Metallic Webs

Chapter One

Which Side?


Yes, I'm a beast, and I feast when I conquer
But I'm alone on my throne, all these riches
I came this way all this way, just to say

This time won't you save me?
Baby, I can feel myself giving up
This time won't you save me?

- Save Me – Nicki Minaj


"This is about family, Thrash In," the spiderlike bot said as debris began to crack and fall around them. "I am your family."

Painful grunts left Cliffjumper as the heavy iron ore against his frame pressed him to the ground. Any sign of movement also moved against the great bar that was against him, causing him more pain.

"Thrash In…" she heard her only Cybertronian friend grunt in agony. "Run…! Get away from her!"

There was an odd reading of radiation near the Southeast Asian coast. Both Cliffjumper and Thrash In were assigned to look into the area to see if any more Cybertronian life came to Earth, and who could have guessed they would have ran into Airachnid.

For so long, Thrash In didn't have her mother around. For so long, Thrash In and her father, Breakdown both had to live life without Airachnid. And she was fine with it. Yet, day after day, she couldn't help but feel emptiness in her chassis and spark, that hollowness inside of her that wouldn't fill up, and could never feel complete.

When she met her mother for the first time, she didn't know what to say to Airachnid, since she was gone ever since Thrash In was born. Everybody else wanted Airachnid gone as much as she did, though she was her biological mother. She had to get to know her a little… even though Airachnid just about made Thrash In the most miserable out of everyone who also saw the spider that day.

But this time, what Airachnid had to say to her was way beyond bizarre.

"Cybertron is alive…!" she began, violet optics glowing brighter. "Survivors are already there, rebuilding our home."

As out there as it sounded, part of Thrash In wanted what she heard to be a fictional tale out of Airachnid's unreliable mouth… yet at the same time she wanted her home planet that she never knew to be alive again.

Thrash In was born on Earth, but she wasn't part of the human race. She knew Grace Darby, her brother Zane, Izzy Esquivel, and Asuna Kamiya. She got along with her human friends, since their parents knew of their existence before the Great War ended years ago. With anti-Cybertronian organizations such as the Neo Luddites, she couldn't help but feel more like an outsider, which didn't help the fact of the pedigree from her mother.

Though, when she was with Cliff… She didn't feel those feelings of indifference at all. All was normal when she was around him. When everyone else left her, or never honestly understood her, he was still there at the end of the day. Out of all the chaos that happened around her, he was the only thing around her that made sense. They knew each other ever since they were sparklings, and were the only Earth born Cybertronians. Their mothers didn't get along with each other, but somehow they managed to be the best of friends.

And she was about to be the only Earth raised Cybertronian if she didn't do anything to save Cliffjumper in the next minute or two.

"We can start over again, Thrash In, just the two of us…!" Airachnid continued. "We can continue our lives on Cybertron, our home. The planet that holds your origins, our people!

Cliffjumper's life was in danger. He was dying. But here, she had her biological mother, telling her that her home planet was founded again. That it was being rebuilt.

If she left Cliffjumper under the debris, what else would she also lose?

Dad, Optimus, Grace, Asuna, Izzy, Earth-

Home?

Cliffjumper.

But if she found her home again… she wouldn't have to face everyone who hated her. She wouldn't have to face getting weird looks from everyone… even if they were from her own species.

She looked up into her mother's great eyes, finally seeing an expression of need across her face. Was she really willing to be a mother after all she did?

"Come with me…" Airachnid began. "I love you… my child!"

Turning, she looked to see Cliffjumper's ruby optics looking back at her with an expression that tore through Thrash In's insides. Closing her eyes, she bit her lip, feeling a trail of lubricant rolling down her face plate.

I'm so sorry, Cliffjumper…

And the first step she took felt heavier than ever before.


Note*~

Helloz, peoplez! Legacy Now/PiedatheMokona here with another story.

This story ties in with the Gone/Nine Months Alone universe continutity of my stories/fanon, so if you want to know the info there, you kind of have to read those stories...

So here is my winter project! More fanbaby generation stories, and this would be the first chaptered story for the saga. The moment you've been waiting for, little Cliffjumper and Thrash In are getting togetherrrrr ^.^ Hope you stay around for more. :)

And with the Nicki Minaj reference at the beginning, I honestly don't like her, but I was going through lyrics, and I really liked the content of the song, then I found out it was a NM song... An aquantance of mine says that her face scares her. :D

Hope you stay for more and you like this first chapter. ^.^

XOXO