"That's one big ship..." Will commented as They stared up at the massive spiked air carrier taking up the stary night.
"When did they have camouflaged?" Miko squints, getting a better look.
"You been in that thing?" Sunny stood by her side, looking up beside the two.
"This is my fourth, but I haven't seen anything like it."
"Let's not waste time then." Will clenches his fist as a vein courses through his head.
Will begins coughing. "Damn it, not now!"
"Come on." Sunny opened her hand to Will and Miko. Miko grabbed a hand while Will stared at her. "Don't stand there admiring me. Grab on." Will does so.
Their shoes leave the sand as a pink aura trail after Sunny before disappearing into the night.
Miko giggled and chuckled as they grew further from the ground.
Will gazed at Miko, smiling at the ground.
"A dream of yours?" He questioned as Sunny eyes trailed to her.
"I always dream of this." The gentle breeze brushed their hair as they grew close to the carrier. "To fly whatever I want: free from responsibilities...but I have something more important. Bulkhead and My family." Will looks to Sunny, that soon focuses on the carrier.
Their shoes touch the smooth ground. They were now on Megatron Carrier.
Sunny stumbles before Will catches her in his arms.
"Hey! You alright?!" He worried while Sunny dazedly collected herself before pushing Will from her.
"I'm fine." She said firmly, Will quickly let it go. Yet kept an eye on her.
"Follow me. I know the way." Miko begins leading.
---
The three sneaked down the Massive hall that surrounded them.
"What's your deal?" They heard a voice and hid behind a corner. Will peaked noticing Breakdown and a Vehicon. "I've seen you eyeing specific helicon lately.~"
"It's nothing. We just talk, that's all." Breakdown cracks a smile giving a Vehicon a pat on his back, causing him to stumble to a stop near the children.
" So, you've talked. You got the gears to ask out? You could take her to dinner...Maybe a drive-in theater. Knock said 'humans have an interesting taste in genre." They walked by the children's spot that was now empty.
The Vehicon sighs as their steps vibrant the steel floors.
"If I do it, would you stop bothering me?"
"That's the spark!" He cheered, wrapping an arm around the Vehicon shoulder. They grew further from them as a door slid open, revealing the three peaking out at them.
"It's clear, but I'm afraid the more we chill out here. A bot is bound to catch us slipping. " Miko advised while They stepped out into the hall once more.
"You know the ship like the back of your hand." Sunny folds her arms. "Put that brain to use."
Miko gazed around and hummed.
"Let me think...ha!" She immediately raced to a vent cover their size in the middle of the hall. "I remember Raf telling me bout slipping through here by accident." Miko twirls a pocketknife between her fingers until it clicks open, revealing its pointed end. "He was chased by Starscream."
"And you say you wanted to venture with us." Sunny commented while Miko slid the cover to the side.
They stared down the cramped vent of darkness.
"Well, 'It's Morphing time!'. You're up." Miko looks back to Will, causing him to stagger.
"What?! Why me?!"
"I'm quite self-conscious in small spaces." Will squinted his eyes.
"Huh?" Sunny pushes past the two.
"You're nervous, a kid staring at your ass? Pathetic." She got to her hands and knees, showing her black jean. "Stare all you want.~" She begins crawling into the vent, causing Will and Miko to blush.
Will sighs before following right after her. Their hands and knees lightly bang as their shallow breaths follow.
"So?" Miko started after the long silence. "How will we do this?"
"We find the Autobots and Ben. Head right on out." Will answered.
"You make it: sound simple, considering we're sneaking into the enemy's territory and me enjoying the attention. I hardly say they wouldn't bat an eye when they catch us." Sunny commented once more, causing Will to blush once again.
"W-what happened to the Sunny, I know?" Sunny suddenly stops causing Will to bump into her rear.
"What the hell is your problem?!" Will rubs his nose. "It seems like you haven't skipped leg day." He said under his breath. He noticed Sunny looking back at him.
"I may be hot, but I'm not dumb. That's what separates me from that brat." She continued forward while Will and Miko followed.
