DISCLAIMER: FOUND ON THE FIRST CHAPTER BUT I WILL SAY IT AGAIN I DO NOT OWN TRANSFORMERS THEY BELONG TO HASBRO AND TAKARA ALONG WITH PARAMOUNT PICTURES. HOWEVER I DO OWN THE PAKELE FAMILY, THE DECEPTIBOTS AND LEDARAS OWNS KEKOA.
A/n: I apologize to my readers about my lateness I was very busy lately with work and some new art projects that came up. The latest is that my boss requested that I design some aprons for some big shots coming in from the mainland and he wanted to give them a Hawaiian theme. Well I did design what I wanted but have not put them on apron yet.
The other was a request from Crooked to draw her character Iris as a transformer since in the end she did change her form into one. Well that and the second picture by same person of Starscream and Iris's wedding. My last project is to draw all my coworkers with elemental bending clothes like those on Avatar the Last Airbender.
Anyhow sorry for the wait here is the next chapter on TLCOC
THE LOST CHILDREN OF CYBERTRON
Chapter 22: Special Delivery
Cybertron
"What do you mean that the scouting unit has not returned?" said a very angry Sideways as he glared at the nearest of the Unicronians.
"That is exactly what happened sir we sent a total of six scouts after the Nemesis and none have returned." Said the Unicronian soldier in front of him.
Sideways was not convinced but he stood there glaring at the soldier. It was then that heavy footsteps could be heard and he turned quickly to face his leader. Galvatron stood in all his glory silver plating gleamed in the lights of the city. Eternal night is the fate of Cybertron as the sun of this planet had never existed. Darkness always envelops the city in its eternal caress as the leader of the Unicronians moved out.
"What is the meaning of this," Galvatron demanded as he walked towards Sideways.
"Sorry sir but this soldier here claims that something happened to the scouting unit that went after the Nemesis," said Sideways.
"Really now," Galvatron explained
"Report!" was what Sideways ordered
"Sir we received a transmission from the scouting unit before their disappearance Starscream is alive and now on Earth. The Autobots and Decepticons could not find him though before the ship crashed. The only thing they found when they went to the ship was this," he said producing two halo forms of two unknown transformers.
Both of them were Autobots by the insignia on their wings. The only difference was that they did not appear on the Cybertronian registers as any of the transformers they remember.
"Did the Allspark create anything when on earth sir?" Sideways asked his master.
"At Mission City no not those two that I remember they were mostly Earthen ground vehicles or other tidbits of technology…no these are not of earth they are definitely Cybertronian." Galvatron said his mind in deep thought as he stared out towards the roof.
"This is disturbing news, what about Starscream what is his status?" Galvatron demanded
"He is not found sir and he was not amongst those that escaped," said the scout.
Now this news pleased Galvatron, "They have abandoned him?" he said and the scout kept his head bowed low,
"Yes sir,"
"Then we shall head to this planet called Earth and destroy the last vintage that has my master trapped. We will destroy the Matrix and with it gone so will our master be free once more," with that Galvatron turned to head out.
"Gather the armies we make for Earth in 3 cycles,"
---PAKELE RESIDENCE HAWAII---
Music blared as Lori sat at the controls of the landing area. She had been assigned to watch the landing strip for signs of Goliath and Rodan as the two Autobots made their approach. She currently was listening to "Bara Ga Saku Bara Ga Chiru," by Rina Aiuchi a J-pop artist. For some reason this song reminded Lori of the Deceptibots.
As she was watching the screen a blip caught her eye and she scanned it. Smiling that it was only Goliath and Rodan she opened the hanger doors and extended the landing gear. The Space Shuttle and the F-15 Eagle both made a landing as they transformed and like birds of prey landed with hardly a sound.
They then made their way into the base where grandmother Obun is waiting for them. Her missing leg made her seem rather strange when they set down along with Kamaka's missing right arm.
"I believe you both are tired Hai?" she asked as they looked down at her.
"Yes grandma," they both said
"Recharge and when you are done recharging and refueling you will be heading out again to deliver supplies as well as deliver Artemis to the mainland." She said
"Hai Grandma Obun!" they both said.
Obun sat there thinking as she stared at the supplies that Alex has requested and it seems as if the bot she was repairing needed a lot of work. As she looked at the needed supplies she could tell that the said robot needed more help then anything. Meditation was out of the question as her mind was trying to process what was happening.
As she cleared her mind again and entered meditation something came into her mind.
She saw images things that she has not seen before as she realized that it was the Cybertronian race. She then realized what she was seeing as the planet Cybertron. She watched as hundreds of bots ran this way and that as the war broke out.
