"Talking"
"Radio talk"
"Sentinel/Computer"
"thinking, weapons names, and flashbacks"
Disclaimer: I do not own either Beast wars or RWBY
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Chapter 5
Equal Measures
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Vale, country side, Optimus Primal location
After destroying the Predacons mega cannon Optimus knew that it was only a matter of time before the Pred's retaliated back against them for it. So they started two different plans. The first one was to put up serval survey post in different locations to give them an early warning system for Predacons attacks. They'd had been modified by Rhinox to detect Predacon signals, the first batch was already in place around Patch, so now Rhinox was making more, and they are going to place them around Vale for more of a warning for them. The other plan was something Optimus wasn't thrilled about but with how outnumbered they where he had to agree with the plan. Currently Dinobot was building a bomb that should destroy the Predacon base. He wasn't thrilled by the idea, but the tactical advantage they could gain from it, well it could very well turn the tide of the war in their favor.
But while the bomb was having the finishing touches done on it, Optimus was scouting an area for the survey posts. Unfortunately for him there was a large storm coming his way. Optimus stood a fair distance away from a hill as a lightning bolt came down on it and reveal dust and energon in it. As he zoomed in on it, he knew that any activity tonight would be too dangerous for anyone.
Making his mind up Optimus contacted the base. "Optimus to command centre, scrub the mission. Looks like one extremely ill wind is blowing our way." Said Optimus as he waited for a response but got none. "Command Centre do you read?" But all he got was static.
Knowing that the storm was interfering with the comm's, even after Rhinox gave them all the new comm. chip upgrade. Optimus then knew that he had to get back to the Axalon or else they would send out Cheetor with the survey posts and with this weather who knows what could happen. Optimus then transformed and activated his jet pack and flew back to base hoping he would get there in time.
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Vale, Patch, Axalon
Back at the Axalon everyone was doing something as Rattrap was monitoring the comm's waiting for Optimus to call in, Rhinos was finishing the survey post, Cheetor was doing his own thing somewhere, Dinobot was finishing the bomb, and Ruby was upgrading Crescent Rose.
Ruby was spending the night at the Axalon, due to Yang having an overnight seminar at Beacon, her Uncle Qrow was out on a job, and her dad was bailing Qrow out of jail of getting into a bar fight. So she and her dog Zwei are the night after getting Optimus approval first.
Zwei is Ruby's pet Cardigan Welsh Corgi dog. He has white on the bottom and is black on top, and it was quite funny when Dinobot and Zwei meet a few hours ago.
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Axalon, 4 hours ago
Ruby was heading up the lift to meet with the Maximals with her backpack and weapon on her. In her hand was Zwei's leash. When the lift reached the top and the doors opened Ruby saw Optimus in beast mode as he was getting ready to head out on patrol/scouting mission, Rattrap was at a console, Dinobot was working on the bomb and Cheetor and Rhinox were nowhere to be seen.
"Optimus thanks again for letting me stay the night." Said Ruby as she walked inside the base with Zwei by her side.
Optimus turned and looked at both of them. "It's no problem Ruby, just make sure you behave yourself." Said Optimus as he looked closer at Zwei, snice he never seen a dog before. "So this is your dog?" Said Optimus as he lowered himself to Zwei level and looked at him with interest.
Ruby just beamed at this. "Yep, me and Yang are training him to be a hunter dog. He real smart and can even fight." Said Ruby as Zwei barked at the praise.
Dinobot who was working on the bomb at the time stopped and looked at Zwei. "You're telling me that, this thing can fight?" said Dinobot as he started to laugh at the thought. Ruby frowned at what Dinobot said and then got an idea as she took Zwei off his leash.
Meanwhile Rattrap turned himself away from the console and looked at Dinobot. "Hey don't mock use little guys, we can pack quite the punch if you're not ready for us." Said Rattrap as Dinobot laughed even harder.
Ruby then stood up and looked over at Dinobot. "Then what about this then Dinobot, Zwei attack." Said Ruby as the next then Dinobot saw as a black ball launching at him and him falling on the ground with Zwei on his chest. Seeing this Rattrap couldn't stop laughing and even Optimus laughed at the sight as Ruby walked over to Dinobot with a smirk on her face.
"What was that about Zwei abilities to fight?" Asked Ruby as Zwei licked Dinobot face causing him to groan at what happened.
