Chapter 9- Alive ship
POV: Twinwave
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": :" Bumblebee talking
"Hi" over the comm talking
(Note: this chapter takes place during season 2 ep 9 "Fly mind " Of TFP)
(I decided to skip both Armada and grill because armada didn't have much for me to wrote about and grill is just a recap)
To give you a debriefing on what's happened over the past twenty flourish hours we need to get one thing clear, you can't think I'm lying to you. Because trust me, I doubt I could make this up if I tried. For starters, Starscream cloned himself and used said clones to try and terminate Megatron, they were all killed in the process. Then we get attacked by insecticons controlled by Airachnid that then bow to Megatron, ater that our power core blows and I'm going to assume an Autobot or insecticon was the reason. Which lands us here, literally. In the middle of nowhere stranded on the ground until we can reaper the power core, did I mention we're currently half on half off a cliff? Didn't think so.
"Dreadwing, damage report." Megatron said over the Syrians from almost everything in the ship after we'd made our emergency landing. Thankfully I was still on my pedes as many were not, along with the countless sparking things around our helms (their literally the meme of the dog sitting inside the house that's on fire that says "This is fine."). "We have suffered critical damage to all major systems, Lord Megatron. It will be sometime before we can get the ship airborne." Dreadwing replied, which was not good because it mwnt we were sitting ducks and very open for attack.
"Soundwave." Megatron said, he glanced in my partners direction as he displayed the surveillance footage from the powercore before and during the explosion. "It seems we had an Autobot infiltrate the ship and blow the powercore, Megatron." I said giving the basic overview of the footage though it was apparent. "They will move quickly to exploit any perceived weakness." Megatron muttered, I was about to contradict but that would be exposing my relationship with one to everyone in this room and the leader of the Decepticons, not a good idea.
"Surely they're not foolish enough to launch a direct assault, my league." Knockout reminded us, "Optimus has grown decidedly more ruthless since our last encounter." Megatron replied. "There may be a way to fix the ship faster." I said, I turned to the computer screen and typed a couple things to pull up the ship's diagram and pictures of Dark energon.
"This ship used to be a Decepticon before it perished and then was turned into the ship we now stand in, what if we use dark energon to get us in the air while we fix the ship? You and it, Megatron, should be connected as we've seen in the past and therefore should have full control over it." I said explaining the theory I'd Just come up with, though I didn't know how much of a good idea this was.
But on this ship there was no chance for second thoughts, only ways to destroy every last Autobot within every galaxy, before any of us knew what was happening we were out of the bridge and headed for the energy core. It had been repaired after we'd landed some hours ago but still wasn't fully operational due to the countless other things damaged during the crash. "Lord Megatron, as your physician I strongly advise against this." Knockout warned once we were in the energy core's room.
Cubes of refined energon lined the walls and were stacked higher then me or Megatron in piles everywhere with the energy core in the middle of the room, it had a claw to pick up the cubes and insert them into a hole what would empty the cubes and empty them and add them to the energon infuser that dispersed it around the ship. "Dark energon's regenerative properties are impressive but the side effects. There's no telling how it might impact the ship." Knockout advised.
"I agree with him on this one, this is just a theory. A small scale test would be better because as Knockout stated we don't know how it might affect the ship or how much control you will have over it once it kicks in or for how long." I wanted, but you know how mech's are.
They never listen especially to femmes, "Dark energon courses through my veins, infusing the warship will enable me to manipulate the craft as if we are one and together we shall crush Optimus Prime." Megatron said very dramatically. It was always all about destroying Optimus Prime but never considering how it would affect the rest of us in the process. I just sighed, "If he's going to do this atleast the Autobots will be there to make sure nothing goes horribly wrong, like we all get snuffed wrong." I thought.
I turned back into what was happening in the world around me to see the claw from the power core picking up a dark energon cube and about to drain it into the vat of energon in it already, once it was secured in it's little holder Megatron walked forward to pull the lever to watch in suspense of the side effects. As soon as it was added a bright purple, neon if you will, traveled up the energon container in the power core leaving the purpleness of the dark energon in its wake
. Slowly we watched the tubes of energon that dispersed the energon around the ship turn the same purple colour as the transfusion of energon to dark energon started, I already had a sinking feeling in my gut that this was going to go horribly wrong.
