Chapter 1
No Ones POV
The full pale moon rose over the sands of Egypt, the stars were out in full force a rare sight for those who lived in cities with light pollution. A group of men were working well into the cold biting night of the desert, there uniforms signaled a union or a company.
There green suits and vehicles stuck out against the creamy sands.
A similar car pulls up to the site where the men dug through the ancient sands, a man stepped out. He was a intimidating man, with scars on his face, no hair and a robust figure. He commanded respect and fear, he surveyed the site before him and turned to a man in a white lab coat who was trembling slightly either out of the cold or fear.
"You sure this is where it is?" His voice was gruff, the man in the lab coat shrunk away,
"Y-yes, according to my findings w-we're in the right place-e." He shuttered out, sweating a little.
A shout was suddenly heard from the digging crew and the two men ran in there direction. They pushed forward to see a opening in the sands long buried, the man smiled and turned to the scientist holding out a flashlight.
"You first, Doctor." The said Doctor took the torch quickly and slipped and slid down into the hole landing on a tiled floor.
The room was large, it was held up by thick pillars and was completely darkened, the light went over the walls and pillars which were decorated with Egyptian script and pictures showing the deities being worshiped by the people of Egypt.
But the most interesting thing was that there was only two gods depicted, the cat and lioness goddesses, Bastet and Sekhmet.
The Doctor jumped in fright when the man with scars put a hand on his shoulder.
"You've done well Doctor, please, lead us to our destination." He smirked as the Doctor turned and headed to the far side of the room that lead to a massive door and down a short hall that now depicted the goddesses being chased by what looked like glorious human warriors before they were captured and sealed away in coffins.
"Hmm, interesting, they are telling the story of the Goddesses downfall. This will rewrite history." The man said to himself as he and the Doctor with a few armed men continued on there way.
None of them noticed a figure following them from behind.
They entered a large room once more but this time the walls were blank which was strange. In the center of the room was two large coffins, blank as well. And when I saw large I mean as tall and wide as some modern buildings today.
"Well this is unexpected, but this is all worth wild. The gold and treasure maybe inside those large coffins, and with this we can fund MECH for a very long time." The man smirked while the Doctor looked at him horrified.
"What!? Silas, you told me we were going to give these treasures to the world, not for you to sell on the black market!" Silas, turned to the Doctor and snapped his fingers and two of the guards seized the man and pushed him to the ground. Silas pulled out a handgun and held it to his head.
"Sorry Doctor, but no one will know about this place but MECH. I am afraid your usefulness has run its course. After all, we currently are at war and I don't need you to go and run that mouth of yours." He smirked, "Any last words?"
"Just a few, I curse you Silas." The Doctor looked up with a hardened glare, "May you always look over your shoulder for the rest of your life and may you be cursed into the deepest parts of hell!"
BANG!
The Doctor's body slumped forward, blood pouring out of his head and seeping into the cracks of the floor. The figure behind them watched in horror at the display and felt nothing but hatred and rage at Silas as he kicked the body away and place his gun back on his hip.
"Lets crack them open, shall we?" He turned his attention to the large coffins once more, but his guards gasped and he turned to see them staring at horror to the floor. When he looked down he saw a starling sight, the pool of blood from the fallen Doctor began to move like a snake, soon it took on the shape of a large snake and slithered past Silas with a hiss of malice that made the terrorist back away in fear.
The blood snake slithered it's way to one of the coffins and seep into it through some cracks in the side. At first there was nothing, stillness took the chamber as the men stood, waiting for something to happen.
Suddenly the top of the lid began to move, slowly, with a loud grinding sound the lid moved to the side before coming crashing onto the floor shattering into large chunks. The men and the figure behind them stood in shock as a large metallic claw grasped the edge of the coffin before a large figure stood from said coffin.
It was female, with wraps and chains wrapped around its entire form, with ease she snapped the chains that still bound her together but some still wrapped around her arms. She stepped out of the coffin, she was very much in the style of ancient Egyptians, she wore red armor that looked like traditional clothing of royal women of the era, she was accented with golds and creams but her most striking feature was her head.
Her head was that of a lioness and she wore a Egyptian crown of a queen and her burning red eyes bore into the humans below her.
The Cybertronian pointed to Silas, "You! You have split the blood of innocence in the name of victory. Retribution is in order and your soul shall be mine!" She growled, her fangs bared and her claws flexed.
"Retreat!" Silas called out and the men began sprinting, the lion headed Cybertronian roared in fury and moved like an agile cat and moved in the way of the doorway, unknowingly blocking the men and the figure from each other.
Her claw raked across one of the men slicing him to a bloody mess, she slammed her other fist down onto another, squashing him like a bug. Three were left, including Silas who began firing their weapons upon the angered lioness. She transformed into a lion before biting down another man, ripping him in half. The bullets only fueled her anger as she tore into the second man, eating half of him before setting her sights on her prize.
