Transformers Robots in Disguise (RID): Heroes

By: Marik7410

Chapter 2

History

Location: Unknown

Jets power down as the spaceship and Omega Prime touch down on the unknown planet.

"Pretty deserted," Merrick commented.

"Don't be too sure. Someone is here. Question is where?" Omega Prime scanned the area wondering about the inhabitants of the planet.

"I think it's best if we split up," Tim suggested.

A flash of light and Omega Prime split the two respective robots.

"No," Optimus refused.

"But it is a good idea. We can cover more ground," Magnus supported.

"Look around you. Buildings rusted and destroyed. Cars striped. The streets destroyed. It was like an invasion happened here," Optimus said.

"Hey, you're right an invasion did happen here," Earl said.

Everyone gathered around Earl. He was reading a newspaper he has found.

"Do you know by who?" Optimus asked.

"All it said is 'the sky gone dark as black clouds surround the area. It was later reveal it was robots from another planet. This robots look like the same ones that was here 25 years ago.' Wow!" Earl was surprised.

"We been dead for 25 years!" Magnus exclaimed.

"I doubt it. This paper is hella old," Earl said.

"Even worse," Ultra Magnus said.

The paper was browning, showing ages, but how old is the paper was unclear. Everything on the planet was unclear. Optimus' suspicions were getting closer to the truth but he needed more proof. The sun tried its best to peer through the dust and clouds but only few rays pierced through. The sky had a rusty-like look but the atmosphere was livable.

*snap*

"What was that?" Magnus asked.

Everyone started looking until they saw a young girl creeping closer to them. She had a scared look on her face.

"We don't mean any harm. We are gentle beings," Optimus said softly.

Optimus took a step forwards as the girl took a step back.

"We're good guys. We won't hurt you," Optimus said.

The girl looked at the explorers then at Optimus. She left her guard down knowing that she can trust them. But when she saw Ultra Magnus, he had a decepticon insignia. At that moment started running away.

"Follow her!" Merrick ordered.

"TRANSFORM!" Optimus shouted the command code. Then he begins to transform into a Japanese Hino Brandlier fire truck.

"WHOA! Robots in disguise. Sweet!" Tim was surprised that Optimus had converted into a fire truck.

"I can't believe I still have my vehicle mode," Optimus said.

"I'll take the skies," Magnus volunteered.

"Be careful," Optimus warned.

"Always. JETS ON!" Magnus' jet rockets fired up as he begins to fly. Soon he was able to have a visual of the girl.

"Alright boys, hop on," Merrick said.

6 of the crew member climbed on Optimus. Then Optimus spun his wheel as he begins the pursuit.

"Why do you think she is running?" Tim wondered.

"We'll find out when we catch up to her," Optimus replied.

Soon Optimus was able to catch up to her. She was running down a main street filled with debris. She was able to move around them as Optimus had a hard time trying to navigate through the debris. Ultra Magnus was flying high above keeping an eye on her. He was waiting for order on what to do. The girl made a sudden right turn making Magnus fly straight ahead. Optimus got through the debris and made a speed turn to not to lose the girl.

"Stop! We want to talk," Optimus shouted. But the girl refuses to listen. Ultra Magnus got back on pursuit flying above.

"I got an idea," Magnus said.

"Do it," Optimus said.

Magnus turned up the power to get ahead then he landed right in front of the girl, making her stop. Optimus pulled in blocking her path.

"Nowhere to run," Magnus smiled.

The girl smiles as she looked at Magnus.

"What's so funny?" Magnus asked.

"You," the girl said. She looked up and took out off flying up and east at a high rate of speed.

"WHOA!" Magnus exclaimed.

"That's fast," Serge said.

"Not faster than me," Magnus said. He wasn't going to let some human beat him at a race. "MAXIMUM BURN!" Magnus took off flying at a high rate of speed chasing the girl.

"Can you fly?" Merrick asked.

"Nope," Optimus replied. "But I do have a few tricks".

Optimus started driving again but going in a different direction.

Location: Trade Planet

Name: Unknown

*footsteps approaching*

"Here she is. The girl I found."

