"So? I didn't do to her what I've done to others...also, those markings have a purpose...plus..."
Orcus glared at FB. "I didn't condem her to a life of pain."
The grey mech shrugged. "Here's your payment," he said simply, tossing Orcus a bag of credits.
"Now, unless you want to watch, I suggest you leave"
He cast his gaze over to Daze, then turned on his comm.
"I want Room 6 in ten minutes," he ordered.
Orcus took it and then looked at Snow with a look that truly said "I'm sorry.
Snow didn't look up. She was fixing her mask back on, and thinking about exactly what 'Room 6' was for.
Orcus leaned against the wall.
Jade looked over at Omega. "There's no Autobots following you, is there?"
Omega looked around. "Not that I know of, but that's not saying anything..."
Alpha backed up and looked at HT and Jade. She looked at Omega, tears in her optics. "Go." She opened her fist and Omega flew back. "HT, Jade, go!"
The two glanced at each other. "Driveby, come on." Jade called. The white femme looked at HT and then Alpha and blinked. "Get your troups out of your base and come on."
"Waitaminute!" HT argued. "How do know she's not gonna tell the Autobots where I am!?" he demanded.
"Because." Jade looked at Driveby. "If we go back to the ark, we're as good as scrapped. That's why. I'll explain when we get to the ship." HT looked at Alpha, and Omega.
He turned and went, Driveby and company looking over their shoulder at the pair.
"you're gonna just let her fight her brother like that?" Driveby spat at HT.
"No. here."
he shoved Indy at the group and went back. "So, how are we supposed to find his ship without him?" she said.
"I now where it is." Jade said.
Omega stood up. "Alpha?" He asked, voice breaking.
"I'm-I'm sorry, Omega." Alpha said, tears in her optics. "I love you, I really do, little brother. but..."
Omega yelled as he was thrown back. The mech stood up and then opened his hand. "I love you too, sis."
Alpha yelled as she was thrown back.
Both twins were about to cry as they opened their hands. A large, purple mass of energy grew in the middle of the clearing. Alpha and Omega looked away and then lowered their hands.
The energy exploaded, knocking both away from each other.
Alpha hit a tree and was knocked out.
Omega hit the ground. He looked up at his sister and started to crawl over to her. "Alpha...I really am sorry, sis..." Tears fell as he continued to crawl.
The tank rolled up to the edge of the ridge and transformed, watching the scene. He was about to go charging in when the explosion hit, but the look on Omega's face stopped him. Instead, he cautiously walked forward.
Omega bent down next to alpha. He held his sister in his arms. "Alpha...? Alpha wake up please..."
Alpha let out a groan. "Wha'? Five more minutes, Master."
Omega smiled softly. "Alpha, get up please..."
"Make me."
Omega dropped Alpha.
"Ow!" Alhpa growled. She sat up and pulled her arm back to punch Omega, but saw it was him. She lowered it.
"Were you really gonna punch me?"
"Yep"
Omega smiled softly. He let out a soft groan. "ooh...remind me never to do that again"
"Seriously..." Alpha held her head. "Ow..."
HT smiled. "You can both join us." he tilted his head to one side. "Omega?"
Omega looked up. He blinked as his vision blurred. "Wha'?" He asked, standing up.
Alpha stood up as well and helped Omega stand. She put his arm around her neck.
"What is it, Hammertread?" Omega asked, looking at the mech.
"There's a mech somewhere around here, about yay high, blue in color. He's after all of us. Alpha because she joined me, Dri and the others just because they're not Autobots, and he might target you because you're his brother. He's got a lot of troups backing him up, humans, and they're going to be here any minute looking for us. I say we get back to my ship before they arrive." he glanced up at the sky and around to make sure there were no vehicles approaching.
Omega nodded. He looked at Alpha. "Well whaddya say sis, mind if'n I join ya?"
"Of course not!" Alpha hugged her brother. She frowned.
"Sis?"
