Chapter 7: The Intruder (this is also the name of the most awesome Toonami mini-movie ever I just realized)
"You think they'll be ok?" Sari asked Bumblebee as they looked out the window to her room down at the city below. "Of course they will," he replied with a reassuring smile, "Though they no longer have their best advantage, myself of course, I have no doubt in my mind that those guys can take anything that comes their way!" "I just don't understand why I wasn't allowed to come," the girl muttered pacing about in the pink room, "I've always been able to go before, even when they said no, but not this time." "Maybe they want you to help me figure out how to transform!" Bumblebee suggested grabbing her hands, "cause believe me, I can't wait to go robot mode!"
Sari shook her head pathetically and walked towards the door, "Alright Bumbleboy, let's see what we can do. But not in my room, at the roof. There is no way I'm having you wreck my place." "Who says I'd wreck it?" "Experimenting with how to turn you into a robot," Sari replied rolling her eyes, "Yeah, that's going to be nice and not dangerous at all." "What's the worst that could happen?" Bumblebee shrugged with a sly smile. "Well, we might end up loosing my couch and bed if things go wrong," Sari said putting her face up against his. "Now that I think about it the roof probably is a better place," Bumblebee replied blushing and rubbing the back of his head. "Then let's get this over with," Sari mumbled and pulled the boy into the hall.
metroid story divider-----------metroid story divider
"Anything yet?" Optimus Prime called over the radio to the other Autobots patrolling the city. "Nope." "Don't see anything." "Nada big guy." "This is Fanzone," replied the officer from his private police radio as he drove along in his yellow old car, "What exactly are we robots looking for tonight?" "Oh, captain Fanzone..." Optimus muttered trying to act calm, "Um, nothing much just..." "Just?" "a skilled purple ninja-like Decepticon," Bulkhead finished. "...you're kidding right?" the chief of police murmured into his radio, "Alright, look, me and my boys are out chasing down this freak on a motorcycle, but once we're done we'll see what we can do to help. In the meantime, DON'T WRECK THE CITY!"
"I don't see where he gets off saying Bumblebee has a good set of lungs," Bulkhead growled as the transmission from Fanzone ended, "Nearly blew my sonar detectors out with that last order." "Fanzone's just annoyed about how much gets wrecked when we sometimes get involved Bulkhead," Optimus replied, "However, we need to find that Decepticon and bring him down before he causes any real trouble." As Optimus ended the transmission to the others he sped off in the night air along the highway with his brights on scanning for any trace of where the transformer may have gone.
metroid story divider-----------metroid story divider
"Megatron! You blockhead! I've rigged the Omega Supreme clones with explosives and-!...wait a second..." Starscream sat up and rubbed the back of his head before looking around, "It's night time, there are no Omega Supremes in sight, and the city is still standing....WHY?!" "Because, it wasn't time for this city to meet its end yet," said someone off to the Decepticon's right. Standing there was the purple ninja-like transformer with his dark horned helmet on his head. "You died," he told Starscream with his arms folded over his chest. "What, again?" Starscream grumbled as he got up and banged his head against the side of a building irritably, "Well, at least I'm immortal-"
"You WERE immortal," the purple bot corrected looking sternly at the revived transformer, "You no longer are. You died. I brought you back." "Oh well thank you fellow Decepticon," Starscream applauded with a bow and a smirk plastered upon his face, "Your services are greatly appreciated, but please do tell me how you acquired another Allspark fragment." "I didn't." "...come again?" "I did not give you an Allspark fragment to bring you back to life," the purple transformer repeated, "In another life you were quite a nuisance but from what I've seen you're not going to be that big of a problem now."
