Me: Hey Bitches!
Kari: It's about time.
Roger: Yeah. The way you ended the last chapter was really weird.
Tai: Yeah. What the hell was up with that?
Me: You'll find out.
Violet: Well then start it already!
Me: Alright alright! I don't own the Incredibles, Transformers, American Dad, Digimon, or Futurama. I only own my original characters, Trevor Bauer and Takamon.
Trevor: One little joke about that…
Takamon: And it will be the last one you ever make.
Trevor: Oh for God's sake.
The AutoKnights IV: Cybertronian 3009
Chapter 6: Developments
(The Head Museum; New New York; 11:45 AM)
Inside the Head Museum, Trevor, Violet, and everyone else was inside the Head Museum to visit Steve's sister Hayley. But they all were now looking at Steve who was on the floor and beating his fists on the ground while laughing very hard.
"Oh my god! I can't believe it! I have dreamed of this happening for so long and now it's a reality! My sister's head is in a jar!" Steve said as strongly as he could while still laughing.
Everyone just kept looking down and staring at him with confused looks.
"I thought he would be happy to see his sister again." Violet said.
"You and me both." Trevor said as he looked at Haley. "Well it's certainly good to see you again, Hayley."
"How are you guys even here?" Hayley asked. "Oh wait, you guys used one of those weird space bridges didn't you?"
"Pegged." Takamon said.
Hayley looked down and saw the gold Digimon. She then looked back up and saw that there were others she didn't know. She knew the PE crew.
"Who are they?" Haley asked.
"Oh them?" Trevor said while looking behind him. "They're…"
Trevor tried to go on, but Steve began to laugh even louder and everyone was getting tired of it.
"Steve! That's enough!" Trevor shouted.
Steve did his best to stop laughing and stood back up.
"As I was saying," Trevor continued. "These guys are AutoKnights too. That's Tai, TK, and Kari."
"What about those three weird looking things?" Hayley asked.
"Excuse me?" Takamon asked a bit offended.
"Calm down, Tak. She meant nothing by it." Trevor said. "That's Takamon. The other two are Patamon and Gatomon. They're friends."
"Ah." Hayley said. "But what are they?"
"They're Digimon." Tai said. "It's very hard to explain."
"Okay. It's nice to meet you guys. And it's great to see you three again." Hayley said.
"It's good to see you too, Hayley." Violet said. "Or should I say, 'Madame President'?"
Hayley giggled a little.
"You guys don't have to call me that. Just call me Hayley." She said.
Trevor nodded. "Will do."
"Why was your jar turned around?" Steve asked.
"Ask Roger." Hayley said sternly.
Everyone diverted their sight to Roger.
"What? It was just a joke." He said defensively.
"Do you have any idea what it's like to be stuck in a jar having to look at the wall?! It bored me to tears so much the jar nearly overflowed!!" Hayley shouted.
"Well excuse the hell out of me for having a little fun." Roger said.
"That was a month ago!! No one even noticed I was turned around the entire time!!" Hayley yelled.
"If you'd like I'll happily turn you around again." Roger said.
"Alright, ENOUGH!!" Trevor yelled.
Everyone looked at Trevor. He pushed Roger so he stood right in front of Hayley's jar.
"Roger, apologize to Hayley, now." Trevor said.
"I'm not apologizing. She should apologize for not appreciating a joke." Roger said.
"Are you frickin kidding me?!" Hayley shouted.
"Roger, apologize or else." Takamon said.
Roger looked at Takamon and smirked.
"Or else what, pipsqueak?" Roger taunted.
Takamon got angry. Roger just made fun of his size, and he didn't like that one bit. He reached behind his back and out of nowhere a golden glowing orb appeared in his hand. The orb began to shift in shape and then became his staff. Roger now had a look of fear on his face as Takamon pointed the end with the spear at his face.
"Or else this." Takamon said in a low angry cold voice.
Roger gulped as the point of the spear was brought close to his neck. He immediately turned around.
"I'm sorry." Roger turned around again and got on his knees. "Please don't kill me!"
Takamon chuckled as he made his staff disappear behind his back.
