Chapter 4 Evil Strikes
About an hour after Prowl returned to the Command Center after being in the engine room he went to his quarters and left me in command. It was a fairly easy job seeing as we weren’t going anywhere. The command center was quiet, all that made any noise was Mirage who had just returned from sick bay and Sideswipe talking and the sound of my command chair computer beeping. Suddenly my computer let off a loud beep. Everyone in the command center turned and looked at me. I turned jon the intercom and heard Ironhide’s surprisingly clearly,
"Yo Prowl we’ve got some good news."
I replied with a little relief in my voice,
"This is Jazz, tell me the good word."
He said cheerfully,
"We’ll it appears that the console is fixable, and it’ll only take about 1 or 2 hours,"
"Excellent!"
"Engine room out."
I sat back in my chair with confidence, Prowl walked into the command center, he approached me and asked,
"So how’s everything going?"
I replied with confidence,
"Good. Ironhide says we can get this piece of junk going in 1 to 2 hours,"
Prowl breathed a sigh of relief,
"Phew…, well, I’m going to go check on Trailbreaker,"
He left the coimmand center. He walked in to Sick bay and saw Trailbreaker sitting on his hospital bed talking to Sunstreaker. Prowl walked in and asked,
"You all right?"
Neither noticed him and their heads shot right at him and they stared, Trailbreaker replied with a little distortion in his voice,
"Yeah, but my voca—l circuits are still a bit damaged, but I’ll l---ive."
Meanwhile on the bridge things were back to normal, except we still weren’t moving,
"Well I guess you guys can return to your quarters or the trainer or whatever,"
I said to the pilots who weren’t really doing anything. They nodded and left the command center. Suddenly Hound’s science officer console started making that beep again, my stomach turned, Hound said,
"Now what,…..Jazz I’m detecting a faint plasma energy reading, its becoming more powerful, more, more, more…Oh shit! Brace fo-"
Suddenly the ship rocked very violently. The lights again flickered and a bulkhead near one of the pilot chair’s fell, it was burning. I yelled over the noise,
"What the hell was that!!??"
Hound got up off the floor and sat in his chair, he said,
"It was a plasma bolt from another ship, Im detecting another one, hold on to something!"
The ship again rocked very violently, he continued,
"Direct Hit! Starboard Engine, oh shit! She’s gonna blow!"
He pressed a few buttons on his console and then screamed into his computer,
"Ironhide! Blue Streak! GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE!!!"
I couldnt here what kind of response he got, just then Prowl came in the room struggling to keep his balance,
"Report!"
I replied as I moved into the first officer’s chair,
"We’re under attack, we don’t know who the hell they are but they caught us off guard!"
Prowl swore under his breath,
"Are the engines running?"
The ship continued to rock violently, the noise was almost loud enough to collapse your audio circuits. I yelled,
"No! The starboard engine is gonna blow in a couple minutes!"
I looked back and saw Sideswipe and Mirage carrying Ironhide and Blue Streak to the infirmary, I ran back to see how they were I cam into sick bay and saw Sunstreaker and Trailbreaker against the wall to keep themselves up. Sideswipe put Ironhide on the ground, Mirage was about to put Blue Streak in the auto medic but Sunstreaker stopped he yelled,
"You cant put him in here the tremors are screwing up the auto medic!"
Mirage nodded and put Blue Streak next to Ironhide, They were both tarnished and burnt, Blue Streak looked a lot worse than Ironhide.
Back in the command center things were falling apart, Hound yelled,
"Direct Hit! Crew Quarters, its a major hull breach!"
Sparks flew out of the ceiling, Prowl screamed,
"Activate emergency airlock doors!"
Hound nodded and pressed some buttons. Prowl yelled
"Cliffjumper! Can you lock on to them with weapons!"
"No this Gamma dust is obscuring there engine signature."
"We’ll then just fire all the weapons in random directions!"
Cliffjumper nodded and said to himself,
"Bout time."
Cliffjumper pressed some button on his console, suddenly there was a very loud crash in stern of the ship. Hound yelled,
"The engine room is about to allow a massive hull breach!"
Prowl replied yelling,
"Activate emergency airlock!"
Suddenly laser blasts and missiles emanated from the Autobot ship. As soon as the Autobot firing stopped the enemy fire stopped. The command center was quiet,
"Yeah!"
Cliffjumper cheered and startled everyone on bridge. Prowl said ,
"It’s not over yet."
I returned to the bridge and sat at my console, so did the two pilots. Suddenly Hound’s console made that same sound. I was really beginning to hate hearing that thing. He said wildly,
"Prowl I’m detecting a massive plasma energy buildup, I think their charging some kind of weapon!"
Prowl stood up and said hastily,
"Emergency Separation!"
Hound nodded and pressed some buttons on his console and suddenly an airlock door closed in the hall that lead to the crew quarters and engineering. I could hear everyone almost saying "It’s about time" The ship then separated itself from the bigger half and the small half flew away while the bigger half sat there, suddenly a massive bolt from the enemies ship flashed and the larger part of the shuttle was disintegrated. Prowl shook his head. I thought to myself, "Maybe I should’ve stayed on Cybertron.
