TFAV The Dark Origin of Zahra Dalton

Zhara was the name of choice in honor of a wonderful Child that was beautiful and such a precious little one. But unfortunately her value was not seen as her own father and her step mother abused her and eventually killed her. I plan on naming my first baby girl Zhara in her memory, and I hope to keep her name alive. I promise and I take a vow to never harm a child in any way. I will not let her die in vain
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For Zahra
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Program Alta
Timeline- two years after the final battle with the Fallen.

We all thought that it would be easy to take on the responsibility of rebuilding the world and as such our assumptions were for not. As we learned the cruel reality of burying the dead and saying goodbye to the dying. In all of our powers we were not ready for the task. Our reality has been forever changed by the reaction of the Allspark in its full power on a planet ripe for evolution. Our world has changed and it is now the epicenter of a brand new race, a race half organic and half transformer. Many of the Autobots and the Decepticons were changed into what could be assumed as partial androids. In this was a great gift, the ability to use organic matter as fuel and to be not reliant upon the energy of Energon. While the lifeblood of the transformers was Energon and its manufacturing left to the divine nature of the Primes it is now the sole duty of the collective group of the inter-universal Primes to decide together the option of using the Solar Extractor to harvest a suns energy to make more Energon. The people, nay the duty of such belongs to the races of human, Humanicon, Humanibot, seraphim, and Transformer. Each race was given their set of Primes and only together in mutual agreement could they reactivate the Solar Extractor and take the life of a sun. With the Fallen gone only one more enemy remains, the horrible and monstrous nightmare that is Unicron! He is out there waiting for his time to wake and strike back against those that took away his chance at revival and for dooming him to perpetual sleep.

For now a new Prime awakes from a kind sleep. The girl once known to the world as Taiya Dalton is no more, for she is now only known as Eclipse Prime, the prime of the Decepticons. This was done in hopes of keeping the Autobots in check to make sure that they do not over stretch their powers again and enslave their own. Another Decepticon Prime known as Warhead Prime wakes next to his dear sweet Domino. He smiles looking at her lightly protruding belly knowing that a child or children grow within. How odd he thought, how this generation of children may be born half transformer and be able to partake in the tasks and roles of their Cybertronian cousins. One thing is certain Sentinel Prime would be turning over in his grave if he knew that organics were being accepted into the line of succession. Warhead got up and made breakfast for Domino in their new home in Ireland. It was one of the old grand castles of the Scottish and Irish wars. The Constructicons had really outdone themselves in their construction. Everything was so lavish and it should be thought Warhead as his sweet princess deserved nothing but the best. He was interrupted by a call from his little brother, or shall we say, later adopted brother, Blackwatch. The message read...

Blackwatch-" hey big bro, me and Eclipse are going to head out for a discovery mission. Could you check up on Luna Walker for me?"

Warhead typed up a message right quick for him telling him that it would not be an issue. Blackwatch sent a message back thanking him for the help. As one could imagine Blackwatch was very nervous as his wife was expecting their first child as well. In fact it seemed like many of his friends and family were finally able to shake the terror of war and finally settle down and start families of their own. Jezebel was far in her surrogate birth and so was Psyche, she and her spark mate was so excited over the birth that Psyche actually did a squee! That was never seen in the many years they have known her. The ability of the fusion between. Machine and organic was something that astounded the doctors all over the globe. But for one this was not so easy, as it was, Eclipse was so damaged in the war that her womb was 90% reconstructed, this meant that her chance to have a sparkling with Blackout was slim. Another thing that bothered her was that when she was with Melvin she had lost a child due to his rage and anger. All it took was one hard punch to the stomach to kill the fetus inside. So much was lost thanks to his selfishness. So much was lost to the madness of the family McAlister. Too many people died and many others remain dying of injury, sickness, and the complete loss of spirit to survive. Often people thought that the shackles of war would break off and rejoice would replace sorrow, but instead a damaged world, a misbegiled population still was left in the pit of sorrow to feel the happiness of a defeated Lord Odin. Eclipse had adopted many children/sparklets but she did get jealous of her friends being able to have a child the normal human way. Though she did not say it outright, Blackout knew from the look on her face seeing mothers push their strollers and prams. He just did not know what to say so he left it be. But for now, she had to get her travel gear ready to exam a small sector of the Orkney Islands. Word had it that Dr. Arkeville had used it as a lab. To make sure that there was nothing dangerous in it, Blackwatch and Eclipse would inspect it. Together they donned their standard human modes. They meet up at the Ireland TT module and headed out on a boat around Scotland to get to the islands. They reached the place and cautiously stepped foot on the island. This was as far as the captain would take them because of the dangerous surf. They thanked him for the ride and said a trip back would not be necessary. He said to take care and stay safe and to make sure they got back on the mainland by night because of the sheer cold around this time of year. They gave a smile and waved him off. They walked up a .slight hill and looked off to the sea at the sight of one of the many rock pillars sticking out of the water. They followed the line of similar pillars across the beach. As they made their way inland they could see less of the rocky pillars. It wasn't too long till they found a cave with an old Scottish symbol for Odin on the rock face. They knew that they were headed in the right direction. To make sure that the cave was not bobby trapped they tossed in a few droid bots to schower the area and to set off the traps before they took a walk in themselves.

