Chapter Two: Decepticon on the Run


Author's Note #1: I do not own Transformers or any other brand name mentioned in this story. Only the Original Characters who appear in them.

Author's Note #2: The game Airmech mentioned in this chapter is owned by Carbon Games, and is not mine. You can check it out at the Carbon Games website. If you end up liking the game, refer me by going to the referrals tab and typing Graystripe01 as your referal, but do it before lvl 3. Thank you very much if you do.
Fittingly enough, Airmech is a Real Time Strategy game where you fly around as a transforming plane or helicopter, buying and placing units with the goal of destroying the opponent's base in mind.

Author's Note #3 This where things start to intertwine with other Transformers Series. The verses that will be merged for certain are Michael Bay's Movies, TF Prime, and TF Animated.

~ - ~ - ~ - Legend - ~ - ~ - ~

This is a human talking

This is a human thinking

This is a Cybertronian speaking

=|This is comlink speech|=

="This is comlink/radio speach out loud"=

~ - ~ - ~ - Who's Who - ~ - ~ - ~

Optimus Prime: TF Prime

BumbleBee: TF Prime (Beeps will be translated into Morse Code, with Subtitles)

WheelJack: TF Prime, but invents things

Arcee: TF Prime

Bulkhead: TF Prime

Jazz: Bay-Verse

Prowl: TF Animated

Ratchet: TF Prime

(The Wreckers/Roadbusters or who-ever, will be in here once I figure out their personalities. Along with Mirage. Que and Wheeljack will be two different mechs, but they'll both be scientists)


Prologue

It was a nice warm day in Diego Garcia, when two soldiers in a green dune buggy approached a totally out of place Peterbilt with an alternating paint job of red and blue flames. The figures approached the truck, and spoke to it.

"Optimus, we lost the Decepticon we were tracking, but have received news of another driving around the countryside of Alberta, Canada. If we are to catch it, we must groundbrige to them now."

The truck, apparently named 'Optimus,' replied to the men in military uniforms. "Then we must roll out immediately."

="Ratchet, groudbridge Bulkhead, Lennox, Epps and I to the co-ordinates of the Decepticon signal in Alberta."=

A few seconds later, a green swirl and a feeling of static in the air appeared behind the green buggy. The soldiers looked over their shoulder at the whirring sound it generating, and ran to the buggy, turned around and disappeared into the vortex of energy, followed by the Peterbilt. An engine came roaring in the distance, and a green custom 4X4 truck came ripping across the blazing desert, through the portal just before it closed, leaving the sand to fly through the air and settle on the ground.


I realize I'm just laying there, doing nothing. A few minutes later, I decide to look at my watch, laying on the bedside table, missing it's connecting strap. I'm shocked to see what time it is, or at least the fact that my early riser of a mom wasn't up yet.

6:00 AM. Hmm. I decide to be the first up and get on mom's laptop to play some games, as I didn't get the chance yesterday. Sitting upright, I feel around the side-table for my glasses. Once I found them, I put them on and stand on my feet, and start walking in the direction of the door, waving my hands infront of me to prevent mayself from running into my dresser.

My hand hits the door, and I put my hand to the doorknob, only to find it's not there. Running it sideways acroos the wood to find the edge, I step on something.

Looking down, I see nothing but black, so ignore the object, and move my hand up the edge of the door until I finally find the doorknob. I turn it slowy, hoping to keep it form sweaking, and the door shift downward slightly, indicating it's unlatched.

I swing it open and step over the cardboard box I have in front of my room, which was used to keep Thor out of my room when he was a kitten. Heading down the hall, my feet avoid the spots that shift and creak, and make it to the kitchen. That's when I notice it's dark out, and turn right into the Game Room, then left into the main living room, and sit on the couch behind the coffee table.

Then I remember the noise the computer makes when windows boots up, and go back to the Game Room to grab my head phones from my desktop, and turn back the way I came, when I notice a very intense green light off in the distance, far down the road the north road. It stays there for a few seconds before disappearing, and I faintly see headlights right after it closes, heading East. I almost say 'Odd' before realizing the time and catching myself before I speak out loud. My eyes follow the headlights breifly before I go and sit on the couch.

