Title: The Wrecker and the Moonlight - part 5
Characters: Wheeljack, Prowl, Jazz
Genre: Romance, Family, Adventure
Description: After many years searching, she had finally found him, she has met her sire after wanting to meet him her whole life, and now she can... How does he take to the role? ProwlXJazz, WheeljackXoc, OCs included, view the drawings on my TFG1001 Deviantart, set during TFP Beast hunters series
Previously in Part 5:
"We're at the co-ordinates," Angel comlinked base.
The famous femme the base knew of entered base. Bulkhead's optics were first to widen. "I see the resembalance."
She clinged to Wheeljack, sobbing more. "I love you daddy..."
Ratchet nodded, and pulls the lever on the groundbridge. "Ultra Magnus, we are ready to receive you." Same as everyone else, he turned to face the opened groundbridge.
A blue and silver lorry enters the base and transformed into Ultra magnus himself, he slowed approaced the rest of the team. "We didn't find much else in the former rubble of the base."
Rythm perked up seeing her sire enter, paused seeing the large metal ball in his servos.
Wheeljack held it up. "You call this, not much else?!" He spins and throws it toward Prowl and Bulkhead.
Prowl ducked out of the way to avoid damage to his doorwings, the wrecking ball bounced off Bulkhead's armour heading for the humans, crashes into door to Fowler's office.
Refrain covered his visor seeing this, Crosswise clapped happily and giggled.
Ratchet wasn't happy, looked towards Wheeljack. "Wheeljack! You could've caused serious damamge!"
Miko stood up and puts her hands on her hips. "To me!"
They all paused and turned around to the door hearing Fowler call them. "A little help please?!"
Ultra magnus stepped forward to scowl Wheeljack too. "What were you thinking soldier!?"
Wheeljack just smiled. "I was thinking Bulk could catch that lob."
Ultra Magnus frowned. "Allow me to make myself perfectly clear! As Optimus Prime's second in Command, I will not tolerate Wrecker behaviour!"
Wheeljack didn't look up, in deep thought, finally replied, "Some things never change."
Rythm paused hearing this, looked at Bulkhead. Bulkhead was worried. "Jackie..."
Ultra Magnus let out a low sigh. "Need I remind you it was Optimus Prime who appointed me in command of your Wrecker unit back on Cybertron and get you loose cannons under control! An effective combat unit begins with disclipline. If you won't accept that feel free to choose to the path of least resistance... as you did before!"
Wheeljack didn't reply right away. "If my ship weren't a twisted wreckage prison, I'd do that!" he leaned forward. "Sir," and walked off away from them.
Rythm gasped. "Sire!" and followed him out. The rest of the bots all turned to face Ultra Magnus, who only sighed.
Angel frowns at him. "Well done big guy!" and folds her arms at him.
Ultra Magnus sighed again looking at them all. "So... any word from Optimus?"
Ratchet was the one to reply. "He's investigating recent Decepticon activity, hopefully an energon mine. We need all the energon we can find." he turned his attention to the twins born less than a week ago.
Crosswise was snuggled in his sire's arms, cooing, while Refrain was burying his helm in his carrier's arms, not looking around, as he was the shy twin, his twin was the confident one filled with energy.
"The energon cubes we did have amongst us is helping somewhat Doc, they'll be fine for another couple hours till Optimus returns," Prowl replied.
Ratchet nodded. "Good, lets hope we find energon soon."
"How rad would it be if you all had jet packs like Optimus?" Miko asked quite cheerfully.
"Quite rare Miko," Ratchet replied. "But the forge has been depleated of its power to do so."
"Now its good for only pounding out dents," Bulkhead added.
The bots all looked up hearing the rev of an engine and see a blue and yellow car drive in and brakes before them.
Arcee puts her servos on her hips. "Smokescreen?"
The said car transformed to show the Elita Guard graduate himself. "What gave me away? Robots in disguise right?" He paused seeing Ultra Magnus approach him.
"Where have you been soldier?"
"Scanning new war paint, thought it be pro-active to follow Optimus' lead... and Bumblebee's."
"Well now you can look your best stacking those empty cubes," Magnus points to the pile in the corner.
