Chapter 15: A Big Friend
Yunna was flying in the air by using her wings. She carries the crate of supplies to Foxtrot's lab. Daisy was running below Yunna's flying form as they made their way back to Foxtrot's lab. Yunna was feeling unsure that if she did the right thing to save that Decepticon's life. She heard from Foxtrot that the Decepticons were the ones who started the war for no reason, and killed many innocent lives to get Cybertron all to themselves. Yunna shivered of the thought, Decepticons taking over was scary and she doesn't want to know what they will do when they try and take over Earth. Yunna brushed aside that thought and flies towards the destination. Yunna and Daisy made it back to the lab and saw Foxtrot waiting for them along with Ravage, Skyhowl, and Dark Twilight. Yunna landed on the ground and deactivates her wings before putting the crate down. Daisy walked passed Yunna and stood in front of Foxtrot while wagging her two tails. Foxtrot patted Daisy's head gently before looking at Yunna.
"Great job, Yunna." Foxtrot complimented. "Now that we got what we need, we should go."
Yunna nodded before noticing Terror the cyberwolf/sparkeater was looking at the distance. Yunna was confused and followed Terror's gaze to that shows destroyed buildings. Yunna was confused, wondering why was Terror looking at a distance for no reason. Maybe he senses someone close by or he knows something that they don't know.
"What are you doing?" Foxtrot asked Yunna in confusion.
Yunna snapped out of her thoughts before looking at Foxtrot with an apologetic. "Gomenasai, Foxtrot-san, it's Terror. He's looking at something."
Foxtrot was confused by this before looking at Terror. The cyberwolf was looking at a distance, something was up, she knows it. And Terror might lead them to the source. Foxtrot turns around and headed to her lab's entrance. Yunna and the others were curious on what she's going to do, until she was near the entrance and opens a small hatch that revealed a red button inside. She pressed it and a hidden door opens from the ground and revealed a transportation vehicle. It doesn't have wheels considering it's a Cybertronian vehicle, it's a hovercraft. Foxtrot hops in and types in something on the vehicle's controls before turning on the engines. The vehicle started as it hovers from the grown and blue lights coming from below. Yunna, Ravage, and Skyhowl was surprise to see that, when did Foxtrot have that?
"Um...Foxtrot?" Ravage asked, looking at the vehicle. Foxtrot looked at him with a browridge raised under her visor. "Why didn't you tell us you have this? Yunna could've use this a lot faster."
"Because Yunna doesn't know how to drive yet." Foxtrot explains briefly.
"Ohoho, burn." Dark Twilight grins in amusement.
Yunna could feel herself blushing a bit, it's true, she doesn't know how to drive yet. Heck, she still doesn't know how to activate her jet mode yet. Ravage rubbed the back his neck, feeling embarrassed, he forgot that Yunna was once a human and still learning to get use of her body and learning Cybertronian.
"S-Sorry, Yunna." Ravage apologizes, feeling his faceplate blushing a bit.
Yunna made a nervous chuckle, but nodded. "I-It's okay, Ravage-san." She said quietly.
Foxtrot turns back to the controls and said. "Get in, we have to figure out what Terror is sensing. And put the crate on the back."
Yunna, Ravage, and Skyhowl nodded as they work together and put the crate on the back. They got on the vehicle, Yunna sitting beside Foxtrot and Ravage and Skyhowl sitting on the back. Daisy decided to follow them while they follow Terror.
"Terror, lead the way." Foxtrot commanded.
Obeying the order, Terror runs off to the source. Foxtrot drives the vehicle after Terror with Daisy following them. They pass some falling debris and parts, Terror and Daisy run through the debris with ease. Terror leads them to an area, far from the destroyed city, to a wasteland of rust. Yunna looks at the scenery in sadness, she heard from Foxtrot that Cybertron was once a beautiful planet, filled with life and technologies, but now. It's an empty and dead planet. Yunna turns away and looks at her servos. She is now one of them and their home is her home now too. Their trip didn't take long as they reach to a wasteland filled with what appears to be bones, but not just any bones, predacon bones.
"Huh, here again." Dark mutters out.
