Return of the Dark lords

by ImageViewer

At the beginning there was Primus and Unicron. One of the embodiment of Creation and Order, the other of Destruction and Chaos, these two beings fought for the fate galaxy and during this endless Skirmish Primus Created the 13 Primes to aid him fight against his own brother. But Unicron seeing the advantage of his twin decided to create champions of his own who embody his will.

4. Nightbird Oneshot

hello again everyone.

As promised here is that oneshot chapter I promised in the earlier chapter.

This fic focuses on a decepticon character from the G1 Universe that I have brought into the Prime universe because I felt that this Character was a bit over looked and undersold in the G1 world where she only mad one appearance, I felt that her character would've madea big improvement to the transformers franchise but she never made any other appearences in any form throughout any other series.

I saw that she had a lot of Potental as both a female in the Decepticon faction and a potential love sort've interest to Megatron who was upset at her sudden lose and possible death in the G1 series. for further elaboration please watch the G1 episode Nightbird as previous stated in the previous chapter so you understand what I am talking about and where i'm going with this.

thank you all for your patients and without further ado I give you...

Nightbird oneshot.

In the dark void of space, silently drifting outside the orbit of a lush planet was the Decepticon Warship The Nemesis which was the flag ship of the Decepticon Army and Their Leader's Personal vessel.

In it The Leader of the Decepticon's himself, Megatron Stood in the bridge of his vessel Starring deeply at the planet below, His devious Mind at work with Nefarious plans and idea's of how to rid himself of his accused Enemy The Autobot's but more importantly his nemesis Optimus Prime.

Despite being outnumbered by a thousand to five (Literally) The Autobot's almost always win in their skirmishes and battle's even when the advantage is always on the Decepticons side with advanced technology and Superior numbers against the five bots.

A great number of setbacks have been at them since they came to this planet.

Namely when he was on the verge of death and kept on life support while his cowardly and untrustworthy second in command ruled in his stead.

When said Untrustworthy second in command carrying all their vital secrets disappeared while on an mission with Airachnid.

And now these gurriar attacks on their energon mines, halting the supply of energon.

And all the while, they have not even come close to discovering their Base of operations while the Autobots seem to know where they are.

The Robotic Warmonger Sighed as he was beginning to become frustrated with the number of failures piling on them with no help from the so called elite Decepticons. Megatron was beginning to miss the time's when The Deceptions were victors in the War for Cybertron Due to his might and power but also the true champions of his will who executed his enemies at his very command, namely one in particular who struck paranoia and dread into the Autobot Ranks during the war.

Little did Megatron know, the balance of this war may yet shift to his side.

"Lord Megatron!?" called out a decepticon solider over the Intercom of the ship, prompting thewarlord out of his musing.

"What is it?" Megatron Growled out in his usual way.

"We've encountered the body of one of own here on the ship." Alarm bells rang in his head as his mind quickly conclude that an intruder was on the ship, Even soundwave, the silent eye's and ears of the decepticon's stopped in his work to look at his master for orders.

"Where?" Megatron asked, his mind beginning to remember the layout of the ship and workout where the intruder could've gone.

"Near the Hanger bay, he's not dead just… knocked out." Megatron rose an eyebrow at that new information, while autobots try to restrain themselves from snuffing out their sparks but they wouldn't do so while on an infiltration mission like when Arcee and bumblebee were here when Optimus fell ill to the Cybonic-plague.

"All Hands! This is Lord Megatron, we have an intruder on board. All decepticons are to be on high alert and all sectors on Lockdown until the Intruder is Captured Or dead!"

-somewhere on the ship-

Somewhere on the ship we see Breakdown with a patch over his right optic, the muscle of the decepticon cause was talking to a couple of decepticons in a large hall as they prepared to find the intruder on the ship. "Come on, you heard lord Megatron. Let's hunt this intruder down!" he gave out the command and ran in one direction of the hall followed by the others.

Unaware that latch above in the shadows, they were watched by a pair of yellow optics.

-back on the bridge.-

Back on the bridge Megatron once more looked out on the screen of his command deck, The news of an unwanted element on board brought forth a thrill in the decepticon leader who relished in battle and outwitting his opponents.

His loyal Follower Soundwave was at work locating the intruder on his ship.

Minutes past and yet no word came through on sightings or whispers about their stowaway on board which put the warmonger on edge because not even his accomplishing spy master said… did anything to alert of the unwanted presence.

But the two bots in the room did not notice a pair of yellow glowing eye's starring at them from the shadows of the room, from the ceiling a figure dropped down silently on the ground in a crouch before the locked door behind them.

It was smaller then the two decepticons with a thinner and curvier frame but could not be seen easily in the darkness of the command bridge.

It silently approached behind Megatron, passing by the unaware Soundwave until it stopped behind the warmonger, and Before Megatron knew it, a weight latched onto his back before blade was pressed against his throat.

Soundwave heard the movement and turned to see his master at the mercy of the unknown assassin on his back, The silent con moved to aid his master when the blade pressed against Megatron's throat and the glowing yellow eye's bared down at him.

Clinching his digits into a fist in frustration at his inability to save his lord from the assassin's clutches and could watch as Megatron was at this bot's mercy.

"Go on then Assassin. Kill me." He snarled out, preparing to disloudge and attack the being on him when the unexpected happened.

But to both bot's surprise, the blade lifted away from his throat and the assassin dropped off of him and kneeled before him. Megatron turned to face the being who had him dead to rights and was surprised to see who it was.

"Nightbird?" The new identified female bot, now in the light of bridge appeared to the two. She had grey and black armour on her thin curvy frame with purple highlights on her wrist and head frame, a battlemask covered the majority of her face where her yellow optics peered from the shadows casted over the exposed upper face.

Two twin Sai's were holstered on both sides of her thighs while a long katana was adorned on her back, her armour frame was extremely light and almost unprotected except in the vital area's like the chest for her spark.

