Author's note. This is the moment the kids are revealed to the Decepticons, hope you all approve.
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"What do you think is going to happen?" Wildracer said quietly as the three kids nursed their Energon at their table which was set across the room from the Autobots who were talking in low voices.
Radical shook his head.
"I don't know, but the guys are looking worried," he said softly.
"We're going to face them soon," Celeste said, and judging by the boy's looks, they agreed.
"They can't bare the thought of us fighting and maybe getting hurt," she continued.
"But it doesn't look like we'll have a choice," Radical said grimly. "Sideways seemed pretty confident we'd be facing them."
"Do you think he's planning something?" Wildracer said to which Celeste and Radical both firmly answered "Yes."
"So the big question is what," Wildracer said thoughtfully. "He'll know Optimus will avoid using us till either he thinks we're ready or until there's no other choice."
"Whatever's going to happen, we'll know soon enough," Radical concluded softly as Optimus got up and headed to their table.
The next day.
"Morning Hotshot," Celeste yawed as she walked into the Rec Room and saw the yellow Autobot already sitting at a table.
"Hey there," he greeted as she sat down and poured herself a cup of Energon.
She smiled and took a sip, she was very tired. After their meal last night, the kids had studied some more with Scavenger, learning more moves and then Red Alert had done a little basic first aid with them. This had lasted quite late, until Optimus decided they'd done enough and sent them to bed.
She was just about to say something when an alarm went off, and not just nay alarm.
"The Minicon alarm," Hotshot cried leaping to his feet. As Celeste, started to follow, Hotshot said.
"You guys are staying here, I need to get to the Warp Room with the others."
Celeste stopped and nodded and Hotshot rushed away to join the other Autobots who would be heading to the Warp Room in order to Warp away to the new location, and hopefully retrieve the Minicon.
The Tundra, northern Russia.
"Wow this is pretty desolate," Hotshot said as they surveyed the wide open ground which seemed to be frozen solid.
There didn't seem to be any life here at all, just a few scraggily trees in the distance. Apart from that, there was nothing to break up the endless horizon. It was a bit unnerving to the transformers, there was nothing like this on their home planet, and even the deserts they'd been in here on Earth had had either dunes or rocky stacks.
"You're telling me," Jetfire said with a low whistle. "I ain't never seen a place like this before, where the hell could the Minicon be hidden."
"Probably buried somewhere," Hoist said sardonically. "This may take a while."
"Aww," Jetfire moaned, as Scavenger gave him a stern look.
"That's enough," Optimus quickly said before Sideswipe or Hotshot could moan.
"We'd better get too it, spread out and try and locate the Minicon signal."
Everyone saluted Optimus and had just started to do as he said when the Decepticons appeared.
"Get them," Megatron immediately roared as he spotted the Autobots and in another moment, both factions were fighting each other.
Back at the Autobot Base.
Meanwhile back at the Autobot base, the kid watched the proceedings with the aid of Laserbeak. It looked brutal, there was no cover for anyone, and the kids desperately wished they could be there and help. But they knew they couldn't, in that environment, they'd be more of a hindrance than a help.
"Aw man, this is awful," Wildracer groaned as they watched Optimus and Megatron smash into each other as their men clashed all around them.
"Tell me about it," Radical started to say but then Celeste suddenly gasped.
"Wait," cried Celeste, pointing. "There's something coming up on the screen."
They all crowded round the computer and Celeste quickly typed some buttons, trying to find out what was happening. They all gasped as the information finally appeared on the screen.
"Dude, another Minicon?" Wildracer said in disbelief as the Minicon symbol flashed on screen along with a location.
"Why do I get the feeling this isn't a confidence," Radical said grimly.
"Sideways," Celeste muttered, as Wildracer said, "Aw, man, I knew he was going to do something."
"So what are we going to do?" he asked his two friends who looked torn.
"We can't let Megatron get that Minicon," Radical finally said. He looked at his friends.
"I...I think we should go, they're all distracted by each other, there's a chance we can get it and get out, without meeting the Decepticons," Radical said firmly.
"I agree, let's go," Celeste said, making for the door. "Come one."
And with that, they headed for the Warp Room.
A deserted Castle, somewhere in Europe.
"Woh," Wildracer said as they picked themselves up and gazed around, after being dumped there by the Warp Gate.
