Chapter 7: Decepticon zombies
POV: Rainjet
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(Note: this chapter takes place during season 3 ep 7 "Thirst" Of TFP. I own none of the characters only Twinwave and Rainjet)
There was a very dramatic atmosphere on the ship today, thunder and lightning, all the dramatics needed for a good spooky human storytelling. Don't ask how I know but Knockout had been going on and on about the human horror films he'd been going to see at their drive-in movie theaters of late and I guess it was getting to me. Speaking of Knockout, I was in his lab. After being on mission with Shockwave and Soundwave I had little to nothing to do so I was spending time with Knockout after he'd gotten back to watch him experiment on Cylas.
If you remember about a year back the Autobot's medic, Ratchet, had created an incomplete formula for synthetic energon. Knockout had been attempting to recreate the formula but without a test subject it had been near impossible, until recently when Cilas had made the idiot move to attempt to become a Decpeticon and failed, now there was a lab rat to test the synthetic stuff on.
"Will my torment ever end?" Starscream announced loudly after coming into the lab, he too had gotten back a while ago from a bone run for Shockwave and I had to admit he was pretty miserable. "First I had to vie for Megatron's favor against that treacherous harpy, Arachnid. Now I must contend with Shockwave and his encourageable beast!" he whined, my poor audio receptors were going to fail at this rate.
I had no idea why the Allspark had decided to create stilettos with such a high priced voice but here we were dealing with it after he'd probably made hundreds go deaf. "Look on the bright side, Starscream, at least one of them is currently on ice locked up tight in the vault of our warship." Knockout replied attempting to calm his erraticness. It was no good to do any experimenting with all this whining. "He makes a fair point, she doesn't pose a treat as long as she's frozen." I said.
Starscream sighed, "Well, I would love to stuff Shockwave and his mangy abomination right into that stasis pod beside her!", can you tell he hates people attempting to take his so called 'spot' next to Megatron? Sceams walked closer to Knockout and I, well mostly Knockout I was standing from afar to watch in case the thing got violent again. "The only reason his 'project predacon' is currently in full swing is because I supervised the acquisition of his dozens of predacon bones!" He complained again, all this whining and chit chat had woken Cylas who was groaning again. The formula had a range of adverse affects so it usually knocked him out after every new dose.
"Please keep your lab rat quite while I'm airing my grievances." Starscream snapped because he was being rather lod this time around. "At least you admit your ranting." I said moving from my wall by the door to come stand beside them. "Starscream… help me…" Cylas called he looked more beaten up than usual, all that struggling in the restraints that kept him pinned to the table really banged him up. "You know that's not happening so you might as well shut it." I snapped at him, it shut him up for long enough for Starscream to do a little maniacal laugh before finally popping the question on the experiments. "My my my, whatever have you been inflicting upon poor Cylas?" he asked, "Ha, well anything that merits a living pedreay dish." Knockout replied, picking up the fully loaded energon injector and giving him the next dose.
We watched the vile empty and Cylas' optics widened, I heard the human in him groan as he powder off again. I shuttered a little, as much as this was completely justified I didn't seem to have the same stomach for it as I used to. "Despite your justifiable lack of regard for his human side, it doesn't trouble you to watch what remains of your former endure your scientific endeavors." Starscream asked Knockout, so Stilettos wasn't completely a monster after all he did have a little of a soft side.
I did admit I was hesitant that we were experimenting on a former 'friend' but I'd had to move past that part and focus on the most literally within him. "Not really, besides Cylas once had Breakdown pinned to his lab table. I think my former partner would be pleased to be a part." Knockout replied, Cylas woke momentarily to have a bit of what the humans called a seizure before passing out again.
"What just happened?" Screams asked, "You recall that synthetic energon I recovered from the Autbots? Well I've been reproducing the formula to test it's viability as an alternative energy source. However the compound remains erratic and there have been side effects." he replied. I knew what part was coming next and I braced myself for a bit of a jumpscare, "Such as..?" Starscream asked right as Cylas jumped back to life. His top end completely rose off the table as he wrestled to get out of the restaurants and to us, presumably to kill Starsceam, Knockout and maybe myself.
