A/N: Please review and thank-you for reading!
And, I'm not too sure how to spell the girl's name who has a crush on Scott properly, so just bear with me if I have it wrong
Chapter Fourteen: Happy Hot Shot!
22 heard a knock on the hanger doors, it was a knock he had been expecting all day. Even Cobra Commander was waiting in the hanger for this knock.
"Don't stand there making them wait!" He yelled at 22, looking impatient.
22 hurried to the hanger door and pulled it open, revealing a Sunshine Squirrel Girl with a truckload of biscuits.
It was Tuesday, the day of delivery had finally arrived.
Rocket placed a hand on the Mazda she was hiding behind and felt it tremble. She looked closer at it but it wasn't the same yellow car she saw the other when she met the Autobots.
'My imagination must be going overboard now that I about transforming robots,' she thought as she dismissed the car's movement from her mind.
'Doesn't this human know how cold her hands are, even through her gloves?' Hot Shot thought as he shivered.
Optimus had sent him as backup in case Cobra had brought Barricade along on their mission, and by the looks of it - they had.
Scott watched as Barricade pulled up to the steps he was standing.
"Don't they know how obvious it looks that they are Cobra?" Asked Zephyr, a girl who had a long time crush on Scott asked, pointing out the Cobra symbol on Barricade's bonnet.
"I don't think they realised," Scott replied, "Cobra isn't the most intelligent organisation around."
It was just the two of them, their other two friends had raced off already, yelling something about pizza and a horror movie marathon.
"That cop looks pretty realistic," Zephyr commented.
"That's probably Zartan," Scott said taking a closer look.
"That alien freak from Cape Douglass?" Zephyr asked, remembering their last encounter with Cobra, "that guy was a moron!"
The two of them stood at the top of the steps as they watched Barricade stopped below them, while S.P.U.D.D put his ears back and gave a soft whine.
"Excuse me," the pseudo cop called to Scott, "but are you Scott Abernathy?"
"Yes, what can I do for you officer?" Scott and Zephyr suppressed their laughter at Cobra's plan.
"I've got bad news son," Zartan said gravely, "but your father has taken a turn for the worse, I've been instructed to take you to the hospital!"
"My father," Scott asked, "did he give you the secret word?"
Of course there was no secret word, he had just asked that to see Zartan's reaction.
"What secret word?" Zartan asked slowly.
"The one so that I know the message is from him," replied Scott.
"Listen son, your father didn't have time to give us any secret word to tell you!" Zartan said, trying not to snarl.
"I don't know," Scott said, pretending to think about going with Zartan.
Zartan got out of Barricade, "come down here and lets talk about it."
"How about no?" Scott said, looking down the steps at Zartan.
"Why not?" Zartan demanded, getting angry.
"Well, first of all, you are Zartan and second my dad isn't in any danger!" Scott pointed out to him.
"How did you know who I was?" Zartan snarled as he transformed back into his usual look.
"Your car gave you away!" Zephyr called out, pointing to Barricade.
Zartan turned and groaned when he saw the Cobra sign on Barricade's bonnet - he'd forgotten completely about it.
"Whatever kid," he snarled, "you and your robo-mutt are coming with me!"
"I don't think so!" A voice called out and Jinx and Kamakura burst out of a bush they had been hiding in, trailing leaves behind them.
Snake Eyes dropped silently from the roof where he had been hiding.
Scarlett and Long Range stepped out of the school building, while Tunnel Rat came out of a manhole in the parking lot.
"Sigmas!" Zartan snarled angrily.
"Looks like you're outnumbered Zartan!" Scarlett remarked as she raised her crossbow.
"Think again," the Dreadnoks leapt up from where they were hiding among the cars.
"Come on!" Stormshadow hissed in Rocket's ear and the two of them ran off to the side of the school building.
"Why are you so slow?" Stormshadow asked angrily, looking back at Rocket.
