AN: don't own wish I did but they both belong to big companies
Title: Skyfire
Author: Tsumi
Category: cross over Star Trek 2009 and Transformers 2007 and ROTF
Warning:: Orion female, possibly some slash (what else do I write really?) . Technical babble and possible violence.
Summary:: Skyfire is found in an asteroid by the Enterprise who offer to help him get home. But where is home? The world he left behind or a new one where his kind are gathering?
Part 4
The joint base for the Autobots NEST and HAL was working as usual even in the wake of a landfall and guests. Soldiers were training, the various units going back and forth under Ironhide and recently promoted Major William Lennox watchful eyes. Eight young soldiers in particular ran the obstacle course under their careful gaze. Skyfire stood off to the side watching them with curious potics. The human teenagers and their Autobot guardians ran the course together. Bumblebee was smaller than his brother or the twins but he was faster and more agile. He was also Special ops, while the other three were melee warriors. He was using this it his full advantage and of course his human was joining in on the fun. The other six were working hard to keep up but they also had an edge Mikaela kept distracting Sam, not hard to do in the pair of sweat pants and sports bra she was wearing for the exercise.
"Sam, Bee, penalty five minutes!" Will called as Miles tripped, Sideswipe stopped to help his partner. The pair looked up and stepped out of the course to run laps around it for the five minutes.
"Why did you call them a penalty?" Skyfire asked. He had not seen any reason to pull them out, even if they had passed Miles right before he tripped.
"They cheated, and were caught." Ironhide replied as he watched the others. "They are special Ops. They should both be able to pull off tricks without getting caught, if Jazz were here he'd be dressing Bumblebee down already."
"Where is Jazz? It's rare to see him and Prowl in separate locations." Skyfire asked, he had not seen the silver mech yet though he had seen Prowl and was not used to seeing them separate.
"Jazz is playing PR in DC." Will told him with a smirk. "They should be coming back in a couple of weeks for their monthly check in with Optimus."
"I see." He was still confused as to why the pair had been called out but he had spent most of the night talking and drinking high grade with Ratchet, Wheeljack, Perceptor and Ironhide, and understood a bit more about this whole situation. Ironhide had explained about the human partners, how most of them were very much like them, there were even a few outsiders among them, these outsiders remained off base most of the time. Searching out trouble and alerting the ones on base. There were five he had been told and all of them reported in regularly.
Now he was watching some of this partnership in progress. The four pairs of kids though in actuality three of the Cybertronians were full adults while only Bumblebee still had not gotten his final upgrades. The four humans were of an age to still be in their schooling period. Curious he turned back to Ironhide.
"Should not those four be in a youth training facility?" Skyfire asked as Jim and Spock joined him in watching the kids run the obstacle course. The pair looked interested, well Jim looked interested, Spock looked like Spock, only someone like Jim, who had known him for a few years would notice the interest in his eyes..
"It's summer vacation for them, in a couple of weeks they'll be off for college, well Sam and Miles at least, they're first year in fact." Will said proudly as if they were his own kids. Will's watch beeped and he looked at it. "Miles, Sideswipe clinic duty." he called.
"I see."
The pair broke off from the others with a quick goodbye and salute they were off, Miles jumping into Sideswipe's interior as the Autobot changed and roared off.
"Now that looked good." Jim whistled.
"Fascinating." Spock agreed, these kids were no older then Chekov, and they were already good at what they had chosen to do.
"They are young hotheaded showoffs, at least they aren't as bad as Sunny and Trent." Ironhide grumbled.
"But talented, you should see Hotrod and Miki when they are in the mood, they can run rings around em' " Will smiled.
"Sounds good, so what are they doing?" Jim asked still amused by these kids. He had to admit the pairs seemed to work well.
"It's teamwork, each pair has to get through the course together, if they falter they lose. Though if you want to see something really good. Point Rod." Will called.
The kids on the course suddenly changed positions, Hotrod and Mikaela fell to the front while Bumblebee and Sam moved to the middle leaving Sunstreaker and Trent in the rear. What had started as training became and exhibition of skill as the six tore through the course. The other four keeping Hotrod and Mikaela protected then switching, eventually each pair ended up in the protected position.
