Chapter 1: Devil Valkyrie meets the Prime
Cybertron... our home. For generations it has been a peaceful world. Until pride and a lust for power divided us. We fought, enemies who were once our brothers. Our tragic war had ravage Cybertron, turning our once beautiful planet into a land of nightmares. As the battle rages on, the hope for us Autobots to save our planet began to slip away as the Decepticons seize control of our home. Left with little options, we were force to abandon our world and find refuge among the stars. Sadly, our exile wasn't enough to satisfy our enemies. Now they hunt us down across the stars killing the Autobots from existence.
In the basement of an abandon warehouse, a young man was wobbling up the stairs while placing a hand on the lower side of his chest. He recently woke up from his capsule, which was damaged beyond repaired, and wondered where he was. He wore a red open jacket with black shoes, a black t-shirt, and blue pants. His eyes were light blue and had shads of blue in his black hair. When he was halfway up the stairs, pain erupted through his body causing him to fall to his knees while his left hand grabbed the rusty railing. He groaned for a second before lifting his right hand to see it was painted in his red blood. He cursed himself for being careless because he was caught off guard before entering the capsule.
He growled in pain as he force himself to walk up the stairs, "Slag it. I need to find a doctor. I'm not going to die here."
Meanwhile outside, it was a cloudless night with the moon hanging over the city where a young woman was walking through the alleys. She wore a light blue business suit jacket and pants along with a purple tie. Her straight long hair was silver white and her eyes were light blue. She was looking at her silver watch to see the time as a group of thugs slowly surround her.
She looked up to see a thug wearing baggy cloths and a baseball hat, "Can I help you?"
"Why so serious, babe? We're just here to talk to ya." This caused the other goons to snicker a little.
"One, don't call me babe. Two, I'm not in a talkative to mood" she retorted. She began to walk pass the thug, but was grabbed by the arm and thrown to a wall.
The leader pressed both her arms against the stone wall and licked his lips, "Feisty, aren't you? I like that."
The thugs started pulling out their knives as they slowly gathered around her.
"We are going to enjoy playing with you to the fullest. Now, where should we start? The pants or the shirt?" the leader questioned evilly.
The young woman was getting quite irritated with these punks. She know that harming them will only get her in trouble, but she was left with no choice. She only hoped her leader won't scold her too much.
Before she could fight back, a new voice entered the alley and caught everyone attention, "Enough."
"Who said that!?" a punk demanded.
They turned to see a young man walking out of the abandon warehouse and stood nice and tall. He stared at the thugs before speaking in a calm yet demanding tone, "Let her go, now."
One of the goons tossed his knife back and forth while walking up to him, "Well, well look like we got ourselves a hero here guys? You should just run home to your mommy and play hero there punk." He placed the blade under the stranger's chin, "You better run along now."
Not heeding the thug's warning, the man grabbed his wrist and his shirt. Before the thug could ask, he was pulled into the air and was slammed hard to the ground. The stranger slowly turned around to glare at the remaining thugs. He hoped that he would resolve this without violence, but in the end he had to fight. He must end this quickly before he lose consciousness from his wound.
The rest of the thugs gathered around the stranger as the leader let go of the lady to join them. "You're going to regret that. Get his ass!" he sneered.
Two thugs ran towards him, but as stopped when the stranger grabbed them by the neck. The next thing they knew, they were thrown across the alley only to land in a dumpster. Before they could get out, the dumpster's lid came down and hit their head casing them to be knocked out. One thug came from behind and wrapped his arm around the stranger's neck in order to stab him. As a response, the hero reached for him to pull right off. The thugs watched as their friend was pulled into the air before slamming hard to ground before passing out.
While the thugs were awed by the stranger's strength, the man softly groaned and noticed his wound was slowly gushing out more blood, "I need to finish this fast."
A thug threw a punch at him, but his fist was caught. The stranger it a quick turn, causing the thug to fall to his knees, and punched the elbow joint. The thug screamed in pain thanks to his broken arm for a second before receiving an knee blow to the face. The remaining six watched their pal fall unconsciously to the ground which cause their anger to erupt.
The leader pulled out his knife and shouted, "I want this asshole dead now! Attack!"
Obeying their leader the five charged forward as the man stared at them with pity. Blindly obeying their leader despite knowing they had no chance of winning was plain wrong. Serving a leader who only cared about victory is not what these boys need. He hoped after this was over, these boys will find someone new to follow. The man disarmed each of them by breaking their wrist. The leader blindly attack in rage, but he came to a halt when his wrist was caught.