"Like that." I replied as the screaming started, "He gets a little aggressive." I warned and Screams approached slightly. Cylas' optics landed on the approaching mech and his optic ridges narrowed in anger, "Starscream, I hope you replaced you T-cog because I'm going to tear it out all over again and feed it to Knockout." He snapped thrashing around violently to get out and to us. "This year, unrivaled aggression." Knockout said, Screams stepped back and I could tell he was scared for his life.
"Such fury, Megatron has long desired a beast machine super soldier and we now possess the means of delivering one to him." Starscream said grinning evilly, "I don't think that's such a good idea conjuring the formula is still mostly incomplete and we don't know what the long term side effects are." I advised, now if Soundwave was watching he could say I'd at least attempted to stop them. "Nonsense, I think we should report it to Megatron right away." Knockout said and just like that I'd been outvoted and the three of us were off to tell Megatron of the good news. We walked all the way to the bridge, Starscrema's helm was held rather high and he stepped into the room with Megatron for a total of two minutes before we came out to Knockout and I leaned against a wall moping a little.
"Did you speak with our liege about our little, 'enterprise'?" Knockout asked excitedly but I could already tell these two had not gotten the response they were hoping for. "He was otherwise engaged." Starscream replied as we ook the short walk back to Knockout lab, inside was a yelling and riviling in pain Cylas who hadn't calmed down since we'd left him but rather gotten more aggressive. I did not like this, especially the part where he screamed death threats at us. "STARSCREAM, I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU SUFFER IN WAYS YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE!" he screamed, like I said death threats though they didn;t really work because he was tied to a table and we weren't very scared of him.
"Exactly how much of this 'syth-en' have you given him?" Screams asked rather offended by the threat, "Two additional doses, three at the most. But Cylas' increasingly volatile nature isn't the only wrinkle." Knockout said walking up to the mech and administering another dose. "That makes three." I muttered low enough for Starscream to hear, Cylas began struggling again as the new syth-en flooded his system .
"It appears that the more 'green stuff' I administer the faster this monstrosity formally known as Breakdown burns through his own natural energon reserves." Knockout said which was quite a surprise, I didn't think Breakdown's body had any energon reserves left in it but then again the human that gave it to Cylas probably had no idea what they were or how to get rid of them.
"This will not do. Megatron already possesses another unruly beast with the predacon, what good is another freak of nature that can not be controlled!?" Scream yelled, "Well I mean Megatron commanded the dead of Cybertron for a short while and they seemed to be pretty tame unless he didn't want them to be." I blurted out and as soon as the sentence left my dermas I could see the twinkle in Starscream's optics, this was bad news. "No, no. don't you even think about it! We have no idea what the two subastaces mixed together will do to Cylas or the formula!" I yelled but it was a little too late for that because Starscream was off. "I'm a fool for not seeing this solution earlier." he said as we walked.
Knockout and I had to do a bit of speed walking to be able to catch up with him but when we dodd he was mumbling to himself and taking us straight to the energon reservesse and transfuser. When the door opened and we stepped inside Starscrema stopped being insane for a moment to talk to use. "Behold, the solution to our problem." he said, gesturing to Megatron's dark energon reserves, "DARK ENERGON!? You are more than a fool, Starscream, I think your neural cluster has blown a massive fuse!" Knockout yelled.
He was right if we were found tampering with this stuff we would have our helms severed from our bodies, or maybe just Starscream because the balm really was on him. "On the contrary dear Doctor, adding dark energon to the formula should provide Lord Megatron with full control over his super soldier." Screams said, "You sound like Shockwave, in fact you sound insaner than Shockwave!" I shot back at him. "Okay, true that Lord Megatron seems to possess a symbolic link with anyone or thing infused with the dark matter allowing him to manipulate them as if they were puppets. But have you forgotten what the so-called 'blood of Unicron' did to our warship?" Knockout asked him.
