Summary: The third and final installment of the Project Abominations Trilogy, the Revived Autobot-Decepticon War is about to reach full pitch. As Decepticons fight Autobots and the United Nations battle the Neo-Nazis, the Autobot Efforts seek Breaker Laboratories to make them answer for their crimes and the Decepticon Efforts seek the three Hidden Efforts and ways of survival. But Breaker Labs tends to be a clever, sick bunch and will have alliances made and broken long before they will ever go down…
Rated for: Language, Violence, Crude Humor
Author's Note: Thank yee, good readers, for being patient in awaiting the last installment of the Project Abominations trilogy. To new comers: I advice going to my gallery and reading first Project Abominations, then Project Abominations: Transport City in order to understand this. Reviews are appreciated, and if you insist on flaming, please do it with proper grammar and spelling.
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Prologue:
Images clicked by on screen, showing numerous alien robots.
"Let's start from the beginning, shall we? It all started when the Decepticons, a faction with in the Transformer race of Cybertron, led by Megatron, sought to take over the universe. The Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, fought the Decepticons and thus practically destroyed their world in the process and wound up bringing their war to Earth."
Now briefly, silent video footage appeared of numerous Decepticon attacks on Earth and humans fleeing from them, often being cut down and crushed under the Decepticons on their rampages. A brave American army soldier attempted to shoot at a towering, jet-winged figure standing in the billowing clouds of dust left over from when a building collapsed. The jet-winged figured turned to the soldier, casting glowing red eyes down on the human briefly before raising an arm. Bullets flew from the arm and struck the human. The human turned to the camera as he collapsed, but the figure turned away and strode off without even bothering to watch his defeated defiance crumble.
"Humans, naturally, befriended the Autobots, their protectors, when the Decepticons turned their violence upon the lesser fleshling race. For a very, very long time, the relationship was established: Humans would live their lives, but when the Decepticons attacked in their quest for energy, the humans would run away and cower until the Autobots saved the day. The humans claimed no responsibility for them selves or the war and allowed the Transformers to way waste to their planet. Until…"
Now appeared footage of rank upon rank upon rank of jets, tanks, and human soldiers on screen, marching into a vast desert where the Decepticons had set up camp. Behind them came hundreds of trucks and cars, all full of gun and blunt-objet-wielding humans. This enormous force of humans, both professionals and amateurs, attacked the Decepticons, slaughtering almost all of them in a shocking display of zealous energy and rare team work.
"The humans became fed up with being crushed, shot, mind controlled, killed, et cetera, and hence, bounded all their forces together in a rather admirable attempt to destroy the Decepticons."
Clip after clip appeared of Decepticons crumbing to their knees, their Spark chambers blown apart by tank and jet missile. Other clips were of the Decepticons being dragged to the ground by swarms of humans who managed to disassemble them and smash in their Spark Chambers.
"They succeeded, much to all Transformers' shock, and even some of the humans', and the Decepticon-Autobot War was over. Peace ruled, people rebuilt both on Earth and Cybertron, the remaining Decepticons were put in a new prison in the Asteroid Belt, and things were all warm fuzzies and smiles for miles."
Numerous clips came on screen of Transformers and human leaders were shaking hands, smiling, and even starting to engage in cultural activities; Minicons dancing with humans, a family washing a car before they started a water fight and the car transformed to join the fight. Even some movies where there were Transformer as well as human actors.
"Then the Breaker Laboratories stepped onto the scene. Being Earth's best private science discovery force, we asked if we could have the Decepticon Elites' comatose bodies for studying.
We suggested that we might even use them for researching the making of a human-Transformer hybrid in an effort to bring the two races even closer together. Our requests were gladly obeyed and chosen Autobots gave their compounds in preparation to create their own Efforts (the name of the human-Transformer hybrid) for this project, called Project Smelting to the public, but was known as Project Abominations with in the Breaker Laboratories. We were supposed to destroy the Decepticons once our research was completed."
Now there was footage of humans and Transformers a like standing outside of a massive building, the Global Autobot Headquarters, and apparently shouting at the Autobot Elites with in. Police lined the perimeter to keep the mob from attacking.
"Of course, this was met with negative views from both species, and it almost didn't happen. Emphasis on almost; it still happened. If the Autobots had listened to these religious no-men, or at least been more careful in their decisions, then they might not be in the mess they're in now."
Video images appeared showing the large, unadorned, colorless halls of an unknown laboratory, numerous images of gruesome, failed fetuses, and the forming babies in their incubators.