The man tightened his grip on the leader's wrist while the blade fell to the ground, "Leave now."
"Like hell we will! Gang up on him!"
The thugs started to throw punches at him as their leader commanded. The stranger let go of the leader and retaliated.
Meanwhile, the young lady watched the fight as she rubbed her right wrist. She was stun with how skilled her savior was and was glad that he came to help. Thanks to his help, she didn't have to use her strength to hurt the thugs and she avoided a lecture from her leader about using her powers. Another thing that amazed her was how well her hero was holding his ground against six thugs, each he disarmed himself. It wasn't long until she saw a thug being knock out, one at a time.
She smiled at the hero, "I hope I'll be able to repay nicely for this."
It wasn't long until the leader was left and he was in the air. The stranger tighten his grip on the punk's shirt and spoke in a commando tone, "I told you to leave and look what happen. Now if I ever see you again harming another innocent person, I promise you that there will be more than broken bones."
"Fuck you asshole!" the thug retorted while giving the middle finger.
"Very well" the stranger said as he let go of the thug and punched him across the face. The leader lost consciousness and landed on top of a metal trash barrel. The stranger walked over to the lady, "Are you alright miss? Did they hurt you?"
She smiled and shook her head, "No, thank you for saving me."
The lady was able to get a good look at her savior. She could tell that they were the same height and around the same age. The clothes he was wearing was casual. Also, he was quite handsome.
"Not at all miss. I was doing what was right" the stranger answered. He soon began to wobble and placed a hand on his forehead.
This caught the young woman's attention, "Hey, are you okay?"
The stranger stumbled in his speech while he voice was getting lower and his vision was becoming blurry, "I'm... I'm... I'm... I'm... I'm..." The man lost his balance and fell forward. He landed on top of the woman, who caught him, and half of his face was buried in her chest.
The woman was about to yell when she detected a peculiar smell in the air. She sniffed the air a couple more times, "This smell... It's familiar... It's kinda smell like..." The revelation widen her eyes as far as they could, "Blood!"
She shifted her head to the young man and noticed that his face was paler than before with a small amount of sweats running down his face. Also, she felt something wet near her stomach, she slowly lifted him to check what it was. She slowly leaned him down flat on the ground to pull up his black t-shirt. Her eyes widen at the stab wound on the lower right side of his stomach along with a few cuts and burn marks. Curiosity took her and she decided to check the rest of his body. She took of his jacket to see more scrapes and they were slowly bleeding too. She took of his shirt to see that he had more injuries than she anticipated. Not only they were a few more cuts there was a huge burn mark on his chest. She lightly touched his chest only to feel a burn from the mark.
She soon realized something that completely stunned her, "He fought those punks in his current state and won?"
Ignoring her amazement, she put his shirt back on and his jacket was on her shoulders. She slowly picked him up to place one of his arm around her neck and wrapped her right arm around his waist. The man face was still pale, but it appeared that he was still fighting to stay alive. His heavy panting proved that. She pulled out a piece of paper that had a magic circle on it.
"This should only be use for emergencies, thank Valhalla I had it with me", she faced her struggling hero, "Don't worry you will not die today."
She chanted a few words before a magical dark red circle emerged beneath her. The circle went up engulfing the two. Soon the circle disappeared along with the two leaving the beaten punks to their lost.
Meanwhile, in a room full of teenagers and a single adult were waiting patiently. The teenagers were consist of mostly girls and three boys who wore identical clothing. They all wore white short-sleeved shirt with a black ribbon around the collar. The only difference between them was that the boys had black pants while the females had magenta skirts.
It wasn't long until a brown hair boy, who had an open shirt which showed he hard a red t-shirt, messed up his hair in frustration, "Argh! What's taking her so long!?"
"Calm down, Issei" a female with crimson long hair said.
"Sorry Rias, waiting around isn't my strong suit."
Rias smirked and giggled, "I know."
"Still, it is unusual for her to be late" a white hair short girl said blandly.
A teen with short blond hair nodded in agreement, "You're right Koneko. Should we go look for her?"
"I agree with Kiba" a long blond hair girl nodded.
"Seconds" a chestnut hair girl agreeing.
