The Bird Revolt
By: Dannn
Sanew
It was a dark and cloudless night. A lone figure was walking outside the
Darkside and studied it before she entered it. Quickstrike was unaware of the
intruder as she silently made her way towards Megatron’s quarters. She opened
the door and walked over to the object she’d been looking for. She picked up
Megatron’s rubber ducky and whispered:
“Come to life and do my bidding.”
With those final words she was gone.
“Hey Tripe, turn down that video game,” Snide said as he threw a rock
from his rock collection at his twin.
“Who made you the law?” Tripe replied angrily as he felt the dent on
his head.
“I did and by the time I come back you better be asleep,” Snide said
as he left the room.
“I’ll be asleep alright,” Tripe said to himself as walked over to
Snide’s bed and flipped it up. He took a holographic device and turned it on.
The device emitted an image of Snide’s bed. “I’m going to sleep well
tonight,” Tripe said as he got into his bed and went to sleep.
“Why does Tripe always have to be annoying?” Snide asks as he makes a
left and stops dead in his tracks. A small yellow duck was leading a dazed
looking Terrorsaur out of his room and down the hall. Did I see what I think I saw? Snide thought as he followed. As
he follows the odd pair he hears footsteps behind him. He spins around to see
who the culprit is.
“What’re you looking for?” Hyde said.
“Why were your following me?”
“Bored, so we voted and decided to follow you.”
“You didn’t see that?”
“See what?”
“You didn’t see a duck leading Terrorsaur around?”
“You serious? This is too much and they call me crazy. Hahahaha.”
Hyde laughs hysterically.
“Why did I even brother?”
“Oh cheer up. I know I’ll sing you a song. SNIDE SING A SONG SING A
SONG SING A SONG SNIDE SINGGGG A SONG. SNIDE DO A DANCE DO A DANCE DO A DANCE.
SINDE DOOO A DANCE.” Hyde sings as he chases Snide down the hall.
“LEAVE ME ALONE!” Snide yells as he continues to run from Hyde.
“SNIDE STOP RUNNING STOP RUNNING STOP RUNNING. SNIDE STOP RUNNINGGGG.
SNIDE STOP SHOOTING STOP SHOOTING STOP SHOOTING. SNIDE STOP SHOOTINGGG.” Hyde
sings as he ducks to avoid a salvo of shots. He wasn’t going to stop this was
fun.
“What’s going on?” Tarantulas said as he came out his room to see
Snide running from Hyde. Scorponok and Blackarachnia also came out of their
rooms to see what the racket was about.
“I don’t know.” Scorponok said dumbfounded.
“Let find out.” Blackarachnia said as they all follow after them.
Soon they all ended in front of Megatron’s room.
“WHAT’S THE MEANING OF ALL THIS?” Megatron
shouts as he walks out his room and grabs Snide.
“I don’t know loyalty.” Inferno said as he
joins the group.
“Hyde’s driving me insane with his singing.”
Snide said as he tries to get out of Megatron’s grip.
“Who me?” Hyde said as he pointed to himself.
“Hyde can you stop bothering Snide and go to your
room?”
“Sure can do boss.” Hyde said as he begins to
walk away. “OLD MAN RIVER, THAT OLD MAN RIVER, HE KEEPS ON-”
“THAT’S IT HYDE, YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.”
Megatron yells as he chases after Hyde.
“Waspinator wantzz to see where thizz iz going.”
Waspinator said.
“Teeheehee let’s go see.” Tarantulas snickers
as everyone, but Snide, follows. Snide goes back to his room and jumps on his
bed. He falls though the holograph and lands with a thump on the floor.
“Tripe I ever so pissed at you. Where are you? I
know you’re here.” Snide said as he tears apart the room looking for Tripe.
“Maybe he outside” Snide said as he runs outside. When he gets outside he
spots a figures waiting in the shadows. “Tripe is that you.” Snide said as
he gets closer.
“Sorry bout dat partner. I though I heard a noise
and decided to check it out.” Quickstrike said as he walks out of the shadows.
“You seen Tripe?” Snide asks hopefully. We were
getting worried.
“No I hadn’t. Don’t worry I bet ya he’s in
his room. .” Quickstrike said as he puts his hands on Snide’s shoulder.
“Sure, I look in my room.” Snide said. Something’s
going on here. Quickstrike doesn’t have hands. Where’s the real Quickstrike?
