" The sun is shine, The wind feels great, And you know what else, I get to spread my wings and fly! " A blue and gold, F-12 raptor flew through the sky. But on the ground, there was a red vehicle with horns on the hood, driving down the dusty road that had the white picketing fence along side it.
" Heard you before, Fly-boy " Cliffjumper said with annoyance before cliffjumper linked his and the seeker comm-links up to arcee, as they started to talk, enjoying their conversation before horizon spun around, flying upside down.
:: Hey arcee? :: Horizon asked calmly
:: What :: arcee replied with a question.
:: Did you hear cliffjumper story, yet? ::
:: No, Tell it cliff ::
Cliffjumper laughs at the said story, he rememerbed it as if it was yesterday, while driving down the road, he spoke. :: Alright! I'll spill it. So there i am, on the look out when out of nowhere, these high beams light up my rear-view and then it hits me, Im illegally parked ::
:: Another parking ticket? ::
:: Nope! ::
:: Better, The boot :: Cliff answered.
:: Big metal tire clamp, impossible to remove. :: Arcee said straight forward.
:: Got that right :: Horizon spoke.
:: Bingo! So, the local police do their thing, and I let them get all the way down the block. That's when I kick off my new shiny shoe, And BANG! :: Cliff said, earning a laugh from horizon.
:: New york's finest soil themselves ::
:: you know me, arcee. Mess with cliffjumper :: cliffjumper chuckles.
:: you get the horns. :: Arcee finished. Cliffjumper and horizon began to laugh :: Not sure how that complies with autobot rule number one... Keep a low profile :: Arcee reminded them.
:: Aw your no fun arcee :: horizon said, if he could pout he would but he was enjoying his flight and not wanting it ruin.
:: What can i say, patrolling for energon out here in dullsville gets lonesome, even when someone flying :: Cliffjumper said with a cocky attitude.
:: Hey! I can hear you, yeah know? ::
If cliffjumper could, he would be rolling his optic's at horizon :: Almost makes me miss the decepticons. ::
:: Like jasper, nevada's a party? We're alone wherever we travel on this rock, cliff :: Arcee said convincingly through the commlinks, Horizon hummed in a agreement with her.
Before the two know it, their scanners began to pick up a big signal :: We're getting a signal. ::
:: Need backup ::
The two turned slightly, following the signal :: Do we ever need backup :: The two stopped in their alt modes and saw the energon in the large crater :: We just found a while lot of energon:: The two transformed with horizon landed on the ground, looking up at the incoming shadow looming over them.
"Decepticons " Cliffjumper said.
Horizon groans, watching the torrent turn to them and fires at them, sending both cliffjumper and horizon into the pit as cliff jumper landed on his front before pushing himself up. Horizon landed on his back, damaging his wing struts that were now starting to cause him pain, whimpering. Cliffjumper looked over and slight cursed in cybertornian language, before stand up.
Horizon turned his head, still laying on the ground. He knew he had to move as he forced himself up onto his feet, cliffjumper quickly turned and helped the blue and gold seeker up. They looked up and saw a group of vehicons landed on top of the pit. " This isn't good " Horizon spoked, pain aching between his wing struts.
:: Arcee about that back up : Cliffjumper asked. Horizon whines, his wings were unable to move as he frowns. " Fair warning boys... I'll put a few dings in you." Cliff spoke clearly but angry toward the vehicons.
Horizon frowns and watches cliff tranformed and drove off, up the craters walls and into the vehicons. He frowns more and moved, forcing himself to transformer, despite the pain from his wings, he knew his t-cog wasn't damaged as he fly straight at them. Cliffjumper drove up into the air and went crashing down, fist first into the vehicon as horizon rammed right into them,transforming at the same time before rolling onto his feet.
The fight continued, Horizon did his best to block and dodge the fists that were being thrown at him, he knew he wasn't built for fight, he was built for data-systems, but he wanted to patrol to know the land scape more, him and his processor. Horizon looked over, watching cliff toss one of the vehicons into the pit of the crater as cliffjumper tried to punch another before getting kicked around, horizon looked back before getting himself kicked into the crater as he landed on his front this time hard, before flipping onto his back, damaging his wing struts more as he left out a groaning pain.
