Shattered hope chapter four
Autobot frigate. Somewhere in the western coast of America.
"You" A pissed of Wheeljack and Springer growled towards the large blue and orange Mech pilot.
"Ultra-Magnus it's an honour." Bulkhead told the pilot.
"It's Ultra-Magnus, sir." The large mech gruffly replied as he looked at the four new bot's on board his ship. "The ships system said there was only three signals not four." He then remarked only for Ratchet to face palm and reply,
"Magnus I will explain that to you later."
"How about now?" the large mech ordered,
"Novaflare isn't fully Cybertronian, she is a human-Cybertronian Hybrid and due to her human half, it acts as a shield and conceals her signal. That's why she never showed up on your scanners." The medic replied.
"Well that would explain that." Magnus said, before looking over at the three new mechs on board his ship, he sighed noticing that they were a couple of the most elite wreckers.
"Springer, good to see that you're… online. I thought you had been terminated long ago." The commander cautiously tested. He wasn't on the best side with the wreckers as on his first mission as there leader replacing Springer, he had let Springer get captured, which led to Pyro's, top-spins and twin-twist's termination.
"Ah screw you Magnus I thought I got away from you once half of us disbanded." Wheeljack huffed, but was interrupted by Springer before he could say anymore.
"Magnus, it's so good to see that you cared about me and my team, I heard that most of them left your command after my capture." Springer told him with a smirk on his face, "Although I should be mad at you like Wheeljack, I must thank you."
"Thank me for what soldier?" Magnus grumbled.
"If it wasn't for my capture, I wouldn't have saved a few hundred other captured Autobots, steal a ship and head to earth, fall in love with my now deceased human wife, and have my lovely daughter Novaflare." The former wrecker commander told the Mech. Magnus just shook his head.
"Now could someone please tell me what just attacked MY ship?" Magnus barked,
"It was a predacon, a mean and ugly as pits Predacon and it seems to have taken a fondness to me as it attacked me first and went straight for me the whole time." Wheeljack complained, leaving the other bot's in shock,
"A predacon… but there only in Myths and legends. Are you sure that you weren't glitching out." Ratchet told the four. Bumblebee and Sari were taken back and showed a little bit of fear, as they were the youngest and had been told the legends as sparkling's.
"Ratchet it was real and all, this scorch mark here was caused by the beast." Bulkhead told them all, as he pointed to the large scorch mark on his shoulder.
"Do you know where it came from?" Elita asked,
"I don't really know. Miko heard it first before we could see it." Springer told them, while looking over towards his daughter,
"It came up from Nevada direction, over the mountains, before it circled around and attacked us. I heard it fly up from that direction first before I saw it." The black and pink femme told the group of bots.
"You know this how young one?" Prowl asked.
"Th first thing I learned in my ninjitsu training was to listen to the movement of any enemy attackers and locate their position just by listening before sneak attacking." Miko smirked, when she told the group. She noticed a small smirk fill Prowls faceplates before it vanished.
"So does that mean Prowl and Jazz aren't the only Ninja bots on board the ship anymore?" Sari asked curiously.
"That depends, I learned my Ninjitsu here on earth, while I take it Prowl and Jazz learned on Cybertron, am I correct?" Miko asked,
"Yes and since I have not seen human ninjitsu we can only speculate." The black and gold mech told them, only for Wheeljack to input,
"Don't be so sure, most human martial arts follow the same form as our and all the same moves to. Heck I was trained in metalliko while Nova was trained in Kendo and all the moves and everything are the same as what I was taught in the dojo." The inventor told them, "And so are half her ninjitsu moves." He finished.
"Then I look forward to training with you soon young Novaflare." Prowl told the femme.
"So how did you find us?" Bulkhead asked,
"We were in the sector when our systems had picked up an unknown energy signal of mass proportions. We decided to go and investigate, only to realise it had hit this planet inhabited by theses fleshy carbon organics." Elita told the four.
"Ah ships systems den picked up ya signals so we decided ta give ya all a lift seeing how ya had Split." Jazz broke in.
"We had found Cee and Jack first and then discovered Bee, Ratchet and Raf at the crashed con ship the harbinger. We then picked up your signal and headed straight for you." Chromia told them
"And it looks like a good thing to. That Predacon must have been as scary as the pits to fight off by yourselves." Sari input.
"It was. I'm going to have nightmares about that thing for weeks now, not even my rockets could penetrate its armour." Miko gulped, as she looked to the Minicon on her shoulder. Bumblebee picked up Rafael and placed the young hacker on his shoulder, before buzzing
"(I just hope that's the last we see of it… it would be a worse situation if it was a Decepticon.)"
"That may be true Bee but we can't be certain… it could be a new toy of the Decepticons as it came up from Nevada, but we currently have no way of finding out if it was." Springer told the scout.
