TWO HOURS BEFORE OPTIMUS' MISSION IN THE LAST CHAPTER
Captains Log Entry from Nemesis Prime of the Cybertronian Ship Alpha.
Since my last log it seems Arik Yamato has been classed as a trouble maker in my optics, the rest of my crew see him as a welcome addition. Cyclonus is happy to reunited with the first human he ever called a friend, Drift has discussing with Arik once our current mission is over the idea of going to visit the Junk Guild leader Lowe Gear. Gear was Arik's mentor for a time and was the one who gave him the Blade he uses. Red Wing and Flamewar enjoy Arik's daredevil attitude and seem to believe by helping him help others they can slowly repent for past sins. Fixit keeps to himself but during a checkup said he feels the Human is growing on me, he talks nonsense, sooner they are gone the better. And Swerve, well its not everyday someone laughs at his jokes.
Yamato has also seen it fit without my approval for other fleshlings to be onboard, his cousin Kaemon Zala and his Mobile Suit the Saviour are one thing but Nebulon Royalty in the form of Princess Llyra complicates matters. We have detoured from our planned course of Cybertron to head to the Jungle Planet of Klo where we are to meet the G.H.F ship Eternal, Lacus Clyne Yamato and Llyra are to meet for negotitations of a truce. How either side plans to ally when they are both in civil wars is beyond. Arik has spent alot of his time with the Princess, the human term according to Flamewar is his 'Smitten' with her. The sooner this errand is over the better, Yamato is proving more trouble then expected.
As Nemesis closed his Log and looked out at space on the bridge of the ship he didn't notice Kaemon listening in until he spoke up.
"You don't seriously not enjoy having us here do you?" he asked looking up at Nemesis who looked down at him. Nemesis didn't say anything back, just looked away but Kaemon smiled as he floated up to get closer to Nemesis' face.
"Come on now, you got high morale, everyones in good spirits, we did some good 4 days ago humiliating Stylor and you'll be hailed as a hero for protecting Llyra" he said trying to get a reaction.
"I will turn on the gravity if you do not get out of my face" said Nemesis sternly. Kaemon rolled his eyes as he floated to prop up on one of the railings.
"Suit yourself" he said.
"Why are you even here anyway? Didn't you have some kinda business back at Halfway?" asked Nemesis.
"Sold it all to my next door neighbour, guy was unemployed so I sold him the entire Bar for a single Credit. Left him all the information he needs and bought a service Bot to help him run it" explained Kaemon, "so now I'm free to come on this merry quest with my cousin"
"Its not a quest, its a errand and once its done you and your Cousin are getting off at Cybertron" said Nemesis.
"What you got against humans? You know barring going up against my Dad, Mom, Rodimus and the crew of Lost Light II back in the old days?" asked Kaemon.
"I have nothing against humans. Just humans who contradict my orders and get us into more trouble then we need to" said Nemesis.
"Yeah Arik does that alot, if its the right thing he won't stop till he's done it. And always he gets others roped in because we know he's right" chuckled Kaemon, "you know if you get to know him you might like him"
Nemesis said nothing but then looked at the ships radar as it started flashing.
"Whats up?" asked Kaemon as he floated over.
"Picking up another ship, scanners say its Cybertronian, their trying to hail us" said Nemesis.
Down in the hangar bays of the ship Cyclonus walked past carrying a box of supplies for Fixit when he heard laughter from one of the makeshift guest rooms for their smaller crew members.
"When are you two ever apart barring bed time?" he said quietly with a smile. In Llyra's room her and Arik were going through various photos they had. Arik was showing her one of his two year old self with a huge smile while being held by Kira who in turns was stood in the palm of Optimus.
"Had to use Magnus to lift Mom up and take that picture perfectly according to Dad" Arik chuckled.
"Look at your face, you were so cute and adorable" laughed Llyra as she went through her collection and found a small pad.
