((the Orcas/ Snowfeather part of this kinda starts out just before between the end of The Art of Revenge and the beginning of Rocky Top, in case you're wondering why Alpha makes an appearance. I just had to find a way to put it in here. :-) ))
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Snow (Snowfeather) had gone out with Kit, the white tiger cub, trying to learn how to fly, and the two had gotten seperated. The next thing she knew, she was pounced upon by a white wherewolf.
If only she knew who he was...
Orcus sniffed Snow. He cocked his head. "You think you're the only one to be tested on? My dear, the Maximals tested on me enough. I've been alive for so long they thought I was immortal"
The femme whimpered and tried to twist out from under Orcus.
"What do you want?" she asked again.
Orcus pulled out his knife and pointed it to the femme's chest.
Snow felt panic well up inside her and her optics widened. She somehow managed to free one hand and grab his wrist.
Orcus moved his dagger to her wings.
Snow whimpered again and tried to move away from him.
Orcus glanced at the femme. He looked her over. "So much fear in you, my dear..."
"You'd be scared too if you'd been an experiment in a Decepticon base and somone with a knife was pinning you down too," Snow answered, keeping her attention on the knife hovering just above her wing.
Orcus simply blinked, his face full of no emotion. "DO not fear me, young one"
Snow whimpered again and tried to move the wing away from the knife.
"Why not"
"Because I know what you went through...I do not think I'll hurt you much..."
Orcus said softly as he moved the knife away from the wing.
"Much? You won't hurt me much?" Snow snapped. "Is that supposed to be a good thing"
"Compaired to what I can do..." Orcus touched her chest with his knife.
Snow swallowed and looked down at the blade resting on her chest. It looked very sharp.
Orcus moved it up to her face and then cut her cheek.
Snow yelped in surprise and pain as the energon started running down her face.
The white femme tilted her head back slightly, away from the point of the knife.
Orcus finished with that cheek. Snow whimpered, feeling the mech fluid starting to flow too. She coughed and tried to raise a hand to her cheeks, but Orcus was pinning her.
Orcus looked at the femme and then felt her pain. He ran a hand over her wings and then cut a fistful of her hair off. He got off the femme and then subspaced the hair as well as the feather he had tore off earlier.
Snow cringed, then stood up, raising her hands to her face.
Orcus hopped into a tree.
Snow staggered slightly, looking down at the energon on her hands.
Orcus watched the femme for a minute and then ran.
Snow walked shakily over to the lake and used the water to wash the energon off her face The white femme stared at her reflection in the water, and the cuts across her cheeks that were still bleeding steadily.
The twins (Alpha and Omega), sighed as they walked through the base.
"Bored. So Bored"
Kit looked around as she ran out of the base. "Where'd Snowy go"
Using another handful of water, Snow wased the new energon away. Then felt a slight panic. It wasn't that the mech had cut some of her hair. It was that the feathers he'd pulled out were flight feathers.
Kit ran through the woods. "Snow! Snowy"
The femme quickly cut off some more of her hair, making it more or less even, and heard someone shouting her name. She turned around to see Kit running towards her.
Kit ran over to the femme and hugged her. "Snowy, you okay?"
Snow glanced down at the sparkling.
"Yeah," she whispered. "Just a bit dizzy"
Snowy nodded and then hugged Snow. "C'mon, everyone's worried"
The femme blinked, wiping away more energon.
"Why?" she asked "Because of all these attacks, we're not allowed to be out alone." Kit said innocently
"What?" Snow asked, bending down to wash her face again.
"After Daze and Jade's attacks, we're not supposed to be out alone"
"Who attacked them? A mech?" the femme asked, tilting her head and turning.
"Yes." Kit nodded.
"What did he look like"
"He's a white werewolf." Kit said innocently.
Snow caught Kit's tone.
"Why are you talking like that?" she asked, sighing and turning to try and wash the energon away again.
"Because I can." Kit smirked. "It always works on mom and uncle"
"Well it's not working on me. What do you want? And can we go to the med bay now"
"I never said it worked on you. I was just testing." Kit smirked. "Sure."
"Kit..." Snow sighed. "This really isn't a good time for that."
"I was just testing." kit shrugged. "come on. Let's getcha to the med bay"
"Why were you testing?" Snow asked, covering her lower face with one hand.
"Cause I can." Kit shrugged, smiling.
"No, really," Show said quietly, taking her hand away and seeing it covered with even more energon. "It's not a good time"
"Why won't they stop bleeding?" Snow thought.
Kit's face fell. "Let's go get those looked at." She said softly, taking her hand.
"come on"
Snow let the sparkling lead her back to the base. She kept one hand over the cuts.
Kit led Snow to the med bay.
Alpha saw the femme and smiled slightly. "Alright, sit here"
Once that was done, Alpha looked at Snow. "Will you let me work on you now or do you still want Ratchet"
Snow glanced at her, hand still covering the cuts.
"I'll let you do it..." she answered.
Alpha nodded. She got out her tools. "Let me see"
Reluctantly, Snow uncovered her face.
Alpha gasped, but quickly recovered. She got out her tools. "okay"
Snow sat still, tilting her head back slightly.
"Is it that bad?" she asked nervously.
"No, not at all...it's just...something about the markings..." Alpha shook her head.
"Don't worry." THe femme went to work.
Snow flicked her wings slightly in agitation, but held still.
