Stinger was sitting down on an operating table, he didn't know what else Ratchet was planning to do, but he hopes she doesn't get too far with her research. Despite him looking human and like the other cybertronains, he must be missing things that make them well.
He on the other hand was made from death metal, that of cybertronains, which became programable metal. If she finds that out, he's not sure what she would do, however assuming he was made by Humans, or Decepticon and things will get worse from there.
"Do you have any idea about the war? Or before then?" Ratchet asked Stinger as she scanned him, Stinger held his head as a sharp pain shot through his processor, as he rubbed his temple, he got an idea of what to say, which allows her to believe he is a cybertronian, but vague enough to keep his true origins hidden.
"I….I was um, built late, like with the planet being nearly abandoned. I woke up alone, with nothing or no one….I found some launchpad, and used it to get here." Stinger said. "I had no idea where it was taking me, but I went into stasis as I was coming, I woke up upon hitting the ground."
"If you know what a Decepticon is, and what Autobots are. Why did you run away from Optimus?" Ratchet asked.
"Everything was foggy….and I had a bad experience before….so I thought if I just got away from her and Starscream. I would be left alone and not seen as a threat." Stinger said, Ratchet finished checking him over.
"Do you have any weapons?" Ratchet asked. "And would they need to be repaired?"
"I have a wide range of weaponry I think," Stinger said as he held up his left arm, a white outline of his weapon forms around his hand before it was filled with Nanos, like a holographic diagram made in Tindercad or fusion 360 which was filled with cube-like Nanos making a pincer-like blaster matching Stinger red armor. Ratchet stares at him once it was made. "What?"
"Interesting." Ratchet said. "No Cybertronian could do what you just did. Our weapons are normally apart of our biology, it's hidden within us and once we learn how to take it out. Like so." She changed her left hand to a blowtorch, then right into a sword.
Now thinking about it, he should remember that none of them would know what his transformation was, and it would be extremely odd to them. He shrugs and stands up.
"Well, should I maybe meet the others?" Stinger asked. "And be clued in on what's going on?"
"Well as of now. We are trying to stop the Decepticons. Optimus believes that Megatron is here, and we should prevent the Decepticons from finding her." Ratchet told him. "As of now, our upcoming mission is trying to find a pair of glasses. She only told me, and now I'm passing it onto you, just don't mention it to the others."
"Glasses?" Stinger asked.
"Yes, they hold the coordinates to something, No one knows the specifics besides Prime." Ratchet said as she turns to walk away. "Come, we shall get you acquainted with the others."
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As Stinger walked back to the main area with Ratchet Ironhide turns to them and walked over to Ratchet.
"Agent Fowler just contacted us. Said there were blips of Decepticon activities." Ironhide told her. "We should further our investigations."
"What if I help? Maybe your investigation can go by faster with my help?" Stinger suggested.
"You're in no condition to fight, especially after you faced off against Thundercracker." Ratchet said.
"Well, I'm fine now," Stinger said as he rubbed his left biceps as he lifts it and flexed it. "Your work plus naturally healing fixed me up great. I'm stable to fight."
"I'll need to run it by Optimus, or Jazz." Ratchet told him. "But for now, we have to stay here until Optimus comes back. She will give us any updates on what our next move should be."
"Roger that." Ironhide said.
Stinger turns around planning to head somewhere else, but he came face to face with Bumblebee and quickly jumps back from fright. "Fuck!" He shouted. "Don't sneak up on me like that?"
"Sorry about that, didn't mean to scare you. However, I do have some questions for you." Bumblebee said.
"Um…. ask away." Stinger said, hoping this will get him over how he feels about her. He knows that she wasn't the one who ended him, but some stray line of code deep inside of his processor is telling him to harm her.
"So, what class and model are you?" She asked. "You seem like a cheap knockoff of the B models, yet more upgrades."
"B modes?" Stinger asked. "And I take slight offense at the cheap knockoff comment."
"B as in what I am, like I'm B-127." Bumblebee explained, Stinger stares at her, still trying to think of what she exactly means. Then he came up with an idea.
"Oh right, I'm a newly made S model. S-127" Stinger said proudly. "As you can see the color scheme and body design are different. I'm made to be taller, faster, stronger, and just overly better than any B model, especially the one I share a number with."
