Jessica looked worried, very worried. She grabbed my arm and pulled me close to her in a last ditch attempt to talk me out of it. "Vicky, you're going to be giving yourself into servitude. Are you sure you want to do this?" She looked pleadingly at the others. "Pain and servitude. One more time. Are you guys ready for that?"

She would have better luck in trying to convince a brick wall that it needed to fall over.

"Stand before me mortals."

I rolled my eyes at the commanding tone before giving Jessica a reassuring smile and a quick, sly, wink. "Trust me. I know exactly what I just got myself into. I'm not so sure he knows what he is getting himself into though."

Megan suddenly went to her comm link, her expression was blank as usual, as she calmly listened.

Maranda mumbled to herself: "Only good thing about this place is the amazing cell reception."

Carrie eyed her "Yeah, but then bonds don't work, riddle me that bull shit"

Maranda shrugged and looked at her water cousin, then clicked to her in their native tongue.

Megan just merely shrugged, still focusing, then it hit her. "Teens left their base in a hurry, someone got a hold of Lindsey, order Supereon?"

"You four track them down. Starblast and I will meet up with you." Jessica stated.

"Yes Supereon. let's move!" Megan definitely had a change in her step as she took on a more of a leader tone, and led her cousins through the godly gate of the heaven, they zapped out in a spontaneous order.

Hearing that made me a bit nervous, but more than anything it also resolved our determination to do this. because now we had too to stop the slaughter that would take place if these asshats didn't keep their promise. They better keep them...I'll kick their teeth in, or die myself trying.

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Jessica and Bre watched the gods intently around their new friends, they could throw them farther than they trusted them. Photo's hands lit up several different colors, and then slowly started to disperse, getting close to the women, they were about to change. But it was put to a pause as Jessica angrily stopped it "Hold the fuck up. No opposing elements."

"That will make them more efficient." Her father urged as his fellow gods started to walk up to the women to turn them.

"NO. OPPOSING. FUCKING. ELEMENTS. DICK." Jessica all but snarled, the amount of fucks she gave was in the negative and the amount of shit she was going to take from them and that her friends were going to take from them was right down there with it.

Hydro confronted Vicky, Pyro confronted Cris with a sneer, that she sent right back at him. Aero calmly confronted Cait while Geo watched Marina as he confronted her with a disgusted yet emotionless look. Marina just coolly watched him back. ''You don't have to fucking like me, just do what you need to do so we can go.''

Starblast and Starstriker kept a solid eye on the scene, they really didn't want the women to go through with this, but they were hell bent on helping their mates and the Elementals had to respect that, because they were showing signs of being Elemental when they didn't even have the DNA yet. As far as the two were concerned, these women were more than ready to tackle something like this. The energies moved from the gods' entity and shot into the ladies.

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The pain...oh my god the pain. I can't describe it to you. All I can tell you was that it felt like a blanket of agony had been wrapped around me and was suffocating me. Nothing I had ever gone through before hurt like this. Not Bishop, not my meetings with Leo's once dark counterpart, not shockwave. Nothing. If I screamed out in pain, I can't tell you that either. What I do know is that it felt like someone was tearing me apart from the inside out. Then I had the odd sensation of drowning. As if I was surrounded by water before it felt like it invaded my body. My body took it in, and added to the pain I was already feeling.

I had just enough awareness to notice I was on my stomach on the ground. The others were writhing in pain around me, but the one that broke my heart to see in pain the most was Caitlin. Her tears were flowing down her pain filled face, and she was scared, god she looked so scared. My arm tried to reach out to her as I tried to crawl over towards her, wanting so much to give her some kind of comfort. I never made it as felt something rip out of my back before I gave in and let the pain drive me into oblivion.

And even there I had no peace, the pain followed me. Then a calming, soothing sensation of floating in warm water filled me and acted as a dampener to the invasive feeling. Wrapped in that warm cocoon, I slipped deeper into the darkness.

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Lavi skidded to a stop as soon as she crossed the ground bridge. She wasn't quite sure what she had been expecting, but finding herself on a very, very large ship in the middle of a shitload of water really wasn't it. She should have expected her twin to follow her and tackle her though, but her shock clearly caught her off guard and they both went rolling across the deck. She knew right away he was furious. "Dammit Lavi!" He snapped. "Now is not the time to start acting like Mom!"