Alpha finished and then nodded. "There"
Snow blinked and touched the small grooves where slight scars had been left.
Alpha smiled a bit as she put her tools away.
Snow sighed and fingered the face mask covering the scars. She sighed again and walked out of her room.
Orcus grabbed some of the feathers and some of the hair. He poured them into a bowl with energon and oil and a few other things.
Orcus whispered a spell.
Snow staggered slightly, and leaned on a wall, one hand on her head.
Orcus looked up. "Come." He hissed quietly. "Come to my lair"
The white femme's optics dulled slightly, and she stood up, walking out of the base Orcus waited outside for her.
Snow stopped in front of him, optics still dull.
"Come with me." Orcus smiled.
Snow followed him, something in her processor saying it was wrong.
Orcus lead her to the Decepticon base. "I'm here to...deliver something"
Once inside, he glanced around the Decepticon base. "Where's the
femme's...creator?" He asked, raising an optic ridge.
"Here," a voice answered.
A grey mech with yellow highlights walked out of the shadows. He glanced briefly at Snow.
"Where did you find my little Snowy then?" he asked, walking over to her and snapping his fingers in front of her face. Then he took off the plating on her chest and fiddled with some wires.
"She...came to me you could say." Orcus shrugged. He glanced at Snow.
"What are you going to do to her?"
"Right now? I'm wiring a restraint chip into her circuits. If she tries to run away again it'll paralyze her by delivering a shock to her spark," the mech answered.
Orcus flinched. He hated scientists. Ever since those blasted Maximals tested on him because they thought he was immortal...
Orcus shook his head to clear it.
The mech nodded. "I see"
The mech had noticed the flinch.
"It shouldn't kill her. It'll hurt a lot. That's what paralyzes her. They're designed to hurt and not kill," he assured. He snapped his fingers in front of her face again.
"What did you do to her"
"Just a simple spell." Orcus shrugged. He looked at Snow and whispered a few words in a forgotten Cybertronain language. "That should snap her out of it."
Snow's optics brightened, just as the mech fastened her plating on again. She looked at him and screamed.
Orcus covered his ears. He whispered a few more words and the femme shut up.
"Frag! I probably should have predicted that." Orcas rubbed his audios.
Snow whimpered and backed away from both mechs, wings flicking nervously.
She glanced at Orcus, then the grey mech, and looked like she was about to run.
Orcus looked at Snow and then at her creator. "She doesn't seem to like you very much"
The mech kept one optic on Snow, wating as she backed away.
"You wouldn't like your creator either if he was the one who signed for the experiments"
Orcus glanced over at the mech. "You signed her up for these experiments"
The mech sighed. "No. I was told to create her, I decide which experiments she does and doesn't do." He shook his head as Snow bolted. "Wait until she gets out of this area."
Orcus watched the femme and he felt a twang in his spark. He hated scientists and everything they stood for. As much as he loved causing pain, he hated the was experiments were done...for "science" they said.
Ha.
At least he admits why he does it...they lie.
Snow only got to the door. When she reached it, she doubled over in pain, clutching the area over her spark. After about a minute, she fell forward.
The mech sighed and shook his head.
"What did you say your name was?" he asked.
"Orcus."
said mech said as he walked over to Snow. He bent down and then looked at her.
"She'll live, right?
"She should do," came the answer as Snow's creator watched her come around.
She looked up at Orcus and scooted away from him, then curled up in a corner, whimpering.
Orcus stood up and then looked at the mech. "What's your name again?" He asked, glancing at Snow.
"Forceblock"
Orcus nodded. He looked at Snow and then at ForceBlock. The mech blinked.
"Do you care for you creations at all?" He asked, no emotion whatsoever in his voice.
"I care for them more than anyone else will. They are my creations after all."
Snow curled her wings around herself, fixing her face mask on more firmly.
Orcus frowned. "Doesn't mean you have to care for them." He stated plainly, leaning against the wall.
Forceblock shrugged, walking over to Snow.
"They were created to be experimented on. Getting attached when they could die at any moment is pointless"
"Why create something knowing its going to be in pain?" Orcus asked, optics glossy like he was going through a painful memory. "I mean, what's the point of giving something a mind and the ability to feel if you know it's only going to feel pain"
Forceblock's optics flashed slightly as he crouched down in front of Snow.
"Would you rather we captured random Transfomers? This way is easier and better"
"I would perfer it if you wouldn't put such beings who have done nothing wrong through so much pain."
Orcus walked over to Snow. "Their only crime is being created by someone who doesn't care what happens to them"
Forceblock didn't answer. He forced Snow to open her wings and touched the face mask.
"Do you know why she's wearing this"
"Yes, actually, I do." The mech nodded.
Forceblock frowned, then touched the mask at the back, taking it off.
"What happened?" he asked, levelly.
"I happened." Orcus shrugged. "Could have been worse, though. I could have squeezed her spark."
Snow's optics widened, and her hands flew up to her face, covering the scars.
"What did she do to you?" The mech asked, grabbing Snow's wrists and forcing them back down to inspect the scars.
"Nothing." Orcus shrugged. "And for that, I didn't squeeze her spark."
"Oh? And what were you saying about not inflicting pain on innocent beings?"
Forceblack asked, touching a scar and making Snow flinch back
"Hey, I do it because I need to." Orcus said, looking at Forceblock.
"You, on the other hand, condem them the moment you think them up to a life of pain."