Prime, Chapter 23
Terrance laughed hearing what Rafael had asked him. In all honest he figured it was about time someone figured it out, though he expected Optimas or Jack to figure it out before the others. Oh well, still didn't really change anything, nor does it change why he's here. The young man stared at him in confusion to his laugh because it wasn't a mean spirited laugh, more like he found it entertaining that he'd questioned him about it and really couldn't figure out why he'd do that.
"You're right Rafael, I'm not exactly human." The sand colored blond spoke up still laughing a bit about the fact that someone had finally figured it out. "But I'm not exactly Cybertronian either."
"Wait, then what are you?" Rafael questioned not understanding and trying to figure it out, maybe he was like Lizzie and was both, but could that really be the case? If so who are his parents, it all just didn't add up in his head.
"For now, let's just say I'm a pretender and leave it at that." He explained telling the youngest of the group not to worry about it because he'd tell them everything when the time came, and currently that's not what's important.
Suddenly the alarm started going off through the entire base indicating they'd discovered something important and they began heading off to the room as Optimas began getting a team together. He told Wheel Jack, Ultra Magnus, Smoke Screen, and Bumble Bee to join him. He also spoke up about Terry going as well, though he quickly reminded Optimas that he isn't one of his Autobots and began working on the computer again, whatever he was doing had to be important though and they all left immediately.
"What's so important you would ignore a request from Optimas Prime?" Rafael questioned going over to look at whatever Terry was doing on the computer confused about what he was working on and why he wouldn't go with Optimas.
"It's almost finished, just have patients, this will take a bit longer then all will be revealed." Terry explained to the young teen as he continued his work on the computer, it looked like he was working on some kind of map. But why he would do so no one really knows but him and so left him to his work.
"How much is a bit longer?" Miko questioned walking over wondering just how much longer they would have to wait for him to start actually getting into the action, she was ready to watch him kick some serious Con.
"Oh, I'd say within the next chapter or two." The sand colored blond responded to her while looking up for a moment and winking before getting back to his work, though why exactly he'd done this they weren't entirely sure since he wasn't looking at either of them. Maybe there was something on the map they weren't seeing that he was winking at.
"What?" Both Miko and Rafael questioned at the same time unable to comprehend just what he was talking about causing him to roll his eyes at them and just go back to their work.
"Never mind." The nineteen year old sighed rolling his eyes and continuing to work on whatever he was doing on the computer, it looked like he was working on pinpointing something, but whatever it was had to be important, possibly even what the Decepticons wanted with him in the first place.
Meanwhile the Autobots were in the midst of battle with the Decepticons, they were under heavy fire, but managing to strike down the vehicrons little by little as they were dealing with the other decepticons as well. Soon they were in a much more favorable position as Galvatron had gotten what he wanted from the area and took off leaving Airachnid to deal with the Autobots knowing she'd either handle it or escape, either way he got what he was after so he didn't much care about the outcome at this point.
"Tell me, why hasn't Jack joined you on missions lately?" Airachnid questioned wanting to know just why Jack hadn't been joining them for missions lately, she missed having him as a play thing.
"ORION is at home with Arcee and their daughter." Smoke Screen spoke up telling Airachnid that she doesn't have a change with him because he's got a family while shooting at the spider Decepticon.
"WHAT!?" She screamed hearing that and sounding incredibly angry and surprised at the same time. "That, that, THAT TRAMP, HOW DARE SHE TAKE MY JACK FROM ME!" The Spider Decepticon demanded sounding incredibly angry about hearing that Jack, HER Jack had a baby with Arcee her worst enemy. She'd have to do something about that, once they find out where the Autobots are hiding their new base.
"First of all, he ain't YOUR Jack, the two of them were together long before you tried to sink your fangs into him." Wheel Jack spoke up firing at the Spider trying to squash her in order to help diminish the Decepticon threat while avoiding her web based attacks.
"The two of them are happy together, a concept I'm not sure you would ever understand." Optimus spoke also blasting at Airachnid and the vehicrons that were left behind trying to get past and stop Galvatron.
"Optimus, go we'll handle these cons." The dual sword wielder called out to the leader of the Autobots while slashing through some Cons, to which the Autobot leader nodded and activated his jets and flew on off after Galvatron to blast him out of the sky and take whatever it was that he was trying to steal from the site.
The Autobot leader flew off blasting at Galvatron and a mid air battle began to take place as the two of them had a dog fight dodging and blasting at one another over and over again until Optimus managed to clip one of the wings on Galvatron causing him to be sent careening in a downward spiral towards the ground, he had to Transform to avoid crashing, this gave Optimus the chance to blast the container sending it free falling towards the ground.
"Give it up Galvatron." Optimus spoke flying down to grab the container before Galvatron had the chance to do so and blasting at the new Decepticon leader to keep it away from them.
"NEVER! This belongs to the Decepticons and you Autobots won't touch it." He spoke trying to reach the container but Optimus blasted it further out of their reach as they were getting dangerously close to the ground, sadly neither one was able to get to it first and Galvatron slammed into the ground trying to avoid any real damage he grabbed onto a cliff wall to slow his decent.
"That container belongs to the Autobots and we'll keep you from using whatever's inside to further your evil deeds." Spoke the Prime as he flew down and ducked avoiding a blast from Galvatron by hiding behind a stone wall. The two of them continued to fight over it when what looked like a ground bridge opened up in front of the two of them causing them to both stop temporarily to see what was going on.
"Actually, you're both wrong. THIS Belongs to the Pretenders." The person who walked out spoke picking it up. Both Optimus and Galvatron were caught off guard by what they saw standing before them. It was the same young man that Galvatron had kidnapped, the one that was working with the Autobot computers since his escape. Terrance was standing right in front of them. "And I'll be happy to have it back." He continued to speak looking over at the two of them before walking back into the ground bridge and it disappeared.
Seeing that a human had gotten the best of him Galvatron let out an roar of anger and began blasting wildly at Optimus and anyone that got close. "YOU DARE HAVE YOUR PET STEAL MY PRIZE!?" The Cybertronian leader of the Decepticons spoke in anger while continuing to fire at anyone that got close to him.
"While it is good that he managed to get the container away from you, it was not on my orders that he did so. Terrance has refused to listen to any orders that I give them and has made it clear he is not a part of the autobot team." Optimus Prime stated to Galvatron who was tiring himself out from all the blasting he was doing.
"Consider this a brief setback Prime, next time we will take the prize. Soundwave send a bridge now." Galvatron called as a bridge opened up allowing him to return to the ship and had it closed behind him before Optimus could do anything to stop them from getting away.