THE LOST CHILDREN OF CYBERTRON
A/n: This gets a little funny 'Cade and 'Bee will be fighting quite a bit now that they are not on the Hitachi residence anymore.
Chapter 30: The Matriarch
Optimus Prime was nervous and with good reason. After Obun's threat he now stood tall but shaking on the inside at the disfigured old woman that stood before him. Obun was dressed like any other elderly woman but held a confidence that was not normally found in old folks. This old woman screamed danger and danger was all Optimus was getting for the woman was fuming a white hot fire from her mouth.
"How dare you take my grandson and force him to live in a tank!" she said her voice a low raspy growl.
"I leave for just a bit and find out that my grandson was taken and then…and then fed a drug that could have killed him if it hadn't been for your medical staff," she said. She turned to him her silvery white hair and dark eyes made her look like a demon. Optimus was sure that the woman would rip out his optics and his spark just like that other human did three days prior.
"As you can see Lady Obun we mistook him for a Unicronian soldier…" Optimus began
"Don't give me that bullshit from the pit!" Obun growled back her anger clear as day.
"You knew because the President informed you about us and yet you ignored international law and captured my grandson," Obun argued
"He did not tell us about any international law stating that the children were under any protection," Optimus said
"Well then I will tell you now, anyone who captures, harasses or causes harm to any of my grandchildren will face punishment according to that country in the highest degree. These children to them are international treasures they are something that everyone here on earth has kept as a secret from the general public except for the population of the Hawaiian Islands. And since Hawaii is an international port of call then the children are too treated under the same international protection as any creature there. You have violated that law Optimus Prime and as such I am willing to let it pass because of your ignorance and your incompetence," Obun said growling yet again.
"Surely we can work something out," he said
"Oh we already did," Obun said
"What do you mean?" Optimus asked
"You gave me your scout," she said smirking
"What? What did you do to Bumblebee?" Optimus demanded
"He is the last youngling of your race or so you thought correct?" she said
"Yes," Optimus said
"Then he will stay with us till I deem fit to release him back into your hands," Obun replied
"He is a youngling not a sparkling and has been fighting this war as a soldier before you were born," Optimus said now getting angry.
"Do not test me Matrix barer!" Obun said turning to him
"I have him because he came to me of his own free will and he will learn our ways along with your human companions. Oh don't give me that look," she said looking at Prime with as much malice as one could bear.
Optimus was stunned, "Sam, Mikaela?" he said
"And their human friend Miles will be staying with us for the duration of the winter vacation and shall be sent home. However your scout will remain there for training," Obun said.
"Training?" Optimus asked
"It came to my attention that your soldiers had a rather difficult time defeating this enemy when that ship the Nemesis crashed into the planet?" Obun said now she started to look amused.
"Yes…." Optimus replied.
"It took two of my grandchildren to defeat six scouts when your entire aerial command could not do likewise," Obun replied
"Well…"
"Don't well me! A dark menace is coming and I will do something useful about it!" Obun said shouting at the Autobot leader.
Prime cringed as the woman turned her back to him and began to march out of the office with her cane tapping the ground.
Before she completely left she turned to him once more.
"You will see your scout and the Infiltrator when the time comes until then he is my student…May the Force Be with You, Till All Are One," she said and walked out.
Optimus just stared after her until her last words came to him.
You will see your Scout and Infiltrator when the time comes," Prime's optics went wide as he went to the comm. unit but found that the signal was jammed.
----AUTOBOT MEDBAY----
Alex just finished her examination of Titan and turned to Ratchet.
"So far you done a good job of purging his system of the drug thanks," she said
"Not to mention it human it seems you have some skills in the medical field yourself," Ratchet replied
"I know I can't move him from the tank like you said but I can ask you to put some caffeine in there like maybe mix it with his energon to give it a boost to speed up his systems. The drug managed to get into his circuitry and thankfully you managed to prevent further damage. Because the systems are moving too sluggish for my tastes the caffeine should help speed it back up to normal levels." Alex said as she downloaded the prescription to Ratchet and the medical team.