"A holo vid pad? Why did you have that? In fact why did you download your photo collection to the Gyan anyway?" asked Arik.
"Be glad I did" said Llyra as she touched the pad as a holographic vid was displayed in front of them. It showed a royal garden full of colourful flowers. In the video were two small children, one was a little Nebulon girl wearing a sky blue dress, the other was a little boy in a grey suit holding a little bouquet of roses looking very shy.
"Is that...us?" asked Arik.
"You probably don't remember, but you and your family were invited to Father's Birthday as a sign of good will. I think we were 4 at the time" explained Llyra.
"Wasn't that the birthday I punched Stylor into a pond?" asked Arik.
"No" said Llyra, "...that was the year after"
As the video played the voice of Kira could be heard in the background introducing Llyra to Arik. The little Yamato stepped forward and shyly bowed offering her the roses. Llyra in turned giggled and took them saying thank you before kissing his cheek. The young Arik could be seen blushing before turning and kissing her on the lips before being asked by Kira what he was doing.
"Isn't that what you do when someone kisses you Daddy?" Little Arik asked.
As the video ended Arik couldn't help but look embarrased as Llyra laughed.
"First meeting and I'm going for the kill" he muttered.
"It broke the tension, don't forget after that you couldn't seperate us. 'Friends Til Till The End' we always said" Llyra chuckled.
"Yeah even if Stylor tried to break it apart out of spite. Which in turn led to me getting told off for fighting him and vice versa" sighed Arik.
"Yeah" Llyra said as it went quiet for a second before she spoke up again, "you know, I did get your message when you left the G.H.F, I'm sorry I never responded". She fell silent as she looked down at the ground, Arik did the same.
"Well I wasn't in the best of places. After what happened to Gaea and Commander Asuka..." Arik tried saying as he sighed, "Llyra, the stuff I said, I didn't mean it. I didn't hate your family, your race or anything like that. I know now your father was played for a fool by Galvatron. I thought when you saw me again in the hospital you'd by now have moved on and grown to hate me, I mean probably what I deserved given..."
Before Arik could even finish Llyra had thrown herself into him and hugged him tight taking him by surprise.
"You Fool, you damn fool" she said as she looked him straight in the eyes holding back tears, "you think just because of what you said in greiving meant I'd hate you. Dammit Arik Yamato you really are clueless at times" she said as she went into one of her pockets taking out a ring which housed in it a jewel the same colour as the one in her forehead. Arik was left in surprise when he saw it.
"You...you kept it?" he asked. Llyra was nearly crying but was smiling as she held it and was nodding.
"No matter what happened during that war Arik I swore to be true and never took it off. I never stopped loving you, even if we kept what we had a secret I didn't care, all I looked forward too was when you were able to take leave and I could be in your arms" she said, "and now here you are, three years later, your old self, doing what you always do, the right thing. Still the man who stole my first kiss, the man who started this relationship when we were 17, and three months before losing his home planet gave me this ring and I said yes"
Slowly she began to cry but then felt a hand on her face as with his other hand Arik took the ring and held it out. Llyra smiled even more as she let it once again slide onto her finger before finally after so long many years kissed Arik once again.
"I love you Llyra" Arik whispered to her.
"I love you too" Llyra said back when suddenly the ships alarm went off followed by a thud which shook the ship a little.
"The hells going on?" asked Arik as the two left the room to investigate and floated into the hangar. Only to nearly be knocked flying as Nemesis was sent into the hangar and crashed into several crate.
"Nemesis!" Arik shouted.
"Get Back!" Nemesis shouted back as he got back up and lunged at his attacker as the two grappled around the room. The intruder was not one anybody had expected to see.
"Grimlock?" Arik said confused as he watched the Dinobot's Leader trading fists with Nemesis. As this went on the Lost Light Crew came running in followed by Kaemon who was perched up Slag as the Dinobots followed as well as the Magna Trio, Ironhide and Cheetor.
