Chapter 3 Darkness Gathers
"I don’t know if I like this…"
I said to Cliffjumper who was sitting at his engineering computer, he replied with cockiness in his voice,
"Relax Jazz, it’ll be fine, I’m sure when the time comes I’ll save the day."
I chuckled, Cliffjumper had been my friend since the good old days back on Cybertron. I guess you could say he was my best friend, he asked,
"Where’s everyone else?"
"Blue Streak, Ironhide and Trailbreaker are taking shifts monitoring the engine room, and Sunstreaker running sick bay. I doubt he’ll have anyone to patch op, cept you."
He laughed,
"Yeah maybe,"
Sunstreaker was behind us talking with Prowl, Mirage had returned to his quarters leaving Sideswipe as the lone pilot. Hound had also returned to his quarters,
"Well Jazz wha-"
There was a loud thud and ship rocked wildly, alarms went off and the lights flickered, the shock knocked me down along with Sunstreaker. Then it all stopped and the lights went back to normal, I said,
"What the hell?"
Prowled commanded,
"Report."
Cliffjumper turned to his monitor and said,
"It seems our engines have shut down, there was a large build up on them of Gamma Particles causing the engines to shut down, someone in engineering must’ve shut them down to stop the tremors."
Prowl pressed some buttons on the command chair,
"Prowl to Engine Room"
He was answered with some faint noise but it was drowned out by static,
Prowl turned off the intercom. Sideswipe said,
"Must be the interference Hound was talking about."
Prowl replied,
"I’d say so, Jazz, You and Sunstreaker get down to the Engine Room and find out what happened ."
We nodded and sprinted down the hall to the back quarter where the engine room was. We saw Ironhide and Blue Streak searching through some rubble in the engine room. I asked them,
"What the hell happened?"
Ironhide answered,
I don’t know but me a Blue Streak were in the trainer and all of a sudden the ship started shaking and then it stopped."
Blue Streaked called,
"I’m at the door,"
Ironhide and I rushed over to the door,
We could hear some one hammering on it from the inside, Blue Streak pressed some buttons on the side door panel, it opened a puff of smoke came through the door suddenly Trailbreaker came out cluctching his side, he fell to the ground, We all picked him up, when we walked out of the engine room we were greeted by Hound and Mirage. Ironhide and I handed Trailbreaker to them, Sunstreaker commanded,
"Let’s get him to sick bay." Then the three Autobots left. We returned to the engine room, Blue Streak said,
"Damn. What a mess."
Ironhide replied,
"Holy %^&$, this place is totalled!"
I added,
"Yep, look the main console is fried!"
Blue Streak then said,
"Yeah, poor old Trailbreaker was in here to,"
He shook his head, and said,
"Now what are we supposed to do? I think we could fix a stuck valve or loose wire but a god damn main console is a different story!"
There was a silent moment, I wanted to leave so I said,
"I’ll go report to Prowl."
Ironhide said as I walked out
"You do that Jazz. Man look at this place-"
I ran back to the bridge. I explained to Prowl what had happened in the engine room. He left me on the bridge and went to go see Trailbreaker. He walked in and say Hound, Mirage and Sunstreaker looking through; the glass at Trailbreaker’s body being repaired by the ships auto medic systems. He swore to himself about how he could be so ignorant to let this happen. He left sick bay without a word and ran down to the engine room. He saw that the main console had been destroyed, he knew it was irreparable in their situation. Blue Streak asked,
"We’ll I don’t think were going to get, so now what?"
Prowl replied with quietly, I’m thinking, salvage what you can down here guys."
As Prowl left to go back to the Command center he mumbled "Sorry" to them