They were inside a huge high ceiled room, with dusty stone rafters overhead that hung with cobwebs. The room was pretty empty, except for some stone tables and what looked like a cracked throne on a dais set right in front of them. There were some broken mirrors that let in the outside light, but to their surprise some of the windows were intact and with beautiful stain glass.
"Some place for a Minicon to be hidden," Radical said as they slowly walked forward, Celeste checking something on her wrist.
"Guys," she said, worriedly. "My comm's not working."
The boys quickly checked theirs and found them to be in the same state.
"Oh great, something's blocking them," Wildracer said in exasperation, throwing up his hands, before glaring upwards.
"Could Sideways be any more obvious when he sets a trap," he grumbled to his friends who smiled weakly.
"Let's hope it is a trap then," Radical said sardonically. "Sure hate to be disappointed after getting my expectations up."
They walked over to a door and somehow managed to get through it, luckily it was pretty big. Funnily enough, this while castle seemed pretty big, and it gave the kids a bad feeling. They went down a corridor and were suddenly faced with four doors. They looked at each other.
"Let's spilt up," Radical said, gesturing towards the doors. "And meet back here, if we don't find anything. Or if we do."
The other two nodded and they each went through a door. Wildracer walked along his corridor, nervously touching his hip gun as he went. This place was pretty creepy.
But he didn't have much time to dwell on this as suddenly the ground gave way below him and he found himself falling down a steep tunnel.
"Ahhhhh," he screamed as he fell down into the seemingly never ending blackness.
Megatron's POV.
"Sir, I don't understand it," Demolisher suddenly yelled as the Decepticons charged for the the middle of battle, the Minicon signal had just disappeared and had then appeared in a new location. After blasting Prime, Megatron had yelled to his Autobots to Warp to the new location, he was determined to get there before the Autobots and so snarled in annoyance as Demolisher shouted.
"According to my scanners, the Autobot are coming up from the other side of this forest," Demolisher replied as he knocked over an old tree as his vehicle shoved through the old wood.
"So," Megatron roared in angrily, he was really annoyed at Demolisher stupidly now.
"My scanners show their already at the castle as well," was Demolisher's answer and this made Megatron mentally pause and frown.
"That can't be right," Cyclonus yelled from overhead as he and Starscream followed the vehicles below them, Thrust was lagging behind but nobody really cared.
"It is," Starscream now called down. "My scanners are picking up extra signals as well, ones already there ahead of the Autobots."
Megatron growled, he had just about enough of the Autobots being up to no good, he was going to solve this mystery once and for all.
Wildracer's POV.
"Come on," Wildracer snarled as he fought to get through the thick tangle of thorns blocking his path. He come out of that tunnel only to find a jungle of this giant thorns in front of him and now he had to get through them, the tunnel was too slippery to climb.
Despite the fact he was now a transformer, for some reason this hadn't made getting through the thorns any easier. In fact, if he'd still been human, it probably would have been easier, as he could see spaces where a human could crawl through and over quite easily. This was pretty typical, when you thought about it.
Snapping another branch, he saw that he was finally close to getting out, but it was still taking too long. Pausing to wipe away a trickle of water that had been steadily dripping onto him from above, he had a nasty feeling it was the castle's drainage system.
"This could be better," he muttered as he started hacking through the gnarled thorny branches again.
Suddenly an overhead rumbling caught his attention and he looked up to see a purple and green tank rumble across the drawbridge.
"Oh no, Megatron," he hissed as he redoubled his efforts to break through.
Radical's POV.
Meanwhile, Radical had found himself at the bottom of a staircase, so he started climbing it. He wished their comm's had been working, he didn't like not being able to contact his friends. But there was nothing to be done.
Finally, after what seemed like an age, he made it to the top and found himself in a tower room. He gave a small smile, this was turning into a strange mission, almost like a weird fairytale. Unfortunately, there was no sign of the Minicon in this room, so with a sigh he strolled over to the window to take a look out.
And to his horror, he saw the Decepticons swarming the castle. And he had no way to warn his friends.
Celeste's POV.
Celeste felt like she was in a maze, the corridor had just twisted and turned, going down and then up. She had passed through several empty rooms, finding nothing. She wasn't a fearful type of person but the castle's heavy silence was started to get to her, and she was starting to wish she could just turn around and run back to her friends.
But she couldn't do that, she had a job to do, find the Minicon and get back to base proto, as soon as she met up with the boys.
