Takes place somewhat before the Mission City battle. Features the Dinobots arriving early on Earth, having found their way to help the Autobots.
Chapter 1
"Where is Ratchet?" Optimus Prime growls. "Yeah, where is he?" Ironhide chimes in. The tall red-and-blue Autobot leader gets up from his stony seat rather wearily. "Hmm..." he says heavily. "The Decepticons should be around somewhere, waiting to tear us apart. And the humans will need our help. But Ratchet is an important warrior." Optimus frowns deeply before looking at the tall buildings far away in the distance that looked as tall as the satanic Decepticon leader Megatron.
"Yeah, Ratchet is a good battle buddy. And the medic." Jazz grins, hoping to lighten everybody's mood. He saunters over to Ironhide who looks as sombre as Ironhide. "Hey, come on. Cheer up about Bumblebee. He will be OK. Although it seems pretty rough now for him now, Bee will soon make the humans smile! You know how clever the Bee is. Besides, he is not alone. He has got his rather scaredy-cat of a human friend, Sam." "He's not a scaredy-cat!" booms Optimus. The duo is steel-shocked into silence. Then Jazz continues talking.
"Don't you remember when we came to the boy's house just to hurry him up a little bit on that glasses and Prime stepped on that poor little stone ornament or something? Poor Prime! And Sam got hysterical!" Jazz starts laughing as he remembers how Optimus Prime tried to calm the frightened teenager. Now Ironhide has a grin on his metallic face. "Hey, Jazz. About Ratchet and Bumblebee, I can still remember the time Grimlock and Swoop stole Megatron's new photon-laser bomb. As that thundering old nincompoop of a Decepticon started screaming 'Decepticons, attack', Ratchet and Bumblebee got the others into a relay line. Swoop tossed the bomb to Ratchet, and then Ratchet sent it to Hound, to Prowl, to Wheeljack, all the way until Grimlock got it just as Demolisher was arriving. "
"Yeah, I remember now." says Jazz. "Megatron was too angry to see his precious baby in Grimlock's jaws. Then, he tried to shoot Prime, but Grimlock threw the bomb at his gun. Megatron fired just as his baby came back to daddy and he ended up wrecked and burnt up like a piece of toast on Earth here!" With that, the trio, Optimus included, started laughing like crazy until their spark cores were about to explode. "Yeah, that barging idiot of a Megatron. Always saying, 'you are powerless, Prime' and 'you weak fool, I will crush you'. Then Slag would come and shoot him on his backside, followed by the rest of the Dinobots. Then it's play time for the Dinobots." Then the trio started laughing almost hysterically at the Decepticon leader's expense. Just then, Optimus Prime stops indulging in his temporary revelry and looks at the sky worriedly. A fighter jet swoops pass towards the direction of the Hoover dam. The area was full of military bases, not to mention air fields. But somehow, Prime had a bad feeling about it.
"Autobots, never mind about Ratchet. He will catch up soon. I trust him. For now, I sense the Decepticons' presence." Prime says. "You are right. Do I smell Starscream?" Ironhide mutters. "No, it's that petrol café." Jazz says, pointing at an oil kiosk. "Whatever," Ironhide says. "Anyway, if things get settled quickly, maybe I'll get something from there." "It should be on the house, courtesy of the humans!" Jazz declares grandly. "Enough talking. Autobots, roll out!" says Prime before the trio transforms into their vehicle modes in a flash and disappear in a thick cloud of exhaust fumes.
Later as the Mission City battle approaches…
At a rubbish dump near Mission City, five huge smoking craters sit uncomfortably near some burning cars. The rubbish heap comprises of three enormous heaps. Three, if you count the giant metal-plated Slag, a robotic Triceratops, chomping on the remains of a rusty automobile. He does not care about the Coke tin cans sticking to his body. His lonely-looking friend, Sludge, a miserable Apatosaurus bawls as he inspects a dirty truck that looks like Optimus Prime's vehicle mode for a moment. The Dinobot leader, a snarling Tyrannosaurus Rex says in a fiery voice, "Don't be so depressed, Sludge. Optimus is a no brainer. He kicked us out at Protihex after we saved his ass from a beating by Megatron. Thinking of us as disobedient freaks, huh? Forget those so-called Autobot heroes. It's the Dinobots that liberated Protihex!" He spits out a tiny paperclip from his sharp teeth before wrenching up a lamp post to use as a toothpick.
Snarl, a heavy Transformer in the form of a Stegosaurus, bashes away a tow truck that has no wheels with his spiked tail. The doomed vehicle lands just outside a house nearby, crushing a Chevrolet. Its owner runs out of the house to scream at the vandals, only to see the Dinobots feasting on the rubbish heap and flee, screaming for the cops. "That was a good one, Snarl." Grimlock says grimly before guffawing. "As for the Autobots, at least Ratchet always comes by sometimes to say hello to his old friends." mutters Snarl. "Yeah, you are right. I like Ratchet. He's not like that silly boastful nut of a Prime." says Swoop, a robotic Pteranodon, with a flap of his quasi-organic wings. "For the time being, it's just us Dinobots. The Dinobots are for the Dinobots!" Grimlock declares with a roar. The others, with the exception of Sludge cheer. Sludge merely looks at the sky and bawls. Grimlock turns with an angry frown. "What?" he demands. Then he sees a fighter jet chasing a yellow ambulance towards their direction.
"That will be Ratchet. And Starscream." mutters Grimlock. "Dinobots, let's teach that idiot to chase our friend." With that, Swoop dispatches a really quiet missile that shoots past Ratchet and the unaware Decepticon before making a U-turn and exploding right behind Starscream, causing him to crash to the ground in his robot mode clumsily. "Ouch….the humans." he groans, thinking of a SAM attack. Then he sees Snarl, Sludge and Slag coming towards him and fear is only on his wretched mind.
"Dinobots, give him a makeover. Free of charge." Grimlock says grimly.