AN: Hello people. What's up? I would just like to say thank you to all of my viewers and thanks for the reviews. Also sorry about taking so much time to update. School is thankfully almost over. One more thing, I know that Sideways is still supposed an Autobot. Bare with me here. Any way please tell me more on what you people think about it. Like it? Hate it? Let me know! Just press that little purple button at the bottom pretty please? Any way, on with chapter five.
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"transmission's"
Chapter 5
Luna sat on one of the top most parts of the decepticon base. She was looking at the Earth as white puffs flew over the bright blue and green of the Earth's surface. It had been about two weeks since she had come to live with the Decepticons and she had dubbed them as her pack. She really didn't know why. Probably, she figured, from her wolven instincts. True they could come in handy at times but other times they could be just plain annoying.
Sighing her thoughts brought her back to her family. Did they miss her? Did they even know she was gone?
'Probably not.' she thought bitterly to herself. 'There probably wrapped up in there own lives to even think about how I'm doing. These thoughts only brought a deep feeling of sorrow in the pit of her stomach. Then the feeling was replaced by deep and utter rage.
'Why should I even care about them? They're the ones that abandoned me!' Growling she jumped off the spike she had placed herself and flew threw a hole into a hallway in the base. Flapping her wings once more she landed on the ground right as an alarm went off startling her. Just then Cyclonus came down the hallway, stooping down to let her crawl into his hand.
"What's going on Cy?" she asked as he deposited her onto his shoulder and continued down the hallway.
"You remember when we first captured you, we wanted to trade you for a minicon?" He asked her. Luna's ears perked at the word.
"Yeah, wasn't that the green panel that those five kids where trying to get out of that rock?" she asked remembering the panel that had led the girl to fall off the cliff.
"That's the one." said Cyclonus. "Well when the alarm goes off, it means that another minicon has been activated somewhere on Earth and we have to go get it before those Autotwitts do." he laughed as he entered the throne room where the other Decepticons where gathered. Luna refolded her wings in a more comfortable position as she waited for Megatron to speak.
For some reason, she no longer feared the great tyrant. He was more like a father figure and pack alpha. He had explained most of the war, but had been interrupted before he could explain to her about the minicons.
"Decepticons, the time has come for us to capture that star saber and the minicon." he stated while he held up a hand and closing it into a tight fist. All the other Decepticons including Luna nodded their agreement. Then everyone headed for the warp room. Luna was then plucked off of Cyclonus's shoulder by Megatron.
"Luna I want you to stay here. We might be able to use you for a surprise attack in the future." he told Luna as she dangled from his fingers before setting her down on a ledge.
"I understand alpha- I mean Megatron." she said, quickly correcting herself and blushing deep under her fur as Megatron and Cyclonus looked at her strangely. Like she had said before, sometimes her instincts could be a real pain in the ass.
She watched as the Decepticons disappeared before heading back to the throne room. Suddenly, a screen blared to life, causing Luna to drop to all four and puff out her fur. Once she realized what had caused the disturbance she blushed once again.
'Great Luna, keep this up and you'll be jumping at a mouse.' she scolded herself. Turning back to the screen she discovered that she could watch the Decepticons and the Autobots battle. Settling down on the arm of Megatron's throne, she watched as the battle continued on a dark mountain range. Suddenly she gasped as she saw a cloaked figure on the top of one of the mountains also watching the battle. Blinking once she discovered that the mysterious figure disappeared.
'Who was that?' she asked herself as she diverted her attention back to the battle. She watched as Starscream grabbed onto the side of one of the mountains and start to climb. Then the yellow and red Autobot she had seen with the kids she encountered jumped in front of him.
"Sorry to interupt this little search party of yours." he said with a grin. "Sonar, Runway, Jetstar!" he called out. Suddenly three minicons jumped out and started to transform into a sword that the Autobot caught. "Starsaber!" he yelled.
'That sword must be really powerful."Luna thought. Another Autobot, who was orange and appeared to transform into a crane drove climbed up nearby.
"I'm here for ya Hot Shot." he called. Luna looked back at the yellow Autobot.
