Transformers Robots in Disguise (RID): Heroes
By: Marik7410
Chapter 3
Info
Location: Trade Planet
Area: Desert
A pink and white car continues to race across the desert plain. Inside the car was a woman passenger who was sleeping for quite some time. At a distance was a small building with space cruisers parked outside.
"A bar?" Arcee thought to herself. "I'll wait until she wakes up so she can get some info about what's going on."
Later Arcee had arrived at the bar and parked herself. She waited until T-Ai wakes up before making any moves. Few hours later, T-Ai slowly woke. She saw that Arcee stopped in front of a bar.
"Why are we here?" T-Ai asked.
"To get some info and you are the mostly likely candidate," Arcee answered.
"You expect me to go in there and ask a couple drunkies for some information?" T-Ai asked.
"Just for current events," Arcee answered.
"No," T-Ai refused. "I'm not going in there."
"Yes you will," Arcee insisted.
"Then I'm not moving," T-Ai said.
Arcee opened her door and threw T-Ai out of the car and slammed the door shut. T-Ai got up and tries to open the door but the door was locked.
"Open the door!" T-Ai demanded.
Arcee didn't respond.
"If you don't open this door, I will seriously mess you up," T-Ai threatened.
Arcee continued to say nothing. Then T-Ai started to bang on the car and try to open the door. Then T-Ai slowly turned her attention to a local towards her left. She straightens herself up and wave at the local. The local had a cup in his hand and he looks at it then at T-Ai.
"Whoa, I need to stop drinking this stuff," the local said then he went inside.
"We'll settle this later," T-Ai said. Then she went inside to the bar. Inside the bar with filled with little smoke and drunks on the table. Locals are playing cards game while others are sleeping it off. T-Ai slowly approach the bar table and took a seat.
"Bar Keep?" T-Ai asked.
An alien form turned his attention towards T-Ai. The life form was green with bumps all over his body. The color of his eye was green but his iris was bright yellow. His teethes was sharp and made for eating meat. The color of his teethes was unbelievable. As for a nose, it didn't have one but there was slits on his face for breathing and smelling. T-Ai almost hurled at the sight of the life form.
"What can I do for you?" the bar keep asked.
His breath was, lets just say that the smell disable her ability to smell.
"I like to know what current in space?" T-Ai held her breath.
"Ah, you came to the right person. For I have traveled the stars for decades and know a lot of the universe has to offer," the bar keep said. "Ask me anything and I'll tell you..."
"Cool…"
"…but it will cost you," the bar interrupted.
"How much?" T-Ai wondered.
"A drink per question," the bar keep answered.
"Why?" T-Ai asked.
"Boys!"
"All questions are to be asked with a drink. No drink, no answer," the drunks slurred.
"Fine," T-Ai agreed. She slipped a bill on the table and the bar keep give her a drink. "Now for my question…"
"Drink it first," the bar keep said.
"You're not making this any easier aren't you," T-Ai said.
"I have a business to run," the bar keep replied.
T-Ai picked up the cup and gave it a quick sniff. She took a sip then look at the bar keep. The bar keep gave her the face saying 'keep going'. Slowly, T-Ai chug the drink down.
"Your question is…" the bar keep asked.
"What is the current event around the universe?" T-Ai asked.
"Nothing much recently but there were a few robots flying through space," the bar keep answered.
"Can you tell me more about them?" T-Ai asked.
The bar keep shove a drink towards T-Ai. She let out a hiss before she drank it.
"They acted like space police. I only seen them for the past 25 years," the bar keep answered.
"Is there any mark, logo they had on them?" T-Ai asked.
Before the bar keep acted, T-Ai took a cup and filled it up and gulped it down. He was surprised by her actions.
"They all had one logo. I think I drew it on paper and put it somewhere," the bar keep answered.
He went into his office and search through his piles of paper. Then he came back out with a drawing of a Decepticon logo.
"Decepticons," T-Ai whispered.
"They all had this," the bar keep added.
"Is there anyone here who seen them longer than you?" T-Ai asked.
"Bubba. He's the only who them longer than us," the bar keep answered. "Ain't that right Bubba?"
"Yep. 30 years ago," Bubba replied. "I think they mention something with 'emp' a lot."
"Empress?" T-Ai asked.
