Masterforce: Animated
Chapter 1: Where Are We?
It was official; the Jet twins were a few bolts short of a processor. Apparently so was she for agreeing to this. When they had offered to give her and Bumblebee a tour of the Elite Guards ship she thought that it would be fun to see the inside of the ship without bots thinking that she was going to contaminate them. She had, however, forgotten that she would be on alone on a ship with the Jet twins and Bumblebee for however long Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime would be talking or rather arguing. The Autobots couldn't keep their servos off anything; constantly touching buttons or telling what everything did so fast that she couldn't keep up. She was, therefore, relieved when they finally arrived at the Space Bridge room which meant they were only a few minutes left of this tour.
"So you really keep a Space Bridge in here?" she asked.
"Yes we really be," Jetfire said.
"Yeah," Jetstorm said happily.
The door slid open and they entered the room. Sari's optics widened when she saw a Space Bridge sitting in the middle of the room while consoles lined the walls. "Wow," she said. "It must be pretty cool to be able to go anywhere you want whenever you want to."
"Except here," Bumblebee added. "Because we don't have a Space Bridge on Earth anymore after Omega Supreme blew it up."
"He was just trying to help," Sari reminded him. "Besides he took most of the Decepticons with him."
"Most of them."
"Brother, don't be touching that!" Jetfire cried in alarm as Jetstorm leaned against a console. Hurriedly the blue twin moved away from it but the damage had already been done. A swirling vortex appeared in the middle of the Space Bridge and Sari felt herself being dragged towards it.
"What did you idiots do?" she shrieked.
"He be the idiot," Jetfire pointed at his brother as he too was being pulled in.
"I don't care who did it!" Bumblebee yelled. "I just want someone to turn this thing off!"
"I can't," Jetstorm wailed. "That button's broke."
"If we survive this I'm gonna kill you both," Sari warned as everything went black.
When Sari woke up she could feel something underneath her back. Sitting up she blinked and looked around in confusion. The last thing she remembered was being in the Space Bridge room on the ship and being pulled into it. The most logical conclusion she could come to was that they had been transported somewhere but where? As far as she knew Earth was the only planet with organic life on it, at least it was according to the Transformers. So why then was she sitting in a grassy area with three teenage boys lying near her. Wait a second; this place looked an awful lot like the area outside of Detroit where she and her father used to go on picnics. Deciding to ask one of the boys if they knew where she was she cautiously approached them and shook the one closest to her with yellow pants and shirt with black stripes.
"Aah!" he shrieked as he sat straight up, forcing Sari to jump back so he wouldn't hit her. "Oh my aching processor," he moaned, tenderly cradling his head in his hands.
Sari's optics went wide when she realized that that voice sounded awfully familiar… "Bumblebee?" she whispered in shock.
"Sari?" Bumblebee turned to look at her, allowing her to see his baby blue eyes. "Where are we?" he asked. He caught sight of his hands then and shrieked. "Oh no! We're back in Soundwave's Virtual Reality world again! I don't wanna be human!" he sobbed.
"Knock it off," Sari snapped and slapped his cheek. "I can't figure anything out if you keep crying."
"I'm not crying," he protested. "My eyes are merely leaking like yours used to do."
It was about then that the other two teenage boys groaned and sat up. "My processor be aching," the boy who was wearing blue pants and t-shirt with a blue-and-orange striped baseball cap said.
"Mine be aching too," the other one, who was wearing the orange-and-blue version of the other's outfit, agreed.
"Twins?" Bumblebee asked hesitantly.
"Hi there," they waved then happened to glance at each other. Their blue eyes went wide and they reached out, tapping each other's chest with their fingers. "You be different, brother," Jetstorm said finally.
"You be different too," Jetfire told him.
"This is all your fault," Bumblebee said. "If Jetstorm hadn't been playing with that console then we wouldn't be human."
"It not be my fault," Jetstorm protested.
"No it not be," Jetfire frowned. "You be responsible."
"Me?" Bumblebee said. "And just how is it my fault? You bots were the ones who took us on a tour of the ship."
"Then next time we not be doing it again," Jetfire declared.
"Um, guys, I really hate to break up this argument but why don't we go to town and see if we can find my father and the others?" Sari suggested.
