Another update before I leave for the Christmas holidays, hope you all enjoy and don't forget to review. I'll be staying with my dad for two weeks so looking forward to spending time with him. I've posted an update my profile for those who want to know what's happening. Hope everyone has a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
"My own vessel dares to address me in threatening tones?!" Megatron was furious, snarling like a wild beast as he tried to understand the situation. Bloodbloom didn't know if this was a good thing or not. She leaned in closer to Knockout beside her.
"Knockout, how bad is this?"
"Truthfully, I'm unsure." At least he was honest this time.
The nearest console beeped and Soundwave acknowledged everyone by directly pointing at it. Knockout followed and looked over the given information.
"It also seems to be doing a better job of decoding the project Iacon database then we were. It's already deciphered a new set of coordinates." Soundwave shows the same from his visor and Dreadwing examines it.
"And judging by our current course, that is precisely where the ship is headed."
"As I desire. You see, this warship is nothing more than an extension of my very will." Megatron announced like he was on top of everything.
"Your will is nothing. The iacon artefact will belong to me." Bloodbloom couldn't help but jump at the dominating voice that spoke through to everyone. It was rather chilling, more deadly than Megatron's.
"I am lord Megatron! I command you to cease operations!"
"You are no longer in command." The now single minded vessel formed a glowing purple orb above Megatron and what happened next looked to be painful.
"Ahhh!" Megatron half screams clenching his helm and falling to his knees. Never has Bloodbloom seen something like this. Megatron beaten by his own ship? Who knew? Although she noticed from the gladiators face the pain he was in and couldn't imagine the feeling of having someone or something tamper with your very own mind in such an agonizing way. It didn't last long and Megatron lifted his helm up with a serious tone.
"Regain control of this vessel by any means necessary."
In a split second Soundwave was on it and tried to hack into the computer nearest to him with his tentacles attaching to it. Doing this though sent a blue pulse through them and right at Soundwave, shocking him and taking him and everyone by surprise. Knockout protectively pushed her behind him so she wasn't near whatever was happening to the Communications officer. Again, within seconds, Soundwave was in stasis, just like what happened with those autobots. Megatron's next given orders were loud and clear.
"All hands, cut power to the mainframe and disconnect data relays now!"
"Come on." Knockout dragged her along behind him as everyone ran around like headless chickens.
"Have any bright ideas?" She didn't have a clue how this problem was going to be resolved. Knockout was quick to enter the next room with different computers and browsed over them.
"Hmm," Knockout didn't answer her as he was in thought for a moment and spoke over the com. "Lord Megatron, the computer has decrypted a second set of coordinates." Bloodbloom narrowed her optics at him.
"And this helps up how?"
"Perhaps we should permit it to continue."
"That's a terrible idea! Knockout, we have to think of a way to-" She didn't get to finish as a beam shot out from behind them shooting Knockout and catching him by surprise. "Ahh!"
"I do not require permission."
Bloodbloom didn't see it coming either and tried desperately shaking him. "Knockout? Knockout?! Shit!" He didn't budge. "Wake your lazy ass up you stubborn over polished next top model!" She didn't even know what she was saying anymore as she tried to do anything to bring him back.
What was she supposed to do now? She was probably the only one that wasn't in stasis on the ship, which wasn't a good thing, since she knew nothing or has the faintest idea how to deal with the situation. This was all Megatron's fault. He fucked up big time and everyone was paying the price. Thinking over all this a person of interest came to mind.
"Nightwatch," All Bloodbloom knew she was the only one that could do something about this. Where the hell was she though? She hasn't seen the femme in a while, and when she did get mentioned the answer always came back with she was busy. Busy with what though? Shaking this thought from mind she chose that moment to try and find her.
She ran down the hall dodging around others who were stuck in stasis and weren't given any warning. Then she ran passed the insecticons. They did get mentioned by Knockout briefly they were the new recruits to the cause. Well, some help they were. They all too were in stasis.
Running around a corner she almost slammed into the one she was looking for, however not the way she wanted.
"Fuck." Nightwatch had been caught as well in the beam. It looked like she had just left her quarters most likely to check what was going on and tried to shield herself with her servos from the beam as it passed her, which of course did nothing to help her.
"Well, I'm screwed." She told herself and out of frustration she kicked the wall. "Fuck you warship!" She did expect a response but didn't get one. "Fine! Ignore me!"
'Autobot outpost omega one to decepticon warship. Megatron, please respond.'
"Huh?" That came from the com links. She's heard of them before and so made her way towards the nearest console and try to work it out.
'Megatron.' The name was repeated and Bloodbloom turned the speaker on to try and communicate with whoever was calling them.
'Hello?'
'Who is this?'