Lavi just sneered at him, tired of his continued efforts to keep her from helping their Father. "Get off!" She accompanied that outburst with a well placed kick to his gut that succeeded in doing just that as he tipped over backwards.

Before her angry twin could come in again, a hand was slapped over both of their mouths before they were yanked behind some crates and out of sight. Dante was giving the squabbling pair a firm, disappointed look as he released his hands from their now quiet flaptraps.

Thane was there too, looking around in his own disapproval. "Are we on a damn boat? Why are we on a boat? I hate boats." He crossed his arms with a harumph as he glared around.

Dante's eyes rolled under that yellow mask before he yanked Thane down too. "Shh!"

Ari was just looking at them with amusement as she shook her head.

This is when Maranda decided to pop up between Thane and Dante. She gave a dramatically fake determined and dark look as she kept her attention forward, looking like a cowboy ready to tackle a giant war in an old western film. "So. What's the plan minions?"

Thane jumped about three feet in the air before he spun angrily to start throwing curses at Maranda before Dante slapped his hand over Thane's mouth. "Do. Not. This is not the place to be showing everyone your temper!"

Ari was trying not to laugh by this point.

Maranda's cousin Megan popped up behind her, pulling her away, with a firm look, she calmly excavated the area, her eyes were narrowed with legit concentration, unlike her cousin. "This is Tidal wave"

"Ah, fun fun. Dragons, Steves, Bishop, Bishop minions and now a giant Decepticon to fight. Might be even fight for once." she shrugged with a: "fuck, I'm game" kind of expression. She was hushed by the water pusher, they needed to stay quiet god damn it!

Carrie popped up and went low, then got a small device out of her camel back, placing it on her her wrist, and began to fiddle with it until is started to work. "Ready to get this show on the road? It's been a long freaking time since I've been here, anyone remember where cons kept prisoners on Tidal wave?"

"Uh yes. Follow." the dishwater blonde hot head stood, sounding far too chipper.

"Inferna, this so isn't the place to be pulling out snacks." Megan gave her cousin a flat look as she watched her take some goldfish out of a baggy, after the statement from the temporary group leader, put it back with a pout before returning in her duty on leading the way.

Ty was giving his sister the look of death now. He was fuming internally that she pulled this stunt. "This is also not the place for-"

"Oh...shut up!" Lavi snapped viciously at him as she moved onward. That outburst even took her cousins by surprise. Lavi had her rash moments, just like the rest of her family, but this was way beyond rash now. It was now a single minded purpose to find her sire, and she was throwing all caution to the wind. And she had the most to lose.

"Lavi!" Ty hissed at her in a hoarse whisper, his own frustration and worry getting to him.

She wasn't helping when she didn't even slow, but she did take a moment to flip her brother off. "I'm going to find my father!"

Ari watched with her lips pursed in thought at the older turtle girl. "She is so taking after Aunt Vic right now..."

Ty fixed his glare on her next.

"And you're Uncle Leo." Ari grinned at him.

Thane rolled his eyes, then gave both a decent push to get them moving. "Just go! Before we lose sight of her!"

Maranda stopped, and ever so casually, not to mention very quickly, knocked out a guard without anything so much of a peep out of him, she pried open a shipping crate, threw him in as if he was just dirty laundry, then kept moving, leading the way, humming lightly. "Got that one song by Alice in chains stuck in my head. Good song."

"You are too fucking cheerful." Thane grumbled at Maranda, his patience obviously starting to wear thin...what little of it he had.

"And you aren't cheerful enough." Ari deadpanned back, a small smile on her face as she watched her aggravated cousin. Gleefully taking pleasure in his annoyance.

That earned her a glare from him. Lots of males glaring going on today it seemed. "Maybe I would be if my dad hadn't been hijacked and turned into the local destruction crew. You may not care about your dad, but I care about mine."

That actually made Ari stop a moment, her face now sad and hurt as she said quietly. "Of course I care about him...but that doesn't mean he would want us all to worry like we have been. Especially not Lavi."

