WELLLLLL hello again everybody lightning here with another chapter and I decided to change up a few things from the original storyline of Transfomers Prime, but frost I'd like to say that the reason the bots weren't in the last chapter was because I had no idea how to put them in. But here's the list of things I'm changing.
1: smokescreen has been with the bots the whole time for this AU.
2: predicons and maximals are still on the earth
3: Starscream Puts his clone's T-cog into himself when he loses his to M.E.C.H
4: Predicons rising never happens, along with many of the episodes in season2 and 3
5: agent Fowler is not as useless as he is in the original storyline
6:Bumble Bee is black and yellow instead of yellow and black
7: Arcee is the second in command of all autobots because Ultra Magnus died to Dreadwing
8: (I will stop here so I don't spoil anything big for later chapters) Arcee is Optimus's niece
And as always I'm sorry for any misspells, if the story get boring, or hard to understand. And sorry for me being hectic at the end of last chapter, that was me being random, sorry about that. And if you want to know why this hasn't been posted sooner it's because, I have school, my personal life is getting in the way, I've been re re re re re editing then making new drafts and re edit again, and I haven't been getting ideas lately.
and oh I forgot to put this in the last chapter. This is a transformers prime and the world I made up crossover with some, call of duty (or CoD) MW2-Ghosts, and TRON crossovers. and the reason this is not in the crossover section is NO ONE would read it if I placed this story there. I should also mention some of the charters that I've made up have traveled through time so it might get a little confusing if you didn't know that. And wow I can't believe I have to point this out, this story is about WAR, and apparently I had to point that out to some people who didn't understand what the title "war fighters" meant. -_-. sorry about my little rant I don't like it when people don't use their brains.
I'd like to thank JasonVUK for the Fav., follow, and review.
but I'll stop blabbing, AND GET ON WITH THE STORY.
"talking"
'thinking'
;"via bond";
(author or me talking)
_"Bee talking"_
berth = bed
frame = body
helm = head
CPU = mind/brain
faceplate = face
optic = eye
audio sensors = ears
Dentals = teeth
glossia = tongue
voice box = voice ?
chassis = chest
spark = heart
servo = hand
digit = finger
ped = foot
Creator = parent
Mate = fiancee (I think I spelled it right but I don't know)
sparkmate = husband or wife
Bonded = Sparkmates who have a mental bond and can speak to each other telepathically with little effort.
via bond = the mental bond between a Sparkling and his or her's creator's. This is also shared between siblings adopted or not.
femme = female/ girl/ woman
mech = male/ boy/ man
sparkling = baby/ child/ toddler
online/d/ing = alive/ living/ life/ birth
offline/d/ing = dead/ killed/ died/ murrdered/ death/ diying
stasis lock = coma
infa cycle = a century to a cybertronian (which is 120,000 years to us)
Mega cycle = a decade to a cybertronian (which is 12,000 years to us)
cycle = a year to a cybertroian (which is 1,200 years to us)
Jore = a month to a cybertronian (which is 100 years to us)
vorn = a week to a cybertronian (which is 25 years to us)
solar cycle = 1 day
Pit = Hell
allspark = the afterlife
fragg = f*** or frick
Scrap = crap or crud
slag = s***
venting = breathing
does anyone know what the cybertronian cus word for d*** is?
I do not own anything except for Ray Shadeslayer the sky captain, Ember The red wolf, OC's, and the places I make up. (Plus I im sorry if I happen to make anyone feel like I stole their ideas, just know that was just a coincidence and unintentional)
-It's been ten years ... you start to forget, the things you should remember, and you can't stop remembering, the things you should forget... we've always had the power, but not anymore, all we have now, is each other... Were ghosts, fighting for something that can't be killed...Soldiers stand against their enemy, but ghosts, haunt them-
Logan from CoD (call of duty) ghosts trailer
Mission: Iacon relic hunt
Place: Autobot base
Time: 3:35 A.M / may / fifteenth / 2023
POV: Arcee
I walked into the main room or "mission control" as Miko would sometimes call it, along with Ember, Smokescreen, and bumble Bee.
"So which relic do you think we'll find" Smokescreen asked
_"no idea, it could be any of the ones that haven't been found"_ Bee replied
"well no duh, theres no way the cons would just throw away one of the relics" Ember commented
_"you know what meant"_ Bee shot back.
I ignored them and kept walking. "So where are we going?" I asked as I neared the main computer screen that Ratchet always worked at.
"Arizona, the Grand Canyon, to be specific" Ratchet answered. "and to our knowledge, the decepticons have not yet detected this energy signal coming from the relic" he added
"even though this gives us an advantage, I suspect that it will not last long, if we are to keep this relic out of decepticon servos we must act now, rather than later." Optimus stated then added "Ratchet, open the ground bridge"
Ratchet pulled the lever to the ground bridge and the green and blue vortex whirled to life.
"Autobots, transform and roll out" Optimus called (yeah not the best word to use I know)
as he transformed into his "big rig" form, and the rest of team prime followed him through the swirling vortex. When we came out on the other side all we could see were two very tall red, yellow, tan, brown, and a mix of any color of that range walls. A small (small to the cybertronians) muddy river flowed through the gap of these two walls, and uneven overhangs with buildings carved into them, all of them looked to be made from a mixture of clay, rock, earth, and sand. Plants grew anywhere they were able to in the extremely over heated environment, most of the looked as dry and hash as the area the grew in.
The chasm was completely lit up in a navy blue/white light from the moon and casted dark shadows that were almost black against the light. The sky itself was bright and completely clear, and the temperature show on my H.U.D was 79 Fahrenheit or 26.111 celsius. 'slagg this heat here is worst than jasper' I continued to look around when I noticed a large cave entrance, about the size of two Optimus's.
"I'm going to go out on a limb here, we're going to have to go in the dark creepy cave aren't we" Smokescreen blurted
"thank you for stating the obvious Smokescreen, Yes we're going into the dark creepy cave, But your more than welcome to stay if your scared" I replied, Smokescreen stiffened, then his face plate contorted into a grimmest.