It is impressive to see." Skyfire agreed. The two others nodded.
"Certainly these young ones are quite aware of teamwork." Spock commented he was mildly surprised at the human Autobot pairs only because Skyfire acted so distant he had not thought they would be friendly with another race.
"Yeah when they feel like it." Will agreed. "Sunstreaker, Trent, you have patrol in five minutes. Sam, Bumblebee, Mikaela, Hotrod, report to the Prime ."
The six took off in different directions acknowledging their instructor's yell. Hotrod and Bumblebee caught their humans easily transforming on the run. Sunstreaker leapt an obstacle and transformed on the course waiting for Trent to join him before he tore off.
"We have more soldiers to yell at, drills until lunch, you can continue to observe if you want." Will told them.
"I would prefer to look around the base. This place is amazing." Jim said.
"It's home." Will shrugged. "Skyfire?"
"I will be joining Wheeljack's team in the lab, Perceptor said he had some Holos to show me."
"If it's the ceremony tell him to show you the good ones first." Ironhide said. He looked genuinely amused by this whole thing.
"I will remember that." He nodded and turned to go.
"Would you mind if I join you Skyfire?" Spock asked.
"Your presence would be welcomed Mr. Spock." The large mech inclined his head.
"If you would excuse me Captain." The commander said looking to his captain.
"Go on Spock have fun with the other Scientists, Bones is over there at Medical too."
"Yes, captain." Spock inclined his head and followed the larger mech away.
"If I may ask? What ceremony did Ironhide mean?" Spock asked, once they were on their way. the large mech having no problem slowing his pace to let the man keep up.
"Perceptor and Wheeljack's bonding, they had only just met when I left it is good to know they did join."
"It is similar to marriage?" he asked looking for a similar word in his own knowledge.
"Yes, though it is also different, we bond through our Sparks." He tried to explain though it was hard to do so to one whom had never seen an actual spark. It was not so much marriage it was a joining of two beings in the way no humans or organic could ever understand.
As they approached the labs, there was an explosion. Both set off at a run, Skyfire got there first as smoke was pouring out of the thrown off doors to Wheeljack's lab, Human assistants were running around like ants while Perceptor was pulling Wheeljack out of the room.
"Preceptor what has occurred?" Skyfire asked joining him. taking the engenier from his mate.
"Just an experiment, it didn't work though." The red mech said cheerfully. "Ratchet is going to be mad, he just fixed that arm."
The arm in question was Wheeljack's, that Perceptor carried in one hand while looking down at his mate. His optics shown with fondness for the elder mech, he looked at Skyfire and smiled.
"I should get him to Ratchet, Chase, Dr. Johnson, if you would start the cleanup?' he asked the humans standing in the smoky doorway.
"As soon as the smoke clears," The young man said with a nod. The one who had spoken was dark haired and sat on a wheeled chair that a quick search through the Internet told him about it and he said nothing. An older man looking as amused as the teen in the chair coughed once.
"Go take care of the boss Perceptor. We'll handle things here," The scientist chuckled.
"Of course," The mech agreed.
Skyfire and Perceptor dragged Wheeljack to the hospital near the labs. As soon as they got there Ratchet was at the large doors for the Autobots and glaring.
"Of all the idiotic times to blow himself up, get him in here and in his spot I'll get to him eventually." Ratchet groused.
The two moved him inside. There was another bot that looked like he had been thorough a fight on one berth. The mech in question looked highly amused at the scene himself.
"Is Wheeljack okay?" the damaged bot asked. He was large and black with an odd weapon on his left shoulder.
"He'll be fine just his weekly blowing himself up. Preceptor keep an optic on him while I finish up repairs on Trailbreaker."
"Yes sir," Perceptor said and started working on his mate.
"Sorry that you're first visit to the lab had an explosion, Skyfire." Perceptor said, still amused at his mate.
"It is acceptable and not unusual." The other said. "It is a wonderfully familiar moment in a strange place."
"Of course old friend. " Perceptor agreed.
