Chapter 22: Crisscross, Double Cross, Revenge In Your Lap
Review Replies
Frostspiderman: I'm guessing it's the ark on the moon and one traitor sentinel prime.
Dragon Emperor0: Right ship. Wrong bot. In the Aligned continuity (Prime timeline) Sentinel is dead. The Autobot or Autobots in the Ark are two very close friends of Optimus and Prowl specifically.
ThermalsniperN7: We won't say who.
B.E.A.T.N: An intense but great chapter. I loved the little nods to stuff like Helluva Boss in this one, as well as seeing stuff like Milo going, to quote Archer, "RAMPAGE", mode, to save her fiance. And I love the build up of Breakdown thinking about whether he's on the wrong side or not. I look forward to seeing the Autobots fighting off MECH more. Until next time, have a great day/night and stay safe.
Dragon Emperor0: Luckily for them both, revenge will come much sooner than they think. And MECH shall know… Pain.
ThermalsniperN7: And it will be glorious. Here's a Bioformer fact: Pissing them off is a bad idea.
-The Darwin Household-
It was several weeks after Tiberius had been captured, tortured and basically used as a living blood bank by MECH for their so called 'Project Chimera', and the boy had managed to recover mostly pretty well.
Barring a bit of difficulty transforming back and forth between his three forms and some moderate cognitive-motor skills lag that made his limbs move randomly or difficult to move at all. But Rachet had told him that it should pass in a few days.
Right now the boy was in the bathroom splashing his face with water, having a brief flashback to the torture, but he quickly shook it out of his head.
Luckily, a pair of slender and feminine arms wrapped around her arms, making him relax as Miko pressed her currently towel clad body against his own similarly clad back.
"Don't worry, hon. I'm here." She whispered comfortably into his ear. Tiberius turned around and pulled her close.
"Have I told you how much I love you?" The blondie asked as he hugged his fiancé close to him, resting his chin on her head.
"Yes, and you'll continue doing so." The rock stated knowingly as she rested her head in the crook of his neck. Tiberius sighed as he tightened his hold on her slightly.
"... I still can't stop the flashbacks…" He whispered, his voice slightly shaken.
"Would you like me to try and take your mind off them?" Miko asked as she kissed his cheek and down his neck.
"I'd like that." The golden Bioformer sighed in content. The girl smiled as she brought him to their bed and made him lie down, before she crawled on top of him and discarded their towels, and slid herself right into place, and started bouncing.
Needless to say, it didn't take long for them to find themselves in bed rutting like rabbits.
(Elsewhere)
Meanwhile in the wood somewhere unknown, MECH was sweeping through the wooded area looking for something. Though there was something different about them this time: amongst the humans in the ranks, were several Cybertronians with MECH green armor plating.
"Stun only. We want this one alive." Cylas told his soldiers as they trekked through the woods. "And if you newly christened Bioformers believe you can take her on hand to hand, do so." He addressed the cybertronian hybrids.
"Yes, sir." One of them—A Bioformer with camo colored plating and glowing dreadlocks—responded before seeing movement in the trees, prompting him to aim his weapon at the various branches above them.
"Easy, Dreadlock, it was just an owl." One of the other Bioformers said. This one seemed to have goggles on and had a pendulum ring wrapped around its left arm.
"I'm not so sure, Dreameater." Dreadlock stated warily. The sound of something heavy crashing close by suddenly got their attention, prompting everyone to aim their weapons in the direction of the sound.
It was then that the Decepticon they were following, the rogue hunter Airachnid, appeared out of the trees. And when she saw Cybertronians that had Shield projector emblems that she'd never seen before who were working with humans, it made her feel understandably confused.
It was in this moment of confusion that the Bioformer Dreameater uncoiled his metronome arm necklace and started swaying it in front of her, which caused hypnotic waves to start making their way towards the con's optics.
Arachnid snapped out of her confusion and quickly dodged the hypnotic waves before sending a quick blast at the snake-like tool. She then took off in another direction with MECH following after her.
