Author's Note: Boy, we got off to a rather hot start didn't we? Dove right into the action, haha! Anyways, here's another chapter for you guys!
Disclaimer: I don't own Supergirl or Transformers. They are owned by Hasbro, DC and The CW. I only own my OC.
❛the only time you should look back
is to see how far you've come.❜
Location: Andrews Air Base, Outskirts Of National City
It had been a week since the attack at Vose's lab, Brendan had completely healed. But in that time period, a lot had happened. It was revealed that the President Olivia Marsdin was an alien, which stirred up a lot of anger amongst people.
With a line in the sand being drawn between humans and aliens, it was only a matter of time before there was a real explosion.
Brendan was currently on his computer, typing away on a 3D interactive holographic keyboard. The sound of heavy footsteps behind him as another Cybertronian came into view. This one was all red, having a slender feminine appearance. Her body seeming to be a combination of both car and jet parts, but still sporting crimson orbs.
"You've been working for several days now, hun. Don't you think a break is in order?" She asked, a look of genuine concern on her facial plates as Brendan didn't even look back when she first responded.
"Shatter, I can't. You saw what's going on out there? The president was revealed to be an alien, those people I saw at Vose's lab had stolen an EMP device and used to to fry her image inducer! And on top of that, not even Supergirl can save everyone on her own. She couldn't save me, and I was lucky to even come out of it!" Brendan exclaimed, continuing his typing as images repeatedly flashed on a holographic screen.
"So what are you going to do? You expect to throw on a costume and try to save the day like Supergirl does?" Shatter asked, arms folding over her chest as Brendan turned back towards her with a little grin.
"Actually, that's /exactly/ what I had in mind..." He told her, pushing a key as the images on the screen suddenly became one. This revealed that the images were actually one schematic for what appeared to be a suit of armor. In the corner, the name 'Nexus Mark I' was branded on it.
"...though, I think my costume won't be as conservative as hers."
Location: DEO, National City.
"...play it again." Came the voice of Alex Danvers, as she watched the image on one of the monitors play from the day at Dr. Vose's lap. It showed the giant metal being floating in the air above everyone, cradling a young man in his palm before transforming into a jet and taking off.
"That's definitely a Cybertronian." Kara said, solidifying on what she saw that day.
"What do we know about them?" Alex asked, looking over towards J'onn J'onzz for an answer, as well as Kara herself.
"Cybertronians hail from a planet known as Cybertron. They're a race of biomechanical aliens with the ability to transform into certain shapes. Mostly mechanical such as cars, jets, TVs, you name it, it can change into it." J'onn explained, with Kara soon cutting in.
"From what I heard, the planet has been at war for centuries. Their kind being divided up into two factions..." Kara mentioned.
"Yes, Autobots and Decepticons. The Autobots fight for peace and freedom while the Decepticons fight for tyranny and conquest. But I never expected a Cybertronian to be on Earth. Last I ever heard of their kind ever touching down was in late 1987. But that was over 32 years ago..." J'onn explained.
"And the kid? Kara you said something was different about him?" Alex asked, turning over to her sister.
"Yeah, he didn't look human. But he wasn't like any alien I've ever seen. What kind of alien bleeds glowing blood?" Kara asked, remembering the sight of the guy who had managed to take a plasma blast dead on and still keep moving.
"Perhaps I can be of assistance?" A new voice entered the conversation, as all eyes turned to Brainy entering the room with a vial in his hand, containing the glowing blue blood from the guy.
"This blood you gave me, it's not blood. It's a special fuel source called Energon. It's what pumps through a cybertronian's veins. It's their lifeblood but also powers their weapons, nourishes them, and keeps them alive. However, this strand is very different from the regular, it has unique genetic properties that match that of someone's DNA. Who that person is, we can't seem to figure out. It seems that his identity isn't in any known database..." Brainy explained, handing Alex the vial as she look at at it.
"Wait, you're saying this kid bleeds Energon?" J'onn asked, seeming very astonished by Brainy's explanation.
"Yes, I did. Why, is that not good?" Brainy asked, head tilting in confusion.
"He's a Techno-Organic...I had only heard stories about them..." J'onn exclaimed, seeing surprised at the very fact.
"What's a Techno-Organic?" Alex asked, seemingly interested in this fact as well as Kara.
"They're Cybertronians whose physiology includes both technological and biological components. In this case, he looks human but is all Cybertronian underneath. Meaning that this boy had both a human and Cybertronian parent."
"Okay, that's good and all but how does that help us find them? Did anyone track where the jet went after it left the city?..." Alex asked, looking towards everyone for an explanation.
"We don't. The trail went cold a few miles outside of city limits. The Cybertronian must have some cloaking ability, that or he ran on foot because beyond the city is a large forest which extends for one hundred and fifty miles, plenty of places to hide."
