Here's comes the next part of Darkness Rising! Sorry for the wait! I just saw MoonFall. It was awesome! You guys should check the movie out if y'all aren't busy. Anyway, on with the story.
Transformers Blue - The Jasper Chronicles
Chapter 5: Darkness Rising Part 3
Disclaimer: Transformers Prime belongs to HASBRO! The only thing that belongs to me is my OC.
Arcee was with Jack outside Jasper, preparing to go to the Autobot base.
"Tighten your grip, Jack." Arcee said before driving off.
"Woah! What's with you, Arcee? Jack said.
"Sorry for that, I thought you might enjoy the flight if we weren't getting shot at." Arcee explained.
"Bring it." Jack said determined.
...
Not too far away, Bulkhead was at the top of a rocky hill.
"Ready, set…"
"Miko, I'm supposed to be protecting you, and I don't know it this is safe for you."
"Bulkhead, I'm strapped inside five tons of metal muscle. I'm protected." Miko stated.
"Okay, if you said it, here goes nothing." Bulkhead said as he began to drive down the hill.
The only thing that came next was Miko and Bulkhead screaming in excitement.
...
Meanwhile a bit away, Bumblebee, with Raf inside, playing to a video game. He was winning, but at the last moment Bumblebee pulled up in front of Raf.
"(Yeah, I win!)" Bumblebee exclaimed.
"Hey, no fair Bee! You've been driving for a lot longer than I have." Raf said.
...
Leo Fowler was listening to Jazz music, while Blue Jacket was doing donuts. Leo had to admit, this was cool!
"This is amazing!" Leo yelled in excitement.
"Thanks!" Blue said before stop doing donuts and thinking of what Leo was listening to. "What are you listening to?"
"Just some Jazz music."
"You know, there was an autobot who was named after your music."
"Cool." Leo said before asking more questions. "Was there an autobot that was named for running over the moon?"
"Well, she didn't run over the moon, but she was the best at sniping the decepticons at far distance."
Blue Jacket and Leo Fowler kept talking about Autobots being named for, while heading to the base.
Autobot Base
Ratchet walked over to a Cybertronian microscope. "Thank goodness for peace and quiet." He looked into the microscope. "House guests can be such a bother.
Suddenly he heard the sound of metal falling onto the floor "What?" He mumbled and looked around before looking back into the microscope, then he heard the sound of metallic tapping, he looked around again "Optimus?"
He turned around and gasps as he sees his manipulator arm approaching him and jumps up "By the All-spark," he said as he sees his manipulator arm rushing to attack him.
He evaded the manipulator arm, which landed on the ledge where the microscope was, and jumps onto a tray that Ratchet was holding to shield himself from his own manipulator arm which flew above him.
The manipulator arm dropped back down to the ledge, Ratchet grabbed a metal cylinder shaped stick to fight off his Manipulator arm, as he tries to attack the manipulator arm but the arm evaded his attack and sliced the microscope in half, "I needed that!" He yelled at his manipulator arm.
The manipulator arm dropped onto the floor and jumped into the air, but just as it was about to touch Ratchet, it got hit by blaster fire from Optimus.
The manipulator arm was about to jump again, when Optimus crushed the arm with his foot. "And stay broken," Ratchet told the broken manipulator arm. "Now what could have cause that?"
"I have grave suspicion, Ratchet..." Optimus suggested as he deactivated his battle mask. "Dark Energon..."
Decepticon Warship
In the chamber of where the Dark Energon was placed. Megatron was still there. "Lord Megatron?" Starscream was surprised he still functions even after he placed it in his spark chamber.
"It's as if the Blood of Unicron the Destroyer flows through my veins. As if I hear his very thoughts." He pulled out another shard. "I now know what I must do."
"And what can I do to assist you, Master?"
"Quit groveling. And await my commands." He went to the roof of the ship and transformed into a Cybertronian jet and and took off.
Starscream was watching him leave through a monitor. He looked back to be startled. "Soundwave! I fear that when our master has reached for the stars, he came down with a touch of space madness. Lord Megatron has not been at sound judgments since his return. Increase global surveillance."
Even though Soundwave can't speak he replayed Megatron's words, "Quit groveling. And await my commands."
"I am not deaf! But if Optimus Prime lives, I believe it is in Lord Megatron's best interest that we ensure his enemies' destruction."