"Hey where's Smokescreen?" Novaflare asked, concerned that he wasn't present with them
"Don't know? His signals not showing up on any of the scanners." Magnus sighed,
"Well he's probably using the Phase shifter, it acts as a shield as well making him un-detectable to any computer." Arcee told them, "I saw him steal it back off the con's in the brawl on Cybertron."
"What happened on Cybertron sister?" Elita asked curiously,
"We were about to bring Cybertron back online with the Omega lock when Megatron arrived. We had beaten them earlier, but he came back with an offer. The omega keys or Raf and Jacks lives." Arcee explained,
"And you let did what next?" Chromia asked,
"(We handed the key's over, to save the boys.)" Bumblebee beeped
"WHAT?! WHY?!" Magnus barked at the scout. He wasn't too pleased at the thought that two organics were worth more than one planet.
"We handed the key's over. Jack holds the key of vector sigma making him an honorary prime while Raf is this planets greatest hacker, as he has hacked into the Nemesis's computer mainframe and leaked information to us without Soundwave even noticing and being able to keep Soundwave out of a computer that he's trying to hack into." Bulkhead told the blue and orange commander.
"Anything else to add?" Ultra Magnus wined towards Springer,
"Don't look at me Magnus, Nova and I were in Japan the whole time giving my now deceased human-sparkmate a decent funeral. We were only called back to base once Ratchet lost contact with the bot's on Cybertron. We were the first to see Bucket heads new palace being formed here on earth, and the Nemesis and seeker armada making a beeline towards the now former base." The black and orange truck-former spat towards the other truck-former.
"How did Megatron build his fortress on this planet that quickly?" Prowl questioned only for Arcee to answer.
"Simple with the Key's in the omega lock, he had fired the lock into a space bridge aimed towards the earth. He had attempted to Cyber form the planet, but Optimus used the star saber to destroy the lock." Arcee smiled sadly,
"So does that mean there's no way to bring Cybertron online again?" Sari asked dejectedly.
"Not unless we steal the key's back and the forge of Solus prime and use that as a means to reconstruct the omega lock and then activate the lock." Springer informed the orange and cream minicon.
"So where ah does Keys Springs?" Jazz asked.
"Probably in a trophy room in Bucket heads new palace. We get in there steal the key's back and take out that fortress and the fusion cannons up top." Springer confidently told them. Ultra Magnus Smirked at the prospect of leading an assault on Megatron's new palace. While the others sensed a plan coming to form. They all started to chuck plans out into the open until they finally had one which they all agreed on.
Arcee, Chromia and Elita would take out the one half of the fortress power core, while Springer, Wheeljack and Bulkhead would take out the second half of the power core as the cores were on to separate levels from the plan design. Prowl and Jazz would Make their way up to the trophy room and retrieve any relics and Omega key's they find. All the while Miko, Bumblebee and Sari would cover Raf, Jack and Ratchet as the Doctor and Raf hacked into the fortresses computer systems and download all schematic's from the computers and transfer them to the ships computers. While Ultra Magnus took on the suicidal Mission of storming and planting explosives in Megatron's throne room and at the base of the fortress. With their plan ready to preform Magnus got behind the controls of the ship once more and they headed off in the direction of the Decepticon fortress, but they had one stop to make first. The Army camp just outsides the dome which kept them from breaking through and attacking the fortress. As the ship approached the temporary army camp all the tanks and anti-aircraft missiles were turned on the ship. Director Fowler, general Brice and Nurse June Darby ran to check the ship out, and were pleased to see the Autobot symbol on the side of the ship. As the cargo bay on the ship was lowered the nurse ran towards the group of bot's and Humans making their way down and out of the ship. The nurse ran to the raven haired boy that had just dismounted off the ship and onto the tarmac, and pulled him into a hug.
"Jack, thank goodness you're all right."
"Heh… good to see you to mom." Jack replied as he returned the hug.
"Thank you Arcee for keeping him safe." June told the blue femme. Arcee walked up to June followed by Chromia and Elita, the nurse noticed this and decided to ask,
"Umm, Arcee who's the purple femme identical to you, and who's the pink and white bot too?"
"June allow me to introduce you to my twin sister Chromia and my older sister Elita-one." The two wheeler announced, "Chromia, Elita may I introduce you to June Darby, Jacks creator."
"It's a pleasure to meet you Nurse Darby, Arcee has told us about you." Elita kindly spoke, while Chromia nodded.
"It's a pleasure to meet you to." June replied.
"So who are the others?" Fowler asked, as he noticed Sari, Prowl, Jazz, and Ultra Magnus wander off the ship.
