(Hey everyone how's it going? I hope you're all enjoying your summer. This is the chapter that ends Blake and Predaking's journey in Menagerie while the alliance of Airachnid and White Fang tries to stop them. What horrors will our two heroes face when this sadistic Decepticon come to hunt them?
Find out on this excited two part event of a civil war.
Reminder: This is a story that works in correlation with Ryujudge6614's "Transformers RWBY: The Flames of Redemption", which focuses on Yang and Ruby while my story focusing on Weiss and Blake after the Fall of Beacon. Even though Weiss' story is now being taken over by Ryujudge.
I strongly suggest that you all who have not read his story do so, it's what inspired me to go to him and work with him by writing this very story with his.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything of Transformers Prime and RWBY they are the property of their respective owners.
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Blake Belladonna leaned against the railing on the balcony of the Belladonna Home, hoping for recruits this time despite a month and two weeks of looking. She looked up into the night sky, thinking of Predaking. She wondered how he was doing on his tunneling assignment. Especially after the guards and what's left of the workers who her father hired for the tunnel, carried him home that one time a fortnight ago. Whatever happened, it made Predaking more on edge as he kept to himself while going on to complete making the tunnel to the oasis safe for the Faunus who wanted to live there. Her mind was so caught up in her thoughts of the draconic Faunus, that she almost missed Sun's voice calling out to her from inside her home, "Hey Blake! You ready to go?"
"Be right there!" She felt a note taped to the wooden railing of the balcony, grabbed it and read the message written down:
"B
Things going too far.
Not sure what to do.
Find a quiet spot,
I'll find you.
Come alone. Please.
-I"
Blake looked around a bit before hearing the door slide open. She quickly placed the note in her coat.
Sun asked, poking his head out of the room, "We going recruiting or what? We've got the entire nocturnal section to hit up!"
Blake didn't say anything, still with a concerned expression on her face. Sun noticed this, asking, "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'll meet you there. I need to take care of something first." Blake told him. As she walked away, there was a quiet sound of rustling in the trees behind her.
Predaking was on his way back, as he walked past the nocturnal based Faunus citizens, with a number of the guards with him. He noticed them nervous around him as were the Faunus he saw during the day.
The guard who had been in charge of their tunneling operation, when Saber wasn't available, placed a hand as high up as possible to reach the large dragon Faunus' shoulders and said, "They'll come around, kid."
He remained silent and kept walking to the large house. They will indeed "come around" when he shows them what he has done for them with the tunnels that led to Mythos. He knew that in order to ensure that the oasis was to remain safe for the people who will inhabit it once the passage has been secured. But searching the tunnels, alone, was making the search for any more ghouls sluggishly slow, especially when it seemed that he could not find the "plague bringer" behind them.
Predaking sighed, reached for the canteen that still had the Energon infused water, and took a sip. This was the second time he took water from the lake of Energon traced water. And again it made him full of energy more than most of the organic food that the people on this planet made.
They continued on their way to the manor when they saw the chief and his wife waiting for him. Seeing the looks on his face the guard said, "Uh-oh…I don't think this'll be good."
Patting Predaking again on the shoulder he said, "Good luck."
Predaking remained at the bottom of the steps and looked up at the two, before Ghira's wife, Kali, went to offer the guards something to drink back in the dinning hall before letting them go back home for the night.
'Why is the chief here waiting for me? The expression on his face shows that he is trying to keep whatever emotions he is feeling from alerting me. Could this be because of the events that have been transpiring recently? But I slew the last of the ghouls this very sunset, why would he still worry about that? Has the white fang done something? Has Blake been harmed?' Thoughts were flying through Predaking faster than any of the flyers that he knew of from Cybertron. What began as a simple analysis of the situation became a full on thought racing panic, which he hid very well.
He stopped in front of Ghira and asked, "You wish to speak with me Chieftain?"
"Y-yes... Please walk with me." Ghira said. The two began walking down into the hallways of the household.
Meanwhile, outside of the manor, several figures were seen. The smaller number were dressed in a familiar black and white uniform, the larger number had an appearance of insectoid green with purple glowing visors. The insect like warriors turned to the back as one spoke, his voice sounding raspy and hissing, "Your Majesty, our targets are in sight."
