"Talking"
"Radio talk"
"Sentinel/Computer"
"thinking, weapons names, and flashbacks"
Disclaimer: I do not own either Beast wars or RWBY
Before we begin I first off want to say we lost two great men in the month of November we lost Kevin Conroy who I considered to be the voice of Batman. And we lost Jason David Frank Aka Tommy Oliver from Power Rangers. Those two helped shaped my childhood like many others. May they both rest in peace and never be forgotten.
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Chapter 34
Other voices part 1
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Deep space
In the space around Remnant everything was peaceful. Around Remnant the stasis pods orbited the planets as none were close to falling. But past Remnant's broken moon, the spaced rippled and from the ripple came some sort of energy disk, with a glowing centre.
The disk flew towards Remnant as every sensor that could detect it went crazy.
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Vale, Patch, Axalon
At the Axalon the console that Rhinox was working at went crazy from the readings it was getting.
"Alert! Power anomaly in grid Trion!" Said Sentinel making Rhinox worried.
"Display coordinates and cross reference energy signature with data track Tao7." Instructed Rhinox.
As the data came in, he saw whatever was coming was going to land in a safe ring in Vacuo. As he saw this the computer compared the current energy reading to the data track Rhinox ordered.
"Energy signature identical with previous alien contact." Said Sentinel as Optimus and Skyshooter came over.
"Looks like our unknown 'friends' have finally arrived." Said Rhinox with a hint of worry in his voice.
"The question is, what will they do first?" Asked Skyshooter curious.
"From what I can tell, they're going to land in Vacuo. Where a safe ring is." Said Rhinox as Optimus walked over to the command table.
He then activated it and saw where everyone was on the planet. Most were in the Axalon. Blake, Cheetor and Tigatron were in Vale. Bladegator and Speedclaw were in Atlas at Willow's request. He then saw three units near the site.
"Airazor, Rattrap, and Velvet are closets. Tell them to check it out." Instructed Optimus.
"Check what out?" Asked Ruby as she, the rest of her team and Coco walked in.
"They're here." Was all Optimus had to say to make the four of them worry.
"Then we need to send out an alert to everyone." Said Ruby as she went to a console.
"Are you sure everyone?" Asked Yang as everyone knew what she meant.
"Yes Yang, even Ironwood." Said Ruby as she saw the looks on both Yang's and Coco's faces.
"Look I don't like what he did as well, but whatever happens next, we have no idea what it could be. We may need the Atlas fleet." Reasoned Ruby as Optimus agreed with her.
"She's right." Said Optimus as he got a serious look on his face.
"Ruby, Weiss, Coco, and Skyshooter you're with me. The rest of you will stay here and get the base ready for anything." Ordered Optimus as he wished he knew what they should get ready for.
"The Preds will have picked up this signal." Warned Rhinox as they had more insight to what's to come due to that new disk.
"We still have a truce." Said Optimus though he doubted it would last much longer as he turned to the girls.
"I want you three armed to the teeth. There's no telling what the aliens or Megatron will do." Warned Optimus hoping they won't need it.
"What about you and Skyshooter?" Asked Weiss curious.
"We'll be breaking the truce if we arm ourselves." Stated Skyshooter as part of him felt the need to. A feeling Optimus shared.
"Ruby be safe out there." Said Yang as she was worried for her little sister.
"I will be." Said Ruby as she added. "The same goes to you."
"Of course." Said Yang as she shared a look with Weiss. Weiss nodded as the five of them headed out.
"Do you think they'll be ok?" Asked Yang nervous.
"I'd be lying if I said yes." Admitted Rhinox as everyone was on edge.
"But for now, we focus on what we can do. I still got data to go over, so I want you to send out the message to everyone warning them the aliens are here." Said Rhinox as Yang sighed.
She then sat down on a chair as it moved her to a console. As she got the message ready, she couldn't help be worry.
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Unknown location, Tarantulas lair
Tarantulas laughed as he worked on a computer. He got the same readings as Rhinox and knew what was coming.
"They're here. As I anticipated, given the data I hack from Megatron's private files." Said Tarantulas out loud to himself.
"Computer! Calculate next stasis pod landing." Instructed Tarantulas as this way would be the easier option for him.
"Stasis pod will achieve planet fall in 30.6 megacycles." The computer told him as that was too long.
"Slag! Not soon enough!" Growled Tarantulas.
"Then it's time for plan B." Said Tarantulas as he needed special equipment for this and luckily for him the aliens will keep nearly everyone busy. But even then, sneaking into the Axalon will be no easy feat.
As Tarantulas went to get what he needed, he failed to see Blackarachnia watching him from the ceiling as she knew the spider was going to make his move. And she was ready to make hers.
