End Of Hope-Pt1

Fandom: Transformers
Universe: Transformers Prime-AU
Author: Lotte-Bubbles
Characters: Bulkhead and Miko
References To Non-Prime Cannon: Miko's battle suit is inspired by Veritys in Last Stand of the Wreckers
Notes: This takes place in a world 15 years later, all three kids have gone into the military/alliance with the bots who've settle perminantly on Earth and Mars, thogh still are at war with the Decepticons.
In this story the Cons come knocking and hell breaks loose.



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The war was lost and with it her hope for survival, she watched on the monitor in the bunker as the last line of defence-their-no…it was her last hope rushed to defend them all.

Jack in the corner-unwillingly kept back from battle with the destruction of his jet and his family's undeniable calls for him to stay.

Raf, still single, still alone but not without friends on the bases he frequented, ensuring the mesh of Cybertronian and Earth technologies. 15 years of friendships, of work was a burning crater.

And Miko, still rebellious, still a wild child at heart-was handcuffed there against her will-for her own safety he'd called before he left.

Her cybernetic battle suit-only just past the prototype phases, only one battle old was no match for the cuffs that bound her now-her hair pulled into a bun-strands falling as the heat inside started growing from the plasma and energon rounds tried to break through.

They were all tense-the other humans she noted seemed scared for their own lives-Miko wanted to laugh at them-they never left base-never left the safety of there little bolt holes when trouble came knocking. This time though it wasn't enough, they'd been ordered into the bunkers 'out the back' it was actually a 5km 4WD only track away from the main base in the hopes that the last defence of their human allies would-should they ever need enter the bunker make it through the base breaching assault.

Bulkhead had taken them their-he was the only one available to them at the time-not wishing to risk the life of his three oldest friends with another mech the ex-wrecker had moved like no one thought possible.

Miko had gone along under the impression that after dropping off the others she would get into her secondary suit and join the fight like some of the other humans-but these plans were halted as Bulkhead lay out her suit across from her and then in a utterly bewildering move placed mech level cuffs on her.

Her eyes were wide and seemed to tear over-yet tears of sadness or anger she could not tell threatened to spill "Bulkhead" her voice was rough with emotion and one word seemed to convey the entirety of her feelings. The green mech crouched down as the building shook around them.

Miko's suit made her about 8 feet tall but it was still an effort for the green mech-he touched his fore helm to hers and spoke in a quiet voice "not this time Miko'-I'm going into the pit, and…I'm not going to" his vocaliser glitched static but he went on "I'm not lo-letting you die like this" his vocaliser caught on die but he didn't show it.

He pressed forward his helm and front face plate aligned with the exposed parts of her face-her nose, eyes and mouth mainly while there was a slight scrapping noise from the metal on metal connection of the edges of her helmet and Bulkhead.

Her eyes were fixed on his optics, the suit split open near the chest but its configuration meant she didn't move her hands fixed onto the sides of his helm and she seemed to be willing herself to meld into the metal of his helm and the area you'd mark as his 'nose'.

"Bulk" her voice was softer now, sounding far more like the young, reckless teen he'd met years and years ago, tears fell now and she angrily wiped them away "You come back! You hear me Bulk?" she would have shaken his shoulders had she been in her battle tech but settled for barely moving his helm with her hands "I'm not gone yet-you said" her voice broke again and he could hear none of the hardened warrior she'd become, only the scared but all too eager teenager he'd met originally "you said your place was with me? Right-and I'm still here and you're not going" there was no room to argue with her.

While they both knew what she really meant when she told him he wasn't going his spark and her heart both seemed to skip beats in fear as the largest tremor so far rattled the bunker.

"Promise me that Mik'?" he asked, almost as an afterthought.
"Promise me that Bulk?" she all but murmured back.

It was the twisted version of the words they'd her first true battle after Miko joined the true fighting-suit or no suit. Now it was their roundabout way of promising the other they'd make it through the fight-they didn't need to say the words-only check the other remember that first promise made on that battle.

That Miko would survive it, and the Bulkhead would be there-spark beating at the end of it-no matter what.

They both nodded against the others head and as she pulled back she re-engaged the full suit-visor and mask additions too and watched heart aching as the mech she no longer could classify with human words like friend or even best friend ran to defend them in the battle to end all battles.

As the battle suit around her thrummed with the experimental spark power she patched into the few surviving cameras and watched as dooms-day unfolded before her.

She didn't want to watch the horror unfold as mechs fell in the most horrid ways imaginable, but she had to keep sight of the dark green frame-if she lost sight of him…she couldn't even consider it.

She had no choice-if she lost her mech she would not hear second hand.

TBC…