The day began as a regular one, where everyone expected nothing extraordinary to happen. The two opposing factions, the Autobots and the Decepticons were at a standstill, with neither side having an edge in their several million-year war. In the last month especially the only confrontations between the two occurred when the Autobots raided the Energon deposits and fought with the Decepticons. The end to the war was nowhere in sight, especially after the two leaders destroyed their special sabers, as well as the forge of Solus Prime.
A lone blue motorcycle rode to the Autobot base, located somewhere near to Jasper, Nevada. Two people sat on top of the motorcycle, a sixteen year old boy and his mother behind him. The boy's guardian robot Arcee was driving to the base.
Suddenly, the trio heard noise and saw a large ship crashing into the earth. Many parts broke off from the ship and were falling everywhere around the desert. "Hold on" spoke Arcee as she concentrated on the rode and at the last second evaded a large chunk of the metal. The motorcycle drove on, speeding up. The two humans became more anxious as their bodies could absorb less damage than their Autobot friend.
Arcee rode on the rode and saw another large chunk of metal flying towards them. She evaded it and then accelerated, jumping on top of another metal piece, before driving on it and landing further from the other broken parts.
The three barely reached the safe distance as the large ship impacted the ground, which resulted into an explosion. The ground shook and the dust flew towards the unfortunate trio. Upon impact, the dust cloud hit them on the ground, by stopping the motorcycle from driving. Arcee immediately transformed and caught the two humans. "We would need to wait, my comlink is jammed. Scrap" she spoke, looking protectively at her two charges.
As the dust cleared, the trio saw a group of transformers exit the ship. Many of the robots looked highly similar although two of them seemed rather distinctive. Arcee immediately recognized both of them. "That's Ironhide and Chromia" she realized with happiness. Ironhide was a large metallic grey Autobot, roughly the same size as Bulkhead. The bot obviously was a seasoned veteran as he had many scars across the body, as well as the look of a powerful soldier. His partner Chromia was a blue Autobot femme like Arcee. However, in comparison to Jack's partner, this transformer was much larger. The femme could easily rival Ratchet's height and only seemed slightly shorter than Ironhide. Her body was also bulkier unlike Arcee's elegant thin body. The humans looked at the robots' insignia and were relieved. However, Decepticons, who were led by a bulky navy Decepticon with one dot for an eye, who had a reptilian tail, immediately attacked the Autobot group. This Decepticon was slightly smaller than both Megatron and Dreadwing. Nevertheless, he still radiated much fear from him.
"That's Shockwave, take cover." She exclaimed
"Autobots, please give me the AllSpark and I promise you I will kill you quickly" he said very slowly and distantly in a great comparison to their usual enemies who were very passionate about their encounters with Autobots with the exception of Soundwave.
"Over my dead body" screamed the large blue femme. "Lets go Ironhide" the two large Autobots engaged in a battle with Shockwave, while the Autobot militia fought with the Vehicons.
"You seem to loose touch Chromia. It's a pity; I wanted this battle to be more entertaining. I bet even your tiny sister can fight better than you. And you Ironhide are as clumsy as Bulkhead, now that I recall him." He taunted them
The battle continued. The militia bots and cons seemed to be destroying each other, while their commanders were fighting for some relic. Arcee looked at the two humans with concern in her eyes. "Please sit here you two as I will help the Autobots against Shockwave. He is extremely dangerous and even more sadistic than Airachnid," she cautioned the two before jumping into the battle, where upon landing she immediately destroyed a Vehicon.
"Mom, we need to retrieve the relic. If it is as important as they claim, we cannot have it fall into Decepticons hands" spoke Jack and his mother agreed. The two humans quickly run through the battlefield, avoiding the crossfire between the two opposing factions. As they were approaching the entrance to the ship, they two suddenly stopped.
"Mom?" questioned Jack before he noticed that his mother June Darby was hit by in her legs, arms and chest. The woman dropped on the ground.
"Go Jack, secure the relic" Jack entered the ship and ran from room to room before finally reaching the room with the relic. It did not seem that large, he could definitely slide it on the floor. The relic was a rectangle with two handles. A luminescent white orb was located in its core, slightly showing to the outside. Jack took one handle and pushed the relic away from the wall. Strangely, the relic decreased in size and Jack saw that it slowly became a small rectangle with a smaller orb within it. The boy quickly grabbed the orb before running away to get help.
Meanwhile, the battle outside the ship was heating up. Most of the troops were now lying dead or dying, with few still fighting. An Autobot shot at a Vehicon but missed. That Vehicon retaliated but also missed. Instead, he hit a canister of Energon fuel, which exploded, and its content as well as the metal parts dispersed in many directions. Some liquid Energon together with metal shrapnel hit June who by now could not move at all. Jack hated himself and the situation as a whole as he did not know what to do.
