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Chapter 8: Danger Ahead
"Chain Bind."
I immediately shot a bind spell to trap Sentinel before he could do anything. Sentinel got tied by magic binds around his frame and arms, making him imprisoned and not being able to bring out his weapons.
"Everyone, stay away from him!" I yelled.
"Release me at once, human!" Sentinel commanded as he struggled against the binds.
Panic began spreading among us when everyone comprehended the news about Sentinel's betrayal.
"Get a pair of stasis-cuffs now!" Ironhide yelled.
Bumblebee, Mudflap and Skids retired immediately with the NEST soldiers as Ironhide, Mirage and Sideswipe held down Sentinel to cuff him.
"Rally all NEST forces back to the base!" William yelled.
Just when Ironhide was about to put the stasis-cuffs on Sentinel, a holographic screen appeared in front of me to show several groups of dozen Type II gadgets was approaching Washington D.C.
I was about to shout out orders when I felt my power weaken by the AMF and looked up to see a group of the Type II gadgets fly above us. Before I could blink, the bind spell I had used on Sentinel was degraded enough to make him break free.
I knew my mages would try their best to help out, so I flew up to the air to take down the gadgets.
"Raising Heart!"
"All right."
The containers from below were lifted up by Raising Heart's power and floated around me in the air. One thing that could "break through" the jammer field was to use something physical.
"Stardust Fall!"
I sent the containers straight towards the gadgets and destroyed every one of them. The remaining parts of both gadgets and containers were falling down to the ground. I was about to fly down when Raising Heart caught something.
"Master! Someone is threatening you!"
I became alert and looked around to see any threat, but didn't find anything...until I heard a loud bang coming from the top of a high-rise building. I turned around in time to see a large energy beam shoot towards me. I braced myself and took the hit, the collision causing an explosion.
Normal POV
Ironhide and Sideswipe tried to take down Sentinel, but the old Prime used his sharp blade-sword and injured them severely.
"Ironhide!" Catalaya screamed.
"Sideswipe!" Calista yelled worriedly.
Sentinel held up a strange gun and cocked it before pointing it at Ironhide who was bleeding from his chest plates. "I hereby discharge you from duty!"
"No!" Catalaya cried out before holding up Graf Eisen. "Graf Eisen!"
"Explosion." The Device loaded a new set of cartridges. "Gigantform." The shape of Graf Eisen's two-sided hammer changed into octagonal before growing into a size five times bigger than the usual.
"Giganthammer!" Catalaya screamed as she swung the hammer Device at Sentinel.
Before Sentinel could finish Ironhide, he was hit by the giant hammer and blew straight into the building of NEST HQ.
"Ironhide, you alright?!" Sideswipe rolled over to said mech and helped him up.
"I'm fine, thanks to Catalaya", Ironhide groaned in pain.
Just then everyone heard an explosion above and turned their attention up in the air. A cloud of thick smoke enveloped at the same spot where the Commander of the mages was last seen.
"Stella!" almost everyone shouted worriedly.
But the Autobots had to turn their attention back at Sentinel who was making his way inside NEST HQ.
"Arrest Sentinel!" Ironhide shouted orders.
"Take the injured soldiers to the med bay now!" William shouted.
"Do not engage Sentinel! Let us handle him!" Sideswipe told the human soldiers.
Calista and Catalaya noticed Cinque running towards them, her lab coat ruffling in the air.
"What's going on?" Cinque asked.
"A lots of things you've just missed!" Calista replied harshly.
"And Stella's been shot down by this powerful attack!" Catalaya added panicky.
"What?!" Cinque's visible eye widened in fear.
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On the top of a tall building, two kilometers from NEST HQ stood two 15 years old girls dressed in the same blue suit that Cinque had worn when she arrived to NEST months ago.
The first girl had long brown hair tied into two thick braids and wearing large glasses over her hazel eyes. She also had a silver cape on her shoulders and the collar of the suit showed IV. Her name was Quattro.
The other girl also had hazel eyes and long brown hair, but tied into a low ponytail with a beige ribbon. She had no other clothes on her except the suit and the collar had the Roman number X. She had a weapon that resembled a giant recoilless rifle. The girl's name was Dieci.
It was Dieci who had fired with her Inherent Equipment and hit Stella; the part of a plan as Quattro preferred to call.
"A perfect plan, wouldn't you agree?" Quattro asked her Number sister.
"Quiet", Dieci said. "I'm confirming my kill."
Because Dieci and her Number sisters were combat cyborgs, they had many different features as a real robot, like a camera in the eyes that could zoom closer to an object far away. That was what Dieci was doing.
Dieci tried to look through the smoke when she noticed something was still flying among the thick cloud.
"Mages and NEST", Stella's voice spoke up as the smoke revealed said mage in her Exceed Mode Barrier Jacket with no scratch and Raising Heart in Exceed Mode. "This is Stella Gyllenberg. I was able to release my Limiter and change into Exceed Mode."
Both Dieci and Quattro were surprised to see the white mage was still flying and no injuries at all.
"Oh, my", Quattro whistled impressively.
"Even if that was not my full power, you've got to be kidding me", Dieci said.
