Chapter 7- Escape from Lockdown's ship.

The giant cybertronian spaceship began to descend on the Hoenn's desert, deep inside a rock canyon. Lockdown went inside piloting his gunship, carrying his prisoners. However, when it landed, Serena and Sentinel were taken by different paths.

"Take that human to the trash." Lockdown ordered to a couple of Minicons while he went with other ones who were carrying Sentinel. "Remember this ship, Prime? Built for all of your kind, alongside your Knights, you great crusades, to explore the universe. Well, I commandeered it. It's my personal prison now."

Serena, who was stuck in a rock, was taken to a horrible place, where a lot of metallic tentacles were destroying the remains of Lockdown's preys. When the Minicons stopped, they began to break the rock in order to see what was inside. Serena knew it, and she had an idea.

"So did you understand it, Pancham?" Serena asked to her pokemon.

"Pancham." He nodded.

The Minicon managed to create a hole, big enough so see the inside. And then…

"Now, use Dark Pulse!" Serena yelled.

Pancham launched his attack, destroying the Minicon and allowing them to run away from the trash.

"Okay, now we need to find Sentinel. But where can he be? Sentinel?!" Serena asked while she and Pancham began to sneak through the ship.

Meanwhile, Sentinel was taken to a big, adorned room with robotic statues in the walls. In the center there were a lot of cages.

"Welcome to the Knights's Temenos, Prime." Lockdown introduced.

Sentinel looked around to see a particular detail: inside the cages there were a lot of robots bigger even than him hanging upside down.

"You have disgraced it." Sentinel said.

"Join your fellow rebels, fugitive scum. It's is for the rarest of specimens, the worst of the worst. It's taken eons, but I've collected all the Knights: Grimlock, Swoop, Slag, Snarl, Sludge, Slash, Scorn and Paddles; and now you." Lockdown told before he pulled out a hook on his hand and grabbed Sentinel by the foot and put him inside one of the cages. "The creators want to sweep their chessboard clean."

Now Sentinel was like the Knights, hanging upside down inside the cage. "I'm slave of no one."

"All this species mixing with other species, it upsets the cosmic balance. The creators, they don't like it. They want to assign you a new function." Lockdown said to his face before he left the room.

As the ship hid inside the canyon, the Autobots, leaded by Orion Pax, headed towards it. Ash and his friends were inside Orion to feel more secure with him, but Ash was still affected for what happened.

"Don't worry Ash. I'm sure they're fine." Ritchie said, trying to cheer him up.

"I know Sentinel can take care of himself, Serena is the one that worries me." Ash confessed.

"You know how strong Serena really is, Ash. I'm sure she will be okay by when the Autobots find her." Clemont added.

"Pikachu!"

All those moods made Ash smile, but that changed when they heard the sound of a helicopter which wasn't Drift. It was from Team Alien, which was transporting the masked man and it was heading towards the ship.

"Brother, mission accomplished: Lockdown has Prime. The deal's going down now." Misbelwy said through the com-link.

"Picking up the seed at the recon point." He answered.

The helicopter went inside the ship's hangar, where Lockdown was waiting with a strange object on his hand. Serena reached to the hangar, and she managed to watch when the helicopter landed with Team Alien's soldiers meeting Lockdown.

"Much as I've enjoyed the hunt, I won't miss your wretched planet. Our deal is done: one Prime for one seed." Lockdown said while the soldiers put the seed inside a carrier sac. "Handle it with care. I trust your species is ready."

"Don't worry about our species. And enjoy the souvenirs." The masked leader declared.

"I will. Farewell, Earth." Lockdown said goodbye.

Serena heard the entire conversation, but she was confused: why did he want Prime? What was that seed? And what did he mean by souvenirs? Meanwhile, the Autobots and human children managed to climb to the top of the canyon, just where they could reach to the ship.

"And exactly how are we going to reach there?" Sideswipe asked.

"This is the closest and highest point of the canyon, now we're going to jump to the ship and sneak aboard." Orion instructed.

"Given the danger we will run in there, it think it is better for the humans to stay and wait here." Ratchet opined.

"No! Serena is inside there. She is maybe lost and scared, so I will not rest and be quiet until she's safe." Ash declared. "Guys, you can remain here, but I'm going to accompany the Autobots."

"Then you're not going alone." May said.

"Serena is our friend too." Clemont said.

"And friends always help each other, no matter what, so we'll help you find her." Max added.

"We'll be by your side whatever happens." Bonnie said.

"Sure she would do the same for you." Ritchie said.

