Cliffjumper Doesn't die and is partnered with human charge named Hannah who is almost always accompanied by her dog.
chapter 1
Miko -15 years old
Raf-12 and 3/4
Jack -24
Hannah- 23
"So I am minding my own business and these lights hit my rear view mirror." Cliffjumper said. "Then it hits me I'm illegally parked." He said.
"Another ticket?" Arcee asked.
"Boy Cliffy boy you always have the best stories." Skidmark said laughing.
"Not just that the boot!" Cliffjumper said.
"A parking boot the clamp that can't come off." Arcee said.
"Wow I never got one of those but kid once spray painted me." Skidmark said.
"Yep I waited till they were gone and I kicked off my shiny new shoe and left." Cliffjumper said.
"Cliffjumper we are suppose to keep a low profile." Arcee said.
"Hey you mess with Cliffjumper." He started to say.
"I know you get the horns." Arcee finished.
"Yeah Cliffy boy you really take things by the horns." Skidmark said laughing.
"Must you always crack jokes and take things like a joke?" Arcee asked.
"Yeah Skidmark, chill." Cliffjumper said.
"Hey, just trying to lighten the mood it is boring out here." Skidmark said.
"Like Jasper Nevada is party?" Arcee said.
"I'm picking up an energon signal I'll go scope it out." Skidmark said.
"Wait for us to back you up this time buddy last time you did that you had to get an overhaul." Cliffjumper said.
"Yeah right I'll give you the blow by blow." Skidmark said. Skidmark arrived at the site. "This is perfect." Skidmark said.
Then the Decepticons appeared. "Uh oh. Cliff and Cee I may need back up." Skidmark said.
The fight began. Skidmark got the fin on his left audio knocked off.
"Good grief I hope we make it in time." Cliffjumper said.
"Yeah he is one of your best friends." Arcee told Cliffjumper.
The Decepticons fired. The energon exploded. The Vehicons took the wounded Skidmark on the ship.
The other Autobots came looking for him. Cliffjumper saw the audial fin. "This is his audial fin." Cliffjumper said.
On the ship. "Hello Skidmark." Starscream said.
"Hey Starscream where is your boss?" Skidmark asked.
"Ahh!" Starscream said and launched his hand into Skidmark's chest. Skidmark fell down dead.
"Skidmark's signal went offline." Ratchet said.
"No," Cliffjumper said and looked at the audial fin.
"Are you okay?" Arcee asked.
"I think so he was one of my childhood friends I will never forget him." Cliffjumper said.
The Autobots gave a memorial service. After the eulogies, Cliffjumper sighed and transformed. "I need to think." he said and drove off. Arcee transformed and followed him.
"Hey Cliff I came just in case you needed someone to talk to." Arcee said.
"Thanks Arcee I'm grateful to have friend like you. First Blazeburn and now Skidmark. Two of my closest friends gone." Cliffjumper said.
"It'll be okay." Arcee said.
Decepticons came in. "Arcee we have company." Cliffjumper said.
"I'll go this way you go that way." Arcee said.
Cliffjumper parked at a pet shop and Arcee parked at KO Burger. "Cousin Abigail I just got off work see when you get off work love you bye." The girl said. "Wow what nice car some day I will own one like you just collect more of my paychecks from working at the pet shop first." The girl said. A dog barked. "Marcy quiet it's just a car." The girl said. She climbed in car.
The dog hopped in. "Uh oh." Cliffjumper said. He drove off with the girl inside.
"Whoa crazy car and what is with boy on the motorcycle!" She shouted. She climbed out.
"Who are you?" The boy asked.
"Yes I agree who are you guys?" The girl agreed.
"We don't exist if you tell anyone I'll hunt you down." Arcee said.
"Whoa go easy on them." Cliffjumper said.
Both of them drove off. One of the purple cars chased them. "We don't know them!" The boy shouted.
"I'm Jack," The boy said.
"I'm Hannah," The girl said.
"Hop on!" Arcee said. Jack hopped on.
"Get in!" Cliffjumper said. Hannah climbed in with her dog.
"That was close." Hannah said.
The Vehicons began shooting at them. "Why are those guys shooting at us." Jack asked.
"There is no us and they aren't guys," Arcee said.
"Boy she has an attitude." Hannah said.
"You have no idea." Cliffjumper said.
"I heard that!" Arcee said.
Another car came it was yellow. It slammed the Vehicons away. It beeped and whirred. "Friend of yours?" Jack asked.
"Family." Arcee answered.
"What is he your brother?" Hannah asked.
"He's like one." Cliffjumper answered.
Arcee and Cliffjumper went over the bridge. There Jack and Hannah met Rafael. The Vehicons came and attacked. Arcee and Cliffjumper transformed. "This ends here cons!" Arcee said.
"Bring it on!" Cliffjumper said.