What sounded like a jet engine noise got louder and louder as whatever was happening to the systems happened and the dark energon dispersed around the ship, unbeknownst to us it was causing the ships computers to malfunction and dimming the a;ready dark hallways to be cast in purple. "Yes… I can feel it!" Megatron said suddenly, apparently he had achieved symbiosis with the ship and was therefore be in control of it.
A scary thought but still a reality, Soundwave casted a live feed of the surveillance camera onto his visor and a nearby computer screen, we appeared to have company. "Megatron, there are Autobots outside." I said, making sure he took notice of the problem at hand, "Optimus, you never disappoint." Megatron muttered. Though I knew he could see what he was doing, the rest of us couldn't so I watched on Soundwave's visor as the guns along the ship deployed and fired on the incoming Autobots.
Optimus, Arcee and Bulkhead seemed to be in bipedal mode and drawing the fire while Bumblebee remained in his vehicle mode and sped away from the energon shots we were firing. Although Bumblebee was still being fired upon, he eventually untransformed and was about to toss something that wasn't in the range of the cameras.
Out of the corner of my optic I saw Megatron twitch and then on Soundwave's visor a blast of dark energon for a stum cannon shot across the screen hitting Bumblebee and left him frozen in place before he could throw whatever he had in his servo. It slid a little ways and Arcee was the next to pick it up, this time the object was more in view than before. "The spak extractor…" I thought horrified, they were trying to extinguish us!
Arcee was quickly stunned by the ray too, "I didn't realise the ship was equipped with a stasis beam." Knockout commented admisted the chaos of outside. Bulkhead was next to be hit by the beam, then Twinwave made a dash for it and she too was shot into stasis by the ship. Optimus in one last attempt to finally be rid of us doged the stasis beam and grabbed the spark extractor out of Bulkhead's frozen servo before taking a running leap in a last attempt before he was shot down too and came falling from the sky back to the ground with a loud "bang" like an asteroid hitting the earth.
We took a moment to investigate what I had long since released, "The spark extractor! Guide us closer so I may collect what belongs to me and destroy the Autobots." Megatron attempted to command the ship. I say attempted because instead of doing that it decrypted some more coordinates, put it on our hologram of the globe and headed that way. "WHAT! Where are you going!? I SAID CLOSER!" Megatron yelled at the vehicon in the command station behind us, did I forget to mention amidst the chaos that we'd moved from the power core to the bridge?
Anyways he didn't seem to have a reasonable explanation for what was happening to the ship either, "Lord Megatron, the ship seems to be navigating itself." he replied. Like I said, sounds weird but then again me and Knockout did tell him this could happen.
"ORVERIDE." Megatron yelled at him, the vehicon nodded and went to typing before an alarm went off, a displeased look crossed onto Megatron's faceplates as he turned his helm sharply back towards the vehicon in question. "The systems are bypassing manual control-" he never did get to finish, before we knew it he was being shocked from his keyboard and laying on the ground in a smoking heap.
"It appears the ship now possesses a will of its own." Knockout said as we all stared at the poor vehicon who'd gotten electrocuted. "IMPOSSIBLE! Terrace the problem to its source and FIX IT!" Megatron yelled at me and Soundwave, he was mad, which was reasonable. I mean we did bring the ship to life on complete accident, "DO NOT TAMPER WITH SYSTEMS, THIS WILL BE YOUR ONLY WARNING." a voice boomed.
It was a mechs voice, obviously, the ship couldn't be a femme if we tried. But it boomed and reverberated off the walls of the room we were standing in, and I was pretty sure because of that answer it could hear our conversations. "Warning?" Megatron asked confused, the rest of us dared not to speak incase we were the next to have our circuits fried, "MY MISSION ASSUMES PRIORITY, ANY CYBERTRONIAN WHO INTERFERES WILL BE NEUTRALIZED." it replied before it went dark.
Now this was something straight out of one of those movies me and Twin went to go see, it sounded completely made up but it was actually happening to us which kind of scared me. "MY OWN VESSEL DARES TO ADDRESS ME IN THREATENING TONES!?" Megatron screeched. Prims, what was it with these mechs and yelling? Soundwave just raised a servo in response and pointed at one of the nearby computers that had something glowing on it.
I walked over to see what it was about, "It also seems to have decrypted the rest of the code I was working on, and has it positioned on the map." I remarked, my partner pulled up the map on his visor and displayed the pinpointed location that the ship had tracked the coordinates to. "And judging by our current course, that is precisely where the ship is headed." Dreadwing reported it to Megatron. So all facts pointed that we were going to get another relic, maybe we don't need the Autobots to clean up this mess after all.
