"Go!" Syus barked. Prime fired off another row of shots, and transformed, hooking back up to his trailer and taking off down the road, Syus flying overhead, ducking and diving to avoid weapon blasts.
Omega smiled. He lunged at another one of the cons, snickering. He punched him.
Alpha yelped and held on.
Megatron placed himself directly in Prime's path, and Syus, who was in dragon mode, tucked his wings going into a powerdive/tackle.
"I believe we have a vendetta to settle." he growled, taking the Decepticon leader to the ground.
Alpha yelped and looked out of the trailor. "Megatron..." She hissed. The femme swallowed.
Megatron tried to use his weight against the dragon, and flip him to one side. He rolled to his feet, Syus glared, unsheathing his kitana. Amber optics narrowed, not brightening any this time, there was no anger behind them.
Not just yet.
He still had to find out what happened to his friend before claiming rightfull vengeance.
Megatron fired his armcannon, and the dragon ducked out of the way.
Alpha blinked. She looked at Prime and then at the fight. She was itching to jump in, but knew she couldn't.
Motormaster saw Optimus Prime and grinned. He fired at the mech.
Alhpa yelled and jumped out of the trailer before it could roll with her in it. She looked around. "Oh crud..."
Motormaster stomped over to Optimus.
Prime transformed and instantly got into a wrestling match with the black semi.
The mech growled and grabbed Prime's arms. He flipped the mech.
Alpha looked around and reached for her blaster. Someone was nearby, but who? Where? She knew she sensed someone...or maybe it was just everyone's emotions were confusing her...Ah! She hated being psychic sometimes!
Megatron fired his armcannon at him again. The dragon leapt right, glancing around to see where Alpha was.
He was supposed to be gaurding the damaged femme, not fistfighting with the Decepticon leader. That was Prime's job.
Prime, who realized they were loosing about the time the stunticons pulled up, yelled "Autobots, fall back!"
Syus glanced at Megatron and growled, heading for Prime's trailer. When he got there, Alpha wasn't inside. He cursed inwardly.
Alpha swallowed. She went to hide, but soon found herself under and at the mercy of a white werewolf transformer.
She yelled, but the mech punched her throat, causing her vocal cords to be useless. She tried to get away, but the mech shoved two daggers through her already injured shoulders, pinning her to the ground. The femme whimpered, or rather tried to, and tried to call for help, but failed. Her optics widened. This mech was blocking her powers!
But...how?
The green dragon's head snapped up. He felt a strong aura of energy, but from where? He hit his comm.
"Windy where are you!?" he demanded.
"I'm up here, trying to get these coneheads off my ass!" the purple plane yeled back. "Well get rid of them and get down here. We're leaving." he shut it off and doged antoher armcannon blast. Prime had transformed and was zooming down the road. motormaster turned to follow. Wildrider zoomed up, intent on running over the green mech, but Syus pointed his sword at the car and steeled himself for the impact.
Alpha tried to struggle, but failed. She let out a silent scream as the mech cut her chest up, not saying a word. His optics said it all. She withered in pain, but couldn't cry for help. The mech was blocking her powers...and had a a signal blocker as well! Oh she was doomed.
The femme clenched her fists and her optics flickered as the mech wrapped his unfeeling caled around her light pink spark and cocked his head to the side.
"What do we have here?" Orcus whispered, "Pink...all the ones I have seen have been blue..."
Please... Alpha mouthed.
"Not a chance." Orcus whispered, caressing her face. He squeezed.
Alpha let out another silent scream and arched her back in pain.
The car cackled as he rammed into the dragon, knocking him back. Syus's clawed feet dug into the ground, and he slid back from the impact, but duidn't fall. he paused, then smirked.
Sparks flew from Wildrider's forcefield where the tritanium blade had penetrated it, running into the front of his hood.
Syus smirked and withdrew his weapon. The Stunticon tried to transform, but failed, hood smoking dangerously where his coolant line had been severed. This also meant they weren't going to form their merger anytime soon, too.