Without noticing, Xireana was close by and had used a force-field spell; Gefängnis der Magie. It is a spell that generated a near-impenetrable dome surrounding a vast area, entrapping mages inside. This dome also disabled telepathic communication as well as visual display with anyone outside the force field. So any non-mage and other beings were all safe, even if there was a battle going on.
The duo heard some noise from above and spotted several yellow/golden lightning bolts fly towards them. They jumped away just in time when the bolts collided with the roof of the tower. The Numbers landed on another roof and gasped in relief before Mikaela in her Impulse Form Barrier Jacket landed behind them with Bardiche in Haken Form.
"I've found you", she said, surprising the duo.
"Here too?" Quattro gasped.
"She's fast!" Dieci commented.
Quattro flew away as Dieci followed her with her fast and expertly jumping skills, jumping far and fast. Mikaela didn't give up and followed them through the air.
"Stop! You're under arrest for attempted murder as well as use of dangerous magic inside city limits!" Mikaela mentioned the charges as Bardiche generated new lightning bolts.
"Not today!" Quattro shouted playfully. "Activate IS: Silver Curtain!"
Quattro's cape started glowing before said girl and Dieci glowed green for a second before turning invisible.
Mikaela gasped before growling. "Maggie!"
Maggie was also in her Knight Armor and had united with Reinforce to use stronger spells together, which meant the magic vessel was inside Maggie and had made her Mistress's hair white and eyes ice blue. She was standing on a white Ancient Belka pentagram as she prepared a spell.
"Position confirmed. Preparation complete", Maggie said as another Ancient Belka pentagram was floating above her. "Four seconds until activation."
"Roger", Mikaela nodded before she turned around and went in another direction.
The two invisible Numbers were surprised that the black-haired woman retired just like that.
"She left? Why?" Dieci wondered.
Quattro deactivated her Inherit Skill and made herself and Dieci visible. Both of them were down on the ground, looking around and now realizing they were within a force-field.
"It can't-", Quattro started as she saw a giant dark sphere grow in the air several kilometers from them.
"A wide-area spatial attack!" Dieci warned her sister.
"No way!" Quattro pouted.
"In a distant land, sink into the darkness", Maggie and Reinforce mouthed together. "Diabolic Emission!"
The dark sphere collapsed before expanding outwards rapidly towards the Numbers, not making any damage at the buildings. The duo ran for their lives until Quattro took hold on Dieci and flew up in the air. The spell swallowed the Numbers for a few seconds until Quattro flew out from it, but she winced when she felt her shoulder got hurt including her cape.
Mikaela stood ready with Bardiche and waited for the Numbers to fall into the trap.
"We won't surrender. Just as there is danger escape."
Mikaela prepared a spell in front of her, making a Mid-Childa pentagram appear under her feet as a yellow loop surrounded her left wrist.
Quattro stopped flying in the middle of the air as Stella was at the other side, also preparing a spell with Raising Heart.
"Knock out by buster. After that, arrested."
The Numbers duo gasped when they realized there was no way to escape. Well, so they thought.
"Dieci, Quattro!" a voice yelled to them. "Stay still."
Xireana gasped when Klarwind had detected a third unknown mage within the force-field. "Another one?!"
Somewhere close to the two mages and Numbers, a third older Number with short purple hair, hazel eyes and blue suit with the Roman number III on the collar prepared her Inherit Skill with her Inherent Equipment Impulse Blade. It consisted of eight feather-like wings, two in each of her arms and legs.
"Activate IS: Ride Impulse!"
Unaware of the third Number, Mikaela and Stella were about to shoot at Quattro and Dieci.
"Trident...", Mikaela started as Bardiche loaded two cartridges into his system to increase the power of the spell. "Smasher!" She fired a trident-shaped blast aiming for the duo.
"Exelion...", Stella started as Raising Heart loaded cartridges as well. "Buster!" She fired her pink bombardment spell.
The two powerful blasts made contact with one another at the duo and caused a massive explosion on impact.
Stella used Raising Heart to scan the area if the two Numbers were still there, but alas.
"They dodged it!" she shouted to Mikaela. "They were rescued at the last second."
A holographic screen appeared next to both mages and showed a worried Xireana. "Stella! Mikaela! I can't hold on the force-field anymore! The gadget drones had drained my mana before this situation."
Another holographic screen appeared next to Xireana's and showed Maggie with Reinforce floating next to her, both of them exhausted. "We're also pretty drained, and we still have Sentinel Prime and the Decepticons to take care of."
Stella hesitated for a moment before nodding, "Let's retire and help at NEST. We'll take care of the Numbers later."
The holographic screens disappeared as the force-field was deactivated, revealing the people and vehicles below the mages and the usual sound of the big city. Stella and Mikaela shared a look before flying off to NEST.
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Meanwhile, the three Numbers were several kilometers away, hiding in a dark alleyway and exhausted by the close-to-get-killed situation.
"Older sister Tre, thanks for the help", Quattro thanked the third Number.
"Thanks...", Dieci sighed in relief.
"Don't just sit there", Tre sneered. "Stand up." She turned away with a small glare. "Idiots. I was just here to keep an eye on you, but I'm glad I came. Sei has already finished recovering Cinque and the target." She cast a glance at her sisters. "We'll meet up with them and return."
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Translations from German to English:
Gigantform = "Giant Form"
Giganthammer = "Giant Hammer"
Gefängnis der Magie = "Magical Prison"
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