Chapter 14
The next few day's were uneventful save the roaring thunder and flashing lightning above. Surprisingly no fights broke out during that time, save a few arguments between Starscream and Iornhide witch were quickly quelled by Pyrosa.
"You couldn't fell Scorponok." Starscream insulted the black mech.
"Our air force could blow you outta the sky!" Ironhide argued.
"Ha you'd have to hit us you crank shaft!" the Seeker growled, "At least I unlike you could make it into the Cybertronian war academy! I made the highest marks they'd ever seen!"
"I don't need no one else to tell me I'm good!" 'Hide growled getting in an attack stance.
"What are you going to do, land mech, jump at me?" Starscream taunted as he stood perfectly at ease, "Or don't you remember the aft whooping in the human year 2007 you received from me? And you had help and I still kicked the slag out of you!"
At that Iornhide lunged at Starscream, who pretty much just side stepped the attack.
"As I said the highest marks they'd ever seen, and that includes Megatron fool." Starscream laughed as Pyrosa cam into the hanger and said, "Starscream! Leave the poor defenseless mech alone and go amuse yourself! I've got enough on my plate without having to keep you from pulverizing him!"
"But I am amused.." he smirked at her, "Don't worry I'm done for now." he added as he held up a hand to silence her. She just rolled her eyes and walked away back to the main base. Starscream walked over to one of the corners and transformed silently as Iornhide stood there with no clue if he'd just been insulted or complemented.
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"Wow no wonder I couldn't ever find any of your fricken bases, trans-visi technology!" Scarlett exclaimed as she played with the Cobra system.
"Trans what?" Ripcord questioned.
"Invisibility generators!" she translated the scientist talk.
"Indeed, I was quite impressed when I saw it actually." Starscream's hologram said out of nowhere, he hadn't been there a second ago.
"Wait who the hell are you?" she asked not understanding that it was a hologram.
"He" Pyrosa said as she came in, "Is Starscream, since he can't fit in here he makes a hologram so he's not left out of the loop, just like Prime here." and she pointed to the man in red and blue flames.
"Wow really!" the woman said like a kid in a candy store.
"Yes really, for now focus on finding Megatron." the teen sighed.
"Okay okay, jeez what's your hurry?" Scarlett grumbled as she turned back to the screens.
"I got a few things to hurry about." the new Cobra commander sighed.
"Why don't we just get tall dark and gruesome to tell us where all his bases are in stead of wasting all this time looking for them?" Scarlett asked.
"Because only an idiot would return to a base he knows is compromised." Starscream said like he was talking to a little child.
Cringing Scarlett said, "Uh, no wonder you guys don't get along, who could get along with that?"
"I can thank you very much, have you found anything? Any anomalies at all?" Pyrosa inquired.
"No for the hundredth time now do you want to do this or will you leave e to my work?" the frustrated woman asked.
"Actually I do, move." Pyrosa hissed pulling Scarlett out of the chair.
Suddenly Skywarp's hologram was standing beside Starscream's.
"I bet you five thousand credits she'll find it within ten minuets, you in?" he said to his brother.
"I'll bet twenty thousand credits she'll get it within thirty seconds." the Decepticon second in command smirked.
"Your on!" the purple clothed man smiled.
Starscream won.
"Got 'em, I forgot about that tracking device I put on that bastard..." Pyrosa smiled, "They're in the pacific ocean."
Scarlett just grumbled something about being a showoff as Duke said, "We should leave immediately, we don't want him to move."
"Yea bu have you looked outside, we're grounded till this lets up." Ripcord said as he pointed outside to the flashing lightning.
"Transformers can easily fly through such pitiful weather." Starscream said proudly.
"Yea but how we gonna transport the big man?" Lennox said pointing to Optimus Primes hologram.
"I have an idea, though it is very dangerous." the Seeker stated.
"What?" the Capt asked.
"You load up all the Autobots onto a human aircraft and get it to take off, then Skywarp you teleport it outside this so-called storm." Starscream suggested.
"It might work but your right it is dangerous." What do you say Prime?" Duke agreed with the Decepticon's assessment.
"I think it's worth a shot, but how will the 'Joe and N.E.S.T team's get there?" the Autobot leader questioned.
"They could fly with , " Starscream shuttered, "me and my thrine, two per mech.."
"And Ms. Pyrosa? Your mode of transportation?" Optimus inquired.
"Nice of you to care but I have it arranged." she said mysteriously.
"Good now to decide who's going." Duke thought aloud.
"All the Autobots-" Optimus assured.
"-And the Seekers, all four of us-" Starscream smirked at Pyrosa who grinned back.
"-From N.E.S.T it will be myself, Epps and Velpe-" Lennox said, nodding.
