"I leave you alone for one day and my most valuable prisoner escapes and your beaten by renegade Autobots?" Megatron yelled at me master!" Lugnut begged. "They ambushed us."
"In your own city?" asked Megatron with an optic twitching.
Verde picked up one of the burnt transwarp cells. "I'm sorry my Lord, but they had used the transwarp cells. They are of no use anymore."
Megatron narrowed his optics at Verde. "And how exactly did they find the Transwarp cells?"
Verde looked up in fear at Megatron. "One of them must be a hacker and cracked the vault."
"That does sound like a good explanation." said Megatron. Suddenly Megatron grabbed Verde by the torso and held her up to his face. He examined her neck.
"It was you!" he growled. "The chip is fried. Do you know how far you have delayed my plans? Those cells were supposed to transport me to the Bane Matrix!(Special thanks to anony bot for the name.)"
"You're still chasing legends, Megatron?" shouted a large grey camouflage Decepticon. "The Bane Matrix is just a myth Herald started blabbing about. Speaking of which, where is that slagger?" asked Flak.
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Starscream was meditating inside Herald's body, looking for what Herald knew. "Let's see, childhood, useless. Inducted into Autobot Space Program, boring. Wait a minute, what's this?" Starscream focused on a memory inside Herald's processor. It was fuzzy but he could make some things out. Through Herald's optics he saw a small planet somehow moving outside of any orbit. Herald followed it. Next thing Starscream saw was the gigantic planet destroying another.
"What power!" Starscream cheered. "What is that thing?"
"That is Unicron worthless worm!" shouted Herald desperately trying to regain control.
"Tell me about this Unicron." Starscream demanded.
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Dani screamed in panic as she ran around in a tight circle. "GET 'EM OFFF!" she cried. "GET 'EM OFF!"
"I think that would require surgery." said Prowl stroking his chin in thought.
"Well bro," said Rocky slapping Zach in the back. "She's all yours."
Zach rolled his eyes. "Dani, relax."
"Relax? I have tails for Christ's sake!" she cried.
"If it helps any, your still pretty." said Zach nervously.
"Now's not the time for flirting you idiot." said Sandra smacking Zach in the back of the head.
"Quiet guys!" said Sari. "Your scaring the baby!"
"And your yelling isn't exactly making me feel better." growled Bumblebee.
Dustan bent down next to Dani. He could easily see with the light in the cave. "I'll be dang." he gasped. "Guess your more than just half human."
"Wasn't that obvious before?" asked Prowl. He bent down next to Dani. "I'm sorry I can't shed any light on this. I know about as much of your past as you do. All I remember is being booted from the Allspark and waking up to you."
"What am I?" asked Dani holding one of her new appendages.
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Megatron slammed Verde to the ground. "I should just destroy you right now." he hissed.
"But you won't." said Verde with a hidden smile. "Will you?"
Megatron gritted his teeth trying to contain his anger. Finally it built up to a boiling point. Megatron yelled in fury and grabbed his sword. With one swing he sliced a nearby Decepticon in half.
"Nice." said Verde sarcastically as Megatron calmed down.
"Hot Swap, install another chip." ordered Megatron. "Twice as strong."
"Yes Lord Megatron." said Hot Swap bowing.
"Lord Megatron." interrupted Soundwave. "I have more experience in bending minds."
"How dare you go against Megatron's command?' shouted a blind Lugnut.
"Well you see Soundwave, you've already done that." said Megatron. "And as I recall, you said that techno organics were not affected by your attempts."
Soundwave clenched his fist as Hot Swap ejected his two minions Sound byte and Light byte. The crawled onto Verde's arms and transformed into stasis cuffs.
"I hate these things." Verde growled.
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"Peek-a-boo!" laughed Dustan to the small baby. He covered his face and suddenly revealed it again. "Peek-a-boo!"
The baby laughed and grabbed its toes.
"Smart girl she is." laughed Dustan. "Hey can I hold her?"
"NO!" screamed Bumblebee suddenly. "I'm sorry but I've seen what you do to equipment."
"May I hold her then?" asked Moonbeam.
"Go ahead." said Sari holding the child up to Moonbeam's arms.
"Hey there!" said Moonbeam in an innocent voice. "I'm your aunt Moonbeam. You wanna see something funny?" Moonbeam suddenly stretched her face in a strange way. She shifted her face again so it appeared squished.
Clearly the little girl was not amused with the "funny faces". The baby gurgled a bit and became a bit worried. What was this strange femme doing?
"So what are you going to call her?" asked Prowl.
Dustan jumped a bit in surprise. "You scared me there buddy. Hey aren't you supposed to be helping Dani out with her-"
"Someone else was more than willing to help." said Prowl. A smile slowly formed on his face.
Zach sat next to Dani on the ground. He nudged his head to indicate his siblings to go away.
"Oh come on!" Sandra growled. "I can help!"
Rocky laughed. "Yeah right. Your idea of helping her would probably be cutting them off."
"That's it!" yelled Sandra. Suddenly she tackled Rocky and the two began a fist fight.
"I'm a freak." cried Dani. "An absolute weirdo."
"What's wrong with that?" asked Zach. "I mean your on a planet that has a glowing heart talking to a kid who parents are a robot and a half robot half girl. Do you really think anything here's 'normal'?"
Dani just sulked. "I got freaking tails." she moaned.
"And I got roller blades permanently attached to my feet." said Zach. "You don't see me complaining about it."
Dani said nothing.
"Listen." said Zach. "I know this is a lot for you. I probably will never understand how it feels. You don't know where you came from, you have powers, and now the tails." Suddenly he grabbed her hands. "But I promise I'll do whatever I can to help you find out."
Dani shared a blush with Zach and suddenly hugged him tightly.
Zach was completely surprised but he slowly returned the hug. Even more to his surprise Dani stopped the hug and quickly put a small kiss on his cheek. Zach's eyes opened wide in surprise as a few sparks flew out of his head.
"I'll hold you to that promise." she laughed.
Sari looked at the two with a smile as she leaned on a sitting Bumblebee. "Our boy's growing up."
"Looks like someone takes after his old bot." said Bumblebee proudly. "Course when he get home, he is soooogrounded."
Suddenly the sound of crying filled the caverns.
"I think I scared her." said Moonbeam putting the baby back into Sari's arms.
"Looks like Minerva's crying." said Bumblebee.
"Minerva?" said Sari. "We are not naming our daughter Minerva!"
"Why not?" asked Bumblebee.
Sari cradled her daughter to stop the crying. "No daughter of mine is going to be (a Masterforce reference. Oh, wait, Sari's supposed to talk here. My bad.) called Minerva. It sounds like a kind of headache."
"Then what do we name her?" asked Bumblebee. "Alice? Airazor? Mikela?"
Sari looked down at the baby and began to think.
(To be revealed NEXT chapter! Hah! How's that for a cliffhanger? Not only do you have to guess what the Bane Matrix is but you also have to wait for the baby name!)