"It's not my fault - I'm feeling lethargic! I think there must be a power stone near by!" She hissed back.
"What does a power stone have to do with you being slow?" He asked, confused.
"Um, I'm allergic to them," Rocket felt like kicking herself admitting that to Cobra.
"Why would a power stone be here?" Stormshadow didn't quite believe her.
"There is one - if fact, it's between your feet!" Rocket pointed to the tip of a power stone that lay buried in the ground.
"Well, well, wonders never cease," Stormshadow remarked and got out one of his kunai and began to dig the power stone out.
Rocket watched him, as the sounds of the battle raged on around them. She caught sight of the two teenagers and S.P.U.D.D running to get to a safe place.
"Here take this!" Stormshadow ordered, the power stone in his hand.
"No," Rocket said, backing away, "you want me to touch something that is sucking me dry of energy - are you mad?"
Stormshadow gave her a glare and ran towards the battle, holding onto the power stone. Rocket following a discreet distance behind.
Hot Shot wanted to join in the battle, but Optimus had given him strict instructions not to do anything unless Barricade started fighting.
Said Decepticon had retreated to the back of the parking lot with Frenzy, waiting for orders and not wanting to get flesh bag on his gears.
Still Hot Shot, wondered if Optimus's orders stretched to that floating robot that one of the Cobra's had summoned from somewhere.
Rocket stared up in shock at Overlord Vector, "how did that thing get here?"
"It was on standby in case we needed," Stormshadow answered.
It was at that moment the Sigma 6 ninjas noticed the Cobra ninjas.
"Brother!" Stormshadow snarled, "our battle ends today!"
He and Snake Eyes flew at each other and begun their battle.
Rocket was left facing Jinx and Kamakura.
"I suppose we ought to make this look real?" She asked resignedly.
The two of them nodded and drew their weapons, Rocket holstered her gun and instead drew out her sai.
The two lots of students charged.
"Brother, you are weak!" Stormshadow mocked as Snake Eyes was slammed into a wall by him.
Snake Eyes responded by throwing shurikens.
Stormshadow dodged them, but got sliced in the arm by Snake Eye's katana while he was distracted by the shurikens.
It was the arm holding the power stone, Stormshadow dropped it and Snake Eyes caught it.
"That power stone belongs to Cobra!" Snarled Stormshadow as he chased after Snake Eyes to get the power stone back.
Snake Eyes spotted Scarlett and threw the power stone to her, she barely caught when Stormshadow flew past and grabbed it out of her hands.
Snake Eyes took another option, to destroy the power stone instead of capturing it.
"Hey, do you think they've forgotten about us?" Scott asked.
"I think so," Zephyr replied, peering at the battle from where they were hiding, "I think they are fighting over some stone now."
"Typical," Scott responded.
Rocket was backed up against Barricade, Jinx and Kamakura having cornered her. She still wasn't feeling great thanks to the power stone.
Barricade wasn't to happy with the shurikens and kunai hitting him, even though he had to admit the ninjas had excellent speed for flesh bags.
Rocket glanced up and saw Snake Eyes take aim with the lasers on his arm and fire at the power stone.
"Oh shit!" She screamed as the power stone exploded.
She leapt through Barricade's open window, "get us out of here now before that blast hits us!" She glanced at the shock wave approaching the, "now! Before we both die!"
Barricade didn't wait to ask why, and sped out of the parking lot and fell down a fell metres onto the perfectly kept sports field, the blast passing over them safely.
"Care to explain?" Barricade ask, "the other humans don't seem to have been affected by the blast."
"Well, as the only human alive that seems to be allergic to power stones, that blast would've killed me. You I'm not too sure, blasts from exploding power stones usually short out our electric equipment while it turns B.A.T.S into berserkers. I hate to know what it would have done to you."
Rocket glanced up and saw Scott and Zephyr staring at her as if she was crazy - talking to a car.
