Transformers Prime : Miami
Chapter 9: Yuri ( Part 2)
High winds and turbulent waves rocked the frigate. The skies had turned from orange to lime green and back again. The three Decepticon jets fired barrage after barrage against the frigate.
"Perceptor! Come in! We need a ground-err Sea Bridge now!"Elita One called out.
Perceptor back at base was monitoring them from his perch, He did not like the readings he was seeing, Wherever they were ,the ship was phasing in and out of the space time continuum. The blip on his screen representing the ship was blinking on and off. He caught bit of Elita's transmissions on and off. He didn't need analysis to understand they needed an evac out of there.
"Elita-one! I am picking up part of your transmission!, but Your ship is passing in and out of existence!,It's making it difficult to get a lock on you, Try to move away from the storm!"
"Sunstreaker ! Full engines! Reserve!" She shouted.
Sunstreaker turned the steering column as hard as he could, "I'm turning as hard as I can!" He said through gritted teeth,
Mirage turned the turrets and fired in the sky , but missed the diving Eradicons. The Eradicons and Blitzwing fired volley after volley at the frigate, Even they had difficulty maintaining flight in the strong winds of the storm.
Back at the Enslaver, Shockwave continued to monitor the dimensional storm, The computer focused on the Autobot boat as it began scanning the lifeforms aboard,
"Elita-One" He cooed ,as he realized it was Optimus Primes spark-mate that was attempting to thwart him.
"Activate the Gravity Spikes, It's time to end this charade."He ordered.
Inside the ship April Sullivan continued to perform mouth to mouth with Yuri. His pulse was getting weaker by the second and she could only wonder how much oxygen deprivation he sustained.
"You are not ….DYING!" She yelled as she brought down her two hands in one hard strike as a last ditch effort to start his breathing, Her fist slammed down hard on his chest as it was enough of a jolt to start his breathing. Yuri opened his eyes as he sucked in a large breath and expelled it with loud violent coughs. Gasping for air, he finally began to breath again on his own.
April sat back breathing heavily," Oh thank God! Thank you thank you, your going to be ok!" She smiled.
Then as if someone turned a switch , and made up down and down up. The gravity on the room shifted , April screamed as she was thrust upward and fell face forward on the ceiling, The few tables and chairs in the room followed her and fell all around and on top of her. She winced and looked up to see Yuri still laying on the floor.
"Oh Scraaaaaaap!" Sunstreaker yelled as they felt the gravity shift too and all held on to something to keep from falling into the sky. "What in Primus name is going on!
"Some kind of gravity distortion field! Elita one called out as another gravity spike hit ,this time cause all occupants to fall left this time. Mirage held on to the bow of the ship as another gravity spike force everyone to fall on the forward part of the ship. Green light who was caught off by the latest surge lost her grip and screamed as she fell, Mirage shifted his grip and caught her just as she passed by him.
"Gotcha Greenie!" He yelled.
"Thank you!" She yelled " and I really hate that name!"
April could not explain it but right now it seemed like Yuri was not affected by the gravity changes. Removing the shoulder strap from her medical bag, she climbed the ride side of the windows that was now the down position, She climbed the window pangs as quickly as she could before another gravity spike hit. She reached Yuri and held her body against his, She wrapped the strap around their waist ,tying them together.
"What's going on!" He yelled in his native tongue.
"Uhh...Hi?" She said with a sheepish grin. The only Russian words she knew was Borsch,Vodka, and Dos Vadonya.
"Enough of playing with them, Open another portal above them, I'll accept the capsule as an acceptable loss." Shockwave ordered to his crew.
"But sir Blitzwing is out there..." An Eradicon noted.
"As I said, an Acceptable loss..." He said coldly.
Regaining their composure, The Autobots relaxed in the following calm. Elita-one knew better, This was the calm usually followed by the storm. She knew something bigger was on its way.
"Perceptor we need that bridge now!" She shouted as Above them the three portal merged into one enormous rip in the sky. The rip extended outward as the Autobots saw from within the portal was a purple and dark blue sky, Unknown gold constellations filled it as within it ,various ships and planes could be seen floating in a floating graveyard of machinery. Whatever the door way way it had a powerful influence as the Autobots could not turn their gaze from it.
"I wanna turn away but I can't!" Mirage growled.
