Authors notes: So you are given the 3 choice Lexus, Gaia, and Splinterra. You can chose all three if you like, but let's see to whom you side. (Tell me your side in reviews)
Meet Lexus
You know drifting through space is generally a beautiful and peaceful experience, as you watch planets drift unto and out of view. That is however useless when you have been doing this for at least a Vorn; and you have been stuck with an eccentric archaeologist with far more battle experience then is necessary and an over sized, over-protective, anger prone, teacher, trust me it gets old fast. For Primus sake we are headed for some planet called "Dirt Ball," Seriously! Oh, and I forgot to mention the ship we're on carries the future of our people... We are doomed, Primus give me strength.
Meet Gaia
Most people like just floating around, but I miss GRAVITY. I have been stuck in this tub of a ship with a Primus Freak and a complete maniac for what feels like light cycles. The only reason I came on this crazy mission is to protect this ships precious cargo to the end. These two are my most cherished friends and I would do anything to protect them... But first and foremost it is them I must protect the cargo from.
Meet Splinterra
One Primus Frea... I mean Religious nut, urr wait COP, yes that's it; check! One motherly over protective teacher; check! One umm I guess you can call me a ghost; Check and Primus is dea... Well that's not important. Our mission is to protect the future of all Cybertronians. Yep, we are totally awesome.
Between the middle of deep space and the milky way there is a ship that in many ways resembles a lizard, its protective plating covering as if it was scaled, as it moved is was almost an a fish twisting and bending ever so slightly. There are no visible ports or viewing area. The scales cover most of the engines if it were not for the damage to its mid and rear engines, you would never know there was any such thing. Though the damage did not hinder its pace as, it smoothly passed a small blue frozen planet at the edge of the solar system.
Deep within the ships ever changing interior, there are two living machines sitting next to each other. Both are feminine in shape. One was nearly double the size of the other, most of her is pink, however the band and her helm and just below her chest was a yellow. The band that circles her helm has a segmented visor that seems to place itself over each of her blue optics, and she has a low pointed fin that connects the front and back of her helm. Her helm was large face guards that comes down the sides of her face and helm, leaving the front exposed. Physically she was more top heavy; however she was a sturdier build all-around. Despite her bulk she seems to move with finesse with an almost delicate demeanour. She has large glass like panels that are placed like six layered fairy wings, as a similar panel lay flat upon her back.
The second one is leaning back staring at the ceiling with her blue optics. Her features are much sharper, though she too is a more top heavy build. She is a more lean in her overall design. Her chest, shins, belt, arms, shoulder pads, and base colour of her helm are red. Her knees, plating on her stomach, and wheel covers, horns, neck decal are instead royal blue, and her pedes, face guard, back and sides are a jet black.
The pink one nudged the second, "come on, how else you wanna pass the time? I'll start," she looked around the room, "ok got it, I spy with my optic something..."
"A screw" the second says in a droll tone.
"Wow, Lexus you got to be a mind reader," the pink one says smiling. "Ok one more, I spy with my..."
"The monitor," Lexus says letting out a sigh.
"Aw give me a chance, I spy with my little optic something that has a flat head and it twists."
"Gaia, it is a screw! The only things in this place is a monitor," Lexus says pointing at the monitor on the wall, "and a screw," how pointing at the screw sitting in the corner.
Gaia shakes her head "no it's not I see something... Aqua?!"
"What are you...?"
"Over there," Gaia says pointing to the wall panel, an aqua light was emitting from around it edges.
Slowly, both looked at one another then quickly scrambled to their feet. As they approach the panel, it suddenly fell to the floor. "Was there always a room there?" Gaia asked hiding behind Lexus. This is to no avail as she is exposed on all sides despite her best efforts.
"I don't remember one," Lexus said poking her helm into the room. Large cords, pipes and scrap metal are strewn across the floor, as loose cables hang from the ceiling. Despite all the clutter the room was quite spacious, at one side of the room there are several monitors. They all seemed to be cycling through a large amount of data; each screen had a different grouping. Standing at one of the three terminals set up by the screens is another smaller bot.
