Orcus chuckled. "Spirit...raging one, he has." He nodded. He leaned back against the wall.
Megatron nodded, and Hammertread walked over to him, and ducked his head in a mock-bow.
Jazz glanced at Orcas, and realized what was in store for him. He quickly glanced at Megatron and Hammertread, silently eyeing the space and how long it would take to run past them, get his hand free, and get to the control room wihtout them catching up.
He grimaced. Not good chances. He tried to think about all the possible escapes he could make, to take his mind off the present, and the headache that was threatening to form at the back of his head where he'd been repeatedly slammed against the wall.
"I've been hangin' out with Prowl too much. I'm startin' ta calculate odds and stuff.." he smirked.
HT frowned. He had to have done some damage. and yet, this Autobot was... smirking... at him? he felt a twinge of anger. He wanted to beat him senseless.. He looked over at Megatron, hopefull for another chance.
Megatron held up a hand. "Autboot." the silver Decepticon addressed him only by faction, not by name. "I will only ask you once. What are the command codes for teletraan."
Jazz looked up. "Dunno. Ask the tin man there next to you. He knows more than me." the sabotuer gave HT a smirk. HT growled and took a step forward. He was playing with them! being flippantly cheery, even though he knew he was in for more pain, with no hope of escape.
Megatron's optics lit slightly in anger. He turned to Orcas. "Proceed."
Orcus smirked and walked fowards. He kicked Jazz down and pulled out his knife. "I'm about to do to you what I did to those three femmes..." He said before ripping the mech's chest clear open. He showed everyone his spark. "It's a nice blue color..." He slowly wrapped his arms around the mech's spark. "Tell us or I shall squeeze it..." He growled.
Jazz gasped, then focused against the pain. He tried to get his lock pick out of the compartment in his left wrist. Too bad the shackles were in the way. but he kept trying. He kicked at the wherewolf, glancing at Megatron as he twisted sideways.
His sensitive hearing picked up HT saying something to megatron, ducking his head submissively as he did. His body language read all but screaming to leave.
Why? was he still an ally, and Jazz had misjudged him?
He winced at the pain, and willed himself to move, catching Orcas's ankles with his feet and yanked.
"Go bury a bone, doggy." he groused, and yanked as hard as he could.
Orcus yelped as his feet were yanked from under him. He quickly found them again, though, and pounced at the mech. Then raked his claws across his spark, but didn't extinquish it. "Don't tempt me to kill you before your time, Autobot." He hissed.
Jazz bit back a cry and shuddered, trying to ignore the pain racing across his chest. He kept trying to reach that lock pic.
HT looked at Megatron. "Commander." he walked over and put his head down to muffle his voice. "That psychic...she tried to implant more memories in my thoughts earlier. Permission to go see hook in the repairbay." he mumbled. Megatron nodded.
The tank tried to block out the memories...
Alpha laughed and jumped over a tiny creek. She glanced back at Hammertread and then transformed, riding off into the forest where she would be hopefully camaflodged. The femme transformed back after a minute of running and waited for the mech to run by.
HT grinned from his spot behind some trees. in tank mode, he could use his thermal/energy imaging system to see her, almost as clearly as his night vision filters. The green grid showed a small white shape behind some trees not too far off.
He ran up like he was going to pass her up, and grabbed her, hauling her to her feet. "I don't have time to play hide-and-go-seek right now. We should get back." he said, only half-seriously.
Alpha huffed, looking up at him. She sighed, but nodded. "Yeah you're right...oh well...twas fun while it lasted." She shrugged, transforming. "See ya back at base, HT." She smiled, driving off.
Orcus looked over and saw Hammertread walking away.H e looked at the mech below him and pulled his hands away from his spark. "Tell us or I shall play with your spark like it was a mere toy...like I did to your three friends..."
Jazz hissed something under his vocaliser. If only he could get this stinkin' mutt off him.
Meanwhile, Prime and Prowl both paced in front of teletraan, and Jade was trying to find out what happened. Prime glanced at the screen. "Megatron must want something. Why else would he go to such lengths to abduct one of the Autobots?"
Prowl just looked at him. "I'm going to help the aerialbots search." the femmejet, Jade, finally said said. "Perhaps you should ask Scythe to go with you." Prime suggested. "Screw what he thinks. I'll go if I want to." came the reply.
the dragon's voice sounded from behind her. "So nice to knw you still have respect for me." He was standing in the dorway, arms folded.
Jade glared. "I do. But I'm going to find him.He's my best friend, Syus."
