Tekkaman Prime
ESKK: Here you go everyone this chapter takes place after the events of Tekkaman Prime vs Gatchaman Go so if you need context be sure to read it when you get the chance. Now time to begin, enjoy reading the chapter.
(Start Darby Residence)
Several days have passed since the team had met the Japanese Team. Agent Fowler of course was informed of it and nearly had a stroke on the subject. Thankfully since Teams Prime and Elita were both unaware of the Japanese Bots Fowler sent something on the grape vine to their Japanese counterparts. From what they understood the Japanese Government had contacted the Bots in Ishimura and opted to help them and Gatchaman get up to snuff on things. If Galactar was back, then Gatchaman needed all the help they can get. Last they heard Gatchaman had gotten the God Phoenix up and running as well as upgraded the Hell out of it.
Miko was near fangirling over the fact that she got to meet Gatchaman and most of all become friend with them. Alas she had to keep that a secret that she knew Gatchaman on a personal level. Anyway, currently Shara was seen in her bedroom tossing and turning in her sleep as her dreams were filled with troubling images. As Shara was having her nightmare, she saw herself before the Golden Disk once more the moment they had destroyed it. The Disk released a great deal of power that Shara was at ground zero for thus taking the full blast of it. Thankfully, she was ok at the time, but it seemed that would not be the case. In her nightmare Shara soon found herself at school and saw people running away from her.
"Wait what's going on?!" Shara asked as she reached out to them. When she did Shara saw her hand was neither her own nor was it Rapiers but some sort of clawed amalgam of flesh and metal. Looking to the nearby mirror Shara was horrified to find her form was a horrific chimera of Tekkaman Rapier, herself, and Cybertronian and thus Shara could not help but scream out in panic. She then looked and saw the other Tekkaman coming at her with an intent to kill.
"No wait it's me!" Shara cried out and in turn she found herself impaled on Blade's lancer.
(Waking World Nick)
In Nick and Jake's shared room that now had a bunk bed the sound of Shara screaming woke Nick up and the resulting crash woke up Jack as well. The two boys looked to each other as Nick jumped down from top bunk with his mind on combat mode. "Shara!" Nick called and thus he and Jack got moving.
The pair got to the hallway and arrived at the door to Shara's room as Jack went to get Arcee and Ironhide from the Garage. "Nick, wait!" June began as she came out of her own room in a night gown. The Tekkaman leader and human nurse opened the door to Shara's room and were horrified to find a hole in the wall, Shara's bed destroyed, and most of all Shara was nowhere to be seen. From the hole Arcee and Ironhide arrived as they looked at it and Nick began to panic.
"Where's Shara?!" Nick asked and thus the two Autobots looked to each other in shock.
"You mean she's not here?" Ironhide asked and thus it was clear a problem was afoot.
(Scene Break Autobot Outpost Omega 1)
Later that same evening at the base Nick was at the base as he took a ground bridge that brough Bulkhead to the base. Thankfully, Nick had Agent Fowler and Agent Witwicky both on speed dial and with it they already had a cover story to work with. Right now, Bulkhead was off playing drunk driver vehicle while Jun contacted the insurance company to make the claim.
"Well, anything?" Nick asked hoping Ratchet had Shara's signal or something to work with.
"I'm afraid I can't pinpoint her signature." Ratchet said as Nick began to worry. "It may be that its being cloaked." Ratchet offered as he found this most strange.
"They couldn't have gotten far." Lifeline said as the field medic knew Shara had to be close by.
Elita had already taken Bumblebee, Moonracer, Arcee, and Jazz to scout around for the wayward girl some time ago. Clearly something was amiss here as none of this made any sense.
"Hey, Prime!" Ironhide was heard as he walked into the base getting Optimus attention. "I did a look around the hole and from the looks of it, the blast was outward." Ironhide said as Nick heard this.
"Outward, are you saying Shara blasted off on her own?" Lifeline asked as this was quiet concerning for them.
"Think it's the cons?" Nick asked as he looked to Optimus.
"Unlikely if it was them why only take Shara?" Optimus asked and thus Nick knew that narrowed it down at least. "Continue the search I will join you all momentarily." Optimus said and thus Ironhide nodded and transformed before heading out to aid the search. "Nick, do you have a theory as to what may have triggered this if Shara had indeed done this?" Optimus asked and thus Nick sighed to this.
"I don't know but I rather find her before asking her." Nick said and thus Optimus agreed and headed out knowing Nick would wait all night if he had to.
(Scene Break the next Morning Shara)
Shara woke up and found herself in the middle of the desert. Shooting up Shara gasped and saw that she was in her Tekkaman Rapier form for some reason. What was more that upon further look upon her form she was damaged as well. "What happened last night?" Shara asked as she was getting back up. Once Shara was on her feet, she took a small look around before she recognized that she was still in Nevada and from the looks of about a couple miles away from the base. Activating her boosters Shara flew upward and took a look around for any recognizable landmarks but the moment she found one her boosters gave out. Forced to land Rapier found herself lethargic and strangely debilitated.
