Darn, it is hard to write when so much stuff is taking up time. I hate it.
I hope you like this chapter and I'll try and make some things accurate to
the Armada storyline.
As always, I don't own Transformers Armada, but Cobalt and Mixmaster are mine. If you'd like to use them in a fanfic, just e-mail me for permission.
A Girl Transformed
Chapter ten
Nearly two months have gone by since I first used my powers to save myself from Wheeljack. Since then, the Star Saber, Skyboom Shield and Requiem Blaster have juggled back and forth between the two factions like clowns juggling hot coals. Since then, I've learned more about the Autobots and the history of the transformers. No longer riding around in their hands as I did the first few days, I debated my relations to each of them.
Jetfire, Mixmaster, and Comettor I discovered, I considered as my best friends. Scavenger I held in high respect as I did Optimus because of their knowledge and skill and the rest of the Autobots were my good friends.
As I did normal everyday things, as normal as things can get when living with the Autobots, I thought towards my upcoming birthday. Turning 16 in a few days, I hadn't heard or sensed anything from my mother and this wasn't a good sign.
When a mary sue uses a large amount of their powers, any other mary sue can feel it depending on where they are. Even if they don't use it, a mary sue or part mary sue can feel wether they are near or far. I haven't sensed anything yet from my mother, but I sensed that I would sometime soon.
"Mixmaster, you here?" I called out as I entered our very large room on my motorcycle, shut off the engine and put my stuff away. "I'm back from school."
No answer or sign from him meant he was probably with the other Autobots or minicons. Eating lunch quickly, I set off to find him and the others.
I found him outside the back of the base, racing Jetfire in the air. "Mixmaster! Jetfire! Comettor!," I called out. "I'm back from school!"
The two heard me, they transformed and landed. "Cobalt, you're back!" Mixmaster called out as he ran to give me a hug.
"I'm always back at this time, actually I got back twenty minutes ago," I admitted. "Had to get some lunch."
"Hi Co, how was your day?" Jetfire asked.
"Would you believe that my lab partner blew something up in my face again?" I asked.
"Well, you don't look it," he replied. I zoned out of the conversation and thought of more concerning issues. "Are you alright, Cobalt?"
"Yeah, remember the first time I used my powers?" Jetfire nodded his head. "Well, the first time I did, I had used a lot of it, enough for my mother to know my location. Luckliy we were in New York at the time and she probably has already searched for me there," I explained. "But as you know, I have used my power very recently and in the near area. I'm worried that she may come searching here to find me and one of you could get hurt."
"If she's after you, why would she hurt one of us?" asked Jet.
I sighed, "She'll do anything to get my power, even if it means hurting my friends or the people around me. If she trys everything and she can't get me, her only option in her mind is to kill me, the very reason why I learned Kendo to defend myself."
Flashback:
Walking silently into the old Japanese dojo, I kneeled before the black haired meditating man. "What brings you to my dojo, young lady?" he asked me.
"Yamoto Sugita San," I stated.
"Yamoto San is fine," he replied as he held up his hand.
"I wish to learn Kendo," I calmly said, looking at the wood floor.
"I do not take on students."
Shocked, I raised my head to face him.
"But I will make an exception in your case, I sense strong energy from you," he said. "But I must have permission in person from your parents."
I hung my head in defeat. "I'm sorry to bother you, Sir," I stood up and turned to leave.
"Just a minute, young one," he called out to me, I turned back to him. "There's something troubling you, tell me your story."
I kneeled back down and explained my predicament with myself, my mother and my powers.
"I see, a good heart you have there," he told me. "Very well, I expect you to work hard, Cobalt. From this day forward, you are my student and will report here every afternoon at 2 pm and we will train for four hours, is this okay with you?"
"Yes, thank you, Sensei Yamoto," and I bowed to him.
*one year later*
"Aya!" I thrust my sword through the air with a loud crack as Sensei entered the room.
"Cobalt, please come, I must speak with you," he said and I followed him into the other room.
He sat down behind the small table in the middle of the room. I layed my bokken beside me and sat infront of it. "Cobalt, you have progressed greatly in your swordsmanship. You have so much, there is no more I can teach you."
I listened intently.
"Your days as my student are over and I would like to give you a gift," he continued.
"You don't have to, Sir," I replied.
"But you earned the right to it through your hard work and dedication," he stood and turned to the wall behind him where several swords hung. My eyes grew wide.
"This sword was weilded by the strongest female samurai in history," he told as he took the sword down from the wall and layed it in the middle of the table. "She had strength and determination just as you have. My family has protected this sword for generations, waiting to give it to a worthy student. You are that student, Cobalt, and it deserves to be weilded by you."
I didn't know what to say. "Thank you, Sir. This is a great honor and I will only use it for good as long as I live. If I break this promise, I will commit the ancient ritual of seppuku," I bowed to him.
"Spoken like a true samurai, young one," he laughed and turned to the wall to the right. "The samurai I told you about, she had only one painting of her and she was beautiful."
I turned to see what he was looking at. On the wall was an old Japanese picture of a woman samurai, and she looked almost like me!
"Yes, that's her, Cobalt," he said. "You're free to go now, keep practicing and I do hope we meet again in the future."
"Thank you, sir and I hope we do too," I carefully picked up the sword and attached it to my waist and walked to the door. I bowed to him before stepping out for the last time. Walking out of the dojo and almost to the entrance, I stopped. Thinking for a few moments about what all I had gone through in the last year and I was going to miss this place. Waiting a second longer, I then exited, bowing on my way out.
