So, this is a very short chapter.
It's setting things up, and it calls back to one of my favorite G1 episodes!
Transformers (c) to Disney and Square Enix!
OCs (c) to me!
Chapter 6: Gehæftworld
Remix saw only fire as screams of pain and fear rattled her helm.
She was… on Cybertron. Twisted metal lay around her, as the crackling of fire mixed with the screams.
"Remix!"
Huh?
"Suster! Help me!"
Aalis!
Dashing through the flames, the young femme could see her human friend. In the clutches of a Decepticon.
She knew that Con.
Wanted posters and warning signs of him stretched across the galaxy. Megatron. Leader of the Decepticons.
"Megatron! Let her go!"
The mech looked up at her. His bright optics flashing. He said nothing, but only grinned as he turned his servo to the side, allowing Aalis to sit in his palm. Before his other servo came down on top of her.
Red.
It splattered outward and dripped from his palm.
"AALIS!"
Remix shot awake. Her helm throbbed.
What happened?
She remembered Aalis collapsing and then… nothing. Did something shoot her?
Glancing to her right, she saw a blank wall. To her left, she gasped as she noticed a row of cages. Her own location was encased on three sides by energy bars.
In the cages she saw large creatures of all kinds.
On the other wall across from her cell, stasis pods, their windows covered in crystals of ice.
Just to her left, she saw the face of Aalis in the pod.
"Aalis!"
Her servos reached out to grab the bars, but the energy repelled her back. "That won't do anything but hurt you, Autobot."
A voice, akin to that of nails on a chalkboard, spoke as a large creature, round, with rock-like skin and the face of a pig, lumbered into view.
A skuxxoid?!
"What's going on!? Where are we?"
"The Roulette." An alien with yellow skin and golden armor approached. "Welcome to my ship young femme. My name is Bosch(1)."
"Why did you take us?"
Bosch fingered the edge of his golden helmet with a grin. "I am sorry my dear, but I am a man of business and I owe a debt. Or two."
"What!?"
"I might owe a Con or two a gambling debt, and a captive Autobot will pay that off easily."
The little femme grit her dentals as her optics glared into the little alien. "And what about Aalis!? What about my friend!?"
"Oh, the human?" Bosch walked over to the stasis pod, tapping the window as he sighed. "You didn't know? These little creatures are very expensive. This is my first one to catch. She will be a gambling prize. Suka(2) make certain all my friends know that I'll be at Monacus with quite a prize."
The Skuxxoid nodded and lumbered off.
Bosch followed behind, waving a hand at the femme. "Sorry. Nothing personal."
"Don't leave us here!" Remix threw herself against the bars, only for the energy to blast her back against the wall. Her helm slammed against the wall and everything went dark.
"Always glad to have you here on Monucus, Dev." A femme with shining red finish leaned across the counter, pursing her lip components together.
"Thanks Exocet(3)." The sky blue mech downed a cube of high grade. "Got anything for me?"
Her digit tapped the underside of his jawline as she whispered, "Astrotrain laded earlier with Dirge and Ramjet. Apparently, Remjet won them an Autobot prisoner gambling at Sheol. And that same gambler who owes Braid and his slavers."
"Thanks Ex… I'll be sure to give you your extra pay later."
"Thanks Sugar." She tapped the bridge of his facial plating before sauntering off.
Devcon looked down at a little lizard alien who garbled something in an alien tongue about what their plans were.
"Slizardo, go back to the ship and prep for a quick getaway."
"Yesir!" The lizard slithered away through the crowds of patrons.
Devcon finished off his energon cube before standing up and vanishing into the crowd.
Sorry this was short, but this introduced the situation and some new characters.
Please review!
Footnotes
(1) Bosch appeared in the G1 episode 47, "The Gambler". He kidnapped the Autobots to sate his gambling problem.
(2) Skuxxoids have never been named, but I used the Japanese term for the Skuxxoid to come up with a name for this one: Sukakkusuzoido.
(3) Exocet was a femme mentioned in the IDW comics. I combined her with an unnamed red femme on Cybertron. And she's based slightly on Moxxi from Borderlands in personality.
VAs:
Bosch- Maurice Lamarche (Dr. Doom, King Pony Head, The Brain, Balto)
Exocet- Brina Palencia (Moxxi, Nyotengu, Vi Graythorn, Juvia Loxar
Slizardo- Frank Welker (Abu, Scooby-Doo, Sparky, Megatron)