24: Silverstar's Journey
Chapter 24 - What Now?
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Transformers Prime or the franchise. All characters (except Riley/Silverstar) belong to Hasbro.
::Hello:: - Bumblebee Talking
"Hello" - Normal Talking
'Hello' - Thoughts
*Hello* - Cybertronian Talking
=Hello= - Over the phone or Comm
/Hello/ - Bond
Warning: There is swearing
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(Riley/Silverstar's POV)
"So that's everything?" I nodded to Emma.
She leaned back into the couch and thought about it.
"Are you mad?" I asked.
"What? No. Of course not. It's just...a lot."
I gave her an extra few seconds of silence. "Do you...believe me?"
"I'm trying." She replied slowly, laughing a bit.
"Anything I can do to prove it?" I sat up and looked at her. "Right now it seems like the story was a detailed fan fiction based off an event. I certainly wouldn't believe anybody if they told me a similar story."
She shook her head before we sat in silence some more. I looked over at the blank TV screen. Last night, before explaining things to Emma, it showed what became of my home.
Was this really the end? Is the war over? Did they...win? Is Earth even safe?
"So what do you think I should do?" I asked.
"Keep low for now." She began, almost like going down a list. "You said you got a device that can teleport you anywhere, so you don't have to worry about the time or travel. I also say you change your look. They do know what you look like."
Change my look? Wait, which form...screw it, both. "That's a good idea, but how?"
"Well you got us." I hope she doesn't mean the friend group. This was not the plan.
"Wait, us?" I asked, hoping to clear that up.
"The gang! Who else?"
"No no no no no, that's too many people! Even the others haven't revealed their identity to that many!"
"Do you want help?" She asked, interrupting me before I turned this into a rant. I nodded my head silently. "Then we need to get more hands on deck." She stated firmly.
"But I'm supposed to be a robot in disguise!" I tried excusing.
"Then you've been doing a horrible job so far."
We both chuckled before going silent, again. Then I got a random pop up in my head, since there was nothing else to think about.
"Aw scrap." I said.
Emma gave me an off look. "Scrap?"
"What? Want me to say shit?"
She slapped my side. "What happened?"
"Before we all had to leave, I pretty much blamed our planet's resurrection failure on my friend." I quickly corrected myself. "Sorry, I meant uncle."
"Yeesh. That's tough. But was it?"
"It's was something so tiny. If he had just got my friends to safety, we could've been celebrating the rebirth of Cybertron. And I blamed him even though he wasn't there when the Omega Lock was destroyed. He didn't even have a say...I'm a horrible person."
"I'm sure you were just stressed. By the way you described it, a lot was happening and there was no break."
"There wasn't. But I got so mad over that tiny thing that could've made a big difference, and it wasn't his fault. It was in hindsight but he's not to blame."
"You can apologize when you guys meet up."
"If. If we meet up."
"Ok so you don't just need new looks, you need a pep talk. Tomorrow, we're going to the gang." I was about to open my mouth to speak but she shushed me.
"And we're going to tell them. You are going to tell them. I know you don't want to and the risks of the secret getting out is high, but so it that big base thingy your bad guys made. And who knows if Earth will survive if you and your group are separated like this!"
She gave me the 'are we clear?' look. Sheesh, she is scary. I gave a thumbs up, earning an excited smile.
"How did we become friends?" I questioned playfully.
"I have no clue, but I'm glad we did!" She side hugged me super tight, I could've sworn I heard my shoulder pop.
"I don't think they'll believe me."
"Oh, they will."
(~Timeskip~)
"I don't believe you."
Everyone agreed with Kissh.
We told them about my identity, what transpired 24 hours ago, but not my story. I regret so much right now.
"Do you want me to prove it or..." I tried offering.
"Yes. Because if it's true, it'll be awesome to see." Mei looked like she wanted to believe me, but suppressed the feelings in case of disappointment.
"You're a 23ft robot? How does that even work?" Emma cut Kissh off from asking further questions.
"Guys listen, she can prove it later but right now, she needs help staying low and perhaps other things."
"No it's fine, and we are not robots. We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron." Primus, I feel like my dad now.
Let's just not think about that right now...
"That sounds rehearsed." Kissh commented.
"It kinda is the go-to sentence."
"I have a question. If this is all true, how are we supposed to help?" Jordan asked, pointing at the group.
"I just need to hide, and I was already close to here. After what's happened, I needed to see some familiar faces in all the fog."
Everyone stayed silent after that, which made it very uncomfortable for me. I didn't mean to get so dark but I didn't know how else to say it.
Mei broke the silence after a few mins. "What or who are you hiding from?"
"A faction called the Decepticons. They found our base and since there were too many of them, we had to flee. My dad stayed behind to destroy the information of where we went. Now, we're gonna launch a supposed counter attack." I put it in simpler terms so I wouldn't be here all day explaining groundbridges.
"Your dad? You mentioned him briefly when we all went camping." Jordan recalled.
