Transformers 2: Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla

Chapter 3: Breakout

Earth Wars Trilogy

With all of Team Prime having fallen from just outside Earth's atmosphere all the way down to the surface, thus causing Megatron to give the order for all Autobots to be terminated as soon as possible, Arcee, who was still in her cell located in the underground Decepticon prison complex in Egypt, was approached by the two Vehicons responsible for guarding her cell.

"Get up, Autobot", the first Vehicon said after they entered the cell.

In response, Arcee gave a confused look to the two Vehicons as each of them grabbed one of her arms to get her on her feet.

"We have received orders from Lord Megatron for you to be executed as quickly and as efficiently as possible, so you are coming with us", the same Vehicon said as they made their way out of the prison cell.

Given just how damaged, both physically and mentally, Arcee was, she was still in no condition to fight back against the two Vehicons, as much as she wanted to. Even still, with her impending death approaching, all that was on her mind was the traumatic experience of her watching Cliffjumper perish at the hands of Starscream right in front of her. Her feelings right now were a mixture of pure negative emotions, ranging from sadness over the loss of Cliffjumper, regret that she could not do anything about it, and pure, unbridled hatred for his killer, Starscream.

As the two Vehicons escorted Arcee down the halls, however, a certain Autobot who just so happened to land in the same location was following and spying on them, that being, Optimus Prime's trustworthy scout, Bumblebee, who was trying to be stealthy in order to follow the Vehicons and wait for the right time to strike, given that he was sure there had to be at least a handful of Vehicon soldiers responsible for maintaining order in the prison complex.

As Bumblebee kept following them, however, his footsteps became ever so slightly too loud, causing one of the Vehicons to look behind him, but thankfully, Bumblebee was quick enough to hide behind one of the walls within the hallway.

"What was that?", the one Vehicon asked.

"Probably nothing. Come on, we've got a job to do", the other Vehicon replied before they both continued walking with Arcee in their grasps.

Just then, however, Bumblebee knew that this was the perfect opportunity, and before the Vehicons could get any further, the Autobot scout jumped out from behind the wall and shot down one of the Vehicons with his double-barreled blaster! Noticing that Bumblebee had just killed his partner, the other Vehicon turned around and tried to shoot him with his blaster, but Bumblebee was able to dodge him very easily, as Vehicons were known to have subpar aim at best. Then, with little to no effort, with just a couple of shots from his blaster, Bumblebee shot down and killed the other Vehicon, and with both Vehicons terminated, Arcee was now free to turn around and face Bumblebee.

"Bee…?", Arcee asked, quietly, as she could hardly believe her optics that it seemed that, somehow, the Autobots were able to find her.

Now focusing on helping his friend, Bumblebee rushed to Arcee and let out some of his bleeping and blooping, asking her if she was alright.

"Yeah, I'm fine…", Arcee said in a tone that probably indicated otherwise.

Noticing this, Bumblebee again tried to communicate to her that he could help by placing his hand on her shoulder and with his usual bleeping.

"I said I'm fine…", Arcee replied in a harsher tone, indicating that she wanted Bumblebee to back off.

In response, Bumblebee did so, but not without showing with his facial expression that he was somewhat hurt by her being so brash with him.

"I—I'm sorry…", Arcee sighed. "It's just…with Cliffjumper dying and…", she continued, clearly losing her composure, as she was still traumatized from what she saw.

Bumblebee communicated to her with his bleeping and blooping again, asking her if she wanted to talk about it.

"No, I don't wanna talk about it…at least not right now…", Arcee replied. "Come on, we should probably focus on getting out of here…"

Giving out a nod and a couple of bleeps, Bumblebee agreed as they both walked down the hallway together, with Bumblebee placing his hand on her shoulder to help her, as she was still damaged from her battle with Dreadwing in Jasper.

"If you don't mind me asking, how were you able to find me? And…why aren't the others here…?", Arcee asked.

Bumblebee replied with his bleeping, stating that finding her was actually a coincidence due to the rest of Team Prime having fallen down to Earth due to them having stood on a meteor comprised of Dark Energon that ended up crumbling into pieces, among other things.

"Wait, you're telling me that this is all a coincidence because you and the others fell from a meteor and back down to Earth…?", Arcee questioned.

Right after she asked this, however, the two Autobots ended up walking into a large Decepticon mining operation within the prison complex, resulting in the entire squadron of Vehicons there now being aware of their presence.

"The prisoner! She's escaped!", one of the Vehicons exclaimed as they all pointed their blasters at them.