Droid number 1 made its way across the ground when he set off one of the booby traps managing to get itself smashed by a falling rock. Number 2 did not fare any better either as he was stopped by part of the floor falling away from itself. Number 3 must have triggered something as it was hit with a laser. The fifth one was very unfortunate as it was burned. Eclipse and Blackwatch sat back and winced at the poor lil droids misfortune they waited till they could get an all clear. Once the area was checked they cautiously walked in and just at that! They fell as the floor completely gave way and they were both up to their knees in ice cold water. To a normal person this would have been the end of the line and time to get the heck out of dodge and make way to safety, but for two Humanicons this could not set them back. Together they trudged through the water till they got to a stone and brass door with tons of Scottish symbols on it.

Blackwatch – “What do they mean sis?”
Eclipse – “Well I can decipher a lot of these but I am not so sure about the older ones. Do you think we could get Frenzy to work on these?”{she took a photo of the signs and symbols and sent them out to Frenzy who quickly looked up the right information and fed them back a play by play of what each one meant and cross meanings}
Blackwatch – “He sure works fast, don’t he?”
Eclipse – “like a supercomputer.”{She smiled back to him}
Blackwatch – “Okay so what do we need to do to crack this door open without using firepower?”
Eclipse – “These symbols seem to tell a story.”
Blackwatch – “Oh?”
Eclipse- “Yeah the story of Marcus McAlister.”
Blackwatch – “Now I am not too excited.”
Eclipse – “We can’t hate him brother, after all he only joined up with Astral to get vengeance on a genocidal king.”
Blackwatch – “Still not forgiving him.”
Eclipse – “Figuring you wouldn’t.”

Eclipse stepped forward and typed up the symbols to tell the story straight and the door swung open to reveal a face scanner and palm scanner.

Eclipse – “I was not expecting this.”
Blackwatch – “keeping people at bay with its old exterior to hide what it within, nice tactic.”
Eclipse – {nodded} “Alright let’s see if Melvin added me in as a certified member.”

She stepped forward and put her chin on the resting platform and her palm on the scanner and it scanned in her face and pinged. “Welcome Taiya McAlister.”

Eclipse – {shuttered at the sound of that name} “I still think McAlister is a bad last name.”
Blackwatch – “Same here.”
Eclipse – {walked in to see a vast computer facility}

The walls were covered with various machines and screens. There seemed to be wires
And conduits everywhere. There were cylinders filled with various fluids in their holders bubbling. They passed metal bookcases filled with digital pads and various tools. They found a room that was labeled Project Alta. They just looked at each other as they passed the equipment. Oddly enough Eclipse passed by pods that looked like protoform pods. They continued looking thinking that the project was just some mad crazy idea to grow super human beings. They passed by a computer still flashing images of Taiya in her Fallen form, and it was clear to them that the McAlister’s were in fact trying to build a new race of humans with Fallen powers. Blackwatch stopped her abruptly as they walked into the next part of the facility. She looked to him with confusion as horror met her eyes as bodies of dead babies were lying on tables covered by some sort of incubation fluid and stato film. They were marked Melvin Batch. Eclipse let herself collapse on the ground.

