Okay! I know it's been awhile. Been busy.
So here is another wonderful and hopefully thrillering chapter for you patient viewers.
I do not own Transformers, I only own my characters.
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Scourge was a bit dumbstruck, after all these years he had failed to notice that. But what bothered him was why he hadn't noticed this until he got to Earth. The hand that had his sword resting on the ground loosened the grip around his sword. Now that he had found out about Destiny, now he couldn't bring himself to kill her. It was true that he had always would have liked a sparkling but because he was wary of Galvatron, he never tried to find himself a mate. How ironic that it had to be the Autobot femme he bonded with, that was also suppose to be Magnus's mate. Scourge did some quick thinking, what if he tried to take the femme under his wing? But he thought better of it, seeing as she pretty much dedicated herself to the Autobot cause. He had wished that he would have at least tried to stop that one femme from running from the base, then he wouldn't have this problem. Little did he and the other Decepticons know that the Autobots were on their way to help their comrades. Scourge saw this as a opportunity to try and bond with the femme, or as those humans said, getting along with your children. He was at least going to try and gain her trust. Before he knew it, there was a screeching of tires. He looked to see who arrived and ended up growling at who he saw. Now Ultra Magnus arrived and he charged right at Scourge. Not even having enough time to dodge or block his attack. Scourge was knocked and thrown away from Destiny. After finally finding out that he had a sparkling, he was now going to have to escape and leave her behind again. Scourge getting back up to his two feet, he turned and glared at Magnus, who was glaring right back standing protectively in front of Destiny. Destiny finally managed to online her optics and felt relieved that she had been saved.
"Are you alright Destiny!?" Magnus asked.
"Yeah. I'll be fine." Destiny said, reassuring him. She nodded to him. That made Scourge bubble up with fury, the femme was HIS daughter not Magnus's. He raised his sword and charged at Magnus with fury. Magnus managed to dodge as well as Destiny. She grabbed up her own sword, and striked out against Scourge. Scourge then managed to force her aside, seeing as deep down he wasn't about to let her fight and hopefully keep her out of the way.
"You son of a...!" Destiny started to say.
"Watch your language femme!" Scourge growled at her.
"You're not the boss of me!" Destiny said.
'Not now anyways... but I am your father!' Scourge thought as he eyed Destiny, carefully. Magnus managed to hit Scourge with a few missiles while he was distracted. Scourge once again directed his attention back at Magnus, to which he returned missile fire. Destiny took the chance and managed a give him a kick in the rear plates. Scourge, not expecting that, was thrown forward. Destiny smirked underneath her face mask, seeing the surprised look on Magnus. Then Magnus quickly smirked back, he remembered when she used that trick on him. Scourge again growled, though he knew that he couldn't exactly harm his daughter, but he had to do something. Getting back to his feet, he turned and faced the two Autobots, sword raised and ready to fire. He again charged forward, landing a strike to Magnus, which merely sent him back. Destiny decided to try and jump him from behind, but that ended in failure. Scourge managed to grab her on the arm and fling her across his shoulder to where Magnus was. To her luck, Magnus caught her, though she was upside down. Scourge, in his mind, did find that funny and smirked. Destiny glared at him, even though he looked upside down. Then another pair of tires were heard, and this made Scourge growl once again.
"Prime!" Scourge snarled, as the Autobot leader transformed and stood beside his brother.
"You're outnumbered this time Scourge!" Optimus said, meeting his gaze. Now Scourge and Optimus went hand-to-hand in combat, almost equal in strength. But Optimus proved to be the stronger in this battle, forcing Scourge back. Magnus set Destiny right side up and back on her feet. She gave Magnus a grateful look, as he nodded his head. Optimus managed to force Scourge back enough that the Decepticon had no choice but to call a retreat.
"You win this time Prime... But I'll be back!" Scourge warned, transforming and driving away from their group.