Back on the couch, I open the computer and turn it on, using the light from the screen to find plug my headphone into the appropriate port. The Windows 7 chime sounds in my ears as I put my headphones on, and logs onto my file on the laptop. Sitting there impatiently as my file loads and Skype starts, I look around th room in an attemp to see the time on wall-hung clock across the room, even though I knew I couldn't read it with my outdated glasses anyway. Skype finishes starting and I look at the screen as it signals it's ready to go.

I click on the little orange and yellow jet that looks a lot like an F-14. I look around the room once more for the time bofore coming to my senses and looking at the bottom right of the computer. But as my eyes drift across the room, I notice a pair of headlights fly down the road towards the house, going much faster then cars usually do out in the country. I take my headphones off and turn right around the coner, out the porch door ad stick my black shoes on in record time before flying out the outside door and bolting down the driveway as fast I could. I reach the center of the drive way when the cars high performance engine roars past, and I then see 3 pairs of headlights half a kilometer behind, going at similar speeds.

As they get closer, I look at the pattern of headlights as the three vehicals zip past. The first had a low-slung set of four headlights close together, more light foglights. The engine sound reminds me of the Bandito from Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas. The second pair of headlights I recognise as a semi-truck as the deep, heavy engine drives by. The third vehical looks a lots more like a typical vehical to be driving around, but much higher. I guess it must be a 4x4 set upo for off-roading. This one sounded more like the high-performance car, but deeper like the semi. I watch in confusion as the three continue on at perfectly illegal speeds, for a few seconds befgore shaking my head and brushing it off, a head back into the house.

My shoes come off with ease and I sit back on the couch to see my game started. I put my headphones on and look at the news for any new deals, the only thing of interest being the special Memorial Day merchandise. I look at the clock to see if I have enough time for a match. Seeing that it's 6:10 AM, I decide to go for it and open the 'Play' tab and look for some online matchs.

All the games on there are private, so I create my own Solo 1v3 game, but before I click the'Create Game' button, I remember to check my Hangar make sure I have the right loadout for my match. I change my loadout from my CTF team to my PvE loadout. And decide to change things up a bit. Instead of the F-14 Tomcat Striker, I decide to play as my Nexus Saucer Airmech. Then I go back and create my 1v3 solo game on the map dubbed as 'Simple.'

It starts, and I begin my preperation for battle by buying two Generators and three Money Makers. I place them in each in a socket once I pick them up from their instant building time thanks to the pre-game mode bonus. After placing them, I start spamming Longhorn tanks, giving them the 'Capture nearest outpost' command when I place them. I run of of money soon enough, so I transform into my tri-pod form and land beside my green Longhorns to wait for the pre-game to end, as I can't go far enough to destroy anything pre-game.

The timer counts down and ends, signaling the start of the match. I walk along side my Longhorns as the traverse over the hill to the first oupost. The neutral Jackels (armoured jeeps) start firing at my group of tanksas they come into range. I run around the outpost and fire at the Jackels behind, as my tanks take the front. The pesky neutrals are destroyed and the outpost is captured by the spawned soldiers. I set up some light defences for the outpost with a T99 Turret and put a Generator in the socket before healing my tanks and turning them towards the next outpost, adding a few to my force while I'm at it.

I lead my tanks to the outpost and start firing at the anti-infantry Gatty (gattling gun). It dies doing next to nothing to the medium armour of my tanks, built for the light armour of Infantry. The tanks spread themselves out and surround the outpost, destroying four neutral Jackels, two neutral T99's, another neutral Gatty, and some red opposing infantry, along with a red Armadillo (look a lot like a Shermen), while losing eleven of the fifteen tanks in the group. A wave of my spawned infantry finishes the job by capturing the oupost, as I heal my tanks and replace and replace the lost ones. After all that I level up, and I choose my Airmech's special ability of abducting opposing units. I obtain the credits needed and buy four T99s to gaur the outpost.

