Transformers: The New Alliance
Author's note: Ok I got my first bio from toalorikan626 : Wildstrike, I hope I do this right and can write the character properly, I know that this story isn't flowing like I want it too but I'm going to hopefully fix that by taking this story a little more slowly, and I don't mean in action, I mean in writing the story. And also I'm bringing in a few more experienced hunters into the picture cause just throwing inexperienced and less than impressive fighters to combat Akula and any equally capable cybertronian fighters would just make the story dull.
Chapter 3: The Lone Wolf
Out not far from Earth's orbit a ship flew closer to the planet's atmosphere, on board a lone bot staring half in recharge as he had been in stasis for a long time to preserve what limited Energon he had. A tall dinobot in the form of a Utah Raptor stood at the controls carefully guiding the ship closer to Earth, the message he had recently received at the fore front of his mind.
"This is Optimus Prime, the war is on hold, we are facing a new threat, we need everyone we can get, head to Earth" the message played repeatedly in the bots mind trying to hold onto every bit of motivation he had to get to Earth.
"Almost there" the bot said quietly.
As the bot began to navigate the ship into Earth's orbit, he noticed off in the distance there was a second ship entering Earth's atmosphere.
"And who could they be?" the bot wondered to himself. He knew that it didn't matter who they were as he couldn't do anything in his ship from here he needed to get to Earth first and find the Autobots, and the Decepticons first then he could do something about the second ship if need be.
Meanwhile on Earth
Rachet stood at the computer console inputting some information in an attempt to write a new program, but since they were still using human technology in their computers it wasn't proving to be as easy as he had hoped.
"GAH! Primus knows I could write a new program in minutes if I was using a computer from Cybertron, but why did I have to get stuck with this backwards junk from here on Earth." Rachet complained to himself wary of raising his voice too high so as to not wake the entire base, most of who were in recharge right now. Mostly Akula's team who were literally recharging everywhere from celebrating Akula's decisive win over Starscream.
Not to mention Akula finally got a shipment of vodka from the Russian government. And let's just say that Rachet was thoroughly amazed that Vodka could have such an impact on Cybertronians, heck even Arcee got drunk, and while Rachet will never dig those memories of Arcee drunk up again, he had to admit it was entertaining even if momentarily.
"Why do I torment myself with this?" Rachet asked himself, "If Raf were here he could correct it so that this new program could be compatible to this computer, but he's still back home with his family, and we're not to make contact with them just yet, Primus this is so frustrating" Rachet growled.
Suddenly an alarm sounded on the computer drawing Rachet's attention to the radar network that the computer was hooked into, and what he saw surprised him. Two ships were entering Earth's orbit intent on landing.
"Primus" Rachet gasped as he recognized the signals, one belonged to Elita-One and her team. The second was a Decepticon ship. "OPTIMUS!"
Meanwhile out in space
The lone bot quickly sat in his chair as his ship was now entering earth's atmosphere, knowing that this was going to be a rough landing he buckled in, his ship was low on energon and so was he, but that did little to quash the feeling of relief washing over the lone bot, he had finally made it to earth.
Meanwhile in Elita-One's ship
"Hold on tight sis, this is going to be rough!" Elita called to her sister above the alarm and the whining of the ship as it began to descend into earth's atmosphere.
"I'm fine, I'm just worried about the ones in stasis in the back" Chromia cried back attempting to not get knocked out of her seat from the ships rocking.
"Impact in 5..4..3..2..1 (BOOM!)" Elita counted as their ship came to a screeching halt.
Elita sat up, turning to her right she noticed that Chromia was also still in her seat although a little more shaken from the rough landing. "You ok sis?"
"All my systems are functioning properly, and my helm is still on my shoulders, I'm good" Chromia replied.
"How about our stasis induced passengers?" Elita asked.
"The computer says they're still online" Chromia answered.
"Good, now to find Optimus and the others" Elita sighed.
