So for some reason, Fanfiction hasn't been sending me notifications at all. I've tried fixing the problem but nothing works. Sorry for the delay, I lost one of my great uncles back in May. So I decided to take a hiatus from writing for a while...
Orion's POV
"This one's too big," Ariel noted as she inspected the pumpkins. The one in question was large even for the 3 of us heroes. It'd probably take the three of us even to lift the pumpkin, let alone move it. "Too orange," She said, moving to another one. "Too... normal." Ariel then noticed a pumpkin that was just right. "Perfect!" she exclaimed, looking at a very specific one.
"I've got it," Dion commented as he tried to pick it up only to trip and have the pumpkin explode on him accidentally. "Sorry..." Dion apologized as Ariel chuckled and helped him up.
"It's alright," She replied, helping Dion wipe off some pumpkin guts. "I think it'd be best if we went with something small this year."
"You guys still dress up at your current age?" We heard a voice say, getting our attention. Chloe looked at us with pure mockery. "Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous!"
My mind was focused on other things at the moment specifically on the giant purple spider that was hanging on the front gate.
"Orion!" An odd, yet familiar voice called out to me. "Come look at this!"
I was sitting in the passenger's seat of a truck, looking at an abandoned mine that had once been a treasure horde for the Forty-Niners. Emerging from my seat, I walked out of the truck and looked toward the source of the voice: Bianca Araña. She was a Latina girl with short black hair and had her hair done in a pair of pigtails with yellow tips at the end of them. Her outfit had a yellow tank top and short pants (She looked like a Latina Misty if she was raised in the ghetto).
"Aren't they beautiful?" Bianca asked as I walked up to her. She was looking at giant purple crystal web-like constructs that covered the rocks.
"Yeah..." I replied, agreeing that they were somewhat mesmerizing to look at. "What are they, though?" I asked, curious about them. While beautiful, it was strange for these constructs to have existed naturally...
"I have no idea..." Bianca replied with a simple shrug. A loud honk caused us to turn around and see another passenger emerge from the truck.
"Orion! Bianca!" The voice inside said before it left the truck, revealing a friend we knew. "Get your asses in gear!" The voice belonged to a guy about my height with dark gold hair and thick brown eyes. His outfit was a dark blue jacket with an orange shirt and dark blue jeans.
"Mark," I said, getting his attention as we approached him. "Have you ever stopped to consider that maybe there's a reason why this place is closed to civilians?" I wore a red T-shirt with a blue TV screen on the front. I had a pair of blue slacks and black sneakers. I wore a blue Ash Ketchum hat to cover what I only could describe as a bad haircut.
Mark smirked, "Aw," he teased, punching my shoulder, "Don't tell me you're getting cold feet, are you, Orion, old buddy?" Mark then wrapped his arms around me and Bianca.
"Aren't you at least curious to see a real-life gold mine?" Bianca asked, trying to appeal to my interest in history. "Think of all the history!"
"Forget the history," Mark scoffed, "Think of all the gold! The miners hoarded the stuff! We find that treasure, we'll be set for the rest of our lives!"
I scoffed at that, "Or spend it in prison if we get caught," I reminded them. We all knew what happened to people who ended up there too.I shivered at the thought.
Mark and Bianca chuckled at that, "Alright, fine," Mark went, putting an arm around Bianca and me, "If you want to chicken out and stay behind, that's fine by me." I rolled my eyes at that, knowing what he was trying to do. Sighing, I relented.
Shaking my head, I removed Mark's arm from around my neck, "Fine," I sighed, "Someone's gotta make sure you two don't end up lost or dead..."
"Oh relax, Pax," Mark insisted. "This trip couldn't be simpler: we go in, find the gold, and get out! What's to worry about?" As if on cue, the ground beneath their feet began to crack, giving way and sending the trio tumbling into a massive, underground cave system. We all hit the ground hard, causing Bianca and me to groan as we sat up, glaring at Mark.
"You were asking?" I asked in a very sarcastic tone.
Mark sheepishly grinned as he shrugged it off, "So we hit a detour. Big deal." We all quickly got back on our feet, now hearing something deeper within the cave.
"Did you two hear that?" Bianca asked, pointing toward a trail.
"You mean the ominous clicking and unnatural noises?" Mark asked sarcastically. "Kinda hard to miss." I looked toward the source of the sound, turning on my portable flashlight...
