Title: The Wrecker and the Moonlight - part 4
Characters: Wheeljack, Prowl, Jazz
Genre: Romance, Family, Adventure
Description: On Earth, Team Prime meet an old comrade who returns to Earth, with his bondmate, who is sparked, seeking shelter after the downturn on Cybertron. Works up to the birth of the Autobots' future, unlikely 'Godfathers' of the sparkling. At the end, a familiar face appears. Takes place during Transformers Prime... with some of my own twists to make it fit with my plot.
"Alright, chores are done. Now can we do some doonbashing?!"
"I don't know Miko, last time I spent a week picking sound out of my articulaters... But there's a monster truck rally in town."
Bulkhead walks further into the room with Miko on his shoulder when the monitors give a beep.
"Optimus," Ratchet said. "I've receiving a signal on a restricted band. It appears to be coming from a starship inside this Solar System." The medic starts to work at the controls to identify the signal. "It's an Autobot identification beacon."
The humans turned around to face the bots. "So there are other bots out there?" Jack asked.
"The mass is scattered to the galaxies when Cybertron finally went dark," Arcee replied. "But Cons have been known to bait traps with false beacons."
Optimus took into account what Arcee said. "Unknown vessel, this is Autobo outpost Omega 1; Identify yourself!"
"I've had warmer welcome from Decepticon combat brigades."
Everyone noted Bulkhead's interest. "Wheeljack!? You old Con crusher! What you doing all the way out here?!" as he approached the monitor.
"Bulkhead? Is that you? What's with all the security?!"
"The rock we're on is crawling with Cons. How soon can you get here and even the odds?"
"Sometime tomorrow, if I put medal to the pedal."
Miko gained her interest. "Another bot's coming here. How cool is that?" Bulkhead nodded in agreement.
"Wheeljack," Optimus began. "I know him by reputation only. Can you verify his voice print?" he asked Bulkhead.
"He's 1000% the real deal Optimus," the green bot replied.
"We will send landing co-ordinates Wheeljack, have a safe journey," Optimus added.
"See you soon buddy," Bulkhead added. "I'll make sure you get a proper welcome."
Later that day...
"Jackie, meet me other buddy, Miko!" Bulkhead introduced Miko. "She can wreck with the best of us!"
"Hiya," the human girl waved.
"You keeping Bulkhead out of trouble?" The Wrecker asked.
"I try, but trouble finds us anyway."
"We're gonna get along just fine."
Optimus approached the Wrecker, who turned around to face the Prime.
"Optimus Prime, it's a privelege."
"Likewise soldier, what have you to report from your long journey? And since recent MIA."
"Been bouncing from rock to rock, searching for signs of friend or foe, now I find both."
Optimus raised an optic ridge, noting something that made him suspicious. "We are few, but strong, we've suffered losses, but we have grown, and we would relish to welcome a new member into our fold."
"I would be honoured," Wheeljack replied, before Bulkhead approached.
"So, lets get this party started!" Bulkhead delivers a back slap, sending his buddy forward, before they bash their chests together.
Ratchet shakes his head. "Oh joy."
After Bulkhead sensed something isn't right...
"What are you guys talking about?" Wheeljack asked upon entering the room.
"I was just telling the guys about you and me, at the battle of Thunderhead Pass," Bulkhead replied.
"You weren't there?" the white Wrecker replied.
"Because I was watching over Moonlight, after a lot of events, making sure she was OK for you."
"Who's Moonlight?"
Bulkhead's optics widened at his buddy. "You know Moonlight?! You're not Jackie!"
"Bulkhead, easy," Arcee held her hands up to calm the green mech.
"Then tell the story of Thunderhead!" Bulkhead ordered.
"Fine, you wanna live in the past Bulkhead," Wheeljack turned to the others. "The Wreckers were trapped between a Decepticon patrol and a melting pit. Cons were vicious, baring down on us with everything they had! Me and the Wreckers engaged the enemy, left them for scrap. Then Impactor made us a way out, using their backsides as stepping stones to cross the molten metal." He looked at Bulkhead. "Ain't that how it happened?"
