Author's Note: Sorry this is short and late. I just finished a big project and I'm trying to get back into the groove of writing my fan fics. Hopefully I'll have a few more updated soon. How soon? I don't know.


MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

By FAH3

The Jersey Shore

It didn't take long for the small convoy of Autobots to reach the Jersey Shore as they all came to a stop close to the boardwalk. All of them parked and sat idle for a few moments until Arcee arrived with Kim, Ron, and a blubbering Drakken. Kim stepped out of the car and looked along the deserted beach while Ron was doing his best to try and drag Drakken out of the backseat while he held onto the passenger seat in front of him for dear life.

"Come on, Drakken!" Ron was saying as he tried his best to pull the older man out of the car.

"No! You can't make me!" Drakken was screaming.

"Arcee, he needs to be quiet or we could be discovered." Ultra Magnus said.

"At least you don't have a human digging their nails into you. OW!" Arcee said as Drakken tried to squeeze onto the seat tighter.

"Drakken, don't make me go MMP on you!" Ron said as he pulled as hard as he could. As Ron pulled, he felt something finally give and felt himself tumbling backwards as something landed on his face. As Ron sat up, he pulled the object off of his face and looked at it. What he saw made him cringe. "GROSS! He peed in those!" Ron shouted as he flung Drakken's pants away and tried to wipe his face off as hard as he could, making the skin red.

"Do I have to use my own special technique again?" Shego asked as she climbed out of Ironhide.

"Like hell you are! Dr. Lipski, GET THE HELL OUT OF ME NOW!" Arcee said as the passenger seat quickly hit Drakken in the face. While Drakken was dazed and his grip loosened, Arcee quickly used the backseat to fling the scientists out of the vehicle's cab and onto the cold pavement. "What I just said didn't sound right on so many levels." Arcee said to herself and caused Kim and Shego to smirk.

"This isn't the time to joke, Arcee. Ironhide, do your sensors detect anything?" Optimus asked.

"There isn't a Decepticon presence for miles, Optimus." Ironhide said.

"Ratchet, are there any humans in the area?"

"Only the ones that are with us, Prime." Ratchet responded.

"Then Transform and begin scanning the area." Optimus said as all the vehicles returned to their humanoid forms as they all began walking onto the beach. As they walked along the shore with their eyes glowing brighter, Jazz kept shaking his feet like he had stepped into something disgusting.

"What are you doing?" Ultra Magnus asked him.

"I'm getting sand crap in my gears. It just doesn't feel right." Jazz said.

"Deal with it." Magnus said as he returned to his scanning.

While the Autobots continued to scan the beach, the others couldn't help but notice how much Drakken was shaking with pure terror. Before hand, it had been very annoying, especially when they were trying to escape from the Decepticons. But there was so much fear, just so much pure terror in his eyes that they realized that this must be a living nightmare for him. It was almost like he was reliving the moment he had told them about all over again.

"I've found something!" Bumblebee shouted, causing everyone to look where the massive Autobot was standing.

All of them quickly made there way to where the young machine's location while Drakken walked along slowly. He hadn't been back to the shore ever since he got out of the hospital. He could say it was trauma or some other medical diagnosis. But the simple truth of it was that he was too afraid that the robot that shot him would come back and try to finish the job.

"What did you find?" Magnus asked the young Autobot.

"It's buried under the sand, but there's a definite faint Decepticon signature here." Bumblebee said as Ratchet's arm shifted and began shining a strange light along the area Bumblebee was looking at. It was faint, but there was a strange spot that looked like a large puddle of liquid had been there.

"How's that even possible? It's been years since that thing was here." Drakken said as they all watched.

"Our fluids have a certain energy signature that helps us locate each other if we're either hurt or lost." Ratchet said.

"Or in this case, you happen to be a dying Decepticon. With this much fluid here, there's no doubt that this guy was fatally wounded." Arcee said.

"I agree." Ratchet said as the light on his arm shut off. "I recognize the energy signature. It belongs to Shockwave."

"I don't' mean to interrupt," Ron said, and couldn't help but feel nervous as all the large machines looked at him. "But who's Shockwave?"

"Shockwave was one of the Seekers that Megatron had sent into space to locate the All Spark. If he was this badly injured, then that means our spy tried to stop Megatron." Optimus said.

"But was Shockwave able to tell Megatron where the All Spark is?" Ironhide asked.

"I doubt it." Shego spoke up. "If Megatron knew where it was, why go after Dr. D and not your Spark – thing." She said.

"But that's the other question. Why does Megatron want Drakken in the first place?" Kim asked.