Meanwhile Optimus calmed down and walked over to the lift and looked over to the others. "Ok people back to work. I want those survey posts ready by the time I get back. And Dinobot I want that bomb done as well, but make sure that there are no problems with it." Said Optimus as the door closed and the lift went down.
Rattrap meanwhile was still laughing at the scene he just watched as Dinobot got up and walked over to him. When Dinobot was next to rattrap he punched him causing him to spin around in his chair.
Ruby walked over to the bomb and looked at it. "Dinobot can I help you with this?" Asked Ruby as Dinobot was about to say 'no' but remembered how good she was with weapons and thought she might be able to help.
"Very well." Said Dinobot as the two of them worked on the bomb as Zwei lay on the ground near Rattrap who finally stopped spinning.
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Present
Rhinox stood up from the survey posts are they all shrunk down into little puck shapes. "That does it, survey posts are ready for duty." Said Rhinox as he gathered up the posts. "Any word from Optimus?"
"Naw not a flicker, this storm is trashing the comm links worse than usual, not even your new chips are helping that much." Said Rattrap as he looked over from his console at Rhinox.
Meanwhile Dinobot was finishing the timer on the bomb. "This mission is too critical to be interrupted by minor variation of weather." Said Dinobot as he worked on the bomb, before he was looking for something "Who took the synchro-laser!" Demanded Dinobot as Ruby walked over with it.
"Sorry I was using it to upgrade Crescent Rose. Let me finish it for you." Said Ruby as she walked over to the bomb and started to work on it. Unfortunately she did something wrong causing the bomb to short circuit and fall off the table.
In anger of seeing the bomb rolling away Dinobot grabbed Ruby by her cape and lifted her up. "Why you little.." Started Dinobot but soon everyone attention was on the bomb as it was about to fall down the open lift.
"The bomb, watch out!" Cried Rattrap as it fell over and he braced himself for the explosion and then nothing happened.
Luckily for them it was at that moment that Optimus in beast mode came up the lift and he had the bomb in his hand. "Some sort of trouble?" Asked Optimus as he tossed the bomb up and down in one hand. Dinobot seeing that the bomb was intact he let go of Ruby as she fell to the ground.
As Ruby got up as Cheetor walked over to Optimus with the synchro-laser in his hand passing Dinobot as he grunted at him. "Hey big bot, we're just locking down the big ba-bang here. One last adjustment and there, we're set to blast that Predacon base back into orbit as space debris!" Said Cheetor as the bomb started to shake causing the others to step back from it. Fortunately for them the bomb calmed down letting them breathe a little.
"Put it to bed, we're stalled." Said Optimus as the other wondered why.
"What!" Said Dinobot in shock.
"You're kidding!" Said Rattrap in disbelief.
"Why can't we continue?" Wondered Ruby.
"What are you talking about?" Asked Rhinox.
"Hey it's just a crossed quasar circuit I can fix it." Said Cheetor thinking that Optimus thought the bomb wasn't ready, but that wasn't the case.
"This storm will hit us within the hour." Said Optimus worried about how bad the storm was.
Cheetor on the other hand wasn't worried. "An hour, not a problem fellow beast, I can out run anything the skies can dish." Said Cheetor with a bit of cockiness in his voice.
But it was short lived when Ruby grabbed their attention. "Um, Cheetor you might want to see this then." Said Ruby as they all looked at a new report that she brought up on the main screen.
"Continuing our latest story, the storm of the year is here and people are advised to stay indoors and only go out if you have no choice in the matter. Again, it is advised to stay indoors until the storm passes." Said the news reporter as Optimus just looked at Cheetor waiting for his response.
When he heard nothing, he knew he won. "Cheetor I know you could out run this storm, but these post need to be place carefully to avoid contact with underground dust and energon pockets and above all else to avoid people. When the storm passes then you can go." Said Optimus as Cheetor handed Optimus the bomb and changed into beast mode and walked away knowing that he was right.
Meanwhile Dinobot didn't share the same feelings as Cheetor or Optimus as he walked over to Optimus. "And does it matter if we blow some energon, maybe it will take some of our enemies with it. That is what we want isn't it?" said Dinobot as he was right next to Optimus.
Optimus knew that this was coming and he was ready for it. "This mission Dinobot is to gain tactical advantage by taking out their base. Defeating them does not mean we have to annihilate them. You seem to have trouble understanding that." Said Optimus knowing that it would take a lot more then this to convince Dinobot.