"No need, they found us" Chromia said as she pointed out the windshield of their ship to see several vehicles and planes approaching.
"Are those Decepticons!?" Chromia cried recognizing the purple color of some of the vehicles.
"Relax sister" Elita sighed.
"What!?" Chromia cried.
"The war is on hold remember?" Elita began. "Besides I think I see Rachet leading them" Elita said pointing to an ambulance vehicle leading the group.
"And look, I think I see Arcee!" Chromia cried as she spotted a small blue motorcycle near the ambulance.
Both femmes jumped from their seats and raced for the door to finally meet their sister whom they have been separated since shortly after leaving Cybertron.
"CHROMIA! ELITA!" Arcee cried as she got closer to her two sisters.
"ARCEE!" Both Elita and Chromia cried as they ran out of the ship only to have Arcee transform and jump into the two of her sisters pulling them into a great big hug.
Rachet transformed and stood watching the three sisters reunited after many years, he smiled as he watched them struggle to untangle themselves from Arcee jumping on them.
Arcee, Elita, and Chromia began to fire questions and answers back and forth in quick succession, to the point they were almost overlapping questions with answers.
"Welcome to Earth Elita, Chromia" Rachet sighed deciding it was time to end the game of 1000 questions.
"Hello Rachet" Elita said as she and Chromia turned to the medic.
"Where's Optimus?" Chromia asked.
"He's back at base with Lord Megatron" Starscream answered as he stepped forward, more interested in ending the conversation in as few words as possible so he could get back to base and relax, Akula wasn't less forgiving in their daily routine of beating the slag out of Starscream after Akula's victory, especially when Akula was drunk on vodka.
"What!?" Chromia cried.
"What is Optimus doing at the same base as Megatron?" Elita asked.
"And why are you traveling with Decepticons!" Chromia cried remembering that Rachet and Arcee were accompanied by several Decepticons here.
"Didn't you receive the message? The war is on hold" Arcee explained.
"Yeah, but it said nothing about joining them!" Elita cried pointing an accusing finger at Starscream and the other Decepticons.
"There were…Unique circumstances" Rachet sighed.
Chromia and Elita sighed as they realized they weren't going to get a full explanation here, so decided to wait and get it from Optimus.
"So who commands everyone now? Or does Megatron still command the Decepticons, and Optimus command the Autobots?" Elita asked.
"Megatron and Optimus are in charge of different things while we are working together but, neither command combat operations" Rachet explained.
"Then who commands us when we're in the field? A Decepticon or Autobot?" Chromia asked.
"You'll be happy to hear that the commander for combat operations is not a Decepticon, but he's not an Autobot either" Rachet answered.
"Then who?" Chromia asked.
"Some slag minded neutral named Akula" Starscream growled.
"That's Commander Akula to you Starscream! And he's not that bad, though he's a little rough around the edges" Arcee said first snapping at Starscream, then turned to her sisters to explain Akula better.
"So why is it that Starscream hates him so much?" Elita asked sensing the obvious hostility against Akula emanating from Starscream.
"Akula proved himself to be the better commander above Starscream, and constantly beats the slag out of Starscream every day cause Starscream insulted him the first time they met, and Akula doesn't quite let it go" Arcee explained with a slight giggle.
"I'll say, I've apologized several times, and he still doesn't let it go!" Starscream cried in mental agony now that everyone was giggling at his misfortune.
"I think I'm gonna like this Akula" Elita managed to say through her suppressed giggling.
"Me too" Chromia said making significantly less effort to hold back her laughing.
Rachet was a little surprised to hear Arcee defend and verbally express respect towards Akula, though Rachet had less concern of how to respect Akula because he wasn't going to be on the field anyway, it was surprising to see Arcee defend another commander that wasn't Optimus.
"Is there anyone else onboard?" Rachet asked.
"There are a couple others, however they're in stasis, and I don't think it'll be a good idea to wake them for now, they seemed to have been in stasis for a long time due to injury or other means" Elita explained.
