"Hey, where's Miko?" Raf asked. "I think she got detention. What are the odds?" I chuckle while rolling my optics, "I'm so glad that this was my final day for school, I can't believe how boring it is, sitting on plastic chairs for hours makes my skidplate soar,"
I turned my attention to Bulkhead once he drives into the room with Miko jumping out, "Ugh, you sound like my parents!" Bulkhead transforms into his robot mode, "Aren't they Japanese?"
"They speak a different language, but you both say the same things," Miko said. "It's because we want the best for you, and that means making sure you go to school, not jail," Bulkhead says. "Uh oh, what d'you do?" Jack smirks at Miko. I let out a small laugh. Bulkhead kneels down in front of Miko, "Look, before I became a warrior, I was a laborer, construction. I can build stuff, I can break stuff, and that's it,"
"I love breaking stuff! I wanna be just like you, Bulk," Miko smiled. "I think that's not what he was trying to say..." I raised an optic ridge. "Why would you want to be like me, when you could be a medic like Ratchet?" Bulkhead asked. "I'm detecting a fresh Energon pulse, from the nation called 'Greece'," Ratchet says, "Quite a historic city, I believe,"
"Ancient Greece huh? Oh field trip," Bulkhead looks down at Miko. "Good idea, Bulkhead," I said with a nod. After Bulkhead and Miko had left through the bridge, I sat down and took out one of the clear Oronian Energon cases that I've been saving up. I stared at it before breaking the case into pieces and forming another cube with them. "You're making another one?" Jack comes up next to me.
"What else is there to do? Besides, I need one so that I can-," I looked up at Ratchet, who was currently not paying any attention to us. I leaned down and whispered to Jack, "-participate in races," "Aren't you guys suppose to keep a low profile?" Jack asked. "Yeah, I know," I sighed, "But...what is there to do? Actually, though..racing is fun,"
"I've been meaning to ask you. I've noticed how you can't transform into any vehicle, why?" Jack asked. "Well...it's kind of complicated, you see, I actually can transform into a vehicle. But, if I scan any data of a vehicle, I loose the ability to transform into a human. And, if I wanted to transform back into a human, I'd have to..." I bit my lip, "Well, I wont get into detail. So, I'm choosing to just keep my ability to transform into a human. Get all of that?" Jack nods.
I snap my head up from the bridge opening again, seeing Bulkhead and Miko, "Whoa, that was fast," "We've discovered an Energon Harvester that was painted on the ruins we were at," Bulkhead said. I furrowed my optic ridges, confused.
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"It is indeed an Energon Harvester," Optimus says as he looked at the picture Miko took with her cell phone, "A powerful tool created by the ancients. To remove raw Energon from any source,"
"Greek gods knew Autobots?" Raf asked. I shrugged my shoulders, as I am not a Cybertronian myself to know any history of Cybertron. "No. The ancients often used the art of a given era to conceal messages," Optimus answered, "This was likely a sign post to indicate a Harvester's location, hidden somewhere on this planet," So, humans didn't make the picture?
"Optimus, if the Harvester can remove Energon from anything, and, you all have Energon pumping inside you..." Jack says. "It can be a dangerous weapon to us," I bit my lip. "In the hands of Decepticons, it is likely," Optimus says. "See, you were a genius about taking down that painting!" Miko says to Bulkhead. "Miko's not wrong. How can the 'Cons find the Harvester without the fresco?" Arcee smiled. "With high speed internet?" Raf types into his laptop," If you do an image search on Greek gods and golden orb, this pops up. It's in a museum," Raf shows us the picture of a large Greek statue of a man holding a gold circular shape in his hand.
"Whoa...[Nice one...]" I hissed out. "That the real deal?" Arcee looks up at Optimus. "Contact Agent Fowler," Optimus says after studying the picture. "Alright, bridge trip," I smiled.
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"You have reached special agent: William Fowler. I'm currently on an intensive training retreat, and I wont be available until Tuesday," Fowler's voice plays on a recording. "Are you kidding me? Probably lousing about on vacation if you ask me," I scoffed. "Without Agent Fowler's direct aid, we'll have to confiscate the Harvester on our own," Optimus says.
"Sounds like a good plan..." I say with slight sarcasm. "Whoa, whoa, 'confiscate'? As in steal museum property?" Jack asks. "That sounds... illegal," Raf says. "I do not wish to break human law, but once the Decepticons learn of the Harvester's location, they will not hesitate to obtain it by any means necessary. We must act covertly," Optimus says.
"Uh, Optimus, covertly and giant robots really don't go together. Museums are public, they have guards and security cameras," Jack says. "That's why we'll sneak inside till it closes, then we'll snatch it up," I say with a smirk. "We're also not a government secret," Miko adds. "I'm not sure if that's wise..." Bulkhead says. "It may be our best option, Bulkhead. The longer we debate, the more time we let the Decepticons have," Optimus says.
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"Autobots, confirm position," Optimus' voice says.
"Westward shuttle," Arcee reports.
