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Human Bot

Chapter 1

-Wirepuller Pod-

The sunrise. Beautiful as ever, Optimus thought.

In robot mode, he was flying from the Maximal base at top speed, heading to a brand new destiny.

The perfect time for a new robot to come on line.

The time was perfect. The perfect robot might not be the case....

Only a couple of cycles ago, a stasis pod had been detected by the Axalon's computers. Then, the sky was of a beautiful late evening color, the clouds turning orange with the sun hiding for cover for the night.

Rhinox was deep in his thoughts, admiring the view from the large window of the command center. He could only hear his spark glowing inside him, it's soothing noise bringing him to deeper thoughts as time passed. It had become an habit to do such for a long while now.

Then, something blocked his view.

Still in his dreams, its shape mattered not. It was moving in alarming matters, panicked even. First, the shape turned to silver; gold spots here and there. His consciousness had him see two bright red spots. He could not get out of his trance. In fact, it seemed after a while he did not want out, covering himself from reality.

Last hopes raising, the thing finally hit Rhinox in the nose. The shock and surprise were stong enough to have him fall off his chair and to the ground.

"Wh..." Rhinox moaned in a sleepy voice, "Rattrap?"

Here was Rattrap on his knees and holding his right hand, crying out in pain, "Oh man!! Whataya made of? Rocks or somethin'?"

"Ooohmph... why did you..--?"

[WARNING], the computer activated itself, [WARNING! STASIS POD IN RANGE.]

(Could be her could)

"Does 'dat answer ya question, Green Brain?"

Rhinox was up in a flash and he began pushing the needed buttons in some kind of weird order that Rattrap couldn't understand at all; not that he wasn't trying, of course, but the big guy who was usually so slow, was suddenly too fast for the hurt rat.

"Man, thanks for nothin'," Rattrap murmured, getting up with his hurt hand hanging like some kind of snake.

But Rhinox wasn't listening. His mind was all on where the pod was going to land. The computer itself could barely follow the orders the buttons were pressed one after the other!

Eventually, it gave the coordinates of landing.

Rhinox let out a long sigh, as if a large rock had been taken from his shoulders.

In one unexpected bound Rhinox

(be her if it is oh Primus if it is)

grabbed Rattrap by the neck and slammed him against the wall as high up as he could reach.

Rattrap choked, trying to touch the ground with his feet which were too far away from it to start with. The hand holding him squeezed, cutting off the circulation.

That's when Rattrap started to be scared, looking at the huge robot with shock! He was going to crush him like a mere fruit!

"When did the alarm start?" Rhinox brutally asked in his rage.

"Arrrggghhh...5, aarrghh..cycles ago", the rat desperatly chocked.

"Why didn't you tell me?!"

"I...t-tried, but..arrgghh...y'...was day-daydreamin'..."

Rhinox's eyes narrowed into thin lines, realising he was hurting his friend, and he released Rattrap Still choking, he looked at Rhinox from the floor, who was trying to contact Optimus and Dinobot. alarmed and almost afraid of what was to come.

If it hadn't been Rhinox, Rattrap would have probably replied as brutally and as violent as he could possibly be. Yet somehow he couldn't blame Rhinox, aside the fact that he did not always understand his actions. Every time a pod would be approaching, he would be getting highly nervous; so much in fact that it seemed he did not know what he was doing.

There definitly was something out there, something bugging him, scaring him to the point where he circuits would tangle.

Yes, there was something.

Something he was the only one to know about.

Rattrap came out of his thoughts when Cheetor appeared in the room, jumping all over in his beast mode, The small robot slowly got to his feet, bringing his hand to his neck; apparently the pain was gone and he was finally breathing normally.

"Jumpin' gyros," Cheetor yelled out of enthusiasm, "Whatarewewaitinfor?

Let'sgolet'sgolet'sgogogo!!!!"

"Eh... the kid's right, Rhinox... the Preds must be headin' 'dere already."

"You're right," Rhinox told him, calming down a notch.

Then Optimus appeared, shortly followed by Dinobot. "I contacted Airazor. She's already on her way,

and so should we."

The Maximal team marched to the lifts with no hesitation, ready to find one more faithful comrade. While they went down, Rattrap felt a hand on his shoulder... a big hand. His eyes looked up at Rhinox, who looked very embarrassed. "I... I'm sorry.. for what happened," the large robot said with a sad voice.