"I didn't say you couldn't. But you could have asked me nicely to go along. I would hate to loose you again." he came over and hugged her gently. any anger the jet had was lost in the green dragon's powerfull aura. Prowl glared. It didn't help any it was his bonded out there. Although Jade had... He shoved the thought away. no. he thought. it would be illogical to waste energy looking for him when he may be at the Decepticon base the tactician thought.
Although he wished it had been her instead of him.. he shoved that thought away. vengefull thoughts would get him nowhere.
He suddenly felt a rush of pain through their mindlink
His optics dimmed, and he leaned against teletraan's console. when it had passed he straightened. Jade had frozen, and looked straight at him with a look that read "You felt it, too?"
Prowl gave her a quick glare and turned away. of course I did. was the cold reply.
You... how can you do that!? the jet thought loudly.
Prowl glanced at her reflection in the screen, unanswering.
Orcus looked at Megatron and squeezed the Porshe's spark tightly. He then let it go before the mech could die.
the mech screamed and writhed before passing out. Megatron smirked. "Ah, music to my audios."
The jet ran out of the ark and took to the air. Syus watched her leave. "You're not going with her?" Optimus asked.
"No. She'll call me if she needs my help. If anything happens, she will learn something." he turned and walked away.
After everyone had left the room except Prime, Prowl fainted.
Alpha and Omega blinked. The looked at Prowl and then ran out of the room.
Orcus stood up. He licked the mech's energon off of his paws and then at Megatron. "I think I did a bit too much...I'm used to killing my victims before they pass out...not keeping them alive long enough to get information." He said, looking at him. The mech then blinked.
Megatron looked at him. "You will do as I say. Keep doing what you are doing. He will give in. eventually." he looked at the unconcious form on the floor. "as long as it takes. Then." he looked back up. "Then you may do with him as you wish.
Orcus nodded. He stood up and licked the mech fluid off his hands. "Yes sir, Megatron." He nodded.
Hammertread stomped into the repairbay where Hook had been called from the Constructicon base. "Memories bothering you again?" the crane asked in a mild tone. The tank nodded and grunted. Hook motioned to one of the tables, and HT sat down.
Hook brought over a scanner, and made interested sounds. "uh, huh... I see..."
"Well!?" HT snapped. Hook looked at him and shrugged. "You appear normal. Let me get Sundwave. He's the expert on this sort of thing. Just... relax." the constructicon handed him a small energon cube and dissapeared out a door. HT glared after him and sipped the cube.
Suddenly, everything started getting fuzzy. He hadn't even considered it might be drugged... He fell asleep. Hook stuck his head back in, then called Soundwave.
Hook returned with Soundwave, who eyed Hammertread, who was slouched over the workbench. He walked over.
"Assistance required."
Hook sighed and helped the casette-player get the unconcious tank onto his workbench. soundwave then went to work removing the memories Alpha had given HT, and put up a stronger mental barrier so she wouldn't be able to fo it again.
The jet flew out to the cliffs at the edge of the ocean and stood there for a moment. nothing. everything was strangely calm. Maybe she was sensing things from being to close to Prowl...
Prowl woke up in the ark's medbay, with Ratchet standing over him. He started to get up.
"Nuh-uh. You're not going anywhere." the medic gently pushed him back down.
"I'm fine." Prowl started to protest.
Alpha looked at Prowl. "Yeah, right. Ya flat out fainted." He said, looking at the mech.
Prowl looked at Alpha like "what is she doing here?" he didn't want anyone to know he has fainted because his bonded had also passed out.
and screamed.
He just obeyed Ratchet and laid back down.
Ratchet looked at Alpha.
Alpha blinked. "What? It's my shift. And MY med bay during MY shift." She said, copying Ratchet.
Ratchet muttered something and facepalmed. He shook his head and then stood up. "Anyways." He looked at Prowl.
Alpha grabbed some papers that were printing and looked them over while Ratchet talked to Prowl.
"I'm fine." Prowl said, and Ratchet let him walk out, the Datsun heading over to teletraan to ask Prime if there were any updates on the situation.
He could feel it... something was very wrong..
Alpha sighed and nodded. She looked at Ratchet. "You know something's wrong. I can feel it..."
Ratchet nodded.
Omega nodded.
"How'd you get in here?" Both medics asked.
Omega went invsable.
Alpha shoved her brother out. "Back to thinking of a plan to save Jazz!"
It was about that time Jade wandered in and heard.
"Of course he can. They're bonded." she looked at Ratchet. "Everyone knows that, he just doesn't let it show. They can feel anything and everything the otehr is feeling." She tried not to look queasy, and leaned against one of the recharge berths.
