HL: okay second chapter.
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Xena woke looking around her room, saw Quickstrike, jumped about five feet in the air, fell off the bed, then stood, "WHAT IN SLAG WHERE YOU DOING!" she yelled her optics wide, "Nothing, trying to wake you up, Megatron wanted to 'see' you," he said as Xena whacked him upside the head seeing the smirk on his face, "Yeah, yeah, I'm going, stop it!" she said catching him smirk again, Xena walked out of her quarters seeing that she was possibly the only one awake, either that, they were all avoiding her. When she reached Megatron's quarters she sighed ready to knock, "I know that it's you Xena, enter," Xena walked through the doors into his quarters seeing him in his T-Rex form she decided to stay a good few feet away from him, "Quickstrike said you wanted to see me?" she asked hearing the door behind her close, "Yes I did, Xena, you've failed me not once, but twice," "I told you it wouldn't happen again," Xena said clenching her fists, but she knew this was the reaction he wanted from her. Xena read his look then wished she hadn't just clenched her fists in front of him.
Jag yawned walking out of her room hearing some yelling going on she went to the rec. room to see Cheetor and Rattrap at it again. She shook her head sitting down next to Andromeda, who still looked half asleep, but better than she did while she was recovering from shock when Xena had attacked her. Jag looked around at the rest of the group, it seemed the only one missing was Optimus, "Where's Optimus?" she asked as Andromeda looked at her, "He's in the cockpit I believe. Why?" she asked raising an eyebrow as Jag shrugged. It seemed quiet, it was, for awhile until the most unlikely person to stumble into the base, stumbled in, looking beat and run down, "Xena!" everyone said at the same time as Tigertron walked in with Airazor and Optimus, "We found her wounded outside in the jungle, not near the volcanoes where Megatron and his freaks are." Andromeda looked at Optimus then down at Xena who looked at Andromeda, with a furious look on her face.
"I don't need YOUR help if that's what your thinking!" Xena snarled as Andromeda looked taken aback, Jag looked a bit suspicious about Xena being there, apparently the others thought this was a trap or setup planned by Xena and Megatron. Optimus was suspicious about this also, but, he couldn't just let Xena return back to her base like this, and make her risk of being hurt even more higher, "How did you get in this state Xena?" he asked as Xena turned her red optics to him, "It's none of your business of how I got like this! Why would I tell you!" She snapped standing up inches from Optimus' face as Cheetor growled, "Cheetor, it's alright. It was a simple question Xena, did Megatron do this to you?" Optimus asked as Xena narrowed her eyes at him then turned her head scoffing. This increased suspicion, especially with the two younger Maximals, "Optimus," "not now Jag. Xena, did he?" "It's NONE of your BUSINESS Prime." Xena hissed once again inches from his face, the femme was a lot smaller than him, but she could fearsome when she wanted to be, working with a bunch of morons could do that to you.
Optimus looked at her as her red optics narrowed even more at him, "Your just like your brother, Xena," normally this would annoy Xena, but this time, it angered her, not just annoyed her, "why are you comparing me to that traitor? I don't betray Megatron, and I never would!" "Because your afraid of him, aren't you?" This had shut Xena up big time, Jag could of sworn she saw a smirk cross Andromeda's face, as she looked around the room, she noticed the same smirks on the others faces. Xena felt the pain from her wound get worse and she instantly put her hand to it going down on her knees, "Take her to the recovery dock," Optimus said seeing no reason to keep her to question on why she was there if she was in pain.
Silverbolt and Rattrap took her to the dock as Jag and Cheetor looked at each other, Optimus saw this knowing the younger two were going to start asking why he let her go, "Your wondering why I let her go aren't you?" the two looked at him then nodded, "Well, if she wasn't in so much pain, I'd keep her here, but I don't think she'd be willing to answer as many questions since she's in a lot of pain right now. Even though Xena doesn't like to admit, most of the time, everyone knows she is afraid of Megatron. Xena's headstrong and won't admit it to her teammates, her enemies, or even herself, plus she has to deal with the others in the team also, it'll take awhile for her to finally realize she's afraid of her own leader, but other than that, she can be like her brother, Dinobot, who was re-made. Xena's older sisters were killed, her re-made brother isn't the same as he used to be, Xena was close to being upgraded, but she didn't even want Megatron touching her, it's the fear that's keeping her from leaving the team." Jag still wasn't believing this, but she let it pass as Cheetor twitched his ear, "Now, I do believe its time for you two to do your rounds." Andromeda said as the two groaned then ran off down the hall way and out of the base.
The two of them were running side by side into the jungle as they came to a stop Cheetor looked at Jag, "Hey, Jag," "yeah?" "Want to race?" he asked smirking, "To where?" she asked raising an eyebrow, "Predacon territory and back." Jag's eyes got wide as Cheetor smirked, he knew she'd probably refuse, but boy was he wrong, "Fine." "What?" "I said fine, what? Afraid Waspinator's going to pummel you?" She asked smirking as Cheetor growled, "Your on!" The two took off running as fast as they could. Jag was ahead as she looked back she snickered then took off at high speed, turned to look back, but came in contact with something, hard, Cheetor skidded to a halt laughing at her as she looked up at the tree, "Good job!" he said laughing still as Jag growled then tackled him as the two rolled, they were being watched.