"Cy what the hell is going on?" Arik shouted as he floated with Llyra to get away from the scuffle.
"The ship got a hailing from Grimlock's ship requesting to meet, soon as these two saw each other they went for it" explained Cyclonus.
"Typical no love loss between the two, my moneys on the boss" said Swoop.
"I dunno Nemesis Prime is known to survive blows from Megatron" Cheetor chimed in.
"They seriously having this conversation?" asked Llyra.
"Fraid so" said Slag.
"And no one is stopping it because?" asked Kaemon.
"3,2,1" said Santon.
"ENOUGH GRIMLOCK!" Ultra Magnus' voice boomed out as he stepped forward. Grimlock at once stopped as he grudgingly walked away to rejoin the Dinobots. Magnus walked past everyone and straight over to Nemesis who was slowly getting back on his feet.
"I had him taken care of" Nemesis said bitterly.
"I believe both of you decided to go for the other" said Magnus. Nemesis turned to face Magnus up front, a single finger outstrecthed on the Autobot's chest.
"You agreed that if I took this ship I would never have to see Grimlock's face ever again. I should have known you'd be hailing this ship and not say anything. You always do enjoy surprisingly me with visits" the Former Decepticon said angrily.
"This ones for a good reason. I'm calling in that favour" said Magnus, behind him the Alpha crew all groaned.
"Favour?" asked Kaemon.
"Magnus was the one who approved Nemesis the use of the Alpha to leave Cybertron with us as its little crew. Before leaving Nemesis said he owed Magnus one" explained Flamewar.
"But before that I have another question, why are two humans from two of the most powerful Human Families and a Nebulon Princess on this vessel?" asked Magnus.
"Hi Arik, Hi Kaemon" said Lio Jr.
"Hey Lio" said Kaemon and Arik.
"Not by choice, Yamato here was on a planet we crash landed on while being attacked. The Zala Boy chose to come with us, we're sorta being roped into playing escort with the princess" Nemesis explained.
"Not to mention three Mobile Suits as well. All of this is direct violation with our agreement with the Humans. No direct contact during these war times, and having Princess llyra onboard will make things worse" Magnus replied sternly.
"Hey we're here with good reasons Magnus" Arik snapped, "I chose to come onboard, same with Kaemon and we actually helped rescue Llyra from her dictator of a brother"
"Hey" Llyra shouted.
"I'm sorry I just really hate him" said Arik, Llyra rolled her eyes knowing arguing wouldn't change his mind
"Okay so we can discuss Protocol and any of Magnus' other favourite things later but whats this about calling in a favour?" ased Drift.
"Optimus is investigating a Decepticon mining base which maybe targetted by a possible danger to Cybertronians" explained Ironhide.
"What kind of danger?" asked Nemesis now curious.
"Ever hear of the Dread Fortune Pirates?" asked Magnus.
The crew of the Alpha went quiet at this moment as they all looked at Nemesis as his fists tightened to the point some Energon was seeping out.
"Go on" he then said.
NOW
As The Dread Fortune Pirates tore apart Vehicons, Bruticus continued to fight Computron and Kup's team were moving to take down the Warp Cannon, Optimus found himself dodging the attacks by the Cerberus Gundam while the remaining Wreckers were havin to deal with Thunderwing in his new armour.
"Silver Blackwater please I do not understand, why am I on your list of targets?" asked Optimus as he used his energy axe to parry the beam blades on the end of the Hound Heads being swung at him.
"Because you are guility of bringing your war to Earth. If you had not crash on our planet and made contact all those years ago then the Decepticons would not target humans and make us suffer like we have" said Blackwater as the heads retracted back to the arms and then began firing at Optimus instead.
"This is going by possibilities, even if the Ark hadn't crashed on Earth whats not to say Megatron wouldn't have targetted it for Energon anyway?" asked Optimus as he took cover behind some mining carts.
