Chapter 4- Storming Dark Mount
POV:Twinwave
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(Note: this chapter takes place during season 3 ep 4 "Rebellion" Of TFP. I own none of the characters only Twinwave and Rainjet)
Like I mentioned before we got an upgrade of sorts, well I definitely having a blaster AND my swords was amazing. But Ultra Mangus was already on the attack, quite literally planning our next move as we just finished picking out our weapons.
"Autobots, we remain vastly outnumbered and despite our munitions we do not currently possess the firepower necessary to compromise the Decepticon citadel." he said, and he was quite right. On a good day we were outnumbered nearly four to one, "Uncle Sam's military does, I just can't let them make a move as long as Megatron's ray guns are pointed at Washington." Fowler said, over the course of the last couple years I had gotten more than used to his 'american' speech but I still had no idea what he was talking about half the time and I surely didn't know who Uncle Sam was but I was pretty sure it meant the US in some form of speech.
"Then we must infiltrate Dark Mount to nullify its fusion cannons." Magnus replied, coming up with half a plan, "Unfortunately, it seems the fortress is heavily shielded against unauthorized ground bridges. Even those originating from Deception technology." Ratchet said, shooting down that idea. We needed to get in somehow but get rid of the security first.
"Guess we'll have to sneak past enemy lines, wrecker style." Wheeljack said slamming his fists together, Bulkhead seemed to agree with the non-plan but hey, at least we were tossing out ideas. "I couldn't deal with 'wrecker style' back on Cybertron and I refuse to deal with it here." Magnus said shooting down another idea, "hmm, now we require a means of thinning the Decepticon ranks to even the odds, if we are to have any hope of completing this mission or surviving it." he continued.
"What if we use the kids, the Cons clearly have a hit on their phones as we know and the Harbinger can trace Decepticon signals so we can pull them out via the ground bridge when they get close. Er sir." I said just kind of blurting out the idea. It would get rid of our ten to one problem and hopefully draw some fire while we got rid of the cannons.
"This might work, but we need to take their predacon into consideration too. For that I will divide you into teams. The stealth team comprised of Arcee, Bumblebee and Twinwave. Ground team, to draw their fire, comprised of Bulkhead and Wheeljack. I'll stay in my ship to draw their predacon and Ratchet should work the ground bridge to get us out incase of serious emergency and to transport the children to a frow." Manus replied completely coming up with a plan via my idea.
I didn't get any credit but at least I'd made a contribution. We walked back to the Harbinger where Raf and Ratchet immediately fired up the ground bridge and sent Jack through, somewhere in the middle of the desert and then Miko to the streets of Manhattan. Both kids were on standby for their signals and to be pulled out via the ground bridge when the forces got close.
"Ready Jack?" Ratchet said, "No not really." the boy replied before sending the text. "I have five bogies covering right on top of Jack." Raf announced almost immediately after he'd sent the text, "Not anymore." Ratchet replied bridging Jack back. The boy came in through the bridge jumping and when he landed on the cool metal floors of the Harbinger he gave a thumbs up to signal Miko next, which Ratchet did. "Miko, your turn." was the command given, I had no idea what she was going to do to get them onto her signal but from what she mentioned it was something along the lines of calling a human restaurant.
And just like that Miko was back in a flash once we'd detected Decpeticon signals headed her way, she too came jumping through the bridge a little sulkily too. "I really could've used that Pizza." she said with a sigh, so that what she was calling. They'd mentioned it before, right when we were heading to New York to collect the relics but I'd never really seen it before. "I've tapped into the Decpeticon communication's network, are you ready Jack?" Ratchet asked.
This part I hadn't been filled in on but I assumed Ratchet or Magnus had commissioned Jack to call away more troops to a mine or something while we were walking Back to the ship. He cleared his throat before, "Decepticon command, do you read me?" it needed a little work as he still sounded too human. "I remain unconvinced." Magnus said and I nodded my helm, "I will enhance your performance with static." Ratchet said, I let Jack hop up onto my servo and then gingerly placed him onto the computer top so her could do this next part.
"Decepticon command, do you read? We are under Autobot attack." Jack said before Ratchet ended the frequency and we awaited Raf's call. "The bogies are on target." he said and then Ultra Mangus turned to us, "Autobots, lock and load." he said. Everyone charged up their weapons along with myself and him, this was going to be a lot of fun. Ratchet opened the bridge behind us and we filled through, first Bee, Cee and I to rock 'pillars' around Dark Mount, they were very similar to the one our base had been in, in fact I could see where it had been from here.
