I decided to finally try a Transformers ongoing story, this is set in my own continuity mostly based off G1 with nods to Prime, Animated, Beast Wars, and the occasional Movieverse nod. The following are the starting characters, more Bots and Cons will show up as the story progresses.
Autobot team
Optimus Prime
Jazz
Ironhide
Ratchet
Bumblebee
Wheeljack
Hound
Mirage
Prowl
Skyfire
Decepticon team
Megatron
Starscream
Soundwave
Skywarp
Thundercracker
Shockwave
Reflector
Barricade
Scrapper
Blackarachnia
Blitzwing
Chapter 1: More Than Meets The Eye
Milky Way Galaxy: 1943
The Autobot shuttle flew gracefully through space, it was a large ship considering the team was only ten Autobots, but it was the only ship available at the time when Ultra Magnus sent Optimus Prime out on his mission. Ultra Magnus had sent Optimus out to check in on a neighboring galaxy after there had been reports of Decepticon activity. Nobody could quite believe that there was any considering the War for Cybertron was millions of years ago and the Decepticons had long been defeated. They assumed the activity was nothing more than a couple of Seekers or Vehicons left over that had been scattered around the cosmos. Little did Ultra Magnus, Optimus Prime, or any other Autobot know that the reality of the situation was quite the contrary.
"We're pullin' in on the Milky Way galaxy Optimus, disengaging light-speed." A sleek white Autobot with silver wing like attachments and two luminescent blue crests on his helmet said to his leader, this Autobot was known as Wheeljack. The engineer and head scientist of the Autobots.
"Excellent Wheeljack." The larger Autobot, known as Optimus Prime said. He was taller than most of the members of his crew who's torso consisted of a broad, blocky red build with large blue legs. Over where most would have a mouth was a gray faceplate, nobody quite knew why he had it, and nobody ever asked out of respect for their leader.
"It's about time we arrived, I've been itchin' to stretch my legs, go for a ride on some new grounds, dig?" The white Autobot standing to the right of Optimus Prime said, this Autobot was Optimus Prime's second in command. He stood in a cool stance with a smirk on his face, Jazz was known best for his cool and positive attitude, which was what made him so well liked by the other Autobots.
"May I remind you we aren't on this mission to stretch our legs or go for rides, we are here because Ultra Magnus gave us an important task, which we must fulfill as our first priority, and that is to eliminate any sign of Decepticon activity in the area." An Autobot who resembled Jazz in build alone mentioned, this Autobot was Prowl, Optimus Prime's chief military strategist, personality wise Prowl was nearly a complete opposite to Jazz, while Jazz was calm and cool, Prowl was tense and calculated. He still had a spark of course, he just preferred logic and rules over entertainment or relaxation.
"I believe his words were 'investigate', my friend, not 'eliminate'." The tallest Autobot among the crew chuckled. "There is always the option of taking prisoners over extinguishing sparks." This Autobot was a white and red robot with a jet based alternate mode named Skyfire. Skyfire preferred options like that of talking things out over violence, though his size did come in handy whenever he needed to, albeit reluctantly, fight on the battlefield.
"He's got you there Prowl." The green Autobot manning one of many control panels remarked. "This is technically an investigation mission." This Autobot was Hound. The chief scout and geologist of Prime's crew. Hound, like Skyfire preferred not to fight but was by far less reluctant to get his hands dirty in battle, this was made clear with his military based decals across his body and the large shoulder cannon resting on his right shoulder.
"Perhaps I was wrong in my wording, regardless my point still stands." Prowl said, feeling slightly wounded as he did not like when others disagreed with him.
"Frankly I prefer Prowl's wordin', I wanna get out there and kick some Decepticon aft!" The Autobot standing to Prime's left said excitedly. "I've been itchin' to fire this puppy off at a Decepticon for eons." The grizzled red and gray Autobot chuckled, holding his rocket launcher with pride. This of course, was Ironhide, Optimus Prime's weapons specialist. Ironhide was one of the few Autobots to actually see action in the War for Cybertron, where he quickly made a name for himself as one of the toughest and most loyal soldiers in battle, earning him the respect of many Autobots.