"That sounds like a good idea," Bumblebee said at last, after exchanging glances with the twins who nodded.
Sari sighed in relief when the arguing stopped. However, it was picked back up just a few minutes after they had started walking. She had just resolved to kill the three of them when suddenly she saw a strange sight up ahead. There was Prime (nothing strange there), Prowl (also not strange) and two Decepticons that she hadn't seen before flying overhead. She probably wouldn't have thought anything of it except for the fact that Prime seemed…different somehow. She couldn't put her finger on it but something was off. His fighting style was different than it usually was as he grabbed the wing of the blue plane causing it to yelp. Prime normally didn't do anything like that so Sari was slightly surprised. Her attention was diverted back to the Decepticons when they yelled "Wing cross!" and combined into one big plane while Prime suddenly yelled, "Super Ginrai!" A nearby trailer (the kind that were pulled by 18-wheelers) attached itself to Prime who suddenly got a whole lot taller. Sari's mouth fell open and she stared. Okay, apparently Prime had gotten a few upgrades since the last she had seen him which had been one hour earlier. Somehow she doubted that Transformers could be upgraded that fast. After several minutes of Prowl throwing shurikens and Prime firing at them the two Decepticons flew away.
Sari transformed into her…battle mode and approached Prime. "What happened to you?" she asked.
Looking slight confused he turned to Prowl and asked, "Do you know her?"
Prowl shook his head. "Have we met before?" he asked Sari.
She eyed her eyes. "Of course we met before. Prime, stop playing jokes. You're not that good at them."
"My name," Prime said, suddenly transforming into an 18-wheeler with a trailer "is not Prime." The cab door opened and a Japanese man with black hair, cream jacket and brown pants stepped out. "It's Ginrai," the human said.
The twins, Bumblebee, and Sari all gaped at Prime then gasped audibly when Prowl turned into a human as well. He, however, was dressed as a police officer wearing a motorcycle helmet.
"What's going on, Prowl?" Bumblebee asked after he finally found his voice again.
"Have we met before?" Prowl asked.
Praying for a distraction Sari was grateful when three more unfamiliar Autobots showed up. One was white with pink legs and helm. The second was white with blue chassis, arms, and helm. The last one looked just like the blue one except he was red and white. "Can we help?" the red one asked eagerly.
"Sorry but it's already been taken care of," Ginrai replied.
"We missed all of the action again," the blue one moaned then suddenly transformed into a strange looking police car. The door opened and a human boy in jeans and a white t-shirt stepped out. His black hair was wavy and looked as if it could use a good brushing.
The pink robot turned into a white rescue chopper with a blond-haired girl in a school uniform standing next to it. Sari was not particular surprised when the red one turned out to be a fire truck driven by a boy with blue hair and dressed in what looked like a bed sheet.
"Can humans be changed into Transformers?" Jetfire asked. "Because I always be thinking that they could be not."
Sari answered and said, "They don't. Or at least I didn't think so."
"Look," Ginrai said. "You want answers and we want answers so why don't you back with us to our base? There we can tell you whatever you want to know."
Prowl looked alarmed and said, "I don't think that's such a good idea, Commander. For all we know they could be Decepticon spies."
"I resent that!" Bumblebee yelled.
"Shut up," Sari told him then turned to the human that seemed to be in charge. "We'll go with you," she said.
Ginrai nodded. "You four can ride with me," he opened the door to his truck.
They climbed in and sat in the seats; the twins gingerly poking the upholstery as they had never been inside a vehicle before that wasn't a ship. "What this stuff be?" Jetstorm asked.
"That's called upholstery," Sari informed him. "Humans are much more fragile than you Transformers and need it to protect them."
"Plus it makes sitting down more comfortable," Bumblebee explained.
"Oh," Jetstorm nodded then proceeded to spend the rest of the ride asking questions about everything in the truck much to Sari and Ginrai's annoyance.
