling stood on her hind legs, and her chassis glowed a mixture of blue and purple, and her mouth began to form a plasma blast. "Azura! You can fight this!" Optimus reached to grab the shard from her chassis, causing the sparkling to shriek and Optimus grunts, stumbling back as she hit him with the plasma blast. And he was surprised it hurt. He glanced at his chassis to see fire smouldering, and the center of his chassis had cracks from the blast. "I know this is not you, Azura..." He raised his arm as her tail swiped at him, and he blocked the attack, making her roar at him and jump up to fly around them. "We need to get that shard out of her."