Dark Soul

CHAPTER NINE

"How are our patients, Ratchet?"

The said medic looked up at Optimus' worried optics with reassurance, "They'll live. Though, received quite the shock to their systems; haven't seen symptom's like these since before and after the war on Cybertron. Give Arcee and Cliffjumper a few hours and they should wake up from stasis; but it will take a couple of days for them to be fully functional. Depends if they have any after effects."

"Do you have any ideas on what or who could have done this?"

"Yeah!", a dark green, grey, and black bulky bot with bright blue optics exclaimed as he smashed his fist into his palm, "What Con did this so I can hunt them down and kick their tailpipe!"

:Yeah! I agree with Bulkhead!:, a yellow and black bot, who was shorter than the other three, beeped out.

"Vengeance is never the key to any problem; it only leads to more pain and suffering.", the Autobot leader calmly chastised his two upset comrades; who sheepishly looked away in shame.

"Well-", Ratchet was about to explain before-

BEEP

BEEP

BEEP

"Now what?", the red and white mech grumbled out while crossing his arms over his chassis and rolled his optics in annoyance.

"Prime!", a male voice urgently called out as an African American in a suite briskly walked out of an elevator before stopping at the metal railing; placing his hands on it and gripping it tightly, "You found her?"

The four Autobots looked at each other in confusion before Bulkhead asked, "Uh... Who?"

Agent Fowler gravely looked up at the aliens, "She goes by the name Void. A big shot illegal fighter known in almost all of the states. Wanted for petty thievery to murder. Don't know what she looks like, though the ones unlucky enough to see her face never live to tell the tale.", he shook his head in frustration, "Higher up's been looking for this woman ever since she popped up ten years ago; suspected that she had a hand in blowing up a building thought to have been shut down ages ago."

"What do you mean 'thought to have shut down'?", Ratchet demanded as he air quoted the human's words; blue optics narrowing in suspicion.

The brown eyed male shuffled nervously under the intense gaze of the metal titans before explaining, "Well... we found out that the facility was quite active; involved in illegal activities that made it the Government's top priority to investigate the ones involved...."

"May we know why?", Optimus asked as he locked gazes with the organic.

Agent Fowler heaved out a shaky sigh as he croaked out,

"They were experimenting on children."

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Void sat crossed legged on the giant table with her back to her captors; still steaming about what the high heel wearing mech had said. She had the urge to zap him like she did the other two bots but decided against it; not wanting to waste her energy and end up losing consciousness afterwards. The ravenette's ears twitched at the one sided hushed conversation that the two aliens were having since the faceless one doesn't seems to be much of a talker; causing her to wonder if they ever talked at all. Leaning an elbow on her knee and resting her chin on her palm, Void thought about her next course of actions.

She needs to plan her escape...

But does she even want to?

Despite not knowing where she is and not being here for that long, the fair skinned woman felt at home in this dark and dreary place. Plus, she was getting tired of constantly running and looking over her shoulder for any possible threat looking to either kill her or arrest her.

Or worse.

Making up her mind, Void stood up as her sore body groaned in protest while yelling out, "Hey!"

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"I think we should end her pathetic life now while we still have a chance...", Starscream grumbled out with a servo on his hips and a scowl on his dermas.

Soundwave strongly disagreed as he shook his helm and replayed the video feed of the femme single handedly taking down the two Autobots known as Arcee and Cliffjumper on his visor.

"Then again... having an unique ally with the ability to take down two full grown Autobots could give us an advantage in this war...", the SIC hummed out while running a digit down his faceplate in thought.

"Hey!"

The two mechs swerved around and glanced down at the mentioned organic; who was awkwardly shuffling her peds as her tail lazily swayed near the floor.

"So... what exactly are you guys? I can tell your not from this planet..."

"Well, aren't you the smart one.", the seeker sassed; causing the human's tail to stiffen and a tint of red to glow within the shadows of her hood.

"I sort of have to be with my... reputation."

"And what would that be?"

"A wanted criminal.", the hooded being shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly, "Let's just say I tend to let my hatred towards humans be known; exspecially during illegal fights that permits killing.", the femme's tail moved in front of her as it's tip pointed at the two Commander's direction, "But that's all I'm willing to share until I hear something from you. Since tall, dark, and silent doesn't seem to say much."

"We are Decepticons from the planet Cybertron.", Starscream explained as he placed his servos behind his back strut and puffed out his chassis proudly; wings perking, "I... am Commander Starscream, second in command to Lord Megatron's army and the next in line if anything... unfortunate... were to happen to him."

"Uh-huh....", the organic nodded her head; noting internally to add treacherous to this mech's personality in her mental list. She then inclined her helm towards the faceless being next to the SIC, "And him?"

/Designation: Soundwave/, a deep gravelly voice sounded from the lithe bot, /Third in Command: Head of Intelligence/ My most trusted follower/

"Go ahead and rub it in, will you?", Starscream sneered out while the tailed femme tried to hold in her laughter by coughing behind her fist.

'That voice must be this Megatron that Screamish mentioned before...'

Once calmed, she tilted her head and mused out "Well, I guess it's my turn to introduce myself..", before raising her servos, grabbing her hood, and then lowered it,

"My designation is Void."