Long time no see peoples of the interweb. This is not a april fools joke. It's a real chapter. Sorry for any mistakes ahead of time. I typed most of this on my phone. WARNING! THE NEXT FEW CHAPTERS WILL BE FILLED WITH FEELS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Chapter 29: Angry
Amity walked off the speed boat she rented and walked onto Dino-bot island. She didn't know why, but she felt something was off. She sighed and adjusted the bag on her back.
She walked thru the woods looking for the bots. She hoped Sari was doing okay, she acted like she was… but before Amity could think anymore she heard and felt stomping.
A large roar was heard and Amity jumped and rolled out of the way before she was stepped on by Grimlock. Grimlock, who was in his dino mode, screeched to a stop and turned around. "Pretty human! Come with Grimlock! Me Grimlock need help! Friend hurt!" Before she could answer he plucked her up by her collar and ran the way he came.
"Grim… Lock… could… you… put… me… down…" Amity asked, feeling a little sick. Grimlock brought her to the large clearing where the fallen omega bot was. He sat her on the ground. She noticed Grimlock seemed scared, which you knew had to mean something bad had happened. They walked around to the other side of the omega clone. She saw Swoop in his robot mode hunched over something. When he moved out of the way she gasped. Another dinobot in his dino mode was in her view, she guessed this was the one Sari called Snarl. She ran up to him.
He looked beat up pretty bad. It seemed the Grimlock and Swoop had tried to help and covered him in leafs like a blanket. She gently pushed some of them away and saw more injuries. She gently touched one and he squirmed. "Easy buddy, I'm just looking." Amity could see dents, scratches, and a nasty cut on his belly.
"Grimlock, can you go wait by the beach. I'm going to call the Autobots. They have someone who can make Snarl feel better."
"OKAY!" Grimlock took off without any argument, to Amity's surprise. Swoop came up to her and leaned down, as if asking if there was anything he could do to help.
"I don't think there's nothing you can do Swoop. Just stay here so he feels safe, he looks scared."
"Hold still!" Ratchet tied to keep Snarl calm. Swoop was doing a good job at what Amity told him to do. He pushed passed Grimlock and held Snarl down. "I'm gonna have to use the EMP." Swoop gave him a look that showed he didn't understand. "I'm gonna let him sleep while I work on him." Swoop nodded and held his friend down as Ratchet got the EMP ready and shot him.
While the doc bot and his new assistant were working on Snarl Optimus, along with Bulkhead, Amity, and Prowl, talked to Grimlock. "So, how did this happen?"
"Me Grimlock not sure. Me and Swoop go exploring like everyday when Grimlock just feels funny. Then Swoop feels funny two. We didn't like the funny feeling so Me and Swoop followed funny feeling and saw Snarl beat up. Me Grimlock and Swoop carry Snarl to home. Swoop about to go get pretty human when Grimlock hear boat."
"Do you have any idea who could have done this to him?" Optimus.
Grimlock thought for minute and growled. "Green bot!"
"Huh?"
"Ugly Green bot that Snarl left to be friends with! Me Grimlock knew that green bot was stupid and ugly, but Snarl not listen to Grimlock. Now Grimlock destroy Green bot!" Grimlock rowrd.
"I think he means the constructicon. Sari did say one was here." Prowl guessed.
"That would make sense." Optimus said.
"Less talking more destroy!" Grimlock yelled. "No bot hurts me Grimlock's family!"
"Calm down Grimlock." Optimus said, trying to hide his surprise from Grimlock's statement. "We'll help you look for them."
"THIS IS DINO BOT STUFF!" Grimlock got into Optimus' face. "GRIMLOCK FIND THIS OUT BY HIMSELF. SNARL A DINO BOT, SO IT'S GRIMLOCKS JOB TO DESTROY WHO HURT SNARL!"
"Yes, but we want to help you."
"NO! Truckbot say that now! But when we find green bot and Grimlock try to destroy him truckbot will cry like a baby! "No Grimlock! No hurt! We search whole island just to tell green bot that he did something naughty."" Everybody stood there in shock at what Grimlock just said. His impersonation of Prime was interesting. But they had never seen Grimlock act this bad.