Syus suddenly tensed, optics flashing bright yellow as the wave hit, and leapt into the air, feeling the wave of pain coming from not too far off. Like ripples in a pond, ore less. Only this was crystal-clear.
Alpha stopped screaming when Orcus stopped squeezing. She sobbed quietly and her throat ached with sharp pain. She tried to get away again, only to have the mech pin her down again. Her pink spark was a bit dull. What had he done to her? why wasn't he killing her?
The femme looked up at his sadistic face and looked away. His optics...
Orcus growled. He slashed her face, leaving three periment scars on her cheek.
"Battle scars..." He hissed. "You can get them...I can't..." He muttered before slowly dragging his claws along her spark.
Windstriker rolled to one side, and sped up slightly, grinning inwardly. She suddenly transformed midair, doing a dead-over-heels before stablizing, and the trio of jets whizzed past. She transformed back into a plane, pointing after them, and fired all her missiles at them.
There were three angry exclamations and three loud explosions.
"I love that maneuver." she snickered.
Alpha's optics flickered with pain. She looked up at him and then let out another scream as he ripped her chest open so her spark was shining on his face. She looked away, horrified at his hunger for blood. She weakly moved her legs. Dammit...gonna...die at his...hands... She thought as she braced for the mech to kill her.
Orcus simply continued to play with her. He would act like he was going to kill her, only to stop. When he was done, her tires were in shreads, her truck bed had slashes all over it and her windshield was smashed in. Orcus then got ready for the kill. "Been a lot of fun, but I have more I have to kill..." He grinned, getting ready.
There were yells, and the aerialbots flew in, letting off a hail of coverfire that made most of the Decepticons swerve.
"Stunticons, merge!" motormaster yelled. They got together, but realized one was missing.
"Where's..." They were seperated by a volley of weaponfire from the Aerialbots right after realizing Wildrider was down.
The dragon roared and pounced out of nowhere, knocking the white mech backwards, and placed himself between Orcas and Alpha, standing in a halfway-swordsmech pose, Kitana over his shoulder, swordtip pointed at him, blade up.
His optics arrowed in silent challenge.
Orcus glared at the mech. He stood up strait and licked the femme's energon and mech fluid off himself. Once finished cleaning himself, he looked up at the mech and shrugged. "What? I was just gonna put her out of her misery. But if you want her to suffer, far be it from me to stop you." He said, looking at him. The werewolf then bounded off.
Alpha looked up at the dragon. Her optics dimmed. She managed to touch his mind gently and then passed out from the pain. Her pink spark flickered, but didn't go out.
Syus growled, but didn't persue. He glanced down at the femme, about to ask something, but she had passed out. He sheathed his sword and gently picked her up, flying back to the Ark with the rest of the group.
alpha squirmed in his grip, but didn't protest. She couldn't. She mearly let out a silent moan of pain.
Omega's head shot up. His optics widened and he kicked Starscream away. "ALPHA!" He yelled, taking off towards the Ark.
Oh dear Primus...let her be okay... He thought as he hurried back to the Ark.
Mic and Bullet moved aside when Syus shouldered his way into the repairbay, setting Alpha on one of the repair beths. He looked down at her, as though sensing something about her. He turned away.
"I presume everything went well here?" he asked.
Mic, the white camaro, shrugged. Bullet nodded.
Windstriker followed the other bots back into the Ark. "Ah, it's good to be back." she smiled.
"says you." Sunstreaker grumped, shoving past. "Just look what they did to my paint job!" he growled.
Sideswipe replied with "oh you'll live." Sunstreaker gave him a look and headed to his quarters to buff out the scratches and get cleaned up.
Brawn and Hound limped to the repairbay.
Omega ran past them. He busted into the med bay and saw his sister. "Oh dear...I knew something was wrong..." He muttered, wings drooping. His face went about as pale as a black mech's face could get and his visor softened.
"She...I knew something was wrong when I felt our link disconnect..." He whispered to himself.
