Hey! so one more chapter before school starts! I so excited for to start! i know i'm weird, and proud of it! SO anywho, chapters will probably get slower since i will no longer be getting up ite i'll be getting up at 6 to get ready for school...and there's no way in Kaon that i'm getting up at 5! Enjoy this chapter!
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Cash is silly. :P Peace!
P.S.- I do except Imaginary Currency.
Then how else am I supposed to convey them? And FYI, I've had a kid cause their house to explode before, I don't think a window worth it, but if you insist on being paid...here you go *hands over $0.01*-you never said how much you wanted...
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The next week went by slowly, the first day Ratchet practically had to drag Optimus away so he could examine Jemina and he could work on decoding the Iacon database. However on day three he wouldn't leave her side as she was getting to her feet again, albeit it was probably a good thing because she nearly fell a few times. But as the week passed she healed, and by the time the two week mark hit, it was as if she hadn't been hurt-though Ratchet did want her to keep the transforming down for another week to give her wing a rest. Ratchet ran another scan to check the healing process, Jemina didn't complain, much to his liking, "It seems your abilities help speed up the healing process two-fold when you're a Cybertronian than as a human."
"Well that's good, I hate to be down for any longer."
"Yes, you're getting antsy as it is." Ratchet agreed.
"Well what do you expect? I'll stay down for as long as absolutely necessary then I would like to get up and move again, berths get old after a while."
"Switch to your human form, I want to see how the damage has affected it." Ratchet ordered.
She nodded and switched, "Are you just about done?"
"Why? You want to go sit with Optimus?" He teased as he checked her, it had become obvious that he knew, indeed it was rather hard to hide.
Jemina growled half-heartedly, "You're as bad as my mother was."
A sudden frown crossed his face as his holoform pulled up the bottom of her shirt to reveal just below her right rib, there was a long scar. "Hmm, all the others have almost faded away by now, this one…might be permeant as it was the worst laceration."
Jemina looked at it and nodded, "I guess we can't always get away unscathed in the end."
Ratchet didn't look happy, though it wasn't aimed at her, as he put it back down and checked her left shoulder. Pulling the sleeve down a bit it revealed an Autobot insignia, "What in Cybertron?"
"It appeared after you engraved the 'bots insignia on me, I just figured it must somehow transferred into my human form as well. Though kinda strange it was on my shoulder instead of my back where engraved it on my wing but…" She shrugged.
"Your clear, just don't transform for another few days if possible, I want that wing to rest." Ratchet said, clearing her.
Jemina nodded smiling before jumping up and running to the platform's edge where Opitmus let her up onto his shoulder. Ratchet picked up his tools and smiled to himself, it's good to see him smile like that again.
Bee and Smokescreen came into the base and Bee began venting angrily about Smokescreen blowing their cover. Jack opened a laptop and began searching for the image Bee was venting about, "Found it! Old road rage didn't waste any time posting your mug shots. Raf will scrub this as soon as he gets back from house hunting."
"Is this what you learned while serving Alpha Trion?!" Ratchet questioned Smokescreen angrily, "I highly doubt that he would have condoned such irresponsible behavior."
Arcee also joined, "Blowing your cover is not ok."
"Sorry guys, I know I really messed up." Smokescreen apologized.
Optimus walked over, "While Ratchet and Arcee are correct, I believe that we are all equally responsible for this incident."
Arcee went wide optict, "Us?"
"How?" Ratchet asked upset.
"We weren't even there." Bulkhead added.
:I tried to stop him.:
Bulkhead amended, "Well, he was."
:Hey! You try holding him back next time!:
"Our recent efforts have been so intensely focused on averting crises that we have overlooked simple matters, such as teaching Smokescreen how to best function on this planet. It is an oversight that must be corrected." Optimus finished.
Smokescreen replied, "Optimus, I'm honored to train under you and will do whatever it takes to make things right, to make you proud."
Optimus looked thoughtful before he said, "Perhaps the best way for you to learn about the human world is from a human."
"Smokescreen gets his own partner?" Arcee asked shocked.