Even though Ratchet does not like others who are idiots in the medical field this human besides Mikaela proved to be someone he was willing to apprentice. Though Alex shows more a specialty towards sparklings then anything. So Ratchet will have to go with what she says.
It was then the medbay doors opened and Obun stepped in.
"Grandma," Alex said
"We are leaving child and we are taking the infiltrator with us," Obun said
"Infiltrator?" Alex asked
Ratchet was confused too till he noticed that she was looking at a pile under the cloth.
JAZZ!
"Why are we taking the infiltrator grandma?" asked Alex
"We need another Autobot adult to even out the dead. So far we have one we need more then one for another perspective and three Decepticons is too much. We need another Autobot to even it out. The five guardians of Earth the future of Cybertron will be reborn again," Obun smiled at her with her missing teeth.
Ratchet shuttered at the sight.
"Why would you need the body of a dead Autobot?" Hook asked finally finishing the repairs on Sunstreaker.
"Because we want someone whose mind is not clouded by hate. And death has a way of cleansing that mind of such hate. Even though the Autobots and Decepticons have formed an alliance there is still hatred amongst the ranks. Now if it starts with five then the power of peace can spread to others as well," she said holding her staff.
It was then that Prowl burst into the door with an armed guard all aiming blasters at Obun. The old woman turned around and smiled deviously at them.
"What are you going to do with those boys shoot me?" she asked
"If by means necessary then yes we will shoot," Prowl said
"I want to see you try to stop me, I am taking the body and my granddaughter with me back home. In exchange you can take care of my grandson till he is well. Until then boys I will take my leave with my granddaughter and the body," she said.
"I said halt!" Prowl said and it was then that Obun leaped into the air and delivered a kick right at that barrel of his blaster and shattered it with a single hit of her hand.
When she landed on her single leg and cane she turned to the stunned security officer.
"Don't toy with me boy for I know a few tricks up my sleeve," she said.
----SOMETIME LATER----
Optimus Prime walked into the medical bay observing the repairs going on in there. What shocked him the most was the sight of Prowl being replicated with a replacement arm.
"What happened?" Prime asked
"The old human is what happened," said Ratchet as he finished.
Prowl moved his arm to get a better feel of it.
"Where is Jazz?" he asked looking for the body in the back of the medbay.
"Gone, the old human took him with her back to her headquarters," replied Mixmaster as he finished with the formula that Alex had prescribed to them and slowly took Titan out of his tank and fed him the low grade energon.
The weak sparkling took it without complaint as he gulped it down. Titan coughed at first but then drank greedily as Mixmaster offered the cube to him. When he was done he then placed Titan back into the tank and his harness to let the little one recharge.
Titan being very tired from the drug went back into recharge without complaint. As Mixmaster got up he checked his vitals to make sure that the sparkling was not in any danger at all. When he was satisfied he walked away out of the Medbay towards the main hanger and then to the Decepticon base.
----DECEPTIBOT HEADQUARTERS HAWAII-----
"Was it really necessary grandma to take this corpse with us?" Alex asked
"Yes, his spark is strong Alex all it needs is a little faith and some summoning power to bring the spark back to the body. I sense a strong spirited mech here and I believe that he will help balance the odds against us," Obun said.
"Well you sure as hell pissed off the Autobots by stealing the body of one of their prized lieutenants," Alex replied
"Well that is tough luck for them after all what's done is done and we have little time to waste," she said and Alex bowed.
"Then I will get started in the morning," she said as she walked to her cabinet to put away her tools.
----THE REC ROOM----
While Alex and Obun were discussing what to do with the body in the med bay Barricade and Bumblebee were having a rather heated discussion.
"Care to say that again Deceptipunk!" Bumblebee yelled and Barricade held up his fist.
"I said bug breath that you're far too ugly for any femme to go chasing after especially not some really flashy one like Dice!" Barricade said and that earned a fist to the face from Bumblebee and both tackled each other to the ground and started to roll around.
