Chapter 4
Diamond in the rough
The feeling of intense heat beats across Quickswitche's semi-conscious body. Slowly regaining his sensors he runs a self-diagnostic checking his systems are all still running, he has taken heavy damage but can still function. He knows he is still in jet mode, trying to fire up his thrusters but all they did id cough and splutter. Being so badly damaged they could not function which means he cant leave the atmosphere of the planet, his external scanners also failed to come online so he starts to try to transform.
The damage from Misfire's blast and also the impact from the crash made the act of transforming hard as the vital components have been damaged and fused together. After heavy strain on his mechanisms he's finally turning into his robot form,' awakening into the blistering brightness of a desert landscape being bathed by binary stars.
His long range sensors are still inoperative but all his optics could pick up is miles of sand as far as the optic could scan. A clear sky with binary beating suns and rolling mountains of sand dunes are all that makes up the scenery.
Quickswitch checked his internal timer "Over a year has past, the Autobots have probably stopped looking for me. That means the cavalry aren't on the way." Quickswitch muttered to himself annoyed. "Let's see if I can find anything on this rock." He then said determinedly.
Quickswitch has been marching for days though the desert, his power is on low and the scenery has not changed. The only evidence that anything has been anywhere is his own foot prints in the sand.
Then suddenly something appeared just on the edge of his scanning range. He could not determine from his current location what the object is so he decided to take a closer look.
"Finally, something might be able to get me out of this place."
He reached the top of the next large sand dune and looked far into the distance where he can just about make out a small metallic object which he began to run towards in anticipation of some kind of savor from his situation.
Once he got near it he can see it is a large metallic capsule that is big enough to carry a mechanised life form.
Quickswitch can not see an opening on the capsule and in excitement to find out what secrets the capsule hold he started feeling for any sign of an opening or control panel.
On touching the capsule a panel opened revealing a screen which had flashing red words on it saying 'Maturation cycle complete.'
Quickswitch is unsure what this meant but proceeded to find any kind of hatch. He pressed down near the display and a release button activated causing a cloud of steam to be released and once they had cleared the door had fully opened to reveal a young looking mech.
Orange in colour with an oval glass dome going vertically down his chest. There are several wires that are attaching the mech to the capsule.
"I've herd of these before," Quickswitch mused "These are birthing pods that female Autobots use to incubate new mechs but this process is so rarely used, what would one be doing here?.. So much for my help." Quickswitch laughed.
He began disconnecting cables from the mysterious young bot and a panel flashed up reading: Activate power transfer.
Quickswitch pressed the button and a white glowing substance known as energon began to flood into the orange mech through a see through cable.
Once the process was complete Quickswitch took the cable and connected it to himself.
"Sorry kid but if we're gonna survive I'm gonna need some of that too." Quickswitch explained as he began to feel stronger as the new Energon coerced through his body. He put the cable back when it is depleted and unhooked the mech from the rest of wires.
The orange mech's eyes glowed blue as he activated and he then looked at Quickswitch and asked,
"Who you?"
"I'm Quickswitch kid, an Autobot assault warrior. Who are you?"
"My name is Wheelie, is all I know"
"Well let's get off this dustball kid." Quickswitch said as he began to walk away.
Wheelie quickly jumped up and ran after his new found friend.
Quickswitch and Wheelie walked aimlessly though the desert with a silence so loud it would deafen human ears, until broken by a question from Wheelie.
"What... Autobot?"
"You don't know what an Autobot is kid?" Quickswitch replied back to him as watch Wheelie shake his head.
"An Autobot is a mech like you and me, kid". Quickswitch continued. "We are heroes that defend against the evils of the universe, including the Decepticons who we have at war with for longer then I can remember."
"De-cons.. bad?" Wheelie asked
"That they are short stuff and your neural pathways don't seem to be able to process your vocal communications well enough yet."
"Talk... poor?"
