A/N as i uploaded this, i'm actually nearly finished the next chapter and i especially enjoyed writing that one, i just hope you guys like what i've done with it.
R + R please i love your thoughts :)
Orion pax part 2
With our search thoroughly underway, i quite literally was searching across the entire planet. I'd scouted across parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, North American, and South America. But still no sign of the space bridge, still i was driven and although beginning to tire i contacted ratchet for another set of co-ordinates.
"Ratchet, nothing here either, move me on the next set of co-ordinates." I said to him through my wireless headset.
"Ellen you've scouted over 50 places already, i'm as persistent to find the space bridge as you are but you need to rest." He told me.
"Negative, i can still go for another 10 at least." I told him.
He sighed. "Very well, I'll activate the groundbridge."
And on cue the groundbridge opened before me, i ran through it as it became the wheel of fortune, no idea where I'd end up next. I was greeted with the sight of a rain forest, beautiful trees but a bit muggy. "No time for sightseeing." I said as i was tempted by the sight of a large cat in the trees.
Though as i made a few light jogs to the edge of the forest, i was beginning to feel a little light headed, i hadn't eaten in a while and it showed. "I'll grab some food at base after this one." I said as i headed towards the sound of drilling, it was in a cave near the sea front, a pretty big one, it dripped with water and bats would come in and out every so often, i guess there not bothered by the presence of decepticons.
Luckily the cave was filled with pillars and stalagmites, so it was much easier to maneuver around, and though big the cave was, it wasn't that deep, in fact it was one room...confirming the space bridge wasn't here.
So i headed back out, i was then greeted with the sight of a decepticon guard who i didn't see upon entry, where was he?
I think we were both baffled at the sight of each other, but i couldn't waste time so i ran towards him as i slid past his legs and used the training me and bee did before and scaled him like a cliff, he was flailing his arms around like trying to get a spider of your back, he twisted his body furiously but i hanged on like a parasite.
In the end it was useless as i knocked him out and jumped off him as he fell forward to the floor, with that done i made my way back to a more safer position.
"Ellen, return to base, we have found the decepticon space bridge." Ratchet said over my wireless headset, with a slight sound of relief in his voice.
Now we're getting somewhere, "Nice work Ratchet, bridge me back from my current co-ordinates." I told him.
He was quick in doing so, good thing too because the guard i had knocked out was found and about five of them were firing at me, so i leapt through that groundbridge like a desperate predator tackling its prey.
When i arrived in base the whole gang was there too gathered around the computer screen, "Ellen, look here." Ratchet called over. "The decepticon space bridge is located right here." He said pointing to a flashing decepticon insignia. "Deep within an energon mine."
"Adjacent to a raw fuel supply clever." Arcee said. "What's our Intel?" she then asked.
"a-a reliable source." Ratchet said as i raised an eyebrow.
"So this is it then, do we have a consensus?" i said looking in the direction of June, fowler, miko, raf and jack.
"Do we know if people can even breathe your atmosphere?" June asked ratchet.
"I'll hook them up, completely state of the art. I still have connections at NASA." Fowler told June.
June's face fell "it's too dangerous." She said to jack.
"Mom i know this is hard, but Optimus risked his life to save our planet and he's not even human. We owe it to him." Jack told her.
"Jack may be the only one who can do this June, but i don't want you to think for one moment that I'll allow them to go unchaperoned." Arcee told her reassuringly.
"Not everyone is destined for an ordinary life, Optimus prime was once Orion pax after all." Ratchet added.
June dropped her head slightly taking this in, she then turned to jack "when you were little, you always wanted to be an astronaut." She said to him giving him confirmation.
"okay, heres the plan you guys will groundbridge directly into the energon mine and you'll make your way to the space bridge chamber with extreme caution of course as no doubt it will be heavily guarded. Neutralize any decepticon forces you encounter, once you secure the space bridge, send for me and jack." I said. "Stealth must be an absolute priority; we don't want to give any decepticon the chance to alert the warship because then..."
"The odds become 400 to 1." Bulkhead finished.
"The decepticons have scrambled our communications in the past and so we will do the same to them, it will provide you with an edge at least." I said.
"Taking the bridge is the easy part, you three need to hold it long enough for Jack, Ellen and me, to get to cybertron and back." Arcee said.
"Rafael climbed to the top of the rope in gym class, we can do this." Ratchet said though i had no idea what he meant.
"What does gym class have to do with anything?" miko asked. "And if ratchet gets to go on a commander raid i'm going too." Miko announced.
"Miko, you will help Raphael operate our groundbridge and manage the communications up." Ratchet told her.
Obviously miko didn't like this idea as she huffed loudly, crossed her arms and rambled frustrated, "can't go to cybertron, can't storm the decepticon spacebridge!"
"And Nurse Darby will stand by in case of emergency." Ratchet said.
"son." Fowler started as i raised an eyebrow at him, "and young lady, it's time to suit up." He told us.
Me and jack looked at each other, we both nodded as fowler presented us with two suits, he handed jack a greyish/brownish/black looking one while i got a white one.
"Well this is it." Jack said.
"Yeah...do we just slip these on or do we have to get butt naked?" i asked slightly worried.
"You can slip them on." Fowler said face palming. "Well obviously you'll have to take your shoes off but that's it."
I nodded to him as i kicked my shoes off and slipped into the suit, besides from being white my suit was a bit different from jacks for example his oxygen supply that was on the back was much bigger than mine and my helmet was more curved then jacks.
"So, how come there both different?" i asked.
"Well there, protoforms." Fowler said.
