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Guest Starring: Christopher Columbus!
Target Planet. AKA Earth/Terra
Atlantic Ocean: 1492.
It was dark, as the seas rolled on, the water splashed into something hard, making a distinctive slapping sound as the sound of creaking echoed through the night, as three sailing vessels rolled through the ocean, the waves lifting them up and then pulling them back down.
The night was calm as could be, but the sea was still the sea and it would forever be out of Man's control.
On the largest of the three ships, a man stood, wearing a black hat and black robes, with brown hair his eyes attempted to pierce the darkness as next to him stood two other men, one was holding up a spy glass/telescope.
"A clear night for sailing Sir," One of the men said and the man nodded. "Yes, I hope that we might soon see our Journey's end."
"When pray tell might that be Sir Columbus, we've been travelling for months now and the crew is getting rather restless." The Helmsman said.
Columbus didn't respond and he looked over the horizon, and then checked his compass, it had been fluctuating in an odd manner for a while now. However it would quickly become the least of their concerns.
"Sir," The helmsmen cried out as he pointed. The Captain looked up and, to see a series of lights in the sky, falling toward the planet below.
The other man raised a spyglass and gawked. "What in the name of God?" He asked as the lights descended from the heavens rocketing toward earth. There were seven in total as they sailed down from the heavens.
"Awake the crew!" The captain shouted and the man with the spyglass ran into the depths of the ship to wake the rest of the crew.
"We must be near the end of the earth, if the heavens themselves are sending balls of fire down to stop us!" The Helmsmen exclaimed.
The lights, which were actually the Energon rockets, sailed toward the planet below, across the northern hemisphere of the planet, several were landing in more distant locations, however most were aimed in places where they would be undisturbed by the local population of the planet.
The rockets flew toward the sea, two of them fell into it and shot up geysers of water as they hit the seabed and exploded. The other five kept flying, until one of them hit an island and exploded, sending roots, grass, and sand into the air, however a bit of the casing hit one of the rockets that was still in the air and sent it spiraling over the three ships.
The Captain and helms men watched in terror as the object sailed overhead, as did the rest of the crew with awe.
The remaining rockets flew until they impacted into several more landmasses, one of which was near a beach and several more crashed farther inland.
In many areas on the continent close by natives watched as the rockets soared across the sky and crashed into a myriad of locations, as they did Energon spread across the landscape and seeped into the soil.
The Planet was undergoing seeding, and the plans of the Decepticons, were beginning to unfold.
Autobot City Command Bunker
Optimus stood before a large door with several different sets of locks on it, as he placed a servo on one side, he entered in a password and then a scanner popped out to scan his optics, followed by a fully body scan, then a needle came out and jabbed him in both arms.
The Prime sighed to himself, Red Alert had been the head of security for far too long, at one time a stable Autobot now was essentially insane with paranoia, and the fact that they had a female medic in the southern region with the same name didn't help.
As Optimus finished up the security procedures he entered the bunker, even though there were not Security Cameras inside it it's entrance was under thick and heavy guidelines, Optimus hadn't yet to make a command to override these rules once he became Prime, but he mentally reminded himself to do so.
As he walked into the room, he spotted the faceplates that made up the Autobot High Command. Ultra Magnus, Skyfire, Prowl, Jazz, and Elita One, they were the high command stationed in Iacon but there were many more commanders either in space or on other parts of Cybertron.
"So I hear that the Kaon raid was unsuccessful." Ultra Magnus said and Optimus shifted his Optics toward Prowl and then back at Magnus.
"We failed in capturing the energon within the rockets-"
"The whole point of the mission was to do that by the way." Prowl shot out.
"Prowl that's enough," Elita One said, the Yellow frame of the fem commander was intermixed with light blue and black, her helmet used to be something of a small dome with a curved part on the back but that was shattered during the war and replaced with the helmet she carried now.
Prowl grunted in response. "Optimus failed the mission because of his desire to "preserve Decepticon lives."
Optimus scowled in response under his faceplate. "We don't need to drive our race toward extinction, we'll be no better than the Decepticons if we are killing them outright."
"Primes right," Jazz said leaning back and kicking his legs up on the table. ", the cons may be killing us but it's becoming less frequent, we're acting better than the cons and it's setting an example." As he finished Ultra Magnus grabbed Jazz and removed his feet from the table. "I like your commander armor better." Jazz muttered.
"I don't know prime, the cons during the raid were pit bent on killing all of you." Jetfire put in.