"Same here" a young boy answered who was sitting in a cardboard box and was wearing the female school outfit instead of the male version.
"Well Buchou, what should we do?" a long black hair girl asked.
Rias stared at her peerages for couple of seconds, "We will give her a couple more minutes. If she is not here..."
"Then we go and look for her" a blue hair female teen interrupted.
"Yes Xenovia."
Issei placed both his hands behind his head, "Still, I wonder what is causing her to be late?"
The adult snickered as he placed an elbow on the desk he was at, "It's good that you guys care for each other, but there are times when you need to trust them."
The teens stared at him and understood what he meant; however it did not ease their worries. They were all friends, a team, it was only natural for them to worry. A few seconds later, a magical circle appeared and revealed their friend who was carrying an unconscious stranger.
They blinked for a moment before she hurried over to the couch where Issei and the blond girl were sitting, "Guys! Get off the couch now! Asia, I need your help!"
The two got off and watched their friend laid the unconscious man across the couch. Then she placed the red jacket on top of the couch in order to examine his body. While she was checking, the girls along with Kiba and Gasper blinked in confusion on what was going on Issei was steaming in anger.
Rias asked a question which fueld his anger, "Is this guy your boyfriend, Rossweisse?"
"No, it's not like that! I'll explain later!" she snapped. She kneeled down while trying to cover her red cheeks as she started to remove the stranger's shirt off.
Issei couldn't believe that this random guy was getting strip by a beautiful lady. Witnessing this was not pleasant at all. It was insulting to his pride as a man and the Harem King! "Rossweisse! You can't just bring some stranger into our...", he started saying in a loud tone before toning it down when he saw the man's chest, "club..."
Everyone in the room widen their eyes at the injuries of the man and could her him panting softly. Despite his condition, he was refusing to accept death which impressed the group. Asia finally understood why Rossweisse need her help and quickly kneeled down next to the man. She raise her hands above the man while a green magical aura surrounded him. His cuts and burn marks were starting to heal and Rossweisse was able to breath easier now. As the teens watched the healing process they were amazed that this man was still alive and questioned about who he was.
Issei, being the careless idiot as he is, said the one word that hurt most of the group, "Oh my God..."
Everyone, minus the adult and chestnut hair girl, received a sharp intense headache. They placed a hand on their head and turned to him, "Issei!"
"Sorry, I couldn't help it. I mean, I'm shock to see that he is still alive here. Don't you guys lie to me, you were thinking the same thing?"
The group did not respond to his question. He was right after all. The injuries that this man had would kill any one else. Seeing that he was still alive had impressed them greatly.
Rossweisse stared at her savior to see colors coming back to his face. She smiled and sighed with relief before turning to Asia, "He's going to make it?"
"Yes," she nodded, "he won't wake up for a while. Some of these wounds were deeper than they look. It's a good thing you brought him here right away."
"Thanks Valhalla."
The chestnut coughed a little, "So... Are you going to tell us what happen?"
Rossweisse looked up and nodded, "Yes Irina, it started like this..."
After listening to Rossweisse's story, the group was speechless. Hearing that this man fought a group of armed thugs in his current state and won was incredible. They began wondered if this man was a normal human or something else?
The black hair girl glanced at the man, "Do you know his name?"
"No Akeno, he passed out before I could ask."
Asia let out a sighed and brought her hands down, "I'm finish."
They turned to see the man who was now all healed up. Also, the girls found something that caught their attention. He actually had a nice six pack and an average build body. Signs of different type of scars could be found around the body around the body. Kiba and Xenovia could tell that some of his scars came from melee weapons, like a sword for example. They wondered what could of happen to him before he ran into Rossweisse.
Rossweisse grabbed his shirt while Asia lifted him up a little. This allow her to put the shirt back on for her hero. She gently laid him down and turned to Rias, "Please understand Rias, I brought him here because I couldn't let someone who saved me die."
The red head smiled, "Of course not, no one should be left to die. We may be devils, but that does not mean we don't have a heart."
Issei soon heard a groan and turned to the direction of it. His eyes widen a little as he softly spoke, "Um guys..."
Unfortunately they did not hear him and continued their conversation.
"What do we do with him now?"
"We could let hims stay here Kiba. After all nobody, but us come in here. So it should be safe for him" Rossweisse answered.
"If that is allow" Xenovia crossed her arms while turning to Rias and the adult.