"Yeah! You better run!" Destiny shouted after the retreating Decepticons. Magnus laughed out loud while Optimus chuckled lightly, to which Destiny shrugged her shoulders in a bit of an embarrassed way. Then the rest of the group rejoined them later, both Sideburn and Wedge were relieved to see that Destiny was alright. The rest of the build team gave the thumbs up, showing that they were able to handle the Decepticons with ease. X-Brawn and Prowl nodded.
"Let's head back to base." Optimus said, transforming into his vehicle mode. The others followed suit, and they headed back to base through the space bridge. They all seemed to chat about the Decepticons daily activity, which got Wedge, Destiny and Sideburn curious. How did they know that they were in trouble?
"Hey.. I have a question." Destiny said.
"Yes Destiny?" Optimus answered.
"I'm curious here... How DID you know that the three of us were in danger?" She asked. To their surprise, no one was really that shocked that she had asked the question.
"We got a message from some unknown source that said you were in danger, It was quite strange to be honest. It was a male and a transformer, but we couldn't depict on who it was. T-AI couldn't even figure that out." Optimus explained.
"That was a real shock on T-AI's part. She was really in a bundle with that one. She couldn't locate it and before she could get a trace on the unknown person, he disappeared! I mean we really lost contact with him." X-Brawn said, stepping in.
"Yes and now, we're trying everything we can before we can lose the information that we have on him." Optimus once again said.
"Huh.. That's odd." Destiny said.
"It sure is." Said Heavyload.
Then from there they drove back to the base in silence, almost pondering on whom the mysterious caller was. Upon reaching the base, they transformed and parted ways, leaving Optimus, Destiny, X-Brawn and Magnus. They all headed to the control room where T-AI was busy looking through locations and data codes. She seemed to be working harder than usual, but she didn't fail to notice the group come in.
"Hello everyone." T-AI said.
"Hey T-AI, you find anything yet?" X-Brawn asked.
"Not yet, X-Brawn. I'm still working on it." T-AI sighed.
"Maybe we can give you a hand?" Destiny asked.
"That would be great Destiny." T-AI replied.
"Let's get to work on it." X-Brawn answered, as he went to the nearest stack of data pads. They all nodded and went to work.
Meanwhile at the Predacon main base of operations, Mega-Octane was fuming a bit at how they were so foolish enough to let their enemy get the best of them. So were the other Decepticons, except Scourge. He was leaning against the walls, his arms crossed and was in thought. He could care less if the rest of the Decepticons fumed. His mind was on his sparkling, to which he had just found out that he had a sparkling only a little while ago. He couldn't understand the fact that he hadn't even noticed the similarities until now. Now this bothered him, seeing that it may be impossible to even get her to join them because she has grown close to the rest of the Autobots. But perhaps there was a way for him to somehow get closer to her. He shook his head, by the looks of it the Autobots weren't going to let him near her. He offlined his optics to do some deeper thinking, how was he going to get closer to her without getting blasted by the Autobots? He kept thinking up ideas, not knowing if they would work or not.
"..rge. Scourge!" Said a voice, snapping him out of his thoughts. He onlined his optics and glared at his second-in-command.
"What?" He asked.
"You zoned out there. I was asking you if you had any luck getting revenge on that femme warrior. Well did you?" Mega-Octane asked.
"Heh. I would have succeeded if Ultra Magnus hadn't showed up and saved the day." Scourge growled, he wasn't about to let anyone in the base know that he had a daughter.
"Figures. No matter what we do, those Autobots just get in the way! We have to do something!" Mega-Octane stated.
"Yes, we do. But what would actually work?" He asked, getting a surprised jump out of Mega-Octane. "We need new tactics, or we'll never defeat the Autobots."
"Point taken..." Mega-Octane said, almost in defeat. Scourge nodded, and went back to thinking after Mega-Octane decided to leave him alone. What could they do? Scourge wanted to defeat and destroy Optimus but he couldn't and wouldn't dare try to injury his daughter. Again offlining his optics, he went back to coming up with ideas to get his daughter back to his side or at least try to. But once again his concentration was shattered by someone.
"Scourge! This is no time for a nap!" Said a voice. Scourge growled and onlined his optics to glare at the shark Predacon.
"Sky-Byte, if you don't want to lose your head.." He said, threateningly.
