Anyway, here's the second chapter.
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Alpha sighed, "Prime, that's not fair! I know he's memory was erased! I...I read his mind." she said, looking at him.
Omega looked at his sister and put her down.
Prime frowned. "True. But even so, he may still have wanted to rejoin the Decepticons in the first place." he looked at the tank. "We will take him back to base."
He glanced up at the sky to see if Megatron was coming after his missing warrior. He transformed, and a couple autobots threw HT in the back of his semi. They climbed in after to make sure he stayed asleep for the entire ride." They shut the trailer door, and the rest of the Autobots transformed, and they all headed for the Ark.
Alpha looked at the ground and sighed. She transformed and followed them, muttering something unpleasant.
Omega sighed.
They got back to the Ark, and Bullet and Syus showed Prime the recording of the spycam's video.
"see? they did erase his memory." Jade pointed out.
Prime glanced at Alpha. "I see." he mused.
"What 're ya lookin' at me for? What did I do?" Alpha asked, folding her arms. She sighed and then looked at Hammertread.
She looked at the ground. Dammit, Al... She hissed in her head.
"Tell him about your idea, Alpha." Jade prodded.
"Yeah." Bullet shrugged. "Maybe he can help."
Alpha looked at the ground and muttered something, but then sighed. She looked up at him and told him her plan. She glanced over at him. "Well...?"
Prime nodded. "I see. But I highly doubt Klutch would let Indy travel here by herself. However, There is the question of a certain Decepticon werewolf, whom we might be sending to them. We could take Hammertread with us..."
"Works for me..." Alpha muttered. She looked at the ground. I just want Ht to get his memories back...I can't fight him... She thought.
Omega heard her and put his hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry, sis."
Prime went to contact Indy. Jade waited until he was out of the room, then said. "maybe you should contact her. Get her to come here. I don't like the idea of us going over there. Once we're in Klutch's territory, we'd be under his juristiction."
"True." Alpha nodded. She closed her optics and reached out. Indy...
Meanwhile, Hammertread woke up to an orange ceiling, and looked to his right to see energy bars.
"Now why do I get the feeling I've been here before?" he groused, getting up and going over to the bars, looking out into the large room outside of it.
He glared at his 'gaurds'. Two minibots and an S.U.V. how pathetic. Brawn, Bumblebee, and Trailbreaker glanced at him.
"They put you two on gaurd duty? hmmpf. A mouse could break out of here with you three gaurding me." he waited a couple beats, then continued.
"Who's the yellow creampuff?"
Bumblebee glared back at him. HT chuckled.
"What, you think those miniscule horns make you look threatening? please. I'd squish you like a bug, beetle." he grinned.
Brawn took a step forward. "Don't do it Brawn." Trailbreaker warned. "He's just trying to get you mad."
"I know you didn't mean that." Bumblebee said softly, turning away. "I just wish you'd remember who your friends are."
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Indy had just finished teaching her class on fighting tecniques, and the students filed out. She gathered up the datapads on her desk when a voice sounded inside her head.
"Indy..."
"Alpha, hi! any luck with yoah frend?"
Alpha smiled, "Hey, Indy." She sighed, "We've got him, but...we need you to come here and help us out." She said, her optics dulling as she retreated out of reality and into Indy's mind so she appeared in front of the femme. Kind of like a hologram.
Indy blinked She could've sworn Alpha's powers had gotten stronger since last time they'd seen each other. She didn't used to be able to do that.
"Okay. Did you talk to Prime about it yet? You know moy boyfrend won't let me leave the country alone."
Alpha nodded. "He's gonna call soon." She explained to the femme. She sighed and then looked at her.
Indy nodded. Then tilted her head to one side. "What's wrong?" she asked. "I know what's wrong. I told you he would betray you." she thought, but tried to shove it away so the femme wouldn't hear her.
"He did not betray us!!" Alpha yelled, "not by choice...do... DON'T say he did..." She said softly and then sighed, "Look...I...Ht needs you help..."
Indy looked down at the desk in front of her. "I didn't mean..."
"All Decepticons are alike, you just want to believe it's different than that." she thought.
"I'll suggest yoah plan to Prime when he colls." she said.
Alpha growled, "He's not like the others..." She muttered, looking at the ground. "It's not his fault his memory was wiped..." She then looked up at Indy. "Thanks. I guess." She huffed and then left the femme's mind.
Alpha's optics returned to normal. She looked around. "Indy's gonna help us." She muttered and then headed to her room.
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Hammertread grinned at the Autobots. "How quaint. I'm being gaurded by three empty-headed autobots. I'll bet if I yell loud enough, it'll echo."
He waited three seconds for a reaction and when he didn't get one, he cupped his hand around his mouth and yelled
"I'M SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS!"
"Idiots, idiots." he mimiced an echo, and recieved a glare from trailbreaker in reply.
He grinned.
hmm, this is kinda fun. he thought. He yelled.
"I'M THE ONLY ONE WITH A PROCESSOR!"
"Lemme at him." Brawn took a step forward, but Trailbreaker stopped him.
"Let him run his vocaliser ragged. It's not gonna help him any when they rip out his personality components." the black suv hissed .
Orcus chuckled, "I know how you feel, my friend."
"ah, so I'm not alone. And who might be my lucky roommate?" he grinned.
Orcus looked at him, "Orcus." He said simply, smirking.
HT lifted an optic ridge. "They got you, too, huh? hmmpf." He shook his head.
The Autobots mumbled something.
