Beast Machines: Savage Planet
This is an old fanfic, from 2007 at least. It's been an ongoing beast of a fanfic, filled with twists and turns and the occasional hallmarks of my other fanfics. It's basically one of the first fanfics I published online, though it has changed a bit since I've started reworking out of nostalgia and the rekindling of my BM fandom side. Keeyah has changed appearance a little, but the story will stay pretty much the same, even though parts I am seriously reworking due to parts that I couldn't follow up on, aside from the spelling and grammar errors.
So sit back, grab some popcorn or a drink and crank up the E.S. Posthumus. Oh and this first chapter is a tad short. I apologize for that.
Ch. 1 First Encounter
At first, all was dark. There was no sound, no feeling, and no other stimulus. Nightscream could not feel nor could he scream. It was as though he had been sent right into the very vacuum of space.
Oh Primus I'm gonna die! He thought fearfully.
The only thing he did know was that he was falling, but couldn't see where. Then there was a sensation that touched his optics like an energo-knife. There was a light, not too bright but rather soft. He kept starring and starring. It got bigger and bigger, until it was the size of one of the moons of Cybertron when they appeared on the horizon. It grew bigger and bigger. There was another sensation, that of wind as it brushed by his side, triggering his wings to move, but they couldn't. It was as though he had some kind of paralysis in his lower legs. Nightscream had no time to think, he was going faster and faster. Before he could even issue a mental scream, he was devoured by the light.
Several birds cried and sang as big rain drops fell from broad leaves and fern fronds onto mossy stones and rotting logs. Somewhere, out in the dense green that seemed like a wall, a large therapod crashed through the trees, it's large three clawed hand gripping branches. Down on the ground, and farther away from the feasting therapod, a slender body laid partially hidden under some ferns. A shiny blue-green beetle the size of a mouse landed on the back of the being, crawling around on its back like some kind of bored explorer. It crawled upon a large hump and investigated a circular object that was a part of the creature's back. Suddenly the body moved and the beetle, alarmed that this particular being was moving, immediately flew off, a little irritated. A head, elven with a few strands of brown poked out of the ferns. It was Nightscream as he rose from the ferns, a little disheveled, mostly dazed and confused (and not in that order), blinking in the light of a sunspot he found himself in. Slowly he sat up, blinking his huge blue optics, narrowing them in the bright sunlight. What greeted them seemed like a incredibly green world of moss and leaves, the former covering every single inch of ground, except for the bare spots of black earth. To the untrained eye, it would seem like the entire jungle surrounding Nightscream was no more than a huge green wall. When one looked closely, there was depth, though not as much as one would see in an open plain, but enough to distinguse one tree from another. Every now and then a bird or two would flutter like a little jewel of color, disturbing the green.
"What is this place?" asked Nightscream, though there seemingly was no one to answer him in this strange world.
No did answer him and he sat there for a while, before he got the mind to stand up and look around this new green world.
But just as he was doing that, Nightscream heard branches snapping. He started, as all around him, branches broke and snapped. Whatever it was, it was coming closer – and increasing in number. Nightscream looked about, frightened and confused, stopping when he saw bushes and low lying branches a few meters from him start to shake and snap. Birds, insects and small mammal like creatures fled madly away from the area, leaving Nightscream alone in the ferns. All around him was nothing but silence and the odd snapping and twigs underfoot. He looked up to see the first of huge stealthy shadows emerge from the green wall like moray eels through coral. Their eyes were a baleful bright red and they had fangs, like razors that glinted in the sparse sunlight. One of them, a large specimen with large razor fangles rising from its withers lifted its head and inhaled deeply. His head moved towards the direction of Nightscream still in the ferns. The young bat Maximal saw the monster, and monster most definitely saw Nightscream. A sharp, nasty odor like that of burnt, rotted circuits and scummy mech fluids rose into the olfactory unit of Nightscream, making him nearly gag. From that smell, Nightscream could tell that this creature, whatever it was, ate the most unusual prey. He shuddered and tried not to make any sudden movement, as not to make the beast aware of his presence, though it was pretty evident that the beast knew what this creature was and was very intent on killing and devouring him. The creature strode into the light, revealing a very sleek alien form. It was shiny with gunmetal parts and dark grey skin flecked with neon green dapples on its flanks when the sun hit them the right way. Its head was narrow and predatory, suggesting something very familiar yet unfamiliar at the same time. Slowly, it inched towards Nightscream's face, getting closer and closer. Nightscream's optics widen when the reek of the beast reached his olfactory unit. Then the creature opened its mouth.
Before it could snap its jaws onto Nightscream's neck, a strange cry startled both Nightscream and the beast. The beast withdrew its mouth from Nightscream and looked up. Nightscream did as well to see a shadow leap from the sky – or so it seemed, and onto the ground. The beast snarled and barked orders it seemed to its pack and started after the newcomer. Nightscream tried to look, but all he saw was whirls of grey and flashing green, mixed with that of red-orange and black dancing around and splashes of strange ooze from the predator's flanks. Like a dervish, the newcomer leapt from the pack's jaws and right next to Nightscream.
Right next to him was a being of red-orange with bands of black all over. It was slim and lithe, poised like an acrobat, kneeling like a cricket ready to spring. A braid of red and black rested on its back, and it appeared to be wearing some kind of armband with twin feathers from an alien bird stuck in it. The body had odd splotches of black on it in intermediate variance against a reddish body. It turned to Nightscream and for the first time he was aware that this was female - and a Transformer.
Without a word, the girl grabbed his arm and pulled him away, sprinting like an Olympic athlete through the jungle. As she ran, branches and ferns scratched his face like claws. Close behind were the strange beasts, moving like barracudas, filled with a murderous frenzy. The led one, with his large franglets cried, an eerie mix between a puma's scream, a tiger's growl, and a squeal, making Nightscream nearly trip over himself. He stumbled, but the girl dragged him along, heedless of his situation. They both ran like the wind, the girl leaping over fallen logs and dodging low lying branches and vines, Nightscream clumsily trying to mimic her moves. She was furtherest away from him, dragging him along at an arm's length. Nightscream wanted to see her face in better detail, but couldn't and was constantly trying to keep up. But they suddenly stopped. Nightscream nearly fell over himself when the girl stopped.
As she stood there, Nightscream righted himself up, and got a good look at her. She was standing there, with a stern look upon her face, looking down into a chasm. When she turned to Nightscream, she looked him over. Then she spoke in an alien language.
"Shana doi?" she queried, pointing down. "Shana doi?"
"W-wait, what?" said Nightscream as the led beast screamed again, making him jump.
The girl turned to see the beasts, then grabbed Nightscream's arm and dragged him away. Before Nightscream could protest, the girl flung herself and him off the cliff, into the chasm.
To be continued...
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