"We do have a theory." Ratchet said. "There is a chance that Shockwave wasn't trying to kill Mr. Lipski. He was probably trying to find a way to let Megatron know where the All Spark is, if he found it. So we think he tried to download the information into Lipski's brain for safe keeping."

"Say what?" Drakken asked as his face began to pale.

"Is that even possible?" Ron asked out loud.

"It was only theoretical, even on Cybertron." Magnus said.

"That would explain how dippy here got so smart." Shego said.

"You know, that really hurts Shego!" Drakken pouted.

"She does have a point." Ultra Magnus said. "If Shockwave was able to place the knowledge in the blue human's brain, part of Shockwave's mind may also be in there. That would explain why he is able to construct his devices."

"Guys?" Ron said again. "Out of curiosity, how desperate is Megatron to get the All Spark?"

"If we do not find the All Spark first, Megatron will stop at nothing to find it." Optimus said.


Middleton, Colorado

"James and Timothy Possible." Principal Steven Barkin said as he ground his teeth and crushed what was once a number two pencil in his balled fist. In al his years of teaching, he thought Ronald Stoppable was one of the worst students he ever had the misfortune to know. But he know stood corrected as he glared at the two young men whose balls most likely haven't even dropped yet. The younger, and genius IQ, brothers of their most famous student, Kimberly Anne Possible. But instead of being one of their best students, they were sitting in his office for one of their extra credit projects going awry again. Known for their inventions, as well as their intelligence, the two brothers had easily got on his nerves since most of their inventions blew up and caused massive damage to the newly rebuilt High School. And almost every time, his car was involved. Now, a cherry bomb of their design, was dropped into a toilet in the boys room and exploded. For almost one straight hour, every toilet within a mile radius of the school had become a gushing geyser of fowl smelling human waste. It was truly times like this that Barkin wished he had a gun with him.

"Is there any reason why you thought that all the toilets needed to resemble the Old Faithful geyser? Barkin growled at the young men.

"It wasn't our fault, sir!" Tim protested.

"Yeah, it was Sam's fault. He grabbed it from us and flushed it in the first place." Jim said.

"But why – in the name of everything decent in this world – did you think that a cherry bomb needed to be upgraded?" Barkin shouted.

"It was for our routine for the homecoming game. We were planning a big finale." Jim said.

"BUT HOMECOMING ISN'T FOR FOUR MONTHS!" Barkin shouted as someone knocked on his door. "WHAT IS IT?" he shouted.

"Sir, there's something weird going on outside." One of the teachers said to him.

"What do you mean weird?" Barkin asked.

That's when the wall behind Barkin exploded in a massive blast. Dark smoke covered everything as debris flew all around them, making everyone fall to their hands and knees and began to hack and cough. A loud explosion overwhelmed their ears as they felt heat wash over them. All of them tried to crawl out of the office as more of the thick black smoke stung their eyes and caused them to cough so hard that their lungs began to hurt. They found their way out of the office and into the halls where the screams of terrified students echoed from the walls. As their eyesight began to return, all of them could see that the office was destroyed, with a gaping hole where the wall once was. In the parking lot, several cars were nothing more but burning heaps as more and more of the students and teachers were fleeing the school. And coming at the school at a fast pace was a large tank that was aiming its gun. And it looked like it was aiming not too far from where they were now.

"GET OUT OF HERE! GET OUT OF HERE!" Barkin shouted as the tank fired and a large portion of the hall exploded in a mass of fire and debris.

Not questioning what Barkin was telling them, Jim and Tim began running as fast as they could toward one of the nearest school exits. Before lung, their lungs with filled with fresh air as they found themselves in a torrent of panic filled teenagers. Jim and Tim made their way down the road as fast as they could and made their way toward their house. As they began to gain further distance from the school, their hopes began to slightly rise as they saw a police cruiser turn down the street they were on and began speeding towards them. They stopped dead in their tracks when the car went into a skid as it began to shift and alter itself until a large robot stood before them and began to growl.

"Jim and Tim Possible?" it asked them.

Jim and Tim turned so they could hopefully start running toward Bueno Nacho, but almost screamed as they saw the tank that attacked their school roll toward them and aim its gun at them. After what sounded like the hisses of hydraulics sounded, the tank began to alter itself until it too became a large robot with piercing red eyes.

"Unless you both want to die, I suggest that you don't move." The tank growled.

"Lord Megatron is expecting you." The police car said before it grabbed them.


"How's everything going, James?" Dr. Porter asked as she walked into Dr. Possible's lab while sipping a cup of coffee.