This left Shara with only one option left to walk back to base and hope Ratchet and June could figure out what was wrong with her. Thus, Shara began to walk making her way through the desert towards the base and hopefully some aid to deal with her current predicament.
(Later back at the Base)
The other Tekkaman eventually arrived with the humans as thankfully it was a Saturday, no school. But as they got there, they saw Nick was still there no doubt having stayed the entire night hoping for a lead on Shara. "Any luck?" Sierra asked as she was worried for Shara as much as Nick was.
"Nothing I'm afraid." Optimus said as he was not happy about this but understood his soldiers were trying their best to locate Shara.
"Come on Raf maybe we can do a bit of tech work to lend a hand." Misha said and thus Raf nodded to her.
"Right." Raf said as he got his laptop out as well as Misha with hers before plugging them into the Autobots supercomputer to help locate Shara.
"How's Nick holding up?" Sierra asked looking to Ironhide who came back from his search.
"Not good, the kid looks ready to go searching full gear through the Cons." Ironhide said as he felt Nick was ready to go charging in. "We have the Aerial bots helping with the search but..." Ironhide began but was then cut off by the proximity alert.
Ratchet went to check on what it was and in turn was met with a sight that surprised him. "What is it Ratchet?" Arcee asked and thus Ratchet stepped aside to show the screen to the Bots.
"It's Shara." Ratchet revealed and thus the camera zoomed in to reveal Shara limping toward the base but keeping it so she would not be noticed by the Decepticons if they were nearby.
"Shara!" Nick cried out and thus he charged to the door to go after her.
"Kid, wait!" Ironhide called but it was already too late.
(Outside with Shara)
As the Bots and Tekkaman came outside they saw Shara limping in. She saw her friends and even as Rapier she somehow managed to smile before falling over and reverting to her human form. When she did it was clear the damage Rapier had suffered translated over to Shara herself. She fell into Nick's arms as he caught the girl and made sure she was ok.
"She's hurt." Nick said as he looked to Shara with concern.
"Come on." Ironhide said as he transformed to vehicle mode. "Let's get her inside." Ironhide said knowing they were exposed out here.
(Meanwhile with the Nemesis)
Megatron glared at the image of Omega who was glaring back at Megatron. Evil was being held at blaster point after the Decepticon warlord had summoned him via the Dark Energon that bound them together. "Omega, would you mind explaining to me why one of your own, saw fit to attack my Energon mines." Megatron said as Soundwave showed the image of the destroyed mines.
"I do not know because I had not ordered nor approved such a raid." Omega said making it clear he had nothing to do with this.
"I don't know of it either so clearly someone acted on their own." Evil added causing Megatron to glare at him for that.
"Can you replay the image of the attack?" Omega asked and thus Soundwave began to replay it from start to finish. But then he paused it once he got a clear image of the Tekkaman who performed the attack and in turn Omega found it odd. "Hmm it looks like a Tekkaman but it's not one of ours." Omega said revealing he was innocent of this.
"Doesn't look like one of Blade's either." Evil added showing that there was a new Tekkaman on Earth now.
"If that is the case, where did it come from?" Megatron asked as the group was left with a mystery as to who this new Tekkaman was and where it came from.
"We won't find out until it shows up again if it ever does." Evil said as it was hard to tell if their foe would show their face again.
(Later back at the Autobot Base)
Shara was on a medical bed as June was monitoring her with Ratchet and Lifeline the latter two handling her Cybertronian phycology. Nick of course waited outside as he looked ready to pass out at any moment. As he waited, he then saw June walk out with a sigh showing how tired she was. "How is she?!" Nick asked as he looked to Shara.
"Not sure, physically she seems ok but I'm not sure. I bandaged her wounds and drew some blood to run some tests." June said as Ratchet then walked in.
"Her Cybertronian half on the other hand seems to be, shifting. I will need to run some more tests, but I might have a clue as to what is happening." Ratchet said as he was going after a new lead as to what was afflicting Shara.
"What should we do in the meantime?" Arcee asked to the two experts on the matter.
"For now, wait and see if she can shed some light on this mystery." Elita said cutting in as she knew that whatever was afflicting Shara only, she can help properly describe it.
"Alright." Nick said as he let it be for now hoping Shara would be ok.
"The hard part was getting her to sleep." June added once Nick was out of hearing range. "She seems to be going through something and despite all I know I can't figure out what." June said as she looked at it from both a human and Tekkaman standpoint. The Tekkaman had been very welcoming to their biology and abilities to June that she suspected they actually wanted her to be the expert on the matter. It might even get her to go back to school for a Doctorate Degree.
"Thank you." Elita said before June also took her leave for now. "Ratchet any news of our find last night?" Elita asked as she was concerned.
"None as fast as it appeared it vanished." Ratchet said as last knight their sensors had picked up something on radar going at Mach speed but were unable to get a clear visual of it at the time.
"I can't be a simple coincidence." Elita said rubbing her chin as she looked to Shara and the data on the signal from the night before.
"I'll keep looking but it might be nothing." Ratchet said and in turn went back to work as Elita did the same.
