Aloha!
(Big Bore reels as the collective FFML slaps him silly)
Let's try that again.
Greetings and Salutations!
Here is a little fic I thought I'd never write. A while ago I started a
fic that crossed over Ranma and Robotech. It is still one of two larger
projects I'm working on. Anyway, I posted a teaser showing how I was going
to get Ranma and Ryoga onboard the SDF-1. It consisted of Mihoshi making a
mess of one of Washu's experiments. While demonstrating her Bi-polar
Dimensional Exchanger, Washu puts the Knight Sabers briefly into the
Transformers world. I had quite a few people say that this gave them an
idea for a fic. I told them all to go for it and that I'd never do the fic
myself........Well, an idea struck me and I ran with it. So, here without
further ado is Bubblegum Tranformations.
Bubblegum Transformations
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(A Bubblegum Crisis/Transformers crossover)
By Big Bore
Disclaimer: Absolutely none of these characters belong to the author.
They all belong to people with much better lawyers than the author, and the
author means no harm. The author merely took all the characters for a
quick test drive and has returned them to they're real places of abode.
Thanks for the quick loan.
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The mid-day sun hammered down on the Nevada desert. It warmed
rock, created mirages, and glinted off the armor of the giant robots
assembled there.
"Are you sure this will work, Soundwave?"
(Cue in Reverb voice effect) "Confirmed, Megatron."
"Well, the Constructicons are almost finished. If this works,
Optimus Prime will rue the day he ever heard of Megatron!"
***************
"This sucks Sylia!" Complained Priss as the four Knight Sabers
rode their bikes hard in an attempt to catch a fleeing boomer. Though
dark, the city lights of Tokyo flashed off bright spots on their hardsuits.
"It's dead boring. We'll never catch him at this rate!"
"Take it easy Priss. This boomer has to have some kind of
supercharged booster to go this fast. We must disable it and study what
has been done to it. We may need the information to continue our fight if
this becomes a normal modification on all Genom Combat Boomers." Sylia
smiled to herself and twisted the knife a little. "Besides, I thought you
said you liked to ride!"
"Bah!" Retorted Priss as Sylia's, Nene's and Lina's laughter
echoed in her helmet. In response she twisted the throttle on her Typhoon
bike a little harder and started to pull away from her companions.
Suddenly between the Knight Sabers and the boomer was a bright flash of
light.
***************
BLAM!!
(Cue Reverb) "The Autobots have found us, Megatron."
"Fool! I can see that for myself." Megatron pointed his arm at
some movement near the horizon and fired his arm mounted cannon. There
were four or five Autobots close to the ground to the north. The blast hit
none of them, but did cause them to duck behind nearby rocks. None of them
seemed to be his arch rival Optimus Prime. "What I want to know is why you
didn't spot them earlier!"
(Reverb) "They seem to have used a previously undetected
underground river and tunneled their way to the surface."
"We must protect the device at all cost!" Megatron turned to look
at the assembled Decepticons. "Starscream, you, Bliztwing and Thrust take
to the air and pin down the Autobots." The three Decepticons transformed
into airplanes and took off towards the hiding Autobots. "Constructicons,
unite!" The yellow robots transformed and began to form a much larger,
single robot. "Soundwave, try to find Prime. He would never send others
to attack in his place."
(Rever...well, you get the idea) "Yes Megatron." Soundwave pushed
a large button on his chest and ejected a cassette like object that
immediately transformed into a techno-bird. The bird, Lazerbeak, took off
straight into the air.
***************
Sylia, Priss and the others grabbed the brakes on their bikes as
hard as they could, but it was to no avail. They skidded straight into the
flash of light. Inside they momentarily felt like they were falling.
Then suddenly their brakes caught and they stopped in the middle of a rocky
desert. And right in the middle of a battle.
*************
"Megatron," rumbled Soundwave. "Lazerbeak has spotted Optimus
Prime. He is leading a force of Autobots in from the south." The giant
blue robot turned to point towards a dust cloud closing in from the
direction he had indicated.
"Prime hopes to catch us from two directions at once. It won't go
well for them. Soundwave, you know what to do!" With a battle cry,
Megatron leaped into the air and transformed into a giant, techno-looking
Walther P-38 complete with scope. Soundwave caught him in mid-air and
aimed at the vehicles rolling at him. Careful to aim for the Autobot
leader, he began triggering off round after round.