But what neither knew was Megatron was watching Tarantulas as well. He watched everything from an oddly empty control room.
"Ah the treachery. Yeesss" Said Megatron as he turned the screen off. But he wasn't worried in the slightest.
"Properly guided, it should serve me well." Said Megatron as he turned to another screen and activated it. On it should a few White Fang members and Wazzpinator playing cards.
"Wazzpinator." Said Megatron as everyone stopped playing and looked to the nearby screen Megatron was on.
"Yes!" Said Wazzpinator curious to what Megatron needed.
"I want you to proceed to coordinate and secure the area. I will follow shortly." Ordered Megatron as Wazzpinator sighed.
"Always when Wazzpinator is winning." Grumbled Wazzpinator as he didn't want to go making Megatron crossed.
"May I remind Wazzpinator that the current cease fire applies only in reference to Maximals!" Said Megatron as everyone got the meaning behind that.
"Wazzpinator will go." Was all Wazzpinator said as he transformed into beast mode and flew off.
"Um, Megatron." One member asked a little scared.
"Yes, what is it?" Asked Megatron.
"It's the aliens isn't it." Asked the member but more as a statement.
Megatron didn't answer him as he turned the screen off. The members looked at each other in fear. Everyone knew the aliens were coming, but none of them knew what the plan to deal with them was. And Megatron refused to answer anyone. This crossed the White Fang the wrong way as Megatron had next to no support amongst them.
Back with Megatron he was looking at the new golden disk with concern and worry on his face.
"From now on, I must play this carefully. Very carefully indeed." Megatron told himself as there were too many variables right now.
There was the Maximals, but he had a good read on them. And should be able to predict their movements to an extent. Then there was Ironwood, but concerning how easy he was to capture, he wasn't too worried. No the one thing that made him worry was whoever Cinder was working for. He had a good guess it was that mystery woman from the flying island, but he needed more to go on. But for now, his focus was on the aliens and to an extent the Maximals.
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Vacuo, Safe ring
Airazor flew towards the safe ring where the aliens whatever landed. This ring was surrounded by sand as far as the eye could see. And unlike the ring in Vale which looked like Stonehenge, this one was just a circle of stones.
As Airazor flew she had Rattrap on her back while Velvet was in her talons. As Airazor flew she asked Velvet serval times if she was ok, only for her to get that she was fine.
"Looks like we found the source of the anomaly." Said Airazor as they got closer to it.
"But is that a good or bad thing?" Asked Velvet scared and for good reason. After that flying island incident, she saw first hand what these aliens can do.
"Sister, that's the question." Said Rattrap as he chose to keep his mouth shut for Velvet's sake as this was nerve racking enough. He didn't need her running off when things got bad.
The three then landed at the ring as Airazor let go of Velvet as she then landed and allowed Rattrap off her back. That's when they all saw it. In the centre of the ring on a pedestal was a glowing ball. To Velvet it almost looked like the same glow energon gave off.
"What is that?" Asked Velvet as she kept to safe distance from the orb.
"Strip my circuit and call me a toaster. This energon crystal is stable." Said Rattrap in shock.
"But how?" Asked Velvet that can't happen in nature.
"That's the question." Replied Rattrap eyeing the area for anything.
"If it's stable then I should be able to scan it safely." Said Airazor as she transformed and started her scan.
"It's a field generator! And it's building up tremendous…" Started Airazor as a nearby stone shot a beam at her.
Airazor got knocked down hard as both Rattrap and Velvet were shocked to see this. As Velvet rushed over to her. Rattrap then saw the orb starting to descend.
"Oh no" said Rattrap as he started to back away from the orb.
As the orb sank into the ground it released an energy pulse that knocked Rattrap clear of the ring. Inside the ring Velvet got knocked into a stone as her aura took most of the blow.
"My aching coils." Said Rattrap as he slowly got up.
As he did Rattrap's optics went wide as the orb pulsed with energy as it then created a weird green dome around the safe ring and his friends inside.
"Oh, this is not good." Said Rattrap as he then transformed as he looked at the dome unsure what to do.
"Rattrap to Optimus! Come in fearless leader!" Said Rattrap into his comms hoping this dome didn't interfere.
In the dropship Optimus heard the call as he answered it.
"Optimus here. Have you reached the anomaly?" Asked Optimus concerned.
"Have it ever! Its some sort of nutty alien bungalow and it swallowed Airazor and Velvet! You better get here fast…" Said Rattrap as Wazzpinator came out of nowhere and tackled Rattrap to the ground.
"Rattrap!? Rattrap!?" Yelled Optimus as he lost contact.