"Yeah, I've been with him for a while now. Like I said, he stayed behind. And I'm sure we all saw the explosion on the news. But that's besides the point. The cons know what I look like in either form, it's not safe staying out in the open like this."
Jay hummed in thought before gasping, her mouth slowly curling into a devious smile. I didn't like that smile, it meant crazy things were going to go down.
"Then let's go to my house!" She said, grabbing my arm and dragging me. The others shrugged and went along with it.
Once we got inside Jay's house, she led us to her room. She said it was both her bedroom and "war room". When I was going to question it, she said she's always wanted to help plan an attack.
"Woah, wait a minute. What do you mean?" I asked worryingly.
"I don't know about them, but I'm going to help you get a way to regroup and attack those cons!" She slammed her fist into her other hand before getting up and grabbing a paper and pen.
"There are so many problems with that. One, I don't even know what I'm dealing with. Two, I don't know where the others are. Three, any attempt at communication will get me captured!"
"I'm more concerned about Jay wanting to plan an attack." Kissh looked at her concerned.
"They're evil people who plan to take over Earth, of course I want to help plan an attack!" She said in a 'duh' tone.
"Who knew Bluejay could be so violent. I expected Mei or Emma but Jay? Nah." Jordan leaned against the bedroom door dumbfounded.
"I appreciate the effort but take into consideration those three things."
"I can solve one for you right now, where's your Bridge-Blaster?" She out her hand out, expecting I had it in my back pocket or something.
"It's in my subspace...why?"
"We can use it to go there. To Jasper. See the base so we can plan the attack."
"Are you crazy?!" Emma intervened immediately.
"By the looks of the place, and what the news has been telling us. Instant death trap!" Mei pointed out.
"And no way am I dying yet." Kissh waved her arms in a 'no way' kind of motion.
"Uh guys? Hello! We got her, remember?" She referred to me like I could protect 5 humans.
Jay really wants to pull a Miko right now? What if it goes wrong?!
"This is crazy, Jay. Super insane. We don't know what could happen!" I told her.
"You've got the blaster, you can teleport us out of there if anything goes wrong. Come on, we already know some of what to expect."
"We could do more than just map the place out..." Kissh started thinking.
"Yeah, gather info and screw everything up within their base...why am I feeding Jay's desires right now?" Mei questioned suddenly.
Jay started staring into my soul, nobody stopping the creepy action. I closed my eyes and sighed.
(~10 Minutes Later~)
"I can't believe you made me do this."
Jay snickered from her victory while everyone else seemed on edge, as they should be!
"Why did we agree to this?" Jordan questioned.
"I don't know!" Emma hissed at him.
"Can I wait here?" Kissh shakily asked.
"You'll be better off staying with us, Kissh." I told her, looking down.
"Besides the situation we got dragged in, I still can't process this version of you, Riley." Mei craned her neck up instead of going back to look at me.
I didn't even bother correcting her or telling them my name was Silverstar in this form.
We all kept walking until we saw the huge structure outside the ruined missile silo. I bridged us a mile back, just in case.
"That is huge!" Jay exclaimed. "Let's go!"
I quickly reach down and plucked Jay by the back of her shirt. "Don't think so."
"Awwww." She whined.
"We need a plan to get in, dummy." Mei reminded her.
"Anyone see a way to sneak in?" I asked, trying to look myself.
Everyone started looking, pacing to the sides to get better looks but nothing. They all shook their heads.
"Maybe they won't see a single vehicle driving towards them?" Emma glanced up at me.
The earlier statement "we can just teleport out if there's trouble" played in my processor. Guess we could give that a try...
I put Jay down before transforming, opening all my doors for them to get in.
"Don't worry, I think I have a plan." I told them.
They got in and we drove towards Megsy's castle of doom. It was indeed, huge. All black, anything surrounding it was ruined and destroyed. Military vehicles and parts were scattered about, the sky seemed more cloudy then usual, and the top of the Decepticon structure had these 4 mega blasters in every direction.
So far, we were driving along and nothing was happening. Lousy security, probably because most troops are hunting us down. I don't want to jinx it though.
"Oh yeah, welcome to Jasper. The once capital city of entertainment." I introduced for them as we passed a wore down sign saying 'City of Jasper'.
Things were going smooth...too smooth. Either we were going into a trap or the cons were being so stupid today. If this is what they were like on Cybertron, then how are we losing to them?
"Uh flying dude, 9 o'clock." Mei warned.
Sure enough, there was an aerial con flying near us. I quickly drove off the road and towards one of the mountains, turning my engine off to hear them. They flew right past us...until they made a turn and started flying towards us instead.
"Drive, drive, DRIVE!" Jordan started demanding.
"Grab on to something!" I shouted before driving at top speed this alt could go.
The con started shooting, aiming closer to my tires. I made unexpected turns, trying to avoid the attacks. Why did I do this? Why?!
There was an escape, sort of...but I'm gonna go for it! Then grab out Perry and get out of here! I'm not used to having humans with me, especially alone!
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!" Kissh asked.
"Trust me on this one!"