And Bulkhead and Wheeljack as our ground team somewhere on one of the weaker defended points to draw any seekers that might still be here to let us get inside, take down the defences and disable the fusion cannon's power core. "Remember, our signal is when those seekers come out." Arcee said, "yes yes, we know." I replied an Bee buzzed in his own language.
We watched Wheeljack launch the first grenade below, it produced a fiery blue when it exploded and shook the ground, "Well that'll get their attention." I muttered. There was a pause and the two figures below looked to the skies for Cons but when none came Wheeljack threw another, this one triggered the released some seekers as Dark Mount shook again and the two charged forward as the seekers laid fire down on them.
They drew attention by using the weapons we'd been so gracefully given to lash out, Bulkhead got a more advanced balster and Wheeljack had some sort of electricity whip, it was cool anyhow. But they took the fire and drove any from Dark Mount, giving us enough distraction time to slip up close to the fortress and have Bee knock out one of the guards.
I didn't see much of what happened to everyone else after that, I heard a roar meaning we'd drawn out the predacon but by the time it was in the air the three of us had slipped inside Dark Mount and we were well underway to getting to the control room. For the most part the hallways were empty, but on the rare occasion there were guards we ducked out of the way so we weren't seen. Or that was until we stumbled onto some guards on patrol and when we ducked behind the hallway in the intersection we bumped into some more guards meaning we'd just been pinned down from one side.
"Frag." I muttered because immediately they jumped onto the attack and we took cover behind some support beams nearby. This gave us enough time to fire up the weapons Ultra Mangus had given us and start shooting back. I, of course, hadn't used a blaster in quite some time so my aim was more than a little off when I first started shooting. I hit the wall behind them and the support beam in front of me but I finally managed to to get used to the controls and actually started hitting some of them.
Bee was lucky enough to have a shield on his so he could stick his helm way outlast cover to get a better hit on them, while Cee and I were confined to between enemy shots. I couldn't tell you how long we'd slowly been trying to pick off the guards at this point but I knew we were far off objective time because we got a comm for Ultra Mangus in the midst of the chaos.
"This is Ultra Mangus to stealth team, status report!" the demand from us as yet another shot went buzzing over Arcee and my helms, I nodded for her to take the call and I'd keep firing while she did so. "Having a little trouble reaching the objective, security is tighter than anticipated, sir." she said, "We can't rush them either, they've got us pinned from the front, sir." I added. "Keep them occupied." he said before the comm line went dark and we were back in complete fighting.
My hope was that Magnus was going to try to disable the core for us now that he had some free time after getting rid of that fragging predacon as apparently quick as he had. The tension here was starting to build and I thought I saw one of them comm for backup, though I couldn't be sure with all the red balster shots coming at me.
Eventually we were able to make an advance with less fire coming at us from the other side, Arcee and I moved up one support beam before Bee layed down cover fire for us to sprint across the hallway. I caught a glimpse of how many soldiers were left and let's just say there were almost as many as we'd started with, which wasn't good. "We should have planned for tighter security." I muttered as Arcee took a shot and then duked behind the beam again, her blaster cooled off and I took my shot. This way we were alternating fire at the enemy, or that was until their shooting stopped and Arcee looked at me confused and I shrugged.
Then Bee tapped my shoulder, ":Guys…:'' and then the shadows loomed over us. Reinforcements had arrived and they had the necessary tools to take us out, now we were pinned from both sides. "Scrap." Arcee said before three of them stepped forward and pulled the blasters out of our servos and kicked them away from us for the others behind them to pick up, "Get moving." one of the eradicons said gesturing with his blaster for us to get moving in the direction we'd come from. I sighed and put my arms up and they walked us down the hall and into the elevator, they took us down to the ground level and out a set of doors. They'd let us into the desert and kept us walking for a few more minutes before we came upon Bulkhead and Wheeljack who had already been taken captive long before us.
And before them was a deepish pit, enough for the five of us to lay in which was probably the point. Death by firing squad, not the way I thought I'd go but it was most definitely unwelcomed. Among the guards was Shokcwave who was supposed to oversee the whole execution, again not the last face I wanted to see before my lights went out but I couldn't really do much since we were surrounded around all sides. ":What in the AllSpark is that?:" Bee asked pointing up to the sky, he was right. Some blurry figure was flying towards us at quite a quick pace, it might have been Fowler but I doubted it because it wasn't the fight shape to be one of his jets though it did sound like one.
Even the Cons were confused so it wasn't one of theirs and it was headed right for the top of Dark Mount, what I had deduced was Meagtron's throne room. It shot like a rocket into the top floor and not long after the small blinks of blaster fire could be seen coming out from all sides. Both red and blue, but that was impossible unless one of us could fly? Or had Rainjet actually decided to become an Autobot last minute and help Ultra Magnus escape, it was highly unlikely but I ruled it as a possibility considering well, it could still happen even if the odds weren't stacked in that favor.
