Hey guys, what is up?
Well here is chapter one of Book 2 of The TechnaFury series.
I don't want to talk for too long so that you guys can enjoy this nice heaping hot chapter straight off of the press, per-say. XD
I hope you guys enjoy it, and I hope you guys will review.
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Disclaimer guys, I do not own any elements of How To Train Your Dragon that I may use in this story, nor do I own Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters. I just own the TechnaFury Predacon natural evolution idea, and I own my OC Talus.
Review Replies: (For the last chapter of Book One)
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Now onto the show folks!
Take Care Now, Bye Bye Then!
Chapter One: Prologue
H-He had to find them!
His f-family!
His s-sparkmate!
H-His sparklings!
His sweet s-sparks!
H-He had a-a mechling!
A-And a young femme!
Twins!
H-His beloved mate!
He h-had to find them!
Fire!
F-Fire is everywhere!
In his olfactory sensors!
His optics!
I-In his mouth!
H-His audio sensors were ringing off the hook!
H-He needed to find them!
W-Was that radiation?
Wait, w-why were his brethren trying to attack him?!
H-He could hear the king, the leader of his brethren, calling out to him.
U-Underground?
N-No!
H-He had to find his family!
W-Why were his brethren attacking each other?!
The king is calling out to him!
Underground!
Underground they would be safe!
B-But his family?!
The king calls out again!
His family is smart!
They are smart enough to go underground!
B-But his family!
The king calls!
To his left?!
He looks, and he sees!
His mechling!
He immediately runs over!
His mechling is wounded!
But it could be healed with time!
H-His mate is nowhere in sight!
Neither is his young femme!
He grabs his sparkling in his mouth!
He runs back to his brethren's king!
The king calls out!
Underground!
Underground is safe!
H-He agrees!
He needs to act now!
The fires rise even higher!
He needs his young femme!
But she is nowhere in sight!
T-Tears come to his optics!
He's sorry!
He's so sorry!
The king digs!
As does the king's closest friends!
H-He starts to dig!
He digs faster!
And harder!
And longer!
H-He keeps going!
And going!
And going!
Until he cannot dig anymore!
H-He is tired!
He makes his mechling fall into stasis!
And soon.
He wants to do the same.
But his family!
They needed to find him!
If they were alive.
They needed to know what had happened here!
The injustice!
By the Primes!
By the Chaos bringer!
An idea hits him!
H-He carves into the walls around him.
Messages!
So that time never forgets!
Some of them say!
Unicron!
Some of them say!
Fires!
Some of them say!
Primes!
Some of them say!
Alpha!
Some of them say!
Deep!
Some of them say!
Family!
Some of them say!
Rare!
Some of them say!
Monsters!
Some of them say!
Sparkling!
But the final one!
The one that he needed to say!
He needed to let others hear!
That one!
That message was important!
It said!
The Night's Fury was here!
H-He did it!
He could rest now...
H-He wanted to rest now...
Until he was needed...
Or until he became one with the Allspark yet again...
Whichever one He chooses first...
H-He then knew no more...
Cybertronian Skies: Present Day
Cybertron had changed in the single Stellar Cycle (Year) that the Autobot/Decepticon war had ended.
Cybertron was indeed, bright and shiny again.
Repairs were slow going at best, but with all three types of Cybertronians working together, the restoration of Cybertron was going smoothly.
The first group were known as the Autobots, whom were known as the winners of the Cybertronian great civil war. But as Optimus Prime would say, there was no winner, no side won. They just endured, sacrificed.
Some a little, some a lot. Whether it be physically or mentally, they all have lost much in this war.
This war was meant to be won, it was just meant to be survived. Whomever lasted the longest, are they the winners?
No, because just like the 'losers', they needed to go back to a broken home world anyway.
The Autobots believe that peace and free will is the right of all sentient beings, regardless of the way they treat the Autobots.
The second group is called the Decepticons, whom were known as the 'losers' of the Cybertronian great civil war.
