Transformers Prime :Miami
The Renegades Voice Actors
Sideswipe: Cillian Murphy
Chromia: Zoe Saldana
Razorclaw: Tom Hardy
Skids: Michael Bell
Grimlock:Gregg Berger
Delilah Danzig: Aviva Farber
Chapter 20: Sudden Death
"You do know there is a trap waiting for you!" Verity argued.
Elita One rolled her eyes and checked her arm guns and blades. " I know Verity.."
"At least take some extra fire power?" She persuaded.
"If we go in there guns blazing we will risk harming the hostages, they just want Optimus and I , we're going to negotiate for the release of our friends and then." Elita one paused ominsly.
"and?"
"Optimus and I will figure it out, "She said as Perceptor approached her.
"Ah Elita!, I do believe I may have a solution that will level the playing field so to speak." He said as Elita looked at him annoyed and tapped her wrist, indicating she didn't have a lot of time.
"Right, I have repaired the ground bridge so that it's partially operational" He said as Jack and April immediately paid attention.
"Well that's great! ,Just ground bridge her here then." April soon placed a hand on her nephew's shoulder as he looked on the worried look on her face he knew she knew something he didn't.
"I've known you long enough Pereceptor to know what your tone means, "April said "What's the other part?"
Perceptor sighed, "I have fixed the bridge so that I can input an object into the portal but cannot output it yet.
"Wait so are you saying you can bridge them out but not completely through?, they will be stuck inbetween the portal?" Arcee questioned.
"That is correct, but once I fix the relays we will bring her though. " Perceptor said "It's not much but it is something to save ."
"But mom will be stuck in some kind of limbo!" Jack said sternly
"It's either that or complete obliteration." Perceptor noted gravely.
"If it's a chance then we must trust you Perceptor, do it while we tend to Sideswipes army." Optimus said as he and Elita left to enter the portal. Elita someone always knew she and Orion would end up in a situation like this, even when he left her behind all those years ago at the Orzow Docking bays where the Arks were departing. She knew their paths would cross. Even now as he stood by her side, she couldn't be feel a tiny bit of happiness that they may spend their last moments in the spark together.
"No matter what happened Elita, stay behind me I will protect you no matter the cost." Optimus said as he looked into her optics.
"I know you will prime, and no matter what happens, know I never stopped caring for you. "
"Thank you Ar- I mean Elita." He stuttered.
"No it's ok ,say it just once more, please." She begged.
"Thank you Ariel." Optimus said affectionately.
They stared before the green swirling portal, "Let's do this Orion."
They walked together through the ground bridge portal, they knew what lay on the other side would very well decide the fate of the Autobot and the Eath.
Perceptor went to this terminal, and started to input coordinated for the groundbridge. "I will need to time this right" He said as he borught up schematics of the autobots base, there he could also see the blip that was June Darby's car as it started to speed it's way into the base, Perceptor could see from afar April franticly trying to call her sister.
"Dammit June pick up!" April shouted as she tried over and over again, she figured she could avert all this if she simply got ahold of her sister to tell her to turn around, but June was an ER nurse and she knew the dangers of talking on a cell phone and driving.
June replayed in her mind over and over what she was going to yell or say to her son, and then Optimus and then the Autobots. She was aware how important her son was to the Autobots. She knew the Autobots here were protecting the planet from a much greater threat. Still it was no excuse to keep her in the dark with matters concerning her son and now her baby sister. She saw the massive doors of the base open up as she drove through. The long tunnel that led into her base was a short drive, at the very end it would open up to reveal the massive interior of the Autobot base. As she made the curve he could see the entrance and no one was visible. Usially as she made the drive in she could see some large Autobot clunking around or the kids doing some kind of chore or playing around. She saw nothing of the sort, and that's when she felt a twinge of her mom and nurse instincts. She knew deep down to her core that something was wrong. She ignored the voice that told her to turn around for she knew whatever it was her son was in the middle of it and quite possible her sister. She hit the peddle a little hard as she sped toward the opening and that's when she saw three Cybertronians she did not recognize. One looked like Arcee but was jet black, the other was taller and a mix of blue and red, the last one however put pure fright into her. He was massive, red, black, and yellow, with a lions head in the middle of his chest.
