Transformers Prime: The Medic's Assistant
Chapter 5: Darkness Rising Part 4 (Part 1)
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers Prime
The three kids fearfully jumped back as fire blasts rained down on them. Immediately the two Bots rushed over to them in vehicle form, Miko riding inside of Bulkhead.
"Get in!" the green Autobot ordered the humans.
"Hurry!" Stormracer exclaimed.
Sierra scrambled into Stormracer while the other two got inside of Bulkhead.
"What are you doing here?!" the femme asked.
"You were taking too long," Sierra said, "we got worried."
Stormracer and Bulkhead quickly drove behind a rock and opened their doors.
"Everyone out," Bulkhead said, "and stay here with Stormracer."
The humans complied as they hopped out of the two vehicles. Bulkhead then drove off, leaving the assistant with the humans as they watched him make his way towards the ship, dodging the Cons' firepower.
"Oh, Ratchets gonna kill me," Stormracer groaned as she transformed back into bot mode. Releasing a vent, she looked down at the humans. "At least we're all- aaaaand Miko's gone again."
The others looked around, seeing no sign of her.
"Seriously?!" Jack said in disbelief.
They looked up to see Bulkhead on the top of the ship, looking back down at them.
"Where's Miko?!" he shouted at them. It wasn't until Stormracer noticed him opening up his chest compartment that she saw the Japanese girl poking her head out of him. She let out a vent of relief until she saw more Cons arriving to fight Bulkhead. She and the others could barely see what was happening as they heard the fire power and metal hitting metal up above.
"Think they forgot about us?" Raf asked after a while.
Stormracer turned to face them. "Lets get you three somewhere safe before..."
She stopped her sentence as she caught something in the corner of her optic. Looking over, she and the humans gasped when they saw three vehicons standing there with their blasters pointed at them.
"... this happens," the femme finished with a gulp.
"You're coming with us," the one closest to her said, grabbing her arm as he yanked her up onto her pedes. The other two had already picked up the humans, making them try desperately to squirm out of their grasps.
"Don't hurt them!" Stormracer pleaded.
"Then I suggest you start moving," the vehicon said as he let go of her arm and pointed his blaster at her. Looking worried at the humans, she lifted her arms up in surrender and started walking towards the con ship.
Once they were inside, the vehicons took them down the corridor, Stormracer still at gunpoint as she walked.
"Take them to the brig," the vehicon in front of her said. "Commander Starscream is keeping the other human there."
Fowler, Stormracer thought to herself. She glanced back at the kids, fearing what Starscream might do to them.
However, her fear was soon dismissed as a blue motorcycle zoomed up and rammed into the con in front of her. Soon after, a yellow muscle car rammed into the last two right behind her, sending the humans flying into the air. Stormracer immediately caught Sierra as Arcee grabbed Jack and Raf.
"You okay?" the teal femme asked the redhead as she put her down.
"I-I think so," Sierra replied.
Arcee placed the two boys down as the yellow scout made his way to them.
"Bumblebee!" Raf said, happy to see his guardian.
Stormracer looked at the two bots with a smile. "Thanks!"
"Appreciate you clearing the front door for us," Arcee said, "but storming the decepticon ship was not on the activities list."
"Tell me about it," Jack said.
The group soon took off down the hall before Arcee stopped at a corner and withdrew her weapon. Immediately she jumped around the corner.
"Friendly!" she said loudly.
"Hello!" a familiar voice replied.
The others went around to see Bulkhead and Miko. Immediately both him and Arcee pulled their weapons back and transformed them back into their arms.
"Brought Storm and the humans, huh?" Arcee commented.
"You try getting them to stay behind!" Bulkhead argued.
"We need to find Fowler and get these kids out of here."
"Starscream has him in the brig," Stormracer reported.
"Then let's roll," Arcee ordered.
However, it wasn't long until a group of vehicons arrived.
"Storm, watch the humans!" Arcee ordered as she and the others withdrew their weapons and began to fight.
It was all happening so fast for the assistant. She and the humans tried their best to avoid being shot at as they moved from one spot to another. A vehicon head and body fell to the ground as she quickly moved the humans away. She even shielded them as Bulkhead nearly landed on them before tossing a vehicon over his shoulder, Arcee delivering the final shot.
Stormracer looked down at the humans. "You four okay?"
Miko gave her a thumbs up as the others nodded.
"Lets go!" Arcee said, making everyone move out. They soon came to a door where Arcee motioned the teal femme to stop. "Wait here."
