Chapter 3: Predacon's Power
A/N: Welcome back to "Prime's Champion"! Things are going to start speeding up starting in this chapter! I've also decided that this story will go on through the time period of 'Predacons Rising' so it'll be a bit longer in terms of number of chapters. How long the chapters are depends on how much I feel needs to go into that specific chapter. This chapter will be a bit longer than the others due to what will happen in the story.
For those of you who were annoyed with the constant jumping between groups and cons. I needed to show the reactions that Jack, Miko, and Raf had to becoming bots. You'll see what alt modes they get in this chapter (no I'm not writing the kids getting them on account that I don't know how transformers activate their alt mode scanners and it would take a bit to long for Miko to do it [she'd get pissed off way to easily] but besides that, I don't feel it's necessary in this story to show them getting their vehicles).
(P.S: Wheeljack escapes Darkmount just like in the show)
Responses to guest reviews:
Rex Vong Thrawn: This won't be a Arcee/Jack fic as I've said before. Please stop asking for it to be one. I won't be doing a pairing in this fic because I don't feel that it needs one. Thank you for the ideas for Jack's predacon mode if that's what he gets later on, he might, he might not (I haven't decided yet). Thank you for supporting this fic and I hope that you enjoy this chapter.
Transformer Terminology (won't use all of these in the chapter but it's useful reference):
Frame/Chassis = body
Strut = arm
Servo = hand
Digit = finger
Pede = leg/foot
Optics = eyes
Faceplate = face
Denta = teeth
Femme = female/woman
Mech = male/man
Online = alive
Offline = dead
Stasis = deep sleep/coma
Recharge = sleep
Stasis lock = forced coma
Carrier = mother
Sire = father
Grandcarrier/sire = grandmother/father
Aft = rear end/ass/buttocks
Klik = kilometer
Chestplate = chest armor
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers, that honor goes to Hasbro
Location: Throne Chamber, Darkmount, Nevada
Time: 1 week after destruction of Autobot base
Megatron stood up from his throne and looked up at the creature that Shockwave had brought with him. It was a massive hulk of sharp, thick armor plate. It had two bright yellow optics, a line of small spikes running down its back, just enough to be noticable but still there. The wings that it had encompassed the width of the platform easily.
This beast was a Predacon, and it was fully under Shockwave's control.
"A-a Predacon?!" Starscream squeaked, "But they were extinct! How did you find one that was online?!"
"This Predacon was bred in the laboratory and fully under my command." Shockwave revealed.
"The most fearsome hunter to ever exist." Megatron rumbled, still in awe of the mighty beast standing before him, "Give him energon from our prisoner. He will hunt the Autobot. Only this time, he will bring me his helm, unlike you Starscream."
A vehicon soon came with a vial of energon, Wheeljack's energon. He gave it to Shockwave, who presented it to his creation.
The Predacon turned his giant helm to look at the small vial, scanning the energon signature and putting it into his memory banks. It then lifted its helm and flared its wings before roaring into the sky and launching itself into the air, homing in on its prey's signature. It would bring his creator proof of his prey's demise, and hopefully get some energon to fuel itself in the process.
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Location: Near Van Horn, Texas
Time: 5 days, 4 hours after Raf came online
Bumblebee, Ratchet and Raf were going west on I-10, on their way to the Harbinger half in New Mexico after discussing where they could go as a temporary base until Optimus could be found. Raf had found a Vehicle that suited him just fine, a white 2018 Lamborghini Huracán with orange accents that was going down State Highway 285 a couple days after Raf had onlined.
They were about 2 hours out from the wreck, but that didn't mean much to Raf, he was running on hope that they could find the others and bring them together to find Optimus, who Raf knew stayed back at base to keep the Cons from following them from asking Ratchet and Bee about what happened to them and why they weren't back at base.
