Chapter Four
Raincloud's anger grew slightly as she watched the mech continue to fire and hearing the crashes as the two Decepticons hit the ground. "I can handle this myself." She said annoyed.
"Sure…you were going to talk them into defeat." Magnus said as he landed and deactivated his jet pack.
Raincloud growled, "I was doing just fine thank you very much."
"Not from where I was."
Raincloud folded her arms in annoyance, how was it that this mech was able to get between her circuitry so quickly. "Well, since you seem to have spoilt my fun here I think I'll just go and stop the rest of the Decepticons from taking that energy." She walked past him as he grabbed her arm.
"You stay here, you'll only get in the way. I'll stop the Decepticons." He said transforming and heading off towards the old temple.
"Scourge, Ultra Magnus is…" but Ro-Tor never got to finish as Raincloud shot his communications then transformed and followed Ultra Magnus. He looked over at his team-mate "I think you over did it with the comments, Armourhide."
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"Just who the hell do you think you are telling me that I'm no good on the battlefield." Raincloud said as she caught up with Ultra Magnus, although her voice was back to its original calmness she was still pretty annoyed.
"The one who saved you back at that power plant." Magnus replied blandly.
"I'll have you know that my fighting ability is as good as any mech's." she retaliated.
"That line may work with Optimus, but it won't work with me." Magnus said. "Femmes only increase the danger on the battlefield, they constantly need saving…"
"Okay that's it!" Raincloud sped off ahead of Ultra Magnus determined to prove him wrong. Only she didn't know that she was about to prove him right instead of wrong.
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Megatron continued to squeeze the life out of Topaz and the only thing the Autobots could do was watch. Suddenly a few blasts hit Megatron in the back making him stumble and letting Topaz go in the process as he got hit by more and more laser fire. Before Topaz could hit the ground Crosswise caught her and got away as fast as he could as the rest of the Autobots also opened fire on Megatron to chase him away. Knowing that he had no chance against the overwhelming number of the Autobots, not having expected the Spychangers would have shown up he fled away as he transformed into his jet mode.
"I will get you for this, you meddling Autobots!" and put his boosters on maximum speed.
"Perfect timing, you guys." X-Brawn said.
"We're just glad we were able to make it on time." Hot Shot said.
Crosswise looked at the bleeding girl in his hands, she needed medical attention. But would it be wise to take her to a human doctor even though she looked -and bled like- a human.
Optimus walked over to Crosswise and looked down at Topaz.
"She needs medical attention, Optimus." Crosswise said looking up at his leader.
Prowl also came over to them and looked at his unconscious and bleeding lover. He wanted to say something but found his vocaliser refused to work.
They all then heard a moan and looked over to see Koji slowly regaining consciousness, with the rest of the Spychangers around him.
"Oh my head." The young boy said as he held his head while he began to sit up.
"You okay, Koji?" REV asked concerned.
"Fine… Soon as the ringing in my ears stop." He replied.
The Spychangers chuckled slightly. Suddenly Koji's eyes went wide and he frantically started to look round for something, forgetting his own problems.
"Topaz! Where's Topaz!" getting up and almost falling back down, Ironhide caught him before he could hit the curb.
"Easy there, Koji." Bringing the boy up to chest level.
"Crosswise has her." Mirage pointed out.
Koji looked over at Mirage and sighed in relief.
"When Megatron showed up, I thought…." He trailed off looking at the other Autobots.
"He nearly did." Side Burn said answering the boy's unanswered question.
"We need to get her some medical attention. Is there anywhere we can take her…" Optimus began.
"Without anyone finding out what she really is?" Crosswise finished.
"I would say hospital but that would probably just raise a lot of questions." Koji said trying to think of other places for her treatment.
Ironhide and the other Spychangers walked over to where the others were. Koji then walked off Ironhide's hand, onto Crosswise's and checked Topaz for her injuries.
"She's not as bad as she looks." he said in slight relief.
"Are you sure?" Hot Shot asked.
He nodded. "Yes. I should be able to take care of her back at my place until she regains consciousness."