She saw all the females and children killed by what they thought was Megatron. But Obun seen something else that caught her eyes. It was the fact that she has seen a dark ghostly image from around Megatron. That image was not like what she had seen at all.
The scene shifted to what she assumed was earlier. It was when she saw what had happened when another being was being possessed was something that not even Obun could imagine.
She watched as the being formally known as Megatron walked down a dark valley followed by his second in command whom Obun does not know, but from the looks of it he was a flier like Megatron. As he walked his legs were cautious and his words could not be understood by Obun since she was human.
As she watched Megatron stopped by an old building again he was speaking in the same language and his second in command from the sounds of it pleaded him to stop. But the determination in his voice was enough to drive Obun to believe that he tried to do his duty.
As he entered the abandoned building to find out what was the disturbance that had riled him up so Obun watched as he neared a dark orb. That same orb suddenly sprouted dark flames instead of the usual flames of light that associated with sparks.
It was a spark made from pure darkness. As Megatron approached it, it flared darker and purple lightning danced across its glowing orb. Then without notice it attacked and latched onto Megatron who screamed in agony as it ripped its way into his spark.
The other mech ran into the building and watched as the dark light twisted and warped his master into nothing but a darker version of himself. As he turned to his second in command his optics no longer glowed the normal crimson instead they glowed like blood.
The image changed to that of a great battle with every mech fighting the giant beast that approached Earth. A dark shadow began to descend blocking out the sun with its massive form. Obun watched as the many Cybertronians that have come to Earth which is not many fight off the armies of this vast creature. On the hilt was the very being she had seen with the blood red optics.
Obun shot up from her meditation as she looked around her sweat poured from her face as she stared at the Buddhist statue in front of her and the incense that burned on the sides of it. Her shaking old frame was filled with fear at the sight that she just witnessed. She may not know how to speak or can't speak Cybertronian but she can at least understand what just happened.
As Obun walked out of her meditation room she as greeted by her husband. Kamaka was worried as he saw the sweat on his wife's face she was clearly distressed as she gave off a pale completion.
"What troubles you my dear?" he asked wrapping his arm around Obun's frame.
"I saw a great evil my husband an evil so powerful it consumed the life force of what I assumed was the Decepticon's true leader turning him into an evil entity. I fear that the evil is coming here and that we must stop him," she said as she sat down.
"What evil my love?" he asked
"I saw an evil that threatened to destroy our world. This evil is coming my love and I fear that the children will be in a battle for their lives." She said
"You knew this day would come didn't you?" he asked and Obun nodded
"I had a feeling that sooner or later they would have to face their past." She said and her sigh was enough for Kamaka to squeeze her tighter in comfort.
"Then we need to speak to the rest of the children," he said
"Yes," she said weakly as Kamaka led the way to the kitchens for something to eat.
---MEANWHILE---
It has been three days since Rodan and Goliath left to get the parts and Radon was found flying high over the plains. She loved to just cut her engines and soar above on the high thermals and high winds of the upper atmosphere. As she transformed her wings to attach themselves to her arms to allow for better flight Radon was like an eagle on the wind.
She gracefully soared above the clouds effortlessly and without the use of her boosters. Obun had taught that if you achieve something without the aid of her boosters she can become greater yet. She needs to master her element like those of the old warriors.
And she did
She and Rodan had mastered the skies by becoming one with the birds. They had taken some time to do it but after a bit of practice on their part and some adjustments they managed to fly by extending their arms and lengthening them. Then by using their wings from their alt-mode to modify them further they became like bird wings.
Radon at the moment was enjoying her flight seeing as her boosters were still sore she only used them if she needed them at the moment, but for now she was just enjoying the sky.
As she listened in to the earth below and her optics zoomed to the ground she noticed that she had flown south to Arizona. The familiar browns of the Nevada Mountains being replaced by the reds that mark that of Arizona and New Mexico. As she flew she recognized some land marks such as that of the Grand Canyon.
As the canyon got closer and then down below her Radon could see the many people that walked or hiked through that canyon mainly tourists.
She caught sight of a human family parked next to the canyon's edge two adult humans one male and one female and their child a girl. Radon watched with curiosity as the humans watched the canyon and the splendor of the deep gorge. Radon was tempted to fly through the walls to see what the winds would be like but she then remembered that she has to remain hidden from human eyes.
As she looked and watched from the skies circling above on the thermals she caught sight of a barely visible insignia on the back of the dark pick up truck.
An Autobot? She thought to herself.
It was then that she noticed the human child moving away from her parents towards the cliff. Alarmed she watched as the child chased a lizard that obviously trying to get away. Flapping her arms to stay in the air she watched as one of the parents noticed finally and began to run towards the child. Even the Autobot began to go towards the child, but that was not before the child began to laugh as she stood at the very edge.
