Introducing: The Renegades! Part 2
Here's chapter 2, released the same day as chapter 1 because it's my birthday and it's a gift for your patience as an audience! Hopefully you enjoy this series, because I've been waiting to finally release it!
Overall Theme: Twilight, by Electric Light Orchestra
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers
"Wha-wha-what is a geobomb doing in her eye socket? How has this thing gone unnoticed?" Tailwind said, in half shock and half amazement. Magnificus turned to face the injured General Neech, who was grasping the bullet wound on his stomach.
"How did you put a geobomb into Scylla and what happened?"
"Oh, you Cybertronians are always so curious about these things." Neech spat, coughing up some blood that trickled out of the sides of his mouth.
"We found a Constructed Cold(1) facility, abandoned and in ruins. The soldiers there rummaged through everything until we came across a frozen spark that had yet to be used. And so, we created Scylla and altered her mind with several override codes so she answered to the Galactic Council whenever we used them. We eventually came up with a plan to send her to Cybertron with a geobomb concealed in her eye socket, a perfect place to conceal the bomb. When we felt it was time, we would detonate the bomb and Cybertron's whole population with it. No more war, and all the other worlds are left unharmed."
"BUT YOU WOULD KILL US ALL OFF!" Stonecruncher exclaimed, mercilessly shooting a soldier's head in anger.
"It was worth it. You damn Cybertronians bring your war wherever you go. It's about time the other civilizations did something about it." Neech spat. Magnificus looked back at Tailwind, who was still observing the glowing geobomb in Scylla's eye socket. He then walked up and kneeled down to face her. Scylla looked at him, artificial hate in her eyes, hate that she normally wouldn't have.
"We need to get that thing out of her head. Then, we need to find a way to get rid of it." Magnificus explained.
"No duh." Stonecruncher muttered.
"How are we supposed to do that? One wrong move, and the wholethingcouldblowusallup! Andaftrtht, werdoweputit!?" Half-Track said, his words starting to become mixed up from his nervousness.
"Don't worry Half-Wit, Mags knows what he's doing. I think. I hope." X-Gunner replied, half assuring and half unsure.
"Flash Sentry, go find the medibay to this ship and get me some tools. I'm gonna attempt to get this geobomb out of her eye." Magnificus said with confidence. He had to. They depended on it. The fate of Cybertron depends on it.
"Got it. And if you can't?"
"Then we all die."
Flash Sentry ran through the halls of the ship, dragging a soldier with him.
"It's this way. Please don't hurt me. I'm just a techy." the soldier pleaded as he showed Flash Sentry to the medibay.
"Yeah, me too." Flash Sentry replied. The two made it to the medibay, where Flash Sentry got several tools lying on the tables. Since he never had any medical experience, he had no idea what tools he was supposed to get. Magnificus' instructions had been very vague.
"Hey buddy, do you know what tools I'm supposed to use to take an eyeball out? Or should I be saying geobomb?"
"No, I really don't know. Just take all of them, I'm sure your friend knows what he's doing."
"Okay…" Flash Sentry replied. He quickly grabbed an empty box and started to fill it with a bunch of random tools and items he found. After he felt he had enough, he left the room and headed back to the bridge.
"Okay Magnificus, you were kinda vague about what tools I was supposed to get, so I just got a bunch of random stuff and put it in this box." Flash Sentry set the box down beside the scientist, who started to rummage through the box for the tools he needed. After finally getting the materials he needed out of the box, he pushed the box aside and began to work. Slowly but efficiently, Magnificus cut away and tried to extract the geobomb out of her eye socket. He knew the process was going to be long. If he rushed, he could possibly trigger the bomb to explode, killing everyone on the warship.
"Don't worry Scylla, soon this thing will be out of your head and soon we can leave this dump." Magnificus muttered as he worked.
In Another Part of Space…
A large fleet of five large warships and ten frigates were patrolling a different part of space, a part with planets scattered all over the place. Few dared to fight a Galactic Council fleet this large, so the fleet's job was to protect the civilizations from attack.
