The Flashbacks
By: Darkshadow
Flashback-
It all started on Omicron where I was born. I thought I was the luckiest bot there was. I was blessed with a beautiful mother and a big strong father. I thought today would be like any other but was I sure wrong. My father had told me all about protoform X and how to stay away from it at all times. My father had his shift to watch protoform X. So my father went to go and do his shift but it was final, X cracked. My father tried to calm it down. But X took one of the broken cage bars and stabbed it through my father's chest.
When my mother had gotten the news she told me right away. I was so depressed I didn't want to do anything for a couple of days.. My mother was walking home from her job and protoform X stepped out in front of her. "well, look what I found" sneered the much larger bot. There was nothing my mother could do X cornered her, he found that he should torture her. I'll never forget that day, because I was there, watching, slowly watching my mother face her death. I will remember how X cackled during the whole "fun" that he had.
As you can see I was quite angry and depressed. There was this bot named Depth Charge who was assigned to protect me if protoform X came hunting me down. Depth Charge explained that he killed my parents because they were assigned to terminate him. And he wants his revenge on all of my family. So I tried to be very careful of what I did because X was still out there looking for me. At night time I could sometimes hear his low spooky voice call for my name. Depth Charge was like my big brother; he was always there when I needed him.
One day I was walking to the beach and there I spotted X. He was sitting on a bench waiting for me. "At last! You must be Night Stalker! I have been waiting for you for long time" I didn't know what to say so I just turned around and walked home. "Ah! My dear Night Stalker why don't you come and talk to me? asked X. I just kept walking but a saw a smile come across his face. When I reached my house I told Depth Charge what happened. "Did he follow you at all?" asked Depth Charge. "I...I don't think so" I stammered. Depth Charge was up all night making sure that X didn't try anything.
The next day Depth Charge took me to meet some of his friends that would help us. There was Jaxs, Skye, Belaro, and Flasher. Skye and I mostly hung out together since we were girls. And the guys would figure out a plan. Skye and I were in the woods when we heard this psycho laughter. Skye took out her gun. (She always brings a gun just in case) "Ahh! Is that Night Stalker and Skye?" It was X. He stepped out of the woods and onto the path like us. "Well what are two beautiful bots doing out here?" asked X. He advanced on Skye but she shot him in the chest a few times. We arrived at Jaxs' house where the guys were waiting for us. "We need to get Night Stalker off of this planet." Depth Charge said in a worried voice. Belaro turned on the T.V. and the news was on. "protoform X has been captured and will not be returning for a very long time. He's being put in a stasis pod and well be going to earth"
That was only the beginning of everything. Yes he is here on Earth but I am too and so is Depth Charge. Maybe I should tell you what happens next:
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Flashback-
We all were so happy to hear that. We even went to where he was right now at downtown Spila. That's where the stasis pod that contained him was. We saw a bunch of men trying to put him in the pod. He saw me and the others there. He first grabbed Jax and threw him against a building. Then he saw Skye and shot her and ripped out her spark. Belaro started shooting him and X just got mad so his arm went through Belaro's body and ripped out his spark while he was still alive. The other men just got him the pod and he was ready to depart. When the pod was gone so was almost everyone except me, Depth Charge, and Flasher. Depth Charge sat in front of his dead friends. I cried but Depth Charge held me tight. "I promise you X I will kill you if it's the last thing I do! And I will not let you hurt anyone else as long as I live."
Flasher, Depth Charge and I looked at our friends, and stayed silent for a
few cycles, and started our long walk home. A few days later Depth Charge and I
were told that Flasher was found ... dead. Supposedly X went in his house and
killed him. Depth Charge and I have never spoken of our friends for sometime,
and we don't plan to. It brings back hurtful memories for him and I.
Can you tell I haven't had the best life so far? Well
I did once have a perfect life, but X destroyed it, here's the rest of the
story:
Depth Charge and I were both assigned to get in a stasis pod and get as far
away from X as possible, so we did that right away, But we didn't know we were
sent to the same place as X, My worst nightmare has came true before with my
parents, well my second worst nightmare came true, with X following us. As you
may recall Depth Charge and I were found in different places, I was found by
Silverbolt, and he was found by Cheetor.
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"Well as you can see my fellow team mates that is
the story of what happened on Omicron, as far as I remember. I thank you, all of
you Maximals for taking care of both Depth Charge and I."
"You're
welcome Night Stalker," Optimus said as he patted my back.
"That's so sad Night... and that's all true?" Cheetor asked. I simply
nodded my head. "Hey Night w- we better get out scouting our shift is
up."
I think Cheetor said that to switch the topic, I'm glad he did because I didn't
know if I could handle it anymore.
Night Stalker switched to her snow panther mode and followed the transmetal
cheetah to the exit.
"That's horrible that had to happen to a sweet lady like Night
Stalker," Silverbolt said to no one specific. Everyone had their heads down
looking at the ground. Depth Charge came back from scouting and out of breath
"Whe...where's Night?" He demanded.
"She's out scouting with Cheetor, it's her shift, why what's the
matter?" Rhinox and Optimus both looked at each other.
"NO, why did you send her with the cat? NO!" Depth Charge started to
yell. "Don't you understand X is out there looking for her, waiting for the
right time to finish what he had started so long ago."
"We know that Rampage is looking for her, that's why we made sure she
always has an escort... I'm sorry I didn't know..." Optimus looked deeply
sad.
