Al...you...'re? Omega's voice was weak, but welcoming.
Alpha gasped. she smiled a bit. "Bro..." The femme whispered.
Prime turned on his comm. "Omega, please come to the repairbay." he said. He walked out of the office, and explained what was going on. Wheeljack had the device from Jazz's spark out, and was looking at it through the container, doing various scans on it; But nothing had revealed how it worked yet.
Prime explained why he needed the forcefield, and then ordered everyone that the conversation would not go further than the room.
No one else was to know about it.
Everyone nodded.
Alpha looked at the ground, ashamed.
Omega ran into the med bay and glomped his big sister.
"ACK!" Alpha gagged.
"Whathappened?Areyouhurt?Howbad?Whatdidtheydotoyou?CanIkillthem?Andwhat'sthatlookonyourfacefor?" Omega said quickly.
Alpha took a deep breath. "Don't wanna talk about it. Yes. Quite. Again. Don't wanna talk. Not yet and..." She looked at Prime.
Prime looked at Ratchet, who guided Omega to take a seat in a nearby chair, and started to explain.
"Orcas did the same thing to your sister as he did to Jazz. but we think since you two are linked, you may be able to remove the device, If you can reach her spark without it reacting negatively to you." he started...
Omega blinked. He looked at Alpha, who shrugged. "Worth a shot"
"You know it, bro!" Alpha nodded.
"I'm not sure how Alpha's spark will react after all the trauma, so Wheeljack and I are trying to find an alternative method of deactivating the device." he looked over at the engineer, who was setting up the forcewall transmitters to one side.
"I'll do anything if it'll get him out of my spark..." Alpha shuddered, "I don't wanna be forced ta attack y'all again..."
Omega wrapped his arm around his sister's shoulders. "It'll be okay, sis. Promise."
"Thanks, bro." Alpha smiled.
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Jade got the feeling of falling as the lift went down, and glanced around without moving her head, wondering if Omega had followed them, or gone back to base. The doors slid open, and Soundwave and Starscream dragged her into the control room.
Soundwave spoke. "Attention, Megatron, prisoner is awake." he droned. Megatron turned, and Jade managed to get her feet under her. She was still slightly dizzy from the null ray, though.
Megatron walked up, and pulled out the device. "Show me how to use it." he said, optics brightening in suppressed excitement.
Jade glared. "Go jump in a smelter." she spat. Metgatron backhanded her.
Megatron walked over to Jade, and yanked her to her feet. "Tell me." he hissed.
She glanced over his shoulder at Orcas. "Or what, you'll have bowser rip me to shreds?" she dared.
Megatron growled. "What an excellent idea." he motioned to Orcas.
Jade huffed. "Hardly sporting if I can't fight back, isn't it?" she looked up at him.
Yeah, just let me get my hands free and we'll see what'll happen. Maybe then I can get away. She thought.
Orcus looked at Megatron. "I have a better idea, Megatron..."
"Oh? and what would that be?" Megatron looked interested more than mad now.
Uh-oh, plan not going like I wanted it to Jade thought. She had to get her hands free somehow...
She tried to reach over to her side pocket with both her hands together, but just barely couldn't reach the subspace pocket...
Orucs held up the controller and another black dot. "Do to her what I did to the black and white Autobot." He said simply.
Jade's optics went round.
"Aaaack!"
She screeched and twisted free of Soundwave's grip, turning on her afterburners and heading for the rafters.
"Screw this!!!" she thought, desperately trying to get to the pocket.
"Maybe I can get my hands around front under my feet...
She tried, but almost fell off the rafter. Starscream looked like he was firing up his own after burners to go after her.
"Screw looking for the key!" she got into her back pocket and pulled out a thin pencil-length transmitter. She flipped the top open, revealing a red button.
"At least he won't get the device. too bad I'll loose the decoy, though. Oh well." she thuoght.
Orcus blinked. He blinked agian.