"Pu-lease! Isn't having five humans here enough?" Ratchet asked a bit upset. They all just looked at him curiously before he sighed and turned to the computer.
"I was referring to one already among us." Optimus said looking at Jack.
Jack looked startled before nodding, "Um, sure, Optimus. Um, robots in disguise, traffic laws, don't beat down humans…I can bring Smokescreen up to speed."
Smokescreen just stared at Jack before Bulkhead patted him on the shoulder, "We've all put in curbside duty. Part of the gig."
Smokescreen walked over to Jack and transformed, "Then let's go for a drive, teach."
Arcee watched them go before turning around, "Optimus, with all due respect, agent Fowler is out relocating Raf's family because the 'cons discovered where he lives. Meanwhile, Smokescreen, in all his wisdom, chooses a vehicle mode with screaming double thirty-eights on the doors, making him an easy target. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't more than concerned about Jack's safety."
Optimus nodded hearing her argument, "Nonetheless, the fact remains that our new recruit is in need of instruction. I believe Smokescreen's spark is in the rights place, and that he now understands the necessity of protecting humanity."
Optimus returned to the computers to work on the data base while the others went back to whatever they had been previously doing. A couple hours later the duo came back, both laughing, "I am so posting this tonight." Jack laughed.
They continued to show Arcee and Bee while Jemina just groaned as she leaned on his shoulder. Smokescreen and Jack left a little while ago to 'learn more about human culture.' That was one of the weakest excuses she had ever heard, but they had left so-whatever. Optimus brought her out of her thoughts, "I am nearly finished decoding the next Iacon coordinates."
The computer beeped and a different set of coordinates came up, "You may not need to complete your task Optimus." Ratchet said looking at the screen.
"An Iacon-locator beacon."
Ratchet nodded, "It seems the Decepticons have already excavated the next relic."
Optimus turned and gently grabbed Jemina from his shoulder and set her on the platform, "Ratchet, triangulate coordinates and activate the ground bridge. Jemina, remain here." She nodded but looked at the coordinates on the screen funny, "Were is Smokescreen?"
"Out training again with Jack." Arcee answered dryly.
"We cannot wait. Autobots, transform and roll out." Optimus ordered.
As the bridge closed Jemina sighed, how was she supposed to tell them it was a decoy without revealing everything?! She hated her position sometimes. She sat on the couch and fiddled with a book but couldn't concentrate to read as the computer beeped again, revealing another set of coordinates. Ratchet opened a comlink to Optimus, "Optimus, I just picked up a second Iacon-locator beacon. Optimus, do you read?" Only static filled the radio.
"Is there a jamming signal?" Jemina asked getting up and walking over.
Jack and Smokescreen came in laughing. Ratchet yelled over, "Will you two keep it down? Arcee? Bulkhead? Can anyone hear me?" Every time he was answered with static.
Jack ran closer, "Ratchet, what's going on?"
"Our sensors detect a second Iacon-locator beacon, but I can't reach Optimus." Ratchet explained turning around.
"I'll go." Smokescreen said.
"Alone?" Ratchet asked less than enthused.
Jemina switched forms, "I'll go with him."
"You're still recovering." Ratchet argued.
"You said so yourself, I'm fine. Besides, who else are you going to send with him, Jack?" She asked.
Ratchet scowled at the two before relenting, "Fine."
Smokescreen and Jemina went through the bridge and Smokey turned to her, "Let's go grab a relic." They ran to a rock outcropping and peered around, seeing the Decepticon's operation. Jemina recognized the relic as Smokescreen spoke, "That looks like the Star Saber, a legendary weapon forged by Solus Prime-as lore would have it." He rattled off like an excited school child, "It's rumored to wield the power of the Matrix. I'm gonna make Optimus proud."
Jemina grabbed him and held him down, "You'll make him proud if you just stay here and wait for back up. We can't just go in there and take it with Megatron right there."
Smokescreen looked to where she pointed, "The dark lord himself, he won't know what hit him."
