** dream sequence.
~~ bond with parents
~::~ comm link
~**~ sparkmate bond
***TIME SKIP***
Cell on the Nemesis: Saphire's view
*dream sequence*
I pull Star and Cliff into my dream.
"Where are we?" Star asks
"you and Cliff are in my mind." I tell her
"How?" Cliff asks
"It is one of my four powers." I reply
"What are your other powers?" Star asks me
"I can turn myself and any one touching me invisible, but that power will only work when I call on it, I can bring anybot or human into my mind, and lastly, I have the ability to heal faster than normal." I tell them
"That is awesome, Saph." Star says
"I know, and they have come in handy, but I have yet to try my invisibility power, but that will be rectified quite soon. Now, onto the escape plan." I say
"we only have three days left to put it into action. the plan has been ready for four days, Saphire" Cliff tells me. "why the wait?"
"because we need to time it just right, Cliff." I reply to him
"now, I'll send you back to your own minds before Knockout and Breakdown arrive." I say as I send them back and end the dream.
*dream ends*
"Femmeling, Megatron wants you brought to the Command Center" I hear Knockout say.
"Which femmeling, Knockout? There are two femmelings here." Cliff says to him.
"Megatron wants Prime's daughter" Knockout says
"Saphire, don't." Star and Cliff say to me.
"I have to, Star, Cliff. Don't worry, I'll be fine." I tell them as I walk out the cell door and stand in front of Knockout and Breakdown.
"Come along, femmeling." Knockout says as he pushes me forward.
Again, I memorized the way from the cells to the Command Center just I had memorized the way from the entrance/exit to the Command Center.
"Why does Buckethead want me again?" I casually ask them.
"How should we know, femmeling?" Knockout says as he pushes me forward. "we just obey Lord Megatron"
"yah, you all are his glitches, bit brains" I tell them as we enter the Command Center and I see that oppi is on the screen. 'not good at all' I think to myself as we stand near Buckethead. 'yah that's what I'm gonna call him from now on.' I think to myself.
"ah, good job, Knockout, Breakdown for bringing the femmeling here." Buckethead says.
"mother fraggin glitch" I mumble under breath to Buckethead.
"What did you say, femmeling?" Buckethead asks me
"nothing, Buckethead." I reply sarcastically.
"it is Lord Megatron to you!" Buckethead tells me as he slaps me again and I fall to the ground.
"Megatron, I have made a decision" Oppi says
that got Buckethead's attention.
"what have you decided, Prime?" Buckethead asks
"I have decided..." oppi starts to say but I interrupt him
"oppi, don't surrender." I tell oppi just before Buckethead knocks me aside and I hit the ground and I hear something break on my helm.
I look up just as Buckethead looks shocked.
"this is a nice turn of events." Buckethead says as he picks me by my neck cables and hold me in front of me.
"It appears that your femmeling is a Seeker, Prime." Buckethead tells him. "what is your decision?"
"I won't surrender, Megatron." oppi says.
with that, I kick out and hit Buckethead in his faceplate and I turn myself invisible and run to the cell to grab Star and Cliff.
"find that femme Seeker NOW!" I hear Buckethead yell.
~be careful, Saphire~ I hear in my mind
~ I will, oppi and when I get back to base, I want to how I am a Seeker and what a Seeker is~ I send back
~We will tell you once you are here, safe at base.~ mom sends
~okay. I'll hold you to it.~ I reply as I stop in front of the cell and open it.
I become visible again and I look at Star and Cliff.
"Come along now. Hold onto me and don't let go I tell them as Star holds my hand and Cliff holds her hand and I turn us invisible and we make our way to the back of the ship. We jump off the ship.
"Star, Cliff, do your comm links work?" I ask
"mine broke when I crash landed." Star tells me
"and Knockout disabled my comm." Cliff also says.
"than it's a good thing that my comm link still works." I reply back
~:Ratchet, can you hear me:~ I send over the comm
~:Saphire?:~ Ratchet sends back
~:yes, Ratchet. I have Star and Cliff with me and we are falling through the sky. care to send a ground bridge:~ I send back
~:Thank the Allspark that you three all right:~ Ratchet sends back just as ground bridge opens beneath us. I push Star and Cliff ahead of me just as I hear a shot being fired at us.
"go, Star, Cliff. I will draw them away from you." I tell them as I toss them into the ground bridge and transform, flying away with Starscream and his fleet on my tailpipe.
~:Saphire, what are you doing?:~ Arcee sends
~:Drawing the glitches away:~ I send back as I land in a cave an transform back to my bipedal mode.