Starscream popped up in front of her, and Jade went into full panic mode. She screeched and tried to go backwards, turning around to head for the door. She hit the button on the transmitter as she swung down...
"It's a bomb!" Starscream screamed, and two tiny lights on the side of the object Megatron thought was the transmognifier blinked.
Megatron threw it into the docking tower and shut the door sending it up.
Orcas tackled Jade, who screamed louder, and the explosion rocked the ship, knocking everyone off their feet.
Jade screamed right by the werewolf's audio, hoping it would be high-pitched and piercing enought to deafen him for a minute or so. She flailed, trying desperately to get free.
Orcus yelped and backed away, holding his delicate ears.
Jade headed for the tower controls at the console, and crash-landed on the button to bring the tower back down, with her elbow.
"No, somebody stop her before she can..." Megatron's eclamation was cut off by the beep from the control console.
When the docking tower got all the way down, the doors would automatically open, and since the tower had been blown up, the control room would be filled with seawater as soon as the lift got down and the doors opened.
"Evacuate the area!" Magatron yelled, and he and starscream raced to the door.
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Ratchet and Wheeljack looked at each other. "I think we should try to find an alternate method first." Wheeljack suggested. Ratchet looked at the two. "No, let Omega try. I'll be close by if anything happens." he nodded to the two, and turned to Prime. "I'll let you know how it goes." he motioned to the door.
Prime knew they wanted privacy. It wouldn't be right to bare one's spark where everyone could see. The red and white medic led the two to the area Wheeljack had set up, which was seperated from the rest of the repairbay. Nobody would have noticed anyway, Prowl was asleep. But it was also in case Alpha's spark overreacted, and Orcas regained his control, and he would have to turn on the field.
Ratchet locked the medbay door so no one would come rushing in and suprise them. That would not be a good thing. He nodded.
Alpha and Omega looked at each other. they opened their spark chanbers.
Alpha's pink spark brightened up Omega's face while his purple spark brightened up her blue face. The looked at each other and swallowed as Omega got close to his sister.
Let's hope-
"This works." Alpha finished aloud for him.
Omega reached fowards, his hand glowing a bright pink, and touched her spark.
Alpha gasped, not really with pain, but with a memory and went to push him away, but Omega grabbed her with his other hand. He looked her in the optics as his visor fell to the floor.
"Trust me, sis." He whispered, reaching in.
Alpha whimpered and wiggled with pain, but nodded, allowing him to go inside her very spark. They were connected. This could help. The young femme whimpered again and looked at him, her emerald optics dimming slightly.
Hang on, sis... Omega thought, though he also whispered it.
Ratchet turned his back to them, paying attention to the monitors overhead of the two. If Alpha's spark so much as blipped wrongly, he'd know it...
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Soundwave grabbed Jade's arm as they got out, the blast door shutting behind them, sealing of the control room.
They had gotten down the hall, and into another room, and Megatron grabbed Jade by the throat and shoved the jet against a wall, the end his fusion cannon aimed at her face.
"Give me one reason I shouldn't blow your head off right now!" he yelled.
Jade simply stared mutely.
"Go ahead. I'll just come back and you know it." came from around the large silver barrel.
Megatron snarled and threw her down the hall, landing on her face. "Get her out of my sight!" he snarled, and stalked down the hall towards his office.
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Alpha looked at her brother as he held her still. She felt him grab the dot and both yelped in pain.
Alpha wiggled, but Omega held her even firmer. The two locked optics and then Omega slowly wiggled it out of her spark as Alpha hissed in pain, biting her tongue. Omega finally got it out and then looked at it.
"Whoa!" He yelped, catching his sister as she practically collasped in his arms.
"Sis, ya okay?"
"...Ow..." Alpha groaned from his hold. She closed her optics as her chest plates closed.
Omega picked her up. "Easy, sis..."
Ratchet came over and helped him get her onto the recharge berth that had been set up inside the field area. "did you get it?" he asked.
Omega held it up. "Got it"
Alpha mumbled something and clutched her brother's visor, which had fallen into her hands, like it was a lifeline.
