Eyrmia: Ratchet sure. Magnus maybe. That's it.
Lower levels, Kaon City...
"C'mon! Gimme a Break!" Chromia exclaimed. "I totally won that! I had a six! That was gonna land on the zero and you tipped it! You fragging cheat!"
"Uh...hey Chrome Dome, calm down." Her older brother Dion spoke.
"No I will not calm down! Those credits are gonna pay for our Energon for the rest of the week!" Chromia continued.
"Listen up kid." The large silver dealer spat. "Ya get whatcha get. Ain't nothin' dirty about mah games. Either ya lucky or ya ain't. Now get lawst. Don't even know why a pretty li'l femme lahk you is down in these parts. Unless..." The dealer leaned in closer to Chromia wearing a crooked smile. "Ah can persuade ya to earn some credits anotha way."
Chromia glared at the large mech maliciously. "You're kidding me right?"
The dealer leaned in closer. "Nah. In fact if ya promise me two nahts, I'll double the reward from what ya woulda won 'ere. Deal?"
Chromia continued to glare at the dealer.
"Aww bolts. Here we go." Dion complained.
"What're you talki—" the dealer was interrupted when Chromia raised her tonfa blasters to the mech's faceplates. Then several other large mechs around the casino pulled out several kinds of weapons and pointed them towards the two younglings.
"C'mon now. Puttem down." The dealer smirked. "I wouldn't be able to power down properly at nights if ah had to watch two kids blown apahrt."
"How many Dion?" Chromia asked.
"Uh...four...twelve...fourteen!" Dion announced as he pulled out and extended his bo staff.
"Cool." Chromia spoke.
"There ain't no way you kids are—" one mech exclaimed before he was interrupted by Chromia shooting his shoulder.
"Gettim!" The dealer ordered and his mechs started to shoot at the two kids. They quickly dodged the shots and sprinted to the two mechs nearest to them.
They didn't react fast enough and they were hit out of the siblings way. The next two mechs were shot in the legs by Chromia's blasters, and Dion ran past them stumbling mechs and hit one mech with one end of his staff and another two were hit with the other end of his staff simultaneously.
The mechs were all quickly wounded and on the groaning in pain on the floor except for the dealer. He shakily brought out a small pistol and pointed it at Chromia but she shot it out of his servo.
"Wh-what in the Pit are you two?" The dealer demanded.
"Just two desperate, hungry kids who you ripped off." Dion told him expressionless. "Admit your cheat and give us our money."
"What? I-I told you two that I-" Chromia unsheathed her tonfa blade and put it against the dealer's neck.
"Really? C'mon, you can't be that dense." Chromia mocked. "Admit your cheat, then hand us our money and we'll leave. You have three nanoseconds."
"Alright! I tipped the table so the samulin wouldn't land on zero! The credits are in the back room! Please! Please don't hurt me!" The dealer pleaded.
Chromia put her tonfa weapons away and smiled. "See? That wasn't so hard!"
It wasn't long before Chromia and Dion walked out of the small casino with bags of Energon credits.
They were both smiling and laughing as they walked to the underground abandoned warehouse that they called their "Base of Operations".
It was dark, damp, and dirty, but it had been their home for the longest time.
"Y'know, when she finds out how we got these credits, she's not gonna be too happy." Dion spoke.
Chromia shrugged. "By the time she finds out we'll have spent them all already."
Dion sighed. He walked over to a small reflective surface by his right. He was mostly blue, but his arms and legs were a light orange. He would have been much brighter but his paint was smeared with dirt and grime. He looked over to his sister. She too was covered with dirt, but she should have been several shades of blue.
"Hey, it's your turn to dig a stash compartment." Chromia informed her brother.
"Okay." He replied as he walked away.
He found a spot far from the entrance, so far and deep that neither Chromia nor he had ever been there, and took out his bo staff and unsheathed the blade from within. The blade was at an angle so Dion began picking away at the dirt.
He continued to dig for several minutes before he hit something solid within the dirt.
"Huh?" He questioned. "Hey Chromia! Come here!"
Chromia came running to her brother. "What is it? Did you hurt yourself?"
Dion shook his helm. "Nah, but I hit something."
Chromia looked at the place at which Dion was digging. She bent down and used her servo to brush the dirt away. Something large and metal was buried under the dirt.
"What is it?" Dion wondered.
Chromia shrugged cluelessly. "C'mon, let's see what it is. Who knows, it might be worth something good."
Dion smiled at that prospect and helped his sister uncover the thing.
When Dion was swiping away at the dirt he uncovered the glass window and he was surprised by the face within. "What the Pit?"
Chromia looked in as well and saw that some mech was in the thing. He didn't look any older than she or Dion. He also looked like he was asleep.
"Oh! It must be a stasis pod!" Chromia proclaimed.
"A stasis pod in the middle of an abandoned warehouse? Who's bright idea was it to put a stasis pod here?" Dion demanded.
"I dunno." Chromia replied. "C'mon. Let's see if we can get him out of there."
Chromia and Dion proceeded to fiddle with the various buttons around the stasis pod's base. Then Dion found a large blue button near the back of the pod and he pressed it.
The pod made a loud hiss and the pod began to open. Steam billowed out of the pod and the two siblings stepped back.
When the pod was fully open the mech inside got up shakily, before collapsing onto the dirt.
"What?" Chromia questioned.
Okay, so this is supposed to be a sort of prequel to TF: Prime. If you don't like that, then you are free to read this as a stand alone story that has nothing to do with anything.
Let me know what you think! Comment and review!