"What did you say?!" Starscream yelled about to pounce on his savior. Before his claws could reach the stealthy figure though, Starscream was downed by a kick to the chest plate. "What I just said is not all that important," the figure muttered kneeling down next to Starscream, "What is important is what you need to know, and that is that Megatron is no longer going to be leading the Decepticons." "What?" Starscream said blinking with interest. "The Decepticons need a new leader and I think we both know who should take up that role." "Why me of course!" Starscream gleefully laughed jumping up. "Exactly," the transformer agreed and watched as Starscream morphed into a jet and took off into the night sky, "Exactly as it's supposed to be."
metroid story divider-----------metroid story divider
"We've been at this for over thirty minutes now," Sari groaned ruffling her hair in frustration, "Just give it a rest Bumblebee." "No! I think I heard something pop that last time!" the boy said excited clutching his neck. "...are you sure that's a good thing?" Sari muttered looking at him with a glazed expression. "Sari Sumdac, have I ever been wrong?" The girl glared at him and rolled her eyes. "Exactly!" Bumblebee exclaimed, "Now let's try this again, cheechachoochoochu!" Sari tapped her head over and over on a table that was sitting off to the side of the control panel to the damaged Space Bridge as Bumblebee continued to make a fool of himself.
Finally he walked over to where she was sitting and sat down next to her. "I just need to break in this new body more and then it'll simply come naturally," Bumblebee assured her confidently, "I mean I've already nailed down how to do the sound and movements to get into car mode, even if they are a bit harder to do as a human." "You really are wanting to get back to being an Autobot aren't you?" she grumbled looking up at him with her head on her arms. "Well of course I want to transform again!" Bumblebee exclaimed thrusting his hand in the air, "The team needs their star player after all, don't they?"
Sari muttered something and turned to look in the opposite direction. "Sari?" Bumblebee said curiously and poked the girl's shoulder, "is something wrong?" "No, everything's just fine, that's why I have my head in my arms." "Oh, ok," he replied with a big smile, "Though I wonder what I would look like once I do transform in this body." "Can you please stop talking about transforming?" Sari asked lifting her head up and looking at the boy next to her obviously annoyed. "Um...why?" "Oh gee, I dunno," Sari sighed, "Maybe cause one, I have heard you trying to do that freaking thing for an entire episode-length, and two...figure it out."
"...you feel left out? You can transform too," Bumblebee attempted at an answer shrugging his soldiers. Sari just growled and put her head down on her arms again. "I'm acting too natural aren't I?" Bumblebee asked with a smile as he put his hand on her's, "That's why I'm not getting right. It isn't forced enough is it?" "SHUT UP!" she screamed snapping her head up and slapping his cheek. Bumblebee toppled head over heels from the impact and looked at Sari dizzily as she got up and started marching towards the door to the elevator. "Sari!" he yelled, "Where are ya going? You can join in the transforming too!"
Sari fumed angrily as she thrust open the door leaving a rather noticeable box-like imprint on the wall where it hit. "SARI!" he cried running after her as she got in the elevator, "Wait up!" "Don't you have some transforming to do?" she asked with a scowl as the elevator doors began to slide shut. "Not without you! You're supposed to help me!" Bumblebee retorted trying to slide in between the doors. Just as he was about to fully get in he was knocked right back out. "Help yourself," Sari said with her arms crossed over her chest as the doors slid shut. "SARI!" Bumblebee yelled banging on the glass doors desperately. Sari just raised an eyebrow and waved at him as she descended.
metroid story divider-----------metroid story divider
Megatron sighed as he and his two most loyal troops (though only one he really cared for) drifted through the endless depths of space, their destination only known by their ship. "Shockwave," Megatron said. "Yes my liege?" "When we get out of this, remind me to hunt down whoever looks like the closest thing to whoever freed us so that I may annihilate them." "Uh...duly noted sir," the demonic looking robot responded. "To pass the time master, I could sing you a song I made for you," Lugnut suggested nervously, "Blitzwing even helped by dancing out motions to it." "Oh dear Primus," the Decepticon leader moaned shutting down his optics.
metroid story divider-----------metroid story divider
"Man, I don't see nothin out here," Jazz hummed to himself as he sped through some old subway systems, "But it just seemed like such an ideal pad for someone to chill at." The sleek Elite Guard member didn't mind though, he was having a blast simply chilling in the dark tunnels as he cranked up the volume on his radio. "I never did understand what big S saw wrong with this planet," he said to himself, "It has some of the kickinest beats I've ever come across in any system." The subway tracks seemed to lead on forever in atmospheric silence with only the sound of the beats inside the car echoing. It was truly an amazing planet.
