***Thanks for all the amazing reviews. You guys are awesome and have some really good guesses, but does anyone remember in chapter one when I was mixing Transformer comic book characters in, with Transformers Prime. Kind of a free for all of characters. Like the DJD for example. Well time to find out who stepped in to help.
***Um also if you notice in Transformers Prime Smokescreen's main color became blue, but I'm sure he'll be making an appearance in here somewhere very soon, I promise.
Chapter 5: Family With Fangs
"Oh hell no," the mech said as he stared down the edge of the cliff, "Not to sound rude, but isn't there a simpler way down."
"Afraid of heights?" asked Predaking.
"No, I just like my spark in tack thank you very much," the bot shot back as he continued to look down.
"It's fine. Sixgill and Thresher dive off here all the time. The water's deep enough," Amber called up to the arguing mechs, "Sixgill is at least twice your size …. Um?"
"Drift," the mech said his name realizing the human was speaking to him.
"Drift, what I was saying is Sixgill is at least twice your size and he has no problem with it," she said as the sounds of the Decepticons coming sounded closer, "And judging by the sounds and curse words I hear we don't have much of an option."
"She's right," Predaking said looking back in the direction of the sounds. Drift looked down a deep intake of air, "Fine."
Considering the opinions and the more lethal option closing in Drift ran forward and jumped. He felt the water swallow him and the human in his hand. He knew humans needed air and getting back to the surface was important.
At the surface he looked down to see Amber waving to him to follow her. No having a choice he did. He never really swam before. To his shock he saw Predaking in his beast mode beside him. Before he could ask the predacon why he didn't just fly away, he felt something sharp stab him in the leg and viciously yanked him under.
"What the fu…," was all Drift said before he got dragged under.
Amber turned around just in time to see the mech get dragged under. Before diving down herself she shouted to Predaking, "If your go swim a bit further there's a cave you can hide in."
The dragon just gave her a snort and glided past her in the water. She dived down just in time to see her worst fear; Sixgill had Drift's leg from the knee down in his mouth and was violently threshing him around. The predacon only stopped when he saw her swim down to them. She gave her brother's nose a tap and shook her head, trying to tell Sixgill to let go. Thankfully he did so.
Turning his attention from the white mech and to his sister, Sixgill immediately swim to her and pushed her gently towards the surface, with the mech in toe. He wasn't sure what to think of him. Sixgill got Thresher's shadow at the corner of his optic. His brother kept his distance and was probably wondering why Sixgill didn't kill the mech swimming up to the surface next to him.
"Sixgill. Thresher. This is Drift he's a friend," Amber quickly told the two predacons.
"Well Drift. I was wondering when we'd run into you," a familiar voice called from above. Chills ran down Amber's spine as she recognized the voice. Looking up, sure enough it was Tarn. She looked over to see horror expressed on Drift's face.
"Go away!" Sixgill suddenly shouted. Sounding fed up with the Decepticons presents in their home. The sound of shifting caught everyone's attention, because Sixgill did something Amber rarely seen him or Thresher do; he transformed into his robot mode. Anger was clearly expressed on his face as he transformed his hand into a cannon and rose himself out to the water and fired at the D.J.D. leader.
Drift stared in disbelief at the predacon. He'd seen Predaking transform, but nothing like this shark predacon. He didn't need to ask to see that he was pissed off.
"Come," the large shark predacon suddenly ordered them. He didn't transform back. Drift knowtist that the predacon didn't have legs, but he still had his shark tail.
****Back At The Cliff****
"What the hell was that?" yelled Tesarus to Tarn as he and the rest of the D.J.D. reached their leader.
"Our job just got complicated," he said as he stared at where the predacon's blast hit, which resulted in a piece of the cliff collapsing into the ocean.
"Is that from…." Kaon started asking.
"Predaking, no. This was from the larger of those two sharks," Tarn said as he knelt down and examined the scorched ground, "And in top of that a popular bot on our list showed up."
"Who?"
"Drift. He's with the two predacons now," Tarn said standing back up, "Meaning both him and that little human now have protection that's going to be hard to beat. Especially since we can confirm that they can transform."
"We should inform Shockwave," Kaon said.
"Agreed."
****A Cave Off The Coast****
Entering the cave Drift saw an unbelievable sight. Energon crystals grew like crazy from the shore line and up the walls of the cave. The cave glowed from the Energon's energy showing.
