DISCLAIMER: FOUND ON PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
A/n: hey Lendaras I like the way you did your journal on Kekoa's character goes to show that two brains think alike. The only corrections I have to make though is that Scrappy is actually a N93i (The same as the movie) and Skeeter is a Nextel I-580 if you want to know what type of devices the kids are refer to chapter 3 of this fic.
I finally figured out what Sonic is he is a JVC RM-SRCEZ38-A and Pursues if he was still alive would have been the Pathfinder or a Tacoma
By the way I got this chapter from the movie 'Free Willy'
THE LOST CHILDREN OF CYBERTRON
Chapter 28: Free Titan
They stood on the boat with their nets waiting as the Pacific Ocean beat against their boat. The waves pounding against the vessel in its efforts to scare away the potential enemy from stealing its children.
Already they had the cage ready as others stood in smaller boats waiting for the right moment to strike. As the boats waited the wait was long since they don't know where their prey would end up.
Suddenly spouts could be seen from a distance as whales began to approach the vessel and the ships made themselves ready.
Titan was having the time of his life playing with the whales that he calls friends. Every year he would migrate with the Humpbacks back up towards Alaska or down to Hawaii. This was no exception as he raced his finned friends through the water.
A pregnant humpback having remembered him from when she was a calf called out to Titan and the prehistoric predator spun over to her. He does them a favor by picking off the parasites off their skin. Sometimes if the other kids were around they would help too.
The humpbacks of this pod enjoy being groomed of all their parasites. They even made a song for Titan to identify him. The soft hum was all that Titan needed to swim over and play.
The humpback gave its equivalent of a laugh at the sparkling knowing that Titan was only a baby by their standards.
Titan played with the pod some more before swimming off to play with a nearby pod of orcas.
---BACK ON THE SHIP---
The spouts could be seen from a distance now. His hydrophone picked up their signals from miles away and when he finally saw the form splashing on the waves his smile grew as he readied his men.
---TITAN---
His scanners screamed in warning as Titan gave a squeal to tell the pod to move away. He could pick up the nets from where he was and the whales took his word with their intelligence.
They swam away from Titan and the nets as the ichthyosaur moved in to do something about it.
As he raced towards them he will do anything to protect the pod that he calls his friends.
What he failed to realize is that the nets were merely a distraction. The real nets rushed up and caught him creating an energy field that had caught Titan by surprise.
His scream was enough to pierce human ears but not those of combined Autobot and Decepticon. They quickly pulled the energy net to the boat and held him down as he struggled. His cries of fear and outrage filled his vocal processors as he struggled.
Depthcharge held onto the net as he and Beachcomber struggled to bring the beast-bot in.
As they tried to pull him in Titan let out an audio piercing shriek that carried for miles.
----DECEPTIBOT HEADQUARTERS----
All activity stopped among the Deceptibots when Titan's cry reached their audios as many heads rose.
"That sounded like Titan," said Rodan as he stood up.
"That is Titan," said Radon as she ran towards the hanger.
The others followed as the Raptor took off down the runway followed by her brother.
Goliath ran towards the control room calling for Nanobite.
The four adult Transformers were confused as they haven't heard the cries ever. Even the humans seemed to suddenly disappear leaving the four of them confused as to what just happened.
----MEANWHILE----
Titan struggled to get free so he could transform but he was stuck in the energy nets just as he looked up he saw two Cybertronians haul him in.
"Help!" he shouted and screamed again.
"Someone shut him up!" yelled another voice and Titan screamed again.
He began to cry as he struggled through the net and the net's energy beams began to hurt him.
"Mommy! Daddy! Grandpa! Grandma! Goliath someone help me!" he yelled
It was Thunderblast that finally silenced Titan by injecting something into his coolant lines. The ichthyosaur was silenced as he fell into stasis his cries ceased.
"He sounds like a sparkling," complained Beachcomber
"That is because this one is a sparkling," said Thunderblast.
"How do you know?" asked Beachcomber as they dragged the sea monster back into the boat.
