The tsunami of truth Chapter eleven.
Miko and her father Springer had just buried her mother, and his wife by the family shrine overlooking a fairly large lake, when they got a call from Ratchet, he needed them back at base A.S.A.P. The pair had rushed back to their house and grabbed a few bags and filled them with the necessities like a few packets of food and clothes, passports and a few personal belongings like Miko's birthday presents from Bulkhead, and her IPod and IPad too along with their chargers. Miko quickly washed her tear stained face and changed from her pink and gold kimono as it was her mother's wish that no one wore black at her funeral, into her usual hot pink tank top with her black crop top, a pair of elbow length black leather fingerless gloves, a black skort, her traditional thick yellow leather belt, a pair of thigh high pink and black stockings and her traditional black combat boots. She then pulled her hair up into its now usual high pony tail at the back and the longer sections pulled into its usual fish tail plat. Miko chucked a few of Jacks hair accessories up into the do and put on her silver necklace with the small pink Autobot badge. Her father changed into a more comfortable outfit too having the same idea as his daughter. His outfit too reflexed upon his colour scheme of black and orange as he had a black trucker jacket on top of an orange tee-shirt, he had a pair of dark navy black jeans on with a pair of black boots. He casually smirked at Miko and asked
"What took you so long?" as he walked up to his young daughter, he wrapped his arms around her shoulders and hugged her. He could feel Miko shivering under his arms as she joined the hug and hugged him back "Don't worry Nova darling, everything will be alright." Miko was about to break down in his arms again.
"Why… why didn't you tell me about mom's condition?" Miko finally stuttered, her voice was harsh and rough from crying for so long.
"We had planned on telling you, but your mother hadn't wanted her pains to take away your life you have been building. She didn't want you to stop hanging out with your friends in America, she didn't want you to get distracted during your competitions and she didn't want you to fuss over her and keep you from making friends and developing new life skills." Springer started. He could feel a fresh batch of tears trying to force their way down his face, but he fought them back. "It was her wish. You had enough going on in your life honey. She didn't want to see you cry over her, Mika wanted you to remember all the happier times you shared, never the pain… Come on we need to call the Hatchet and get that Bridge back to base to see what's going on, so grab your bags and lets go crush some con's like they never knew what hit them." He chuckled at the end.
"How do you know that it's the Con's?" Miko asked perking up a bit.
"Nova, it's always the cons. If you ever need to blame some bot, blame it on a Decepticon." Springer said before picking up his phone and calling Ratchet for a ground bridge back to outpost omega one, while Miko was having a giggling fit, despite the situation.
Within second the green, white and blue vortex of the ground bridge opened and the pair walked through and out into jasper. The pair saw Ratchet fussing and going crazy at the controls of the computers trying to get through to Optimus and the team currently on Cybertron.
"Ratchet what's wrong?" Springer asked as he and Miko dropped their bags on the catwalk and the pair transformed.
"I've lost contact with Optimus and the others on Cybertron." Ratchet replied.
"And why are they on Cybertron doc?" Miko asked, a little confused at why the bot's were on Cybertron.
"They're on Cybertron with the relics and keys on their way to the omega lock to try and revive Cybertron." The medic told the pair.
"Well why call us then?" Springer asked, getting confused at the situation but was happy to hear that they were trying to revive Cybertron.
"I lost contact with the group after they pulled a raid on the con's two hours ago. They had just transmitted that they had retrieved the last of the keys and relic's which were in Megatron's filthy servos. Just after that I lost contact with them, and Wheeljack is just after leaving in the Jackhammer to help out about ten minutes ago." The white and orange medic told the pair. Miko took off down to her room and came back with the crate full of grenades Wheeljack had made her for her birthday and crammed the entire box into her storage spaces in her legs after handing a couple to her sire.
"We'll need these." Miko started only for a thought to hit her, "Ratchet, what of Jack and Raf? Where are they? I don't see them around here?" the young hybrid asked.
"Jack rang fifteen minutes ago, wondering where the bots were but I told him to just take Raf home and go home himself and that once the others return hopefully with Cybertron back in our servos they can pick them up afterwards." the cranky old medic stated then only to turn around and look at Miko who was looking at him with her 'are you serious face' "Why what's wrong."
"Ratchet why didn't you just ground bridge them here?" Miko said after glaring daggers at the medic,
"I'm busy and they would only get in the way." The doctor told her,
"Ratchet, let me get this straight… you told the boys to make their own way home… without an escort… making them an easy target for the con's to pick them up… and use them to their advantage. My primus you idiot." Springer started.
