Yeah this is a double chapter to see how people like it.
Yes it does follow the Bay verse movies, which I actually enjoyed unlike other people out there.
Please forgive me if my timing with the movie is off, but I'm trying my best to work it into the story.
All rights belong to Hasbro, Renegade belongs to me :)
At the moment sentences in 'bold' are the 'bots talking in Cybertronian. I will let you know of changes in the other chapters :)
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And enjoy chapter 2
::Renegade here::
'Bzzzt! Error'
Renegade sighed and went back to her internal menu to try and run a scan to find what was wrong with her transmitter.
She had been trying to fix it for a long time now, trying to fix it so she can finally found out who was alive.
She and Howlback had been banished by Megatron after her defect and she had been stuck in space for a long time. Upon impact on a planet that had been designated 'Earth', Renegade had been severely damaged, losing her transmitter and communicator.
She had been trying to fix it; trying to get into contact with her comrades, trying to tell anyone that she was alive. But all she had was an error.
That was about the time that the screaming and the torture began. Bot's that she knew and loved, trying to contact her; trying to see if their Femme Leader was coming back to save them.
She had heard them die
Unable to contact them, unable to do a thing.
She was alone on a planet with nobody else.
Things had been quiet for a while now and Renegade knew that everybody she knew was probably long gone and dead. But that didn't stop her from trying.
Another beep sounded within her helm and she tried to send out another transmission.
::Its Renegade Frontslayer. Does anybody copy? Me and my Partner Howlback are stranded on a planet designated Earth. Does anyone copy?"
'Bzzt Error'
She slumped back 'Anybody?'
She exited her internal menus until her vision focused and zoomed in on her surroundings. She was in a scrap yard. Old and rusted cars were piled up around her; nobody seemed to own the yard itself and it only seemed to congregate more broken cars over the years.
Renegade had been slowly rebuilding herself using scrap parts from cars, hell; she was no medic and she knew that she was falling apart. But it was something, sparing her more days to live, days that she hoped would change and she would run into more of her own kind.
She sat up painfully and reached over her bond to her closest partner.
'Howler have you found anything yet?'
'Negative' Came Howlback's reply 'Will continue to look for parts for limbs.'
The Panther dropped out and Renegade sucked in a deep, pain breath through her shutters, before exhaling and gazed down to her leg. It was the source of her pain; her legs sparked miserably held together by measly scraps.
She was literally falling apart.
Blue/Black energon dribbled from her cables in her legs. Organic poisoning mixed with old energon didn't mix well and Renegade had long gotten used to the error messages that flashed continuously within her helm.
She reached over and picked at a loose scrap on her leg, only to have it simply come off in her hand; revealing more severed and damaged cables. Renegade slammed her head back against the old cars she was sitting up against and couldn't help but say to herself grimly:
"Renegade Frontslayer, Decepticon Leader of the Femme Faction, banished and falling apart, she's going to-…"
Renegade stopped in her wry remark and her voice whispered in her processor, "I'm going to die."
Her crimson optics dimmed and her processes started to go dim "To die alone, that would be… the worst thing."
She started to get lost through her memory files before a little pop-up appeared on her vision.
'Howlback connecting'
She answered it, "Howl what's the update?" she murmured and her partners distinct whirring and clicking came over their bond.
"Received needed parts, returning now; Are you in distress?"
"I'm fine" Renegade assured her "Do not hurry back, I will live until then."
Howlback disconnected and Renegade let a small smile grace her faceplates. Howlback was cold and stoic, keeping her cold demeanour, even after crashing on Earth; staying abrupt and keeping her computer voice like ways.
She really was a caring Femme, 'Con or not, she had a loving spark if you could worm yourself through her tough firewalls.
Renegade turned her optics to the stars and wondered what would happen to Howlback when she eventually died. Would 'Bots eventually fall to Earth and would they take her in?
Poor Howl
As she stared out, she began to realise more of her internal menu processes in her helm glitch and disappear, she was starting to lose her functions of her body as well.
Renegade swiftly opened her internal menus inside her helm and grabbed some more of her memory files of Howlback and placed it inside her CPU backup.
What had once held vital commands and functions of her body had been deleted and now stored memories that Renegade held dear to her. She was trying to die happy with the memories she had, memories of her Creators, her friends, her Faction of Femmes, Howlback and a great deal of her life, leaving out some of the sour parts she would never want to relive again.
