"What do you mean he escaped?!" Levi questioned as he turned to Kistiro and Sari, "Exactly as it sounds." Sari responded. The three were standing in Levi's room of the tower, alone, discussing why Sari and Kistiro were in his dimension, "You don't just escape from the Null Void." Levi pointed out as he crossed his arms, his facial expression pointing out that he was pissed.
"Levi it's not like we were there to stop him." Sari retaliated, "Yes but you should have been. The plumbers were monitoring their every movement, and if they noticed him escape they were instructed to alert your team, so why didn't they?" Levi questioned his friends, and Sari looked to Kistiro who nodded, leading his eyes to project a holographic photograph.
"By the time we got there, everyone that was monitoring Decepticon and his team was brutally murdered, leading us to conclude that he had outside help." He explained and Levi gave his friend a questioning look.
"Hold that thought." Optimus said as he defused from Levi, and walked over to the door, before opening it, causing the other members of the team to be revealed, "I told them not to." Artemis pointed out.
"I was going to tell you anyway." Levi explained before he turned back to Kistiro and sari, "Who do you think helped him?" He asked.
"We aren't sure, but it definitely wasn't his team. They're all still there." Sari responded, "We also acquired a strange energy signature from the spot where the dimensional breach that allowed him to escape was." Kistiro explained as he pulled up the readings, and Levi scanned through them.
"Do we know which dimension he's in now?" He asked the two, and they looked to each other, then back to him, "Levi, he's here. In your dimension." Sari said, and Levi looked in complete and utter shock.
"He's here?" He questioned, and they both nodded in response.
"We were tracking him, but now it seems as though he's disappeared from our radar." Kistiro explained, "Wait, what about the Decepticon ship?" Kara suggested, and everyone looked to her, "You said it had a cloaking device, and who better for a version of Megatron to go to than himself?" She explained her theory.
"Rapunzel might just be onto something." Sari explained, referring to Kara as Rapunzel, and Kara greased off the techno-organic in response.
"The Decepticon ship is cloaked with advanced Cybertronian technology, but should we locate the correct frequency, we may be able to pinpoint their location." Optimus explained.
"I can help with that." Cyborg offered as he stepped forward.
"As can I." Kistiro said as he transformed into a human sized version of his cybertronian counterpart, Perceptor.
"Get to work, I'll run over the data from the dimensional breach and cross reference it with dimensions I've been to and see if I can find a match." Levi ordered as Perceptor gave him the data to the dimensional breach, and the group nodded in response before they got to work. Levi grabbed a tablet from his desk and uploaded the schematics of the breach, before walking away. Cyborg, Optimus and Perceptor got to work with their locating program, while everyone else simply waited around. Sari stood in Levi's room, looking around with a sense of curiosity in her eyes.
"I know you're there." She said simply, before turning to see Kara standing at the door, "Do all techno-organics have a sense of hearing as sharp as me?" The Kryptonian questioned, "You're Kara, right?" Sari questioned and Kara gave her a nod.
"And you're Sari." She responded and the Techno-organic nodded in response, "Yeah. He talked about you a lot." She pointed out.
"Really?" Kara asked curiously, interested as to how much he had told Sari about them.
"Yeah. When he first came to my dimension, I was eight. I was cocky and I thought the Autobots could protect me from anything. Then Decepticon arrived, he took down the Autobots within a few minutes, and when Levi arrived, they fought, until he was forced to pull him through a strange looking portal. I thought he died, turns out he was sent a few months into my world's future." She explained and Kara raised an eyebrow, "Wouldn't that mean you'd still be eight, or nine?" She suggested but the fifteen year old shook her head, before she pulled out a strange looking key.
"This key allows me to upgrade Autobots, fix their wounds and even reignite their sparks. Just after I found out I was a techno-organic, I used it on myself. It accelerated my age and maturity up to, this, and I gained full control over my abilities." Sari explained and Kara simply stared at her in slight disbelief, "How do you think Optimus became so robust?" At that statement Kara was caught off guard, and thought through what she had just been told.
"So why're you in Levi's room?" The Kryptonian quickly changed the subject, and Sari sighed.
"I was just looking around; this dimension isn't exactly similar to mine." She responded, "Do you know where Levi is?"
"I thought he was in here, that's why I came here." Kara answered. "Do you have a way to get to the roof?" Sari questioned and Kara looked in confusion.
Levi stood at the edge of the Tower's roof, a tablet in his hands as he scanned through the data given to him by Kistiro, "Aren't you cold up here?" A female voice asked, catching his attention, to find Sari standing a few feet behind him.
"Not really," He answered, never looking away from the data, leading Sari to walk over.
"Are you okay?" She asked and placed a hand on his shoulder, and for a moment there was a silence, before Levi spoke up.
"I'm fine," He said blandly, avoiding her eye contact.
"You may be a great hero Lev, but I know you can't look someone in the eye when you lie," She said as she placed a hand on his shoulder, causing him to look up to her, "I also know that when it comes to Decepticon you never think straight." She scolded and he sighed.
The two of them walked away from the edge of the building and into the center of the roof, "He and I have been playing the same game for almost four years, and every time I put him away he escapes." Levi explained to his friend, "So why not end it for good?" He asked her, and she looked to him in complete and utter shock.
"Levi, we don't kill, we never have and we never will. You were the one that taught me that, so don't be a hypocrite." She explained to him.
"And if I don't end him, thousands of people could die. What's one evil life compared to thousands of innocent ones?"
"Everything! You were the one that taught me killing brings nothing but pain and sorrow and now to think that you're even considering it is just atrocious!" Sari retaliated, and Levi went to respond, before the comlinks went off, simultaneously ending their conversation and redirecting their focus.