"I'll tell ya later." Alpha whispered as she helped Omega walk. "Back to base, right HT?"
the tank nodded, and transformed. Apha and Omega followed.
Prime heard footsteps approaching, and turned around from teletraan-1's screen. "ah, Omega, I see..."
"Sorry, 'es not ere right now."
Prime turned. "you..."
The figure parted from the shadows in the doorway, and walked up.
"Allo, Prime. Been awhile, asn't it?"
'"Klutch." Prime narrowed his optics.
"Woah, easy, big guy. I'm 'ere on a mission." the blue mech held his hands up in a surrenderful motion.
"A 'lil birdie told me the kintari came back. I thought I'd come check it out." he said.
The twins transformed once inside the ship.
Omega looked around. "Not bad."
Alpha smirked and rolled her optics. She duplicated and the copy glomped Omega.
Alpha rolled her optics again. She looked at HT and the others. "Now what?"
"Perhasps I should tell Prime that..." Omega trailed off.
"What? I wasn't going to tell him where we are! Just I'm with you..."
"But what about Kit?"
"forgot about her..."
"Snow and the others'll take care of her." A copy smiled.
"I have a sneaking suspicion Prime allready knows." Jade stepped forward. "And I have no clue what we're gonna do. HT shoved Indy towards the back of the ship, and the field clicked on. "I don't see why we brought her he grumbled.
"Because, she can tell what people are thinking." her eyes met the femme.
"And she can tell Klutch right where we are!" Cable yelled from the back of the group.
"Didn't think about that, did you?" HT said.
Jade looked at Alpha. "Can you block her?"
"I need to call Ty and tell her to leave the mountainbase." Driveby said. HT nodded, and pressed a button on the console next to her. "It's good to have you back with me, Dri." he whispered in her audio. Driveby gritted her teethplates, but only said. "It's too bad the situation has shoved us back together, you mean."
Alpha frowned. "I can tell what people are thinking!...it just takes a lot of energy..."
Omega facepalmed.
"And yes, I can easily block her." Alpha said. She walked over to the feild and touched it. She cut off her optics.
Omega nodded. "She's blocking it." He said.
"Hey!" Alpha huffed, "HT's not that bad! I mean, sure he needs anger management sometimes, but still!"
"You don't know him like I do" Driveby said. HT frowned, but let it go. "I'm sorry you feel that way, Dri." he said.
"Dri?" Cap said. "that's a funny nickname..." he trailed off when Driveby gave him a dark look.
"sorry, boss."
Klutch walked up to the Autobot leader. "Yeah, turns out there's a group of 'em here on Earth. I met 'em erliah. Jade and one 'a yer other femmes, I think 'er name was Alpha, was with 'em." He looked over at the other Autobots in the room, who were giving him cold looks also. "I jus' need ta use yer computa fer a second is all."
Prime stepped out of the way, but flatly said: "I highly doubt Alpha or Jade would risk their freedom, nevertheless their very existence to join such a group."
Prime's tone dropped a little, to hover just above threatening. "Not to mention they have both taken an oath to uphold the values and beliefs of the Autobots. He leaned over, so he was just barely towering over the shorter blue sportscar. "And nothing you say can convince me otherwise."
Alpha rolled her optics. "Whatever."
Omega sighed and poked alpha's copy.
"Stop it." the copy muttered.
"No."
"Why?"
"'Cause I can't bug my sister."
The copy grabbed him and flipped him.
"Ow! Okay, you're Alpha's anger."
"Got that right!"
HT turned and lifted one optic ridge at the two. "What exactly did you do to make this "klutch" person mad at you?" he asked.
"I told you." Jade scuffed the floor with the toe of one foot.
"he thought I was a 'con." she shrugged. "he's got a prison-type place in britain, and they also develop new technology, which is how I got my rifle."
"You lying!" Indy stood up.
"Tell 'em da rest of the story, Jade. Go on. Tell them about the human worker you killed!"
Jade whirled. "I. did. not." she hissed.
she turned and foded her arms, glaring at the floor.
