As always, I seem to have some type of writers block. But mostly, It is
just this chapter, as for I have a few ideas for the story altogether.
Hopefully I can get this done soon.
I don't own Transformers Armada so don't sue me.
A Girl Transformed
Chapter seven
"It's 7:00, wake up Cobalt! It's 7:00, wake up Cobalt! It's 7:00, wake up Cobalt!"
"Damn alarm clock, I was having such a good dream about Jetfire and you have to ruin it for me!" I mumbled as I whacked the alarm clock, making it stop and I pulled the covers back over my face. Dang the base is cold in the morning. Morning, I thought I set the clock for six, not seven. When did it start saying my name? Why is it so cold--
Just then, I was lifted out of bed and high into the air. I then realized through my sleepiness that what I heard wasn't the alarm clock. I glanced back, seeing giant, white, mechanical fingers holding me by the back colar of my pajamas; I crossed my arms.
"Good morning Jet," I said sleepily. He turned me around to face him.
"Good morning Co, everyones getting up now so I'd thought I'd wake you up. What was that about having a dream about me?"
"Wasn't anything, thank you for waking me up Jet. Now could you put me down so I can get dressed, get something to eat and get ready, please?"
"Sure thing," and he set me down on the ground.
"Where's Comettor?" I asked.
"He's right here," Comettor walked out from behind his leg and beeped to me.
I walked over to where I had my clothes and took out a pair of dark blue jeans, a red, blue and black tee-shirt, a pair of red bike gloves and other nessicary things and took them to the bathroom that was built into the room. As I got dressed, I remembered Starscream saying something about someone named Thrust last night.
"Jetfire, who is Thrust?" I asked him.
"Thrust? He's a tatician for the Decepticons, hired by Megatron. From what I've heard, he's a total suck-up to him and is mean to everyone else except Tidalwave."
"Tidalwave? Who is he?"
"Lots of questions, Tidalwave was called to earth by Thrust to help Megatron Defeat us, heh, like that's gonna happen," he remarked.
"Be careful Jetfire, anything could happen, but I hope that the Autobots do win the war and I'll help in any way I can," I replied as I walked out of the small room all dressed. I walked over to where I had a box of granola; oh how I love granola.
"I know. That was quick."
"Huh? Getting dressed? Yeah, I guess it was quick," I grabbed two granola bars, putting one in my pocket. I then put my gun in the other pocket and retrived my sword and attached it to my waist.
"What are you doing with the sword?"
"You said last night that the others might like to see me practice, so I think I'll do that today," I tore off the wrapper to the granola bar and started to eat it. We walked out of my room and headed for the control room. As we entered, Starscream was walking out.
"Hey Starscream," called Jet.
"Where you going?" I finished before he could.
He walks on some, then stops. "I want to be alone," he replied to us.
"Well...alrighty then," I said.
Jet and I ignored him as we walked up to Optimus who was looking over a report displayed on the screen. He turned to us as we walked in.
"Ah, you're up. I've been scanning the near area for minicons for the past half hour," states Optimus.
"Did you find any?" asks Jet.
"I found just one."
"Where is it? Do you know?" I asked eagerly.
"Not exactly. I can't seem to pinpoint the location, but I do know that it is somewhere in the unoccupied areas of the base," replies Optimus.
"Do you need some help finding it?" Jetfire asks him.
"I've narrowed it down to a small portion of the base that isn't easily accessible for transformers. The only ones small enough to fit is the minicons and humans. Would you like to find it, Cobalt?" Optimus asked me.
"Yes," I replied.
"Alright then, you have your gun with you?" asks Optimus
"Yes, Sir," I said with a grin on my face.
"Sparkplug, go with Cobalt," commanded Optimus and then turned to me. "He will lead you to the area near the minicon."
"You go with her too, Comettor," commanded Jet. He set Comettor down on the ground and he rolled over to Sparkplug and I.
"Why are you having your minicons come with me?" I ask them, not understanding.
Optimus answered. "The Decepticons have the same technology as we do and therfore could also be scanning for the minicons. That means that they might have discovered this one and could attack the base to get it, putting all of us in great danger," he turned to Sparkplug. "Sparkplug, radio us when you find the minicon or if you run into danger. When you're done, come straight back here."
"Yes Sir," I repled. Sparkplug taped me on the shoulder and pointed out the way to go. "Yes, let's go," and I followed Sparkplug and Comettor.
"Ah Cobalt, one more thing," Optimus calls out to me; I turn back to face him.
"Yes, Sir?"
"When you find the minicon, it can be your partner. Oh, and you don't have to call me 'Sir'," he replies.
"Thank you Optimus, and can I call you Sir?"
"Yes you can."
"Okay, thanks Sir," and I followed Sparkplug and Comettor to the area of the base where the minicon was located. When we got there, there was hardly any light at all and uneven ground and earth was everywhere.
"If you two have any way to create a source of light, do it now because it seems to be getting only darker," I said as I walked carefully on.
"Sorry Cobalt, we have nothing except our optics," said Sparkplug, answering my question.
I sighed. "That's alright, at least I can see you. Well, I know that the minicon panels glow don't they?"