"She's quick, I'll give her that." Dreadlock noted as his arm transformed into what looked like a Scimitar sword.
"Wingnut, do you have eyes on the target?" Cylas questioned as a green MECH camo colored Bat-like Bioformer flew overhead, blasting sonar from its mouth that registered back to its head that had a plate in place of eyes.
"Affirmative, and she's moving fast." The bootleg bat Bioformer replied. As they came up to a canyon, he transformed into his robot form which made him look similar to Batman Beyond to a degree. As he walked through the pathway ahead of his comrades, he sent a soundwave out of his mouth to show him his surroundings via echo location.
His echolocation didn't return any sign of their target, and as the group kept going, everyone noticed the large webbing that riddled the canyon. Eventually, Airachnid struck and trapped the normal soldiers minus Cylas in one of the webs. In another moment, the MECH Bioformers were pinned to the walls along with Cylas himself, which was when the femme decided to talk to him.
"You know, I didn't think you MECH boys would follow the signal of an injured Decepticon, especially when it could be used as a trap for what you did to poor Breakdown." Airachnid said as she looked at Cylas… Not noticing that Wingnut was perched on the cliff behind her, ready to strike. "As an ex-con myself, I really should gut you for that." She added.
"I'll be sure to remember that next time." The man shot back. Arachnid laughed at this.
"There won't be a next time." She told him. Cylas then gave her a smirk as he gestured with his broad chin.
"I wouldn't be so sure." He said as the giant mechanical bat jumped from where he was and kicked Airachnid clear across the cavern before landing in a position that showed that his wings were like that of arm gliders in his robot form. And that they were razor sharp, just like the claws he just deployed and the Batarangs he had on hand.
"Urg, and who're you supposed to be?" The spider-like femme questioned as her opponent got into a combat stance.
"The name—is Wingnut." The Bioformer stated as he brought out three bat shuriken in each hand before he threw them at her.
The hunter evaded the projectiles and shot webbing back at him, only for him to dodge and throw a single shuriken at her. Airachnid smirked as she caught it… before noticing it was beeping.
"I really shouldn't have done that." She deadpanned to herself before screaming as she was shocked with enough volts to leave her feeling drained.
The bat Bioformer smirked as he charged towards her and started delivering blows to her chassis with his sharp edged arm-wings. The arachnobot also started striking at him with her spider legs, but due to her opponent's energy sonar and sound imaging, he was able to block her with ease, judo flipping her clear across the ravine.
Airachnid growled as she got up, became bipedal again and charged at Wingnut once more—only for him to jump over her, and use two foot claws he had on his foot to grab her by the back of her head and then slam her into the ground, face first. He then kept his foot on her to keep her pinned down.
"Just stay down." Wingnut told her, pressing down on her more as Dreadlock and Dreameater got themselves and the others free. "What should I do with her, Cylas? Should I gut her and get it over with?" He questioned as he deployed his claws again.
"No. We need her alive to further our research." The man replied, looking at Airachnid. "Let her up. I'm sure she realizes by now that any resistance is futile." He told his subordinate.
As Wingnut backed away from the Femme bot, she got up and glared at the hybrids before her. "Betraying your own kind to work with humans? You all disgust me." She spat, however, her distaste soon turned to surprise when they turned back into their human forms.
Dreadlock turned back into a muscular black man with dreadlocks and a short beard. His MECH uniform missing the mask and jacket, with a sleeveless shirt.
Dreameater transformed back into a young man who looked to be Native American who had goggles on, as well as his hair in a wolf tail and also had a dream catcher around his neck that looked similar to the hypnosis device he had in Robot form.
And finally, Wingnut was a blonde Caucasian teen with a jagged scar going across his face where his eyes were, which was covered by a blindfold. He also had a collapsible combat walking stick strapped to his waist.
"... Bioformers. Should have guessed." Airachnid said as Cylas approached her.
"Now, I'm curious, Decepticon." He said. "How interested would you be in a mutual trade?" He continued.
(Elsewhere)
At Jack's house, he was currently in the kitchen cooking some meatloaf sandwiches. As he finished assembling and packing the food items into a few brown paper bags, he walked outside and met Arcie and the others at the edge of the drive.
