'Thoughts'
"Talking"
:Bond:
'Teletran-1'
I stumble out of the stasis pod as it opens. The first thing I hear is the alarm going off. I glance around and notice everyone else climbing too. Suddenly the world spins and I stumble into Prowl. He grabs be, making sure I don't fall. "It's alright, I got you." He says quietly.
"T-Thanks." I mumble.
"How long were we in stasis...?" Optimus asks.
"And what's with the alarm?" Bee asks.
Something slimy slides into the room. Prowl lets me go and moves towards the brown blob. "Probably something to do with... Huh!" The blob attacks Prowl, clinging to his arm. Prowl starts swinging his arm, trying to dislodge the blob from his arm, with no avail.
Ratchet uses his electromagnets to create a magnetic forcefield around the blob, rendering it harmless. "What ever it is it's definitely got circuitry. And... Something else..." Ratchet says while staring at it.
Optimus walks over to the main controls. "Teletran-1, scan the area. See what's going on out there."
Teletran-1's portable camera shows us a picture of this giant white and brown blob thing. 'Warning!'
"Looks like those guys could use some help." Bee inquires.
"Even so, we don't want to attract attention incase the Decepticons are still out there watching." Optimus says. "Teletran-1, scan the local life forms. We can take on their appearance and blend in better."
A scanner emerges from the floor. Optimus steps in first, then Bee, Prowl, Bulkhead, Ratchet, Fire then I. The scanner closes. Optimus turns to us. "Autobots... Transform and roll out!" I transform down and look myself over. I'm a white and red motorcycle. "Not bad... Huh?" Optimus says after everyone has transformed.
"Sweet!" Bee exclaims as he puts a emergency light on his roof.
"Impressive..." Prowl says.
"Roomy!" Bulkhead mumbles.
"Stylish!" Fire whistles.
"Soo cool!" I gush.
"It'll do..." Ratchet grumbles.
The door opens and I follow Fire out. The door opens up and we drive to the surface and watch as this planets civilians drive the opposite way. "Greetings fellow bots..." Optimus begins. "We are here to help." Suddenly the blob thing slaps the ground near us. Prowl starts driving up but Optimus stops him. "Do not engage that thing yet. Keep your scanners peeled for Decepticons."
These small flying bots fly over and start shooting at the blob thing. "If those are Decepticons... Then we got nothing to worry about." Bee says as he watches the small bots.
Bulkhead starts driving towards the creature but the thing grabs Bulkhead around the middle. Bee drives through the tentacle allowing Bulkhead to be set free.
"Can anybody talk on this planet!" Be exclaims.
I drive over to where Bee and Bulkhead are. "I'm not sure..." I mumble.
Suddenly this small robotic dog runs out from a building with a small organic creature right behind it. "What is that thing?" Bulkhead wonders out loud.
"Must be some kind of pet..." Bee says.
"But then why would the robotic dog want a pet that big...?" I ask.
We dodge another tentacle and make our way over to the bot and his pet. Bulkhead stops right in front of the organic pet. "Hi..." Bulkhead says lightly. "Little creature. My names Bulkhead. Did you lose your owner bot?"
The organic stares up at Bulkhead for a moment before screaming. Bee and Bulkhead reverse. "That thing must be armed with some kind of high frequency sonic weapon."
The organic continues to scream and runs away. "I thing you scared her Bulkhead." I say as I watch her run towards the blob thing. "Don't worry... I won't hurt you." I say as I drive after her. The blob grabs ahold of her in it's tentacle.
"But that thing might..." Bee says as he drives up beside me.
Optimus, Fire and Prowl make there way over. "What is that thing?" Prowl asks.
"What ever it is... It needs our help. Autobots... Transform!" Optimus commands. I quickly transform and get into a attack stance with my Bo Staff in front of me.
The organic suddenly stops screaming when she catches sight of us. Optimus pulls out his axe and gets ready for an attack. We begin running towards the blob. "Autobots attack!"
Optimus takes a swing at it with his axe. Prowl uses his shurikens against the blob. While Bulkhead tries hitting it with is wrecking ball which causing the blob to loose grip on the organic. Bee and I make a run for it. I catch her before she hits the ground. I start running away with Bee right behind me.
"Hi, I'm Sunfire."
"And my names Bumblebee."
"I'm Sari."
"Oh, don't be." Bee says as we round the corner into a building. "I like my name."
"No! I mean my name is... What are you two?" She asks.
"We're and Autobot." Bee answers.
"Actually... We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron." I tell her. She looks up at me like I've grown another helm. Suddenly the small flying robots start shooting at us.
"Woh!... Hold Up! Don't shoot!" Bee yells as we dodge fire. "I'd love to stick around and chat... But we've got to go."
I look outside to see the blob thing gobbling up Prowl. "PROWL!" I hand the organic over to Bee and speed out to help.
Fire stops me from attacking the creature. "Don't get any closer. The creature eats metal!"