Smokescreen sighed. "Yes sir..." while walking over he mumbles to himself. "I was nearly a Prime somehow Im still a rookie..."
Prowl and Angel both looked over at him, before sharing a glance. Ratchet looked up at Smokescreen. "What was that about a Prime?"
Smokescreen froze and turned around. "I meant... time to stop acting a like a rookie... " he contined walking over to the pile.
Arcee took a few steps forward. "Smokescreen was the only one who went back... maybe Optimus might not still be with us today..."
Ratchet looked up at her. "Arcee we were under the strictist of orders... however we are fortunate enough Smokescreen is inexperienced enough to follow protocol..."
Later that day...
A groundbridge opened to show Optimus walking in holding something in his arms.
"Optimus, did you find Energon?" Ratchet asked with a hint of hope.
"No..." Optimus felt sorry to reveal the truth. "But I did find these..." He puts down a skull bone of a monster... and a a small red piece of a horn with a small dagger next to it.
"It... cannot be ..." Ratchet approached the table to the bone.
"Be what?" Jack Darby asked.
Optimus looked up. "The ancient remains... of a Predacon..."
"And that?" Miko points to the dagger.
Optimus sighed. "I do not know its origin... nor the small red armour piece of who it belongs too..."
Angel stepped forward, and tilts her helm. "The piece feels familiar... sire?"
Prowl nodded. "I know who it belongs to..."
Everyone looked up at him to say it.
Prowl looked back. "Proton."
Jack tilts his head. "Who's here?"
Ratchet gasped. "You cannot be serious Prowl?! He's been missing for..."
"Over centuries, I know doc... no one seen him since his bonded was lost in a fire... and... left his twin sons when he disappeared in action... his twin sons taken into Autobot care..." Prowl replied, looking at Bluestreak.
Bluestreak's optics were wide. "But... he... does it mean sire's alive?!"
All the bots froze hearing this.
Ultra Magnus stepped foward. "Lord Proton of Praxus... is your sire?!"
Prowl nodded. "After his bonded was skilled in a fire... caused by a bounty Hunter called Stealth... he fled with us to keep us safe... a year later, he vanished... No one's seen him since... " he picked up the red armour piece. "This is from his chevron..." Prowl held it up beside his, showing the exact same point of his own. "The Dagger was one of his processions... he never used it as he hated violence... "
Optimus spoke up. "If there is a chance he's alive... his help would be greatly appreciated.. as is yours in finding him."
Prowl nodded. "Anything to find him."
Ratchet stepped forward. "Though it remains why such a skull would be found on your planet, its presence reveals all too much about the Predacons which Megatron recently sent in pursuit of us."
"You mean that dragon bot we put on ice?" Miko asked.
"Except the Predacons have been extinct... since.." the doc tried to find the answer.
"Since before most life began on Cybertron," Smokescreen finished the sentence off for him.
"They're like Earth's dinosaurs," Raf added.
Jack looked up. "Which means for you guys, like running into one would be us running into a T-Rex."
"So what were Dinobots?" Miko asked.
"Totally different." Bulkhead replied.
"With Megatron's seemingly new interest with the burial sites of pre-historical skeletons, and a certain scientist back amongst the Decepticon ranks..." Ratchet looked up at Optimus.
"It would stand to reason, that Shockwave cloned the beast from one such find," Optimus finished.
"And now Megatron's looking to clone another," Ultra Magnus added.
"What makes you think Bucket-head would stop at just one?" Wheeljack asked.
Rythm frowned. "An Army of them?"
"We could have beast wars on our servos," Bulkhead added.
"And if Megatron only requires a single strand of CNA in which to clone a beast," Ratchet mentioned.
"He already processes what he needs to engender this one," Optimus replied, turning towards his team. "Autobots, we must become Beast Hunters."
"One thing still doesn't follow," Smokescreen pointed out. "Predacons went extinct on Cybertron.. so what would their bones be doing here?"
Ratchet walked over to the console to show some images of Predacons. "From our historical texts."
"But, those are metal versions of creaturs from our greek mythology," Jack noted.
"Not dinosaurs," Raf added.