"Easy Ironhide, easy." An Autobot sharing Ironhide's body type chuckled. "All this talk about the Decepticons is effecting your energon flow, not good for your old joints." This red and white Autobot was Ratchet, Prime's chief medical officer. Ratchet was just as old as Ironhide but you would never guess that considering his friendlier and more youthfully optimistic personality. A small yellow Autobot stood next to him and laughed a little.
"Yeah! Take it easy 'Hide." He chuckled. "I just hope you save some Cons for me! After all this is my first mission." He smiled, this little yellow Autobot was Bumblebee, a small young Autobot who quickly befriended Ratchet and Wheeljack when they first embarked on their mission. He pumped his fists in excitement thinking about the mission, Prime had selected him since his speed and dexterity had impressed him while he watched the young bots in their training camps. "This is your first mission too, right Mirage?" Bumblebee looked around. "Mirage?" He was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly, a voice, seemingly from thin air spoke up.
"That is correct Bumblebee." Mirage then made himself visible to the others, showing himself to be hanging upside down by one of the beams on the ship's ceiling. His ability to disappear and reappear at will made it convenient for him to avoid most conversations or conflicts, a skill he enjoyed considering his more introverted personality. "But, unlike you I am by no means excited." He said as he dropped from his perch, the blue and white Autobot flipping in the air to land on his feet. Mirage was not looking forward to the trip and was not even part of the original crew manifest, but had to come along since his parole officer Prowl had been selected. Mirage wasn't a bad bot, he just got into trouble at times, though he claims to have been wrongly accused of his actions.
"Quit your whining." Ironhide crossed his arms at the young Autobot. "Little bit of heat with the Decepticons builds character, and you seem to need a lot of that." Mirage grimaced at the remark and clenched a fist slightly. Hound noticed this and quickly stepped up.
"Easy Ironhide." He said. "It's reasonable for a bot to not be overly excited about a mission, Alpha Trion only knows I wasn't all that thrilled that I had to leave Cybertron, but at the same time we've all got to be open to new experiences." He smiled.
"Well put Hound." Optimus Prime nodded. "Any signs of Decepticon activity Wheeljack?"
"Positive!" Wheeljack said. "We've got a signal coming from the moon of one of these planets. A planet called E-arth." He said, pronouncing Earth as Eeyarth.
"I believe it's pronounced Earth." Skyfire told him.
"Right! My mistake." Wheeljack said. "Anyhow, yeah, we've got some signals coming in from Earth's moon, maybe we should check them out."
"Proceed." Prime nodded. "Ironhide, Jazz, Hound, Prowl, and Bumblebee, be ready to exit the ship to engage." He ordered.
"Yes sir Optimus!" Ironhide saluted. "You heard him! To the bridge!" He pointed off, leading the others out of the hull.
"How many energy signatures are there Wheeljack?" Optimus asked.
"Scanner says that there are four signatures." Wheeljack checked. "Three Seekers and one deployer."
"A mere training exercise at best!" Ratchet laughed.
"Indeed Ratchet." Prime nodded in a somewhat jovial fashion.
Earth's Moon
"Life signals detected Lord Megatron. Confirmed to be Autobot." The tall and broad blue Decepticon said with a heavily synthesized voice looking into a monitor. This was the Decepticon known as Soundwave. An emotionless minispy deployer who had been with Megatron from the beginning. His facial construction was that of a red visor and light gray faceplate. A large window with a golden lining coming from his torso was his most noticeable feature, in that compartment was where he kept his five minispies. Laserbeak, his most trusted spy who's robot mode was similar to a red and black robotic condor and his twin Buzzsaw, who became the same thing but yellow and black. Ravage, the most lethal of the minispies who became a black and gray robotic panther, and finally, Rumble and Frenzy. Two humanoid robots each with their own special ability, Rumble, the blue and purple one of the two, could cause earthquakes and tremors with his powerful arm wielded pile-drivers, whereas Frenzy, the red and black one could emit a sonic frequency that could scramble any computer and intercept any transmission.
"Excellent Soundwave." A dark and raspy voice said in a form of devilish joy. This voice of course belonged to Megatron, the ruthless Decepticon leader. Megatron stood taller than all of his soldiers and most Autobots for that matter, his body was mostly a metallic gray with the occasional red panel or black piece to contrast. But all would agree that his most remarkable feature was his fusion cannon. A black cannon longer than the arm it was attached to that shot a blast so powerful that very few could ever say they've stared directly into the barrel and survived. Megatron emerged from the shadows in which he sat and approached his communications officer. "Once we attack this cruiser, that shall send a message to that cursed Ultra Magnus that the Decepticons have returned to win the war and conquer Cybertron once and for all!" He laughed maniacally. Another Decepticon overheard the conversation and stepped forward.