Blackwatch-" sis I mean you no disrespect but did you know about this whole thing when you were on the inside?"
Eclipse – “ No I had no idea of any of this.”
Blackwatch – “Figures that loser would be so mean he would not even tell you of this. But how did he get the material to do this?”
Eclipse – “Probably from the oby-gn appointments.”
Blackwatch – “Oby-gn?”
Eclipse – “It means obstetrician gynecology. Or a doctor that helps women give birth.”
Blackwatch – “He didn’t?”
Eclipse- “I did get pregnant by Melvin once, but he terminated the pregnancy when he hit me."
Blackwatch-" he did? Oh my, I am so sorry sis."
Eclipse-" it is okay brother and by the looks of it, he has been doing this for years. These poor babies."
Blackwatch-" his sinisterness knows no bounds does it?
Eclipse-" yes he is most sinister.

They looked around and say empty CR pods and each one had a different design suggesting that they were all part of a giant testing experiment. What got to Blackwatch was the massive idea of Melvin growing a family knowing that Eclipse would not want go have any part in the situation. They got up and Eclipse gave a Cybertronian blessing to each one of them and warped them up to the surface to bury them properly. She had to cut into the stato film and she knew looking at their faces that they were made with her DNA. Blackwatch helped her and give his own blessing in the art of metalkato. She saw in the screen that the children were either failures of terminated. Blackwatch knew that it took a lot out of her to keep her tears at bay. But just as she nearly broke down right then and there she noticed a cryro pod in the back of the room bubble. Inside to their astonishment was a child! Still alive! She ran to the pod screaming for Blackwatch to come and see what she had found. He was in shock seeing the pod and the tiny bitty baby inside. From the data tablet the baby was #9 and it was a female! By the looks of it, Melvin had managed to grow four boys and four girls and one unsure. Eclipse contacted Megatron to tell him the status of the investigation and to tell him the news. He was in complete shook as he could not believe the idea of sacrificing protoforms a in such a disgraceful way. He told her that he would send over warhead to see if she need some help. She thanked him fighting back the feeling of vomit welling up in her throat. She looked at the baby sitting in the pod and went over to it and laid a little on it. Blackwatch looked at her and knew he should leave her alone, Melvin had taken so much from her and now he took from her even beyond the grave. He tended to gathering data and to look for any other facilities like this thinking that maybe they had done this to others in the family and when the Humanicons were being used as slaves. He looked up other ancient Scottish locations to see if anything came up in a cross reference with McAlister visits. He dug up some locations and even found that there were large orders for supplies written down by Dr. Arkeville. He used the database to see where the medical supplies were going and added it to the search to the database. He found that his results thinned to three more locations in Scotland. He took a digital copy of the list and he would make an exploratory team to examine the areas of interest. He had hoped that they would be fruitless. The last thing he wanted to see is the bodies of little babies again. He was so disgusted how Melvin did not see this as an issue, did that boy not have any sense of right or wrong or was he so blinded by his father’s ways he just let it fall to absolution? All in all this just proved that the family, sans a few had little to no soul whatsoever. He came in to hear his sis talking to the baby inside the pod.

Eclipse-" please doesn’t die little one, I can't bear loosing you."
Blackwatch -" you won't sis I promise you. Megatron won't let you lose it."
Eclipse-" I sure hope you are right lil bro. I am trying to remain professional though this but I find I am just hitting a steel wall."
Blackwatch-" I understand sis. It is normal to feel like this because of the fact Melvin violated you, your heart, and you’re everything. But know this; we will save the baby to save a bit of what he has taken from you."
Eclipse wiped the tears from her face and looked to him with a slight smile.
Blackwatch-" that is my big sis!"

It was not too soon later that Warhead Made his way to their location and when he got inside the lab he had to stop dumbfounded by the sheer amount of blood in the area. He followed his way to where Eclipse and Blackwatch were waiting and he just let his mouth drop seeing e baby in a CR pod. He had inquired to what was going on and it did not take long for Warhead to blast a massive hole behind him ripping apart the entrance to the cave and beyond. The blast had smashed the rock pillars and had managed to launch itself far into the northern Atlantic Ocean. Warhead I wanted to kill the thing hoping it was too young to be viable. Eclipse stepped in front of him and stopped him. He argued with her that the child was the spawn of Melvin and Eclipse yelled back that it was still part of her and it could live. He was in shock, this was coming from the same girl that a few years back said that she would have rather gotten an abortion than to carry Melvin's child!!! The two spat at each other and it took Eclipse tackling him down to the ground for him to realize that she had made up her mind. He just did not want to let any part of Melvin live regardless if it were a mere cell or a full on Melvin clone. He says what the McAlister blood had done to his own family, friends, and even their own! Poor George was killed when he tried to protect his little sister from the might of his own uncle. What promise did they have that this thing, this McAlister would turn out alright or turn against them!? Eclipse cradled the pod with the child inside and warped home in front of a very angry Megatron.