(Meanwhile with Shara Dreamscape)
Shara saw herself in a strap down to a cold metal table without any cover other than the straps themselves, with the room itself seem to be techno-Organic like as it was a mix of metal and flesh all around, and near her on a tray table was many knives and tools like an Autopsy was about to be done on her.
She didn't know what was happening, but she was scared and alone, and what worst she was hearing something, a heartbeat with the sound of metal clanking and scraping on the ground like they were footsteps coming up from behind that she cannot see at, as the heart beat gets louder and louder, Shara struggle to break free, but the straps were too strong she couldn't break free.
The sound gotten so loud Shara felt like a heart was beating in her head with the sound of metal hurting her ears until they all stopped, with Shara panicking as she wondered what was happening. Just then then suddenly the site of the chimera Tekkaman rapier came into view looking even more disturbing and horrifying as it screamed out at Shara. Shara in response scream out herself from the horror of this disturbing morbid chimera before her.
(Real world)
Shara was suddenly transforming without calling out Tek-setter and her crystal, as her Tek-set aura surrounding her with the medical bed she was laying on suddenly vaporized along with her medical gown she was wearing as Rapier came forth, with Shara seem to have awaken at that point as when she fell to the ground, she moan in pain a bit and stood up.
She saw she was back at the base medical emergency room no doubt she was taken to help her recover of whatever is happening with her, as she then look at her hand to her shock to see she was in her Tekkaman form again as she stood up on her legs with some trouble but is able to stand on her own as she look down at herself and said, "What going on, What's happening to me?"
Suddenly Shara yell out as she started to feel pain in her body, as the pain grew more, the armor of her form started to shift and maybe morph as to Shara surprise to see something under the armor was coming out as when it came into her view, metal plate and wires that she had seen the same thing she had saw in her nightmare on that chimera Tekkaman looked like. Soon enough the girl screamed out in fright with her entire body started to glow brightly.
(Main area)
With the Autobots still checking over all the info or standing by fora mission, Nick the other Tekkaman and the kids minus Misha and Raf, as they were on the computers, were playing a card game to pass the time, as they were sticking the cards on their head as Coby ask, "Am I... the king of clubs?"
The card on Coby's head was a club card but not the king of clubs as it was the "Jacks of clubs" with Bud said, "Nope, sorry bro."
Before anyone could say anything else, there was a sudden explosion that came from where Shara was at, with the Autobots sudden race towards where the explosion was heard, while all the human and Tekkaman that was playing the card game drop their cards as Nick rushes to Shara's room with everyone following after him, other than Bud as he looked at his card that he drop as he said, "2 of heart, oh man!"
Upon reaching Shara room Arcee was about to open said door until the door suddenly blasted open, sending Arcee back nearly hitting into the Autobots and missed Pegas at least while ending up on the ground in pain as Elita called out, "Arcee? Are you all, right?" She helped her up to her feet as Arcee said, "Yeah, what just hit me?"
As the Tekkaman showed up Nick stopped as he saw something in the room, to his shock and everyone else's as they saw who or what was in Shara's room as they saw a Tekkaman with a female look to it that no one was familiar with, as Nick called out, "Who are you, did Evil sent you?"
The unknown Tekkaman look up a bit as her voice sounded distorted while she said, "Evil...no."
"Power yourself down or else we will take action," Elita said as she had her blaster out which Optimus followed up and said, "You are surrounded and outnumber my young friend, please surrender."
But just before anyone could do anything the unknown Tekkaman suddenly growl as then summon forth a great deal of energy which blinded everyone for a moment as suddenly there was a color of rainbows with the unknown Tekkaman suddenly vanishing in the rainbow of lights with apart of the base floor with it as everyone look to see that the unknown Tekkaman was now gone.
Everyone was shocked by this, even more so with the Autobots as they witness something they hadn't seen in a long time, with Nick suddenly rush into Shara's room as he called out, "Shara!?"
Upon reaching it to his horror as he saw the room was destroyed and Shara was missing with everyone joining him and they were surprised as well to the site as Jack said, "This isn't good."
(The Nemesis)
Megatron was still waiting for the unknown Tekkaman to show up again, but he wasn't very patience as he sent all of his flyers out to look for the Tekkaman, even having soundwave scan for it too, while Evil and the Radam were searching as well for this unknown Tekkaman, but there was no luck for anyone... that until soundwave gotten a hit as he sent out an alert to Megatron as he hear it while walking over to soundwave and said, "What did you find soundwave?!"
In turn Soundwave displayed the alert location and thus began to zoom in on the area. Up on the main screen the image displayed and showed the new Tekkaman flying across the Nevada Dessert at Mach Speed. Observing the image Megatron was intrigued a bit as this was his first clear view of this new Tekkaman. "Intriguing a hybrid of Tekkaman and Cybertronian biology." Megatron said as he then smirked a bit to this. "Soundwave alert Knockout to prepare his lab for a subject of study." Megatron ordered and in turn Soundwave nodded.
