I know what you are thinking "Another story? doesn't this girl ever finish a story, before starting on the next?!"
Most of the time? no.
A Decepticon - Combaticon story, hope you enjoy
Teammates
Chapter 1 - Recruits
"But Megatron sir-" "You dare question a direct order Onslaught?!" The silver titan roared standing up from his throne.
Years had passed since they landed on this dirt rock called planet Earth. Humans knew now fully of their existence, and as so many times before; sides had been chosen.
Just as humans had joined the Autobot cause, some had joined the Deception's. Even thought, some needed a bit of convincing.
"No lord Megatron, but I don't see what good could come out of such a plan" Onslaught did clearly not approve of his master's plan. And was currently trying to convince him to change his mind.
"Enough! You will do as you are told, do you understand me Onslaught!" Megatron closed in on the gestalt leader, making the other look down. "Yes my lord." The silver titan seated himself and waved dismissively at his subject, "then go, I believe you have much to see to."
The visored mech saw Starscream grinning at him when he left and an uncharacteristic sick feeling stuck in his abdominal area. This was surely Starscream's fault.
The gestalt commander raged down the corridor after his meeting with Megatron. A silent drone, which was just passing by, was suddenly thrown into the wall. He would need to go see Hook after that.
Vortex was leaning by the wall to the groundbridge when his commander came stomping down. "Whoa Ons. Where's the fire?" the 'copter asked, stepping out of the way to not be tackled by his, clearly enraged, gestalt mate.
"Open the groundbridge Vortex, we are leaving" he simply said, stepping through the bridge to their personal base.
One Week Later
Starscream growled irritated, Megatron had ordered him, the great Starscream to welcome the newest human recruits and decide which gestalt to put them in. It was a new idea to see how well humans would function in groups with Decepticons. Thundercracker and Skywarp were behind him, signaling that he was someone important.
Still he could think of better things to do, clearly others were better suited for this job. But no, Megatron wanted him to do it, and then things went as Megatron wanted "overgrown sparkling" the second in command grumbled.
There were fourteen fleshlings before him. 10 male, 4 female. Some were standing out and others simply stayed still. Two females were standing close to one another, the older indicating possessiveness and a certain amount of protection to the smaller one. Yet they were both somewhat calm and impassive. They were both red haired and shared the same storm grey eyes. "Siblings" Starcream muttered and looked over the others.
The third female was robust and was frowning deeply, clearly thinking this a waste of time. She didn't stand out in her army outfit but was clearly well-trained for battle; in human standards.
Two of the males were talking rather loudly at each other, something about who was the best sniper. Another other male was silently waiting for further instructions, his cold black eyes staring up at the seeker, which approached them.
And then there were a male, tall and slick. Starscream looked him up and down and couldn't help but wonder what he was doing here. He was not suited for warfare, that much the seeker was sure of. He was unusually quiet and wore a pair of black glasses.
They had had many encounters with human recruits now, and the best way to make them function as you wanted was to act nice. Then after they settled in, you could go back to the Decepticon way. Picking out his best mood and softest voice he gained their attention. "Welcome to the Nemesis humans. I am commander Starscream, second in command in the Decepticon army" the two males who had been arguing were finally settling down to listen to the new instruction.
"In a moment, you will all be led to a field; this is to test how well you perform on missions. You are not allowed to help each other, but you can't hurt each other either."
They all formed a straight line and nodded, for a moment Starscream was tempted to smile at their instinct to follow. This made things so much easier. The siblings looked at each other before nodding, wishing the other luck.
"Your objective is to get to the other end of the field before the others" the smirks and competitive grins spread around on the faces, they all glared at each other, daring the others. Starscream could hear Skywarp snigger behind him, clearly entertained by the sudden competition between the humans.
"Ha! That's a piece of cake, I will beat all of you fools to it" one of the loud males said, facing the other humans.
The human with the black eyes smirked evilly "you keep telling yourself that, but I'll come in first." The humans fell silence while glaring at each other. Growling in annoyance Starscream started again "next time you interrupts a superior officer, I can assure you that you will be punished" he said angrily, venom pushing its way onto his voice.
The two boys froze but wisely shut their mouths. "If there is no more interruptions, let's go" the second in command turned around, his wingmates close behind and the humans struggling to keep up.
The moment they landed on the abandoned battlefield, the humans instinctively shielded their eyes from the blazing sun. They all had a handgun each as their only weapon, and Starscream stepped in front of them. "Before you g-" he was yet again interrupted by the loud human from before.
He ran straight forward out on the open field, the air commander sighed in annoyance but let the human run, having had enough of his stupidity. "See you at the finish, suckers!" he shouted at the others, some ran after him not wanting to blow their chances, but most stayed put.
Sure enough, as soon as he stepped onto the open terrain the ground underneath him exploded. "A mining field?" the older sibling asked, looking up at the seekers. The purple and black one nodded and smirked evilly at her "If he had waited, he wouldn't be blown to bits". The human female didn't answer but simply looked back at the second in command.
Miraculous the man avoided the mines, the others? Not so lucky, blood was spilt and the first organs flew to the ground.
"How are we supposed to cross that?" she asked when nobody said anything. The man was still running about out there, accidently triggering more mines. "How about we just wait for him to trigger them and move afterwards" the man with black eyes asked, smirking at his female component.
The other humans muttered at that not finding it funny, others sniggered crazed.