"THIS IS SO EXCITING!"
"JAYDEN!" Everyone yelled in unison.
I finally reached where I wanted, opening my doors to get everyone out. I transformed and stared at the con who landed meters away, aiming their blaster. Now we were at the base of the con castle, an opening a few feet away.
Looking behind me, I scooped the gang up and ran to the door. It opened up and I placed the girls, and guy, at the doorway.
"Just run in there, I'll catch up!"
I gave them no time to argue as I began charging at the con. There was no showing mercy or feeling bad anymore, the cons were unforgivable now.
He was easily taken down, including his buddy who joined us mid fight. More were coming in, too many to pick off, so I got Perry out and sent them somewhere else in the world.
I shot the blaster and the groundbridge appeared right in front of them, which they couldn't stop themselves in time from entering.
The coast was clear, for now, so better go get the group before they do something stupid. More specifically, Jay.
I got inside and the halls looked just like the Nemesis, but definitely creepier.
"Guys?" I whisper shouted, cupping my servos around my mouth. I got to an intersection with another hall coming through this one.
Looking both ways, I saw no sign of them, so I continued forward. I was shocked not to run into any more Vehicons, but also grateful.
Eventually I heard their panting, down the hall where it rounded another direction.
"You guys are fast runners." I joked as soon as I reached them.
They all got spooked but were calmed down after.
"Now let's get out of here-" I was about to set the coordinates but Jay quickly shouted.
"Wait! We're here now, and we're safe. Let's take advantage of the moment."
"I really don't want to." Kissh started but Jay was having none of it.
"Oh we'll be fine, right Mei?"
Mei didn't know what to say, getting pulled into the conversation.
"Yeahhhh...perfectly safe."
"Even Riley agrees, now let's go!" She brought her notebook out and began drawing what we've already seen.
I-I didn't even say anything and she assumes I agreed. Fine then. She wandered around, eyeing all the halls and rooms.
"Wouldn't it be smarter to find the computer room?" Kissh asked.
"So we can get all the data! Great idea KK!" Emma praised, holding her hand up for a high five.
"How are we supposed to find that?" Jordan asked.
"Uh guys?"
"Well, if could be on the top or near the top floor before the open roof." Kissh theorized.
"Guys?"
"Definitely in a protective place, so look for a well guarded room." Mei suggested.
"GUYS!"
"What is it Jay?" I asked annoyed.
She pointed at the Vehicons approaching us. They weren't the normal purple colour either, but silver. Newbies maybe? They were talking amongst themselves, not quite noticing us yet.
"Scrap, Uh...lets go this way!" I transformed, telling them to just get in the back-back. They would be exposed but at least have an easier time jumping out if needed.
I drove down the halls, trying to keep the noise down as much as I could. Until I reached an elevator that had see through yellow walls to the outside world.
Letting them out, I carefully stepped in to avoid squishing one of them, and looked at the choices.
"What do those even say?" Mei asked. Right, it's Cybertronian.
"Their numbers." I told them. "Uhhh, we got many to choose from. Someone pick a number between 2 and 30."
"How about you pick any random one." Kissh said, nervously backing up.
I looked and a group of Vehicons were walking by but stopped and saw us. I did exactly as Kissh said and slapped my servo on a bunch.
The door closed as the cons started shooting us. The gang ran to the side to avoid the incoming fire while I tried shooting back.
Now, we were going up to whatever floor and there may or may not be cons on the other side.
"They should put elevator music in." Jay said.
"This doesn't even look like an elevator." Emma sighed annoyed.
How was I not taking this situation seriously? Or them? Or Jay?
The doors opened seconds later, revealing no welcoming party on the other side.
I looked down the halls before motioning them to come out. "We better go now before they figure out where we are. I mean, they already know we're in here so...that's nice."
That's when I heard a familiar noise. I looked behind me and saw someone phasing through the wall last second.
"Guys, follow me." I began running towards a nearby door, opening it up and looking inside.
I saw the figure again but I quickly shouted for them to stop. They did before phasing through another wall. They turned around and it was...
"Smokescreen!" I quickly ran up to him, actually glad to see his dumb face.
"Silverstar?! What are you doing here? And who are they?"
I released my hug to look back at the group who just made it to the doorway.
"Ah well, those are my friends and one of them was thinking to map this place out. She wanted to help plan the counter attack. Stupid idea, I know." I whispered the last part. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm going up to get on the Nemesis." He replied.
"Why?"
"To get the Forge of Solus Prime. Optimus really needs it."
"Optimus? Wait, my sire is alive?!"
"Yeah, but he's not doing good."
"Anybody want to fill us in?" Mei shouted, nearly scaring me. They were suddenly right beneath me.
"Guys, this is Smokescreen. Don't know how he got here so fast but he is here now."
They all greeted him, finding him as cool as myself.
"So they know about you being an extraterrestrial robotic alien?"
"I revealed it to them. Any chance you know where the computer room is, Smokey?"
"Oh yeah, for sure. Follow me."