'East side,' Bumblebee beeps.
"South side covered," Bulkhead reports.
"Maintain your guard. Ariona, Jack, Miko, Rafael, I will have a clear view of you. Once you've secured the Harvester, I will contact Ratchet to bridge you back to base," Optimus says. "Got it," I respond.
"Now, sense you'll bypass normal entry, you wont sound off any alarms," Ratchet opens the bridge, "But, take care to avoid any security guards," "Rodger that, doc-bot," Miko gives Ratchet the thumbs up. We use the vehicle we were on to drive inside the bridge, winding up inside the museum. Just as Ratchet had said, no alarms were sound off. "Awesome dinosaur," I grinned at the skeletal system of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, "Why does it feel like it's deja vu?"
"Stay focused," Jack tells me. "Bingo, up there," Miko pats my shoulder and points up at the Harvester in the statue's hand. I looked over at Optimus, seeing his headlights blinking, signaling us that it was clear to go. Jack presses a button and raises us up to where the security camera was. Miko takes a picture of the statue with the Harvester and places it in front of the camera, making it look like there was nothing going on. Clever.
Miko nods at Jack. He starts to drive slowly towards the Harvester. "Get ready to grab it," He whispers. I nod. Once we were close, I jumped up and catch the statue's hand and pulled myself up on it. I help Raf up onto the other side of the Harvester. I grab hold of it and with the help of Jack and Raf, start to slowly push it onto the vehicle. I gasped once I hear a faint crack on glass.
We all turn our attention to the museum's entrance, seeing Optimus in robot mode holding a missile in his hands. "Huh! [What the!] I gasped, seeing a bot I've never met before, holding a Energon prod that was pointing at Optimus. The bot uses it to eletricute him, causing Optimus to fall forward. The bot electrocutes him some more.
"Ah! [Hey!] I narrowed my eye in anger. "It's 'Cons!" Raf said. "They got Optimus!"
I start to stand up, but then realized that I was on a narrow part of the hand. I let out a growl. Off in the distance, another truck drives towards the museum. Our back up? Bumblebee zooms out from the right towards the truck, engaging it. I make a confused expression. The truck launches a misile towards Bumblebee, hitting him. The yellow bot quickly transforms and tumbles over from the impact. Arcee engages the truck, only to get blasted at like Bumblebee. Bulkhead drops in front of the museum and charges at the vehicle, which then transformed into another unknown bot.
The bot punches Bulkhead, sending him towards the other bot and knocks him over with him. Both of them crashed into the museum and the alarm sounds off. "Move!" I shout, using all of my weight to push the Harvester into the vehicle the humans were using. I grabbed Raf and jumped in with Miko and Jack. Jack lowers us down and drives to the back of the museum. Miko jumps off and runs ahead of us to open the back garage doors. While doing so, Miko was captured by a guard and thrown into the security camera room.
"Slag..." I cursed. "This isn't good," Jack shakes his head. Outside of the doors, a pair of metallic legs walked up. "Arcee!" Jack ran towards the door opening with Raf and I following behind. The bot kneels down, and raises the door up more. The bot wasn't Arcee.
"Soundwave!" I quickly bare my blades. Soundwave uses one of his tentacles to try to snatch the Harvester from us. I grab at it and stabbed the tentacle with one of my blades. The tentacle goes frantic and rips itself from my blade. The claw-like end grabs my neck, pulling me towards Soundwave. I yelled as I used one of my blades to slice at Soundwave's screen-like face. Soundwave looks at me as if he was glaring and uses the tentacle to throw me across the pavement behind him.
"Ahh!" I screamed before colliding onto the pavement with my back, my blades screeching against it and making dents. I disarm my blades before using my elbows to push myself up with a groan, watching Soundwave transform into a jet and flies away with the Harvester. "Slag!" I yelled, pounding my fist onto the pavement. I get up and meet up with Jack and Raf to find the Autobots in front of the museum.
"The 'Cons have the Harvester!" Jack shouts. "And security has Miko!" Raf adds. "What? I'm going in after her," Bulkhead says. "Bulkhead," Optimus' arm was held in front of Bulkhead to hold him back, "Miko may be detained, but she is safe from harm,"
"Best if we get the Harvester back before Starscream gets the chance to try it out..." I say.
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"In all likely hood, Starscream would use the Harvester to gather much Energon as soon as possible, from the planet's otherwise unmineable deposits. Approach with extreme caution. Starscream will not hesitate to use the Harvester on any one of us," Optimus opens the ground bridge, "Bulkhead, it is best if you remain here,"
"So I could bust Miko out?" Bulkhead asked. "To help Ratchet," Optimus says, "You may be Miko's guardian, but she requires human assistance. Agent Fowler remains our best option," Optimus transforms and drives away through the bridge opening.
Raf tries to contact Fowler, but the same recording played from when we first tried to contact him. "Still no answer," Raf frowned. "Probably lounging around some poolside cavana," Bulkhead slams his fist down on a crate in anger, accidentally smashing something. "Bulkhead, I needed that!" Ratchet yells. "We could free Miko if we just get the Harvester back to the museum!" Bulkhead says.
