Hunted
OMG, I'm so sorry about the long absence between this chapter and the last one. I was so busy with other stuff, and then one time I forgot to actually start working on this. Sorry if this one feels rushed, because I just wrote what came to my mind. Another note for the last chapter, Jolt's design is based off his Revenge of the Fallen design where he has claws.
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers or Teen Titans. I only own this story and any OCs in it.
"You sure this is where we will find him?" Robin asked through his communicator. The Titans had begun their search for the rest of the outliers that had crashed on Earth. They had found three of them, now there are three more.
"Yep. This is the place I saw him last. I'll tell you where Windcharger and Blaze Master are afterwards." Jolt said through the other side.
"Wait, you told us there were seven of you when you crashed. What happened to the seventh guy?"
"Oh, Glitch? Yeah, you won't be able to find him. He disappeared once we crashed. I think he was the only casualty."
"Good to know. Anyway, we're approachi-" Robin was interrupted by the T-Ship shaking.
"Dudes, we got company!" Beast Boy said. A ship was right behind them, spraying bullets all over the ship.
"Sorry Jolt, I'll call you back." Robin said before hanging up.
"We'll try to cover you, but this guy is fast." Rodimus said. The Lynx then turned and flew straight towards the enemy ship, returning fire. The bullets simply grazed the enemy ship, not even leaving the slightest dent or scratch. The ship then fired several missiles. The Lynx did several barrel rolls in midair, dodging all but one of them, which hit the right wing. Smoke and sparks emitted from the now damaged wing. The Lynx lost control as it started to spiral downwards.
"We're hit! I'll try to land this thing, you guys try to fight him off!" Rodimus said. The Titans saw the Lynx fall downwards into the deep, green trees below them. The enemy ship was changing course, now going after the T-Ship.
"This guy might be able to withstand a few simple bullets, but I doubt he will be able to withstand my seismic blaster!" Cyborg said. He then opened fire at the ship. The seismic cannons made several explosions on the enemy ship. The T-Ship hovered in the air for a bit, waiting for the smoke to clear and see how much damage the weapons caused. Unfortunately for them, the seismic cannons did little to destroy or stop the ship. However, the ship was hovering in the air. It was not returning fire like it did with the Lynx. Cyborg then heard a loud thud, and saw why it wasn't attacking.
"Val-Yor, is that you?" Cyborg asked. He looked up to see the skilled pilot that they encountered only once before(1).
"In the flesh, Metal Butt. Sorry if I have to do this, but you kids are in my way." Val-Yor then proceeded to start tearing pieces off the T-Ship.
"Val-Yor, please stop! You will make us crash and I fear we may not survive!" Starfire demanded.
"Why are you doing this? WHAT PURPOSE DO YOU HAVE FOR ATTACKING US?" Robin shouted. Val-Yor just simply ignored the angry Titan. He then glanced at one of the thrusters, and fired an eye beam, tearing a large hole through it. Just like the Lynx, the T-Ship was crashing.
"I'd like to stay, but I have a job to do." Val-Yor said. He then flew over to his ship, which flew away in the blink of an eye. The Titans stared at the ship disappear before their ship crashed into the lush, green jungle below…
"Ugh, where are we? Robin?" Starfire then got up to see all her teammates on the ground. She looked around to see tons of mangled trees that had fallen to the ground as a result of both ships crashing. Both ships also created large trails leading to where they crashed. Metallic debris and ship parts were scattered everywhere. She then saw Nautica inspecting the rest of the Titans while the other four Autobots were standing nearby. One by one, all Titans started waking up.
"Okay, good news is that we're all okay. Bad news is that both our ships were trashed by a Vernathian fighter." Nautica said.
"Yeah, that was Val-Yor. We've worked with him before to defeat the Locrix(2)."
"Yes, he was calling me a "Troq" and he was very rude to me." Starfire said, painfully remembering his rude insults towards her.
"Well, if I see him, I'm gonna squash him." Bulkhead said, smashing one of the pieces of debris nearby to pieces.