Is this a Maximal invasion? Snide thought as he reaches behind his back
and pulls out his Diode blaster. Before Snide could snap a shot at the imposter,
the imposter head butts him.
“Looks like the cat’s out the bag.” The
imposter said as she turns back to her original form. Her slender form was a mix
of brown. On her head was a brown headdress.
“Who are you?”
“Your executioner, but you may call me Phallus.”
Phallus said as she pulls out a small blaster and aims it at Snide.
“No one’s killing everyone but me.” Quickstrike
said as he comes running out the base shooting.
“Glad you can join the party.” Snide said as he
takes to the air and open fires on Phallus.
“I saw you two on one of the security monitors and
I knew you were in trouble when I saw another me.” Quickstrike said as he
dodges two of three Phallus shots. One hit his arm and sent him tumbling
backwards.
“Hey two-head you alerted the others right?”
Snide said as he fires at Phallus, who nimbly ducks out the way and leaps into
the air. She lets go of her blaster and pulls out a Bo staff.
“Partner you don’t need the others when you got
me at your side,” Quickstrike said as shoots his cyber venom at Phallus. His
cyber venom hits Phallus in the side and paralyzes her.
“Megatron, we caught a intruder outside base,”
Snide said into his com-link.
“Good job Snide and Quickstrike. I’m sending
Scorponok to help you escort the prisoner.”
“Okay feline where’s Tripe?” Snide demands as
he aims his gun at her.
“Don’t worry, you will join him soon.” Phallus
said with a grin as she picks up her Bo-staff and knocks Snide’s gun out of
his hand. She gets up and reflects a shot back at Quickstrike, who had shot at
her. She runs up to Quickstrike and lands blow after blow with her Bo-staff.
Quickstrike’s snake hand bites the Bo-staff.
“Let go.” Phallus said as she struggles to get
Quickstrike’s snake hand off her Bo-staff. Phallus shakes off Quickstrike’s
snake hand and gets ready to delivers the final blow. As Phallus’ staff swings
down another staff intercepts it.
“I thought you had the prisoners under control,”
Scorponok said as he elbows Phallus in the face.
“ What’re you talking about? Everything is under
control,” Snide said as he tackles Phallus to the ground. Snide picks her up
and flies high in the air.
“Hey let go of me,” Phallus said as she tries to
get out of his grip.
“Your wish is my command,” Snide snickers as he
lets go of Phallus. Phallus lands on her feet as she hits the ground.
“Cats always land on their feet,” Phallus as she
kicks it into her hand. She throws it at Scorponok who shoots his toxic string
at it. The staff dissolves as the toxic string intercepts it.
“Sorry got to run,” Phallus said as she runs into
the dark.
“Megatron’s gonna have ours head if we don’t
get that rascal,” Quickstrike said as they pursue Phallus.
Something was amiss. Silverbolt felt it in his bones
as he stops in front of Cheetor’s room. Cheetor and Pecked always cheer him
up. Something was wrong; the door was open. Silverbolt takes out one of his wing
missiles and rolls into the room prepared for anything.
“CHEETOR.” Sliverbolt yells as picks up the limp
body of Cheetor.
“Gone they took him. He one of them now,” Cheetor
said as he goes into stasis lock. As Silverbolt runs to the command room he
bumps into Dinobot. Dinobot took one look at Cheetor and said:
“I think our guests are heading towards Airazor’s
room. Get Cheetor in a CR chamber and alert the others. I handle them.”
“Come in.” Airazor said as she hears a knock on
her door. The door slides open for a moment and then closes. Airazor looks
behind her back expecting someone, but no one was there. That’s weird Airazor
thought as she continues reading through history files of Cybertron.
“Airazor,” An unseen person whispers.
“Who’s there?” Airazor said as she looks around the room. She gets up and does a quick check of the room to make should no one was there. As she walks back to her bed she trips over something. “What’s this doing here?” Airazor asks as she picks up a rubber ducky.
“To make you mine,” The Duck replies as he
transforms.
As Dinobot was running down the hall to Airazor
quarter he heard an explosion.
“I hope I’m not too late,” Dinobot said as he
kicks Airazor’s door down. He was there; there was a hole in the wall and no
Airazor.
“Alright troops we’re done here move out,”
Quacktron said as he takes off in the air.
