Chapter 2: ×2 Tap Rule is there for a reason

<p>(Alita POV ~)<br/><br/> that was damn closs he almost took my head off my shoulders<br/><br/>Arcee~ "Alita, are you OK?!"<br/><br/>"Yeah, but I almost wasn't. Thanks, Arcee. "<br/><br/>Arcee~ "What even is it he looks like a decepticon grunt fresh out the pods, but I have never seen his model before."<br/><br/>"I have no idea. I tell you what though, if he was fresh, I would hate to see him a nanocycle older little shit was dangerously close to scrapping me, "<br/><br/>Arcee~ "What do we do now."<br/><br/>send him to doc. Maybe he can make sense of him, we still need to harvest the data here to send back to HQ. Hopefully, there isn't more of him in here.<br/><br/>We called in a land based carrier drone we would have used an aerial one but there is the chance it is intercepted, and looking back on my fresh escape from death I won't take any chances, we hooked him up to it, as I was moving his body over something in my spark told me he would reactivate any moment but that is impossible he took Arcee's plasma shot to the spark there no way he can survive that..... right.<br/>I load my rifle and fire 3 shots, two in his chasis were the spark should be, and another in his head<br/> <br/><br/>Phew×3<br/><br/>Arcee~ "Alita did you really have to unload on a corpse, and aren't we sending him to be analyzed."<br/><br/>"Can never be too sure. come on let's finish loading him up and get back to the mission."<br/><br/>We spent an hour hooking him up for a transport drone to take him to Terrafan 2. we have a research base there behind a waste dump and rust lake, but I can't shake the feeling that something is wrong.... Maybe one more shot couldn't hurt. Before I could shoot him again, Arcee gave me a "Don't you dare" look. Oh, come on, this guy was dangerous. Could you blame me.<br/>So with the finishing touches we sent him on his way. After I watched the drone take off with haste and become a dot in the sky, I focused back on the mission, the whole process plus the fight with that thing put us over our ideal time frame but we already cleared the base and reinforcements won't be coming because we jamed the signals. <br/><br/>Exactly 3 mega-cycles our intelligence caught word of a project that was started during the revolution that's goal was a super weaponry to curb stomp our rebellion against our overlords, luckily we won that war before they could implement the fruits of their labor. <br/><br/>The project was headed by a worm by the name of Thinktank, an old colleague of Shockwave, who after realizing that his old masters were dead bowed to the tyrant Megatron and was put back to work but now making weapons for the Decepticons, not long after we saw some dangerous weapons that coupled with Decepticon numbers decimated many Autobot troops, of course we developed a few of our own along with stealing their designs so we could fight back, but recently a new weapon was built that Megatron labeled as high priority development and quite frankly everybody involved was to be deactivated that includes Thinktank, and the weapon to be transported to Shockwave immediately. We were lucky to have made it in while they were moving the hard data notes, and got to work immediately, so we basically caught them with their guard down and the data in reach, lucky us.<br/>We then randeview with our team, there was 7 of us in total we split up in groups so we could cover more ground Arcee and her team went after the hardcopy data and we scavenged for anything else that maybe here. As we searched the building, I found the body of Think-tank, he was sporting a hole in his chasis and, a maniacal laugh on his face and was pointing at a pod labeled weapon-X, that was buried under the other pods its contents were all fried from a plasma shot and destroyed but weapon Xs pod was relatively undamaged. <br/><br/> Arcee~ "Alita, come in"<br/><br/>"I'm here"<br/><br/>Arcee~ "We have a big problem on our hands"<br/><br/>"Out with it already."<br/><br/>Arcee~ "That wierd looking grunt thing that we killed it was the weapon, and even worse, it's not dead.... and we need to track it down now..."<br/><br/>As soon as she said move, I already informed my team to move out. A few were carrying experimental weapons and tech, so they went to base. Can't leave empty-handed. At this point we are in our alt modes. I didn't ask at first but because of my trust in my friend and the urgency of her voice but now that we are moving I asked why we are chasing after its flight path, we already know where it is going.<br/><br/>Arcee~ "no time to explain, but here is the data...."<br/><br/>After receiving the info, I sped up another noche. <br/>I knew I should've put another hole on that thing.</p>