This Decepticon was none-other than Nightbird, Megatron's personal Master Assassin.

Megatron couldn't help but grin as he felt that the universe had handed him the advantaged he needed right now "Welcome Nightbird."

-one high alert lift later-

The entire ship was no longer on alert and most of the crew including the commanding officers Knockout, Breakdown and Airachnid were present on the ship where they bared witness to the newest addition to their ranks.

"Can someone tell me who that is?" Airachnid asked as she was unfamiliar with the infamous female decepticon besides herself who stood right before the large warlord.

"You mean you don't know?" Breakdown inquired as the female being talked to by their lord was more then just well known.

"That's Nightbird. Megatron's Top master Assassin." Knockout Introduced the Ninja looking con to the spider con who had heard the rumours but never once saw the legendary assassin in person or otherwise.

"and much more if you believe in the rumours." Breakdown whispered, shocking the spidercon who didn't or couldn't believe that their lord and master had the time or even the ability to feel compassion for another.

"Careful Breakdown. The last bot to even talk loudly about that subject was turned into scrap." Knockout warned his friend/ partner about what happens when people whisper things about Megatron and his assassin.

With Megatron, he was filling the silent assassin in on what's been happening since they came to this planet "And that is why we are here. As long as Optimus remains alive, the Autobots forever remains a threat to our plans and mission here." Despite not saying anything, Nightbird continued to look up to him with an unflinching and unblinking gaze.

"But now that you are here. I believe the tide of this war will change once again in our favour." Nightbirds narrowed her optics in a sign that she was focusing entirely to what he has to say "Listen carefully Nightbird, I am assigning you the task of hunting down and locating the autobot's base of operations. And if possible, eliminate Optimus Prime."

-a couple of days later in Jasper Navada-

Somewhere in the vast open road and desert of the navada desert we see a young boy riding a blue motorcycle skilfully down a long stretch of road surrounded by mountains of rocks all around them.

However do not be fooled by the appearance as the young boy in the helmet was Jack Derby, a 16 year old boy who enjoys the simple things in life for a teenage boy.

Going to school, meeting up with his friends and helping a robotic alien race in a war for the salvation of his planet.

Yep this was typical life of Jack who was a passenger to the actural driver of his ride who was acturally the motor cycle herself.

Arcee, the two wheeler transformer and robotic partner to the young man.

As the two rode through the navada desert, the both of them couldn't help but shake an unnerving feeling that was boring into them, It wasn't until Jack glanced in one of the mirrors protruding besided his vehicular friend that he stopped paying attention to the world.

"huh?" he sounded out, seeing dark figure standing atop one of the mountains overlooking the road behind them, it appeared to be slender but he couldn't make out the details because of the blinding light of the sun obscuring their form.

"What's wrong!?" Arcee asked, wondering why he made that sound.

Jack was brought out of world by the voice of his partner, he turned his gaze from the mirror to the head of the motorcycle "I… I thought I saw something back there." He said.

Acree moved her side mirror to get a look at what jack was seeing "Hmmm…" she hummed as she saw nothing behind them or in the terrain around them "I'm gonna double back a couple of times to make sure we're not followed."

The both of them spent the majority of the time aimlessly going through roads and circling back, unable to shake the feeling of being watched but still saw nothing "I don't know what you saw Jack. but I don't think it's there anymore, must've been your imagination." She said, giving up the pointless run around when she was needed back at base.

Jack sighed, relaxing back as he started to believe what he saw to be a mirage "Still. I thought it was Airachnid or something from the appearance."

"Must have been a mirage." Despite saying that, Arcee couldn't help but feel that it wasn't as her war born instincts were screaming at her with an all too familiar feeling that she had experience before.

From a narrow crack in a cliff Jack saw the being stand on, a bolder shifted to reveal a cave were a pair of yellow brazing eye's watching the fleeing motorcycle.

-Nightfall Autobot base-

The autobots and their human friends were doing what they usual do when not battleing decepticons.

Jack and Raf were playing video games, Ratchet was monitoring the base's systems, Bumblebee was watching Jack and Raf play and Optimus went over to his two wheeler comrade who looked unnerved as she stood alone in the corner "Is everything alright Arcee?" the leader of the autobots asked his subondiate who looked uncomfortable since she got here.

"Yeah, just… Jack saw something earlier today and I just can't help but keep thinking that we were being watch." She explained, unable to shake the feeling of being followed, her war instincts were screaming throughout the whole journey here.

"Such a thing is normal, still just to be safe we'll increase security survailence around the base in the event of decpticon spy's or mech."

-outside.-

From the Outside in the cover of night, a lone tall figure moved silently in the darkness of the Nevada canyon towards the large spire of rock in the middle, The being stuck to the shadows and the rocks just as the lights around the towering formation came on and shined it's lights on the ground around it in a rotating cycle to cover their assigned area's.

The unknown assailant watched the movement cycle of the spotlights and camra's, taking into account their timely continuous rotations and timing their camera's before plotting their next move.

When the camera's and spotlights converged on the same spot the figure made's it move as they restarted their movements again by moving away. The shadowy figure ran faster then for a being of it's height as it evaded and dodge the circling lights before making it to the rock and hugging deeply against the wall under one of the camera's watchful gaze.

Looking up it peered at the edge of top of the mountain where the bright illuminating sphere of the moon rested over, it lifted it's leg placed it's foot against the rock were a current of electrical static emenated around it, making it cling against the ore's in the terrain.

It did this with the over foot until it was standing against the walls of the spire and carefully and slowly scaled up, passing by many camera's and the active lights as it ascended and climbed up onto the top where a closed silo doors were awaiting. It kneeled down onto the closed doors and transformed it's limb into a rotating buzzsaw and slowly cut into the thick metal's into a circular formation big enough for it's thin and smaller form.

It pried the cut metal open and crawled in.