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Starscream smirked at Jade. She hissed "Go ahead. shoot me, Screamer!"
Starscream snarled "Don't call me that!"
he kicked her, shattering one of her cockpit windows..
Orcus simply chuckled.
Starscream turned to Orcas. "I believe you were saying something about having more of those..."
his voice took on a more pleasant, personable tone.
"toys of yours?" he smirked at the werewolf.
Orcus nodded.
Jade looked at starscream, then Orcas, then tried to run.
Orcus looked over at Starscream.
"Don't just stand there! Go after her!" Starscream snapped.
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Omega dropped the small sphere into the insulated container, still sparking and crackling with electricity, then sat down next to his sister. He slid the red visor back in it's place over his optics as Alpha gripped his hand.
Omega watched Ratchet leave and then bent over. He kissed his sister's forehead and something flashed between their link. He sat up and looked down at Alpha, optics wide.
He shook his head, calming down, and stroked the sleeping femme's forehead gently. Their link had been restored and Omega was going through every little bit he had missed.
Prime looked over at Ratchet when he walked into the control room. "well?" he asked expectantly. "It worked." the medic smiled back.
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Jade rounded a corner and ran facefirst into Hammertread. The tank looked down at her and growled.
Jade blinked.
"HT?"
Hammertread blinked. "You know my name?"
Starscream shot the jet in the back with his null ray.
Orcus ran over to the two and then growled at Jade. He looked at Hammertread and then at Starscream.
HT picked up the unconcious femme and headed for the cells on the lower decks.
Starscream smirked at Orcas. "You said something about having another device?"
Orcus nodded, smiling.
Megatron walked in, having calmed down since the explosion, and looked at Orcas. Starscream looked at him.
"Why not send her back to the Autobots to ensure Alpha does her job correctly, and then make her shoot her?" he suggested.
Megatron only nodded. Then turned to Orcas. "I want the device first. The real one. Force her to give it to me. Then we will send her to ensure our plan works."
Orcus nodded. "Of course." He said, looking at Megatron. He pulled out the device and the controller. "This'll only work for five shocks...the last one'll kill her...so...let's go..." He said, throwing and catching the black ball.
Hammertread cracked his knuckles and walked up to the jet. "Wakey wakey..."
She didn't move or online her optics just yet. She didn't want them to know she was awake. She had to try to find a way to escape...
Hammertread puched out the remaining cockpit windows, and Jade's optics onlined. He ripped the frame from it's housing, and stepped back to let Orcas get through the remaining metal to her spark.
Startled, she tried to get up, but the tank grabbed her, holding her down.
"No! Let me go!" she screeched.
She kept struggling. "You'll never get the device! One little bit of pain and it goes into a locked subspace pocket where even I can't reach it!" she yelled at Megatron.
HT glanced at him.
"She's lying." the Decepticon commander replied.
Orcus looked at them and then pulled out the device. "Hold her still." He ordered.
Jade screamed and kept struggling, but HT held on tighter, metal creaking under his strong grip.
Jade whimpered. "Please...I don't have it... Don't..please!" her wings trembled, and she was trying not to cry.
HT just smirked at her begging.
He pulled out the device and the controller.
Jade eyed it and tried to keep her wings from trembling, making a soft "tap-tap-tap" sound on the wall behind her.
"Fine...You can have it.. just don't... She took a deep shuddering breath.
"You can have it if you let me go." She looked at Megatron pleadingly, and he grinned.
"Give me the device, and we shall see."
Jade glanced at Orcas, and shut off her optics.
She brought it out, and let it drop to the floor. Megatron snatched it up.
"How do I know it is the real one." He demanded.
"I...I don't know. " she whimpered.
Megatron looked at Orcas, and nodded, Jade screamed and kicked at him, but HT was holding on tightly, and wrapped one leg around the jet's so she couldn't move.
"NO! Please!" she screamed, freely letting the tears fall.
Orcus bent down and plunged it into her spark.
