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Of Silk and Ashes pt 4
Part one here
Part two here
And part three here
The scene they arrived to was something out of a nightmare. Bumblebee was heavily injured, cradling his arm hidden behind an unusually massive tree. Optimus rushed to his side and gently placed a hand on his uninjured shoulder. "What happened?" He questioned urgently. Bumblebee desperately signaled to be silent and jerked his head up to the thick canopy above. The fear in his scouts optics made Optimus freeze and gestured for the rest of the team to be still as he scanned the area. The forest seemed completely mutated by some unknown force, the trees were massive twisted things with knarled roots that disappeared into the thick underbrush that reached up to his calf and gleamed like metal. The air was heavy and humming with static energy a breath away from igniting like a bomb waiting to go off. The entire forest was unnaturally still and silent yet he felt the suffocating weight of a thousand eyes all around him. The silence was broken by a rustling above them, prompting the entire team deployed their weapons and snapped their heads up to the source of the noise. For a few moments there was absolutely nothing until finally Bumblebee let out a vent of relief signaling the others to drop their weapons.
"Bumblebee, what is here and where did it tale bulkhead?" Optimus questioned as ratchet set to work putting the scouts arm in a sling and patching up his other wounds. "I didn't get a very good look at them, all I could tell is that they're massive organic things. They were in the cave where the energy signal was strongest and dragged him deeper inside." Bumblebee explained. "Cave? The only cave in this area collapsed after the explosion from the... the abandoned vestle eleven months ago." Ratchet responded critically pausing at the mention of the accident. "Maybe the blast mutated the area and those things manged to dig it out. The ship was supposed to contain unknown chemicals," Arcee suggested."A viable suggestion given the state of this place," Ratchet agreed as he stood from his work.
"Regardless we need to retrieve bulkhead before those creatures can offline him." Optimus stated, firmly looking to bumblebee. Bumblebee nodded, stood up, and diligently lead the way. They waded through the dense, corrupted flora in complete silence until they finally reached the cave. For a few seconds they could do little more than stand and stare at the deep dark pit. The tragedy that had weighed on them all these past months now lay before them staring back at them from the darkness. Slowly they all marched inside, tracking deeper and deeper into the blackness. Things scuttled in the corners of their vision, massive things just out of sight that did nothing but watch until finally they heard bulkheads voice. All at once they all surged forward in an unspoken agreement desperate to not lose another friend to this pit. They drew closer and closer and then it all went dark and optimus distantly felt himself hit the ground.
Optimus was pulled abruptly out of consciousness by the sound of someone desperately calling for him. His spark hammered in his chest as his optics snapped open and he frantically examined his surroundings. Rapidly he realized a couple thing. First off the person calling for him had been bulkhead who was strung up upside down bound with a strange white rope intricately tied across his frame. Secondly optimus was in the exact same position as were the rest of the team strung up around him all gazing at him with concern in their optics. "Is everyone ok?" He asked, desperately examining his subordinates. "We're uninjured for now but we need to get out of here quickly." Arcee stated frantically struggling against her bonds with no success. "Looks like everyone's awake," an impossibly familiar voice cooed. Arcee went still. The energon in his cables turned to ice. It was impossible. "It looks like we can finally start the party." The impossible voice called from somewhere above them. "Miko!" Bulkhead cried out sounding somewhere between relieved, shocked and desperate. "Awe you remember me after all." The thing with mikos voice answered. Optimus crained his head to see something decending from above and flicked on his headlights to reveal the creature using the voice of the dead.
Instead he was met with the face of miko, pale and gaunt with six additional eyes but undeniably her. He could barely believe the sight before him, she had been transformed just as the forest outside had. Her emaciated body was covered in a scorched black carapace glinting ominously in the lighting, her legs look twisted and identical to the four long spider limbs that jutted out from her back with the bottom pair guiding her down a thred of what he could only assume was webbing being pulled from the spider tail grown from the base of her spine. "Surpise." She purred flashing a sharp toothed grin far wider then a human should be capable of. " miko what... what happened to you? How did you end up like this?" Bulkhead questioned horror dripping from his voice. "How?" She giggled softly, staring at her former guardian.