"Well, you did blow up their city." Elita interjected.
"They've done the same to us hundreds of times." Prowl stated.
"Megatron can dish it out but he can't take it." Jazz laughed earning a glare from Prowl.
"The point is Optimus Prime is soft, he's not the bot we need leading the Autobots right now, we need results we have the forces to take action and win the war, yet Optimus wants to play nice with all of them, give them slaps on the wrist and let them run around free to cause more havoc."
"Alpha Trion taught me that all life is precious, even Decepticon life." Optimus stated and prowl rolled his eyes.
"You keep saying that all the time Optimus, I think you need to come up with a better fragging excuse." Prowl spat.
Optimus gave a glare at Prowl and then looked at the rest of the assembled leaders."Furthermore we do not have the energon to strike an all out assault on Kaon at present, and currently the Decepticons are doubt readying to increase all security measures, without proper amounts of energon a direct assault could be disastrous."
"Well maybe we can ask old Hide upstairs if he knows anything." Jazz said.
"Come to think of, why we haven't tried to ask Ironhide for any information is beyond me." Elita said rubbing her chin. "It would be useful, or could."
"The Decepticons probably changed all of their information once they learned that he came to us the only thin he'd be good for is cannon fodder." Prowl said causing the room to go silent.
"Wow, ya know for a Cyber Ninja that was kind of harsh." Skyfire said earning another glare from Prowl.
"We are not going to be using people as "cannon fodder!" Optimus shouted standing up. "Why are we even arguing about this when we have something much bigger to deal with?"
"Yeah, like where the scrap is all that energon Shockwave fired going?" Skyfire asked. "I tried to track them with the satellites and scouts ships but they were going too fast."
"Shockwave said he had a selected a planet to seed, so it's probably organic." Magnus said looking over the report. "It's probably far away enough that it's not easy to get too."
"I've studied this effect, under certain conditions Energon will multiply by turning certain bits of organic matter into energon; if unchecked it could convert most of a planet into energon." Skyfire stated.
"So The Decepticons are going to destroy an entire planet just to get energon," Jazz said his optics widening behind his visor. ", that's just messed up."
Prowl gave a nod as well. "What's to stop them from doing just one?" He asked.
"Why do you care?" Elita asked raising an optic. "You're the one talking about making bots cannon fodder!"
Jazz motioned for Elita to lean in and whispered, "Prowl's a bit bitter when it comes to the cons, Sentinel was his best friend and Yoketron was his master both were killed by the cons right in front of him, and Ironhide led the original assault on Yoketron's dojo, but Cyber ninjas were taught that non Cybertronains should NOT be caught up in the war."
Prowl frowned at Elita's comment and looked at Optimus. "Problem is we don't know where to look."
Behind Magnus a screen crackled to life. "Red Alert to Optimus, Red Alert to Optimus." A voice called out causing the Autobots to look. "Go ahead Red Alert." Optimus said.
"We've been receiving a transmission from the outer rim I'm tempted to ignore it as we have no Autobots out there."
"Put it through anyway." Optimus said. "If it's something bad we can deal with it."
Red Alert's voice faded and the screen began to flash a bit before a video appeared, showing the face of Wheeljack.
"Boss bot," Wheeljack said, retracting his faceplate with a grin. ", how is everything going back home?"
Optimus chuckled; he hadn't seen the crazy scientist in stellar cycles. "Right now we are dealing with a situation involving."
"Oh, Oh, let me guess, rockets filled with energon hurtling toward an uncharted planet?" Wheeljack asked while flashing a smile. "Because I just filled my tanks with the energon from a rocket I disabled."
"You know where they're heading?" Optimus asked.
"I've tracked them to a small planet in another galaxy; it's a couple of light-years away from Cybertron; right now I'm parked on the planets moon."
"Does the planet have life on it?" Skyfire asked and Wheeljack gave a nod.
"Afraid so, organic life from what I'm seeing, they're kind of like the nebulans only less advanced; they appear to just be getting the hand of wind power, energon readings are slowly getting into high levels."
The optics of the Autobots went wide with shock as they all turned to face Optimus who placed his hands on the desk.
"I was thinking of trying to stop it myself but I don't have enough resources." Wheeljack said with a sigh and Optimus looked up. "That's alright Wheeljack, send us the coordinates and we'll get a team ready to meet you there."
"Alright, I'll send it to Teletran 1, and do you want me to keep an optic on the energon levels?"
