Me: Hey bitches! AK here. Chapter 4 is here, halleluiah!

Matt: You're actually starting to speed up in the updating.

TK: Yeah. You seemed to be slowing down back there.

Me: Yeah I know. I'm taking a break form the job hunt.

Violet: That's cool.

Tai: Yeah seriously.

Kari: Now the series can go faster.

Trevor: Let's get the chapter started already. AK, disclaimer, now.

Me: Alright. Don't freak out. I don't own the incredibles, American Dad, Digimon, or Transformers. I only own Trevor Bauer.

Trevor: As always, please don't make any jokes about that or I will kill you.

Mimi: You wouldn't actually do that would you?

Trevor: You bet your sincere ass I would.

Mimi: *GULP*

Me: Trevor!

Trevor: *sigh* Sorry.

Me: Just don't do it again. Enjoy chapter 4.

The AutoKnights III: A Third World

Chapter 4: Dinner at the AutoKnight's Round Table

(Streets of Odaiba; 5:20 pm)

Optimus Prime was driving his four passengers home after he, Ironhide, and Ratchet brought Yolei back from their base to fix her arm. Optimus was told Tai and Kari lived closest to where they were and decided to head there first. After a few more minutes of driving, Optimus pulled up in front of the apartment complex the Kamiyas lived in and let all four of his passengers out. He then transformed into his human mode and decided to walk up to their apartment with them. Tai, Kari, TK, or Matt didn't see anything wrong with that. So they all walked up the complex until they got to the right floor. They then stopped at apartment 1306 and Tai opened the door. The five walked in and Optimus looked around. He saw something odd. There was no one home, yet the TV was on.

"You do know nobody's watching that, right?" Optimus asked.

"Dammit, Agumon." Tai thought.

"Sometimes we forget." Kari said.

Optimus decided to turn it off himself but as he walked over, he saw something on the couch. A big orange lizard and a cat wearing gloves. Optimus somehow suspected they weren't just stuffed animals.

"Very interesting." Optimus said. "Are they alive?"

When he asked that question, everybody froze. They knew what Optimus could do, but they thought seeing their digimon would scare him off.

"Of course not." Tai lied. "What makes you say that?"

Optimus wasn't convinced. So he decided to test his theory. He walked over to the kitchen area as the eyes of the four digidestined followed his movements. He found a pepper shaker and walked back over to the couch. He then leaned forward put the shaker right under Gatomon's nose. And hen she breathed in and her nose started to tickle inside. Gatomon tried to hold back the sneeze so she wouldn't blow her cover, but the tickle was too intense. So she closed her eyes and let the sneeze come forth.

"Aaaaah…..aaaaaaaaaah…….AAAAAAAACHOOOOOOO!!"

Gatomon thrust her head forward as she sneezed and Optimus stood up straight and smiled seeing his theory being proved right. The digidestined were now afraid of would happen now. And their looks showed it. Optimus saw these looks and then lost his smile.

"What are you afraid of?" he asked.

"You mean you're not freaked out by them?" Matt asked.

Optimus smiled again. "Of course not. A few hours ago I killed a giant robot tank. And you according to what you said earlier, you guys all saw that. And you thought these two would scare me?"

Now everyone was relived. Especially Agumon and Gatomon. Gatomon rubbed her nose and stood up to look at Optimus.

"Please don't do that again." Gatomon said.

Optimus looked down. "Sure thing." He said.

"I'm Agumon. Nice to meet ya." The big lizard said as he held out his claw.

Optimus grabbed the claw with his hand and shook it. "My name is Optimus Prime."

Agumon and Gatomon looked at each other confused.

"No offense, but what kind of name is that?" Gatomon asked.

Optimus chuckled a bit. "It's not my birth name." he said.

"Well thank goodness for that." Gatomon said.

"Hey Tai, where are your parents?" TK asked.