Airachnid grinned sadistically as she mused, "I never seen a Predacon before, especially did not think they were capable of what Shockwave told me… This hunt will be fun."
Looking to the Faunus from the White Fang she said, "You have your orders. Go. Leave the 'Fake' as you call him, to me."
They nodded, though it was evident that they couldn't have been happier to get away from the spider Faunus and her beetle army any faster. To put it plainly, the newcomers had creeped them out, even more than the Grimm, after all the Grimm could only kill you…
Blake approached a darkened alleyway, looking for her friend as she asked, "Ilia?"
"I'm here."
Blake drew Gambol Shroud. Ilia walked out from the shadows with her hands up, dropping her black camouflage.
Lowering her weapon, Blake was glad to see the chameleon, "Ilia, I know you're scared, but you don't have to be. My family and I, we can keep you safe."
"I'm sorry." Ilia said, looking away slightly.
Blake, thinking that Ilia was apologizing, took a step closer, "You can make it up to me by helping us stop Corsac and Fennec."
"No." Ilia said. Her tone suddenly turned hostile, "I'm sorry."
Ilia's right hand curled up into a fist. Footsteps were heard running on the rooftop next to them. Blake looked up and saw Yuma fly down and land on her back, forcing her to the ground. Blake dropped Gambol Shroud which landed at Ilia's feet. Blake gasped, regaining her breath and struggled to get up as Yuma pressed his foot against her back. He got off her as two more Faunus joined him. Blake got back up on her feet, "Wait-"
Suddenly, Blake was interrupted by spider silk that wrapped her up. The spider Faunus from the White Fang monastery grabbed the silk strand holding Blake from her hand, "I've got her."
"Well done, Sister Trifa- and to you, Ilia." Yuma said, tossing Ilia her weapon.
Blake noticed the two White Fang members and asked, "Ilia! What are you doing?!"
"I tried to warn you, Blake. I'm sorry." Ilia said, looking down sadly.
Blake snapped, angered by this betrayal as she struggled to get out, "Don't tell me you're sorry!"
"But I am. I am sorry it has to be this way, but you and your family are holding the Faunus back!" Ilia confessed, getting angry.
"Because we're trying to protect people?!" Blake shot back, before asking, "In what world do you live in where attacking the innocent is the right thing to do?!"
"The same one as you! There's no such thing as innocent! There's no right thing to do! Only what's best for us! There's the humans that still hate the Faunus, and there's the others who stand by and let the hate happen! And then there are those who make fake Faunus as living weapons to spread that hatred! But you know what snuffs out hate? Fear. I don't like hurting people. But I'll tell you this..." Ilia said and pointed her weapon at Blake, "...it's gotten us results."
"Yeah, look where it's gotten you. Just like the humans you're fighting against…" Blake retorted, her words full of disappointment. Remembering Predaking's words of how the human, Megatron, believed in something similar and the tyranny that he dealt upon his own forces.
Her words made Ilia's eyes widen and she briefly pondered the retort, but she just shrugged it off, telling her captive, "We all have to make sacrifices for the greater good, no matter how much it hurts."
"And you think killing me is really for the greater good?" Blake asked, glaring back.
Ilia, however, said, "No, but getting rid of your family and that fake is."
Blake's expression turned shocked and fearful, struggling in the webbing, "You wouldn't! You can't! I won't let you!"
"I know. That's why you're being sent to Mistral. To Adam." Ilia said, which made Blake's expression growed more afraid, almost on the verge of tears.
Blake struggled to get the webs off her as she pleaded, "Ilia, please! You don't have to do this. This isn't you!"
"Yes. It. Is!" Ilia shot back. She added, "But I guess back then you were just too busy falling for Adam to notice."
Blake's expression turns confused. Not understanding where this was coming from. The three of them had all been good friends before she saw the path that Adam was taking with the White Fang.
"I was always jealous of the way you looked at him." Ilia told her as her spots turn pink, "I wanted you to look at me that way. Instead…"
She closed her eyes, and when she opened them, they were pink. She snapped, and yelled, "But we can't always get what we want! Like how you now look at the fake that way now!"