"Cyborg and I should start fixing the ships. You guys can go look around or do something to keep yourselves occupied."
"Hey Bumblebee, wanna go climb that tree?" Beast Boy said, pointing to a large tree. It had managed to be left undamaged, despite the rest of the surrounding shrubbery decimated by the ships.
"Sure, why not." Bumblebee happily replied. They both then ran towards the tree and started climbing, with Beast Boy turning into an ape. Nautica and Cyborg got to work on the ships, gathering the parts they found scattered all over the place. Nautica walked over to the Lynx with tools and parts in her hands. The Lynx's right wing was torn clean off. Deep gashes and dents littered the ship. She sighed heavily before getting straight to work. Little did she know, someone was watching her from one of the nearby trees.
Nautica was repairing the engine, which was surprisingly intact for a crash this big. She then moved onto the right wing and the side of the ship which had a large hole torn into it. A large, broken tree branch was sticking out of the hole. She grabbed the broken branch and tried pulling it out with no luck. Just then, a grappling hook was shot from a nearby tree. The hook wound around the branch. The line started to retract, pulling the branch out of the large hole on the side of the ship.
"Uh, what's going on?" Nautica said to herself. The grappling hook then retracted fully, going back to it's place of origin in the trees.
"Strange, but okay. Maybe Robin was just helping me out." She then shrugged and went back to work. After re-attaching several parts and fixing the wing. She turned around to grab her wrench from the ground beside her, but found that it wasn't there.
"What the? I swear it was right here! Maybe this is one of Bumblebee and Beast Boy's pranks…" Nautica said. She then stood up from her spot, an unamused look appearing on her face.
"Haha, very funny guys. Now hand me back my wrench, I need it to fix the ship." Nautica said. She then looked back into the distance to see Bumblebee and Beast Boy on top of a large tree, sitting there. Neither one of them had her wrench.
"Nice tool you got." A voice said. Nautica turned around to see a blue bot standing in front of her. He had a small Autobot badge on his chest. Observing his kibble(3), she assumed he had a ground vehicle alt mode. He then put his hand out in front of her, handing her back the wrench.
"Hi, I'm Skids. Sorry if I took your wrench, I just wanted to play around with it."
"It's okay. My name's Nautica. We were actually looking for you." Nautica said.
"Yeah, I kinda saw your ships crash. Why are you looking for me? Am I in trouble or something?" Skids asked.
"No, but we were trying to find all the outliers that crashed on a ship. We've found Trailbreaker, Eagle Eye, and Jolt already." She kindly said. The other Titans and Autobots walked up to the two.
"Why would you look at that, Nautica found him for us! I guess we didn't need to look that hard after all!" Bumblebee said.
"Glorious! Now we shall find out what Val-Yor is doing back on Earth!" Starfire said cheerfully.
"Ah, looks like you found him for me Titans!" Everyone turned to see Val-Yor's ship hovering in the air. Val-Yor leapt off his ship onto the ground in front of them.
"Why do you want him Val-Yor? What is your plan?" Robin demanded, taking his staff out. The rest started to prepare for a fight as well.
"Plan? There's no plan. All I want is that Cybertronian and I will leave. I see you have more Cybertronians as well, but I was looking for this one in particular. Anyway, let me repeat myself: hand him over. Now."
"Over our dead, decaying bodies." Robin said. This angered Val-Yor, who decided to start to charge at the group. Robin leapt out of the way and threw several smoke bombs in the area, making it as dark as night. When the smoke finally cleared, Val-Yor turned to see a green Rhino run him over. Beast Boy morphed back to his human self, but was punched into a tree nearby. Rodimus fired one arrow at him.
"One arrow? You better hope that arrow does something useful."
"Oh, it does." Rodimus replied with a smirk. The single arrow then split into tons of arrows, all of which started raining down onto where Val-Yor was standing. He then picked up a large sheet of metal nearby and used it as a temporary shield. The arrows managed to pierce through, but not far enough to actually hit it's target. Val-Yor then threw the metal sheet at Rodimus, making it embed into his shoulder. Cyborg and Robin were charging towards Val-Yor, but lifted up a log and knocked the two over. Starfire then zoomed in and punched the pilot across the face, sending him flying into a tree.
