The five new arrivals all changed into another form. Ayumi noticed that they all changed into animal forms. A lion, a vulture, a tiger, a bull and a rhino. The leader of the bunch seemed to be the one in the lion form, Ayumi surmised. The five robotic animals went on a rampage at the site. The American soldiers watched in shock as the Korean soldiers were massacred by the Predacons.
Ayumi looked to her team members and pressed a button on her collar. "Team, move out." She whispered. The team slowly moved from their positions and headed away from the horrific event that was happening before them.
The Predacons had finished killing the humans and the lion transformed back into his robot form. He lifted his arm to chest level and a panel flipped open.
"Razorclaw to Soundwave. Mission complete. We have found Galvatron, Lord Megatron's brother."
As Razorclaw was reporting in, the tiger's attention shot to the dense forest where Ayumi's team once stood. Razorclaw noticed, his subordinate's reaction.
"What is it, Rampage?"
"More humans." Rampage said. "They were nearby and they're moving away."
"After them." Razorclaw said as he closed his comm panel and transformed back into his lion form. The five Predacons dashed into the woods after Ayumi's team.
When the team had moved far enough away from the North Koreans and the giant robots, their pace began to quicken and they moved from a creeping pace to a dead sprint.
"We have to get back to the clearing and call for extraction." Ayumi said. "We have to inform Command of what we just saw."
"What did we just see?" Reed asked.
"I don't even know." Zofchak said.
They reached the clearing where they had dropped in. The clearing was littered with logs and tall green grass that had come up to the soldiers' knees. It was good cover to lay in if an enemy faction was nearby. The team stood alert as Ayumi radioed for extraction. Reed gazed into the forest with his weapon trained on the direction he was looking. Then a noise caught his attention. His radiation detector began going off. It started off with a slow and steady pulse like a heartbeat but it started to get faster in rhythm. He looked at the device and realized that the beings that gave off that type of radiation were getting closer.
"SIR!" He shouted. "We've got incoming."
Ayumi was in the middle of a sentence while talking on the radio when she threw it down and lifted her weapon. She scanned the surrounding area and didn't see anything. "Where are they?"
"It seems to be coming from all around us." Reed reported.
The team grouped together with their backs to each other as five large figures appeared from the forest. It was the same beings that had attacked the Korean soldiers. The Predacons growled and snarled at the American soldiers.
"FIRE!" Ayumi ordered.
The American team opened fire on the Predacons who charged in as the bullets began firing. The team spread out to not give the robots a single target. Ayumi and two others focused their fire on the lion as the rest of the team split up and unloaded their weapons on the other four robotic animals. She could hear when the sound of gunfire would diminish a bit it would be followed directly by a human scream. Her team was getting obliterated.
Cruz continued to unleash his weapon's fury on the rhino as he saw the tiger take out more soldiers. They were now down to seven. The panther then charged ahead, stepping on the corpses of those it had just killed, heading for another kill. Cruz looked and saw its target was their team leader. He stopped firing and ran to his leader's aide. The tiger drew back its giant black metallic paw and swung. Cruz had dropped his weapon to use both hands to shove Ayumi to the ground. The tiger's paw had just missed Ayumi's head by inches but it instead caught the full body of Cruz and sent him flying through the air and into a tree.
Ayumi felt a pair of hands push her hard to the ground and as she fell, she felt a strong gust of wind blow past her head. As soon as she hit the ground she turned over to see Cruz smack against a tree.
"CRUZ!" She shouted as she got to her feet and ran over to him. She knelt down and cradled her friend's body and fought back the tears, not allowing herself to cry for her fallen close friend.
She heard the screams of her team members as she looked up to see the Predacons ripping through them. She then heard the roar of a jet engine as she looked up to see a giant white plane hovering above them. Ayumi didn't recognize the style of the plane as it didn't look like an American military jet.
The cargo doors opened and five large objects landed in the clearing. The Predacons took their attention off of the soldiers and turned to the five new giant robots.
Oh, no. Not more of them. Ayumi thought.
These five new robots sported gray and yellow with some red coloring as well as they all had a red symbol on their chests. The one in the middle swiveled its head to both sides to address the other four, who were paired off on each side of it.
"Dinobots, transform."