"Nightbird." Megatron went on as he then looked towards Nightbird direction as she was with Arachnid at the moment. "You and Arachnid gather a squad to acquire the subject bring it in alive." Megatron said and thus Nightbird nodded.
"As you command lord Megatron." Nightbird responded and then pushed Arachnid a bit. "Let's go bug." Nightbird ordered causing Arachnid to growl but follow orders none the less.
(Meanwhile with Evil)
Evil saw the alert pop up and smirked when he saw the new Tekkaman appear once more. "There you are." Evil said and thus looked over to his troops. "Lance, Sword, Axe; we're leaving the new Tekkaman has popped up again." Evil said and in turn the three Loyal Radan Tekkaman nodded and followed Evil as they got ready to go down to Earth. But as they headed to where the Mantas were Evil could not help but feel like something was familiar about that new Tekkaman.
(Scene Break down with Rapier)
The Cyberformed Tekkaman was stumbling through a cave as she now had what looked to be energy swords on her hands. Slashing wildly without a target in mind just mindlessly moving about the feral form entered what looked to be an untapped Energon mine. Glaring about the Tekkaman was clearly maddened as she slashed violently before grabbing her head.
"I must..." She struggled as her face mask switched on and off closing and opening as Shara tried to regain control. Just then she roared out in fury and pain with her voice echoing across the Energon Mine for any who were close enough to hear. In turn she began to black out and thus all had become silent once more.
(Scene Break that Morning)
Shara's eyes snapped open when she felt droplets of water hitting her face. Getting back up Shara shot up and in turn looked around in a panic and saw the Energon Crystals. "Energon?" Shara asked as she noticed she was in an unknown cave. "Where... where am I?" She asked trying to recall what happened last night. "How did I get here?" She asked while getting back up and saw her hands a bit. Her skin seemed to have gained new markings on them not native to the human body as they almost looked like segments which quickly vanished into her human skin.
Making a note to look into its later Shara went back to investigating where she was and what happened. Ignoring her current lack of cloths for the time being Shara figured it might involve her powers. After she became Techno-organic the blast field was no longer an issue for her since it didn't vaporize the outfit she was wearing anymore. Of course, given how far out she was and the fact she still had her crystal she had nothing to fear in case someone or something meant her harm in some way.
As she got to the cave entrance Shara found herself in a forest by the looks of it several hundred miles away from base. Making a note on the Energon Mine she got ready to transform once more when the memories came flooding back. Going wide eyed Shara was shocked as the flashes and images she saw showed the horror of what her body was going through since the Golden Disks destruction. Gasping and stumbling back Shara looked to her hands horrified of what she was undergoing.
"I that... it can't be me... it just... what's happening to me!?" Shara asked trying to make sense of what was going on with her.
(Scene Break Coby and Lori)
Coby and Lori were in their Tekkaman Hammer and Tekkaman Scythe forms riding across the area atop Powerglide and Wingsaber. They had been searching through this Grid in the hope of locating the creature or Shara. They had flown over to each other and met up as Lori and Coby looked to each other with concern.
"Any sign of her?" Coby asked as Lori turned her head to this.
"Not a trace." Lori responded trying to keep some hope up that Shara was ok, but it was looking grim.
"I think we need to call it in and continue the search elsewhere." Powerglide said and thus there was no argument for that one.
"Agreed." Wingsaber said and thus they proceeded to call the base on this.
(Back at Autobot Outpost Omega 1)
"I see thank you for updating us." Ratchet said as nearby Nick and Pegas were gearing up to go. "Still nothing." Ratchet said with a sad tone in his voice.
"How did that thing even get in here?" Miko asked as she tried to figure out how it happened.
"The same way it made its escape, a transwarp field." Optimus said as he entered the main area of the base. "The same fields that play a pivotal role in Ground Bridge and Space Bridge technology." Optimus said as he looked to the group as Nick listened in.
"So, it Ground Bridged its way in and out?" Nick asked as Jack was just about to ask himself.
"In a way but without coordinates, among other things, the subject would simply warp around randomly with not clear destination." Ratchet explained as he looked to the humans.
"So that means if it did ground bridge into the base then the same field may have dragged Shara to where it was originally?" Misha asked as Raf was about to suggest that.
"Perhaps." Optimus responded hoping that was the case since there was no body to report.
"So, if it transwarped in then where did, it take Shara?" Bud asked as the boy was worried for her as was everyone else.
"That I'm afraid is still being investigated." Optimus said as he knew with Shara currently MIA it could mean anything might be happening to her. "Wingsaber Powerglide finish your search and once you report back return to base for rotation." Optimus ordered and thus from the tunnel Elita, Chromia, and Moonracer drove in.
Once the three Femme's were inside, they transformed and walked towards Optimus. "Nothing on the ground search yet Optimus." Elita said as she and her team had finished up their area of search.
"And we looked everywhere mind you." Moonracer said and thus the Autobots knew their search was coming short.
"You did all you could rest and resume the search when your rotation pulls up again." Optimus said and thus Elita nodded and headed off to hand off the search to the next group.