(but if it is her stay)

"It's... alright..." Rattrap meant it, yet he felt there was too much his best friend was hiding from him, and it somehow hurt him.

(away)

Rhinox grinned, yet it seemed fake. Rattrap responded the same way however, while touching the solid ground of the planet under his feet.

And now, they were running and flying as fast as they could to reach the pod and save the life form trapped between good and evil. The only one still complaining was Dinobot, who had to ride on Rattrap. Rattrap was moving at top speed and Dinobot had to suffer from rough falls a couple of times. Silverbolt had joined the group after a short time.

Suddenly, Optimus's com-link let out a feminine voice. Airazor was already there with Tigatron. But there wasn't any good news to say.

"(crish) Hurry Optimus! The Preds...(crissshhh)....they're here....(crissshhhh)... eed.....ack up

now...(crissshhhhhh)"

There the fire of a missile heard, and the communication ran out.

"AIRAZOR!!!! NOOO!!!"

The sun had almost shown its face completely, the shadows of a half-scrapped metal

carcass on the ground. Airazor had taken a bad hit: She was trying to move, but it proved useless.

Hearing fire lasers and missiles, the battle still happening, she tried to open her eyes.

Tigatron was hiding with her behind the pod,.holding her in his arms as he slowly caressed her

face to wake her up.

"T-Tigatron?" Her voice was shaking and hardly audible, distant. Tigatron was

hoping the Maximals would get there soon for the young female was in very bad shape. Alarming was the part where he was having a hard time keeping her awake. She was fading away, and if she would leave for too long, he was afraid for the worst.

"The pod is ours, yesss. Inferno, reprogram it," Megatron let out followed by an hysterical laugh.

"Yes my queen!"

Megatron grumbled at these words....

But Tarantulas stopped Inferno, taking him away from the pod at once. Inferno tried to free himself

but the large robot's grip remained.

Something was wrong.

The feeling of wrongness was strong in the air.

Even if Tarantulas was known as a traitor of the group, and would have prefered to have this pod for himself, it was easy to see that it was something else. He was scared, and it showed.

It came from the pod.

"How DARE you!!, Inferno yelled in fury, These are the queen's orders!! Disobey them and you will burn!"

"Tarantulas," Megatron scremed, "What has gotten into you? We have no time to waste before the rest of the Maximals get here!"

"You don't understand!", the spider sounded panicked, "We were not the ones who shot the Maximal!"

"What are you talking about? Nonsense", The predacon leader shouted.

Then a buzzing sound took their attention. Waspinator was flying in a panicked noise, moving most irregularly. "Wazzpinator seez Maximalzs. Wazzpinator saiz we should hurryyyyyy!!!".

Megatron growled loudly, his teeth clenched together. It was too soon. Unless they put up a fight, they would not have the life form for their own. "Blackarachnia! Tell me who is coming!"

Blackarachnia's eyes turned crimson as she looked at the horizon, "Hmmm... I see Optimus followed by the kitten and the fuzor... the rhinoceros is far behind Dinobot, who is riding on... I think it's the rat, or--"

Blackarachnia fell with a line of smoke. Tigatron was up again and shooting at the Predacons. Only to their advantage, none had to shoot him to take him down. His mouth droped wide open, his face distorted into pain. Backing away from the pod, they saw his hands covering his stomach filled with bloody looking oil. There was a large peice of metal, like a sharp knife, incrusted into his own! With a all struggles he managed a wince of pain before he fell by Airazor's side. Not only had he failed to keep her awake, but he failed to survive this point.

(away oh please stay away)

"What the slag..." Quickstrike said, speaking for everyone.

"Tigatron! Airazor," Optimus screamed as he was shooting at the staring Predacons.

"Well, looks like all the Maximals are at the rendez- vous. Yesss... eliminate them!", was all Megatron needed to say.

"Rhinox, maximize!" He transformed in a roar and ran with heavy steps for the pod. "Rattrap! Cover

me! I've got to get to that pod!"

"Okie-dokie," Rattrap said, making Dinobot fall again. "Rattrap, maximize!"

"Why, you little vermin," Dinobot growled, taking his sword. Silverbolt interfered, stopping

Dinobot with his talon on the chest.

"Not now my friend, we must fight the Predacons trying to take one of our friends away.

