DMK: ….alright, here is chapter two rewritten! Hopefully I won't deviate from Aurora's true personality TOO much…READ NOW!
Chapter Two
Inside the decimated star fighter, it was a scene of destruction. Windows had been shattered or blown out, the glass scattering like shrapnel. The numerous computer monitors were either dark or had static on their screens. Sparks flew occasionally from random areas, adding to the destructive sight.
Meanwhile, the femme was still. She looked dead. But, a few seconds later, her optics flickered on and opened, and she moaned weakly. After laying there for a few moments, she got to her hands and knees, then to her feet. At that, the floor gave a sickening groan and bowed inward.
"I'm…I'm alive…" She said in awed disbelief. "Wow…" She couldn't help but smirk for evading death.
But the femme wasn't entirely arrogant. Instead of taking her chances on a ship that could collapse in on itself at any moment, she decided to leave. Unfortunately, the door was jammed shut, but with the proper 'persuasion', it opened just fine. With a loud bang, it fell away, dented and smoking. With a carefully placed step, the shock-white female Transformer set her first foot down on Planet Earth. Once she was clear of the ship she looked up. The sky was growing dark at the horizon, with white-feather clouds whisking across the sky amongst small pinpricks of stars. It would have been beautiful had it not been for the fact that now she was stranded….
"Wonderful…" she sighed. "I just wish Zephyr was here with me…" That's when voices carried across the wind reached her auds.
The most commanding of them was stern and almost cruel. "Get those inept skidplates of yours in gear you fools! We must recover that space ship at all costs!"
Following instinct, the female raced up the side of a half-collapsed mesa, taking cover behind a stand of rocks. The footfalls grew louder, and she caught yet another set of voices to her opposite side. "Aww Optimus! How much longer is it?!"
"RedAlert?"
"We're practically on top of the ship, sir. I'm guessing once we get on the other side of this mesa we'll see it."
"Good. Then let's get it in gear, men. I can smell Decepticons a mile away..."
'The Autobots!' The femme thought to herself in surprise. 'What perfect timing... Well, here's to hoping they won't send me right back home again...'
Instead of dashing down the side of the hill to gleefully greet her allies, she remained crouched on top of the mesa. A wise choice, too-for both the Autobots and Decepticons came around the sides of the rock formation at the same time. Her ship was right in between them.
"Well, look what we have here!" The lead Decepticon cackled mockingly. Aurora shuddered, at the voice, horrid memories flooding back into her mainframe. "Autobots! Come to get another skidplate kicking, I see..."
'Well he's still as arrogant as ever,' the femme thought wryly. She watched as one of the younger Autobots present scoffed at Megatron.
"You? Kick our skidplates? Yeah, in the next millennium, maybe! Jolt, powerlink!" At the command, a small, reddish helicopter Minicon latched onto the mech's back, and his back axle flipped upwards. It had now become a cannon. "Take this, rabbit-ears!"
'Nifty trick,' the femme thought, still watching with interest. The mech fired off his cannon several times, but the rounds were nullified as Megatron swatted them away with the Starsaber.
"Hahahaha! Really now, was that your best shot?" Megatron goaded in a mocking voice. "Because if that was, I would almost feel sorry for hacking you in half..."
Yellow snarled and made a dash for the lead 'Con, but an Autobot Aurora clearly identified as Optimus placed his hand on his shoulder and pulled him back. "Hotshot, stand down. Go with Smokescreen and check the ship for survivors, I'll deal with Megatron."
Shooting Megs a scowl, Hotshot turned and raced to the cruiser along with a stout, orange and blue mech who had a crane mounted on his right shoulder. As they made the dash for the ship, Megatron shouted out to two of his men: "Starscream, Cyclonus, shoot them down and recover the passenger yourselves!"
A red seeker and a white and purple helicopter both took to the air in their vehicle modes and began to wildly fire on the two Autobots. "Today's main dish: HOT LEAD!" The helcopter shouted as he went on an insane strafing run. This gave the seeker time to get inside the ship, while the two Autobots could do nothing but shield their faces and take the fire.
'This'll shut you up,' the femme thought mentally again, pulling out a double-barreled plasma shell shotgun. She placed it in a notch between two rocks quietly. Following the 'Copter's erratic flight pattern calmly, she anticipated his move, tightened her grip on the trigger, and fired.
BOOM!
"Yee-AHHH!" Cyclonus howled in pain as he went careening into the ground. With the shout of the command, he reverted to his robot mode just in time to hit the sandy dirt, face first.
Everybody battling stopped. Nobody had taken a shot at Cyclonus...
Nobody they were aware of, that is.
Prime turned to look at his men, incredulous. "Who fired?" Everyone shook their heads in disbelief, as if answering, 'It wasn't me.'
No one had moved. Not until the seeker that had entered Aurora's cruiser re-emerged again and shouted, "Megatron! There's nothing there!" He paused, a bit surprised, when he saw Cyclonus' fallen form.
"Impossible!" Megatron shouted. "Look again!"
"I searched the entire cockpit area, and storage bays, sir! There's nothing!"
Meanwhile, the sun was setting. As the glowing sphere started to sink lower, the light caught the barrel of the hiding femme's gun and caused a glare. Unfortunately, the glare caught the optic of a very angry Decepticon leader. In a flurry of movement, he turned to face the direction of the glare, and saw the gunbarrel clearly. "There you are!" With a grunt, his hip-cannon swung forward. He gripped it tightly and fired blindly, indifferent to wether the sniper was Autobot, Decepticon, or Neutral. All he cared about was that it was destroyed.
'Wonderful!' Aurora then froze. She was caught by total surprise, too shocked to even evade. 'Move!' her conscience shouted at her. 'You'll be a pile of ashes if you don't!' But it was too late. By the time she had coerced her own body to stand, the laser rounds were well on their way to contact.
And Aurora was still paralyzed with fear.
TBC
DMK: So? Any better than the first time? I'm trying a new personality with her, really I am... v.v;;