"That was the result of a massive infusion, I am suggesting a drop or two. Merely enough to allow our master to command his warrior at will." Starscream said a little too enthusiastically, "Even so, we'd need to get approval from Shockwave because I don't know if you remember but Knockout reports to him AND if Megatron found out you were tampering with his dark energon he'd have your helms." I reminded the two if them, I always had to be the voice of reason around here and it was starting to get annoying. "Not on this project he doesn't! Super soldiers fall under military operations meaning that dear Knout and Rainjet, you report to me. Are we clear?" Stascream said, Knockout simply nodded. Though I reported directly to Megatron already I didn't want to argue right now in case I was shot at, "Crystal." I said through gritted teeth.
Screams made Knockout pick up a create and carry it back to the lab with him, I just kind of stood awkwardly and watched as they injected it into Cylas. I felt a little bad for the guy because he was about to be zombified but he had tried to kill us multiple times so like I said I was only a little sad. The mech's body started to shift a little and he yelled as it flowed through him, I grimaced. I hated bringing people and things back from the dead. I couldn't even watch when they'd done it to Cliffjumper.
"Wait for it." Knockout said, the saking got worse until he powder off again. "Ugh, humans in any form can not be relied upon." Starscream groaned, "This happens every time he's injected, his system seems to need to reboot with every new dose that comes in." I replied just as he did in fact snap back to life and yell. "IT'S ALIVE!" Knockout yelled as Cylas broke out of his restaurants, we all moved back to avoid the beast as it seemed to want our sparks. Until he got to his knees and stayed that way, Starscream approached carefully in some bit of curiosity and another bit stupidity. "Ugh, for the love of- NOW WHAT?" he shrieked, again with the complaining I didn't think he was ever going to stop.
"I tried to tell you before, its a side effect of the syth-en he's burned through his own natural reserves." Knockout replied, Screams was a little hopeless when it came to listening or remembering anything at all. Starscrema moved away from it;s side and clung to behind Knockout and I for protection in case this went horribly wrong like I knew it would, "Perhaps we should withhold any infusion for a while might calm Cylas down a bit. Might make him a tad more manageable." Screams said peeking out from behind Knockout's shoulder.
Some movement in front of us happened as Cylas started quivering, "...need energon…" he said weakly before looking up at us with his purple otics. Then he did something that mentally scarred me for life, his intake opened up in directions like something between an insecticon and a predacon but fully undead. A long tube with four fork-like mandibles stretched out of his throat and I almost fainted from how much that scarred me, like I'd seen from fragged up shit in my time but this was the most fragge I'd seen to date.
He stood up and raored and then lunged straight for Starscrema and landed on top of him, pinning him down to persuambley take his energon, "Do something!" I yelled at Knockout, this was his lab not mine. Which meant he knew where all the fun gadgets were that might help, he immediately looked at his shock stick and grabbed it just as it's sucker went for Scream's neck. The electricity ran through his body and lurched him backward and off Starscream for a temporary moment, just long enough first Starscream to get away from it. He came running over to me and Knockout and stood in front of him for some protection, "Ahh, do you think he's actually trying to-" Screams started.
"Suck out out energon with that thing?" Knockout finished, "Sure seems like it!" I said as it lunged for us again and Knockout attempted to zap it. Instead it broke the stick and came right for us again, "RUN!" I yelled bolting for the door with the two idiots closely behind me. "I TOLD YOU THIS WAS GOING TO GO WRONG!" I yelled as soon as we were out the door, it slammed into the wall behind us as it came charging after us too.
"See if you two can hold him off!" Screams called to us before transforming into his alt to get away faster, "Starscream, wait for me!" Knockout yelled, grabbing a hold of his tailfin just as he hit the gas. I did the same thing and followed after them down the hallway, we traveled about half the length of the ship before coming to a stop. All the way Starscream slammed into the walls because of Knockout's extra weight on the back of him, the only reason we stopped was because Scream untransformed and threw him off.
"We need to sound the alarm!" Knockout yelled and I untransformed next to him and nodded, "Out of the question, Megatron will undoubtedly hold us responsible!" he yelled. "But you are!" I shot back at Stelletos, this had been his plan, Knckout was just stupid enough to follow through with it. It was idiotic times like these when I sometimes wished I'd joined Twinwave in being an Autobot, "Well, he is, mostly. But anyways, his Lordship doesn't need to know that, not if we handle this the right way." Starscream said, I think he was trying to ease our processors but it wasn't working. "Meaning!?" Knockout asked frantically.
