It was a glorious morning in jasper Nevada, unless you were a dead autobot, then perhaps it wasn't so great. On the roof of the autobot base was a pile of rocks with a pipe from the once living autobot pipes, sticking out of the rock pile.
Not too far from the earth made memory pile was Arcee, staring at the sun rise." Hey pipes, hope you're enjoying the view." Said Arcee, looking down at the pipe imbedded into the rock pile.
Arcee takes a moment before continuing." if your sparks out there listen,I haven't given up on the search for your killer. And when I find them, I will make them pay." Said Arcee, clenching her fist a bit as she then leaves after saying what she came to say.
Speaking of pipes killer, Starscream was currently on a retrieval mission with Airachnid, reluctantly helping her. Currently the two were underground, in the halls of an old destroyed Decepticon cargo ship." Whatever this weapon you're searching for, it's not here. I searched the ship myself." Said Starscream, not knowing what Airachnid has planned.
Airachnid walked over to a computer, activated it, and then began to search through the cargo files." Did you think to check the systems when you searched the ship?" She asked with a smirk.
Starscream frowns at what Airachnid had did." Idiot, the autobots could detect the ship's energy signature!" Lecturing the spider bitch.
And starscream was right, back at the autobot base, Ratchet had picked up the ship's energy signature." Optimus, our scanners have picked up a Decepticon ship energy signature, but it's ancient." Said Ratchet, a bit unsure on why now and how this signature suddenly appeared.
"The past has a way of catching up to the present Ratchet." Said Optimus, sounding very mystic and wise right now.
Optimus gets a few Autobots together for this mission. While the prime did that, the two Decepticon went back to exploring the remains of the harbinger.
"Section twenty three should be right around...Here? It must have broken off in the crash." Airachnid came to dead end. Seems like the ships other half is somewhere else.
Starscream was smirking a bit at this, finding her cluelessness to be very amusing to him." Or maybe in the air?" Starscream said. The way he said it sounded like he knew for a fact that the ship indeed broke apart in the air.
Airachnid caught this immediately and turns to the seeker in anger." Where is the other half?!" She demanded to know.
"I'm afraid that information is need to know." Said Starscream, repeating what she had said to him earlier outside of the ship.
Airachnid was in no mood for this, so she shoots webs from her hands, webbing up the seeker." I know what you trying to do! You're trying to make me look like a fool before lord megatron!" Said Airachnid, transforming to her half spider mode.
Starscream was furious by these accusations. He wasn't even planning on doing any of that shockingly, he was just trying to get back at her from earlier." How dare you accuse me of such things you slagging wench!" Said starscream as he struggled in his webbed bindings.
Airachnid ignored this and grabs starscream by the face." Where is the other half of the ship? Tell me and I won't kill you." She said, glaring at him.
With little options, starscream reluctantly gives up the location to the other half of the harbinger." It's a few clicks north of here through a stone arch, now release me." Said starscream, wanting his freedom from the web.
Airachnid smiled a bit as she walked away." Of course starscream, just as soon as I retrieve the weapon." Said Airachnid, not really planning on coming back and freeing starscream. Oh how that tiny mistake will lead to her feeling great pain in the near future.
Starscream growls in anger and starts to yell at Airachnid, demanding she come back and free him. But the spider just kept walking away.
Airachnid didn't go very far, the reason why was because she has just spotted four Autobots. Optimus prime, Arcee, Ironhide, and Bee." Airachnid!" Arcee says in anger once she spotted the spider bot immediately.
Airachnid runs away immediately back to where she left starscream and walked over him so she can dig a hole out of here." Get back here and release me Airachnid!" Demanded Starscream as Arcee runs past him and goes after Airachnid.
Optimus tries to stop Arcee, But she doesn't care what primes orders are. All she wants right now in this moment is revenge.
Once Arcee made it topside, she had her blasters out, ready to blast the slagging spider. But Airachnid was no where to be seen." Where are you airachnid." Arcee said to herself, searching the area.
It didn't take long for Airachnid to make an appearance, coming out of the ground from right behind Arcee, firing her webs at her.
