AC: The story started 10 years after transformers prime.
The return of the pretenders
Prologue: The special visit
"-...And that's what happens with Jack and Miko.-" Said a voice.
His face was present on an hologram. It was the face of Raphael, one of Bumblebee best friend. He has long brown hair pointing at the back of his head and brown eyes. He is now 22 years old.
"Silly them." Said Bumblebee laughing at it. "Miko will never change...Wait when Bulkhead learned about this."
"-I know. He will like to hear the news...-" Said Raf. He then went serious. "-How's it going on Cybertron?-"
"Well...The Vehicons are all joined us." Said Bumblebee. "They finally all believe that the war is Over and Megatron ended the decepticon cause. So...They are starting to become citizens. Only a few of them still needed to be restrain in prison. I have one who became my assistant on my duty last year...He's...right behind me." He said.
He moved the hologram and Raf saw the vehicon. He was surprise when he saw him with yellow paint job, which is the only difference compare to the other vehicons, and his blue optic.
"-Why is he yellow?-" Asked Raf.
"So they can know I am his assistant. He needs someone to help him now that he is ruling Iacon." Said the yellow vehicon.
"-What's your name?-" Asked Raf.
"Josh." Said the vehicon.
"-Josh? Why is that?-" Asked Raf.
"Because I wanted a human name. So...Josh." Said Josh.
"-Al...right.-" Said Raf unsure. "-Anyway, anything special today?-"
"Not really...We soon have finished a special barrier that will replicate the Earth atmosphere...So you will soon come to Cybertron and we will be together once again." Said Bumblebee with a cheerful voice. He was also smiling at the fact to be with Raf again, I person. Cybertron repairs are going smoothly. We are still far from complete reconstruction but it is doing well...Anyway...I have a special meeting tomorrow with a special group of Cybertronian." Said Bumblebee turning back to his serious mood.
"-Special group?-" Asked Raf.
"Yeah...You only meet one of them...You know...The one who copied Wheeljack form?" Asked Bumblebee.
"-...Yeah...That was long ago.-" Said Raf.
"Well...Seven of his brethren are coming to Iacon and I need to be in top shape to talk to them." Said Bumblebee.
"-Seven...Are they going to cause some trouble?-" Asked Raf.
"No...Most of them remained neutral during the entire war. They didn't want to choose side. Despite what you saw in Makeshift, all of them are strongly united as a family. They are called the Pretenders." Said Bumblebee. "It's a little like Optimus who was a father figure for me...I still haven't found him...Since the restoration of Cybertron...He is surely here...But where and...Which form...He must be a sparkling now. The Allspark is back and we saw his spark flying in the air."
"-I miss him too Bumblebee.-" Said Raf.
"You know...He spared me in a fight. He was very kind and generous. He has a big spark. Even if he was my enemy...I cannot put that aside." Said Josh. "I'm glad he let me live...I can finally live in Cybertron...I'm a higher class then before the war. I am an employee and not a slave."
"That is true...back to the topic, they are coming. I need to wax myself for the meeting for the next solar cycle. I do it one day in advance so I don't look too much like Knock Out."
"-You sound like Knock Out there.-" Said Raf with a smile.
"Yeah." Said Bumblebee. He then heard something.
Bumblebee looked at the window of his office and saw a space ship with the symbol.
"Already! They are one Solar cycle in advance. Now...I will have to look like a show off mech." Said Bumblebee. "Hope you're doing well as an agent on Earth. I have to go now. Bye."
"-Bye.-" Said Raf.
Bumblebee ended contact.
"I've prepared the wax already." Said Josh.
"You're always ready." Said Bumblebee.
Josh waxed Bumblebee for a while.
Outside the office of Bumblebee, the spaceship landed in the middle of the town, at the middle of the main street of Iacon. Citizens of Iacon walked around the ship when they saw the symbol and they knew it was pretenders coming.
They saw there and waited for them to come out. The door of the ship opened and they wondered what they look like. It was so long since the last time they've saw a pretender, it was during the war on Cybertron. They didn't stay for long and ran away to another planet. They walked out of the door and looked at the people of Iacon.
