Hello my dear readers, this is a new chapter for What If, I hope to those of you who read this that you'll enjoy the new chapter, and be patiently awaiting more in time. For now though, ENJOY! :)


Chapter 3

Dinobots, Starscream, Mating oh my


As Optimus and Sari arrived beneath the Detroit Zoo, Optimus laid down, and soon enough his human holoform appeared, along with a man wearing mostly black was waiting for them, and went with the Uncle and Niece into the Zoo. Optimus' holoform was a tall middle aged man with brown hair, tan skin, blue eyes, and was wearing a black and red jacket, white undershirt, blue pants, and black shoes. The mysterious guy is a member of one of the local gangs in Old Detroit.

Optimus and his pack had taken care of the gang problems in Old Detroit, they couldn't eliminate the gangs, but they did the next best thing. They took control of them, each gang kept to their own territories unless absolutely necessary, and not only that all gangs who sell any form of drugs just sold to adults, they never sold any to kids, nor were kids allowed to join said gangs. Even helped some of the kids get into some homes to get better. They couldn't help out New Detroit though, that was out of their league, because of only one thing, the lights. It's too dangerous for Optimus and those in his pack, because if they are seen within the new city there's no telling what'll happen to him or his family.

Sighing as they made their way into the Zoo, and up to the Dinosaur exhibit, Sari was smiling as she watched the machines reenact what numerous types of Dinosaurs did so many years ago.

"What's the news been Flyboy?" The fake human asked.

The dark clad man sighed before answering, "Not good Big Buddha, not good at all. Got a spy in the West Side Knives gang in the New, bad news is the kid is only a rookie, just turned and wanted to help. I'm worried he'll die faster out there where the lights are."

Optimus growled silently, while still paying attention to the Tyrannosaurus fighting with the Triceratops. The West Side Knives are a notorious gang that is infamous for their drive by shootings, cop killings, but most of all their love of drugs, and them being in the New wasn't just the icing on the cake. The New is the term all the gangs in Old Detroit use to describe New Detroit, not original, but it works, and a just turned, was a kid who had just turned eighteen and thus able to join any of the gangs in Old Detroit.

"We'll worry about the lights later, for now we need to get that kid out of that gang's turf, tonight." Optimus whispered to Flyboy. Worry coating his voice, Optimus knows every member of the gangs, and new members tend to be the kids he rescues off the streets wanting to repay their father figure. Some repay by becoming something important, but they always remember to come home back to the family.

"You sure about that Big Buddha," Flyboy asked, concerned for the 'man' before him.

"Yes I'm sure, I'll be going myself, along with two others from home." Buddha replied, a cold look in his eyes from thinking about those heartless gangs in New Detroit.

"Alright, but Sharpshooter and I are coming with you." Flyboy told him, determined to help the cyberwolf.

"Very well, but let's speak of this later for now I'd like to spend some time with my niece." Optimus told him, and then continued to learn about Earth's prehistoric life.

As they continued onto the rest of the Zoo, it wasn't until they were at the end, did something bad happen. There was an explosion, Optimus reacted on instinct and crouched down with Sari wrapped in his arms protecting her. Shielding her from anything that could harm the small techno organic, Flyboy however went on the defensive, already looking out for anything that could pose as a threat.

Looking above when there wasn't anything around them, Flyboy saw it, one of the dinosaurs was flying above them, and somehow shooting fire from its mouth. Looking over to his right, there was also a Triceratops also shooting flames from its mouth, and another was shooting out flames, only this one was a Tyrannosaurus.

"For the love of, what the frag is Powell thinking, equipping these machines with dangerous weapons?" Flyboy asked aloud as he took cover behind on of the fake exhibits. He was about to grab his military rifle, when suddenly a screechy voice spoke down to all the screaming humans.

"Pathetic creatures bring me the All Spark and I might allow your pathetic race to continue." The voice came from up in the sky, looking up, Flyboy and Optimus both saw that this seeker was definitely new to the planet; he was mostly grey, with pink/purple coloring, and yellow highlights. Definitely a seeker judging by his wings, but Optimus was worried that if this one seeker could find them, then who else would be able to find them on their new home world.

"Buddha, you've gotta get the kid outta here, I'll distract him and give you cover." Flyboy told Optimus by hand signals that Flyboy learned in the military.

Optimus' optic's widened in horror, and immediately spoke aloud, he would not let anyone, be it human, Cybertronian, or one of his pack members; he will not let anyone die because of him. "NO! Absolutely not, I will not allow you to sacrifice your life for me; you need to keep Sari safe while I head to my body."

Before Flyboy could attempt to say anything, Optimus ran forward, Sari in his arms, and then she was put into the African American soldier's arms, giving Optimus enough time to run towards the entrance he originally came through with his niece. However Starscream saw a human to make an example of, and so he did, sadly though it happened to be Optimus.


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Optimus was running towards the entrance, where his body was, there was a small glitch with their holoforms, while they were solid in body and can taste just as humans can, the glitch is that they cannot fizzle out their holoforms from any distance, no they have to be right next to their original bodies in order to return their conscious' to their original bodies, and then he noticed that he was up in the air.

"Oh Primus," Optimus whispered upon seeing where exactly he was.