'Who is this?' She couldn't help but tug a small smirk at repeating the same words.
'Ratchet, autobot medic officer, and I want to know what is going on up there.'
'I think I've heard that name before.' She remembers Bulkhead had said it the moment he came aboard the warship.
'Well good for you.' Bloodbloom knew by the sound of his voice he sounded like a grumpy old one. 'Now explain what the situation is up there?!'
'Alright, alright, chill out. Listen. Megatron had this brilliant idea to insert dark energon into the ships fuel supply. Now the ship is controlling itself and everyone is in stasis.'
'Why aren't you in stasis?'
Good point. Why wasn't she? Everyone else didn't have a chance to react and here she was still moving about. 'I honestly don't kn-'
'Megatron has been relieved of his command'
"Hey! I was in the middle of talking there!" She was ignored. Of course she was.
'Who is this?'
"Who is this?!'
"Oi! Copy cat!" Bloodbloom stepped away with crossed arms knowing she couldn't do anything else.
'Have you taken control of the decepticon vessel?'
'I am the vessel. Any cybertronian who interferes with my mission will be neutralized.'
'What mission?'
'Priority one: Decrypt iacon database and recover decepticon technology.'
'For what purpose?'
The warship hung up on the autobot medic and Bloodbloom got back to the console once more to see if she could still communicate with the autobot. 'Still there? Did you understand any of that, because I didn't?'
'Are you the femme Bulkhead spoke of? Blodobloom?' She smiled a little, knowing she had been mentioned by Bulkhead and she was now making talk with another of the autobots.
'The one and only.'
'Will you work with us to try and resolve the situation?'
'Whatever it takes, do you have any ideas?' She could only pray he did.
'This might be an idea, but it'll require for few of us to come aboard. It's possible the ship is only scanning for cybertronian forms. But that still doesn't explain why it hasn't picked up on you yet.'
So the ship was only scanning for cybertronian lifeforms? What kind of fucked up freak am I?! She didn't want to give him an explanation, in case this was going to cause some sort of problem in the future, if they got control of the ship again.
'I don't know.' It was a stupid answer but it was the best she got right that moment. 'Anyway, you said something about coming aboard? Who are you speaking of exactly?'
'You'll find out soon enough. I only ask for you not to harm them and let them do what is required, understood?'
'Of course, you have my word.' She would never do such a thing. 'Send them through.'
'Thank you. Bulkhead was right, don't belong there.'
The communication ended before she had the chance to reply. Venting heavily she waited for the ground bridge to form. She hoped this plan wouldn't backfire. Whoever was coming aboard they better know what they were doing.
Not much longer there was a ground bridge in the hall at a short distance from her. Stepping closer she saw 4 small figures stepping out and was very surprised to see humans. To make it more insane three children and an adult, this was the brilliant plan?
Bloodbloom blinked at the teenage boy. He looked familiar, but how? She couldn't help but ponder on this. However that wasn't the only thing.
A young teenage girl came running up to her almost excited. "So, you're the new femme my partner spoke of? I'm Miko."
"If your partner is Bulkhead then yes. You already know my name." Bloodbloom couldn't help but smile a little at the kids.
The man in the suit stepped forward carefully, "Ratchet has stated you'll help us. Though I'm not that fond of the idea, but so far you haven't tried to squish us."
Hearing this made her shudder but kept calm, "I have no excuse. Also I would never think to do such a thing. Right now my main priority is to have the ship back to normal."
"Well," he cleared his through, "I'm glad you think that way. I'm agent Fowler and these…are tech support and backup."
"Children?" She smirked a little.
"We're part of team prime!" Said Miko proudly fist pumping the air.
"We may be young but we're a lot of help. I-I'm Rafael by the way." The shy boy said softly. All Bloodbloom wanted to do was hug him and never let go, he was too sweet.
The other boy came forward and held a very leading figure. "And I'm Jack."
Jack. Jack...? The name sent a jolt through her CPU and clawed her servo at her helm in pain. She fell onto one knee letting out a sharp hiss.
"Are you alright?" Jack asked with concern in his voice. The others also came closer to her, seeing if she was ok.
"Y-yeah just a stupid headache. There's too much going on." She felt she should know him, but she can't remember.
"Ok?" Jack wasn't sure how to respond and couldn't help but stare at her like as if he's seen her before, but can't recall ever seeing her. "How come we've never seen you out in the fields before? None of the autobots recall ever seeing you before either. You're kind of a mystery."
"Well, I am a mystery." She answered with a shrug. It was that second she decided to not tell them everything. Exposing herself was probably not the good idea.
Fowler coughed lightly to gain their attention, "Right, as much as this introduction is nice we have much more important things that need to be dealt with."
