AN: Well, it didn't take me almost an hour to read through the last chapter of that fan fiction at all… -Shifty eyes-
Anyway, I'd already written this one up and will probably take the same amount of time to proof-read.
Warning: this Chapter has a fair bit more violence in it
Brothers Till The End
Chapter Two
Supernova went limp in Acidstorm and Redstar's arms as his systems shut off. Jolt fired an electrode at Supernova and the jet. Electricity shot through the electrodes to the jet and slowly Supernova's form went dull. A soft whir sounded from the jet and the cockpit lit up. Jolt winced but kept his form as Supernova's 'spark chamber' opened.
"Ratchet, now would be a good time!" Acidstorm yelled. Ratchet came over to the dying seeker and gently dislodged his spark. Redstar's optics widened in awe as the A-10's undercarriage opened and Ratchet held the spark below it. Jolt winced and stumbled as the jet sucked the spark in under the cockpit. Acidstorm and Redstar's jaws dropped open as the undercarriage closed again.
"How the slag is that possible?!" Acidstorm gawked.
"It's difficult to do but it can be done," Ratchet replied.
"Supernova," Jolt started, facing the jet. "Scans show that your spark was successfully transferred," Acidstorm and Redstar tilted their heads at the loud whirring from the jet.
My tanks groaned and my energon lines creaked as energon flowed through them for the first time. My spark gave of a huge burst of energy through my new frame. Slowly I transformed. Each limb was painful to change and my protoform felt incredibly painful. I vented harshly as my helm finally emerged.
"How do you feel?" Ratchet asked. I rolled my shoulders and flexed my fingers.
"Stiff," I replied as my spinal strut clicked.
"You will do for a few cycles. Until your frame has adjusted you will have to stay in base and redo your training. Wheeljack has agreed to make you improved weapon systems,"
"Alright," I grinned. "When do I start?"
"Right away," Optimus said. I faced the regal mech as Silverbolt walked into the launch bay. He nodded once and I followed him out the room.
I rolled my shoulder for the umpteenth time as I walked into the rec room. Acidstorm chortled and doubled over in hysteria as I walked in. I raised an optic ridge at the sight. Redstar was laughing a little softer and was laying back in his chair. I followed his pointing finger to see Ironhide grinning madly doing an impression of Sideswipe.
"Seriously! He's a slaggin puff when he wants to be!" Ironhide laughed sitting down.
"What did I miss?" I grinned as I sat beside Redstar.
"Only Ironhide totally ripping the slag out of Sideswipe," Redstar chuckled. I rolled my optics at the weapons specialist's antics. Jazz sat up from lounging and slid a cube of high-grade over. "Optimus said you deserve a reward, you did so well in the MechTech facility." Redstar mused. I took the cube with a grin.
"So, have ya got ya new weapons yet?" Jazz asked. I nodded.
"The weapons I have now are far better than my old ones,"
"Oh? Wha' did ya get?"
"Neutron Assault Riffle and an Electron Rocket Launcher,"
"Nice," he smirked, his visor flashing. He lay back and I took a sip of energon. At that point Sunstreaker stormed into the room and swiveled around.
"I told you! Don't slagging talk to me you glitch!" He roared. I jolted and looked the direction he was. Sideswipe was standing in the door with his servos in the air. "You got us into this mess!" Sunstreaker took a cube of energon, glared at Sideswipe then stormed out, shoving the mech on the way out. Sideswipe stared after him for a few kliks before venting and walking in, his helm down. He slumped down beside Bumblebee and held his helm in his servos. He started mumbling to himself but I couldn't make out what he was saying.
"What's up Sides'?" Bumblebee asked. I increased the sensitivity of my audios as the frontliner replied.
"Last time we were scolded, Sunny went totally out-of-character and started blaming me when the last prank was his idea. He keeps saying I'm a 'pointless glitch' and I 'should be offlined'. I don't know what's gotten into him," I heard Acidstorm whir in sympathy.
"Has he only just started acting this way?" I asked as I leaned forward to look him in the faceplates. He nodded slowly. "I wonder..." I stood up with my energon cube and headed to the door.
"Where are you going?"
"For a walk," I lied. I vented silently as Sideswipe stood up and skated to my side.
"Let me come with you. You always manage to keep calm and frankly I think I need your advice," He admitted and I could hear how torn he was.
