THE LOST CHILDREN OF CYBERTRON
Chapter 44: Like a Falcon in the Sky
"You little slagger get back here!" yelled a very angry Cliffjumper as he chased a very tiny silver creature around London.
London having been one of the few cities that fought off the Unicronian army.
It was as Cliffjumper had found it when he arrived with a few Autobots and Decepticons. The one thing he did not expect was to be pranked by a Cybertronian the size of a human hand. This one laughing almost with glee the Decepticon symbol on his back proudly as he painted his car in off colors and posted a sign that clearly said, 'Love me, kiss me, screw me, drool on me,' and placed several magazines that Cliffjumper does not want to see again.
Who wants to look at naked human femmes touching their interface ports is beyond me. Then again I am not human so I would not know. Though the images were rather disturbing. He thought as he chased the little miscreant down the streets.
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"Scrappy you lolo why did you have to do that for?" Skeeter said to the Nokia-bot.
"Because it was fun and he was there asking to get tagged," Scrappy replied as he remained hidden while the Autobot passed by.
"Yeah, but he does not look too happy to see us thanks to you," Stitch said as he dimmed his optics as Cliffjumper passed again.
Cliffjumper was very peeved indeed with the two little troublemakers. As he drove around for one final time he finally gave up and went back to his guard duty. As he sat down again he did not notice the two phones getting out of their hiding spot. It was Skeeter who came out first and he was then followed by Scrappy.
"Did he go back to sleep?" Scrappy asked
"It seems like it," Skeeter replied
Suddenly the lights lit up again and a booming voice said over the speakers.
"AHA!" it was then that both tiny cons screamed as they made a run for it.
When they ran Cliffjumper was high on their heels. The two of them ran down the streets of London trying to avoid the sewers as best as possible. Skeeter kept glaring at Scrappy as the Autobot tried to catch them. Then seeing a rather good size puddle Skeeter turned around and stomped his foot down causing the water to splash up and threw it at the Autobot causing a fog to appear for a bit while they disappeared into an alley. When they emerged again from the other side of the alley Stitch was already running out from an electronics store seeing them run for it.
"What the hell happened?" he asked
"Scrappy and his pranks that is what happened. Stupid glitch had to prank an Autobot that does not take jokes very well." Skeeter said as the angry rev of a car nearby seemed to get the two's attention. All three ran for it down another alley and into the sewers. As they entered the sewers Stitch glared at the two of them.
"You idiot what were you thinking! Wait till I tell grandma that you had pulled a prank on that Autobot!" Stitch yelled as they ran further down the tunnels with the sound of a car hot on their audio sensors.
"Ah shit!" yelled Scrappy,
The other two Deceptibots glared at him as the Nokia phone made his way down the tunnel trying to figure out a way to escape when a hand suddenly collapsed around him and he quickly squeezed his way through two fingers. Stitch and Skeeter following behind as Scrappy managed to get out of the tunnels and down another alley well he would have had he not met another bunch of British soldiers.
As they trained their guns down on the three they had no choice but to put up their hands in surrender. The only thing that was said was,
"Wait till I tell grandma what you did,"
WASHINGTON D.C.
Luckily for Barricade things had been going a lot easier since all he had to do was bash and smash; something that he had missed and right beside him was Frenzy and Jazz. Frenzy he was used to Jazz he had not seen the Autobot fight personally but he had to admit he did fight well. Swinging his sai's around he faced his enemy anew and planted a good size hole right where his spark chamber was.
Jazz did a back flip before delivering a roundhouse kick to another Unicronian soldier. He and Barricade were back to back Decepticon to Autobot and they fought a common enemy. Frenzy perched on Barricade's shoulder launched a few more of his famous disks and as they came back he was quick enough to catch them before they did harm again.
"This is getting ridiculous!" he said to the both of them.
"You think!" they both said at once.
Laser fire was exchanged as many still kept coming. Their fighter ships proved to be too much as they are heavily shielded with no source of the shielding. Barricade and Jazz had to find cover to avoid the turbo lasers that the ship was giving off. As they raced through the streets of Washington their heavy footsteps echoing they could see the many bodies of Human and Cybertronian alike.
Readying his gyroblades Barricade parried the blows of a Unicronian Sweep before it could take Jazz's head off. The Autobot turned to him gratefully and the sliced the head off of another sweep that came at him.
