DARKNESS RISING BY: kiki56
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN TRANSFORMERS OR WINX CLUB. THOSE HONORS GO TO HASBRO AND RAINBOW. PLEASE DO NOT SUE ME!
Chapter 3
In the Energon Mine
The ground-bridge opened up, and Optimus drove out followed by the rest of the bots. They transformed and stood on guard with weapons drawn. "Energon mine" said Bulk-head putting his plasma cannon away. "Judging by its scale, the decepticons have been tunneling here for quite some time." Said Optimus and they hid behind a boulder and watched the cons drill and harvest the large blue crystals. Optimus stood from his hiding place, and walked out into the swarm of vehicons. "Let's go find Cliff-Jumper" said Optimus and he stood all bad like. The cons charged their guns shaped in triangles, and pointed them in his direction. The bots aimed their guns at the cons and the cons fired purple lasers at them. The drill that was drilling for Energon came at them, and Bulk-head used his wrecking ball arm, and punched it to one side. It fell over on its side, and the others kept firing. Arcee flipped over several shots while Optimus shot as he ran. Arcee flip kicked some cons, while she fired at the others. She put her feet on either side of one con's head, and twisted while ripping it off its body. She jumped, and landed kneeling whiles the head dissapered. She charged for more cons, while Bumble-bee drove through the cons, transformed into a bot, and fired at several cons at once. He flipped in mid-air, and landed on a con. He jumped out of the way when he saw another drill coming his way, and Optimus tipped it over while using it as a shield. Optimus threw the drill away, charged guns blazing and knocking cons over. Bulk-head drove up to a con, transformed into a bot, and used his wrecking ball to smash one vehicon into the ground.
At the Auto-Bot base
Miko and Bloom were bored, so they decided to explore. Miko knelt down to a metal panel/console and looked at it. "What is this anyway?" asked Miko pointing at the console while Ratchet walked past her. "Broken, don't touch" said Ratchet and walked to the computer. Miko went to touch something else and Ratchet said "don't touch that either." And Miko looked bummed. "Is there anything in here we can touch?" Jack asked walking up to the girls. "You can touch each other" said Bloom and the kids smiled. Ratchet complained. "Blasted earth tech" said Ratchet about to punch the computer. "How come you're using human computers?" asked Raf standing next to him on a raised platform. "It's certainly not by choice. It was handed down from the previous tenants when we inherited this former missile silo. I make modifications as I see fit." Said Ratchet and he sighed in aggravation as another red box appeared. Raf looked at it, and smiled. "I think I can fix that" said Raf and got out his laptop. "Really? (Looks at him doughtfully) you know this is complex technology. (Raf plugs into a computer console at a desk and types away) I mean it isn't a child's toy" said Ratchet and Raf stopped typing. "Try it now" said Raf, and Ratchet looked at the screen to see all the red boxes turn green. The screens returned to normal and the whole room looked at him in dis-belief. "How in the world did you learn how to do that?" asked Bloom and Ratchet just stared at him.
In the mine
The drill rolled towards Bulkhead, he stops it while flipping the bot off of it, and Optimus shot the bot out of the air. The bots, having taken out all the cons, deactivated their weapons, and saw another wave of cons, and a few more drills. They all transformed and Optimus said; "MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE" and they all sped full speed towards the cons. spinning while taking cons out, driving backwards, and spinning forwards again, and running over cons on the way.
Optimus side-swiped the drill with the tail of his truck, flipped it over, and the con driving it flew off, and Arcee drove around it. Optimus took out more cons, and Bumble-bee followed close behind with the other bots. They transformed when they found a small cave with containers.
They hid behind huge crates, and watched the Vehicons as they loaded container after container on a platform and into a yellow tube, which led up to the decepticon warship. "quite an operation" bulkhead said a little too loud, and the cons spotted them. It ended up being the start of a fire fight.
On the Nemesis
Megatron stood infront of a large container and it held a massive purple crystal. "Blood of unicron, how might I fathom the depths of your mystery. Become worthy of wielding your astonishing power." Said Megatron standing while having his hands behind his back in deep thought. The comm-link activated and a face came up on the screen. "Lord Megatron, intruders have been detected in the mines." Star-scream said. "Optimus?" Megatron asked a little worried, and surprised at the same time. "Indeed" said Star-scream and Megatron turned to the crystals. "I need more time to prepare an appropriate reception for my old friend. Ready the ship for departure" said Megatron. "but the energon I've collected. The Auto-bots will seize it!" said Star-scream. "Then blow the mines" said Megatron and the comm shut off.
