Chapter 74

                                    

                                          
Agent Fowler's leg went up and down anxiously as the phone suddenly started to ring. He sighed heavily and answered it, ready to get his ass chewed out with new orders to protect civilians. 
It wasn't that he was nervous, or angry about having to do it. His men were ready, they were determined to fight for their lives and for the lives of others.
It was the possible outcome that scared him.
"Agent William Fowler here."
"Excellent." A deep, bold voice said on the other side of the line that sent chills down Fowler's spine. "Who is this?" He asked quickly and sternly.
"Somebody looking for a fair trade."
"Well, I want to know who that somebody is." 
The voice chuckled lowly. "I am Unicron. The chaos bringer risen from my slumber, here to take over your world."
Fowler fell back into his seat, shock written all over his face. "I—I—" he managed out and Unicron laughed. "What's that human saying? Cat got your tongue?" Unicron said with amusement in his voice.
"What do you want, Unicron?" Fowler asked sternly, regaining his confidence. "Oh, a simple task...tell me the locations of the Autobots and Decepticons."
"Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell you." Fowler snapped angrily, glaring at nothing in particular. "But they'll contact you soon, I sense it. And when they do, you will tell me...or else..."
"Or else what?"
Unicron chuckled lowly. 
"Or else this earth will pay."
And the line went dead. Fowler looked at the phone for a second, the flat line of the device going deaf to his ears as he slowly hung it up.
He sighed, rubbing his face in frustration before another phone call made him jump. "Please don't be him, please don't be him." Fowler whispered before answering it.
"Agent William Fow—"
"FOWLER! Thank primus!"
The government agent jumped up in shock. "Amalgamous?! What happened? Are you—"
"We don't have much time Agent Fowler. We took a calculated risk to contact you, and I'm damn sure gonna use it." Amal said on the other end as she typed up her coordinates. "I'm with Optimus, Shockwave, and a group of Marines we ran into down in one of our emergency labs. I'm sending you our coordinates under a hidden email, Unicron shouldn't be able to track it since he isn't as caught up in earth technology as we are." 
Fowler's phone dinged and he pulled it out and saw it. "I got it, now what happened? I only saw the after math." Fowler said, sighing heavily. "Unicron found us and destroyed the base. We scattered across the country and continents in order to avoid being captured." Optimus told Fowler and the agent hadn't realized how much he missed his voice till then.
"What did you see? Did anybody come out?" Amal asked, a small hope in here. "No...no human or bot came out of there." Amal shut her eyes, looking away from the pain that hit her and Fowler noticed the silence.
"Who...who was it?" Fowler asked and heard Optimus sigh on the other end. "Megatron." The Prime told him and Fowler breathed out heavily. "I'm sorry, Amal."
"What's done is done. We gotta move on." Amal said as she looked back up at the computers. "Come to our coordinates discreetly, and we'll find the others..."
"Hopefully in time."
And the line went silent.
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"Man, I hate traveling this far in vehicle mode."
"Better than being stuck in those holoforms."
"True."
Raf smiled when listening to the Cybertronians actually get along for once in a conversation. It was a big step up from the first time they were all in a room together, and he never would've suspected it would get to this.
"We're approaching it."
The Cybertronians readied themselves in case of any surprise attacks from Unicron's army. But it was silent as they drove up to the abandoned warship.
Raf hopped out before Bumblebee transformed with the others, all of them adjusting their pipes as they slowly started toward the Harbinger.
"This thing always gave me the creeps."
"What doesn't give you the creeps?" Knockout sassed back to her sparkmate, who shrugged innocently. "There's gotta be a control room around here somewhere." Raf said, jogging up to different doors as they entered the ship.
Raf turned to the sound of ped steps walking past him, and saw Soundwave going straight toward the back of the ship. He frowned before following her quickly and the other Cybertronians quickly caught up.
Soundwave stopped at a door and looked at it before typing something into the keypad and the door opened, showing a room with what looked like the controls to the ship. She walked in wordlessly as always.
Breakdown grinned. "That's why we have Soundy." He said as he followed her in excitedly. Raf ran after them with Knockout and Bumblebee coming from behind, the scout gazing around to make sure nobody else was here as well.
"All this stuff looks dead." Breakdown commented, wiping some dust off the keyboard for the Cybertronian tech. "Yea. How're we ever going to get it up and running?" Raf mumbled as he gazed around at the computers.
Bumblebee picked up the boy gently and placed him on the controls before tapping a few monitors. "What can we do with this stuff anyways?"
"More than we need." Knockout said as she gazed over to a panel on the wall. Breakdown noticed and went over to it, breaking the panel door off with ease. Knockout came up next to him and flipped a a few of the switches, gazing around to see if anything happened.
"The power line is disconnected—" Knockout noticed a tube connecting to little cylinders. "And the Energon is low. We'll need some more if we wanna get this thing up and running." She told the group, turning to look at the others. Breakdown held up his servo and transformed it into a drill with a smirk.
"Let's get to drilling then."