Cliffjumper was the next to be thrown into the craters pit, having to land on his back before landing on his pede's. Horizon looked up and saw a horn missing from cliffjumper helm, he was about to say something but cliffjumper hoisted horizon up onto his pede's before glaring at the vehicons " You want the horns, You got 'em " He said, activating his blasters.
Horizon whines as cliffjumper fires at the vehicons as cliffjumper ran toward them, jumping and dodging the blasters shots. Horizon watched as one of the shots hit the energon crystal, his optic's widening with fear as he moved quickly but he wasn't fast enough. A blast erupted behind them, the energon crystals exploded around cliffjumper and horizon, engulping them in the blue explosion as they lay on the ground in pain as the vehicons walked over and lifting them up, dragging them to the ship.
Once they were in the nemesis, four of the vehicons came, two dragging cliffjumper and the other two carrying horizon. Horizon looked up as his optic's widen weakly " not... again " Horizon rasped, hurting from the pain.
They dropped both of them onto their knees " Scream. " Cliffjumper looked up at starscream " it's been a while " cliff coughing up some energon. " So, where's your master? " Cliffjumper added.
Horizon shook, whining very weakly, struggling to hid his fear and his pain. He was to weak to reach through the only bond he had. " Never mind him! I am my own master. " Starscream said, raising his hand and slamming it into cliffjumper chassis (Chest), leaving a grunt to come from cliffjumper " Anymore questions " starscream added, Cliffjumper looked at the hole in his chest, before starscream pulled it out and watched as cliff he fell. Horizon optic's widen, watching cliffjumper offline by his spark extinguished infront of him caused him to shake even more with fear.
"C..cliff... n..no" Horizon hunged his head in mourning. He had lost a friend and now he back were he was. In the decepticon claws. Starscream turned to horizon, watching him before smirking " Clean that up, And... Put horizon rise, our favorite pet back in his cell, where he belongs. " Starscream said, The vehicons moved, grabbing horizon by the wrists and walks out with him, leaving the remaining vehicons to drag cliffjumper body away.
Cyber Pov
The ground bridge opened up, Ratchet landed on the ground, followed by bulkhead who has landed an inch beside ratchet, followed by bumblebee then arcee, Optimus was the next to come out, with the burst of his speed and landed in front of them and well me, i caustically walk out, jumping onto the ground, reason why? My spark has been hurting since the bond was weakening and so far, ratchet, my grandcarrier, did not want to leave me at base alone.
" An untapped energon deposit. " Optimus spoke.
"What's left of it" bulkhead recalled.
"The first decepticon activity in three years " Ratchet explained.
"That we know of" Optimus resorted.
"That we know of?! " I began glares" Forgive my outburst but, look around you, This isn't just a caused and we both know, even arcee knows, that my carrier, And Cliffjumper are both careful around energon deposits, This isn't something to go about saying ' That we know of ' " I said through my out burst, making my point, one of my many traits of doing so. Optimus looked at me, truly he thought he was looking at another megatron but it wasn't, the gold on my armor glowed brightly, blending into the gray armor from the light of the sun as he watched my own visor dimmed before brightening up.
"You do make a valid point, cyberstep, but do not be fooled by what you see" Optimus said, I began huffed before pouting, earning a slight chuckle from Optimus, even quieter but yet barely hear-able chuckle from my grand carrier.
" But "
I rolled my optic's ' there that but... always the but. Everyone has been saying that since i started to learn to talk. Even carrier ' " If they are scouting for energon then, they maybe preparing for his return, " Optimus said with concern.
' his? '
I began to walks beside ratchet with the others, frowning. I began to have this feeling, their not telling me something. I looked at my grandcarrier, ready to ask, but he shook his head and whispers to me " it is best if your carrier tells you " ratchet spoke. I frowned before growling, crossing my arms and pout. ' what is it they are hidding from me, i knew everyone since day one of my birth '
Arcee walks ahead as i followed her, seeing her jump down, i began to follow as well, jumping down, landing on the rocks she landed on before walking in this destroyed pit of a crater. I turned my head and spotted somethng, slowing walking to it and kneeling down. I study the marking s on the ground before frowning " Carrier " I spoke quietly, i recognized the colors of blue and gold when i notice the tiny armor piece embented into the ground, grabbing it and pulling it out.