Bumblebee and Ratchet changed their vehicle forms as well so that they wouldn't be easy to spot to the cons. Bumblebee left his Urbana 500 for a 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 while Ratchet left his ambulance for a 2017 Ford Transit. He wasn't happy about changing into a transport van but knew that he had to do something and he didn't want to be a truck, he was too old for that. Bumblebee also switched his paint job from mainly yellow and black racing stripes to mainly black with yellow racing stripes. Ratchet retained his colors, deciding that he had changed enough with changing his vehicle mode. They would find the Harbinger, and they would try to get Team Prime back together.
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Location: Wreck of the Harbinger, New Mexico
Time: 3 hours later
Raf learned the hard way when Bumblebee said that he knew exactly where the Harbinger was and he led them to where he thought it was, and it wasn't there, they ended up spending an hour trying to find the slagging ship. Moral of the story: never let Bumblebee led you somewhere where everything looks the same. If you do, you'll spend a slagging hour, if not more time, trying to find the damn thing that you're looking for.
Suffice it to say, Raf was annoyed, but his eagerness to find their teammates overshadowed his annoyance. They were in the control center of the Harbinger, trying to get the Groundbridge back online. Thankfully, there was still energon in the ship, no doubt left by Starscream when he was using the wreck, and there was enough to use the groundbridge multiple times.
For Raf, it was only a matter of time before they brought Team Prime back together.
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Location: Near Kiowa, Colorado
Time: 6 days after Miko came back online
Bulkhead had his hands full with the new energetic femme known as Miko. As soon as they found her vehicle mode and she scanned it, that was a fun time, she tried to activate all of her weapons systems to see what she had. The older Wrecker had to intervene when she almost shot at a gas station with her blasters, making sure that Miko knew not to use them unless they were training.
Speaking of training, they were in the middle of a spar in their cave, hand-to-hand only, no blasters or melee weapons besides servos and pedes. Miko was improving, that was certain, the only question was how much she was improving. She always tried the unorthodox if charging at her opponent didn't work, usually poorly executed knockoff martial arts moves that she saw on TV shows. Bulkhead was currently putting her on her aft after she opened herself up by trying a 360 spin kick as she called it. He caught the kick easily and pushed her a bit, making her lose her balance and falling over. He walked over to her and helped her back up.
"Miko, how many times have I said don't open yourself up like that? If you were facing an experienced warrior and not a vehicon, you'd be scrap."
Miko vented irritatedly, "How do you always get me on my aft?" she demanded.
Bulkhead looked at her with an optic ridge raised, telling her to figure it out and saying 'really?' at the same time.
Miko looked down, "I just wish that I could get you on your aft just once." she said hopefully.
Her guardian chuckled a bit, "You're making progress Miko, you're learning and lasting longer when we spar because of it." he praised her.
Miko looked back up at him and smiled a bit, happy that he was helping her learn to fight.
Bulkhead backed up and said, "Alright Miko, show me your weapons."
Miko grinned and transformed her servos. One was a blaster that looked like Arcee's, but with one barrel instead of two, it was bigger in size as well. The other servo transformed into a small axe with the blade orange like molten metal, perfect for slicing through the toughest transformers armour.
Before they could begin their spar, they heard a car engine, and it was getting louder.
"Miko stay here." Bulkhead ordered.
"But-" Miko started, before Bulkhead interrupted her
"Stay here Miko. I mean it." he said sternly, not taking no for an answer.
Bulk then bolted from the cave, his heavy energon cannons out and charging, producing a hum that was rising in pitch. He'd protect Miko, even if it cost him his spark.
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Location: Near Roundup, Montana
Time: 6 days after Jack came online
Arcee's training was brutal, but effective. She would always push him to the point of exhaustion, but then stop so that he could recharge. Jack had progressed greatly in his skills in combat, but he and Arcee both agreed that he needed to train with someone that was his size, who could take his hits easier. That was another thing that they discovered when they sparred, Jack was very strong for a mech his size. When he scored a solid hit on Arcee, she would go flying back a few meters, leaving a fist sized dent where he hit her.
