Chapter 2
A/N: I don't own anything other than my OCs.
They walked through the forest, Duststorm calling out her daughters' names. "Dust be quiet," Seaspray said.
"Why should I?" she growled.
"Cause our experts say that's a terrible idea," he said.
"We should split up," she said.
"They said that was also a bad idea," he said.
"Why should we listen to them!? They aren't trying to find our daughters!" she snapped.
"Cause they're the experts!" Seaspray snapped silencing her.
A little further ahead the found a parachute, dangling from a tree. Looking around they found three empty life vests, small enough for the girls. "Guys," Tectonic called holding a camera.
"That's my camera," Duststorm said.
Turning on the camera they watched the video. And saw that the three femmes managed to get out of the tree before the camera turned off.
"The parachute looks intact, it could come in handy for signaling a hovercraft," Optimus said.
Megatron nodded in agreement. "I would fly back, but it's too far a trip, if the weather was the same as it is now I could make it, but otherwise…"
"Understandable," Optimus said as the two brothers began to remove the parachute.
Their actions loosened something and the body of a dead mech, fell down from the tree, tangled in the strings. It swung into Duststorm who screamed and ran off. "I'll get her," Seaspray said chasing after.
He chased her a little ways away, and pulled her into a hug. "I'm sorry about your brother," he said.
"It's not him, it's the girls, they're out there somewhere," she said.
"We'll find them," he said, but his sparkmate's attention was on something else.
-.-
"Ratchet you should see this!" Seaspray called just as the brothers finished packing the parachute.
They all ran to see a nest, looking aroung Ratchet spotted several more nests. "Raptors," he said.
"Time to go," Megatron said, and the two predacons nodded in agreement.
-.-
"Where's Dreadfire?" Optimus asked, noticing the mech Predaking rescued wasn't with them. Going back he met him halfway. "Where were you?"
"Photographing the nests," he said zipping the camera bag.
"Alright," Prime said as they went back to the group.
Getting to a ridge they saw a building. Looking at each other they headed for it.
Walking through the main area, they saw it was mainly overgrown. Going further back they found some vending machines. Skyfire walked up to one and kicked her ped through the glass. Grabbing handfuls of energon she walked back with the others. As they went further in they found where the predacons were hatched.
"This is how you create predacons?" Duststorm asked.
"No," Optimus said. "This is how you play Primus."
Skyfire was taking photos of everything, while the others were looking around.
Duststorm, walked past a bunch of gestation chambers, stopping at one that had a yellow and blue raptor head in it. She got closer, thinking it was dead like the others, but to her shock, its optic moved to look at her. It shot out of its hiding spot lunging at the femme. They all ran away, running into a dead end. Turning around the see the dominant female looking at them.
"I remember you," Ratchet said.
With a growl she lunged at them, they split into two groups, going into separate cages on each side. Megatron, Optimus, Ratchet, Tectonic, Skyfire, and the predacons on one side. Duststorm, and Dreadfire on the other.
She lunged at Dreafire's cage, forcing the two back into a corner, as she pushed the door. Growling in irritation she started to climb. "Push!" Duststorm yelled, trapping her as she did them.
They all bolted from their cages, but Ratchet turned around when she started releasing a patterned cry. "Primus, she's calling for help," he said in realization before catching up to the others.
They ran out of the building and into a field, scaring the herd into a stampede.
-.-
At the complex a yellow femme with blue stripes on her arms, legs, and doorwings walked out. Her ice blue optics blazing in fury. Transforming back into a raptor, she called to her pack and began the chase.
-.-
As they ran they all got separated. Tectonic in a direction no one else was going, as he kept running he stopped seeing a raptor in front of him.
-.-
Dreadfire caught up with Duststorm, Skyfire, and Seaspray. Looking down from their perch in the tree they see Tectonic lying on the ground unmoving. "He's dead," Skyfire sighed.
"No he's not," Duststorm said as she saw him move going down to help, she was stopped by her sparkmate, and Skyfire. Her peds dangling over the last branch, seeing this the raptors lunged out, trying to bite the ped, and she moved up outta reach.
"It was a trap," Skyfire said.
"They actually set up a trap?" Dreadfire asked, and got a nod in return.
Looking back at the raptors they seemed to hear something, before one reached down and snapped Tectonic's neck.
-.-
"What are you saying?" Ratchet muttered to himself, as he Megatron, Optimus, and the two predacons crouched in the grass watching the yellow velociraptor. They ducked down as the raptors looked in their direction, peaking back up, the yellow female stood in front of them. I wasn't a moment later that the other raptors surrounded them.
They all thought they were dead, until they smelled the stink bombs. Three femmes rushed through grabbing a mech's servos, dragging them in a direction while the raptors were too confused to fallow.