Meet the Autobots
The Autobot version of Meet the Decepticons. Team Prime gets some new members!
Same notes apply here: this is a scene from Omega Base story. AU prime-verse and heavy influence from the TF novel Exiles.
Warnings: Two OCs: Ladybug and Leaper, and Override, Slipstream, Perceptor, and Blurr may be OOC.
The pale green light of an open bridge in the Autobot base caste a glow upon the frames of the Autobots who stood anxiously on the precipice. They stood patiently waiting... well all except Bumblebee and Smokescreen. While Bumblebee hummed and shivered with excitement, Smokescreen paced back and forth chattering how he would not be the only new guy. The children, June, and Agent Fowler were also there. They would not miss this event for anything in the world.
All optics and human eyes stared at the vortex.
Suddenly a high pitched squeal of delight when a bright red and black femme rolled through, skating on wheels. She looked like she was having fun... except that she was moving way too fast. The femme ended up skidding out into Bumblebee.
"Yes!" Smokescreen hooted. "I'm not going to be the only screw up!"
"What's that supposed to mean?" The femme struggled to untangle herself from Bumblebee's form, who did nothing to help and in fact prevented her from leaving with a high volume of excited whirrs, clicks and beeps.
"Aww... I missed you, too. What happened to your voice big bug?" the little femme pouted. "Oh that's right... but I'd have thought it would be fixed by now."
A slight crack of an instrument dropped and a few grumbles from the Autobot medic. Raf stepped forwards to his best friend's friend.
"Ladybug!" another new voice echoed the room from the ground bridge. "You were supposed to wait for Override."
"I'm sorry Perceptor..." Ladybug pouted still, but continued to make herself very comfortable on the frame of her childhood friend, letting little Rafael spin her feet wheels.
Perceptor scowled and went to greet his leader, "It's good to see you again, Prime."
"Likewise Perceptor." Optimus nodded and Perceptor dismissed himself with a saying about how good a hot sonic bath would feel.
Not a few seconds later did two more bots walk through the portal. Another femme followed by a green two-wheeler mech.
"Override." Optimus greeted the female. "It is an honor to have you here."
"I wish it were under better circumstances Optimus Prime," Override responded as the green two-wheeler mech, who seemed to bounce on hydraulic springs as it walked, passed them by.
"I am deeply sorry about Velocitron..."
"There's nothing in the universe that can stop a dying sun..." Override looked away as she held her arms. "We were only kidding ourselves that we thought we could in the amount of time we had. I am glad that we were able to escape in time through the space bridge which you and your Autobots repaired."
"You're very welcome, thank you." Ratchet interrupted with a huff.
"That space bridge led us to what looked to a junk dump..." Override continued.
"The remnants of Junkion..." Optimus murmured.
"There we found your trail and..." Override turned to the open portal just as two more bots came through.
Both bots Optimus recognized right away. The bright neon blue mech was Override's subordinate and friend, Blurr. The other, who's body was being supported by Blurr because of severe injuries, was a complete surprise to him. It was the female seeker who tried kill him the last time they met on Junkion. Slipstream. A Decepticon.
"Let me go! I can walk on my own you, glitch!" Slipstream cursed the blue bot who held her up. Her whole left wing-side was nearly gone and her leg split with massive amounts of Energon leaking.
"I think the last time I let you go, it did not end well at all..." Blurr responded as matter of factly.
Smokescreen immediately went to help Blurr while Bulkhead and Arcee had their guns trained on her with out wavering.
"Now there's a face I wasn't expecting." Bulkhead commented.
"Don't care." Slipstream commented as she was led past them limping towards the medical bay.
"We should scrap her right now." Arcee growled. "She'll give away our position."
"No bot is shooting anyone," Smokescreen tried to calm Arcee down. Bad idea.
"What do you know, huh?" Acree snarled.
"I know her weapons have been disabled... she's defenseless." Smokescreen held up a weapon-less arm.
"Don't touch me filthy, Autobot." the seeker snapped trying to pull her arm away. "I don't need weapons to cause you damage."
Arcee let out a gutteral growl, this was an outrage to let this seeker into their base, insult them, and threaten the safety of everyone there. She was about to fire out her uncontained fury; however, she was halted by a massive hand. "Optimus!"
"No Arcee, even Decepticons should have the right to freedom if they so choose to live in peace." Optimus made a compelling argument.
"Then I suppose you'll have to keep a guard on me. I plan on busting out of here as soon as I'm able. Then I'm going to kill Megatron with my bare hands!" Slipstream seethed as she was laid on the medical berth on her stomach. She clenched her hands into a fist as she thought of revenge.
Arcee was taken aback by this, "I thought you were on his side."
"That was before he left me to die on that slagging planet of junk! But I'm not on your side either!- Ngh!" Slipstream cringed as Ratchet touched her torn wing.
"Sorry, forgot to warn you this will hurt." Ratchet seemed unfazed by the seeker's plight and went right to work welding the Energon leak in Slipstream's leg.
"Is that all in your party Override?" Optimus asked as he moved towards the ground bridge controls.
"No actually. Blurr and I, with Slipstream, kept following the ion trail till it split off into several trails... we picked on and crashed landed on a planet when we were shot down by a Decepticon faction. We were lucky your Autobots were also on the planet as well. I believe they survived thanks to..."
"Who?"
"He kind of wanted it to be a sort of surprise..." Override had a smile on her faceplate.
"Well, who ever is left better get their aft in here! We're wasting energy powering the bridge this long and it'll become unstable soon. The modifications were very risky in tapping the Decepticon space bridge to have it be a conduit to Mars and then having accessed it through our own bridge... Ugh, to explain the whole process to any of you besides Perceptor would take years of-" Ratchet completely stopped his welding and speaking when his optics settled onto the open green vortex.
No sooner had Ratchet started his ranting, the last member strode through the gate. Ratchet's welding tool slipped from his fingers and clanged to the ground as his optics widened.
...
To be continued!
Cause I'm evil like that.
This will be drabble dump for Meet the Autobots.