The Decepticons are a malevolent race of robot warriors, brutal and merciless. The Decepticons are led by a single undeviating goal: total domination of the universe.
Of course after their leader Megatron disbanded the Decepticons, most just took to hiding out. But others like, Starscream, Knockout, Shockwave, and Soundwave, instead paired up with the Autobots to use their skills to help better Cybertron for any and all kinds of Cybertronians.
The final group of Cybertronians are called the Predacons, whom had no true side in the Cybertronian great civil war.
The Predacon King, Predaking, served under the Decepticons for a short time, before he cut ties with the Decepticons.
The Predacons are a race of ancient Cybertronian beasts. Originally led by the one called "the Predaking", the ancient Predacons were the largest Cybertronians to be born from the Well of All Sparks, emerging from its depths on the final day of the genesis of Cybertron's biosphere.
Enormous, savage, and beastly in form, these creatures were once among the mightiest beings on Cybertron, second only to the last surviving members of the Thirteen.
While other inhabitants of prehistoric Cybertron learned to extract Energon from the ground, the Predacons hunted other Cybertronians for their energon, draining their prey's Eenergon and cycling the metallic remains out of their system.
That was before the Predacons learned that they could drink from Raw rivers of Energon. What taught them this was apparently their next true evolutionary stage, the Predacon's next species evolution, TechnaFuries.
However, tragedy struck their kind during a disaster known as the Great Cataclysm, in which dire circumstances rendered the entire race extinct.
In more recent times, however, the Decepticon scientist Shockwave has discovered the trick to cloning the ancient beasts from preserved CNA samples found in fossilized Predacon remains.
Finding successful results, Shockwave's efforts have given birth to new iterations of these ancient beasts—such as the new Predaking—who have evolved beyond the originals, even learning even how to transform!
Furthermore, Shockwave's experiments have even extended to splicing the CNA samples into normal Cybertronians, leading to hybrids like his devout disciple Ser-Ket.
But the biggest lead of the Predacon species was the discovery of the late Alpha Trion, whom had discovered an in fact evolved Predacon species.
Alpha Trion had given them two names, the first name is the more scientific one and that is Predicous-Technalogicous-Furious, and the other is simply put, TechnaFury.
TechnaFuries are in fact, proof that Primus did not in fact give up on the Predacon species like most Pre-War Cybertronian scientists theorized.
Unfortunately this magnificent species met their end at the combined efforts of both Unicron, and the Great Cataclysm.
Thankfully Alpha Trion hid this discovery during the war, only telling two other souls, one is the great Optimus Prime, back when he was just the Librarian Orion Pax, and the other is the First Rider, Smokescreen.
Alpha Trion gave Smokescreen an intact TechnaFury claw tip, but against Alpha Trion's wishes. Team Prime on Earth in fact, cloned, a new TechnaFury from the CNA still in the claw tip.
The TechnaFury was a femme whom was named Talus, by Smokescreen himself.
Talus showed many interesting and intriguing facts about the TechnaFury species.
Most of facts and stats of the mighty TechnaFury Talus are in fact very impressive, but not as much as the 'Alpha's Power'. In this state, Talus is five times more powerful than her normal self.
It was with this form, Talus had reunited the Allspark with Cybertron's core, at the near cost of her own spark.
It is good to know the TechnaFury nearly made a full recovery, but during her fight with Unicron, she lost her right tailfin, thus losing her flight capabilities.
It wasn't until Smokescreen in fact came up with the idea of a Prosthetic tailfin to replace Talus' lost right tailfin.
With that she was able to fly in the sky once again, but she had to have someone controlling it via a saddle on her neck components.
This worked for a while until a fight with a fellow Predacon named Ripclaw, but that is where Ratchet took over.
He made a 'Mark 2' tailfin and saddle, this saddle allowed Talus to transform at will and not have to worry about it getting tangled in her transforming structure.
Then Shockwave invented a 'Mark 3' tailfin soon after, this one allowed Talus to fly on her own, without the need of a rider, saddle, or lines.
