Chapter 1

8 years later…

"Angel, did you hear me?" A voice spoke.

Angel's mind snapped back into the present and she glanced back at the white Zenvo ST1 following behind her. "I'm sorry Downshift." She replied as they rounded a bend in the mountainous European road.

The Danish sports car let out a chuckle. "Wow, you were completely lost in another world and still managed to stay on the road with ease; I'm envious."

"Ha ha, laugh it up kid; now what were you just telling me?"

"Titanus has reported that all is clear on the West Coast and Valkyrie has reported the same on the East. They are awaiting further instruction from you." He replied.

"Very well tell them to bridge back to base for debrief and rest." She commanded as they pulled off onto a dirt road. They traveled down it a good distance then stopped and transformed. Angel walked along with her ally through the woods when a call suddenly came in.

"Go ahead Sparkplug." She said as she placed a servo against her ear.

"We have a situation, Ma'am." A female voice spoke through the COMMs.

Angel sighed and rubbed her head with her free hand. "PLEASE tell me it doesn't involve Jitterbug and Sixspeed."

"Then I guess I should keep my mouth shut." Sparkplug replied.

Downshift crossed his arms and sighed. "Those two kids are gonna be the death of us."

"Where did they do this time, Sparks?"

"Well…they uhh… They bridged out of base…."

"…THEY DID WHAT?!"

In Southern Nevada…

"WWWHHHHHOOOOOOOO!" A little white, black, and red custom 2013 Volkswagen Beetle screamed with glee as she drove as fast as she could on the long stretch of desert road. She heard the loud roar of an engine approaching from behind and giggled happily. "Isn't this fun, Six?!"

A white, red, black, and silver Koenigsegg Agera R pulled up alongside her easily. "Jitterbug, we're going to get into SO much trouble for leaving the base. We should go back." He replied nervously. "Mom's gonna be angry when she finds us."

"Oh come on, Sixy; you need to open up and live a little; you're like the 2nd fastest car on the planet! Put the petal to the metal!" Jitterbug laughed as she nudged him a little. They pulled into a canyon and transformed.

Jitterbug was a bit taller than Arcee while Sixspeed stood slightly shorter than Bumblebee. They were the newest members to the family known as simply 'The Legion'. On Jitterbug's forehead and Sixspeed's abdomen was the symbol of the Legion; a pair of angel wings connected together with an orb floating over the center of the connection. All members bore the mark somewhere on their body, showing where they belonged.

The two younglings walked along together and observed the scenery. "This is so cool; I wonder what else is around this area." Jitterbug giggled as she skipped on ahead.

Sixspeed followed with a grumble; he didn't want to leave the base or even the Compound where the young bots were trained and lived until they were ready for duty. It was forbidden for younglings like them to leave at all, especially without anyone to protect them. They weren't trained properly in fighting and out here Autobots and Decepticons roamed fighting for energon and the planet's survival and M.E.C.H tried to capture any of them. Legion on the other hand worked to keep any signs of the war hidden from any and all humans, but they operated completely without the governments' knowledge. Nobody knew of their existence, human or otherwise. That was how their leader had set things up.

The young speedster didn't remember exactly what their true purpose was but he knew that they were waiting for the right time to reveal themselves and stop something bad from happening, at least that's what Permafrost taught them.

"Man, Frost is gonna be annoyed by us missing class. I can't imagine how Blackout's gonna react when HE finds out we snuck out." Sixspeed spoke as he shuddered.

"Oh big brother won't do anything to us; he loves us too much." She giggled completely oblivious, as usual.

The two young bots walked on before they heard strange sounds. Jitterbug, being the curious little kid she was, ran off to investigate, leaving Sixspeed to chase after her. They soon came upon a large cavern and saw eradicons digging glowing blue crystals out from the cavern. Jitterbug and Sixspeed quickly hid behind some large boulders and observed them carefully.

"Decepticons…and they're digging up energon." Sixspeed pointed out with a whisper.

"Wait how do you know all of that?" The younger bug-bot asked curiously.

"If you paid attention in Permafrost's classes, you'd know yourself."

The young Femme huffed and continued watching with him. "What should we do; confront them?"

Sixspeed looked at her with wide optics. "Are you SERIOUS?! Those are Decepticons and we are still being trained to fight and use our weapons! We wouldn't stand a chance! We need to get out of here before we get spotted!" He whispered harshly.

Jitterbug crossed her arms and pouted but knew Six was right; they really didn't stand a chance. She sighed and nodded before they turned and snuck away. They switched into their vehicle modes and sped off quickly.

"We're going to call for a ground bridge as soon as we are a safe distance away and we are going to report our findings to Mother!" He told her.

Meanwhile…

Knockout and Breakdown traveled along the road towards the newly discovered energon mine. The Eradicons were busy harvesting as much as they could and the two of them were heading over to watch over operations in case the Autobots decided to show themselves.

