Hello All! I've been brainstorming this story idea for a while, and I've finally had a chance to put it down on paper! I'm putting one chapter up right now, and I'm going to be updating new chapters every week, so please come back frequenty! There will be 7 Chapters, and some of them will be long, and some of them will be short. I hope you enjoy this story, because I sure enjoyed writing it!
Skywarp: The Hero
The Dilemma
It was another annoyingly boring day in the Big Apple. Nina, a young woman of about 24, glumly stared out her fourth story apartment sliding glass door, desperately hoping something exciting would happen in her life. She had recently separated with an abusive ex-boyfriend, so she was single, and now living alone, so of course when one spends so much time solo, things tend to get…boring. Don't get her wrong though, she loved living in New York, but unlike other cities, hers was a little more…complex.
These days, if an explosion rocked your apartment, it was considered completely normal! Since when you ask? Ever since the news revealed to the world that huge transforming alien robots had landed on Earth! And unfortunately for her, there were battles daily, and they had a tendency to shake things up…a lot! It was pretty obvious that the giant robots had decided to make New York their permanent residence.
According to the government, they came from a planet called Cybertron, and there were two factions. The Autobots, and the Decepticons. The Decepticons were the ones who posed the greatest threat to the general public, due to their violent and destructive nature. But thankfully, the Autobots, came here to defend us from them, and to stop the Decepticons from stealing Earth's precious energy sources.
Down the block from Nina's apartment, a small skirmish was taking place. The hotheaded Autobot Sunstreaker was pursuing the elusive Decepticon, Skywarp. The Autobot fired a few rounds at the retreating Decepticon, and cursed in Cybetronian as Skywarp easily kept teleporting out of harm's way. Skywarp's laughter echoed slightly down the street.
"Show yourself you piece of scrap!" Sunstreaker yelled as he pointed his blaster down the empty street, waiting for the 'Con to reveal himself.
When he finally reappeared, Sunstreaker was about to shoot, but suddenly had a better idea in mind. He smiled as he reached back and grabbed one of his shrapnel bombs from a hidden compartment in his shoulder and threw it above Skywarp's head so he wouldn't see it. When it detonated, the Decepticon was unexpectedly pelted with a shower of razor sharp shards.
The exploding sound of the shrapnel bomb made Nina jump. That explosion sounded close! Maybe if she was lucky, she would be able see the battle up close! She walked out onto her balcony and looked over the edge. Her heart started to pound excitedly as she saw a very large shadow and the sound of thundering feet approaching the alley.
Suddenly, Skywarp's communication line opened up and his Air Commander's voice screeched in his audio receptors.
"Skywarp! What are you still doing down there? I ordered a retreat!"
Skywarp stopped at the opening of Nina's alley and shook off the haze from the shrapnel bomb and desperately tried to re-focus on the Autobot so he could teleport in case he tried to fire at him again. And as expected, Sunstreaker did. Only this time, for some unexplained reason, Skywarp's mind didn't allow him to teleport and he took the full of the blast right in his chest. He was thrown back into Nina's building, and the impact shook her apartment, which caused her to loose her footing. When she righted herself and got back on her feet, she gasped when her green eyes fell upon the majestic purple and black robot running towards the end of her alley.
When he reached the end, there was nothing but wall, so he turned around like a trapped rat to face his attacker. He slowly slid down the wall till his aft hit the floor, his hand covering the wound in his chest. He could hear the Autobot's footsteps approaching. Sunstreaker advanced towards the alley in a slow and arrogant manner. He knew he successfully damaged him, he just didn't know exactly how much.
"What's the matter Decepti-scum? Afraid to face me?" Sunstreaker gloated, his shadow moving ever so closer to the alley's entrance.
Skywarp tried to teleport once more, but again nothing happened. So he tried to transform into his jet mode and fly out of there, but that didn't work either. Confused and panic stricken, he ran a system check and discovered that a small shard managed to lodge itself right in the wire that connected his cerebral processor to his power chip rectifier and his transformation cog. He reached back behind his head and tried to locate it, but it was way too small to be pulled out with his large fingers.
"Skywarp! Why aren't you answering?" His radio blared again.
"Starscream! I can't teleport! I got a piece of shrapnel stuck in my neck and I can't pull it out because it's too small! Send some back up!" Skywarp replied, a twinge of panic in his voice.
Starscream smiled maliciously on the other end and calmly and cockily replied, "I'm afraid I can't do that, Skywarp. Megatron's orders were to steal the oil tankers, and to meet at the rendezvous point. He didn't say anything about risking the lives of our kind just to go back and save you."
"You can't leave me here! I'm pinned down!" Skywarp pleaded.
"Then transform!" He spat.
"I…I can't do that either!" He said as his body desperately tried again.
"Then I'm afraid it's out of my hands." He snapped. "You'd better hurry up and think of something, Skywarp. If you're not here in a few clicks, we're leaving without you! Starscream out."
After Starscream cut transmission, the reality of the situation sunk in to Skywarp's mind.
"Oh frag…" He said softly as Sunstreaker stood in the entrance of the alley with his blaster pointing directly at him.
"So…you can't teleport huh? That's great news for me." He said as he cocked his weapon. "I've always hoped I'd be the one to catch you." He muttered.
Skywarp put a hand up to protect his face, closed his optics and clenched his teeth, and prepared for the worst. Nina had overheard everything. She watched helplessly as the yellow robot stopped right below her and pointed his weapon threateningly at the head of the darker colored one. As she continued to watch this soon-to-be execution, something inside her snapped. She had to do something! Thinking quickly, she released the rope holding her hanging laundry and a plethora of wet sheets blanketed the unsuspecting Sunstreaker.
She then climbed off her balcony and slid down a drainpipe that took her safely to ground level. She leapt at the last moment and landed unevenly on some trash bags and quickly got up and ran towards the black and purple jet. Skywarp then felt something crawling on his chest and he opened his red eyes. He was shocked to see a human girl balancing on him and staring up at him with pleading eyes.
"Eeww! A squishy human!" He wailed as she ran up to his head investigating it closely. "Are you crazy? What do you think you're doing?!"
"Saving you!" She said as she reached around his neck and located the shard.
When she found it, she gripped it and used all her might to pull it out. Once it was out, Skywarp didn't waste a second and teleported the both of them, to the rendezvous point.
When Sunstreaker was free of the soggy hindrances, he hastily fired a shot. But there was nothing there, just the hole in the brick wall that his gun had just made. Still insistent that Skywarp's teleporting ability was disabled, he got quiet so he could try and hear the sound of his feet running away, but he heard nothing. He stood there perturbed, but was deadset on remaining there till he found out why he was able to escape without a sound.