But after a 'Solo-mission' of Talus', she destroyed the 'Mark 3' tailfin, but Shockwave just repaired it, for emergencies, he reasoned.
Talus allows this for now.
After the 'Mark 2' Tailfin and saddle started to fail two Rotor cycles (Weeks) later, Talus and the Ex-Decepticon Starscream had a bit of a 'misunderstanding'. Okay, that's an understatement by far.
The aftermath of this, cost Talus greatly, that being her voice processor was destroyed, it is hard for her to intake in her alt. robot form, and her face plate is very much scarred from the shrapnel, especially near her right optic.
Talus was in stasis for about three Solar cycles (Days), until she awoke.
Smokescreen had explained what had happened, that Starscream acted out of impulse rather than of his own free will.
Talus knew this and with a bit of time, she learned to forgive Starscream, realizing it wasn't entirely his fault that day.
Talus hit a roadblock though, how was she going to talk with Smokescreen?
That answer came from Smokescreen, with time and patience, he learned what the growls, grumbles, and roars of Talus meant, with help from his majesty Predaking, as well as Skylynx, Darksteel, Ripclaw, and Grimwing themselves.
A couple of Orbital cycles (Months) later, Smokescreen and Talus were having full conversations again.
Within the same Orbital cycle, Smokescreen, Ratchet, and Shockwave worked on a 'Mark 4' saddle and tailfin, they took what was best about their previous ideas for the ex-prosthetic right tailfins, and they put it all into one saddle/tailfin.
Talus was never happier when they explained it to her, with this saddle, Smokescreen's handles could actually control the tailfin a bit as well.
The levers on the side could hold the tailfin open simply, but if all three were activated, the tailfin had the option to in fact, allow Talus to fly on her own like the 'Mark 3' tailfin should she want to.
The lines were made out of Cyber Matter enhanced metal chains, they would not break, nor would they start to fail like in the 'Mark 2' tailfin chains did.
Also both pede pedals actually controlled the tailfin now, with the handles also controlling it, Talus would get the best and most sensitive positions with the tailfin that Smokescreen could do.
And with a few more buckles and clamps, the saddle wasn't going anywhere.
Talus could fly at ridiculous speeds now, so much so in fact, Smokescreen needed to get a flight suit made, to keep his wind resistance down and to also cushion him from any or all crashes.
It has the latest communications tech, when asked why, Smokescreen and Talus got their new mission.
Their mission: Search far and wide for any traces of TechnaFuries, and/or keep the peace between Autobots, Decepticons, and Predacons that they find on their trips.
As time passed, soon a Stellar cycle passed, more and more refugees have come back to Cybertron.
The best thing though, as more Cybertronians see Talus and Smokescreen, the more wheelbound Cybertronians have been wanting to ride Predacons as well.
Thus Predaking, Talus, and Optimus all started the PredaBotss initiative, these select few Predacons and Autobots act like a more police peace keepers, but the difference about them, they developed good relationships with both rider and Predacon alike.
Thus Smokescreen came to be known as 'The First Rider'.
Cybertronian Skies: Present Day
A form whistled just on the surface of a massive Raw Energon river, it was travelling at over 710 mph, and when the form flew up into the clouds.
With a few hard flaps of it's wings, it rapidly dived, increasing it's speed to 895 mph.
Once close enough to the ground, the form's wings snapped open and it soared across the land of Cybertron, going this way and that way to dodge old, fallen buildings that have yet to be restored.
The form turned out to be the mighty TechnaFury femme, Talus, she had her 'Mark 4' Saddle and Artificial Prosthetic Tailfin, this tailfin was a darker sky blue in color, with an almost glowing version of her Predabot symbol on the tailfin.
Over the Stellar cycle, Talus started to fly faster and faster, thus that is why her rider/best friend was currently in a definitely aerodynamic suit, it consisted of a multi-pointed helm, a chest plate, artificial abdominal muscles to help him stay on the saddle on most turns, a pelvic plate, Thigh component covers, as well as large shin armor covers.
