Chapter 2

-The strawhats landed in the pacific ocean, just a day away from north america.

When the light finally died down, the pirates found themselves surrounded by calm waters, as far as they could see. After pulling the other two back on deck, Chopper checked Kidd over. "He just needs some bandaging. That cannonball broke two of his ribs, but they didn't damage anything vital. He'll be fine when he wakes up." As Chopper got to work applying bandages, the others tried to figure out where they were.

"We seem to have left the grand-line." Nami commented, holding out the log-pose. It was turning slowly, with no signs of pointing anywhere. "Zoro, go get the normal compass from the map room, we need to find land so we know which of the blue were in." Zoro scowled, "Why don't you get it yourself?" Nami just raised an eyebrow. "Would you rather we talk about all the money you owe me?" Zoro turned and headed off, muttering about sea-witches and making vaguely threatening comments.

Once they had a heading, (Luffy insisting they go east since most of them were from east blue.) they went back to relaxing. Kidd woke up after a few minutes, and after cursing and insulting the marines in general,he agreed to work with the rival crew until they were back on their respective ships. Zoro went back to acting as lookout, and everyone else relaxed.

Kidd and Killer weren't really sure what to do, until Luffy told them to just relax and tried to rope them both into a game of hide and seek. After a while of watching the sea, Sanji came out and called everyone to dinner. Everyone took a seat before the food was served. Luffy took the seat closest to the stove, being the first one in. As a fellow captain, Kidd chose to sit beside Luffy, with Killer on his other side. Kidd wasn't sure why the others seemed to be holding back laughter, but decided he didn't really care.

Once everyone was seated the food was dished out. Every one of the strawhats started eating as fast as they could, and Kidd and Killer found out why when food started vanishing from their plate. "The hell? What the fuck is going on?" Kidd scowled as his food was snatched before he could stop it. Killer seemed just as irritated, trying to catch the rubbery thief's arm to no avail. Everyone was openly laughing at them now.

"Welcome to the Thousand-Sunny, here you eat fast, or it gets stolen right off your fork." Zoro told them, grinning at their reactions. "I swear, he's a bottomless pit." In the end, Sanji took pity on them, and threatened not to cook any meat for Luffy if he didn't leave their plates alone until they reached land.

Optimus Prime and his team were finally on their way to the site of the unknown energy spike. He had decided to bring Ironhide, Sideswipe, and Sunstreaker, since Jazz was injured, Ratchet was fixing him, and Prowl was needed to keep an eye on the other twins. Major Lennox was also accompanying them, travelling with Ironhide, alone with a team of soldiers from the newly formed organization of NEST.

The energy spike had only lasted about 30 seconds, and the only thing they could tell was that it was made of both Allspark energy and another, unidentified energy. The plan was to fly to the coast closest to where the reading had been, and then take a ship to the exact location, so if it came to a fight the 'bots would have solid footing. Once they landed, they would head away from the city, where a large,military ship would be waiting to take them out to sea. It would be about a day before the ship was ready, so the bots could drive around if they wanted, so long as they obeyed the road rules.

The pirates had finally reached the shore, and as usual, Luffy couldn't wait to go and explore. "Now remember, we need to find out where we are, as well as replenish our supplies." Nami told them. "I haven't seen any marines around, but try not to draw too much attention before were ready to go alright?" Everyone agreed, and they decided to do the 'Who-goes-with-Luffy-lottery'. In the end, it was Luffy, Nami, Sanji, and Robin who were going. Everyone else would stay on the ship.

By the time they had gone more than a few blocks, Luffy was nowhere to be seen. Silently cursing their easily distracted captain, they turned to start looking for him, right before they heard someone scream.

Will was chatting with Ironhide, keeping his hand on the wheel so it looked like he was driving. "-would be really awesome if we could just get it to calibrate properly. I'm telling you, 'Hide, we just need...LOOK OUT!" Will stomped on the brake, even as Ironhide did his best to avoid the young man who had just run in front of them from behind a parked car. It was too late though, and they hit the teen hard. A woman walking nearby had tried to scream a warning, but there was no way for them to stop in time. Will immediately leapt out, only to freeze in shock as the boy stood up, apparently no worse for wear. "Shishishi. Wow, that sure surprised me. Good thing my hat was o.k." Will just stared at him. "You, you just got run over by a truck, and your worried if your HAT is o.k.?" Luffy grinned, "I'm fine. Besides, this hat is my treasure."