"Use your processor, Knockout. This ship is crawling with highly-trained vehicon troopers armed for combat. The moment Cylas attempts to feed they will neutralize him for us, problem solved." Screams said rather confiendly, it was a poor excuse for a plan he'd just come up with in fact it was no plan. "You overestimate those drones, they couldn't take out an Autobot. I highly doubt they would neutralize a terricon. So, in the meantime while your plan fails I'm going to head back to the lab and see if we can find something to get rid of that thing or find it's body along the way." I said, pushing past the two of them and headed back the way we'd just flown.
"W-wait for us!" Knockout yelled, he got to his pedes and chased after me. He clearly didn;t want to be alone with Starscream while a homicidal terricon was on the loose in the ship, I could hear the gran but soon enough Starscream was following me too. "Once we recover Cylas' body we must dispose of it as quickly and efficiently as possible, no trace of him can be allowed to remain." he said, he was still coming up with a cover plan even after we'd completely botched the experiment AND almost gotten ourselves killed and reanimated. I transformed my blaster, I was not looking to get bit today. We still had no idea what the effect of being bit did to a Cybertronian, one of the many faults in thus dumb plan. "His… infected body." Knockout replied shivering, great he chose now to become a germaphobe and not while we were mass mutating an abomination.
We turned a corner and happened upon a fallen vehicon, he was just here where we'd gotten away from the terricon. Starcream yelped when he saw it and Knockout rushed over to check it's paulse to see if there was anything he could do, I acted like Starscrema's shield because why not? "Gone, completely drained of energon. Tell me something Starscream, when you said 'problem solved' is this even close to what you had in mind!?" Knockout asked him eagerly as he walked over to us.
"I do not appreciate your tone, Knockout. This brewing catastrophe is hardly my fault!" I heard Starscream say but they seemed to fade into the background when I noticed the body move, "Uh guys." I said trying to call their attention. Nothing, "Guys." I said again not it was on it's pedes and coming for us. "GUYS!" I yelled, as it started coming closer. "What? What could you possibly-" Knockout said and I just pointed at the thing coming for us, "Energon." he said before it too opened its mouth and produced an identical sucker.
They screamed, naturally. "I thought you said there was no spark!" Starscream screamed, "Dark energon, it reanimates the dead!" Knockout replied. Starscream transformed his blaster, something I'd forget he'd had until now. The two of us started shooting at the dumb terricon which didn't seem at all effected, "Aim for the helm!" Knockout yelled. "How do you know that'll work!?" I asked him, "I have seen it in the human horror films!" he yelled back. Starscream gave him a confused and unapproving look, "At drive-in theaters!" he replied.
So, Starscream untransformed his balster and aimed a missile at the terricon's helm and fired. The explosion hit it's target and when the smoke cleared the terricon's helm was nowhere to be seen but it'd body was still coming for us. "Ahg, forget the helm. Go for the spark!" Screams commanded me and I shot the thing over and over in its spark chamber until it finally fell over and it's sucker stopped moving. The three of us untransformed our weapons and I let out a much needed sigh, "We severed its link to the dark energon. Human horror films, wastes of time." Knockout said.
"Of course there a waste of time, humans aren't anywhere close to being as advanced as we are." I said before we started walking again. We basically needed to follow the carnage until we found Cylas and got rid of him, " If the mutation can be passed along with a single bite the entire crew is at risk." Knockout said as we turned another corner and went in the direction of the bridge. "You're-you're saying Cylas could be getting more terricons?" Starscream replied meekly.