The shoulder joints was covered, the bicep component had a small covering as well, the fore servos were covered as well as Smokescreen's wrist joints.
On the front of both shoulder armor, was Talus' unique Predabot Symbols, which glowed brightly in contrast to the dark blue of the armor.
All and all, it reduced his air resistance to where he was able to almost not even be a burden on Talus' flight capabilities anymore.
It also had the best communications, in case Smokescreen or Talus was needed for something, or Smokescreen had something to report on TechnaFuries.
They had been doing this for nearly half of a Stellar cycle, and still nothing was found.
Talus would get annoyed every Solar cycle, but Smokescreen would never let her lose hope, if Alpha Trion had found her, there definitely was more out there then, they just had to know where to look.
He also taught her to the best of his ability to not give up hope, and with a high feeling spark, Talus would do so.
Right now though, both TechnaFury and rider just wanted to enjoy the feeling of flying through the Cybertronian skies at the ridiculous speeds only a TechnaFury could accomplish.
Talus' whistling could be heard as Smokescreen pulled one of the levers on the right side of the saddle, where the lines connected, and the tailfin opened and stayed put.
With that, Smokescreen took his pedes out of the pedals, as they to stayed put, and used just the handles, Talus' speed increased a bit.
Talus' form raced across the massive river of Energon, leaving a large wake in her tracks.
Smokescreen leaned a bit to his left and he turned the handles just slightly and Talus tilted her large structure to follow him exactly.
Rubble, buildings, and metallic folds of soil plates whizzed by them as Talus' form quickly flew up to dodge a large piece of rubble sticking out of the Energon river.
Talus went back down quickly and she leaned to the right before gently flapping her main wings twice, as she did this, Smokescreen crawled up and he put his pedes into the pedals again and shut down the holding lever.
With a flick of his right pede in the pedal, the artificial tailfin opened up wide.
This allowed Talus' structure to do a quick barrel roll dodge as both her and Smokescreen passed through a hole in the passing abandoned building.
With a flick of his left pede in the left movable pedal, the tailfin closed a smidgen and the TechnaFury immediately opened her large main wings and she flapped them hard multiple time as she and Smokescreen shot up into the clouds.
Higher and higher they went, 'dodging' clouds with clearly practiced ease.
Talus spread her wings before she turned herself to where Smokescreen was in line with the ground, she closed her wings before TechnaFury and rider made optic contact before they started to fall as soon as the momentum couldn't overtake the gravity of their home world anymore.
Talus and rider dived rapidly for a short time, about five kliks (Seconds) before she turned her structure rapidly and spread her large wings and her stabilizer fins.
They shot off into the horizon with a large sonic boom and as soon as they started to fly upwards again, Smokescreen turned the left handle up and the right handle down.
This caused Talus and rider to start to spin to the right rapidly, they continued to twirl upwards into the sky until Talus started to slow down.
Once they stopped completely, Talus spread her main wings and she kept her spinal structure to the ground of Cybertron, as they fell towards the ground Talus gave a happy roar.
"RRRRROOOOOWWWWWLLLLLRRRRR!"
Talus flipped her helm up this made her structure turn her helm towards the ground and soon they were diving again.
Talus dove faster and faster as her whistling sound was faintly heard over the roar of the atmosphere that whizzed past Talus' and Smokescreen's audio sensors.
Smokescreen soon flicked both pedals down with the heels of his pedes and the tailfin closed mostly all the way, this caused Talus' large structure to twirl to the left rapidly.
Before he quickly flicked the toes of his pedes forward and the tailfin opened once again. This allowed Talus to pull out of the dive with amazing speed and she flapped her main wings once to gain some speed while flying upwards.
Once she did this, both TechnaFury and rider did a massively wide arced barrel roll, in which Smokescreen had sat up straight and he held his servos straight out of his sides, parallel to Talus' main wings.
"Whoo! Hoo!", was heard through Smokescreen's suit mask/helm.