"Relax man. I'm not gonna kill you." Takamon said.
Before Roger could take a sigh of relief however, Takamon grabbed Roger's neck and started to squeeze. He then pulled so Roger's face was right in front of his. Takamon was staring with a very angry face.
"But if you ever call me a pipsqueak or any name related, I WILL kill you." Takamon growled.
"Got it." Roger said gasping for air.
Takamon released his grip on Roger and Roger took in a deep breath of air. Takamon then noticed that everyone was looking at him with an uneasy expression.
"What?" Takamon said.
"Was that really necessary?" Gatomon asked.
"You know I get pissed off over that size thing." Takamon said.
"Why? I mean it's not like you're the smallest one on the team here. Patamon and Gatomon are smaller than you." Tai said.
"Hey!" Patamon and Gatomon shouted.
"Just trying to help out." Tai said.
"Well, even though they are smaller than me, they're not the ones who go into battle with you. And compared to me, you guys are huge. So it's kind of frustrating to made fun of my size when I'm fighting with you." Takamon said.
"Dude, don't worry about it." Fry said.
Takamon looked at Fry as the human kneeled down to Takamon's level.
"You might be half their size, but in battle, that gives you a huge advantage. No one expects anything to come from something small. You'll always have the chance to prove their asses wrong." Fry explained.
Takamon actually smiled.
"That is kind of cool actually." Takamon said. "Thanks."
"Glad I could help." Fry said.
Fry stood back up and Takamon felt better.
"So what other heads are there in this place?" Violet asked.
"Oh there are hundreds of famous movie and TV stars here from our time. Even the Presidents you guys knew are all here." Bender said.
"Really?" Violet said.
"Oh yeah." Fry said with a smile.
"I wanna check out those presidents." Trevor said as he began to walk off.
"Hey wait up." Violet said as she started to follow him.
Fry watched the two walk off and just smiled to himself.
"Time. It's all those two need." Fry thought.
Everyone else went in their own directions. Trevor and Violet had stumbled upon the Hall of Presidents in the Museum. They walked in it and saw every single US President going all the way back to number 1; George Washington.
"Are you really…" Trevor started.
"That I am." President Washington said.
"How?" Violet muttered.
"Are heads were restored due to stem cell research and bionic enhancements in our necks and in this jar." The first president said.
"Wow. It's a real honor to meet you, Mr. President." Trevor said.
"Surprising to hear someone say that. Usually people from this time are used to seeing us around." Washington said.
Trevor and Violet looked at each other.
"I guess you're right." Violet said.
The two kept on walking and stopped when they saw a rather big jar. There was a black top hat filling up the upper half of the jar. It was Abraham Lincoln.
"Well I'll be damned." Trevor said.
"Hello. Good to meet you. I must say have never seen you two in here before. I am President Abraham Lincoln. Might I ask what your names are?"
"Uumm…sure. I'm Trevor Bauer."
"My name is Violet. Violet Parr."
"Pleasure to meet you, Trevor and Violet. And I must say you make an adorable couple." Lincoln said.
"What?" they both said.
"Why would you say something like that, sir?" Violet asked.
"I'm honest Abe. I can't lie."
"Oh. Well thank you Mr. President but the truth is, we're not a couple." Trevor said.
"You're not?" Lincoln asked.
"Nope." Violet said as she put her arm around Trevor's shoulders. "We're just friends."
"Very good friends." Trevor said as he put his arm and around Violet's shoulders.
"Oh. Well you could have fooled me." Lincoln said. "But you do give out signs."
Trevor and Violet looked at each other and then back at Lincoln.
"Like what?" Violet asked.
"Well you two do seem to care about each other a lot. You are in here alone by your selves even though you are here with a lot more friends. And you have matching relationship rings." Lincoln said.
Trevor and Violet looked at their hands.
"These aren't relationship rings sir." Trevor said.
"Is that so? Well than why do you wear them?" Lincoln asked.
Trevor and Violet froze.
"Um…meeting." Trevor said quietly to Violet.
Violet came in close to Trevor and they began whispering.
"Should we tell him?"Trevor asked.
