Sky Shark
04-16-2008, 01:55 PM
Authour's note this takes place after the Elite Guard thing in a semi-alternate universe, pretty much I'm not refrancing shows after that point for a while. I will however bring this back to a point where main point of Season 2(the ultmate goal of getting the space bridge and taking over Cybertron) can happen. I didn't kow exactly who is staying on Earth or stuff after the Elite Gaurd leaves so I decide to branch into an AU and make some assumptions myself. This first chapter is more of a set up chapter, the next one you'll see the main plot point come in nfocus. I welcome constructive critisim and comments.
Chapter 1
Optimus sighed; it had been a week since the Elite Guard arrived; now Magnus was planning on heading back to Cybertron. There was business to attend there. He decided to give Prime a chance to further redeem himself by letting him lead the recovery operation of the All Spark fragments. There was a condition though, a combat squad would be sent to Earth to give them much needed especially combat trained soldiers. Also Jazz would be staying behind with them. After a discussion between Prime, Jazz and Magnus on if Jazz could remain behind, it was decided he could stay. Currently Bumblebee, Jazz and Sari were going to the town hall to clarify the claim of the new head of Sumdac Systems Company.
“I see your silent, battle experience starting to get you now? Well it doesn’t get any better, just wait until you loose your first limb.” Ratchet said grumpily holding up his right arm which thankfully the key fixed. Walking up to Optimus who was looking at a screen.
“No, just looking over the squad we’re getting. There’s something about the female bot in the squad, it lists her as an Academy graduate but she doesn’t actually start serving in combat squads for 150 solar cycles. That and part of her history was classified, even to me with my new rank.” Optimus said.
“Probably special ops. Or served as an intelligence agent, they classify their service, I found that out after that incident with Arcee.” Ratchet said glancing at a outside monitor noticing two vehicles pulling up, one a gold yellow sports car with blue racing stripes down its top, blue side mirrors and blue tail fin. The other was a black and gold dune buggy that looked a bit odd.
“Guess the squad’s here.” Ratchet added.
“I’ll go greet them, get Bulkhead and Prowl; if you can find him, so they can meet their new teammates.” Optimus said, unenthusiastically he walked to the other end of the base to let the two Autobots in.
“Welcome, come on in. I’m Optimus Prime, I’ll be your CO from now on.” Optimus said, text book greeting and wanted to keep it that way.
“I’m Kickspeed nice to meet ya. I’m the gunner of the Quick Strikers squad” The sports like car which was more specifically a Hyundai Tiburon from 2006, quite an old model in this day of age said and transformed. Her body was built rather robust for a fembot. She did have a somewhat femmine face though and her vehicle’s front end did the job of forming a chest to a degree. She was rather short, about 13 feet tall. The most noticeable feature of her that jumped out at Optimus was the violet Autobot Insignia on her right shoulder, the exact same color tone of the Decepticon’s.
“And I’m the gun.” The dune buggy said springing into the air, transforming into a large scoped rifle and then into a short robot mode, about the height of Bumblebee, 9 feet tall.
“…..This is my brother, Shocker.” Kickspeed said voice sounding as if she was embarrassed of him.
“A triple changer, huh, interesting.” Optimus said, “Isn’t there a third member of your squad?”
“Yeah, he’s still alt mode shopping, he said something about an air show and being a Seeker’s alt-mode heaven. Oh yeah and if your thinking we’re the typical combat squad, we’re not. Why else would they send a valuable squad to this piece of early tech trash?” Kickspeed said kicking a soda can across the floor, “You got an organic with you here?”
“If you do, that would sweet, I’d love to meet one of them. I’ve heard they can be different from us and only live for a hundred years, isn’t that so weird?” Shocker said enthusiastically.
“It is, but please don’t get over excited and that ‘Organic’ just went through some emotional trauma among other things, so please don’t be rude to her. By the way I’d like to talk to you Kickspeed, about that insignia and your blacked profile.” Optimus said as Bulkhead and Prowl walked into the room with Ratchet.
“Hello, I’m Prowl and you are.” Prowl said camly.
“Kickspeed, your newest sharp shooter.” Kickspeed said to the black and gold ninja esque robot.
“Yeah so sharp you caused my Academy class to……oh yeah can’t talk about that freely.” Shocker said sharply but switched to happy enthusiastic tone again, “I’m you’re new triple changer and my name’s Shocker, pleased to meet ya…”
“Prowl and this is Bulkhead and Ratchet.” Prowl said pointing to his respective comrades. He made a mental note to try and not to excite Shocker much…..or be around him and Bumblebee at the same time.