"Optimus." Ratchet said as he approached Optimus. "I've been running diagnostics on Shara and comparing notes with Preceptor and all the notes point to the same conclusion." Ratchet said as he looked to Optimus. "I suspect that the Golden Disk's destruction may have triggered this to." Ratchet began but was cut off by a new voice.
"Any news?" Fowler asked as he walked in no doubt trying to keep tabs on the Tekkaman when Witwicky was not around.
"I'm afraid not Agent Fowler." Elita responded as she did not like this one bit. Fowler and Mikayla have been hard at work trying to get Tekkaman to be introduced into the local populace without hiding. They were doing in quietly so in case they can stop the invasion they can pull back on that. Still with so many locations hit hiding the Tekkaman will not be an easy task if at all possible.
(Meanwhile with Nightbird)
Nightbird rubbed her servos across the ground as she noted footprints bare human ones. Taking a bit of it and rubbing it between the digits Nightbird scanned the area for their quarry. With her was Arachnid, who seemed quite annoyed, and Breakdown. "This seems to be a waste of time." Arachnid complained as Nightbird continued tracking their target. "Dispensing two of his best warriors to deal with one rogue is a tad bit overkill." Arachnid said but Nightbird smirked a bit.
"If you're worried about Breakdown and myself no need I'm more worried that we need to spark sit your traitorous skid plates." Nightbird said as she then noted something. Arachnid looked ready to retort when Nightbird raised her hand to stop the two cons. "I have a trail." Nightbird said and thus they began heading to where the trail lead.
As they left Shara was currently hiding as she saw the Decepticons taking their leave. She was not having a good day at all and needless to say she looked ready to transform and high tail it. But she had to make sure they did not locate the Energon Mine she found and that meant covering her tracks and leading them away from it. Hopefully, the others are looking for her because she felt she was going to need the help. Taking her leave Shara had her crystal ready to transform as she knew if she flew in one direction long enough, she was bound to hit Jasper at some point.
(Back with Kicker and Lori)
Scythe and Hammer were still searching as they flew through the sky on the backs of Wingsaber and Powerglide with the intent of locating Shara. "Well?" Lori asked as Wingsaber kept his sensors tuned.
"Nada our girl is still MIA." Wingsaber said as he flew about.
"Dammit." Scythe cursed realizing they were at a block to locate the missing Carter girl.
"Hey Lori, I've been meaning to bring this up for a while... but what do you think will happen to us once Radan has been defeated?" Coby asked as he looked to Lori.
"What do you mean?" Lori asked as she never really thought of it.
"I mean do we just go back to our normal lives, get drafted into a special Tekkaman based combat unit, turned into lab rats, or forced into witness protection?" Hammer asked as he had these thoughts for a while now.
"Honestly I'm not sure, I mean there might end up being a lot of Primary Forms out there so they can't cover it all up, and we know humankind has a nasty habit of fearing change and things different from them..." Scythe said as she considered what options were available to them. "I guess we just need to figure it out as we go." Scythe said as she looked to Hammer.
"Don't worry, kid." Powerglide said as he spoke to Coby. "If we can't reverse the augmentations at the very least Doc Bot and Professor big words will figure something out." Powerglide said being optimistic over their possible outcomes.
"Heh thanks Powerglide." Hammer said kneeling down and rubbing the bots back as a makeshift hug.
"Don't mention it." Powerglide said as they continued their search.
"Hey, heads up we got movement coming our way!" Wingsaber said as Scythe's eyes zoomed in on the source of it.
"I see it." Scythe said and in turn they saw a familiar magenta form coming towards them.
Once the magenta form arrived, they saw that it was Shara in her Rapier form good as new. "Hey guys... sorry about the other night." Rapier apologized as they saw she was ok.
"Shara! You're ok!" Coby said happy to see her.
"Wingsaber to base we found her." Wingsaber reported which was good news for everyone. "Requesting a Ground Bridge." Wingsaber said and thus he got a response.
"Understood and hurry I think Nick is ready to charge the portal." Raf said as Rapier chuckled a bit.
"Yeah, that sounds like my brother." Shara said and in turn it was time to go.
(Back with Nightbird)
"Well?" Breakdown asked as Nightbird rubbed her digits against the ground before rubbing the dirt between them no doubt tracing their quarry.
"What is this?" Nightbird asked as her optics noticed something amiss. Looking nearby she noted what appeared to be the remains of a Tekkaman's armor. Picking it up she gave it a look over and knew they needed their science team on the case. "Soundwave requesting a Ground Bridge at my current location and inform Knockout and Thunderblast to be ready at the lab, I have a specimen for them to study." Nightbird said as she looked at the armor piece.
(Later at the Autobot Base)
"Shara where have you been!?" Nick demanded after Shara was given a fresh set of clothing after whatever had happened to her.
"Sorry Nick, everyone that thing caught me off guard and I ended up meeting it after it escaped the base." Shara said as Nick noticed how she avoided eye contact as did Elita and Optimus. "Thankfully, I took care of it, so we won't have to worry about it anymore." Shara said trying to get everyone off the scent, but it was clear to some that Shara was fibbing.