-inside-

Inside the Autobot's base of operations a large bulky (Some would say fat) green robot wandered the halls with a tiny Asian girl with two tone hair styled in twin tail fashion, she was dressed like neon style punk girl.

"I'm telling you Bulk, this slumber party gonna be awesome!" the Girl yelled out with great enthusiasm as she held under her arm a sleeping pillow.

"I dunno Miko. I don't think Ratchet will like having you guys over for the entire week." The robot identified as Bulk replied to the tiny girl as he walked in a slow stride to match the tiny humans pace to keep up with his large form.

In Response Miko stuck her tongue out and blew a Raspberry at the name of grumpy old doctor "the worse he could do is send us asleep with some old lecture." Bulk couldn't help but laugh at her quip at the old cybertronian's boring lectures that even send him and few of his comrades into stasis.

However unknown to the two, clinging above the large group of pipes that run the base supplying it with energy and connecting the control centre to the rest of the base's equipment was Nightbird who stared down at the two passing underneath her with a narrowed gaze before slowly and silently crawling forward on the pipes towards the first thing on her mission to do here.

-Back with the autbots-

In the command centre, the entirety of team prime did their ususal thing until a mission came up.

Ratchet worked on the large console he upgraded from the primitive machine he and team prime were given by the humans who offered them alyssum on their world.

Bumblebee watched as Raf and Jack competed on the racing game.

Bulkhead and Miko were talking about rock and roll or what ever destructive thing on earth that the two agreed on.

Arcee was talking to optimus about the Decipticons and they're next plan of action against them when all of sudden the entire base blacked out, all electronic's and equipment running on the base's supply of energy switched off apart from the alive robots who were confused by the sudden break of power in their high technological facility.

"Ah come on!" Jack and Raf complained as all of the progress made on their game was lost instantly, though they were more concerned with that then being in the pitch black darkness that swallowed up the entire base with the only sources of light being the glowing optics of the autobots.

"Ratchet, what happened?" Optimus asked the robotic medic who transformed his appendage into a flash light and shined it towards the red and blue themed bot.

"…Hmm, must've been power surge in the main generator. The Auxiliary generator should kick in any moment now." He said though the power had yet to come one despite how long they waited.

"…"

"…."

"….i'm still not seeing anything happen." Miko complained.

"Scrap. That surge must've affected both generators, Bulkhead, Bumblebee, you come with me. We're gonna fix this." The old bot said.

"Hey! What are we suppose to do until then?" Jack asked after the flee old bot who was leaving the room with the wrecker and scout in toe.

"I don't know!? Do whatever you humans do while trapped in the dark." And with that, he left, leaving the three children alone with Optimus and Arcee.

In the darkness, one neon haired girl crept silent towards her two friends with an object In her hands "hey Raf, BLAGH!" she cried out with light shining under her distorted face from the flashlight as she was face to face with the young small boy who jumped back with terror.

"AAHHH!"

-with Ratchet-

With the old bot and his company they made it to the generator room that supply power to the entire base, naturally a human made generator couldn't maintain the power upkeep of the advance alien modified systems so the autobots reconstructed one of their ships old generators with human equipment.

While not as clean or standard in cybertronian technology, it did the job by supply energon that was more powerful then fuel or electricity throughout the entire base.

The medic looked at he large cylinder shaped generator before him, using the avalable light given to him by Bulkhead and Bumblebee, he inspected the device, seeing if any thing was out of the ordinary when he spotted something that should not be there "Hhmmm.." he hummed looking closer at the cable before reaching in and pulling out something that his fellows tried to see.

"beepbeepboop? (What is it Ratchet?)" the voiceless scout asked in techno beep sounds.

"This is no Normal circuit break, This generator… was sabotaged." He said , holding up the object that cut the circuits, the light from the flashlights bounce off the metal of what appeared to be a large saw blade disk.

-back with optimus-

With optimus and arcee, the two waited for the power to get back on all the while watching as Miko told a scared and terrified Jack Japanese horror stories before their personal coms came on "Ratchet to Optimus, we're at the generator but it's been sabotage."

Alarm bells rang through both their heads, Arcee got into alert mode and moved closer to the children while optimus stood guard by the ground bridge "Understood Ratchet, is the generator fixable?" he asked, training his audio resecptors (Ears) to listen out for anything besides Miko's laughter.

Ratchet sighed heavily through the comns "… barely, it'll be up and running within the next- *BANG, BOOM, CRUNCH!* Bulkhead, I needed that!...*Sighs heavily* Hour but I'd keep my optics and audio receptors open. We definitely have an intruder."

"Understood, stay safe old friend." He said before closing end of the communication and turned to the other blue pair of optics in the darkness "Arcee, move the humans into a safe location. We have an intruder on the base."

"understood sir." She said and began to usher the children towards the safety of the further wall on the platform they were on.

"Cool, can I come!?" Miko naturally asked and in response got a-

"NO!" from everyone in the room which bummed her out.

However unknown to two bots and the three humans, Nightbird was perched ontop of one of the support beams above them, her yellow eye's unwaveringly focusing on the large figure in the darkness.

Nightbird inched her hand towards the long blade sheathed on her back, and slowly unsheathed it as she prepared for the right time to strike the leader of the autobot's. however she was forced to act quickly when one of humans spotted her "Watch out!" Miko cried out as she spotted the pair of glowing yellow in the darkness above.

Optimus and arcee looked up just in time see the flash of yellow eye's dropped down with shine of sharp metal held above it, Optimus jump back and narrowly avoided being sliced in half but that didn't mean he avoided being harmed as a small scratch decorated his chest in a diagonal curve.

Nightbird Jumped back into the darkness as the room was alit with blue blaster fire that decorated the wall behind were nightbird was. Arcee held her twin blaster aims out, slowly moving towards her leader as she searches the darkness around her for any sign of the assassin "You alright Optimus?" she asked as she stood in front of him to protect him.

