Contains violence and Gore
Prison Break
"Soundwave will apprehend femme spy." The stereo mech made a grab for Phoenix, but before he could take hold; she placed her cuffed hands on top of his head, jumped, and rolled off his back. Successfully landing on both feet, she turned in time to face Soundwave leading his fist straight at her. A quick jump out of the way managed to avoid Soundwave's fist; as it pounded a creator into the concrete floor. "Nice try you DJ reject!" she smirked. Of coarse it was short lived; for when she made a running attempt to body check him at full speed, he simply shifted out of her way, grabbed the middle of her cuffs and threw backwards, landing hard on her back. "Ok…oowww..." "Unknown femme inferior" He had a slight mock in his tone, which made Phoenix growl, gritting her teeth in annoyance. "I'll show you inferior." She hissed. Charging once again she waited until he moved out of her path; then at the last klick before passing him, her wings sprung straight up, hitting the con square in the faceplate. The wing punch created enough force to throw him backwards into one of the many berths encircling them.
Phoenix waited, huffing for him to get up, but he did not move. After a few more moments a loud buzzing went off in her audio sensor. "Phoenix! Phoenix! Are you there! Answer your comlink!" "Yes Optimus, I'm here," "What happened?" "Not right now, you need to listen to me! You've all been set up! There is no attack on Moon Base 1, it was just a diversion for..." Phoenix turned just a yellow colored fist came towards her faceplate and sent her flying across the room. "Diversion for what? Phoenix!" Optimus' voice was blurry; she slowly regained consciousness and rubbed her face of the place of impact. Soundwave just watched in minor amusement as the femme struggled to lift herself. "I have no time for you now," he pressed a button on his chassie; a keytar emerged from inside him and changed into a bat; swooped at Phoenix and lifted her into the air by her cuffs. "Whoa! Hey!" "Ratbat keep watch. I will deal with you later." And with that he returned to the computer and set in the coordinates.
~~~The alarm rang all through the prison building. The bots in the main control tower were franticly trying to regain control of the systems. "Quickly, what's the status on sector 3?" "I don't know all the vids have been shut down!" A Trooperbot ran in huffing, covered in scratches and burns. The chief gasped at the bots condition and steadied him as he sat on the ground. "By the Allspark! What happened?" The trooper's voice was scratchy, his vocalizer had been damaged. "D-Decepticons had taken over the Court hall. But are now gone. *Cough* Are… heading towards…." The bots optics slowly closed, the chief shook him. "Heading towards where? Where solider!" "Here…" The bots stopped frozen in there tracks, the chief released the wounded bot. He stared blankly in shock at the floor, and then looked around into the other bots faces; filled with fear and worry. "Well…you heard him! Get that system back on now!" The bots scrambled out of their state, but froze again when there was a small knock on the door.
No more then a nanosec did the doors fly inward knocking several bots over with them. Shortfuse casually walked in, tossing a small devise up into the air and catching it in his hand. "Knock knock." The other cons followed in, shoving the limp bodies out of their way. He stood on the edge of a broken window panel that one of the doors had smashed through and dropped the device like a rock, falling down below. "Well that's the last of 'em. I have to say Shocky these mini bridges you made are probably your best invention yet." Shockwave's claws busied themselves along the control panel. "Thank you Shortfuse, now take over that side…and don't call me Shocky." Shortfuse shrugged in amusement.
The chief bot kept silent against the wall; watching the cons take over; taking no notice of them. He slowly lifted himself and the wounded Trooperbot up. "Hey hang in there," he whispered "and stay still." The Trooper faintly nodded with optics barley open. "We gonna get out of here, just wai…." SLASH! The chief looked away as something warm sprayed over him; he froze in horror as he turned back to the Trooper; now lying a lifeless shell on the ground. With giant, deep, leaking gash across his chessie. He then looked at himself; as the engeron dripped down off of his face and plating. A shadow over casted him as he looked up into the killer, shark tooth smile of Khaos; who was covered in dripping energon. There was a quick movement of something long and thin, and then ….everything went black.
Khaos flicked his tail, spraying the extra pink liquid over the wall, as Megatron entered the room he quickly moved out of the way. He placed another device on the wall and looked around for any leftover survivors. "Is everything ready?" Megatron watched over Shockwave as he continued to type away, pressing one last single button the devise started to blink red as short sparks flew from it. "Yes my lord. The transportation has begun."
~~~On Moon base 1; Optimus was taping away at his comlink. "Phoenix come in! Come in Phoenix." Static was the only response. "Did you guys get that? What does she mean this is all a diversion? And for what?" the yellow convertible was becoming very uneasy. "I don't know, but there's something wrong. Why have no decepticons come yet? There is defiantly something up back at the base." "Hey man, I hate to drag out the bad news but until we get the a-okay to go back were all stuck here." Jazz frowned with chucks in hand. The prime sighed "You're right Jazz, but I'm not going to risk the fact that Phoenix may or may not be in trouble. Bumblebee, Ratchet and Jady I need you to go back." "Optimus you can't just send off your men like that!" Sentinel came marching up "we need to stay at our post." "We also need to protect our own." Ratchet grumbled as he and the other two bots passed through and into Omega Supreme.