"That was two close," Drift said as he sat down, tired from the swim. His leg ached from the bite that the larger of the two sharks given him. He watched Sixgill pace back and forth. His fin had split into two legs. The other one had transformed as well to be close to his brother and the human, who now sat on his shoulder. Predaking finally spoke, "Tell me. How did you two get here?"
"We've always been here," the larger of the two said after a moment of silence. Clearly still ticked over what happened.
"I think Optimus and the other Autobots would have found you before now," Drift cut in.
"Or the Decepticons. Especially if Shockwave cloned you. Like they did me," Predaking added shooting Drift a look.
"We weren't cloned, at least as far as we remember. Plus the depts that we can dive to can hide out spark signal. The caves on this island do a good job of hiding us too," Sixgill said giving Amber and Thresher a gentle look.
"So….Um…?"
"Amber," Amber introduced herself when Drift seemed to try asking her question.
"Amber, you called these two your brothers and from I've seen and felt so far I have to know," Drift asked as he rubbed his leg.
"I second that," Predaking added in.
"May I?" Sixgill looked over at Amber.
"Go ahead. I think they've earned the right to know," Amber said with a small smile. Drift could see these three seemed to have a strong bond.
"It was few years ago, during the storm season here. All remember is that it was dark; the scent of blood brought us up from the darkness. When we reached the surface the waters where calm, there were a couple of boats out on the ocean. One was her parents' boat the others, to put it simply didn't belong. When we got closer, I saw her hanging at the side of the one boat, a wound to her side and fear in her eyes like none I've ever seen," Sixgill explained to Drift and Predaking.
"Of course I was scared I had a bullet wound in my side and two giant mechanical sharks circling me," Amber pointed out.
"True," Sixgill continued, "We then heard gun shots and saw two bodies fall in the water. The one who shot them, at least I assume so, looked over the side that she was on. Push came to shove on our judgment and I decided to jump up and grab him and drag him under. Thresher attacked the strange boats and demolished them. Those that didn't drown or killed by other sharks, we killed. We've been together ever since."
"Why didn't you kill Amber?" Drift could help to ask after hearing how the trio met.
"She didn't deserve it and because she was like us," Sixgill said, "She had no one after that. No home. Why not take her in?"
Drift looked over at human as she sat on the smaller predacon's shoulder. He then looked over at Predaking, who looked speechless after hearing of what the sharks had done. Sixgill broke his train of thought when he added, "Granted since then, we've added the local sharks in our pack to help keep an eye on things."
"Useful. Smart move," Predaking commented.
Sixgill got everyone's attention suddenly when he scrapped his claws against a piece of energon that was growing from the ground that was under the ocean water a little; then walked over to Drift. Revealing a light teal gel like substance. He knelt down and spoke, "Let me see your leg."
"What are you going to do?"
"Fix you."
Looking at the substance on the shark's claws, Drift had to ask, "What is that?"
"It's a gel that forms on energon crystals that grow in ocean water. It has the ability to heal wounds almost instantly, depending on the wound. Something unique in it allows it works of both technical beings and organics," Amber answered for Sixgill. Drift looked back at Sixgill, who didn't seem to mind the explanation done for him. He allowed Sixgill to rub the gel substance into the bite wound that the predacon gave him earlier. It felt tingling, but warm. He suddenly started to get really tired.
"I feel weird," Drift said rubbing his helm.
"That's natural. The gel puts your body to sleep so it can heal your wound probably," Sixgill said as he walked away, "In fact sleep sounds like a good idea. We may not get another chance to rest well like this for a while."
"Sounds good to me," Thresher spoke up, agreeing with his brother.
"You both are welcome to rest here," Sixgill said as he headed back into the ocean water.
"What about the Decepticons?" Predaking asked.
"They can try to find us if they want. They won't find it an easy task and even harder trying not to wake me well I'm in the water," Sixgill explained turning back and transformed back into his beast mode and dived back into the depts. Thresher decided to stay with Amber.
Drift let himself drift off as he watched Predaking transform back to his dragon mode and laided down and closed his optics. Amber and Thresher seemed to be settled in. Drift still felt edging after seeing Tarn, but he felt safe here. His thoughts were scattered till recharge took over.
***Well I hope you all love the new chapter. Let me know if Drift's personality is off at all. This is my first time using him in a story. I love Drift and wanted to use him in a fanfic. For all those who wanted it to me Smokescreen, don't worry I'm sure he'll be in here. Let me know what you think.