"Uh, guys?" Issei attempted to gain their attention again.
"If this man help one of my peers then he can stay here as long as he want. Besides, it not my style to leave someone without rewarding them for their good deed" Rias answered.
"You have no objection from me" the older man said.
"I wouldn't mind having him sleeping here for tonight" said the crossdresser boy.
Rossweisse stand up and bowed, "Thank you Rias, Gasper, Azazel."
"Guys..." Issei raise his voice a little, but it failed once again.
"So what now?" Irina asked.
"We could continue this meeting tomorrow" Akeno suggested while placing a finger on her left cheek.
Rias nodded, "Yes, we might as well..."
"Seriously... GUYS!" Issei shouted.
Everyone turned to him only to stare. The only one who was not caught off guard by Issei's outburst was Koneko who spoke to him, "What Issei?"
He pointed down, "There's something wrong with him. Look."
The group looked at the sleeping man who was fidgeting and sweating. He was moving his head left and right while softly muttering, "No... No... No..."
Rossweisse quickly got down on her knees and placed a hand on his chest, "Hey wake up. Wake up." Unfortunately, it did not work and it raise her concern.
Asia studied his face, "It look like he's having a nightmare."
"It must be pretty bad if he's moving like this" Xenovia added.
"I wonder what it could be?" Kiba asked.
Inside the dream of the stranger, he was running through a blazing golden hall of a space ship. Large windows were on his right showing outside where explosions were exploding everywhere in space. He was wearing a futuristic armor with mix colors of red, blue, and gray. The hall had many dead bodies and small explosions erupted in the background. He made a quick turn to see a man underneath a large pipe.
The trapped man was wearing a blue armor with red outlines and a little bit of gold. He raise an hand in the air and cried, "Sir help me!"
"Hold on!" the stranger, who appeared to be the trapped man's leader, said. He hurried over to grab the pipe and began lifting it up. This allow the blue warrior enough time to crawl out.
The blue warrior got back on his feet and saluted, "Thank you, sir!"
The stranger grunted a little as he tossed the pipe to the side before pointing to a hallway, "Hurry to the stasis pods! The ship is about to enter the portal soon!"
"Yes sir!" the warrior shouted and followed the orders he was given. Wasting no time he ran as fast as he could while his leader watched him off.
The man was force to raise an arm because of an explosion to the side. As the flames became calmer, the man lower his arm to see the new damaged to the ship, "The ship can take any more hits... We must reach that portal before it's too late." The man ran down the hall, stepping to the side or jumping over debris for a few minutes. He came to a halt when a large robotic voice echoed through the entire ship.
"ENTERING PORTAL IN APPROXIMATELY 15 KLIKS!"
"I have to hurry to the bridge" the man muttered and ran even faster while making a few turns until he stopped at a large door, "I should make sure everyone is in the pods first."
He clicked a couple of buttons on a pad and watched the doors slowly began to open. As he watched, an intense pain appeared and blood slowly came down from his mouth. He slowly force his head down to see a silver sword, stain with his own blood, piece right through his stomach on the lower right side. A voice from behind spoke to him, "You let your guard down."
The man coughed a little blood as he slowly, forcibly tilted his head and recognized his attacker, "You!"
"Yes... It's me" he pulled his sword out which caused the armor warrior to grunt in pain and some blood to come out from his stab wound. Once the sword was out, the wounded warrior was force to turn around because the new man pulled the warrior's shoulder to face attacker raise his left arm and aimed it at his prey's chest while an arm cannon appeared. He fired a large light purple transparent electrical blast which exploded on contact. The man went flying through the open doors and landed hard on the ground. The man tried to get up, but he could only lean forward with his chest. The blast he took made his armor hot which caused his body to burn. Placing a hand on his chest and grunting in pain, the attacker marched forward to him. He aimed his sword at his prey's chest, "You are fool to think that you and your fellow Autobots could escape from me. It is time to show you how wrong you are."
"Do your worst, Megatron" the warrior said glaring into the crimson eyes of his arch enemy.
Megatron raise his sword in the air ready to deliver the finishing blow, "I intend to..." Before he could say his enemy's name, he was blasted by a couple of beams follow by two brutes talking him out the door.
The warrior was lifted up by two soldiers, who wore identical blue armor like the one he saved earlier, off the ground. Each placed one of his arm around their neck and dragged them away from the fight. The warrior saw the open pod and realized what they were doing, "Stop! I need to stop Megatron!"
