Transformers Prime: Miami
Chapter4 : Spark Point.
April Sullivan could see she was at least 20 feet off the ground, She felt the metal fingers hold her body securely .She then saw the metal cuff fastened tightly around her right wrist,Blood began to drip from her wrist as the metal dug into her flesh. This giant robot held the suitcase that was attached by the other cuff and a 6 ft long chain. The chain was pulled taught as He held her in a twisted version of a child pulling the wings off a butterfly.
The endorphins were kicking in as April was starting to lose consciousness, For her it felt like a dream. She started to see images in her mind. Of Being born in Upstate New York, Christmas with her parents and an older sister she adored. Birthdays, First kiss, Images of her sister in deep sadness. Then days of her in college in Miami, She realized quickly what was happening. Her life was flashing before her eyes.
"Hang in there!Don't you give up, Do you hear me!"
She wasn't sure if the voice belonged to her sister or that large pink robot in front of her. Everything was turning hazy for her, the fever and chills were racking her body.
"Well? Your answer Autobot ?" Astrotrain demanded.
Elita one stood and stared at the Decepticon hard,"Ok you win, the location of Optimus Primes base is 6-9 Alpha Mike Sierra..."
"Do you take me for a fool?" He said angrily and he squeezed April a little tighter,enough to make her cry out in pain. "What kind of coordinates are those?"
Elita One chuckled "Silly me, you see I've been on this rock a long time, so long I think I've gone native, Those coordinates are a code, I can translate, It stand for …..."
"ADIOS ..MOTHER...SCRAPPER!"
Within a span of a nanosecond, Elita pulled off a quick draw shot. Her right arm flew up and transformed into her cannon and fires a single blast .The blast tore through the chain freeing April from the case, and the shot took out Astrotrain's right eye. Before he had a chance to extract revenge. Mirage uncloaked from his left and with a single smooth motion from his arm blade he severed the left hand freeing April.
She felt herself being caught by another set of robot hands this time ,much gentler. She looked up to see the face of Mirage smiling at her.
'Hey gorgeous, What's a place like this doing around a girl like you?
"Mirage ! GO GO GO!" Elita-One shouted as Mirage transformed with April inside him and he sped through the green portal back to base.
Elita laid suppressive fire as Astrotrain dodged " Blitzwing grab the Shard!" he yelled.
Blitzwing grabbed the case and attempted to transformed to carry it off, he was stopped mid transformation by Sunstreaker who appeared from his left and clocked him hard against the nose of his jet cone. As he fell the case flew from him and landed a few yards away.
The case bounced off two planes before splitting open, the small round Shark shard then crashed through the passenger window of a derelict A222-bell helicopter.
Elita one and Sunstreaker both worked in unison fighting the triple changers, Suntreaker in particular was taking pure pleasure in ripping out various part from Blitzwing. The Triple changers found a brief moment to regroup.
"A retreat is in order!" Astrotrain said as they both transformed into their flying modes and took off.
"Quickly" Elita said as she saw the Cons take off " We have to find that shard. Let's split into two to look."
As they split apart Elita called to base "Perceptor we fended off the Decepticons, how is the human ?"
"we have her but if I don't purge the energon radiation from her she wont last the hour" he said grimly.
"Do not let that human die, That's an order..." She said flatly.
Perceptor nodded as he turned to Mirage, "Quickly get her to the Infirmary chamber."
Mirage carried April inside the large round glass chamber, in it was a table that was for the size of an Autobot, April was tiny compared to the massive table.
"May Primus watch you." Mirage said quietly as he exited the chamber.
"She could die here alone and we don't even know her name..."
Perceptor activated the green lights in the chamber " I have to extract the radiation from her first, It will be a few moments while I recalibrate the system to its lowest settings.
The computer systems the Autobots used when they were first assigned to this secret underwater submarine base were primitive. Perceptor took it upon himself in this past year to upgrade their computer, much of the parts he had to make and invent. Still it was well within his means. Before the war Perceptor was one of Cybertrons most gifted scientists. He mapped out most of the star systems for the Autobots to use to stockpile their energon,weapons, and even use as shelter for themselves.
Eita-one called on him personally to join her team when they encountered him during a resupply run at the Shadow Proclamation. Rarely leaving the Autobot base in cases of dire emergency. Perceptor was content to tend to his experiments and engineering of various tools and mech the Autobots need in the fight against the Decepticons.
The green lights of the chamber intensified as it began absorbing the radiation from April's body. Still her breathing was beginning tolabor, and her heartbeat was getting weaker. Her vitals appeared on their large computer screen, Mirage could see her vitals were fading.
"It's not working ! She's dying!" He growled.
"patience Mirage, I am prepared for this." He said as he activated his Omni-tool. It glowed yellow over his right hand. He typed a few commands to it as from within it hundreds if not thousands of Silver sparkles emanated from it and swirled around the light gauntlet.
"Now that I flushed the Energon radiation from her, I have to repair the damage it caused to her body. I have been wanting to test these Nano-bots for a while now. Problem is , they aren't programmed for human, they dont know how tofix a human as they have never seen a human."