Arcee dodged this and then opens fire at Airachnid, trying to hit her." So you went crawling back to the cons Airachnid?! Scared a certain bot will get to you before me?!" Asked Arcee, clearly referring to Grimlock since that he has been the one bot that has scared the hell out Airachnid.
"I am scared of no one Arcee, you would do well to remember how vicious I am, especially to those closest to you!" Airachnid dodged Arcee's blasts with quickness, unaware Arcee was luring Airachnid into a trap.
Airachnid ended up near a strangely huge pile of rocks, all huddled up together. The spider was about to say something, but then sounds of rocks moving and a towering shadow from behind her stops her from continuing with what she was about to say.
Airachnid turns around quickly, but all she got to see was a huge fist to the face, ended up being sent flying all the way back over to Arcee, knocked out momentarily.
The one who punched her was Grimlock. Turns out he was hiding behind the giant rock pile he set up for a sneak attack." Nice right hook, now then...I can finally avenge brawn." Said Arcee, getting her blades out, ready to cut off Airachnids head.
Grimlock stands behind Arcee, watching this happen.But, before Arcee could exact her revenge, Ironhide comms the two,ruining everything, but unintentionally doing so." Grimlock, Arcee, what's your status? Did you squash the bug?" Asked the weapons specialist over the comms.
This little distraction was just what Airachnid needed. Immediately after recovering, She quickly fired her webs at arcee, sending her flying right onto Grimlock, sticking to him in the process." The scrap?" Grimlock was not expecting this to happen.
After this, Airachnid immediately transformed into her helicopter form and took flight. This of course pissed the fuck out of Arcee and caused her to yell really loudly."AIRACHNID!!!" She yelled out in anger.
The Autobots and their newly acquired prisoner heard this, knowing it not to be a good sign at all and that there is a chance that someone might be getting slapped.
While Grimlock tears the webbing off the both of them, the Autobots walked over while dragging starscream with them." Looks like you two lost your opponent, but at least we got one of them." Said Ironhide as he pushed down startscream.
Arcees eye twitched in anger as she walked up to Ironhide, and then slaps him across the face so hard, a hand print is left on Ironhides face and a pit of Energon leaks from the weapon specialists mouth." Primus Dame you Ironhide! Because of you Airachnid got away!" Said Arcee, severely pissed off.
Ironhide holds his face in pain as he continues to get yelled and cursed at by Arcee.
While this happened, a few things concurred. Optimus and Bee wisely stayed out of it for now and talked to Starscream, and Grimlock ended up loving seeing Arcee all Angry, finding it to be...hot.
Eventually Optimus had heard enough, well that and starscream had told them where Airachnid is going." Arcee, that is enough. The path of revenge is affecting you greatly Arcee, perhaps it would be best if you return to base." Optimus suggests, thinking this is too much for the two wheeler.
Arcee wanted to tell Prime not to do that and that she needs this, But lucky for her, she has such a great Conjunx who will do that for her.
Grimlock stomps a bit towards Optimus, growling a bit as he stares down at the prime." Not happening Optimus,Arcee is on my team, not yours, so your order means scrap." Said Grimlock, dismissing Prime and his orders.
This caused the Autobot's and starscreams eyes to go wide and for them all to go silent, minus Arcee who smiled slightly at Grimlock telling prime to back off on this matter.
Optimus and Grimlock lock eyes for a while before prime breaks the silence." You are correct Grimlock. Arcee no longer serves under my team so my orders to her matter less, however, know this Arcee. The path you walk is not one that will bring back those gone." Said Optimus, warning her and letting her know that the path of revenge will not bring back Brawn.
After this Optimus is walked away and comms ratchet to send his trailer through so they will be able to transport starscream.
When Prime walked away, Arcee looked up at Grimlock."Thanks for having my back." Said Arcee, glad that grimlock supports her whole revenge thing.
Grimlock nodded a bit." Always." He said. Of course he would support a revenge plan.
Time skip time cause I lazy and tired lol
The Autobots arrived just outside of a stone arch,so far it seems like starscream told them honest info." What do you know, screamer was right." Said ironhide, surprised that starscream actually told the truth.
Arcee wasn't buying it, neither was Grimlock." Could be a trap." Said Arcee, thinking that this all just might be a set up.