"All the same, you creating an alliance further led to our doom. And you will die for your sins" said Blackwater as she pressed a button in the cockpit, "Mobile Doll carrier 6, deploy now"
Above the battleground a surge of energy rippled and caused something to come through.
"What is that?" asked Sandstorm.
"A old ZAFT Mobile Suit Carrier. Things could carry large numbers of suits into battle, now stop wondering and focus on the immediate problem!" Springer shouted as they continued battling Thunderwing.
"Yeah Springer, I think thats everyones problem. Firstly because it came here via something similiar to a Space Bridge" explained Whirl, "a second THOSE!"
From the Carrier a large number of Strike Daggers began to descend and rain beam fire on everything in sight barring Dread Fortune members. At once everyone was on defence and ran for cover and even the Warp Cannon needed to be turned around to focus off Debris and target the new enemy.
"This is out of hand" said Thunderwing as he shook a clinging Roadbuster off him and quickly sent out a communication, "Soundwave this is Thunderwing, I require a emergency Bridge back to Charr for myself and the Combatacons. We've been compromised"
"Achknowledged, however Prototype Armour is too large for transport" Soundwave replied.
"I've already downloaded the combat data for Shockwave and Zarak" said Thunderwing as he abandoned the armour, pressing a button causing the systems and wires to ignite to remove any possibility of the enemy using it. Taking a moment to hacks down a GuAIZ that tried to stop him he transformed and flew over to where Bruticus was.
"We're reatreating back to Charr!" he ordered as Bruticus punched Computron away before disconnecting and the Combatacons joined Thunderwing as a space bridge protal opened and the six entered and vanished.
"Just how many members do these guys have?" asked Broadside as the Autobots regrouped only to be targetted by Dread Fortune as they regrouped and focused fire. From above the Autobot's cover Kup and his team leapt down as beam fire followed them.
"What happened?" asked Optimus.
"We'd just about nearly took over the control room when these guys came in and started shooting everything sight" explained Kup.
"Optimus, Computron is pinned down by both Dread Fortune ships fire and weapons systems are out of action. Ironfist is trying to repair them but Debris is a sitting Aerialbot" explained Steeljaw.
"Annnd its about to get worse" said Guzzle as the Warp Cannon had now turned and was targetted Optimus directly.
"Don't hesitate, for the justice of Humanity, destroy him!" Blackwater ordered.
As the cannon charged something landed right on top of it causing it to short circuit and was closely followed by a huge chunk being ripped off and thrown at the Dread Fortunes, destroying a good number of Strike Daggers.
"Admit it!" Ironhide called down, "I know how to make a entrance"
"Show off" Kup muttered with a smile as the sound of engines could be heard as Magnus' ship and the Alpha flew over the battlefield.
"Lady Blackwater, its..." one GuAIZ soldier started.
"Arik" said Blackwater, "shoot them down, do not let Optimus escape!"
As the Dread Fortunes opened fire the GuAIZ suits began to pull to the back of the group as the Dinobots jumped out and transformed, wasting no time in getting stuck right into the fight. Cheetor followed closely as he turned into his beast mode and bounded to Optimus' team.
"Magnus thought you could use some help sir" he explained.
"Appreicated but tell Grimlock to take it easy, they are still humans" ordered Optimus.
"Wait Prime" Ironfist said over the comm-line, "I managed to scan the enemy. The Strike Daggers aren't being piloted, their being controlled with a Mobile Doll Programme similar to the one the Decepticons used on Earth"
"How did they replicate it? The MD programme was lost when Earth vanished" asked Optimus, "and is that the Alpha?"
His second question was quickly answered as the Alpha's guns targetted the Dread Fortune Flagship and Nemesis leapt from the ship with Flamewar, Drift, Red Wing, Cyclonus, The Vanguard, Saviour and Gyan following.
