Earthborn Chapter Seven
Title: Now for some pre orbital entry plot lines
Fandom: Transformers
Universe: Earthborn
Rating: K+
Characters/Pairings: Barricade, Optimus Prime, mentions of Ratchet, Jazz, and Ironhide
Warnings: Unbeta'd and slagging muses wanting to be introspective now all of a sudden instead of moving the plot along. And adding more plot threads to deal with at that.
Summary: Both factions had the same thoughts, and that was enough to have worried them both if they knew.
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Seeing a lone car on the side of a dirt road was not all that uncommon within the United States, and the official decals of a local law enforcement agency would make any curious passerby avert their attention and keep on going. The instinctual fear of being in trouble, particularly amongst those who had guilty consciences, was ingrained into humanity as a whole and thus the perfect deterrent for one seeking solitude on earth. It was one of the few things Barricade had come to appreciate since he had landed on this backwater and organic covered filth of a planet. The instinctual fear of what his disguise brought about in the little fleshy aliens had amused him during the longer hours of watching and waiting for Frenzy to finish with his searches.
Now it served as a deterrent as he sent out the heavily encrypted data burst to those awaiting somewhere on that dusty red planet. Bouncing it along the various noise pollution upon this world and it’s still errant use of satellites easily concealing his report at the cost of speed. Hours could go by as it slowly made its way past the scanning of the autobots both upon this backwater planet and its orbiting moon. Normally such caution would be beneath him, even with the fact that Optimus Prime and his damn officers were just a planet fall away, but the new sparks had changed things a bit and he was certain Starscream would not be pleased if he let any of those fools or these primitive organics figure out that much. The Air Commander would take it out on his plating if Barricade ruined the fun before it began.
After all, until the second vorn a new spark could easily be imprinted to follow a certain cause if one was thorough enough.
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Optimus Prime was not known by many to find a situation that would leave him attempting to find a logical ground on which to stand. He was seen as unshakeable and easily able to process a situation and find the best solution for those under his command. For once though the last Prime could not fully work his cpu around the newest set of reports that had been bounced up to them from Bumblebee. Oh in a logical fashion he knew just what this meant in terms of their original mission, for the presence of such young new sparks meant that their search was at an end, and the battle for the Allspark would happen upon a planet that he did not wish to drag into their war.
Emotionally though he was torn and it was in this that was causing him trouble in his decisions concerning what to do with this new information presented to him. A great deal of him who recalled the teachings of Primus all had gone through in their earliest phases of imprinting knew that these new sparks were to be protected and nurtured. That was a given and unanimous decision amongst all of his officers, but the way in which to ensure this was what was causing even friction amongst them.
Ratchet was of the opinion that considering a great deal of imprinting had already been done upon the customs and behavior of the dominant species of this world, that taking them away would likely cause problems in programming later on in life for the new sparks. While Ironhide opposed this as a traditionalist and belief that no matter how advance this young race was currently they would not be able to handle the new sparks when they entered the phase of their program writing and integration that would cause hiccups in processors. Fearing that such little acts of rebellion as code errors and glitches were found and fixed would make the organic race come to fear the new sparks and possibly attempt their destruction. Even as Ratchet gave a rebuttal that they managed to survive the first phase of such considering the data Bumblebee had given showing that at least three of the new sparks had finished their first vorn already.
Jazz was the middle point in the argument seeing both sides and advocating a mixture as a solution. Especially when one factored in the presence of Decepticons already in this galaxy. Seeing how letting them imprint the rest of the way upon this planet would be a good thing as it already would help them in gaining help and resources from the natives of the planet. With the only change being that they had the new sparks constantly around any and all autobots that would come to this planet over the next few vorns to teach the young ones to instantly trust their faction.
The deviousness of Jazz’s suggestion had at first made him balk, but this was a war and Optimus knew deep down that these young ones would not be spared the burden of the war no matter what they decided. The Decepticons would not let them be and it would be for the better if the new sparks were taught to defend themselves if they did ultimately remain upon this planet. It was not much of a choice, but he was able to reconcile this decision when Bumblebee assessment showed that the group would likely at least attempt being taught how to defend against a threat from their opposite faction, and their loyalty to ‘their’ home world would be a boon to them as well for it would warrant a reason to not keep any of his soldiers here if the need should arise to fight elsewhere in the galaxy.
The matter of how to handle the new sparks settled, as much as it could be until they could appraise them on their own scanners, Optimus returned to the next problem that would need to be dealt with when they made planet fall in the next twelve earth hours.
What was to be done about Megatron especially if the Decepticons were to find out their leader was upon this planet.