The explosions finally ended, and they all looked up to see the man, Matt had he called himself, standing dead still too afraid to move.
"Finally" the red and white seeker muttered "now, Skywarp give them the detectors" the purple and black seeker pulled a handful of small, radio looking, boxes out of subspace. "This is a detector, it will warn you by beeping, of mines and other weapons on the field, and it will also give us your exact location." His eyes narrowed dangerously as he glared at them "Do. Not. Lose. It" he threatened.
Skywarp handed him the last one and pointed at the human already in the field. Starscream smirked and turned. "You might want to grab this before you go any further" he mocked and threw the device not nearly far enough for the male to reach.
"And now, BEGIN!"
The trials had been somewhat easy up until now. After being handed the device they had all made it safely across the mining field and from there they had split up. They weren't allowed to help each other and they had no intention to, even the older sister, Marie, had taken it upon herself to beat her sister to it.
The red head was trolling across the planes of grass. She had to hand it to them; it was the perfect training terrain. They had started out on the outskirt of a dessert and she could see a jungle emerge in the distance.
But Marie knew that she had to watch herself, she was not used to be in the field. No, she was the support who you would call to hack into the government's bank box.
That didn't mean that she hadn't been on field missions before, she just preferred to stay where she could help the most.
The roaring of jet engines sounded above her, and she briefly looked up at the blue jet soaring past her.
She wondered how far the others had gotten and a minute afterwards she began to run in the direction the seeker led her. Hopefully the finish wasn't too far off. She didn't bother staying hidden, or try to cover her tracks; she just jumped right into the jungle.
The gun ready at hand.
Somewhere in the distance, she could hear the terrified screams of someone who properly stepped on a panther. It reminded her about the danger of the jungle she was in. Until she made it to the finish everything was a threat, impulsive she checked the magazine.
6 shots were all she had. Even an idiot would know that that was high standards.
She had proceeded deeper into the jungle and could no longer see the sky above her. Bitterly she hoped that this would go smoothly and she wouldn't run into anything. Her hopes dropped low when the detector started beeping. "Shit."
As she turned, a large gorilla stepped through the trees not far away. She muted the device, when she saw that it hadn't seen her and slowly crept into hidden by a tree. With only six shots it would be hard to take down a full grown gorilla.
She was ripped back to reality when a shot was fired, it was not her own gun and suddenly the gorilla charged back into the thick woods. Maria slipped through trees and plants making a run for it. More screams sounded behind her.
It was when the sun started to set that Marie pushed her way out of the thick jungle. On her way through she had taken out a single snake and some ants she had stepped on, but it had been a calm trip.
At a large stone platform she could see Starscream, beside him was the black-eyed man; Robert was his name if she remembered correctly. She took the last step and glided down the rock side which was between her and the platform.
No sooner that she had stepped onto the platform and greeted the two others, than Matt smashed out of the woods, tumbling down the rock side. His eyes were wide and he was bleeding. Marie groaned tiredly and sat down "why is that idiot still alive?" She asked, not believing her eyes.
"Want me to shot him?" Robert asked grinning, to his surprise the woman answered him "I wouldn't try and stop you."
Starscream groaned tiredly, his processor aching painfully. As Matt made his way to them and started talking, Robert pulled out a roll of duct tape, he looked suggestively down at Marie and she nodded.
"I'm Robert" the black-eyed man said, putting the duct tape away, "Marie" they shook each other's hand, and the redhead looked down at the tied up Matt. Even Starscream approved of their action, giving them a nod of thanks, knowing he couldn't shoot the moron.
It took some time but eventually more people started appearing. Marie smile genially when her sister made it through and ran the last distance down to her. "I'm glad you're safe Aria" the older redhead said, snuggling her sister close. Someone made a gagging noise but they ignored them.
Thiundercracker and Skywarp showed up eventually signaling that no more was coming. They were only six people left, and it made Marie shudder.
Starscream looked them over "this was the final test; I welcome those of you who have survived to the ranks of the Decepticons! You will each be given a datapad with all the information you will need, I strongly suggest reading it!" the commander nodded for his trine mates to continue, Thundercracker of course rose to the task.
"In the morning, we will have decided which team you each will be joining. It is a special research we have developed, you will spend all your time with your gestalt mates and we will see how it goes."
Skywarp stepped forward as a groundbridge opened "Go rest now, I guarantee you; tomorrow will be worse than today."
"So what do you think? We got seven teams and seven humans, who goes where?" skywarp asked almost singing it as he leaned back against TC in their shared quarters. Starscream was pacing back and forth as he asked himself the same question.
"Robert, the human with the black eyes. He falls into our team" said the commander hastily. The two others agreed "as long as it aren't that Matt guy" Skywarp said. "That woman, Stacy I think it was, she can go to the Terrorcons." The Blue seeker said with a shrug.
"What about that quiet one, the one with the glasses?" the youngest of them asked, they others thought for a moment "the Constructicons can have him" Starscream said waving it off. "Then Aria goes to the Predacons" Thundercracker rasped, stroking the transformers seams of his wingmate.
Starsccream laughed "and Matt goes to the Stundicons" they all smirked evilly, agreeing fully.
"That leaves one human and one group" the purple one said, "yeah; I hope for her own sake that she's tough, or else she won't make it" the blue one said, the other shrugged "does it matter? It's just a human, we can get another one" Skywarp said. Making his wingmate sigh.
"Okay, Marie falls to the Combaticons."