His ranged weapon was also powerful for his size, he had a weapon that hadn't been seen since the final days of the war on Cybertron: the Path Blaster. It was based on Optimus' Ion Cannons, but fired a powerful blast of energon instead of ionized particles. Jack's blasters seemed to be nearly as powerful as the Last Prime's when used at full power, which he did once. The shot left a crater at least a meter in diameter, stunning Arcee who asked him to test it. It also seemed to be unique among Path Blasters as a shot every 9-10 shots or so would be supercharged, creating a massive explosion. Sadly, they found this out the hard way when they were doing target practice in a junkyard on cars that were already riddled with bullet holes. The shot made the car disintegrate, leaving a noticeable depression in the ground where the car was. They transformed into their alt modes and drove off before the Humans arrived.
His melee weapons were energon swords (A/N: think Optimus Prime's from the live action movies), coated in molten Energon, able to slice through anything metal or stone given enough time. They were double sided and were more angular than Optimus' Energon used by the blades was recycled after the weapons were retracted, saving him energon and not wasting very much.
They didn't spar with the swords, only using rocks or metal to at least get Jack used to the weight of the swords as they were heavier than his servos. If they did then Arcee would lose her arm blades to the molten energon coating the blades. Jack was trying to figure out how to deactivate the energon coating, leaving only the blades, but he hadn't figured it out.
They were currently driving south on state highway 87, making their way to I-90 to try and make it back to Jasper. Jack's alt mode was a black 2017 Dodge Viper ACR with navy blue and silver accents, which they found on a property that was filled with all kinds of expensive cars, Jack thought he was a collector of rare or unique cars, while Arcee was a blue Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R with pink accents. She changed her alt mode so that she wouldn't be as recognizable to the Cons if there was a Seeker looking for them. Jack had asked why she didn't reverse her colors or change her colors in some way but Arcee flat out refused to do either as she enjoyed her current paint job.
They were in an open stretch of road by themselves when they heard what sounded like a commercial airliner coming up on them. The only problem was that it was far too close to the ground to be an airliner.
Arcee adjusted her mirrors to look behind them and immediately stopped, nearly causing Jack to crash into her if he didn't swerve out from behind her.
Arcee transformed and ran in front of Jack, bringing out her energon blasters and pointing them at the now landing ship.
The ship itself was dark grey, but the thrust from the engines and running lights were blue, meaning that energon was powering the ship. It was massive, equipped with two afterburners, one on either side, with maneuvering thrusters in the middle of the back of the ships.
Jack transformed behind Arcee and transformed his servos, one into his blaster and the other his energon sword, and walked behind her pointing his blaster at the ship.
The ship landed and a few moments later a platform came down from the center of the ship, producing fog as it came down, veiling the transformer that came out of the ship.
They heard the bot's pedes before they saw the outline of the bot. The 'bot was massive, nearly the size of Optimus Prime, but the thing that they could see was the bright blue optics. Arcee saw them first and deactivated her blasters, causing Jack to do the same with his weapons, and transformed them back into their servos.
The bot came out of the fog, revealing a blue and red mech with tall shoulder armour, taller than his helm.
"Ultra Magnus?" Arcee asked hopefully.
"Indeed soldier." the mech, now known as Ultra Magnus, replied.
"H-how did you find your way to Earth?" she asked.
"I was travelling past this system when I detected a strange energy signature. I tracked the signal, leading me to this planet, finding an Autobot signal." he said.
"The Omega Lock's beam," Jack murmured, staring at the new Autobot curiously. "That's how you came here." he said.
His statement brought himself under the mech's gaze, cold and calculating, the gaze of an experienced soldier and commander. Ultra Magnus's optics scanned his body and saw the mark on Jack's strut, but didn't recognize it, much to Arcee's relief.
Arcee didn't want anyone to know about the mark who didn't need to know and said, "Did you find any more Autobot signals?" she asked, bringing his attention back to her.
"While we may no longer be on Cybertron, military protocol remains in effect." Ultra Magnus informed her, traces of coldness seeping into his voice.
Arcee immediately straightened into a crisp military attention stance and said, "Sir."
Jack was confused by why Arcee would be calling Ultra Magnus sir. "Who is he?" he asked Arcee.
