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Transformers Animated: Different Angle
Chapter 24: Dogfight
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers Animated
(Jacy's POV)
Kylie and I immediately run for it as the two cons rapidly approach. Just as we're about to make it to the trees, a ray of ice hits the ground in front of us, creating a huge ice wall. The ice now blocking our path, we go to run a different way, only for Blitzwing and Lugnut to transform and land in front of us with their weapons ready. Protectively stepping in front of Kylie, I feel the energon inside me run cold as I look at the two cons.
"Hello, Shrieky!" Blitzwing's random persona says to me with a big grin and a wave, "remember me?!"
Oh great. He gave me a nickname.
Blitzwing then swaps to his icy persona. I watch as his monocle extends out as he looks at us. "readings indicate zhat both of zhem each have an AllSpark fragment," he says to Lugnut before bringing his monocle back to normal.
The bigger con threatenly takes a step forward. "Surrender the AllSpark fragments to us!" he orders.
"Not happening!" Kylie says, frowning at him, "they're ours!"
"They do not belong to you!" Lugnut argues, "they belong to Lord Megatron! And we intend to give them to him!"
"Patience, Lugnut," Blitzwing says to his partner. He then looks at me. "Ve vill take zhem by force if necessary. Zhough if jou cooperate, perhaps our leader vill grant jou mercy."
I look at the fragment I'm holding. First we were forced to flee the city by Airstrike, and now this? Even if I do cooperate, Megatron would still offline me. And what would happen to Kylie? If I were to cooperate for her safety in return, they could still hurt her, or worse. I don't trust them.
I look back up at Blitzwing. The entire time I've been here, I've been fearful around these cons, and they knew it. I'm tired of being afraid. I'm not going to be intimidated this time.
Closing my servo tight, I look him in the optic and frown. "No," I say bravely, holding my ground.
He frowns back at me. "Be smart," he says, "I suggest jou reconsider," he then swaps to his hothead personality, "or ve vill take jou to Megatron in pieces!"
"I'm not scared of your threats," I say, pushing away my fear, "Megatron is not getting these fragments."
"How dare you defy us, traitor!" Lugnut exclaims angrily.
I turn my frown to him. "And lets get one thing straight. I am not a traitor because I was never a decepticon. Yes I am a triple changer, but I didn't chose to be one. It just happened."
"Jou have a decepticon shell!" Blitzwing's hothead persona argues, "jou originated from decepticons! Jou dare to deny zhat?!"
"I am not a decepticon!" I tell him angrily.
"Zhen jou are no better zhan zhe autobots!"
"I'd rather be one than serve Megatron! He only cares about his own self interests and will do any cruel ruthless thing to get what he wants! We help the autobots here because Optimus Prime and his team are willing to help others and do the right thing, even if it means risking their own sparks! And I for one want to be like them!"
"Me too!" Kylie shouts boldly, standing beside me with a brave face.
"Enough!" Lugnut roars. He glares at me. "You will pay for your words, femme! Megatron will have justice!"
Both of them make their way towards us, making me and Kylie back up against the ice wall. Glancing around, I see no way out. Except for... up.
Slag.
Immediately I pick up Kylie. "Hold on tight to your fragment," I tell her.
"What are you-" she goes to ask, only for her question to cut out when I activate my thrusters. "Uh, Jacy? Jacy?!"
Here we go.
I rapidly take off into the air before the two cons could grab us. Kylie and I both fearfully scream as I shoot upwards, her holding onto my arms for dear life while I try to control myself. I spiral for a moment until I make myself hover.
"Please don't drop me!" Kylie yelps.
I vent heavily as I try to keep my balance. I can't believe I'm doing this!
I look to see Blitzwing and Lugnut heading straight for us in their aircraft modes. Facing the other way, I take off like a bullet... though not a very good one. I zigzag a little as I try to keep my balance. Though it doesn't last long. The two cons start firing at us, making me spin around uncontrollably as I try to dodge them.