They began to fight. "What are they?" Rafael asked.
"Talking cars that turn into robots or the other way around," Jack said.
"Yeah," Hannah said.
"Oof!" Arcee said.
"Arcee!" Cliffjumper shouted.
Then Bumblebee jumped and transformed. Bumblebee beeped and lifted his foot and saw the crushed toy car. Bumblebee beeped sadly. "Oh that's okay." Rafael said.
They ran into a pipe and a Vehicon tried to grab him. Bumblebee beeped and looked in. "Thank you." Rafael said.
"Let's go!" Jack said.
"Who were they?" Hannah asked.
"What did we just see?" Rafael asked.
"I don't know if we should find out." Jack said. Then they ran.
The Vehicons retreated as Bulkhead came in. "What took you?" Arcee asked him.
"Traffic," Bulkhead answered.
At the base. "The cons would been scrap if wasn't for the human." Arcee said.
"Human?" Optimus asked.
"Three humans, two boys and a girl." Cliffjumper said.
"With the Decepticons targeting us anyone perceived as our allies is at risk." Optimus said.
The next day at the park. "Hey Raf, Hannah." Jack said.
"Hey," Raf said.
"Hi," Hannah said.
"Let's keep what we saw yesterday between us." Jack said.
Bumblebee drove up and beeped. "Who us?' Jack asked.
Bumblebee beeped again. "No just me. That's yours and that's Hannah's." Raf said pointing at Cliffjumper and Arcee.
Hannah climbed into Cliffjumper. Jack meet up with Arcee in an alley there they met Miko. "Scrap." Arcee said.
They drove off. "Where are we going?" Hannah asked.
"Wait and see." Cliffjumper said.
"Why take her?' Jack asked Arcee about Miko.
"Rules!" Arcee said.
They went into the base. "I thought there were only three humans." Ratchet said.
"Don't you know humans multiply." Arcee said.
"I'm Raf." Raf said.
"I'm Miko," Miko said.
"I'm Hannah." Hannah said.
Miko saw Bulkhead."Who are you?" She asked him.
"Bulkhead," He said.
"Do you turn into a car no a truck a monster truck." Miko said.
"Uh," Bulkhead said.
"What are you?' Hannah asked.
"Puh-lease." Ratchet said.
Optimus prime came in. "We are Autonomous robotic organisms from planet Cybertron also known as Autobots." Optimus said.
"Why are you here?" Jack asked.
"To protect your planet from the Decepticons." Optimus said.
"The guys who tried to bump us off last night." Arcee said.
"Why are they here?" Jack asked.
"Because our planet is now uninhabitable because of mainly a civil war." Optimus said.
"Why were fighting a war?" Raf asked.
"Mainly fighting over the planets source of energon. The life blood and fuel of Autobots and Decepticons alike." Optimus said. "In the beginning I fought along side one I considered a brother. But in war ideals can become corrupted. So Megatron lost his way" Optimus said.
"Who is Megatron or what does it have to do with us?' Jack asked.
"Yeah," Hannah said.
"Megatron hasn't been seen or heard from in some time." Optimus said. "But if his return is imminent as I fear it might be catastrophic." Optimus said.
Megatron had returned.
"Now you know of our existence the Decepticons know of yours." Optimus said.
"I get see any suspicious bots call 911." Jack said.
"What I am in paradise with all these bots and you or anyone is going to ruin it." Miko said.
"Plus I think their nice." Hannah said."Plus I think my dog Marcy likes Cliffjumper."
"It is best you four remain under our watch, that is until we determine Megatron's intentions." Optimus said.
"Optimus the human children are in just as much danger here." Ratchet said.
"They no protective outer shell if they get under foot the go squish." Ratchet said.
"For the time being Ratchet we must watch were we step." Optimus said.
An alarm went off. "What's that?" Jack asked.
"It's loud." Hannah said.
Bumblebee beeped.
"Proximity alert someone is up top." Raf said.
"It's agent Fowler." Ratchet said.
"I thought we were the only humans who knew about you guys." Jack said.
"Agent Fowler is our lesion to the outside world he only comes when there are issues. It's probably best you don't meet him at this time." Optimus said.
The kids walked off.
Agent Fowler was upset about Arcee's, Cliffjumper's and Bumblebee's actions last night. Optimus informed him the Decepticons have returned and how the Autobots were the only defense against them. Fowler wasn't convinced.
"Hey fleshie team prime knows how to use force and how much to use." Bulkhead said crushing something.
"Bulkhead I needed that!" Ratchet said.
"Enough!" Optimus said. "Military involvement will only be catastrophic you can handle wide spread human casualties I cannot." Optimus said.
"Then handle this prime." Fowler said and left.
Megatron went up to Starscream and showed him the dark energon. "I heard it can revive the dead." Starscream said.
"Are you willing to make the ultimate sacrifice?" Megatron asked.
