Ah yes, yet another chapter for you folks. Hope you like it.
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Six spots along the stations sides glowed a pale purple. He opened up a dark portal and continued to watch. Next, long cannons erupted from the purple haze, bathed in light. But there was something else that caught his attention.
In front of the space station there was a peculiar shape. He had to check it out.
"Stay here, cover me if they attack."
Before anyone could say anything else, Megatron was off.
Immediately, two of six cannons tracked the Decepticon leader.
"Aim for those cannons!" Demolisher ordered.
Red globes began forming at the cannon tips. Decepticon lasers shot towards the threat.
Double streams of red lasers sizzled through space at startling speed just as the magenta lasers slammed into the two cannons, sending them offline.
Sensing an energy source coming towards him Megatron gave him self a quick burst of speed, the crimson lasers missed their intended target by mere inches.
"Agh!" Megatron growled as his back was singed by the extreme heat.
This didn't deter him from his objective.
Back at the space station, the remaining four cannons turned towards Snowcat, Demolisher, and Tidalwave.
Four red lasers streaked towards the three decepticons.
"Scatter!"
The decepticon group scattered as four red lasers sizzled past their spot only seconds before. The portal still open, the streaks of red death entered it and disappeared.
"Oh man! That ain't good! That ain't good!" Snowcat screeched
"Keep firing!" he was reminded and began shooting at the station again
'this is nuts' he thought to himself
Viper slowly woke up again. Her head pounded and her vision was all blurry.
"What happened?" she mumbled.
Slowly getting up she groggily looked around. Several times she had to shut off and shut back on her optics to get a clear vision. What she saw reminded her of what she last saw and heard. Taking several steps she held onto the wall which completed the once well contained rectangular jail cell.
She freely walked into the long hallway, on the floor sat the bars that had kept her imprisoned, now they were charred and harmless.
"Hm." She kept her thoughts to herself as she clumsily kneeled down to inspect the bars. Curiosity made her inspect it longer.
On the bars was an odd marking, she gasped and jumped back "wha?"
Getting back up she bolted for the elevator.
"ugh."
She stopped, she was not alone
"Who's there?" Viper stared hard into the dark cells
"Viper?"
She spun around, that voice was familiar
"help me." She noticed the voice was weak, whoever it was, she was about to find out
"ok, hold on a sec." taking a hold of the bars, she pulled.
Just as she thought, that didn't work. She yanked it really hard. Still the bars never budged. Letting go she curled her tail around one of the bars.
Going on all fours she pulled again, this time she had a lot more space to work with instead of a small cell.
She thought it moved a bit but it was her tail losing grip.
"This'll take awhile." She stopped "I'll be right back and get the keys."
"that won't work; you'll never find the keys."
With a sigh she began gnawing on the bars.
They began to peel as her sharp teeth tried to bite through
"Thish vreally 'urts." She managed to say as she began biting harder
"This is useless." She finally sat down "Think you can help me?"
"No, I can't move." The voice answered.
Viper sat quietly for a moment, thinking.
It looked as if she wanted to say something but not so sure if she should
"Why should I help you? You are the one who accused me of murder."
Backing off, lights built into her new frame flicked on, revealing the chained form of Optimus.
"What happened?" She tilted her head
"No time to explain," he raised his head "just try to get me out of here, please."
"I don't know," her optics narrowed "you might throw me into jail again."
"That wasn't me who made you go here."
she opened her mouth to say something but Optimus continued
"Please, just trust me on this, all will be explained later."
with a sigh she kicked the chewed bar. Nothing. Again she kicked it, again and again. Slowly the bar began to bend under the strain.
The pounding echoed throughout the jail until Viper got an idea.
Leaping back to the charred bars she grabbed a long pole and stepped back to Optimus' cell
"Who put you in here anyway?" she asked as she laid the bar against the bent one
"I'm not so sure. I was shot by some dart, it went into my energon tubes."
Viper pushed the bar down.
"odd, the same thing happened to me down here. Don't know how long I was out," the bent bar finally broke
"but long enough for whoever to get you chained up."
Viper tried pushing open the door but the lock still held on tight by the other bar "oh crap."
Optimus chuckled "try melting the lock and then brake it."
"Alright, so while I'm working on this explain to me what's going on."
"Very well." And so Optimus began
Ironhide and Kicker pushed a cart full of energon towards the lab
"You wanna visit Viper later?" Kicker sat on Ironhide's shoulder
"Sure, maybe she can give us some info."
"Hurry up!" yelled Strongarm
"We're going as fast as we can!" yelled Kicker in return
"I wish you could actually help, things would be going a lot quicker around here."
"Hey don't complain I cover your butt in missions."
"yeah right!" Ironhide retorted
Kicker laughed "face it!"
"we're a team, equal." Ironhide pointed out
"heh, I guess your right."
"What do you mean by that? You know I'm right!"
and so they continued their usual arguing
Megatron reached out and touched the form that had caught his attention.
It was long case of some sort that had a rough Decepticon symbol sketch on it.
Looking back he saw his fighters shooting the space station and narrowly missing red lasers. Getting a good grip on the case he returned to the portal as fast as he could.
"Let's go men!" he entered the dark void. Demolisher, Snowcat and Tidalwave wasted no time to follow.
Again they saw the dark clouds streaking past them.