"Think Smokescreen, you can't just take him on, Optimus is the only one who can stand on even ground. And besides, what are you going to do once you get to the Star Saber? It's practically a Cybertronian Excalibur and Optimus is King Arthur."
He looked at her dumbly, "What?"
"I'll explain later, but the point it was made for a Prime, by a Prime, and only a Prime can dislodge it. Why else wouldn't Megatron have taken it already?" She argued.
"Germaphobe?" Smokescreen asked to which Jemina just glared.
"We're gonna wait for back up." Jemina said in a flat tone.
"You heard Ratchet, backup's not available right now." He went to stand when his head suddenly hit something and he had no room to move, "Hey! What are you doing?"
"Keeping you from getting killed." She hissed before comming Ratchet, "Ratchet, the relic is the Star Saber, we need Optimus like now!"
"*Where are you two?*"
"Basically where you bridged us-"
"Jemina their moving it, let me out of this thing and I'll stall them!" Smokescreen pleaded.
A whine came from behind them and they saw an Insecticon, "Oh great." Jemina said in usual sarcasm.
She let down the shield holding Smokescreen and he fired at the 'con as Jemina joined in, "*What is going on there? And did you say Star Saber? Oh my, Jemina-*"
She didn't have time to answer as she dodged the Insecticon and retreated a few steps while continuing to fire at it. The Insecticon grabbed Smokescreen and threw him onto the plateau and stopped just short of Megatron, "Uh-oh."
"Smokescreen!" Jemina shouted as she dodged another attack and jumped onto the plateau with him.
Megatron growled, "You?! How are you still alive?"
She didn't answer but shot at his canon and gave Smokescreen a second to get away from the close proximity before added blaster fire came in. Arcee, Bee, and Bulkhead ran through the outer ranks of Vehicons as she and Smokescreen ran closer to them. Megatron looked around, "Where's Optimus?" He yelled something else to but it was drowned out from the din of blasters.
Megatron transformed then began firing at Optimus, blocking his path with falling rubble. Jemina growled before she transformed also and took off after Megatron, she had to buy Optimus some time. Being the one behind Megatron she had a few seconds to fire at him before he pulled an incredibly tight loop and was behind her. He fired and she transformed and got behind him once more before the process repeated a few times, neither scoring a hit on the other. But it bought Optimus all the time he needed.
A glow from the Star Saber grabbed Megatron's attention once again and he roared in fury, he allowed himself to get distracted by this seeker! Optimus landed with a small crater as Jemina landed next to the others. The bolder fell from the Nemesis and started rolling towards Optimus though he seemed not to realize it, "Opitmus, retreat!" Arcee shouted.
Bulkhead yelled, "Now!"
Jemina smiled to herself as Optimus turned and swung the Saber, cleanly cutting the mountain in two, she could only imagine Megatron's horror from what she had seen in the cartoons, but it soon fell when she thought of what was going to come.
"Did he just…" Bulkhead said unable to finish from shock.
:I think so.:
Optimus took a few running steps towards the ship and swung the Saber again as a wave of Energy hit the ship and it started down before they managed to gain control again. Smokescreen looked dumbfounded, actually everyone but Jemina did, "It can do that?"
"Obviously." Jemina said as Optimus walked back over.
"Ratchet we require a ground bridge. Are you two all right?"
"I'm fine Optimus." Jemina nodded.
"Someone made me bang my helm against a shield, but I'll live." Smokescreen jabbed at Jemina who just rolled her optics but said nothing.
Back in the base Smokescreen couldn't stop talking, "How epic was that? I-I saw it with my own optics." He acted out Optimus, "I still don't believe it."
Jemina stood next to Optimus and whispered, "He looks like my brother playing Power Rangers."
Optimus held her close and said, "He is, actually, just a youngling. In Earth standards I believe he would be fifteen or so."
Jemina nodded in affirmation, "Ah, that explains some of his mannerisms."
The Star Saber then began to glow and they both looked down at it before Jemina took a step away and Optimus raised it up and seemed in a trance. "Whoa!" Bulkhead said.
