Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers they are copyrighted to Hasbro.
Heh, sorry for the long wait, I have neglected my artwork and wanted to work on them a bit. ^ ^;
I will be introducing two new characters in this chapter… maybe three? Well, we shall see.
Escape
Twilight sat on his berth with his legs drawn to his chest plate, ashamed, ashamed of the act he committed with Megatron. After Megatron had bonded with Twilight, the Warlord took the neutral into a room close to his.
'I hope you can forgive me Bumblebee…'
Twilight looked up as the door to his room slid open and drew his legs closer as Swindle and Fracture walked in.
"I can't believe Megatron ordered us to take the neutral to see Renegade." Fracture muttered bitterly.
"I know." agreed Swindle "I wanted to go and blow things up."
The two Decepticons stared at the frighten neutral.
"Maybe…" Swindle began.
"We can have some fun before we take him to the Med Bay?" Fracture finished.
Twilight's optics widen as the two Decepticons walked over to him "What are you going to do?!" Twilight demanded to know when they grabbed his arms "Stop! If Megatron finds out…"
"He won't if you keep your mouth shut." Fracture threatened.
Swindle and Fracture both held one of Twilight's arms and ran their hands over his chassis with their other hands.
Twilight whimpered and prayed for Primus to send someone to save him.
"What are you two doing?" a voice demanded and the two Decepticons and neutral turned to the door.
Renegade stood there staring at the scene before him.
"What are you doing here?" Fracture asked.
Renegade snorted as he walked into the room "I waited for whoever Lord Megatron ordered to bring the neutral to my Med Bay and when no one showed up, I came to investigate. It seems it was a good thing I did."
Fracture sneered at the medic and both he and Swindle released Twilight's arms.
"Well, since you're here, you can take him to your precious Med Bay yourself." Fracture told Renegade as he and the other Decepticon walked past him.
Renegade watched as the two left and walked over to Twilight.
Twilight sat on the berth, knowing that the medic was going to check his spark chamber for a split.
Renegade knelt before Twilight and his clawed hand hovered close to Twilight.
The Ferrari flinched, waiting for the Humvee to touch his chest plate; however, he ran his hand along one of Twilight's leg. Twilight shuttered his optics at the medic as he touched a snapped wire.
"There are some heavy damages done to your legs… preventing you from walking or transforming and keeping you from attempting to escape." Renegade murmured as he called his tools from subspace.
Twilight trembled.
Renegade looked up at Twilight and shush him "Shh don't be afraid," he said in a soft caring tone "I'm not going to hurt you… little Light."
Twilight stopped trembling and shuttered his optics at the medic, his spark pulsing frantically. This Decepticon used that familiar nickname, that nickname that his friends created and called him by.
"Mo-Moonchaser?" Twilight whispered.
Moonchaser looked up at Twilight and a smile spread over his faceplate "It's good to see you Twilight." He replied back.
Twilight threw himself into the other mech and clung to him.
"I… I thought I recognized you the first time I saw you here… I don't know why you're a Decepticon Moonchaser, why are you a Decepticon? I'm scared…" Twilight rambled.
Moonchaser held his young friend to his chassis and rubbed his back soothingly "I'll tell you later, but first I want to repair your legs little Light so we can get out of here." He told Twilight.
Twilight pulled away from Moonchaser "No! I can't leave Nori here! Megatron will—"
"Your human isn't here Twilight." Moonchaser told him.
"Ye-yes she is… Megatron showed me…"
"No, Frenzy, Rumble and Barricade were sent to capture her to be used against you… but the Autobots were able to keep her out of harm's way and all Frenzy managed to grab was her cell phone. They used it to make you believe they have her so you would do whatever Megatron wanted." Moonchaser explained.
Twilight's optics widened, he couldn't believe he was duped into believing they had Nori and allowed Megatron to bond with him.
'Oh Primus…what have I done?' Twilight thought as he clutched his faceplate as his CPU began frizzing over the sinful deed he had done.
Moonchaser grabbed Twilight's arms and shook him "Get a hold of yourself Twilight!" he hissed "I know it's a shock to learn that you were tricked but I can't have you fall apart on me right now, not when this could be my only chance to get you out of here."
Twilight stared at the harden glare in his friend's crimson optics and nodded his understanding.
Moonchaser sighed and removed his hands from Twilight's arms and began the repairs on his legs.