"I am not scared of a cave" Smokescreen answered then added in a low voice "fragging femme" I turned and looked him straight into his optics
"what was that Smokescreen, I don't think I heard you right, fragging femme" I asked in a monotone voice hinted with a hiss. He paled and stuttered his words "n-n-nothing mam" "I thought so" I replied in the same tone.
We started walking again, hopefully we didn't too much time "Why did you have to to do that smokey? You know Arcee hates you. So why do things like that to make her hate you even more?" Ember whispered to Smokescreen.
Whatever was his response was he used a private com lick line to the maximal instead of answering aloud. 'Its better he holds his mouth shut so we all don't have to hear his annoying blabbing' I jumped into the darkness of the cavern. turning on my night vision, I saw the cavern extended over a hundred feet, and a hundred feet wide in a perfectly shaped sphere with only a ped sized nick at the bottom of it to disfigure the sphere, and four tunnels each pointing in different direction laid at the center "equator" of the sphere. (I didn't know how else to describe it with out taking too much space)
The sound of rocks falling and bouncing off the ground caught my attention and I turned around to see the rest of the team slide down the sphere. Looking at the his surroundings Optimus assessed the situation.
:"we'll speak only on the communication links from this point forth. Do I make my self clear": Optimus radioed over
:"crystal": Ember answered
_:"yes sir":_ Bee replied
:"yes commander": I answered in a monotone voice
:"only com links from this point, got it": Bulk replied. Smokescreen didn't say anything, he just looked unhappy.
:"smokescreen": Optimus asked
:"yeah, yeah I heard you, no com links.": he stated through the public channel just as unhappy as he looked. My uncle and commander suddenly looked slightly annoyed, and was probably informing Smokescreen that he would like to have a meeting with him when we get back to base.
:"We will seperate into four groups, Ember I suggest you go with Arcee, Bulkhead I think it best if you come with me, Bumble Bee you will be going on own, as will Smokescreen": Optimus stated
:"alright then let's move": I called out over the com. Everyone nodded and choose a tunnel to go down.
:"come on Ember": I said over the com link to the maximal and gestured for her to follow. she did the equivalent of a wolf jogging to catch up with me. In her alt mode she stood as tall as my waist, four months ago I had hated this femme because I thought she could have been a predacon, but now I saw her as a sweet sparkling wanting nothing more than a family to care for her.
:"Arcee may I ask you something?": Ember asked as we moved through the tunnel :"shoot": I replied
:"umm please don't get mad at me for asking you this but, (sighs) I know you lost Tail Gate and Cliff Jumper, and that they were like brothers to you, but I sometimes hear you say the name Raid or something like that when your crying, may I ask why?": then she quickly added :"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked-":
:"Look, I understand that you must be curious, but that is my private life, please stay out of it": I answered then I realize, I had been rude and added :"Sorry, that was rude. It's just I've never gotten over his loss, Jack's helped me through Tail Gate and Cliff's deaths. but Razor is not a topic I talk about to anyone":
:"I'm sorry, I couldn't help but ask. My high sensitivity hearing tends to make me curious": she replied
:"it's alright, but let's just change the subject":
:"ok... umm what was Cybertron like before the war?": she asked
:"(chuckles) there wasn't any other world like it, in its prime Cybertron was a world with the most advance technology, the entire planet was a giant city with many levels, most of the lowest levels were abandoned. (like in Transformers Cybertron with the giant planet "gigantor" or something like that) the upper most level was home to the wealthy, high authority, and "true or noble blood", the mid levels were reserved for the mid class mechs and femmes, and lower levels were mostly filled with thief's, slaves, and homeless mechs and femmes. ": I explained :"I lived in the higher levels with my family, an-": we turned a corner and I dropped what I was saying.
"Unbelievable" I whispered disregarding Optimus's order not to openly speak aloud
:"umm Arcee, hello, why are you just standing there gawking like that?": Ember asked
"a crystal garden, but there are none left, or there shouldn't be any left from what I know, but here one is" I said more to my self than to Ember
:"umm Arcee, I'm getting a bad vibe about this": Ember said in a half worried, half warning tone
I knew of Ember's abillty to sense danger when it was near, but how could something so beautiful be dangerous. I went to touch one of the crystals, reaching out to feel its smooth surface. Suddenly the sound of a T-cog activated and a servo grabbed my shoulder and yanked me back.
:"Arcee it's not what you think it is, just watch": she stated, as she picked up a rather large rock and threw it at the crystal, the second the two objects touched each other a bright flash followed by a loud stone and electric cracking erupted from the crystals. "what? How?" I asked shocked
:"their not what you think they are commander, besides we need to move on, before the cons find the relic": she stated
:"right, sorry, I don't know what I what thinking": I replied
:"it can happen to anyone": she said mimicking me from after a scouting incident form three months ago.
We walked through the deadly crystal garden, careful not to touch any of the trapped crystals. :"I wonder why someone would trapped these crystals, unless-": Ember started :"unless there was something here, someone didn't want to have found": I finished we kept walking, my blasters ready to attack. Ember had her razor shaper claws engaged, and ready for battle. the garden eventually lead to another tunnel, and we traveled down it. Skulls, both human and cybertronian lined the tunnel's wall, giving this place an eerie, and dead feel to the tunnel.
:"Arcee why are there so many skulls here? And why are there Cybertronian skulls here": Ember asked sounding scared and sickened.
:"I don't know Ember, but don't like it, and a better question to ask is, why are there so many cybertronian skulls here? and why didn't they report this planet to cybertron when they had the chance?": I answered
:"that's what scares me, why are there so many, and what or who killed them": she asked sounding frightened.
We turned one of the bends and came to a wide cavern miles wide, with a seemingly bottomless pit around a mile wide pillar, and large stone bridge connecting to it. Both my and Ember's mouths dropped 'holy Fragging goodness, what the pit is this place?'
:"umm so do we just walk across or is it another trap?": Ember asked keeping her eyes on the large cavern.
:"it's probably another trap": I replied as I picked up a small stone and chucked it. The rock skidded along the bridge and rolled to a stop, nothing happened so we began walking across.