"What? Why am I an Idiot?" the medic said with shock after being called an idiot.
"Isn't it any wonder why you can't get in contact with Prime, the cons have likely kidnapped the boys and are using them as hostages. They don't want them to leave Cybertron so Buckethead likely had that silent creep Soundwave block their signal so they can't call for extraction." Springer told the stubborn mech while doing a face palm.
"Phfff, that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, humans as hostages yeah right." Ratchet snorted in amusement. "And why take Jackson and Rafael. Why are they so valuable all of a sudden?" the medic could only laugh at Springer's statement, not believing a word of what the black and orange mech was telling him.
"Dude, Jack is an honorary prime while Raf is the best hacker in the world who can keep even Soundwave out of a computer. If the cons have them, they could swap them for the key's and try to turn earth into Cybertron by using the key's thingy ma gig and aiming it at earth through there spacebridge behind the moon ." Miko stated waving her servos around in exaggeration trying to get the stubborn medic to listen to reason. "Fine, don't listen but if I call both Jack and Raf and can't get a connection to either of their phones you're screwed." Once Miko finished talking she lifted her servo to her comm and tried to ring the boys, she tried Jack's phone and Raf's twice each but couldn't get through. Before she could say anything all three Autobots in the room felt a small earthquake and a loud bang of some sort as the computers picked up an unknown Cybertronian signal outside, close the base.
"Miko, Springer get up top and see what that was, I'm going to try and establish a connection to Prime and the others." Ratchet ordered.
"On it doc bot" Miko said as she grabbed her father by his servos and dragged him over to the elevator to the top of the base. Once they got up top they were shocked placed about a mile and a half away from the Autobot base was a large Cybertronian fort and around that the land appeared to have been cyber formed. The one thing that shocked them all was that the nemesis appeared through a space bridge and made a beeline straight towards the Autobot base.
"Ratchet, I hope you managed to re-establish communications to the bots on Cybertron, because we'll need all the help we can get." Miko stuttered into her Comm line, only for Ratchet to quickly reply,
"Yes I got them on comm's. There coming through the space bridge now… primus what are the kid's doing with you" Ratchet stated as he quickly dropped the link to Miko.
Inside the base.
"Primus… what are the kid's doing with you?" Ratchet asked, bewildered that the bot's had just come through the space Bridge with both of the boys. "And what about Cybertron?" the medic finished looking at the group while releasing Jack and Raf from there glass tubes that were holding them prisoner.
("We lost it doc.") Bee beeped at the enquiring mech.
"How did you lose it?" Ratchet shouted
"Megatron use Jack and Raf as hostages and we handed the key's over to him so he wouldn't hurt them." Smokescreen told the infuriated medic.
"What... But what about the omega lock? What about Cybertron?" ratchet asked in shock.
"Prime had to destroy the lock to save earth. And we gave up the keys to save Jack and Raf." Arcee told the white and orange mech. She then continued, "And I'd like to know how the con's got their dirty servos on the pair." Once Arcee said that everybot present looked towards the medic,
"Yeah how did they get their hands on them ratchet, you were supposed to ground bridge them here after school or at least ground bridge them to their houses." Bulkhead stated.
"Simple, when no one turned up to pick us up after school I called the base, ratchet picked up the call and told us you were on Cybertron and he told us that we would be a distraction to him if we were around the base, he then finished up by telling us to walk home and that you guys would pick us up once you returned." Jack told the group, Raf then spoke up to finish the boy's story.
"So after Ratchet hung up abruptly we went to walk home. We didn't get far as knockout came into view, when we saw him we ran into an ally to try and hide from him. Once we got into the ally we hid behind a couple of bins but Soundwave grabbed us from behind with his tentacles and took us to the Nemesis were Starscream put u in those jars and took us to Cybertron to exchange us for the keys. And the rest you guys know." Raf said while shuffling his feet.
"But what about Cybertron?" Ratchet persisted,
"Cybertron is no more old friend, in order to save earth from Megatron's grasp I had to use the star saber to destroy the omega lock, meaning that the lock is gone and we have no more means to revive Cybertron." Optimus stated, but before Ratchet could say anything the base was hit by a missile from the Decepticons. The group turned around as they regained their balance as they heard two pairs of peds steps run towards them.
"We've got bigger problems Optimus sir." Springer said as the father and daughter came into view.
"How'd you two get back here so quickly?" Jack asked
"Ground Bridged once Ratchet lost contact with you bot's on Cybertron." Miko said as she hopped into Bulkheads servos and hugged her big green Mechfriend seeing that he was alright.