They shared two things in common, One ,where their Autobot symbols should be there were scratch marks over them as if they were done so on purpose. The final reason and most stark, was they all had their guns drawn on her.
"What?" June gasped as she slammed on the brakes as they began to fire on her. Laser bolts began to hit the ground and would soon reach her and the car she was in.
"No!" She screamed as hid her eyes and waiting for the oncoming pain and possibly death. She then felt rather than see something form under her. She could see the green glow rise up from under the car as it soon dropped into the ground bridge portal. She dropped what felt like 20 feet before she was suspended inside the green swirling portal. June could hear her phone ringing and saw it was her sister.
"April! What the HELL is going on!?" She screamed as she seemed to float inside the car.
"June you need to listen carefully " April said " The Autobot base has been taken over by Renegade Autobots! They were going to blast you but we sent you through a ground bridge portal to keep you safe!"
"Ok why aren't I through to the other side April?" June demanded
"They attacked the Miami base first, disabling most of the base's computer functions, including the ground bridge. Perceptor got it partially running so you will be in limbo until he can get it fixed. " April told her sister " Look Jack is fine, he's with 's a long story but you need to stay where you are, we'll bridge you here as soon as we can!"
"Ok, Just hurry please, being in this limbo is very unnerving!" June said as she hung up. "Well now I guess I can catch up on some reading…." She said softly as she took out her copy of "50 shades of Grey"
April sighed as she hung up the phone, "She's frazzled but ok, Perceptor please tell me you can get the bridge fixed soon?"
"Of course April! , I will have it up in a week or two!" He said nonchalantly
Both Mirage and Arcee saw the look in April's eyes, Mirage quickly punched Perceptor hard in the arm.
"uhh a day or two?" He rescinded.
Not satisfied with the answer Arcee joined in and punched preceptor in his other arm. "I- uh, I'll work on it immediately!" He said as he began to work on the controls.
Arcee turned to remaining Autobots that were up and functioning, That was Bulkhead,Grimlock, Mirage and herself. Both Bumblebee and Green light were in powerdown mode as they were hooked up to Energon drips and Nanobots were busy repairing the damage caused by Grimlock.
"We need to get into the base, Perceptor, as soon as you get the base repaired we need to ground bridge into a different part of the base and offer back up to Prime and Elita. Can we monitor what's going on in the base?"
Mirage went to the controls, He grimaced as he saw the viewscreen, "it's not good , look…."
Autobot base, Jasper Nevada
Opimus and Elita came through to the other side with hands up in a sign of surrender. Immediately they were met with the Renegades with their guns drawn on them.
"You know that wasn't very nice just now with the portal." Sideswipe said annoyed, "It's not a good way to establish trust."
"Sideswipe, do what you will with me, but I beg you to let the humans and my Autobots go!" Optimus said. "We can negotiate this to a peaceful end; no one needs to be further harmed."
Sideswipe approached the two Autobot leaders; He watched them carefully, sizing them up. He finally sent a backhand fist across Elita One's face; she doubled back as she met with the floor. She looked up and wiped the energon from her lip.
Sideswipe gazed coldly into Prime's optics. "You see that's how I hurt you Prime, I hurt the ones you love."
"Sideswipe, you were once one of my most promising soldiers, what happened to you?" Prime asked sternly.
Sidewipe looked at his scratched out Autobot symbol across his chest, he caressed it like a scar. "There was once a time when I believed in this symbol, I would tear the heavens just to fight for its virtues. "
He turned to look at Prime, "Then Ord Sama, happened. You left us there to die Prime. All for what?, Energon? Is that what we're worth? I saw many Autobots die to get the reserve that lay on that planet. We fought the Decpeticons tooth and claw on that small planet, so much that we destroyed it. In the end no one won."
"Sideswipe, I had no idea. I wasn't there I was on the way to Earth! Had I know I would have stopped the fighting and-"Prime was interrupted when Sideswipe stopped him.
"No Prime!, You don't get to apologize for this now!, "Sideswipe growled" The first rule of leadership is EVERYTHING is your fault!"