"Ohh, interesting." Bumblebee said with awe, she then playfully hit Stinger's arm. "And I doubt you're better than me. You may have the upgrades, but I'm sure my skills will beat out any upgrades you do have."
"I doubt it." Stinger said with a small chuckle. This was a new feeling to him, he barely talked with the other KSI bots since some lacked the ability to speak, like he once did. Talking with Ratchet didn't feel different, but talking with Bumblebee did, mainly due to the playful banter, he heard scientists have conversations like this, learning over the years that they were friends. While it did feel odd, and his chest felt off, he enjoyed speaking to Bumblebee.
"In what ways are you better?" Ironhide curiously asked as she walked over. "Besides the speed, strength, and height?"
"Well for one, my weapons." Stinger said forming his weapon which shocked the two Autobots with how it was made. "And due to how I can form them; I can come up with some other blasters as well. Second my limitless supply of Ninja stars." He pulled the two things off his back. "Granted I have no idea why I have them if I'm not a ninja, but it's fun to use."
"Impressive, yet those won't guarantee a victory over me." Bumblebee said.
"There is one MASSIVE trump card I have, but I don't want to show it off yet." Stinger said, a smile growing on his face…. which felt odd. "Huh…."
"What is it?" She asked.
"Face feels odd…I don't know why." Stinger said.
"That would be your face smiling." Ironhide said.
"You never smiled before?" Bumblebee asked.
"Considering that I was conscious hours ago and got attack, this is my first ever smile." Stinger told them.
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Away from the Autobots, An Osprey was heading back to a military base to return some soldiers, at the base was Agent Fowler, to discuss the current situation about Stinger. Inside the Osprey was Lennox team of soldiers. As it lands, they head out in the truck with their gear, ready to head back home after five months. As they did the team split up doing different things, Epps heading over to play basketball, one of the other soldiers heading over to take a shower while Lennox sat down writing something in a small flip book.
"Watch this crossover, baby. Like Jordan in his prime, pushing through the front line." Epps said as he crossed the guy, he was going one on one with.
"Step aside, ladies." A soldier said as he takes his shirt off and pushed aside the other soldiers as he leans against the divider to get most of the water on him.
"Oh, man. What?" One of the showering soldiers complained as he was pushed back.
"Lennox!" Alittle boy shouted as he ran up to him.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Lennox asked.
"Water?" The boy asked, Lennox nods and takes it.
"Thank you." Lennox told him. "Are you gonna help me with the gear?" He asked as he stood up.
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A Sikorsky MH-53 Helicopter was inbounded to the base, the people monitoring the radar noticed the helicopter and he called over the Colonel.
"Colonel Sharp, we have an inbound unidentified infiltrator, 10 miles out." Said the guy who had noticed the helicopter. The Colonel walks over and picks up the mic to try and speak with the pilots.
"Unidentified aircraft, you are in restricted US military airspace. Squawk ident and proceed east out of the area." He told them; the helicopter only maintained its current position. "Raptors one and two, snap to heading two-five-zero to intercept. Bogie is in the weeds ten miles out, not squawking. Unidentified aircraft, we will escort you to US SOCCENT airbase. If you do not comply, we will use deadly force."
"Copy the bogie." One of the Raptor pilots said, and they noticed the number on the Helicopter. "Tail 4500 X-ray."
"Sir says here 4500 X was shot down three months ago. Afghanistan." One of the officers said as he walks over to them
"That's got to be a mistake. Check again, then recheck." Sharp said
"I did, sir. A friend of mine was on that chopper." The officer told him.
"Unidentified aircraft, we will escort you to US SOCCENT airbase." The raptor pilot said.
"Radar, where's the inbound?" Sharp said as he heads to a control tower.
"Bogie's five miles out, sir." An officer said in there.
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Agent Fowler walks into the control tower, and he looks at the Colonel, he fixed his tie and walks to him extending his hand.
"Colonel Morshower. I am special agent William Fowler. Here to speak on the behalf of our mechanical friends, and the current attack that had transpired." He spoke.
"Agent Fowler." The Colonel said, sounding annoyed and tired. "I see that we are going to have another update on the robots explaining that they're sorry."
