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Cover Me
By Black Dragon Queen
Author’s Note: PLEASE READ! Here's the thing, my home computer just up and DIED on me! No lie! It's deader than a doornail! I can not seem to get the thing up and working again SO as a result my daily posts may be delayed. I'm going to TRY and get to the college everyday to update but due Real Life, I'm unsure if I'll be able to do so. For example, the college is closed Sundays. I'm really hoping my home computer will be fixed by then but no promises. -bdq wanders away muttering-
Chapter Ninety-Five: It’s Another
The entire group tore their gazes away from where Perceptor had disappeared into the main hanger to stare down at Megatron in complete and utter stunned disbelief. “You mean you knew about the Energon?” Barricade just managed to barely shout at the top of his voice.
Megatron just looked up at him incredulously. “Now why else would I have landed in the middle of the Arctic Circle when the All Spark was all the way out in Arizona?” he said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
“You knew where we could find Energon?” Soundwave looked down at the small mech in surprise. Megatron shrugged and nodded.
“But why didn’t you say anything?” Rumble asked surprised.
Megatron just shrugged. “Kind of forgot about it during my deep freeze. I was out for the count for over thousands of Earth years.”
“The Arctic Circle?” Ravage quickly looked it up on the web and gasped at what he found. “But that’s a sub-zero temperate zone!”
“What? And the Energon is up there? It’s going to be freezing!” Laserbeak complained. “I can’t take the cold!”
“Better than a hot tin roof,” Buzzsaw drawled.
“Never mind all that! After that microscope!” Bumblebee said firmly as he whirled around and took off after Perceptor, Ravage running right beside him.
Soundwave glanced over at Barricade. “What is a microscope?”
“Does it matter?” Barricade huffed as he ran after ‘Bee, with the rest of the ‘Cons hurrying after him.
They caught up with ‘Bee at the door and the whole group once again poured into the hanger. Perceptor looked up from where he was seated at the computer’s control panel. “Oh good! Bumblebee, do you know how to turn on Red’s PA system?” the mech asked innocently as he looked over at all the buttons and toggle switches puzzled.
“What?” ‘Bee stared at the mech in surprise.
“Never mind that!” Barricade growled as he marched over towards the Autobot. He snagged the chair and spun it around, surprising Perceptor as he was suddenly face to face with a rather irritated Decepticon. “Energon,” he growled. “You actually found Energon?”
Perceptor stared up at him for a long moment before he frowned at him. “Well finally! Someone actually decided to listen to me,” he said sarcastically as he spun the chair around once more and looked over the control board. “I was beginning to think one of my latest experiments might have turned me invisible and that’s Mirage’s department.”
“Perceptor,” ‘Bee stepped forward. “Why didn’t you tell us you had found Energon?”
“I tried,” Perceptor told him exasperatedly. “But everyone is so busy with their own craziness that no one paid any attention when I did. Ah, here we are.” Perceptor threw a switch and quickly cleared his throat. Soundwave cringed at the echo effect as the scientist spoke into the microphone. “Attention all resident Autobots,” he began with a large grin. “This is your local chief scientist speaking. Since no one wanted to listen to me in person I’m am making this broadcast to inform everyone that I will be leaving today to go and gather the Energon crystals that I located yesterday! Also, since no one appears to be all that interested save our resident Decepticons, oh and ‘Bee-”
He broke of as he turned back to the group behind him. “I am assuming you will want to come?” He grinned as the group preformed their best bobble head impression and he turned back to the microphone. “-then they will be joining me on my exciting quest. I hope to see you all soon when I return with the very item that we’ve so desperately searched for. Ta!” Perceptor clicked off the PA system before he began cackling madly. “And it was right here under you noses the entire time!”
Barricade glanced over at Bumblebee with a rather frightened expression. “Has he always been like this?” Bumblebee shook his head and Barricade looked back at the still laughing mech. “We’re fucked.”
