Chapter 7
We got a message from Starscream for Ratchet. He said, "I have obtained information regarding your leader. Bring medical kit. Come alone."
Ratchet had decided to ignore that and bring me and Bulk along since I didn't have anything to do.
Sapphire was in charge of the ground bridge.
We walked through the ground bridge to the coordinates Starscream had sent and found him leaking energon.
"I told you to come alone!", Starscream yelled.
"Like that was gonna happen, Starscream", I retorted.
"Where is Optimus?", Ratchet asks.
"Patch me up and perhaps I shall tell you."
We looked at each other and did nothing.
"Have sympathy. I'm leaking here", Starscream said.
"Then I suggest that you speak quickly", Ratchet says, "Has Optimus been harmed in any way?!"
"He's fine. Fine! Can't you see I'm the one who's been harmed?"
"Where is he?!", Bulk asks.
"Where do you think? He's on Megatron's warship."
"Where is located where?", I asked.
"Now? Who knows? It's a ship. It moves", Starscream answers, "it took me months to track, only to get fired upon."
"You wouldn't go to the trouble of calling me here unless you had information. Real information", Ratchrt says.
Starscream sighs and says, "Very well. Your beloved leader may have lost his senses. He goes by Orion Pax now, and it seems Megatron has led him to believe he's a Decepticon."
"We already know that, Starscream", I practically shouted at him.
"Woah. Someone's got a temper", Starscream says, "Anyway, how could you possibly know that?!"
"Ratchet, we're wasting our time", I said. Ratchet only nodded and we turned to go back through the ground bridge.
"Wait. That's all I have. Really! You can't just leave me like this!", Starscream shrieks.
"Oh I think we can", I growled.
Ratchet looks at me to quiet me and turns to face Starscream.
"Unless you can tell me where Megatron's hiding his space bridge, you can stay here and rust", Bulk says.
Starscream gasps. "Space bridge? Do you mean to tell me that they actually finished building it without my supervision?!"
He had finally got our attention and he laughed when he realized that.
"It hurts most right here, doctor", he said.
Ratchet patched him and then we left.
*time skip*
Ratchet showed us where the space bridge was, deep within an energon mine. Arcee realized that they cleverly put next to a raw fuel supply. But then she asked a question we had hoped she would not.
"What's our intel?"
"A... reliable source", Ratchet said after sharing a glance with me and Bulk. Arcee glared at him slightly.
Ratchet then turned to the humans.
"Do we have a consensus?", he asked.
"Do we even know if people can even breathe you atmosphere?", June asks.
Fowler turned to her and said, "I'll hook Jack up." June glared at him and he added, "completely state of the art", as he put his arm around Jack's shoulder. Jack glanced down at it. "I still have connections at NASA."
"It's too dangerous", June says, worried about her son.
"Mom, I know that this is hard, but Optimus risked his life to save our planet, and he's not even human", Jack says stepping closer to her. "We owe it to him."
"Jack may be the only one who can do this, June." Arcee says, "But I don't want you to think for one moment that I'll allow him to travel unchaperoned."
June looks extremely worried and Ratchet cuts in. "Not everyone is destined for an ordinary life. Optimus Prime was once Orion Pax, after all."
June thinks about with worry etched all over her face. She turns to Jack with a small smile on her face.
"When you were little, you always wanted to be an astronaut", she says trying to hold back tears. Jack smiled at her when she said that.
Ratchet informed us of what we needed to do. We had to use absolute stealth.
"Taking the bridge is the easy part. You five need to hold it long enough for Jack and me to get to Cybertron and back", Arcee says.
Ratchet used an analogy Raf apparently used earlier and confused a lot of us.
Miko and Raf were in charge of communications and ground bridge. June was to stand by in case of medical emergency.
Fowler came back and said, "Son. It's time to suit up." Jack nodded and went to go put on the suit.
We ground bridged to the mine and worked our way to the space bridge, fighting vehicons along the way but still being stealthy so they didn't call for back up.
Ratchet took one the vehicons com things as he tried to call for back up... when Bulkhead punched the vehicon, Ratchet said, "shh" to the vehicons. I couldn't help but giggle. Ratchet glanced at me, and I put my serious face on. With a smile.
We took an elevator down to a lower level where the space bridge was and fought more vehicons.
We saw the space bridge and Ratchet said, "by the allspark."
"Thank tou Starscream", Arcee said. Me and Bulkhead looked at her. How'd she know. "Who else would it be?", she said with a shrug.
Bulkhead and I focuses back on what we were doing.
Bulkhead threw a drill at them, which was obviously bigger than them and they just shot at it. I understand why there is so many of them now.
We shot at some more vehicons which took a few minutes but we eventually took the bridge.
"A masterpiece of engineering", Ratchet says in wonder.
"Operational?", Arcee asks.
"Fully", Ratchet says.
"Perimeter secure", Bulkhead says.
"Now the scary part", Arcee states.
Ratchet explains what he's doing so we can communicate with base during the entire mission.
"Strike team to base", Ratchet says, "objectice secured."
A ground bridge opens and Jack comes through it.
Ratchet locked onto Cybertron and opened the space bridge. Arcee explained to Jack that it's just like ground bridging. Just a little more intense. I smiled at that.
"Wait! Can I come with you?!", I shout over the sound of the space bridge.
Arcee looks to Ratchet who nods.
"You'll need all the help you can get!", he shouts.
We walk through and I see my- our destroyed home world.
"I can't believe it! Arcee I'm finally on another planet!", Jack exclaims. When Arcee didn't respond he looked up at her. "Arcee?"
"This isn't how I wanted you to see my home."
I come beside her and rest my hand on her shoulder. "Our home", I corrected.
She glanced at me and Jack apologizes.
"In the fog of war, it's hard to see beyond the next leg of the mission or the next punch in the fight", she says looking down at the ground. "We did everything to save Cybertron"
I cut in. "But when the fog finally lifted, there was practically nothing left to save.
"Arcee, Luna, Jack, do you copy?", Ratchet's voice came over the comms.
"Roger. We're on Cybertron", Jack says.
Bulkhead said, "just keep the sight seeing to a minimum, huh?" I laughed slightly. "Bulkhead there isn't much left to see", I say quietly.
"Just please keep it to a minimum", Ratchet said.
"Okay", I said.
"We're out", Ratchet says and the comm turns off.
Jack pulls out the keycard and says, "Ratchet said this would guide me but I don't see how it could or what I'm supposed..." He stopped talking when he realized it glowed brighter when he pointed it in a certain direction.
Arcee and I transformed and Jack got on Arcee. We started driving only pausing to make sure we were heading the right direction.
"Toward Kaon?!", Arcee exclaimed.
"The Decepticon capital. Swell", Jack said. We kept driving until we got to a bridge.
"We're on foot from here", Arcee says, "don't want to attract the wrong kind of attention."
"Cons?", Jack asks.
"Vermin", Arcee says just I say, "worse."
We look at each other and nod. I pull out my katana's as she transforms her hand into a gun and we walk across the bridge. Halfway across the bridge, we put away our weapons.
As we got off the bridge, the keycard grew brighter.
"We must be close", Jack says as we pause.
We continue walking and end up walking underneath a giant statue of Megatron.
There was a rumbling and the keycard grew very bright. Cracks appeared all across the ground and a doorway appeared coming up from the ground.
"Vector Sigma is down here, then?", Jack asks.
"Kaon didn't always belong to the decepticons. Megateon took it as a capital. Apparently without ever realizing what lay beneath their feet", Arcee says.
We heard crumbling coming from above us so we looked up and there was a insecticon. It squealed when it saw us and jumped down.
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