Moments before the Autobots arrival...
"So there's a new Autobot! Who is he? What's he like? Where's he from?" Miko asked, countless questions poured out of this girl nonstop.
"Another bot already?" Bulkhead asked as he entered the room, trying to calm Miko down.
"Yes, and he'll be arriving right about now." Ratchet said, as if right on cue, the ground bridge opened up. Arcee entered first, followed by Bumblebee. Behind the Autobot scout came Optimus, along side what seemed to be the new Autobot. A blonde teen exited out of the sports car before the Autobot revealed himself. Miko was the first one to speak.
"Hi, I'm Miko!" She exclaimed as she ran over to meet them. "Who are you? Are you fast? How'd you two meet? How'd you get here? Do you have a ship? Can it fly really high?"
"Miko, could you at least breath between sentences?" Jack asked, "Hi, I'm Jack."
"And I'm Raf." Raf added as he walked up next to Jack.
"I'm Coby and this is Hot Shot." answered Coby. He quickly surveyed the room, which he guessed was their base. Most likely, the Autobots were hiding themselves from humans... or at least most humans anyway.
"I am curious, how did you get here anyway?" Arcee asked, she knew that there was something off about these two and she was going to find out what.
"Actually..." Everyone turned to Hot Shot, "We don't really know how we got here. One minute we're in the middle of a race on Velocitron and then we somehow ended up in the middle of nowhere."
Everyone just stared, unsure what this Velocitron was. None of the Autobots could recall hearing the name before. And of course Miko had to break the silence. "What's this Velocity-tron thing?"
Hot Shot and Coby were now in the same shock as everyone else. "You mean you never heard of Velocitron, the Speed planet?"
"Nope."
"What about Animatron, the Jungle Planet?" Coby added Hopefully.
"Or Gigantion... or Planet X?" Hot Shot listed, stunned by their lack of knowledge, then again, he never heard of these worlds until recently either so he wasn't much different from them.
"Hold up just one minute." Ratchet said outraged, "You expect us to believe that you two are from some other planet called Velocitron and now have some how ended up here by who know's what?"
"Well were not actually from the planet itself seeing as Coby is from earth and I'm from Cybertron but what we're saying is the truth. I swear!"
"Then how come we've never heard of these planets then?"
"Ratchet..." Optimus said, "Many things are possible in the universe. For all we know, there maybe some truth to their story."
"But it is true!" Coby insisted. "Unless..."
"Unless what, Coby?" Optimus asked.
"Hot Shot, it's not that we've ended up on another world. I think we ended up in another dimension." Coby stated, he was pretty sure he saw this in a movie once. This would make the most sense anyway, he did after all travel to other worlds for stop a giant black hole, so Dimension hopping didn't seem all that crazy.
"And what do you have to prove that statement?" Ratchet asked skeptically.
"Because your not the Optimus Prime we know. And our base on earth was in Colorado, not... where are we?"
"Nevada." Miko informed.
Cony continued. "Right, plus last time I checked, Optimus was leading a space bridge exhibition across the universe after we saved cybertron."
"You 'saved' cybertron?" Arcee eyed the two of them. "And the last time I checked, cybertron became a barren rock since the great war."
"But that can't be right." Hot Shot was confused. They had just saved cybertron from a black whole. How could it have been destroyed. "Yes, we fought the Decepticons, but there was never a 'great war'. We we're trying to stop them from getting their hands on the Cyber Planet Keys."
"The what?"
"They are these four keys that when placed into the Omega Lock, we're able to seal the black hole that was about to destroy our world and the others as well." Coby said, starting to believe more and more in his Dimension hopping theory.
"Look, Optimus." Bulkhead cut in, "Even if what they are saying is true..."
"Then we are going to help them." Optimus interjected, "We can, at the very least give you asylum here until we can find a way to get you back to your own world."
"Yeah, and if you want, you can stay at my house Coby for the time being. I'm sure my mom won't mind." Jack offered.
"Thanks... Jack, right?" Coby was kinda glad that things were getting worked out but at the same time, kinda sad. 'I wonder how Bud and Lori are doing?' Coby thought, speaking of Lori... "Hot Shot! What about Lori and Override!? They must have ended up like we did somewhere!"