Stormracer and the humans watched as the bots knocked on the door. Once it opened, they jumped in and attacked whoever was inside. Stormracer waited as she heard the sound of fire power happening. Once it stopped, she heard Arcee say, "Clear."
She and the humans entered the room, seeing vehicon bodies laying on the floor.
"Storm, you and the humans wait in here," Arcee said.
"Why must they wait in here?" Bumblebee asked.
"They're slowing us down, and they're easy targets," Arcee pointed out, "they'll be safe in here, as long as they stay put."
The three bots then took off out of the room, leaving Stormracer with the humans as the door closed behind them.
"That... was intense!" Miko said.
"Was?" Rafael asked in disbelief.
"Its your fault that we're stuck in this intensity," Jack said angrily to the exchange student, "what were you thinking, Miko?"
"Did I ask you to follow me?" Miko argued.
"You wanted us to be a band. Doesn't that usually mean playing together?"
"Well, maybe I decided to go solo."
"Guys, please," Stormracer pleaded, trying to intervene, "nows not the time to-"
"Well, maybe I have some regards for your safety," Jack continued, ignoring the femme.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Is you're name 'Optimus?" the Japanese girl asked angrily, "You can leave my protection to Bulkhead, thank you very much!"
"I'm sorry, but are we all going to ignore the fact we're now on an alien ship with giant robots that want to kill us?!" Sierra asked angrily.
"Hey, if you can't handle it, then you shouldn't have come," Miko said.
Stormracer tried again. "Guys, calm dow-"
Again she was ignored as Sierra angrily shouted at the exchange student. "Are you kidding me?! We just... urrrrh!" she growled in frustration as she balled her hands into fists. "We shouldn't even be here! We should be doing normal things like, like, shopping or going to parties! Anything that doesn't involve being in an alien war!"
"Aah!" Rafael yelled, making everyone go quiet, "stop it! All of you!" The youngest then rushed over to a step, sitting down as he wiped away his tears.
No longer angry, the humans shamefully looked at one another before walking over to Raf, sitting down beside him as they tried to make him feel better.
"Hey, Raf, it's okay," Jack said.
"Yeah," Miko agreed, "we'll be fine."
"Our bots will come back for us."
"Yeah. They're gonna take us home," Sierra added.
"How do you know?" the youngest asked, unconvinced.
Stormracer approached them and sat down. "Because Team Prime doesn't give up," she told the youngest.
Raf looked up at her then back down, still looking sad.
Not wanting him to be upset, she scratched the back of her helm before glancing over at a pile of scrap on a table, seeing big thin metal gaskets beside it.
Keep being you, Storm.
Her optics widened a little as Cliffjumper's words played in her helm. Remembering what he made her promise, the femme let out a vent as she got up and walked over to the table, grabbing the flat metal hoops. Holding them in her servo, she looked over at Raf who was looking back at her in confusion, the others included.
Smiling, she held up one finger before tossing one hoop into the air and catching it. She then held up two fingers before tossing up two, one at a time, and catching them as well. She then motioned her servo in front of all the gaskets she was holding before rapidly tossing them all up in the air one at a time, trying to catch them all. Unfortunately, it was proven a fail as the teal Autobot frantically covered her helm as the gaskets fell on top of her, one of them landing on one of her fins along the side of her helm. She looked at the humans and chuckled sheepishly, still wearing the ring.
This got a chuckle out of Rafael. "It looks like you're wearing an earring."
Stormracer looked at him in confusion. "A what?"
"Earrings are jewelry humans wear on their ears," Sierra explained, "though normally girls wear them on both ears."
"Oh!" Picking up one of the other gaskets off the ground, she placed it on her other fin, now having two gaskets hanging off the sides of her helm like a pair of hoop earrings. She struck a pose. "How do I look?"
This gained a laugh from all of them. "Fabulous," Sierra complimented.
"Work it, girl!" Miko said with a chuckle.
Stormracer tugged both gaskets sideways, making a silly face in the process while the humans laughed. She laughed along as well, all of them forgetting how worried they were.
However, it was cut short when the femme noticed something on a computer screen off to the side. Smile now gone, she took the hoops off and walked over to the screen, looking at the equation on it.
"What's wrong?" Jack asked her.
"It's an engineering spec," Stormracer said, looking it over.
"For what?" Sierra asked as she and the others approached.
The science student studied it carefully, wondering why it looked so familiar. She started mumbling it to herself as she tried piecing it together. Once she remembered, her optics widened. "It's a spec for a vortex generator!"
"A what?" Miko asked her.