"Are you insane? We already have enough people involved in this mess. We don't need more. Let's just make something up." Violet whispered.
"Yeah it sounds like that's what we should do but…come on. It's Abraham Lincoln for cryin out loud! I can't lie to him!" Trevor protested.
Violet sighed. She couldn't lie to Abe either.
"Dammit! Alright then." Violet said.
The two came apart and looked at Lincoln.
"Mr. President we will tell you what these rings are. But we are begging you to keep it a secret." Trevor said.
"Alright you have my word. But maybe you should carry my jar into a more private place. That closet over there will do fine." Lincoln said.
Trevor nodded and picked up Lincoln's head. He and Violet walked into the storage closet and closed the door. Trevor looked into his arms and at Lincoln.
"Mr. President, have you ever heard of the AutoKnights?" Trevor asked.
"Yes I have. But what does that have to do with…"
Lincoln stopped right there and took a good long look at the two. He then had a face of shock.
"Are you two AutoKnights?" he asked.
"Yes sir we are." Violet asked.
"Well than what might I ask are you doing here in this time? I thought you existed back in the 21st century." Lincoln asked.
"That's where our rings come into it, sir." Trevor said as he showed Lincoln his ring. "These rings are the key to our power and we are here in this time to find one that looks exactly like this one."
"Our team is not yet completed." Violet said. "We need to find that ring so we can find another Knight."
"In that case my friends, I think I might be able to help you." Lincoln said.
Trevor and violet were confused.
"Sir?" Trevor said.
"I get a good view of TV every now and then. And a few days ago I saw a report on the news saying that a ring similar to the ones you wear was found in the sewers."
"How could it even get down there?" Trevor wondered.
"How could someone even find something that small in the sewers?" Violet asked.
"A few days ago a small object that looked like a meteorite came falling to Earth. It impacted in the middle of the street and made a hole no wider than a Compact Disc. It was found by the inhabitants who live down there."
"Who lives down there?" Violet asked.
"Mutants." Lincoln said.
Trevor and Violet went silent.
"Mutants?" Trevor repeated.
"Yes. But these are not "out of control experiment gone wrong" kind of mutants. These are peaceful beings and I'm sure they will be happy to give it to you if you can reason with them." Lincoln said.
Trevor and Violet nodded.
"Mr. President I can't even begin to thank you for this." Trevor said.
"Don't mention it. I wish you and your team the best of luck." Lincoln said.
"Thank you." Violet said.
Trevor and Violet walked out of the closet and put Lincoln's head back down in his rightful spot.
"Break's over, isn't it?" Violet said.
"Yup." Trevor said. "Let's get the others."
Trevor and Violet rounded up the others and met at the entrance of the museum.
"What's going on, Trev?" TK asked.
"Break's over. We gotta go." Trevor said.
"Why so soon?" Kari asked.
"We have a ring to find." Trevor said.
"I thought the point of coming here was to take a break from the job. Besides we don't even know where it could be." Patamon said.
"That is exactly why this break is over." Violet said.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Takamon asked.
"We know where the next ring is." Trevor said.
"Really? Where?" Fry said.
"It's in the sewers." Violet said.
"The sewers?" Tai said.
"Yep." Violet said.
"How do you know this?" Leela asked.
"President Abraham Lincoln apparently has access to a TV every now and then. He saw a news report saying the mutants that live down there found a ring that looks exactly like ours." Trevor explained.
"Wait Back up." Steve said. "Did you say, 'mutants'?"
"Yeah." Trevor said.
"As in, people who are disfigured beyond recognition?" Steve said.
"You don't really need to worry much about the mutants here." Amy said.
"Yeah. We've been down in the sewers many times." The professor said. "The mutants down there are not harmful in any way."
"And since they're peaceful maybe we can simply talk to them and convince them to just give us the ring instead of having to fight for it." Violet said.
"Alright. Can I at least say goodbye to Hayley?" Steve asked.
Trevor nodded. "Of course."
Steve went back over to where Hayley was.
"Well sis, we gotta go." He said.
"Already?" Hayley said.