"What I understand is this, if situations were reversed Megatron would spare the base and annihilate us, all of us Cybertrionain and Human alike." Said Dinobot as Ruby looked over at Rhinox with a worried look on her face as Rhinox just shook his head at it all.
Optimus then had enough of it after seeing the look on Ruby's face. "This eagerness of yours to scrap Megatron is clouding your judgement." Said Optimus as Dinobot wanted to bring his point forward as well.
"We are at WAR Optimus, WAR! I think it is your judgement that is clouded." Said Dinobot as he walked out of the room reverting to beast mode as he did.
It was quite until Rattrap decided to voice his opinion about the survey posts. "Optimus, their harmless little scanning relays. All their supposed to do is deceit Pred energy signatures, right Rhinox." Said Rattrap hoping to gain some help in the matter.
"I'm with Optimus on this one, energon is an untested variable and don't even get me started on dust either. We got to be careful." Said Rhinox as Rattrap looked over to Ruby for help, but Ruby was Putting Zwei's leash on.
"I'm going to take Zwei out to do his business, so he doesn't do it in the base." Said Ruby as she and Zwei took the lift out of the base.
Optimus just chuckled at the sight. "Nice dodge." Chuckled Optimus mostly to himself. He knew that Ruby could do great things, which is one of the reasons why he let her stay the night, that and he owed her from knocking her off the roof of the base. Soon after that the three of them left the command centre and went their own ways. Rattrap went to his room, while Rhinox and Optimus went to Optimus office. Once inside they sealed the room and made sure no one was listening in.
Once that was done the two of them sat down and got to business. "Rhinox what did you find out about Ruby's power?" Asked Optimus curious if his friend found anything out about this mystery they found.
See when Yang joined the crew, Optimus had both her and Ruby do a physical so they knew they were in good health and to see if the CR camber would work on them if they were ever hurt badly. When they examined Ruby, Rhinox found a weird power in her, but not in Yang. This weird power seemed to be dormant at the moment, so they didn't tell Ruby, but they've been trying to figure out what it is since.
Rhinox just sighed at Optimus question. "I still have nothing on it. But I've gone through all the records involving unique powers signatures that we have and the only thing that comes even close to it is, well you're not going to believe me." Said Rhinox getting Optimus curious what it was.
"Go ahead Rhinox. We've been friends and colleagues for years now, I won't doubt you." Said Optimus as Rhinox pulled out a small computer showing an energy pattern.
"This is the power Ruby has." Said Rhinox as he brought up another energy pattern right beside Ruby's that was similar but still off in some areas. "The only other pattern close to this is the Autobot matrix of leadership." Finished Rhinox causing Optimus to look at him with surprise, shock, and disbelief at the findings. The matrix of leadership was a scared item from the Great War that his ancestor Optimus Prime had. But he did release that power into the universe, so maybe, maybe some of that power found its way here and merged with Ruby somehow.
But if Ruby had that power inside of her, Optimus shook his head trying to understand it. "Rhinox are you 100% sure about this?" Asked Optimus hoping that he was wrong because that much power in on person was unbelievable.
"Yes, I tripled checked the results. Ruby is like a human version of the matrix of leadership." Said Rhinox as Optimus stood up and looked outside at the storm. So many things were going through his head, but there was one thing that he knew for sure.
"Rhinox this stays between you and me. Until we learn more about this no one, especially Ruby can learn about it." Ordered Optimus as Rhinox understood why.
"I've already sealed all my work on it. Only you and me can access the data." Said Rhinox as Optimus nodded his head.
'What is this power in you Ruby? Do you know about it or is it something not even you know about?' Thought Optimus as he watched the storm outside get closer.
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Axalon, Cheetor's room
Meanwhile Cheetor was laying on his bed in beast mode wondering if he could out run the storm, or would it be too much even for him. Soon he heard someone knocking on his door.
Curious to who it was Cheetor answered them. "Come in." Said Cheetor as Dinobot walked into his room.
"Dinobot what do you want?" Asked Cheetor wondering why he was here.
"I believe that you are right, that you could out run this storm." Said Dinobot as Cheetor looked over at him.
"That could be true, but you heard big bot he won't allow it. And even the news says this is one bad storm. Anyway, I'm done being a solo act, I'm a team player now." Countered Cheetor as Dinobot thought about it, but he already knew Cheetor would say that.
