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(Ransack's perspective)
We watched the movie. I admit it was quite entertaining. My favorite part was when the giant monster thing was intimidating the little humans in the underwater bunker. Not that the scene itself excited me but it did get a hilarious reaction out of Hardshell.
"You screamed like a little Femme!" I exclaimed as I fell to my knees laughing hysterically.
Hardshell growled at me.
"I haven't ever heard anyone shriek like that ever!" I said between laughing.
"That is not very unusual seeing as you were awakened only a short while ago. Ironically you are both younger than Hardshell and have a slightly more feminine appearance." Shockwave said offhandedly.
That got the rest of the team laughing, minus the emotionless ones of course.
"Better get some touch-up paint for that burn." Sharpshot quipped.
I just growled at Shockwave. Unfortunately, since the entire ship was pretty much fully automated I had no excuse to leave the room to 'check the engines' so I was stuck listening to the team's mocking laughter die off or walk into the little hallway like a coward. Neither option was very appealing...
We soon arrived back on Cybertron. Shockwave even had the foresight to ask where on Cybertron the ship should land, so soon enough the large insectoid ship landed only a laser pistol fire away from the entrance to the core. We all disembarked before crawling (or in shockwave's case flying) down the tunnel and into the cavern. Once we stepped inside the Hologram booted to life.
"Ah You've returned!" alpha trion exclaimed happily.
Shockwave let slip a small amount of emotion in his shocked silence at seeing the hologram of the long-deceased prime.
"We have brought Shockwave and two of his creations ations ations." Kickback said animatedly.
"Welcome Shockwave and…?" he greeted while at the same time prompting the two new recruits for their names.
They stood there in emotionless silence.
"Is something wrong?" he asked them.
"They are missing personalities and names," Sharpshot explained.
The speechless shockwave soon overcame the shock and began to introduce himself to the prime.
"Greetings Alpha Trion, I am Shockwave head Scientist…" he started.
Alpha Trion paid him no mind however and began using his connection with the core to focus on the two new recruits.
"The core is able to create a personality for them, give them life and skills. However, what they are granted is out of my control. It will be completely random." Alpha Trion said.
Shockwave looked mildly irritated that he had been brushed aside for the more important matter of bringing his creations to a life worth living.
Then from the eye of the core, a small semi-transparent blue and white beam streamed into the forehead of the darker colored one of the two.
She stood stock-still as the information was uploaded to her processor.
After the transfer was complete she fell to her knees in a similar fashion to how we did after separating from Pestilence.
She slowly rose to her peds and looked to her right where her companion was standing stock still exactly as she had.
The transfer with the second femme had finished and she too fell towards the ground. Her companion caught her fall and kept her from crashing to the ground.
The eye to the core dimmed slowly and Alpha Trion returned to the land of the living.
"Hello, my name is Sharpshot." Sharpshot greeted quickly.
"My name is Kickback back back." he introduced.
"Razorhorn." he huffed.
"Ransack," I said as I raised my hand.
"My designation is Shockwave." the scientist stated.
"You may call me Alpha Trion." the Hologram said.
The two new Insecticons looked at each bot as they spoke. After we had all gone round they both stared somewhere behind us.
We all looked to where they were looking before seeing Hardshell zoning out and staring at some point above us.
"What?" he asked when he noticed us staring at him.
Sharpshot subtly-not-so-subtly gestured at the two new bots.
"Oh umm… Hardshell," he said stupidly.
The two blink at all of us before one spoke.
"Do you know what our names are?" the green one asked.
"That is for you to figure out. It is your name after all." Alpha Trion mentioned.
"You've told us your names but nothing more, who are you?" the dark black one asked.
"I am Alpha Trion, one of the thirteen primes… or a Hologram of him at least." Alpha Trion explained.
"I am a Scientist of Cybertron. I am also your creator," he stated simply.
They looked at him weirdly; like a cross between being upset, confused, and scared.
"I am Hardshell… the stupid one… and I embrace it," Hardshell said drawing their attention from Shockwave and towards himself.
The green one quirked an eyebrow at that but said nothing.
The black one on the other hand…
"There's no reason to put yourself down or belittle yourself," she said soothingly.
"Eh, I don't mind." Hardshell shrugged.
"Don't say that..." she started.
"I mean he was the one that triggered the Autobot alarm, he is solely responsible for the war that just happened on the moon." I interrupted.
"So you're the sarcastic low-life bully of the team, great." the black one whirled on me.
"Ouch, that hurts," I said mockingly.
"Good." she shot back.
I took a couple of steps forward to stand in her face. "I have a few tricks up my sleeve lady, you may not want to mess with me."
"I'll take my chances" She snaps back.
I'm pretty sure we actually growled at each other.
"Calm down down down." Kickback stepped in between us to try and calm us down.
Sharpshot seems to be entertained by the squabble I had with the noobie and that aggravated me. "What's your problem?" I shout at him.
"I'm just enjoying the show." He replied back sarcastically.
I start to charge at him before Razerhorn stops me in my tracks.
"Stop." He growled.
"Fine," I muttered.
"What's our next mission boss?" Hardshell asked.
"We need to find the remaining Insecticons from the hive, and then rebuild it," Shockwave replied.
"How are we going to rebuild the hive? We don't have that many resources." Sharpshot says.
"You will find a way," Alpha Trion says knowingly, "You will need a hive when Megatron comes."
"What do you mean? Megatron is coming?" Hardshell says in distress.