Bulkhead and Ratchet made respective greetings and started talking to him as Kickspeed headed to the nearest room of the base. Optimus asked her where she was going and said to answer any questions, she couldn’t say anything in the presence of Ratchet, Prowl and Bulkhead. After a few minutes of explaining Optimus was sitting on a metal crate tapping a finger on the wall as Kickspeed leaned up against the wall.
“So that’s pretty much it.” Kickspeed said as if it was nothing.
“So let me get this straight, you’re an ex bot turned con then turned yourself in. Became a bot again and now you’re disallowed from using sniper rifles and need to wear a Decepticon colored Autobot insignia as a sign of your crimes on top of that 145 solar cycle sentence you served.” Optimus said, this year was getting better and better.
“Yeah that’s about it. I’ m the asshole Deception who nearly killed Ultra Magnus himself. And let me tell you had I not had that change of heart his head would have been clear off. So in a way I’m a hero,” She said with a smirk, “I saved our supreme commander……from myself.”
“I don’t know what’s so funny about that, you killed 20 Autobots. You caused the Panic of Icon. You don’t sound that remorseful” Optimus said.
“Don’t get me wrong I am, it was just my previous statement that I was laughing at. Lighten up I’m 100% Autobot now. Oh and if anyone tells you Decepticons don’t try to recruit and convert on Cybertron it’s a load of slag.” Kickspeed said.
Optimus sighed for a second time that day, “I almost wish we didn’t talk the elite guard into not leaving Sentinel behind with us…… “
“Hey cheer up Prime, we’re totally worth it, I mean how many outposts get a squad with a member that knows exactly how the Decepticons think, plan, and attack? Hell I served under Megatron directly. Also you guys could use the Seeker.” Kickspeed said as they left the room.
~Detriot Air show.~
“Can’t use that one machine,” Fanzone said, “Classified.”
Sky Shark groaned, he hated this day currently, so many planes he couldn’t scan for military secret reasons. After five more minutes of it he had enough. “You know what human. I’m just gonna scan what ever I want, seriously why would we steal you’re outdated tech anyways.” He said very annoyed then shot out a scanning beam from his eye. He selected a F-15 Eagle, F-22 Raptor and a bomber from WW2. In his head he possessed the three scans. He took the body of the F-15, the thrusting jets from the back of the Raptor and the ball turret from the bomber. He then began reconfiguring his body for the alt mode, by this point he had drawn a crowd. His sharp pointed chest/torso become more boxy with a slight rounded cockpit with a pointed nose cone. His wings seemed to grow a bit taking on a more human air craft shape from the F-15. The sides of his chest shifted into an appearance like the underside of the F-15. His legs remained some what blocky like before but two tail fins folded out from the back of his ankles and the rear bottom of his feet slipped up a bit to allow for the long narrow vents of the F-22’s jets to form on the feet. Finally his two arm cannons seem to narrow and get a bit longer on his arms and a ball turrent with the gun facing down formed on his back. His head was the only unchanged thing, it was pointed and steel gray with a violet helmet with three spines going backwards down the center of his back helmet.
“Hey machine I already told you can’t scan the F-22.” Fanzone yelled.
“All I did was use its jet engines and everything else is a mix of the F-15, the ball turrent from the bomber and my own tech. So excuse me but I must be going now.” Sky Shark said and transformed. His alt mode looked a little weird but it was the function that mattered, his cockpit was extended a bit allowing for a rear seat to lift up from the ball turrent or down into it. He clicked on his ball turrent’s gun mounted optics and began flying off.
“I hate machines……especially the talking ones.” Fanzone said.
“And I hate organics that hate my kind! So screw you no one cares what you think anyways.” Sky Shark yelled back turning his ball turent around to face Fanzone. He didn’t even consider that could look bad to some people, after all his optics on the guns were not visible. He then proceeded to fly to the Autobot base. The planet itself was small but there was something about it he liked. He was slightly disoriented. He hadn’t used his secondary optics in a while so it screwed with him for a while when he saw in a second direction. He decided to do some tests on his way; max climbing speed and angle, force on ball turrent and max speed to safely take a sharp turn on it. After he broke in the alt mode he resumed course for the HQ. When he landed he easily drew the attention of the entire block. Several people at first expected to see Starscream but were surprised the second his spiked helmet head pulled up. His ball turrent stayed on his back between his wings while his rear body flipped down to form legs that extended. The two engines from the Raptor form formed support heels. His front air intakes rotated 180 degrees and flipped down. His nose cone folded in before the nose of the plane locked in place. His torso was slightly longer than most seekers and had a somewhat more blocky and his chin wasn’t as elongated.
“Whoa……..looks like we have someone to fight Blitzwing in the air if he shows up again.” Bulkhead said.
“I thought we established that Bumblebee fought him by getting him out of the air.” Prowl said.