"Not bad. She is good shape,"

"I told you."

"Now let's get back to the market and make some bucks."

"Wait, you going to sell her."

"Of course, buyers will pay a lot of money for someone like her."

"Not that much."

"We'll sell her with the female robot we found earlier."

"I don't know."

"Think about. Her looks and body with the metal of that robot. We'll make some big bucks. Think of the women we can get with the money we make."

"I don't know."

"50/50. What do you say my brother?"

"Alright but I still don't like the idea."

"Whatever, let's just pick her up and go."

Two alien life forms picked up a woman with short brown hair and made their way towards the market.

Inside the market, the aliens return to their booth and tied the woman up like a display. Next to her was a female robot whose color scheme is pink and white and about 22 feet tall.

"I don't think that is right."

"Relax. Both of them are out and that's all that matters."

"Are you sure? For a moment she moved."

"Nerve."

"Ok."

"Come on, I got a special for you! I have a 5"6' woman and 22" female robot for sale. They are in mint condition I'm willing to sell for any price."

A furry on life form approached the table and examines the items.

"Interested?"

"No," the life form said in a gruffly voice.

Then a humanoid life form, in a suit, approaches the table.

"My name is Maximillon and I will like to buy your specimen."

"That's good."

"I take the woman. She will make a fine trophy wife," Maximillon requested.

"Nope," the seller refused. "Buy both or move."

"I can't buy one?" Maximillon asked.

"Two for one."

Maximillon look into his wallet and started counting his money.

"How's 500 rubes sound?"

"I'm not feeling you," the seller said.

"Can we negotiate?" Maximillon asked.

"Sure let's talk."

The three gentlemen begin negotiating the price. One thing they didn't know is that the woman they found was awake and she heard everything.

"I have to get out of here," she thought to herself.

She tries to move her hands but it was bind by chains.

"Damn. If could only reach Arcee, I can bust us out of here," she thought to herself.

The way her arms were tied, she couldn't move. So she decided to wait it out.

"Alright, we reached an agreement. Sir you just got yourself two fine specimens," the seller boasted.

"At a ridiculous price," Maximillon scoffed.

"Barney, take the woman down and have the robot ready," the seller ordered.

Barney went up to the woman and untied her right arm. As he was untying the left arm, he felt something wasn't right about her.

"Are you awake?" he asked softly.

Her eyes open revealing her purple colored eyes. "Yep!"

"You heard everything," Barney wondered.

"Of course."

"You have pretty eyes," Barney commented.

"Thank you and thank you for untying me."

"Why?" Barney asked.

"So I can do this." She lounges for the fembot as the seller and the buyer watched. She touched the fembot and a light surrounded the two.

*engines rev*

A car flew out from the light and peeled out.

"What the…" Maximillon exclaimed.

"Well all sells are final."

"I haven't given you the money yet, you scum." Maximillon took off in a huff.

"Barney, what did you do?"

"I saw that she was awake and I asked her if she was awake and she said yes and she took off," Barney explained.

"You idiot! You could've knocked her out."

"Sorry," Barney apologized.

"This is why I told mom that you should stay home and let me handle the money. Geez."

Location: Unknown planet near the moon Optimus and Magnus was found

"Get back here you twerp!" Magnus yelled.

Ultra Magnus and the girl continued to rip the sky as the pursuit continues.

"What a moron," the girl thought to herself.

Then a purple warp gate appeared in front of her. No time to react she went through.

"A space bridge, real clever Prime," Ultra Magnus said as he went in.

On the other side of the gate, the girl flew out only to be stop by guns. She was about to turn around when she was surround by space explorers and their guns.

"I guess I have no choice but to…" she thought to herself as she was getting ready to fly. But when she looked up, Optimus was there ready to catch if she tries to fly. Ultra Magnus came out from the space bridge to see the young girl trapped.

"Nowhere to go now huh fly girl," Magnus boasted.

"DROP YOUR WEAPONS AND PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!"

The voice echoed around the room everyone was in.

"Who's there? Identify yourself," Merrick demand.

