Chapter 2
No Ones POV
The battle was intense, the Autobots of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Arcee where taking cover behind a large rock while Starscream and Knockout along with some Vechicons were firing away at them. They were currently fighting over the Energon Mine they had both come across at the same time.
Bulkhead was not with the others on the account of him staying back at Base in case of backup.
Arcee grimaced to herself, "They really can't let us have one mine, can they?"
"It seems so, Arcee." The Prime said as he took a shot knocking down a firing Vechicon.
Starscream laughed, "Give up Autobot's, you can't win."
Knockout smiled wickedly, "Indeed, you should just surrender, HA!"
The blaster fire continued from both sides as on top a large dune close by three forms loomed. The three forms belonged to Sekhmet, Bastet and Miko, the former currently in there Lioness and Feline forms respectively.
Sekhmet smiled murder, "So, these are the Decepticons and Autobots?"
"Yep and it looks like they got the Bots pinned down, do you think you could help?" She asked, both cats smiled.
"Of course, we are friends are we not?" Bastet said, Miko smiled. "But for your own safety please stay out of sight young one, alright?"
She nodded and hid herself nicely behind the dune they stood on top.
Back in the midst of battle, the Decepticons were closing in on the Autobots. Bee turned worriedly to the Prime.
"We need a miracle, we can't get through to Ratchet!" Optimus place a servo on his shoulder.
"Don't worry Bumblebee, we will make it out of this." His calm voice was a facade as the Prime was truly afraid this was his last battle and this might be where he falls.
"Surrender, Autobots." Starscream said with joy and malice all at the same time.
But before anything could be said a female voice rang out, "Well, well, well, what do we have here?"
All parties looked to the large dune near them to see two outlines of cats standing on top to the dune with a large moon silhouette them. A pair of ocean blue eyes and bloody red eyes stared down at them as the cats moved with grace down the dune and into the lightened area.
The Lioness and the Feline looked at the Decepticons like meals, "I must say, we haven't had visitors in such a long time." The Feline spoke.
"Indeed, sister, I must say you are causing quite a ruckus. So we are here to silence that." The Lioness growled, baring her fangs.
Starscream stared in horror at the enlarged metallic cats, "Who or what are you?"
The cats smirked and transformed into there bipedal forms, "We are your worst nightmare."
"We are Sekhmet and Bastet, now run." Sekhmet spat as she pulled her Khopeshes out and alighting them with energon before ripping asunder a Vechicon.
Bastet pulled her shield and axe and lunged at Knockout hitting him in the chassis with a streak of energon as it to alighted. They began firing but Bastet blocked it with her shield as Sekhmet dodged and weaved through the blaster fire hacking down any who stood in her way.
Soon enough the Vechicons were dead and Starscream and Knockout were both badly injured, from both Sekhmet and Bastet.
"This is Commander Starscream, requesting emergence Groundbridge now!" Soon after a strange portal opened up and the both beaten Cons hurried through before it closed once more.
Sekhmet growled, "Cowards!"
The Autobots had watched in amazement at the cat and lion headed femmes take down the platoon of Decepticons. Arcee, Bumblebee and Optimus Prime stepped out cautiously towards the femmes who sheathed there weapons. Bastet turned to the three Bots while Sekhmet growled to herself and began walking off cursing in a ancient version of dead language.
"Oh hello there! Sorry about Sekhmet but you won't be able to talk to her until she lets some steam out. She hates when her enemies run." She said looking at her sister as she angrily kicked the head of a dead 'Con away off it's shoulders.
"Alright, so why'd you help us?" Arcee said with a glare of mistrust.
Bastet smiled and suddenly hugged the femme that was her size, "Oh you must be Arcee! I have heard wondrous things about you my dear." She let go of the stunned femme.
"From who?" Optimus asked, the feline headed femme smiled before turning to the large sand dune.
"It safe my child!" She shouted up and they all saw a small figure of a human pop up before sliding down before being caught by Bastet and placed back on the ground in front of the Bots, Miko, sheepishly smiled at them.
"Sup." They should have known.
"Miko, you should be carefully coming down these dunes, you never know if a dangerous creature is in the sands. Trust me, I know what lives in those dunes and they aren't friendly." Bastet scolded the human who looked like she was being scolded by her mother.
"Sorry, won't happen again." The Bots stared in shock, did Miko just…..
"How did you do that?" Arcee stared at the strange sight, Bastet seemed confused, "How did you just get Miko to do what you said and make her say sorry?"
Bastet looked down at the human, she smiled, "Guys I kinda feel like I need to listen to her for some reason. Guess it comes with her being praised as a god once."
"A god?" Bee beeped out, Bastet looked to the young scout knowing he was only a older teen.
"Oh my goodness my dear, what happened to you're voice!? Oh, my poor child." Even though Bee didn't like talking about his voice, the way she sounded was like a mother looking at child in pity and that didn't bother him at all, weird.
Bastet saw the conflict in his eyes, "No, you don't have to tell me. But as for you're question, long ago the humans of Earth praised me, my sister and my brethren as gods. I was the goddess of the home, cats, fertility, childbirth and protection. I mainly protect women and children from harmful diseases and evil spirits."
"That makes a lot of sense." Arcee said, the Prime stepped forward.
"What of your sister?" Bastet cringed a little before relenting.
"Well she was praised as the goddess of Sun, War, Plague, Bloodshed, Retribution and surprisingly healing. Let's just say my sister can get a little blood-thirsty sometimes." The three Autobots looked at Sekhmet who seemed to have cool down and was heading towards them, instinctively they moved and in front of Miko.
"Bastet, did you tell them what I….." Bastet only nodded her head.