:"ummm Arcee, ummmm, do you have any idea what's at the end of this bridge?":
:"no, but the has to be something we can't see from here, why would someone just put all those traps there for nothing? And I just hope that something is the relic so we can get the pit out of here.":
once we had crossed the bridge we could see the caved in part of the pillar and a cybertronian device sitting upon a pedestal. I slid down the slop and toward the pedestal, I knew this had to be a trap, but what the trap was I didn't know. Reaching to grab it I tried to touch it but my servo instantly was shocked by an electric sphere. After a few try's, I noticed that it only shocked me when I was looking at the relic, if it was the relic. I looked away a took a hold of the device the best I could without looking at it. and it slowly came out of the sphere it was sealed in, no matter how hard I pulled on the device. 'Come on, hurry up' finally it slid off the pedestal and I could more easily carry it.
:"well that was easy": Ember commented, and jinx, a loud wind rushing / sucking noise filled the cavern and it kept getting louder.
:"WE NEED TO MOVE": I shouted over the com as I jumped over the steep slop, back up to Ember.
I took off running across the bridge with Ember right at my side, keeping pace. We ran back up the deadly crystal garden and back into the first open cavern. during the entire time the wind pulling us back to the large cavern kept getting stronger and louder. By the time we had finally reach the place from where we started, we were venting hard, and exhausted.
"Ohh jeesh, thaaaat, isss, soomething, I NEVER, WANT TO DO THAT AGAIN!" Ember stated venting hard
"haha I agree" I replied laughing in hysteria.
:"Ratchet can you give us me and Ember a ground bridge?": I asked on the public com
:"yes, and is there a problem?": he asked
:"no, be me and Ember found something of interested, and we'll show you at base": I answered as I walked through the bridge.
Mission: none
Place: earth, Alaska near "whiteout"
Time: 6:30 P.M / may / fifteenth / 2023
POV: Ray
(the song "stay frosty-MW3 soundtrack" is playing made by "thesession" it's hard to find so here's a link for it on youtube /lGjNo7ziBiA)
For the last five hours I've been sitting in a plane the U.S government had provided, along with at least twenty soldiers, with most of them acting like rookies. Five hours of complete boredom, and silence. Time seemed to ow down to a crawl, and it was driving me mad. If I was on a sniping mission, I wouldn't have been so bored because I would at least be doinhg something to pass the time. But here I had nothing to do or talk about to someone. So I just waited for the plane's door to open, so I could parachute out.
"Alright rookies, and captain, we'll be passing over "Whiteout" in three minutes so get ready to jump." The copilot yelled back
'FINALLY' "and oh don't get cocky rookies, and jump without a parachute like you have a death wish" she added. I smirked under my ninja mask, no one knew I was about to jump off without a parachute, I didn't need one. Soon a red flashing and buzzing light mark it was time to jump, just as the plane door slowly dropped.
"GO GO GO GO" the pilot yelled over the sound of wind I didn't need to be told what to do and I jumped out, almost embracing the frigid Alaskan air.
The sound of rushing wind meet my ears, and snow began to blur my vision. I shot straight down rushing past all the rookie soldiers ahead of me, I was rapidly rushing to the ground, but this didn't bother me. I had jumped off skyscrapers, helicopters, and cliffs plenty of times to know how to get down to the ground quickly, but stay safe from any major harm. I breathed in hard, trying to get in as much cold air into my lungs before hitting the ground. When I felt I should slow down I unfurled my hawk like wings and slowly decelerated and landed on a building's roof hard. After landing I hid my wings from sight and jumped down on to the frost covered road. I could hear gun shots over by the "caves" of the small ghost town. Red and black paint balls began hitting walls and vehicels from shots being missed. I knew I wasn't in any real danger here, but I still didn't like getting hit by paint balls, especially against my bare skin.
Sticking to anything that would give me cover from the barges of paint balls, but most of the time I had to sprint across an area with no cover, which in turn a whole bunch of rookies began shooting at me. Of corse I tried to dodge the oncoming balls of paint but to no luck. By the time I was out of shooting range, I was completely covered in red and black paint on more part of my cloths. '(mentally sighs) I have to clean them' I looked at the large, wide, round mountain that could easily be mistaken for a very large hill, the place that marked where my hidden tempory base was located. I thought about who knew where this temp. base was. So far it was just me, the president (of the U.S), and the other Parödons. (pair-O-don)
Once out of sight of the small ghost town, I began sprinting faster than any normal human being. In fact I was sprinting at a place most cars would be able to keep up with. 'eighty miles or so miles per hour if I remember correctly.' speeding along the icy shoreline of the ocean next me, I tried not to fall in as sudden gusts would push me toward the ice cold water. Other than that nothing really happened on my way to my temp. base. I slowed to a jog when I could finally see the base's frost covered run way (for planes what else would it be for) and large frozen steel doors.
Once in range of the base's door they automatically opened and I jogged on through into the once abandon missile silo, as the doors closed shut with an audible thud, behind me. The words "YOU'RE A KILLER RAY" echoed in my mind made me flinch, I knew who had said that to me but I couldn't remember his name. I shook my head, clearing my thoughts from the memory and walked over to the training room which was a long, tall oval shaped room filled with stationary targets and targets which could move sideways, up, down, back forth had it's own dedicated section, weights and anything related to them we replaced neatly along a bench press away from the firing range, a mini rock wall that went up about 15 feet covered another small section of the room, several punching bags With and least twice as many laid on the ground Broken, strong steel rods that were held in place by some more steel poles lined in one long section placed in a style that you would only expect a gymnastic to be able to cross, and a piece of metal that I had beaten senseless since I had found ten years ago laid in its own little corner. (the song "moment of inhertia"is playing made by"thesession" it's hard to find on youtube so here's the link /CqczZE0S-Tc)
Along the walls were displays with more armors, weapons, firearms,and equipment such as swords, boots, chest plates, leggings, helmets, gauntlets, rifles, light machine guns, launchers, shields, bows, arrows, bullets, grenades, missiles, and many more things that I don't care to mention. I continued walking through the room not interested in training for the time being. A desk with three HD computers on it which I used for my own reasons. Next to that was a pile of targets stacked neatly on top of each other. A 30 foot ladder rested against a wall for fixing pipes, light bulbs, or whatever I needed to fix up on the ceiling. There was also stairs that lead to a second level for either watching someone train and or to be used as a place for the countless projects I was working on.