"Yeah Empress. I think she's in charge of the robot army," Bubba replied.
"So it's been 30+ years," T-Ai thought to herself. "Thanks for the info."
"No problem," the bar keep said. "Hey, you asked those questions like you had been living under a rock for over 30 years."
"You can say that," T-Ai said.
She stepped down from her seat and made her exit. The bar keep resumed what he was doing until he notice two pyramids starting from 5 was stacked with shot glass.
"Whoa, that's an iron liver," the bar keep said amazingly.
T-Ai stepped outside and looked at Arcee. She told Arcee the information she gathered.
"So, it's been 30+ years since Empress took over," Arcee said. "We have to find the others."
"We have to search for the Spychangers, Build Team, Team Bullet Train and Towline first," T-Ai suggested.
"Why?" Arcee asked.
"They don't have the tools needed to mask their energy signatures," T-Ai answered. "There are sitting ducks."
"I guess so," Arcee said. "Ready to merge?"
"Always," T-Ai replied.
Arcee noticed an alcoholic smell coming from T-Ai. "Are you drunk?" Arcee asked.
"I'm an android. Concentrated energon will get me tipsy," T-Ai replied.
"Then let's go," said Arcee.
T-Ai touched the hood of Arcee and they glowed. The lights merge into one as Arcee appeared in place of the light. Her color scheme is different from before. Instead of pink and white, it was pink and purple.
"Let's fly," Arcee said and she took off.
The local, from before, saw the whole thing. He was confused at the sight.
"I need to stop smoking," the local said.
Location: Space.
On board the Explorer, Ultra Magnus was grumbling to himself. An EMH (Emergency Medical Hologram) was floating around the ship when he heard Magnus cursing.
"I say, what's your malfunction here?" the EMH asked.
"You want to know my malfunction?" Magnus asked "EVERYTHING! First I was buried on moon, got dissed by a human girl, I almost got killed and now I am cramped in this AREA!"
Ultra Magnus and Optimus were staying in the launch bay. It was the only space big enough for two of them. It made it even worse that the fact the two space pods took up most of the space. There was not enough room to move around let alone transform. Plus Optimus was out like a light, sleeping.
"I may not relate to your burial on a moon. I understand the dissing and the confined space but getting shot at, please tell me more," the EMH said.
"You wouldn't believe what happened to us," Magnus stated.
Earlier…
Location: Earth
Optimus, Ultra Magnus and the space explorer were on their way out when…
"Wait!" Cassie called out.
"What? You need our help to take care of your problem," Magnus mocked.
"No," Cassie said with a smug look. "The Decepticons are coming."
"How do you know?" Optimus asked.
"Jimmy sent a satellite in space to alert us if the Decepticons are nearby and they tripped the alarm," Cassie answered.
"How long they will be here?" Magnus asked.
"A few hours or a few days," Cassie answered. "Depending how fast they are traveling and if they're just passing or not."
"We can't stay here," Merrick said. "My crew is in orbit and their captain is here."
"I understand," Cassie said.
"We're leaving," Merrick said.
"Wait. Tell your crew to meet you on the other side of the planet," Cassie suggested.
"Why?" Merrick asked.
"Let me guess, there's not enough energon to harvest at that portion of the planet?" Optimus asked.
"That's right," Cassie said.
"We can get around easy…"
"Without getting lost or caught. Face it Merrick, you need us. We know this planet and we can navigate easily without getting caught," Magnus said.
"Alright," Merrick surrendered.
"Magnus, take the sky. You'll be our eye," Optimus said.
"Listen, I don't take orders from you," Magnus said.
"That wasn't an order, it was a request," Optimus said.
"Fine." Magnus went ahead and took to the sky. He changed his insignia to Decepticon to blend in.
"I'll tell my team where to meet," Merrick said.
"Be careful. Each transmission will let the Decepticons find you," Cassie warned. "Keep it short."
Merrick agreed and opened a com link to his ship.
"Meet us at a designated location. Once we are in range, beam us abroad. After this transmission, all contact to Earth is off-limits," Merrick said.
"Aye captain."
"Optimus." Tim looked at Optimus.
"TRANSFORM!" Optimus shouted the command code and revert to his vehicle mode.
"What about our space pod?" Serge asked.
"Leave that to Jimmy, now go," Cassie said.
The team started moving towards the other side of the planet.