"I'm gonna help ya learn and talk in rime, it will pass the time."
"Talk this way to save the day?" Wheelie smiled.
"Come on, our destiny lies this way." Quickswitche's mechanical hand glinted in the radiant sunlight that scorched the land as he pointed towards the horizon.
Walking for miles through the sand dunes the two mechs conversed in rhyme. Wheelie stopped midtrek and sentence and said with alertness,
"On my far range scanner, I think I have the answer."
"What is it you see? Would you lie to me?" Quickswitch asked.
"Wreckage we could use for repair will stop you pulling out your hair."
"Let's get there, hope it's not a snare."
Quickswitch turned and ran in the direction of the wreckage, Wheelie paused for a second and then gave chase.
After running for a while Quickswitch saw shapes n the distance that he is heading towards, wondering if they are mirages he stopped to get at better look. Wheelie caught up with him and said,
"We have found what we came for, let's take a tour." With that Wheelie ran off leaving Quickswitch to chasse after him this time.
Quickswitch easily caught up with Wheelie as they got closer to their destination. They could make out huge piles of wreckage of abandoned vessels, all varying in size. Most of it is just jagged broken structures of metal and burnt out hulls of spacecrafts, there obviously had been a huge battle here a very long time ago that didn't end well for anyone involved.
"This whole places looks like a mass grave yard." Quickswitch sighed as they walked close to the sand filled metal mounds, coming out of the rhyme language sub-routine.
Wheelie perked up looking at the land in front of him and said,
"Of survivors there are no sign but that gives us more time to look through this grime."
Quickswitch laughed,
"You're right there 'lil partner, now lets mosey on looking through this trash to see if theres any darn thing that can patch me up so we can get off this desolate rock."
"Sooner we find something that repairs there, faster we can go into space out of there." Wheelie chimed in as they walked over to the waited crafts and began to remove them from the sand dunes that had collected around them.
Somewhere on the horizon something stalked the Autobots, watching them move through the relic ships after they had cleaned most the sand away from vital areas. Watching them search for anything that might give them a chance of survival but these scratchers looked at the stranded mechs with malice and intent, they didn't want them to reach their objective…
Searching throughout the wreckage the two Autobots eventually came across a door that seems intact inside one of the larger hulls of the ghost town that they had been spending all this time looking through.
"A secret door! This could hold more." Wheelie excitedly rhymed. "Now give me a hand to clear the sand." He continued and he and Quickswitch began excavating the sand blocking the door with their bare robotic hands until it is clear. Quickswitch tried pulling the energy depleted door open with his hands but had no luck. He back off and sighed, then Wheelie suggested,
"Wheelie can transform, maybe that can help the door be torn?"
"You been keeping that from me, you dirty 'lil rat?" Quickswitch joked, "Okay, let's see what you're made of partner."
For the first time Wheelie's joints began to0 twist and mold into another form, into a small Cybertronian sport car with one central cockpit covered by a bubble hood. His frame landed on the ground as the car caused an aura of sand to fly up around him. Quickswitch coughed at the sand clogging up his facial vents and laughed,
"Hold on there 'lil buddy, you're getting my vents filled with san…"
Before he could get the final words out Wheelie slammed it into reverse and sped away through the sand as easily as a sand worm, leaving Quickswitch in a cloud of sand.
In the seconds it took the sand to settle Wheelie has disappeared, Quickswitch was worried for the youngling ion his protection but then his worry suddenly shifted to himself as he saw a sand cloud shaped Wheelie racing towards him, the visual readout from Quickswitch optics analyzed Wheelie's speed at Eight hundred miles per hour. Quickswitch side rolled out the way of the fast approaching object and recovered in a crouching warrior's stance.
He saw the dust cloud crested by Wheelie crash into the doors. The air filled with the sudden sound of shattering metal and the screeching of wheels.
The sand slowly settled down and a shadow could be seen walking from the centre to reveal Wheelie unharmed standing in his robot mode.
