Chapter 2: Adjusting to Human Life and Becoming Students

The three Cons just stay where they were until Laserbeak comeback. They discuss what they needed right now; a house, money, jobs, equipment, and food. Equipment to better understand this world along with its secrets. A house to rest and a place to start their operations. Jobs to earn money and in turn to get food along with equipment. A difficult challenge, but they can overcome with ease.

After a half hour, the crow came back to screech for their attention. The three followed the crow across the city until they came upon a large stone staircase. The three hurry up the stairs until they came to a halt when they saw an elderly man limping down the stairs. Normally, the Cons wouldn't care about the humans, but the old man was bruise and had blood all over him. The old man soon tripped over a step and was falling. Luckily, Megatron caught him just in time. The three brought him down to street and lean the elder against a wall to examine his injuries. He was cut, burn, and punch everywhere and judging by how fresh they were it was just recently.

"Thank you for catching me young man" the elder man said.

"What happen to you?" Megatron asked as he narrowed his eyes.

"Those... damn street punks did this to me..." he muttered before groaning in pain and clutching his stomach.

"What was your business with them?" Shockwave asked.

"They took my old family dojo and ruin it. I tried to fight them, but there was just too many for me to handle and I am too old for this."

"You could have just called the police?"

The man glared at Shockwave, who remain unintimidated, "This is personal and those punks are members of the Bloody Hounds, the most dangerous gang in Kuoh. They will kill my wife, children and grandchildren if I call the police. I can't take that chance."

Megatron narrowed his eyes at him, "Why go so far for this?"

"I rather die trying than do nothing!"

A small smirk appeared on the gladiator's face. This was the second time a human impress him with their courage. The first one was Jack Darby. He was impressed how honorable and strong will he was for his age. He could've ended the war with his drill back when they were trap underground, but told him that it wasn't something that Optimus would do. The other time was back on Cybertron where he declared he will gladly sacrifice his life to save Cybertron.

Megatron shifted his gaze up towards the staircase, "You really care for this dojo, don't you?"

"Yes... I rather see it burn to ashes than in the hands of those punks..." he said before groaning some more.

Soundwave and Shockwave faced their master and read his look. They could tell he had a plan in mind and they will follow it without question.

Megatron got down on one knee to face the elder, "My friends and I can take it back for you."

The old man's eyes widen and his jaw drop, "WHAT!?"

"Don't make me repeat myself. We can get rid of them no problem."

"Why are you doing this? This isn't your fight."

"While that is true and we have no business in this, we can offer our services to get rid of them for you."

"But..."

"Consider it this way. You won't risk the safety of your family and you won't have to risk your life anymore. Those punks said no to get the cops involve, but they never said anything about hiring some help, did they?" Megatron interrupted while smirking sinisterly.

The old man looked at him then his pals to see a fierce faith in their skills especially the boy before him. He used to study swordsmanship as a child and he could tell those who are strong by the look in their eyes. Seeing the logic of hiring them, the old man sigh and lifted his head.

"What's your payment?"

"We can discuss that later", Megatron rise up and headed for the staircase, "For now rest and allow us to handle them. It won't take long."

"Careful! There're about a hundred men in there and the leader of the gang is currently inside!"

"Thanks for info" Megatron said before walking up the stairs with Soundwave on his right and Shockwave to his left.

Halfway there, Shockwave turned to his leader, "You do have a way with words, Lord Megatron."

"It was easy to convince him. Hopefully, we might get this dojo for free. No matter what happen we win in the end. We will be able to test our new bodies in this fight and even if he won't give us the dojo we will get paid for this." His men nodded in agreement as they prepare for battle.

When they reach the top, they got a good glimpse of the dojo and must say it saw better days. The entire structure was ruin with broken shingles, the walls had holes in them and the paint was coming off, the grass needed to be cut along with trimming some bushes, and numerous of other things. Despite its current form, the layout was just what they needed. It had a good view of the city of Kuoh and was not far from the city. The dojo itself has a few buildings that were two storages and a large equipment shack.

