WolfBane Ch. 4

Somewhere on Cybertron. Three days ago.

A large dark purple Cybertronian walked up to a monitor and pushed a button that made the high pitched alarm stop. He then typed with his one hand and a picture formed on the screen. The picture was a relic that was lost long ago during the War for Cybertron. A glowing green crystal inside a clear case with a wolf head carved in it. Then a planet came on the screen, coordinates as well. He made this weapon years before his isolation. The planet was far away, but with his space bridge it wouldn't be a problem getting there and getting his prize and his soon to be experiments.

He started typing again that would active the relic and turn the poor bots who found it, into wolfs. He looked at the planet again and was surprised that is was the planet he sent the earlier experiments too. At least five of them. All of them were wolfs, and were in stasis on the planet. When the relic was active, they would be awaken. He was deep in thought when the alarm started going off again. The relic signal disappeared. He knew it must be hidden by a shield. The relic deactivated, because of the shield, but would still send a small signal to the bots it was by when it was active. If the relic didn't deactivate, the bots would change within hours, but because of this delay it would take a few weeks at most. But if the bots came out of the shield, the transformation would be fast and painful.

He had waited years in isolation to have a logic reason to leave Cybertron.

"Finally."

/BREAKLINE/

Smokescreen watched as Dreadwing walked out of view, before he stealthy ran to Bee's cell. True to Dreadwing's word, there wasn't a Con in sight, not even guards for the cell. Smokescreen slowed when he reached the right door. The door opened. The sight before him shocked him. Bumblebee was hanging, like he was earlier, but a lot of energon was on the floor below the scout. Smokescreen slowly walked to Bumblebee, scared that he might be offline. Bee's optics were very dim.

"Bumblebee?"

Said bot slowly looked up from the floor he was staring at. Smokescreen gasped, Bumblebee didn't have the mask on, and he even had a mouth. Energon was slowly leaking from where the mask was ripped off at the sides of Bumblebee's face. With the mask gone, Smokescreen saw a very large scar starting from Bee's face and going down his neck. It was very ugly and very hard not to notice. Also with the mask gone Bumblebee looked very young, much younger then Smokescreen even.

Smokescreen stopped staring at Bee and ran to the controls and typed in a code. Bumblebee tried to land on his feet, but failed horribly and landed on his right arm. Bumblebee tried to yell in pain but nothing came out. Smokescreen ran over to Bumblebee as he tried to yell. "We have to go, please get up, Bee. Ratchet can fix you up when we get back to base," Smokescreen tried to help Bumblebee up. Smokescreen cursed to himself when he saw that Bumblebee was missing a door-wing.

Bumblebee's right arm hung loosely at his side, his shoulder leaking energon. "Can you walk?" Smokescreen asked with worry in his voice. Bumblebee slowly nodded.

Smokescreen ran to the door and looked out. Nothing. Dreadwing never said where the bridge room was at. Great. Smokescreen was starting to doubt Dreadwing when a green flash brightened the room. A ground bridge was swirling at the back of the room. Bumblebee looked weaker then before. "Come on Bee, lets go,"

Smokescreen wrapped Bee's left arm over his neck and supported most of Bee's weight. Both Autobots walked slowly through the ground bridge and into the unknown.

/Nemesis/

Knockout was scanning the relic for what seemed like the hundred time, when Soundwave walked up to him and on his visor it had an energy reading of a ground bridge being active on the ship. "Where is this coming from Soundwave?" Knockout asked. Soundwave brought up a map of the ship. It was coming from one of the Autobot cells. The main source was coming from the ground bridge control room. Knockout started running to the cell and contacted Megatron about the escape. Megatron would meet him there. Knockout saw some vehicons walking and commanded them to go to the ground bridge control room right away.

Knockout saw Megatron run into the cell with his sword out, there was a green glow coming from the room. Knockout entered right when Megatron ran through it. 'Great.' Knockout thought. Knockout ran through the portal and exited right when it closed, 'Close one.' Knockout looked around; this was the same forest from a few days ago. The darkness closed around the medic and made him shuttered. 'Something is wrong here.'

Knockout turned on his head lights and saw an energon trail leading away from him. Knockout's sensors picked up a scream that didn't sound like a Cybertronian or from an animal of this planet. He started running to the sound when he fell and started screaming. He arched his back and screamed. His back stretched, his shoulders becoming round. Knockout felt his head change into something bigger, with more sharp teeth. He looked at his hands and saw them change into paws. His legs changed shape so he could walk on all fours. He screamed again, his metal body groaning with pressure as it changed.

/Autobot base/

An alarm was going off and a picture of Bumblebee and Smokescreen popped up on the monitor, with coordinates. It was the same coordinates as three days ago. All the Autobots ran to the monitor. Acree was in Jack's garage keeping watch. "Ratchet open the ground bridge," Optimus deep voice commanded. "Optimus, you know this could be a trap." Ratchet answered grimly. Optimus thought this over, "It may be a trap, but Bumblebee and Smokescreen have been missing for three days. They might need medic treatment. Bulkhead and I will go and find them, get the medic bay ready." Ratchet opened the ground bridge and the two Autobots ran through. Ratchet then contacted Acree, letting her know about the situation. She would be there in a few minutes.

Ratchet looked at the monitor when the missing Autobot signals went offline. Ratchet's optics widened and he contacted Optimus, "Optimus their signals are gone! Optimus?" Static greeted Ratchet. 'Scrap.'

Acree raced in the base at top speeds and transformed by Ratchet. "Go through the bridge and find Optimus and Bulkhead." Acree nodded and started running when something walked through the bridge. It was neither an Autobot nor Deception; it was a large light grey wolf.

A/N…..Shockwave! This chapter is shorter then the rest, sorry about that. This chapter was hard to write, my mind was somewhere else during this. Review, favorite, and follow, it helps me write faster.