"What in all the diode glitching dim-wittery are ya doing kid?" Quickswitch scowled at Wheelie who perkily rhymed back,
"The puzzle of the door is no more."
"Was quite a speed you built up there kid." Quickswitch smirked in an approving way as he walked by Wheelie into the now accessible room.
"The room is shrouded in so much darkness that Wheelie had to activate the searchlight on his visor that doubled as a headlight in h9is alt mode. As it scanned over the room he could make out a lot of computer thermals and equipment but it all seems damaged and scattered messily across the room.
Quickswitch felt his circuits sink as it looked like they had hit another dead end in the search for survival,
"Looks like their was a brawl going on in this rust bucket, I'm not sure what I was expecting to find but even one Energon depleted survivor in need of rescue from status lock would have been something but I'm reckoning that they must have all jumped ship. I don't know whose war this was but I don't think either side had a winner." He noticed that Wheelie has left his side during his pondering and is now poking at some of the console buttons.
"Wheelie! Back off form those, y'all don't know if you're gonna get feed back from them."
Just as Quickswitch warned Wheelie they herd a dark raspy loud electronic voice echoing all around them and it stated,
"SYSTEMS ACTIVATED!"
For a second the entire room is lit up in a bright light and Quickswitch could clearly see that it had been a laboratory with medical bay equipment and although a lot of it looked damaged it looks like it still might be usable.
Quickswitch looked astonished and congratulated Wheelie,
"Yehaa! You did good there partner, looks like we can get off this rock after…"
He is interrupted but the same voice again but it is more intense this time and it boomed,
"ENERGY LEVELES AT CRYTICAL LOW, EMERGENCY PROTOCOLS ENABLED."
The lighting in the room became a very dark and purple hue and to Quickswitch's horror the monitors in the lab have Cybertronian hieroglyphics scrolling across them and an all too familiar purple spiky insignia.
"Wheelie not know what he press, this is all too much stress." Wheelie panicked as he backed away from the console over to Quickswitch.
"We're in hot water kid, that's the symbol of our most hated enemy that would just love to kick our tails across the galaxy. The Decepticons." Quickswitch informed Wheelie.
"Time to make a quick escape or we will seal our fate." Wheelie coarsened.
"Na 'lil fella. We gotta stand our ground and see if there's anything that can help us and I recon I've just found it."
Quickswitch pointed over to the far side of the room which has a large cylindrical container that looked large enough to contain him.
"There! An Energon bath."
They made their way over to the dark baron looking object, Quickswitch poked a few buttons on a control terminal next to it and the Energon bathing chamber lit up. A central light brightened up inside showing a pole coming down from the ceiling but stopping halfway down the device with several large ends with connecters protruding from it. While taping in more commands Quickswitch explained to Wheelie what he is doing,
"Now when I step into this machine it should fix me up good so we can high tale it out of here and never think of this Primus forsaken place again." Wheelie just looked at him with awe, "I'm gonna be in there for a good three days I reckon so you're gonna have to fend off any vermin's with this."
With that Quickswitch tapped his leg which a button glowed up on then a small puff of air steamed out of a vent just below and that opened up to a compartment which ejected a small holster containing an item which he picked out as he turned around looking smug.
"It's my personal defense slingshot. It's got me outta a few scrapes, not very powerful mind but it stings like a bee and might be enough to make any critters run with their tails between their legs to the next quadrant."
Wheelie excepted it form Quickswitch and rhymed with delight,
"If there's any danger Wheelie will be your ranger. " He beamed.
"I couldn't be in safer hands." Quickswitch smiled. "When I say you have to poke this button and leave me be 'till the timers elapsed.
"I will resist giving you s shout until you are out." Wheelie joked as Quickswitch walked around into the sarcophagus like chamber and connected the cables into ports in his back and said,
"See ya in a few 'lil buddy, I'm ready for you to press the button."