"Alright," I smiled, swapped the hand carrying my energon and slung my right arm over his shoulders. He smiled a little and I downed the rest of my energon. "Hey Acid' get us both some high-grade,"
"Sure," I heard Acidstorm quickly shuffle around and he walked in front of us with two larger cubes of energon in either hand. "Orders up," he chuckled. I took a cube and Sideswipe hesitantly took the other. As Acidstorm left us he patted Sideswipe on the shoulder. I lead Sideswipe out the rec room and down the hallway. I took him outside and we sat on the roof of base. He stared out into the darkening sky for a while not touching his energon or speaking. I took a sip of energon and set it to one side.
"Sideswipe, you can't keep yourself bottled up. I know guys don't normally express themselves but It helps." I put my servos in the air as he turned to me. "I promise with my spark that I won't say a word," I mimed an 'x' over my chest; I'd seen enough humans use the gesture in the past. He smiled a little.
"I'm just worried about Sunstreaker," he vented. "Ever since Ironhide caught me he's been pushing me down; calling me stupid, worthless; he won't let me in our quarters so I'm stuck in the hallway; when I tried to apologize he pushed me into the wall and said I didn't mean it," at the corner of my optic I saw his servos shake. "Its like he's not him anymore, ya know? I want to make it up to him but he won't let me, he keeps-"
"Sideswipe calm down. Your starting to speak as fast as Blurr," I laughed a little. "Slow down," he vented softly.
"He keeps ignoring me..." I hummed in thought as he took a mouthful of Energon.
"Tell you what. I haven't had a good night in a while. How about we go out for a few joors later on yea? You need a break and I need to stretch my wings,"
"But what about Ratchet's orders?"
"Phwsh, who cares? I will probably get slagged anyway," he smirked a little at this.
"Alright," with that he downed the rest of his energon and I mine.
"Lets go," Sideswipe jumped of the roof and transformed and drove out of base. I transformed too and shot after him.
2AM and Acidstorm woke with a start. He dimly onlined his optics and sat up slowly. He faced his berthroom door as Supernova's failure of a stifled laugh came from the room. Acidstorm raised an optic ridge at the sound of Sideswipe's drunken giggles. He stood up and walked to the door. When he opened it Sideswipe and Supernova were leaning against the sofas laughing. Acidstorm knitted his optic ridges in confusion as he walked over to the two.
"The slag happened?" He asked. Supernova looked at him dumbly while Sideswipe giggled again.
"Siders and I *hic* went out for a *hic* drive," he said drunkenly.
"Well you went for a fly," Sideswipe chortled for no clear reason.
"Says *hic* he who drove into a *hic* tree," Supernova laughed. Acidstorm rolled his optics and picked up his leader off the floor.
"Shouldn't you be in your own quarters?" He asked then winced. Supernova slung his arm over his trinemate's shoulder and slapped his chest. The glare told him that Supernova didn't want to explain while he was drunk. Acidstorm vented harshly. "You can stay in here for tonight Sideswipe," with that Acidstorm lead his leader to his berthroom, grimacing at his terrible singing. He set Supernova on the berth with a vent. Supernova lay down and fell right into recharge. Acidstorm rolled his optics and left the berthroom and headed into the living area. Sideswipe was randomly standing in the middle of the room swaying.
"Sideswipe?" After no reply he walked to stand in front of the mech. His optics were offline meaning he was in recharge. Acidstorm rolled his optics as he helped the sleeper to the sofa and lay him down. "Strange Mech," he mumbled to himself as he left for his own berthroom.
Redstar jolted as Supernova shot past his berthroom and down the small corridor. He raised an optic ridge in confusion but shook his helm.
"Idiot shouldn't have been overcharged last night," he mumbled as he went to the living area. He reeled his head back in surprise at the sight of Sideswipe doubled over on the couch.
"What the slag are you doing here?" Redstar growled wings raised and stiff in anger.
"Sunstreaker kicked me out of our quarters and Supernova let me stay here for the night," Sideswipe groaned. Redstar raised an optic ridge. "Long Story,"
"You two were out drinking last night weren't you?" Sideswipe nodded once and held his helm. "Do you EVER learn?"