"Its Payback time Blackwater, ATTACK!" ordered Nemesis as the group also waded into the fight. Computron meanwhile was trying to get to his comrades but the Mobile Suit Carrier ship was proving to much with its fire power. However a mighty battle cry rang out as Magnaboss came bounding in and firing a missile barrage at the ship to diasable its guns that were targetting Computron.
"Are you alright old friend?" asked Magnaboss as he helped the giant Technobot up.
"Damage to systems and body: 42 percent, Repair Systems: Activated, Grateful for aid: 100 Percent" said Computron.
"Lets get back to the main group. With any luck this will force them into a retreat" said Magnaboss.
Back at the mining base Cerberus has broke through the attacking enemies and leapt over the Wreckers and transformed to Mobile Suit mode before igniting its blades.
"Optimus Prime, you must die!" Blackwater yelled.
"NO!" Kaemon yelled as the Saviour tackled into the Cerberus causing both to fall down the large shaft leading into the mines.
"Kaemon!" Arik yelled as the Vanguard opened fire and cut through the Strike Daggers to Optimus, "Prime are you alright?"
"That voice, Arik Yamato? Is that you?" asked Optimus.
"Its me alright Optimus" said Arik with a smile on his face, "we gotta break through these suits to get to Kaemon"
"If you can hear me Arik you'll need to destroy that Mobile Suit Carrier somehow, the control signal for the MDs is coming from there, the carrier itself is on auto-pilot from a control signal I can;t locate" Steeljaw explained.
"Good to hear you too Steeljaw, Cyclonus, Llyra, Cover me!" Arik called as the Vanguard took flight.
"Your lucky this thing is built for flight and speed Arik Yamato!" Llyra called as the Gyan took off after the Vanguard.
"Right behind you" said Cyclonus as he transformed and followed.
"Magnus, can you help Arik take down that carrier?" asked Optimus.
"I'm already moving in, looks like the Dread Fortunes are pulling back" explaind Magnus as GuAIZ suits were returning to the flagship.
"Good, this will take them out in one hit" said Nemesis as he aimed his blaster at the Flagship only to be stopped by Optimus as he ran in and grabbed his arm.
"No my friend, no humans die" the Autobot Leader said sternly as Nemesis looked at him with anger in his eyes.
Down in the mine the Cerberus and Saviour tumbled down and hit the ground as Blackwater nearly was knocked out of her seat but the impact caused her masked helmet to come clean off.
"Dammit, got to get out of here" he growled but then as Cerberus slowly stood up the Saviour had its Beam Rifle aimed at it and the speakers switched on.
"Come out slowly Blackwater" said Kaemon, "I'd rather not have this end in bloodshed, just surrender now and face trial"
As Cerberus stood up right Blackwater slowly began to step out as the cockpit door opened, her hands were in the air as she looked straight at Saviour.
"Kaemon, is that you?" she asked. Kaemon looked at her and his eyes at once widened, his mouth nearly dropping.
"You...your leading them?" he asked.
Back topside thanks to help from Magnaboss and Computron the MD control ship was being brought down by Arik, Llyra and Cyclonus as they aimed for the engines and cockpit. At the same time the Dread Fortune Flagship was making its escape when Cerberus came flying back up and landed in the ships hangar as Blackwater placed her helmet back on.
"Launch Flashbangs and get us out of here!" she ordered. The ship launched as it fired a good quantity of flashbang greandes to blind any pursurers.
"After them quick!" Nemesis shouted.
"No, their forces are in disarray, right now we need to secure the base and tend any wounded" said Optimus.
"Do not give me orders Orion, my crew are not part of the Autobots" snarled Nemesis.
"Speak for yourself" said Drift as he, Fixit and Swerve went to help the others.
"Wait" said Arik, "wheres Kaemon?"
"Present" Kaemon called out as the Saviour emerged holding its left arm in its right hand, "anyone got a good welding kit?"