"-And from the 'Joes it will be me, Ripcord and Scarlett." Duke confirmed.
"Then it's settled, two hours until we try this crazy plan." Pyrosa said then the groups dispersed.
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"Aw man he's gonna transform while I'm in there isn't he?" Ripcord whined as he stood looking into Thundercracker's cockpit.
"Slag no, do you know how hard it is to clean flesh from my gears?" the blue F-15 questioned.
"Just get in you baby!" Scarlett growled as she shoved him in the cockpit.
Luckily he turned as he fell so he landed butt down in the seat with his feet also falling into the proper places.
Then Scarlett slid in and sat in his lap.
"Oh I think I like this." the man grinned. As TC's seat belt strapped them down.
"Ugh let's just get this over with." Scarlett groaned as she rolled her eyes and Thundercracker closed his cockpit sighing, "This is going to be a very long flight."
In a different part of the hanger Epps was sitting in Skywarp's cockpit as Velpe sat on his lap.
"Well isn't this cozy." the woman said as 'Warp buckled the two down and shut his cockpit.
Then over in another part of the huge hanger Duke and Lennox were looking at each other awkwardly.
"Who's sitting on who?" Duke questioned as they both heard Pyrosa laugh.
"Suckers." she smiled up at the two men standing in front of Screamers cockpit.
"Just get the slag in before I just leave you behind." the jet hissed.
"How are you coming with us?" Lennox asked the teen.
"Oh you'll see." she grinned deviantly then walked away.
"I don't trust her." Duke said to the N.E.S.T commander forgetting about the Decepticon in front of him.
"And you shouldn't, now get in!" Starscream growled.
Duke sighed and got in, Lennox sitting on his lap.
"Sarah's never gonna let me live this down." the man said as he shook his head.
"You kidding I won't let you live this down!" Sideswipe said over the radio.
"Shut up you fool this is not the time for idle chatter, especially through me!" the Decepticon air commander scolded.
"Jeez pal chill out, you need to just relax more!" the silver mech complained through the jets radio.
"Hey I been saying that for years!" Skywarp interjected.
"When a leader you cannot be so irresponsible." Starscream said coldly as he and TC moved onto the lift.
"Yes but if your constantly strict and focused you lose what your fighting for." came Pyrosa's voice over the radio.
"She's right Starscream, you need to relax and enjoy yourself." Thundercracker added.
"Fine when this is over I'll take a month." Starscream grumbled as they got off the lift and hovered into the air then blasted into the sky.
"And I'll be with you!" Pyrosa smiled as she in her suit followed them into the storming clouds.
"Aw you bitch! You get to fly like that!" Scarlett hissed through the radio.
"Hey you know you love sitting on my lap." Ripcord laughed.
The woman just jabbed him in his ribcage as Starscream sighed, "Primus things like this make me wounder why the slag we ever lost to such inferior beings."
"Hey!" Pyrosa whined.
"Not you, your a Decepticon born in a human body." the jet smirked.
On the ground they heard a technician say, "We're all ready down here."
"Take off in two minutes, Skywarp be ready." the Decepticon air commander commanded.
Two minutes later the human plane was taking off as lightning flashed all around.
They came up into the air and Skywarp flew just above the plane carrying the Autobots then attached himself to it.
"Get ready to be warped!" the purple jet grinned then was instantly gone.
"So how are we gonna catch up?" Velpe questioned their transporters.
Starscream just chuckled and said, "Just watch and learn fleshling." then he and TC came belly to belly and attached themselves.
"Hey wait for me!" Pyrosa exclaimed as she too attached her suit to Starscream behind his cockpit but in front of his engines.
Then he blasted forward, fast enough to reach the designated location but slow enough so to not to kill Pyrosa in her suit.
They were there very quickly.
"Hey bro, nice of you to finally come." Skywarp greeted as TC separated from Starscream.
"Enough foolishness, we should get going." Starscream growled turning in the direction they were to go.
"We will have to refuel halfway ." A pilot from the plane informed the red, white and blue jet.
Starscream grumbled some complaint then said on a private frequency, "Pyrosa are you going to detach?"
"No I think I'll just stay here and let you do the work so when we get there my power isn't depleted." Pyrosa yawned.
"Fine." he said neutrally as all the jets went in a formation, Starscream leading.
Smiling the teen grinned, "Hey wake me when we get there."
It took an hour to get to the refuel location and another plane flew ahead and tube came out and attached to the plane the Autobots were in.
After that little interruption they flew for a half hour before Starscream growled, "This is taking too long, I have a plan."
"If its dangerous Starsc-" Optimus began But Starscream hissed, "It's not dangerous. If it was dangerous to anyone it would be me. I suggest that I attach to the human craft and transport you all to the location, the humans would have to turn off their engines."