Klutch tapped a couple more buttons.
"Yes, well, dat's all fine an' well, but I know what I sawl. Your loyal friends and that tank fellow, hammertread I think 'is name wuz, kidnapped Indy. I jus' hope she's olrite." he turned to the computer and started to tap buttons. Prime glanced and nodded at a black-and-white shadow, who dissapeared out the door.
"What?" They blinked.
Jade clenched her fists. "Fine. You wanna know the truth." she pulled out a vid disk and put it in the reader at the console.
She turned away as the newscast came on.
The news woman was standing on the edge of what looked like an old gravel pit, with a large whit building in the background. "Today, Lansington authorities held trial for the suspected decepticon jet that crash-landed here at the edge of this gravel pit a week ago. The femmeseeker is responsible for the death of one human, who the caretaker of the facility claims was attempting to disconnect the jet's flight systems..."
The voice went on in the background as the scene switched to one of security cameras, showing the inside of a hangar bay, with metal strewn around the place. "The defense submitted this footage of the jet, awake and concious, while workers dismantled and discarded peices of the jet's armor. The prosecution, who were representing the facility, argued that it was merely to get to key systems, in order to go through with a quicker shut-down process of the jet's systems.
A blue figure walked into the scene from one side. "I want that thing in spare parts bfore morning." he said. "Start with the wings." A pair of humans hurried behind the jet with a ladder. The jet twisted in the restaints, making clicking noises as though trying to talk.
Jade cringed. There was a screech and a clang, and a bunch of shouting the video flicked off. It flipped back on overlooking a valley, with several people around, and the jet, who had since gotten her armor back, kneeling at the edge. Klutch aimed his rifle at the kneeling seeker's head. There was a scream and a shout from above. "Don't mind us!" a scratchy voice cackled. "Starscream!" someone growled. "We're just here to rescue a friend!" he cackled.
Thundercracker and Skywarp swooped down. The news helicopter circled the scene.
"Are you getting this? Rob! are you getting this!?"
"I'm getting it, I'm getting it!" The next words were cut off with a sharp cry of
"Look out!" and a missile from one of the seekers blew the back end off the helicopter. It hit the ground, and everyone scrambled out. The cameras were still running, hearing soft whimpers in the background. A crash sounded.
The vid flipped again. One of the cameras at the edge of the gravel pit had caught the same video from the ground.
Klutch had been distracted by the seekers, allowing Jade to run over to the crashed news helicopter, where the family of the worker had been. The worker's little brother was trapped. Jade extended a wrist spike and shattered the window on the side, taking the door off. She grabbed the ten year old up and ran as the helicopter exploded. Klutch turned and fired at her at the same time...
Alpha blinked.
Omega blinked.
The copy even blinked
((there was actually a whole lot that got skipped between the human getting hit by wings. They didn't know Jade's wings can fold behind her, which, the pain is why they moved. Afterward, Prime stalked in and demanded Klutch release her into Autobot custody for the time being. He told Prime she'd killed the human when really he was only in the hospital. Jade was repaired, but later a court, overseen by humans, found her guilty, and the Autobots balked at the desicion. But Klutch agreed to just shoot her and be done with it. which is how it flipped to the gravel pit-scene at the end. sorry it's so long.))
"There, you happy now!?" Jade yelled, and punched the energy field, her optics narrowed to slits. She turned around and growled. She stalked over to HT's room and puched the door button.
"Hey, that's my..."
she gave him a dagger glare and he trailed off. She stalked through and the door hissed shut after her.
"wow." Alpha and Omega said at the same time. They looked at the others and then swallowed.
Omega blinked. "So...what now?"
"I...don't know, bro..." Alpha sighed. She folded her arms and closed her optics.
"whatcha doing?"
"It's my job to block her mind, remember?"
"Oh yeah."
Jade sat down in the darknes, trying to hide the fact she was crying. "Great, they think I'm a cold-blooded con. Brilliant, Jade." she sniffled.