"BOO!" I heard Chloe exclaim, getting in my face. I was caught off guard and quickly fell flat on my butt, landing in a pile of straw. "You should have seen the look on your face!" Chloe laughed, "Sabrina!" she barked, "Tell me you got that on video!" The blonde jerk continued laughing as I got up and dusted myself off.
I grunted and simply turned my back to them, walking away and heading back to school. Dion and Ariel could only glare at Chloe and Sabrina as I walked away.
Back at the school I had entered the classroom and saw everyone getting ready for Halloween. Well, just us guys. Marinette was trying (and failing) to get Adrien to herself. I could tell Adrien was not interested in her so I decided to intervene. "Need help, Adrien?" I asked, getting his attention, "Decorations can be a pain in the rear to hang up." I then grabbed the decorations and then began to help him out. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Marinette giving me a dirty look before passively aggressively walking off.
'I'm having a party at my house later today," Adrien said, smiling at me, "You wanna come over?"
I blinked at him with a surprised expression, "No offense, Adrien,' I remarked. "But isn't your dad kind of a..?" I made a motion with my hands, "Jackass?"I asked, hoping I didn't offend him. I knew how certain people were snowflakes nowadays...
Adrien stared at me before laughing his butt off, "Yeah," he replied, "My Dad usually is, but this year he's surprisingly reasonable," He grabbed a thumbtack and pushed it with his might, pinning one end of the banner to the wall, "But he's said he's allowing me to have a party because of the Autobots,"
My eyes widened at that, "The Autobots?" I asked, "Why would it be because of the Autobots?" Before he could answer, I saw a giant fake spider being swung into my face, surprising me. The moment it appeared in front of me, I freaked out, reliving a very bad memory. "No!" I screamed in terror before grabbing a pair of scissors and stabbing the spider. I continued stabbing the fake spider until Ariel and Dion shook me out of it.
"Whoa, take it easy Pax, it's just a little Halloween fun," Ariel commented, helping me up. I jerked away from her and continued stabbing the spider, fluff getting everywhere.
Dion quickly grabbed my hand. "Orion, it's fine!" I heard him say, "You're safe..."
"What?" I asked, confused for a moment as to what I just experienced.
"Marinette was just playing a little prank," I heard Alix explain. "A somewhat insensitive prank..."
I looked at Marinette and saw her holding the stick and what was left of the fake spider, eyes widened with shock. She wasn't the only one either. "That," I breathed, holding a hand to my head, "was stupid of you..." I growled and shook my head. "Was that necessary?" I asked, glaring at her.
Marinette shuddered before reasserting herself, "Hey, how necessary was it to use scissors to stab a fake spider?" Marinette asked, gathering the remains and putting them in the trash before defiantly walking away. I stared at the spider's remains, once more thinking of that day...
The three of us trekked deeper into the cavern, keeping our eyes open for a way out, as well as the source of the noises they'd heard, "I wonder how much gold we can find in this place," Mark wondered. "I mean, those 49ers were known for hoarding the stuff back during the gold rush, and it was the real deal too, not that pyrite crap they show us at school."
"How would you know the difference between gold and pyrite?" Bianca quipped. "You'd have to work at a bank or something just to get a glimpse of the real stuff."
"I know some guys." Was Mark's response.
"Quiet," I whispered, "I think I heard something." Something skittered past, just narrowly avoiding the lights. The chittering sound returned, making me shudder involuntarily. "Where's it coming from?" I wondered.
"It's hard to tell," Bianca answered. "The echoes in this cave are not doing my ears any favors."
We all continued circling to find the source of the sound until I came face to face with a massive, robotic spider. Realizing what it was, I instantly backed away. "SHIT!" Mark screamed in terror.
As they all tried to move out of the way, the robot spider shot a web towards Bianca, catching her around the waist and pinning her to the wall. The second she hit, both Mark and I went on the defensive. I swung a pickaxe into the spider's glowing eyes as Mark pulled out his knife. He went over to Bianca and cut her free of the webs, causing her to discard them in disgust.
"I take it back," she commented. "This stuff isn't so beautiful after all."
"This place is infested!" Mark exclaimed. "What do we do?!."
"I don't-" Bianca began to reply before a spider approached from behind Mark. "Mark, behind you!"
