Sunstar's Life - Written By Riley Kiina Haile

[Sunstar]

Well here is the first installment of Sunstar's Life before earth - please note that it will be in Journal Format after the prologue.

Peace Out

Riley Kiina Haile

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A.N.
This is just to let readers understand the Timescale for Transformers:

1 astrosecond = approx. 1 second
1 breem = 8.3 minutes
1 joor = 6.5 hours
1 orn = 6 Earth days
1 Stellar-cycle = 1 Month
1 vorn = 83 Years

Prologue

City of Iacon, Cybertron

“Sunny, Sides, a little help here! I’ve engaged Shadow Blaze and fraggin’ Cyclonus is trying to butt in here. Trailbreaker where in Pit are you, I mean a little bit of artillery would be nice right about now.” I said through my comm. link to the others in my group.

“Hey ‘Star we’re coming, just hold on a little longer. Cyclonus won’t know what hit him when we’re through with him.” came the response from Sideswipe as he and his Twin came tearing across the hill from another area of the battlefield.

“Hey now, don’t worry your favorite Twin saviors are here to help you out of a bind.” came Sunny’s voice through my comm.

I mentally slapped my fore-plates at his phrasing. I finally managed to knock my brother down and as I reached for my pistol, he got up transforming into his vehicle mode and drove off. Blast it to Pit and back, I’m going to get him back for everything he’s done since joining up with Megatron.

As I turned to fight off Cyclonus I see the Twins launching at him and smiled, they were doing fine against him, so I focused my attention on the others fighting. I headed on over to where I saw Trailbreaker fighting against Skywarp and Thundercracker, so I headed on over and started to blast away at Thundercracker with my Rifle and hoped that Bluestreak could take out at least one of them.

I smirked as I barreled into Skywarp thus leaving Trail to deal with Thundercracker, now Skywarp is quite a petrorabbit when he is caught unaware, thus he warped his aft to safety when he noticed who it was that had knocked him flying.

Since Skywarp had finally left the vicinity I decided to try and help Trail with Thundercracker but he sent me a comm. saying to get Moonracer to those who need her help getting off the battlefield and to where Ratchet and First Aid were. So I sent her the signal to head to where I was and we slowly helped move those who were pretty badly wounded first, this was going to be a long jour or two to help get everyone moved back to the safety of the Autobot lines.

About 12 Orn’s later

I had been sent on a recon mission to the city of Vos, my home city and had been told that the Decepticons had been up to a few raids on the energon supply stored there, and there was no way in Pit that they were going to take it from those who still hid in the area.

What I wasn’t ready for was my brother to attack as I neared and area where there was once a youth sector, (it was moved back to Iacon for safety I was told).

He landed a few good shots with his plasma blaster on my back plates which sent me sliding forward a short distance. I un-subspaced my Rifle and aimed it at his spark.

“Shadow, why are you doing this? What did we ever do to push you away like this? What did I do, even? Please bro’ tell me!” I begged him as I powered up the Rifle.

“You nothing, just that Lord Megatron showed me the error of my beliefs, and unfortunately sister, you don’t figure into my equation unless you join with me and the others.” came Shadow’s reply as he un-subspaced his titanium-reinforced shield and his acid hand blaster, placing his plasma blaster away.

“Shadow, you more than anyone knows that I would never join Megatron and his rabble. If you refuse to come back to me and the Autobots then I will have no choice but to deactivate you, please for the love of Primus don’t make me do this!” I said trying to with hold any ‘tears’ that this situation was causing me to want to release.

“Then if that is what must happen then go ahead, Sister. Put us both out of our misery and have us join the Matrix together.” Shadow said as his pistol charged up and he aimed for my spark.

I looked him in the optics, shaking my head as I thought about it and this abysmal situation we were now in. I could only hope that Sunny and Sides never went through this ever.

“I am so, so sorry Shadow but I must do this to ease the pain we are both feeling.” I said as I pulled the trigger on my Rifle. At the exact moment I did that he pulled the trigger on his pistol, his shot going wide as I quickly moved slightly to one side. My shot hit him dead center of his spark chamber and killed him quickly, his shot however caused a laceration in the lower chest armor near to the top of my abdominal plates - hurt like slag, but nothing that I couldn’t patch up somewhat neatly enough and pray to Primus that the welding held until I could find a medic.

After collecting up my brother’s pistol and shield placing them and my Rifle into my subspace compartment, I headed back towards base and a medic. What I wasn’t expecting was an All-Autobot-Emergency Message.