I walked over to my desk and checked to see what I had missed for the last three days. So far all I had missed was Cyber posting hundreds of random posts and tweets on his twitter account "crazy psychopath does", I took a look some of the newer ones he posted not expecting anything but gibberish "The sky captain is moody *puts on a troll face*" "I'm eating lunch" "I love shooting the h*** out of stuffed animals ):D" "Adds and Pix sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G :p" "oh, I found BTC in a UHC :D" "I CAN NEVER DIE HAHAHAHAHAHA SUCK IT MORTALS :D" "I wil DESTROY EVERYTHING *grins evilly*" "oh hey I just played sonic . exe, IT WAS GREAT :)" I almost did a double take on that one, I only saw the first level of it and (shudders) it was horrible. 'I hate horror games' "Im gonna steal a nuke" "aahahsygejdyfirnwjfd" "I love to pull mericless pranks on... EVERYBODY :D" and everything else I saw was of similar content.
dumb news I didn't care about, my wife and Jeb going on a lead to find Mavarov, Vert won another race against some person I didn't know, Etho and Vechs were on a scouting mission trying to find info on where Cyris might be,'the dang demon always seems to vanish into thin air when he wants to' Docm failing again at trying to perfect his portable teleporter gun, and more spam from Cyber. 'hang that reaper, and send him to h***' then I spent another hour or so hacking the U.S.A's goverment files on the "Ether". After a hour of sure aching and nothing found, I gave up. I looked up "the dark planet", but found nothing on what I was looking for. I looked at the faded piece of paper taped to my computer screen. "the list" of names of people I needed to hunt down and kill or bring back into the light of good, to stop the blood war from ever happening.
5) Silas
4) Mavarov
3) Megatron
2) the man who keeps appearing in my dreams and mirrors
1) CYRIS!
I also saw a picture of my old team. me, Kyper, Shadow, Gaz, Vertex, Digs, Sensei, and Vechs. The memories of how they died replayed in my head.
Mission: birds prey
Place: Tharx, the ruined city of terria
Time: 2:34 A.M / april / tenth / 2013 ( three thousand years ago for Ray)
POV: Ray
(the song "Wasteland" is now playing made by "" here's the link)
"COME ON RYKO THE COPPER'S THIS WAY" Vechs yelled over the raging sounds of war. I was sprinting like a bat out of h*** toward the helicopter, and I knew if I stopped the dark ops chasing us would undoubtably kill me and the others. I turned a left then a right, almost falling off the roof of a three story building, the straight, and finally another left. By the time Vechs, Sensei, and me reached the helicopter the rest of the team had already piled in. Unfortunately for us that meant there wasn't enough room for us.
"THERE ISN'T ROOM FOR US, YOU HAVE TO GO ON WITHOUT US" I yelled
"WE CAN MAKE ROOM, COME ON JUST GET IN" Vertex shouted back over the helicopters blades I could see the fear in her eyes again, the fear of losing a family member.
"RYKO'S RIGHT YOU HAVE TO GO ON WITHOUT US" Sensei shouted
"I HAVE TO LEAVE NOW AND THEIR RIGHT, THEY WON'T FIT." The pilot yelled
"THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER WAY" she replied "TRUST US, WE'VE MADE IT THROUGH WORSE" I yelled as the began to leave.
"so were suck out here in this h*** hole, great, just fan flipping great" Vechs sarcastically stated
"well it could be-" I started, suddenly a blinding orange and white light followed by the sound of a bomb going off and destroying everything in its path ripped through the air. For a solid one moment time stood still then everything happened in a blur.
"QUICK GET SOME COVER" I yelled.
Not waiting for them to respond I grabbed both of them and quickly threw us behind a broken wall barely big enough for us. Then the blinding light was everywhere, heat, dry fiery heat followed burning what skin was exposed to the air and singeing some of my hair. I closed my eyes so they wouldn't get burned by the heat. And the sound, a loud ripping, cracking, rushing wind, and thundering sound, that drowned out all other noise to the point my ears began to ring like they were inside a church's bell being rung over and over again in a storm. Then, nothing, everything was dead silent. I opened my eyes again to see Vechs and Sensei with their hands over their ears. Slowly they began to move again
"Are you guys alright" I asked but I didn't hear it, my ears were still ringing.
After a few minutes I could hear again.
"you guys ok" Vechs asked I nodded, but Sensei didn't move
"it should have been us on the chopper, not them" he finally replied. Then I noticed the sky was red and black, with ash falling from the sky
"we need to move" Sensei stated
I took a look around, the ruined city was now almost obliterated, only a few building were in sight, the sky was a deathly black and many shades of red making everything look and feel dead, hopeless, and ghostly. "Thank the Lord God were still alive" I mumbled
"yeah, I can't say the same for anyone else though, (sighs) the dark ops are sick and twisted people, I mean they just nuked their own men just to kill a team of seven soldiers" Vechs sighed
"well talking about how demented those b**** are isn't going to help" Sensei stated. My mouth dropped
"did you really just cus Sensei" I asked shocked
"yes, now we need to get the h**** blazes out of this heck hole, and if my memory is correct there is a military base sixty miles dew east of here" he answered.
"We're going to hijack something aren't we?" I asked
"you want to live right" Sensei replied
"yes" I answered
"then yes we are going to hijack something, because they sure aren't going to give us something, now get up we need to move" he said I tried to stand but but my left leg burned with pain.
"My leg's broken and I can't stand on my own" I stated
"then we'll help you walk, no one gets left behind" Vechs stated with a sad smile
They lifted me by the arms and we slowly made our way to the ground and to the military base.
"Which way did you say was east" Vechs asked
"umm... just a second let me get my compass out, ah, this way" Sensei said pointing in the direction we needed to go. Then everything slowly faded into darkness.
