Stolen
There was a bright light. That was all he could see. Was he blind? He couldn't be blind! It just wasn't possible. Uh oh! Did he lose his glasses? Cause all he could see were spots. Actually, not spots, more like a blinding and annoying bright light that wouldn't go away, and he could only stare into it.
His vision got clearer, and he realized he was surrounded by Con's. They were on the ground, unmoving. His heart stilled. Did he kill them? He killed Soundwave and Knock Out! He remembered seeing an explosion, but he didn't see Shockwave anywhere. Which meant that the Cyclops was still around. And, that wasn't a really good sign because according to Bumblebee, he was dangerous. Then again, wasn't every Con dangerous?
Raf slowly got up and saw Jack and Miko laying down near him. He sighed in relief. So they were okay. That made everything better for him; because all his friends were alright, and he was sure that the Autobots would come in and rescue them from whatever this was, and from the Con's.
The sound of a weapon firing up made him rethink that thought. Turning slowly, as if not to spook his attacker, Raf looked to see Arcee pointing her gun at him. Why would she want to shoot him? Was he deformed? Was she scared of him? What could it be? Arcee's his friend!
"Don't move any closer, Con!" Arcee threatened, her tone ice as she remained still, her optics flickering over to Jack and Miko.
"Arcee it's me!" Raf shouted, confusion filling him, and his voice. Then he stopped, as if wanting to blink. What was wrong with his voice? Why was it so deep? He just happened to look down and see...his own body? He blinked, unsure what he was looking at. But there he was, on the ground, unconscious.
"Woh woh, Arcee put the gun down!" Knock Out said suddenly, walking over to the blue femme, servos held up in the air as if to signal that there shouldn't be in any harm.. But the way he said it...it just didn't sound right coming from the red medic.
Arcee's optics flickered over to Jack, who was getting up. But then Jack looked around and turned his gaze towards Soundwave. He charged with such agility that Raf didn't know the teen possessed. He latched onto Soundwaves leg and started climbing up with dangerous grace.
And a fire fight broke out.
Arcee was screaming for the children to find shelter, while Knock Out was shouting in confusion, though it sounded a lot like a scream of panic. Bulkhead showed up, his weapons blazing as he charged. Soundwave fell down with a yelp. A yelp? Did Soundwave just speak? And yelp?
All there heads/helms turned suddenly toward a ground bridge that opened up. Megatron stepped through, and it was his very presence that caused Raf to freeze up. "Soundwave, Shockwave, Knock Out, into the ground bridge, now!" the warlord bellowed, pointing to the ground, an irritated look on his face.
To everyone's surprise, the children started running toward the dark lord. But it was short lived until Arcee grabbed Jack and Bulkhead grabbed Miko and 'Raf'. The blue femme called for a ground bridge, and all Raf could do was watch the Autobots disappear with his own body.
"Soundwave, now!" Megatron yelled.
Jack just stood there, shocked, and questioning his every being right now. He was inside the spymaster's body. He was in a Con's body! His mind was blank until Knock Out started roughly pushing.
"Come on Jack-rabbit that's your cue," the red mech whispered, trying to urge him forward.
Jack gave a start, looking back at the Decepticon. Only one person called him that, and it was safe to say that the medic was now Miko.
They stumbled through the ground bridge and onto the Nemesis, and it was then Jack didn't know what to do.
"Would any of you care to explain to me what happened out there?!" Megatron demanded, turning to face them; his red optics somewhat filled with fury. Right now, they were glad that they were not Starscream.
"The Autobots ambushed us and they had a new nuclear weapon that I never seen or heard of. It knocked us out, no pun intended. And thank Primus for your swift rescue. We would have been in the scrap yard without your help. Soundwave was just out of it," Miko proclaimed casually.
Megatron stood there with a confused look on his face.
"I would like to examine Soundwave and Shockwave, since they got most of the blast," Miko said with a swift bow. Jack could only stare at his friend in shock.
Megatron nodded "Oh, and Knock Out, inform me on any injures."
The three Con's took off down the hall.
After what seemed like hours of searching, they finally stumbled upon the med bay. Well, they assumed it was the med bay because it had all this doctor and science stuff. Miko causally closed the door she looked around before she smirked. Raf would have a field trip once he recovers from his shock. Again, no pun intended. She was getting good with these puns.
The two mechs turned around to face Miko who had an excited smile on her face.
Jack finally broke the silence "Miko what did you do?!"
Miko blinked. "Me! What did I do?" she shouted. Though in the back of her mind, she thought it was weird to be arguing with Soundwave, since he barely spoke; to mention, his voice was very deep… and sounded like someone in authority.
"Something happened, and we are now inside of Shockwave, Soundwave and Knock Out's bodies," Jack countered, tilting his helm. It was a little strange that he had a spark now, and had his face hidden. Did Soundwave even have a face?
"Well, look at the positive!" Miko exclaimed, folding her arms, and then examined her red paint.
"Positive! What positive?" Jack asked with slight anger in his voice. Again, weird arguing with Soundwave.
"We can do some damage. We can, like, rip them up from the inside!" Miko encouraged, a small glint in the red optics that most of the Decepticons were known for. Where did the red come from? Was it from the energon they were eating? Did it show that their sparks were evil?
