DISCLAIMER: YOU ALREADY KNOW IT ALREADY
A/N: I've come up with an opening and ending theme for the Deceptibots. This was purely on accident well the opening song is called 'Bara Ga Saku Bara Ga Chiru' from Rina Aiuchi I thought it reminded me of the kids in a way. The ending theme was from watching Men at Work with Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. The song is called 'Give a Little Love' from Ziggy Marley and I don't know I was at work when the song played on my I-pod and Scorponok getting into trouble seemed to ring in my brains as the closing credits.
If you're wondering where I got this idea from blame working the graveyard shift and sleeping.
THE LOST CHILDREN OF CYBERTRON
Chapter 23: Born Anew
It was well into the fourth day and Goliath and Rodan were ready to leave. Goliath had to change his form into that of a cargo plane so that they could transport the supplies safely back to the Hitachi residence. Rodan was to accompany him as an escort as he too transformed into another smaller cargo plane. They were both loaded with the necessary supplies needed they headed towards the launch pad to take off back to the Hitachi base.
As Goliath started his engines along with the smaller Rodan, Artemis hopped on board and Titan sat down beside her. As Goliath neared the launch pad Lori gave the count down and as the countdown finished all three was launched into the atmosphere. As they flew over the Pacific Ocean they turned towards the Northeast and towards the mainland.
---HITACHI RESIDENCE---
Now Kekoa tried to keep himself busy in the respect that he would go to school and get good grades, but aside from that he made sure he practiced all the techniques that he was taught. He currently was busy showing Barricade some moves. The black and white mech was curious as to how they could do what they do and so Kekoa wanted to show him.
He had instructed Barricade to turn off his battle computer so that way he doesn't accidentally shoot anyone. At first Barricade was reluctant being a Decepticon and all and they love to keep their weapons online.
As for Kekoa he insisted so Barricade shut them off just to humor the human. As he did so he felt almost naked as Kekoa instructed him on a few moves.
"Ok if someone came at you while your pinned you can sweep them with your leg got it?" he said and demonstrated
"I think I got it," Barricade said and copied the move.
Frenzy watched from the sidelines and he too copied some of the moves Kekoa was teaching Barricade he found that it could be quite useful in battle some day. As for the base everything seemed quite till he received a radio broadcast from Hawaii.
Frenzy went to the counsel in the base and turned it on.
"There you are!" the face of Lori appeared
"Goliath and the others are on their way so have no fear the cavalry is on its way," she said proudly.
"Alright will do Lori," with that Frenzy cut the connection.
"What was that about Uncle Frenzy?" asked Sonic as he walked into the room for monitor duty.
"That was Lori she said that Goliath and the others are on their way," he said and Sonic leaped up and down.
"Cool!" he said and ran out to tell the others.
---MEANWHILE---
"How is the spark doing Radon?" asked Alex as she walked in.
"It is doing alright for now nothing has changed," Radon replied as she checked the monitor.
The spark shown with blue light and soft electrical flames encircled the box that it was kept in. It glowed from where it was in the cube on the table. Alex ran some monitoring on the spark before turning to walk out. An alarm went off for a few seconds letting them know that they have visitors.
---OUTSIDE---
Kekoa and Barricade watched as Bumblebee pulled up again with Sam and this time Mikaela was with them. Miles was in the back seat as the Autobot pulled up.
"Hey man wassup?" Miles said as he came out.
Kekoa gave him the usual high five like all guys do.
"Nothing much just waiting for some supplies to come in from home," replied Kekoa as he did a move and Barricade mimicked.
"Hey what are you doing 'Cade?" asked Bumblebee
"Practicing not to use my battle computer," he said and Bumblebee the ever excitable one he is leaped up and down.
"Can I try please?" he said.
"Alright but remember it is not easy," Kekoa replied and Bumblebee nodded before offlining his computer.
"Man this feels weird," he said and Kekoa laughed, "I told you," he said.
Bumblebee stumbled a bit as Barricade laughed at him even though he stumbled as well. Kekoa shook his head at the two Cybertronians as they were only having a good time.
