Outside of the base, two Vehicons pulled to a stop, and several armed humans donning the Decepticon logo stepped out.
"If what Soundwave heard from the big Bulkhead is true, then Lord Megatron is here!" Starscream exhaled over the communicator. The armed Decepti-Sapiens began walking to the elevator. They all filed in, heading down to the bottom floor, tracking Frenzy's signal.
"For our lord Megatron!" They shouted, cocking their Vehicon rifles.
Bulkhead stood by the dam, facing the sunrise as he talked to Optimus, unawares of the Decepticon infiltration.
"Optimus. It's Megatron. We have found Megatron"
At the Autobot base Optimus sighed and lowered his head.
"Understood Bulkhead, get Arcee and retreat; and please hurry, for no doubt the Decepticons are inbound"
"Will do Optimus"
Suddenly loud Helicopter blades slicing the air sounded and Bulkhead grimaced at the sight of Blackout's pave low, transforming and landing up the road from him.
"I'll have to call you back" Bulkhead hung up.
"Bulkhead, long time no see. I must say, thank you for stepping outside for that call, really made you easy to track" Blackout said as he waltzed over.
"Scrap" He snarled as Bulkhead activated his arm cannon and wrecking ball fist.
...
Meanwhile inside the base, Frenzy moved down, sneaking past the Autobots and the agent. He sneaked quietly by the dazed Bumblebee and clambered up the side of the podium towards the dark Energon shard. Men tried slicing and carving it, only damaging their tools.
Frenzy stayed hidden under the podium, waiting for his chance.
Jack was getting more aggressive to Simmons.
"Take me to her"
"I can't so that" He shook his head.
Suddenly Simmons looked over Jack's shoulder, seeing the Decepti-Sapiens walk out of the elevator. Jazz looked over his shoulder.
"Human cons!" He shouted, using his stun blasters. The Decepti-Sapiens had no such quarrel and fired lived energy at Jazz. He rolled out of the way. Simmons took this chance to run.
"Jack!" Bumblebee shouted from cover. "We'll hold em off; you get after him before he hurts Arcee. Go!" Jack didn't need to be told twice, he ran after Simmons, cannon raised.
Jazz and Bumblebee fired at the humans, blowing them off their feet and stunning them if they stepped out from behind the generators.
Frenzy took his chance amidst the chaos, clambering up onto the deck and killing the scientists, ash falling where their bodies once stood. He looked upon the dark Energon crystal.
"Lord Megatron shall be reborn!"
...
Outside the base, a roar of jet engines sounded and Starscream flew under one of the bridges, arms splaying out from the Jet and grabbing the bridge, flinging himself upwards. His slender feet landed on the bridge and he chuckled as he raised his arm, firing one of his red missiles at the electricity farm, exploding in a fireball and cutting the power to the dam. All the generators fell silent, and the only sounds to be heard were shouting and gunfire between Sapiens and bots.
On the dam, Blackout lashed and punched at Bulkhead, who simply ducked and swung under the titan's arms, smashing the wrecking ball against Blackout's stern face. Blackout staggered back, he regained his stature and roared, fists clenched. Bulkhead lunged forward, wrapping his arms around Blackout's waist in a tackle, lifting Blackout off the floor with a groan and slamming him down on his back with an earth shattering bang. He got up and smashed a wrecking ball punch across Blackout's jaw. Blackout spat energy and looked at him.
"Is that all you've got?" Blackout pressed his foot against Bulk's chest and pushed with all his might in one fast ferocious movement. Bulkhead flew off of him across the dam, hanging onto the ledge from the huge drop below. Blackout climbed to his feet with a sinister chuckle.
"All too easy" he smirked as he walked across the dam, resting his foot on Bulkheads hand, pressing down and twisting his heel. Bulkhead roared in agony.
...
Simmons ran through the hallways towards the chamber. Jack was in hot pursuit, staggering around the corner and sprinting after him. He just saw Simmons heal dart around the next corner. Jack huffed and panted as he sprinted.
He turned the next corner, hitting the wall and shaking his head as he ran into the open room. He heard Simmons shouting.
"Move the N.B.E to the cargo lift. The dam is under attack, and I'll be damned if we are going to lose all our research" Jack hid behind a crate at the sound of Sector Seven operatives moving and drilling. He readied his blaster to stun, for Optimus's sake and lunged around the corner with a deep breath, firing at one of the Guards stood atop a tarp draped object. He fell with a quiet thud. The other soldier aimed his pistol, a gunshot echoing. Jack ducked back behind the crate, covering his head, the first time he's been fired at by a human gun, it seemed more terrifying, maybe because he was raised to fear human guns and bullets. They were louder as well.
