Megatron picked up the chains Sari used to be held in and hung them on his throne. He sat down on the gigantic seat and activated a screen.
"I am afraid I must report a delay in the plan comrade." said Megatron into the screen.
"What!" yelled a voice coming from the screen. "What could have happened?"
"The Transwarp cells that were supposed to transport me to the cave have been fried." said Megatron calmly. "As we speak, that new faction is wandering through it."
"Blast!" yelled the voice. "Things aren't going well on my end either. The tr-"
"I do not want to hear it." interrupted Megatron. "The Bane Matrix's power and therefore Unicron's will be mine and you shall complete your goal. Cybertron will return to its former glory."
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Dani screamed at the top o her lungs. The high pitched noise echoed through the cave.
"Yep." said Zach, "It was you."
Dani grabbed Zach's shoulders. "What did he look like?"
"Who?" asked Zach.
"The guy who grabbed me?" growled Dani.
"I-I didn't get a good look at him." stuttered Zach.
Dani placed her hand back on Zach's forehead. "Let's try it again."
Suddenly Bumblebee pulled Zach away. "Oh no you don't." he said.
"Dad I want to help!" yelled Zach struggling to get free.
"I'm sorry but we are not risking it." growled Bumblebee.
Zach growled in anger and eventually freed himself from his father's grip. "No dad! I made a promise and I'm going to keep it!"
"And I made a promise to your mother that nothing will happen to you!" yelled Bumblebee. "For All we know, your loosing your mind to compensate hers!"
"Well that's a risk I'll have to take." said Zach.
"You're young." said Bumblebee. "What you want to do is foolish!"
"Oh and you're the perfect example of not being foolish." growled Zach sarcastically. He proceeded to mimic his parent's voice. "Hey Sari, we're refugees being hunted down by every on the planet. Let's 'do it' knowing full well we'll just bring our children into a bloody civil war!"
Bumblebee's engine roared in his fury. He slammed his fist on the ground next to Zach. "That is it young man!" he yelled.
"What are you going to do?" asked Zach angrily. Suddenly he calmed down. "Listen dad, I'm sorry, but I have to do this." he said looking at Dani.
Bumblebee eased himself a bit. "Fine." he growled. "But Don't come crying to me when you can't remember your name."
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"I'm warning you!" yelled Sandra as she was being dragged away by an unseen force. "If you mess with me, I'll turn you to scrap!"
"Oh come now." said the voice. "I'm not that kind of bot."
"Wait a minute!" shouted Sandra. "You told me you hated Transformers!"
"Of course I do. Autobots, Decepticons, Predacons, and Maximals. I hate Cybertronians." growled the voice.
"Hey. I'm three fourths Cybertronian." hissed Sandra.
"But part of you is organic and that's good enough." laughed the voice.
"Good enough for what?" asked Sandra.
Prowl sped ahead of Moonbeam in the tunnels towards Sandra. His smaller frame made it easier to navigate through the crevasse. Moonbeam meanwhile was slowly making her way through. Suddenly she heard something she wished she didn't.
"Hey!" cheered Sari at the base of the tunnel.
"Slag!" hissed Moonbeam.
"Hey 'Beam!" yelled Sari. "Where's Sandra and Prowl? We gotta go."
Moonbeam thought about her response. Sari should be resting right now. She couldn't handle a rescue right now.
"Uh, they went ahead to explore." replied Moonbeam.
"Well I'll just call them on their com links." said Sari.
"You can't." said Moonbeam. "The cave is messing with the signals. I'll just go get them."
Sari scratched her head then raised her shoulders. "O..kay. Hurry up then!"
Moonbeam nodded and quickened her pace.
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Sandra was dropped to the floor. "Hey!" she growled. "Watch where you drop people!"
"Oops." laughed the voice. "I didn't mean to hurt your money maker."
"What exactly are we doing h-" Sandra stopped talking when she saw something grand in the center of the room. A small circular object with handles covered in brilliant metals and diamonds.
"What exactly is that?" she asked.
"A present." said the voice. "Go ahead, take it. It's yours."
"Wait a minute." said Sandra crossing her arms. "I'm not gonna accept things from strange voices."
"Oh come on." whined the voice. "It's just a gift. Just between us, fellow bot hater."
Sandra thought for a bit then walked towards the object. She picked it up to observe it.
All of the sudden the object emitted a bright light. Sandra couldn't see but she felt a massive surge of energy ram into her chest. Upon impact she was slammed into the side of the cave. The light ceased and Sandra caught her breath. The object was gone. She looked around then looked at herself and gasped. Her robotic arm fell off as if it was armor revealing a purely flesh hand underneath.
"How is this possible." Sandra gasped.
"Magic baby." laughed the voice, now a little louder than Sandra remembered.
Sandra flexed her newly organic limb then slammed it against the wall.
"OW!" she screamed holding on to it. Yep, this hand was hers.
"Th-thank you." she cried with joy.
"Think nothing of it." cheered the voice. "The pleasure was all mine."
"Sandra?" shouted Prowl farther back into the cave.
"You better cover your arm back." said the voice. "I don't wan them getting curious and experimenting on you."
Sandra nodded and grabbed the armor. It latched perfectly onto her. The armor was bulkier than when it was a robotic limb. Oh well. Now Sandra was finally rid of her robot half. Her thoughts and feelings were all her own, not some form of programming.
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Zach explored the dark dome that was his mind when his memories stopped flashing. Once again he had the same one of Dani's memories.