The lavender banded teen just clenched her jaw and kept moving. Refusing to be dissuaded from her task. The NEST girls even stopped for a moment to look at him disapprovingly.

"I don't know if it's just a theory, but I'm going to say your main mode is: 'Stick in the mud mode' mini minion." Maranda muttered to him.

Bailey walked alongside Thane and Ari. "If you aren't using your worry as ass biting motivation, and merely using it to be scared and nervous, or irritated, you're using that emotion incorrectly. Ari is right, they wouldn't want you to worry, hell, they probably wouldn't want you to even go after them. So save them the emotion since you are family and will be going after them anyway."

"Yeah, they already don't want you to come get them, do at least one thing they wanted from you, because coming for them is out of the question" Clayshah added, still focused on the contraption on her wrist as she walked.

"I think I remember where you're going, there's a door right here" Megan moved a crate over and there, right there, a trap door. This is why the fire and water girls were leading, not because of leadership skills alone, or even fighting skills, but because these mofos had the best sense of direction and remembered shit like this. The blue eyed blonde pulled open the wooden door and led the way in, followed by Maranda, who just grabbed the sides of the ladder and slid down in mere seconds.

Carrie and Bailey followed to ensure the coast was clear, they knew the teens were fully capable but secretly, they were all worried about Lavi, girl was pregnant after all. They fanned out in a big hallway, Maranda kept going, leading the way

The teens followed, Ty still glaring at Lavi and she was still ignoring him.

"Cuz, you might as well just give it up." Dante mumbled to Lavi's brother quietly. "It's too late to send her back now anyway."

Ty finally gave in, rubbing his face in frustration as he did. "Yeah...I know." A quiet sigh filled the air as he let his anger go. It wouldn't do any good here anyway. Lavi wasn't going to stop until she found their father.

Megan fell back a little, letting Inferna continue to lead as she took a right down the hall and kept running. Megan lightly tapped Ty's arm to get his attention, she looked at Lavi who was further up ahead, trailing her cousin. "We'll keep her safe. Promise." Yes the Hydro knew it didn't look or sound sincere with her constant emotionless expression and broken voice, but she promised it, and she was hell bent on keeping her promise, especially when babies were involved.

"Ok, here is the hallway for prisoners, and I feel as though that door is the one we need to get through..." She popped another goldfish cracker into her mouth. "Uh, yeah, large ass metal door that had about 6 or 7 vehicons surrounding it? At the very minimum that was a safe place to start searching, just a hunch though. I have an idear, everyone get up high, this will solve a few problems." And there she goes again with that scary, devilish gleam in her eye as she rubbed her hands together gleefully.

Thane raised a ridge at her way too happy expression. "Oh lord...what did we get ourselves into..."

"A big mess?" Dante replied before the teens all did what was asked of them and climbed the walls to hide in the rafters.

Maranda whistled a tune, running near the Steves, planting several bombs strategically, before scaling her way up a wall up to sit next to the teens, nodding at Dante. "Sup." She sat on a support beam with her feet dangling off of the edge, goes to her wrist where a watch looking object was, then hit a button. All the Steves but one blew the hell up, the very last one blew up, but it was different, more controlled somehow, his body flew towards a wall where another bomb went off, shooting him to another wall where another bomb sat ready, and then that one shot him off towards the ground, where yet another one shot him off into the cell door, that guy offlined twice somehow it was such an overkill.

"How many freaking bombs do you have!" Carrie was laughing really hard with Maranda.

"Too many, apparently." Megan looked more irritated than anything. But she was used to her crazy pyromancer cousin

The boys just stared at her like she was fucking crazy. They probably weren't too far off the mark either. Ari was the only one who thought it was hilariously funny as her laughter echoed out in the corridor. She was laughing so hard she almost slipped off the beam she was sitting on.

Maranda got down to the ground, stepping into the cell, laughing her ass off at the popcorn Steve. "Eat your heart out Wheeljack! Those were strategic explosions! Oh hey, turtles." She looked a little agitated at what she saw, but the emotion was quickly covered up. Not only were they chained by their wrists to the walls, but chains also crisscrossed all over their bodies, arms and legs. Every section of their bodies had a chain holding them against the wall. But what had to be the most undignified thing was the damn collars around their necks. "Oof, really badly chained up turtles." Maranda winced and walked in.