"What's the problem Springer?" the prime asked with deep concern.
"The base has been compromised. The cons have set up a fort two clicks north east of here." Springer told them only to have his daughter finish what he had started,
"And the Nemesis is heading straight towards us with a huge armada of seekers flying alongside it, and they have started a bombing run on Jasper and here. The U.S army and Fowler have evacuated the town but we need to leave now." Miko told the bots grimly as another missile hit the base, and another and another but the base's computers suddenly lit up as Wheeljack patched through.
"Starting the party without me Bulk, that's twice now." Wheeljack laughed,
"That's our Jackie, always loves to make an entrance." Bulkhead laughed as miko chuckled slightly. Optimus walked over to the computer and instructed Wheeljack,
"Wheeljack do all you can to buy us time to escape."
"On it Prime." Wheeljack replied,
"Prime?" Ratchet asked,
"Smokescreen, Bee, Bulkhead and Arcee run down to the storage rooms and grab as many energon cubes as you can hold, Miko, Jack and Raf run quickly into the kitchen and grab as much food and water you can hold and put it into the emergency bag's June made up for you three encase a situation like this ever occurred, as were abandoning base. Miko and Springer will go with Bulkhead, Jack with Arcee, Rafael with Bee, and everyone else will go individually I will stay behind to destroy the controls to make sure that the con's don't find the location I send you to and will leave last as I destroy the controls. No use of comm's, once your ground bridged out of base you are on immediate radio silence, no calling anyone not even on your human mobiles." Optimus told the group, they wanted to object but they would only be wasting what little time they had left, so Smokescreen, Bee, Bulkhead and Arcee took of down to the storage rooms and grabbed as many energon cubes as possible, while Springer and Miko transformed down into their human modes and ran into the small kitchen with Jack and Raf and packed all the food and bottles of water into their emergency bags and the bags Miko and Springer had took over from Japan and stuffed as much food into them as possible, before running into the main room with the bags.
As the cubes were given out Bulkhead received the most as there were two Cybertronian's and a hybrid going together at once, while the rest of the cubes were split out more evenly to the group. Another Missile hit the base, the bombardment was beginning to pick up pace,
"Bulkhead, Miko, and Springer you're up first." Optimus stated as he rushed over to the ground bridge controls. Bulkhead quickly transformed down into his off-roader as Miko and Springer clambered into the mech while chucking their bags into the back, Miko was in the passenger seat while Springer hopped into the driver's side. Miko quickly looked out of her Mechfriend back windscreen and saw jack hopping on Arcee as optimus opened up the Bridge. The last thing she saw as the trio escaped through the ground bridge was Jack waving slightly with small reassuring smile on his face as he clutched the key of vector sigma, while he put his helmet on and grabbed Arcee's handle bars, and moments later just desert and dust as they escaped the fallen base.
Back at the base as bot after bot left through the bridge the base became eerily silent as only optimus was left, just after Bulkhead and his two passengers left, he quickly changed the co-ordinates of the bridge and shipped Arcee and Jack out, followed by Bumblebee and Rafael, just moments after that he had bridged Smokescreen out followed by Ratchet until only he was left. The bombardment had started to pick up pace. Wheeljack could only do so much to slow down the cons before he was shot down by Starscream. Optimus realised that he needed to destroy the controls now or else the cons would find out where he sent his team. He had powered up the bridge to the co-ordinates were he would flee to, he lifted the star saber up and swiped it across the control panel, destroying it and erasing the core and backup memory, but before he could run through his own bridge to safety, the base shook as the cons blasted the mountain one last time, Optimus looked up in horror as the ceiling cracked and gave way. Hundreds and hundreds of tonnes of rock came crashing down around the Prime. As the rock finally stopped cascading and the mountain was levelled the surrounding area was plunged into an eerie deathly silence.
Autobot Outpost Omega One was gone, and just ten minutes down the road from the base too was the burning charred remains of Jasper, a thriving town where Children frocked and played, were adults lived and worked, a place the locals once thought safe and peaceful was now in wreck and ruin. While overlooking the smouldering wreck of the former town and Autobot base was Darkmount, Megatron's new palace and fort built on the ashes of the destruction. The first step in earths destruction.
Thank you for reading this story, I plan to follow this up with a sequel. Some of you might be wondering what will come up in the next story but if you picked up the Easter eggs I left in previous chapters then clever you. This is cometflare16 signing out on this story. See ya all soon with the sequel.