Location: Earth's orbit
5 Decepticons enters Earth's orbit and begin to descend through the atmosphere. Once in the Stratosphere, they examined the area for any life. After the scan shows negative, one of them went down to search for energon. The Decepticon touched down and started walking around. As he was walking he ran into a red fire truck. The Decepticon and the fire truck stood still for quite a while. Many thoughts ran through his head but the main one was "How come there is no life on this planet and there is a new fire truck moving around?" It was a while then after the piecing the puzzle together. It was a robot in disguise. He slowly reached for his gun as the truck slowly backed away. The moment the Decepticon took out his gun, the truck started running away. The Decepticon started shooting at the truck but he missed. He decided to take flight in his jet mode and pursuit the mysterious vehicle. Not too high above, Ultra Magnus witnessed everything but he didn't retaliate. Instead he continued to watch and maintain a good distance. The jet continues to attack the truck below. While he was attacking, he noticed the license plate on the truck was 'C-001'. He ran the plate through his memory banks and no results. Then he tried the plate under Cybertronian database and no result. Running out of option, he relayed the info to one of his teammates in the sky. He ran the plate and he got nothing. One of the team members was Deathstrike, close friend to Movor. He ran the plate through is memory bank and he found a match.
"Well, it belongs to an Optimus Prime," Deathstrike said. "Let's destroy him."
The rest of the team transformed to their jet mode and flew in to join the pursuit.
"Give it up Optimus Prime," Deathstrike said. "You can't run anymore. You're outnumbered."
Optimus replied to Deathstrike remarks "5 is enough for me Decepticons."
"Fire!" Deathstrike ordered.
The jets fired their missiles at Optimus.
"I must help him," Magnus thought. "But if I attack, it will take our advantage away. Oh well."
Magnus dove in begin to tailgate the jets.
"ARM CANON," Magnus shouted as a Gatling gun propped on his left forearm. It begins firing upon contact and caught Deathstrike's attention. He stopped his pursuit and faced Magnus. The rest continues to pursuit Optimus.
"So you like to play don't you Magnus," Deathstrike said.
"How you know my name?" Magnus asked.
"It's a good guess," Deathstrike answered.
"You'll wish that you never messed with Optimus or met me," Magnus threatened.
"On the contrary, I'll make you wish that you never attacked me. Now you will witness the grim reaper of this sector," Deathstrike responded.
"Oh, I'm so scared," Magnus mocked.
Deathstrike begin to glow as he begins to split. First it was 2 then 4 then 8 then 16.
"Slag," Magnus whispered to himself.
"Not only you have to get rid of me but all 15 of my friends," Deathstrike laughed.
"I can't believe I'm saying this but I need Optimus for this," Magnus said uneasily.
Elsewhere…
Optimus continue to run from the Decepticons.
"How come you won't fight?" Merrick asked.
"Unfortunately I'm carrying passengers," Optimus answered.
"Don't worry about us," Merrick said.
"No, I can't. It will go against everything I fight for," Optimus said.
"Then we'll fight with you," Merrick suggested. "It's our only chance of survival and your only chance of correcting your mistake 50 years ago."
"But…"
"But nothing if you die now, everyone on this planet will suffer even more than they had," Merrick said. "Plus your team will be in danger because of your death. Without their leader, your team won't stand a chance against the whole universe."
Optimus thought about what Merrick said.
"Get ready," Optimus said.
Optimus did a speed turn to turn himself around. At the same time he transformed into his robot mode. His trailer converted into a command base. The space explorers jumped from Optimus and begin firing Phase pistols. Optimus took out his gun and begin firing at the jets also.
"What made you change your mind?" Merrick asked.
"You reminded me of someone I know who had the same behavior as you," Optimus answered. "His actions are careless but it is the right thing to do. He doesn't think of himself but for everyone else and he examines the outcomes before finalizing his decision."
In the sky far from Optimus' battle, Ultra Magnus was in a dilemma.
"16-to-1. Not very good odds," Magnus thought to himself. "At my current state, I'll run out of energon by the time I get rid 15 of them. It's a risk but will they stay still that's a question. Man, I'm trapped in a corner and I've to get out of this out by myself."
"What's wrong Magnus? Planning how you going to die?" Deathstrike said. "No matter what, firing squad is your fate."