As he picked himself up he transformed his limbs into weapons, his left into a blaster while his right transformed into a blade, "I'm aright, remain on guard until the lights comeback on." He ordered as he took a defensive stance with her and awaited for any sight of the assassin.

Nightbird strucked once more from the side, quickly jumping behind the two wheeler and lowkicking her legs from under her, sending her to the ground before she knew it. She then slid in pass his guard and thrusted her sword towards his neck but Optimus sidestepped away and pushed the thrusted weapon into the wall that was once behind him.

With her sword embedded in the wall, Nightbird was forced to let go and quickly spun around striking Optimus in the face with her back hand before ducking under his wide swip and jabbing him in the abdomen twice causing him to kneel over then finishing off with strong uppercut that made his head snap backwards.

Nightbird using the opportunity now that optimus was stunned to try and dislodge her blade from the wall, just as her hand grasped the handle she suddenly spun along the wall to avoid being hit by a blaster shot from arcee who got back onto her feet.

Nightbird used her position to push off the wall with the sword in hand, she dropped to the floor in a roll, she then dashed into Arcee's space who transformed her blasters back into hands with her limb blades out. Arcee raised her limbs into a guard to block the long sword that clashed against them, Arcee disengaged one of her arms and went for a low cut under her guard but nightbird spun out of the way and around arcee who quickly jumped back at a safe distance.

Arcee transformed her right arm into a blaster again and shot at nightbird who disappeared oncemore into the darkness just about time as Optimus recovered and joined in.

The two bots were on guard, waiting and watching out for any sign of their attacker.

Then from out of the darkness large saw shaped disk's flew out, Optimus and Arcee were forced to dodge, the children took cover behind the elevator tube as the razor sharp disks flew and crashed against the wall and flooring.

They screamed and Optimus seeing their danger moved in the path of the large saw blade shurikens in front of the human children, he used his body to shield them, grunting in pain as the shurikens nipped and bit into his back.

Arcee heard Optimus's cries of pain and transformed her limbs back into blasters, and started to fire wildely in the darkness where the shurikens were coming from.

The light from the bolts illuminated small area's of the hanger where from time to time Arcee would see the figure of their assailant that would disappear with the next shot.

"Optimus, we've nearly got the generator back on!" Ratchet called out through the comns, the older bot could hear the sounds of blasters and fighting from his side of the base.

As Arcee continued to fire blindly in front of her, she was attacked from the side as a hand grasped blaster limb and she was thrown onto her back across the room.

"Arcee!?" Optimus called out before he raised his arms just In time as a fist clashed against him, followed by a strong kick into his solar plexus causing him to kneel over as another followed and stuck him across the face.

The sound of something unsheathing was heard in the darkness, Arcee hearing this quickly picked her self up and aimed her blasters once more in optimus's direction but hesitated as she didn't know where the assassin was and she didn't want to harm her leader who was.

But then the lights in the room flickered for moment giving arcee enough to see her leader struggling on his knees as the assassin was on his back holding a blade to his neck.

The two wheeler couldn't risk shooting in the event she hits Optimus, so she transformed her blasters back into limbs and charge straight to her leader's aid, she ran blindly in the darkness towards the glowing optics and charge straight in the body of what she guessed to be the assassin as he smaller frame crashed into something of equal stature and not larger.

She struggled blindly against the being in dark, tumbling and flailing around as wild kicks and punches were thrown between the two before Arcee was suddenly kicked off of the assassin and just in time for the lights to suddenly flood in the room, revealing all to the occupants and much to autobots who looked to their silent attacker that rolled to her feet.

"Nightbird…" Optimus whispered in fear which was rare to see in the calm and collect autobot leader.

Nightbird narrowed her eye's at the autobots, seeing her only advantage gone with Arcee aiming her blasters at the decepticon.

The Ninja themed bot slowly stood up, maintaining her silent glare at the two before she raised her arms in front of her face where a flash of blinding light exploded, blinding all who saw it for a few seconds until their sights returned to find their foe gone.

-after fight-

With their attacker gone, a battered and beaten Optimus dropped, exhaustion eating away at his will as he could no longer hold himself up right, he sat against the walls of their base, unable to give out orders so it was Arcee who was alerting the rest of their group what just happen.

As usual their human friends ran down to check on their autobot friends with Miko charging ahead from her two other friends with curiosity and excitement swallowing up concern "Woah! Who was that!?" Miko asked, excitement shown on her face as she saw both Arcee and Optimus get their butts handed to them by a Ninja looking Con which made pride swell up in the neon haired Japanese girl whose country was famous for having Ninja's in it's culture.

However her musing was quickly broken as optimus spoke "An enemy… that I had wished perished long ago." The beaten prime coughed out, his body was wreck with dents and scratches decorating his body with faint dark blemishes that looked like bruises on his face.

Soon the rest of team prime drove right in and transformed with Ratchet, their medic rushing towards optimus and checking him over "What happen?" he asked, scanning their leader and Arcee to make sure they were alright and nothing critical was wrong with them.

Thankfully nothing too serious was wrong with them other then the dents and scratches that he could see.

However all emotions that the three bots were feeling were replace with one universal feeling as Optimus said one name "Nightbird." Fear consumed the three as they stood ridged, frozen with terror and their optics widening as far as they can.

"The-the-the-the Assassin?!" Bulkhead stuttered, the large heavy duty wrecker was quivering like a frighten child which was surprising to see for the human, especially his human partner Miko who hadn't seen him like this since the Scraplet incident and even that couldn't compare to how terrified he is right now.

Naturally three out of the 5 occupants in the room didn't know who the famous bot was "Whose that?" Raf asked.

"The most dangerous con to ever live." Ratchet started, having seen first hand the deaths caused by the Decepticon Assassin during the war for Cybertron, some so accurate and clean in the area's they hit that there was far less mangled and dissembled forms then there should have been in the war.

