Transformers: Car Robots Ironic Hero Chapter 1 Go Go Gelshark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AUTHORS NOTE: You'll notice that this is the first time I tried using Japanese name suffixes. While I'm normally a strong proponent of "pick a language and stick with it" I felt it was a necessity in this case to carry over the full meaning of the character interaction. For example Gigatron Sama: sama is the highest form of respect reserved for a king or even a god which shows how Gigatron's subbordinants view him or at least how they're expected to address him. Likewise Yuki Kun: Kun is an informal male as one would address a casual friend. Showing how close Yuki is to the transformers. and of course Ai chan: chan being an informal female refference which Ai normally detests being reffered to as however doesn't mind that Yuki addresses her this way. I'd also like to give fair wanring that while this first chapter is lighthearted like the Car Robots series its self, the later chapters will take a much darker tone. So due to violence you'll see later I'd rate this fic PG-13 That being said read on and enjoy. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hate....I hate Fire Convoy, I hate Devil Gigatron...I hate everything...and when I get out of here I will make the world feel my wrath." Black Convoy thought as he drifted through the never ending black abyss of the Negative zone. "Devil Gigatron Sama!" said a voice that seemed to eminate from inside of Black Convoy's mind. "Gelskark? You rat where are you? Show yourself so that I might disembowel you." Black Convoy responded. The voice of Gelshark sounding disapointed answered with equal rudenes. "You. You can go soak in Unicron's digestive tract for all I care. Where is Devil Gigatron?" Black convoy would have spat if he were human. "Why should I care?" "Fine drift in darkness forever." Gelshark replied. "What? NO! NOOOOOOOOO!" Black convoy screamed out but found that Gelshark's voice was already gone. "Gelshark if it takes ten eternities I will get out of here and tear you apart!" Devil Gigatron drifted silently in the Negative zone. He had ceased to make any calls for help or any struggle to escape. With his Devil power mostly lost in the explosion crated by the shattering of his swords he needed to conserve his energy. He knew there was one last chance. And that chance was about to make contact. "Devil Gigatron Sama!" said the voice of Gelshark with enthusiasm. "Gelshark. Just as I had predicted. So you found it?" "Yes the last invention of the beast brothers before our final battle. It was badly damaged when the base crashed but I can still manage to at least communicate through the dimensional barrier. I think I can manage to pull one small transformer through. However if I push it with an extra jolt of energy I might be able to bring you through although that would be the last it could do. Shall I Devil Gigatron sama?" Gelshark asked. "No, When I come through I will have my full army in tow. Bring Gushar through. He has the tallents to repair the dimension ripper to its fullest." Devil Gigatron answered. On earth in the shattered remnants of Devil Gigatron's mobile base Gelshark knelt before a tangled mass of wires and circuit boards carefully touching together two frayed wires. A spark issued fourth lighting Gelshark's face as the machine whirred and screeched attempting to fullfill its fuction. Gelshark looked up to observe what seemed to be a hole in the very fabric of reality opening up. Lighting crackled around it as the badly damaged machine strained to pull out its target. A moment later Gushar dropped through flat on his face, and the hole closed up behind him. "Wha? huh? Howe'd I get here?" Gushar said looking around and recognizing the wrecked remnants of the base that he had called home. "Your own machine brought you here. Are you functioning properly?" Gushar rubbed his head for a moment in confusion. "Did I come out in the right universe? Gelshark you just asked me if I'm okay?" Gelshark shook his head as if trying to shake off the caring influence of humanity before responding. "Just get to work on the Dimension ripper. You need to bring it to full functionallity to bring all of the Destrongers back." Said Gelshark. "Hey that's a pretty tall order. It would be a lot easier if I had Gasskunk to assist me." Gushar replied. "You're all I could bring back. I know it will take time but remember that the honor of the Destrongers rests on your shoulders." Gelshark said as he turned to walk away. "Hey where are you going?" Gushar asked. "Out. I have other business to attend to." Gelshark answered without giving any actual answer. Outside a red glint disturbed the stary night sky above the Pacific ocean. Gelshark swam out to sea. Arriving some distance from land he transformed to robot mode and floted as he looked to a small device in his hand with a display screen. On it displayed a news broadcast and the young lady reporting spoke with a very serious tone. "All citizens are being evacuated from coastal regions as quickly as possible. While the incoming meteor will not impact on land it is believed that the resulting tsunami may be on a scale severe enough to level Tokyo. We urge everyone who can not evacuate in time to seek shelter in the nearest available underground bunker. And for those whom have the inclination please pray for a miracle." Gelshark looked to the slowly enlarging red point in the sky. "I'm not a miracle but I'll have to do. GELJET!" Gelshark rose to the surface of the water and for a moment seemed to be standing on the ocean surface before he rose a little higher and revealed himself to be standing on a mechanical platform that looked half surf board half fighter jet. Bracing his legs Gelshark on his geljet platform took to the sky and flew toward the oncoming meteor. Rising high into the upper atmosphere Gelshark came beside it and followed the burning doomsday rock. Turning about face on the Geljet Gelshark raced in front of the meteor while still facing it and held his arms to the side shouting "LASER STORM!" sending a beam of energy from his chest streight into the meteor. The beam poured on like a firehose on the giant space stone as it began to crack. Pushing himself harder and harder Gelshark kept the beam going and finally a fissure broke through the meteor cracking it into a thousand smaller pieces which soon burned to dust in earths rich atmosphere. Gelshark turned to face forward on his geljet once again. Making a buzz over the city before returning to base