Apocalypse: Doubts of a Hero
Prologue
Return to Bara Magna
(A/N: I just couldn't wait for TFA to be over, so I'm doing the sequel now! I hope you like it! Please Read & Review!)
The twins Jetfire and Jetstorm boarded Sentinel Prime's ship on the course to their home planet of Cybertron. They had high hopes of Ultra Magnus still alive and the Decepticons they captured put in the cyber-stockade.
However, Jetfire was sad about leaving Bara Magna behind. He and Jetstorm had grown attached to the Mars-like planet, particularly Destiny. Jetfire had a big crush on her and felt miserable about leaving her, unloved. Jetfire was tempted to ask Sentinel to excuse him to Bara Magna, but was distracted by the sight of his brother and the Autobot known as Jazz, rushing into the control room, as if something was terribly wrong.
"S.P., we got a mucho prob!" said Jazz.
"What is it?" asked Sentinel.
"All Decepticons have vanished!" shouted Jetstorm. "The prisons are empty!"
"And ya wanna know the weirdest thang?" said Jazz. "They were as silent as a Rattrap the whole drive-through!"
"That can't be!" said Jetfire.
"See for yourself, brother!" said Jetstorm.
They ran to the prison cells and, to their surprise, they were as empty as Shea Stadium. All the Decepticons captured—Sunstorm, Swindle, Blitzwing, Lugnut, and Ramjet—were all gone.
"How do you lose an entire Decepticon army?! I ask you!!" exclaimed Sentinel.
"I don't know, sir!" said Jetstorm, honestly. "Mr. Jazz and I were just in here to take a look at the evil bots, and next thing you know, they's all gone!"
Jazz looked in a drawer where they kept all the Decepticons' weapons and mods, and to his great surprise, they were empty. "Crazy. Even the 'Cons' weapons & mods took the banana split! This is really strange!"
"So where they go?" asked Jetfire.
"They destroyed the watch-over camera, so we don't know what they's planning or going." said Jetstorm.
"It's a good thing I inputted a secret sound receiver in this room, then." said Sentinel.
He took them to the control room and put in some keys to retrieve the sounds heard in the prison cells at the time of the Decepticons' apparent escape.
"Oh yeah!" shouted a voice that belonged to Swindle. "Good-bye boring stasis-nap; hello good ol' Swindle!"
Apparently, Swindle had somehow got out of his long predicament in vehicle mode and was back in both modes, with his weapons back in full use. Then, there was a blast that sounded like he escaped, followed by similar ones, meaning he had freed the other Decepticons. How the Elite Guard was unable to hear them is something beyond them.
"Oh great arms-dealer!" said a voice belonging to Sunstorm. "You were amazing! Such a thrill it was to see you free from our accursed prison!"
"What are you talking about?" asked a voice that belonged to Ramjet. "I escaped that cell all by myself without any help at all."
Ramjet and Sunstorm were created from Decepticon Starscream's deception and boot-licking parts of his personality, respectively, meaning that everything that Ramjet said is a lie. So the Autobots doubted any of the Decepticons would believe him.
"So, now what do we do, Swindle?" said a voice belonging to Lugnut.
"I have a transwarp driver built inside of me." said Swindle. "We're going to the planet of Bara Magna to assist Shockwave."
"(calm) Bara Magna?" questioned a voice that belonged to Blitzwing. "(calm) But that place is a big desert. No one can survive there!"
"That's what they say." said Swindle. "But I'm much wiser now. I know there's life on Bara Magna and the Autobots were once there. And they'll probably visit it again to try to turn Shockwave in. So how's about we head there and give him a servo?"
"And that's where they leave." said Sentinel.
Jetstorm & Jetfire gasped in horror. They had forgotten all about Shockwave still on Bara Magna and the fact the Decepticon fugitives were on their way was not only a sign of their regrowing empire; it meant Destiny and the Nega Force were in danger and didn't even know it!
"This could be a prob, S.P." said Jazz. "Bara Magna's a wasteland of offlining! No one's got a crib there and with good reason; no one's ever survived 2 cycles on the rock."
