Chapter 9
Jeff and Daisy ran as fast as their legs could carry them, doing their best to try to outrun the robotic dog perusing them. The two children managed to make it outside, but unfortunately Huntage managed to lunge for Daisy's legs and send the girl tumbling to the ground. The young girl swung her fists frantically as the Decepticon grabbed her by the collar of her dress, doing everything in her power to get free. But then all of the sudden, Daisy heard the sound of gears shifting and the next thing she knew; she had been sent flying through the air.
The girl cried out as she went flying and squeezed her eyes shut, preparing for when she hits the ground. But she never felt the hard and painful impact, instead she felt herself get caught in two large metal hands. Curious about what had caught her, Daisy slowly opened her eyes to found herself staring at a large yellow and black robot. Upon seeing another giant robot like the one in the lab, the girl began to scream loudly.
Luigibee flinched when the girl in his servos started screaming before he quickly exclaimed "Hey, hey, stop doing that! I'm here to save you; I'm one of the good bots!"
When Daisy heard this, she immediately stopped screaming and stared up at the Autobot. At first she had no words to say as she slowly blinked her blue eyes, trying to process the information that there was both good and bad robots.
"By the way, I'm Luigibee." the yellow mech said with a grin.
Daisy couldn't help but grin back and reply "I'm Daisy."
Upon hearing this Luigibee furrowed his optic ridge a bit as he commented "Well I imagine you would be after a tumble like that through the air."
The young girl stared at him in silence for a moment before she began to laugh, realizing that the robot thought she said that she was dizzy before she corrected him on her name. Unfortunately the two were cut short on their chat when Huntage began firing his missiles at the two.
Thinking fast Luigibee quickly set Daisy on the ground and changed his servos in stingers, destroying the missiles with electricity that fired from them. In an attempt to draw the robotic dog's attention away from the girl, the Autobot continued firing as he began running away from Daisy. Much to his happiness, Huntage was so enraged that the Autobot continued firing at him that he pursued him.
Daisy's grin grew larger and larger in excitement as she watched the two robots battle each other. Her attention was torn away from the two robots when she noticed Jeff running up to her with two children following closely behind him.
"Daisy, thank goodness you're alright. This here is Ness and Paula, they both explained to me that robot is an Autobot and the robots we saw in the lab were Decepticons." he explained as he gestured his hand out to the two children.
At that moment, Daisy gasped when she remembered how Dr. Andonuts was still being kept captive.
"Jeff, they still have your dad. We need to have Luigibee rush in and save him!" she exclaimed.
Before Jeff could even speak up, a voice spoke up "Or I can simply go in there."
The blonde-headed boy turned around to see a black motorcycle that transformed into a giant robot.
Ness groaned as he slapped his hand against his forehead. He figured that Espiowl had followed them into town since the black mech took his job as his Autobot guardian very seriously and barely let the young boy out of his sights as a result of it.
Without giving a chance for the children to explain the situation, using his stealth, Espiowl snuck into the lab.
The Autobot remained deadly silent as blend into the shadows, carefully making his way to his destination unseen. Making sure he was still hidden, he peeked around the corner to see Vectorwave gathering up the last of the materials while Marible still held Dr. Andonuts against the wall.
"Alright we got the stuff, what should we do with this human?" the purple femme asked.
"Dispose of him; he is of no use to us." Vectorwave answered.
Marible nodded her helm before grabbing one of her blasters attached to her back with her free servo and began charging it up.
Seeing he needed to act fast, Espiowl quickly grabbed two of his gold ninja-stars from his gauntlet and shot them at the small femme, knocking the blaster out of her grasp. Knowing there was no need to stay hidden anymore now that the two Decepticons were alerted to his presence, the Autobot quickly leapt onto one of the nearby walls and began firing at the Vectorwave.
The blue mech managed to dodge the laserblasts and summon his own blaster from his subspace and fired back. Unfortunately for Vectorwave, when he fired at the Autobot, the moment the laserblast hit him, the image vanished upon impact, revealing to him that he had been firing at a decoy. His optics quickly looked all over, trying to find the real Espiowl until finally the he got his answer when Espiowl dropped down from the ceiling and kicked him straight in the helm.
Seeing her comrade needed help, Marible quickly released Dr. Andonuts and changed her arms into pile drivers.
"Try to stay balanced on this Autobot!" she yelled as she smashed her pile drivers into the wall, causing the building to rumble.
Espiowl quickly dodged some debris that almost fell on him but he quickly noticed that part of the crumbling ceiling was going to fall on Dr. Andonuts. Wasting no time, he quickly dashed over and managed to toss the human out of the way of danger.
Taking advantage of his distraction, Vectorwave charged up his blaster and fired it at close range, directly at Espiowl's chest.
The Autobot yelled out as he smashed against the ground with a giant smoking hole in his chest.
