I never thought of any worse situation in my whole existence than this. I mean, being face to face to the Autobot leader himself? I'd prefer being on Nemesis' brig for a few solar cycles. But this Optimus Prime looked different. He's red and blue, with some hints of silver and white. Heck, all of these Autobots are looked different. Did they have a repaint or something?
"It looks like the Combaticons got a repaint. Heh, but we aren't fools," said the one with all brown, or red. He looked just like Ironhide.
Wait, repaint? Weren't they the ones who got a repaint?
/Okay, now what do we do?/
/Just do what they want. Maybe with a little luck we could escape from their base at a time./
/Ons, you're crazy! No one has escaped from the Autobots base! They could even kill us!/
/Do we have other choice?/
Ons' right. It's not like we had other choice. With 2 wounded, could this became worse?
It seemed the Autobots have a little mercy at least, one thing I could never imagine. They removed the chains from Blast Off, then carried him and Onslaught. I was hoping they'd just... drag them out of here. I couldn't be safe either, Optimus had his beloved Skyfire to watch me in the sky. I could've beat him right and now, but my teammates are there, on their mercy. Who knew what kind of torture they might do to them.
The flight to the Autobot base was all, honestly, a few worst hours I have experienced after when I was back at the hands of the Protectobots. But the view was strange, the metal felt strange, everything felt strange. Something is not right. And that fact was even more came into reality when we arrived at the Autobots base.
But, is it really their base?
It's under a mountain, with shuttle boosters on the entrance. Was that the boosters of the Ark? Were the Autobots had created another Ark? Ark 2? None of this made sense.
We were all quiet on the ride to here, and still not talking any words when we brought to enter and put to cells. The walls were painted yellow? Just before we were cuffed and brought to the cells, Blast Off woke up.
"Um… what… what happened?"
"Have a news for you, Con. You're a prisoner of the Autobots now."
Hearing that made Blast Off came wide-awake. He tried to struggle, even with his servos cuffed. I tried to calm him down, but he just didn't calm down, until I saw one of the Autobots shot a sedative on him, or I thought it is. In clicks, he went back unconscious and we were cuffed and brought to the cells, well, except Onslaught.
I saw the Autobots moved him to a different room away from us. It's not like we were able to fight. I'd like to. Seriously, I'd prefer to die in attempt to escape from here than to die bringing pleasures to them by being tortured. But Onslaught ordered us to be calm and surrender, I have to follow him. Wait, are they going to torture Onslaught first? It's unfair! He's hurt!
I hate this, being useless and helpless. We were put on different cells, and the cells disabled our ability to talk through the bond, which is a little surprise. They must've been experimented on the Protectobots to do this. We can't talk either, there are guards, which I'm sure were Sideswipe and Red Alert, kept watching on us.
Fortunately, only Blast Off and Onslaught were wounded. Correction, only Onslaught. The others didn't get shot, including me. Which is a miracle.
While on the cage, I tried to make sense of what had been happening.
Based on the facts that the Autobots had different colour schemes, on a spaceship, in a weird-looking area below a mountain with weird ground, my first thought was we were gone through a time portal. This could be Cybertron, but it's on future, who knew when. My second thought was this still could be the future, but considering the weird ground, this could be another planet. Yes, that's more logical. My third thought was-…
A message appear on my HUD, showing that my energy levels were 12% low. Aw hell, should I really go recharge now? My tanks were still 43%, which means I'm not hungry. But, yeah, I think it's still better to get to recharge now, rather than wait for emergency shutdown.
I woke up with a grunt. I heard some chatters and found that there was a change of guards. Night-shift maybe. I didn't really care about it. I hadn't fully woke up yet, though.
When I'm wide awake, I remember that Ironhide (?) had told us that we got a repaint. I looked to myself. There's nothing changed. White with a few of dark blue and brown rotor blades. My visor was still blue, and from the reflection on the wall, my mask was still white. I retracted my mask and also found out that my face was still white. And I still remember my teammates as well; they were white, not so different from me, except Swindle, he was cream, or I thought it is.
Aren't they were the ones who got a repaint? A massive repaint?
I then heard a door snapped open again and heard some footsteps. I looked to the outside and saw Onslaught and Optimus Prime entered. Frag, how long have I been recharging until the torture was over yet?
But, if it's a torture, why did Onslaught made here alive? And he seemed like hadn't take any damage to his frame. No… he was wounded when we got here. Did they… fix him? Were they going to torture him in front of us so we could watch our leader in pain?
I hadn't hear anything and suddenly the cage opened. Really? Then I heard Optimus Prime telling us all to come out. Even hearing his sound made me feel uncomfortable.
Then he gave me all the answers I've been waiting for. The explanation. He said that he had a word with Onslaught, and he explained that here was a different universe than we have back home. Here where the Autobots are the good guys and the Decepticons are the bad guys. The sudden thought of fraternising with them came into my processor. Hell no!
Optimus told us that Cliffjumper of this universe had ever experienced what we were experiencing right now. I haven't seen him. We have just returned from our mission on the other side of the planet and then when we get back to base, Megatron told us to be on an attack. There was no time to chat. And when Megatron ordered us back to retreat, that was when we got confronted with the Protectobots and ended up here.
And the worst of all, we'll be staying with the Protectobots from this universe for the next few weeks until a new portal appeared.
Good or not, they were still Protectobots. And we, I, have a revenge to be done.