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Spock had remained behind in the science labs and observed the young men and women who were watching the smoke fade away. The older man who had been laughing approached him. He wore jeans and a faded t-shirt under a burned lab coat. His dark hair was thinning and he looked to be in his forties. The others were a young blonde woman also in a lab coat and a brunette girl along with the boy in the wheelchair.
"You're one of the people who brought Skyfire back to us right, I'm Dr. Brian Jones, Wheeljack is my partner, this is Chase he's Perceptor's partner, Dr. Rebecca Howard and young Misha they don't have any partners yet but there are more Autobots on the way." The blonde woman and the girl nodded at their names.
"Yes we did return him to his people here. I am Commander Spock, science officer on the USS Enterprise."
"A pleasure, well the smoke's clearing, come along kids we have cleaning up to do before the boss gets fixed."
"Boss?" any of his fellow crewmen would have recognized the tone and the raising of one eyebrow as curiosity, Dr. Johnson just shrugged and smiled as they entered the blown up labs.
"Yeah, Wheeljack's in charge here. We'll most of it unless we are doing specialist research."
"Fascinating." Spock said as they got to work.
Most of the damage to the lab was a burnt out machine and a few smoke stained tables. Everything else seemed no worse for wear. Chase got to work on one of the other computers while Misha clambered up onto a table and started to sweep it.
"What is the purpose of this experiment?"
"Something Wheeljack has been working on for a while. We are working on a refining process for their major fuel source energon, they can not survive so well on fossil fuels but this process will also help us humans in dealing with our own declining power sources." Misha told him from her perch on the table.
"Have you been successful?"
"In part the only problem is it is unstable and the stabilizing processes is as you saw explosive." Chase laughed.
"Is the fuel generally unstable?"
"No it's not the fuel it's the process." Misha told him. "there's something missing."
"I still say it's nothing we are missing." The doctor said with a frown. "we've done everything."
"Perhaps a fresh observation is in order?" Spock spoke up before the two could argue further.
"Sure come here." The group got to work.
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Bones was in the middle of a conversation with the human CMO when they got word that Wheeljack had blown his arm off for the third time that week. The woman looked like she was about to burst out laughing at the words from her partner before turning back to Dr. McCoy.
"What's so funny?" he asked.
"Wheeljack, he keeps doing these things you'd think he was just making an excuse to see Ratchet." she shook her head.
"He does this a lot?" the man asked.
"yes, he's a scientist and a mad one at that." She said with a fond smile. "I'd go and help but I have an appointment soon. Ratchet knows that, he can handle Wheeljack."
As she spoke there was knock on the door and a young blond woman entered the office. She had short hair done up in small spikes in the front and blue grey eyes. In her arms was a small child maybe six months in age. The child's wisps of hair were ash blonde and when the small head turned his way he saw the eyes were bright blue.
"Sorry I'm late Doc, someone wanted to stay in his crib." the young woman nuzzled the child.
"Syd, you and Smokescreen are nearly two weeks late for your checkups and if you're late then so is Brandon which is not good for a child his age." Dr. Mertis scolded.
"Sorry we were on our way but this weird new con showed up outside of Vegas and she was a tough one to fight. Smoke says it's one they call Ravage Con special ops we lost her before we got here."
"That's the main problem with you outsiders; you are in lot of danger I would rather you at least left Brandon here."
"I can't he's my son." she smiled at the child. then she looked over at Bones who was watching them "Hi Syd Lancaster, I'm one of the outsiders, my partner's Smokescreen Diversionary tactics." she said proudly holding out one hand while juggling the child. "And this is Brandon my son."
"Leonard McCoy, I'm Chief medical officer on board the Enterprise."
"The ship that found Skyfire right? I'm glad he's okay, "
"He was fine this morning."
"Great."
"Syd, if you'd excuse me Leonard these two need their monthly checkups." Dr. Mertis took the child from his mother and the boy wiggled.
'Of course." he nodded watching the child as the pair left the room.
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Jim had been wandering around the base since he had gotten bored watching Ironhide yell at his men. As he wandered he noticed one thing that there was a large number of security cameras. They seemed to be everywhere, it made sense that a top-secret base would have them but the number seemed kind of excessive. They were not in the Restrooms or inside any personal barracks but they did sit at the doors to both. As he was looking around suddenly alarms blazed and the intercom came to life.