"Grimlock." Amity spoke up. "Why do you want to hurt this 'green bot'?"
"Because he hurt Snarl, duh."
"But if you hurt him like he hurt Snarl, that doesn't make you any better then him." Amity tried to explain.
"Me Grimlock way better! Me Grimlock hurt him more!"
"GRIMLOCK!" Amity yelled getting on her last nerve. She looked at the other boys. "Will you let us speak alone." They nodded and walked over to Ratchet and Swoop. "What I'm trying to tell you is that if you hurt him, you'll be just as mean, stupid, and ugly as he is! If you want to be better then him, prove it! You can't use your muscle for every problem! We don't even know if he did it! Why are you being like this?"
Grimlock grew quiet and he looked at the ground. He mumbled something. "What?" Amity asked.
"Grimlock just wants to be a good leader." He whispered. Amity sighed.
"Then set a good example. Don't be the mindless machine a lot of people think you are."
Grimlock sighed, annoyed. "Fine. But can Grimlock destroy green bot a little?"
"Fine by me. Just make sure we know it's him."
Amity sat next to a tree while Ratchet finished up on Snarl, the others had split up and were searching the island for their prime suspect.
"He should be alright." Ratchet sighed as he cleaned up. He pulled a medical blanket out of his subspace and covered the smallest Dinobot.
"That's good." Amity said patting snarls nose. "I wonder why this scrapper would want to hurt him. From what Sari told me they were friends."
"Things changed kid. You should know that better than anyone."
"Yea, I do. But there is one thing about Grimlock story I didn't get. What do you think he meant when he said he had a funny feeling?"
Ratchet rubbed his chin. "I'm gonna guess he was referring to a spark bond. They weren't born on Cybertron so they don't know what it means."
"There not the only ones." Amity hinted.
"Well, you know the jet twins right?" Amity nodded. "Well they were forged at the same time. They share a split spark. So they are literally half of one bigger person. The spark is split at birth and is placed into different protoforms. You still following?"
"Yup."
"Well though a bond they can tell if one of them is hurt or is in trouble. The dinobots were all created thru Sari's key at the same time. So it would make sense that they have a triple split spark."
"Wow that's amazing!" Amity said.
"Sure is, nobody will ever fully ever stand spark bonds."
They searched the whole island, but they didn't have any luck. "We got to get going guys. Let us know if you find anything." Amity said.
"Snarl will be fine, he just needs to rest for a few days."
"See you guys later!" Bulkhead said.
Optimus looked at Grimlock. "Be careful okay? I know you can handle yourself but if you guys need us let us know." Grimlock mumbled something. "What?" He mumbled again. "What is it?"
"Me Grimlock say THANK YOU!" Optimus took a few steps back.
"No.. no problem." Optimus then transformed and drove off. He looked in his mirror and saw the tiny bots all laying next to each other and couldn't help but smile.
Prowl sighed and took off his helmet. He had drove all the way to the decepticons old base and around it for any signs of Scrapper. But no luck. He grabbed the handles of his bike and pushed it in. What he didn't expect to see was a African American man dancing with Sari on a DDR machine. His hair was real short and branded. He had on sunglass, white and blue jacket, and blue jeans. Amity clapped. "Bumblebee get in here! Jazz is about to beat your high score!" Jazz? Oh right Holo-forms. Prowl rolled his eyes at the fellow ninja. Jazz was always a little different compared to other former students of their master. He put the kickstand down on his bike and went to his room. He climbed up in his tree and tried to meditate. But he was distracted by a weird feeling in his chest. Not like a see the future weird but just... Prowl couldn't even explain it to himself. The only word he could think of was heavy.
Prowl guessed it was from stress. Amity hadn't really talked to him since the shooting. She was still a little mad at him and she was working all the time. Today was the only day he had a chance to try to make up with her. It was Sunday, so she got a break from work.