"Pikachu!"

"Haha. Thanks a lot guys, you're the best indeed. All for one and one for all." Ash smiled.

"You said it. And don't forget, you have us too to cover your backs." Hot Rod added.

"What are we waiting for? Serena could be in great danger, she needs our help now!" Arcee reminded.

"I believe this is a bad idea." Blaster informed.

"Yes, it's a bad idea. But I'm all about bad ideas. Let's rock!" Wheeljack proclaimed.

"Hum, Wreckers." Ironhide sighed.

Orion noticed that the ship began to ascend. "Now it is our chance! Autobots, roll out!"

Everyone jumped to the ship when it was very close. Lockdown reached to the ship's bridge.

"Engage dark-matter drives. Full power." Lockdown ordered to his officers.

Meanwhile, the group went inside the ship by one of the windows.

"We're inside unknown territory. Lockdown's ship has booby traps, keep your eyes open." Warpath warned.

"Beware of his bone grinders, brain blinders, flesh peelers, chromosomal inverters, catatonic sludge, black hole trapdoors and of course radiation." Jazz advised.

That made Max very nervous. "All those traps?"

"(Don't worry Max, we'll evade them.)" Bumblebee calmed.

"We must be quick. We have the element of surprise, let's try to use violence as a last resort." Drift said before a strange metallic creature showed a tentacle through the cage, making Drift to stick his sword in it. "Down, down, down!"

"Are you okay?" Ritchie asked.

"I don't like those bugs. At least it's now gone." Sideswipe said.

"We better hurry, because dark-matter drives are preparing to take off." Ratchet reported.

"Is that what sound is? The engines filing up?" Clemont asked.

"Yes."

"And according to my analysis, we only have ten minutes. Could be nine, worst case, seven." Blaster informed.

"Thanks for making us know how bad things are." Bonnie said mad.

"In that case, we have to sabotage something to slow things down." Ironhide suggested.

"What now?" May asked.

"Ash, you and your friends look for Serena, we'll search Sentinel." Elita instructed.

"Use the small spaces between the cells to sneak through the corridors, just in case you find guards." Orion instructed. "Be careful."

"You too." Ash told to Orion. "Come on, guys. Let's move."

The kids were through the small conducts, leaving the Autobots.

"Good luck, kids." Moonracer told them.

"Orion, we have a problem: I can't access to the ship's plans, its systems are too complicated even for me to hack them." Blaster reported

"Then we will have to look by the old way. Autobots, let's go for the central core." Orion instructed.

"Got it." Jetfire answered.

"We're gonna stop this nightmare ship." Wheeljack said.

Meanwhile, Serena advanced by her own through the ship's cells, evading the guards she found. But the last cell she saw left her with a face of terror. She saw a couple of cages in circle, but what impressed her most was what was inside: there were a lot of Celebi locked inside a small cage, an entire herd of Latias and Latios inside another more huge, a couple of Deoxys in another, a Cresselia next to other cage which a Darkrai and a last one with a small group of Genesect. The cells produced electrified currents every time they tried to use their movements: there were cages designed for legendary pokemon.

"Poor pokemon. They're locked, and they're suffering. Lockdown must have captured them to treat them as a collection, or for making experiments on them. I need to free them."

Serena pulled out all her poke balls in other to get help from all her pokemon.

"Braixen, Pancham, Sylveon, I need your help. We're going to free some pokemon from their confinement." She explained.

The three pokemon nodded and put in fighting position.

"Braixen, use Fire Blast! Pancham, use Arm Thrust! Sylveon, use Swift! Destroy those cages!" Serena instructed.

Her pokemon launched their attacks continually until the cages began to tear apart. At the same time, Ash and the rest were looking for Serena in other part of the ship, in a high point.

"This place is huge. I wonder where Serena might be." Ash observed worried.

"There are so many cages. Where do we start looking?" Clemont asked.

"Serena!" Max shouted.

"Max, no!" Ritchie said.

Max voice resounded all over the place.

"Are you dumb or what?! Now they know that we are here!" May yelled him.

"How are we going to navigate through this labyrinth?" Bonnie asked.

Then an idea came to Ash's mind.

"I already know how!" He said before he pulled out one of his poke balls. "Noivern, I choose you!"

Noivern came out in front of them.

"Woah. Ash, I never believed that you have a pokemon like this." Max said excited.

"Noivern, I need you to use your sound waves to locate Serena through this ship. Can you do it?" Ash asked, to which Noivern nodded.