"Sorry sir, but you have to survive" one of the soldiers said.
"No... This pod should be reserve for someone else. I need to go back out there."
The second soldier looked down for a moment, "Sir... You must survive."
The soldiers shoved him into the pod and closed the door as he turned around. Peering through the little glass window of the pod while pounding on the door, "Let me out! That is an order!"
"Sir, you are the only hope for the Autobots to fight against the Decepticons. They need you more than a couple of soldiers like us."
"No! Everyone person is needed just the same! We are all equal!"
The soldiers smiled at him before one of them pressed a button which activated the pod. Lights began to come on and cold air entered inside. The warrior looked down to see his feet becoming frozen. The freezing procedure was making its way up, slowly putting the rest of his body to stasis.
The soldiers saluted and spoke at the same time, "We appreciate your concern and respect for us, sir! We will never forget your kind words to us and those years of serving you and the Autobots' cause. It's been a honor!"
The leader watched his own men leave the room to join the battle against Megatron. The warrior saw his men closed the door and gave one last smile before making a war cry. In his last few moments, the Dominator ripped apart his men and the brutes. Megatron raise a head he tore off to his face only to smirk. He crushed the head into tiny pieces and laughed evilly. The leader shouted one last thing before he enter stasis and the doors closed, "NNNNOOOOO!"
Back with the present, the man opened his eyes and screamed so loud that it startled the group, "NNNNOOOO!" Without thinking, he got off the couch and grabbed Issei's neck while making a war cry. He nailed the teen to the wall as he raise a fist.
He was about to attack when Rossweisse grabbed his raise arm and spoke to him, "Stop! Calm down! He's not your enemy!"
The man panted hard before taking a deep breath to collect his thoughts. He saw the boy and let him go, "Sorry about that. I thought I was still dreaming."
Issei rubbed his throat and gave a thumbs up, "It's okay."
The man looked around to see he was in a different location, "Where am I? How did I get here?"
"I brought you here" Rossweisse answered.
He turned to her and recognized who she was, "You! You're the lady I met in the alley."
"Yep and thank you again."
"It wasn't a big deal. I was doing what was right. Anyway, where am I?"
"You're in a building that belong to Kuoh Academy which is where I work at."
The man blinked, "Kuoh Academy..."
"Yes, I was on my way here to meet my friends when I ran into you."
The man titled his head and saw the other people in the room, "Forgive me for wasting your valuable time with your friends."
The room were surprised to see how humble this man was despite his violent performance a couple seconds ago. Rossweisse shook her head, "It's okay. After all, I couldn't leave a wounded hero to die."
The man noticed that the pain was gone, "You patch me up?"
"Actually, it was Asia here who patch you up" she showed the blond hair girl with an open hand.
"Thank you for saving my life, Asia" he said while giving a small bow.
Asia shook her hands in embarrassment, "It's not a big deal! I was doing what was right too!"
He straighten himself up before grabbing his jacket and was about to head to the door, "Anyway, I should be going now. I wasted enough of your time."
"Hold it!", Rias shouted causing the man to face her, "You save my friend here and such a noble deed should not go unrewarded."
The man raise a hand and shook his head, "There's no need miss. I don't need a reward."
"But I insist. It's my code to reward those who help my friends. Tell me what you desire and I'll get it."
Issei was about to say something, but he stopped when he heard the man's answer, "Sorry, there is nothing I want. I understand you intentions, but being able to help someone is good enough for me."
Rias was amazed with this man's noble demeanor. It was rare to see an unselfish and non-greedy person nowadays. "You are sure about this?"
"I am."
"Very well."
Issei remained speechless at the sudden development. He assumed that this guy would want to do something with Rias or one of his friends. To him, this stranger seem like a playboy. Surprisingly, this guy proved him wrong, "Well I'll be a monkey's uncle."
Rossweisse stepped in, "So, where are you going now?"
"Don't know", he calmly answered, "before I ran into you, I woke up in the abandon building next to the alley. I had no idea how I got there." The man grunted a little as he rubbed the back of his head.
"What's wrong?"
"My head is killing me, I must had hit it pretty hard."
The group blinked at his response and wonder if he had amnesia. If he does not remember where his home was then it would be unwise to let him go. He doesn't seem like the lying type and his injuries from before proved that he encountered a rough situation.