"I'm Ultra Magnus, Optimus primes chief lieutenant, and right hand mech during many a battle." The large blue mech said as he wondered forwards,
"My designation is Prowl while his is Jazz, we are the Ninja bot's providing protection to Elita and Chromia under Prime's Orders when we left Cybertron." The black and gold mech spoke as he gestured to the white mech standing lazily beside him.
"Hi, I'm Sari, youngest Autobot on board the ship, and one of the last remaining Autobot minicons." The orange Minicon replied.
"I'm Director Fowler of Unit E and I welcome you to earth, right now were in a sticky situation with Buckethead held up in his pretty new palace." The director sighed,
"We can see that Director. That is where we come in but we need a favour." Springer Chuckled,
"What would that enquire Springer?" the army veteran sighed in reply.
"We plan on storming the tower and taking out the main power core, which should lead to the domes destruction. Once that happens we need a distraction to plant explosives and escape." Ultra told the man.
"So once the dome falls I take it you want us to let it rip and assault the tower… I suppose it's time to show old Buckethead that he's messing with the wrong planet. General what do you think?" Fowler asked as General Brice.
"I like the sound of that. So when do we begin." The general grinned, "I've been wanting to show this con who's boss all week since this fortress showed up."
"Were going to infiltrate the tower, and take out the power cores. Once we do that the dome should fall and the fusion cannons on top will not have anything to power them rendering them useless. At the same time we will try to retrieve any relic's the Decepticons are holding and the omega keys. Once that is done have your army open fire on the tower and we will set of explosives off to make the tower come crumbling down to the ground." Magnus instructed,
"Director is there anywhere we can rendezvous with you afterwards, as the decepticon's would be wary about our return to Outpost Omega one." Springer asked,
"That's a negative boys… outpost omega one is gone. The deceptions blew it down to the ground." Fowler told the soberly as he lowered his head. Arcee, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Bulkhead, Wheeljack, Springer, Miko, Jack and Raf all gasped in shock.
"No!" Arcee cried out, pain filling her voice.
"Shit." Jack cussed, as he shook his head.
"What!" Raf and Bumblebee spoke in shock.
"Scrap." Ratchet muttered.
"The fragger, my new guitar was in there." Miko shouted as she lifted her hyperspace mallet out and took it out against a ruined tank, levelling the top half.
"Slagging piece of fragging scrap." Bulkhead shouted as he pulled his maces out and hit the ruined tank levelling it even more.
"Those fragging glitches." Wheeljack cursed as he pulled out his katanas and sliced the tank into pieces.
"You know before you three took out your frustrations on that tank it could have easily been repaired, now it's definitely been decommissioned." Brice told them. The three wreckers just looked on sheepishly. Magnus just sighed and muttered "wreckers" under his breath.
"Fowler do you know if Optimus made it out of the base before it collapsed?" Springer asked, he heard the group of new bots gasp, clearly Arcee had not informed them that Optimus prime was on earth and was the leader of their small group, but none gasped as loudly as Elita.
"Oh Orion." Elita whispered sadly. Chromia hugged her older sister trying to make her feel better.
"I'm sorry no, but if he was still in the base then the con's would have found him as they were digging up the remains of the base trying to search for any of your remains, from what scouts have reported." The director told them. Only to continue, "We can set up a rendezvous in Arizona, there's an airbase close to the New Mexico Stateline and the Mexican border your ships computers should be able to take you there, and after that well help you set up a new base in one of those other states as old Buckethead would be wary encase you try to set up another base in Nevada. So are you all going to head there straight after you blow up the tower?"
The group looked around at each other and all nodded, before turning back around to the three adults.
"Yes I suppose so." Magnus told them.
"God speed, and good hunting to you all." The general told them as he saluted them.
"Are you coming June?" Arcee asked.
"No there are wounded men here and I'll stay were I'm needed. Take care of Jack and I'll see you soon." The nurse told them as she hugged jack. "Take care Jack." She told her son as she broke the hug.
"See you soon mom." Jack replied as he made his way back over to the ship.
As the group all made their way back onto the ship, Fowler, Brice and half of the solders on the ground raised a salute to the brave team about to walk into the gates of hell. June just looked on as the large group made their way onto the cargo bay. The three humans on the tarmac could only watch and hope as the ship powered up and took off. General Brice and Director Fowler started to bark orders among the soldiers telling them to get ready for the coming assault. The temporary camp started to thrive with life as tanks came online and soldiers manned the cannons and the anti-aircraft, preparing themselves for when the dome falls. Once the dome falls all hell was going to break loose.