End Flashback
"Cobalt?" Jet asked, snapping me out of my reverie.
"Huh, what?"
"Do you sense her anywhere near us now?" he asked.
"I sense nothing, which scares me because I should be able to sense her, even if she's all the way across the country," I replied. "If I do sense her, I'll tell you immediately. But I don't right now, so let's do something fun," I said, my voice and additude drastically changing.
"Fine with me," said Mixmaster.
Jetfire, Mixmaster and I went back inside; I went skipping in infront of them. We went to the control room and no one was there.
"Hey, Jet, where is everyone?" I asked.
"They went to rescue another minicon and should be back soon."
"Woah, why haven't you gone with them?" I exclaimed.
"Huh?" he replied.
"I mean the Decepticons have the Requiem Blaster and the Skyboom Shield and we only have the Star Saber, shouldn't you be helping them?"
He sighed, "Cobalt, ever since Wheeljack had a grudge against you, all of us have been concerned for your safety. That's why at least one of us have been here when you returned from school, even if it's just the minicons."
"Yes, but you also say minicons," I debated. "Why are you here then?"
"Since it's soon after our last fight, most of the 'cons were damaged and most of them don't show up. We can greatly outnumber them this way and some of us can be doing stuff back here, like making sure you're safe," Jet explained.
"Ah, I see" I admitted at last. "But I still think that you should be there in case the course of the battle would turn and they need you."
"You're right about that."
"Jetfire! We need you out here!" came Optimus' voice from Jetfire's comlink.
"I'm there, Sir," he replied back to him. "I got to go, Cobalt. I'll see you later then."
"Bye, Co!" Comettor called back to me and followed Jetfire out of the control room.
"Yep, see ya," I called out as they left. Soon only Mixmaster, the rest of the minicons and I were left in the base.
"What do you think could have happened that Jetfire would have to help them?" Mix wondered.
"Hmm, don't know," I thought as I looked around the room.
"What about the main computer?" he suggested.
"Hmm?" I looked over at the council. "If I did manage out how to use it, how would we watch the battle? As far as I know, satelites could produce an image but it would be slow, hard and someone could see the Autobots. Laserbeak is the only one who could do this and he's with Rad and the others."
He sighed, "That doesn't help much, the only way we could find out what's going on is if we actually warp there and we don't even know were 'there' is."
"Then I guess there's nothing to do but wait," I walked towards the door. "C'mon, I'll teach you to play chess while we wait by the warpgate," I motioned for him to follow me.
"Okay," he replied cheerfully. "Can we play poker too?
"Sure."
*
"And once you get a pawn to your opponents back row, it can become a queen, a rook, a bishop, or a knight," I said as I taught Mixmaster how to play chess. It had been nearly an hour since Jetfire left to help the Autobots in the battle. Both of us were getting more worried by the minute.
"Check," he said as he moved his knight a move away from taking my king.
"Not yet," I replied as I moved my king to my last safe square.
He moved his bishop a move away from taking my king. I couldn't move my king anywhere. "Checkmate Co, I win," he declared.
I laughed, "You're good," I began to set up the board for another game just as the warpgate powered up and the Autobots warped in. All of them had damage and lots of small neon green dots in different spots.
"What happened?" I asked them.
"A long and hard battle, but we got the minicon," Hotshot replied cheerfully.
"That's good, where did you go?" I asked as I picked up the games I brought.
"We were searching for the minicon when we came upon these kids with weird shaped guns and they started shooting at us," answered Optimus.
I stood up suddenly, "You were in vehicle mode, right?"
"Yes," Optimus replied.
"Good, they didn't see you then," I said relieved.
"Do you know something about those kids that we don't know, Cobalt?" asked Scavenger.
"Only that they were regular kids with paintball guns," I admitted.
"Paintball?" said Red Alert.
"Yes, just regular kids shooting balls of paint at each other instead of bullets," I explained. "Tell me, did the Decepticons get shot at as well?" I asked smiling evilly.
"Yes, it seemed that there were two teams of them because while we got shot at with green paint, the Decepticons seemed to get mostly pink," Jetfire answered, the only one who wasn't covered in paint because his alt mode was a space shuttle.
"Let's get this stuff off of us," Optimus said and walked out of the warp room as the rest of us followed.
*
Hours later, the Autobots minus Jetfire were still attempting to wash the paint off themselves with water. Some of the paint came off well as expected but the rest of it was dried on and there were hundreds of dots still. "I don't get it, normal paintball paint is water soluble, it should have come out by now," I claimed as Rad, the rest of the kids and I stood against the wall next to Jet.
"Oviously, this isn't your normal paintball paint," Blurr commented, trying to wash paint off of his shin.
"Well, I don't have any other ideas except for just keep at it or analyze the paint and create a solvent," I suggested.
"Well let's keep trying," said Optimus who was washing the paint off of his chest.
*
Later that night, the Autobots finally managed to get the last of the paint off of themselves and went to go do other things. At that time, it was time for me to get some sleep for the next day.
"Goodnight Mix," I yawned as I switched on the light near my bed and swiched off the main lights to the room.
"You're recharging already? It's only 8 pm," he exclaimed as he sat on his recharge pad.
"Yeah, today was a big day and I'm tired," I walked across the room and crawled into bed. "Besides, you know how I am when I still want to sleep in the morning."