Mark turned around just as the spider bit into his skin. Mark cried out, feeling the bite robbing him of movement. Thinking fast, Bianca grabbed Mark's knife and made a torch from a broken pickaxe. She bashed the torch against the spider's face, causing it to stumble back before throwing the pickaxe at a stalactite. It came crashing down, spearing it right through the abdomen. It screeched in pain, then sagged, eyes going dark as a blue liquid pooled from its wounds.
"I think we've just been outclassed," I joked as Mark picked himself up.
"Hey, we're still alive, aren't we?" Mark remarked. "Besides, we still have gold to find,"
"No way," I insisted, shaking my head in disagreement. "No amount of gold is worth this much trouble." I looked around. "We need to leave. NOW."
"Come on, we've already made it this far, and we've only encountered one scary monster," Mark insisted. "Give me one good reason why we should leave."
Almost as soon as he said that, three giant mechanical spiders dropped from the ceiling. "How about 3?" I asked in a deadpan voice after looking at the three spiders.
As the spiders all lunged forward, Mark quickly got in front of them and produced a flare to hold them back. "Go! I'll catch up with you guys!"
Both Bianca and I immediately ran off into the tunnels. Unfortunately, in our haste to escape the spiders, we took separate routes. "Orion!" Bianca called out to me. "ORION!"
"Orion!" Alix's voice let out, causing me to snap out of it, "Check out our costumes!" I turned my head and immediately saw a carbon copy of 2B from Neir Automata and Mikey Simon from Kappa Mikey standing before us.
"Can't think of any 2B quotes..." Alix said, an annoyed look present on her face. "I wanted to go as Jolyne Kujo but Dad said it was too 'revealing'..." She then scowled, "Like 2B is somehow even better..." She then looked at Nathaniel, "You look cute..."
Nathaniel chuckled as he wrapped an arm around Alix, "Don't worry, 2B," He said, "Kappa Mikey here will save the day!" Alix looked at him with a deadpan look. "Sorry..." he quickly said.
Dion and Ariel looked at me, "You sure you don't want to out dressed up?" Ariel inquired, a curious look on her face. She had dressed up as Jem from Jem and the Holograms and Dion had decided to dress as Eliot Ness from The Untouchables.
I shook my head in response to that, "I'll be fine," I replied, "I'd rather stay here and watch some classic Godzilla movies," Ariel and Dion both shrugged at that. "I'm gonna keep an open comm with you guys in case there's trouble, alright?" I commented, causing Ariel and Dion to nod before leaving with Alix and Nathaniel. "Stay safe, you guys..." I whispered, leaving myself alone with my thoughts.
Ariel's POV
Out in the city, Nathaniel and Alix led us down the street as we were awed at how many kids were dressed up for Halloween. Some were dressed as Ladybug and Cat Noir, others were standard mummies, ghosts, vampires, zombies, or Frankenstein's Monster.
"Wow, look at them all," I heard Dion say, amused. "So many of them decided to dress up!" I looked around and saw a trio of kids dressed as-
"Autobots!" a little boy exclaimed, swinging his cardboard axe, "Transform and Roll Out!" There was a trio of little kids who were dressed as me, Orion, and Dion. Their parents were dressed as Anime couples. Orion's little doppelganger's mom and dad were dressed as Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask. My admirer's parents were dressed as Ash Ketchum and Misty Waterflower. Finally, Mini-Dion's mom and dad were dressed as... Yukiteru Amano and Yuno Gasai... Huh. I thought I didn't know there were adult fans of Mirai Nikki...
Mini-Me pointed at me, "Hey look!" she exclaimed, "I know who you are supposed to be!" I smiled at that. Perhaps her parents were fans of 80's TV shows as well and watched them with their little girl, teaching her the ways of fine culture-
"You're Luka Megurine!" the girl exclaimed, to my utter shock and confusion. Dion, Alix, and even Nathaniel began laughing at me as the girl's parents apologized to me. "Luka!" the girl said again.
I smiled, bearing the humiliation, "And who are you dressed as?" I asked.
"I'm the best hero!" the little girl proclaimed with a huge smile, "I'm Elita-1!" She then did a dynamic pose, "I kick Decepticon butt and protect Earth!"
The little Orion look-alike butted in, "I'm Optimus Prime!" he did a Superman pose, "I'm the leader of the Autobots!" He did a few karate poses, "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings!"