"Left one for mom, got one for me, and about one, two, three, four for you guys." The boy said as he handed over the sandwiches.
"Awesome. Let's see… Meatloaf, ciabatta bread, argonian string cheese, Balsamic mushrooms… oh sundried tomatoes…" Tiberius listed off as he let the food's scent hit his nose.
"Definitely chunky too." Raf noted.
"And… Is that cardamom?" Sierra questioned as she smelled her own sandwich.
"Yeah, we had some leftover ground lamb so I thought why not?" Jack shrugged as everyone got into their rides, however before Tiberius got in Optimus, his hand started to spasm and move oddly, so he slammed it on a mailbox to make it stop. "Uh… You okay, Tiberius?" He asked.
"Yeah, just some motor functionality lag, it's getting better though." The blondie sighed as they all headed to school.
(Later)
During school that day, the whole student body was pretty much still buzzing about Miko moving in with Tiberius and the former having an engagement ring on her finger.
Likewise this sewed a multitude of rumors as to why this was the case. It ranged from Tiberius proposing to her in Japan as a result of her almost dying, to them getting engaged because the blondie got the music lover pregnant for the very same reason.
Granted, that last one was false, but teens liked to talk. Additionally it seemed like the couple's proximity to Jack and Sierra also somehow started spawning rumors about them as well. Namely that the two were also dating and that they were dangerously close to passing third base.
The reality of the situation was far less romanticized…
"Hold on, when did you two start dating?" Tiberius questioned as he and Jack got their lunches.
"Uh… While you and Miko were in Japan. After we got trapped in a place called the shadow realm with a zombified Skyquake trying to get Raf's toy car when it went through the ground bridge." Jack explained as they walked down the hall.
"... How does that even happen?" The green eyed boy asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Two ground bridges overlapped. That's how." Sierra stated, her arm around her boyfriend's waist.
"Wait, do you mean I missed my first Zombie con throw down?! Aw weak!" Miko groaned in dismay.
"Miko, I know for a fact that neither of us want that." The blondie stated as they say at a table.
"Maybe you don't, but I really wanted to fight a few of those guys." The female Bioformer said as they went to lunch.
(Later)
Later on Jack and Arcie were driving to the boy's house when they noticed that Tiberius was following them on a familiar looking pink and black motorcycle.
"Uh, Arcie? You seeing that?" Jack asked his partner.
"You mean Miko letting Tiberius ride her? Yep." The two-wheeler stated, not realizing the double meaning behind her own words. She then adjusted her mirror to look at him. "Why are you looking at me like that?" She questioned. "Was it something I said?" She asked.
"A little bit, yeah." The boy nodded with a small blush under his helmet as they parked at his house, with Tiberius following suit and the two-wheeler he was riding was then allowed to transform back into her human form.
"Jeez, does transforming always make you feel this cramped?" Miko questioned as she started stretching as June Darby started to pull up.
"Initially, but you get used to it after a while." Tiberius replied.
"Thanks for the tip." The rock girl nodded. However they all soon clammed up when Jack's mom pulled into the driveway.
"Oh crap. Okay everyone, act natural." Jack said as his literal helicopter mom got out of her car.
"Jack, we need to talk." The single mother said sternly.
"Um, about what?" The boy asked nervously.
"I know you chose that motorcycle because you said you felt responsible enough to ride it. But lately I've been hearing that you were around street races lately." She said as the statement made the other two tense up. "Not to mention the things that's happened to Miko and Tiberius so far. It's like you're looking for trouble."
"Well, that's not necessarily true, Mrs. D." Tiberius said. "Honestly it's more like trouble tends to find us. Not the other way around." He explained.
"Yeah, I mean I didn't ask to be tortured by some crazy bitch, but apparently one found me anyway." Miko added.
"Forgive my skepticism on that matter." June replied.
"I still don't see how this has anything to do with my motorcycle. I mean I'm not in some bad crowd, you've met all my friends before." Jack retorted. "Besides, that race was a one time deal, I haven't done anything like that since then." He added.