"Come on." he urged himself. "Show me more!" He shoved himself past that memory and looked further. He didn't see anything. Instead he heard something.
"Vitals seem fine." echoed someone's voice.
"Watch those rates you idiot!"
"No, no, no I said Cybertonium, not Silicon!"
"Stop your crying!"
"She's giving me a headache!"
Suddenly Zach was back to reality and again he blacked out with Dani.
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Prowl ran to Sandra upon seeing her. "You should not have gone so far ahead!" he yelled.
"Oh what do you care?" growled Sandra beginning to walk away.
Prowl grabbed her arm to stop her. Luckily for Sandra it was the arm that was always organic. "You are my friend Sandra, and the daughter of my friend. I consider my duty to protect everyone, especially young ones such as yourself.
Sandra rolled her eyes. "Yeah, right." she huffed.
"HAH!" laughed Gift(The nickname for the voice).
Sandra shoved herself away from Prowl and walked away.
Prowl sighed and followed.
Eventually they met up with Moonbeam about a fourth of the way into the tunnel.
"Oh thank Primus!" cheered Moonbeam. "You're alive!"
"Of course I'm alive!" yelled Sandra. "What? You think I can't take care of myself?"
Moonbeam backed up in surprise.
"Stupid machine." Sandra mumbled.
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"I think I hit daylight!" cheered Dustan as he gave a final punch to the surface.
Bumblebee held Alice up to the light. "See, that's Cybertron's son."
Alice took a bit to get used to the light. When she finally did, she giggled at the warmth it was giving her.
"If you think that's impressive, you should see Earth's sun." laughed Bumblebee.
"I remember Earth!" cheered Dustan. "I was born there. They had the best oil there! Then Sentinel ordered all robots to Cybertron."
"I really hate that guy." said Bumblebee. "He made Sari and I fugitives. He kidnapped Sari!" He looked down at Alice. "And I almost lost Alice."
Sandra, Sari, and the others met up with the rest of the group.
"I think I recognize the terrain." said Dustan. "We can back to base.
Prowl looked around. The lights of the cave were starting to dull as Alice left.
"I would like to return to this place." said Prowl. "We must make sure the wrong people don't end up here."
88
The group finally made it to their base. Ford happily ran out to greet them.
"YOU'RE ALIVE!" he cheered. "I KNEW YOU WERE ALIVE!"
"Yeah, yeah." said Dustan. "Right now, I just wanna nice hot CR dip."
"Oh you can't do that right now." said Ford. "The new guys are using it."
"Speaking of new guys…" said Bumblebee stepping aside to reveal Sari holding the new life.
Ford's jaw dropped. "By George!(I have no idea if that's correct) You found her and she's got a little bundle of joy! This is great!"
He ran behind them and started pushing them to go in.
"Easy!" yelled Dani. "Zach's not feeling very well!"
Ford stopped and saw Zach leaning on Dani. He was uneasy.
"Eli, guess he should rest then." said Ford.
Dani looked up to Prowl.
"You can talk tomorrow." said Prowl.
Bumblebee, rather aggressively, picked Zach up and carried him in. When the door opened, Twitchy ran out and chirped with glee. The chirping stopped when he noticed the extra appendages Dani possessed. Dani sighed and picked him up.
"Maybe you can help me." she giggled before stepping in.
Sandra stomped into the door, read for a good nights rest, after she examined her new organic hand and talked to her new friend of course.
Soon everyone was inside but Rocky. Rocky turned around and snuck away.
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Rocky had found his way into a foggy canyon. He stepped cautiously and looked around nervously.
"Here Kitty Kitty!" he yelled. "Here Kitty Kitty!"
All of the sudden, several chained spikes shot from the fog and pinned him to a nearby rock. He struggled to break free as his captor revealed herself.
"Meow." laughed the fembot.
"Hey Jag!" said Rocky nervously. "I just came to report a job well done."
"Oh really?" asked Jag.
'Yep, got the crystal near her." Rocky chuckled with fear. "Nothing happened except that she grew tails."
"Interesting." smiled Jag. "So he was right."
"Who was right?" asked Rocky.
"None of your business." hissed Jag. "Now, tell me, when is your first date with Dani?
Rocky swallowed in fear. "Uh, about that, she didn't exactly fall for me like I planned."
Jag hissed with her cat-like ears pinned back. "When I gave you this assignment you said no woman could resist you."
"Well, she and my brother kind of 'clicked', so-"
"You were supposed to get close to her!" Jag hissed. "Now we have to deal with your brother?"
"I'm sorry!" Rocky cried pathetically. "Please don't kill me!"
Jag sighed and transformed the chains which pinned Rocky to the rock back into her tail. She bent down to Rocky's eye level.
"Rocky, you are my favorite." she laughed. "But you see, my friends are starting to doubt that you are making a decent contribution to our goal." She placed one her claws underneath Rocky's chin.
"I wanna live!" Rocky cried.
Jag rolled her eyes. "Quit your whining." she moaned. "I've been told to terminate you but since I like you so much.."
She removed her claws from Rocky's throat. "Go ahead. Monitor them all you can and report back to me."
Rocky nodded and ran away.
"Was that mercy Jag?" asked someone through her com link. "You've gone soft."
"We need someone on the inside." responded Jag. "He's our best bet."
"I'm beginning to think you may have a soft spot for this boy." said the being on the other end.
"What?' yelled Jag. "Now your just being ridiculous!"
"Just remember your mission. This, Dani, could mean the end of the war and our race's return to glory. Megaton and Sentinel won't know what hit them."