Sam and Mikaela walked into the field and were stunned yet again…well Mikaela was stunned.
"I told you," Sam said smirking.
"Who would have thought," she said shocked, "After all he tried to kill us,"
Sam shrugged as the two of them got up again.
"Ok if you guys were fighting for thousands of years why aren't you guys killing each other now?" Mikaela asked
"Simple they would have to answer to us," said Marie as she stepped out onto the porch.
"Really?" said Mikaela and she saw the other children turn in their direction from where they were playing.
"They may not look like it but they are formidable warriors," Barricade said as he stepped back from Bumblebee.
"The rules were already made when we first came here so that is why we don't fight here," said another voice and they turned to see Frenzy walk out.
"That is right you can save your war for some other time not in the presence of the sparklings. They know all about your war and want nothing to do with it," Marie said.
Mikaela nodded in understanding as she stared at the two Cybertronians. Bumblebee explained to them about Cybertronian culture and how both sides would protect their young fiercely against any assault even if the sparkling or youngling was from another faction. To them all life is precious even if it is very young. In this case both would guard this batch of younglings.
---A FEW HOURS LATER---
Mikaela after spending some time learning about the sparklings and their names have to say that the jet Radon had to be her favorite. Zenith watched Barricade and Bumblebee learn a few Martial Arts movies from Kekoa while looking like idiots, but who cares. She at the moment was in the medbay with her fellow girl Alex and Radon who was busy overlooking their patient while awaiting the replacement parts for him.
Alex explained the spark to Mikaela and how it was equivalent to a soul or a heart for a Cybertronian and how it was the life force of one. She then went on to explain what she was waiting for and surprisingly Mikaela understood.
"That is what I get for listening to Ratchet," she said
"Ratchet?" Alex asked
"One of my Autobot friends," Mikaela replied, "He's the Chief Medical Officer,"
"Oh," Alex shrugged.
Something beeped and Alex reached into her pocket and picked up Skeeter. The little cell phone transformed and saluted Alex in a joking matter.
"Intercepted transmission from star command captain ma'am we have two incoming aircraft on approach at vector three…zero…zero and inbound," he said smiling.
"Thank you Skeeter," she said and he transformed back into a cell phone and Alex slipped him back into her pocket to resume his nap.
She then went over to the P.A. system and turned it on.
"ATTENTION ALL DECEPTIBOTS WE HAVE INCOMING AIRCRAFT BARING 3'OCLOCK SOUTHWEST AND APPROACHING CLEAR THE RUNWAY OF ALL DEBRIS IMMEDIATELY!" Alex then walked out with Mikaela walking behind her.
"Now you get to meet the rest of the family." She said cheerfully as she walked towards the hanger where the doors opened.
"I still have not met that fighter jet of yours," Mikaela replied
"Radon? Oh you will get to properly meet her when the time comes," she said and it was then that Alex pulled a pair of binoculars from her pocket and looked to the south west.
It was early in the afternoon so the sun was still high in the sky when two dots made themselves known on the horizon. One was obviously bigger then the other as they made their rounds before landing. Already Radon was in the air as an escort to guide them in. As she made her approach she could see that both were tired and needed to be fed since they made the long journey and so helped them to get towards the runway.
As they made their final approach Radon transformed and she used her arms like wings once more. As she did so the other two went into a glide as they made their approach. She guided them through the mountains and towards the runway which was about five miles off. She then transformed again back into her F-22 mode and with engines off glided around the peaks of the mountains towards Tranquility.
The town itself is on the other side of the mountains where the plains begin. It was there that they were led and Radon gladly got out of the way as they began their descent. As they descended down towards the ground Radon stayed in the air to keep an eye out for anyone who was filming and to jam anything within a 250 mile radius that could record their flight.
As Goliath and Rodan landed their landing gear hitting the ground the sound of someone complaining could be heard from Goliath's interior.
"Eh hands off the fins!" a voice could be heard from inside the large military cargo plane.
Sam and the others looked at each other as something from the rear end of Goliath's form flew out and landed on his face. The other kids laughed but the figure that was face first in the ground was not happy.