Sunny stop once more.
"Hold. There are two paths." Sunny shifts her body to the side, giving Will and Miko the chance to see.
"Uh, to the right." Will answered.
"You bettered not get us killed." Sunny said under her breath, following Will's advice.
As they continued, Will felt his heartthrob.
'Megatron...'
'Brother.' A voice whispered.
Will stop, and now is Miko's turn in this event.
"Agh, what?!" Miko rubs her nose, trying to relieve the pain.
"You heard that?" Will questioned.
"Heard what?" Sunny gazed back at him.
'Equality...' Will heard it once more.
"Move." Will slides by Sunny.
"Your taking charge is frustrating, but a warm welcome." Will ignored her statement and followed his heartbeat and the whispers.
Slowly his heart rate rises as the whispers become hard to understand. He noticed a vent up ahead while light bled from the cracks.
Will quickened his pace until looking through it. He saw large containers in silver. He got onto his back and began kicking the vent cover.
"Hey! Hold on!" Miko whispered as their repetitive banging grew louder, trying to catch up to Will.
Will kicked the vent cover off its hinges, causing a loud crash. The vent cover slid to the middle of the room as Will stood to his feet.
The silver containers stood tall as houses. They stretch out in rows while Will stares down it as his eyes follow the steel floor, trying to see the end.
'You're siding with him?!' Will blindly followed the voices.
'He's someone you shouldn't follow!' Will noticed a Massive chipped blade that could fit Optimus size was displayed in a ball as a dim purple light rained down on it.
'You think Optimus is any better?! What more can you get?!' Will looks up to the Decepticon symbol engraved on the handle.
A white light took his sight.
---
Once again, through the eyes of HighRoller. He was on a roof gazing at the futuristic city before the war. The sun slowly falls to dusk while a helicopter flies by.
"Seeing as the Primes turn a blind eye to all the lower-class bots, I can't stand to twiddle my thumbs." He clenches his fist. "By the flying Spark! Why fight for something as cruel as they?!"
He felt a hand grab his forearm. He turns to meet eyes with Acree with a scolding look.
"And you think joining Megatron's rebellion will solve anything!"
"I joined the military because I believe we could change Cybertron!"
"By provoking deactivation and property damage?! He's someone you shouldn't follow!" Acree raises her voice.
"You think Optimus is any better?! What more can you get?!" He pulled his arm from her and turned his back to Acree, Getting distance.
"Megatron wants equality for all bots. He wouldn't resort to this if they did what he said."
"High!" Acree walked around High Roller, blocking the view of the city and dusk. "I raised you since you were a bolt. I am not letting my little brother die for a lunatic with an Ego boost!!"
"I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO LOOK AFTER ME!!!" He roared, causing Acree to stagger.
The light from dusk blinds him.
---
"Will? Will!" He noticed Miko in his line of view. "What was that?"
"An Echo." Will blinks his eyes before lightly separating from Miko.
"A what?" Sunny questioned.
"The voices I hear!" Will gazes at his hand. "It's starting to make sense. Rogue. Audo! Red Riot! Possibly other aliens, They are trying to show me something...I push them back for so long." Will rubs his eyes, making Miko and Sunny dumbfounded. "There's gotta be more like this."
"You want to stay longer?!" Miko questioned in disbelief. "Megatron is probably wandering this ship waiting to sell us as human carpets."
" Put that on the back burner. We need to rescue that Annoying Brat and look out for our Shining grace. If you don't remember. Your tap out, and I'm hanging by a thread." Sunny advised while Will sighed.
"You're right. Let's go." They began walking down the row heading back into the vent they crawled out of.
This time Will took the lead with Sunny and Miko after them. They crawled back to the steak fork path, but now they take a left.
"Hey, 'It's Morphing time'?" Miko whispered.
"Yes?" Will questioned.
"What was that Echo you saw earlier?"
"It was HighRoller's. He's the Autobot I use, but I'm not sure you saw him...he's supposed to be Acree's little brother."