Inside the dome, omega outpost remains
A loud groan of pain filled the remains of the once prosperous base. The owner of the groan was wedged and mangled between a few large boulders and lots of steel beams that once held up the mountain above them. The poor bot trapped underneath all the rubble had been there for nearly a week after ground bridging the rest of his troops out of the base, once the decepticon's launched an assault on the mountain in which there base resided as well as the town just a few minutes' drive away. The injured bot was running low on energon and had finally only just come out of stasis, he had tried to lift the few boulders and steel beams off of him with his free arm but found it to be of no use as pain seared up his arm as he moved it, likely broken due to the collapse. He had been sitting there in pain, running lower and lower his energon reserves. It was no use to call out for help as his team were scattered all around the states and the decepticon's would have found him by now if they were searching the bases ruins. He let the silence engulf him as he waited to be called to the well of the all spark. His silence was soon disturbed as he heard rocks slide and fall, as if someone knocked them to the ground. The large blue and red injured mechs vocaliser hitched as he tried to remain silent. He looked up and around to try and find the intruder. As he looked around he was surprised by what he saw… instead of the Decepticon leader he saw one of the newest additions to his team. Smokescreen. Optimus was in shock and surprise, he hadn't expected any of his team to return to base… it would have been suicide. How the elite guard managed to get into the base eluded him until he noticed the phase shifter was attached to his servo. The guard must have sneaked it away from the decepticon's in the brawl on Cybertron only days before hand. He tried to get the guards attention by moving some rocks but remembered his broken arm, so decided to grab his attention in another way.
"Ugh… Smoke… smokescreen…over here." The prime struggled, as he tried to grab smokescreens attention. Luckily the white mech was close enough to hear his leaders struggles, but pulled out his weapons systems just encase it was a Decepticon trap. As the solider moved closer to the source of the groaning he was in great shock when he discovered his dying leader.
"Prime!" the solider cried as he rushed over to his dying leader. The white mech lifted up the rubble that covered his leader and lifted him out, dragging him to a small concealed clearing in the bases ruins.
"What… what are…you doing back … here at base." The prime struggled to ask,
"I came back to see if there was anything salvageable and find a way to make contact with the others." The guard told optimus. "And from the looks of it I was right to return. You need help." Smokescreen told him.
The White race car quickly scoured the remains of the base to look for some medical tools to help his leader, but found nothing but smashed and mangled tools, an irreparable TV and games console, a smashed guitar and amp system the one he and Bee bought Miko, and other personal belongings scattered and destroyed around there former home. Smokescreen pondered about finding a way to help his leader before it became too late, when an Idea hit him. He made his way back to Optimus,
"Smokescreen… if I… if I am to… to join the well… I want you… I want you to take… take the matrix… and become… become the next… the next prime… in my place." Optimus wheezed, as he struggled to speak.
"No I'm going to go find the forge, it should help repair you. Stay here and try to stay awake. Okay." Smokescreen asked.
"Oh… Ok… okay." Optimus stuttered, groaning in pain. Smokescreen checked the area over first to make sure that no con would find Optimus, he looked over his leader first before heading off in the direction of the tower leaving the prime alone again. Once again the silence surrounded the prime as he struggled to stay awake, and alive. The silence was a comforting feature to the leader, as he was slowly dying. At one stage he heard a ship fly overhead but passed it off as being the Nemesis, and the decepticon's trying to track down his team. After probably two hours after Smokescreen left he had arrived back to the base with the forge dragging behind him. Optimus was in a worse state and his spark was about to terminate as he had started to grey and was getting colder and colder every minute.
"Prime I got it I got the forge." Smokescreen grunted as he dragged the forge to his leader,
"Smoke… smokescreen… there is … no time…take the…take the… matrix… there… there will be a new…Prime." Optimus struggled as he got even greyer.
"Not today prime. Backups arrived and they'll want to see you." Smokescreen said as he dropped the hammer into his almost terminated leader's servo. Optimus didn't say anything as the hammer started to glow gently. As the last of the Primes spark terminated the hammer engulfed him in light and a great change came over the leader. The light given off was that strong that smokescreen had to cover his optics, saw his leader was revived with a major change. After a few seconds the light died down as the once dead prime was revived, and had a nice new upgrade. As prime got up, he and Smokescreen heard alarms going off in the towering fortress behind them. Optimus was shocked to see a frigate smaller than the nemesis firing on the tower
"So ready to join the others, the tower isn't going to destroy its self." Smokescreen smirked as the pair looked over to the tower.
"I believe it's about time Megatron knew attacking earth was the greatest mistake he has made in the war so far." Optimus told the guard, as he activated his newly found jetpack and took off towards the tower.
"Whoa… that was unexpected." Smokescreen said to himself as he watched his leader take off towards the tower. He then decided to take off into the direction of the fortress as it was the most likely way to get back to the others. He picked up a few crushed belongings of the others and subspaced them before transforming and driving off in the direction of the fortress. The decepticon's would NEVER know what hit them now.
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