"Speaking about B.A.T.S going berserk - Overlord Vector must be attacking everyone up there, you need to go stop it!" Rocket said urgently.
"Why should I do that?" Barricade asked.
"Because it is attacking members of Cobra as well!" Replied Rocket.
Barricade sighed, and open his door to let Rocket and Frenzy out so he could transform.
"Whoa!" Scott said as he watched the Decepticon rise up.
"Snake Eyes you moron!" Tunnel Rat yelled as he dodged an attack from Overlord Vector.
Snake Eyes had to admit to himself that maybe his idea wasn't such a good one, as he and Stormshadow forgot about their battle and concentrated on fighting the berserk B.A.T.
Hot Shot felt weird, the blast swept over him and his systems had temporally gone offline, but now he seemed to buzz with an unknown energy… and it felt good.
It made him feel unbeatable - the strongest Cybertronian ever!
He noticed that the floating B.A.T had gone berserk, and that the humans needed help. Surely Optimus wouldn't object to him coming to their aid? Not to mention it would give him a chance to try out this new power flowing through him.
He transformed, blue sparks racing over his body as he moved towards the B.A.T.
Barricade and Rocket stood and stared where they had climbed back up onto the parking lot.
There was Hot Shot - tearing the Overlord Vector apart and making it look as if the B.A.T was built out of candy floss.
Taking advantage of the robot battle, Stormshadow and Zartan ran up to Barricade.
"Quick, get us out here!" Zartan ordered.
Barricade duly complied, although he wanted to take on that Autobot, he wasn't so sure. The Autobot looked like he had been given an extremely large power boost.
"Where are the Dreadnoks?" Rocket ask as she jumped into the back with Frenzy.
"Don't know, don't care," Stormshadow replied as Barricade tore out of the parking lot.
"What was that blast?" Barricade asked, as he swerved through traffic.
"That was a power stone exploding, I never thought Snake Eyes would go to such lengths though," answered Stormshadow.
"How did you even find a power stone?" Zartan asked confused.
"It seems Rocket here neglected to tell us she could sense power stones!" Stormshadow snarled.
"Hey, I can't sense them! I'm allergic to them!" Rocket said angrily.
"Whatever, you can still figure out where they are located," Stomshadow pointed out.
"How the hell do you become allergic to a stone? I mean its a rock!" Zartan said, still feeling a bit puzzled.
"Don't ask me!" Rocket said, "that one has been puzzling me for a while too."
"Just what is a power stone?" Barricade growled.
"It's a stone that holds a lot of energy - we use them to power some of our equipment," replied Zartan.
Stormshadow sat back, he was waiting for the chance to kill Rocket, but with this new development she could turn out useful in the power stone hunt.
Barricade contemplated the power stone concept, if he could turn them into energon - what would it taste like?
Scarlett stared at the wreckage of Overlord Vector, then at the towering figure of Hot Shot. This was the first Autobot she had met.
"Um, thanks?" She said, not too sure if he hadn't turned berserk as well.
"What was that blast?" Hot Shot asked, "I feel great!"'
The Sigmas continued to stare as Hot Shot bounced around the parking lot, crushing a few cars as he did so.
"Oh man," Tunnel Rat remarked, looking around him, "this place is smashed!"
Scarlett had to agree, the school building was barely standing and there was hardly a car in the parking lot that had survived unmarked.
Scott and Zephyr ran up to them.
"What the hell is going on?" Scott asked, confused.
"Why are there transforming robots everywhere?" Zephyr asked, also confused.
"Would you believe me if I told you they were from out of space amigo?" Long Range said.
"Forget about explaining about the Transformers!" Scarlett suddenly yelled, "what about your invite Scott? Does Cobra have it?"
"Yes, I "accidentally" tripped and my book bag with the invite in it went flying through the police car's window," Scott replied, with a smug look on his face.
"Yeah," said Zephyr, "along with your homework and that bad test score you were supposed to show your father!"
