Chapter One
(S1, Ep1) Pilot 1:
"You didn't need to come," A brown haired boy with dark blue eyes told a young woman with red hair and light green with violet specks eyes, as he lifted a giant grey suitcase.
She laughed at him, carrying her light purple suitcase, she sarcastically told him, "Remember what your mother told me, 'If you don't go with him, i'll string you up onto the flag pole and leave you there for half the year in nothing but your underwear.'"
The boy cringed at the statement as he replied, "Yeah, I don't understand why you are so protective of me though. I'm no one special."
The woman almost let out of snort of amusement but held it in her, instead she narrowed her eyes at the boy. She stared at him before she saw a dark red and white city bus, which would take them from the airport to the junkyard where the boy's father worked. She looked at the boy as he lifted his suitcase up, she sighed before she too lifted her bag onto the bus.
As she and the boy put there bags into the top shelving unit, they sat near the back. The boy was wearing a light blue jacket with a white shirt, he had dark blue jeans and light brown tennis shoes on. The girl was wearing a black biker jacket with a light blue shirt underneath, she had black wind pants with white tennis shoes.
She looked at the boy who turned away from the isle to the outside, she smiled at him as she whispered, "Russell, your mother asked me to come with you when you're with your father."
Russell sighed, but nodded with her. He turned his gaze to the nature outside of the bus as it flew by. The girl smiled at him before she heard him tell her, "Thanks….for coming with me, Liz."
She smiled as she saw the boy turn to sleep on her shoulder, she whispered to him as he closed his eyes, "Your welcome, Russell."
Liz and Russell exited the bus with there suitcases and the bus turned and drove away quickly. Leaving a dust trail behind it, Liz coughed as it seemed to burn her throat and Russell walked to a open clearing in between two pieces of steel wall. A train was in front of the wall, Liz was behind Russell as she saw a magnet on a large crane.
Liz rolled her eyes as she heard a man sing behind the train, Russell chuckled at her actions as the train rose up from the train. Russell's suitcase was placed by his side. Liz starred as the train car was lifted up into the air showing a man in the cab of the crane. He had orange-brown hair along with a beard and mustache of the same color. He had dark blue eyes like Russell, he also had a red hawaiian shirt with blue jeans along with brown shoes.
"Rusty! Lizzy!" the man shouted before he leaped out of the cab and ran towards them.
"It's Russell," Russell groaned as the man noggied the poor boy.
"Just take it in Russell," Liz remarked with a smile, she looked to the man, "Hey Denny."
"Lizzy, you make me feel honor," he turned to her while telling her that before his gaze once more connected to Russell, "Come on Son, your not that grown up. Not yet."
He then stood up looking at Liz and Russell, he smiled, rubbing Russell's hair, "Hey we're going to have a blast and a half. While your mom is away in-"
He started to rub his chin as both Russell and Liz chroused, "Copenhagen?"
Russell then scoffed, "You know, a real city? Like the one across the river?"
Liz turned to Russell with a roll of her eyes, as the man retorted, "I never go into Crown City. I-We have everything we need, right here!"
Liz and Russell looked around before their gaze landed back at each other, Liz remarked, "Denny, you must've hit your head on something."
Denny looked at Liz for a second before he looked at Russell, as Russell remarked, "Except Excitement."
"Aw Rust," Denny stopped himself before he told them, "Russell, Liz, I still have a lot of the stuff you used to love playing with."
Russell told him, "Because you won't sell anything."
Liz chuckled before she noticed a diner behind him, Denny noticed and smiled, "And check this out. It's the fourteenth Street Diner. They were gonna tear it down, so I had it moved here piece by piece."
One of the light posts bulbs fell off, "Isn't it awesome?"
Liz looked at Denny like he was nuts before she sighed with a roll of her eyes and a facepalm at the end of it. Russell remarked, "It's kinda weird."
"Like living in a scrap yard," Liz added with amusement.
"Please," Denny denied, "Vintage Salvage Depot for the discriminating Nostalgist."
"Are those even-," Liz started to ask before the earth seemed to shake from impact, Liz kept her ground as the other two stumbled a bit.
"W-was that an earthquake?" Russell asked.