Tai, Kari, Matt, Optimus, Agumon, and Gatomon looked around and noticed that there was no one there but them. Kari then noticed a small piece of paper on the counter with writing on it. She read what was on it as everyone huddled around her to see.

"Dear Tai and Kari,

We got a call from your grandmother a few hours ago. She's in the hospital and we needed to go see her. We were going to call you and tell you to come home so you could come along, but you were to busy trying to find your friend I couldn't drag you away from that. We should be back by early tomorrow morning. Dinner is already made for you and it's in the oven ready to be heated.

Love you

Mom and Dad"

Kari put down the note and looked at her brother with horror. Tai looked back at her with the same expression.

"Oh my god." Tai said scared.

"I'm sure your grandmother's gonna be fine. If she wasn't, your parents wouldn't have let you guys keep searching for Yolei." Optimus said.

Kari looked at the knight. "Oh, we know that, Optimus. It's just that…" Kari stopped short.

Optimus was now confused. "What?" he asked.

Kari was too scared to say it but she did. "Our mom….made dinner." She said in a loud whisper.

The level on Optimus' confusion just went up to the max. But he soon understood.

"I'm going to take a shot in the dark here and guess your mom's cooking sucks." Optimus said.

"Yep." Tai said. "Let's see what kind of poison Mom put in that oven." Tai said as he walked over and opened the oven.

What was in there was so wrong it's indescribable. Optimus was even a little freaked by the contents.

"Oh, Mom." Tai said.

"Why doesn't she just put a bomb in there? The death would be faster and less painful." Kari said.

Then Optimus got an idea of how to save these poor souls from a crappy night.

"Hey. Why don't you come to my place and have dinner with me, Ironhide, and Ratchet?" Optimus offered.

All six other living beings in the apartment looked at him with wide eyes. Tai's, Kari's, Agumon's, and Gatomon's also had some hope in there.

"Really?" Kari asked.

"Sure. I can't leave you here with whatever the hell that is, but I can offer you a good meal in my house. I live with only Ironhide and Ratchet, and I can cook pretty damn good. So what do ya say?"

Tai and Kari looked at each other and then back to what their mother placed in the oven a few hours ago. Tai took in a deep breath and took the contents of the oven out and dumped them into the trash can.

"We accept." Tai said.

"Great." Optimus said as he grabbed his right sleeve.

He then pulled up on the sleeve up to his elbow and a flap on it slid open a short ways. A small speaker was revealed with a few buttons next to it. Optimus pressed one button and held up his wrist.

"Ironhide, Ratchet, where are you?" Optimus said into the small speaker.

A female voice responded first. "This is Ironhide, Prime. Ratchet and I just finished dropping everyone off and we're headed back to base."

"Alright good. Now when you get back, could you do me a favor and set the tables?" Optimus said.

"Um…why?" Ironhide asked.

"Because we're going to have dinner guests tonight." Optimus said. "You and Ratchet head back there and get the place straightened up. I'll be there in a few."

"Well…okay. You got it boss-knight." Ironhide said. "Ratchet, you copy that?"

"I heard ya. Let's motor back." Ratchet said as Optimus' com made a fuzzy noise and turned off.

Optimus slid down the flap on his sleeve and then looked at Matt and TK. "You guys want in too?" he asked.

"I can't. I'm the bassist and the lead singer in a band. I have rehearsal tonight. Maybe some other time though." Matt said.

"Okay. What about you, TK?"

"I can't go either. My mom wants me to be at home tonight. She's a reporter and she wants to talk to me about what I saw today involving you guys and that tank." TK said.

Optimus then looked a little scared. He then approached TK. "TK, I want you to listen to me very carefully." He said.

"Okay. I'm listening." TK said slowly.

"You cannot tell your mother ANYTHING about what happened today." Optimus also said slowly.

"Why not?" TK asked.

"Because were not ready to be known about yet. If word got out that the AutoKnights are here, people might get the wrong idea and think we're fighting on the wrong side. We will let people now of our presence later. Until then, we only come out during fights with Decepticons."