"Starscreams loyalty to megatron has always been questionable. If he truly intends to abandon the Decepticons, his knowledge would make him a valuable ally." Said Optimus, thinking making starscream an ally would be a good idea.
This of course made everyone a bit against that whole idea, some a whole lot more than the others." Like permanently join? As in knowing the location of our base and everything?" Asked Ironhide, thinking that's not such a good idea.
"However unlikely that scenario is, remember old friend. Every sentient being deserves a second chance at redemption." Said Optimus. Those were the wrong words to say, especially with Grimlock and Arcee there since they both were at the hands of rather vile cons who were both beyond redemption.
"Even killers like Airachnid?!" Asked Arcee, clenching her fist in anger.
Optimus was about to respond to her, but then Grimlock spoke up." What about cons like shockwave?If he were alive, would he deserve redemption, Prime? Even after what he did to me and old team?" Grimlock asked, glaring down at Optimus, daring him to answer the question.
This just got extremely intense and awkward, Bee and ironhide keep quiet and scoot away a bit.
Optimus could answer the question, but he would rather not get his arm ripped off by grimlock. So Optimus chooses to remain silent on that." Ironhide, please bring out starscream." Said Optimus, changing the subject.
Ironhide nods, happy to do so to get this over with and to help change the situation. He walked to the back of the trailer and then opens it up." Rise and shine starscream." Said Ironhide as he pulled the cuffed and clamped up ex-con.
Starscream groans a bit as he was dragged out of the trailer. He then sat up once on the ground. All eyes were on him, waiting to get the exact location of the harbinger." Where's the ship?" Asked Arcee.
Starscream took a look around before answering." It's through the arch, among the stones. You can't miss it." Said Starscream, answering her question, cooperating so that he may get to live.
Optimus looks back at the Arch before turning back to the autobots." Grimlock, Ironhide, bumblebee, you're with me. Arcee, please remain here with our prisoner." Said Optimus.
Arcee was about to argue, but then grimlock spoke up." Don't worry, I will drag airachnid back here for you to finish her off. So just stay here and make sure starscream doesn't try anything. Kill him if he does." Said Grimlock, not caring if prime is against this, which he is definitely against that. After that, Grimlock heads off.
Optimus sighs at this, but should have expected Grimlock to be like this. After that he then goes after Grimlock with ironhide and Bee, leaving arcee being to look after and possibly kill starscream.
The four autobots walked through the area, all with their weapons out, ready for anything.
They all managed to quickly spot the ship, but that's not all they spotted. Standing on the ship, holding a strange staff like device in hand was Airachnid, and she appears hella confident, thanks to the weapon in her hand." Ah, just the bot I was hoping to test the imobilizer on." She said, looking directly at Grimlock.
Ironhide, having had enough of not firing at anything, immediately opens fire at Airachnid." I got this!" He said, firing his cannons at the spider.
Airachnid dodged his attack and then fired the imobilizer at ironhide, a direct hit. It didn't damage him, only froze him in place completely.
Seeing this, Optimus and Bee get behind cover quickly, Grimlock on the other hand just brought up his shield, plus there's no place big enough for him to get behind for cover.
Optimus and Bee open fire at Airachnid while she tries to immobilize them all, firing at grimlock mostly.
Shockingly, for such a big bot, Grimlock is great at dodging. He doesn't want to risk it if his shield can't block the effects of that device." Stay still!" Demanded Airachnid while trying to hit the big bot while dodging shots from prime and bee.
"Airachnid! Surrender and we can settle this peacefully!" Said Optimus, trying to negotiate with the con.
Airachnid stops firing the imobilizer. The spider con realizes she will have to change up her strategy in order to get the autobots, so she drills into the ground, going underground.
The autobots keep their guards up, looking all over the place for the spider. Bee moved over, standing next to Optimus while Grimlock walked away a bit." Where are you bug?!" Demanded Grimlock, gripping his sword strongly.
Airachnid comes out from underground, behind Optimus and Bee. She then quickly fired the imobilizer at prime." Freeze!"
Optimus and Bee both turned around, but Optimus was too slow to get out of the way in time, ending up meeting the same fate as Ironhide.
Bee immediately opens fire, firing his canon at Airachnid, attempting to hit her or the imobilizer.