He moved to the center in front of them, looking back he called to his troops" Get them on their knees; I want them to understand me perfectly." He said as Razorclaw and Skids grabbed them and forced them to their knees.
Back In Miami, Perceptor was busy recalibrating the ground bridge controls, it was a simple procedure that was merely a formality to set the coordinated in synch with the base computer. What he would soon learn was it was about to have a profound effect on June.
June had just finished the 23rd chapter of the book when she noticed her rear window charm start to rise forward slowly, She then started to noticed her purse and her spare uniform bag rolled off the seat next to her and settled to the rear window, She could feel her blood and hair start to shift as she soon realized the gravity was indeed readjusting. She scrambled to get her phone and dialed April.
"June, are you ok?" April answered on the first ring.
"No!" She yelled "Pretty freaking far from ok!, What are you doing? The gravity in here is moving –"Then June felt the pressure around the car rise suddenly as the roof and the doors started to cave in suddenly, She screamed as windows shattered and glass flew everywhere.
"June!, What's happening!?" April screamed "Talk to me!"
"The car is crushing in on itself!" June shouted as she struggled to brace herself against the rapidly enclosing vehicle.
"Perceptor!" April yelled as she ran to the Autobot scientist, "Whatever you are doing you're crushing my sister's car with her inside of it!"
"Inconceivable!" He spat as he checked his instrument!" Oh no! By the all spark! When I recalibrated the system it automatically resifted the dimensional forces inside the gate! We have to get her out immediately!"
Perceptor started to work his calculations at a fever pitch, He dropped to his knees and removed a paneling reached in, He grunted as he was failing to reach for something inside of it.
"Blast it! My arm is too big!" Perceptor grunted
Yuri instantly rushed to his side, "What? What do you need Perceptor!"
Perceptor retracted his arm, "I need you to go in and disable the drive boards! If they are disabled I will be able to bypass the system and access the bridge controls directly!"
Yuri pulled out his multi-tool and with a flick of the wrist the pliers popped out; he crawled into the tiny crawlspace of the computer system, Green and red lights blinked all around him. It really made him feel at home as being in a cramped space with little light and having to fix a complex computer system, was exactly what he was trained to do.
"Yuri! Are you ok?" April yelled as she knelt by the opening of the computer.
"Da, April! I am okee dokee!, Just like Soyuz spacecraft!-OOOOWW!" He shirked as he got a nasty shock.
"No worry! I am fine, Ok Perceptor how is that?"Yuri asked as he began to crawl back out.
Perceptor looked to see he now had direct control over the ground bridge, "Perfect! " He worked his hands over some controls, " Ok I have paused the reshifting process temporarily, We have a small window to get out." Pulling the ground bridge level he opened the portal inside the Miami base, It opened on the floor facing up.
"We'll need to lower someone down, to retrieve her! " Perceptor said "Prowl transform so we can make use of your cable!"
Prowl transformed near the portal site, Jack stepped forward "Let me I'll go!"
April was about protest before Yuri stepped in "No Jack , I will go!" He started to strap in Verity's bullet proof vest, and took a rope and tied it fed it through so he could tie it.
"Um no offense Yuri, but it's my mom." Jack protested.
"Jackson, I know you are a brave young man, but I am trained to operate in various gravity situations." He explained.
"What are you some kind of Astronaut?" Jack asked
"Cosmonaut, In Russia we are called Cosmonauts." Yuri corrected.
Verity started to tie the Russian securely "Look enough with the testosterone contest, Yuri goes in!, " She said tying the knots in place " Yuri I will be inside Prowl , you let me know when he has to stop lowering you and when to pull you up!"
Verity then secured the rope around the spare vest so he could fit it around June. Yuri got into positioned and he pulled the cable taut.
"Yuri wait!" April said as she went to him, she held him by the cheeks and leaned in to kiss him passionately. Everyone stopped as they saw a side in April they hadn't expected. Yuri didn't struggle and in fact started to kiss her back. She pulled away and looked into his eyes. "Please come back to me."
Yuri nodded and started to lower himself inside the portal. "Now Verity! Lower me!"
"Prowl lower him down slowly!" Verity said as Prowl started to lower Yuri into the portal.
