The Rescue

Chapter Nine

Silverdust jumped when the alarm started going off. She looked around and noticed Laserbeak chirping next to her. She gently pet the cyberbird's helm before asking loudly over the sound of the alarm.

"Laserbeak, what's happening?"

Laserbeak instantly connected to the computer in the room, and showed her video images of the Autobots. Through the audio, she heard them split off into the wreckers group, stealth team, and the rescue team. She heard Chase giving orders to Boulder and Blades.

"Rescue bots! We must locate our missing team members. We must locate Heatwave and Silverdust!"

Silverdust gasped, and instantly tried to comm Chase, but a streak of electricty went through her body and she let out a scream. She knew why Megatron was choosing now to use the circlet. He didn't want her to get to the rescue bots. 

At her scream, Laserbeak immediately removed the video feed from the computer and, through the pain, Silverdust saw coding move across the screen. She realized Laserbeak was attempting to disable the circlet on her helm. She smiled softly, before moving towards the door, slightly shaking. 

"I will find my friends", she growled softly, and opened the door. She felt another shock of electricity go through her body, stronger this time. She let out another ear-piercing scream, and fell to the floor. But this time, the current of electricity didn't stop. It just kept going. And Silverdust kept screaming until her voice box couldn't make any more noise. And then... the pain suddenly stopped. She looked up and heard Laserbeak chirp from inside her room. Silverdust sat up, and looked at Laserbeak. 

"Thank you", she said with a tired voice before falling back over, unsconscious.

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When Silverdust awoke, she was in the Decepticon medbay. She looked around for the familiar red doctor, but he was nowhere insight. Instead, an orange and white mech was in his place. Silverdust stared in confusion and looked around again. There was no sign of the red mech. In fact, the only red mech was sitting by her berth, tired yellow optics staring off into space.

"Heatwave?" Silverdust asked, her voice hoarse. "Ratchet? What's going on? What happened?"

Both mech's jumped at her voice, and instantly Heatwave was all over her. "Silverdust, are you okay? You've been out for quite a while. Are you hurting anywhere? Do you need help with anything?"

Silverdust shook her head. "I'm just... confused... last I remember was Laserbeak disabling my circlet... after Megatron started using it on me when the other Autobots started storming the Decepticon ship."

Heatwave looked relieved and sat back in his seat and looked at Ratchet, both of them silently communicating with each other.

"I will leave you two to catch up", Ratchet said. "Silverdust, you seem to be fine, but I want you to rest in here for at least two more hours. Then you may leave here and help with the reconstruction of Cybertron as well as attend Bee's ceremony to become a warrior."

"Got it", Silverdust said. "Wait. Reconstruction of Cybertron?"

Ratchet smiled, before leaving the room. Silverdust turned to Heatwave. "What all did I miss?"

Heatwave let a large vent, and ran a servo over his faceplate. "A lot. The other Autobots were successful in storming the warship. Bumblebee... Bumblebee terminated Megatron. We revived our planet via the Omega Lock Megatron built on the ship. Now all that's left is to rebuild."

Silverdust stared at him blankly. "Megatron's... dead?"

Heatwave nodded. "You're free from his tyranny, Silver. You're free from him."