Sunstreaker said nothing as he could only think of his brother, and how he would never be able to lob with him again.
Then the entire boat along with the waters it sat on began to elevate toward the mouth of the monstrosity.
April couldn't see anything but felt an overwhelming sense of dread, all she could do was bury her face in Yuri's chest and trembled. She didn't know who this man was, but knew she might spend her last moments with him. Yuri felt the girl's fear and realized she had saved his life. He wasn't sure where he was or what had happened, But he knew somehow the girl meant him no harm in any way, the least he could do was comfort her.
He held her and stroked her hair and sung a song that was well known among the cosmonauts.
"The Motherland hears, the Motherland knows/Where her son flies in the sky " He sung softly in Russian.
Elita one could see the the sprays of water that was around their craft begin to shoot up into the sky ,flying into the mouth of the portal.
"Autobots...it has been a privilege and an honor to serve with you..." she said resolved to their fate.
Then in front of the dark blue and purple portal emerged the familiar green swirling doorway of the ground bridge. The frigate disappeared into the ground bridge and was instantly place faw away from the Portal. The entire frigate shook as water splashed all around them and they were sitting below blue skies and a bright sun.
"Ah good ! I knew those had to be the right calculations to get the ground bridge in a dimensional disturbance over a body of water!" They heard Perceptor say.
All the Autobtos let out a cry of relief and triumph. Green Light and Mirage hugged each other as Sunstreaker leaned against the ships steering column.
"Perceptor!" Elita One responded "I could kiss you!"
"Your Quite welcome!" Perceptor said " Did you recover the craft ? Did it have a pilot?"
"Yeah we got it!"Elita reported " April! How are things on your end, April?"
Elita bent down and looked into the indoor space April had worked on Yuri in, "April you ok?-Ohwoaahhhhh..." She said as she saw April on top of Yuri.
April looked back to see Elita, " Yeah it's not what you think, I can't explain it but he wasn't affected by the gravity crazies, So I tied myself to him " She grunted as she tugged the belt, "Anybot have a knife?"
As soon as the humans were cut free, April helped the cosmonaut sit up and examined him, Yuri could tell now he was on an American ship and it was also inhabited by other metal men and what looked like metal women. He was prepared for a situation like this, He landed in American waters and was now a prisoner of the Americans. He was half tempted to make a brake for it and swim to escape. But he had no clue where he was. It would be suicide to swim if he were in the middle of the ocean. Besides the girl was kind to him and he didn't want hurt her.
"Americansky?" He asked as he pointed to April.
April looked up from scribbling some notes. " Yes, I'm American, " she said "I'm April" she said as she stuck out her hand .
Yuri smiled and shook it, he pointed to himself "Yuri, My...name...is...Yuri Makarov." He said in a heavily accented English. He had to remember his English lessons, They were required for all Cosmonauts in case they were ever captured, which looked to be the case now.
April smiled and couldn't help how handsome he was , He had soft dirty blonde hair that was cut neatly and a fair complexion, But what struck her the most were his eyes, they were soft and clear blue . He may have looked young but they had an old look to them.
He got out of his bulky space suit and underneath wore a tan flight suit, The patches he wore were from the Soviet Union. April thought it was odd as Russia hadn't been the Soviet Union since the early 90's.
He was about to ask where he was and how long he was out when a commotion was heard outside.
"Elita! Looks like we got company!" Mirage said as he looked beyond the horizon." Somethings coming from the water!"
"What now? "Elita huffed.
Then they saw emerge from the water, a huge manta ray like spaceship rise out of the water and hover just beyond them.
Green light could see it was a big spaceship but the rest of the Autobots knew what it was .
"That's the Enslaver!"Mirage yelled
"That's impossible!" Elita one said " I saw it crash into the sun of Terran 4!How can it be here! That means..."
Then the holographic image of Shockwave was projected in front of them.
"Autobot ship , this is the Enslaver...You address Shockwave now. " He said.
"Shockwave..."Elita One said " I thought you were slag.."
"Hardly, I am here to issue you just one warning Elita One, Leave this planet now." he said
"That's not a warning Shockwave, That's a dare..."Elita -One said
If Shockwave had a real face he would be smiling evilly" So true Elita one, it doesn't matter what you do, Either you will fall by trying to stop me or you will fall when I bring your kind extinction."