"Turn around and find out," the young girl said smugly.

Everyone slowly turned around to see who interrupted them. They saw a group of humans in tattered clothing. There was a 72 year old woman standing in front of the crowd. She looked at the space explorers then at the transformers. At that moment she recognizes one of the transformers.

"Optimus?" she asked.

"Yes that is me," Optimus answered. "How do you know my name?"

"It's me, Jenny."

"Jenny?" Optimus questioned.

"Yes Jenny. Koji's friend," she replied.

"Oh, Jenny," Optimus said. "Where are we?"

"I wouldn't blame you asking because it looks way different from before but this is Earth," Jenny said.

"What?" Magnus said. He was indeed surprised.

"Whoa!" the space explorers said.

Location: Trade Planet

A pink and purple car continues to race across the land.

"I hope I got far away from them as possible. I have to wake Arcee up. Arcee, Arcee, wake up. Wake up Arcee."

Soon the car begins to respond to the call.

"Mmmm. What's going on? How come I'm moving?" she thought.

"It's me."

"T-Ai. Where are you?" Arcee asked.

"Inside you. I had to fuse with you get away from being sold to some sleazy guy," T-Ai said.

"Where are we?" Arcee asked.

"I don't know. I woke up being tied on the wall as a display piece," T-Ai answered.

"Okay T-Ai, that's enough. I know you must be tired trying to navigate with me being out," Arcee said.

"Thanks," T-Ai said.

Then a woman appeared in the driver seat of the car.

"Whoo! That took a lot of me," T-Ai said.

"We need to find where we are and how we got here and fast," Arcee said. "Have you found anyone else?"

"I've tried and no one picked up. Not even a distress signal," T-Ai said sadly.

Location: Earth or what's left of it

"Can you explain how Earth got this way?" Optimus asked.

"It was quite sad actually," Jenny said. "It started 25 years after you guys drove the Decepticons off of this planet…"

"Wait, you said 25 years after?" Magnus interrupted.

"Yes," Jenny replied.

"The paper Earl read…"

"That was it. The attack," Jenny finished.

"What year this is?" Optimus asked.

"If I'm correct, 2060," Jenny answered. "Because you guys first came to Earth in 2000…"

"Then we came back 10 years later to deal with Scrash," Magnus added.

"That's 2010," Jenny added.

"And it's 2060. We've been dead for 50 years," Optimus added.

"And you look the way you did 50 years ago," Earl said.

Everyone stared at Earl.

"What? I'm breaking the ice," Earl said.

"That's not the only thing I'll break," Merrick added.

"I'll be in the bathroom. I got to shed some pounds," Earl said. He picked up a newspaper and made his way to a bathroom.

"It was the year 2035 and everything was normal. The usually traffic, the usually foul-mouth drivers, pretty much like the Decepticons were never here," Jenny continued. "What happened next was something we'll never expect. It was like it happened yesterday."

"Maybe it did," Earl called from the bathroom.

"SHUT UP!" Everyone said.

"The sky was covered in darkness. We thought that an eclipse had happened but it was quite rare for that event to happen, especially that we couldn't see what's in front of us. Something blanketed the Earth and no one knew. The people from NASA were doing their best to get some images from the Hubble Space Telescope. Few minutes later, the world saw the first image from the telescope. Everyone couldn't believe what the picture the telescope captured. Giant robots were covering the planet. At first nothing happened and then a jet-like transformer descended from the sky. He was gray with red trim. He had a devious grin on his face. He told us 'This planet and its inhabitants are to be destroyed by the order of the Empress'. The president begged for mercy, even sinking low.'"

"How low?" asked Optimus.

"Let said he was kissing an area I rather not put my lips on," Jenny replied.

"The jet you mention, who was he?" Magnus asked.

"He calls himself the Air Commander of the Decepticons, Starscream," Jenny answered.

"STARSCREAM!" Optimus and Magnus replied.

"Is he bad?" Merrick asked.

"Starscream had a reputation on our home world. He is the last person you want to put your full trust on," Magnus answered.

"So is he a traitor?" Serge asked.