Talus rolled her optics with a small growing chuckle before she flapped her main wings a few times to slow down a bit and merely glide along the large wind currents.
Smokescreen slowly put his servos down before he quickly locked the two controlling handles down, he then flicked up his the mask part of his helmet, revealing his faceplate, before he asked "Hey Talus, wanna try it here?"
Smokescreen also revealed that he had changed back to his Prior-Earth colors, Red, White, and Blue.
Plus personally, Talus liked them a lot better than the Blue and Gold he used to wear.
Talus gave a large snorting growl of irritation and disbelief when she heard this as her optical pupils became slits with her mood, which was now mostly annoyance.
Smokescreen chuckled a bit before he explained "Hey, Shockwave wants us to try it out, so why not Tal, please?"
Talus snorted softly through her olfactory sensors before her main wings flapped twice and she gave a defeated growl.
A large smile wormed it's way onto Smokescreen's faceplate before rapidly he pulled up on the largest lever first, this caused a small lever on the artificial right tailfin to magnetically attach to Talus' real left tailfin.
Talus' large structure leaned softly to the right and to the left a bit while moving her left tailfin, and the right artificial tailfin moved in unison with it, and she snorted in satisfaction, she was in control her own flying now.
Smokescreen smiled largely before he closed the helmet's faceplate and he pulled the other two levers to keep the lines tight and secure.
Smokescreen then pressed the button on his pelvic 'buckle' of his suit, it shut off the Polarity attractors which kept him attached to the saddle, while this happened he took his pedes out of the pedals and he stood up shakily on Talus' saddle.
Talus held her structure as stiff and still as possible, no way was she going to let her actions harm her best friend, before Smokescreen suddenly jumped off of the mighty TechnaFury's saddle.
"Whooo! Hoooo!", Smokescreen yelled as he fell down towards his planet's surface, he soon aimed his structure to where he was diving.
Talus rolled her optics with a soft snort through her olfactory sensors, before she gave a quick flap of her main wings and she dived down after her best friend, she twirled her structure a few times to the right for the heck of it.
Soon the whistling TechnaFury femme came helm to helm with Smokescreen and they looked at each other and Talus stuck her glossa out of the side of her denta-less mouth plates and it flapped in the wind.
Smokescreen chuckled and he exclaimed over the rushing air in his audios "You are glitchy, aren't cha Tal?"
Talus put her glossa back into her mouth and she play glared at Smokescreen before she pushed his right shoulder with her left fore servo.
This caused Smokescreen's structure to roll to the right a bit before he chuckled and straightened himself out.
Talus' helm suddenly looked forward and she gave a slightly warning grumble, they were getting close to the ground now, really close!
Smokescreen looked forward as well and he could see Cybertron's surface coming up fast, he suddenly smirked a bit before he grabbed a small four layered silver disk on the right side of his pelvic armor.
Once he got a grip on it, he pulled it off and he suddenly threw the disc below him before it suddenly flew up and attached to the bottom of his right pede.
Smokescreen then pressed an invisible button, that glowed for a second, on his right suit gauntlet before the disc spread itself apart before coming together and suddenly a light blue hardened light shape, roughly like an Earthly snow board, appeared and it stuck itself to the bottom of Smokescreen's pedes.
Smokescreen gave a thumb digit up to Talus and she turned her large structure parallel to the ground, before she spread her main wings, her stabilizer fins, her left tailfin, and the right prosthetic tailfin wide.
Her wings and fins caught the air like a series of parachutes and the TechnaFury shot up into the sky.
As soon as Talus did this, Smokescreen pulled the now board to where it was parallel to Cybertron's metallic surface.
The board activated and it started it's anti-gravity hovering protocols as well as flying protocols.
The board started to fly forward, but it gently scraped against the planet's surface with a bunch of sparks, just as it took off with Smokescreen on top of it.
Smokescreen gave a "Whooo!" as the hoverboard took off at a good speed.
Smokescreen turned his helm and he saw his TechnaFury best friend smirking at him
Smokescreen smiled and he said "This is awesome!"