Mini-Dion finally made himself known, "I'm Ultra Magnus!" the boy cried out, "And I love to smash 'cons!" I chuckled as I heard Dion whisper to Nathaniel and Alix about how he doesn't sound like that at all. We then told the kids and their parents goodbye before going our way, unaware of a potential enemy crawling across the roofs above us.
The four of them arrived at their first house, with Alix ringing the doorbell.
Alix stepped back, waiting for the door to be answered, and then a voice filled Nathaniel's ears. It was a chittering sound, like an arthropod, only louder and more mechanical. Nathaniel looked up and saw a large robotic spider on the roof. Nathaniel yelped in response, before climbing onto Dion's back.
"Uh, g-guys. We've got a problem. Like, a bug problem!"
Dion went still. "Giant spider?" He asked, "Where? Is that even possible?"
"Of course it is!" Nathaniel said fear plastered onto his face, "Just look up!" We looked up, only to see there was nothing there.
"Uh... you sure you're feeling ok, Nathaniel?" Dion wondered. The door to the house then opened up, revealing a woman with a bowl of candy.
"Trick or treat," Alix spoke. The lady smiled and handed her some candy. She then looked back at Nathaniel, raising an eyebrow in concern for the young man.
"Is your friend alright?" she asked. "He seems a little...spooked.. like he saw a ghost."
"Uh... just a little jumpy tonight..."
Ariel's POV
"I'm telling you, I know what I saw!" Nathaniel insisted as the four of us walked down the street. "It was a GIANT SPIDER!" He then began making gestures, "You know, big and ugly?"
"Giant spider?" I questioned.
"Yeah. Still, I don't think we have anything to worry about. Nath probably just saw a decoration, like that spider back at the pumpkin patch." Alix commented as she began to eat her Snickers bar.
"It wasn't a fake spider!" Nathaniel exclaimed. "It was a massive, black and gold, mechanical spider the size of our dining table!"
"What was that, Nathaniel?" Orion asked over comms. "Say that again."
"Massive, black and gold, mechanical spider," Nathaniel answered before blinking. "Wait a second, have you been listening to our conversations?"
"Nathaniel, this is important," Orion spoke up. "This spider, did it have a red symbol, like an hourglass? Did it look like a robot?"
"Uh... yeah..." Nathaniel replied, looking at us with a confused look.
"Stay where you are," Orion commanded. "I'm on my way." He then hung up, causing Nathaniel to look confused.
He scratched his head, "I wonder why he's so spooked about this?"
Orion's POV
I scowled as I grabbed my Eeyore costume and ran out the door. To normal people, I was dressed as Eeyore. I ducked into an alley before transforming into Optimus Prime and then swinging across the city like I was Spider-Man. I won't let it happen again... I thought as I leaped off a pole,I can't let it happen again...My mind once again began flashing back to my past as I thought about that day...
Once I made sure he was a safe distance away, I began to look around for my friends, "Mark! Bianca!" I cried out, hoping that they were still alive. Neither of them answered. Instead, I found myself staring at a very old abandoned mineshaft, filled with skeletons. It lay just beyond a large chasm and was illuminated by piles and piles of pure gold. "At least Mark was right about the gold," I whispered before putting a hand to my head, "I can't believe I just said that..." As I looked around, I noticed several giant metallic pods on the ground near the gold, causing him to step back in worry.
"Why am I getting uneasy from seeing this" I asked myself as one of the giant pods began to break open, revealing another giant mechanical spider, "Do your worst, you ugly techno-webhead." I growled, "I won't go down without a fight!"
Before anything could happen though, I heard rapid footsteps approaching, followed by a yell and the sound of metal on metal. My captor was sent flying, and a familiar Latina landed right in front of me. "How many times am I going to have to save your ass, buddy?" Bianca asked, taking a pickaxe and cutting me free.
"Until I repay the favor," I joked, taking the pickaxe back. Bianca and I smiled at each other until we suddenly saw more of the techno-freak fall from the ceiling and begin to circle us. "We'll have to fight our way out!" I commented as we fell back. "Bianca, here!" I threw a rope at her, causing her to catch it.
"What's the plan, guy?" She asked as we dodged another robot spider.