Perceptor then remember from the various reports he read from Team Prime , they had human allies. He called back the Nano-bots into this Omni-tool and made a call to Autbot base One.
"Come in Autobot Outpost Omega One, this is Autobot Outpost Gamma Two. Come in Ratchet!"
Soon the gravely voice of Optimus Prime's medic can on the communicator "This is Ratchet, Perceptor! Is that you? What can I do for you?"
"No time to explain, I need a ground bridge to your location and …...a favor."
immediately a green swirling portal opened in the underwater base. Perceptor looked to Mirage.
"Stay and watch the girl, I shan't be long" He said as he disappeared through the Portal.
Perceptor walked through and instantly found himself in Jasper,Nevada at the Autobot base in the old missile silo. Nevada was four hours earlier in the time zone so It was 2.a.m on a Saturday. Apparently Perceptor interrupted a sleep over of the Autobots young charges.
The first one to greet Perceptor was Miko, She wasted no time trying to get to know Perceptor.
'WOW! I've never seen you before! what are you like the Autobots main weapons specialist, you have a big cannon thingy on your shoulder! Is that used for blasting con? What do you transform into,I bet your a tank!"
Perceptor looked at the tiny female human "She'll do..."
"Perceptor? What brings you here old friend?" ratchet asked
"I have little time to visit Ratchet, I am in urgent need to take base readings of a human female for these nano-bots, so that I may use them to heal a dying female Human back at our base."
Optimus Prime stepped forward, "what injured Female?" he asked in a raised tone.
"You will get Elita-ones report of the situation in a few hours, now if I may?" Perceptor said as he activated the nano bots from his Omni-tool," He looked at Miko "Miko is it? Miko I merely need you to stand still.."
"Good luck with that" Snickered Jack Darby as he watched from the perch where they had couches and a tv set up.
"Wait this isn't going to hurt Miko is it?" Bulkhead asked concerned for his charge.
"Don't worry " He assured " It wont sting...at first"
He then activated the Nano-bots, the sparkles flew and engulfed Miko, swirling around her taking in bits of data, learning all about the anatomy of the Human female.
"Whoa hey!" she giggled" this kinda tickles.
Then the nano-bot proceeded to take small samples of Miko, this was done by causing tiny pin-pricking shocks all over her body. She franticly started to wave her arms and dance a funky dance as the Nano-bots took, microscopic samples of blood, Spinal fluid,muscle tissue,nerve tissue, bone, bone marrow, skin, hair, intestinal tissue, lung tissue, various mucous membranes, a tissue sample from egg from within her ovary ,and finally Brain tissue.
As soon as it began it stopped She breathed and huffed "I don't like you anymore..." Miko stormed off back to the couch next to Jack.
"Thank you, If it means anything Miko you have just saved a life." Perceptor said as he walked back to the portal "Oh and Bulkhead for your information my Synthetic formula works you simply forgot to carry the two!"
Perceptor returned to Gamma Two " How is the patient?"
"Still hanging on "Mirage said monitoring her,"
"open the chamber!" Perceptor said as he walked in the chamber ,He stood over the dying April, and released the Nano-bots, they swirlled around April lifting her up slightly and began to fix her on a molecular level. Destroyed tissue regenerated, blood was cleansed, and he breathing and heart rate returned to normal. It took a blueprint of what a human should be at at full capacity and made it happen. The process was over in a matter of a few minuets. When the Nano-bots finished they returned to Perceptor as Mirage joined him in the chamber.
Slowly April opened her eyes, and took a deep breath. She felt, fine. More than fine, she felt wonderful. She sat up to see Mirage and Perceptor looking over her.
"Where am I?-" she was interrupted as Perceptor flashed a rapidly glowing light from his finger tip to her face, What he did was sent a tiny pulse signal that put her to sleep.
'You need rest now." Perceptor said as she slumped over asleep.
Mirage glared at Perceptor," I have experiments to tend to now. "Perceptor said nonchalantly.
Elita and Sunstreaker continued to look for the spark when Elita received a call , She recognized the call to be from Agent Tabatha Greene, their liaison to the United States government.
"Yes Agent green?" She asked
"By the edge of the dock, two minuets " Agent green said in a no nonsense tone.
She called Sunstreaker "Streak, Uncle Sam to chew us a new looking while I tend to Agent Greene.
Elita- One transformed and drove to the meeting place, She could see on approach a black helicopter land and emerging from it was an Agency woman, Unlike her colleague Agent William Fowler, She chose to dress in a black suit, with a long black trench-coat. She was tall slender, had fair skin and long brown hair that was tied in a low ponytail. She wore dark shades and heels. She also had hundreds of Black op missions under her belt. She waved off the copter with two fingers as it lifted off.
She approached Elita one and got in her driver's seat. "Drive" she said flatly.
Agent Greene made it a point not to speak in the first two minuets just to set the mood. A mood that read, "I am beyond pissed off"
"Tell me why I shouldn't send a bunker buster to your base right now..."
"The Colombian drug cartel had a piece of Cybertronian hardware, However they got it or whoever gave it to them, It was being delivered, We need to take possession of it." Elita said making her case. "And don't ever threaten my team again..."