"Wait, rewind." Miko stops causing Will and Sunny to come to a halt. "A brother? She never mentions him."
"This only been four days I met her. She's pretty good at hiding her wounds." Will comments.
"Well, it does sound like her.." Miko said under her breath.
Will continued as the two followed.
"There was an argument in Cybertron before the war with Acree. He thought about joining Megatron and the Decepticons."
"Why would he? I saw the guy in action using one of his people as a human shield. You ask me that buckle of bots spells trouble." Sunny comment.
"There was a political debate about giving low-class bots equality among the higher. Megatron method is why Decepticons and Autobots exist." Will notice a vent underneath him.
His eyes wander, seeing a tall, slender Decepticon standing in the center of his room, as still as stone. Will focus on his features, realizing it was the quiet bot in Dr. Viktor's memory.
"Hey, what it's doing?" Will questioned, whispering under his breath.
"What?" Miko questioned before Sunny gave her room to see. Her eyes almost jumped from her sockets. "Crap! Crap! Just go!"
"Huh?" Will raised a brow.
"Move!!!" Miko slightly raises her voice.
Will followed her orders until coming to a dead end. He noticed a vent cover underneath him leading to another room.
'Ark...' A voice whispered as his heart pumped from his chest.
"There's another. Echo nearby." Will whispered. "Knife." Miko passes her pocketknife to Sunny and Sunny to Will. He began jabbing at the edges.
"Hey! Hey! It's a pocketknife, not a chisel!" Miko called out.
"Yeah, sorry." Will pops the sides out, causing the vent cover to swing open. "Alright, it's a drop. Prepare." Will's hands Miko her pocketknife before dropping from the vent.
His shoe clicked, hitting the floor. Will let out a grunt standing to his feet.
A bot-size examination table sat at the center of the medical room with cuffs the size of a human, but no one was there.
"Wait." He grunts some more before noticing his heart rate increasing. "Ben was here." Sunny and Miko drop into the room.
'Decepticon..'
'Be Careful...' The whispers came back while Will whipped his head around the room.
'Rumble. Eject.'
'You went too far!' Will's heart beats from his chest, going full throttle. His heartbeat filled his ears while Miko and Sunny were trying to get a hold of him.
'High? High?! Answer me!!'
Sunny raced, tackling Will from behind as a loud bang thundered the room.
"Well!" A quirky voice starts as Will and Sunny look back at it. It was a small bot their size with piledrivers as arms. It lifts its arm from the dented floor before gazing at them. "You ready to quake before you break!?"
A white light blinds Will.
----
In the eyes of Highroller in his vehicle form: Futuristic black and white sports car. He drifts around a corner, passing injury Autobots running past him.
"HighRoller, a Decepticon is in the Ark defense ammo bay. We're down to our last cannon, do anything necessary to stop him." Optimus states within the coms.
"Everything is under control, Optimus." He drifts around another corner. "You focus on the pirates."
"Be Careful, High. I'm not there to save you." Acree's voice came next on coms.
"Thanks for your concern, but your negativity is not welcome."
"High! I'm serious! I don't know how this is gonna go...Just come back alive." She choked.
"I will...Coming down to it, your always right. I'm confident I will." Highroller noticed a dismembered Autobot at an opened door. Gunfire and explosion erupt from it.
He morphed into bot form, sliding to a halt. HighRoller entered the room.
Noticing a massacre. Brute Soundwave blasts a jet-Autobot hanging on a wall with his canon: turning him into parts and bits.
"He's open!" An Autobot with a katana charges at Soundwave's blind spot. Soundwaves spun on his feet before connecting his cannon against his attacker's blade.
"Rumble. Eject." His robotic voice commanded.
Soundwave's chest cavity opens, and a small bot shoots from his chest, caving the attacker's head against the floor. Rumble rips his piledriver, causing the Autobot body to jolt.
"Bummer, they're not much of a challenge." They eyed the corpses of bots all around the room.
"I think I can cure that." HighRoller's arm morphs into an assault rifle.
He began firing while Soundwave and Rumble got to cover behind a metal crate.