Syus regaurded the mech, but didn't ask. He could allready tell.
"Who'er you?" Mic asked.
"Omega. Alpha's twin." Omega said.
Ratchet looked at the others and then started to repair the femme.
Omega was forced, key word being FORCED, out of the med bay as Ratchet worked on his sister.
Mic and Bullet followed, but Syus grabbed Mic's shoulder on his way out. He glanced at the Megatron-mimic sitting in the corner, who headed for the office, so none of the Autobots would see him and think he was Megatron, even though his sidepanels were a different color. They seemed to forget that.
Syus tiled his head downward, and lowered his voice. "Have you found out what happened yet?" he asked Mic in a low whisper, glancing out of the corner of his optic at the black jet.
"No... not yet." the camaro replied. "Makes you wonder why they're being so secretive." he murmured, and walked out. Syus nodded as he went.
"Indeed..." he mumbled.
Orcus looked at the decepticon base. His ears flicked and he hurried towards it, forgetting to clean off his paws/hands. The mech looked at it and then kicked the door.
"Hello? Anyone here or did you all get beat by the Autobots?" He asked, trying to get someone to answer the door.
Starscream opened the door and snarled "What do you want!?"
Orcus sniffed. "'Scuse me. Someone woke up one the wrong side of the berth." He muttered, walking in.
"I was wondering...any chance on joining the Decepticons?" He asked. "I believe I am merciliess enough." The mech showed the seeker his energon/mech fluid covered hands.
Starscream rolled his optics and turned on his comm. "Hey Megatron, there's someone here that wants to talk to you about joining us." he said. Then muttered under his breath "and hopefully not blame his mistakes on me."
He got an idea. "say... whatever your name is... you said you like to torcher people? how about you help me prove there's a traitor in our midst?" the seeker smirked. This would be the first and last time Hammertread caused him to get the blame for his misdoings.
Meanwhile, in the repair area, hook was working on Hammertread, who was asleep. Soundwave glanced at a monitor as the tank mumbled something in his sleep.
"sorry..betray..you ...Alpha."
He contacted Megatron.
"He has strong feeling for her." he droned.
Megatron frowned. "Not anymore. Do whatever you can to remove those memories. I will not have him betray us again." and he walked out. Then his comm dinged. It was Starscream. Megatron sighed. His day was not getting any better. He headed for the airlock.
"Bring him inside and keep him under gaurd untill I get there." he growled.
Orcus smirked. "I will. IF I join." He said, walking in.
Starscream narrowed his optics. He allready didn't like this mech. "What do you mean, if you join? isn't that why you came here?" the seeker spat.
Megatron walked in, cutting off whatever was about to be said between the two, and looked at the wherewolf from head to foot. "Boy you are an ugly one, aren't you." he murmured, waiting for the 'bot to insult him back. He wouldn't have anyone in his army that would. Only respect and loyalty.
"So, tell me why you want so badly to join us?" Megatron asked condescendingly, looking down his nose at the mech.
Orcus looked at Megatron. "Believe me, if I could change my alt form, I would, Megatron." He said, nodding. "But I can't for some reason. Anyways, I can't be a neutral...it's no fun. I enjoy torture, sure, but being a neutral...I don't really have a reason behind my actions...here, I would..." He said honestly, shrugging.
Megatron laughed. "Really. Is that the only reason you want to join us? so you can have an excuse to justify your torcher of other bots?" he looked halfway amused, then explained how the Decepticons wanted to rule Cybetron, the strong should lead, the weak should follow, and their primary goal was to gather Energon to send back to their planet to revitalize it and support their troups at home.
"Well?" he asked once he had finished.
"Works for me. As long as I can torture, I don't really care what I have to do to get to do that." Orcus said, looking at Megatron. He looked at the energon on his paws and licked them clean, waiting for Megatron's word.
Megatron growled at his flippant tone. Do you swear to uphold our laws, and swear your undying loyalty to me and ONLY me!?" he growled.