Bulkhead was silent. "Yeah that's exactly how it happened, except for one little thing." He saw Wheeljack's optics widened, knowing he'd been caught. "You wasn't there!"
Everyone all glanced in the mech's direction, all surprised to hear what was said, waiting for the reason. Wheeljack just glared.
"You were MIA for months. I then left the Wreckers to join up with Optimus. That day I left was when the Wreckers went to Thunderhead pass! You were gone before that!"
"Bulkhead, what does that have to do wi..." Miko didn't finish it as Wheeljack grabbed her and pushed past Bulkhead towards the Groundbridge controls.
"Stay back!" Wheeljack replied, but in a much deeper voice. "I'll squeeze her into a pulp!"
Miko struggled to break free, while everyone couldn't do anything incase Miko was hurt.
"Wheeljack, what are you doing!?" Miko asked shocked.
"Decepticon coward! Let the girl go, and face me!" Bulkhead ordered.
"Don't fret, plenty of fighting to come!" Wheeljack replied.
"Is there a real Wheeljack!?" Jack asked.
"Oh indeed, and I expect Lord Starscream is making sport of him!"
"Let's get this party started!" Wheeljack joked, Miko still struggling in his grasp, when someone jumped through the groundbridge, and striked the Con in the back sending him crashing, and Miko was caught by Bulkhead.
The humans all looked up at the newcomer; Wheeljack!
"I'd shut that hole before the stink comes through," he said while placing his swords in the storage on his back.
Ratchet closed the groundbridge to stop Starscream's armada coming through, annoying the seeker with energon spilled on his mouth.
Both Wheeljack and the Con withdraw their swords, attract their face masks, and circle the room slowly, everyone else backing off to give space. Bulkhead stepped forward, and pounds his fists together.
"Ugly's mine!" one of the Wheeljack's said, continuing to circle the other.
Both Wheeljacks engaged in a fight, while confusing everyone to who was the real Wheeljack.
"Which one is the real Wheeljack?" Raf asked, adjusting his glasses looking back and forth.
"Err.." Miko was speechless. "I lost track!"
Both bots continued their fight, till one of the Wheeljack's delivers a knee kick to the other, grabs his sword, and delivers a blow, sending him onto his back.
"That's my Jackie!" Bulkhead told the others.
The real Wheeljack turned to Ratchet. "You, hit the switch. It's time to take out the trash." He looked at Bulkhead. "All yours buddy."
The Con was sent through the groundbridge towards the Armada, and not knowing the grenade was active, it blows up.
"Makeshift! You fool!" Starscream shouted.
Inside Autobot base...
Since Wheeljack had settled in, with the REAL Wheeljack, Bulkhead decided to ask about his buddy's disappearance.
He found the Wrecker sat on the roof of the base, looking across the view.
"Jackie?"
The White Wrecker looked up. "Hey Bulk."
Bulkhead sat beside him. "What's wrong?"
Wheeljack looked at him. "I've been thinking about Moon."
Bulkhead smiled. "She was worried about you lots when you disappeared." He looked at his buddy. "What happened on that day? No one has heard from you in years."
Wheeljack sighed. "During that time, when I knew it was impossible to return to Cybertron, all I could think about was how upset Moon would be, thinking if I abandoned her again. But I didn't, I didn't the first time and I didn't the second time."
Bulkhead looked at the view. "In the Wreckers, things fell apart when you were gone. We lost Rollerstorm in the battle in Space that time you went missing. A year after that, Pyro was caught in a crossfire, multiple shots... Roadbuster soon followed. Then Impactor fought Stealth..."
"Stealth was still alive!?"
Bulkhead nodded. "Stealth was brutal... And me just talking about it makes it sound really disturbing... But it left me, ex-Wrecker, and the only Wreckers alive was Seaspray. He went out to explore outside Cybertron, never heard from him again. His signal has popped online a couple of times, so he is still roaming the Galaxy. But as we know today, only you and me left."