"You may keep your prize, "he said " I can claim it anytime I want..." He said "And when you talk to Optimus, and you will. Tell him his days are numbered as well..."
The hologram disappeared as the Enslaver turned away and dove back under the water.
Elita scowled " All this time we thought we were dealing with Megatron, we were wrong. Whatever Shockwave is planning it wont be good for us and it defiantly wont be good for the Earth. " She called to Perceptor
"Bridge us back to base..."
Team Elita found themselves back at the underwater base, they all disembarked as the team made repairs and started to recharge Energon.
Perceptor however was interested in the space capsule they recovered. The first thing he did was inventory everything in the module and then he did a elemental scan of all the elements on the capsule.
"Now what have we here?" He said as he recorded the elements of Energon, and Cybertronium."My My , humans are quite the inventive lot!"
He then took out his photonic scanner to take reading of the different photons on it, Expecting to find regular photons found on the earth, instead he found trace elements of Anti-photons.
"Anti-Photons? Hm, Theoretically they shouldn't even exist in this dimensional plane." He then ran the scanner over the Cosmonauts space suit, Again the needle was buried as it read the Anti-protons on the suit. He theorized that these Anti-Photons might be the key in this mystery. If the cosmunaut was unaffected by the gravitational spikes, what set him apart?
Perceptor scratched his chin, and thought deeply.
Green Light leaned over to Sunstreaker as they were getting an Energon drip,"Does he always talk to himself like that?" She whispered.
"Sometimes whole conversations..."Sunstreaker said looking at Perceptor chat to himself some more. They then turned their attention back to the TV and their favorite program 'As the Kitchen Sinks..."
Perceptor was in the middle of inputting some data when April approached him. She climbed to the higher railing where she could talk to him on a level where she would be facing him.
"Perecptor, can I talk to you? It's about the Cosmonaut we rescued..."
"ah yes! "Perceptor said " how is he , I hope he's undamaged.."
"Oh yeah! , he's off cleaning up , but I'm just concerned, He's wearing the patches of a nation that changed its name more than 20 years ago... Do you think it was possible he might have come through a time portal or something?" April asked.
"Given where we found him and what we have been seeing , I don't think that is an outlandish theory as it may sound. "
"Do you think you can look up the name Yuri Makarov?"
Perceptor inputted the name and pulled up several files, some declassified, "oh my, we may have a problem..."
"What is it?" April asked leaning in closer to see.
"It would appear that Mr. Makarov is a Lost Cosmonaut that went missing in 1968, when his space craft lost contact with mission control and was never heard from again. He was reported missing over 40 years ago!" Perceptor said. "Maybe someone should go tell him the-" He looked back to see that April had already left.
Yuri thought it was odd that instead of a detention facility he was lead to a dorm room, by the same pretty girl who had rescued him. He took note of the Five giant robots that American had in possession and was deciding whether or not to tell his superiors. He was sure that was a one way ticket to the looney bin, or worse being grounded.
He was instead led to a dorm room that must have belonged to April, Judging by the pretty scented soaps and shampoos in her shower. Sure his hair smelled like a woman , but wow was it soft !
He noticed odd things about the room, other than the bed with the big stuffed animals and the pink bedspread. He saw she had a mini fridge, opening it he saw something he could only dream about. From the cold small fridge he pulled out a bottle of Coca-Cola. He had long wanted to try this drink from the capitalist world, But knew in doing so would probably kill his career.
He looked around to see if there were any camera, and used the crook of his elbow to open the bottle ,It was a trick his friend Ivan showed him once. He took a sip of the cold crisp soda , as it's taste and fizziness greeted his mouth. Sure he might get thrown in the gulag for enjoying this guilty pleasure but he was a Hero of the Soviet Union, He figured he earned it..
As he sat enjoying the soda, He examined the various other objects in her room, What he guessed might be a TV, but it was way too flat to big a bulky TV he had seen before. He then noticed a peculiar object on the best, It was a smaller screen and attached to it was a small typewriter. What really stood out to him was the fishes swimming back and forth on the screen.
"Is it an aquarium?" He asked looking at it oddly.
Suddenly April came through the door, She had a concerned look on her face and a newspaper. She closed the door and took a deep breath.
"Yuri," She asked, "When were you born?"
He blinked and looked like he didn't understand the question, April saw she had to clarify.