Megatron -" just what in the name is wrong with you?!! You said that you would rather die than carry that maggot’s child!
Eclipse-" that was a long time ago Master, and I am not leaving it to die!!
Megatron-" you understand that I will not allow that thing in my base!
Eclipse -" WELL I DON'T CARE A SPARK! I AM NOT LETTING YOU KILL THIS POOR DEFENSELESS CHILD!
Megatron-" THEN FINE! IF YOU WANT IT SO BAD, YOU CAN KEEP IT, BUT SO HELP ME IF THAT CHILD DOES ANYTHING BAD BECAUSE OF ITS POOR BIOLOGICAL PROGRAMING. WHO KNOWS HOW BAD IT CAN GET!
Eclipse-" nothing is going to happen Lord Megatron I swear. I promise you that!
Megatron-" that is not enough Eclipse! You know whose blood is flowing in that sparklings body! You know what that bad blood can do!
Eclipse-" I know Megatron. I know all too well as you traded me for the sake of a chip to your larger game at hand, I know the brutality of the McAlister’s more than you can ever know. While you were used as a weapon, I was used in every way shape and form! Do not patronize me thinking I do not know the risk. This is my decision Megatron and not yours!

Megatron was in total shock over the whole thing, what in the name of Nova Prime was she thinking? After all this child would grow up to be a McAlister and worst yet one of the founding family members children!! The whole thing just made him mad as for days he tried to get her to drop the thing off at a firehouse, hospital, police station, somewhere! Anywhere but here! He scoffed. But all he got nothing more than a cold shoulder. This made him more frustrated. The others understood how she could want to keep the child but at the same time we were talking about a McAlister, not some normal human family, one born of evil, one that had almost taken over the globe a mere two years ago. It took a visit from James for them to remember that not all McAlister’s were evil and not all of them were born evil and corrupt. But it took days to get Blackout to come around considering how he saw the McAlister family. He was adamant as well about just dropping the baby off at some police station to never have the likes of McAlister in his midst. It took Taka in anger to get him to see that was not always bad. After all little Marta was a McAlister and she was nothing but sweet, yes she was cunning and did find ways to get what she wanted, but that was no different than any other child that finally learned how to wrap their parent around their little pinkie finger. Morpha was just sad that she may be replaced. When the baby was ready to come out of the CR pod they would finally know what sex the child was, and to Eclipse's joy it was a baby girl! A sweet lil baby girl with light brown hair, very light blue eyes and a sweet smile, but the one factor that everyone noticed were the port holes on the child where the lines were fed into her little body. The bastard even had a tattoo on the back of her left ear with the initials McA in cursive. His final mark by saying who she was and who she belonged to. Megatron did not allow Halley to remove the tattoo as he felt the child had every right to know the truth. Eclipse did not care as she held the baby and held her close. Now what to call her?

Blackout-" how about Sarah?
Eclipse-" no that would just make me too sad.
Blackout-" okay how about matrix?
Eclipse-" too Reboot of a name.
Nova ran in on her lil toddler waddle and looked up at the child and said zah zah!
Eclipse-" zah zah? Zanna? Zamora? Zhara? Zhara!
Blackout-" I like that name, sounds like Cybertronian and human at the same time.
Eclipse-" thank you blackout for letting me keep her.
Blackout-" don't mention it, after all, no matter what her father did, it is not in my nature to make an innocent suffer.
Eclipse- (gave him a kiss and cradled the baby close) “do you want to say hi to your new cousin Nova?
Nova nodded eagerly as she lowered down to let nova see Zhara.
Nova-" cuet (she said trying to speak the word cute)
Morpha was not too far behind as she landed on eclipse's shoulder and looked down at the infant curious.
Blackout-" we better go find Scorponok before he tears through the nemesis just to give his new baby sis a hug.
Eclipse-" good idea sweetspark.