An idea popped into Rias' head, "How about you stay here for tonight?"
"What?"
"Since you have no were to go, you can stay here for the night. My family own this school so don't worry about getting in trouble. Also, nobody comes into this building, but us. It's a perfect place to rest."
The man took a moment to think and saw it was more beneficial to stay here than out there. He faced Rias, "Are you sure about this?"
"Of course besides our friend, Gasper," she introduced the little boy who waved his hand, "sleep here all the time."
The man waved back to him, "Thank you for generous gift Miss..."
"Gremory, Rias Gremory and you're welcome", she answered with a smile and offered a handshake which the man accepted, "So what is your name?"
Before the man could answer, Issei looked at the clock and saw how late it was, "Shit! We need to leave now or else my parents is going to kill me for being late."
"he's right about leaving. You should all head home and get some sleep. After all tomorrow is a school day", Azazel replied and headed for the door, "Ciao."
"We should be going too" Koneko said and the group headed towards the door. They said they would see the man tomorrow and he responded by saying goodnight.
Outside of the old building, Xenovia came to a halt which caused her friends to look at her. She stared into their eyes, "We shouldn't leave Gasper with him."
"Why Xenovia? He's seem like a nice man" Asia asked.
"True, but the way he woke up from his nightmare and attack Issei makes me worry. I don't know why, but my guts is telling me that he saw real combat."
"Are you suggesting that he fought in a war?"
"Yes Kiba", she nodded to her Knight partner, "The way he moves and how he reacted cause me to be suspicious even if he woke up from a nightmare."
Irina patted her best friend on the shoulder, "You worry too much Xenovia. It was an accident and even if he did it again he couldn't hurt Gasper even if he try."
This caused Issei to rub his throat again, "I wouldn't be so sure."
The confused Akeno blink, "What do you mean?"
"That guy is far stronger than he look. He actually made it hard for me to breath when he pinned me to the wall." The group started to giggle which caused Issei snapped, "I'm serious here! That guy is strong, strong as us maybe stronger!" The group's eyes widen at Issei's remark and began to wonder who this man was.
Kiba spoke in a serious tone, "Is he like us?"
"No, he's not like us. I smell his scent and he's human; however,..."
Asia turned to Koneko, "However?"
"He is human, but it is different than any human I smell. I can confirm that he is not a devil, monster, angel, nor a fallen angel."
"I can vouch for that. I didn't detect any demonic aura within him, but I did sense a mystical power deep in him. It's not angel nor fallen angel powers... It's something far greater. I can't determine what it is I'm afraid" Akeno said with Asia nodding because she too had sense the same power.
More questions erupted in the group. Who was he? What was he? With this new information, the group was hesitating about leaving Gasper alone with this mysterious stranger. The group remained silent for a few moments until one of them spoke.
"How about I stay here tonight?" Rossweisse offered a suggestion.
"Eh?" the group responded.
"I was able to stop him from hurting Issei so I'm the best candidate for the job. Also, since I was the one who brought him here it should be my responsibility to watch him."
Everyone took a moment to think before nodding to their red head King. Rias understood and turned to her Rook, "Alright, stay here and keep an eye on him. I'll send your pajamas and clothes for tomorrow when we get home."
"Okay" she answered before heading back inside.
Issei stepped alongside Rias, "You think she'll be okay in there with him?"
"Tough to say, we just have to wait and see."
Back with Gasper and the man, they were having a small conversation. The man, who was sitting on the couch, asked questions about Kuoh Academy and the city outside which Gasper happily answered them. Tiredness hit the young boy and he gave a loud yawn, "Sorry mister, but we have to continue this tomorrow. Goodnight."
"Goodnight" he answered back and blink when he saw the sleeping Gasper, "That was fast. I should get some sleep too." Sadly, it was proven difficult for him because of the nightmare he had. The scene of his murder men was burnt into his mind and their voices continued to ring in his ears. He looked down on the table and cursed himself while he tighten his fists, I should've save them. I should've..."
He was broke out of his trance when Rossweisse opened the door. She smiled at him as she closed it, "Hello."
"Hello... Um shouldn't you be heading home?"
"Well" she walked over and took a seat besides him, "you see..."
"Your friends were worried for Gasper's safety and decided that one more person should be here" he interrupted.
Rossweisse blinked in surprise, "Y-Yes, how did you know?"