Yuri could see the car inside the portal it was on its side, He swung himself so that he could reach the grill of the car, Pulling himself over he looked to see June still inside, they locked eyes as Yuri smiled.
"Hello! ! I've come to get you!" He said as reached in to grab her hand Pulling her out he started to put the vest on her.
"You must be Yuri! April's talked a lot about you!" She said as He tied himself to her.
Yuri called on his Bluetooth, "Ok Verity! Pull me up! Da!"
Slowly Prowl started to pull up the duo, as below them they could see the car start to crush in on itself. "Just in the rick of time, No?" He smiled
"I think you mean just in the NICK of time" June corrected.
"Yes, is what I said…." Yuri said as they continued up to the surface, "I know this is awkward time, but I am wondering if I may ask your permission to date April?"
June looked at him oddly as they got pulled up to the surface.
Team Prime Base.
Sidewipe smiled as he saw Chromia and Skids kick prime repeatedly, Razor claw stood behind the kneeling Elita one and held her head securely to make her watch. Prime didn't fight back, for he knew if he did it would result into a conflict that might cost human lives.
"You think if you kick him hard enough the Matrix will pop out?" Razorclaw asked. He gazed in quiet contemplation as the beating Prime was getting.
Elita one gritted her teeth as she saw Optimus being practically dismantled at the hands of two of his former soldiers. Things had cooled between her and Optimus for so long, Elita threw herself into her duties to dull the pain. She was at first not keen to sharing the same planet as him, But at the urging of Ironhide she accepted the assignment to come to the Earth. She found some small comfort that she would be in a different part of the Earth than Optimus was, but she often found herself monitoring the Autobot radio channel for any reports of Optimus or any news regarding his exploits. Elita had arrived one month after Prime lost his memory and Became Orion Pax, It was widely regarded that if anyone could have helped greatly during that period it was she. She was happy in her assignment in Miami, but then events happened where she was now in charge of the duties there. Hound was offline and Ironhide had retired out of spite. Elita took on the burden of overseeing the protection of the Emergency Energon supply; She wanted to prove to Optimus she was no longer the naive little bot she knew so long ago. She took command and did her job well; she put up the strong stubborn front when it came to reporting to optimus. No matter how standoffish she got towards him, there were nights in Miami, when Elita would stop and just listen to the Autobot channel just to hear his voice. As angry as she got at him, she never could stop loving him.
"Stop!Please stop hurting him!" Elita cried out.
Sideswipe lifted his arm as Skids and Chromia stopped. They picked Prime up off the floor as Chromia lifted up his head so he could look at Sideswipe.
He looked back at Elita "You will release the codes to the Autobot Emergency Energon supply, Failure to do so will result in the immediate termination of Optimus."
"E-Elita…..D-D-Don't give them what they want….." Optimus struggled.
Elita passed for what seemed like an eternity, she knew if anyone got their hands on that supply The Autobots were dead in the water. Still she couldn't, betray Opimus , She wouldn't.
Sideswipe and Sunstreaker then had their guns trained on Optimus's head. Elita could hear their guns warm up as the pointed it at his head
"Oh and one other thing." Sideswipe said as he then drew his gun on his brother and fired. Sunstreaker doubled back as Sideswipe cut him down. He fell back as Sideswipe kicked his gun away from him and kicked him over on his back.
"Sideswipe!? "Sunstreaker gargled " W-Why?"
"Because I know my brother, I know you would never willingly betray your commander and join me, or did you not think I was monitoring your communications with Elita? Do you really think I would let you near me if I didn't think you were spying on me?"
Sideswipe stomped on his brothers chest and he blew right arm to pieces, " You actually think I wouldn't noticed the hidden code in your speech pattern? I created that code or did you forget!?"
Energon then spilled from Sunstreaker as he grew weaker and weaker. Elita saw this and knew her ace in the hole which was Susntreaker had failed.
Sideswipe looked at Elita "That wasn't very nice using my brother against me, But still it doesn't matter, the codes , NOW!" He yelled as Skids, Chromia, and Razorclaw all had their guns now draw on Optiumus.
