The Great Escape
The Sharkticons blocked the way out with their numbers. When they saw Alyx their growls and battle cries quickly hushed. Then they started to mumble among each other:
"The Azori'jin is free…. The Azori'jin is FREE!"
The Sharkticons in front tried to retreat but the many behind them – who didn't yet have a clue what was going on – blocked their path.
Alyx transformed into a huge black horse with long wavy manes and long hair on her lower legs. She was big enough for Rumble to ride on her back. Her body changed from organic flesh to organic metal. It looked like a thick liquid metal ran all over her body, quickly covering it.
"You keep amazing me!" Rumble let out. "Another of your talents?"
"Yeah. I have many talents. They didn't put that device on my spine for no reason, you know. Hop on!"
With a agile jump he got onto her back. She took off right away towards the panicking Sharkticons.
Alyx concentrated her powerful mind on the circuits in the Sharkticons brains and took them out as she galloped by. They fell down where they stood without exploding. Because their bodies blocked Alyx's path she used her inner energy – as a bright light in front of her - to blast them out of her way. The other mechs that were stuck in the caves quickly figured out she was free and started to follow her, hoping to get out as well.
She ran around a corner followed a long corridor, took another corner and there was the light at the end… the light of the Pit.
"How do we get out of the Pit?" Rumble yelled in her ear.
"We fly!" She yelled back. "So hold on tight!"
The Sharkticons had gathered on the edge of the Pit and stared down waiting for the approaching Azori'jin. They had their weapons aimed at the dark cave entrance where she was about to come rushing out.
Just before she ran into the Pit she transformed back to her Godzilla form and made her entrance in to the Pit with a loud roar that made the Sharkticons tremble in fear.
From her shoulders quickly grew immense wings, changing her into a Godzilla-dragon.
With a few powerful wing-beats she left the dusty Pit-floor leaving a huge dust cloud behind her.
"YEE-HAW!" Rumble cried out as they rose above the edge of the pit.
Alyx took a deep breath in and when she breathed out blew a fire frenzy right at the Sharkticons who had no idea what to expect. They were not resistant against her raging fire.
Her feet touched the metal floor around the Pit. They were out! The Skarkticons opened fire on her and Rumble but their weapon fire couldn't hurt her organic metal body. She bent down to breath some more destructive fire on them to get rid of them easily.
Rumble jumped off of her back so she could transform back to her humanoid form. When looking around Rumble suddenly saw Galvatron's canon in the corner of his eye. Looking over his shoulder to find his powerful leader he only discovered his canon… with the arm still attached. It was hanging on a huge trophy wall!
"What the… that's not good," He pulled Alyx towards him until she faced the wall. "Look, that's Galvatrons arm!"
She looked at it for a second and gave him a grin. "Yeah… well.. the rest got away." She gave him a big smile.
His mouth fell open. "Did you… You took it off?"
"Hey, the Sharkticons threw him into the Pit. I was pissed and he hit me over the head with it. So I tore it off! Piece of cake!"
"So he was IN the Pit and didn't bother to get me out?!" Rumble asked most disappointed.
Alyx focused her mind on the fast approaching Sharkticons to fry their circuitry. They fell down one after the other but they kept on coming!
"He had other things on his mind," she said, "Like escaping from my jaws." She looked around to find the device that kept the force-field active around the Pit that kept Rumble – and any other transformers – from transforming. She found it on the high ceiling right above the Pit. Using her powerful mind she overloaded it until it exploded. "Try to transform!"
"He deliberately left me in there…"
"I thought actually he was gonna blast you away with that canon, that's another reason I tore it off. Try to transform!"
"He was gonna shoot me?!"
She took his face in her hands. "LATER! FOCUS! TRANSFORM! We have to get out of here first!"
"What's the point… If he was going to shoot me probably banned me from the Decepticon ranks… Where am I supposed to go now…?"