I cringed as I read the message, it stated that any remaining Femmes and younglings should head away from Iacon, Vos, and any other Youth Sectors due to Megatron systematically killing the Femmes and Younglings; be they Autobot or Decepticon.

It was at this point that I knelt down and just cried out in agony over what was happening, when the thought about what I had done to my own brother hit me like a Constructicon pummeling; I had saved him from Megatron’s wrath and a death by his hands for failing to offline me.

I then got up back onto my feet and decided then and there to head away from Cybertron and see if there was anywhere else I could find where the Autobots were now hiding.

A long while later

It would be many vorns later that I would learn about the battle at Tyger Pax and the Cube being thrust into the deep recesses of space, I would never know the name of the ‘bot who went up against Megatron himself, but I vowed then to help in the search for it and to keep it from Decepticon hands at all costs.

As I headed out I decided that I really missed the Twins and my other friends, and that the need for energon would probably be my most pressing concern on my mission as I went about on my own, no-one knowing if I was online or not. Due to the battles I had been through since the Flotilla massacre, and the attacks on pretty much every Youth Sector around, my Communications were fritzing; I could receive but not send and messages, later on I would find this to be a rather large annoyance when I finally found my friends.

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[Sunstar]

Please ignore the Attachment piece in the previous chapter - it doesn't work!!

But here is the next Chapter - Enjoy!!

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A.N.: I just wanna say thanks to all who read the first chapter and a big cyber cookie to Veekalzhanez for their review on FF.net. I hope you enjoy this next chapter and see if anyone can spot a few smirks at some other shows I enjoy that made it into the back story - nothing definite action wise though just passing through.

Disclaimer: I don‘t own any of the Autobots or Decepticon‘s mentioned in my writing - they own themselves!! Please make note: I hate repeating myself so this will be the only Disclaimer for the story.

Chapter One

Journal Entry #6,349

Well I have now been roaming through the vast areas of space searching for others of my kind, even those I know and had worked with for a time, but due to this pit-slaggin’ war most are either off-lined permanently or missing.

This is now the 5th star system I have traveled through - somewhere called The Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy about three million light-years between here and the nearest Galaxy, something called The Milky Way.

The Pegasus Galaxy is a nice system overall a few planets with life on and lucky me for now no ’Con signatures registering on my sensors. The only problem I can see for now is a race of squishies that have space capable crafts and terrorize the others of the planets I sense life on, unfortunately I am busy enough without getting involved with their squabbles.

What has caught my attention though is the ring formation that floats above a few of the planets, they register as being made of a material called Naquadah - highly explosive if used as a catalyst for any type of bomb, definitely leaving those alone I think, wouldn’t do to damage myself any further than I already am.

My injuries I incurred from a scuffle with Ravage before I left Vos after taking out my own brother in our home city, I myself am surprised that I survived the termination of my spark ((how twins are formed is a single spark splits into two, thus giving the creators twin sparks. Twins are a rarity on Cybertron, only three sets of us even exist: Myself and Shadow Blazer, Sunstreaker and Sideswipe - both of us sets are the same age, just different creators, and then the youngest twins ever sparked Mudflap and Skids.))

Myself and Shadow Blazer were an odd exception as Twins due to the fact that we were a Mech/Femme set of Twins and not the Mech/Mech or Femme/Femme set of Twins - scared the Medibots when they realized this and told our creators that Primus had blessed them with a true rarity in Sparklings.

I guess I will find some sort of a moon or asteroid to stop on and replenish what energon I can before I go into stasis lock, and thus leaving myself vulnerable. I just really hope that I find the others soon, I’m fed up with being alone all the time, hell even Bluestreak would be a blessing right about now to break the monotony.

Addition to Journal Entry # 6,349

Well I managed to find a small moon that orbits a nice little plant covered planet, the only life signs I can detect on it are some form of avian type animal.

I didn’t get much in the way of recharge when I powered down due to my processor not wanting to shut down all the way - blast it all the way to pit, I kept reliving the attack on Iacon, the home of two of my friends and colleagues Sunny and Sides aka the Twins. They were busy fighting off Skywarp and Thundercracker so that left me and Trailbreaker to clear the way for Moonracer to reach the wounded ‘bots on the battlefield.

Journal Entry #7,472

I really miss the Twins, and Trailbreaker - some of my best friends almost think of them as my brothers. Especially Trailbreaker I treat him as I would an older brother and vice versa only he sees me as his younger sister.