She worked quickly; she was vulnerable to Organic viruses, her firewalls and protection systems grossly out of date. As she activated and moved numerous files she suddenly heard a loud 'Bzzt' followed by faint voices, they sounded like Organics but she wasn't able to make them out. She instantly opened her busted transmitter system and sent out a desperate plea.
::This is Renegade Frontslayer, I am on a planet designated Earth. My partner Howlback and I are severely damaged and I may be offlining soon. If anybody is out there…please, please help me."
She sent the transmission and her systems froze as she prayed to Primus.
Then with shock and relief, there was no error message that buzzed painfully in her helm.
Had her message sent?
Renegade jumped when there was a loud 'clang' from up above her, when she looked up she the sleek, blue black form of Howlback launching herself into the dirt clearing. She was a little worse for wear, but she was in better shape that what Renegade was.
Without a single click, Howlback's head lifted away from her chest plate, the cover coming forward and revealing her spark and sparkling chambers. Numerous scraps and parts fell out all over the dirt before them before the Panther closed herself back up and jumped beside Renegade.
"Thanks Howler."
Renegade sifted through the parts and more of her rusted car armour on her arm fell off with a disjointed 'clunk.' More of her dull Protoform was shown and Renegade knew that she was severely damaged, she couldn't even transform back into her Alt mode anymore, a 1963 454 Buick. That was the year she wasn't able to transform anymore, where she began to the slow descent into offlining. She had been suffering in silence ever since the day her legs fell apart on her.
She had been on Earth many, many years before that, watching the humans evolve from simpletons into clever beings.
"I'm going Howler" Renegade started with a wry chuckle "Frontslayer is down and out for the count."
"No she is not" Howlback said sharply over their bond "I will continue to salvage." The Panther sprung up to her feet and Renegade glared her back down "Howlback no! Sit down and rest, we both know it is inevitable, I will give myself another week and that's being generous.
Howlback was getting mad, her cooling fans running to cool her down before she abruptly changed the subject "Heard a Police Chase earlier on just under a half a joor ago. Still hear Earth alarms."
Renegade shook her head; at any time, any fight or police chase made her partner perk her ears. Howlback loved action and Renegade was just too much of a soft spark to deny the Panther what she liked because after all; Howlback had never left her side.
Renegade sighed and from a scrap car she was leaning against, she grabbed a piece of red metal and peeled it off. She patched it over her damaged leg and used her broken cannon, (now called flamethrower) and welded it on. It was a dodgy job and her leg seared with molten pain but at least she would keep her leg for another day.
She continued to pick through the parts and connected little wires where they were needed and diverting her power supplies to where she needed them. It was something, she was at least to be half alive and for that; she was grateful.
Suddenly, Howlback sat up and she spoke aloud in the human language "There is trouble."
Renegade looked up alarmed and heard a crash and commotion in the power plant next to the little junkyard. If Organics jumped over the mounds of broken cars, there was no way she would be able to escape and hide.
She would be captured and experimented on and she didn't want that. She would rather offline herself than be in the hands of the filthy, fleshy bone bags.
Howlback on the other hand, loved action no matter what it was. It was in her systems to fight and she couldn't override them.
They could thank the 'Screamer for that.
Renegade had to get up and see what the danger was, it was getting closer and lights were flashing overhead.
"You have to get up!" Howlback roared jumping over to the broken Robot and connecting each other. She transformed into Renegades frame and the Femme was able to feel energy pulse through her legs as her partner supported her.
She got up to unsteady feet and froze at the pain that darted through her before pushing herself around the cars and towards the Power Factory. She pulled the fence aside and kept in the shadows as the lights swung around wildly.
The squeal of tires were heard and the roar of car engines that sounded way to loud for human cars sluiced the air and as Renegade looked up over the tank she was crouching behind, she saw an old yellow Camaro swing around with two organics falling out.
A Police Car followed in pursuit of the Camaro and Renegades failing systems suddenly flared up and went into overdrive. Alarms squealed in her head and her optics brightened in shock she watched the scene before her.
Then… The Camaro transformed.
Howlback lurched inside her, roaring out in anger and surprise and it took all of Renegade's strength to hold the Panther back. Her alarm screeched 'Autobot' and with horror and an aching spark, she recognised Bumblebee.