"Then how would we stay in the air?" one of the pilots asked.
"I'll keep you in the air." the Seeker simply stated.
"Your not that powerful, at least not since the academy." Prowl interjected.
"Well, observant Prowl, I've changed a lot as of recently." the leader Seeker smirked, "Brothers, I'll be waiting 10 000 meters away from target, understood?"
"Understood." they chorused.
"Wait a minuet if Skywarp is a teleporter wouldn't he be waiting for us?" Lennox asked as he heard Starscream's engines grow louder as the bigger carrier's engines slowed then stopped altogether.
"I'm faster then his teleportation since he can only go a specified distance, then he must take a two second charge and go again. Still faster than anything you could ever hope to achieve but not even close to me. As far as I know the only barrier I have is maybe the speed of light." Starscream explained as everyone heard his engines whine with a sudden charge of energy, "Now get ready for mach 16.73."
"Mach wha-" was all the Capt. could get out before Starscream shot forward at, as he specified, 16.73.
"Oh my god." the man finally choked out as he looked out the cockpit glass. The world outside was all a blur.
"Enjoy it because this will be the only time any human sits in my cockpit." the mech growled.
"Hey what about me?" Pyrosa piped up.
"Your a Seeker, you don't count." he responded.
Everyone was silent for a second then Prowl asked, "So how and when did you regain your full ability's?"
"How is none of your concern but since when doesn't matter I'll tell you, a few weeks ago in Antarctica." the F-22 replied.
"Antarctica...hey isn't that where we first discovered the energy signal?" Duke asked Optimus.
"You detected that?" Starscream questioned.
"Yea, it's how we found you." Lennox confirmed.
"Hmm, interesting. Can you still detect it?" the mech inquired.
"Yes..." the man replied hesitantly.
"We'll just have to fix that wont we Pyrosa?" the Seeker smirked.
"As soon as we get back." the teenager assured.
"We're there." Starscream informed as they heard the whine of his engines quiet a little and the outside world was slowing outside the glass, "Humans reactivate your engines."
"Understood, reactivating now." one of the pilots responded as the bigger jets engines started and the turbines whined.
Soon enough the two jets were flying separate and Skywarp arrived with TC.
"We should get going now that everyone has arrived." Starscream stated.
"Indeed, Starscream would you and your thrine cover us as we land and disembark the human vessel?" Optimus Prime asked.
"Easy." was the only response he got and they approached the Decepticon base.
Tons of defensive cannon automatically activated and began firing at all four of the jets.
"Cover fire!" one of the pilots exclaimed.
"Looks like its time for me to get to work!" Pyrosa laughed as she detached from Starscream and they watched her charge a gun on her arm. When it fired it made a crater where a cannon was.
"Whoo, yea! Suck that bitches!" Pyrosa grinned evilly as Starscream and the other two Seekers descended upon the other defensive cannons.
"Ya know I don't think we've ever really heard you talk like that." Skywarp stated casually.
"That's cause I wasn't whooping giant alien asses before!" the teen responded as she blasted two cannons at the same time and the human plane landed then the Autobots quickly joined the fight.
"We can easily handle these cannons, we're almost done. Go and we'll me you inside." Starscream suggested to Prime.
"Thank you Starscream, but we'll need a guide." the Autobot leader informed him via radio.
"I got it, you finish up here and then come find us. I know this place well enough not to get caught and get to the places we need to go." Pyrosa smiled as she landed next to Optimus.
"Thank you, let's move out." Prime ordered and with one last look to the flying form of Starscream Pyrosa led them into the Decepticon base.
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"What the slag is going on around here!" Megatron growled as Soundwave typed furiously at the buttons in front of him.
Then an image came on screen, it was one of the surface halls and the Autobots were being led through the complex by...Pyrosa.
"Pyrosa!" the Decepticon leader growled, "Soundwave command all Decepticons on base to defend the complex at all costs, understood?"
"Acknowledged." the mech responded.
"You three, " Megatron said turning to the three humans, "with me."
Dr. Mindbender, the Baroness and Zartan followed the great mech from the room and down many twisting halls to a holding cell.
"Since I can't trust you around the base your going to be in here." Megatron ordered.
Fuming the Baroness growled, "Fine." threw her head back and walked in, the Dr. following but you could see he wasn't happy about it. Last in and as emotionless as ever Zartan who just nodded in a false respect and walked in.
Once the door closed the Baroness hissed, "I can't believe he thinks that we'd betray him after all we went through to prove to him we're loyal!"
"You mean telling him where to find Cobra? Mm I agree!" Dr. Mindbender nodded in agreement.