TK nodded his head. "I understand, but what am I going to tell my mom?" he asked.

"Tell her anything. I don't care. Make something up if you have to." Optimus said.

TK nodded again. "You got it."

Optimus smiled. "Alright then. Lets go." He said as he walked out the door.

The four humans and two digimon followed. When they got outside, Optimus went behind the alley of the complex and transformed to vehicle mode. He drove out form behind it and circled around to pick up his passengers. First he dropped TK off at his place.

"Alright, I'll see you later." He said to Kari.

He leaned in for a kiss and his and her lips met. TK wanted to keep going but Tai was glaring at him with his arms crossed. So TK pulled away from his girlfriend and hopped out of the semi-cab. Kari then glared at her brother. Tai just shrugged as if he didn't know what he did wrong. After Optimus dropped off Matt, he drove back to the ramp entrance and drove down it. When they were driving through the tube that let you get a clear view of the water, all four passengers were awestruck, just like Yolei was earlier. After they drove into the rock formation that the house was sitting on, they found themselves in the Teletraan chamber. Optimus let his cargo out and transformed to human mode.

"What is all this?" Agumon asked as he turned and looked around.

"This isn't the house itself. This is the base area. This is where we make contact with our allies on Cybertron." Optimus explained.

"Cybertron?" Kari asked.

"Oh yeah. I haven't told you guys the story yet. Me and my two other knights will explain over dinner. Let's go." Optimus said.

As they were walking, Tai laid his eyes on the Teletraan computer.

"Whoa." He said quietly.

Optimus heard him and knew why he said it. "Impressive, huh?" he said.

"Izzy would go crazy if he saw this." Tai said.

"I take it he likes computers?" Optimus assumed.

"Oh yeah." Tai said as the five life forms got into the elevator.

The elevator rose up and it stopped and opened up. They all walked out of it, down the hallway, and into the gigantic living room where Ironhide and Ratchet were setting the table.

"Hey guys." Tai said.

Ironhide and Ratchet looked up.

"Oh hey." Ratchet said. "We're done, Prime."

Optimus looked around and smiled. "Excellent work, Knights. Power down." He said.

All at once, the three knights closed their eyes and started to concentrate hard as they held their right fists clenched in front of their faces. Their suits all started to glow a dim white. Then the suits themselves became a liquid metal type of material. It started to melt up off of their bodies and flowed into their right ring fingers. After thirty seconds, the suits had become their normal rings again, and the knights had become Trevor, Violet, and Steve again. Tai, Kari, Agumon, and Gatomon stood there with wide eyes on them yet again.

"What just happened?" Tai asked.

Trevor turned around. "We transformed back into our normal forms." He said.

"Normal forms?" Gatomon wondered.

"What? Did you think we were born as AutoKnights? Hell no. When we're not in our AutoKnight forms, we're just regular people." Trevor explained. "I said back there Optimus Prime isn't my birth name."

"Well what is your birth name?" Kari asked.

Violet and Steve walked up next to Trevor.

"I'm Trevor. Trevor Jackson Bauer." He introduced.

"I'm Violet Parr."

"Steve Smith."

The two non-knights and their partners nodded in understanding.

"Well it's nice to officially meet all of you." Kari said.

"Nice to meet you too." Steve said as he smiled. "Now I seem to recall there being dinner here?"

"Oh yeah! Make yourselves comfortable and I'll get started." Trevor said as he headed towards the kitchen.

"Need any help?" Kari offered.

Trevor stopped and looked back. "Sure. Come on." He said.

Kari smiled and followed Trevor with Gatomon beside her. Violet and Steve led Tai and Agumon over t the TV where they soon became lost in the giant screen.

Over in the kitchen, Trevor had gotten down a cookbook with a familiar looking woman on it. Kari walked over and looked over his shoulder to take a look.