Her fans hitched and the Femme saw the Police car transform as well.
Into somebody she definitely knew.
'Barricade' she breathed.
The Autobot and the Decepticon clashed together in vicious hate and Renegade couldn't get herself to move.
Had they received her transmission?
Howlback lunged again and Renegade saw Barricade falter as Bumblebee dodged away and managed to get a powerful shot in.
She…paused.
She had been hoping for this exact moment for over a century, but just her luck it was an Autobot that she had once known and a Decepticon ally that was a complete slagging fool to her. He had betrayed her trust.
Then… "Barricade! Look Out!"
She stuck to her Decepticon roots and in all her patchy glory with parts falling off her, Renegade made herself known and both 'Bots looked at her with focusing Optics. She raised her dead cannon and a fire erupted out from the broken ignitor and flames roared out, making Bumblebee stumble back in surprise.
It was barely called a cannon anymore, but it made a dodgy flamethrower.
"Is this where you ended up Frontslayer?" Barricade whirred at her angrily in Cybertronian "You pathetic Femme."
Renegade was no stranger to Barricade's foul attitude and she growled back just as venomously "Still kissing Megatron's Aft 'Cade? That's all you were good for!"
She ducked back as Barricade swung around and turned on her, his Optics firing with undoubted hate. "You are barely online Femme; I am shocked to see that you are still walking. You are of no use to me."
Then, with another stab at her spark, Renegade saw Barricade lift his cannon and before she could move away, the Decepticon fired at her and the plasma melted right through her lower body and she crumbled in on herself, landing on the concrete with numerous, metallic shrieks and clangs.
Barricade turned on Bumblebee who jumped forward and the 'Con threw the smaller Autobot into a tank with sparks reaching the air. Bumblebee jumped back with amazing agility and got underneath Barricade and threw the 'Con into a small building operating the powers. Sparks and flames flew everywhere and Renegade let her head loll back and she thought to herself quietly "Bumblebee has gotten so much better at fighting. I can't believe he's alive, I can say that he would have lived through so many traumas. But… he's here now. Maybe… he will take Howlback and give her a chance."
"NO!"
Howlback voice roared through her processor and Renegade felt the monstrous energy pulse through her, forcing her mangled body up and onto her feet, before the Panther jumped out and raced towards the fight.
Renegade couldn't call out to stop her partner; she didn't have a clue who Howlback was going to attack. The Panther elongated her massive claws, her Saboteur type ways breaking loose; As Barricade got up and grabbed Bumblebee Howlback sprung.
She landed on the broad shoulders of Barricade and began to rip his top half apart with deep hatred fuelled frenzy.
The two Decepticon's roared out in fury and Bumblebee stumbled back before his large blue optics landed on Renegade, more and more pieces falling off her. She stumbled again, her equally large red optics dimming and flickering.
Bumblebee hesitated; he still had his large cannon on. He still didn't trust her; after all Renegade was a Decepticon. But he left the brawl between Howlback and Barricade and walked towards Renegade with cautious steps.
When he reached her, Renegade let a buzz escape her helm before alarms went off in her head and she whispered. "I'm so glad I saw you one last time Bee. I've made…made so many mistakes. "I-I am so sorry."
She fell forwards and Bumblebee caught her without a word and Renegade felt her Processor melting with pain. She leant her head against the Autobots chest plates as her vision darkened, she knew she was going into stasis lock and would she awake out of it?
She didn't think she would.
There was a loud crash and Bumblebee turned around to see Howlback limping back from the fray, leaving Barricade sparking and temporarily offlined. She had won but she had gotten damaged as well.
Her red optics zoomed in on Renegade and Bumblebee and narrowed and a hiss escaped her and Renegade said softly up to a very old friend.
"Please take-care of her."
Then she fell into stasis lock.
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The young Autobot watched with horror as the Femme crumbled in his arms. Patches holding her old car armour in place dented and fell of the lithe Protoform. Her severely damaged legs fell right from her body landing on the concrete with a loud crash and Bumblebee had to put the frame down and stare at the Femme is shock.
He couldn't let her die.
He looked back to the ever faithful partner of Frontslayer and Howlback just looked stunned. The Autobot hated the idea of helping Decepticon's, but Frontslayer and Howlback were…different. He had heard many stories of how they both got banished from Cybertron. The story of how they fought back against Starscream and his minions to try and help save the Youngling and Sparkling facilities on Youth Sector Delta 39.