Seeing it as his chance to escape, Vectorwave quickly recalled both Marible and Huntage and took off with the materials in tow. It didn't matter to him that Huntage had failed to capture Daisy; he knew the more important issue was getting the materials back to Bowsertron.
Once the Decepticons were gone, Luigibee immediately rushed into the collapsing laboratory and found both Dr. Andonuts and an injured Espiowl. With his denta clenched, the yellow mech grabbed ahold of his comrade's arm and threw him on top of his back before scooping the human in his free servo. His optics glanced up at the ceiling that was just about to collapse before running as fast as he could, desperate to get out of the crumbling building. Fortunately Luigibee managed to get out just in time before the building collapsed into a pile of rubble.
"Dad!" Jeff cried out as he ran over to his father and embraced him once the Autobot set him back and the ground.
Knowing that Espiowl needed immediate attention, Luigibee immediately activated him commlink and informed Ratchet of their situation.
"Alright, Ratchet told me that we need to get out of here as soon as possible. Not only for Espiowl's sake but because humans will come to investigate the destroyed building and we can't let them see us." the yellow mech explained.
"I'll stay behind to give the authorities a story they can believe. It's the least I can do since your friend saved my life." Dr. Andonuts said.
Luigibee nodded his helm in understanding before transforming into his car form and pulling Espiowl up where his chest rested on top of the car. Once that was done, Ness and Paula urged both Jeff and Daisy for them to come along before all them climbed into the car, allowing the Autobot to finally speed off. Luigibee drove as fast as he could while at the same time he made sure that Espiowl didn't fall off. It wasn't long before he finally managed to reach the Ark. The yellow mech allowed the children to get out of his car form before transforming back into his bipedal form and rushing inside with Espiowl's chassis in his arms.
Daisy opened her mouth wide in wonder as she looked around the ship; her eyes examining all the advanced technology and the different Autobots standing among the ship. She didn't know why but she felt like she had seen the strange technology and Autobots before. Pushing this thought to the back of her mind, the young girl began running around the ship, deciding to absorb all of her surroundings.
As Daisy was doing this, Ness and Paula were doing their best to explain more about the Cybertronians to Jeff.
"So let me see if I got this straight." Jeff started with a sigh as he clasped his hands together, "These Autobots hail from a planet called Cybertron and they have been at war with an army known as the Decepticons. At some point the Autobots left their planet only to be chased by the Decpeticons and because of an accident, they ended up crash landing on our planet millions of years ago and because you accidentally reactivated one, now both factions are on our planet, still fighting the same war they fought on their planet."
"Well I wouldn't say war; I would more so say battle. Mario Prime said the war on Cybertron was much more vicious and he hopes that by stopping the Decpeticons now he can prevent the same devastation that fell upon their planet from coming to ours." Ness explained.
But before Jeff could ask another question, the three children were approached by none other than Ironlink.
The red mech froze when he saw the third human before placing his servo against his helm and muttering curses where the children couldn't hear due to the fact he was frustrated that another human managed to learn of their existence when their leader had made it clear that they were to try to keep from as many humans from discovering them.
"Alright, who's fault is it that now this kid knows?" he asked with a sigh.
"The Decpeticons attacked him and his father. His father stayed behind to give the authorities a false explanation for the destroyed building." Paula answered.
"Slag, that means we need to assign another Autobot guardian for this kid, if this rate keeps up every Autobot on this ship will end up being a guardian. Well since Mario is busy right now, I guess it'll have to fall to me to decide." Ironlink replied.
The red mech looked around the command room, his processor sorting through the different choices. Finally his blue optics managed to spot Cliffalcon entering the room.
"Perfect, Cliffalcon, you're assigned as Autobot guardian to this kid here." Ironlink yelled out before pointing his digit at Jeff.
Cliffalcon stared in shock and confusion, but before he could even ask a single question, Ironlink had already walked away. The Autobot sighed in defeat before glancing down at the child he was now assigned to guard. He narrowed his optics and groaned since he had never asked to walk into a room and suddenly have a babysitter job dumped onto him.
Back with Daisy, the young girl had continued exploring the ship until she stumbled upon the Medbay. There she discovered Ratchet who was frantically working repairs on Espiowl to prevent him from going offline. Wanting to get a better look to make sure the Autobot was alright, the young girl walked up to the berth but was immediately disappointed that it was too high for her to see. But then, much to her surprise she felt a giant hand gently grasp her around the waist and lift her up onto the berth. Daisy turned around to see Luigibee giving her a friendly smile, revealing that he had helped her up.
She nodded her head in thanks before crawling over closer to Espiowl's chassis. She frowned at the sparks emitting from the damaged chestplates, making her grow more concerned at the fact the Autobot might not be able to pull through. Daisy sighed as she closed her eyes and gently laid her hand on Espiowl's chestplates. But because her eyes were closed, she failed to see a small blue glow seemed to emit from were here hand was placed. Suddenly her eyes snapped open to reveal they were now glowing as different thoughts ran through her mind.
