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Trial Of HamsterTron

Sparks Are Born

Spark Activated.
I became self-aware.
Spark Implanted.
I had a body.
Injecting Auto-Data Tract Memory Chip
My mind was suddenly flooded with information. My recently blank brain filled with knowledge about the past. The war of Decepticon and Autobot. The new idea's of Beast Forms to sheild energon radieation. Cybertron, Megatron, Optomus Prime, Unicron, The Nemisis, Galvatron, all were suddenly fresh in my mind as if I had known them myself.
Energon Sheilding System activated.
My Beast Form became terrably real. Instincts of the extinct race were flooded in, then supressed by the higher powered logic curcits.
Optic Sensors Online
I could see.
"Excellent, the spark goes online." The decepticon tecnition standing over me hissed to the other.
"Yes, it certainly is online and functioning, but what made you choose that rediculous Energon sheilding form?" The second hissed back.
"What else was I to do? I was imformed that this protoform would be returning to the site of the disasterous Beast Wars, and if he were to have a so called 'Beast Form', why not have a little fun with it?"
"Perhapes, but perhapes also the Decepticon counsil will have your head for screwing up."
"Aww, shut up. The counsil will never know, this is practicly a suicide mission anyway."
"Yeah, your right. This one probably won't even return in one peice."
"As much as I agree, we've got to get it down to the mission breifing sector."
I was then lifted from the table I was created on. As I looked around, I could see I was on a vessel of some sort. To the right and left of me, I could see other protoforms who had been recently completed.

"Who am I?" I had whispered to one of the technitions. I didn't have to though, my Data-tracks told me the answer. My name I had already given to myself, was HamsterTron.

* * *

I stood in the center of a cercular room with 3 other bots. One to my right, one to my left, and one at the end of the room. The one at the end of the room looked very military oriented and hardened by war. He activated a holo-screen.
"This," He pointed to the planet portrayed in the hologram. "Is the untitled planet you read about in your data tracts. This is where the so called 'Beast Wars' took place, as you all know." Pressing another button, the image changed to two diferant pictures. One of a powerful looking transmetal predicon, and one of a small, weak looking, green, bug predicon. "These, are the two surviving decepticons of the Beast Wars. This one," He pointed out the powerful transmetal one. "Is Megatron. He was the leader of the Predicons on this planet and was also joined with the first Megatron through time. He was aprehended by the surviving Maximals and brought to Cybertron. So far, we do not know what has become of him." He then pointed out the bug predicon. "This lowlife, is Waspinator. He is the second and last survivor of the predicons. Efforts of aprehending this protoform have been....unsuccessful. There have been complications in the effort to retreive Waspinator. This, is why you have been created and called to here." Pressing yet another button, he changed the images into one. A massive, dangerous looking Predicon emerged. It seemed to have weaponry dripping from it, and was armed to the absolute brim with the latest in war technology. Beneith its hulking form, seemed to be the shape of a crustation. "This specimine, is RampageX."
The name was instantly recognized, deep in the depths of my data tracts.
"RampageX, a protoform clone of the original Protoform X, was sent to the planet to retreive Waspinator. This proved unsuccessful however, when we did not hear from RampageX until we sent a team of Decepticons down. This is the first and only comlink report we have ever received from the Decepticon crew." He flipped a switch on the machine, and a voice message came through.
"Hellscream to Decepticon high counsil. My comrads and I have located the clone, but have not been able to locate Waspinator. RampageX's movement seems to be eratic and uncharted. I'm about to send one of my scouts to question the clone as to the progress of his mission." There was a muffled voice of Hellscream giving the command to one of the scouts. "StarClaw has began his descent down the hill toward the clone...Ok, he is within range of him. Wait...Hey! ~static~" There was a short pause. "The clone has just launched an attack on StarClaw! It did not even listen to his questions, only let out a relentless assault. ~static~ -anners show StarClaw has been terminated! No, the clone has sighted us! ~static~ -as destroyed Vampinator ~static~ Aviantron and I are opening fire. ~explosions and gunfire~ Unbelievable, the attacks have no effect! ~explosion~ Aviantron has been terminated! This is Hellscream, as the only one of my team left I am retreating. ~sounds of running, then static~ No! Its too fast, I can't get away...I only hope this message reaches the high counsil before..." End of Transmission.

