Darkness Rising Part 4 of 5
Previously on Transformers Prime Shattered Glass
Optimus: It's as if the blood of Unicron the Destroyer flows through my veins!
Starscream: Dark Energon? It's so rare it can be considered nonexistent.
Fowler: CHILDREN!
Soundwave: THEY'RE STAYING.
Magnus: Fetch me this 'Fowler'. Tell me the location of the Nemesis.
Laserbeak: It's an SOS. From Fowler.
Optimus: Rise, my unstoppable legion! BEHOLD, THE POWER OF THE BLOOD OF UNICRON!
Megatron, Shockwave and Starscream observed the undead army arise in front of them as they began approaching them.
"He has reanimated them. This defies all logic." Shockwave expressed in disbelief.
"Optimus has desecrated the resting place of our fallen ancestors, and his own." Starscream observed horrified.
"Not even the dead are free from his warmongering." Megatron said.
Optimus was pleased with the results. His body glowed toxic green along with the two Autobot insignias on both sides of his shoulders." At last, symbiosis. I can feel it. I possess complete control over my army. Terrorcons, destroy them!"
Unable to resist their new master's command, the Terrorcons obliged, slowly but surely making their way toward the Decepticons, who all activated their blasters and began to open fire on the incoming horde. Megatron shot his fusion cannon, but the Terrorcons were still able to stand up even after receiving some hits. Starscream fired his missiles but even the missiles had the same result along with his blasters and Shockwave's arm cannon.
"Master, if our combatants are already deceased, how can we possibly defeat them?" Starscream mentioned as the rest of the zombies began swarming around them.
"Starscream, Shockwave, retreat. Bridge yourselves back to the Nemesis." Megatron ordered.
"No my liege, I shall stand with you." Starscream declared, as he retracted his blasters and grabbed his two swords from his back and got into his battle stance. He had no intention of ever abandoning his leader.
"As will I." Shockwave said, preparing himself for battle. "You may require medical assistance when this is over."
"Very well." Megatron said as he prepared for battle. "Decepticons, ATTACK!"
With that said Megatron, Starscream and Shockwave shouted out their battle cries as they charged forward to the undead army. Megatron used his fists to punch the zombies but they still kept standing up. Starscream used his swords to cut off a zombie's arm and head then he noticed that the body began leaking Dark Energon from where he cutted off the arm and head then the body lost its toxic green color and then it fell to the ground meaning that it was now dead again and this time for good.
"Megatron, Shockwave, cut them to pieces, it's the only way to kill them for sure!" Starscream said as he sliced four more zombies with his swords.
"Excellent observation, old friend." Shockwave said as pulled out his arm blade that was attached to his left arm and it looked like the one from DARK OF THE MOON.
Megatron pulled out his short sword that was attached to the bottom of his fusion cannon. All three Decepticons fought together in close combat while Optimus observed that battle from where he stood.
"I have mastered dark energon. When you fall, Megatron, you too shall join my army." Optimus proclaimed from the distance.
Megatron did not verbally reply, only narrowing his optics before resuming the fight.
Meanwhile, in the canyon where the Hyperion was, the Autobot soldiers began to open fire at Miko, even with the turrets. At that moment, Breakdown came next to her.
"Get in, now!" He ordered. Miko didn't need to be told twice, so she hastily dived in. As soon as she was in, the Scottish Stunticon slammed the door shut and drove off, zig zagging around to avoid being hit while Airachnid, Soundwave and the minicons provided covering fire.
"Thanks, Breakdown." Miko thanked.
"What in Primus are ya doing here lass?!" Breakdown exclaimed.
"I was worried about Jack and Raf, have you seen them?" Miko explained as she put on the seatbelt.
"What do they look like?" Jack responded from the back seat.
"Seriously Jack?!" Raf complained.
Breakdown accelerated and went behind a large rock. "Everyone out." He ordered as he opened his doors. "And this time, stay here."