"As I desired, you see this warship is nothing more than an extension of my very will." Megatron remarked at the sudden good news, then the ship came back from eavesdropping. "YOUR WILL IS NOTHING, THE IACON ARTIFACT WILL BELONG TO ME." it shot back, it apparently had assumed command over our course and everyone in itself so there it had apparently named itself captain. "I AM LORD MEGATRON, I COMMAND YOU TO CEASE OPERATIONS!" Megatron yelled back at it, without missing a beat the ceiling above us started to glow the same purple we'd even when the Autobots were getting stasis beamed earlier. "YOU ARE NO LONGER IN COMMAND." It said then a blaring noise started which caused Megatron to fall to his knees.
Knockout quickly ran over to check on the lord as he shook on his knees, only when Knockout put his swervo on Megatron's shoulder did Megatron brush it off, put a servo to his helm and stand again. "Regain control of this vessel by any means necessary." he snarled to Soundwave, who immediately extended two of his tentacle cables and attached them to the ports on the nearest computer.
I again watched to my horror electricity crackle from the computer up his cables and short circuit his systems, "Soundwave!" I gasped as my partner's helm went limp. I rushed to his side but he'd already been sent to stais which ment we were now down a programmer and I was short a partner, that pissed Megatron off more. He started walking towards the door and directed his attention at me and the other vehicons that were still awake, "ALL SERVOS, CUT POWER TO THE MAINFRAME AND DISCONNECT THE RELAYS. NOW!" Megatron yelled at us and the rest of the crew. And when I say everyone, I mean everyone.
And so we branched off into teams, Dreadwing took so vehicons and eradicons into the hallways, insecticons took to them too, Megatron headed off somewhere and Me plus Knockout headed for the servo room so I could attempt to access the ships mainframe and cut the power.
The hallways were quiet for the most part but every so often we heard insecticon screams or that of vehiacons or eradicons as they were stasis shocked in the hallways, but so far that hadn't happened to us and we managed to make it to the servo room without any trouble. Once we had arrived however, the same thing that had happened to our computers seemed to be happening everywhere else too, the Autobot code streaming past the screen as the ship decrypted more of the coordinates.
I got to the computer and immediately commed Megatron about what we had just discovered, "Megatron, the ship seems to have depicted a second set of coordinates." I said into the comm link. "That's more than you and Soundwave did in two months, perhaps we should permit it to continue-" Knockout cut himself off by getting stasis shocked.
I turned around to see why his sassy remark had been cut off only to see that a stasis beam was pointed at me, "I DO NOT REQUIRE PERMISSION." it said before stasis beaming me too, I managed to turn to the computer before I completely froze at least this why I could keep an optic on the coordinates as they decoded. Then I was frozen, I couldn't speak or move though I could still see what was happening around me.
It wasn't too long before I heard someone or someones coming down the hallway, "T-theres one." I heard a tiny voice say. I couldn't really move my helm to see them but in a few seconds I heard the holo banging on what I assumed was Knockout's ped because it was coming from somewhere behind me. "Doc Knock is knocked out." A girl's voice said, "Oh you've got to be kidding me, Wave's humans are here." I thought because well, I couldn't really mutter now could I?
"Look the ships decoded two sets of Iacon coordinates." the same small boy's voice I'd heard point out the computer station spoke again. "Seems the Decepticons knew it too." A familiar voice said, actually both boys voices seemed familiar, "Who is that?" the girl asked him.
"Rainjet. She and Soundwave were the ones who took the energon harvester from us at the museum in greece." the boy's voice said. "Ah that's where I know you from." I thought. "Three." the younger boy's voice said, as I watched the screen add another set of coordinates to the two that were here before.
It seemed to be working double time now to get the other relics coordinates deconded and ready to find, "Let's rip and run." the younger boy's voice said, I felt them climbing my armour which was very rude. I felt them use the corner of my wings as a step and if I could move I would've swatted them off because this was very uncomfortable, soon enough they were on my shoulders and then I saw them hop onto the screen above me.
There was two of them, one I identified as the younger boy who'd been called "Raf" while I was borrowing the energon harvester from the Autobots and the other I surprisingly remembered as Agent Fowler, the government agent me and Starscrem had used the pord on in an attempt to discover the Autobot base's location.