"You said there was water! You lied Goliath! You lied!" the prone figure said throwing a fit like an angry child (The fact that he is) as it stood up.
Sam, Miles and Mikaela were stunned by the size of this one and that he's nearly match Goliath in height. The only thing though was that this one lacked the sharp features of the normal Cybertronian kids. Instead his face resembled that of a shark with fins on his arms to match and what looked like organic parts here and there.
"Oh Kuli Kuli no Waha Titan!" shouted another figure as this one got out of the second cargo plane.
It was a black Honda Super Blackbird CBR1100x that quickly transformed into a femme-bot as well. Everyone's eyes dropped at the sight of the shorter femme as she stood by them and waved her hand at them.
"Hi don't mind him that is Titan and I am Artemis we heard a lot about you," she said bending down a bit.
"But where's the water!" Titan shouted.
"Will you shut your trap about the water Titan or I will shut it for you!" yelled Artemis.
The others started to laugh at the antics that those two made while Radon landed.
"I swear on Primus's name Titan you are such a sparkling!" Radon shouted at him.
"Um earth to Radon we are sparklings," he said and Radon growled at him and Titan growled back.
Radon then marched up to his face, "You are in the middle of a desert Titan get over it!" she said.
"Easy for you to say bird-brain you are a flier I am a swimmer an ocean creature and you see this!" he held up one hand and showed the fin.
"I am a sea creature not some sort of flying bird like you!" he said.
"Oh really fish guts wanna cry to mommy because your mommy's dead!" said Radon.
"Easy for you to say since you don't know your mommy birdie and considering that your mother was probably a whore…" he did not get to finish his sentence before Radon socked him in the face.
The two began an all out fist fight and some of the others tried to break it up, but they only ended up on the ground or nearly gotten stomped on.
BOOM!
A loud explosion could be heard and everyone's heads turned to a fuming Barricade. His cannon was smoking as he replaced it with his hand. He gave both Decepticon sparklings a very hard glare with his optics. Radon's fist was inches from Titan's face when he pulled the trigger and Titan nearly bitten Radon's neck components.
"Now you two will separate yourselves right now and go help unload the equipment…and Titan isn't it?" he growled in a low voice and the newcomer swallowed.
"Yes," he replied.
"You are to stop your whining and go help your fellows. Radon get down to the medical bay and sort out all the parts and begin repairs immediately!" he said and the seeker ran back into the building.
"Um who are you?" Titan asked nervously.
Barricade smiled, "Barricade,"
"Um ok Uncle 'Cade," he said and ran away towards the base.
Bumblebee walked up behind him, "Man you really know how to handle sparklings are you sure you never had any?" he asked
"No I've never had a femme," he said
---LATER THAT NIGHT AT THE AUTOBOT HEADQUARTERS---
After Bumblebee left Sam, Mikaela and Miles home he headed straight for the Ark. Luckily he told Ron and Judy Witwicky where he was going as being the parents of the charge had anything to do with it. In all sense he guess because he was still a teen in Cybertronian years his human charges made sure he stayed that way.
As he drove towards where the downed ship was in its underground area Bumblebee had to smile to himself. Remembering how Barricade and Frenzy herded all the sparklings after they unloaded Goliath and Rodan of their burden, and resumed their original alt forms into the base for their nap. He never knew that old 'Cade could be the father type. He guessed he was stuck with the new recruits when he was still amongst the Decepticon ranks.
When he saw the entrance to the Ark Bumblebee remembered to let the humans at the gate know that he is an Autobot and so let him in. Remembering to keep his promise to stay quiet about the Deceptibots he entered the gate. The guard saluted as Bumblebee transformed and entered.
What he found in there was nothing short of chaos.
"I am telling you Prime that is not no ordinary Decepticon just like those two Autobots not registering in the Aerial bots rosters." Ironhide said and Optimus was looking like he was about to go into melt down.
Bumblebee also heard other conversations. One was about the recent deployment of Unicronians from Cybertron and the other about the reinforcements of said Unicronians coming from other galaxies.