Ratchet walked over, "Optimus, speak to me! Optimus!"
"I am receiving a message."
"Form who?" Ratchet asked.
It took a second for Optimus to answer then, "Alpha Trion."
Ratchet looked worried and curious, "Optimus, what is Alpha Trion saying?"
The base was dead quiet for several minutes until Opitmus suddenly lowered the Saber and it almost hit the floor as he groaned. Ratchet walked over, "Easy Optimus."
"So, did Alpha Trion try and ask about me?" Smokescreen asked.
Bulkhead shoved his shoulder, "What was the message?"
"It is paramount that we recover the final four Iacon relics, the Omega Keys." Optimus answered
Arcee asked, "Keys?"
"To what?" Ratchet asked.
"To the regeneration of our home planet."
Jack asked, "Wait, you can just-restore your planet…just like that?"
"Yes Jackson."
He looked at his phone, "It's getting late, I should get home."
"Very well," Optimus turned to Ratchet, "Please open a bridge."
Jack left and the 'bots moved excitedly. "Pack your gear, we're going back to Cybertron!" Bulkhead exclaimed.
:I still don't believe it, home?:
Ratchet laughed, "Well, believe it now Bumblebee, civilization at least."
"But I just got here." Smokescreen protested.
"Remember oil baths?" Arcee asked, "First thing I'm gonna do planetside is soak for an entire solar cycle."
Bulkhead laughed, "I can't wait to tell Miko."
Arcee looked down, "And Jack."
:Raf and Jayce.:
Arcee looked at Optimus then at Jemina and Jayce the latter of which was curled up and snuggled into Jemina on the couch sleeping, "Optimus has it easy, his partner is Cybertronian."
"But she still has Jayce." Bulkhead said.
Smokescreen walked over, "Optimus, keys open doors. Can they really revive an entire planet?"
Optimus turned, "While I am unfamiliar with the lore of these Omega Keys, Alpha Trion knew many secrets, and the Ancients possessed technology that has long been lost to what we consider modern science. We have as far as to look at Jemina for confirmation of that." Optimus said looking at her as she smiled at him. The other 'bots gathered, "Whatever their function, this much is certain-we cannot restore Cybertron without all four Omega Keys in our possession."
"Which means we can't afford to lose a single one to Megatron." Arcee said understanding.
"Four sets of coordinates from Alpha Trion remain encrypted. It is logical to conclude that each corresponds to the location of one of the Omega Keys. I must not waver until I decode them all, the future of our home world depends on it."
I know the location of two, Jemina thought as she looked at Smokescreen then drew a deep breath. Jayce fidgeted in his sleep as she moved to get up. She walked over to Optimus and switched her forms before turning when Ratchet called out happily, "You shall require a more practical means of carrying such a blade."
"I feel funny saying this but, I'm not sure I want to go back." Arcee said sadly.
"Who knew we'd get so used to our new home?" Bulkhead asked.
Jemina sighed, she understood, just as well as them. She didn't know if she would want to leave this dimension if she had a chance to go back to her own.
:I wouldn't want to leave Raf and Jayce more than anything:
Bulkhead nodded, "Yeah, I don't think I'd ever want to leave Miko."
"We've made friends here, family." Arcee said looking at Jemina.
"I understand what you mean." She said quietly.
Ratchet heard their conversation, "We could always…text them."
"Besides, been fighting for so long I don't know if I can do anything else." Bulkhead retorted.
"You can go back into construction. The power of the Ancients may breathe life back into Cybertron's core, but our war-ravaged cities will surely require rebuilding." Ratchet explained.
She kept her face stoic but inwardly she laughed, Ratchet, if only you could see the Omega lock work…an instant home makeover is how Miko described it! Her cheer then fell again, I have to keep Megatron from using it though…from using the fifth key, but what will happen if he tries using it without the key? It's not like it holds back the energy, just guides it. I'll guess I'll figure it out when the time comes…
Arcee broke her out of her thoughts, "I wouldn't make any travel plans just yet. We still have to locate these Omega Keys and secure them before the 'cons do."