"It would stand to reason that Predacons did indeed walk among the Earth at some point in time, as them seem to have been the basis for much of human kind's folk-law. Illustrating that once again that the past of both Cybertron and Earth are linked," Optimus pointed out.
"And what of the dagger?" Miko pointed.
"Proton was one of the ruling Lords of our cities on Cybertron, as you'd know him by, as a King of his city. From a line of important and powerful mechs, he was a well known mech and important figure in our history. As mentioned, he was due to become a sire, or father in your language, in which his bondmate, wife as you put it, gave birth to their twin sons... " Ratchet replied, looked over at Prowl with his bonded, and Bluestreak speaking to Magnus. "Those two have suffered a lot... losing their carrier at a young age, their sire disappearing... I'd be surprised if they were happy to see him again."
"Why wouldn't they be happy to see him?" Jack asked. "I don't know my dad, I'd be happy to see him after so long."
"Because he didn't warn them, tell them he was going... and never came back... as a young kid, you think you're left alone if your parents aren't in your sight. They've both been through a lot, and seeing them now is proof their city, Lordship is inherited by Prowl as the older twin, once we revive Cybertron and everything will be the way it should be."
The humans looked over seeing Prowl holding Crosswise in his arms, gently bouncing in arms, kissing his helm, being the protective caring sire he should be.
"I can't imagine everything they've been through..." Miko spoke up. "Now I wish didn't pull that prank on him."
"Prowl's like his sire, he forgives if your act or motive wasn't intentional," Ratchet replied. "To have hope that his sire is alive is a big change for them both. Proton was one of the greatest mechs, skilled, powerful, he cared for his citizens, his bots. No crime went unsolved or unpunished."
"He sounds like a great mech... would be my honour to meet him Ratchet," Raf put a hand over his heart smiling.
Ratchet nodded with his own smile. "I'd agree."
*later*
Miko, Jack and Raf were all asleep on the sofas in the base the bots all chatting amongst themselves.
Optimus approached Ratchet. "Synthetic energon?"
"Indeed," was the reply. "I am concerned that without access to any energon reserves since our base was destroyed, and with the caring of the newborn twins, our ability to deal with impending crisis will be severly hampered."
"A wise decision old friend."
"Just please... manage your expectations... I am working with more hardware than before."
"Prime!" came Fowler's voice that caught everyone's attention. "Satellite imagery picked up two signs of Decepticon activity, One near an Oil rig, the other near the Hibberties' bluff in Scotland. So don't forget to pack your kilts."
"We must divide our resources," Optimus turned to the Autobots. "Ultra Magnus, lead the Wreckers to the Bluffs."
"I wanna come too!" Rythm stepped forward. "Be a good time to get into the field!"
Optimus nodded agreeing. "Anyone else?"
Angel stepped forward. "I'd like to visit the Oil rig."
Optimus nodded. "Smokescreen and Bumblebee will come too. Arcee? Prowl?"
Prowl nodded. "Will be on standby with Arcee."
Optimus nodded again looked at Magnus. "Its settled."
"Yes Optimus," Magnus paused, walked up to his leader with a confused look. "What's a kilt?"
Optimus looked at Fowler, than at Magnus, leaned closer. "Agent Fowler can at times be oblique. I find it best to simply nod and mobilize."
"Bulkhead, Wheeljack, Rythm, lets mobilize!" Ultra Magnus walked away, up the Forge. "Optimus, I know there are many ties with the forge."
"This is not time to stand on ceremony," Optimus replied.
Magnus nodded, picks up the Forge. "I'd be honoured to practise on some pratical use."
at the oil rig
The groundbridge opened and Optimus drove out, followed by Smokescreen, Bumblebee and Angel, all 4 transformed. Optimus turned to his crew. "I will this quadrant," and he takes off to the sky with his jetpack, the other 3 transform and drive down the bridge to the other side.
The 3 approached the oil rig and transformed, retracting arm guns, being cautious as they looked around.
"Hey Bee..." Smokescreen asked. "Have you ever thought about wanting to become a Prime?"
Angel looked up at the rookie hearing his question.
"Not now... but someday?" Smokescreen continued.
"I'm a warrior only," Bee replied.
