Chapter 1 – Mistaken Identity
A/N This chapter started as part of my other fan-fic, but ended up on itss own. Also if you have any ideas, please send them to me, I will try, and write them in, but I think I know how this story will go, but maybe for a sequel, I will make sure to credit you. Please not this is a few months after my last chapter. This chapter begins the cross-over, the reason it is not in the crossover category is because of multiple crossovers.
Prime, and Ratchet are with Professor Sumdac in his office.
"Professor Sumdac we have been sent back to help protect the world, and collect Allspark shards, but we have no idea how to find them, do you have any ideas?" Optimus asked the short scientist.
"Oh, I had been thinking of that very problem before the giant Decepticon attack, and I came up with this," Isaac presses a button to reveal a map of the world, with a red dot on, over California, "oh one has shown up. This system is hooked into our satellite network, it is scanning the entire Earth for the energy signature of an Allspark shard, although, for some reason they are not showing up, they only show when they go into what I call the 'active' phase, some of the Allspark shards are depowered. I have one in my lab someone brought it to me whilst you were away, come have a look."
Isaac lead the Autobots to the lab that had held Megatron's head 'captive' whilst he was on Earth, he then opens up a cupboard, and rummages around, "ah here it is," he holds up a dull shard of crystal. "Look see, it has the same energy readings, but on a much smaller scale, I had two shards that were inactive, but," he reaches into the cupboard, "one activated," he holds out another shard this one blazing with energy, and light, and gives it to Optimus, "here you go."
"Thank you Professor Sumdac," Optimus says, "take this back to Omega Supreme, we will store it there, until we have enough to take to the council."
"As you wish Optimus," Ratchet says to his commanding officer, as he walks out the room.
"Aren't you going to get the one in California Optimus?" Isaac asked.
"I forgot about that," Optimus says, looking a bit embarrassed, "I'll take Jazz, and Bumblebee, and retrieve it."
"You know wherever Bumblebee goes Sari will follow," Isaac says to Prime, "you may as well add her to the team, get her used to taking orders."
"You're right Professor Sumdac, well, I'll go get them, they're probably meditating, by 'they' I mean Jazz, and Sari, Bumblebee will be watching TV, or 'gaming'."
"Good to see you again Prime."
"You to Professor," Optimus says walking out the room.
"Bumblebee, Jazz, bring Sari, and meet me at the ship, we are going to California."
"Right Prime," Bumblebee replies.
"Of course Optimus Prime," Jazz replies, "Sari can't hear you, she has not learnt to use her communicator yet, I was just about to teach her,"
"Teach her on the way."
"Yes Prime, we will be there," Jazz replies.
"We're here Prime," Jazz says as he leads Sari, and Bumblebee on to the ship.
"Awesome, road trip," Sari shouts.
"What is a 'road trip'?" Jazz asks.
"It is a kind of holiday, where some friends or family get in a car or bus, and drive to a destination, have more fun, and drive back."
"Human culture is strange," Jazz says pondering what Sari had just said, before being called off to help Prime pilot.
"I've always wanted to visit California," Sari says.
"Why's that Sari?" Bumblebee asks.
"Are you kidding? Bee you watch enough TV, what is California like, always?"
"Sunny, and people always complain about the temperature."
"Exactly," Sari says, "humans like to visit warm places, but they don't always like living there."
"It's not that far, it should only take a few megacycles," Prime says.
The town of Bellwood California is small, about 20,000 people; it is situated on the coast, the weather, as expected for California in the summer is hot, and sunny, really hot. Omega Supreme has touched down in the park, Sari, Jazz, and Prime are going to look for the Allspark shard, and Bumblebee is staying with the ship, to guard it.
"It's too hot," Sari complains.
"I thought you wanted to visit California? Why are they staring?" Jazz asks looking at the people who were staring at him looking terrified.
"Transform, they're not used to you guys, they may know what you are, but they don't know you," Sari says.
"Oh, okay," Jazz, says turning into a white sports car.
Prime comes out of the ship when they hears a nasal voice, "you three are big ones aren't you."
"Who said that?" Prime shouts out, getting out his axe, Jazz gets out his numb-chucks, and Sari just looks around.
"Me," a red bat like creature, flies into view, it has yellow wings, lips, and horns shaped like a dowsing rod, totally green oval eyes without pupils or whites, and a black line from the shoulders to an hourglass symbol in the centre of his chest.
"An Aerophibian? What are you doing here? You're a long way from Aeropela," Prime says.
"What?" The Aerophibian says.
"Ben," I think he knows where Jetray's home planet is," says a tall girl with long red hair tied back into ponytail, she looks about Sari's biological age. She has green eyes, she is wearing a white collared shirt, with a reddish pink, long sleeved sweater, a black skirt that reaches to mid-thigh, dark brownish grey tights, and black heeled shoes.
"What are you?" The girl asks, "I don't recognise your species."
"Who cares?" The Aerophibian asks, and a ray from his eyes hits Optimus in his chest, knocking him back.
"That was uncalled for," says Prime, "but if it's a fight you want," he raises his right arm, and shoots out a grappler, almost getting the Aerophibian's foot, before a magenta shield appears, blocking his shoot.
"What was that?" Sari asks.
"My guess, her," Jazz points at the girl, who's hand is glowing the same colour of magenta.
"Ben, their technology based, change," she shouts at the Aerophibian.