"No they don't. Mechs never learn when to stop," Acidstorm chuckled as he walked in. He sat on the chair opposite Sideswipe and gave Redstar a matter-of-fact look. Redstar rolled his optics and left the shared quarters. He walked down towards the rec room. Humans were still in recharge -sleep as they call it- but having worked in MechTech facilities for so long he was used to being up early. The rec room door hissed open as he approached it and he was surprised to see Optimus talking to Lennox. Redstar shuttered his optics a couple of times and walked to stand beside the prime.
"So the Seekers have attacked London? Whatever for?" Lennox inquired.
"That I do not know. That is why I am sending Supernova's trine and the Aerialbots there," Optimus said smoothly.
"I hate to interrupt Optimus but we have a problem," Redstar said wearily. Optimus turned to the seeker.
"Good Cycle Redstar. What is the problem?"
"Sunstreaker and Sideswipe have had a fallout and Sideswipe's been kicked out of his quarters. To top it off I'm afraid he and Supernova were overenergized last night and are suffering a... as the humans call it a 'hangover'," Optimus vented and offlined his optics. Lennox rolled his eyes as he leaned on the catwalk railing.
"Thank you Redstar. Send them to Ratchet. I need them in London ASAP." Was the prime's reply. Redstar nodded curtly before turning. He grabbed a couple of energon cubes and left the room.
I groaned as the door hissed open. Redstar walked in with energon cubes and set them on the table. He picked up his own before sitting in his favourite chair beside Acidstorm. Said mech took his own cube and the two started discussing tactics for whatever reason. I took a cube myself as Sideswipe did too and began to drink it when a very irate Ratchet growled over the coms.
::Supernova, Sideswipe! Get your afts in here this instant!::
Sideswipe and I groaned at the same time before standing up to leave.
"You two are so slagged," Acidstorm grinned. I shot him a glare as we left; he always was the most immature of us.
Sideswipe ducked the wrench flying in his direction as we entered the medbay. I wasn't so fortunate; high-grade stays in my systems for a while. I rubbed my helm where the wrench connected to it while Sideswipe hid behind me.
"I won't miss next time Sideswipe!" Ratchet growled. He glared sharply at me. "And you should know better than to drink high-grade when you've just gotten a new frame!" Another wrench -or was it the same one?- collided with my head causing me to yelp involuntarily. "Sideswipe get over here now." Sideswipe whimpered as he moved over to Ratchet. This was going to be a long check-up.
Starscream growled irritably .
"Where the slag is that damn trine!" He snarled. Skywarp jolted at the outburst causing a suspension to snap on the bridge. Thundercracker rolled his optics as he continued to scan the area. His attention was snagged by a convoy of aircraft flying towards them.
"Starscream, we have human-" He cut off as one of the jets transformed. "Rephrase that. We have Aerialbots!" He roared. Starscream and Skywarp turned towards the Aerialbots. As promised the five Aerialbots transformed and hovered. Three more jets appeared. The leading jet was an A-10 Starscream recognised as Supernova followed by a F-35 and an F-15.
"Thundercracker take out Redstar, Skywarp Acidstorm is all yours," Starscream growled before transforming and flying towards Supernova.
I let out my battle cry and fired my new Electron rocket launcher at Starscream as he flew towards me. He easily dodged and reigned fire on me. I transformed and fired at him as we flew past each other. I flew straight upwards as I spotted Skywarp and Acidstorm wrestled each other in the air and Redstar throttled Thundercracker. I looped around to fly on my back and towards Starscream who was doing the same. We twisted the right way up and reigned fire on each other again. This time though Starscream's heat seeker exploded in my booster and it cut off. I growled as I started to plummet to the ground. Smoke billowed from the broken thruster as I descended rapidly. Acidstorm and Redstar flashed past me and before I could hit the river I felt sturdy servos clamp my wings. Whoever had hold of my wings was pulling back against gravity.
"Primus your heavy!" Fireflight growled. I smiled internally. "Pull up slaggit!"
"I can't! My thruster won't respond!" At that moment the other thruster shut off.
"SLAG!" We both cried. Another pair of servos clamped around one wing as Fireflight grabbed the other.
"Hold on 'Nova!" Silverbolt growled. I snarled as I tried to force my boosters back online.
"I can't get my slagging boosters on!" Now I was starting to panic. Silverbolt dug his digits into my wing as he started flying backwards. I winced.
