Hello there, everyone and what's up? I have returned once again with the third chapter of "Indomina's ONE Adventures". Thank you for the early reviews and support for this crossover between Transformers Prime and Transformers One.
Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers Prime and Transformers One. They belong to Hasbro and Paramount Pictures. Go check out Tomb Spyder's "How Very Logical" and "A Shift In Logic" as well on SpaceBattles and Sufficient Velocity, they're both good read.
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Going For A Walk
Accompanying the four Cogless bots to discreetly investigate the source of the rumbling outside the cave, Indomina saw a fleet of these Quintessons hovering above the skies of Cybertron. It shocked Orion and his friends to witness Cybertron's ancient enemy having free reign on their home world's surface as they come and go as they please.
Whoa, those ships look dangerous and they could outnumber the Nemesis ship if it was here..., she observed them scanning for source of any lifeforms on the surface through red encompassing beams to detect. The Predacon winced when she saw a Quintesson ship blow up an unlucky herd of cyber-deer on spot from a far distance with a massive blue explosion, sending the remainder fleeing for their lives.
She may be the strongest Predacon but even she knew better than to pick fights that she cannot win and doing so would end up with losing her life as a result. It would be very illogical as her Creator would say to her.
On the other hand, the Cogless bots felt grateful that they had accepted Indomina's offer to give them a ride earlier or else they would have been in serious danger had they continued their journey on foot.
Luckily, the Quintessons never seemed to scan the mountain where the Cybertronians were hiding now especially when the mothership, the largest of their fleet, had passed by above them and made its landing on the surface. Unless they had done it before our arrival. I guess Alpha Trion's stasis locked body being buried beneath the rubble must have shielded him., she wondered to herself.
"He's here... Sentinel Prime is here!", D-16 told the group after hearing a familiar sound, catching their attention.
Indomina narrowed her optics to take a closer look at this Sentinel Prime, which she can see him in his blue shiny looking glory with golden wing-themed jetpack and rocket boots, both of them have glowing purple thrusters. He was accompanied by seven Cybertronians in their flight and ground alt-modes and their own respective squads of Vehicons that she can recognize easily.
Keeping up with Sentinel's retinue were two speeding trains that have self-replicating tracks to travel on their path.
Sentinel Prime looked like he's the shinier version of Ultra Magnus with obsession of looking good on his paint job like Knock Out. But why is he not in his alt-mode? Hmmm, I guess he possessed a ground vehicle form* and just wanted to have a flight advantage to himself..., she thought in observation about the traitor in person.
The group watched Sentinel and his retinue make their landing, the latter group transforming out of their alt-modes, in front of the Quintesson mothership that was about to open its gaping fleshy maw, and the two trains had finally stopped on their tracks after reaching their destination. They saw a cadre of Quintesson soldiers, like the ones from Alpha Trion's accurate retelling of the Thirteen's massacre at the cave, marching out of the mothership's ramp to make way for the leader emerging himself.
"So that's Sentinel Prime. To be honest, he is very gaudy. Who are those guys with him by the way?", Indomina asked the Cogless bots, laying herself down so that she won't be seen as best as she could.
"The one in black is Airachnid, Sentinel's second-in-command, Miss Indomina. The other six Cogged are his Six Great Generals*. A group of six powerful warriors that lead the Trackers army and protect Cybertron from threats since the High Guard had disappeared. Or so we thought...", Orion Pax explained with a face of disappointment at the said group being accomplices of Sentinel's deal with the Quintessons.
Airachnid? The psychopathic Decepticon femme that Creator had captured and she was never seen again. I wonder if Creator turned her into a new bot too as well just like he did with Tarn..., she internally suspected to herself. Then again, this Airachnid here is different. Figuratively and literally. She certainly gives me the creeps with those multiple optics on her head...
"I can't believe it... Thunderglide and Behemoth* were in cahoots with Sentinel...", D-16 muttered, feeling betrayed and confused.
Elita-1 remarked, "Not to mention Strika, Obsidian, Tankor and Jetstorm."
Meanwhile, the Predacon focused her audio receptors to eavesdrop on the meeting down there, which she did hear Sentinel Prime telling Airachnid to keep her eyes open and his second-in-command simply replied that they always are. She's definitely a threat to be disposed of first. She's like The Soundwave to him as his eyes and ears..., she thought.
Before the group's optics, Sentinel Prime, Airachnid, the Six Great Generals and their Trackers have bent on their knees together in front of the Quintesson high commander towering over them and it shocked the four Cogless bots. The said commander was even taller than the golden winged Cybertronian who motioned for the two trains to release the cargos of sealed crates. In response, the Quintesson mothership began to retrieve them with its extensions for extraction, bringing them out in mid-air.
Elita-1 commented, having recognized her work at the waste management, "I load those crates. They're filled with toxic metal."
Orion Pax wondered in confusion, "That makes no sense. What do the Quintessons want with toxic waste?"
