Chapter 2-The fruit of More Labor

Watching the bat appear, Dumbledore calm observed Vernon, confident that he would not get hit, but he was proven wrong and his head exploded in pain, from the first swing, then his ribs were hit by the second. Soon the hits were coming in it millions, but due to his weight and fitness level, Vernon was force to stop and take a breather, to see that his exchange with the freak had gone unnoticed and smugly said, "There that will teach you to mess with the lives of normal people," punctuating it with a kick to the groin, making Dumbledore moan high-pitchedly and then he said, "Now clean this mess and LEAVE FREAK," before shutting his front door and returning to the celebrations.

Using the magical abilities he'd had gained threw a great many dark rituals, Dumbledore healed his wounds and once he could feel his legs, he stood up and with a twist on the balls of his feet, vanished with a snap the volume of a cannon blast, leaving all the windows in the neighborhood cracked or shattered. "CRACK," "SMASH," and "SNAP," greeted the arrival of Dumbledore at the gates of Hogwarts, as he then hobbles along the drive up towards the entrance hall, shocked and slightly fearful, why he was shocked was because: Vernon had actually tried to kill him and fearful because: his beliefs were challenged, after getting threw the school, he arrived at his office and as he approached, the Gargoyle statue moved aside.

Ascending the steps, Dumbledore opened the door of his office and as he entered he closed and locked the door behind him, this caused his special privacy wards to erect themselves. Once the wards were fully formed, Dumbledore let out a dangerous bellow of, "BLAST YOU DURSLEY, YOU HAD ONE MISSION, ONE MISSION AND YOU FAILED," which reverberated throughout the office, bouncing off many surface and reflected back at Dumbledore, who then flinched and winced at the pain he bought to his own ears.

As Dumbledore was busy raging, Harry was making himself at home in the orphanage Jasper P.D. set him up in and it was the happiest he has been, as he began to flourish under the tutor hired to get him ready for school at the end of the summer holidays and with the help of a nutritionist, who placed him on a course of: Vitamins and supplements, as well as a diet to help him alleviate his malnutrition and several stages of physio therapy, to heal his bruised bones. All in all Harry was now having a good time and as he shows a maturity level above his age, Harry given similar amenities as an older child: Later curfew, single room and more desert options.

M.E.C.H. however was now in the process of completing Silas' project: Chimera, a dark clone of the Autobot commander: Optimus Prime, as they then used the clone to attack several military installations and Agent Fowler, before the climatic battle of titans between Silas' and Optimus, as each had the same years of battle experience put them on equal footing, until Optimus knowing more about his own chassis than Silas and its weaknesses, as well as a timely intervention by: Agent Fowler, won the day and cleared the Autobots of any wrong doing.

With the now failure and betrayal of: Silas and his project: Chimera, the Director approached the board of governors, to present his findings and experiments with the Transmetalizer, as well as the desire to move on to human test subjects and even nominate a select few for the first wave of test. The board approved of the go ahead with his project and even added their own suggestions as well, so the count of subjects went up to 9 and the director went on his way to collect the subjects.

Months later:

It has being months, since the Nemesis Prime event and the Autobots had gained 2 new recruits: Wrecker Wheeljack (a.k.a Jackie) and the Elite Guard Smokescreen, the later was an overconfident rookie who had just graduated from the Autobot academy, before he was jettisoned off Cybertron by: Alpha Trion. In Jasper, school had just ended for the day, as Jack, Miko, Raf, Sierra and Harry had just left, their last classes of the day and was walking towards the carpark, where the Autobot guardians, Sierra car and Harry's guardian from the orphanage was waiting for them.

After getting a time to meet up on the Saturday, Jack headed for his job at Knockout Burger, while the rest headed for their homes, well Raf and Sierra did, but Miko on the other hand had gone into the desert and went dune bashing, to calm herself down from the detention she had. Later that night, after Miko was dropped off home, many shadows began to move and descend on the homes of their targets.

In other parts of America, more shadows descended on more targets: in New York, a father and son was just getting in from jobs at the oil refinery, while a little girl in Detroit was head banging to a great beat of her favorite screech metal band and beautiful blonde bombshell was just getting home from her studies at M.I.T. all unaware of the danger that was to befall them. Then suddenly the targets world all went black, both in a conscious and unconscious state.

When the lights came back, Jack noticed firstly he was inside a tube large enough to fit Megatron the leader of the Decepticons, which was connected by: several cables and hoses that led to a machine that looked Cybertronian, and then Jack several other leads that led to other tubes like the one he was in. inside the tubes were his mum, friends and love interest, along with Harry and 4 other unknown people, but the youngest girl had features similar Isaac Sumdac a Robotics engineer from Detroit, the 2 males looked to be father and son, built heavily for construction and final woman had long blonde hair, and like Jack they were all in their sleepwear, having being taken from their beds.

Several minutes passed and Jacks mum June awoke, when she saw her son and asked, "Jack! What is going on?" but it was not Jack who had answered, but a raspy baritone from beyond a glass screen that said, "Why Mrs. Darby, you, your son and your guest have been selected to participate in a new state of human evolution," make June look around and spot her sons friends, as well as several strangers, who of which were now in various stages of alertness. When Harry, Raf, Miko, Sierra and the strangers woke, their reactions were ranging from: Fear to denial and even anger, as another voice sound said, "Now really Miss Sumdac is that anyway for a lady to act?" as the newly introduced Miss Sumdac said, "Powell, what is this where am I?" "Ah! That is for us to know and you to never discover," the new voice Powell said, before the first took over and said, "You and your new friends had being selected to be the first inline of M.E.C.H.s new Cybertronian force," surprising several of them and confusing others, but then Raf spoke up and said, "But that is not possible," and his only reply was: a screen appearing and showing the documentation and video of the animal experiments.

"Is it?" said the first voice, as the test subjects watch more of the experiments and then flicked a switch. With the switch flicked, then machine whirled into life and the blue glow of Energon flowed threw the machine and before long the machine was running at full steam, as it then began to pump copious amount of a golden red liquid, that glowed bright threw the hoses and began to fill up the each of the tubes. As the tubes reached their full capacity, the liquid began to glow even brighter and after 5 good hours, the tubes began to drain the fluid away. Once the liquid had finally finished draining, it revealed the unconscious states of 9 Cybertronians of various sizes and designs.

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