"Hey, do you see what I see?" Breakdown asked.

Knockout looked ahead to see two vehicles pull out of the canyon where the mine was and start heading towards them. Leading was a little Volkswagen Beetle which he didn't have much interests in but the car following caught his attention; it looked like it was built to race.

"New Autobots, perhaps?" His partner asked.

"I'm not too sure; I'm getting pretty strange readings from the two of them. Either way we can't let them escape." Knockout replied before speeding up towards them.

Back With the Kids…

"This was a bad idea to begin with; we should have never left. We'll be lucky if we ever get to see the outside world again!" Sixspeed stated as his engine growled.

"Oh come on it was fun while it-Uh oh!" Jitterbug stopped cold and her brother did the same. "Uhh, Six I think we're in trouble!"

The Koenigsegg Agera R pulled up beside her and felt his spark freeze up. Standing ahead of them were two bots that they knew weren't from Legion. One was blue and built buff while the other was red and had a more elegant shape. They both approached the two youngsters.

"So we have a couple spies, eh." The red one asked with a smirk.

Jitterbug trembled and stuttered a response. "W-We were just out for a drive and got lost, that's all!"

"Be quiet, Jitterbug; you know we're not supposed to reveal ourselves!" Sixspeed told her as he pulled ahead to protect his little sister.

"Hmm you two don't seem to be from around her and you don't bear symbols of the Autobots; perhaps we could discuss you two joining the Decepticons." The blue one smirked as he walked closer.

"Why would we want to join your bloodthirsty side when we have Legion?!" Jitterbug retorted with a bit of anger.

"JITTERBUG!"

The two Decepticons looked at each other with confused expressions. "Legion?"

Suddenly, Sixspeed peeled out and drifted around Jitterbug, kicking up a ton of dirt and dust, hiding them from view. "We need to split up and separate them! The red one will chase after me; he looks like he's a sports car type so he should tail me. You should be able to keep ahead of the big blue guy easily enough. If you get far enough away radio of a ground bridge and get back home! I'll try to do the same!" He instructed as he continued spinning around her.

"Six, you barely know how to do this trick! If that Decepticon comes after you it won't matter how fast you go, he'll out maneuver you!" Jitterbug protested.

"I'll be fine and we don't have much of a choice! Now one, two, three, GO!"

Knockout and Breakdown approached the dust cloud only to hear engines roaring. The sporty car blasted out from the cover and blew past both of them while the little bug took off to the left; both were going at high speed.

Knockout jumped and transformed before charging after the sports car while Breakdown went after the bug.

"You're not getting away that easily, kid!" The Aston Martin called.

Sixspeed growled but kept just ahead of him; the young bot wanted to make sure he led this guy on a wild chase but Sixspeed himself was a relatively new driver. He had never hit his full speed before and he never even worried about being chased. Those classes weren't given to him quite yet and since he wasn't allowed to leave the base he never tried anything out on his own. Everything he was doing he had seen his mother do when he watched her on Permafrost's and Sparkplug's monitor.

"You're slow old man!" He yelled as his engine roared and he jutted ahead a bit more. "I'm not going anywhere near my FULL speed!"

He heard the Decepticon growl. "You'll regret that comment, punk!"

"Oh Primus, why did I have to say that?! Jitterbug is starting to rub off on me!"

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"Come here you little brat!" Breakdown snarled as he chased the bug who only giggled at him.

"You're lots of fun! If I'm not locked down when I go home, you wanna play again?"

The large Decepticon didn't know what to think of this little bug. She behaved kind of like a Squishy and it bothered him, as much as he didn't wish to admit it.

"Who are you anyways, kid?" He yelled the question, hoping that she had heard him. For a youngling, she was quick.

"I'm Jitterbug of the Legion, of course! Oh, don't tell anybody I told you that; Mother will get mad if she finds out you know about us!"

"Mother; what's mother?" He asked.

"Mother is mother, silly! She made all of us in Legion. Don't you have a mother?"

Breakdown tried to process what she was talking about but he just couldn't make any sense of it. "I don't understand; what are you talking about, Jitterbug?"

Suddenly, a ground bridge opened in front of them, startling the large blue Decepticon. Jitterbug on the other hand groaned. "Aww, they found me! Well I have to go home; goodbye mister Decepticon!" She called before disappearing into the ground bridge, which closed right after.

Breakdown transformed and looked where the bug had vanished. "What in Primus is this 'Legion' and who is this 'Mother'? I'm so confused; hopefully Knockout can catch that speedy kid and get us some answers." He thought before suddenly resting a servo on his eye patch. It had suddenly began to throb and he knew when it did that, trouble was just around the corner.

"Why do I have a felling things are going to get VERY complicated?"

Bet you're really curious and confused right now! Don't worry there shall be answers in the following chapters!