Yunna looks at Dark in confusion. "What do you mean?" She asked.
"Kiddo and her friends came here before to free the predacons. I guess there must be others."
"Others?" Yunna asked, wondering what she means.
"Other predacons." Dark added, looking at the distance.
Terror stopped on a particular spot where he was looking at a big metallic rocks, covering something. Foxtrot stops the vehicle and they all go off it. Terror was removing some rubble, trying to get something. They walked over to him and then felt a cold air coming through the small hole that Terror made when he removed some rubble.
"There's something in there." Yunna said.
"Yeah, something alive." Dark added before stepping forward. "Step aside, people. This is gonna be chaotic." Dark cracked her knuckles together.
Hearing this, the group backed away from Dark Twilight, knowing her power of dark magic is dangerous. Dark raised a fist before punching it on the ground. The rubbles exploded from their spot, sent flying on different direction. Yunna shielded herself along with Ravage and Skyhowl. Foxtrot stayed unfazed on Dark's ability. Once all the rubbles are gone, they saw was a really, really big hole. They carefully walked towards the hole and saw it was really deep and dark. Yunna could feel herself shaking as she looked at the hole. This reminds her of the dark void that she was trapped for a long time. Yunna snapped out from her thought when Dark said something that made her froze in fear.
"Alright, Yunna, get in there."
Yunna gave Dark a frighten look, she was afraid that Dark was going to say that. "Nani? Why me?" She asked fearfully.
"You can fly, you don't attack people to easily, and your the right candidate, so jump in. Dark ordered.
Yunna gave a worried look as she glanced at the hole with a gulp. She starting have fear in dark places and emptiness. She then felt a gentle servo on her shoulder. Yunna turns around and saw Foxtrot looking at her. "You can do this, Yunna, just comlink me if you need help."
Foxtrot taught Yunna how to use her comlink, that way she can communicate with them without any problems. Yunna gave Foxtrot a small smile before turning to the hole and lets out a deep breathe and sighs. She slowly made to the edge. She closed her optics and dives in the hole. As Yunna falls, she activates her wings and helps her he fly. Yunna opens her optics and looks through the darkness. She was lucky that her otics have night vision senses, otherwise, she will end up bumping into something. Yunna continues flying down, it felt like an endless hole. Luckily, she reach to the, she landed on the cold floor of the hole, she deactivated her wings, and looks around. Yunna activates her comlink and contacted Foxtrot.
"Foxtrot-san, I reach my destination." Yunna said.
"Understood, Yunna, what do you see there?"
"Hang on, let me check." Yunna said before doing hand signs before opening her servos together to create a ball of light. The light hovers up and shines to reveal what appears to be…
"Predacons." Yunna whispers in shock.
Within the hole were predacon survivors. Yunna saw many different types of predacons, Sea Serpent, Morgawr (relatively Loch Ness Monster), Kraken, Basilisks, Cetus (Octopus-face and a body of the serpent), Imoogi (giant cobra-like dragons), Bronso Dragon, Afanc (Head of a beaver and body of a crocodile), Bunyip (a giant large fanged otter-like creature), Makara (a giant predatory chameleon), Taniwha (a sea reptile), Cadborosaurus (two four legged sea reptile) Lusca (Body of a octopus and head of a shark), Thunderbirds, and more. Yunna was shock to see this, when she moved back, her back hits something. Sloly, Yunna turns around and gasps in shock. Right in front of her was a huge Hydra Predacon. He was really, I mean, really big hydra. But the strange part is that they are all frozen.
"Foxtrot-san, Dark was right, there are surviving predacons down here." Yunna said in shock. Yunna could of sworn she'd heard Dark saying 'I told you so' in the background. Then a sigh of annoyance came from Foxtrot.
"Yunna, stay where you are, I'm going to contact the others." Foxtrot said.
"Hai." Yunna said softly, she was looking at the one of the Hydra predacon's head. The Hydra Predacon has five head, blue, green, black, red, and grey. Yunna looks closer to the Hyrda's black head, that was in the middle, and gently touches it. Suddenly, a jolt came from the Hydra's head, causing Yunna to yelp in shock and backs away. The Hyrda's body started to twitch and turn, soon after, the other predacons started to shake. Yunna heard ice cracking, meaning their breaking free.