"Override? Lori? Who are they?" Raf asked.
"Well, before we ended up here, Override, the former leader of Velocitron, and I were having one last race before she was about to leave for the exhibition. Lori's another one of our human friends and was riding with her at the time of the race. We were neck and neck, heading straight for the finish line, when suddenly, a bright light appeared consuming everything. And when it faded away, we ended up here." Hot Shot explained. "It would only make sense that Override and Lori ended up here as well... hopefully."
"Then team, our first priority at this time will be to locate Hot Shot's missing comrades." Optimus announced, he acted as if everything was completely normal. How could he just sit there and do that!? Must be a Prime thing.
"Thank you, I greatly appreciate the help. I owe you guys one." Hot Shot happily thanked.
"There's one more question I have for you." Ratchet stated, everyone brought their attention to him. "What was that power surge I detected on the scanners?"
"It probably was the Cyber Key I used. To explain, It's like a mini version on a planet key that can be used to give a bot a power boost. I'm kinda surprised it worked here." As Hot Shot was finishing up, Smokescreen rolled into the base. Surprised by the newcomer.
"Hey guys, so what I'd miss?"
Jack rode into the garage with Coby. "Hey Mom, I'm home." He announced, his mom was waiting for him, not looking to happy.
"I see you were out late." He sighed and gave him a hug. She turned Coby, "And who is your friend?"
"Oh, uh... this is Coby. He's a friend from school, do you mind if he stays with us... for a while?" He asked, Jack knew his mom already suspected something.
"Arcee?"
The motorcycle turned toward them. "He's a friend of ours, there has been a situation so Optimus offered to help out."
"Well, alright then. As long as you do your chores, do you here me?"
"Alright." Jack sighed with relief. "Come on, let's head upstairs."
Coby looked around, the room wasn't overall large and Jack has some photos of his friends and family hanging up on the wall. He reached into his pocket to bring out a picture of the three of them, back in Colorado. Coby could just imagine how Bud is going to react when they get home. He would probably yell something like, "How come you got to go Dimension Hopping? That's not fair!" and then they'ed hug and Bud would come up with some crazy idea for a portal device that Coby would just have to build. That is, if they ever get back...
"Hey, are they your friends?" Jack interrupted Coby's thoughts.
"Uh, yeah. Well, that's Bud, my little brother and that's Lori. We went on the craziest adventures together."
"Well, I'm sure the Autobots will figure out something. So you shouldn't worry so much."
Coby smiled. "Yeah, they always do, don't they?"
"Hey Override. Are you sure you can't contact Hot Shot?" Lori asked, hoping to get some form of a yes. If only she hadn't lost her cell phone.
"Look, Little sister, I've tried over and over but something is jamming the signal." Override was frustrated, Lori could here it in her voice. How could this have happened? They were supposed to be on Velocitron, not in the middle of some mountains on some back street road. Speaking of back street roads... "Hey Lori, what are these jokers doing?"
Lori squinted, hoping to see the crowd of people better. "It looks like... these guys are getting ready for... a race? Probably some illegal race competition."
"You think one lap wouldn't hurt?" Override quickly corrected herself, "I mean, for all we know, Hot Shot might join in on the race as well. And Coby must be with him."
"Look, if you wanted to race, you could have just said so." The two pulled up next to the racers. Lori, could here some of the guys whistling.
"Now what do we have here?" The teen put his hand on the hood. "Never saw a car like this before." Override tried to keep quiet.
"Micheal, dude. Looks like we have one more contestant joining us." The other teen pointed to a red, white, and black car that slowly pulled up next to Override. "Let's get this thing started then, before more people show up."
"Agreed, racers are you ready?" A young chick walked into the middle of the road, holding a checkered flag. "On your marks, get set, GO!"
Thanks so much for the reviews guys. I apologize for the whole, I'm going to explain a lot of the plot in one conversation thing. I just couldn't figure out how else to do it and make it fit. Anyway, I'll have the next chapter up soon enough.
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