Transformers Prime: Wild Art's Story AU

Chapter 3: Darkness rising part 3

Wild Art, Arcee and Elin were on the road of the Nevada dessert and they were standing by a stop sign in their vehicle- modes while Elin was on the seat of Wild Art's vehicle- mode. "Tighten your grip, Elin." Arcee told them. "Woah!" shouted Elin as the femmes drove off in speed while Elin holds on tight on the hand clutch. "Hey, what's with you, Arcee?" Wild Art asked. "Thought you guys would actually enjoy the ride if you weren't getting shot at." Arcee replied. "Oh, bring it!" said Wild Art as they kept driving. "You know, you remind of Chromia there." she added. "Who?" Wild Art asked. "She was my older sister. Elita is the oldest of us three. We heard that she was lost to the war, we never saw her again." Arcee replied. "I'm so sorry to hear that." Said Wild Art. " Thanks, i just wished you could've meet her." Arcee told her.

Meanwhile, Alma was with Breakdown and they were looking down on the road where Knock out and Bumblebee racing each other. "Woohoo! You go, Knock out!" Breakdown cheered for his sparkmate as he was watching him drive. "They sure do love racing, eh?" said Alma to Breakdown. "Yep, Knock out was in fact a racer before he decided to become a medic." Breakdown told her. "Oh, Really? That's interesting." said Alma. Bumblebee starts to catch up to Knock out until he was beside him. "Not bad there, Bee. Looks like you've been racing more than me." Knock out complimented the yellow bot and he bleeped in joy in return.

Back at the base, Ratchet was still working and tries to get it done. "Thank goodness for peace and quiet. Houseguests can be such a bother." said Ratchet to himself as he looked into a microscope, then he heard a cling noise. He looked around the command center but saw nothing. He shrugged it off and went back with the microscope. Then he heard it again and this time he called out. "Optimus? Elita?" he asked calling out. he got his answer, but not from Optimus or Elita but the creature. The same one that Breakdown broke have come to life. "By the Allspark." Ratchet said in shock and the creature was now leaping at him. He tried to swat it with the pipe, but that thing was too fast. Then it broke the microscope Ratchet was using. "I NEEDED THAT!" he shouted. Then the creature made another jump for him, but Optimus shot it down. He then squashed the creature when it got back up. "And stay broken! Now, what could have caused that?!" he wondered. "I have a grave suspicion, Ratchet. Dark energon." Optimus told his friend.

At the Nemesis, after Megatron hade merge the shard of Dark energon into his spark. "Lord Megatron." Starscream spoke up. "It's as if the blood of Unicron the destroyer flows through my veins! As if, i hear his very thoughts. I know now what i must do." said Megatron as he takes another piece of the Dark energon from the massive crystal. "And what can i do to assist you, master?" Starscream asked him in a sniveling way. "Quit groveling, and await my command." Megatron told him as he walked away, turned into his jet- mode and flew away. Soundwave made his appearance known from behind Starscream along with his robotic black jaguar mini- con named Ravage and he took noticed of them. "Soundwave, i fear that when our master reached for the stars, he came down with a touch of space madness. Lord Megatron has not been of sound judgement since his return." he told the communications expert. "Increased global surveillance." Starscream told Soundwave as he turned to face him. "Didn't you hear what Megatron said?" Ravage asked. "Quit groveling, and await my command." Soundwave played with audio recordings of Megatron's voice since he rarely spoke with his own voice. "I'm not deaf! But if Optimus Prime lives, i believe it is in Lord Megatron's best interest that we ensure his enemies destruction." said Starscream.

"If the residue Arcee found on Cliffjumper, brought your broken equipment to life; it would stands to reason that the very same substance, brought Cliffjumper back from the dead." said Elita after she, Optimus and Ratchet disposed the once again broken piece of machinery. "That would account for his life signal inexplicably coming back online; but, Dark energon. It's so scarce as to be virtually non- existent. What would it be doing on earth?" Ratchet wondered. "It was transported by Megatron." responded Optimus. "For what purpose?" ELita- one asked. "To conquer this planet, by raising an army of the dead." he answered and Ratchet found it laughable. "Well, Megatron will need to break quite a few toaster ovens. I mean, where on this world would he find that many cybertronian dead?" Ratchet asked, finding this preposterous.