Back at the Autobot base, Optimus Prime put the broken tool inside the container while talking to Ratchet.
"If the residue Arcee found on Cliffjumper brought your broken equipment to life, it would stand to reason that the very same substance that brought Cliffjumper back from the dead."
Ratchet began thinking, "That would explain his life signal coming back online, but Dark Energon? It's so scarce that it's suppose to be virtually nonexistence. What would it be doing on Earth?"
"It was transported by Megatron."
"For what purpose?"
"To conquer this planet. By raising an army of the undead."
The medic was shocked for a few seconds until he started to chuckle. "Well, Megatron will need to break quite a few toaster ovens. I mean where, on this world, would he find that many cybertronian dead?
Before the Prime could answer, when they heard the sound of engines come through the base, telling them that the rest of the autobots were at base with their human allies.
Jack got off Arcee, while Raf exited Bumblebee, Leo exited Blue Jacket, and Miko exited Bulkhead, all four humans were laughing as they got off of their guardians.
"That was awesome!" Jack told Arcee.
"Can we go again?" Raf asked Bumblebee.
"So cool!" Leo said to Blue Jacket.
"Sweet!" Miko told bulkhead.
Bulkhead felt a grumble sound with in his torso, opened it and found a guitar and handed it to Miko.
"Sorry." Miko apologized, "Must have left that in the backseat."
"Autobots, Prepare to…" Optimus said, looking at the autobots and the human kids.
"Roll out?" Arcee asked.
"Remain here." he told her and looked towards Ratchet, "Ratchet, you'll come with me. Arcee, we'll be outside communications range for some time, so I'm putting you in charge."
Miko looked at her guardian. "Dude, you're biggest. You should be the boss."
"Um, he never picks me." Bulkhead told her.
"Optimus, with all due respect, playing bodyguard is one thing. Babysitting's another." Arcee said telling him that she didn't want to be in charge while he was outside of their communications range, while Jack groaned and walked the other way. "Besides, Ratchet hasn't been in the field since the war."
Ratchet overhead this comment "My pistons may be rusty but my hearing is sharp as ever," he retorted.
"For the moment, it's only reconnaissance." Optimus explained.
"Then, why do I hear an edge in your voice?" She asked him.
"Arcee, much has changed in the last 24 hours, and we all need to adapt," he explained before turning to Ratchet "Ratchet, Bridge us out."
Ratchet activated the Ground Bridge and walked through the portal which turned off as soon as both of them disappeared into the portal. After this, the four kids looked at Arcee and the other autobots.
"Okay, Chief, so, uh what's on the activities list?" Jack asked Arcee. Leo, Raf, and Miko also looked at the two-wheeler for her answer. However, Arcee, not wanting to 'babysit', had another idea.
"I'm going on patrol," Arcee announced, walking towards the hallway but Bulkhead stopped her.
"But Optimus told us to stay." Bulkhead reminded her.
"And he put you in charge of the base. You can't just leave." Blue Jacket said, agreeing with Bulkhead.
"When you're in charge, you can call the shots." She told them, before she looked at Blue Jacket and Bumblebee. "Bee, Blue, with me."
Blue Jacket looked at Leo, before walking to Arcee. "You got it... Commander."
Bumblebee looked at Raf before he buzzed in complain.
"Alright..." Bee beeped out, walking towards Arcee and Blue Jacket.
"Bulkhead, you're in charge," Arcee said as she, Blue Jacket and Bumblebee left to go on patrol.
"So, uh, what's on the activities list?" Bulkhead then asked the humans.
A loud feedback whining sound went through the room. "How about Band practice?" Miko asked.
"But we're not a band," Raf said, covering his ears from the loud noise.
"Why so anti-social?" Miko asked Raf, chuckling "Come on, Raf. You play anything?"
"Um...Keyboard?" He asked showing her his laptop.
"Laptop and samples. Good." Miko said before turning to Leo. "Leo?"
"Well... I can beat-box." Leo said, getting a microphone from his backpack.
"Hmm, beat-boxer, cool." Miko then looked at the 16-year old boy. "Jack?"
I sometimes mess around on the harmonica," Jack said.
Miko approached him "Do I look like I do country? Just cover yourself in fake blood and jump around screaming."