"I know too well," he stated and lied on his pad close to my futon. "Goodnight Co."
"Night Mix," I replied and turned out the light. As I drifted closer to dreamland, I failed to give much thought when my door slided quietly open and a figure stood in the doorway.
"Goodnight Cobalt," the figure said and the door closed silently once more.
*
CRASH!
"EEEP! What the hell was that?" I exclaimed as I stood alone wearing only body length black, silver, and crimson spandex in a huge, empty, metal corridor. The lighting was very poor but still enough to see what was about fifteen feet infront of you.
"Excuse me? It's 'what was that?' and do not use fowl language. Get it right, Atomi," a familiar voice echoed around the corridor that made my insides feel sick.
"Atomi's not my name," I declared. "Who are you? Where are you?"
"You don't remember your own mother, Atomi?" the voice tried to sound hurt but failed miserably. An older woman appeared infront of me. She had long, black hair and was at least 5' 10". Wearing black, dark blue, and purple body length spandex as well, her eyes were glowing violet and black and dark blue sparks were eminating from her body.
"Nyxia," I growled as I went into a fighting stance and weilding my sword that I just discovered I had. What I thought was odd, she was looking around as if she was trying to find me and couldn't see me standing right infront of her.
Her eyes narrowed as she continued to search for me. "It's 'mother' Atomi, you will call me mother!" she yelled.
"You are not my mother and my name's not Atomi," I yelled back.
"I am your mother and you will relenquish your powers for my own use, Atomi," she screamed.
"I could never be the spawn of something so evil and vain," I declared and starting to get really angry. "And my name is NOT Atomi."
A dark blue energy sword appeared in her hands, "Your powers are MINE!" she cried out and charged at me.
I dogged out of the way and charged at her, but my feet were stuck to the ground. She ran at me and I held my sword to block her. Her sword cut swiftly through mine and nearly decapitated me if I hadn't ducked and drop kicked her. My feet became unstuck, allowing me to quickly stand up and pin her to the ground with my foot.
Using my own powers, I held her at knife point with my own silver energy sword as my own eyes started glowing crimson. "I'm coming," she said as she faded out infront of me, "For you, Cobalt," a new voice finished. This voice didn't sound human and and purple transformer with odd shaped grey horns and pink optics appeared and glared down at me.
Wheeljack stood next to the new transformer and laughed with him. I was suddenly watching myself from another viewpoint as silver wires approached me like snakes from all around. The wires wrapped around my body and started to squeeze me unconfortably. I still felt the squeeze from the snake-like wires even though I floated upwards and watched myself from above.
As I looked down at myself, my body on the ground looked up at me like I was looking in a mirror. I saw the pain in my eyes as well as feeling it as it increased. My sight locked on my eyes and I screamed.
*
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" I shot upright in my futon and brought my hand to my forehead. Catching my breath, Mixmaster woke up suddenly as my annoying alarm went off. "Oh Primus."
"Cobalt, what's wrong? What's wrong?" Mixmaster ran over to the side and wraped his arms around me, trying to confort me.
"Bad dream, I'm okay now," I turned off my alarm and looked over at where my sword hung, it was still intact. "Nyxia is near and she's searching for me, uh, you can let go of me now."
"Oh," he let go and I got out of bed and got ready for the day. Luckily today was friday and tomorrow my birthday, I needed a break from stuff at school and from everything else. The last thing I wanted to deal with was a crazy insane woman out for my powers.
Thirty minutes later, I walked out of the room that served as my bathroom fully dressed. I grabbed what I needed: wallet, sword, jacket, the usual stuff and got something to drink, a granola bar and sat down on a chair.
"Are you going to be okay today, Co?" Mix asked as I ate my breakfast.
"I'll be fine, but I'd better warn the others about my dream," I replied and drank my milk.
"What do you mean?"
I set the glass down, "My dream, I saw Nyxia in it and she was searching for me."
"Your mother?"
I nodded, "But that's not why I woke up screaming."
"Why did you?"
"Nyxia dissapeared and another transformer I never seen before apeared."
"What?"
"He knew my name and Wheeljack appeared next to him. These snake-like wires then attacked and wrapped around me. I saw myself from above as the wires squeezed me very hard and I then woke up screaming," I finished.
"Yeah, you might want to tell Optimus and the others about this," he suggested. "Oh yeah, Optimus and Jetfire came in when you were in the shower because they heard you scream."
I looked at him, "Hmm?"
"I told them you're okay now and if you want to tell them, they're working in the control room," he told me.
I finished my granola and milk, "Thanks Mix, I'm off to school now."
"Okay then, I'll see you later," he replied.
I walked over to my bike and donned my jacket and helmet. Mounting my bike and starting the engine, I gave a two finger salute wave to Mixmaster and drove out of the room. I passed Scavenger and Sideswipe on my way to the control room and arrived to my destination. Cutting the engine, I dismounted my bike and took off my helmet.
"Optimus, good morning," I greeted and received his attention.
"Aww, don't I get a good morning too?" Jetfire whined slightly as he turned from the screen he was looking at.
"Good morning, Jetfire."
"Are you okay, Cobalt? Many of us heard you scream this morning," Optimus questioned.
"Bad dream, I think Nyxia is near and searching for me," I revealed.
"Your mother?" asked Jet.
"Mm," I nodded my head once, "But that's not why I screamed. Another transformer I've never seen before also appeared in my dream."
"Another transformer?" exclaimed Optimus. "What did they look like?"