"Luffy! Are you alright, what happened?" "Stupid dumb-ass, how dare you make Nami worry!" Will turned around to see who was shouting. Coming toward them was a red haired woman wearing jeans, and a white and blue tank-top. Beside her was a blonde man in a suit, his hair covering his right eye, an odd swirl at the end of his left eyebrow. Behind them was a woman with black hair, wearing a pink skirt and green top. Both women had their tops rather open, and if Will hadn't been married, he would probably have been staring but he wasn't. Really.

"Oh, hey you guys. I'm fine, apparently I just got run over by a track." The boy, who's name was apparently Luffy, shrugged, dusting himself off. This was too much for Will, as he grabbed the boy and started pulling him toward Ironhide, who had sent a frantic comm to Optimus saying he'd hit an organic, but otherwise pretended to be a normal car. "You were hit with a truck, not a track. And I don't care what you say, I'm taking you to the hospital" Saying so, he pulled open the door. Turning to push him in, he stared at the boys arm. Luffy hadn't moved, so his arm had stretched, now 6 feet long. "What the hell are you? Arms are definitely not supposed to stretch like that."

Luffy grinned. "My name's Monkey D. Luffy, I just ate the Gum-Gum devil fruit, so now I'm a rubber man! See?" He pulled his cheek to show it stretching further than it should. Luffy pulled his arm free and walked over. "I can't get hurt by that, so I don't need to go to the hospital. Besides, if I get hurt, I can always rely on Chopper to fix me!" The three other people had reached them, and were looking unsurprised by what was happening. "Excuse me, I'm Nami, and this is Sanji and Robin. Can you tell us what island we're on, and what sea this is? We're kinda lost." The red-head asked.

Will blinked. "What do you mean, island? This is California, in the United States. We're at the coast of the Pacific ocean." Most of the people looked surprised. Then one of the women-Robin, he remembered-spoke up. "Excuse me, but do you think you could show us where we are on a map? I'm afraid we've never heard of California before." Will sighed, "Sure, I guess. Hop in, I'll take you to where I'm staying, there's plenty of maps there." Luffy laughed and climbed in. "Thanks mister, that's pretty nice of you." Will climbed in the drivers seat, and the other three got in the back. "No problem, and the name's Will by the way."

The drive to the temporary base didn't take long, and soon they were parked in a decently sized warehouse. They got out and Will led them to one of the side tables. "Lets see, city map, map of Oregon, ah here we go, map of California." He spread the map on the table, Nami leaning over to study it. The others simply looked around, noticing a few other vehicles like what had brought them there. Sanji and Robin also watched as Luffy ran around jumping on everything. "Hey, you! Get down from there, you're not authorized to be in here!" One of the soldiers yelled, trying to get him down off the top of the flame-painted semi truck. "Nya, Don't wanna. Besides, he doesn't seem to mind." Luffy pointed out, sticking out his tongue.

All the soldiers froze, "What do you mean, he doesn't mind." Will asked warily. "The guy pretending to be a machine, of course. Are you guys stupid or something?" As Luffy spoke, an alarm went off. "Shit, it's the 'Cons! Everyone get ready to fight. You four, stay here, stay hidden. If you get into trouble use this flare, someone will come help. Lets Go!" The pirates weren't sure what was going on, but they sure as hell weren't going to hide. "Oi, let us help, we're strong. We can take anything you can." Luffy declared. Sanji stepped up, lighting a cigarette. "Hey Luffy, you better not hog all the action this time."

Will saw that all four of them were determined. If he left them behind, they would just follow and get in the way. "Well Optimus, what do you think? They look pretty determined to me." He stepped back as the 'bots started to transform.

Yes, I left a cliffhanger, sorry. Please review to make suggestions, or point out any mistakes I made so I can make it better. If I don't get any reviews by chapter 4, I will assume no one wants me to continue and stop updating. (Updates will sadly not be regular, but I will try to add a chapter every week or two.)

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