Which of course I'd found the second we'd gotten here but had lovingly withheld the information from Megatron because it was funnier to watch him struggle to find it out, I was pretty sure SOundwave knew too but we were both having fun watching Megatron fail all the time.
"There's the port." Raf said to Aent Fowler whom took the drive I'm going to assume they'd gotten off of Ratchet their medic because all of the others should be down for the count as of right now, kind of like I was. I watched the agent plug it into the port and the screen that I was paying attention to watch the coordinates appear as they were decoded had a progress bar pop up, "So that's what you're here about, you want the Iacon coordinates and data vase that we possess.
Good use of a weak situation Autobots." I commended in my helm, talking was also out of the question until I could move again. Slowly I watched the progress bar go up as more and more of the database was going to the Autobots and I was right here helpless!
"Uhh, why is the warship headed for Manhattan?" The one I'd identified as Jack asked the group, "So that's where the first set of coordinates go, a human city. That'll be fun to watch happen." I thought as they slowly got more and more concerned about trying to stop the ship's mission, though I doubted the ship could do anything about them seeing as it couldn't detect humans.
I watched Agent Fowler turn to see what Jack ment and I saw Raf make the connection as his eyes darted back and forth between the coordinates and the map, "Because that's where the first set of coordinates are located." Raf replied. He was really smart, smarter than the other three. There was pause of silence as the progress bar went up and Agent Fowler commed his home base, "What would a relic of Cybertron be doing in the Big Apple?" Agent Fowler asked Ratchet.
He used "The Big Apple" as a reference to Manhattan, his sound was up loud enough on his phone that I was able to hear Ratchet's reply. That and my audio receptors were turned up a little too high right now, "The Iacon relics landed on Earth eons ago, Agent Fowler. Long before the city was built atop it." Ratchet replied.
"Which means if the ship wants this one, it may have to move some buildings out of the way." Jack finished. It was good to see them connecting the dots, Agent Fowler reraised his cellphone to his ear to talk to Ratchet again. "Our mission just got complicated, how do we deter this ship?" He asked Ratchet, he then brought it back down for everyone else to hear, "I would advise disabling the navigation module. Call up the main navigation menu." Ratchet instructed.
I saw Raf raise his hand and point to the navigation module that was on the computer's set up, "There." he said. "Step aside son." Agent Fowler warned the boy he put his hand to block him from going any further, which was a little rude. He was shorter than the Agent after all, he was becoming my favourite of the group which wasn't hard to realize why considering he was Bumblbebee's human.
Fowler walked over to the module which was out of my sight line, but I heard the crackle of electricity and a groan, "Agent Fowler!" Jack yelled to the agent whom I'd just heard crash to the floor. Apparently Jack and the girl had climbed up onto the desk too but out of my sightline. But also, the stasis shocks seemed to work on humans to a lesser extent, SYSTEM ACCESS DETECTED, INTERFERENCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED." the ship said. I hear the sound of a stias bean drop from the ceiling and a "There." and pointing from Raf to point it out to the rest of them, if I could tense right now I was sure doing it.
I did not feel like getting beamed or shocked or whatever you want to call it a second time, "REVEAL YOURSELF." the ship demanded. Like I'd thought before, the ship could only detect Cybertronian biosignatures and human ones. Which meant that these kids and Agent Fowler, who'd already gotten shocked, were immune to the ship's defences. "It doesn't see us!" the girl cheered, there was a solemn "Yet" from Ratchet on the Agent's phone below the table.
"The ship must not be scanning for carbon-based life-forms, but once it widens it's search parameters-" Ratchet said, simply restating the thing I already knew to the humans. "We're toast." Raf said, his hope seemed to drop right out of his voice with good reason too. "I'm bridging you back." Ratchet said to them, his processor was made up on this one.
"No, there are millions of lives at stake in New York and we three are currently the only ones who can do anything about it." Jack said also putting his foot down, now they were kind of in a standoff situation. But it was funny to see how much he cared for millions of people whom he didn't even know, but then again he hadn't been in war for the past few eons. "You're out of your element, Jack. thes readings, the ship's rapid recovery, all point to the fact that Megatron employed dark energon to repair it." Ratchet said he clearly had detected the ship's massive serge when the dark energon entered the powercore.