(the song "terminality" is now playing made by "the session" here's the link on soundcloud /thesecession/terminality)
I gasped from the memory, what was I in? And how did it involve me? "Who was I in my first life" I muttered to my self, I almost expected an answer, but I knew it would never come, at least not yet anyway. 'There is a time and a place for these questions.' a still small voice in the back of my head whispered. I sighed and got out of the chair I was sitting in. I began to walk to stairs that lead up the to the second level of the training room which served as a viewing area. The sounds of war replaying in my head, sounds of war, of pain, of death, gun shots began to sound like rapid humming, missiles, mines, and bombs began to sound too simlar to thunder. Men and women shouted everywhere, rain and fire sounded as one, everything felt dead, worthless, hopeless, pain ripped through my body every time one of my wounds was jolted from the force of my shooting.
the eyes of they men and women I looked at were lifeless. Even the ones that weren't dead seemed just dead. eveything was blurred and echoed, voices began to sound like one then began to overlap each other. 'Why must I suffer, why must I remember all pain and death in my life while I remember almost nothing of my childhood, my personal life, even my own name, Ryko Celdecked seems foreign to me, no, I am not Ryko, Ryko died years ago in the vat of Radic (r-A-D-ic), I am Ray Shadeslayer, and I make my own destiny. It doesn't matter who I was, all that matters is who I am today.'
I turned left seeing I could no longer move forward if I didn't want to walk off the platform, and my right was a wall. The cat walk that stretched across the room, and lead to many other cat walks, most of them had no railing to keep a person from falling. crossing the cat walk I came to a room filled with over hundred s of prototype weapons, tools, equipment, and machinery. Using my H.E.D.S phones I put the song "salt of the earth" made by "love drug"(I really suggest you listen to it, the song is amazing, but here are the lyrics to it along with the link to the video its on /GuEdzCyf8yY) on and it immediately began playing. The sound of glass breaking being broken rewound then being broken again and again (or metal chains being whipped on to the ground) followed by a piano having it's keys pounded on as hard as they could and electric guitar being sprung with the same force, blared loud in my deaf ears. (Ok this something you need to know, Ray has been deaf ever since he was born. And without his H.E.D.S phones he can't hear anything)
"Oh, like the salt of the earth, Each correction makes us stronger, Absconder, in happiness, yeah." the song now went back to the piano, breaking glass, and guitar. But this time the instrumental was followed by some drums.
I walked up to a pile of books I had yet to put in their places, I took two very old, dark brown leather back covered books. Titled the holy bible, king James version and the Book of Mormon another testament of Jesus Christ. and I went to a quite place, away from any technology and distraction.
"Voyage up my river, full of tears it's yerking, Lookout now, doctor's unleashing, All this dangerous, this is dangerous, I can't hide your danger eyes, I can't hide your death selection" again it went back into an instrumental using its same beat
I opened the door to the room I slept in every night for the past years. it was a small and humble room with only a closet, a long cot, a small coffee table, a tall but skinny lamp that sat upon it with it's light turned on, and a picture of me, my wife, my jacka** cousin Elemmento (L-i-men-t-O), and my newborn son, Leo. while I looked around gun shots rung clear through my mind.
"One day I would've fallen so in love One day I would've painted reds and greens Of one who let me live long enough" the lyrics (or the guy singing the song) paused for a moment to let a drummer rapidly bang on the drums for a second.
I opened up the bible to read "Exodus 3 through 6" (if you don't have a king Jame's bible or a Book of Mormon it won't affect the story too much other than Ray reading the history of his religion) men shouting at me from all sides made me flinch a bit as t'the memory of my ears ringing resurfaced.
"But there are suits in love with their own poises, Hypocrites with no more voices Corporate cowards with no more choices" again the lyrics paused for a moment for the beat.
My eyes scanned through the events and records of what had happened many, many years ago. Inside my head the echoes of war still raged on like a thunder storm, I could remember feeling pain, guilt, hate, fear, regret, and crippled.
"This is dangerous, this is dangerous, oh I can't hide your danger eye I can't hide your death selection" again the lyrics stopped and the beat of the music played on for a minute "All is lost for us if heaven All is lost for us if heaven fails All is, all is, all is, all is, all is" that was the end of the singing, but the beat continued until the glass breaking ended up being the last thing being used for the song when it stopped.
by the time The music had stopped I had finished reading and was about to get ready for bed. The second my head hit the pillow I instantaneously fell a sleep.
start of dream
Mission: none
Place: Halo Tharx (th-R-ax) outskirts of the twilight forest near the city of zethera
Time: unknown
POV: Ray
(the song "shoot to kill" is now playing made by "the session" here's the link /G_fW1thKYc8)
(WARRING DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T LIKE VIOLENCE)
I sprinted through the dark forest, running from a unseen foe. I had no weapons, fire arms, and no armor, and I knew I was out matched. So I did the only I could, I ran. "there is no escape, there is only, death" a voice yelled behind me yelled from within the darkness of the twilight forest. A feeling of dread slowly filled my body as who the voice belong to slowly gained on me.
"YOU CAN'T RUN AND YOU CAN'T HIDEEE AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA HA AHAHA HA AHA" the voice psychopathically screamed.
I kept running through the dark forest, a voice in the back of my head told me to not to look back, but not listening I took a peek. And the only thing I could see were two glowing blood dots in the darkness. Even more fear, this time ice cold, surged through my vanes. instead of slowing down and give up, I sped up, pushing myself as fast as I could go.
"YOUR RUNNING ONLY DELAYS YOUR DEATH" the voice laughed like a rioting mob gone mad.
I broke through the trees and now was in the city zethera on "twilight lane" as most called it. I kept running, hoping that I could somehow lose the man chasing me. I decided my best bet was using one of the sky scrapers and that was as far as I had got for a plan. 'WAIT I just realized something where is everybody?' I was just now realizing that there was nobody else in the city, it was completely abandoned. 'No time to think about that now, I need to focus on how to lose this guy' I smashed through a glass door and headed straight for the door that would lead to the stairs.
I charged at inhuman speeds up the stairs, and I kept pushing my self faster and faster. 'Come on, come on' I felt like I was going to die but I didn't care. I passed a sign that stated "floor 30" I still had a long way to go. I wasn't going fast enough so I jumped over the railing and up a level then I kicked off the wall and jumped over railings and on to the next level. I caught my self into a rhythm, run, kick off, run, jump, I kept doing this until I reached "level 500" I was now on the top floor and I could see the door to the roof.