He hit his chest with a thump and the damaged suit triaged some of the power to wrap the suit around himself.
Warning, suit life can only be sustained for thirty seconds.
Jack closed the helmet around his head and stepped out, taking the bullet to his arm with a metallic ping. It ricocheted off of him. Jack raised his cannon hitting the soldier with a stunning round. He flew off into the corner of the room. Jack looked around for Simmons, aiming. The suit was starting to fail, battery running low. Suddenly a hammer hit Jack into the chest with brute force and a battle cry. He fell across the floor, backing up as Simmons swung the hammer.
"I will not allow you to end all of my research! I have worked too hard to lose it all now!"
"Sector Seven is done! And so are you!" Jack roared as he rolled out of the way of the hammer cracking against the floor. He rolled once again as Jack missed it by inches. The suit failed, breaking apart and falling from his back into separate chunks of armor. Simmons smirked and laughed.
"No one to save you now!" the hammer clanging against the ground, inches from Jack's head. Jack saw out the blurry corner of his eye the tarp move and a metal bang sound as what sounded like thick metal snapping. Something was moving, but he couldn't see it with Simmons trying to kill him. He rolled aside but the hammer clipped his forehead, drawing blood. He shook it off, the fuzziness in his head tingling. Simmons paced to him, hammer raised.
Jack was still trying to avoid him when the hammer missed him by sheer inches. He kicked at the hammer, knocking it back. Simmons jumped on Jack, pressing the long sledge hammer handle bar along Jack's throat, pressing down, choking him. he could feel a knee on his abdomen and foot on his leg. Simmons pushed down on his throat. Jack coughed and tried to push the hammer up, but Simmons was too strong.
"I have worked my whole life to understanding these beings! You think old Megatron out there was the first, or your motorcycle? No, they've been here forever! Forever!" Simmons roared.
"He raised the hammer as Jack spluttered, exhausted.
"Please" Jack begged.
"I will have dominance with this technology! I will have dominance over Humanity! Imagine it! To rule all with an iron fist. Sector Seven was just the start, it was an idea. An idea of dominance, but sadly you won't live to see it"
The crazed, desperate man swung the hammer up over his head; eyes filled his chaos and fury. "You should have forgotten about her. Goodbye Ja-" He suddenly screamed and blue energy ripped through his chest. He dropped the hammer behind him with a clang on the floor. He clutched at his chest, dropping to his knees.
"I...was so close...we were...so close...domination" He fell forward with a lifeless thud, his legs kicking up slightly and dropping back down. No blood spread out since the wound cauterized from the scorching energy.
Simmons was dead. Jack was breathing heavily, shielding his face still. He looked around the room. The tarp was on the floor, and sat up from broken shackles was Arcee. She was covered in scuffs and scratches from there attempted experiments.
"Nobody hurts my partner" she snarled, blaster raised still. Jack lent his head back with a sigh of relief and smile. He stroked his bruised throat and sat up with a groan, limping to Arcee. He past the dead body of Simmons, and the hammer. Arcee had only managed to break one shackle.
"Cee...you're alive...my god you're alive" He said as he walked over to her. She smiled to him gently.
"Did they hurt you?" he asked as he looked over her scratches.
"Not as much as they'd like to think. Your old Arcee is tougher than she- ah- looks" she groaned at the touch of her side. She had several incision marks. Jack sighed as he stroked her free hand.
"I'm glad you killed him. Optimus won't be" Jack sighed.
"Right, let's get you out of these shackles"
"Jack, there's a control switch over by that conduit. You see it?" She groaned. Jack gazed around the room, every wall for it. He traced her finger as she pointed to a red lever on the wall. He limped over to it, grabbing it and pulling the lever down, with all his might. He groaned as the lever slowly moved and finally slammed down.
Power failure, all shackles in Chamber two have been disabled A disembodied female voice stated. Arcee sighed with relief as her feet were free and other arm. She winced as she rubbed her wrist and then her ankles, the burst tire rubber hanging from her legs.
"God Cee, what did they do to you?" He emotionally stammered.
"Hey, I'll be fine" she lifted his chin. "I can't believe you came for me" she said.