"I'm here to tell you that Galvatron wants to see us!" Sky-Byte said quickly. Scourge gave him a straight look, before brushing past him to Galvatrons throne room also the computer control center. Sky-Byte was right behind him. Scourge didn't like the Predacon as much as Sky-Byte didn't like him. Both saw each other as a rival, but Sky-Byte saw Scourge as a more deadly rival and force to reckoned with. They reached the control room or Galvatrons throne room, with the big boss himself waiting.
"What do you have to report Scourge?" Galvatron asked him.
"So far our tactics need upgrading, the Autobots seemed to be getting more and more of an advantage against us. Perhaps there is a way to limit their tactics and another way to get around them without getting noticed." Scourge started.
"Yes, it does seem that they are getting to be quite annoying." Galvatron said, folding his arms.
"Perhaps we can use that to our advantage..." Scourge murmured to himself.
"What? Do you have a plan?" Galvatron asked, giving the Decepticon warrior a look.
"What if we captured some of the Autobots, and used them against Prime? If he knew that they were in trouble, then he wouldn't bother doing anything to stop us." Scourge suggested.
"That's not a bad idea. But will it work?" Galvatron asked.
"Yes, if I'm given some time my lord.." Scourge started.
"Take as much time as you need, we need to stop the Autobots one way or another. Do what you must." Galvatron said. "And as for the Predacons, you will help him with their plan."
"Yes sir!" Sky-Byte said. 'I'm getting that really bad feeling...'
"You're dismissed!" Galvatron said, turning back to the control room screens. Both Scourge and Sky-byte bowed and left the room. Once out, Scourge turned to Sky-byte.
"Gather the Predacons, this plan is now in action." He said. "Meet us outside the base."
"Yeah..." Sky-byte said, after Scourge walked the opposite way of him. "How do you plan to really pull this out?"
Back at Autobot HQ, everyone was running around doing errands. They were busy as bees, for they were trying to come up with battle tactics and strategeries that would help them against their foes. Destiny's group was working with the Spychangers at that moment, both working up their processors to figure out a battle tactic that would most definitely work. In another corner was Sideburn searching through data files, trying find some useful information. Every once in a while he would glance to where Destiny was and sigh. He still didn't have the systems to tell her how he felt about her. Gathering some files together he left the room and nearly ran into Wedge in the middle of the hallway.
"Oh sorry about that Wedge." Sideburn said, with a goofy look on his face.
"That's okay Sideburn." Wedge said with a smile. "Do you have a minute?"
"Yeah, I think so." Sideburn asked, giving the Build-team leader a confused look.
"Well, I would like to talk to you in private if that's okay." Wedge said, looking around.
"Okay, just let me set these files down somewhere and I'll meet you outside the base. Sound good?" Sideburn said, walking slightly past Wedge.
"That would be great. See you later." Wedge said, heading for the exit to the base.
That got Sideburn a little curious, what did Wedge want to talk to him privately for? He guessed that he would find out when he met up with Wedge. He set the data files on a desk, not realizing that it was his brother's desk with all of his other police files on it. Then he headed out to meet with Wedge. They both met up, transformed and headed off. They that the best place to talk in private would be outside of town. It stayed silent for both of them, which did make both uncomfortable. They each thought that maybe the other was angry with them. They reached their designation, transforming into robot mode. Again it was silent between them. Then Sideburn decided to break the silence.
"So... What did you want to talk about?"
"Well.... I was first going to ask if you were just angry. You were quiet on the way down here." Wedge said, folding his arms.
"Huh? I thought you were angry Wedge. I'm not." Sideburn said a little surprised.
"What? No of course not!" Wedge said, just as surprised.
"Wow that's a definite misunderstanding." Sideburn said, rubbing the back of his head. "Anyways... What did you want to talk to me in private about?"
"Yeah about that... I feel a little guilty for leaving Destiny to deal with Scourge on her own. I mean I really wanted to help her out, but you know... we couldn't because of the Decepticons." Wedge said.
"I know exactly what you mean..." Sideburn said, looking down. "You don't think she's upset at us do you?"
