Chapter 4: Crazy times=crazy reactions
The next few weeks things got very crazy for Jack. he had fought against hundreds of small robot bugs called scraplets. He had fought a con like one of the terror twins with a bot named wheeljack. He had a ground bridge on a moving train to help the bots get a decise back. This trip however took the cake.
Mosquitoes buzzing Jack hated bugs I mean he really hated them. "Enough of this." Jack said. He transformed his body into Delta as he had come to embrace the name.
"That must come in handy." Arcee said. Delta shrugged. "It's not as bad as having to kill a rancor though, and survive for weeks without it." Delta said. Arcee shivered knowing what her partner ment. (Giant reptile about the same size as Optimus and three times as big.)
They saw a deep trench in the ground. "Crash landing." They said in unison. THey both turned on of their hands into blasters. "So who's is it?" Delta asked. Arcee looked the ship over but had no clue. "No idea let's go inside." Arcee said. Delta put his hand in front of her and looked at the treetops. He transformed into a dragon and examined the treetops again. Delta gave a look that screamed "We are not alone." Arcee turned her free hand into her contented dagger and they both looked at the tree tops franticly trying to figure out who and where this person was.
"You know if you wanted to know who was following you Arcee you could have asked." A female voice said behind them. Delta transformed into a robot and aimed his weapon at the spider themed bot but then he saw the autobot insignia. (Changes Arcee and Airachnid are friends and arachnid betrayed decepticons before she would have gotten the chance to kill tailgate.
Arcee put her hand in front of the cannon and smiled. "It's been too long airachnid." Arcee said. THe two shook hands and smiled. "I agree personally I would like to take my energon supply to your base….wait you still have one right. The one Optimus announced on the autobot frequency? Speaking of which new Partner?" Arachnid asked. Arcee nodded. "We have had a new recruit but Delta here is actually half human and half predacon." Arcee said.
"Believe it or not this isn't my ship. I was imprisoned on it and she isn't very happy." Arachnid said.
Delta spotted a con in the corner of his eye. So he turned and shot at the con hoping to drive him or her towards them. THe con transformed into a jet and flew deeper into the forest to dodge the shot. "Scrap!" Delta shouted.
He turned to the others. "Spread out but keep your optics wide." Delta said. The two nodded and jumped off into two different directions. Delta activated his heat, energon, trap, and knight vision features on his optics. (THink of it as EV mode from black ops 3 and tactical mode combined. He also looked around. Something felt wrong. He turned around to receive a stun blast to the face from the con he was chasing. The blast only dazed him. He transformed into a dragon to nullify the effects and looked around angrily.
"Well aren't you special." Delta heard someone say above him. The predacon looked up and to his surprise he received another stun blast. This one was far more potent knocking him out.
Arcee and Airachnid heard the shots and rushe to where they were. WHen they arrived they saw trunks into the predacon and he was bound by energon shackles.
Arachnid growled and shot at the source of the nose. "FACE ME Slipstream!" Arachnid shouted. THey heard more laughter and when they turned around they saw Slipstream (TFA slipstream appearance) aiming her null cannons at the predacons head at full power. "One false move and Predy here pays the price." Slipstream said.
Before anyone could react Slipstream received a shot to the back. When she fell Optimus was walking towards them. "Are you alright?" Optimus asked. Airachnid and Arcee nodded.
He was about to grab Slipstream but she jumped up transformed into a jet and flew off.
Back at base Arachnid and Knockout hugged each other happy to see eachother again. Arachnid was even more happy to see her friend as a autobot.
A few months later
Airachnid, Arcee, Jack and Bulkhead were sent to a sopesedly striped mine after detecting an energon signal. Jack turned into Delta and the others were very happy. Miko stowed away in bulkhead so apparently. "Should we ask for a bridge?" Arachnid asked Delta. (Delta becomes Optimus's second in command in the field only because of his strategy's strength and abilities as a warrior not to mention his maturity.)