"What about velvet?" Asked Coco worried for her friend and teammate.
"I don't know." Said Optimus as he turned to Skyshooter who was flying the ship. "How long?"
"A few minutes." Said Skyshooter as he was worried to.
"Why are we taking this thing anyway?! The ground bridge is faster!" Said Coco worried.
"I know." Said Optimus as he placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "But we don't know what we're heading into and if we can't contact the base for a bridge, I don't want us to be trapped."
Hearing that Coco knew he was right, but it still annoyed her that her friend was in danger, and she could do nothing.
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Vacuo, Safe ring, Inside the dome
Airazor felt something shaking her as her systems came back online.
"Airazor wake up." Said Velvet as Airazor got up.
"What happened?" Asked Airazor as she looked around. "Where are we?"
"Inside a dome. The orb somehow made all this." Answered Velvet a bit scared, as Airazor fully got up.
That was when they heard what sounded like a voice, but it made no sense to either of them. When they heard the voice stop Airazor spoke up.
"We mean you no harm." Said Airazor looking everywhere only for a new voice to speak, and they heard something powering up.
Then out of nowhere electrical bolts hit Airazor lifting her off the ground. Seeing this Velvet fell to the ground in shock and fear as her instincts were screaming to her to run. She could only watch on as Airazor was lifted over the orb as she yelled out in pain. But then she realized something.
'Why am I being left alone?' She asked herself as nothing was coming here way. Realizing this made it so she could move a little, but in the end, she had no idea what she could do to help Airazor.
At the same time outside the dome Rattrap was getting up.
"Oh man! This is definitely not my day." Groaned Rattrap as Wazzpinator floated in front of him.
"Wazzpinator secure area." Said Wazzpinator as he transformed and landed.
"Now Maximal will leave or be scrapped!" Warned Wazzpinator as he looked down on Rattrap.
Hearing that Rattrap quickly got up as he was ready to deal with the bug before him.
"No chance bug face! I got here first! Besides we got a cease fire going, remember." Explained Rattrap hoping that Wazzpinator would try something.
"So? Wazzpinator not shot." Said Wazzpinator as he then suckered punched Rattrap knocking him down.
"Ouch. Oh man, it's amazing how sweet we're all being these days." Said Rattrap sarcastically as he then jumped up and faced Wazzpinator.
Rattrap then jumped at Wazzpinator. About half way to Wazzpinator Rattrap transformed back into beast mode with a spin. The spinning Rattrap then slammed into Wazzpinator spending the Pred skywards before crashing on the ground. Rattrap them transformed back into robot mode.
"Problem is, you fight with a rat." Said Rattrap as he kicked dirt into Wazzpinator's optics blinding him. "You better fight dirty."
Rattrap then marched up to Wazzpinator as he kneed him in the groan. Wazzpinator cried out in pain from this as he kneeled over.
"Oh yeah! He dozzen't like that." Mocked Rattrap as he put Wazzpinator into a headlock.
"Robo nugie!" Cried Rattrap as rubbed his fist so fast on Wazzpinator's head that spark flew.
Once Rattrap had enough of that he tossed Wazzpinator away as he was bent over with his rear pointed at Rattrap. Wazzpinator could only look on as Rattrap came up and kicked him in the rear. The blow sent Wazzpinator skyward again as he landed on his head.
"Now get lost!" Ordered Rattrap as Wazzpinator got up trying to get his circuits aligned
"Wazzpinator think area is secured enough." Said Wazzpinator in a high-pitched voice and he transformed and flew off.
Rattrap stood there proud as he heard the dropship landing as Optimus and the others exited the ship.
"Was that Wazzpinator?" Asked Weiss as she could somewhat make out the bug in the distance.
"It was, but he's gone." Said Rattrap proudly.
Hearing that Optimus shook his head and sighed. He then turned to the dome as did the others. They all walked towards it looking for anyway in.
"So Airazor and Velvet are in there?" Asked Optimus trying to figure out how to get in.
"Yeah." Said Rattrap as he hadn't had a chance to look around.
"So how do we get in?" Asked Ruby looking around.
"Let's try this." Said Coco as she brought out Gianduja and fired at the dome while she used her semblance Hype to power up the bullets.
The bullets hit the dome as dust started to cover the area. After a few seconds of firing Coco stopped as the dust cleared. When it did, she was shocked as there was no damage at all.
"What the?!" Was all Coco could say as she moved her glasses down in disbelief.
"What is this dome made of?" Skyshooter asked himself as he scanned the area Coco fired at.
"Maybe something physical can do it." Suggested Ruby as she brought out Crescent Rose and swung at the dome. When she made contact with the dome it her blade bounced off.
