Firestorm and Nightshade

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Thirteen

Energon splattered across Nightshades frozen form. A femme looked at him with crazed green/purple optics, crushing the important device in her servo. Nightshade collapsed to his knee-bolts and stared in horror at his brothers leaking form. A large gaping wound where his T-Cog was supposed to be. His armour was cracked in multiple areas, showing black protoform and energon.

"NOOO!"

~*~

Ratchet backed away from the medical slab as Megatron rose. The leader of the Decepticons gave him a frightening shark-like grin when his red optics landed on Ratchets blue ones.

-12 Hours Earlier-

"It is a matter of time before Optimus realizes all is not right with you, Medic. I must reclaim my body, even if it means taking complete and total control over yours" Megatron said, "If I am to return to my body, I must first restore its functionality. How did I escape on high emission?"

The Decepticon Leader remembered his final moments, up until the Space Bridge exploding and Starscream taking the Dark Energon from his chest.

"Of course. Dark Energon. Starscream"

Ratchet shook his helm, trying to get Megatrons face out of his head. Ratchet didn't freak out like he almost did the first time he heard Megatrons voice because he summed that it was a medically induced shutdown would solve the intermittent visions, the living nightmares. The only problem was that he did not have the time or space to do said shutdown.

Ratchet got his chance to induce the power-down when Agent Fowler called about a lens being stolen. Optimus told all Autobots, except for the Medic, to Roll Out. Once Ratchet was sure he was alone, he entered the scanning station and activated shut-down, timing it so that he was to awaken when the console gets a comm.

Megatron took control mere minutes after the Medic fell into recharge. Pistons hissed as they released them. The Decepticon leader activated the Groundbridge to where he, Optimus and Ratchet first encountered the Army of the Undead.

"Where is it? Where is it?" Megatron demanded as he looked over the dead plains.

He spotted a purple glow at the foot of a rock cliff and headed over to it. He dug up the Dark Energon shard and grinned at it before activating the Groundbridge with the Autobots remote control.

The Lord of the Decepticons went through before reactivating the portal to the Decepticon Warship.

He made the Medic kill any Vehicon and Seeker that got in the way as he made his way to the Medical Bay.

Megatron hooked up the Cortical Psychic Patch to his true frame before doing the same with the Medic and stood over himself. Megatron proceeded in shoving the Dark Energon shard into his own chest and used the Patch to journey back to his body.

Ratchet felt his mind and body reconnecting and shook his helm, everything was fuzzy and looked different from the Autobot Medbay. He looked up and instantly froze recognizing where he was in an instant.

"Oh no" he breathes.

Ratchet backed away from the medical slab as Megatron rose. The leader of the Decepticons gave him a frightening shark-like grin when his red optics landed on Ratchets blue ones.

Vehicons raced in and stopped when they saw their true leader walking. Megatron looked at them and gave a slight growl when he felt his brother nearby.

"Put this pest in a holding cell" Megatron spat, Ratchet flinched, "I have unfinished business to take care of"

Megatron stalked passed the soldiers before disappearing around the corner.

The Decepticons instantly began firing and trying to overpower Ratchet. Ratchet quickly ran.

He dove in a crevice and listened as the Vehicons ran past before climbing out and heading to the exit. The Medic exited the Warship and landed in the snow right as it began to fly away.

"Ratchet, we need a Groundbridge" Optimus commed.

Ratchet walked into view, "you're not the only ones"