"Here we have our fearless leader giving the same speech once more!" The Seeker spat. This seeker was the Decepticon air commander Starscream, who looked identical in build to his Seeker brothers, separated by colors and personality alone. Starcream was mostly a faded white with red and blue heavily featured throughout his build with a large blaster on each of his arms. Starscream had grown tired of hearing his leader's promise to rule Cybertron after millions of years of fruitless efforts. But deep down he was concocting a plan, a plan to fix where Megatron had failed, a plan to lead not only the seekers, but all the Decepticons. He was sure that any day now leadership of the Decepticons would be his, and he didn't care who he had to eliminate to achieve that goal. "It's high time for a change Megatron, time and time again you have proven to fail, where another Decepticon could triumph!"
"Silence!" Megatron growled at the seeker. "Starscream, do you know why you would never be able to lead the Decepticon army?" He asked, not even looking behind him to face the Seeker commander. "Because nobody has any form of respect for you. None at all. In fact, I believe that I have more respect for the likes of Frenzy or even that pitiful minibot Reflector than I hold for you." He grinned. "Not only that, but you are incompetent and have no idea of how leadership works, why I'd say that you wouldn't be able to lead androids to a picnic." Starscream growled slightly, he was sick of Megatron acting this way toward him, one day he would do something about it.
"My time will come Megatron." He muttered, gritting his teeth.
"Of course, just like I'm sure one day the Junkion race will conquer Cybertron." Megatron chuckled. "Starscream, get Skywarp and Thundercracker and prepare to attack the Autobot shuttle." He commanded.
"Yes Megatron." He said with an obvious tone of anger. "Skywarp! Thundercracker! Prepare to attack the approaching Autobot spacecraft!" He hollered. In mere moments, three tetrajets flew up over the moon's surface. Megatron and Soundwave watched.
"Do you wish that I accompany them Megatron?" Soundwave asked.
"No Soundwave." Megatron shook his head. "Wait here, I however will pay our Autobot guests a little welcome." He smirked as he lept from the ground and used the blast from his fusion cannon to propel him forward. Meanwhile aboard the Autobot ship they were fast approaching the moon and Ironhide was prepping the drop soldiers.
"Alright boys, this'll be pretty standard, just a few Seekers and a deployer. Nothing to worry about." Ironhide grinned. "Alright Wheeljack! Pull the switch!"
"You've got it 'Hide, good luck fellas!" Wheeljack saluted pulling the switch to open the door of the shuttle.
"Geronimo!" Ironhide lept from the shuttle, Jazz, Prowl, Hound, and Bumblebee followed. The five Autobots slowly descended toward the surface of the moon, manning their weapons.
"Alright men, if you see a Decepticon, kill it. Don't try to reason with it." Prowl loaded his blaster.
"And what do we do if we see an Autobot?" Starscream laughed flying over them, firing at the five Autobots. "Skywarp! Thundercracker! Attack!" He ordered. Behind Starscream flew two tetrajets, one was black, purple, and silver, the other blue and red. The two transformed and began to attack the Autobots. The black, purple, and silver Seeker was known as Skywarp. A sly and mischievous Decepticon who had the ability to teleport anywhere he had previously been before, a handy skill to gain the upper hand in battle. The blue and red Seeker was Thundercracker. The most intelligent out of the three seekers who had the ability to use sonic thunder booms to blow back the enemy and heavily damage their senses.
"Seekers inbound!" Ironhide hollered seeing them swoop down.
"How perceptive." Skywarp chuckled, teleporting directly behind Ironhide and knocking him to the ground with a hard blow.
"I don't think so Decepticon!" Jazz charged at him, delivering a swift punch to Skywarp's face. Laughing in satisfaction before Thundercracker fired down at him.
"Take that Autobot!" He laughed as he began to engage in combat with Jazz. Meanwhile, Prowl was facing off against Starscream.
"I couldn't help but notice you bear the markings of a trine leader." Prowl remarked as the two fought. "If I didn't see that I would have thought I was battling a scout or even a generic Seeker." He trash talked.