"In one of Breaker Labs' most secretive bases in the lawless hell we all know as North Africa, we outfitted the underground base with blackmailed and desperate men and criminals who could defend the base from nosy natives without question, seeing as how they needed money and their freedom. Forty years we worked, taking compounds from the Decepticon Elites and attempting to fuse them with human DNA. After twenty years, the original scientists on Project Abominations had died off from age and other, eh heh, natural causes and had been replaced with doctors not as naïve to believe in the love and heart image that Project Abominations-slash-Smelting was presented as to the public. You all know this generation of scientists, for we are that generation. As you know, it was a long, hard trial of intellect, but finally, we were successful in creating six children."
The image of a little boy with black hair and dark skin with indigo eyes appeared in a mug shot. He was young, probably only around nine to twelve years old, and was obviously going to be an amazingly hansom young man when he got older. Beside him was a little girl of the same age with blond hair streaked with black and blue with enormous blue eyes. Her cuteness alone would make even the hardest man want to coo in adoration.
"This is Feodric, Effort 56 of Decepticon Seeker Skywarp. This is Brittney, Effort 24 of Decepticon Seeker Thundercracker. They are the youngest of the Efforts. From last we saw, Feodric was going by the name of Shadowleap and has developed his father's ability to teleport, and Brittney is going by the name of Cartwheel with the ability to heal Transformers at a touch and diagnose other people's ailments with the same touch. Feodric-slash-Shadowleap has the same mischievous personality as his father while Brittney-slash-Cartwheel is your perfect, innocent angel, naïve to the world and of the sins of the people around her. Feodric is a replacement Effort for Effort 25, AKA Sam. That rocker-headed idiot ran away into the desert, probably only to dry up and die."
The image switched with the click of a projector remote and revealed a blue-haired boy with an expressionless face with his eyes covered in red goggles. He appeared with in his young teens; probably fourteen.
"This is Effort 137, son of Soundwave. He shares his father's same cool, expressionless personality. Last we heard of him, he was going by the name Skynet and his powers, which we had thought we'd erase through medical drugs, were back and in full power, or what we hope is full power: Telepathy, telekinesis, and a technopath, one who controls machines, on top of that, 137-slash-Skynet is going to be a force to be reckoned with if what we saw was not his full power. Know this, my friends: Skynet just very well might become the most powerful Effort of them all. Let us pray that 'Skynet' is not an omen of what is to come."
The image switched after this dramatic warning to reveal a tall, lanky, eighteen year old wearing spectacle glasses over silver eyes with smooth, neatly combed lavender hair tied back in a small pony tail. He appeared to be a sensible boy that could keep his hands to himself around girls and would much rather prefer a book and some study time than beer and partying.
"This sophisticated looking man is Effort 12, spawn of Shockwave. He goes by the name of Ferrofluid, last we saw, and no, he doesn't look like that any more. His eyes have changed so that one is completely black and the other possesses a golden iris with a thick black line around it, creating a rather spooky appearance. His vision has improved to that of super abilities, even by Transformer standards, and is extremely smart, just like his father. How ever, once in battle, he tends to become, shall we say, zealous?"
Click! Next up was an extremely attractive young woman in her late teens with a trim body and dark red, almost maroon hair, and fiery eyes with mahogany irises and ruby red pupils. While the others had kept up calm exteriors in their pictures, this girl looked ready to attack the camera man… with her teeth. The teeth, literally, were hunting-hound sharp. Judging by the small fuzz around the edges, the camera man had been trembling.
"Little Miss Terror here is Effort 33, Samantha, of the ever notorious Starscream. She has a temper and last we heard her name was Smartmouth, a proper name for her. From what we have seen from her, she has developed the ability to shoot laser shots from the space around her shoulders, much like her father and his shoulder-mounted null guns. She's a right little terror, isn't she? As ferocious as she is beautiful. Finally…"
The last image of the Decepticon Efforts was of a young man of the same age as Smartmouth. His cheek bones were high, his chin, narrow, and something about him reminded everyone of the Decepticon leader, Megatron. The gun-grey hair only helped in this familiarity, along with the dark, confident, alpha-male look in the boy's red-silver eyes. He did not smile, but neither did he exactly frown. He looked like he was peering at the camera man for weaknesses.
"He is the appropriate leader of the Decepticon Efforts. He is Michel, Effort 83 of Lord Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. He has not developed any official powers; last we met, and has adopted the name Mextron, or 'Megatron Junior'. But do not take his lack of powers as a sign of weakness. He is strong, fast, clever, and skilled in the ways of leadership and combat, and above all, he will be ruthless should anyone dare attack his charges, the other Efforts."
