The Bond of Master and Servant
Author's Note: Wow! 17 Favs and 12 Follows! I'm happy you all liked it! :D
Vodid: Thank you for your review! I thought it was spelled "Lacon" all this time. I dun goofed. xD And now I know to leave the story here on the Transformers section. Thank you again. Vodid if you look closely there's breaks in the fic that determines the Point of View. It's in the form of dots. "..." And I never heard of the Zephyr car, she's named after the goddess of wind. Speaking of cars, Zephyr is a four door Jaguar XF sportscar. The F-types and others didn't suit well with me. Sorry if I didn't explain it throughly! *gives two cookies*
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Chapter 3: Hiding in Plain Sight
~Flashback~
(Thoughts)
=Speaking Cybertronian=
::Comlink::
~ "Get him Zephyr! Get him!"
The MechaPanther Zephyr was currently in battle with the Decepticon Ravage. She hated the other panther with a passion. Ravage was the one that attacked her Master and gave him the scar on his right optic. Ironhide watched the battle on the sidelines cheering for her.
"Hahaha! You got him on the run girl! Kick his aft!"
Zephyr snarled and pounced on his back, using her claws to shred his outer armor and revaling the senitive wriring inside. She opened her mouth as long sharp fangs pierced the other's tender wiring on the back. Ravage roared in pain as energon flowed from the wound and collasped to the ground, but not before using his bladed tail to slice Zephyr's paw open. She growled and lept off of the MechaPanther. Purple energon slowly dribbled out of her open wound but she didn't care. She was too focused on her prey in front of her to feel anything. Ironhide grinned when Ravage slowly got up only to fall back down again.
"What's wrong Ravage?! Can't get up you afthole?!"
Ravage got back up and glared at them with his one red optic. He was too injured to keep fighting and his guns were disabled during the fight. He growled and started to limp away. Ironhide saw Zephyr licking her injured paw and yelled at her.
"Treat your paw later! Kill the damn fragger before he escapes!"
Zephyr looked up and saw Ravage slowly limping off. She roared and charged at the other feline, tackling him to the ground and proceding to rip off more of his armor and shredding his chassis. Since Zephyr was larger she had the advantage over him. Ravage was yowling in pain and tried his best to escape his attacker. Zephyr slashed open his Spark Chamber and began to crush the glowing red orb when she felt herself being picked up and thrown on the ground. She quickly got up and saw the one who threw her.
"Soundwave..." She growled out. Whenever she spoke she was pissed. Soundwave heard his name being called and stared at her with his emotionless expression. Ironhide ran over to his companion and actviated his Plasma Cannon, aiming it at the other Decepticon. Soundwave didn't pay him no mind as he gently picked up Ravage and used his long tentacle to heal him. The cyclonic panther whimpered and nuzzled him. "You will feel better soon Ravage... Get some rest..." Soundwave then put him in one of his Symbiote chambers and turned around, blankly staring at the Autobot in front of him.
"Ironhide... You and Zephyr will pay for damaging my pet..."
"Frag you and your damn pet!" Ironhide shot at him only for Soundwave to dodge the attack. Soundwave fired off his own weapon but frowned when the Autobots dodged it. Not feeling up to a fight against the Weapons Specialist, he turned around and used his cloaking device to disappear. Zephyr snarled and ran to attack him but stopped when Ironhide grabbed her tails.
"That's enough, he's too strong for ya. Let's go." Zephyr began to protest when Ironhide lifted her up and carried her back to the Ark. She snarled and bit down on his shoulder, letting him know that she wanted to fight. The black Mech gently hit her on her back.
"Stop that! As much as you want to keep fighting, I can't let you. You have a few deep cuts and a bad gash on your paw. Don't worry about Soundwave we'll get them."
Zephyr huffed and pouted. She wanted to keep fighting but orders are orders. She had to obey her Master. She stared out in the distance and bared her teeth, she'll get the fragger and kill him one day. ~
Zephyr woke up and opened her doors stretching them, she yawned loudly and shifted her tires. Looking around she noticed it was nighttime, around 10:00pm. Scanning the area, she saw that no humans were around so she transformed into her Panther form. Her four door-wings twitched a little. One pair sat on her shoulders while the other pair sat on her upper thighs. Her black and red armor gleamed in the artificial lighting as she walked around the park. Zephyr wasn't worried about someone seeing her, her paint job made her hard to see in the dark. Even with her red jagged stripes covering her black armor she'll be pretty hard to spot. She continued walking and noticed a round object the size of her paw. It had black spots and was filled with air.
(Hm... This must be one of those "Soccer Balls" I've heard about.)
