Chapter Five
As Optimus Prime, X-Brawn, Side Burn, Hot Shot, Mirage, Ironhide and WARS arrived at base TAI was looking extremely worried.
"What's wrong TAI?" X-Brawn asked as they all transformed.
"Topaz is going to be fine." WARS said thinking that might be what was bothering her.
"I can't seem to contact Raincloud." She replied though slightly relieved that Topaz was going to be okay. "She was going to check out some Decepticon activity."
"What was her last known location?" Optimus asked.
"She was heading for an old temple in the jungle. My readings indicated a great amount of energy from there which has since disappeared."
Everyone except Optimus looked at each other, hoping that didn't mean what they thought it meant.
"Why would Raincloud try and take on the Decepticons all by herself? Why not call for us?" Side Burn asked breaking the silence that engulfed the room.
"Who says she wasn't spotted by them and tried to get away?" X-Brawn said.
"There's just one thing wrong with that, Bro." Side Burn said.
"What's that?"
"Why hasn't she contacted TAI or why can't we contact her?"
"Could be that her communications got shot." X-Brawn reasoned.
"You both make a good point." Optimus said, "If Raincloud did go up against the Decepticons and managed to get away it's our job to find her."
"We'll go look for her, Optimus." WARS said.
"Right." Hot Shot agreed.
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Raincloud came back online and was immediately aware that she couldn't feel her door wings. She accessed her memories and found that she had offlined shortly after Ultra Magnus' appearance, but that didn't explain why she couldn't 'feel' her door wings. She looked either side and found that they were still there, she just wasn't receiving any data from them. She sat up and looked around, there were trees all around but no temple. Am I in another part of the jungle? How did I get here? She did another check on her 'wings' to see they were still there, not being able to 'feel' them was slightly disorientating.
"I disconnected the link to your door wings." A voice said.
She looked over and crossed her arms only to receive a burning pain in her back. She had been so preoccupied by the 'loss' of her door wings that she had been ignoring all other things that her systems had been telling her. She returned her arms to her side and the burning sensation eased.
"I suppose your going to tell me that I proved your point." She said to Magnus.
"Contact the others." Was all he said before walking off.
"Wait," She called out not trusting her balance if she got up. "My communications were damaged." Finally listening to all her systems were telling her.
"Then you're out of luck. I'm not going to stick around and look after you."
"I didn't say you had to. I just need you to contact Optimus… or TAI and tell them where I am."
Ultra Magnus stopped in his tracks.
"Knowing Optimus, he's probably already sent someone to find you. So I suggest you stay put. Femme."
Raincloud growled inwardly. This was the only mech she'd ever met that was able to get her annoyed so easily, and she didn't like it.
"Look Ultra Magnus, I don't know what your problem is but I need help getting back. I have no communications, I can't transform and no one knows whereabouts I am. So get your head out of your aft and help me you glitch headed mech!"
He turned to her angrily then suddenly smirked.
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The Spychangers had just driven out of the spacebridge and headed in the direction of the temple.
"I bet Magnus is the cause of this." Mirage said.
"What makes you say that?" REV asked. All he and Crosswise knew was that Raincloud was missing, since they were 'helping out' with Topaz.
"Raincloud went to check out some Decepticon activity." Hot Shot answered.
"You remember what she told us?" Ironhide said, then added "About Magnus."
"You don't think she would fight the Decepticons just to prove Magnus wrong, do you?" Crosswise asked.
"It's possible." Mirage replied thinking back to what happened when he and Raincloud 'rescued' Prowl and Freespirit.
"How's Topaz doing?" Hot Shot asked deciding it best to change the subject.
"Koji said that she should be fine. A couple of days and she should be up and about." REV answered.
"That's good to hear." Ironhide said.
"It's Prowl I think we should be worried about." Crosswise suddenly said.
"Prowl?" WARS asked.
"You do remember what Topaz is to Prowl, don't you WARS?" Crosswise said to his team-mate.
"Perhaps you should say Freespirit, it might be easier for WARS to understand." REV joked teasing his team-mate.
WARS grumbled something incoherent and the rest of the Spychangers chuckled. They soon reached the temple and transformed.
"Let see if we can find anything that will tell us what happened to Rain." Hot Shot said.
"Right." Came a unisoned reply.
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"I told you NOT to return without that energy, Scourge." Megatron said.
"The energy in that temple was a trick, Megatron. There was no energy just a lousy light show." Scourge replied.
"Light show? Explain, Scourge."
"When I entered the main chamber I could see nothing that indicated a power source." Scourge began. "I then saw a dim glow from a section of the wall, I went over to examine it. When I touched it there was a glow that got so bright I had to shield my optics from it, it faded quickly after that."
"You fool!" Megatron shouted "You let the energy escape!"