"But Prowl-" I begin.
"We'll find another way to get him out." Fire snaps.
"Ratchet!" Optimus says over the communications link as Bee runs over and starts firing his stingers. "We need backup! Stat!"
"I'm busy!" Ratchet snaps back.
"That's an order!" Optimus says.
"If you'd bother to analyze the nanobots that control the thing your hitting, you would have learned their programming causes them to interpret any unfamiliar material as an invading threat. Now, I can wipe up a simple overdrive command or I can come up and get my aft whipped like the rest of the crew. What's it to me!"
I snicker as Ratchet rants over the link. I send a command to my Bo Staff. A blade appears at the top of it and I use it to slice through tentacles that are attacking me. I look over and see my sister pull out her sai's.
"Alright... I'll... Umm... Go with plan A. But hurry it up... Okay Ratchet." Optimus pleads.
"Is anyone picking up Prowls energy signature in there...?" Bulkhead asks.
I check. "Yeah... I can... But it's faint." I say as I slice another tentacle.
"Ratchet to Optimus. I'm beaming the override via Teletran -1. But these nanobots are so primitive, you'll have to upload it manually. As far as I can tell from the scan. Your creature has concentrated all it's higher command functions into a highly protected central processor. Which means... The only way to deliver this fix is from inside that thing." Ratchet says over the com.
Suddenly the creature begins eating a ship. "What happens when that thing eats a whole ship...?" Bulkhead asks.
"Well... Let's upload this override before we find out. We need someone small and fast." Optimus states. We all look at Bumblebee. Bee is the smallest out of all of us. Even if Fire and I are only taller by a few centimetres.
"Why is everybody looking at me...?" Bee asks.
"We can do it if we work as a team, Bumblebee." Optimus says as he hands Bee the override. "Bulkhead, the twins and I will keep the creature distracted."
Bee stares up at the creature. "While I fly all the way up there like a Decepticon!" Bee says. "As if!"
"Come on Bee... You can do it!" I tell him while putting a servo on his shoulder plating.
"Yeah! With a little speed and a big ramp." Bulkhead says while pointing at the roof of a building.
"You know..." Bee says while looking up at us. "All things considered... Fixing space bridges wasn't such a bad gig..." Bee transforms and speeds into the closest building.
Optimus charges at the creature and uses his axe to propel himself into the air. I swing my Bo Staff, slicing off a tentacle that was trying to makes it's way ofter Bee. "Think it knows what we're trying to do?" Fire asks as she attacks another tentacle with one of her sais.
The creature attacks and dodges my staff. "It's getting smarter." I comment. "Smart like... Prowl!"
Optimus must have realized that too, because not a second later. "Bumblebee abort!" Is heard over the com.
"Can't stop now!" Bee says. "I'm almost at launch speed!"
I dodge a tentacle and watch as Fire, Optimus and Bulkhead are grabbed and the creature submerges them into it's body. Bumblebee flies off the building a moment later and flies into the things mouth. "Oh... That's got to hurt..." A moment later the creature hardens and turns to sand. Optimus, Fire, Bulkhead, Bee and Prowl appear from inside the sand.
I run over to where Prowl is and drop down beside him. "Prowl... You okay...?" I ask tentatively and poke him in the helm.
Prowl removes his battle mask and turns to me. "Wh-What happened...?"
"Bumblebee just saved your circuits Prowl." I tell him. "Whether you like it or not." Prowl tries to sit up but ends up falls back in pain. "Prowl...?" That's when I notice his chest. Some of the plating was gone, revealing his sparking circuitry underneath. Everyone walks over and stares in horror at what they see.
"We need to get him back to the ship right away for repairs. Prime to Ratchet!" Optimus says over the com. "Prepare the medic bay." Optimus transforms. "Bulkhead, load up Prowl... Carefully." Bulkhead grabs Prowl and places him on Optimus' flat bed. "Autobots... Transform and roll out." I transform down and follow Optimus back to the ship.
Once inside the ship Ratchet takes Prowl and places him onto the nearest berth and checks him over. Optimus helps Bulkhead fix his missing servo. "Ah... Good as new." Bulkhead states as they finish.
"I wish I could say the same for Prowl." Ratchet says as he stares at the hole in Prowls outer armer.
I cling to Prowls lifeless servo, never leaving his side. "Just... J-Just do what you can, Ratchet." Fire squeezes my shoulders, reassuring me.
Bee drives in. "Is he gonna... Go offline?" I grip Prowls servo tighter, hoping he won't.
"Well, he's not quite ready to join the Well of Allspark's... If you know what I mean." Ratchet states.
"Will you keep down!" Bee suddenly exclaims. I stare at him, wondering what was going on with his processor. "Will you keep down... Loading... Information?" Bee covers up. "You know... To help fix Prowl..."
"That nanobot creature scramble your circuits?" Bulkhead asks.