The first shot struck right in front of Optimus Prime. Though at a
longer range than he preferred, he decided to transform and start firing
back. As another round struck right next to him he jettisoned his trailer.
With a flash he engaged the rocket boost at the bottom of his cab and
jetted slightly into the air, drawing his blaster at the same time. He
began firing in full robot form before he even hit the ground.
"Give it up, Megatron!" Shouted Optimus Prime. "You will not
tamper with the time-line of this planet!" As he ran forward, Prime
continued firing, striking very near Soundwave, causing him to fall
backwards. As he fell Megatron transformed back into a robot. From his
supine position Soundwave ejected another cassette that turned into a small
robot that in turn helped him to his feet.
"I will do as I please, Prime! You don't have the power to stop
me! Devastator, attack!" The giant composite robot lumbered forward and
reached down toward Optimus Prime.
***********
"Sylia, where the hell are we?" Asked a stunned Priss. "And
what's with all the giant boomers?"
"I don't know Priss. They seem to be fighting over that device
just ahead. Let's just stay out of the way. We don't know whets going on,
and until we do no use getting hurt." All the Knight Sabers murmured their
assent, though Priss really wanted to just kill something. Of course that
was Priss' standard reaction to any situation she didn't understand.
Suddenly a small, man-sized robot appeared and grappled Lina from behind.
"Hey Soundwave!" Shouted the nearly human sized robot. "Human
Autobot sympathizers. What do you want to do with them?" While turning to
speak to a taller blue robot a hundred yards away, the short robot took
his attention off of the other three Knight Sabers.
With a sudden gasp of pain, the robot let go of Lina. The gasp was
in response to the large cut that appeared in it's armor where Sylia had
slashed it with one of her hidden blades. Three long darts from Priss'
railgun were embedded in it's other arm. Her arms now free, Lina reached
behind her, still astride her Hurricane bike, and grabbed the robot by the
head. With a mighty throw, she heaved it over her head a full twenty yards
toward the other robots.
"Rumble!" At the sound of the oddly modulated voice, the four
Knight Sabers looked past the fallen robot towards the bigger blue one it
had shouted at. It was pointing a weapon of some kind in their direction.
With a flash of light it fired. The blast flung hardsuits, bikes and
Knight Sabers in all directions. Before it could fire a second blast,
something large and red intervened and blocked the blast.
Nene looked up at the red van that had just saved them from
immolation. She stared slack-jawed as the van changed, turning into
another giant robot. For long moments she just sat there and stared.
"Now Soundwave, why dontcha try pickn' on someone yer own size?"
Drawled Ironhide. Leveling a cannon sized side arm at Soundwave, he tossed
a look over his shoulder at where the Knight Sabers were getting back on
their bikes. "I don't know who you folks are, but I suggest you get out of
here. The Decepticons aren't too picky who they blast. Ride south, and we
should be able to cover you."
"Uh, thanks," stammered Sylia over the loudspeaker. "Knight
Sabers, follow me." With a twist of her wrist Sylia spun her bike around
and headed south. "Nene, can you figure out which of these robot things
belong to which side? If one side is going to protect us and get hurt
doing so, then maybe we can help them out a little."
"Uh, okay Sylia. It may take a minute." The Knight Sabers rode
away from the growing fire fight between the red robot that had saved them
and the blue one called 'Soundwave' that had tried to kill them. The
smaller robot moaned and rolled on the ground between them. "I think I've
got it Sylia!" Shouted an excited Nene. "I'm going to flash two insignias
up on everybody's visor. The one on the left seem to be on the ones that
are helping us. The one on the right seems to be their opponents. Also,
the 'good guys' are mostly car-like and the 'bad guys' have a lot of
aircraft. That's all I can tell you right now."
"Good job, Nene! Okay everybody, spread out, but keep riding south
until we are behind the 'friendly' lines. If you see any place you can do
some good, go for it!" Though unseen behind her visor, Priss' grin would
have lit up the sunny desert.