"It's a vital component for groundbridging and spacebridging. It's what creates the portals for transportation. I remember Ratchet making one when he constructed the ground bridge. The only difference is, this one's waaay more advanced."
"Meaning?" Sierra asked.
"I think the Cons are building a space bridge... that is if they haven't built it already."
"What's a space bridge?" Jack asked her.
"Its like the groundbridge, only... more for space travel. You could be on Earth one minute, then Cybertron the next."
"Whoa!" Miko said in amazement, "now that's cool!"
"It won't be cool if the cons have one," the femme pointed out, "we have to tell Optimus about this."
They then heard the sound of footsteps approaching, making them fearfully look to see a vehicon coming into view.
"Hide!" the assistant whispered.
She and the others hid, only for Raf to trip onto the floor. The vehicon spotted him and aimed his blaster, making the human look up in fear. Jumping out of hiding, Jack rushed over and tackled the younger boy away before a blast could hit him.
Before the con could fire again, Stormracer tackled him to the floor. She looked over at the boys who were looking back at her in fear. "Run!" she yelled.
The two ran off as she and the vehicon struggled, her trying to keep him away from the humans. They rolled over to the table where the vehicon kicked her off of him. Stormracer quickly stood up, only for the con to lunge at her. Both cybertronians locked servos as the con pushed her backwards against the table, the autobot trying to push back. She glanced over to the side of the table, seeing a wrench not too far away. Needing to free her servos, she looked down and stomped her pede on the vehicon's, making him let go of her as he yelped in pain. Using the advantage, she grabbed the wrench and hit the vehicon in the helm as hard as she could. Out cold, the vehicon slumped to the ground with a big dent in his helm. Stormracer let out a vent of relief as she tossed the wrench away.
Sierra rushed over to her. "You okay?"
"I'll live."
"Took a pic of the equation," Miko told her, "plus a cool pic of you fighting that con."
Just then they heard the sound of footsteps approaching rather quickly.
"We gotta get out of here," the femme said.
Immediately the five rushed out the door, Stormracer sealing it shut once they were out. All of them felt slightly relieved, but it was cut short when they looked to the side and saw another vehicon standing in the middle of the hallway with his blaster out. He was about to shoot until a big green van sped past and transformed. Bulkhead ran up and grabbed the con, slamming him down hard into the ground before tossing him away.
The femme and humans then heard the sound of more vehicles driving towards them. Looking over, they were relieved to see Arcee and Bumblebee driving up, stopping beside the group.
"I told you to stay put!" Arcee said sternly as Jack hopped on.
"It's complicated," Stormracer said. She transformed and let Sierra in as Raf and Miko hopped inside of Bumblebee. "Did you find Fowler?"
"We got him," Arcee said, "now lets get out of here."
They continued driving, but it wasn't long until more vehicons intercepted them as they fired their blasters. The team fought through with Stormracer and Sierra right behind them. However, they failed to see one of the vehicons stepping out from around the corner, firing his blaster.
The shot hit right in front of Stormracer, making her swerve around uncontrollably. Sierra let out a scream as she held onto her seatbelt. Once the teal car stopped, she realized she was facing a different way, the cons blocking her path from the others.
The cons now firing at her, she sped off down the direction she was facing, trying to get away from the fire power.
"What are you doing?!" Sierra asked her.
"Protecting you!" she said, noticing a vehicon chasing after her.
She quickly turned a corner as the con continued to pursue. She tried shaking him off, but to no prevail as he pulled up and rammed her from the side. Sparks flew as her side scraped against the wall, making her wince in pain. The con pulled away and went to ram into her again, only for her to quickly go in reverse. The con hit the wall, causing himself to flip and roll until he skidded to a halt on his roof. Stormracer immediately turned around, trying to remember which way she came from.
"Do you even know where you are going?" Sierra asked her.
"Kinda," she answered, turning a corner, "maybe it was down here."
She turned another corner, now very unsure of where she is.
"Okay, maybe not," she confessed.
"Try that way," the human suggested, pointing left.
The femme drove down the direction, only to prove it wasn't the way.
"Come on," she said to herself, "we have to get off this ship."
Just then the ship made a noise, making the femme stop in her tracks. She fearfully froze as she felt the ship jerk a little, the sound more noticeable.
"... Storm," Sierra said worryingly, "what is happening?"
The femme gulped.
"The ship... its taking off."
Uh oh! Didn't expect that, did ya? How are Stormracer and Sierra going to get out of there? What will happen? Hopefully I will update soon so you can find out. Until next time! God bless!