Suddenly, the Autobot flew straight through a boarded up wall and into a waterway below. "Ah jeeze," Jazz muttered transforming into his robot mode and trying to shake off the liquid, "This better not rust as bad as that cosmic rust that those Decepticons carry with em sometimes." As he continued to trying and shake himself off, Jazz spotted something out of the corner of his visor. It was a dark figure in shadows but its eyes were glowing bright red and its figure was very lean. "Well well well," he muttered to himself and sunk down beneath the surface of the water to keep from being noticed. He himself continued to look up at his prey as it seemed to scan the surface of the water.
"I'm not here man..." Jazz said quietly to himself praying that the opponent's vision would shift. Whatever that transformer was he was scary. Jazz didn't understand though. He'd faced thousands of Decepticons in his time, much bigger and menacing than this one, and this was the one that just gave his servos the shakes for some reason. It wasn't the red eyes, even when looking Megatron right in the face he hadn't flinched one bit. There was just something...something about him that was wrong. Every part of its body looked right, just like a regular transformer, any other Cybertronian out there, but...it was wrong. The atmosphere was just all...dead.
Finally the red eyes scanned further down the river and Jazz flipped out and quickly moved behind movie theatre. "What in Primus's name is this guy?" Jazz wondered aloud as he slid his visor slowly out from behind the side of the building to get another view. He was still standing there, just as calm-looking as ever. The Decepticon had apparently not noticed the Autobot get out of the river, nor the ripples this time that expanded from his exit of the water. "Something is not right," Jazz mumbled looking intently at the transformer.
Jazz didn't have time to react as the glowing eyes suddenly looked over at him in one quick movement. He had been spotted, and he could not move. His servos weren't responding, no joints were moving! He couldn't do anything but stay crouched there looking at those eyes. The figure had to have seen him! But it wasn't doing anything. It was as if it just viewed him as another part of the scenery, not that that made him any more calm. After about half a minute the eyes trailed back to the water way and the figure ran off behind the apartment building it was standing in front of.
Finally regaining control of his body, the Autobot stammered a bit and took off running after the culprit. He was still scared to the point of going offline, but that didn't change the fact that he had a mission to do! The bot couldn't help but shake as he rounded the corner that the figure had and leapt out in a defensive stance with his nun chucks swinging. "Hold it right there Dec...ep...ticon?" what Jazz was witnessing was no Decepticon but a cop chase with an oddly clothed human atop a motorcycle. "...well, either way I'm helping some cool cats," Jazz said with a shrug and took off after the chase after turning back into a car.
metroid story divider-----------metroid story divider
"SARI!" Bumblebee moaned banging on the girl's door. "For the fifth time, go away!" she yelled back. Bumblebee finally just dropped against the door and slid to the ground dejected. "Excuse me, but am I interrupting something?" Professor Sumdac asked as he walked up to the dark skinned boy. Bumblebee looked up with a puzzled look on his face partly because of Sari's behavior, and partly because of what her father had in his hands. Professor Sumdac seemed to be carrying some sort of puffy bag. "Hello Mr. Sumdac," Bumblebee responded depressed, "Sari is mad at me for some reason." "Oh," he said surprised and began punching keys in the console beside Sari's door, "Well let me just see what's going on."
"HEY! How did you figure out the-oh hi dad, DON'T LET HIM IN HERE!" was all that Bumblebee could here as the adult entered and the door hissed shut behind him. "I just don't get what she's upset about," the boy said to himself with a worried look on his face, "I mean, I said she could join in on the transforming and everything even. I don't get what's up with her." Bumblebee just sat there for a few minutes up against the door until finally it hissed and opened again allowing Professor Sumdac to emerge. "Well?" Bumblebee asked staring up at the professor intently. "Just don't mention machines to her," he said with a smile. "She's not turning into Fanzone is she?!" Bumblebee exclaimed jumping up. "Oh no, nothing that serious," Professor Sumdac laughed, "and let her vent if she needs to." "What?" "Vent, it means, let her express feelings to you if she feels pent up and stuff," he explained and walked off down the hall.