"Well... he's right!" Zartan chuckled as he gutted the Dr.
"You!" she exclaimed as she drew her dagger and hand gun.
"Please, you think you can handle me?" Zartan taunted as he flipped his blade so it was pointed backwards towards his elbow and grabbed a second from his belt.
"Easily!" she growled and lunged at him.
It was a deathly mistake.
She gurgled, drowning in her own blood as the assassin sighed, "Poor thing, didn't stand a chance."
Then he dropped her dead corps onto the floor as the door opened, Barricade standing on the other side looking at the humans workmanship.
"Efficient." the mech commented as Zartan followed him out of the room and down the halls towards the fighting.
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After putting the humans in a cell Megatron went straight to the area he guessed the Autobots were heading.
The generator room.
Suddenly the power was down and lights off
After pausing he thought, 'Looks like I was right.' and hastened his pace.
He heard the sounds of battle and as he came around a corner to find himself being fired at.
He drew back momentarily as he formed his gun and came back around the corner guns tearing everything up.
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"Hey Comp'!" Pyrosa called to the on board computer she decided to call Comp, "Is there anything else I got at my disposal? Magnetism, hack, anything?"
"Magnetism is operable." it suggested.
"Man I really gotta get a personality upload or something, your flat as hell." she strained as she dodged another shot.
"Pyrosa, we need to push out of here or we're trapped!" Optimus informed as he shot more Decepticons.
"You got it, just stay outta my way!" Pyrosa exclaimed as she activated the magnetism inducers. Two of the mechs in the front lines were suddenly lifted from the ground and slammed into opposite walls.
Seeing the next few Decepticons falter at her display of power she laughed, "Who's next?"
All the Decepticon's ran from her like she had the plague save a few very brave, or very foolish.
As they were pushing the mob of Decepticons back Megatron came out of no where and fired a wave of death.
With her magnetism ability she stopped as many of the death singing shots as she could but many made it through and tore up the Autobots.
Suddenly the ceiling exploded!
Starscream and his thrine came through the newly blasted hole and stood between Megatron and the Autobots, myself and some human N.E.S.T operatives.
"Megatron you burn-out! You were so weak you had to weaken me to keep me from offlining you! Your MINE!" he growled as some sort of blade slid out of his arm and he lunged at Megatron.
As he was slicing at Megatron Starscream hissed, "Go do whatever you need to do! I can handle this scrap heap!"
"You couldn't fight me while you were my second in command what makes you think you can now?" Megatron strained as he shoved off Starscream only to get tackled by him a nano click later.
"Just go!" Starscream ordered, "You too!" he added, taking a quick glance at his brothers.
"Yes sir!" the acknowledged and followed Prime and the others out of that corridor and into another.
"It's time for you to go offline, permanently!" Starscream exclaimed as he thrust for the spark chamber.
If Megatron's skills hadn't been as fine tuned as they were he would have been offlined.
"Not good enough!" Megatron responded as he spun away from the Seeker.
Without a word Starscream sliced towards the Decepticon leader. The Seeker moved so fast and with such fury that Megatron almost didn't get out of the way in time to save his life.
He may have saved his life but Megatron almost lost his left arm, it barely holding together and completely unusable.
"Looks like your the one who's not good enough." Starscream smirked and leaned on his blade.
Megatron could only howl in anguish as he hurtled towards the mech.
Starscream just grinned.
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"We gotta find Zar-" Pyrosa said to the others but before she could finish Zartan and Barricade came around a corner.
"I'm already here, now whats our plan?" the man scoffed.
"This is who your working for? And where's Starscream, the leader Seeker's the one I agreed to help, not some fleshling slave." Barricade hissed.
"She is not just some slave, she is a worthy Seeker and your superior!" Thundercracker exclaimed as Pyrosa tapped into the suits mental capacity sensor and opened a little slit down over her left breast, revealing the Decepticon Seeker mark.
The black and white mech could only stare in amazement at the human as she covered the symbol on her skin back up.
"You are not only a Seeker but the Seeker Starscream has chosen as his second in command!" Thundercracker proclaimed in amazement as he stared at the matching symbol on her suit.
"What really?" the human girl asked in wonder as she stared at the symbol.
"You can talk about it later, right now we need to move." Optimus interrupted as the sounds of battle got louder down the echoing corridor.
"Who made you leader of me, Autobot?" Barricade hissed at the mech as he folded his arms.
"I am in a higher place of command than you and I say to do what he says, for now." Pyrosa stated boldly.
"Fine." Barricade growled as he led the way, "I know this base best, I'll lead the way."
They followed him to the main command center, coming into about three groups of five Decepticons along the way.
Then they ran into a problem.