"We have to find out what Mega-jerk's up to this time." she looked at the two, then the air, as though Omega would be there.
Omega reappeared. "Why does everyone do that?"
"Shut up." Alpha sighed, leaning against the wall. She sighed and then looked at Jade. "You okay?" She asked, seeing her quesiness.
"Yeah, fine." the jet replied weakly.
Ratchet nodded. He agreed. They had to find out what was wrong.
Megatron calmly waited for the Autobot's optics to come on. He knew he was good at faking still being unconcious, but that wouldn't help him. He had almost given in. Just a little longer...
Orcus cleaned off his claws and then looked at them.
Jazz kept his optics dim so they wouldn't see him looking at them, but he finally had found the lock pick, now, if he could only... Megatron looked at him. "Ah, you're awake." the Decepticon noted. Jazz cursed inwardly. He wasn't used to mechs being able to see the dim glow of his optics, and he was pretty sure his face was clearly readable without his visor as his mask.
He heard a soft clink behind him and smirked, glancing at Orcas.
Orcus clicked his claws together. "Hi." He said, flexing his now clean claws. He bent down,
"I now wonder why I don't torture mechs as much as femmes. Sure, you don't scream or are as fun to play with, but..." He trailed off and chuckled before standing up. "The energon sure isn't bad." He said, showing the mech his clean claws.
Jazz grimaced. "Bite me, Fido." he winced, but felt one shackle unlatch. Now, for the other one...
Prowl watched the skyspy scan the surrounding regions, in hopes of finding something. He suddenly got an idea. Bullet and the others of his group had created a spycam shaped like a fly once, why not make one of a submarine?
He was positive Bullet's laptop could reach that far. It had with the fly-cam. Prowl hurried away, to the group's quarters. He just hoped they hadn't left to go home yet.
Orcus grinned. "Not a bad idea...but I can't. I have to keep you alive to get that info..." The werewolf said, cracking his knuckles.
Jazz got his feet under him, making it look like he was still sitting, but was actually crouched, ready to spring for the door any second. He glanced at Megatron.
Before the wherewolf could act, he sprang up, wincing when his weight hit his twisted ankle, and dodged the white Decepticon, passed Megatron, and tried to transform...
He realized he couldn't about the time he hit the tiling. Without looking back, he picked himself up and dodged Frenzy, making a hasty exit. "Hey!" the cassetticon yelled, but realized who it was, and gave chase. "Come back here!"
Orcus yelped. He roared and then launched himself at the mech, only to end up hitting the wall.
"Ow."
The black and white skidded around a corner. "time for me ta' make like a bananna an' split." he grinned, unsubspacing a flash grenade he'd stowed a while back. It wouldn't do much damage, except to blind his persuers. He counted to three, pulled the pin and tossed it..
Megatron ran down the hall, and Jazz covered his optics.
"BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMCRACLEKCRACLEKCRACKLE!"
"AAAAH OWW!" Frenzy yelled. Megatron covered his optics and kept going.
Around the corner, Jazz grinned. He ran down the hall as Megatron fired... He dodged to one side, letting the fusion blast make a black mark on the wall next to his head. He sped up slightly.
Orcus growled and fired at the mech.
He dodged it, almost. It singed his shoulder wires, but the black and white made himself keep going. "Now where'd ya put the exit?" the saboteur rounded a corner and ducked into a small room as Megatron passed him. He exited, and headed back the way he had came, narrowly missing Orcas seeing him as he ducked down a side corridor. He doubled over, and tried to catch his breath to cool his overworked systems
"Gotta.. keep.. going.." he looked up to see the wherewolf pass. "I gotta remember to stay in better shape." he joked to himself. Inwardly, though, he was really scared. He knew how much damage had been done, and how many red lights would probably be showing up, if he still had his visor to see properly. It wasn't helping anything that everything was blurry and slightly dark, either. Like shapes and shadows more less.
Orcus growled and followed.
Bullet, Needle, and syus were playing some kind of military game with Gunlock when the doorchime rang. Driveby answered it.
Prowl came in, and looked at the group. "Bullet." he said. The Megatron mimic paused the game and stood up.
Prowl looked at Bullet. "I need your help."
"Of course." Bullet nodded, and looked at the others. "I'll be back." he went to leave, knowing if it was important, Prowl would most likely want to discuss it in privacy.
"Thanks." Prowl smiled.
Bullet blinked. Was Prowl being... emotional? he let it go, though He knew something was wrong, and supected why... well, who it was. He followed the tactician to his office. "Should I get Syus in on this? he might have some ideas, too." Bullet said.