"Aria Andreotti. Her food is magnificent." Kari said smiling.

Trevor smiled back. "Yeah, I know. I used to be good friends with her. She taught me how to cook."

Kari seemed a little surprised. "Really? How did you know her?" she asked.

"Back in my time, she was the best friend I had before I met Violet." Trevor said.

Gatomon noticed the words "my time". "Wait. "You're time? What do you mean you're time?" the cat digimon inquired.

"I guess I can tell this part of the story without them." Trevor thought. "You know how you thought me and Violet existed in the sixties?"

Kari and Gatomon nodded.

"Well the truth is your thoughts are right on the money. Violet and I were born in that time period and that is where we first met." Trevor said.

"If you were born in that time period, how did you end up here in ours?" Kari asked.

"We traveled through time. When you have friends who happen to be a race of robots who are way farther in advanced in technology then we are its possible."

Kari and Gatomon looked at each other.

"You mean there are more robots like the one that you destroyed today?" Gatomon said.

Trevor shrugged. "Yes and no." he said.

"Well what's the yes and what's the no?" Gatomon asked.

Trevor found a recipe in the book he liked and got out the things to make it with as he went on the story.

"Well the yes is, there are more robots like him. The no part is there are some like him but not all are EXACTLY like him." Trevor explained.

"What?" Kari said not understanding.

Trevor sighed. "It goes like this. Billions of years ago before this planet was even born, there was another planet with life on it. Its name was Cybertron." Trevor started.

"Go on." Gatomon said.

"This planet was and still is inhabited solely by a race of highly intelligent robots that could think on their own and even feel emotions."

"Really? Robots can feel?" Kari said.

Trevor smiled. "Yeah. Their race was called, for obvious reasons, the Transformers. They lived in peace until one day war broke out on the planet and the Transformers split into two different factions. The peace loving Autobots, and the destruction craving Decepticons."

"Civil war?" Kari said upset.

Trevor hanged down his head. "Mm hm. That war raged on for millions of years and it still is raging on. And during that time, Cybertron and many generations of Transformers yet to mature were destroyed in the crossfire. Now most of Cybertron is in ruins. It was once a beautiful thriving empire. Peaceful and just. Now it is but a wasteland."

"How awful." Kari said quietly.

"It is. All that remains intact is the Autobot's main command. A city called Iacon. It is there where the remaining Autobots have taken refuge and strategized their next move against Megatron."

"Who?" Gatomon asked.

"Megatron. He's the leader of the Decepticons and the most feared. Very few have battled with him and lived to tell about it. But now he has taken this war here to Earth and it's up to me, Violet and Steve to find the rest of our team and stop him."

"The rest of your team?" Kari wondered.

"I'll explain the rest while we eat. Come on. I'm hungry." Trevor said as he turned back to his cooking thing as Kari helped him out.

A few minutes later, Trevor started to strike up another conversation.

"So, I couldn't help but notice when TK was kissing you earlier, Tai had a disapproving look on his face." Trevor said.

Kari frowned. "That's my brother." She said.

"Why? Does he always do that?" Trevor asked.

"Pretty much. He's convinced that TK is going to try and take advantage of me when in the whole year we've dated, we haven't even said "I love you" to each other yet."

"You haven't? Why not?"

Kari sighed. "I don't know. We're both afraid to say it. TK's not only my boyfriend, but he is also my best friend. If we say I love you to each other, things might change."

"No they won't." Trevor said.

"How would you know?" Kari asked.

"Do you love TK?" Trevor asked.

"Of course I love him." Kari said.

"Then just say it. If you do the only thing that will change is the tension. You will finally be relieved that you said it and how you two feel about each other will be out in the open. So one thing will change, but it will change for the better."

Kari smirked. "I guess that's true. How do you know all this?"

Trevor looked at his right fist. "I think this ring comes with wisdom as a bonus." He joked.

Kari giggled a little.