After dropping the kids, Breakdown, Airachnid, Soundwave and the minicons all charged for the Autobot ship, evading all the shots and getting under it, where the soldiers couldn't get them. Down there, they proceeded to climb up the canyon's wall to get to the ship. Soundwave managed to grab an Autobot soldier with one of his tentacles and threw him to the overboard. Finally, on the top, Breakdown faced the Autobots with his hammer, the Scottish Stunticon charged forward and hammered a Vehibot, knocking the head clean off the body. Another drone began to fire upon him, so Breakdown used the Vehibot he just terminated as a shield, activating his shoulder turret and returning fire. One of the Stunticon's laser bolts landed on the drone, stunning it, so Breakdown took his chance and impressively leapt into the air and came down on the drone, using his weight to crush it then four more came from a trapdoor but Arachnid killed them by firing laser bolts from her palms but for the last Autobots, who were shooting with the turrets, Breakdown grabbed the ship's communication antenna and threw it to them. After defeating them all, the seventeen Decepticons looked down to see the kids, but then they noticed something wrong.
"Where is Raf?!" Breakdown shouted, but then he heard a loud banging noise from his compartment. He opened it and Raf emerged, breathless. "Raf?"
"I threw up on your floor mats, sorry." Raf said, covering his mouth as Breakdown placed Raf on the floor. "Remind me never to do that again."
A survivor Autobot tackled Breakdown, and he and the other sixteen Decepticons had trouble taking him off, that was because that Autobot turned into a motorcycle and managed to evade all their attacks.
"Can anyone tell me who is making so much noise here with the turrets?" Someone said coming from a trapdoor, but it was Prowl. "Why is there another human on our ship?" He said looking at Raf before turning to the seventeen Decepticons. "Decepticons?! here?! I need back up on the ship's top, now!" Prowl ordered for backup through his com-link.
Breakdown saw Prowl and grabbed the Autobot motorcycle and threw it at him. But Prowl dodged the Autobot motorcycle by moving to the right.
"Surrender Decepticons!" Prowl said aiming at them with his blasters as his reinforcements arrived, so Breakdown decided to grab Raf and they, along with the other sixteen Decepticons, went inside the ship avoiding the shots. "Sound the alarm; tell everyone we have intruders." Prowl ordered.
Down on the ground, Jack and Miko were not very comfortable being left alone.
"Do you think they forgot about us?" Miko asked Jack, but two big shadows came behind them and they saw two Autobots approaching them.
"You better come with us if you know what is better for you." An Autobot tank said as the other, which turned into a F1, grabbed them.
Inside the Hyperion, Airachnid, Soundwave, the Minicons and Breakdown with Raf, who was hitching a ride on Breakdown's hand, were running through the ship's hallways, searching for agent Fowler. In an intersection of the halls emerged the Autobot that Breakdown did not want to meet at that time.
"Well, well, well, it's been a while, Breakdown." Said the Autobot, it was Bulkhead.
"Bulkhead, so ya decided to accompany the worst Prime that ever existed in his endless quest for destruction." Breakdown said.
"Do not misunderstand me, Breakdown. I'm doing this because of what I am, a Wrecker. Destruction is my specialty." Bulkhead warned as he slammed his fists together.
"You know this guy?" Raf asked.
"We have a history." Breakdown said. "A history that will not be forgotten."
"And you have a human pet. Don't mind if I play with him a little?" Bulkhead said, looking at Raf sinisterly.
"To reach him you'll have to step over our sparkless bodies ya deadbeat." Breakdown warned, turning his hand into a hammer while the other sixteen Decepticons armed themselves.
"Just like old times." Bulkhead chuckled as he changed his left hand for a mace that slammed onto the ground.
Breakdown quickly threw Raf to the ground, sliding below Bulkhead. He tried to smash him, but Breakdown confronted him and their fight began.
"Oh, I think I'm going to throw up again." Raf groaned before Ravage grabbed him with her mouth.
Bulkhead then noticed Ravage running away with Raf then he threw Breakdown at the other Decepticons then he changed his mace back to his left hand and then he caught up to Ravage and grabbed her from behind and picked her and Raf up off the ground and turned them around to face him.
"Leaving so soon?" Bulkhead asked as he changed his right hand into his blaster and aimed it at Ravage and Raf.
But suddenly, something hit Bulkhead on the back of his head really hard which caused him to release Ravage and Raf. Once they hit the ground Bulkhead fell down onto the ground unconscious and they looked and saw that it was Breakdown who knocked out Bulkhead.