"Sari?" Bumblebee called as he peered into the room. "Hey Bumblebee..." the girl muttered in the dark. "Why are the lights out?" "I was trying to get some rest while you kept banging on the door," she said as he walked into the room. He could just vaguely make out the girl curled up in a ball on her pink bed in a yellowish night-gown. Slowly he slid onto the bed and sat indian-style behind her. "Anything you wanna talk about?" he asked quietly. "No," she responded. "Well, if there's anything you need I'll be right here," Bumblebee told her happily as he layed down and wrapped his arms around her from behind. He could lightly feel her shivering as he touched her.
"Your bed's on the floor." "I'm sorry what?" Bumblebee said lifting his head up to look over Sari's head. "Your bed is on the floor," she repeated pointing over the edge. Slowly he looked to where she was pointing to spot the puffy bag Sari's dad had been carrying. "That is what I'm supposed to sleep in?!" he nearly yelled and Sari nodded her head slowly. "Now get off the bed." "But Sari," Bumblebee muttered. "Now." Sadly, Bumblebee did as he was told and crept down into the sleeping bag. "Sari," Bumblebee said popping his head back up to her eye-level once he was in. "What?" she growled. "We bed buddies I thought."
Sari stared at Bumblebee with a rather deadly face. "How can we be bed buddies when you turn back into a huge car-sized robot?" she mumbled closing her eyes. "Is that what you're worried about?" Bumblebee laughed to her surprise, "I'll let you sleep inside me silly." Bumblebee nearly fell back to the ground as Sari's fist bopped him on the head. "Why should I help you transform?" Sari asked sternly. "So that we can get me back to showing everyone up on the road, faster travels to Burger Bot, and get the team's numbah one player back in the field of course!"
"NO!" Sari cried leaning over the bed with tears in her eyes, "N O! If you wanna transform then fine! Transform and get out of here! But I am not helping you do any such thing!" "Sari...what's wrong?" Bumblebee asked confused as he layed back down in the sleeping bag in shock. "What's wrong?!" she screamed, "Nothing's wrong! Not a single thing! I like being by myself in this room all the time! I like having just robots for friends that I can't fit in with all the way! I like having no human pals to interact with around my mentality that understand me! It's just grand! I LOVE IT!" "You do?" "NO!" she sobbed burying her face in her covers. Bumblebee was scared. He had almost never seen Sari really crying for anything other than to get what she wanted or from being overly happy.
"I hate it!" she cried, "The day you guys arrived on earth was the best day of my life at that point! You saw how I acted when you guys said you had to leave when Blitzwing and Lugnut first showed up! Until you guys came I was always alone here, everyday! No friends! Just dad, the robot dog, and that stupid fucking tutorbot! Day after day after day!" Bumblebee attempted to sit back up as the girl poured her eyes out on her sheets. "And then you guys came and you and me became the best of friends! Then all of our adventures! And now you've been turned into a human and I've been trying to help you adapt and...and...I don't want to loose you! I don't want to loose what we have now if you turn back!" Sari continued to cry into her covers.
The tears subsided a bit as Bumblebee lifted her head up to look at his face which had a doubtful smile covering it. "Sari, there's no need to worry," he said, "you can trust this face can't you? I'm here now." Tears continued to stream down Sari's cheeks as she wrapped her arms nearly bone-breakingly around the boys neck. Trying to breathe, Bumblebee patted the girl's back delicately and the grip about his spine loosened a bit. Bumblebee nuzzled his cheek against Sari's and backed up his head to look at her face again. "Sari," he said smiling as her tears subsided a bit and she looked back at her bed which she was now almost halfway off of. "Bumblebee," she said back with a light smile and slid off the bed.
metroid story divider-----------metroid story divider
"We've been searching for hours!" Bulkhead grumbled as he drove up beside Ratchet. "I know kid, but Prime's right, we gotta find that guy no matter what," the old medic bot responded with his sirens wailing to clear a path through traffic for them, "With what skills he showed when we went up against him he's bound to do enormous amounts of damage." "But there haven't been any reports of damage anywhere in the city," Bulkhead responded getting ahead of Ratchet, "Are you sure this guy is going to destroy things?" "He's a Decepticon!" Ratchet yelled, "What do you think he's gonna do, just waltz around and smell the oil that this planet has? He wrecked your Space Bridge when he came out even!"