Bumblebee looked to Howlback and began to click and whir at the Beast Bot and Howlback hissed back before agreeing to help him.
Howlback had her own Alt Mode, it was small but with Renegade in pieces she would be able to fit inside Howlback and transport her around.
The Panther began to transform into a small, black 1980 TR7 Spider. She could still transform but it was painful for her. She still had the form of an old car which meant that she had not been able to swap Alt Modes either.
She flattened her interior seats and Bumblebee leant down and put Renegade inside. Her top half, and walked around and put her legs in the trunk of Howlback's Alt Mode. It was a tight squeeze but she barely just fit and Bumblebee told Howlback to keep close if she wanted Renegade to live.
The Beast Bot revved her engine in response and she rolled behind Bumblebee and couldn't help but grimace when he revealed himself to the Organics and allowed them inside of him.
Like all Decepticon's, Howlback thought herself superior of all species and had a strong dislike of humans.
As the Autobot drove off from the Power Plant Howlback hesitated one more time before biting her pride and following off after him. She couldn't allow Renegade to die because she couldn't swallow her pride.
After a few breems, Howlback's alarms went off signalling the arrival of more Autobots. She instantly felt betrayed by Bumblebee and knew that she would definitely be attacked by more Autobots.
She was in a defenceless Alt Mode that she had forced herself into Transforming with no readied weapons for quick defence. With her partner in Stasis, she had to protect her as well; many thoughts crossed Howlback's Processor until she felt each individual crash under her sensitive feet.
She stopped driving after Bumblebee and stopped in the middle of the street and there was a whirl in response.
They both hated each other, Autobot and Decepticon did not mix. She didn't reply back, instead her alarm increased and she backed into a small alley with human waste deposit boxes. Her little black form blended in with the darkness and she turned off her lights and signal trackers.
Bumblebee halted in the middle of the backstreet and waited for about several breems until the roar of engines were heard. Howlback waited and with building dread, the other Autobots made a circle around her little hideaway spot to reveal themselves to the Organics.
Howlback was an intelligent Femme and as the Autobots transformed, she was able to recognise more of her enemies that she herself had fought centuries ago.
She recognised Saboteur Jazz and she stiffened, they were enemies.
She saw Ironhide and the medic Ratchet, Bumblebee and when the Truck transformed Howlback knew she would be offlined.
Optimus Prime transformed from the truck in front of her. The Leader of the Autobots and she was a tiny, Decepticon Beast Bot with no chance. Her systems froze as all the Autobots explained to these two Organics why they were there.
Then they mentioned the AllSpark and Megatron.
They were on Earth?
Howlback's headlights moved around observing her surroundings and listening to their side of the story, explaining how Decepticon's were bad.
But the Autobots were just as bad, each side had a lot of blood on their hands and Prime had the hide to turn around and say that that Decepticon's were evil.
Then Bumblebee broke in and spoke in Cybertronian to the Leader, then all attention turned to the alley where a surge of fright went through the little Beast Bot. Red gleamed in the darkness and the Autobots all pulled their weapons and Howlback found herself looking down the barrel of Ironhide's cannon.
She started her little engine and drove forward into the moonlight and Prime looked down to her. "Howlback? I haven't seen her in countless vorns. Where is her Partner?"
Bumblebee let a sad click escape him and Ratchet looked down at the small car and asked incredulously "How did Renegade Frontslayer fit inside? Last I recall she wasn't a small Femme!"
There was another whir and Prime sighed "She's in pieces?" he looked to Ratchet "She is in Stasis, close to offlining. She was almost deactivated by Decepticon Barricade."
Ratchet glared down at Howlback, "Well I cannot help her here! There are now confirmed sighting of Decepticon's and we have to get the AllSpark before Megatron. Now I have to help a Decepticon Femme?"
Prime looked down to the shaking Howlback and said in a deep monotone voice, "If you pledge that you will not bring harm to the humans, we will let you stay and we will fix Frontslayer, but if any of you intend on going back and joining Megatron. We will deactivate you both."
"Allegiance over" Howlback said over transmitter in English "follow nobody after banishment."
Prime nodded "Alright Autobots, no harm shall come to Howlback and her locked Partner" he looked down to the boy "Now where are the glasses?"