"Birthday...Birthday." She said as she made a blowing motion, like she was blowing out candles on a cake.
Yuri nodded and pulled out his Military ID ,April's heart sank as she saw the date of hi birth was July 19th 1941.
She pulled a seat close to his and sat down ,"Yuri, I don;t know how to say this but, this isn't 1968, They year is 2012." She showed him today's newspaper and pointed out the date.
He took the paper and gulped, What was going on? Was this a trick?
His mind went back to the events of the past 24 hours. The mission, the launch, what happened during the mission. The last thing he remembered when he spoke to mission control was a Bright flash of light, since then there was zero contact from base.
His thoughts then turned April, she must be a spy or something. He had long heard about various techniques used by the KGB against American spies. He knew what the Americans could do must be worse.
"N-no, is not true! You are lying!" he trembled "I-I wont tell you anything!"
April rubbed his arm softly " hey , I-I'm not going to hurt you ok? , But I think something happened-"
She grunted as the Cosmonaut lunched himself and held her against the wall by pressing his arm against her chest. She looked away as she realized his was under great emotional distress, but she wasn't about to let him hurt her.
"Your lying!, Amricansky! Lying!" he yelled.
"I was afraid you'd do this..." She said softly
Yuri then noticed a small burning feeling from his upper thigh, He looked down to see April removing a syringe from his leg,She had just pumped him with enough Thorazine to knock out a Dinobot.
The drug took immediate effect as he collapsed in her arms.
"I should probably do this downstairs..." She quipped.
Yuri opened his eyes, to see he was lying on a gurney and he was in the main staging area of the base. He looked around to see how the base was set up, It was defiantly used to house submarines as there was three large sections made for a Submarine to surface, The waters in it were still . All around there were gray metal walls and various platforms set up, and to the far rear of the base was a yellow ladder that led to a raised platform where the elevator was placed. He looked up to see April sitting by his gurney, reading a book. She noticed he had awakened and put the book away.
"Let's try this again ok?" She said with a soft smile
She pulled out her Ipad and typed in a English to Russian website.
"Yuri, We aren't here to hurt you, but I'm not lying when I said your in the year 2012" She said in Russian, "The people who rescued you are not Americans or even from this Earth."
From behind April entered Elita One and Mirage. They smiled and waved.
"Her name is Elita One, She is the leader of the robots who saved you. The Autobots, They are here fighting the bad robots who tried to take you , The Decpticons."
Elita only had time to look up one Russian sentence "My Vashi Druz'ya.." She said as she declared they were his friends. She said this as the other Autobots, Mirage, Sunstreaker, Green Light and Perceptor appeared in the entry way behind her.
April held his hand "Ya Tvoi drug."She said simply " I am your friend."
Yuri looked at them and then smiled. He knew many things this day. He knew he was still a son of the Motherland, He knew he had survived what should have been a death in space. But he also knew that this group who had saved him, meant him no malice.
"Tovarisch!*" he said pointing to himself,
Deep in the confines of the Enslaver,Shockwave was hard at work, "Even on a day like this it wasnt a complete loss." He said as Blitzwing lay in the ground just after Shockwave punished him for losing the capsule .
He went back to work examining the parachute and cord that was recovered from the splashdown site. He analyzed it to take readings and collect the Anti-Photons that it held on it. He finally held in his grasp something that managed to returned from another dimension intact. With it he knew how to bring him back.
"*Tovarisch = friend/Comrade"
A/N . Team Elita gains a new human friend in Yuri Makarov. In the coming stories I will go into detail as he tries to readjust to a new life where he will have to start over. Here is a man who lost everything, His Fiance`,His friends, even his country. In the coming chapters he will prove to be an efficient ally for Team Elita. Also the cat is out of the bag, as the Team knows they are dealing with Shockwave and his forces. I threw in the Dinobot reference for MEEleeeSmasher, I at least wanted to give you that. ^_^
Thank you all for the comments and critiques, they are noted and they are appreciated!
NEXT TIME- Yuri starts to readjust to his life and try to piece together what he has lost, as Det. Verity Carlo recruits Sunstreaker to help her meet with a rival Miami gang to get closer to the Decepticon contact to the Colombians , But an unexpected occurrence happens on the day of the meet and at the center of it all is...Miko?