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Crickets almost silencing, when something was lighting my eyes, I open them and saw the rising sun. It was already morning. I stood up and stretched some parts until I hear them 'tink' or 'creek', as I was stretching I noticed that Optimus was sitting near the stasis pod where I placed 2.0's spark. I approached him, trying not to be obvious about my sounds, then he spoke "Alright..." he sighed and stood up "Would you want to know the 'real' truth about Claw?"
"Yes sir" he turns around "Then, awake the others, this will be a confusing story to be told". then I realized, we forgot Claw's body. So I went straight to Fix-it first and asked to hack some of the cameras near the statue of the city, he did it and we saw nothing, not even her own spark chamber was there. The Decepticons must've took it. If they can repair her wings, maybe they can bring her back...I hope. I went and told Fix-it to go by Optimus and woke up the others.

So he then asked "What story did Claw mentioned?" we were in a dull moment, then I said "The one where Onyx created her name, and the one where....she ate his eye?" Optimus' eyes widened at that sentence and then he smiles. "Truth be told, believe it or not, I'm the one who created her name, well not me in an exact term but the whole armada back at Iacon Academy" she went to the academy?? "And the thing about eating Onyx's eye, that was true, I wrote it in the Iacon Hall of Records" we were baffled by the sudden new discovery of Claw's past. and he continues...

- Optimus -

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(sigh) well, I'll fix it over and over again if I have to. (rustle), I turned to look where the sound came from, "Hello?" but it's past the moon's peak, "um..the Hall of Records is closed now, please come back tomorrow" (rustle) then I heard it again. Now instead of the rustling, it became a clutter of tablets, now there's really someone in here with me. I opened my flashlight and pointed it in front of me, a pile of tablets on the floor, when it started to move and out came a femme rubbing her head "Ow.." she said. As her eyes were flashed, she disappeared then moved out of the pile and I don't know where she is now, but she wont get away that easily, the doors are lock tight, and only I, a worker in here can get in and out. "Look ugh...miss...I won't hurt you, it's just that, you're overdue by the Hall of Records time limitations. You won't get out, since everything is locked tight after the struck of the moon's peak" then I felt a wind, when I felt so lifted. I looked down and my ID was afloat. "Hey!" I got tugged towards the door "Oh no you don't!" I held onto my strap as I drop the flashlight, then something cut my strap, I came skidding with my aft on the floor and the ID floating towards the door, she appeared as she swipe my ID, she faces me and just smirks, but in her good spark she threw back my id and ran away. That's some smart femme.

- next day -

I woke up with my head aching due to what happened last night and me sleeping late, my circuits still looking for their right transporters and connectors. I started my day as usual, when I felt like...someone is watching me. I checked in every places and there was none, so I might be still dozed off. I rushed towards the Academy.
Late my 1 min, for the first time in my life, so I said sorry to my instructor and went to my usual seat and discovered someone was already sitting there. She's the femme I saw last night, I looked at my instructor and asked who is she, but his only answer "She's the new femme, I really don't have details about her but the Head said she's paid in everything, today"
"Today?"
"Yeah, can't believe it either" I looked back at her and she was scratching my desk "Hey!" I came walking fast towards her, she looks up and her eyes widen "Don't do that please, this is my desk.." she places her hand on the table and tries to erase what she wrote, and went to the back of the room, trying not to look at me.

Warrior Class came after 3 periods and today is the day where we fight each other, practical test as I call it. Whoever gets the most hits before the time ends wins, if the highest graded challenger defeated the mentor, they get automatically perfect and be awarded a badge, not much importance to me, I'm only interested in reading, but for my sake to pass the academy, I'll do it anyways. The femme that 'attacked' me last night sat at the far back of the bleachers, keeping her distance from the class and remaining silent, such a shy femme with an evil smirk. The mentor notice the new student and asked her to come up front and say her name, finally. She whispered something to the mentor, and he just nodded his head, 'I understand' is what he mouthed, the femme then this time sat in front, of me. "But would you like to join this exam, lass?" she nodded. "Hm, I like your spark already" then the mentor started yelling about the rules and grading process. Weakest to weakest and strongest to strongest first, I'm part of the weakest, then the ones with higher grade weakest and strongest fights, then the winner fights the mentor. The mentor let the femme be in the weakest team, but she has to go first to see what she's capable of.

The ground shook as a part of it appeared above ground, showing the weapons to use for combat. "Choose your weapons" the mentor said, the first one to combat was the femme and someone called Bulkhead. Bulkhead chose a mace with a spikey wrecking ball on its peak, "What's yours?" asked the mentor to the femme, "Nothing" she said and everyone laughed, even though Bulkhead is weak, he's the strongest in that team, then th mentor added "Are you sure?"
"Can I just use my own hands?"
"Bare hands?" then the mentor opened his tab for the rules
"Hm, no offense on using no weapons, alright, as you wish. 2 mins. Ready. set. go!" as the word GO was proclaimed, the femme shut off his face with a dark visor with a cross-hair indicated to it, blinking red. She let out her fingers that became claws in an instant. Bulkhead attacked first, smashing the mace towards her, but he missed by a millisecond (wow she's fast). She just disappeared and then appeared on top of Bulkhead's mace, then she scratched and kicked him on the face as she flips backward, landing with perfect balance. From that spot, Bulkhead was kicked back about 5 meters away from her.