Metatron has the appearance of an angel but don't have any wings. He appears to be calm. His paint color is white. He's the taller pretender of 34ft. tall.
Metatron is a calm bot. He's never angry but he can still be annoyed. He's very matured and fearless. He is like an older brother for the entire pretenders group.
Bloody has an appearance of a Minotaur without any coat. His plate is red like the humans blood. He seems to have a big tank and seems an aggressive pretender. He is 32 ft. tall.
His name explains everything. He's a violent warrior who kills for pleasure. But that only concern his enemy. For those he cares. He's very soft. He's a good listener for stories.
Maynar is a femme. She is a tall and she was pink chassis. The rest of her body is blue She has 2 horns on her backplate but the form seems to indicate its 2 swords. 28ft. tall.
Maynar, she's a strong femme who fears nothing. She's smart but she has a tendency to confuse her memories with different event. Hellbat calls her a stupid femme.
Illusionness: She was identical from Maynar, like twin femme. The only difference is her color, she is purple.
She can be extremely mad extremely fast. She has a…explosive personality but she's very protective over those she cares, and that include Hellbat.
Lucifer has the appearance of a devil. He has 2 horns on his helm. He appears to be immature and exited. He has orange paint color with yellow for his helm. He is 26 ft. tall.
Lucier is the Youngers of this ship. He's sparkling souls survive even if his development finished. He's kind and compassionate but his sparkling immaturity brings trouble.
Hellbat has the appearance of an ordinary bot except his helm. His helm seems like a bat. His paint colors his blue. He seems to be an immature pretender like Lucier. He is 29 ft. tall.
He's a comic one and one who loves to play more than anything else. He makes prank at every pretender he encounter. He's very immature and follows them when they do a dangerous mission.
Metatron raised his hands.
"I am Metatron, I'm representing the Pretenders of Sular planet. I am here to negotiate with the leader of Iacon." Said Metatron with a serious tone.
He then received a kick on his arf by Lucier and he felt on the ground. He then stood up.
"LUCIER! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" He screamed infuriated.
"You have a tag on your back." Said Lucier grinning at him.
"What?!" Shouted Metatron.
"Yeah. It's written: « kick my arf »." Said Illusioness.
"..." Metatron decided to let it slide for a more urgent matter. "It is an official meeting and you make me look like an idiot!"
Maynar took the tag away.
"Let's move on. I hope they have energon here." Said Bloody moving his digit on over his tank.
They walked at the direction of the building. The population of Iacon watched them walking.
"The pretender...They really are members of the Pretender faction." Said one Cybertronian.
The Pretenders heard them talking to each other's.
"I thought they were instinct." Said another one.
"No...They stayed neutral and didn't pick a side." Said the third one.
"I heard they are coward who choose to run away." Said the fourth one.
Bloody grunted at this comment he heard. He wasn't a coward. He was a brave warrior who followed his leader orders to evacuate.
"We are not cowards!" Shouted Bloody. "We escaped Cybertron because we didn't pick a side. You believed that we are traitor because of our ability! So it was useless to be an Autobot or Decepticon since we were or would have been considered traitor!"
"Calm down Bloody. They cannot know." Said Metatron. "We are in important negotiation right now. We cannot start fighting against anyone."
Smokes came out of Bloody nose.
"Alright Metatron." Said Bloody.
They continued walking inside the main construction of Iacon: The City hall where Bumblebee is working. Josh finished waxing Bumblebee and he was ready to meet them. His body shined a little by the face and he had some reflect on his body. He has little time and he entered in communication with Ultra Magnus.
"Ultra Magnus...They are coming here today." Said Bumblebee. "They are soon in the City hall."
"-Already?-" Asked Ultra Magnus surprise. "-They are coming early...Getting us off-guard. Bumblebee...Do you best...I cannot be here now because I have to talk with the new rulers of Kaon.-"
"Who is it?" Asked Bumblebee.
"-You will know later.-" Said Ultra Magnus. "-Anyway. I know I can count on you. Don't screw this up. Pretenders are the best when it comes for highgrade.-"
"I won't." Replied Bumblebee.
The communication ended.
"Finishing waxing you. I'll be outside and waiting for them." Said Josh walking outside.