Now Optimus isn't the sort of wolf or mech to cry out when in a frightening situation, unless oh two things happened, he was dropped from an extremely high place or having a nightmares from when he first became a cyberwolf. However right now things might not end well for the cyberwolf if he isn't put back on the ground and soon, because he was afraid for the humans and his niece down below.


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Starscream was delighted that he had found the energy signature of the All Spark. Traced it back to this small planet, and the red seeker thought, why not make this planet his own, the start of his army of Decepticons. Smirking at the squirming organic in his servo, he was going to drop him and see what would happen, when something attacked him. Starscream didn't even see what it was, but whatever it was stole his organic hostage, and dragged him down to the ground.


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Once on the ground, Optimus ran into the tunnel below the street, along with Megatron, who came at just the right time to save him, and to distract Starscream. Once Optimus was near his body, the holoform fizzled out, and Optimus was back to his wolf form. Looking at his Second in Command, Optimus noticed the longing look in the black/grey mechs optics.

Optimus smiled, "You can have him soon enough, but right now we need to stop him and those Dinobots."

Megatron blinked and nodded at his alpha. Both soon went back up to the surface, moving too fast for human cameras to detect, Megatron knocked out Starscream and quickly dragged him back down to the tunnel, while Optimus defeated the flying Dinobot and dragged him down to the tunnel, leading the Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus to the tunnel as well, saving Old Detroit from the attack, and putting Powell into question about the use of actual weapons on monstrous machines.


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In the tunnels below, Megatron pinned down Starscream to ensure that he won't attack them when he wakes up. Optimus had the smallest Dinobot in his teeth, the other two looking nervous about his condition. There was a tense moment of silence, before Optimus dropped the flying Dinobot and spoke to the prehistoric machines.

"Which one of you is the leader?" Optimus asked in his rumbling voice.

The two conscious ones looked confused, before the largest spoke, "Me Grimlock leader of Dinobots."

Optimus nodded at Grimlock, before continuing, "Grimlock how did you and the other Dinobots become sentient?"

Grimlock was confused, and the triceratops answered for him, "We awoke in a lab, everything hurt, and we didn't know why."

"And your name is," Optimus asked.

He looked up and answered, "Me Snarl."

The red and blue mech nodded, "Then what happened after you awoke in the lab?"

Both shuddered, as if the memory wasn't something they liked to think about. "We were hurt much by small brown man in white, when we were transported to the large space; we wanted to leave quickly before he came back."

Optimus' gaze was hard but calm. "Then you shall stay with my pack, you will be safe there, our medics will look you three over, before you can enter the island, in case Powell put something on you."

All three didn't look sure at Optimus' offer, but Grimlock stepped forward in the spacious tunnel and said. "We Dinobots will accept you Alpha's offer," the large dinosaur told him.

Optimus smiled and nodded, while looking over to his second in command and motioned his head to the unconscious seeker. They'd be taking the flyer back as well.


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Upon arriving back at the island, Ratchet and Red Alert both looked over the Dinobots and Starscream, they found trackers in the Dinobots and once they were disabled and destroyed, the Dinobots were free to wander the island. Bumblebee was given a call from Flyboy to pick up Sari from Old Detroit. He did so and also ended up having some fun with a few of the kids around the park.

The biggest concern was Starscream, now if the situation was different, they'd had thrown him off planet and gotten rid of his memories; however, because of Megatron, the seeker has to stay on planet. This is because Starscream is Megatron's intended mate.

Now there are two ways for a cyberwolf to know who their intended mate is; the first is if they were already bonded to their respective mate, and the other is by scent. Now scent mating is very strange, you can never tell who your mate it, until you get a whiff of their scent, be they a cyberwolf, Cybertronian, or even a techno organic. You just never know until they come by.

Now the hard thing here, is that they don't know if they should change Starscream or not, after all Optimus doesn't like to change Cybertronians unless it was absolutely necessary. And with Starscream being Megatron's mate, he either needed to be changed, or needed to get used to Megatron mating with him as a wolf. The choice would be the seeker's once he awakens, and for now Megatron would be keeping watch over him.


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Around two days later, Starscream and Megatron could still be found mating or sleeping somewhere from all the 'rigorous activities' they've been doing. The seeker had agreed to become a cyberwolf after seeing his master with wings and knowing he could still fly that and Megatron would not be taking a 'no' from the seeker whom he wanted to mate.

Starscream ended up looking very nice as a cyberwolf, he was predominantly light grey and dark grey, but he had magenta fur along his back and a bit on his face, dark purple tail, back paws and front legs, grey hind legs and front paws, dark magenta paw mark on his left hind leg, red eyes, dark grey wings with magenta tips, and he also had a grey neck scarf. This scarf represented a hard life and a deep cunning.

Optimus smiled as he heard the sounds of the two mates again, before going down to the tunnels to get to the city. He still needed help to solve the problem with the West Side Knives, they were able to get the kid out safely, but they still had to do something about that violent gang before they tried muscling in on their own turf.

Optimus just sighed as he walked, knowing that his problems have only just begun.


Well that's it for this chapter, I hope you all liked it :) and about the gang thing, to me it makes sense and I will have it make more sense if it doesn't in the future. well until another new chapter for any of my fics, later everyone and PLEASE REVIEW :)