**********
"Optimus!" Shouted Hound. "We can't stand up to Devastator with
the forces we have with us! We must retreat and get reinforcements!" As
he spoke, Hound launched another missile at the giant robot that was
lumbering toward him and the Autobot leader. Devestator blocked the blast
with his right arm and continued forward unhurt.
"You're right Hound. All Autobots: Retreat! I'll hold off
Devestator until you are all out of range. I'll rejoin you at the Ark."
Prime took careful aim at Devestator's face and pulled the trigger on his
rifle. The giant staggered momentarily then lurched forward faster than
before.
"I'm staying with you!" Screamed Bumblebee as he dodged sideways
out of the path of a stray shot.
"No! Go with the rest. Only I can do this!"
**********
"Sylia, most of our 'allies' are retreating south!" Exclaimed
Lina. "Except that big red one. It's squaring off against that gigantic
robot that looks like a scrap heap at a construction site!"
"Nene, can we help?" Asked Sylia in as calm of voice as she was
capable at a time like this.
Nene frantically scanned the giant robot as she piloted her bike
behind the other Knight Sabers. "Uh, yeah. Priss, if I feed you the
targeting data, can you hit a spot 4cm by 3cm at this distance?"
Braking to a halt and raising her arm Priss retorted "Piece of
cake!" A bright cross hair appeared on her visor and she carefully
centered it. Her arm recoiled slightly as the three railguns fired
rapidly. The three long darts hit exactly on the power junction that Nene
had identified. There was no grand explosion, but the giant robot began to
fall apart into smaller robots. These did not attempt to fight, but struck
the ground in an almost comatose state. The falling robots created a huge
cloud of dust that blocked out the view of the red robot that had been
fighting the giant. Suddenly out of the cloud came a red tractor/trailer
rig.
The tractor/trailer slowed to a stop alongside the Knight Sabers.
"Thank you for the help. I'm Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots. We
need to get out of here before Megatron renews his attack. Follow me and
I'll show you to a safe place."
***********
Later in the day, the Knight Sabers were lounging about the Autobot
home base listening to Optimus Prime recount the story of their fight
against the Decepticons.
"When the Ark fell to Earth, it and we lay dormant for 4 million
years. When we were reawakened, we were all rebuilt to look like the
vehicles that were the norm for this time and place. The Decepticons are
trying to conquer this planet and rob it of all it's energy. The device we
were trying to destroy today is their latest attempt. It is supposed to
control time. They think they can steal energy from the past."
"Well, Optimus Prime, that device must be what brought us here to
this time and place." Slyia spoke in a normal voice, confident that her
host could hear her even if she whispered. "Do you have any information on
it that I can look at? I have some talent with technology." Her slight
smile indicated that she had more than just a little talent.
"Yes, Bumblebee managed to get a complete copy of the plans. The
device is solar powered which is why they chose the dessert as a testing
ground. They cannot try another go until tomorrow. Perhaps you and
Perceptor can go over them and figure out how to thwart the Decepticon's
plans."
"We would also like to get home to our own time and place!"
Shouted Lina.
"Of course," rumbled Prime. "Perhaps we can kill two birds with
one stone. Perceptor, please give Ms. Sylia all the help she needs."
**********
"That is their problem right there." It was late at night and
Sylia was too tired to be pepped up even by the thought of going home.
"Instead of just manipulating time, this device also warps space. That is
what caused the breach in the barrier between our two worlds."
"Yes," commented Perceptor "it seems that this data jack right here
controls the settings. If we can compute the binary code the Decepticons
used yesterday then all we have to do is feed in the inverse and you can go
home."
"But that still leaves us with the problem of destroying the device."
"Well, yes, but we Autobots can handle that. Our first concern
will be to get you home."
"I don't know Perceptor. That thing seems to be armored. It may
be a tough nut to crack while trying to fight all of those Decepticons.
Perhaps if we......"
************
"Okay Knight Sabers, we will be assisting the Autobots in their
battle today." Sylia had gotten a couple of hours of sleep, and was
feeling much better than she had at three the previous night. "Priss, you
and I are going to try to infiltrate in and attack their leader to create a
diversion. At the same time, Lina and Nene will try to get close to the
device. When we start to attack the Decepticon leader, Megatron, the
Autobots are going to launch an all out attack."
"No problem on my end," said Priss.
"What is our job?" asked Nene.
