A/N man this hot weathers killing me, i'm like a polar bear in the heat, plus my brains fried too.
Nemesis Prime
It was 6am when i got to sleep after getting back from the forest of death, and i slept all the way into the evening, 7pm, i guess everyone let me sleep or couldn't wake me either one would make sense. But as i finally got up, i was surprised by the time, my mouth was dry and i just wanted to sleep again...b-ut i had to get up sooner or later.
I rubbed my eyes as i stretched; i had slept in my cloths too...that comes with living with autobots, personal hygiene is at an all time low.
But i hopped out of bed anyway and made my way to the main room, ratchet is probably looking for an explanation along with dad and everyone else.
As i came in sight of everyone, there seemed to be a commotion amongst them, though i couldn't see dad.
"Maybe Optimus believes he's a decepticon again?" raf said nervously.
"Or he's been faking being a good guy all this time." Miko added.
"If prime has gone off the rails for any reason, we have a serious problem" fowler said.
I treaded past around everyone as i frowned slightly confused to what was going on
"This is absurd." Ratchet said not believing what he was hearing from the others right now, "a quick check for optimus's signal will reveal that he's nowhere near the location of tonight's incident." Ratchet begun to track dads current location, "in fact, he's just returning now." He confirmed.
I had no idea why there were saying dad has gone in the deep end for, but i went to greet him as usual.
"Ellen, wait." Arcee said to me as i skimmed past her legs.
I shrugged my shoulders, "why? I usually greet him when he comes back, what's up with you guys?" they were all really tense but i proceeded closer as dad came driving in.
"wait." I heard Arcee say as i put myself a bit of a distance between them.
As dad got closer into base he transformed, and walked his usual pace up to the group, he looked at me as i smiled at him, and then looked at the others, i did too. They were on their guard, why? With each step dad took the more wary they became.
Then dad finally asked, "Is something wrong?" he said as he glanced at them all.
"We were just..." Arcee then cut herself off as she and bulkhead looked at each other, "wondering where you've been." She finally finished.
I stood at dad's side as the tension in the air was too thick.
"w-e haven't been able to reach you." Bulkhead said with concern on his face.
"I have been...outside of our communication range." Dad said thinking about it for a while, great one dad i think the others are suspecting you of something and you're not helping.
He then reached his hand around his back as if too take something out; the others were real jumpy as they were all armed at this point, aiming at dad.
"Whoa. Ellen stand back!" Arcee exclaimed.
"Easy" bulkhead said.
"In a subterranean energon deposit." Dad explained as he used a free hand to try and reassure them he is not a threat, as in the other hand was energon that fit perfectly in his hand.
But the others were hesitant, as Arcee and bulkhead looked at each other though still armed and aiming at him.
"What's wrong with everybody?" i said with my hands over my head.
"Come on it's our guy, can't you tell?" jack then said.
Though still aiming for a long moment, Arcee finally deactivated her weapons as the others followed. Then Arcee approached dad, "we're...sorry." she said with slight embarrassment.
Dad looked at them confused, "don't blame them prime." Fowler then spoke up. "I was attacked earlier tonight, out on the open highway by a big rig. One who bore a striking resemblance to you."
Resembled him? "Since when does King Kong come out this far?" i jested, though only out of nervousness as i had grave suspicions.
Fowler gave me scowling look, "what? I'm still me you know." I argued giving him a grin, then i frowned as i turned away, could it be?
"This doesn't make any sense, i mean what could..." fowler was cut off by the ringing of his phone, "fowler...what? That's not possible. I can tell you sure as there are 50 stars on my star spangled shorts it isn't him." Fowler said as he cut the phone off. "One of our military bases is under attack, by Optimus prime." Fowler said.
"The truck?" jack asked.
"The bot." Fowler confirmed as we all looked to dad.
"Arh man, why did i have to sleep for 13 hours, i could've provided Intel before this could have happen." i said face palming.
"I do not understand. But it can wait we have to prevent any human lives from possible harm, from my obvious imposter." Dad said. "Agent fowler provide ratchet with the co-ordinates."
Fowler nodded.
"Can't i tell you now real quick?" I said to him as the groundbridge opened.