"Yes sir." Orcus said after a minute of silence and looking Megatron over.
Megatron nodded after a minute.
"Starscream, show him to his quarters, then bring him to my office. We'll discuss things more thoroughly there." He walked away.
Omega leaned against the wall. He tapped his foot. "Come on...I can feel her weakening...hurry, dammit!" He cursed.
Wheeljack put a hand on his shoulder. "She'll be okay."
"How can you say that? you have optimism, but I'm connected to her! I can FEEL her dying!" He huffed.
Syus walked over to Omega.
"She will be fine. She has a strong will to survive." he said softly. He then turned to leave.
Omega looked at the mech. "Thanks..." He muttered. "How do you know? I mean, she does, I can sense it, but you..."
Syus shrugged. "I pick up on things." he sent a quick smirk, and then looked away.
I was supposed to be gaurding her. he thought, his smirk dissapearing totally. I failed to do the job I offered to do... he thought, and looked at the ground. He glanced at Omega, then walked away.
Omega nodded. He leaned against the wall and pulled his visor off, revealing his soft red optics almost no body saw. He looked at the ground and rubbed his forehead. "Hang on, Al..."
Alpha whimpered. "Omega..." she managed as Ratchet repaired her throat.
Syus strode down the hall pondering his failure. He didn't like it. He was inwardly kicking himself, but would not let anyone see that.
He stopped at the doorway of the rec room. "Bullet, Mic, needle, Windy. let's go." he said.
"Aww... but we were just..." Windstriker halted mid-sentence. She knew that tone.
"Yes sir." She ducked her head obediently, and got up.
"Hey, Syus!" Jazz yelled, grinning. "Been a long time!" Syus only forced a smile and nodded.
Sunstreaker looked up. "Why are you all leaving?" He growled.
"Because we have things to discuss." Syus replied in the same tone.
He then paused. "maybe it could wait." he added.
Windstriker gave him an openly shocked look. she had never heard him speak with doubt like that.
Mic and Needle glanced at each other with querilous looks, suprised.
He straightened his shoulders, re-copmposing himself, and walked over to the energon dispenser. Windy, the purple A-10 leaned over and whispered something to Bullet, the Megatron mimic sitting next to her.
Sunstreaker blinked. He looked at the others and shook his head.
Omega finally felt his sister come back online and rushed into the room. He pushed Ratchet, who was packing his tools up, out of the way and looked down at her.
Alhpa winced and covered the scar on her chest. "I'm okay."
Omega laughed and hugged her.
"Ow."
Ratchet glared at Omega. "excuse you. You could ask me to get out of the way. I only just finished fixing your sister." the medic groused.
Omega looked at him. "Oh shut it."
Alpha wapped him. "Be nice, Omega. He does have a point."
"...fine..." Omega sighed. "sorry."
Ratchet mumbled something about ingrates and started cleaning.
"We heard that!" the twins yelled. They laughed.
Omega helped his sister stand. He looked at Ratchet. "Thank you." He said seriously and then led his sister out of the med bay.
Alpha winced as a pain came over her spark, but hid it.
Orcus followed Starscream to his room and then to the Decepticon leader's office. He leaned against the doorway.
Megatron motioned Orcas inside, and shooed Starscream. He shut the door and locked it.
Orcus leaned against the wall. He glanced at Megatron and then at his claws. "What did you need to see me for, sir?" he asked.
Megatron explained how the Decepticons work, and that they might need Orcas's...talents if they ever took an autobot prisoner, getting information. He also explained he would meet with Soundwave, who oversaw such... projects, later, and wanted Orcas to be there.
He also explained what would happen to Orcas -and it would not be pretty- if he ever laid a hand on one of his fellow Decepticons.
"Do I make myself clear?" Megatron growled, looking him in the optics.
Orcus looked up at him. He nodded. "Yeah. You don't have any femmes as Decepticons, so I don't have to worry. I won't torture mechs unless needed to...so don't worry, sir." He shrugged.
Megatron nodded.