~:I need a ground bridge, NOW!:~ I send as Starscream shoots at me.
I turn around and fire back as I walk backwards, away from him. I hear a noise behind and I look and see that it's a ground bridge.
"I hope that's for me" I mutter to myself as I quickly ran through and I hit a mech.
who I don't know as I'm suddenly tackled by Star. "Don't ever do that again, Saph." Star tells me as she hugs me rather tightly.
"I will if I have to Star and ow, loosen up. you're crushing my wings." I tell her.
"oh, sorry" Star replies as she lets go and steps back, just as the mech I landed on, stands up.
"hey lil' lady" he says
gasping, "Jazzy" I say happily as I hug him
"It's good to see you too, lil' lady" Jazz says as he hugs back
Just than, Star screams out "BUMBLES!". I let go of Jazz and turn around to see Star running to Bee and hugging him. I look and I see oppi and mom and I run over and hug them and they hug back.
Stepping back, "mom, care to tell me why I have wings and what a Seeker is?" I ask just as I am tackled by two bots. "Saphire" I hear
I look and see Skysun and Stormfire. "Sky,Storm." I say happily as I hug them back.
"Saphire, a Seeker is a bot that can seek out anything and are now rare. you are a Seeker, Saphire." Mom tells me
"but how is that possible?" I ask
sighing, "because my parents were Seekers as are my brothers. I was born a ground vehicle. there has always been one Seeker that ends up being a ground vehicle." mom says. "also, Starscream is my last living brother and was heir to Vos, but before the war started, our parents disowned him. you, Saphire, are a Princess of Vos, and because of that, Megatron will want you even more." Mom finishes telling me.
I just stand there, shocked by all this information.
looking at mom, "what else should I know?"
"A Seeker's wings are very sensitive to anything, and Seekers are also very emotional too. They don't often find mates, thus why they are now rare. Vos used to be full of Seekers until the war happend and Vos was destroyed." Mom tells me
"But why hide it from me?" I ask
"we had Ratchet place a hologram chip in your shoulder when you were just a sparkling, for your protection and we thought it best if only Orion, I, and Ratchet knew that you are a Seeker." mom told me
"ok, I understand, mom. I'm gonna go to my room and get some recharge." I say as I start heading out of the main hanger.
"no, you don't, Saphire." Ratchet says as he grabs my neck armor and pulls me into the medbay.
"Ratchet." I say.
"You have yet to have a check up, Saphire." Ratchet says as he puts me on a berth an starts doing what he usually does.
I look over to mom and oppi and seeing that they won't help, I just sit there and sigh.
"you're good to go, Saphire." Ratchet says after 10 minutes. "sweet" I say as I jump off and head to my room.
Saphire's view
I lay on my berth, feeling glad that I was finally off of that pit slagged ship. I don't know how much longer I would have been able to hold on. Megatron is ruthless and cold sparked. Doesn't think twice about harming a youngling. I sigh and roll over, and I scream and run out of my room as fast as I could with the scraplet behind me. I scream as it latches onto me and I struggle to kick it off, but I decide to blast that fraggin' glitch. When I stop, I see that I'm in the main hanger of base and see that Ratchet, Jazz, Ironhide, Star, Storm and Sky are looking at me.
"S-scraplet" I say just before I collapse.
Jazz picks me and carries me over to Ratchet who looked over me and fixed my armor plating where the scraplet had been.
looking at me, "where did the scarplet punk come from?" Hide asks me.
"My room." I reply just as Jack, Miko, Raf, Nurse Darby and Agent Fowler come in.
"What happened?" Miko asks
"Scraplet." Jazz tells her
"what's a scraplet?" Jack asks
"scraplets are the most dangerous vermin to ever walk on the face of Cybertron." Ratchet tells him.
"All scraplets do is dismantle machinery and eat anything metal- especially living metal." Bulkhead says.
"well, bug squashed, game over right?" Jack says tentatively
"no. when it comes to scraplets, there's just never one. and I fear I know how they got in here." Ratchet says.
So we walked to the room where the pod was being kept, and we saw that the side had been chewed out all the all.
"it's a trap- a scraplet trap" Jazz says.
we head back to the main hanger and Ratchet tried to comm oppi, mom and Arcee, but with no luck.
"Just as I thought, the scraplets have gotten into the com-link system!" Ratchet says as he bangs his hand down on the computer board.
"if we don't eradicate these creatures immediately, they will reduce the base to a scrapheap."