"He had no faction symbol from what I remember and a deep and chilling voice. He was the same size as a normal transformer and was purple."
"What else did he look like?" asked Jet.
"He had a single, long gun barrel on each forearm and had strange looking silver horns," I motioned on my head what they looked like, "And pink optics."
"Sideways," growled Jetfire.
"Sideways?" I questioned.
"He was a transformer who betrayed the Autobots and stole the Star Saber from us months before you joined us," answered Optimus. "We haven't heard anything from him for a few weeks now."
"Okay, I need to head off to school now," I put helmet on again and mounting my bike, I started the engine.
"Cobalt, be careful today," Jetfire called out as I began to leave. I turned to the two commanders and nodded my head. Pointing to my sword, I gave a thumbs up and drove out of the control room and soon the base.
Arriving with five minutes to spare, I dismounted my bike and ran into the school. Taking off my helmet, I showed my ID to the lady at the office window and ran to class. I sat down next to my lab partner seconds before the bell rang.
"What took you so long?" my partner Sarah asked. "You're usualy here way before I am."
"I had stuff to do this morning," I replied as I set my bike jacket and helmet on the desk.
"Oh what stuff?" she asked and her eyes glowed slightly.
"I'm not telling and telepathy won't work on me," I said as I leaned my head back on my arms crossed behind my head. "So what do you think were going to do today? And whatever it is, try not to blow it up in my face this time."
"Okay," she replied.
Our instructor, Buckner-san as he liked to be called, came in at that time. Of all of my teachers, he was my favorite of them because of his sense of humor. "Okay class, we're going to finish up our programing today and start our new unit on building circuit boards," he said. "And let's not have anymore explosions this time," Sarah blushed and I giggled.
*
The day went by rather smoothly and even though I had sensed my former mother near in the city, she was nowhere near us to be a threat just yet. Sarah didn't blow up anything today and I managed to get good time on my programing and circuit board. I filled up the gas tank on my bike and headed back to the base.
I shut down my bike as I parked it back in Mixmaster's and my room. Seeing as Mix was nowhere to be seen as always, I put away my stuff and grabbed something to eat before finding him. I found that Mix was in the target room with Jetfire and the two were competing against each other. Drawing my gun from the holister, I shot a plate that had just been sent flying to announce my presence.
"Hey Co, didn't run into Nyxia did you?" questioned Jet.
"Nope, but she's near," I told them. "But I'm not too worried yet."
"Why?" Mix asked.
"She's not as smart or powerful as me, but she does outclass me in physical strength," I admitted.
"Well that's good to hear," said Jet. "Oh yeah, the others are out finding another minicon again."
"Again?" I exclaimed. "This has got to be the seventh time this week!"
"Yep, there's alot of them," he sighed.
"Weren't you called out there yesterday because of the paintball kids?" I asked.
"Yeah, but they didn't really need my help all that much," he replied.
*
Nothing else really interesting happened the rest of that day and Nyxia stayed a good distance away. I had rather pleasant dreams that night too and woke up early and rested that morning. "Today's the 27th," I murmured. "Woooh," I cried out and jumped out of bed to do a few katas with my sword. "Oh yeah, I'm 16!"
Putting my sword away, I started and soon ended my usual morning routine. "Hey Mixmaster," I called over to him, he was drinking some energon. "Wanna come outside the base with me today?"
"Sure," he replied transforming into a small shuttle and we headed outside.
It was a nice morning out as we walked and flew over to a nice, grassy piece of land surrounded by some trees and rocks near the far side of the base. Dew was still on the grass and it being slightly sticky out, I took of my jacket and layed it on a nearby rock. Unsheathing my sword, I layed the sheath on my jacket and began to do some practice moves and katas.
"Hey Co, how's it hangin'?" a voice greeted.
"Billy," I said and held my sword at my side. "Fred, What's up?"
"Not much," Fred answered as they rode up on their bikes.
"Where's Rad and the others?" I asked them.
"I think they're doing homework, can I ride Mixmaster?" Billy asked.
"Mix, you want to?" I called up to him, he was flying around high above my head.
"Sure Billy, I'll give you a ride," he landed and let him climb on. As soon as he was on, Mixmaster flew off very fast, making Billy scream. Mix didn't quite like Billy because he would always try to hit on me and this was one of his ways at getting back at him.
"SLOW DOWN WOULD YA!" we heard him yell off in the distance.
"Hey Cobalt, why's Mixmaster flying so fast?" Fred asked.
"Because I don't like Billy hittin' on me, Mix doesn't like it either and he's getting even with him," I explained.
"But couldn't he hurt Billy?"
"He won't hurt him purposely because then he'll have to answer to me," I finished.
"Okay."
I felt it, a strong power coming near dangerously fast. "Fred, Billy, Mixmaster!" I yelled out. "Get inside and warn the Autobots she's coming!"
"You got it," Mix replied and flew into the cave.
"What?" Fred questioned.
"Don't ask questions, just take your bikes and get inside," I yelled as I quickly attached my sword sheath to my waist and put on my jacket.
"Okay," he replied and did as I said. I went back into fighting postion.
Nyxia was coming and coming fast, she must have been about near the begining of the forest. As she got closer, I powered up and hoped I would be able to hold her off and defeat her. "Please Primus, don't let me lose."
***
Wow, this is the longest of all the chapters so far, I hope you're enjoying this so far. I'll try to get ch. 11 up soon and I'll try my hardest to not make Cobalt too mary sue-ish.