"Yes, it would seem so," Liz remarked, she thought as she, Russell, and Denny recovered from the shock and entered into the Diner, "Nope, that was definitely not an earthquake. Years of war have taught me well enough to know that was definitely NOT an Earthquake but a crash."
The news reporter on the Dinner's TV remarked, "Experts say the tremor downtown Crown City just experienced was a from a low-level sonic boom just across the river. Scientists suspect a meteor might have finished burning up while passing through Earth's atmosphere-"
Denny turned the news off, he turned around to Liz and Russell who were on the other side of the counter, "Meteor? Exploration time."
"You mean 'wander through the woods looking for a sliver of rock that probably isn't there' time?" Russell asked sarcastically.
Liz bumped her shoulder against his side, as though to comfort the boy. Suddenly a bell dinged, making Denny flip his head up to the door, "We'll have to go treasure hunting later."
"That's my nine am," Liz and Russell watched as Denny flipped the eggs, and then a piece of bacon onto two plates, he placed it under them, it was a giant smiley face, "He wants to sell a full set of life-size aluminum Billy the Breakfast Beaver figures."
"Those sound….rare," Liz remarked before she started to eat the over hard eggs and slice of bacon.
Denny smiled at Liz before he asked them, "Wanna help your old man close the deal?"
"Uh, why don't we go see if we can find that meteor?" Russell suggested, pointing to the woods.
"Divide and Conquer," Denny remarked, "Great Plan."
As Denny left the two, Russell moved his bacon from a smile to a frown. Liz sighed before she hugged the boy, he was missing home more than she would've thought.
The two were walking together in the woods when they walked passed a tree that was carved into it, Liz smiled as she read it, "Dad, Lizzy, and Rusty were here and we had a blast and an half."
Russell sighed before he turned away from the tree, Lizzy smiled softly at the boy before she grabbed a knife and carved at the end a small paw. Both didn't notice the large footprints in the bushes behind the tree.
"I really think this wasn't a smart Idea," Liz remarked as she caught up to Russell.
"Come on Lizzy," Russell sighed, "We both know we would be bored hearing him talk about-"
"Hello!" someone shouted, it sounded male and Liz tensed up.
Russell smiled, "That's cool, let's go find out what's that is."
"Russell, don't-" Liz told the boy but then she turned to see no Russell, she groaned, "If you got into neck deep of scrap then I will murder you alive Russell. If Denny doesn't kill me first, or your mother."
"Hello!" the male voice sounded from a canyon, she jumped down to see Russell behind a rock.
He cupped his hands over his mouth shouting, "Hello!"
They both turned the corner, seeing a giant red robot with blue optics. Russell and the robot scream in unison, the robot falling onto it's aft. Liz facepalmed, she knew her instincts were right for once. Russell backed up against the wall as the red robot looked at Liz as she sighed in exasperation, she turned and hit her head twice on the rock that Russell leaned up apon.
Russell asked in fear, "What are you?"
"What are you?" the robot asked rudely.
Liz opened her mouth to reply when they both heard a creature growling beside them, the two boys asked, "What is that?"
Liz looked to see a giant robot that had a head of a monster with a body of a rhino. He was purple and silver, with red optics and lines. He had a light purple sign on his chassis. The creature roared at them. Liz stared wide eyed at the roaring robot, before she glared in irritation.
Russell remarked softly, seeming to talk to himself, "This isn't happening. Nothing happens here. Nothing like this happens anywhere!"
Liz looked to Russell in concern before she stood in front of Russell, the red giant robot stood in front of the two humans. Liz wanted to tell Russell that stuff like this happens everyday but without their knowledge but that was one of her darkest secrets, instead she hid them both safely in her mind.
The giant red robot shouted, acting happily, "Hey, crazy meeting someone else from Cybertron way out here. A decepticon! That's cool."
"Be ready to roll," he whispered to Liz and Russell, Liz showed she understood with a small look with her eyes.
"I'm Sideswipe," The red giant robot introduced himself, "And you are?
"Underbite," the decepticon rhino replied, he then asked cocky, "Heard of me?"
Sideswipe shrugged, Underbite asked him looking him up and down, "You ever been to Nuon city?"
"No," Sideswipe replied unsure, he shooed his servo in Liz and Russell's direction in which Russell was being moved slowly away from the scene by Liz.
"That's 'cause I ate it!" he shouted before he lunged at the three.