"He does have a point but I'll prove him wrong," he thought to himself.
His arm canon is on his left arm and he called upon his arm laser, a bazooka, to his right arm. Summoning his courage, he started firing at Deathstrike and his squad.
"STREAM ATTACK," Optimus called upon two missile launcher and they attached to his shoulders. Missiles launched from the launchers and destroyed one of the Decepticons. As the space explorer, with their combined effort, took down another one leaving two.
Deathstrike squadron dodged Ultra Magnus rain of bullets. Running out of options, Ultra Magnus attack head-on.
"Pathetic," Deathstrike said with a smile.
The squadron opened fire on Ultra Magnus. Missile flies straight towards Ultra Magnus. Magnus didn't show fear as he dodges the missiles. What Magnus didn't know that one of the clones was on top of him and waiting for the right moment to fire. In a split second, Magnus slowed down at the same time the clone fired a missile at Magnus. Not knowing what's going, Magnus got hit from above and he spiral straight for the ground.
Deathstrike watched as his clones took Ultra Magnus down. "What are you going to do Magnus?" Deathstrike said. "You're outnumbered and outmatched. Just give up. You're good as dead."
"Like I'm going to give up to a punk like you," Magnus said.
"Any words you want to say before you die?" Deathstrike said.
"Quite a few." The voice echoed through the area as missiles destroyed half of the clone army. Ultra Magnus took the advantage and destroyed 2 two drones with his bare hands. Deathstrike wasn't too happy about the turn around. "Show yourself…" he demanded. "…Unless you're too scared to do so."
"Over here." The voice came from a life form who's wearing blue and white battle armor on top of a building. Ultra Magnus studied his savior as images from the past flashed into his head. "This person, look just like him. Did I find him?" Magnus wondered to himself.
"Well, we still got life on this planet. I guess Starscream didn't do his job correctly," Deathstrike said. "No matter, once I report that I got rid the rest of the life forms on this planet, I will be second-in-command not him. I like to thank you for revealing yourself and now you must die."
"I'm not the one who's going to die, it's you." A female voice came from behind the armor. Ultra Magnus recognized the voice. "Cassie?" he said.
"That's right," Cassie said.
"Why?" Magnus asked.
"You'll do the same for me," Cassie said.
"Just who are you Cassie?" Magnus asked to himself. "Wilson had that same attitude. Are those two related somehow?"
"I have only 5 clones left," Deathstrike thought to himself "5 are still enough to destroy you two."
"We'll have to see about that," Cassie said.
"Attack!" Deathstrike ordered as the remaining clones made their moves.
Two of the clones had their optics on Cassie while the rest went for Ultra Magnus.
On Ultra Magnus' forearms flips up revealing missile. "STUN CLUSTERS!" he yelled as the missiles are launched from his arms. The missiles fly through the air as they destroy one of the clones. Another clone came charging in with a sword in hand, ready to slice Magnus. The clone swung his sword but Magnus moved out of the way. He back hand the clone sending the clone flying towards the building, crashing into it. The second clone held a missile launcher and aimed it at Magnus and fired a missile at him. Ultra Magnus turned his head as he see the other clone firing a missile at him. Magnus picked up a slab of concrete and whacked the incoming missile, sending right back at the sender. The clone didn't have time to react and got destroyed. "Just like whacking drones 50 years ago," he said.
Cassie was busy dodging the two clones she had to handle. She was having fun. In fact she was giggling while she was dodging. One the clone launched in the air and came down for a power punch. Cassie saw a shadow casted over her and quickly rushed to the right. The clone punched a hole through the building and went all the way down. The other clone took out a machine gun and starting firing at Cassie. Cassie started doing back flips to dodge the bullets. She continues to back flip until she reached the edge. She jump from the building and went down. The clone followed. Cassie then flew up and delivered a thunder fist through the clone, killing him instantly. The clone that went under emerged from the building and swatted Cassie to the ground.
Ultra Magnus was face-to-face with the last clone. It was a Wild West showdown. Each of them had their gun mounted on their waist and their hands near it. They stared at each other for a while. "Call it," the clone said. Ultra Magnus started to countdown from 6. "6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1," Ultra Magnus counted. "FIRE!" The clone reached for his gun then realized that he was dead because the way Magnus is built. The way Magnus' arms are position; his Stun Clusters have a clear shot. The door opens and the missiles fired and destroyed the clone. "Shouldn't challenge me to a showdown."