Cobalt
As always, I don't own Transformers Armada, but Cobalt and Mixmaster are mine. If you'd like to use them in a fanfic, just e-mail me for permission.
A Girl Transformed
Chapter ten
Nearly two months have gone by since I first used my powers to save myself from Wheeljack. Since then, the Star Saber, Skyboom Shield and Requiem Blaster have juggled back and forth between the two factions like clowns juggling hot coals. Since then, I've learned more about the Autobots and the history of the transformers. No longer riding around in their hands as I did the first few days, I debated my relations to each of them.
Jetfire, Mixmaster, and Comettor I discovered, I considered as my best friends. Scavenger I held in high respect as I did Optimus because of their knowledge and skill and the rest of the Autobots were my good friends.
As I did normal everyday things, as normal as things can get when living with the Autobots, I thought towards my upcoming birthday. Turning 16 in a few days, I hadn't heard or sensed anything from my mother and this wasn't a good sign.
When a mary sue uses a large amount of their powers, any other mary sue can feel it depending on where they are. Even if they don't use it, a mary sue or part mary sue can feel wether they are near or far. I haven't sensed anything yet from my mother, but I sensed that I would sometime soon.
"Mixmaster, you here?" I called out as I entered our very large room on my motorcycle, shut off the engine and put my stuff away. "I'm back from school."
No answer or sign from him meant he was probably with the other Autobots or minicons. Eating lunch quickly, I set off to find him and the others.
I found him outside the back of the base, racing Jetfire in the air. "Mixmaster! Jetfire! Comettor!," I called out. "I'm back from school!"
The two heard me, they transformed and landed. "Cobalt, you're back!" Mixmaster called out as he ran to give me a hug.
"I'm always back at this time, actually I got back twenty minutes ago," I admitted. "Had to get some lunch."
"Hi Co, how was your day?" Jetfire asked.
"Would you believe that my lab partner blew something up in my face again?" I asked.
"Well, you don't look it," he replied. I zoned out of the conversation and thought of more concerning issues. "Are you alright, Cobalt?"
"Yeah, remember the first time I used my powers?" Jetfire nodded his head. "Well, the first time I did, I had used a lot of it, enough for my mother to know my location. Luckliy we were in New York at the time and she probably has already searched for me there," I explained. "But as you know, I have used my power very recently and in the near area. I'm worried that she may come searching here to find me and one of you could get hurt."
"If she's after you, why would she hurt one of us?" asked Jet.
I sighed, "She'll do anything to get my power, even if it means hurting my friends or the people around me. If she trys everything and she can't get me, her only option in her mind is to kill me, the very reason why I learned Kendo to defend myself."
Flashback:
Walking silently into the old Japanese dojo, I kneeled before the black haired meditating man. "What brings you to my dojo, young lady?" he asked me.
"Yamoto Sugita San," I stated.
"Yamoto San is fine," he replied as he held up his hand.
"I wish to learn Kendo," I calmly said, looking at the wood floor.
"I do not take on students."
Shocked, I raised my head to face him.
"But I will make an exception in your case, I sense strong energy from you," he said. "But I must have permission in person from your parents."
I hung my head in defeat. "I'm sorry to bother you, Sir," I stood up and turned to leave.
"Just a minute, young one," he called out to me, I turned back to him. "There's something troubling you, tell me your story."
I kneeled back down and explained my predicament with myself, my mother and my powers.
"I see, a good heart you have there," he told me. "Very well, I expect you to work hard, Cobalt. From this day forward, you are my student and will report here every afternoon at 2 pm and we will train for four hours, is this okay with you?"
"Yes, thank you, Sensei Yamoto," and I bowed to him.
*one year later*
"Aya!" I thrust my sword through the air with a loud crack as Sensei entered the room.
"Cobalt, please come, I must speak with you," he said and I followed him into the other room.
He sat down behind the small table in the middle of the room. I layed my bokken beside me and sat infront of it. "Cobalt, you have progressed greatly in your swordsmanship. You have so much, there is no more I can teach you."
I listened intently.
"Your days as my student are over and I would like to give you a gift," he continued.
"You don't have to, Sir," I replied.
"But you earned the right to it through your hard work and dedication," he stood and turned to the wall behind him where several swords hung. My eyes grew wide.
"This sword was weilded by the strongest female samurai in history," he told as he took the sword down from the wall and layed it in the middle of the table. "She had strength and determination just as you have. My family has protected this sword for generations, waiting to give it to a worthy student. You are that student, Cobalt, and it deserves to be weilded by you."
I didn't know what to say. "Thank you, Sir. This is a great honor and I will only use it for good as long as I live. If I break this promise, I will commit the ancient ritual of seppuku," I bowed to him.
"Spoken like a true samurai, young one," he laughed and turned to the wall to the right. "The samurai I told you about, she had only one painting of her and she was beautiful."
I turned to see what he was looking at. On the wall was an old Japanese picture of a woman samurai, and she looked almost like me!
"Yes, that's her, Cobalt," he said. "You're free to go now, keep practicing and I do hope we meet again in the future."
"Thank you, sir and I hope we do too," I carefully picked up the sword and attached it to my waist and walked to the door. I bowed to him before stepping out for the last time. Walking out of the dojo and almost to the entrance, I stopped. Thinking for a few moments about what all I had gone through in the last year and I was going to miss this place. Waiting a second longer, I then exited, bowing on my way out.