At the front entrance, ten punks all wore black leather jackets with a hound on the back. They all had different style of clothing on accompany with some piercings and accessories. For weapons a couple of them had brass knuckles on the other had either knives, chains, or bokkens. They are currently playing a dice game betting on what the roll of the dice.

One of them noticed the Cons and smirked, "Look guys! Fresh meat has arrives!"

The punks got up and circle around them snickering. The Cons just sigh as how pathetic their intimidations were and could tell they were all talk and no bite. A punk with an eyepatch came up resting a bokken on his shoulders and a hand in his pockets. He placed his wooden sharp sword underneath Megatron's chin as he examined him.

"You're not from around here are you?"

"Your point?"

"Well foreigner... you see around here some of us don't like other races on our turf. How about you go back to your country and stay there?"

The calm Megatron place his hands behind his back and stared directly into the punk's eyes, "Funny, I was going to suggest you and the rest of you pathetic mutts to leave this dojo now."

The eyepatch punk moved his bokken away from him and raise it in the air along with his free hand, "Ohohoho, we have comedian in the mix boys. How about we show him how we deal with comedians." The other punks started to snicker once again while taking out their weapons.

Megatron rolled his eyes before giving a nod which cause Soundwave and Shockwave to nod back at him. Megatron grabbed the eyepatch kid slam his face to the ground. The remaining thugs split into group of three to take on the Cons. Shockwave elbowed one in the face which was followed by throwing him into a dead tree. The second one tried to stab him, but the scientist caught his wrist and kneed him in the guts. The last one delivered a series of punches at him, but Shockwave dodge each one before punching the thug's face. Next he grabbed him by the shirt then threw him to the ground on his back and delivered a knockout punch.

Soundwave blocked a series of punches for a bit before making his move. He grabbed the thug by the neck and choked him for a second before throwing him into a bush. Another thug with a bokken swung his sword at him, but the silent Con simply dodge each one by simply tilting his body in the opposite direction of the swing. Next he grabbed the thug by the collar and threw him to a ground. The last thug managed to wrap his chain around Soundwave's wrist, but it was useless. Soundwave pulled the chain forcing the thug to stumble forward allowing the silent chief to uppercut him. While Soundwave was untying the chain, the punk with the bokken rise back up and was about to swing at the back of Soundwave's neck. Unfortunately for him, a black blur appeared before his left eye for just a moment before he felt a sharp intense pain. Dropping his wooden sword, he placed both hands over his left eye as blood slid down his cheek and roar in pain. He looked to see what attack him with his right eye and saw a black crow with blood on its talons slowly descending down to rest on Soundwave's right shoulder. Wasting no time, Soundwave jab the thug right in the guts forcing the injured thug to fall.

Megatron caught a thug's chain then yank him towards him allowing the gladiator to grab his head and slam it to the ground. A thug attempted to punch him in the face, but it was easily thwarted. Megatron simply caught the fist despite having a brass knuckle on it before twisting the fist. The groaning thug fell to one knee trying to break free. Sadly, he couldn't and Megatron punch him right in the ribs. He let the thug go allowing him to clutch his right side as he growled in pain because of the broken ribs. His last opponent had a knife and was about to stab him. Megatron caught the blade with his bare hands startling the thug before being introduced to a fist in the face.

The gladiator let go of the knife and felt something sliding down his right palm. He noticed a red stream coming down slowly dripping onto the ground from his index finger. Megatron growled in frustration because he must be careful with his new body. Despite having a high pain tolerance, he must be careful since he doesn't have a metal body anymore which can withstand small attacks like these. There were so many disadvantages with this form and was infuriating.

"Hey!"

The Cons turned to see 30 more thugs emerging from the building all armed with same kinds of weapons from the thugs they fought. A few of them had bats with a spike in them for weapons. They quickly surrounded the Cons and raise their weapons at them.

"You made a grave mistake coming here boys!"

"Yeah!"

"You're dead!"

"No one mess with the Bloody Hounds and get away with it!"

Megatron ignored their threats and gave his intense glare causing some of them to step back as a drop sweat race down their faces, "Where is your leader?"