"Yunna! What's going on!?" Yunna heard Foxtrot coming from her com. Yunna couldn't speak, her mind was filled with panicked as all the Predacons are breaking free.
"Yunna, what's ever is happening-GET OUT OF THERE! NOW!" Foxtrot ordered.
Yunna didn't need to told twice, she quickly activates her wings and took off in blinding speed. As Yunna escapes, the Hydra predacon broke fee from his ice prison and lets out a thunderous roar that shook the earth. Yunna could feel the walls around her shake, but it didn't stop her from going up. Yunna could hear the predacons bellow roaring, as if they were climbing out, causing Yunna picking up the pace. Yunna was relief when she saw a faint light. She quickly went up and got out of the hole, and her wings were deactivated by their own. Yunna rolls on the ground and skids to a halt. Ravage and Skyhowl went to side as she helps her up. Dark summons a big sword like blade and Foxtrot activates her blasters. The ground shook as something came out from the ground that shock everyone. It was the Hydra predacon, it got of the hole and made his way to the surface. The Hydra predacon lets out a mighty roar again, and it felt like it can shake the heavens. Everyone, minus Dark, covered their audios, they could feel them ringing from the sudden roar. As the Hydra stops, it looms down at them, its optics could pierce their sparks in an instance. Ravage protectively stands in front of Yunna and Skyhowl, growling at the Hydra predacon. Skyhowl, on the other hand, wasn't afraid, she looks at the Hydra predacon curiously before realizing something, her optics widen in shock and amazement, she knows this predacon!
"Hydrous?!" Skyhowl exclaims, causing the others to look at her.
"Skyhowl, you know this predacon?" Foxtrot asked.
"Yes! He's a good friend of Lady Saphira." Skyhowl explains in happiness before turning into her wolf form. She went over to Hydrous and started barking. Hydrous looks at her and tilts his head, curious on what's happening. The others watched as Skyhowl communicates with Hydrous.
"What are they talking about?" Yunna asked softly, watching as Skyhowl talks to Hydrous.
"I don't know, but in my theory, Skyhowl is probably telling him we're friends." Foxtrot answers back softly.
Dark, who was leaning on her sword, watches the conversation of the two predacons with a bored expression on her face. Dark lets out a groan of boredom as she turns towards Ravage. "Ravage, what's your girlfriend talking about to Big H?" She asked plainly.
Ravage looks at her in confusion. "Girlfriend?" He asked in confusion. Sure, Skyhowl is a girl and she is his friend, but he doesn't get why Dark called Skyhowl his girlfriend.
"Ravage-san?" Yunna asked.
Ravage turns to her. "Yes?"
"You do know what's a girlfriend, right?"
"Yes, it means that Skyhowl is a girl and is my friend."
Yunna felt really awkward, Ravage has no idea what's a girlfriend is. Dark was smirking the whole time while Foxtrot gave an annoyed look to Dark. Yunna lets out a soft sigh and looks at Ravage awkwardly. Ravage gave her a confused look.
"Um...Ravage-san, girlfriend is not what you think." Yunna explains.
"What do you mean?" Ravage asked questionably.
"Ravage-san, in Earth, girlfriend means...sparkmate." Yunna explains awkwardly.
Ravage felt his mind come to a halt. His processors were glitching in his head and his right optic was twitching. Girlfriend in Earth means...SPARKMATE!? Dark thinks that he and Skyhowl are-are Sparkmates!
"SHE IS NOT MY SPARKMATE!" Ravage shrieked out in embarrassment, his face was blushing blue like crazy.
His shriek cause Skyhowl and Hydrous to look at him. Ravage froze and quickly turns to them. The two predacons were giving him a strange look, wondering the sudden outburst. Ravage lets out a nervous and awkward chuckle and made a nervous grin before turning to Dark, who was smirking at him, a glare. She's a trickster of minds, Ravage knew, she's sees his embarrassment amusing. Skyhowl turns back to Hydrous and gave him the explanation about their new home and everyone who lived there. Hydrous looks at the others again. He notices Yunna was looking nervous while Ravage was still blushing, Foxtrot and Dark were the only ones who were unfazed and the cyber wolf and fox don't seem to be bothered. So, with his final decision, Hydrous gave a simple grunt and a nod, causing Skyhowl to wag her tail. She went back to the others and turned back to her bot form.
