The Rise Of the Predacons
Legend
Cybertronian(Usually Bumblebee) "aabb"
Thought 'aabb'
Speech "aabb"
Chapter 2 - The Decepticon's fall
3rd Person POV (Junkyard,Unknown location)
"He's got to be here." RAF said while Bumblebee was driving around.
About an hour ago they spotted a picture of Ratchet in this very junkyard, so they came to investigate. Bumblebee stops abruptly. In front of a stack of cars there was a orange and white ambulance. Raf gets out and Bumblebee transforms.
"Ratchet...Ratchet, it's me Raf. Uh- Ratchet?"
"Go away." Ratchet says irritably.
"What happened Ratchet?" Bumblebee asks chirps and whirls.
"Your interrupting my power down." Ratchet states matter of factly.
"Come on"
"Come on Ratchet. We need your help to find the others." Rad says urgently.
"Ya. Regroup then stop Megatron."
"We can't stop Megatron, not anymore. The war is over. And we, lost." Ratchet says.
"YOUR GIVING UP! We can't just give up!" Raf thunders.
Ratchet transforms, "Then tell me what we can do? Without communications, without a ground bridge, without a base of operations or resources of any kind!"
"Starscream had resources." Bee whirs.
"Bee is right. We know Starscream had access to a ground bridge while he was operating solo." Raf says.
"Yes,yes he'd clearly been using the derelict Decepticon ship The Harbinger. What does that have to do with anything?" Ratchet argues.
"It could be full of Cybertronian tech. And it's probably abandoned again now that Starscream is back with the Cons."
"Pfft. Oh well. Resources will not be of much use. Not without someone to...lead us." Ratchet says in trance nearing the end.
"ITS A START." Raf replies.
"Well you will have to start without me. This is someone else's fight now."
"There is no one else Ratchet. Just us. Just the team."
Ratchet shakes his head, transformers and says, "Please, just let me... rust in peace."
"Cmon bee." Raf gets inside Bumblebee and they leave.
3rd Person POV (Umdernath the Original Base/ Smokescreen and Optimus' refuge)
"I'm back." Smokescreen tells the injured Optimus.
Optimus startes moaning and mumbling.
"I combed through every square micron of our old base. I couldn't find Ratchets medical kit, not even a bandage."
"The Forge Of Solus Prime." Optimus replies with his little strength.
"Its gone too. The cons picked the place clean."
Optimus startes mumbling again.
"Wait,if you had the forge, you could fix yourself up. Power of the Primes. Optimus, hang on just a little longer. That hammers gotta be somewhere in Megatron's fortress." Smokescreen uses the Phase shifter to get outside.
(Wreaker regroup coordinates / Unknown location)
Despite their being such a beautiful scenery all around them, Miko was sleeping on Bulkhead's foot while Bulkhead was spaced out. He is brought back into reality when he hears the sound of an engine. Bulkhead moves, making Miko's head hit the ground.
"Miko, wake up." Bulkhead says urgently.
" (insert yarn) Why?" She replies sleepily while stretching.
Bulkhead turns one hand into an blaster and the other into a mace, "Someone's coming."
Bulkhead almost fires when realization and happiness dawn on his face, "I'D KNOW THE HUM OF THAT ENGINE ANYWHERE!" Bulkhead exclaims and starts running towards the car.
"Huh-ha JAckie! Where you been buddy?"
"Catching up with a few old dance partners." Wheeljack replies while Miko takes a picture of him.
"Good to see you kid." Wheeljack says now directed at Miko. "Safe to assume we are the only 3 wreckers around?."
"So what are we waiting for, let's do some damage." Miko replies enthusiastically.
" So what's our next move? Circle back to base?" Bulkhead asked.
"There is no base, cons blasted it to dust." Wheeljack replied.
(Nemesis)
"Ha, the fool fell right into my trap." Starscream though out loud.
"All seekers to flight deck. The enemy has been located. Attack, attack, attack!" Starscream says as a group of seekers Seekers close in on what he believes is all of Team Prime.
(Near the Weaker refuge)
As the vehicons land and get their guns out, Starscream says, "Hold fast. They are approaching your position."
They look around, only to see a piece of driftwood on the stream.
Up on a cliff, the 3 Wreckers are watching their targets.
"Targets in range." Bulkhead says.
When the piece of driftwood gets closer to the seekers, they see the tracker and a grenade on it.
"And.. Boom." Wheeljack says, pushing a button.
"GRENADE!" a Seeker shouts.
The wreckers see a Energon explosion.
(Nemesis)
Starscream looks at the screen in shock as everyone from the seeker squad's spark signature is gone.
"He- he tricked us." Starscream says sadly.
Megatron glares at him.
(Back with the wreakers)
"How did you know the cons put a tracker on you?" Miko asks.