“Yeah but its not the same, Bulkhead has a point.” Optimus said, “I’m Optimus Prime, pleased to meet you Sky Shark. …….um well getting you in here is going to be interesting. You have clearance in the building but the door’s 10 feet too short and a bit too narrow.” Optimus said.
“I have an Idea, one sec.” Sky Shark said and jumped up and onto the roof with help of his feet boosters. He went to the center of the warehouse did a x ray scan to make sure the room was open enough to fit him. He slid out his right hand for a plasma torch. Looking at the ends of his wings he made two way points and then did one in front of his chest at its far out most part and then then again for his back by turning on his turrent’s optics and rotating it down to face the roof. After that was done he turned them off and rotated the turrent so the guns faced up.
“Just to let you guys know there’s going to be crashing noises in a minute so don’t be worried.” Sky Shark called out confusing all but Kickspeed and Shocker
He then began cutting through the roof following the lines his HUD had made between the waypoints. After a few minutes of cautious and the transposing of the way points out a few more inches to give him clearance that he forgot at first Sky Shark had finished his entrance now all that was left was a kick to get the slab in. He pushed his foot into the slab and forced it into the wear house and then dropped in through the hole. it would have to do for now. He called out so they could hear him to come in which they did.
“What the hell did you…….THE ROOF!” Optimus shouted without a second thought.
“Now we just need to make a door….and make it a bit more square. It’s a cookie cut mold right now. I have to go in a specific way.” Sky Shark said, “It’s either that or you guys are down a Seeker.”
“Just no more mods okay?” Optimus said, this month just kept getting better and better.
Kickspeed was looking at a main screen in the room and saw a text message describing a bank robbery on Main Street, “Um, Prime I think you might want to check this out,” she said firmly. He looked at it for a moment and groaned, they just fixed the city after having half of it get wrecked so who do they call for a BANK ROBBERY, the Autobots.
“Alright to let you break in your new forms, I’ll give this one to you newbies. Call us if you need help and try to not kill them I’ll have Teletran send the coordinates to your HUD so you can find the bank.” Optimus Prime said.
“Roger that. Kickspeed, Shocker take the road’s I’ll take the sky. Transform and lets go kick some ass.” Sky Shark flew through the hole he had made while Kickspeed and Shocker transformed into their vehicle forms and speed out the door. Sky Shark transformed and shot towards the bank at 60 mph.
“All right so anyone here know about what type of fire these fleshlings can take?” Sky Shark said over the team com channel. Silence, a definite no he sent a request into the police to get a description of the get away car. When he got it he came back on the channel and said, “Alright then, Kick speed Shocker it’s a BLUE and BLACK SUV. Number IR20 get behind it and I’ll go ahead we’ll close it in.
The police sirens wailed down 5th street as they chased after the get away car. From the passenger seat a man fired of an AK-47 at the cops. As Kickspeed and shocker blasted forward they announced their intentions and who they were to the cops to get them to move aside. Meanwhile Sky Shark was right over the SUV he sped up a bit to get to the intersection. He transformed and landed just in time for the SUV to get near the intersection. Shocker did a driving transform into robot mode and the into gun mode. Using thrusters lined on the bottom of the gun he pushed himself into the air aimed for the the left front tire of the SUV and shot it out causing it to spin out and slam into driver side first, into Sky Shark’s foot.
Sky Shark knelt down and looked into the car. The driver was bleeding and seemed dazed. “The stolen property you have 20 seconds to hand it over or be terminated.” He demanded.
“If you don’t get this guy to a hospital he’ll die anyways most likely. Besides you’re not even the law you can’t make us do jack shit.” The accomplice with the AK yelled at Sky Shark. Sky Shark twirled the car around with his hand and grabbed the loud mouth human with the gun. The human fired the gun off at Sky Shark as fast as he could.
“So you like trying to kill people and break the law eh?” The Seeker said, he took his free hand and took hold of the robber’s left leg and pinched, hard. Then the same to the right one. “3 rules: first respect the law, second don’t try to kill, and three don’t screw with someone that can and did just crush every bone in your leg to chunks. Hey cops you guys can take it from here, the driver needs medical attention and this guy here is gonna need a hell of a lot of surgery on his legs. Quick Strikers head for home.”
“YOU DID WHAT?” Optimus Shouted, at Sky Shark.
“I crushed the enemy’s legs. So? I neutralized the threat and dealt with the situation.” Sky Shark said with a shrug.
“Sky, listen. There is a difference between organics and cybernetics, organics die a LOT easier. Why did you deem it was necessary to crush the guy’s legs?” Optimus said, calming down a bit.
“Well he did fire rounds at the local law and myself, I figured it would be a good way to neutralize the threat.” Sky Shark explained.
“Yeah also, don’t go at him for the driver. That was pretty much my fault. I was trying to stop him so I shot out his tire which caused him to spin out and slam into Sky’s foot.” Shocker explained nervously.