Optimus frowned as the PA system once more clicked on unexpectedly and he turned around, completely ignoring the still upset Prowl and Wheeljack to listen to whatever Red had to say this time. “Oh what now?” Optimus groaned.
“Hey don’t look at me. I shared my good news for the year,” Ratchet chuckled as he too turned away from the argument.
“What the-? We’re not done talking yet!” Wheeljack insisted as the two turned away.
“Yes you are,” Optimus announced with a sigh as he listened. When it was Perceptor’s voice that came out of the loudspeaker, however, he shook his head and turned back. “Never mind. Now what was it you were saying about child development and how a Decepticon can hamper them?”
“Um Optimus… You may want to hear this,” Judy called up from his hand as Perceptor announced that he was leaving.
“What?” Optimus turned back around and gaped as he finally caught what it was that was actually being said. “Slag!”
Ratchet glanced down at Carol. “Hang on a sec,” he said and he took off after Optimus.
Prowl and Wheeljack stood there for a long moment, surprise rendering them still. “Did he say Energon?” Prowl asked his friend.
“Oh good, you heard it too. I thought I was going insane,” Wheeljack sighed in relief.
“Coming through!”
The two mech jumped back as Jazz and Bluestreak dashed past them in their car modes, obviously roused from recharge by the now daily morning announcements. “Slag it Jazz! Slow down!” Prowl shouted as he took off after them, Wheeljack not far behind.
Sunny looked up surprised as Perceptor’s voice suddenly boomed out of the loudspeakers. “What the slag? Now what?” he muttered as he listened. His annoyance turned into one of shock and he quickly turned to his husband. “Hey Sides!” He frowned when he found Sideswipe still snoozing away next to him. With an irritated snort he shoved the mech over. “Damn it Sides, get up!”
“What the-? All hands on deck!” Sideswipe shouted as he jumped up in surprise. He glanced around the empty hanger puzzled. “Wait. Are we under attack?”
Red Alert looked up from where he was snuggled up against Inferno’s chest. “What the slag?” he growled as he heaved himself upward.
“Huh? What is it?” Inferno looked up as he was abruptly woken by Red’s movements. “What’s going on?”
Red Alert was just sitting there however, his optics bright as he listened to what Perceptor was saying over the intercom. “I don’t slagging believe it!” he cried as he suddenly scrambled to his feet and climbed over Inferno on his way to the door. “He found Energon?”
Inferno was fully awake at that one. “WHAT?”
Hound turned back to Blaster, shock rendering his features. “Did he say Energon?” he asked as he stared at the speaker above him attached to the watchtower.
“I… I think he did,” Blaster gasped as he too stared up at the small little speaker. The two looked at one another for a moment before they quickly turned and took off towards the main hanger at a dead run meeting up with Ironhide on the way.
“Did that crazy nut job say he found Energon?” Ironhide demanded.
“Yeah!” Both answered him as they ran by.
“Slag it,” Ironhide grumbled as he took off after them. “There’ll be no living with him after this.”
Barricade watched laughing mech dubiously. “You think maybe the heat’s getting to him?”
“I would almost say he’s finally crossed over to the dark side. Or rather human side,” Ravage muttered, his head tilted to one angle as he stared at the cackling Autobot.
Perceptor suddenly stopped his laughing abruptly and spun the chair around once again to face the group. “Okay, I’m leaving in five minutes, be there or stay here, your choice. I’m not waiting around any longer.” With a wide smile Perceptor stood and turned to the door only to find it filled with thirteen Autobots just gawking at him. He shook his head. “Too late! The travel plans have made, the seats are all booked up! No room! Better luck next time.” He looked at Ironhide pointedly. “Excuse me.”
The other Autobots continued to stare at him before Optimus suddenly grabbed Perceptor by the shoulders and shook him. “WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING?”
There was a groan from Megatron. “Orion never could take surprises well,” the mech muttered so only those around him could hear.
“Orion?” Barricade glanced down at smaller ‘Con confused.