"And if I didn't know better I would have thought I was battling an Autoscout." Starscream replied.
"Touche." Prowl nodded, firing at Starscream. Hound and Bumblebee had decided to team up and fight against Skywarp, unbeknownst to any of them, Megatron had made his way already to the Autobot shuttle and pried his was through the door of the bridge and was making his way to the hull, prepared to kill any Autobot that got in his way. His arrival did not set off any alarms however as he had developed a cloaking device for his energy signature. Which is also why they didn't pick him up on the scanner.
"Back already?" Wheeljack asked hearing footsteps, believing it to be the drop team. "How'd it go, stick it to them?" He chuckled.
"Not quite." Megatron said, the unfamiliarity of the voice made Wheeljack turn around. "But I'm prepared to." Wheeljack looked at the towering Decepticon in fear.
"Me... Mega... Megatron..." He said in fear, Megatron grinned menacingly.
"Glad to know that I'm still remembered." Megatron said. "Now get out of my way Autobot, before I blast you into sheet metal."
"I won't." Wheeljack replied firmly, standing in a battle stance. Megatron laughed.
"How noble." He chuckled. "Incredibly stupid, but noble never the less." He fired his fusion cannon directly at the Autobot, blasting him in half. Megatron laughed as be barged through the doorway, leaving Wheeljack's top and bottom half to drain of energon. Using the small portion of energy he still had, Wheeljack drug himself to the alarm and pulled it, allowing the others to be prepared for Megatron.
"ALERT! ALERT! DECEPTICON THREAT WITHIN THE SHUTTLE!" The ship's computer, Teletraan 1 warned Optimus and the others.
"Pull up the security footage!" Optimus demanded, on the screens showed Megatron making his way though the shuttle. None of the Autobots could believe their optics.
"Is that..." Ratchet said in astonishment.
"It cannot be!" Skyfire said.
"Ratchet! Tell Ironhide and his crew to abort the mission and report back to the shuttle immediately!" Optimus commanded.
"Right away Optimus." Ratchet nodded sending out a signal. When he received the signal Ironhide commanded the Autobots to retreat back to the shuttle.
"The Autobots are gettin' away!" Thundercracker remarked seeing them flee back to their shuttle using booster packs.
"Let them flee, they won't last long." Starscream grinned. "Prepare an attack on the shuttle's thrusters! That shuttle and everyone inside will be destroyed!" He grinned, knowing that this plan would not only doom the Autobots but Megatron as well.
"Yeah, sure thing boss." Skywarp transformed and flew off toward the shuttle and Thundercracker followed behind. After letting out a sly chuckle Starscream followed them. Meanwhile within the shuttle, Megatron had made his way to the door to the ship's helm. He prepared his fusion cannon and blasted the door to bits, ready to take the ship for himself as his ticket back to Cybertron.
"Come out, come out, wherever you are..." Megatron said slyly as he made his way through the hull. "If you're lucky I may only take you prisoner."
"I would rather be offlined a thousand times before I let you take me prisoner!" Ratchet fired at him revealing himself. The shots were hardly enough to even dent Megatron's plating, this caused the Decepticon to laugh.
"You make me laugh Autobot, perhaps I will spare you." Megatron said. "Perhaps not." He prepared his fusion cannon.
"Do not concern yourself with him Megatron." Optimus Prime revealed himself. "It is me you want." He said pointing his blaster at the Decepticon.
"Well..." Megatron grinned. "I want to kill all of you, but I suppose you'd be a fun place to start." He pointed his fusion cannon at Prime instead, now fully charged and ready to fire. Before he could, he was shot multiple times in the back.
"Attack!" Ironhide hollered as he and the others began firing at him. Megatron turned and faced them.
"Such heroic nonsense." He snarled, firing at them, delivering a blast that knocked all five of them against the wall.
"No you don't Megatron!" Skyfire ran up to him, only to knocked back into the computer panel by a hard kick from Megatron.
"C'mon men! There's no way he can handle all of us!" Jazz charged at him.
"Underestimating my power is a foolish mistake." Megatron growled grabbing the Autobot and throwing him into the wall.
"Boarding this shuttle was a foolish mistake!" Prime lunged at him, knocking him over to the ground, beginning to punch him over and over.