"I see." Elita said as she then nodded to Optimus who also agreed. Nick was emotional right now so he might not get results, so a calm and firm hand was needed. "Very well, Ratchet prepare a Ground Bridge for Optimus and me." Elita began as Ratchet understood no doubt also figuring out Shara was lying to them. "Also have your lab ready hopefully we can learn the creatures' origins from its remains." Elita said before optics went to Shara.
"Shara would you please show us where you had left the creature?" Optimus asked as he looked to Shara.
"But... It's gone why should we..." Shara began but then sighed knowing there was no avoiding it. "Alright." Shara said and in turn the trio got ready to leave as Nick just stood there surprised by this.
"Nick you and Pegas please come along this might prove to be a learning experience for you as well." Optimus said to which Nick nodded to this.
"Alright, come on Pegas." Nick said before Pegas followed.
"Roger!" Pegas responded and followed after Nick and the bots.
(Back on the Nemesis)
Knockout was looking through a set of lenses as he observed the armor piece on a submicronic level as Thunderblast was going over the data on her end as well. "Hey cyclops I need another sample here!" Thunderblast called as Breakdown growled a bit.
"You are so lucky that you know how to use that buffer." Breakdown said as Thunderblast took the sample Breakdown brought and put it through a microscope.
Just then the doors to the lab opened up and from it Nightbird walked in. She had finished her report to Megatron adding the file to the other mission reports on the warships database. "Anything to report?" Nightbird asked as she looked to the three cons.
"Well, I can't make heads or tails of it, Commander Nightbird." Knockout said as he looked to Nightbird. "It's showing signs of a Cybertronian, but it's all jumbled and mixed with augmented human DNA." Knockout said as he spoke to his commanding officer. "It's Tekkaman in origins but it's changing as well trying to adapt." Knockout said as he then got to the big part. "If I want to make headway in this, I'll need the specimen this sample came from." The ships medic finished and thus Nightbird thought it over.
"Very well expect the specimen soon." Nightbird said and thus decided to make a call. "Slipstream gather some seekers I might have a task for you." Nightbird said and in turn went to speak with Megatron for approval of this mission.
(Later with the leaders)
Optimus, Elita, Nick, and Shara all departed from the Ground Bridge Vortex to the area they found Shara in only on the ground. Pegas looked around to try and detect any threats but found nothing. "Scanning complete results: no immediate threats." Pegas reported and thus Nick nodded to this.
"Well Shara show us where the Cyber Creatures remains are." Nick said as he gestured for Shara to lead.
"Alright this way." Shara said and in turn they began heading out into the forest.
(Later)
The group were getting closer to where the Cyber Creatures alleged remains were as during this Shara was getting angsty about it. "I don't see why we need to do this." Shara began as she kept moving. "Don't you all trust me?" Shara asked as Optimus then spoke with a calm yet stern voice.
"Normally yes but at the moment I suspect your hiding something." Optimus said being calm while trying to get Shara to reveal what she was hiding of her own volition.
"I'm not hiding... ANYTHING!" Shara snapped as her eyes then flashed red for a moment. Shara felt discomfort from her body as she turned around and saw her body was once more having those spasms from last time. Once Shara gained control though she sighed and calmed her breathing. "Why is everyone giving me a hard time?" Shara asked acting like everyone was against her.
"It's because we care Shara and because Optimus and I think we know the truth." Elita said raising her voice enough to make it clear she wanted the truth but not enough to sound angry. This of course caused Shara to look away feeling like a child scolded by her mother and father. "I just want you to trust us enough to tell us." Elita said as she looked to Shara for a moment longer before walking to find the cyber creatures remains.
Optimus followed suit and in turn Nick and Pegas did the same which was enough to get Shara to open up. "Alright! All right!" Shara snapped as she knew there was no hiding it anymore which got everyone to stop to listen to the truth Shara was hiding. "It's like this the truth is..." Shara began but then movement was heard causing all of them to stop.
"Danger!" Pegas called out as he scanned the area.
Just then from the wood line a rocket fired off to which Optimus saw.
"Take cover!" Optimus called out pushing Elita out of the way and protecting both Nick and Shara at the same time. The rocket hit Optimus in the chest causing him damage.
"Optimus!" Shara shrieked out horrified to see Optimus get hit like that.
"Oh, look I hit Optimus." Came the voice of Slipstream as she and Arachnid appeared with Sword and Lance in tow. Then from the ground Radan drones shot up and roared out ready for the kill.
"Not so powerful are you, Optimus Prime." Lance taunted as this served to anger Shara greatly.
Shara's anger spiked to the point she was snarling at the Decepticons and Radan Tekkaman. This was all that it took as Shara's emotions spike big time as soon the Tekk-Set Field formed around her.
"W-What?!" Nick gasped when he saw this and not long after Tekkaman Rapier stood in her place. But not long after her armor began to shift as it opened up like an outer shell. Then with a final roar the armor blasted off and hit the Cons and Radan drones. Lance and Sword managed to avoid it with ease, but Shara was transformed. Her entire form matched that of a Cybertronian which Elita also noted she looked near identical to the historical images of Solus Prime.