"Sir, one of our warships have been attacked and hijacked." a Galactic Council soldier said to his superior, reading the distress signal they had just received.
"What's the ship's status?"
"It's been taken over by a group of Cybertronians. The ship has no external damage done to it, it's just hijacked, sir."
"Very well. Send our fleet to those coordinates immediately. We can't let this go by, not with a threat level that high(2)." the superior officer ordered, and the soldier did as told. In a few seconds, all the ships had left in the blink of an eye.
"Hey Mags, might wanna hurry up. We have more troops coming and I don't know how long we can hold them off!" X-Gunner said as he and Stonecruncher lifted the knocked down double doors, covering the doorway leading to the bridge. Stonecruncher then got a pipe and bent it, securing the doors. Behind the doors, tons of Galactic Council troops attempted to get through and kill their attackers.
"I can't rush. If I make a mistake, then this whole place will be blown into the Afterspark(3)! Is that what you want?"
"No, not really…" X-Gunner answered, leaning on the doors to prevent them from bursting open. Magnificus, still hard at work to take the geobomb out of Scylla's eye socket, was worried. He knew, any minute now, that the Galactic Council would send a fleet to help kill them. Few dared to fight a whole fleet of Galactic Council troops. Even Megatron, known to almost never run from a fight, tried to avoid fighting a fleet in fear of unnecessary loss of troops. Magnificus grabbed a scalpel and cut away around the geobomb when Half-Track screamed and started to panic.
"THEY'RE HERE! THEY SENT A WHOLEFLEETTOKILLUSALL!" Half-Track shouted. Behind him, X-Gunner and Stonecruncher were struggling to keep the invading troops out of the bridge. Tailwind and Flash Sentry had grabbed their weapons and aimed at the doors, ready to shoot whoever came inside.
"Ugh, not now, why now!? I'm almost done!" Magnificus said, slightly panicking about the fleet that had just arrived. Scylla, who had reverted back to normal, glanced at the large window located in the bridge with her right eye, seeing all the ships.
"Magnificus, just leave me here and detonate the bomb. If you leave now, you could escape." Scylla whispered.
"I'm sorry, but leaving you isn't an option. I think we can all do without another loss in our team, especially Tailwind." Magnificus whispered back. Scylla fell back asleep, and the doors bursted open, knocking X-Gunner and Stonecruncher backwards, both being crushed by the doors. Tons of troops poured into the bridge like a pitcher of water, their guns aimed at the Renegades. Everyone shot at the troops, protecting Magnificus and Scylla from any harm.
"Guys, maybe if we use their leader as a shield, they won't shoot!" Flash Sentry suggested. Hearing this, Half-Track quickly went to get Neech, but found he wasn't there…
In Another Part Of The Ship…
"Those foolish Decepticons! They were too focused on their friend, they didn't even see me sneak off to the escape pods." Neech said to himself. The hall with the escape pods was empty, with all the troops trying to get into the bridge. Neech snuck through the doors before they closed it, and had managed to limp to the hallway where all the escape pods were located. Neech entered the first pod he saw, limping inside before closing the hatch behind him. As he turned back to close the hatch, he saw the trail of blood he had left behind from the gunshot wound on his stomach.
"Better leave quickly before they notice my disappearance. I should be able to jettison to Hydrus 5 and get help." Neech said to himself, activating the pod and detaching it off the ship where it flew off to the nearby planet below…
"So much for that plan! Neech is gone, we're surrounded by a bunch of trigger-happy, bloodthirsty guards, and a whole entire Galactic Council fleet just arrived to kill us. Fantastic." Flash Sentry said, using the pistol in his hand to shoot another guard, scoring a nice headshot. X-Gunner used his arm mounted Gauntlet Frame(4) to mow down several more guards before ducking behind one of the computers in the bridge.
"Done! I got it out! Let's get out of here!" Magnificus said, holding the glowing red geobomb in his right palm.
