The Enemy Is Among Us

Chapter 6

The Ark

Fortunately after some treatments and a couple more psychiatrist meetings Shockwave was perfectly sane. Megatron and Optimus decided to have him possibly identify a Nebulan spy to interrogate. Upon bringing him out Megatron whispered, "Shockwave, do you see anyone specific here, one important enough to break?" Shockwave whispered back, pointing at a bot, "There's one, I remember seeing him a lot here, I believe the Nebulan'a name is Galen''. Optimus dilated his optics more, the bot- was Cerebros, one of the most peaceful Autobots, no will to harm unless completely necessary, master of the ship Fortress. Suddenly Cerebros turned, got a look like an alien deer that was spooked and bolted, violently pushing aside six bots. Prime called out, "Stop him, he's a spy!". Two autobot heavies moved and tried to grab his arm but Cerebros ducked and sprinted towards a large door, the door to Fortress and he sprinted in and closed the door. After about 6 other tries, Prime and Megatron brought in Hot Rod, an enthusiastic young autobot with flaming exhausts and Octopunch, a sea specialist who worked with the Seacons a few times who is a firetrooper. The two were able to successfully weaken the door enough for Hot Rod to excitedly get back quite a bit, transform and go through the wall. With quick efficiency he took out his pistol and Prime, Megatron and Shockwave went in, Octopunch, Broadside and Bludgeon stood guard, just in case Cerebros tried to get out. They went in with guns drawn when they heard hurried footsteps, they leaped out, Hot rod even firing a burst(he was very excited) but they stopped when they noticed it was Ironhide. Ironhide said, "What's going on Prime? Cerebros came in and said we were going , I heard the sound of someone crashing through, I knew something was up, is there Prime?". After a hurried explanation from Shockwave, Ironhide joined them with a grenade launcher. They barged into the control room and overpowered Cerebros after he fired at them with a path blaster. Shockwave then held his gun to Cerebros's throat, saying, "Show yourself, Galen and nothing else or i'll blow your head off". Suddenly Cerebros's head came off and transformed into a little light gray robot with blue eyes, he immediately put his hands up in surrender. Hot Rod screamed and Megatron quickly put a hand over his mouth. Galen said, "Please, don't shoot, I am peaceful, I mean no harm" in a calm but shaky voice. He opened Cerebros's chest and took out a personality bank, he said "This is Cerebros's mind, I was able to save it before I was sent in ''.

Galen wasn't sure if what he did was a smart idea. Once he was trooped out of Fortress he noticed every cybertronian in their path looking at him, most with hate in their optics, others, fear. But Galen remembered his mission, hoping he could survive to complete it. He was moved into an interrogation room, the two bots Prime and Megatron sat in front of him and glared at him, beckoning for him to tell his tale.

The shortened version is that one day many Nebulans started to get infected with a disease that weakens them and destroys their organs, so they started to use machines to assist, some requiring some cybernetic parts, others fully metal bodies. One day a large transforming ship came, it was captained by a robot their size, who calls himself Necro (Necro is a small purple bot with a black head, red visor and black stripes on his legs) came and offered an allegiance, he saw their plight from his ship and came down to help. "But I was suspicious," Galen said, then continued his story. Necro would give them new cybertronian bodies, "These bodies are empty of life, and they are like your old bodies but better," Necro said. They were told of a conquering, towering, violent robotic race called Transformers. Necro told them of how these new bodies could be used to become the heads of the cybertronians and they could become all powerful. Everyone agreed, some reluctantly, some were excited. He also approached the Hive, a similar species to the Nebulans but insectoid, with wings and large eyes. Necro soon established base mode and started producing, spreading. The Hive became taskmasters, their flying abilities were very good Necro claimed but Galen believed that it was due to their cruelty. They quickly overcame lone bots or small squads and put the brains in a large, well protected vault. Galen said that shortly after the start they got Cerebros but before being sent out he secretly took the brain module for Cerebros.