"Hot Shot huh. So that's your name." Luna said to herself. She only looked back at the screen after she heard Hot Shot say Smokescream. "And that must be your name." she said to the image of the orange bot as he started to climb up the mountain once more.
Then Starscream jumped at Hot Shot and tried to grab the Starsaber but was cut when Hot Shot swung the Starsaber making him lose his balance and fall down the mountain.
"STARSCREAM!" Luna cried out as he regained his footing and pulled out his sword as Demolisher also called out to him. Then Hot Shot swung again. As Starscream tried to block, the Starsaber went right threw his sword. Luna gasped and put her hands over her muzzle. Even though she had only been with the Decepticons for a short while she knew that Starscream deeply valued his sword. She watched as he started to shake with anger.
Looking back at Smokescream she saw Cyclonus pelt him with a barrage of bullets before he was hit by Starscream's runaway sword, sending him crashing to the ground down bellow. Then Smokescream grabbed the minicon.
She saw Megatron being tackled by the blue, red, and gold Autobot she knew was his arch nemesis Optimus Prime and Demolisher fire his guns at Hot Shot before getting his guns cut off by the Saber. Luna winced. Then Megatron called a retreat before disappearing out of existence once again followed one by one by the other Decepticons.
Jumping up she ran back to the warp room and watched the Decepticons start to repair themselves. She walked over to Starscream and sat on her hunches to watch him fix up his arm. Even though she was all about animals, she was also good with machinery. When Starscream started to have trouble getting to one of the small places in his arm, Luna stepped in.
"Here, let me help." she said starting to repair his arm for him as he looked at her. Once she was finished connecting a few wires he began to flex his arm to check her work. Mean while Megatron was furious and was letting his rage be known.
"What is the meaning of this? I have never seen such a pathetic combat."
"But Megatron sir, it wasn't our fault. Honest! It was that Starsaber. If we had it we would have crushed them." Cyclouns explained as Luna flapped up to his shoulder and rubbed up against his neck to calm him down.
"That is why you need to go and steal the sword. Now we have no choice but to infiltrate the Autobot base once again."
"No, no Megatron sir, anything but that. Well never make it out alive!" cried out Demolisher. This really surprised Luna because he was always eager to carry out Megatron's orders. Then she picked up a new scent. Intrigued she stood up on her hind legs and pushed her snout up as high as she could and took a deep sniff. The smell was one of an elder who had seen many days and held much wisdom, but it was still an intruder and she began to growl.
Dropping down to all fours she turned on Cyclonus's shoulder she flared her wings, puffed up her fur and bared her fangs as a blood curling snarl left her throat.
"Hey Luna, settle down, what's wrong?" asked a surprised Cyclonus. All of the other Decepticons had also turned their attention to the girl as she growled louder.
"INTRUDER, THREAT, DANGER!" she cried as she flew down from Cyclonus's shoulder to the floor and started to pace.
"Luna what is the meaning of this?" demanded Megatron with a hint of worry in his voice from the girls sudden change in behavior.
"Well Megatron, it seems you aren't surrounded by complete idiots after all." stated a cloaked figure as he steeped out of the shadows of the base.
"How did you get in?" asked a puzzled Cyclonus, but the strangers attention was turned to Luna still pacing the ground in front of him.
"And who is this?" he asked stooping down get a closer look at Luna while she stood up and bared her claws and fangs, wings spread menacingly behind her, also giving her beautiful yet demented appearance. He placed his hand out slowly, palm up and offered it to Luna.
Luna took a deep sniff from the strangers hand. She was right about the elder part and she could smell the trust radiating off of him. He was an allay and one to be trusted. She stopped her growling and her fur went back to its normal size. Flapping her wings she flew over to Megatron's shoulder.
"Friend, he's a friend." she said while the others just looked at her. Blushing once again, she started to fidget. "It's his scent. You can learn a lot about a person from his scent." she said sheepishly before hiding behind Megatron's neck.
"Hm, interesting pet you have here." he said.
"HEY!" yelled an indignant Luna as she came back into view from behind Megatron. "Shut your slagging mouth you stupid fragger!" she yelled at him, causing the other Decepticons to snicker and Cyclonus to break out into a fit of uncontrollable laughter.