"I know it's kinda short notice but we think we found another ring. We have to go and get it." Steve said.
"Will you come back to visit me before you leave this time?" Hayley asked.
Steve smiled. "Count on it."
Everyone said their goodbyes and headed out of the Museum.
"You guys should leave this to us." Trevor said to the PE crew.
"Oh come on. Let us help." Bender said.
"Maybe we should let them come, Trev." Violet said. "They have been down there before so they'll know their way around and guide us."
Trevor crossed his arms and sighed.
"Alright. But just remember everyone there are already Decepticons here on this planet hiding. So for all we know they could be right on our trail. So stay alert." Trevor said.
"Actually, I have work to do at the bar so I have to get back." Roger said.
"Alright then. See ya." Steve said.
Everyone waved goodbye to Roger as he made his way back to the Patriot Bar.
"Let's go." Trevor said.
"Hold up a sec." TK said.
"What?" Trevor asked.
"Did President Lincoln happen to say in what part of the city to look in?" TK asked.
Trevor slapped his forehead.
"Why didn't I think of that? This is one of the biggest cities in the world with a huge ass sewage system. It could take us forever to find that ring." Trevor said.
"Don't get down, Trevor. Why don't you just use Teletraan to pinpoint its location?" Violet said.
"Yeah. I sent up a Sky Spy last night and it should still be up there." Steve said.
Trevor smiled. "Alright then."
Trevor pulled Teletraan out of his pocket and began to press some buttons. In a matter of seconds, he brought up a radar layout of New New York and began to widen the seeking range of the Sky Spy. A few seconds later, beeping was heard. Everyone gathered behind and beside Trevor to get a look.
"Did we find it?" Steve asked.
"We got a lock on its signal." Trevor said as he looked at the map.
"The ring's in the Flat Iron District." TK said.
"And where are we now?" Tai asked.
The screen on Teletraan zoomed out and six more cluttered signals appeared three inches below the ring.
"According to the signals in OUR rings, we are…aw man. We're all the way down in the Financial District. It'll take us forever to get there." Kari said.
"Let's just transform and roll there." Steve said.
"Steve, look on the street." Violet said.
Steve turned to the road and saw what Violet meant when she said that. There were cars on the road but this is 3009. Which pointed out a problem for the knights.
"Our vehicle modes stick out too much here. People would notice us." Trevor said.
"I guess we're stuck with walking then." Takamon said.
"Well then, let's get going." The professor said.
All of them then left the museum and started to walk towards Flat Iron. But right behind them on the roof of the museum, a large mechanical bird with red glowing eyes and the Decepticon logo was perched and posing as a statue. There was a weird looking camera on top of its head.
(Cybertron; Hidden Underground Tunnels; Decepticon HQ; 12:30 PM Earth Time)
In the main chamber of the Decepticon base, Skywarp and Thundercracker were getting their metal hides chewed out by their leader Megatron. (Reminder: these are the movie robots)
"I can't even rely on two Seekers to eliminate a few worn down brats!" Megatron yelled.
Skywarp and Thundercracker were in a state of total fear. But Skywarp had the audacity to say,
"You couldn't beat them either, Megatron."
Megatron was infuriated. He gave Skywarp a good hard kick in his face and Thundercracker was just happy it wasn't him receiving the kick. Skywarp went to the ground and Megatron grabbed his chest and held him up.
"I may have lost that round but I gave them enough hits to be vulnerable for attack. You should have been able to kill them with no problem." Megatron said.
"We were this close to wiping them out before that little golden thing came out of nowhere." Thundercracker said.
Megatron dropped Skywarp and looked at Thundercracker.
"Little golden thing?" Megatron said.
"Yes. A little creature colored in gold saved those humans from death." Thundercracker said.
"Laserbeak is streaming his feed now, Megatron." A monotone voice said.
Another robot with armor coming from a weird satellite stood behind Megatron at the main monitor. He had optics, but instead of two separate eyes, his optics were in the form of a red glowing eye visor.
"Excellent, Soundwave." Megatron said. "Put it up on screen."