"Now you see, there is a major problem on this planet. If RampageX ever gets off the planet, it may be disasterous for the galaxy if he is as strong as he seems. We constructed him to be an immortal fighting machine, and this seems to have worked far too well." He reached down and turned of the machine. "Your mission, is to reach this planet, find RampageX, and somehow inject him with this high-powered energon tranquilizer." He held up a small dart. "You have each been given differant beast forms to sheild yourselves from the energon redieation. Keep the factor of Energon buildup in your minds. You will be joined by another team of Predicons and Decepticons when reaching the launch hanger." The military decepticon sighed. "One more thing. The decepticon race has lost its share of battles in the past. Be careful, we don't need to lose anymore good bots out there. Dismissed!"

* * *

The three of us made our way mechanicly down to the flight hanger of the vessel. I turned to one of them. "I'm HamsterTron," I said, trying to start conversation.
"Hey, I'm Sunflash. Who are you?" He asked to the third predicon.
"My name is Wavefury." He said flattly.
"Ohh...Kay...I said looking around as we walked. It was now I realized how small I was, being about three forths the size of the others. No one spoke again until we reached the flight hanger.
The gaigantic room had 2 space shuttles within it. The door snapped shut and airlocked as soon as we passed through. About 500 yards away, seemed to be a huge window into space, but was actually a opening where ships could pass from the vessel and but air could not escape. We were led to the center of the hanger by a worker drone. There in the center, we met up with the other team of Predicons.
It consisted of 4 predicons. I glanced at them and learned they're names. A large male with cannons seeming to extend from his shoulders, elbows, and joints. Very powerful looking, his name was Onyx Omega. A smaller Female, obviously made for agility and flight, her name, Dark Airazor, the name rang another bell. Another male, a bit smaller than Onyx, but still considerably larger than myself. Large rockets on his back insinuated the ability of flight. His name was OmagaPrime. The final Predicon was a female much like Dark Airazor, only slightly larger but still built for agility, but not flight. Her name was NightLiona.
After aquantences were made, we boarded into the two ships. As we got strapped into pods and got ready for departure, I realized something about my comrads. Even though none talked much, I could tell they feared the coming mission as much as I. I wished there were some way I could put them at ease. However, talk and sentament were never strong Predicon traits, so all I did was say a simple 'Good Luck' and then closed the hatch of my pod as did Sunflash and Wavefury. I entered the sleep of stasis inside my pod, thinking of the hardships that were gaurenteed ahead.

Suicide Mission

I felt the small thud of shuttle landing down apon the ground and I snapped back into consiousness. The pod I was incased in snapped open, as did the others. The three of us grouped in the center of the room.
"Alright, here's the plan." Wavefury began, unslinging a huge pulse blaster from his back. He held it in two hands. "There are seven of us and one of him. I say we split up and and flank him from either side, it would be difficult for him to attack more than one side at once."
"Are you kidding? That thing took out that team of four in a matter of seconds. A full frontal assault will allow us to deal the maximum amout of damage in the quickest time. Remember, there are seven of us, we can damage it alot more than the two decepticons who were able to get shots off. This time, we're ready." Sunflash presented his own plan.
"Well," I began. "I believe that if one from our team, and a few from the other stay and draw attention from the front, it will leave an oppertunity for the others to sneak around to other directions and sneak attack. During the sneak attack, someone can inject him with the tranquilizer."
"It sounds good in words, but it leaves the distractions at great danger. Also, what makes you think the other team will go along with it?" Wavefury questioned.
"I don't know, but I'll volenteer to be the distractor of this group. As for the others, well..." I was shooken off my feet by a huge vibration in the ship. "No time, we're under attack!"
"Get out and get ready for battle!" Wavefury commanded, loading his pulse blaster. Sunflash nodded, charging his wrist-rocket launchers. I drew my partical-ion blaster and we ran toward the exit as another hit rocked the shuttle.

