Energon and Venom Part 6

Part 6

"This isn't a Decepticon reserve is it, Airachnid?" Spite asked nervously as Airachnid chuckled.
"You catch on fast, Spite," Airachnid surveyed the area, waiting for the thundering sounds of the Autobots to come and defend their energon reserve, "we should leave," Airachnid said hastily.
"How many Autobots are on this rock?" Spite asked, trying to look around for any signs of an ambush.
"We're keeping the numbers down, don't worry, but still too many to take on our own," Airachnid alt-formed and the sudden chopping sounds of her helicopter blades alarmed Spite momentarily, "are you coming?" Airachnid asked as she slowly gained altitude.
Spite was blinded by the sunlight appearing over one of the rocky cliffs, she hesitated before responding, "I'm not a coward,"
"Suit yourself, your first challenge on Earth is behind this boulder," Airachid clipped a boulder with her blades, causing the rocks to crumble, revealing Arcee hidden behind them.
The startled blue Autobot wasn't sure who to fear more, Airachnid or Spite, she knew of Airachnid by experience; however the green Decepticon femme had a nasty reputation. Arcee chose to alt form and give herself a good head start until Optimus showed up with her requested back up.
"That's it?" Spite asked as she saw Arcee fleeing into the distance,
"If you want more then be my guest and wait around, I will see you back on the Nemesis," Airachnid gained more altitude and waited until she was out of hearing range before finishing her sentence, "or not," Airachnid may have a close history with Spite, but the last thing she needed was another femme on board the Nemesis distracting the crew, also she couldn't deny that Spite was worthy competition when it came to the ranks.

Arcee saw Airachnid leaving in her mirrors and came to a halt, 'what the... but before Arcee could finish her line of thought, she saw the dust cloud approaching her, surely she could take on one Decepticon? Before considering anything else Arcee alt formed and prepared for a collision with the electric green Decepticon femme.
Arcees confidence only lifted when she heard the distinctive whirl of the Autobots ground bridge opening behind her, followed by the thundering footsteps of Optimus, 'my hero' she thought to herself as she looked up at him stood valiantly next to her. Two more sets of footsteps stopped on the other side of her and Optimus, Bulkhead and Bumblebee looked both motivated and curious, none of them were aware of what they were up against, so had assumed the worst.
"It's just one Decepticon," Arcee said, trying to not sound defeated, "but she's been the talk of the base for the past few days,"
"The green femme?" Bulkhead asked, now sounding more nervous than curious,
"She doesn't look like a challenge, but she may have a strategy," Arcree replied, refusing to take her eyes of the cloud of dust being hurled up by the roaring tyres of the green sports car.
"At least we're prepared," Optimus sighed, knowing that surely they had overreacted.

Spite saw the line of Autobots stood before her, she recognised Optimus Prime from rumours that had circulated Cybertron, but unfortunately she didn't have any weaknesses of his stashed away in her processor. She was clearly outnumbered and all hope seemed lost, but then she saw the ground bridge and one of her bizarre plans loomed in her imagination, it was so dangerous, she couldn't resist. Surely the Autobots had sent out their strongest, leaving the weakest back at their base? Or even better, they may have left the base completely empty... Perfect. Spite picked up speed and aimed directly for their lightest member; Arcee.

Arcee could see Spite was on a collision course with her, but she wasn't going to attempt to dodge whatever was coming her way, she was going to make it difficult, she braced herself for impact and waited. Before the other Autobots realised what was going on, Arcee was on the bonnet of Spites vehicle mode, struggling to keep her grip, when she looked up, she could see that Spite was heading for the ground bridge, instinctively she opened up her call link. "Ratchet! Close the ground bridge!"

Spite heard this and was satisfied, the blue Autobot had confirmed her suspicions of the base being vulnerable, so she picked up speed and raised her bonnet, finally managing to shake Arcee from her, sending the blue femme crashing onto Earth's surface. Spite could see the ground bride closing and alt formed, allowing her small frame to just about jump through the small opening that was left, as it swallowed her the Autobots all exchanged a look of horror.

Ratchet had been ordered to close the ground bridge and did so, he looked down to the faces of Jack, Miko and Raf who all looked puzzled, he felt the need to reassure them, but before he could get a chance to, he could hear screeching tyres burning down the floor of the closing ground bridge.
"Did one of them come back?" Ratchet questioned, approaching the closing portal. He was stunned momentarily by the flash of green that sped past him, narrowly avoiding hitting the children, then he heard Optimus' desperate voice though his call link.  
"Ratchet, prepare for an attack and open a ground bridge, we will be there immediately," Optimus waited for a response, but he was met with static... "Ratchet..." Optimus sighed; he only hoped that his medic would keep himself and their human companions safe from harm.    