"It wasn't hard to figure out. After all, I did display some ruthless behavior earlier."
"It was an accident, you woke up from a nightmare."
"That maybe true, but still..." this caused him to tighten his fist more which caused them to shake a little.
Rossweisse noticed it and place a hand over one of his fist, "You can talk about your nightmare if you want. I know I probably won't understand it much, but it is easier to talk about it than keeping it inside. I won't force you to do it; however, you shouldn't keep it inside too long."
He turned to her, "You miss are wise for your age."
"No... not at all" she replied while trying to keep her cool.
"To me, it's quite impressive. Not many people train the mind much, seeing someone who did is inspiring. You see knowledge is power whether people realize it or not."
Rossweisse blushed at his complement. This was the first time that someone praise her vast knowledge because all her life people made fun of her for it. She turned her head to hide her red cheeks while playing with her hair, "Thanks for the complement."
"You're welcome." He took a deep breath to relax, "Perhaps it will help by talking about it."
She turned her head to him, "You can just give a short version of it, if you want?"
"Alright, basically it was event from my past. It continue to haunt me even now. I was force to watch good men perish right before my eyes. They sacrifice themselves to protect me from harm. They strongly believed I was their hope and died with that belief. I wanted to save them, but they lock me up in order to protect me. How can I be their hope if I couldn't save them from their destruction?" This caused him to shake his arms in frustration.
The Valkyrie gave a sympathy stare and placed a hand on his right shoulder, "They were probably aware that death was inevitable for them. Perhaps that is why they wanted you to live because you can survive."
"Even knowing that does not ease my pain of failure."
"Did it help talking about it a little?" she asked curiously.
He smiled, "It did... Thank you Miss..."
"Rossweisse... My name is Rossweisse."
"That is an interesting name... It's suit you perfectly."
She blushed again and twirl a thread of her hair, "You sure say things bluntly."
"Being honest is one of my strong suit. This is how those men I told you about it came to respect to me."
"I can see why. There's not many people who like to be honest." She got off the couch and gave a pillow to the man, "Here. You can sleep here. I'll take the other couch."
"Thank you."
"No problem," then something click, "By the way what is your name?"
"My name is Optimus Prime."
"That's a unique a name. Well have a goodnight sleep, Optimus."
"You too, Rossweisse." He grabbed his jacket and spread it over his chest after laying down.
Rossweisse watched him go to sleep before a small magic circle appeared next to a large curtain which was behind Optimus. She went over to see her pajamas and a fresh pair of clothes. On top of it was a folded note, wasting no time she reach for the paper. She unfolded it to see it was from Rias.
"Here you go, Rossweisse. See you tomorrow and keep a close eye on our mysterious guest."
Rossweisse picked up her clothes before opening the curtain. The curtain revealed a white shower and she entered it before closing the curtain. She started to take off her clothes for a bit until she stop to check on something. A calm snoozing which meant that Optimus was sleeping peacefully which eased her worries. A couple of minutes later, she was in her pajamas that had long sleeves with different kind of purple strips with matching pants. Her folded clothes was placed on the desk before heading to the empty couch.
She came to a halt when she saw the sleeping Optimus and walked closer to him, "Thank you again for saving me, Optimus Prime." She gently kissed his forehead before laying down and went to sleep.
Meanwhile in space, a dark colored warship was traveling past Neptune. Inside the menacing ship, were men who wore identical mechanical armor. Also, they had the same sinister purple insignia on their chest. In the control room, a bulky man wearing green armor, that look like it was forged from a jet, was sitting on a chair while troopers were navigating the ship. He gazed at the front view to see the large blue planet only to sigh in boredom. He was sent across the stars by his master to hunt down certain men, but he had no success. It was like finding a needle in a haystack except the haystack was the entire galaxy.
Lucky for him, good fortune was approaching. A trooper wearing purple vehicle armor shouted from below, "Commander Skyquake!"
"What is it?" he demanded calmly.
"We detected an Autobot's energy signature on the third planet of this system; however, we cannot ID the Bot yet, sir!"
"Finally after all these centuries, we found one." Skyquake pressed a button on his chair and spoke to it. His voice echoed through the entire ship, "Attention Decepticons! We found an Autobot's energy signature in this system. Prepare your weapons and get ready to hunt." He lifted his finger to rise up and opened his hand forward, "Full speed ahead! Double time!"
"Yes sir!"