"Mmm, could happen and the ensuing feeding frenzy could turn this entire warship into a scrapheap. So now can we sound the alarm?" Knockout asked Starscream, he was right this whole ship would descend into an army of the undead yet again if we didn't alert the others and get rid of the problem. "He makes a point, Starscream, if the ship is to decline into chaos it would be best to alert Megatron and Shockwave so they can help us." I added trying to sway him which probably wouldn't work, "Megatron may take kindly to you but the rest of us are less fortunate." he snapped back. He'd completely shut the conversation down, but he brought up a fair point. Until recently I had been one of the more favoured and therefore sheltered Deceptions but slowly that was starting to become less and less of the case and I wasn't sure I like it all too much.
We turned a corner and Starscream stopped, which means I nearly bumped into him. I had no idea why until I saw the vehicons in front of us he was clearly going to address, "You there, have you noticed any unusual activity in this sector?..." he asked them. Until of course they turned and revealed the one thing we currently fear, the stpuid sucker that came with being a terricon. "Run!" I yelled and we took off from them, I didn't know if they were close behind but we kept running. For the most part this hallway didn't have any other leading off of it which meant that until we got to a crossroads they had a simple straight line to get to us, then we ran into a 'T' in the hallway. Starscream and I went right and Knockout ran left, "This way you big idiot!" I yelled to him and he came sprinting back towards us.
Although I don't think the noise I made did us any good because just a short ways up the hallway and around the next corner were more terricons that I may or may not have attracted on accident. The three of us screamed a small bit then did a complete one-eighty and ran in the opposite direction from them, you know we were kinda surrounded at this point and all terricons in the area were presumably looking for us after all that noise so the only thing we could really do was hide and hope for the best. As we were running along Screams spotted an open room that seemed to just be closing, for some reason.
"IN HERE!" he yelled to the two of us and then took a right turn to head into the small indent in the wall then the three of us jumped through the closing door and barely managed to get ourselves through without losing a ped. Almost immediately the mechs went and hid behind some of the drives in the room beside the door in case there was need for a swift exit, I followed them shortly but took a second to get my bearings. We were in another computer room, probably for research or a space for Soundwave when he needed a break from me, but it looked barely used for the most part.
"Knockout, this situation might be a bit more dire than any of us ever imagined." Starscream started just as I came to sit next to them. I took a moment to untransform my blaster as I hadn't realized I was running with it equipped all this time before I sat down with them, "It's mostly your fault." I muttered and he shot me an anapised look. I just rolled my optics and let him carry on with it, "I find it rather ironic that after battling Autobots all these years, getting smacked down and shot at, blown up, this is how our lights go out?" Knockout said (reminds you of yet another pair stranded in a dire situation might I add).
"Drained of our precious fluids, if this is indeed the end. If we are to become terricon chow, it has been an honour serving Lord Megatron with you." Screams said looking straight at Knockout. "Oh boy, here we go." I thought just as Knockout started his sob speech, "Your no breakdown, but I must confess I always have admired your lustrous finish." he said returning the flattery.
There was a second of awkward silence between the three of us because I had no intention of dying today or telling them that I liked them, I didn't really enjoy their company, I just happened to be stuck with it at the moment. "Oh for the love of Primus, just kiss already. You're clearly in love and if you plan on dying now is the time to do it or confess your feelings." I said standing up to get away from them and/or let them have their little moment of happiness before the supposed end. Another moment of silence and a few cleared throats later they finally spoke, thank Primus they actually hadn't confessed their feelings, yet, this was a dire situation and not some human love sob story. "Well then." Starscream started, "Finally ready to go are you?" I asked fully knowing that this was well past awkward and they wanted to leave.
They got up and joined me at the door, I promptly transformed my balster and opened the door. They crept out behind me, basically using me as a shield. We turned the corner and they were so busy looking behind them they hadn't realised I'd stopped next to them until they smacked right into Megatron's chassis. "Lovely to see you." I said nodding to him, there was no response back because he was too busy staring down the two mech's that had just run headlong into him. "Would either of you like to tell me what is going on?" he asked them, "Uh, yes- yes. Absolutely nothing, my liege." Starscream said, attempting to cover. All is quiet, too quiet. One could even say dull." Knockout added.