Silas, a tactical genius, aimed for the optics of the lioness and fired a pepper blast. The lioness roared in pain as she was blinded making Silas able to slip past her and dart out of the room and back towards the entrance.
The figure was the only one alive in the room that wasn't the Cybertronian, who transformed back into her bipedal form growling to herself as she rubbed away the stinging pain in her red optics. Once her vision was regained she saw her prize gone but could detect another life form in the room, other than her slumbering sister.
"Come forth, human." She said to the figure in the shadows who squealed and backed away slowly.
She noticed a difference in the human, she was unlike the men and was not scared but not brave at all. The lioness whipped her mouth and claws free of the fresh ruby red liquid and knelt down to the humans level.
"Come or I shall get you myself." She said, it came out more of growl than she liked but she was trying to be soft.
The human female stepped into the unknown light source of the room, she was a child, in her adolescence. She was a strange human, with a unnatural streak of pink in her raven black hair and her clothing was unlike the lioness had ever seen, it was alien to say the least.
"You're name child?" She seemed to scowl at the mention of a child but put on a brave face.
"I am Miko Nakadai, who are you?" Lioness smirked at her bravery, it was commendable or downright foolish.
"I am Sekhmet, I must say you have such a strange name and entire." The human looked down at her clothing before looking back to Sekhmet.
"Well I am not from around here, but you said your name is Sekhmet right? Like the ancient Egypt goddess?" The Lioness looked confused at the statement.
"Child, did you say ancient?" She nodded.
"Yeah, Sekhmet is apart of the Ancient Egyptian Pantheon, it's a ancient civilization that people are still trying to discover about it. It's one of the oldest and well known civilizations to have ever being." She paused, "Wow, I really do learn somethings in school, suck it Jack!"
Sekhmet became worried, "Wait, you are saying that the great Egyptian Empire is gone? Ancient history?"
"Yeah, I mean Egypt as a country still exist but Sekhmet and other Egyptian gods are no longer worshiped. Not since the fall of the last reigning Pharaoh or Queen technically, Queen Cleopatra, when the Roman Empire seized control." Sekhmet sat down in shock, the last she had seen of her home was now only history, she growled to herself.
"Well child, it seems I am out of my time. I have been slumbering for-wait, what year is it?"
"It's 2018 AD." She really was out of her element.
"Child, if you must know, the humans didn't base there goddess off of me, I AM Sekhmet. They worshiped me and my brethren when we were still around." Miko stared in shock, this meant that maybe most mythous were true about them because they were real.
"Okay, the Bots totally have to hear about this. Do wanna come with me?" She asked, the Lioness stood and walked over to the second coffin.
"Not before retrieving my sister." She pushed to lid off the coffin and it smashed onto the ground in pieces. She snapped the chains and some of the wraps that held her sister down before shaking her awake.
"Wake up you silly Cat." The said Cybertronian slowly opened her blue optics and slowly got out of the coffin with the help from her sister.
The women was much like her sister but with differences, she was mainly black with white and gold with blue colored armor, she also had gold liner covering her eyes. With that said she had the head of a domestic cat with gold in the large pointed ears and a beautiful gold necklace that held the symbol of the Eye of Horus and a winged scarab. She had gold earrings on her ears and a tail with gold on it swishing behind her.
"Oh, what happened?" The Cat headed Cybertronian looked around before landed her ocean blue optics on the female human. She squealed with joy and instantly picked her up.
"A human child and she's a girl, oh my favorite!" She hugged the surprised Miko before bringing set down by the feline femme and having a pat to the head.
"And that is Bastet for you, Bastet, this is Miko." She looked back to the small human who waved a little before Bastet giggled to herself.
"Alrighty then, let's get out of here and meet my friends, shall we?" Miko said with a smile, the Lioness and the Feline smiled to each other before grabbing something from their respective coffins, a shield and and a axe for Bastet and a Bow and two Khopeshes for Sekhmet.
"We are ready, lead the way." Sekhmet said and they followed the small girl out of the room, Sekhmet recounting the details she had learned so far to a very eager Bastet.
As the climbed out of the tomb the made it back out to the still, cold night. The MECH agents gone and the full moon high in the sky. Both femmes vented in and out the fresh crisp air and praised the moon, as it was there companion as they cherished the night, like all cats do.
"Lets go and met this new world that you have told us Miko, I think we both wish to know how far humans have come." Bastet said with a smile as Miko lead them back from where she came, heading for a nearby mountain where in the distance, the firing of blasters could be heard.
A/N: Just letting you all know I am not a complete expert in Ancient Egyptian history so yeah, just enjoy it and don't think about it to hard...