Weiss then saw Ruby looking like she was in a bit of pain.
"Ruby are you ok?" Asked Weiss concerned.
"Yeah. But whatever this is, it's stronger than anything I tried to cut before." Answered Ruby as her hands stung from the failed attempt.
Hearing that Optimus ran his hands across it wondering what could work before he turned to Rattrap.
"Try a cutting laser." He told Rattrap hopeful as Rattrap brought one out.
"You got it." Said Rattrap as he got to work.
Inside the dome Airazor was still being tortured by the electrical bolts. Velvet was somewhat able to hold off her urge to run and hide, but at the same time she didn't know what to do. She couldn't see where the bolts were coming from.
"Beast mode!" Cried Airazor as she transformed into beast mode and for some reason the bolts stopped. Airazor then fell to the ground.
Velvet then rushed over as she heard the voices again, but it sounded like they were fighting.
"Airazor are you ok?" Asked Velvet as she kneeled next to her friend. Airazor could only groan in pain, but at least she made a noise.
Velvet gasped as she then saw a green beam over her. The beam hurt her as she screamed out in pain. But after the beam went over her whole body it stopped. Velvet patted hard as her body hurt. She then heard the voices again, but this time they almost sounded unimpressed.
"Cybertron!"
Hearing that Velvet's eyes went wide. Did they voice spoke in their langue and say 'Cybertron'?
'Hurry!' Thought Velvet as she was getting even more scared and worried.
Back outside the cutting laser was doing nothing.
"This is getting us nowhere." Said Ruby as nothing worked on the dome.
"Dust, and energy beams don't work on this…" Trailed off Skyshooter as he was deep in thought.
"As I anticipated." Said Megatron as he, Scorponok, Terrorsaur, Cinder and her team came walking up to them.
"Megatron!" Said Optimus as this was the last thing they needed.
"Wholly Swiss cheese! We're in for it now." Said Rattrap as anything could happen now as Megatron's group walked up to them.
"Did you really expect energy beams and dust to work?" Asked Megatron as he looked down on them.
"Theses aliens can create energon itself. And as we all know energon is stronger than dust." Finished Megatron.
"Then what do you have?" Asked Skyshooter curious.
"I suggest a different tactic." Said Megatron as it dawned on the Maximals.
"Biological?" Asked Optimus kicking himself for not thinking that.
"Exactly." Answered Megatron. "Scorponok!"
Scorponok then transformed as he aimed his tail at the dome.
"One toxic sting coming up." Said Scorponok as he fired his stinger at the dome. Everyone watched as that did it and a hole started to from.
"Looks like you guessed right Megatron. But two Maximals are trapped inside, we go in first." Said Optimus in no room to discuss tone.
"Hey, we did the work." Said Mercury annoyed as Megatron glared at him.
"If you want to be first into an unknown location where anything and everything could happen. Then be our guest." Said Ruby as Mercury looked unsure.
"You go right ahead." He told them as Cinder slapped him upside the head.
"Use you head." She told him.
"Indeed." Agreed Megatron as the Maximals turned to the whole.
"Coco, Ruby, Rattrap you're with me." Said Optimus as Skyshooter and Weiss understood the unspoken order to watch the Predacons.
Optimus and Rattrap transformed into beast mode as they didn't know what the energon level inside the dome would be. Soon the four were inside as Skyshooter and Weiss stood near the entrance eyeing the Predacons before them.
"Cinder are you sure about all this?" Asked Emerald in a low voice.
"No." Admitted Cinder as this was too much for her. "But let them go first and take the first blow."
"Well said Cinder." Praised Megatron as he added. "But don't worry we have extra fire power handy."
Megatron then looked at Scorponok who opened his claw just enough to reveal a missile in it.
"I thought that was why we were here." Said Mercury confused.
"It never hurts to have extra firepower." Admitted Megatron as they had no idea what could happen.
"Megatron what if the Maximals somehow convince the aliens to join forces with them?" Asked Cinder as she eyed the hole.
"That though did cross my processors, but it is unlikely that will happen. What do the Maximals have to offer that we don't." Answered Megatron as the aliens most likely saw them as insects.
Inside the dome the Maximals looked around keeping an eye out for anything and for their friends. None of them said anything as the eerie lighting and how the stones looked different everyone was on edge.
That was when Coco heard some hard breathing. Rushing to the source she saw Velvet on her knees breathing hard with Airazor near her.
"Over here!" Yelled Coco as the others rushed over.
"Velvet are you ok?" Asked Coco as she rushed over and kneeled next to her. Velvet looked up and hugged Coco tightly.
"Velvet what happened?" Asked Optimus worried for her and Airazor.
