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Chapter three New weapons
Iron Blade was preparing to leave when Skyshadow, Sunstreaker, and Sideswipe entered the room he was in.
"You're heading back already?" asked Sideswipe.
"Yep, I got to go back to Lumen to find the Matrix of Leadership," replied Iron Blade as he finished filling the last crate.
"Here, why don't we give you a hand with those," said Sunstreaker as he picked up one of the crates, Skyshadow and Sideswipe following his action.
"Thanks," the Knight of Cybertron smiled as he picked up the last crate and led the others to the small ship he was going to take back to Lumen.
After placing the crates inside the ship, Iron Blade stood in front of a few of the Autobots, who were there to see him off. "I hopefully won't be gone long."
"Be safe, Iron Blade," said Jazz.
"I will," replied the grey, black, and white half-seeker. Then he turned and entered the small ship, closing the door behind him.
Prowl, Jazz, Skyshadow, Sunstreaker, and Sideswipe watched as the ship left Cybertron and entered hyperspace.
/(Intro music is: Interlude by Alan Walker.)
As the terror twins and Skyshadow walked through Kaon, where the twins grew up, they heard lowered scurrying sounds.
"Do you mecha hear that?" Sideswipe asked.
"It's probably just retrorats," Sunstreaker assured.
"No, it's louder than that," said Skyshadow.
From some ruins a few pede steps away, a small Insecticon popped its helm up to see who was there.
Sideswipe pointed, "Hey, look there. It's a baby Insecticon."
The small Insecticon jumped over the ruins, and approached them cautiously.
"I think it might be hungry," said Sunstreaker as he crouched down. He grabbed a small piece of energon from subspace, and held it out to the creature.
The Insecticon slowly moved closer to the yellow frontliner.
All three mecha stood completely still as the Insecticon sniffed the energon and licked it once. Then it took it in it's denta and ran a few pede steps away to a safe distance.
Sunstreaker smiled. "We should probably let him be," he said as he placed a few more pieces of energon on the ground for the creature.
Then the three Autobots turned and continued looking around Kaon.
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In the brig, on the warship Megatronus used to own, Vortex was lying on a berth. Suddenly, he sat up and put his pedes on the floor. "Brunt!?" he shouted.
The big purple Cybercon replied from a few cells over, "What!"
"It's time to go!" said Vortex. A few astrokliks went by in silence, but then a loud banging and bending of metal bars made the grey, blue, red, and yellow helicopter smirk.
Brunt had bent the bars that made up his cell door, with his crablike claws.
Cog, who was on guard duty, stepped in front of the purple Cybercon's cell, and punched him in the helm, sending Brunt to the back wall.
The purple tank's back landed against the wall, but he almost immediately ran at the door. Busting the metal bars out of his way, Brunt slammed his shoulder into Cog's chest.
The big blue Cyberbot stumbled backwards and shot Brunt in the chest, but Brunt barely flinched.
Raising his right servo, Brunt shot a beam from his electric laser gun at Cog, hitting the big blue Cyberbot in the chest.
Cog yelled as he was electrocuted. In a few astrokliks, Cog dropped to the floor smoking, and his signal started flashing Whirr's gauntlet.
"Cog's been knocked out!" said Whirr as he ran with Sixgun to the brig.
Then Brunt turned and walked over to Vortex's cell, and used his crablike claws to grip and bend the bars.
Soon Vortex was free, and the two walked towards the door to the brig.
Vortex opened the door, and he and Brunt left the brig, closing the door behind them.
They found the quickest way out of the warship and used it to escape.
Meanwhile, Whirr and Sixgun entered the brig and observed the damage.
"Brunt and Vortex are the only two prisoners who escaped," said Sixgun when he finished checking the cells.
Aragon and Ironworks entered the brig and picked up Cog.
"Take him to the medbay," ordered Whirr.
The two Cyberbots carried their brother to the medbay, Whirr following behind them.
Sixgun went after Brunt and Vortex, determined to hunt them down.
"Where are we headed?" Brunt asked.
"To see Shockwave," the grey, red, blue, and yellow helicopter replied.
"Shockwave is here?" the big purple Cybercon asked.
"Yes, he was on the warship when it got here. He slipped away again while everyone else was busy fighting. We're going to find Shockwave and borrow his lab to start constructing a new Cybercon because we're sorely outnumbered."
/
Skyshadow, Sunstreaker, and Sideswipe stepped out of the ground bridge back into Iacon.
When the ground bridge closed and they started to walk away, they heard a scurrying sound.
All three turned and looked over their shoulders.
"It's the baby Insecticon!" said Sideswipe, "I guess he liked your energon, Sunny."
Sunstreaker crouched down, and called the creature, "Come on over here, pal."
The little Insecticon scurried over to Sunstreaker and rubbed on his servo, so the frontliner smiled and started to pet him.
"Wow, he likes you," Skyshadow smiled.
"I guess we got a new pet, Sunny. What are you going to name him?" Sideswipe asked as he crouched down to pet the small Insecticon.
"He looks like a Bob," said the yellow frontliner as he lifted the Insecticon off the ground. "Your name will be Bob."
"Interesting name," Skyshadow said.
"Hey, Bob," said the red frontliner as he scratched Bob's chin.
Then as the twins straightened, Sideswipe said, "Let's take him back to the ship to show everyone the new recruit."
/(Intermission music is: There and Back Again by Howard Shore.)
Vortex and Brunt reached the coordinates Shockwave gave them. They were inside a half destroyed building, in Polyhex, when they found a spot on the floor where it could be lifted up.
Brunt hooked his claws into the crack, and lifted up the piece of the floor.
Vortex walked down the stairs, the big purple Cybercon followed him as he slowly let the piece of metal cover the hole in the floor.
When they reached the bottom of the stairs, they knocked on the door in front of them.
Shockwave opened it.
"Greetings," said the grey, red, blue, and yellow helicopter with a smirk.
"You needed a place to work?" asked Shockwave.
"Yes, I need a new Cybercon. Brunt is sorely outnumbered."
"You can work on that table over there," said the big purple scientist as he pointed across the lab.
"Okay, I'll get right to work," said Vortex with a smirk. As he walked over to the table he was to work at, he noticed what Shockwave was working on. "What's that you got there?"
"A virus," Shockwave replied as he walked over to the dark-pink coloured tube that sat on another table.
The shorter scientist frowned. "What's this virus for?"
The big purple scientist replied, "To wipe out the Autobots who were terrorized by Hun-Gurrr."
(Credit music is: White Galaxy by Really Slow Motion & Instrumental Core.)
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