I laid my servos out for my friends to step on, it was easier than driving everywhere. As he led the way, the others started asking questions.
"Your name is Silverstar?"
"How many more are there?"
"What's a sire?"
"Jay, yes. Jordan, about 6 more. Kissh, a sire is the term we use for dad."
The three of them went "Ohhh".
We eventually stopped at a corner as Smokescreen poked his helm out. He got his blaster and started taking out the guards at the door. In a few seconds, he called for us to come out.
When I stepped around, he was standing victoriously over 4 smoking and dead Vehicons.
"Woah, I like this guy." Mei commented.
"Try living with him, then come back to me."
We walked inside, seeing exactly what we needed. What was strange is that nobody was inside. Maybe they were on break? Shift change?
"Hey Silver, got a minute?"
"Uh Kissh, figure out how to get the map up." I put them down near one of the monitors before going to Smokescreen. "What's up?"
"I don't know if Optimus is going to make it. The Forge will fix him up, hopefully. But what if I return and he's not...online?"
"He's strong, he wouldn't die that easily."
"You haven't seen him though. You can't even tell it's him! His paintjob is faded and covered with dirt and marks. His face and entire body is torn and scratched and rusted. It's creepy and sad."
"I would go see him but what about them?" I gestured to the 4 girls arguing while Jordan stayed out of it.
"Get the map, I'll get the Forge. Meet you here, use the Bridge-Blaster to get them home then come with me. You can see Optimus the get back to your friends to complete the 'plan'."
I thought it over before agreeing on it.
"Be safe."
"You too."
He phased out of the room and began his adventure through the dark fortress.
I walked up to the girls, who were close to getting it right but still fighting over what to press.
"Need help?" I asked amused.
"It's that button, right?" Mei asked, pointing to the 'panic' button.
"Nope."
"Then it's this one!" Emma pointed at another, labeled 'party'. What kind of buttons were these?
"Still no."
"Then it's this one!" Jay pointed at the...what the frag? A button that activated a series of lights? Did we find a party room or something? Is this a joke? I'm so confused!
"Again, no."
"Must be this one then." Kissh gestured to the control that would wipe the entire database.
"That's useful but no." I brushed them all aside, pressing the actual keys to bring up what we wanted.
It only took a minute or two before I got it. Jay began scribbling the structure down so I went to another monitor to look up things like cameras and doors.
"Not a lot of info here but a lot of power to do things around here." There were many options to activate, deactivate, blow up, and use so many tools. I could even deactivate the defence systems.
I looked over to see everyone admiring the room or what was on screen. This was all pretty new to them, can't forget that.
The door suddenly opened.
I whipped around, blaster aimed, and sure enough there were Vehicons. They didn't notice the group yet so I took the chance to distract them away.
"Catch me if you can!" Time for a goose chase!
I winked at the gang before bolting past the cons. I could hear their pedsteps behind me, but I was faster then them, I think.
All the halls looked the same, it was quite confusing. I was taking lefts and rights everywhere, I don't know where I am!
Suddenly, a group of Vehicons were in front of me. I turned around but the previous group had caught up. There was no other corridors to run through, just this narrow hallway.
"Scrap uh...got to go!" I got Perry out and bridged myself somewhere random. I think I'm in the Amazon, or some other jungle/forest thing.
I made sure to close the bridge right behind me. That was way too close. Now to enter the coordinates from the computer room and we're all set. I recorded it down before the whole chase happened.
Putting them in, I got the bridge opened in no time. Goodbye muddy jungle, it's been a good minute.
"What happened?" Mei asked as soon as I stepped back through.
"The chase got boring so I bailed." I replied, shaking a stray vine from my arm.
I went to the door and destroyed the keypad. "Now we won't have any more unwelcome visitors."
"Aren't we unwelcome visitors?" Kissh spoke up, looking away from the other monitor.
"Yes but as of right now, no. How's the drawing?"
Jay held a thumbs up, continuing to sketch things out.
There wasn't much to do except wait for Jay to be done and for Smokey to come back. If he didn't get caught that is.
"Done! And I jotted down some of the security."
"Nice work!" Emma held up for a high five, which Jay returned.
"Now can we leave?"
"You 5 go ahead, I'll meet up you guys at Jay's house."
"Where are you going?" Jordan asked.
"I need to see my si-I mean dad."
They all understood, ushering each other to go. I opened a smaller bridge for them that led directly into Jay's room.
Groundbridge Power: 15%
Shoot, and I don't have any spare energon to fuel it up. It'll be enough to get back to Buffalo and here for the attack.
After they all went through, I waited around for almost an hour. Smokescreen hadn't shown up at all. I'm starting to think he got caught.
That was until I saw him dragging the Forge through the wall.
"What took you so long?"
"Do you know how heavy this thing is?" He asked, dropping it and falling on his aft tired.
I tried lifting and, oh yeah it's definitely heavy.
"Come on, the faster we get out the better." I held my servo out for him so he could get up.
We both counted down from 3 before lifting the heavy sucker up. It was easier to carry but still weighed a lot.