"Bulkhead, are you loosing?" said the mentor
"No, probably loosing my style" he smashes the mace to the ground and it shaked, making the femme drop to her aft "ufh!" she said as maybe pain seeks through. Bulkhead then charges and smashes the mace at the femme, direct hit at the abdomen. She snarled then smirks. She grabs the mace, then her hands became like the wrecking ball and then clobbers bulkhead's mace, and its smashed into a flat plate. Everyone was bewildered. She's a shape-shifter

"No fair! that's already a weapon!"
"No, that's still her hands" accused of the mentor.

She changes it back into her claws and punched Bulkhead twice with her right then left, adding an elbow move from her left making Bulkhead jolt to the right. She clings both her hands into Bulkheads chest then flips him over her and smashing him to the ground with his back facing the floor. For a femme, she's strong. "2 mins is up, winner Femme!" Bulkhead accepted his defeat and bowed before the femme "You're amazing!" he commented and went back to the bleachers. Few players then came by and she's winning, I noticed her tactics, claw, claw, strike, claw, claw, strike. Hm, I think I know how to beat her...I just think.

"Orion Pax vs. Newbie" since this is the final fight, we can get 2 - 3 weapons, but this time...she grabbed a weapon, blades. I grabbed a sword (don't worry, the weapons are holographic, unless hologram vs hologram or wall)., I already feel like a knight.

"Finally, this will get interesting" said the mentor, she then swing her blades, trying to find her flow of rhythm through them, then the timer ticked loudly. In a sudden jolt, both of us ran towards each other, my weapon was upfront, while hers were still behind her. I swung the blade from left towards right. She conflicted it with a X formed out from the blades, making a loud 'ding' that chipped off part of her mask, at least they gave me a little cheer to it. "Fine.." she said opening her mask, I didn't notice one of her blades came towards my face, and it slit my cheek open,...what?? I faced the mentor and he was baffled. "Change weapon, continue" WHAT!?

She knocks her head to mine, and it send me walking backwards. I wiped out energon that spurted out on my hand from my mouth. She walks around, circling me, slowly, studying my features. She closes her broken visor, but this time they were transparent (a bit greenish) and it kept on scanning from the corner of her eyes to the cross-hair. She drops her blades and kicked them aside, the weaponry is now behind her, she grabbed a spear and a shield, I did the same, I just took a shield, not exactly changing weapon. We resumed in our positions. She bangs her hand on the shield multiple times until crowd bang their feet on the ground, and when she raised her spear, they cheered 'HO!'. and the unthinkable happened...she turned into me.

"Now THIS really is interesting" yelled the coach. "My votes on the femme-" she charges with her spear upfront and I blocked it with my shield, I blocked the spear but not her shield, which came flying at my face and left a dent. I smiled since, I haven't fight this hard before. I stood my ground with sword pointed downward in front of my shield. She circles me again but counter-clockwise this time. I gotta say, I look weird in a femme form. She throws her spear at me, and I blocked it in time. She bangs her hand on the shield again and again...the crowds cheered, I looked at them, and when I turned around, her shield is at my face again. For distraction, got it.

"You can say stop if you want to!" yelled the mentor, but I'm not the type of bot who gives up that easily.

She takes her spear, and I dashed at her, hitting her right leg with my sword, energon leaked from it and she's down on one bent knee, her shield giving her support. I swung my blade at her, and I heard a loud 'ding', I saw her shield blocked my attack, and trying to keep her footing. She strikes her spear at my foot, as I tried to dodge it, she pushes me with her shield giving us some space. She went down on her knees and steadied herself, studying me again.

"Do you still want to continue?" the mentor asked the femme, and she nodded "alright"

She snorted and shakes off the energon dripping from her arm. She stands up slowly and places her shield to the side, she moves her shoulders where I heard circuits popping out some air and and chords stretching out from her neck. She removes her visor forcefully and steps on it, breaking it into shards. Was she cheating? "No, I wasn't" she growls at me, along with her claws letting out, here it comes...she stood there, then there, then over there "What the-" until she appeared in front of me and scratched my face with both claws. I felt nothing, she stood behind me, as I turn towards her I dropped to the ground and the bell ran. "Winner, femme" I'm getting dizzy due to energon spilling out from my face. My eyes widen as she approaches me, my class cheered to finish me maybe with a pile driver maneuver, but a hand was in front of my face. I did some thinking of course, but I took her hand and she stood me up and bumps my shoulder and pats my back like a mech in honor would do. She closes my hand into a fist and went to the ring to fight the strongest of all, my best friend, Megatron.