"You have till the count of three! " Sideswipe demanded "Three!"
Elita knew what had to be done, and she prayed Mirage was following her lead.
"Mirage, wait for my signal, you're in command now…" She said to Mirage in a Text.
"Two!"
"Orion, Im sorry, I love you…." Elita said to Optimus quietly.
"One!"
Deep within Elita was a power that she could only do, It was a power that she acquired when she ceased to be Ariel, and became Elita One. It was a mystical power endowed upon her by Alpha Trion. It was the power to stop time in a one mile radius. Still such the use of a great power came at a heavy price. For to unlock this power it sapped all of her energies within her and her spark, She knew by using this power it would certainly end her and extinguish her spark. But none of it mattered as she saw Optimus was about to be executed, For Elita one, there was never a choice.
"Stoooooop!" She screamed as she felt the power explode from within. A bright light engulfed the base, everything stopped, Everyone was still. Elita stood up and moved Optimus out of danger, She aimed the guns of the Renegades at each other and then moved the humans out of danger by moving them inside of one of the storage areas, She had to hurry as she felt control of the power start to slip, soon time would return to normal, But she had one more thing to do. She set the coordinates of the ground bridge from her base to this base.
With everything in place she went to Optimus who was still and motionless. She placed a hand on his face softly and kissed his forehead, she knew she was saying goodbye.
"Till all are one, my love." She whispered, as Time reverted.
When Time was restored several things happened at once, Guns fired as the renegades were stunned by shooting each other, From high the ground bridge opened and from within came the Autobots, Mirage led the charge as he was followed by Arcee,Bulkhead,Prowl and Grimlock.
"Now! Divide and conquer!" He yelled as the fighting began.
"Oh now it's a battle!" Razor claw said as she shrugged off his blast and picked an opponent in Mirage.
Chromia soon found herself fighting her sister Arcee, " It ends here sister!" Arcee growled as they rolled on top of each other trying to gain the upper hand. They rose up to face each other and began to deliver blow after blow, kick after kick. They mirrored each other's fighting style, and it soon became apparent they would have to resort to new measures if they wanted to have a chance of winning this fight.
Sideswipe stood up and aimed his gun at Optimus's head, Optimus was too busy concentrating on the now still Elita One. He looked to see the Autobots now invading the base, he didn't have the codes, but he did have the ground bridge tech. He was determine to take what he could from this fight. If anything Sideswipe was about to cripple the Autobot leadership once and for all.
"Get ready to join her in the Spark ,Optimus. " He said the gun was shot from his hand.
He barely looked up to see Sunstreaker still smoldering from his earlier attack by him rising up to tackle his brother. "Let's take this outside!" Sunstreaker shouted as he activated his teleportation beacon, instantly the brothers were taken outside of the Missile base in the hot Nevada sun. The two brothers fought each other viciously, not holding back.
"Why?" Sideswipe growled as he held his brother in a choke hold" We could have ruled this world together!, instead you betrayed me!"
"No Sideswipe," Sunstreaker grumbled " You betrayed yourself!, when you decided to hurt innocents!" He said as his arm transformed into a gun. He pointed the gun behind him at Sideswipe abdomen and fired repeatedly. He felt sideswipe loosen his grip and fall back.
Sideswipe could smell the burning electoral fires that rose up in him, he smelled the energon as it escaped his wounds, and he looked up to see his brother standing over him. He wanted to say something anything but his vocal circuits were starting to fail.
"Goodbye Brother." Sunstreaker said as he fired his gun at his brother at point blank range.
Delilah saw the battle unfold around her; she saw her human hostages had mysteriously vanished around her. Still she saw it as a clear sign she should retreat. Packing up her equipment she hustled toward the back entrance of the base. She turned the corner in the dark hallway and her instincts kicked in.
"Freeze!, Hands where I can see them now!" Verity yelled as she had her gun fixed on her. Delilah stopped and turned to see Verity and Agent Greene with guns trained directly on her, behind her was April and Yuri who were tending to Miko and Raf to the side of the opened storage room.
"Ooooh you got me copper!" Delilah mocked with her hands up in the air.
