TRANSFORMERS BOOK FOUR
REQUIEM FOR THE EARTH
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Death's Head - I STILL don't own Transformers. Takara, Hasbro, Marvel U.S. and Marvel U.K. own them. Drat, drat and double drat!
This story is the fourth in a series of stories I have written. I strongly suggest and urge any who read this story, to also read the first three, as elements in this story, have been established in the first three.
The only characters I own, are my original creations, listed as follows – Autobots – Outlaw, Seraphim, Gnash and Splashdown (The last two appear for the first time in this chapter.). Decepticons – Acousia, Vette, Roadkill, Tempest, Darkshayde, Hydrina, Carnage, Blaze, Thraka and Tremble. The Transformer Acheron is also my creation. (For more information on these characters (Except Acheron, Gnash and Splashdown), check out my Original Character Bios, also located on this site.)
The Decepticon Darkheart, is a creation of one of my reviewers, Tariq, as are Tyrannous, maul, Bane and Calibous. They are HIS creation, not mine. Darkheart and the others, are appearing in this story, with Tariq's permission.
If you would like to use any of my characters in your stories, please send me an email, asking for permission to use them first.
Thank you.
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CHAPTER FIVE :
IN THE REMAINS OF SAN FRANCISCO :
A lone Hispanic youth ran through the ruined streets, ducking and dodging behind rubble. Ever since the Decepticons attacked Washington, life in America changed drastically. The entire east and west coasts of America had been laid to waste, by the gestalts, Devastator, Menasor, Bruticus and Pirannacon. Abominus and Predaking had returned to what remained of Autobot City, intent on the destruction of the Autobot, Metroplex. The mighty Autobot, still suffering from some of the many wounds inflicted upon him during the second battle for Autobot City, managed to fight the two gestalts and send them fleeing.
However, he let his guard drop, and was caught unprepared by his Decepticon counterpart, Trypticon. The Decepticon dinosaur tore through the many layers of armour and tore from Metroplex's chest cavity, his spark core. The Decepticon turned and it's tail lashed out, smashing into the side of the deceased Autobot, the blow of which sent Metroplex's remains through what remained of Mount St. Hilary.
While the Predacons and Horrorcons had attacked Metroplex, Thunderwing led a group of Decepticons into the remains of the Autobot's first base, the Ark, and downloaded the entire memory core of Teletran-1. But that mattered little to Raoul as he ran down the streets. He wished his Autobot friend, Tracks, was still around, but from what the rumours he had heard, was most likely destroyed when Autobot City was destroyed.
He entered the nearby burnt out husk of a building, sighing as he entered. It was getting harder and harder to find food and supplies, what with the Decepticons capturing any humans they find. He walked into a room, nodding at the woman sitting near the window, a blaster carbine nearby.
"Saw another group get captured by the Decepticons. Think they were Pretenders or something."
The woman nodded sadly.
"Pretty soon, only we and the others with us, will be the only free humans in the city." She paused "If only we could join the group near Yosemite."
Raoul picked up a bottle of water and had a mouthful, before passing it to the woman.
"It's only a matter of time until we're captured Raoul, and then…"
Raoul stood and kicked at the nearby rubble in the room.
"Damn it Alanna! We can't just sit here and wait for those metallic bozo's to come here and get us! We've got to fight back!"
A voice spoke from behind him.
"You're right kid, but tell me this : How do we fight against them, with no weapons?"
Raoul and Alanna faced the speaker. In the doorway stood a man and a woman. The man was once a race car driver, known as – Augie Canhay. The woman next to him, Jessica Morgan, was a scientist in the past, but now helping to save others like them. Jessica stepped forward, arms folded across her chest.
"Raoul, we have to fight them, even if it's with our bare hands. The Decepticons will not get away with this." She smirked "Besides, I think a few of my contacts with the military are still active, even in this city."
Alanna frowned.
"Jessica, not to sound… pessimistic… but all of the Earth Defense Corp fighters and bases were destroyed not long after the Decepticons attacked Washington, then all of the other military bases all over the world."
Augie chuckled as he leaned against the wall.
"Hate to say it Jess, but Alanna's right. Even if some of them managed to survive the initial attacks, what makes you think they're still active and alive? That they want to help a small group like us?"
Jessica didn't respond, just walked over to a small cupboard and drew forth a cellphone. She turned it on and dialed a number. As soon as it clicked, and she heard muffled voices on the other end, she entered a simple code :
Dit, dit, dash, dit, dit, dash, dit, dit, dash.