“Urg…..okay, this is what we’re going to do. Prowl is going to show you how properly engage humans. I will say this though. You did live up to your name, that only took you 10 minutes,, for us it would have been like 15 or something.” Optimus said, “Secondly, Shocker I’d like you to go to the hospital and apologize for almost killing the driver. We had some issues with the public fearing us after the recent battle and today’s…incident won’t help.
“Sure thing Prime. I’ll head out now.” Shocker said and transformed and left the building.
“Does he know where the hospital is…..the closet one that is?” Optimus said.
“Yeah, we did a complete recon on the organics in the area, biosphere tolerances, genetic/molecular make up, language, culture etc. We might not be ordinary, something you’’ll see from our adittudes….but when it comes to missions we do take necessary steps to ensure success. So……what do guys have for fun here?”
~City Hall~
“What do you mean you can’t find anything on me! This is an outrage, how is it possible that there was no record of me? That just doesn’t happen!” Sari shouted, they were outside the town hall, Jazz and Bumblebee were with her so they had to meet with the mayor outside.
“Yo cool it Sari, this isn’t gonna get us anywhere just yellin like that. Are you absolutely sure you can’t find anything?” Jazz said smoothly looking at the tall for a human mayor.
“Trust me I’m surprised as you all are. We’ll let you know if anything comes up but I’m sorry Miss Sumdac, we can’t prove you were ever born.” The mayor said and headed back into City Hall. Bumblebee and Jazz transformed. Sari got into Bumblebee gloomingly.
In one day she had gone from without a father and running his company to being without a father, a home, and possibly without an official identity. They headed back to the base at medium pace rather than Bumblebee’s usual fast as hell pace, he considered it at first to try excite Sari but figured it wouldn’t be right, although immature he even he could tell when to just step back and let her be for a bit. Upon arrival at the base Jazz and Bumblebee was surprised to see the new Squad watching TV or well, flipping through channels and fighting over what to watch, Bumblebee was surprised how quickly they caught up with the general flow of things in the base.
“Hey big guy, how the heck did you get in here?” were the first words Bumblebee said to Sky Shark.
“I made a hole.” Sky Shark said sarcastically, “Oh and nice to meet you too.”
“I was getting to that….anyways you three the new members of the team?”
“Yup Quick Strikers here to help in anyway possible. The name is Sky Shark. So what’s your name?” Sky Shark said turning to Bumblebee.
“My name’s Bumblebee and this is Sari.” Bumblebee said pointing at Sari.
“Pleasure to meet you name’s Jazz, ever need a groovy tune let me know I’ll probably have something in my data banks for you.” Jazz said.
“Nice to meet you both...” Sky Shark said, “By the way what’s with the Mini-con here?”
“Minicon?” Bumblebee said, “Is that supposed to be a short joke?”
“Not you, Sari, what kind of Minicon is she?” Sky Shark said.
“Oh her, she’s a human from this planet not a Minicon.” Bumblebee said.
“Are you sure? I’m getting a weird reading from her….technological” Sky Shark said.
“Bah who knows for all we know I could be a freaking robot or something but its probably my key. I’m going to bed don’t bug me for a while.” Sari said in an outburst and stormed into another room they had set up for a bedroom for her after Mr. Powel kicked her out of the company tower.
“Lovely you ticked off the girl who’s just lost everything. Great going.” Ratchet said cynically.
“Hey all I said was her readings suggested she wasn’t human nothing else. So don’t go ripping me a new one.” Sky Shark said and turned back to the TV flipped through a few more channels until came to a Dogfights show on History Classic Channel next person who reached for the remote got a half jokingly gun barrel to their head. They had finally “agreed” on something to watch.
~Meanwhile at Decepticon HQ in an abandoned mine. ~
“Why must we still hide in this cave lord Megatron? Why don’t we go and smash the Autobots into the ground” Lugnut shouted pounding a wall. He was getting tired or waiting, to fix their injuries.
“Calm down Lugnut, when the time comes we will make our move and crush the Autobots but we must recover full first. Last time was just a glitch. The next time we fight those Autobots we will crush them.” Megatron said.
“One problem with that sir. I was reviewing our Energon reserves today and the amount we’ll need to sustain ourselves. It’s not looking good. I say we can run for another three days if we want to fix ourselves at the same time, one week if we stop repairs. I would advise we obtain some soon.” Blitzwing said from his sane, scientific head.
“You do have a point Blitzwing, Lugnut I will trust you to attend to guarding the base since your arm is not fixed. Blitzwing, go reactivate Starscream, we could use the help and I believe this week of ‘detention’ will quell any thoughts of trying to backstab me again.” We attack Detroit’s solar power plant in 3 cycles” Megatron.
