Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers.
THIS CHAPTER WAS RE-EDITED ON OCTOBER 24TH 2007
For four million years.
That's how long she'd been searching. Sure she'd been told to give up by her creator but giving up wasn't in her programming. Her creator didn't give her that function and she wasn't about to let it enter her programing now. Besides, she didn't have time to worry about that or even think about it. She needed to find who she was looking for and she wasn't about to give up until she did. It would always be that way. She didn't care how long it ook. She'd search until her body could no longer function if she had to.
"I will find them," she said, staring at the reading on her computer. It scanned the planets within range for any sighs of the ones she was looking for.
Still nothing.
"I won't give up," she muttered, frowning at the screen. "Never."
She reset the scanner.
A few hours later, as she was flying over a green and blue planet, the scanner started blaring. She stared at the reading. DECEPTICON CODE CONFIRMED, It read.
"I've found you."
Landing was much harder than she thought. Her ship was sucked into the planet's atmosphere, when she got too close, and spiraled out of control as it burst into flames. Before she could regain control the machine crashed into the ground. She was able to climb out before the craft exploded and scanned the area, her optics and sensors trying to pick up the reading again. Nothing.
She was disappointed. "I thought I'd finally found them..." She suddenly became aware of heavy damage to her body from the crash. Sparks shot from a hole in her chest plate. "I must repair myself..."
She spotted some buildings a short distance away. Putting her hand over an opening in her armor she sprinted toward the buildings, hoping she'd get there in time to save herself.
She stumbled into the area only to find the buildings were abandoned. Breaking out a wall with her blaster she collapsed into what looked like a room full of old computers. "I must repair myself..."
Running a self diagnostic, she crawled toward a bank of computers. WARNING! POWER READINGS LOW. DEACTIVATION IN 2 MINUTES!
She cursed. She had no time to repair herself.
She did not want to deactivated or lose her spark. She had too much important information to go permanently offline. She touched the computer and it came to life. As it whirred in response, wires from came from her chest plate and attached to the console. Slowly she downloaded her mind and hard drive into the computer as her body shut down...
Ten years later... June 1987
CHAPTER 1
The military base had been abandoned for years, the buildings collapsing from disrepair. Nothing much there, really, just a dozen crumbling buildings, but that didn't discourage Megatron. It could still be a potental power source. At the moment he wasn't about to go near it. He'd sent Starscream and the other two Seekers ahead along with Soundwave to make sure the energy reserves for the buildings still worked. If not, they'd just look somewhere else...
Ah, Starscream and the others were coming back. He'd know soon enough. Megatron noticed the three jets had strange looks on their faces. I wonder what they found? The leader of the Decepticons thought to himself.
When Starscream stood in front of his leader the gray Decepticon asked him. "What's that look for? Can't it be used?"
Starscream shook his head. "Oh it can be used," he replied, not really meeting his superior's eyes. "But we... well..."
Megatron frowned, feeling impatient. He didn't have time for the younger robots stuttering. "Well what?"
"We found something strange in the main building," the red white and blue jet finally replied.
Now the Decepticon was curious. "What?" he demanded.
Starscream paused and thought about how he'd answer the question. he would have to use the right words otherwise Megatron would get mad. After a minute he said, "I think it would be best if I showed you." he turned and gestured for him to follow.
Curious, and a little suspicious, Megatron followed. When they entered the building, Starscream said pointing. "We found it over here." and started walking toward the back of the room.
"This had better not be a trick," Megatron said as he followed the jet.
Starscream looked at Megatron with an expression of injured innocents. "Of course not, mighty Megatron," he said, his voice slightly sarcastic. "if it were, I wouldn't have had Soundwave stay behind to get a better look at it."
The knowledge that Soundwave was close by was a relief to the Decepticon tyrant. Soundwave was one of his most loyal soldiers. The sound system would deal with Starscream, if he tried anything.
