The Will of the Transformers

Chapter 7: Robo Warrior

The next morning, Sam, Jane, Mikaela, and Leo head off to New York to find Robo-Warrior.

"This guy, Robo-Warrior?" Leo asked the group, "Everything about anything alien, he's supposed to know. One time we revenge-hacked his site and maybe, I saw some of your... uh... alien drawings or whatever." They stop in front of a deli place in a town area. Earlier, since Sam is a wanted fugitive, he quickly puts on a disguised. "This is it. Yep. Deli. Good front!" Leo said to them, "All right, wait here. I'll give you the go no-go. Alright?"

He gets out of Bumblebee and enters the meat shop. There he meets the guy who used to an agent from Sector 7: Walter Simmons. He is now working as a manager of the shop.

"Number forty-two, we got your kishka, knish, kasha-varnishka and kreplach combo right here." Simmons said to a customer, "Cash only. Who's next?"

"I told you to cure the lox in the brine and then smoke it." His mother Tova said.

"Ma, you want me to cut my hand off, or what?" Simmons said.

"You ruined a beautiful piece of fish, you retard." Tova argued.

"I'm like a ninja with a blade. It's an art form." He argued back.

"Give me your money. Get out of here!" She turns and walks back to the kitchen.

"Hey, Sal! Watch your reach, huh?"

Then Leo enters in and sees Simmons.

"Take a number, young man." He said to him.

"Robo-Warrior." Leo said, "Know him?"

"I never heard of him." He said.

"You never heard of ?"

"You must be talking about that amateur-hour blog operation with Game Boy level security. "

Then Sam, Mikaela, and Jane then enter the shop. Sam is disguised to avoid be seen by the government. Leo then sees Sam after turning towards him.

"Robo-Warrior." Leo shouts, "It's him! It's him! That's the guy right there! That's him!"

Sam and Simmons recognized each other. Jane as saw the agent as well.

"No." Simmons said.

"Well I'll be damned." Jane said.

"You've got to be kidding me." Sam said.

"All right, meat store's closed! Everybody out!" Simmons shout to customers.

"When he says to go, you go." Tova said to them.

"Out! Right now. That means you, lady, right now." Simmon shouts.

Everyone in the store had to leave before Tova puts the closed sign.

"Wait a minute. You know this guy?" Leo asks Sam.

"We're old friends." Sam replied.

"Old friends? You're the case that shut down Sector Seven, got the kibosh disbanded." Simmons explaned, "No more security clearance, no retirement, no nothing. All 'cause of you and your little criminal girlfriend. Look at her now, so mature."

"Hey, come on. At least you had done your job." Jane said to him.

"Well, well. Mrs. Jordan. The Hero of Mission City."

"Long time no see." Jane said.

"Moron! Where's the whitefish?" Tova shouts to employee with weird teeth name Yakov.

"Hey! Don't touch me with the pig." Yakov argued.

"Yakov!" Simmons shouts to him.

"What?" Yoka asked.

"You don't get Christmas bonuses standing around!" Simmons shouted, "You want those new teeth you saw on Sky Mall?"

"It's my dream." Yakov said.

"Help her out." Simmons mutterted.

"You live with your mother?" Mikaela asked.

Simmons-"No, my mama lives with me. It's a big difference. They've got your face all over the news, alien boy."

"Yeah, I know." Sam said.

"And N.B.E.-one. Still kicking, huh? How did that happen? Don't answer. I don't know what you're hiding, but I don't want anything to do with it. So, good-bye. You never saw me. I got bagels to smear. Vanish."

Simmon goes to leave to the back door.

"Can you give me five seconds?" Sam asks Simmons.

"Simmons, the Decepticons are winning this war." Jane said to the man, "We need your help!"

"Reaaaally? You need my help?" Simmons said.

"I need... Look, I am slowly losing my mind." Sam explains, "Okay. I had been captured and I had a little crab-bot plunge a device deep into the soft tissues of my brain and started projecting little alien symbols like a freaking home movie! And on top of that, I'm a wanted fugitive. So, you think you got it rough?"

"You said it projected images off your brain?"

"Right."

"Meat locker, now!" Simmon shouts to them.

They all enter the meat locker which is full of dead pigs.

"Dead pigs." Sam said.

"Yuck." Mikaela grossed out.