Noivern began to launch his sonic waves through the ship as the group began to move. Meanwhile, near there, the female Autobots were trying to disable some of the important parts of the ship.

"Better hurry, girls, before we go into space!" Elita said from the distance.

"It is not so easy to move with so many laser sensors here." Arcee objected.

"Aha, here is the big prize." Moonracer said removing a little item. "Bingo."

That caused that the ship launched a lot of cables which hooked the ship with one of the canyon's walls.

"Who fired the anchors?!" Lockdown asked mad.

"Sir, we've detected an anomaly in the control systems. And we have a report of explosions coming from the special cages zone." One of the officers reported.

"Who's on my ship? We have a loose prisoner."

Lockdown spoke in cybertronian language and send his mechanical wolves to find the intruders. Right in the place where Serena was, all the legendary pokemon were now free, and by using their movements (Psybeam, Mist Ball, Luster Purge, Psycho Boost, Psycho Cut, Dark Pulse and Techno Blast) they made a hole on the ship's shell and fly away. Serena smiled to see them escape, so she returned her pokemon. But then she heard some weird noise from behind, she turned around and got scared to see the metallic wolves running at her dangerously. She managed to escape by running and getting into another airway. Meanwhile, the group arrived to a room very similar to were Sentinel was trapped.

"Woah, this place is incredible. I wonder if those were ancient Autobots." Clemont observed while he touched a lever.

Then the lever pulled itself, making the room changed and revealed a wall full of cybertronian weapons.

"What are those things?" May asked.

"They must be their weapons. Ritchie, Clemont, help me to get up there." Ash requested.

"What? What do you have in mind?" May asked.

"We better get some weapons, in case we run into some enemies on the way." Ash explained.

"I see, so in that case we'll be able to defend ourselves against them." Ritchie understood.

Noivern grabbed three of the weapons, which looked like swords, and gave them to Ash, Ritchie and Clemont.

"Guys, I think we have company." Max noticed.

Max was right: a bunk of cybertronian mercenaries advanced towards them armed, so they hid.

"Now what are we going to do?" Bonnie asked worried.

"It looks like we're going to have to fight." Ash said. "Noivern, once they are close enough, use Supersonic. That will stun them."

Noivern nodded and hid as well all did. Of course, May pulled out one poke ball of hers.

"Blaziken, we need that when those robots were stunned you hit them with Sky Uppercut." May instructed.

"Blaziken."

The guards went inside the room looking for intruders. Once they were very close to where the kids were hidden…

"Noivern, now!" Ash said.

Noivern launched his attack on them, making them to scream in pain as they covered their ears before Blaziken took them down.

"Now is the chance, run!" Ash instructed.

The group managed to hide behind another wall, because the robots tried to shoot anywhere.

"Exactly how are we going to fight them?" Ritchie asked.

"We can try to use these weapons." Ash suggested.

"How? Only the Autobots would know how they work." Max said.

"They must have a trigger or a button that activates them." Clemont deduced while he examined the weapon.

Then the robots started to fire where they were hidden.

"Then better get hurry!" May said.

"Come on! How it works?!" Clemont groaned as he shook the weapon.

Then the sword's appearance changed a little. It opened, revealing a hole and a trigger which made it look more like a gun.

"Woah." Clemont said impressed.

"Let's use it." Ash said as he and Ritchie tried to change their weapons too.

Clemont came out of the hiding place and shot at the mercenaries. After a couple of seconds, he killed all of them.

"Woah, I am going to patent this thing." He said with a relief.

"Clemont, that was incredible!" Bonnie said.

"Indeed, you have faced all of them alone. That has been very brave." May admitted.

"Well, it was nothing." Clemont said a little red.

"A shame, I was looking forward to trying it out for myself." Ritchie groaned.

"You will have the chance, Ritchie. We still need to find Serena, and maybe we'll encounter more guards, so now we must go with caution. Noivern, Blaziken, you will cover us by the flank." Ash instructed.

As Ash predicted, more mercenaries tried to stop them, but now they used their new weapons to eliminate them. Some heavy soldiers tried to surprise them from behind, but the two pokemon managed to take them down by using Overheat and Boomburst. Pikachu and Sparky helped too with their electric attacks, which were very effective against the cybertronians. But when they thought they had knocked down all, another appeared in front of them. But this one was huge, more than the others.

"They can be that big?!" Ritchie asked in disbelief.

"Pathetic insects, prepare to face extinction." The titan said as he advanced towards them.

"Pikachu, stop it with Thunderbolt!" Ash instructed.