"No problem we can take them in their stasis pods" Rachet said as he beckoned several of the Decepticons to follow him into the ship.
"Well, shall I introduce you to our base?" Arcee asked her two sisters as Rachet and several others disappeared inside the damaged ship.
Meanwhile on the lone bots ship
The lone bot got the shorter end of the stick as far as condition of the ship is concerned. His ship and all the equipement was battered or loosened from the violent shaking of his rough landing. Computers sparked and loose equipement was strewn about the entire ship as if a tornado had gone through it.
"Well time to leave" the bot sighed as he got up slowly and made for the ship door. The bot managed to make his way to the door and with some struggle forced the door open.
Walking out of the ship for the first time in many years in his travel around the galaxy he noticed that he was in the middle of a large forest where he could barely see further than 50 feet ahead of him since the foliage was so thick. However since it had been several minutes since his ship had landed, he noticed that several animals had gathered to his ship in curiosity.
"I'm gonna need a new form to use while on this planet" the bot sighed. He spotted a large wolf and decided that that would be the form he would use. Starting up his scanners he scanned the wolf who quickly scurried off into the woodlands startled by the lone bot's scanners.
The lone bot quickly adapted his programming and managed transform into a large metallic wolf, since he wasn't much bigger than Rachet he couldn't properly emulate the actual size of a wolf but his guise would make it easier for him to transverse the terrain and disturb the wild life a lot less than being a large metallic dinosaur which he was up until this point.
"Well that wasn't too hard I guess" The bot sighed.
"I'll say" a voice echoed from behind him.
The metal wolf whipped around in surprise as he hadn't noticed that there was someone watching him, he was usually much more self-aware than this, that or the entity behind him was much better than usual.
The lone mech saw Akula standing in the tree line not too far away with Soundwave behind him, while the mech wasn't sure what to expect, he noticed that Akula wasn't in anyway expressing any feeling of being threatened or acting aggressive, though Soundwave seemed to be more on guard. Akula standing almost 2 heads taller than the lone bot made the lone bot recognize that in a fight against this larger mech would likely result in his defeat if not his off lining. But the lone bot wasn't here for a fight which meant that a fight was in neither party's interest as far as either of them knew.
"What's your name comrade?" Akula asked. The lone bot hesitated for a second from surprise at Akula's Russian accent.
The lone bot transformed into his normal form and stood tall to face Akula. "My name is Wildstrike" the bot introduced himself.
"Well then comrade Wildstrike, I noticed you're not a Decepticon, yet you fly a Decepticon ship, in fact I don't see any markings on you to signify any loyalty" Akula noted out loud.
"I wasn't part of the war" Wildstrike answered, "I took no affiliation to either side in the war, and as for the ship, it belonged to a Decepticon scientist".
"And which scientist would that be?" Akula asked.
"Shockwave I believe" Wildstrike answered earning a look of interest from Soundwave, but with a lack of a visible face it wasn't easy to tell.
"If you weren't part of the war, what is it you are doing on this planet?" Akula asked.
"I received the message about the war being on hold, and that there was someone hunting the remaining Cybertronians, I decided that while I wasn't part of the war I at least could try to help prevent our extinction" Wildstrike replied.
"A noble cause to be sure" Akula said with a smile. "What is it you specialize in comrade?"
"I'm great for scouting, and I'm also good at moving around undetected" Wildstrike said. "That's one reason why I was able to stay out of the war".
"All excellent qualities, and how are you for working with others" Akula asked walking forward towards Wildstrike.
Wildstrike took a couple steps back as Akula approached but in the end allowed Akula to get a little bit closer. "I'm…not really a team player, I usually like to work alone" Wildstrike answered.
Akula sensed a tiny lack of trust, not so much out of hostility but out of pain, while Akula could only guess what that pain was from, he didn't care to dig any further than that. "Very well comrade, one last question. Do you have any issue being in command of a group?"