It's feminine in shape however she is much smaller than the other too. Her face and helm is a very simple design, she has a large wide flat fin on the top of her head. Her collar rose high till it was just below her cheeks, there's a tube that wrapped around its center that emitted an aqua light. Though her framing is smaller it is a sturdy design; her chest was large, her waist small and her hips large. She wore heavy plated armour on her forearms, as well as around her waist forming a short skirt; however on the left side it's longer ending just below her knee. Her green optics where glued to the screens as her hands nimbly glided across the control consoles.
"T...Terra, Terra", Gaia called out as both her and Lexus tried to manoeuvre through the cords "what is she doing" She asked looking over at Lexus, stumbling over cords.
"No idea," Lexus said stepping away from Gaia. She gets up right next to the bot and yells "SPLINTERRA!" as loud as she could.
"WA!" She jumped onto the control consoles, looking Lexus and Gaia who tripped and tried to get back up. "Oh, hehe what's up guys?" She said smiling innocently as she straightened up and slides off the console.
"For Primus sake Terra what did you do to the ship?" Lexus placed one hand on her forehelm and the second on her hip. Shaking her helm "You realize it's all we've got, and what if it messes with the more important systems like the one responsible for the Proto..."
"Guys help", Gaia shrieked. Both turned to see Gaia standing utterly tangled in cords.
They went to help untangle Gaia, "This ship is ancient Cybertronian tech, it's hard to mesh the new tech with the old", Splinterra said unwinding cords. "It's not affecting any further systems so relax."
"New tech? We left way too quickly to take anything..." Lexus said stopping and holding cords in her servos, looking over at Splinterra.
"Well you remember we made that stop at Iacon, I took or well copied a large amount of data and-"
"You did WHAT?!" Lexus pulled on the cords in her servos, nearly knocking Gaia over in the process.
Splinterra stopped untangling Gaia and looked at Lexus, "I needed references to continue my work so I..."
"You...You THIEF! Do you have any idea what you have done?" Lexus shouts as she point at Splinterra, pulling the cords in her servos at the same time.
"G-guys!" Gaia sounded as she felt the cord tighten around her every time Lexus would tug on them.
"Well we were already going to be branded criminals anyway and I need the data," Splinterra said, looking confused as Lexus seemed to be getting angrier.
"Hey!" Gaia said louder.
"And again that's your fault! I'm a peace keeper It's my station in life to uphold laws, order and... And you because of you ... I-I'm not suppose to break them you know!" Lexus' fury bursting forth.
"Hey, that's not true. I gave you a choice to stay or come on this mission" Splinterra's voice remained even and unchanging.
"For the sake of the All-Spark, get me out of this!" Gaia bellowed.
Lexus still furious and Splinterra as calm as ever, turned back to Gaia. "Sorry," both said quickly working to untangle Gaia.
Once free, Gaia looked at the furie Lexus and the cool Splinterra, "It doesn't really matter does it. We are here, and we are trying to protect our futures and everyone else's, right." Lexus let out a sigh as Splinterra went back to the console. "So, Terra, this planet you say will be safe..?" Gaia began to change topics.
"I call it the Blue Dirt Ball, what about it?"
"Yeah, we have been traveling for more than a Vorn and we still have not reached it," Gaia asked trying not to get tangled in the wires a second time.
"We're almost there," Splinterra said walking out of the room.
"Wait, seriously?" Gaia and Lexus chased after Splinterra. Gaia tripped.
"You're not just saying that this time?" Lexus asked in an almost condescending tone.
"Yep," Splinterra pointed at the monitor, "see the red one, it's right after that one..."
"Really?" Gaia said as she caught up to them, passed them and glued herself to the monitor. Lexus soon joined her.
"Yep," Splinterra walked up to another wall, a section opened to reveal a large control room, "It's got some interesting organic life."