"Why have you decided to attack us? What do you think you will gain from attacking my friends? I will not tolerate you calling me Troq(4), I will not tolerate you putting my friends in danger, and I will not let you succeed!" Starfire shouted, throwing star bolts repeatedly. She then felt a hand go on her shoulder. She turned and prepared to punch whoever was there, but saw that Robin was there trying to calm her down.
"Star, I think that's enough." Robin said calmly.
"Yes. I believe he has learned his lesson. But where has our new friend gone to?" Starfire said. Everyone looked around to see that Skids had disappeared.
"Looks like he took Nautica with him too." Raven pointed out.
"Where could they have gone?" Cyborg said in confusion.
"Where are we going?" Nautica asked. She looked back to see what was happening to her friends, but all she could see was a bunch of trees and dense shrubbery. Skids was still holding her hand and pulling her with him as he was running.
"We're going to my hideout. We'll go back for your friends when he leaves." Skids said.
"Val-Yor? Why is that guy hunting you? Do you owe him something?"
"No. I'll explain when we get there, okay?" Skids said. The two eventually stopped at a cave. Nautica walked in to see a few energon cubes stacked on the ground. There was a small recharge slab near another end of the wall as well.
"This is where you've been staying?"
"Yep. Used to have a lot more energon cubes than this, but I'm running low. I was trying to find some more natural energon on this planet when I saw you guys crash." Skids explained, picking up one of the energon cubes.
"Why are you hiding though? Surely there were people that could have helped you on this planet, right?" Nautica asked. She remembered when they had crashed on Earth. They had revealed themselves in front of the Titans and now they had made new friends and allies.
"That's what I thought too. Unfortunately, this organic race seems to be afraid of me. I tried asking for help and directions, but they would all run away or try to capture me. I guess you guys were lucky." Skids said solemnly. He gently tossed the energon cube back into the pile and sat down on his small recharge slab.
"You could come with us. We'll make sure no one comes after you."
"Hey, I went on that ship to get away from the war, not be a part of it. The last thing I want is to fight in another huge war again." After Skids had said this, Nautica then remembered what she was going to ask him.
"Anyway, why is that guy trying to hunt you down?" She sat right next to Skids, putting her hand on top of his.
"One of the guys you already found probably told you already, but I'm an outlier. My skill is that I can learn anything I want in a matter of seconds. With a skill like that, I'm probably worth billions of shanix on the intergalactic slave market. Val-Yor wants me so that I could be his slave and make repairs on his ship and help him and his people destroy Cybertron. If he manages to capture me successfully, they could force me to create weapons to allow them to launch a full scale invasion on the Autobot and Decepticon forces on Cybertron. Since both sides are too busy trying to eradicate each other, it would take them a while before they decide to fight back. By then, Val-Yor would have won. I may not be happy about the war, but I'm not about to let some silver headed numbskull go off and kill all my friends back home." Nautica tried to comfort him. She put her wrench down and held his hand. Skids turned and smiled at her, making her smile as well.
"Hey lovebots, if you're both done snuggling up to each other, I have a job to do." The two Autobots turned to see Val-Yor standing at the cave entrance.
"You didn't seriously think you could hide forever did you? Now c'mon, I have plans to fulfill and you will be a big part of it." Val-Yor then pulled out a large stun gun at the two. It zapped both of the Autobots, making them fall to the ground unconscious. The last thing Skids saw before he closed his eyes was several people picking him and Nautica up and carrying them to Val-Yor's ship…
Rodimus was cutting his way through the thick, green vines and bushes in the jungle. Everyone had started to search for the two since they disappeared not long ago. Bulkhead then fired his mace forward, knocking over several trees and making a clear trail through the jungle. He then retracted his mace back to his arm, where it turned back into his hand. The others just looked at him.