Then she hung up and put the phone away. Alanna glared at her.
"Soundwave can trace signals like that!" she grabbed the blaster carbine and looked out the window "Now, it's only a matter of time until they attack us!"
Jessica shook her head.
"I doubt it Alanna. You forget I'm a scientist… or was one… and with things electronical, I can be a wizard. True against something like Soundwave, the phone will be traced, but only if that phone is used again." She sat down on a spare chair "It operated on a rotating frequency, something which Soundwave, if he was even monitoring the airwaves, would take him sometime to decipher, decode and then reform the scrambled information. It would've been easier for him, if there were voices, but a simple morse code like that, a little bit harder." She then added in a soft tone "I hope."
Raoul looked at the woman, a frown on his face.
"So, who'd you reach out and touch? The Autobots?"
Jessica shook her head.
"I wish! No, just a simple code someone taught me, to use if needed. Trust me, it was needed."
Augie shook his head and was about to respond, when Alanna interrupted.
"We've got company… Rocksteady and Pop-Lock, and they're not alone."
Raoul grabbed a small blaster pistol as Augie drew his own.
"How many Deceps?"
Alanna swallowed.
"The Air Strike patrol."
Raoul groaned as he ran out the door, followed by Augie and others.
"Great! Micromasters! Wonderful!"
Outside the building, the two men dove behind rubble, as the Micromaster Whisper fired, his shot destroying a nearby wall. Rocksteady dodged the blast, but his colleague, Pop-Lock wasn't as lucky as a large piece of concrete fell onto him, crushing him. Rocksteady skidded and looked back, eyes wide as he saw the remains of his friend. A cold metallic hand grasped Rocksteady by the back of his neck, lifting him into the air. Whisper and Stormcloud strode up to their conmrade, Tailwind who dropped Rocksteady to the ground. The lone human cowered in fear surrounded by the Decepticon Air Strike Patrol. Nightflight sneered at the fleshling.
"This thing is supposed to be one of the groups responsible for the destruction of one of our Energon bases? I say we crush it and move on."
Stormcloud folded his arms across his chest, and nodded in agreement.
"Let's finish this and be done with it! I've got better things to do."
Whisper frowned.
"We were ordered to follow these two creatures back to their base, and then wipe out the fleshlings. We can't do that, if we kill him now."
Nightflight and Stormcloud snorted, while the fourth member of their group was looking in the shadows. Tailwind didn't like where they were, in an alley and surrounded themselves by walls. He turned to speak to his comrades, when his head fell from his shoulders, bouncing along the ground. The other Decepticons turned and saw Tailwind's body fall to the ground, energon and sparks coming forth from the deathblow wound of his neck.
Whisper's audio sensors detected slight audio vibrations, from all around them, causing him to grip his blaster tightly. Both he and Stormcloud whirled as Nightflight cried out, sparks erupting forth from his chest chassis, as a narrow but highly focused energy beam, cut through the Decepticon. Stormcloud and Whisper turned and started to fire their weapons wildly.
A silver flash sliced behind Stormcloud, slicing off one of his wings, causing him to cry out in shock. Whisper turned, raising his weapon and training it onto the figure standing behind Stormcloud. A human dressed head to toe in a black ninja/combat suit, with a katana drawn and held before him ready.
Whisper's visual sensors scanned the human and his CPU raced, as it sifted through the data he had downloaded, as had all Decepticons, data of all known dangerous human beings, and found the file of the person before him, all in the span of 2 seconds. According to the file, the human belonged to a highly trained and specialised combat unit, originally formed to operate as a counter terrorist organisation. This human, was one of the most dangerous members of this unit, codenamed G.I.JOE.
The human was called Snake-Eyes.
Stormcloud glared at the human and shouted to Whisper.
"FIRE! Kill the flesh creature!"
Before Whisper could respond, a human voice spoke out.
"Even though my sword brother can take care of himself, especially against the four of you mechanical bozos," a gleaming katana was pressed up against Whisper's neck joint "Allowing the two of you to kill him, well… TRY… to kill him, would only make him mad."
Whisper turned his head sideways, scanned the human holding the blade to his throat, and found out who the man was. He belonged to the same unit as Snake-Eyes and was called Storm Shadow. He lowered his weapon and let it fall to the ground.
"I surrender."