"I don't think you know who I really am." Megatron grinned. "I have leveled cities, I have brought titans to their knees, I AM MEGATRON!" He hollered nailing Prime in the face hard, sending him flying into the control panel.
"Optimus!" Ratchet said, running over to his leader. Megatron stood up and walked over to the Prime.
"Let this be a message to all of Cybertron, the Decepticons have returned, once and for all." He grinned wickedly, preparing to destroy Optimus Prime. "Farewell, Autobot." Just as he was about to fire, the ship jerked forward from a hard blast to the thrusters, sending everyone to the floor hard. Outside the ships, the three Seekers were firing at the ship's thrusters, causing a total engine failure.
"Glory to the Decepticon cause!" Starscream hollered firing one last blast at the ship's thrusters
"Starscream you fool!" Megatron radioed the Seeker. "I'm inside the ship!"
"Skywarp! Thundercracker! Return to base!" Starscream ordered as they flew off back toward their base on the moon as the shuttle descended in flames towards the Earth's atmosphere. From their base the three Seekers, joined by Soundwave watched the shuttle crash. Skywarp and Thundercracker celebrated their victory and Starscream just stood there with a grin.
"Wait, where's Megatron?" Skywarp suddenly asked.
"Megatron?" Starscream asked. "Oh, Megatron, he's gone."
"What?" Thundercracker asked.
"You see, he was aboard the shuttle when we sent it crashing down, he's most definitely going to die. For the sake of the war, it was a sacrifice we had to make." Starscream explained. "And now, as much as it pains me to say this, the Decepticons need to move on, we need a new leader, I nominate myself for that position." He grinned slyly.
"Megatron's demise was a product of conspiration." Soundwave spoke up. "Starscream is to blame." The two other Seekers looked at Starscream.
"Is this true?" Skywarp asked.
"What? No! Soundwave lies!" Starscream hollered.
"Negative. Starscream was clearly plotting to eliminate Megatron, his energy waves suggest it." Soundwave explained.
"You set us up in a plot to kill Megatron?" Thundercracker said angrily.
"You're listening to this dip-stick tape deck?" Starscream scoffed.
"Soundwave never lied before." Skywarp said. "You, on the other hand..."
"He lies all the time!" Thundercracker finished Skywarp's sentence.
"Affirmative. Starscream is an unreliable source for information." Soundwave nodded. "It would be best if we contacted Shockwave's team on Earth, perhaps they can find Megatron."
"We don't need to bring him into this!" Starscream said.
"Quiet you!" Thundercracker punched Starscream directly in the face.
"I have already sent a transmission to Shockwave." Soundwave said. "It is also best if we make our way to Earth, so that we may cover more ground in search of our leader."
"Good plan Soundwave." Thundercracker nodded.
"What about the backstabber?" Skywarp asked.
"It is too much of a risk to leave him unsupervised. Starscream must accompany us." Soundwave explained.
"You heard him, c'mon traitor." Skywarp picked up the Seeker harshly and Thundercracker slapped a pair of stasis cuffs on him.
"I can't transform with these!" Starscream growled.
"That's the point." Thundercraker said as he and Skywarp transformed and flew off. Soundwave grabbed Starscream by the arm and took off in flight behind the Seekers.
Meanwhile, aboard the shuttle, the battle between the Autobots and Megatron had stopped momentarily as the Autobots desperately tried to save their lives by fixing something, pressing a button, engaging something, but there was nothing they could do.
"Prowl! Aim for an unpopulated area!" Optimus commanded.
"I'll try sir." He nodded manning the helm. "Here. The Pacific Ocean."
"That will suffice." Prime nodded. "It has been an honor serving with you troops." He said to his crew.
"You Autobots are pathetic!" Megatron spat. "I'm out of here, perhaps I can still escape with my life!" He ran through the shuttle and opened the door for the bridge, quickly leaping from it as the ship rapidly plunged, but as he lept, the atmosphere took his toll on him, causing him to catch aflame and cause a failure in his systems. "No!" He yelled at he fell toward the ground, crashing down hard like a meteor. The shuttle crashed hard into the ocean and quickly hit the bottom of the ocean, the impact was enough to quickly put the entire crew into permanent stasis. That shuttle would lay dormant for another seventy five years...
