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Miko873: Haha glad you're interested in my little old story :) Here's the next chapter!
Guys I just wanted to say something: I know I've changed several things about the Rescue Bots in my story but it's kinda necessary to do what I've been planning. They kinda expanded the firehouse into the tunnels so everyone had somewhere to stay. I'm saying this now to avoid conflict in the future.
Thank you! :)
**Crimsonbreak's vision**
Griffin Rock was engulfed in flames, the fire destroying everything in its path. The terrified and pain filled screams from the innocent citizens echoed through Crimsonbreak's skull as she ran to get to the firehouse. The ground broke and crumpled beneath her feet and she found herself falling into a dark, pitch black void. She tried to scream but nothing came out. Suddenly she stopped falling but was hovering in space. Without warning a pair of giant dark purple eyes appeared in front of her, startling her greatly.
"Now not even Earth is safe." The Dark One cackled. Crimsonbreak's eyes widened in fear. A bright white light flashed and pain filled her head. Images of her past betrayals and of ones being foretold whipped through her mind. The one that shook her the most was the sight of Winterstreak with her sword in his chest, dying on the ground. The Autobots and the Thirteen excluding The Fallen were about to be executed. There were also most of the cyberninjas, a few standing by Crimsonbreak's side. "Join me!"
"Never!" Crimsonbreak screamed.
**End vision**
"Crimsonbreak? Crim what's wrong? You gotta speak." A gentle voice brought Crimsonbreak out of the vision. She could faintly feel a strong hand on her shoulder. She opened her eyes and looked up and stared her sparkmate dead in the eye. She was sure that the fear was clear and that he could clearly understand what was going on. Winterstreak grabbed both of her shoulders. "Is he…?"
"He's here…on Earth…The Dark One has returned!" Crimsonbreak exclaimed. Winterstreak hugged her as she began to tremble in fear. The others in the room looked at each other in shock and concern. They had no idea what The Dark One could and would do to the cyberninjas, especially Crimsonbreak. Winterstreak helped Crimsonbreak stand and looked up at the bots.
"I'm going to take Crimsonbreak to our room so she can get some rest. Nightshade will be here in a few minutes to take our place in the meeting." Winterstreak informed. He didn't bother waiting for an answer before they left the room and went straight to where they were staying. When they got there they sat on the bed with Crimsonbreak in Winterstreak's arms. Her eyes seemed to be distant and empty. "Crim I promise he won't get you. The others trust you now, they're willing to follow your command if I put you in charge, they'll defend you."
"You don't get it Wints! I wasn't safe on Cybertron and I'm still not safe on Earth. He's going to ally himself with the Decepticons and you know it! When it was just him against me it was easy to handle what he was doing. He'll soon have an army on his side! You can't promise that he won't get me because it's inevitable. Prima told me I have a darkness in my spark, but it's different and even Primus is unfamiliar with it. What am I going to do? I can't go back to what I almost became, I just can't!" Crimsonbreak snapped. Tears welled up in her eyes and she buried her face in his chest. She didn't mean to be so harsh, but she was beginning to get tired of continuously running from who she was.
"Then stop fighting it. It was one thing trying to help you fight it while the others continued to go against you, but at least then you were willing to fight! You're giving up on everything you've been fighting for. You don't have to say it but the way you're acting it's plain as day. If you don't want to fight anymore then there's nothing more I can do to help you." Winterstreak retorted as he stood and glared at her. Crimsonbreak's eyes widened and she stared in shock as he began to leave the room.
"P-Please don't go…you're the only thing keeping me from snapping completely. I love you, Wints, but I don't know how long I can keep this up. It gets harder to control every day and I can't stop it on my own." Crimsonbreak pleaded softly. Her words, however, fell on deaf ears as Winterstreak continued to leave the room. As he left, so did any chance of her winning the internal battle she'd been fighting her entire life. She looked over at the desk sadly and knew what she had to do to protect the ones she loved.
**Darkmount (haha I now know what the Decepticon capital is!)**
The Decepticons were currently plotting, trying to come up with a way to turn the tables in their favor. Now that the Autobots had most of the Thirteen, more allies, Starscream, Soundwave, and the cyberninjas they were beginning have a better army than the much larger Decepticon one. Their plotting, however, was interrupted when a violet cyberninja strode into the room with narrowed eyes.
"I was wondering when you'd arrive. Megatron, may I introduce you to the cyberninja commonly known as The Dark One?" The Fallen introduced as he motioned to The Dark One who continued to walk in silence. Megatron smirked slightly in approval. He'd heard many rumors about The Dark One and how he was the cause of many red cyberninja deaths. "Your little pet knows of your arrival I presume?"
"She still refuses to become what every other red cyberninja was, but that's almost no longer a problem and soon she will join me." He answered darkly. Knockout scoffed, earning death glare from The Dark One, causing him to back off. "I assume you already know that the cyberninja I speak of is Crimsonbreak considering she is the only red one left. Once I can control her mind, I can use her powers for my own gain."
"And why, pray tell, have you come to us?" Megatron asked. The Dark One smirked behind his mask, put a fist against his chest, and bowed in respect to the warlord before him.
"I believe with her power we can end this war once and for all, we just need to get her to cooperate."
**Autobot/Rescue Bot base, midnight**
Crimsonbreak slipped into the main room of the base clutching a note sadly to her chest. She placed it on the human sized computer and ran out of the base. The air outside was crisp and cool, something she was thankful for. She ran as fast as she could down to the docks to the captain who she'd talked to earlier to take her to the mainland. The old man smiled at her and tipped his head in greeting. She bowed slightly and got on the ship. She sat outside near the front of the boat.