"Sorry Bulkhead, but we have more important business to accomplish. We'll leave it for another time." Breakdown said to the unconscious Bulkhead.
After that, they continued the search. Meanwhile, the Autobots who captured the kids were carrying them through the ship.
"Take them to the interrogation room. Commander Magnus is keeping the other human there." The Autobot tank said to the F1, who was the one carrying the children.
Fortunately for them, three cars at maximum speed charged to the two Bots, hitting them unconscious causing the F1 Autobot to release the humans. Then Knock Out transformed into his robot mode and caught them in time.
"Knock Out!" Miko said happily.
"Appreciate you clearing the front door for us, but storming the Autobot warship was not on the activities list." Knock Out said.
"Tell me about it." Miko said, looking at Jack with an angry look on her face.
They pressed on up to a corner. When they heard noises coming from the other side, Knock Out pulled out his blasters. But he saw that it was Airachnid, Soundwave, the minicons and Breakdown with Raf.
"Friendly!" Knock Out said.
"Hello." Breakdown responded.
"Brought the humans, eh?" Knock Out quipped as he retracted his blasters.
"I'd like to see you try getting them to stay behind." Breakdown retorted.
"Well fortunately the Autobots don't know we're here." Knock Out said, but at that moment the alarm sounded.
"You were saying?" Airachnid said.
"It seems that Prowl has ratted us out." Breakdown finished.
"We need to find Fowler and get the kids out of here before the Autobots locate our positions." Steve said.
"He's in the interrogation room." Jack and Miko said in union.
"Noted, but first we need a safe place for you during the rescue." Ravage said.
Meanwhile in the interrogation room, Fowler was still dangling in the air by the chains, and was barely conscious. Ultra Magnus had been relentlessly electrocuting him, demanding where the Nemesis was. But Fowler refused to give Ultra Magnus the information he desired.
"My dear agent Silas, don't you realize the Decepticons have abandoned you? I am the only one you can rely upon now. So tell me what I want to know or…" Magnus said with an evil chuckle as he pulled out the torturing device.
"Please… no more." The agent weakly pleaded, squirming a bit. "I'll tell you where the Nemesis is."
Magnus deactivated the prod. It seems he was going to get his answer after all. "Continue." He said, interested. The sound of muffled laser fire diverted his attention to the door, where the two Vehibots activated their weapons. Magnus groaned because he couldn't focus because of the noise. "Find out what's going on out there!" He shouted, making the two Vehibots leave the room to see what was going on. "Now then tell me where the Nemesis is." He said to Fowler.
"Just give me a minute because I kind of forgot." Fowler said, knowing that his rescue had just arrived.
Infuriated, Ultra Magnus released a beastly growl before once again electrocuting the man, causing him to groan in pain before falling unconscious.
In a hallway intersection, three Vehibots were approaching the twenty Decepticons. Breakdown got in front of Jack, Miko, and Raf before activating his shoulder turret and fired a missile toward the incoming trio, destroying them. Airachnid activated her daggers and charged toward the enemy, dodging every laser and punch that came her way as she followed up with her counter attacks, all while Knock Out, Stinger and Steve provided cover fire for her. Ravage urged the humans to follow her and made a beeline for the crevices to hide in, but soon changed course when a Vehibot head landed in front of them. A Vehibot charged toward Soundwave, but Soundwave used his tentacles to toss the drone over his shoulder and Laserbeak shot it out of the air. With their enemies offline, for now, they continued the search for Fowler.
Meanwhile in the desert canyon, Megatron, Starscream and Shockwave were still battling the cybertronian undead and they could see that the seemingly endless number of Terrorcons had at last started to dwindle. But throughout the entire ordeal, the three Decepticons could feel their energy slowly slipping away, something that Starscream took notice of.
"Do any of you feel tired?" The Seeker asked his friends after they grouped up.
"It is the prolonged exposure to dark energon. It is draining our strength." Shockwave explained.
"We must not falter now, Decepticons." Megatron proclaimed, and it seemed to be enough to motivate his companions.
The group split off. Shockwave smacked a Terrorcon with his cannon before burying his arm blade into the chest of another Terrorcon. Starscream was once again slashing and hacking any Terrorcon that came his way.