Airachnid dodged the scouts fire, momentarily forgetting all about original main focus, and that will cost her.
After landing on the ground, a huge shadow towered Airachnid, but this time, Grimlock didn't wait for the spider to turn around and react, he just immediately kicked her, sending her flying and breaking the imobilizer into two." NO!" Airachnid screamed in anger and fear.
The only thing that could keep her safe was now destroyed, so what does she do? Why the spider immediately drills down and escapes." Coward." Said Grimlock as he puts away his sword and shield.
Bee walked over where the broken imobilizer and picked up the pieces. After that he looked over at Grimlock, beeping, asking the big guy what should they do now that the imobilizer is broken." The tech experts can fix it. Go and check in with Arcee, I'll grab Prime and ironhide." Ordered Grimlock as he walked over to the two frozen autobots.
Bee nodded and then left, bolting it, following Grimlocks orders.
It takes Grimlock a few minutes to get Optimus and Ironhide together, holding them both in each arm with ease. After that, the big guy heads off, leaving the area. Grimlock walked all the way back to where arcee and bee are at, thinking everything is alright at first.
But then Grimlock saw Bee with Arcee handing on bees shoulder, wounded and leaking a bit of Energon." Arcee,what happened?!" Asked Grimlock, walking over to her.
Arcee grunted a bit as she holds her wound." Long story, but what happened to them?" Asked Arcee, looking at Optimus and Ironhide.
Grimlock looked down at the two bots in his arms before looking at Arcee." Also long story." Said Grimlock.
After that, a groundbridge appeared and the Autobots went on through.
So while they did that and everyone got patched up and freed, on the Decepticon warship, Megatron was speaking with Airachnid and let's just say he's not pleased in the slightest." You lost startscream to the Autobots?!"
"But It was starscreams incompetence that cost us the imobilizer my liege!" Said Airachnid, attempting to shift the blame all onto starscream, oh but that doesn't matter.
Megatron becomes even more furious." I couldn't care less about some trinket!! Because of you, my second in command could be in the hands of the enemy! Which means Decepticon intelligence could be within their grasp!" Megatron explains to Airachnid in a very angry way.
"Forgive me lord megatron, I didn't realize the gravity of my mistake." Said Airachnid, pretending to care.
Without even warning, Megatron yelled and then kicked Airachnid into a wall, causing her great pain. After recovering, she looked at megatron with some fear." Oh you will,I will make sure of that." Said Megatron as he reached for her...
Oh boy, looks like old Meg's is about to give her the starscream treatment...
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(I'm skipping the TMI cause it would be the same,well except it would be hound who got the formula in his head)
At the Autobot base, the resident three geniuses were currently working on perfecting the incomplete synthetic energon formula they had managed to get from hound after a whole situation with a data pod.
"Surprisingly stable. Perhaps this batch could be the one?" Suggests Ratchet, turning over to Que and Cayde, wanting there options.
Cayde stared at the synthetic Energon for a bit before looking at Ratchet."It could be, but that's what you said about the last batch and it only ended up destroying the test engine. We're real lucky we still have a few more lying around." Said Cayde, having a feeling that they might end up repeating what they did previously.
Que nodded a bit, agreeing with Cayde." The lad is right ratchet, are you certain this won't blow up in our faces again?" Asked Que.
Ratchet looks at the canister of green Energon before putting it in the injector."Only one way to find out." Ratchet then injects test engine.
Once ratchet did that, the engine glowed green and then started." So far so good." Said Cayde, thinking it's a major improvement from the first test.
Ratchet nodded a bit." Yes, but we will have to run a few more tests to see if there are any side effects that would affect us, which is unfortunate for us since were starting to run low on our Energon supplies." Explained ratchet as he sets down the injector.
Speaking of Energon, the Energon alarms go off and Optimus, Bee, Jazz ,and hound walked over." Energon is on the move, Autobots-"
Ratchet interrupted Prime from finishing his famous catchphrase." Optimus, if one of you comes back injured, I fear that our Energon supplies will almost be nothing." Said Ratchet, saying that they would have enough Energon to make repairs to anyone who gets hurt, but after that, they're all out.