"None of your damn ass business, pretty boy!"

"Yeah and why the hell do you want him!?"

"To leave this dojo and never come back" Megatron answered. The thugs look at him for a moment before bursting into laughter.

"HAHAHAH, oh that's rich!"

"No kidding!"

"This guy thinks he could make a request like that to our leader, HA!"

"This guy is a pure dumbass!"

Megatron growled in annoyance for a moment before raising his voice a little stopping their laughter, "It wasn't a request. It was an order."

The tone of his voice made a few thugs sweat nervously while others took another step back. The way he spoke broke through their tough guy charade allowing them to taste the cold feeling of fear. The glare in his eyes just helped break down their wall and caused many of them to shake in terror. A couple thugs were able to calm themselves, but only a little.

"H-H-Ha! Y-y-you are no l-l-leader of mine."

"Y-y-y-yeah!"

Megatron closed his eyes for second, "How pathetic." He opened his eyes to his men for a second before slowly marching forward, "No mercy."

"I wasn't planning on offering any" Shockwave answered. His emotionless tone stiffens the thugs as more sweats began to drop while Soundwave just nodded.

"Y-y-y-y-y-y-you g-g-guys t-t-think you can b-b-beat us?" a thug stuttered. His answer was Megatron smirking sinisterly causing many to gulp.

"We don't think... We know."

Inside the dojo, a few guys were sitting on the floor with babes around them either drinking, gambling, eating, or messing with the babe next to them. At the end of the dojo a small shrine holding a sheath katana, a tall bald guy with extremely build body sat with two babes hugging his arms. The room they were in was completely trash litter with empty bottles and trash and the walls were either stain or have holes in them.

A thug with a tattoo on his face raised his glass in the air, "HAHAHA, can you believe that old man tried to take this place again?"

"I know! What an idiot."

"Hey boss, how come you didn't want a piece of him?"

"I have no interest in a weak old man besides I can't be hogging all the fun, can I?"

The thugs laugh out loud until a loud shriek echoed the building causing everyone to stop what they were doing. A couple thugs got up and look around to see what was happening while others got their weapons ready. After few minutes, the answer came by a thug bursting through the slid door. Everyone circle around him and saw he was cover in bruises and blood. His nose was broken while body twitch in pain.

The leader of the group got up and roared, "WHO DARES TO ATTACK MY MEN!?"

"I dare."

Everyone shifted their gaze to the entrance to see three unfamiliar boys marching in. The one in the middle was dragging a thug by the head with a single hand. The three uninvited visitors were none other than the Cons. Megatron then threw the thug he was holding to the gang at the exact center of the room. The Bloody Hounds gather around the thrown member who looked extremely terrified.

The scared thug look at his leader as sweat began to come down his face before passing out, "B-B-B-Boss r-r-r-r-run... t-t-t-those g-g-guys a-ar-rn't humans... t-t-t-they fight like d-d-d-demons…"

The leader tightens his fist causing the females in the room to flee while the boys pick up their weapons. The leader whistled loudly causing all the side doors to open revealing the rest of the gang. The Cons stepped forward as the thugs began to circle around them. While his men were getting ready to attack, the leader noticed a few were missing. Before he could say anything, loud steps could be heard from the hallway with a pair of loud lungs.

"BOSS!" The thug appeared from the broken door sweaty from all the running he did. He noticed the two unconscious thugs in the middle of the room before gulping hard.

"What is it!?" he demanded.

"40 of our guys have been taken down!"

"WHAT!?"

"You make sound like they're invincible" Megatron mocked the gang.

"IT WAS YOU THREE!?"

"Yes... and it was all too easy" Megatron stated before chuckling evilly.

"Our chances of victory were higher than I originally calculated, Tron. I must admit the members of Bloody Hounds are extremely pathetic and weak" Shockwave added with a nod from Soundwave.

"What the hell do you guys want anyway!?"

"Leave this dojo and never return, this is your only warning" Megatron declared.