Prowl then looked at him. "No." He said and then explained the problem to the mech.
Bullet nodded. "Needle helped me build the last one. I'll get him and we'll get started." he clicked his comm. "Hey Needle, need your help on something,. Meet me at Wheeljack's workshop."
Jazz didn't see Orcas, the Decepticon werewolf transformer, following him as he rounded a corner, and found himself in one of the storage bays.
Skywarp was replacing Starscream's damaged wing, and Thundercracker was lounging off to one side, leaning against a stack of boxes.
"I'm telling you, he doesn't know what that tank is capable of!" Starscream screeched.
Jazz froze.
The seekers turned and looked at him. Starscream fired.
Jazz ducked behind a box, making his way across the storage bay as quickly as possible. "There's gotta be another way outta here." he whispered. "Get Him!" Starscream screeched. Skywarp and Thundercracker flew up over the boxes and drums, the sound of their engines echoing off the walls.
The saboteur glanced over at a nearby box and pried it open. "munitions." he grinned. cases of bullets, grenades, various other explosive items. He took out a small device with a timer and set it. He placed it back in the box and closed the lid. "Time ta vamoose, before the fireworks start." he whispered. The timer silently clicked off seconds.
59...58...57..
He tiptoed around another set of bozes, ducking into a shadow as Skywarp glided overhead in robot mode. Jazz peeked over the boxes. He sould see the exit. He decided to make a break for it.
He jumped up and ran for the door...
He didn't see Orcas off to the side, though.
Orucs growled and went to grab Jazz as he passed.
Jazz didn't see him and got tackled. Starscream and the other jets landed...
Orcus pinned him down.
Jazz squirmed under him, trying to get free...
the timer clicked down slowly.
48...47..
Meanwhile, Hammertread had left the Decepticons's repairbay, and had headed out around the ship.
Bullet, Needle and Prowl walked into Wheeljack's workshop and got started.
Jade was busy trying to keep her mind off the problem at had by chatting wiht Alpha, Omega, and Ratchet.
Alpha and Omega played poker while talking.
Jade stood up. "I'm going to go see how the guys are doing with the spy-sub-thingie." she said.
Cap got bored and went to see if terra was in the rec. room
Terra yawned and closed her eyes. Nothing was on TV and she really didn't have a job.
Cyberfin sat down next to her and wrapped his arms around her.
terra smiled and snuggled into him. "Hey, bro."
Cyber smiled. He stroked her forehead. "Hey you. You tired?"
"Bored." Terra complained.
Cap walked down the hall, and reached the rec. room.
Terra snuggled into his arms. She smiled as he stroked her forehead. "Mmm...bro..."
Cyberfin grinned. He looked at her and then at the Tv. "Tired?"
"Already answered you..."
Cyber nodded. He wrapped his arms around her. "Sis, get some sleep."
"But I'm waiting for Cap..." Terra mumbled, looking at him.
Cyber kissed her forehead.
said tank walked in. "Terra!" he grinned widely, and jogged up, trying to ignore the look Cyber was giving him.
Terra looked over. She smiled at him. "Hi." She waved at him.
Cyber growled and then looked at Cap. He continued to stroke Terra's forehead until his little sister flew over to Cap. He clenched his fists.
Terra smiled at Cap and kissed his cheek. "Hi."
"Hi" he gave her a lingering kiss on the lips before sitting down and putting his arm around her.
"So, whatcya doing, love?" he squeezed her shoulders.
Terra smiled. "Nothing. Nothing at all. Just talking."
Jazz finally managed to trap the werewolf-con's legs and throw him off
Orcus yelled as he fell off of Jazz.
the black and white had almost reached the door when Starscream shot him.
Orcus grinned.
Megatron stomped up, HT behind him. Megatron looked at Orcas, then at the Autobot. "Take him back to the cell. We'll continus this later." he looked at HT, who slung the black and white over one shoulder and stomped down the hall, Megatron and Orcas following.
Megatron, HT and Orcas reached the cells, and HT threw Jazz inside, making sure he was re-shackled, and Megatron had the lock pick, having also put a blocker on the black and white's subspace pockets.
Hammertread suggested to Megatron that he try and get some information out of the Autobot, if he really did think HT was still their ally, which it seemed Alpha still believed. Megaton and Orcas left, and HT waited for Jazz to wake up. Meanwhile, Orcas left the ark, to go for a walk. HT convinced Jazz he was there to help, but had a hard time convincing him he couldn't help him escape.