"Jade?" a voice said The jet looked up.
"Answer your comm, girl. I know yer there." It was Jazz.
"Yeah?" she said, voice still a little shaky.
"Jade you gotta get outta here. They're sendin' and army after ya. Ya gotta skip planet, or somethin' girl."
Jade smiled. "I can't leave my friends."
"Maybe they know of a place up on Cybertron where y'all can hide out. Jade if they're not here, Klutch aint got no evidence against ya. Jus' Indy's word against yours and all us Autobots." he said.
"I don't know. I'll ask." she got up and walked out.
"Where are you?"
"Three guesses." came the reply. HT's main screen flipped on, and Ty's face appeared next to Jazz's. "Klutch don't know about Ty, here. So I thought I'd help 'er out an' sneak 'er outta here with me. I just had ta call ya, though. Prime's ready ta vouch for whoever needs it." he nodded
Alpha looked up and then smiled at Jazz. "Hiya, Jazz."
"Heyas, Kitten."
Alpha smiled. She frowned. "Jazz...could you...take care of Kit for me?"
"Course." Jazz nodded.
"Thanks." Alpha smiled. She then looked at Omega, who nodded in thanks as well. "For everything"
"So...what's this about sneakin'?" Omega blinked.
Jade sighed. "Jazz thinks we might be able to hide off-planet for a while. Driveby?" The femme shook her head. "unfotunately, no. Our old base was discovered. Shockwave's probably explored and mapped our entire tunnel system by now." she said.
"Waitaminute, I've got an idea. Can we talk to Prime, find out what kind of plan he'd be able to come up with?"
"Nuh-uh" the saboteur shook his head. "He's still in a meetin' with Klutch. Ya can't speak to 'im directly."
"What about Prowl?" maybe meet him in one of the tunnels under the ark?"
"I wouldn't suggest it. Klutch's got reinforcements comin'. I'd suggest you get outta the area before they arrive." Ty said something from offscreen. "We gotta get some stuff packed up an' vamoose. We'll be in touch." and cut the link.
"Slag." the jet kicked the control panel angrily.
"Frag!" Alpha cursed, letting her mind slip, but she quickly covered it. "Alright, guys...let's think about...I GOT IT!!"
"you're not-"
"YES!! Our old base! Omega and I used to live in an abandoned Autobot base before we were 'Cons on another planet...we could hide out there!" Alpha smiled.
"I guess...can we have our old rooms?"
"course. There's more than enough room for us."
Indy had been trying to get around Alpha's block.
"Klutch...love..."
"Indy!"
"I'm a few miles west of where we fought them. The ship is covered by underbrush, in a small wooded area." and she transmitted what she saw inside, including the video chitchat with a certain Autobot.
"So, 'es, helpin' them, ey?"
"They're..."
"slag!" Alpha regained control, cutting off the brief, yet lightning-fast exchange of information.
"We may not have to run to another planet. If we can get into the ark... no scrap that theory. " Jade looked at Indy. "She's not gonna help us, is she?" Driveby shrugged. "Can you put a sound lock on that field?" she asked Hammertread. "No, but I can short-circuit her audios for you if you like." he stood up and cracked his knuckles, giving the femme an evil smile. Indy's optics widened.
"You wouldn't dare..." she started
"HT, be nice. I can do that. Just let Omega tell me what you all are talking about later." Alpha said before turning to Indy. She shut off her optics and then touched her mind, freezing the femme's audios and vocal cords.
Indy knew Alpha was stopping her from sending signals to anyone outside the area, but recieving others' brainwaves was a whole nother thing. She closed her eyes, directing it at the group. She concentrated on Jade and got flashes of the ark's interior. Dimly lit corridors, ceilings about to be crushed under the weight of the mountain, and then went to Driveby...
She started to get flashes of the nearby tank along with... the Autobot second in command, running alongside her as the city fell. She shook out her head. "This is startin to give me a headache." she thought.