After some time, we managed to get out undetected. Which was surprising since the whole base was paranoid after hearing about intruders.
"So how'd you get back to Jasper so fast?" I asked, starting conversation.
"I didn't. As soon as I went through the bridge, I decided to go back. When I got there, everything was blown up. I saw Optimus and dragged him out of there, now him and I have been residing in this tiny space."
"You didn't follow orders? You could've gotten hurt."
"I know. But I had a feeling if I didn't go back, something would've happened. And I was right. If I didn't go back, Megatron would've found Optimus."
Realizing he was right, I didn't argue any further on it.
"Thank you...for saving him. Even if you broke command."
"Wow, your being so nice."
I started giggling. "Shut up and let's get this to him."
Smokescreen turned the Phase Shifter on, going underneath the destroyed base. Once we got in, I put the Forge down while Smokey checked up on Optimus.
When I turned around, everything Smokescreen said wasn't true. He was much worse than anything he described!
"Look, I found Silver. Optimus, you gotta hold on a little longer, I got the Forge. Just like you asked."
I went on the other side and began looking him over.
"You haven't tried patching him up?" I had noticed zero attempts at or any repairs, just a mangled version of my sire.
"I searched the wreckage of the base, there was nothing there." Smokey replied.
"Oh sire...your gonna be ok. At least you kept your promise." I grabbed his servo, holding it tightly so I wouldn't start crying.
Smokescreen went over to the Forge, propping it up against the wall. Sire's optics flashed on, opening up slowly.
They were extremely dim, more white than blue, constantly flickering. His mouth never stayed closed, constantly groaning in agony. It pained me to see him like this.
"Sire?"
"Sweetspark?" He tried looking up at me weakly.
"Smokescreen got the Forge, hold on." I told him.
"He's awake?" Smokescreen asked.
"Hurry." I ushered him but sire shook his helm slightly.
"No..."
"What?" Smokescreen and I both questioned.
"Smokescreen...that's not the reason I had you retrieve the Forge..." He replied weakly.
"Optimus..." Smokescreen was just as dumbfounded to hear this as I was.
"The Forge has limited power. It must be used on the Omega Lock...to restore Cybertron."
"So it's running low, who cares? We need to get you back into shape." Smokescreen tried arguing back gently.
"Sire, you...you need this. We'll find another way to revive Cybertron. But we can't find another way to bring you back. The Team needs you, we need you...I need you."
He looked like he wanted to say more but his optics started dimming more. With his condition, he must be so weak. He couldn't even stay awake for so long.
"Get some rest, please. For me. Don't quit now ok? I'll be back, then we can shift the balance of power for us." It pained me to leave him, I didn't want to, but we needed to take the cons down. He was safe, he had Smokescreen.
I was about to get up but his servo didn't let go of mine. I hadn't realized he managed to get a grip, but he was using his strength up! Looking back down at him, I found it harder to leave.
His helm slowly turned towards me, his optics opening slightly.
"A few minutes more..."
"You want me to stay?" He didn't answer but I had a feeling that was the case.
I looked at Smokescreen, who shrugged his shoulders. I sat back down, talking with Smokescreen quietly about what to do. Occasionally, I looked back at him and hummed the song...the one he better sing to me once he gets back into his old self again.
"He doesn't want the Forge." Smokescreen said.
"He needs it, we both know that."
"But he doesn't want to waste the Forge's energy."
"It won't be wasted." I firmly told him.
"I know...but he doesn't think he's worth it."
We both looked at his now peaceful form. He still looked in pain, almost asking for mercy. But at least he could rest up, he wouldn't slip away in recharge. He couldn't.
"Use it on him when he wakes up, please. We both know it's the better option. Plus, he's in no position to argue."
Smokescreen nodded in agreement. I let my sire's servo go, kissed his forehelm (forehead), then got up.
"Take care of him, I'll be back."
Smokescreen gave a thumbs up, trying to smile. The mech looked like he needed a hug, so I provided one.
"You got this. It is your destiny after all." I whispered to him before going through the groundbridge.
After seeing sire in that condition, a flame in me burned more than ever, motivating me to fight the cons. They needed to leave my home and family alone.
(~The Next Day~)
"So...what do you think?" Emma asked enthusiastically.
I looked in the mirror, turning my head side to side.
"It looks good." I replied smiling.
"Now you look badass." Mei complimented.
"All Emma did was brush my bangs to the side and cut my hair above my shoulder."
"I know, but that cyan strand sticking out looks cool! Especially with your hair mostly on your left side." Jay agreed with Mei.
"And my old clothes definitely suit your style." Emma added.
I was wearing a white tank top, a red plaid crop jacket, black jeans, and low cut black boots. My crystal looked more like a choker now then a necklace now as well.
"I definitely look different."
"The cons won't recognize you now."
"In human form." I pointed out.
"Right. Well, we're getting to that part. Kissh, you phoned your dad?" Jordan asked looking over at her.
"Yep! All set. Now, your holoform can change right?"