"But what if I helped you? I would stay here and run the ground bridge and keep an eye on the weather for you. That way you can get the survey posts out and show Optimus that you can handle such important tasks. After all you already mapped all the energon deposits on Patch, so this shouldn't be too difficult for you" Said Dinobot as Cheetor thought about.
Dinobot saw this and made one final push. "You have the fastest speed, with only Ruby falling behind you. You are the only one that can do this mission without completions." Said Dinobot as he put the final nail into the conversation.
Soon Cheetor made up his mind and got off his bed. "Ok if you meant what you said then I guess we can do this then." Said Cheetor as he left his room with Dinobot following behind him. But if Cheetor looked back he would have seen Dinobot with a toothy grin like he won something.
Soon after getting the survey posts Cheetor still in beast mode jumped through the ground bridge and landed in the wilderness of Vale. Making sure that the cost was clear Cheetor shot out and ran till he reached the first location. When he reached it he then transformed and pulled out a survey post from under his cheetah head and activated it. He then slammed it into the ground and transformed back into beast mode. But at that moment a bolt of lightning hit near Cheetor sending him to the ground.
"Is that supposed to scare me?" Yelled Cheetor at the sky, as another bolt landed near him.
Seeing this all Cheetor could say was "Yep" as he ran away. Soon Cheetor did the same thing at the other locations. The most trouble he had was a pack of beowolfs, but snice Cheetor had energon in him they stayed clear of him. Finally Cheetor was at the final location as he put the final post into position.
"That wasn't so hard." Said Cheetor to himself as the ground bridge appeared in front of him as he walked through it. But if Cheetor looked back at the post he just placed he would have seen that the ground around it was cracking and the glow of energon mixed with some dust was coming through. The contact with the substances made the post go haywire, but other than that nothing happened.
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Vale, Patch, Axalon
When Cheetor got back he slowly slipped into the control centre hoping that no one was there but was surprised to see Ruby sitting there in her normal clothes with Crescent Rose in its usual place as she was reading something.
Cheetor curious as to why Ruby was still up and so he walked over to her. "Hey Ruby, why are you still up, its pretty late." Asked Cheetor as Ruby brought herself data pad down.
"It's about the great war. After Dinobot told me a little about it I wanted to learn more about it. So I asked Dinobot and he gave me this data pad about it." Answered Ruby as Cheetor looked at the pad and saw Ruby was reading about how the Decepticons brought Cybertron to earth that one time.
Seeing that it was harmless Cheetor started to walk away. "Well don't stay up too late, or else Optimus won't be happy." Said Cheetor as he left the command room and headed to bed.
Meanwhile Ruby went back to her readings, but soon stopped when she thought she saw something flicker at one of the consoles. Curious as to what it was Ruby put down the pad and walked over. When she touched the console there was a bright light and when it died down Ruby was gone.
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Vacou, Darksyde
Meanwhile at the Darksyde Terrorsaur was at one of the consoles when a bright light appeared out of nowhere knocking him away and Ruby appeared out of thin air. Terrorsaur was surprised to see the human that had caused them so much trouble when they first got here, but soon got a happy look on his face. Meanwhile Ruby was trying to get her bearings, one second she was at the Axalon the next thing she knew she was, well were ever here was.
"Where am I?" Asked Ruby out loud as she then heard some dark chuckling near her.
Looking over to where the sound came from, Ruby saw Terrorsaur as he covered his head with his wings and slowly brought his head out as he talked. "Welcome to the Darksyde human. Terrorsaur Terrorize!" Said Terrorsaur as he transformed and landed on a platform with his gun ready.
Meanwhile Ruby was scared but knew that she had to act now or else she would die and that was the best option considering were she was. Ruby then pulled out Crescent Rose in sniper mode and jumped away from the console as Terrorsaur just shot at it missing her. Ruby Landed on one of the platforms nearby and shot back at Terrorsaur. Ruby knew she had move but with Terrorsaur right in front of her she couldn't move reckless. Taking aim Ruby shot at Terrorsaur sending him flying off his platform and landing on another one.
Taking her chances Ruby spotted the controls for the platform and quickly figured out how it worked. She then started to move around the room while Terrorsaur shot at her. Ruby could only focus on dodging at the moment, but Terrorsaur got a lucky shot in and destroyed the platform she was on. Luckily for Ruby there where many platforms in the room and she was able to grab hold of another one, only she was hanging from it making her an easy target for Terrorsaur.