"He said that he wants to live at Isola Della Vita with his pack." Skyhowl explains with a smile on her face.
Foxtrot, Dark, Yunna, Ravage, and sparkeaters looked at her and then to Hydrous. They notice other predacons were behind him or riding him. Foxtrot gave stern look before placing a digit on her helm as she contact Diamond Silk.
"Diamond Silk, this Foxtrot, we're going to need a groundbridge." Foxtrot said before looking at Hydrous's large form and added. "A really big groundbridge."
Diamond Silk and the others were back on Isola Della Vita. Mercury landed near the beach of the island and they set up the groundbridge there. Foxtrot said that she needed a big groundbridge and their going to get one. But, they need more energy, and the only one who has enough energy was Val. They didn't want to use her, she's still young and they aren't sure if she could handle this. But Val was determined to help out. They made sure the energy levels are stable and Val was in a good distance from the machine.
Diamond Silk was typing the coordinates of Foxtrot's. Everyone was ready for the transports. The predacons were at the distance, watching the whole thing as they wonder what were they doing.
"Is everything ready?" Diamond Silk asked loudly.
"All systems go." Sage said, looking at the screen.
Diamond Silk looks at Val, who was standing on a platform where it was connected to the groundbridge. "Ready Val?"
"Ready!" Val made a thumbs up.
"Alright, let's do this!" Diamond Silk said before pulling lever.
The wires attached to the Groundbridge sparked as it made its way to the machine. Val's dragon markings appeared and gave the Groundbridge more juice. With that power, a golden/green portal appeared. The portal was big, but big enough. Val was given all she got, but it wasn't enough. Celestia saw Val struggling to give it all, and she knew that she needed help. Celestia quickly went to Val and jumps in the platform and shared her energy with her. Unknowingly, her crystal started to glow on her collar, and more energy came from the portal. It grew to be a massive until it was the same size of an island. Everyone was shocked and amazed to see that, but soon stopped when they saw something come through. It was a hovered vehicle with Foxtrot and the others. They were relief that are safe, but soon vanished when something came out next. A giant figure came through the bridge and everyone has their mouths/jaws hanging open. Right in front of them was a ginormous Hydra predacon. Rocco fainted at the sight before the hydra predacon came fully out from the groundbridge. Soon, other surviving predacons came through the bridge.
Once every predacons were out, Diamond Silk ordered Val and Celestia to stopped. And they did, the two little ones fell and panted in exhastion. Everyone looked at their new guests in shock and in amazement. Saphira, in her bot mode, couldn't help but smiled as she made her way to the Hydra predacon with a smile.
"Good to see you again, Hydrous."
"Wait! You know him?!" Gem asked Saphira in shock.
Saphira couldn't help but giggled and nodded, "Yes, he and his pack come to my territory to visit and rest." She answered calmly.
"Wow! You have a big ally." Quinn commented in awe.
Hydrous and his pack looked at the other Predacons with happiness in their optics, before noticing the strange and really small fleshlings. Hydrous notices a really small one with a little creature that resembles to a predacon sparkling. Hydrous lowered one of his heads, the red one, and sniffs at the two little ones. Val and Celestia opened their eyes and came face to face with a massive head. They let out squeak as they hugged each other in a fright. They look up and saw Hydrous's heads looking at them. They were shocked to see him up close. Hydrous was curious about those small beings before sniffing at them. He inhales their scent, almost sucking them in his nose, before looking them with croon.
Saphira smiles at the scene. "He took a liking on Valentina." She said.
"Yeah." Quinn said, looking at Hydrous. "We're going to need a bigger landscape for him."