"You too, Sparky. Use Thunder Shock!" Ritchie instructed.

Both Pikachu launched their attacks on the giant, but they did no effect.

"Jajaja, they just tickled me." He mocked.

"It's tougher than he looks." Max observed scared.

"Run!" Ash shouted.

The titan tried to squash them, but they ran faster than him. Next a big cannon appeared on his arm and fired huge energy projectiles. The group evaded them, but the giant continued chasing them.

"How can we stop that giant?" Ritchie asked a little tire.

"Hum." Clemont said as he looked the floor very closely. "I believe I know how. Guys, can you see that under the floor?"

"You mean that thing which looks like lava?" Bonnie observed.

"Exactly, I believe it is some kind of smelting pit. If we manage to open the compartment when the giant is over here, he will fall directly to it." He explained.

"And he'll be destroyed." Ash finished.

"Right. We only need a way to open it." Clemont followed.

"There, I think I see a lever. It must be the one which opens the pit."

"Well seen, Max. You and Bonnie go up there and prepare to activate it when I get the signal." Clemont instructed.

They prepare for when the giant cybertronian arrived. Once it arrived, they try to attract him towards the trap.

"Hey clanker, we're here!" Ash said.

"What's wrong? You can't deal with us?" May mocked.

"Come and get us if you can." Ritchie challenged.

"You will regret that, I swear you!" The giant groaned furious before he charged towards them.

"Now!" Clemont shouted.

Bonnie and Max pulled off the lever, and exactly how Clemont predicted, the floor under it opened, making the giant to fell to the smelting pit, causing his death.

"Yeah, we beat him!" Ash proclaimed.

"Pikachu!"

"Ash?! Is that you?!"

"Huh? Serena? Yes, is me. But where are you?" Ash said as he tried to locate where her voice came from.

"Right down here!"

"She must be in the lower levels, under where we are now." Clemont deduced.

"Serena, wait there! We'll find a way down there!" Ash said.

"Okay, but please hurry. I don't how long I'm going to evade them." She said worried.

Unfortunately, a couple of soldiers located where Serena was and tried to grab her. They were about to reach her when…

"Hey you!"

They turned around to see Ash aiming at them with his weapon before Pikachu launched an Electro Ball which paralyzed them before Ash shot, killing them both.

"Are you okay?" Ash asked walking towards her.

"Ash!" Serena said as she ran to him and braced him with a lovely hug. "You came for me! I know you will come!"

"Eh, of course. Friends are not abandoned." Ash answered a little confused; because it was the first time he felt something like that.

"I'm glad to see you." Serena said dropping tears of happiness.

"Me too. I was very worried about you." Ash confessed.

"Truly?" Serena said surprised, because Ash has never reacted like that before, so maybe that was a good chance for her. "Ash, now that you saved me, I want to tell you that I…"

"Serena!"

Everyone came after Ash to hug her too.

"We're glad that you're fine." Bonnie said.

"Thanks a lot. Is good to see that everyone has come for me." Serena said.

"Of course. Friends are always together, not matter what happen." May said.

"Hum guys, I would not want to interrupt such a beautiful moment, but could we leave this place already?" Max suggested.

"Right, I'm tired to see cages everywhere and horrible creatures." Serena supported.

"But what about the Autobots?" Bonnie reminded.

"Don't worry Bonnie, surely they already have found Sentinel and they will know how to get out of here. We need to find an exit now." Ash said.

As they began to search an exit, the Autobots already reached the room where Sentinel was.

"How long does it take to open a door?" Sideswipe groaned.

"I almost got it." Drift said before he unlocked the door.

"Okay, let's get in." Elita instructed.

"Excuse me, big guy coming through!"

"Be careful or you'll end up causing a jam."

"What happens, Ironhide. Too rusty to follow my back?" Warpath mocked.

"Woah. Guys, take a look here." Moonracer called.

"This must be the Supermax." Hot Rod said.

"Watch the corners. This is the most restricted area off all the ship, Sentinel must be here." Orion said.

"There are a lot of cages, and I don't want to know what they were built for." Ratchet observed.

"Woah, what's this?" Warpath said approaching to a little cage which contained a strange insectoid creature.

"Warpath, don't do it!" Arcee warned.

"You don't look very dangerous in there, but you are so disgusting."

Then the bug spitted some green substance to Warpath's face, making him to fell.

"Ah! It hits me, it hurts!"

"Warpath, what's going on?!" Ratchet asked.

