Sorcerers of Sacor & Transformers: Mecha!Sorcerer
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Here I am again! Another experimental story.
I normally get these ideas by randomly picking a fandom, of something I have read/seen before, and I read a few stories by my fellow writers (a big shout out to all you amazing guys!).
Shannon's (my oc) mechanical form was a dead idea that started years ago. I decided to resurrect it and found the Transformers fandom. By what I've read their fandom tends to use specialist vocabulary. I bet it's a good job that I enjoy Physics and Computer Science :)
I hope you like whatever I come out with in this one. Now for the disclaimer:
Transformers does not in any way belong to me, it has the full copyright of Paramount and Hasbro (I do not own it or related content).
I do however own the Sorcerers of Sacor series and related characters and content (including Shannon's Mechanical form).
Shannon walked to the weapons room and entered. The specialist wasn't there but she thought that she would make herself useful and carry on with integrating Avalaran Steel into Sacorian metal alloys. She began working on the blade and noticed its transparency. She laid it down, and lay down herself. She curled up as a dragon. "Shannon, I see that you couldn't wait til later. Any more ideas?" Ironhide asked entering the room.
"Not at the moment, I was hoping that we could figure out a way of creating retractable weapons on my armour" she said.
"Could integrated Shadow Fire hide them within your limbs?" He asked. Shannon stood next to the bot.
"I'm sure that it can be done. It would need a reliable energy source, incase the user becomes tired. That energy source could be the darkness within the armour; an unlimited supply of energy" she said smiling.
"Let's get started then, sounds like a good project to work on. Guess who we'll have to see for medical clearance" he said. She whined.
"If we both go now, there's a low chance that he will decline it" she said as she lead him out into the corridor. They were greeted by other Autobots. Jazz saw them and saluted, before joining them.
"Going to see Old Doc?" He asked. Shannon chuckled at the nickname for the medic.
"Yep, the latest project requires medical clearance from our on site chief medical officer" she said. The silver mech smiled.
"I've got to watch that! S**t just got interesting" he said.
::Language Jazz, please:: the dragoness said through her new integrated comm system.
::You're learning, beautiful Sorceress:: he replied. She was never completely used to Jazz's constant flattery, and never could stop herself from blushing. He smiled at her.
They walked and stood outside medbay. Ironhide knocked on the door. "Who is it" Ratchet was heard calling from inside. Jazz had become impatient.
"Come on Doc! You have three visitors" he shouted inside. The door opened to reveal Ratchet. He frowned at them.
"What is it?" The medic asked. Shannon stood professionally, which apparently alarmed the medic that something was not normal. "A medical enquiry" she said. He turned to Ironhide, who nodded to signal that he was with her. The medic turned to Jazz, who shrugged. Ratchet then signalled for them to enter medbay. "Sit" he commanded the dragoness. She sat on the bed/table. The doctor sighed. "And what may this medical enquiry be" he said.
"Ironhide and myself are thinking of working on a project. It is to integrate weapons in my mechanical armour, which has been thought that shadow fire can be used to conceal them within my biological tissue. I can use the darkness between the armour and my body to constantly fuel the shadow fire" she said. She felt Ratchet slowly grow frustrated.
"Consequences of the integration, let's say that the shadow fire failed. Your body is literally ripped apart" he said. She felt the anger in his voice, and despair.
"She's an expert with the elements, even in her own race she's the Guardian of The Elements, and the Guardian of Blue Fire" Ironhide said. Ratchet waved it off. His anger caused his ventilation systems to audibly come online. He put a hand over his optics, clearly hiding pain. "Go" he said.
::Come on Doc:: Jazz said over a shared comm line. The medic gave a glance that had the capacity to pierce Avalaran Steel. "Get out of my medbay!" He shouted. The two unwelcome mechs were the first to leave. Shannon stood her ground. She found a dent in his mental wall that he had constructed. 'Ratchet-' she thought to him. She retreated from his inferno mind before it could attack on instinct. His optics met her eyes, the rage that she saw scared her. She stepped back. ::I'm not moving Ratchet:: she said, trying the open comm. He closed it. A wrench was thrown close to her left forepaw as a warning.
Shannon was too confident that he wouldn't harm her. "I'm ordering you to get the frag out of here before you get hurt" he growled at her. She sat down.
"No" she said too casually. She had enough time to immerse herself in shadow fire for Ratchet's next wrench to pass through her without a scratch. His optic ridges lowered at the medic's source of anger. She still refused to move away. He growled once more and the dragoness made herself invisible. Ratchet pulled down his battle helm and spotted the dragoness. He walked up to her whilst she backed up into a corner. ::Ratchet?:: she asked through the comm, only to be ignored by him. She dropped the spell. He pointed his right servo at her. She misjudged this as an act of friendship, only to be greeted with a charging canon. She gasped and turned into her mechanical form. She began to charge her Purple Fire within her snout.