With this, all the Vehicons instantly began firing a barrage of blasts at Arcee and Bumblebee, to which both Autobots were able to dodge their attacks, followed by Bumblebee asking Arcee via his bleeping if she would be able to fight in her damaged condition.

"I'll be fine, Bee, but I may need some extra support for this one…", Arcee replied.

After giving out some more bleeps in response as an understanding of Arcee's reply, the two Autobots fought back by blasting Vehicons down left and right, with Bumblebee taking the lead in doing so and taking extra time to protect Arcee, given her damaged condition.

Even though Arcee was damaged and it was just her and Bumblebee against a whole army of Vehicons, both Autobots were as determined as ever to fight for their lives in the prison complex, hoping that after making it through far enough and eliminating any Vehicons in the way, they'd be able to escape from the prison and eventually reunite with the rest of Team Prime.

Meanwhile, however, on another part of the globe, in France, on the Atlantic coast of one its finest beaches, the summertime French populace was minding their own business and enjoying their time at the beach. But then, in a mere split second, from the depths of the ocean, rose the upper body of the one and only Godzilla as the water flowed down his charcoal-colored scales as he let out a resounding, "Skreeeeeeeoooooooonk!", at the top of his lungs, sending the people on the beach and even the city into mass panic as Godzilla was beginning to make landfall.

Normally, Godzilla would take his time in making his way out of the ocean and setting foot on land. This time, however, he was rushing as fast as he could towards the coast. It was obvious that, for one reason or another, Godzilla was in more of a hurry than usual. As a result, with just how large and bulky the King of the Monsters was, large waves of water came rushing down onto the shore, ingulfing many of the unfortunate humans on the beach and most likely killing them, but Godzilla did not care, as he was clearly more focused on whatever his current objective was.

"Skreeeeeeooooooonk!", Godzilla roared again as he made his way off the beach and into the city, where his patterning was different here, as well. Normally, Godzilla would take his time to destroy as many buildings and city blocks as he could to really make the humans pay for the sin they committed against him so long ago. This time, however, while still annihilating buildings in his wake just by walking through and around them, Godzilla seemed to be making a bee line for something located in France that he wanted.

As he continued stomping his way through the cities of France, however, Godzilla ended up being engaged by the French military in the form of a squadron of military jets swarming him, flying around him as they fired their missiles upon him. Just like usual with the military's futile efforts to stop Godzilla, the missiles of the jets did not damage his thick, reptilian hide. Despite this, the military attacking him still irritated him, so Godzilla easily dispatched all of the jets around him in a variety of ways, such as thrashing his arms into the jets, using his tail to swat them into oblivion, and even using his mouth to crush the jets with his teeth and strong jaw, all while roaring furiously as he did so. Godzilla was also engaged by some tanks as well, but they were even easier to deal with, as Godzilla simply kept stomping through the city and crushing the tanks while doing so.

Eventually, despite the military's wasted efforts at trying to stop him, Godzilla was able to reach what he had come here for, that being none other than a power plant, and if there was anything about power plants that Godzilla needed, it was all that sweet radiation that he fed on both to survive and to get stronger, and this power plant was particularly large. So, if the size of this power plant meant anything to Godzilla, it meant that it had enough radiation for him to use, not only feed, but to get significantly stronger as well.

As he stood directly over the power plant, Godzilla began siphoning all the radiation from it, as what appeared to be a white stream of nuclear energy arose from the power plant and into his mouth, and as Godzilla absorbed more and more radiation, not only his dorsal plates, but his eyes and his scales all began glowing a bright blue, indicating that he was ascending in his power. As he continued absorbing the radiation and his whole body kept glowing blue, the French military continued attacking him with their jets, but Godzilla didn't even pay any attention to them, as their firepower did not even do a hint of damage to the King of the Monsters.

Eventually, Godzilla was able to absorb all the radiation from the power plant, still glowing blue and having an increase in his overall power. With the fighter jets of the French military still attacking, Godzilla knew that he could dispose of them how he usually does by simply swatting them into oblivion, but now, he was equipped with an attack that could be used to destroy all the jets around him in one, fell swoop. After taking a brief moment to charge himself up, Godzilla let out his nuclear pulse, in which a large, omni-directional blast wave comprised of pure atomic energy occurred from Godzilla himself, which blasted all the jets into smithereens in an instant, along with even a lot of the infrastructure around Godzilla as well. Once the nuclear pulse dissipated, Godzilla's scales and eyes were no longer glowing blue, but his dorsal plates still were due to his power increase.