"Autobot leaders and heroes were killed systematically without pause and without warning. Talks of an assassin under Megatrons control began to circumvent throughout Cybertron, A decepticon defector with information on the assassin was about to join us until he was attack by her. Before his death he gave a name. Nightbird."

"Woah!" Miko breathed out, the ninja con was sounding more awesome then she looked.

The only voice of sanity and reason amongst the three "and now she's here on Earth." Jack whispered in dread "She knows where we are, and will inform Megatron where our base is."

"She couldn't have gone far. She was likely tailing us from the begining on foot, which means she's still close by."

"Good thinking Jack. we can use the monitor the Nemisis's location and tridactory to identify where she's going to be." Ratchet praised the boy before he moved over to their large computer and began to unwavingly watch the decpticon war ship for any changes in it's current state.

-Meanwhile On board the nemesis-

On board the decepticon warship, Megatron was awaiting the signal from Nightbird of the changes in her mission.

The robotic warlord awaiting eagerly with great anticipation of the positive outcome of her success, he had faith in her abilities that will grant him the victory he ever so wanted with the death of Optimus Prime.

Such thoughts were exciting to believe.

Finally his musing was immediately halted as one of the Decticon workers spoke out "Lord Megatron. We are receiving a signal from Nightbird." The engineer stated as his screen was showing a small picture of the Decepticon Assassin that was pinging.

A vicious smug grin spread across his face as news of Nightbird's success will soon reach him.

"Change course to Rendezvous with Nightbird." Megatron ordered.

-Back Autobots-

"Optimus. The Decepticon ship has changed course, it's heading to Jasper Navada's great canyon." Ratchet informed Optimus who had regained some of his strength after skirmishing with Nightbird.

"Then we have no time to Waste. Autobots, Transform and roll out!" he gave his signature warcry as he and his team transformed into their vehicular modes and drove off from out of the base.

-A few miles later-

In the dead night, standing atop a large rock formation in the vast and isolated canyon, far from the prying eye's of civilization and towns was the Decepticon assassin Nightbird who although was unable to fulfil her secondary objective of annihilating Optimus prime she will however complete her main purpose of locating the autobot base for her leader.

She had already sent the signal and was now awaiting for the Nemisis to come.

And as she waited with her optics locked onto the stair lit sky, her Audio Receptors were trained and ready to hear anything around her.

After some time she heard the crumbling of rocks fall from a cliff behind her, her optics narrowed but she did not turn to see the cause, silently a couple of shurikens slid in-between her digets before she spun around and threw them at the Autobots who ducked and dodge the spinning blades before surrounding her with their blasters armed and ready.

But from their encircling formation, Optimus stepped out in hopes of ending this without shedding further energon "Nightbird. I don't want to harm you unless I must but hasn't enough energon been spilled already in this foolish war." Optimus tried to reason with the silent con who looked on as the red and blue bot continued in his speech "our home is gone Nightbird, destoryed by the ravages of war and now we once more fight on different planet Home to a race who does not deserve to be bought into our conflict. I beseech you Nightbird, turn away from Megatron's cause and help me fight for a better future for our race?"

Silence was all Optimus got as the silent assassin continued to look at him with an unwavering glare that unnerved the members of team prime who looked at eachother as the long overdue silence was all that they got from her.

Not knowing if she was refusing or still deciding her choice-

But they soon got their answer as she reached for the Katana on her back, drawing the blade slowly from it's sheath as to not prevoke any sudden response from her foe's before holding it before her with the sharp end pointing right at the large bot.

Optimus look saddened by her choice but couldn't help but admire her fierce loyalty to Megatron "I see…. Then I'm sorry for this Nightbird but we cannot allow you to bring the information of our base to Megatron."

The Humming of blasters rang in the air as the Autobots prepared for a vicious battle ahead.

-Nemisis-

"Lord megatron. Several autobot signitures are surrounding Nightbird." The same technician as before alerted the robotic warlord his assassin's situation.

Concern and panic graced his features for a nanosecond before it was replaced with that vicious snarl "Engines to full Throttle! And prepare for combat!" Megatron commanded, as he readied himself for the battle ahead.

-back with Nightbird-

Back with the Autobots, group of robotic defenders were having a hard time against their single opponent who was beating them and that was putting it mildly.

The group of specialists were finding it difficult to take down the assassin who moved and dodged their attacks no matter how coordinated it was, effectively.

Yet she would always direct her attention back to the big bot in red who saw how she came at him with the intent to kill rather then his companions, so being the heroic bot that he was he didn't hide behind the safety of his loyal soldiers but instead met the assassin with his own weapons.

His sword limbs clashed with her Katana but Optimus was unused to the unorthodox fighting style of switching from the sword to hand to hand combat. In a way it was similar to arcee's style of fighting but more advanced as Optimus doubled over from the kick to his stomach then a round house to his face that sent him to the ground before she leaped away as bumblebee and Bulkhead came charging in.

From her armoured thigh a piece of it opened up to reveal it loaded with more saw blade designed shrunkens that she took into her hands and started to throw it at the two who tried their best to dodge it.

"Beepbepbeep boop!" Bumblebee cried out as he and Bulkhead took cover behind some large bolders that was big to cover hide their forms.

"I agree with you Bee. She'll pick us all off unless we do something about it." Bulkhead agree as he stood on behind another boulder opposite the one his friend was using as a volley of Shurikens continued to sail by.

It only stopped as nightbird sighted Arcee charging at her in her Vehicle form before transforming at the last second in a flying kick, Nightbird leaned to the side letting the two wheeler sail past her but grabbed her by the leg before swinging and throwing her away.

Seeing the opportunity before them, Bumblebee and Bulkhead charged out of cover with their blasters firing rapidly at Nightbird.

The Ninja con having no cover to hide behind did the only thing she could….

She rushed towards the oncoming autobots, her nimble thin form gave her more mobility and speed then the two larger bots, she dodged and maneuverer around the basterbolts, closing the distanced between them before dropping to her ground in skid where she slid under Bumblebee's legs, kicking them at the same time causing the yellow themed race bot to drop face first into the ground.