“Yes lord Megatron, I will defend the base with my very Spark.” Lugnut proclaimed with a bit too much enthusiasm for the situation causing Megatron to groan as he headed to another tunnel to go patch up a few cracks he still had on his cannon and Blitzwing headed to another part of the base to reactivate Starscream.
End Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Optimus sighed; it had been a week since the Elite Guard arrived; now Magnus was planning on heading back to Cybertron. There was business to attend there. He decided to give Prime a chance to further redeem himself by letting him lead the recovery operation of the All Spark fragments. There was a condition though, a combat squad would be sent to Earth to give them much needed especially combat trained soldiers. Also Jazz would be staying behind with them. After a discussion between Prime, Jazz and Magnus on if Jazz could remain behind, it was decided he could stay. Currently Bumblebee, Jazz and Sari were going to the town hall to clarify the claim of the new head of Sumdac Systems Company.
“I see your silent, battle experience starting to get you now? Well it doesn’t get any better, just wait until you loose your first limb.” Ratchet said grumpily holding up his right arm which thankfully the key fixed. Walking up to Optimus who was looking at a screen.
“No, just looking over the squad we’re getting. There’s something about the female bot in the squad, it lists her as an Academy graduate but she doesn’t actually start serving in combat squads for 150 solar cycles. That and part of her history was classified, even to me with my new rank.” Optimus said.
“Probably special ops. Or served as an intelligence agent, they classify their service, I found that out after that incident with Arcee.” Ratchet said glancing at a outside monitor noticing two vehicles pulling up, one a gold yellow sports car with blue racing stripes down its top, blue side mirrors and blue tail fin. The other was a black and gold dune buggy that looked a bit odd.
“Guess the squad’s here.” Ratchet added.
“I’ll go greet them, get Bulkhead and Prowl; if you can find him, so they can meet their new teammates.” Optimus said, unenthusiastically he walked to the other end of the base to let the two Autobots in.
“Welcome, come on in. I’m Optimus Prime, I’ll be your CO from now on.” Optimus said, text book greeting and wanted to keep it that way.
“I’m Kickspeed nice to meet ya. I’m the gunner of the Quick Strikers squad” The sports like car which was more specifically a Hyundai Tiburon from 2006, quite an old model in this day of age said and transformed. Her body was built rather robust for a fembot. She did have a somewhat femmine face though and her vehicle’s front end did the job of forming a chest to a degree. She was rather short, about 13 feet tall. The most noticeable feature of her that jumped out at Optimus was the violet Autobot Insignia on her right shoulder, the exact same color tone of the Decepticon’s.
“And I’m the gun.” The dune buggy said springing into the air, transforming into a large scoped rifle and then into a short robot mode, about the height of Bumblebee, 9 feet tall.
“…..This is my brother, Shocker.” Kickspeed said voice sounding as if she was embarrassed of him.
“A triple changer, huh, interesting.” Optimus said, “Isn’t there a third member of your squad?”
“Yeah, he’s still alt mode shopping, he said something about an air show and being a Seeker’s alt-mode heaven. Oh yeah and if your thinking we’re the typical combat squad, we’re not. Why else would they send a valuable squad to this piece of early tech trash?” Kickspeed said kicking a soda can across the floor, “You got an organic with you here?”
“If you do, that would sweet, I’d love to meet one of them. I’ve heard they can be different from us and only live for a hundred years, isn’t that so weird?” Shocker said enthusiastically.
“It is, but please don’t get over excited and that ‘Organic’ just went through some emotional trauma among other things, so please don’t be rude to her. By the way I’d like to talk to you Kickspeed, about that insignia and your blacked profile.” Optimus said as Bulkhead and Prowl walked into the room with Ratchet.
“Hello, I’m Prowl and you are.” Prowl said camly.
“Kickspeed, your newest sharp shooter.” Kickspeed said to the black and gold ninja esque robot.
“Yeah so sharp you caused my Academy class to……oh yeah can’t talk about that freely.” Shocker said sharply but switched to happy enthusiastic tone again, “I’m you’re new triple changer and my name’s Shocker, pleased to meet ya…”
“Prowl and this is Bulkhead and Ratchet.” Prowl said pointing to his respective comrades. He made a mental note to try and not to excite Shocker much…..or be around him and Bumblebee at the same time.
Bulkhead and Ratchet made respective greetings and started talking to him as Kickspeed headed to the nearest room of the base. Optimus asked her where she was going and said to answer any questions, she couldn’t say anything in the presence of Ratchet, Prowl and Bulkhead. After a few minutes of explaining Optimus was sitting on a metal crate tapping a finger on the wall as Kickspeed leaned up against the wall.
“So that’s pretty much it.” Kickspeed said as if it was nothing.