"Funny, because the dark energon within my spark has been pulsing." Megatron retorted now looking at me too, I just shrugged. The truth would come out of either one of them eventually and even if it didn't I would be here to correct it, "Allow me to handle this." Screams said to the two of us. "IT'S KNOCKOUT'S FAULT!" he yelled, "Preciously my- WHAT!?" Knockout yelled back. I did a face palm because we were getting nowhere and attracting too much attention that could get us killed, "He infused Cylas with a cocktail comprised of dark and synthetic energon creating a monstrous mutation which is now on the verge of turning your entire crew into mindless energon sucking terricons!" Starscream explained.
It was the half truth, again, he was protecting himself from harm's way because he knew another slip up would get him killed. "Oh come on, you're forgetting the part where you suggested that Knockout add the dark energon to the mixture in the first place, something about granting him control and finally being proud of you!" I snapped back adding the rest of the story to his attention, Starscream looked offended and Megatron just looked angry, more so than usual.
I had to admit looking back on it now it did seem like some fictitious story to cover our afts with but as Megatron was going to soon earn every bit of it was true. "I do not know from what madness your yarns spring, Starscream, but if I learn you have been truly dabbling with my dark energon stores again, attempting to infuse yourself with it's formabale power-" Megatron was cut off by the concern from Starscream and fear from the rest of us. You see the yelling had, in fact, attracted a terricon to the scene and it was about to get an unsuspecting Dcepticon Lord for its next victim. "My liege." Starscream tired, "Let me just say, you have been awarded more chances for redemption than anyone in Decepticon history!" Megatron continued ignoring the interruption.
"Behind you!" I hissed alerting him to the incoming terricon, he turned just as it let out a screech but still didn't believe our recount of recent events. "Energon." it said monotoneish before opening its mouth and letting it's sucker out, Megatron finally saw the thing for himself and yet was completely unfazed. "You there, what are you doing? I ORDER YOU, STAND DOWN!" he yelled at it before it came charging. A blaster shot sounded and it flew backwards before landing to the ground some feet away, he turned back to us unamused and still rather angry. "We did try to warn you." I said shrugging it off and headed back towards the computer room, he would obviously want to know every detail and have Soundwave and I examine a diagram for any weaknesses in Cylas' armour or at least look for some sort of cure.
The others were close behind me and soon after everyone had gathered Soundwave arrived, I attempted to move with him to the computer but instead I was told to stay while he worked away on the computer. Apparently I was getting punished for advising against something that nobody had listened to me about, "Why can I not command the monster to follow my bidding?" Megatron asked Knockout while Soundwave took things into full swing. Even if I was on the other side of the room from him, I could still see he was examining a diagram of the corpse, previous balster shots, anything and everything that might be extorted as a weakness or used to figure out why this had happened.
"While the trace of dark energon should have granted you control over these… ghouls, I believe the synthetic component may be corrupting your link to them." Knockout replied quickly. He got straight to the point, and it did make sense, unlike the normal stuff syth-en was completely made of chemicals to attempt to match the atomic makeup of real energon and to some degree it did. But one of the chemicals seemed to be interfering with the dark energon's ability to connect to Megatron, hence the inability to control them the way we had intended.
"Initiate high alert, instruct all troops to keep their distance from the mutations and terminate on sight." Megatron yelled to Soundwave who started the sequence, then he looked back to Knockout, Screams and I. "Your fates are yet to be seen." he said before completely leaving me out of the conversation and focusing on the other two, "Why are you still here!? Find this creation of yours and eradicate it immediately!" he yelled after them as they went running out if the room.
Then he turned to me and I gulped, "As for you, you will be going with Soundwave to ensure my orders are being carried out properly and to eradicate any of the missed terricons." he snapped. For once he'd been no nicer to me than he had been to the other two, it was unexpected and left me a little shocked at first before I shook it off and nodded, quickly following after Soundwave to ensure my safety from his rampage.
For the most part Soundwave and I walked the halls following after the carnage, only on occasion did I have to blaster a half alive terricon that had been missed or sometimes a fully living one that had been attracted to the noise of the battle before. All the while I was reviling in what had happened, I mean Megatrin was usually nice to me. It gave me some hope that he still cared about our friendship if there had ever been one in the first place. Still, he'd never yelled at me before, or that much for that matter.