"Give me a reason, any reason to pull the trigger." Verity threatened
"Grace." Agent Greene said "You need to stand down now!, there is no other way this can end!"
"You think you got me but you don't…" Delilah said as she threw down three pellets from her wrist guard. The pellets exploded into to a dense cloud of smoke, Verity coughed and shielded her eyes as she heard April cry out.
"Verity she has Miko!" She screamed.
When the smoke cleared they saw Delilah with a gun under Miko's neck She held her close to her body and she peered from behind Miko's head.
"Walk slowly…." She hissed in her ear, as she could hear Miko whimper softly.
"This is how it's going down, kiddos."Delialh said as she etched slowly with her hostage towards the rear elevator of the base. "My new buddy and I are going bye bye, and maybe if I feel generous I'll return her in once piece.."
"Grace stop! ,For God's sake take me instead of the girl!" Greene pleaded " It's me you want!"
"Sorry Tabby, I'm not done with you yet, I'm not done with either of you yet!" Delilah said angrily.
"You don't realize how badly I can hack your lives to pieces!" Delilah gloated.
"June and April? Expect them to face some charges that will end their careers and get them jail time IF they're lucky!, And Jack and Raf, I can easily make them persons of interest of various terrorist groups like Hezbollah and The Iranians. And you Verity, I can hurt you by hurting you only family you have left! "
Seeing Verity's look harden Delilah knew she was on to a sore subject." That's right, I know all about Connie—"
Pft!-pft!-pft!-pft!-pft!-pft!-pft!
Miko closed her eyes as she felt Delilah's grip loosed and the young hacker fall back with a glazed look in her eyes. Bullet holes riddled her side and neck as a bullet grazed her skull, Blood spilled all over the floor as Miko looked up to see Verity Walking toward her her gun still smoking.
"Don't EVER mention my sister!" Verity spat at Delilah who was now clinging to life.
April raced to Miko and held her in a tight hug; she checked her body to make sure she wasn't hit by any of Verity's bullets. Verity had a clear shot on Delilah but refused to take it, When Delilah threatened her sister, and something inside Verity became unhinged.
Verity stared at the Agent Greene checking on the bleeding Delilah, and then looked at April, "Is Miko hit?" She asked.
"No! But Verity…WHY?" She asked her friend as to why she could have killed in cold blood.
"I really don't want to talk about it April…." Verity said as she holstered her gun.
Agent Greene held her former teammates hand and stroked her hair as she felt her breath her last gasps of air. She knew this was all her fault, She didn't blame Verity. For in some odd way she quietly thanked Verity, as Verity helped Delilah finally find the peace she was looking for.
"I forgive you Grace." Greene said as she closed her young pupil's eyes for the last time.
Razorclaw knew a retreat was in order, He knew this when he felt Sideswipes life signature go offline, He looked to see Skids being dismantled by Grimlock, off to his side he saw Chromia losing her fight with Arcee. He blocked Bulkheads attack as Bulkhead attacked with a ferocity Razorclaw could almost be proud of.
"This is for miko!" Bulk head yelled as he swung his mace at the Predacon. Razorclaw dodged and then launched an attacked where he did not hold back, He moved efficiently and quickly sending several blows across bulkheads body , he spun in the air and kick him back.
He transformed into a lion, he looked to see Skids now lifeless body in Grimlocks jaws, and decided he could only save Chromia. He leapt and trounced Arcee as he took Cromia in his massive jaws,
"Untill we meet again Autobots! He said as he lept at the Autobot controls and activated a ground bridge, He raced through as it closed behind him.
As soon as Razorclaw left there was stillness in the base, the silence brought about the end of fighting; The Autobots had won the day and stopped the Renegades. Miami and Jasper were now safe, but the Autobots had to wonder at what cost as Optimus caressed the lifeless form of Elita One.
"Elita…" Optimus whispered as she touched her cheek "Why?"
Soon the Autobots human allies made it into the base, as April Verity and Yuri rushed to Elita's side.
"What happened!?" April shouted as she shook Elita not getting a response.
"Elita activated a secret power that drained her lifeforce. "Optimus said weakly. "She is dying…"
"There's gotta be a way to revive her!" April said as she looked at Mirage " Mirage, think ! We need to act fast!"