Blitzwing then flies up right behind me. "And I zhought I vas zhe only one vho couldn't fly straight!" his random personality teases me as he moves side to side, "now I understand vhy jou don't fly! Jou are terrible at it! Maybe instead of firing at jou, I should just vait until jou make jourself crash land! Ahahaha!" He zooms right by me, making me lose my balance yet again. I let out a shriek as I end up falling downwards, now shooting towards the ground as Kylie screams. Trying not to panic, I swing my legs under me, bringing myself back up. Soon as I regain control, Kylie and I both vent in relief.
"You will not escape us!" I hear Lugnut shout as he speeds over from the side.
"Jacy, on your left!" Kylie shouts, making me look in the opposite direction to see Blitzwing charging at me as well. Immediately I get out of the way, making the two aircrafts head straight for each other. Both fearfully screaming, they quickly steer away before they could collide. It's not long until they come back around and head towards us again.
"You will pay for your defiance!" Lugnut shouts as he transforms into bot mode, "Megatron will not be denied!"
I fly off the other way, only for Blitzwing to get in my path and fire a ray of ice at me. Shrieking, I dodge it just in time... causing it to hit Lugnut instead. A thick layer of ice rapidly forms around the bigger con, trapping him. Unable to fly, Lugnut lets out a muffled yell as he falls out of the sky and into the lake down below. It's not long until he pops back up from under the water, the ice keeping him a float as he remains trapped in the iceberg.
Blitzwing transforms into bot mode as he looks down at his partner, his random personality in control. "Vhoopsie!" he says. He then looks up at me, his jack o lantern face grinning big.
Now feeling creeped out, I fly away from him as he chases me in bot mode and resumes firing, making me fly all over the place as I dodge both ice and heat blasts. Soon as he stops, I look over my shoulder to see his hothead personality taking control.
"Jou von't get avay from me!" he yells, gaining speed.
Panicking, I fly up higher and higher into the sky with him right behind me.
(Third POV)
On an airplane passing by, a little boy is sitting at a window seat while playing with a toy robot.
"Whoooooosh!" he says as he makes it look like it's flying against the window. Just then he notices something outside. Squishing his face against the window, the boy sees a flying beige and purple robot with a red face and visor chasing a red and grey robot holding a smaller blue robot. Although he can't hear them over the sound of the plane, he watches as they zig zag back and forth in and out of sight. He then sees the bigger bot having the red one in his servos as she frantically and continuously hits him on top of the helm with her fist, still holding onto the terrified blue bot clinging to her other arm for dear life. The red bot finally knees the beige one in the gut, causing him to inaudibly yell in pain as he lets go. This causes the red one to spin backwards uncontrollably and out of sight as the beige one angrily gives chase again.
"Mommy! Mommy!" the boy says, tugging his mom's sleeve as she reads her book, "there's giant flying robots fighting outside!"
"Uh huh, that's nice dear," the mother says, not even paying attention.
(Jacy's POV)
Kylie and I scream as I flip backwards. Soon as I come to a stop, we both have the same sick look on our faces.
"I'm gonna throw up if you keep flipping around like that!" Kylie tells me.
"It's not like I'm doing it on purpose!" I exclaim, frowning down at her. Though as I look down, my optics fearfully widen. I had no idea how high up I am until now. I feel even more dizzy as I begin to shake.
Kylie notices this and begins to worry. "Jacy, breathe!" she tells me fearfully, "vent, do something to calm yourself down! Just don't pass out!"
"Aww, is someone afraid of heights?!"
I look to see Blitzwing with his random personality back in control as he transforms into a jet. "Jou should have stayed on zhe ground like any ozher, vhat's zhat vord again... oh, jes! Chicken! Ahahaha!" Immediately he starts firing. I frantically dodge him as he flies right past me, though I end up spiraling downwards towards the lake. I panic for a moment, but eventually stop to think as I regain control. Soon as I do, I stop and hover in the air. I'm still high up, but at least I'm not too high up anymore. I try my best to think of a way to get rid of Blitzwing. Remembering something, I look at Kylie.
"We have to get his hothead personality in control," I tell her.
"What?!" she exclaims, "won't that just make things worse for us?!"
"Trust me," I tell her. I look to see him approaching. Preparing myself I say, "fire everything you got at him!"
Both of us using our free servos, we activate our mods and fire at him. I nearly lose my balance again, but am able to position my thrusters just in time before I can go flying back. Our attacks don't work as he easily dodges and fires an icy blast at us. Immediately, and clumsily, I get out of the blast's way as the triple changer shoots past us.