"Well, the recent situation with them stopping the cons is growing once more. Optimus believe that they are back." Fowler said. "They're looking for something, and with the attacks on bases. It has to be in some military base."
"Is there any other news? Besides recent attacks, that we had to clean up?" Morshower asked. "How about us getting involved and help defend our own planet? Instead of sitting on the sidelines and watch as our protectors run amuck and cause damage that we are left to clean up?"
"Optimus still does not want us to get involved. She says our weaponry might not be enough to damage most of them. She does not want casualties on our side. So, for now, it's just use and some other higher-ups with the knowledge of them." Fowler said.
"Though she doesn't want casualties, she's okay with car wreckers, fender-benders, destruction of properties, and traffic jams which may leave some people hurt." Morshower said, then the helicopter landed as marines and armored vehicles ran up to it. Fowler looked outside, something about that helicopter seemed familiar. "4500 X. Something's not right."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Radar's jammed." An officer said Morshower and Fowler turn to him. "It's coming from the chopper.
The chopper sends out a jammer taking out the power to the base. This caused the video chat with Lennox and Sarah to bug out and glitch.
"Will?" Sarah asked as the screen glitches.
"Sarah?" Lennox asked as the glitch got worse. "Hey, Sarah, if you can hear me, I love you and I'll be home soon."
Outside and away from the Barracks soldiers lined up all taking aim at the helicopter, blades still spinning.
"MH-53 pilot, power down now. Have your crew step out or we will kill you." Morshower said over the speaker.
"Something's not right….I've seen the Helicopter before." Fowler said the blades stop spinning, before extending into the air, all the blades shifting back.
"Hold your fire! Stand by to engage!" A soldier shouts. Fowler soon realized what it was at it begins to transform. Everyone opens fire, but it didn't stop her transformation.
"My God." Morshower said.
"It's a Decepticon!" Fowler shouted.
Blackout simply fired two missiles towards one truck, and wildly fire her machine gun, hitting a few soldiers in the process, she then changed to her primary weapon, it shoots out a blue ball of plasma, it's transparent and the inside was just blue energy. It was called her energy wave cannon, she lets out a shot which sends the vehicles and marines flying as a large wave pushed each of them back, the glass to the control tower shattered at the power of the blast.
"Insects" She mutters to herself.
"They bombed the antenna farm! We're under attack!" Epps shouted, Blackout attack was heard in the background and many marines ran around, some trying to escape, others to go fight whatever their attacker was.
Blackout however was heading towards them, firing her energy wave cannon at barracks, her weapon was extremely dangerous, seeing that's whatever is behind her target will get destroyed, she fired at one car, right as the ball hit it explodes and a wave of energy flies back destroying barracks in its path while sending vehicles and cars flying.
"Go! Move! Move!" Fowler shouted as Morshower and his head into a building with files that needs to be deleted. As they made it in Blackout rips the roof off the building and grabs some device that held the date, she twisted it around allowing the wires to come loose before it connects to her fingers, she begins to skim through the files.
"It's going after the files!" An officer shouted once he looked at a monitor seeing the files flip throughout it.
"Cut the hard lines!" Morshower shouted.
"I need a key! It's locked!" The Officer said, Fowler saw an ax, he quickly pulled it off the wall and runs over to the soldier.
"Move! Move!" Fowler shouted as he cuts the wires with the ax, however, she did find the file she was looking for, the connection was lost but it didn't matter. She lets go of it and went back to destroy the rest of the base.
Lennox and his team were running past the rows of tanks, mainly behind one row, staying low as they ran. More explosions were heard, and they quickly ran across the opening to another row of tanks. Two more tanks were sent flying through the air via blackout, along with a helicopter.
"Here, come here! Come here!" Lennox said as he pulled the kid near him, he and his team along with other marines were hiding between the tanks. "Here, hide in here!"
"Oh, my God. Okay." Figs said as he ducks under the front of the tank, quickly taking his weapon out. As Epp was about to make it Blackout's left foot stomped down near him causing him to fall, he tried to get up, but she moved her other foot near him.
"No!" Epps shouted as he looks up, Blackout simply looks down at him, her crimson red eyes starring him down, she simply let a low growl out watching him back up, something was in his hand, and he used that to get a closer look of her. As a result, a mini cannon forms from her chest and aims at her. "What the..."