I heard arcee gasped before she kneels down and picked up a horn from cliffjumper. I turned my head toward her. I stood up and walk to her " no. " she said sadly as i set my servo on arcee shoulder, lowering my head. " Your not the only one arcee " I said, arcee set her hand gently onto mine before turning around, showing ratchet and optimus.
"Ratchet, Can you track their position?" Optimus asked.
Ratchet lifted his arm up, a small scanner appear before it showed two red dots that faded " No.. Cliffjumper and Horizon rise " Ratchet looks at cyberstep with sorrow " Life signals just went offline " Ratchet said, softly in pain of the lost. My own optic's widen as he clenched my hand tightly, growling softly trying to hold back my cries for my own carrier.
When we have returned back to base, using the elevator to go up on top of the base. I could hear birds screeching and chirping, looking up at the sky and remembering how my carrier used to fly all the time. I didn't know if carrier was online or not, but all i know if, the bond was very weak, barely there. This has been the first step of ever being away from him for this long.
" We must not allow our anger come over the loss of cliffjumper and horizon rise " Optimus began to speak, using their names formally. I clenched my fist in anger, so did arcee. They both hated the fact they lost someone dear to them. Arcee partner wasn't here, nor was my carrier. " To impair our judgement. As of today, only we six autobot's remain on this earth. We owe it to ourselves...To the memory of cybertron..." I looked at ratchet, seeing him hung his head in mourning over the lost of my carrier as i moved closer to him, rubbing his back softly. "To any autobots in any galaxy seeking safe harbor... to humankind..." Arcee and i moved up, setting the piece that belongs to my carrier armor and the horn to cliffjumper. " To our fallen comrades... to survive " Arcee stood up and walked away. I began to follow, wanting time to spend with her and to remove the lost of my carrier.
"Arcee, Cyberstep" Optimus called out.
" If cliff gone " Arcee spoke.
" And since carrier gone" I added in.
" Stand around here sulking won't bring them back." Arcee said.
" So, unless anyone minds, Think we'll get back to protecting humankind " I said slightly having a scolding tone, with arcee nodding. The both transfromed, I began to turn into a GMC 2012 pick up truck as arcee turned into her motocycle, both of us speeding off the to town and away from the autobots.
I completely ignore my surrounding, just watching the road in front of me. Following arcee was the best choice and i am actually happy that it was. Seeking comfort from eachother was a good opinion. I heard her spoke and heard a pair of engines roaring behind up. " Twins..." Arcee said, I grew concern before letting my engines rumble.
:: I'll distract them, you find some cover :: I said through the comm as i watched arcee pull up to the K.O Burger parking lot as i drove head with the twin 'cons on my tail.
-a hour later-
I drove down the road, spotting arcee and bumblebee but what i caught was the glimps of two humans on arcee. It was shocking to me as the three of us drove into the base, i was watching the humans carefully as they looked amazed from the inside of the silo. I pulled a halt to my vehical form and transformed, watching the humans climbed off/out of arcee and bumblebee.
" I thought there was two " Ratchet said, walking over beside bulkhead, i moved as well, heading next to ratchet, catching a glimps of him looking at me with a nod of acknowledgement of my presence.
"Haven't you heard, Human Multiply " Arcee remarked, earning a chuckle from myself. She looked at me with a scolding tone and i knew i was in for it.
" Hey 'cee, look i know i was suppose to distract them but they lost interest in me, don't ask why but they did and the thing was, i didn't know they were aiming for you and the human alright" I tried my best to explain but i only earn a hard hit in the helm from arcee fist as i whined.
" We will talk later about this " Arcee scolded me as if i was still a youngling. I whined again and retreated behind my grandcarrier for comfort. I learn one thing, You anger a femme, you face the femme wrath. Carrier had told me before not to anger a femme unless you got the brass baring to do so.