I didn't even bother to open the door, I barged through using my super strength to breakdown the door. I full on surged out of the building and on to its roof, I didn't know what I was going to do, but I knew I was out of time. I kept running and leapt off the roof throwing all the weight I could forward. I was instantly meet with the sound of rushing wind, as I fell toward the closest building. Bracing myself for impact by running as fast as I could possibly move,and kept the rest of my body loose while leaning forward. My impact was hard, like a bag of bricks being thrown down on to a oncoming semi truck. I landed legs first and rolled forward, carrying most of my momentum forward instead of downward and sprung forward sprinting to the next closest building that was lower than I was on now. On this building I could see a SMG (Sub Machine Gun) Vepr, weather it was loaded or not still needed to be answered. I changed direction to the fire arm and grabbed it before I jump to the next closest building.
Again my impact was hard, but it wasn't nearly as hard as the first landing. I didn't look back to see if my stalker was still chasing me, I had all my attention was directed forward. This time there wasn't any shorter buildings so I just jumped forward and crashed into a office about seven stories below. Glass was flung everywhere from my entrance, and I was about to run into a wall. 'This is going to hurt' I flung my self through the wall and kept moving forward and I flung myself through that one as well. My body felt like it was being crushed by a big rig, but I didn't care. I had to keep moving forward, and soon I jumped through the next window and sky dived into the next building. I barged through anything in my way, and kept on trucking, even though my wounds were starting to burn like the devil's flames.
'Come on Ray, as long you breath, run, and fight, you need to keep moving forward' I broke the next window using the Vepr and I jumped down to the ground. Using my wings I safely glided to the ground. When I landed I took off running as fast as I could to the left. "You know Ray, you've meet with a terrible fate, when you start to see meee hahahahahaaa." The voice mocked from behind me. Spinning around I threw as much force into a punch that I knew would ram straight into my stalker's face. My punch connected, and I knew it sent him flying back, even before I could see the result.
"aghh a good try to fend me off but not quite good enough" The stalker stated starting to sound awfully like the joker from "bat man arkham asylum" I turned on my disguise voice (which sounds like Slade Willson aka Deathstroke from Arrow)
"and I suppose you think, your better, than a highly trained tracker? And ohh I should add I am so much more, than just, a tracker" I replied in a deep gravely Australian voice. I aimed my Vepr at my stalker, but before I could pull the trigger, he had already jumped out of view.
"Yes, yes I dooo, so how do you want to die?" he asked
"I would prefer, your death, over mine" I answered
Twisting around and grabbing his arm and yanked forward, slamming him on to the asphalt, denting it. It was only now I saw his face, I gasped and took several back. My stalker, was, ME?! But he wasn't me, he was a twisted version of me. I had stark white hair that curved in spikes any which way it wanted to, that were tiped with acid green streaks. a glowing acid green eye (right) and a blacked out optic that belonged to a demon with a scar over it (left). Stark white eye brows, my left one almost completely gone dew to the scar over my optic. A small nose, Four small fangs that are barely noticeable, a thin round, almost triangle shaped chin. I was tall and had a very athletic build. The last note worthy thing about my appearance was I had four stark white hawk wings on my back.
But the twisted version of me had the same hair as me in color and style, but had dried blood staining it, blacked out eyes, minus two small glowing blood red dots that Mark where his pupils were both had my scar over them. His eyes were lined with dark black rings, More dried blood under his eyes and mouth, his teeth were all spikes stained with MORE dried blood. His chin came to a sharp point, he had my same build and height, but no wings from what I knew. And his hands were clawed and spiked. And his clothing was just like mine, just torn, dirty, and stained with blood.
"Whyyy so shocked Ray, have you never seen your self in the mirror before" the twisted version oh me taunted.
I gave him no answer, I only moved into a fighting stance and aimed my Vepr at myself (his evil self) for a moment we didn't move, then he jumped forward at me his clawed hands reaching for me. I side stepped the lung and punch myself (again his evil self) to the ground while he was in mid air. I didn't aim I just shot the twisted version of me while he was down. Unfortunately shooting him with a gun wasn't enough to kill him. He granbed one of my legs and pulled me down, I fell flat on my back and hqd the wind knocked out me. I tried to roll ovr and get back on to my feet, but my evil self was counting on this.
he managed to get up quicker than me, kicked me in the stomach, then grabbed the Vepr out of my hands. Next he grabbed me by the shirt and threw me with inhuman strength against a car.
"What a pity, the great sky captain is really just a coward, how sad, and here I though you actually put up more of a fight" He said undoubtably trying to push my buttons.
I didn't replied, But I did get up and charged the demon version of my. He jumped over and I swung my arm back. I managed to punch him in the stomach and make him take a few steps back. I took this advantage and kicked him in between the legs, he doubled over and I upper cut punched him under the chin. He took several steps back and fell over, I charged him again but he regained composer and dodged my attack. I did a back flip over him and kicked him on the head.
I got some distance between him and me, and tried to guess his next move. He spun around and shot the Vepr, his aim was just as good as mine, because almost all his bullets struck me, even though I was a hundred feet away, and behind a car, and they sunk into my wounds burning like red hot coals. Grinding my teeth together, I tried to think of a plan. One I could wait for him to get close and spring an attack, two I could charge recklessly at the demon, three I could try running again, four I could run then try to set up a small ambush, or five I could I could let him kill me. I went with number one, because if I tried to run he would just put more bullets through me, and I didn't want to die.
"come on out and play Shadeslayer, I'm not bad, I'm the worst hahahahahaha" the human devil said cackling
'psychopath' I could see his shadow now, and I got my self in a position that would give me the best chance at a chi block strike.
"Come ooon and fight captain, or should I say coward"
just a few more steps, I could see the tips of his blood stained hair, and I sprang out at him, chi blocking his arms, and chest, causing him to fall to the ground unmoving.
"Haaaahahahahaha you think a simple chi block attack will stop your death, well think again, captain" he said as he pressed a button on a small device. Suddenly, thunderous explosions blasted everywhere, and the buildings around me began to collapse.
"There is no escape, you are doomed to die Ray Shadeslayer, there is no escape from Me, or The Ether, captain" the demon me said almost emotionless, and in a monotone voice. broken glass, office chairs, desks, and many other objects began to collide with the ground, and shattered upon impact.