With his face still between her hands she said: "Forget about him, he's an ASSHOLE! You can come with me. We'll be a great team together, you and I." Then she pressed a kiss on his lips. "Now COME ON! TRANSFORM and KICK SOME CAN!"
He snapped out of the downwards spiral. "Yeah, ok ... OK!" He transformed his arms into the powerful piledrivers. "It's working!"
Right away he caused an earthquake that made the entire asteroid shake. The ground split open and swallowed several Sharkticons. The others jumped over and kept coming towards them but slower because of the shaking ground beneath their feet.
The Quintesson who ran the place showed up with a new army of Sharkticons. But as soon as he lay eyes on Alyx and saw the Azori'jin had really been set free – which he hadn't believed at first - he retreated after ordering the Skarkticons to attack her.
"Cowardly five-faced-demon!" Alyx shouted after him when his screeching voice attracted her attention. "You are not getting out of here!" She focussed on him and made him come right at her. Screaming he tried to refuse the power she had over him but there was no way he was gonna escape. In the meantime Rumble had tons of fun keeping the Sharkticons away from them.
"Come and get it!" He yelled at them as he quaked them to their doom.
Alyx paralyzed the tentacles that kept the Quintesson standing. He fell to the ground begging for his life with all of his five faces.
"It was a mistake to think you could contain and control me in your hell hole!"
"It wasn't our idea…," the face representing 'doubt' wailed. "Xerxes demanded it!"
Hearing that name made her furious. Using her mind she took out all the Sharkticons with one powerful overload to their little brains. They all stopped functioning and fell down.
Rumble looked at her in amazement. "Did you do that?"
She nodded while she kept her eyes fixed on the Quintesson.
"I was just starting to enjoy myself!" he walked up to her, transformed his arms back to normal.
"Let's have some fun with the five-faced demon!" She smirked at the wailing face with a furious glance in her eyes, placed her hand on it and fried the circuits with a bright light in the palm of her hand. The others cried out in pain until she stopped. The scorched face broke into pieces and fell off. "Four-faced demon!"
"Whoooh, baby! You are ruthless," he commended her.
"He's asking for it." She made another face turn to the front.
"Ask him what happened to the Decepticons."
"You heard him," she snapped at the face representing death.
"We kicked them off of our asteroid!" The Quintesson replied. "No one takes our energon and definitely not the Decepticons!" The contempt dripped off of his words.
"You can't beat Galvatron!" Rumble objected.
"He's a wimp without his gun!" it sneered at Rumble. "Why would you care, you're not worthy to be among the Decepticons anymore anyway!" the Quintesson mocked him.
Furiously he transformed one of his arms into the powerful piledriver and pounded the screaming 'death'-face right off.
Alyx turned the 'wrath'-face towards her. "Where's my materializer?" she asked him as she looked deep into his red glowing eyes.
"I will never tell you anything!" it hissed at her.
She shrugged her shoulders. "Fine, I'll just help myself." She put her hand on the with horns decorated forehead and started to search his brain. Rumble transformed his arm back and watched her closely.
Then she turned towards him. "There's a safe over there, can you crack it open for me?"
"Hey, I'll crack anything for you!" He ran towards two huge metal doors that were locked together by a huge round locking mechanism right in the middle where the doors seemed to close seamlessly.
He transformed his arms into the pile drivers again and smashed the lock off easily. Then he cracked the doors until they fell apart to create an entrance.
Alyx left the Quintesson where he was – he was paralyzed so he couldn't go anywhere anyway – and stepped over the debris of the door to take a look in the safe.
"What are we looking for?" Rumble asked her as he looked around.
In the walls were hundreds of cavities, each containing a precious ornament or trophy or whatever the Quintesson thought was valuable to him.
"It's a tiny thing… it's supposed to be embedded in my arm."
"Could there be any other stuff that belongs to you that's bigger and easier to spot?"
"No, I came here with noting," she replied as she looked around.
"Hey! My gun!" Rumble took it from one of the cavities.