The Deceptibots with their human friends and Starscream stood by and as Starscream went to split the fighting mechs from destroying the place it was the loud shout that broke the fight.
"ENOUGH!"
Both Mechs looked rather embarrassed as they turned to face the elderly human woman that gave them the coldest glare that could freeze Megatron over a hundred fold.
Starscream drew back while holding Scorponok from pouncing into the fight.
"You do not fight in my living room understood!" she said and both mechs nodded.
"If you want to fight you will fight in the training room now go!" she said and it was then that Barricade normally well behaved bent into her face.
"You don't tell me what to do human!" he said and that was when Starscream noticed the Deceptibots back away in fear.
Turning towards the old human he was surprised to hear Barricade yelp as the human grabbed his claw and yanked with surprising strength. The mech fell face first into the ground and the old human then pointed her staff at him.
"Now listen to me carefully you," she growled and the mech if he were human would have gulped.
"You do not come into my house and trash it with your childish fights. The same rules apply here as they do in the Hitachi residence no fighting will be allowed here unless they are in the training room which is built to withstand such brawls is that understood?" she said and Barricade found himself nodding.
"Good for that both you and the yellow one will clean this room up." She said indicating the mess on the ground that was caused by the mechs.
"As for you two," she said to Starscream and Frenzy who poked his head from behind Starscream's wing.
"You both will clean the hanger floors but I will show you how I want you to scrub the floor," she said pointing towards the door.
At first Starscream thought it was not fair that he had to clean with Frenzy after all they stayed out of that squabble as he got the cleaning supplies and headed towards the hanger.
When he got there the hanger was filthy as if it had not been cleaned in months.
It was there that Starscream saw Goliath and the twins.
"Hey uncle Star, uncle Frenzy," they said and both greeted the sparklings.
"Hey what's with the bucket?" asked Frenzy
"This is our daily chore cleaning the hanger and since we were not here for quite sometime the hanger looks like crap," said Rodan as he reached into the bucket and grabbed a scrubber full of suds.
"Yea there is a certain way grandma wants you to scrub the floor." Said Radon as she began to scrub.
"Here let me show you," replied her twin as he did a circular motion with one hand and repeated it the opposite way with the other.
"Why would she do that?" asked Frenzy.
"Because that is how the Japanese did it back in the day and it is really effective when scrubbing those hard to reach spots," Goliath finally chirped in.
Starscream then began to slowly scrub the way the sparklings showed him and from rooftop to floor they scrubbed.
-----MEANWHILE-----
"This is all your fault!" yelled Bumblebee
"My fault how is it my fault Autobrat!" Barricade yelled back at Bumblebee
"You just had to call me gay didn't you?" Bumblebee yelled back as he placed the last of the furniture where it belonged.
"What that is what you are," Barricade said
"I do not like other guys!" Bumblebee yelled
"I did not mean that kind of gay dumb bot!" Barricade said
"Yes you did!"
"Did not!"
"Enough!" yelled a voice and both turned to find Kamaka standing there with his cane out.
"You will cease this arguing at once!" he said as he walked in.
Both Bumblebee and Barricade stared at the old human and backed off not knowing if he is just as dangerous as Obun. The two looked at each other and began to make their way towards the training room.
When they got there both of them immediately started to brawl. It started with Bumblebee's fist meeting Barricade's face and they both started an all out brawl. Both mechs tackled each other and drew weapons to blast each other with. What they failed to notice is that Nanobite after witnessing the whole ordeal placed a force – Field around the main area so that way they don't damage the walls with their blasters.
Barricade brought out his blades while Bumblebee charged his blaster again and began firing. Barricade tackled Bumblebee and both let out the months of frustrations that they felt while waiting for the chance to kill each other.
What they don't know however was that someone had seen them fight and now they are in for it.
-----SOMEWHERE IN THE BASE-----
Scorponok was board…
Scorponok was hungry….
Scorponok wanted to play….