"WOW! Hold up aren't organics like, really dangerous?" Gaia said trotting over to Splinterra.
Lexus was leaning against the side of a control panel, "Ya ... ya we have all heard the stories, them spewing acid that eats metal, poisoning and disfiguring bot's with their giant fangs. They are just stories, nothing more."
Splinterra was rapidly tapping away at the controls, "actually Lexus there are some organics that do all that." Symbols started popping up on the screen, and for each one that does her digits move faster. Other screens seemed to have areas light up and others started to flash.
"Wait, you said it was safe," Lexus said suddenly standing up.
"It is, the only danger is maybe something big trying to take a chunk out of you." Splinterra said as she started moving between two control panels very quickly.
"What..?" Lexus was cut off.
"Terra, what's wrong?" Gaia asked nervously.
"Hmm, Oh, nothing," Splinterra's optics remained fixated on the screens, and the ship began to rattle and shake.
Lexus pointed out a symbol "um, that kinda looks like a warning sign..."
"That one is just saying it is preparing to land" Splinterra said pointing to a blue planet in front of them.
"I know I'm not a pilot or anything but aren't we going a little fast...?" Gaia said looking from one friend to the other.
"That's because we are. Lexus took too long to defend us and our rear thrusters took heavy damage... which means we may not make it to the planet's surface alive."
"Wait, that's not my fault... wait did you just say?" Lexus' jaw dropped.
"Ya, she said it," Gaia's voice croaked.
"And you didn't think to... never mind how did you plan to land us? You must have had some sort of plan", Lexus said bracing herself on one of Splinterra's consoles as the ship shook hard.
"Well I planned to use the shielding systems to buffer, which would slow us upon entry and brace the landing; it would be rough but doable..."
Gaia looked out, "Then you better do it cause we're getting really close!"
"That's what I've been trying to do, but I think that last blast we took may have cut the shield's power supply. Don't worry, I can reroute it. We have enough time as long as the alarm does not sound..." The ship shook hard, knocking Gaia to one knee as Lexus fell to the ground beside the console. Splinterra tried her best just to hold onto the console.
As soon as the shaking let up, Splinterra resumed working. Lexus got to her pedes "what do you mean..." she was cut off by a loud beeping.
Gaia looked around as the screens started flashing "What is that sound!?"
"That would be the alarm I mentioned," Splinterra said her voice smooth. She quickly began moving between the control panels.
"TERRA!" Both shouted, panicking.
"I'm thinking..." Splinterra took a step back she stared at screens.
"Well think fast or we're SCRAP!" Lexus said, grabbing Splinterra by the shoulder.
Splinterra looked at her companions as the ship continued to shake violently, "AH!" She headed to another door, "Quickly! I have an idea but we don't have time to debate", she then took off down a corridor.
Gaia and Lexus trailed behind, finally coming to a stop in an area with two locked doors. A small control Panel sat between them, "Lexus on the right, Gaia the left. Let's hope this works like it is supposed to."
The two position themselves in front of the doors. "Maybe you should tell us what you need us to do first," Gaia said glancing over at Splinterra who was working the panel.
"Don't worry, you're already doing exactly what I need you to do", she said smiling at Gaia as the doors slid open.
Lexus poked her helm inside to see that it lead into a small confining space, "umm Terra this loo-wah!" Both Lexus and Gaia were pushed forward, the doors quickly sealed behind them. Lexus managed to turn around inside unlike Gaia who was stuck facing the wrong direction.
"No, NO! Terra you can't do this alone!" Lexus yelled, beating on the small view port in the door. She could hear the muffled cries of rage from the pod next to her.
Splinterra smiled and waved, Lexus could see her lips move but couldn't hear her. "T-T-Terra l-let us out", Lexus felt the pod drop as it was expelled from the ship. As it fell away from the ship Lexus could see that areas of the ship had broken off and caught fire.
"TERRA!?" the two called out they froze in place, and the pods fell to the planet below.