"I think its acid!" Warpath said, but when he noticed no pain he calmed down as some Autobots began to laugh. "Oh gross, it's just shizzle."

"Jaja, I hope it is not contagious." Wheeljack mocked.

"No one makes laugh of me and lives to tell it. You're so annoying. Take this, bug." Warpath said before he fired his cannon at the bug. "Farewell, creepy crawler."

"Seriously Warpath, you need to control your temper." Elita said.

"Warpath!"

"It's Sentinel, it's alive." Hot Rod noticed.

"Where are you, Prime?!" Elita asked.

"Right here, inside one of the cages!"

"Hold right there, Sentinel! We go for you!" Orion said as they came to his cage. "Take it easy, master. We'll get you out right now."

"Orion, listen. The arms of this Knights ship detach! It's a separate ship! We can break free!" Sentinel explained.

"Where is the cockpit? Right or left?" Jetfire asked.

"Right."

"Going there, boss." Jetfire said.

"Jazz, Blaster, Bumblebee, find the children and get them out of the ship. We'll meet later." Orion instructed.

"Right away, Pax." Blaster nodded.

"(We will get them safe and sound.)" Bee said before he went with the others.

"Hold in there, sensei." Drift said as he and Wheeljack used their swords to break his cage.

"I've always wanted to drive one of these ancient ships." Jetfire said while he sat on the pilot's seat.

In that moment, the kids found an exit at last.

"Guys look: there is light coming from that hole." Bonnie pointed.

"That must be an exit that those legendary pokemon have created." Serena deduced.

"You mean the ones you have released?" Ritchie asked.

"Yes."

"Then that will be our way out too." Ash said getting through the hole.

Right outside the ship, the group saw in front of them the anchors which kept the ship hooked to the canyon. They connected with the top of the canyon's wall, but there was a problem: the wall was on the other side of the anchors and they were very high.

"It's going to have to be like this. We have to cross through those cables in order to reach the canyon. But let's go carefully." Ash said.

"We have to pass by there?" Max said a little scared.

"Don't worry, Max. Sure it's not so bad." Ritchie cheered.

They started to walk over the anchors' cables with much caution. They managed to reach almost to the middle of the way.

"Okay, this is more difficult than I thought." Ritchie admitted.

"There is too much distance to the bottom." Bonnie observed a little nervous.

"Don't be nervous, little sister. Just don't look down." Clemont advised.

"That's it! I can't do this, I'm going back to the ship!" Max said frightened.

"Come on Max. You already have managed to cross half of the way, you can do it." May told him.

"No, it's too hard."

"Max, I'm your older sister and in the absence of mom and dad I'm the one who takes care of you, so continue to the end!" She said a little mad.

"Don't start again with that! I'm not moving from here!"

"May, why do not you go and help him cross? Maybe he'll feel safer if you are with him."

"Good idea, Serena." Ash said.

"Okay Max, stay right there, I'm coming to you." May said advancing towards her brother. "Okay, now give me your hand and I will help you to reach the other side."

"Oh, okay." Max answered still scared.

But then the pack of metallic wolves reached the exit and started to approach them walking through the cables too.

"Huh, has anyone noticed that this seems to move?" Ritchie said observing the cables swing.

"You're right. Why will it be?" Ash asked.

As he controlled May and Max progress, Clemont get nervous when he saw the wolves getting close behind them.

"Max, May, don't look back." He advised.

"Well, don't say that. Now I want to turn around." May answered.

"Whatever happens, don't stop. Continue walking towards us."

"What's wrong, Clemont? You're scaring us." Max said.

"Listen, I'm going to point the weapon in your direction. It's going to feel like it's in your direction, but it's not. When I say it get down, trust me."

"Okay." May said nervous.

The wolves almost reach them and one prepared to attack.

"Now!"

When the wolf jumped Clemont shot at him, taking it down of the cables. Ash and Ritchie helped him shooting at the rest of pack, but one of the cables was cut in the process.

"Wait! We cannot shot them like that. If those cables break before we get to the other side we'll fall." Ash warned.

The wolves seemed to have understood what Ash said, because they returned to the ship and started biting the cables. That caused the cables to start shaking more strongly, forcing the group to grab them strongly to evade the fall.

"They're trying to destroy the cables!" Clemont yelled.

"Everyone, brace yourselves!" Ash warned while he grabbed Serena's hand.

Max was the first to slide, but fortunately Bonnie grabbed his hand.

"Uf, big brother! My hands are starting to give up, help us!"