But to give Megatron credit for my bad idea was just plain rude, I mean I would've liked some credit but not all of it considering this had been a complete disaster so far. "Hold on." Jack said, he and the kids jumped off the computer table and now were by my pedes and out of my sightline.
Sometimes I wondered how they didn't break their fragile human bones, "You're saying the ship is fueled by dark energon, we can dump it right?" Jack asked Ratchet. I couldn't see any of them now but I assumed he was shrugging, "Hmm, you'll need to reverse the warship's energon infuser. Follow the main overhead coinduites." Ratchet said before I heard running footsteps leaving me behind.
Now the agent and I were the only ones left, it was nice to have to have talking company but it didn't help that I couldn't talk back. The kids had clearly taken Agent Fowler's cell phone with them because I could no longer hear his voice, which was said because I missed hearing their plans. Fowler was still on the floor and it had only been a few minutes since the kids left but the lighting changed again.
Back to normal if you will, which ment whatever they did had seemed to work and I should be able to move soon. I heard tiny footsteps come back and an "On your feet soldier!" from the girl assumingly to get Agent Fowler out of there before the rest of us started to move again, guessing from the lack of movement where I was the closer you were to the powercore and energon infuser the more likely you were to get out of stasis first.
There was gibberish from Fowler after being shocked and then a crash noise, assuming he'd fallen again. Then the beeping from the computer as another file downloaded itself onto the drive, "That's all that;s been downloaded!?" Jack yelled, I mean you were only gone a few minutes, were you expecting it to be done now or something? "The Iacon file must be huge!" Raf replied.
Then there was the sound of a ground bridge opening behind me, I still couldn't move which was very convenient for the humans because they could download the file and make their getaway. "Sweet! Come on, our ride is here." I heard the girl say, I was guessing she and one of the boys was helping Agent Fowler to their portal. "Jack?" Raf asked because he appenelty wasn't following them, "Get Fowler out of here." he replied to Raf. I heard his footsteps approaching me but again, couldn't do anything because whoever wrote this episode decided to make it very convenient for the kids!
"Somes better than nothing. I'm not leaving without that drive." Jack said before I felt him climbing me again, oh how I wished I could shake him off, grib the drive and break it infront of him. I saw him on the computer table pulling on the drive when I finally unfroze, now it was game time. "Well, hello again Jack." I said to the human boy, he spun around at hearing my voice and Knockout was apparently unfrozen too because he came over and stood next to me with his drill transformed
. "Say 'Awww'." Knockout minked, I saw Jack cover away from the drill before Ratchet spoke. "I'm here to offer a second opinion." the medic said, Knockout and I both turned to see him standing behind us. Apparently he'd come in sometime during the unfreezing process, Knockout was sucker punched first, he hit the computer table and dropped before Ratchet decided it was my turn.
"You forget Twinwave and I did servo to servo combat training all those years we dated." I said as he took a swing at me, I caught it and slammed my other servo in the croom of his elbow which dropped half his body weight to the ground and left him open for attack.
His free servo however came across my faceplates and gave me a right hook, "You both are never good at closing yourselves off from attack." Ratchet said as I dropped to the floor and he went to pick Jack up. "We were busy with our jobs and being spark mates by that point, old mech." I said as my vinson blurred a little. I had to admit, he did have power behind his punches, even if he's been behind a desk for so long.
The last thing I saw them do is run into the portal before Knockout helped me to my pedes and Megatron came around the corner, "Lord Megatron, I-I-" Knockout started before he was cut off. He was taking the heat because Megatron had assigned him as my guard, "YOU LET THEM ESCAPE! WITH VITAL INTELLIGENCE!" Megatron said once he'd noticed the decoded coordinates.
"Actually Megatron, their database is only half complete with yes, the four decoded coordinates but we also know where they're headed first." I said trying to help save Knockout's hide, "And that would be?" Megatron asked me. "New York, the first decoded set and Knowing Optimus. They'll be running separate missions to obtain all three before we do, I say we beat them to them seeing as most of the crew is unfrozen now." I replied. Megatron took a moment to think on my proposal, "Assemble a team immediately." was his reply before turning and leaving us.
"You're welcome." I said to Knockout once Megatron was out of audio receptor shot, "Whatever, let's just do what he wants." Knockout said brushing off my save. I shrugged and left him by himself so I could go check on Soundwave, now we and the Autobots were racing for some lovely doomsday devices. Who would get them first was the question on everyone's processor.
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