I abduct three neutral Longhorns along with a neutral Seeker, which is a anti-airmech unit that fires missiles from a tank chassis. They are added to my growing force and the AI continuosly attempt to take my outpost, so I build three more T99 turrets and place them in front of my tanks nd wait for the pests to come at me. The first is an expermental plane, the Neo, with main wings flat at the front and two small diagonal wings at 45* between the main tail and wings. With light armour, the seven T99's surrounding my central outpost take it out with ease. Thn along the Warthog. The beefiest Airmech in the game, which very closely resembles an A-10 Warthog with long, flat wings on the front and rear. The tails are on the ends of the rear wing, with the two engines inbetween and set before them. This Airmech manages to transform before exploding, not getting a chance to spin up it's massive gattling gun.

I set down five more Longhorns before I have the third Airmech attack. This one is a flying wing, closely resebling the B-2 Spirit. This is the Bomber. As the name suggests, this Airmech can drop bombs on grounded 'Mechs and units. It flies around the rear and starts slashing at a T99 with it's arms, which are the front of the wings in plane form. Dying as soon as it hits my T99, it's peices fly about as it explodes. At this, I put down five more Longhorns and decide to attack the outpost nearest their base. The massive swarm of 25 Longhorns and single Seeker make their way to the outpost, destroying a red Longorn, two Armadillos and two Jackels as they surround the building.

I go back to the central outpost and build five Ratchets, medical tanks with two arms that fold out of the sides. I grab one and place it behind the ling of tanks, and head back to grab the spaned infantry to capture the outpost. I place the four unit beside the building, and they enter it and hack the systems, placing it under my control. I grab and place the last four Ratchets and and build five T99s to defend the base with the tanks. The enemy Airmechs are frantically trying to recapture the outpost, which is only ten legnths on a Longhorn away from their base. I add 10 more longhorns and replace 5 destroyed ones before sending them to the base after countless deaths of the opposing Airmechs. The force of 35 Longhorns is just too much for the measly two T99's defending their base, and I win the match in ten minutes. I collect my reward before leaving the won game and playing another match before mom wakes up at 6:30 AM and I let her have the computer.

I walk over and get on my desktop to check my eMail. I'm greeted with an update from HobbyKing, some project ideas from instructable and a comment notifacation from Flipnote Hatena, which surprised me to no end, because I've been inactive on the website for over a year. Checking it out, I find a thank you for the work I've done on Flipnote Hatena. I remember that Hatena will be shutting down the Flipnote section of their website on May 31st, and set to contact my friends on the website to inform them of my gauranteed presence on Flipnote Studio 3D.

After I finish that, I find that it's 7:00 AM. So I shut my monitor and speakers off before going to the pantry and grabbing a bow of Mini-Wheats instead of Froot-Loops because I felt like being different. I collect the Sandwhich mom made me for lunch and stick it in my lunchkit, along with a couple of granola bars, because I didn't eat all three the day before. I go to my room and grab my other two 3DS games; Mario Kart 7 and Star Fox 64 and put them in my backpack along with the charger. I come to my senses and wonder why I just did that. I ignore it, and move on. My lunchkit goes in my backpack, I check for my pen and MP3, grab my headphones put them around my neck.

Checking a nearby clock, I see that it's 7:20 AM, and my mind goes to the odd sight I witnessed earlier that morning as I open my 3DS and go to the internet to check for my favorite FanFictions. I walk to the South window to see if I could spot any of the vehicals I saw earlier, but give up when I realize that there's a line of trees in my way of seeing the southern and western roads. I give up and shake my head, muttering my idiocy of forgetting about the trees. The page finishes loading on my 3DS as I walk back to the Game Room, and my search comes up with none of my favorite fanfics.

"Music it is, then." I say to my self as I look out the West window, searching for the bus. Looking over at the clock, it says 7:26 AM. I walk over to my mom and give her a hug with my usual good-byes for the day.

