When All Lights Go Out I (TFP)

Chapter 86

Azura, Miko and Raf walk over to help Jack move the arm into position. Azura was surprised to feel the weight of Starscream's arm as she pushed on it. She had thought that Starscream's lean appearance lead to him being lighter than the other decepticons. Though he might be, but he was an adult Cybertronian. Nonetheless, they were able to push arm around, and roll it so the missile was not scratching on the ground, and causing it to misfire.

"Anyone know how to fire this thing?" Miko asked as she looked around on the arm for a trigger. "I don't see a trigger."

"Starscream did something with his fingers," Rafael said, as he had observed how the con fired the missile earlier.

As Skyquake got closer, they huddled by Starscream's hand, as they all knew that they had a small window. "We have one shot." Jack frowned as Skyquake walked around the corner and looked in their direction with loud growls. "Hopefully, the attacks you did on Skyquake earlier has weakened him, Azura. I know you don't remember, but I am hopeful that it will have a greater impact right now. So we need to make it count."

Azura still felt weird not knowing what has happened, and she hoped that whatever damage she had managed to cause to Skyquake would be enough to destroy him with the missile. After all, she doubted she could even destroy the decepticon. She did wonder if she could destroy decepticons eventually, but that certainly won't happen until she was much, much older. She still hoped that the autobots would be able to get to them soon though. She really wanted to go home.

She stared at Skyquake as the zombie approached slowly, and she felt her spark pulsing wildly within her chassis. She really wanted to turn and run, but she kept herself from panicking too much, as she trusted Jack. When Skyquake seemed to be close enough, Jack grabbed the index finger and pulled until it clicked, and they all glance at the missile as it launched off Starscream's arm and hit Skyquake directly. Azura saw that the missile had hit the right side of Skyquake, and at the moment, they could not see anything due to the smoke.

"How do you like us now?!" Azura frowned at Miko as the girl's mockery likely would go completely unnoticed by the decepticon.

As the smoke faded, the zombie con brushed aside from of the smoke and roared at them, making Azura whimper. Though the hit from the missile took out another part of his chassis, and his right arm fell onto the ground. It seemed her attacks from earlier had not done a huge amount of damage, but it was something, and that was good, but as the zombie con was still able to walk and follow them, that was still a problem. And she stepped back as she watched the dark energon spill from the zombie con's body.

"I guess...that one shot worked a little bit." Azura forced a smile as Jack looked at her. "It was something...so maybe we..." She paused when she noticed the fingers from Skyquake's fallen arm began to twitch. "Oh...uh, what is that thing doing?"

"No sure..." Jack took a step back as they stare at Skyquake's fallen arm as the fingers continued twitching until they fingers extend and clench before it began to turn over. "Oh...that is not good." When the limb had turned over completely, it began to move forward quickly, with the tip of the fingers pulling the arm forward quickly and gaining distance on the four of them very quickly. "Come on, come on!" Jack grabbed Miko and Raf to run, but Azura decided to try and slow it down. "Azura! Come on! What are you doing?!"

She did not respond as she focused before she breathed out ice directly at the arm and managed to hit it, and form a large icicle around the arm and encasing it before she turned and ran to follow Jack, Miko and Raf as Skyquake continued to walk forward. She smiled to herself, but she could see the arm wiggling in the ice and trying to break out of it. She knew it could, as the ice wasn't thick, so it would not be too difficult to break. But it would give them more time to get away, and that was the main thing.