Warrior Cats meets Transformers

chapter 8: not in heaven yet

"Did you succeed?" a mash-up of distorted human voices spoke to the metal bird. the "bird" in question chirped, revealing its "catch".

a white cat with ginger spots... and such... scars....

"Good job, lazerbeak" the distorted voices spoke again towards the "bird", petting it on the head. looking back towards the carbon-based life-form Infront of it, it had seemed the life-form had passed out while being caught.

"Soundwave, did you get a specimen?" a voice on the comm link asked.

"affirmative" the mash-up of voices spoke.

"Good, i want knock-out to take a look at it later on. in the meantime make sure our little visitor doesn't... say... perish" then the voice on the comm link shut off, allowing silence to fill the air. soundwave replayed back the message and proceeded to try and gather some information about cats.

 after all, the order was to make sure it didnt perish.

the mech went to a monitor, typed in a few things and downloaded a few of the resources. while this was happening lazerbeak was watching the cat intently. after a bit he noticed the cat's legs twitch, then its tail, then its eye open. he altered soundwave via their telepathic bond. soundwave turned around just as the cat began to regain consciousness.

the cat looked around dazed for a moment before its eye caught ahold of lazerbeak. its tail (or what was left of it) began to swish back and forth like a whip. soundwave alerted lazerbeak to back off a moment, the cat seemed very agitated after being carried off like that. he considered putting a empty energon cube on top of the cat to keep it contained somewhat, but decided against it, hoping that it would just calm itself down somewhat.

he stared at the cat for a bit, keeping track of its features and such. he could tell that from its height, that it was an adult, the white body with orange spots meant that it was most likely a female and based off its scarring it was logical to assume that it had some kind of anxiety. its scars were what he was drawn to the most, not for any real reason, just that it made it seem like the cat had been attacked, the scars were aged so it wasn't like lazerbeak caused them. out of curiosity, soundwave reviewed over the footage that lazerbeak captured during his little "hunting trip". he noticed how the place the cats seemed to have been hiding was covered by a roof of some sorts, as if it was supposed to be a defense. Another thing he noticed was how many cats there were. far more than he, or megatron for that matter, had anticipated. nonetheless he continued to watch the footage, letting out a disappointed sigh at the part where lazerbeak shot down the roof. no doubt hurting some of the cats, and forcing them possibly to scatter, which would make it abit harder to track them all down, again.

"Suggestion: don't shoot next time" he telepathically told lazerbeak, lazerbeak let out what sounded like a mix of morse code notes and radio static, his way of apologizing.

drawing his thoughts back over to the cat in question, the cat was still on edge, yet thankfully, silent. it didn't glare though, or rather it made a sort of blank, yet scared face. soundwave thought that maybe the cat had suffered shock and scanned it. there wasn't any signs of shock, thankfully...

but still....

soundwave went over to his desk area, picked out two energon cubes and one of cloths he uses for lazerbeak. he gently threw the cloth over the cat, giving him enough time to encase the little feline inside the two energon cubes. then he promptly left with the contained kitty, off to the medic of the base.

knockout.

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"What spark-forsaken thing happened to it? i mean, look at it. it looks like someone tried to eat off half its face!" the medic recoiled at the sight of the cat.

"It is contained" soundwave stitched together some recordings, assuring the medic. carefully he placed the energon-cube-prison on the table, opening it abit as to allow the cat to be examined properly.

knockout said something under his breath as he scanned the cat and analyzed the data received. 

"is it in shock?" soundwave asked, he didn't want any chance of the cat dying.

"no, in fact it seems very healthy, sorry sucker..." the last bit he said under his breath, as if he meant it as a insult to the cat and their... unsightly scars. he eyed one piece of data in particular thought, he showcased it on screen.

"However, this cat seems to have.... high energon exposure." knockouts statement made soundwave content, as his lord megatrons plan was going accordingly. 


the plan as follows, was concocted after Mutiple engergon mining operations encountered cats. at first these little run-ins were just thought to be coincidences, however after on one of lazerbeaks little spying expeditions, he found the autobot bumblebee and his human with a cat. later spying missions revealed where the cat lived, inside its little colony. and this little colony just so happened to be right near a giant energon deposit, also inside this deposit were many, many cat bones. 

the cats were clearly connected to the energon, they've been practically living near it, meaning that the autobots couldn't discover this... little ... secret.


"Soundwave, was this the cat that lazerbeak had seen near bumblebee and his little... human?" knockout questioned, eyeing the cat.

"negative" which was true, the one lazerbeak had seen wasn't white and orange, it was almost red actually.

"Primus, how many cats are there?" knockout questioned in a disgusted tone with his eyebrow raised. soundwave showed a screenshot from lazerbeaks little capture, the shot where you could clearly see Mutiple cats. knockout looked almost repulsed by the sight of so many felines. clearly, he didn't want them anywhere near him. "Soundwave, not to question our lords' orders but... you don't really intend on brining all those cats to the nemesis, right? we are in no position to carry a bunch of organics on the nemesis."

even though knockouts comment was made on the basis of not wanting a bunch of stray animals in the ship, he had a point... 

they couldn't just house a bunch of random cats inside the war ship. this would have to be something he was going to discuss with lord megatron.