The assassin landed hard with a thud, bouncing once before rolling to a stop. Her head was spinning and her body tingled with a strange resonance. She had landed in wreckage but of what she couldn't tell. Nearby she could hear sounds of battle, sounds that seemed all too familiar to her. Had both sides of the rift opened at different points in the same world?
Once the tingling left and her sense of vertical positioning returned, the femme pushed herself to her feet. Following the sounds of fighting she rounded a corner and stopped in her tracks. Before her was a battle, familiar yet surreal. The combatants were mechanical in nature just as she was yet the smallest was still double the size of even the tallest mechanisms where she was from. It was, she had to admit, the most humbling experience she ever had.
One of the titans, green and almost sphere shaped, toppled over almost landing on the femme. The colossus groaned and began to stand pausing midway in shock when he noticed the small mech.
"What in the-" He didn't get to finish as knocked over again by squarish blue mech.
"What's wrong Bulkhead get distracted by all the shiny in the-" The blue mech had started to gloat and looked at the rubble to see what could have caught the green one's attention. His optics went wide with disbelief and he brought a finger up to the side of his head. "Lord Megatron, there's a sparkling on the battle field!"
"A what!?" Yelled the voice on the other side of the comm link. "Are you absolutely certain?"
"Uh- robotic, smaller than a minibot, currently freaking out; pretty sure it's a spark- scrap." The tiny grey mech must have decided that it had had enough of these behemoths because it turned and started to run in the opposite direction. The blue giant headed into the rubble after it.
"Now what!?"
"It's running away."
"Then chase after it! Bring me that sparkling no matter what!" The tone behind it caused the blue mech to wince and he closed the connection. Where had that sparkling gone to?
The green mech, having been momentarily knocked offline, came to. A blue and pink femme came to his side.
"Bulkhead are you alright?" She helped him stand up.
"Yeah I'm fine." He suddenly looked around. "Where's Breakdown and the sparkling?"
"Breakdown must have hit you harder than you thought; there is no sparkling there hasn't been for ages."
"Breakdown's punch was just fine! I know what I saw. I have a feeling that if we find Breakdown we'll find the sparkling!" He spoke adamantly about the subject and it was too important to make up. His companion nodded and opened her comm link pointing out a direction for Bulkhead to search as she headed in another.
"Optimus, Bulkhead says he saw a sparkling and that Breakdown might be after it. We're searching for it now but it could have gone anywhere."
Across the battlefield a blue and red barrel chested mech cut a vehicon in half before answering. "Find the sparkling and keep them safe at all costs!" As he spoke a ground bridge opened, allowing more vehicons to arrive at the scene. It was no doubt they were sent to retrieve the sparkling as well.
The hallways seemed endless or perhaps she was just going in circles. As confident as the tiny femme was about her fighting skills, she was wise enough to know her limits and these giants were well outside her boundaries. She skidded around a corner coming face to back with a slender purple mech. It spun around to face her revealing only a single red visor.
It stepped toward her and reached down to grab her. She scrambled out of the way and started to run back down the hall only to be blocked by another that looked the same though this one had projections coming off its back. It hurried towards her as did the first one. They both reached down to grab her, nearly colliding in the process. The one with back kibble spun out of the way but it stumbled and fell.
The first tried to snatch her up and while he missed she was caught on his arm. He tried to shake her off before remembering to grab her. The femme was having none of that however; she jumped off the bigger mech's arm and landed on the back of the other. Unable to simply reach back, he thrashed trying to get her off. As the first moved to grab her a blast of laser fire hit him in the chest knocking him offline for good.
It was the green mech again, his blaster pointed at the one the femme was currently residing on. The slender mech took a step back not wanting to be blown to bits but also not wanting to give up the quarry. He wouldn't have to worry about facing the new opponent as the blue one appeared and the two started fighting once more. While the slender purple mech was distracted, the under sized femme climbed down to the floor, she wasn't going to pass up this opportunity to get away.
As soon as she was out of sight a ground bridge opened up. The vehicon spun around blasters at the ready in case it was Autobot reinforcements. He didn't need to worry however.
"Lord Megatron! We found the sparkling!"
"Where is it?" Megatron answered with an impatient sneer. The dead vehicon in the hall had sent a message that sparkling had been found just before Bulkhead showed up and Megatron had decided to personally make sure it made it back to the ship. The vehicon spun around, pointing to its back.
"Right here sir." There was no immediate answer from Megatron but the vehicon could feel the enraged glare on the back of his head. He might have been a drone but he wasn't stupid. "My lord, I will locate the sparkling right away!"
"The sparkling or your spark."
Seeing as Bulkhead and Breakdown were still duking it out the only safe way the sparkling could have gone was back the way she had come. The vehicon hurried back down the hall guessing a direction when the intersection came. Megatron did the same but picked a different direction.
Wreckage again! The Smokey grey femme cursed. At least she had managed to avoid the other mechs. There was one she had spied that was taller than the rest, unpainted aside from the purple canon on their arm that gave her the impression that he was not one to cross. She pushed the thought away as she started making her way through the debris.
A noise caught her attention, a blue and pink femme was following her. The new comer was speaking in a language she didn't understand. While the small one didn't comprehend what was being said, body language was still universal. The towering femme had her hands out in a placating manner and was speaking calmly which meant she wasn't, outwardly, meaning her any harm.
The femme suddenly spasmed and she let out a silent cry before collapsing to the ground. Behind her stood a red and yellow mech who rested a staff on their shoulder. They smirked and said something that sounded demeaning before starting to walk over to her. The smaller mech turned to run, she could see something through the debris, was it sunlight? If she could get to it then maybe she could- Her thoughts were incomplete as a surge of electricity coursed through her body. One moment she was thinking about escape the next she was offline.
"Knockout!" The red and yellow mech turned just in time to see the fist heading for his face. He stumbled back; almost surprised that Optimus had suddenly appeared. He sneered at the autobot leader, he had just put on a fresh coat of wax this morning!
Optimus risked a glance down at the sparkling. She was unconscious and a little dinged up but other than that she didn't appear to be too heavily damaged. Knockout charged at the Prime who easily stepped aside and swiped the decepticon into a pile of nearby debris. Optimus moved to engage the sports car as he was getting up but a movement in the corner of his optic made him turn, just barely blocking Megatron's blade.
"Once again sticking your nose where it doesn't belong, Prime." Megatron snarled.
"Ensuring the safety of our future is always my business." Optimus answered as he pushed the Decepticon leader away, both from himself and the sparkling. Megatron charged in again blade raised, a determined look on his face. He was going to possess that sparkling if it was the last thing he did.
The two leaders traded blows for a few moments. When they once more came to a stalemate Megatron chuckled. "It seems that once again Optimus, you have forgotten to pay attention to your surroundings." Too late did Optimus remember that Knock out had also been in the room, breaking away he located the medic just in time to see him call for a ground bridge, the sparkling cradled in his arms.
"No!" Optimus raced to catch up with Knock out but a blast from Megatron's cannon knocked him to his knees, giving Knock out just enough time to escape into the bridge and have it closed.
"It seems that today wasn't lost after all." Megatron cackled before transforming and flying into the sky via a collapsed outer wall. He must have issued a fall back notice as the remaining vehicons transformed and started to flee.