Silver Heart
by Time and Life 21
Shayde was in his office going over the files of Project Facsimile. He went over the papers again and again. He could practically recite them from memory. He knew something was missing from his research. His great-grandfather's research. He reached down and opened a file drawer and felt around for a seam on the bottom. When he found it, he opened it up and grabbed the old and yellowed thick file of the Project Aidnrias research. He took it out, almost reverently. As if it was a precious treasure. He carefully opened up the file and put the proper papers by the new papers of Project Facsimile. He compared the two projects. There were many differences. Aindrias used older people for their expirements. Years 18 to 28. Science nowadays depending on whom you talk to would argue that using children is easier than teenagers or young adults, or vice versa.
Personally, children were easier to mold. Shayde made the rules for the subjects to follow them, if they don't follow the rules, punishment would follow. Aindrias used children, but they never experimented on them until they had reached a proper age, in the late 1930s to late 1940s, it was 17, to start military training and from there on out, they would become super soldiers. But sadly, all 26 subjects were killed in the experimentations. The only one that didn't suffer side effects was Subject 27. There was no picture to know who the subject is, male or female, all he knew about the subject is that the subject survived all experimentations, no side effects. Somehow Subject 27 was supposed to be drafted soon after, but when his Great Grandfather had a heart attack, Sector Seven kicked Shayde Corps out of the Project and off of its grid permanently. He didn't know if Subject 27 was a failure, or a success.
He chalked it up as failure. There were other things in the old file that were questionable. There was something in there that his great grandfather wanted to create to make testing and experimentations easier. But was never able to create it. When Shayde came across the file, his father was working on it, but was never successful. Every subject that had been worked on, died halfway through the process. When young Shayde took over the company, he took a different approach.
Yes, it took a lot of effort and illegal doings, but the final products were finished and were coming back from their mission. He smiled to himself. He had succeeded where Sector Seven did not. Now, since Sector Seven has disbanded, going through a transformation into a new Sector of the Government, there must be weak spots. He will expose those weak spots and crush NEST.
"Sir." His secretary said as she entered his office.
"What is it?" Shayde asked as he calmly put the files of Project Aindrias away into his desk.
"The subjects have returned." She said as she placed a wisp of blonde hair behind her ear.
"Good. Let's see if they have succeeded or not." He said smiling.
He stood up and walked out of his office to the loading bay. He was going to enjoy the little victory as he destroys NEST from the inside.
Get the Heart Monitors on her!
Holy Shit! Her head's blown in!
Ratchet! Give me the energon syringe!
She's DEAD! There's no way she could have survived that!
Look!
The wound is somehow stitching together! Remarkable!
Ugh, Doug, help me clean her head up a bit. And get some samples of the dried blood.
Look! The brain monitors are detecting activity!
Her heart's beating strongly. She's alive!
Good Lord...how...?
She's waking up!
Nyx felt like a train hit her at full speed...and her pounding head wasn't helping with
matters.
"Did anyone get the name and number of the train that hit me?" she muttered.
"Great Scott! Pheonix! You are alive!" She could hear Dr. Jones's voice resonate.
"Mien Gott! Her brain waves are stronger than ever!" Dr. Douglas had said.
"Enough with the poking and prodding! Can't you see her discomfort!?" Larson shouted.
Oh...so that's the weird feeling she had in her sides.
"Hey doc...could you lower your voice? I feel like I got the mother of all hangovers...and I can't get drunk." Nyx said as she slowly opened her eyes.
A bright light shined in them and she moaned in pain.
"Pheonix? How many servos do I have?" She heard Ratchet's voice close by her.
She opened her eyes, only slightly and saw three fingers above her.
"Three." She said as her vision started to clear up.
"Right. Pheonix, I need you to move your servos. all four limbs in some way." He asked.
She mentally rolled her eyes and decided to sit up. She rubbed her eyes as she swung her legs over the edge of the bed.
