Chapter 3
Phoenix and Nightshocker's Past
"Surrender Phoenix and I will let your mech live." Megatron threatened
"Never." Phoenix said as she set Optimus down in a chair. She then began to hit random buttons to get the shields up. Optimus got up and went over and pressed a few buttons and got this ship started and he got the shields up. He then made it so they could fly the ship manually. Phoenix then took control and began to fly the ship away from the massive Decepticon warship.
"Optimus, we have to radio for help." Phoenix said. Optimus nodded and began to try to get a hold of Cybertron. He managed to get a hold of his team, on Omega Supreme.
"Ratchet! We need help and fast. We are under attack by the Decepticons." Optimus said but this ship was hit and it knocked him down to the ground.
"Optimus is hurt badly. He is going to need medical treatment ASAP." Phoenix said
"Just hang on kids were coming. We have you on our radars, just keep coming towards us." Ratchet said. Phoenix then saw them and flew past them.
"Wait where you going?" Phoenix asked.
"Omega Supreme protects Autobots." Omega said as he transformed and attacked the Decepticon ship. Phoenix stopped the ship and watched only go chase off the Decepticons. Then Jazz, Nightshocker, Bumble Bee, and Ratchet boarded the Elite Guard ship.
"I'll get us back to Cybertron." Jess said as he took the controls. Nightshocker smacked the next upside the head.
"What in the name of Primus were you thinking?" Nightshocker asked about glaring at her.
"Saving a fellow Autobot." Phoenix said she was happy to be with her fellow Autobots again, especially Nightshocker.
"So where is this Phoenix dawg?" Jazz asked
"I am Phoenix." The young fembot said while waving to Jazz.
"Oh." Jazz said. He then tried to sneak a peek at Nightshocker's aft. Ratchet got Optimus stabilized.
"Let's get back to Cybertron. He's going to need surgery." Ratchet said trying to get Jazz to focus. Nightshocker been hugged Phoenix.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you." She said.
"I deserved it. I'm still not 100% so I shouldn't have tried to fight." Phoenix said while carefully hugging and Nightshocker back.
"Go sit in recharge for a while." Nightshocker said/ordered. Phoenix nodded and went to sit down. She then went into recharge mode. When Phoenix awoke she was in a bedroom, and she could hear people talking outside the room. She got up and went to the door. When she opened it she found Optimus, Jazz, Ratchet, Bulkhead, Ultra Magnus, Bumble Bee, Nightshocker, and Prowl.
"Hey there sleepyhead." Jaz said with a smile, and then everyone turned and smiled at Phoenix.
"How long have I been asleep?" Phoenix asked.
"About 12 solar cycles." Ultra Magnus said. Phoenix stared at him in shock
"What?" She asked
"You hadn't fully recharged in several orbital cycles so it took a long time to fully recharge. Now you should go drink some energon." Nightshocker said with a smile. Phoenix nodded, as her engine roared with hunger. Bumble Bee raced into the kitchen and came back with some energon for her.
"Oh thank you." Phoenix said with a smile.
"You're welcome." Bumble Bee said. Bulkhead went over and picked her up. He then sat her down next to Nightshocker.
"We have been put on a team." Nightshocker said with a smile.
"For what? And with whom?" Phoenix asked kind of afraid.
"With us kid." Ratchet said with a smile.
"We will be heading to Earth, to get the All Spark fragments." Optimus said with a smile.
"Oh, I think I can manage that." Phoenix said with a relieved smile.
"You'll be heading out after you are a 100%." Ultra Magnus said. Phoenix nodded, she liked these mechs.
"Nightshocker why haven't you made him fully grown yet?" Phoenix asked while pointing to Prowl.
"He doesn't want to become fully grown yet. He wants me and Jazz to raise him like a normal sparkling." Nightshocker said with a smile. She was a sucker for ninja bots. That's why she became one. She became a ninja bot before Prowl or Jazz.
"I see that every ninja bot is the same." Phoenix said then took a drink of her energon, so Nightshocker wouldn't hit her.
"What's dat supposed to mean?" Jazz asked kind of offended.
"Every time I bring Nightshocker back, she takes her time in growing up. She tries to grow up like a normal sparkling but she is forced to grow up faster at times." Phoenix said
"Ah, I gotcha." Jazz said. Phoenix moved out of Nightshocker's reach, but was still getting the death glare from her. Phoenix looked away from Nightshocker and drank her energon. Everyone laughed at them.