"That's only when they've been awakened," replies Sparkplug. "We only have darkness."
"Oh well, who needs light anyway, we'll just feel around for the minicon panel," and I get down on my knees and start crawling around.
"Be careful Cobalt, there's sharp metal on the ground there from when the ship crashed here millions of years ago," warned Sparkplug.
"I will," I said as I felt around. "Hey Comettor, you've been quiet."
"I just have nothing to say."
"Okay, but if you have anything you want to tell me, don't be scared."
"K."
I felt around on the ground for what seemed to be a half an hour until I felt something very large, wet and slimy beneath my right hand. A second later, it slithered out from under it and away from us.
"Oh my god."
"What, what is it?" Comettor asked me.
"Worm, giant worm, giant worm! Giant worm! GIANT WORM!" I screamed as I jumped and clung to him.
"With my infrared scanners," Sparkplug began. "I can see the worm in question, he's now thirty yards away from us."
The news of that only made me cling to Comettor tighter and scream, "OH MY GOD! THAT THING IS FAST!"
"Would you mind letting go of me now, Cobalt?"
"The worm in question is no longer anywhere near us, Cobalt," Sparkplug stated.
"Okay," I let myself drop to the ground, my hands spread out behind me. The second I did that, green light appeared behind me. "I think I found the minicon."
I stood up and turned around to watch as a black, gold, dark blue and powder blue minicon with silverish white optics appeared infront of us. The light then faded into darkness again, Sparkplug, Comettor and the newly awakened minicon's optics were the only source of light once again. The minicon beeped some, probably wondering where he was.
"Hello, my name is Cobalt, what is yours?" I asked him.
"Cobalt. I'm called Mixmaster, where am I?"
"Mixmaster, from what the Autobots have told me, you're in the minicon spaceship that crashed here millons of years ago. The Autobots now use it for their base," I told him.
"What about the Decepticons?" he asked us nevously.
"I don't think they're anywhere near us right now, so don't worry. Hey, do you want to be my partner? You don't have to power-link or anything," I asked him.
"I'd like that, but where are you?"
"I'm right infront of you, you might be able to see my friends and I if you look for heat or something like that," I suggested to him.
The color of his optics changed as if he was trying it. "Hey, I can see you now, who are those standing next to you?" Mixmaster asked us.
"On my right," I motioned, "is Sparkplug, and on my left," I motioned again, "is Comettor. Have you met before?"
"No I haven't, it's nice to meet both of you," he said. Just then there was some rumbling coming from beneath the ground. "What was that?"
"I suddenly feel that we should get out of here now," the rumbling became louder and stronger as it got nearer to us. "Let's go, now."
Before we could make a move, the rumbling drastically increased and we heard something spring up from the ground. As we stood there, I grabbed my gun and aimed it, still trying to figure out what the thing was. I then remembered when it let out a loud roar.
"What is it, Cobalt?" Sparkplug asked me.
"It couldn't be..." I didn't want to belive it. I didn't belive the myths and folk tale. I didn't have to see it to know what it was, because I knew what had just popped up infront of us.
"What, Cobalt?"
"Graboid," I grabbed Mixmaster's arm. "Run for the exit fast, NOW BEFORE WE'RE ALL WORM FOOD!" All four of us tore off for the exit of this place, the graboid went back underground again and was now chasing us. We ran towards the light of the exit that had just appeared infront of us, the graboid was starting to get closer to us underground.
"JETFIRE, OPTIMUS, HELP!" I screamed as loud as I could. They must have been close to us because I saw both of them come into veiw just as we were nearing the exit.
"What?! What is it?!" he said sounding worried.
"Graboid!" I yelled as the four of us jumped from the dirt gound into Optimus' waiting hands just as the graboid sprung from the ground and reared it's ugly head. Snake-like things came out of its mouth and it roared loudly before heading underground again, defeated because his next meal wasn't us. I gasped for air from running so fast.
"So that's what that was," said Optimus suddenly, making me turn around so fast I hurt my neck.
"You mean to tell me that you knew about that thing and you didn't tell me?!" I yelled at him.
"I've been monitoring some seismic activity that has been happening beneath the base recently, but I did not know that what you call a graboid was the cause of it."
As I talked to Optimus about graboids, I failed to notice that behind me, Mixmaster was just staring up at Jetfire.
"You alright minicon? Hey, what's your name anyway? I'm Jetfire, Second-in- Command of the of the Autobots, and he's our leader, Optimus Prime."
"I'm Mixmaster, Sir."
"Well you're a polite little minicon, any paticular reason why you're called Mixmaster?"
"Thank you, Sir. Back on Cybertron, I used to mix music for my friends and I was very good at it. I was so good, in fact the best they said, that they gave me the name Mixmaster. I have some music I can mix if you'd like to hear."
"Go ahead."
A fast paced rythmic tune that sounded simmilar to a song I liked began to play from the speakers on both of his forearms. Suddenly I had the desire to stand up and dance, which I did. Unfortunately, I got a little too into the music that I danced right off of Optimus' hands and luckily I fell into Jetfire's; the music stopped just then.