"Uh, easier said than done. There's still a ton of guards at the doorway. We'll be blown to pieces before we could finish saying 'we're gonna die'." Stonecruncher noted before firing at the guards once more. Magnificus lifted Scylla and dumped her in Flash Sentry's hands, making him have to holster the gun. She looked up and smiled slightly before fainting again.
"Okay, I know you're all gonna disagree with me, but we need to charge." Magnificus said
"WHAT!? ARE YOU CRAZY!? WHAT KIND OF CIRCUIT SPEEDERS ARE YOU ON RIGHT NOW!?" Half-Track exclaimed loudly.
"No, I'm not crazy. If we play it smart, we don't die and we can all walk out of this alive. Follow my lead." Magnificus hauled up two dead bodies of guards and used them as shields against the bullet fire. Behind him in nearly a single file line, the other Renegades shot the guards who were shooting at Magnificus only. Behind them all was Flash Sentry, who was carrying the unconscious Scylla. The Renegades charged forward, following Magnificus' lead and shooting guards along the way. They eventually ran to the shuttle bay, where the Ugly Truth was docked.
"Half-Track, can't you use those two cannon on your back while in robot mode?" Tailwind asked.
"No, I ca-" Tailwind slapped Half-Track's back in a specific spot, making the Decepticon bend over and his cannons opening fire on a group of five guards, all who were blown to bits from the blast.
"You were saying?"
"Nevermind. I actually didn't know I could do that." Half-Track commented as they entered the ship, closing the door behind them.
"X-Gunner, get us out of here!" Magnificus ordered, throwing the bodies at the guards before the doors closed, knocking all of them to the ground. X-Gunner got to the piloting controls and started the Ugly Truth's engines before flying out of the warship. He continued to fly the ship at top speed, trying to get away from the warship as fast as possible.
"Hey, what happened to the geobomb? I've noticed you aren't holding it anymore." Flash Sentry said.
"Yeah, I'm not. We don't have it anymore." Magnificus answered.
Later…
"Commander, we fended off the attackers. Luckily, our ship only sustained minor damage, and we should be able to join your fleet shortly." a lowly soldier said to the commander that had just arrived. He looked around the trashed bridge in disappointment.
"Your warship shouldn't have been alone. You should have had other ships with you to assist in case this happened." the commander said, stepping around the dead bodies that littered the floor of the bridge. Just then, he noticed a blinking red light.
"Is that a-" the commander never finished his sentence before the geobomb Magnificus left on the ship exploded, engulfing the ship and the whole fleet in it's blast. In a matter of seconds, it was all reduced to dust…
Epilogue…
"There. Now you have a REAL left eye, not a bomb for one." Magnificus said. He stepped away and gave Scylla his shut down datapad, allowing her to see her reflection, Scylla admired her face, touching the parts around where her eyepatch used to be, where the geobomb used to be. Thanks to Magnificus' skills, she was able to get a real eye. Now that she thought about it, she never knew where she got the eyepatch from until Neech revealed it all…
"So, tell us, is she a real Cybertronian?" Flash Sentry asked.
"Yes, she always was. She was just brainwashed and experimented on as a protoform. Luckily, I got rid of all the activation codes in her brain, so now she won't ever listen to the Council's commands." Magnificus explained. Scylla got up from the chair, stretching before looking around the small bridge of the Ugly Truth.
"Wow, I can see so much more with two eyes." Scylla said, amazed at how much she saw with her left eye.
"Told you so." Flash Sentry replied. The Ugly Truth flew away, with new, and definitely random, adventures awaiting it…
The End...
(1): Contructed Cold is when a spark is put in a premade body. Forged is when the spark is naturally born and the body grows around the spark naturally. Go to tfwiki for more info
(2): According to the Galactic Council in Mtmte 2012 Annual, Cybertronians are a threat level ten and are the only beings that are that level.
(3): The Afterspark is basically Transformers Heaven
(4): The Gauntlet Frame is the missile launcher that comes with X-Gunner's toy
And that concludes the 2nd chapter! The next few chapters will kinda be a bit different, but hopefully you like it. If it's not in your interests, please just read it anyways as I will still have the reference section to help you. Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it! Remember to leave a review!