"Protoforms?" i said somewhat surprised.
"Don't worry they've been fully tested and are safe to use." He said.
"Okay so what model is mine?" i asked.
"Jack has the protoform 1 while yours is protoform 2." He said.
I then shrugged my shoulders "i like it, simple, easy to remember." I said as i fully got myself into the suit, i then looked myself over, "you know what the difference is between you and me?" i said to jack, as he shrugged his shoulders, "i make this look good." I confirmed striking a pose.
Jack then punched my arm, "ow." I moaned rubbing my arm.
"I told you I'd do that the next time you quoted something." He said. "In fact, you quoted two." He then punched my arm again.
"Ow, you know i'm not going to be any use to you of being your human escort if i have a dead arm you know." I told him.
"Strike team to base, objective secured." Came ratchet over the comm link.
"That's your cue." Fowlers told me and jack as we made our way down the ladder, the others followed closely behind to see us off as we went, and we both put our helmets on as we looked at the others.
"Bring me back a souvenir." Raf said.
"So what happens when you have to go to the bathroom?" miko asked.
"Safe journey you two." Fowler said.
"Just go already, Optimus needs you, both of you." June said as we both headed towards the groundbridge, back turned to the others, time to get our game faces on.
And on the other side we were greeted with the sight of the team, with the confirmation of our presence ratchet began tapping the control panel to the space bridge.
"Locking onto cybertron." Ratchet said.
"You ready?" Arcee asked.
"Let's do this." Jack said getting out the key to vector sigma.
"I'll leave the space bridge open in order to eliminate any communication lag over the great distance, and make it easier for you to locate when you're ready to return." Ratchet said.
"Easier to locate? You're not bridging us straight to the big v?" jack asked.
"Vector sigma's true location is shrouded in myth and rumour jack, it is said the path of the primes leads there. We must be confident that Optimus will guide you." Ratchet said.
Jack briefly looked at the key again before putting it away.
"Don't worry space bridging is just like ground bridging." Arcee said as ratchet activated it.
As it opened it drowned out any other sound that was present, its whirling sounds were far more extreme then what the groundbridge ever made.
"Just a little more intense!" Arcee said trying to shout her voice over the sound of the space bridge.
But we made our way through anyway.
On the other side...well it was a sight I'd say. But not a good sight, i first looked to the sky as i saw a couple of moons, one bigger than the other, then as i beheld cybertron, it was a barren waste land, it had a sort of mist surround the ground and everything was a dull grey colour, what used to be buildings were now crumbs of their former selves, debris was everywhere, the ground was scorched with scars from many battles...to say the least it was a sad sight.
And jack didn't look where i was looking but i noticed a few dead, among them... a sparkling, it made me shiver as to how quick war can plaque a planet, i cringed and shut my eyes tight for a second as i shook it off, stay focused.
"I can't believe it, i'm actually on another planet, Arcee this is incredible!" jack said excited...Arcee was silent. "Arcee?" he then said looking up to her.
"This isn't how i wanted you to see my home." Arcee said sadly lowering her head.
"I'm...i'm sorry." Jack said sympathetically.
"In the fog of war it's hard to see beyond the next leg of the mission, or the next punch in the fight. We did everything to save cybertron...but when the fog finally lifted...there wasn't much left to save." She said solemnly.
Then the comm link opened up as it woke Arcee from her thoughts.
"Arcee, Ellen, Jack, do you copy?" ratchet said.
"Roger, we're on cybertron." Jack said opening his own comm link patch.
"Just keep the sightseeing to a minimum huh." Bulkhead said.
"Indeed, we don't know if your journey ahead 5 clicks or 5000." Ratchet said.
"Understood, we're out." Arcee said closing the conversation.
Jack then got out the key card; "okay, ratchet said the card would guide us, but i don't see how or what i'm supposed to..." as jack waved it about a bit the card began to glow.
Jack then turned as he pointed the card in a direction; it glowed brighter when pointed in a specific direction.
"There you go." Arcee said as she transformed, then me and jack both hopped on.
Arcee headed in the direction the key glowed the most as i looked upon cybertron, it felt so eerie here, I'd seen what it looked like before, such a place i would've loved to see but looking at it now i feel afraid to be here.
Jack was more focused on the road in front than anything else, but i couldn't help myself but take in the scenery...if you can call it that, i couldn't even identify which areas were which they all looked the same.
We'd been driving for a while and jack saw it fit to get the key out again to check the location.
"That way." He said as we drove over a large bridge, i looked over it as the bottom couldn't be seen.
"Toward Kaon?" Arcee said.
"The decepticon capital, swell." Jack said sarcastically.
Then Arcee swerved to her side as she came to a halt, before us in the distance, in the fog like atmosphere, was a huge building.
"We're on foot from here." Arcee said before transforming, "don't want engine noise to attract the wrong kind of attention." She said ready and armed.
"Cons?" jack asked.
"Vermin." Arcee confirmed.
Again jack got out the key as it glowed brightly in a certain direction, "this way." Jack said.
"Well, let's just stay alert shall we? For such a dead planet i still feel there's something living on here." I said.
"Don't worry i'm here to protect you." Arcee said.
"And who's going to protect you?" i said as i sighed, "i just wish, i could say 'i got your back' for once."
"Do you think vector sigma is guarded?" jack asked.
"Well if it's a place shrouded in mystery and no one really knows its actual location, I doubt it, still you can never be too careful." I said.
Or too cautious...
A/N i liked to put it out there, that if whatever i have put in the next chapter was to appear in the actual series in the future, i'll find some way around it lol :p