"They are bringing the battle here!" another said and this one was a Decepticon one of the injured.
"Yeah that is what I heard," said the first person this one an Autobot.
There was clearly panic all around him.
"What is going on?" Bumblebee asked,
"Reports have been going off the hook of Unicronians approaching earth at a rather steady pace. They are coming to earth and we still have not found a suitable replacement for Decepticon leader." Said another Autobot this one Jetfire.
"Why would you want another Decepticon leader?" asked Bumblebee,
"Because right now the Decepticons are without one," replied Optimus, "So it would be harder to negotiate with one," was also the response.
"But what about Shockwave can't he be leader?"
"No, Shockwave is currently the leader but only temporarily they want the rightful heir to the Decepticon throne,"
"They want Starscream…" Bumblebee replied back
"Yes they want Starscream but his whereabouts since the Nemesis crashed is unknown," was the reply.
How little do they know, Bumblebee thought to himself as he made his way over to where the others were currently looking at a 3D holographic map of the planet Earth.
Bumblebee was even more surprised by the other map of Cybertron and something blinking and moving away from it…something the size of a moon.
"Unicron," he said to himself.
"Damn straight kid that thing was hanging around Cybertron for a long time," said another Autobot this one looked far more battered then any of them and just as old as Ironhide.
"Oh sorry sir but did you say Unicron?" Bumblebee said
"Yes, Unicron the destroyer, Unicron the devourer of worlds and the brother of Primus, the same one," he said looking far too old and weary.
Bumblebee was shocked he had never seen such hopelessness before at the Autobot base at this realization. It was far different then the Deceptibot base and the chaos that comes with dealing with sparklings such as those. Optics full of optimism and hope and a fierce determination that no bot or con could deal with.
Walking further into the base he was surprised to pass one of the conference rooms to see Ironhide again and this time he was with Jetfire and another transformer this one a Decepticon with holographic forms of Radon, Rodan and Goliath. Bumblebee leaned in to the conversation.
"Are these the three?" Jetfire said
"Yeah the Decepticon took the form of an F-22 Raptor while the two Autobots took the form of a human space shuttle and an F-15 Strike Eagle." He said and they zoomed in on an image on the side of Goliath.
"The one thing they have in common that I've notice was this strange symbol on the side of the shuttle which is also shown on the sides of both the F-22 and the F-15," zooming in both Ironhide and Jetfire saw the symbol.
"Do you know what it is?" Jetfire asked
"No, I've run numerous scans and found that the symbol is of Earth origin," said the unknown Decepticon and after typing in a few keys broke down the image.
The center part is as you can see part of both factions' insignias. The left is that of the Decepticon symbol…" the image changed to that of the full symbol, "While the right is that of the Autobots," and the other half changed into the Autobot symbol.
"The reason they are like this is from this symbol," Typing a few more keys it showed an untouched Yin-Yang symbol.
"In Asian cultures on this planet this symbol usual means unity or oneness and balance between the light and dark or male and female. I've read that this balance was something that must always be kept or symbolizes the combined powers of both light and dark. In this case the Decepticons and the Autobots."
"So there is some sort of balance made with this symbol?" asked Ironhide,
"Exactly," replied the Decepticon.
"Then what about the creature encircling the symbol?" asked Jetfire
"That creature is an earth mythical beast called a dragon. That dragon is from the Asian culture representing longevity and wisdom. The bird that takes up the outer part is called a phoenix a mythical bird from the western cultures as well as the eastern cultures that burns it self up in flames and then is reborn again from the ashes."
"A symbol of rebirth?" Jetfire asked
"Yes a very symbolic element I guess everything in this symbol represents something observe," replied the Decepticon
The stranger typed in a few more keys and this time the two symbols that were on the insignias appeared similar to Cybertronian.
"This symbol is known as Kanji the common writing of all Asian cultures. It is at this point I say Chinese and it means Unity or oneness as if they have become as one and even the words on the bottom written in both English and Cybertronian that I have noticed also share this symbolic reasoning."
