ConlonKeith, that is a good idea and something that I have not thought of going over. The use of Rose Tyler/Bad Wolf could be the very being that the Avengers need to stop Seth. It is something that I have not thought about before. I might bring it in, but its not fun if the heroes find a way to defeat the villain too quickly.

A little heads up about this chapter before we go into it. It will be heavily based around the Transformers from both the Generation 1, Prime and the live action movies.

Chapter 11

"Nightshade we need to stop for a bit!" Thor shouted up to the Dragonoid who was just about to slip into the shadows of the tunnel that they were following. "We must rest! Our battle with the Serpent Sisters has caused us many wounds!" Thor spoke to Nightshade. She was still in the shadows but Thor could see the red glowing of her optics glowing in the shadows. The two red orbs never moved away from his face, and Nightshade was showing no signs that she was going to move towards them.

"And Cap is now a snake!" Hawkeye spoke up. Thor whipped around to face the archer and the red orbs moved towards him to. Even Wanda looked around to the Archer Avenger. The blue and red snake that was wrapped her neck also looked around to face the archer who spoke. Hawkeye took a step back from all the eyes that were looking at him. "What? Its true!" he said while looking at all the others but Captain America as he looked at him from his new perch on Wanda's shoulder.

Captain America hissed at Hawkeye and moved so that his head was closer to Hawkeye. He would have smirked when he saw both Hawkeye and Thor move away from him. He watched that he did not hurt Wanda as he moved his transformed body to support his movements. "Thank you for reminding us what has been done to me! But we need to focus!" he hissed towards Hawkeye. He was sure that Hawkeye was almost standing in Thor's shadow and Thor was getting closer to the wall.

He swung his head back towards Nightshade. Nightshade had been quick in taken the front as she followed the pathway while Thor took the back. They were ready for anything that was going to sneak up either in front of them or behind them. He knew that Nightshade was not going to allow a break to get in her way. He knew the urgency of getting to the armoury but he could feel that Wanda is starting to tire by carrying him. "Nightshade scout the tunnels ahead! From what we have been seeing we are much closer to the armoury than we think! The rest of us shall remain here until you come back with news on how far we are from out objective!" he ordered Nightshade.

Nightshade's red optics moved away from the snake and looked close to the wall that was crumbling away. "Nightssshade!" Cap hissed. He couldn't help hiss out the S in Nightshade's name, but they didn't have time for this stalling. He knew that Nightshade was hiding something from them and that was causing her to hurry despite her own injuries. "We do not have time for all of us to rest! Scout ahead and come back if you find anything of value!" he said to Nightshade. No sooner had he spoke to Nightshade that she disappeared into the shadows like a shadow herself.

Returning his attention to Wanda he brought up his head to her face. Forked tongue whipping out as he studied the oldest of the young Avengers. "Wanda sit down! You need to rest!" he ordered. He started to uncurl from his wrapped position around her body. He dropped to the ground and slithered over to the wall that Nightshade had been looking at before she had vanished into the shadows. Wanda joined beside him in sitting beside him. Her long red jacket protecting her from the sand along with the broken walls that might cause her pain. He didn't say anything as she ran her hand her hand over his scaly head.

Thor and Hawkeye were both not for making any moves. They were both standing on the other side of the tunnel across from where he and Wanda had sat down. Wanda had also noticed the reluctance that the God of Thunder and the Archer had in sitting beside them.

Wanda smirked as she moved closer to the supersoldier turned snake. Her smirk got bigger when she saw the startled faces that they were giving but were trying hard to hide. "Growing up with my brother Pietro we both had a snake each! We both had pythons!" Wanda said randomly. Cap slithered closer to her, he and Clint had learned quickly that when she talked about her brother and her life before HYDRA it was going to cause some tears and some of her emotions got lost allowing her powers to slip through the net that Nightshade had helped to form when she had started their training.

She looked down at Cap who had placed his head on her knee and couldn't help the smirk of triumph as Hawkeye ran towards her. He had developed a parental feelings for Wanda during Sokovia and after that when she was still recovering from her lose at the hand of Ultron. "I had a pretty albino python that I called Snowflake! She was so kind and was always at my side! She and Pietro were both there when my powers were beginning to develop! But when those agents from HYDRA came she defended me and because of that she was killed in front of me! Pietro's snake met the same fate!" she said. Tears were beginning to form in her eyes and red sparks appeared at the tip of her fingers.