"Well... I don't really know to honest Sideburn. Maybe we should at least try and make it up to her." Wedge said. "Do you... want to give a hand on that?"
"Of course. What are friends for?" Sideburn said, smiling. Wedge smiled back.
"Oh... look at what we have here." Said a voice that made both Wedge and Sideburn freeze. They turned their heads and saw their worst nightmare. The Decepticons and the Predacons. Mega-Octane laughed a bit darkly.
"You two will do perfectly!" He said. They didn't know what to do, both Wedge and Sideburn were faced with their worst enemy.
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Destiny and the jet twins went to the command center to speak with T-AI about their current battle stratergy, they had Hot shot and Crosswire with them as well. They found T-AI busy with her station as usual.
"Hello Everyone." T-AI said greeting them with a smile and open arms.
"Hey T-AI." Said the twins. Before anymore was said, a small alarm went off. T-AI quickly checked it out, it was a communication signal.
"Who would..." Started Crosswire.
Then the face of Sky-Byte appeared, making them all jump a little.
"Well, hello Autobots, I bring a message to you." He said his face holding a sinsiter look on it.
"What the frag?" Jetstorm and Jetstreak said at the same time.
"I come to speak to you about dropping your mission of getting that weapon!" Sky-Byte demanded.
"Why should we, Guppy boy?" Destiny asked, placing a hand on her hip.
"Why? Why should stop your mission? Because if you value the lives of your precious comrades then you will!" Sky-Byte said darkly. That made everyone in the room freeze.
"What did he say!?" Hot Shot said, shocked. Then Optimus, Prowl, X-Brawn and the Build team entered the room, they also found Sky-Byte's face appearance on their screen a bit odd.
"Oh you heard me... You either drop the mission or your friends pay the price!" Sky-Byte said.
"You aren't pulling our crank shafts are you now?" X-Brawn asked, walking up and standing beside Destiny.
"If I was, then you wouldn't be seeing... this!" He stepped aside and everyone in the room gasped, there in the corner was both Sideburn and Wedge bound in energon chains. Both bots look fairly beaten up, Mega-Octane and Dark scream were standing on either side of them. Destiny covered her mouth in shock and X-Brawn was just horrified. Both of their comrades were damaged pretty badly but they looked like they were still online.
"What did you do to them!?" X-Brawn demanded, his tone showing the anger he was feeling.
"We merely just proved our point." Scourge said, now standing clear in the distance. "You either give up your mission or these two will become spare parts."
"Then we can negotiate..." Optimus said. "I will meet up with you."
Destiny and X-Brawn turned around and looked at Optimus with horror in their optics. Prowl was staring just as horrified at Optimus, and everyone else in the room was just confused on what to do. Sky-Byte had a dark sneer on his face.
"Alright then Optimus... Meet us at the bay in the old warehouse. Come alone." And with that the transmission was cut off. Everyone was silent, even after Koji and Doctor Onishi arrived. They were told of the situation, they became worried.
"There must be another way to get to them..." Doctor Onishi said, folding his arms.
"I'll try to negotiate with them... maybe there is another way.." Optimus said.
"But Optimus! It's too risky! We're coming with you!" Destiny said.
"She's right! Sideburn is our brother." Prowl said, taking Destiny's side on the matter.
"No. I'm going alone... I have to in order to save both Sideburn and Wedge." Optimus stated, walking out of the control room. Everyone was lost on what they should do. Destiny looked to both X-Brawn and Prowl for advice, seeing as Optimus was like a father to her, she couldn't bear to lose him. Prowl met her gaze and he had a sad tint in his optics. X-Brawn, on the other hand, was working up his CPU for a plan. They didn't realize that the twins, had already thought of something. Jetstreak cleared her throat to catch their attention, when everyone looked to them, they both had the same identical smile which meant they had something worked out.
"We have a plan..." They both said at the same time.
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It's a... cliffy! Ha ha! I know I'm bad but this gives ya something to look forward to.
To which I will try and have the next chapter ASAP. Until then.. See ya!
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