"So what's the plan?" Bloodbloom felt a little stupid asking since they don't live here and know nothing of the place. Then again neither did she. The warship was too big to remember and she might've only memorised half of it and still got herself lost at times.
"Ratchet said we need to find the nearest console. Can you lead us to one?" Fowler asked.
She did so. They stand close behind her as they made their way around vehicon's in stasis and reached the computer, which happened to be the one Knockout was at.
Raf gulped at the sight, "I-isn't there another?"
Bloodbloom smiled lightly down at him, "Don't worry, he can't do anything."
Miko ran up behind him and hit his leg, "Doc knock is knocked out." Bloodbloom tried not the giggle at her silly joke.
"Look," said Raf pointing up towards the screen, "The ships decoded two sets of iacon coordinates. Three! Let's rip and run."
She wasn't sure what they planned to do or what they were speaking of but she helped all of them up onto the console anyway and watched on.
"There's the port," Raf pointed out and Fowler inserted a data drive.
This didn't make sense to her. "W-wait, why do you need the port?" She now saw all eyes on her, staring nervously and it was then she realized what they planned to do. "You're downloading the data? Y-you lied just to get our information?"
"Y-you have to understand, we have to do this," said Raf who tried to explain, "we need this information to work against the decepticons."
Bloodbloom didn't know what made her do it but she quickly pulled the data drive out of the port and held it in her servos out of there reach and stepped away shaking her helm, "No, I can't let you do that. All I want is to have the warship back in to normal!"
"But you have to let us!" Cried Raf wanting nothing more than to have the data drive back so they can get what they wanted.
"We need that data!" Miko said with folded arms, "After Bulkhead spoke about you, I thought you were cool!"
"I know how badly you want it!" She could see the desperation in them, "But if give you the data, Megatron will have my head and shoot it out the nearest airlock. I already got in trouble for letting Bulkhead pass me; I don't have any more chances."
"For your information this data is for the sake of not only the autobot's but the entire planet." Fowler explained losing his patients.
Bloodbloom gave away her reaction when she slumped her shoulders. Bulkhead said a lot that didn't make sense, and they were seeing more now. Bloodbloom bore the decepticon marking and clearly possessed the programming, but her nature was something completely different. She knew they saw and couldn't help but look away knowing she was in a very bad situation.
"Hey," looking at them she saw Jack had approached her, "we could really use your help and we'll return the favour by figuring out if we're able to somehow get control of the warship again, I promise."
"Even if I do and you help us, I won't just walk away from Megatron's wrath."
Sympathy was given by Jack, "You're afraid of him."
"No, I just prefer to keep my head."
Miko then had one of her brilliant ideas. "Come with us then!" The children and surprisingly Fowler thought the idea wasn't so bad.
"Yeah!" Cried Raf happily, "If you change sides and help us fight against the decepticons the autobots will be grateful. We'll welcome you for sure."
Bloodbloom didn't know what to say. Change sides? Were they seriously asking her that?! She stared blankly at them, still getting over what they just said before slowly shaking her helm. "No, I can't do that."
"Why not?" Wondered Jack, "I can see it in you that you don't want to hurt us or let our planet fall under the decepticon hands. If you don't like it here, why stay?"
Carefully, she looked at Knockout beside her and back at him, "I have my reasons."
They sighed in defeat but weren't going to give up on the data drive so easily. "Please…" Raf tried one more time, "We could really use that data. Besides, everyone here is in stasis and it's unlikely the warship will have any live feed of this happening right now. No one will know."
What the fuck am I supposed to do?! She was sick of all this and just wanted it all to end. The kid may be young but he was one cleaver cookie. He did have a point anyway. This will be just something she'll never mention again, not even to Knockout.
Venting heavily she inserted the drive back into the port, "Do not make me regret this."
"Thank you." Smiled Raf kindly.
As the data was downloading Bloodbloom was leaning over Knockout examining his face and pondered. Miko approached closer to speak with her.
"Ok, be honest with me. Is mister flashy here as annoying as he is out in the field?"
Bloodbloom smirked, "Yeah, he can get on my nerve sometimes. But he's not so bad once you get to know him."
"Really?" Miko found that hard to believe. Bloodbloom shrugged and looked at him once more with an evil trick at play.
"Hey, you wouldn't by any chance have a marker on you?"
Miko picked up on what she was thinking and right away pulled one out from one of her pouch pockets. "What kind of moustache? Handlebar or pencil?"
"Oh, definitely handlebar."
Sorry it's shorter then my other chapters. I just needed to get this posted before I left. Thanks for reading and hope you all enjoyed. Ideas are always welcome and don't forget to review. Merry Christmas and have a happy new year.