Her words confused Blake even more, making her wonder what Ilia was talking about. Ilia's eyes then turned back to normal as she ordered, "Yuma, with me. You two, get her to the docks."
Ilia and Yuma left while the other two Faunus prepared to bring Blake with them.
"Let's go, traitor." Trifa said, tugging on the silk holding Blake, but Blake remained stationary.
She then shouted, "Now!"
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Sun jumped out of nowhere and knocked down the masked Faunus next to Trifa.
"What?" Trifa asked, drawing her knife, engaging in a brief duel with Sun. He blocked her attacks with the staff before disarming her. Blake, now free from her bonds, then grabbed Trifa's shoulder and punched her square in the face, knocking her out.
Looking back to Sun, she said, "Thanks for the backup."
"Thanks for the invitation." Sun responded before asking, "You okay?"
Blake picked up Gambol Shroud and placed it on her back, "No. You heard Ilia, my family and Predaking are in danger. Call the police and let's go!
"Right!" Sun nodded as the two exited the alleyway and began running toward the Belladonna's home. They both took their Scrolls out to call their respective contacts.
Blake, worried, said, "Come on, mom, pick up!"
Back at the Belladonna's home, a scroll vibrated on the table with Blake's picture and the text "Blake calling" on the screen. Gunfire could be heard. Suddenly, the table was then knocked to its side as Kali and a Menagerie Guard took cover, who shouted, "Get down!"
The guard rose got up to fire back at two White Fang troops. He managed to shoot one of them down, but got shot down by the other. With the guard incapacitated, Kali took his pistol and starts firing back, shouting, "Get out of my house!"
Looking to the hallway she cried out for her husband, "Ghira!"
As she called out to her husband, Kali was forced to take cover again from the gunfire. She then wondered, 'Where is he?'
[A few minutes ago.]
Ghira and Predaking were walking down the hall, the two unable to say a word to each another. Ghira, because he didn't know how to say it correctly; Predaking, because he felt as though he would cause trouble. However, the windows were broken in to as the two saw what looked to be warriors with bulking frames in insect themed armor stood up from their landing. Predaking stared at their helmeted, visored, faces, saw the sharp teeth and mandibles on either side of the mouths and felt as though he recognized them.
Ghira however asked, "What's the meaning of this?"
"You there." A raspy voice said, one of the bulking insect warriors pointed in the two's direction, "You are to be killed by command of our queen."
'Queen?' Ghira asked, confused by the insect Faunus' meaning.
Before the warrior ordered, "Attack! Feast on their life-blood and aura!"
"Aura…" Many of the warriors repeated, turning their heads to the two before them, then they began to move in a manner similar to what Predaking had been hunting in the tunnels.
One of the let out a shrill like yell before charging forward. Predaking readied his claws as the closest one raised its own claw to slash, but Predaking was faster and cut the exposed lower face of the bug. Only for Predaking to detect the same corruption in this creature as was in the Ghouls.
As he pushed one of the warriors away, Predaking said, "Chieftan Ghira, do not let these creatures bite you, they will turn you into the same ghouls I have been hunting!"
"What?!" Ghira asked holding back one of the Bug warriors as he saw the fang like teeth gnashing at him. Predaking then slashed at the bug with his claw, causing the chief to see the purplish blood from the corpse. Something that had been presented in the reports involving these ghouls. However, despite the large cut it received the insect warrior rose back up and growled, "Aura…"
Ghira couldn't believe his eyes. Of course he had read the reports, but to see it in person… it was something else entirely… Predaking gave a war cry as he kept fighting to destroy these creatures. Seeing what the young man was fighting made Ghira ashamed of his earlier decision to ask Predaking to leave Menagerie; if he had left then surely everyone would have been killed and turned into a ghoul. He also felt fearful due to the ferocity of how Predaking fought these creatures, going more for the kill than anyone should be… It scared Ghira to think that the dragon Faunus had the same amount of hate and spite as Adam had adopted after his own first kill. That spite grew once he and his wife left the White Fang, handing the organization over to Sienna. His distraction at watching Predaking fight almost cost him as one of the ghouls grabbed him from behind with its main arms before reeling its head back to bite him. However a fist slammed into the head of the Ghoul, breaking its helmet and damaging its head.
