Megatron and Shadow Runner Ch.1

Return to Battle

Shadow Runner lay on a medical berth, fully repaired from his run in with the Decepticon Trine coming into the orbit of the planet, thankfully however most of the injuries were minor and he could easily fly circles around Starscream and his trine.

Shadow Runner sat up and twisted to where his pedes rested on the floor and easily stood being quite large for a flier.

Shadow Runner looked over to Ratchet for conformation that he could leave and received a nod before he walked out of the med bay. Shadow Runner blinked when he heard Jazz yell, "Shadda!"

Shadow Runner immediately turned and held out his arms to his old friend and caught the Saboteur as he leapt up into his arms and returned the hug as Jazz hugged him tightly.

Shadow Runner carefully settled Jazz on his pedes and looked down at him, "How have you been Jazz? It has been quite some time since I have seen you." Jazz chuckled, "Sure has mech. 'Bout ah few million years ain't it?"

Shadow Runner nodded as he followed Jazz to the rec room and they traded battle stories from the time that they had been separated.

Shadow Runner jolted out of recharge as did Jazz hearing the alarms going off and they leapt to their pedes and rushed out of the room and through the ground bridge to the battle field.

Shadow Runner leapt into the air and immediately engaged in a dog fight with the seeker trine and Eradicons.

Shadow Runner flew circles around the so called Decepticon air defense, blasting nearly every single one of them out of the air before he heard Arcee yell for Optimus to get down over their comms.

An explosion sounded before Bulkhead sounded over the comms, :Ratchet we need you! Now! Optimus is hit bad!: Shadow Runner dove down, tearing the ground behind him into pieces as he flew low to throw him faster and slammed full out into Megatron who had been about to end Optimus as a dazed Bulkhead struggled to find his pedes.

Shadow Runner quickly shifted into his bipedal mode to hold the writhing Megatron down and forced his arm up and kept the fusion cannon attached to his arm from blasting him.

Shadow Runner snarled as he slammed his pede onto Megatron's free arm and struggled to push his cannon arm down against the ground, "Get Optimus out of here!" Jazz snapped, "We can't leave ya!"

Shadow Runner snarled, "Go! I will only be able to hold him for so long! Get Optimus through the fragging ground bridge!" Ratchet and Bulkhead quickly carried Optimus's frame through the ground bridge as Arcee, Bumblebee, Jazz and the others quickly followed.

Shadow Runner grunted as he was thrown off of Megatron but he immediately slid to his pedes and rocketed up into the air.

Shadow Runner heard Megatron give chase but immediately began to avoid him in an aerial display that Megatron had not seen before.

Megatron snarled as he barked over the comms, :Soundwave! Open a ground bridge to the Nemesis!: In an instant a ground bridge opened in front of the mech who easily avoided it, barrel rolling over it as Megatron watched in increasing respect as the mech continued to avoid the ground bridges.

Shadow Runner gasped as a ground bridge opened directly in front of him and immediately shifted into his bipedal mode and activated his thrusters which stopped him just in front of the bridge.

Shadow Runner let out a soft sigh before he heard a growl behind him and turned just as Megatron tackled him through the ground bridge.

Shadow Runner grunted as he slammed into the ground of the elusive Decepticon Warship known as the Nemesis and unconsciously released a tiny tracking beacon that fell in between the cracks of the floor.

Shadow Runner managed to hold Megatron off of him as he open fired on the Vehicons around them before he kicked Megatron off the top of him only to yelp when Megatron's claws dug deep into his back armor but he blasted him back again and avoided Soundwave in a graceful flurry of motion before Laserbeak was released.

Shadow Runner immediately shifted into his alt form and roared through the Nemesis which given his size was quite the surprise as he expertly maneuvered his large frame through Nemesis.

Shadow Runner barrel rolled, avoiding fire as Laserbeak continued to follow him and he heard the tell tale roar of Megatron's powerful Cybertronian engines before he shot out the windows and blasted out into the open sky.

Shadow Runner immediately sent a comm to Ratchet only to cry out when data lines wrapped around his frame.

Shadow Runner immediately shifted into his bipedal form and batted at Soundwave's data lines, trying to keep him from jacking into his systems as well as disabling his thrusters.

Shadow Runner pushed at the knife-like arms of Soundwave as he tried to grab hold of Shadow Runner but Shadow Runner yet again heard Megatron's engines and open fired on Soundwave who maneuvered to avoid him, screaming his coordinates to Ratchet over the comms before he allowed himself to fall back.

Megatron's optics widened in shock when the flier's thrusters shut down and he began to fall only to have a ground bridge open up behind him and he fell directly into it as Megatron let out a snarl of rage over the fact that his prey had eluded him.

Shadow Runner smirked as he walked through the ground bridge, "Thanks Ratch. You really saved my aft there." Ratchet snorted, "Well considering how you stupidly stayed behind you're lucky I saved your aft at all!"

Shadow Runner smirked but said nothing as he continued to limp through the ground bridge before it shut down as Jazz rushed forwards.

Shadow Runner let out a quiet groan before his optics slid offline and he crumpled to the ground as Jazz jumped to catch him.

Jazz grunted as he sat down hard with Shadow Runner's upper frame leaning against his shoulders before he noted the deep, clean claw marks on Shadow Runner's back and the energon pulsing out quite quickly, "Ratch! Ratch! He's hurt!"

Ratchet immediately rushed over to Shadow Runner's side, examining the wounds before he cursed, "He's sliced through an energon line! Bulkhead get in here!"

Bulkhead immediately lumbered in and carefully lifted Shadow Runner's large frame up into his arms and carted him to the med bay before placing him on his chassis on a medical berth and quickly stepped back to allow Ratchet to work.

Shadow Runner came online yet again in the med bay and pushed himself up before he looked over at Ratchet, "We've really gotta stop meeting like this Ratch."

Ratchet snorted but handed Shadow Runner a energon cube and moved behind him to inspect the patch to make sure it would hold.

A/N: So just to let everyone know I absolutely LOVE Transformers. So far Transformers Prime is my new love. Soundwave is my utter favorite. Read and Review guys. I'll post more chapters after I get at least 5 reviews.