And for an unknown reason I felt a little broken over the matter, I mean I still wanted us to be friends despite him basically ruling over me for the past decade (this includes before the war) or so but now I was starting to see the power was going to his helm rather than before when I'd looked at him as a role model. I took another shot at one running up to Soundwave and I, it fell backwards into a sort of pile with the others that had been killed by vehicons and insecticons before us.
We continued on along the hallway and I shook my helm to clear my thoughts, I had a job to do and this was no time to wander anyhow because you know, it might get me killed. We were coming up to a 'T' in the hallway where one turned off of this but the hallway we were currently in continued along, in that moment I heard an absurd amount of buzzing. Like the beating of wings or something, Soundwave and I both turned our helms to look down the hallway we were about to turn into when we saw a hoard of insecticons being led by none other than Airachnid herself.
"Soundwave and Rainjet." he called bringing her army to a stop, clearly she was trying to off Megatron and take over the warship again. They froze and the two of us just kind of stood in the hallway wondering what she was going to do about us being here. "Uh, hi?" I said and I saw my partner's servo curl into a fist, there was going to be a lovely fight if Soundwave didn't do something using his ground and space bridge magic.
"I vow that on this day the world will hear the sound of your partner's screams." she said looking straight at me, which was weird because I didn't remember doing anything to her but whatever every Con on this ship had plotted revenge at one point or another on anyone really. Airacnhid charged and I held up my blaster to fire at them but Soundwave held up a servo to stop me, on his visor he was pinpointing a location on one of Cybertron's moons to send her.
I refused to lower my weapon however, they were getting too close for comfort and Soundwave seemed to be taking his sweet time on the bridge. I fired up my blaster knowing full well I might have to take on most of these insecticons, but a second before Airachnid got the chance to strike Soundwave down he opened a space bridge right in front of her sending her and thankfully the rest of her insecticon army through with her.
"That was cutting it a little close." I said to him, my partner just shrugged and turned heel to head back to the bridge where Megatron would probably be waiting for us. Besides the fact that we'd almost died and everything today had been pretty decent, I mean we got rid of the bug problem we'd had for months including a pesky spider and as far as I could tell Shockwave's unnatural army of recreated predacon cloning process was going well. Once we'd made our way back to the bridge we found Megatron, Knockout and Starscream already waiting there for us. "Yes the containment protocol you recommended to prevent any further outbreak is underway. Oh and Shockwave, having just lost more than half our military might I cannot stress enough the importance of Project Predacon. See if you can speed things along, will you?" Megatron said to Shockwave before hanging up his call with him.
He seemed to notice our arrival and seemed slightly relieved that we hadn't come in wanting to take their energon. "How is the elimination of the remaining terricons going?" he asked, he was clearly still mad about the whole situation as his voice still sounded as harsh as before but at least he wasn't yelling this time. "What remains of the terricons have been eradicated as far as we could tell though we did lose all of our insecticons to Airachnid who Soundwave stranded on one of Cybertron's moons." I reported, he didn't even seem surprised about the news but rather accepted it and moved to scolding Knockout and Starscream. I took this as an opportunity to slip away to my computer on the other side of the room.
"Knockout, need I remind you that as the ship's medic you report directly to Shockwave not Starscream." Megatron began, "Understood, master." Knockout said quickly he sounded apologetic this time at least. "Just to be sure, you will hand over all of your projects to him immediately, including the synthetic energon." Megatron replied, "As you wish, my liege." was Knckout's response before he dismissed himself and headed out the doors back to his lab.
"And as for you." Megatron said staring into Starscream's spark with utter fury, this was not going to go well. "Lord Megatron, if you just allow me to explain things-" Starscream begged before he was cut off, "No, allow me to explain things in a matter in which I know you'll understand." Megatron reported before grabbing Starscream's arm and dragged the kicking and screaming mech out the door. "Another day another lashing for Starscream and another reason to live in fear." I muttered as low as I could so Soundwave wouldn't hear. This had been a rather eventful day. I was kind of wishing to forget it so I simply threw myself at the rest of my work until I felt slightly better.
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