Megatron sliced a Terrorcon in half, but he was then ganged up on, and was then buried underneath a pile of Terrorcons.
"Megatron!" Starscream shouted as he was about to run over and help his leader.
But a Terrorcon grabbed him by the left arm then another Terrorcon knocked one of his swords out of his right hand causing it to land next to the pile of Terrorcons holding down Megatron. Then the Terrorcon ripped Starscream's right arm off causing him to scream in pain as more Terrorcons surrounded him.
"Starscream!" Shockwave exclaimed, but the distraction allowed more zombies to pile him, and one twisted his cannon arm, giving him a lot of pain.
Optimus smiled believing that he had his victory, but suddenly the pile of Terrorcons which had trapped Megatron was destroyed by the Decepticon leader, roaring free. He then grabbed one of Starscream's swords that was knocked out of his right hand.
"Starscream." Megatron said to the sword.
Then Starscream's sword flickers; this meant that a Seeker's weapon is connected to their life force and the flicker meant that Starscream was still alive. Megatron then turned around and saw another flicker in another pile of Terrorcons which meant that flicker was from Starscream's other sword. And so Megatron used his short sword and Starscream's sword to kill the Terrorcons and save his second in command. Starscream was alright except that he was covered with lots of scars and he lost his right arm too. But they managed to save Shockwave too. Then they heard Optimus laughing from where he still stood.
"After all these years, Megatron, you are still at the top of your game." Optimus said.
"We Decepticons don't go down that easily." Starscream growled as he and his friends prepared themselves for what they hoped was the final wave.
"Finish them!" Optimus ordered the zombies.
The three Decepticons continued eradicating the undead. At that moment there were eight Autobot troopers on the Hyperion's bridge, running through protocol when a knock was made from the door. One of them went to answer, but after the door opened, he was grabbed by a tentacle. Airachnid entered the bridge and shot the nearest Bot. The others were neutralized by Knock Out, Breakdown, Steve and Stinger.
"Clear, you can get inside now." Knock Out said to the human children.
"(LASERBEAK, BUZZSAW, RAVAGE STAY HERE AND KEEP THEM SAFE!)" Soundwave chattered.
"Why?" Buzzsaw asked.
"(THEY COULD SLOW US DOWN AND THEY'RE EASY TARGETS!)" Soundwave chattered again.
"He's right; they'll be all right in here. As long as you three make sure that they stay put." Airachnid said, looking at Jack.
With that said, she walked out of the bridge. Breakdown, Knock Out, Steve, Stinger, Soundwave and the eleven mincons activated their own weapons before following her out. The door behind them closed as soon as they left.
"That… was intense." Jack stated causally.
"Was?" Raf repeated in disbelief.
Then Miko slapped Jack on that cheek really hard that it really hurt him.
"OW! MIKO WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" Jack yelled as he rubbed his hand against his cheek where Miko slapped him.
"It's your fault that we're stuck in this intensity!" Miko said, pointing at Jack. "What were you thinking, Jack?"
"Did I ask you to follow me?" Jack shot back.
"Well Raf followed you!" Miko exclaimed.
"I was trying to stop him." Raf said.
"Well you did a good job with that." Jack said sarcastically.
"Jack, we only came along because we had regards for your safety!" Buzzsaw yelled.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Is your name Megatron? You can leave my protection to Airachnid, thank you very much!" Jack said to Buzzsaw in an even more sarcastic tone.
"Aah!" Raf suddenly yelled, startling Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Ravage, Jack and Miko. "Stop it! All of you!"
The young boy ran off and sat down on the edge, on the verge of crying. Surprised and concerned, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Ravage, Jack and Miko walked up to Raf and sat down next to him. "Hey, hey, Raf, Raf, it's gonna be okay." Miko soothed.
"Yeah, we're gonna be fine." Laserbeak added as she and Buzzsaw used their wings to hug Raf.
"Our Cons will come back for us." Jack said.
"Yeah, they're gonna take us home." Miko said.
"How do you know?" Raf asked.
"Because Soundwave came for us when we were captured." Ravage said as Laserbeak and Buzzsaw nodded in agreement.
Suddenly, Jack noticed something. "Hey Miko, what do you make of that?"
