"How long ago was that?" Minerva asked. "Three years, and it's been like this ever since." Vicky answered. "That long? Don't you think that's a little weird?" Finn said. "It is. The reason why my people left wasn't the rain, but the frogs." Vicky elaborated. "Frogs?" Finn repeated.
"Yeah, frogs. They're huge, and they're hungry. They attacked London several times in the first week of the rain. They must have been attracted by the damp conditions." Vicky said. "Why are you still here when there are killer frogs everywhere?" Jake asked. "I'm not crazy, right? This dog is talking." Vicky said worriedly. "Nah, he talks all the time." Finn said. "Thank goodness." Vicky said in relief.
"Anyway, I can't just abandon my land like this. The only way I'm leaving is through a coffin!" Vicky continued. "We can do something about those frogs, if you want." Finn offered. "Then you're just in time for my morning hunt! I need all the help I can get. Ignatius is great, but still not enough to help me." Vicky accepted. "Mom, you packed weapons, right?" Finn asked. Minerva smiles in response.
They go to Fallback's flatbed and it opens up, revealing an assortment of swords and futuristic guns. The guns were white in colour and had a short barrel as wide as the pistol is tall. "I knew something like this would happen, so I packed four swords from your arsenal and some blasters I made myself. I call them Mouse Hole Makers or M.H.M. for short." Minerva said as Seamus picks up one of the M.H.M.s. He points it to a lamp post and it fires a girthy blue laser beam at it, burning through the base and causing it to fall with a clang. "Be careful with that." Minerva warned.
"I'll take you lot to my fishing spot near the Eye." Vicky said to the Voyagers. "What's the Eye? Is there a giant eye around here?" Finn asked. "It sounds gross; a giant eye floating around here." Jake commented. "The London Eye is, in my time, the tallest Ferris wheel in all of Europe. It is situated on the South Bank of the Thames River, not far from where we landed." Simon explained. "Unfortunately, the Eye hasn't moved for years on the count of a leprechaun." Vicky added.
"Wait, leprechauns are real? Like those tiny guys with green hats and ginger beards?" Seamus asked. "Yeah, they sometimes come down from Ireland for who-knows-what." Vicky explained. "Come on, let's go frog hunting!" Finn said excitedly. "You got a radio?" Vicky asked Minerva. "Yes, why do you ask?" Minerva wondered.
"I'll give you the signal to attack. These slimy buggers only expect me." Vicky answered. "Tell that to the dog, I'm not the one driving." Minerva replied. "The dog drives?" Vicky said in a tone of disbelief. Simon then comes between the two hurriedly. "I-I drive. Yep, just me, I can drive." Simon said nervously.
"Okay… Well, let's roll out, then." Vicky said weirded-out. She then walks towards the fire truck. "What was that for?" Finn asked Simon. "We can't tell her about Fallback like Minerva said. Honestly, I haven't driven in years and the last time I touched something with an engine it crashed into a building, thankfully without me on it." Simon explained. "Well, let's get going then." Finn said.
The Voyagers drive with Fallback as Vicky entered the fire truck's passenger seat, exchanging her crown for a beret. They follow the fire truck down the road the Voyagers came from they drive down Westminster Bridge over the Thames River and then pass Springer in vehicle mode at a junction. "What's that doing here?" Vicky asked the Voyagers over her radio. "That's our helicopter. We came here on that." Jake answered. "Looks pretty sweet, love the olive green on it." Vicky complimented.
They turn right at York Road in front of a ruined mall and continue down before stopping at a junction. "Stop right here. The Eye is over to our right, but the frogs are hiding. I'll lure them out and when I give you the signal, you know what to do." Vicky instructed The Voyagers.
She exits the fire truck and runs towards the Ferris wheel. Finn opens the rear window to speak with the rest of the team. "Ignatius has been pretty quiet." Finn commented, Elisa facing him since she's immediately in front of him in the middle seat. "Let's talk to him." Jake suggested. He picks up a radio receiver on Fallback's dashboard and speaks through it.
"Hey, Ignatius, right? Can we call you Iggy?" Jake greeted. "No, call me Pyro." Ignatius replied timidly. "Pyro? Weird name for a 'The Last Fireman'." Jake commented. "It's 'The Last Firefighter'." Pyro corrected. "So, what's your deal with Vicky? You two datin'?" Jake asked.
"No, of course not. She's… not my type. I'm just her bodyguard." Pyro answered. "Sure…" Jake said in disbelief. "Look, you don't understand, I'm–" he said before Vicky runs in front of them. "They're coming!" Vicky yelled as she flailed her arms around. She enters the passenger seat of the fire truck and retrieves a large ballista-like crossbow made of wood, loaded with large spear-like bolts.
"You heard her, let's go!" Finn commanded his team before closing the back window. They grab the weapons from the back of Fallback and Finn deploys his wrist sword. They charge towards the London Eye and see a multitude of large frogs hopping towards them. "She wasn't kidding; they're the size of dogs!" Chad commented as he brandished one of Finn's golden wakizashi. Seamus fires a laser at a frog and it burns a hole through its face.
"Hey Doc, what's that medical term for burning a wound shut?" Seamus asked Chad as he sliced a frog's tongue as it stretched towards him. "Cauterization!" Chad answered. "Yeah, cauterized!" Seamus exclaimed excitedly. "Hmm… the M.H.M.s performs better than expected." Minerva observed with her hand to her chin before a frog leaps over her. Her eyes shine blue as she swipes her hand over the frog's underbelly.