“So let me get this straight, you’re an ex bot turned con then turned yourself in. Became a bot again and now you’re disallowed from using sniper rifles and need to wear a Decepticon colored Autobot insignia as a sign of your crimes on top of that 145 solar cycle sentence you served.” Optimus said, this year was getting better and better.
“Yeah that’s about it. I’ m the asshole Deception who nearly killed Ultra Magnus himself. And let me tell you had I not had that change of heart his head would have been clear off. So in a way I’m a hero,” She said with a smirk, “I saved our supreme commander……from myself.”
“I don’t know what’s so funny about that, you killed 20 Autobots. You caused the Panic of Icon. You don’t sound that remorseful” Optimus said.
“Don’t get me wrong I am, it was just my previous statement that I was laughing at. Lighten up I’m 100% Autobot now. Oh and if anyone tells you Decepticons don’t try to recruit and convert on Cybertron it’s a load of slag.” Kickspeed said.
Optimus sighed for a second time that day, “I almost wish we didn’t talk the elite guard into not leaving Sentinel behind with us…… “
“Hey cheer up Prime, we’re totally worth it, I mean how many outposts get a squad with a member that knows exactly how the Decepticons think, plan, and attack? Hell I served under Megatron directly. Also you guys could use the Seeker.” Kickspeed said as they left the room.
~Detriot Air show.~
“Can’t use that one machine,” Fanzone said, “Classified.”
Sky Shark groaned, he hated this day currently, so many planes he couldn’t scan for military secret reasons. After five more minutes of it he had enough. “You know what human. I’m just gonna scan what ever I want, seriously why would we steal you’re outdated tech anyways.” He said very annoyed then shot out a scanning beam from his eye. He selected a F-15 Eagle, F-22 Raptor and a bomber from WW2. In his head he possessed the three scans. He took the body of the F-15, the thrusting jets from the back of the Raptor and the ball turret from the bomber. He then began reconfiguring his body for the alt mode, by this point he had drawn a crowd. His sharp pointed chest/torso become more boxy with a slight rounded cockpit with a pointed nose cone. His wings seemed to grow a bit taking on a more human air craft shape from the F-15. The sides of his chest shifted into an appearance like the underside of the F-15. His legs remained some what blocky like before but two tail fins folded out from the back of his ankles and the rear bottom of his feet slipped up a bit to allow for the long narrow vents of the F-22’s jets to form on the feet. Finally his two arm cannons seem to narrow and get a bit longer on his arms and a ball turrent with the gun facing down formed on his back. His head was the only unchanged thing, it was pointed and steel gray with a violet helmet with three spines going backwards down the center of his back helmet.
“Hey machine I already told you can’t scan the F-22.” Fanzone yelled.
“All I did was use its jet engines and everything else is a mix of the F-15, the ball turrent from the bomber and my own tech. So excuse me but I must be going now.” Sky Shark said and transformed. His alt mode looked a little weird but it was the function that mattered, his cockpit was extended a bit allowing for a rear seat to lift up from the ball turrent or down into it. He clicked on his ball turrent’s gun mounted optics and began flying off.
“I hate machines……especially the talking ones.” Fanzone said.
“And I hate organics that hate my kind! So screw you no one cares what you think anyways.” Sky Shark yelled back turning his ball turent around to face Fanzone. He didn’t even consider that could look bad to some people, after all his optics on the guns were not visible. He then proceeded to fly to the Autobot base. The planet itself was small but there was something about it he liked. He was slightly disoriented. He hadn’t used his secondary optics in a while so it screwed with him for a while when he saw in a second direction. He decided to do some tests on his way; max climbing speed and angle, force on ball turrent and max speed to safely take a sharp turn on it. After he broke in the alt mode he resumed course for the HQ. When he landed he easily drew the attention of the entire block. Several people at first expected to see Starscream but were surprised the second his spiked helmet head pulled up. His ball turrent stayed on his back between his wings while his rear body flipped down to form legs that extended. The two engines from the Raptor form formed support heels. His front air intakes rotated 180 degrees and flipped down. His nose cone folded in before the nose of the plane locked in place. His torso was slightly longer than most seekers and had a somewhat more blocky and his chin wasn’t as elongated.
“Whoa……..looks like we have someone to fight Blitzwing in the air if he shows up again.” Bulkhead said.
“I thought we established that Bumblebee fought him by getting him out of the air.” Prowl said.
“Yeah but its not the same, Bulkhead has a point.” Optimus said, “I’m Optimus Prime, pleased to meet you Sky Shark. …….um well getting you in here is going to be interesting. You have clearance in the building but the door’s 10 feet too short and a bit too narrow.” Optimus said.