Mirage looked over Elita one, "If there is some way to activate her spark maybe, If we can get her spark activated one of us can take it in and hold it until Ratchet and Perceptor can make repairs."
"I have an idea." April said " I need someone to bring me a power source or something!"
"Bulkhead picked up one of the base power generators and moved it close to them "How about this?"
"Perfect, "April said as she borught out her defib unit." Yuri I need you to hot wired this defib unit to that generator! GO!"
"Da April!" Yuri said as he opened up the side paneling of the generator and began to splice the wires into the defib unit.
"Verity! You know Autobot physiology. Open up Elita's chest!" She ordered the detective, As verity got up on Elitas chest and moved her hands in a rhythmic pattern over her chest , It opened up to reveal her spark chamber.
"April, is ready!" He said as he handed her the defib unit.
"Wait are you going to do what I think you're going to do?" Mirage asked, as he saw his charge climb up onto Elita ones chest and turn on the defib unit. April positioned herself and made sure her rubber soles were the only thing touching Elita one.
"Stop April!" Optimus argued
April placed the paddles around Elita Ones spark chamber, "Sorry Optimus, "She took a deep breath " CLEAR!"
She then sent a huge volt of electricity into Elita Spark chamber, the force was huge as the shock knocked April a clear ways back, she landed on her backside as Elita body jumped. Sure enough the shock was enough to bring her a small amount of life back into her spark.
Mirage looked her over, "It worked!, There is activity in her spark chamber!, Now we need someone to interface with it!"
"I'll do it!' Optimus volunteered as she sat next to elita one, His chest plate opened up as he took some wires from it to hook it up to her spark chamber, Activating the interface, his spark merged with her spark, giving it the vital energy it needed to stay alive.
"April!" Verity yelled as she picked her up "Are you ok?"
"Ugh ugh ugg, remind me….not to do that…again!" she coughed.
Ratchet eventually woke up as Perceptor finished the repairs to the ground bridge, they were able to stabilize Elita one but still had a long way to go for repairs.
They placed Elita ones body in the contamination chamber at the Jasper base, as Prime volunteered to stay in stasis with her.
"Optimus will need to stay in stasis to maintain Elita's spark while we conduct repairs. " Ratchet said gravely.
"Ratchet, what are Eltia's chances?" June asked The Autobot medic.
"At this point they are 50/50" Ratchet sighed. "Perceptor and I will have to work round the clock to fix any and all damage her power caused.
"In the meantime we have a serious problem. " Mirage said "Optimus and ELita were the only ones with the authorization codes to the Autobot emergency supply."
"So what does that mean?" Jack asked
"Every 12 hours the codes recycle and they need to be certified by an Autobot with the correct leadership matrix. If they aren't properly ratified the emergency precautions activate causing the supply to be destroyed.
"And it's sitting underneath Miami…." Verity realized.
"Correct, "With Optimus and Elita down there is only one other Autobot on this planet who can do it, and he's retired and not exactly on speaking terms with us."
A paused happened before Yuri finally spoke up "Prowl?"
"Ha no, " Prowl said " It's Ironhide."
"That's correct, When our original leader Hound died, Iron hide was the leader long enough to lead us to his killer, when we brought justice to Hounds killer , he quit the Autobots out of disgust, and the Elita was chosen as out new leader. "Mirage said
"I'll go I know where he's at in Mexico" Mirage said
"Wait I'll go too, "Prowl volunteered, "With the two of us we'll have a better chance of swaying his opinion. "
Mirage nodded as Prowl looked at Verity "You'll be ok, Partner?"
Verity nodded "We'll talk about last night when you get back, be safe partner…" She said in a reassuring nod.
As everyone regrouped inside the base, Agent Greene went to check on the body of Delilah, she ordered a team to go and collect the body, and was going to wait in a silent vigil. As she turned the corner she gasped in shock as the body was missing and a long blood trail led to the elevator, drawing her pistol she took the elevator up to the top of the base where she found nothing but emptiness.
Egypt.
