A/N: I don't own Transformers. I feel like a broken record. Ugh.
This turned out longer than I had anticipated.
Anyways, just so there is no confusion, this time in the G1 is after Optimus is resurrected, but before the Headmaster deal (Never got into Headmasters, it seemed too strange to me). Starscream will be explained later as to why he exists here and there. Also I didn't mention Smokescreen yet, because I don't remember if he was part of the Autobot force at this time, plus, if he was, maybe he wasn't at the fight, who knows. Anyways. Hope you all enjoy, I will shut up now.
Ty Blood Shifter to checking me! I know i suck at grammar sometimes, but to err is human, right? Or maybe it's alien lol
Optimus and Galvatron stared at each other, ready to tear into one another when the blinding light caught their attention and the attention of all of the other soldiers, Autobot and Decepticon alike who stopped dead in their tracks to stare in amazement
Optimus and Galvatron stared at each other, ready to tear into one another when the blinding light caught their attention and the attention of all of the other soldiers, Autobot and Decepticon alike who stopped dead in their tracks to stare in amazement. Everyone stopped as Wheeljack disappeared and was suddenly replaced by a darker more sleek like bot. A large Autobot insignia adorned his chest with a slash through it and a smaller Decepticon insignia below it. He instantly moved out of the way from where he was right next to the Space Bridge, not knowing what it was, or what it did. And the confusion didn't stop there. At the same time Thrust had also been switched, being in the air, he crash landed not far from where Starscream had landed on his feet, wielding two swords, one glowing red the other glowing blue.
Beside Sunstreaker, a new Sideswipe had appeared. This made the yellow twin jerk backwards, mouth agape, seeing the blue bot in his brother's wake. Also Red Alert, who had been not far from the scene also arrived, still in his cowering position. He looked down to find the children gone, and then moved to stand, looking around wildly for them, expecting them to have fled from the light but they had vanished and there were many other bots in the area, his focus went straight to Sideswipe, the only other Autobot he saw at the moment, "Sideswipe, what happened?"
"Hell if I know, Red," he answered, looking at Sunstreaker who was eyeing him suspiciously, "One second we are kicking Megatron and Sideways' butts, and the next, poof, here we are,"
Blurr preferred silence as he watched the goings on around him. He sure didn't know what was going on, and he was prepared to make a move if he had to, but for now, it was easier just to watch everyone.
"Megatron?" Came a voice. Galvatron moved from where he was near Optimus a moment, looking at the other Decepticons, then to the Autobots that mentioned Megatron's name, "Megatron doesn't exist anymore, I am Galvatron, leader of the Decepticons!"
A little further away, The Decepticons were glaring at each other, especially at Starscream and Wheeljack.
Starscream still waited for someone to come at him and he grinned when no one did, moving to set his left wing back where it was as his red sword folded down into his normal wing, "Wheeljack, what happened?"
"I don't know Starscream, one minute I was under Hot Shot's grasp, then next-"
"Hot Rod, you meant, right?" came a voice from one of the Autobots, to which he had no idea the name of. It was Hot Rod, even though he wasn't sure why he had asked in the first place, he wasn't engaged with him.
"No, I mean Hot Shot," Wheeljack growled, his enunciation superb even now as his voice trailed off and he looked about, confused, "Where's Megatron?" It was then that he noticed Cyclonus laying on his back, struggling to get to his feet, only his blades were in his way, and he was giggling madly. This only made the other Decepticons look over at him, "Is he alright?" Asked Scourge.
Starscream gave a glance at the Sweep who spoke, "Who are you?" He held the Star Saber Sword out in front of him, ready to take down anyone who advanced towards him, the blue bot replied rather proudly, "I am Scourge, under command of Cyclonus, and leader of the Sweeps,"
"Sweeps, huh?" What the hell was a Sweep?
Cyclonus, upon hearing his name and his name being the commander of others, cackled madly, "Oh goodie! Under the command of me? Woooh hooo! I have my own army now!" he grinned. Again the other Decepticons looked at him, some cocking eye ridges, others glaring at the new idiot. His grin quickly faded when he saw the others looking at him.
Optimus turned when he saw these new bots, giving Galvatron the edge he needed to swat him hard, knocking him backwards. Even though most of everyone had stopped the fight because of the confusion, Galvatron did not, and moved to attack Optimus again. This didn't go over well, and Wheeljack watched, completely stunned. Who was who in this chaos, anyway? He watched as Optimus righted himself, swinging his right arm hard, at that, the purple guy was swatted backwards, holding his mouth.