"When we return." He said as he activated his battle mask.
I sighed as they were already gone, but just as quick as they had left the quicker they came back too as i had run backwards to avoid their feet.
"Whoa, that was quick!" i exclaimed avoiding bulkhead as he steadied his balance.
"The humans were firing upon us." Arcee said.
"The Optimus look alike had already fled the scene when we got there." Bulkhead added.
"Making us the only potential threat left in the eyes of the humans." Dad finished.
Fowlers phone began ringing again as he picked it up, "fowler here." He said as there was a long pause, "no general Bryce, Optimus prime did not attack our boys." Another pause came as fowler listened from the other end of his phone, "because i was with prime when i received the alert...yes sir, the autobots were at your base but only in response to the initial attack...but sir i-i...yes sir i understand." Fowler then put his phone away.
"So what's the damage?" jack asked immediately after fowler put down his phone.
Fowler sighed, "All military personal are under strict orders to destroy any and all bots on sight." Fowler confirmed.
"Are you kidding?" jack exclaimed.
"b-but there innocent." Raf said.
"Optimus was framed." Miko said.
"I guess General Bryce isn't taking any chances but still he needs to listen instead of using tactical force." I said.
"Though unfortunate, the military order changes nothing, our imposter clearly shows a grave threat to humanity." Dad said.
"A 30 foot tall transforming imposter." Fowler added.
"Okay before anything else i need to say something." I then cut in as all eyes and optics were on me.
"Has it anything to do with our current situation?" dad asked.
"Well yes, and perhaps i should've said something before sleeping for the whole day, but when i went on my little woodland outing, i encountered a giant mechanical beast, its frame work was similar to yours and so was its height it didn't transform like this one, nor did it bare any weapons, that i know of but its physical attacks were deadly..." I started.
"They actually did it." Ratchet then cut me off, "those butchers managed to crack the code."
"M.E.C.H" dad confirmed with a serious look on his face.
"Wait, how were you able to survive such an encounter?" ratchet asked.
"I took care of it...with my souvenir from cybertron. " i said shuffling my feet.
Ratchet held the bridge of his nose with his fingers "such recklessness." He vented. "So they have been performing more experiments then the one we currently no of, when mech abducted breakdown, and by all indication deconstructed him from cranial chamber to heel strut." He said.
"I was there." Bulkhead confirmed in a slight eerie voice.
"And we know that more recently they obtained starscream t-cog." Dad added.
"Which they evidently installed in a knockoff of you." Arcee also contributed.
"Which in turn scanned an appropriate vehicle form." Ratchet said.
"Fill the tank with energon." Jack said.
"And say hello to Nemesis prime." Miko announced punching the air, nice creativity there miko.
"So where do we start? Mech's base could be anywhere." Fowler said.
"Not necessarily, while mech may have learned much of our biology..." dad started.
"They haven't necessarily absorbed our technology." Ratchet finished as he went over to a computer screen. "Without access to a groundbridge, nemesis prime would rely solely on its vehicle mode for transportation." Ratchet said accessing the computer as he began his search for the thing.
"Chances are the mech base is within driving distance of both incidents." Arcee said.
"What are we waiting for let's get out there and mash mech's little science project." Fowler said slapping his fist against his palm.
I was hyped when he said that, time to bring in silas for good, and this time i'm not alone.
"Agent fowler, i do not think it advisable to put yourself in harm's way of mech's robot again." Dad advised him.
"Well i'm not sure it's advisable for bots to be running recon with the military out there gunning for you" fowler retaliated then crossed his arms.
"We will maintain vehicular cover till absolutely necessary." Dad said as fowler furrowed his brow to the basic response of stay home fowler let the adults handle this.
So everyone except ratchet were out trying to find the mech base, as ratchet was scouting across the land with technology for 'nemesis prime'.
"If i can isolate the control frequency of the remote link silas is employing, i should be able to pinpoint his exact position." Ratchet said.
"Remote link?" raf said.
"You didn't think mech possessed the ability to build a completely autonomous robot did you?" ratchet enquired.