Miko crawled down the rest of the steps and walked near to get a closer look of strange pictures shown on the monitor. "It's important, real important."
At the same moment, inside the interrogation room the noises of blaster fire seemed to be getting closer, which made Ultra Magnus nervous.
"Wake up, you pathetic lump of flesh!" He said to agent Fowler.
"Daddy, it's time to go to school?" Fowler said before went back to sleep, as result of all the torture he suffered.
"GRRRR, I had enough!" Magnus roared when he heard knocks from the door, it opened and Prowl was there. "Prowl, what's all the fuss?!"
"You seem to have gotten in a big mess." Prowl said dizzy before fainting, showing that Knock Out was the one who took him down with his electric staff.
Breakdown gunned down the guard by surprise with a missile launched from a turret on his shoulder and Steve fired the other guard, eliminating the drone and Stinger, Soundwave and the eleven minicons aimed at the big Autobot.
"Not so fast, Decepticons!" Magnus growled as he converted his left arm into a blaster and aimed it at Fowler.
A metallic sound came from the top of his head. He looked up to see Airachnid with her hands aiming at him.
"I wouldn't." She said.
"But I am not you." Magnus replied with a twisted grin.
In the command bridge, the human children and the three minicons were still looking at the computer screen. "We gotta get this to Megatron." Laserbeak declared.
"How do you know it isn't just a recipe for space pizza?" Jack asked.
"Because these are cybertronian schematics, which means that Bots must be planning something!" Laserbeak realized.
"Raf, can you download it?" Jack asked.
"I got a flash drive." Raf said as he placed his book bag on the floor, unzipped a compartment, and pulled out the mentioned piece of tech. He then looked around for somewhere to plug it in. "But I don't see anywhere to plug it in. This tech is way too alien."
But no one noticed that one Autobot had entered the bridge, but not a normal Autobot, it was a heavy trooper: a Leaper (from Fall of Cybertron). He found the corpse of his fellow Autobots; so the kids and the minicons ran for cover, but Raf rushed back for his bag. The Bot saw him and changed his hands into his primary weapons: giant claws. At the same time, the standoff between the Decepticons and Ultra Magnus was still going on.
"Now, agent Slade and I will take our leave." Magnus said to the seventeen Decepticons.
"The bogeyman it's still in the closet." Fowler said still dizzy by the electric device.
Startled by the human's sudden outburst, Magnus lost focus, allowing Knock Out to land a few shots on the Autobot, and the other sixteen Decepticons fired upon him as well. Knowing he was outnumbered and outmatched, Magnus transformed and accelerated. Breakdown, Steve, and Knock Out had to move out of the way to avoid being hit as Magnus drove past them and down the hall. He knew a punishment would be waiting for him as soon as Blaster informed Optimus of his actions. The seventeen Decepticons let him go. Magnus was not the priority, Fowler is.
The Autobot leaper jumped and was about to hit Raf with his claws, but Ravage managed to grab him before the Bot hit the ground.
"Miko, take a picture!" Ravage shouted.
"Great idea." She said.
The Autobot turned to them after taking out his claws from the ground.
"Hey, you!" Miko said as she took a picture of him, the flash was so bright that it blinded the Autobot.
"Great, now take a picture of that!" Ravage said, pointing at the screen behind Miko.
And Miko did what Ravage said and took a picture of the screen. "Got it." She said.
"Now let's get out of here. Go, go, go!" Laserbeak shouted as she, the kids, Buzzsaw and Ravage ran from the leaper, getting outside of the bridge.
"That's it, run you fools. That means more fun for me." The leaper said sinisterly.
The Autobot jumped upon them and blocked their escape route, threatening them with his claws. But in the last moment, the leaper noticed two electric signals on his back: it was Soundwave, who used his tentacles on the engines of his back.
"What are you doing back there, Con? No, not that, it's overloading my energy source!" The leaper said in a panic tone.
At the end, the overload caused the leaper to explode. Finally, the Decepticons came back.
"I told you to stay put!" Airachnid scold them.
"Everyone aboard." Knock Out said.
Jack hopped onto Airachnid, while Miko and Raf climbed into Knock Out, then the fourteen minicons transformed into their cassette forms and went into Soundwave's chest then he transformed into his stereo player and landed on Airachnid. Then she along with Knock Out, Breakdown, Stinger and Steve drove off.