California: 2018
"Seventy five years we've searched for Megatron, and still no sign of him all over this spark-forsaken planet!" The black and purple Decepticon car known as Barricade said in anger. Barricade was the Decepticon's scout. Able to sniff out a target from hundreds of miles away, the fact that it had been seventy five years without finding their target did not sit well with him.
"Perhaps the best bot hunter on Cybertron is finally letting his years catch up to him." Three minibots said in unison, all three of them looked the same, boxy grey bodies with green chests and purple helmets, all except the one who stood in the center of the three, his discerning feature was a large glass circle in the center of his chest. These three were known as Spectro, Spyglass, and Viewfinder. Nobody called them by their real names since they never cared enough to try and tell them apart, they were known by their combined name, Reflector.
"Who asked you for your opinion y'little creep?" The green and purple Decepticon known as Scrapper asked with no amount of respect for the little spy. Scrapper was known best for his engineering ability, if any Decepticon needed anything, he'd build it. The one cost would be having to deal with his less than jovial personality.
"Blah, blah, blah." The female Decepticon stepped forward interrupting Reflector before he could reply to Scrapper. "Honestly, you're all creeps, you're all creeps that give me a real ache in the processor at that." This female Decepticon was known as Blackarachnia, she was primarily black and purple with long gold spider legs sticking out of her back, her eight red eyes glowed in the darkness of the Decepticon hideout.
"For the last time I will request that all of you remain quiet." A cold emotionless voice said as a singular glowing red eye stepped out from the shadows. "We all want to find Megatron, but fighting within our ranks will not help anything." He said, this was the Decepticon Shockwave. A cold and calculated Decepticon who preferred the clarity of thought before rashness of action. He stood tall with a bright purple body, one arm brandished a cannon instead of a hand, and instead of a face, within his helmet was a singular optic.
"Because for the past seventy five years, not fighting has done so well! Hasn't it!" Starscream spat within the confinement of his cell, laughing at the misfortune of his teammates.
"Quiet!" Frenzy snarled, prodding the Seeker. His cry of pain made him and his brother Rumble laugh.
"Good one Frenzy!" Rumble chuckled at Starscream's misery.
"When I get out of here, both of you will be melted down into metal for spare parts." Starscream growled.
"You'll be lucky if we don't melt you down for spare parts the day we let you out." Thundercracker sneered.
"Yeah! He's the one who got us into this mess in the first place!" Skywarp nodded.
"I still don't understand why you didn't melt him down then and there." Blackarachnia remarked.
"We figured Megatron would appreciate it is we let him do the honors." Skywarp explained.
"And since he's dead, and has been dead for seventy five years what do you plan on doing with him? Because he's never coming back to melt him down." Scrapper crossed his arms.
"Megatron will be found. Megatron is alive. Megatron will lead the Decepticons to victory." Soundwave said to Scrapper.
"Sure radio-head. And I'm cast from the mold of Alpha Trion." Scrapper said sarcastically.
"Silence!" Shockwave commanded. "Look at this." He pointed at a monitor he had been scanning. The Decepticons gathered around to see what he had pointed to. On the monitor was a human man in a fancy suit giving a speech at a large scale press conference, a stocky man in a lab coat stood beside him.
"When Isaac Sumdac came to me with these ideas, I thought he was nuts!" The human known as G.B Blackrock laughed as he gave his speech, G.B Blackrock was the head of Blackrock Enterprises, a company dedicated to coming up with the technology for military weaponry. The man who stood beside him, Isaac Sumdac, was the founder and CEO of Sumdac Systems, a robotics corporation that specialized in maintenance robots. But now, with the colaboration between the two companies, they had developed a perfect military robot.
"Tell the people where you had this idea professor." G.B said to Professor Sumdac.
"It just sort of came to me." He said. "I had always had one sense of inspiration for my technology, it was only recently that it inspired me to collaborate with Mr. Blackrock in an effort to create work for the military."
"And what a spectacular outcome it was when we put our minds together!" G.B nodded. "This robot will be the perfect assist in modern warfare, whether on land or in the skies." He explained. "Care to do the honors Professor?" He asked the stocky human.
"With pleasure." He nodded pulling down on the tarp covering the robot, this robot stood roughly thirty feet tall, had the visible wings and cockpit of a fighter jet, but coming up from his back was the turret of a tank. A blank expression on the face of the robot and a red visor sat where eyes would be.
