A/N: Sorry its so short but I had a hard time writing it, but the second part will finish up this little 'encounter', now, please enjoy this chapter

Chapter 6-The Encounter Part 1

No One's POV

Lolita had come up with a plan, not to far from the Vault was a place called the CIT Building, there worlds version of MIT, and she claims that is where she found most of the parts for herself. She herself doesn't know why they cluster their but she has her theories.

But, the point was that this mission should be a simple one and a good testing ground for her new companions.

They headed down the incline of the hill where the entrance sat on and making their way onto the crumbling streets below. The grey overcast skies gave some light, but not as bright as a clear sky.

Going further down the street it natural curved to the left to join another street, taking the left they found themselves near a riverside. The water was murky and contaminated, on the river they saw a large ship crashed into a bridge up ahead, Lolita points it out.

"That is the USS Riptide, we should avoid it, for it's is controlled by Raiders." The group silently agreed and made their way past the wrecked ship and bridge towards another bridge further down.

Across the road at a Tee-intersection was two buses long decayed and rusted, they made their way around before heading further until reaching the bridge that was the path across.

Cars littered the bridge, futuristic yet old fashioned to the two humans with them. The bridge itself wasn't in great condition but with diminished sizes of both Cybertronians, they felt confident crossing it.

"I need to warn you now, we might be ambushed by Raiders when crossing the bridge, it's the most open area inside the city limits and they love to spring attacks here, so be careful."

Slowly, the crept across the bridge moving around the cars. As they got halfway across they stopped in their tracks when gunfire sounded across the river from the side they were heading too. Keeping low, Lolita looked out across the river to see two sides, a large group firing upon one figure duking it out down away from CIT building and close to their bridge.

"I can't tell who or what they are but stay out of sight!" She whispered to them.

"Shouldn't we help them?" Jack asked, Lolita frowned.

"If we did, we would be inviting death. Now come, we have a time sensitive mission to complete." She continued forward, the rest following reluctantly.

They finally made it across the bridge and that is when the gunfire stops dead.

Each of them froze, it was deadly silent. Then they heard what sounded like metal scraping across the broken pavement like it where stepping across it. Then, a familiar chilling voice broke the silence, one that everyone barring Lolita recognized.

"I know you are there, come out, it's been so long since I have had contact with cybertronians." The crackling slimming voice made Arcee tense in hatred and Knockout to simply shudder.

Arcee, acting out of spite stepped out of her hiding spot and faced the familiar Con. But, it wasn't all at the same time.

"Arcee! What are you doing?!" Lolita hissed at her, Arcee just kept staring forward at the Con that stared back.

The whole group now joined Arcee and what they saw shocked them.

Standing their, among a scattering of human corpses was a tall lithe figure with rusted gunmetal grey metal. His right arm was replaced with a massive claw appendage and both his optics were a sickly green color, his red crest on top his head was faded and chipped and his wings were missing. Around his body was a tattered shroud and in his left hand a human head.

Arcee uttered the first words that came to her mind.

"What do you want, Starscream?"