Terrorsaur moved closer to Ruby as she climbed aboard her platform. "I heard you were fast girl, you don't seem that fast to me." Said Terrorsaur as he loaded his gun for the kill.
Meanwhile Ruby crouched low as she got ready to do something. "Well then, what do you think of this then?" Said Ruby as she used her semblance to speed kick Terrorsaur sending him off the platform and onto the console Ruby came from. When Terrorsaur made contact with the console he disappeared.
Seeing this Ruby couldn't believe it. "Whoa, what happened?" Asked Ruby to herself, but at that moment two White Fang members and Scorponok came into room.
"Oh no." Said Ruby as she flew her platform away from the three, as they started to shot at her. Luckily for Ruby she was moving around so much they couldn't hit her, but if she tried to fight back it would leave her open. Soon one shot hit the ventilation shaft opening it. Seeing a chance Ruby flew over to the hole and jumped into it and ran as fast as she could without her semblance. The other three went to the hole and looked inside.
"She went into the vents, you two peruse her while I alert the base." Said Scorponok as he flew his platform away leaving the two by themselves.
"How do we stop her?" Asked one member as the other grinned as he held up a shotgun.
"With this." He said as he flew ahead and shot into the vents.
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Vale, Patch, Axalon
Meanwhile back at the Axalon Terrorsaur appeared in the maximal control room confused. "Hey where she go?" said Terrorsaur as he looked around the room. "Where I go?" He wondered only to see Dinobot walk up to him.
"Welcome to enemy arms, my former comrade. I hope you'll enjoy your stay. Dinobot Maximize!" Said Dinobot as he got ready to take care of Terrorsaur.
"I don't know how you brought me here traitor but prepare to stain the deck." Said Terrorsaur only for Dinobot to grab him by his neck.
Dinobot was about to do something when he saw that the console in front of him was sparking and glowing a bit. "Wait, could it be that an accident of nature and technology has actually created a transporter. Um interesting." Said Dinobot as he let go of Terrorsaur and thought about it.
Seeing that an opportunity had presented itself to him he decided to see what Terrorsaur knew. "Terrorsaur perhaps a truce is in order." Said Dinobot as he placed a hand on Terrorsaur shoulder as the two looked at the console.
"A transporter, aw yes that how that girl got into our base." Said Terrorsaur surprising Dinobot as he looked over at the main table and saw the data pad he gave Ruby sitting there.
"No!" Said Dinobot quietly as he was worried about Ruby. To him she was a great warrior that would only get better as time went on, but if she was alone in the Predacon base, then she was doomed. And Dinobot was going to use this knowledge to father his goals and avenge her.
"And you here. An interesting development." Said Dinobot keeping his emotions under control.
"Yeah." Said Terrorsaur as he walked away from the console and kept an eye on Dinobot. "Say we could turn our truce into an alliance Dinobot." Finished Terrorsaur gaining Dinobot interest.
"An alliance, to what end?" Asked Dinobot wondering how he could turn it around to better himself.
"Think of the cosmic significance. Together will overthrow these low-grade metal mock offs you joined, and rule the Predacons and these organics with two iron fists. Nothing can stop us." Said Terrorsaur as the two bumped fist causing sparks to fly. But Dinobot gave a grin that he had other plans in mind for this alliance.
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Vacou, Darksyde
Meanwhile back at the Darksyde most of the White Fang were asleep, but those who weren't were in the new mess hall just eating and having fun. The mess hall was an old storage area, but when the White Fang joined up and Adam convinced Megatron to make an eating area for his men. Megatron agreed and now the two of them were sitting in the mess hall watching their new lunch lady serve some people.
Currently Cinder was wearing an apron and a hairnet while she served another faunus something to eat. She could see both Megatron and Adam watching her from the corner of her eye.
'To think all my plans have been stopped because of this collar. I don't even know where Emerald and Mercury are right now so I'm on my own. And to make things worse they've made me into a lunch lady now.' Thought Cinder as she served another person with a frown etched on her face.
Meanwhile Megatron and Adam were watching her and discussing other matters.
"Megatron you promised me that the White Fang would rule this world, but all we've done is wait on Roman to steal dust and energon. When we are we going to make a move?" Demanded Adam as he got tired of waiting around and wanted to make a move. Even the Maximals are moving faster than them.