"I'd never stop looking" he smiled at her touch. She was safe, that's all that mattered, and Sector Seven was done, with the base coming apart and Decepticons attacking.
"Thank you Jack"
"Cee, there's something I need to tell you, and if I don't do it now then I may not get another-"
Warning N.B.E incursion at dam! The female voice interrupted.
"Jack, did you find her? Is she safe?" Jazz asked on the comm.
"Yeah Jazz, I got her, she's beat up, but if I know Cee, she'll fight either way. Jazz...Simmons is dead"
Silence filled the comm for a moment.
"Understood" He said, turning back to his firefight.
"Let's get you out of her Cee"
"Jack, what were you going to tell me?" He sighed, shaking his head.
"It can wait. Let's just get out of here" He said against his better judgement. She got up with a smile. He helped her up and she immediately dropped to her knees, planting a kiss on his lips. Jack's eyes closed as he simply enjoyed the long passionate kiss. She pulled away gently, inches from him, both panting slightly.
"Now we can go" She smirked. Jack nodded. He raised his wrist, only to see the blaster and armor in pieces on the floor.
"Ratchet is going to kick the scrap out of me" He walked over to the stunned guard and grabbed the pistol from his hand.
"No way am I stunning those Decepti-Sapien freaks" He snarled, cocking it back, only knowing what to do from films and games.
She activated her blasters and limped down the hall, with Jack in toe, leaving his destroyed armor behind.
They rejoined the main chamber, Megatron still stood tall and inactive. Frenzy stood next to the Dark Energon shard. He peered down at the Autobots as they fought the Decepti-Sapiens. Jazz smiled to Arcee with a nod. Bumblebee did the same, a little too busy with the human cons.
"We need to get up top! We can use the cargo lift!" Jack shouted, jogging behind the generators to the lift controls. Suddenly energy scorched the walls near his head as Decepti-Sapiens spotted him.
"Don't let those bots out!" they shouted to one another. Jack thumped his fist against the controls.
"Lift's coming down!" He shouted running to cover. Arcee aimed her blaster, firing at one Sapien, knocking him back and across the floor, dead.
"If we don't kill them, they'll just keep helping the cons. They are cons for all I care" she snarled, and she was right. They would go on to do more crimes or worse. They must be stopped for betraying humanity.
Suddenly Jacks armor on the floor buzzed.
Reserve power of 15% activated.
The armor lifted off, flying down the hall. It raced over the bot's heads.
"Jack incoming!" Jazz shouted. He looked round the corner taking the chest piece to his torso. It slammed against him, sending a rib cracking sensation through his body, though no actual injury occurred. The rest of the armor latched to him, closing up around him, scorched blaster holes, scuffs and dents covering the damaged power failing armor.
"Ratchet must have hooked up a back up battery. Gotta love the Doc" Jazz grinned. Arcee smiled as she looked at how her friends and family had come for her. She had people that truly cared for her. And for the first time she was being pulled from a hostage situation without losing her partner.
No, as humans say don't Jinx it Arcee. Let's get out of here first
She shook her head and watched Bumblebee aim, firing and collaterally hitting one Sapien, dropping dead to the floor. It hurt them to have to kill humans, but they had no choice.
Suddenly a voice shouted, stopping the firefight on both sides.
"For our Lord Megatron!" frenzy laughed as he stood at the crane controls. He shunned the crane along, whizzing it at Megatron on the ceiling track. The cable was holding the dark Energon shard.
"No! Shoot the cable!" Bumblebee shouted, firing but missing the thin cable.
It was at that moment the shard was released, and dropped inside the open chest cavity of Megatron.
A purple glow erupted inside of him and he began violently shaking and trembling, his fingers tightening into fists. The hole where Bumblebee had stabbed him with the star sabre simple healed with the purple energy and his metal rusted skin became shiny and silver again. The Decepticon logo on his chest illuminated bright. His mouth opened and a roar sounded in pain. Megatron's feet slid on the ground and the shackles around them shattered like glass. His huge arms broke free of the tight shackles as well. He staggered forward, his head in his hands as pain overcame him. The exit wound on his back healed and all the scuff and dents fixed and reformed. His sharp shark like teeth grimaced from inside his smooth gladiator helmet-like head.
"RRRRRRAAAAAARRRHHH!" Megatron roared, arms spread out wide. The energy pulsated from him and all the power in the chamber exploded. The Autobots back away as Megatron stood up from his hunched stature. His silver and purple deco was undeniable and terrifying.