"Okay, come on, come on," I say as I try to think, seeing him turning around to come back. Wait, I have an idea! "Kylie, your radio!" I tell her, "you have to play something really loud! Something that will make him angry!"
"Let me see what I can find," she says.
"Hurry!" I tell her.
She immediately looks through the radio stations as Blitzwing approaches with his cannons ready.
"Ooh, I found something!" she says.
"Play it!" I say, making sure Kylie faces him. Having to dodge his blasts, I hold onto Kylie as she activates her cannons.
"Let's party!" she exclaims before turning it on. I flinch as really loud upbeat scratchy music begins playing out of her cannon and right at the triple changer.
"Vhat zhe slag is zhat?!" I hear his hothead personality yell angrily, "turn zhat off right now or I vill-" he doesn't finish as he transforms into a tank. "Slag!" he exclaims as he falls into the lake, making a big splash in the process.
My audio receptors ring as Kylie turns off the music, both of us looking down at where he fell.
"Huh," Kylie says, "well that happened."
"Let's get out of here." I say. I take off flying, not wanting to be around in case he recovers. As I fly, I let out a series of vents, trying to calm down. I have never felt so much adrenaline before in my life. I think I might actually puke. I look down at my reflection in the lake as I soar over it. That's when it finally sinks in.
I'm flying!
I feel the air blowing through me as I start picking up speed. This feels... amazing!
"Whoohoo!" I shout happily as I speed up more, even purposely spinning around as I laugh.
"Whoa!" Kylie exclaims as she holds on, "what's gotten into you?!"
"This is so cool!" I exclaim excitedly, "I'm actually flying!"
Kylie continues holding on tightly. "As happy as I am for you, I'm gonna be sick!" she exclaims, making a face, "can we please land?!"
I look down at her and chuckle. "Sure thing." Just then I hear something coming from behind. Looking over my shoulder, my optics fearfully widen when I see a hotheaded Blitzwing heading straight for us in bot form. I bring my attention forward again as I fly away from the lake and over the woods. That's when I feel a heat blast hitting me in the back, followed by a burning pain as I lose control. Kylie starts to scream as I plummet towards the ground. Not wanting her to get hurt, I flip around so that I will get most of the impact. The next thing I know, I hit the ground hard, pain now ringing throughout my entire body as I tumble and turn. As I do this, I end up losing my hold on both Kylie and the fragment. Soon as I stop, I feel every joint and fiber in my body in so much pain as I lay on my front.
Hearing a groan, I look over to see Kylie laying on the ground a little ways behind me, covered head to toe in dirt.
I try getting back up, the pain practically screaming as I try to move. Just then I hear the sound of thrusters approaching before Blitzwing lands down beside me, his hothead personality still in control.
"Jou two zhink jou're so clever, don't jou?!" he asks angrily, "let me guess, zhe autobots tipped jou off about my little flaw?!"
He brings his pede down on my back, pushing me back down to the ground. I can't help but let out a cry as he presses down on my burning wound, making it sting like crazy as I dig my digits into the dirt.
Blitzwing scoffs at me. "Pazhetic! And to zhink Airstrike is intimidated by jou!"
My optics widen when he says this. "Wh-what?" I ask, turning my head to look up at him.
His face swaps to his random one as he bends down, the weight increasing on my back as I let out a slight whimper. "She vas really mad vhen jou vhooped her skid plate at zhe stadium!" he says before his head spins to his icy face. "Zhe fact zhat jou did has made her believe jou are a threat. Even I have to admit I vas impressed. Zhen again, jou had zhe autobots help jou. A shame for jou zhey aren't here."
Suddenly, a sound wave blasts hits him. Unfazed, the triple changer looks over to see Kylie on her knees with her cannons aimed at him.
"She still has me!" she says angrily.
He looks at my friend and smirks. Standing back up, he keeps his pede on me as he faces her. "Oh jes. Zhe sidekick. I'm afraid simple sound vaves aren't going to do much to me." He then switches to his random personality. "Maybe I should bring jou as vell and use jou as a stereo! Ahahahaha!"