"I need to go to the bathroom." Fowler said, still dizzy in the back seat.
"You found Fowler! Rock on!" Miko yelled.
Finally, the Decepticons were out of the Autobot warship.
"Soundwave, please send us home." Airachnid said relieved.
Soundwave then opened the Groundbridge and they all went back to the Nemesis.
Meanwhile in the deserted canyon, Megatron, Starscream and Shockwave had finished all of the zombies.
Well done, Megatron. But this is merely a prelude. You and your Decepticons may want to save your strength for the main event." Optimus mocked, clenching his servos excitedly with his eyes still toxic green.
Megatron approached the rock wall and began to climb up toward his former brother. His thoughts were solely concentrated on ending Optimus' eons old reign of terror once and for all. "You will not be victorious, Optimus." Megatron began as he climbed up, breathing heavily. "Not as long as energon still flows through my circuits." He finished as he reached the top.
"Fitting, for it is dark energon which flows through mine." Optimus taunted as he leaned down to stare into Megatron's blue optics inches away from his toxic green ones.
Megatron tried to attack him, but Optimus jumped over him and transformed before landing inside the canyon and drove away. Megatron tried to shoot him, but he failed, so he helped Starscream and Shockwave up. Soon, the three Decepticons looked down at the battlefield, which was littered with more parts then when they first arrived.
"If this wasn't Optimus's master plan, then what is?" Starscream said, looking at all the cybertronian corpses.
Megatron stayed silent for a few seconds, before contacting Soundwave. "Soundwave, bridge us home."
Then the groundbridge opened and the three Decepticons went through it and disappeared.
Once they were back at the Nemesis, Knock Out and the diagnostic drones were treating Shockwave's and Starscream's injuries in the medbay.
"That's it, stay still. Okay, this will be alright in the morning. You were lucky that the cannon wasn't broken." Knock Out said finishing repairing Shockwave's arm. "Now let's get a look at agent Fowler's condition."
The diagnostic drones were helping reattach Starscream's arm while he was hooked up to some energon conductors.
Agent Slade was laying on a medical bed, still out cold. The children were gathered around him, until Jack walked away. "What happened to you guys anyway?" Jack asked, looking at Shockwave's busted arm and Starscream covered in scars.
"We engaged an army of undead cybertronian warriors." Shockwave explained, much to the other Decepticon's shock. Jack on the other hand…
"Zombies? You fought zombies and I missed it?!"
"Airachnid, you have exercised extremely poor judgment on allowing the humans to accompany you and Breakdown." Starscream said.
"It won't happen again, commander." Airachnid apologized.
"We promise." Breakdown added.
"It wasn't their fault it was mine." Jack spoke up.
Airachnid's optics widened. "Jack, please!" She didn't want him to take the blame.
"Are you going to answer for his mistakes?" Starscream asked interested.
"In fact, there are his mistakes." Miko said coldly.
"But that doesn't matter now. In fact, show them Miko!" Jack said as Miko showed the picture of the terminal screen.
"Mm. Shockwave, Soundwave, have a look, this could be of importance to Optimus." Megatron said after seeing Miko's phone.
"Woah, Optimus has returned? That's definitely bad news." Raf expressed.
"I…don't know what logic comes from a leaper." Shockwave said seeing the phone.
"Oops. That's the Bot who tried to blow Raf away. At least that's what he looked like before Soundwave made him blow into pieces." Miko explained.
"Is that true?" Starscream asked.
Soundwave nodded.
"Jack, Raf was almost killed because of you. This isn't a game. When are you going to get that through your thick skull?!" Laserbeak said furious.
"Laserbeak, we were almost killed too. You, me, Jack, Raf, even them." Miko said pointing at Buzzsaw and Ravage.
"I'm sorry I thought you were going to have an average day with the Decepticons but after what happened I DON'T WANT TO BE APART OF IT ANYMORE!" Jack shouted in a sad tone, shocking everyone, even Airachnid.
"Jack, putting you in harm's way was never our intent. However, it is no longer the safety of you three that is at risk, but the safety of all humankind. But we will respect your decision if you wish to leave." Megatron said.
