[FANFIC] "Snippet"
Onslaught Six
I took Sunstreaker to work today, but ended up writing a story about
Prowl.
A lot of it has crazy in-jokes that probably only I'll understand.
Snippet
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"Such heroic nonsense."
And that was the last thing I heard, and then I went offline.
Wait--lemme start over.
***
We were on Moonbase One. Me and Ratchet and Hound and that other guy.
Sitting down. Talking. Yeah, we still talked. It was hard to find time
to do it anymore, with the war and all, but we did it. I'm not sure
why.
"The new security upgrades to the ships should stop the Decepticons
hijacking our energy transport ships. At least, that's what Hoist
said."
"Hoist is full of shit."
"Yeah. Yeah, he is."
I fiddled with a loose panel on my left arm. Damned thing. This was a
really old body. It'd have been nice to have a new one, but
unfortunately, there just wasn't enough resources to go around. I
guess maybe I could've cribbed parts from Bluestreak after he died
last year, but most of the other Autobots thought stuff like that was
kind of...disrespectful.
"I guess we'll be making the trip back to Autobot City on Earth soon."
"Like it's any better there than it is here. Autobot City may be an
energy processing center, but there's not a lot of energy to process."
"Nobody likes a pessimist, Gears."
"I'm Brawn, asshole."
whatever. He was just mad because of a pesky shoulder injury that
Ratchet couldn't quite fix.
Hound just looked up into the night sky. The stars.
"It's beautiful."
I looked up at him. "What?"
"The sky, and the stars. It's all so beautiful. We spend so much time
fighting that we never stop to look up at the sky anymore." He nodded
back down at us. "The humans only have the sky like this for half the
day--the rest of it, it's illuminated by that star they orbit. And
most of them seem to be 'asleep' during it. We take the sky for
granted, like it's always going to be like this, but the humans don't
even 'look' at it."
I stood up. "You think too much about useless things. This is a war.
It's about survival. Do you know what happens to Autobots who spend
all their time staring at the sky?"
Hound started to get up, irritated. "No, I don't, why don't you tell
me, 'officer?'"
I held out my acid pellet gun. "They get shot, Hound. They get
'shot.'"
*THOOM*
The two of us turned our heads in the direction of the noise. Ironhide
stood there, holding a shotgun with smoke pouring out of the barrel.
"Quit arguin'. Naw. Prahm wants y'all to take the ship down to Autobot
City, immediately."
I put away my gun and turned to Ironhide. "But we're not scheduled to
leave for another megacycle."
"Don't shoot the messenger, boys."
Ratchet got up. "I dunno, you seem to have taken care of the shooting
here, Ironhide."
"You want a fist in the mouth, medic?"
"Don't get antsy. We have to share a ship to Earth, remember?"
Brawn got up too. Ironhide and Ratchet continued to argue as they
exited our little quarters. Hound still stood there, gazing up at the
sky.
"Hound, come on. Don't you have to help Kup move a sign or something
in a day or two?"
My words jolted him out of his trance. "Oh, no, I got reassigned.
Sunstreaker is helping him do that."
"Suntreaker's 'dead,' Hound."
"...Oh, yeah. Oh well. I'm sure it'll work itself out. All I know is
that I'm supposed to stay here now."
"Whatever."
I walked out, but I took one last look back at him, and he was back to
looking at the stars.
And that was the last time I ever saw Hound.
***
The asteroid field hit us like it hit the Ark four million years ago.
God damnit, couldn't we come up with some technology to fix this?
Ratchet pulled up a diagnostic. "Um, guys? We have a problem."
I glanced over. "A Decepticon spacecruiser? But why are they on our
tail?"
*THUNK!* We got hit by an asteroid, and I yelled back at Ironhide.
"Pilot the damn thing, you redneck!"
"Mah neck is 'grey,' policebot!"
Ratchet tapped a few buttons. "I dunno why they'd be after us. We
don't 'have' any energy. It doesn't make sense for them to try
hijacking us."
"Maybe they'll realize that and let us go?"
"Prowl! Get your ass back up here and help me pilot, these asteroids
are multiplyin'!"
I sighed and ran back to my seat. At the exact same moment, the
spacecruiser shuffled next to our shuttle and expanded out a tube.
"Oh no."
*CRAAASSHHHH*
*BLAAAAM*
"It's MEGATRON!"
*BOOOOOOM*
"ATTACK!"
"DIE, AUTOBOTS!"
Megatron transformed into gun mode and Skywarp grabbed him, firing off
a shot.
It tore right through Brawn's shoulder, causing a huge explosion and
wounding him. Fatally.
"Take 'that,' Gears!"
Ironhide was next. He pulled out his shotgun, but before he even had a
chance, he was taken down. I saw the smoking bulletholes spattered
across his chest armour.
"You're next, Prowl!" I heard one of the Decepticons shout out.
I blasted one. Or two. Or a couple. I don't know. But it wasn't long
before I was shot in the stomach. And then the chest. And then one of
my arms and my shoulder.
I saw nothing but smoke. Then my vision went dark. My body hit the
ground.
All I heard was the gunshots and screams. And then some vague
footsteps. And a yelp.
"Such heroic nonsense."
*SHUUUUBLAAAAAAM*
That's the last thing I heard.
Then I went offline.
tomorrow4eva
enjoyed reading it. This is my favourite line: "Mah neck is 'grey,'
policebot!"
~tomorrow4eva
Onslaught Six
A little of both, I think. Turns out that Sunstreaker being dead
creates a continuity error, but whatever. It's not the first time I've
done that.
SteveD
Maybe it turns out that he's only *mostly* dead!
-SteveD
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"Have fun storming the castle!"