Story: Virus...

Chapter 9 - The lab's existance

(NOTE: No relation to 'Black and white Autobot family)

All pure FICTION!

'Blah' normal talk

blah thoughts aloud

'blah' talking through comlink

As the ship continued flying over the 'endangered' city on Cybertron, they continued discussing important matters.

'Guess we gotta find that satelitte that sends the signals that control Prowl from the lab. But where is it? And how do we stop it?' Bluestreak asked. He looked at someone. 'Perceptor?'

The scientist bot looked at him. 'I agree Blue. But of course Einsteel wouldn't tell me where it's located incase I turned against him, or wanted revenge and so I would take out the satelitte. It's location is a mystery to me.'

'Wait, Perceptor!' Proton interrupted. 'The lab won't send signals longer than a 50 mile radius?'

'Correct.'

Proton turned and types frantically on the control pad.

On the big screen, came the 3D map of Cybertron, and Proton zooms in on the lab. 'With a 50 mile radius from the lab...' on the screen a red circles shows up around the lab, with the lab directly in the centre of the circle at a 50 mile radius. 'The satelitte will be in this area, but it's too much land to cover. Already we're...' on the screen pops 87 miles. 'We're 87 miles from the lab, so already, Einsteel is using the satelitte to receive the signals from Prowl sees, but he isn't controlling Prowl at this moment, because the satelitte...' he nods at Perceptor.

'...Can't send those kind of signals across land that would be intercepted by Decepticons! So it's a high frequency satelitte, that would have to be within a 30 mile radius of the lab!' Perceptor replied.

Proton typed that up on the pad, reducing the circle's size around the base. 'Still a wide area to cover.'

'If Einsteel is still able to see what Prowl is seeing, we can get a GPS location on the satelitte!' Perceptor told him. 'That's a little risky to locate the GPS through Prowl though.'

'Perceptor,' Prowl interrtupted. 'If it's to locate this slagging satelitte and put an end to Einsteel, I'll help anyway I can!'

'You know any sign language?' Perceptor asks him.

Prowl nodded. 'Yes.'

'First off, I'll need to disable your audio receptors, because Einsteel can hear us all now, and so he won't hear what we're saying.' Perceptor added.

'Perceptor, won't he be hearing everything you're saying now?' Rodimus asks.

Perceptor shook his head. 'This is the time Einsteel goes to work. If he does have your ancestors' bodies, Proton, then he'll be working on reviving those now. He won't be able to review the recordings later if your audio is disabled. So I need to disable that first for the time being.'

Prowl nodded in agreement. 'Fine.'

'Follow me then.' Perceptor leads him into the next room.

Einsteel returned to the monitors and looks at the screen showing what Prowl was seeing. He turned up the volume on the audio.

Nothing.

He turned it up again.

Nothing.

He brings up the audio blueprint, and status said 'Disabled!'

He bangs his fists on the table. 'NO!'

Einsteel typed frantically on the keyboard, trying to establish what caused the audio to be disabled, and he guessed it was Perceptor, who knew this kind of technology. He tried restoring the audio, but nothing worked.

'I can still see what he's seeing though!'

Perceptor walks back into the control pod, with Prowl right behind him.

'It worked Prime.' Perceptor said. 'Already did a test run with some sounds, Prowl can't hear anything now. I also checked the signals that would go to the satelitte, nothing. So now Einsteel won't hear a thing, and so we won't hear him now. Plus, Einsteel is NOT an excellent lip-reader.'

Rodimus nodded. 'Then we'll talk to him with sign language to communicate until further notice. But if Einsteel realizes what's happened, he'll surely make an attempt to restore the connection. Would you be able to track the satelitte through that?'

Perceptor thought about it. 'We could... but it's a weak signal since disabling the audio connection. We only have the connection with what Prowl sees... Sideswipe!'

Sideswipe was pulling faces behind Prowl as he couldn't hear him. Prowl turned around, just catching what Sideswipe was doing, and he gave him a warning glare. Sideswipe flinched.

'Me and Proton will established a location on the satelitte, and then steer the ship in that direction.' Perceptor said.

Proton nodded in agreement.

Rodimus nodded too. 'Ok. You will both locate that satelitte, now Einsteel is completely unaware of what everyone is saying now he won't hear us.'

Back at the lab, Einsteel was taking every solution in trying to fix the connection for the audio. After attempting the last solution, which failed, he bashed his fists on the table, then smiled, calming himself.

'Perceptor, is smart. I'm, smarter!'

He turned back round to the pods. He walked towards them and walked towards the pod enclosing Luna.

'With new codes and parts, you won't remember a single memory, darling. You're only memory, is of our life together my dear.'

He looked at the pods with Rynox, Hydrid and Earth. 'You 3, along with the final piece, will form that all powerful chain, and I can rule Cybertron! Screw them Decepticons, President, and High Lord of Cybertron, Einsteel is here!'

Einsteel has gone ballistic now! But the Autobots have taken their first step in stopping Einsteel, by disabling Prowl's audio receptors, Einsteel can't hear what they say, or talk to them.

But Einsteel is still going ahead with the plans of revival of Luna, and Proton's ancestors.

Read on for more. (My chapters are getting smaller? Need to lengthen them)