Liz moved with ease pulling Russell with her, away from Underbite. Sideswipe jumped over the large rhino-like robot. Russell was being dragged until he could run alongside her. Sideswipe joined them the two as they ran away from Underbite. Liz could still hear his metallic roar.
Liz peeked over her shoulder to see a crumpled van, her heart stopped when she saw Underbite remark, "Little more juice never hurt anyone."
Her eyes watched as he swallowed the van whole and glowed purple with power. Underbite smiled as he sighed, "Ah. Oh, yeah."
She saw him kiss his arms before he yelled, chasing after them, "Beautiful!"
Russell and Liz started to run faster, they ran through the woods and a small stream. Sideswipe jumped on trees before he landed a bit a head of the two, he cried out in frustration, "Aren't there any clearings on this stupid planet?"
Russell shouted, taking the lead of Liz, "Follow me!"
When they got into a clearing, Sideswipe slightly ahead of them, Russell realized, "Wait. Now we're out in the open. How's this better?"
"Because Now I have room to do this," he replied. Liz and Russell watched in awe as he transformed amazingly and smoothly into a red hovering sport car.
"Whoa," Russell whispered.
"You can say that again," Liz told Russell.
Underbite then bursted out of the trees with a roar, he saw what Sideswipe did and seem to cocky remark, "Yeah, transforming into a car will make a huge difference. Hello! I ate a whole City!"
A growl escaped Liz, as she positioned herself in front of Russell. Her mothering instincts were kicked into hyperdrive. Sideswipe watched in amazement at her actions before he shouted, "Get in!"
Russell seem to ask, "To you?"
Liz didn't care as she threw Russell into the transforming robot, she jumped in also as Underbite roared, "Come here!"
Sideswipe automatically pulled away as he lunged at them. Sideswipe was silently impressed by Liz's skills. He put a seatbelt on Russell and Liz, as Russell was sitting in the passenger side and Liz was sitting in the driver side. Russell asked shocked, "Seatbelts?"
"You're gonna need it," responded Sideswipe, as Liz glared at Russell for such a question. Before Sideswipe gunned the engine, further pushing himself and the humans away from the rampaging Decepticon.
"AH!" Russell shouted in fear, as Liz smiled.
A couple of minutes later, Liz and Russell looked up to see a female blue robot that looked like she had the colors of a police officer. The other was yellow and black, he looked like he held the highest authority. Both had light blue optics and a red face on their chassis.
Sideswipe honked in warning of his approached to the yellow robot, who turned along with the blue one as Sideswipe skidded around them. Liz's heart seemed to be beating as she saw the yellow one's face as the window was still rolling down.
"Wonderful," The yellow one sighed in a calm but frustrated male voice, before he started to rant, "We've been here less than an hour, and he's already revealed himself to not one human but two human."
"Oh so those are humans?" the blue one asked in a females voice, she then tapped Russell in the head. Liz started to laugh as Russell allowed that to happen as he was in shock.
Sideswipe pulled around in a "U" shape accidently throwing Liz out as he screamed, "Run!"
She landed at the pedes of the yellow robot as Underbite landed in front of the two. The yellow's pedes were on her side as though it was a protected shell. She stared at the yellow robot's face but he stared at Underbite. They were staring in awe at the fact that Underbite was huge.
Underbite asked cocky, "I know what you're thinking. Is that tall, dark, and handsome really Underbite, devourer of Nuon City?"
The yellow and police girl robot stared at each other in confusion but the yellow bot glanced down to feel Liz leaning on his pede, stand up shakily to her feet. She walked to Russell's mom's house when she left from college three days before she was on a hour and a half ride to the scrap yard. The walk was Twenty Two miles and her legs still hadn't recover, nor her back. The two robots nodded and pulled out some sort of gun, firing light blue lasers at Underbite.
Underbite covered himself from the lasers with his arm in annoyance, he asked in a shout, "No one recognizes me?!"
The yellow and police robot both ran, Liz was grabbed by the yellow robot with gentle care. As they closed a bush, the yellow robot threw Liz into the air transforming as she landed in his seat. They pulled away from Underbite at high speeds, a seat belt tightening onto Liz's form. Underbite chased the two as Russell shouted, "LIZ?!"