"Relax Zephyr - there is no way the teachers won't believe my excuse about being attacked by giant robots this time!" Scott grinned as he swept a hand around him, showing off the destruction.
Scarlett just shook her head.
The Dreadnoks had been busy battling Tunnel Rat and Long Range when they heard it.
The sound of an ice-cream truck.
They looked at each other guiltily before charging out of the fight to chase the truck down, they manage to catch up with it two blocks away.
After threatening the owner of the truck to give them free ice-creams, the three of them returned to the school. Only to discover everyone but a bouncing Autobot had gone.
"What do we do now?" Torch asked, as they watched Hot Shot do a cartwheel.
"I suppose we have to walk back," Buzzer replied, as Hot Shot began walking on his hands.
"At least we have ice-cream," Machete remarked happily as they left Hot Shot doing backflips.
"I'm a Autobot ninja!" Hot Shot yelled happily.
"Hey, what's this?" Stormshadow snarled as he feet brushed against something on the floor.
"The human youngling threw it into me as he ran away," replied Barricade, as Stormshadow lifted up the book bag.
"Guess someone doesn't want to do his homework!" Smirked Zartan.
Stormshadow started scratching through the bag, "I wonder what they are being taught nowadays," he said as he pulled out what looked like a test.
Rocket glanced at the mark, "ten out of thirty for English?" She exclaimed, shocked that anyone could get such a low mark for her favourite subject.
"Not everyone is good like you are when it comes to the written word," admonished Zartan.
Rocket scowled but kept quiet, Frenzy was using her as a pillow.
Stormshadow pulled out a envelope next and opened it to read its contents.
"Dear General Hawk and Scott
You are cordially invited to a G.I Joe and Sigma 6 reunion!
Date: This coming Saturday on the 5th - yeah we know its short notice
Venue: Megalo City Hotel: Ballroom
Time: 19:30 for 20:00
Dress: Smart Casual
R.S.V.P: You know our phone number!
Hope to see you there!
Love Lady Jaye and Flint!"
"What's that?" Rocket asked, curious.
"Nothing," replied Stormshadow and put the invite in a safe place.
Rocket said nothing and carried on looking at the scenery through the window.
'Do you have any plans for Saturday?" Stormshadow asked her casually.
"Nope," Rocket replied, inwardly grinning as she knew what Stormshadow had just found.
A sudden idea struck her, "hey, can I borrow Barricade after he drops you off at the base?"
"Why?" Zartan asked suspicious.
"I think I know a way to give us both a good nights sleep," she replied.
"What?" Zartan asked confused now.
"Don't ask," Stormshadow said.
"Fine," Barricade said, "I don't care what you humans have to say - I'm curious to see what this plan is!"
Stormshadow said nothing, anything was okay - so long as he didn't have to walk in and find Rocket sharing a bed with a robot again. He gave a small shudder, homesickness - yeah right!
Zartan, decided to say nothing, but he was extremely curious and confused about what was going on.
Frenzy, decided against making his thoughts on the subject known - but this plan better not involve pain!
TBC...
A/N: So, I've revealed Rocket's allergy - don't kill me please! It's called artistic licence to create and bend rules ;-)
Also, my first battle scene - I hope it was okay (I don't count Barricade fighting a few B.A.T.S as a battle).
Cobra has the invite - will they fall for the trap… well duh - they have too
What is Rocket's plan… that will be revealed next chapter, and what about Hot Shot? Are the effects of the power stone permanent?
About the power stone though, I didn't know at first what to do with a TF and it's effects - at first I was going to make them turn into the opposite of their personalities - Autobots evil and Decepticons good but it didn't fit in with the plot. Then I was going to turn it into a TF type of drug and have some fun with that - but sadly, also no part in the plot. Maybe as a side story… hmmm?
So instead they get a power boost (fits with plot) and a bit of a "happiness" side effect.
I wonder how Optimus would react to the side effect? LOL!
Anyway - thanks for reading and please review!