As soon as the three of us exited the vessel, chaos rained. We ran out blaring our weapons, which seemed to have little impact on the giant. RampageX stopped to adjust his aim from the ships to us. I looked over to see Dark Airazor, OmagaPrime, and the rest exiting they're vessel. In the split seconds I had, I screamed to Sunflash and Wavefury "Circle around the sides, I'll tell them the pla-ahh!" I was cut off by a stray bullet from RampageX. As they ran off, I dropped down. The clone seemed to be now consentrating its fire on the other team. I started crawling toward them and saw Dark Airazor and OmagaPrime take off into the air. Onyx Omega suddenly converted into a large tank machine. NightLiona was hammered by 5 missiles from RampageX, she went flying back and hit the side of her ship with a thud. Onyx Omega fired a missile from his launcher, which hit RampageX square in the chest, knocking him back a bit. While he recovered, I got up and ran over to them. OmagaPrime and Dark Airazor fired down from high in the air with blasters and lazers. The clone looked up and fired off a missile which struck OmagaPrime, sending him into a divebomb downwards. I reached Onyx and yelled the information.
"Wave and Sun cercling around for sneak attack! We need to distract him unt-" I was cut off once again by a long laser pulse from Rampage. It tore into the back of my head, makeing a considerable hole that went the whole way through. I slumped to the ground.
I waited a few seconds, waiting for the incredable pain to subside so I could drift into nothingness. It did not happen. With the half-eye I had left, all I could see was black and red. That half-eye rolled in the back of my head, my hearing faltered. My energon sheilding system shorted out, the instincts of my Beast Form took over.
Feeling around with my one arm that worked, I crawled into a crater created by a missile and dig myself in. There, in the mud and dirt, I looked up one last time and saw NightLiona slumped limply against the shuttle. OmagaPrime struggled to get up, severly damaged from the hit he took. Dark Airazor flew quickly and violently around the sky, desperatly trying to avoid the never-stopping stream of missiles and lasers that erupted from RampageX. Onyx Omega stood his ground in his tank form, though blackened and dented, trying to intersept the onslaught of the clone. In the distance, with my last optic ion, I saw Wavefury and Sunflash circling around from behind, with Wavefury suddenly erupting into peices from a series of 6 oncoming missiles. I then drifted into what I was thinking would be my death. Once again, I was wrong.

* * *

What was me awoke to the sight of a mangled Decepticon face.
"You live!" The twisted form of Hellscream shouted. "Though at such a cost."
I arose in my Beast Form for the first time. My eye's were cramped and difficult to move around. My legs and arms were short, and covered in a furry substance. In this form, I was even smaller than my robot form. I was truely a hamster.
I attempted to speak, but only a hissing squeek erupted from my throut. Strange instincts flooded in, the need to burrow and hide eatable plants and bugs was there.
"Its seems that blast ripped apart just about everything in your data tracts and logic curcits. Don't be suprized if you feel diferant or have loss of memory. Even some new impulses may be arising, due to the damage to your energon dampening systems." The decepticon commander attempted to explain.
I had no idea what he was talking about. For as long as I could remember I had had these instincts. They were natures way.
"You would have been slag if I hadn't been able to fix the CR chamber in my ship. However, even the CR chamber has limitations...you may not be able to transform for awhile..." He continued on with technical things I couldn't understand. After a while, my voice returned.
"H-H-HamsterTron have no idea what crumpled-bot talking about..." I began.
"You will when your cranial repairs complete. Do you remember the monster outside?" Hellscream asked.
I closed my eyes and thought. All I could feel was a natural negative feeling coming from myself toward a powerful force aboveground. This is when I realized where I was, underground.
"Well, I was able to barely escape him after finding this underground cavern. Its no use fighting him, you can't win. I helped create RampageX, his spark is indestructable." Hellscream went on.
"HamsterTron want out of here." I hissed.
"The way you speak, in the third person I see. Strange, a defect of the data-track damage I suspect." He sighed. "I suppose you didn't come alone. I'm afraid your friends will die. There is no chance they can survive unless there are more hidden caves like this one on this planet." As he kept chatting on, I started on my way up out of the cavern. I needed eatable plants and bugs to last me through the winter. I could keep them safe here. The mangled Hellscream obviously didn't see me leave, he did not follow me. I stepped out of the cavern.

My entire outlook on everything changed as the energon radeition hit me. It tweeked something inside my head, and some of my data tracks fell back in place. Suddenly, I remembered coming to this planet, the other predicons, my decepticon heratage. The exposure to energon also seemed to bring back up my energon dampeners, which surpressed the instincts I had come to the surface on. I stood alone outside the cavern, a few hundred yards from where RampageX stood. I stood, feeling completly alone, now knowing the meaning of Hellscreams words.

HamsterTron on Trial

If I had not been out for too long however, perhaps some of my teammates could still be alive. My logic curcits still damaged I ran in beast mode toward where the battle would be taking place. Apon ariving, I saw a desturbing sight.