"You okay Co?" Jet asked me.
"I'm fine, that's really good music Mixmaster," I replied and stood up.
"Jetfire, Sir?" Mixmaster started to say.
"What is it?"
"Do you mind if I," Mixmaster's optics then began to glow and his head began to spin around.
"Oh, I get it. No, I don't mind, go ahead."
I did not exactly understand what Mixmaster was doing until he was finished and his head stopped spinning around. He then transformed into a miniture space shuttle, looking very simmilar to Jet's transformation.
"Oh how cute," I murmured when I saw what Mixmaster had transformed into.
"Hey Co, I think you're minicon likes me," Jet said as Mixmaster flew around in a circle just above his hand. Sparkplug and Comettor who were still sitting in his hands were watching him fly around, their heads making little circles, they looked cute. Mixmaster then flew over to me and Comettor jumped over to Jetfire's hand.
"Hey, get on, let's go for a ride," he said to me.
"Okay," I climed onto Mixmaster and leaned forward to hang on. "EEEEEEEEEEE!" I screamed out from having fun as Mixmaster flew upside down in a circle. "Hey Optimus," Mixmaster flew up beside him, "If there's nothing else to do, do you want to see my swordsmanship?"
"You can use a sword?"
"Yep," I said pointing to the sword at my waist. "I'm really good too."
"It's true, I've seen her, she's really good," Jet added. "Personally, I think that she may be better than Starscream."
"Why don't you wait until later," Optimus suggested. "Right now, why don't you show Mixmaster around the base some."
"Yeah, yeah, I'd like that, please Cobalt?" the hyper minicon called Mixmaster zoomed around in small circles, making me dizzy.
"Okay, okay I will, now stop, you're making me dizzy," I laughed.
"Oh come on, don't stop, it's cute," protested Jet.
"Okay Sir," he flew faster in circles.
"JET!" I yelled and clung onto him tighter. "MIXMASTER!"
"Okay, I'll stop," Mixmaster complied. "Let's go look around the base now."
"Fine with me," I cheerfully said. "Go that way, WE'LL BE BACK SOON, JET!" I called back to them as we flew away.
"Okay, see you later, Co!" he called back to us.
I showed Mixmaster around the base and also asked him how he felt about me riding on him. He said he was okay with it and that I was pretty light anyways. Mixmaster met everyone and we freaked out Rad and the others when we flew at top speed around one of the corners. I showed him where everything was and we both learned something; it is very easy to get lost in here.
It turned out that we got lost on one of the lower levels of the base. I let Mixmaster transform to give him a break from flying and walked around some, trying to find our way back. We walked through a labyrinth of cooridoors, conpletely lost. Scavenger found us a few hours later, wandering about aimlessly. All I can say about it is, thank god for granola bars.
"Ah, there you are, we've been looking for you two for hours now," he carried us out of there.
"Four hours, nine minutes to be exact," I stated. "We got lost. I never knew this place was so big."
"Yep, if you don't know what you're doing, it's easy to get lost in here." to my amazement, we got to the control room in the next few minutes, everyone was there waiting for us. Except for Starscream, who didn't seem to care.
"I found them, wandering around lost on one of the lower levels," he announced. I blushed some.
"Hey, where've you been?" Jet asked me.
"We got lost."
"I heard that you have good swordsmanship," Hotshot inquired. "Can we see it?"
"Right now? Sure," I agreed and jumped down from Scavenger's hand, Mixmaster did the same. I walked over to an open space in the middle of the room and looked up at all of them. "I'll begin now with a fairly simple one. Oh, one thing, Mixmaster, would you play something?"
"Sure, what would you like?"
"How about the one you played before?"
"Okay, here ya go," he played the music from before and I showed them my moves. I belive all of them were impressed, but I'm not sure about Starscream.
"Now here's a more advanced one of mine," I showed them and they seemed to be in awe. I worked my way up to the most complicated one I knew and finished. "Well, that's about all I know."
"Wow, that was great," Hotshot exclaimed.
"What? No."
"Is there something wrong Starscream?" I asked him, kind of confused.
"A-a-a human is better than me!" he stormed out of the room.
"What's up with him?" I said bluntly.
"He thinks you're better than him," said Blurr.
"He's a transformer, how could I be better than him?"
BAARING! BAARING! BAARING!
"Oh. Minicon!" I exclaimed.
"Red Alert, locate the minicon," commanded Optimus.
"I'm on it, Sir." Seconds later, "I have the cooridates, Optimus."
"Good work, Red Alert, now let's go get that minicon."
"Yay!" I yelled as I ran towards the warp gate, Mixmaster running after me. I hopped onto one of the three panels in the floor and let an orange jumpsuit transform around me.
"Hey, Cobalt, Mixmaster, want to ride with me?" Hotshot called to us, transforming as we entered the warp gate.
"Yeah!" Mixmaster and I ran over to him. I got in on the driver side, Mixmaster on the passenger side. I reallized something, I didn't usually say yay and yeah often, I must be really hyper today or something. "Hey Hotshot, where do the coordinates say we're going?"