"Dam it is as if they are being manufactured faster then we can kill them!" Jazz yelled and Frenzy leaped over his head to claw the optics out of another soldier and then freeze the one next to him with some of the pond water.
"At least we can fight them now," Frenzy replied.
Blasts of turbo-fire came from another fighter but this one bore the emblem of the Autobots followed by another one with the same emblem. The two shuttle brothers fought off the Sweeps but their shields were stronger then before.
"Slag! They can't use any energy weapons on them," Jazz said,
"Frenzy get a hold of those two and tell them they have to melee the Unicronian solders!" Barricade shouted over the explosions.
Frenzy immediately patched through to them and told them what needed to be done.
Immediately both of them transformed and started to swing. Being as both Jetfire and Skyfire are larger then most Autobots save for Omega Supreme they managed to easily shake off a few of the soldiers.
"We got all the humans evacuated it is now time for you three to evacuate as well," said Jetfire as he threw a blow at a few of the sweeps.
Skyfire managed to transform into his alternate form allowing a now transformed Barricade and Jazz to speed into his cockpit before he took off. Jetfire followed close behind as they escaped the burning ruins of the American National Capital.
"How many humans managed to survive that?" asked Frenzy from within Skyfire.
"Not many survived this assault most were killed as they were taken by surprise." Skyfire replied as he soared above the clouds that was before heavy laser fire was seen next to him.
"Ah Scrap! Jet!" Skyfire shouted.
"I'm on it," replied Jetfire as he turned and began to fire back.
"Use human weapons they work the best," Frenzy said
"Tried that but that does not work anymore as if they have adapted for human weapons as well as ours," Skyfire replied as he dodged another bullet.
"Why do I have the feeling that this is not going to end very well," said Barricade.
As if the emphasize that Jetfire was hit in his left wing causing him to at first spin out of control till his brother flew under him and held him up. Both of them tried to get out of there as fast as possible.
"Why don't you warp out?" asked Jazz
"We can't the warp drive was damaged so we don't know where we would end up if something like this happened." Jetfire replied as both tried not outrun the sweeps now.
With that they headed towards the Appalachian Mountains.
BEIJING CHINA
Sonic, Zenith and Artemis was in a fight for their lives as they fought to protect a few civilians from some of the sweeps that tried to get at them. Beside them was a few shaolin monks from the nearby temple that offered to help evacuate as much people as possible. As they fought back Sonic letting out an ear piercing screech led Zenith and Artemis along with their human companions away from the sweeps.
As the Sweeps came closer Sonic unsheathed his claws and ran towards them leaping into the air and brought them down. Lighting some fire from within him he burned a few and then allowed the ground to swallow some more.
One soldier that was not a Sweep brought down a single claw and slashed down Sonic's back causing the Autobot sparkling to scream in agony. As sparks flew out of the wound Sonic slashed at the Unicronian soldier and took out his dark spark. Crushing it in his hands he failed to notice the other one until he took out his arm. Grabbing his arm with his good hand Sonic slashed again.
A streak of dark blue and black alerted him to Zenith and Artemis's return as they too joined the fight. And they are not in one piece either.
Zenith supported a dysfunctional optic with a damaged leg and dark gashes along his chassis Zenith slashed away at them with his sword. Blocking another blow by a third Unicronian and then a Sweep Zenith swung with his all his might flings the soldier into the Sweep. Artemis flipped backwards a few times and delivered a few new blows to a group of incoming sweeps.
"Are all the humans safe?" asked Sonic
"Yeah they made it out of the city," said Artemis,
"Good then lets get the hell out if here," Sonic said and noticed that his arm that held the warping device was damaged,
"Shit!" he cursed.
"Hold on to me and I will get us out," said Artemis and they all warped out.
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
Skyfire avoided another laser blast from a Sweep that came down on him as he turned corners and stooping to avoid another missile. Jetfire held on to his brother now that he transformed back to bipedal mode and was firing away. The Sweep did not dodge as his shield took the bunt of the blasts. He however did not notice the mountain coming closer till Skyfire pulled up and he smashed into it.
"Wwwwwooooohhhhhhhhhoooooooo!" Jetfire screamed in joy as he held on. Skyfire being older and slightly larger could only laugh at his brother.
As they reached the end of the mountain range Barricade and Jazz however felt a bit sick after that adventure.