"Sorry for hissing at you, little Light." Moonchaser apologized.
"It's ok." Twilight whispered quietly.
Soon Moonchaser returned his tools into subspace and said "I fixed your legs as best as I could, I didn't have the parts so it's only temporary but it'll be enough that you can transform before the wires comes loose again. By then I hope that we'd be far away from this place and for the Autobots to find us."
As Moonchaser helped Twilight up, he added "We're going to head for the entrance but if a Decepticon stops us, I'm going to tell them that I'm taking you to the Med Bay for a check-up."
"But what if Megatron stops us?" Twilight asked.
"…then I don't know what I'll say or do…" Moonchaser muttered his answer.
As Moonchaser helped Twilight towards the entrance, they were lucky that they hadn't run into another Decepticon or the Warlord.
"Almost there." Moonchaser informed the neutral.
Twilight's spark swelled with hope.
However…
"Hey Renegade!"
The two friends flinched and Moonchaser turned to see who called him and saw Mixmaster.
"What is it?!" Moonchaser barked.
"Where are you taking the neutral?" the Constucticon asked.
"Where else?! I'm taking him to the Med Bay!" Moonchaser snapped.
"Oh." Mixmaster said and turned to carry out his duty when he stopped "Wait a nanosecond… isn't your Med Bay the other—"
Twilight gasped as Moonchaser fired a shot from his missile launcher at the Constucticon. The laser slammed into Mixmaster and knocked him into a wall where he slumped to the ground.
"Twilight, I need you to transform and drive the way we were heading. That shot wasn't enough to kill Mixmaster, only stun him." Moonchaser told the other.
Twilight nodded, transformed and sped towards the entrance as fast as he could drive. He was glad to see that Moonchaser had also transformed and was right behind him.
The Ferrari was excited to see the entrance and put on more speed and sped out of the Decepticon base and into freedom!
Although he was soon overcome with fear when he realized that he didn't know where exactly he was. As his speed faltered, Moonchaser bumped into him gently and sped past the Ferrari. Twilight guessed that Moonchaser knew where he was going and followed after the Humvee.
Blaster sat at in the communication room, watching the monitor when the main monitor flickered and blinked into static.
"Oh slag!" Blaster exclaimed and opened a comm. link to Optimus Prime "Prime!"
"What is it Blaster?" Prime called back.
"I think the same hacker from last time is hacking us again." Blaster answered as he watched numbers appear on the screen.
"I'm on my way." Prime informed his communication officer.
In a few astroseconds, Blaster heard the doors slide open and Optimus Prime and Prowl ran in.
"Status?" Prowl asked.
"It keeps repeatin' the same numbers." Blaster answered.
"What does it mean?" Prime wondered.
Prowl stared at the numbers and suggested "Maybe they're coordinates?"
"Blaster, enter those numbers and see what happens."
Blaster typed in the numbers and entered them and a map appeared on one of the monitors.
"It's the Great Basin Desert. The coordinates points to an area in the Southwest part of Nevada." Blaster told his Superiors.
Prime nodded and turned to Prowl "Prowl gather some Autobots and meet me at the entrance, we're going to go to those coordinates and check what's there."
"Yes Prime." replied Prowl with a salute and opened a comm. link to a few random Autobots.
Meanwhile in Iraq, in a U.S Military base, the soldiers busied themselves with orders, none paying much attention to their jets, especially a silver and blue tipped F-22A Raptor jet. The jet's monitor blinked on and the same coordinates appeared on its screen.
The jet's engines slowly hummed to life and moved out of the formation. The Raptor turned towards the runway, catching a few soldiers attention and as it picked up speed, it ignored their shouts until it lifted off the runway and took to the skies and flew off towards the U.S and to the Great Basin Desert.
In the Hill Air Force base of Utah, an AH-64 black Apache helicopter sat when it too received the same coordinates.
The Apache's rotor blades began to spin and lift off the ground. It too ignored the screams of the humans trying to tell its "drivers" to stop and return. The Apache flew towards the Great Basin Desert, knowing well that it didn't have far to go.
"He did what?!" roared Megatron.
"R-Renegade shot me a-and ran off the Nemesis wi-with the neutral sir..." Mixmaster whimpered softly from both Megatron's anger and as Hook began repairing him.
"It would seem my Lord that your medic is living up to his name." Starscream said with a titter.
Megatron snarled softly at Renegade's betrayal. The Warlord liked that medic 'After all,' mused Megatron 'that traitor handed him over to me.'