"Miss, if I may ask, why are you leaving your friends? Don't they need ya to fight that war?" the captain asked from his post. Crimsonbreak hesitated in answering him. She didn't know whether or not she could tell him exactly what was troubling her. The man saw this and sighed slightly. "You're in an argument with someone close to you. You don't know how to fix the problem so you're running away, am I correct?"
"That's pretty much it, but I'd rather not talk about it, sir. It's been a long day and after everything that's happened…" Crimsonbreak trailed off as she wiped the tears from her eyes. She knew she had to stay on the run if she wanted to keep the others safe and make sure that she never became what The Dark One wanted her to be. She was now on her own, and perhaps that was for the best. She thought about the other thing she had placed in the envelope with the letter.
**The next day**
Winterstreak was pissed. Not at Crimsonbreak, not at his brothers and sister, not at the cons or the bots, but at himself. Everyone was currently searching for Crimsonbreak who'd disappeared during the night. Cody was checking the main room when he stumbled upon the letter and ran to find Winterstreak. His spark sunk at what it said.
Winterstreak,
You're right, it is impossible for you to help me if I give up on myself, but I can't fight any longer. It's taken so much out of me and I can't bear to see any of the team, bot or ninja, hurt because I couldn't control this. I'm sorry for putting you through this and I wish you all the best of luck. I love you Prime, always have and always will, but I'm afraid we must say our goodbyes. At least for now.
-Crimsonbreak
A hard lump formed in Winterstreak's throat and he suddenly felt sick to his stomach. He also found inside the envelope the necklace he'd given her the day he asked her to be his sparkmate. She rarely wore it, being caught in the middle of a war and all, but he knew she loved it and when she did wear it, it was always a special occasion. He fell to his knees and held his head in his hands and fought back the tears threatening him. He always feared that something would drive her over the edge, to make her run away, but he never imagined it would be him who caused her to leave. When the others found him they began to question him.
"S-She's gone…she ran away because of a stupid fight last night and I said something stupid. She thinks that she can't fight The Dark One anymore because of me!" Winterstreak sobbed. Most of the cyberninjas were shocked to see their usually calm and collected leader break down in such a way. It was sparkbreaking to see how broken he was over this. Fernblaze narrowed her eyes and turned to the team.
"Okay give the guy some space people! I know we're all in shock but sheesh, she's his sparkmate! I want everyone out except Solus and June by the time I say three!" Fernblaze ordered. Everyone got out before she could even say another word. She smirked and left as well as Solus and June tried to help Winterstreak calm down. Fernblaze looked up at Solus with a hard stare. "We have to get Crim back."
**Later that day, where the people from Jasper are relocated**
Winterstreak, Nightshade, Fernblaze, and Yellowbeam walked out of the ground bridge in human form and took in their surroundings. The other cyberninjas were scouting out other possible locations. With Crimsonbreak's teleportation power she could be anywhere on Earth but at least they had one clue. They knew that now everyone there knew what they were they'd have to be on guard. They decided to divide and see if anyone could give them information. They knew Miko would go somewhere familiar in case of an emergency and the others needed her. Maybe the humans had seen her?
"Well if it isn't Darby's little friend!" Lapis hear a voice shout from behind him. He snarled and turned to see Vince. Apparently he wasn't there when he turned cyberninja in front of everyone else. The bully and his goons stormed up, with Sierra watching curiously. Lapis crossed his arms and stood his ground. He just thanked Primus that Winterstreak wasn't around. "What's a freak like you doing here?"
"For your information I'm on a rescue mission. Have you seen Miko or a red ninja?" Lapis answered calmly. He resisted the urge to just knock this kid's teeth out for being an aft to his friends. He hadn't forgotten about how he broke his nose during their last visit. He didn't exactly like being called a "freak" either.
"Maybe I did maybe I didn't. Why would I tell you?" Vince sneered. Lapis growled dangerously and clenched his fists. He suddenly grabbed the boy by his shirt collar and slammed him against the wall, turning cyberninja in the process. Vince, for the first time, looked truly terrified. "H-Hey man, what gives?"
"You listen here you worthless piece of slag! Crimsonbreak aka Miko is desperately needed in order to defeat the Decepticons. You will tell me everything I need to know without hesitation. So I have one question for you at the moment. Are you feeling lucky, punk?" Nightshade growled. Vince stared in fear at the cyberninja holding him against the wall.
"I'll tell you whatever you want! Just don't hurt me!" he pleaded. Nightshade smirked. Now they were getting somewhere.
HOLY MOTHER OF PRIMUS I HAVEN'T UPDATED IN FOREVER!
Sorry for the wait guys, I've been sidetracked by school ending, playing a trashcan as a snare drum in the 4th of July parade, going to Seattle, and Vacation Bible School, and helping venomousDreamer with our story Euterpe.
Okay enough excuses but I have to say something (spoiler alert for the last episode of TFP, haven't watched it? Skip the next 2 paragraphs).
HOLY SCRAP DID ANYBODY ELSE CRY DURING THE LAST EPISODE?! It was a mix of (spoiler alert) Bee "dying", his voicebox being repaired, Soundwave getting sent to the Shadowzone (man the humans are trolls), and the fact that it's the LAST FREAKING EPISODE that killed me.
"MEGATRON! You took my voice, now you won't rob anyone of anything ever again!" Bee is just amazing :)
Oh! And I have an announcement! The poll for the songfic is now closed and the winning song is Because of You by Kelly Clarkson. I'm thinking about making it about Bumblebee :)
Okay my rant's over. Reviews are welcomed as always :)
Until all are one!