Arcee quickly jumped and decacipated that Vehicon before proceeding to fight. The three giants however began to fight even more intensely. Shockwave took out a metallic stick and electrocuted Ironhide.
"You monster" Chromia jumped at him but was thrown away as Shockwave used the stick to defend himself.
Shockwave looked at the temporarily defeated opponent and walked towards the large mech. "Goodbye Ironhide" He said in a monotone voice before ripping a spark away from Ironhide's chest. He then quickly decacipated his opponent.
"Shockwave. I order you to immediately arrive to Nemesis" spoke Megatron through the comlink. The combatants realized that their leaders bypassed the dead communications. A green ground bridge formed and Shockwave quickly ran towards it, quickly grabbing Ironhide's spark and head in the process. He soon disappeared.
"You will pay Shockwave! Do you hear me!" screamed the large Autobot femme as she looked towards the place where her enemy had just disappeared. Arcee ran towards the larger transformer.
"Chromia, what are you doing here?" exclaimed Arcee with both excitement and concern.
"We, dear little sister, were securing the powerful relic, which I need to bring to Optimus Prime. However, Shockwave with his minions caught up with us and as you can see everyone in that pursuit is now dead, save Shockwave and me."
"What is the package you were carrying?" asked the smaller Transformer.
"Sorry sis, but this info is very confidential, I need to only report to Prime. Where is the base?"
"We need first to secure that our human allies are alright then we will proceed" spoke Arcee before moving away.
"As your commanding officer I object to this decision. Our priority is to bring the relic to Optimus Prime, we should not concern ourselves with petty human casualties."
Arcee looked angrily at her older sister, with her optics almost popping out from the sockets. "Screw you and your" by the book code." I will help my partner." Arcee jumped towards the place where she left her human allies.
"Same young Cee" spoke Chromia slowly, before following her sister.
When Arcee approached her human partner, she was stunned. Jack was sitting on the rock, hugging his paralyzed wounded mother. Arcee was proud that June was so quiet, so stoic. "Optimus, we need an Emergency ground bribge now!"
As the green ground bridge opened, the two Autobot femmes' saw Optimus Prime accompanied by Bulkhead and Bumblebee, who jumped from the ground bridge." Optimus, my sister Chromia and Ironhide crashed here and got engaged into a battle with Shockwave, who killed Ironhide. Chromia also claims that the two of them carried some powerful Autobot relic. Besides that, June was hit and is in a critical condition." She creamed the last sentence.
"Bumblebee, please bring Ms. Darby to the base. Let Ratchet see if he can do anything to help" the Prime spoke in a slow concerned voice, but it was clear that he cared about the well being of all humans. The young yellow bot transformed into a car and drove back to the base.
"Optimus Prime, sir, I politely disagree with the order. Shouldn't we first secure the relic?" Chromia spoke impatiently.
"The relic may be important, but as important as it maybe, I will not put any relic, no matter how powerful before the life of a human, who we swore to protect. I would even destroy the last hope for Cybertron's restoration if it were to protect our human allies." Spoke Optimus to stunned Chromia. "We are all to put human safety before our Cybetronian needs, is that clear" he spoke
"Yes sir" spoke the large blue bot as she transferred into a large navy car, driving quickly into the Ground Bridge.
"Lets go Jack, your mother is waiting. Arcee, please bring the boy to the base" Spoke Optimus to the female transformer as he saw a small object in Jack's hand.
"Jack, please give this to me, I know what this is" he spoke. Jack gave the small object, which immediately grew in size. Optimus took the box and followed the pair into the base.
As the three returned to the base, Ratchet looked at his commander with sadness and disappointment. "I am sorry Optimus, but I don't think that I can do anything much. I don't think that Ms. June Darby will live for another day"
Meanwhile on Nemesis, Shockwave approached his Commander, Megatron. "Lord Megatron, I pursued the two Autobot officers Chromia and Ironhide as they tried to escape with the AllSpark but was unable to get the relic. However, I destroyed their team and while Chromia escaped, I killed her partner Ironhide." Spoke the Decepticon as he gave Megatron the spark and the head of the fallen warrior.
"Well done Shockwave. While your loss of the ultimate weapon was most unfortunate, you actually brought good news to the ship unlike the rest of the crew Go to see Knockout and compare the notes. "
"Lord Megatron, I think I am also ready to begin the Project Dragon" Megatron smiled as his loyal servant Shockwave went to see the other Decepticon scientist.