"Uhh…" Jack said as Miko walks away.
Miko looked at her guardian "Bulkhead, percussion. We'll go for a big industrial sound. D.I.Y, we're a band. You just got to learn the songs. This one's a ballad, 'My fist, your fist.'" She suddenly started playing her guitar, it was so loud that Jack, Raf, and Leo had to cover their ears and Bulkhead covered his auditory sensors.
Suddenly, the Proximity sensor started blaring. The green bot knew what that means and tries to stop the 15-year old girl to stop playing with her guitar. "Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!"
"Come on. You can't handle raw power?" She asked her guardian.
"Proximity sensor!" He explained. "Quick hide!"
The four kids hid behind Bulkhead. That was when Fowler came out. "PRIME!"
"Agent Fowler, uh, he's not here. Nobody's here… except me, of course." Bulkhead said the half-truth, while chuckling a little.
"Well, where did he go?" Fowler asked, "Wait. Don't tell me. He's out pancaking a mini mall. Now I don't know what language you bots speak on your planet, but Prime promised he would handle the Decepticons, and blowing a crater in the middle of Nebraska is not what the word 'handle' mean in English. So you tell Prime…" suddenly he notices Miko' amplifier moving, "Since when you bots electric?"
Bulkhead gulped. He knew the cover was blown, but before he could say a word, Leo came out. "Hey Dad... Or should I say 'Agent Fowler'?"
Fowler was shocked to see his son, "L-Leo?! What are you doing here?!"
"I should be asking you the same question..." He said.
Soon the other revealed themselves. "Hey. How are you doing?" Jack asked.
"Contact with civilians and my son! Team Prime has really gone off book this time. Don't tell me. You're running a daycare center."
"Ummm, okay..." Bulkhead was unsure of what to say next.
"We're interns." Jack said without even thinking.
"Student interns." Raf added.
"Earning extra credit in auto-shop."
"And robotics." Miko added.
"Okay." She descended down the fleet of stairs, "Lets move. "I'm taking all three of you under Federal custody." She got to the ground floor. "And as for you, young man." Pointing at Leo, "You're grounded until further notice. It's for your protection."
That was when Bulkhead got between them.
"We're protecting them!"
"Is that so?" Fowler asked as he walks over to a phone, "Well, maybe you could explain that to my superiors at the Pentagon." He grabbed the phone.
"Don't use that phone." Bulkhead advised before placing his finger into the phone booth. "It's… out of order."
Fowler let go of the phone and looked at his son. "Come on, son. You're coming with me!" Fowler said, grabbing his son by the arm, making him come with, before he looked back at Bulkhead. "This isn't over, two-ton! Not by a long shot!" He walked back up the stairs and exited the base using the elevator. Bulkhead and the three kinds were worried about them now...
Top of the Autobot Base
Once Leo and his dad out of the base and got inside of the flying vehicle, Fowler began to fly a Huey helicopter off of the helipad of the Autobots base and flew away and activated a message to one of his superiors "Sir, Agent Fowler. We have a situation. I'm en route from the Autobot base. I'll brief you in person."
The Nemesis
Soundwave intercepted Agent Fowler's transmission and repeated it for Starscream, "Sir, Agent Fowler. We have a situation. I'm en route from the Autobot base. I'll brief you in person."
"Autobot Base, eh? Humans..." Starscream said sinisterly. "Always the weak link. Fetch me this Fowler so that she can brief us instead."
Soundwave deployed Laserbeak to retrieve Fowler.
Back with the Fowlers
"I can't believe you lied to me, son!" Fowler said to him.
"I can't believe you lied to me, first!" Leo said, "You were an agent this whole time?! I thought you were a business man!"
"I am... Kind of! That's besides the point! You're in so much trouble, mister!"
"The only reason I was only in the base was because they saved my life! Also, I wouldn't have be at their "war" if SOMEONE had told me about this!"
"Are you saying that it's my fault?! "Look, Leo, I'm sorry I didn't tell you, but it was top secret! Even if I did, would you really believe me?!"
"Dad. I played plenty of robot vs. alien video games. I would at least considered in believing you since I had those video games..."
Before Fowler could answer, something attacked the helicopter.
"Hey big bird, I'm flying here," he said. "What in Uncle Sam's beard?" He said as the mini-con appeared in front of the helicopter.