Several crashes and some stones tumbling later and everything uptop had ceased to happen, whatever fight had just occurred was over and Shockwave seemed concerned because he was in the midst of trying to contact Megatron with no success. Arcee, Bee, Wheeljack, Bulkhead and I just kind of looked at each other a little stunned on what had just happened because we had no context to go off of for this one.
The figure jumped out of one side again before we got the comm message, "All units Optimus Prime has returned. I repeat, Prime is alive and quite well." Ultra Magnus voice said. We watched Optimus fly over head before I spotted the aftholes who'd taken our newly acquired gear, Wheeljack looked at me and smiled before putting his battle mask on and I got the memo.
Together we reached behind our backs and slowly took our swords out as quietly as we could, before striking down the nearest eradicon and starting another battle. I stayed back with Arcee and Bee while Wheeljack and Bulkhead charged forward to take care of Shockwave, the three of us took care of any incoming troops and a maracious speed. I no longer had my blaster but I was more than equipped to take on these fraggers up close and personal.
Slowly one by one each of the eradicons fell while the wreckers attempted to take care of Shockwave with menial luck, he was still up and moving while the air battle above us raged on. "FOWLERS HERE!" I called out seeing his group of jet's approach Dark Mount at a rapid pace, they were just off in the distance but already the fusion cannons were powering up. "Optimus hasn't managed to disable them yet.
If Fowler gets any cose he and his squadron will be toast." Arcee said, we were basically sitting ducks down here as we had no wings and were currently attempting to keep the incoming attackers at bay, we'd barely been able to rest before Shockwave started attacking us too. We fired a couple shots our way after throwing Bulkhead and Wheeljack back, we charged full focus at him, Arcee and Bee using their blasters and me using my swords for close combat.
They managed to get a few good hits on him and I managed to knock him back a ways before he tossed me back towards Arcee and Bee and I knocked them over. Above us a crash went through the top floor and an explosion went through the top part of Dark Mount, Optimus was still in the air along with Ultra Magnus which meant Megatron had just been tossed like the rest of us into his fusion cannon's core.
Arcee and Bee were already up when it happened and not shortly after we noticed Fowler's fighters were in range of an attack, "Autobots, clear the area." was the notice we got from Magnus. Arcee, Bee and I transformed first and I hopped onto my partners roof for a quick get away. I did not want to be anywhere near this place when it can crashing down, as a little bit of pay back Bee used Shockwave as a ramp after he threw Wheeljack off him, this was much to my dismay as I was currently on top of his alt and almost fell off as we drove away.
The five of us saw the the missile launch and heard the explosion but by the time the place was coming down we were threw a ground bridge and back into the Harbinger, where we were hugged by the kids and even got a smile from ratchet before leaving Ultra Magnus to close the bridge behind us when we left for the military base Fowler had provided for us, which I had not known about until now. It was probably kept secret from the rest of us in case we'd gotten captured or something, but Mangus and Optimus were to meet us there and when they did Fowler welcomed us with more than open arms.
"On behalf of the president and the joint chiefs, I thank you all for your selfless heroism in defence of this planet. I'm only sorry that the world can't yet know of your undying dedication because I for one owe you my life, my liberty and my future." Fowler said from atop his platform before saluting us and smiled, the guardian trio put down their kids and let them run over to June who was by my pedes.
"Thank you Agent Fowler, I don't think Dark Mount could have come down without you." I said and I thought I caught a glimpse of a smirk before he snapped back to his usual Fowlerness. "Sir, I am honoured to relinquish command of the Autobots, to you." Manus said, "Welcome to Earth Ultra Magnus, and to Team Prime." Optimus replied, it was his official un official welcome into our ranks and hopefully the mehc would loosen up more than a bit.
"Okay, someone's gotta say it. Optimus two point O is rad!" Miko said running power, she threw up rick signs at the end to add some Miko flare. "Imagine what the forge could do for your bod." she continued looking right over to Ratchet, Smokescreen and I. I snorted, "That's not how that works." Ratchet said before turning to Smokescreen and lowered his voice. "Is it true that the forge has been trained of its power?" he asked, Smokescreen kept his optic's on the relic and I thought I heard him sigh.
"Then any hope of rebuilding the Omega Lock is truly lost." Ratchet finished, "I… I did what I felt was right." Smokescreen replied. "And your instincts have once again proven to be quite sound." Ratchet said before I elbowed the kid to get him to smile before the three of us joined the others circled around Optimus. Whatever happened next was going to be intense but at least everyone was together again and we had some hope of finally finishing the war for good.
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