Soundwave pressed a few more buttons and made a live feed of Laserbeak's camera appear. They had a clear view of all of the knights, the three Digimon, and the PE crew. Thundercracker got up and pointed at something.
"That's the one. That's the small gold thing that saved them." Thundercracker said.
"Freeze frame and zoom in." Megatron said.
The feed paused and started to zoom in on what Thundercracker was pointing at. Soon, Takamon filled up the screen and Megatron clenched his fists.
"So that little pest went along with them too." Megatron said.
"Master?" Skywarp said.
"I have been in battle with that specimen before. It might be small…" Megatron began to look at Takamon with interest. "but the power it possesses appears to be very immense."
"If we can turn him over to our side he could prove to be very valuable to us." Soundwave said.
Megatron grinned evilly.
"That he would." He said. "Laserbeak, go back a few frames and let us hear their conversation."
The video begun to rewind. It went back a few minutes and showed all of them standing outside. The video played again and the audio was turned up.
"We got a lock on its signal." Trevor said.
"The ring's in the Flat Iron District." TK said.
Megatron stopped listening and smiled evilly again.
"It appears the have located another ring of power, Megatron." Soundwave said.
"Excellent. Which means those idiots have done half the job for us." Megatron said. "Soundwave, is Ravage still in position?"
"Ravage is currently doing reconnaissance in the city as were your orders." The monotone Decepticon said.
"Good. Tell him to follow the humans and get hold of that ring. Kill them if he must."
Megatron made the screen zoom in on Takamon again.
"But tell him to keep that Takamon being alive." Megatron said.
"Understood." Soundwave said as he began a transmission. "Ravage, deploy. Operation: Ring Retrieval."
After a few more seconds. Soundwave cut off.
"It is done. Ravage is in pursuit of the AutoKnights and they don't even know it." Soundwave said.
"Perfect. Ravage is more nimble and smaller than other Decepticons. He just might have the edge to even terminate one of them." Megatron said confidently. "It won't be long now, Prime. You may have transferred your power to that boy but you only delayed the inevitable. Soon you, and that boy, will die."
(New New York; Flat Iron District; 1:30 PM)
It took them all about an hour to get from the Financial District all the way to Flat Iron, but they eventually made it and now all they had to do was figure out the best way into the sewer to take. After following the radar for a few more minutes, they stopped at a manhole on the sidewalk.
"Are you sure this is the best way to go, Trevor?" Gatomon asked.
"Teletraan is saying that this is closest way into the sewer from where the ring is. So yeah, I'm sure."
"Well then let's open this sucker up and get our asses down there." Violet said.
"Allow me." Takamon said.
Takamon leant down and got the best grip he could on the manhole cover. He then pulled it out of its place as if it were a feather and placed it aside.
"Leaders first." Takamon said.
Trevor shrugged and got onto the ladder and started to climb down. When he was down there, he looked left and right only to see that it was too dark to see anything.
"What do you see, Trevor?" Hermes called from above.
"I can't see anything. It's too dark down here. Plus I haven't really reached the bottom yet because there's no walking path. It's just a river of waste." Trevor said.
"So what now?" TK asked.
"When you get down here, transform into your AutoKnight forms so we don't get the clothes we have on right now messed up. Steve will use his headlights to give us a light." Trevor's voice echoed down the long tunnel.
"Well, alright then. But what about us?" Fry asked.
"Afraid to get dirty, sweetie?" Leela asked.
Fry smiled at her.
"As long as I'm with you, now way." Fry said.
Fry and Leela kissed for a few seconds. Trevor saw the whole thing from the ladder and held out his fist that had the ring. They could transform one of two ways. They could either call out the words, "AutoKnight, transform!" out loud, or they could simply concentrate hard enough on the power it would start to transform by itself. They chose the latter because there was too many people around to yell. Trevor began to concentrate as the ring started to glow and melt. Soon, he was Optimus Prime. He jumped off the ladder and landed in the murky stream. It only came up to his ankles so the top two inches of his black boots were visible.
"Alright, next!" Optimus called.