"As for your brother, all I can say is he doesn't really understand how you feel about TK and he thinks he's trying to protect you." Trevor went on.

Kari looked down at what she was doing. "I know that, but it just gets me mad sometimes."

"He loves you. You know that, right?"

"Of course I know that. And I love him too. But it just gets annoying when he interferes with my love life." Kari said.

"That's completely understandable but you could have it a lot worse. Trust me on that." Trevor said referring to himself.

Of course Kari didn't know he was referring to himself and Trevor had no intention of telling her that. He then frowned as he began to think of his family. His father, his grandparents, Amber. When he got to Amber, Trevor sighed and Kari saw his sad face. She could have sworn she even saw a small tear drop from his eye.

"Are you alright?" she asked.

Trevor blinked and looked back up. "Oh…yeah. I'm fine." He said with a fake smile.

Kari looked closer at his face. "You were crying." She pointed out.

"Oh uh it was uh…the onions. You know how that works." Trevor said trying to convince Kari he wasn't.

Kari decided to let it go and not push him. After a few more minutes, they had finished what they did. It was the famous Rosemary Pasta in Butter Roasted Garlic Sauce.

"I've actually eaten this recipe a few times during the past week, but man is it good. Have you ever eaten it?" Trevor asked.

Kari and Gatomon both shook their heads.

"Well then, prepare for the best damn meal of your life." Trevor said as he placed the uncooked dinner in the oven and set the timer.

"With my mom's cooking, I've been ready for this day for a long time." Kari said.

"If you've been eating your mom's cooking your whole life, how are you and Tai even alive?" Trevor asked in a jokingly manner.

"I have no clue." Kari responded.

"Now we wait." Trevor said as he walked out of the kitchen.

Kari followed him and walked over to where the others were. They were watching the TV and Trevor, Kari, and Gatomon sat down to join them. A few minutes later, Trevor asked another question. This one was for Agumon and Gatomon.

"So, what are you guys anyway?" he asked.

Agumon answered this one. "Were called Digimon. That's short for Digital Monster."

"Digital Monster?" Violet wondered.

"That's right." Gatomon said. "We come from a place called the Digital World."

"You mean you guys are from another world?" Steve wondered.

"Yes." Kari answered. "Their world is hidden in the world's global digital network. Every piece of data that travels through it takes on a form of solid matter in the digital world. Even Agumon and Gatomon themselves are made of computer data."

"Interesting." Trevor said. "So now there are three worlds that we know of."

"Three?" Tai wondered.

"I already told your sister about this. I'll tell it again when we eat." Trevor said.

"What's cooking anyways?" Tai asked.

"It's a surprise. But we promise you'll love it." Trevor said as he smiled at Violet and Steve.

Violet and Steve smiled back as they got the idea of what Trevor and Kari put in that oven. Several minutes later, the timer on the oven went off and Trevor and Kari went to go and get it. They pulled out the pasta ad set it down in the middle of a round table where everyone had taken a seat. When Kari and Trevor took their seats, they noticed Tai was laughing a little.

"What?" Steve asked.

"Oh nothing." Tai said. "It's just that this is a round table and you three are called AutoKNIGHTS. He he. Get it?"

Everyone soon understood and laughed together.

"That is pretty funny." Violet said.

"Alright. Let's dig in." Steve said.

The seven people at the table began to serve themselves with helpings of the pasta. Tai was the first to get any in his mouth. When his taste buds started working on the food, he felt like he was walking on air.

"Oh my god. This is absolutely amazing." Tai said as he kept on eating.

"I had a feeling you might like it. It's one of the best recipes ever made by a good friend of mine." Trevor said.

"You knew the woman that first made this?" Agumon asked.

"That is part of the story, which we will begin now." Trevor said.