"Yeah."
"Then we can say hello to Riley's mom." Jay introduced, putting me back in front of the mirror.
I was so confused. "You want me to pretend to be my own mom?"
"I've already made a compelling story too." Kissh said in a 'matter of fact' way.
(~Time Skip~)
"Those kids are really lucky to have each other." Mr Fernsby laughed off, seeing the gang fool around in his car shop.
"They really are." I replied.
"So what can I help you with?"
"I'm going back home today, long road trip I know, but there was a super good deal I saw online for trucks. My daughter, Riley, always wanted one to drive when she was older. She's nearly old enough to get her license so why not get her first vehicle now?" Not a good story Kissh made up, but it'll do.
"Your daughter is lucky to have such a wonderful mother. Unfortunately Kissh's mom isn't here with us today, but I try my best. I was planning to do the same thing as well, kids grow up too fast."
"They certainly do."
"So what would you like done on the truck? I can pop the hood and check underneath, make sure everything is in working order."
"If it's not a problem, I'm also looking to maybe repaint it. The previous owner did not have good choices when it came to a paintjob." Yeah, I insulted my natural born colours, sue me.
"Well, the shop isn't busy this week. I'm sure I can get that all done in a couple of days."
"Really? That would be so great. How much is it gonna cost?"
"Don't worry about it. I'm gonna give ya a one time deal. Your daughter has always been there for my little girl, I gotta find a way to thank her somehow." Kissh's dad is so nice!
"Thank you so much Mr Fernsby."
"Never a problem Mrs Pax."
Ok good, 2 days as a holoform while someone pokes around my alt. This'll be fun. I hope my dad can last that long, and the cons don't do anything drastic.
I walked over to the group, feeling a bit weird now that I was a bit taller than them.
"How'd it go?"
"Good, your dad believed the story and everything. Now we wait for two days."
"Well, we got our plan sorted out. I say sleepover!" Jay exclaimed, throwing her arms out.
"Yeah no." Jordan denied. Could you blame the poor guy?
"Awww, afraid of getting attacked by 5 girls?" Emma taunted him.
"I'm not going to a sleepover with the likes of those two." He specifically pointed at Mei and Jay, who took playful offence.
"We don't need you at our party anyway." Jay smiled, bringing us all in. It felt weird since I looked like an adult now.
"You do that, I'm heading out." Jordan started leaving before Emma stopped him, kissing him on the cheek.
Mei faked gagged and Jay scrunched her face up.
"Oh stop it you two, let them be happy." Kissh slapped the back of both their heads.
We all walked out of the shop, heading to back to Jay's house for the 'sleepover'. I changed my holoform so it looked like regular me, or the new me I should say.
Everyone went to their own homes to gather their stuff while I hung out with Jay. We planned devious things for the nights to come.
(~Time Skip~) (I know, there's a lot of these XD)
"Tell us what colours you picked!"
"Nope."
"Please?"
"Jay, stop. I'm not telling you. And nobody else start!"
We all began laughing, nearing the shop. I changed my holoform back to 'my mom' before entering.
"Ah Mrs Pax, right this way. You girls and Jordan stay behind. It's no place for a child."
"Daaaad, we aren't kids anymore!"
"Ah Ah, I don't want any excuses."
They all whined or complained in their own ways. I whispered to them to meet me out front.
Mr Fernsby led me to my alt, which definitely looked different now. It was perfect. I absolutely love it!
"Think it's up to Riley's standards?"
"She'll love it." I replied calmly while I died internally from happiness.
I pulled up outside, seeing the others waiting. I could tell they loved the new look as well. I'm definitely ready for battle.
"Wow, loving the colours." Mei looked...I guess, me over? That sounds weird. She looked my alt over.
"Midnight purple with cyan touches, really vamps up the original scheme." Jordan agreed.
"Hey, what's this?" Kissh asked.
I got out and looked at what she was pointing at.
"Oh, I asked your dad for one more tiny thing. I think it's about time I finally got it."
"Is that your guy's...symbol." Jay guessed.
"What good is an Autobot who doesn't show off their pride?"
"You guys are called the Autobots? Your middle name makes some much more sense now." Jordan realized.
(~At Darkmount, NV~)
"Good luck and remember the plan." Jay said.
"Smash their faces in!" Mei encouraged.
"You've got this, just be careful." Emma hugged me after.
"Let us know if you win. Can't keep us in the dark anymore." Jordan joked, laughing a bit himself.
"You got the information, time to put it to use out there." Kissh reminded before I left.
"I'll make you guys proud." I looked over at my sire, who still laid there weakly.
Smokescreen fell into his persuasion and didn't use the Forge on him. But I was going to make him.
"I'll make you proud too, sire."
Smokescreen escorted me out, since he had the Phase Shifter and I did not.
"Hopefully the others will make it here in time, don't need you doing it alone."
"All I need to do is mess up their operations. Anything is possible alone, just gotta take the right approach."
