Shadowzone

My Pov

After the events of Airachnid, the last couple of days, have really been a roller-coaster of shit.

Allow me to explain.

A few day after encountering Airachnid in the forest and nearing get killed. Ratchet discovered The Decepticon Worship and an Autobot emergency beacon at the same time, Arcee suggested that we should attack the cons when they least expect it. But Optimus wanted to check the beacon first, along with Ratchet, After the Two ventured inside the ship, hoping to find survivors, but what they found was the crew, but dead, Ratchet quickly noticed that ship was a Plague ship, they crew did not die on impact. Ratchet warned Optimus not to touch any, for the virus could still be active.

But the ship jerked and Opitmus looked up to see a bot dangling above him, which dropped a droplet of the virus into his optics, and became infected.

The plague was developed as part of the Decepticons' Biological Warfare Program, specifically by Megatron himself, and Ratchet thinks they might be able to find information in the Decepticon databases. Arcee and Bumblebee Groundbridged onto the Decepticon ship.

Both of them had made their way into the Medic ward of the ship and tried to find any cure on their database. They found nothing. But they did find Megatron. Alive… just barely.

Arcee was ready to finish Megatron off then and there, but Ratchet had a better idea—enter Megatron's brain and retrieve the plague cure. Ratchet knew of a procedure to create a cortical psychic patch.

Though such procedures have been banned by the Autobots for years, it will get them into Megatron's brain, and Bumblebee is willing to try it.

Long Story short.

Bumblebee managed to talk to Megatron and get the cure after almost being discovered by the rest of the Cons. Arcee managed to shoot Megatron at that last second and that was that.

We saved Optimus and it looked like Megatron died.

But Life on the other hand decided to give us the big old' Middle Finger and decide to let Megatron live.

How you may ask?

In another short summary.

Basically, what happened was, Megatron mind was inside Bumblebee after the patch, he somehow, find a way into his mind and began to take over Bee. And when least expected it, he Groundbridged back to the Nemesis and with a shard of Dark Energon, brought himself back to life.

Now I would have stepped in, and done something.

BUT I COUND'NT, BECAUSE I WAS AT WORK!

You know what, let's just move on like those two days never existed.

Last week of May

Tuesday

Story Pov

Starscream lies in the Nemesis's lab, having taken a severe pounding from Megatron. His leader pays a visit.

"Resting comfortably, Starscream?" Megatron asks. "Despite the extent of your injuries, my medical staff assures me that you shall make a rapid recovery."

"Hopefully every bit as rapid as your wrath is swift." Starscream coughed. Megatron laughed at the state of his second in command.

"And how swiftly things change. To think that a short time ago it was you who was standing here while I was lying there. Right after your failed attempt to terminate me. But know this dear Starscream. Our positions shall never again be reversed." And with that Megatron took his leave.

After Megatron left. Starscream began taking off all of pumps that were connected to his body. And left the room clutching his chest.

Knockout was outside check over statistics when Starscream walked out.

"Starscream, have you lost your senses? You haven't fully recuperated." The doctor said.

"Im feel fine Knockout, never better, you're a brilliant physician, NOW GET OUT OF MY WAY!" Starscream replied as he pushed the doctor away and went on his way.

Starscream made his way to an empty hallway on the ship and from a secret compartment, pulled out a dark energon shard, the one Megatron implanted in himself originally.

"Once the blood of Unicron flows through my veins, our positions SHALL be reversed." He smiled

5 Minutes Later

Starscream flew to a familiar sight, the location being where Skyquake was first emerged and to where his resting place was. Which was a pile of rocks.

After getting close to the ground he transformed and landed with the dark energon shard in hand.

"Ah, the grave site of the mighty Skyquake. So quick to reject my authority while you lived. But, as the first reanimated warriors, you shall bow to my command." He said as he broke the energon shard in half and tossed one half at the grave site which bounce of the rocks before falling through a crack. The grave started to glow a dark purple aura.

With the other shard in his hand, he plunged it into his spark chamber. He sighed with bliss and the felling of power.

"Yesss, The power of Dark energon…BE MINE!" he said as his body was engulfed in a purple fire aura.

