User blog:GuacamoleCCXR/Guac's dumb fanfic thing - CHAPTER 7

''Author’s notes: I didn’t proof-read. Dumb things ahead. ''

“I said stand back!” Starscream yelled, turning his head just a little to make sure our perplexed selves would move away from the pool. Doing this, he granted his yet invisible opponent the opportunity it has been waiting for. Before he could even react, two enormous tentacles shot at him from the water and wrapped themselves tightly around his legs. The Decepticon was dragged to the floor and ever closer to the lake, but he managed to detach his wing sword and hacked at the massive, green tentacle, slicing it in half. The scorched stump quickly retracted back into the pool, but several others took its place.

I was painfully reminded at that the last episodes of Armada before Starscream died. Wondering whether the real universe he came from was any different than what is portrayed in the series, I just gazed at the spectacle.

Starscream wasn’t giving up. He continued trying to cut through the limbs up until the point when his right arm was wrapped in entirely and he dropped the weapon. His attacker now emerged from the lake, the water now darkened with the creatures black blood. A massive squid with several hideous eyes around its beak, which pointed upward, ready to swallow anything its snake-like limbs could grasp. The tentacles dragged Starscream further into the water, although the Transformer was resisting the movement with his entire body’s strength. Managing to free himself just a little, he simply opened fire from his chest mounted cannons, without even aiming at anything particular. He laser fire did its job just well enough, that the Decepticon tried to reach out for his sword through the ripped tentacles, not realising it was just a few metres to far away. With one last struggle, he still managed to rip through the rest of the limbs wrapped around him and stepped back from the lake. That’s when I heard a scream coming from right next to me; a particularly long tentacle whipped out of the pool and completely enveloped Aravis, who was standing just a metre away. I tried to reach out for her, but the Watcher retracted his limb just a second to quick.

“DO SOMETHING, STARSCREAM!” Guacamilla shouted, as the squid brought his prey closer to his mouth opening.

“What did I say about standing back,” the Decepticon grunted, then suddenly, a storage compartment somewhere on his back flipped open. “SONAR, JETSTORM, RUNWAY, POWERLINK STARSABER!” Two miniature jets and some sort of shuttle shot out from behind the opened panel and combined in mid-air. The nose of the shuttle flipped open and a handle extended from its rear, the two jets then formed the sword’s blade, ablaze with a blue flame. Starscream grabbed the sword with his right hand and darted towards the squid. The Starsaber cut through the Watcher’s flesh like a hot knife through butter. The Decepticon caught the bundle of twitching tentacle bits that Aravis was caught up in after cutting it clean off and engaged his final run-up. What he planned to be his final run-up, that is. The agonised creature put up one last effort. Several more tentacles shot up from the pool, greatly slowing down the Transformer and making him crash right into the Watcher. Aravis, who managed to remove some of the cut of tentacles, landed more closely to the shore and quickly made her way towards us. Guac and I ran towards her.

“Are you okay?”

“Do you look like I’m okay?” she retorted. She truly didn’t. Her entire clothes were covered in some sort of greenish slime and were completely and utterly soaked.

“Don’t we have some sort of blanket?” Guacamilla asked.

“We left all sorts of warm clothes back at the camp. We should hope Rollins and the rest of the lads arrive quickly.” This short conversation was interrupted by Starscream’s yell. He had lost the other sword during the impact, and was now being pulled down into the pool by the squid. The Watcher’s beak had buried itself right in the jet’s cockpit, which adorned the Decepticon’s chest armour. Nevertheless Starscream freed his right arm. Raising himself slightly despite parts of his panels being ripped off of him, he clenched his fist and brought it down onto what could be called the Watcher’s face with a force so immense that the latter’s entire construct of cartilage that made up his skull was instantly ruptured. However, the tentacles still clang to the Decepticon’s body. Starscream repeated the strike, time after time, until the squid’s limbs let go of him. Then, gunning his engines, he soared up, still in robot form. Another small robot rocketed from the compartment in his back that opened once again, this one’s alternate form being a miniature F1 car.

“SWINDLE, POWERLINK!” As the car attached to a special dock in the armour behind his head, the air intakes on both of his shoulders flipped forward, revealing two massive shoulder-mounted guns.