I can only hope that we all meet up again sometime in the near future, these past 12 orns (996 Years) have been lonely and I am now craving their company and even their crazy pranks would be welcomed right about now. I swear to Primus, that if I see them soon I will forgive them the pranks that they played on me when we were going through the academy together - I hate pink paint with a vengeance due to them two.

I even miss the Intraformers Sharpshooter Competition back on Cybertron, even if Sureshot did win, but second place - especially for a Femme - is really rather good. The only other person who could out do me - well the only other people - Bluestreak and Elita, maybe even Chromia if it was all about blowing things to smithereens, and her spark mate Ironhide is no better, even though he is the Autobots Weapon Specialist, he loves to blow anything up - especially ’Cons, are the ones who taught me everything I know about shooting and taking out my enemies.

Well time to wrap this entry up and continue on and see if I meet up with anyone from home or the other groups that split off from Cybertron whilst looking for the All Spark after it was launched during the battle for Tyger Pax. I hope someone finds it soon so that this pit forsaken war will end once and for all.

[Sunstar]

A.N.: Here is another chapter, hope you enjoy them, just a little bit on astronomy in these few chapters, it helps since she is traveling quite a way on her own here.

The Reason for the chapters being the lengths they are is because they are “Journal Entries”, they would end up being whatever length Sunstar would consider writing at the time.

I would also like to thank those who read the fic and to those who reviewed: Veekalzhanez and Fourth Remnant on FF.net, your reviews made my day. Cyber-Ice Cream sundae’s for the pair of them with Energon sprinkles on top.

And now on to the next Chapter.

Disclaimer: In the 1st Chapter people. I don’t own Transformers, just my own Characters.

Chapter 2

Journal Entry 8,582

Sorry about not doing an entry for so long, I figure that it has been a good few stellar-cycles since my last one, but due to some interference from a newly formed black hole in one area of a system that I was passing through I decided to play it safe and continue on as quickly as possible so that I didn’t end up caught in it’s gravimetric pull and wind up crushed from the pressure. (Not the way I want to offline in thank you very much!)

Well now I am now in a small area of space called the Milky Way Galaxy, somewhere on one of the arms near the out edges, where all the older star systems are; all the younger ones are nearer the center of the rotation and are hotter because of all the gaseous nebulas that are forming there.

I recently received a garbled message in Cybertronian from Optimus Prime of all Mech’s, what a relief I can tell you it was to hear his voice even if it was garbled with space and distance distortions. Took me a while to clean it up too.

I decided to wait until I reached the edge of the Sol System where he and his group are and then send them a message, my long range communication system needs time to heal more before I even attempt to send the message, my receiving is fine it’s just the sending that is the problem right now - I just hope that my systems can repair it all in time.

I have seen some really strange space craft floating around throughout the star systems I have traveled through on my way to either finding the All Spark or my Leader Optimus Prime. Some looked like giant floating pyramids that gleamed almost like the towers of Iacon when the light hit it just right - Oh Primus now I’m feeling home sick.

But any who, these strange crafts looked as if they had been blasted by high energy weapons, something like Ironhide’s massive Plasma Canons or Primes Photon Rifle but on a much grander scale.

I noticed a small asteroid nearby that I am going to set down on and have one of my energon rations and whilst I’m on the thought of weapons; I better check my Plasma Rifle and make sure that it has enough of a charge if I need it and then check my laser pistol and make sure that that is in working order incase I end up in close combat and can’t use my rifle.

Maybe I can catch a few cycles of recharge before I head out again, I certainly haven’t picked up any Decepticon signals for a while now so I am going to assume that it is safe for me to do so, I just won’t shut down all the way, leave my long range scanners online and have them warn me if it picks up any Cybertronian signal - friendly or otherwise.

Time for a rest I think, and recharge, will write more when I get the chance I guess.

Addition to Journal Entry 8,582:

It was several orns later that my scanners picked up a signal I recognized from when I was going through the Academy. I on-lined my systems and went in the direction it had come from, it was an almost constant ’ping’ on my scanners as I got closer.

I was shocked to find that it was Road Rage, she was Crosscut’s advisor and bodyguard as they traveled around the systems communicating with the various organic life forms.

This was her specialty, she was well versed in the culture and customs of various organic life. And now I had found her off-lined form floating through space. I scanned for any residual energy signature that wasn’t Autobot on her, and picked up a signature I detested - Dirge had permanently off-lined a good Femme, friend and xenobiologist.