She charges up her cannons again. "Oh yeah?!" she exclaims, "well this stereo is going to give you one heck of a headache, Buddy!"
She fires again, this time applying loud music. Both me and Blitzwing cover our audio receptors as the waves hit his helm. I look up to see his hothead personality taking control as he takes his pede off of me.
"Vhy jou little annoying bug!" he angrily exclaims over the music as he lowers his cannons, "I vill tear out jour musical cannons and-"
He doesn't finish as I activate my mod and fire at him. Letting out a surprised yell, he goes flying back before skidding across the ground on his back. Soon as he's down, Kylie turns off her mod and rushes over to me.
Fighting the pain, I force myself back up as Kylie helps.
"Are you okay?" she asks me.
"Yeah," I tell her, "you?"
"I'll live," she says, "unless us crash landing is going to be a regular thing, then I'm not sure I'm okay with that."
A laugh escapes my mouth, only to make the pain worse. Fully back on my pedes, I look to see Blitzwing starting to recover.
Quickly thinking, I look at Kylie. "Find the fragments," I tell her, "I'll deal with Blitzwing."
"You sure?" she asks me, slightly worried.
I nod. "I got this."
Nodding back at me, she begins searching.
I look back at Blitzwing and let out a vent. I must be crazy right now. I just took a big fall, my back is burning, and I'm planning on fighting an unstable decepticon bigger and stronger than me. Either I hit my helm during the fall... or I'm actually ready to fight back.
It's not long until Blitzwing sits up and glares at me. Soon as he gets back up, he rushes over and lets out an angry yell, ready to punch me in the face.
Remembering what Prowl taught me, I ignore the pain and immediately dodge his punch and spin around, kicking him in the back. He lets out a grunt as he staggers forward. Turning around, he faces me with a look of shock on his face. His expression soon changes as he maliciously grins at me.
"Oh ho, jou asked for it!" he says as he brings his fists up.
I ready myself. "Bring it," I tell him boldly.
Blitzwing goes for another attack. I am able to dodge him until I see an opening. Once I do, I give him a good upper cut to the chin, making him stagger back. Now angry, he lowers his cannons down and fires, causing me to make a force field around myself. Soon as I drop it, I immediately fire a blast at him, making his pedes skid back as they tore up the ground.
He switches to his icy personality and fires ice at me. Activating my thrusters, I launch myself into the air before I could get hit by his attack. Looking up at me, the con smirks as he raises his cannons up slightly and tries again. I dodge him as I fly around. However, it doesn't last as the ray manages to hit my wing and freeze it, making me shriek as I go off balance and fall to the ground. He's about to freeze me completely until I quickly make another forcefield. This causes the ice to freeze over it, covering the forcefield halfway as the rest expands past it. Dropping the field, I hear his face swap as he approaches, making me get up and back away. With one blast, he destroys the ice, the force making me fly back and roughly land on the ground again. Thankfully the impact was able to break the ice off of my wing. But still, ow! Regaining focus, I fearfully gasp when I see Blitzwing towering over me. I go to use my mod again, only for him to grab my wrists and twist them around so my palms face me. Laughing, he hoists me up, refusing to let go as I try to free myself from his grasp.
"Not so tough vithout jour forcefields, huh?!" he asks tauntingly, "looks like I vin!"
Refusing to give up, I bring my leg back and kick him hard in the shin. A look of pain spreads across his face as he releases me and lets out a yell, even hopping up and down on one pede. Making a fist, I wait until he looks up at me before I give him one good punch in the face. Soon as I hit him, his head spins around uncontrollably before stopping at his random face, now looking very dizzy.
"Ring around zhe rosy, ve all... fall... doown," he sings poorly before falling flat on his back.
I almost forgot about the pain I was feeling, making me groan a little. At least I'm still moving. Seeing Blitzwing sitting back up, I activate my mod and aim my servo. Looking up at me, his optics widen when he sees my mod aimed at him.
His face swaps to his hothead one as he gives me a glare. "Go ahead," he challenges, "finish it!"
Frowning, I pull my servo away. "That might be how you do it," I tell him, "but not me."
He switches to his icy personality. "Zhat is very honorable of jou," he says. He then gives me a smirk.