"Victor, go ahead." Levi said as Cyborg contacted him.
"We think we finished the program, but we aren't sure if it'll work or not." Cyborg explained, and Levi sighed before he and Sari stared at each other for a moment, and Sari simply walked away, so Levi followed as they made their way down to the main area of the tower.
"Let's test it out." Levi requested and the team nodded in response before Perceptor hit a button, and the algorithm began to search for the Nemesis.
"Someone mind explaining how this works?" Vergil asked his friends as they all eagerly watched the holographic screen search for the Decepticon warship.
"Simple! Cyborg, Optimus and I programmed a code that simultaneously scans through different frequencies and searches through those singular frequencies for the Decepticon ship." Perceptor answered, marveling at his work, "I must say Optimus I am impressed! On my Cybertron you were not exactly…fluent with this sort of thing."
"Over my time on earth my cybernetics have enhanced and I have gained much knowledge, it comes in quite handy on a regular basis." Optimus added onto Preceptor's comment, before the conversation ended due to a beeping noise coming from the holographic screen, "It seems the algorithm has located the Nemesis." The Prime stated.
"So where is it?" Lagan questioned as he crossed his arms.
"I'm putting in the longitude and latitude locations now." Preceptor stated as he typed on the keypad, before a holographic globe showed up, with a purple marker pointing in one specific spot.
"Bialia." Damian stated, recognizing the location almost instantly.
"Meaning the Decepticons are most likely in league with Queen Bee, and her minions." Wally suggested.
"How exactly are we going to do this? Queen Bee has an army at her disposal, along with a lot of super villains." Artemis questioned the group.
"The main goal here is to capture Decepticon, so we have to focus on him." Sari stated.
"According to the information we have on Queen Bee, she's currently in league with Count Vertigo, Anarky, Poison Ivy, Abra Kadabra, Black Spider, Psimon and Devastation." Cyborg explained as he pulled up the files on the known villains.
"Psimon, huh? Haven't seen him since Kalder was in the Light." Artemis stated as she thought back to when Psimon was trying to help Aqualad regain his memories.
"Add on Queen Bee's forces and the Decepticons and we've got our work cut out for us." Raven stated as she thought about the lineup of opponents they were going to face.
"We need something to distract Queen Bee's forces, and then we can face the Decepticons." Levi theorized.
"Levi, perhaps it would be useful if we contacted HER for assistance." Optimus suggested, and the fifteen year old sighed, thinking over his partner's suggestion.
"Wait, who?" Kara questioned, and everyone turned to Levi in question.
"Optimus is suggesting that we reach out to Spiral for help." He responded.
"An entire army of operatives at our disposal? That would give us an advantage." Damian commented, looking over to Optimus in approval.
"I'm with Damian on this one, using Spiral as a distraction would be a good plan. From what Dick's told me the organization already made an enemy of Bialia." Zatanna explained her opinion on the matter.
"Are we overlooking the fact that Spiral aligned themselves with Darkseid? And the fact that they handed Levi over to Cadmus who essentially tortured him and Optimus." Kara argued on the matter.
"That's true. I used to be a member of Spiral, and I didn't exactly follow orders, that's why they sent me to Cadmus. But by no means are they evil, in Riven and my brother were probably two of the kindest people in the world. I think we should reach out to them for help." Levi agreed with Damian and Zatana, and Kara looked to him with an upset, but questioning look. As the others began talking about how things would go down, Levi gestured for Kara to move away from the group with him, so the two put some distance between the group and themselves.
"Why are you agreeing to work with Spiral? They've never done anything good for you." Kara questioned, before Levi took her hand.
"I know, but right now they're our best bet at taking down Queen Bee's forces." He explained to her, but she avoided eye contact with him, "I know that we shouldn't work with them, but they're not all bad." He stated, placing a hand on her cheek so she could face him, "They were the ones who raised me, and if it wasn't for them sending me away I would've never been able to stabilize the Cybertronian tech in my head, I wouldn't never met Optimus, and I would've never met you." He concluded, and with a sigh, Kara was won over, and smiled.
"Fine. But can you promise me nothing bad will happen because of them?" She requested, and he smiled.
"I promise." He said simply, and she smiled before she kissed his cheek.
"Good. Now let's go get your evil twin." She said determinedly, and he nodded in agreement, before the two walked back over to the group.
"Alright, Kara, Sari, Vergil and I will go to Spiral HQ and ask for their help, we'll leave the rest to you." Levi said to the team, and they all nodded in agreement. Static, Supergirl, Sari and Supergirl all suited up, and regrouped in the main area of the tower, while the rest of the team figured out the rest of the plan."If I'm right Spiral's base should still be where I was raised. Just be ready for a fight, they might not exactly welcome us with open arms." Transformer explained to the three, who all nodded in agreement.
"Let's go." Sari requested as her helmet formed around her head, before Transformer activated a ground bridge just next to them, so the four of them quickly entered, and reemerged in what seemed to be a communications centre of some sort, with computers and workers all around them, staring at them.
"Are we in the right place?" Supergirl questioned, before the workers all pulled out weapons.
"Yup." Vergil said simply, as the group got ready to fight.
"We don't want to fight you! I just need to talk to Spyder!" Transformer's voice echoed through the room, referring to the leader of Spiral.
"No chance." One of the workers stated, before they all launched in to fight.
Done! I'm sooooo sorry that this chapter took so long! I thought I uploaded it around a month ago but when I checked earlier it came up with nothing, hopefully it was worth the wait!