In the crater, Cassie pushed away the rocks on top of her and stood up. She was peeved that the clone took her down so easily. She grabbed a hilt from her forearm and held it in the air. The clone laughed.
"Laugh now because you won't be laughing any longer," Cassie said.
The clone laughed even harder. The clone looked up and saw dark clouds above him. The laugh slowly died as a humming runs through the cloud. "Slag!" the clone said before he was electrocuted to death.
"I warned you," Cassie said as she puts her hilt away.
Deathstrike hovered above as his clones were destroyed. He wasn't happy but he was excited. "Never in my life that I met an opponent that destroyed my clones and still live, you should congratulate yourself," he said.
"How about we congratulate your death?" Magnus said.
"No one has defeated me and you will not be the first," Deathstrike said.
"We'll see." Ultra Magnus took flight and charge straight for Deathstrike. Deathstrike fired a few missiles and Magnus dodged them. At that moment Deathstrike swoop in and punched Magnus to the ground below. Cassie rushed over to the crater Magnus made.
"Are you alright?" she asked.
"I been better," Magnus replied.
"Aw, how cute…" Deathstrike said. "A human and a machine show affection for one another. If I had a stomach, I hurl big time."
Cassie got upset from Deathstrike remark and flew straight towards him. He released a fire stream at Cassie but she pressed on. Annoyed, he added an energy beam in the stream. It exploded on contact. The blast was so strong; it pushed Deathstrike back and sent Cassie falling.
"Cassie!" Magnus screamed.
BOOM! Cassie smacked into the ground. Ultra Magnus quickly ran towards Cassie.
"Damage report," Cassie said weakly.
"Helmet damaged. Forced to retract it."
"I can see that," Cassie said annoyed. "What else?"
"Weapons offline. Defense at 50%," the computer responded.
"The armor?" Cassie said.
"Unknown," the computer answered.
"Great. One blast and I'm out of commission," Cassie said to herself.
She heard heavy footsteps coming towards her. "Wonder who it is?" she asked. The footsteps belong to Ultra Magnus. He peered over and saw Cassie down.
"Are you okay?" Magnus asked.
"I been better," Cassie replied.
"That's my line," Magnus said. "Can you move?"
"Not much," Cassie answered.
"Can you defend yourself?" Magnus asked.
"Not for long," Cassie answered.
"Then I won't leave you here alone," Magnus said.
"Why?" Cassie asked.
"You'll do the same for me," he said.
"Now where did I hear that line from?" Cassie teased.
Deathstrike touched down below and started walking over to where Magnus was. "'Killing two birds with one stone' I understand the phase now," he said.
"I won't let you harm this human," Magnus said.
"Fine, I won't hurt the human," Deathstrike said as he slowly fly in the air. "I'll just hurt you."
He dived down and stomped on Magnus' back. Pain was writhed all over his body. "You don't have to do this," Cassie said.
"I rather died knowing that I saved someone's life than to live knowing that I could've saved a life," Magnus said. Punch after punch, Deathstrike hacked away on Magnus' back, each blow more devastating than the last. Cassie laid there feeling sorry for Ultra Magnus for doing this. One of the punches broke through his armor. Magnus screamed in pain.
"What do we have here?" said Deathstrike. "I see a spark and it is infused with a small portion of the matrix. This will make a perfect addition to my collection."
Cassie crawled out from under Ultra Magnus and face Deathstrike. "Leave him alone!" she yelled.
"Then that'll be rude to open his back for no reason," Deathstrike answered.
He reached inside and placed his hand on Magnus' spark. Magnus yelled in pain as Deathstrike slowly pull his spark out.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Cassie cried.
Deathstrike pulled out Ultra Magnus' spark from his body.
Optimus felt a separation in the matrix. He had a feeling that something bad happened to Ultra Magnus.
Deathstrike held Magnus' spark in his hand. Ultra Magnus collapsed on the ground. Cassie rushed over and called out to him.
"Give up little girl," Deathstrike said. "He's dead."
"No he's not," Cassie said.
"This spark I have in my hands is the life and essences of Ultra Magnus. Without this, he is just an empty shell," Deathstrike said. "Face it. He is gone and he will make a good trophy and he will make me king of the universe."