Before she could take a shot Figs aims at her chest and fires. It hits her which did nothing, however the smoke from the blast messing her optics up, she jolts back rubbing her eyes as she takes a wild shot missing them.
"Epps, let's go!" Lennox shouted, as they left the base, Blackout recovered and she stares at them, she only smiled and turns away from them.
"Scorponok, it's time to play~," she said as her blades move from her back and her back armor opens up as something pops out of it, the thing in question seemed to be the age of a small child. She brunet, her armor color was grey covering most of her body, she does a flip, pincers forming around her hands, and she digs into the ground and head after the soldiers. Blackout went back to destroying the base.
She walked up to a group of Boeing c17a Globemaster airplanes, many soldiers running away from her, she looks at the rows to her left and fired, sending a sonic wave with her energy blast, the range of her weapon was 340 feet in length. The wing of the plane is 170 in length, the wave of her blast was double the length of the plane, the blast destroyed the plane with ease as it passed them. She laughs as one blast destroyed many rows of the planes along with soldiers, she turns around destroying another row along with any marine in its math, she then blasts the last row.
In the end, not much was left, destruction and carnage around the base remain of vehicles that at first glance look disfigured and mangled, to the point that you cannot recognize them. Inside the building she took the information from, Agent Fowler slowly gets up and looks around, Morshower was still alive, along with one of the officers, the one who tried to cut the power, he slowly rubbed his head with blood coming from the top of his head, he looks up at Blackout as she transforms and flies away. Fowler weakly tried to get up, but he falls.
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Back at the Autobots base, the sound of a truck was heard, the Autobots turns to face a truck driving into the base, Stinger recognized it as Optimus, and he stood up and walked to the other Autobots to greet her. Once she transformed Stinger took a moment to look at the other Autobots around him, then at Optimus, there was a huge size difference compared between them and her. He never meant his world Optimus, though Galvatron did speak of her- or well in his world him. Nothing favorable either, just all negative things.
Though figuring that everything could've been lies and propaganda so he and his brothers could believe in the cause.
"Autobots. It has come to my attention that the Decepticon attacks are a pattern. We have once believed that they have left the planet, before a few of them shown up at a time, each going after a human military base. Now we know that they may have not left in the first place." Optimus told them. "The only thing that I am aware of that will get their interest is Megatron or the coordinates to the Allspark."
Stinger wanted to ask who she was but decided that he should not his head in agreement.
"If they are here, how will we go about finding them?" Prowl asked.
"On one hand. A pair of glasses have the location of the Allspark on it, on the other hand, there may be more ways to find Megatron or the Allspark, we must ensure that the Decepticons get neither." Optimus told them. "Having Megatron is bad enough, but with her and the Allspark being here, that is a dangerous combination."
"How may we be of assistance?" Prowl asked.
"Stay on Alert. We will need to find the owner of the Glasses before the Decepticons do. I will contact Agent Fowler and see if he knows anything about Megatron and the Allspark, and the location." Optimus said, she then turns to Stinger. "Our new Autobot, how are you? Do you feel better?"
"Yup." Stinger said as he stretched. "I feel good as new, just like I did before your human friend attacked me, and the situation was made worse by the addition of a seeker."
"That's…..good" Optimus slowly said. "What class and model are you? I've never seen a Cybetronain like you."
"I'm Stinger, S-127. Better than the B models in every way." Stinger said, Bulkhead let out a chuckle.
"Pretty cocky for a newbie," Arcee told Stinger, placing her hands on her hips as she stared at him.
"It's true, in some ways," Stinger said. "When you see me in action your tune will change, and I wasn't being cocky, that's what I learned about my model, guess I was a prototype."
"I hope I can see your skills and abilities on the battlefield Stinger." Optimus said.
"Optimus." Ratchet called out as she was looking at a monitor. "One human base in Qatar was just destroyed. Agent Fowler is currently there, and Decepticon Hunters Shatter and Dropkick are here, along with Barricade. There is a high chance that they are searching for the glasses.''
Optimus nods and she looks at Stinger. "Stinger, if you do not want to be a part of this, you may stay here, and not help us with combat. Or you can help us and become an Autobot. I will not force your hand."