He turned to his soldiers and said "Brawl, Blitzwing, Wreckage and Starscream, I want you to go after them and bring them back here. Do not harm the neutral in any way… do whatever you want to Renegade but do not extinguish his spark."
"Yes Lord Megatron." The four Decepticons said and went to carry out their task.
Twilight kicked up sand and ran over small desert plants trying to keep with the Humvee. The Ferrari was slightly frustrated; his vehicle mode wasn't made for the desert terrain like Moonchaser's vehicle mode was, he wanted to get onto a road and not drive over plants and hidden rocks anymore.
"Don't worry Twilight; we'll get to a road soon." Moonchaser told his young friend.
Twilight was relieved to hear that since he had been pushing himself to keep up with the older mech.
As the two vehicles drove on, pain flared up from Twilight's back tires and with a cry, he skid sharply to the right and towards some large jutting rocks.
Moonchaser quickly pulled sharply to the right and went after the Ferrari; he transformed into his bipedal form and caught Twilight before he crashed into the rocks.
"Are you alright Twilight?" Moonchaser asked as Twilight slowly and painfully transformed into his bipedal form.
"Nnn! My legs!" Twilight gasped.
"Sit down." Moonchaser told the neutral and helped him sit on the hot sand. Twilight winced and watched as the medic examined his legs.
"Slag, I was hoping we get to where I wanted us to get to before the repairs I did came undone… plus some sand got into you legs." Moonchaser sighed "I'm sorry Twilight, if we had gotten to a road sooner, this wouldn't have happen."
"I-it's ok Moonchaser, it's not your fault…" Twilight replied back.
Moonchaser's optics roved over Twilight's chassis "When was the last time you had energon?" he asked.
Twilight thought hard on it "Before I was captured…"
"Seven days then…" mumbled Moonchaser "How about recharging?"
"Not well… it was always light and uneasy."
Moonchaser nodded and he called an energon cube from subspace "Drink this, you need it and I want you to recharge."
Twilight was hesitant to take the cube from his friend but in the end he did "Thanks Moonchaser." He said.
Moonchaser smiled and watched as Twilight took a sip of the pinkish purple liquid, what he didn't tell the Ferrari was that that energon cube was spiked with a sedative that would knock him out for a few hours. The ex-Decepticon knew that the Warlord will send Decepticons to capture and take them back and he didn't want his young friend to be online when they came.
And despite that they're nowhere near the coordinates he had sent out; he hope that the Autobots would come in time to help them before or after the Decepticons arrive. But if the Autobots didn't reach them in time… rather than having Twilight return to the Megatron… Moonchaser will take matters into his own hand and return the Ferrari's spark to the Well of AllSpark.
'What is one more stain on my hands…?' Moonchaser thought sadly.
Once Twilight finished off the energon, he handed the cube back to Moonchaser. The Humvee took it and vanish it.
Moonchaser waited patiently and watched as Twilight's optics began to flicker. He spoke soothingly to the Ferrari as he laid him gently into the rock's shadow. He stood up and waited to greet which ever Faction arrived first.
Unfortunately for the two, all the Decepticons had to do was follow the tracks they left behind in their escape. Moonchaser knew this of course and was watching for them. He however wasn't sure who the Warlord sent or how many. Any Decepticon with terrain modes he was sure he could take on but the ones with jet modes will be a problem since they would be able to hide in the forming clouds.
It wasn't long before he spotted his former comrades vehicle forms and he readied himself for a fight.
Moonchaser fired the first shot, missing Brawl by five feet to the left. Brawl and Wreckage fired their own shots at the Humvee.
He should've known that Megatron would send two of the most destructive Decepticons to capture them. Moonchaser tried to avoid their shots and desperately wanted to get far from Twilight but he didn't want him out his sight in case Blitzwing or Starscream tried to take him.
Moonchaser continue firing at the four Decepticons but even he knew that he couldn't win just on his own. Gritting his denture plates, he pointed his missile launcher towards the sky and fired off a signal flare and hoped the Autobots are near enough to spy it.
Optimus Prime accompanied by Prowl, Springer, Ironhide, Ratchet, Cliffjumper and Bluestreak raced towards the location of the coordinates when Springer spotted a signal flare.
"Optimus!" he called over his comm. link.
"I see it Springer." Prime told the triple changer.