"I say let them keep it and run off" Bulk says and Bee buzzes agreeing.
"evacuation is not an option" Ironhide tells them.
"If we do not get the ground bridge back online stat, Optimus, Arcee and Elita will perish." Ratchet says.
"Bulkhead, you never run!" Miko tells him as she stands in front of him.
"Miko, you haven't seen a swarm of these things devour a Bot. I have. They pick you apart from the inside out, going for the small juicy bits first- fuse by fuse, circuit by circuit, till there's nothing left, and I mean nothing left...not even your optics." Bulkhead tells Miko and me, Star, Sky and Storm all scoot closer to Ratchet and Ironhide, scared.
"Bulkhead, you're scaring the younglings!" Ratchet and Hide tell him at the same time.
"Let us help you." Jack says
We're not made of metal" Raf pipes up
"yah. the scraplets can't hurt us." Miko said
"typically I find your fleshiness to be your least engaging quality...but it would appear to provide an advantage under these extremes." Ratchet says as Raynala slightly hits him for his remark about the humans.
"Nurse Darby can pair up with Ironhide, Raf can pair up with Raynala, and me with Jazz and Jack and Agent Fowler can stay here and guard you, Saphire, Star, Storm and Sky." Miko says. "how that sound?"
"it sounds workable." Ironhide says as he and Nurse Darby go off towards the berthrooms, while Raf and Raynala head to the training room and Miko and Jazz head towards the vaults where we keep the relics we find.
While Jack and Agent Fowler stay here in the main hanger with Ratchet and us four younglings.
"need any help, Ratchet?" I ask
"No, Saphire." Ratchet curtly replies to me as he goes back to fixing the ground bridge.
Nurse Darby's View:
Ironhide and I were walking down the hallways, on the look out for those scraplets when the lights flickered off for a few minutes and Ironhide screamed. turning around, "did you just scream, Hide?" I ask keeping the amusement hidden. "no" Hide says too quickly. I look at him, "you sure, Hidey" I say using the nickname that as the other Autobots call them younglings, but according to human terms, they're in their teens years. "fine, yes, but don't tell anyone, June" Hide says. "and don't call me Hidey." "why not? Saphire, Star and Ratchet's twins do" I reply. "that's because they're younglings and I was there when they were born and started speaking." Hide tells me just as we hear clattering in the pipes above us and Ironhide shoots causing wires to fall on him, making him scream again. Than these little metal balls fall out shortly after ad we run out of there to the main hanger.
Saphire's view
"They can fly?!" Jack asks as he starts hitting scraplets with a crow bar and Agent Fowler uses the fire extinguisher to put them into stasis, while is four hide under a medical berth, hoping the scraplets don't see us. Just as Nurse Darby and Hidey come running in with scraplets behind them. we stay where we are, but soon the scraplets find us and we fire at them, trying to get them off. I decide to turn myself invisible hoping that the fraggin' things won't see me and it works.
"Jack, June, I need you to go the main energon pipe and fix what ever is causing it to leak. I believe that may be why the ground bridge isn't functioning." Ratchet tells them and he tells them what to do.
shortly after, they come back in. "It's fixed, Ratchet." Jack says.
Ratchet starts the ground bridge. "someone needs to be the bait" He says.
I turn myself visible, "I'll do it" I say
"Saphire, you're in no place..."Ratchet starts, but I cut him off. "I'm not as damaged as the rest of you, so I'll be the bait and lead the scraplets back to the Arctic." I tell him. "Fine" he replies.
I hear whirring and I look and see that the scraplets are coming for me, so I run through the ground bridge and I land on snow, I see oppi, mom and Cee heading towards me. "get down!" I yell at them just as the scraplets come through and fall to the ground frozen. once all of the scraplets were out, I looked up, "I'd invite you in, but it's a mess." I said as I stand back up and help mom and Arcee through the ground bridge with oppi following behind.
soon, Ratchet was directing Jack, Miko, Raf, Nurse Darby and Agent Fowler on how to help patch everybot up.
I sat near oppi and mom and hear Ratchet say "We're just fortunate that this infestation happened...on a saturday."
Just thank Miko screams and we all look at her. "What's wrong?" I ask
"spider!" Miko yells as she runs off screaming her head and than, Star, Sky, Storm and me, we end up laughing.
"oh my, that was funny. I am not gonna let her live that down. afraid of a itsy bitsy spider." I say as we laugh harder
"what you guys laughing about?" I hear and the four of us looked at her and I say "Miko, there's a huge a spider on your head" and we end up laughing again.