Fandom: Transformers
Universe: Earthborn
Rating: K+
Characters/Pairings: Barricade, Optimus Prime, mentions of Ratchet, Jazz, and Ironhide
Warnings: Unbeta'd and slagging muses wanting to be introspective now all of a sudden instead of moving the plot along. And adding more plot threads to deal with at that.
Summary: Both factions had the same thoughts, and that was enough to have worried them both if they knew.
=======================================================
Seeing a lone car on the side of a dirt road was not all that uncommon within the United States, and the official decals of a local law enforcement agency would make any curious passerby avert their attention and keep on going. The instinctual fear of being in trouble, particularly amongst those who had guilty consciences, was ingrained into humanity as a whole and thus the perfect deterrent for one seeking solitude on earth. It was one of the few things Barricade had come to appreciate since he had landed on this backwater and organic covered filth of a planet. The instinctual fear of what his disguise brought about in the little fleshy aliens had amused him during the longer hours of watching and waiting for Frenzy to finish with his searches.
Now it served as a deterrent as he sent out the heavily encrypted data burst to those awaiting somewhere on that dusty red planet. Bouncing it along the various noise pollution upon this world and it’s still errant use of satellites easily concealing his report at the cost of speed. Hours could go by as it slowly made its way past the scanning of the autobots both upon this backwater planet and its orbiting moon. Normally such caution would be beneath him, even with the fact that Optimus Prime and his damn officers were just a planet fall away, but the new sparks had changed things a bit and he was certain Starscream would not be pleased if he let any of those fools or these primitive organics figure out that much. The Air Commander would take it out on his plating if Barricade ruined the fun before it began.
After all, until the second vorn a new spark could easily be imprinted to follow a certain cause if one was thorough enough.
===============================
Optimus Prime was not known by many to find a situation that would leave him attempting to find a logical ground on which to stand. He was seen as unshakeable and easily able to process a situation and find the best solution for those under his command. For once though the last Prime could not fully work his cpu around the newest set of reports that had been bounced up to them from Bumblebee. Oh in a logical fashion he knew just what this meant in terms of their original mission, for the presence of such young new sparks meant that their search was at an end, and the battle for the Allspark would happen upon a planet that he did not wish to drag into their war.
Emotionally though he was torn and it was in this that was causing him trouble in his decisions concerning what to do with this new information presented to him. A great deal of him who recalled the teachings of Primus all had gone through in their earliest phases of imprinting knew that these new sparks were to be protected and nurtured. That was a given and unanimous decision amongst all of his officers, but the way in which to ensure this was what was causing even friction amongst them.
Ratchet was of the opinion that considering a great deal of imprinting had already been done upon the customs and behavior of the dominant species of this world, that taking them away would likely cause problems in programming later on in life for the new sparks. While Ironhide opposed this as a traditionalist and belief that no matter how advance this young race was currently they would not be able to handle the new sparks when they entered the phase of their program writing and integration that would cause hiccups in processors. Fearing that such little acts of rebellion as code errors and glitches were found and fixed would make the organic race come to fear the new sparks and possibly attempt their destruction. Even as Ratchet gave a rebuttal that they managed to survive the first phase of such considering the data Bumblebee had given showing that at least three of the new sparks had finished their first vorn already.
Jazz was the middle point in the argument seeing both sides and advocating a mixture as a solution. Especially when one factored in the presence of Decepticons already in this galaxy. Seeing how letting them imprint the rest of the way upon this planet would be a good thing as it already would help them in gaining help and resources from the natives of the planet. With the only change being that they had the new sparks constantly around any and all autobots that would come to this planet over the next few vorns to teach the young ones to instantly trust their faction.
The deviousness of Jazz’s suggestion had at first made him balk, but this was a war and Optimus knew deep down that these young ones would not be spared the burden of the war no matter what they decided. The Decepticons would not let them be and it would be for the better if the new sparks were taught to defend themselves if they did ultimately remain upon this planet. It was not much of a choice, but he was able to reconcile this decision when Bumblebee assessment showed that the group would likely at least attempt being taught how to defend against a threat from their opposite faction, and their loyalty to ‘their’ home world would be a boon to them as well for it would warrant a reason to not keep any of his soldiers here if the need should arise to fight elsewhere in the galaxy.
The matter of how to handle the new sparks settled, as much as it could be until they could appraise them on their own scanners, Optimus returned to the next problem that would need to be dealt with when they made planet fall in the next twelve earth hours.
What was to be done about Megatron especially if the Decepticons were to find out their leader was upon this planet.