And then the sealed crates open to reveal large cubes of Energon inside the whole time before they were absorbed by the Quintesson mothership in mass quantities.
D-16 muttered in horror, "Our Energon!"
The daughter of Shockwave internally noted, I recall that Energon can be explosive if they're detonated as an improvised weapon. If I destroy those Energon cubes, it would cripple or destroy the Quintesson ship taking them in as a chain reaction. And then I lead Sentinel and his forces to chase after me, so that Optimus and his friends would be given a breathing room and use the opportunity to take Alpha Trion to safety away from here.
With that, the Predacon began to stand up from their hiding spot, which surprised the Cogless bots. "You four, go back to the cave and get Alpha Trion out. It's about to become a Splash Zone here soon."
"What are you doing, Miss Indomina? They're gonna see you!", Orion Pax said in concern for the Cogged femme getting caught out in the open.
Indomina simply answered with a look of determination, "I'll be going for a walk. A very enthusiastic walk."
She began to jump and transform into her giant dragon alt-mode before flying at full speed. She made a thunderous roar before unleashing a massive fire blast from her glowing throat towards the floating Energon cubes in the middle of being absorbed by the Quintesson mothership. It caused a chain reaction that caused the said ship to explode inside out and left it in a severely damaged cause.
*KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!*
It killed many of the Quintessons inside and the mothership itself was bleeding all over. The huge force of the explosion knocked over the high commander and his cadre of soldiers, including Sentinel Prime and his retinue.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!", the golden winged mech screamed in disbelief to see all the Energon cubes he had gathered up to be given to the Quintessons were destroyed.
Indomina was pleased of her handiwork but immediately dodged some of the barrage from nearby Quintesson ships in the sky. She immediately turned to a different direction, flying away as fast as she can.
She hoped that the enemy would be more concerned of following her than investigate the mountain where Orion and his friends were hiding there with the last surviving member of the Thirteen.
"Dammit, we've got a breach!", Airachnid yelled, cursing herself to not have seen it coming despite her many optics ability she was proud of possessing. "Trackers, protect Sentinel! You six, come with me! Let's subdue that savage beast!"
"Roger that!", the Six Great Generals obeyed as they transformed into their respective alt-modes and followed Sentinel's second-in-command to pursue the interloper that ruined the transaction between their leader and the Quintessons.
That left Sentinel having to deal with the aftermath of the lost Energon cubes and the damaged Quintesson mothership, and an absolutely livid Quintesson high commander who was looming menacingly over him.
Meanwhile, Orion Pax, B-127 and Elita-1 were shocked to see the firepower of their Cogged friend and its results. It was awesome and terrifying to behold. They were really lucky to have her as a friend than an enemy.
"I'm glad she's on our side.", B-127 commented with a jaw drop.
Elita-1 nodded, "Yup, same."
"I think we need to get back inside the cave and tell Alpha Trion what happened. Miss Indomina had distracted them for us, now's our chance.", Orion stated, which the two agreed and went ahead.
However, D-16 kept looking at the pathetic scene of Sentinel Prime outright begging for mercy and another chance before the Quintesson high commander amidst the flames of the mothership damaged by the Energon cubes' explosive chain reaction caused by Indomina. He felt rage and catharsis: rage at Sentinel lying to him all this time; and catharsis that the Cogged femme in beastly form had blown all of the Energon up which had humiliated Sentinel in front of his Quintesson masters.
"I am...conflicted.", D-16 said to himself.
"D, are you coming?", the red and blue mech implored.
"Uh, yeah! Coming, Pax!", D-16 replied, taking one last look at the False Prime and followed his best friend.
Author's Note: Okay, Chapter 3 of "Indomina's ONE Adventures" is done and I hope you guys like it. Like in Transformers One, Orion Pax and his friends saw the Quintessons appear on Cybertron and Sentinel the False Prime paying his tribute to them with the Energon cubes from the trains. And then Indomina decided to blow them all up with her dragon alt-mode's fire breath and it humiliated Sentinel before the Quintesson high commander, the same guy who was able to easily restrain and cow him to submission. Before she drew away Airachnid and the Six Great Generals to pursue her, drawing them away from noticing the four Cogless miners and the surviving Thirteen member by being the bigger target to them.
Bet you didn't see that coming huh?
*A reference to G1 Sentinel Prime who has a ground alt-mode in form of a horned gladiator vehicle as shown in "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4". Ironically, he's far more heroic than TF One!Sentinel when defying against the Quintessons to fight for Cybertron's freedom from their despotic rule than bending the knee and serve them as their puppet ruler.
*I based off the Six Great Generals in this story from the Great Generals that came from Transformers IDW 2019 continuity and they function similarly like the Vehicon Generals who had served Beast Wars Megatron from "Transformers Beast Machines".
*Thunderglide and Behemoth are Transformers One-exclusive characters who were just namedropped by D-16 during the Iacon 5000 event. Here, they are part of Sentinel Prime's own inner circle.
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