"Hand in there, Bonnie! May, let's make a chain, you need to grab my sister's hand!"

"Okay!"

Clemont and May tried to get near their little siblings, but the cable where they were was too far.

"I can't stand anymore!" Bonnie warned.

"Hold in there, I'm almost there!" May said.

But the last shake cut their cable, making then to fall. But that happened to everyone; the cables began to break loose one by one, making everyone to slip and fall. But fortunately, Bumblebee appeared and eliminated the wolves with his laser guns before he jumped towards the wall. In the process, he caught Max and Bonnie before he hooked to the wall.

"Heh? We're not hurt, we're fine." Bonnie said in relief.

"Dedenne!"

"You're the best, Bee! You're the best!" Max said, happy to see his friend.

"(Of course. Did you doubt it?)" Bee answered.

Blaster came out of the ship too and headed towards the rest of the kids.

"Sundor, grab the last one!" He instructed.

Blaster deployed his Minibot before changing to his robot form and grabbed Ash and Ritchie, who were holding their pokemon with their arms; with his hands. He launched two tentacles too which grabbed Serena and May. Clemont was grabbed by Sundor, who took him back with the rest above them, because Blaster was floating in the air thanks to two engines activated on his back.

"Uf, that was close." Clemont said in relief.

"Blaster, you saved us." Ash thanked.

"As you did with me." Blaster affirmed.

"Wait, what has become of Bonnie and Max?!" May asked worried.

"Don't worry. Bumblebee has secured them." Blaster answered before they looked where he looked.

"Hey guys, we're fine!" Bonnie shouted.

"Uf, thanks to Arceus." May said in relief.

"Now we are all fine." Ritchie said.

"Do not be so sure." A voice said.

It was Jazz, who managed to grab a cybertronian fighter and flew towards them.

"I hope that you are well, because enemy ships are coming in hot. Get aboard." Jazz instructed.

Blaster and Bumblebee put the kids on the ship before they went aboard too. Then an entire squadron of the same fighters began to approach towards them.

"Jazz, do not let them take you down. I'll draw their attention." Blaster ordered.

"Be careful, Blaster." Ash asked.

"Okay kids, fasten the belts, hold the hats and enjoy, because this is going to be a bumpy ride." Jazz told them.

"What?!" May said surprised.

"Here we go!" Jazz said cheered.

The other fighters began to shot at them, so they were forced to fly through the canyon, trying to evade their pursuers. Blaster was following them in his jet form.

"Jazz, they're following us closely!" Ash reported.

"I'm going the faster as this can." Jazz said as he speeded up.

"Then let's try to take them down. Ready Pikachu?"

"Pika."

"Sparky, prepare yourself too." Ritchie said.

"Pika."

They started to launch electric attacks at the other ships, but as they moved too much it was difficult to hit them. Blaster put behind them and started firing at them, taking down one.

"Bee, give them a hand! Take them down!" Jazz said.

Bumblebee began to fire too, and their combined effort allowed them to hit one.

"You guys did it! You take down one!" Serena saw.

"At least is working." Max added.

"This is for you, Decepticreeps!" Jazz said as he pressed a button, launching two missiles.

The missiles impacted on a rock pillar near them which caused a rock fall which caught one of the fighters.

"Okay, I've already had enough of this. Bee, shift time: you pilot, I shoot." Jazz said while he changed his position with Bumblebee.

"These guys don't give up!" Bonnie said as the fighters fired again.

"There must be something we can do to stop them." Clemont said.

"Now that you mention it, if there is something you can do. Look." Jazz pointed in front of them. "Those are tracer guns. The controls are those, punch forwards to fire, slide back to reload."

"Wait! Are you suggesting that we use those weapons?" Ritchie asked.

"Can you repeat that?" Clemont asked.

"It's easy: punch, hold, slide, repeat. Punch, hold, slide, repeat. Good luck." Jazz repeated.

"Where are you going?" Ash asked.

"To lay some justice." Jazz answered as he activated his visor.

Jazz jumped out of the ship and launched a grapple hook which hooked on one of the fighters. As he bounced himself, he shot at the fighters, making them impossible to evade him. When he finished, Blaster picked him up.

"Okay. Punch, hold, slide, repeat. Punch, hold, slide, repeat." Ritchie and Clemont said before they started to use the guns.

The guns fired at the fighters, taking a few ones unlucky.

"Woah, I got one!" Ritchie said surprised.

"This technology is awesome!" Clemont said cheered.

After a couple of shots all the fighters were destroyed, so Bee started to descend the ship.

