MIND GAMES 
By: Mark Harris
 

PG L


Jawbreaker's a result of two sparks merging. He has no idea about his past, yet his past affects him everyday. His crazy personality is a result of the internal war between his “parents”. 

 

“You are going to PAY!” Depth Charge screams. “Mwahahahahahahahaha!” Rampage laughs while firing at Depth Charge. Depth Charge pulled out his missile launcher and rifle and blasted Rampage to pieces. “Don’t you know that was pointless?” Rampage taunts as his body pieces itself back together again. “It maybe pointless but at least I am winning this war of the spark.” Depth Charge responds with a harshness in his voice. “Want to bet on that?” Rampage then becomes intangible and attacks Depth Charge from the inside. “Looks like the tides have changed.” Rampage says gleefully, after destroying Depth Charge. 

 

Jawbreaker was tossing and turning in his bed. His sleep was interrupted every night since he came online. He never got a good night's sleep, as a result the mental anguish he goes through is even worse due to him being cranky all the time. 

 

Jawbreaker was on patrol around the base’s perimeter. “Dark Night have you noticed that Jawbreaker is a little psychotic?” Grimlock asks. “Yeah I have. Do you know what could be affecting him like this?” Dark Night inquires. “I would need to get access to his internal systems and spark.” Grimlock answers. “Next time he goes into the CR Chamber do whatever you need.” Dark Night orders. 

 

Scourge and Stink Bomb were looking for another base to use since Scorponok and Terrorsaur messed up the last one. Scorponok and Terrorsaur were sent on a goose chase to keep them out of the way until the new base was located. A base of Tarantulas’ was found near the Ark’s location. The only thing is it wasn’t outfitted enough; it was like Tarantulas started to make this location a new base but didn’t finish before he was killed. 

 

“Damn it, why couldn’t Tarantulas have kept each of his base in the computer?” Scourge says while blasting the hell out of the base. “I have an idea. Why don’t we use the Nemesis as our base? We could activate Decepticons anytime we want that is located on ship. To ensure they cooperate we rig them with a control device that will kill them if they try to kill us and shocks the hell out of him if they disobey.” Stink Bomb suggests. “Great idea, the stupid Maximals wouldn’t dare destroy one of the Decepticons because that would mess up the timeline. They are perfect! Let’s take out that Maximal just for fun.” Scourge orders. The two Transmetal 2s take off out of the ruined base and go after Jawbreaker. Jawbreaker was caught off guard and was nearly destroyed. If it weren’t for Grimlock he would have been. 

 

The Transmetal 2s took off immediately when they saw Grimlock and headed straight for the Nemesis. Grimlock carried Jawbreaker straight back to base and put him in the CR Chamber. Grimlock as ordered by Dark Night accessed Jawbreakers internal CPU after that he entered into a deep meditative state where he made a connection with Jawbreaker’s spark. Dark Night walks in and watched Grimlock. Grimlock came out of his meditative state and turned to Dark Night. “He has a dual spark, in other words two sparks merged into one. Both sparks are full of hate for the other one. Each night when Jawbreaker goes sleep mode to recharge his systems the two sparks go to war. Actually whenever Jawbreaker is not conscious the two sparks go to war; currently they are at war with each other. I can only see one way to stop this spark war, but that would kill Jawbreaker as well and only result in no one joining the Matrix.” Grimlock turns to the CR Chamber. “The spark of Depth Charge deserves much more than that, he deserves to be at peace. I will have to do some more research into this to find a different way to save Jawbreaker and Depth Charge, and to punish Rampage for all his crimes against Cybertronians.” Grimlock walks off. Dark Night walks up to the CR Chamber. “Depth Charge, Rampage, and Jawbreaker all in one spark. No wonder Jawbreaker is a little nuts.” Dark Night walks over to his owl, which is perched on a console staring at a mouse ready to pounce on it. 

 

The two Transmetal 2s have reached the ocean. “Time to make history!” They shout as the dive into the ocean and make their way to the Nemesis. 

 

“I believe those Transmetal 2s sent us on a wild goose chase. We have been out here for hours looking for supposed energon deposits.” Terrorsaur bitches. “Stop complaining Terrorsaur of course they sent us on a wild goose chase they wanted us out of the way for whatever reason. Now if we do happen to find something of use then would be the coup de gras.” Scorponok berates his flying companion. 

 

After the two Transmetal 2s enter the Nemesis they erect a force field around the opening they just went in. They then went to the bridge and had the ship pump out all the water that had entered the ship. “Now it is time to build the control devices and awaken our army.” Scourge says nonchalantly.