Optimus understood this." We will try to be careful old friend. Autobots, roll out!" After finishing his catchphrase, ratchet opens the groundbridge and then the four autobots transformed and rolled out.
After watching them leave, Ratchet sighs at this." Sometimes I wish there was more I could." Said Ratchet, feeling like a waste of Energon.
"You are doing all that you can Ratch, plus we're creating the synthetic Energon, and that's very important." Said Cayde, reassuring the good doctor that he's doing more than enough.
Que nodded a bit, agreeing with Cayde." Aye, the lads right. Oh that reminds me, we will need some more chemicals. Come along lad, I'll need your eyes. Mine aren't what they used to be." Said Que, setting a hand down near Cayde, who immediately gets on.
After the two left, Ratchet is left alone with his thoughts, being unsupervised. Suddenly, the doctor had an idea, a very stupid idea.
Ratchet walked over to where all the fresh batch of synthetic Energon was, grabs one of the canister, and then injects himself. This caused two things to happen, the first was his optics to turn green, and then Ratxhet passed out and falls down to the ground.
The sound of Ratchet falling to the ground caught the immediate attention of Que and Cayde, Causing Que to come back into the room." Ratchet? Everything alright in he-..." Que stared down at Ratchets body ._.
Cayde was also staring down at Ratchets body the same, well that is until he spotted the injector and a broken canister. When seeing that, Cayde becomes mad." That idiot! He injected himself!" Said Cayde.
Que sighs and then placed Cayde down by the groundbridge human version controls." This is not good." Que said as he then started to poke Ratchet, seeing if he's still alive.
Turns out the good drugged up doctor was in fact still alive. Ratchet opens up his eyes, seeing Que poke him." Can you knock it off." He said, getting up.
"Sorry, but how do ya feel?" Asked Que, wanting to know if ratchet is feeling any type of side effects.
Ratchet felt great actually." I'm...fantastic." He said as he moved his body a bit, feeling great, more than he had in centuries.
Ratchet checks his systems and saw that everything was up and improved." Motor functions are optimal?" He smiled a bit at this, truly feeling great.
Cayde just shakes his head at this." You shouldn't have done that ratchet. We have no idea what the side effects are!" Said Cayde, having a bad feeling that this is gonna end up badly.
"I know, but what better way to see what the side effect could be than to try it myself? Besides, so far I feel incredible!" Said Ratchet, slowly throwing his logic out the window.
This was not good, but that will have to wait cause Jazz's life signal flashed a bit, indicated that he was in trouble. Currently the other part of team was spread out a bit and Grimlock with his team wouldn't be back in time from their own Energon hunt." I have to help." Ratchet immediately opens the groundbridge, transforms, and then drives on through quickly.
Que and Cayde just kinda stood there, watching the doctor leave to save the day." I got a bad feeling lad." Said Que, voicing his opinion as he turns his attention to the groundbridge controls since he will have to operate them with ratchet gone.
"You and me both Que." said Cayde, leaning on a rail, awaiting for ratchet to return with the others.
The two wait for about two minutes before getting a message to groundbridge prime and his team back to base. Que opens the groundbridge immediately.
Optimus and the others come on through, once through, Que shuts down the groundbridge." So, what happened?" Asked Cayde, wanting to what exactly happened out there.
"Man the doc was a one bot wrecking machine. He pulled off all sorts of moves on the cons as well." Said Jazz, still not believing what he saw out there.
This then led to the question on how the hell ratchet of all bots did what he did." What's your secret doc? Push ups? Sit ups? Special Juice?" Asked Hound, wanting to know what ratchet did to reach these heights of strength.
Ratchet shakes his head a bit. After that he then walked over to where the other canisters of synthetic Energon were and grabs one." Nope, just a little something I like to call, synthin." He said as he tossed it to Hound.
"Wait,you mean that formula stuff hound here translated? But wasn't it incomplete?" Asked Jazz, wondering how the doc and the other geniuses were able to make the stuff with the formula unfinished.
"Not anymore." Said Ratchet, getting ahead of himself.
Cayde frowns at this and then decides to speak, gaining the attention of everyone in the room." Wrong! We haven't ran enough tests to see if it really is complete. Plus we have no idea what that batch can do to a Cybertronian." Said Cayde, stating that the formula is not complete.