He did a few maneuvers as he read the hoverboard's stats on the visor of his helmet. He wasn't paying attantion to where he was going!
"RRRROOOOWWWWLLLL!"
Smokescreen's helm snapped back his front and his optics widened under the flight suit's mask visor and he yelped out "Oh scrap!"
Come rapidly in front of him was a large abandoned building that was leaning on another, but he was going to fast, he wouldn't be able to stop in time!
Smokescreen readied himself for a high velocity impact, hopefully his flight armor could stand up to it.
Talus' optics narrowed and she flapped her main wings as hard as she could, with a sonic boom she flew after her friend.
Once she got close enough her upper chassis glowed brightly and that traveled up her lower neck armor.
Once it settled in the back of her mouth plates, she snapped her jaw component open and she let loose a fully powered plasma bolt.
She grabbed with her fore servos before she yanked him to her chassis and she quickly curled her entire structure over his, she acted like a living shield as the bolt hit and exploded with amazing threw her away from the blast.
Two kliks later, the TechnaFury slammed into the ground and her large structure rolled a bit before she came to a stop on her right side with a huffing moan of slight pain and annoyance.
She lifted her large helm before she shook it slightly, she then unfurled her tightly curled up main wings to reveal a deeply in-taking Smokescreen.
Smokescreen looked at her in the optics and he saw the unspoken question she was asking, 'Are you alright?'
Smokescreen smiled softly and he shakily put his right servo to her metallic muzzle and he said in a slightly fearful tone "I'm fine, you?"
Talus rolled her optics, he had been just fine, and she just snorted before she uncurled herself from Smokescreen and she slowly got to her fore servos and back pedes and she shook her structure off like an Earthly dog would.
With a chuckle, Smokescreen shut the hoverboard off, once it compacted itself again he attached it to the right side of his pelvic armor again, before he took the helmet off of his own helm.
He then walked over to Talus and he shut all three levers off on the saddle before he patted her neck armor.
Once she felt this, she activated her T-Cog and soon her armor, muscle cables, and internal parts all shifted around before locking into place as she transformed into her Alt. femme robot form.
Said form's scarred faceplate was glaring at Smokescreen, if looks could kill, Smokescreen would be a smoldering pile of ash by now.
Smokescreen attached his flight armor's helmet to the left side of his pelvic armor and he asked his best friend softly, "What?"
Talus glared at him still before she gave a soft growl, Just how stupid was he? To not pay attention like that?! He could have really gotten hurt.
Smokescreen smiled softly at his best friend before he explained, "I just wanted to see if the hoverboard would hold up, sorry Tal, won't happen again"
Talus raised her right metallic brow ridge and she put her servos to her hip joints before she gave a quick snarl, He had better not! She wouldn't be there to save his aft every time!
Smokescreen chuckled before he looked out over the abandoned city, he took in the details, of this no doubt once great city.
Smokescreen's optics narrowed in concentration as he could have sworn he had he seen something beyond familiar, something he knew by spark!
After a few kliks of thinking, it all came into place and Smokescreen's optics went wide as his entire structure froze when he finally recognized where he and his best friend were as of now.
Talus walked up to Smokescreen and she gently put a servo on his shoulder joint, snapping him out of his stupor and he whispered in amazement "T-Talus. D-Do you know where we are?"
Talus looked to the city, but it didn't hit anything home to her, before she shook her helm with a soft growl, No she did not know where they were. But he clearly did.
Smokescreen's faceplate softened bitter-sweetly before he pointed a digit to a large circular like building that almost looked like a colosseum and he explained softly "Talus, that's the Iacon Hall of Records, t-that's where the claw tip was stored for thousands of Stellar Cycles"
He put a servo up to his chassis plates and where his TechnaFury fossilized claw tip attached to a small metal chain was put.
Talus' optics widened slightly before she looked at the building in amazement and longing.
Smokescreen soon hesitantly asked "Do you wanna go check it out?"