"Ah Scavenger, I'm glad you could make it my loyal minion." Said Megatron. Luna was stumped. Megatron actually knew this guy?
"Megatron you know this guy?" asked Demolisher.
"What's going on here?" asked Cyclonus looking back and forth between Megatron and Scavenger.
"I called Scavenger to me for his assistance. With his mercenary skills he should be able to assistance." Megatron explained.
"So he's a merc." Demolisher stated.
"I was actually deciding whether I would come or not but seeing that performance of what you mechs call a battle I can see my skills are well needed." he stated.
Luna heard Starscream growl and joined in. This guy might be an elder but her was one cocky son of a bitch. She continued to listen to the conversation between himself and Megatron and could only growl louder at the insults thrown.
"Megatron we don't need help from the likes of him!" Starscream stated.
"Megatron I've heard about your assistants and some say that they are the most feared of the Decepticons. So much for believing everything you hear." he said laughing. Luna barked at his words. No one, said that about her pack. Flapping her wings once again she grabbed onto a wire just above Scavengers head and flipped upside down from it like a bat and wrapped her wings around her just like Scavenger's own cloak.
"Listen here Scavenger." Luna's voice came out low and raspy sending chills threw the mercenaries frame. "You may be an elder but no one, NO ONE, talks about my pack in such a manner." she growled lowly. Flapping her wings once again she was about to head back to her place on Cyclonus's shoulder when Scavenger pulled a gun out and aimed it right at her. Luna froze for a moment while the other Decepticons, including Megatron stiffened.
"You are a brave one. Standing up for your 'pack' when you deem it threatened or insulted even though you are so small and weak." he said. Luna just flipped right side up and started to climb up the wire with incredible speed that surprised Scavenger and herself and disappearing out of sight.
Scavenger could feel her eyes on him, watching him from the shadows. Then he sensed her to his right and dodged just as Luna jumped at his side with her claws extended. As Scavenger had been able to dodge, his cloak had not been spared and huge gashes appeared in it. Scavenger looked down at his cloak with carefully hidden surprise and impress. Laughing he said.
"It appears that you aren't so weak after all." Laughing he turned around and walked back into the darkness. Luna smirked.
"That aught to knock him down a few notches." she said to herself as she watched him walk away.
A few days later, Luna was back on the arm of Megatron's throne watching another battle take place. Hot Shot seemed to be getting cocky with the Starsaber. She winced as she saw him cut off Cyclonus's aft.
"That has so gotta hurt." she said, still looking at the screen. Sideways and Demolisher looked warily at Hot Shot with the Saber. Then Starscream challenged him. Before the battle could begin, Scavenger appeared. Hot Shot turned to Scavenger, still wearing his cloak who was on a hill above him.
"Who are you?" Hot Shot asked.
"I go by the name Scavenger."he said. Turning his head he looked at Optimus. "It's been a long time Optimus."This must have surprised the other Autobots as much as it surprised Luna.
"I'll spare you the details, but I will tell you if it weren't for me Optimus wouldn't be spending his life in these battles." he said, laughing. Optimus who had seemed undaunted until know said.
"It's true, you are the one who taught me to fight." Luna almost fell from her perch.
"Man who is this guy?" she asked herself.
"Enough talk lets battle." Starscream cried impatiently. Scavenger only chuckled.
As the two sized each other up, Megatron ordered Cyclonus to go and find the minicon. As the battle between Hot Shot and Starscream began, it became clear that Starscream wasn't about to loose to Hot Shot and was doing well at fending off his attacks, making Hot Shot become frustrated. After Starscream made a cut on his face and charged again, he again sliced his sword in half. Then Scavenger stepped in.
He began to explain how the battle hadn't been won by Hot Shot, but by the sword instead, confusing Hot Shot all the more and challenge him to a fight. Scavenger only laughed once again and pulled off his cloak revealing himself for the first time, with a grin plastered on his lips.