Wheelie pressed the button on the panel and took a step back to see a rising level of liquid Energon immerse Quickswitch from the bottom of the tank and the blue glow from Quickswitch's eyes faded to nothing as he shut down all internal systems to maximize the regeneration process.
Wheelie spent that night and most of the next day in what felt like solitary confinement. There isn't much to do to relieve his boredom, he had fired a few shots from Quickswitch's Energon slingshot to test it our but didn't want to deplete it. Searching around the rest of the twisted, mangle hulls of old spacecrafts didn't reveal much so he spent most of the time guarding the Energon chamber and scratching a mustache on the door of the Energon chamber inline with Quickswitch's face took up only a few nana-seconds.
"I might not be so bored if I could take on an enemy horde."
If only Wheelie had known what is watching him he might not have wished so hard.
Wheelie sat crossed legged infront of the chamber watching the Energon swirling around Quickswitch as bubbles slowly floated out from Quickswitch's mouth as the Energon rushed in and out of him, slowly revitalizing his body.
Feeling his optics going into stand by mode Wheelie decided to make his next objective to check the perimeter… again. Dull clanging of metal echoed across the room as Wheelie made his way to the entrance from his slow footsteps, once there he let out a loud robotic sigh,
"I don't want to be here no more, this place is a bore."
Wheelie's search sensors are set to low but they lit up on his optic read out with excitement when something was detected, he zoomed in and it is right next to his foot. Zooming into it on the location, Wheelie's enthusiasm levels plunged when his database analyzed the event as a stag beetle.
"That's no fun, thought I was going to talk to someone." As Wheelie finished his sentence he is bolded over onto his back by a shear force, he quickly recovered and as he began to push himself up he let out a yelp of fear as he saw a huge yellow and brown mech stood infront of him, towering above him. The chest plate and outer arm and leg armor is brown and the inner armor and hands are yellow. Yellow glowing eyes peered down at Wheelie from the brown head unit with a yellow mouth guard and a massive pincers coming out of both shoulders gave away that his alternate mode is the stag beetle that was next to Wheelie's foot only seconds ago.
"Whets the matter Autobrat? Chopshop not good enough company?" The Insecticon bellowed and the reached down to grad the young mech, as he did this Wheelie saw the Decepticons insignia in the centre of Chopshop's chest and Wheelie's defence systems went to high alert and without even processing he drew his Energo-slingshot and even from his position on the floor he is able to aim the Energon bolt between Chopshop's optics leaving a smoldering flame coming out from the gap between his fingers as he clutched his face. Wheelie used the distraction to transform and burn rubber away from Chopshop back to the chamber containing Quickswitch where Wheelie managed to press the release button just before the control panel became obliterated in a shower of sparks and flames from Chopshop's Photon canon that Wheelie can see was just discharged as he turned to see Chopshop stood there still posed in a firing stance with smoke still coming form it.
"I'm gonna destroy your spark core for that." Chopshop growled.
Wheelie jumped forward and his body and limbs began to rotate, the searchlight on his head turned on to full beam as he became a car and his headlight blinded Chopshop long enough for Wheelie to speed past him and escape the space craft.
Sand clouds blew up around Wheelie as he drove at full speed away from the spacecraft graveyard, not knowing where he is heading under the blistering heat of the desert suns he neared a sand dune hoping for some kind of strategic advantage. He transformed realising there is no where to hide and he had to made a stand. Fear ran through him realising it is hopeless, looking up at the pulsating duel suns he saw an object coming from it that could be salvation, as it came closer Wheelie could make it out more. It is a huge green robotic, flying bug and Wheelie knew it would be another Insecticon.
Its body flipping around with limbs shooting out of it, its head is orange with no facial features as the bottom part is covered with a mouth guard and its eyes are covered with a red visor. Several mechanical insect legs arched out from its back and one metal stinger patrouded from the top of its head. Standing there infront of Wheelie, towering over him silently, robotic incent wings stuck out of each elbow looking like blade that could be sued to cut mechs in half with.