"Actually." Starscream said and had Skidmark's body brought in. "Consider it a welcome home present." Starscream said.
Megatron plunged the dark in energon in Skidmark's chest. Skidmark arose but he wasn't alive he was a Terracon and attacked everything in his path. Megatron sliced him.
"Strange Skidmark's signal is back online." Ratchet said.
"How can this be?" Cliffjumper asked.
"There might be possibility that he's alive." Arcee said.
"We need to rescue Skidmark." Optimus said.
They were surprised Skidmark wasn't alive like he was before but an undead Terracon and disappeared again. This great upset Cliffjumper Skidmark was a childhood friend of his.
Raf helped Ratchet fix the computer.
The team had returned and told them what happened. Cliffjumper faltered and Ratchet scanned him.
"What's this?' Ratchet asked.
"I don't know Skidmark was covered in it." Cliffjumper said.
Ratchet took it off.
"Take him to recover." Ratchet said.
"Hey I hate break it but no bars." Jack said.
"Security measure. The silo walls block all radio waves." Optimus said.
"If I don't call my mom soon the police will be looking for me." Jack said.
"Did you commit a crime?" Optimus asked.
"No I promised my mom I would help her. Tomorrow I start as a med student." Jack said. "It's after 10:00 pm." Jack said.
"I have to get home to I'll be grounded for a year." Raf said.
"Cousin Abigail will be so worried and I have pets to feed." Hannah said. "I have my first day as student at the Vets office coming up." she said.
"Earth customs I haven't considered." Optimus said. "But the issue of your safety remains Bulkhead accompany Miko home." Optimus said.
"Cool my host parents will freak." Miko said.
"Maintain curb side duty." Optimus said.
"Curbside got it." Bulkhead said.
"AWE!" Miko said.
"Bumblebee you'll watch over Raf." Optimus said.
"Ratchet?" Optimus asked.
"Busy." Ratchet said.
"Arcee you will go home with Jack." Optimus said.
"Cliffjumper you will be with Hannah." Optimus said.
"I still feel funny." Cliffjumper said.
"Doctor says your fine." Ratchet said.
Cliffjumper pulled up into the garage. "Cliffjumper I want to say I am sorry for your loss." Hannah said.
"I guess you know a few things about loss." Cliffjumper said.
"Many humans do." Hannah said.
"I guess people trouble does count." Cliffjumper said transforming.
"Hey! A lot people have social issues." Hannah said.
A car came up. "Decepticon?" Cliffjumper said readying his guns.
"No guardian." Hannah said. Cliffjumper looked at her. "Parental guardian." Hannah said.
Abigail came out of her car. "Hannah what's this?" Abigail said.
"Abigail I can explain." Hannah said.
"Hannah we talked about this." Abigail said.
"You told me to be responsible this a way of showing it. It's used you want me to make mature decisions I chose him. More like he chose me." Hannah said.
"Hannah I didn't think you would be bringing boys home." Abigail said. "But I will like to go from a drive with you sometime I know Darren would too he loves classic cars." Abigail said.
"I don't know he's a noisy one." Hannah said turning off the light.
Cliffjumper made noise early in the morning. "Hey don't wake up Abigail I had just finished my pet chores I have shows I want to watch it's Saturday." Hannah said.
"You can watch cartoons at the base with Bee." Cliffjumper said.
"Okay but I meant shows about real life animals." Hannah said.
Megatron was planning on raising an army of the undead. Ratchet conclude that stuff was Dark Energon.
Megatron seemed a little off due to the dark energon flowing in his veins.
Cybertron was in danger.
Optimus managed to escape the exploding space bridge but Megatron was caught in the explosion.
"Well?" Hannah asked.
"Do you think they are?" Raf asked.
"Five life signals one is weak." Ratchet said.
Optimus came through. Then Bulkhead came through and Miko hugged him.
Then Arcee and Bumblebee came running through holding a weak Cliffjumper.
"Oh no. We already lost one this week let's not make it two." Ratchet said.
Hannah touched Cliffjumper. "Cliffjumper." she said.
Cliffjumper opened his optics. "Hannah there are other classic muscle cars out there." he said with smile.
"You were my first and your my friend." Hannah said. Cliffjumper stood up and smiled at Hannah.
Agent Fowler thanked Optimus and left.
"So is this the part where you say good-bye and tell us to forget we ever saw you?' Miko asked.
Optimus had decided to stay on earth. He gave the children Autobot partners.
Jack with Arcee, Raf with Bumblebee, Miko with Bulkhead and Hannah with Cliffjumper.
"Without means of leaving this world, we Autobots take strength in the binds we have forged. With our three young friends. True warriors if not in body then in spirit. My name is Optimus prime though did not chose to be of earth we intend to stay if you approach this planet with hostility we will defend ourselves, we will defend humanity we will defend our home." Optimus said.