"Don't worry you guys, I know how to calm Sekhmet whenever she goes off the deep end." She said to the worried Autobots.
"Trust me, it would be hard to make me go that crazy." Sekhmet smiled lightly before stretching out her arms.
"Sekhmet, are you tired already?" Miko said surprised and came out from behind the Bots.
"What can I say, both me and Bastet are felines or cats, and what do cats like to do?"
"Sleep all day?"
"Yep, now do you guys have a base or what cause we need a cat nap no pun intended." Bastet said snickering to herself.
Optimus's POV
We called for a Bridge back to base and the familiar green portal opened up scaring the two feline femmes a little before we headed through. The first thing I noticed was Bulkhead looking at us with a frantic look in his eyes, I knew why that was. The two other boys stood near the rails also waiting with Ratchet at the lever.
"So what's this about a unexpected surprise, Optimus?" The medic looked like he knew what it was.
"Is it Miko, she's gone missing so I assume….." Jack trailed off.
"Yes and no Jack, we have two new Cybertronians with us as well as Miko." Bulkhead seemed to lose all the tension in his frame.
"Really who?" Raf asked as Arcee and Bumblebee entered the Base behind me.
"Well," I looked back to the portal to see both feline headed femmes entering with Miko in between them both, I looked to their reactions was, even to a Prime, was great.
Ratchet just stared in shock, Raf and Jack looked amazed and Bulkhead held a amazed but jealous look to his optics.
"Bastet and Sekhmet, this is our home and this is the rest of team, Raf, Jack, Ratchet and Bulkhead." I said, Bastet looked excited while Sekhmet took in every detail like a trained soldier going into enemy territory.
Bastet smiled widely and skipped up to the two human boys, "Hello Children, nice to meet you!" Jack looked the same when Arcee first called them children while Raf smiled widely.
"She says hi to the humans first before us?" Ratchet noted the odd behavior.
"Well, Bastet is in her element. Especially with kids around and if you call this home than even more so." Sekhmet said with a slight glare in his direction.
We explained to them the situation to the others, everything from them being ancient gods to them saving us from the Decepticons.
"So," Raf said, "Are our myths real about you?"
Sekhmet scoffed, "Most of it, though some writing liberty was taken."
"Huh, so were you born on Earth or Cybertron?" Jack than asked.
"Sorry but I have never heard of this Cybertron, I was born here on Earth." We stared at her in shock.
"So, you aren't a Decepticon or Autobot?" Bumblebee asked, they both shook their heads no.
"Awesome! That means we can have more Autobots!" Miko shouted in excitement.
Bastet scolded her, "No shouting dear, it's rude." Miko looked down sheepishly.
"Anyway, I am exhausted." Sekhmet yawned baring her very sharp teeth, I noticed red staining her teeth but said nothing.
"I can show you to some rooms for you." I said before leading them off as the children made their way home. Bastet was the first, I showed her to a room with only a berth in it.
"Okay, tomorrow we go find stuff to spruce up this place." Bastet said with sparkling eyes.
"Yep, Bastet is most definitely in her element." Sekhmet said as we left her cat like sister behind.
As we walked I broke the silence, "If I may ask what is that staining your teeth?"
She looked surprised before looking back ahead, "Not important, don't ask questions you DON'T want answers too." It felt more like a warning then anything so I didn't press any further.
We arrived to her assigned room, "Thank you for hosting us Optimus, you truly are one of a kind." And with that she shut the door leaving me alone in the hall, I turned back and started heading towards the main.
As I walked my mind raced, these new additions were something of a oddity, they seemed like great warriors by evidence of there battle skills beforehand but something about Sekhmet has me worried. She seemed cold and distant yet angered all the time, like she has been betrayed or somehow dishonored by someone. I could see it in her ruby optics, she was in pain and she was down right angry, something that rivaled even Megatron's fury.
My thoughts were shattered as I entered the main hall to see Ratchet looking at something on the console with concern laced on his face, the others seemed to not have returned yet.
"Is something the matter Ratchet?" He whipped his head around before sighing and returning to the screen before him.
"I was interested in the myths the children were talking about our two new additions and I found one, it is about Sekhmet." He said with caution, I frowned a little.
"What is it?" He sighed again and moved out of the way to see some text and pictures from a site on the internet.
"According to this, when Sekhmet was born her father, Ra sent her out into the world to kill humans in order for them to worship her father once more." I stared at the text, but I read further on than what Ratchet had described.
"Hm, it says thought that when his son, Osiris came to him to stop Sekhmet, Ra obliged but couldn't stop the rampage of Sekhmet. So they hatched a plan, using an elixir of blood and booze she past out and Ra drew some of her essence out creating her sister Bastet." I looked at the perplexed face of our medic, "It seems afterwards she calmed down and didn't kill for the sake of killing."
"Well still! She is dangerous, should we allow her near the children even?!" I turned to Ratchet.
"They told us that these myths aren't the exact truth, Ratchet." A deeping frown formed on my face, "What has gotten you so worried?"
Ratchet became upset by this, "Worried? I am not worried, I am just unsure of these strange femmes. What if they are actually Decepticons in disguise, we know it can happen." He referred back to earlier events of Wheeljack and Makeshift.
I sighed, "Ratchet, I trust them. I know when something is off about something and when I look at them, yes, they do hold their secrets but who wouldn't? I know in my spark that they do not intend our destruction."
Ratchet mumbled a quick fine before quickly taking his leave, I was left alone in the main hall.
I turned back to the console that held other pictures of other Egyptian gods and goddess and a thought came to me.
If Bastet and Sekhmet are real, where are the other gods or are they still alive?