They pulled up in front of the base and stopped. Sari smiled and said, "At least some things never change," as the garage door opened up. They drove inside and Sari was fixing to jump out of the truck when she realized that the place was empty. There was absolutely nothing in the warehouse except for some broken factory equipment and empty barrels. Absolutely nothing that proved several alien robots lived there was visible. Ginrai pressed something on the side of one of his gold bracelets that he was wearing and a hole appeared in the floor, revealing a ramp. The truck went down the ramp smoothly with the other three vehicles following as Prowl had decided to ride with the little girl, calling her Minerva.
"Wow," was all Sari could think to say when she saw what was at the bottom of the ramp. It was a humongous room with consoles and panels all over the place, reminding her of the Space Bridge room that she had seen before their arrival.
A man stepped forward, his cream-colored suit and neatly done black hair looking slightly out of place among all of the machines. "Ginrai," he said as they all climbed out of the vehicles. "Who," he gestured to Sari, Bumblebee and the twins, "are they and why did you bring them back with you?"
"It's a very long story," Ginrai admitted as he scratched the back of his neck.
"But knowing the commander I'm sure it's an interesting one," a teenage boy with red hair added as he and another man joined the first.
"I'm sure it is," the first man said. "And I'm sure that he won't mind telling it us will you, Ginrai?"
"No not at all," he said then turned to their guests. "This is Hawk," he pointed to the first man, "and that's Lightfoot," the teenager waved, "and the very ugly man at the end is Road King."
"Ugly?" Road King hollered. "I'll have you know that I won the Grand Prix without so much as breaking a sweat; which is more than I can say for you, Mr. Truck Driver."
"Hey I might be just a truck driver but you would never have won the Grand Prix if that old man hadn't given you your car," Ginrai said.
It appeared that the two men would have started hitting each other had not Hawk stepped in. "You two can finish this argument later," he said. "But right now we have more important issues to deal with." He inclined his head towards Sari and said, "Perhaps you would care to fill us in on how you got here."
"I'd love to tell you," she glared at the twins who cowered and hid behind Bumblebee. "They were showing me and Bumblebee around their ship. We went to the Space Bridge room and that idiot," she pointed at Jetstorm, "accidentally activated it. The next thing I remember was walking up outside of town. They were lying next to me and they were human."
"Why does their being human surprise you?" Hawk asked.
"Because the last time I saw them, they were alien robots."
"We are alien robots as well," Hawk told her. "But we disguise ourselves as humans."
"They can't," she said. "I've known them for a while now and I'm sure that they would've told me if they could turn into humans before now."
"We would have," Bumblebee said. "How do you turn human?" he asked interestedly.
"I will show them," Prowl moved next to Hawk and the two men crossed their wrists then yelled, "Suit on!" Suits of Cybertonian armor appeared on them then they yelled, "Pretender!" turning into robots.
"That's cool," Bumblebee said; his eyes still wide from shock. "Really cool."
"Now," Sari stepped forward. "I told you everything that I know so it's your turn to tell us."
Hawk looked slightly hesitant as he turned back into a human. He frowned then said, "My guess? When your Space Bridge was activated it threw you into a parallel world which is here. As to why your friends changed I'm not entirely certain."
"Cool," Ginrai said. "It's just like a science fiction show."
"Ignore him," Prowl said. "He's not a real Pretender."
"What be a Pretender?" Jetfire asked.
It was then that Hawk decided he would take over the explanations and said, "We come from a planet called Seibertron. We Autobots left one day to chase after some Decepticons. We chased them all over the place until we finally came to this galaxy. We had almost caught them and were engaged in battle one day which seriously damaged our ships. We were forced to make an emergency landing here as were they. We managed to defeat them and sealed them away in the far corners of the Earth. We were unable to return to Seibertron so we took the form of humans and lived among them for millions of years peacefully," Hawk explained.
Bumblebee pointed at Ginrai and the kids and asked, "Are they Pretenders as well?"
Hawk shook his head. "No," he said. "You see some new Decepticons arrived on Earth and set free the ones we had trapped. They somehow figured out how to transform humans into robots by the gold bracelets that they wear and Transectors which are vehicles made out of an unusual kind of rock that even we can't identify. There are two kinds of bracelets; one set which allows a human to turn into a Headmaster Junior which is what Shuta, Cab, and Minerva are," he pointed to the three kids who grinned. "They have a limited amount of power and are an Autobot Rescue Team. The Godmasters, like Ginrai and Lightfoot, have much more strength and firepower than the Headmaster Juniors. They are much more difficult to beat and have an almost unlimited source of power. Ginrai, however, has twice the amount of strength and power than a regular Godmaster so we call him Super Ginrai."
