Chapter 24- A King Taijitu's Bite

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Rescuee followed Colby Charcoal and Tanner Auburn in the Emerald Forest as she looked at her tracking device for Viperina's stasis pod. "So what are your friends like?" asked Colby. She answered, "Leobreaker is the leader of our team, and follows Optimus Prime's example. Viperina, well, she is our sabotage officer and spy. She and Leobreaker don't exactly see optic to optic." Tanner asked, "How come?" Rescuee explained, "Back then before the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, Leobreaker was captain of the Iacon police department and Viperina was a pickpocket thief."

Several Years Ago, Iacon Police Department
Viperina was brought in yet again. One officer chuckled, "Hey look, it's our regular visitor." She huffed, "Shove it up your exhaust." The officer walked angrily toward her until the police captain Leobreaker got in between them. "That's enough," said Leobreaker. "As you were, officer." The officer sighed as he walked away. Leobreaker took Viperina to his office and removed her handcuffs. "Listen, Viperina," said Leobreaker. "I don't enjoy taking you into a jail cell, but I cannot tolerate your crimes." Viperina scoffed, "What do you think I should do? Not everyone can be considered good like you." He nodded, "Perhaps. But I believe in reformism. There's an opening at Maccadam's Old Oil House. I think you should take it." She frowned, "What if I don't want to?" Leobreaker replied, "Then you will spend eons in prison. You have every right to be a citizen of Cybertron." Then three Senate officers went into Leobreaker's office with a visage of smugness. "Captain Leobreaker," said the leader. "I see you have once again arrested your repeat offender. May I ask why she isn't in cuffs?" Leobreaker said, "And may I ask what is the senate's interest in this matter?" The leader responded, "Viperina stole from the wrong Cybertronian. A council member in fact. He's wishing for her to be in a penitentiary prison." Leobreaker faced him with conviction as he retorted, "Then tell him I say no. I'm giving her a chance to lead an honest life." The leader smirked, "You must have some ball-bearings made of chrome steel to try and defy Senator Ratbat." Leobreaker replied, "I guess I do." The Senate officers left as he turned to Viperina who asked, "What?" Leobreaker stared, "You pickpocketed a senator?" She replied, "A dirty senator. He profited from the suffering of miners. He was scum." He sighed, "Look, I understand your point and reason, but this is not the way to do this." Viperina shrugged, "I guess Maccadam's better than jail." Leobreaker assured, "I promise it will."

Emerald Forest, Present Day
Rescuee said, "Viperina is a little rough around the edges, but somewhere in that exterior beats the spark of that of an Autobot." She noticed her device started beeping as she added, "We're getting close to the pod's position." Rescuee transformed into her ambulance mode and the two partners got in as she drove off. "Can you turn on the siren?" asked Tanner. Rescuee replied, "Can't. Might alert any Decepticon or Grimm to us and put the pod at risk."

Scorponok was in his Deathstalker form as he walked over to the stasis pod. "A new Decepticon to bring into the fold," said Scorponok as he then transformed into his robot form and pulled out a Decepticon shell program chip. Scorponok pressed a few keys as he opened up a panel to where the pod's terminal was connected to the protoform's processor. Then a cylinder device with a sphere pointed up. The device lit up four holographic yellow curtains of light and they slowly circled around its surroundings. "Teletran-1 objective: scan local lifeforms for protoform," droned the pod's terminal. The curtains went through a nearby King Taijitu as the lights flickered off as the device went down into the pod. Scorponok realized he didn't have much time to spare. Any moment the Autobot is going to wake up with a beast mode and not programmed into a Decepticon. Scorponok pulled out a cable which made the pod's terminal droned, "Protoform reactivation halted. Reinsert the reactivation cable to proceed or protoform will deactivate." He smirked, "Not before this protoform is reprogrammed into a Decepticon." Suddenly Scorponok's audio receptors heard sirens as he turned to see an ambulance speeding toward him and was too late to react to the ambulance running him over in high speed. The Decepticon went flying on his back. The ambulance's doors opened to let Colby and Tanner out and the vehicle transformed into Rescuee. "Tend to Viperina," ordered Rescuee. "Scorponok is mine." She ran to fight Scorponok while Colby and Tanner looked at the terminal. "What do we do?" asked Tanner. Then the two heard the terminal say, "Warning: protoform's energy levels fading. Must reconnect reactivation cable before stasis lock. Risk of spark fading likely." Colby declared, "Not on our watch!" He reconnected the cable as the pod's hatch opened to reveal a red and grey Grimm King Taijitu with light grey, yellow, and red bone armor and yellow and grey markings and eyes. The two boys noticed that this snake-like Grimm was smaller than the ones they've seen. It then noticed Rescuee fighting against Scorponok and slithered in to the fight. Viperina then transformed into her robot form.

She turned her right forearm arm to a Throwback Blaster and shot at Scorponok as Rescuee turned her forearm into a E

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She turned her right forearm arm to a Throwback Blaster and shot at Scorponok as Rescuee turned her forearm into a E.D.K. TechVolt and zapped the Decepticon with it. Scorponok grunted as he swung his tail at them and the two Autobots dodged it as Colby ran under him and shot his weapon on Scorponok's visor and faceplate. The Decepticon lifted up his foot to stomp on Colby but the young man dove into a Scorponok's shadow. Rescuee zapped Scorponok again as Tanner lifted up several rocks and telekinetically threw them at the Decepticon. Scorponok took out his own GroundBridge remote and opened up a portal to the base and sprinted into the portal as it closed. Colby appeared from Rescuee's shadow as he frowned, "Got away." Rescuee nodded, "Yes, but this time we Autobots have the upper hand." Viperina said sarcastically, "We're still fighting this war? Great." The Autobot medic sighed, "Nice to see you are well, Viperina."

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