"No I do not believe that we will be of danger. If the mine collapses I can just dig us out." Delta said. Arcee smiled knowing how fast her partner could dig through solid rock. Arachnid wished her Partner was here (Knockout). As they moved through the mine Delta stopped and looked at the ceiling with his hunter's instinct punching him like a doorbell. "We have company." Delta said.
"In order to remain undetected we must go deeper in the mine but remain quite." Delta said. Everyone spread out. Arachnid and bulkhead went down one path with Miko (Of course) and Arcee and Delta went down another. The two examined the walls but Delta stopped looking at what seemed to be a fossil. He gently removed it from the rock and examined it. "It looked like a dinosaur bone. "Just an old fossil. We should move on." Delta said recognising the T rex skull.
They moved on and came to a dead end. Delta jumped up to the ceiling using the skills Arcee taught him and stayed there locking his joints so they would not become tired. Arcee just hid behind a pillar. Megatron and Starscream entered the cavern and Megatron was very very angry. He was about to scrap the decepticon when he spotted Arcee. He turned his cannon to her before he shot Delta dropped down from the ceiling.
"Hello megatron. I have been looking for you." Delta said. Megatron smiled. "
"So Soundwave tells me." He replied.
Megatron started shooting at Delta causing a large portion of the cave to collapse. Megatron, Arcee and Delta fell while starscream took this chance to attempt to escape.
When Arcee awoke she saw delta holding up the roof of what was left of the cave.
Arcee's leg was bleeding. The only way to stop it until they got to medical attention was to not move. Arcee sat there looking at the ceiling. But then she got an idea. She started to hit the wall and hope someone would notice. Someone on their side.
Bulkhead Arachnid were working a drill when they turned it off. "You hear that?" Arachnid asked.
"Hear what?" Miko replied.
"Listen."
They heard a faint noise. It sounded like someone was hitting the wall. So they drilled in the direction of the noise.
Delta's arms started to shake and he fell to one knee. "What's going on?" Arcee asked.
"My arms….they're starting to give." Delta said. "Never mind me keep doing what you're doing the drill is getting closer." Delta said, Arcee nodded and continued.
After a few minutes rocks started to fall.
"Jack what's going on?" Arcee asked Delta smiled. "Nothing just keep hitting the wall." Delta said with the most convincing lie he could make. Delta spat energon out of his mouth from the strain on his body.
Arcee's look of worry was changed for one of horror when she realized the internal damage that was happening inside her partner's body.
"Does it hurt?" She asked with fear and pain.
Grunts "A little." Jack said as his arms started to give again.
"JACK!" Arcee shouted. She covered her mouth but hugged his leg. "I'm scarred." Arcee said. Jack nodded. "Me too Cee." Jack replied. The drilling seemed to get closer but nether of them had much strength left. Arcee couldn't even hit the wall anymore.
The wall started to shake and then it busted open.
"They found us." Jack said hopefully.
"Put any doubt of my allegiance to rest." Starscream said before looking realized that he had not found megatron. He saw Arcee nearly unconscious at Delta's feet and his predacon insignia replaced for an autobot one.
"Well if it isn't Arcee and that vermin predacon Delta. My my you seem to have your hands full, don't you Delta?" Starscream taunted with a smile.
"Do whatever you want to me Starscream, but let Arcee go!" Jack yelled as he knew that starscream still had a grudge against him because of what happened in his first escape.
"No I'm not leaving you!" Arcee shouted or tried to.
"It would appear that the scout wishes to remain." starscream said as he reached out and grabbed her.
"Starscream I speared you last time we met don't push my mercy." Delta said.
Growls "That's it vermin...I will…"
"You'll what? Make me drop the ceiling on top of all of us!" Delta exclaimed.
The drill broke through and the team found and defeated starscream leaving him to keep the ceiling up.
They exited the mine and returned home all of them barely clenching onto what remained of their lives. Optimus congratulated Delta and his entire team for their first success as a team, but scolded Miko Mike for stowing away but was grateful she did. Optimus made sure of that.