"Yes, but I work in an emergency room. I've seen what happens to street racers." The woman stated. "I don't want you in that situation. So, starting now, you're not using that motorcycle for two weeks." She declared.
This made everyone look at each other, and then at Arcie, who ever so slightly deflated onto her kickstand. This was not going to end well.
(Later)
As Tiberius was flying around in his jet form one day during the week after that incident, he soon took notice of a trio of odd looking figures. The first two being vehicles: a Hummvee with what looked to be tubes coming out of the back, a Tamaiya 4x4 with a tomahawk on the back and a large dream catcher on the grill, and the third was… a giant camouflage mechanical bat?
'What the hell…?' The airborne Bioformer thought in bewilderment. The bat itself reminded him of the black Bat zord from Power Rangers: Jungle Fury.
He did a quick scan of them and saw the one thing that he didn't expect. 'They're Bioformers?!' He thought in shock at the new development before he noticed a familiar symbol on each of them. 'MECH?! Those sons of bitches!' He cursed mentally with anger.
As he continued to follow the three cybertronian hybrids in disguise, he soon had to stop to avoid detection when the three stopped at an abandoned quarry. Which upon closer inspection happened to be crawling with Vehicons.
The three then transformed and Wingnut then opened his mouth and used his sonic imaging to get a picture of what was underneath.
"Jackpot. This should give us plenty of Energon to make more Bioformer serum and further project Chimera." He stated as Dreameater stepped forward and looked down at all the Vehicon soldiers.
"They outnumber us ten to three." The bot noted as he took out two tomahawks. "Any ideas?" He asked Dreadlock.
"If we take initiative, we might be able to take them all out with no problems." Dreadlock replied as his right arm transformed into a gun. As they got ready to pounce, Wingnut went first and transformed, swooping down and grabbing one of the Vehicons and throwing him over the cliff, causing him to scream as he fell with a crash before the bat bot landed and got the attention of the other soldiers.
The Vehicons quickly started firing at the intruders, trying to repel them from the quarry. The Bioformers, however, were more than able to overtake them in a cascade of gunfire and blade swings.
Two Vehicons had Dreadlock cornered and were punching him repeatedly, but before they could get him on the ropes, his dreads suddenly plugged themselves into the backs of their heads and fried their brains.
Meanwhile, Dreameater was fighting a particularly beefy Vech and he was apparently able to resist the bot's hypnosis. After getting sucker punched by the con, the MECH hybrid decided that enough was enough and whipped out his two Tomahawks.
With a roar, he started hacking away at the beefy Vech and left nothing but a pile of scrap behind. He then proceeded to move on to his next target.
Wingnut, however, was having the least trouble. Effortlessly dodging the blasts of the cloned drones so that they shot themselves, slicing them with his arm wings, blowing them up with his shuriken, and draining their energon through his claws, the hybrid was a one bot army.
As the fight finished, the three then turned their attention to the quarry. "Alright Mechateers, let's move." The nocturnal leader of the trio said as they made their way into the mine.
Meanwhile Tiberius watched as they ran in with disbelief all over his face.
'This is what MECH is doing with my genes?!' He thought with wide optics. 'I need to get back and report this!' He thought before flying back to base.
(Later)
As the jet Autobot landed in outpost Omega 1, he quickly transformed and in, very much out of breath by the time he got there.
"Fuuuuck…" He groaned as he flopped on the couch. "Okay, that's not fun." He breathed.
"You okay?" Miko asked as she sat next to him.
"No! I just saw three—count 'em, three—Bioformers that MECH apparently just created." The blondie told her.
"Did I just hear that right?" Ratchet questioned. "MECH is basically manufacturing their own Bioformers?!" He growled.
"From the looks of it, yes." The blondie groaned as he laid his head on Miko's lap.
"Uh, that sounds bad." Raf gulped nervously.
"That's definitely not the half… Of it." The boy nodded as the Autobot's computer suddenly came on with a communication line from Fowler.
