Only Human
Chapter 1
Arrival
By KingWaspinator
This fanfic will star me and my siblings!
Optimus Primal was sitting down in his quarters and contemplating the new Preadcon threat. The five stasis pod that Megatron and his followers had scrounged up had been exceptionally powerful by themselves. When they had formed Deathking however, they were unstoppable. His troops had suffered defeat after defeat at the hands of the combinder. Combination technology had been lost years ago, so how did these Deathcons combine? He sighed. If he had more firepower, he could stop Deathking but only the autoguns and a full Maximal squad could force him to flee. His Comlink started beeping at that point and he answered. "This is Optimus. What is the problem?" Rattrap's voice came over the Comlink. "Boss Monkey, we got two Preads outside, knocking on our door! They want to talk but I say we just shoot them." "Rattrap, just bring them in and I'll interrogate them personally." "You're the boss monkey." Sighing, Rattrap opened the blast doors and went to bring the Preads in.
As soon as Optimus had reached the lower levels of the base, the two Visitors were at a table, eating snacks and energon, with the rest of the Maximals around them. If he recalled right, the green one was called Waspinator and the Gold and aqua one was Quickstrike. He wondered what they were doing here. As soon as they saw him, the both sprang into a salute. Depth Charge just snorted, "Alright, just tell us what you want before I slag you." Both Preads looked at each other and then spoke, "We want to join the Maximals." Everyone was shocked by this. "Why would we accept Preadcons into the ranks?" said Rattrap. Waspinator started speaking. "Megatron is cruel. Makes Waspinator and Two-Heads do dirty work! New Deathcons strong! Waspinator tired of being abused and hurt. Waspinator and Two-Head join Maximals to fight against Megatron!" Optimus looked at Quickstrike. "And your reason is?" Quickstrike looked at him right in the eye and spoke. "Mah reason is that… well, I've been felling bad about Mah self lately. You are fighting against Megs and I want to join for a chance at redemption. Miss Arachnia", Blackarachnia looked at him with surprise. He called her Sugar-bot most of the time. "Miss Arachnia, and You too Silverbolt, I own a big apology to you for fighting against yah and for trying to woo yah. I know you all hate me but give me a chance to redeem myself for my actions." The Maximals were surprised by Quickstrike's statement. Optimus looked at the Preadcons. "We'll just have a discussion on whether you join or we kick you out." Quickstrike shrugged, "Didn't expect anything less." Waspinator was digging into the snacks and he joined him. Optimus looked at them and thought about what to do…
"I'm telling ya, Boss Monkey! We can't let the Preads join!" Optimus looked at the small Rat transformer. "Why not? Dinobot and Blackarachnia joined and both have turned out to be powerful Maximals." Depth Charge spoke now. "There useless. Waspinator has weak armor and even if he wasn't, he is not strong enough to take on any of the Preads except for the demented Ant." Cheetor cut in, "And that fuzor guy isn't much help against them either. His cybervenom shots are useful but they can't do much damage to Transmetels." Optimus nodded. "Silverbolt, Blackarachnia, Rhinox. Is there anything you want to add?"
Silverbolt was first up, "Sir, I believe we should let them join. Waspinator would make a good scout and we need more flyers. Quickstrike would also be good at either guarding the base or on frontline combat." Blackarachnia spoke up now. "I agree with Silverbolt here. We need all the help we can get." Rhinox now added his views. "Both are good soldiers and if they had help from Transmetels or others they would beat Preadcons easily. If we got the Transmetel driver even, that would power them up.' Optimus decided. "Team, as of today, we have two new comrades!"
The two Preadcons were waiting patiently for the Maximals answer. Optimus looked at them and uttered the words, "Welcome aboard." Both former preads felt a new surge of hope flare in their sparks. "Thanks Maximals!! You won't regret this!!" Waspinator was buzzing happily. "Same here!! You need anything, just give me a call!" Quickstrike was jumping around willy-nilly. The computer system then chose to interrupt. "Warning, Preadcon units inbound to base. Stasis pods located. Number: 4." Everyone froze. Optimus recovered the fastest. "Right team, we need to split up!! Quickstrike, Waspinator, Rattrap and Silverbolt will retrieve the pods. The rest of us will combat the enemy head on. All defense autoguns and shields, full power!! Move out!"
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