"Greetings, small 'bot. What would your name be?" Its voice echoed in a hissing insect way.
"I'm Wheelie and I'm not going to go easily." Wheelie moved his body weight into a fighting stance which surprised even him.
"Kill you?" The Insecticon chuckled sounding even more evil as its hissing voice echoed the laugh. "I, Venom sent Chopshop to flush you out so I can study you. Even though he may be some what extreme has still completed his task and I sense something very special about you."
He then grabbed Wheelie by both arms who felt himself helpless to resist. Venom possessed low level cognitive abilities that he can use on unprepared mech's to scan their minds.
He delving quite far trying to unlock from the mech's programming what his function is and what destiny may lay before him but that final door to unlocking all if Wheelie's secrets remained firmly sealed shut.
"You have some high cerebral shielding youngling but I will get to the centre of it even if I have to pry it out with my fists." Demon angrily hissed just as his early warning sensors went off. His optics zoomed in on the ship that Wheelie had come from, smoke fumed out of the entrance and Venom laughed.
"Chopshop must have set off a trap while trying to take something that didn't belong to him."
A bulky shadow emerged from the shadows and let off a laser blast narrowly missing Venom and then the shadow bellowed,
"Let go of the kid, I won't allow you to harm him." The figure emerged from the shrouds of the shadows looking like it had a massive bulk but as it came closer light shined on one side revealing a damaged Chopshop being carried and underneath him, carry him on one shoulder is a revived Quickswitch.
Venom took a step back in disbelief,
"What?! You managed to put Chopshop into status lock?" If Venom's face had any humanoid features on it they would have changed from one of shock to a smirk.
"Never mind, I know how to take care of you. Ransack! Eliminate him!" Venom commanded into what seemed like nothingness and from the heart of the shadow of the suns an object appeared, getting closer and closer until Quickswitch could make out what looked like a giant mechanical Locust.
The majority of its body is black with large orb-like red bug eyes and little yellow antennas. Its orange winds are fluttering faster then Quickswitch's optics could process merging them into a blur.
Ransack charged directly towards Quickswitch and once close enough to him turned around with out slowing down and used his hind legs, which are powerful enough to shatter steel, to kick Quickswitch and dented in his chest plate. This sent Quickswitch flying back and threw Chopshop to one side, Ransack somersaulted in mid air and transformed at the apex of the jump and landed in a slightly crouched attack stance. I his robot mode Ransack's insect head is at the top of his body giving him a very unusual look with the bug eyes and antennas, the insect wings are still very prominent from his back but his forward insect legs are now attached to the sides of his arms and looking like pincer weapons. The majority of his colour scheme is black and yellow.
Quickswitch landed on his back, there is a trail in the sand where he had slid along it from Ransack's kick..
"Is that the best you can rustle up for me?" Quickswitch taunted Ransack as he brought himself upright.
"Gahh! I'm gonna bite your face plating off!" An enraged Ransack screamed and charged towards Quickswitch, brining his hands up to grab Quickswitch throat. Quickswitch smirked at such a simple attack, easily seeing Ransack's approach he quickly got into the correct stance and when Ransack was close enough he weaved between Ransack's arms for a powerful uppercut sending him flying backwards into the air like an insect.
Ransack managed to use his flight ability to stabiles himself and gracefully landed on the ground. He let out a loud robotic cry and charged at Quickswitch again, this time he led in with his left arm blocking and his right fist held back ready to strike.
A much more cunning attack Quickswitch thought to himself but still of no use. Quickswitch grabbed Ransack's blocking arm and used his weight againt him to bring him up into the air where Quickswitch used a devastating kick to Ransack's midriff to lift him up and throw him to the ground.