"I figured the cons were up to something, so I did a little poking around under my hood."
"Huhha, that's my Jackie." Bulk head says.
"So, what our next move?" Miko inquires.
"I salvaged ammunitions from the Jackhammer on my way out. You think that was a big explosion, wait till you see this." Jackie said and drove off with Bulkhead with Miko inside following him.
(The Harbinger)
"The wire is connected." Bumblebee said, connecting the Harbinger's main control to the Energon left over from when Starscream made his clones.
"Hold it right there bee." Raf said while jumping to and fro from a Cybertronian sized Command Board. "And, powering up."
The lights had started turning on when suddenly all the lights went off, only for the emergency work lights(the lighting they were using before) to come back on.
"Let's keep trying. We'll figure it out." Raf said encouraging Bumblebee.
"Yep-yap-yep." A figure that just entered said.
"Ratchet, you came!"
"Your miscalibrating The Energon reductors."
"Ratchet, your back!" Raf exclaims with joy.
"Now move out of the way and let me get to work." Saying that Ratchet starts typing to fix the errors.
(Trans Canada Highway)
'Last time things looked so bleak, Optimus give Jack that Keycard. Something to hang our hopes on. But know considering both of them are possibly dead..." along with 'I failed so badly, why PRIMUS' and 'I belong in the pits' were many of the thoughts going through Arcee's head. In fact, she was wallowed in self pity/blame so much that she didn't notice the Elite Guard ship above her till it had almost landed. Because she didn't know whether it was a stolen one of the many that Spy Communications Officer Longarm Magnus(Shockwave) stole or a real Elite Guard, she got her blasters out. When she recognized the Mech, she puts her weapons away, happy that she has hope again.
(The Decepticon Citadel)
"So not only did you fail to destroy the Autobots, you allowed their numbers to increase. IS THERE NO ONE WHO CAN BRING ME THEIR HEADS?" Megatron said, angry with Starscream.
"If I may Lord Megatron, during my exile on Cybertron, I resumed work on a long dormant project. One that I believe, may provide the solution to our current problem." Shockwave suggested.
"Cyber Nucleic Acid?" Knockout asked, curious about the image Shockwave was showing.
"The building blocks of all Cybertronian life. This hails from a specimen I excavated upon our planet, and has yielded promising results." Shockwave explained.
"The Autobots continue to evade us. What makes you think we can afford to wait for the answer of our prayers to be birthed in some Petei dish?" Starscream asks smugly
" You misunderstand, the subject has been fully cultivated, and need only to be transported from my laboratory on Cybertron." Shockwave said, even if it was already most logical.
"Then by all means, activate the space bridge." Megatron commanded.
(Shockwave's Laboratory on Cybertron)
Inside a giant cylindrical glass structure their lies an Metal beast, uncouncious. Shockwave walked towards his creation. He starts pressing a few commands on his keyboard and his whole lab starts lighting up. Electricity starts racing to the cylinder, and the beast awakens.
(Megatron's Throne Room)
!egatron was tapping his fingers agains his throne, eagerly waiting for Shockwave to show his new creation. Suddenly a green and blue vortex appears and Shockwave comes walking out of it.
"I present to you my liege, the ultimate Autobot Hunter." Shockwave says in his emotionless voice and steps to the side. As his creation's heavy legs come out, his claws make sounds of scratching. He growls slightly at Starscream while coming, making him run to Megatron's throne. The Vehicons start stepping back, intimidated by him. Megatron stands up, not believing his eyes. Then he starts smirking.
"A Predacon? They have been extinct since the beginning of Cybertronian history." Starscream asks.
"Indeed. But the specimen you see before you was bred in a laboratory. Cloned from fossilized remains, which I descobered on Cybertron." Shockwave replied.
"Shockwave, it does my spark good to see you once again, tampering with creation." Megatron says while walking towards the Predacon.
"Master, please, keep your distance." Starscream suggests.
"No need for alarm. The beast is completely under my control."
The Predacon looks Megatron in the eye while subtlety sniffing him.
"Such primal magnificence." Megatron says admirably.
" A sample of Energon, spilled during Wheeljack's failed interrogation." Shockwave holds up a vial Of Energon. The beast smells the Energon, then his eyes glow.
"Let the hunt begin." Megatron states happily. Suddenly the Predacon extends his wings and starts stretching, getting ready for flight. He then leaves into the sky.
(Near a Decepticon mining facility)
"You guys, you know I'm all for blowing the scrap out of stuff, but what does flattening a Decepticon Mine have to do with getting the band back together and taking down Megatron?" Miko asks.
"Simple. When we light up this place, the blast will be big, and unmistakable." Wheeljack was saying.
"Any Autobot in 500 clicks will see the sky blowing with Energon and come running." Bulkhead finished.
"Then bring the rain." Miko said now that she had better understanding.