"Good going Primal, I need to go after her, before it's too late.. I promise
you Primal if she dies because of you.. I'll-" Depth Charge didn't finish
his sentence he glared at the larger bot and switched to his flight mode and
quickly got out of the base.
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Night Stalker and Cheetor have just entered the dark forest where Rampage was
found. "You know, I have no clue why we have to scout over here, where
Rampage was found---"
"I know it's ok, I'm here"
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!" the spooky laugh echoed all over the forest. Both
bots looked all over the place to try to find the owner of the laugh.
"Oh
no..."
"What, what is it?" Cheetor looked at the other cat. "What's the
matter Night?"
Night Stalker didn't say anything she just snarled. "BWAHAHAHA!" the
laugh came again. Cheetor transformed and walked a few steps towards the
laughter. "Stay here," he quietly said. Night continued to snarl.
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Depth Charge was near half way there. He tightly shut his eyes and said
"Hold on Night, I'm coming." He opened his eyes and continued to fly
towards his destination.
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Green optics appeared following both cats. Cheetor walked towards the swamp,
but he paused to look back at the other cat. The green optics went in the swamp
and waited for the perfect time. Night Stalker looked at Cheetor "Be
careful," she warned.
Cheetor nodded. He looked forward and looked down in the swamp, something
grabbed him and pulled him in the water. "YIKES!" He yelled. Night
quickly looked towards the swamp, "CHEETOR!" she roared.
"BWAHAHAHA!" lightning struck right behind the swamp. Something got out
of the swamp and walked towards Night Stalker "BWAHAHA!!" Night walked
backwards snarling at the creature.
"Rampage," she hissed. "Hello Night Stalker, how lovely to see you
here, hahaha," he cackled. He slowly stepped toward her, the sound of
thunder cracked during his laughing. Lightning struck right above them.
"Perhaps it's time for you to join your friends and family. Remember that,
remember how you saw your mother die, and how you didn't even try to help
her?"
Night thought back to watching her mother dying in front of her, she felt so
helpless, just like she does now. "There was nothing I could do" she
whispered. The thought of her friends and family - that's what got her upset.
Rampage took out his gun and purposely fired at an angle missing Night Stalker.
Night Stalker growled at the huge bot. "This is for you mother." She
jumped on him and dug her long claws in his chest, near his spark. "AHHH!!!!"
He fell down, Rampage picked up her and threw her against a tree. He slowly got
up to the tree, there was a huge mark on his chest.
Cheetor finally got out of the water, but he was too weak to do anything besides
transform to beast mode "Night..." he weakly said.
"AH!" Rampage looked back at Cheetor. "Another friend of yours,
would you like to see him die just like the others'?"
Night got up weakly and hissed. "It's between you and I RAMPAGE" she
charged him, but Rampage was too quick, he shot her in the hind leg. She growled
as she felt the pain. "The Pain, oh yess, just like your friend Skye,
remember that Night Stalker?" Is this how it ends, I can't give up I
need to try. I can't let him harm anyone else. Night thought to herself, she
tried once more to get up, it was no use. "Don't bother getting up I'll
just finish you off while you're down, BWAHAHA!" He roughly took Night by the
neck and paused for a second. He looked at her, in her light blue optics
"Any last words?"
Night reviewed her thoughts. It was no use. "I'm sorry everyone, I
tried.." she looked at Rampage, he was grinning. Night knew what would
happen next. She closed her optics "Apparently you didn't try hard enough
hahah." He shot Night a few times in the legs and a few in the chest. He
heard something flying. He dropped her and went back to beast mode and into the
swamp.
Depth Charge landed and switched to his robotic form "NIGHT!" he
yelled. He went beside her and held her tight. "Night speak to me!"
"Depth Charge, I'm sorry I tried as hard as I could."
"No, you did fine, don't leave me Night, don't!" Depth Charge was
starting to raise his voice.
"I don't think I can!" she roared out in pain.
"NO, I know you can, you have never been one to give up."
"Depth Charge don't worry I'll see you again, I failed my job.. and I...I'm
so..r..r....y." The pain started to hurt even worse than it already did.
Night saw her mother "Mother" She ran towards her mother and hugged
her tightly.
"OH NIGHT!?!?, Is it really you?! , Oh I have missed you so much." The
two femmes bots hugged back.
"Night, keep your optics open!"
"I can't Depth Charge.. I love you and thank you for all you have
done!!!" That was the last sentence Night Stalker said to Depth Charge
while she was on earth.
Night could see Depth Charge and she looked at him and smiled "I'll see
you soon..."
"NIGHT, NO! DAMN YOU X!!" Depth Charge yelled. He looked and saw
Cheetor, he grabbed Night's body and walked towards the younger Maximal. He
grabbed Cheetor in one hand and had Night in the other hand and flew off back to
the base.
Rampage came out of the swamp and cackled "BWAHAHAHAHAH! It's just you and
I, old friend."
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Depth Charge brought Cheetor to the CR Tank and left for the control room.
"Did you find her?" Optimus asked. Depth Charge revealed Night's body.
"I'm sorry Depth Charge," Optimus tried to comfort the manta ray. Depth
Charge thought of Night's lovely voice and her smile and walked out of the room.
"I wonder what happened out there? Rattrap looked around the room
expecting no one to answer. "I think we know what happened.
RAMPAGE!!!" Silverbolt looked down at the rat.
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"BWAHAHAHA! Now you have lost everyone you cared about, Fins! The next part
of my plan is about to take place."
THE END?