"Go upstairs quickily," Ratchet hurried Jack and Raf upstairs but couldn't see Miko,
"Woah!" the sound of her excited shriek revealed her location.
"Miko, now," Ratchet bellowed as he watched a disappointed Miko slowly climb her way to the higher level of the base.
Ratchet stumbled on his way to the ground bridge control screen, but before he could activate the bridge to open up the same co ordinates, he saw a blade embed itself into the screen, causing sparks to fly upwards and blind him.
"Not so fast, Autobot," Spite sneered as she revealed her denta, while sporting a wicked grin, she quickly looked over both of her shoulders before continuing, "well well well, looks like it's just you and me," Spite was able to push a stunned Ratchet to the floor before she jumped over the computer that had been separating them and planted a foot onto his chest, making sure he wasn't going to get up. Just to make herself feel even more powerful, she revealed a blade from her forearm and held it against his neck, "one wrong move is all it takes, Autobot," Spite looked at the arm she had free and noticed a scratch, growling under her breath she murmured, "if I ever see that blue femme again, she will pay for this,"

Miko had been watching over the stair balcony, "what should we do guys?"
Jack peered his head over and saw the Decepticon femme standing over Ratchet, "it's definitely the same Decepticon we've been hearing so much about, but I don't think she's seen us,"
"What should we do?" Raf asked nervously,
Jack thought for a moment and looked at the ground bridge computer, the keypad was still fine, but the screen had been broken in half by the Decepticons blade, "Raf, you know how to work the ground bridge computer?"
"I don't think I could do it blind!" Raf clapped his hands over his mouth, not realising how loud he may have been,
"Shh," Jack peered over the edge again, "listen, it's the only hope we've got, Miko and I will get to the leaver to activate the ground bridge, when you've done what you can do, let us know and we will see if it works,"
"I don't think I..." Raf began before he was interrupted,
"Raf c'mon or that Decepticon is going to hurt Ratchtet, and we don't need Ratchet being grumpier than normal," Miko said while rolling her eyes.
Raf slowly nodded.
"Okay, she doesn't appear to be looking this way, I think we're safe, let's go," Jack said before darting towards the staircase, trying to move silently yet quickly down them.

"I don't see why I've kept you alive this long," Spite purred as she leaned closer into Ratchets face, "any last words, Autobot?" Spite prepared her blade to extinguish his spark, positioning its tip in the centre of his spark chamber, pressing down slightly, causing a sharp pain to shoot through Ratchets systems.
"Only a few," Ratchet gasped, prepared for his abrupt end, knowing there was no use in fighting this ruthless killing machine, "tell Malice, I never regretted what we had, I instead mourn what we lost," Ratchets optics glistened with fluid as Spites grin faded.
"Malice?" Spite barked, "How do you know my partner?" Spite gritted her denta together and pressed her blade a few more inches into Ratchets armour, causing him to groan in pain before falling limp and accepting his face, just waiting for Spite to finish him off.
An evil glisten returned to Spites optics, until she felt a strong breeze against her frame, looking up to see where the air was coming from, she saw that the ground bridge had been activated, and it wasn't long before she heard the Autobots footsteps stampeding towards her.
"But how!?" Spite called,
"That's right! You goin' down now, Decepticon!" Miko called from the higher level of the base,
Spite looked at the three unusual organics smiling back at her, "What the?" but as she took a step towards them, something hurled itself at her side, knocking her to the floor. The next thing she felt was something crushing her legs, looking down she saw the large green Autobot forcing her to the floor, she panicked to get away but to no prevail.
"Good job, Bulkhead!" Miko called from the balcony, congratulating him on his tackle.
"Captured by Autobots," Spite sighed as she felt the stasis cuffs get slapped onto her arms and legs, "there's a first time for everything I guess,"
Arcee and Bumblebee grabbed her by both arms and dragged her towards one of the bases door frames, attaching her to it by the cuffs.
Arcee frowned at Spite who threw back the same expression, "you ruined my paint work," Spite growled, Arcee looked set back for a moment, it was similar to comments she had heard Knockout say, then she gave Spite a triumphant smile which sent the green femme into a sulk.

"Jack, are you alright?" Arcee asked as she leaned in close to examine him,
"No," Jack grumbled
"What's wrong?" Arcee asked looking concerned,
"We were too late with the ground bridge, because we didn't think fast enough, Ratchet got hurt,"
Arcee looked over to where Ratchet was laying, Optimus had managed to sit him up, but there was energon leaking from the damaged armour of his spark chamber,
"Oh no..." Arcee gasped...