'He looks extremely powerful. He must have been going extra easy on me during our last encounter.' Luna thought to herself as Hot Shot got into a fighting stance. Soon he charged and swung at Scavenger. Scavenger only laughed and blocked the sword with his bare hands.
"HOW DID HE DO THAT?" Luna yelled as she saw this. Hot Shot was equally surprised and before he knew what was happening, was sent flying courtesy of Scavenger's fist. After Hot Shot landed, Scavenger attacked again. Hot Shot tried to stab Scavenger who only caught the sword lazily in his hand making electricity spark. Hot Shot was then pumbled to the ground by Scavenger who had been grinning nonstop for the entire fight.
"Not bad for a mere ammiture."he said as Hot Shot hit the ground. Then Scavenger turned away. Megatron was about to grab the Starsaber, but Prime stepped in the way. Just then Cyclonus came up with the minicon. After uptaining what they had come to receive, Megatron called a retreat and warped back to base. Luna raced to meet them. As she entered the room Cyclonus was handing the minicon over to Megatron. Walking over, she climbed up his body until she sat on his shoulder. Scavenger was also there and she could feel him watching her intently.
"Excilent work." Megatron said smiling walking back to the throne room he sat down and charged his horns. Then shooting a beam at the minicon panel watched as it glowed for a moment and stop. "What?" he sounded surprised and tried again, with the same effect. He repeated this act a few moire times before stopping. "Why won't it activate?" he demanded.
"Megatron sir, mabey it's like the Starsaber and won't activate without three minicons are joined together." Demolisher suggested.
"Don't you know the legend?" asked Scavenger from his place as he leaned against the wall.
"What legend?" demanded Megatron.
"The legend of the shield that deflects the Starsaber of course." Scavenger replied sounding a bit annoyed. Megatron seemed deep in thought as he looked back at the minicon panel in his hands.
"A shield?" then laughter escaped his mouth. Luna had to admit. She was nervous.
'How do I get myself into these messes?'she asked herself as she watched Megatron laugh maniaclly. She shivered and pressed herself deeper into Cyclonus's neck. She could sense that Cyclonus was nervous as well and that wasn't helping her one bit.
"Come on Luna." Cyclous said quietly before exiting the room. They walked aimlessly threw the base for a while before Cyclonus finally decided to return to his room. Opening the door he walked back over to the desk and placed Luna on it. Luna walked to the edge of the top and watched Cyclonus get comfortable in his chair before asking.
"So Cy, what do you think about Scavenger?" Cy looked thoughtful for a few moments.
"I don't know." he finally said. "But if he's as good as Megatron said, we could really use his help." Luna had to agree. Yawning she stretched, Cyclonus also stretched as he stood from his chair.
"Come on Luna, we should probably get some sleep." he said as he lay down on his berth. Luna flew over to the berth as well and landed on the top of his chassis, closest to his spark and curled into a tight ball. Cyclonus laughed as he ran his fingers down her spin.
"Cyclonus." Luna whined at the pleasurable tingle followed the trails of his fingers.
"Ha ha, good night Luna." Cyclonus said laughing before falling asleep. Luna followed suit only a few minutes after, totally unaware that Scavenger was watching from the doorway, smiling to himself
'Cute kid.' he thought as he continued down the hallway to his own room.
Luna watched as Sideways left base to make his alliance with the Autobots.
'I hope he knows what he's doing.' she thought turning away. Scavenger was leaning against the wall next to her and watched her as she turned to leave
"And where are you going?" he asked picking her up by the scruff of her neck. Luna knew that he held a higher place than she did, even though she had been here longer and so she decided to answer.
"I'm going to ask Cy if he can take me to go visit my Grandma. It's been a while since I went to go visit her and I promised that I would." she said. Scavenger looked thoughtful for a moment before, still carrying her, headed towards the warp room.
"Cyclonus is busy with orders from Megatron and I have nothing to do, so I might as well take you there myself." he said, as Luna climbed into the palm of his hand. Just before they reached the warp room though, Starscream stopped them.