"See you after school, love you, bye." I say while I grab my backpack in the kitchen.

"Bye-bye." I hear her say as I open and head out the door.

"Bye-bye." is my responce and the door is pulled close by my hand. I put my shoes on, head out the door and put on my backpack. I see the bus caming down the North road as I walk down the driveway. I watch it as I walk, and it' half-way down the road when the driveway ends and I stop. Then I notice something odd on the road. Looking down in front of me, I find some massive tire imprints in the road. The tracks go at least a half an inche into the ground, pressed down by something extremly heavy.

"Well... what the heck? Those were'nt there when I walked home, and nothing bigger then an F-150 went down the road yesterday... had to be those speeding people from earlier this morning. But, that semi wasn't even hauling anything, and that's the heaviest vehical of the four. Weird." I say to myself. Then something big and yellow blocks my vision, slightly catching me off gaurd.

I look up to see the bus, and wait for the driver to give me the signal to cross the road. He signals, and I cross, almost tripping on the rut in the gravel road. As I board the bus, I ask the driver about the ruts.

"Good morning, Rob." he greets.

"Good morning, Gord. Hey, what's with these ruts?" I ask him

"I don't know, but they sure have been messing with my steering." he responds, annoyed.

"Huh. I saw one odd sight this morning. Saw a car fly down the road going at least a hundred hour, followed by what looked like a buggy, a semi and a really jacked up 4x4 this morning. Had to have been the semi, because it was the heaviest. The weird part is that the semi wasn't even hauling a trailer." I say, leaving out the weird green glow.

"Hmm. Hope they're all brough in for speeding, but I dought it out here. Now go sit down." he orders.

"Yeah. Well... yeah." is my pitiful reponce as I go sit down and turn on my music. The bus turns left and picks up a kid from the closest house to mine, then turns around and continues down the road my house is on, heading South. We approach the first intersection after the one we just came off when we all see a red Audi R8 fly just a meter in front of the bus, going at a good hundred-fifty miles per hour.

Who the hell drives a super car out here on gravel roads?! Then I realize what it was.

"Holy crap! That's the first car that went ripping down the road this morning!" I say out loud to myself. The bus crosses the road, and we continue the drive down the road. I look out my window to see a buggy with the same headlight pattern from earlier rip down the road after the bus crosses.

"There's somethin' fishy going on here." I tell myself, trying to figure what's going on. The bus stop at the next intersection, and we all look around for more crazy drivers. Seeing none, the Gord starts crossing the road, but then guns the engine to go as fast as it can. We're all whipped into the back of our seats, and I catch something in the corner of my eye as my head its the seat. To my right I see a red and blue semi screaming towards us. I spot a green 4x4 just behind, braking hurridly. Then the truck applies its' brakes, the tires lock and it slides towards the bus as it tries to avoid a collision.

We're gonna make it, we're gonna make it, we're gonna - make it!

"OH SHIT!" I yell as the truck comes straight at the bus. No, straight at me.


Cliffhanger! Sorry about that, but I thought it would build a little more suspense and interest in the story if I dropped the chapter there. This chpter certainly got finished a lot faster then expected, hopefully I can keep my motivation up, for the sake of you guys and the story. Thank you for reading, at this rate, the next chapter will be done by the first weekend of June. As for the cliffhanger, just know that I hate them too, but I also understand their reason.

If you do try out Airmech, don't forget to refer me if you like it.

I've decided to scrap the idea of having other people's OC Transformers in this 'Fic. I'll have my hands full figuring out the original charaters, never mind other people's. Sorry about that.

Tell me what you think of my first FanFiction Story. I could really use help here to see what people want. All I have to go on right now is what I like, and for me, that's long chapters.

THIS STORY IS A SOME-WHAT CROSS-OVER OF CHARACTERS FROM BAY'S MOVIES, TRANSFORMERS PRIME AND TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED. An Author Note chapter will explain who is from which verse later on.