"I-I'm fine!" she stammered, gasping for breath, she really should've just got a bus ticket. No matter the cost.
The police one pulled up beside Sideswipe, asking him, "Sideswipe, what did you say to him?"
They rushed to a crashed ship, Liz got out along with Russell when they pulled to a stop. Russell launched himself to Liz, as an orange robot with two wheel pedes and light blue optics remarked, "Hey your back!"
Underbite roared in the distance as he charged into the clearing with a loud and obnoxious roar. Liz put herself in front of Russell again bringing him close to her chest, the yellow robot noticed as Underbite lunged for Liz and Russell. Fixit tried to bring them away from danger but the yellow robot leaped into danger pulling the three out before they were crushed. He asked them, "Humans?"
"Russell," Russell responded.
"I'm Liz," Liz remarked, keeping a hand on Russell at all times and one found its way to the orange robot.
He placed them away from danger telling them, "Get behind that stasis cell. Fixit, stay with him."
He then ran back to the upcoming battle as Russell asked frantically, "What is a stasis cell!?"
Fixit grabbed his hand and with a hand on him from Liz, he led them to a non damage cylinder. They peeked out to the battle in amazement, the top of the cell popped off as a green and black head popped out with light blue optics. It shouted, "I hear fighting! Who's fighting? I wanna fight!"
"Back in your cell," Fixit replied with light blue stun ray, he shocked him shouting, "Back!"
The green and black robot muttered, "Ow!"
Underbite roared behind the four, their gazes landing onto the dust cloud that seemed to grow. He pushed away Sideswipe, he landed beside the police robot. Each making a sound of annoyance. Before nearly getting bounced on by Underbite. The yellow robot shouted orders, "Strongarm, Sideswipe, fan out!"
They tried to listen put were pushed away by Underbite and thrown to the ground. Underbite thrown a stasis pod behind him shoving the green and black robot along with making Liz, Russell, and Fixit running behind another. The yellow robot froze when he saw that the humans could be in danger, the green and black robot managed to see from the point of his stasis cell as Underbite remarked coming onto a crushed stasis pod, "Ah, my old stasis pod. Should give me a little boost."
He swallowed that whole making him glow again, he shouted, "Mmm, Feeling the burn!"
"Hey," The green and black robot asked from his stasis pod, looking at Underbite, "Aren't you Underbite, the 'Con who ate that city?"
"Finally! What gave me away?" Underbite asked "The muscles?"
"The smell," The green and black robot, smirked at Underbite.
Underbite cockyness stopped as he glared, he grabbed the green and black robot's stasis cell and banged it against some debris. The green robot went flying from his stasis pod, without Underbite noticing.
"How's that smell, you little-huh?!" Underbite remarked to the stasis pod, he then asked, "Where'd he go?"
"Mm," he remarked looking over Liz's position, Liz glared at Underbite and saw where he was looking, her heart dropped, "Heading for Hugeness."
Underbite transformed into a purple and red car and drove away towards the direction of where he was stated, the robots that were trying to stop him along with Sideswipe limped to where he just stood. Sideswipe was bending over, while the police one put her hands on her knees.
"Fixit," the yellow one stated rubbing his helmet, before staring at Fixit, "I assume that was one of your escaped prisoners. Fixit?"
"Yes sir," Fixit replied, Liz walked up beside him as he remarked going onto a screen that read and showed Underbite, "A Chompazoid named Underbite. The more metal a chompazoid consumes. The more powerful it becomes."
Sideswipe then pointed out, pointing to the scrap yard, "So it's not good that he's headed for a metal graveyard, then."
"If Underbite gets all that into his jaws," the police robot, who Liz believed was Strongarm, remarked, "We'll never bring him down."
"Scrap," Liz remarked realizing what Strongarm was saying.
The robots turned to Liz in amazement that she swore, Russell rolled his eyes and asked, "What is it Liz?"
"Russell, metal," Liz remarked, looking at Russell, "We both know their is only one metal place on this side of the river that Underbite would've seen."
"Wait you mean the scrap yard?" Russell asked stupidly, then he shouted in fear "My dad's in there!"
Liz mentally facepalmed, before she sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. Her eyes screwed up in a 'serious' look. Before she mumbled repeatedly, "He's young. He's young and stupid."