The mother screamed as the child turned and began to advance towards the mother. Radon then noticed that was not the real reason why the mother screamed. Radon zoomed in and found that right in front of the child was none other then a mountain lion. The mountain lion had snuck up on the child and was ready to pounce. The black truck began to charge towards the mountain lion but not before the cliff beneath the child gave way.
Screaming now the child began to drop. Without thinking Radon twisted her body and dropped in a stoop. Tucking her arms in like wings she began to plummet like a falcon towards the ground at break neck speed.
She could hear the parents screaming over the child falling.
---ON THE GROUND---
Ironhide raced as fast as he could to help get Annabelle Lennox as she plummeted towards her death. The mountain lion as it saw him ran from the scene. As he got to the cliff the child was already half way down and screaming still. Will Lennox his charge yelled after his daughter while the mother was in hysterics.
Ironhide too was in hysterics for he had failed to protect one of his human charges. He tried to get at the human child but she was far out of reach.
It was then that his scanners picked up a Decepticon signal and as he looked up he saw a falling object and immediately charged his cannons.
"Decepticons!" he shouted and Will immediately held onto his wife knew that he could not protect her.
The Decepticon was falling very rapidly towards them but then shot below them and to Ironhide's horror it was not aimed at him but rather at the falling child. Running towards the cliff Ironhide raced to see what the Decepticon was going to do…
---RADON---
The child continued to fall as Radon came with arms tucked into her body as she shot below the child with incredible speed and quickly spread her arms out like wings and the wind caught onto them the child began to get closer then.
"Gotcha!" she shouted as she caught the child and began to flap her arms and activated her boosters. While she did that she transformed into her alt-mode so the child would not fall off. It was a trick she learned back at Hickem where she would perform a rescue of a downed pilot from the sky. She would fall after the pilot and catch him in midair and then transform.
What she did not expect was for cannon fire to come from above the cliff.
"Damn Autobot!" she cursed in Cybertronian. She fired her boosters and shot up.
---IRONHIDE---
Ironhide kept his cannon on the Decepticon seeker as it shot straight up the cliff and transformed again back to robot mode before gently touching the ground away from the cliff.
"I would suggest getting away from the cliff before the other humans fall," she said holding something in her hand.
Ironhide was lost for words as he and the humans walked away from the cliff slowly. As they got closer to the Decepticon it gently lowered itself to the ground and opened its cockpit. Slowly it reached in and extracted something small.
Annabelle quickly got off the Decepticons hands and turned around to face her savior.
She noticed that the bot had the face like that of a bird a hawk or an eagle. The gray armor gave off a greenish tint in the light of the sun which Annabelle found pretty. Looking closer at her feet she found that they were in the shape of bird talons unlike Uncle 'Hide's wider feet. What she found most intriguing was the fact that it looked like she has scales. Red optics stared down at her in curiosity as Annabelle walked up to the taloned foot.
"Annabelle get away from that thing!" Will shouted to his daughter but she ignored him like the two year old she is and stared up at the Decepticon.
"What is your name?" she asked
"Radon," was the reply as Radon bent down to look at Annabelle.
"I am Annabelle and I am two!" she said holding up two fingers.
Radon like a bird tilted her head upside down and her red optics were now staring at Annabelle as the two year old gave Radon a hug.
"Can I fly with you again?" she asked
"Absolutely not!" yelled Will as he picked up his child careful of the Decepticon.
It was then that Will noticed the logo near her right side of her chassis. It showed with the yin and yang and both Autobot and Decepticon symbols surrounded by a dragon and what appears to be a phoenix holding the dragon and the yin yang up with some sort of Chinese symbols in the middle. There was Cybertronian writing in there as well. When he read what it said in English he was startled beyond belief.
In the meantime the Decepticon's optics were staring at him with Annabelle in his arms. Its head was upside down staring at him with curiosity. The surprising thing was this one sounded like a female. It stared at him and Annabelle giggled as she tried to copy the Decepticon with its birdlike movements.
"Will you be my friend?" Annabelle asked the strange Decepticon.
"Sure," it was a sincere reply.
"How will I call you then?" she asked and Radon lifted herself up and reached into her cockpit before drawing something out.
Ironhide was stunned as she gave Annabelle a strange object.
Sara had to grab it from Radon, "You blow through this and I will come," she said
On the side of the shell which that is what it is had the same symbol carved from it. Ironhide did a scan on it and found it to be an ordinary shell but with what appears to be some sort of amplifying device inside. With that Radon the Decepticon opened her arms wide and Ironhide saw her arms transform to form wing-like appendages as she took a mighty leap into the air and flapped them like a bird with her boosters on minimum power.