"Because my friend his cries are exactly like those of a sparkling and a Decepticon Sparkling at that," she said
"What about the two Autobots we found over by the Nemesis?" he asked
"I don't want to bother with them," she said
"What are we to do with this one then?" he asked
"Report to both Prime and Shockwave of course," she said.
---MEANWHILE---
"I can't find him!" said Radon as she circled the area where Titan's signal was last picked up.
As she circled she tried to call for him again and again but found nothing.
"What is going on?" asked Starscream as he up to her and circled with her.
"Titan has been taken Uncle Starscream," she said her voice was distressed.
Now this Starscream ran a full scan on the area and it is then that he noticed the whale leaping from the water.
"What is that?" he asked and Radon looked down just as the others caught up.
Cutting her engines and taking a nose dive she dove into the water transforming she let out a series of clicks and whistles. The whale approached and she recognized this one as a humpback and the one next to it an orca. Both of them Titan's friends since they were calves.
The humpback she knew was heavily pregnant and was nearing her birthing. She ran a hand over her belly and the whale shuddered before giving a sad note to its song.
"I know my friend," she said to it.
"What happened to Titan?" she asked and the whale the orca having heard human language before had something in its mouth.
He approached and Radon grabbed the object and found that it was a piece of a boat.
Running a scan her optics lit up with realization. Saying a thanks she shot up into the air again and hovered over the water.
"Radon what happened?" asked Rodan as he approached
"Titan has been taken by what appears to be other Cybertronians," Radon replied holding up the piece of metal for Starscream to examine.
"This is Cybertronian alloy and from the looks of it someone is leaking energon probably Titan," he said looking worried.
"Should we follow?" asked Radon
"Yeah Radon follow since you are a stealth fighter and have your cloaking up to maximum. Rodan you and I are to report back to base and find out who did this," he said holding up the armor piece.
With that everyone went their separate ways.
----HOOVER DAM----
It took sometime before they managed to transport their catch to Hoover Dam. Titan was leaking energon and they had to call in Ratchet to help them stabilize him. They also had to transport him to the Autobot headquarters since they have the better medical facilities. Being as Titan is a beast bot they had to treat him like an organic animal and thus had to keep his skin moist. Ratchet had to work overtime to repair the damage caused by the nets and then had a tank specially made for him to swim in.
As he watched the motionless figure of Titan take the occasional breath of air from his nostrils on his head he began to worry as he worked with his systems to keep them operational. He managed to get them in top order but what had him worried was Titan's age.
A sparkling? Here?
His mind was not in the calmest moods and the drug they had put in his fuel lines were made for adults.
They were lucky that Thunderblast identified him immediately as a sparkling or else the drug could have killed him. Thank Primus that I had gotten to him in time,
He managed to purge the Sparkling's systems of the drug but his CPU was still in stasis and it was too dangerous to revive him like he would do a normal mech. Such a young sparkling with that kind of treatment would surely kill it. As the beast bot slept Ratchet had no choice but to wait it out.
----DECEPTIBOT HEADQUARTERS----
"This is really bad," said Stitch as he and the others gathered around the table when Rodan told them the horrible news.
Goliath had arrived too late as he and Starscream were flying back to base.
As they approached there was a radio call from Kekoa.
"What happened?" he asked
"Titan was taken by some older Cybertronians and Starscream thinks they might have gone back to the mainland," was the reply.
"Return to base immediately," came a much more feminine voice.
"Yes ma'am," said the three Deceptibots as they flew back towards the cliffs of Molokai.
---DECEPTIBOT BASE----
When they landed an old woman with a very sour look on her face greeted them. She stood right beside the hologram of a femme bot and the femme bot in question did not look happy at all at this circumstance.
"Where is my grandson?" she said her voice dangerously low.
"He was taken by some older Transformers ma'am that is what Uncle Starscream said," said Rodan as he showed her the metal that they found.
Nanobite looked at it and growled, "This is Cybertronian alright and from the looks of it and the age you guessed right Lord Starscream," she said.
"Lord Starscream?" they looked at the seeker who gave a sheepish look.