Alyx focussed on the mind of the Quintesson. She didn't have to touch him at all to look into his mind. Quickly she found where he had put it and ran over to the wall. She looked up, it was way up in one of the higher cavities.
"It's way up there!" She pointed up.
Rumble came up to her. "Well, let's go get it!" He put his arm around her waist, picked her up and fired up the jet engines in his feet.
She threw her arm over his shoulder and looked at every cavity as they rose upwards.
"That's really handy!" she grinned.
A smile formed on his face. "You have no idea how handy I am."
"There!" a shock went through her body when she saw it. "There it is!"
She grabbed a small shiny metal tube that had the size of a medium screw.
"THAT's it?!" Rumble was amazed. "That tiny thing?!"
"It's very advanced technology." Close to the materializer she found a gorgeous dagger with a handle covered in gems and grabbed it just before they went down again.
When they landed on the ground she gave it to Rumble. "Could you make a small incision right here?" She pointed at her lower arm, close to the 'inside' of her elbow.
He took the dagger and with a decisive move he made a small cut in her arm. She frowned in pain.
"It's just a little cut," he grinned.
"Still hurts." She took the materializer between her thumb and index finger and moved it towards the cut in her flesh. Rumble's fingers were too big and powerful to hold the tiny, sensitive device. "This is going to feel really nasty so I'll probably faint when I do this. Don't freak out, okay?"
"I don't freak out that easily. But don't stay out too long." He nodded towards to the cracked open safe doors.
Another army of Sharkticons started shooting at the rock ceiling above the doors to make it collapse to lock them in.
She placed the materializer just in front of the bleeding cut, took a deep breath and shoved it in as far as she could. The sickening feeling that caused made her vision start to blacken and she got all light in her head. But Rumbles firm grip around her waist kept her standing. She rested her head against his chest, took a few deep breaths and put her hand on the wound. The golden light in the palm of her hand quickly healed the cut without leaving a scar.
Finally after years in the Pit, she could materialize clothes on her body again! A tight black pair of pants materialized around her slender legs. A white shirt on her body with a wide neck that left one of her shoulders uncovered. Her feet and calf were covered with long black boots with half high heels. She let out another sigh. "That's better."
"What, no cute dress …?" Rumble teased her.
She slapped him on the arm. "NO! I can't run in that. Maybe later". She blinked at him. "Let's get out of here!"
Just when she said that, the ceiling collapsed just outside the cracked open safe doors, locking them in.
"Things just can't go easy for us now, can they!" Rumble grumbled.
When the Sharkticons thought they had conquered the Azori'jin, the debris from the ceiling started to rumble and crumble down. A loud roar came from the other side and without a warning the debris exploded away from the safe, leaving a large cloud of black dust.
The huge organic metal Godzilla monster came bashing through right after Rumble weakened the debris density with a nice firm quake.
In that form – with Rumble on her back - she found her way to the hangar to find a ship that they could use to get off of this rock.
"That ship belongs to an organic race," Rumble pointed at a silvery coated aerodynamic ship. "It probably has accommodations on board you might need."
"Great! Hadn't thought about that…" She transformed back to her dressed humanoid form and placed her hand on the side of the ship to open it up.
They got in and quickly made their way to the cockpit while more Sharkticons were closing in on them.
"Great… That doesn't look like anything I've ever seen!" Rumble mumbled annoyed.
"Doesn't matter, I'll make it fly anyway", she said as she placed her hand on the control panels. She got the engines started right away. "Take a seat and enjoy the flight!" The ship lifted from the ground, swinging a bit to the left and the right as Alyx got the hang of its controls. When she did she took off towards the huge hangar doors. Using her mind she opened them until the ship could pass through, no further.
On the other side she could see endless space with millions of stars. "FREEDOM!" She laughed out loud.
"YEE-HAW! Take us out!" Rumble cried out.
"AWAY WE GOOO!" Alyx flew the ship out of the doors and made it jump to warpspeed right away leaving the hangar totally destroyed behind them!
okay… they're out!
But where do we go from here?!