"I understand were your coming form, but if we move too fast we will have problems down the line. We first need to prepare for the upcoming battles. Otherwise it will lead to problems." Explained Megatron but Adam wasn't convinced yet.
Seeing this Megatron pointed over to Cinder. "See her, she rushed into getting you and Roman to help her and now she has that bomb around her neck. That is why we must be careful with how we move." Said Megatron as Adam understood what he was saying, but still wanted to do something.
At that moment Scorponok voice boomed through the room. "Intruder alert sector 4, intruder alert sector 4. It's that red hooded girl again." Boomed Scorponok voice as everyone stopped what they were doing and looked over to Megatron and Adam for orders.
"All personal are to go and find this intruder and capture her. I want to find out how she got into the base undetected like this." Ordered Megatron as everyone rushed out of the room.
As Megatron and Adam were walking out Adam wondered something. "How did she get pass the perimeter guards? We upped the patrols since last time." Asked Adam wondering how someone sneaked in.
"I don't know, but I will find out." Said Megatron as the two left the room, leaving Cinder by herself.
'What a perfect opportunity, with them all chasing this girl then no one will see me go to Scorponok lab and find a way to remove this collar.' Thought Cinder as she burned the lunch lady cloths off her and headed to Scorponok lab.
Meanwhile Ruby was having a hard time, she currently running through the vents, but someone was shooting at her with a shotgun, and they were getting closer. While she was running two more White Fang joined the others watching the one shot into the vents.
"This is taking too long." Said one of them.
"What do you suggest then?" Asked another one.
"This." Said the first one as he brought up a missile launcher loaded with heat seeking missile. He then took aim at Ruby and fired through one of the holes. The rocket flew through vent and towards Ruby. Ruby saw this and was about to run the other way when she saw that shots were closing in on her from that side. Ruby looked back and forth and knew she was in trouble.
"Only one chance." Said Ruby as she activated her semblance and ran as fast as she could. When she reached the shots, she twisted her body and turned into a like an arrow and rushed passed the shots. And as an added bonus the shots hit the missile causing it to explode as she ran full force. Meanwhile the others were caught in the explosion sending them flying, luckily for them onto the metal floor. As For Ruby she continued to run while the fireball got closer to her.
Ruby knew she couldn't outrun it so she put her aura as high as it would go and braced herself. The fireball caught her sending her forward and out of the vents as she landed on the ground with a thud. She soon got up and knew she had to move and got out of there.
After a running for a bit Ruby heard voices in front of her, and knew she had to hide or else she would have a lot of problems. As she looked around, she saw a door and seeing no other options rushed into it hoping for the best. Once she was inside, she almost gave herself away with a squeal of joy. She had found an armoury fill with all sorts of weapons. Knowing she would have to fight she decided to look at her options.
'I am behind enemy lines, so being armed with the best gear is the best choice.' Though Ruby as a large smile spread across her face as she looked around at all the different weapons in the room. As she looked around the room something caught her eyes, lying on a shelf was two wrist guards' silver in color in her size. The interesting thing about them was that there were palm triggers attached to them. Curious to what they did Ruby pressed them and nothing happened, so she tried again but harder this time and an energy dagger came out of the top of the guard. It was a short blue sword, but it would surprise any enemy. Seeing the dagger Ruby released her pressure and the blade retracted.
Looking around to make sure it was still clear, Ruby put on the wrist guards as she admired how they looked on her. 'The spoils of war, but I do need to make some upgrades on this though. What should I call it?' Thought Ruby as she started to leave the room but stopped when she saw some time bombs. Thinking they could be useful Ruby grabbed two of them and then left the room.
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Vale, Patch, Axalon
While Ruby was playing a deadly game of hide and seek at the Predacon base, Dinobot and Terrorsaur were walking side by side in beast mode discussing how things happened.
"…And by simply going into contact with the communication console indicated the transport?" asked Dinobot as he stopped and saw Zwei walking towards them.
"That's all I did, nothing to it." Said Terrorsaur not realizing he just sealed his fate.
Hearing this caused Dinobot to smile. "Excellent. Then I should have no difficultly duplicating the procedure without you." Saud Dinobot surprising Terrorsaur.
"What do you mean?" Asked Terrorsaur as he started to get a bad feeling about everything.
"It means you have no more use. Zwei attack!" Cried Dinobot as Zwei slammed into Terrorsaur sending him into an opened hatch. Dinobot then walked up and slammed to close and ejected Terrorsaur out of the base.