"AAAAAHHHHHH, Symbiosis" He began laughing like a manic. "I CAN FEEL IT" he shouted as the ground became covered in dark energon.

Autobot Base

A few minutes before.

Ratchet had picked up Starscream's energy signature on radar back at base. But they all thought it was Megatron, continuing his evil schemes.

So Opitmus along with Bulkhead, Ironhide, Prowl, G-force, Ratchet and Velocity were chosen for the mission. Bumblebee was out on a drive with Jazz, and Arcee managed the bridge.

"Go get em Bulkhead, bring the hurt" Miko said from the rec area. Bulkhead response was pounding his fists together. Miko was drawing Optimus on her sketch pad, today she wore a black slipknot tank top with ripped jeans and her usual combat boots.

The kids looked at Miko like she was someone else. Like she had been replaced. But Miko just kept on drawing.

"That's so not like Miko to not go" Jack commented. Jack today wore a nice light blue shirt, and nice pair of jeans and white sneakers. Raf who was sitting beside him was wearing a nice orange t-shirt with forest green cargo shorts and gray sneakers

Justin who was playing video games was wearing a white t-shirt, black and red long sports shorts and black sneakers.

Once the bots transformed and headed out, Miko to the chance to run for it. Jack noticed this and him and the rest of the kids took off after Miko. But Miko was fast on her feet. She only managed to get to the base of the portal before Jack grabbed her. "It's not safe" Jack said as he grabbed her arm.

Miko growled in frustration. "I am not going to miss my first zombie-con throw down." Miko replied as she slipped from Jack's grip and headed off with the rest of the group hot on her tale. Little did they know, Miko dropped her phone.

Canyon

"That's not Megatron" Bulkhead commented.

"RISE SKYQUAKE RISSSE!" Starscream shouted at the grave site as the ground started to shake.

Miko climbed up a rock pile in order to get a view of the fight that was about to go down.

"Let's see some fight of the living dead already" Miko smiled. The rest of the kids crouched down next to her.

"Miko, what were you thinking?" Jack asked in a raged voice.

"She wasn't" Raf finished, as he sat next to Jack.

"As usual" Justin said sitting next to Miko.

"Hey, I totally missed out last time. This could be my only chance to get some snaps" Miko than started to feel her pockets for her phone but it wasn't there.

"My phone, I must have left it back at base."

Autobots

The Autobots advanced on Starscream. And readied their blasters.

"Starscream..." Optimus announced.

"Autobots…" replied in anger.

"…Stand down" Prime demanded as he aimed his blaster.

"...You stand down!" Starscream counted and fire a rocket at the bots. The bots quickly took coved behind some large rocks, as Starscream continued his assault.

"You cannot harm me while dark energon flows through my veins!" Starscream shouted.

Ironhide get annoyed about Starscream really quick, he peeked around the rock and took aim. With a clear shot, he blasted Starscream's arm clear off.

"Bullseye." Ironhide smiled at his work. He blew some smoke off his blaster.

"Nice Shootin' Tex" G-Force complimented.

"All in a day's work" he replied and smiled.

Starscream on the other hand looked shocked after he saw his arm landed behind. He quickly ran and scooped it up and hide behind a rock. He looked towards the grave as it still glowed.

"COME ON, RISE ALREADY!" He shouted.

The Autobot started to close in on him.

"This is commander Starscream, request emergency groundbridge to my coordinates" He said over is his comm.

The Autobots slowly moved on Starscream's position, when suddenly...

"UGH! I CAN"T BELIEVE YOU MADE ME LOSE MY PHONE!" Miko shouted at Jack. In which all the bots turned around and saw the humans on the rock.

"Uh how is this my fault?" Jack asked.

"Uh-oh" Bulkhead stated.

"Base to Optimus, The Kids are missing"Arcee said over the comms.

"We have a visual, send the groundbridge" Prime replied.

Just then two groundbridge appeared at the end of the gorge, One by Starscream and one by the kids.

"Two?" Ratchet said to himself and began to think of what could happen if his suspicions are correct. "YOU FOUR, INTO OUR GROUND BRIDGE NOW!" Ratchet shouted.