"I don't know, but I do know that if you look in front of you, it will give you a visual of it," It didn't take to long for that to happen, as a skyline with many tall buildings appeared.
"We're going to a city?"
"Well not quite, the minicon coordinates are actually in a smaller city, just outside of the city with the towers," Optimus replied, overhearing our conversation.
"We're ready to warp, Sir," Jetfire announced.
"THIS TIME I'LL GET MEGATRON!"
I started to turn around, wondering who said that. But before I could, we were warping to where the minicon was. We finished warping, by that time I figured out who had said it. "Oh, Starscream must have said that," I looked over at Mixmaster, his mouth was hanging open. "You okay, Mix?"
He stayed like that for a couple of seconds before snapping out of it. "Do it again! Do it again! Do it again!" he responded quickly.
"He must really like it," Hotshot laughed.
"I think so." We had warped onto a remote strip of road with few buildings around, completely scaring the heck out the few people who were driving on it. "I'd freak out too if a semi appeared behind me suddenly," I said, referring to how Optimus had almost scared the driver of a car off the road.
"Would you really?" Hotshot asked me. Mixmaster was looking out the window, goggling at everything.
"Well Hotshot, if I didn't know you guys, then yes. But since I know you guys, it would probably just startle me a bit," I looked out the window. "But if Scavenger appeared suddenly behind me, I would freak out," I giggled slightly.
"Yeah, I probably would too being your size," Hotshot replied. "But what if Megatron appeared behind you, what would you do?"
She thought about it for a minute, searching for a good answer. "Well, I would scream my head off and run for it."
"Oh really?"
"Mmm...maybe not."
All of us either drove or flew closer to the city with the towers. I looked out the window at a sign on the side of the road. It said welcome to New York. "The minicon's in New York State, interesting."
"So this is New York, I've heard about it but never seen it," Hotshot said in awe.
"From what it looks to be, I don't think we're that far from New York City," I pointed out, it's tall buildings clearly visible on the horizon. "Hey, what's that up there?" Looking up, a jet fighter plane being followed by an helicopter was flying not far behind us.
"Optimus, there's Thrust and Cyclonus," Hotshot called out.
"I see them, let's lead them away from the humans," he commanded. We drove farther out into the rural areas and into a dense area of trees.
The others started transforming as Mixmaster and I got out of Hotshot to let him transform as well. "You two go find the minicon, it's somewhere in this field, we'll hold off the Decepticons," Red Alert told us as he and the rest of the Autobots ran off to battle the Decepticons.
"Okay, lets go, Mix," I started to run, only to find out I didn't know were to go. "Uh, Mix, where should we start?"
"Follow me," he replied and ran towards the nearby bushes and forest.
"I guess you know were you're going," I remarked and followed him.
As we ran farther into the dense forest, I unsheathed my sword to cut the limbs in my way to keep up with Mixmaster. All kinds of different gunfire echoed around us as we ran. After several more minutes, Mixmaster and I came to a strange clearing and the sound of gunfire stopped. I looked up and saw a really good view of a nearby skyscraper.
"Mix, there's no sound anywhere at all," I noticed.
"You're right, Co," he agreed. "Even though my scanners still show the Autobots and Decepticons are still fighting, I don't hear anything as well."
I nodded. "Is the minicon here in this area?"
"My scans indicate it's two feet below the surface right here," he walked over to an area near the middle of the clearing.
"Okay then, lets get digging," I walked over and motioned for Mix to stand back. Once he did, I sliced to groves in the ground and kicked out the triangle shaped piece of ground. Making a few more cuts, I saw the green minicon panel and pulled it out of the ground. "That was easy."
"What now, Co?" Mix asked.
"We run back to the Autobots but stay hidden within the forest until the Decepticons have been defeated and warp back to their base," I planned.
"Sounds good, let's go," and we ran back to the fight.
When we got there, the transformers were still fighting each other. None of the Autobots had gone into stasis lock yet, but several of the Decepticons had. Of the opposing faction, only Thrust, Megatron, Wheeljack and Tidalwave were still functioning.
"I like the look of this, Mix," I said as we stood there in the trees, watching the fight. As the fight progressed, several well placed shots were enough to take down both Thrust and Tidalwave into stasis lock and Wheeljack was nowhere to be seen which gave me an erie feeling.
"The war isn't over yet, Optimus Prime," called out Megatron as he and the rest of the 'cons in stasis lock. Checking to see if the coast was clear, I ran to the Autobots.
"Hey, Scavenger, we've got the minicon!" I called out to the closest of them all as I ran towards them.
Hotshot heard me. "Good job, Co!" he called back.
"Hey, look out!" shouted Blurr. I tried to turn around and jump out of the way, but I was too late. Wheeljack transformed from his vehicle mode and grabbed me in his left hand. He pointed his gun at the Autobots, which his gun happened to remind me of a vacuum cleaner attachment. Mixmaster looked horrified at the latest event and I was still holding onto the minicon.
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Oh, cliffe am I evil. Don't worry, the next one WILL be up soon. Man, I started this a month ago, then lost intrest in Transformers for a while, and now I'm back! The thing with the graboid was inspired from Tremors the series, which is now boring to me. Please review!