"Attention everyone intruder alert. all personal an intruder is on base,." Blaster spoke over the sirens. "All non combatants make your way to the barracks or nearest shelter."
Jim's communicator beeped and he answered it. "Kirk here."
"Captain where are you?" Spock's voice came from the communicator, it sounded calm but Jim caught the slight worried undertone to it, so slight only him or Bones would ever notice it.
"I'm close to the barracks." Jim answered. "And looking for one of these shelters that he mentioned."
"I would suggest you find a shelter captain, the science and med labs have already been closed off."
"I'm on my way Spock the rest of the crew?"
"I have managed to contact all but Mr. Chekov and Lt. Sulu."
"I'll speak to someone, I'll see you after this is over."
"Of course captain." the communicator clicked off. he had no clue where Chekov had gone after breakfast, he and Sulu were supposedly going to look around but he was sure it was for a good place to make out rather than any information. Continuing towards the marked shelter he was stopped at the shelter by a man in fatigues.
"Captain Kirk sir? We have received word one of your men is missing." The soldier spoke.
"Yes is there any word on him?" he asked.
"No Sir, we will inform you the second he is located, please enter the shelter." the man nodded, and the captain slipped into the shelter.
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Chekov was not sure what was going on. He and Sulu had been looking around the storage areas near the Recreation area. One moment there was some kind of alarm and the next thing he knew there was a growl, Hikaru shouted and then he was thrown against the ground, and was being held there by a large mechanical cat like machine. The single glowing red eye was focused on his face it's long tail arched over its head, weapon ready. A blue beam ran over his face and the creature growled when he struggled.
"Do not move Fleshy or I vill kill you. Vhere is Ladiesman217?" the gravely almost female sounding voice came from behind sharp razor like teeth.
"Who?"
"The Vhitviky boy! Where is he located fleshling, do not lie to Me." the tail lashed angrily slashing at the metal wall of the nearest building.
"I do not know I svear." he stared up at the face wondering if he could even reach his phaser, or if this creature would let him try for it.
"You may not know but you vill make a hostage. They will bring the boy to me in return for you." she grabbed his collar with her teeth moving off of him.
Taking a chance, Chekov tried to scramble to his feet and grab for his phaser. Before he could even grab it though, the long tail whipped out and knocked the phaser away with a loud clattering sound. She was on him again in a flash.
"Do not try something so foolish again fleshling. I vill not hesitate to kill you and find a new hostage." The Decepticon's growl made him shiver, this had to be one of them. They had been told a little about them. Though this one had not been mentioned.
She dragged him by the collar out of the narrow area between storage buildings; he did not see Hikaru anywhere and had no clue what had happened to him.
"My friend where is he?" he demanded suddenly afraid this monster had hurt him.
"He vas not much trouble, you vere a better target." She answered around his shirt. The second human had tried to stop her attack, she had thrown him into a nearby wall with her tail as she pounced the one she had now.
Ravage's mission was simple find the boy and locate the remains of the AllSpark and lord Megatron. Soundwave had entrusted her to do this with no help from her fellow Decepticons. She knew he was here somewhere, the boy who had killed their lord Megatron, if Soundwave's instructions had not been otherwise she would kill him herself once she found him. Her orders were just to bring him to Barricade for transport.
Once away from the storage buildings they found themselves surrounded by black clad security guards and Prowl. The black and white mech had a weapon aimed at the Decepticon leveled at her head easily. The humans looked slightly nervous and there were no other Autobot's in sight.
"Careful Prowl I vill kill the human." She growled at the elder Cybertronian. Her single eye focused on him and ignoring the humans surrounding her, they were inconsequential. Prowl on the other hand, he was much older then her and more powerful. She was well aware he could cause her a lot of harm.
"Drop him Ravage, he and his comrades have no place in our war."
"He is here he is part of it. Let me have the boy Vitvicky and I'll drop this one."
Prowl's optic dimmed and Reggie shifted slightly his own gun also trained on the Decepticon.
"Prowl? What are we going to do?"