"The deep space probe modification is almost ready. What about the AI pilot?" James asked the young woman.

"I just need to tweek a few bugs here and there. But he's pretty much finished. I'm just taking a much needed coffee break." She said as she took a look at the probe. "You know, I really am impressed."

"By what?" James asked.

"That you aren't using one of your daughter's ex's for a test pilot. I was pretty sure we'd have a teenager suffering a heart attack by now." She said.

"Well, I might have softened just a little over the years." James said.

"In other words, you like the guy she's dating." Dr. Porter said with a smirk.

"Maybe. But don't tell anyone. I still have a reputation to maintain."

"Don't worry. You're secret's safe with me." Dr. Porter said as she finished her coffee.

"Thanks, Vivian. I might as well," James said before he was interupted by the phone ringing. "Are you expecting any calls?"

"No." Vivian said.

"That's strange." James said as he answered the phone. No one called the phone unless they knew the number, or there was something urgent that needed his immediate attention. "Hello?" James asked.

"Is this Dr. James Possible?" a strange, rough voice asked. For a moment, it almost sounded metallic.

"Yes, it is. May I ask who's calling?" James asked before the line went dead. "Hello?"

The whole building began to shake and shudder, almost as if it were caught in the middle of an earthquake. Pieces of the ceiling began breaking away and falling down around them, causing James and Vivian to duck for cover. Dr. Possible and Dr. Porter were trying to figure out some way for them to escape the lab when something pierced through the wall. It almost looked to be a saw, but it was spinning too fast for either of them to make out. Twice more the spinning blade came through until it had cut a hole in the ceiling and caused it to crash and shatter against the laboratory floor, destroying James' probe completely in the process. As both scientists looked up, none of them could move as fear gripped them. The glare of the morning sun made the large figure seem more like a living full figured shadow, but they could easily see from it's outline that it wasn't anything biological. And the one thing the frightened them both were the piercing red eyes as it looked inside the lab.

"The doctor is out." It said in its metallic voice.


New Jersey

The Autobots had regrouped inside the warehouse they had met in earlier and were letting Ron and Kim sleep while they tried to figure out some way to unlock the information inside Drakken's brain. So far, they hadn't gotten far in their talks with Drakken refusing to cooperate. He didn't care if he was among the good guys or not, he didn't trust these robots as far as he could throw them.

"Optimus, what are we going to do? If he can't co-operate with us, t will only be a matter of time before Megatron finds us." Ultra Magnus said to his leader.

"I know, old friend. I know patience is something we can't afford, but that is the one thing we must rely on at the moment." Prime said.

Even though they were trying to be quiet, Shego could hear the two living machines talking. Patience may be a virtue they possessed, but it was something she was running very low on. She had been up all night, she had been chased by aliens from another world, shot at, and was really starting to get very hungry. It was safe to say that she was really pissed off.

"Ratchet! That's your name, right?" she asked the large neon green robot.

"That is my designation."

"Why don't you and the others take an oil break or something. I'll get Dr. D to cooperate." She said to him.

"I'm not sure about,"

"Trust me, Bumblebee. You'll want to listen to her." Arcee said as she began to maneuver the rest of the Autobots away from Shego and a very defiant Drakken. "Trust me, boys. This isn't going to be pretty." Arcee said as Shego's hands flared up.

As Shego began to "persuade" Drakken, Arcee wondered over to where Kim and Ron were huddled in a corner asleep. It was a good thing they had left some camping gear in Arcee's trunk whenever they went on missions, otherwise she thought they might have frozen to death a few times before in the past. So far, both were still sound asleep with Kim's head on Ron's shoulder, and his arms wrapped tightly around her. It still warmed er spark whenever she saw the two like they were. She just wished a certain other Autobot would hurry up and make his move.

"MOMMY!" Drakken screamed as a blast of green light temporarily lit the warehouse, causing the young couple to stir.

"What was that?" Ron asked as he began to wake up.

"Shego's trying to make Drakken be a good boy for once. How are you too doing?" Arcee asked them.

"A little stiff. No offence, but I was hoping yesterday had been a dream." Kim said as she stood up and began to stretch.

"No offence taken, Kim. I've actually been dreading this day." Arcee said as she decided to take a seat herself and give her gears a chance to cool down. "You wouldn't believe how nice it is to just be able to do nothing but enjoy the world around you. Just a long break without having to run for your life or worry about some deranged jerk trying to destroy you."

"I can relate." Kim said, knowing exactly where Arcee was coming from.