"What? I was just making a clear path for us." Bulkhead said in response to their looks.
"You could have done that this whole time while I was using my sword to cut through these plants and you didn't bother to tell me?" Rodimus asked, slightly irritated. Starfire then ran up to Windblade and caught up with her.
"May you please specify why other alien races do not like yours? I am curious since many races do not like Tamaranians as well."
"When Megatron started the civil war on Cybertron, many alien races thought that the war would stay on Cybertron. Soon enough, Megatron started attacking several planets in order to spread his Decepticon Empire. His idea was that organic races were inferior to metallic ones, and therefore should be ruled by us. Optimus soon follow him to try to protect these alien races, and so they bring our war onto other planets and civilizations. Most of these civilizations don't make it, so it's made many people bitter. As they say, 'Don't befriend Cybertronians. They only bring their war to us, not their friendship.'" Windblade explained.
"I understand how you feel. Might this be why Val-Yor is trying to get Skids? Is he looking for revenge?" Starfire asked.
"Well, I would think that he would have gone for all of us rather than just Skids." Windblade said. She then spotted something near the top of the trees ahead of them.
"Guys look! Doesn't that ship look like the one that belongs to Val-Yor?" Windblade asks. Everyone turned their heads to see a silver ship rise from above the canopy of trees.
"Guys, I can sense them. Both of them are on his ship." Raven said. Everyone knew what she was talking about, and so they all rushed to their ships to try to catch up.
Skids woke up to find himself in a cell. He couldn't remember where he was or how he got there. Then he remembered. He remembered the Autobots. Val-Yor. Nautica…
He turned to see the purple Autobot laying on the floor. He kept pushing her trying to wake her up, ignoring her occasional whimpers. She eventually opened her eyes.
"You're awake. Finally." Skids said.
"Ugh, my head. Where are we? This doesn't look like the Lynx at all…"
"We're on Val-Yor's ship. If your friends saw us, we might be rescued, but I'm not gonna sit here and hope they came in time. Do you have any tools on you?"
"I think. I always carry spare tools with me…"
"Great. What do you have?"
"A scalpel. Why?" Nautica asked in confusion.
"Okay...I have a plan, so listen closely." Skids said as he started describing his plan.
Five Minutes Later…
Two guards were walking in a hallway near the brig. They were discussing recent events having to do with their planet, Vernathia, and Val-Yor's plan to destroy the Cybertronian threat once and for all.
"I still can't believe the Galactic Council(5) gave him permission to do this." one guard said.
"What do you expect? His plan actually doesn't sound that bad and it involves erasing the threat the Galactic Council hates most." another guard said. They halted after hearing screams of agony. The screams sounded as if someone was dying a slow but painful death.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know, but it came from the brig." The two guards rushed to the brig to see Nautica standing in the middle of the cell, blood all over and the dismantled and severed body parts of Skids. They could only stand in shock as they observed the gorey seen.
"We better get him." one guard said.
"I guess his plan isn't working out after all…" the other replied as they both rushed toward the bridge to tell their leader what they saw.
"So, how are we gonna do this? Lemme guess, we're gonna sneak in there like ninjas, take out the guards one by one, take down Val-Yor, and then rescue Skids and Nautica. right?" Beast Boy said.
"Well, looks like Beast Boy isn't wrong for once." Raven said.
"Nope, he's wrong." Rodimus responded over the intercom. The Lynx then fired several missiles at Val-Yor's ship, all of them hitting their target.
"Wait, Skids and Nautica are in there! If we make the ship crash, they could die." Robin said.
"Don't worry, I won't make the ship crash. Maybe. I think." Rodimus responded. He then started to type in something and pressed a button. On his ship, one of the people piloting notified Val-Yor they had an incoming transmission.
"Answer it." Val-Yor said, and the pilot did as ordered.
"This is Val-Yor, what do you want."
"Excuse me, I have a message for this one guy. You probably know him. His face is the color of a frikkin coin, he's got a red dot on his chest. He's got a pretty big chin, one that silences a room."