Que nodded a bit, agreeing with Cayde." The lads right. We barely tested that batch. We don't know what could happen to you." He said, concerned with what might happen to ratchet.
But Ratchet dismissed this, showing no concern." Trust me, I have cracked it. The formula is now perfect." Said Ratchet, his words not putting Cayde, Que, nor Optimus at ease. Plus, taking full credit for the creation of this batch.
After Optimus is handed the canister, he walked over to Ratchet and hands the canister back to him." I agree with Que and Cayde. I believe more tests should be run before we use this on ourselves. But only test on machines." Said Optimus, hoping his old friend heeds his words.
Ratchet didn't seem to like that, but kept his mouth shut.
Later...
In the training room, Ratchet was retelling his tale of brutality to Skyquake, Crosshairs, and Whirl." One came right at me and then I...well, come on, come at me Skyquake." Ratchet motioned for Skyquake to come at him so he can show them all what move he did against the cons.
Skyquake shakes his head a bit." I do not want to harm you Doctor." He said, not wanting to accidentally severely harm Ratchet.
Whirl was about to call Skyquake a wimp and offer to attack the Doc himself, but then Ratchet did something very unexpected. Ratchet bitch slaps Skyquake across the face.
This of course caused two things to happen. First, Whirl and crosshairs started laughing their asses off at this, both finding that to be hilarious.
The second thing to happen was Skyquake to stare at the doctor...and then charged at him, going to punch him right in the face.
But things didn't go how everyone thought it was gonna go. Instead of Skyquake landing a hit and knocking out ratchet, ratchet dodged and then picked up Skyquake and throws him through a wall.
"Hoo-ah!" Ratchet said, for some reason.
This caused the laughing to stop and now for the two to be shocked. Ratchet just threw Skyquake through a wall like it was nothing.
The noise of Skyquake being thrown through a wall caught the attention of Grimlock, Arcee, and Bee. All three of them just so happened to be nearby." What was that?!" Asked Arcee, curious to know what just happened.
The three walked over as Skyquake slowly gets up from the ground. Skyquake groans a bit as he holds his head." Ratchet happened." He said.
Speaking of ratchet, the doctor chuckles a bit." I'm a bit stronger than I used to be, also faster!" As he said that part, he almost punched her in the face, Causing the scout to flinch a bit.
Whirl and crosshairs stepped out of the training room while ratchet was messing with Bee." Think you can take me on muscle car?" Asked Ratchet.
Bee shakes his head, not wanting to get into a fight with Ratchet.
Ratchet frowns at this, hoping for a fight. "Whimp." He said as he walked away.
As Ratchet walked past Arcee, he was about to flirt with her, but then he suddenly remembered who her Conjunx was and remained silent and walked away. Even on drugs Ratchet knows not to fuck around and find out when Grimlock could be involved.
Grimlock watched the doctor leave before turning to the others." Side effects?" Everyone nodded a bit, agreeing that there was indeed side effects with the synthetic Energon in ratchet.
"Oh yeah, absolutely." Said Whirl.
After that, everyone just headed off to the main part of the base to tell the two tech heads about what happened with Ratchet.
Everyone passing by a random room, In the room, there was a big tarp covering something up. Wondering what it is...
So while the others left, Ratchet headed over to a cabinet where he kept a secret stash of the synthetic Energon." I need to be in top condition, for the sake of our survival." Ratchet said as he then ejects himself with the stero- I mean the synthetic Energon.
Later, another Energon signature went off, this time, Grimlock and his team will investigate since prime and his team were unsuccessful with there Energon hunt while grimlock and his team were successful with there Energon hunt earlier."Think the cons found a ton of Energon?"asked Arcee.
"Who knows, but the cons won't get their hands on a single shard of Energon. Demolition force, move out." Said Grimlock, ordering his team to get ready to go.
As Grimlock and his team were about to head out, a certain drugged up doctor made an appearance." Don't forget me, I've been itching for some action." Said Ratchet, inviting himself to join them on this mission.
Whirl was about to say that the doctor should stay here and that no one wants him to join the mission, but grimlock stops by speaking first." Fine, just stay out of way." Said Grimlock as he headed for the groundbridge with his team.
