Story: Virus...

Chapter 11 - Let me show you all

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

All pure FICTION!

'Blah' normal talk

blah thoughts aloud

'blah' talking through comlink

Jazz slowly regained consious, and was staring up at a ceiling in some tall room. Where was he?

'Good work Hydrid! You brought the Prototype's best pal! Return to your chamber for recharging.' a voice Jazz recognized.

'Yes master.'

Jazz sat up, watching Hydrid walk pass him without a glance, towards his recharging chamber. Jazz turned to face Einsteel.

'Ah... I see my creation didn't hit you hard enough.' Einsteel chuckles. 'Shouldn't expected you to pull through THAT quickly!'

'What da ya want?' Jazz demanded an answer.

'Ah... as to why you're here, and not back with your comrades?' Einsteel responded. 'Well it goes something like this; a master creates his powerful creation to obey him, but his creation turns against him, and now won't obey me, thinking he can get his 'friends' to plot so I'm not a part of it! Seriously! You plan to stop me! Nothing will!'

'Surely when a master builds a creation he always has a fear that his creation will turn against 'im!'

'Yes, I do agree it's a master's worse nightmare. Well mine won't even exist when I'm finished with my experiments!'

'Ya revived Hydrid! Ya made him to attack his OWN SON! Ya tried to make 'im capture 'is OWN GRANDSON! What evil scientist are ya! Certainly not a very kind one at all! Or no Autobot!'

'Agreed.' Einsteel just kept his nerve, keeping calm. 'I'm no Autobot, or Decepticon. Just a bot who WAS an Autobot once, before that bloody femme placed me in the stockades to rot!'

'Luna?'

'Yes, that Luna. Left me for that slag of a Lord. She left just because he had powerful ancestors! And he's a ruler! She could join him and rule with him! Pah! There's no love there! Not what she had for me!'

'Sounds to meh she never 'ad any love with ya!'

'Don't try that softness! She did once with me! But she couldn't be more less than what I was looking for! I was dedicated to my work on science!'

The small hologram of the mech appeared. 'Sir...Processing of the protoforms for your other creations are pass 95%. Ready to begin the transferring.'

'Thank you Marnel,' Einsteel nods to the mech, who disappears before reappearing on the big screen. He turned to Jazz. 'My computer assistant. Worked for me all these years as a scientist. Wanna know who he is?'

Jazz shook his head. 'With ya life, I don't wanna know.'

Einsteel smiled with a slight chuckle on the end. 'He was the mech I would've had. I had waited for a young sparkling of my own, and upon meeting Luscious, I thought I had everything. Our son arrived, but slipped away from an inherited virus. I used my skills of science to create a approximate image of how he would look today. And this is him on the screen. Still my precious mech.'

'He's a hologram of ya son. Not ya REAL son! What would ya real son think of ya now?' Jazz argued.

'He'd think nothing of it. My pride and joy. And so back to the basics! I want Prototype Prowl back here! And you can be the sacrifice!'

Jazz flinched.

Proton steered the ship at full speed towards the lab, which was just a mile away.

'Almost there Prime.' He calls to Rodimus.

The leader nodded. 'Ok. Just hope we're in time to rescue Jazz.'

Proton played back the memory he remembered of the scene just minutes ago, having to fight his own dad! How could Einsteel do that? Whatever happens there, I'm going to rescue my ancestors. Anything happens to them, I'm doomed.

He caught the lab approaching.

'The lab is in sight. Once landed, sir, we can proceed inside. If Einsteel has revived my grandfather and Rynox, I'm prepared to stop Einsteel forever!'

'Don't get too carried away Proton. We just rescue Jazz, and sort out the others later.'

Jazz sat helplessly, watching Einsteel work on the protoforms. He turned to face Hydrid, who was standing infront of the pod with Earth's body inside. Jazz looked back at Einsteel, making sure the scientist was really busy to not notice, and so he crept up to Hydrid.

'Hydrid?'

The Praxien reacted, and turned around to face the 'prisoner'. 'What is it?'

'That's just it. Ya don't recognize meh!'

Hydrid blinked blankly at Jazz, before shaking his head. 'I know nothing of you.'

'I know a lot about ya Hydrid!' Jazz responded.

Hydrid let out a small chuckle. 'What could you possibly know about me, that I know nothing about you?'

'Ya son, Proton!'

Hydrid's optics widened wide. 'How do you know my son?'

'Ya just attacked him on the ship minutes ago! You were asked to capture ya grandson! Why obey this scientist and harm ya own family?'

'I ... I know nothing of grandsparklings!'

'You have 3! A mech and his twin brothers! Smokescreen! And the twins; Prowl and Bluestreak!'

'I... I...'

'You know ya son has a bondmate! It's Luna!'

'Stop it! I don't know you at all! How can you know this!'

'I work with Proton! I'm pals with Proton! I'm best pals with his son! My father was pals with Proton! You were best pals with me grandfather. Ya pal, Classic!'

'Classic? You're his grandson!'

'YES!'

Einsteel turned around. 'HEY! Don't talk to the prisoner Hydrid! Get away from him!'

When Hydrid wouldn't respond, all mixed emotions and memories had made him pause, Einsteel grew impatient.

'Did you hear me! Hydrid! Get away from him this instant!'

Hydrid still wouldn't respond, so Einsteel charged forward, and pulls Jazz away.

'Don't talk to him!' he yells at Jazz.

'Release Jazz now!'

Einsteel turned around to see that group of Autobots all standing in the doorway, their weapons drawed, aimed at him.

'Let Jazz go!' Rodimus ordered.

'And my family!' Proton added.

Einsteel catches the plasma gun behind him, and grabs it, grabbing Jazz round the neck, and holds the gun up to his face. 'No! Come closer, or try any harm against me, and this mech gets a blow to the head!'

'Released my dad!' Proton ordered.

'You don't give the orders, you pathetic excuse for a ruler! He's mine to control! Hydrid! Attack at once!'

Hydrid snapped out of his trance, and was staring at Proton; his own son standing there, angry at his creator. He looked at Einsteel, ordering him to attack. He looked back at his son, and sighed. 'Yes master...'

'GET DOWN!' Proton ordered, as Hydrid blasted out an attack on them.

So Einsteel has unleashed Hydrid on the Autobots when they arrived to get Jazz.

Jazz knows of Einsteel's past, and seen the bodies of Proton's ancestors becoming his own creations to control.

What will happen next? Read on to continue.

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