The drone skittered around wanting to play with someone a Frisbee in his mandibles as he went from one room to the next till finally he skittered into the training room.
What he saw was a classic display of the ancient war between Autobot and Decepticon. His screech got everyone's attention as he skittered into the fighting pair hoping to get them to stop.
It was a blaster shot from Bumblebee's cannon and several severe slashes from Barricade's blades that made Scorponok scream like he did in pure pain.
----IN THE HANGER-----
Starscream and Frenzy raised their heads along with the other fliers. Rushing out of the hanger they were met with the other Deceptibots as they went into the training room.
What they found was shocking to most of them.
Scorponok lay on the ground bleeding energon while both Bumblebee and Barricade were still duking it out and covered in energon, dents and damaged armor.
They looked worse then ever with all the damage they got with their battle wounds.
"What is going on here?" a demanding voice said and Obun walked in.
She was not pleased that the place was trashed at all. It was by luck that Nanobite placed a force field on the walls to protect what was on it. Walking towards the two dueling mechs she ordered Scorponok to be taken to the med bay. Both Radon and Alex hurried to deal with Scorponok. Obun walked into the field and approached the two dueling mechs.
Leaping into the air she shattered Bumblebee's cannon and then snapped Barricade's blades. She then proceeded up Barricade's arms and disabled his weapon's systems along with Bumblebee and then moved with such speed that both of them found themselves on the ground badly damaged more then their battle and unable to move.
When they could not move anymore Bumblebee's mask lifted to reveal his face and Barricade was just unable to move.
"What is going on here?" Demanded Obun as she stared at the two with hardened eyes.
Both of them started shaking at the sight of the angry old woman who stood before them. She was very irate as it was with her day and with these two fighting it out she knew what must be done.
"Goliath get me the buckets and you know what to do with them," she said and Goliath without saying a word bowed and walked out.
When he returned he held up two small buckets.
"Ha what are you going to do with that old hag throw them at us?" Barricade sneered showing his true Decepticon nature after spending months on the Hitachi Farm.
"No, you are going to revert to your holoforms," she said smiling.
"What if I said no?" Barricade asked
With that Obun leaped up and once again dealt damage to the two of them. Starscream and Frenzy were smart enough to keep quiet with this. When she was done there were parts everywhere.
"Kids get them to the medbay and make sure they don't come out unless in holoform that includes you two," she said turning to Starscream and Frenzy.
The other two Decepticons rushed into the medbay to obey the head of the family.
When they came out all of them were in holoforms and with an irate Alex behind them. She knew better then to question her grandma though as they all were hooked up to the generator. She managed to piece the dead bot back together and soon now found herself and Radon filled with repairing not only one Autobot but two Autobots and two Decepticons. Shaking her head she headed out the door with Radon behind her.
"What do you think grandma is going to do with them?" asked Radon
"I don't know Radon but I bet grandma is steaming right now after all that has been happening lately," she said
"Even with Titan?" she asked
"I bet that was the kicker of them all," Alex said as they walked towards the entrance to the training room.
"Alright you four put a bucket on each arm and stand here till I say you can leave," she said to the four adults.
"You've got to be kidding me!" yelled Barricade
"Do as she says 'Cade," said Frenzy
"Shut up shrimp I won't listen to you," he said
"Barricade just do it!" Starscream ordered and the Decepticon grabbed the buckets and held them.
"You are to stand here for four hours till I come and get you. No one is to leave so if you have to go to the rest room go now," she said and they glared at her.
"Very well I will return in four hours arms out," she said and they did so.
---FOUR HOURS LATER---
"This sucks!" Bumblebee said as his arms hurt.
The buckets that they held began to feel really heavy as the weight of the buckets began to weigh down their arms.
"Well if you two didn't piss off the old lady then none of this would have happened," said Starscream.
"I warned you two lug nuts not to piss off the old human but did you listen to me noooooooooo," Frenzy said glaring at them.
"Shut it shrimp!" yelled Bumblebee as he glared at the attachment with his blue eyes.
Cerulean met ice blue as they glared at each other.