"Good boy." Said Dinobot as he petted Zwei and was about to walk away but was stopped by Optimus in front of him.
"Dinobot the survey posts are missing, and I can't find Ruby anywhere in the base. Do you know anything about it" Said Optimus as Dinobot knew he had to act fast.
"I have no idea about the posts, but I've intercepted a Predacon transmission about a girl with a red hood in the Predacon base though. And we both know who it is." Said Dinobot as Optimus knew who it was and was getting worried.
"How'd did she get there and how long ago did you get the message?" Demanded Optimus fearing the worst about Ruby.
"I got the message a while ago and just decrypted it just recently and as how she got there it seems our communications console has become a transporter somehow." Said Dinobot as Optimus was shaking in anger.
He then turned around and started to walk away. "Get the others, were launching a full-scale attack of the Pred's base." Said Optimus only for Dinobot to stop him before he could get too far away.
"Be reasonable Optimus Primal. Ruby Rose is a great fighter, a prodigy even, but even she can't handle all of the Predacons and White fang by herself. As much as I hate to say it, she is probably gone by now." Said Dinobot truthfully this time as he lowered his head. Even Zwei lowered his head and wined a little hearing this.
Hearing this Optimus let out a large gorilla roar in anger. He can't believe she gone, she had so much to live and those Predacons took it from her. 'They're going to pay for this.' Thought Optimus as he looked Dinobot straight in the eyes.
"Dinobot get the bomb ready." Said Optimus as he walked away with Zwei following him slowly. Meanwhile Dinobot headed for the bomb as he knew it worked but wished it wasn't Ruby that sold the plan. He would never say it out loud, but he liked the girl she was a skilled warrior, smart, and ready for a fight. He would make sure she was avenged.
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Vacou, Darksyde
Back at the Darksyde Ruby was quietly walking thought the halls, listening to every sound she could hear. As she walked she heard to two people ahead of her.
"Hey man, ever wonder why we're here?" Asked one of them.
"It's one of life's great mysteries. Why are we here? Are we the product of some cosmetic coincidence, is there really even a god watching everything, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know man, but it keeps me up at night." Answer the other one as Ruby stopped at what he said confused.
There was a silence after that. "What I'm wonder why we're guarding this computer room when we should be going after the intruder." Said the other as Ruby got an idea and moved towards the two quietly.
"Oh, cause we were told to." Said the other one as the two failed to see Ruby sneak up behind them.
"Oh right. So, want to talk about what you said?" Asked the other one, but at that moment Ruby knocked both of them out with crescent Rose and headed into the computer room.
She then walked over to the computer and accessed it. "Snice I got new gear, might as well get some intel as well." Said Ruby as she was glad, she learnt how to use cybertron based computers.
"Let's see how many White Fang members there are." Said Ruby to herself as she went to see if that info was in the system or not. After some digging Ruby found out the number and put it into a flash drive. She then got some more info and was about to leave when she thought about one more thing.
'Might as well see where their energon despots are.' Thought Ruby as she looked it up that info. What she found shocked and scared her. Looking at the screen she saw a map of remnant with the energon veins running form the Darksyde and surrounding areas. She then added the Maximals map and saw that the same vein ran under both bases.
'If we blow up the base then the explosion will take out the Maximals base as well and who knows what else.' Thought Ruby in terror as she copied the map so she could take it back to base. But she failed to see that Emerald was behind her with her weapon ready to slice her head off.
As Emerald was about to slice Ruby's head off, Scorponok came into the room with some others. "There she is." Yelled Scorponok causing Ruby to jump back and out of Emerald's reach. Scorponok then fired a missile at her, causing Ruby to run around the room as the missile followed her. The others watched as she ran until she went towards and jumped over them. The missile then hit Scorponok sending them all to the ground. Meanwhile Emerald shook her head not believing what she just saw.
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Back at the Axalon Dinobot had just set the timer for the bomb and got ready to place it on the console.
"Wait." Said Optimus causing Dinobot to stop and look at him.
"Your positive the detonation countdown will give everyone time to flee the base." Asked Optimus, sure he wanted to get revenge for Ruby, but he wasn't going to go down to their level to do it.
"They shall have thirty seconds, anymore and they might be able to disarm it." Answered Dinobot knowing this was their only chance.
Optimus wasn't thrilled with it but wasn't going to back down now. "Proceed." Was all he said as Dinobot placed the bomb down.