Fear driven by not wanting to die I grabbed the Vepr and took off into the only building not falling. I ran, no, CHARGED through the glass doors and crashed through walls. I bursted through them until I barged through the other side of the building. And to my horror every building in the city was falling, and crashing into each other, and it as my luck would have it, shockwaves pulsed through the ground causing the roads the cave in. "OH FRICK" I cursed, I knew running now was pointless, so I just waited for death. I closed my eyes and the last thing I felt was being crush by something falling, then pain.
Mission: none
Place: earth, Ray's temp. base
Time: 7:00 A.M / may / sixteenth / 2023
POV: Ray
I screamed for a solid minute after waking up from my nightmarish death. "Uhg, why do I keep having the same nightmare over and over again?" I asked, knowing that I wouldn't get an answer. I got out of bed, and slipped my boots back on. And walked over to the training room. (the song "elevated" is now playing made by "the session" here's the link to it /TQTTxgzV2lY) When I arrived I started with a punching bag, kicking and punching as fast as and with as much strength I could possibly hit with. after that I did salmon later chin ups (Look up "chin-ups like arrow" if you want to know what I meant) for an hour. Then one armed push-ups for twenty minutes. Tried to beat my rock wall record time. Then I walked over to my weapons and fire arms rack, and took my bow the galaxy predator and my quiver filled with arrows slinging both over my shoulder. walking over to my firing range, I grabbed as many arrows that would fit in between my fingers. I jerked my bow forward then back in two quick motions switching it to it long bow mode, (or whatever you want to call it) taking aim I began shooting rapid fire a storm of arrows at a target about one thousand feet away.
After I ran out of arrows I took a look at the targets, I had hit the bulls eye every time minus one arrow at the thousand feet mark. 'not good enough' I shook my head and retrieved my costume arrows. The were two feet long arrows make from a VERY rare material known as sil revs dimn which translated into "silvers mind" (m-in-d) which is a material ten times harder than diamond and can with stand almost anything. It's fletchings were striped white and clear, and it head was a tri hooked blades made from the same rare metal. I walked back to the entrance of the training room and placed my bow back onto its rack, along with its quiver. I took a sniper rifle and as many throwing knife as I could hold. I walked up to the firing line and began started a timer with my H.E. , throwing the knifes the knife as far, accurate, and fast as I possibly could throw at the targets.
Soon I had thrown all my knifes and went to retrieve them, all of them had hit the bulls eye, and I placed them back on the rack where they belonged. I went back to the firing line and placed the rifle down, then went to look for the target simulator. After a minute I found the controls and chose a random set path. By the time I was ready to fire a barge of targets came out, and I began to shoot. Ready, fire. Ready, fire. I kept this pattern as each target moved across the room. I kept shooting until the last target for the pattern crossed the room. Getting up from my spot on the ground I went to see my results. 8:01 (eight minutes and one second) "(sighs) I can't afford ninety nine percent" Said to my self, it was true, I couldn't. If I did Cyris would, in some way, find a way to use that one percent against me. My thoughts were interrupted by an alert that came in from Atlis.
:"what is adds?": I asked over the com
:"it's Cyris, he's on the move again, this time in the middle of nowhere, in Nevada, I'm sending you the coordinates now": he replied sure enough the coords appeared on my visor's H.U.D.
:"Thanks adds":
:"no problem caps":
After hearing this I sprinted into the training room and slipped on my anti gravity vest and improved exo armor. I quickly ran over to my K.E.M armor, short for, Kyper. Exterminator. (Kyper in my world means or translates into, born with high power or made in high power depending on how it's used, in this case it means the high power Exterminator)
I slipped on each piece of armor and they clicked into placed as each piece attached itself to another. Soon the last piece that I need to wear was my helmet. It clicked into place and with loud pisst the air lock on the armor took in its air capacity and engaged the lock. My helmet onlined its interior screens to help me see as much as I would normally see with out the helmet. "Power levels a hundred percent, air capacity working and holding at a hundred percent, weapon and fire arm systems are working fully, good it looks like I'm good to go." But I still wanted a few things before I headed through the drop bridge. I ran over and grabbed my Galaxy saber and placed it in its sheath along my lower right leg, my winged jet pack, which I threw over my back and it clicked into place, a bag of healing and speed potions, an empty bag in case I found something of interest that I attached to my waist like a belt, some acid bladed shurikens I placed over my upper right leg, some small EMP bombs over my upper left leg both slid and clicked into the slots. my Rippers which I slid into their holsters on thighs (you know where you would normal keep a pistol on your person) and the last things I grabbed were my hybrid SMG assault rifle I placed on my lower left leg and sniper rifle Which I slapped over my back.
After getting my gear, I set the coordinates Atlis had given me into the Drop bridge, and activated it. I waited for the trap door below me to give. 'Three, two, one, drop' the door below me gave way and I began falling. toward the portal below.
Mission: none
Place: Autobot base
Time: 8:30A.M / may / sixteenth / 2023
POV: Arcee
After finding one of the four devices in that wretched cave yesterday, I had taken the day off to spend some time with Jack, even though our time spent with each other was shorted by his work at the K.O burger 'OH I LOATH THAT PLACE, Oh I wish I could burn that horrible place to the ground, for how they treat my Jack.' I did a double take 'MY JACK! WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? WERE FRIENDS AND PARTNERS, NOT LOVERS!' I turned my thoughts else where, not wanting to think of my partner like that. Ratchet had said that we each found four different relic that made one bigger relic. Me and Ember had foun the mass shifter, Optimus and Bulk had found the reformatting shifter, Bee retrieved the mass scanner, and Smokescreen had come back with the transfuser hyper. All of these relics were thought to be myths.
And Ratchet's reaction was the best thing I've seen in cycles, He went on and on how these relics should exist and this was impossible, before shutting up. But once he stopped talking he began trying to put the four relic together. When I asked, he replied that these devices all made one bigger relic known as the reformatting module, and could turn any living thing into another species. My thoughts on it are, I hope it doesn't affect me. I checked the time on my H.U.D it was eight, thirty one. 'Well I better go to Jack's house before he's late for pit of a work. I transformed, activated my holo form Susan, and drove out of the base, and into the dry, hot, open, desert. The drive to jacks house only took me ten minutes, but it felt like ten hours without his company.
