Aqua-star: Transformers Prime

Flying Mind

Aqua-star's POV

The kids are here and Bulkhead is telling them his story of how he trashed the Nemesis power core. "But when the Insecticons suddenly backed off, I got inspired by my proximity to the power core and did what I do best" he states.

"You trashed Megatron's ride like a rock star in a hotel room" Miko says happily.

"We should hit the 'cons right now while they're vulnerable" Arcee states.

"Agreed" I say.

"Megatron's warship may be grounded, but let's not forget that we remain vastly outnumbered, especially since has added the insecticon hive to his ranks" Ratchet reminds us.

"Then maybe it's time for me to call in an air strike" Fowler suggests.

"Or for us to consider more extreme measures, Agent Fowler" Optimus tells him. Then leaves the room with Ratchet. I frown, what's he planning?

"So where did you go Aqua-star?" Bulkhead asks me.

"I meet up with Knockout, I gave him an update on our sparkling and he give me energon. Which I scanned for any trackers before bringing back to base with Ratchet" I explain. "Any idea what extreme measures Optimus is talking about?" I ask the team. They all shrug.

Just then Optimus and Ratchet return with the spark extractor. I gasp in shock covering my growing sparkling and Arcee stands in front of me. "Optimus, what's the plan?" Arcee asks.

"We will be deploying the spark extractor" he states.

"But Optimus, what about Knockout?" I ask him. "He is my sparkling's sire" I remind him.

"This maybe the only chance we have to win the war" he tells me.

"I won't be a part of this" I sneer and transform. I race out of the base, while Arcee and the others call my name. I can't stand by and watch them kill Knockout. I won't and I try to contact him. But something is interfering with our signal. I would not risk going to the Nemesis, and life of my unborn sparkling. But I pray the spark extractor isn't used.

(Mini time skip)

I hadn't gone far when Ratchet calls me and asks me to return to base. Saying the plan hadn't worked and he needed my help getting the others back to base. I didn't understand why until I returned and learned the others have been locked in stasis. Also the cons didn't take the spark extractor or kill the others while they had the chance. Something weird is diffidently going on.

So we decide to contact the Nemesis as we can still track it. Ratchet calls the Nemesis. "Autobot outpost Omega One to Decepticon warship. Megatron, please respond" Ratchet says. No answer. "Megatron" he says again.

"Megatron has been relieved of his command" an unknown voice answers.

"Who is this?" Ratchet asks the voice.

"Who is this?" the voice shots back.

"Have you taken control of the Decepticon vessel?" Ratchet asks him.

"I am the vessel" the voice answers. "Any Cybertronian who interferes with my mission will be neutralized" it tells us. Then shows us images from the Nemesis. All the decepticons frozen in stasis like our team, before hanging up.

"Well this is bad" I state.

"It hung up? Rude" Miko complains.

"Rude?! There's a giant spaceship flying around collecting Decepticon weapons of mass destruction!" Fowler exclaims.

"A giant spaceship filled with neutralized Decepticons" Jack adds.

"True" I say.

"Point?" Fowler asks.

"This could be our only chance to slip aboard and download the Iacon database" Jack tells us.

"So Optimus and I can decode it" I state smiling at Jack.

"Ingenious. Aqua-star and I will infiltrate the Decepticon warship" Ratchet suggests.

"Not ingenious. You saw what it did to the Decepticons" Jack reminds him.

"And probably Megatron, too" Raf adds.

"And team Prime" Miko states.

"The children make a good point, we can't go without risking being locked in stasis ourselves" I tell Ratchet.

"But that tub had me dead to rights, and I'm still breathing" Fowler reminds us.

"The ship may be blind to humans" Jack suggests.

"Theoretically yes, but I doubt it'd stay blind to them for long" I state.

"Very well, Agent Fowler. But at the first sign of trouble, I am bridging you right back here" Ratchet tells him. I grab an empty data drive handing it to Ratchet. Who hands it to Fowler. "Now, in order to download the database, you will need a compatible transfer drive" he states as Fowler takes it confused.

"A what?" he asks. Primus help us.

"He'll also need tech support" Raf states.

"And back up" Miko adds. So we send all the humans to the Nemesis. Wishing them luck. I start to try find a way to revive the team while Ratchet communicates with the others. I hear Ratchet in the back ground but ignore him, focusing on my task.

Until I heard that they had found a console and Knockout in stasis lock. "Is Knockout ok?" I ask them.

"Yeah, just frozen like team prime" Fowler states. "Here's a question for you. What would a relic from Cybertron be doing in the Big Apple?" he asks me.

"The Iacon relics landed on Earth eons ago, Agent Fowler, long before the city was built atop it" I tell him.

"Which means if the ship wants this one it may have to move some buildings out of the way" Jack states.

"Our mission just got complicated. How do we deter this ship?" Fowler asks.

"I'd try disabling the navigation module" I tell him. "Call up the main navigation menu" I instruct. Fowler attempts to do so and is zapped.

"System access detected. Interference will not be tolerated" I hear the ship say over the comm-link.

"Oh scrap, guys you have to act quickly" I tell them. "I give you five minutes before the ship starts scanning for other life forms aside from cybertronians" I state. I scan the ship. "Ratchet am I reading this correctly?" I ask and he looks over at the screen.

"These readings, the ship's rapid recovery all point to the fact that Megatron employed Dark Energon to repair it" Ratchet states.

"Hold on. If you're saying the ship is fueled by dark Energon, we can dump it, right?" Jack asks.

"Excellent idea Jack" I praise him. "You'll need to reverse the Nemesis' Energon infuser. Follow the main overhead power cables. They'll lead you to the power core" I tell them. They do so and discover Megatron had had the same idea. "Once you guys reverse the flow, the cons may come out of stasis, you must move quickly to get the data drive and Fowler. And return to base" I tell them.

"Understood" Jack says. They manage to reverse the flow and race back to the console. I send them a ground bridge and Miko appears helping Raf with Agent Fowler.

"Where's Jack?" I ask them.

"He was getting the data drive" Raf states. I race through the ground bridge and I see Knockout leaning over Jack with his drill out. I punch Knockout ad grab Jack along with the data drive. I race through the bridge and Ratchet shuts it. I see the others are waking up and sigh in relief as I put Jack down.

I insert the drive into our console and upload the downloaded data. To see it was incomplete. "The download of the Iacon database may have been incomplete, but we now possess four sets of coordinates decoded by the ship" Ratchet states.

"Then we must act quickly, for Megatron possesses the same four sets" Optimus declares. "And he will not hesitate to obtain the potential doomsday devices which lie at the site of each" he adds. Not a happy thought. I pray we get there first.

A/N

Picture above of the autobots frozen in stasis.