The leader tightens his fists even more as anger burns through his body as he glared at Megatron, "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? YOU THINK YOU CAN COME ONTO MY TURF, BEAT UP MY MEN, AND BARK ORDERS AROUND, YOU HAVE ANOTHER THING COMING! GET THEM BOYS!"

Megatron simply sighed in annoyance before preparing himself for battle, "Humans never learn."

"What?" the confused leader asked.

"Prepare to be crushed you pathetic mutts" Megatron said before the thugs charged at the Cons.

Back outside, the elderly was slowly walking up the stairs. It has been about 35 minutes since he saw those young boys went up to fight Bloody Hounds and started to get worry. Despite the confidence in their eyes, they were still outnumbered and have no idea how cruel the Hounds are. He knew he shouldn't go up there, but when he saw tons of girls running down the steps this cause for concern. When he finally reached the top he was shock.

"What happens here!?"

Thugs could be spotted all around the yard either on the floor, bush, tree, or wall. To make matter worse all of them were unconscious and badly beaten. A couple of them had their broken weapon next to him. He noticed that a few of them had a broken or twisted limb by the way they were position. Before he could process any of this, a scream echoed through the air causing the old man to head inside. Along the way, more injured thugs were found only this time some of them were still conscious. Reaching his destination, his jaw drop at what he was witnessing.

Inside the dojo, the three teens who said they will take care of Bloody Hounds were standing while the Hounds were either pressed against the wall shaking in fear or unconscious on the floor. Shockwave was fixing his shirt while Soundwave was petting Laserbeak telling him he did a good job. With Megatron, he held the leader of the Hounds by the neck as he had a pocket knife in his hand.

The leader had a black eye, a broken nose, missing a few teeth, and blood all over his sweaty face. What startle the elder the most was the fear in his eyes. He never saw him nor anyone being this terrified in his entire life. This made him question to what kind of person he made a deal with.

Megatron tightens his grip as he glared into the thug's eyes and raised the tone of his voice, "Listen well weakling because I'm only going to say this once. Understand?"

He panicky shook his head quickly, "W-W-Whatever you say!"

"Taking your poor excuse of men and leave this dojo forever! If I ever see you near here again", Megatron brought the knife near his face to the point where the thug could see the reflection of his own eyes, "I will carve out your heart before your very eyes!"

"Y-Y-Y-YES! WE WILL NEVER COME BACK HERE AGAIN!"

"Good", he then threw the thug out the door forcing the elderly to step aside, "Leave. NOW!"

The leader nodded and looked at his men, "What are you waiting for!? Grab the guys and let get out of HERE!"

"Aye, Boss!"

The awaken thugs grab as many of their comrades as they could while a couple tried waking them up. Luckily for them a few more of them woke up and wasted no time carrying the unconscious out of there. Megatron putted the knife in his pockets before noticing the old man.

"As we promise the dojo is yours again."

The elder man just fell to his knees as the reality began to sink in. The dojo was his again after all these years as tears of joy rush down his face. He forced himself to bow on his knees, "THANK YOU! THANK YOU SO MUCH!"

The Cons look at him for a moment and were about to say something, but a female voice echoed through the hall, "TAI!"

The four turned to the doorway and saw three individuals. One was an elderly woman while one was a man in his early-forties and lastly a teenage boy. All of them were panting and had a couple of sweat down their face. The elderly man stood up and was quickly embraced by a tight hug from the woman.

"Thank God, you're okay!"

"Yeah" he answered by returning the hug.

"Dad, what were you thinking!? Why didn't you get me!?" the mid-age man demanded.

"I didn't want you to get you involved in this."

The young teenager boy noticed the three unfamiliar faces, "Um gramps, who are those three?"

The elder man let go of the woman and turned to his grandson, "These three are the ones who got Bloody Hounds to leave from this place forever." The three eyes widen at this revelation and turned to the Cons who nodded to confirm the statement. The elder man step forward with a smile, "I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Tai Ren. This is my wife, Mai, my son, Lee and my grandson, Torn."

"Hello, I'm Tron Omega. This is Don Wave and Stark Ave" Megatron introduced.

Lee stepped forward and bowed, "Thank you for your help, how can we ever repay you?"