She gently tapped it and watched it roll a few feet. She tapped it again, this time a little harder and it rolled into a huge barrel lying on its side. "Rrow?" She walked up to the barrel and moved it with her paw, the ball rolled out and stopped by a bush. Zephyr tilted her head. She didn't understand why something like this would be fun for humans to play with. She smacked the ball and watched as it bounced off a tree, off a light pole, and onto her nose. She shook her head and looked at the toy in bewilderment. Her golden-yellow optics widened as she slapped it again, this time hitting a wall and rolling back to her paws. She wagged her twin-tails and began playing with the air-filled ball. She snickered when she caught it between her paws and gently bit it. (Okay, this Earth toy is fun to play with.) She bit it again, snarling happily as she played with the ball. For a while the Mechapanther played with her new toy, mewing happily like a little kitten. Zephyr smacked the ball with her tail, making it roll across the Park. She chased it and bit it a little too roughly as air started flowing out. Her ears flattened as the ball slowly deflated. Groaning, she poked at it with her paw. (Aww... It popped... And I was having fun too.) She shrugged and walked away. She opened her personal com-link with her Master but the only sound that came through was static. Her Master was there, something was blocking the signal to prevent her from calling out to him. She sighed and looked around to find something else to do. She'll try calling later.
Zephyr didn't notice someone watching her behind some trees. It saw Zephyr playing with the earth toy and quietly snarled before it disappeared. It couldn't attack yet even if it wanted to. It's primary objective comes first.
...
Ironhide returned to base, transformed and headed to the communications room. He saw Jazz looking up on the monitor typing away at something. He walked up to him and stared at the monitor screen. "Hey... You found her yet?"
Jazz shook his helm and kept typing away. "Not yet. But I found something else. Look." Jazz pulled up some video footage of a street in Downtown Tranquility. Ironhide watched for a few minutes when a black car with red stripes drove past. Seconds later another car with the same paintjob drove out of a dirt road and sped off, almost hitting two other cars driving past. Jazz stopped the video and rewinded it so the second car was in view. Then he zoomed in and enhanced it so they could see it clearer. "This footage was taken a week ago by a street camera. Notice anything different about that car?" Ironhide looked closer and saw the Autobot symbol on it. It was hard to see but it was there. It blended in with the red and black colors. Ironhide smiled. The Autobot symbol is usually a bright blue so everyone could see it. Since this one blended in with the car's paint he knew what Autobot that was.
"It's her. That's Zephyr all right."
Jazz tilted his helm and looked back at the screen. "How can you tell? Sure it has the Autobot symbol but it's suspossed to be blue, not blended in so we can't see it."
"I know. I purposely made it like that so Decepticons wouldn't look twice." He looked at Jazz. "Remember we had that mission to save those kidnapped Sparklings from Starscream?"
"Yeah. I remember."
"I made Zephyr pretend to betray me and had her join them so we could save those Sparklings. I made her Autobot symbol blend in so they wouldn't see it."
Jazz stared at a grinning Ironhide. He remembered him saying something that day about how Zephyr joined the Decepticons only to find out that it was all a ruse to save the Sparklings. He never changed her Autobot symbol back to its original color either. "So... that's truly her?" The black Mech nodded and looked back up on the screen. "That's my pet Zephyr. Primus we finally found her..."
"Wait, hold up. Here's sumthing' I don't get. If she's been here for a Earth week why hasn't she tried to contact us? And more importantly, why hasn't those guys at NASA alerted us to her entry?" Jazz asked. Ironhide crossed his arms and thought back to a week ago, he remembered Optimus saying something about how NASA's systems were shut down temporary for three hours. Zephyr must've arrived when the systems were down. "I think I know how she came here without us noticing."
"Alright, how?"
"Optimus told us that NASA's systems were down for a while. With them down, they wouldn't have detected her entry to Earth."
Jazz processed this and nodded. It made sense that they wouldn't be able to detect her presence on entry. But one thing bothered the SIC. "Okay, so Zephyr's somewhere in this city lookin' for ya. NASA's Energon Locator still would've picked up on a signal even if a protoform landed 20 minutes prior." He tapped on his desk as he looked up on screen. "But... it didn't. Hide' sumthing's up with that." Ironhide frowned. It didn't make sense now that he thought about it. The humans at NASA got their machine running within 3 hours. The Energon Locator would've picked up on Zephyr's locaton seconds after rebooting. Even if she tried to hide her energy it still would locate her. Unless...
"Jazz search for any Decepticon activity during the past week."
"Why?"
"Because we haven't had any attacks for that whole week."
Jazz optics narrowed and he quickly searched for any active Decepticons for the past week. He searched the airwaves, the news, even the satellites currently in orbit. What he found minutes later was disturbing. "Ohh slag..."
"What?"
"You are not going to like this... I detected a virus in the Energon Locator at NASA and it's programmed to shut down all of their equipment at a certain time, which was three hours." Ironhide leaned forward and looked on the smaller computer Jazz was typing on. The SIC didn't say anything for a few minutes and turned to stare at Ironhide, anger in his optics. "Ironhide. Four Decepticons landed within 30 minutes when the Energon Locator shut off. Two hours later is when Zephyr arrived. That virus not only shut down NASA's equipment but prevented the Locater from detecting any other Cybertronian signal. Not only that I think it screwed up the Autobot signal Optimus sent out a few months ago! That's why Zephyr hasn't called us, it's fragging up her com-link and the damn thing is still active! The humans don't even know it!"