“Yes master,” Tripe, Airazor, Pecked and
Terrorsaur said in unison as they follow after him. A lone figure stood tall in
the moonlight as he takes one of his wing missiles and throws it at Quacktron.
It hits blowing him out of the sky. Silverbolt had done what he been told to do
after he got Cheetor to a CR chamber and alerted the others. That was to wait
for the intruders outside and to engage them.
“Stop vile villains and hand over your
prisoners,” Silverbolt said as he takes out two more wing missiles.
“We’re not prisoners Silverbolt,” Pecked said
as they open fire at Silverbolt. Silverbolt jumps to the right out of the way.
“Silverbolt be careful, they’re not in their
right minds,” Dinobot said as he arrives on the scene. Dinobot dodges an
attack from Terrorsaur and returns fire with his laser eye. “Silverbolt get
ready to do what we did in our session in the war room. Dinobot said as he runs
toward Silverbolt.
“Go for it sir.” Silverbolt said as he leans
forward and crosses his wing missiles so that they make an x. Dinobot jumps and
lands on Silverbolt’s wing missiles, which lifts them up launching Dinobot
into the air. Dinobot becomes a living torpedo and knocks into Tripe and
Airazor. All three falls to the ground.
“If it’s a fight they want, it’s a fight
they’ll get,” Quacktron said as he fires at Silverbolt. Silverbolt doubles
up in pain as he gets hit.
“You’ll never get away with this,” Silverbolt
said as he tries to get up.
“You mean taking over your team mates’ minds?
‘Course I can and I think you want to help me.”
“I would never join you slime.”
“Don’t be so sure about that. I can only take
over bird’s minds but you’re half a bird. I wonder what would happen if I
try to take over yours?”
“Don’t take another step,” Snide said as he pulls out his blaster.
“Is that Phallus and what’s Terrorsaur and Tripe doing here?”
Scorponok asks.
“They’re under his control,” Silverbolt said as he gets up.
“What’re we waiting for?” Quickstrike said as he shoots at
Quacktron.
“We’re out of here for now, but this isn’t the last you’ve heard
of us,” Quacktron said as he and those under his control flies away.
“They’re getting away.” Silverbolt said as he fires a few more wing
missiles at Quacktron.
“Let them go, we’ve got bigger things to worry about,” Dinobot said
as he points at the distance.
“Megatron and he got the rest of the crew with him,” Quickstrike said
as the rest of the Maximals get outside.
“Ah Optimus, looks like the Maximals are missing some of their crew
too.” Megatron said as he lands.
“This happened to you too?” Optimus asks.
“Yes and we think that intruder my men caught outside the base had
something to do with it.”
“Where’s this intruder now?”
“Yes, where is the intruder?” Megatron asks as he looks at
Quickstrike, Snide and Scorponok.
“She escaped boss bot.” Quickstrike said as he hides behind Rattrap.
“If the Royalty would have sent me, he would have gotten results,”
Inferno said.
“SHUT UP!” Scorponok yells as he punches Inferno in the face.
“WHAT? YOU DARE HIT THE ROYALTY’S SECOND IN COMMAND!” Inferno roars
as he tackles Scorponok to the ground and head butts him.
“I’M THE SECOND IN COMMAND!” Scorponok yells as kicks Inferno off
him. His claws move back on his shoulders as he put his hands in them. Scorponok
aims his claws at Inferno and fires. Inferno laughs wildly as he takes the hit.
The impact of the blast sends him spinning around as it takes off his left arm.
“Is that the best you’ve got?” Inferno laughs as he picks his
fallen arm off the floor and slaps Scorponok with it. The two continue to fight
as the rest of the beast warrior look at them with awe.
“Not that I’m enjoyin’ this, but shouldn’t we stop them?”
Rattrap said to no one in general.
“Allow me, rodent,” Megatron said as he
approached Inferno and Scorponok.
“This ought to be good,” Cheetor said as Megatron
begins to speak:
“Friends why are you fighting? You’re both second
in command. Second means two. So there have to be two smart, strong fighters,
like yourselves to do the job of second in command. Now stop fighting, only my
seconds in command can help me in this time of despair.”
“Yes Royalty,” Inferno said as he shakes hands
with Scorponok’s claws.
“Yes Megatron,” Scorponok said as they both
salute Megatron.
“Good now that’s settled let’s get to
business,” Megatron said as he
turns to face Optimus.