"Keep her in your sights Reggie, everyone stand ready do not let her get way." he ordered the guards around them. "This is Prowl my team has located the intruder sir, it's ravage and she has Mr. Chekov as a hostage." he reported in.
"Keep her there Prowl, back up is approaching your location." was his answer.
"Yes sir."
"You need back up Prowl? To face me?" she taunted.
"No." he answered.
There was a slight rustle of movement and Ravage was not given time to react before she was thrown away from Chekov by a machine similar in form to her but bronze in color. Chekov's shirt ripped as the Decepticon was knocked away and he scrambled towards the guards as the two cat-like Cybertronians circled eachother.
"Steeljaw, a pleasure to see you again brother."
"Ravage, up to your old tricks." The bronze beast answered launching at her once again.
While the pair fought Chekov had made it to the others and was breathing hard.
"Are you alright?"
"Yes, Hikaru, he was vith me. I don't know vhat happened to him."
"Peterson go look for him Andes go with him." Reggie ordered the two men nodded once and ran off in the direction Ravage had come from.
As all of this was happening the medical team arrived with dr. McCoy among them.
"Chekov!"
"I am alright sair." The young ensign answered.
"Let me be the judge of that." The doctor grumbled as one of the others grinned and turned to Prowl.
"What about her?" The medic asked watching the Decepticon and Steeljaw fight.
"Steeljaw can handle Ravage we will brig her and discover what they want." Prowl said as the men closed in on the now beaten femme.
"Sam of course." Miles told him.
"Possibly." The mech agreed.
"What do you mean possibly? She said she was here looking for him and you know…" Miles trailed off looking at their guests and shut up then glared at Prowl. "I'll go look for him."
The blonde ran off toward the command center. Prowl barely registered Mile's annoyance at him as one of the men who had gone to find the missing man returned at a run.
"Sir we found Lt. Sulu he's up against one of the buildings he looks bad." Andes said as he rejoined them.
"Show me the way." Dr. McCoy said standing up.
"Hikaru?"
"I'll take care of him Chekov you stay right here."
"Sir Inferno is on his way to take any injured to medical." One of the men reported
"Very well, Andes and Peterson will assist with the escort myself Reggie and the rest of the team will escort Ravage to the brig."
"Yes sir." the men chorused.
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Skyfire and Spock were surprised by the results of the shut down, the science group had simply shrugged of the alarm and returned to work. They had no idea what was going on. And they had work to do. The soldiers could handle the Decepticon and of they got as far as where the medical and science sectors were, well they were all slag anyway. This being the general consensus they simply went back to whatever it was they were doing.
Chip was pouring over the computers talking with a robotics expert miles away in another facility. While Misha was pushing scrap around a table trying to make it conform to something they could work with. Perceptor was looking over the data from the last failure showing the points of contention to the new arrivals.
"Preceptor this line here is off by thirty degrees." Skyfire said suddenly pointing out the area.
"It is? Yes I see that would explain the instability with the carbon silicates." The younger mech agreed.
"That would explain the explosion certainly." Wheeljack agreed.
"It would?" Spock asked. He was still not certain that the safety of the science lab should be in the hands of this white and silver machine with a perchance for explosions but he was an old friend of Skyfire's and they had done experiments together and Skyfire still functioned.
"Yes I believe it would. Very good Skyfire you and your partner were always better at these calculations than myself." Wheeljack said cheerfully the fins on either side of his face flashing as he spoke.
A few minutes more, and there was a knock on the doors to the lab then they opened admitting Dr. McCoy entered.
"Spock,"
"Doctor."
"They found Chekov and Sulu they're injured Jim's at medical you should join us there."
"Of course, if you would excuse me."
"Go on Mr. Spock comrades injured are more important than chemistry." Chip told him.
"Of course."
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Miles did find Sam at the command center along with Bumblebee, Mikaela Hotrod and Longarm. The group was in conference with Optimus when he arrived. So he took up a post in the command center's main room.
"Hey Miles my man how's it look out there?" Blaster asked as he entered.
"Hi Blaster, looking good now, Prowl's team got Ravage."
"I heard, " the normally cheerful bot sounded alittle upset at this but cheered back up again. Miles smiled at him reassuringly
"Prime's been holed up since it happened we got another sighting in china too."