The platform starts to renew, into a clean, flat surface. Megatronus chose his weapon, a dagger than can be activated through the movement of hands and she chose nothing. The bell then rings. I sat on my spot in the bleachers and watch my friend fight with the new one. I started to get curious about why she curled my hand, I opened them and saw a slender stick energon, and then I remembered, this energon can heal wounds faster, no wonder she got back up that easily. So I ate it and all the pumping pains all over me vanished and as I was watching, the most impossible thing happened..she became a predacon...without scanning a thing (because there wasn't a predacon design in class nor in the room), impossible how? I read that a shape-shifters can only change if they scanned someone or something, and that will be stored in data so they can used it anytime...but..there isn't a single predacon for eons...we're already in the Golden Age and predacons live like...700 cycles ago. Unless...she is one.

She beaten Megatron with her tail, by just flipping him right and left over and over until he got dizzy and lays in the room. While she was holding his weapon and chewing on something, she approached the mentor, who was hiding his face behind his clipboard. "Ugh...good job?" she breathes out and it sent out a bit of warm air "Ahh don't eat me!" she just laughs and takes the clipboard from the mentor, and she spoke

"Cool" she inserts her finger in a hole of the clipboard and her eyes begin to vanish black and then her irises came back and she gave back the clipboard to the mentor. Jazz then threw a disc at her while she was still looking at the mentor, and she caught it between her fingers, without looking. "Nice try" and she held it all and broke the disc "If you're still wondering what's my name, well actually I don't have one". Everyone gave names like Striker, Paws, Terror, etc. so I thought of mine, I remember how she fought...claw first, then she strikes at the enemy claw then strike....claw then strike...claw...strike.."Claw Strike" I didn't noticed that I said it in a hush but she heard me, and she smiled at me from a distance, and everyone looked at me. "What did you say?" they asked
"Claw Strike...?" she came towards me, turning into a new form, her ears grew tall and the sides on her face turned slick, her height became taller too, her legs jointed at the back and a tail with shards as sharp as a blade and waved it on the ground. "Thanks" she said as she passes by me, patting me on the head and then left the room with the weapon...but it disappeared when it reached the exit of the room and she just..casual went out for break.

Everyone rushed out of the room and chased after her towards the break room. I packed my things and followed after. Entering the break room, where I saw her sitting on a table, by herself with the crowd surrounding her, not giving a care about what they say or what they asked. I guess she sense my presence and looked my way, and she signaled me to sit with her which made everyone give me a dark look. "So what's next" as she chew on an energon stick.
"Next what?"
"Subject, room number and mentor"
"Oh..wait, you're in the same group as me?"
"I said to the Head to align my sched with the name 'Orion Pax'" and she pointed down where my ID is, in my side-carry. Oh right, last night. "Sorry about the lace" she dusts off her hands and grab something under her forearm capacity. "The most indestructible lace ever made" she showed me a lace, with a lock...it's a simple lace actually
"Indestructible? I highly doubt it, the only thing indestructible is the metal type for covering bombs and such"
"You got it" takes a sip from her drink, as she places it in front of me. "You serious?" I asked and she nods with her eyebrows and drank the whole cup down with one gulp.

"Anyways, next schedule?"
"Oh um..uh..." I was dull-minded with the gift she gave me that, all my things fell down. "I got it" I can't believe that she's suddenly in front of me, picking my things up faster than I can do and places my things on my table and grabbing what appears to be my schedule. "Hm...history?" she laughs "I know every single detail of it"
"Don't tell me you live in the past"
"Oh, I did. Predacon age" Predacon...age???? Impossible! "I think you got hit on the head too hard"
"So you're saying you don't believe me" she approaches me with such grace, but her voice is stiff to the point. I don't know if she's mad or she's just good at intimidating at others. "Well, it's a bit...impossible.." I fell to the ground, along with my thing (again); She changes form again, wings span in the room about twice her size, a tail that twirled behind her. When something hit my memory chip, an image of a predacon..like her shape, same color..then it hit me..she's the first predacon to be created. My eyes grew large at the sight of her; pure terror and fascination that something this...ancient is still living.

With a blink of an eye, she returns to her normal form. As I try to fix my things... "Oh my sparks, I got so many questions for you!" I fixed tablet to tablet, "How old are you, where do you live, are there any more of...you?" as I raise my sight to her, she was already at the door and left.

*---*

"Wow..." said Bumblebee "I thought it was a myth" said Strongarm "Neither did I" added Sideswipe.

"So Claw is like, a living fossil?" asked Fix-it as he approaches from the HQ. I nodded in return "No wonder she has such great information and perfect details in whatever history is asked from her"
"Not only she took Iacon files during my...work shift. She herself is part of the act or have witnessed it"
"Amazing!"
"I know"