Hello once again folks! I bet you're wondering why I'm starting a new story when Lifeline's not done yet. Truth be told..plot bunnies are a cruel mistress.
This takes place in Season 2 of RID, and is a sequel to my older RID fanfic..if you can't tell XD LEt's get this ball rolling!
I do not own Transformers that honor goes to Hasbro/Takara.
It had been a good day for Steeljaw.
He had a pack once again; Bumblebee's Autobots were in disarray. Better still was that he had disposed of Scorponok and now he had taken his place. He strode through the halls of the Alchimors stern. His head and chest held high like a king, though he had some business to attend too.
He walked over to one of the rooms set aside for his new crew and slid open the door. Of all the Decepticons he had freed this one was the hardest. He had been in terrible shape and Steeljaw had to sneak him out before releasing the others.
He walked into the room, seeing the damaged form off Offroad hooked up to several machines. His one optic had been shattered and was now replaced with a metal plate. Offroad turned his head toward Steeljaw and narrowed his eye.
"Hello again brother, I am sorry that you've been put into this terrible predicament." He said.
"Rest assured that Glowstrike has an expert medical team on standby too-"
"I don't care about you're promises Steeljaw." Offroad growled. "I just want to be off this slab and to get what I want." Steeljaw sniffed as he looked him over.
"Well I'm afraid that you're in no position for threats right now." scoffed Steeljaw.
"Besides you should be thanking me, I freed you from stasis so you could get revenge." He said. Offroad clenched his fist and gave Steeljaw a dirty look.
"When I was in stasis I wasn't in huge amounts of pain!" He snapped. Steeljaw walked around his bed, shaking his head silently. Offroad tried to rise from his slab, only to collapse back down on it.
"Careful now; don't want to reopen any wounds now do we?" Steeljaw chuckled lightly. Offroad didn't find it funny and looked away. Steeljaw sighed once again and moved back toward the door.
"I understand that things may have gone astray on your first outing here on Earth." he said once more. "But trust me Offroad, with the Decepticons we've aligned ourselves with now; the Autobots will get what's coming to them."
With those words said, Steeljaw left the room and the door slammed shut. Offroad stared after him before settling back down onto his berth. As he entered into a stasis nap, his mind remained on his goal.
Once he was repaired, Strongarm is going to pay with her spark.
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"Groundpounder, Overload and Quillfire." Fixit finished.
There had been a recent incident at the scrap yard, Steeljaw had managed to sneak in and break out a large number of inmates the team had captured. Now they were forced to scramble and recapture all of the previously captured Decepticons.
"Well, this is just great." Bumblebee muttered.
"Really, because I would call this a very bad thing." Grimlock said. Strongarm and Bumblebee both gave him blank looks.
"It's just a figure of speech Grimlock." Bumblebee said. Right at that moment, Russel ran over to the group.
"Guys, my dad just found another broken open stasis pod outside the yard." He said. The Autobots snapped to attention and looked at him
"Another escaped prisoner?" Strongarm sighed.
"But Fixit; you said that all of the others are accounted for." Bumblebee said. Fixit began to run over the data once more.
"Yes, all of the Alchimors prisoners are accounted for but-" The minicon blinked and then he chuckled. "Oh, silly me I forgot to add him!"
"Who?" Bumblebee, Strongarm, Grim and Russel asked.
Fixit tapped several keys and a holographic screen popped up so the others could see. The image of a Decepticon formed, one all too familiar to Strongarm.
"Offroad?" She gasped.
"Wait, who's he?" Russel asked. Grimlock leaned toward Russel and placed his band between his mouth and Russell's ear.
"I think Sideswipe said he's her ex boyfriend." He whispered. Strongarm stood ridged upon hear that and pivoted around to face the two of them. Her face flushed blue and she glared.
"Russel disregard everything Sideswipe or Grimlock says about Offroad, it's not true." She said then walked over and pushed Grimlock back from Russel.
"What?" Grimlock asked. "I'm just him what Sideswipe told me!"
Strongarm rolled her optics and scowled. If Sideswipe had been here at that moment, she would have punched him square in the jaw. Bumblebee took notice of this and walked over to them.
"Right now is not the time to start infighting." He said.
"Since we can't get the away team back here, it's up to us to stop this." Bumblebee said.
"Even if we are low on manpower, and I don't want anyone going on a vendetta run..." He said, giving Strongarm a quick glance. Strongarm took a step back; a look of offense came across her face plates.
"Excuse me sir, but weren't you the one who chased after Overload all by yourself?" She snapped. Bumblebee stepped back and then looked aside before meeting Grimlock and Strongarms twin looks.
"Wait...why are we looking at Bumblebee all mad again?" Grimlock asked.
"Sir I'm just a bit concerned about what Offroad will do once he's out; I don't think he'll hold back this time." Strongarm said, looking towards Russel warily. Russel looked upward in confusion.
"What...is there something on me?" He asked quickly.
"I know about your past with him, but he's also injured." Bumblebee said. "We'll take him down when the time comes for it to happen, if he can even get up at all." Strongarm sighed and looked down. Bee had a point; she was concerned all the same. Offroad had been tough to bring down the first time; but now he was going to be looking for revenge.
She was snapped out of her thoughts as Grimlock walked over. He tapped Strongarm on the shoulder and smiled at her.
"If you took him down before then we can do it again." He said eagerly.
"Last time you had Sideswipe, but this time you've got a Dinobot!" He struck a pose, forcing a smile from Strongarm
"Thanks Grim, but Bumblebee's right, we'll deal with Offroad when he comes." She said, looking toward all of the now empty stasis pods.
"We have bigger things to worry about right now." She said before walking back towards the command center. Grimlock followed but called out to her-
"If we see Offroad can I punch him? He asked. "I know he's you're nemesis but I want a crack at him." Strongarm couldn't help but laugh at Grimlock's antics. But deep in her spark, she felt like something bad was about to happen.
Yeah I had the idea for Offroad to come back for a while now. So I figured that now was the time to make it happen!
I hoped you all like the story, and Feedback is appreciated as long as it's not trolling and or flames
Till next time!