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Chapter 7- Surgery and Forges
POV: Rainjet
": :" Bumblebee talking
(Note: this chapter takes place during season 2 ep 7 "Crossfire" of TFP)
You know, it has been a while since we've had a chapter on me and hopefully we get the opportunity to see it all the way through this time.
Soundwave and I were working on the bridge attempting to decipher the other Iacon relic locations, though whatever this was coded in we were having a hard time understanding it. None the less we were getting the job done as quickly as we could. The door to the bridge opened and of course I'd forgotten that Airachnid had requested an audience with Megatron, I just hadn't realized it would be when we were here. "If it pleases you, Lord Megatron." she started as she came in, this was already off to a great start.
"Once Soundwave and Rainjet discover a means of decoding the remainder of the Iacon database, as we know they will. I would suggest deployment of an underutilized asset." she continued coming to a pause behind Megatron, she was stood at attention to address him so she did have a little bit of respect.
"And what asset would that be, Airachnid?" Megatron replied, furthering the conversation so she would just spill whatever she was here to talk about and leave. "I believe that my suppirror tracking skills would expedite your quest to recover the remaining relics." she replied, so far the conversation was going on painfully slow.
Even with my optics on the screen and my dgitis typing away and attempting to decipher this dumb code, I could hear and feel the painfully slowness and the distrust Megatron had directed towards Airachnid. "Noted." was the only thing Megatron said back before she kneeled, "You are a gracious audience, my lord." Airachnid said before arising and leaving the room. On her way out she greeted Soundwave and I, because of how busy I was I gave her a nod of my helm before going straight back to work.
The doors to the room opened and then shut, which meant the three of us were along with each other again. "Soundwave, remind me of her trust worthiness." Megatron said, he turned towards the two of us and I took a pause from my work. It took a second but Soundwave reterved the audio clip he was looking for and played it, "I believe we must consider the possibility of a future, without Megatron." Airachnid's audioed voice played.
I remembered when she'd said that a few deca-cycles (Months) ago but I was surprised Soundwave didn't have another clip to use against her. "I'll be back. Rainjet, you are being deployed to find another relic with the coordinates you've decrypted. Your company will meet you at the ground bridging room shortly." that was all Megatron said before he exited the room.
Soundwvae looked at me and I shrugged, "Who knows." I replied to his black visor screen stare before I exited after Megatron but instead of following him I headed towards the Ground bridge area I had sent Optimus through so many deca-cycles ago, I had memories all around this ship, some bad, some good.
And after living there for stellar cycles you knew where everything was, but when I got the portal room Airachnid, Breakdown and Dreadwing greeted me with a nod. "Alright, let's get this over with." Airachnid said as I turned on the portal and fired it up, Soundwave would come along later and turn it off. I pulled up the coordinates and inputted them quickly so bow we had our set destination. It took less than a minute for the four of us to be through the portal and gone, I knew Soundwave would turn it off for us so I didn't bother.
When we reappeared on the other side we were met with a drab forest, very dark and gloomy, the perfect place for whatever Megatron had set the two mech's up to do. "It's this way." I said, somewhere along the way I'd remembered to grab the Iacon signal finder Soundwave had made for me. I
pointed straight ahead of us and our group started walking, "Am I the only one here who considers this to be overkill on lord Megatron's part? I mean two of his most proficient warriors and his best coder to track down one unconfermermed Energon spike that may or may not be a relic." Airachnid said as we walked. I had to agree it was fishy but as long as I could fly faster than the other two and out maneuver them I knew I wasn't being the one executed.
"Megatron knows me and Dreadwing here will get the job done." Breakdown said, finally catching up to us. Even though we hadn't gone that far and I knew he was referring to the warrior part, none of these idiots could actually code. "Actually I was referring to Dreadwing and myself." Airachnid replied glazing over her shoulder and giving him a look of sorts, I heard a "grrr" before dreadwing stopped him from doing something stupid. "Breakdown, remain on task this must be a unified effort." he reminded him, "Indeed, Breakdown. I know we've never seen optics to optic but that doesn't mean we can't patch things up." Airachnid added, she added a wink and I stepped back from her towards Dreadwing because things were about to get nasty. "THAT'S IT!" he yelled and changed at her.
"Don't-" was the only thing Dreadwing could get out of if his intake before Breakdown engaged her, Airachnid transformed into her spinder form and sprayed his remaining optic with webbing before settling into a tree and being fired at by Dreadwing. "Well that escalated quickly." I muttered, I knew as long as I was't firing my blaster I would survive to see tomorrow. As quickly as things jhad started they got worse, Dreadwing charged and fired at her as Breakdown attempted to get his servo unstuck from his helm.