She immediately turned around and moved closer to Jack. "Ultra Magnus was Optimus Prime's second in command during the war, very by the book. Just go with it." she whispered.
"Why do I have to?" Jack asked, his optic ridges scrunched together, "I haven't technically joined the Autobots yet and that makes me not under the chain of command until that changes."
Arcee sighed, knowing that he had a point. Instead of responding to that, she just gave him a look that told him not to do or say anything that might offend the Commander of the Autobots.
Jack nodded but Arcee knew that he'd be pushing it if Ultra Magnus offended him. That's just how he was, respecting authority most of the time but asked questions that he felt needed to be asked.
Ultra Magnus raised an optic ridge at the unknown mech in front of him that was talking to the femme soldier.
"Soldier," he called, getting Arcee's attention, "Who is the Neutral?" he asked.
If she were human, Arcee would have flushed in embarrassment, but her optics showed her embarrassment well enough.
"Sir, may I introduce Durerus, a Neutral disguised as a native vehicle when I found him a few cycles ago." Arcee said, lying about when she found him.
Jack knew that that name would come in handy someday, but didn't think that he needed to use it so soon.
"Can he fight?" he asked, gaining a somewhat nervous look from Arcee.
"I've been training him sir, but my lack in size hasn't given him much challenge in terms of strength or durability. I do know however, that his aim is improving and he is a natural with his swords." she informed him, nervous about how he would take it.
The giant Autobot nodded before her last sentence registered in his neural net, "Just a moment soldier, you said 'his aim' and 'his swords'. He is armed?" Ultra Magnus interrogated.
Arcee became even more nervous with that tone, knowing that she'd be in deep scrap if she didn't chose her words carefully. However, before she could speak, her partner spoke up, making her even more nervous that he would slip up and reveal what he is.
"I found an abandoned Decepticon weapons cache and equipped weapons to my liking that I found after escaping from a Decepticon ambush right before Arcee found me." Jack said, hating that he had to lie but knew it was necessary.
Mention of the Decepticons piqued Ultra Magnus' interest. "Decepticons you say? Are they in control of the planet?" he inquired, a plan starting to form in his mind.
Arcee answered him, "Yes sir, the Decepticons are here and they have recently seized control of the planet after destroying our base."
"What do they have for transportation and a base?" Ultra Magnus asked.
"The Nemesis is here, as well as a newly built Decepticon fortress." Arcee answered.
Magnus nodded, the plan taking shape, before asking one more question, "How many Autobots are on the planet?"
Arcee looked down at that, sadness in her optics, "We numbered at six in the base, with one other defending the base while we evacuated."
"What were their designations soldier?" Magnus asked, hoping that one Autobot in particular would be named.
"Bumblebee, myself, Bulkhead, Wheeljack, Smokescreen, Ratchet, and Optimus Prime. I however, do not know if he made it out of the base sir." Arcee listed.
Magnus nodded before turning around and moving for his ship. He turned over his shoulder, "Come soldiers, we have more Autobots to find." he said before making his way to his ship.
Arcee and Jack looked at each other hopefully before following the giant mech into his ship.
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Location: Near Kiowa, Colorado
Time: 6 days after Miko came back online
Wheeljack was in a good mood. He had escaped from Darkmount, killed a couple Seekers, and was currently making his way to Bulkhead's position. He knew where his old buddy was due to an old Wrecker protocol and frequency that only the Wreckers knew of, not even Soundwave knew of it, and that made it dangerous. He was currently in his vehicle mode driving down a two lane road that was badly paved. If he was Knockout, he would have panicked when he bumped the asphalt, but he wasn't. A bumpy road was nothing compared to the war torn streets and speedways on Cybertron. He sped up to make it to the green Wrecker's position in 2 minutes. He'd be seeing his old dance partner soon, and see what surprise the big lug was talking about was.
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When Wheeljack came around the last corner, he heard a blaster powering down. Did Bulkhead think he was a Con? He was glad that Bulk looked before he shot or he'd be in a bit of trouble.