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Meanwhile Ruby rushed back to console she came from hoping to get the data back to the others. Once she got close to it, she tossed the flash drive onto it and it disappeared in a flash of light. But when the light died down the bomb was in its place.
"Oh no" said Ruby wandering how things could get any worse. She then heard a hovering noise and looked to see Megatron and a bunch of White Fang with him.
"Scrap." Was all she could say.
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Back at the Axalon the flash drive appeared in front in front of Optimus and Dinobot confusing them.
"What is this?" Asked Dinobot as Optimus took the drive.
He then smelled it and was shocked. "It's a flash drive with Ruby's scent on it." Answered Optimus as he plugged it into the computer to see what it had on it.
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Back with Ruby she was in a tough situation and knew only one way out of it.
"Don't shot! This is a bomb that will destroy this whole base! I'm the only one who can save you!" Yelled Ruby as many White Fang got scared, but Megatron move towards her as Terrorsaur flew into the room.
"You think you can lie to me. Terrorsaur disarm that bomb." Ordered Megatron as kept an eye on Ruby. Terrorsaur moved over to the bomb and opened it up and after a second got scared.
"There's no time. In twenty-five seconds it's going to blow." Screamed Terrorsaur scaring the others with his announcement.
Adam then took charge. "Abandon base, leave everything and get out." Ordered Adam as the White Fang rushed out trying to save themselves. Meanwhile Ruby looked Megatron right in the eyes.
"Listen, let me at the bomb I helped build it, I'm your only hope of getting rid of it." Said Ruby as Megatron thought it over. He knew he had little choice in the matter and knew she was his only hope to save his base.
"Do it." Said Megatron as Ruby rushed over to it and took out some tools. She then rushed to dis-lock the clamps as it was their only way to live. As the countdown neared zero Ruby finally dis-lock the clamps and grabbed the bomb.
"Go!" Yelled Ruby as she tossed the bomb to Terrorsaur who then took off into the air and then tossed the bomb away as it exploded while getting caught in the explosion. As the others watched the explosion Ruby then jumped onto the console and vanished. When Megatron looked over to where Ruby was he saw two mini bombs near the console as they neared zero.
"Oh no!" Said Megatron as he breached himself as they exploded. When the dust settled Megatron was cover in black as the console was destroyed and to add insult to injury Terrorsaur landed on top of him.
Standing to the side was Cinder who was smiling at the whole thing, sure Scorponok lab was under lock and key with no way to enter without them knowing but seeing that made Cinder's day.
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When Ruby made it back to the Axalon she was met with the shocked faces of both Optimus and Dinobot. Optimus couldn't believe what he saw and rushed over to Ruby and hugged her.
"Rubies thank Primus you're ok." Said Optimus relieved that she was ok.
"How did you survive?" Asked Dinobot surprised he honestly thought Rudy was killed at the Predacon base.
"It wasn't easy, but I got some data of the White Fang and a new weapon." Said Ruby as she activated her new weapon to show them.
After getting over his shock Optimus addressed Ruby. "I'm glad you're alright, but we need to dismantle this console so the pred's can't get in." Said Optimus as Ruby got a smug look on her face.
"It's already taken care of. On my way out I blew up their end so this side should be ok." Said Ruby as Dinobot grinned at that. That was smart thinking on her part.
"Ok then, is there anything else you want to tell us." Said Optimus as Ruby just stretched and yawned.
"Yeah it's been a long night, so I'm going to bed." Said Ruby as she disappeared, before Optimus could say anything else as rose pedals fell to the ground. Seeing this Dinobot started to laugh at how fast she left as Optimus shock his head, but then started to laugh as well. He was just glad Ruby was safe and got them some good Intel on the Predacons and White Fang. But he soon stopped laughing when he though how Yang was going to react to this.
'Oh boy.' Thought Optimus as he thought how it was going to play out.
Well another chapter done and I would like people option on what to call Ruby's new weapon I have an idea, but I want to hear other peoples ideas. I'll take any suggestion and go with the best one. And on a side note to the guest who suggests the RWWY/Transformers movie crossover it's an interesting idea, but I have questions I would like to ask.
I would also like to address Ruby's eye power. I know the matrix of leadership is a powerful item in transformers, but the power to freeze grimm has to be something powerful as well. Away I have a plan in mind and I think people will like it.
So until next time.