"Warrior... yeah... hehe.. you and me both," the rookie continued. "But I've seen you in action, why won't Optimus promote you to scout already?"
"It was my choice," Bee replied.
"Your choice? Huh... so why wait? " Smokescreen asked.
Angel looked up and back and forth between them both.
Smokescreen walked over. "Guess it would be more meaningful to graduate back home... on Cybertron... you're one patient guy... I should take a cue.."
All 3 paused hearing a faint drilling sound.
"Got Cons drilling at 12 oclock!" Angel told them.
Both mechs turn and see the Cons drilling into a large crater.
"How did you know?" Smokescreen asked.
"Got powers, jealous?" Angel giggled, paused, turns around. "Incoming!"
The mechs turn around as the Vehicons from above level start shooting down at them.
Angel made a dive for cover out the shots, Bee took cover behind a large crater, Smokescreen took cover behind a large device, retracts an arm gun, slowly makes way around corner and fires at a Vehicon. 2 more approached him, he made a dash to the back of an oil rig device, disappearing.
The Vehicon troops paused, and look up, seeing him dive down, grab one of them and throw into the other.
Bumblebee delivered a kick to one of the troops, shooting at them. He made a quick turn aiming guns, and backed down seeing Smokescreen.
"Like I said, got nice chops for a scout," Smokescreen said. "Hey... where's Angel?"
"Hey mechs!"
Both looked over seeing Shockwave appear out the dust of the dig site, holding a Predacon bone jaw in his servo, aiming his arm gun at them, firing.
"No!" they gasp seeing Angel run over and jump onto Shockwave's back, pulls him down to the ground. "Whoa!" she dives to avoid his arm gun going off, making contact on the machinery, exploding them all one by one, setting off a chain reaction.
Smokescreen and Bumblebee made a dash, but was too late as they were caught in the smoke. Smokescreen went to get up, only for some weight to land on him.
"Sorry Smokey..." Angel gets off, standing up on her pedes.
"How epic was that?!" the Rookie asked.
They all looked up and over seeing Shockwave drive off into distance away from them! The Autobots gave chase in their vehicle forms.
Shockwave turned his gun around, shooting at the bots, not noticing Optimus flying down approaching. He then turned his gun around and fired a few shots missing the Prime. Optimus then took a shot, impacting on the road infront of Shockwave, making the Decepticon tumble and let go of the bone.
"Wahoo! and that's why he's a Prime!" Smokescreen commented.
A groundbridge opened beside Shockwave, and Soundwave flew out, began firing at the Autobots.
"Soundwave!" Smokescreen commented, steering to avoid the incoming fire.
While Soundwave distracted them, Shockwave made a dash for the bone and to the groundbridge, while Soundwave decided to fire at Optimus to distract him.
Shockwave made a dash to the groundbridge, before suddenly tripped by Bumblebee kicking his pedes, sending him off his pedes, Smokescreen jumped on his face, crashing down on the road.
Angel drove and transformed, made a dash for the bone, and grabs it, tugging. Shockwave raised his arm gun to hit her, but she dodged the shot. Bumblebee ran over and made a grab for the bone, pulling on it, but Shockwave was quicker, hitting him away.
Smokescreen began firing at the Decepticon, for a split second he focused on the bone, enough for Shockwave to shoot him with his arm gun.
Meanwhile, Soundwave was still on Optimus' tale, releasing Laserbeak who flew over and attached itself onto Optimus, shocking him slightly, not after Optimus landed a few shots onto Soundwave.
The Decepticon landed on the cliff and ran to the side, looking down at the Prime unconsious, then to his comrade.
Bumblebee jumps on Shockwave's back, but the Con threw him onto the road, Smokescreen pulled on his wiring to his gun, Shockwave threw Smokescreen against the barrier.
Angel rushed over and helps the rookie to his pedes, looks up at him approach, noticed the faint crack in the ground beneath the Con. "Smokescreen! Now!"
Smokescreen pressed on the phase shifter, grabbing her arm as Shockwave approached and went to attack them, but with the phase shifter, he phased right through them. Both made a grab towards the Predacon bone, and with the phase shifter, Shockwave was unable to attack them, but pull on the phone. Another pair of servos grabbed the bone, all 3 Autobots pulling on the bone. SNAP!