"Pheonix, I need to you lay down." Ratchet said frowning.
"I'm fine now, Ratchet. I just need some painkillers." she said as she stood up.
"Pheonix, you were shot in the head! What the hell happened?" Larson said as he hobbled over to her frowning.
Nyx was about to retort back that she was just fine until she remembered the red eyed girl who shot her in the head. Her voice was silenced as she remembered the little green eyed girl who was decked in black military armor.
"Ratchet...who infiltrated NEST?" She asked him.
Ratchet's eyes widened as he looked at her strangely.
"How did...never mind. We are still working on that." Ratchet said as he grabbed a syringe filled with blue liquid.
"What do you mean? How long was I out?" She asked.
"You were out for a few days Nyx. General Moreshower is upset that someone managed to get into NEST. Children no less." Ratchet grumbled.
He then gestured to her to give him her arm. She flinched as the needle was put into the crook of her arm and then plunged in. The warm liquid was going through her cold veins.
"Ratchet, what else happened? I saw two girls. They were pretty young. Andhow dod they get in here?" She asked. To Nyx, this wasn't good.
NEST was supposed to be relocated as soon as possible. This was a bit of a set back if someone were to break in.
"From what the Technical Analysis says, a group of young people, under the age of 20 was their estimate, had broken in. One of them managed to hack into the systems. They did get much thanks to a woman and her friend, where were their names?" Ratchet furrowed his brows to remember the names.
"Maggie and Glen are 'dere names. When NEST got hack'd into, dey were workin' on makin' da system hack proof." Nyx heard the familiar slang of Jazz's voice.
She turned her head to the holoform of Jazz walking into the medbay.
"Welcome back to de land of de livin', Shawty." Jazz smiled as he walked up to Nyx.
"Ugh, my head." She said as she rubbed the center of her head where were she was shot.
"I'm amazed that you are even up and running after getting shot in the head!" Doug said amazed.
"It's not like I haven't got shot in the head before." She said as she remembered getting shot in the head in the Vietnam War. That was not pleasant in the least. She wanted to get back on task.
"So...why would children come into NEST? That doesn't make sense. I met one of them." She said as she stood up and almost lost her balance if it wasn't for Jazz grabbing her upper arm and steadying her.
"Shawty, ya need ta slow down. And what do ya mean that ya met one of the kids?" Jazz asked.
Ratchet narrowed his eyes when he heard that Phoenix met one of the intruders. While
Nyx was in a 'healing' coma, he and the other autobots, met up with General Morshower and other officials to find out what had slipped through their security system.
"One of the soldiers managed to nick one of the intruders with a sniper gun. But they still got away." Jones said as he gently pushed Nyx back onto the table, much to her annoyance, and flashed a light in her eyes.
"Well that's interesting." Jone said mesmerized.
"Wait, you managed to shoot the intruders? Was there any blood samples taken to find out who busted in here?" Nyx asked as she winced at the bright light that was shining in her eyes.
"None dat we know of." Jazz said as he leaned onto a table.
"It's best to figure it out later. One things for sure, when they managed to hack into the system mainframes, from what I heard from Optimus, the intruders only managed to get the surface of what NEST is." Ratchet said as he put a picture of an X-ray up on the light board.
Nyx felt sick as she looked at it. The Bullet that was aimed at her head went right through between her eyes. That red eyed girl sure knew how to shoot.
"Did they managed to..." She was about to ask when Jazz spoke her unsaid question.
"No. Whoever hacked into da Mainframe were good, but not as good as Glen. Whatever information dey managed to get, would only see that NEST is a Goverment Branch of de Military." Jazz said effectively ending the subject.
Nyx bit her lip slightly, but just couldn't shake the feeling of the Green eyed girl.
"Emerald was her name...I wonder if we might cross paths again." She said in deep thought.
She didn't like that fact that a young girl like her, and the red eyed girl were using guns.
