Chapter Eleven
Optimus had to keep his optics on Megatron, but he gave a warning to his troops regardless and the humans.
The base was suddenly bombed by missiles reigning down from the sky as they saw where they were coming from. Starscream, his brothers Skywarp and Thundercracker, and quite a few other Decepticon fighter jets were high above their base flying and firing at them.
"Autobots, take cover we're under attack!" Optimus yelled as all of Optimus' soldiers and the humans known as NEST got ready to engage the Decepticons in the battle to the death if it came to that.
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Wheelie and Brains interrupted Thor and Missy's work letting them know there was a battle going on at the base.
"You are needed," Thor replied firmly.
"What?" she demanded.
"You heard me," Thor remarked.
"But I'm not ready yet, it's not enough time!" she exclaimed.
"Little femme, if ya don't Optimus will be offlined." Wheelie answered.
"We believe in ya," Brains said as she gazed down at the two minibots, and then back over at Thor and bit her bottom lip as she sighed.
"Alright, I'll do it," she said as Thor nodded with a serious smile.
"Let's go then," Thor replied.
"Alright," she said as her appearance suddenly changed.
A pink outfit with a cape, Pink hair and mask over her eyes, pink thigh high heeled boots.
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The Autobot and NEST base…..
The battle had taken its toll on some of the human NEST soldiers, and there were only injuries on some of the Autobots. Optimus had tried to get Megatron to a different area with little success on his part.
However, Megatron had managed to get Optimus back into an isolated area from the others, and the two were battling when Megatron made his move to try and take down his brother using Starscream's help.
:::::::… Starscream, I want you to fire at my brother so, the odds can be stacked in my favor, would you?...:::::::::::::::::::::::
:::::::… My pleasure, master…::::::::::
However, just as Starscream went to fire, pink lightning came out of nowhere hitting Starscream causing him to malfunction. Megatron knew he had to hurry if he was going to do this.
The Decepticon smirked. He had decided to use his sneak attack. He grabbed the other dagger which did contain the poison. He knocked Optimus flat onto his back, and jabbed him in his thigh.
Optimus stared above him, mouth slightly open as if to scream, but he couldn't. White, burning agony ripped through him as this... thing, this poison entered him and made its way through his body, tearing and destroying, burning his internal workings as it searched for his spark. He arched up, trembling with pain.
Energon seeped through, dripping out and onto the ground. Optimus finally screamed loudly, arching high as his fuel and cooling tank were ruptured. His energon felt like it was hot magma, burning and melting his internal parts. Hot energon crawled up his throat and he coughed, tiny droplets staining around his lips and dribbling down his chin. Tears came to his optics.
Optimus convulsed now, unable to keep from screaming in pain.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Optimus screamed his back arching in anguish.
Megatron was going to finish Optimus when pink lightning hit him, causing him to take flight with his other Decepticons.
"Decepticons, retreat!" Megatron as he took one last look at Optimus knowing he would at least have the last laugh on his brother.
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Missy flew down seeing Ratchet trying to help Optimus.
"What's wrong with him?" Ironhide asked.
"Megatron poisoned him," Ratchet said as she gasped.
"He has to have a cure, right?" Sam asked.
"Yes," Ratchet said.
"Then let's go pry it out of offlined servos," Sideswipe said.
Missy knew she had to do this not them, she was his guardian and protector. She took to the sky Bumblebee watching her curious about her as she flew in the sky and never seeing a human fly without a plane before.
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Missy flew faster. She had to go find Megatron and get the cure. There was no telling how long Optimus had. She wouldn't let him die.
'Hold on Optimus. Fight for me. I'll get the cure,' Missy thought.
~~~NEST base
Optimus continued to arch and scream, pain running throughout his whole body. Ratchet had managed to get him into the medibay and onto a medical berth. He hooked up various machines to the Prime, monitoring his condition.
"This isn't good. He won't last long. Megatron injected a lot of poison into him," Ratchet said.
"Well, how long does he have?" Ironhide asked.
"Two days at most. Maybe less. I've managed to slow the poison down," said Ratchet.
"Well, whoever she is had better hurry if she is going to save him," Sideswipe said.
Bumblebee whirred, snuggling close to his adoptive sire. He held his sire's servo, trying to send comfort to him. Optimus looked at his youngling, optics glazed over with pain. But the Prime gave him a small smile. Ratchet ushered the rest out of the medibay, Ironhide insisting on at least staying by the door outside. Ratchet moved back to Optimus' side to watch his condition.
"Sire," Bumblebee whispered.
"I-It'll be... okay Bee," Optimus whispered through the pain, his body shaking badly.
"I won't leave your side," Bumblebee said, gripping the servo tighter. "You'll survive this. You got to sire."
Optimus was hurting too much to reply back, but he nodded to his son. Bumblebee watched as Ratchet gave him a strong sedative. The Prime didn't fight it off, going into medical stasis. Ratchet sighed.
"Will he be okay Ratch?" Bee asked.
"I hope so," Ratchet said. "The more time he is like this, the less his chances are. But he is a fighter."
Bumblebee nodded, snuggling in closer to his sire's side. Even in stasis, Optimus still whimpered and cried.
~~~Decepticon base
Megatron smirked. He had won. Soon, his little brother would succumb to the poison and join the Allspark. He had won this war.
"Lord Megatron, what if the Autobots come for the cure?" Starscream asked, following his master.
"They won't make it in enough time to save him," Megatron said, pulling out the vial with pink liquid. "He will die before they could even get this back to him."
"They won't, but I will!"
Megatron and Starscream turned to look at who had spoken. Hovering over the ground was a human girl in all pink. She glared at the two, scowling.
"And who might you be?" Megatron asked.
"That doesn't matter. You'll give that cure to me now," Missy said.
"Or what?" Megatron taunted.
"Or this!" Missy shouted, raising her hands at the two Decepticons.