Jade screamed louder, and went limp.
HT dropped her and she curled up as tightly as she could, crying softly.
Orcus shook his head. "How pathetic."
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Meanwhile, Prime had to go talk with Syus.
He really didn't want to be the one to tell him. The green dragon allready had a temper when it came to any of his team being harmed.
He stopped for a minute at the door, pondering how he was going to tell him.
He rang the doorbell.
Cable answered the door. "Hi." he moved aside so Prime could come in.
He went to the door of the bedroom, where Syus was inside meditating, soft music and incense wavered through the door as he opened it, and the car scrunched up his nose slightly at the smell, wondering why it didn't set off the fire alarm system.
Prime cleared his throat. "Syus?"
Syus must not have heard him. "Um," Cable said softly. Syus onlined his optics and looked serenely up at the car.
He spotted Prime behind him. "What reason do you have to disturb me?" he asked softly, voice barely over a whisper.
Cable glanced at Prime and left to let them talk alone. Syus stood and turned off the stereo.
Prime looked at the ground. "Jade...has been captured..."
Syus blinked. He stared at Prime with a patient look, as though waiting for him to explain things further. Like what had happened, how it had happened, and what they were going to do about it.
Prime sighed and went into detail.
Syus nodded.
"We will consult Bullet as well. He may have some ideas on how to rescue her, as well as having possibly found the Decepticon ship."
He headed out of the bedroom into the crew quarters. Mic and Needle looked up from their grand turismo game.
"Where is Bullet?" Syus inquired.
Mic shrugged. "He's still with Wheeljack going over their little sub project." he replied.
Syus nodded. "Thank you." he walked out.
Syus and Prime headed to Wheeljack's workshop. Mic went back to his videogame with Needle.
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Megatron smirked. "We will make it seem as though she has escaped, Soundwave and the Cassettes should have fixed the boarding tower by now." he said. "Bring her." he turned and walked away.
HT grabbed her arm, and she tried to curl up even more. "Get up!" he shook her, then looked over at Orcas.
Orcus wiggled the controller. "Up. now."
Jade whimpered and curled up tighter.
Orcus growled and pressed it.
Jade screamed and writhed for a moment, then jumped up, panting for breath to cool her overheated systems. she stared at the floor.
Orcus cut it off. "Now. Come on."
Jade followed.
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Bullet and Wheeljack were at one of the workbenches, watching the readouts from the mini-sub on Bullet's laptop.
Bullet kept typing, even though he heard the door open and close behind him.
Prime looked at the two.
Syus's voice sounded behind Bullet, and Wheeljack looked up.
"Bullet, we need to talk." Syus said.
"Hang on." Bullet typed in another line of code and hit the enter key. He turned around, and glanced at Prime. "What is it?" he asked.
Prime sighed. "Jade was captured and we need your help."
Bullet looked at Prime as he explained, and his jaw fell open. He started gathering up the wires and disconnecting them.
"We can hook up my system to teletraan and possibly double the range. We can extend the radar range of the submarine..."
He started chattering technojargon, and Wheeljack kept up with him disconnecting wires and stuff, and they hurried out of Wheeljack's shop towards the command center.
Prime followed.
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Meanwhile, in the repairbay, Jazz woke up to find Prowl sitting right next to him.
"You were here all night?" he asked sleepily.
The tactician merely nodded, and smiled at him.
"But... What about yer work an' stuff?" Jazz propped himself up on one elbow.
"I transferred the files to datapad from my office computer and brought them here." Prowl pointed to the box of datapads on the floor next to him.
Jazz glanced at it. The neatly stacked datapads were practically spilling over the top of the box.
"aww, so nice to know you care." Jazz leaned in a gave him a quick kiss.
Prowl glanced at Ratchet, blushing slightly.
Omega glanced over at them and pretended he didn't see it as he stroked Alpha's forehead. His red visor softened slightly.
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Bullet and Wheeljack started to hook up the laptop to teletraan. "Hope it doesn't blow your laptop up." Wheeljack joked.
