Drain of Lost Past - Act 1
By: Kidcat and MariaSunderland
Chapter 2
- Bloodshed Returns -
No one could actually speak, almost impressed by what had appeared before them. Felina was still sitting there, mouth and eyes wide opened. She was trying to speak, but no sound was coming out. She was visibly shaking, but not of fear...maybe still in shock...nervous... even happiness.
"Fiona?! You survived! It worked!" a feminine voice shouted with joy. It jumped on Felina, giving her a big hug, almost strangling the female robot.
"Gemi-Gemini", Felina whispered, "You... you're here..."
"Well, is that how you treat your best friend? OoooOOoooh nice welcome party", Gemini said, letting go Felina to reveal herself.
She had short brown hair, down to her shoulders; wearing a purple mini‑skirt with horizontal yellow stripes. Her belly‑shirt was also purple, but a bit lacerated at the bottom. Instead of metal, she had pure flesh...a human. Yet something seemed so different... and Felina could not put her finger on it... Her honey colored eyes were going from left to right, glancing a severe look at the Maximals, as if the human had realized she was surrounded by robots.
Slowly, Gemini took a hold of a blaster, not sure if she had to defend herself or not. But Dinobot answered her question by transforming to robot mode, his spinning sword in his hand, ready to tear Gemini to pieces.
His eye‑beams shot their greenish lasers and the human rolled away just in time. The pod exploded at the impact of the beams, hitting everyone with sharp pieces of metal. As Dinobot was trying to pull a piece of metal out of his forehead Gemini took the opportunity to kick him in the stomach and fire at him in the face.
"That was MY POD, y'big ugly SMURF!.. Uh... why didn't it shoot? Teach? This gun's broken!" Indeed, the blast had never happened and what remained before her was Dinobot with his left eye opening and noticing his face was still intact.
"'Dey usually don't leave loaded guns in stasis pods to prevent goons like ya from commitin’ a massacre", Rattrap spat at her.
"Did you just insult me?" Gemini asked him with a hiss.
“Okay, Gemi, y'know how much I love violence but y'can stop now", Felina interfered by stepping between both of them, then taking Gemini's arm and pulling her away from Dinobot and the rest of the group.
Gemini looked at her friend in confusion, "But...but...you always told me to shoot first, and ask questions later. And it didn't shoot. This sucks!"
"Well, one way or another, things... kinda changed."
"Since when?"
"Since I landed on 'dis damn planet!"
"Oh!Okay teach! Teehee!"
"Oh man, it's like Cheetor and Felina rolled up in a chick's body. We're all gonna die", Rattrap said. Felina growled loudly at Rattrap's stupid comment, glaring at him.
'You're a very bad liar, y'know that?', the look told him. He understood right away now on his guards.
"But Fiona", Gemini said, "I thought we destroyed... well you know...And now, they're your friends?"
Felina laughed nervously, putting a hand behind her head, "Well...friends ain't exactly the right word... they're more like...allies, for now."
"Uh huh...I see." The human took another look at Felina's comrades. It felt weird for her...knowing the story between her and her best friend, but she smiled softly as if something unknown had been achieved for her.
"That's good", she murmured, getting a strange look from Felina but discarding it and moving an arm around Felina's shoulders. It was obvious Gemini was much taller then Felina was, which made the duo that more strange, "Well, won't you introduce me?"
"Oh...sure..." Felina turned to Dinobot, who was slowly getting up. "The one you nearly blew the nose off from is Dinobot, and that's flat nose...I mean Rattrap", she snickered.
"Rattrap?" Gemini asked in confusion and looked at him carefully, "So you all changed your names?"
"Wh-What?" Rattrap asked and gulped, "Dunno whatcha talkin' about. Y'crazy lady!"
Gemini rose an eyebrow, "Heh... well... um... ow!" upon recieving Felina's elbow on her left side, Gemini dropped the subject at last and let Felina continue.
Felina finally pointed at the spotted robot, "And 'dat's Chee‑"
In a quick and fast move, Cheetor jumped in front of Gemini, extending a hand for her to shake "Hi! I'm Cheetos!...I mean Cheerios!...Chicken! Cheater! Chee..."
"Cheetor", Rattrap whispered to him.
"That's it! Tor‑Chee! Tee‑Chor! Chor‑Tee! Cheetor!"
Gemini gave a quick chuckle at the cheetah's clumsiness, "Gotcha!"
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"Obliterate them", Megatron yelled.
When Optimus, Rhinox, AirRazor and SilverBolt finally arrived at the impact zone, they were surrounded by a crowded and dense cloud of dirt created by the Predacon missiles. AirRazor flew higher to avoid the missiles and lasers so that she would come out of the blinding smoke. She shrieked, and shouted her transformation code. Raising her arm and aiming at Waspinator, who seemed to be shooting at nothing, the missiles disappearing in the cloud of dust. She shot several times, hitting his left arm, the one holding his gun. At the female's great surprise, not only did his gun fly away at the impacts, but his arm as well.
"Wazpinator hates Bird‑Bot. Bird‑Bot too good at shooting and hurting. Wazzpinator out of here zzzz..." Waspinator reverted to beast mode and flew away from the battle zone.
AirRazor watched him with her hands on her hips, a smile of victory on her face, "What a coward."