I looked down at Perry, just enough power to make one last groundbridge. Smokescreen and I now had to part ways, in an attempt to get Jasper back. I managed to convince him to use the Forge, and made him promise.
"See you on the other side." He waved goodbye, backing up into the rocks.
"See you on the other side." I repeated before going through the groundbridge.
Since our break in, the fortress no longer allows groundbridges of any origin to activate within it. So gotta break through a bottom entrance.
As I started going in, everyone was already in a panic. Over the comm, Starscream told the insecticons to prepare for battle.
I could hear a couple down the hall coming my way. I went up against the wall, blending in with the shadows. They passed by without even noticing. This darker paintjob really does the trick.
"Computer room, computer room, where are you?" I sang in a little tune, looking around every corner.
=Seeker Armada to the flight deck.= Starscream's voice rang out again.
=Your target is the Decepticon Warship, the Harbinger. You are to obliterate it, at once!=
That must be where the others are! We're they planning something too? Talk about perfect timing if so.
As soon as I got to the elevator, the whole place shook. Alarms started blaring out, lights flashing in the halls. And the elevator was out of use.
"Good going guys."
I turned down the halls, deciding to climb up from the South side. I blasted a whole in the exterior wall, gusts of air flying in.
Both sides of the hall were echoing from pedsteps, meaning I had to go right now.
I shuffled outside and onto the small ledge, waiting there until they left. Then I began my climb up.
"Don't look down, keep your grip, you're going to be fine, just don't look down."
I eventually reached the floor I think I wanted. Taking my blaster, I made another glorious hole to go through.
Now I recognized where I was. I quickly ran to the correct door, blasting through it. Taking everyone out from behind was easy, I didn't even miss a single shot.
"Now, this better work." I started typing at the keys, bringing up the cons defence and warning systems. At the touch of a button, it was shut off.
"Now we erase all the data." The button from a couple days ago finally came in handy.
The computers were wiped cleaned, only the controls remaining.
Now for the final part. "Lights out."
The whole room I was in turned dark, but I could see the seeping light from under the doorway. If anyone wanted to do anything in here, not they needed to turn on the power.
The cons could turn it all back on, if they got through a tiny little virus.
Now, something else Kissh and Jay managed to find out, was how to deactivate those 4 big canons up top. There was a specific room apparently, so guess that's my next stop.
I went into my subspace and pulled the tiny paper. Well, the big obvious red circle might be where this room is.
Another trip back outside then. I put the paper back, heading for the blown out part of the wall.
When I looked outside, I saw a ship flying in the air being chased by...IS THAT A DRAGON?!
A groundbridge appeared, the ship juking upwards last second and the Dragon going through it.
Well, didn't know there were robotic dragons. Good to know though.
I climbed back up on the wall, going nearly to the top of this whole thing. It was getting tiring, but it was so close! If the bots were here, then they need all the help they can get.
The room was right ahead of me once I got on. It took way too long to get up here, but I was now.
As I approached it, Megatron started coming out. I ducked behind a spike, listening for him to leave. Sounded like he was dragging something, but checking out what might blow my cover.
Once it was silent, apart from the winds, I ran to the room and immediately got to work. These weren't any simple computers, and it's nothing I have seen before. Talk about security.
"You there, raise your servos up and turn around." Scrap.
I slowly turned around, seeing how many guys were there. They took notice of my new Autobot symbol though, which was not good.
"Lord Megatron, we found an Autobot attempting to deactivate the fusion canons." One of them reported in.
There were too many, I couldn't take them on. Perry was no good either. Frag me into the next dimension.
"Servos up." A different one called out.
Reluctantly, I did so. 2 got behind me while 3 of them waited by the door.
We were about to leave when we heard some jet noises from above. It was flying awfully fast, heading towards the peak of the fortress. No con seemed to recognize who it was, the scheme being red and blue...no. It can't be.
While these guys were distracted however, I took the 2 out from behind me, hiding behind the fusion core from the remaining ones.
If they were smart, they'd trap me both ways. But they didn't even move, just aiming in case I poked my helm out.
"If you don't come and get me, I'll destroy the controls." I got my blaster out, aiming it at the computer stations.
Nobody still made a move, so catching them off guard, I shot at them instead.
"Too easy." I said as the 3 Vehicons, with holes in their sparks, dropped dead to the ground.
"OPTIMUS!" Megatron angrily shouted from the sky.
I ran to one of the open windows, nearly falling out of it to see what the frag was going on.
Sure enough, Megatron was charging the red and blue blur from earlier. Wait, it is him. Sire's alive! He's alive! How'd he learn to fly so fast? When did he get the ability to fly?!
Him and Megatron started having an air battle while another one happened on the ground.
Everybody was here! Team Prime was back together! In your face, Decepticons!
"Freeze!" Again, seriously?
=Activate the fusion canons, and await my command.= Starscream's voice rang out from the computer stations.
=Hello? Control? Do you copy!?=
The cons were not having it and began opening fire. Don't they know they could hit the power source and blow us all up?!
I wasn't taking that risk!