It took Prowl a few minutes to gain the courage he needed. He jumped from his tree and went back out into the main area. Where he found Sari and bumblebee laughing their butts off at Jazzs holo-form that was lying on the ground. "I am never gonna do that again!" Jazz panted. "How the Hell can you humans move like that for so long?!"
"Fun and practice my friend. Fun and practice."
"Sorry to break up the party. But what happened to you Jazz?"
"Ratchet said I should test out my holoform. Little pigtails here thought it would be fun if I played a dancing game with them."
"Are you regret in it?"
"Yes." Jazzs holoform disappeared and he transformered. "Damn. I thought if I got in this form I would be fine."
"Ratchet did say the halo forms are connected to your bodies. Any damage you take there can affected your real body." Prowl said.
"Ouch dude. What's with the attitude?"
Prowl raised a brow. "I was just telling you."
"Jazz has a point though Prowl. You don't seem like yourself. You okay?" Sari asked.
"I'm fine. I didn't realize I was acting any different."
"Well you did yell at Bumblebee last night when he came in from bringing me over here from work last night."
"I was upset. He went mud riding before he came back to base. I didn't yell at him."
"You kinda did Prowl." Jazz said scratching the back off his head.
Prowl looked at all them. They all stood there awkwardly. "Well, I apologize. Where did Amity go?"
"There was an issue at the tower. She went to check it out." Sari said. "Why?"
"I wanted to patch some things up. To you too. I'm sorry I ran off when you needed me."
"It's okay Prowl." Sari said putting her thumb up. "You were just mad and wanted to stop the bad guys."
Prowl drove down the darkening streets. He cut across old Detroit to get to the tower faster. All of sudden he was blinded by a pair of headlights as they drove to the side of his bike. Prowl rolled across an empty lot. He was alright, just some scratches, his bike on the other hand was going to need some work. Prowl grinded his teeth and turned to the car as it transformed into Lockdown.
"Long time no see human." Lockdown transformed his hook into his chainsaw.
"I was wondering if you were ever going to show up again."
Lockdown smirked. "I've decided I'm gonna try your friends method. What did she call it, the fun way?" He started up the chainsaw and charged. He slammed the chainsaw on the ground. Prowl jumped out of the way and pushed his hand forward. But nothing came. What?! Prowl thought.
"Looks like your luck has run out." Lockdown slammed his chainsaw on the ground again. Prowl jumped only to get punched. Prowl rolled across the empty lot. "I'm starting to see the similarities between you and the ninja bot. You both have skill, and you both have the attitude they try to have. But your still not him."
"YES I AM!" Prowl jumped and aimed for his face. Lockdown easily dodged it.
"Whoops did I hit a nerve? What's a matter afraid you're not Prowl?" Prowl growled and charged again. He only ended up getting grabbed by the bounty hunter and shoved into a wall. "I'll take that as a yes." Lockdown let him drop to the ground. Prowl tried to catch his breath and got up on one need.
"I don't know what your talking about."
Lockdown shook his head, as if he gave Prowl some kind of pity. "What you are, it's not natural. So how can you be so sure you are who you think you are." Lockdown got in his face.
"SHUT UP!" Prowl took a weak punch at Lockdowns face. Only to get flicked against the wall.
"Think about it. How do you know the memories you have are even yours? What if your friends were just trying to replace the real Prowl. Tricked you into to thinking you were someone you're not."
Prowl looked at him. Lockdown smirked. He saw it in the humans eyes. He saw the look on many before. Teror. "Shut up." Prowl said.
Lockdown laughed. "You know what? I wish I could believe you were Prowl. Just so I could get the full satisfaction of knowing I finally getting under your skin." Lockdown got down in the human's face. "You know what else? I think I'm gonna pass on buckethead's offer. You and that other girl intrest me a lot. I think I'm gonna keep you around for when I'm bored." Lockdown laughed when he saw Prowl growl. He was still laughing when he transformed and left Prowl on the ground.
Prowl stayed on the ground. He started to get that heavy feeling in his chest again. Could Lockdown be right? Prowl tried to shake that thought from his mind but it wouldn't leave. Prowl was so angry and confused. Prowl arched his back and let a out a frustrated scream out.