Dreadwing managed to to fire enough on her to break the tree she was perched on and send her flying into the one next to it and come crashing back down to earth, in the process she managed to break the bottom of one of her spider legs and web Dreadwing to a tree before fleeing. Breakdown got his servo free and chased after her, "BREAKDOWN, DON'T BE A FOOL AND RELEASE ME!" Dreadwing yelled after him. I waited till the coast was clear and both of them were gone before I transformed my blade and started cutting dreadwing free, in the distance a scream that sounded like Breakdown broke out.
He was as good as dead now, that was, if he hadn't been dismantled already. "BREAKDOWN WHAT IS YOUR STATIS? BREAKDOWN!?" Dreadwing yelled into the comm channel. "If you don't want to attract attention from her I suggest you shut up, that mech's as good as dead now if she hasn't snuffed his spark already." I said as i cut him free, the webbing snapped and he pulled himself away from the tree trunk before pulling the rest of the webbing off his body. "I'm going to look for him." Dreadwing said to me, he started walking away before I ran after him. "Are you crazy?! She probably tore Breakdown to shreds and you'll get the same treatment if you go looking for him." I replied but he kept walking away from me, there was no swaying him.
"If you're going to get yourself killed, I might as well come with you to tell Megatron." I said trailing after him. We followed the trial of energon that probably came from Airachnid's broken leg, it took us through the woods always and then to this alcove of sorts. It had a huge rock in the dirt and a single strand of cut webbing stretching above where we walked, "She was here."
Dreadwing said, stating the obvious. "But where is he?" I replied, Breakdowns remain, if there were any, weren't here at all. They'd seemed to vanish out of thin air along with Airachnid, "We should leave, we don't know where she is nor if those vile humans that butchered Breakdown before this are out hunting." I said. Dreadwing nodded and the two of us transformed and headed back to the Nemesis, we had a scrap ton of explaining to do but first I needed to get back to Soundwave.
I untransformed and hurried out of the hangar and back towards the room Soundwave, Megatron and I had been in before. All the while giving a silent prayer to Primus that Megatron wasn't in there and I could blend silently into the background, the halls were the usual quite as I crept back towards the room. I clenched my dermas together as the door opened, Soundwave was the only one in there at that point. So I walked towards my desk and started decoding again. Soundwave was giving me a look. I wasn't returning it because I was far too concerned about how we lost Breakdown right now.
I'm assuming the minutes ticked by because sooner than expected I heard Megatron and Dreadwong come in, I looked up from my computer to greet them in a way but went right back to working. "Soundwave, locate Breakdown's signal. Dreadwing has told me it's gone offline." Megatron demanded of my partner who graciously compiled but when he traced Breakdown's signal all that came up was negative, the Soundwave checked vitals.
Also negative, I'd had a feeling that Airachnid had scrapped him but one could never be too sure. "It seems the reason for our inability to locate Breakdown's signal is all too clear." Megatron said approaching Dreadwing who stood at attention, thank Primus I wasn't going to be screamed at too. My job had simply been to take them to the relic, or it would seem that had been the trap. "But how is it that you were unable to recover his remains!" Megatron hissed and Dredwing who had his helm bowed as he was lectured.
The signal for the communications line started beeping, "What is it?" Megatron said. I clicked the flashing icon to patch whoever was calling through to the system, "Heard from Breakdown lately?" an all too familiar voice asked. Airachnid had called even after she'd been nearly assassinated by Dreadwing and the late Breakdown, which was gutsy in itself. "Trace the communication." was something I barely heard Megatron say but I was already working on it, I followed the signals source as she monologue. "Megatron really, you sent simple henchmen and one henchwomen to terminate a high ranking officer. I thought you reserved that honor for yourself." she said snarkily, the signal beeped as I finally located the origin of the signal. It seems she'd drilled herself into an abandoned energon mine on the continent the humans called "South America". "Is that a challenge?" Megatron hissed at her.
"An invitation, and since Soundwave or Rainjet is no doubt tracing this signal you know where to find me." She replied before she terminated the communications line, I'd managed to get the fix a few seconds before that so Megatron had already gotten a good look where that spider had made a new web for herself. "I'll be back." Megatron said as the communication terminated.
He'd turned and headed for the door before anyone could get a second opinion out of their intakes, "Allow me to accompany you." Dreadwing said after him. He was clearly eager to redeem himself and make up for today's loss but Megatron was like that, I never gave second chances only executions. Megatron paused before the door, "You already had your chance." he growled before exiting the room. He was headed towards the hanger already and that was then the end of that conversation, the room went quiet again.