Predaking stood there, holding a piece of the insect armor as he went and drove the large sharp piece into the heart of the ghoul. He grabbed the head with his claw and pulled until the undead creature stopped moving, severing its link to the dark matter that Predaking knew reanimated this poor creature's corpse.
"You'll pay for this Predacon!" The commander of the group hissed, shocking Ghira, as this insect warrior must be from Predaking's homeland.
Raising a brow, Predaking asked, "Do I know you?"
"No, but it should be know that if it wasn't for my efforts then the prospect of your "Predacon brethren" would not have come to pass before Megatron destroyed them. As he should have done with you as well." The insect warrior hissed. That made Predaking furious.
"Who are you?" Ghira demanded, angrily.
It looked at him, "I am Bombshock! The new leader of the Insecticon hive. That was, before our queen took command and infected us all with the plague of the undead."
"And yet you retained your individuality and intellect?" Predaking asked, finding it hard to believe.
Bombshock hissed, "She wanted a commander to deal with you while she took care of the secondary target."
'Secondary? Who would…' Predaking asked himself, before the fire in his stomach was drenched. The answer came to him and he roared, "YOU WILL NOT HARM HER!"
Predaking then unleashed a great blast of fire from his mouth. Though he was covering his face with his arms, he thought he saw the fire take the shape of a dragon, as it soared towards its target. Bombshock quickly evaded the intense flames, the remaining undead Insecticons serving him were not as lucky. They were caught in the blast and were burnt alive.
Bombshock saw the destruction of those under him and hissed, "This isn't over…"
He then scurried away as he went to report to his queen. Ghira, however, was busy staring at Predaking who was bearing his teeth like a beast as he turned his eyes, which contrasted against the shadows cast by the flames behind him as he growled angrily. Ghira felt like was watching the second coming of Adam Taurus, and that made him worry more.
Behind him Ghira saw the fire take shape again as a large dragon like creature, made entirely of fire, stood up from the ashes of the ghouls and turned its head in the same direction as Predaking.
Blake and Sun were running, trying to make it back in time. However, the closer they got, the louder the sounds of fighting reached.
Before they could get close enough to see the house, large insect based Faunus got in the way, all of them with mandibles on either sides of their mouths and smaller insect legs under their muscular arms. The two were silent when Sun asked, "Hey Blake, do you feel something… off… about these guys?"
Blake couldn't help it but… she did feel that there was definitely something off with the insect Faunus before them, other than the fact that they all looked exactly alike from their organic insect like armor down to their Faunus heritage. Which was impossible, unless they were parent and child, but they looked to be exactly the same, almost like they were cloned… like Predaking was when he was born.
They also heard the men moaning, "Aura…" As if they were hungry; but why would they want to eat auras? HOW would they eat aura?
"Now, now, my loyal subjects, there's no need to go straight to the main course." A woman's voice said, cutting the moaning as she stated, smirking evilly, "After all. I haven't had fun in cycles."
Blake had glared at the woman before them, Sun was stunned by the beauty and allure of this woman, blushing at her physical beauty. Seeing the looks on the monkey-tail's face, Blake snapped, "Sun!"
"Huh? Oh right! Bad guy!" Sun said going back to serious.
The woman with the spider-motif armor let out a humorous chuckle, "I'm not bad, cute boy. I'm just dangerous."
The spider-legs on her armor came off and extended to hold her up, a foot off the ground. Seeing that the two were stunned by this, she took the opportunity to jump high into the air, using her webbing to trap them on the ground. Especially to separate them from their weapons. After landing, she used her metal spider legs to reach out and retrieve them. After a brief study of their weapons, she commented, "Fascinating pieces of weaponry you people made. Even if the transformation sequences between the two forms are a tad crude. Nothing compared to my people's technology."
Looking at her trapped prisoners she added, "Much to your Predacon acquaintance can attest to."
