A/N yesterday for me was odaiba day ;) anyone get that? lol if not *cowers in the corner*
Flying mind
It was the next day as the autobots needed some much needed recharge after an ordeal of dealing with three things at once.
But it was early hours too, miko, raf, jack and fowler had all been dragged out of bed and brought to base as well as myself quite literally being dragged out of bed by ratchet, boundaries dude seriously.
I blindly got dressed, guessing what i was throwing onto myself. The guys were probably here by now, which gave me that push to wake up a bit and meet them in the main room, today is the day we storm the decepticon warship, and i have my shirt on backwards...great start.
"Then maybe it's time for me to call in an airstrike." I heard Fowler say as i jogged up the stairs to be with the others.
"Or for us to consider more extreme measures agent fowler." Dad said.
He then made his way down the hallway as ratchet followed him, no word or nothing.
"Erm, okay." I said.
"Extreme measures? Meaning?" fowler said.
We all shrugged, and i yawned at the same time.
When he and ratchet came back, dad was wielding the spark extractor in his hand, this is the extreme measure? He is willing to go further for our race, if it means using a weapon forged by decepticons.
"What is that?" fowler asked, does no one give fowler a de-briefing?
"The spark extractor, capable of extracting every spark within its radius." Dad explained.
"Sound gory, and how are you going to deploy it?" i asked.
"Be assured, i already have a strategy." Dad said not really explaining.
Then a beeping sound went off as the computer screen showed a spread of purple, "Optimus, i'm detecting a massive energy spike at the decepticon crash site. It appears to be dark energon." Ratchet said turning to face him.
"Then ratchet, activate the groundbridge for this may be our one, our only opportunity to end this once and for all." Dad said.
Ratchet nodded as he set the co-ordinates and activated the groundbridge.
"Autobots, transform and roll out" dad ordered.
Bumblebee. Arcee and bulkhead did just that as they sped through the groundbridge without another thought, dad walked toward the groundbridge himself, preparing to transform.
"Hold on prime." Fowler then said stopping him. "If you are going to deploy some kind of super weapon in a final showdown with the cons, it's my job as a representative of planet earth to bare witness."
Dad and ratchet looked at each other uncertain.
"Very well agent fowler." Dad then said transforming as fowler made his way downstairs then getting into dads cab.
"Bring back details fowler." I said to him.
He saluted, as dad drove through the groundbridge, now we play the waiting game alongside playing the being worried.
I looked onscreen; all autobot life signals including fowlers were all normal.
"So does it activate immediately or does it have its own timer like a microwave?" miko asked ratchet.
"it has a fixed timer, once activated the user would need to get far from its range point, that's why bumblebee will be the one to activate it for he has the speed for such an act, the others will be drawing any fire away from bumblebee to ensure the weapons delivery." Ratchet explained much more detailed then dad had put it.
"Sorry for asking but how does it work? Does it just terminate all sparks there and then or is it a bit more rough then that?" i asked ratchet.
"It leaves targets in a dazed state, whilst the spark extractor pulls there spark from there very chassis, even though the target knows this is happening they cannot do anything about it, a cruel weapon indeed." Ratchet explained.
Even though i didn't have a spark, i held my hand where my heart would be anyway just the thought of it being yanked out...shuddering.
"Teams down, requesting medibag." Fowler suddenly came over the comm link.
It was pretty quiet sounding and so sudden we couldn't comprehend that something bad had happened, normally it's all shouting and screaming, which was the normal signal.
Ratchet frowned too, until it clicked that he needed to activate the groundbridge, he was frantic in doing so it took such a short time for them to be so easily defeated, did something go wrong with the spark extractor? Did it end up destroying them too?! Okay calm down, if dad was dead i would've known let's just see what the damage is.
"I'll leave it open. Wait here." Ratchet said grabbing his medical kit and rushing through.
"They're all down?" Jack asked concerned.
"But there life signals are fine." I said pointing to the screen.
Ratchet came back with an immobilised Arcee in his arms, he placed her on her feet in her stiff position, and then he went back as we stared at Arcee.
"Is she?" jack said.
"I don't think so, just stasis i think." I said.
"What happened out there?" raf asked.