The next thing I know, he swings his stabilizing servo under both of mine and knocks me onto my back. And if that wasn't painful enough, he brings his heel down hard into my gut. A huge painful grunt escapes my mouth as I curl up into a ball and hold my stomach.
As I try to vent through the pain, I look to see Blitzwing back on his pedes as he aims his cannons at me.
"Unfortunately, such honor can lead to downfall," he says, charging up his weapons to freeze me.
"Hey!"
Frowning, he looks over to see Kylie standing a little ways away from us with a smirk on her face.
I know that look. What is she up to?
"I bet you're not so tough without your cannon thingies!" she taunts.
His face swaps to his hothead one as he raises his cannons over his shoulders. "Oh jeah?! Maybe I should come over zhere and tear jou limb from limb vizh my bare servos!"
"Then come and get me!"
Growling, he furiously runs towards her. My optics fearfully widen as I activate my mod. But before I can even do anything, Kylie grins as she dives out of the way before he could grab her, causing him to fall forward and down a steep slope.
"Aaah!" he yells as I hear him tumbling down, followed by the sound of him painfully grunting along the way. Getting back up, I make my way over to Kylie just as Blitzwing reaches the bottom and lands on his helm.
"Ooooh!" Kylie winces, "that's gotta hurt!"
He looks like he's about to get up, only to collapse on the ground and lay there unconscious.
...He's down. That means...
"Holy crap, we actually won!" I say in disbelief.
"Yeah, we won!" Kylie cheers.
I can't help but laugh as we both cheer over our victory. I feel the pain as I do this, but I don't care.
"And guess what I found!" she sings happily as she reveals the fragments, "not only did we beat the bad guys, but we still have the fragments! If I had my phone, I would so take a victory selfie right now!"
"We should probably leave before he recovers," I tell her as she hands me one of the fragments.
We both transform, me having to fight off the pain as I do it. Soon as we're in our vehicle modes, we drive away from the area. As we drive, I can't help but mentally grin. Even though I nearly got turned into an botsicle, I still managed to fight back. I feel proud of myself and of Kylie.
I begin to think about what Blitzwing told me about Airstrike. If she is threatened by me, then it explains why she ran us out of Detroit. But why not just offline me? And why did she want to know how we got here? Maybe she just wanted to know where a couple of neutrals came from in case there were more? But when we told her where we're from, why did she-
"Jacy?"
Snapping out of my thoughts, I bring my attention to Kylie. "Yeah?"
"What are we going to do now?" she asks me.
… That's a good question.
I think for a moment. "Well, we do plan on staying, but we still can't risk endangering humans if we return to the city. Though if we stay here in the woods, the cons could track us and continue to hunt us down. We're kind of stuck."
"Then we should get unstuck."
I let out a vent. "Easier said than done." Deciding to bring it up, I ask Kylie, "hey, did you hear what Blitzwing said about Airstrike?"
"That she's intimidated by you?" Kylie asks, "yeah. That explains why she wanted us to leave."
"My thought exactly," I say, "but if I'm a threat to her, why didn't she just offline me or take me to Megatron? And did you notice her reaction when you said we were from another universe?"
"What about it?"
"When we told the bots that, they didn't believe us. She responded... differently."
"Now that you mention it, that was kind of weird," Kylie says, "maybe she just decided to go along with it."
"I don't know," I say, thinking out loud, "something doesn't feel right. What if-"
I don't finish as I hear the sound of a jet coming up from behind, making me worry if Blitzwing already recovered. But when I look, I see its not him. It's someone else. The very same jet we're talking about.
Kylie and I immediately stop as Airstrike transforms and lands in front of us, not looking too happy.
Oh boy, lol! I hope you all liked this chapter and the action in it. Definitely wanted Jacy to interact more with Blitzwing and there will be more of that in the future. I loved writing her finally stepping up and fighting back. I felt like it was time for her. I still can't wait until she and Kylie meet the other characters like the Elite Guard, dinobots, Lockdown, etc. Oh boy, I also figured out a while back what will happen when they meet the constructicons. That's going to be funny lol.
Anyways, thanks for reading and I hope to update the next chapter soon. Until next time! God bless!