“TWIN NULL-LASERCANNONS!” Just as the Starscream shouted that, two colossal laser beams blasted out of the guns. When the rays collided with the Watcher they ripped a hole into it with ease. Seconds later, a detonation illuminated the entire area with a blinding light. I cannot really report on what happened then, because the explosion tossed me back a few metres. As I opened my eyes again, the lake was basically non-existent. Despite black and coloured dots obscuring my vision (the luminous intensity of the blast was immense) I caught sight of a steaming crater where the middle of the pool used to be, along with pitiful scorched remains of the squid’s body. A few trees had been felled by the impact, but luckily our cave still seemed to be intact. Reminding myself of the two companions who were with me, I sprang to my feet and started looking for the girls feverish. Fortunately, Aravis seemed to be fine and Guacamilla was still breathing, although unconscious, as well. The ape had retreated into the forest but came rushing towards his ‘owner’ now.

Starscream slowly descended back to the ground and touched in the crater, which was now filling up with shallow water again that flowed from the well. The damaged areas of his body were emitting a rain of sparks. Seemingly ignoring these injuries, he collected his swords, had the Starsaber detach itself into the individual Minicons once again and just sat down on the former shoreline.

The silence after the fray was broken when the SUV our group that seized before came crashing out of the forest and braked down. The driver’s door was ripped open by Rollins.

“What in the world happened here?”

“Starscream had a little clash with that one ‘enemy we’d definitely see coming’ of yours,” I replied, in a slightly accusing tone, even though I realised it definitely wasn’t Rollins fault that the incident happened. In the meantime, the passenger’s door opened as well and I saw a yet unfamiliar adolescent jump out of the off-roader.

<p class="MsoNormal">“That’s Mad,” Rollins spoke up. “He said you should know him.” I nodded.

<p class="MsoNormal">“I do, in a way. ‘Sup Mad.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Hey there,” he replied, smirking. You could see quite clearly that his attention was caught up on a different character present, namely Starscream.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Actually, we could use a some blankets and first-aid equipment,” I said.

<p class="MsoNormal">“No worries,” Rollins replied. “This vehicle here carries a lot of things that will prove useful for us, and a first-aid box is one of them. Do you need serious help?”

<p class="MsoNormal">“Nah. Just minor bruises, and something for Aravis so she doesn’t catch a cold or whatever.”

<p class="MsoNormal">“That’s definitely makeable.”

<p class="MsoNormal">While we were talking, a few others had also exited the SUV. I recognised some Noodle and LED, who were rather surprised to see the devastation around. A few others I couldn’t recall seeing; it appeared as though our colleagues had picked of some more LMBWians on the way. When I asked about it, Noodle replied: “Yep, some more precious admins too.” I was kindly introduced to a few Indy and Abby, who were the other ones in the vehicle. The rest would arrive later with things that weren’t heavy enough to be transported in the car. “Drew and Ale, for example,” Noodle added.

<p class="MsoNormal">The vapour dissipated while we spent our time carrying things over into the cave, which turned to have the perfect layout to serve as our headquarters. The day was finally coming to a close, and it had definitely lasted more than 24 hours. The fact I only had four hours of sleep the night before, the jet lag, minute it might be, and finally, the long and wearisome day started to truly drag me down by now. I might be used to chronic sleep deprivation, but all the potentially unhealthy situations that happened throughout the day were another story. I also slowly started to feel how I only ate some 200 grams of crisps all day, something that was amplified by all the physical activity. In other words, suffering ensued. I didn’t seem to be the only one feeling that way, either. Whereas the long days let the plains to heat up, the just as long nights effectively undid that. Most North Americans were only wearing pyjamas, which didn’t help. Having given away my jacket (my beautiful, beautiful GSR jacket) to Aravis (which didn’t prevent her cold) I wasn’t doing that much better, too.

<p class="MsoNormal">Since food was becoming a serious problem, I was playing with the idea of utilising the ape to look for further comestibles. Finding it was quite a problem however. I spotted Guacamilla’s hat’s green flames at the opposite side of the pool, somewhere close where Starscream was sitting, who was refusing to help with the base at all costs. Rollins was checking out the equipment he found in the SUV (“There’s some chemicals here unknown to me, I wonder why they carry them with themselves.”), Aravis was being miserable inside the vehicle although we had utilised all the medical knowledge we had trying to help, Abby complained about not being able to watch Anime without internet, etcetera. The ape was nowhere to be seen. I sighed, sat down in the passenger seat of the SUV and, even though I told myself not to, eventually closed my eyes…