She used the momentum to pick her self up right in the green wrecker's space who flinched backwards as her face was right before his.

He transformed his blaster cannon into his famous wrecking ball hand and swung wide at the female con who ducked under the sloppy right hook and fainted right, going around him to his back that she climbed on and stood on his shoulders where she quickly unsheathed her katana and posed it downwards towards his head.

But he was saved as a basterbolt from Optimus knocked the weapon right out of her hands followed by a seconded shot that knocked her off the green wrecker and a few feet away.

There she laid on the ground, motionless and lifeless as the Autobots were recovering to see the ninja con unmoving before them.

"is… is she?" Bulkhead asked, couldn't believe that the one con that they were having trouble with, was now suddenly off line.

He and the rest of them were of course excited and relieve that the most dangerous con besides megatron himself was now gone but… that was a certain twinge of disappointment that someone so dangerous as her was killed just like that.

Unknown the four they were being watched by three humans who watching since the beginning.

"Ah man! Talk about disappointing." Three guesses who on who said that as Miko the Neon Japanese girl had once again sneaked off and followed the autobots to fight.

And with her was of course Jack who was there to make sure she wasn't getting involved along with them and finally Raf who tagged along out of curiosity and concern for his friend getting into trouble.

Back with optimus and the gang, they slowly approached the corpse of Nightbird who had yet to move, the red and blue leader was more in front of his team before he stood over the body of the ninja con.

A mournful look of regret that he had to once again snuff out a life graced his face "I'm sorry it had to end this way Nightbird." He said with his guard down which is what Nightbird need as she suddenly reared her legs back and out in the air before using her hands to launch herself straight at the Prime.

"Woah! She was playing Robotic Possum!" Miko exclaimed as she began to watch round two of robotic rumble as Nightbird was once again taking on an exhausted and battered team prime.

The autobot's luck was about to take a turn for the worst as their comns blaired with the shout of Ratchet's voice "Optimus! The Decepticon Warship… it's directly above you!".

A large shadow swallowed up the land around them before all eye's including Nightbirds looked up to see the imposing body of the Nemisis hoving just above them.

From out of the large Ship, Decepticon seekers flew out in formations before nose diving directly down to them, transforming at the last second to land on their feet on a mountain overlooking the cornered area the Autobots and Nightbird were in.

From out of the line of the deceptions, walked out their leader Megatron who stood at the head of them looking down at optimus and his team with a vicious smirk on his face "Well well well Optimus. You appear far worse then when we last met." The decepticon leader quipped, seeing the deep scratches, cuts and dents in their exhausted forms.

"Megatron." Optimus growled out, glaring at the smug face of the warlord who was enjoying the defeated state of his hated enemies before him.

Seeing their current condiction, Megatron knew that this battle was in his favour, with that the gladiator looking con raised his cannon equipped hand with a finger pointed down at the autobots before roaring out "DECPTICONS-ATTACK!" he commanded before the entire decepticon forces with him charged down firing their blasters with the warlord following behind.

The autobots returned fire, red and blue danced throughout the canyon as the autobots put a fight against the large platoon of deceptions. Though exhausted and with pain racketing through their body it still didn't stop them from taking down a few Decpticons before the battle turned into a brawl.

The autobots were divided from each other as each was surround by legions of deceptions that cut them off from aiding their leader optimus who was fighting alone against both Megatron and Nightbird.

The ninja con leaped from a wall of rock and jump kicked the bot in face forcing him back followed by a punch that pushed him into the ground.

However known to all three parties a new being was watching from the shadows "Megatron." Growled the voice of Starscream.

The former second in command was reduced to being on the run from both sides after his mission with airachnid that had him tied up by the new second in command and captured by the autobots, after escaping from their custody he was now a fugitive on both sides, forced to scavenge for engergon in depleted mines like a lowly creature.

Naturally he blames all of his misfortune and predicament on the object of his hatred.

The leader of the decepticons himself who was standing over Optimus with his arm cannon primed and aimed at the pinned prime.

Starscream couldn't help but smirk as his devious mind saw the opportunity before him to kill megatron and assert himself truly as the leader of the Decepticons, with Megatron's back towards him he aimed his arm at him with his missle primed.

"All too easy." He spoke lowly before clinching his hand and firing the missile at Megatron who was unaware of the incoming threat until it was so close that he didn't have time to dodge it…

"BOOM!" the sound of an explosion caught the attention of everyone who stopped to see what had happened, all eye's looked to see Megatron still standing over optimus but flying away from them was the smoldering form of Nightbird who took the missile for leader.

"Nightbird No!" Megatron cried out, lowering his arm and forgetting about Optimus as he stared at the smoking form of his assassin who saved his life.

"Frag I missed!" cried out a irritatingly familiar voice that brought forth unbridled anger, all eye's looked to the source to see Starscream ranting from the cover of his spot "Blasted con getting in the way of my-… oh scrap." He whispered as dread began to pool within him as he realised he was exposed.

Inextinguishable rage and fury swelled up within megatron who stepped off of Optimus to glare hatefully at his former second in command "STARSCREAM!" he roared. The scrawny and cowardly former con scrambled backwards and did what he was best known for.

"SCRAP!" he cried out before transforming in to his Arial mode and flying off with decepticons chasing after him.

"DECEPTICONS! AFTER HIM, I WANT THAT TRAITOR'S STEEL HIDE!" Megatron cried out as he shot from the ground in pursuit of the fleeing traitor with all of his forces following after.

The autobots, now saved from the stupidity of starscream picked themselves up and regrouped with their human friends coming out from their hiding spots "You guys were awesome!" Miko Cried out as she came charging first surprising them all at their presence way out here.

"Miko! When did you-"

"don't ask." Jack sighed out as he went over to see how his robotic partner Arcee was with Raf doing the same.