"This is the Autobot base, what is it, agent Fowler?" Ratchet questioned.
"A bad situation, doc. It seems that Jack's mother Mrs. Darby has been kidnapped by MECH." The agent stated. "Jack just barely managed to contact me with a communicator he snagged from Cylas, so we're running out of time." He added.
"Oh no!" Sierra gasped.
"Okay, now I'm mad!" Tiberius growled as he got up. "Ratchet, how's my body doing? Is it well enough for a fight?" He asked the medic.
"Go ahead and transform first." He told the Bioformer. Tiberius nodded as he jumped off the railing and transformed. "Alright, let's test your reflexes." He continued as he threw a punch at Creator, who quickly dodged, but when he retaliated with a punch, his hand spasmed briefly afterward.
"A brief spasm, but it's small. Not sure if that's a good thing." The boy reported.
"That's to be expected. I suggest not getting into any drawn out fights and attack as quickly as possible. Or stick to ranged attacks or vehicle mode if possible." Ratchet told him as Miko transformed as well.
"I'll make sure he stays out of trouble." The pink two-wheeler chuckled.
"Very funny. What are the coordinates?" The flying Bioformer asked.
"Setting them in now." The ambulance said as he recalibrated the ground bridge and activated it. "I'd advise you to keep an eye out for MECH's forces, but I'm sure you already know." He said as the two nodded and transformed into their vehicle modes and burst through the portal.
(Elsewhere)
At the MECH base, Jack's day was turning out to be terrible. He had to put up with not being able to be with Arcie, and now MECH kidnapped his mom and Airachnid was making a sport of his efforts to find his only parent! He really wanted to yell at someone right now!
However before he could stew in his musings anymore, he saw a giant bat Cybertronian land where his mother was and was glaring down at him while Airachnid was following him.
"Ordinary civilians playing parts in a war for a world that isn't even theirs. The world really has gone to hell." Wingnut said as he went into his robot form.
"Says the one that basically gave up his humanity." Jack shot back angrily as he clambered up to where his mother was webbed up.
"All for the cause of a better future." The Bioformer shrugged in reply. However as the boy was trying to get his mom free, Airachnid tried to jump onto the water tower and knock him off it—but that action was thwarted by a missile suddenly coming out of nowhere and nailing her in the back.
"AGH! What the-!" She shouted as she hit the ground and looked up at the sky to see Creator speeding toward the site with Octavia close behind. "Um, a little help?" She questioned.
Wingnut rolled his eyes as he called in to his comrades. "Dreadlock, Dreameater, you have two bogies coming in at two and twelve o'clock. Deal with them." He ordered.
"Got it." They replied as they went to meet their adversaries.
Back with the two Bioformers, they sped into the site and transformed to robot mode with weapons ready.
"I got eyes on Mrs. D." Creator said as he saw Wingnut and Airachnid terrorizing both her and Jack.
"And I got eyes on two MECH mooks riding our asses." Octavia added as she saw Dreadlock and Dreameater headed straight for them. Activating her Resonance Blaster, she set its octave level to 190 decibels. "Let's see how they like Slash Monkey." She grinned as she fired.
The second the sound waves reached them, they started swerving out of control before reflexively transformed to cover their audio sensors. They grimaced as they tried to walk forward, but it was apparently too much for them to handle as they writhed in pain.
"You and your heavy metal." The Son of Primus chuckled as he turned towards Wingnut and Airachnid before he deployed his chest cannon at them and started shooting, being mindful of the Darbys.
"Whoa! Careful with the shots!" Jack called as he tried to free his mother.
"Just focus on getting your mom free!" Creator called as Arcie started speeding towards them and Octavia started pushing Dreadlock and Dreameater back with her sound. "We'll handle these two." He added as Arcie transformed and flying sidekicked Airachnid.
"You sure you're up for this?" The blue two-wheeler asked as she landed beside him.
"I'm well enough to get a little payback on these ripoff artists." The golden Bioformer replied.
Wingnut sighed as he jumped into the air and transformed, silhouetted against the moon behind him before swooping down after Creator specifically, opening his mouth and shooting out a tightened sonar at him as a sort of sound battering ram.