"Very well then. Crosswise, you and REV take Koji and Topaz back to his house." Optimus ordered.
"I'm going too." Prowl suddenly said
Optimus looked over at the white police car, Prowl had been so quiet he'd almost forgot he was there. He gave a nod.
As Prowl, Crosswise, and REV drove off Side Burn surprised everyone by asking:
"Do you think Prowl's going to be okay?"
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Inside the temple Scourge, Movar and Mega-Octane searched for the energy.
"Scourge, this is Armourhide. Ultra Magnus and that female Autobot are heading your way."
"Ultra Magnus." Scourge said with hate, as his hands became fists. "Mega-Octane," turning to the Decepticon "Keep those Autopests busy while I get this energy."
"It'll be a pleasure, Scourge." Heading with Movar towards the exit.
Scourge had only been walking on a few more minutes when Megatron contacted him.
"Scourge, have you retrieved the energy yet?"
"I am still looking for it. We've had some…'interference', which is being taken care of right now."
"I need that energy Scourge. Do NOT return without it." Megatron said before closing communication.
"Oh I'll find it alright. And when I do, you'll be the one taking orders… from me." He muttered as he continued on.
When Raincloud got to the temple she barely had time to stop before being shot at by a barrage of laser fire from Rollbar, Movar and Mega-Octane. She spun her wheels trying to avoid the fire. This was a lot easier when there was only two of them that was when Magnus' comment sounded in her head 'femmes…constantly need saving.' I'll show him who needs saving she thought. She drove to the wall that encircled the outside of the old temple and transformed, taking out her gun and began to shoot back.
Laser beams and rockets and all kinds of attacks were shot across in the furious battle that was raging on, when Movar transformed and flew in Raincloud's direction, as soon as he passed the wall he began to shoot lasers at the MG with rapid speed and precision.
She looked up as the first round narrowly missed her. Slag it! She thought as she tried to shoot the shuttle down Where's Spirit when you really need her.
As time went on Raincloud kept focusing more and more on Movar than on the other two Decepticons, so much so that she almost forgot about them. They took advantage of the distraction to move toward her and fire at the unsuspecting femme.
Mega-Octane's shot hit her in the back while Rollbar's simultaneously hit her in her left door wing. She was pushed a few feet by their blasts and fell to the ground as pain seared throughout her systems. She tried to ignore it, especially the scolding pain her door wing was screaming about -which was causing her to nearly be unable to stand up again-. She turned onto her back to see the three Decepticons closing in fast and threatening.
As they got closer and closer aiming their weapons at her ready to shoot her into scrap, the word "Transform!" was shouted by a familiar voice and in that instant the Decepticons were blasted backwards making sure she was out of their reach. She looked over to the one who just helped her knowing who it was and grumbled angrily not wanting him to be right, she was not useless
"As I said," He began coming up beside her "Femmes constantly need saving on the battlefield. And you've just proven my point."
She looked at the mech and just as she thought, there was Ultra Magnus. She gradually got up ignoring all the warnings and pain her systems were screaming at her.
"I do not…" but she never got to finish as she blacked out and offlined.
Ultra Magnus caught her before she hit the ground. "Femmes." He muttered looking back over at the Decepticons as he dragged her away to a safe place.
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Scourge entered the main chamber of the temple, but there was nothing that indicated a power source or any sort of energy. Searching for any indication for the power source he saw a section of the wall glowing dimly from the corner of his optic and turned to face it. Slowly he walked over to it while examining it at the same time before he touched the wall with his hand.
The walls in the room began to glow, he turned around to look at them. The glow eventually got so bright that he had to shield his optics with his arm, before it would become bright enough that it would burn his optics out, it dimmed out quickly.
Scourge put his arm down only to see the room the way it was when he entered. "What?! That's it? All that for a lousy light show!" he looked back at the section of wall but that too had stopped it's dim glow. He growled, "There never was any energy here. It was all a trick." He said angrily as turned and headed for the entrance, all the while muttering that those who set this would pay.