"TRANSFORM SLAGGIT!" He roared. My t-cog whined in protest as I started to transform. Silverbolt and Fireflight let go as I transformed and plummeted to the ground again. This time I landed in the river head first. I went blind for a couple of seconds causing my panic to increase. I onlined the lights on my wings and chest armor with a vent. I swam up to to the surface and locked onto Starscream. I fired several times and 50% of the bullets hit his cockpit causing the window to smash.
"Fraking Autobots!" He roared then dived towards me. I glared at him for a few kliks before swimming to the land. I ducked down under water to narrowly avoid his fire. I heard transforming and resurfaced to come face-to-barrel with his gun. "Now your dead," he hissed.
Acidstorm roared as he reigned fire onto Skywarp as he and Thundercracker flew off.
"Woohoo!" He cried as the two left.
"Don't celebrate yet Acid! Supernova is down!" Air Raid bellowed. Acidstorm transformed and faced the scout who then pointed at a smoking pile of metal.
"SUPERNOVA!" Acidstorm yelled. He and Redstar flew over to the injured Seeker followed by the Aerialbots once Fireflight and Slingshot got rid of Starscream. Acidstorm landed beside his leader and held him upright. "Nova! No no no!" Supernova's optic dimly onlined.
"A-Acidstorm," he started.
"Don't waste energon!" Skydive and Redstar ordered. Said mechs started attempting to mend Supernova's wounds. A loud clank sounded inside of the seeker and his optic dimmed to almost black.
"Hold on Nova! Please!" Acidstorm begged. Supernova simply smiled weakly before falling into stasis.
Sideswipe paced back and forth outside the medbay. Supernova had been in the medbay for ages. He growled as he turned again. Jazz sauntered down the hallway towards the mech. Sideswipe gave him a short glance before clenching his fists.
"Chill Sides', 'Nova's gon' be fine," Jazz said smoothly.
"Jazz he's been in there for joors!"
"H's a tough mech and in good servos. Why ya so concerned anyway? He's a seekah,"
"So? He was there when Sunstreaker disowned me and he helped me sort my processor out!" Sideswipe retorted a little too loudly. Several humans faced the frontliner in surprise. Jazz threw up his hands in surrender.
"Ah was jus' sayin," with that the saboteur left the irate frontliner. Said mech leaned against the wall before slumping onto the floor. He offlined his optics and held his face in his servos. Ironhide and Lennox saw the mech and walked over. Ironhide knelt beside him and set a servo on his shoulder.
"What's up Sideswipe?" Lennox asked. Sideswipe shrugged. "Something is bothering you,"
"Supernova is in stasis lock. I don't think he's gonna come out of it," Ironhide's engine rumbled in sympathy as he patted the frontliner.
"He'll be fine," Lennox assured him. Sideswipe shook his helm. He lifted his head up with a distraught expression.
"He's gonna die slaggit! I can feel it in my spark!" He yelled. Lennox jumped in surprise and backed up. "I know for a fact he won't survive..." Ironhide gave the frontliner a pitying look before turning to Lennox. Sideswipe stood up shakily. "I'm gonna lie down..." with that said he left the two soldiers and headed to his room.
::Ratchet! Supernova's spark isn't holding out!::-Jolt
::Hold on Jolt I'm on my way,::-Rachet
Jolt began to panic as Supernova's spark began to slow down abruptly. The seeker's frame convulsed and his optics dimmed again.
"Hold on Supernova!" Jolt ordered as he tried to stabilize the spark. Supernova convulsed again and this time his legs sparked violently, energon began to foam at his mouth and leaked from his audios. "Oh Primus no!" Jolt held down the mech as he began to spasm. The door hissed open and Ratchet ran in. He took over Jolt's job of holding the spasming Seeker.
My spark pounded painfully and my energon lines strained under the pressure. I chocked out a cry as the line in my neck gave way and imploded. I couldn't hear anything but the energon streaming out my audios. I shook violently as energon foamed out my mouth. I could feel my body shut down and Ratchet hold me still. I coughed again and energon flowed freely from my mouth. Another energon line went, then another and finally-
Acidstorm and Redstar roared in pain and fell to their knees. Silverbolt jolted and ran over to them with Skydive on his heals. Acidstorm whimpered and held his chest while Redstar stared blankly at the floor, mouth dropped open. Acidstorm cried again and this time fell right into stasis lock.
