Transformers: Rise of the Decepticons
By: Ripper22

Note: This takes place a couple months after ROTF. Also, some of the characters might be from the book "The Veiled Threat", so if you don't recognize some, I actually didn't make them. Also, this is my first Transformers fic, not my first fic for Fanfiction. I have several other stories, just not in this section.

Chapter one

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Location: Rome, Italy

The legendary mechanical organism Transformer known to all as Optimus Prime, huffed anxiously as he and his two companions searched for a duo Decepticons that were reported seen near the famed coliseum of Rome, where The second-in-command Decepticon Starscream had once trapped Prime in. The stressed Autobot was tensed for action, knowing two evil Decepticons lurked nearby.

The parking lot was a likely place for them to hide.

"They might not be here," said one called Bumblebee, the youngest of all Autobots.

"They must," persisted Ratchet, the medic of the band. "I'm sure of it."

"Ratchet…" said Bumblebee sadly.

"Imagine the damage they could cause if they are left alone to stay here." Said Optimus. "We can't let that happen."

Optimus Picked up a red sports car, and shook it lightly. None of the three Autobots heard the quiet snarl. For one of the very decepticons they were searching for was in Optimus' hands.

Dead End the red sports car Decepticon trembled at the thought of being caught. He quietly waited for the accursed Autobot leader to set him down and leave.

"I don't see any Decepticon symbol," muttered Prime as he searched the car thoroughly. He quietly set the car back down. He then grabbed the car next to the Red sports car/Dead End, and was about to inspect it when the car's wheels roared to life.

The Surprised Optimus Prime jumped and let go of the Decepticon and the Yellow car was off.

It transformed into robot mode and darted away. Unfortunately for the Yellow car Decepticon, Ratchet jumped in front of it and shot the Decepticon while it activated its weapons. The 'con was dead before it knew it.

"Swindle," said Prime in a hushed tone. "He was never the bright one. Very dull."

"Well, there must be more elsewhere, otherwise another would have aided the poor guy," said Ratchet, as all three Autobots transformed and got on the main road.

Dead End was smart; he knew he had to risk Swindle's life if he was to continue living. The Decepticon Drove out of the parking lot as much subtlety as possible. He was almost around the bend and to safety until Bumblebee noticed the Decepticon symbol patched onto where the license plate was until it fell off.

"CON!" yelled 'Bee as he transformed and immediately darted for Dead End, who was now fleeing at top speed.

Dead End headed for a sharp turn and drifted, as the other three were left behind.

"Quickly!" commanded Prime, "Bee and Ratchet, chase him, I'll cut him off ahead!"

Prime jogged towards and through a thin alleyway, and saw Dead End zoom by. "Don't let him get away!"

But Dead End had gotten quite a distance away, and stood on top of a building.

Dead End opened up a transmitting room, and tried desperately to communicate with one of his superiors.

"Soundwave!" transmitted Dead End, "Come in! I need back up! I repeat, I need backu—"

The Red sports car 'Con was cut off as Prime burst up from inside the building, making Dead End retreat again.

He crawled down the building on all fours, making debris fly everywhere as his claws shredded the side of the building, and transformed while he started driving on the main road.

Bumblebee and Ratchet turned the corner and saw Dead End. The 'Con panicked as Prime hopped off the building and transformed, right on his tail. Dead End rammed a car and made it fly back, almost hitting Prime, who dodged at the last second. Ratchet, however, was not so lucky, as the flying car hit him while in his alt mode.

This forced the medic out of the chase, leaving Dead End only two Autobots to deal with.

Bumblebee transformed to 'bot mode and jumped on top of Dead End's car. He quickly stopped, forcing 'Bee off the car and landing him right in front of the 'Con.

Dead End transformed to his bipedal mode and jumped over Bumblebee's battered form, and transformed into alt mode.

Optimus stopped to see if 'Bee was all right, then quickly zoomed on towards Dead End's fleeing frame.

The sports car 'Con sped past the coliseum of Rome, and memories came back of the day Prime almost died there. Pushing aside his memories, he sped even faster, fearing a slow death pf his own at the end of Optimus Prime's blade.

He decided to drive in the left lane, thinking he may be able to outmaneuver his larger and harder to steer opponent. He sped past cars going the opposite way, and slowed.

Prime found it hard to keep up with the speedier 'Con, and pulled back.

Dead End, cackled, and sped towards some pillars. But unfortunately, just before he could escape, Bumblebee stepped in front of the exit.

Dead End backed up, only for Optimus to come from behind. Dead End transformed and shot his machine gun at Bumblebee, inflicting multiple light wounds.