When the two reached the spot Megatron stopped to stare at something on the floor. To a human it might have looked like a pile of red and black colored metal but the Decepticon knew better. The way the metal was put together told him everything with just one glance. This was a transformer. He stepped closer for a better look. The body structure was slightly different than the other transformers on his side and the Autobots. This transformer's structure had a more delicate look to it from the design of the legs and chest area to the angles of the face. A more feminine structure.
"This transformer is female," he said, looking the body over slowly, taking it in.
Starscream stared at Megatron for a moment without comment then looked at the body. "It is?" he said. He'd never seen a female like this before. Not that he could remember anyway...
"Yes," Megatron replied and pointed at something on the robot's wings. A symbol in purple. "And a Decepticon."
The Seeker looked surprised at this piece of news. "But I thought there weren't any female Decepticons."
"There were a few," Megatron told him, putting his hand on the female's dark metal plating. "But only a small number. Females weren't considered useful so only about a dozen or so were made. Most of them stayed in one place though." Megatron pointed at the weapon lying next to the body. "But some, like this one it seems, were spys..."
Starscream looked down at the female Decepticon, not sure if he should be impressed or just act like it. "So this is one of them?" he asked. "What's she doing here?" he kicked the body. "Hey, you, wake up!"
The body didn't move.
Starscream's expression became annoyed. "Why won't she get up?"
Megatron knelt down for a closer look. He looked at Soundwave who'd been poking around with the mechanics. The sound system looked at Megatron and shook his head. "Current statis: Offline," he said in his usual monotone.
"Can she be re-activated?"
Soundwave tried something else then shook his head again. "Negative."
"Well so much for that," Starscream said, kicking the body again. "I guess we can just use her body for spare parts."
"We will do nothing of the sort!" Megatron shouted, glaring at the Seeker.
"Why not?" Starscream demanded, surprised by how defensive the older Decepticon sounded. "It's clear that she can't be reactivated again and her body is nothing more than a corpse without her spark. Why can't we just use her for parts?"
The Decepticon leader chose not to answer Starscream's questions. Instead he turned from the corpse and the Seeker and looked at the computers where the body had been found. Reaching over, he turned it on. The computers whirred to life and suddenly a loud metallic voice echoed through the building.
STATUS...STATUS... DEACTIVATED... REBOOT... REBOOT...STAR... STAR... NEGATIVE...DECEPTICON...DECEPTICON..
"What is that?!" Starscream exclaimed, looking around for the source. He didn't know it was coming from the monitures.
The voice continued. MY NAME IS SHADOWSTAR OF THE DECEPTICONS... I COME FROM THE DISTANT PLANET OF CYBERTRON. I'VE BEEN BADLY DAMAGED... REACTIVATION REQUIRED
Starscream stared at the body and then looked around. "A ghost!?" he exclaimed, starting to freak out. "That Decepticon's ghost is haunting the building!"
Megatron put up a hand. "Calm yourself, Starscream," he said, looking back at the computer. "The voice is coming from the computer." he tapped at the keyboard. "Her mind seems to have been downloaded into it."
"The computer?" Thundercracker asked, who'd come in with Megatron and Starscream. The blue and gray Seeker jet looked at the femme Decepticon corpse then at the screen. "How can her mind be in the computer?"
"I don't know," Megatron said, watching a pile of numbers and letters scroll down the huge screen. "Did you move her when you found her?"
"Affirmative," Soundwave replied, getting off the floor.
"How was she when you found her?" Megatron asked, looking right at Starscream.
The red, white, and blue Seeker thought a moment, his blue hand on his chin, then replied. "She was slumped over the keyboard with her hand on the console." He remembered something else. "There were wires coming from her chest and connected to the console."
"I see then," Megatron said, looking from the computer and down at the body. He hadn't noticed the damage to her body before but now he did. A huge hole had been blasted in her chest. How, he did not know, it could have been done by an Autobot weapon or from some sort of crash. "She downloaded her mind into this computer before she deactivated," he said, thoughtfully. "I don't think she wanted to die without being able to be reactivated again."