“I have an Idea, one sec.” Sky Shark said and jumped up and onto the roof with help of his feet boosters. He went to the center of the warehouse did a x ray scan to make sure the room was open enough to fit him. He slid out his right hand for a plasma torch. Looking at the ends of his wings he made two way points and then did one in front of his chest at its far out most part and then then again for his back by turning on his turrent’s optics and rotating it down to face the roof. After that was done he turned them off and rotated the turrent so the guns faced up.
“Just to let you guys know there’s going to be crashing noises in a minute so don’t be worried.” Sky Shark called out confusing all but Kickspeed and Shocker
He then began cutting through the roof following the lines his HUD had made between the waypoints. After a few minutes of cautious and the transposing of the way points out a few more inches to give him clearance that he forgot at first Sky Shark had finished his entrance now all that was left was a kick to get the slab in. He pushed his foot into the slab and forced it into the wear house and then dropped in through the hole. it would have to do for now. He called out so they could hear him to come in which they did.
“What the hell did you…….THE ROOF!” Optimus shouted without a second thought.
“Now we just need to make a door….and make it a bit more square. It’s a cookie cut mold right now. I have to go in a specific way.” Sky Shark said, “It’s either that or you guys are down a Seeker.”
“Just no more mods okay?” Optimus said, this month just kept getting better and better.
Kickspeed was looking at a main screen in the room and saw a text message describing a bank robbery on Main Street, “Um, Prime I think you might want to check this out,” she said firmly. He looked at it for a moment and groaned, they just fixed the city after having half of it get wrecked so who do they call for a BANK ROBBERY, the Autobots.
“Alright to let you break in your new forms, I’ll give this one to you newbies. Call us if you need help and try to not kill them I’ll have Teletran send the coordinates to your HUD so you can find the bank.” Optimus Prime said.
“Roger that. Kickspeed, Shocker take the road’s I’ll take the sky. Transform and lets go kick some ass.” Sky Shark flew through the hole he had made while Kickspeed and Shocker transformed into their vehicle forms and speed out the door. Sky Shark transformed and shot towards the bank at 60 mph.
“All right so anyone here know about what type of fire these fleshlings can take?” Sky Shark said over the team com channel. Silence, a definite no he sent a request into the police to get a description of the get away car. When he got it he came back on the channel and said, “Alright then, Kick speed Shocker it’s a BLUE and BLACK SUV. Number IR20 get behind it and I’ll go ahead we’ll close it in.
The police sirens wailed down 5th street as they chased after the get away car. From the passenger seat a man fired of an AK-47 at the cops. As Kickspeed and shocker blasted forward they announced their intentions and who they were to the cops to get them to move aside. Meanwhile Sky Shark was right over the SUV he sped up a bit to get to the intersection. He transformed and landed just in time for the SUV to get near the intersection. Shocker did a driving transform into robot mode and the into gun mode. Using thrusters lined on the bottom of the gun he pushed himself into the air aimed for the the left front tire of the SUV and shot it out causing it to spin out and slam into driver side first, into Sky Shark’s foot.
Sky Shark knelt down and looked into the car. The driver was bleeding and seemed dazed. “The stolen property you have 20 seconds to hand it over or be terminated.” He demanded.
“If you don’t get this guy to a hospital he’ll die anyways most likely. Besides you’re not even the law you can’t make us do jack shit.” The accomplice with the AK yelled at Sky Shark. Sky Shark twirled the car around with his hand and grabbed the loud mouth human with the gun. The human fired the gun off at Sky Shark as fast as he could.
“So you like trying to kill people and break the law eh?” The Seeker said, he took his free hand and took hold of the robber’s left leg and pinched, hard. Then the same to the right one. “3 rules: first respect the law, second don’t try to kill, and three don’t screw with someone that can and did just crush every bone in your leg to chunks. Hey cops you guys can take it from here, the driver needs medical attention and this guy here is gonna need a hell of a lot of surgery on his legs. Quick Strikers head for home.”
“YOU DID WHAT?” Optimus Shouted, at Sky Shark.
“I crushed the enemy’s legs. So? I neutralized the threat and dealt with the situation.” Sky Shark said with a shrug.
“Sky, listen. There is a difference between organics and cybernetics, organics die a LOT easier. Why did you deem it was necessary to crush the guy’s legs?” Optimus said, calming down a bit.
“Well he did fire rounds at the local law and myself, I figured it would be a good way to neutralize the threat.” Sky Shark explained.
“Yeah also, don’t go at him for the driver. That was pretty much my fault. I was trying to stop him so I shot out his tire which caused him to spin out and slam into Sky’s foot.” Shocker explained nervously.
“Urg…..okay, this is what we’re going to do. Prowl is going to show you how properly engage humans. I will say this though. You did live up to your name, that only took you 10 minutes,, for us it would have been like 15 or something.” Optimus said, “Secondly, Shocker I’d like you to go to the hospital and apologize for almost killing the driver. We had some issues with the public fearing us after the recent battle and today’s…incident won’t help.