"Not necessarily, but as I said I don't usually work well with others" Wildstrike answered.
"Excellent, I think you will fit right in. Let's head back to base so I can introduce you" Akula said as he turned around.
Wait! I don't remember hearing about you in the war, who are you?" Wildstrike asked.
"Ah, where are my manners, my name is Akula, and I'm the Combat Operations Commader of this little alliance going on, at least for the moment" Akula answered.
"I still don't remember hearing about you in the war, why is that?" Wildstrike asked.
"Much like you comrade, I didn't participate in the war, in fact I helped many other bots stay out of the war, a difficult task to say the least, but enough about that, any other questions?" Akula answered, ready for another round of questions.
"Yeah, what does 'comrade' mean?" Wildstrike asked. "Cause you've called me that several times, but I can only guess what it means"
Akula paused for a moment and thought about it. "Hm, in simplest terms, it basically means 'brother in arms' I gues" Akula answered with his usual cheery smile.
"Ok, by the way is…um, Bumble Bee still alive?" Wildstrike asked.
"Why yes he is, and he's currently at base, would you like to meet him?" Akula asked.
A wave of relief and excitement washed over Wildstrike as he heard that answer. "Why yes I would"
"Excellent, Soundwave call for a ground bridge would you please". Akula asked the silent mech standing behind him. "Oh and is there anyone else still on board?" Akula asked Wildstrike.
"No, I was the only one on board" Wildstrike answered.
Shortly after the familiar green portal of the ground bridge opened up and all three bots left the woodlands and returned to the Autobot base.
As the three bots walked through the portal they were greeted with a scene of three femme bots including Arcee chatting away like there was no tomorrow, followed by happy greetings from all the other Autobots to their long lost friends Chromia and Elita-One.
"Well here is the base, and I-wait what are you doing?" Akula asked as he felt Wildstrike huddle behind him, his head peering out from Akula's back staring down the three femme transformers, who were completely oblivious to Wildstrike's reaction to their presence.
"Don't tell, you're shy?" Akula asked both amused and curious.
"No, not so much shy, as more…feeling out of place" Wildstrike answered.
"Riiigghht" Akula sighed not entirely sure to believe him but decided to roll with it. "Everyone, this is Wildstrike" Akula announced to everyone introducing the mech still somewhat hiding behind Akula his gazed still fixed on the three femmes.
"Hello Wildstrike, I am Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots" Optimus introduced himself stepping forward to meet the new mech.
Wildstrike's attention was immediately diverted from the three femmes and stepped out from behind Akula to meet the famous leader of the Autobots. After shaking Optimus's hand, Megatron stepped forward.
"And I am Megatron leader of the Decepticons" Megatron said as he reached out his hand as well to Wildstrike, which Wildstrike took a moment longer to return the gesture than with Optimus but it didn't seem to bother the large warlord.
"I am Arcee" Arcee said stepping forward to greet the new bot only to have Wildstrike dash and hide behind Megatron.
"Um, was it something I said?" Arcee asked a little shocked at the reaction.
"N-no, it wasn't, I'm just…um" Wildstrike said quickly trying to come up with a response.
Akula quickly catching onto Wildstrike's awkward moment decided to try and step in. "He's just a little uncomforatble around femmes" Akula explained, that obviously being the truth, but in the simplest explanation possible. "By the way where's Bumble Bee, he's got a fan waiting for him"
"Huh?" Wildstrike let out a gasp as Akula just saved him from an awkward moment with the femme bots, only to tease him with announcing his admiration of Bumble Bee.
Bumble Bee beeped in excitement at hearing of Wildstrike's interest in him, the yellow scout dash forward to get behind Megatron who was looking super uncomfortable at this point.
"Beep boop beep beep boop" Bumble Bee beeped away.
"Why y-yes I am, a fan, mostly for your efforts and honor you displayed at the battle of Tyger Pax" Wildstrike said.