Blake and Sun were shocked by this as she asked the spider Faunus, "You know about Predaking?"
"Predaking? Is that the name the clone made for itself?" She asked, as if the name was news to her. She then answered, "Why yes, I know about him, after all my previous affiliation was the one who created him and his cohorts."
That bit of information shocked the two, but it also made Blake angry. Using her spider legs to walk around her two captives, the woman asked herself, "Now… what should I do with you two? I know I had promised Taurus fellow not to extinguish the female feline's existence, but I haven't had fun torturing a prey in so long…"
The way she uttered her last few words which sounded like she was gushing over hurting someone, made the two prisoners sweat. How could any sane person find enjoyment in hurting another living creature?
"Look. You can walk away! You don't have to help the White Fang do this. Or hurt us." Sun stated, trying to put on a brave front.
The spider-woman let out a juvenile laugh, leaned in and said, placing a hand on Sun's cheek, "I know I don't have to hurt either of you, cutie. I just want to."
She then raised one of her spider legs, ready to begin her torture when Blake used her semblance to make a shadow clone of herself which took the hit for Sun. Their enemy was stunned by this, as if she never saw something like this before. Blake then used her semblance again to take her place in the cocoon as she retrieved her weapon and fired a fire Dust at Sun's cocoon. Which weakened it enough for the monkey Faunus to escape; he used three of his own aura clones to pull him out of his cocoon. The appearance of the aura clones got the attention of the insect warriors, a few of them even began to drool.
Blake took advantage of this distraction to pull Sun's staff from it and toss it over to the blond, who caught it. He immediately used it to fight against the insect men. Blake turned her attention to the woman before her. She seemed distracted by what she had seen and hissed, "That bovine didn't mention anything about these abilities…"
The woman's words confused her, as if she didn't know anything at all about semblances. She raised her arms up, her palms aimed at Blake and fired what appeared to be lasers at Blake. Blake blocked them with her weapons' katana and machete sheathe, deflecting them away from her, but also up to the sky.
Her arachnid opponent hissed, firing on the younger woman as she ordered, "My Insecticon subjects in my vicinity, hear me. The two before you are yours to feast on."
The bugmen, or Insecticons as she called them all paused to hear her orders and they let out their shrill scream before charging. Blake and Sun had no choice but to fight back. However no matter what sort of damage they did, without lethal force, the men in armor kept getting up. It certainly surprised Sun when he swung his staff with the strength to break an arm and found that these guys didn't have put up a defensive aura when he heard the sound of bones snapping. Even bandits knew better than to go into battle without aura activated.
Sun was only confused for a second even as the Insecticon growled and swung with his supposed broken arm. Sun had to switch tactics by splitting his staff into the nunchaku pistols mode and swung/shot them. One of the attacks hit an Insecticon's neck, resulting in a snapping sound. Sun looked troubled by the fact he killed someone when, much to his shock and horror, the body stood up, head hanging limping to its side as he snarled at him, hungrily. Stepping back, Sun breathed, "Th-that's not… How is he…"
Seeing this, the woman chuckled, "Still confused monkey-boy? My loyal followers have been dead ever since I drained the life blood from their bodies. And now thanks to my special trick, they obey my commands with more loyalty than they ever did when they lived."
Blake heard this and growled, "Are you insane?! Why would you do that!?"
"Well at first I did it because I was hungry." She confessed, as if it wasn't a big issue, then she explained, firing the lasers at Blake, "However, seeing the effect it had, I begun to drink their blood more and more to ensure my army of conquest would never die, especially to see my revenge on that mute of a con and that wretched enemy of mine. But now that I realized that I could convert anyone who was not of… my origins, I could create an ever growing army of warriors no matter what they were and use them to blanket this world in chaos and death. That's why we came to this island of yours. So remote, so isolated. All because of how the humans treat your people due to the fact they have more on them than usual."
She then gasped holding her head as she hissed, using one of her arms as shields to protect herself from Blake who was firing on her, "Although… I'd be able to do said plan if he… wasn't watching my every movements… So I have to play nice with this White Fang organization until the deal that we made had come to a conclusion."
