Chapter 3: The Nemesis
Nightshade's sharp metal claws tapped against the metal flooring of the Nemesis. Izzy and Tentomon kept to her side as Vechicons walked past them. A few times she felt Izzy pressing his body right against her when the likes of Predaking stomped past. The Predacon was in a bad mood and it was best to stay out of his way until he cooled down. That was something that she was hoping was going to happen. Being trapped in a large Cybertronian battle cruiser with an angry Predacon didn't sound good to her. It would also be hell for the three organics that where on board the Nemesis.
She looked over to see Izzy and Tentomon were silent. Izzy's dark eyes which where normal looking around for questions and answers where dull. He hadn't even been able to say goodbye to his mum and dad. Seth had ordered them all on board the Nemesis as the Vechicons loaded it with supplies from Energon to food that was needed. She felt sorry for the young teenager, but she felt that this was for the best. It was better being on board the Nemesis than being trapped in some prison that no doubt would see him being tortured. She could have asked for any other members of the Avengers or the Guardians, but she knew that they could look after themselves. Well she knew that Edward and Julian could look after themselves the same for Captain Rogers and the others. Izzy was still a kid, even if he didn't always act like it.
"Silly question, Izzy but what is on your mind?" she asked. The silence was killing her. She was used to hearing people talking. The Vechicons were silent as she walked past them. Their red optics watching her and the human who walked beside her.
"I didn't get to say goodbye to my parents! I hope their okay!" he responded back to her. His laptop was in its bag strapped to his bag. He was at least glad that he got his laptop back. He didn't look up at Nightshade as they kept walking to the part of the Nemesis where the cabins where. He had followed her in silence as she gave him a tour of the ship that he was going to be spending some time on.
Nightshade stopped walking and looked towards Izzy. Izzy had also stopped and looked towards her. "Izzy I know this is difficult for you. And you are wondering why I was able to talk Seth in freeing you with us, but I have a plan! One that I will explain to everyone once I show you to your room!" she explained to Izzy.
"A plan? So you rolled over to Seth as a part of a plan? Don't you think he will suspect something is up?" Izzy asked her.
Nightshade looked out the viewport that they had stopped before. The dark vastness of space was going past the Nemesis as it quickly left Earth behind it. Under her paws she could feel the rumble of the ships engines. A feeling that she had not felt in a long time. The last time that she had been on a battle cruiser for a long time had been on the Ark when it was leaving Cybertron for good. She looked back at Izzy to see that he too was looking out of the window and at the stars that they were passing.
"There is a threat that he will suspect something is up. That is why we are not going to attack for some time. First we are going to regroup and find allies who can help us. I have an alliance with the New Dalek Government, hopefully they will help us. There is also the Silurians who had moved to Siluria millions of years ago. Thor will rally the Asgardians to battle. Which will be easy, Asgardians are warriors and they love a good fight!" Nightshade explained to Izzy.
They started to walk again. The clicking of Nightshade's claws against the metal the only sound between them as they walked on. Izzy was able to keep up with Nightshade. She was not as large as the Cybertronians onboard, and she was taken small steps that allowed him to keep up with her. He watched as a group of Vechicon walked past them. The Decepticon foot soldiers didn't say anything as they walked past them.
"What about the Decepticons all around us?" Izzy asked her. He looked up to her to see what her reaction was going to be.
"It's a large army, no doubt! But not enough to go against Seth! You have to remember that he has his army and now he has all the armies of the Earth on his side!" she responded back to him.
Izzy nodded his head. It did make sense. He had not fought in a war. Nightshade and Galvatron had along with Thor. Those three were the experts in this matter and he was just going to have to follow what they were doing.
"And here we are!" Nightshade spoke up. She had stopped in front of a large metal door. All of the ship was made out of dark metal and all the doors looked alike. Nightshade had grew up on Cybertron and then spend time onboard another Cybertronian. She was use to navigating around metal cities and metal ships. She also had time to get used to the Nemesis before.
Izzy looked at the door that they had stopped in front of. It sensed that they where in front of it and opened upwards. The cabin had been changed to suit an organic lifeform rather than the Cybertronians that maned the ship. The room was large, it was about the same size of his apartment back in Japan. There was a large bed against the wall and a table with a lamp on it.
Izzy walked into the room and Nightshade followed after him. He could hear the clicking of her metal claws as she walked behind him. There was another room that he suspected that it was a bathroom. That he was glad for. He didn't want to share a washroom with robot warriors. There was a large viewport that gave him a good view of space. He saw stars racing past them as they got further away from the Earth.