*five minutes later*
"morning Arcee" Jack greeted
"good morrning Jack" I replied warmly, "Sooo, hows Ratchet's project coming along?" Jack asked
"He been awake ever since we found the relics and has been putting them together without any breaks" I answered
"I bet he's honing to fall asleep while he's working on his little project" he commented I chuckled at the though of Ratchet falling into recharge as he worked on the relics.
"Well I need to get ready for the day, so I'll be right back" Jack stated as he left the garage. With nothing else to do I started think about what it would be like to be human, and what Jack was doing. My mind wondered to places I should have thought about and I mentally cursed my self for thinking those things.
'PIT! I hate this boredom, it makes my mind wonder!' After another ten minutes Jack came through the door wearing a black long sleeve shirt with silver sleeves, under a navy blue vest with a small autobot insignia on it, casual blue jeans and black tennis shoes. "Well somebody's changing up their look, and it sure looks good on you" I stated. Jack blush as he put on his helmet.
"rrr, thank Cee" he replied still blushing as he got on me.(aaa don't take that the wrong way). We drove out of the Darby household and onto the street. by now most humans were waking up from recharge as we road along, we passed Vince's house and I was tempted to shoot his brand new car, just to see his reaction, if possible his hair would probably burst into flames and throw a "Hulk" tantrum. The thought made me snicker, but not much. Then I thought about what my uncle would do to me if he found out. 'That would not end so well'
We drove up to the K.O burger, and we parked and Jack got off me to walk into his horrible Pit of a job. After hours, or what seemed like hours, my mind once again wondered off, six months ago I had come back from a different mission in Arizona. I had come back full of hate and rage, I didn't even reponed Jack when he greeted me as I walked to my recharging quarters, I was too busy wrapped up in my hatred to Arachnid. Looking back, I shouldn't have let my anger control me. When I left my quarters, I acted almost as if I despised him. When we arrived at his home, I told him I was sorry for treating him so rudely. After a few minute in silence I hesitantly asked him If I could listen to his heart. Of corse he was quite surprised, but he didn't reject my request and placed my helm above his sound was so... relaxing in a way, and it help dull the hate I still had burning.
The all to familiar sound of Vince's new car broke my thoughts and I all ready knew the reason. 'That son of a fragger' Even though I was in my alt mode I glared daggers at him, I only wish he could have seen them. "hey Darby, I would like a cheese burger with all the toppings, curly frys, and a large sprite soda. And it had better make my expectations or you will pay for it in school" Vince demanded 'oooooh if I could only beat the pit out of the fragger'
*six boring hours later*
Jack walked out of the K.O burger, and he seemed happy to be. "So how was pit" I asked him as we drove down the road to the base.
"Horrible, I had to take the orders from the window, and Vince just made it so much worse, I swear one day he is going to get whats coming to him. I only hope I'm there to see it" Jack answered
"same here partner, but were just going to have to wait. But let's move onto some good news, the preds and cons are now at war with each other" I commented
"well that should help keep the cons busy for a while" Jack replied
"I hope so (chuckles) I can only imagine the hard time Screamer is having right now, first he needs to look for energon, second he has us, the cons, preds, and Ember as enemies, third he's grounded, so haha I hope he's in pit" I chuckled happily
The unmistakable sound of Bulkhead and Miko driving along road, with their heavy metal music, if you could even call it music, blasted at full volume. 'Rgggg why does Miko like that music so much, it hurts my audio sensors' _"Hi Cee, having a nice day"_ Bee cheerfully commented
"Its fine" I replied 'more like boring as pit'
"it's fine? it a great day" Bulkhead stated as we drove into the base, which at the moment we entered the base's warring alarm was blaring as loud as it could as well as being annoying as it could be.
"Whats the alarm complaining about this time" I asked Ratchet as I transformed
"there is a high energy signal emanating twenty miles north west from here.
"Arcee, myself, and Bumble Bee will investigate the disturbance." Optimus stated
"alright, I am opening the ground bridge now, and Miko if you follow them I will beat you with my wrench" Ratchet stated, Bulkhead shot Ratchet a look that said, touch her and you die. The ground bridge hummed to life and I was the first one through. And the sight at the other end almost made me want to purge the energon in my tanks.
(K rated readers stop reading here) There in the sand laid a bloody human body surrounded by dried blood, he wore thick futuristic armor, well futuristic for humans, some of its pieces laid a few feet from its owner. And the area around him looked like a Battlefield. stone walls were cracked, the sandy ground was covered in craters, most of the landscape was burned and scorched, and any vegetation left was burning.
Optimus and Bee came out of the bridge, I didn't get a look at their face plates but I was sure their reaction was close to mine
_"what, happened!?"_ Bee asked alarmed
"I don't know, but what ever happened didn't go without a fight" I answered
"it would s-" Optimus started
but the sound of the human coughing and gagging made it clear he was still alive, but just barely. "Take him back to the base, and get June Darby this man needs medical attention as soon as possible. We'll figure out what we should do with him after he is stable" Optimus stated in a calm but urgent voice.
Bee picked up the man, he looked so fragile, but he must be stronger than he looked to still be alive. I took whatever of his armor was left in the ground and we headed back through the bridge. Ratchet was not going to like this.
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: chapter 2 finished
sorry if most of the story didn't flow together to well, I have been working late and I hope it's not too bad. And again I'm sorry it has taken so long to post this chapter. I've been rushing a bit to get this chapter out. And why did I kill the team Ray was on in the prologue or in chapter 1, minus Etho and Vechs? Well this story isn't about them, this story is more focused on Ray, the Parödon survivors, and the bots, along with their charges. And about the Sonic . Exe comment DO NOT PLAY OR WATCH THAT GAME, it is evil and I hate it and games like it. Oh one last thing PREPARE FOR MORE CHARTER DEATHS (will happen in much later chapters of the book) AND MORE OCs. (Again later on in the book, but its not too many chapters away from this one)
So that's it for this chapter I hoped you enjoyed it. And as always please leave a review telling me what you liked, want me to change, or add, and who's POV you want to see next, lightning out. PEACE ;)