"You wouldn't consider her 'our' own if…." Sentinel covered his own mouth to stop what had just slipped out from finishing, and quickly turned away. "If what Sentinel?" Optimus gave an eerie glare behind the blue Prime's back. "PRIME!" Both Sentinel and Optimus turned toward to face the frantic medical bot. "You need to see this! You're not gonna believe it."
As they both entered Ultra Magnus's head was already in view. "I'm afraid I must be straightforward with this; but Megatron and some of his top generals have escaped and have taken over Kaon prison." Both Prime's stood frozen in place. "But sir…Megatron...how?" Sentinal baffled. "It was too late before we realized that sending you there was nothing but a rouse. Now all are in a panic, and our defenses are low from this surprise attack." "There probably going to attempt to free all the prisoners." Optimus responded. 0"If they are; they do not intend to do it here or now." "Sir, What do you mean by that?" "This is what is happing right at this moment." The Magnus's head disappeared and was replaced by a vid feed.
They watched the screen with open jaws; stunned silent. The image was of the prison Kaon; surrounded by bolts of lighting and…being lifted into the air. "By the Allspark." Optimus gazed amazingly and worryingly into the image "What's happening to Kaon prison?" "Believe it or not…." Ratchet said bluntly "It's being bridged."
~~~"Grr, uhg, nahh!" Phoenix struggled against the cuffs and the gravity holding down her body weight; but Ratbat easily still held on to her.
"Drop me already you slaggin' rodent!" she grunted as she twist and turned her body. "Silence femme" Soundwave commanded but did not turn to look, for he was too occupied with the final touches.
"What do you plan on doing anyway?" Her body swung limply as she gave up struggling. "Classified."
"Well if you're gonna finish me off anyway you might as well tell me."
"Point taken. As soon as I finish final connections; Kaon prison will be bridged to earth and once all deceptions are free, Lord Megatron will use this planet to rebuild his army against the autobots. Then decepticons shall claim planet as our own."
"What? No way that's impossible!"
"Negative. It has already begun."
She watched above the opaque screen with horror; the image of Lake Eerie was suddenly taken over by various bolts of lightning, as the sky turned a burnt orange and dark, purple clouds swirled above. Then there was the flickering image of a dark and enormous structure in the centre of the lake.
With every passing klick the building became more and more visable, the water underneath was swirling; turning into crashing waves by the edge of the shores and docks.
Soundwave finally turned his attention away from the monitor to Phoenix; who still dangling helplessly.
"I must see to bridge process, but first I will take care of you." Her spark pounded against her chest plate as his servos reached for her. Phoenix started to swing her body; wanting to be out of his reach. Only inches from her neck did the final push of adrenaline kick in; she swung her legs upward; kicking the mech in the face.
Soundwave stumbled backward, rubbing his dented faceplate.
Her servos swung all the way up until she was upside down pushing her peds, fighting against Ratbat's grip. The winged bot flapped viciously to stay above the ground.
"Com'on…ugh...let…go!" A twist of her wrist made a 'click' noise from the stasis cuffs, as Ratbat's claw hit the release switch and allowed Phoenix to fall to the ground.
She quickly raised herself up rubbing her sore wrists then pumped them into the air.
"Yes! Finally!Huh?" she looked up as Soundwave came at her in mid swing. "Whoa!" she ducked just in time, missing his fist. He turned to her as she raised her own servos.
"Unknown femme must be destroyed…Threat status:…minimal."
"Well see just how minimal of a threat I am after I take you out!" Both charged at each other at full speed. Midway; Phoenix could see Ratbat sneaking up behind Soundwave's shoulder, she quickly gave back on her speed and just as Ratbat was about to make the drop on her; she slid underneath Soundwave and watched as the bat bot crashed into its master's helm.
Shaking off the vibrations in his head, Soundwave could see the blurry vision of Ratbat on the ground unconscious. He stared back at Phoenix who stood with servos up waiting for his next move.
"What are you waiting for you bucket of bolts? I'm right here come get me! Unless you too afraid to take on a femme." She waited for his response but the mech just stood there looking at her blankly through his visor.
"Correction…it is you who are afraid. You carry no weapon, or appear have any prior knowledge of fighting. Conclusion; femme is venerable." Phoenix smiled.
"You're right...I am afraid, but that won't stop me from foiling your plans." She knew there was no way she could take him down by herself, but she just had to try; no matter what. A small chuckle…or what Phoenix thought was a chuckle escaped from Soundwave; for some reason her bravery act amused him.
"Clearly you wish to show that you have courage within your circuits, but Soundwave shall not be fazed by false acts." Phoenix gritted her teeth hidden under her lip components.
"This is no false act," she charged at the mech again, but Soundwave only stood where he was, waiting. He thought she was going to try and body slam him again, but before she was just inches away from him; the femme jumped. Soundwave could only take a step back in surprise when Phoenix's peds came down upon his chest. After extending her fingers into claws she jabbed them into his upper chest causing sparks to fly.