"Jackie!" Bulkhead exclaimed, running down the hill as Wheeljack transformed. "I knew you'd make it!"
The green bot then crushed the smaller Wrecker in a tight hug, relieved that nothing happened to his old partner.
"Hey Bulk," Wheeljack wheezed, the hug starting to dent his strut's armour. "Could you let me go now? I'd prefer not to have massive dents on my struts."
Bulkhead released him and backed up, looking sheepish. "Sorry, just a bit glad that you're not offline." he explained.
"Eh, not a big deal," Wheeljack dismissed with a wave of his servo, "So what's this surprise that you talked about?" he asked curiously.
Bulkhead seemed to become nervous, "Well… it would probably be easiest if I show you." he said, "Follow me." he turned around and led him inside a cave that he didn't see from the road.
"Miko!" Bulkhead called, "Come on out, it's just Jackie." he said.
What Wheeljack saw nearly fried his logic circuits.
A femme walked out from behind a corner, a black and pink femme that looked like a mix of Airachnid and Arcee, but had the faceplates of Bulkhead's human partner.
"Hey Wheeljack, we Wreckers gotta stick together right?" The femme asked, in the same voice as Miko.
"M-Miko?!" Wheeljack demanded, nearly stunned beyond vocalizing.
Wheeljack spun around to face Bulkhead. "You have some explaining to do Bulk, now, before my logic circuits glitch." he said.
Bulk nodded his helm and started explaining, gesturing to Miko when he needed to.
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"So let me get this straight," Wheeljack said after Bulk finished explaining, "The Omega Lock was cyberforming Earth while in Buckethead's control, Optimus used his fancy saber thingy to destroy it, a 'wave' of pure cybermatter was released and cyberformed Miko and the other two humans. Did I get that right?"
"Yeah Jackie. You hit it right on the center." Bulkhead sighed.
"Well… I think that Miko needs a lesson on how to be a real Wrecker." Wheeljack said, gaining an excited wide-eyed look from the femme. "She also needs a new name, something that suits her new frame." he added thoughtfully, trying to think of a good Wrecker name for Miko.
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Location: Darkmount, near Jasper, Nevada
Time: 1 day after Shockwave's Return
Megatron was furious with Starscream for failing to offline the Autobot Wrecker known as Wheeljack.
"How could you let the Autobot escape?! From the smelting pits no less?" Megatron demanded.
Starscream immediately bowed, but had a smug smirk on his faceplate. "I allowed him to escape Master," Megatron became livid and was about to speak, but Starscream finished quickly, "so that we may destroy any other autobots that Wheeljack rendezvous with."
Megatron calmed down some, thinking of the possibilities of Starscream's plan.
"Send two squadrons of your Seekers to eliminate the Autobots that the Wrecker meets with." Megatron ordered, "Do not fail me Starscream."
"I will present you with their sparks and helms Lord Megatron." Starscream promised before bowing once more and leaving to oversee the Autobot's destruction.
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Location: Cave near Kiowa, Colorado
Time: 6 days, 1 hour after Miko came back online
"How did you find the tracker?" Mika asked curiously.
"I had only two guards on me when I escaped. Usually I have at least four so I knew something was up. I took a peek under my hood and found it right under my armor." Wheeljack explained, gesturing to his chest plate, which had two lines scratched through the paint to the armor plate beneath.
"So what did you do with the tracker?" Mika asked curiously.
Wheeljack pointed to a log floating down a creek half a klik away. "See that log?" He asked her.
"Yeah," Miko said, not getting it, "Why?"
"That's where I put the tracker." he said simply.
"Soo?" she asked, still not getting it.
Wheeljack vented, annoyed that Miko wasn't getting it.
"It means that the cons will track the log, letting us set a trap for them, which I have." he explained slowly, as if he were talking to a sparkling.
"Here they come." Bulkhead announced.