"Ohhhh...but cowardice can be quite a way to learn my dear AirRazor, yesss. Unfortunately, you don't learn very well, noooo."
Surprised by this voice, she turned around quickly to face Megatron in his robot mode. She dashed to her left in time to avoid his powerful fist, but as she thought she was far enough to aim at him, she felt someone kick her in the back of the head. Still dizzy, she looked over her shoulder to see Terrorsaur moments before he struck her in the stomach with his knee, laughing out his victory.
"SilverBolt, Maximize! How dare you attack a lady like that, Predacon?!! Learning is a virtue you don't have!"
At these words, SilverBolt took one of his talons, and threw it at Terrorsaur with aim just as good if not better then AirRazor's. Terrorsaur didn't have time to move. The spear penetrated his face with a weird, mushy noise. It completely disfigured the Predacon who fell into the cloud and disappeared.
"Thanks", AirRazor said, still surprised by her comrade's move, "that was... well... special..."
"No problem, miss. I just cannot tolerate seeing a man, especially a Predacon, treat a lady like that."
"So I see", she laughed, "We shouldn't stay here, we could--"
"BUUUUUUUUURN! For the royalty!!!"
Surprised, AirRazor and SilverBolt turned around only to see multiple fire balls heading straight for them. AirRazor had time to fly higher, but not SilverBolt. He screamed with pain as his wings were eaten by fire. His screams were heard all the while he followed Terrorsaur's fate into the dark cloud of dirt.
"Inferno you imbecile", Megatron screamed angrilly, as he slapped Inferno behind the head, "I thought my orders were clear! Do not destroy them!"
"But...but my queen..."
"Stop calling me that!!!"
"Your wish is my command my qu... royalty."
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Rhinox transformed to robot mode along with Optimus, guns in hand, making their way towards whatever they would find in the blinding zone.
"I can't see a slaggin' thing", Rhinox growled.
"Me neither, Big Guy, but keep going, there must be something...."
And so they kept walking, but nothing appeared but the shadows of the smoke and dust.
"It's useless", Rhinox concluded, "We'll never find anything in this smog. We'd better go back."
Rhinox stopped walking; waiting for Optimus to answer, but it never came, "Optimus? Optimus where are you?"
Still no answer.
"Hello? Optimus?"
"R-Rhinox? Is-Is that you?" asked a feminine voice.
The voice sounded a lot like Felina's, but more adult, more mature. The huge robot held his breath. He had heard this voice before, and it was impossible that this woman could be...alive.
‘Now I'm hearing voice’, he thought, ‘She's dead. How could she be here...’
He shook his head, trying to force the voice to vanish.
"Rhinox, please help me. Help us. I'm begging you", the voice said again.
As Rhinox was about to yell back, a huge explosion was heard. The fire struck the huge robot, and he flew away at the shockwave. He almost broke his back when he landed on a sharp rock. He wiped the red oil going down his face from the scratches the pieces of metal and rocks had made.
"It can't be..." he urged in a whisper, "it just can't be...."
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"What in the inferno", said Megatron at the view of the explosion.
"Yes my quee...royalty?"
"I wasn't talking to you."
"But you said my name."
"Arrggh...Nevermind that."
"You guys are pathetic", AirRazor laughed and shot at the Predacon flyers.
"You little pest", Megatron yelled at her.
Megatron fired at AirRazor, who was going from left to right, avoiding the lasers, when a cheerful and enthusiastic voice came crashing down the scene.
"WOOHOO! AIR SUPER‑CHEETOR TO THE RESCUE!!!" and Cheetor bumped into Inferno.
"Curse you Maximal", Megatron screamed, "All Predacons, our work is done! Retreat!"
As the Predacons were running and flying away, AirRazor and Cheetor both landed near the cloud which was now slowly disappearing. Rattrap, Felina, Gemini and Dinobot joined in a short time after.
Hearing her name, Felina found Rhinox was running toward her at top speed. Exhausted, he stopped in front of her, putting his huge hands on her shoulders, "Felina, tell me you were here... tell me you're the one who spoke and asked for help!"
She raised an eyebrow, seeing all the injuries around the green robot, "Man, what happened to you?"
"Answer me!"
"No! We just got here. Now, what happened?"
He shook his head, and then looked at Gemini. He did not seem surprised to see her here... He did not need to talk; his look was more then enough. The human nodded. Felina lightly narrowed her eyes: there was something she didn’t know, and she was not going to like it. She backed away from Rhinox and gave him an angry look.
"What's goin' on? I'm not dunce; I know there's somethin' here! What the hell are you hiding?" she asked coldly.
Silence. He could not answer. He was not really sure himself and even as she hissed more threats at him, Rhinox could only remain silent. When the silence was broken by that same voice that was not Felina's, he jumped nervously with wide eyes. He was afraid.
"Fiona?"
Felina froze instantly. That voice. She had heard it several times too, but it had been taken away from her. Such a sweet and tender voice...She shook her head lightly, a tear coming down her cheek, red oil like blood staining a strand as it went down. Slowly, Felina looked over her shoulder and as the smoke was vanished and revealed a sweet part of her past. A past she had almost forgotten by now...
Felina dropped to her knees, "M...Mamma..."
End of part 2