After a few seconds, the glow in her eyes and under her hand faded away, prompting her to shake her head out of dizziness.
Once her thoughts were cleared once more, she turned her head toward Ratchet and asked "Uh hey, had you tried fixing this tube over here?"
Ratchet raised an optic ridge when he heard the girl's suggestion but decided to check it out. Upon examination he discovered that he had failed to notice that the blast had knocked his main energon line loose and he was losing energon from the inside. Now knowing the problem, the medic quickly grabbed one of his tools before securing the line once more. Within a few seconds, he sighed in relief when he saw that finally Espiowl's systems were starting to recover.
"How did you figure out that the tube was loose? One would have to an extremely good optic to notice that due to how deep the tube was behind Espiowl's other inner workings." Ratchet asked.
Daisy simply shrugged her shoulders as she answered "I don't know. It's kind of like Espiowl talked to me and told me exactly where the problem was when I got near."
Both Ratchet and Luigibee were extremely confused; they had no idea what the young girl meant and no matter how hard they thought about it, they couldn't come up with a conclusion.
Back with the Decepticons, Bowsertron had his troop locate to a nearby canyon where they were working on construction on Ganonwave's project which was device known as a Spacebridge which would allow the Decpticons to travel between Earth and Cybertron whenever they wish. Bowsertron grew impatient as he watched Skyreala, Thundernights, and Wartscream work on the construction for the Spacebridge. He had sent Vectorwave to gather the last of the materials and was infuriated that his third in-command had yet to return.
Finally the Decepticon Leader's waiting was put to rest when he saw Vectorwave approaching in the sky. His red optics narrowed in annoyance as he watched the blue mech land on the ground, dropping the materials before him.
"What took you so long, it should have taken you at least three breems for you to return with the materials but instead you were almost gone for a Megacycle!" Bowsertron demanded with a snarl.
Vectorwave flinched when he heard his leader so enraged with him. While he still wanted to tell the gray mech about his scan results, he decided to withhold that information until the Spacebridge was complete, that way he wouldn't have to worry about facing his leader's wrath for allowing himself to get sidetracked on his mission.
"Apologies, Lord Bowsertron, unfortunately I had to deal with a couple of Autobots that managed to show up. Fortunately Marible insured that the Autobots were unable to pursue me and I managed to escape with all the required materials." he answered.
Bowsertron clenched his razor sharp denta tightly together when he heard the mention of Autobots. He hated how much that Mario Prime and his team were so persistent to protect a planet they barely know anything about instead of doing what he believes is right by draining the planet completely of its energy and use it to save their dying race back on Cybertron. In Bowsertron's view, he didn't see Mario's need to protect all life as noble; he instead saw it as selfish and cowardly since the Prime would rather put an entire different race before his own kind.
After a few moments of silence, he shouted "Thundernights, how much longer till construction of the Spacebridge will be complete?"
The blue femme deactivated the laser from the blaster on her gauntlet that she was using to weld metal panels together before answering "Should take about five breems now that we got the last of materials. Then after that all is left it to test it to see if anything will make the trip to Cybertron."
"Hmph, testing, unbelievable." Wartscream commented with a sneer, "If I were to work on this Spacebridge alone without you imbeciles, it would be so perfect and grand that no testing would be required."
Upon hearing this Thundernights immediately narrowed her optics before placing one of her servos on her hip-joints.
"You know, Wartscream, there's a risk that Ganonwave explained but I guess your ego was so loud that you were unable to hear him. Spacebridges can sometimes not go over very well, resulting in the object being lost between space, torn apart from the entry and exit points, or sometimes the bridge can close on you the moment you try to exit, resulting in explosion. Now I don't like the idea of sending anyone to test it to insure nobody offlines, but if you're so sure, I'll gladly let you be the test subject. Just be sure to give Phoenix Prime my greetings in the Allspark if something goes wrong." the femme threatened.
All the other Decepticons, including Bowsertron himself stared in shock at the femme's threat. They knew that she always did her best to avoid any Cybertronian from getting their spark extinguished due to her love for living things but the fact that Wartscream managed to enrage her enough to the point she made a thinly-veiled death threat surprised them all.
"Uh, there's no need for that, Thundernights, after all you're the one who talks about how it's important for us not to die since we're already a dying race." the red and gray mech replied while laughing nervously as the blue femme continued to glare at him.
All the Decepticons continued to stare in silence until finally Skyreala commented "And to think that I never thought she could think like a Decepticon. Heh, I guess Knockster was right, the cute femmes are the most deadly."
The group continued to stare in silence until finally Bowsertron yelled "Alright that's enough, get back to work so we can finish this Spacebridge. The last thing we all need is standing around like slaggers until the Autobots show up and ruins our plans for the millionth time!"
So with that said, the Decpticons immediately got back to work to finish the completion of the Spacebridge.