I know that I was going to miss her cheerfulness when hanging out at the clubs back home - or what used to be our home, unless she caught up to you on the roads around Cybertron - then she became extremely narrow-minded and a rather violent driver, but that was due to her having a chronic instability in her navigation protocols.

As I looked at her frame I noticed that she was in her flight capable mode - like Starscream’s tetra jet mode. Her Plasma discharger had been forcefully removed and her twin magnabomb launchers had also been forcibly removed causing extensive damage to her wings - she would never have flown again because of that.

She was one of the few Femmes that could have two alt. modes, one ground and one flight - very rare by our standards, and now so much more so with her loss of spark.

I said a few prayers to Primus, and headed back to the rock I had been resting on with her form and covered her up with the local debris and then left to continue my journey to where Prime and the others were.

My hopeful mood had been dashed, but I knew that I had to expect these sorts of things in war, just never thought it would be someone as rare as Road Rage.

I can only hope that her memories will live on in this entry as I write many more on my travels, I just hope to Primus that I don’t find anymore off-lined bodies of ‘bots I once knew.

Journal Entry 10,820:

Well it has now been another couple of cycles since my last entry, so here are the highlights I guess you could call them.

I got caught in a pit forsaken meteor shower as I passed by a small planetoid on the edge of the Sol System - looking it up in the information package that Prime had sent as a data burst with his message to all Autobots left out in space - I found out that it was named Pluto and that there was some type of a debate about whether it was a planet or an Asteroid.

As I gently maneuvered myself out of any gravity that the small planetoid had, I once again assessed my injuries. Hmm, looks like Ol’ Doc Hatchet is gonna have a blast banging out the dings that I’ve picked up, at least nothing too serious, but I definitely don’t want to go through another storm like that again.

He’s gonna be slagged off about my communications system and the fact that my energy levels are just above what would be good for optimal performance, considering how far I’ve come and how much energon I have left in my personal sub-space pocket - probably about 4-5 cubes left, with a handful of energon candies; might try to set down on a moon again and snack on a few of those candies to tide me over before I need to have an energon cube again.

Man am I bored out of my processor, now I’m wishing that either Jazz or the Twins were here to liven this trip up somewhat. Hell even Blaster at this point mainly due to his communications system is like 50 times better than anyone else’s, which would mean that we could forward a message to Prime and the others and let them know that we’re on our way, but so far I haven’t seen anyone else - yet!

I have been reading through the data burst and I am learning quite a bit about this planet they are on called Earth, it’s main population are humanoid, with some avian, and other mammals, but Humans are the pre-dominant species.

What I was surprised to learn was that ¾ of the earths surface is water, it’s atmosphere was made up of 78% Nitrogen, 20.9 % Oxygen, 0.93% Argon, 0.03% Carbon Dioxide, 1% water vapor and a small percentile (0.04%) of other gases.
Looking back at some of the other Galaxies I had traveled through to get here they were just as interesting; The Omega Centauri or NGC 5139 as the Humans call it is a globular cluster seen in the constellation of Centaurus. It orbit’s the Milky Way Galaxy and is one of the few that can be seen by the naked eye on Earth, being as it is both the brightest and largest known globular cluster associated with the Milky Way.

This cluster is located about 4,850 parsecs from Earth (about 15,800 light-years) and is only about 12 billion years old, quite young for a galaxy containing several million population II stars.

Then there was the Andromeda Galaxy, also called Messier 31 or NGC 224 by the Humans and is another spiral galaxy in the constellation of Andromeda. It is also the nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. Apparently it is one of the farthest objects visible to the naked human eye from earth, and let me tell you folks; it is totally worth seeing it up close and personnel, quite beautiful really and still expanding with newer stars (roughly one trillion stars) and life on a few of it’s planets, mostly plant life though. It is at a distance of 770 Kilo-parsecs from the Milky Way Galaxy (or about 2.5 Mega-Light Years).

It was so beautiful to watch this galaxy from a distance using my Infrared spectrum of vision tuning it down to 24 micrometers and thus seeing the galaxy in hues of red, yellow and orange. Quite breathtaking really, and I would thoroughly recommend to anyone that they try to see what I mean, it is once again truly a marvel.

Well enough about that for now, I guess I had better try and see if my sensors pick up any other signals and hopefully I get to Earth soon.

A.N.: Hope this wasn't too much over peoples heads - I did an awful lot of research for these chapters for the story lines. Did anyone pick out the shows/books used as inspiration for the story background - if you did leave a review in a seperate link with the story title in the subject section.