Blake got up, getting angry at this and shouted, "I can't believe Adam would allow you to turn people into monsters!"
"Oh you sweet diluted girl." Blake's opponent laughed, jumping from one wall to another wall before landing, "He doesn't even know that I've been testing my new abilities on your people."
Looking at her army of Insecticons she sighed, "However, if it wasn't for that Predacon clone of yours there'd be more of my darlings here to fight you."
"What're you talking about?" Blake asked, confused, as she kept firing.
This confused the woman who asked, "You mean you don't know?"
She looked puzzled before she smirked behind her arm, "Of course…"
"What I mean is that your precious 'Predaking', as you called him, has been hunting my army down in those tunnels and extinguishing their life force in order to keep you safe." The woman raised her arms wide from her body as the Ghouls kept walking towards Blake.
Blake stared in shock and asked, "Wh-what?"
"If he was truly the man you saw him as, wouldn't he try to find a way to reverse the effects? But no. After all he chose the quickest way he could to gain your trust as well as the trust of your father." She continued, making Blake feel worse about Predaking's true motives.
She shook her head, "No! I won't believe it!"
The woman hissed in delight at her target's losing faith in the Predacon; she then ordered, "Attack her already."
As one of the ghouls raised its claw to attack Blake from behind when it jerked, there was a Menagerie guard, the same one who had been with Predaking in his hunts for the ghouls, standing there. He exclaimed, "Thought I heard something familiar."
He then pulled out his pistol and shot the snarling ghoul in the head. The guard then pulled back and everyone saw the corpse fall. The three expected others it to get back up; however, it remained still.
Blake looked at the guard and asked, "What did you do?"
"Something that was unavoidable, Ms. Blake." The guard said solemnly.
He then glared, at the spider-woman, "I heard what you told the young miss here and I can't stand it."
Next he pushed his spear into another ghoul while it tried to bite him. As he struggled he said, "Predaking told Chief Ghira everything he could about these ghouls of yours and said that the change was irreversible. And the only way to stop them is to destroy the two places that are usually used to unlock an aura, the mind and the heart."
"Clever boy, I have to believe that the clone told you as much as he could understand before he revealed his intelligence to my former lord, Megatron." The woman's words made both Sun and Blake hear the name and glare in response. So… she really was in league with the man who turned his homeland into a wasteland and made Predaking's life miserable.
Blake looked to the guard and asked, "What'd you mean that they're irreversible."
"To tell you the truth, It's like they're Grimm now. Except they want to feed on our auras and turn us into them." The guard stated before shooting again, hitting the ghoul in the head.
Feeling more confident, Sun said, "Then we got no problem."
Blake wasn't as sure as her friend. Seeing her hesitation, the guard said, "Believe me Miss. I know… when I first saw these things I thought they could be saved by the foreman of those guys that first time, but he got bitten and turned. If the dragon kid wasn't there I think none of us would've survived right now."
Blake thought back to everything since she met Predaking. She reflected on how everything got too much for her she ran away. First time was from the White Fang, the when her teammates found out about her being a Faunus, and the last time was the Fall of Beacon. With newfound determination, Blake promised herself, 'I'm not running away… not this time.'
Opening her eyes, she said, "What should we do?"
"Like how sometimes someone's aura is unlocked you need to damage their heads and their hearts; but these ones seem different so try and cut them down until they stop moving." The guard looked to the one he shot and saw it not getting back up. He then added, "Or shoot 'em in the head."
"You make it sound like they're those zombies from the movies." Sun remarked.
Looking back, after stabbing another ghoul in the head, "Do you have a better idea?"
Blake kept herself under control. She nodded and got ready to do what she had to, even mentally telling herself that the enemies she was facing were a new type of Grimm. They fought the horde around them.
Airachnid watched, though she hated seeing her army destroyed by the foolish humanoid creatures of this planet; she would be able to complete the assignment given to her by the one who brought her to this planet in the first place, along with her accomplices. When the clone's dead she can finally have her revenge against Megatron and Soundwave for this defeat.
At least, if she survived, Adam Taurus would get the object of his desire. She then thought about what pain and torment the Faunus would do to her for getting the new leader of the White Fang to take such extremes.