"So that the Decepticons can steal it all over again?" Ratchet asked. Bulkhead was taken aback, "I'm so dumb...!" "We can always make a replica of the Harvester," I said. "That's what I was doing," Ratchet holds up a unfinished golden orb, "The construction would be going a lot faster if Bulkhead hadn't just mangled my frame wielder!"
"We're already trespassers and thieves, why not add forgery to the list?" Jack says in sarcasm. Bulkhead groaned, "I wished I've never taken Miko to the-" Bulkhead blinks, "The painting of the Harvester isn't the only thing we found at those ruins!"
"I'm sorry?" Ratchet says. "Starscream's not dumb, no matter what tool he has, he's going to take the Energon the easy way," Bulkhead says, "Ratchet, bridge me back to those ruins, I'm going to take the Harvester out of Starscream's hands," Ratchet nods, putting in the coordinates. "I'll go with," I say to Bulkhead, "High chances that Starscream wont be alone, and you'll need someone to watch your back just in case," I transform into my robot mode.
"Come on," Bulkhead tells me before running into the bridge. I quickly follow behind.
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"There they are," I whispered, looking over a large boulder seeing a group of Vehicons and a couple of other Decepticons, including Starscream, "You're right, this is an easy way for him," Bulkhead tilts his head to a certain direction, and starts to walk towards it. I follow behind, trying not to make any noise. Bulkhead slides down a small cliff and starts to get closer to Starscream. I slide down and follow beside him. "L-Look where you're going!" I hissed, before Bulkhead steps onto a pot, making a loud noise.
The two Decepticons from before turned towards us. One of them being a slim red one and one being a bulky blue one. "Ah, Bulkhead...[Bulkhead, you buffoon...]" I face palmed myself. "Scrap..." Bulkhead groaned.
"Back for seconds?" The red Decepticon asked, taking out his Energon prod. The blue Decepticon forms his right hand into a large hammer. Then, they charged at us. I bare my blades, ready to fight. I looked up at Bulkhead, "Don't just stand there!" "Get down!" Bulkhead shouts.
"What?" I was pulled down by Bulkhead as he ducks the two Decepticon's attacks, making the blue one hit the red one. "S-Smart move," I said with a nervous laugh. Bulkhead smirks as he uses the Energon prod that was dropped to electrocute the blue Decepticon. The Decepticon falls back, the prod stuck onto him. A blue beam hits Bulkhead. He grunts as light blue mist was starting to get sucked out of him. I followed the blue beam and see Starscream pointing the Harvester at Bulkhead. He was sucking the Energon out of him!
"Ah!" I run at a fast pace towards Starscream and jumped into the air, coming down and kicking him in the face. "Gah!" Starscream stumbled back and lost grip on the Harvester. I quickly grab the Harvester and try to figure out how to deactivate it. "Ariona," I turn to Bulkhead, "Throw it to me!" I do as I was told and tossed the Harvester to Bulkhead. He crushes the Harvester in his hands enough to make it stop working. then, he quickly throws the Harvester into the sky. The Harvester explodes, sending a disk of Energon into the air around it.
"Nice lob," I smiled at Bulkhead. I gasp as he falls backwards onto the ground, "Bulkhead!" I ran towards him, "Come on, get up, we gotta go!" I turn around when I hear the sound of electricity. The red Decepticon smirks as he uses the Energon prod to electrocute me in my neck. I let out a scream, feeling electric pulses run through my body in pain. The prod separates my body, and there were sounds of beeping coming from the gem on my chest.
My feet gave away as I fell down to the ground from low energy. My optics were nearly about to shut as I struggle to stay awake. I looked up at the red Decepticon, who was now standing over me. "They're certainly gluttons for punishment," He says with a smirk, looming over me. I stare up at him, soon into his dark red optics. Without thinking of my actions, my mouth slowly forms into a wide smile, creating a painful, but joyful expression.
The red Decepticon blinks at me in confusion. I looked over at the direction where a bridge was being opened, slightly lifting up my head. Lasers flew above my head. The Decepticons retreated from the battle field. The Autobots walked up to us. "Hey..." Bulkhead says. I let out a sigh, looking at the gem on my chest, which was still blinking and beeping at me to re-fuel on Oronian Energon.
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"That's the last of your supply. What did you do to get your energy so low?" Ratchet asked as he hands a Oronian Energon crystal to me. "Not much really..." I say weakly, placing the crystal on top of the gem and let the gem soak up the crystal's energy. After I was done re-fueling, I stored the empty crystal case into my crate, "I've learned that I should stay away from Energon prods...for some reason," I say. "The reason might be because of your human DNA. Energon prods can affect you Oronians a lot more it does to us," Ratchet says. "I'll remember that, of course," I said with a nervous laugh.
I let out a sigh, But what I don't get, is why I smiled at that Decepticon... A glitch?
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