As this thought passed through her mind, she suddenly saw something sparkling up ahead. Breaking into a jog, she saw what seemed to be a trophy wall, filled with animal horn and rotted heads. But what got her attention was the jade coloured shield on display in the very centre.
With a whoop of joy, she ran forward and grabbed the Minicon panel off the wall. She knew it was defiantly a Minicon, it felt instantly warm in her hands, though it didn't transform. She happily clutched it to her chest, and started to turn, intending to run and find the boys.
And that's when the wall to her left, exploded.
Coughing, she stared in horror as Demolisher and Wheeljack strolled in though the gap, stopping dead at the sight of her.
"A Femme," Wheeljack cried as Demolisher said, "Huh, what are you doing here?"
Without giving them a chance to recover from their shock, Celeste chucked a grenade Jetfire had given her right at the wall above them which exploded, raining debris on the two Decepticons.
Celeste run as fast as she could away from Demolisher and Wheeljack. She wasn't quite sure where she was going, there was something about this castle that seemed to disorientate her. She just ran and ran, until suddenly, she found herself back in the throne room.
She had to pause, she was out of breath, and now very worried. If Demolisher and Wheeljack were here, that had to mean their fellows were as well. And that did not bode well for either her or her friends.
"Well, this is something."
Celeste spun around and saw to her horror, that Megatron had managed to find her. As she stared, he started advancing on her and she didn't like his tight smile.
"You know it almost seems as though we've been in this situation before girl," Megatron commented on as he pointed his gun at her, his optics fixed on the Minicon panel. He then looked into her optics and gave a humourless smile.
"But oh, wait a minute, we have, haven't we," he continued as she stepped backwards onto the dais. "And there are only two things different, the location and...you."
Celeste didn't answer as he paused to look her up and down, and then gave a real smile.
"An interesting turn of events, I didn't think it was possible for humans to become transformers but I must admit this could have benefits," Megatron said with a sneer.
"And what might those be?" Celeste said coldly, not liking his tone.
"Why, simply that I don't have to worry about permanently damaging you," Megatron replied with a fanged grin as he came ever closer to her.
"In your human forms, I could never give you the proper punishment that you richly deserve...until now," he said maliciously.
"Has anyone ever told you how single-minded you are," Celeste commented on, hiding the fact that she was scared by sounding causal.
This made Megatron chuckle and he said.
"Very good my dear but I'm afraid there's no going to be no impromptu rescue this time. Optimus and his men are trapped outside with my Decepticons between them and you."
"However," Megatron continued as Celeste's back hit the wall beside the throne. "If you submit gracefully to your punishment, I'll make it quick and then you can go home, minus that Minicon, of course."
"You'll have to forgive me if I don't take you up on that offer," Celeste replied coldly, tensing up, ready for action.
Megatron gave a small shrug.
"As you wish," he said and he lunged at her in an astonishingly fast movement for someone of his bulk.
She only just managed to duck and roll away before he caught hold of her. He smashed into the wall with a heavy crash, indicating that if she hadn't moved, he would have violently pinned her there. She quickly scrambled to her feet and he turned from the wall and lunged at her again, this time catching hold of her wing as she tried to dodge.
She punched him in the face, but even though he gave a slight grunt of pain, he ignored it and seized her in a tight hold, preventing her from fighting. He sneered as she struggled in his grasp and deliberately squeezed, crushing her wings slightly.
"Well, I must admit I'm slightly disappointed," he sneered in her audio. "It seems Optimus hasn't done a very good job of training you."
"Or perhaps it not him, it's you, being a delicate Femme, you never stood much chance against me," he sneered as she snarled with anger and pain. "Perhaps now, Optimus will see that a Femme's place is at home, tending to her Mech and their Sparklings needs."
"Hey" came a voice from behind them. "Has anyone ever told you, you talk too much?"
"What," exclaimed Megatron, and he whirled round, the pink Femme still in his grip to see who had spoken.
"Oh, this is priceless," Megatron said as he surveyed the new comer who was standing with an angry look in his optics. Celeste simply stared in shock at her unexpected rescuer, where had he come from?
To be continued.
Author's note. Ah, ha a cliff hanger, so can anyone guess who has just entered the throne room? Will the kids survive this battle or will the Decepticons win? Find out in the next chapter, which I'll try not to take too long in posting. Till then.