Primus' descendant grunted as the soundwave hit him, causing him to skid back a few feet from the impact. The Rogue Bioformer then followed this up by flying towards him and causing the curved blades of his wings to ignite with energon and slash at him as he flew past his opponent at the speed of sound, doing significant slashing damage.
Creator groaned as he stumbled, clutching his side where he was hit, seeing that he was bleeding. Wingnut then started turning for another pass, and the gold Cybertronian then changed his eyes to their black rippled form.
Stretching out his hand, Creator focused and let out a yell, as a sudden gravitational wave pushed Wingnut away from him just as he was about to make contact.
The bat-like Bioformer grunted as he crashed to the ground, the impact forcing him back to robot mode. He looked at Creator, who glared right back at him.
"Well, that's unexpected." The blind Bioformer said. Creator winced as he welded his wound shut before he pulled his arm back towards himself.
"Universal Pull." He growled as another gravitational force pulled Wingnut towards him good enough for him to clothesline the hybrid and then stomp him to the ground, before limping over to a wall to rest against.
Meanwhile with Octavia, the two Mechateers that she was fighting were diligently moving closer and closer towards her despite the sound barrage, only for the song she was using to cut out and allow the two a moment to attack her. Dreadlock uses his dreads to stun her and Dreameater to sucker punch her.
"Okay, so you're not just basic grunts." She grunted as she regained her footing. Dreameater then took out his dream catcher-like hypnosis charm and started trying to hypnotize her, and unlike with Airachnid, it worked this time.
"Alright, got her subdued." The hypnotic MECH Bioformer said. Cracking his knuckles, Dreadlock then reared his arm back before delivering a haymaker to the two wheeler's face, sending her flying and knocking her unconscious.
However before either could finish her off, they both were blasted through a nearby building by two chest cannon shots from Creator, before he passed out from exhaustion.
Meanwhile back with Arcie and Airachnid, the two femmes were duking it out and the blue Autobot did manage to get the upper hand when she tripped her Nemesis up and made her fall into a cement tub which Jack then filled with quick drying cement.
The spider femme sprang up and flailed for a bit before she stilled. Arcie knew it wouldn't hold her for long, and quickly made her way to Jack and June to help rescue the latter.
"Creator and Octavia are both down, so we have to hurry and move fast." She told the boy.
"I don't think we'll need to." Jack replied as Fowler came flying in with several helicopters and a fight ensued as Airachnid broke from the cement and then suddenly scanned one of the helicopters and transformed!
Jack, June and Arcie glared at the spider themed femme as she flew off.
(Elsewhere)
Meanwhile Cylas saw the way Airachnid transformed and made sure to keep it in mind for the next step in project Chimera, before he and his forces all pulled out. Bioformers in tow.
(Later)
A few minutes later, the mother-son duo were busy having a conversation as Fowler walked up to them.
"Ms. Darby, this may seem like a lot, but I just figured I ought to tell you that Jack has been interning… at the agency." The man said, giving his cover story.
"Uh, Fowler? Mom's not gonna buy that." Jack told him, knowing this couldn't be covered up.
"He's got that right." June nodded with a flat look on her face. It was at this point that Creator and Octavia groaned and were helped up by Arcie, causing the woman to look at them as the two transformed into their human forms.
"Ngh, I think I liked it better when the guys we found weren't that good at fighting." Miko groaned as she rubbed her head as a knob started to develop on it.
"Tell me about it…" Tiberius groaned as he held his side, which a medic quickly tended to.
"What… the…?!" June uttered with wide eyes as she looked at the two teens.
"Yeah, there's a lot to explain, mom." The black haired boy sighed, knowing he was about to have a long conversation about this. It was then that Arcie walked up to them. "Mom, this is Arcie. My motorcycle, guardian, friend." He told her.
"June, we have a lot to talk about." The two-wheeler told her charge's mother as she knelt down.
"... I think it's time you took me on that ride I made you promise." June said as she looked at her son.
"Yeah. I think so too." Jack nodded.