Let us be worthy of our leader's trust by helping him show our loyalty to this robot, who soon shall be one of us."

"I'm not sure it's such a good idea t'have it as one of us", Rattrap whispered high enough for his companions to hear.

"Whatever do you mean?", Silverbolt asked him.

"I dunno... It's the way Rhinox tends ta react to em pods falling off lately. Dere's more to em pods then we might think ya know."

Dinobot snarled, "We'll never know until we get it", and with this he ran for the pod.

Rattrap felt something too. He did not want to go further, but he had no choice.

Dinobot was hiding behind the pod just like Airazor and Tigatron. At first, he did not realise they were there, lying down to their death. His first attempt was to shoot at Waspinator, who was flying at an incredible speed.

(stay away the pod oh the pod stay away)

But then Dinobot felt a sharp pain in his chest. He had no idea what it was, but it was there now, merely cutting him in half! His upper body was no more, but the feelings below the chest were still active somehow, forcing him to feel what felt like wire cutters cut him from the inside of his stomach, compressing every circuit. He tried screaming but there was no more sound to help him. Then the pliers came out of his squashed chest, letting out his interior on the ground. He stood there a couple of seconds, seeing Tigatron and Airazor lying in a puddle of oil. He heard Cheetor's voice. He slowly turned his head, seeing Cheetor covering him as he was firing at Tarantulas.

"Dinobot! What are you doing?" Cheetor yelled. "Don't just stand there..." He stopped as the sight of Dinobot's mutilated form.

The control panel of the pod was half-way through his chest, while the interior of his mody from the stomach was twitching in front of him.

"De-f-f-fence s-syyyyys-sys...tem..", Dinobot chocked and fell lifeless alongside the two other Maximals.

Cheetor gagged, feeling sick to his stomach and afraid. Defense systems were not made to be this violent, he concluded, horrified.

"Hey! Kid! What's y' problem?" Rattrap asked, still firing at the Predacons. "Keep firin'! Rhinox

needs bac..." His eyes spotted the bloodied Maximals and had he not been silver, he would have lost his colors. Ignoring the Predacons at this point, he activated his com- link. "R-Rhinox. Come in, Rhinox."

"(Crisshh)...What is it?"

"Ch-Chopper......Chopper-Face, Stripes and Bird-Lady are in big trouble. You.. .better... see for yourself..."

Rhinox hesitated a moment. But then the Predacons decided to retreat.

"Gah! Retreat! All of you! NOW!" Megatron had witnessed the pod's wereabouts and had no intensions of ending up the same.

Perfect timing, Rhinox thought. He ran towards his friends' position, and stopped, seeing the three lifeless Maximals. He stared at them without a word, shocked.

"What happened?", he asked them with coolness in his voice.

"Dinobot spoke about defence systems", Cheetor gulped, "But..."

"This is not just the work of defence systems, I don't beleive it."

"What? You think we-"

"Of course not, Cheetor. But I know what it is...."

"Rhinox! Did you program the pod? Rhinox!" Optimus asked Rhinox in a hurry, but as his comrades, his eyes fell on the carcasses on the group, "By Primus, what IS this?!"

"By the Matrix..." Silverbolt said as he landed near Optimus

"It's a long story... ", Rhinox said gently, "lets get the others and the pod to base. Hurry!"

"You got it, big guy! Eh... Bolt?" Rattrap looked at SilverBolt oddly. "What in the inferno is this?" he asked.

Silverbolt was holding a little kitten in his hands. It was a white cat with black paws and tail. A sweet little thing, but misplaced into this current situation.

"He insisted to get it back to base," Optimus said. "It was hurt in the battle."

"What? Another cat? Oh man, now I'm.." He was interrupted by Optimus.

"Rattrap, take Airazor. I'll take Tigatron; Rhinox, take Dinobot..."

"NO!" Rhinox let out with some panic, "I'll take the pod! Believe me, you don't want to take it with you."

"I cannot risk to have you-"

"I won't."

They stared at each other for a few nano-cycles, Optimus trying to read Rhinox's mind. He seemed to know more about this situation then he wanted to let anyone beleive. That was fine. He nodded and ordered Rhinox to take the pod back to base, but to be very careful.

Everyone headed to their tasks without a word. Rhinox wasn't sure if it was safe to drag the pod, but he knew it was safer for any of them. For now, at least...

End of Part 1