Stormcloud whirled and glared angrily at Whisper, then taking note of the other shadows breaking free from the darkness surrounding them. Some were clad in similar ninja/combat garb as Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow, while three of them carried large rifles. The purple and black Decepticon hissed and raised his weapon, ready to fire, when two blaster's fired at him. The three humans with the rifles pointed at Stormcloud and fired.
The three blasts of energy, as well as two sets of heavy calibur machine gun fire,slammed into Stormcloud with so much force, they picked the hapless Decepticon up and threw him through the air. He slammed into the wall, and fell to the ground, parts of the wall falling on top of him. Storm Shadow nodded at Snake-Eyes, who turned and climbed up the nearby wall effortlessly. One of the three riflemen stepped forward.
"Seems we picked up some more survivors Storm. Five to be exact and one of them is Doctor Morgan."
Storm Shadow nodded as he removed a panel from the side of Whisper's neck, and disconnected a series of wires, stepping back afterwards. The Decepticon found himself immobile, unable to transform or even turn his head. The ninja faced the rifleman and motioned towards Whisper.
"Rock N Roll, you, Tunnel Rat and Sci Fi take our… 'guest' back to the transport, then head back to the Pit."
Rock N Roll snapped to attention and nodded, before facing the other two riflemen and repeated Storm Shadow's orders. The three men attached three small modules onto the Decepticon, then flipped the switch located on the side of each module. A flash of lights lined the modules, then Whisper was levitated into the air and was lead away by the three soldiers. Nunchuk, Dojo and Tjbang brought the five survivors to Storm Shadow. Nunchuk looked at his team leader.
"Sir, these are the civillian survivors. One of their number was killed before we arrived on scene."
Storm Shadow nodded as he faced the group, recognising Jessica Morgan immediately. She dipped her head slightly in acknowledgement, as one of the men with her raised his voice.
"Who the hell are you pyjama wearing clowns?"
Storm Shadow smiled behind his mask and folded his arms across his chest.
"Friends of Dr. Morgan." He faced Jessica "We'd better get the rest of your group together and leave here, before the Decepticons decide to look for their missing colleagues."
Before Jessica could respond, Raoul interrupted them.
"Look… before we go anywhere, I want to know who you are and where you're from… NOW!"
Storm Shadow sighed and was about to respond, when a throwing dagger embedded itself in the ground at Storm Shadow's feet. The ninja commander whirled and watched as his sword brother, Snake-Eyes, quickly descended from the rooftop, landing without sound.
"Unfortunately we don't have time for full introductions, suffice to say we're friends and we have a secure base located nearby."
Jessica nodded.
"Our thanks Storm Shadow." She looked at her fellows "We better move."
Augie and Raoul looked at each other, not happy with Jessica's decision, yet unable to come up with any better ideas. Alanna hefted her blaster carbine, and leaned close to Jessica.
"Are you sure about this Jess?"
Jessica glanced at her friend.
"Don't worry Alanna, I know them. We'll be safe with them."
Alanna frowned as she watched the others follow the ninja's. She sighed to herself as she glanced back at the blasted remains of the Air Strike Patrol. A grim smile spread over her face as she addressed the carcasses.
"Like I've always said… 'The only good Decepticon, is a dead Decepticon.' "
Alanna turned and follow the others into the shadows, and in their wake the decapitated body of Tailwind, the slashed body of Nightflight and the blasted remains of Stormcloud. Meanwhile, a sewer lid slid shut as a figure in green and black armour dropped to the bottom of the sewer. He turned and faced the two masked ninjas.
"It was them, of course."
The red robed ninja frowned behind his mask.
"Should've known the Joes would've survived the destruction of their base."
The purple clad ninja struck the wall with his fist.
"Damn it all Slice! If only Cobra Commander had…"
Slice turned and faced his companion.
"Calm down Dice, he has his own plans." Slice allowed a smile to spread under his mask "Plans which will get rid of these metallic garbage collectors, as well as the damn Joes. Then… the Earth will belong to Cobra!"
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Death's Head - It was only a matter of time, until GIJOE and their foes, COBRA, appeared in this story. Considering how many times GIJOE has cross overs with Transformers (Especially the Marvel Generation 1 comic line (Not to mention the Dreamwave versions.)), this was bound to happen. I mean, Cobra Commander appeared in the season three episode, Only Human (episode 88) as the character, Snake.
Besides, apart from the two other resistance groups, why shouldn't GIJOE and COBRA survive and perform guerilla attacks against the Decepticons?
Anywayz, the next chapter update should be in about two weeks, due to the fact that I'm going away on a long overdue holiday.
Please R&R.