"Well..."

A couple months pass since the agreement and a lot had happen to the Cons. They manage to get the dojo and jobs. Thankfully to Tai's son, he was able to get a job that suited each of the Cons at the mall. Megatron was given a security job and climb up the ranks quickly thanks to his leadership skills and how fast he handle disputes. Though, he had to restrain himself from using his usual methods. Shockwave was assign at an electrical workshop. His skills proved invaluable and became one of their best workers. He was able to learn a few things from working there like being able to construct a laptop from scratch for example. For Soundwave, he was a DJ player at a club at night. He made the nights more fun for many and with expert skills of manipulating sounds, he made the music sound even better. He's so good that restaurants asked him if he could play during the day which he accepted.

They work 6 days a week for a total of 10 hours each day. At first their bosses thought they were crazy, but they proved them wrong. 10 hours of work were nothing for them since they had to fight every second of the day back on Cybertron. During their time working, they were able to be more convincing with their charade. It was still annoying that they had to play the nice guy act, but it will all be worth it in the end.

Soundwave was able to make fake documents for them to avoid suspicion. The Cons recalled that the humans tend to document every single person in the world so they could keep track on their health. He wrote that all three of them were 18 years old from Jasper, Nevada and they were all were orphans who were never adopted along with other false information.

Megatron's documents had the standard typical data that a healthy man his age should be. Soundwave wrote down he has a lot of scars on his chest and back from certain events from the past and that's all. The reason is that the scars were the ones he had before back in his old form from his time in the Pits. Informing them about his gladiatorial battles will cause more problems than needed.

Shockwave's health records were almost similar to Megatron, but he has no scars and missing an eye. Soundwave wrote that he lost his right eye when he was a kid by a certain man. Details of the event were excluded from it because it wasn't necessary.

For himself, Soundwave wrote similar health records for himself. The difference in his was that he had an eye condition and he has an issue on speaking. Though he could speak a language he relied on sign language, which he learned during his time here in Kuoh, because of what he went through. This tiny lie alone made people spineless on asking why he chose not to speak.

Annoying, but required in order to live in the dojo that Tai gave them. Everything at the dojo was restored to normal, the garden, the rooms, the dojo, everything. Luckily, Tai's family paid for the repairs. The only thing that was different was the equipment shack which was now Shockwave's new workshop/lab. Despite its primitive appearance, Shockwave constructed a computer inside it which held all his data he gathered. The deal they made with the Ren was that they would pay to live here which they graciously accepted.

Currently, they were sitting at the table with Tai in the restored dojo's kitchen. In front of him was a brief case along with a box sitting on the floor. Tai informed the Cons he was coming over to see them. For what reason was a mystery to them.

"Good evening, boys" Tai said with a smile.

"Hello Tai", Megatron replied, "May I ask what is this about?"

"Well you see Tron, I heard from my son that you three never went to school and been home schooled, correct?"

"Yes."

Megatron told Soundwave to write down that they been home schooled for a couple of years on their documents to persuade the humans they had some form of education. Truthfully, it was a bother that human society required citizens to have an education, but they must keep up their charade. Even though they were far more intelligent than they look.

"To be honest, I'm amaze at your level of intellect, especially you Stark. You're quite an intellectual."

"It's nothing special. I'm just good at understanding information" Shockwave answered.

For him, learning new pieces of information was like breathing to him. There was nothing he can't master. After all, he did manage to clone Predacons from using a small sample of their CNA from their bones and constructed a Space Bridge from salvaged parts.

"Clearly. Anyway, I manage to pull a few strings and ask an old friend a favor to get you three into Kuoh Academy."

Megatron raised an eyebrow, "Isn't that the prodigious school that used to be all girls?"

"Correct. I know you three are fine working at the jobs you have, but you need an education in order to succeed in life. I can tell you don't want to do this forever and this will help."

The things that the Cons trusted about Tai are that he was a man of his words, his ability to detect a lie, and his assistance. Even though he could they had large plans, he could never learn anything more from them by the look in their eyes. Deception was second nature to them and they had years of experience.