"He's just toying with him, Ransack doesn't stand a chance." Venom said shocked, just realising that his comrade is outclassed by Quickswitch's skill. His probe into Wheelie's mind was proving ineffective so he threw Wheelie to one side,
"Autobrat! I'm going to finish off your friend and then come back to tare your mind apart." Venom laughed and then charged towards Quickswitch.
Quickswitch and Ransack are trading punches, Ransack landed a right hook on Quickswitch's face, Quickswitch quickly recovers and landed a punch to Ransack's lower torso making the 'bot lean forward. As he did this Quickswitch began a killer combo by chopping down hard on Ransack's shoulders, bringing to the ground. Quickswitch then placed his hands around the strange cranial unit Ransack had with its massive bug eyes and the servos in Quickswitch's hands began to strain as his grip tightened.
A massive force bowled into Quickswitch making him throw Ransack back and his arms were now useless as Venom restrained him from behind, he struggled but Venom's grip is to immense. He is helpless as he watched Ransack recover to a standing position, who then standing straight forward looked like he is about to draw in a cowboy showdown. His right leg on the upper outside began to move, the plaiting on the leg slid back and two metal rails offered out a gun. Without looking away from Quickswitch, Ransack took the gun and then took a few steps forward and pressed the gun against Quickswitch's head.
For a few moments all that happened is the sound of the wind blowing between the near by ships wreckages and sand being whipped around by it, then Ransack said in a low angry voice,
"My conduction blaster will rip your skull apart."
He tightened his grip around the trigger, looking at the blank expression on Quickswitch's face. Knowing he had won while Venom began a maniacal laugh.
The sound of a laser blast hitting metal echoed through the air and Ransack's huge red dome insect eye exploded with smoke spewing forth from it like an erupting volcano he fell to the ground clutching the remaining shards that are left sticking out from his eye with Energon pouring out between his fingers.
Venom turned around to see where the had come from to see a triumphant Wheelie standing there still in his attack position on top of the sand dune with his Enegro-slingshot readied.
"I'm gonna tare you down to your circutes, Autobrat!" Venom screamed as he moved to do so he fell straight down to the ground, a forgotten Quickswitch swept his legs from under him with a sweep kick.
They both got up to carry on dulling when they herd a deafening primal scream come from Ransack.
Ransack had leg go of his eye socket, stood up straight and took off into the air at great speed. The others looked on in shock as Ransack let out another scream before he came to a sudden halt and starched his limbs out, his antennas began to charge birght yellow with electricity. The yellow flickering flowing thought his antennas are forming an energy ball above Ransack's head and with one final push the flickering yellow ball of energy tripled in size to that of Ransack which he then directed towards the nearby spacecrafts graveyard.
"Ransack! No! That Eighthly thousand gigawatt blast will destroy everything!" Venom screamed but it was too late, the ball has picked up an increasable speed and nothing could stop it in time. The ball has exponentially expanded and shines a crimson red darkening the skies as it reached critical mass, the closer it came to the wreckage the more energy waves bask lashed from it.
The waves pushed Venom back who used the momentum to flip into his insect mode and flew into the stratosphere, leaving Quickswitch to think quickly on how to save Wheelie. His jet mode could reach a high altitude to escape the blast but not in time to pick up Wheelie swell, with that he turned around and started to run towards Wheelie.
After a few steps he jumped up into the air and body began to turn, his limbs twisted and parts flipped out and around. He landed on the ground in a new mode, into a Cybertronian drill tank, a very square like vicinal with treadmills each side of it that made racing over the sand as easy as gliding over ice.
A torrent of sand is circling the area inhibiting Wheelie's optical sensors and he could just make out the tank charging towards him, giant drill first, like a Bison. A hatch flipped open on the top of the tank revealing cockpit inside. Wheelie took the opportunity to escape the maelstrom and somersaulted in there. Upon entering the hatch it sealed again totally safe from the outside and Wheelie questioned,
"How will we hide from whets outside?"