Cobalt
I don't own Transformers Armada so don't sue me.
A Girl Transformed
Chapter seven
"It's 7:00, wake up Cobalt! It's 7:00, wake up Cobalt! It's 7:00, wake up Cobalt!"
"Damn alarm clock, I was having such a good dream about Jetfire and you have to ruin it for me!" I mumbled as I whacked the alarm clock, making it stop and I pulled the covers back over my face. Dang the base is cold in the morning. Morning, I thought I set the clock for six, not seven. When did it start saying my name? Why is it so cold--
Just then, I was lifted out of bed and high into the air. I then realized through my sleepiness that what I heard wasn't the alarm clock. I glanced back, seeing giant, white, mechanical fingers holding me by the back colar of my pajamas; I crossed my arms.
"Good morning Jet," I said sleepily. He turned me around to face him.
"Good morning Co, everyones getting up now so I'd thought I'd wake you up. What was that about having a dream about me?"
"Wasn't anything, thank you for waking me up Jet. Now could you put me down so I can get dressed, get something to eat and get ready, please?"
"Sure thing," and he set me down on the ground.
"Where's Comettor?" I asked.
"He's right here," Comettor walked out from behind his leg and beeped to me.
I walked over to where I had my clothes and took out a pair of dark blue jeans, a red, blue and black tee-shirt, a pair of red bike gloves and other nessicary things and took them to the bathroom that was built into the room. As I got dressed, I remembered Starscream saying something about someone named Thrust last night.
"Jetfire, who is Thrust?" I asked him.
"Thrust? He's a tatician for the Decepticons, hired by Megatron. From what I've heard, he's a total suck-up to him and is mean to everyone else except Tidalwave."
"Tidalwave? Who is he?"
"Lots of questions, Tidalwave was called to earth by Thrust to help Megatron Defeat us, heh, like that's gonna happen," he remarked.
"Be careful Jetfire, anything could happen, but I hope that the Autobots do win the war and I'll help in any way I can," I replied as I walked out of the small room all dressed. I walked over to where I had a box of granola; oh how I love granola.
"I know. That was quick."
"Huh? Getting dressed? Yeah, I guess it was quick," I grabbed two granola bars, putting one in my pocket. I then put my gun in the other pocket and retrived my sword and attached it to my waist.
"What are you doing with the sword?"
"You said last night that the others might like to see me practice, so I think I'll do that today," I tore off the wrapper to the granola bar and started to eat it. We walked out of my room and headed for the control room. As we entered, Starscream was walking out.
"Hey Starscream," called Jet.
"Where you going?" I finished before he could.
He walks on some, then stops. "I want to be alone," he replied to us.
"Well...alrighty then," I said.
Jet and I ignored him as we walked up to Optimus who was looking over a report displayed on the screen. He turned to us as we walked in.
"Ah, you're up. I've been scanning the near area for minicons for the past half hour," states Optimus.
"Did you find any?" asks Jet.
"I found just one."
"Where is it? Do you know?" I asked eagerly.
"Not exactly. I can't seem to pinpoint the location, but I do know that it is somewhere in the unoccupied areas of the base," replies Optimus.
"Do you need some help finding it?" Jetfire asks him.
"I've narrowed it down to a small portion of the base that isn't easily accessible for transformers. The only ones small enough to fit is the minicons and humans. Would you like to find it, Cobalt?" Optimus asked me.
"Yes," I replied.
"Alright then, you have your gun with you?" asks Optimus
"Yes, Sir," I said with a grin on my face.
"Sparkplug, go with Cobalt," commanded Optimus and then turned to me. "He will lead you to the area near the minicon."
"You go with her too, Comettor," commanded Jet. He set Comettor down on the ground and he rolled over to Sparkplug and I.
"Why are you having your minicons come with me?" I ask them, not understanding.
Optimus answered. "The Decepticons have the same technology as we do and therfore could also be scanning for the minicons. That means that they might have discovered this one and could attack the base to get it, putting all of us in great danger," he turned to Sparkplug. "Sparkplug, radio us when you find the minicon or if you run into danger. When you're done, come straight back here."
"Yes Sir," I repled. Sparkplug taped me on the shoulder and pointed out the way to go. "Yes, let's go," and I followed Sparkplug and Comettor.
"Ah Cobalt, one more thing," Optimus calls out to me; I turn back to face him.
"Yes, Sir?"
"When you find the minicon, it can be your partner. Oh, and you don't have to call me 'Sir'," he replies.
"Thank you Optimus, and can I call you Sir?"
"Yes you can."
"Okay, thanks Sir," and I followed Sparkplug and Comettor to the area of the base where the minicon was located. When we got there, there was hardly any light at all and uneven ground and earth was everywhere.
"If you two have any way to create a source of light, do it now because it seems to be getting only darker," I said as I walked carefully on.
"Sorry Cobalt, we have nothing except our optics," said Sparkplug, answering my question.
I sighed. "That's alright, at least I can see you. Well, I know that the minicon panels glow don't they?"