Megatron looked up in surprise before he turned back to watch the Autobots in the doorway. “His name before gaining the title of Prime,” Megatron explained sofltly.
“Oh.”
Perceptor, meanwhile, was trying to extract himself out of Optimus’ rather firm grip. “Um, I did try to tell you yesterday. Several times in fact,” Perceptor reminded him. “You were busy with your little medical emergency.”
“Being pregnant is now a medical emergency?” Ironhide wondered aloud.
“It is when you’re not supposed to be!” Jazz shoved the large gunner out of the way. “What in the world do you mean you found Energon?” he asked turning to the small scientist.
Perceptor shrugged. “I found Energon.”
“But that’s impossible!” Ratchet announced as he pushed his way to the front of the group carefully as he was now holding on to both Carol and Judy. “We’ve been here for over a year, planet side for months. Our scanners would have found something!”
“Apparently weren’t looking in the right places,” Perceptor said with a rather large grin.
“We were scanning the entire planet!” Ratchet yelped indignantly as he passed the women over to Red Alert in order to free his hands to whap Perceptor in the arm.
“Just how in the world did you know to look for it?” Prowl asked with a small frown. “None of our own scanners ever picked it up
Preceptor huffed as he turned to the commander. “You asked for me to find it, remember? That strange energy wave that was affecting us outside of alt mode just like Energon does…” Perceptor trailed off with a rather triumphant smile.
“What about the energy wave?” Sunny asked as he pushed Sideswipe aside so he could interject himself in the conversation. “Did you find out what it was?”
“Yup. Energon.”
Sunny gaped. “Energon?”
“Energon,” Perceptor grinned at the Lambo’s pole axed expression.
“But you even scanned it yourself when we first arrived and didn’t find anything!” Wheeljack protested. “Energon doesn’t just pop out of thin air!”
“No it doesn’t but it can be hidden,” Perceptor said with a large grin.
“Hidden?” Optimus looked over at the scientist utterly confused. “How in the world does one hide Energon?”
“Actually it was nature that did that,” Perceptor told them honestly.
“Wait, wait, wait!” Ironhide broke in, a confused look on his features. “Just where did you find the Energon?”
“I doubt that anything on Earth could actually hide Energon. We should be able to tell it apart from the trees and other wild life,” Hound added.
“Yes, but not tons of ice,” Perceptor told him with a triumphant grin.
“Ice?” the four older First Arrivals stared at the small mech in surprise.
“I hate winter,” Bumblebee surprised them all by growling. “I ended up in the mountain once when I was originally looking for Sam and not only were the roads bad, but it was the salt trucks that were the pain in the aft.”
“I highly doubt there will be any salt trucks up where we’re headed,” Barricade told the younger mech with a sigh and Bumblebee groaned.
“My alt mode isn’t equipped for slick terrain!”
“If your alt mode had trouble then what about mine?” Jazz yelped horrified. “I’m a slagging sports car for crying out loud.”
Perceptor shot the lieutenant a dour look. “And just who said you were going along?”
“He isn’t,” Prowl said with a growl. “Wherever this Energon is, from ‘Bee’s reaction, it seems it will be dangerous. You’re staying here.”
“Like hell I am!” Jazz yelped.
“Just where are you even talking about?” Optimus asked Perceptor quickly as he stepped between yet another impending argument.
“The Arctic Circle,” Perceptor said with a shrug.
Ratchet frowned. “The Arctic Circle? Why do I get the feeling that holds some importance?”
“Megatron!” Frenzy suddenly chirped and the seven ‘Cons, two Autobots and one human all nearly died on the spot at that one word.
Optimus just gasped however and whirled to face Ironhide and Ratchet. “He’s right! Remember? That’s where Sam’s great grandfather found him!”
“I was wonderin’ what he was doing landing up there in the first place,” Ironhide mused aloud.
“Landing up where?” Bluestreak looked over at him confused.