Sure enough around 12 Seekers were closing on their position, at least that's what the Seekers thought. They transformed and landed as close to the signal as they could. The leader scanned for the signal and traced it to an incoming log in the creek. They closed in, thinking that the Autobot sum was beneath the log. A beeping that was rising in pitch was getting louder as they closed in, confusing the simple minded vehicon Seekers. The leader finally saw what was causing the beeping when he nearly leaned over the log, a grenade, an active grenade.
"Grenade!" he called out, trying to move away as fast as he could. It was too late, a whine originated from the grenade, signalling imminent destruction for all who are in the blast zone. The explosion was bigger than that of a normal grenade. That was due to the modifications of Wheeljack. While he was a grunt first and foremost, he was a smart grunt. He always tweaked his weapons to make them the best that he could, including his grenades.
The blast took out the entire Seeker party, leaving nothing but molten metal and ash.
"Well… that was fun to watch." Wheeljack said after a minute of silence. They decided to stay in sight of the grenade to pick off any survivors, but there weren't any, thankfully. "Now, who wants to hit an energon mine?" he asked his fellow Wreckers.
Miko's optics shined in excitement, her helm nodding as fast as it could.
"But on the way, we'll do some training. Make sure that you're in as good of shape as you can be." Bulkhead said, making Miko groan.
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Location: Throne Floor, Darkmount, Nevada
Time: 5 minutes after contact lost with Seeker squadrons
"Starscream!" Megatron bellowed angrily, "I was promised sparks and helms, but I see none, I don't even see survivors from the Seeker squadrons that you sent to apprehend the Wrecker and any Autobot that was near. Why don't I see what you promised me you would have?!"
Starscream was shivering under Megatron's shadow. He knew that if he said the wrong thing, he would get the scrap beat out of him.
"I don't know Lord Megatron, I assume that the Autobot heard the Seekers coming and prepared a welcome for them. The only thing that I heard before the signal was lost was 'Grenade!' so I assume that a grenade was the cause of the loss of the signal. I can only assume that they were offlined when the grenade went off." he explained.
Megatron growled, making Starscream take a step back in fear.
"If you fail me again Starscream, you will be the one who feels my wrath." he said angrily, nearly chipping his denta from gritting them so hard, before stomping away, his pedes echoing away, announcing to everyone that he was coming, and to stay out of his way.
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Location: Head south on Interstate 25, nearing Monument, Colorado
Time: 7 days, 4 hours after Miko came back online
Spar was an understatement, near full on bootcamp was what Miko was experiencing between Wheeljack and Bulkhead for the past day. Miko had been drilled by Wheeljack as to how well she could fight and shoot. He was interested in Miko's out of the box moves, which she said she saw on TV, but knew that she would have to refine them so that she wouldn't open herself up when she did them or not use them at all. He had easily knocked her on her aft quite a few times when she tried to surprise him with them. To her credit, she did surprise him, it just wasn't enough to get him staring, curiosity overriding everything else in his processor.
They were currently on the road, on their way to an active Decepticon energon mine. Miko was in a black 2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 with pink racing stripes, a car that her and Bulk had found when they were walking around, getting her used to her new body. It took her a long time to get her alt mode scanners to work, Bulkhead was sitting on the ground chuckling to himself. The plan was to sneak in, steal enough to fill their storage tanks, then blow the mine to smithereens. It was a simple plan that would harm the Con's cause, even if it was only temporary, on Earth. Hopefully they'd get it done without any complications.
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Location: former Decepticon mine, near Monument, Colorado
Time: 1 week, 6 hours after Miko came back online
Well, the mine blew up, they just didn't get as much energon as they needed. Thanks to Miko's decision to offline some vehicons, while they were getting the energon mind you, the entire plan went to scrap. They had to race out of the mine and blow it early.
"And why did you want to offline vehicons?" Bulkhead demanded, "Vehicon miners Miko! They weren't trained in combat and Autobots never, ever offline defenseless people, enemies included."
Miko looked at her pedes, shuffling them nervously. "I just wanted to show you guys that I could help you guys fight." Miko murmured.