The two of us then fired our grapples at the ceiling and pulled ourselves toward a huge stack of gold. One of the smaller robo-spiders leaped at us, causing me to kick it away, and the spider landed on a stack of TNT I suddenly had an idea. Thinking fast, I grabbed my torch and threw it on the biggest pile of TNT I saw, which began a timer for us to get the hell out of there.
"Nice going, Orion," Bianca complimented me. "Now we need to get the hell- "Suddenly, her rope snapped.
She began falling, but I quickly caught her with my hand. Unfortunately, my grip wasn't strong enough, her hand slipping from my grip as she fell back into the exploding hole. "BIANCA!" I screamed as I saw her fall with a look of horror on her face. "NO!"
As the explosion intensified, I was forced to climb to safety, looking back at the devastation with great sorrow. My heart skipped a beat as I felt a piece of my soul die. At that moment, I heard footsteps running in. On instinct, I prepared to fight, but was shocked to see Mark running in, looking equally horrified and worried. "Bianca!" Reluctantly, I forced myself over to Mark. "We have to get out, now!" he insisted.
"It's too late," I exclaimed, grabbing his arm and running away, "The mine's gonna cave in!"
We barely got ourselves out of the cave in time. The entire area shook from the force of the explosion as all the TNT in that mineshaft ignited, utterly decimating everything around it. As the two of us got shakily to our feet, Mark returned to the hole in desperation. "We... we have to find Bianca! We have to go back for her!"
I was quiet as I rubbed my arm and began to cry. "Mark..." I said, tears flowing down my face "Those things... Bianca's... She's gone."
Mark stood there in absolute horror as what I said finally sunk in. I began to get close and comfort him, but that's when Mark tackled me, pinning me to the ground. "You... You did this!" He screamed those accusing words, tears running down his face, "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"
Dion's POV
Nathaniel was still looking around as if the giant spider would swoop down on top of them. "Trust me, Nathaniel," Ariel assured him, "There are no giant robot spiders here," I said nothing, looking at my Halloween goods.
Her cousin simply shook his head, paranoia on his face, "What if it's from another planet?" Nathaniel whispered, looking around with a scared look on his face.
"Huge robotic alien life forms... coming to earth? You've got to be kidding," Alix scoffed. The three of us looked at her until she realized what she had said, "Oh, right..." She spoke in a now embarrassed tone, "The Decepticons..."
"All I'm saying is that we all need to be on high alert, keep a sharp lookout," Nathaniel pointed out, eyes darting everywhere. "Don't let anything slip past us."
We suddenly heard Ariel scream, causing us to turn around and see a giant spider on the roof of the houses that had ensnared her with some webbing. "Ariel!" Nathaniel and I yelled in horror, making me abandon my costume by transforming into Ultra Magnus.
"Keep away from the girl," It hissed.
"That's just what I was gonna say!" I growled, firing a shot at the webbing and catching Ariel. The spider then jumped off the building and onto the road, but before it could get away, I stopped its escape by slamming my hammer in front of it while Nathaniel stood behind it.
"Don't move; I want to make sure everyone sees you this time," Nathaniel growled, pointing a gun at the giant spider.
The giant spider resembled that of a black widow which then transformed into a rather sexy Latina girl with gold and black Cybertronian armor like ours. She had light brown skin with blood red eyes. She had her hair done not unlike Ariel's hairstyle. "Easy there kid, you might also want to opt it out with that happy trigger finger of yours," she said in a very seductive voice.
"Who are you?" Ariel wondered, getting in front of Nathaniel to protect him from the unknown threat.
"What are you?" I asked, my face turning red from her sexy and lusting body.
"Duh, she's a girl?" Alix answered with a frown on her face.
"I can be the girl of your dreams if you want me to be..." the girl. "The name is Blackarachnia, sweetheart..." She then calmly approached me, softly stroking my jaw which I will admit, caused me to lose it and get a little hard down there when suddenly, Blackarachnia hissed at me and stabbed her shoulder spikes into me, instantly rendering me unconscious.
Ariel's POV
"Ultra Magnus!" Nathaniel exclaimed before growling at the bitch, pulling out his gun, and proceeding to fire at Blackarachnia. However, she easily sidestepped out of the way and managed to get behind him. Then just like with Dion, struck him with her stingers, and he fell just as Dion did.