Then Dreadwing headed for the door, "If you're going after him you might as well take me and a few eradicons." I said. I got up from my desk and went after him, "I do not need your help or any additional help from others." Dreadwong replied. He kept walking towards the door, "then you're going to meet the same fate as both Breakdown and Skyquake, noether had backup and looked where that led them." I replied. I watched his body tense at the mention of his fallen brother, "Fine, but do not get in my way." he replied before leaving to the hanger.
I nodded my helm though he couldn't see it and turned towards my partner who had been watching the conversation with what I assumed was a judgemental stare, "Can you assemble me fifteen eradicons, please?" I asked sweetly. I knew he'd do it either way but acting like an absolute child pissed him off so it was more fun that way, I didn't get a nod but he turned back to his computer and I knew he was working on it. Thanks Sounders!" I said using his hated nickname before turning and following the same way Dreadwing and Megatron had used moments before to go to the hanger.
When I got there after walking through the dark halls of the ship I ment Dreadwing and about 25 eradicons on deck, "You know where we're going?" he asked me. I nodded my helm before we transformed and blasted out of the hanger. It was dreary outside and the clouds almost blended into the grey sky, the trip to the abandoned mine wasn't going to take that long considering we were in the area.
Dreadwing led the charge into the mine when we got there, it seemed as though Optimus had taken advantage of whatever prior fight Megatron had gotten into because blasters were transformed and charged on Megatron and his helm when we flew over top of the mine. "Eradicons, take your charge and open fire!" was the command I thought I heard Dreadwign say but I'm pretty sure it wasn't just my imagination because the eradicons dived and opened fire on the Autobots below.
I followed suit with the rest of them but instead of firing I counted how many there were, four, only four of them. Arcee wasn't accounted for and noether was Arachnid so they must have been taking care of eachother while this went down, everyone landed one by one. The eradicons made a perimeter around the Autobots and megatron while Dreadwing and I landed behind our fallen leader with his blaster drawn off his back and my blaster transformed and aimed at Prime.
"Deliver Megatron to usand I will allow you to live." Dreadwing reasoned, he gave them a pretty good deal if you ask me. If the probably twenty two of us opened fire on them right now, they would have had nowhere to run or hide for cover in the thorpeness of the cave. "NEVER TRUST A CON! KICK BUCKETHEAD'S BUCKET!" I believe Bulkhead yelled, that's his name right? I never really got to know any of their names cause, ya know, I'm a Decepticon not an Autobot. I moved my weapon off of Optimus Prime and onto Bulkhead, I think, I don't know he's the big green one.
Because his weapon was now charged on Dreadwing rather than Megatron, there was a moment of silence as Optimus Prime weighed his options. He glanced down at Megatron who only looked back up at him, "Dreadwing. Do I have your word?" Optimus finally asked him. I looked at the mech next to me as I felt the tension around us build, everyone in the room was waiting for his decision and the eradicons were waiting for the command.
Finally, as the tension peaked Dreadwing raised his blaster and put it back on his back. Optimus discharged his blasters and transformed them to servos, I switched from Bulkhead to Optimus as Dreadwing stepped forward to help Megatron to his feet. "My league." he greeted as he hoisted Megatron up from underneath his arms back into a sort of standing position, both Bumblebee and Bulkhead moved from behind us to join Optimus' side so they wouldn't be in the way of our retreat.
"Dreadwing may have given you his word but I did not." Megatron siad, he resided an arm and pointed an outstraded digit at Optimus and his crew. Twinwave among them, she still had her swords out and from what I could see before the blaster fire would inevitably start, her crystal was back on her neck. "DESTROY THEM!" Megatron yells and the eraicons from all sides opened fire on the Autobots in front of us, I made optic contact with Twin briefly and gave a small smile as if to say "hi, sorry about this" before the three of us lept into the air and took off while the eradicons did the dirty work.
We were out of the mine and in the air, speeding back towards the Nemesis before the Auotbots assumingly knew what was happening. We soared above the clouds before Megatron spoke about the whole, following thing. "You disobeyed my orders in following me here." he said harshly, I could tell a storm was coming on but to my surprise we both received a sort of praise. "You will make a fine First Lieutenant, Dreadwing. And you will receive more missions because of your initiative, Rainjet." Megatron praised before he rocketed ahead of us, I smiled, though you couldn't see it. I was happy I was going to be going on more missions instead of being trapped on the Nemesis all the time.
Dreadwing and I boosted our engines and rocketed after him, we ascended higher into the cloud cover to reach the Nemesis' hanger. I couldn't wait to tell Soundwave the news, things were finally looking up and maybe I'd see if Twin wanted to meet up again even if we both were a little too busy right now and needed as much recharge as we could get.
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