Talus' answer was that she immediately transformed into her natural TechnaFury form and she gave a small excited impatient whimper as her tail structure wagged like crazy.
Smokescreen chuckled softly before he said "Alright let's go Tal"
He immediately went onto the TechnaFury's saddle and he turned on the Polarity attractors that locked him to the saddle, he unlocked the handles and he locked his pedes into the movable pedals.
With a flick of the toe of his right pede, the artificial tailfin opened up wide.
As soon as she heard this happen, Talus' main wings, stabilizer fins, and her left tailfin all spread wide, and with a massive and strong flap of her main wings, TechnaFury and rider took off into the air towards the old city of Iacon.
Iacon Hall of Records: Five Cycles (Minutes) Later
Talus, in her Alt. Femme form, was walking behind her best friend as both of them walked through the rubble of the once proud Iacon Hall of Records.
It was bittersweet for Smokescreen, it really was, he already missed Alpha Trion very much by now, and now being back in here in the condition it was reduced to, was kind of making it worse for his spark.
He felt a large servo gently land on his right shoulder joint and he turned his helm around and looked at a now concerned looking Talus.
He gave a soft smile before he patted her servo with his own and said "I'm fine...it's just the memories of this place"
Talus gave a soft snort as she continued to look him in the optics, If it was bothering him that badly, they could leave. Right here, right now.
Smokescreen shook his helm negatively and he said "No, what if Alpha Trion has anything else on TechnaFuries Talus, we have to look round, at a little bit"
Talus hesitated before she nodded her helm and she pointed to her olfactory sensors with a clawed digit, the silent question being, 'Should I sniff around?'
Smokescreen shrugged his shoulder joints as Talus servo let go of his right shoulder joint before he said "If you want to Tal, we should split up to cover more ground, just mind the scraplets okay"
Talus rolled her optics and she also nodded her helm before her parts shifted around as she transformed into her natural TechnaFury form.
With a few sniffs to the air around them, Talus went one way, Smokescreen decided to check another way, opposite of his best friend's direction.
Both Talus and her best friend continued to look and/or sniff around the Ex-Hall of Records.
But after of almost an Megacycle (Hour), Talus snarled angrily as her fore servos and back pedes clawed digits dug into the metallic floor.
She looked around with her large sensitive optics when they caught sight of something that kind of shocked her.
On the floor she was on, there was a massive hole in the floor, but it was warped up, like something from below dug or blasted it's way out of the underside of the floor.
Talus raised a brow ridge as she cocked her large helm and lifted her audio sensors a bit, How in Primus' name did she miss that?!
She walked over and she sniffed the hole, she lifted her audio sensors a bit before she decided her next course of action.
Talus then jumped down and landed with a large tremor on the next lower floor as she sniffed around, the scents were too old to really learn anything.
Talus kept on jumping down the hole and down another five or so floors before she came to the actual metallic ground of Cybertron itself.
Talus' optical pupils became slits when she saw the scarring in the ground i-it looked like claw marks!
There was old ashes here, very old ashes!
Talus gently put her helm near the ashes before she gave a few soft sniffs, unfortunately like before, the scents were far too old to decipher anything.
The TechnaFury cocked her large helm before her upper chassis glowed softly and the glow traveled up to the back of her throat pipes, before she sent down a very, very small plasma bolt that went straight down, and down, and down, and down.
Talus' optics widened as it kept on going down until it was out of sight, Talus gave a small growl as the soft glow in her throat pipes went away.
Talus gave a soft curiosity filled grumble, she wanted to know what was down in this hole, it could be something!
With a curious look on her faceplate, Talus transformed into her Alt. Femme form yet again and she opened up her comm. link to Smokescreen before she gave a small yet sharp growl, He should get over here now. She had found something.
With a crackle, Talus heard Smokescreen reply ':Got it Talus, there you are! Got you on my gauntlet computer, be there in a sec.:'
With that he hung up, and Talus waited for about two cycles before she saw her best friend land into the bootom floor via the hole, before he rose and walked over to her before he exclaimed in amazement, "Woah! How far down is it?"