They were both Alpha females, and each knew it. There was no point to a pissing contest now,
"it isn't that the US are ungrateful you disposed of the heroin shipment, But next time ,Inform me before you go all Lone ranger." She said " it's not a good time to be apart of the Medrano drug cartel.
Agent Greene pulled out a tiny USB drive and stuck it in Elita One's dashboard, "You know the drill, Upload your record of optics to my drive, I'll need then for my report."
"We saved her in case you wanted to know" Elita said "The hostage."
"Yes, How is Ms. April Sullivan doing?" Agent Greene asked unimpressed
"we were able to fix the damage the Cybertronian hardware caused, from Perceptor's last report she is sleeping peacefully. "
"When she recovers I'll put her in protective custody." Greene ordered.
"Out of the question!, the decpticon know her face, We'll assign her protection" Elita snapped.
"Fowler might enjoy running a daycare, but I kinda of have a thing against leaking national secrets to civilians!" Greene said as she rolled down Eltas window and lit a cigarette.
"You know I hate that..."
"Deal with it." Greene growled back.
"That child Your referring too, is a grown woman, She was taken hostage aboard a yacht during a frat party. "Elita said fighting back the urge not to douse Agent Green with her windshield wiper fluid. "You know I have a novel idea, Why not, when she wakes up let her make the choice whether or not she wants human protection or Autobot protection from the Decepticons!"
Agent Green flicked out some ashes, " OK. fine, have it your way, Just know there's more to Ms. Sullivan than "meets the eye" " She said ominously.
"No mind games Agent Green, What do you mean?" Elita asked
Agent Greens flicked out the cigarette, and got out of Elita One. "as a representative of the President of the United States, I officially give you our eternal gratitude against the Colombians, Don' EVER do it again, Pick on things your own size..." Greene said walking off
"Bitch" Elita snarled
"And proud of it!"
Sunstreaker had long given up looking for the spark and instead he was catching Sports-center from his wrist screen. He was very happy with the Dolphins draft pick from last night, He would seriously consider that kid for his Fantasy Football team. As he stood catching the scores from the NBA playoffs , he failed to notice the helicopter behind him, as it started to shake and tremble the spark within it beginning to discharge. Electricity coursed all over it as it finished it's discharged, then the 222-bell helicopter transformed into a cybertronian female, She shrieked wide eyed and shocked to the bright world around her . The screaming startled Sunstreakers as he turned around and readied his arm cannon. He stopped when he saw the green framed Cybertronian.
She was frightened, scared beyond anything in her new life. Images and voices flashed in her mind as it soon became overwhelming. She held her head and started to shake.
"Stop it! Stop It! Stop it! Stop it!" She pleaded.
Sunstreak retracted his Gun, 'Woah woah, calm down! Take a chill pill" We're not going to hurt you..."
He got on his communicator, " Sunstreaker to Elita-One, I found the Spark, or should I say the Spark found a body..."
Elsewhere, Astrotrain and Blitzwing flew all morning north into the waters of the Bermuda Triangle. They reached their destination as a large Manta Ray like ship rose tot he surface and opened its large hatch to let them in. As soon as it swallowed them, it sank to the waters below.
Unlike the Nemesis, The Decepticon warship The Enslaver, Chose to lurk in the oceans of the Earth. It ability to hide from both the Autobots and the Decepticons lead by Megatron were vital.
The two triple changers arrived in the chambers of their leader.
"My lord, the Spark was lost, But we were able to scrap the human insect." Astrotrain apologized.
They both looked at the large imposing figure draped in the darkness lit only by the Purple glow of the monitors behind him.
After a long uncomfortable pause, he turned around suddenly fired a shot from his hand that a plasma cannon, The hit wasn't fatal but it as enough of a punishment that Astrotrain and Blitzwing knew they got off light.
The figure stepped out of the darkness "You have failed me yet again, We are going to accelerate my plans.." His single eye glowed orange as Shockwave stepped out into the light. "You get one more chance..."
Author's notes- Well at last the last member of team Elita is revealed, her name will be revealed in the title of the next chapter, and she will be one of the female Autobots from G1.
This chapter we finally see a cameo from Team Prime, and they will have a bigger cameo in the next one. I'm wondering if anyone can guess April Sullivan's secret. I left a couple clues for you. Let's see how clever you are.
Also now we see who the big bad is, but he;s suppose to be on Cybertron! …...Spoilers...
Also we met Agent Tabatha Greene and yes I meant for her to be bitchy, I needed a female Fowler, and she is another OC I added. She is actually based off one of my MMO's City of Heroes. Off to comments, and we have one!, ONE! Sheesh , hope im not losing you all...
Meleesmasher- I put in the Team Prime cameo early just for you, and in the next chapter we will see more of them. Thanks for reading!
NEXT TIME- The fallout from the Columbian raid begins. Elita-One faces Optimus Prime to submit her report, and He wont like what she has to say. Team Elita, then welcomes two new members into their ranks, and we see April's indoctrination to the team. Also Shockwave begins to lay out the ground work for his master plan.