"Scrap! What's going on?!" Skydive exclaimed as the seeker collapsed. Redstar made a noise like choking.
"Something's happened to Supernova," Silverbolt surmised. He picked Acidstorm up and slung him over his shoulder before taking him to his quarters. Redstar shook violently under Skydive's servo.
"Redstar what's going on?..." At first there was no answer and the other mechs in the room had gathered around. Redstar looked up at Skydive seeming unaware of the attention and burst out:
"Supernova is dead!"
Sideswipe kept a firm gaze on his pedes as Supernova's lifeless frame was carried down the hallway. Sunstreaker stood beside his twin silently as he watched the seeker disappeared around the corner before turning to Sideswipe. Sideswipe didn't say anything or even move. He just stood stock-still, optics fixed to his pedes and his shoulders tense.
"Sideswipe-" Sunstreaker started.
"Don't slagging talk to me!" He snarled. Sunstreaker jumped back genuinely surprised. "I don't need your fragging scrap now Sunstreaker so just frag off and leave me alone!" Sideswipe prodded Sunstreaker in the chest violently causing him to stumbled back. "I'm not talking to you or anyone else!" With that, Sideswipe walked into his shared quarters, slammed the door shut and closed any comm. Links. Sunstreaker blinked in surprise and vented harshly deciding it was best to leave his twin alone.
"What happened there?" Ironhide asked as he materialized out of nowhere.
"... I pissed him off," was all Sunstreaker said before leaving to the rec room.
Two orns later Acidstorm sat up in his berth. He looked towards the door at a loud hiss. He shook his helm and tucked his knees into his chest. He stared at the wall opposite.
"Why can't I get over it?... Death comes to us all eventually... I've seen plenty deaths... why's this one so different?" He mumbled to himself.
~Redstar I can't recharge...~
~Neither can I... I'm gonna see Ratchet,~
~Wait, I will go with you,~ Acidstorm stood up shakily and headed out the door. Redstar was already waiting; his optics were dim, his wings were sagging and his armour was badly neglected. Acidstorm was almost the same only his optics were almost offline. The two seekers silently left their quarters and headed to Ratchet's med bay. It was quiet inside save for the sound of machinery and movement. The door hissed open and Ratchet stood at the door.
"What are you doing here?" He asked gruffly.
"Neither of us can sleep," Redstar admitted. Acidstorm swayed a little but corrected himself. Ratchet scoffed.
"You both look like you haven't washed in weeks, when did you last refuel?" Redstar paused.
"Before Supernova went offline..." Acidstorm muttered. Ratchet growled.
"No wonder you're so weak!" Ratchet dragged the two into the med bay and sat them on a berth. They sat in silence as the medic scanned the two. He grunted in disgust as he turned. Acidstorm offlined his optics as his power levels dropped. Redstar set his servo on his brother's shoulder. Ratchet turned with two cubes of energon. "You've both neglected yourselves so bad you'll offline before you know it," the irate mech shoved the cubes into the seekers' servos and sat opposite them with his arms crossed over his chest. Redstar watched Acidstorm as he sipped his energon without onlining his optics. Redstar vented a little and sipped at his own energon. "I've given you both a special formula because you failed to take care of yourselves. Until your systems return to normal you will stay on this," both seekers nodded slowly. Redstar offlined his optics as he received a pre-recorded message from Supernova at the same time as Acidstorm.
"I've made this message in advance should anything happen to me. Redstar; you always were the most mature; if anything happens to me, i want you to take charge of Acidstorm. Acidstorm; You have your way with words and weapons. I always believed you would make it as a soldier, that is why I'm leaving you my Weapons. Take care of them, and yourselves... I love you both, please don't forget what we've been through,"
A single tear escaped both mechs as the message finished. The two seekers shared the same look.
We will always be Brothers Until The End...
Short and Sweet…. Not really, more like bittersweet. I had fun writing this despite my friends constantly complaining that I'm always on my phone.
Anyway, I may or may not write more fictions with Supernova and his trine, but if I do they are most likely to be based on the timeframe of War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron, simply because of the fact that said games are addictive and fun. Anyway, Hope you guys liked this! Please, Read and Review!
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers or any of the characters excluding Supernova, Acidstorm and Redstar.