He looked behind him to see Nightshade watching him. Her red optics were glowing brighter in the dim lit rooms of the Nemesis. "There's a change of clothes in the cupboard for you. Also there is plenty of cleaning supplies to keep you clean!" Nightshade told him. "My room is next door and Galvatron's is the room next to mine should you need us!" she said.
"Thanks Nightshade!" he said to her.
"I will be on the bridge!" Nightshade told him. She turned around and walked out of the room. The door slid close just as her tail left the room.
Nightshade walked in silence from the cabins back to the bridge. She past many more Vechicons in her way there. They all stopped their conversations when she got closer. She didn't know the true extend to the reason for that. Was it because she surrendered to Seth without a fight, and without telling them all the reason for doing it? Was it because she had and will always be on the Autobot side? Or was this something that they done to all commanding officer as they walked past in the Decepticon ranks? Only time would tell why they stopped their conversations when she got closer.
It didn't take her long to get to the bridge. In the bridge there was Galvatron and the ever present Soundwave who stood at his side. There was also Dreadwing and Shockwave. Thor was also present. The Asgardian looked not too happy on being on board the Nemesis with former enemies.
Nightshade walked into the bridge and all optics turned to her. She didn't hesitate in walking towards them all. Her metal claws clicking on the ground as she walked up to them all. Her tail swung side to side in time with the steps that she was taken as she walked towards them.
"Thank you for all coming! Not like we have a choice in this moment in time!" she said to them all. Scanning the room she saw more Vechicons working away at the controls of the Nemesis and other stations. She would have to ask Galvatron how many troopers onboard.
"Yes Nightshade, please explain to us why you just gave up? Especially after everything that we have been through?" Thor asked. He crossed his arms across his chest and looked towards her, in hopes that she was going to explain what was going on.
Galvatron looked from Thor back to Nightshade. "How's Izzy? Has he settled in?" he asked her. He had watched as the demons had set that cabin up for the teenage human and his Digimon. It had been loaded up with everything that he needed for long voyages onboard the ship. That still didn't help the idea of him being on board. There was always the chance that he was going to be stepped on by mistake. He may have just been a couple of feet shorter than Nightshade, but unlike her he wasn't made out of metal and didn't have sharp teeth nor claws.
"He's settled in. He's still processing everything that has happened in the last couple of hours!" came Nightshade's response. "I don't know if he will be joining us or not! So I will just explain what we are going to do!" she continued to say.
"Do explain yourself, Nightshade! The actions that you have taken so far have been illogical!" Shockwave said to her.
Looking at the one optic Mech Nightshade couldn't help but growl. Quickly she stopped the growling and calmed herself. "As you know we got a series defeat at the hands of Seth! We thought that the combined forces of the Avengers and Guardians where enough to take care of him. The series of events after Egypt. After the Serpent Sisters defeated us in the desert to running about in the City of the Dead should have been a wakeup call. Then there was Ahmanet who managed to not only bring down the Moonray but corrupt Stark into being her own personal lapdog! Following those there was the conveys that took the Book of the Dead down to the Tower of London. We had made mistakes and those mistakes have only seen the death of many men and women! But what we can do now is learn from our mistakes!" she said to them all.
"What have you been thinking, Nightshade? I know that look you're planning something!" Galvatron said to her. He pointed a clawed finger towards her and a smirk had come across his faceplate.
"I am so glad that you asked. All the other Avengers and Guardians have been captured. The same for any other hero on the planet who might prove a problem to Seth and his rule!" Nightshade responded back to them all. Her bright red optics looked at all of them gathered in this meeting. There was no spies who would report back to Seth. All the Mechs and Femmes who where around them where loyal to either Galvatron or Optimus Prime. She made sure that the Vechicons where still working in their stations, which they were before she looked back to them. "The plan is to let Seth think that he has won when we are really biding our time to strike!" she responded back to them.
Once again she was looking at all of them. Her red optics glowing in the dim lighting of the Nemesis's bridge. She didn't make any other move as she waited for them to take in her words that she had used said so far. Seeing that they were not for saying anything else she continued, "With Seth thinking that he has won, he is going to let his guard down. Since he thinks that there is no one who will challenge him. He also knows that we currently do not have the man power to take on his forces at the moment!"
"So you played Seth? You agreed to his terms and also made some terms of your own to throw him off!" Galvatron stated to her. He had always felt that she had a plan underneath what was happening. The surrendering to Seth. He thought that she was up to something when he heard that she had a secret meeting with him before the big show that he had the next day. He knew it wasn't to save her own life. Nightshade was not like that. She was very much like Optimus. She would stand in front of her men and take the bullets for them. So he knew that her surrendering was not for her benefit. He had been considering if she had made a plan with Edward and Julian and needed to get out of the way to allow them to carry out their plans. But Seth had no doubt locked them in prisons that was best suited for a Ghoul and for a Shadow Man.