"I repeat, This is Val-Yor. What do you want." Val-Yor said, getting angry at the description of himself.
"Yeah this is Rodimus from the Teen Titans. We have a message for you. You will let your prisoners go or you can kiss your shiny arse goodbye."
"No. You Cybertronians had enough time to stop this war of yours. Now if I destroy Cybertron, there won't be a war for you to fight will there? There also won't be a home for you to go to. Every alien race hates you. And you know wha-"
"Sorry, but Starfire wants to tell you something." Rodimus said, interrupting Val-Yor.
"Yes I do. I believe the phrase I have heard is: SHUT UP YOU MORON!" Starfire said, the last part booming from the intercom on Val-Yor's ship. Val-Yor then ordered everyone to get to their battle stations. Val-Yor was going to eradicate them, even if it takes every ammunition on his ship to do it. Just then, the guards came rushing in. They had bad news for him, but unbeknownst to them, this was a bad time.
"One of the Cybertronians killed the other one."
"Which one?" Val-Yor said angrily.
"The purple one killed the blue one." the guard responded, fear in his eyes.
"Why those little-" Val-Yor trailed off as he went over to the brig…
"How do you feel?" Nautica said to the now repaired Skids.
"I feel alright. Good thing they bought it. Now there's no guards around to see us. Can I have the scalpel?" Skids said. Nautica gave him the scalpel and he started to melt away at the control pad for the door. The door then opened and both rushed outside into the hall. They ran down the hall until they found some weapons and gear.
"Okay, I'm gonna blow a hole in this wall, and we'll jump. Judging by the rumbles I felt on this ship, your friends should be close by." Skids said.
"How do we show them that we jumped off?" Nautica asked. Her friends probably won't be able to see them jump from far then picked up a flare gun near his foot.
"We could use this to signal your friends. They could pick us up and we will be out of here." Skids replied. He then activated one of his arm mounted blasters and blew a hole into the side of the ship, revealing the blue sky in front of them. He then piggy backed Nautica and jumped out of the ship. They were free falling down towards the ground. Skids then turned around and fired the flare upwards, hoping that they would notice it…
The Lynx and the T-Ship were flying around Val-Yor's ship, firing at it. Several bullets grazed off the surface of the Lynx as it spun around and return fired, destroying several turrets. The T-Ship then fired a missile that blew a hole into Val Yor's ship.
"Guys, I can feel Nautica's thoughts. She's- she's falling?" Raven said with her eyes closed.
"Hey there's some kind of red missile going up into the sky. Guess Val-Yor missed." Bumblebee said with a smirk.
"Dude, that's a flare, even I know that. Besides, I see them falling, LOOK!" Beast Boy said. They could see what looked like a small dot falling down from the ship.
"Alright, let's go get them" Cyborg said. Just as he turned the ship, Starfire opened her cockpit and flew out of the T-Ship.
"Star, where are you going? They're over there!" Robin said.
"Sorry, I shall meet you all there. I have some business to do with Val-Yor." Starfire responded. She then zoomed over to the now burning ship.
"Do you think they saw us?" Skids said. He was looking downwards to the ground. Nautica turned to see the T-Ship fly downwards right below them.
"Yep. Just land on top of there."
"You sure? I don't want to crush anyone or destroy their ship…"
"Just trust me. Besides, I could always help Cyborg fix it." Nautica responded calmly. Skids then fell on top of the T-Ship, making a loud thud. The Lynx then hovered above the T-Ship. A rope was thrown down onto it, making both Autobots look up. Bumblebee waved at them when they looked up to see where the rope came from.
"Aw man Bulkhead, you dented my T-Ship!" Cyborg said in utter dismay.
"Oh, uh, whoops." Bulkhead said. The two Autobots then held onto the rope as Bulkhead retracted the rope up to the Lynx slowly. When they got in, both ships flew off.