"It was horrible Optimus. It looked like they were torturing Airazor. Then some weird green field passed over me hurting me at the same time." Said Velvet as tears started to form in her eyes.
Optimus said nothing as he wished that this never happened to either of them in the first place.
"I'm sorry." Said Optimus as he placed a hand on Velvet's shoulder.
"Optimus…" Started Velvet as she fought back tears. "They know where you're from."
Hearing that somewhat surprised Optimus as theses aliens had him before as well. So who know what they got from him. He then looked at the others.
"Get them out of here." Ordered Optimus as Coco helped Velvet to her feet and lead her out.
"Man, don't have to tell me twice." Said Rattrap as he started to drag Airazor out of here.
"You're going to confront them, aren't you?" Asked Ruby as she was still there.
"Yes." Was all Optimus said.
"Then we'll do it together." Said Ruby as Optimus knew she wouldn't take 'no' for an answer.
"You two can't be serious?" Asked Rattrap looking at them like they were crazy.
"I have to. Since our arrival we haven't exactly been the best of tenants. Theses aliens have the right to expect some answers." Said Optimus as he knew the dangers.
"From both sides." Added Ruby as she felt the same.
"Fine, but you're dealing with Yang when she finds out." Said Rattrap as he continued on as he knew he couldn't change their minds.
Seeing that they're teammates were gone both Optimus and Ruby knew what they had to do.
"Alright whoever you are." Started Optimus when out of ground came metal cables that quickly wrapped around Optimus's and Ruby's limbs as they lifted them up. That's when more cables came out and wrapped around them
The two struggled but with their limbs, chest and necks wrapped in the cables there was little they could do.
"Let us go! We just want to talk!" Yelled Ruby on to hear nothing in response.
But then the same green beams that scanned Velvet appeared again as they passed over the two of them. And like with Velvet it hurt the two of them as they screamed out in pain.
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Vale, Patch, Axalon
While the others were dealing with the aliens, Tarantulas moved in on the Axalon and his gaol. The spider was climbing up the side of the cliff behind the Axalon as he reached the top and saw the Axalon's shield.
Looking at the shield Tarantulas transformed and pulled out a pole with a sphere top. He then planted it in the ground and turned it on. It then fired a beam of light at the Axalon's shield, opening a door for him. Tarantulas then laughed as he transformed back into beast mode and went through the hole he made. As he passed through the device sparked and turned off.
Watching him though was Inferno in beast mode. He was given instructions from to watch the spider.
"Ah the royalty was right! That spider spins his own web." Said Inferno as he walked to the shield and stopped.
He looked around as he had to follow the spider, his royalty commanded it. That was when Inferno got an idea and started to dig under the shield.
Watching this from above was Blackarachnia in beast mode. This was getting a little serious to her. But when she tried to contact Ruby earlier it went straight to voicemail. She thought of contacting Optimus, but she bet that he's right next to her wherever they are. And contacting the other Maximals would be a waste of time. That means she's on her own.
Blackarachnia shook her head. A few deca-cycles ago she wouldn't have care, but now she somewhat cared. Maybe she has a problem in her processor, or maybe and this was a big maybe she did care for her soon to be teammates. Thinking that made her shutter.
She the looked over at Inferno and saw he was under. Seeing this Blackarachnia transformed and looked at a device on her arm. With the shield codes she got from Optimus this would allow her to walk right through the shield. As long as they didn't change the codes. So talking a few steps slowly Blackarachnia reached the shield and put her arm out and relaxed when it went through the shield. Seeing that it worked she then walked right through the shield.
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Vacuo, Safe ring
Everyone was shocked when they heard Optimus and Ruby screaming from inside the dome. Weiss then rushed to the hole only for Skyshooter to stop her.
"Let me go!" Said Weiss struggling to get out of his grip.
"No Weiss, we don't know what's going on inside." Said Skyshooter as he felt the same way.
"All the more reason to go in." Countered Weiss.
"Ah if I could have that sound to lull me to sleep." Said Megatron enjoying the sounds of their pain.
Weiss heard that and glared at the tyrant. She then got out of Skyshooter's grasp and turned to face Megatron as she got Myrtenaster out.
"Say that again." Dared Weiss with a glared on her face.
Megatron chuckled as Weiss was ready to charge when Skyshooter grab her wrist.
"Weiss! Stand down." Ordered Skyshooter with a glare on his face.
"But…" Started Weiss as he furry died down. Seeing this Skyshooter let go of her.
"I know Weiss, I do. But right now, we can't afford to break the truce." Skyshooter told her as they couldn't afford it.