"Thank you, Tai. We really appreciate everything you done for us" Megatron said in a calming tone.

"Not at all. You got back the dojo for me and you three had worked hard at my son's mall, this is the least I can do." He handed them the brief case along with the box on the floor. "The papers of registration are in this case just gave it to the administration and you will be all set. Your uniforms and books are in the box. Also, your first day is tomorrow and don't worry about work, my son already inform your bosses that you are attending school. Have a good night."

"You too" Shockwave said before watching Tai leave the room. Once they heard the door closed, the atmosphere changed into a serious one. "Look like we will be able to investigate that's school after all."

"Indeed." Megatron turned to Shockwave, "Now we can find that strange energy signature you been detecting for the past couple weeks."

On his free time, Shockwave tried to reconstruct some of their lost equipment with the limited resources at his disposal. Out of all his projects, he was able to develop two things. A high tech visor for Soundwave which allows him to hack any computer systems or electronical devices, and a translator software which allows him to better communicate with Laserbeak.

The second was a scanner. Shockwave was able to create a scanner on his computer since it was easy to code. When he first activated it, the scanner detected numerous unknown energy signatures at Kuoh. Normally, they would go to investigate its origin, but with no weapons, no armor, nor entrance to the school it would be a fool errand. Now that they were students there, they can finally get some answers.

The next day inside a classroom in Kuoh, Rias was sitting in class with her friends Akeno, Sona, and Tsubaki. Tsubaki had long straight black hair that reached down to her knees and had heterochromia eyes, her right eye was light brown and the other was violet. She wore light blue glasses which had half rim square lenses.

The four were sitting in their classroom ready to start their third and final year at Kuoh. It wasn't anything exciting really since nothing really happen for past couple months, except the unknown power they felt. They searched everywhere for the three suspects, but couldn't find a clue. It was embarrassing for them for not being able to find three boys in their territory; however, they haven't given up yet especially Rias.

Just before they could begin the teacher came in and has an important announcement to make which caught everybody's attention.

"Attention everybody, we have three new students joining us today. Please welcome them with open arms."

Rias quickly turned to Sona with a serious expression, "Did you know about this?"

"Actually, I don't. This must have been last minute transfers otherwise I would have known about this."

Meanwhile, the other girls in the class were getting very excited.

"Who do think they will be?"

"I hope they are boys. We have enough girls in the school."

"Let just hope they're not perverts like most of the guys here."

"Agree."

Rias simply sighed at their responses and turned to the window in boredom. It was always about boys in these conversations and she was getting tired of hearing them. Every guy she saw here was the same; weak, perverted, and disappointing. Is it that hard to have a normal guy who doesn't have a perverted mind? She wasn't the only one who felt the same way. Sona, Akeno, and Tsubaki all wish the same thing and were getting tired of the male students' behavior.

A knock echoed the room forcing everybody to be quiet as the teacher smiled, "Come on in."

Entering through the door was three males each wore their school uniform a little differently. The one on the left had an eyepatch on, a watch, and a belt chain hanging on his left side. The boy on the right was wearing visor and had his blazer open. The one in the middle had his blazer open as well, but he didn't wear the ribbon. Instead, he had his top open.

Every girl was ogling at the sight of them except for four who were completely dumbstruck. The three suspects they been searching for all this time with no progress just suddenly walk into their classroom and now part of their class.

The four were thinking the exact same thing, """"You have got to be kidding me!?""""

Second chapter's done. I must say I am quite surprise to see this many reviews already from one chapter and it make me happy to hear so many of you like this story. I know this chapter felt rush, but it was necessary to move the story along. This is the current harem list so far. The max number of girls for each Decepticon will be either 8 or 9, still deciding. More will be added later. Please leave a review.

Megatron(Tron): Rias, Kalawarner, Tiamat, Serafall, Xenovia

Soundwave(Don): Akeno, Koneko, Kuroka, Ravel, Raynare, Mittelt

Shockwave(Stark): Sona, Tsubaki, Momo, Tsubasa, Tomoe, Reya, Ruruka