"Yes, he is lord of the Decepticons now isn't he after all he is the true heir to the throne after Megatron," Nanobite said
"Now is not the time for pleasantries we must get Titan back at all costs. If he is found by the Autobots and the Decepticons who knows what would happen afterwards," he said
"I see," said Obun as she stared up at him with her dark onyx eyes.
Starscream backed away nervously at this human woman as she walked forward with her cane tapping the ground as she took careful calculated steps towards him. Being a soldier for so long helped him to recognize danger when it comes around. She screamed of danger and Starscream was weary.
"Come time grows short and I need to speak with Tom," said Obun as she walked away from Starscream towards the control room.
----AUTOBOT HEADQUARTERS-----
To say that former Sector Seven head Tom Banachek was not happy was an understatement. He was down right furious when he gotten the call from Obun and Linda about Titan going missing. He was lucky that he was at the Autobot headquarters right now and from the looks of it the patient in front of him in the medbay was just sleeping off the drug.
From what Ratchet told him both mech and man were very angry at this.
One: the mech was just a sparkling a baby by transformers standards
Two: the drug that they had given the sparkling was too strong for it thus Ratchet had to do a purge.
Three: the sparkling was roughly taken from its home so it was highly possible that the family unit would retaliate ferociously to get him back.
And last Ratchet was watching Banachek closely and the man was very angry that the mech was taken so roughly that Ratchet saw that it became personal.
"Tom?" he asked leaning down to the human and the man turned to him.
"Yes Ratchet?" he asked
"You are taking this personally why is that?" he asked
"What do you mean?" he asked
"I am watching you Tom I saw the way you reacted to the capture when we watched it on Teletran 1. It was as if you knew that sparkling? Is it true?" he asked
Tom looked up at Ratchet, "Do you want to know the honest truth?" he asked
"We all do," said Hook as he and the Constructicons came up to him having overheard the conversation along with the other medical staff.
"Alright but close the door and lock it I don't want anyone hearing," he said and they did just that.
"Hold on a sec let me sweep the area," said Wheeljack as he did a scan of the area.
"Alright no bugs, casseticons, or listening devices," he said and checked for monitors as well and found none.
"There would be pit to pay if there was any such things in my medical bay," Ratchet growled.
He then offered his hand to Tom who climbed on and was lifted to the table where everyone could get a good eye view of him and the tank that contained Titan.
"Alright human spill!" this was said by Red Alert.
"Alright, alright I know this sparkling his name is Titan and he is not a Decepticon he is a Deceptibot." He said
"Deceptibot?" asked Scrapper
"A combination of Autobot and Decepticon that is what their faction is called. That is what they call themselves because their motto is 'Till all are One," Tom said
"That is the code of Primus!" said Wheeljack.
"The Transformer god?" asked Tom
"Yeah but getting to the point," said Hook.
"Well there are a total of ten sparklings from both sides but one was killed by sector seven years ago as a mistake on our parts. I had no idea Simmons was going to do this and when I found out about it, it was too late to stop them. So when the Allspark created that Nokia phone months ago I did not want to see it totally destroyed when Simmons pushed that button. He wanted to have it permanently dismantled but I managed to ship the body to the Deceptibots for safe keeping and it turns out they repaired him.
He is now known as Scrappy and his happy among them. They are nothing but sparklings having been taken in by a human family years ago and nurtured till now. The State of Hawaii is where they reside and there is an international law that makes it illegal for any government to intervene with them and use them for any experiments.
Now when Titan was captured he was the only beastbot in the group and being as his body is partially organic I can see why Ratchet insists on letting him heal on his own. But the fact remains that Titan is still a sparkling in your case and a child who needs his family. The others will not be pleased with this especially their human guardians." Tom finished.
"What will their human guardians do?" asked First Aid
"It is the matriarch you have to worry about she is the one who can kill a Transformer with her bare hands," Tom replied.
"How?" asked Wheeljack
"That I don't know since I am not a direct member of the family just a friend," Tom replied.