With the hour Magnus had managed to call in additonal aid as Perceptor arrived with Ratchet, Wheeljack, Blaster and the Aerialbots to help. Whilst the medics went to work Perceptor, Wheeljack and Ironfist began examining the Strike Daggers only to find the cockpits fried.
"An emergency protocol most likely, must have triggered when the Control ship went down. Silverbolt already reported the computer systems on the ship also have self detonated so to speak" Perceptor explained.
"What worries me most is how they have Mobile Doll tech?" asked Perceptor.
"Or how they used Space Bridge based technology to warp it here" Ironfist added.
"Figure out what you can, I'll go check on Debris and the wounded" said Optimus.
Onboard Debris Arik was looking over the Armour left by Thunderwing using the Vanguards scanners.
"You cons have been busy indeed" he said as he jumped out of the Gundam to get a closer look only to hear his name called out by Optimus and at once went running over.
"Its been a while" Arik said a tad nervously. Optimus at once knelt down and held out his hand, Arik was hesitant at first but then stood on the pal as he was lifted up.
"Its good to see you again Arik. You had us all worried" said Optimus.
"Its a bit of a story" chuckled Arik.
"Swerve gave a small rundown" said Optimus as he looked at Vanguard, "so thats the Vanguard Gundam you found"
"I've been meaning to see about getting Perceptor or maybe Lowe Gear to take a look at it" explained Arik when he looked back at Prime, "hey Optimus, how much did Swerve tell you?"
"Why do you ask?" asked Optimus.
"You know about the message?" asked Arik.
Before long Nemesis was called to the Bridge of the Alpha where Blaster, Grimlock, Ironhide and Magnus joined Optimus and Arik as the transmission from Megatron was being played.
"So this is why you were heading for Cybertron?" asked Magnus.
"We happened across when we were near Charr's territories. We were on our way to Cybertron to pass it over to you lot" explained Nemesis.
"In other words he was eager to get rid of it and not get heavily involved" Arik added.
"Watch it" Nemesis said sternly.
"Sounds about right for you Nemesis" said Ironhide. Grimlock chuckled as Nemesis had to restrain himself.
"Can you verify its authentic Blaster?" asked Magnus.
"Still load of static but this copy does seem legit. Frequencies are right, nothing to show potential tampering. It'll need to be given a proper examine though" explained Blaster.
"Do the Decepticons know you have it Nemesis?" asked Grimlock.
"Not that I know of. They havn't even come near us" said Nemesis.
"Then in that case we should accompany you back to Cybertron at once. This message is valuable to be lost" said Optimus. At that moment the bridge doors opened as Llyra came running in.
"Guys, a Autobot is coming in requesting a landing. They're bringing a message from the Eternal" she reported.
Without hesitation everyone made for outside as a long Autobot in jet mode came into landing and transformed into the female known as Windblade.
"Shes beautiful" said Llyra.
"You should see her blade skills, very nice" whispered Drift.
"Nothing that special" snorted Flamewar.
"Jealous much sis?" asked Red Wing.
Windblade at once approached the group but then broke into a run when she saw Optimus and wrapped her arms round him. Whilst the Decepticons of the Alpha Crew and Humans looked quick shocked and confused by this the Autobots however all looked away grinning.
"Windblade please, not in front of everyone" said Optimus, sounding a little embarrassed.
"Well stop making me worry when you go from simple investigation to fire fight Optimus Prime" Windblade snapped but then kiss his cheek before slapping it,"honestly is it to much to let your Girlfriend know before hand"
"Okay Prime your telling me about all this later" said Arik.
Windblade stepped forward and knelt before the Gyan.
"I am to assume this is the Mobile Suit of Princess Llyra of Nebulos?" she asked.
"It is and I am" said Llyra.
"My lady I am Windblade, Titan Speaker of the Planet Caminus, loyal follower of Solus Prime and the Legacy of the Primes. I come with information of your planned meeting with Lady Lacus Clyne. She regrets to inform you the Eternal was forced to retreat from Planet Klo when reports came in of the presence of the battleship Minerva II" Windblade explained.