"Which he's gonna pay for," Bulkhead assured, "But what I'm saying is he doesn't seem to be causing any trouble, even if he's still in the city." "Never in all my stellar cycles have I come across a Decepticon that doesn't wanna destroy things." "What about Mixmaster and Scrapper?" Bulkhead asked as they rounded a corner. "...you're honestly still sticking up for those two punks kid?" Ratchet asked a bit dumbfounded, "They'd have had you slagged just to get some oil to guzzle down!" "But they didn't wanna destroy stuff!" Bulkhead retorted, "They....just wanted to have a good time. And besides, Scrapper seems to have learned his lesson."
Ratchet simply grumbled to himself as the duo rounded another corner leading to the shore of Detroit. Bulkhead thought he heard some sirens, well, ones other than Ratchet's. VRROOOM! Suddenly, from practically nowhere, a motorcycle skidded off of Bulkhead's hood causing him to transform into robot mode in surprise. "Geez!" the green Autobot exclaimed falling over next to a drug store, "A little warning would be nice next time man!" "Out of the way!" yelled Fanzone's voice as his patrol unit rushed by with Jazz following closely behind. "Someone's in trouble," Bulkhead mumbled as he saw Ratchet take off after them and began to Transform, "Hey! Wait for me!"
"What is going on?" Ratchet asked Jazz as he pulled up alongside him, "You're supposed to be looking for that Decepticon!" "Relax dawg," the slick car replied, "These troops of justice seem to need some help man, and besides that, that Decepticon seems pretty much uncatchable to me, and I'm an Elite Guard member. He's not caused any trouble anyhow yet." "Told ya," Bulkhead interrupted confidently driving up alongside his comrades. "Fine," Ratchet muttered, "We catch this loony, but then it's back to hunting for the Decepticon immediately after understood?" "I dig," Jazz answered. "Got it," Bulkhead said. The cops and Autobots continued the chase into the night with sirens wailing after the motorcycle driver.
metroid story divider-----------metroid story divider
"Bumblebee," Sari said with a smile on her face and the tears almost dried up, "If you get the chance...do really want to go back to being an Autobot?" Bumblebee gazed at the girl in his arms and sleeping bag in thought. Now that he actually thought about all that had happened in the past few days that he had been a human he really had no idea what his answer should be. He loved being an Autobot and breezing past everyone he came across on the road, and he loved the rush that came with the action he was always in. But he also loved being a human. He loved all the tastes and different perspectives, and emotional heights that came with being what Sari had grown up as. And he loved Sari.
"I..." he started but couldn't finish his sentence. He really didn't no what to say and looked down bashfully, "I......no." Bumblebee didn't know why he said no, he hadn't really thought of saying it, it just was what his body decided to say on its own it seemed until he gave a bit more thought to it. "No," he continued and smiled at Sari, "Not for all the energon in the universe, not for all that I'd be if I were an Autobot again. I love you Sari, and I want to be with you, as this. I never really understood what being a human was like until I became one. I never knew why you didn't ever join us for oil, or why you did the things you did sometimes until now. But I understand now. And I want to stay a human, not turn back into the Autobot I used to be, even if they find a way to change me back."
Letting out a few more tears Sari hugged the boy as tightly as she could and mashed her lips against his. It was a something new to Bumblebee. It hadn't been like the other kisses Sari had given him before, this time their lips parted, but not with each other, with themselves. Sari's tongue was lashing viciously into Bumblebee's mouth as he joined in the embrace. His own tongue seemed to take on a mind of its own as it wrapped about Sari's and invaded her mouth in response. Bumblebee had been wrong when he and Sari had layed in his bed the first time they did this kind of thing. THIS was the moment he didn't want to end. He could taste the sweetness left by her slushie mixed with the saltiness of her tears and natural saliva. He shivered as her hips and breasts pushed against his body and her legs wrapped about his.