"I was hoping silas was operating the bot from inside because one punch from bulkhead and boo-yar!" miko exclaimed showing an example then melodramatically playing dead on the floor.
Obviously this was normal behaviour for us as we weren't too focused on her, heh.
Then a series of beeping occurred, "a-hah!" ratchet exclaimed. "Frequency isolated." He confirmed.
"Then re-open that bridge." Fowler said.
"Agent fowler, did you not hear Optimus advise against your involvement? It's for your own safety." Ratchet said sounding like he cared for his safety, that's a first.
"Look doc, i don't plan on dancing with any bots, but as a human element in play here, and in case you haven't noticed i happen to be a highly trained, government grade, human." Fowler argued.
"Yeah! Plus silas tried to run him off the road. Its personal." Miko said backing him up.
"yeah and i'm a...er secret government slash cybertronian slash head of the will smith fan club grade human too...it'll be a tag team." I said getting my word in too.
"Don't slow me down." Fowler jested.
"Who's slowing who down?" i said patting his distended middle, as he swatted my hand away.
"Very well, but if anything goes wrong you contact me immediately." Ratchet said as we both nodded.
With that ratchet sighed and then used the co-ordinates to activate the ground bridge.
I guess fowler didn't expect me to take lead as i was a few metres ahead of him, i didn't mess around and went straight for that groundbridge..."this time for sure" i thought.
I came on the other side with the sight of large abandoned buildings, that seems to be the theme for mech bases.
Closely behind fowler came through, he heaved a few times as he tried to keep it down, "i think i'm going to toss the breakfast i ate back in flight school." He said nauseously.
I shook my head at him as we heard a loud bang. To our side dad was being thrown back against a wall as now he and the imposter were locked in combat.
Fowlers phone then started ringing, "agent fowler, the control frequency is transmitting from a structure one hundred metres due north." Ratchet said.
"Copy that." Fowler said cutting his phone off.
"That it?" i said pointing at a building.
"Must be, lets lock and load." He said as he started running, that doesn't seem to be the right choice of words fowler.
Despite this I followed as we made good use of the shadows, we were swift and made good progress i was even surprised at fowler, it was a challenge keeping up with him. We climbed the ladder that was latched onto the building, the top of the building was guarded with mech agents, equipped with binoculars, their weapons were still in there holsters, Fowler and i mostly did small motions to each other for signals.
1...2...3...4...5.
5 mech agents and again, me and fowler nodded as we each took a side, i went for the more subtle knock to the neck approach as i took each of them out, and thankfully they were more interested in the battle as they were all fixed on their binoculars.
Fowler had gone with the more 'punch to the face tactic' as he took out the last one, with that done we could use our voices again.
"Let's use the roof entrance." I said as i then tried to open it, the thing was glued tight, then fowler put an arm in front of me.
"Step aside miss." He said as he rubbed his hands together and then had a go himself...there was a lot of struggles and grunts for a long while as i tapped my feet impatiently.
"Step aside sir." I said in turned as i peeled the entrance of like a tin of mackerel, i then shrugged at him as he looked at me dumbfounded.
Then he had a weird grin on his face, "hey this is kind of a rough neighbourhood you wanna walk me to my car?" he jested.
I didn't answer instead merely roll my eyes as we both climbed down, it was a huge building but very dark...perfect for skulking in.
Silas was rambling on to dad as they continued to fight shown by the screen in front of him, silas was way to overconfident.
There were many more mech agents then from the roof which is logical, as like before we each picked a side and knocked out numerous agents, still without being detected, silas was so sure of his victory i don't think he would notice anyway.
The upper part of the building was clear of agents, now came the bottom half, the room really was huge but the agents were spaced out so it was much easier to pick them off, "one, two, three, four, five..." i counted so i didn't miss one.
As i finished off the last couple of agents fowler had took the stage as he confronted silas first, a brawl had already broken out between the two as i couldn't intervene, that would be like breaking up a dog fight.
"I may be out of shape, but i don't need to bust you up." Fowler said as i observed the two brawling though fowler was an exceptional fighter silas had out bested him as he hit the floor.
More mech agents had arrived as they gathered around fowler and me weapons armed.