"You know what they say partner? If you can't go up you have to go down." Quickswitch laughed.
The furious sound of his drill component could be herd as Quickswitch initiated it and burrowed into the sand as fast as an Energo-sword slicing through an Energon cube. In moments the tank had been enveloped but a sand dune, completely cutting it off form the outside.
The giant energy ball impacted on the space vessels wreckage and as it did the red ball of death exploded in a range of yellow electrical light, vaporising everything in the vicinity and totally annihilating the targeted structure.
Inside the sand dune Quickswitch and Wheelie are safe and waiting in silence until it is broken by Wheelie,
"I've not seen this mode before, is there anymore?"
"Being a triple changer, I'm just leaving it at three for the moment. These walls are made out of Naquadah, a super strong substance that I knew could withhold the blast but we're gonna have to have a look see at the damage out there." Quickswitch informed Wheelie.
"Let's go and find out so we don't have a doubt."
With that Quickswitch started up his nosecone and drilled out of their shelter. With in seconds they had escaped the tomb and reached the sunlit surface. The sand had become completely settled and the wind was completely still, the aftermath of the devastation. The devastation is clear as the yellow sand they stood on trailed off and merged into a solid dark brown rock that the explosion had fused the sand into which emanated from the site of the crashed vessels in a large radius.
At the centre of the radius, still high in the sky is Ransack but looking very drained, just hanging there with his body simulating heavy breathing and Energon still pouring from his eye.
"Ransack!" A furious voice grabbed the mechs attention. It is Venom, standing on the other side of the blast canter. "You have no idea what you have done! That wreckage was our only chance of survival!"
With that Venom took to the air and flew directly towards Ransack at high velocity. Half way towards Ransack he tilted his body to the side in a fighter's stance, a pole grew from the palm of his hand and he clasped it with the other hand, the top end that was dragging behind him glowed up and a green beam of glowing light flowed out turning it into an Energo-scythe.
With no strength left Ransack put his last bit of energy into reasoning with Venom who is hurtling towards him,
"Venom, don't you see? They had to pay!"
"An eye for an eye Ransack!" Venom darted towards Ransack dragging the Energo-scythe up in-between Ransack's legs, ripping it up into the lower torso breaking the casing and with that first cut, one good yank upwards separated Ransack's body in half perfectly. As his body fell apart energon began to leak out and then sparks started to ignite.
As Quickswitch and Wheelie looked up at the battle they saw an explosion which engulfed the pair of mechs. As the smoke cleared there is only one mech remaining and with the green and orange colours it is clear that's its Venom.
Venom levitated himself back down to the ground in the centre of the blast radius,, slowly and calmly, detached from the fact he just severed one of his subordinates in half. He walked over to Quickswitch but kept his distance.
"You're insane." Quickswitch said blankly at Venom as he stepped infront of Wheelie to guard him.
Venom let out a robotic insect laugh,
"Ransack destroyed our only means of survival, the wreckage that remains of the Decepticons fleet that was shot down here in a battle long ago with the Autobots was the only thing attracting mechs here so we could feed off them. Once the supply of Autobots from the downed crafts ran out we needed more. You two will only be enough for me survive on for a few Quartexs.
"You monster!" Quickswitch shouted "cannibalising your own kind just to avoid status lock."
"Autobots are nothing more then fuel for my power, to me." Venom then gestured towards Wheelie. "Except that one, I feel great spark coming form him and I need to know what it is."
"That's one thing that you will never find out." Quickswitch firmly said as he readied himself for battle.
Venom ran at Quickswitch laughing as he raised his Enrego-sythe and swan at him. Quickswitch pushed Wheelie back and rolled under the swing and behind Venom, who turned around to swing again but not before Quickswitch uppercutted him into the air but Venom swag around and kicked Quickswitch to the ground. Towering above him, Venom raised his glowing Enrego-sythe and said,
"You're my next meal Autobot." With that he swung down swiftly and a loud sound of metal hitting metal could be heard as Venom is flung away from his death blow by Wheelie hitting into him in car mode.