At the base
Miko walked up to Bloom while she read her book on the couch and sat next to her. The others joined her, and Bloom closed her book. "so where did you come from?" asked Miko with the others on the coffee table. "I knew this would come up" said Bloom sitting up. "You have to understand that I was only six years old and I don't remember much." Said Bloom and the kids nodded. "My family and I had come from a friend's house and finished dinner one night. I think I heard something outside, and once I told my dad, he went to check. He came back and said that is was the wind and about an hour later, I heard yelling and my mom took a necklace out from her shirt, and gave it to me. She said that it was very important that I keep it safe. When I brought it to Ratchet he said it was a shard of the all spark. He explained that it was very powerful, and that it was imperative that I keep it from anyone. Anyways, the men that broke into our house shot and killed both of my parents and only got me in the arm. Before I ran off, I saw a man come at me with a scar on his face. I was surprised when he let me go, and I ran down the street as fast as my little legs could carry me. Sooner or later Optimus found me curled in a ball on the road, and took me to base. And that's how I got to be Optimus' daughter" said Bloom and she had a few tears in her eyes. "Sorry Bloom. Didn't mean to upset you" said Miko with a hand on Bloom's. Bloom moved her hand, and she smiled. "It's okay. I needed to let it out" said Bloom and she picked up her book. The kids just walked back down the steps, and went to annoy Ratchet some more. She looks at her arm, and sighs. "One of these days, I'm gonna find the people who did this" said Bloom and she kept reading.
In the mines
The autobots kept firing, and when a laser hit a box Arcee was behind; she hid and saw "cliff-jumper" lying on the ledge. "It's cliff, I have a visual" said Arcee. "We'll cover you, GO!" said Optimus and Arcee jumped over the boxes while shooting down cons. She transformed into her vehicle form, and drove up the ramp while dodging lasers. She jumped, transformed into her robot form, and swung around a pole to run and jump off a bar, land on a tube hanging in a loop, and jumped to the next ledge. She runs to 'Cliff-Jumper' and gasps at the state he's in while lying in a pool of purple liquid. The cons fired at the bots, the platform was hit and it started falling. She ran to him and caught his hand. She struggled to get him up and looked at him hanging below her. "Let's get you home partner. There's someone who's waiting to see you" said Arcee and 'Cliff' looked up at her and snarled. She screamed in fright as she dropped him to the ledge below and landed in a pile of energon crystals.
Optimus looked up at Arcee while she looked up at a menacing laughter. "Prime! I'd stick around, but, I'm squeamish" said Star-scream holding a metal object in his hand and pushed a button before he dropped it. He jumped up and transformed into his jet form while he flew up in the yellow tube. The object hit the crystals, and bounced off of them. Bulkhead had a freaked out expression on his face when he said; "the joint's going to blow!" "Autobots roll out!" said Optimus and they transformed into their vehicle forms. They drove out of the cavern, into the main cave with the crystals while the bomb entered its final countdown sequence and ignited. The crystals blew up and Optimus activated his comm link. "Ratchet! Bridge us back! Use the arrival coordinates NOW!" He said and the portal opened.
Auto-bot base
Ratchet, Miko, Jack, Raf, and Bloom watched from the platform as the bots drive through the ground-bridge and Optimus rolled in, transformed and did a flip to avoid the ignited energon. He landed with his hand bracing him and with his knee on the ground. "Sweet moves big guy" said Bloom. "Cutting it a bit close, How about Cliff-Jumper?" asked Ratchet and Bloom looked up at Arcee. They all looked solemn, and Arcee looked at her little sister with sadness in her optics. Miko ran over and pointed at the close ground-bridge. "What was that explosion? Was there a fight? Can I come with next time?" asked Miko. Arcee came from behind Optimus with her fist clenched. "Look!" "Miko, how about we go see what the Bots hide in their sock drawers." Jack Said avoiding the possible spilling of blood. "Seriously?" asked Miko. "There's not much to see" said Bloom and the kids looked at her. "Arcee, what did you see?" asked Optimus. "Not cliff, at least not anymore. He was mutated, butchered. Something like those con experiments during the war." Arcee said hugging her self. She fell to her knee and rested against a block. Bumble-bee stepped up and asked –you okay- "I'm fine. Just dizzy" said Arcee putting her hand to her helm. "Robots who get dizzy?" "Robots with emotions" "who can get hurt" "who can die" said Bloom, and she saw them look at her. "It's true. I need to sit down" said Bloom holding her head. She felt dizzy as well, but she chalked it up to being dehydrated earlier. Ratchet used his arm computer to scan her and found something on her hand. When the light passed over it, it turned red. He stopped scanning, and looked puzzled. "Hm, what is this?" asked Ratchet. He held up her hand which was covered in purple goo. "Don't know, cliff was covered in it, leaking it." Said Arcee and ratchet scraped some off with a knife. "Go take a decamination bath, now" said Ratchet and Bumble-bee helped her up. Jack got Optimus' attention. "Uh, Optimus, I hate to bug (holds phone up) but no bars" said jack. "A security precaution, the silo ways isolate all radio waves." Said Optimus. "Which means no cell phones." Bloom said looking at her phone. "Well if I don't call my mom like now, I'm pretty sure the cops will be after me" said jack and Optimus leaned in closer. "Have you broken a law?" asked Optimus. "Curfew, it's after 10PM." Said Jack and Bloom smiled. "I don't have to worry about curfew." Said Bloom in a sing song voice. "Yeah, I have to get home too or else I'll be grounded for a year" Raf said fixing his glasses. "Earth customs, I hadn't considered. Though the issue of your safety remains." Said Optimus. "Bulkhead, accompany Miko home" said Optimus. "Awesome my host parents will freak!" said Miko. "And maintain covert surveillance, in vehicle form." Said Optimus, "curbside duty, got it" Bulk-head said coming up from behind him. "Aw." Said Miko disappointed. "Bumble-bee, you will watch over Raf" (the two look at each other and smile) "Ratchet" "Busy!" said Ratchet from the computer.