(The Harbinger)
Inside the dusty old ship, the splinter of Team Prime was hard at work.
"Mainframes up and running, but...I'll need help hacking the operating codes." Raf told Ratchet as a status report.
"Even if the ground bridge proves functional it'll be worthless without means of pinpointing the current locations of our compatriots." Ratchet says.
"Can't we just track their life signals?"
"Use your head Bumblebee! If Decepticons had the ability to track Autobot signals, we'd have all been in Megatron's mercy here on Earth along time ago." Ratchet explains with anger.
"Ahh. Back where we started." Raf says.
"But not, if I can reconfigure these Decepticon frequencies. At the very least we may be able to access their comm link."
(Trans Canada Highway)
"No one has seen or heard from you ever since Cybertron went dark. How did you find your way to Earth?" Arcee interrogates.
"Soldier, we may not be on Cybertron, but military protocol remains." Ultra Magnus says before answering.
Arcee goes to Attention Stance and says, "My apologies, Sir."
"As for your question, my story is that of all Autobots since the exodus. I wandered the space ways in search of others. Reuniting with some, often to only see them fall at the hands of the Decepticons." Ultra Magnus replies.
"Until you detected the Omega Beam and followed it here." Arcee says, putting the pieces together.
"If you are referring to the massive energy burst originating on Cybertron, that would be affirmative. Upon my arrival it had become evident that this planet had been invaded. My scanners also detected Autobot life signals, yours being in closest proximity to my position."
"With your permission, may we find the others,sir?" Arcee asked, even though she already knew the answer.
"Affirmative." Ultra Magnus replied.
(The Nemesis)
Smokescreen goes inside the Nemesis, hoping that he was right about the location of the forge. Some Vehicons found him, but he used the phase shifter to get away. When he finally got into the trophy room, he phases into Arachnid's prison pod. "Not scared of you, Ugly." Smokescreen says. Then he takes the Forge, and dives into the ground.
(Decepticon Mine)
Wheeljack And Bulkhead had just finished placing the explosives for the cave, and they started running out. They went to their hiding place and ducked low but kept their head up to watch.
"Ammunition's in place." Bulkhead said.
"Then let's get this party started." Wheeljack says, about to press the button.
"Company." Miko says, pointing at an Flying Object closing in on them.
"Megatron?" Wheeljack asks, hoping he can get a good fight
"Na, bigger."
A dragonoid figure goes up in the air, almost posing.
"I don't remember seeing that Bucket head before." Bulkhead says, hoping that the thing's weak.
The gigantic metal beast come near them, only for his neck to start glowing, only to release fire. Bulkhead(While holding Miko) and Wheeljack roll to the side, barely missing.
"A DRAGON! WHERE DID THE CONS GET A DRAGON?" Miko screeches.
"What's a dragon?" Bulkhead and Wheeljack ask at the same time.
"Giant fire breathing lizard!" Miko says, pointing out the obvious.
Suddenly the hunter slams down on them, in an attempt to crush them. Wheeljack let's out a battle cry and shoots at the beast like a mad man. Irritated, the Predacon swats at him with his tail. Wheeljack hits a rock. The great hunter of the sky is about to finish Wheeljack, when Bulkhead hits him with his maze. Diverted, the Beast gets ready to breathe fire at Bulkhead. The fire blast is so strong, that Bulkhead flies head first into the ground.
"BULKHEAD !" Miko shouts while running towards her guardian.
"Easy. I may be hot to touch." Bulkhead says, moving before his partner could burn herself.
"Why isn't it coming after us?" Miko asked,while the Great Hunter sniffed around.
"You looking for me?" Wheeljack asked the Beast.
The beast screeched in reply, fascinated by the beeping grenade under him.
Until it blew up in his face. The Great Hunter screeched at Wheeljack for giving him such a thing. Then Wheeljack ran into the energon mine. The beast, knowing its task, followed. While being chased, Wheeljack transformed, turned around, and came out of the cave. While the Predacon was inside, Wheeljack pressed the detonator.
BOOM!
The energon mine blew up in blew flames and smoke.
"Beast bot went down." Miko said while doing a thumbs down.
At that moment, the rubble started moving, as claws burst out.
"Impossible" Bulkhead said.
"There is no way it could have survived that." Wheeljack exclaimed.
"YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME ! " Miko exclaimed.
Suddenly, a ship landed. Being of Wrecker design, Wheeljack recognized it, and whose it was.
"ITS ONE OF OURS!" Wheeljack said as the hatch opened on the ship. All 3 wreckers got in.
(The Citadel, Dark Mount)
"Its a shame, really. The Predacon failed, and because it is mute, we cannot find out why." Starscream said.
"My master, I attached a camera on the Predacon. May I find out what went wrong?" Shockwave asked his Lord and Master.
"Very well." Megatron said irritably.