"Yeah," Ginrai said. "I'm way cooler than the rest of these idiots."
"No you're not," Road King said.
Hawk ignored them and said, "The two Decepticons that you saw Ginrai and Prowl fighting with earlier are Hydra and Buster. They are also Godmasters but joined the Decepticons instead. They seem to think that since there's two of them instead of one that they can beat Super Ginrai. So far they haven't succeeded."
"I think they were sent out to lure us away from that shipment for Sumdac Systems," Prowl said suddenly.
"You're probably right," Hawk agreed.
"What do you mean about my father's company?" Sari demanded, crossing her arms and glaring at Prowl.
"You're Powell's daughter?" Ginrai exclaimed.
"Powell?" she repeated. "Of course not! I'm Sari Sumdac! My father is Isaac Sumdac and he created Sumdac Systems."
"Well," Hawk said after looking at Ginrai, "Powell runs Sumdac Systems now which is part of Isis Corp. which is owned by the Decepticons."
"What?" Sari, Bumblebee, and the twins all exclaimed at the same time.
"I think," Sari said as she backed up, "that I need some air." With that she turned and fled the room, leaving behind some very worried looking people.
"Maybe I should go to talk to her," Minerva said.
"I'll do it," Bumblebee said.
"Do the two of you mind staying here?" Hawk asked the twins. "There are some questions that we need to ask you."
"We be no minding," Jetfire answered after a quick conference with his twin.
Bumblebee found Sari sitting outside in front of the garage, head propped on her hands. She turned when she heard him coming and smiled slightly when she saw him. "Hey, Bumblebee."
"Hey," Bumblebee sat down next to her and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Everything," Sari admitted. "I mean, no one knows where my dad is, Powell is running his company now and working for the Decepticons, you guys are human now…all I want to do is go home but I don't know if we can." Something occurred to her and she asked, "Where are the twins anyway?"
"Hawk is talking to them. I think he's trying to figure out a way for us to go back home."
"He seems kind of nice."
Bumblebee suddenly grabbed his stomach and, sounding panicked, said, "My stomach feels funny."
"You're probably hungry," Sari giggled. "Let's go see if we can find the Burger Bot and get something to eat," she suggested.
"Sounds good to me," Bumblebee stood up and followed her down the street.
At Burger Bot they both got milkshakes, burgers, and fries which Bumblebee remembered that he had liked while they were trapped in Soundwave's Virtual Reality world. Being Bumblebee he thought that he could walk and eat at the same time without spilling anything. And being Bumblebee he was wrong. It was also his luck that he spilled his food and drink on a teenage boy with dark blue hair. While Bumblebee was trying to apologize the teenager stood up as did his two friends; a tall man with orange hair and a kid with black hair. He then noticed that all three of them wore bracelets like the Autobots did and he was about to introduce himself as a fellow Autobot when the teenager grabbed the front of his yellow t-shirt.
"You spilled your food and drink on me," he growled. "Nobody spills anything on Wilder and gets away with it!"
"Yeah!" the kid with him chimed. "Especially not when he's with Cancer and Bullhorn! You're gonna pay, kid."
"I'm sorry," Bumblebee stammered, backing up and wishing that Sari would hurry up and get back from the bathroom.
"Sorry isn't enough," Wilder growled and drew his fist back.
When Sari came out of the bathroom she was rather surprised when Bumblebee came flying through the air and landed at her feet. "Bumblebee," she exclaimed. "What are you doing?"
Before he could answer a tough voice rang out, "Hey I'm gonna make sure you never spill anything again!"
Sari groaned. "Bumblebee, couldn't you go one hour without annoying somebody? Or is that too much to ask?"
"It's too much to ask," Bumblebee said as he struggled back to his feet.
"Come on," she sighed and grabbed his hand. "I'm going to teach what to do when you meet a bully."
"What's that?" he asked.
"Run!" she said and began to do so. The two of them ran past the startled bullies who chased after them for a few blocks then finally gave up.