Quickswitch flipped up and drew his photon blaster rifle out of a hidden compartment on his back, landing with one foot on Venom's chest and his gun in Venom's face, he then smirked,
"You've had your last meal, you ugly bug."
Quickswitch then pulled the trigger. The rifle emitted a blast that punched a hole through Venom's face plate and exploded his cranial unit.
Looking over at Wheelie who had transformed, Quickswitch smiled,
"Nice team work rookie." As he stepped off the smoldering body that was Venom.
The wind is still eerie around the blast zone with only the occasional circle of sand wind whipping around Quickswitch and Wheelie. Quickswitch is standing there rubbing his shoulder joint in place.
"That energon bath dinged all the dents out but the battle has left me shaken up, hope my engines are working well enough to blast free of the planets gravitational pull."
"If we blast off the planet fast, we can leave this planet in the past." Wheelie laughed.
"I think you might be right there, partner." Quickswitch chuckled. "Okay, all aboard."
Quickswitch flipped his body around and quickly became his jet mode where the hatch opened up revealing the cockpit which Wheelie hopped into.
"Strap yourself inn partner, we might be in for a bumpy ride." Quickswitch warned as his engines roared into life. They built up power for a few seconds before he acetated, speeding along the ground and then sling-shoted into the air.
Wheelie hung on tight as they approached the ozone of the planet, Quickswitch's jet mode began to rattle under the stress of the gravimetric pressers pushing greatly against him but with the engines pushed to full they managed to escape the pull of the gravity and entered the solar system.
"Ye-haw!" Quickswitch celebrated. "I'm now gonna attempt to active my transwarp drive to get us home."
"Once we're home, I don't have to be alone." Wheelie cheered on.
A tachyon beam emitted from Quickswitch's transwarp drive, tearing a rip in the universe opening up a giant swirling whirlpool of white light. Quickswitch navigated into the quantum singularity to use the space bridge to get home.
Swirling, sparkling, shining bright white light surrounded the jet as it traversed the transwarp corridor. Wheelie looked at the light as it rushed passed him, stunned into silence and awe by its splendor but the peaceful time is brought to an untimely halt of red flashing lights and loud sirens as the jet begins to violently shake.
"I recon that the damage those Insecticons here did was more troublesome then ah bunch of bionic buffalo. The transwarp cog is misplaced , I gotta land and repair it. Saddle up, I'ma gonna make an emergency stop before we crash into a side and vaporise in the light. As Quickswitch told Wheelie this the rows of the engines died down to a purr and the lights passing by became slower until Wheelie could see the blinding light infront of him dissipate into open space.
The darkens of space is suddenly interrupted by a large explosion of white light causing a rift that opened up like a budding flower but as quickly as it appeared it exploded again, spewing out Quickswitch still in his jet mode. Spiraling out of control from the explosion Wheelie is at breaking point.
"There is so much spinning around, I just wish I was back one the ground."
"Don't worry partner, there's a plate near by. It seems to be pulling us towards it, don't think we could avoid it even if we wanted to but my gyroscopic stabilisers are shot. I gotta transform before we tare apart."
Still helplessly spinning around, Quickswitch ejected Wheelie and began to transform but as he did his body couldn't take the strain and he exploded. The force sent the two mechs spiraling away from each other, Quickswitch hurtling towards deep space and Wheelie thrown towards the planet.
Panicking wildly Wheelie span out of control, for the first time he had focused on the planet and wished he hadn't. The planet is dark and twisted, cybernetic in origin, it has an odd warped look to the main body of the planet and it has several spires of rings extending from the planet like roads twisting around and adding more to the horror of the planet.
Wheelie braced for impact.
Wheelie knows he is alone again.