"So what happened while I was recharging?" Phoenix asked.
"Well I and Jazz are dating. Optimus was worried sick about you; Ratchet was doing what Ratchet s do best, napping. Ultra Magnus was doing data work. And the Bumble Bee and Bulkhead had to babysit and tried to get Optimus to stop worrying about you." Nightshocker said. Phoenix actually smiled when she heard Optimus was worried about her. She looked to the young mech who was blushing slightly. Phoenix is smile grew wider. Nightshocker now knew that Phoenix liked the young leader bot.
"Well you did save my life back there." Optimus said not knowing what else to say.
"You would've done the same for me." Phoenix said with a shy smile.
"Without hesitation." Optimus said. It was extremely obvious that they liked each other.
"Hey, O.P. why don't you show her around Cybertron?" Jazz asked while elbowing Optimus.
Optimus looked nervous and looked towards the others who were gesturing him to go. He looked towards Ultra Magnus, who nodded slightly at the young mech.
"Do you think you can handle it?" Optimus asked Phoenix. Ratchet data diagnostics and on her.
"She needs to refuel some more and then she should be. So why not wait until this evening to show her around?" Ratchet suggested. Optimus looked to Phoenix to see if she would be okay with it.
"That sounds like a good idea to me." Phoenix said.
"Alright." Optimus said with a smile.
"Then you two are set for your first date." Jess said with a smile. Optimus blushed along with Phoenix.
"Jazz, we are just sightseeing." Optimus said. He didn't want to rush things of Phoenix. He didn't want to chase her off by moving too quickly.
"It's a date." Nightshocker said with a smile.
Phoenix pushed Nightshocker a little. "Be nice." Phoenix said while playfully glaring at her.
"I am, and by definition you two are going on a date. Because it will be only you two alone." Nightshocker said. Phoenix turned her head away because she knew Nightshocker was right. Optimus decided not to argue either.
"So Phoenix how do you make baby protoforms grow quickly?" Ratchet asked.
"Oh you just give the protoform a small shock of electricity. For some reason it causes the protoform brought back by me to grow more quickly." Phoenix said with a small shrug
"So how did you get that form of an organic bird?" Bumble Bee asked.
"Well that's sort of a long story." Phoenix said.
"You see during the great war we did experiment with the All Spark. Phoenix was more like us before the experiment, and she was our brave volunteer. We try to fuse her with a piece of the All Spark." Ultra Magnus said with a small frown.
"The reaction didn't go as planned. I was one of the assistant scientists. It melted her old body but I tried to reach in and save her Spark, but what I pulled out was a small protoform. We try to keep her safe from the Decepticons, but there were too many." Nightshocker said.
"So I ordered them to go hide on an organic planning, which happened to be Earth, but back then the human population was small. I sent other fembots with them, there were four others." Ultra Magnus said. He didn't know what happened to the other fembots.
"They made us leave Earth as a Decepticon Armada approached Earth. That's the last we saw them." Phoenix said while ducking her head.
"But that was after each of us died and came back. We each partly fused with an organic creature; Phoenix with a bird, me with a cat, Lockout with a sea creature, Zipper with a butterfly, Whiplash with a wolf, and Axela with a bear. Lockout called herself Orca, Zipper became Butterfly, Whiplash became Arcana, and Axela became Arctos or Mother Bear." Nightshocker said.
"Yeah we even call Nightshocker Pantera from time to time." Phoenix said with a small smile.
"Yes I don't use Panthera that much unless I am caught by a Decepticon, because there is no file on Pantera." Nightshocker said with a smile.
"Smart move." Jazz said with a proud smile to Nightshocker.
"While you all are on Earth I want you all to investigate what happened to Arcana, Mother Bear, Orca, and Butterfly." Ultra Magnus said. Everyone nodded.
"I'm going to go see if Omega will be ready to take off shortly." Ratchet said while getting up.
"I'll help you Ratchet." Optimus said. He then smiled Phoenix. "I'll be back later to pick you up." He said to her.
"All right." She said with a shy smile. Then Optimus and Ratchet left. Phoenix watched them leave. She didn't want him to go but she couldn't help but check out his aft and smiled to herself.
"Hey Bulkhead why don't we go to the club before we have to babysit again tonight?" Bumble Bee suggested.
"All right, we will be back later to watch little Prowl." Bulkhead said as him and Bumble Bee left.