"Ok ok! Stop shooting!" I came out servos raised. They stopped immediately but seemed to be looking at something else.
I turned around and Megatron was heading directly towards us! He landed in the power core, the monitors sparking and blowing up.
With nothing left to do, I quickly jumped out. I turned to look up, seeing the whole joint blow up. That was close...
BUT NOW I'M IN FREE FALL!
"I'm gonna die, I'M GONNA DIE!" NOT HOW I WANTED TO GO OUT!
I turned back around, seeing the ground approaching closer and closer! This was it, why did it have to be like this!
Closing my optics, I expected the ground any second now. But I felt myself no longer falling.
I slowly opened my optics and found myself in somebodies arms. Screaming, I tried pushing myself out. It was a flight or fight response!
"Sweetspark, it's me."
"Sire?!"
Sure enough, once I stopped fighting against him, it was sire I was staring at. He looked super different, and oddly younger.
"How...when...your alive!" I wrapped my arms around him, burying my face in his shoulders.
"I thought you were going to die. You were refusing the Forge and-"
"Smokescreen used it in the end. I nearly joined the Allspark, but it never happened."
"Thank Primus too. Now uh, mind putting me on the ground?"
He nodded as he flew right down. I was not used to this, and I don't trust his flying skills quite yet. I held on for dear life as he gently landed on the ground.
I hopped out of his arms immediately, still a bit shaken from what transpired.
The whole fortress was down now, crumbled to the ground as the cons retreated.
"Sir, today's mission has been successful." A mech approached sire, being all formal.
"And who is this?" He asked, now looking at me.
I looked to the side awkwardly, and in doing so, saw the others. Bee had a black and yellow paintjob now, and Wheeljack got himself some battle scars.
They noticed me as well, Bumblebee almost running towards me. No wait, he was running. Wait, wait, WAIT!
He knocked us both down, and I could see the others approaching, laughing their helms off.
"I missed you too Bee. But it wasn't that long, maybe 3-4 days?"
::Yeah, of not knowing who's alive.:: He added. ::It was torture.::
"Glad to see you alive, Princess." Wheeljack just gave me a nickname, and I hate it. What? Cause my sire is Optimus or something?
Arcee helped me up while Bulkhead helped Bee.
"I see you and Bee got the same idea." Arcee looked at the two of us, pointing out our dark looks.
"Ratchet, we are in need of a groundbridge." The mystery mech commed.
"So all of you found each other? How?" I asked.
"Ultra Magnus found our signals apparently." Bulkhead explained.
"Ultra Magnus?"
"That guy." Wheeljack pointed to the mostly blue with some red mech. Oh, that's his designation.
"Agent Fowler is sending us coordinates to meet him at." Magnus informed sire.
In the distance, on the abandoned highway, I saw an all too familiar sports car.
"Wondering when your were show." Everyone turned around after I said that, to see Smokey transform and approach us.
"The kid made it." Arcee said gladly.
"Still can't believe I missed the action." Smokescreen somewhat sulked.
"There'll be plenty of cooler battles Smokescreen." I told him, patting his back.
A groundbridge appeared in front of us all, so we walked through. Ratchet, Jack, Miko, and Raf were there, awaiting everyone.
Thank Primus this whole thing worked out in our favour. We have a chance to win again!
"I'm groundbridging all of us out of here." Ratchet began typing away, bringing up another bridge.
"Hey you three." I greeted once Jack, Miko, and Raf were done hugging their guardians.
"Silverstar!" Miko squealed, running up to hug my leg. I crouched down and gave her my servo instead.
"How'd you find them?" Jack asked, seemingly happy.
"Right place, right time."
"We got to play a role in helping the team invade Darkmount." Raf announced excitedly.
"Darkmount? That's what it was called? Weird name. What'd you guys do?"
"Groundbridge across the country, getting the cons to spilt up." Miko explained.
"I pretended to be one of them, saying there was an attack on one of their mining operations." Jack ran his hand through his hair like his part in all this was embarrassing.
"Lucky."
I looked up at Ratchet, who was looking through the monitors.
"Excuse me for a moment." I got back up and walked towards him.
"Ratchet?" He turned his helm, giving a greeting nod.
"I...I'm sorry for the stuff I said back at base."
He sighed before turning around and...smiling?
"It's alright. You had every right to be mad."
"I definitely did not-"
"Autobots, it's time to move!" Ultra Magnus shouted, catching everyone's attention.
"Come on, we can discuss this later."
Everyone went through, ending up at a hanger. Fowler took a moment and gave a moving speech, which he rarely did.
He thanked the bots for their bravery and heroism, saying how sad he was that the world couldn't know of them yet.
Ultra Magnus handed the leadership back to sire as well.
This was apparently our new base of operations. Definitely will get some getting used to.
I had one last thing to do myself. Using my comm link, I called up the gang.
"Hey guys...Mission successful."
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So my girlfriend (Twinwave14, check her stories out) suggested I take a break since these chapters have been coming out either shorter or not on their scheduled day.
So for a week at least, I'm gonna peace out.
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