Till All Are One
More Than Meets the Eye
Part 1
Earth, the third world from its local star, a small blue planet with a diversity that would put other worlds in shame. It was unique among its cosmic brothers, as it had life. Diversity among living things, animals, plants and so forth populated the planet's surface.
In the region that the world's most advanced species called 'the Earth Kingdom' laid a strange object beneath one of the many mountains that decorated its western landscape. It had a golden sheen to it, and four gigantic holes that emanated from it.
The object was called the Ark, and its passengers were beings from another world. From a far, far away star system in a corner of the galaxy where a civil raged with all its fury.
Teletraan 1 activated. Scanning occupants for repairs.
The sounds of a mechanical voice resonated through the dark empty halls of the Ark. A small satellite drone then came out of the machinery and began scanning the beings on the ground. Then it headed out of
After a few moments it came back and began scanning the metallic beings once more, this time imprinting them with other scans. The first one to awake was the red and blue colored one; it was huge easily dwarfing most of the others by comparison.
"Agh…" He stood up and shook off the dirt that had accumulated on top of his chassis. "Bumblebee, are you all right?"
The smaller yellow bot stood up, "Yeah…but my back tail light broke I think, what about the others Optimus?" He replied.
"We'll get it sort out. They will be up in no time, Bumblebee." Optimus said while he turned to the control panels and activated the Ark back up. "The Ark still has enough Energon to function, we are lucky that Teletraan 1 still worked after the crash."
"Speaking of…" The one called Jazz had awoken with the rest. "…how much time had we been knocked out cold?"
"Approximately one million years." Optimus responded.
"Whoa…that's almost as old as Ironhide." Warpath, the heavy weapons specialist, said jokingly.
"You better shut it Warpath." Irohhide rebutted, he was Optimus's right hand man. "We better do some recon and find out where exactly we crashed into."
"Agreed, Bumblebee, Jazz and Sideswipe, you three inspection the surrounding area. If we made it then the Decepticons could have as well." Optimus said.
"On it." Sideswipe acknowledged, he was followed by Jazz and Bumblebee to the exit.
"Optimus, some of the others have severe wounds from the fighting back on Cybertron and our fight through the portal. Want me to inspection them?" Ratchet, the medical officer, asked.
"Do it, we will need them if Megatron and his lackeys made it through the wormhole." Optimus replied. Ratchet nodded and went to inspection the wounded robots, who were Wheeljack, Arcee, Jetfire, Silverbolt, Cliffjumper and Air Raid.
Once outside, Sideswipe, Bumblebee and Jazz transformed into vehicles. They had taken the shape of the satomobiles, Bumblebee was a newer model a top of the line satomobile, Sideswipe and Jazz took the shape of sports cars.
"You see this place? It's so different from back home." Bumblebee said while they rode through the earth desert.
"This planet is not mechanical like Cybertron that's for sure, full of energy as well." Jazz replied.
"That's good, the Ark needs it." Sideswipe added. Then they heard the sound of what seemed to be a city. "You guys hear that?"
"We better see." Bumblebee said, turning towards the direction of the sound. Jazz and Sideswipe followed suit. As they neared the city sound, they entered a snowy mountainous region.
"I'm going to freeze my circuits out here." Sideswipe complained.
"Our vehicles modes will not be sufficient to cross this area, Autobots transform." Jazz ordered, they were back into their robot forms.
They walked thought the tundra forest that spread through the valleys of the mountains. "Optimus, this is Jazz, we have discovered a city just beyond the sierra. Orders?" Jazz communicated through his arm radio.
"Hmm…it's a possibility that Megatron to be hiding in disguise within the city." Optimus said.
"Then?"
"We do the same, enter the city in your vehicle mode and avoid detection. Prime out."
"You heard the big guy, let's roll out." Jazz ordered.
Meanwhile in a nearby plateau, an ominous looking starship is also buried beneath layers of rock. This is the Nemesis, the command ship of the Decepticons. Its hangar doors opened and out of them came out the mighty Megatron. He was as mean as they come; his presence alone could make any normal Autobot tremble in fear.
"This world looks well enough." Megatron said. "Soundwave, tell me about this world."
"Lord Megatron, this planet is rich in energy. Enough to make more Energon Cubes for the Nemesis." Soundwave replied in a highly digital and monotone voice.
"Excellent!" Megatron rejoiced. Following them were three more Decepticons, these were Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp.
"Your plan is not very clear Megatron, were can we find the energy we need?" Starscream criticized Megatron.
"Isn't it obvious you fool? Look around, this world is full of life! It makes Cybertron look life-less in comparison, find me any source of power immediately, I order you!" Megatron told his flyers.
"Very well, Thundercracker and Skywarp will accompany me." Starscream replied, turning into a Cybertronian jet and leading his jets into the sky.
"The probability of finding new resources is highly like Lord Megatron, but I would not trust Starscream with such a task." Soundwave stated.
"I trust Starscream as I trust him being shot by my cannon, but I need of his services." Megatron replied.
"Understood Lord Megatron, I have scanned this area. This plateau will be a perfect placement for our base of operations." Soundwave said.
"Very good, Soundwave. Prepare the others and commence to build our glorious base!" Megatron ordered. "For if we have made it, then Prime and his Autobots would surely have also."
Bumblebee, Jazz and Sideswipe drove around the streets of the 'alien' city; from they could see this world was populated by organics. There were no beings of metal like them, but their accomplishments were incredible. "They look squishy." Sideswipe said.
"Shut up Sideswipe, we can't have them hear us or even try too hard to look at us." Jazz responded.
"Why not?" Sideswipe asked.