"What?" Thundercracker exclaimed, staring at the metal corpse. "Why would she do something like that?"
"I don't know," Megatorn replied, looking back at the computer. "But maybe she had some important information in her memory or something." he tapped away at the computer, bent on finding whatever it was. The information had to be in the computer's mainframe. He didn't really care about reactivating her and would have just let her stay there after he learned whatever he could from her but...
WARNING! WARNING! REACTIAVTION REQUIRED! FILES CLASSIFIED! ACCESS DENIED! REACTIVATION REQUIRED!
"Why does it keep saying that?" Starscream asked, peering over Megatron's shoulder at the screen.
Megatron said nothing. He put his hand to his chin and stared at the screen thoughtfully. One of the screaming passages caught his attention.
URGENT REACTIVATION REQUIRED! MEGATRON! MEGATRON! MESSAGE! MESSAGE! SHOCKWAVE! REACTIVATION REQUIRED!
"I think she needed to tell you something, Megatron," Starscream said, listening to the metallic voice.
"I know that, I can hear her just fine," Megatron retorted, irritated, looking over his shoulder at the hovering Seeker.
Who was this Decepticon and what did she need to tell him and why had she mentioned Shockwave? "Starscream, Thundercracker," he said, turning back to the Decepticons. Starscream took a few steps back to avoid being knocked backward. "Get that body out of here. We're taking her back with us."
"Why?" Starscream asked, hesitating. "She can't be reactivated without her mind."
"I know," Megatron said, smirking. "That's why we're taking it back with us."
"How do you plan on doing that?" Starscream demanded, eyeing the huge consoles behind his leader. "Are you going to yank that computer out of the wall and take it with us."
"Even better," Megatron said, pointing at Soundwave. "I'll have Soundwave download it into Lazerbeak and take it with us." he smirked. "When we get back I'll have Bombshell try to reactivate her."
Starscream frowned at him. He remembered the last time Bombshell activated a female robot. That obnoxious, human build, ninja robot named Nightbird. He really didn't want to be around another femme but he didn't have a choice. He helped Thundercracker and Skywarp, who hadn't said a thing since he'd entered the building, gather up the twisted metal body of the female Decepticon and hauled it out of there. "He'd better have a good reason for wanting to reactivate this pile of scrap metal," he muttered as he and the other Seekers headed outside with their load.
Megatron watched them carry her out then looked at Soundwave. "Release Lazerbeak," he instructed. "Have him get her mind out of there."
"Yes, Megatron," Soundwave said, opening his chest compartment.
The bird cassette tape came out and entered the computer console's disc slot. A few minutes later the computer's power went out as the data inside it was downloaded into Lazerbeak. The bird popped out and went back into Soundwave's chest compartment. "Download complete," he said.
"Good," Megatron said, turning toward the hole in the wall that led outside. "Now, let's get out of here."
Jazz, in vehicle mode, was out on patrol when he noticed movement near the ruins of an old military building. Bringing himself to a stop he changed out of vehicle mode and peaked around some rocks, curious about who would be hanging around a pile or ruins. Well what's this? he wondered, recognizing the figures of Thundercracker, Starscream, and Skywarp as they came striding out of one of the building's with something in their arms. Since when do Decepticons carry around spare parts?
Suddenly the three jets took off and flew over him without noticing him. Jazz got a better look at the scrap as they did and saw they were carrying what looked like the body of a transformer. "What in Primus?" he said, watching them go. He went back into vehicle mode and drove away with a squeal of tires. "I'd better tell Prime about this!"
A/N
There is a huge year gap between the end of Season 2 and the movie. This leaves a LOT of space for the imagination. The first chapters of my storys always suck. I AM SO SORRY! Don't worry. I'll get better once I get motivated. I hope they were in character. G1 Transformers are harder to keep in character than the Beast Warriors.