"You need to get to the data jack and feed in this information,
Nene." Sylia handed Nene a disk with all the data she would need. "Lina,
you need to protect her while she uploading the information. As soon as
the info is installed, a portal is going to open at the same place we
arrived at yesterday. It's about 150 meters from the device."
"How long will we have to get to the portal?" Asked Lina.
"About thirty seconds."
"Easy," said Priss, "with the bikes, no problem, even in a fire
fight."
"We have to leave the bikes," dead panned Sylia.
"What?!?!" Chorused the other three Knight Sabers.
"We are going to leave them in Moto-slave mode to destroy the
device. That is why we only have thirty seconds. We must make it through
before they blow up the device." Slyia looked at each girl in turn. "Any
questions?"
***********
"Okay, it's about a kilometer to the device." Sylia opened the
visor on her hardsuit to speak to the others. "Set your moto-slaves to
mimic your movements with a short delay. It is too risky to try to ride in
there. Priss, our moto-slaves will follow Nene and Lina. We will have to
work our way in by ourselves. Lina, you and Nene give us about ten minutes
before you try to infiltrate in. Good luck ladys." With that she and
Priss closed up their visors and trotted off toward the enemy installation.
"Do you think we'll make it?" Nene asked Lina.
"Well, if we don't, at least we won't have to worry about going to
work tomorrow!"
***********
"We are ready to try again, Megatron."
"It had had best go better than yesterday, for your sake
Soundwave." As usual, Megatron looked annoyed. Indifferent to manual
labor, the Decepticon leader turned his back on the device. He looked at a
large boulder nearby that had something atop it. It was about the size of
one of the small robots that Soundwave kept in his chest. As he watched it
stood and pointed an arm towards him.
"Eat railgun, ya big overgrown boomer!" Screamed Priss over her
loudspeakers as she rapid fired several volleys of darts from her railguns.
Megatron stumbled back with half a dozen dart sticking out of his face and
helmet. Nearly blind he raised his right arm to blast the insolent
creature in front of him. Just as he fired there was a flash of pain in
his right knee joint and he lurched to that side.
Megatron's bolt missed, but Priss decided that the boulder was no
longer a healthy place to be on top of. She jumped to the base and met
Sylia running away from the enraged Decepticon leader. "Do you think we
got his attention?" She asked.
Sylia glanced behind her as Megatron pulled the last dart from his
face and spotted them. "I think we have. Now, we just have to survive."
***********
"Okay, Lina, it's started." Nene looked toward the spot where
Priss had shown herself a moment before. Most of the larger robots were
chasing after Priss and Sylia, leaving only a small robot guarding the data
jack on the device. The gash on one arm showed it to be the same one that
had attacked Lina the day before. "Do we go now?"
"Not just yet Nene. Wait for Optimus Prime and the other autobots
to attack. Then we will do our job. Can't wait to nail that little
bastard again."
************
"You will not escape me this time, humans!" Shouted Megatron. He
spotted the puny creatures darting behind another boulder just ahead. He
raised his cannon and fired at them. From behind the blast emerged a
larger figure.
"Want to try me, Megatron?" Boomed Optimus Prime.
"Why not Prime, today is a good day for you to die!" With that
Megatron launched himself into battle.
***********
As Lina and Nene watched, all around the perimeter Autobots
attacked their Decepticon rival. They watched as the Constructicons formed
Devestator, only to be drawn into battle with a giant Autobot named Omega
Supreme. Watching the two Goliaths punch, kick and throw each other was
even more impressive than watching the super boomer take over Aquacity.
After a couple of minutes more, the pair of Knight Sabers closed in on the
device.
"Heya, shrimp," drawled Lina, "Do you remember me?"
A startled Rumble whipped around and saw a human in some kind of
armor standing where there had been only empty air a moment before. Before
he could react the human snapped it's head forward and he felt his arms
burn with fire. Looking at them he saw large gashes just above the elbow
joins.
As the Decepticon reeled from the whip attack, Lina darted in and
punched him hard in the chest. Her knuckle bomber attached a small
magnetic limpet mine to the Decepticons armor. As soon as Lina jumped back
out of range it went off. The blast blew a ragged hole in Rumble's armor
and he fell backwards to the ground, completely out of the fight. "Just
remember, don't ever touch me without my permission."