"(Max, tell everyone to hold on tight, I'm going to try to land the ship.)" Bee warned.

"What did he say?" May asked.

"He told us to hold on tight!" Max shouted.

As everyone prepared, Bee tried to land the ship, but it was too fast that it was more like a crash landing. Fortunately no one was hurt.

"That was so amazing!" Bonnie said.

"Yeah, let's do it again!" Max followed.

"You are not saying really, don't you?" May warned.

"I think we've had enough fun for today." Clemont said a little dizzy.

In that moment Blaster and Jazz arrived.

"It's everyone okay?" Blaster asked.

"Yeah, we're fine. That was intense, but awesome." Ash admitted.

"Then let's go. We need to regroup with the others." Blaster said.

Meanwhile Lockdown's ship was already free, so it continued to ascend and prepared to get into the space.

"Prepare for interstellar launch." Lockdown told to all his officers.

The Autobots, by their way, they were trying to escape in the coupled ship.

"How are you doing?" Elita asked.

"We're almost ready to separate, almost there." Jetfire reported.

"Hurry, Lockdown will be in deep space before he realizes I'm gone." Sentinel said.

"Maybe I'm not the best of pilots, but I can give it a shot. Oh yeah."

Finally the ship separated from Lockdown's ship while this went to the space and flew towards the other direction, to reunite with the rest of the team. Meanwhile, inside Team Alien's base, everyone was picking up everything.

"Have you set the charges?" An officer demanded.

"Almost, sir." One soldier reported.

"So, what now my lady?"

"I have ordered to collect everything of the base and not leave evidence. We are going to transport all our equipment to our secondary facilities. We'll send the seed there too." Misbelwy instructed.

"My lady, I heard that the field test of Galvatron has been a success." The professor said.

"Yes, but there is still one thing that I want you to explain to me. Why Galvatron launched five missiles when it doesn't supposed to do it?" She asked.

"Hum? What do you mean?"

"I mean that during the chase a mistake happened, and I don't like mistakes, professor. I did not have control of my prototype and I want to know why!" She said angry.

"Hum…I'll investigate it thoroughly." The professor answered.

"Find out what caused that mistake, even if you have to disassemble it to examine it carefully, piece by piece." She finished.

"My lady, charges set. We ready to abandon the place." An officer reported.

"Excellent. Let's all get out of here before the authorities arrive." She said before she went to her personal transport, after giving a last view to Galvatron.

A couple of minutes later, before officer Jenny and her agents could enter the facility was destroyed. Meanwhile, the three Autobots and the kids reunited with the other Autobots, who were next to the ship they stole in an open area.

"Let's give the guys the good news. We got a ship now. We can leave whenever we want." Ironhide said.

"You humans. After all that happened, you don't know what those terrorists have wrought upon you." Sentinel said.

"What do you mean with that?" Ash asked confused.

"The problem, Ash, it is that no one see who's controlling who. Within that man-made prototype I fought, I sensed the presence of Megatron." Orion explained.

"Wait! You mean the Decepticon leader who caused your planet's death?" Clemont asked.

"But I believed that he was dead." Bonnie reminded.

"How do you think Team Alien built those robots in the first place?" Fixit began. "They had a lot of energon, cybertronian cybermatter and lots of Decepticon heads and they were downloading their minds in order to get information about our species. Blaster and I were in charge of autopsy duty. Then they hooked us to Megatron and we discovered that his mind wasn't as dead as they thought. He even managed to keep a few other minds like his own safe. He fed them the details and designs so they could build them brand-new bodies. And when they were ready, he infected them with their corresponding CNA."

"Misbelwy might have named the prototype by the name of Galvatron, but that's just Megatron reincarnated." Blaster continued.

"You knew this and you didn't warn then?" May asked.

"Girl, you can go to a dark place when you death row. He's been playing Team Alien all this time, all so that he could manipulate them into going after the seed." Blaster told.

"The seed? I wonder what it is." Ritchie said.

"Now I remember that when I saw those Team Alien's soldiers aboard the ship, they were taking something from Lockdown that they called the seed." Serena said.

"The history of the seed goes back to before the Great War started." Ratchet said.

"Many eons ago, our planet was visited by an advanced species that named themselves the creators; we know them by their true name. But their intentions were not peaceful: seeing how strong our race was, they tried to slave us." Sentinel told.

"Fortunately they were defeated and expelled from our home. But during one of our skirmishes in another world, just before we arrived to Earth, we made contact with them too. It was in that moment when Autobots and Decepticons fought together against a common foe. After that, we discovered what they were doing in all that time." Orion continued.