Jack grabbed Miko and the rest headed into the portal. While Starscream entered his. Then the portal's seemed to 'feed' off the other.

"Ratchet, what is happening?" Prime questioned his old friend.

"The dueling groundbridge portals must be 'feeding' back on each other. The bots watched in horror. But Bulkhead looked scared, for the kids.

"Miko, We got to get the kids out of there!" Bulkhead said as he rushed to the portal and try to get the humans, but the portal exploded sending him flying back, then another one sent all the bots flying back as the area was covered in smoke.

The humans awoke back in the gorge as they picked themselves off the ground. The bots were discussing about the portal. Ratchet said that the Groundbridge could have overloaded. Bulkhead asked if the kids made it through. The bots began talking back and forth about what happed. The humans looked as if they were not there. Miko started trying to get Bulkhead, but when Bulkhead foot went right through Miko, the human knew something was wrong. Raf said that he did not want to be a ghost. But Jack noticed that we they can still all touch each other.

The humans kept listening to the bots. Ratchet explained how the humans could have transported to unintended location. Raf, tried to figure out, where they were, he figured that they were in another dimension he dubbed 'The Shadowzone'. Miko replied with a 'nerd alert'.

Just then, the zombie con Skyquake appeared from behind the rocks and made its way towards the bots. The humans screamed out in trying to get their attention, but they could not hear, and also the zombie could not harm the bots. But since the humans and zombie were stuck in the same dimension. It could hurt them,

The beast let out a roar. And the human started to run for their lives.

The Humans ran as fast as they can in order to escape the undead con and it followed them.

While running from the Zombie Skyquake. The older kids seemed to push themselves faster than Raf. Raf tried to keep up, but pushing himself made him trip and fall, and lose his glasses.

Jack had noticed this and went back to pick up Raf.

"Come on" Jack said as he pick Raf up and ran, while holding his hand.

"Jack, wait, my glasses" Raf said as he looked at the 2nd oldest teen. Jack looked back and saw the glasses on the ground, and the zombie con at the end of the gorge. But Jack didn't want to risk anyone going after it.

"Way to dangerous" he replied.

"But I can't see without them" Raf pleaded.

"What are you, 90?" Miko replied in an annoyed tone. Justin quick elbowed her in the arm. She looked over and saw a very annoyed expression. "You're. Not. Helping, Miko" Justin said through his teeth.

Miko sighed. "Fine." Miko quick ran off to get Raf's glasses. The boys cried out to stop Miko, but she just kept going.

As she scoped up. She looked up to see the zombie con about to squish her. She quickly jumped out of the way and into a combat roll and avoided the foot. She cheered to herself and run back around the zombie. The zombie once again tried to squish her but Miko repeated her actions again and got back to the boys, without a scratch.

She handed Raf his glasses "Here you got gramps, lets book" she said as she took off running leaving the boys dumfounded.

"Well Damm." Justin replied in amazement.

The roar of the zombie snapped the boys out of their trance and continued to follow Miko.

"Maybe we can set a trap, and try to crush it." Miko declared in hopes of trying to kill the zombie.

"With what? Nothing around here is solid except us and the ground" Raf corrected Miko.

"He's right Miko" Justin added.

"We can't run forever, but maybe we can hide." Miko replied.

"For now, let's just put as much distance as we can from this thing" Justin finished as he ran ahead of the group, as the kids followed him.

Autobot Base

Back at base. The Autobots were trying to figure out where the humans have been transported. Bee and Jazz have returned to base and have been informed

"Ratchet, if the children were misdirected to an unintended location, is there any way to get a fix on their coordinates" Optimus said to his old friend. Ratchet was busy trying to find a way to bring the humans back, working at the ground bridge controls.

"If they were lost, Miko would have called me by now." Bulkhead worried. Bumblebee beeped in response. "Call them? Yes" Bulkhead put is two digit to his comms and called Miko.

A ringtone blasted off the walls of the base as the bots looked around. Ironhide was the first to see it.

"Uh…Bulkhead" Ironhide tapped Bulkhead's shoulder and pointed to the phone laying on the groundbridge floor. Bulkhead sighed in disappointment. "That's why Miko hasn't phoned" he said as picked it up.