Ratchet rolled his eyes a bit and just heads after them.
Once on the other side, Ratchet ran ahead of them all, doing shoulder rolls from boulder to boulder while Grimlock and his team just walked over the doctor, not bothering to use stealth.
The team and Ratchet soon came across some Decepticons drilling." Doesn't look like they struck anything except more rocks." Said Whirl, pointing out the obvious.
"They won't even get that once we are done with them." Said Skyquake, wanting to let out his frustration onto some Decepticons. He's still pissed about what ratchet did to him earlier.
Grimlock was about to order his team to attack a certain way, but then Ratchet acted and drove down there, getting the attention of the cons." Autobots! Open fire!" The Vehicons opened fire at Ratchet and the others.
So much for the attack plan grimlock was about to suggest." Come on." Said Grimlock as he walked down, bring out his sword as he does.
The others bring out their range weapons and open fire at the Vehicons, decreasing their numbers from a distance while Grimlock and Ratchet cut down some Vehicons up close.
The only miner vehicon there saw the carnage and booked it for his life, climbing away to not meet the same fate as the troops, but unfortunately for him, Ratchet saw this and climbed after the miner.
The miner ran as fast he could since he didn't have an alt mode...for some reason? Anyway, as he continued to ran, Ratchet picked up a rock and then chucked it, it then of course hits the miner perfectly.
After that, Ratchet made his way over to the miner and then puts his foot down on the con, stopping him from leaving." What's the big rush?" Asked Ratchet, standing over the miner.
"You kidding?! I'm trying to stay as far away from the Con slayer as possible!" Said The miner, scared for his life since he knows if the con slayers gets his hands on him then he's toast.
Ratchet smirked a bit." I already have a nickname? How flatt-"
"What? I was talking about the autobot monster Grimlock." Said the miner, now being a bit more specific on who he was referring to, even though it was pretty obvious who the miner was referring to just a second ago.
This of course caused Ratchet to stare at the miner for a while...and then transforms his hand into a torch." Where is megatron?" Ratchet asked as he brings it closer to the miners face, eventually pressing down onto the cons
While ratchet did that, it of course caused the Miner to scream in pain. The screaming caught the attention of Grimlock and his team after having killed all the vehicons. They all then climb up to where ratchet and the miner were, soon seeing Ratchet torturing the miner.
Normally Grimlock would ignore this type of thing, same with his team, if it was just some vehicon soldier, but it wasn't. It was a Miner who had no weapons or an alt mode.
Torturing and killing those who have nothing and can't do anything doesn't sit right with Grimlock, never had." Skyquake, stop him." Said Grimlock, having a feeling Skyquake will want to do that since that stunt ratchet did.
Skyquake immediately followed this command and ran at Ratchet while the others walked after Skyquake.
After getting the information he needed, Ratchets torch transformed into a blade and was about to end the life of the miner, but before the drugged up doctor, Skyquake came in and gave the doc a right hook to the face, knocking ratchet away from the miner." Stand down doctor." Said Skyquake, staring down at Ratchet.
The miner used this opportunity to escape, while doing this the others made it over. After that, Ratchet gets up and wipes the bit of synthetic Energon leaking from his lips. He growls in anger and then gets up and goes to punch Skyquake... But Grimlock grabs his arm and lifts him up." Wow, that stuff is definitely not ready." Said Whirl, commenting on the synthetic Energon and how it has affected Ratchet's character.
Ratchet tried to get out of Grimlocks grip." What is your problem?! Why are you interfering?! Are you worried I'll replace you or something?! You scared of me?!" Asked Ratchet, trying to swing at Grimlock, even though it would do absolutely nothing to the dinobot. That stuff has scrambled his brain up good.
The team watched this and thought it was rather sad, except whirl, he thought it was hilarious."Grim, I think it would be best to just knock him out." Suggested Arcee, getting tired of the drugged up Ratchet.
Grimlock thought about it, but then decided not to do it and went with different option." Someone bridge us back." Said Grimlock into the comms as he then drops the doctor onto the Ground.