Blake, Sun and the guard worked together, though the two who went to the huntsmen academies were able to take down more than the guard who was helping them Sun used his Nuchaku/shotgun to shoot more than physically hit his targets, Blake took her machete sheathe and her weapon to cut the creatures by their limbs or their heads. Sometimes she had to shoot past their armor before stabbing them in the chest.
Seeing her army failing to the abilities of the two younger Faunus, Airachnid hissed and fired her onboard arm blasters, which were positioned over her wrists, and fired at the three of them. The three took cover, while her blasts hit members of her undead army. She kept firing, too blinded by anger to see that she was doing part of their job for them as a fourth of her remaining army of Insecticons fell from her blaster fire to their heads and hearts. She stopped firing to see what she had done and gave a beast like hiss. Sun poked his head from behind the corpse of the Insecticon and told her, "Nice work, lady. You certainly got the whole 'shoot your friends' down for being a bad guy."
Airachnid let out a roar of outrage and dived down to fight them. Her metal legs cut into the dead body of one of her ghouls, effectively cutting through the armor. Seeing this, Sun gulped and shrunk back behind the corpse of the ghoul that he and his friends were using as a shield.
"I was going to let my servants beat you till you were weak enough to not resist, however, I changed my mind and decided to just kill you so that Taurus doesn't need to deal with your tenacity any longer." She used her spider legs to walk closer to her enemies, "I will torture you for every drone that I lost and make you suffer ten times the loss of my minion. Then I'll do him a favor by severing that tenacious head from your body and delivering it to him."
"The primate one is somewhat amusing, I think I'll keep him as a pet." She added, making Sun gulp, seeing what she had done to those who served her. He was afraid of how she treated her pets, if she had any that is.
"Your reptilian servant, I'm going to make him suffer in a way that I only do to those I despise the most, like my former plaything: Arcee and my future victims." She hissed, remembering that it was he who ruined her plans to break Blake's will and send her to Adam for him to do inflict pain he had planned for her.
Blake peaked behind the corpse of the Insecticon shot by the arachnid woman and thought she saw something flying towards them.
Before Airachnid could go on, she heard heavy footsteps heading her way and saw one of her minions coming, "Ah, my dear Bombshock. I can only imagine that you're here to report about the Predacon's death along with the chief?"
The Insecticon looked away before wheezing, "They… live…"
"What?!" She shouted, using her nails to cut into the man's cheek. Narrowing her eyes she hissed, "You fool."
"You incompetent fool! I shouldn't have given you back your intelligences and individuality if I had known you'd fail so miserably!" Airachnid said, berating her commander even more. The two of them ignoring the thing that looked like a fireball heading their way. While the two spoke Blake noticed the fireball getting closer and closer until it crashed in the center of their battle field.
Everyone, except Bombshock, and any of the Ghouls who survived the onslaught by their mistress, had to cover their eyes with their arms or weapons while the dust flew around them.
"What happened?!" Sun cried out, trying to get past the ringing in his ears. Blake tried to steal a peak at what fell on them and saw a light in the center of the landing zone. She kept seeing a firey like color going through the dust as it slowly cleared. There stood a large bonfire that no one knew where it came from.
Airachnid however hissed from the light and asked, "How did this get here?"
She looked around for the source of where this apparent flaming boulder came from but found nothing. Airachnid almost missed it as the fire began to take shape. Blake's eyes, if not everyone present, widened as the fire began to take on shape. Legs took form from the flames as it touched the ground around the crater from its impact. A body began to shape itself from the fires.
"Wh-what is that?" Sun asked, not able to believe what he was seeing.
Mighty wings sprouted from the back, shaped as a dragon's wings.
"Impossible… The reports said that he couldn't change forms…" Airachnid said staring in shock. The claws scrapped against the ground, leaving burning marks on it.
A long neck pushed out from the body as does a tail, slightly longer in length compared to the creature's neck.
The guard remained shocked at what he saw and asked, "Is that… a dragon?"
