Thriving Hope

Autobots retreated from the Ankmor Park and returned to the Praxus City. Injured soldiers were moved to the Medical Basement, an underground large and wide room for treating injured soldiers. Chief Medical Officer Ratchet walked across the the room diagnosing the seriously wounded patients while RedAlert, Medix and other medics were helping other less serious patients.

"So, how bad things are with you, friend?" said Ratchet walking near to Ironhide.

"Those Deceptichops shot my arm, and it got cut out. Aarrgg, it hurts." said Ironhide groaning in pain.

"Just hold still." said Ratchet, as he proceeded to tranaform his hand to a fan like thing to fan out wound on Ironhide's cut arm to cool it a bit. Then he asked Medix to pass over a replacement limb and Medix brought a semi-square, semi-circle metal column as wide as an arm which looked much less like a limb. It was actually made up of specially processed Cytium nanites treated with Energon. Ratchet took the limb and began to weld and connected it to body of Ironhide delicately. As he finished welding, the silver new limb turned red to align with color of Ironhide. The arm began to reconfigure itself into shape of Ironhide's real arm and dropped off extra pieces. The new arm was exactly same as old one!

"Ah! I just feel like just coming out of Well of Spark!" Ironhide said with joy of getting his arms fixed.

On the top of the Headquarters was Ultramagnus standing alone, gazing at the stars. Then, Optimus came there and stood by the side placed his hand over Ultramagnus' shoulder and said, "What are you thinking, Magnus?"

"Nothing, Optimus, just wondering how our planet once full of Peace and Beauty is now engulfed in War and Destruction." he said, "We've lost so my Comrades in all this battling."

"Some things can never be prevented and past can never be changed." Optimus answered, " We must move on, to restore the Glory of Cybertron and not let their sacrifices in vain." Optimus paused for a while and said, "Sometimes, I miss my best friend of all times, Dion. I wonder if Megatron haven't had taken over, he would've been with us right now and there would have been peace on Cybertron."

"We'll make it, Optimus." Ultramagnus said.

Then, comlink message came to Optimus from Wheeljack, "Optimus, come here fast. We've something very interesting."

Hearing the message, Optimus rolled through hallways and reached the Tech Zone of Headquarters. Jazz, Prowl, and several other major ranked Autobots were already there. "What's the matter?" Optimus asked.

Blaster explained, "A couple decades after the war started, we had anticipated that we may be getting low on resources as war would continue. So, we had sent several probes in Space to search for possible resources. After all this long Time, we've found Energon signatures, and these signatures are quite formidable justifying quite the amount of Energon."

"And if we are right, there would enough Cytium there too." Wheeljack completed Blaster's sentence and a holographic screen showed up in front on Optimus. The screen showed image of a planet covered in blue with green splashes on it.

"Are you sure we can harness those Energon resources?" Optimus asked.

"It won't be a problem. Since the planet is made up of rocks, digging out Energon or Cytium would be very very easy than it is on Metal Crust of Cybertron. It is around two million parsecs away."

"Optimus, there is something else you might consider." Perceptor said, and showed zoomed images of the planet, and continued, "This planet hosts life."

"Can we use their Resources without harming them?" Optimus asked.

"Of course. Life it hosts is organic and doesn't need energon at all. And the civilizations established there, as much we can observe, doesn't seem to be using it either. We can go there without gaining their attention. Gather resources and supply here."

"Is it possible to go there?" Jazz asked.

Wheeljack answered, "Yes. I can make a Transwarp drive to make the voyage very short. But…"

"But what?" asked Prowl.

"We need some special fuel for the ship for extraterrestrial voyage, Antimatter. But, we are already so low on resources. I don't think it would wise to use them to make fuel for such risky mission."

"Is there anywhere else where we can get it?" asked Ultramagnus.

"No. It doesn't occur naturally. It is only made. But if you're asking, then Shockwave's lab is such a place. It is just very little in quantity, yet too efficient in Energy" Wheeljack said..

"Optimus, I'd like to take a team of Scouts to steal the fuel." said Jazz.

"No, we can't risk lives of our Soldiers." Optimus said.

"But I guess we should take risk, Prime. Since, Decepticons have captured Well of Sparks region. There are recruiting every newborn into their Army, and would gradually overwhelmed completely. This mission, if successful, can provide us Energy to turn the odds of War." Prowl said.

"I think you're right. Jazz you've got my permission. Return safe." Optimus said.

"Yes, Sir." Jazz said saluting to Optimus.

"Alright. Dismiss"