Onyx Omega lay in peices on the ground. Dark Airazor had been able to remain in the air, but was depleted of energy. She barly hung in the air, dodging with everything she had left. OmagaPrime lay crippled on the ground, firing shots at Rampage from behind a rock. NightLiona was still limp against the side of the ship. In the far distance, Sunflash was on one knee aiming shots at RampageX as close as he could. And RampageX, though slightly blackened, stood still, still constantly aiming and firing off his deadly artillery.

"HamsterTron, Terrorize!" I yelled out, transforming into my robot form. My face was scarred with the welding marks where HellScream had repaired. I came running toward the battle with my blaster ready, desperatly trying to hold onto sanity as my damaged logic curcits combated me. I quickly took aim at the deadly clone and fires off a partical stream. It caught RampageX in the arm, making a black dent mark. It turned and launched a missile at me, then quickly turned back and fired a barage of gunfire at OmagaPrime. The missile caught me in the arm, rendering it inoperative. This loss made my inside logic snap. My Predicon heratage was forgoten and the simple need to survive was in its place. All that I remembered of this so called 'heritage' was how to protect myself with my blaster and the gift of trechory.
With only these factors in my mind, I found that the way to survive would be to end up on the winning side. I knew in my soul that the winner would be RampageX.

With that, I looked up and fired an ion blast at Dark Airazor. With a look of suprize and terror, she plummited to the ground and landed with a thud. She did not move again.

"Traitor!!!" Both OmagaPrime and Sunflash yelled in outrage.
As OmagaPrime took aim at me, I turned and fired a partical beam, sending him into stasis lock.
As Sunflash took aim at me, RampageX fired a stream of gunfire at him, sending him flying back into the dirt. With Sunflash stunned and OmagaPrime in stasis lock, the clone walked over to me.
I was breathing heavily, my face twisted with combating emotions and instincts. My logic curcits guided me, though they were damaged, I could not tell that. What was there was there. There is no better way I can put it.

"You made the correct decision" RampageX said, grabbing me by the back of the neck and flinging me down. "But you will die like your friends. For if you betray them, you will also betray me." He drew a long energon sword and put it up to where my spark is beneith my armor. "Goodbye little hamster"

Just as he thrust the sword into me, directly to the right of my spark, something to the right moved.
NightLiona struggled up and drew her dart gun. Right after the clone impaled me, she took advantage of his position and shot the tranquilizer directly into his head. Both RampageX and myself fell deep into stasis lock.

* * *

The room of the Decepticon high counsel was filled with yawning, high-powered decepticons and Predicons. The early morning trial had begun.
Sunflash, NightLiona, and OmagaPrime stood to one side as the surviving witnesses. I was on one side of the room, RampageX was on the other. RampageX's trial was over. He had been excused due to the fact that the one Waspinator and captured and reprogramed him some how. At least thats what his claim was. The counsel accepted it. Now it was my turn.

"Bring the Traitor and his Representative forward." The commander instructed.
Myself and Hellscream were brought forward.
"Hellscream, you hold high honor here in the Predicon counsel. It is your claim that a damaging blast to the head caused damage to such systems as logic, bringing hamster-like instincts forward, forcing his Beast Form to override his systems, bringing primal impulses forward, making him turn against his comrads?" The commander asked.
"This is correct high commander. I examined HamsterTron myself. I am positive of this fact. So, in a sense, I am using an Insanity plea to the charges brought forth." Hellscream added.
"Very well then. We here will trust your word Hellscream. The verdict is as follows;

As you know, trechery is a crime punishable by death in Decepticon space. However, it is against our ways to terminate a insane protoform. Therefore, the punishment...is banishment from Decipticon space. That is the final word.

* * *

I stood in the same hanger I had been in when first departing toward the planet. Now, I was here departing toward my certian death. I was not sad, I looked around and thought of my short life. Some of the same cast was there. I saw Sunflash, Night Liona, and OmagaPrime standing grim-faced waiting for the sentance to be carried out. Without a fight, I let them lower me into the small capsule. As it closed, I looked up and realized I was being banished for following my instincts, just like everyone else. This was not right, but there was nothing I could do about it. I fell into a stasis sleep as the capsule closed. My pod was launched into space shortly after, to drift with me inside until the end of time. I drifted, and I dreamed...

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