Eyes opened to reveal a sun yellow light in the socket like area. It let out a roar as its wings flapped, making everyone, especially Bombshock, to protect themselves from the heat. It looked down on those around and growled at the horde around it. With a screech like roar before swiping at them with its burning claw. The moment it came in contact with the Ghouled Insecticons, they erupted into flames. They let out their shrilled screams before thrashing about from the pain of being burned.
Airachnid then ordered, "Insecticons, destroy this… monstrosity!"
She raised her arms and began firing with her arm blasters. The remaining Insecticons did as commanded while Bombshock stared in shock at fire made dragon, unable to move. However he saw the fiery construct turn its head in his direction. The section that looked like eyes narrowed before it went after him. Feraing from his life, well… afterlife, he ordered, "Protect me!"
The retreating horde couldn't resist as they followed their commander's orders even as Airachnid jumped over the tail that was thrashing in her direction, firing back at the fiery dragon with her blasters. She would've used her webbing, but… the flames would burn them away. She saw her remaining minions going to protect Bombshock instead of falling back into the forest as ordered.
"No! Retreat you incompetent fools! Obey your queen!" Airachnid screamed at her minions, but the sounds of the fire from this dragon apparently drowned out her shouting. Only for the tail to hit its target on her chest plate. Airachnid was sent flying as she crashed into a tree. The sadistic spider slid down to the base of the tree. Blake saw the fire made dragon notice Bombshock once it had destroyed the rest of the ghouls. It went opening its mouth like a crab let out a powerful torrent of fire on the last of the Insecticon horde, who screamed his last. The blast of fire causing nothing, not even a burn mark on the ground, to be left.
Blake then heard a growl coming from the fiery dragon before seeing that it was looking at her. At first she was scared but it's growling wasn't in hostility or anger. The growling and actions seem to convey a form of affection towards her before seeing Sun trying to hide Blake behind him to protect her but it growled angrily at him to not to do that before looking at Blake, hostility slowly disappearing.
Seeing the visual from Shockwave back when they were all Cybertronians, Airachnid assumed it was impossible for the Predacon to assume their beast forms when he was turned into the organic form that Optimus put him in. She growled at how miserably this was going. She stopped before gasping holding her head as a voice growled in her mind, "You have failed."
She gasped more feeling the pain growing as she hissed, trying to plead with the one who's causing this pain, "No wait… please… give me more time… I can exterminate the clone… and the Belladonna girl…"
"Return to the dark realm and await the others." The voice ordered making Airachnid yell before the pain left. Hissing angrily she yelled, glaring hatefully at Blake, and promised, "We'll meet again, Belladonna. Do not think that you have seen the last of Airachnid."
Before she could get far, she heard the same loud shriek like roar and saw the fiery dragon crawling towards her enraged. Using her spider legs to climb away from it, she fired on it, even as it chased her away from the Kuo Kuana's perimeter. The three Faunus saw how she was chased away from them by the fiery construct. They could hear Airachnid's blaster fire going off further and further away. Once the sounds of roaring and firing had gone, Blake, Sun, and the guard came out of hiding as they looked everywhere. Every place that the fiery dragon stepped was on fire in the shape of the strange dragon's claw structure.
Sun still having trouble coming to terms as to what saved them asked, "Uhh… what just happened?"
"I'm still trying to figure it out myself… I've seen lots of things since I first met the kid and yet this was the strangest thing of them all." The guard said blinking from the light. The spikes along his face were giving a shivering feeling. He then said, "I'll catch up with you two later. I gotta check on something…"
Blake still stared at the battlefield even as Faunus began to gather around them. Some awoken due to the gunfire while others due to the shouting and roars. She felt something as the dragon looked at her and felt a familiar presence in those yellow eyes…
(WHoo! Who could've expected that Airachnid had her army of undead Insecticons with her, but as an undead horde? Or that could happen with the fire, the dragons, and how Predaking's fighting the Insecticon ghouls. Anyone worried about who was pulling on Airachnid's leash?
What will happen the next chapter, will the White Fang prevail or will our heroes? Find out what happened in the finale of this two part event. Especially after how long it took me to write this chapter, as well as the second half.
See you all the next chapter of The Light of Hope.)