"Yes.. ma'am" I said in a low, innocent tone. Ratchet on the other hand, chuckles quietly at me. It seems i can make any day amusing to him after all, he is my carrier adopted carrier, Just sometimes i wonder who my creator was, i never bother to ask because this second bond i have is so weak but meekly there was tugging a few times and it scared me when i was a sparkling so carrier always told me if it tugs, ignore it, if it starts hurting, block it.
Anyways back to the others, I watched as the female human run up and said her name was miko and began to ask and we answered one one question, our names, Then she started to bombard me and bulkhead questions that even confused both of us and i just stared widely at her. But the question asked " What's that on your face? Are you blind? What type of car do you transform into? " She asked quickly and very very curious, EVEN i wasn't that curious.
" Huh " Bulk and i said in a union, outmatched by a human girl. I could tell my grandcarrier was trying his hardest to not laugh at my shocked expression, this has reminded me of a story carrier told me when he ran into this autobot named blurr, he talked way to fast and it made my carrier glitched, i guess that was the day carrier was still carrying me around his spark. Let's just say, i was very... very... very tiny and unoticable in my carrier chest, near his spark.
" So, if you guys are robots, Who made you? " The smallest male, Raf, asked us. I rolled my optic's behind my blue visor before hearing ratchet scoffed.
" Puh-Lease" Ratchet scoffed, rolling his optic's and looking down at the boy before all of us looked up and seen optimus walking toward us. Yep, the great prime himself, now if only i can find a way to get carrier home. Speaking of carrier, i need to try and reach him again.
" We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet cybertron, also known as autobots" Optimus explained out species to them. I watched the taller human male walk up to optimus to speak.
" Why are you here?" The human male asked.
"To protect your planet from decepticons. " Optimus answered.
"The jokers who tried to bump us off last night" Arcee pointed out.
" Okay. Why are they here? " The human male asked. I began to rolled my optic's behind my visor once more, Optimuse took one step forward, bending down onto one knee, resting his servo on his bent knee.
" A fair question, jack " optimus said, So that's the other human name. " in part, they are here because our planet is uninhabitable, ravaged by centuries of civil war. " Optimus explained.
"Why were you fighting a war?" Raf asked with concern. I frowned, also wondering that too, all i knew was carrier said something about megatron not being prime and optimus earned the titled, but he never really told me how it started out.
"Foremost, over control of our world's supply of energon, The fuel and lifeblood of all autobots and decepticons alike. " Optimus said.
I sigh growing anxious and impatiently like a sparkling, that was another trait of mine, i was never one to stand patiently for something or someone. My carrier would just laugh at me all the time and call me the impatient one. " The combat was fierce and endured for centuries. In the beginning, I fought alongside one whom i considered a brother" I tiled my head, listening to optimus speak.
"But in war, ideals can be corrupted. and it was thus. . . that megatron lost his way. " I tensed at the name. 'Megatron... i heard or seen it from somewhere, but where did i hear or seen it at ' I heard optimus finished. I looked at ratchet who shooked his head at me, the look in his optics said your carrier will explain. I groaned inwardly, hate waiting.
I heard a boring yawn and looks at miko before she asked " Is there gonna be a quiz?" she asked, i snorted inwardly, trying not to laugh as i shook my head softly as the two males look at her before back at optimus
" So, what does megatron. . . or any of this. . . have to do with us? " Jack asked, i frowned, wanting to know as well.
"Megatron has not been seen nor heard of in sometime. "Optimus spoke.
" Not since rescuing my carrier " I added as i earned glared from arcee and ratchet as i winced and moved behind bulkhead to avoid the glares as i earn a small smile and a chuckle from optimus before he resumed
" But if his return in imminent, as i fear, it could be catastrophic." Optimus said.
My optic's widen behind my visor as he clenched my chest, feeling something burning on the bond, something i haven't felt in a long time as ratchet move to keep me steady on my pedes. What is this burning bond? Why does it hurt so much? Who does this bond belong to? It's not carriers bond... No this bond is filled with anger, Hatred, revenge and...it's corrupted.