“Up north,” Ironhide elaborated.
“Oh…” Bluestreak looked as if he still wasn’t sure what Ironhide meant but Optimus was speaking again.
“So there’s Energon in the arctic? Why haven’t we found it before now?”
“Because the ice was too thick,” Perceptor said with an enthusiastic grin. “The thick layers of ice were interfering with our scanners since they were never built to penetrate such a complex surface such as frozen water. Earth and rocks, our systems worked fine but the ice was a bit of a problem.”
“Then how did Megatron find it before?” Blaster asked from where he had been shoved to the back.
“The ice wasn’t as thick a few thousand years ago,” Optimus answered looking to Perceptor for conformation. “Though I’m a bit puzzled as to why we’re finding it now.”
“The ice is melting, obviously. It slowly got thinner and as time progressed a few Energon waves were able to escape and manage to start messing with our core programs,” Perceptor repeated with a small frown. “Is there something wrong with the way I’m telling them this?”
Soundwave jerked in surprise as the scientist addressed him. “Um.”
“See, he got it the first time,” Perceptor huffed turning back to the Autobots.
“So now that the ice is melted, we can find the Energon?” Sideswipe asked excitedly.
“Thank you global warming,” Ironhide chuckled.
“Ironhide! What a horrible thing to say!” Judy suddenly called out and Ironhide quickly glanced over to find both she and Carol glaring at him from Red’s hands and the security chief smirking at him with a look that read “you’re so in trouble now”.
“Um, no. What I meant was… er…”
“Just let it go ‘Hide,” Optimus told the stuttering mech. “What I want to know is how long will it take us to get there?”
“I would assume a few days,” Ironhide immediately answered glad for the change in subject. “It will certainly be a longer trip than the one to Utah.”
“It will still be a few days before we can leave too,” Ratchet added before he turned. “We are getting you that trailer.”
“For the last time Ratchet, no trailer,” Optimus frowned.
“And I’m telling you for the last time, we need it!” Ratchet snapped, a wrench appearing in his hand as he waved it around.
Optimus took a quick step back. “Um… okay…”
“What?” Perceptor shouted in dismay. “But I’m ready now and I’m leaving! I came to the decision last night!”
“Perceptor, how are you even going to get there without transportation? You’re a microscope for crying out loud,” Jazz chuckled.
“I would have thought of something!” the small mech said sulkily.
“Though it does bring up a good point,” Ironhide turned to Optimus. “Just how are we going to get there? It’s not like any of us are flight mechs.”
“We’re going to have to drive, obviously,” Optimus answered, a bit confused as to what Ironhide was trying to get at.
“Oh really?” Ironhide drawled with a small smirk. “And exactly how are we supposed to cross the ocean since none of us can drive on water?”
Optimus stared at the gunner in surprise. “Slag, I didn’t think about that.”
There was a sigh from Red Alert. "Sam, I think you're going to have to call Keller again."
"What?" Sam yelped in surprise. "But he only just left!"
“Wait a minute!” Prowl suddenly stepped forward. “What is this about actually going up there? You can’t just decide this on a whim! You need to do research, send a scout party, figure out where you’re going…”
The other Autobots looked at him before Barricade smirked. “Starscream may be already on his way up there…”
Prowl gawked at the ‘Con before he spun back around. “What are we standing around here for? Let’s go!”
“Unfortunately, much as I loath to admit it, Prowl does have a point,” Ironhide sighed. “We need to put a little more thought into this.”
“True,” Optimus nodded. He turned to Barricade. “Do you really think that Starscream may already know about it?”
“Who knows? It depends who’s with him,” Barricade told him.
“The rest of the Constructicons, the other two members of the seekers, the two battle chargers and Misfire,” Soundwave listed off promptly. He paused. “Though I don’t think we have to worry about Misfire.”
The group turned to stare at him in surprise and Soundwave just stared back at them with a blank expression. Optimus was the first to regain his composure. “And you didn’t tell us this before because…?”