The five new robots transformed into dinosaurs. The leader transformed into a tyrannosaurus rex while the others transformed into a triceratops, a brontosaurus, a stegosaurus and a pterodactyl.
The five Dinobots battled against the five Predacons. Ayumi, scared out of her mind and not knowing what to do or how to proceed, kept trying to scoot herself away from the battle but the tree behind her prevented her from going any further.
Suddenly two more beings had leapt from the jet and landed near Ayumi. They both were mainly white colored with various markings, both of which had the red symbol on their chests, and while both of them had blue eyes, one of them had visored eyes.
Ayumi noticed one had police markings. Ayumi recognized the robot's chest to be the front end of a Nissan 350 Z. It's doors, which had the word police written on them, spread outward like wings.
The other robot had a similar body style but didn't have doors spreading outward like the other did. It's front end was that of a Porsche 911 Turbo. The two robots looked at the battle for a few moments before turning their attention to Ayumi.
"Come on." The Porsche robot said. "We've got to get you out of here."
"I'm not leaving my team." Ayumi said. "Even if they are dead."
"I don't know what it is about Humans and their dead, Jazz." The police 350 Z said.
"Don't worry about it, Prowl." Jazz said. "They don't leave their dead behind." Jazz then looked up to the hovering jet and pressed a button on the side of his head. "Wheeljack and Ratchet, we need your help down here. Skyfire, we're going to need you to land."
At that moment, two more robots landed on the ground. These two were also mainly white with other colors. One looked like he was a sports racing car while the other had the markings of an ambulance. Ayumi surmised that one was the medic of the group. The sports car had no mouth to speak of and had two extensions on the side of his head that looked like ears.
"We need to gather the dead soldiers from here and take them back with us as well as her." Jazz said pointing from the field to Ayumi.
"It's going to be tricky with the Dinobots and Predacons going at it like that but I think we could do it." Wheeljack said with the two extensions lighting up as he spoke.
Ayumi heard a robotic, metal crunching-like noise behind her. She glanced back to see that the jet had transformed into giant robot that towered over the others. Ayumi surmised the jet to be named Skyfire as Jazz had talked to a moment ago.
"Let's go get them." Jazz said as he ran out onto the battlefield attempting to retrieve the bodies of Ayumi's fallen soldiers.
It didn't take long before the Predacons retreated and Ayumi was sitting in the cargo bay of the jet known as Skyfire with the robots that had saved her life, who called themselves Autobots.
Ayumi glanced around the cargo bay, realizing for the first time that it was really massive. Not only was it holding her and the bodies of her team but nine Autobots, a giant crate that Wheeljack and Prowl had carried on board after the Predacons had left, and still had room for a hell of a lot more.
"What are you guys?" Ayumi asked.
"We're Autobots." Prowl said.
"You told me that already but I mean what are you?" She asked.
"You mean what are we in regard to our physical existence." Wheeljack said.
Ayumi nodded. "I'll leave the full explanation to our commander but we call ourselves Cybertronians but one of your kind has started calling us Transformers."
"Another one of my kind? You mean that more humans know of you?"
"Only two really know of us, but there have been eyewitnesses that have spotted us." Prowl said.
Before anything could be said further, Skyfire's voice came in on the intercom. "Approaching the Ark. Prepare for landing."
In a matter of seconds, the Autobot jet had landed next to the base of a mountain. It's cargo bay doors opened and everyone filed out. Jazz and Wheeljack carried the bodies of the soldiers while Prowl and Ratchet carried the giant container that Ayumi had spotted before.
Ayumi, slinging her M4 over her shoulder, looked around the area as Skyfire transformed. She didn't see anything out of the ordinary. It just looked like a secluded area at the base of a giant mountain.
"Where is your base?" She asked.
Prowl touched the side of his head. "Prowl to Teletran One, drop cloak and open bay doors."
Ayumi's eyes widened as part of the mountain rippled out of existence to show a portion of an spacecraft lodged into the side of the mountain. The doors opened to allow the Autobot team entry.
Ayumi was in complete awe at the sheer size of everything. She followed the Autobots deeper into their base and into an even bigger room that housed a few giant screens. However, one particular object in the room caught her attention. She ignored all the other Autobots that were already in the room when she walked in as she walked towards the object of interest.
"Papa?"