Once ready, neither one subconsciously wanted to fire. Ratchet fired, purposefully missing by a metre to Shannon's left. She converted her Purple Fire into her infamous Blue Fire. She released the jet of Blue Fire and purposefully hit Ratchet, it put him in a brief daze. This gave her enough time to get to the other side of the angered mech. She reared. She made her sword appear in proportion to her form. The Sorceress started the fight as she hurled herself onto him. The blurr of fired weapons and elemental smoke was enough to alert their Prime.
Command: Temporary Lockdown
Targets: Chief Medical Officer Ratchet and Sorceress Shannon
Authorisation: Optimus Prime
The pair of brief enemies shared a frightened glance before collapsing on the ground. The medbay was entered by the senior Autobots. Prowl looked at the mech and Sorceress that had collapsed. "The slag happened here? They are both equally damaged" he said.
"I think that we will find out when they wake in the Brig" Optimus said as the collapsed frames were lifted to be taken to Brig.
The dragoness woke in her mechanical form, and noticed that she was behind bars. 'Where the actual frag am I?' she asked herself.
"I see that you're out of stasis Sorceress" Wheeljack said, at his security post. She had half blurred vision, but could make out the medic's silhouette in the cell next to her. When her sight had recovered she turned into her biological dragon form and saw that the Medic had his back to her. She was confused at first but the memories came back to her, it hit her to the extent that she curled up in misery. She had attacked Ratchet when he had purposefully missed the shot at her. 'She had a fight with her friend' she thought. She groaned loudly to make sure that her misery was heard. "Sorceress, keep quiet until Prime arrives" Wheeljack continued.
'Oh Ancestors! Prime was involved' she groaned while the thought crossed her mind. Optimus entered the brig.
"I'll start at the beginning, why were you Sorceress in medbay?" He asked. She looked at Ratchet who was avoiding eye contact with her.
"I was trying to get medical clearance for a project" she said.
"Ironhide was kind enough to brief me on the proposed project-" he started.
"-Prime it would have the potential to kill her" Ratchet interrupted. The prime waved a hand to silence them.
"I wouldn't leave medbay when he asked. He then warned me by the means of flying wrenches, and before long he had his canon in my face" she explained. Optimus judged each one of them carefully.
"You two will spend the rest of the day in here" Optimus said before leaving. She curled up as far away from Ratchet's cell as possible. Ratchet alternatively sat next to the bars nearest to Shannon's cell. 'Shannon...' he thought to her.
'Go away, I have enough misery as it is' she thought back.
'You didn't mean to damage me much, because you used Blue Fire. Not the Purple Fire that you were planning to use' he thought, 'I overreacted. I thought that I would lose you to an experiment'.
She lifted her head and looked at him. "I can use shadow fire quite well" she said.
"I know, I just don't want to lose you" he said. Wheeljack decided to leave as the prisoners were getting along.
"I'm out of here" she said, walking to the bars and changed into a clouded aura of blue light. It instead went inside Ratchet's cell. She materialised again. She and the green mech curled up and began to fix the bond between them. She tightened her grip on him. "I'm sorry" she said.
"I'm sorry too" he replied. Wheeljack came back in.
"How did you transfer cells?" He asked.
"I have my methods, I needed to get to him to fix the bond" she said.
"The bond is nearly completed. You do understand that Ironhide is coming. But you'd rather cuddle" Wheeljack said. The weapons specialist came in. Shannon hummed against Ratchet's shoulder.
"Can you work with Ironhide and myself on the project, I need to repair the bond as it destroys us both" she mumbled. He shivered at the vibration of her voice and she sniggered.
"The answer is still no" he whispered.
Ironhide frowned at the medic. "She's not a sparkling Ratchet, you're too protective over her" he said, "Anyway, Prime says that you may leave the Brig. We can't have senior officers in Brig" he continued. The door was opened and Ratchet stood, leaving the dragoness on the ground.
"Ratchet, can I spend my time in medbay" she said. The medic nodded and walked with the dragoness close to his heels. She focused on the quiet gentle sounds of the bot's hydraulics as he walked. She found the sound to be quite relaxing. "I see that you like the sound of my systems" he said.
"I find it relaxing" she admitted. She entered medbay before the doctor and looked at the blue hue that stained where she had hit Ratchet. She noticed a very slight hue of blue on Ratchet's green armour. "Rocking that blue hue Old Doc" she said. He sighed.
"Don't spend so much time with Jazz. He's a bad influence" he said smiling softly. She reared behind the medic and embraced him, wrapping her wings around him.
"May I have my weapons system clearance?" She asked looking into his optics. He smiled.
"Still no, and to completely flip the scenario, are you the only Sorcerer on Earth?" He asked. She flinched at the question, and decided to make the doctor pity her.