End Flashback
"Cobalt?" Jet asked, snapping me out of my reverie.
"Huh, what?"
"Do you sense her anywhere near us now?" he asked.
"I sense nothing, which scares me because I should be able to sense her, even if she's all the way across the country," I replied. "If I do sense her, I'll tell you immediately. But I don't right now, so let's do something fun," I said, my voice and additude drastically changing.
"Fine with me," said Mixmaster.
Jetfire, Mixmaster and I went back inside; I went skipping in infront of them. We went to the control room and no one was there.
"Hey, Jet, where is everyone?" I asked.
"They went to rescue another minicon and should be back soon."
"Woah, why haven't you gone with them?" I exclaimed.
"Huh?" he replied.
"I mean the Decepticons have the Requiem Blaster and the Skyboom Shield and we only have the Star Saber, shouldn't you be helping them?"
He sighed, "Cobalt, ever since Wheeljack had a grudge against you, all of us have been concerned for your safety. That's why at least one of us have been here when you returned from school, even if it's just the minicons."
"Yes, but you also say minicons," I debated. "Why are you here then?"
"Since it's soon after our last fight, most of the 'cons were damaged and most of them don't show up. We can greatly outnumber them this way and some of us can be doing stuff back here, like making sure you're safe," Jet explained.
"Ah, I see" I admitted at last. "But I still think that you should be there in case the course of the battle would turn and they need you."
"You're right about that."
"Jetfire! We need you out here!" came Optimus' voice from Jetfire's comlink.
"I'm there, Sir," he replied back to him. "I got to go, Cobalt. I'll see you later then."
"Bye, Co!" Comettor called back to me and followed Jetfire out of the control room.
"Yep, see ya," I called out as they left. Soon only Mixmaster, the rest of the minicons and I were left in the base.
"What do you think could have happened that Jetfire would have to help them?" Mix wondered.
"Hmm, don't know," I thought as I looked around the room.
"What about the main computer?" he suggested.
"Hmm?" I looked over at the council. "If I did manage out how to use it, how would we watch the battle? As far as I know, satelites could produce an image but it would be slow, hard and someone could see the Autobots. Laserbeak is the only one who could do this and he's with Rad and the others."
He sighed, "That doesn't help much, the only way we could find out what's going on is if we actually warp there and we don't even know were 'there' is."
"Then I guess there's nothing to do but wait," I walked towards the door. "C'mon, I'll teach you to play chess while we wait by the warpgate," I motioned for him to follow me.
"Okay," he replied cheerfully. "Can we play poker too?
"Sure."
*
"And once you get a pawn to your opponents back row, it can become a queen, a rook, a bishop, or a knight," I said as I taught Mixmaster how to play chess. It had been nearly an hour since Jetfire left to help the Autobots in the battle. Both of us were getting more worried by the minute.
"Check," he said as he moved his knight a move away from taking my king.
"Not yet," I replied as I moved my king to my last safe square.
He moved his bishop a move away from taking my king. I couldn't move my king anywhere. "Checkmate Co, I win," he declared.
I laughed, "You're good," I began to set up the board for another game just as the warpgate powered up and the Autobots warped in. All of them had damage and lots of small neon green dots in different spots.
"What happened?" I asked them.
"A long and hard battle, but we got the minicon," Hotshot replied cheerfully.
"That's good, where did you go?" I asked as I picked up the games I brought.
"We were searching for the minicon when we came upon these kids with weird shaped guns and they started shooting at us," answered Optimus.
I stood up suddenly, "You were in vehicle mode, right?"
"Yes," Optimus replied.
"Good, they didn't see you then," I said relieved.
"Do you know something about those kids that we don't know, Cobalt?" asked Scavenger.
"Only that they were regular kids with paintball guns," I admitted.
"Paintball?" said Red Alert.
"Yes, just regular kids shooting balls of paint at each other instead of bullets," I explained. "Tell me, did the Decepticons get shot at as well?" I asked smiling evilly.
"Yes, it seemed that there were two teams of them because while we got shot at with green paint, the Decepticons seemed to get mostly pink," Jetfire answered, the only one who wasn't covered in paint because his alt mode was a space shuttle.
"Let's get this stuff off of us," Optimus said and walked out of the warp room as the rest of us followed.
*
Hours later, the Autobots minus Jetfire were still attempting to wash the paint off themselves with water. Some of the paint came off well as expected but the rest of it was dried on and there were hundreds of dots still. "I don't get it, normal paintball paint is water soluble, it should have come out by now," I claimed as Rad, the rest of the kids and I stood against the wall next to Jet.
"Oviously, this isn't your normal paintball paint," Blurr commented, trying to wash paint off of his shin.
"Well, I don't have any other ideas except for just keep at it or analyze the paint and create a solvent," I suggested.
"Well let's keep trying," said Optimus who was washing the paint off of his chest.
*
Later that night, the Autobots finally managed to get the last of the paint off of themselves and went to go do other things. At that time, it was time for me to get some sleep for the next day.
"Goodnight Mix," I yawned as I switched on the light near my bed and swiched off the main lights to the room.
"You're recharging already? It's only 8 pm," he exclaimed as he sat on his recharge pad.
"Yeah, today was a big day and I'm tired," I walked across the room and crawled into bed. "Besides, you know how I am when I still want to sleep in the morning."
"I know too well," he stated and lied on his pad close to my futon. "Goodnight Co."