"Knock it off both of you," Starscream said
Bumblebee and Frenzy turned away and huffed. Barricade was fuming but it was Starscream who remained calm.
"I bet she is punishing all of us because when a few break the rules then the entire entity suffers," Starscream said.
"Really? She sounds like a school teachers," Barricade said and there was pain clearly in his reddish brown eyes.
"Really? When did you come to that conclusion bolt bucket?" Bumblebee said
"What did you call me?" Barricade growled
"SHUT UP BOTH OF YOU!" Starscream and Frenzy said at the same time.
----THE MED BAY----
"I don't believe this!" Alex said throwing a wrench in the opposite direction in frustration.
"What?" asked Radon as she finished repairing Barricade's arm.
"Those guys really did a number on Scorponok," she said as she finished the major repairs to the scorpion.
As she finished the last connection Scorponok came online and whined.
"It is ok Scorpy those guys are getting what they deserved after what they did to you," she said stroking the scorpion's head and Scorponok gave a gentle whine as he leaned in.
"Alright Scorponok you can go after nearly five hours in the medbay. Your internal repair systems should take care of the rest," she said as the Scorpion checked everything.
"Now don't got digging for a few days especially the trash," she said smiling.
As Scorponok left the medbay Alex took a whiff of her self and grimaced.
"Damn girl you need a bath," said Mikaela as she helped fix Bumblebee after being more familiar with the camero.
"Well we do have a ofudo bath just down the hall wanna join?" Alex asked and Mikaela smiled.
"Sure just make sure the boys don't peek," she said.
"Go ahead you two I am going to get something to eat and then off to bed with me," Radon said
"Yea go get some rest Radon you deserve it," Alex said and the jet walked out of the medbay.
---WASHROOMS---
The washrooms were a typical washrooms decorated with both Asian and Hawaiian decorations with sculptures here and there and some Cybertronian decorations as well with artwork from various artists. Surprisingly Mikaela recognized some of the artists after spending some time with the vain Sunstreaker. As she laid her head back and ran the water down her naked body. She and Alex looked at each other and laughed as Alex finished cleaning herself. Lori soon joined them as they washed and then entered the hot steaming tub that was just beyond the showers.
The boys had their own wash racks but the only ones allowed in the girl's washracks were Radon and Artemis since both were femmes. Right at the moment it was just the girls soaking themselves in the tub.
"So Lori right?" Mikaela asked looking at the more Asian looking girl.
"Yes?" Lori replied as she leaned in to the first girl.
"Where did you get the idea to paint those symbols on the Deceptibots?" Mikaela asked
"Oh, you mean the logos?" she replied
"Yeah, I mean those what gave you the idea of that?" Mikaela asked
"Well sistah I like dragons and phoenixes and they both reminded me of the twins in a way." She said
"Really?" Mikaela asked
"Yeah since they both are siblings in reality with one parent the Autobot the other the Decepticon. It is very rare for this to happen and because of it they are usually killed upon sparking." Lori said and Mikaela hissed in fright
"That part is mainly among the Decepticons during the war," she said sadly
"During the so called 'Purge' they forbidden their femmes from interacting with Autobot mechs and there fore the duo bonding was never done. When they did find a sparkling that was created from such a bonding Megatron ordered it killed on the spot along with the parents as an example to all Decepticons that such an act is forbidden. So when the twins were born I was surprised after what Nanobite told me. So when I was working on a logo for them I got that I thought about the dragon and the phoenix. Of course being both Decepticon and Autobot I chose the Yin Yang as a source of balance between the two.
So originally I was not going to put anything in the Yin Yang till I saw the symbols on both of them so I put the Autobot symbol as one and the Decepticons as the other. When that happened then the rest of it came to mind and I finished the logo. Everyone thought it was so cool that they wanted it on themselves," Lori smiled as Mikaela leaned back enjoying the hot message.