"What did you do to them?!" I yelled, transforming into Elita-1. I proceeded to jump onto the still Dion. I then placed my hand on his chest, activating my healing powers on Dion, but nothing happened.
Blackarachnia then stood in front of me, "That's not going to do any good."
"I'll be the judge of that," I growled, pointing my blaster at her while copying Dion's strength. "Come on, why won't you work?" I growled in a frustrated tone as I continued to pretend trying to wake up Dion, but nothing happened.
"My cyber-venom is derived from technological sources so that your Matrix powers won't have any effect on it." She then looked at a little kid who was dressed as Orion, "Nice costumes, by the way."
"Wait, back up, how do you know about the Matrix?" I asked.
"I guess you could say that I'm a bit of an expert in that matter. I could show you a thing or two with it. Why not let me try and revive them?" I was just about to pull out my blaster and fire at the bitch when I felt something wrap my leg, yanking me away from Blackarachnia.
"Elita!" I heard Orion growl, causing me to look back and see the fury in his eyes, "Get away now!" he shouted.
Blackarachnia looked at Orion with disgust. "Orion Pax?!" She exclaimed, causing us to look at her in shock. She knew who Orion was?! "So, the rumors were true..." she snarled, looking at him in disgust.
She suddenly pulled out a gun that was identical to mine before firing at the cable with a bolt of energy. "Hey! That's mine!" I protested.
The spider bitch scoffed and scowled at me, "Don't be such a baby," she coldly remarked, "I was just borrowing it," Then suddenly, she grabbed Orion's throat and then pinned him to the house with unbelievable strength. "And yes, little Miss-State-the-Obvious," Blackarachnia snarked, looking at me, "I copied your friend's strength too." She then turned her eyes on Orion. "Now, what should I do with you?"
"How about nothing," We heard a feminine voice say. Then suddenly, a fist collided with Blackarachnia's face, and was sent flying across the street. She looked up and saw Alix, who was holding her fist close to her as if she had just injured it from punching their attacker. "You okay?" she asked as Nathaniel and Dion started to get up.
Nathaniel grunted as he helped himself up, "I'll live," he replied, "What about your hand?" he asked.
"Change of plans," Blackarachnia hissed before firing some webbing at me, "You and I still have matters to discuss," She then fired another line of webbing and used it to swing across the rooftops.
"You all right?" Dion asked, helping Orion to his feet.
"I'm fine, but she's got Elita!" said Optimus.
Immediately the two of us began chasing Blackarachnia down as she continued swinging across the buildings.
"Elita!" I yelled, running after the two, Dion quickly following after me.
"We're coming!" Dion yelled. We quickly began to jump from rooftop to rooftop as we tried to catch up with our friend and her femme fatale kidnapper.
He ran over the ledge and stopped at the center of the ceiling. When she turned around, I shot her right in the face, then pulled Ariel away from her clutches. Dion then tackled her, and soon, the two of them were in a wrestling match.
I quickly pulled off the webbing. "You okay?" I asked her.
Ariel shakingly smiled as she gave me a thumbs up before her expression turned to one of shock. "Optimus, look out!" she cried out.
Ultra Magnus was then slammed into me, knocking me to the ground. Spider-Lady had just tossed me right into a wall and then advanced toward me. I quickly got up and tried to throw a punch, but was stopped by her blocking it with her forearm. She then attempted to strike me with a spinning kick, but I was easily able to quickly dodge it. Thinking fast, I pulled out a beam saber and began swinging it at the girl, "I know all your moves, Orion!" the girl growled, dodging all of my sword slashes, even catching my arm at one point. "Typical Clovis North crap!" This chick... something about the things she said... Why did she sound so familiar?
"Am I supposed to know you from somewhere?" I asked, hoping to get a clue from her. "Because I'm sure I'd never forget a face like yours."
"I know how you like to forget your friends!" The girl growled, kicking me away from her. "Although you seemed to remember your old pal Mark that day!"
"Mark...?" I then realized what she meant by that. It all made sense now: the looks she kept giving me, the chances to back down, her fighting style... "B-Bianca?!" I gasped, realizing her true identity.