"They're coming out." Said Scorponok as everyone looked over and saw the others coming as the hole was starting to close. But Mercury ignored him.
"Hey princess listen to you robo butler." Mocked Mercury as both Weiss and Skyshooter glared at him.
"At least I don't follow a psycho." Countered Weiss as Emerald glared at her.
"Don't talk About Cinder that way!" Yelled Emerald as she brought out Thief's Respite fired at Weiss. Weiss saw it and dodged as the shot hit the dome as Rattrap came out.
"What the!?" Cried out Rattrap confused.
"Emerald!" Yelled Cinder as Emerald realized what she did.
Both sides got ready for a fight as those who weren't in robot mode transformed.
"Megatron, do we have the time for this?" Asked Skyshooter as Megatron thought about it.
The Aliens were here, and the door was closed. Fighting the Maximals right now would be a waste of resources. And if he was being honest with everything going on if he could focus on the aliens a little more, then he would.
"No. We don't." Said Megatron as this shocked his side.
"We will leave for now but know this… the truce is over." Said Megatron as he transformed back into beast mode before looking at Cinder.
"Keep your forces under control Cinder." Said Megatron with a stern look as the Predacons walked off.
"Did that just happen?" Asked Rattrap in surprise.
"Yes, it did." Said a surprised Coco.
"Quick we need to get back in there." Said Weiss as she was worried.
Back in side the dome the scans on both Optimus and Ruby had finished, leaving both of them weak.
"Scan complete. We've seen this being before." Said a voice bring focus back to Optimus and Ruby.
"Who are you?" Asked Optimus weakly.
Then their bindings moved making it so both Optimus and Ruby were being held up straight. They then heard footsteps from the shadows as they both gasped at what came out. Two beings that looked male.
The first one was had antlers on his head almost like a crown. But what stood out was he was glowing a gold colour, and this being had no features. No face, no eyes, nothing.
The other one had segmented horns on his head that arced back and curved upwards. Like the other one he also was also glowing but a dark purple colour. And like the other he had no features.
"Who are you?" Asked Ruby in awe as she felt like she knew them from somewhere.
"We are your gods." Said the gold being.
"What?" Was all Ruby could say as the purple on looked at her.
"You are from this world, but you have something of the others world." The purple one said as he held out his hand.
Then to both Optimus and Ruby's shock the Matrix floated away from Ruby and turned back into its real form. The two beings looked at it in fascination.
"Interesting this device records memories and can passes it on to others." Said the gold being.
"Yes, it has two memories in it right now. One is hers and the other is like him." Said the purple being as he held out his hand and an image of Optimus Prime appeared. He then waved his hand and the Matrix returned to Ruby.
"What are you two?" Asked Optimus as he was in awe and fear of their power.
"We told you we're gods." Said the purple being.
"What my brother means is we gave this world life." Said the gold being as it dawned on Ruby.
"From the stories? Then you're the gods of light and darkness?" Asked Ruby.
"Yes, young one." Said the god of light.
Neither Optimus nor Ruby knew what to say as this was too much for them.
"Tell me, Optimus was it, why are you here?" Asked the god of light curious bring Optimus out of it.
"We were chasing down a thief when our ships crashed here." Said Optimus summarizing what happened.
"So your law enforcement?" Asked the god of light.
"No, we're explorers. We were the only ones in the area who could go after Megatron." Answered Optimus.
"And what will you do if you do arrest this Megatron?" Asked the god of darkness.
"Try to get home." Answered Optimus as the two beings looked at each other.
Hearing that the two brothers looked at each other as if they were talking.
"And the beings of this world, what will you do about them?" Asked the god of light.
"We have rules about non space faring species. We can't interfere with them. I know we broke that rule, but we're doing what we can to keep hidden here." Answered Optimus as he was nervous.
"And do you agree with that?" Asked the god of light as he looked at Ruby.
"Yes. I found them, others were attacked by the Predacons, and some found out." Answered Ruby as when she met the Maximals for the first time felt like a lifetime ago.
"And the Predacon do they do the same?" Asked the god of darkness.
"No, they get whoever they seem like they'd help them." Answered Optimus.
The brothers looked at each other again as the god of light sighed.
"It seems you were right brother." Said the god of light.
"I understand where you are coming from brother, but it seems like the experiment has failed." The god of darkness said.
"Experiment?" Asked Ruby confused. "What experiment?"
The brothers shared a look as this made Ruby even more worried.
"It's not like it will matter much longer." Said the god of light.
"Then go ahead." Said the god of darkness as the god of light explained.