"That will never happen," Cassie said in a cold voice.
Deathstrike's smile dropped. "And who is going to do that?"
"Me," she answered.
"Keep dreaming," Deathstrike said. "I guess you want to join him in the afterlife"
Deathstrike took out his gun and aimed it at Cassie. But when he looked at Cassie, a dark aura surrounds her body. "What are you doing?" he asked.
Dark clouds rolled in over them. Lightning lit up the sky as thunder boom across the sky. The damage done to Cassie's armor was repaired. Her helmet deployed and slip over her head. Her visor turned red as the suit changed from blue to black.
"What are you?" Deathstrike said.
"Are you scared?"
"I'm not afraid of you," Deathstrike replied.
"You should be," Cassie said in a dark voice. "It's time to clean up the trash."
In a flash, Cassie quickly took off flying and laid a punch on Deathstrike.
"That's didn't even hurt," he said.
Energy from the suit sent Deathstrike hurling through a building, crashing into it. He got up from the wreckage and look as Cassie. "Impossible. Where did she get that power from?" he thought to himself. He took out his gun and fired a few energon bullets. The bullet hit their mark and all was there was a cloud of smoke. "Good as dead," he said.
The cloud of smoke was blown away by a gust of wind. Cassie was still there. Not a scratch on her. Deathstrike begin to show a little fear. Cassie quickly flies through him. Deathstrike held his ground as Cassie get closer and closer. What happened next surprised him. Cassie flew straight through him and out through the other side, leaving a hole in his chest. He turned around and saw that Cassie took a small portion of his spark.
"This belongs to you?" she said. She squeezed the portion and pain riddled through Deathstrike's body. He fell to one knee.
"You'll think that will stop me," Deathstrike said.
"Nope but this will." Cassie squeezed even harder. The pain was too intense for Deathstrike to endure.
"Please stop," Deathstrike said. "I beg of you."
Cassie thought it over.
"Please ease my pain," he begged.
"Fine, I'll end your suffering," she said. Two canons mounted on her hips. The canons begin to collect solar energy from the Sun.
"What are you doing?" Deathstrike said.
"You said to 'ease your pain' and I'm putting you out of your misery," she answered.
"Not that way," he said.
"Too late," she said. The canons doubled in size as the power up was complete. The canon fired an oversized energy beam at Deathstrike. Still in pain, Deathstrike couldn't do anything. The blast destroyed Deathstrike and blasting his upper body off. Optimus sat as he saw the whole thing. Ultra Magnus' spark flies in the air as Optimus went to catch it. Optimus and Cassie locked eyes and stared each other down for a while. Optimus continued to Magnus and place his spark back in place. Cassie slowly touched down to the ground. Her visor changed back to black as the armor turn blue. She fainted.
Back on the ship…
"Wow!" the EMH said.
"I know,"
"What about Cassie?" the EMH asked.
"Turns out that she fainted from exhaustion or so they say," Magnus answered.
"I do believe that she couldn't faint from exhaustion," the EMH said. "Maybe it's something related to the suit she was wearing."
"Speaking of the suit, I found out something more about it," Magnus continued.
Location: Underground camp on Earth
"Ok, I want answers NOW!" Magnus demanded.
"I'm sorry but I don't know anything about them," Jenny replied.
"You do know," Magnus continued. "Now tell me about the armor she's wearing?"
"I told you, I don't know," Jenny answered. "But there is one person who may know."
"Where?" Magnus asked.
"That's the thing, she may or may not want to talk about it," Jenny answered.
"Well, tell me where she is and I'll talk some sense into her," Magnus said.
"Don't need to…" a woman said. "…I'm right here."
An elderly woman in her mid-60s walked in.
"Who the hell is this old coot?" Magnus said in disrespect.
"This woman is the one who know about the armor," Jenny said.
"This old fart. I bet she can't even know her own name let alone tell us about the armor," Magnus teased.
"As you know, Magnus…"
"How do you know my name?" he asked.
"If you let me continue, I'll kindly tell you and Optimus about everything," the woman said.
"Continue," Magnus said.
"The name is Shirley. The reason I know about the armor because my brother made them," she continued.
"Brother?" Optimus said. "By any chance his name is Wilson?"
"That's right," Shirley said.