“Sure thing Prime. I’ll head out now.” Shocker said and transformed and left the building.
“Does he know where the hospital is…..the closet one that is?” Optimus said.
“Yeah, we did a complete recon on the organics in the area, biosphere tolerances, genetic/molecular make up, language, culture etc. We might not be ordinary, something you’’ll see from our adittudes….but when it comes to missions we do take necessary steps to ensure success. So……what do guys have for fun here?”
~City Hall~
“What do you mean you can’t find anything on me! This is an outrage, how is it possible that there was no record of me? That just doesn’t happen!” Sari shouted, they were outside the town hall, Jazz and Bumblebee were with her so they had to meet with the mayor outside.
“Yo cool it Sari, this isn’t gonna get us anywhere just yellin like that. Are you absolutely sure you can’t find anything?” Jazz said smoothly looking at the tall for a human mayor.
“Trust me I’m surprised as you all are. We’ll let you know if anything comes up but I’m sorry Miss Sumdac, we can’t prove you were ever born.” The mayor said and headed back into City Hall. Bumblebee and Jazz transformed. Sari got into Bumblebee gloomingly.
In one day she had gone from without a father and running his company to being without a father, a home, and possibly without an official identity. They headed back to the base at medium pace rather than Bumblebee’s usual fast as hell pace, he considered it at first to try excite Sari but figured it wouldn’t be right, although immature he even he could tell when to just step back and let her be for a bit. Upon arrival at the base Jazz and Bumblebee was surprised to see the new Squad watching TV or well, flipping through channels and fighting over what to watch, Bumblebee was surprised how quickly they caught up with the general flow of things in the base.
“Hey big guy, how the heck did you get in here?” were the first words Bumblebee said to Sky Shark.
“I made a hole.” Sky Shark said sarcastically, “Oh and nice to meet you too.”
“I was getting to that….anyways you three the new members of the team?”
“Yup Quick Strikers here to help in anyway possible. The name is Sky Shark. So what’s your name?” Sky Shark said turning to Bumblebee.
“My name’s Bumblebee and this is Sari.” Bumblebee said pointing at Sari.
“Pleasure to meet you name’s Jazz, ever need a groovy tune let me know I’ll probably have something in my data banks for you.” Jazz said.
“Nice to meet you both...” Sky Shark said, “By the way what’s with the Mini-con here?”
“Minicon?” Bumblebee said, “Is that supposed to be a short joke?”
“Not you, Sari, what kind of Minicon is she?” Sky Shark said.
“Oh her, she’s a human from this planet not a Minicon.” Bumblebee said.
“Are you sure? I’m getting a weird reading from her….technological” Sky Shark said.
“Bah who knows for all we know I could be a freaking robot or something but its probably my key. I’m going to bed don’t bug me for a while.” Sari said in an outburst and stormed into another room they had set up for a bedroom for her after Mr. Powel kicked her out of the company tower.
“Lovely you ticked off the girl who’s just lost everything. Great going.” Ratchet said cynically.
“Hey all I said was her readings suggested she wasn’t human nothing else. So don’t go ripping me a new one.” Sky Shark said and turned back to the TV flipped through a few more channels until came to a Dogfights show on History Classic Channel next person who reached for the remote got a half jokingly gun barrel to their head. They had finally “agreed” on something to watch.
~Meanwhile at Decepticon HQ in an abandoned mine. ~
“Why must we still hide in this cave lord Megatron? Why don’t we go and smash the Autobots into the ground” Lugnut shouted pounding a wall. He was getting tired or waiting, to fix their injuries.
“Calm down Lugnut, when the time comes we will make our move and crush the Autobots but we must recover full first. Last time was just a glitch. The next time we fight those Autobots we will crush them.” Megatron said.
“One problem with that sir. I was reviewing our Energon reserves today and the amount we’ll need to sustain ourselves. It’s not looking good. I say we can run for another three days if we want to fix ourselves at the same time, one week if we stop repairs. I would advise we obtain some soon.” Blitzwing said from his sane, scientific head.
“You do have a point Blitzwing, Lugnut I will trust you to attend to guarding the base since your arm is not fixed. Blitzwing, go reactivate Starscream, we could use the help and I believe this week of ‘detention’ will quell any thoughts of trying to backstab me again.” We attack Detroit’s solar power plant in 3 cycles” Megatron.
“Yes lord Megatron, I will defend the base with my very Spark.” Lugnut proclaimed with a bit too much enthusiasm for the situation causing Megatron to groan as he headed to another tunnel to go patch up a few cracks he still had on his cannon and Blitzwing headed to another part of the base to reactivate Starscream.
End Chapter 1