"SKREEEEEEOOOOOOONK!", Godzilla roared again towards the sky as a show of victory and dominance over both growing stronger and being easily victorious over the futile attempts of the French military.

For whatever reason, Godzilla was in a position where he needed to increase his power, evident by him being in a hurry to absorb all the radiation from the power plant, but with just how powerful Godzilla already was, it was clear that if there was a threat that was causing him to need to become even stronger, it would not be a threat to take lightly…

Back in the underground of Egypt, in the Decepticon prison complex, now having successfully disposed of all the Vehicon soldiers responsible for watching over it, Bumblebee was finally able to lead Arcee to the exit of the prison that the scout had previously snuck through to rescue her. Just as they were making their way to the exit that would lead them to the surface, however, a silver, sleek jet flew in with an exceptional sense of style just before transforming into his robot mode, revealing himself to be Starscream, the Decepticon responsible for the death of Cliffjumper.

"Going somewhere, Autobots…?", Starscream asked with a smirk immediately after transforming.

As soon as Starscream revealed himself, while Bumblebee looked at him with a face indicating he was ready for battle, Arcee's look was different, as her optics were completely stretched open with her blue eyebrow pieces tilted towards her mouth as she gritted her teeth. Given that she was still holding onto a lot of emotions after what happened with Cliffjumper, all Arcee could think about right now was how much she hated Starscream with every fiber of her being, and how much she wanted him to pay while holding that hateful expression on her face.

Starscream continued his monologue. "You honestly think I would allow either of you to leave when I have scores to settle with both of you?", he asked with a smile.

Before Starscream could even think or say anything else, Arcee, even in her damaged condition, charged at him with full force in a blind rage to make the Decepticon pay for the murder he committed, screaming furiously while doing so. Given just how wounded she was, her physical attacks were not fast enough to land a hit on Starscream, as Starscream was able to dodge her with little to no effort.

"Sorry, but in your current condition…you're too slow!", Starscream yelled with extreme arrogance and malice as he dodged her attacks before kneeing her right in her abdomen as hard as he could! With Arcee now disoriented, Starscream used his sharp fingers to claw her at the side of her face, causing her to take enough damage for her to fall to the ground. "Now, time for me to finish what I started in finally terminating you just like Cliffjumper…", Starscream said as he pointed his missile at her.

Before Starscream could fire, however, Bumblebee came rushing in to save Arcee by punching Starscream away twice in his face as hard as possible, sending the Decepticon back a good bit. Arcee made some moves to attempt to get up and resume attacking Starscream, but Bumblebee motioned his open hand towards her while giving out some more authoritative bleeping, telling her that she shouldn't interfere with this fight, given her wounded condition before returning his attention to Starscream.

"And you, Bumblebee…I still have not forgotten how you running me over caused me to fall off of an entire building those three years ago!", Starscream yelled. "Do you understand how humiliating that is for a high-ranking Decepticon commander like myself?! I will make you pay for ever thinking you could possibly hope to stand up to me, Autobot…", he sneered as he spread out his fingers, indicating he was ready to use their sharpness if it came down to hand-to-hand combat.

"Star…scream…", Arcee whimpered as she stuck to the ground.

Bumblebee, given his caring nature, took a moment to look back at her to make sure she was alright. However, Starscream ended up using this as a distraction, in which he fired his missile directly at Bumblebee. Thankfully, Bumblebee was able to hear the sound of the missile coming towards him fast enough to where he was able to grab Arcee and dodge it, causing the missile to hit the wall instead. Then, after giving some more bleeping to Arcee, again to communicate to let him handle it, Bumblebee set her down the ground before charging at Starscream as he fired his blasters at him.

Even though Starscream was not very well-renowned when it came to physical strength, he was very skilled in his agility and ability to dodge barrages of fast, incoming objects, including blaster fire. Because of this, Starscream was able to dodge all of Bumblebee's blasts and countered by firing his blaster at him twice, in which both blasts made contact with Bumblebee, causing the scout to be halted in his charge towards Starscream.