"Night Mix," I replied and turned out the light. As I drifted closer to dreamland, I failed to give much thought when my door slided quietly open and a figure stood in the doorway.
"Goodnight Cobalt," the figure said and the door closed silently once more.
*
CRASH!
"EEEP! What the hell was that?" I exclaimed as I stood alone wearing only body length black, silver, and crimson spandex in a huge, empty, metal corridor. The lighting was very poor but still enough to see what was about fifteen feet infront of you.
"Excuse me? It's 'what was that?' and do not use fowl language. Get it right, Atomi," a familiar voice echoed around the corridor that made my insides feel sick.
"Atomi's not my name," I declared. "Who are you? Where are you?"
"You don't remember your own mother, Atomi?" the voice tried to sound hurt but failed miserably. An older woman appeared infront of me. She had long, black hair and was at least 5' 10". Wearing black, dark blue, and purple body length spandex as well, her eyes were glowing violet and black and dark blue sparks were eminating from her body.
"Nyxia," I growled as I went into a fighting stance and weilding my sword that I just discovered I had. What I thought was odd, she was looking around as if she was trying to find me and couldn't see me standing right infront of her.
Her eyes narrowed as she continued to search for me. "It's 'mother' Atomi, you will call me mother!" she yelled.
"You are not my mother and my name's not Atomi," I yelled back.
"I am your mother and you will relenquish your powers for my own use, Atomi," she screamed.
"I could never be the spawn of something so evil and vain," I declared and starting to get really angry. "And my name is NOT Atomi."
A dark blue energy sword appeared in her hands, "Your powers are MINE!" she cried out and charged at me.
I dogged out of the way and charged at her, but my feet were stuck to the ground. She ran at me and I held my sword to block her. Her sword cut swiftly through mine and nearly decapitated me if I hadn't ducked and drop kicked her. My feet became unstuck, allowing me to quickly stand up and pin her to the ground with my foot.
Using my own powers, I held her at knife point with my own silver energy sword as my own eyes started glowing crimson. "I'm coming," she said as she faded out infront of me, "For you, Cobalt," a new voice finished. This voice didn't sound human and and purple transformer with odd shaped grey horns and pink optics appeared and glared down at me.
Wheeljack stood next to the new transformer and laughed with him. I was suddenly watching myself from another viewpoint as silver wires approached me like snakes from all around. The wires wrapped around my body and started to squeeze me unconfortably. I still felt the squeeze from the snake-like wires even though I floated upwards and watched myself from above.
As I looked down at myself, my body on the ground looked up at me like I was looking in a mirror. I saw the pain in my eyes as well as feeling it as it increased. My sight locked on my eyes and I screamed.
*
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" I shot upright in my futon and brought my hand to my forehead. Catching my breath, Mixmaster woke up suddenly as my annoying alarm went off. "Oh Primus."
"Cobalt, what's wrong? What's wrong?" Mixmaster ran over to the side and wraped his arms around me, trying to confort me.
"Bad dream, I'm okay now," I turned off my alarm and looked over at where my sword hung, it was still intact. "Nyxia is near and she's searching for me, uh, you can let go of me now."
"Oh," he let go and I got out of bed and got ready for the day. Luckily today was friday and tomorrow my birthday, I needed a break from stuff at school and from everything else. The last thing I wanted to deal with was a crazy insane woman out for my powers.
Thirty minutes later, I walked out of the room that served as my bathroom fully dressed. I grabbed what I needed: wallet, sword, jacket, the usual stuff and got something to drink, a granola bar and sat down on a chair.
"Are you going to be okay today, Co?" Mix asked as I ate my breakfast.
"I'll be fine, but I'd better warn the others about my dream," I replied and drank my milk.
"What do you mean?"
I set the glass down, "My dream, I saw Nyxia in it and she was searching for me."
"Your mother?"
I nodded, "But that's not why I woke up screaming."
"Why did you?"
"Nyxia dissapeared and another transformer I never seen before apeared."
"What?"
"He knew my name and Wheeljack appeared next to him. These snake-like wires then attacked and wrapped around me. I saw myself from above as the wires squeezed me very hard and I then woke up screaming," I finished.
"Yeah, you might want to tell Optimus and the others about this," he suggested. "Oh yeah, Optimus and Jetfire came in when you were in the shower because they heard you scream."
I looked at him, "Hmm?"
"I told them you're okay now and if you want to tell them, they're working in the control room," he told me.
I finished my granola and milk, "Thanks Mix, I'm off to school now."
"Okay then, I'll see you later," he replied.
I walked over to my bike and donned my jacket and helmet. Mounting my bike and starting the engine, I gave a two finger salute wave to Mixmaster and drove out of the room. I passed Scavenger and Sideswipe on my way to the control room and arrived to my destination. Cutting the engine, I dismounted my bike and took off my helmet.
"Optimus, good morning," I greeted and received his attention.
"Aww, don't I get a good morning too?" Jetfire whined slightly as he turned from the screen he was looking at.
"Good morning, Jetfire."
"Are you okay, Cobalt? Many of us heard you scream this morning," Optimus questioned.
"Bad dream, I think Nyxia is near and searching for me," I revealed.
"Your mother?" asked Jet.
"Mm," I nodded my head once, "But that's not why I screamed. Another transformer I've never seen before also appeared in my dream."
"Another transformer?" exclaimed Optimus. "What did they look like?"