Wheeljack listened to everything, listened to Bulkhead explain about the Wreckers' fall, losing leader Roadbuster, comrade Impactor who actually fought Stealth but lost, Seaspray was a soft Wrecker like Bulkhead, and hoped he would return soon, and now, his big question.
"What about Moon?"
Bulkhead sighed. "I don't know how to put this..."
"She's dead?!" the Wrecker was shocked.
"No! But... After you went missing.. Everyone kept on saying the logical explaination was you were dead. She fell into depression... Everyone wanted to help her, but she wouldn't take it. She was often drunk.."
"That doesn't sound like Moon at all!"
"I was shocked to hear it all too Jackie, but that's what happened.. Apparently a mech found her, and..." Bulkhead looked at Wheeljack. "Apparently there was a brief relationship.."
"What?!"
"But Moon had been on high grade at the time. This mech didn't want to accept it wasn't 'more'. Next thing we know in the papers, everyone's saying she was killed in a fit of revenge. But I don't believe it. I confronted the mech, he replied, 'You'll never see her again!' He was arrested but refused to say where Moonlight was. Security, even Chief Gazerbeam went crazy to find his daughter, but there was no sign of her whatsoever." He shook his head. "Gazerbeam went on a mission and was never found; he never knew where his daughter was. Gears followed many years later, and Neptune refused to stop his search for Moonlight. As far as I know, Neptune is still alive; I got involved with some serious fighting in the Autobots, so I did have some memory troubles, but that is what I know so far."
"But Moon is still alive, I'll find her," Wheeljack replied. "When we joined sparks at our bonding, I know that if one dies, the other feels a tear in their spark. I didn't feel anything like that... If Moon is alive, I must find her. When I went into space with our brothers, an explosion occured near the Jackhammer, I lost control of the ship, spiralled out of control. The radar onboard picked up something the ship, something filled with energy, a black hole. I knew what those things were like, so had to waste the Jackhammer's energy and fuel to get away from it. Once in the clear, I was approaching this big rock, another planet I'd not seen before, nor did Cybertron's records know about it. With no fuel to get away, the ship approached it and gained speed upon nearing it. Not sure if the blast would blow the ship to bits, so I took shelter in the stasis chamber. Entered the atmosphere, and must've landed really dangerously, to have had such a force in the landing that I was knocked into stasis for a while. Coming back online, I returned to Cybertron... It was in ruins. Everything, was just dark. I thought I was the only Wrecker left. I travelled all over the planet, I found the Praxus Palace still intact, but there was rust and all the outside was rusty.. I figured Prowl and Jazz were offline, since no life was inside the building, only Prowl's personal datapad which I found, and stored it in the Jackhammer. I then went to Iacon, found the Dream catcher Neptune gave Moon, and the datapad with all the Autoggraphs we got for her sparkday. Upon arriving at our base of operations, it was demolished... I couldn't find anything to scalvage... I couldn't find any signs of life.. All I could think about was getting our band of brothers back together when I heard your voice earlier Bulk, but now..." He shook his head. "I will find Moon."
Cybertron...
In Iacon..
The small sound of foot steps was heard, and two figures walked into view, and approached a demolished building. One was a black and white femme with doorwings, the other was a blue and silver femme with streaks of red and green, small wings on her back.
"This was the base of operations for the Wreckers, were the signal was picked up?" the black and white femme asked
The blue and silver femme nodded. "Mum said she moved into this place with the Wreckers shortly before her bonding ceremony. One day, I hope to revive this place, in memory of mum and dad."
The femme nodded, glanced back at the wreck, when she catches something in the corner of her optic. Walking over to the rubble, she sees something glowing underneath. With the blue and silver femme, lifted the rubble of it, and pick up a broach.
"A Praxien broach? Used for bonding proposals?" the doorwinged femme replied.