Optimus crushed Dead End by stepping on the smaller 'Con, effectively killing him quickly.

Optimus nodded to Bumblebee, who understood. The smaller and younger Autobot dragged the corpse near a nearby river and dumped it in, hiding any evidence.

"It is over," said the dented Ratchet, mending the huge dent on his chest.

"Let us get back to base as quickly as possible." Mused Optimus. "Surely we took a while finding these two 'Cons…"


Space.

Infinite, it is, stretching to never ending lengths, the vast area of nothingness. However, In the Milky Way Galaxy, some evil plot was stirring. One that might end the Autobots and their existence forever. At least, that was what the two evil 'Cons were hoping. These two Decepticons were known as Starscream and Megatron.

Megatron, the leader of all the Decepticons. He was everything that his followers wanted. He was strong, had Powerful weapons, and was huge. He was ruthless, smart and a wise tactician. He was their leader, and he was liked. But not by Starscream.

Starscream was Megatron's ambitious second-in-command. The F-22 Jet fighter Decepticon was Sly, and an even better thinker than Megatron. He was famous not only for his incredible skill, but also for his limitless (and troublesome) ambition. Starscream believes that he is more suited for command than Megatron.

The two were usually bickering, but right now they were on a mission. One that would aid their time of need. The All Spark had almost been entirely destroyed…But not all the way. Megatron held the last few pieces of the All Spark, mere dust fragments. This dust would be used to save their faction, down to the last few bits.

They reached an icy, cold and dead planet, where their old transport ship Nemesis had crashed. That was the new Decepticon hideout, where all the members of the faction were headed for.


Soundwave is the Decepticon communications officer and one of Megatron's staunchest supporters, he doesn't just master the frequencies that carry information across a planet, he revels in them. He was one of Megatron's highest ranking officers, about equal in rank to Starscream.

He stays in satellite form, watching over his fellow Decepticons and Reports on them if they fail at their duties. Soundwave was almost completely harmless in Satellite mode….If someone was attacking him, that is. He had the ability to run down an entire civilization, but prefers not to, as he enjoys watching them go on with their pathetic existances.

Right now he was grimacing at the corpses of two Decepticon soldiers, Dead End and Swindle. Both murdered just a few mere cycles ago. He added their names on the KIA section and rechecked the list of the Decepticons still on earth that were known of, while at the same time surfing the internet for reports on Transformer sightings.

Barricade (Online)

Dead End (KIA)

Swindle (KIA)

Dropkick (Unknown)

Payload (MIA)

'Megatron and Starscream are off for the Nemesis, so not counting them there's Me, Barricade and Dropkick.' Thought Soundwave to himself, calculating the odds of Dropkick being still functional. 'In fact…'

Soundwave turned on his worldwide Decepticon seeker transmitters –while erasing a few Transformers sighting websites-, and surely but faint, he caught Dropkick's Function waves.


Dropkick the Blue Chevrolet Silverado Pickup Truck Decepticon, was fleeing for his life from Longarm, whose mission was to capture the 'Con and take him back to base for questioning.

Dropkick had managed to outrun Longarm for miles, and they were on roads that lead to a forested mountain, and the chase was becoming repetitive; Dropkick would lose Longarm, the 'Con would slow down, and Longarm would appear again, forcing the Evil 'bot to continue fleeing.

Longarm was now fiercely determined to capture Dropkick and question him about what was the Decepticons' current scheme. He used the Tow cable on his car to latch onto Dropkick, and was a perfect hit, as it landed and latched on the back bumper of the blue truck.

Dropkick couldn't get off the hook's grasp, and tried speeding forward as fast as he could, but due to the fact he was extremely exhausted and that the claw was firmly digging into his epidermis, he decided the best way was to transform and flick off the claw on him. Dropkick ranted and swore on in Cybertronian, while transforming to robot mode. The hook ended up being on his hip, and he turned himself to the right facing the cliff and surely enough, the claw flew off him and slammed into Longarm's hood.

The Autobot transformed, as Dropkick ran off, still in Robot mode, crushing cars and kicking them out of his way.

Longarm pursued him, and launched his Tow cable hook again at Dropkick, this time it wrapped around Dropkick's leg, making him fall. Unfortunately, he had been so close to the edge that he had started to feel himself sliding towards the cliff. The Autobot tried to yank Dropkick away from the ledge, but he slipped off the edge and was ultimately saved by Longarm's cable tow.

Dropkick heaved himself up to grab the tow that was wrapped around his leg, and pulled himself up, all the while he was accidentally pulling Longarm down towards the edge. Just as he pulled himself up, Longarm had gone over the edge and Dropkick was almost completely back on the solid ground when he was yanked back down by Longarm's tow cable, which was saving Longarm's life at the moment and was pulling a lot of weight on Dropkick.