"Let me try Jack" Arcee then tried Jack. "Jack… can you hear me…nothing"

Shadowzone

After putting much distance from the zombie, the kids took a break. At the end of a gorge.

"Best thing about zombies, there slow moving" Miko began doing zombie like movements. The rest nodded in agreement.

Just then Jack phone went off, and Jack quickly answered it. "Hello, Arcee…Hello A-a-Arcee…Nothing"

"Gee, imagine that, the 4th dimension has lousy cell phone reception." Miko replied.

"W-wait guys, the phone rang, were getting a signal"

"Maybe the Autobots can't hear us because…were moving at hyper speed or something.

"Do you think they can read us?" Jack said asked.

"…Texting!" Raf smiled.

"It's worth a shot" Justin added.

"Jack, text me, if my phone is back at the base, they'll see it" Miko said with glee.

Jack texted Miko phone back at base hoping the Autobots will see it. The Zombie con they showed its face.

"Uh… could you run and text" Raf said as the zombie was a few yards.

The humans ran through the open space between the zombie con and began to run.

"Oh come on, I can't keep running like this." Justin said as he became exhausted, and started to slow down to a walk.

"Justin come on" Miko said.

"I can't, RUN ANYMORE" he replied as he collapsed. The kids ran over to help him up

"Let me just check my phone one last time and…" Justin stopped has he felt something else. "MY MASS SHIFTER, I must have took it off when I started playing games."

"You mean you HAD THIS WITH YOU THE WHOLE TIME" Miko shouted in anger.

"Hey, listen I forget things, what your excuse, where are yours?"

"I left it at home" Miko half smiled and then frowned.

"Same here" Jack said

"I never wanted one remember" Raf added. Justin signed "When we get back I making yours Raf, and you two… keep them with you at all times. In fact bring them to me and I'll make it so it only you can use your own."

The zombies roar snapped them out of there trance.

"MOVE YOUR ASS" Justin shouted as they started run again. As they ran Miko took note of their surroundings.

"Déjà vu"

"What" Jack asked?

"This doesn't look familiar to you?"

"Not really" Jack replied

"Dude, we just ran one big circle" Miko finished before her and the rest of the kids smashed into a solid object. They looked to see a giant metal arm. And not just any arm, it belonged to Starscream.

"Sweet" Miko whispered.

"Woah" Jack added.

"It must have gotten trapped in here during the explosion too" Raf finished

The humans then heard the roar of the zombie, telling them it was not far behind

"Well if it's solid, we can use it" Jack said before a hand on the shoulder stopped him. He looked over to see Justin

"You mean something, I, can use. Stand back guys" Justin said before he used his Mass shifter and changed his sized. He walked over to the Starscream arm a held it in his hand for a few seconds before concentrating really hard in crafting the weapon he wanted. When he open his eyes, what he saw made him smile.

'The Wunderwaffe DG-2'

The zombie walked around the corner and roared when it saw the cybertroianin sized human.

Justin flipped the switch on the weapon to activate the electric wonder weapon. It buzzed to life, that signaled the user that it ready for use.

Justin took aim, and when the zombie was close. He pulled the trigger. The electric shot was release from the gun and at the zombie. The zombie was engulfed in electricity as it started to twitch. After a 3 seconds the head popped off and the zombie fell to the ground with a thud.

"Is it dead" Miko asked.

"Well the Wunderwaffe is a very power weapon, and besides, with all that electricity I think it spark exploded too. But just in case."

Justin went over to the corpse and changed the DG-2 in a AA-12 Shotgun. He pointed the gun at its chest and unloaded the entire clip into its spark camber. With a big hole in its chest, there was nothing left. The zombie was dead.

"Skyquake, we hardly knew yee." Justin smiled.

"So now that's that, Now what do we do"

"We wait for the bots" Jack said.

A few minutes later

The kids have walked around the gorge for a while before a groundbridge helped them escaped, and on the other side were the bots, who gladly took them back to base.

Miko apologized for the incident, then after the kids told the whole story before the bots sent them home.

The next day. Justin modified all the Mass shifter for the rest of the kids.

Now all the kids have a Mass Shifter and this incident will never happen again…

Hopefully...

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