The next picture was that of a group photo of the Decepticon Efforts. They were standing in a high-roofed, white-walled cafeteria hall of some sort. In their identical white and grey uniforms, their odd hair color was an explosion of color amidst the dull background. Mextron and Smartmouth were yelling at each other and Ferrofluid was rolling his eyes in humored familiarity. Shadowleap and Cartwheel were in the center, smiling and beaming happily while they hugged a stiff, blank-faced Skynet around the neck.
"All have appeared to have developed powers, probably from an energon diet, if my hypothesis is correct, and all but the youngest two seem to have gained the ability to transform into Transformers when their Spark Chambers, right beside their hearts, were pierced with metal.
"Well, these children were spawned and raised in the laboratory, but rose up one day and released their fathers, as well as Soundwave's Cassetticons, Buzzsaw, Laserbeak, Ravage, Rumble, and Frenzy. They killed many humans off before chasing the rest out and taking over the laboratory. In the months following the attack, the Decepticons rebuilt their army and we tried to contain the threat. But due to an act of betrayal caused by jealousy on behalf of Megatron that almost had Mextron killed, the Decepticons attacked an Autobot-infested Breaker Lab base and the war was brought to Transport City, the on-the-water metropolis just off the coast of the United Kingdom and home of the Global Autobot Headquarters and the Autobot Elites and their Efforts; all of whom are sixteen and were created once we were confident that their genetic structures were stable enough to survive with."
The image changed to a casual photo in a park somewhere of three girls. To the far left was a dark-skinned girl with long, wavy black hair and almond-shaped, turquoise eyes. The girl was a beautiful specimen, with a trim hour-glass figure, long eye lashes, and the pale blue lip gloss adding emphasis to her lips' plumpness. She was in a pair of jeans with French-cuff rolled bottoms and in a white blouse with a cop badge strapped to her belt and a gun raised in her hands.
To the far right was somewhat short and scrawny lass. Her hair was short, ear-length, flirt-styled hair, with bright red and white streaks. She possessed large cerulean eyes, currently furrowed together in a mock-growl as she appeared to be about to throw a wrench at the camera. She was dressed in a white and red baseball shirt with white jean briefs.
The center girl was not as thin as the girls on either side of her, but nor was she fat, dressed in green camouflage print cargo pants and tank top with a matching wool cap and aiming a monstrosity of a large gun directly at the camera. Her grinning eyes were pale blue and her hair was strawberry blond, matching the red freckles sprinkling her cheeks.
"From right to left; Anne, daughter of Ratchet, Jess, daughter of Ironhide, and Amethyst, preferably called Becky, and daughter of Prowl. Anne, like her father, is a saucy girl who is more prone to hurting her patients than helping them. That triple-barreled freak Jess is holding is Pointblank, a weapon of super power she invented with her father, as she shares her father's love for a good back end kicking. Amethyst-slash-Becky, the young beauty, works—or shall I say worked?—with her father on his patrols of Transport City."
The image changed to four boys sitting on a low stone wall around a fountain. To the far left was a pale young man with grey eyes and black hair. Next over on the left was a tall, awkwardly grinning young man with copper-colored hair and sea green eyes. In the center was a young man who appeared like he could pass for twenty with brown hair and deep, almost unnatural, blue eyes. Broad shouldered and strong, the man was a well-built lad. At the left end of the line was a younger boy with spiked light brown hair in a lab coat with goggles on his head.
"From right to left is Josh Witwicky; heir to the human family of friends to the Transformers, Michelangelo; the quiet, polite son of Skyfire, Benjamin; the noble, military-raised, son of the ever-famous Optimus Prime, and lastly, Jack Turbine; explosive apprentice of Wheeljack."
Another click of the remote and the image was the same, only the boys were looking up in shock as a grinning boy with bright yellow hair and sky blue eyes was apparently flying through the air over head, having some how jumped the boys from a side angle off screen.
"And that idiot skater boy is Max, son of Bumblebee.
"This party has an interesting history, but more on that soon. But first, a summary on the party over all: With the exception of Max, all the Autobot Efforts are smarter than your average sixteen year old, hence allowing Anne to become a nurse and Becky to become a police deputy at such young ages. Benjamin has an extensive language field due to his program of constantly going to a different military school every year. Max, while he is an idiot, can fight rather well with his skateboard, which he calls Grind.