"Aaahhgg!" the mech cried out as Phoenix pulled out her claws and pushed away with her legs, causing the mech to fall backward onto his backstruts. The red light in his visor dimmed. Phoenix stood over his frame to make absolutely sure that this time there would be no surprises. She kept watch over him, until she completely backed up into the control monitor finally convinced that the mech was …temporarily knocked into stasis.
Gazing into the monitor she could see that the prison was almost completely visible. Through the vids there could be seen crowds of humans watching anxiously and worryingly by the shores and edges of the lake.
"Oh primus this is not good! Wait..is that?" in one of the many vids across the screen; Phoenix squinted her optics into the corner of one. A group of large fuzzy shapes suddenly appeared, but they were too unclear and far away to see.
"Hmm." She messed with a few button and switches until eventully one zoomed in. "Is that? It is!" The blurry shapes cleared; showing Optimus, Ratchet and the others watching the transportation by the lake side. She clicked her transmitter.
"Optimus! Optimus it's me Phoenix!" she watched him through the monitor as he pressed his own sensor, with the slight expression of surprise.
"Phoenix? What happened to you?"
She explained everything rapidly about the finding of the secret lab under the base, Soundwave and the plan that was exposed.
"As soon as that prison has done bridging through; all the cons are going to escape and run throughout the city!" she could hear the shrill of Bumblebee in the background.
"What! Soundwave is back? Wait...did'nt we close up that place?"
"Bumblebee calm down." Optimus turned his attention back to his comlink. "Phoenix, is there anyway for you to shut the system down from where you are?"
"Uuuuhhhhh…I...could...try?" Just from staring at the numerous switches and knobs did she feel her processor scramble in confusion.
"By the time she figures it out there will be cons running all over the place!" Rachet shouted.
"We have no other choice, besides we have no idea to even how this is even possible." A beep from another comlink interrupted Optimus' train of thought.
"I may be able to help you answer that," Rachet could have sworn he had heard that tinny voice before.
"Preceptor?"
"Correct. I have managed to get hold of one of the decepitons strange devices. It is apparently a miniature version of the space bridge."
"A miniature space bridge? But it takes a huge one just to transport a few of us!" Bulkhead's processor was blown away from what he just heard. "How can a small one do something like..well THAT?"
"It cannot. At least not one by itself. They must have covered the prison with multiple devices, and it also takes two places in order to control the process. From my calculations; they are only able to be stopped from both areas of control."
"One must be where Phoenix is." Jady exclaimed. Optimus nodded.
"Then the other must be in there." He pointed toward the now visible prison. The lightning had stopped and waves vanished but dark clouds still circled above.
"It's here." Ratchet stepped forward. "Who knows how long it will be until they manage to release all those cons."
"Not long I can imagine."
"Precisely." Preceptor cut in "In order for Kaon prison to return, you must seize the controls within, and try to avoid them knocking out the security system. It is the only thing that is keeping the rest of the prisoners from escaping."
Bumblebee was stunned.
"In there? With all those cons? We'll be offline faster than Bulkhead goes though oil! There's too many of 'em!"
"In case you've forgotten lil'Bee," Jazz put his servos on the mini bot's shoulder "You've got a lot more back up with ya."
"Right. We'll need all the help we can get if we're going to take however's in there down. To the pier. Autobots; transform and roll out!" All did so and headed straight towards the boats. Optimus kept on his comlink a few clicks longer before he logged off.
"Phoenix, do what you can to try and figure out how to shut down that system."
"Will do sir" she saluted. "Right now….how do I do this?" she rubbed her chin in thought as she gazed over the numerous glowing buttons. "This requires much thought and concentration…hmmmm …better just mess with everything." Then went away pressing every one she could find. Unaware of a flickering red light in an unconscious mech's visor.
~~~The ship was anchored below as the squad of autobots climbed up the rigid metallic edges and pipes of the new island.
Jady reached for a pipe but as she lifted her weight on to it the pipe snapped causing her to slip and fall.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" she closed her optics until she could feel herself no longer falling. Opening an optic she looked up to see Bumblebee grabbing on to her servo.
"I gotcha!" He pulled her up until she took hold again of the cliff.
"Thank you hunny." She smooched his faceplate; which turned a bright red.
"If you two love birds are done we've got a job to do!" Ratchet called from above.
"Way to ruin the moment Doc bot." Bee mumbled.
Reaching the top of island; Optimus looked upward towards the huge control tower, pointing. "In there. That has to be where they are ….and Megatron."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go smash some cons." Ironhide smashed his fist into his other servo. Optimus nodded then charged forward.
"It appears we have company." Shockwave watched the monitor as a fleet of bots ran by the camera.
"Oh good, new game." Shortfuse mused.
Megatron looked into the camera and saw Optimus talking the lead.
"Well well, appears that I may take my revenge after all." A smirked crawled across his face.
To be continued….