TRANSFORMERS : MEGATRON'S REVENGE
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Death's Head – I do not own The Transformers, nor Death's Head. Takara Industries/Hasbro/Marvel US/Marvel UK/Sunbow Entertainment/Saban Entertainment, all own parts of The Transformers. Marvel UK owns Death's Head. Seraphim is my own creation. She transforms into a F-4 Phantom. Raiden and Valkyrie are my creation's as well. Vehicle forms? No idea. There's not much of them at the moment, only enough to get ahead, if you know what I mean. (Sorry about the bad joke people.) Alpha Destroyer and Citadel Supreme are mine as well. Alpha Destroyer is a Decepticon equivalent of the Autobot Omega Supreme and Citadel Supreme is a Decepticon version of Fortress Maximus. Also, please, please, PLEASE read all of my first Transformers story : Transformers : Book 1 : Death's Head. A lot of information is in that story, which is carried over into this one.
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On the other side of Cybertron :
Death's Head leaned against the wall, watching as the automated machines went to work. Seraphim, Kari and Bumblebee were in the room as well, whilst Dogfight, Grimlock and Jazz had gone off to explore the rest of the lab. Raiden's head was plugged directly into the computer mainframe, busy at designing new bodies for himself and for Valkyrie. Valkyrie, however, was speaking softly with Seraphim.
"It was terrible. All of them, turned against Raiden. Every single one of them, attacked Raiden and myself."
Seraphim looked at Valkyrie.
"Valkyrie...."
"Perhaps I should've tried and talk Raiden out of bringing them back. At least then, we'd have our bodies."
Seraphim sighed.
"Maybe. But even if that was the case, Soundwave or someone else would've brought them back, and then you'd most probably be right here, still."
Valkyrie shut herself down, effectively ending the conversation. Seraphim sighed, then looked at Death's Head. She had a question to ask him, and now was as good a time as any.
"Death's Head, a word if you please."
Death's Head nodded.
"What."
"You're a mercenary, correct? Why are you helping us? We aren't paying you, so why?"
Death's Head's optics glowed red, then he spoke.
"I prefer the term, Freelance Peacekeeping Agent, yes? But to answer your questions, simple. Why am I helping you when I'm not getting paid? Who said I hadn't been payed. When I destroyed Shanix within Autobot City, I downloaded from him, the entire knowledge of Cybertron."
"How did Shanix have that? And besides, the knowledge of Cybertron, had been encased in the Underbase. And that's out in space somewhere! Optimus Prime, when he was still young, had led a group of Autobots to the Tower of Boltax, where the Underbase was stored. He launched it into space to keep it safe from Megatron."
Death's Head looked at her.
"You know the story?"
Seraphim nodded.
"Only from what Dogfight told me. After all, Override, Backstreet and Dogfight were the troops with Optimus when he visited the tower."
"I see. In any event, after the Underbase had been launched, the Autobots decided to recreate a new database, with which to store the knowledge of Cybertron. Shanix, after he returned, had found the database and downloaded it, completely into himself. Before I killed him, I stole it from him."
"Why?"
"Simple. Now that I have it, either the Autobots or Decepticons have to pay me my sum, or else I sell it to someone else, yes?"
Seraphim looked at Bumblebee, who was glaring at Death's Head.
"You are scum Death's Head! To sell something as infinitely valuable as the knowledge of Cybertron, just so you could turn a quick buck?"
"I have my expenses, yes?"
Bumblebee fumed.
"You.....!"
Seraphim stepped between Bumblebee and Death's Head.
"CALM DOWN! BOTH OF YOU!"
Bumblebee looked at his friend, then at the bounty hunter. He scowled and left the room, pushing past Dogfight, who was walking in.
"Whoa, what's crawled up his exhaust?"
Seraphim sighed and looked at Death's Head.
"Ok then Death's Head, I guess I can understand that as your payment for what you did on Earth, but after that? When we left Earth to find Raiden and Valkyrie, and then when we came back to Cybertron, you still haven't received anything in the form of payment yet, so why?"
Death's Head's face remained impassive, then....
"You want to know why I'm helping Raiden? It all began a hundred years ago. Raiden and myself were on this backwater jungle planet, having been hired to go 'bug-hunting'. These were a particularly nasty type of bug, which enjoyed devouring the planet's occupants. However, the person who hired us, neglected to us about the warhead they had prepared to use to wipe the species out. I was fighting a group of the damned things, when the warhead was launched. Raiden, flew out and tackled the warhead before it hit. The explosion was devastating, destroying the atmosphere of the planet, the planet's ecosystem was completely wasted because of it. However, he had saved me from being at ground zero. I owe him, yes?"
Seraphim looked at Death's Head.
"So, you're saying, that all this, was just to repay a debt?"
Death's Head nodded.
"Yes. It makes good business sense to payback your debts, yes?"
Seraphim shook her head.
"No offense Death's Head, but to go to all this trouble, just to repay a debt, seems a little strange and excessive to me."
"What may seem strange and excessive to you, is because of you being a pacifist. The debt is a matter between Raiden and myself, yes?"
Before Seraphim could respond, Jazz hurried into the room.
"Guys! We just intercepted a message from a group of Deceptijerks. The Seekers encountered a group of Autobots, in the sewers leading away from Iacon. They're requesting reinforcements, to hunt the Autobots they were after."
Dogfight looked at Jazz.
"Reinforcements?"
Jazz nodded.
"Yeah, apparently, they're asking for the Horrorcons, Seacons and Citadel Supreme to aid them."
"WHAT?!?! CITADEL SUPREME!?!?!?" Dogfight gasped.
Jazz nodded again.
"Yeah, we gotta go help those Autobots!"
Death's Head snorted.
"Jazz, those Autobots probably know that area of Cybertron better than the Decepticons, so why bother, yes?"
Jazz looked at Death's Head.
"Because the message said, they've found that groups base and have surrounded it."
Seraphim nodded to Dogfight.
"Get Bumblebee and Grimlock. We leave shortly."
"You got it boss."
Dogfight ran out of the lab, whilst Seraphim faced Death's Head.
"We could use your help. After all, we are the only ones with combat experience against Citadel Supreme."
Death's Head leaned against the wall, arms folded across his chest.
"Why should I? What's in it for me?"
Seraphim frowned.
"What do you want?"
"Seeing as you don't have much to offer, I'll do this as an I.O.U. , which had better be paid, yes?"
Raiden's optics glowed.
"No need to worry about the I.O.U. Death's Head. Look in the top panel near you."
Death's Head pressed the button and the panel slid open. Inside was 10,000 shanix (AN : Shanix is the currency in which Rodimus Prime paid Death's Head to hunt Scourge and Cyclonus in the Marvel UK Transformers series, entitled "Legacy of Unicron".), which Death's Head nodded.
"Fine. I'll help your sister for 10,000 shanix, yes?"
Raiden's eyes glowed then he went back to work. Seraphim looked from her brother to Death's Head.
"Well?"
Death's Head walked past her, removing his right hand, and attaching the blaster replacement.
"Time to go to work, yes?"
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Death's Head – Well, I apologise about the delay in uploading new chapters. Had a lot of personal problems and such to sort out. I'll do my best to keep this updated on a regular basis. I need a vacation, lol. Anywayz, next chapter Galvatron and co have a surprise brewing for the Decepticons and Autobots on Cybertron. R&R please.
