The first thing I registered was the stench of oil and half processed energon as I came to in that horrendous place. Once my optics had powered back on, I discovered that the smell wasn't the worst thing.
I looked around to find the pink glow of my containment cell's bars casting a sickly hue over the dismantled limbs and parts of the previous occupants that lay not inches from my own battered frame. I knew then and there that I was a dead mech. Of course I did what any desperate mech would do in that circumstance I looked for a way out.
I tried diggin' my way out, but the walls were made of something specifically meant to keep me in.
Chapter 6 First Steps
The smell of freshly refined energon wafted through the base's vents, its scent possessing a hypnotic quality that the mechs on base could not deny. Those most affected were the ones who had risen early from an incomplete recharge.
Bladewing sat on the couch as he sipped at his early solar-cycle ration of energon. Despite being a night mech, contrary
Chapter 2 Fracture
Sparks splashed across the dark, reflective surfaces of the tunnel walls. Each glimmer seeming to jump and play with the other, its brief life coming to an abrupt end as it disappeared back into darkness once more.
Gearbox hummed as he worked to weld and mend a panel back in place on t
Chapter 3 Supernova
The world was black, and silent, much like the void. Gearbox could sense nothing at all. Laying motionless and disoriented his systems began to come back online. The first thing he registered was the pain. Its stinging sensations seeming to hold him in a harsh embrace, causing him to jerk back into the waking world.
"Uhhhg " Gearbox groaned and pushed himself off the ground.
He flinched with each movement and leaned ag
Chapter 4 Bright One
"Fragit!" a voice echoed from down the hallway of the base startling Bladewing out of his recharge.
"Uhhg now what " he thought as he powered up his optics and sat up on the berth. He glanced around the room for a minute as he let his systems load up fully.
Chapter 5 Lullaby
The base was quiet. The only sounds heard were instruments humming in idle mode mixed with the occasional stutter of a fan from a sleeping mech. However the calm stillness that began with the end of a solar-cycle would soon be interrupted.
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