"And Cassie…"
"…is his grandniece," Shirley continued. "I'm her grandmother."
"How do you know about it?" Optimus said.
"I help him build it," Shirley answered. "He thought of it and I help design it."
"I see," Optimus said.
"Listen carefully, because what I'm going to tell you is very important," Shirley said.
The room went silent as everyone listened in.
"The technology was for the military but when my brother found out what they were going to do with it, he trashed the project," Shirley continued. "For some odd reason, he's been having visions after he trashed the project. It went for about a year. He ignored it but it was driving him crazy. Just when he was about to check himself in, he saw it."
"Saw what?" Tim asked.
"The Decepticons," she answered. "At that moment, he begins to piece all the visions together to figure out what the message is saying. It took him a while but he was able to get part of it. It deals with him and his armor technology. So he restarted the project again. It didn't take him long but he finished the prototype. He thought that he was done but the visions keep coming back. It keeps telling him to make more and more. So he continued to make more. Then all of the sudden he stopped. I remember he told me that 'I can't keep making this without a reason why. All I want is what is going to happen in the future' and he got his wish. What he saw is exactly the way it is today. This is what he saw. He did the best he can to prevent this but I guess he failed."
"He didn't fail. As long he tried and never give up, he'll never fail," Optimus said.
"Thanks," Shirley said.
"Besides, if he did fail, wouldn't everyone be dead?" Optimus pointed out.
"You do have a point there," Shirley said.
"Can you tell us more about the armors?" Optimus asked.
"Very well," Shirley answered. "As for the armor, there are 3 classes. Civilian class is designed for children and elderly."
"Wait, you give kids and farts weapons?" Magnus asked.
"No, you dipstick," Serge insulted.
"What was that?" Magnus said.
"Easy. Let the lady finish," Optimus said.
"The Civilian class is a defensive class. It has low offensive power but it will withstand an attack from an army. Next one is Battle class. This is your typical battle armor. Everyone else have it. It is a perfect balanced of offense and defense. But in terms of speed, the Civilian class can and will out smoke the Battle class."
"And the third class?" Optimus asked.
"That class is the Elite class. It mostly on the offensive side but it has speed and defense. The thing about this class is that it's only for selected few. My brother only made 5. I have one, Cassie has one, and Wilson and Koji have one but as for the fifth one that's unknown."
"So you wear you armor all the time?" Merrick asked.
"Nope," Shirley answered. "They can assume the form of bracelets. As you see, each bracelet is different. The Civilian class is all red with white trim. Battle class is red and blue. The Elite's are blue with white trim. The style can be change but the color cannot be altered."
"So your brother made this because he saw the future," Optimus stated.
"Pretty much," Shirley said.
"So he saw all this and not tells us," Magnus said.
"He must have a reason," Optimus said.
Back on the ship…
"Very interesting," the EMH said.
"We got some answer but we got more questions," Magnus said. "Until we know everything, our purpose here is unknown."
"Maybe it's to fix your mistakes 50 years ago," the EMH said.
"Maybe," Magnus agreed.
Location: Space
Exact Location: Relay Satellite
Arcee stood on the satellite very uneasy. "Hurry up," she rushed. "Decepticons can show up at any moment."
"This takes time," T-Ai said. T-Ai was busying hacking into the satellite.
"Are you sure this satellite will tell us where everyone is?" Arcee asked.
"Maybe," T-Ai replied.
"Great," Arcee said. Then Arcee noticed that T-Ai's bracelet, which was given by Wilson as a gift, was glowing. "Your bracelet is glowing."
T-Ai stopped what she was doing and looked at it. "That's weird. It's reacting to something," she said. Then the computer beeped. "I found something."
"What is it?" Arcee asked.
"I'm picking up two signals similar to ours but I'm picking up two unknown signals," T-Ai answered.
"Do you know where it is?" Arcee asked.
"The Solar System," T-Ai answered.
"You don't mean…"
"…that's right. Earth," T-Ai said.
"So we're going?" Arcee asked.
"Of course," T-Ai answered.
"The usual?" Arcee suggested.
"The usual," T-Ai replied.
Arcee and T-Ai merge then made their way to the Solar System.
"How long this will take?" Arcee asked.
"Two hours or more," T-Ai answered.
"Goody," Arcee said sarcastically.