The Nitrobots Chapter VI
The Nitrobots
I awoke in a dimly lit room. I was lying on my stomach and back armor plate was off. I got on my feet and my whole body hurt, especially my back. I took a step and lost balance and fell on my face. I looked up and saw Mirage run in and help me up. I realized I was in sick bay,
"You should probably stay off your feet after taking a nasty hit like that."
"What happened?"
I hobbled over to the auto medic bed and sat. Mirage continued,
"Well, just after we crashed, one of the main computer cores in the ceiling fell right on you. You�ve been out for only a couple nanoclicks."
I tried to walk again, this time I compensated for my Gyro system being damaged and I limped over towards the door. As I walked out I noticed Blue Streak sitting on the floor in stasis mode, his armor scorched by the fire engineering. Mirage followed me out, I saw Sideswipe and Sunstreaker carrying out some cargo that was stored in the separated module. I followed them out and saw about 8 small cargo boxes that were stored in the forward section. Sunstreaker and Sideswipe put the cargo they were carrying next to the rest of it. I saw Prowl and Ironhide talking, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker approached them, Sideswipe announced,
"That�s the last of it."
Prowl asked,
"What�s in these crates exactly,"
Sunstreaker answered,
"We have some short range communication equipment, several tracking devices, some seismic charges, quite a bit of medical supplies, about a dozen rounds for a TY-68 Grenade Launcher, we�ve got one of them, three laser welders, and about two or three dozen glow rods."
"Good work guys, unpack some of that stuff."
They nodded and went to work. Prowl turned to me,
"Your on your feet. You all right?"
I replied,
"Yeah, I�m still a little sore, but I�ll live."
"Good."
Ironhide threw me my back plate of armor, he said,
"Here you go, I fixed her for ya"
I took the plate and attached it to myself. I asked,
"Where are the others?"
Prowl answered,
"I sent Hound, Cliffjumper and Trailbreaker to scout the area."
I turned and looked at the landscape. We had crashed in a river valley, To my left was the mountain we hit , there was a forest around the valley, and I could see the trail the ship had left,
"Beautiful isn�t it?"
Prowl asked.
"Yeah, looks a lot like earth."
Meanwhile in the forest around the shuttle wreckage a green jeep, a black truck and a small red car were speeding through the bush like a cheetah.
"Are you detecting anything?"
Cliffjumper asked,
"Nope not ye-, wait, stop."
Cliffjumper asked,
"What is it?"
Hound�s infrared radiation collector on his jeep cab moved around, scanning the landscape. He transformed into robot mode a gestured,
"This way." He pointed to a sharp drop off that was about 10 meters down. The other two transformed to robot mode. Hound then got on his hands and knees and crawled, the others followed, they crawled to the edge. He pointed to an animal that looked like Mountain Lion.
Hound approached the animal precariously his gun ready. He approached and stuck out his hand. The animal didn�t even notice, it just continued eating the grass. Suddenly Hound disappeared.
"Damn!"
Hound whispered.
"So the our hologram plan didn�t work, it doesn�t seem to detect them."
Trailbreaker said.
"What�s so great about this kitty anyway?"
Cliffjumper asked.
"It�s giving off some energy readings almost like that ship that got us"
Hound replied. Cliffjumper gritted his teeth.
"Damn, looks like someone will have to go and find out what it is."
Trailbreaker exclaimed. Hound and Trailbreaker looked at Cliffjumper. He shook his head and said,
"Oh all right." He unholstered his big laser cannon. Hound put his hand on the gun and shook his head,
"No, this thing is too conspicuous. Here use this."
He handed him his smaller energy discharger,
"Use this."
Cliffumper chuckled and climbed down the ravine and approached, Hound�s gun was in his holster. As he approached the animal turned and stared at the red robot. Trailbreaker aimed Cliffjumper�s gun at the animal. Hound watched intently. Suddenly the animal started growling and it showed it huge white teeth. Cliffjumper reached for his gun very slowly. Meanwhile Hound whispered,
"Oh damn it! No Cliffjumper, don�t�"
He yelled,
"Cliffjumper put away the gun!"
Both the animal and Cliffjumper looked up to where the sound came from. Suddenly the animal roared and pounced on Cliffjumper, his gun fell out of the holster. Hound started climbing down the ravine. Trailbreaker aimed the gun at the animal. Hound yelled as he descended,
"Take the shot!"
Trailbreaker yelled,
"I can�t, Cliffjumper is in the way!"
Suddenly Hound�s leg slipped and he fell about 8 meters to the rocks at the bottom.
Cliffjumper wrestled with the animal but it was much stronger. Suddenly the animal bit for his neck, he managed to get his arm that was closest to his gun in the way. He screamed as fresh energon leaked from the wound on to his face. He saw Hound grab the Energy Discharger. Hound aimed the gun fired. It hit the animal on the left side of the head it fell backwards and rolled about 10 feet. Hound ran to Cliffjumper,
"Are you all right?"
Cliffjumper said,
"I�m terrific."
Suddenly the animal got to its feet, red blood spewing from its head it was about to pounce when its torso separated and blood flew everywhere.
"Nice Shot Trailbreaker,"
Hound yelled. Trailbreaker waved and left the gun and started climbing down the rock face. Hound saw the energon spewing from Cliffjumper�s arm. Hound handed him a thermal bandage,
"Here use this."
Cliffjumper took it and put it on his injury. Trailbreaker approached and looked at the animal. Cliffjumper got to his feet, all three of them looked at it.
"What is it?"
Cliffjumper asked, Trailbreaker answered,
"Looks like a Mountain Lion to me, like them one�s round Mount St.Hil-"
"Wait, look at this,"
Hound interrupted. He pointed to some tiny gray chips in the animals blood. Trailbreaker picked up one, he examined it and handed it to Hound who was cltching his leg that he had fallen on. He looked at it,
"This is a frigin� Microchip!"
Trailbreaker nodded, Cliffjumper asked,
"So this thing is a damn machine!!??"
"Looks that way. We should take back to base."
Trailbreaker exclaimed.
"Bullshit we�re taken it back, look what it damn well did to me!"
Cliffjumper showed his injured arm.
"Well we�re going to."
Cliffjumper shook his head and started climbing the precipice.
When the Hound and Trailbreaker reached the top they saw Cliffjumper collapsed on the ground. Hound ran to him,
"He�s gone to stasis mode, from the loss of energon I guess."
Trailbreaker nodded. Hound opened Cliffjumper�s wrist computer panel and pressed some buttons. The red robot immediately transformed into a red car. Trailbreaker transformed to truck mode, Hound loaded the bloody animal into his back cab, he connected a high tension cable of his two Cliffjumper. Hound transformed and they made way for the shuttle.