(The next day)
The day after everything went down Jack brought June to the Omega-1 outpost to meet the Autobots. Needless to say, the woman was very surprised.
"Mom. Meet my science fiction club." The boy chuckled as he made a bit of a call back from an earlier conversation. This made June smile as the bots faced her, along with the other humans present…
However this was soon interrupted by Tiberius suddenly exclaiming from his place on the couch as he looked at the files he snagged from MECH, which Raf had decoded.
"Holy shit!" The blondie exclaimed in shock as everyone turned towards him.
"What's up?" Sierra asked as she came over to him.
"These files! They're… you know what? You need to see this with your own eyes!" The hybrid said as he showed her the files.
"What the—? Is that a Tomb on Mars?" The redhead questioned as Jack and June made their way up the stairs.
"And a Cybertronian ship on the moon, yes." He nodded.
"How in the world did both of these go unnoticed? Better yet, how'd MECH find out about these?" Miko wondered.
"No idea." Her boyfriend replied as he showed the bots.
"By the Allspark…" Rachet gasped as his optics widened.
"Hey, ain't that the ARK?" Wheelie noted.
"Shit, that thing's seen better days." Brain added.
"Hey Ironhide, what's that say on that tomb there?" Skids questioned.
"Can't tell, the inscription is too small." The weapon's specialist stated, squinting. This was when Optimus stepped forward and zoomed in with his optics.
[Optimus?] Bumblebee asked, concerned with the look on his leader's face.
"You okay?" Bulkhead added.
"I know who's tomb that is." The Prime stated, getting everyone's attention.
"Who's?" Tiberius asked as he looked at the picture again.
"It is a memorial to the last Prime to join with the Allspark long before the fall of Cybertron. Who left our planet in self imposed exile when he struck down one of his fellow Primes in self defense, a prime whom he loved dearly." The Autobot leader explained heavily. "This is the tomb and memorial of the twelfth of the original Primes: Megatronus. Wielder of the Requiem Blaster, Vanquisher of Terrorcons, Lover of Solus Prime and Simply known as the Fallen." He continued.
The Autobots all took a step back while Tiberius looked at the image of the tomb with wide eyes. He had done some research on ancient Cybertronians, and he'd seen Megatronus' name more than a few times. He never expected his tomb to be so close to home.
"We should investigate these two areas at some point. See what's there." Ironhide noted.
"Yeah, you're probably right. But how? We don't have a Space Bridge, do we?" Arcie questioned. That was when Tiberius finally spoke up.
"I think I've got an idea on how to manage that." He said, getting everyone's attention. "My vehicle mode is capable of space travel, so I could fly there and investigate myself. To see what's out there." He added.
"Won't that take a toll on your energon reserves?" Mathias asked in concern.
"My engines are pretty powerful and efficient, so I should be able to make the trip without burning through too much energon." The boy replied. "Plus we have two mines completely under our control so I can always refuel." He added.
Optimus looked at the two images and then nodded slowly. "Then we are counting on you Tiberius, when you go. Be as careful as possible." He added.
"You got it." The boy nodded as Miko hugged him from behind.
Dragon Emperor0: … I can't believe one of Agent Fowler's one off con names would actually become the name of an actual Cybertronian. And yet, here we are. The debut of the neutral faction of Bioformers, the MECHateers with their—admittedly kinda badass—leader: The Xanatos minded Wingnut.
ThermalsniperN7: Tiberius has every right to be angry about that due to them basically being made from his suffering. Anyone would be.
Dragon Emperor0: Also, before you guys ask, Wingnut can siphon off Energon. But he doesn't do so very often, hence why you guys didn't see it today. Also… Apparently there's a tomb on Mars. Weird.
ThermalsniperN7: Why didn't NASA's probes notice that? I know the tech for those is probably good for surface scanning, but I feel like the high metal content that's likely in the tomb would have gotten their attention.
Dragon Emperor0: Probably because it was being covered up… Why does that sound like the perfect setup for Sector Seven to come into the picture?... Anyway, see you guys next time.