Ratchet came back having a hard time carrying bumblebee, placing him next to Arcee, there poses were unsettling it was like a 'an agonising scream before death' kind of pose.
Don't ask how he got bulkhead and dad in base, but it involved a crane and the hand of god...well i'm exaggerating but it was hard to look at.
We didn't say a word as ratchet went over to the computer and checked their vitals, "they're alive." He said, "But I've never encountered this form of stasis lock." He added
"The cons are crossing the Atlantic, making a beeline for North America." Fowler said.
"Wait, we can track them?" jack said, good question.
"Why aren't they cloaked like usual?" raf said.
"None of this makes a lick of sense. They had us in the crosshead but the cons just took off." Fowler said.
"They even bailed on that spark extractor thingy." Miko said.
"Well if the ship isn't cloaked, maybe the communication relay is open and..." jack started.
"Ep, ep are you suggesting that we just call megatron and ask him what's happening up there?" ratchet said.
In our response we did the 'might as well give it a shot' or 'you've got nothing to lose' motion whichever you wanna call it to ratchet as he turned to fowler who in response did the same thing.
Not really arguing ratchet gave it a go anyway as he tried contacting the nemesis.
"Autobot outpost omega one to decepticon warship, megatron please respond." Ratchet said, all that could be heard was the buzzing sound effects coming from the computer screen "megatron..." ratchet tried again.
Then a beeping sound came through, "megatron has been relieved of his command." Came a booming voice over the comm link.
"Who is this?" ratchet asked.
"Who is this?" The booming voice came back with.
"Have you taken control of the decepticon vessel?" ratchet asked.
"I am the vessel, any cybertronian who interferes with my mission will be neutralised." The voice who claimed to be the ship said, as images of stiff vehicons, insecticons and many other decepticons were shown to back up the ships threat.
"What mission?" ratchet then asked.
"Priority one, decrypt iacon data base and recover decepticon technology." The ship said.
"For what purpose?" ratchet asked, it didn't respond instead cut off the conversation.
"It hung up? Rude." Miko said.
"Rude?! There's a giant spaceship flying around collecting decepticon weapons of mass destruction." Fowler said loudly.
"a-a giant spaceship filled with neutralised decepticons." Jack said hinting.
"Point?" Fowler said.
"This could be our only chance to slip aboard and download the iacon database." Jack said.
"So Optimus can decode it." Raf added.
"Ingenious, i will infiltrate the decepticon warship." Ratchet said.
"Not ingenious, you saw what it did to the decepticons." I said not that i didn't have faith in the plan but still, reality check.
"Probably to megatron too." Raf added.
"And team prime." Miko added as well.
"But that tub had me dead to rights, and i'm still breathing." Fowler said reassuringly.
"The ship may be blind to humans." Jack theorised.
"Very well agent fowler, but at the first sight of trouble i am bridging you right back here." Ratchet said turning to the computer, "now in order to download the database you will need a compatible transfer drive." He said handing over an alien like USB twice the size of fowlers head.
"A what?" fowler said not computer literate.
"He'll also need tech support" raf said backing up my theory.
"And back up" miko added pulling me in for a hip hug.
It was the whole team of humans now boarding the nemesis from the groundbridge, "fowler to base, we're in." Fowler said patching through to ratchet.
"Good. There data core should be accessible from any console." Ratchet replied as we made our way through a hand full of stiff decepticons.
Raf then gulped, "e-erm heres one." He said pointing toward a computer screen with a knocked out...er, knockout lying on the keypad.
Miko then jogged over to said decepticon as she banged on him a few times, "Doc knock is knocked out." She announced posing herself as stiff as him.
"Look, the ships decoded two sets of iacon co-ordinates." Raf said as we looked at the computer, two sets of co-ordinates were on screen as another joined the set, "three. Lets rip and run." Raf said getting himself ahead of us, making his way up knockout as fowler got ahead of him helping raf up.
I got on my tippy toes to see what they were doing up top, even though i knew that was a failure before it began.
"There's the port" i heard raf say.
As another distinct sound could be heard from the computer we looked on as a loading bar of how much it had downloaded had come up and wasn't moving an inch.
"Erm, why is the warship heading for Manhattan." Jack then said as we looked where he was looking; a red globe of the earth was seen in the top left hand corner with a pulsing ripple hovering over the said location.