"That's only when they've been awakened," replies Sparkplug. "We only have darkness."
"Oh well, who needs light anyway, we'll just feel around for the minicon panel," and I get down on my knees and start crawling around.
"Be careful Cobalt, there's sharp metal on the ground there from when the ship crashed here millions of years ago," warned Sparkplug.
"I will," I said as I felt around. "Hey Comettor, you've been quiet."
"I just have nothing to say."
"Okay, but if you have anything you want to tell me, don't be scared."
"K."
I felt around on the ground for what seemed to be a half an hour until I felt something very large, wet and slimy beneath my right hand. A second later, it slithered out from under it and away from us.
"Oh my god."
"What, what is it?" Comettor asked me.
"Worm, giant worm, giant worm! Giant worm! GIANT WORM!" I screamed as I jumped and clung to him.
"With my infrared scanners," Sparkplug began. "I can see the worm in question, he's now thirty yards away from us."
The news of that only made me cling to Comettor tighter and scream, "OH MY GOD! THAT THING IS FAST!"
"Would you mind letting go of me now, Cobalt?"
"The worm in question is no longer anywhere near us, Cobalt," Sparkplug stated.
"Okay," I let myself drop to the ground, my hands spread out behind me. The second I did that, green light appeared behind me. "I think I found the minicon."
I stood up and turned around to watch as a black, gold, dark blue and powder blue minicon with silverish white optics appeared infront of us. The light then faded into darkness again, Sparkplug, Comettor and the newly awakened minicon's optics were the only source of light once again. The minicon beeped some, probably wondering where he was.
"Hello, my name is Cobalt, what is yours?" I asked him.
"Cobalt. I'm called Mixmaster, where am I?"
"Mixmaster, from what the Autobots have told me, you're in the minicon spaceship that crashed here millons of years ago. The Autobots now use it for their base," I told him.
"What about the Decepticons?" he asked us nevously.
"I don't think they're anywhere near us right now, so don't worry. Hey, do you want to be my partner? You don't have to power-link or anything," I asked him.
"I'd like that, but where are you?"
"I'm right infront of you, you might be able to see my friends and I if you look for heat or something like that," I suggested to him.
The color of his optics changed as if he was trying it. "Hey, I can see you now, who are those standing next to you?" Mixmaster asked us.
"On my right," I motioned, "is Sparkplug, and on my left," I motioned again, "is Comettor. Have you met before?"
"No I haven't, it's nice to meet both of you," he said. Just then there was some rumbling coming from beneath the ground. "What was that?"
"I suddenly feel that we should get out of here now," the rumbling became louder and stronger as it got nearer to us. "Let's go, now."
Before we could make a move, the rumbling drastically increased and we heard something spring up from the ground. As we stood there, I grabbed my gun and aimed it, still trying to figure out what the thing was. I then remembered when it let out a loud roar.
"What is it, Cobalt?" Sparkplug asked me.
"It couldn't be..." I didn't want to belive it. I didn't belive the myths and folk tale. I didn't have to see it to know what it was, because I knew what had just popped up infront of us.
"What, Cobalt?"
"Graboid," I grabbed Mixmaster's arm. "Run for the exit fast, NOW BEFORE WE'RE ALL WORM FOOD!" All four of us tore off for the exit of this place, the graboid went back underground again and was now chasing us. We ran towards the light of the exit that had just appeared infront of us, the graboid was starting to get closer to us underground.
"JETFIRE, OPTIMUS, HELP!" I screamed as loud as I could. They must have been close to us because I saw both of them come into veiw just as we were nearing the exit.
"What?! What is it?!" he said sounding worried.
"Graboid!" I yelled as the four of us jumped from the dirt gound into Optimus' waiting hands just as the graboid sprung from the ground and reared it's ugly head. Snake-like things came out of its mouth and it roared loudly before heading underground again, defeated because his next meal wasn't us. I gasped for air from running so fast.
"So that's what that was," said Optimus suddenly, making me turn around so fast I hurt my neck.
"You mean to tell me that you knew about that thing and you didn't tell me?!" I yelled at him.
"I've been monitoring some seismic activity that has been happening beneath the base recently, but I did not know that what you call a graboid was the cause of it."
As I talked to Optimus about graboids, I failed to notice that behind me, Mixmaster was just staring up at Jetfire.
"You alright minicon? Hey, what's your name anyway? I'm Jetfire, Second-in- Command of the of the Autobots, and he's our leader, Optimus Prime."
"I'm Mixmaster, Sir."
"Well you're a polite little minicon, any paticular reason why you're called Mixmaster?"
"Thank you, Sir. Back on Cybertron, I used to mix music for my friends and I was very good at it. I was so good, in fact the best they said, that they gave me the name Mixmaster. I have some music I can mix if you'd like to hear."
"Go ahead."
A fast paced rythmic tune that sounded simmilar to a song I liked began to play from the speakers on both of his forearms. Suddenly I had the desire to stand up and dance, which I did. Unfortunately, I got a little too into the music that I danced right off of Optimus' hands and luckily I fell into Jetfire's; the music stopped just then.
"You okay Co?" Jet asked me.