"Since when can Rapier do that?!" Lance asked shocked over what he saw. "No matter this might be worth Omega's time to." Lance began only for Shara to blast off and smash into him sending Lance flying back through several trees before crashing into a massive boulder. Following it up her hands transformed into blasters that had smaller versions of her Voltekka lenses before firing laser shots of energon and Fermion energy. The shots were enough to hurt Sword when she was hit as well as the Radan Drones. Arachnid and Slipstream moved fast to avoid Rapier.
"You hurt Optimus... you'll pay for that." Rapier said as then a battle mask closed around her mouth.
"Yes, and now to deal with you." Arachnid said as she got ready to capture her quarry. But then Rapier's boosters activated again and thus she was like a comet giving Arachnid little time to act. Jumping out of the way Arachnid summoned her spider legs with her eyes showing she was not expecting that burst of speed and power.
"On the contrary I think Arcee will be thankful if I bring her back your head." Rapier said and thus Arachnid saw this.
"Yeah, as much as I'd LOVE to see you do that." Lance was heard as he then boosted in towards Nick and Pegas. "I still got a traitor to deal with and a target to apprehend." Lance said and in turn Nick had little time to act. "Die Blade!" Lance roared and in turn went on the attack.
Nick was hit and sent flying back in pain. Elita managed to catch him as Pegas fired upon Lance who easily avoided it. "NO!" Rapier called out and in turn her eyes flashed red, and she snarled like a feral animal. She then charged at Lance and grabbed him by his throat gasping a bit Lance was caught off guard but before Rapier could start mauling Sword came down and slashed at Rapier with enough strength to force Rapier to drop Lance. Following it up the Radan Drones came at her as Nick came to with Optimus getting back up.
"Elita to base, we require reinforcements at our current location." Elita called it in as she saw Rapier slaughtering both Radan and Vehicons alike. Tearing out the entrails of one Radan and strangling the one next to it with said entrails Following it up with slicing off a Vehicons arm and using it to beat the other con senseless. "I think." Elita added as she was surprised and concerned by the savage fury Rapier displayed.
"Well, this came out of nowhere." Slipstream said as she saw what was going on.
"Agreed." Lance said fearful that Rapier might gun for him again. Just then a Ground Bridge Vortex opened up and from it Ironhide, Lori, Moonracer, Coby, Jetfire, and Chromia came out ready for a fight.
"Scrap." Slipstream cursed when she saw this before she and Arachnid were forced to Transform and retreat.
AS they flew off Rapier had finished off her targets as she wasn't done. The Autobots then had guns trained on Rapier, but Optimus stopped them. "Autobots stand down!" Optimus ordered as he saw that this was a case of mistaken identities. "This is Shara." Optimus said as Coby and Lori were surprised by this.
"Wait what?!" Coby asked as he was just about to transform too.
"What happened to her?" Lori asked as Elita then spoke up.
"We think it was the Golden Disk explosion." Elita spoke as she stood with the others. "The transition has been difficult for her as is she can't control it the transformation." Elita said as she took the lead on this while setting Nick down close to Pegas and Ironhide.
"Looks like she's stuck, commander." Moonracer said as Elita then carefully moved closer to Shara.
"She'll learn she simply requires a little bit of guidance at the moment is all." Elita said while approaching the Techno-Organic Tekkaman who lashed out violently.
"Easier said than done." Moonracer said as she knew what this was like, but Shara had the double whammy of human and Cybertronian biology.
Elita seeing that she could not approach this from a Cybertronian standpoint knew a fellow Tekkaman was needed for this. "Nick I may require your assistance for this." Elita said knowing Shara was going through something many young Cybertronians eventually go through.
"Right." Nick said as he and Pegas also began to approach Shara knowing full well she was going through some things. "Easy, easy Shara get control." Nick spoke as the crest of his crystal appeared on his forehead.
"Yeah no one is going to hurt you." Ironhide said trying to calm the girl enough. Of course, Shara lashed out again in a feral manner causing Ironhide to ease back. "Us I'm not entirely sure." Ironhide said seeing Shara was not in the right mindset.
"We're here Shara all of us your friends." Nick said with Pegas nearby to rescue him. "We know you can do it." Nick said while trying to connect to Shara via their Tekkaman abilities.
In turn the Shara's crest appeared on her forehead as her eyes began flashing between vicious crimson to a calming magenta. From the sound of it, Shara was struggling to get control by willpower alone. Then with a mighty roar Shara managed to revert when the Tekk-Set Field appeared around her summoning her armor back to her reverting to her base Rapier form. Following it up Shara reverted to her human form via the same field before falling to her knees gasping for breath.
"Shara, you succeeded well done!" Elita praised as she smiled to Shara who she brough to a hug.
"Elita, please stop." Shara said as she was blushing now. "Not in front of everyone." Shara added and in turn Moonracer chuckled.
"Ah the joys of Cyber Puberty... worst time of my life." Moonracer said as she remembered going through the shift.
"Been reading up on human biology?" Jetfire asked as he looked to Moonracer.