"Introducing the prototype for the mechanical military aide Blitzwing! The key to gaining the upper hand in every battle, not even the Japanese have developed the technology for something like this yet!" Mr. Blackrock laughed. "Show them what you do Blitzwing!" He hollered. In drone like movements, parts and limbs shifted on the large robot until he formed a M1 Abrams Tank. The humans attending the conference all reacted in astonishment.
"Now wait, there's more." Isaac Sumdac said. "Blitzwing! Again!" The tank then shifted once more into a F-22 Raptor Fighter Jet. Even more applause came from the crowd as the jet shifted back into it's robotic form. The Decepticons, watching the broadcast exchanged looks.
"That... Blitzwing thing looks awfully Cybertronian." Thundercracker spoke up.
"You don't think..." Skywarp began.
"It is clear that those two humans are the answer to the whereabouts of our leader." Shockwave said. "Where else would they have discovered the technology nearly identical to that of our race?"
"So, if we find those guys..." Rumble began.
"We'll find the boss!" Frenzy nodded.
"Well then what are doing here then?" The Reflector units asked in unison.
"For once I agree with the creep triplets, let's go!" Scrapper nodded.
"Decepticons! Transform and rise up!" Shockwave ordered, the Decepticons all transformed and prepared to head out to crash that conference.
At the conference, four humans sat in the front row examining the large robot. "Pretty sick huh?" One teenage girl out of the four spoke up, she was tan skinned with two long red pigtails. "My dad happens to be half responsible for it." She said smugly, this human was Sari Sumdac, daughter of the engineer Isaac Sumdac.
"Careful Sari, you might hyper-extend your shoulder patting yourself on the back." The blonde haired teenage girl commented. "Besides, it was my uncle who encouraged him to collaborate on the project." She smirked. This was Carly Blackrock, niece of G.B Blackrock.
"Though, it was her father who had the inspiration for the robotics that evolved into the project." A brown haired teenage male in a wheelchair spoke up. This was Chip Chase, probably the smartest member of the group of friends considering he had been accepted into college at the age of fifteen years old and now had a steady job at Sumdac Systems.
"Are you not just saying that because he's your boss?" The fourth human asked. This human was Spike Witwicky, he held no connection to the two entrepreneurs giving the presentation, he was just a friend of Chip's, soon after he met Chip he had befriended Carly and Sari. "Who cares who had the bigger part in this, that thing is amazing!"
"Amazing and potentially dangerous." A voice said behind them, behind them was the captain of the police force, Captain Fanzone. A heavy police officer with a bushy blond mustache and thinning hair. "Can't say that I really feel so great about our newfound reliance on technology. Can't say I've ever been too fond of machines in general."
"Come on Captain Fanzone, this robot will be a real handy military service!" Chip spoke up.
"You can never be certain." He said. As he said that, two F-15 Eagle Fighter Jets flew overhead at low altitude causing the crowd to look up.
"Nice touch on the airshow." G.B complimented Sumdac.
"I didn't call this in." Sumdac shook his head. "I though you did!" As he said that, more strange vehicles approached the area, a navy blue Conquest Knight XV pulled up by the stage, followed by a lime green and purple Case 621F front end loader and a sleek black 2018 Ford Fusion Hybrid police car. A sleek purple RAH-66 stealth helicopter hovered overhead. At this point people were starting to get confused.
"Alright what's going on here?" Fanzone asked. "Who called these vehicles in?"
"We called ourselves in!" The police car spoke up. "We are the Decepticons!" He said as the police car began to transform and morph pieces around until he became the Decepticon Barricade. "Fellas?" He called to the others. The blue Conquest transformed into Soundwave, the Case 621F became Scrapper, the helicopter transformed into Shockwave and the two F-15 jets transformed into Skywarp and Thundercracker. The crowd of people were confused and a little bit frightened.
"More experiments of yours Blackrock?" Fanzone asked him.
"No... I've... I've never seen anything like them before!" He said. Shockwave heard this and approached them.
"I find that hard to believe." He said. "That creation of yours is far too similar to our designs and engineering to possibly be coincidental."
"You have something of ours." Thundercracker crossed his arms.
"Yeah, and we want him back." Skywarp growled, pointing his arm mounted blasters at Blackrock and Sumdac.
To be continued...