Hawkeye placed a reassuring hand on Wanda's shoulder. "Its okay Wanda! Your safe now!" he said. He looked away when he saw Cap's head appear on her other shoulder and go up to her head. The python rested its head in Wanda's head. He squirmed where he was sitting on the sand when the black forked tongue flickered out of its mouth and back in. He knew it was Cap but seeing the Avengers leader as a creature he didn't like it was not good.

Gathering herself Wanda spoke again, "The only people who know about that is Pietro and Nightshade!"

"You told Nightshade but not the rest of us?" Thor asked as he approached the three on the ground. He was weary of the large python. He used to love snakes but that changed with his brother playing tricks on him and the legend saying that he was to die by the Midguard Serpent. That was enough to cause him to no longer like snakes that much. But who could blame him with his brother Loki playing the same pranks all the time and the time of him fighting the Midguard Serpent closing in on him.

Wanda looked up at Thor. Her eyes were still nipping from the crying that she had been done. "When Nightshade began to train mke she asked for all emotional anchors and anything else that will hold me back! I told her everything and there was many times that she just questioned me until I broke and told her everything! That was when I began to learn that there is more that I can do! She even started to teach me a few spells that a few witches know well such as a tracking spell and a spell that makes people tell the truth!" Wanda explained to Thor and the other two Avengers.

"Nightshade is a good teacher for you Wanda! You have learned a lot while under her watch!" Thor said to her. "Now we must just wait for Nightshade to return with her findings!" Thor said as he sat on the other side of Wanda. He kept well away from snake that was Captain America as he provided his own way of comforting Wanda. They all protected Wanda in their own different way. Hawkeye was like a father to her telling her the wrongs and rights of the world. Thor and Captain America both looked out for her. Nightshade provided lessons both in the classroom and on the battlefield, sometimes she would beside Wanda and others she will be in the shadows watching ready to leap in at the last minute.

Cap watched as the three other Avengers fell asleep. The fight with the Serpent Sisters had really taken it out of them and then tracking through the tunnel with Nightshade leading them at breakneck speeds. It became clear that he was to stay awake and stop anything from sneaking up on them. He really hoped that none of the Serpent Sisters or any mummies came in their current state. He may have been turned into a cold blooded reptile but he was still the leader of the Avengers.

The sound of footsteps coming towards their temporary sleeping arrangements caused Thor to stir. He had not felt so tired in many years. He had felt it after celebrating for days on end after a battle, and the last time that he had toasted a victory had been many years ago. Years before he joined the Avengers. Sure the Avengers did celebrate after a mission was in victory but that was nothing compared to the parties of Asgard within the halls of his forefathers.

He tried to sit up but he felt a weight on his chest. His hand reached for his hammer that was laying between him and Wanda. Weapon in hand he slowly brought it closer to his body. Slowly he lifted up his head to get a good view of why he could not move. Curled up in a blue and red ball on his chest was Captain America. He couldn't help but let out a scream that awoken Barton. Barton had already drawn an arrow and had aimed it at the snake who was dozing on his chest.

Wanda who was awake already couldn't help but hide a smirk that came on her face. She had woken about twenty minutes ago and allowed Steve to get some rest. Of course he had gone to Thor as the next best heat source after Nightshade. She had to keep her mouth closed as she had watched Cap curl into a ball of red and blue scales on his chest. She had wished her for her phone to be working, but like all other technology when they got closer to Hamunaptra. If it had been working she would have taken a photo at how cute the scene of the sleeping God of Thunder and human-turned snake were along with the look of horror on Thor's face when he woke up to see the python sleeping on his chest.

The footsteps that had awoken Thor from his sleep suddenly got quicker. A moment later Nightshade emerged from the shadows of the tunnel that she had disappeared down. In her hand she carried her sword to be ready to use it against whatever had caused Thor to scream loudly. Upon arriving to the others location she couldn't help but stop dead at what she was seeing. Thor was still lying on the ground screaming at the sleeping python on his chest. Barton was staring at the large snake with his weapons drawn. Not knowing what was more scarier: Thor screaming like a little girl or the large snake that was just waking up from its brief sleep.

Nightshade looked back at Thor as Wanda walked over towards her. "Really?" she demanded as she looked from Thor to Barton. The two of them looked like they were seeing their worst nightmares. "Thor shut up before you attract something's attention!" Nightshade ordered Thor before she looked at Rogers. "And Cap get off of Thor before you cause him to have a heart attack!"

"Did you find the armoury?" Wanda asked Nightshade. She watched as the large python slithered off of Thor and curled up into the sand beside him. Thor instantly stood up and walked away from the wall. He came to a stop beside Nightshade who could only arch her optic ridge as she watched the Asgardian come to a stop beside her.