"Great the con's have been pretty quiet since Rome, what happened?"
"Your guess is as good as mine."
"Looks like this week's going to be pretty busy with me and Sam going to college and more Decepticon sightings." He sighed. "Should we go? I mean really we could do so much more good here with you guys."
"Rules little bro. Government won't let you guys hang around unless you have a reason soon. Look at all the restrictions they put on us."
"Yeah completely unfair by the way."
"Fair or not Miles it is what we must expect." Came Optimus' voice as the group who had been sequestered in his office stepped out.
"Right still not fair." The blonde huffed.
"Miles, I hope you being here means that Ravage is in the brig." Sam told his best friend. He loved Miles like a brother but there were times he swore the boy was crazy.
"Yep Prowl's got the kitty in the sack."
"I do not believe Ravage would qualify as a kitty or would fit in most sacks." Bumblebee replied cocking his head to one side.
"A turn of phrase you over grown kiddy car." Miles told the scout.
The yellow scout just shook his had a gesture he'd adopted from the humans he like so much and turned his attention back to the others.
"Blaster have major Lennox and his team join me on the tarmac. Also have a C-17 ready for take off."
"On it Prime." The com officer said with out even missing a beat. "All will be ready before you even step out of the command building."
"That is what I like to hear Blaster." The older mech nodded.
Everyone on base was used to this by now, Optimus Prime though a large machine was the well regarded leader. Among the men and women of the base his word was law, none seemed to notice that the humans had picked up the Autobot's attitude towards their leader it was so easy to follow the mech's lead and look up to him. Will was field leader on a lot of missions for the human element, but he did not mind the way his people treated the Autobots they worked along side.
Optimus left the building heading for the tarmac followed by Miles, Sam, Bee and Mikaela. At the tarmac, Ironhide, Will, Epps Bluestreak, Trent the twins and a dozen more human soldiers were waiting for their leader's arrival. Many snapped to attention seeing the tall blue flame painted mech.
"Major Lennox."
"Optimus the team's all ready to go."
"Very good."
As everyone going prepared to step on board the C-17, Sunstreaker and Sideswipe said goodbye, along with their partners.
"Bring him back in one piece Sunny or I might have to hurt you." the younger blonde threatened the gold warrior in a decent imitation of Ratchet.
"Right keep my brother in one piece too Squishy." the Warrior answered back.
"I only have to worry about drunk frat boys sunshine." Sideswipe told his twin.
"Which might be worse than these cons." Trent said as he and Sunstreaker turned to join their respective team.
"Take care Trent Sunstreaker." Mikaela told them with a quick hug.
"Yeah and you take care of these two." He gestured at Sam and Bumblebee.
"Oh I will." She smiled.
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The Crew of the enterprise currently residing on the Autobot base were all in a waiting room in the hospital. Once the red alert had ended and they had learned about Sulu's and Chekov's run in with the Decepticon Ravage the group had rushed to see him. Now Jim was pacing between the two couches situated for waiting comrades to sit on while Spock sat on one couch and Gaia had claimed the other for herself along with a manual she had gotten from one of the engineers on base. They all knew that Dr. McCoy was with Sulu who had been hurt.
"I wonder what happened to him." Gaila said looking up from the book in her hands.
"All we heard was that the intruder found him and Chekov." Jim answered.
Finally Bones joined them looking tired.
"Bones how's Sulu?" Jim demanded seeing his old friend.
"He'll be fine had a nasty blow to the head he's resting now and the kid's with him. " he grumbled.
"And Chekov?" Gaila asked.
"Aside from a few scratches and teeth marks on his back he's fine it was a scare though that Ravage is a nasty piece of work from the sound of it." The doctor growled. "According to him she was looking for that Sam kid."
"Perhaps the boy is simply a target because of his proximity to the Autobots." Spock commented.
"Anyway it's not really our concern is it? I mean as long as we stay away from that Ravage thing right?" Gaila asked.
"Maybe but keep an eye out for trouble."
"Yes mom." Jim told him with his typical smile.
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AN. This chapter is a turning point for the story, things will be different from ROTF.