"Oh, shoot!" Leo said, as he also saw the mini-con.
Laserbeak tried to clip the helicopter's tail, which Fowler tilted the helicopter up to avoid the attack, "First the freeways aren't safe, now air travel?" He asked, soon Laserbeak flew at the helicopter scratching the paint, causing the helicopter to tilt a bit. He soon reached a dead end as a rock wall was in front of the helicopter and he flew upwards.
"You better do something, dad!" Leo said, getting a little afraid.
Laserbeak followed him and soon Laserbeak was in front of the Fowlers, "You wanna dance, 'Con?" Fowler asked "I'll lead." He pressed a button on the control stick and began shooting at Laserbeak with bullets from the helicopter which wasn't even denting him. But soon the gun started to make a clicking sound as it was out of ammo and Laserbeak flew upwards and clipped the helicopter's tail.
"Never need an Autobot around when you actually need one," Fowler said as the helicopter's alarm started blaring as the helicopter began to spin out of control as it began to fall.
As he tried to gain control of the helicopter, Laserbeak broke the window and grabbed him, but not before pressing a button to send an SOS to the Autobot base, with his son grabbing and holding his leg, and soon the helicopter fell to the ground and blew up.
Leo looked at his dad, with a worried look on his face. "Dad, where is he taking us?" Leo asked.
"Probably taking us to their ship." Fowler said, answering his son's question.
"Ship?! What ship?!"
Meanwhile...
The alarm started beeping a lot, which irritated Raf.
"My ears!" Raf complained.
"What is it?" Miko asked.
"It's an SOS. From Fowler." Bulkhead saw as he tried to see what was going on, but the alarm went off very fast.
"Did you trace it?"
"Location scan was incomplete. Oh well."
"Oh well, seriously?" Jack said.
"Fowler is a jerk."
"Woah, whether you like the guy or not, the Decepticons may have him... and Leo!"
"And he knows your location… and our location." Raf whimpered afraid.
"Didn't you notice how quickly he backs down from a Bot? The Cons' will totally make him squeal!" Miko finished.
"But we lost the transmission, Fowler could be anywhere." Bulkhead reminded.
"Maybe I can narrow it down." Raf said as he opened his laptop. "About five years ago the government started micro-chipping their agents, you know, like owners do with pets." Everyone was impressed as Raf was typing. "What? I saw it on TV. Anyway, if I can hack into the federal mainframe maybe I can pinpoint agent Silas's location."
"You know how to hack? But you look like… two years old." Miko said impressed.
"Twelve… and a quarter." Raf smiled.
The Nemesis
Once the Fowlers got to the ship, they were getting carried by the decepticon soldiers. Leo didn't like the look of this place, as he started to shake in fear. They were finally taking to the interrogation room, where they saw the seeker, who was waiting for them.
"Welcome… Agent Fowler." Starscream said, greeting him. Once he turned around, he saw his son. "Ah, this must be your son... Nice to meet you."
Leo gulped a bit, looking at the seeker. "H-hi." Leo said, stuttering.
Fowler brushes the dust off his coat, "You treat all your guests this nice?" Fowler asked him.
Starscream chuckles as he said that, "Any friend of the Autobots…"
"Autobot? That one of them coin-operated, wash-my-own-car places?" Fowler asked, pretending to not know what he was talking about. Leo gave his dad a 'What the heck are you doing?!' look until he realized what his dad was doing.
"Autobot? Yeah, that sounds like an old Car wash to me." Leo said, going along with his dad.
"So that's how it's going to be, hmm?" Starscream asked them, "Apparently, no one has told you two that I have no appreciation for human humor. Make our guests comfortable."
The vehicons got close to the two humans.
Back at the Base...
"Latitude 39.5, longitude 116.9." Raf said.
Bulkhead proceeded to activate the ground bridge. "Okay, wait here."
"Aww, don't break up the band." Miko protested.
"Uh, Jack, you're in charge." Bulkhead said before going through the vortex.
"Guess we three have the run of the place." Jack said, but suddenly he and Raf saw that Miko was not with them. "Miko? Miko?!"
The Canyon
"Fowler? Leo? Oh scrap." Bulkhead said as he hid behind some rocks because of something that was very near. "The whole Decepticon shebang, this is not going to be easy."