Meanwhile on the now burning ship of Val-Yor, Val-Yor was angry. His plan to destroy Cybertron and impress the Galactic Council failed. Now him and his small crew have to get off the ship before they crash. They all walked toward the escape pods when Val-Yor was punched across the face, making him land into a pile of crates. He looked to see an angry Starfire, her eyes green with fury.
"I was beginning to wonder if you were just gonna ignore me Troq." Val-Yor said. This earned him yet another punch to the face. He looked to see she was not amused by his statement. She leaned in, grabbing his neck with one hand and holding a starbolt with another.
"You will not dare attack us or return to Earth ever again Val-Yor. Next time you return, I will not hesitate to fight you." He started laughing a little to her threat.
"You think you scare me Troqqie." This was the final straw. She punched him square in the face again, this time knocking him unconscious. She then picked him up and flew him to the other crew members and handed him over to them. They all jettisoned out of the ship while she flew outside where the T-Ship was waiting for her.
"So, you guys got him?" Jolt said.
"Yep. He was being hunted down by a guy named Val-Yor. Val-Yor planned to use him to attack Cybertron." Robin said while looking out the window.
"Huh. Did you stop him?"
"Yeah, Starfire defeated him."
"Nice. Where is Skids going? Eagle Eye and I just joined Titans East."
"He's been assigned to Titans North. Said something about saying hi to Trailbreaker." Robin replied.
"Yeah, they were good friends. Well, I'll talk to you later. Bye." Jolt said before he hung up. Robin then turned to see everyone saying bye to Skids. Rodimus then handed Skids a Titans communicator.
"You're gonna need this to call us and your new teammates."
"Thanks Rodimus." Skids said. He then turned to say bye to Nautica.
"Um, bye Nautica. Thanks for cheering me up back there when we were in the cave." Skids said. She then responded by giving him a kiss to the cheek.
"Skids and Nautica sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Bumblebee and Beast Boy chanted. This was met with some laughter from Cyborg and Bulkhead. Starfire also found this quite amusing. She then walked up to Robin, who was still standing near the window.
"Do you think he will be back?" Robin asked. Starfire knew who he was talking about.
"No. I am sure I have made him not like here anymore." Starfire said.
"C'mon Star, let's go with the others." Robin said. They turned to see Nautica chasing after Bumblebee, who was driving around in circles in vehicle mode.
"Can't catch me! Too fast!" Bumblebee said. Nautica eventually just threw her wrench at him, making him transform and trip.
"Hey! No fair!" Bumblebee said. This made Beast Boy fall on the floor laughing.
"Hey, you're next!" Nautica said. This made Beast Boy stop laughing and make a run for it. Everyone just laughed.
"You have failed us, Val-Yor. You failed to get the outlier and your whole plan to destroy the Cybertronians failed miserably." General Neech said.
"I know. Please forgive me of my mistakes." Val-Yor said in response.
"You must know that the Galactic Council was expecting a lot from you. We expect success and you did not deliver. We will notify you when we want to hear from you again. General Neech, out." The transmission ended. Val-Yor was on a ship sending him back to his home planet of Vernathia. He slammed his fist on a nearby table, making a large dent in it. He then walked down the hall, angry about his defeat.
(1): See Teen Titans S4 E6: Troq
(2): See Teen Titans S4 E6: Troq
(3): Kibble: Pieces which have no clear purpose in one mode but are there only because they are part of another mode. In most cases, "kibble" is used to refer to pieces of the character's alternate mode which "hang" or stick out in their robot mode.
(4): Troq: A racial slur used by other alien races to describe Tamaranians.
(5): Galactic Council: Has taken up a responsibility: a vast coalition representing thousands of intelligent biological species. A peacekeeping force first and foremost, the Galactic Council negotiates non-aggression pacts between its various member worlds, and employs a mighty navy to make sure everyone honors said pacts.
And that ends this chapter. I get most of the definitions for Transformers on the bottom from , which is a great website to check out for any Transformers info you want to find! Again, sorry for the long wait for this chapter. Only 4 more chapters and "season" 1 is done! I'll see you later, but until then, Till All Are One!