Meanwhile Optimus walked over to the fallen form of Nightbird, he stood before he body with an undescribed look on his visored face but his eye's were filled with respect as they were with remorse. He knelt to her, placing a hand on her being "If only things were different. All of this death and for what purpose." he said to himself as each death was bringing them no closer to peace and no closer to reviving their dead homeworld.

As he looked down on the fem bot's still form he noticed the movement of her servos, his eye's went wide before he activated his comns "Ratchet! We're going to need a ground bridge."

-a few hours later in the autobot base-

Team prime was back at their base, getting patched up by Ratchet who had devoted the majority of his skills and time on their most critical patient who was laying on large medical table beside the platform were the human always stood or played.

Nightbird, currently unconscious was strapped to the table she was on, with tubes pumping energon and monitoring her status was hooked onto her being.

"your lucky none of this wounds are as fatel as they look." Ratchet said as he was working on their leader who was spotting more wounds then the rest of his team.

The prime was sitting against the wall like the majority of his fellow autobots as they being tended to by the old doctor who switched between them.

"I only know that if weren't for Starscream's intervention… then none of us would be here at his moment."

No one wanted to thanked the traitorous con for saving them, the mere thought brought forth bile in their beings at owing cowardly second in command their lives.

"Still though, you guys were awesome! Especially you bulk." Again our neon punk girl interjected, trying to change the atmosphere in the room "you were so metal taking on 20 con's single handedly!"

A chuckle broke out from the large green wrecker "you should've seen during my wrecking days. I could've taking all thirty of them single handedly."

"You alright?" Jack asked as he helped with keeping an eye on his partner's status.

"fine. Just a couple of cuts, nothing I can't handle." Arcee said as she sat near the isolation chamber.

"beepbeepbep boop beep." Bumblebee sounded out as Raf was helping ratchet with the technical part of healing the autobots.

"Raf, can you check on… the patient?" Ratchet asked as he moved to check on their scout.

"sure." The small and young computer genius said before moving up to the platform that separated the computers and elevator from the rest of the base, he moved to the small portable computer hooked into the equipment that was attached to Nightbird.

He looked at her status on the device "she doing okay." He said before looking up at her unresponsive form to see the damage done to her being. She less dents and scraps then team prime with the majory injury on her person being on her back where Starscreams missile hit.

"Still can't believe she took one for Megatron." He said, staring at her form before turning back to the autobots "Where did she come from and why show such loyalty to Megatron?" he asked which earned the attention of his fellow humans who looked to their robotic companions for answers.

"no one knows. There's so many stories revolving around her an Megatron that no one knows which is true." Arcee said, having heard all the rumours concerning the assassin con and the warlord.

"I heard from a few of my fellow doctors that she was another one of shockwaves twisted experments. A super soldier created to be ever loyal to megatron." Ratchet said, voicing his version of the rumours surrounding Nightbird.

"While that find that to be more possible given what just happen. I think she was once an autobot spy before turning to their side." Bulkhead said telling them the stories that the wreckers passed around.

"That doesn't explain her utter devotion to Megatron. Here's what I heard. She was a fellow gladiator in the pits of Kaon, she fought against and along side megatron during his days as a gladiator. Which became something more if you believe in those sort's of rumours which explains the way they acted when the other was threatened or hurt." Arcee said her own variation of the story behind the two.

"What ever the case may be, it is imperative that we keep our guest under close watch until we can expunge the information of our location from her memory." Optimus said but what everyone didn't know was that while they busy talking, a pair of yellow glowing optics were open and staring at them the moment their conversation began.

They were only brought out of musings by the screams of Raf "Aah ah ahhhhh!" the young boy with glasses let out as a large metal hand grasped him and pulled him up from the ground.

Immidately all members of team prime stood up and prepared to fight once more but halted as they saw Raf in the clutches of Nightbird who held the captive boy in their direction, no one moved to try and save him in fear of the assassin crushing him or worse.

Seeing their stance in this, Nightbird began to rip off the tubes and wires from her biging all the while keeping a tight grip on the small boy before climbing off the table. She stood just opposite of the autobots who glared at her silently, daring her to try anything but she matched them with her own silent glare before looking down at her self to see most of the wounds she sustained were all healed and patched up before turning her gazed to the small frightened child in her grasp then to them.

Slowly she knelt down to the ground with team prime readying themselves for the worst until they saw her let go of Raf who was now safetly on the ground looking in shock and weary of the tall fem bot before he was gently ushered towards the autobots.

All eye's watched as Raf hurried towards the autobots until he was safetly in their protection before they turned back to Nightbird who was stand back up.

They all tensed up as her hand reach up behind her, though her katana was not on her they didn't know what other weapons she was keeping hidden on her being until that hand went to the back of her head and pulled out a small rectangular drive before throwing it to them.

Bumbleblee scrambled to catch it until he finally held it, they all looked at it in confusion before looking back adding more to their bewilderment as they saw the silent Con bowing to them with her body bending forward from the waist before raising back up.

She then raised her arms once more before the entire room exploded in blinding light, blinding all in the room before their vision returned to see the Ninja con gone.

"…what just happen?" Jack asked, perplexed by the sudden change in her attitude.

"I think… she was thanking us for saving her." Raf commented before ratchet moved to bumblebee.

"Bumblebee, may I have a look at that?" the old bot asked as he held his hand out for the small drive looking object in the scouts metal palm.

The yellow race car themed scout handed the object to the robotic medic who took it and inserted it into the bases computer to see the information it had on, and when he did, he was further surprised to see what was on it "It's… our base. This drive contains everything on our base, entrances, escape routes, inventory and the location."

"But why give it to us." Raf asked to which the least likilest person in the room answered.

"don't you know anything about Ninja's?" Miko asked the small boy who along with jack stared confoundingly at the asian girl.

"Huh?" Jack sounded out.