After the initial shock, Wheeljack moved closer to Starscream who was helping Cyclonus to his feet, "Starscream, we seem to have been teleported somewhere else. Who are all of these bots?"
"We are Decepticons!" Scourge answered as he furrowed his brows at the name that was spoken, did he just call that funky looking guy Starscream? He sure didn't look like the Starscream he knew.
"I Haven't ever seen Decepticons like you before… How do I know you're really Decepticons? Swindle!" at the call, a purple and yellow bot perked up, and at the same time, and Starscream's minicon moved to his shoulder. Everyone watched in amazement at not only the sight of the midget Transformer, but how it came to his aid without a second thought.
"Powerlink!" Starscream cried, the small bot transformed and connected to Starscream, who was preparing to fire on all of them, right now he didn't care who, just… this was madness! His Null Ray Cannons moved from his back over his shoulder and he watched cautiously. What the hell was a Powerlink?
Well the minicon had answered as directed, transforming and firmly attaching himself to the strange looking Decepticon, the Swindle from this universe was a bit confused as he heard Starscream call this word and his name, and looked to Motormaster who was standing not far away, and just shrugged.
"Decepticons, retreat! And grab those other supposed Decepticons also!" Galvatron called with a mad cackle, pointing to Starscream, Cyclonus and Wheeljack, "They will be… questioned,"
Well while the other two Decepticons didn't put up much of a fight, Starscream had other ideas, "I go with no one until you tell me who you are and what is going on!" he held the Star Saber Sword out defiantly, his Null Ray Cannons still prepared to fire. Thrust stood back with Starscream. He wasn't getting taken either.
"I'm the one who asks questions around here, Decepticon," Galvatron made a small advancement towards Starscream, and Starscream instinctively fired, his body jerking from the firepower, which out powered Galvatron's, or at least it looked that way.
"Wow,"
"Hehe, haha, and that's just his cannons, wait till he hit's you with the Star Saber Sword! You'll wish he hadn't!" That freakish giggling again. What was wrong with that Decepticon?
"What's a Star Saber Sword?" Hot Rod asked, hearing the words, but making no sense of them, confused, he glanced to Sideswipe, hoping the new bot knew what it was. Sideswipe was silent. He wasn't sure if he should talk or not. He wasn't sure who to trust anymore.
Red Alert decided to answer; these were Autobots, after all, "Only the most powerful weapon in the universe. Only weapon that overcomes it is the Requiem Blaster, which Megatron has. The only thing that can deflect the sword is the Sky Boom Shield, which we, to our great misfortune, do not have," The grim sound in his voice was not overheard, "Autobots, roll out, we will figure this out at the Ark," Optimus called out. He glanced to Sideswipe, Blurr and Red Alert, "Are you going to come with us?"
All three of the bots looked to Optimus, then to the rest of the Decepticons, their chances were far better with the other Autobots, plus they might be able to help figure out what happened. Both of them transformed and followed the leader, "By the way," Optimus asked, "Where is Wheeljack?" he asked as he went to truck mode, "In fact, where are all of my soldiers?"
"You saw him," Sideswipe commented, not answering about his soldiers because he definitely had no idea.
"Yeah, the black one with the gash, that was him," Red Alert supplied.
"No, I mean Wheeljack, our Engineer,"
"Uh…" Both of the new Autobots went silent. They hadn't a fragging clue where he was or for that matter, who he was!
Back where the Autobots had left the Decepticons, Starscream was still standing defiantly, getting into a deep screaming match with Galvatron. Cyclonus, the idiot that he was, sat there and watched, unsure of what to do, and Thrust, the ever constant suck up was trying to explain to Galvatron that where they were from, he was a battle tactician, and therefore, he would be a great help to the Decepticon cause. Starscream knew he was only willing to save his own hide.
"I don't care what you say – you… you whoever you are, I am not going with you!"
"It's Galvatron, I told you," Said leader advanced on Starscream, hell bent on taking him down, but stopped, deciding his cannon was better, he transformed, aimed and fired. Starscream didn't have time to move, but instead he moved the sword in front of the path of the beam and the sword took the full blow.
Cackling was heard beside them all, and Cyclonus was once again giggling like a madman, "See! I told ya! Nothing can beat the Star Saber Sword! Hey, hey, why don't' you try that again, Galvadork?"