"What others are there for I can hear a hesitation in your voice Tom," this time it was Long Haul that asked.
"Well there is also the four adult guardians to deal with," he said
"Adult as it fully grown Transformers?" Ratchet asked
"Yeah, so far as I know it is Bumblebee…"
"Hold up Bumblebee?!" Wheeljack replied
"Yeah he found out on mistake about them and has taken to being their guardian along with Sam, Mikaela and their friend Miles. That is why they are in Hawaii right now to be introduced to the Matriarch," Tom replied back
"Then why hasn't Bumblebee reported to Optimus all this time?" asked First Aid
"Because to breach that sort of trust could be disastrous you know that amongst any culture," said Mixmaster sounding giddy.
"Anyways before we have anymore interruptions shall we go on?" Hook glared at his fellow Decepticons.
Tom cleared his throat before he continued.
"Well before Bumblebee there was Barricade," said Tom
"'Cade is still alive!" said Scrapper and that earned two dents from both Ratchet and Hook.
"Sorry," he mumbled
"Now then before they came to the mainland there was Frenzy who was the first to be brought back from the dead by their medic. Their medic is in fact a human who has a natural pension for doing the impossible. She repaired Frenzy and Scorponok and now they reside on the island also.
Scorponok had been upgraded in his CPU so he has the intelligence of a common dog and knows basic commands and can think for himself. Frenzy's vocal processor has been repaired so he no longer stutters and has also been up graded with Barricade. The last member is Starscream as you all know…"
There was a hiss from amongst the Decepticons.
"Lord Starscream lives!" they said excitedly as they seemed happy.
"Um I don't get it," Tom said
"Starscream is the heir to the throne after Megatron and when we found out that Galvatron took over the Decepticons. Now that we know the truth we want Starscream the lead us back to redemption," replied Mixmaster.
"We Decepticons have lived in shame for too long doing things that we had no control over lest we feared death by Megatron or excuse me Galvatron," Hook said
"I remember a time when Megatron himself appointed Starscream to be the heir since he proved himself worthy to him. And since he could not father any sparklings himself he had to find someone worthy of the throne instead of giving it to someone who was only interested in politics." Said Mixmaster.
"I see so Starscream is actually the next in line to be lord of the Decepticons?" asked Tom
"Yes, that is why the Decepticons are desperate to find him," replied Hook
"Well now that we know Starscream is with these 'Deceptibots' how are we going to get him back here?" he asked.
"We don't he has to return on his own," said Tom
"So if Starscream wants to return all he has to do is decide to return?" asked Hook
"Yes, but right now I have a feeling that the matriarch wants all four of them for something," Tom said
"What?" asked Ratchet
"I don't know," Tom said
----MEANWHILE----
Radon flew over the Nevada mountains again on Titan's trail having followed his emergency beacon that they had specially placed in his and all the Deceptibots bodies. The frequency for that is something that not even Autobots and Decepticons could think of. Using Whale Song to find each other Titan's signal proved to be very weak meaning that he was either too far away or underground.
As she followed the signal to its strongest point she kept her stealth mode to the highest she could get it. Sometimes it helps to be a stealth fighter. As she neared one particular mountain she relayed the signal to the others where her current position is. Transforming she opened her arms like wings and floated in place. Like a falcon circling for prey she spotted the base and the Autobots in vehicle mode guarding the entrance with their human companions.
As she watched she remained where the sun blocked her view from any scanners as she hovered there observing. She relayed the image towards headquarters as she flew around the mountain searching for any more entrances. She found several some on water and some in the air.
The mountain itself was connected to the Colorado river so she guessed any water based transformer would have an exit and because of this there is also a launch pad made for the aerial units.
As luck would have it she was higher then the sensors so that kept her up good. That is until she spotted two jets heading her way.
Transforming she turned tail and flew back in the direction of home to think of a way to break Titan out of this mess.
TBC
Sorry I took forever to write this but I had to fly to Molokai to attend my grandfather's funeral this past weekend so here it is the next two chapters of the lost children of Cybertron.