"As they had not been able to exercise control over us, they decided to create a method to manufacture their own, which was the seeds." Elita told.

"Thousands of planets were cyber formed with seeds, including Earth in ancient times. They turned your organic life into our elemental metals. They destroyed your world to make their own cybertronians." Sentinel finished.

"And that's what Galvatron wants to happen again. He wants to detonate that seed in a big city and kill millions of people and pokemon. He wants to show the universe that he's back." Blaster added.

"The blast wave will incinerate that city into pure cybertronian cybermatter." Ratchet deduced.

"Combine with the energon he'll have enough to build a massive army and annihilate your species forever." Sentinel said.

"Those terrorists are so condescending that they have sought extinction. Not my problem now that I'm free, but the good children like you should not suffer the same fate." Moonracer said.

"Then we got to get the seed before Galvatron does." Ash declared.

"I'm with you, Ash. But we still need to know how we are going to locate those criminals." Hot Rod said.

"I think I know it. During my stay with them, I learned a lot of their communication systems. Maybe I can locate them if I connect with the global communication web." Blaster suggested.

"That's our best choice. Start right now." Sentinel ordered.

While Blaster used his tentacles on a phone cable, Ash went to a private area to talk with his friends.

"Guys, I never thought we would say goodbye in this way, but at least you'll be safe." Ash said.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Clemont asked confused.

"The Autobots now can defeat Team Alien, so the danger that prevented us from going home is gone. But there is still the menace that Galvatron represents, so it will be more dangerous. I'm telling you this because I'm going to keep helping them, and I don't want that any of you risk his life. You guys have the choice to stay away from this, but I made my choice." Ash explained.

Ash was about to return with the Autobots when someone put a hand on his shoulder.

"Ash, I know there is no way to try to convince you to change your mind. But that doesn't mean you have to do it alone." Serena said.

"We have seen danger before, and we managed to survive." Clemont added.

"Because we're a team, and friends never left friends behind." Bonnie said.

"If it is about saving the world, we'll stay with you!" Ritchie declared.

"And we'll be there to help you in any way we can." May said.

"We'll follow you to the very end." Max added.

"Guys." Ash said surprised. "You're right, we're all together in this."

"Don't give up until the very end. That's your motto, right Ash?"

"You said it, Serena. Let's help our friends in anything we can." Ash said.

"Pika!"

And in the moment they back…

"Prime, I've intercepted an encrypted communication. It's from Team Alien's leader." Blaster reported.

"Have you discovered where she is going?" Elita asked.

"Not yet. I could only if I were tracking an open communication with her position, like a phone conversation with her." Blaster explained.

"Maybe we can help you with that." Ash offered.

Blaster manipulated the phone link as Ash and Clemont prepared to speak through the phone.

"Tracking commencing. You can start." Blaster said.

"Hi there, mistress. Do you remember me?" Ash began.

"What? It is you, Ash?" Misbelwy answered while she was flying aboard her private transport. "You kids, do you have any idea of the mess in which you have been involved? But maybe you can save yourself if you are willing to cooperate."

"Better not talk, because you're going to be responsible for the destruction of an entire city." Clemont said.

"What do you mean?" She asked.

"Let me summarize it: your tech has been hacked, your prototypes are infected and now Galvatron is after that seed." Clemont explained.

"Jajaja, do not be ridiculous. I created Galvatron, I control it." She answered.

"You have no idea that it is actually your prototype that has been controlling you. I know that because I'm an inventor too." Clemont said.

"Listen, whatever you do, do not let Galvatron anywhere near that seed." Ash said before he hung up.

"Source located: Misbelwy is heading to a second facility they have in Jubilife City." Blaster reported.

"That's in the Sinnoh region. I have been there, so I know where it is." Ash remembered.

"Woah, you have traveled all over the world." Bonnie said surprised.

"But that's very far. How fast can that thing get us halfway around the world?" Ritchie asked.

"Very. It's a spaceship." Drift answered.

"Then let's move. We're retrieving the seed, but we're not going to defend the humans and pokemon." Sentinel proclaimed, leaving Ash worried as everyone entered the ship.

The ship blasted off and headed right to Sinnoh. Unfortunately someone more had discovered that on space.

"Hijacked part of my ship? How did you let this happen? Shut down dark-matter drive, reverse course at light speed, and get us back! Prime's taken my trophy case. And he will feel my wrath!" Lockdown said, very mad.