She kneels and touches the ground with her palm as the frog lands. The frog splits in half, both sides keeling over. She stands up and deploys a wrist sword of her own. "I knew this would come in… handy." she joked. "Boo!" Jake jeered to Minerva as he manhandled two frogs with giant hands.
From atop the fire truck, Vicky was elevated into the air by the fire truck's boom ladder with the crossbow attached. She spears frogs left and right as much as she can. She fires a bolt at a frog, but it leaps away and instead it lands on Simon's shoe. "Sorry!" Vicky apologized.
He takes off his shoe, revealing a sock with a hole between his index and middle toe. "I'm alright!" Simon yelled back to Vicky. He takes the bolt out of the ground and puts his shoe back on. A frog leaps in front of him and opens its mouth, revealing a row of sharp teeth and preparing to launch its tongue. He throws the bolt into the frog's mouth, causing it to choke and giving him time to escape.
Elisa dual-wielded two M.H.M.s to deal with the massive amount of frogs coming after her. "Why are there more coming to me than anyone else?!" she wondered. "Probably because of all that mass, you're the biggest in the group after all!" Seamus yelled. "Are you saying I'm fat?!" Elisa asked angrily. "Muscles, I'm talking about muscles!" Seamus replied as to not get punched by Elisa later.
Finn was dealing with a frog as a shadow loomed over him. He turned around as the frog leapt away to see an even bigger frog standing before him, several times larger than the rest. "Aw, crud." Finn bemoaned. "Here's the big one!" Vicky announced to The Voyagers. She jumps of the boom with her crossbow and hits the side of the fire truck.
The fire truck transforms into a Transformer with a similar body shape as Megaempress. His face was constructed from golden metal, wore a blue-grey fire helmet and jaw mechanism, and bore blue eyes, indicating he is an Autobot. "Geronimo!" he yelled as he charged into battle. "Iggy's a Transformer?!" Jake exclaimed in surprise. "Don't call me Iggy! It's either, Sir," he swung a punch at the frog's right cheek, "Pyro," he throws another on its left, "Ignatius," he kicks its chin with his right knee, "Spark," he roundhouse kicks it into a wall, "Sir Pyro Ignatius Spark," he takes aim with his boom ladder cannon, "… or The Last Firefighter!" he said as he obliterated the frog and the wall.
All the other frogs in the vicinity flee back into the Thames. The Voyagers gather around Pyro as he stood triumphantly. "That was amazing! You took out that thing in, like, seven seconds!" Finn complimented him. "Oh, it was nothing. I just had hours and hours of practice, like anyone else." Pyro said in a flattered tone. "I take it you've seen more of hind kind before?" Vicky asked The Voyagers.
"About that…" Finn said. Minerva claps her hands two times for Fallback to transform into robot mode and wave to them. "Oh, so you have one of your own!" Vicky said in surprise. "The helicopter's an Autobot too." Minerva added. "You folk are full of surprises." Vicky commented.
"What's the story with Iggy?" Jake asked. "Py. Ro." Pyro corrected sternly as he bent down to the dog. "Pyro, or Sir Pyro Ignatius Spark, is an Autobot built by Secure-T U.K. as the first generation of human-made Transformers with sparks, intended to repopulate the planet Cybertron. He was the only one build because of the war that broke out at the time. He was knighted by my ancestor, Queen Elizabeth the Third, for defending our country from enterprising alien mercenaries." Vicky explained. "Wow, you're a real knight!" Finn said excitedly. "Don't expect me to ride an equinoid with a feather in my head and a sword in my hand." Pyro said snarkily.
"So is he your boyfriend too?" Jake asked Vicky. "Yes." Vicky giggled. "I am not!" Pyro rebutted. "I figured you'd have someone like this. There's no way one human alone could take on these things." Minerva noted. From the Thames, three more giant frogs leapt onto land and one of them grabs onto Pyro's cannon with its tongue before throwing it aside.
"My gun!" Pyro exclaimed. "Crikey, those canes are huge!" Fallback commented. "They're frogs, not toads." Vicky corrected. "Voyagers, attack!" Finn commanded. "Let the big boys take care of this!" Fallback said as he brandished two large machine guns as pistols.
The two Autobots charge towards the frogs and attack them, Pyro pouncing on one and blocking its sight, and Fallback shooting at another. The frog Fallback fought spits it tongue onto his optics, blinding him with mucus. The frog Pyro attacked flung him towards the London Eye, but flew through its gaps and into the Thames River. The remaining frog hops towards The Voyagers and Vicky, menacing them. As Finn stood at the front with his wrist sword while the frog opened its incisor-filled mouth in preparation to eat them, a small missile is fired into it and blows up, scattering its guts everywhere.
"Ew, I got some in my eye." Seamus whined. "What was that?!" Jake wondered. They look to the source of the missile and see two cloaked figures in the street, one being about a foot shorter than the other and bearing two glowing eyes. The taller figure points at another frog and a missile is fired from the shorter figure's mouth, briefly revealing a robotic visage. The missile hits another frog in the eye and bursts it into optic matter.
The frogs flee into the Thames as The Voyagers look at their saviors. "Thanks for saving our bacon back there." Finn thanked the two. "Who are you?" Vicky asked.
To be continued…