"Luna, I have something for you." he said while pulling something out of subspace. It looked like a video camera, but then it transformed. Soon a puppy was standing on Starscream's hand. The puppy was black with purple paws, tail, and a purple deceticon symbol on his back and forehead with a blue collar around its neck. The puppy also had a set of bat wings, just like Luna that had black fingers with purple membranes. When the puppy saw Luna it started to wag its tail and suck its tungue out like a normal dog. Luna was speechless.
The puppy then barked and flew over to her and only coming up to her knees and rubbed up against her legs. Luna began to gigle and picked him up.
"Starscream, I'm speechless. This is just so COOL." she said as the puppy licked her face. Starscream and Scavenger both chuckled.
"His name's Buzzsaw. He's programed to do whatever you say and no one else, help locate minicons, act as a communicator, and protect you. Besides his claws and teeth, he has shuriken dispencers and he can produce a surge of electricity to short circut machinery." Starscream explained.
"That is to cool." Luna said as she continued to pet her new companion. "Thank you so much!" she said. Starscream only continued to chuckle as he walked down the hallway. Scavenger then walked into the warp room before typing in the coordinates to take them to Luna's grandmother's house.
Scavenger sat at the base of a tree in a clearing with Luna's Grandmother as they watched Luna and Buzzasw play in the grass in front of them. He had been talking with Luna's grandmother about her and how her transformation had taken place. He was angry at how her parents had just left her with her grandmother and had only called to tell them about the doctors and a surgery that could make Luna look normal again. From what he had been told, they hadn't even asked to speek to Luna, let alone how she was. Cycling air through his vents, he watched as Luna and Buzzsaw trotted out of the clearing into the surrounding forest.
Luna and Buzzsaw left the clearing because they had both picked up a scent. Walking deeper into the woods they saw a rabbit near its hole. Grinning Luna turned to Buzzsaw.
"Go in front of the rabbit and scare it towards me." she said. Nodding Buzzsaw stealthily moved in front of the rabbit. The rabbit, sensing its danger was on high alert. Then Buzzsaw jumped out of the brush and the rabbit took off running right into Luna. She grabbed the rabbit in her teeth and bit down as hard as she could. She heard a pop as she broke its spine and blood flow freely into her mouth.
Pleased with their accomplishment, the two headed back for the clearing, with the rabbit still dangling from Luna's jaws. When they reached the clearing, they saw both Scavenger and her grandmother turn to the two and regard them with curious eyes. Luna only wagged her tail as did Buzzsaw. Finding a comfortable spot nearby, the two started to eat the rabbit. Luna's grandmother only shook her head.
"This happens often?" asked Scavenger, watching the two enjoy their meal. Luna's grandmother chuckled.
"Every now and then I'll find some remains of some poor little critter that became victims of Luna's munchies." she answered. Luna and Buzzsaw had just finished stripping the rabbit of all of its meat and were lying down to take a quick nap, when their ears perked up. The sound of a car coming down the dirt road to her grandmother's could be heard.
"Hey grandma, you wouldn't be happening to be expecting anyone would you?" she asked. Her grandmother looked at her strangely before answering.
"No, no one should be coming. Why?"
"Because I hear someone driving up." Luna said standing up followed quickly by Buzzsaw, her grandmother and Scavenger. Then they headed off towards her grandmother's cottage. Standing just inside the trees, the saw Luna's parents and brother step out of their car and head up the steps to the house. Luna growled.
"Now Luna calm down." her grandmother said, but their was immediate worry in her voice that wasn't help Luna's nerves. She then walked out of the trees and up to the family standing on the steps and let them into the house. Luna was about to follow when she turned to Scavenger and said as calmly as she could.
"Wait here." then she to exited the trees followed closely by Buzzsaw. Walking up the steps, she to entered the house and headed towards the kitchen where the rest of her family was seated. Everyone looked up at her.
"What are you doing here?" she growled at them. Luna's father stood shakily to his feet and pulled out a newspaper from about two and a half weeks ago and placed it on the table. Puzzled she stepped forward, ignoring her family,except her grandmother, flinch away. On the front page was a picture of her on the day she had learned to fly. Dumbfounded she turned back to her father.
"How did they get a picture of me? By the way why didn't you call us about this?" she asked with a hint of anger in her voice.