Longarm yanked on the cable tow as hard as he could and as Dropkick started falling, Longarm clambered over the heavy weighted Decepticon and jumped to the solid ground, and let the cable tow get loose, letting the falling Decepticon fall to his hopeful demise.

After about ten seconds, Longarm was almost out of tow cables for the Decepticon to fall, so he waited a little longer.

Unfortunately, there was only about five yards' left of tow cable and Longarm decided to let go. He was too late, as he felt a heavy burden of weight forcing him to fly over the edge. However, he was prepared and had his feet firmly placed.

He heard metal being forced apart off of Dropkick as the 'Con screamed and was nearly ripped apart from the hook yanking him up while his body was going down at a fierce rate.

A clank was heard as Dropkick was disconnected from the hook, and he fell even further down the cliff. He then heard a loud clunk as Dropkick's unconscious form had finally reached the bottom.

Longarm winced at the grinding noise of hard metal against sharp rocks, as he transformed and quickly left the scene, knowing nothing else could be done.


Soundwave flinched as he had watched the whole thing, and was about to mark Dropkick as 'KIA' when he rechecked to make sure the 'Con was dead.

He was alive.

'Impossible,' thought Soundwave. 'How could he?' The Satellite Decepticon then remembered the one thing that made Dropkick known amongst the treacherous Decepticon ranks: His superior endurance, the highest of any Transformer.

He knew Dropkick was now part of this 'Plan' Megatron and Starscream had, as they were looking for certain 'Cons to help with their secret mission. The other Decepticons would be commanded to stay on earth, while the others would go to the Nemesis and hear out Megatron's plan.

He reminded himself the traits Megatron and Starscream were looking for: a good fighter, an expert chemist, a very fast Decepticon, somebody with a high endurance rate and someone who was known for their strategic skill at warfare.

He quickly made a distress signal to Starscream, hoping that the treacherous F-22 Jet fighter heard it.


"Damn." Said Starscream, one of his claws cracked, making oil spill out slowly. "Damn this damn ship and damn Megatron…"

He picked up a distress signal from Soundwave, instantly on the alert.

"Megatron!" yelled Starscream. "Soundwave is sending a distress beacon!"

"Well then, send Thundercracker to check his position out," snarled Megatron, "You're needed here, as much as I hate to say it."

Starscream grumbled at his leader's annoying added comment and spat out,

"But Thundercracker is one of the Decepticons needed for our secret mission…"

"You are too, so send Thundercracker." Ordered Megatron.

Starscream grumbled and sent a chat room invitation to Thundercracker, hoping he would pick it up from inside the Nemesis.

Chat room invitation; sent

Thundercracker has accepted invitation.

"I hear ya."

"Thundercracker, you're needed to go check out what's wrong with Soundwave. He is orbiting Earth and should be above Asia. Go check it out."

"Sir yessir!"

Chat Room closed.

Thundercracker was not very bright, but he was one of Starscream's number one choices as a Second-in-command (Next to Barricade), if he was to ever be rid of Megatron. Thundercracker had created a certain chemical that could have him be heard about 200 miles away when he was flying fast. He did this on purpose: to scare Autobots out of their wits. He had scanned an F-22 as his alt form, making him similar in structure to Starscream, yet he was larger and could endure more damage than the cunning Second-in-command.

Thundercracker opened the huge bay entrance of the Nemesis for Starscream and Megatron, and then zoomed past them at speeds of Mach 6.

Megatron and Starscream hurried to the medical lab, the most underused place, due to the fact that most their doctors were dead, and Decepticons usually neglect medical attention in general. They stared fondly at three particular pods in general, all three holding long-dead transformers of the same faction of Megatron and Starscream. They were three important keys in the role of their ultimate plan.

"Are the Recharge stasis pods ready for the experiment?" asked Megatron to Starscream.

"As ready as they'll ever be, sire," said Starscream, his voice dripping with contempt on the last word.

"Now let's begin the process…I want to defeat the Autobots, once and for all!" said Megatron triumphantly as Starscream hooked up a few cables connecting the recharge stasis pods to a machine nearby, a place where Megatron stuck the All-spark fragments, about two-thirds of the tiny amount of dust, Megatron storing the other third for further experiments.

"Let us begin the experiment!"

Thanks for reading, and please review. Don't expect much of Sam and Mikaela in this story, they have actually rather minor roles in this scheme. I'll have the next chapter up by thanksgiving at the most.