"Beep Boop/Aw shucks" Bumble Bee blushed at the praise.
Arcee feeling a little rejected turned to Soundwave who walked up to her. "Was it really something I said?" Arcee asked to the silent mech. Soundwave just stared back for a moment as Chromia and Elita-One stared at him with apparent distrust.
"No, not so much shy, as more…feeling out of place" Soundwave played Wildstrike's first response to Akula for the three femmes.
"Aw, he's shy how cute" Arcee said turning her gaze to Wildstrike who in turned felt a shiver run down his spine.
Meanwhile out in the desert of Navada
A large Space bridge opened and fifteen bots walked through the bridge, three larger mechs, and ten smaller mechs and two femmes accompanied by roughly a hundred cyberdogs.
"Well here we are, what is the first thing we should do Varax?" one of the larger mech's asked obviously testing the leader of the smaller bots.
"If I remember correctly we need to establish a shelter, and get a feel of our new hunting grounds" the mech called Varax replied.
"Very good, well this hunt is for you young ones, we're only here to give you advice, so get too it" the second large mech instructed and the twelve younger bots along with their cyber dogs split up to search for a proper shelter and scout the grounds.
"Do you think they'll do alright Telese?" The first large mech asked the second.
"I don't know Pilra, they're young and going up against a young, but inventive species, and facing off against experienced warriors, including that filth Optimus Prime, and that delusional Megatron, who have no doubt received extra back up by this point" The mech called Telese replied.
"But from our scouts reports only a handful of other bots that can match Optimus and Megatron are still left and are still in space, as far as the Autobots and Decepticons are concerned, after all their constant fighting makes them rather easy to track" the third mech added.
"Very true Palax but regardless of what help they did manage to gain, their numbers should be few and far in between since our first scouting party mauled the majority of the bots that resided on this planet" Telese replied.
"I personally would like to take that Optimus's head, he will make a very satisfying trophy" Pilra said pulling out a rather crude looking knife and holding it to the sky as if he was making a declaration to the world.
"Then I get dibs on Megatron's spark" Palax said forming his right arm into a long range plasma cannon.
"Don't forget that this is the youngsters hunt, we won't intervene except to save them, we can't afford to just start losing youngsters, it would reflect shamefully on us as hunters if we just let our young bots die especially when our former sparking slaves have long since offlined" Telese sighed. "Which means we need to take any femmes we find alive cause they will be good for our clan to help reproduce more sparklings, and prevent the Autobots and Decepticons from doing the same thing in order to combat us"
"This is the first time in eons that we have hunted other Cybertronians, and the first time were we have the upper hand against them, their constant fighting has weakened them and their likeminded fools to the point where we can hunt them at our leisure" Palax sighed happily. "And with thousands of other Huntron Clan memebers and contacts with several bounty hunters roaming space we aren't short on military strength but we are hunters, and we will live by our code".
"Doesn't sound like much fun" Pilra sighed obviously wanting to get in on the action, but their clans elders wanted to give the young their chance to hunt instead of just offering only the experienced and strong the hunting opportunities.
"Do you think they know we are here yet?" Palax asked.
"Oh trust me, they know we're here" Telese replied.
Back at the autobot base
"Oh Primus" Rachet gasped as he stared on the computer to see that a space bridge had opened and he was reading several groups of spark signs numbering a little over a hundred. No doubt the majority of them were cyberdogs but that did little to ease Rachet's worry. "They've finally come"
Chapter end
Author's Note: Alright the third chapter is finally out and next chapter the first battle against the Huntron clan, and I will be bringing Jack, Raf, and Miko back into the picture next chapter. Again Wildstrike is toalorikan626's OC. Anyone else who has an OC whether they be a transformer or a human is more than welcome to send their bio and I'll see if I can add them into the story. For the moment I am looking for two more transformer bios, preferably a femme if possible but beyond that hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I will be looking forward to your reviews CAUSE I LOVE REVIEWS.