"We are giant robots for crying out loud, we would be wreaking havoc among the local population." Jazz replied.
"Uh guys…" Bumblebee said. "In the skies." Then three jets flew pass, taking the people around by complete shock since they had never seen aircraft like those before.
"Its Starscream and his team of flyers, we have to tell Optimus!" Sideswipe said.
"On it…" But before Jazz could report to Optimus, an explosion was heard nearby. "By Primus, not now!"
Inside a factory where satomobiles were made, Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp were blasting at the factory workers as they tried to run in terror.
"Hahahaha! This is easier than what I believed it would be." Starscream laughed as he ripped through the concrete walls with easy and began to steal the electricity and oil of the factory.
Skywarp then took out several empty Energon Cubes that Soundwave had made and began to fill them with the electromagnetic and fossil fuel energies. "Will it be enough?" Thundercracker asked.
"Of course not, we need more!" Starscream replied, tearing through the assembly lines and stealing more power from the factory plant.
Hiding behind the back entrance of the factory, Jazz, Bumblebee and Sideswipe heard Starscream and the others' plan. "They are doing what we were planning to do." Bumblebee said.
"Yeah but they are killing innocents along the way." Sideswipe added. "Jazz what do we do?"
"Optimus said not to interfere but…" Jazz couldn't allow himself to disobey Optimus Prime.
"Optimus wouldn't want us to leave these people to die, especially by someone like Starscream. Autobots attack!" Bumblebee jumped into action.
"Bumblebee! Dammit, let's go Sideswipe!" Jazz followed.
"Yeah! Let's kick some Decepticon butt!" Sideswipe was more than excited to enter battle.
"What the!?" It was the first thing that Skywarp said before he was kicked in the face by Bumblebee.
"Autobots! Destroy them!" Starscream ordered while firing his laser cannons at the Autobots.
"Not in your dreams, Starscream!" Jazz responded, punching Thundercracker in the abdomen, making him fall back.
"Fools!" Starscream yelled, he was grabbed and thrown by Sideswipe into the air. There he quickly changed into his jet form. "Protect the Energon!"
He then bombarded the Autobots with his mines that he threw. "Get away!" Jazz yelled, jumping away from the explosions.
"Thundercracker, get some of the cubes and go back with Megatron and the others." Skywarp said.
"Are you nuts!? They will follow us back!" Thundercracker responded.
"Not if we blind them first!" Skywarp said. "Starscream, smoke them out!"
"Excellent idea Skywarp!" Starscream congratulated his minion; he did another jet run this time dropping smoke bombs.
"Not this time!" Bumblebee used his laser cannon on his arm and shot Starscream, making a clean hit. The smoke bombs blew up anyway, blinding the Autobots.
"I can't see a thing!" Sideswipe said. Jazz activated his thermal vision, but it was already too late.
"Damn, they escaped!" Jazz cursed.
"Not without getting some, I shot Starscream before he and his flyers got away." Bumblebee said. "And look, they forgot some Energon."
"Like about four cubes." Sideswipe informed.
"Well it's something…we still have to tell Optimus about this." Jazz replied. But before they could they were surrounded by the city's police force. Squad transport trucks surrounded the giant Autobots, in comparison to the other species, and came out pointing their weapons at them.
"Uh oh." Sideswipe said.
"Uhh…put your…arms on the air!" One of them yelled using a voice amplifier. The Autobots did just that, not want to start a war with another race.
"Chief Beifong." The cop saluted at his chief.
"Well, I see but I cannot believe it." Chief Beifong said as she locked at the three immense robots before her. "Identify yourselves."
"Uh…we are Autobots." Sideswipe replied.
"Listen, it's a long story but we came here to look for help. Then those other guys, that flew, attack you. Those are the bad guys." Jazz said.
"Yeah!" Bumblebee added. Thankfully the Autobots had a translation module installed into their cybernetics, meaning that they could understand and speak in any language that was presented to them, of course it had its limitations but the language of these people was simple enough to be translated into Cybertronian.
"How can we be sure, you look the same?" Beifong said.
"We swear by Primus that we are nothing like the Decepticons!" Bumblebee responded.
"Cool your emotions module Bumblebee, listen we are good guys. We would've already leveled you and your people up if we weren't." Jazz explained.
Chief Beifong was then joined by another person, this one being a young woman who came running as fast she could. "Whoa nelly…" She was clearly surprised by the Autobots. Beifong sighed.
"What are you doing here, I have this under control." Beifong said.
"Well I am the Avatar, it's my job to see what's going on this looks…important enough." The young woman responded.
"The Avatar?" Sideswipe asked.
They turned to look at him, they were clearly meters away, and they were speaking softly. "We have good ears." Sideswipe said while he smiled.
"Jazz, are you there?" Optimus's voice became alive through Jazz's radio communicator.
"That must be their leader." The young woman said.
"Korra, you better not get near them. They destroyed this place in a matter of seconds and the metal they're made of is something else…I can't sense them like any other metal." Beifong said, this only amazed Korra even more.
"We are in a bit of a thing here Optimus…and I don't know how to get us out of it." Jazz replied to Optimus.
"Well you better do it…" Optimus said. Meanwhile near the Ark's crash site the Autobots had encountered another Decepticon scout party, this time they were led by Brawl, a powerful Decepticon soldier.
"Crush them, Decepticons! For Lord Megatron!" He yelled as he rushed at the Autobots.
"Take cover!" Ironhide barked.
"Return to base Autobots, Prime out." Optimus ended communications.
"Well…crap." Jazz said, the situation was getting a lot more complicated. Little did he knew that this was only the beginning…