The two rolled around for awhile, as they rolled down a hill they stopped, Jag pinning Cheetor underneath her with a smirk on her face, "I win." Cheetor swiped at her nose as she stood he tackled her pinning her underneath him, "No you don't." Jag smiled as a chuckle came from behind them, "How sweet, the kittens are playing together," Cheetor looked up then growled, "Megatron!" Jag pushed Cheetor off putting her ears back. Megatron stepped out in his T-Rex form as Jag slowly backed away Cheetor stood his ground, "Where's Xena?" "Wouldn't you like to know!" All three turned to see Andromeda, Rattrap, Optimus, Silverbolt, and Rhinox there, "What have you done to Xena Megatron?" Andromeda asked growling as he smirked, "Me? Why would I do anything to Xena?" "She refuses to say anything about you! To me that's a pretty good sign you did something." "Andy, shut it." Rattrap said hoping she'd get the hint, because she was obviously giving away where they were hiding Xena. Megatron smirked as he could easily be outnumbered seeing as he was alone, unusual for him, but Jag was suspicious the moment Xena stepped into the Maximal base. "Optimus…." Jag said as he looked at her, "it's a trap, I may have been found only yesterday, but I know one when it comes to this," she whispered as Cheetor looked at her, Optimus looked at the younger two then at Megatron, "Jag, Cheetor, go back to the base." The two didn't need to be told twice, they took off without a word as the other Predacons jumped out at the Maximals, they ran as fast as they could.
As they ran Jag began to feel as though they were being followed, but she didn't say anything to Cheetor, mostly because they were running to fast to talk, and second, she didn't want to be guarded like she was a kit. The two finally made it to the base, they immediately checked the recovery room to see Xena still in there, recharging and healing, the two of them went into Cheetor's room, because it was closer to where Xena was, plus they'd hear her if she got out. Without warning, Jag tackled Cheetor again smirking as he looked up at her, "I win, again." He smirked then pinned her underneath him, "I don't think so," he said as she swatted at him he growled pawing at her as they saw the door open, Xena crossed her arms, smirking, "Awe, how cute, the kitties are playing." Once again the two were interrupted, by the enemy, but this one was still weak, so they didn't have much to worry about. Cheetor got off of Jag as Xena shook her head, "Like her much Cheetor?" she asked as Cheetor went wide eyed then shook his head, "No! We're just friends," "mm-hm…that I can see clearly besides the two of you rolling around, I'd say you did like each other." Jag and Cheetor looked at each other than at her.
Hours passed and the others still hadn't returned to base, this caused worry and concern with the younger two, "Should we go check and see if their alright?" Jag asked as Xena looked at her, "Nah, Big Bot and the others can take care of themselves." Cheetor said as Xena looked out the window closest to her, it was getting dark, and fast, "We should, just in case." Xena said turning into her Beast Mode, Jag and Cheetor following her lead as they ran off into the jungle again.
Andromeda stirred slightly standing up, wobbling a bit, then looked around at her injured teammates and their enemies. The only two that weren't anywhere to be found were Megatron and Optimus, this alarmed Andromeda, so she limped over to Tigertron and nudged him awake as he stirred he looked up at her, "What's wrong?" He asked seeing the worry in her optics, "Megatron and Optimus are missing." She said making him get up, "Missing? How can they be missing?" "Their not here, I just checked." Tigertron looked around as they heard someone approaching Tigertron put his ears back as green eyes glowed, "Tigertron, Andromeda, are you alright?" "Jag?" Jag, Cheetor, and Xena appeared as Jag looked around she noticed her fallen teammates and the enemy. Rattrap, Rhinox, Airazor, Andromeda, Tigertron, Silverbolt all of them were injured by far the worst, but where was Optimus? The leader was missing for both teams, "Where is Optimus?" "We don't know, we were just going to go look." Tigertron said as Jag nodded.
The only uninjured ones took off with Tigertron and Andy as they came to the bridge that separated Predacon territory from Maximal territory they found Megatron. Xena growled then did the unexpected, went for Megatron, and dug her claws into his back then scratched his face plate making him turn, throwing her off. Andromeda, Tigertron, Jag, and Cheetor looked taken aback by this as did Megatron who met the red eyes face to face, "What do you think your doing?" He asked as Xena growled, "Something I should of done a long time ago." She answered jumping at him again digging her claws into his chest plate making him teeter on the edge, when she went to push off, he grabbed her foot taking her down into the ravine with him, "Xena!" Jag said going to go to the edge, but Andy grabbed her shoulder. Jag looked down and sighed as she noticed why Megatron was standing there, Optimus was hanging from the edge. Jag grabbed his hand and with the help of the others, pulled him up, and away from the edge, Andromeda looked relieved, but also a bit worried at Optimus' condition, "Do you that Xena will be back?" Tigertron asked breaking the silence, "In this point of time, it's not known, but knowing Megatron, he'll find a way." Optimus said as he went to walk foreword Tigertron and Andy put one arm around their shoulders in their robot modes and carried him back to the jungle, Jag and Cheetor following in back.
HL: Sorry it took so long to update this! I've had wicked bad writers block and plus I've had like…100 projects due in school.
TBC…