Bolts of purple lightning spat out at the surrounding area.
Everything seemed normal until four searing hot lasers appeared ahead, bouncing against the walls of the tunnel.
"What's this?" Megatron whirled upon his soldiers
"Lasers." Tidalwave answered
"Well you see, we were in front of the portal and four lasers were aimed at us and as we moved they kinda, uh, entered the portal."
Snowcat fiddled with his fingers.
Megatron didn't bother yelling at them, his mind was on the case. Dodging the lasers easily he exited the portal and headed for base not even waiting for the others.
Upon reaching the throne room he set the case down. Starscream appeared
"What is that?" he asked with his usual chilling voice.
"I don't know, open it," Megatron sat on his throne "careful, a decepticon is possibly in there."
The others came in just in time to see Starscream slice open the seal and throw open the lid.
A wave of white wispy steam shot up. A clawed hand gripped the edge of the case and sat up. Everyone gasped.
Alpha Q watched the figure enter the room hesitantly
"Welcome stranger, what brings you here?"
"I search for someone." The voice was bold and crisp
"come out of the shadows and identify yourself." Scorpinok ordered
"I came here to ask a question, not for introductions." The figure said in a cold tone
"Leave him be Scorpinok, now who is it you search for?"
"A femme named Viper."
"Viper?" Alpha Q repeated the name
"I know that name." Scorpinok piped up
"Where is she?!" the shadowy figure hissed
"She is a part of the Autobot team, they are on Earth."
The figure turned to leave.
"Wait." Alpha Q called out
it stopped
"What is your name?"
reluctantly he answered "Korwrath."
with that, he ran off
"odd name." Scorpinok crossed his arms
"Follow it." Aloha Q ordered.
There was a screech and a few Divebombs flew after Korwrath.
Inside a large hexagon shaped room laid the limp forms of Hotshot, Inferno and Jetfire.
Large thick tubes attached to them, slowly recharging them by feeding their forms energon.
The first to wake was Jetfire, he sat up slowly and shook his head.
Hotshot awoke moments later, sitting up he looked over to Jetfire, he then set his optics on three seats far ahead of them, though the middle one was the only one filled.
Inferno finally awoke from his slumber. All three of them were still weak and moved slowly.
"You all finally woke up." The form stood and walked towards them "it's about time."
It was obviously female by the anatomy of her body.
She was a draconic transformer, like Viper. Her form was much more slender.
Her optics narrowed in such a way that made her keep the look of slyness and authority.
With high curved brows and curved muzzle she obviously knew she had certain beauty in a dark way. The horns upon her head reminded the three Autobots of a crown.
Her shoulders had long, curled shields though looked more for décor than being practical.
Her foot claws were sharp as well as the few teeth that poked beneath her upper jaw line.
When she walked in was in a seductive way.
"you are probably wondering where your leader is," she stopped in front of them
"he's in a prison, under Ocean City."
"How?" Inferno asked weakly "he was with us earlier."
"Well not really." She walked over onto a platform and the form of Optimus took her place" you see it was an illusion," It was Optimus' masculine voice
"I was with you this whole time." Suddenly his form faded away to show the femme.
She approached them again.
"I set up Viper's murder. I killed a human, put it in her room and you know the rest."
She kneeled in front of them
"Now while I have you guys here, your true leader was locked up in jail by one of my best fighters."
"Who are you?" asked Hotshot
"I am Saneres. Queen of the greater race, and you worthless fools have changed Viper! You have changed her appearance and warped her mind. I want her back here with me, where she belongs!" She stood in rage, leaping back to her throne. Sitting down she looked back upon them.
"How have we changed Viper?" Jetfire growled as he tried to stand, failing.
"She is not supposed to look like, like that!" Saneres waved her hand
"She must be elegant, more slender, her wings narrower, not that big and no ridiculous add on armour. Armour is for men." Saneres snorted "besides, she should be ruler alongside me; all of you should be bowing down to her."
At this point the three were confused and greatly angered
"Viper is our friend and a part of the Autobots; we're all equal and treated equally."
Hotshot managed to stand as his full strength returned to him.
"Hah! Please, she will never be considered an Autobot; she doesn't even carry the Autobot symbol. We'll be taking her back wether she wants to or not and then we will reign upon all transformers."
She let out an insane chuckle which escalated into a laugh. Inferno stood as well as Jetfire.
Their strength fully returned to them. The tubes that fed them energon dropped off and slithered away with a wave from Saneres hand.
"Take them away!" Guards stepped into the room from the shadows and prepared to stun the angered Autobots, but they got more than they bargained for.
"Inferno!" Hotshot turned to him
"Right." He nodded
In a quick transformation Hotshot and Inferno power linked, now almost twice as tall they attacked the draconic guards and destroyed them quickly and efficiently.
"Jetfire, we'll clear the path, you cover behind!"
"Got'cha!" with that the power linked Hotshot ran ahead with Jetfire close behind, shooting down guards, who appeared to be duplicates of one another, drones.
The screeching of Saneres could be heard as the Autobots struggled to find the exit through the tunnels, it was like a giant maze.Sorry everyone, I had this chapter up then I took it back down again :P
took me awhile to put it back up again cause I rented the Transformers game, almost beat it and my sis had to return it!!!
hate when that happens, anywho hope you like.