"Arcee, you will accompany jack" said Optimus as she walked out of the elevator. She yawns and stretches. "Still dizzy" "your fine, says your physician." Ratchet said without even turning around. She walks over to jack and he smiled. "I guess no one needs to take you anywhere huh?" asked Jack.
"Yep, you got it smart one." Bloom said plopping on the couch. All the bots transformed and drove off with their charges. Optimus walked over to Bloom and she smiled. "Something on your mind big guy?" asked Bloom standing up with a worried expression on her face. "I was thinking, since the decepticons have returned, that you wouldn't mind joining us in the field." Said Optimus. "But, I have no suit. I'll go squish" said Bloom and she saw the playful look in his eyes. "That can be changed. Ratchet, I believe it is time for her birthday present" said Optimus and Bloom ran down to the covered object in the corner. Ratchet uncovered it, and revealed a blue and red bike with flames on it, and a cool cybertronian look to it.
"This is cool and all, but where's the armor?" asked Bloom scratching her head. Ratchet pushed a button on his computer, and the bike transformed into a suit that was Optimus' height, and had the same designs he had, scratch the pipes on its back. Her helmet was the same design, and her armor was the same colors. "Cool!" said Bloom and she just smiled. "This is the best present ever!" said Bloom and she saw Ratchet pick her up. "It's time for you to try it out." Said Ratchet and Bloom rubbed her hands together in anticipation.
10 minutes later
Bloom was walking around the base in her new armor, and was enjoying every bit of it. "This is so cool." Said Bloom and saw the happy expressions on their faces. "This is the best present ever. Thanks guys" said Bloom and hugged her family.
At Jacks House
Arcee pulled into Jacks' garage, and jack got off. "Arcee, I just wanted to say, I'm sorry for your lose" said Jack standing in front of her. "Oh please, what would you know about lose?" asked Arcee. "What, you think you're the only one with problems?" asked Jack. She transformed into her bot form and kneeled. "I'm not sure girl trouble counts" said Arcee. "Well I'm pretty sure my girl trouble started the day I met you" said Jack and they both turned to see a white car pull up. "Cons!" Arcee said activating her guns. "No, mom" said Jack running out to her, as Arcee changed back into her vehicle form. "Mom, don't freak, I can explain" said Jack standing in front of his mother. "Can you? Jackson Darby we talked about this" June said standing next to Arcee. "I know" jack said before June interrupted him. "You don't know, it's enough that I worry about you when you're not here, but now I have to worry about you riding a motorcycle." Said June. "I'm 16. I can't be riding a ten speed forever." Said Jack. "How did you even afford this?" asked June with her hands on her hips. "It's used, abused really, needs a ton of repairs. But the point is I may have been a kid when I bought this (puts his hand on a white helmet sitting on a shelf) but I'm not anymore. You always tell me to make responsible choices, well I chose her, and I'll be responsible, I promise." Said Jack. "Her? I didn't think you'd be bringing girls home just yet" said June smirking. "I'd like to think she brought me" said Jack putting a hand on Arcee's seat. "Well I'm glad you finally have a reason to wear your helmet, every single time you ride" said June. "You will take me for a spin every once in a while?" asked June and Jack smiled. "I don't know, she's kind of temperamental." Said Jack, turned the light off and closed the garage door.