Alex sighed, two fingers against the bridge of her nose. "Great."
[ Time Lapse: Five Days Later ]
Location: Andrews Air Base, Outskirts Of Central City
"Brendan, I know that what happened that you started working on this but—"
"—Are you sure that this will work? We just—"
"—We just don't want to constantly have to keep tending to bullet holes and bruises every time." Asked Shatter, and her sparkmate Dropkick.
Dropkick was the shortest out of the three, being a cobalt blue with a combination of car parts and helicopter parts protruding from certain parts of his body. It appeared that he had no lip plates, but they were concealed behind a blue mask that had an electric green arc running along the mouth portion which flashed and surged whenever he spoke.
"I'm positive, I /want/ to do this. Remember what I told you a week ago, Blitzwing? About how I couldn't figure out my purpose? I know what it is now. I know what I have to do—" Brendan spoke, currently painting something with a paint gun. You could see the outlines of black metallic arm along. It was connected to the torso of what appeared to be a suit which was standing upright.
"Heh, you think Supergirl will get jealous of you stealing her thunder?" Dropkick snorted, which earned a little elbow nudge from Shatter.
"I'm not trying to steal anyone's thunder. I'm just going to try and help even the odds for Supergirl. The threats out there are proving too much even for her, and after the incident with the president, she's bound to have her hands overfilled..." Brendan finally finished painting, stepping back as he looked at the finished project.
"Well, you're going to need a cool name if you're gonna be out there 'saving the day' in National City..." Dropkick noted, looking down towards Brendan.
"I already have that in mind, I was thinking of..."
He looked at what he painted, which was the Autobot Insignia, but this one seemed much fancier as it had downward-pointing chevrons on the arms. The same insignia was also on the chest as it glowed in an lectric bluish hue.
"...Nexus."
That's when four glowing orbs lit up on the helmet of the suit.
That's when Shatter placed a finger to the side of her helm, the soft sound of radio chatter was emitting from it before speaking.
"An alarm just went off in the L-Corp building. Armed men with guns have entered the building, and six guards were killed trying to stop them." Shatter spoke, with Brendan soon making his way over towards the suit of armor as the sound of it powering up was heard.
Looks like he was getting into the field sooner than he expected.
Location: L-Corp, National City
The entire building was on lockdown, curtesy of Mercy Graves who was using a tablet to hack the building security systems. Armed men on each floor to clear out anything alien, but also the guards as well. After all, they didn't want to run into any resistance.
That's when her radio went off, the sound of gunfire emitting from the other end of the chatter.
"WE'RE UNDER FIRE! SEND BACKUP IMMEDIATELY!" A solider's voice screamed, which caught Mercy off guard.
"What do you mean? How many men are you up against?!" Mercy responded back.
"IT'S NOT A MAN! IT'S A—AHHHH!" That's when the sound of a large weapon powering up was heard, then the radio went dead. A stream of worry filled Mercy's mind, mainly on what the hell it was that just took out one of her units.
In any case, she had to get what she needed much quicker now, making her way to an elevator and hitting a button, which would bring her down to the floor she needed to go.
Kara Danvers and Lena Luthor just made it to the bottom floor, which was a room that appeared to have incomplete projects. Some of them appearing to be stripped apart.
Lena looked around the corner, and a look of worry was on her face as she saw the back door had been forced open.
"Of course she would come here..." Lena spoke, fear in her tone.
"And where is here? What is this?" Kara asked, following Lena as she entered the room.
"This is where I keep all my experimental prototypes." She turned back and pointed to Kara. "/Don't/ print that."
"Reporters Honor." Kara said, holding up a hand. The two then made their way over towards a table which contained pieces to a suit that appeared to have been disassembled mostly. It was an emerald green in color, but it was familiar to the both of them.
"Your mother's Lexosuit." Kara said, surprised at the sight of it.
"Yeah, it's in pieces now." Lena spoke, looking down and noticing that one of the arms was missing to it.
"Shouldn't there be another arm here?" Kara asked
That's when Lena realized, what Mercy had just stolen.
"Mercy took the bigger gun..." That's when the sound of a door closing was heard as both heads snapped towards the source. This turned out to be Mercy Graves, making their way over towards them with the missing arm of the Lexosuit placed over her own.
"I have to hand it to you, this suit is an exquisite instrument of death. This creation could really move humans into a new phase of...physical excellence." Mercy began, as if trying to taunt Lena.
"I know, it's why I made it." Lena remarked.
"Well then, join me? Once we destroy the image inducers, the aliens are gonna go crawling into the light. And then, we'll know exactly who we're fighting." Mercy offered, but Lena was not buying into it.
"I don't want to fight them, Mercy." She said to her.
