Title: The Wrecker and the Moonlight - part 4
Characters: Wheeljack, Prowl, Jazz
Genre: Romance, Family, Adventure
Description: On Earth, Team Prime meet an old comrade who returns to Earth, with his bondmate, who is sparked, seeking shelter after the downturn on Cybertron. Works up to the birth of the Autobots' future, unlikely 'Godfathers' of the sparkling. At the end, a familiar face appears. Takes place during Transformers Prime... with some of my own twists to make it fit with my plot.
Many years later, on an unknown Planet..
A red First Gen Dodge challenge with a black stripe down the middle of it,drives down the road with horns on the front of it's bumper, with no driver? And it was talking?
"So there I was on the lookout when out of no where these high beams light up my rearview. And then it hits me, I'm illegally parked."
"Another parking ticket?" a female voice said on the radio in the car. A blue motorocycle with a female driver on the back was driving down an empty road.
"Better, the boot."
"Big metal tyre clamp; impossible to remove."
"Bingo! So I let the locals do their thing, I let them get all the way down the block, that's when I kick of my new shiny shoe, and BAM!"
"New york's finiest soil themselves."
"You know me Arcee. You mess with Cliffjumper."
"And you get the horns."
The red vehicle laughed.
"Not sure how that complies with Autobot rule number one; keep a low profile."
"What can I say? Patrolling for energon out here in dullsville, almost makes me miss a Decepticon."
"Like Jasper, Nevada is a party? We're alone wherever we travel on this rock, Cliff."
Inside the red car, a small beeping sound occurs.
"I'm getting a signal."
"Need backup?"
"Do I ever need backup?"
*sighs* "I swear you follow rules like those Wreckers use to on Cybertron. Especially that one who never called for backup."
"Ah him, you mean Wheeljack?"
"Yep. No one heard from him in some time. Apparently during a mission with his unit, he went missing..."
"Well, many bots did fall during Cybertron's lost, including the Praxiens."
"And the ruler? He didn't pass away."
"Oh him, the Lord of Praxus. He had a bondmate, so everyone presumed that he's still ruling Lord."
"But when Cybertron went dark, no one saw him again."
"Hm." The red car approached the energon mine, and gasped. "I just found a whole lot of energon."
Then a dark shadow started to loom over the car, and he transformed into a red and silver mech with horns on his head.
"Decepticons!"
The ship above him activated a gun, and fired at the red mech, sending him flying, crash landing in the mine below.
The red mech stood up, and looked up at the ship, in which a compartment opened up, and six purple mechs with red visors jumped down.
"Arcee, about that backup.." the red mech called onto the comlink.
A green portal opens up near the energon mine...
A red and white mech with medical stencils jumped out the portal, landing below.
A large green bulky mech jumps out the portal, his hand transformed into a gun.
A blue and pink femme jumps out the portal, her hand becomes a gun.
A yellow and black mech with bright blue optics jumped out, aiming his guns around the area.
A large blue and red mech drove out the portal transformed mid air, his hands transformed into guns, scanning the area with the others.
Upon no sound, or signs of a battle, they all lowered their weapons.
"An untapped energon deposit," the tall blue and red mech said.
"What's left of it," the large green mech added.
"The first Decepticons activity in three years," the red and white mech said.
"That we know off," the blue and red mech said, his battle mask retracted from his face. "If they're scouting for energon, they may be preparing for his return." He walked over to the mine, with his team following.
The blue and pink femme, and the yellow and black mech jumped down into the energon mine. The femme scanned the area, and gasped, finding a small horn buried in the dirt. She reached for it, slowly picking it up, and shows it to the others.
"Ratchet, can you track his position?" The blue and red mech asked the medic.
Ratchet nodded, a small compartment in his arm opened up, showing a green screen with yellow dots and a red dot. He gasped when the red dot disappeared. "No..." He looked up. "Cliffjumper's life signal, just went offline.."
Later that day, the femme, and the yellow and black mech got involved in a battle against two of the purple mechs from before, catching the attention of two individual male humans who witnessed the whole thing.
The femme approached the taller male from earlier, and confronts him, before being spotted by a female girl, who tags along, all three humans head back to Autobot base for briefing.
"Blasted Earth tech!" Ratchet grew fustrated. He turned to his comrades. "Two signals have appeared, one is Cliffjumper's, the other is a signal outside Earth's atmosphere, but identified as an Autobot idenfitication beacon."
"Are you able to identify the signal?" Optimus, the tall red and blue mech asked.
"Yes I have, the readings are saying it matches an old war hero from Cybertron's past, a Praxien."
"A Praxien?" Jack asked.
"They were a race of Cybertronians, far advanced than us, in their technology, plus they were skilled warriors, but mechs that advanced without cover in battles, many of them lost their lives. The ruling Lord, or as you humans call it, their King passed away. Another Praxien took over, of nobility, called Prowl. This Praxien didn't believe in the violence, and so stopped his citizens entering battles, allowing their numbers to continue," Optimus explained the story to the humans. "Prowl was one of my own Autobots, a Commander of a squad of Autobots, involved with another group of bots before leaving to take over leadership. He was known for years, but during Cybertron's falling, no one has seen him since; I knew Prowl personally, he had a bondmate, or as you humans call it, he was 'married', but no one has seen him or his bondmate."
"And so picking up his signal, means,he's alive?" Miko, the female human asked.
Ratchet nodded. "But from his history, he can handle himself for now. We've picked up Cliffjumper's signal."
"How is that even possible?" Prime asked.
"It isn't," Ratchet replied. "Another bug, the system is full of them."
"If there is any chance Ciff is still alive," Arcee, the blue and pink femme said.
"Ratchet, prepare sick bay, we may need it," Optimus ordered, before moving his battlemask over his face, and enters the ground bridge with the others at the co-ordinates of Cliff's signal.
Arriving at the destination, the Autobots and Decepticon troops fought feriously, before Arcee spots Cliffjumper on a platform up ahead. Reaching him, she saves him from falling to his death. "Let's get you home partner," she said, but gasped as he glared up, all purple and growling at her. The Autobots watched him fall, and closed their optics in respect, before Optimus looked up at Arcee, who looked away.
At base, the Autobots discussed with Arcee about what happened, upon she replied, "It wasn't Cliff. He was mutated, butchered, something from those con experiments during the war."
She limped towards the side, feeling dizzy. Bumblebee went to assist, but she stopped him. "I'm fine."
"Robots who get dizzy," Miko said.
"Robots with emotion," Raf said.
"Robots, who can die!" Jack said.
From Darkness rising part 1, but with my own twist to include the names from previous parts, and make it flow.
Includes names: Wheeljack, Prowl, Jazz
Next chapters soon, sleepy now Zzzzz..