"The Decepticon Efforts were sent ahead to Transport City where they ambushed the Autobot Efforts as a warning of the Decepticons' revival. The Decepticons came to Transport City and once more they and the Autobots did war, even as Skyfire and Prowl with their children, Michelangelo and Becky, went to re-recruit their warriors. Becky was kidnapped by the Decepticon Seekers, as were the other Autobot Efforts, with the exception of Michelangelo, and Josh Witwicky, in time, in an attempt to weaken the Autobots by trading their Elites for the children's lives. Prowl could not be talked out of his panicked charge looking for Becky until the Lamborghini Twins, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, talked him into coming back to the city.
"During the four-day long war there, Megatron recruited the Neo-Nazi force into his army. The Neo-Nazis are a force taking up the old Nazi's goal for making the human race invincible, and are led by this man."
An image appeared of a stern, hansom-looking man with dark hair wearing a desert hat with a flap in classic Nazi garb. His eyes were the color of dark dried blood and he looked ready to pull out either a whip or a gun to attack the nearest man to him. The picture was taken from a distance through a window, looking into a building where temporary military quarters had been set up. He was standing at a table with some other men in similar Nazi garb, apparently planning battle plans out on the maps on the table. He was looking over his shoulder, a suspicious appearance on his face; as if he sensed that he was being watched.
"This is General Balthazar, now known as Blitzwing the Second. He is of the small handful of lost Efforts that the first generation on Project Abominations released into the world upon testing. He is schizophrenic, with one side in a permanent mode of anger, another that is just insane, and this one we see now; the sanest and calmest of the three.
"Now, while much was done in those few days, let us summarize what we discovered through our agents spying there:
"First, Michelangelo is not an Effort. He was a human babe abandoned by his parents in Scotland and adopted by Skyfire, seeing as how his own compounds could not cooperate enough to give him a child. In spite of this, he and Skyfire still see each other as father and son.
"Second, Josh Witwicky, how ever, is an Effort; Autobot Jazz's, to be specific. Jazz had turned in his compounds for Project Abominations-slash-Smelting, but had been knocked into a coma during a prison fight whilst at the Asteroid Belt Facility where the surviving Decepticons and other high Transformer criminals are kept. By the time he awoke, Josh had been adopted by the Witwicky family and could not be taken from them without causing serious psychological damage and confusion to the little boy.
"Finally, in the final hours of the Transport City battle, Max faced off with Decepticon Cassetticon Rumble and wound up angering the Cassetticon enough that he used his pile driver abilities to, literally, break the city. Simply put, Rumble became so angry that when he hit the ground in an attempt to knock Max down, he hit it with enough force that the supporting beams of Transport City, the things keeping the city above sea level, could not take the force and, literally, shattered. The city sank with in five hours.
"From this incident, we have discovered that Autobot Effort Anne and Josh were almost killed when they were pierced in the Spark Chambers and have unlocked their Transformer alt-modes; Josh is very much like his true Autobot father, Jazz, and Anne appears to be a robot of feline creation.
"With Transport City sunk, the Autobots have retreated back to their original Earthling home, the Ark, and the Decepticons are at their base in the northern lands of Africa. Both are mainly focused on defeating the other, from what we've gathered, and the United Nations are pouring much of their armed forces into Europe to fight the Neo-Nazis who are fighting to weaken the land there in preparation for proper Decepticon domination.
"But we also know that we are still a source of major concern among both factions. The Autobots know that we're dangerous, and by hacking into our mobile data bank with in the Internet, they now know of our experiments with the Decepticons and will discover information of the Hidden Efforts soon. We have reason to believe that the Decepticons now know of the Five Hidden Efforts; one they know is Josh Witwicky and the other is Balthazar-slash-Blitzwing II. The last three they are going to seek and enlist or destroy. We already have one of the Efforts. The second, we know, is Sam, the same boy who ran away many years ago, and the third, we have yet to find.
"The times of war are here again, men. The governments of Cybertron and Earth are on high alert, the Autobots are collecting their forces and falling back into battle mode, and the Decepticons are slowly and carefully recruiting in desperate mechs. The human governments are scrambling their armies to fight the Neo-Nazis. The Decepticon Efforts have an internal battle program, courtesy of their fathers, so they are the stronger Efforts… for now. It is only a matter of time before the Autobot Efforts' battle programming awakens, and when they develop their Transformer forms and possible powers, this war will become that of epic power once more.
"You are gathered here today because not only is the world threatened, but so is our destiny. Our goal: Capture and kill or reprogram all Efforts into our services, for if they remain free, we shall be captured and all we have worked for shall be for nothing.
"So, we of the Breaker Laboratory's Office of Domination, how are we to deal with this issue?"