But Hammertread promised to try to get a message through to the Autobots about the location of the Nemesis and possible rescue plans, if Jazz would give him the frequency. Of course, Jazz gave him Alpha's comm frequency, knowing even if Hammertread was no longer an ally, Alpha would be able to convince him otherwise. HT silently transmitted the information to Megatron, who promted him to try to see what else he could find out. Orcas heard Alpha was out, and snuck out to 'go for some fresh air', claiming being underwater was making him seasick, or something like that. Megatron didn't trust him, and ordered the jets to follow him.
Alpha sighed as she drove through the woods, thinking. She transformed and rubbed her forehead. "Damn...that memory still is a bit fuzzy...next time I transfer memories...gonna make it a smaller, less important one..." She said as she stood up strait.
Orcus twtiched his tail. He spotted the femme.
Alpha sighed as she walked. She rubbed her forehead. "Got it...the memory's back. Good."
Orcus crouched. "Oh love..." He hissed.
Alpha's optics widened. She yelped, but then was tackled. Her mouth was covered. She struggled.
"There." Needle stepped back from his handiwork. The small submarine was finished. Wheejack looked over it.
"Yes, but will it work?" he asked.
"Let's go test it out." Bullet brought out his laptop and accessed the control codes.
Cable looked up from the car magazine he was reading. He looked around, as though hearing something, then jumped up. "Guys, we've got a bug!" he bolted for the door.
"whuh? what?" Ty got up.
"Our communication channel's being listened to." the car transformed and sped down the corridor.
"Prime!" he yelled. Ty and Gunlock looked at each other suddenly, realizing what he meant, and dropped what they were doing and sped out. Syus and Mic got up and followed.
"Prime, this is Cable, someone's intercepting Alpha's transmission frequency!" he said into his comlink.
"Are you sure?" Prime's baritone replied.
"positive!" the small car sped into the command center, the rest of his group following.
Cap looked at his wrist at a small red flashing light. "Great, I'm being paged." he said. He looked back up at Terra. "Wanna come along?" he took her hand, interlacing his short thick fingers with her longer slender ones.
Cyber glared.
"Sure, let's go."
"I'm going to."
"no, you're too injuried."
Cap pulled her towards the door. "We should go. He's injured, though. I wouldn't want him to get shot for being to slow or anything..." the tank trailed off, and looked away quickly. He headed for the door.
Terra nodded. She gave her brother a kiss on the forehead. "I'll be back."
"Be careful, sis." Cyber hissed.
"I will." Terra said, startled by his tone. She walked over to Cap and rewrapped his fingers in hers.
"Let's go..." She said, following him.
Alpha yelped. She clenched her teeth and then glared at the mech ontop of her. "Baka!"
Orcus smashed her windshield in and shoved his arm far enough to touch her spark. He pulled it open and then pulled out a black ball. "Know what this is?"
"Do I...wanna know?" Alpha managed.
"Not really..." Orcus grinned. He shoved it into her spark.
Alpha screamed so loud people in the city could have heard it.
When the duo (Cap and Terra) reached the command center, and Ty and Gunlock came running in. Everyone else was gone allready.
Cap looked around, and contacted Prime. "Sir, what's going on?" he asked. Prime's engine could be heard in the background over the commline."The Decepticons have intercepted Alpha's communication frequency. They may have sent someone after her." he said. "I have allready contacted her, and told her to hold position untill we reach her." he added.
Suddenly, a reverberating scream pierced the air.
Prime sped up, cutting the commlink.
"It's worse than that." Driveby added, looking at Teletraan's screen. maps, graphs, and other information flipped across it's screen as it was downloaded to another computer.
Cap looked over at it. "what's going on with teletraan?" he asked.
Megatron sat back at his computer and watched the information upload to his computer. A contented smile played across his features. The locations of energy supplies in places he had never even thought to look in, maps, and even personell schedules flickered across the screen. The Decepticon leader leaned back in his seat, lacing his fingers behind his head. Too bad it took so long to get. He smirked. Soundwave's methods were quite usefull, yes.
His smirk widened. He remembered the anguished screams, the pleading... and then, the answers came. and they had left their prisoner quietly sobbing while they went to download the Autobots's information from right under their noses.
He reminded HT, who was gaurding the prisoner, to contact him when Orcas returned. He wanted to watch the Werewolf finish off the prisoner. He smiled widely at the imagined thought of the Autobot screaming his name, begging for mercy as his spark was slowly extinguished. Megatron chuckled darkly, and started to sort through the files on his computer.