Takamon didn't even bother using the ladder. He just jumped into the hole and made a splash as he landed. His legs were almost entirely covered in the crap, but he didn't care. Violet came down next and transformed to Ironhide as she did. Steve became Ratchet, Kari became Arcee, TK became Bumblebee, and Tai became Jetfire. Patamon and Gatomon came down and jumped onto their partners. Then the PE crew came down and got their feet soaked with the stuff. They really didn't seem to mind.
"Ratchet?" Optimus said.
"Comin' up." Ratchet said.
On Ratchet's chest and shoulders, doors opened up and large light bulbs appeared out of them and pointed forward. There were two on his chest and one sticking out of each shoulder. So there were four in total. The lights activated and shone down the way they were supposed to go.
"Lead the way, doc-knight." Arcee said.
Ratchet smirked and began walking down the tunnel and river as everyone else followed behind him. They kept on walking straight for a few minutes and the Bender started to talk.
"So where do your parts come from?" he asked Ratchet.
"Huh?" Ratchet replied.
"You know. When you make your weapons come out. Do they come out of your natural body or what?" Bender asked.
"Oh that. No they don't actually. The power is only in these suits we wear. When our weaponry and tools appear, they come out of the suit from another dimension or something. I could open up a hole in my suit right now, stick my arm all the way down it, and I still wouldn't come into contact with my skin underneath this suit." Ratchet explained.
"Cool." Bender said.
"Yeah." Ratchet replied. "It's amazing really what we can…uh-oh."
Ratchet came to a halt and then everyone saw what he saw. The tunnel they were walking in split into three different paths. They hit a fork.
"Well this is just wonderful." Jetfire said sarcastically.
"Which path should we take?" Amy asked.
"Let's see what Teletraan has to say." Optimus said as he pulled out Teletraan.
Trevor turned on Teletraan and immediately heard a beeping sound.
"What? This can't be right." Optimus said confused.
"What is it, Prime?" Ironhide asked.
"Take a look for yourself." Optimus replied.
Everyone gathered around to get a look at the screen. When everyone saw it, they were just as confused as Optimus was. There were now numerous beeping signals on the screen. There were about fifty in total.
"What's going on? Why is this happening?" Ratchet said.
"There should be only thirteen of these rings in existence. So why are we picking up signals from fifty?" Gatomon wondered.
Takamon got hit with realization.
"Oh wait. I know what's happening." the gold Digimon said.
Everyone looked down at him.
"We would be very happy to know what you're talking about, Takamon." Leela said.
"It's simple. The structure of these tunnels is interfering with the signal. The signal is reflecting off the walls and has spread throughout the entire passage way all around." Takamon explained.
"These tunnels run all the way through the entire city!" Fry said.
"Great. So we'll never find it now." Bender said. "Let's just go back and try again another day."
"Now now. This is not time to lose hope." Bumblebee said.
"Then what are we supposed to do?" Zoidberg asked.
"We do the only thing we can do here. We split up." Optimus said.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Takamon said.
"Do you have one?" Optimus asked.
"Well no, but I'm just saying, can't you think of anything else?" Takamon said.
"Look I know the right thing should be we all stick together, but our chances will increase if we split up. Us six knights will split up into three groups of two and take one of these three paths here." Optimus said pointing to the fork.
"Alright we're in. But who's going down which path?" Patamon said.
Optimus began to assign the teams.
"Me and Ironhide will take the center path. Takamon, Fry and Leela with come with us. Team Recon, you take Hermes and Bender and take the left side. Ratchet, you, Jetfire, The Professor and Zoidberg and take the right."
Everyone nodded at their orders.
"If you run into trouble, contact me via wrist comm." Optimus said. "AutoKnights, disperse, and good-luck."
Everyone nodded and then went down the path in the fork they were directed. Unbeknownst to them that they were being followed the entire time by a robotic jaguar looking being with a single glowing red eye.
Takamon: It looks like Ravage is on the trail.
Me: Yep.
Trevor: Are we going to find the ring?
Me: Trev…
Tai: Is there going to be a fight next chapter?
Me: Those questions will be answered in less then a weeks time in chapter seven. I promise. Until then, peace bitches.