"I'm fine, that's really good music Mixmaster," I replied and stood up.
"Jetfire, Sir?" Mixmaster started to say.
"What is it?"
"Do you mind if I," Mixmaster's optics then began to glow and his head began to spin around.
"Oh, I get it. No, I don't mind, go ahead."
I did not exactly understand what Mixmaster was doing until he was finished and his head stopped spinning around. He then transformed into a miniture space shuttle, looking very simmilar to Jet's transformation.
"Oh how cute," I murmured when I saw what Mixmaster had transformed into.
"Hey Co, I think you're minicon likes me," Jet said as Mixmaster flew around in a circle just above his hand. Sparkplug and Comettor who were still sitting in his hands were watching him fly around, their heads making little circles, they looked cute. Mixmaster then flew over to me and Comettor jumped over to Jetfire's hand.
"Hey, get on, let's go for a ride," he said to me.
"Okay," I climed onto Mixmaster and leaned forward to hang on. "EEEEEEEEEEE!" I screamed out from having fun as Mixmaster flew upside down in a circle. "Hey Optimus," Mixmaster flew up beside him, "If there's nothing else to do, do you want to see my swordsmanship?"
"You can use a sword?"
"Yep," I said pointing to the sword at my waist. "I'm really good too."
"It's true, I've seen her, she's really good," Jet added. "Personally, I think that she may be better than Starscream."
"Why don't you wait until later," Optimus suggested. "Right now, why don't you show Mixmaster around the base some."
"Yeah, yeah, I'd like that, please Cobalt?" the hyper minicon called Mixmaster zoomed around in small circles, making me dizzy.
"Okay, okay I will, now stop, you're making me dizzy," I laughed.
"Oh come on, don't stop, it's cute," protested Jet.
"Okay Sir," he flew faster in circles.
"JET!" I yelled and clung onto him tighter. "MIXMASTER!"
"Okay, I'll stop," Mixmaster complied. "Let's go look around the base now."
"Fine with me," I cheerfully said. "Go that way, WE'LL BE BACK SOON, JET!" I called back to them as we flew away.
"Okay, see you later, Co!" he called back to us.
I showed Mixmaster around the base and also asked him how he felt about me riding on him. He said he was okay with it and that I was pretty light anyways. Mixmaster met everyone and we freaked out Rad and the others when we flew at top speed around one of the corners. I showed him where everything was and we both learned something; it is very easy to get lost in here.
It turned out that we got lost on one of the lower levels of the base. I let Mixmaster transform to give him a break from flying and walked around some, trying to find our way back. We walked through a labyrinth of cooridoors, conpletely lost. Scavenger found us a few hours later, wandering about aimlessly. All I can say about it is, thank god for granola bars.
"Ah, there you are, we've been looking for you two for hours now," he carried us out of there.
"Four hours, nine minutes to be exact," I stated. "We got lost. I never knew this place was so big."
"Yep, if you don't know what you're doing, it's easy to get lost in here." to my amazement, we got to the control room in the next few minutes, everyone was there waiting for us. Except for Starscream, who didn't seem to care.
"I found them, wandering around lost on one of the lower levels," he announced. I blushed some.
"Hey, where've you been?" Jet asked me.
"We got lost."
"I heard that you have good swordsmanship," Hotshot inquired. "Can we see it?"
"Right now? Sure," I agreed and jumped down from Scavenger's hand, Mixmaster did the same. I walked over to an open space in the middle of the room and looked up at all of them. "I'll begin now with a fairly simple one. Oh, one thing, Mixmaster, would you play something?"
"Sure, what would you like?"
"How about the one you played before?"
"Okay, here ya go," he played the music from before and I showed them my moves. I belive all of them were impressed, but I'm not sure about Starscream.
"Now here's a more advanced one of mine," I showed them and they seemed to be in awe. I worked my way up to the most complicated one I knew and finished. "Well, that's about all I know."
"Wow, that was great," Hotshot exclaimed.
"What? No."
"Is there something wrong Starscream?" I asked him, kind of confused.
"A-a-a human is better than me!" he stormed out of the room.
"What's up with him?" I said bluntly.
"He thinks you're better than him," said Blurr.
"He's a transformer, how could I be better than him?"
BAARING! BAARING! BAARING!
"Oh. Minicon!" I exclaimed.
"Red Alert, locate the minicon," commanded Optimus.
"I'm on it, Sir." Seconds later, "I have the cooridates, Optimus."
"Good work, Red Alert, now let's go get that minicon."
"Yay!" I yelled as I ran towards the warp gate, Mixmaster running after me. I hopped onto one of the three panels in the floor and let an orange jumpsuit transform around me.
"Hey, Cobalt, Mixmaster, want to ride with me?" Hotshot called to us, transforming as we entered the warp gate.
"Yeah!" Mixmaster and I ran over to him. I got in on the driver side, Mixmaster on the passenger side. I reallized something, I didn't usually say yay and yeah often, I must be really hyper today or something. "Hey Hotshot, where do the coordinates say we're going?"
"I don't know, but I do know that if you look in front of you, it will give you a visual of it," It didn't take to long for that to happen, as a skyline with many tall buildings appeared.