"How do you guys pay for the water that is pumped into here?" she asked
"We don't the water is filtered from the ocean through the ship's filtration system that was built for it and then purified for our use. It was all Nanobite's idea, she did a lot of the redesigning of the ship since it will never fly again," she said.
"Yeah and I was trying to fix the computer system. There are some files that are lost because of the damage to the ship. I need a way to reinstall the programming into the main system in order to find out some more of what happened." Alex said
"Why would you want to know?" asked Mikaela
"I want to know who Radon and Rodan's creators are; so far we know who the creators of the other kids are; except for the twins and Scrappy is Allspark born so his records are not in there." Alex replied
"What is the deal with Scrappy so far he looks very familiar," Mikaela said
"That is because we got Scrappy from Sector Seven. Uncle Tom mailed him to us along with several of the files that the sector has kept with them including Scrappy. He was pretty much scrap when we found him thus the name and so I repaired him to his normal self," Alex said.
It was then that it hit Mikaela.
"Oh my God! That is the cell phone that Simmons brought to life with the Allspark!" Mikaela said
"How do you know?" asked Lori
"I was there when he was born, he used to be a cell phone that belonged to a friend of mine named Glen. That bot was born from it and when I first met him he tried to blow apart the box that he was in," she said
"All sparklings are like that they panic when they are first activated. It takes sometime to coax the little one to trust you and when they do they consider you their parent for life," Alex explained.
"Well you guys must be lucky to have both sides as one here," she said
"Oh trust me Mikaela sometimes we just want to dismantle them for half the shit they do," Lori said
---BACK AT THE TRAINING ROOM---
It was well over six hours when Obun finally returned and at this even Starscream who was keeping his cool the entire time was ready to snap. The old woman walked along the line with faces of pain clearly on their faces.
"Care to tell me why you are standing here with buckets in your hands full of water and arms aching?" she said slowly
"Um…?" said Frenzy
"It is because you broke a simple rule we have around here," she said
"What rule is that?" asked Bumblebee
"No fighting in this household no matter what faction you are. That is a simple rule that two of you have broken," with that she glared at Barricade and Bumblebee.
"He…"
"I don't care who started it both of you have broken the rules and thus everyone suffers for it even if you are not involved." She said looking at Starscream and Frenzy.
"Take this as a lesson to you all any foul ups and you will suffer the same punishment if not something more severe then what you just experienced." Obun replied
The other bots looked at her nervously.
She then turned and walked down the hallway again after having Sonic and Stitch remove the buckets from stiff arms. With arms aching each bot wondered why their holoforms have not disintegrated on spot after two hours.
It was at the dinner table that they found out the truth.
"It is a simple matter really," Alex said as she explained to them the dilemma.
"We have a holomatter generator that is connected to the CPU of all of you and can generate a total of 16 holomatter forms up to 250 miles radius. We do this with the kids constantly to be more at Grandma's level for practice," Alex said
"How do you generate the holomatter form? How do you know what to make us look like?" asked Bumblebee
"Simple really I base it on your personalities and then Lori and I would then combine that to give you a look of what you would've looked like if you were human," this time it was the human Kyouji that replied.
Obun sat at the head table as everyone filed in with Kamaka at her side. Starscream, Barricade, Bumblebee and Frenzy sat with the children Starscream and Frenzy had been reverted back to their original forms while Barricade and Bumblebee were stuck in holoform due to the damage done by Obun.
"How is the repairs coming along with that other Autobot?" Obun asked Alex and Mikaela
Sam, Mikaela and Miles sat with the other humans though more towards the bots since they are guests.
"Things are going well grandma he should be online in the next two days or so the repairs were mostly done by the Autobot medics so all I did was reconnect the spark chamber where they missed," Alex said as she drank from her cup.
"Very good then in the next couple of days we will see more of this Autobot then," she said
"Well he has to stay in holoform for the next couple of weeks till his self repair system is fully operational and then the rest of the repairs is just good R&R." Alex replied,
"Very well," Obun replied back as she dug into her food.
The four bots did not know what is happening to them but so far they did not know what their fate has in store for them.
TBC