"He had no faction symbol from what I remember and a deep and chilling voice. He was the same size as a normal transformer and was purple."
"What else did he look like?" asked Jet.
"He had a single, long gun barrel on each forearm and had strange looking silver horns," I motioned on my head what they looked like, "And pink optics."
"Sideways," growled Jetfire.
"Sideways?" I questioned.
"He was a transformer who betrayed the Autobots and stole the Star Saber from us months before you joined us," answered Optimus. "We haven't heard anything from him for a few weeks now."
"Okay, I need to head off to school now," I put helmet on again and mounting my bike, I started the engine.
"Cobalt, be careful today," Jetfire called out as I began to leave. I turned to the two commanders and nodded my head. Pointing to my sword, I gave a thumbs up and drove out of the control room and soon the base.
Arriving with five minutes to spare, I dismounted my bike and ran into the school. Taking off my helmet, I showed my ID to the lady at the office window and ran to class. I sat down next to my lab partner seconds before the bell rang.
"What took you so long?" my partner Sarah asked. "You're usualy here way before I am."
"I had stuff to do this morning," I replied as I set my bike jacket and helmet on the desk.
"Oh what stuff?" she asked and her eyes glowed slightly.
"I'm not telling and telepathy won't work on me," I said as I leaned my head back on my arms crossed behind my head. "So what do you think were going to do today? And whatever it is, try not to blow it up in my face this time."
"Okay," she replied.
Our instructor, Buckner-san as he liked to be called, came in at that time. Of all of my teachers, he was my favorite of them because of his sense of humor. "Okay class, we're going to finish up our programing today and start our new unit on building circuit boards," he said. "And let's not have anymore explosions this time," Sarah blushed and I giggled.
*
The day went by rather smoothly and even though I had sensed my former mother near in the city, she was nowhere near us to be a threat just yet. Sarah didn't blow up anything today and I managed to get good time on my programing and circuit board. I filled up the gas tank on my bike and headed back to the base.
I shut down my bike as I parked it back in Mixmaster's and my room. Seeing as Mix was nowhere to be seen as always, I put away my stuff and grabbed something to eat before finding him. I found that Mix was in the target room with Jetfire and the two were competing against each other. Drawing my gun from the holister, I shot a plate that had just been sent flying to announce my presence.
"Hey Co, didn't run into Nyxia did you?" questioned Jet.
"Nope, but she's near," I told them. "But I'm not too worried yet."
"Why?" Mix asked.
"She's not as smart or powerful as me, but she does outclass me in physical strength," I admitted.
"Well that's good to hear," said Jet. "Oh yeah, the others are out finding another minicon again."
"Again?" I exclaimed. "This has got to be the seventh time this week!"
"Yep, there's alot of them," he sighed.
"Weren't you called out there yesterday because of the paintball kids?" I asked.
"Yeah, but they didn't really need my help all that much," he replied.
*
Nothing else really interesting happened the rest of that day and Nyxia stayed a good distance away. I had rather pleasant dreams that night too and woke up early and rested that morning. "Today's the 27th," I murmured. "Woooh," I cried out and jumped out of bed to do a few katas with my sword. "Oh yeah, I'm 16!"
Putting my sword away, I started and soon ended my usual morning routine. "Hey Mixmaster," I called over to him, he was drinking some energon. "Wanna come outside the base with me today?"
"Sure," he replied transforming into a small shuttle and we headed outside.
It was a nice morning out as we walked and flew over to a nice, grassy piece of land surrounded by some trees and rocks near the far side of the base. Dew was still on the grass and it being slightly sticky out, I took of my jacket and layed it on a nearby rock. Unsheathing my sword, I layed the sheath on my jacket and began to do some practice moves and katas.
"Hey Co, how's it hangin'?" a voice greeted.
"Billy," I said and held my sword at my side. "Fred, What's up?"
"Not much," Fred answered as they rode up on their bikes.
"Where's Rad and the others?" I asked them.
"I think they're doing homework, can I ride Mixmaster?" Billy asked.
"Mix, you want to?" I called up to him, he was flying around high above my head.
"Sure Billy, I'll give you a ride," he landed and let him climb on. As soon as he was on, Mixmaster flew off very fast, making Billy scream. Mix didn't quite like Billy because he would always try to hit on me and this was one of his ways at getting back at him.
"SLOW DOWN WOULD YA!" we heard him yell off in the distance.
"Hey Cobalt, why's Mixmaster flying so fast?" Fred asked.
"Because I don't like Billy hittin' on me, Mix doesn't like it either and he's getting even with him," I explained.
"But couldn't he hurt Billy?"
"He won't hurt him purposely because then he'll have to answer to me," I finished.
"Okay."
I felt it, a strong power coming near dangerously fast. "Fred, Billy, Mixmaster!" I yelled out. "Get inside and warn the Autobots she's coming!"
"You got it," Mix replied and flew into the cave.
"What?" Fred questioned.
"Don't ask questions, just take your bikes and get inside," I yelled as I quickly attached my sword sheath to my waist and put on my jacket.
"Okay," he replied and did as I said. I went back into fighting postion.
Nyxia was coming and coming fast, she must have been about near the begining of the forest. As she got closer, I powered up and hoped I would be able to hold her off and defeat her. "Please Primus, don't let me lose."
***
Wow, this is the longest of all the chapters so far, I hope you're enjoying this so far. I'll try to get ch. 11 up soon and I'll try my hardest to not make Cobalt too mary sue-ish.
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