The kiss lasted about a minute with Bumblebee enjoying every second of it. Like all things though, it eventually stopped and Sari pulled her mouth back with her forehead still resting against the boys. "You wait right here," she said and wriggled her way out of the bag to begin walking over to her door. "Sari, where'ya goin?" Bumblebee asked while the girl typed a few things into the console on the inside of the door. "There we go," she said and walked back over and stood in front of Bumblebee, "locked, now not even dad can get in." Gently she sat down on her bed and patted the spot next to her which Bumblebee crawled up onto. "Bed buddy?" he asked wrapping his arms around her. "Bed buddy," she replied with a smile and they fell back on the pink bed on their sides.
metroid story divider-----------metroid story divider
"We're never gonna catch this guy!" Bulkhead exclaimed as the chase wound up a trail through a forest, "He might even be able to outdo Bumblebee in a race!" "Kid's got a point," Ratchet agreed nearly swerving off the side of the rode, "and these winding turns aren't my idea of a good time." "Dudes, chill, feel the pavement move naturally beneath your tires man," Jazz replied zooming past one of the cop cars. "I think I got how this feel the ground stuff wor-eerah!" Bulkhead started saying before toppling straight onto his side after another sharp turn shortly followed by Ratchet. "I'm getting too old for this chasing stuff," the medic murmured as he and Bulkhead toppled out of their vehicle modes and started getting back into them to rejoin the chase. "I think it's invigorating!"
"Kids," Ratchet growled as the two Autobots got back in line with the cop cars. "Someone stop this maniac!" Fanzone yelled viciously through his megaphone. "Looks like he's coming up on one of them cement walls with a sewer pipe in it dawg," Jazz informed directing the captain's attention to the fenced off area just up ahead. "We got 'im now boys!" Fanzone exclaimed. Just then everyone heard a transforming noise as Optimus Prime leapt through the trees of the forest and body slammed the motorcycle. The Autobots all morphed back into robot mode and the cops all skidded to a halt as the motorcycle toppled over and over slowly morphing into the purple transformer the Autobots had been after in the first place.
"Dude," Jazz muttered looking at the scene, "If that's our guy we're after then who on Cybertron's the driver?" "Didn't the guy we're after have a dark greyish horned helmet?" Bulkhead asked scratching his head confused. "What's it matter?" Ratchet practically yelled, "He's still not good either way!" As the group viewed the transformer Optimus got back to his feet and the purple transformer snapped his finger. Instantly the driver of his vehicle mode looked up at the transformer and leapt high into the air beginning to transform himself. As his body folded up a mouth plated and helmet with grey horns warped out from his limbs and rest of his body. While the driver finished transforming the purple transformer grabbed the now-formed helmet and slammed it down over his purple and gold head. Immediately, his eyes glowed blood red between the mouth plates and top helmet parts that looked like they had a greyish firey symbol on the forehead and the Decepticon insignia formed beneath his transparent chest plate which used to be the motorcycle's window at the front.
Suddenly another driver, this one almost completely black, hopped down from the purple transformer's shoulder to the ground below and stood there looking at the police. "Who are these guys?..." Ratchet wondered aloud. "Whoever these guys are we're bookin the small ones," Fanzone told the Autobots while officers with guns swarmed out of their cars, "You guys can take the big fellow." "With pleasure!" Bulkhead yelled launching his remaining wrecking-ball hand at the revealed opponent. With ease the transformer leapt above it and kicked his feet down into Bulkhead's faceplate toppling him along the ground. "Rook," the dark voice of the transformer said as he pointed one of his wrist cannons at Jazz, "play with the humans will ya?" The black-suited driver nodded and began to advance towards the group of policemen that were attempting to surround him.