"Speaking of Wheeljack, I am going to be testing out one of his inventions since he isn't on the field. Some weird GPS to make things easier on the field for noobies when they run for their life" Carrie announced after she got down from the support beam to look at the turtles.

"They have been exposed to those chaos crystal collars for too long. we need to break them free." Yeah, NEST girls have been there done that, just different time and place.

"Do you think they could wait until Vicky gets here with the other ladies?" Bailey asked hopefully. It would be much more simple for them to pop up and use the new bond to get through to them when they were weakened physically and mentally from the chaos crystal, but at the same time, she knew how that shit felt, and if they didn't get them away from it quickly, it wouldn't be good for them.

Megan shook her head. "There are bound to be enemies on the way, between Bishop goons, cons, and Tidal wave, we need to move now." Megan knew what a transformation was like. Not the same exact one the ladies were going through, hers hurt more since she had rank in the gods. But they wouldn't have time to go through the transformation and recover enough to get to their feet and get their mind working in time for them to get the turtles.

"So we set them free" Maranda decided.

Lavi didn't take what she was seeing to well. She looked them all over, tears flowing down her face as they hung limp in their confinement. Again she slapped Ty's hand away before she ran into the room to Leo. "Daddy!" Her hand reached out to lift his head gently, and it moved limp under her hand. His eyes didn't even open.

Lavi wiped her tears away and began to try and unhook him. "Daddy, it's ok. We're here. We are going to take you home. I can't get these damn things open!" She jerked on the chains in frustration, tears trying to slide down her face again. And because of that she missed Leo's hand move ever so slightly towards her as if he was trying to reassure his daughter everything would be ok before it grew still again.

The rest of the worried children also began to move closer, eyeing the chains with anger.

"Guys, hold up." Carrie finished programming the GPS thingy, then gently nudged the turtle tots away from their fathers back towards the door. Which, despite the heart wrenching situation, was kind of funny. This was a 4'9 midget being motherly to turtle children about 2-3 times her size. "The second they are released they are going to regain enough strength to use their abilities again-" she urged.

In the background, Maranda confronted the turtles, pulling her sword out. As Carrie continued to ramble, Maranda's sword began to glow red to match her ability aura, she looked at the cuffs as if she was a golfer about to take a swing at a ball.

"So we will need to go about this very strategically-" Carrie proceed in rambling.

Maranda went into fruit ninja mode, slashing apart all the cuffs. Now not being held up by the restraints anymore, the bodies slumped to the floor.

"What we can do is-" Carrie immediately stopped her ramble, She just knew, not by the sounds or anything, it was more of a sixth sense that her idiot cousin just freaking did something. "Please tell me you didn't just release beings, that can turn into very large dragons, while we are all in a very confined space, in the middle of the ocean."

Maranda walked back to the group. eating pork. Crap, if it wasn't explosive, or any other weapons, it was food in her bag. She slid her sword back into the sheath after she dispersed the energy, walking up to Carrie, then turned to look at the turtles/the work she did to the chains in such a short amount of time.

They were still lying almost motionless on the floor, until their eyes suddenly snapped open. And they were all glowing brightly but they still had that flat, distant look in them.

Ty took that all in with a single glance and knew exactly what was about to happen. "Oh no..."

Soon after the glow began to encompass their whole bodies.

Ty just gave up on trying to talk to Lavi and just resorted to dragging her out the damn door.

"Shit!" Thane exclaimed as the glow brightened, then he began to help Ty push Lavi out the damn door.

They had just cleared the frame when the first sounds of metal creaking and snapping filled the confined space, and there were parts of the ship starting to fall as the large dragon frames began to bend the ship frame around them.

Ari looked at Maranda before she said in a calm tone. "That might not have been the best idea." Then she turned and ran, following her cousins.

Maranda watched the changing turtles intently. "Shit." Her cousins watched her, surprised, for her to get uneasy was a very rare sight. "I forgot the poppy seeds for my pork. This saddens me." Ah, there was their dumb ass cousin. Carrie grabbed her arm and moved out the door with her.

"Just shut the fuck up and run..." Bailey and Megan followed the earth NEST girl and the already running teens out the door.