"You see we used to live on this world. We would let the people of this world come to us and ask for help, if we deemed it worthy, we would. But then one day a woman came to me and asked me to bring back her dead lover. I said no. She then went to my brother and using trickery made him do what she wanted. When I found out I went to talk to my brother but due to a misunderstanding we almost fought. For her deceit I cursed her never to die until the world ended. But this was a mistake, she used my curse to her advantage and gathered the humans to attack us. In the end we wiped out humanity, expect for the woman and left her on a dead world. Afterwards we left the planet."
Hearing that shocked Optimus and Ruby to the core.
"It was our own fault. Thinking that woman would learn her lesson." Admitted the god of darkness.
"Then why are we here now?" Asked Ruby as she wasn't sure if she wanted to know the answer or not.
"Because we want to give humanity another chance." Said the god of light as he explained again.
"After a few centuries, in your time frame. We decided to give humanity another chance, but this time they weren't alone. We created the Faunus something similar to them, but at the same time different. We wished to see if two races could survive on the same world at the same time. But we knew that on other worlds, much like on Cybertron, two races rarely lived together in peace. So we created a common enemy for them. What you called the Grimm. But we gave them everything they needed to survive."
Ruby swore when the god of light said that last bit, he was looking at her.
"Wait! The energon! The way it formed didn't make sense with the planet and was much stronger than dust." Said Optimus as it made sense now. Why the Grimm avoided it and why it was much more powerful than dust.
"That is correct." Said the god of darkness as he continued. "We also gave them what you call 'safe rings' for proception and the island you destroyed as a safe haven."
"That wasn't our fault! Some weird pale skinned woman took control of it." Said Ruby as this caught the god's attention.
"Pale skinned woman? Do you think?" Asked the god of light curious.
"Maybe." Said the god of darkness as he held out his hand as Ruby felt like something was in her head. Then an image of the woman appeared before them.
"So, she's causing trouble." Said the god of darkness shocking Optimus and Ruby.
"Wait she's the woman you cursed!" Said Ruby.
"Yes, we had hoped the centuries would make her realize what happened was her fault, but it seems we failed to realize her hate." Admitted the god of light.
"It would seem she went into my pool." Said the god of darkness.
"That would explain why the Grimm behaved slightly differently then what we wanted." Said the god of light.
"Then sending Ozma back was the right choice at the time." Said the god of darkness as this was too much for Optimus and Ruby.
"It is a shame. I had such high hopes for this world." Said the god of light.
"I know, but with the woman and the transformers acting out on this world, the experiment is done. They can't develop naturally in this environment." Said the god of darkness.
"What does that mean for this world?" Asked Optimus worried.
"You truly care for this world, don't you?" Asked the god of light.
"I do." Said Optimus without a second thought.
"We gave this world two chances, and they have failed both." Said the god of darkness.
"But this woman was your fault, and she's been her longer than the transformers." Spoke up Ruby as the god of darkness looked at her.
"Do not think you can tell us what to do." The god told her.
"But she is right, but the damage is done." Said the god of light.
"Then we're agreed?" Asked the god of darkness.
"Yes, Remnant will be destroyed." Said the god of light shocking the two.
"What!?" Said Ruby in disbelief.
"You can't!" Yelled Optimus.
"And why can't we?" Asked the god of Light curious.
"You have no right!" Answered Optimus with a glare.
"No right? We made this world, its people, everything. Does that not give us the right?" Asked the god of darkness.
"Why must you destroy this world?" Asked Ruby in fear. the God of light looked at her and Ruby swore it almost looked like he pitied her.
"We gave this world two chances already. We admit we made a mistake with the woman, so we sent Ozma to balance it. But the transformers are changing everything." The god of light told her.
"Then with you power make it so we can leave this world. If you do I promise that I will do everything in my power to make it so we don't return." Offered Optimus hoping they would take it.
"If we meet when you first crashed here, we would have taken that offer. But it's been too long." Said the god of light.
"What do you mean?" Asked Optimus confused.
"Even the smallest stone thrown into a lake can make the largest ripples. You interacted with the people of this world, and they have grown. Some good, some bad, but they've been affected by your kind." Explained the god of light as neither Optimus nor Ruby had a counter for that as it was true.
"And then there giving the young child here that item." Said the god of darkness as he pointed at Ruby.
"But they didn't give me the Matrix. We have no idea how it came into my possession." Ruby told them as the two looked into her memoires.
They found nothing of how the Matrix came into her possession. They then looked into the Matrix. What they saw was a ball flying through space. The ball was shrinking in size as it reached Remnant, before falling towards the planet. They then saw the ball hovering over a baby Ruby before entering her.
The gods looked at each other as this Matrix was very impressive to them. They actually thought of taking it with them but chose not to. It was hard enough to end this world again without a reminder.