"Please do Wheeljack, if it gets too high radio us and try to lessen it as much as possible, if you can."
"Alright Prime; Wheeljack out." He said and ended the transmission leaving the command bunker silent.
"We need a team assembled as soon as possible." Skyfire said. "Who knows how long until that energon manages to spread and consume that planet?"
"Or worse the inhabitants mess with the stuff and injure themselves." Elita put in."But we don't have enough Energon for interstellar travel like that at the moment."
"But if we get there too late the planet will be a ball of energon, even worse if Megatron gets a hold of it first." Prowl put in and Optimus nodded.
"We'll have to do some planning on this one, Wheejack's monitoring the energy levels, Prowl have a ship ready for when we have the enough energon to get us to the planet, and whatever Energon we find we recover and use it to come home, whatever's left we use for other purposes."
The Other Autobot leaders nodded but Jazz spoke up. "But what's to stop ol Shockers from trying it again; if we capture the energon how do we know that he won't just seed another planet?"
"That's something that when the time comes, we will deal with it." Optimus said lowering his head. "You are all dismissed thank you for coming."
The other Autobot commanders began to leave, until all that were left were Elita and Optimus. She walked over to Optimus and placed a hand onto his shoulder.
"Don't let Prowl get to you Optimus, he's just being Prowl."
"I know, he wasn't expecting a dock worker who did extra work at the library on weekends to become the next Prime." He looked down at his chest and sighed. "I don't think Sentinel or any other prime had to deal with this."
Elita gave him a soft smile and put her left servo onto his chest plates. "Your life; our life has always been some kind of crazy adventure, to be honest I'd be shocked if things actually calmed down."
Optimus chuckled and placed his hand over Elita's; she always knew how to make him feel better.
Kaon: Shockwave's Tower.
Shockwave stared at the screen showing the status of the rockets, all except the one the Autobot had taken out had hit their targets and now the energy reading where showing that energon was forming at a large rate.
But something was trouble him. The expansion rate wasn't happening fast enough
"Interesting," Shockwave mused as he looked over the readings. ", at this rate it will take at least millennia for the planet to be fully converted into energon."
Shockwave sighed in frustration. His plan wasn't matching up a hundred percent, but he figured he could still make it work. He needed more energon and another stable planet, there were several that were similar to the target planet, a couple a bit closer but ne needed to examine them a bit further, and he didn't have the energon to do that.
He checked the readouts again; the energon underneath the world's body of water was expanding at a rapid rate, as were some of the land based ones as well, however one Rocket that had strayed into a smaller body of water hadn't gone off like the others, it had fallen into the body of water and according to his readings that body of water had extremely cold temperatures.
"It would be logical to cut my losses on that one and retrieve its Cargo." He mused and keyed in a few buttons on his computer.
He hit another key and it showed a long list of Constructicon drones on the screen. Shockwave tapped some more keys and twelve names lit up.
As he typed he didn't notice Megatron walk in, the Decepticon leader still had doubt about Shockwave and walked up behind him and looked over his shoulder.
"Shockwave what are you doing?" He asked coldly. A normal mech would have jumped and panicked, but Shockwave was not a normal mech.
"An unforeseen factor has caused one of the rockets to fail." Shockwave explained. "I am going to send a team of six Constructicons in order to fix this problem."
Megatron raised his left optic. "Are there any other unforeseen factors you're not telling me Shockwave?"
Shockwave pulled up the screen showing the energon expansion. "It is a slow process to begin with Lord Megatron, it cannot be rushed I'm afraid."
Megatron huffed and walked away before turning back toward Shockwave. "Remember Shockwave, I will be watching, get the seeding working, and I will be inspecting the ship that you send when it returns!" And then Megatron left.
"Who said anything about a ship," Shockwave asked himself as he turned and walked toward and walked toward a section of floor in the middle of the room. The floor opened up and Shockwave stepped down onto a small platform that began to lower itself through the levels, soon he was at the bottom, but he went right through it and underground.
", when my Space Bridge is ready to test fire." Shockwave said as he came to a large room with rings hooked up across the cavern and a large portal was right in front of him.
A Door opened behind Shockwave and the twelve Constructicons emerged from behind. Shockwave walked over to a large piece of equipment and the Space Bridge began to roar to life.
Yeah bit of a shorter Chapter here, ah well time marches on ;P
Anyway we're finally back here folks with this story, what's going to happen when the Constructicons get to earth? Find out next chapter!
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