"Yeap." Moonracer said not even denying what she does when she gets bored and can't race.
(Later Back at Base)
Once everyone returned Fowler was informed of what happened while June was giving Shara a full physical with Lifeline's aid. "So let me see if I got this right, Shara was going through the Cybertronian equivalent to puberty which factoring in her human biology and the augmented aspect of it from those Techno space powers caused her to have what I assume was the most violent case of it for your people, and she needed help to get through it?" Fowler asked as he spoke via a communication link on the main computer console.
"Precisely." Elita reported as Optimus was getting looked over by Ratchet. "We believe she is through the worst of it now, but I have the Autobots mainly the femme's keeping an eye on her in case of any more surprises." Elita said as Fowler sighed to this.
"It's been one of those days." Fowler said seeing the problem that took place. "Alright keep me posted for any more surprises." Fowler said and thus Elita nodded to this.
"Understood Agent Fowler." Elita said and thus he hung up on them.
Turning around Elita walked over to Shara to check on the young woman. "Well how are things here?" Elita asked as June and Lifeline were finishing up.
"Well, you and the good doctor were right on the money, the blood works showed Shara's hormones were erratic and comparing it to Lifeline and Ratchet's find well Shara has to go through two sets of puberty at the same time." June said as Shara would need some time to properly learn how to use her newly awoken abilities.
"I've started her on a slightly modified version of the nano injections all the Femme take she'll need to take it on a semi regular basis until her systems start to calm down and stabilize itself." Lifeline said making it clear on what the prognosis was. "I'll keep an eye on her vitals in case we need to modify the nano injections any further." Lifeline said as she made sure to use the smallest dosage, she could so it would not affect her biological components.
"Good." Elita said with a nod before directing her attention to Elita. Unfortunately, none of her own femme's were willing to give Shara the Cybertronian equivalent to the talk. Chromia made up an excuse involving Sierra, Windblade had scouting missions with the Aerialbots, Moonracer was still too young to be trusted with that, Arcee was a possible idea, but she seemed to vanish for some reason, Lifeline would be too descriptive of the nitty gritty speaking from a medical standpoint, and the mechs were out of the question so this left only Elita as the one to do it.
"Is Shara able to leave?" Elita asked and thus Jun nodded to her.
Currently Shara's appearance had taken some minor but notable changes. For starters, her eyes had started given off a soft glow Energon based to be exact much like a Cybertronians optics, secondly her bust size had seemed to increase which June knew meant they needed to go shopping for Shara soon. The youngest Carter child had also gained a few inches in terms of height and her skin now had notable segments in them suggestion transformation on them. "Yeah, but I would not suggest any strenuous activities." June said and thus Elita nodded making a note to have their science guys work on a gel of some kind to hid a few of Shara's recent changes.
"Noted." Elita said before transforming into vehicle mode with her passenger seat open. "Shara you and I need to start training on your new abilities posthaste." Elita said as she then had more to add. "Nothing severe just the basics to start." Elita added making sure June knew that even though Shara needed this she was not going to push it.
"Sure." Shara said and in turn boarded clearly unaware of what Elita was going to put her through.
Once they drove off Arcee reappeared as she had been hiding out to avoid being volunteered to give Shara, the talk. "I do not envy her." Arcee said as she only skimmed through some of the basics with Shara during the cave in... what Shara was going to get was the full frontal.
"Where have you been?" Jack asked as he saw Arcee show up.
"I don't want to talk about it." Arcee said and thus walked off to see if anything needed doing.
(Scene Break an Hour later)
Eventually the pair returned and when they did Shara left the Autobot femme with eyes widened as she had the thousand-yard stare. "Hey Shara welcome back how was... training?" Kicker asked but Shara kept walking.
"I... don't want to talk about it." Shara said as Sierra saw the thousand-yard stare as well.
"What did you tell her?" Chromia asked as she looked to her commanding officer.
"More or less the same thing my carrier told me when I went through the shift." Elita responded as Chromia chuckled to this.
"That must have been awkward for the both of you." Chromia said and thus Elita nodded in agreement.
"You have no idea." Elita said and in turn showed that it was just as awkward for her to explain it as it was for Shara to hear it. "I fear I may have scarred her for life." Elita said with a tone of regret as well, but Shara needed to hear it.
"Don't worry Elita she'll get over it just like we did... eventually." Chromia said as Elita chuckled a bit and then went about to see if any tasks needed doing.
(Meanwhile with Omega)
Omega was looking at the images of Cyberformed Rapier as he knew the Radan now had a key component to creating Cybertronian Tekkaman. If the messages he was already getting from the higher ups were accurate, then they wanted Rapier captured as a live specimen to study and learn exactly how she was able to become this. All that was needed was a golden opportunity to acquire Rapier to begin studying her systems and biology so Radan may learn her secret to at last add Cybertron as another world for conquest.
(TBC)
ESKK: Hey guys thanks for reading this chapter and staying with this fic for as long as you have. I greatly appreciate it. Anyway, you should all know the drill at this point, leave a review before leaving and again I will say here, ja-ne.