The image zoomed in to show the words beneath the symbol and the words, "Till all are one," is clearly shown.
"The old code of Primus," said Jetfire
"Exactly it is as if these Transformers are living by Primus's example of unity among both our factions then they are a formidable foe if they want to be. So far however they remained hidden from both sides as if we scare them more then they scare us." Replied the Decepticon.
"Are you saying 'Con that these three are afraid of us after what Jetfire told me these two did to six Unicronians, six!" Ironhide nearly bellowed,
"They took on six Unicronians and none of us have any ability what so ever nor the firepower to take them on! We were getting out afts kicked by the toughest mechs in the universe and they were destroyed by two strange transformers that appear to have no weapons at all." Said Jetfire as he scratched his head.
"Can we see the imagery from the battle Jetfire," said the Decepticon and Jetfire replayed the image from his own optics.
They watched as the two Autobots fought off all six Unicronians as they came in.
"You see even if we shoot one down they always come back. But when these guys took them out they did not get up,"
"I did not see any of their moves for they moved too fast for any of us to see properly," Jetfire said and the Decepticon nodded.
"Yes I see that," he said observing the hand and feet movement of the strangers.
"What are we to do with these guys," said Ironhide as he pointed to the Decepticon.
"I know you Decepticons don't like humans much but this one just saved Annabelle's life without hesitation when most would have hesitated."
"I believe this Decepticon is living by the old code that we used to go by before the war, to protect the innocent and to uphold the laws of Primus that all sentient life is precious," replied the Decepticon.
"That was before Megatron lost it wasn't it?" Ironhide said
"Yes and how many of us wish for those days again," was the only reply.
"Why didn't you go against Megatron?" asked Jetfire
"Because none of us could kill him save for Starscream, but even if he did I doubt with all his attempts to snag the throne Megatron would go down so easily. It is as if he were possessed and driven. I mean we tried to mutiny against him before when he started the purge but hundreds of Decepticons ended up dead by his hand alone," said the Decepticon.
Both Ironhide and Jetfire were silent as they listened in to this Decepticon tell his side of the story.
Bumblebee listened in to the conversation as it changed from the Deceptibot fliers to old days of the war. Bumblebee knew he had heard enough as he snuck away and knew that after he made his rounds he has to tell Barricade at least the Decepticon has the right to know what is going on.
---THE DECEPTIBOT BASE TRANQUILITY---
After their nap work began at once to repair the strange Cybertronian that was far too damaged to do his internal repairs on his own. Artemis, Radon and Alex began to repair the major internal damage while Skeeter and Scrappy began to repair the wiring.
Stitch and Sonic were fixing the smaller components in the joints while Kekoa was busy repairing the weapons system with Zenith. Rodan and Goliath were still resting while Barricade and Frenzy went out on patrol with the local police.
As repairs went underway many things had to be upgraded and replaced. Things such as the optic sensors had to be replaced and rewired. Cybertronian optics were the same no matter what branch your from. Only upon activation and with the right codes would one's optic color give ones designation.
Alex was working on the spark casing since it was one of those most damaged and pulled the old one out. It had massive holes in it and thus needed to be replaced for fear of future leaking. She then replaced the cables that ran from it and tried to get at something when Artemis's hand came down before her.
"Careful that is heavy," she said and lifted the cable up.
When she replaced it Alex began to work on the missing Transformation cog that allows a Cybertronian to transform and replaced it. She even went as far as to fix the damage caused by something on the mech's CPU. At some point this mech's CPU was damaged beyond repair and so Alex was able to fix it by downloading the broken programming onto a disk and then replacing the CPU chips. Then she replaced the broken programming by repairing it.
It was not hard to figure out what the programming was. It was the basic programming every Cybertronian has when it came to self diagnostics and repairs. From what Alex saw it was damaged recently and so she repaired it by replacing the programming. Now after rebooting the self repair programming Alex and Radon began the most delicate part of the surgery by repairing the delicate wires that tell a bot that he is injured or to feel the slightest touch.