What had he just called me? "You!" Galvatron turned, still in his cannon form and took aim. Cyclonus, realizing he was outmatched, suddenly changed his tune, "Oh, wait, did I say Galvadork, I mean Galvatron! Yeah, that's it!" he sniggered.
Galvatron actually felt defeated, probably for the first time since Unicron reformatted him from Megatron. Here these new Decepticons came in place of his own, one was apparently completely out of his mind, the other was defiant, worse than his own Starscream and then there was Thrust. Well Thrust was a little better than his old Thrust. What was his name anyways? He transformed, "Fine, you won't come with me, you will be hunted like the rest of the Autobots!" he chuckled at them.
"Suits me just fine," Starscream sneered, holding the sword out before him, "I don't know what kind of world I was put into, but here, you are not my leader, and you are more nuts than Megatron!"
Ain't that the truth, Scourge thought to himself.
He's lucky he has that sword to save his sorry aft, "Very well," Galvatron put his hands on his hips, "Astrotrain!" he called, the train/shuttle approached Galvatron, "Yes, master?"
"See to it that you do not lose these bumbling idiots out of your sight, I have more pressing needs to attend to, you too, Blitzwing," both triple changers stood in front of Galvatron as the rest started to retreat, "Why are we always stuck babysitting?" Blitzwing asked. He only got a shrug from Astrotrain.
"Might I suggest that I come with you, Galvatron?" Thrust suddenly spoke from near Cyclonus.
"What for?"
"Because I can be of service to you, I know I can, I have helped Megatron for many millennia with battle tactics, and I can help you until I figure out how to get home,"
Oh, a suck up like Starscream. All the better, "Very well, you can come with us, what is your name, Squid head?" Well he did look like a squid. Why hadn't he thought of that with his other soldier? He'd have to remember that one. Inwardly he snickered.
Did he just…? Where did he come up with that!? "My name is Thrust, Galvatron, sir, not Squid head." Oh, that name irked him, and irked him bad. Megatron called him that a time or two, he remembered, and he hated it.
"Hmm," Galvatron grinned then chuckled, "Very well, Thrust,"
"I'm with Starscream on this one," Wheeljack announced, "I don't know who you all are, but I am not going with you," Wheeljack folded his arms, standing on the side of Starscream, knowing he was well protected by the sword. Cyclonus on the other hand was looking about furiously. Ok, so they were going to split up or go. He knew Starscream had no love loss for him or Demolisher, so he figured it would be best for his own hide to go with this Galvatron guy, he moved near Thrust. A small giggle escaping him as he did so.
As the Autobots made their way back to base, Optimus could help but notice the alt forms they had chosen. They definitely had never seen these types of cars before. He was naturally curious as to who these guys were, "Do you guys have names?"
"Yes, yes, we do, sir, my name is Sideswipe," the name caught the attention of the yellow Lamborghini who gasped, "Sideswipe? Impossible, you are not my brother!"
"Brother?" Sideswipe inquired, careful at his tone, this yellow guy seemed rather uneasy to be around.
"Yes, my twin brother. In fact, I don't even feel him," This caught the yellow Lambo off guard. He really couldn't feel his brother. That was starting to scare him, "What have you done with my Sides!?" he suddenly yelled, pulling up beside the blue Skyline.
"I – I didn't do anything with him, honest!" Sideswipe replied, slowing down, making sure to move well away from this crazy bot, he settled near Blurr.
"Enough, what are all of your names?" Optimus asked as they started rolling into the Ark.
"My name is Red Alert; I am a Technician, Medic and Science officer for Optimus Prime,"
Ok, so now things were staring to get strange, "I have never heard of you, or seen you," Optimus said as he transformed, all of the other Autobots also changed to their root modes.
Red Alert shrugged, "You do, however, resemble our leader,"
"Ok, so who are you?" Optimus looked at Blurr, who glanced back, "My name is Blurr," he supplied.
Hot Rod glanced at Blurr, "not that talkative are you?"
"I only talk when necessary… and you are?" the masked bot asked. His snobbish attitude did not go un-noticed.
"I am Hot Rod," the cavalier replied. He turned and looked at Jazz with a smirk, thumbing towards Blurr, "At least he's not a motor mouth," Jazz smirked back with a nod.
"Alright, now that we have all of that figured out, tell me more about this Star Saber Sword, I fear it may be trouble for us," Optimus asked.
"The Star Saber Sword is compiled of three minicons, Runway, Jetstorm and Sonar,"
"Wait – wait a minute, first of all, what is a minicon?" Hot Rod interrupted, getting a stern look from Red Alert, which made him give a goofy smile.