Gelshark looked to his handheld tellivision device to see the news report. "It seems once gain we all owe a debt of grattitude to the heroic robot warrior Gelshark. We recomend to everyone that they step outside to observe tonights display of shooting stars." Gelshark smiled with contentment as he flew over the city listening to the children chant the song they had writtin in his honor aptly named "Go Go Gelshark." Returning to base Gelshark staggered in exhausted. "Whoah what happened to you? Cybertrons catch you?" Gushar enquired. "Yeah uhm...the Cybertrons." Gelshark replied trying not to let on the truth of his activities. Gelshark looked over Gushar's oversized shoulder plate at his work. "Have you made any progress?" he asked. "I've rebuilt most of the main circuits for opening the gate. But the circuits still can't handle anything very large like Devil Gigatron sama. If I had fresh parts to work from instead of these scraps. We'll need to steal some parts to complete the device." "Where can I find such parts?" Gelshark asked. "The only thing I can think of that would have parts on the scale we need would be in the computers the Cybertrons use." Gelshark held his head down in contemplation. "I will go. Keep working." Said Gelshark as he departed once again. "Something about him seems different." Gushar thought as he continued his work. A few hours later, morning in fact, Gelshark walked into the Cybrtron command center. He walked down the silent halls of the mostly empty base, the majority of its inhabitants having departed for home already. Stepping into the controll room Gelshark was soon greeted by Ai and Fire Convoy. "Gelshark we saw the news broadcast." Ai said with congratulatory smile. "That was quite impressive Gelshark. The way you put yourself at risk just to protect the humans. With no flyers remaining here it would have been a dissaster without you. Thanks." Said Fire Convoy with grattitude. If robots could Gelshark would have been blushing from the overwhelming praise but instead steeled himself to the task at hand. "Well you see Fire Convoy that's why I came here. My Geljet was damaged during re entry and I need some high capacity circuit boards to fix it." "Well you've certainly earned our aid Gelshark. Take what you need from our supplies." Fire Convoy replied. "Or better yet why don't you bring it here and we can fix it for you." Said Ai cheerfully. Gelshark tried not to show his nurvousness as he replied. "Oh no I can fix it myself. I only need the necesasry parts." he answered. "Are you sure? We can probably do it faster." Ai replied. "I'm sure. I preffer to do things for myself." Said Gelshark as he left the room. "He wouldn't accept our help." Said Fire Convoy confused. "He must be very lonely." Said Ai. "All his former allies are gone now. The children of this world are the only ones he cares about now." A short time later Gelshark walked on his way through the streets of Tokyo carrying on one shoulder a crate nearly twice his size. At a time he would have met with screams of fear to walk around in the middle of busy Tokyo but these days he is rather met with the praise of admiring children, and the occasional request for an autograph. "Gelshark" Said a childish voice. Gelshark looked by his ankle to see none other than Yuki greeting him. "Oh Yuki Kun." Gelshark said semi surprized. Yuki had a way of running into Gelshark at least once a day but every time managed to sneak up on him. "So did you come from Cybertron headquarters? How's Ai chan? Watcha carrying? Where ya going?" Said Yuki hyperactively. "Too much cola Yuki kun?" Asked Gelshark jokingly as he continued to walk along. Yuki also walked along with Gelshark struggling to keep up with much shorter legs. "Oh yeah everyone's throwing parties today. Between you saving us from the meteor and Christmas being the day after tomorow everyone's excited. I've been to three parties today already." Yuki said answering Gelshark's question. "Christmas. Ah I've heard of that. It's a holiday here on earth isn't it?" replied Gelshark. Yuki nodded in the affirmative as he explained. "Yeah Christmas is a holiday celebrated all over the world. It's the best one all year where we all get together to enjoy friends and familly...well that and give each other presents. It's a day we can set aside all our differences and just have a good time." Yuki explained. Gelshark stopped for a moment. "You really have a day like that?" He asked. "Yeah don't you have a holliday like that on Seibertron." "For everyone? We have celebrations for millitary victories sometimes but we're usually too buys shooting at one another." Gelshark said remembering the way of life he left on his homeworld. "Two days away you say?" Gelshark asked with fascination. "Tomorow is Christmas eve and the day after is Christmas. Hey I know. There's going to be a big two day festival starting tomorow and there'll be a fireworks display on Christmas night. You should come. All of the other kids you saved at the tower are hoping you'll be there." Said Yuki. Gelshark sat down his load and thought for a moment. "You would want me to be there Yuki kun?" Gelshark asked. "Yeah will you come?" Yuki asked. "I'll be there." Gelshark answered. Gelshark said a goodbye to Yuki and picked up his crate. He continued on his way humming one of the Christmass related songs he'd heart on the radio. Returning to base Gelshark greeted Gushar with cheer. "Hello and merry Christmas Gushar." He said. "Gelshark stop acting so nice to me. It's making me nurvous." Gushar replied rudely. Gelshark set down his crate full of supplies and opened it up. "All the parts you'll need to bring back Devil Gigatron Sama." Gushar looked over to take inventory of what Gelshark had aquired. "These are some serious quallity parts. And you don't look any worse for wear." Said Gushar. "That's because I'm a skilled warrior. You could learn a few things from me." Boasted Gelshark attemtping to hide the truth of how he'd aquired the necessary parts. "Well this is everything I need. I can have the dimension ripper ready by tomorow morning." Gushar said. "Ah perfect. I can't wait to have Devil Gigatron Sama back in command." Gelshark excitedly. "Hey Gelshark, you'd better start acting like your old self before Devil Gigatron Sama gets back. He's not exactly the kind who apreciates Holliday cheer." Gushar said. Gelshark turned his back and thought to himself "What about my promise to Yuki kun." The harsh realization struck deep. ------------------------------------------------------------------------