Nightshade looked back to Wanda after she had watched Thor move rather quickly from his post to stand beside her. "I did! Its not far from here! I got there in about five minutes! I scouted it to see that it leads to a burial tomb right next door to it!" she replied to Wanda.

"Then we better get moving!" Cap said as he started to move towards Nightshade. He stopped dead in his tracks as Nightshade began to walk away. She didn't even look over at him or say anything else before she walked away. She did however look at Thor and give him a knowing look. "What?" Cap asked Thor as he slowly walked towards him. "Thor, what's wrong?" he asked as Thor towered above him. He hated what the Serpent Sisters had done to him. Turning him into a talking snake was slowing them down and it was making them vulnerably to attack from any supernatural force that would attack them in the tunnels under the Egyptian desert. He watched Thor coming closer to him and he was about to pick him up. Hissing he curled himself into a tight ball. "I am okay Thor I shall keep to the ground and keep up with Wanda!" he hissed at Thor before he slithered on the sandy ground.

Wanda smiled at Thor as she moved in to walk beside Cap. Thor and Hawkeye fell in behind them as they followed behind Nightshade.

The group walked in silence towards the armoury. Nightshade lead them down many tunnels until they finally reached for the armoury.

"By Oden's beard!" Thor couldn't help but say at the sight that he was seeing. "I thought the vault in Asgard held a lot of weapons but this is next to it!" he said as he walked away from the group to have a better look at the weapons that was gathered in the armoury. The armoury that had been hiding under Hamunaptra for a lot longer than three thousand years.

Nightshade followed behind Thor. She didn't have a good amount of time to have a look around the armoury. The armoury held a lot of weapons from swords to bows and arrows. There was also other weapons that Nightshade had not seen other than in the history books of earth that had once been used in warfare before the humans had started to use the modern weapons of guns and jets. She looked at an old weapon that could easily bash in anything's skull.

"Is it just me or was the Ancient Egyptian getting ready for a war?" Hawkeye asked as he came to stop beside Nightshade. He kept looking at all the weapons that were all gathered into the armoury room. He looked back at Nightshade as Cap came close. He along with Thor were keeping their distance away from their snake-turned leader. He, like Thor had a few bad experiences with snakes and many of them where from when he was growing up. Something that he had not talked about with anyone when he had left his family and joined the Circus of Evil before he joined SHIELD where he had become Hawkeye.

Nightshade looked back at him after she had been studying a spear with a silver head. "No doubt they were in a middle of a never ending fight against Seth and the Serpent Sisters! That was until Imhotep got the Book of the Dead and used it to take away Seth's powers that made Seth too weak to do anything until seventy years ago when we were fighting against HYDRA!" she said to Hawkeye. She looked back at the weapons that was gathered in the armoury.

"There is so many different weapons here! It's like all the artefacts that are stored in the Black Archives at the Tower!" Nightshade said as she looked more at the weapons. "Some of these weapons are still being used today by the Hunting Community and even we use these weapons on a day to day basis against the Supernatural and even a few alien races that have been known to visit earth!" she continued as she studied all the weapons that had been gathered in the armoury.

Thor was still looking at all the weapons. In the Vault there was hundred of weapons that his father deemed to dangerous to be left in the hands of mortals. The armoury of Hamunaptra was given them a lot of weapons that had been used by morals against Gods such as Seth and whatever else they had been fighting in the Ancient World. He looked over to the others to see that the others were still looking at all the weapons in the weapons.

Nightshade was looking at the wall not far away from Thor. She was once again readying the hieroglyphs that were on the wall. She had taken to readying the words that were decorating the walls for any clues as to where to go from there to get to the Book of the Dead along with the story behind the armoury room. She was hoping that they were getting closer to the Book of the Dead and they could get out of the desert. The sand was causing her more problems than it was helping them. The sand was starting to heat up and was causing glass to form in her joints. At the moment the pain was bearable at the moment, but she knew that they needed to wrap this mission up or she would have to fall back to get repairs. That was not something that she wanted to do, but if she fell back she could take Captain America with her to see their resident witch to turn him back to his human self. She could see that Thor and Barton were having a hard time adapting to Rogers knew look.

Something heavy soon came to rest on her foot. She looked down to see the large python's head resting on her foot. His tongue flickered out as he smelled the area around them. He looked confused for a brief second before moving in closer to her.