Jazz ducked just in time as the blast from the Decepticon's wrist cannon shot past his neck. "Dawg, who are you?!" he yelled as he came at the opponent with his nun chucks, this time avoiding the strike to the neck from the transformer's fingers. "Someone I doubt you should be going up against," he replied and kicked the Elite Guard member into a tree. The police meanwhile had begun firing at the driver who seemed to not be slowed down one bit from their attempts to pin him to the ground. "Why won't this guy flinch?!" Fanzone yelled and took out a revolver. BANG! The shot just simply bounced off the forehead of the driver's helmet.
Bulkhead attempted once more to swing the wrecking-ball at the Decepticon only for him to duck beneath it so that it slammed into Jazz's already battered body. "Oops!" the green Autobot exclaimed scratching the back of his head as Jazz moaned, "Sorry...wah!" The purple transformer had blasted the ground beneath Bulkhead with one of the cannon's causing him to collapse and pull Jazz in down into the crater with him. "Hold still!" Ratchet yelled firing his EMP generator at the quick-moving bot. The ninja-bot just simply ran about hopping and ducking beneath the concentrated energy as he made his way towards Ratchet. "He's toying with us..." the veteran said before receiving a kick to the chest plate.
Fanzone meanwhile, was being held about five feet off the ground by the black driver causing the police to hesitate. "Come on!" Fanzone yelled, "Take this guy down!" "But sir!" one of the troops yelled back, "we might hit you." "Just do it!" The cops just looked around at each other nervously as the driver continued to walk forward with their leader in his hand. "Gimme that!" Fanzone ordered grabbing a gun from one of the cops behind the driver. Before he could fire though, Fanzone let out a gag as fell to the ground. The driver had slammed his fist into the captain's stomach knocking the wind out of him leaving him to twitch on the cement as he walked forward with groups of officers on either side of him, none daring to fire in fear that they might hit some of their own.
"Is this it?" the purple transformer asked shrugging his shoulders obviously annoyed at how easy it had been to fight back. "Not yet!" yelled Optimus's voice as his ax slammed into the back of the opponent sending him flying towards the crater Jazz and Bulkhead had been buried in. "And this is for my Space Bridge!" cried Bulkhead as his wrecking-ball shot forth from the smoke of the crater slamming into the transformer's head and knocking the dark gray helmet off leaving the owner to topple through the air and slam into the cement wall with the sewer pipe. Immediately the black driver rushed over to the transformer as the gray helmet transformed back into its human mode and joined its partner.
"You're through," Prime told the transformer as he fell to the ground slumped over and the group of humans and Cybertronians gathered about the figures. "Optimus Prime," the transformer muttered looking up at the Cybertronians. His actual head was rather purple, same as the rest of his body, other than his face which had gold plating making it up around the mouth-piece and visor where his eyes glowed beneath two sets of vents trailing up his head with the gold strip that continued on above the visor. Where his horns used to be were now structures dangling off the sides of his head made by the handles of his motorcycle form. "You never cease to give the final assault, and with my back turned no less," he laughed dryly.
"I have no idea who you are," Optimus told him. "No, but I know who you are," he replied standing up and stretching before putting his hand below his transparent chest plate to direct their eyes to his insignia which was no longer there, "and sorry but you can't really arrest me as you see I'm not a Decepticon." "Who are you?" Ratchet asked glaring at the deadly opponent, "You fight like no one that I've ever met on this planet or Cybertron." "Rook," he muttered snapping his finger as the black navy-ish driver now leapt into the air and formed a similar, but not as vicious-looking, helmet as his gray twin had done. This time when the transformer brought the helmet down on his head though, the insignia that appeared in the transparent chest plate was that of the Autobots.
"What on Cybertron..." Bulkhead muttered as the police just looked at the scene in utter shock. "More machines...and now ones that switch sides...." Fanzone growled under his breath recovering from the strike of the black driver. "My name's Sideways," the purple transformer told them with a bow, "A top secret double-agent of the Cybertronian Autobot Elite Guard." "Gotta be pretty slaggin up there then dawg," Jazz commented wiping his visor to make sure he was seeing correctly, "Cause I've never heard nor seen any bit of you." "Indeed," Sideways confirmed, "I take orders directly from the council itself. My two companions here are Crosswire and Rook who are a subspecies of transformers known as Minicons designed to help me switch allegiances as I see I need to. When I have Crosswire on my head I am in my disguise as a Decepticon. Likewise, Rook allows me to wear the Autobot insignia."