Bee's door suddenly opens. "NO!" Bee closes the door. "No... My circuit didn't get scrambled... But thanks for asking." Bee suddenly starts driving back and forth.
"Is everything alright Bumblebee?" Optimus asks.
Bee's horn goes off. "Sari!" Bee yells. Suddenly I realize that Bee must have brought Sari down. "Sorry... I must have had some bad motor oil..."
"Bumblebee... Will you put a muffle on it and transform to robot mode." Optimus says while covering his ears.
"Right... Robot mode..." Bee drive around the corner and a moment later he comes back around in robot form, Sari no where to be seen. "I feel much better now!"
"Bumblebee..." Optimus warns.
Bee sighs in defeat. "Follow me..." Optimus then follows Bee out of the room.
"Okay... That was weird..." Fire comments. Ratchet nods before going back to working on Prowl.
Suddenly the monitor connected to Prowl starts beeping out of control. "Damn! I though I had it!"
"Prowl" I whisper, realizing what is happening. Moments later I hear footsteps behind me but I continue to stare at Prowl.
"Circuit damage is too extensive. I can't keep him stable!" Ratchet says.
"Woh!" I hear. I look down to find Sari at my feet with something glowing around her neck. I pick her up and place her near Prowl. She walks over to where Prowl is injured and I watch as the thing around her neck starts shifting. Sari places it in a slot above Prowl's spark chamber. She inserts it and Prowls chest starts glowing. I widen at what I see after the glow dies down. The hole in his chest is gone, fixed, as if nothing ever happens.
Prowl sits up and looks around. Everyone stares, wide optic, as Prowl lightly shakes his head. "That's... Quite the cure..." Prowl then notices me holding his servo. I quickly let go and place my hands on my lap, making sure I didn't make optic contact.
"Can all she's do that...?" Bee asks.
"I don't even know how I did that..." Sari says.
Optimus sighs and shakes his head, "At this point nothing surprises me. I've seen more action in this one solar cycle then in my entire Cybertron service career."
I look up at the sound of beeps. The monitor shows some flying robots looking over the area where the ship is located. "So... This cycles not over yet." Ratchet states.
"I think my dad's looking for me..." Sari mumbles.
Optimus nods and transforms down. Ratchet, Bulkhead and Fire do the same. Ratchet opens his door and Sari climbs in. I get up but something grabs my servo. I look behind me and find Prowl giving me a small smile. He gives my servo a small squeeze before transforming down. I stare at him for a moment before smiling and transforming down. We catch up to the others just as they were surfacing from the water. Ratchet opens his door, letting Sari out, before transforming to robot mode.
"Don't worry... Humans don't usually blow up things with those symbols on the side." Sari says as the rest of us transform.
"Really?" Ratchet says as he takes a look at the symbol. "And here I thought they made me an easier target..."
A bunch of vehicles pull up in front of us, lights blaring. "Put your hands where I can see them!" One organic yells.
"Why do they want us to do that...?" Fire asks Sari.
"I don't know... I think it makes you look less scary or something." Sari explains.
I shrug, and one by one we lift our arms up. Suddenly the organs aim their weapons at us. "Its okay! Their friendly!" Sari yells. "Well... Except the red and white one... He's kind of grumpy! But other then that." Fire and I sicker as Ratchet sends Sari a glare.
A different organic runs towards Sari and pulls her into a hug. "Sari! Thank goodness your okay."
"Lower your weapons!" A organic says, the same one who told us put our servos up.
"It's okay guys, you can put your hands down now." Sari says.
I sigh and bring my servos down. "Up and down, up and down... Will you just pick one!" I mumble under my breath. Fire snickers beside me while Prowl's lips twitch in amusement.
"Soo... Can we keep them...?" Sari asks the organic whom I figure is her father.
I finch at the bright light the flying robots emit from their lends. Such bright light hurts my sensitive electric blue optics, even with my visor in place. I look out, seeing all the organics... I mean humans cheering. I inch my way so I'm hiding behind Fire, peeking over my shoulder. She's always been the more outgoing of us.
"I want to thank the Autobot's. And extend a hand of friendship from the entire human race to Optimus Prime... Leader of this brave brand of heroes." Dr. Sumdac says, Sari's father whom we meet late last solar cycle. Optimus walks over, bends down and extends a digit, so Dr. Sumdac could shake hit with his servo.
Optimus stands up and looks over to us. "And to think. Ultra Magnus told me not to be a hero. Was this what it was like in your day?"
"The Decepticon's didn't leave us much to cheer about..." Ratchet says. I give Ratchet a sad look.
When Fire and I were just younglings, Father would tell us story's about the great war and how Cybertron was left devastated after the defeat of the Decepticons. I turn back to the crowd, giving a small wave from my perch from behind Fire. Prowl moves beside me and grabs my servo, giving it a small squeeze. I blink and look over and find him watching the crowd with his head turned slightly to me, a small smile playing on his face. I smile back before looking back at the crowd, glad at the past couple of solar cycles outcome.
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