"Thank you." Said Bumblebee.
When he was alone, Bumblebee moved his servo on his faceplate and moved them on his frontplate.
"What am I gonna do? Ultra Magnus was supposed to back me up as the Central." Said Bumblebee. "I can't improvise everything. I'm not Optimus Prime."
"-I am coming with those who represent the leader of the Pretenders.-" Said Josh with a communication device.
"Alright. Escort them to my office." Said Bumblebee. He then waited for them to come. "Dammit...Primus...Help me...I need some of Optimus wisdom. It will be harder than with Predaking."
He waited for a while and he saw the door to his office opening. Josh entered with the Pretenders who walked in the room and stopped in front of Bumblebee.
"Hello Pretenders. I'm the one representing Iacon. My name is Bumblebee. Who are you?" He said a little nervously.
The Pretenders noticed it, but they saw that he was trying to be nice with them.
"I'm Metatron. I came in the name of my leader for this meeting." He said bowing to Bumblebee. "Those with me are my brothers and sisters. Maynar is the medic in our group. Bloody is our main fighter. Illusionness is also a good fighter. The two others are just here because they didn't listen to me and came without authorisation."
"Hey!" Hellbat and Lucier shouted.
"Anyway, we are here to start the dialogue with you." Said Metatron.
"I understand." Said Bumblebee. "Sorry...but I have only two chairs."
"That's fine." Said Metatron sitting on the first one.
The others looked at the chair and Bloody just pushed them all away and sat there after a short fight.
"*Sigh* Anyway...Let's begin." Said Metatron.
"May I offer you some energon. You're come from far after all." Proposed Bumblebee. And win some time to prepare something to say or to answer.
"Sure." Said Metatron.
"I'll go search some." Said Josh.
"Six." Said Bloody.
"One for each it is." Said Josh starting to walk away.
The other pretenders nodded negatively to the vehicon answer.
"...It's just for me." Said Bloody. "Six for me."
Josh looked at Bloody surprised, by his body language. He then nodded after grunting that he is gluttonous.
"We will all take one." Said Maynar. "Except Bloody."
Josh walked out of the room and he's going to find the energon.
"We can start while he is away." Said Metatron. "I know we are late but...We only learn a long time ago that Cybertron has been regenerated. We had the longest time with our councillors to decide if we are coming here for a proposition or not. Then we had to search for what we are talking and...Blablabla." He moved his hands to end the boring part.
"In other word, you weren't sure if you wanted to enter in communication with Cybertron, your home planet." Said Bumblebee.
"Not that...It was clear long ago, but we needed to be united when the moment came. Our leader wins the argument fight." Said Metatron.
The pretenders smiled at those words.
"What is the purpose of the visit?" Asked Bumblebee.
"Our leader wanted us to come here because...We are seriously thinking of coming back to Cybertron. It is our home planet after all." Said Metatron.
Bumblebee looked at them. It's going good right now. I think their mind is set from the start and it will be simple.
"I can already say welcome back." Said Bumblebee.
Josh came back with the energon cube and everyone took their energon. Bumblebee was calm and he thought he was stupid, panicking like that.
Bloody drank fast his energon, two cubes at the time. Bumblebee started to drink his own.
"Of course, we want to rebuild the town where we lived before. No one wants to build a new city elsewhere that where we were created. We want to restore it to his former glory." Said Metatron.
"No problem." Said Bumblebee. "And...Where is it?"
Metatron activated a hologram and it showed Cybertron. Metatron pointed at the place.
"There. It was there." Said Metatron.
The pretenders looked at it and seemed melancholic. Bumblebee saw it clearly when his mouthplace full of energon when he recognised it. He then spit it out strait on the face of Hellbat.
"You're asking for a revenge prank." Said Hellbat using his servo to clean his faceplate.
"There?!" Shouted Bumblebee.
"Yes." Said Metatron unsure when he saw Bumblebee faceplate panicking a little.
"..." Bumblebee said nothing when he saw the location. That's Predaking territory. The predacons live there...I'm in so much trouble now.
AC: Here's the end of the prologue. I hope you like it.
Chapter 1: The new rulers of Kaon.