"We're going to a city?"
"Well not quite, the minicon coordinates are actually in a smaller city, just outside of the city with the towers," Optimus replied, overhearing our conversation.
"We're ready to warp, Sir," Jetfire announced.
"THIS TIME I'LL GET MEGATRON!"
I started to turn around, wondering who said that. But before I could, we were warping to where the minicon was. We finished warping, by that time I figured out who had said it. "Oh, Starscream must have said that," I looked over at Mixmaster, his mouth was hanging open. "You okay, Mix?"
He stayed like that for a couple of seconds before snapping out of it. "Do it again! Do it again! Do it again!" he responded quickly.
"He must really like it," Hotshot laughed.
"I think so." We had warped onto a remote strip of road with few buildings around, completely scaring the heck out the few people who were driving on it. "I'd freak out too if a semi appeared behind me suddenly," I said, referring to how Optimus had almost scared the driver of a car off the road.
"Would you really?" Hotshot asked me. Mixmaster was looking out the window, goggling at everything.
"Well Hotshot, if I didn't know you guys, then yes. But since I know you guys, it would probably just startle me a bit," I looked out the window. "But if Scavenger appeared suddenly behind me, I would freak out," I giggled slightly.
"Yeah, I probably would too being your size," Hotshot replied. "But what if Megatron appeared behind you, what would you do?"
She thought about it for a minute, searching for a good answer. "Well, I would scream my head off and run for it."
"Oh really?"
"Mmm...maybe not."
All of us either drove or flew closer to the city with the towers. I looked out the window at a sign on the side of the road. It said welcome to New York. "The minicon's in New York State, interesting."
"So this is New York, I've heard about it but never seen it," Hotshot said in awe.
"From what it looks to be, I don't think we're that far from New York City," I pointed out, it's tall buildings clearly visible on the horizon. "Hey, what's that up there?" Looking up, a jet fighter plane being followed by an helicopter was flying not far behind us.
"Optimus, there's Thrust and Cyclonus," Hotshot called out.
"I see them, let's lead them away from the humans," he commanded. We drove farther out into the rural areas and into a dense area of trees.
The others started transforming as Mixmaster and I got out of Hotshot to let him transform as well. "You two go find the minicon, it's somewhere in this field, we'll hold off the Decepticons," Red Alert told us as he and the rest of the Autobots ran off to battle the Decepticons.
"Okay, lets go, Mix," I started to run, only to find out I didn't know were to go. "Uh, Mix, where should we start?"
"Follow me," he replied and ran towards the nearby bushes and forest.
"I guess you know were you're going," I remarked and followed him.
As we ran farther into the dense forest, I unsheathed my sword to cut the limbs in my way to keep up with Mixmaster. All kinds of different gunfire echoed around us as we ran. After several more minutes, Mixmaster and I came to a strange clearing and the sound of gunfire stopped. I looked up and saw a really good view of a nearby skyscraper.
"Mix, there's no sound anywhere at all," I noticed.
"You're right, Co," he agreed. "Even though my scanners still show the Autobots and Decepticons are still fighting, I don't hear anything as well."
I nodded. "Is the minicon here in this area?"
"My scans indicate it's two feet below the surface right here," he walked over to an area near the middle of the clearing.
"Okay then, lets get digging," I walked over and motioned for Mix to stand back. Once he did, I sliced to groves in the ground and kicked out the triangle shaped piece of ground. Making a few more cuts, I saw the green minicon panel and pulled it out of the ground. "That was easy."
"What now, Co?" Mix asked.
"We run back to the Autobots but stay hidden within the forest until the Decepticons have been defeated and warp back to their base," I planned.
"Sounds good, let's go," and we ran back to the fight.
When we got there, the transformers were still fighting each other. None of the Autobots had gone into stasis lock yet, but several of the Decepticons had. Of the opposing faction, only Thrust, Megatron, Wheeljack and Tidalwave were still functioning.
"I like the look of this, Mix," I said as we stood there in the trees, watching the fight. As the fight progressed, several well placed shots were enough to take down both Thrust and Tidalwave into stasis lock and Wheeljack was nowhere to be seen which gave me an erie feeling.
"The war isn't over yet, Optimus Prime," called out Megatron as he and the rest of the 'cons in stasis lock. Checking to see if the coast was clear, I ran to the Autobots.
"Hey, Scavenger, we've got the minicon!" I called out to the closest of them all as I ran towards them.
Hotshot heard me. "Good job, Co!" he called back.
"Hey, look out!" shouted Blurr. I tried to turn around and jump out of the way, but I was too late. Wheeljack transformed from his vehicle mode and grabbed me in his left hand. He pointed his gun at the Autobots, which his gun happened to remind me of a vacuum cleaner attachment. Mixmaster looked horrified at the latest event and I was still holding onto the minicon.
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Oh, cliffe am I evil. Don't worry, the next one WILL be up soon. Man, I started this a month ago, then lost intrest in Transformers for a while, and now I'm back! The thing with the graboid was inspired from Tremors the series, which is now boring to me. Please review!
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