A New World To Call Home [OPLS BOOK 2]

Darkness Rising Part 4

[Next day]

[Planet Earth]

[Location: Jack's home]

Jack: "Shh! Are you crazy?! You'll wake up my mom!"

Arcee: "Grab your helmet, it's go time."

Jack: "It's saturday!"

Arcee: "You can watch cartoons back at base with Bumblebee..."

Jack: "Cartoons! I'm sixteen!"

Arcee: "And leave a note for your mom! She worries!"

[Aboard The Nemesis]

Starscream: "I don't think you need to worry about further Autobot interference, Master. Not with Optimus gone."

Megatron: "And what evidence do you posses of this fact?"

Starscream: "I destroyed the mines, as you instructed."

Megatron: "Optimus is not so easily destroyed. We have millenia worth of battles behind us to prove it!"

Starscream: "May be you should take a break, my Lord. I worry that too much contact with the Dark Energon might allow it's properties to adversely affect you."

Megatron: "Or perhaps, Starscream, I have not permitted myself contact enough."

Starscream: "Wait! Lord Megatron! No! Not your Spark chamber! You do not know what it will do!"

[At Autobots HQ]

Ratchet: "Hmm. The base elements of this goo are like nothing I've ever encountered. Must be extremely concentrated to have affected Arcee so rapidly. Unfortunately, complete results are slow coming without the use of proper diagnostic tools! Thank you very much, Jazz!"

Arcee: Tighten your grip, Jack.

Jack: H-Hey! What's with you, Arcee?

Arcee: I thought you might actually enjoy the ride if we weren't getting shy at it.

Jack: Oh, bring it!

Miko: Ready, set-

Bulkhead: Miko, I'm supposed to be protecting you.

Miko: Bulkhead, I'm strapped tight inside ten tons of metal muscle. I'm protected.

Arcee: "No fair, Bumblebee! You've been driving a lot longer than I have!"

Ratchet: "Thank goodness for peace and quiet! Houseguests can be such a bother!"

[Some weird noises hampers his concentration, thinking that it was Optimus.]

Ratchet: "Wha? Optimus? By the Allspark! I needed that!"

[A weird looking terrorcon formed from his broken tools started destroying things and sliced his microscope in half. Just as it was going to attack him, Optimus entered; shooting it down to the floor and stepped on it destroying it permanently.]

Ratchet: "And stay broken! Now, what could have caused that?!"

Optimus Prime: "I have a grave suspicion."

Ratchet: "Dark Energon."

Starscream: "Lord Megatron?"

Megatron: "It's as if the blood of Unicron the Destroyer flows through my veins! As if I hear his very thoughts. I now know what I must do."

Starscream: "And what can I do to assist you, Master?"

Megatron: "Quit groveling. And wait my command. Soundwave!"

[After Megatron left.]

Starscream:  "I fear that when our Master reached for the stars he came down with a touch of space madness. Lord Megatron has not sound on his judgment since his return. Increase global surveillance!"

Soundwave: "Quit groveling. And wait my command."

Starscream:  I'm not deaf! But if Optimus Prime lives I believe it is in Lord Megatron's best interest that we ensure his enemies destruction.