The Decepticon Warship was landed in the middle of the canyon with lots of Decepticon troopers guarding the surroundings.
"Alright, what's the plan?"
"Miko!" Bulkhead said shocked. He gave her a signal to remain quiet.
But it was too late; an Vehicon discovered her and aimed his weapon at her.
"Halt in the name of Megatron, you worthless insect!"
"Oh, unwise." Miko said.
"Miko, get down!" Bulkhead shouted.
She managed to evade the shot, and before the Vehicon could fire again Bulkhead tackled him. The two robots began fighting, the green using his fists and the purple car con trying to immobilize him and shot him with his cannon of the back. Finally, Bulk managed to control his enemy and stay away from the cannon.
"Hold on still!" Miko said trying to harm the Autobot with a rock, but it did nothing to his armor.
Bulkhead took Miko away as he and the Autobot were engaged in an arm lock.
"Miko, look away!"
"But…"
"Turn you head away!"
Bulk ripped out the tank's cannon and nail it inside the Vehicon's spark chamber.
"Woah." That was Miko's answer for what she saw.
Jasper Desert
Arcee, Blue Jacket and Bumblebee we're driving down a road when Bulkhead contacted them, "Arcee, Blue Jacket, Bumblebee, do any of you read me?"
"Loud and clear, Bulkhead" Arcee said.
"I have a situation." he said.
"Bulkhead, they're children, humans. Just do whatever." she added.
"Yeah, Bulk. You're the best wrecker of all time. I'm sure that babysitting can't be that hard for you." Blue Jacket said.
However, once the green bot told them what happen, the three autobots stopped on their trackers.
"You're where?! She's where?!" Arcee asked the former Wrecker.
"Fowler's captured?! Leo's kidnapped?! Blue Jacket, also asking the green bot.
Once Bulkhead told them what happen again, Blue looked at Arcee. "Contact Jack so he can bridge us back to base."
"Got it." Arcee said, agreeing Blue's advice. She then tried to contact the base. "Arcee to base, come in. Jack listen up. We need you to bridge us back. Hello?" She got no reply and sighs. "Blue Jacket, Bumblebee, metal to the pedal."
"Let's roll!" Blue Jacket said, getting a head start while Arcee and his brother followed him.
Back in the interrogation room on the Nemesis, Fowler was chained up on the left side and Leo was chained up on the right side as the decepticon soldiers surrounded Fowler and Starscream walked up to him, "Agent Fowler, I have one simple request that will save your son the pain of grieving. "He said as he puts one of his fingers under Fowler's neck, "Tell me the location of the Autobot base."
"No problem, but first I need to ask you something first," Fowler said.
"Yes? I'm listening," Starscream asked.
"I got an issue with the customer service around here," Fowler said, "Can I speak time the manager?"
Starscream growls as he heard this. "I make the decisions! I am in charge!" He turned towards a Vehicon. "Bring the prod."
The vehicon nodded as the soldier walked towards the weapons vault. Starscream smirked until Leo got his attention.
"Please, you don't have to do this! We can make a deal." Leo said, desperate to save his father's life and himself. The seeker only chuckled at the teenage human.
"I'm sorry, little one, but your father has something I need." Starscream told him. "Once I get what I want, you and your father can leave without conflict." The seeker smirked darkly at the human, who spit on his face.
"Get scrap!" Leo said after spitting on the seeker's face. However, Starscream only laughed at this pitiful threat and wrapped the spit off his face. Before he could say anything to the human, the vehicon came back with the prod. He then smirked and walked towards Leo's father.
"I ask nicely one last time, the Autobot base."
"Sure thing buddy." Fowler said, "Right after you eat my Star-Spangled shorts."
Starscream took out an Energon Prod and zapped Fowler with it, which caused him to scream in pain. "As I imagined," Starscream said, "Energon and human nervous systems don't mix."
Leo couldn't believe this was happening. First, his dad took him out of the autobot base, then they were taken to the decepticons' ship, and now, his dad was getting tortured by the seeker!
"NO!" Leo yelled! "Leave him alone!"
Starscream only looked back with a smirk on his face before turning back to the special agent. Leo then had tears coming from his eyes...
'Blue... Please... Hurry. Save us.'