Wheeljack came up to her and put a servo on her strut. "Look kid, just because you want to prove yourself doesn't mean that we go off mission to prove ourselves, Bulk and I learned that the hard way and it looks like you did to." he said, trying to get her out of her self-deprecating mindset. "But… you did good kid, just don't go off mission and engage the miners, they are the most innocent of all the Cons."
Miko nodded and looked up at Wheeljack, optics showing her relief and gratitude.
The trio was ripped out of their conversation when a loud roar echoed into the valley they were in. they all looked up and saw a massive cybertronian creature flying right at them, an orange glow emanating from its chassis. An opening appeared at the front of the creature's helm, emitting the same glow from it's chassis, only brighter, before a blast of fire spewed out of the hole in its helm.
Wheeljack's optics widened and he moved first, grabbing Miko and throwing her out of the creature's line of fire.
"Bulk move!" Wheeljack yelled as he jumped to cover Miko, who was getting up on her pedes.
Bulkhead was snapped out of his stupor when he heard Wheeljack's yell. He turned to his left and sprinted out of the way of the blast right before it impacted, knocking him off his pedes and flying several meters away. He got back up right as the beast landed, showing its size to the Wreckers.
Bulkhead transformed his servos and started shooting at the beast, trying to find a weak spot. His shots didn't even dent the beast's armor. The beast turned its helm to look at Bulkhead and charged him, causing Bulkhead to jump out of its way.
He barely got to his pedes when he felt a massive, sharp object slash across his chest plate, sending him flying again and denting his armor. Before he could get up however, the beast was on him, orange glow coming out of what he could now see as a jaw like structure.
"Hey ugly, over here!" Wheeljack hollered while firing at it, trying to get it's attention. It worked. The beast got off Bulkhead, allowing him to get to his pedes and start shooting at it as well.
"Where's Miko?!" Bulkhead yelled, hoping that she was safe.
He got his answer when he saw something land on top of the beast, punching its rear chassis and trying to get it to rear up. It was Miko, not using her head again. She got her wish as soon the beast reared on its hind pedes and shook her off, making her land with an "Oof!". The beast turned to her and put one of his large pedes on her, pinning her to the ground.
"Get off me scrap for brains!" Miko yelled at it, smacking the pede that was covering her chassis.
The beast seemed to become angered and roared at her before the tube in its helm started glowing again.
"No!" Wheeljack and Bulkhead yelled, shooting it with all they had, but it wouldn't be deterred from offlining Miko.
Right before it spewed its fire, two massive energon blasts hit the beast in its side, the force of the blasts making it lose its balance and slide several meters away from the femme. Bulkhead raced to Miko, getting her on her pedes. They made their way to Wheeljack, who was looking up. Confused, Bulkhead followed where Jackie's optics were locked onto and saw a ship, a dark ship with a blue engine thrust. A ramp was down from the middle of the bottom of the ship and Bulkhead saw a cybertronian looking at the beast that was getting to its pedes.
"LEAVE PREDACON!" the cybertronian bellowed, "RETREAT AND FIGHT ANOTHER DAY!"
The Predacon looked up, zeroing in on the voice and finding a small figure on a platform from the strange flyer. It zoomed in on the figure and saw something that struck a chord within the beast's spark: a symbol that was glowing on the figures strut, the same symbol that was on its own chassis. It roared at the figure, "WHO ARE YOU TO COMMAND ME?!"
"I AM DURERUS! LEAVE OR BE DESTROYED!" it bellowed back, the symbol glowing brighter.
The Predacon thought for a moment, a strange feeling compelling it to obey the mech's command, before replying, "VERY WELL! WE SHALL MEET AGAIN DURERUS AND WHEN WE DO, I WILL RIP YOU APART!"
With that said, it flared it's wings, roared, and took off into the night sky, back to Darkmount, vowing to understand why it felt compelled to follow the strange mech's command.
A/N: And there is Chapter 3 of "Prime's Champion"! Hope you guys enjoyed it, I had to work through a small case of writer's block to get this out, that and I was working on other stories, but here it is! Don't forget to drop a review to let me know what you think! See you in the next one!
Arisentactica over and out