"Well you see, they were able to figure out who you were and we didn't want them to trace you to he-."
"You all were trying to cover your own ass's, weren't you?!" she demanded as the anger was made evident in her voice causing Buzzsaw to growl, causing the family to jump again, not seeing that Buzzsaw had entered the room.
"WHAT IS THAT THING!?" her mother screeched jumping up from her chair. Buzzsaw only growled louder, not like the sudden movement.
"Buzzsaw, calm down." Luna commanded as Buzzsaw calmed a bit, not letting down his guard as Jason stood up and walked closer.
"That is so cool." he breathed. Buzzsaw only growled again and walked behind his mistress's legs, hiding himself from Jason's view. Jason looked at his sister and demanded.
"How could a freak like you get something as cool as that?" Luna only glared before retorting.
"Why should I answer a mama's boy like you?" Jason only growled and raised a fist.
"Why you little brat!" he said swinging his fist wildly. But he screamed in pain as a shuriken was lodged in the back of his hand and Buzzsaw standing protectively in front of Luna.
"JASON!!" her mother screamed he stumbled back and fell to rhe floor.
"LUNA, call off that beast this instant!!" her father screamed at her. Luna only looked at them lazily before gently picking up Buzzsaw and cradling him to her chest.
"Good boy." she said, scratching behind his ear. Looking up she watched as her parents swarmed around her brother.
"Luna look what your stupid beast did! That's Jason's football hand!" her father yelled at her. Luna's anger got the best of her.
"JASON, JASON, JASON, THAT'S ALL YOU CARE ABOUT! CAN'T YOU ALL AT LEAST ONCE THINK ABOUT ME OR AT LEAST ACT LIKE MY PARENTS!?" she screamed at them. Everyone but her grandmother backed away from her in fear.
"Mother, you let her talk to us this way?" her father demanded her grandmother who had been calmly sitting at the table drinking a cup of coffee.
"Yes." she said simply.
"Well I demand you tell her to stop!" he snarled. Luna only snorted and her grandma only laughed.
"Tell her yourself." she told him. Luna's father looked at her dumbfounded. Turning to Luna he yelled angrily.
"As long as you live in my house you will behave like a civilized beast!" he snarled. Luna only looked at him angrily and was about to retort when she heard her grandmother slam her coffee cup down making her flinch.
'This can't be good.' she thought as she watched her grandmother rise from her chair and turn to her father.
"One this house is not and never will be yours, PETER. Second, Luna does NOT live here." she said angrily to her son's face. Luna could only look at her grandmother in wonder while her father was speechless. Turning his attention back to Luna.
"You got kicked out by your grandma after only a month?!" he demanded. Luna looked at him and was about to answer when she was interrupted by her grandmother.
"You actually think I would even CONSIDER throwing out my own granddaughter?" she demanded. "No I did not and would not. Luna just got a better offer to live with some one else." she said sitting back down and sipping her coffee. Her father looked back to her and demanded.
"You showed yourself to someone?"
"Yeah you got a problem with that?" Luna demanded, shocking her family. She had never spoked back to her father before. Turning to her grandmother she said.
"I better get going. Scavenger is probably getting bored out of his CPU and Cyclonus should be off duty by now." she said. Her grandmother nodded.
"Luna I demand to know who you met!" he said. Luna simply turned her back to him and walked out of the room followed by Buzzsaw. She heard her family come after her as she stepped off the porch.
"LUNA, GET BACK HERE NOW!!" her father demanded. She simply kept walking until her form was swallowed up by the trees and headed towards where she had last seen Scavenger. He watched her as she approached and stooped down to her level.
"Family problems?" he asked, as Luna and Buzzsaw climbed into his offered hand.
"You have no idea." Luna stated as she listed to her father rant before Scavenger warped back to base.
AN/ O yeah! Finally finished! That is the longest chapter I have ever written so I hope you all enjoy it. Also I know that Buzzsaw is a vulture but I thought Luna needed a friend. Any way tell me what you all thought about it. Please review. Until next time I update! Dark Crimson Dragon Mistress.