"I wish to leave." Jack said and Megatron agreed.
And so all the Decepticons prepared to bid farewell to Jack as Soundwave opened the groundbridge.
"Come on, Raf." Jack said as he held out his hand wanting Raf to come with him.
Raf looked sadly at Breakdown.
"It's okay lad you saw plenty today." the Scottish Stunticon said.
Then Raf walked up to Jack and Grabbed his hand and then they both walked to the grounbridge, but when they were near to the vortex, Airachnid stopped them in their tracks.
"So then?" She said.
"I know. You don't exist." Jack responded as he and Raf went through the vortex.
"What? No, that's not what I meant." Airachnid said, but it was too late: Jack and Raf went home.
"Something wrong, Airachnid?" Knock Out asked.
"Yes, I never told him what I really wanted to say." Airachnid said sadly.
Meanwhile inside the Hyperion, there was a discussion between two Autobots.
"Optimus, please. Let me explain." Ultra Magnus cried as he was pinned by Grimlock who was torturing him.
"I told you to await my commands! And now because of your recklessness, the Hyperion has been damaged, and my PLANS HAVE BEEN DELAYED!" Yelled Optimus who stood behind Grimlock.
"I only wanted to do something useful, master. I only wanted to destroy Megatron for you." Ultra Magnus said, but Grimlock leaned closer to him, opening his jaws ready to eat him and Magnus began to panic.
"No one will destroy Megatron except me! Do you understand? DO YOU?!" Optimus shouted.
"My liege, I know that right now you want to punish Magnus more than anything, but to save annoyances, Blaster and I have discovered how to set your plans back on course." Bumblebee said, caching his attention and making Grimlock free Magnus.
"Explain now, Bumblebee." Optimus said.
Jack was inside the garage of his house finishing a bicycle to ride. Suddenly, a few lights revealed Knock Out, and Miko came outside.
"Now I understand why you had to rush home." Miko quipped after she closed Knock Out's passenger door.
"Don't you have something more exciting to do, Miko?" Jack asked without looking away from his project, not really in the mood to talk.
"So, this is where you hang, huh?" Miko began, walking toward a bucket which had a snowman ornament inside. "Back home in Tokyo, I have loving parents and two purebred cats, Chi-Chi and Ding-Dong. I went to the best school, took piano lessons since I was three…"
"How nice for you." Jack said dully, still not looking away from his work.
"No. How boring." Miko corrected after she placed the snowman ornament back inside the bucket. Surprised by the statement, Jack stopped working on the bicycle wheel and finally turned to look at Miko. "It wasn't me. That's why I transferred here."
"Do you have a point?" Jack asked impatiently, not understanding what Miko was trying to tell him, but he wasn't really interested.
"You bet, I just want to know why you've acted like this!" Miko said, causing Jack to sigh.
"Ever since my dad died, I've been raised to be responsible. To my schoolwork, my mom and my job." Jack said.
"Jack, normal is so overrated. So stop trying to be normal, you'll never fit in. You were born to do so much more." Miko said as she returned to Knock Out and went back to her home leaving Jack alone with his thoughts.
Meanwhile, in the Decepticon base, Soundwave and Shockwave had finished analyzing the equations that Miko took a picture of.
"It can't be. Lord Megatron, these plans are engineering specs for a space-time vortex generator." Shockwave explained.
"Optimus is preparing a space bridge, if he hasn't already." Megatron deduced.
"The sooner he leaves the better." Steve said.
"Steve, a space bridge runs in two directions." Shockwave corrected.
"Optimus might not be using it to leave Earth, but to bring through his conquering army." Megatron finished.
"The main event he referred to." Starscream began. "But the only place Optimus could possibly recruit that many would be…" The Seeker trailed off when the frightening realization hit him and his optics widened. "By the Allspark."
"Exactly." Megatron said in a similar tone before looking upward as we travel through space we come to a planet but not just any planet, the homeplanet of the Autobots and the Decepticons. "Cybertron."
Optimus wasn't just bringing an army of the undead, he was bringing a whole planet of the undead.
To be continued…
Deaths
476 Terrorcons
34 Vehibots
1 Two wheeler Vehibot
1 Autobot Tank
1 Aerialbot
1 Autobot Leaper