Saphira lets out a chuckle as she looks back to Hydrous, the giant Predacon was looking at Val and Celestia curiously. She knows that he loves sparklings, he loves to play with them. Saphira turns into her beast mode and went over to Hydrous with a grunt. Hydrous looked at her and bowed his heads at her, showing great respect to the leader. Saphira lets out gentle roars and shrieks, telling him that he and his pack are welcome to stay. Hydrous agreed as well as his pack members. Saphira turns to her bot mode, and then looks at her subjects with a proud smile on her face.
"Everyone! Meet the new members of our home!"
All the predacons roared a cheer, Hydrous soon lets out a mighty roar that shook everything, the kids had to cover their ears by the sudden roar. As the cheer finished, the predacons greeted their new brethrens. Meanwhile, Aquarius in her beast mode was searching for someone in the crowd. Many predacons were greeting each other back, welcoming them to their island. Ying and Yang followed their sister in order to know who she was looking for. Then she saw a crocodile like predacon with a a big red horn on its snout. She smiled and went to him with a happy roar. The Predacon heard hear as he turn his head and was greeted by a hug from Aquarius.
Ying and Yang slithered over to them and tilts their heads. They recognize that mech, it was Poisonhorn. They heard stories of him coming over to their home and played with Aquarius when she was a sparkling. He doesn't have a crush on her (much to their relief). He was like an uncle figure to Aquarius. They notice three more predacons came two femmes and one mech. They were Savagespine, Hornfang, and Twoface. Savagespine is an aquatic predacon, while Hornfang and Twoface are land predacons. They live at Hydrous's pack and traveled around Cybertron. When the cataclysm came, Hydrous must've borrowed to the ground to shiled him and his pack members from the destruction of their home. Once the reunion was done, they teach the new predacons the art of transformation. It took them awhile, but they succeeded. Saphira suggested that they live at the east side of the island, there are many caves, sea stacks and a beautiful beach with underwater energons, and the pack loves it. From then on, Hydrous's pack lived a happy life with their new friends and home. The kids were going to tell their guardians about the Predacons and the three, plus Yunna, Cybertronian femmes first thing in the morning, if Damien wakes up early.
It was a great day for Isola Della Vita, but they didn't know there's an adventure on their way.
Megatron was suspicious about one of his Decepticons, Breakdown to be exact. Ever since he returned from the mission he was sent with Dreadwing, his optic was restored and he found an energon mind on the way. Yet, he's hiding something, and Megatron wants to know what. For some reason, Breakdown is keeping secrets, not telling them the truth about who saved him and restored his optic. Megatron wanted answers and he will get them. He ordered Knockout to bring Breakdown to the sick-bay to have a cortical psychic patch to see inside Breakdown's mind. Breakdown didn't know it because he was fast asleep in the berth. Megatron watches as Knockout prepared the psychic patch. Tarn and Soundwave were there as they watched Knockout do his work.
"Everything is ready, Lord Megatron." Knockout said.
"Excellent, prepare the psychic patch." Megatron ordered as he lies on the berth and Knockout hooks him up.
Megatron entered to stasis and was in Breakdown's mind. Tarn, Soundwave, and Knockout were watching him on the screen. The area where Megatron was is in a forest. They could hear explosion and blasters fired. Megatron and the others watched as Breakdown fights with Airachnid. Megatron watched carefully as Breakdown was about to finish her when he was trapped by her webs. Airachnid was about to end him when there was a twig snap. Megatron narrowed his eyes as Airachnid mockingly leaves Breakdown and went to the source. Then a black chain came out of nowhere and grabs Airachnid by the neck and tosses her way like nothing. Megatron became more suspicious as he notices something near bushes. Megatron and the others waited to see what's going to happened, but suddenly the bushes glitch, surprising Megatron and the others. The bushes glitched again and again before everything started to fall apart, the trees were sent on fire, the ground started to shake before cracks appeared, the sky went pitch black and everything else around was shattering like glass.
"Knockout! What's going on?!" Megatron ordered.
"I don't know! Something's preventing you from seeing what's happening!" Knockout explains in a fright.