"Mum said dad used one to propose to her... She had one with a heart, the Sun and a music note. It symbolizes that the future will be bright and happy, a bond full of love, and the music note to show the rythm of their happiness and joy for the future to come. I'd never forget how mum told me over and over again of dad's proposal."
"And there is the fact we picked up your dad's signal some months ago at this site. He's alive girl, and we'll find him, same as me finding my parents after so many years."
"I know you will Angel. I'm rooting for you."
A small beep sounded, and Angel, the black and white doorwinged femme put her finger to her comlink on her arm, opens a small compartment.
"Yes Chromia, ma'am?"
"Report back to base, we got a signal."
Angel turned to her partner. "Let's go girl."
A groundbridge opened behind them, and the two femmes entered it. They entered a large hall, busy round the clock, like a ship hanger bay. An enormous room with mechs and femmes working round the clock. Lab on the right side with many mechs and equipment, tests running. On the left, many mechs and femmes in training, learning skills and techniques in case of Decepticon attacks. The hanger bay was on the right side, with safety checks of the ships coming and going, an whole energon mine at the far end for resources and refueling. The two femmes entered a nearby elevator, the door closing behind them, going up to the top floor, and exited.
A femme stood before them. "Angel, femme, welcome back."
Both femmes saluted.
"Come," the blue femme leads them down the corridor to a large office room. Approaching the controls, pressing a large yellow button.
The ceiling panels moves away, a large blue screen drops down, stood before the blue femme. Pressing her hand onto the screen, it reads her print.
"Commander Chromia, access granted."
A lot of files was brought up on the large screen, Chromia uses the touch screen keyboard to open a tab with the GPS readings outside Cybertron.
"This signal was picked up in this Solay System. We've identified it as Autobot identification beacon, but with your skills femme, we can decode it further."
"I'll do my best commander," the blue and silver femme said. She turned to leave.
"It gets confusing to keep calling you femme. Why not have a designation?"
"Because mum didn't want to name me without dad by her side," the blue and silver femme replied. "I don't mind femme, or soldier."
Exiting the office, she approaches the elevator, and goes down the first floor, and exits the elevator, heading to her chamber of operations. Entering her office, she begins to decode the signal.
Later on, she leaves the office to grab some energon, and to use the super computer downstairs to decode further. Taking a cube of energon, she approaches the computer, and begins her work.
A femme approached. "Ma'am, Chromia is looking at an update on the signal."
"It's definitely Autobot, but there is background to this signal's owner..."
The computer beeps with a 'match' for the signal.
"I got the results, tell the Commander."
The femme nodded, and departs to visit Chromia.
Chromia appeared a few minutes later, not a second more, and approached the blue and silver femme. "The signal has been identified?"
"Yes Commander." the femme pressed a button bringing up the record. All the bots around the computer gasp.
"But... He's... He's ALIVE!" the blue and silver femme cried with joy. "My dad is alive!"
"Its Wheeljack's!" Chromia gasped, but smiled. "I remember his younger years. Me and Whiplash knew he and Moonlight were really close..." She looked at the blue and silver femme. "I know you haven't seen him at all in your life, and after Moon's loss, this is your chance to meet him. I'll let you meet him, and Angel can accompy you."
Angel saluted. "We won't let you down Commander!"
Chromia nodded. "Where is the signal now?"
The femme continued typing on the computer, bringing up GPS. "A planet called Earth.. That was where Prime and and his team headed."
Chromia nodded. "Activate the Groundbridge. We'll get you close to that planet as we can, make your way there in your ship Angel. Update us further for comrades."
Angel nodded. "Let's go girl."
Not much to say. More chapters coming.
Oh there is, sorry for this chapter's late update; I had decided to DRAW what Wheeljack and Moonlight's daughter might look like. It took 3 days, but I finally done it. I will upload it to Deviantart, under my account TFG1001. View it from there, and I won't reveal the daughter's name until further on in the chapter. Once I upload that chapter, the name will go up. You can guess if you want, not a competition thing, but it'll be fun :)