"He is a perfect definition of a traitor. Well him and someone else we rather not mention. He was loyal to Megatron, his leader, or he was pretending. He was planning to take over the universe but with Megatron in charge really slow him down. So he decided to get rid of Megatron and take over," Optimus stated.

"And he succeed," Magnus added. "He had control of the Decepticons until Unicron revived Megatron as Galvatron. Galvatron didn't hesitate on destroying Starscream. Not even begging helped."

"Well Starscream seemed different. He was following someone's order to the letter," Jenny continued. "Starscream gave us 48 hours to enjoy our last day on Earth then he left with his army."

"You guys decided to do something in 48 hours?" Tim asked

"Of course, the U.S had a weapon strong enough to destroy them but they weren't enough time to make enough for the world," Jenny said. "Then Kelly said that she knew someone that has the technology to get rid of them but he hasn't returned in 25 years."

"I have an idea you who're talking about," Optimus said.

"Who?" Tim asked.

"His name was Wilson. His specialty was battle technology. He had created a bio-suit for military purpose but stop making them because of the military ambitions with the armor was corrupted," Optimus said. "He thought he'll never open the project again until Scrash and his Decepticons came to Earth then started seeing vision of the future. The only way to prevent disaster he had to open the project again. His armor is resilient and quite strong. As far as I know he made only four."

"Well that Kelly thought too," Jenny continued. "His sister led us underground, right under their house. There was a large room filled with bracelets ready for battle."

"When you mean bracelets, you mean battle armor?" Optimus asked.

"Yep, there were a few thousand in that room and the rest was at a warehouse. There was enough for the whole world. None left over," Jenny added.

"It's like he knew how much to make," Optimus said.

"Well his sister said that 'My brother always having vision and he hasn't slept because of that. There was one time he disappeared for a week then came back exhausted.'" Jenny continued. "48 hours had passed and all the people were battle ready. The army came back and this time they descend and started attacking. We caught them off-guard because we retaliated with the armor. What we didn't know was that they had a large space canon and were charging it. As soon it was charged, the Decepticons retreated and fired the canon. That's why you see a large portion of the planet is missing. We went underground for two years wondering why they haven't destroyed the planet completely. A large portion of the remaining population…"

"Wait, how many people were left?" Merrick interrupted.

"About one-third," Jenny answered. "Two-thirds of the remaining population got tired of hiding and went above ground. At that moment the Decepticons was there and the people were never seen again."

"They were killed?" Serge added.

"Most was men and teenagers," Jenny replied. "We found out later that they didn't destroy the planet because it had energon. Every now and then we go above ground and see what we can savage but the Decepticons keep coming back for energon every four months."

"I'm sorry this had happened to you," Optimus said.

"Oh you're sorry alright. You don't know how we feel you useless piece of junk," the young girl hissed.

"Cassie, how can you say that?" Jenny said.

"Well they said that they were the good guys, what good you guys did," Cassie continued. "If it wasn't for them and 'their' friends, we wouldn't be in this mess."

"Cassie!" Jenny scolded.

"Cassie, you have to understand we are a peaceful race," Optimus said.

"Peaceful?" Cassie exclaimed. "You called the state of the planet peaceful? Earth is in ruined because of you." Tears started to roll down her face.

"Who did you lose?" Optimus asked.

"Everyone I held close to me," Cassie replied. "My family, my friends, my life, I have nothing to hold on to."

"You still have hope," Optimus said.

"Hope. Hope? Ha!" Cassie laughed.

"We are Cybertroians, a race on our home world called Cybertron," Optimus said. "In our race it is divided into two subgroups: Decepticons, who want to rule the universe with an iron fist. Then you have Autobots, who wants peace and harmony across the universe. We protect the innocent."

"Then why do you fail 50 years ago?" Cassie asked "If you won, none of this would've happened."

Optimus couldn't respond to Cassie's question.

"As I thought, you can't answer my question because you let them win," Cassie added.

"Hey, watch it little girl" Magnus said.

"Stand down," Optimus said.

"But Optimus, she is spreading lies," Magnus said.