“Looks like all you Predacons get to be heroes
today,” Optimus replies. All the Predacons begin scratching their heads when
they hear the word hero.
“What’s a hero?” Tarantulas asks.
“I don’t know it’s not in my vocabulary,”
Blackarachnia said as she turns to the Maximals for help.
“Ain’t a hero a sandwich? Are you going to eat
us?” Hyde asks as he steps behind Waspinator.
“Waspinator doesn’t taste good.”
“Take boss-bot he’s the biggest of us.”
Quickstrike said as he points at Megatron.
“HOW DARE YOU EVEN SUGGEST JUST SUCH A THING!”
Megatron yells as he kicks Quickstrike.
“We’re not going to eat you,” Optimus said as
he shakes his head.
“Except Dinobot, that’s why we got sharp teeth.
The better to eat you with,” Rattrap said as Cheetor added on:
“What you think happened to Scion?”
“Oh no,” Waspinator said as he begins to shake.
“Who’s Scion?” Quickstrike asks as he gets up.
“A Maximal that satisfied me,” Dinobot said with
quivering lips trying not to laugh.
“What’s that suppose to mean?” Waspinator asks
as he holds on to Inferno for support. He felt like he was going to faint.
“Knock it out guys you’re scaring the Preds.”
Rhinox laughs.
“Idiots, pure idiots! I should retire from command
and join the Maximals,” Megatron exclaims.
“A hero paves a way. A hero saves the day. A hero
keep the warrior ways until he dies that faithful day,” Hyde said.
“That not my motto. My motto is a coward runs and
lives another day, while the brave and valiant dies that day,” Snide said as
he high fives Quickstrike.
“I thought you didn’t know what a hero is
Hyde,” Optimus said as he looks at Hyde suspiciously.
“I know and I know not,” Hyde replies.
“Alright enough with this, all flyers to me,” Megatron commands as
all the flyers gather around him.
“Snide and Silverbolt we can’t risk you turning against us so you
stay here. Everyone one else, let’s roll,” Optimus said as he and the rest
of the flyers take off. The five flyers (Optimus, Megatron, Inferno, Waspinator
and Cheetor) form a V with Optimus and Inferno in one line and Megatron and
Waspinator in the other. Cheetor finishes the V by connecting the two lines.
“They’re waiting for us,” Optimus said as he spots Quacktron and
his crew waiting for them above a canyon.
“So they are. All right this is it, stay sharp and watch your backs. Oh
and the duck is mine,” Megatron said as the flyers engage Quacktron and the
trance birds. As Cheetor rushes into battle he remembers something. He can’t
fly in robot mode! Airazor didn’t care as she fires at Cheetor.
Terrorsaur flies right up to Waspinator and knees him in the gut.
“Waspinator mad. Waspinator retaliate,” Waspinator said as he fires
at Terrorsaur with his dart gun. Terrorsaur flies in a tight loop and shoots
Optimus in the back with his laser-eyes. Terrorsaur continues to fly right into
Inferno’s flame-thrower range.
“BURN TRAITOR!” Inferno shouts as sets Terrorsaur on fire. Terrorsaur
falls into the water that’s in the bottom of the canyon. Optimus was falling
from the impact of Terrorsaur’s attack. Just before Optimus hits the canyon
floor Pecked grabs Optimus arms. They both slow as they near the canyon floor.
“Pecked thanks. Glad you’re back,” Optimus said as he lets out a
sigh of relief.
“Just felt lending you a hand. Now I want you to lend me your hand.”
Pecked said as his chain-saws came out and severs Optimus hands.
“AHHHHHHHHH!” Optimus screams in pain as Pecked picks up his severed
hands and begins to slap him with them.
“Stop slapping yourself, stop slapping yourself.” Pecked said as he
continues his insult. Cheetor seeing Optimus in trouble transforms to robot mode
and fires off three quick shots and transforms back to beast mode. The three
shots hit Pecked dead in the back. Just before he goes offline he launches his
two cassettes.
“What’s going on?” Lynch asks as he sees the scene around him.
“We’re in a battle with Quacktron and the Maximals and Predacons he
put under his control,” Cheetor said as he landed.
“I wish I could help, but the battle’s in the air.”
“Get on.”
“WHAT?”
“I supply the transportation, you supply the
firepower.”