After Grimlock dropped the doc, the groundbridge appeared, ready to take the doctor back to base. Ratchet looked at the groundbridge and then at Grimlock and his team. After that he weighed out his options and chose to walk on through the ground bridge.
"Huh, you know I was actually hoping he would try som-" Whirl was heading to the groundbridge when ratchet came running out, picking up whirl, and then tossing him right at Skyquake, causing them both to fall near Grimlock.
After that, Ratchet transformed and drove off very quickly." Where in the frag is he going?" Asked Arcee, wondering where exactly Ratchet is planning to go.
Grimlock and no one else knew, but maybe one of the tech heads could figure it out.
Later...
Demolition force and the tech heads were currently attempting to track down the doctor, but the synthetic Energon was messing with his signal." Another side effect of that batch, great." Commented Cayde as he writes down on a piece of paper. On the paper was all the side effects caused by that batch of the green stuff so far.
After a bit longer of trying to find Ratchets signal, it popped back up, but the doctor appeared to be in a critical condition." This is not good, he's in trouble." Said Que, worried that the doctor might perish from how critical his life signal is.
"Que, open the groundbridge and alert Optimus about Ratchet." Ordered Grimlock as he walked to the groundbridge, his team right behind him.
Que nodded as he activated the groundbridge for Demolition force. After that, they headed on through and were immediately greeted by blasts from the Decepticons, firing at them from within a large Energon mine.
Grimlock yelled as he transformed into his Dino mode, roaring as he charged at the ground troops, smashing and tearing them apart. Arcee followed after Grimlock, firing at any cons that tried to escape.
The two take care of the ones on the ground level while whirl and Skyquake transform to there alt modes. Whirls was a helicopter while Skyquakes was a jet.
The two would fly up and over, firing bullets at the cons on the higher levels.
The team continued their assault on the Decepticons, slaughtering them all. There slaughtering eventually lead them to Ratchet, down on the ground a with a fist imprinted in his chest, leaking a whole lotta Energon on the ground. Both the green stuff and the blue stuff.
Later...
Ratchet slowly awakens, groaning as he does. He immediately noticed that he was back at the base, and that he was hooked up. Ratchet tried to get up, but Optimus, who had been by his old friend's side awaiting for his awakening, moved ratchet back down." Easy old friend. You lost a lot of Energon. Good and bad" said Optimus, telling his friend of what happened to him.
That sucks, but at least the synthetic Energon is out of the docs system." I...I am sorry, for everything." Said Ratchet.
Optimus shakes his head a bit." It's not me who deserves an apology Ratchet." Said Optimus as he walked away, leaving his old friend alone.
While Optimus walked away, Que walked over with Cayde sitting on the old scientists shoulder." How do you feel Ratchet?" Asked Que.
"Never better...but, I want to apologize for not listening to either of you. I shouldn't have tested that batch on myself." Said Ratchet, regretting what he had done.
Cayde nodded a bit as he stared down at Ratchet." Yep, you shouldn't have...but the upside to your drugged up actions was that you found a whole lotta Energon." Said Cayde, smiling a bit as he looked over at a huge pile of Energon cubes that the autobots were stacking,
Ratchet smiled a bit at this sight, glad to see there Energon supplies is doing well again. After he looked over at Que and Cayde." From now on, tests will continue to be tested on machines, not Cybertronians." Said Ratchet.
Que and Cayde were relieved to hear this, glad to see Ratchet is back to thinking much more clearly now.
/Author: What a way to end this chapter...oh wait, there's some more!/
Later at night, in the supposed empty room. Two individuals were in there, One was Cayde and the other was whirl. The two were over by the large tarp, Whirl walked over to the tarp and pulled it down, revealing two large empty glass pods.
Right by the two pods was some creates and barrels filled with who knows what, cables connected to a computer, and a whole lotta glass containers filled with cybernuclaic acid." You really think your little project is gonna work kid?" Asked Whirl, having been assisting the human genius with whatever he's planning.
Cayde was typing on the computer, working on whatever it is he's working, trying to get everything perfect and working." I am certain...maybe, just remember that we can't tell the others about this, not yet." Said Cayde as he kept on working.
Seems like Cayde and whirl are working on something together in secret without the knowledge of Optimus or any of the others, wonder what it could be?