This was bad. Somehow the Decepticons managed to shut down their Energon Locator. And it hasn't been able to detect any Cybertonians the minute it rebooted thanks to the virus. One question is how did they know where the Locator was? It was hidden deep in NASA's laboratory and covered with a special barrier that Wheeljack invented. Ironhide slowly spun his cannons. This was not good. "Do you have any video footage of them landing?" Jazz shook his helm. "No. Three satellites that detect movement in the atmosphere didn't record anything. Wait a sec..." He began typing and brought up one of the satellite's recordings from a week ago. After hastily reviewing almost 168 hours of video footage within 20 seconds he stopped part of the video and rewinded it. He played it on the big screen for Ironhide to see and he face palmed. Out of all the Decepticons to arrive it had to be them.
"Oh frag no..."
Jazz saved up everything he found and activated his com-link, he spoke in Cybertronian over the com. =::All Autobots report to the main Communications Room! I don't care if ya'll are rechargin' or interfacin' get your lazy afts up and report to the Communications room NOW! This is URGENT! I repeat: URGENT!::=
After he sent out the call he looked at Ironhide and noticed his cannons were spinning slightly faster. Jazz put his hand on his arm to calm him down. "I know Hide', I'm pissed off too. I mean, they've been here under our noses the whole time and we didn't even notice! Damn fraggers!" The black Mech kept staring at the screen in disbelief and anger. But he was happy because of one thing; if they hadn't found Zephyr, they wouldn't have noticed what was going on before it was too late. "I hope Zephyr finds us soon. We need her right now."
"Yeah... Hey, these satellites recorded all of this a week ago. But something prevented them from sending the footage. I bet ya it's that virus." said Jazz.
"So they not only infected the Locator they also infected those tracking satellites... Slag..." Ironhide closed his optics and rubbed his temples in frustration. He knew one Decepticon that could've done all of that, and they're all hiding on earth somewhere. Soon all of the Autobots arrived in the room. Optimus Prime, Ratchet, Bumblebee, Wheeljack, The Chevy twins Skids and Mudflap, the Lamborghini twins Sideswipe and Sunstreaker and the Bike triplets Arcee, Flareup and Moonracer. Skids and Mudflap groaned as they rubbed their tired optics.
"Damn Jazz... Why you gotta wake us up?"
"I was havin' a nice dream too... Some sexy Femme was puttin' da moves on me."
Skids punched his brother's arm. "Don't nobody want to hear dat man."
Mudflap punched him back on the arm. "You just jealous mang."
Skids shoved him. "Of what? Your imaginary Femme that won't give ya none little spike?"
"Don't call me little spike!" Mudflap shoved him back and squeaked when Skids tackled him. "Or what Afthead!?" The Chevy twins started fighting as usual. Bumblebee grabbed both of them, knocked their heads together and dropped them on the floor. He shook his head and sat in one of the chairs in the room. The Bike sisters snickered at them as they got up. "That hurt Bee." said Mudflap. "Bee you cold." said Skids.
"I got woken up by a screaming Pontiac... In my audio receptors... Just when I'm in a deep recharge so DON'T START WITH ME!"
Everyone looked at the Camaro then at the Chevy Twins who looked shocked to see him like that. Sideswipe laughed and Sunstreaker shook his helm, saying how dumb the Chevy twins are. Wheeljack leaned in and whispered to Ratchet. "Wow, Sleepy Bee is a cranky Bee."
"You got that right..." said Ratchet.
Jazz chuckled a little and scratched the back of his helm. "Ehehe... Um... Sorry Bumblebee. I had to wake everyone up because of what me an' Ironhide found." Bumblebee shrugged and muttered a 'whatever'. Optimus looked at Jazz and spoke up. "What did you two find?" Everyone had their attention on the two Autobots. Ironhide sighed through his vents and pressed a button on the keyboard, a video showed on screen showing what he and Jazz saw earlier.
"Something you all aren't going to like..."
AN: DUN DUN DUNNN! I'm a prick for leaving it like this, so sorry! XD So! What else did Jazz and Ironhide find on their search? What was the creepy thing stalking Zephyr? Who are the 4 mysterious Decepticons? And why is Skids and Mudflap holding my cookies hostage?! (O.O) Next time on Fanfiction Z!
Skids: "We ain't holdn' notin' hostage!"
Mudflap: *eats cookies* "Deez good mang!"
Skids: "Yea they are! Ay OtakuGirl! You got any more?!"
Me: YOU BUTTWIPES! THOSE ARE MY COOKIES! *runs with a metal bat* KIIIYAAA!
Mudflap: "OH SHIT!" *grabs the cookies and runs* "RUN MY NIGGA! RUN!"
Skids: *runs behind him* "DON'T LEAVE ME FOR NO WHOOP-ASS MAN!"
(They'll probably be alive next chapter... (- 3-) )