"Our girl bot here is thankful for saving her life so in return she did the only thing she could do to repay us." She explained which was pretty rare for miko to suddenly be smartest person in the room, even the autobot were amazed that the always loud mouthed get into trouble girl was being helpful in a logical way instead of causing trouble like she usually does.

"By sacrificing her obtained knowledge of our whereabouts." Optimus filled in the rest, thankful that at least some shred of honour and integrity still existed in the darkest parts of the decepticon cause.

"But that still doesn't explain why you called her a ninja?"

"Because one, she looks like a ninja and acts like one. 2 ninjas follow a code of honour like our ninja bot just now."

"I thought Samurai were the honourable one's?"

Miko scoffed at that hundred year old profited lie "Pfffttt. Those posers only act honourable in public to keep their image, in reality they betrayed one and another if the opportunity arises. It's the ninja's who follow a strict code of honour."

"… your just screwing with us aren't you?"

"Nope. Don't believe everything you watch on tv, Samurai were hired mercenaries and enforcers who took what they wanted whenever they wanted."

"Great… everything I thought I knew and loved about samurai has been completely shaken." Jack sighed out, his whole idea and dreams of samurai was completely destroyed as the images of honourable warriors was replaced with cutthroats and bullies.

Raf then spoke up "so wait, if Nightbird gave up the information about us. Then what's going to happen when she returns to megatron?" he asked.

"We can only know for certain, that he will not be pleased." Optimus already knew the penalty for failure in the decepticon ranks, and when one fails a mission given by Megatron himself.

-meanwhile on the Nemisis-

On the nemesis, Megatron was on the bridge of his ship once starring down at the knelling form of Nightbird who returned after suffuring a life threatening injury.

The old warlord was both pleased and relieved that she was fine but did not ask how she survived a direct hit in the back from one of starscreams missiles or how most of the damage was repaired.

Speaking of the scrawny traitor, much like his cowardly and sneaky ways, the former second in command managed to escape the wraith of megatron and the entire decpeticon forces after him which was infuriating for our robotic warlord but that was drowned out by the relieving sight of his assassin who no doubt still bore the information on the autobot base of operations.

"Nightbird. It delights me to see you survive that traitorous seekers attack, but I have to ask have you uncovered the location of their base?" he asked, his red eye's boring into the slim frame of the ninja con who bowed her head lower.

Megatron understanding the silent answer sighed out heavily before walking around her in a slow stride with his hand clasped behind his back "It disappoints me greatly to one of my greatest champions fail in their mission. Of all the bots under my command Nightbird, you were by far the most distinguished Decepticon in my ranks. Never once had you failed to complete a mission no matter how difficult it seemed or perilous it was, so to find out you not only failed to slay Optimus but to also fail in retrieving the location of their base Pains me greatly." He monologue as he walked around her before stopped right in front of her kneeling form with red optics narrowed in a harsh glare.

"you know the penalty for failure of his magnitude and it pains me to carry it out on one as loyal and accomplished as you. however you're heroic act in saving my life as warranted a far lesser punishement in place then the one originally set out for you." Nightbird didn't say anything, she continued to look down at the ground though her body was starting to shake.

"You are hereby Banished from the Decepticon Ranks until summoned." Megatron gave his judgement and saw as her head shot up and starred at him with a wide eyed horror.

Nightbird understood the punishment for failing her master and was prepared for the all spark when he gave it but this was a whole different judgement entirely, she was no longer a decepticon and could not assist or even get close to any deception under the penalty of death from her former comrades and peers.

Nodding silently she picked herself up and walked out from the bridge.

-autobots.-

After the envents of today, everyone was set on recovering from the near death experiences they all had except for Raf, Miko and Jack who sat on the couch playing games and pondering what happened to the ninja con after she left "Soo… what do you think happened to her?" Jack asked as he turned away from his video game with Raf and Miko.

"maybe she'll be Ronin?" Miko suggested, a sparkle of excitement was seen in her eye's as she imagined the awesome ninja bot who she saw a proud symbol of her nations greatest warrior's.

"a what?" Raf asked, confused by the word of his Japanese friend.

"you know. A warrior without a master or a wandering samurai." She explained.

"But don't those terms belong to a samurai?" jack asked the foreign girl.

"it sort of goes with ninja's and other terms that the name goes for now."

"So what is a ronin exactly?" Raf questioned, wanting to more from his neon styled friend who was usually getting into trouble and slacking off of learning rather then teaching it.

Held herself up with pride as she prepared to give the two American boys a lesson in her countrys heritage "I'm glad you asked my young American friend. Ronin are warriors or Samurai who are masterless or become masterless when their lord or master dies or banish them and they don't commit Seppuku or honoured suicide as you like to call it. They wander the lands in shame for failing their masters seeking employment under a new master or become hired merencaries or bandits."

-the next night.-

Night was once again in Jasper navada, the spacious and miles of endless desert and rocks could be seen for miles around along a long stretch of road far from any populous, rows of light lit up the two way stretch of road and along it road a lone motorcyclist.

The helmeted cyclist rode his black themed Hayabusa down the never ending road, unaware of a pair of yellow eye's watching him.

He was unprepared for what happened next as a long field of green light suddenly appeared over him, washing over him and his ride a couple of times before his vehicle suddenly shut down and he struggled to maintain it but it was all for not as he lost control and fell sideways with his motor vehicle siding further then his skidding form.

He soon picked himself up from his tumble and went over to check out what went wrong with his vehicle, as he picked it up he heard the familiar and distance sound of motor engine coming closer.

He turned around and sighted another Hayabusa just like his only with a female rider in it's stead, he could see her face because of the helmet she was wearing but he saw the skin tight black outfit she was spotting, as she rode past he got a good look at the patch on her back of a bird as black as the night with words etched in underneath reading out *Nightbird.* before she disappeared into the distance.

Finished.

tell me what you think of the chapter and review how you felt reading this oneshot piece featuring an assassin decepticon instead of some autobot or other Oc character.

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