"what's wrong, am I being annoying?" Hammertread waited a minute, then when he got no reaction, flopped down on the bench and started counting ceiling tiles.
"One and three autiobot idiots;
two and three brainless autobots;
Four and three femmebots."
He chuckled, and an image flashed through his processor. He was in the cell block, and there were others in the other cells, all counting, much to the annoyance of their human gaurds.
"Five and the Autoboobs are idio-" he stopped mid-insult, and sat up, looking at the ceiling with a mixture of confusion and...
something else... was it loss? what was this feeling?
...regret?
he looked at his gaurds through the bars.
Orcus looked at him. "What's wrong?" He asked, looking at the mech.
HT shrugged. "nothing."
Orcus sighed and started to plot his revenge.
HT resettled on his bunk, trying to remember where the momory had come from. But it seemed the more he concentrated on remembering it, the more it slipped away, like an elusive dream.
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her comlink dinged. "Indy here."
The female (human) receptionist's voice came through
"Prime is on the line. Said he wants to speak to you. I tried to put him throught to Klutch but he insisted on speaking to you personally."
"Okay.. put him through." Indy reponded, activating the vidscreen on the top of her desk. Prime's face appeared. "Allo Prime, good ta see you again." Indy smiled.
Prime's face went neutral, "Hello, Indy." He said, looking at her. "I have to talk to about getting your help with something..."
Indy nodded as he explained his plane. Since Klutch had been banned from entering the United States, there had been some... tension between the two, and Prime had promised never to enter Klutch's terrain, so long as his allies did the same.
Indy nodded. "I'll have a talk with him."
Prime nodded. "Good. Thank you."
Indy nodded and went to talk to her boyfriend
Prime nodded and cut the connection, sighing slightly. It wasn't the best of plans, but at least it was possible to get the tank's memory back. and he hated to think of what would happen if hammertread escaped again. Alpha and Omega both might follow him. He tried not to think about last time they had done that...
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Meanwhile, Bullet and associates were still spying on the Decpeticons using the spycam.
"My turn!" Cable cheered, grabbing the remote away from Cap. Said minitank glared for a second, but let him have it.
The screen did a loop-de-loop as the fly-cam careened down one of the Nemesis's hallways sideways, causing the entire group present to tilt their heads to one side, and they wound up leaning over to try and get a straight picture.
Alpha and Omega saw the group and facepalmed.
Terra looked at them, "Are they always this crazy?"
"Yeah, pretty much." The twins nodded.
Terra giggled. "They remind me of that building in Italy." She said, flying over to thme. She cocked her head to the side, then grabbed Cap and flew upside down so they saw everything rightside up.
"Much better..." She grinned, giggling slightly.
The twins facepalmed.
Jade blinked. She shook her head.
"Cable, drive straighter!" Cap exclaimed.
"I'm tryin!"
The picture went end over end, and the floor came flying at them.
Everyone yelled and cringed.
"Hey, this is better than a theme park ride!!" Cable laughed.
Cap whacked him on the back of the helmet.
The fly-cam straightened out and ducked into an air vent as two of the combaticons headed towards them.
The screen went black.
Cable and Cap's voices sounded around the darkness, but thankfully the Decepticons couldn't hear it since the spycam only had a one-way audio transmitter.
"Lovely. You just got us lost didn't you?"
"we are not lost."
"We're in an air vent!"
"So? we're not lost, we're just misdirected."
"Cable!!!"
"Don't worry, we'll get there..."
silence...
..."eventually."
Cap groaned and facepalmed.
"A-ha." the fly cam went through a grate, and wound up... in Megatron's office.
"Back to the vent! back to the vent!"
"I know!"
the fly perched on one of the grating bars and leaned over to get a look at Megatron.
Upside down.
the entire group tilted again...
Jade looked at Cap and Terra, and stifled a snicker.
"What?" Cap shrugged upside down.
The flycam finally righted itself, and flew over to perch atop a nearby bookshelf to see what the leader was up to.
Terra looked up as Kit, in her tiger cub beast mode, padded into the room. She smiled., "Hey, Kitten."
"Hiyas, Aunty Ter." Kit smiled, transforming.
Terra landed and let go of Cap. She smiled and then watched as the twins rolled their optics.
Kit appeared on Jade's head. "What's up?"
Jade looked up, then reached up and brought her down to face level. "Not much. We might have figured out why Hammertread was acting so funny." she smiled. She looked at the group.
Kit cocked her head to the side, "What's wrong with Uncle HT?" She asked, looking at her friend.
Jade blinked. "He thought the Decepticons were his friends. But they erased his memory." she set the sparkling down.
"oh..." Kit blinked.
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"No. Absolutely not." Klutch paced the length of his office. "They're looking foah trouble, am not letting you go ovah theah alone." Klutch folded his arms across his carhood chest.
"But, we might be able to bring you someone back." Insy tilted her head. "Proyme said he was a relly evil Daceptacon."
Klutch turned his back to her. "I don't keh."
"Wot, you don't kauh about ridding the wuld of Decepticons now?" Indy asked.
Klutch whirled to face her. "Don't you go getting all coy with may indy. You know what I mean by thot. If they wont us to 'ave im, they'll bring 'im to us!" he hissed
Now Indy folded her arms, mimicing klutch. "And wot if I decide to go on my own?"
His optics narrowed at her. "Then don't bothah coming back."
He strode out of the room. Indy thought for a second, shrugged, and followed him, to catch up and talk things over more.