“Me and my big mouth,” Lynch said as he gets on
Cheetor’s back.
“I’m heading back to base for repairs,” Optimus
said as he takes off.
“This is your captain speaking. Please fasten your
seatbelt. We expect a lot of turbulence. Thank you for flying with us,”
Cheetor said as he takes off.
They didn’t even notice me. If those two
weren’t too busy playing games, they would have noticed that someone close by.
I think I should investigate. Lynx
thought as he heads up a cliff.
“So
you think just because you take the shape of my rubber ducky I have mercy on
you?” Megatron said as he tries to tackle him in his beast mode.
“You
think I’m Phallus? How can I be Phallus when Phallus is over there.”
Quacktron said as he points at a cliff. Sure enough there was Phallus with a
smirk on her face watching the battle unfold.
“THAT’S
RIGHT MEGATRON HERE DUCKY!” Quacktron yells as he punches Megatron in the
face. He then delivers a roundhouse kick to Megatron’s head. Megatron bites
Quacktron’s left arm and throws him to the canyon floor. As Megatron
transforms to robot mode and fires several shots at Quacktron, Quacktron flies
out the way and fires his taster that he had on his right arm.
“AHHHHHHHHH!”
Megatron yells as the taster overloads his circuits. Megatron falls helplessly
to the ground.
“Megatron,
face it you can’t win. I know all your tactics.” Quacktron brags as he
hovers above Megatron unaware of Waspinator.
“Ducky
bot talk too much,” Waspinator said as he fires his laser-eyes at Quacktron.
Quacktron was knocked into the canyon wall. Before he could recover Waspinator
finishes him off with four shots from his dart gun. Phallus was too busy
watching the battle to notice Lynx sneaking up on her. Lynx seeing Phallus
distracted goes into a run and rams her off the cliff. She hit the ground and
lay there with a dazed look on her face.
“Much
report back to superiors,” Phallus sputters as she takes out an object from
one of her compartments. She disappears as she actives it.
“Waspinator
izz so confused.”
“I
think that was a teleporter and I think Phallus’ power is limited. My rubber
ducky’s back to normal and so is everyone else,” Megatron said as he gets up
and puts his rubber ducky away.
“What
am I doing here?” A confused Airazor asks as she takes in her surroundings.
“Megatron what are you doing here?
“He’s
on our side for the moment. You and some other Maximals and Predacons were
turned into mind slaves,” Cheetor said as he flies toward her.
“Now
that the threat is over we are not. I suggest we all head back to your base,
where I can get the rest of my troops and go,” Megatron said as begins to head
back to the Maximals base. Between them they carry the wounded back to the
Maximal base where they were healed in the CR chamber. After that the Predacons
went back to the Darkside.
“So
did you bug the place?” Megatron asks as all the Predacons met for a meeting.
“Yes
we bugged most of the Maximal ship,” Tarantulas said as looks at Hyde. “But
Hyde totaled the supply closet we found.”
“Wasn’t
my fault, in a way.”
“Maybe
I should find a way to get rid of those extra personalities of your. Yes Hyde we
know there are more than two of you. Last time I counted it was four.”
“Alas
he can’t keep us a secret anymore. Poor souls we are doomed to death. A sword
or gun won’t be our undoing, but ourselves,” Hyde stopped and stared at
nothing trying to win a battle we couldn’t win. “Speak for yourself. I not
going out like that.”
“Oh
great he’s fighting with himself again,” Terrorsaur snickered.
“If
there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s destroying things. If I go everyone
goes.”
“Just
try it.”
“He’s kidding. He just likes blowing things up. Anyway I’m going to sleep,” Hyde said as he walks to his room.
“We need to do something about him,” Blackarachnia said when he was
out of earshot.
“We need him for the time being. We just have to endure his condition.
You are dismissed,” Megatron said as watches everyone leave the control room.
He makes sure that no one is around and takes out his rubber ducky. “I like
you better this way better,” Megatron said as he begins to walk to his room
for a nice long energon bath.
He
got a message to meet her here in ten cycles. Here was a little clearing in the
swamps of Qwer. “Was it a success?” A blurry figure asks Phallus as she
comes out of her hiding place.
“No, I underestimated them.”
“They won’t be too happy to hear that.”
“I think they would give me another chance.”
“I hope not. We still didn’t have a chance to go.”
“Like you can do any better than me.”