"Yeah, but who's to say the ones in our body aren't doing the same with us?" Jack questioned, concern and worry filling his tone as he feared about what would happen to his comrades back at base.
Miko frowned. "We could try and warn the Bots. But in the meantime, we can stall the Cons. Raf can you stall Project Predacon?" Miko asked, turning to face the Cyclops. The big red optic staring back at her.
"Well, yeah possibly," Raf answered, his voice slightly cracking; showing that he was nervous.
"Great! Jack, can you stall Project Icon?" Miko asked quickly, turning back to the Faceless Mech.
"Stalling won't be hard, considering that I don't know what I am doing," Jack answered calmly, wanting to right now run a hand through his hair, only to find out: he didn't have any hair!
"Great," Miko replied, chuckling slightly. This all seemed kinda easy, but, everyone doubted it would because.. they were up against robots that have been alive for centuries.
"We're gonna have to find our way around this ship," Jack stated after a moment of looking around the room.
"Well, you're Soundwave, can't you just hook yourself up to a computer?" Miko suggested, knowing the answer to that. The girl in the medic eyed the room, and then turned back to Jack. She then stepped out of the way and motioned to the computer behind her.
Jack sighed and started typing on the computer. "Ugh, why couldn't Raf be stuck in Soundwaves body?" Jack groaned, not even knowing what he was pressing. For all he knew, he could be typing in a really bad curse word in Cybertronian, or googling a recipe for space nachos.
"Uh, I am stuck in Shockwaves body," Raf pointed out, folding his arms. "Not only that, but I have to work on Project Predacon and that is a serious equation." He then stared up at the ceiling, really not wanting to have to deal with the dragon-like beast.
"Oh, and Soundwave doesn't speak," Miko stated, humming.
Within that moment Laserbeak got off of Jack's chassis, almost as if the minicon were exhausted due to whatever stress it's companion was giving off.
"What the-" Jack yelped.
"I'll get him!" Miko exclaimed, jumping in the air trying to catch the little minicon, scratching her paint job in the process. Not that she cared, because the more damage she could do to this body, the more Knock Out would flip out.
Raf tried to grab Laserbeak, but the little thing just kept flying around chirping like crazy.
Laserbeak knew something was wrong with his so called 'master.' His thoughts weren't right and he spoke! That was his clue that something was wrong with his beloved master and he didn't like who his master had become. So he just decided to stick with the thought that this mech wasn't his master.
Laserbeak started chirping insults at them, unaware that they could not understand him.
Miko jumped up and tazed Laserbeak with whatever tool she could find. To be honest, it looked like she thought it could be used as a hammer. The little minicon fell on the med berth. Jack winced at what felt like being tazed and just stood still. Lord almighty, it hurt.
Raf looked at him aware that something was wrong. "Jack, are you okay?"
Jack looked up at Shockwave. He shook his helm. No, it was Raf inside of Shockwave. He sighed. "Yeah, I just felt like, well...I felt Laserbeak pain," he answered, moving his arms back and forth as if to calm himself.
"So you're connected somehow?" Miko asked.
They all stared at each other. It felt weird, well, it mostly felt weird to Miko because she was in a mech's body.
"I so need to get use to my deep voice," Raf said looking down with a sigh.
"We all do Raf. And Jack here needs to get use to being silent," Miko said with a small laugh.
Jack sighed and nodded. He wasn't use to being silent, but it was definitely something he would have to get use to because he guaranteed that they were going to be in these… bodies for a while.
Raf left the med bay, thinking that it would be best for him to get started on stalling Project Predacon. It took Raf a while to find Shockwave's lab. He had to look it up which took like 4 hours to actually find where it is but then he had to be ground bridged there. He had the help of a vehicon trooper, which bought a sense of relief.. and somewhat anxiety to him. And what he saw shocked him, there were tubes and tubes of predacons.
"Shockwave," a voice said and Raf knew the sound of that voice and it was not good. Raf turned around to see the dark lord himself, Megatron. Raf gulped and then did a hand motion for him to carry on.
Megatron raised an eyebrow before carrying on. "How is Project Predacon going along?"
Raf could've sworn if cybertronians did blink he would have blinked. He didn't even know how to work Project Predacon. But he thought it was best to just nod instead, so he did.
"Good," Megatron said as he walked out, even though Shockwave didn't give a clear enough answer, the Lord knew that it should be going alone.. well… right?
Raf just stood there he doesn't even know how to work his weapons or transform. Oh and it would be horrible if they had to go on a mission against the Autobots.
Ugh why did this have to happen? He wished he could remember something but it was all a blur with light; and all he remembered was being knocked on conscious. And he woke up in Shockwave's body.
Miko was leaning against the wall with Jack by her side standing up. Starscream happened to be walking by and just stared which Miko just stared back and made a face. And, Starscream came right up to them.
"Great Miko, now you got him coming in our direction," Jack whispered, but it sounded more like a hiss. But Starscream let it be and just walked by whatever they were talking about it had to be important.
"Ugh we have to get out of these bodies," Jack said letting out a sigh.
A/N: This took awhile because I lost inspiration for it; but it hit me like a truck when the Bumblebee Trailer came out...