Sonic was blaring music from somewhere and Alex knew that the smaller Cybertronian was getting irritated with something. She smiled as the music he was playing was Korean in nature. He then switched to Japanese, German, French, New Age and some Techno. All of them up to date rock, hip hop and pop songs.
Radon in the meantime was busy replacing some of the cables the dents in her armor had been fixed while Titan was busy doing chores with Aunt Marie.
Everywhere you can see flashes of welders, drills and even some other tools both human and Cybertronian filled the air as they repaired, replaced and overhauled the mech before them.
Alex and Kekoa being human had to stop and take frequent breaks and slept in the spare rooms while Aunt Marie went to work along with Barricade. Zenith kept watch outside the farm for signs of any visitors. Skeeter and Scrappy kept an eye on the phone lines as they continued running new wires through the mech's systems.
When Rodan and Goliath finally awakened they were instructed to keep an eye on the spark to check up on it once in a while or to go play video games.
While this was going on it was obvious that this mech's form could be seen but after stripping him of his armor (Which was destroyed almost completely) they cleaned out all the rust and infection from his protoform.
His system was contaminated with viruses and when Alex came back with Kekoa Artemis had already purged the system of the viruses. She then began to work on the delicate systems reboot and upgrade.
All in all when that was done they used the memory programs to restore the original alt-mode the mech was in before he was injured. Surprisingly it was that of an F-22 raptor.
When Barricade came in and they gave him their report he was shocked.
"He was an Earth fighter jet before damage?" he said and they nodded
"That can only be one mech," he said slowly
"Who?" they asked
"Starscream," he whispered.
As the repairs continued they at least now know the mech's name and thus repaired him to the best of their ability. They not only repaired him but cleaned him up as well and gave him some upgrades and from the looks of it he badly needed. Washed, waxed and pimped up Barricade had to admit that the kids knew what they were doing.
He looked down at himself and remembered when they repaired him from all the bullet holes he had and the upgrades they gave him.
He watched as Radon painted new Decepticon symbols onto his wings and helmet as well as give him some new colors for his armor.
When they were done Starscream looked fresh from the factory.
Frenzy gave a whistle of approval for this one. "Man I wish I could go through that kind of upgrade," he said.
Alex smiled, "Well Uncle Frenzy it is well past your time for check ups," she said and Frenzy eyed her and his mandibles smiled by spreading out. She left him into another room and after some hours returned with a newly done Frenzy.
Barricade was next with Kekoa and Radon as they redid his armor and some other upgrades.
When he walked out he looked the same but felt as if he was born anew.
"I feel good," he said out loud and the others laughed later that evening.
"So when are we going to put the spark inside the casing?" asked Stitch as he drank from his energon cube.
"I have to run one more test on the spark casing connectors to make sure they are optimum before we insert the spark," Alex replied as she bit into her burger.
Marie felt too lazy to cook and with both Alex and Kekoa busy with repairing the unknown mech in the medbay. So before she came home she stopped by McDonalds to get some food and drove home.
When she got home she was surprised to see that everyone was still working on that one mech. It must have taken a lot of work to get that guy back to the prime condition and from the looks of it Frenzy and Barricade have been upgraded as well.
When the kids finished their meal they went right into the base again to complete the final part of the repairs.
To place the spark back into the spark chamber.
The spark itself was still in its storage cube on the side of the table awaiting to be returned to its body. Skeeter and Scrappy having already finished repairs on the wiring are ready to go. Radon just finished one final adjustment to the intake valves and the fuel pump before closing it.
Opening the spark chamber Alex made one more systems check and after downloading the alt-form that it originally had and configured the mech to be just like it originally was Rodan carefully reached into the cube and retrieved the spark.
Slowly he walked over to the body and placed the spark inside. Closing the chamber he gave a sigh of relief to know that everything is functioning normally.
"How long before he comes online?" asked Barricade.
"It should take about three days," replied Alex as she ran a check.
"This guy needs time to get his spark adjusted once again to being in a body and to do a systems check," pointed Radon.
Nodding to himself Barricade walked outside with the others for some much needed rest and recharge.