"Are you getting tired of my presence, you could just ask me to leave" she said.
"I've given up on asking you to leave, it was a genuine question" he explained. She shifted on her rear legs.
"No- wait can you hear that?" She asked, her ears pricked up. Ratchet finely tuned his audio sensors and heard the disturbance of wind. She got on four limbs again. "Ratchet, there is one Sorcerer that I cannot control, he is here" she continued. They walked outside, followed by the other Autobots. Shannon watched the sleek purple dragon circle the base. He landed 50 feet away from them and inspected the Autobots. Shannon stood tall to greet the newcomer. He too stood to his full height. He was slightly larger than Shannon, Ratchet inspected the Sorcerer that Shannon couldn't control. Ratchet thought that he looked similar to his smaller friend, maybe just a coincidence. Optimus broke the silence, "what duty do you serve here Sorcerer".
The dragon slowly shifted closer to the group without a word. Shannon looked up at her prime. "This is Sorcerer Fyro, a Purpura" she said, and turned into a human mirroring Fyro's actions. They walked up to one another. "It's been a long time since I last saw you Shannon" he said. She smiled.
"I've missed you too Dad" she said embracing him. Optimus smiled in his realisation.
"Sorcerer Fyro, would you like to come inside?" Optimus asked.
"No thanks, I'm taking residence in the nearby city as many Sorcerers reside in it's shadows" Fyro answered, "I just wanted to visit my daughter".
He looked at Ratchet and the clear blue stains that dotted the metal. He transferred a memory with Shannon and that cleared the instance with the fight. He transformed and flew off, biding them farewell. Ratchet relaxed his frame. "You felt like you were going to freeze on the spot" she said.
"He's uneasy. Still not properly met your father" Ironhide said.
"Why would you want to meet my Dad?" She asked.
"I wanted to see if you got your unique traits from a parent" he replied. I grunted and accidentally caught one of the comm links.
::Could everybot, and Sorceress, report to the main room immediately:: Optimus said. Turns out the dragoness was invited to that comm link. They all walked towards the main room. She walked alongside Ratchet through the grass back to the base. He became weary as he approached. They stopped at the door when Optimus was seen sat on his crate as usual, but a red and white car sat in the middle. Shannon felt unease from the other Autobots. She got clearance from her prime to walk up to the car. She felt a warm aura from the car and decided that it was a new Cybertronian. ::Hi-:: she began to say to it. Optimus had stopped her from talking to the newcomer.
"We have a new Cybertronian in our ranks. I introduce Drift, an ex-Deception" the leader said. Shannon knew that she should have backed away from him. She felt so comfortable, he didn't feel like a 'con to her. Drift stayed still and transformed when he was told. Everybody returned to their duties. Shannon was however off duty and went for a walk. She went to Prowl's office and silently looked through the base's map, while the second in command looked at her confused. She found her destination and left. She walked through three corridors and reached her target. The door was shut so she knocked, she caught a weary glance from Arcee down the corridor. She got no reply and entered anyway. The red and white bot was sat at his desk working on something. The dragoness reared up next to the bot. "What are you doing?" She asked. His purple optics met her blue eyes.
"Polishing my sword" he said as she smiled. She visiblised her own blade.
"Let me see what you can do Drift" she said, and they began the dual. She was content with his fencing style. They reached a slatemate and bowed. "I feel that I'm going to get along with you" she said. Drift sat down on his berth.
"All the other Autobots call me the 'ex-Deception' I am not in the ranks yet" he said. Shannon put a paw on a servo. "You are the only one to call me Drift" he continued.
"Drift, in my eyes you are an Autobot. I am a Sorcerer, the odd one out" she said. He embraced her.
"Then I'll still be an ex-Deception to the others. I'll be another odd one out" he said comforting her. That was the start of the friendship.
Shannon sprawled out on her berth the morning after. She groaned before hearing a knock on her chamber door. "Come in" she said. Drift walked in. She sat upright and flew in her human form onto his shoulder.
"Now I understand why you are here. You have a role" he said solemnly. She ran her hand up the spike on the left side of his head.
"Most of the time I do my own thing. I'm assuming that you've heard of the Rebellion Empire" she said.
"Yes and I am more likely to be accepted by them, than the Autobots" he said.
"I'm Empress Shannon of the Rebellion Empire, you have already been accepted" she said. He shifted slightly.
"Since I'm the ex-con here. Can I put myself to use and join the Rebellion instead?" He asked.
"If you wish to, you will be a part of the Empire, not a way to put yourself to use" she said. Shannon sat down and Drift began to walk to Prowl's office. He walked inside.
"And what may I do for you?" Prowl asked.
"I wish to resign from your ranks, I wish to become a Rebellion citizen. Only to be known as a Cybertronian" Drift said. Prowl looked confused. Optimus came in.