"What you're about to see is top secret... Do not tell my mother." Simmons said before he opens the hatch on the floor. They enter an underground area full of files and documents from S-7. "Now you know. Next time you eat a goat or a pig, there's a story behind it. Saaad little story." He then searches around for documents about the symbols. "Okay, files, files. We're talking about symbols. " Leo sees the head of Frenzy and tries to touch it but Simmons slaps his hand, "Ey! Still radioactive. Hands off." Simmons then shows Sam and the others pictures of the symbols, "Okay, Cube-brain. Any of these look like the symbols you saw?"

"Where did you get these?" Sam asks taking one of them.

Simmons climbs up to collect a box of top secret files, "Before I got fired, I poached S-7's crown jewel, over seventy five years of alien research, which points to one inescapable fact. The Transformers, they've been here a long, long time. How do I know?" He shows the teens images of people from parts of the world with symbols on ancient artifacts, "Archaeologists found these unexplained markings in ancient ruins all over the world. China. Egypt. Greece." He the shows them a film where archeologists are looking at the symbols, "Shot in 1932. These the symbols you're seeing in your head?"

"Yeah." Sam replied.

"Same ones over here, right? So, tell me, how did they end up all drawing the same things? Aliens. And I think some of them stayed. Check this out." He shows them pictures of both Autobots and Decepticons, "Project: Black Knife. Robots. In disguise. Hiding here all along. We detected radioactive signatures all across the country. I pleaded. On my knees with S-7 to investigate it, but they said the readings were infinitesimal, that I... was... obsessed! Me. Can you imagine that?

"Megatron said that there was another Energon source here." Jane said.

"On Earth?"

"On Earth." Sam replied.

"Another source?" Simmons asked.

"And that these symbols, the maps in my head, would lead him there." Sam points to the symbols on the pictures.

"You talked to your Autobot friends about this?"

"No, no, no, the source is before them. Whatever the Energon source is, it predates them. It's before them."

"So it comes before them."

"Correct."

"Well, then we're porked, unless we can talk to a Decepticon. I mean, I'm not on speaking [chuckle] terms with them."

"Actually, I am." Mikaela said. She heads back out to get the box. When she returns she places on the table. The voice inside the box shouts "Let me out." Jane readies her ring and aims at the box.

"Is that a Decepticon in there?" she asked.

"Yeah. This is going to be a little bit sad." Mikaela replied.

"Open it." Sam said to her.

Mikaela opens the box and out comes the Decepticon, Wheelie.

"Whoa!" Sam flinched.

"Whoa!" shouted Simmons.

"I will have so many Decepticons on your butts!" Wheelie shouts in anger.

"Hey, behave!" Mikaela yanks Wheelie who is tied to a chain. She helds out a torch and aims at his other eye. His left eye was blown out when he was breaking into the safe to steal the shard. Jane readies her ring.

"Hey! Easy!" Wheelie said, raising his hands.

"What is it, a Decepticon?" Sam asks.

"No shit it's a Decepticon." Jane replied.

"And you're training him?" Sam asked.

"I'm trying to." Mikaela said.

"I spent my whole adult life combing the planet for aliens..."

"Got to get me off this leash." Wheelie bites the chain trying to free himself.

"...and you're carrying around one in your purse like a little Chihuahua." Simmons said making Wheelie stop biting and turn towards him.

"Do you want a throwdown, you pubic 'fro-head?" He asked.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry about your eye, you know, but, if you're a good boy-" Mikeala said to the little bot

"Uh-huh? Uh-huh?"

"-then I'm not gonna torch your other eye. Okay? I'm not gonna torch it. Just tell me what these symbols are. Please."

Wheelie begins looking at the pictures of the Transformers and the symbols, "All right. Uh. Oh, I know that. That's the language of the Primes. I don't read it, but these guys... where the frick did you find photos of these guys?"

Sam shows Wheelie the images, "Is this them?"

"Yeah. Seekers, pal. Oldest of the old. They've been here thousands of years, looking for something. I don't know what. Nobody tells me anything, but they'll translate those symbols for you. And I know where to find them."

"Show us."

"Yeah."

Wheelie cracks his hands and looks at the map of the United States. He fires green lasers at the map indicating the location of a Transformer.

"Closest one's in Washington." Simmons said.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go." Jane said.

Next chapter is where they met Jetfire. R&R.