"Who would send out a signal flare?" wonder Cliffjumper.
"We will find out Cliffjumper." Prime told the scout and drove towards where the signal flare came from.
The Raptor roared through the sky when it too saw the signal flare far from where it was heading. The jet turned and headed for its new destination.
The Apache was close to the destination when it spotted the signal flare, quite frustrated it flew towards new location.
Satisfied, Moonchaser turned his attention back as both tank and Personnel Carrier transform into the bipedal forms and continued their assault on the Humvee.
Determine to keep them at bay, Moonchaser fired a shot at Brawl, but he was hit from behind by Blitzwing and he managed to shoot at Brawl's foot.
Brawl who was preparing his own shot was taken by surprise, jerked his arm and fired at the jutting rocks.
"No!" Moonchaser gasped as he ran and threw himself atop of Twilight. He grimace as the rocks struck him. Moonchaser slowly looked up and saw Starscream dive towards him, ready to shoot the traitor with his null rays.
"I'm going to enjoy this!" Starscream cried with glee.
Unbeknownst to the Starscream, another Raptor jet pulled up behind him and fired his own lasers at him.
Starscream screamed as he was shot and pulled out of his dive.
Blitzwing seeing this, pulled up behind the new jet and open fire on it. The silver and blue jet barrel rolled and dodged his shots.
The triple change chased after the jet as the Apache made its way into the fight and transformed into a femme bearing the Autobot insignia on her chest plate. As she hovered in the sky, she removed a rotor blade from the trunion on her back and waited for the two jets to fly under her and dropped like a rock.
As the Raptor jet flew through the sky, trying to shake the Decepticon from his tail, the femme slashed Blitzwing's wing as she fell past him. Unable to keep himself steady, Blitzwing transformed into his bipedal form as he crashed into some sand dunes
Relieved that backup arrived, Moonchaser got off from Twilight taking care that none of the rocks fell on the recharging neutral, he got to his feet and fired at the approaching tank and Personnel Carrier.
The femme hovered before she crashed into the ground and touched down lightly. Moonchaser, Brawl and Wreckage could see that the femme wore a visor and had a battle mask on and much to Wreckage's delight; he could see that she was holding a blade in her hand.
He took his twin blades out and ran towards the femme.
Mad that he was attacked, Starscream transformed and chased after the other Raptor jet "I'll make you pay!" he shrieked at the jet.
The silver and blue jet dodged Starscream's lasers and transformed into his bipedal form and turned as Starscream flew into the mech and they grappled.
Three blades clashed together as Wreckage caught the femme's one blade in his. He smirked at her "It seems that I caught myself a femme." He stated.
If the femme wasn't wearing her battle mask the Decepticon would've noticed that she bore a similar smirk of her own as the trunion on her back moved and another of her rotor blade shot up, Wreckage watched as the femme caught the blade and slashed at his right arm. Wreckage pulled away and cursed.
Blitzwing sat up and shook his helm and noticed that his comrades were busy with Renegade and the new comers, leaving the offline neutral all by himself. The triple changer crept towards Twilight but was stopped when the other jet threw Starscream onto him.
Starscream knew a loosing battle when he saw one and screamed "Decepticons! Retreat!"
"But what about the neutral?" Brawl called.
"Yes, if we return to Megatron without his new mate or Renegade, he'll rip us to shred." Blitzwing informed his commanding officer.
"I don't care! Let's get out of here!"
Having no choice but to obey their commander, Brawl and Blitzwing transformed into their tank modes, Wreckage put his twin blades away and transformed into his Personnel Carrier and sped back to the Nemesis as Starscream transformed into his Raptor jet mode and flew off.
The silver and blue Raptor jet landed as the femme reattached her blades to the trunion on her back. Both slowly turned to Moonchaser and the former Decepticon watched as their battle masks slid away.
The silver and blue jet walked up to the Humvee, reached out and ran his fingers along his faceplate "Is that you… Moony…?" he asked softly.
Moonchaser lean into the touch and said "It's me Run."
The jet pulled the Humvee into a hug, it wasn't the nickname that had him believing that this was his 'Moony' it was the tone and the way he called him by that name that did it.
"I missed you Moony, oh Primus how I missed you." The jet whispered softly.
Moonchaser held the jet to him and he said "I missed you too Midnightrunner."
They both looked up when they heard the femme cough and saw the Apache standing there with her arms crossed and a scowl on her faceplate.