"The lift is here! Come on!" Jack shouted, firing his reacquired blaster at the Decepti-Sapiens. They were too concerned with watching their god being revived. They dropped to their knees.
"Lord Megatron" They all hummed. The gigantic Decepticon leader stood tall, sniffing air in through unseen nostrils. His eyes closed he ran his sharp fingers along his smooth scalp. A long exhale sounded as his hands lowered and his eye burst wide open, red aura glowing in pure terror.
"Decepticons, your rightful lord and master, has been Revived" he smirked with sharp teeth and thin white ring iris's on bright red scleras. The Decepticon leader leaped into the air, transforming into his Cybertronian jet mode and blasting down a dark tunnel, the only light illuminating from his thrusters.
The lift closed and the Autobots fled upwards to the surface. Jack breathed heavily.
"He's back...oh god he's back"
"We need to get out of here, and quick. Oh scrap Bulk!" Bumblebee shouted in shock.
...
Meanwhile on the surface, Blackout pressed down on Bulkhead's hand, holding onto the edge of the dam.
"So puny and weak!" Blackout roared. Bulkhead dug his toes against the dam and pushed upwards, cracking his free fist against Blackout's jaw, sending him staggering back. Bulkhead climbed to his feet and readied his fists.
"You will pay for-"
Suddenly a loud roar of alien jet sounded and the silver hide of Megatron erupted form the dam tunnel. Blackout looked back to see Bulkhead in vehicle mode, taking his chance ad fleeing, for the good of the mission.
Blackout watched as Starscream flew after Megatron.
"So Megatron's back huh? Oh this should be interesting" Blackout smirked, back flipping into the pave low form and flying after Megatron. At the bottom of the dam, Megatron flew upwards, transforming midair and dropping almost fifty foot, slamming to the ground with an earth shattering bang. He stood up from his knelt position.
Starscream landed on his feet just a little higher up on a concrete podium. "Lord Megatron, what a treat to see you back and functioning to your original stature-"
"Starscream..."He demonically grumbled. "Where is the bug that extinguished my spark?" Megatron asked.
"Bumblebee? They have retreated to their base my liege. I tried to avenge you!" Starscream informed him, Blackout landing not too far up from the exchange between Decepticons.
"Then you did not try hard enough. Tell me Starscream, what happened with the Omega lock?" Megatron looked up at him. Starscream rubbed the back of his neck.
"Well, err. The Autobots..."
"Starscream..." Megatron growled in his sinister voice.
"They took the Omega lock, and resurrected Cybertron four solar cycles ago"
"Then why are they here...hmm, the humans." Megatron talked to himself.
"I did however take control of the nemesis, and have been running a tight ship-ach!" Megatron interrupted him, wrapping his hand around his throat and pulling him down from his podium.
"You've failed me yet again Starscream" Megatron glanced up at Blackout.
"I see you had to recruit the hunters to help you. If that is the sign of a true leader, then you should rule" Megatron chuckled. Starscream nervously stammered.
"Master please! Allow me to prove my worth!"
"You have no worth! You failed to kill the Autobots when they resurrected Cybertron, and allowed them to destroy the Omega lock, only to get the Nemesis back, when they were done with it!" Megatron hissed through his teeth.
"Master! Please!"
"Goodbye Starscream"
"Soundwa..." Starscream choked.
"What?" Megatron loosened his grip.
"Soundwave. Shockwave got him back from the shadow zone!"
"Soundwave, my old acquaintance. Well then Starscream, it would appear I have no need for you"
"Wait no! W-w-what about leading the military!"
"Shockwave and I will lead that role, until further notice" He said. "Perhaps these hunters may be of use to me" He peered up at Blackout.
"Yes Lord Megatron" Blackout turned and headed back up to the top of the dam. "For now"
"So, you're going to kill me?" Starscream whimpered.
"No. Simply exile you, so you can learn from your mistakes"
"Again!?"
"Yes, but this time, you will return when you have something of worth to me. If you return earlier, then you will find yourself mounted in Knockout's chambers!" Megatron shouted, throwing Starscream into the air. He transformed, flying off. Megatron stood staring at the Decepticon fleeing.
"Mark my words Megatron, I already have the perfect plan to overthrow you and once more become Emperor of destruction!" He cackled as he flew away with a sonic boom. "Uranium is quite a weapon! Hahahaha!"