"Megatron has tried to invade and destroy Humankind for so long," Alpha Trion explains, "Optimus and the Autobots have protected them and always succeeded, it's only a matter of time before he comes here and tries to destroy Cybertron."
"We'll need resources, preferably something renewable." Sharpshot started.
"Indeed. A renewable resource would help with the restoration of Cybertron." Alpha Trion commented.
"It would also help for when Megatron attacks we'd be able to rebuild and upgrade quickly," Shockwave remarked.
"We don't have enough servos to build an entire hive, we'll need more help," Sharpshot noted.
"Shockwave, I assume you were the one to put us in the pods we awakened from, correct?" Sharpshot inquired.
"Indeed," Shockwave responded.
"Did you put any other Insecticons into stasis?"
"No. You were the only three." Shockwave said in a slightly regretful tone.
"Alpha Trion sir, are there any other stasis pods pods pods?" Kickback asked excitedly but respectfully.
"There are, however, I am unable to see who or what is inside. Be wary you may accidentally release something that is best left to power down." Alpha Trion warned ominously.
"You'll need this just in case," Shockwave says to the black femme as he throws her a long-neck rifle. She nods at him in thanks and puts the gun on her back. He looked at the green femme but by her body language wasn't ok with going into potential combat. Shockwave then came back to the black femme and explained that she has the ability to have an alt mode, he gave her a chip that has files of different insects she could choose from. She said she would choose one soon and put the chip away.
"Can you hurry up?" I pester.
"I'm coming." The black femme exclaimed.
As Shockwave talked with the green one, those of us who were comfortable with the possibility of combat (being me, Razorhorn, Sharpshot, Kickback, Hardshell, and the black femme) climbed back up the tunnel and began to locate half-buried buildings and open pods. Most of what we found were corpses, most likely died from a lack of Energon.
The femme seemed to be a tad bit afraid of possibly fighting someone and so she stayed behind us. Maybe I'll make fun of her later.
We did open one pod that did still have some power.
Out stumbled a normal Decepticon drone. He looked up at us impassively, and then drew his gun at me! A shot was heard. I patted my chassis searching for the hole that would be leaking Energon, finding none I looked up to see a small smoking hole in the Decepticons helm. Then I looked at the black bot which held the long-necked gun that was smoking at the end. Then she smiled at me saying sarcastically, "you're welcome."
I just growled and kept on walking.
We continued opening more and more pods. Every Single one we opened had a sniper trained near the top half. It is good to know someone has my back, but why did it have to be her?
I decided to ignore that for now and follow behind the others. The sniper femme walked at a further distance behind me. Eventually, we found a very big pod, so big it could fit the massive hulk of metal that is Razerhorn. Sharpshot told the black femme to stay sharp since this could be a threat. I backed up slowly to avoid getting shot this time so I had no choice but to stand beside the femme.
"A thank you would've been nice." She said.
"Shut up," I reply with my eyes trained on the pod.
They activated the pod and it cracked open. Then a huge white purple and blue bot landed loudly on the ground, dazed from his stasis.
He then got up slowly and attempted to scan his surroundings but he couldn't because he had to recalibrate his optics. The others tried to communicate but he couldn't hear them. Then his recalibration was completed. He gazed over all our heads, examining the area around us. Then his gaze snapped down to us standing before him. He then looked at our chest plates to see Sharpshot, Kickback, and Hardshell's Decepticon insignias. Then he seemed to relax slightly and said, "good to see the Decepticons haven't kicked the bucket yet." I then approached since he didn't seem hostile.
"What do you mean yet?" Sharpshot asked.
"Nevermind, so what sector are you three from?"
"Sector?" Hardshell asked.
"So he's the dumb one?" The bot presumed while gesturing to Hardshell.
"Don't be so hard on him." The black femme said as she stepped forward.
"Well hello!" The bot said with enthusiasm.
"He may not be that intelligent but he still has feelings just like any bot." She continued.
"You don't have an insignia, hope you don't shoot me in the back later." He said curiously.
"I don't have a designation yet, but I can't promise I won't blow a hole in you." She said defensively.
"I like her." The bot said with a smirk.
"Well it's great you two are getting along," I start sarcastically, "but may I ask who the heck you're supposed to be?"
"Call me Overlord." The bot replied.
"That's humble." The femme stated bluntly.
"Why thank you!" Overlord shot back sarcastically.
The black femme scoffed as I said, "should we leave you two alone? You seem to be really hitting it off."
Then a shot lands right next to my left ped as the femme says, "don't test me."
"Can you stop fighting for once? We need to head back and report to Alpha Trion." Sharpshot exclaims in exasperation.
"Wait, who do you need to report to?" Overlord asked.
"Alpha Trion. He isn't really alive, he's in the form of a hologram at the core." Sharpshot said in reply.
I then notify the others through the hive mind chip that this guy may not be so friendly for long. The other then noticed why when Overlord said, "You rebelled to the Autobots?"
"No you don't understa-" Kickback starts.
"You're all traitors!" Overlord interrupts.
Then Overlord throws a couple of punches at kickback which he dodges and kicks him away.
Sharpshot then notifies us to combine.
Right before we combine I call out to the femme "Remember when I said I had some tricks up my sleeve?"
"How could I forget" She replies exhaustedly.
I then give her a smirk and jump forward into the other four.
Once our parts connect fully we stop Overlord's punch and slightly crunch it so he winces in pain. Then we pick him up and lift him above us and throw him into a far-off building.
We look over and see the black femme staring in complete shock. We decombine and I walk over to her and say one word as I walk past.
"Abracadabra."