Optimus: I dislike the way the story is going already...
Me: Too bad. *Prances in circles* I own the autobots...
Ratchet: *Brandishes wrench*
Me: *squeaks* Never mind!
Optimus Prime stumbled over a Chinese freeway, narrowly missing passing vehicles as he ran after a Decepticon Cybercat, kin of Ravage. Behind him were Ironhide, Bumblebee and Sideswipe following in the pursuit, dodging civilians and buildings.
.:He's turned into an alley. Cut him off at the end!:. Optimus shouted into his comm link. Ironhide and Sideswipe broke off from following the Prime and turned into another alley, meaning to come out and catch the Cybercat.
"Suckers!" the Cybercat sneered from the top of a red brick apartment building. Sideswipe nearly rammed face first into an alley street light, distracted by the 'Con a little too much for a moment.
"Say that the my cannons, you punk-aft Cybercat!" Ironhide shouted, his two arm cannons sliding out of his wrists. Optimus skidded to a stop behind the weapons specialist and shoved Ironhide's aim toward the sky.
"There're people in the building, Ironhide, if you would care to scan." Prime said, transforming to his alternate form and driving into another alley. Bumblebee ran past the silver and black mechs and jumped on top of a smaller building, leaping from roof to roof in pursuit of the laughing Cybercat.
"Idiot." Sideswipe teased, skating after Optimus. Ironhide growled and followed at a slower pace, keeping his cannons out and ready to scrap the annoying Decepticon.
Optimus transformed back to bipedal mode and looked up at the Cybercat, who was now atop a beige brown apartment building standing around seventy-five feet tall. Prime narrowed his optics at the 'Cons next actions.
"All will fear Lord Megatron and bow to him as lord and master of the universe!" the Cybercat roared, his energon veins beginning to glow a bright white. Sideswipe scowled and unsheathed his blades, leaping onto a shorter building beside the yellow scout.
.:Colonel Lennox, now would be a good time.:. Optimus said into the comm to the NEST Colonel William Lennox. He looked to the sky to see the waiting military Chinook helicopter hovering a ways above the Cybercat.
"Frag, I need to get up there." Ironhide grumbled when he caught up with the other Autobots. Bumblebee rolled his optics, whirring as he jumped to a higher roof with Sideswipe.
"Humans will be of no help where you're going, Autobots." The Cybercat laughed, turning into a blinding white blur. A field of white energy surrounded the 'Con, expanding to surround the Autobots. Then darkness.
Colonel William Lennox sat beside Chromia, one of the few Autobot femmes, in the Chinook, dazed. The Autobot mechs and the bogey 'Con had just all vanished into thin air. He and Chromia exchanged glances.
"Will, Where'd they go? Was this planned?" asked Epps.
"I don't know." Lennox replied to his friend. Epps rubbed his head and looked out the cargo door at where the Autobots and the Cybercat had been only five minutes before. Lennox looked out a window, eyes narrowed. Chromia vented and transformed into her navy blue Jaguar XKR alt form, facing the cargo doors quietly as her thoughts dwelled on how the mechs had vanished, her Ironhide with them.
Where the Frag did you go big bot? Lennox thought as the helicopter turned to fly the soldiers back to NEST base.
A few minutes before, in the Decepticon warship, the Nemesis…
"The Cybercat number one has activated and successfully transformed Prime, the scout, weapons specialist, and the front-liner, Lord Megatron." said Shockwave, his one red optic glinting in victory. Megatron smirked triumphantly.
"Bring the other in here, and send the third to the Autobot base. We're ready for our own, transformation." He chuckled. Shockwave left to find the said Cybercats while Soundwave explained how everything about the Cybercats worked, as the Decepticon scientist, Knock Out, explained it to him.
'The Cybercats can unleash their energy to turn any Cybertronians within their energy field into one of the planet's animals, a cat. The only way to return to normal is by the concentrated light of a full moon or whatever light an eclipse can give.'
Megatron smiled, planning carefully. An eclipse was to happen in only two orns, lunar, and a full moon in one orn. Megatron meant to be prepared. As what the humans call cats, he would kill Prime much easier, and then come back to normal, robotic forms to take over the Earth.
Little did the Decepticon leader know, turning all into cats would be of more benefit to the Autobots than himself…