Nene trotted up behind Lina with the four moto-slaves in tow.
"Great job, now keep the rest off my back while I upload the data."
*************
"Shit!" Yelled Priss as another blast knocked her off of her feet.
She looked up to see one of the jet like Decepticons towering over her. A
glance to her side showed Sylia engaged in a fight with a panther like
Decepticon.
"A valiant fight, but a losing one. No one bests Starscream!
Especially not a mere human." Priss vainly tried to figure out what to do
when Starscream was blown off his feet by a direct hit. She looked up to
see a familiar Autobot looming over her.
"I guess that is two I owe you Ironhide," commented the part-time
singer/vigilante as she got to her feet.
"Don't think nuthin' of it, miss. You and your friend better start
heading towards your target zone. Your other friends seem pretty close to
done."
Priss had momentarily forgotten Sylia. She looked over towards the
leader of the Knight Sabers to see her blast the cat-like robot into a
smoking heap with her laser cannon. "I think you're right Ironhide.
Thanks for all your help."
"Don't worry 'bout it."
"By the way, where is Optimus and Megatron?"
"They're way over yonder. Squared off one to one again. I doubt
they will settle their feud today, though. When that device goes, it will
probably put a stop to a lot of this fight."
Priss glanced over at Sylia, who signaled her towards the device.
"Well, thanks again Ironhide. Good luck!"
"Good luck to you too."
************
"Sylia, Priss! Run for the gate! We've uploaded the data and the
moto-slaves are going to go berserk in thirty seconds!" Even over the
radio Nene sounded frantic. A hundred meters from the device was a bright
light.
"No problem. We'll make it with time to spare. You two go!"
Though a fair ways from the device, Priss and Sylia were as close to the
gate as Lina and Nene. Sylia watched as the two ran from the device
towards the gate. Nene paused momentarily over the body of one of the
smaller Decepticons. A brief twinkling issued from her arm, then she too
ran to the gate.
"Look out Sylia!" Screamed Priss as Sylia felt a jarring blow
strike her from above. She fell to the ground stunned. "Damn bird!"
Priss screamed again. Sylia got the brief impression of a small
pteradon-like Decepticon just before Priss blasted it with her beam cannon.
Lazerbeak fell in a heap thirty meters away.
"Come on! Get up Sylia! We only have a few second until the
device blows!" As Priss tugged Sylia desperately to her feet, she saw Lina
and Nene vanish through the glowing gate. Deciding that Sylia was too
dazed to help herself, Priss picked her up and ran for the gate.
Priss reached the gate and threw Sylia through to the other side.
Deciding that she had about six second left, Priss looked behind her. The
small robot near the device that Lina had taken out was getting up. It
looked in bewilderment at the moto-slaves. Then on cue all four
moto-slaves fired at a single point on the device. Priss calmly stepped
into the gate an instant before it closed.
************
"I'm glad that's over!" Exclaimed Nene as she and the Knight Saber
relaxed over brandy in Sylia's penthouse.
"You're telling me. I'll take our boomers over those Decepticons
any day!" Seconded Lina.
"Well," said Priss "it was still a good fight. But I'm glad we
won't have to go up against them ever again."
"Perhaps," commented Sylia, "let's just hope that Optimus Prime and
the Autobots manage to destroy the plans for that device so the Decepticons
can't try again. Otherwise I fear we may hear of the Decepticons again."
*************
As Ironhide predicted, the explosion of the device put an end to
the battle. Each side picked up there wounded and retreated to their
respective bases. At the Decepticon base Rumble was having his extensive
damage fixed.
"Rumble," asked Thrust, "what is that on your chest?"
Rumble looked down at the laser engraving and sounded out the words:
"Knight Sabers"
***********
I realize that this is something of a short fic. I guess I could expand it
a bit and add more detail. Any comments on that?
All comments are welcomed, both public and private. Feel free to make your
comments in any form (regular C&C, MST, whatever). Thanks for sticking it
out and reading this fic!
Thanks again!
Big Bore and the Nitro Express!
"There are few personal problems that can't be solved by a suitable
application of a .45 automatic."
"Why do I carry a .600 Nitro Express? Because they don't make a .700!"
"Just your standard issue big gun."
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