"We will meet again Annabelle," she called as she flew away to the wonderment of the bewildered Autobot.
Ironhide was shocked to see that this Decepticon did not make any sort of trouble at all. Snapping out of his reprieve he transformed into his alt-mode and they all hopped in.
Radon soared above them as Ironhide drove away towards home and the Deceptibot followed them for a time. She watched as they turned to go towards Tranquility and stop at a nearby hotel. Satisfied that they were in no danger Radon flew home to return to the duty that she took a break from.
---AUTOBOT HEADQUARTERS---
"I swear to Primus that Decepticon just swooped down and rescued Annabelle for no reason at all. It came back up and returned her to us," Ironhide said as he retold the story to several other Autobots.
With the Decepticons now in their base things have been tense between the two sides as they had tensions searing through the roof. Optimus and Shockwave were having a hard time to get the two sides from fighting. At times it worked and others it had gotten bad. It came to the point were the Decepticons decided to make their base elsewhere so that way they can keep the peace. It was not far from the Autobot base and as such were able to keep in contact with each other.
Those that were still injured remained at the medbay with Ratchet, Red Alert and First Aid along with the Decepticon medics. They remained because the facilities were better then their own at the moment, and they can be of the most help. The other Autobots who came on the Nemesis had been given their alternative forms and some prefer the organic life to cars.
Of those that stood with Ironhide was a young Autobot by the name of Rattrap the very same one who gave the call to the Ark. He took the form of an earth creature that resembles his namesake. The giant rat was busy making repairs to some of the navigation equipment on the station. Ironhide watched in fascination as the two of them discussed weapons when the conversation about Annabelle came up.
"…And you said that this 'Con is a femme?" Rattrap asked
"Yes and from the sounds of it a very young femme," Ironhide said now that he thought back on it.
"Hey man no biggie I mean there was some that came with us maybe it was one of the refugees?" Ironhide was not certain that it was no refugee.
"Nope for I have seen all the femme 'cons and none of them match your description of seeker. Well maybe snow wing but she is in no condition to do any rescues," Rattrap replied as he finished with his repairs.
"Well there was the fact that she had some sort of weird symbol on her side of her chassis," Ironhide replied back.
"Really? Ran it through with boss bot yet?" Rattrap asked.
"Not yet I have not been able to see him for some time since he is busy with Shockwave," Ironhide said as he too finished the upgrades to his cannons.
"I can see that part I mean come on it is not everyday that a bunch of 'cons saves your aft from being destroyed by Galvatron's goons," Rattrap said as he and Ironhide began to leave the repair bay which was different from the medical wing.
"So a femme seeker eh? I have never heard of one sure I've heard of female aerials but seekers?" he said as they walked into the recreation room where everyone who was not on duty was drinking energon or just relaxing.
There were few Decepticons there as well for they were still too injured to head out with the others. They remained and thus were busy chatting carelessly with others both Autobot and Decepticon alike.
There was some humans about the base and many did not interact much with the Cybertronians being as they were mostly government officials.
As both Ironhide and Rattrap sat down another bot joined them this one was none other then Thundercracker.
Thundercracker was one of the few the voluntarily stayed behind.
"So I've heard you had an encounter with a female seeker is that right?" he said as he took a swing from his energon cube.
"Yeah and surprisingly she did not sound hostile at all," Ironhide said as he remembered firing shots as the femme and she did not attack back at all.
Instead she weaved around his cannon fire and landed like those organic birds. In fact she flew away like one too.
"I've heard rumors about two strange bots that helped us back on the Nemesis," Thundercracker said
"Really?" said Rattrap as he finished his cube.
"Yeah they both are Autobots but they were not on the register, the fact remains that they took Starscream and vanished was something that not even us Seekers could manage." He said
"Yeah and did you see them fight off those Unicronians I mean they did not even have guns and they took them out," Rattrap said.
"Are you two talking about those strange Aerial bots that helped you back there?" Ironhide asked
"Yeah they took 'Screamer and flew off before all of us got out," Thundercracker said.
"The strange thing is that symbol you mentioned I've seen it on those two bots also," Rattrap said.
"Did the symbol resemble sort like our insignias with some sort of creature wrapped around it and an earthling bird holding it up with Cybertronian writing on it?" Ironhide asked.
"Yes that was it," said Thundercracker
"It seems that this is not the first time we met some of our own kind with that strange symbol on them," said Rattrap as he placed his cube back under the dispenser.
"True whoever they are they have Starscream," Ironhide said
"And who knows what they would do to him," Thundercracker replied as he too took a swig.