Then to Optimus and Ruby's surprise they were lowered to the ground and let go.
"It's time to leave brother." Said the god of darkness.
"NO!" Said Ruby as she brought out Crescent Rose and got into a fighting stance.
"You would fight us, knowing our power, by your yourself?" Asked the god of light curious.
"She's not alone." Said Optimus as he transformed and brought out his weapons.
"You are not of this world, yet you'd fight for it why?" Asked the god of darkness intrigued.
"Your right we did the harm, so I will not let you punish the entire world for what we did." Said Optimus as the god of darkness laughed.
His body then changed before them as western style dragon. He stood on four legs, as his horns split in two. He had wings on his back, and he gained a skull like face and bone like spines that ran down his body.
Seeing this Optimus and Ruby took a step back in shock but held their stances.
"Your brave I'll give you that. But it's over." Said the god of darkness as he flew upwards and vanished.
"Enjoy what time you have left." Said the god of light as there was a flash of light.
When Optimus and Ruby could see again, they gasped as they were outside the dome with the other.
"Optimus!? Ruby!? Where did you two come from?" Asked Skyshooter in shock.
That was when the dome started to glow and make a weird pulsing sound.
"What's going on?" Asked Coco in fear.
"The gods are going to destroy our world." Said Ruby in fear as one thought went through everyone's mind.
"Gods?!" They all said at the same time confused.
"There's no time to explain. We'd better get out of here!" Said Optimus.
"You'd just said my favorite phrase." Said Rattrap as they all rushed to the ship.
When they got it in the air, the dome then exploded as energy shot straight upwards. People from miles away could see it. Megatron being one as he frowned.
"Back to base, hurry!" He ordered as his worst fear came true.
Even at Shade academy they saw the beam. Students and staff were panicking as no one had any idea what was going on. Even the headmaster was worried but kept up a strong poker face for the students and staff.
The beam was so strong it shot into space as it passed the stasis pods. The strong energy from the beam played havoc with the pods systems as they all lost their orbit and started to fall towards Remnant, as the fate of the proto forms were unknown.
Back with the beam it fired into the middle of space as it suddenly hit something. The space around the beam started to ripple. From the ripple came a gigantic sphere the size of a moon and it was slowly powering up.
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Vale, Patch, Axalon
At the Axalon every Maximal and organic member, expect for Cheetor, Tigatron, Blake and Optimus's team were looking at the screen as Rhinox worked.
"Massive energon surge emanating from grid Trion. Communications impossible." Informed Sentinel.
"Can you track the stasis pods?" Asked Rhinox worried for them.
"Negative." Said Sentinel making the bot fear the worst for them.
"Forget the pods, what about our people?" Asked Yang worried about them.
"The Shelia is right mate, what about Optimus and them?" Agreed Boomer.
"They can take care of themselves, but the proto forms in the pods can't." Said Bladegator as he was right.
"Divert all power to space scanners. Lock onto their beam and ride it!" Ordered Rhinox as he was doing everything he could.
"Boosting power. Interlocking. Lock achieved. Imaging." Informed Sentinel as the screen changed.
To most of them it looked like some sort of river going upwards that lead to some sort of oval. But to those who did it scared them.
"What the slagging…" Started Rhinox only to her the roof hatch opening.
Everyone looked over confused as they saw Tarantulas there. Everyone then tried to get to their weapons, only for Tarantulas to drop a sphere on the ground. The sphere unleashed an electrical shock so great it made them all pass out from the pain.
Tarantulas then landed on the ground as the screams for the others made Dinobot and Yatsuhashi come rushing in with their blades ready.
"Tarantulas!?" Said Yatsuhashi in surprise.
And that surprised was all Tarantulas needed as he fired his spider leg machine guns at the two. It was so fast that neither Dinobot or Yatsuhashi had time to block them, as they crash through the glass door of the lift.
Seeing that he was in the clear for the moment Tarantulas decided to see what Rhinox was working on as saw the screen and its data. Reading it and understanding what he saw Tarantulas said one thing.
"The beginning of the end." And with that he rushed off as he had little time left.
Meanwhile outside the entire sphere had appeared as lines appeared all over it and glowed. Signifying it was ready for whatever the brothers wanted it to do.
And done. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Now I know a lot of you are wondering why I used the brothers and not the Vok. The reason being is it made more sense to me to use the brothers. We've seen their power in the show and while the Vok are powerful I felt the bothers would fit in better.
And after watching a video on YouTube called the basics on the Vok from Chris McFeely, I felt like I can get away with it. On a side note Chris McFeely does great transformers video giving you the basics on characters, items, and series. I recommend giving his videos a watch.
Until next time.