With Bumblebee halted, Starscream fired his other missile at him, but Bumblebee was able to dodge it, just like the first one. He then transformed into his car mode and drove towards Starscream as fast as he could. Thanks to Bumblebee's speed in vehicle mode, he was able to reach Starscream before the Decepticon could even think to retaliate or escape, in which Bumblebee transformed back into his robot mode, jumped into the air, and punched Starscream in his face! Bumblebee then attempted to go in for another hit, but Starscream blocked his fist with his hand and longer fingers. The same thing then happened with Bumblebee's other hand, resulting in both of them clashing their hands together with each one trying to gain the advantage over the other. Bumblebee was then able to release one of his fists from Starscream's grasp and tried to punch him in his stomach, but Starscream was able to get out of the way just in time before using his clawed fingers to scratch Bumblebee in his face, causing him to be disoriented enough for Starscream to kick him in his stomach and send him back a good bit.

"You're going to have to try harder than that this time, Bumblebee…", Starscream smirked as he ran towards him with an opened hand to deal an upper cut with his claws to his opponent, hurting Bumblebee even more.

Starscream then attempted to hit him again, but this time, Bumblebee was able to grab Starscream's arm with both his hands with his brows furrowing as he looked towards him, clearly giving the look that he had enough of Starscream having his way in this fight. Before Starscream could even react, Bumblebee began twisting his arm to where the joints within it were turning in ways they were not meant to be turned, resulting in Starscream experiencing a pain similar to if a human's muscles were to get pulled by twisting their arm too much.

"Ow! Ow! OW!", Starscream yelled in pain as Bumblebee twisted his arm.

With Starscream distracted due to the pain, Bumblebee let go of the arm before quickly unloading on him by punching him in his face multiple times. After hitting him again, and again, and again, and even securing a solid hit right between his optics, Starscream was sent hurtling onto the ground! He then attempted to get back up, but before he could, Bumblebee aimed one of his blasters at him, communicating via his bleeping that if Starscream were to attempt at leaving or try anything, he would have to shoot him.

"Grrrrrrrrr…", Starscream growled in frustration as he lost to Bumblebee yet again.

Via his bleeping and blooping, Bumblebee looked over at the exit briefly at one point while communicating to Starscream that he would allow him to leave and leave him and Arcee alone, and in doing so, he would obviously let him live. In response, Starscream cautiously stood back up as Bumblebee still had his blaster aimed directly at him. He was also clasping his stomach and slightly hunched over due to his injuries from the battle.

"Very well, I will allow you to have this victory…Bumblebee…but know that there will come a time where I will settle our score…", Starscream sneered as he set his sights on leaving the prison and abandoning the fight.

While watching the interaction take place, however, Arcee found herself in a state of disbelief as he saw someone as heroic as Bumblebee so casually choosing to spare the life of the Decepticon who killed her own best friend and partner right in front of her. In her mind, she made the decision that if Bumblebee did not have the spark to kill Starscream here, then she would have to take matters into her own hands…

"Not today, Starscream…", Arcee whispered to herself before swapping out both her hands for her blasters and fired on Starscream.

Given that the blaster fire caught both Starscream and Bumblebee off-guard, the blasts made contact with multiple parts of Starscream's body, each doing little damage on their own but the amounting damage of all of them ended up causing too much for Starscream to bear, especially when one of them hit him directly in his knee, causing him to fall to the ground, on his back. With her most hated enemy down, Arcee quickly approached the downed Starscream, in which Bumblebee tried to communicate to her to stop with a worried expression on his face.

"Bee, stay out of this!", Arcee demanded.

While whimpering a bit, Starscream attempted to get back up, as he was now on his hands and knees and at Arcee's mercy. Even though Arcee was still damaged, given that Starscream had taken multiple hits from Bumblebee and that she was able to get the drop on him, it was safe to say she was the one with the advantage now.

"I take it you are enraged due to…what happened with…Cliffjumper…", Starscream mused with a growl. "Please…I've already accepted that I've lost this battle, and Bumblebee promised me I'd live if I retreated now… Please, have mercy….!"

"You're pathetic", Arcee frowned. "Here you are, begging for me to show you mercy when you couldn't even do the same for Cliffjumper!"

"Well, to be fair, he never exactly begged for it…", Starscream replied, still relying on making smart remarks, even in the most dire and offensive situations.

"Raaaaaargh!", Arcee yelled as she kicked Starscream in the face as hard as she could!

"Aaaaaaaaaargh!", Starscream yelled as he was sent flying back a good bit.

Starscream then attempted to get back up, but before he could, Arcee used the blade on one of her forearms to slice it across his face, causing him to fall back down and even sending him back a bit further, as well. At this point, Arcee was so sad and so angry at the loss of Cliffjumper that she did not care about anything at this point. She didn't care if harming Starscream like this was against the Autobot way, she didn't care of what Optimus Prime would think if he were there, she didn't care how much pain Starscream was in, she didn't even care that Bumblebee was there and was about to stop her.