"What?" Sari asks, as she says this the Aerophibian hits the hourglass, and disappears in a green flash being replaced with a tall crystalline humanoid, made of green crystals, wearing a black body suit, with two green crystal spikes coming from the back of its shoulder blades.
"Diamondhead," it says, "oh man, I was going for Upgrade."
"Would someone like to explain what just happened?" Sari asks.
"I think it may have been a short range teleporter, to swap the Aerophibian with the Petrosapien," Prime says.
"This will have to do," the Petrosapien as Prime identified it says, as it throws crystals at Jazz who blocks them with his numb-chucks.
Prime launches his grappler at the Petrosapien, who side steps, and grabs hold of the cable, "this was a bad id…" he does not finish before Prime pulls him off his feet, and drags him along the ground for a short distance before letting go.
The girl had taken to launching pink orbs at Jazz, who was dodging them, or hitting them back with his numb-chucks, Sari on the other hand had snuck up behind her, almost managed hit her over the head. The girl instead turns around, and tries to kick Sari, who dodges, and grabs her wrist, and throws her, whilst still in the air the girl manages to stop herself with a platform made of the magenta energy. She starts throwing orbs at Sari now, who jumps out the way of them; Jazz had at some point started fighting a person made of metal with a sword for an arm. Sari was distracted by this when a magenta pincer grabs her around the waist, and lifts her in the air, in response Sari transforms in a flash of blue light. Sari's change in form causes the magenta pincer to break, "what the?" the girl asks, as she puts up a shield to protect against a laser burst from Sari, the burst is stopped by the shield, Sari continues firing as she lunges through the shield, and almost manages to grab the girl.
"Ratchet, scan for teleporter activity on Earth," Prime says into his communicator whilst warding off attacks from Diamondhead.
"Why do you need that?" The grumpy medic asks.
"Because we have a bunch of creatures that are changing places in a fight in flashes of green light, I think it's a teleporter," Prime responds, knocking Diamondhead over the head with the butt of his axe.
"Okay, I'll start, wait did you say green flash?"
"Yes?" Prime asks, his interest piqued so much he almost got hit by a crystal.
"Do the aliens have a black circle, with two green triangles inside?" "Yes?"
"Stop fighting them!" Ratchet shouts through the communicators, "they're Plumbers, interplanetary police forces. Stop fighting"
"Opps,"Prime says, before yelling, "Autobots, stop fighting." Jazz is pinned to the ground by the metal person, Sari, and the girl are locked in a stalemate, and the Diamondhead has just stopped attacking. They all stop, and turn to Optimus when he shouts that
"Ah, good, someone who realised the mistake, I was about to intervene," says a man about in his fifties, with short black hair, and brown eyes, he is quite tall, wearing a lab coat a brown waist coat, a white shirt, a tie, black trousers, black shoes, and green lensed googles, that are around his neck. Upon seeing him the metal man, and the girl start walking over, Sari, and Jazz follow.
"Do I know you?" Prime asks.
"Maybe, Optimus Prime, I'm not sure if we have already met, have you been to Andromeda yet?"
"No, why?"
"Ok, then we haven't met."
"Professor Paradox, what are you doing here?" Diamondhead asks.
"I came for a visit, and found the lot of you having a fight in the middle of Bellwood," Professor Paradox says, "why were you having a fight anyway?"
"I don't remember," Diamondhead says.
"I remember," Sari says, "your friend the Aerophibian fired at Optimus."
"Now I remember."
"What were you thinking Ben?"
"Wait, Ben? I thought his name was Diamondhead, he even said it."
"His name is Ben, this individual alien is called Diamondhead, but that is not important," Jazz scratches his chin, and Sari shoots a quizzical look at the girl, who is not paying attention. "Ben what possessed you to attack two giant robots, and Autobot Cybertronians at that."
"Cyberwhatians?" Ben asks.
"Now I recognise them," the metal man says, "That red face on them means Autobot, their the good ones, I am so stupid," he face palms.
"As opposed to?" The girls asks.
"Decepticons," Prime says, "they have a slightly different emblem, the major difference is that the emblem is purple, and they tend to have more muted colours."
"Okay, so why are you here?" Ben asks.
Sari walks up, and transforms back in a flash of blue light, "we're looking for a shard of the Allspark, which you are delaying us from doing."
"The what?" Ben asks.
"The Allspark, an immensely powerful crystal, believed to be a very small part of Primus, the Cybertronian deity, whatever it is, it is definitely powerful, but when did it break?" Paradox asks.
"A couple of years ago, it was break it or let Megatron get it so Prime broke it," Sari says, "I still don't know who they are," she indicates the three who they had been fighting.
"I'm Gwen," the girl introduces herself, "this is Ben," she indicates the one who Paradox had already called Ben, "and this is Kevin," she points at the metal man.
"I'm Sari," Sari says.
"For what?"
"No, that's my name, Sar-ee," she clarifies.
"Oh, ok."
"This is Jazz," she points at Jazz, "and that's Optimus Prime," she points at Prime.
"Sari, can we get back to looking for the Allspark shard?" Prime asks, crossing his arms.
"Right, yes we should, so where are the detectors that Dad made? Oh, I left them on the ship," she runs back into the ship.
"Can we help?" Gwen asks.
"Sorry we only have three detectors," says Jazz.
"We could go in groups, in pairs, or one three, if Paradox is joining," Prime says.
Paradox draws out a pocket-watch, and looks at it before responding, "I have to go now, or I miss my window," and with that before vanishing.