"Yeah, like that'll be a problem." Smokescreen scoffed, "Optimus has the Star Saber now. Megatron's end is in sight."
Jemina kept her voice neutral as she said nonchalantly, "Pride comes before the fall. Don't get too cocky."
Opitmus turned to them a minute later, "Autobots, I have decoded the first set of the final four coordinates. Divide into teams in the event that I'm able to decode another before the first team returns."
"I'm on team one, who's with me?" Smokescreen asked.
Arcee spoke up quickly, "I'll go."
"After you sir, ma'am, commander?" Smokescreen asked.
Ratchet activated the ground bridge, "This should be interesting."
Jemina switched to her human form again and sat next to her brother and thought. She was still baffled on how and why the cuffs had just, fallen off when she was escaping the Nemesis. Her mind wandered to when she had been on Cybertron and Alpha Trion gave her the key… Smokescreen dubbed it the Alfa Trion Key, but it is an experiment of the ancients. Among what they designed it for it unlocks anything that has a lock and for the Omega Lock, it is what will guide the energy that is to bring back Cybertron. Unlocks anything that has a lock! Her eyes shot open at the realization what it was, it was the A-3 key that undid the cuffs! She wanted to laugh with joy at finally figuring it out but didn't utter a sound, only a faint smile playing at her lips.
Arcee's voice came over the com sounding very shaken up, "*B-base, I need a bridge…*"
"It sounds like she's hurt." Ratchet commented opening a bridge and to have Arcee walk in with a pained and very guilty look, "What happened?"
Arcee quickly retold the events, "And Smokescreen was just, gone, like he turned to dust."
"Poor kid." Bulkhead gasped.
Ratchet tried to console her, "Arcee, do not blame yourself. It could just have as easily been you."
Bulkhead activated his blasters, "I say we go claim a piece of Megatron's miserable, metal hide!"
:I'm with you Bulkhead.: Bee growled in very upset chirps and whirs.
Optimus stepped forward, "No. We have already lost another one of our own today. I will not risk more lives. Given what Arcee witnessed, it stands to reason that Megatron now possesses might equal to that of the Star Saber. Which means only I have a chance of recovering the Omega Key."
"The fate of Cybertron rests upon its retrieval." Ratchet sighed.
"Whether Megatron knows it or not." Bulkhead added.
"Open a ground bridge Ratchet, I go to meet Megatron alone." He said before he left.
Jemina watched him go with a sigh, that's the last we'll be seeing of the Star Saber for a bit. She ran her fingers through Jayce's hair until Optimus commed, "*Ratchet, ground bridge!*"
He opened a bridge almost immediately and Smokescreen and Optimus ran through, "Smokescreen?!" Bulkhead asked skeptically.
Smoky brought up the Omega Key, "And Omega Key number one."
"But…how?" Arcee asked, "I mean I saw you."
He looked at the wall, "I, uh, decided to borrow the phase shifter."
"Again?" Ratchet asked annoyed as he finished scanning Opitmus for his injuries.
He nodded, "Good thing too. The wave from the blast hit me like a wrecking ball. The impact must have activated the shifter. I don't know how long I was unconscious, but when I made my back outside, Opitmus and Megatron were deep in an epic throw down. I waited for the right moment to make my move."
"You're learning." Arcee commended.
He turned to Ratchet, "So can I keep it? I mean it is really working out for me."
"Fine, fine."
"Yes! Signature weapon!" He said happily.
He then saw what was left of the Star Saber, as did the others, "You got yours, Opitmus lost his." Bulkhead said remorsely.
"The balance of power shifted again." Arcee realized.
Ratchet interjected, "While he may have wielded the power of the Ancients for only one day, Optimus does not require it to be the mightiest of warriors."
They all looked at Optimus who stood at the computers decoding more of the database with Jemina propped up on his shoulder guard obviously asleep, "You may want to say that when there's not a human sleeping on his shoulder." Bulkhead whispered to Ratchet.
Hehe, done!-until the next chapter :) So review!