Jade glanced at the femme. "All right. If we can get into the tunnels under Mt. St. Hillary, we can get into one of the old storage bays, and hide out there. I was allways told the best place ti hide is right under someone's nose. They'll never search there. Prime wouldn't let them search the Ark, and second, those levels have been supposedly sealed off from the rest of the Ark. The only people who know they aren't are Prime, Prowl, and Wheeljack."
Omega nodded. He glanced over to Alpha and then at Jade.
"Alright...so..." He leaned back against the force field, still a bit uneasy about being somewhere where his sister was held against her will before.
"We get there...then what?"
"Hang on." Driveby interrupted. "Didn't Jazz say Klutch was calling for reinforcements? They'll have the ark locked up tight. Won't they be looking for us?"
"Both good questions. If there is backup coming, we can't stay here. They'll blanket the area around the old base. Which includes our current location. Once we get into the Ark, we can start planning out next move. Jazz said Prime was ready to vouch for us. Well, I believe the discrimination against non-factional Cybertronians is a logical case here. Just because you're not Autobots doesn't make you evil. and holding the crimes of one group against an entire faction is equally maladjusted. Like I said, Prowl is a world-class arguer. He defended me in the first case.
And I took notes."
Ht snorted. "You lost, remember?"
Jade gave him a look
"Klutch lied. We prove that, we get the odds tipped irrevocably in our favor.
"Second of all." she glanced at Indy.
"I need HT to take Indy out of the room. Klutch won't be looking for a bunch of humans. Omega, Hammertread, Alpha, and myself allready know how. Driveby, I think you should know about the 'old Kintari secret.'
HT got to his feet and went over to the forcefield.
Omega grabbed his sister's shoulders. "Let go, Al." He whispered.
Alpha stumbled back into her brother's arms. She smiled. "Hiya."
"Okay...anywho..." He helped his sis stood up. "Let's tell her and... you know..."
HT grabbed Indy, and dissapeared into his room for a second. Then reappeared.
"Okay."
"Hang on, let's arrange this first. If he hurry, we can beat Klutch's backup, and we won't have to worry with sneaking through the volcano as humans. We might actually be able to...well, in all likelyhood, we could get past Klutch right through the front entrance. I can get us anywhere in the Ark you wanna go from there. Whattya think?
"Well..." The twins looked at each other. "Maybe..." They said, but then looked at the others. "And if we don't, we could always teleport you there." They shrugged. "Right under their noses"
"Ah.." HT held up a hand. "I'll take the bus."
"Are you sure you can control where you land? even if we land in my quarters, there's a chance we'll be seen if we're normal size. Are you sure you can use your powers as a human?"#4497 Oct 31st 2006, 07:20PM Reply » Edit . Report Abuse . Delete Post . « Rampage's GirlSince: Sep 18th 2005 "We can sure as the matrix try!" The two nodded. "After all, Alpha can use her psychic powers so why can't we do this?"
Okay. Um... let's try to get a bit closer to the ark, though. That way it'll be easier to get where we want." Jade grinned. "I have to find where in the ark to land, though." she thought.
"I've got it! The repairbay. Ratchet's office. Nobody dares sneak into his office. And I just remembered, we need to meet with Jazz and let him know about our plan."
"And meet Ty." Driveby put in.
"Right." Jade nodded.
"What's the 'old kintari secret'? " Cable asked, all innocence. Jade closed her eyes and brought out the device.
in the darkened crew quarters, Indy gasped, sensing it's prescence. She looked at the door and concentrated on it. Instantly, it was like there was no wall at all, and she fouond herself looking at the group.
"My powers...they're magnified by it..." she thought. She grinned and closed her optics.
The twins nodded. They took the item and, after looking at the others, took off their armor. Their markings started to glow. They took deep breaths and then started to chant.
The tiwn's eyes/optics went white. Their markings glowed brightly. They changed into humans and then back into transformers.
"Hey! We didn't faint!" The twins smiled. They looked at the others. "Alright, now thatcha knows what it does, everyone touch it so we can turn us into humans."