Trevor, along with the assistance of Violet and Steve explained the whole entire story to their guests. The part where Trevor was assigned his mission and what it was, how he got his ring, how he met Violet, how they defeated Shockwave, the battle with Starscream, they told all of it. It probably took a good twenty minutes to explain. Of course to save time, Trevor skipped the part about his family just like he did with Steve's family.

"That is one hell of a story." Tai said.

"And it's not even finished yet. It's still in the making." Violet said.

"So do you have a way of tracking these rings?" Kari asked.

"Yes we do. Our computer system, Teletraan 1 is capable of locking on to their unique energy signatures giving us their locations. So far we have not had time to look for them but sometime we will." Steve explained.

"Man I sure do wish the others could have heard this. Izzy would never believe it." Tai said.

Trevor smiled as he had another idea. "Why don't you guys come back here tomorrow with your friends? We'll tell them the whole story all over again and let them in on it." Trevor said.

"Are you sure you want that many people knowing?" Gatomon asked.

"We need all the help we can get. It's really hard to find those rings." Violet said.

"Understandable. I'll call them right now and ask if they can come. What time?" Tai asked.

"Tell them around noon." Trevor said.

"Sweet." Tai said as he pulled out his cell phone and started dialing.

He called Sora first. She was in. As was everyone else. Tai also told them all it was okay to bring their digimon along. After about ten minutes, Tai put his phone away and finished eating.

"Man. I don't think I ever want to go home again." Tai said.

"Trev was right. This was the best meal I have ever had in my life." Gatomon said.

Kari looked at the clock. It was now 8:30 pm. She had no idea they had been there that long.

"We have to get going. It's late." Kari said.

"It's not that late." Violet said.

Kari got up. "I know. But our parents are out of town and there is a chance that they have called to check up on us and we weren't there answer the phone. We have to go and check the machine." She explained.

"Oh, alright then." Trevor said.

"I'll give them a ride if they need one." Steve said.

Tai stopped him. "No it's okay you don't have to."

"Are you sure?" Trevor asked.

"Yeah. I have enough money to pay for a cab. Don't worry about it." Tai said.

"Well, alright then. Do you have to leave right now?" Violet asked.

"If our parents called, we probably should." Kari said.

"Okay I'll show you how to get out." Trevor said as he got up and led them towards the front door of the place.

He opened up the door and there was a room there that looked like another elevator. Trevor held the door open as Tai, Kari, Agumon, and Gatomon all walked inside. Trevor than explained to them what was going to happen.

"You got all that?" he asked.

The four nodded their heads.

"Thank you for dinner. It was awesome." Tai said.

"You're welcome. Don't forget your sister helped me make it." Trevor said.

Tai looked at his sister. "I know, yet my mom won't let her help out in the kitchen even though we all know she needs it." He went on.

Trevor chuckled. "Alright. I'll see you guys tomorrow." He said.

"Bye." Kari said.

Trevor closed the door in front of them and then the ground they were standing on started to move. It went outside the house in another see-through tube. It was kind of freaky since it was completely dark down there, but the lights in the tunnel helped out a lot. They soon stopped when they got to the wall of the river side and then they started to go upwards. In a matter of seconds, they arose from a large phone booth and the two digimon and humans stepped out.

"That was cool." Tai said as he picked up Agumon.

"Yeah. The others sure are in for something tomorrow, huh?" Kari said as she put Gatomon in her arms.

"Yeah." Tai replied. "Now come on, let's get a cab and go home."

Tai and Kari then went to the street side and made a cab driver stop. And then Tai told the guy where to go, and the driver drove the four home.

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Me: There's chapter 4. Sorry it didn't really focus on the couplings that much. I had to make the AutoKnights tell the story of their power, and I knew that would take a while. But next chapter, we will have some moments.

Trevor: Am I ever gonna be paired off with anyone?

Me: I dunno. We'll see.

Violet: There's someone out there for everyone Trev. Don't give up hope.

Trevor: I guess.

Me: Well chapter 5 is on the way. until then, peace bitches.