"Whew. That was close," Bumblebee sighed as he tried to catch his breath.
"I'm never going anywhere with you again," Sari said.
"Hey," Bumblebee asked. "Where are those guys going?" he pointed to several bulldozer bots which were heading down the street.
"Let's follow them and find out," she suggested. They hurriedly went after the bulldozers and found themselves on a street where several old houses were. In front of one of the houses were several people shouting and holding signs. "What's going on?" she asked one of the protesters.
"All these buildings are being torn down to make room for a golf course," he told her.
"That's terrible," Bumblebee declared. "Who would do such a thing?" He leaned over and whispered in Sari's ear, "What's a golf course?"
She ignored him and focused on the protestor who answered and said, "Sumdac Systems is responsible."
Sari's shoulders slumped and she sniffled. Rage suddenly took over her anger and she grabbed a sign that was lying on the ground and shouted, "Down with Powell! Down with Powell!"
Not far away Wilder, Cancer, and Bullhorn were watching the protestors and sniggering at the people. "Look at them," Cancer sneered. "Those pathetic humans really think they have a chance against the mighty power of the Decepticons."
Wilder laughed then stiffened when he caught sight of Sari and Bumblebee. "Bullhorn," he said urgently. "Call Powell and tell him that we have a problem."
"What?" Powell shrieked into the phone. "Sari Sumdac is here?" he slammed the phone down and looked worried. Then he picked the phone back up and dialed. He waited until the other end had been picked up then he said, "Sari Sumdac is protesting your golf course, sir."
"What?" Lord Giga roared then sighed heavily. "The Decepticon Pretenders will be there shortly to scare them off," he said then hung up.
The protest was coming along nicely until three monsters appeared. One looked like a giant rat with wings, the blue one looked like a fish and the third reminded Sari of a cow that walked upright. Upon seeing them the humans shrieked and ran off, tripping over each other in their haste to get away. She saw the three boys from the Burger Bot watching the scene, laughing their heads off.
"That's it," Bumblebee declared. "I'm gonna…"
Sari grabbed his arm and said, "You're gonna do what? Might I remind you that you almost got killed by three kids? What do you think those monsters are going to do to you?"
"You're right," Bumblebee admitted, hanging his head in defeat.
As the three monsters approached them Sari swallowed nervously and clutched Bumblebee's arm tighter but she doubted that he minded seeing as he was clutching her arm as well. The rat one lowered its head to bite her and she tensed, waiting but when nothing happened she looked up to see Prowl, Lightfoot, and some guy with glasses standing there.
"How nice of you Autobots to join us," the rat sneered.
"Always a pleasure to stop you, Blood," Prowl said.
"Hello, Lander," the fish said. "How's your vision?" then he laughed uproariously as if he had just said something funny.
"Its fine," Lander said then transformed into a robot. He ran towards the fish and launched himself just as it turned into a robot as well.
Meanwhile, back at the base, poor Hawk was staring open-mouthed at a computer which was giving him data.
"What be wrong?" Jetfire asked.
"Well," Hawk said slowly. "According to this the two of you are Pretenders."
"What?" Jetstorm turned to his brother. "I thought we be Autobots."
"I be thinking that too," Jetfire replied.
"I just don't believe it," Hawk muttered as he prepared to run the tests again.
Ginrai walked through the underground base whistling. Remembering that he had left something in the glove compartment he climbed in his truck and opened the glove compartment only to stare at what was inside. Cautiously he reached in and pulled out two sets of braces. "What does this mean?" he wondered then shrugged. "Better take this to Hawk," he muttered then climbed out of the truck and headed back towards the main control room.
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A/N/N: I know that there are not that many people who are interested or aware of Transformers: Masterforce. I did my absolute best to explain Masterforce in the above paragraphs but if there are some things that you still do not understand please message either me or 'brave kid' (who I'm co-writing this story with) and we will answer you to the best of our ability. I recommend, however, that you watch Masterforce which can be found on YouTube and has English subtitles. Thank you and I hope that you enjoy this story.
A/N/N/N: This story might not get updated quite as often as my other stories but I will do my best to give you a new chapter every day.