The co-ordinates that were set for Manhattan matched that of one of the decoded set of co-ordinates. "Because that's where the first set of co-ordinates are located?" Raf said.
"What would a relic of cybertron be doing in the big apple?" fowler asked obviously he kept the comm link open as we suddenly heard a reply.
"The iacon relics landed on earth eons ago agent fowler, long before the city was built on top it." Ratchet said.
"Which means if the ship wants this one, it may need to move a few buildings out of the way." Jack said grimly.
"Which means we have to find some way to turn the ship, how did it manage a will of its own?" i said.
Me, jack and miko then climbed up knockout ourselves.
"Our mission just got complicated, how to we detour this ship?" fowler asked.
"I would advise disabling the navigation module, call up the main navigation menu." Ratchet said.
"there." Raf said before fowler laid a hand on him.
"Step aside son." He said.
Fowler then walked over to the control panel, I've got a bad feeling about this mainly because from the looks of things those decepticons were trying to find a way to stop it themselves and in that case disabling the navigation module would've been a first... "Agent fowler wait!" i then yelled, but he'd already pressed his palm on the control panel.
A surge of electricity ran through his body, as he stood up and weakly fell backwards onto the floor.
"Agent fowler!" jack exclaimed.
We went to the edge of the control panel to see if he was okay, he groaned a few times so he wasn't completely unconscious, but he was alive at least.
"System access detected." Came the booming voice of the ship again it sounded like it was all around us. "Interference will not be tolerated." Looking for a source of its vision raf pointed upwards.
"there." he said as a roundish beacon came down from the opened ceiling as it whirled around finding the source.
"Reveal yourself." It said as its red eye could be seen checking the room but completely blanked us.
"It doesn't see us," miko said, apparently it can't hear us either.
"Yet...the ship must not be scanning for carbon based life forms, but once it widens its search parameters." Ratchet said.
"We're toast." Raf confirmed, thanks for that raf.
"I'm bridging you back." Ratchet said.
"no." Jack then said. "There are millions of lives at stake in new York and we four are currently the only ones who can do anything about it."
"You're out of your element jack." Ratchet argued. "These readings the ships rapid recovery, all point to the fact that megatron employed dark energon to repair it."
While ratchet was telling us all this we four got down from the control panel to check fowlers health, jack was checking his pulse.
"Well, if the ships currently running on dark energon, we can flush it out of its system right?" i asked.
"Hmmm, you'll need to reverse the warships energon infuser." Ratchet said. "Follow the main overhead condiments; they'll lead you to the power core."
Whilst explaining this we were already down the hall climbing over the feet and bodies of decepticons, making our way past the already open doors of the ships energon supply moving our way cautiously past the energon itself, miko, jack and raf gasped at the sudden sight of megatron, who immobilised liked the others was trying to do the same thing we are currently attempting.
"Megatron had the same idea." Jack said.
"Then we're on the right track." Raf said.
"The energon ejection valve can only be operated manually." Ratchet said.
"Manually?!" we all said in unison.
All of us looked at megatron, intimidating even when he's a statue; the ship could broaden its sight any minute now, i approached megatron.
"I got this." I said starting to climb megatron, his spikiness made good for climbing, i climbed up over Megatrons shoulder, and his facial expression was the same like the others except with his shark like teeth it and glowing purple optics it made your stomach tense.
I jumped off his shoulder onto the control panel as Megatrons hand was firmly attached to the lever.
"I am infested with alien life forms!" the ship then said, times up.
"Uh-oh, we just got made." I heard Miko say.
As i looked upon the lever i saw the three of them run for there lives as a clawed gripper tried to destroy them, something twinge in me to go and save them but...
"Ellen! Deal with the lever." Jack told me, obviously knowing me too well.
Right, deal with the lever and we deal with the ship, so i ran to the lever with the hand that was grasping onto tightly, let's do this.
"All parasites will be eradicated." The ship said...but seeing the claw and hearing the others worried pants whilst running was unsettling, but i had to put that to the back of my head.
Taking a step back i rammed into the lever, and though it budged slightly it was a stiff thing to move...no good Megatron has most of his weight holding that thing...but perhaps...