"That's not true, Mr. Jazz, sir." said Jetfire.
The two 'big-bots' turned to face the twins who just spoke.
"What do you mean, Jetfire?" asked Sentinel.
"Jetstorm and I was once on Bara Magna and we find sapient Glatorian, Agori, and other beings on it while looking for mono-eye." said Jetfire.
"True." said Jetstorm. "There defense team there called 'Nega Force' and we help them defeat evil once and be granted honorary members."
"Crazy." said Jazz. "You two are real talented bots."
"But friends there need us." said Jetfire. "Please, Sentinel Prime, sir! Please do allow Jetstorm and me to go back to Bara Magna and bring in decepticons and help other friends there!"
Sentinel stared at his two soldiers. He was reluctant to let two members of the Elite Guard go to a deserted planet (no pun intended), but he somehow knew they were telling the truth about having friends there. After a long puase, he nodded and said: "On one condition: if anything goes wrong, you call for back-up!"
"We'll try!" said the twins.
And with that, the Jet twins took to the hangar, transformed into their jet modes, and flew off to Bara Magna.
"Let's hope it's not just a one-way trip..." Sentinel told himself.
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Elsewhere, on a ship piloted by the Autobot Rodimus Prime and his team, they continue to search for the Decepticon double-agent Shockwave, their luck so far not so good. They knew Ultra Magnus was fatally wounded and Cybertron was in confusion & chaos, but they knew Shockwave was the reason for the cause for it and he had the supreme commander's hammer.
"Hot Shot, any new leads on Shockwave's location?" asked Rodimus to a blue & yellow Autobot he called Hot Shot.
"Sorry, Rodimus." said Hot Shot. "I got nothing."
Rodimus sighed in frustration. This was not going well for them all. He had no idea how Shockwave was evading their scanners, but they had to find him and fast! Then, there were some flickers, meaning they had found something.
"I got a beep of Decepticon energy signatures!" said an orange Autobot.
"Is it Shockwave?" asked Rodimus.
"Don't know, but it's really strong and there's probably lots of cons down there!"
The orange Autobot pointed to a planet that was mostly filled with deserts. They didn't know of it, but the planet was Bara Magna.
"You sure about that Ironhide?" asked a green and brown Autobot.
"Pretty sure, Brawn." said the Autobot idnetified as Ironhide. "And apparently, the planet's called 'Bara Magna.'"
"Bara Magna?" questioned a white and red female Autobot. "But that planet is impossible to survive and completely inhospitable! Surely, the Decepticons would never be so stupod to take refuge there!"
"One can never be too sure, Red Alert." said Rodimus. "Let's check it out, Autobots! Full speed ahead to Bara Magna!"
They had no idea that Jetstorm and Jetfire were slightly ahead of them. However, Jetfire snuck into the engine room of Rodimus's ship. He had a bad feeling about what they might do to Destiny when they saw her and he couldn't let that happen. Besides, he wanted to see Destiny with no one else but his brother. Jetstorm had not noticed his absense, yet.
Jetfire wasted no time. He started using his flamethrower on the engines, attempting to overheat it. The results were different; they burned out, but the ship was still moving on itself and moving fast. Jetfire himself didn't know what was happening, but had no time asking questions. He quickly transformed into jet mode and flew out of the ship, joining Jetstorm in flight towards Bara Magna.
Rodimus's ship was going to crash and soon afterwards, be destroyed. They knew they had to act quickly when the ship landed. They decided on the only rational decision; once the ship crashed, they had to quickly escape. The ship soon entered Bara Magna's atmosphere and crashed in the Wastelands. The team ran to the exit of the ship to try and escape. Unfortunately, it was locked tight. Brawn charged into it and broke it. They ran out a few miles before going to duck for cover when the ship exploaded.
"Autobots, take cover!!" shouted Rodimus.
They jumped and put their servos on their heads to cover themselves just as their ship exploaded into many pieces. All they could do was see the destroyed remains of their ship.
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(A/N: Well, that's the prologue! This was not as easy as it looked. Well, see ya next time!)