"Remind me never to go flying with them again," said Jazz
"That my friend I agree with," Barricade replied
Frenzy being as he could not hold his tank very well had already purged a few times in Barricade and that in turn made Barricade feel very ill. Normally he could take it but being as Frenzy left a purple glowing mess all over his seats he felt very ill indeed. Jazz felt the same as he heard the wrenching.
"Autobot Headquarters here we come!" yelled Jetfire
--LONDON--
Cliffjumper held all three Deceptibots in his hand as he marched towards the main building of Buckingham palace. The one luxurious building is now in somewhat of a ruin after the attack. Armed guards stood at the entrance and when they saw Cliffjumper they allowed him to pass. Astrotrain was the first to greet him as the smaller Autobot walked briskly past still having the stickers stuck to his frame. The smirk on his face made Cliffjumper even grumpier as the European car trudged past him into the building. Luckily for him he was small enough to get in so he walked over to where the commander of the European forces stood.
Like a modern day Napoleon Prince Edward stood as he turned and faced the Autobot.
"What is this I hear you've found some intruders?" he asked the patch over his left eye made him even more menacing.
"That is exactly that," Cliffjumper said and deposited all three Deceptibots onto the table.
Grumbling all three of them turned towards the prince.
Three pairs of red optics met a pair of bright blue.
"Deceptibots," he said with alarm.
"What?" Cliffjumper said
"You may have seen the first symbol but the second on near their chassis is enough for me to be convinced that they were sent here by your grandmother is that correct?" he asked.
The two nodded to him, "Well it is about time someone checked in on us," he said.
"Communications have been down for quite a while and while we're at it tell that grandmother of yours that we barely got off with a few scratches this time," he said and Stitch transformed while Skeeter did the same and linked up with Stitch to get the transmission through.
Scrappy on the other hand looked to Cliffjumper who glared back at him.
--AUTOBOT HEADQUARTERS--
Kekoa stood with Kyouji and Bumblebee observing the message that just came through from London. The report told of the barely escaped British populace as well as the reports of the European movement. Optimus was busy relaying new orders to the Cybertronians there. Shockwave could only watch as many cities fell under continued attacks.
"Unicron is just waiting for his chance to kill us all and devour us," Shockwave said.
It was then that Kyouji gotten curious, "Um why is it that Unicron has to wait till he can consume us?"
"He likes to toy with his food before he eats it and besides it's to make sure any reminisces of Primus are destroyed. He knows that the last piece of Primus's spark is here and that is the Matrix of Leadership said to hold the ancient wisdom of Primes past and of Primus himself. There is also the fact that the Allspark was here so he has to make sure that all of its energy is gone. He normally would consume a planet without his soldiers unless it was too large. But given the circumstances he does not want any mistakes." This time it was Jetfire who spoke up as he entered the room.
Soundwave overheard the conversation and could not help but wince at the memory of that event.
"Then what about Cybertron?" asked Kekoa as he turned towards the monitor of their home planet.
"Unicron can't consume the body very well but he destroyed it with his missiles not long after everyone escaped." Optimus said showing them the reports from the last of the evacuees.
All three of them were stunned, "Holy shit! So in other words we are screwed if he has a chance of destroying us,"
"Exactly," was the reply.
--PAKELE RESIDENCE--
While the last three Deceptibots Zenith, Artemis and Sonic were in the medbay. Alex was using spare parts form the three corpses that they pulled from under the ocean to make better armor for them. In the meantime Lori who just came back from Autobot Headquarters was off giving them a new paint job while fixing a rather sheepish Sonic. Titan was dozing on one of the recharge berths with Scorponok on his chassis also asleep.
In the meantime Radon was busy applying new paint to Starscream's armor. All three could see that it resembled feathers but the patterns resembled that of a falcon. Starscream in the meantime was in his Alt-mode that of an F-22 Raptor. As Radon painted his back to resemble that back of a Peregrine Falcon Rodan her brother was busy applying the Decepticon Symbols to his wings. He added a bit to it though adding wings showing that this is the Decepticon Air Commander and an Elite Seeker. He found it on the data files that Nanobite downloaded for him from the ship's main computer.
As Radon finished the final touches to Starscream's armor she turned around and applied some light heat to settle the paint. Right below his cockpit was the Deceptibot symbol showing that he is now a member of the Pakele Family. As the door opened Kamaka entered cane tapping on the ground to support his weak legs. His age was catching up to him but he did not care it was more for his wife to worry about since her health is failing her.
"What is it grandpa?" asked Alex.
"It is your grandmother Alex she is dying," he said.
TBC