Nightshade looked at Cap's body language and knew that there was something wrong with the supersoldier turned python. His body was tense and he had wrapped himself in a tight coil around her foot, much like he had done when she had found him after he had been transformed. "Rogers what's wrong?" she asked. She hoped that he was not becoming more like the snake that he had been transformed into. If that was the case they were running out of time. She had seen many animal transformation curses lasting anytime between a week to a year with the person affected still having their human mind but also the animal instinct. There was a few transformation curses that saw the person on a time limit to return to their normal human forms before they were stuck in the animal form. She was hoping that it was the first curse that they were dealing with and they just needed to find the way to break the curse before they have to wait up to a year, a year they didn't have with Seth breathing down their necks.

"I thought you had transformed and left the room!" he said as he moved away from Nightshade. He moved to get a better look at Nightshade. His eyes studied Nightshade who was confused and had taken a slight stance in fear. There was something wrong going on. His years as a solider was screaming at him that there was something wrong in the armoury. He had a feeling that there was something that was not right. For some time he felt that he was being watched and that feeling only grow as he realised that his snake instincts was only helping him know that there was something out there.

He flicked out his tongue again and could smell the smell that he knew now to be the essence of living metal. He knew Nightshade's own scent much like the others, something that he didn't think that she had. When he was human he could smell Nightshade at all, but being a snake it allowed more senses than he did have when he was human. He was beginning to see the advantages of being a snake. At the same time however, he missed being human. He missed having arms, legs along with fingers and toes. He also picked up another scent of living metal, but it was different than Nightshade's. It was hard for him to place why it was so different but he knew that it was different.

Nightshade looked confused at Rogers words and the way that he was keeping his coils wrapping around each other in a form of worry. "I've not done any of that! I had a better look at the weapons and came here to look at what is being said about the Book of the Dead and anything else about Seth!" she replied to Cap. She returned her attention to the hieroglyphs that decorated the wall. She was beginning to think that the Ancient Egyptians had been leaving breadcrumbs for them to find and understand what was being said without giving anything to Seth on what they were planning.

"What have you found out? Hopefully there is something in it that will turn me back to normal!" Cap said as he moved away from Nightshade's foot. He heard the others still walking about the armoury as they all looked into the weapons that were gathered. He still had that felling that they were being watched and he did not like that. He hoped that it wasn't one of the Serpent Sisters, they had done a good number on all of them and they were still feeling the aftermath of that fight.

Nightshade didn't look back down at him but he was watching her body language. The pair of them had been through a lot of things together that it became easy for them to understand the others body language. It had become easy to read her when he had become a snake. Looking at her he could see that she was ready launch into combat at any moment. The sudden change in her body language told him that she had noticed that they were being watched. He also noticed that Nightshade's stance was not given away the danger to the others and he had to wonder if she knew what was going to jump out at them.

"It says we are getting closer to where the Book of the Dead is being held within the city! But it says here that is protected by the lions of war!" she started to explain when she looked at a part of the passage that she was readying. "I don't know if the passage means real lions or maybe it is talking about a landmark that looks like a lion!" she said taken a quite glance down at Cap before she looked back at the passage. "It then tells about a great battle that happened after Imhotep was mummified alive and Seth was defeated! His supporters were still fighting even with Seth no longer being able to lead them!" she finished readying what was being said in the passage.

The sound of electronic whirling was the loudest noise in the armoury. The others looked towards Nightshade as during her transformations she made that noise. Nightshade had frozen as if she had heard that noise before. "Move!" she simple ordered through clenched teeth. That was the only warning that was given as two metal creatures moved at the same time.

Nightshade transformed into her true form once again. Her metal claws clicking into the stone ground in a matter of seconds of the transformation as a large robotic scorpion exploded out from out of the ground. Its massive pinchers were transformed into drills to help it dig through the ground where it had been hiding. The drills transformed back into their claw mode as Nightshade's clawed paws grabbed its body.

The two mechanical beings crippled each other as the other Avengers got into a position to help Nightshade in taking the scorpion out. The scorpion who was trying to get to Nightshade's back. Cap watched the fight between Nightshade and the mechanical scorpion. He looked over to Thor to see that he was preparing to bring his hammer down on the bad mechanical being when it moved away from Nightshade. That was something that was not going to happen any time soon. The scorpion was trying to keep very close to Nightshade. Cap had noticed that the creature was beginning to get desperate. It was trying everything it could to get to Nightshade and every time it got closer to her she always batted with her paws, tail and wings. The space was too small for her to user her elemental attacks without hurting the others.

