Title: Project Delta V1
Summary: The Autobots are now back on Cybertron, going their separate ways where everybody had a destination or family to go to. Everybody but Bumblebee. Years later, the team is reunited (including Prowl :) but Bumblebee's missing. The others try to find him but gave up. When they return to earth, they fight against a few rouge decepticons and one that joined the ranks years ago. The mysterious decepticon is highly dangerous to anybot around him and is known to be as sparkless as a killing drone. But when he save Bulkhead from near death, the truth and secrets will be revealed. Animated (Insired by UsagiLovesDuochan's 'Saving Life' fic)
Rating: K+
Unit of Time:
Nanoklik ~ 1 second
Cycle ~ 1.5 minutes
Megacycle ~ 2.6 hours
Solar cycle 1 day
Deca-cycle ~ 10 days
Stellar cycle ~ 1 year
"Astrotrain, what are you looking for?" asked Acidstorm.
"This," was the reply. What he had in his hand was a strange device.
"That the thing to control the virus?" asked Dead End.
"Yes it is. They say that I wouldn't keep it. That he was the perfect decepticon. I guess they were wrong." Astrotrain place the device in a special hold then face the other two.
"Come on, lets go find our project."
/
After a about a megacycle, Optimus and the others have find an opening to the canvas. It was dark, so they use their headlights to light the way.
"You think Bulkhead's alright?" asked Prowl.
"Right now he's fine. I have a fixture on his spark energy." repiled Ratchet.
Optimus remain silent. Right now he was thinking about what he heard the decepticon say.
"Prime?"
Optimus jumped a little then turn to Ratchet. "Oh, sorry Ratchet. I was just thinking about something."
Ratchet 'hmmp'. "Thinking about that special virus the decepticon mention?"
Optimus nodded.
"As well as I," said Prowl.
"Well, I have heard rumors about the decepticons working on a virus, but frankly I don't really pay much attention to them. After today, it seems the rumors are true."
"So the decepticons have created a virus then use it on their own?"
"Maybe." said Optimus "But something tells me that the virus is part of a mystery and we're not going to like what we find."
/
Bulkhead was surprise that his little buddy could carry him with little to no problem. It must have to do with the upgrades or the new frame he got over the stellar cycles he was missing.
After looking for mega cycles they stopped to take a break. He took out some stash energon and hand it to Bulkhead.
"Here you go." he said with his static voice.
Bulkhead was about to take it but hestianted. "What about you? You must be low too."
"Don't worry about me. I'll be fine." True. He was running low on fuel after the fall but he had his energy levels lower than this so it doesn't matter much to him.
Bulkhead hestiant some more before taking the energon. The energon felt good going down into his energon lines. But one thought was still in his processor.
"So what happen to you? We looked all over for you but couldn't find you any where. We thought you were off-line." That last part he said really sadly.
He signed. Everything was mostly a blurr but at the same time a nightmare. He didn't really want to think about it now but he had stalled long enough. Bulkhead needed to know what happened to understand the current situation.
"Okay, here's what happen."
He had just arrive in the city. He didn't know how but he was somehow in the bad part of it. He look around looking for a place to stay for the night. He wasn't aware that he was being followed. Before he knew it, the whole street was empty. He continue look when he heard a voice.
"Oh, looky here. An autobot."
He turn around to see at least two larger than him mechs. To make things worse, they were Decepticons.
"I don't mean any trouble." he said backing away.
"We know." said one of them.
"We just looking for a test subject." said another with a evil smirk. Then a thrid one appear from the middle of the two.
"And we pick you."
He didn't like the sound of that. He backed away befroe he transform into vechile mood and fled. He didn't get far. The deceptiocons flew over him and block his way. He tranformed back and activated his stingers. He wasn't going anywhere with out a fight.
One of the decepticons fired a tranquilizer gun at him while he was detracted. He got a direct hit. He jumped when he felt pain and looked to see a dart. He pull it out but it was too late.
He started to feel very sleepy. His systems were falling into stassis. He fell on the ground as the three decepticons appoach him. He try to call for help but failed.
"He'll make a great test subject." was the last thing he heard before blacking out.
/
When he came back online, he was in a lab. His vision was blurry but he can hear what was happening around him. He recongize one of the voices. It was the voice of one of the decepticons that attack him. The other voice he couldn't identify.
He didn't really know what they were talking about. Was this the project that decepticon was talking about? A virus? Man, was he in deep slag. He couldn't think much more about it because he was felling into stassis again.
/
He never really gained consciousness again until he had arrive on earth. Up until then he was aware. He didn't know Blackout was him at first. He had some control over his body, but when Astrotrain was giving him orders, he would follow them without hestiation or question. It was like he was watching another bot's actions but restricted to never interfere, no matter how many times he trys.
Astrotrian. He remember now. He was one of the 'Cons who capture him and was in that lab before he black out. He was the one who took Blackout in as one of his men after Blackout went through stellar-cycles of training and had successfully send a warning to the Autobots by causing some real damage to Sentinal and his team.
Now, when he saw his friends he was happy and worried to see them. Happy because he get to see them again after Primus knows how long. But worried because Blackout was intending on killing them.
He mange to stop himself from killing the big green one, his best friend, but when he saw him getting shoot around his spark charmber something snapped. He did not know how he did it but suddenly he was no longer restrained by that invisible force. He was free and he was in full control.
/
He groan as he got up. That was some nasty fall. He looked around and froze. Next to him was the green bot and he was injuried. He quickly ran to his side and look at the damage. He can feel his spark weak pulse. He knew what to do but it would be riskly. He decided to do it anyways.
He opened both of their spark charmber and place his own spark close to Bulkhead's. It wasn't close enough so they can combine but it was close enough so he can transfer his spark energy to Bulkhead's.
What felt like hours was really minutes. As soon as Bulkhead's spark seem healthy enough he place his spark away from the other and close them up, feeling exhasted. He had lost a lot of energy doing that but he was glad his best friend was well. He went on working with the other damages as best as he could. Once he was done he went a few meters away from the offline bot and sat there with huging his knees while he fell into a light recharge. A few hours later Bulkhead had woken up.
Bulkhead look at his tired little buddy with sad and understanding optics. He went through so much thanks to the decepticons. How could they? How could they use his little as their science project. They were going to be very, very sorry when he's done with them.
Bulkhead did not even realise he had worked himself into a state of rage, until he felt his little buddy's hand on his.
"If you are planing to get revenge do that later. Right now, we should find Ratchet and get some repairs."
Bulkhead looked at him and signed. "You're right." He then handed the rest of the energon to him. "You need some as well."
He took it and thank him before drinking it down. He felt a little better but he was still running low.
"Bulkhead!"
Both mechs jumped before turning to the source of that voice. In front of them, were Optimus and the others.
"Boss-bot!" said Bulkhead, happy to see his friends. But he quickly remember they didn't know what was going on. He stood up as best as he could and place himself in front of the black mech. "No wait, he's not who you think."
Then there was a explosion. Rocks went flying as a voice was heard.
"There you are."
The bots look up to see Astrotrain and the rest of the decepticons. In his hands was the strange device.
"Now to fix that problem."
A/N: To summarize the flashback, Bumblebee was touring around Kaon when he got captured by Astrotrain and his freinds to be use as a test subject for a new virus the decepticons were making for the autbots, to make them loyal decepticons. When he landed on earth, his subconscious became aware of what he was doing. He was able to break free from the virus' control over his body when he saw Bulkhead got shot.
A/N/N: Having a bit of writer's block so the chapter will be coming a little later.
Interesting fact I found while on Transformers Wiki: Robot modes are called 'Protoforms'.