The bone broke into 3 pieces, the Autobots fell onto their backs, a tooth went over the edge of the bridge, towards Optimus, who looked up seeing it, activating his jet pack and flying up to grab it.
A groundbridge opened, and the piece landed in Megatron's servos instead.
Shockwave looked at Soundwave. "We have all that we n..." he was cut off by a loud punch sound, the bridge collapsed beneath him, going through a hole in the bridge to the ground below.
Quickly Soundwave activated a groundbridge and Shockwave landed inside the warship, unharmed. The Decepticon then transformed and flew into a groundbridge he opened easily missing a few shots from the Autobots as the groundbridge closed.
Smokescreen held up part of the bone. "A single strand of CNA..." he looked at the spot the groundbridge had been, knowing they had lost this round.
Onboard the Nemesis
"Shockwave," the Leader of the Decepticons approached him. "I understand that you engaged Optimus Prime in the field alone."
"Only to retrieve the specimen, Lord Megatron," Shockwave replied.
Megatron picked up the piece. "I believed that you had perished once, my most prized engineer, and I highly doubt Project Predacon can be completed without you."
"I shall leave the fetching of bones to Starscream, and confide myself to my laboratory, in order to accelerate results."
"Excellent. For I am rather impatient to witness my army of beasts, trample human kind under-foot."
The Leader made way to the exit.
"Lord Megatron," Shockwave started. "I also saw a bot, I did not recognize on the Autobots' side."
"Oh?" The leader turned back with his full attention.
"Yes, a female Autobot. She wore striking resembalance to the Lord of Praxus."
"Prowl?" he laughed machanically. "Why, it must the Princess. No one has seen her in some time."
"I must also mention, that even the bridge was strong enough to support my weight, it somehow collapsed right beneath me, and not underneath the Autobots as it should've happened."
"Because this femme has an unnatural ability. I believe its from a long line of history from the Great Rynox."
"Lord Megatron, its highly unlikely that she inherited the skills, Rynox is long dead."
"Perhaps, but since she's a descendant no doubt she'd have his skills."
"And what might that be, Lord Megatron?"
"The ability... the morph the Earth, shape the ground beneath her... The Humans call it Earth bending. It somehow ended up with the Earth tribe continuing a fight no this planet, thus becoming the basis of a human TV show Starscream so joyfully pointed out."
"And her ability is important in what circumstances?"
"That she'll shape us a new base, and thus, my key to more of Cybertron's land! With her as a prisoner, not only would her sire give up his rights, but I'll have access to strike! Take the power from her very spark! Even if she offlines, Cybertron will be mine!"
Shockwave remained silent, only moving to return to extracting CNA from the bone.
Megatron left the room to let Shockwave work, heading down the corridor of the Warship, instead of making a left to the Bridge, he looked around making sure no one was following him, nor the cameras, he went ahead, towards a dead end. Approaching it, he moved his servo over the wall, opening a small hatch, pressing his servo to the print, the wall spreading apart in 2, showing a door. He grinned, opening the door and stepping inside the dimly lit room, over to the next room, a faint figure seen in the corner.
"My my mech, so far you've done a good job, being kept quiet, and even with all the noise, you kept quiet! You are well behaved! Stick with my rules and I'll not beat you!"
He reached for the lamp shade, and switched it on lighting the room. In the corner was a silver mech with blue optics, shades of red, blue and black, look of total fear and he was sickly shaking rapidly at the Con Leader.
"You will make a fine Decepticon leader, and as my heir, vanquish the Autobots once and for all! You're destined for this, Midas, my son!"
Phew! Wi-fi worked long enough to upload the chapter.
I apologize for the lateness of chapters, spent ages scouring web to find the episodes to re-watch since they were removed from YouTube.
And with wi-fi being slow, loading 20 minute epiodes was hard, but worth it for this chapter.
I hope you all liked the ending. Put 2 and 2 together, will come clear soon. ;)
Thanks for your patience and thanks for reading.
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P.S. Ignore The Fox Familiar. XD