"It's Blackarachnia now!" Bianca snarled as she shot her webbing at me, causing me to dodge the attack. She then transformed into a spider and sprayed at me, sticking me to a wall. "If you had bothered to go back at all, you would have known what happened..." she growled as she transformed and grabbed my throat, pinning me. "When those mechanical spiders surrounded me, I became infected by their cyber-venom, mutating me into one of them!" I could only imagine Bianca screaming as they pierced their pincers into her body, the agony she must have felt. "I became something new... not human... not robot... a freak!" I then noticed the sigil on her chest and saw a familiar purple chest emblem.
"So you decided to betray humanity and join the Decepticons..." I whispered, saddened by how she had fallen from grace..."
"At least I know where I stand with them..." Bianca said. "It also gave me a lot more freedom when it came to experimentation."
"Experimentation?" I asked, "What kind of experiments?" we slowly circled each other, just itching to attack the other.
Bianca smiled cruelly as she suddenly got closer to me, "Experiments that could cure me!" She suddenly stabbed her shoulder spikes into me, immobilizing me.
"Bianca!" I screamed as she got close to me and then began to pry my chest open, revealing the Matrix of Leadership in all of its glory. "Bianca," I groaned as I saw her pull something out of her spinnerets, "Bianca, please reconsider-!"
"No way!" She snarled, connecting a cable from her chest to the Matrix, "If anything can fix me, it's this!" Bianca then inserted the cable into the Matrix, sending out a massive energy wave that began spreading out throughout the entire city. It then appeared to short-circuit everything technological, as the cars now stopped as a blackout resulted from this.
"But you said the Matrix wouldn't affect machinery," Ariel pointed out, seeing the surrounding tech now failing.
"Guess I must have lied; imagine that," Bianca sneered.
I was able to break free of the webbing. "Bianca, wait..."
Bianca snarled as she grabbed Ariel. "I've already waited for 5 years!" She then tossed Ariel off the building.
"Elita!" I yelled, half looking over the ledge.
He looked down and saw that she was barely hanging off a flagpole. Fortunately, arriving in the nick of time was Ladybug and Cat Noir.
"We've got, Elita, get that spider girl!" said Ladybug as she looked at Ariel falling. She quickly jumped onto Dion's shoulder, "A little help for the vertically challenged?"
"Coming right up!" Dion yelled, tossing her into the air with all his strength.
Ariel then lost her grip and began falling to the ground. Ladybug quickly grabbed Ariel and began to smile at her before her string snapped, sending them to their death. Dion, realizing there was a problem, jumped off the ground and caught both of them, "Hang on, you two," Dion exclaimed, transforming into his vehicle mode, "It's going to be a rough landing!" He then hit the ground hard, so hard that all eight of his tires burst, and the airbag in his truck cab went off. "You okay?" he asked in a pained voice.
With Ariel now safe, I turned back to Bianca, expecting her to finally see reason. However, the energy pulses coming from Bianca intensified, and she was crying out in pain.
"What's happening?" Bianca groaned as she fell to her knees.
"I tried to warn you..." I groaned as I stood my ground against the energy pulses. "Bianca... your heart... can't survive without the cybernetics!" I slowly got up on my feet, grunting in pain, "We need to unplug you! Now!""
"I... I can't!" Bianca moaned in pain.
I slowly and painfully pushed forward, finally managing to reach Bianca, fighting against the energy barrier surrounding her. I reached out and grabbed the cable, pulling it out with all my might. The moment I did, the energy pulses stopped, and all technology started to work once more. I weakly got up and began walking toward where Bianca was lying, her back turned to me. "Bianca..." I whispered, reaching out to her.
She pushed me away, "Don't..." she sobbed, "I don't want you to see me like this..." I held up Bianca and looked at her in the eyes, sorrow present in both of us.
I caressed her face, tears welling up, "Bianca... Come with me..." I offered her, hoping she would listen to me. "Let me help you..." Bianca motioned for me to come closer, something I obeyed. She suddenly hissed at me and then stabbed me with her shoulder spikes once more, knocking me out.
When I woke up, she was gone once more.
Later...
"I believe the expression is 'trick or treat,'" I smiled, now dressed as Eeyore once more. We had recently said farewell to Ladybug and Cat Noir before they left
"That's my line, Orion," Ariel replied, grabbing her bag, "And I'm supposed to say..." she made a sad look on her face, "Sorry for not defending you when Marinette frightened you with that fake spider..." I was silent for a moment, not noticing Nathaniel, Alix, and Dion approaching us from behind.