"Yes, Shadowstrike, I missed you too." Moonchaser told the femme with a smile.
A smile replaced Shadowstrike's scowl and she turned her attention to Twilight "Is that…?"
"Yes, it's our little Light." Moonchaser answered.
The three Cybertronians walked over to the recharging Ferrari and heard vehicles approaching. All three turned to meet the new threat with their weapons ready.
Optimus Prime and the other Autobots transformed and had their weapons out and pointed at the three.
"Well, well, well. Our comrades finally show up." Shadowstrike stated returning her blades to her trunion once again.
"Shadow, be nice." Moonchaser hissed at the femme.
Prowl lowered his weapons when he recognized Midnightrunner and Shadowstrike "Shadowstrike? Midnightrunner?"
"Hey Prowl sir!" Midnightrunner greeted with a raised hand and Shadowstrike just merely gave him a devious grin.
"You know these two Prowl?" Prime inquired his tactician.
"Yes sir, after you left to find the AllSpark, these two came into my squad." Prowl answered.
"I know them too." Springer added.
Now that Prime knew that those two are fellow Autobots however…
"Get away from the neutral, Decepticon!" Cliffjumper snapped.
Seeing that there is no way out of this, Moonchaser's missile launcher slowly pointed towards the sky, he raised his hand and slowly backed away from his friends.
Once Ratchet was sure that Cliffjumper and Ironhide had their weapons trained onto the Decepticon, he made his way to Twilight.
He knelt down next to Twilight and began examining his chassis.
How is he?" Prime asked.
"His legs are badly damage; there are some internal damages as well and he's covered in dents. And it's looks like he's been drugged." Ratchet answered.
"I merely sedative him so he wouldn't become terrified when the Decepticons came for us." Moonchaser informed the Autobot medic.
Cliffjumper scoffed "A likely story, he probably escaped and you and some other Decepti-scum were sent to capture him and take him back. Twilight probably fought back and you beat and sedative him."
Moonchaser frowned at the small bot.
"Well, that didn't happen." Shadowstrike said.
"What do you mean Shadow?" Prowl asked.
"We were sent coordinates of this desert. As we headed for the designation, we saw the signal flare and flew here instead. And when we got here, we saw four Decepticons attacking him." Midnightrunner answered.
Prime stared at Moonchaser; he recognized him from the images Ultra Magnus sent when he attacked Teletraan-3 and killed 5 of the 7 crew members. Prime was confused as to why this deadly Decepticon is betraying his Faction.
"Prime sir? We need to get Twilight back to the Ark so I can treat his injuries and examine him further." Ratchet told his leader.
"Yes Ratchet, first disable Renegade's weapon and then transform and we'll help Twilight into your cab."
Ratchet nodded and walked over to Moonchaser, who didn't move as the medic disabled his one and only weapon.
"Shadow and I'll place Twilight in." volunteered Midnightrunner.
"Why?" Cliffjumper asked suspiciously.
The Raptor jet turned his gaze towards the red Camaro and said "Because Twilight is our friend and we haven't seen him in vorns."
The Autobots stared at the jet and could hear the truth in his voice.
"Alright." Prime agreed as Ratchet transformed and watched as Shadowstrike and Midnightrunner picked Twilight up and placed him gently into the medic.
"Prowl, I want you to go ahead of Ratchet, both of you have your sirens on." Prime ordered his second-in-command who nodded, transformed and took off with Ratchet following close behind.
"Wat are we goin' ta do about him?" Ironhide asked nodding towards Moonchaser.
"We're going to take him with us. Cliffjumper, I want you in front of Renegade, Ironhide and Bluestreak, you both will follow behind him in case he tries to run. Springer can escort our two new comrades back to the base by air."
Midnightrunner waved his hand and said "Thanks sir but I don't need an air escort." And he transformed into a slick silver and blue Dodge Viper.
Getting over their surprise to see another triple changer, the Autobots and ex-Decepticon transformed. Prime sped off after Prowl and Ratchet with the Autobots and one Decepticon following after him and Shadowstrike and Springer lifted into the air and the femme tailed the green triple changer.
As Moonchaser drove between Cliffjumper and Ironhide, aware of the two watching him, he couldn't help but feel nervous and hope that he would return into the Faction that he first joined.
Well I hope I haven't confused anyone with this chapter.
And if there are any typos, I fix them another time since it's late I need to sleep.