A Week and a Half Later, in the hallway next to Alpha Trion's Lab.

(From Whitefire's point of view)

Oh Phoenix.
She hasn't been the same since she came back with that staff.
Infact she's been couped up in the Lab for week.
I've to bring Energon to the lab door everyday because she doesn't want to come out.
So what in Primus's name is she doing?
Well today, I'm going to find out.
As usual I've got Energon on a tray and I'm heading to the lab, but will she let me in?
I knocked on the door three times and for sometime there was no responce, I was about to put the tray down and leave when I heard from the other side.
"Who is it?"
"It's Whitefire and I've got your Energon!"
The door opened and Phoenix said. "Come in!"
I walked in and found the place quite clean, but there were empty flasks and mental parts everywhere.
And it was dark except for a light from a lamp, but even that was block by someone and that someone was Phoenix.
Sparks flew in the air as I got closer along with an odd wielding noise.
Then Phoenix spun round on the chair she was sitting on and removed the work goggles on her optics.
I handed her the Energon and she ate it in one, crushing the container it was in and muttered. "Thanks White."
This was my chance to ask.
"Phoenix, what are you doing?"
I walked to where she was sitting and looked at the table she was working on, there was half a robotic wing on it and there was wires inside of it, more or less a wing with a cover.
At first I thought it was for Phoenix but then I notice it was only 3 and 3/4 feet long, way to short for her.
"Ah, I'm building something." My friend replied.
"What?" I asked.
She grabbed the lamp and ajusted it shine on the wall, since the wall was made of shiny metal it would have bounced off, but it didn't because there was something spread on the wall.
That something was a blueprint of a.....
"Electro-Eagle." I said in amazement.
"You like it?" Phoenix asked.
"You've been working on this all week?" I asked.
She nodded and ajusted the light again, this time towards another table with a steel Electro-Eagle without feathers and one of it's wings.
It was beautiful, even without feathers.
Then I saw the feathers in a pile nearby, trimed, brownish black and white and by the looks of things came from..
"Phoenix, did you pluck your own feathers to give them to the eagle?"
She nodded and flapped her wings, the wing had quite I few feathers missing but new ones were growing back.
"How did you..." I started to ask but she answered. "I manually changed the colour using a program that is normally used for metal camo, but when I used it, well, it turned my feathers the same colour..."
I started laughing and then said. "I would've love to have seen that!"
She laughed aswell, we both thought this was funny.
I got a chair from nearby and sat with Phoenix as she built the wing, she connected the wires to the tips of the wing.
Then she got up, disconected the other wing, already attached to the robot and brought back to our table to attach the new feathers.
She told that birds are able to feel every feather on there wings, that's how they can feel wind currents and the changes in it.
She also told me that wings can touch the sky.
Well, she would know she's a phoenix, the leader of all birds.
I then asked her where did she get the idea from and she picked up a data-book and gave it to me.
'Cybertron's Creatures: Past, Present and Legends.'
Oh yeah, I remember Draco reading it when I got whacked with a data-book at Central Archives, he must have taken it home and gave it to his sister.
I looked through it and found the Electro-Eagle in the past section, this is what it said:
"According to old legends, the Electro-Eagle is consided as the 'Prince Of The Birds' and the right-hand bird to the Phoenix.
Beyond legend, once these birds were plentiful, now they are near extinct and endangered. Seeing one these days is consided lucky.
They nest on tall skyscapers and they find their partners in the Energon rivers where they catch fish and other creatures.
They mate for life and have 2-5 chicks every nesting season, the eggs are high in value in the Intergalactic Blackmarket and it is illegal to take them. Thus with no chicks being hatched the species is now classed as endangered even though they are protected by Cybertronian Law."
Above all this was a hologram of the creature flying.
"When was this data-book made?" I asked.
"During the last part of Golden Age Of Cybertron." Phoenix answered.
I looked at her and I said. "You mean when Optimus was born?"
"What?" She said in surpise, I put my hand into the messenger bag I made and pulled out a medical record which I activated..
"That's what his medical record said, he was born in Iacon City 1/2 million years before he became Autobot Leader.
Megatron's older, a lot older and he looks a lot younger too. He just appeared out of nowhere, right in the middle of a battle. And I tried looking for him before then but nothing, nadda, zlitch."
I turned my attention away from Phoenix, who was still watching and said to the data-pad I held in my hand. "Who were you Optimus, why haven't you told your friends everything?"
I deactivated the data-pad, put it back in my bag and headed out of the lab.

5 days later, in the loudge area.

"And what has Phoenix called all of us here for again?"
"WAAAAA WA WA WA WAAAA!!!"
"Elita! Could you do something about that baby!?!"
"Hush little Griffin hush. Please don't cry!"
Phoenixfire had called us all down into the sitting area over the intercom, of course this included Elita, Alpha and baby Griffin.
Griffin as you can hear is crying his optics out and his mother is trying (and failing) to calm him down. Alpha Trion was also trying to help.
And my sister is moaning her head off and I'm just about to answer her.
"She just said that she had something to show all of us."
I had a feeling this was something to do with what she showed me earlier this week.
I don't know why my sister moans, maybe she was studying the blacksmith book Draco gave her.
I can't believe she's my twin sister, we're nothing alike.
Rakatan and Havana were sitting across from me, Rakatan was whistling a small tune while her sister had her optics shutters* (*eyelids) closed trying to have a nap.
And Draco was sitting next to me.
The Female Autobots were standing around their commander, waiting for our Creed commander.
Then she came into the sitting area, cleared her throut and said. "Females and Gentlemech."
I then heard Alpha coughing and she corrected myself. "Gentlemechs.."
He smiled and bowed his head as she continued.
"For the last week and a half I've locked myself in Trion's lab to undertake a project, something that will help us all when the time comes."
"GET ON WITH IT!" Blackfire yelled.
Phoenix frowned and then whistled in a high pitch.
Then from down the hall that the commander came from, came flapping getting louder and louder as it got closer.
Then a screach reached our ears, then something glided over our head and landed on Phoenixfire's shoulder.
We all turned to look at the creature.
A young Electro-Eagle.
I looked at the others reactions, Draco just stared at it, Elita stopped feeding Griffin (who had calmed down) to look along with Alpha.
My sister had her mouth open in shock while the Tiger Sisters (Rakatan and Havana) kept looking at each other then the Eagle.
I attention turned to the Female Autobots who looked at Phoenix with the look of not knowing quite what to say.
"You like him?" Phoenix asked us.
"HIM?" Blackfire yelled.
"Yes, he's a boy and don't yell. Let me introduce Excalibur, my answer to Soundwave's Laserbeak and Optimus's Roller."
Nobody knew what to make of this.
I said. "He's lovely."
Then Griffin started crying again, this startled Excalibur and he hovered above his creator to see where the noise came from.
He then flew over, landed on Elita and looked at the bundle in her arms that was crying.
He turned his head for a closer look, Griffin's little paws came out of the bundle trying to grab the Eagle and the baby laughed and giggled.
"He'll be our spy for the Decepticons when the time comes." Phoenixfire continued saying.
The bird flew back to the phoenix robot and perched on her shoulder again.
Then the talk began around the sitting room, everyone was talking about the new member of the Creed.
The New Prince of the Birds.
Looks like Phoenix wasn't crazy after all.