Nightshade heard the Insecticon hissing in frustration. She watched as it clicked its claws together as it circled around as it looked for a better way to attack her. For the last few moments the Insecticon had been trying to get on her back and in those few times she had felt her Spark send out the need to be close to another Spark. She had done a quick check of her Sparkbond with Galvatron to see it was still steady and that he had regrouped with his team back at the Tower of London. No this feeling in her Spark was for something else. Something that only a few Mechs and Femmes ever had. Something that she thought that she would never fell and not to one of the very things that she had been fighting against for many years.

She was brought back to the moment when she heard clicking. She looked towards the Insecticon and she could of sworn that it was trying to talk to her. It was talking in a series of chirps much like a baby bird made when it was calling to its mother. She couldn't understand what it was saying and the Insecticon once again made a move towards her. She had been to busy trying to get what the thing was saying that she didn't react in time to it leaping onto her back.

Roaring she bucked as she tried to get the scorpion off of her back, but it was to no avail. The Insecticon had sharp claws at the end of the six spidery legs that supported its frame. Those claws had somehow managed to pierce through her thick armour plating that protected her metal skeleton that was just underneath. In its legs and undercarriage was a series of magnets that it had activated were also making it hard for her to get the little pest off of her. She let out a hiss when the Insecticon finally connected itself with her metal skeleton. It became a part of her before she knew what was happening. Its thoughts soon collided with hers and she knew what it was thinking and no doubt it knew what she was thinking.

'Find new master! Bond with new master! Don't lose new master!'

The thoughts that Nightshade felt coming into her mind was not her own. She had heard about this type of bonding. It was just as series as a Sparkbond. It was not like a Sparkbond in where two separate Cybertronians joined in something that was similar to the humans marriage. This was when a drone that had a simple function in life and that was to follow the orders of the Femme or the Mech that it was bonded to no matter. It was because of this very same bond that had made Soundwave and his Cassettes more dangerous than any other strike force that Megatron could send at them.

Metal claws clicked against the ground as Nightshade lost a losing battle. She was bonded with this creature and there was no way for her to get rid of it. The only way to get rid of it was to have it destroyed but that would have reputations for her as this thing was now a part of her. Body and mind.

"What do you mean find a new master! A Symbiote can not last long without being bonded to a Mech! What happened to you?" Nightshade couldn't help her self. She wanted to know why it had decided to bond to her.

Movement caught movement in the side of her optics. Turning her attention to see that Thor was still ready to attack should the thing decide to do an Alien move on her and attack them. "Thor it's okay! Go ahead and I will catch up!" she said to the God of Thunder.

"Are you sure about that Nightshade?" Thor asked Nightshade as he watched that Nightshade was in distress about what was happening.

Nightshade let out a growl through glanced teeth. That was enough to cause Thor to step back. "We don't have time for this Thor! Find the others and the Book of the Dead!" she ordered still keeping her teeth glanced. That was enough to cause the Avengers to get moving and race out of the armoury. That allowed her some time to focus on this Insecticon.

"I lost my old master to the war! The Decepticons left me for dead! I have been in stasis every since! I was awoken by my sensors detecting of your Energon that allowed me to become active again! I will not let you down as I am your servant-"

"I am going to stop you right there!" she could not help shutting the thing up but if they were to be bonded then there was a few ground rules that she needed to put down if this was going to work for both of them. "I do not like the words servant or master! You are not allowed to use those words at all nor are you to think of those words! We are equals! If you have an idea I want to hear it there is nothing about you waiting for me to give you orders! But I don't want you to go behind my back! Is that understood?"

"I understand! You do not like the terms of servant and master as you are a Guardian and it is your function that you make sure that everyone and everything is safe along with being equal! I can read your mind, we are one! And I will never go behind your back as you put as I now share the same programming as you!" the Insecticon responded to Nightshade.

Nightshade shock herself down like an overgrown dog. Her tail rested on the ground as she thought about what was the best way to deal with this. The best thing that she could do at the moment was not fight it, but keep weary of this thing until she knew what it's end game was. "Glad that is out of the way! Now I need to know if you have a designation or do I need to come up with one?"

The Insecticon was silent as it buried itself deeper into her Spark. It was soaking up the warmth that was coming off of her Spark. The first Spark that he had come across since his old partner had died however long ago that was. Nightshade was wracking her mind for any Decepticon who had been partnered with him in the past. There was no name that was coming up. She knew that she would need to have the Moonray look into every 'Con that was on record that the Autobots had managed to put together thanks to Jazz and his team.

"Scorponok! My designation is Scorponok!"