"This is for Cliffjumper!", Arcee yelled as she aimed both her blasters at the downed Starscream.

Before Arcee could do anything, though, Bumblebee rushed towards her grabbed both her arms with his hands, forcing her to stop by restraining her to where she could not aim them at Starscream.

"Bee! Let go!", Arcee demanded as she tried to break away from his grasp.

With Arcee restrained, the now frantic and injured Starscream got back on his feet and with how wounded he was, and with how angry Arcee was, all Starscream could think about now was just leaving.

"Fine! Forget this! I'm getting out of here!", Starscream declared. "My only regret was that I didn't get to punch a hole through you the same way I did to Cliffjumper!", he yelled before transforming into his jet mode and flying out of the exit as fast as he could, breaking the sound barrier due to his intense speed in jet mode.

As for Arcee and Bumblebee, the sheer thrust Starscream emitted from flying out of there was enough to cause Bumblebee to let go of Arcee and for both of them to land on their backs, in which they both immediately got back on their feet.

"Starscream!", Arcee yelled in frustration as she heard the Decepticon flying in his jet mode getting farther and farther away. "Bee, what was that?", she asked him with a strong edge in her voice.

In response, with a stern look on his face, Bumblebee let out some more bleeps and bloops to Arcee, informing her that, while Starscream should be, in some way, punished for his crimes, she was taking it too far.

"'Taking it too far?'", Arcee questioned in disbelief. "That's the big issue here? You think that, when it comes to being in the middle of a war and there's someone responsible for killing your own partner right in front of you, that that is the main thing to be concerned about?!"

Bumblebee responded with his bleeping again, pointing to himself and stating that, while the loss of Cliffjumper is a heavy burden to bear, she is not the only one who has gone through a significant, personal loss in her life because of the actions of a particular Decepticon.

"Really? What could you possibly know about loss?", Arcee asked, clearly not thinking about anything she was saying due to her blind rage and sadness, but then, as soon as she asked that, it all caught up to her. It was obvious what Bumblebee was referring to, that being how Megatron was responsible for removing Bumblebee's own voice box during the War for Cybertron. "Bee…I'm sorry…I…I just wasn't thinking…", she said as her voice got much sadder and more mellowed down.

Accepting her apology and understanding her situation, Bumblebee placed a hand on her shoulder as he communicated with his bleeping.

"Let's just…find a way to reunite with the rest of the team and get back to base…", Arcee sighed before walking away from Bumblebee and transforming into her motorcycle mode, followed by her driving towards the exit and out of the prison.

With a now sad and pitying look on his face, feeling horrible for everything Arcee was going through, Bumblebee transformed into his car mode and promptly followed her out of the prison and onto the surface of Egypt, where he hoped that, at some point, Arcee would find a way to get herself out of the dark mental state she was currently in.

Back in France, with Godzilla having just laid waste to the French military and having absorbed more radiation via one of their power plants, the King of the Monsters now stood atop a large cliffside, located just above the ocean with his dorsal plates still growing their bright blue thanks to all the radiation within him. While standing there, Godzilla looked out into the distance with an angry look on his face and growled. It was clear that there was something out there that he held some sort of animosity towards.

"SKREEEEEEEEOOOOOOONK!", Godzilla roared into the sky, which was a roar so angry and loud that the entire country of France could hear him.

With Godzilla intent on absorbing even more power, along with the loud, enraged roar he let out, whatever it was that Godzilla had his sights on, it was something that had him really pissed off. With him now intending to raid and absorb radiation from even more power plants across the globe, Godzilla leaped off the cliffside he was just on and dived straight into the ocean, causing a massive splash of water to occur right where he dove, which even harmed many of the unfortunate humans caught in what was practically a tsunami that occurred right at their shore.

At the same time, somewhere in the large mountains of Bolivia, for one reason or another, another Titan was waking up from his hibernation, and when this creature was waking up, its sheer size and strength from under the mountains caused the mountains it was hiding under to be destroyed. With the creature now freed from its mountainous prison, this Titan revealed itself to have been coated in gray scales, seeming to be quadrupedal, and had a long tail which had some short, dirty yellow spikes placed on top of it. With this Titan officially awakened from his slumber, he let out his resounding roar to let the world know that he had returned…

"GAAAAAAAAOOOOOO!"