"So who was that hot chick?" Nathaniel asked, making a squeezing motion with his hands, which to his relief went unnoticed by Alix. Dion simply silently chuckled as Alix sat down in exhaustion.
"I need a vacation after this..." Alix remarked, cracking her neck, "This was a crazy ass night..."
"Someone I shouldn't have left behind..." was my answer before I looked at the full moon. Bianca... I thought I swear to you Bianca, I will find a way to save you one day... and maybe earn your trust once more...
So this chapter is basically the TFA episode in a nutshell. Does Bianca/Blackarachnia know that Optimus Prime is Orion Pax? Yes, but she's smart enough to not reveal it to anyone because she still cares for Orion in some way. Ladybug and Cat Noir don't know Blackarachnia's origin and just assume she's either an Akumatized villain or another Miraculous user (Due to her animal design).
Next Chapter: The Miraculous Duo and Autobots must team up with a new ally when a new threat emerges in the form of an Akumacon. Wait, who's this strange old man and how does he know who the Autobots really are? Next time on Miraculous: Power of the Primes: SOS Dinobots!
Autobots, Transform, and Roll Out!
Aztec 13: This was a fun chapter with the Transformers fighting Gundam and the Prime Kids, Jack, Miko, and Raf. That was a surprise! And now I hope they join in later chapters. I'm surprised that Pyra from the IDW comics is Orion's twin sister. I wonder where she is and if she will join our heroes.
I also like the idea of Marinette getting called out on her somewhat bad and questionable behavior, but now I'm curious if she will change along with everyone else in the story.
Please continue.
MVMVZ-710 Star Convoy: I am glad you liked this chapter a lot. As both a Gundam and Transformers fan, I was partly inspired by the Optimus Prime vs Gundam fight on Death Battle and giant robot fights as a whole. I added Jack, Miko, and Raf as a way to make up a more diverse cast of human characters so it wouldn't be limited to just Miraculous human characters. They will appear in later chapters like Daniel will. Others, like Cade Jaeger or Koji Onishi, will be one-off characters.
Pyra Magna being Orion's twin sister is something that I thought was a goldmine of an idea mainly due to the idea of how similar the two seemed in terms of not just design but also ideals. I believe in the IDW comic Optimus Prime issue #21 Shockwave mentioned how when he "witnessed Pyra in action, he knew that she could handle the psyche- the will- of a Prime." To me, this could be interpreted that while Pyra Magna was not a Prime like Optimus was, Shockwave saw that she had the willpower and mentality of one in the making. Plus, she always struck me as someone who would see Optimus Prime as more of a brother than a love interest. I mean, even the comics seem to depict them more as bickering siblings than lovers. Pyra right now is back home in Orion, Ariel, Dion, and her hometown of Fowler, California. Will she appear in this story? Yes, but only after [redacted].
I appreciate that you approve of Marinette being called out. Most members of the fandom that I have encountered tend to either gloss over that or play it off as something to be admired or for laughs. As if whether she will change... let's just say that by [redacted] she will have changed, but not in the way you think.
I will continue this story.
nexusplayer: Excuse me but Ladybug isn't like that. Lustful? nah. Stupid? Fuck yeah.
You can't phone a fucking superhero you fucking dumbass! "Hawkmoth! Evilize me or some shit. I'll get their miraculous just let me choose my power. My power,r? Oh, it's simple: my body can move at the speed of light. And my mind moves in accordance. Thus I am A speedster above anything those fools have ever faced.
MVMZ-710 Star Convoy: I completely understand where you're coming from how I wrote her like that. What I do not appreciate is being called a "dumbass."
Secondly, that phoning bit was a bit of an oversight on my part. I had watched an episode of Smallville and recently read the Adventures of Lady Luck on AO3(I would recommend it, It somewhat inspired me to write this story as did Rise of Anatis and Transformers: Rise of Prime.).
nexusplayer: Discord WOULD MOTHER FUCKING DESTROY FUCKING EVERY DECEPTICON!
THEY MAY BE MADE OF METAL, BUT DISCORD WOULD TURN THEM INTO CAKE! CANDY! ETC!
MVMZ-710 Star Convoy: The Equestrian Massacre happened because Discord was still sealed away in the statue.
As for Discord... well, he's still trapped as a statue in the Decepticon trophy hall like in that one scene of Thor: Ragnarok.