"Okay. I think I've loosened him up now." Shego called out to the Autobots. As they all gathered around Drakken and Shego, Ron couldn't help but wince at the fat lip and several bruises that were starting to make themselves known.

"Okay Drakken, tell them how you get your ideas." Shego said to him.

"As I told everyone earlier, I don't get my ideas until I get my headaches. Then, it's like my body writes down everything on its own. I don't even remember the idea or the brainstorm." Drakken started.

"And you got these ideas at random?" Ironhide asked.

"I'm not sure. Let me think." Drakken said as he tried to remember some of the times he came up with his doom machines.

"Need my help jogging your memory again?" Shego asked him as she lifted an ignited fist.

"WAIT! WAIT!" Drakken shouted as his eyes widened in fear. "I think – the radio."

"Radio?" Bumblebee asked.

"I was listening to the radio most of the time I was working. Music always helps me think sometimes, so I'd be scanning FM and Am stations. And whenever I got to a few stations – I would have a headache. The next thing I knew, I had my latest invention on the table before me." He said to them.

"How can radio waves make his mind go to work?" Kim asked herself.

"Decepticon communications." Ironhide said. "Whenever he heard something similar to a Decepticon transmission, the data in his mind would start to broadcast."

"But why would it design machines every time it heard a radio station?" Shego asked them.

"It must be some kind of failsafe. Only a certain transmission can access the data on the All Spark." Ratchet said.

"The data he wrote on the walls was Decepticon battle language. Maybe when the Decepticons landed," Arcee began.

"Their communications to each other triggered part of the data. That means the Decepticons are the key to the All Spark data inside Lipski's mind." Optimus said.

"If Soundwave is with them, their transmissions are going to be hidden." Ironhide said.

"Then we'll have to keep our audio receptors open at all times. Constant monitoring of all Earth radio waves, and known Decepticon frequencies." Optimus said.

Kim was quickly pulled away from the conversation when her Kimmunicator began to beep. She remembered that she hadn't checked in with Wade since yesterday, so he might be worried sick about her and Ron. In all the excitement, she completely forgot.

"Sorry for not checking in, Wade. You wouldn't,"

"Kim, we've got major problems! You have to get back to Middleton, now!" Wade shouted as he looked absolutely freaked.

"Wade, what's wrong?" Kim asked him.

"We're under attack, is what! A tank attacked Middleton High school, and an Apache helicopter attacked the space center!" Wade said.

"Dad! Wade, what about"

"I haven't been able to confirm anything, Kim. But there are these stories going around about giant robots." Wade said.

"Megatron. They're making their first move." Jazz said.

"Wade, is there anything else you can tell me? What about the hospital, or our homes?" Kim asked. She was doing her best to keep from ripping her hair out because of the lack of information Wade was giving her. And right now, Ron felt like he was fixing to chew his entire hand off if he kept biting his nails for much longer.

"Nothing yet. But Kim, there is the strange signal I intercepted earlier. I almost didn't find it because it was masked so well. I could almost swear this signal was almost alive."

"Where did he find it?" Ultra Magnus quickly asked.

"Wade, how did you find the signal?"

"It was traveling along - what's going on?" Wade asked as his room began to shake violently. Kim's breathing began to increase by leaps and bounds as the computer camera fell over and showed most of his room being ripped away by a metal hand with claws. The image she saw next looked like the Tin Man's evil brother from hell.

"Come here, fleshling!" it growled in the same voice Kim and the others had heard when they were chased by the alien jet yesterday. Before Kim could say or do anything, the transmission cut out, shutting down the Kimmunicator link.

"Kim? KP, are you all right?" Ron asked her.

"He's got them. Ron, they have my family." Kim said as she looked at him with her face almost as pale as snow. Her eyes were the most disturbing part of her. The eyes that were so vibrant and glowing almost seemed to have become nothing more than frozen decoration inside her head.

"Most likely, Megatron has taken all of your loved ones. Including yours. Optimus said as he turned to Shego and Drakken.

"Mommy?" Drakken asked as he began to pale as well.

"If that mechanical bastard does anything to my brothers." Shego growled as her hands began to glow like overcharged light bulbs.

"There's nothing we can do right now. But we do have an advantage." Optimus said, trying to calm their human companions. "What they want is inside Lipski's mind. As long as we have Lipski, Megatron may not harm your family."

"You said may not." Shego pointed out as she glared at Optimus. "Does that mean there's a bigger chance that he will hurt them?"

"I'm afraid so." Optimus said, not seeing the point in hiding the truth from them.

"So – so what do we do now?" Drew asked.

"The only than king we can do. We wait for Megatron to contact us." Ultra Magnus said.