"I don't like this man," Jazz muttered to Ratchet who had fallen to the back of the group, "Even with that Autobot symbol on him there's just something about that guy." "I know," Ratchet replied with his arms folded over his chest plate. "What are you doing on earth?" Optimus asked putting his ax away. "I'm here looking for rogue Decepticons that may be left on the planet," Sideways replied holding his hands out. "That's the same thing we're doing, but why'd you attack us?" "Who attacked first?" Sideways asked shrugging his shoulders. "You wrecked my space bridge!" Bulkhead yelled angrily. "I had to do something to keep Decepticons from following me through the portal," Sideways explained, "Decepticons were trying to assault the planet once they found out their leader had been captured."
"Is everyone there ok?" Prime asked. "I'm sure they are, but I was on my way to the Space Bridge anyhow to get to earth. Speaking of which, now that I know just who you guys are do you mind if I join your little group?" "After what you did tonight?!" Fanzone yelled through his megaphone, "You're worse than all of these guys combined when it comes to causing a ruckus in my town!" "I guess you can stay with us," Optimus replied looking down at the captain who was throwing a fit at his feet, "But only if you promise to keep as much of the city intact as possible." "Cross my spark and hope to die," the double-agent said extending a hand to the Autobot leader. Cautiously, Optimus Prime took it in his own and they shook.
metroid story divider-----------metroid story divider
"I love you Bumblebee," Sari said with her eyes half closed as she looked at the slightly shorter boy she was constricted around. "I love you too Sari," he replied smiling and kissed her lips gently, "Sorry that I got you ticked off earlier. I didn't know that you were upset about me wanting to-" "Don't finish that sentence," she mumbled putting a finger to his lips, "It's alright, I just...I get worried sometimes. I hate the thought of you guys leaving, especially you." "Don't worry," he told her hugging her tighter around the waist and reaching down with his other hand to stroke her thigh, "I'll be there for you until the cycle my shell goes sparkless, er, heatless." "Heartless," Sari corrected giggling a bit as she closed her eyes and kissed him back, "and I for you."
metroid story divider-----------metroid story divider
"Make...it...stop..." Megatron moaned unable to talk loud enough for the singing Decepticon brute to hear him. "My liege, I'm sorry, did you say something? I was taking a stasis nap the best I could," Shockwave replied. "Nothing Shockwave," the leader sighed, "Is it just me or have we stopped?" "Oh yes," Shockwave said, "It seems we have, we appear to be along the edge of the galaxy according to the coordinates." Just then the restraints on the Decepticons slid off and Megatron leapt down to the lower level kicking Lugnut to the ground in the process. "Where are we?" he muttered as the large troop finally shut up. "I can't quite say but looking out the window I...oh my...we're slagged." "What?" Megatron said curiously looking out the same window and spotted what the cool-headed troop had been frightened by, "By the spark of Primus..."
metroid story divider-----------metroid story divider
metroid story divider-----------metroid story divider
Yes folks, for those that remember, the purple transformer is none other than Sideways who was shown mainly in Transformers Armada! The first person, and I think only, to guess right is KnucklesRedFury207.2 whom I will be doing a drawing for on Deviant Art if they so desire to give me a piece to draw ^_^
Hope everyone enjoyed this chapter. I know it might seem odd how it was more...sad between Sari and Bumblebee in this one but then again, Animated wasn't always the most joyful of shows at parts. However, do not fear, it'll be back to happy Sari and Bumblebee next time I guarantee it =)
And what could it be that the Decepticons have been taken to? Some might already know, others might be completely confused about everything. Well, stayed tuned for more of Transformers Animated: The Worth of Life!
Also, illustration of Sideways in the Worth of Life story somewhat Animated style, somewhat my own style:
warahi(dot)deviantart(dot)com/art/Sideways-Animated-126003533
Also, might not be updating as much, but I guarantee I will still update =)