"Oh, like I'm the one to blow things up on a regular basis." Bullet joked back.
Syus cleared the static from his vocaliser to remind them to be serious.
Bullet's smile dissapeared, and Wheeljack just glanced at the dragon.
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Orcus led the femmeseeker to the Ark. He glanced at her.
"Alright. You must finish what alpha started. Kill the Autobot leader, then as many as you can. After which you will return to me. Make sure you also shoot Alpha. If you do not, I will rip out your spark myself." He said "Understand?"
Jade whimpered and nodded, still looking at the ground. Orcas let go of her arm and shoved her towards the entrance.
She looked back at him out of the corner of her optic mournfully.
Orcus looked at her. "Go. Now." He growled.
Jade plodded into the Ark, still smashed cockpit windows still aching slightly. She couldn't hardly think around the pain...
She had to find a way to warn them...
A stab of pain through her entire body made her stumble, and remind her Orcas was still very much in control.
She righted herself, and reached for her gun.
No, not her handguns.. A small streak of pain told her he wanted her to use the other one.
She whimpered and pulled out her high-powered rifle. She flicked the power switch on, hoping it might overcharge before she got inside.
Then she realized it might not...
when she reached the command center, Prime and Syus were at Teletraan. Prime looked suprised, as did Syus.
"You're allright!" Syus exclaimed.
Jade's hand shook behind her back. They didn't know she had her high-powered rifle out. The one she'd "confiscated" from Klutch.
She mentally cursed at Orcas, and recieved a stab of pain in reply.
She winced, and Syus hurried towards her. "Jade, what's srong?" his face was full of worry. He stopped a few feet away when he heard the 'whirr-clunk' of the charge dropping into the firing chamber from the battery.
She looked at the floortiles.
She took a deep breath.
"RUN!!!" she screamed, and fired off a shot at Prime, but missed and hit teletraan's screen.
The glass shattered, sending a shower of sparks, and Syus tackled her.
I don't want to fight him! please don't make me!!! she thought.
Orcus glared. He sent a small shock of pain at her.
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Alpha gasped.
Omega looked at her. "I sensed it too..." He nodded before calming his frightened sister.
He touched his comm, Prime, Orcus is nearby! Yes, we're sure!
Prime hit the alarm button. Syus growled, landing on top of the jet, her gun clattered away. She stuck out both wrist spikes, which he grabbed and trapped her hands over her head with one hand.
"What is wrong with you!?" he demanded, worry clear in his voice around the anger.
Jade screeched and squirmed. Ratchet came flying out of the repairbay with Jazz and Prowl right behind him.
He glanced back "I thought I told you to stay put!" he yelled. Jazz shrugged. Prowl eyed the jet.
Jade put both feet up and kicked the dragon off, getting her feet under her. "Don't...make me do this." she almost whimpered, holding one arm across her chest.
Ratchet inched forward, the hypo in hand, waiting to catch her unawares from behind, like what he had done to Hammertread when he was fighting Prowl that one time...
Syus let his wings disconnect from where they were hooked onto his shoulders and and out horizontally, making him look large than he really was. Jade backstepped, trying not to let the pain overcome her...
Syus unsheathed his sword.
He had allways said "Do not unsheath one's weapon unless you intend to use it, even if it means killing your enemy."
Jade backed away, squaring off with Syus. She shook her head, leeting the tears fill her optics...
He lunged.
She jumped, going over him, He turned and swung in an angled downward slash, catching one wingtip.
Jade cringed as the tritanium blade sliced through the metal like it was paper, and backed away again, circling with him slowly.
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Meanwhile, the rest of the Autobots had heard the alarm and come running, Prime intercepted them before they could interfere in the fight and get either Jade or Syus damaged, and send them outside the ark to look for Orcas.
He also contacted Red alert to do an external camera sweep of the area.
The twins swallowed. Alpha clutched her chest, remembering the pain, and shuddered.