Chapter 1: "None of you are Escaping!"

New Athena

Present Day

The festival has become more festive and crowd during the times of the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons. Many villages have been destroyed or taken by many Decepticon forces, forcing free people to leave and hide in other towns in hoping to regain their home after the five year war has ended. most who have experienced the feeling of hopelessness and depression never cared about them anyway and only wanted to start over a new life and get on with them. But even though they are beyond the Front Stone Wall, a barrier keeping the forces at bay, they still fear that the wall will be nothing to the Decepticon forces.

The festival, even though changed, still held on to their traditional Cow Races founded many years ago. Mostly new attraction are held by other visitors and homeless in order to make money. There are many way of entertainment in the city such as mega-drumming elephants and gymnastic groups performing bizarre tricks no one has ever done. But the main show that everyone has ever known and been waiting for is Muss New Athena Pageant, hosted by none other than Phoncible P. Bone, the Vice-Mayor of the city. The starts to yell things into the microphone.

"And now, my people of the fair city of New Athena!" Phoney Bone starts. "The moment you all been waiting for: The Finale of the Miss New Athena Pageant!"

The girls who have entered and survived the last rounds walked up to the stage, happy and excited to be the winner of the pageant. But somewhere within the crowd, one of the contestants named Thorn Harvester tries to get away but she was stopped by Star Skye, a teenage boy who came from Paradigm City. "What are doing Thorn?" Star asked her when she grabbed her arm. "You need to get to the stage that way."

"Look, i'm not going on that stage looking like this! I feel ridiculous just wearing it." Thorn complained looking at her dress.

"you look beautiful and everyone knows it." Star tried to cheer her up. "Heck, even in swimsuit Fone Bone just landed on the ground out cold."

"But what if i don't win?" Thorn asked him. "Then we lose the bet to Chuckie and we'll have to clean his pit of a room for a week!"

"well looks like you gotta have to keep faith about winning this pageant." Star escorts Thorn to the stage as Phoney what's them from there. Phoney starts to get testy.

"alright people, whose ready for the envelope?"

Somewhere in the crowd, a man in a vest and red handkerchief roams around the crowd with his daughter. His name is Booker Dewitt. Her name is Elizabeth. Booker watches the sky for anything suspicious or dangerous that might rain down with fury from the clouds. "Booker." Elizabeth said his name.

"Sorry. Just checking for trouble."

"will you relax?" Elizabeth calmed him down away from the up direction. "We are in a festival. They won't attack us at that time of the day."

"Why hello, missy!" Smiley Bone greeted the two with candied nuts. "would you care for some candied nuts."

"why thank you, sir."

"no thanks, i'm fine."

"hope you're here to see the show. They are about to announce the winner!"

"we'll keep that in mind." Booker answered.

On the top of the wall, two guards who are out of their Gunmen enjoy the afternoon with themselves and their wine. They laughed at their jokes and good times. They were happy as school children back at the good old days on the planet Spiral. Suddenly, they hear a thumping noise which causes the ripples in the wine glasses. Then, a sound of a blade was heard from where one of the guards is sitting. WHen the other two turned to him, his head fell of from his neck. The two stood up and hurried to their Gunmen, but another guard was shot in the back by a small arrow from the other's direction. When the last one looked up, he sees a shadowy figure standing on top of the Gunmen, wearing samurai armor and a helmet covering his face. He pulls out his blade and jumps towards the guard while the guard himself screams to his sudden death.

Back at the festival, Phoney is about to announce the winner of the pageant. "and the winner of the title of Miss Athena is . . . . . Thorn Harvester!"

Everyone in the crowd cheered for her, especially Star Skye, who is happy because we won the bet against a kid named Chuckie. Suddenly, he felt a disturbance in the air like something is wrong. He turned and looks at the wall and sees someone standing on top of the ledge. Star knows that something is terribly wrong.

" i would like to thank everyone here for this, and i also want to thank my friend Star Skye for encouraging me to do this and . . ." Interrupting the speech she prepared is the sound of a thundering jet, which caught the attention of the whole crowd, including Booker who was expecting this from the beginning. The jet went straight up and then transformed into a Decepticon named Starscream, who landed on the wall next to the mysterious assassin. The Decepticon begins his mouth.

"This city, pathetic as it is, is now property of the Decepticons." Starscream spoke to the crowd, scaring them. "You all belong to my master Megatron. So don't try to run away, because none of you are escaping!"

Laughing, Starscream transformed into a jet and left the wall and the assassin disappeared without being seen. Then, a large quake begins to start, shaking the city. The crowd is about to panic, but Phoney tries to calm the public. "Now people, settle down, we have ways of dealing with this, so don't panic and remain calm!"

Suddenly, the Front Stone Wall, the wall that has protected the public from the war for five years has been broken down and demolished. Many rocks has killed and smashed most of the civilians in the crowd, causing them to run away and head to the evacuation trucks. But Star remained on the ground, still stunned by what happened and too afraid to move. When the dust from the wreckage cleared, it revealed Trypticon, a monstrous Decepticon weapon created for this moment. The monster roared as the Decepticon troops come in and start shooting their guns. At that moment, Star began to run.