"I will allow what you wish. Why?" He asked.
"I am not fully accepted here, I am not a Deception or an Autobot. I wish to be a part of the Rebellion Empire, to fight alongside my friend" Drift said looking at the Sorceress who was perched on his left shoulder, "Shannon was the first to get close to me, and the first to call me Drift and not 'the ex-Deception'". Optimus nodded.
"We need to go to Sacor anyway. And Drift, it's time that you see your new homeworld" the prime said. Shannon looked in excitement. She flew off as a dragon to lead the Autobots, and the Rebellion's newest member, to her ship. They entered by means of the cargo bay, "since this is my ship, I would ask you all to use your holoforms. And to not confuse my kin, please have your holoforms look like your default forms" she said. The bots' alternative forms stayed in the cargo bay as the holoforms took shape. She lead them to the turbolift. They got out into the bridge. The lights turned up, /Welcome Captain Higgins/ the computer said on their arrival.
Jazz was the first to stare in awe, "you didn't tell me that it has a voice system".
/It is the RES D'rachanya, it prefers the 'she' prefix/
"And she's sassy" Jazz replied. Ratchet tried his best to ignore the immaturity. He stepped up to a console.
"If you touch your designated console, it will transmit the instructions to you. Rachet, you're on the medical station" she said pointing to the console that he was at. "Ironhide, take the tactical console. Bee, communications. Optimus, go on the data console. Jazz, Engineering console. Prowl, security. Wheeljack, get down to engineering" she continued, sending Wheeljack the schematics to get down to engineering. She turned to Drift who was having doubts about having a role. She winked at him. "Drift, I need you to be my First Officer" she said as he happily took his station at one side. Shannon rerouted the secondary ship helm to her console on the captain's chair. She exhaled. The Autobots looked at her for instruction.
"First Officer Drift, warp speed 12" she ordered and he smiled.
"Aye Captain" he said engaging the ship's engines. Once at their cruising speed, Shannon relaxed in her chair. Once the necessary scans were done of the D'rachanya's systems, they all relaxed.
"Computer, estimated time of arrival" she said.
/Estimated time of arrival: 15:00 Sacorian time/
"Bee, patch us in to the Sacorian Space Station" she asked. He did and the comm came on the main view screen. Garnet was on duty.
"Empress, I have been sent your time of arrival and I have reserved a docking station for the D'rachanya" she said.
"I thank you, Garnet, I am bringing back the Autobots. I am also introducing the newest member of the Rebellion Empire" Shannon said. Garnet bowed.
"I will make the necessary welcoming preparations for your arrival" she said before closing the channel. Shannon kept an eye on her equipment until Drift signalled that they were within docking distance of the station. She eniciated the docking sequence and they entered the Sacorian Space Station. The officers on board bowed to their leader when she would walk past. They beamed to the surface with the Autobots' alternate forms. The holoforms dissipated and the Autobots transformed into their bipedal forms. The rows of Sacorians bowed as Drift walked in front, with the Empress on his shoulder. For once in the last week, he felt important, to belong.
"Rise citizens of the Rebellion Empire, we have a new member among our ranks. His name is Drift, a Cybertronian" she exclaimed. A young male dragon flew up to greet the Empress.
"Can he turn into a dragon?" He asked.
"My dear nephew, no he cannot" she replied. He smiled and flew back down. She leaned against Drift's head, "after the others are settled down I will need to discuss a project."
Shannon met with Drift in the engineering room and presented her blueprints. "You're a triple changer, without a third form. Scan this as your third please" she said. Drift did and he transformed into a mechanical dragon of his colours. Shannon turned into a human and opened Drift's snout compartment. She placed a Navitas Pouch into it to activate his elemental abilities. "This pouch was grown from a culture from my own. You have the same elemental abilities as myself" she said closing his compartment.
"It'll take me a while to get used to this form" Drift said, he became distracted by his tail. Shannon laughed and transformed into a dragon. She was the same size as him. She guided him outside. "Come on Drift, I'll teach you" she said and she lead the shaking dragonbot outside. She walked to the edge of a cliff. Drift audibly gulped.
"Umm, I don't think that I'm ready to fly" he said. She smiled.
"I'm going to jump, I'm not flying if you won't" she said before fake collapsing to the side, off the edge. Drift panicked and jumped off after her, she created a mental link as they rode the free fall. 'Open your wings' she ordered, he did and caught the wind in his wings. Shannon did the same. Drift smiled, 'this is not too hard', then he flapped his wings and began to fall. Shannon dived after him and pulled Drift up. He flapped his wings and stayed airborne. "I'll teach you more advanced stuff later. For now you can do the basics" Shannon said, "activate the necessary sight module for flight". He accessed the interface and he stared around him with wide optics.
"You can now see wind tunnels" she continued.