Stinger looks at her, the way she spoke as a leader, was different from Galvatron's, she was more caring, understanding, her voice was calm and soothing. He thinks over her options, he wants to help, wants to do good, although his time as a Decepticon was brief, and they failed their overall goal and was abandoned, he was originally made to protect the humans, and he's going along with that, going back to what he was made for.
"I choose to become an Autobot," Stinger said. Optimus nods and she looks at Ratchet.
"Ratchet, open a Groundbridge to Qatar, Prowl, Bulkhead, and Ironhide. You three will accompany me to the base. The rest of you can head out and try to find the glasses."
With that, the three of four of them walked through the ground bridge.
"How will we even find them?" Arcee asked.
"…..We can try searching eBay." Stinger suggested, everyone turns to him. "What?"
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"Okay, Mr. Witwicky, you're up." Said a teacher inside a classroom. As Sam walked up to the desk the other students looked at him, one being his friend Jack Darby.
"Sorry, I got a lot of stuff." Sam told the class as he dumped the contents of his bag on the desk, one of the students whispers to a girl, telling her to watch as he aims a rubber band at Sam. "Okay. For my family-" He was cut off as it hits his throat and he holds it, not out of pain, more so shock and confusion.
"Who did... Who did that?" The teacher asked as he gets up, no one responded. "People! Responsibility." He told them as he sits back down.
"Okay. So, for my family genealogy report, I decided to do it on my great-great-grandfather, who was a famous man, Captain Archibald Witwicky. Very famous explorer. In fact, he was one of the first to explore the Arctic Circle, which is a big deal. In 1897, he took 41 brave sailors straight into the Arctic Shelf." Sam told everyone, he continued with explaining what his Great-great-grandfather did, he went on with the mini-history lesson before moving on to the things he had brought with him.
And here we have some of the basic instruments and tools used by 19th-century seamen. This here is the quadrant, which you can get for 80 bucks. It's all for sale, by the way. Like the sextant here. $50 for this, which is a bargain. These are pretty cool. These are my grandfather's glasses. I haven't quite gotten them appraised yet, but they've seen many cool things."
"Are you going to sell me his liver?" The teacher sarcastically asked, earning a laugh from the Students. "Mr. Witwicky, this isn't shown and sell. It's the 11th grade. I don't think your grandfather would be particularly proud of what you're doing."
"I know. I'm sorry. I just, you know, this is all going towards my car fund. You can tell your folks. It's on eBay. I take . Cold hard cash works, too. And the compass makes a great gift for Columbus Day." Sam said.
"Sam!" The teacher shouted.
"Sorry." Sam said. "Unfortunately, my great-great-grandfather, the genius that he was, wound up going blind and crazy in a psycho ward, drawing these strange symbols and babbling on about some giant ice Woman that he thought he'd discovered." Then the bell rings and the students get up and walk away.
"Okay. Might be a pop quiz tomorrow. Might not. Sleep in fear tonight." The teacher said. Sam sighs and gathered his things before walking away.
"Did you really have to try and sell things that your Great-Great-Grandfather had?" Jack asked as they walked out of the school. "Why are you trying to sell them anyways?"
"I'm trying to save up for a car, at first my dad wanted me to raise two thousand, when I did it faster than expected, he raised the bar, so I need more money." Sam said.
"Why not get a job?" Jack suggested. "Maybe I can put a good word in for you."
"I thought you wanted to quit because of the pay?" Sam asked.
"I mean I do, but it would be nice to have a friend." Jack said.
"Thanks for the offer but no, I'm thinking of trying to be an Intern for Mr. Sumdac." Sam said, Jack stops and looks at him shocked.
"You…. You of all people are going to go intern for him?' Jack asked, completely baffled. "One of the richest people on the planet, and someone who changed technology for the better want you?"
"I know, it's crazy, but it shouldn't be so bad, I might not have to do much," Sam said.
"I see," Jack said with a shrug.
A/N Hey everyone, sorry for the late update, but I'm trying to get my stories back on a scheduled date, so this story and Kaiju insurgence will be updated Sunday. This story took a bit more time to write, and somethings came up while I was writing this, but now it is done.
I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I had fun making this chapter and will have fun with Stinger, I hope y'all also enjoy him as a character.
See you all next time, IceEmepror26 out!