"She might be right. She might be wrong. We don't the full story. If we did, I would've answered her question."

"But Optimus..."

"But nothing Magnus," Optimus interrupted. "Until we get everything, we can't point fingers at everyone. We'll be going now."

"Wait, I have one question for you," Magnus said.

"What it is?" Cassie wondered.

"Why did you run from us?" Magnus asked.

"You had the logo of the ones who invaded our planet," Cassie answered.

"Logo?" Magnus said. He looked on his chest and noticed that he had a decepticon insignia on him. "Whoops, didn't see that there." He changed his insignia to bear the autobot sign.

"Why you have two logos?" Cassie asked.

"I was a double agent. I had to get some info on the Decepticons. In order for them to not suspect me, I had to 'mingle' with them."

"Oh," Cassie replied.

"Now we can go," Magnus said.

"Wait. We're coming too," Merrick said.

"No." Optimus replied. "It's too dangerous. Plus you'll slow us down."

"Do you have anyone to get info for you?" Merrick asked. "You can't waltz up ask without getting in trouble. Beside, a lot has change in 50 years. You need us. Plus how are you going to elude the Decepticons without protection? They are everywhere. There are two checkpoints in this star system. You won't pass checkpoint number one."

"He does have a point," Jenny agreed.

"They can't," Optimus added.

"Why?" Merrick asked.

"Our energy signature will give us away and put you guys in trouble," Optimus said.

"Not exactly."

Everyone turned their attention towards a young boy with an oversized head.

"That is a big head you got on your shoulders," Magnus teased.

"Well at least I have some knowledge," the boy said.

"Burn!" Earl exclaimed.

Everyone stared at Earl.

"What? I appreciate a good burn and that was a good one," Earl said.

"Anyways, after close observation on your space capsule, I examined that molecular structure of your alloy can eradicate any energy wave patterns," the boy continued.

"Huh?" Everyone was confused by his observation.

"Can you turn the nerdiness down a bit?" Magnus said.

"Fine," the boy sighed. "The hull plating on this space pod has capability of hiding any energy signature. In other words, you're safe."

"How come you didn't say that Nerdtron?" Cassie asked.

"Stop calling me that Cassie!" the boy shouted.

"I'm sorry Jimmy…" Cassie said.

"Thank you Cassie," Jimmy said.

"...that you're such a dweeb," Cassie continued.

"If you keeping riding on me, I will do something I won't regret," Jimmy said.

"Oh, he got a backbone to support his big head of his," Cassie teased.

"At least I didn't get caught by a robot," Jimmy added,

"Like you can do any better with you short little legs," Cassie continued,

The two continued to bicker.

"Hey Magnus, do they remind you of somebody we know?" Optimus asked.

"Not yet," Magnus answered.

A blonde hair girl stepped into the argument.

"Hey Cass, leave Jimmy alone," the girl said.

"Here comes Cindy the local loud mouth," Cassie said.

"I'm not loud. I can control myself," Cindy stated.

"That's not what I heard. Once a boy…"

"That's not true," Cindy interrupted. "At least I don't sleep around."

"BURN!" Earl shouted.

"That's it. You're going down," Cassie threatened.

"Bring it shank," Cindy added.

"Ladies, let not fight here," Jimmy said nervously.

"Back off short stuff," Cassie said.

"Don't treat him like that," Cindy said.

"Anyone yet Magnus?" Optimus asked.

"Only need one thing and I know who it is," Magnus answered.

"I treat him however I like," Cassie snapped.

Then the girls begin fighting.

"Girls, girls please stop," Jimmy said.

Then Jimmy got pulled into the fight.

"Now I know who it is," Magnus said. "They act like Wilson, T-Ai and Arcee. They acted just like them."

"Please ignore them. They do this almost every day," Jenny apologize.

"It could've been worse," Magnus said.

"How?" Jenny asked.

"We had two members of our crew who hated each other," Magnus answered. "They fight almost time they see each other."

"If they were here, they we have some trouble," Optimus added.

"Really," Jenny laughed.

The fight continues to go on as the space explorer, Optimus and Ultra Magnus made their exit.