Then a cold, dark, malicious laugh was heard from the screen, it sounded like a femme, but it was cold as ice. Knockout was scared while Tarn, Megatron, and Soundwave were unfazed but they were weary. Breakdown's mind turned black and there was nothing there but the evil laugh. Then big pair of dark blue eyes appeared from the darkness, followed by a toothy grin that has sharp teeths. Megatron raised his canon at it until the eyes turned on black fire and a blast of fire waves was shot at Megatron, bringing him back to reality along with Breakdown. Breakdown shot up from the berth followed by Megatron.
"What the-What's going on?!" Breakdown exclaims in shock.
"I don't know! Tell the scary laughing!" Knockout yells in fright.
Soon, the room's light started to blink along with the computers. The mechs looked around, feeling tense around the room. The laugh was now heard inside here and was messing with the machinery. Electric sparks came from the machines, Knockout yelps as he jumps away and was in the arms of Breakdown's. The sparks form into a circle before turning to a ball. The laughs was coming from the ball, followed by a cold and deadly femme voice.
"Hunt all you want, you'll never find us!"
With the said, the ball of sparks created a small electrical wave, sending the mechs flying to the wall. The power was almost shut off but was soon returned, the mechs slowly got on to their peds and looks around for the source. The room was silence, the laugh was gone, but the only thing was left behind was a scorch mark on the ground. Knockout was particularly hiding behind Breakdown as he looks at the scorch mark in fear.
"W-What the frag was that?" Knockout stuttered in fear.
Tarn went over the scorch mark and inspects it closer. "Whatever it was, it's preventing us from seeing what Breakdown saw." He said as he looks at Breakdown.
Breakdown's optics widen. Someone was preventing them from seeing him meeting Shorty. But, why? Was it Shorty was doing or Shorty's friends. She did told him that her friends were dealing with Airachnid and destroyed her, but how did they know where the ship was.
"I want to know how it was able to get into Breakdown's mind and hacking on the warship." Megatron said before looking at Soundwave. "Soundwave, search for any changes in the ship's database."
Soundwave nodded and left, leaving the other mechs to deal with the problem. Breakdown was looking at the scorch mark on the ground, whoever did this, must've been Shorty's friends.
"Breakdown." Breakdown looks at Megatron, he looked serious and a bit angry, and this scares Breakdown a bit. "I want you to tell me what really happened, now."
"Frag, I'm doom." Breakdown thought. He can't lie to Megatron now, he has no choice but to tell. "Sorry, Shorty, but orders are orders." He thought sadly, thinking he broke Shorty's promise. Breakdown took a breathe and ready to confess.
"What really happened was-****" Breakdown covered his mouth. He was going to explain what really happened, but strange beep sound escaped from his mouth. Breakdown looks up with wide optics. He couldn't explain to them on what happened, as if he was prevented to say anything about the incident.
"What the?" Breakdown mutters in shock.
Megatron, Knockout, and Tarn were shock to see and heard that. Breakdown tried to explain about the incident, but the same thing happened, he couldn't say anything as beeps escaped from his mouth.
"Huh, it appears that stranger made sure Breakdown couldn't speak about the incident." Knockout theorized, watching his partner as he tries to explain the incident, but prevented by the beeps.
Megatron couldn't help but to agree, Breakdown can't speak about the incident, and going back to the psychic patch wouldn't work considering what happened, there's only one way to find out, it was going back to the source.
"Tarn, go to the area where Breakdown fought with Airachnid." Megatron ordered. "See to it that you find any evidence on what you find."
"Yes, Lord Megatron." Tarn accepted before leaving.
"Knockout, figure out how to repair Breakdown's voice box." Megatron ordered as he and Knockout watch as Breakdown lets another beep, preventing him from explaining.
"On it." Knockout said as he went over to Breakdown to figure out what's wrong, leaving Megatron to go back to the controls to think. But, they didn't know that there was someone on top of the Nemesis. And it was none other than Dark Twilight herself. She was standing on the edge, her long black hair was blown through the wind as she looks at the night sky with an wicked grin on her face.
"Awe, it seems Meggy have some technical problems." Dark said to herself as she lets out a dark chuckle. "Too bad he can never find us." She added before jumping off the edge, disappearing from sight.
I thank you Mariah for the idea on this about the psychic patch. I'll post the next chapter soon.