"I thought the Minerva II was the G.H.F's newest battleship?" asked Kaemon.
"It was, but the Human Civil War has taken a new road. Yzak Joule has stepped down from the Galactic Council and taken the Minerva II and a handful of deserters to join Neo ZAFT. I am afraid it now flies as Neo ZAFT's new flagship, I learnt this from Lady Lacus" Windblade continued.
"What? But among Commander Joule's forces were the Luna Squad" said Kaemon, both him and Arik were left in surprise.
"Yes, they too followed him to join Athrun Zala" said Windblade.
"Wait whats this Luna Squad?" asked Arik.
"Before I left home Luna Squad was basically taking those of us from the Asuka Squad and placing us under Commander Luna's charge" explained Kaemon, "you had already left and Mayu had vanished too"
"Which left only Sadie and Lauren...oh no" said Arik.
"That is not all" said Windblade, "as I departed once learning you were enroute to here a SOS from the Minerva was sent out, though partly fuzzy they were requesting help from attacking enemies. I detoured to Klo to investigate only to see no sign of the ship but some debris of metal floating near the planet"
"Luna is in trouble? Prime you know I still consider her a dear friend" said Cheetor with great worry.
"Take it easy Cheetor" said Optimus.
"No he's right, some of us have friends and family on that ship. Plus I want to hear why Commander Yzak just went and jumped sides like that" said Arik.
"Not your call to make Yamato, besides Llyra is now off the ship, the jobs done, her contacts fled, we're heading to Cybertron" said Nemesis.
"Well if your not going to help I'll go alone!" Arik shouted back.
"Your not going alone" said Cyclonus, "you are my friend, I'll help, besides we of the Alpha owe you for saving us back when we all first met"
"Cyclonus is right, count me in Arik" said Drift.
"Me too" said Red Wing.
"The rest of us can head to Cybertron with the data and regroup afterwards, right Captain?" asked Flamewar.
Nemesis grumbled and growled before nodding.
"You'll need a ship, fortunently mines more then big enough. I'll help too" said Magnus.
"Ratchet, can we move the wounded to the Alpha?" asked Optimus.
"The Technobots are the only ones in need of major repair so I see no issues if Nemesis doesn't" said Ratchet.
"I can take care of them, you better go with them in case they need your help" said Fixit.
"I appreciate it Fixit, thank you" said Ratchet.
"If we got big bads you'll need someone who knows how to do some Jammin" said Blaster as he petted Razorclaw.
"You won't see me going home now, my best friend needs me" said Cheetor.
"Optimus, request permission for me and my team to join them?" asked Silverbolt.
"Same here, I'm itchin for a little action" said Ironhide.
"Very well, I assume Llyra and Kaemon will be going too?" asked Optimus.
"Naturally" said Llyra.
"Gotta save my sister again it seems" sighed Kaemon.
"Alright, I'll go with the Alpha back to Cybertron. Springer what of Debris?" asked Optimus.
"Already sent out a repair request to the Junk Guild, they'll be here within the next few hours" said Springer.
"DInobots, Magna Trio, remain on Debris for security until repairs are done" ordered Optimus.
"Aww Guard Duty" moaned Lio Jr.
"Springer, if I send the data I have on Vanguard Gundam to Debris can you make sure Lowe Gear get it, I'll attach a message to it explaining what I know too" Arik asked.
"No problem Arik, leave it to me" said Springer.
Before long once some supplies were transferred from the Alpha everyone said their goodbyes for now (except Nemesis who sulked back to the bridge) and as the Alpha departed the Minerva rescue crew met on the bridge.
"Engines ready, all in the green" reported Air Raid.
"This is your Command now Arik Yamato" said Magnus, "anything you want to say?"
"Thank you, all of you" said Arik, "now lets head for Klo and find the Minerva"
Next Chapter: Jungle Rumbles on Klo.