"Children Soldiers." She thought shuddering to herself. Remembering Vietnam, she could recall the few times that when here teams would enter some villages, only to realize that when the children would come up to them, there would be bombs strapped to their backpacks that thy had made. Some would even hold guns and shot at them without hesitation. Why would children infiltrate NEST? Was there someone behind it? If there was, she wants to end it.
A bright light flashed in her vision again and she shook her head and moved away from it.
"Stop it! I'd rather not go blind thank you." Nyx said as she frowned at Jones.
"But your eyes...they are glowing." Jone said as he was gently pushed aside by Larson who took Nyx's chin in his hands and stared intently in her eyes.
Nyx felt very uncomfortable. What did Jones mean when he said that? She needed a mirror.
"Well, that is unique. That only kind of things that glow naturally is bioluminescent. And that only in dark places such as caves and deep under the seas. What an interesting development." Larson said as he hobbled back to his seat and started writing things down.
Nyx groaned internally. Great. Now she's evolving further. This wasn't fair.
"I hate you all, so much." She said directly to the scientists.
"Love you too, sweetheart." Larson said sarcastically.
She crossed her arms. As if she didn't feel like more of a freak than she already is. She looked back at the X-rays and was intrigued by them.
"So...that what it looks like when a bullet goes through the head." Nyx said as she stood up next to Ratchet and took a closer at the X-Rays.
"It's fascinating. Most humans, I've learned, would have their fate sealed by shooting themselves in the head. Of course... you are not like most humans." Ratchet said as he typed something on his data pad.
Jazz chuckled and walked up to her and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Most humans aren't special like Shawty 'ere." Jazz smiled.
Nyx roller her eyes at the statement.
"Now all we 'ave to do now is make sure she don' get herself killed from here on out." Jazz said looking down at her.
"It's not my fault that I'm a death magnet." She said as she glared at the mech by her side.
Jazz gave a hearty laugh and Ratchet only gave a slight snort at the statement.
"We are going to do a few more tests on you, Nyx. After you brought back Jazz, I didn't have the chance to monitor your vitals since then. I will be doing it for a while. To see how and why your body is changing." Ratchet said as he looked at other papers.
"Hey Rust Bucket. Don't forget that we are doing the same thing." Larson said glaring at the holoform.
Nyx smiled at the small glaring battle that Ratchet and Larson were having. She found it quite funny. Two respected doctors and scientists in a duel of glaring.
"Shawty, let's blow dis joint. Ah'm pretty sure Ironhide and Optimus will want to see ya. Will and Epps were worried 'bout ya too." Jazz said as he nudged her to the doors leaving the medical bay.
"Bring her back later, Jazz." Ratchet said not leaving Larson's stare.
"Gee...Thanks Dad." Nyx said sarcastically.
"Don't worry Hatchet, I'll bring her back before 7." Jazz heckled Ratchet.
In turn, Ratchet grabbed the nearest item (which was a wrench) and threw it in the direction of the Saboteur, in which he grabbed Nyx by the waist and pulled them out of the way of the wrench's trajectory.
"Better luck next time, Hatchet!" Jazz said as Nyx was laughing at Ratchet's cybertronian swearing and she caught something along the lines that even after death Jazz still annoys him.
"So what have you been doing since I've been knocked out. I swear, if this keeps up, i'm starting to wonder if I have narcolepsy or something." She said as she and Jazz moved down the halls of the base, she was on his shouders.
He was currently transformed into his autobot form. He looked the same as he did when she first met him save for the new 'wings' he had on his back and his visor covering his optics.
"Since NEST 'as been infiltrated, Movin' to Diego Garcia 'as been postponed." Jazz informed her.
Nyx groaned. She was all ready to be moving to the new destination, but since there was a security breach, everything is now went to pit.
"In other words...we won't be going anywhere until we figure out who and why NEST was infiltrated." Nyx rubbed her temple.