Soundwave shrugged. “You never asked.
“Right…” Optimus murmured.
Ratchet just turned to the ‘Cons. “Any of them have the capabilities to find the Energon?” he demanded.
“Not like your chief scientist,” Rumble announced jerking a thumb at the ‘Bot in question who practically preened at the all the attention he was now receiving.
“The Constructicons will be put to work on Starscream’s base of operation while Runabout and Runamuck will be put on patrol,” Soundwave continued.
“And the other seekers?” Prowl asked dubiously.
“Aren’t that reliable,” Barricade chuckled. “Even if they did find out that there was now an Energon signature on their equipment, there’s no guarantee that they’ll tell Starscream.”
“But they might?” Optimus pressed.
“If only to have the Energon for themselves,” Barricade nodded.
“Then we have no choice, we’re going to have to go after that Energon,” Optimus sighed.
Sam frowned as he looked up at Bumblebee, his arms crossed and foot tapping. “What was it you said again about a road trip?”
“Um… oops?”
“But I said I was sorry!” Misfire cried out as he followed after Starscream like a lost puppy. “You can’t ground me!”
“I still say it was too lenient,” Scrapper growled as he glared over at the mech with loathing.
“It’s not really his fault he’s such a klutz,” Hook sighed as he watched the two seekers.
“I think this was a disaster from the get go,” Runabout muttered as he pulled up another cinder block.
“Less talk and more work,” Scrapper snapped as he too sank his shovel into the dirt and pulled up a pile of rubble. “Trashed,” he muttered angrily. “Everything is trashed.”
“It was crooked to begin with you know,” Scavanger tried to sooth him as he scooped up another load of rubble and dumped it into Long Haul.
“I don’t care!” Scrapper cried out. “It was actually standing! We finally had something solid and that flying excuse for a time bomb ruined everything!”
“Well, we at least know where we went wrong,” Mixmaster sighed. “Clearly we’ll have to factor in this planets strange weather patterns.”
“Gah! I hate this planet!” Scrapper shouted before he leaned over the handle of his shovel and moaned.
“At least we don’t have to worry about Misfire anymore,” Thundercracker chuckled as he glanced over at the two red jets.
“I don’t care how important your news was! You destroyed our new base! And we hadn’t even had it for an hour!” Starscream was shouting.
“But you really need to hear this! Up in the snow regions I think I found-”
“I don’t care if you found the abominable snow man, you destroyed our base with your erratic flight and poor care of your weapons security! I do not want to hear another word out of you for at least a month!”
“But-!”
“NOT A WORD!” Starscream bellowed and Misfire quickly shrank away from the angered mech.
“Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him that mad,” Skywarp muttered as he threw another small rock into the back of the truck mimic.
Runamuck frowned at him. “Couldn’t you do some more, oh I don’t know, heavy lifting?”
Skywarp frowned at him. “Hey, Scrapper said do what you can. I’m doing what I can.”
“I meant all that you can,” Scrapper muttered. “Not just the minimum of what you can.”
Skywarp shrugged but Starscream soon appeared, minus Misfire. “That was unpleasant.” He looked around at the soot-covered mechs and sighed before he turned back to the Constructicons. “How much longer will it be this time?”
“Considering that we now have to haul away what remains of the last tower?” Scrapper scowled. “At least another week, maybe two.”
“What?” Starscream bellowed. “I can’t wait that long.”
“Well you’re going to have to,” Scrapper muttered. “Because that’s how long it’s going to take.”
Starscream just scowled. “Stupid Misfire.”
Misfire sighed as he kicked another piece of purple rock. “But I really did have something to tell them,” he muttered as he wandered towards the far compound to sulk.
-To be Continued
Author's note: Like I said, I'm going to try and continue daily posting but due to technical problems they may be delayed. I APLOGIZE EMENSELY! Chapter Ninety Six (when I get around to posting it) is "Minor Details".
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