The night was cold and the air blew strong in the Valley of the Kings. Chromia awoke from her injuries, She could tell she her systems were still damaged a she tried to sit up but couldn't, She cried out in pain as the memories of the fight lingered in her mind.
"You need rest young solder.." Razorclaw said as he sat next to her, "The next phase is set to begin."
"What next phase?" Chromia spat " Sideswipe, our leader is dead!"
"My dear, what makes you think he was in command?" He said calmly " Sideswipe was charismatic, but how did you think he brought the Decepticons under his rule?, He did so with my help and my blessings. There are more of us yet to come, we were here only to prepare the planet. "He checked his wrist controls to see he had received the Ground Bridge plans securely in his databanks.
""I-I don't understand.." Chromia gasped.
"You will…" Razorclaw said He looked up to see a huge cargo plane making the landing to them. " Ah and here comes our friends!"
The plane landed near them as several mercenaries dressed in black spilled out of the rear of the plane, they were followed by a large individual, who wore a tan body armor, he was massively built even for a human, but what stood out to Chromia about this human was he wore a black mask that covered his mouth and nose.
"On time as always Bane!" Razor claw commended, "Please load up our ally to the pane and don't forget her as well." He then reached to his side and held the limp body of Delilah in his palm,
"She needs medical attention, she is resilient for a human but even she has her limits.
"Take her to the cargo hold and have our doctor look at her " Bane ordered. " The league of shadows welcome you old friend." He said as he spoke in a muffled voice that hid an educated and elegant tone.
Razorclaw smiled underneath his facemask as they boarded the C130.
Miami
Team Elita entered the base, they were tired and worn from the battle, Agent Greene departed without a word from Japser, she had to make it back to DC to clean up the massive mess created by last night's war. Perceptor stayed behind to work on Elita, while Mirage, Sunstreaker and Grimlock stayed behind to keep watch over Miami.
"So you never turned on us. " April asked Sunstreaker as she hooked him up to an Energon drip.
"No April, I was always on the team, I just made a call to make it look like I turned sides, I owe Elita too much to turn on her like that. " He said sadly as he thought of her in a coma back in Nevada.
"I-I was too late, "He said " I-I should have acted sooner to stop my brother.."
"Sunstreaker stop, it's not your fault." April said "You aren't responsible for the choices your brother made." She gave me a reassuring pat on his hand as she lept down to check on Bumblebee and Green Light.
"Hey April!" Sunstreaker called out as April looked back.
"Thanks." He smiled.
Yuri finished the repairs to the computer systems as he looked at April and Verity Tending to the injured Autobots. June had returned to Japser but not before she took Yuri aside.
"Yuri , about what you asked, Yes you have my blessing." She smiled at the Russian. "But if you hurt her, I will hunt you down!"
Yuri smiled as he remember the loving threat made by Aprils older sister, he saw in the last 24 hours how much April meant to him, How much he wanted her in his life. He also knew that if wanted to move forward with her he was going to have to make closure with his former love, Kataya Lojenko. He still had a lot to do here in Miami, but soon a trip to Russia was in order.
Verity however made it back to her house; she needed a hot shower and a rest as she was set to return to work tomorrow. Stepping out of the hot shower she wrapped the towel around herself and sat on the toilet seat, it then she allowed herself the time to grieve over the day's events and the painful memories of her sister. She cried into her hands, She would do this for the next 20 minutes and then she would stop and return to being the Detective she was trained to be.
Finally back at the Autobot base in Jasper, Elita remained in her comatose state, next to her laid Optimus as he too remained into a catatonic vigil over his former love. As Ratchet and Perceptor worked over her to repair her piece by piece, she and Optimus laid still sharing the same spark chamber. For now Arcee took command of the Nevada team, While Mirage and Prowl set out on a mission to bring back their former leader. One way or the other they had less than 12 hours before they were forced to deal with a new set of problems that lay underneath the waters of Miami.
NEXT TIME: Team Elita are still reeling from the events of the battle of Miami. Yuri makes a decision regarding his and April's relationship as April takes a bold step of her own. Elita and Optimus share some quality time as Mirage and Prowl track down Ironhide in Southern Mexico, Oh and Shockwave returns and he is about to cross paths with a very annoyed Megatron.