Talus shrugged her shoulder joints softly and she gave a small excited purr, She wanted to check it out with him.
Smokescreen seemed a bit hesitant before he asked sarcastically "Oh so you want to go down a long dark tunnel, that seems to have no end, and check it out?"
Talus nodded her helm softly with a smile on her faceplate, yes she did!
Smokescreen gave a small groan of 'defeat' before he to smiled and he said "Aww why not, let's go Tal! But you're going in first!"
With a roll of her optics, Talus jumped into the large hole with Smokescreen right behind her.
After a few kliks of falling, Talus had to use her clawed servos and pedes to slow both herself and her rider down once she saw a reflection of what she would say was 'ground' coming up fast.
Talus landed on the ground of the tunnel with a large tremor where she automatically transformed her right servo into her Plasma blaster and she merely gave energy to it so it would charge with power.
But she did not dare shoot it, it would just be a light for the tunnel.
Smokescreen landed right behind her with a wobble before he balanced himself out and he whispered softly "Okay, dark creepy tunnel with nothing but us as lights, great"
Talus turned to her rider and she shook her helm softly with a growling chuckle, Sparkling!
Smokescreen glared at his best friend before he started to follow her as Talus started to walk into the only other way besides upwards.
After about ten cycles, Talus and Smokescreen came to a fairly large 'chamber', but what got both Talus and Smokescreen were the fact that there were...claw marks along the walls.
Talus optics narrowed a bit as she felt something deep in her spark, like a feeling or Deja Vu, before she gave a small growl to Smokescreen, She wanted him to stay close and be ready for anything.
With a nod, Smokescreen turned his servos into his Energon blasters and Talus facemask slammed shut over her scarred and scratched up faceplate.
She walked towards a wall and she felt an instinct hit her before she gently put her left clawed servo and gently traced the markings along the wall with her clawed digits.
Why in Primus' name did they seem so familiar to her? Like she knew it on the tip of her glossa, but couldn't remember what on Cybertron it was!
Talus continued to stare at the markings until it hit her suddenly...wait?! Were these almost random scratches...in fact...writing?!
Talus' optics shut tightly as she suddenly felt a large pain hit her processor as a flash of something appeared in her vision.
'She saw different scribbles, scratches, and marks along a cave wall. These meant something, were they in fact...writing!'
Talus blinked her optics as she struggled to intake, her throat pipes burning as she tried to intake hard.
She put her left servo to her neck muscle cables, the scar of her 'Misunderstanding' with Starscream still there.
When had she fallen to her knee joints? Her facemask retracted itself? She could faintly hear Smokescreen ask worriedly?
"Talus? Talus? You with me Tal? Talus you okay? Come on Tal! You with me?"
Talus blinked her optics a few times before she shook her helm to clear her processor, her processor hurt like a glitch and she felt tired, but other than that, she was fine now.
Talus looked at Smokescreen and she nodded her helm softly with a soft growl, She was better now.
Smokescreen gently asked as he helped her to her pedes "What was that about Tal? Something happen?"
Talus nodded her helm as she rose to her pedes once again with Smokescreen's help while looking at the scribbles.
Talus blinked her optics, s-she could recognize some of the scribbles now, somehow.
Unconsciously, her left servo rose and she started to claw into the tunnel wall what she knew this series of scribbles now said.
She clawed it in modern Cybertronian, so Smokescreen could read it if he wished.
Smokescreen's optics widened in disbelief before he asked "How are you doing that Talus? Is that what it says"
Talus nodded her helm softly, she didn't know how she knew, but she just did. Down, down into her very being, her very spark.
"Then we need to look into this Talus, this could hurt you, we should contact the others. They'll want to know about this", Smokescreen said softly.
Talus nodded her scarred helm again before she put her left servo to her helm and she turned her optics to where she read the scribbles again.
The scribbles had in fact spelled out.
"The Night's Fury was here!"
Well there's chapter one of Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters, The Mystery of the TechnaFuries.
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