"For now, most of de problem is contained. Will thinks dat dere was a spy in our midst." Jazz specified.
"A spy...I wouldn't be surprised. So there may be background checks for the entire base then? Joy." She muttered.
Everyone in NEST must have a background check before even getting into NEST. The fact that someone manage to get in and out with out too much difficultly made Nyx rethink how to keep the autobots a secret from the world. It won't be easy.
"It's not helpin' seeing dat we got allies on de way." Jazz mused.
"That's right... Ironhide said something about twins." She said looking up at the autobot. Jazz cracked a grin.
"The Twins? Which set?" Jazz chuckled.
"There are sets?" Nyx said cocking an eyebrow.
"Dere are two sets of twin dat we know of , Shawty. The first set of Twins is Sideswipe and Sunstreaker. De second set is Mudflap and Skids. We should be expecting dem sometime soon." Jazz said as he turned down a hall.
"Fun...they won't be too much trouble right?" Nyx asked. Jazz just smiled and didn't say anything.
"Jazz? I swear I will turn you into scrap metal if you don't give me a straight answer." Nyx said playfully glaring at Jazz.
"Don' worry Shawty, dey won't be trouble...much." Jazz said laughing at an internal joke.
" I knew i should have left you in the matrix." Nyx pouted.
"Aw Shawty y' wound me! Without me, y' would just be a femme without any fun." Jazz said dramatically.
"I find Ironhide to be fun." Nyx shot back.
"Ironhide's sense of fun is blowing up Decepticons and targets." Jazz said chuckling.
"Yeah? I think i heard Ratchet say something about you getting back into training after being dead for so long." Nyx teased.
"Oh no! Not Training! The horror!" Jazz said in mock terror.
"Yes, Training. You need to get used to some on your upgrades Jazz." She heard Ironhide speak. She looked up at the tall autobot and smiled.
"In fact, I don't care if you are Optimus' second in command, you are training today." Ironhide frowned at the short bot. Jazz swore a little and Nyx giggled.
This was going to be a long and interesting time. But Nyx couldn't help but feel the nagging feeling of the little green eyed girl. She hoped to cross paths with her and help her get out of the situation. She promised it.
TAL21: OKAY! Now that that new years is kicking off with a bang, i hope you like this chapter! Yeah sure it's a bit short, but i think it works well. The next chapter will address the issues of how Emerald and the other got into NEST due to a mole, and Shayde is not a happy camper. Nyx will be undergoing a test and something surprising is happening to her. Then we have the twins and Sideswipe coming in! Whoo-hoo! I didn't like the fact that they never described why Sunstreaker wasn't in the movies, so i hope my explanation in the next chapter may work. Also the winner of the poll is…JAZZ! Let's have a round of applause! Originally, i was going to have Nyx with Sideswipe, then it changed to Optimus, then it changed to Ironhide, then I finally set on Jazz. Because as i looked through the chapters, Jazz is a good fit for Nyx. They are on slightly opposite ends of the spectrum (Personality wise and species wise) but i know that it will end nicely. They won't be getting together anytime soon, but in future chapters, it's going to be awesome! :D SHOUT OUTS!:
KeepingThemAtBay: I'm glad that you loved Jazz's human description in the last chapter. I personally like it too. :) As for Nyx being with Optimus, i would think that the relationship with him would be more of a big brother deal rather than a romantic interest. So i'm quite please with that. I did toy around with the idea for a while, but then i realized that it just wouldn't work. Oh well. Jazz is better. :D
TAL21: I will be posting more replies soon. But for now, i have to get going. I hope you liked the new chapter and i'm hoping to update every two weeks! Pleas give my other stores a shot and i hope you have a great day! :D PLEASE LEAVE DETAILED REVIEWS AND OPINIONS! I crave them like no other!
Question Time!: Now that the poll has been revealed, What do you hope to see Between Jazz and Nyx? and 2) What will happen with Emerald's Group when they return to Shayde Corporations?
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