Nightshade looked back towards him. There was a smug glint in her optic as she looked at him. "Seth will no doubt that we will wait for some time before we strike back. That we will be doing. But what we need to do is find help in doing so!" she explained to them.
"But wont Seth be expecting that?" Dreadwing asked her. He had raised an optic ridge as he looked towards her in question. The commander of the Seekers had also faced a defeat. His Seekers being turned on by Starscream under Megatron's command when he had joined Seth. It didn't matter that the Autobot and Decepticon shared enemy, Unicron was sided with Seth. Seth had promised Megatron the power needed to restore life to their Cybertron.
"Not unless we come in with a big enough force. It will knock Seth's defences to the side!" Shockwave stated towards them. He had caught up with what Nightshade was planning.
"Yeah, that sounds so good!" spoke up Knockout. He stood as a part of the meeting with his arms crossed over his chassis. His red optics showed how bored he was in being a part of the meeting. "But where are we going to find an army bigger than the Decepticons? In case you have forgotten Seth know has control over all of the humans armies from around the world. There is also his army of followers being expanded with those things. And there is also this dimensions Megatron's forces!" he said to them.
"I shall gather the armies of Asgard to our cause!" Thor boomed up suddenly. "The Warriors of Asgard are always looking for a fight and they will have a good fight against another being who claims to be a god!"
Nightshade sighed in relief. She was glad for Thor and his sense of honour on the battle. He had gotten better since he had meet Jane Foster. She could only sense that he was graving battle to make sure that she was safe. Also because Thor was a sore looser and didn't like to lose a fight. That was clear with all the competitions that he had set up between him, Hulk and Edward. Sometimes their competitions worried her. She was afraid that someone (not them) was going to get hurt. So him having the chance to come to the rescue of both of them was something that he was not going to give up on.
"Thank you Thor!" she said to him. She bowed her head towards him before she looked towards the others gathered in the bridge of the Nemesis. It had taken some time for her to get adjusted to the dim lights of the Nemesis. She was used to working at night in a dense forest hunting whatever was stalking the night. Then there was also a few missions that she had taken in the dead of space. But none the Moonray and all her bases back on Earth where all bright. It made it hard for something to sneak up on her.
"I have allies all throughout the galaxy who can also help us. There is also a few other Autobots scattered about the galaxy that we can find. Hopefully I can talk them into helping us!" she said to everyone.
"What about the boy?" Galvatron asked her. He was all series. He was thinking of all the things that could go wrong on board a spaceship. They could be attacked and forced to fight back. The boy didn't have armour to protect him and he wasn't sure how well he would do with having to face against the likes of Daleks and Cybermen from what Nightshade has explained of them to him. They could possible land on a dangerous planet for humans.
Nightshade looked at the ground and at her clawed paws before she looked towards Thor. "I was hoping that he could go with you, Thor?" she asked him. She like Galvatron was worried about what they could come across in the galaxy. She knew what was out there. She knew that there was a danger with dealing with the likes of the Daleks and the Cybermen. The Daleks wanted to kill everything that was not Dalek, but sometimes she could word it the right way to get what she wanted from them. Then there was the Cybermen who wanted to upgrade all humans into their kind. That was something that she didn't want to report back to his parents when they took the Earth back from Seth. There was also the Chitauri and their unknown master who had given them to Loki.
Thor looked at her and nodded his head. "I will train, young Izzy to handle a sword!" he declared.
"Only self-defence. I don't want him to run out into the battlefield without Tentomon watching his back!" she ordered Thor.
"Of course, friend Nightshade!" Thor said to her.
Galvatron turned towards Soundwave. "Soundwave, open a Space Bridge to Asgard!" he ordered the faceless Mech. The Mech that he knew he would always have at his side. Since he had been a gladiator to a warlord to being a member of the Avengers, Soundwave was also at his side. Once again, Soundwave was at his side. The same was said for Shockwave, but the one optic Mech was already walking out of the bridge. He had projects that he wanted to complete. He was also looking to see about creating more Predacons, even though there was a good many of them already aboard.
Soundwave nodded his helm at what Galvatron had ordered him. He walked towards a terminal and with his long slender fingers he put in the known coordinates of the known location for Asgard.
A green vortex opened up before the large Cybertronian warship. The warship silently glided into the vortex. The green vortex snapped shut behind it.