"Well, isn't that what L-Corp is all about? Your fight for control and superiority?" Mercy asked
"No, it's about doing good for the world and helping clear the Luthor name!" Lena fired right back.
Mercy had a momentary pause, before slowly making her way over towards the two but they shuffled to the other side of the table and away from her.
"Do you remember when you were afraid to show Lex your little inventions? That you would hide them from him until they were absolutely perfect? Do you remember what he would do?..." Mercy asked, which just bringing up the name Lex Luthor made Lena angry.
"Yeah, he said they were cute and I should make them in pink." She said, a hint of sarcasm in her tone.
"This is exactly what he was afraid of. That you would outshine him! I know you want to resist, but you are JUST LIKE ME! You don't want to just BE the best, you ARE the best." Mercy explained.
There was a little smile on her face, before she spoke again. "Oh, I know I'm the best. You're the one not living up to your full potential. You've chosen a side, I'd never do that." She spoke smugly, which seemed to start something in Mercy because she was glaring daggers at her.
"Well all you care about is lining your pockets!—" That's when Kara cut her off and chimed in.
"Also, because she's not a murderer—" That's when Mercy cut her off.
"Maybe that's because she hasn't tried it yet."
And that's when the wall behind them blew apart in a brilliant explosion. Mercy, Kara and Lena had to shield their eyes as a thick cloud of dust emitted from the hole...
...only for one of Mercy's soldiers to be chucked through it as he slid across the ground and against the wall.
He was really badly beaten, as he weakly looked up at Mercy.
"We tried to hold it off, but we couldn't. It killed all our men..." He said weakly, before losing consciousness.
"What do you mean—" Mercy's words were cut off when she heard loud footprints entering the room. Four bright blue orbs cut through the dust, as a figure was appearing through it. The closer it got, the much clearer it was, and finally it stepped out into the open.
It was a suit of armor, it had to be nearly six to seven feet tall. The armor was painted in what appeared to be twenty shades of black because it shined brightly under the fluorescent lighting. In his right hand was a large rifle of some sorts, it looked like an energy blaster because the barrel glowed in the same hue as the eyes. Speaking of which, there were four eyes, which glowed brightly. The chest and arms bore a symbol which had downward pointing chevrons on it, the entirely of the symbol glowed blue.
In its right hand, was another one of Mercy's soldiers who was unconscious as he held it up to her.
"You left this upstairs." It spoke, it's voice distorted to hide whoever was behind the helmet. The armor then threw the man right to Mercy's feet.
Kara and Lena simply stood there, astonished by what had just came to their rescue. And Mercy, she looked both intimidated and angry.
She fired the arm gun that was on the piece of the Lexosuit she stole, which fired a blue beam right towards the armor. But the result was something nobody expected, the beam hit, but the armor barely even moved, but instead looked down at where he was shot.
"...I'm confused? Was that supposed to really do anything other than tickle?" It asked, tilting its head at her.
Whoever this was, they seemed to appear on Kara and Lena's side.
Lena then went for the other arm that was on the table, grasping it and blasting at Mercy who side stepped to avoid the shot. Lena then moved Kara towards a back door, opening it.
"Kara, get inside." She said, as Kara nodded and rushed into room without second thought.
That was when Lena stepped next to the armored warrior, feeling a bit protected by them.
"This doesn't change anything!" Mercy roared, firing at the armored warrior again but this time Lena blocked the shot with an energy shield. Which the warrior used to their advantage as the raised their weapon to Mercy. The weapon quickly powered up and fired bolts of energy at Mercy, who had to put up her own shield as she was pushed back a few feet.
That was when the warrior went in, going after her as he raised is fist preparing to strike Mercy but she blocked it with her own hand, as the gauntlet gave her additional strength, but even it seemed like it was not enough.
That was when Lena joined in, directing Mercy to her as the two began fighting one another, with Lena being thrown back against the wall. Mercy throwing a wide right swing but Lena avoided it, just to lock her weapon onto Mercy as she did the same with her.
"You don't deserve the Luthor name...earth traitor." Mercy hissed, that was when the door Kara went through was blown off, and Supergirl came flying out, pinning Mercy to the wall.
"You're wrong, the Luthor name doesn't deserve Lena." Supergirl corrected, placing Mercy's hands behind her back and restraining her.
"Supergirl, I'd ask how you bypassed the lockdown but—" Lena started but Supergirl cut her off.
"—but you're in a crisis and you're happy to see me?" Supergirl spoke, a soft smile on her lips.
That was when Lena turned her eyes towards the armored figure, who was making her way over towards Supergirl and Mercy. He grasped Mercy's arm, removing the gauntlet from her as he wiggled it near her face.
"In case you decide to get any cute ideas." He remarked, handing it over to Lena, who took it with a nod.
"Who is this? And where did they come from?..." Supergirl thought, watching the interaction between armored warrior and Lena.