"Minicons are small transformers that have helped us through millennia, after being used for war, the Autobots sent them off of Cybertron with their own ship, making sure they could never be used in such a way again, where they crash landed on Earth, being reactivated by Rad and Carlos." Red alert smirked, "Longarm," he called, and on cue, a small transformer appeared from apparently nowhere and sat on his shoulder, Red alert continued to explain, "They have decided to help with the war against Megatron, to free all minicons from the Decepticons,"
"So you all have one of these minicons?" Optimus asked, nodding towards Longarm.
"Yes, in fact," he pointed to Blurr, who called his own, "Incinerator, which is Blurr's partner, and Nightbeat, who is Sideswipe's partner,"
"So the three that make up the Star Saber Sword, they can disengage and become three smaller transformers?"
"Yes, as such, they are powerful in themselves, but when they are called to power, that is when they unleash their true power."
"Now I heard you say something about a Requiem Blaster and a Sky Boom Shield, also?" Hound suddenly asked, curious.
"Yes, both weapons are also made of three combining minicons," Red Alert stated, "The Race team which is compiled of Dirt Boss, Downshift and Mirage," The Mirage from this universe looked up, "How can this be? I am Mirage!"
"Not now, Mirage, let him explain." Optimus held out a hand, Mirage nodded then looked at Red Alert, who made a sound as if clearing his throat, "They form the Sky Boom Shield," he paused, waiting to be interrupted yet again before continuing, "And then there is the Space Team, which is Skyblast, Payload and Astroscope, they form the weapon that is most feared by all, the Requiem Blaster."
"Wait, you're missing Perceptor," Sideswipe said, the name got the attention of the Perceptor of this universe, "Well, really, they have a minicon named after me too? How bizarre."
"Actually," Red Alert started, "Perceptor is formed of three other minicons, Highwire, Grindor and Sureshock,"
"They sure do have some strange names, but it is stranger of their name relevance to us," Perceptor added.
Spike, Carly and Daniel all returned shortly in Bumblebee, who stopped short when he saw the new Autobots, "Who are these guys?" Bee asked, curious. Spike opened the door and stood up, being extra careful to move around as far as possible of the new bots, "They are Red Alert, Blurr and Sideswipe."
Daniel gave a dumb look, "They changed forms?" Of course it was the only logical thing he could come up with.
"Actually, no, they appeared in place of our other soldiers, who are still missing,"
"Well, after a careful study, I can confirm that wherever they are, they are most likely alive. It had to have been some kind of universal switch, so they may very well have taken your places just as you have taken theirs," Perceptor noted.
Optimus nodded, it was the only thing they could go on for now, and seemed only logical.
"Who are you?" Sideswipe asked, leaning down to take a closer look at Daniel who backed up into his father, "I'm Daniel," the child said, followed by his parents, "My name is Spike, and this is my wife, Carly,"
"Pleased to meet you," Red Alert gave them a small smile, showing them that they meant no harm."
"Perceptor, if you can figure all of that, can you figure out how everything happened?" Optimus turned to the scientist and regarded him with crossed arms.
"Well, after more analysis, I can conclude that I might be able to come up with something, but I really can't do anything out until I find out what happened in the first place. Wheeljack, as far as I know, had set up some kind of bomb using a Negifier to blow up that last space bridge, and it sounds as if, given that you are all here, it didn't do what it was supposed to do,"
"Leave it up to Wheeljack to blow someone into an entirely different universe," Hot Rod smarted, "How do we get our hands on one of those things you said?"
"The Negifier?" Perceptor inquired.
"Yeah, that," Hot Rod nodded.
"Well, I – Uh. I don't know, Wheeljack built it,"
"Oh great, it's hopeless," Sunstreaker growled, flinging his arms in the air, "completely hopeless,"
"No, no it's not, Sunstreaker, I may be able to go through his documents and see if I can recover the schematics,"
"Good, Perceptor, you get on that right away," Optimus said, looking to his scientist, "We need to get things the way there were before something really bad happens, and I have a feeling it's gonna happen soon,"
Next Chapter: Time to check in on the Armada Universe again. I am sure things are going well.snicker
And to answer one other thing. I know that Sideswipe seems a little harsh on Blurr, but his rambling can really get in the way at times. Someone has to keep him in check... lol Plus Sideswipe is a little pissed about his missing brother.