AN: This is my first story, so sorry if you do not like it. On to the story!
Chapter One: The Two-Fifty-Fifth
Team Prime was experiencing the most unexpected thing ever, nothing was going on. No 'Con attacks, no energon signatures revealing a mine or deposit, nothing. So, obviously, everyone was on edge. Everybot was trying their best to distract themselves from the obvious tension in the base, but most failing to do so. The kids for their part were sitting in the human area watching television, with Raf on his computer, doing their best to ignore the stressed out bots. "Okay if something doesn't happen soon I think someone, or somebot, is going to snap." Miko whispered to Jack and Raf. "I know what you mean Miko." Raf replied. "For once, your right." Jack responded.
Optimus noticed the unrest in the base but was unsure of what to do about it. Ratchet was in the med bay, rechecking equipment that had already been looked over more than four times this mega-cycle. Arcee was checking over her Blasters, for the fifth time this solar-cycle. Bulkhead was just pacing the room looking like he rather be anywhere but here. Bumblebee was over by the human area talking to Raf, watching what the human was doing on his computer. Optimus, realizing that there was not much he could do to get rid of the stress, went over to the main control panel and watched the scanners, hoping that something would happen soon to pull his team out of their edgy state.
Just outside of the solar system, a small star ship with Autobot markings was on course for Earth. The ship, detecting that the destination was nearby, began to bring one of the passengers aboard out of stasis. The passenger that was selected to be brought out of stasis began to slowly bring his systems out of recharge. As the mech finished his system checks, he onlined his optics and made his way to the bridge of the ship. The tall, light grey mech sat down in a chair in front of a console and started to look over the ship log. The mech rolled his shoulders that had gotten slightly stiff from his time in stasis. The grey mech had a single blue stripe running down each of his arms, a Autobot symbol in the upper center of his chest plate and dark blue optics only slightly darker than most Autobot's. As the mech finished checking if anything had happened of importance, the bot returned to the stasis chambers, went to a console at the center of the room and began to bring the four bots with him out of stasis.
As the stasis pods prepared to release their occupants the bots inside prepared to come out of their extended recharge. The first bot to exit the pod was a tan mech with silver optics and a Autobot symbol right in the center of his chest plate. "How are you feeling Vigilance?" The grey mech asked. The tan mech, Vigilance just nodded in response. "Well, if you are just going to stand there get to the bridge, we will be arriving at the planet within the megacycle."
"All right Dropzone, let me know when everyone else is out stasis."
"Will do." The grey mech, Dropzone, replied. As Vigilance walked out the second stasis pod opened, but, no bot came out. "Hotwire, come on out already." Dropzone said to the open pod. "Five more cycles." A voice responded from the pod. "Hotwire, you have been in stasis for sixty-one solar-cycles, now get your lazy aft up already." A red mech with two stripes on his chest plate, the right stripe being white and the left being black, with his Autobot symbol being on his left arm, walked out and faced Dropzone, the bot's standard Autobot blue optics showed his joking personality for everybot to see. "What, can't a bot make a joke?" Hotwire stated. Dropzone just looked at the red mech before laughing, "Hotwire, everything is a joke when it comes to you, now get to the bridge, we will be getting to the planet soon."
"All right, you got me there boss, see you in a click, and could you bring some energon when you come up?"
"Get it yourself, you walk right past it on the way to the bridge anyway." Dropzone called to Hotwire as the mech made his way down the hallway.
While the mech was walking away, the next pod had opened and a silver jet femme with a single black stripe and Autobot symbol on each wing along with teal optics stood leaning against the pod waiting for Dropzone to notice her. When Dropzone turned around and stiffened for a nano-click, she knew she had surprised him. "Primus, Slipstream, don't do that."
"What? Don't stand here?" Slipstream asked, the joking obvious in her voice. "Very funny 'Stream, you know what I meant." Dropzone replied. "All right, I might not do that again." Slipstream said, a smile on her faceplate. "May not?" Dropzone said with a raised optic ridge. "Sorry, but that's the best your getting out of me." Slipstream stated walking out of the room. "Tell Hotwire and Vigilance I'll be at the bridge in a click. I'm going to wait for our medic before coming up." Dropzone called after Slipstream, who just waved the mech off before continuing down the hallway.
Dropzone only had to wait a few nano-clicks before the last stasis pod opened revealing a white femme with a single red stripe going down her left arm, the femme had the regular blue optics that almost all Autobots have. "Well, hello there Silverfrost, enjoy your recharge?"
"Funny, you know as well as I do that stasis pods are not exactly the best way to get quality recharge. Although some energon may help to fix that." The medic responded.
"All right then, might as well get some on the way to the bridge, everyone else is waiting for us." Dropzone stated turning to walk out of the room, Silverfrost following behind him.
Opening the door to the bridge, Dropzone entered the room with Silverfrost walking past him and taking a seat, setting her half empty cube of energon next to the console that she quickly brought online. Seeing that everyone was waiting on him, Dropzone decided to begin preparations for landing. "Hotwire, how far out are we from the planet?"
"Less than five clicks out boss." Came the quick response.
"Silverfrost, do we have any intel on possible species on the planet?"
"Yes, there are many species on this world, the dominant appears to be a species that, from scanning their information network, are called humans. While not the strongest species, they make up for their lack of strength with inventions to help in their survival."
"Slipstream, do they have anything that we can use to blend in?"
"Yes, I have actually already picked out alternate forms for us to use to blend in although, my form, along with yours and Vigilance's forms are more, uncommon."
"Noted. Vigilance, is the space bridge signature we tracked here still online?"
"Negative, although…"
"Although?" Dropzone questioned. "There are multiple energon signatures on the surface, they may be emitting from active mines, or large deposits. Along with what appears to be, ground bridge signatures, although I cannot locate the origins."
Dropzone stopped for a moment, ground bridge signatures could be coming from an Autobot or Deception base, that means that there could be other bots on the planet.
"Boss! We are entering the atmosphere!" Hotwire called out from his station, interrupting Dropzone's thoughts. "Scrap, all right, Hotwire, bring us in, preferably in one piece. 'Stream, find us a place to land and fast, I don't think that a star ship, even a small one, passes for normal around here. Silverfrost, keep an optic the comms we don't want to be ignoring any possible Autobot attempt to contact us. Vigilance, get the stealth systems up I don't want us showing up on every radar this planet has."
"Yes, sir!" Came the combined reply.
AN: Thanks for reading, I apologize for the short chapter, I didn't want to go to far in the beginning, I highly appreciate anything you have to say about my story and will update soon...hopefully.