"Drift King? Is that you?" Rumble questioned after HighRoller's line of fire.
"What? You hope for your brother?!"
"OI, you went too far, YOU COCKY BASTARD!!! I'll Murder ya!!!"
"Your welcome to try!" HighRoller hurls a ball over their way. Soundwave and Rumble sprint from their cover as an explosion throw the crate across the room.
Soundwave ran to the side of the room, blasting his cannon at HighRoller.
HighRoller shoulder roll to cover, firing back at Soundwave that now found his.
"VIBE CHECK!" Rumble clocks HighRoller against his jaw. He slides onto his back, groaning. "DIE!!" He leaps after HighRoller but only for precision shot to blow his head to bits.
HighRoller pants with his arm morphed into a Revolver. He got to his feet, but only for Soundwave to tackle him. He carried him across the room until crashing HighRoller back into the wall near car-size rounds that rotate into the ceiling.
SoundWave unleashes a fury of strikes that HighRoller couldn't counter in time. Soundwave right hooked Highroller to the ground.
Soundwave's arm morphed into a blade oozing Dark Energon.
He stabbed him, but HighRoller got a death grip on the weapon: delaying his possible death.
"High? High?! Answer me?!!!" Acree called from the coms while HighRoller: clutched his teeth. He roars as the tip of the blade grows inches from his gut.
HighRoller noticed the Ark ammo rounds whirl by their heads. SoundWave raised his hand to deliver the last blow, but HighRoller blasted Soundwave's blade into the ammo canister.
As the blade connected. The bright light and rumble of the explosion are all High Roller hears until it instantly fades black.
----
Will snaps out of it. As Rumble grew closer to Sunny, holding her ground in front of Will.
"This must be embarrassing for you. For a girl to protect you like that." He chuckled. Sunny arm glowed pink before she roared, hurling a slash.
Rumble rolls from the attack, and the slash crash against the wall. Dust scattered, blinding everyone.
"Hahaha, Yes! You pack quite a punch!" His laughter was heard within the dust before it ceased. The examining table was cut split down the middle as the medical equipment scattered on the floor, and the cabinet was now a deep gash on the wall.
Will noticed blood hitting the floor in front of the panting Sunny.
"I won't let you kill him...I have a score to settle with him!!!" She roared, forming a mana blade from her arm. "Come get me, dipstick!"
Rumble growls.
"YOU SURE HAVE A MOUTH ON YOU!!!" He dashes at the two in a fit of rage. The speed he was going gave the children a bit of a scare. "Let's see if you can handle the quake, you hormonal brat!!!"
He delivered a blow to Sunny's head, but only for a blue beam to take Rumble off his feet and send him crashing to the ground.
"AH, WHAT THE FUCK!!!" Rumble hiss.
The children's gaze lands on Bee blaster smoking. He began approaching Rumble.
"You honey-comb fuck!!! Do you know how long it's been? I've waited for a fight like this?!" Bee grew closer. " Fif-" Bee's metal boot stomps on Rumble's chest. Compared to the two, Bee's foot entirely took Rumble's chest and to his chin.
"Beep. Zip!" Rumble tilted his head.
"What?!"
"Where's the girl?!" Miko shouts. She grows closer to the two. But for Bee to signal her to distance herself.
"You asking me like I'm a shrink to your problem." Bee applied pressure. "Ragh!! Watch the chrome!"
"You're gonna talk, or Bee here will do something you'll totally regret." Miko folds her arms while her eyes harden.
"The only thing I regret is listening to you. Gah! Who's said 'totally' anymore, a--" Bee knocks Rumble out cold.
"Boop.Zeep!" Bee looks down on Rumble.
"Tell me about it." Miko sighs.
Will get to his feet, staring at Sunny's back, still standing. Her mana blade dissolved as she stood up straight.
"Sun?" Will calls before Sunny hits the ground. "Sunny!!!" Will shout gains Bee and Miko's attention. Will turn her over, noticing sweat raining down her head and blood running down her head and nose. "Sunny! Sunny, GET UP!!"