"Jack, no!" i heard raf say.
"Run for it." Miko said.
No don't avert your gaze, the lever...the lever!
Megatrons position was slightly tilted backwards, perhaps with a large enough force he can topple backwards. I then stepped backwards ready for another sprint,
"Ah!" i announced as i then ran toward megatron, i leapt into the air and performed a hi-jump on his head, but being in mid-air gravity brought me down to the floor, "urgh!" i said, landing on my back from a twelve foot drop, i was positioned between Megatrons legs and saw them raise off the floor, "gotta move, or he's gonna crush me." I said dragging myself off the floor and running in the opposite direction, Megatrons shadow completely engulfed me as his upper body was falling fast, jack was positioned under him too as i tackled him.
Megatrons body hit the floor, but the lever.
The valves which were pumping dark energon were now being washed away with energon, "critical power drained." The ship said, did it not work? "i-i am in...command." it stuttered as it launched its claw at us then stiffened as it backed off, it was desperately trying to pull the lever again, "prepare to be...neutralised." its voice had died down and eventually stopped speaking altogether along with the claw which represented the ships hand if you will was coming to a complete stop.
Watching the dark aura of the ship turn back to normal, megatron came out of stasis as he groaned.
"run." Jack said.
We made our way back to the control panel where we placed the cybertronian USB into, moving past decepticons as they all went back to normal to our presence, which was weird.
"ratchet." Jack called. "Fire up the groundbridge."
When we got to the said console, fowler was kneeling and was groaning, knockout hadn't gone back to normal just yet.
"On your feet soldier." Miko said as she helped fowler up.
"And beavers and dots and walnuts and grandma." Fowler babbled as miko let go of him as he fell back to the floor.
While looking upon the computer screen, we noticed the loading bar had barely moved and that the ship had just finished the fourth set of co-ordinates.
"That's all that's been downloaded?!" jack said.
"The iacon file must be huge." Raf said.
"Something's better than nothing." I added as the groundbridge opened up behind us.
"s-weet!" miko said as her and raf helped drag fowler on his knees to the groundbridge, "come on heres our ride." She added.
"Ellen, give me a boost." Jack quietly said to me.
"Jack, Ellen?" raf said.
"Get fowler out of here." I said to him.
"I'm not leaving without that drive Ellen." Jack said as i gave him a boost up knockouts leg as i followed.
Jack got up before me and tried pulling the drive out, "hold on, let me give you a hand." I said as i hopped on the pad with him.
"Okay after three." I said as we both took hold of the drive.
"One, two..." we started in unison.
Then we felt it, a slight wind at the back of our necks as we turned, knockout had come out of stasis as jack fell back, knockout pointed a...what looked like a giant cork screw at us, as it started to spin vigorously. "Say ahh." He said
"I'm here to offer a second opinion." Came ratchets voice as he punched knockout in the face, making him jolt backwards onto the consoles panel and then repel off that onto the floor, ratchet picked jack up as i climbed up upon his shoulder, then ratch grabbed the drive and headed back into the groundbridge.
Placing me and jack on the floor ratchet immediately got to importing the files we had claimed, miko and raf were helping fowler into a hospital bed upstairs...again and me and jack went to join them.
Allot of beeping was heard as ratchet brought up the co-ordinates,
"The download of the iacon database may have been incomplete, but we now possess four sets of co-ordinates decoded by the ship." Ratchet said.
"Then we must act quickly, for megatron possess the same four sets." Dad said. "And he will not hesitate to obtain potential doomsday devices which lie at the sight of each."
"You mean the day isn't over yet?!" i moaned flopping my arms to my side.
A/N one more chapter until i take a temperary retirement from this story, sad face :( but this just gives me more time to work on other stories which will be hard since i'll be moving from this themed story to a different themed story, quick must listen to sad movie soundtracks with a tinge of angst, speaking of which aren't movie soundtracks awesome? :D but why is it you listen to a sad piece of music like say a violin or something and people think your depressing? for example you know that piece that plays in the lion king when simba discovers mufasa's body? its sad and beautiful, anyway i'm rambling but out of curiosity whats your favourite movie music, if its something that gets you pumped i'd choose pirates of the caribbean :D