"I just need to buy prime a little time." Fowler said wiping his face.
Silas then realised he had left his robot out of action, on screen dad was recovering from the last blow as he swung back a fist, silas in a panic launched for the controls, his robot had lifted a sword to block the attack but it was inevitable as dad performed many blows to the thing, silas hopped back in the chair as he frantically pressed buttons and swizzled the control pad.
"no." Silas said in almost a whisper, but clearly panicked voice.
Consistent blows were seen on screen as what we now saw was the sky and an airborne dad as he swung both his fist over his head in a curled ball, and threw himself down upon the robot.
The whole building shook as the sudden realisation was that they were on the roof, the ceiling began to crumble as mech agents fled and fowler took a few steps back, silas was in the middle of all this, that robot will surely crush him.
"Silas!" i yelled as i ran in his direction, but then the ceiling caved in too fast as the robot came crashing down.
Silas's face was in horror as he put his arms in front of his face, "no, no nooo!" he yelled.
"Ellen! Get out of there!" fowler yelled to me.
Silas looked at me briefly, terrified, before the titan fell upon him. The magnitude of the fall propelled me back as dust and debris flew across my face as i landed on my back.
As the smoke cleared, I looked upon the mess; no way could he have survived that.
"He was destroyed by his own hand." I said regrettably, though a part of me can't stand the man, the other part kind of wished he could be saved, and that look of fear in his face...burned into my mind.
"Agent fowler, Ellen?" came dad's voice from above us; i looked up with slight regret on my face.
Then fowler put a hand on my shoulder, "like you said it was his own doing, they always get what's coming to them in the end." He told me as he looked up, to the sound of helicopters "that would be our boys. I advise you to get back to base prime, I'll handle Uncle Sam." He told dad.
A groundbridge opened up from behind us, "you'd better head back too Ellen." Fowler told me.
"sure." I said wearily as i walked my way towards it, i couldn't help but look back...what drives a man to end up like that? What a waste. Turning back i walked through the groundbridge, still thinking, as i had just witnessed a cruel ironic death...i wasn't focused enough on the greetings of jack, miko and raf.
Their faces dropped slowly as i didn't respond to them, i made my way past them as i sat down at the couch, and pondered.
Though not taking much notice i saw the others weren't back either, most likely drove out of sight, i didn't think about it too much witnessing a man's death is never easy on the mind and it never gets any easier.
I sat on the edge of the seat as i held my hands together in a cupped manner, and stared with death like eyes at the table.
"Ellen." I then heard jack say.
I slowly turned my head to him.
"What happened?" he asked.
"It's over." I said gravely.
Jack said no more as he stared at the table with me, i heard the groundbridge open as he, like raf and miko, went to greet there guardians in relief.
I know i shouldn't hang onto it for too long, with things like this you have to move, if you thought about everything that died, say a bug or a squirrel that got run over, you'd be very depressed.
Well i shook my head and proceeded to the metal banister next to miko as she took pictures of bulkheads newly formed battle scars.
Ratchet was fixing up the lower part of dads torso, "the question remains whether mech will continue to function as we know it, without its leader." Dad pondered just as ratchet finished him up.
"Well heres a kicker." Came fowler's voice out of nowhere. "We sifted through the wreckage with a fine toothed comb, and couldn't any trace of silas."
"No trace?" i said, "did his followers go back for him?"
"Who knows, but heres another thing, I've been called in to give a debrief, the higher uppers believe the fake prime is the real one and I've got to convince them that it's not, prime i would really appreciate it if you could make an appearance, just in case." Fowler said.
"Of course." Dad said.
It just keeps getting better...no trace? he couldn't have dragged himself away when having tonnes of weight fall atop of him. It must have been the remaining mech agents.
So the threat of mech is still in play and now we have to prove dads alive? I hope he just has to make a quick cameo and that's it...but knowing my luck they'd probably drag it out.
A/N when do the olympics start? is it this friday? i can't go shopping without seeing the olympics on products i even saw a bath rubber duck with an olympic twist to it, its taking over! crisps, coke, chocolate the list is endless...if they start making tampons with the union jack on it, thats it i'm done lol sorry for that gross remark in advance