Chapter 6

Detroit (Dimension-animated)

SixShot had been flying the area for some time. It didn´t took him long to locate Camouflage. As a Decepticon agent she had a tracing signal that she could send in case she would get lost in a unknown place.

And this was definitely one of this cases.

After a few more minutes of searching, he had found her. She was in human form, sitting on a sidewalk somewhere in the middle of the city. He transformed and landed directly before her.

"I should really feel honored that they send a expert like you only to find me", Camouflage told him without visible emotion.

"After some work I realized that the terrorists had used the transwarp transporter to sent you to a parallel universe. Then I had found out which one it had been, it was easy to follow you", he said to her matter of factly.

"Do you know why they had brought you here?" SixShot wanted to know.

"No, I have not the slightest idea."

"So you don´t know. Do you know who is involved? How many they are? Where we can find them?" he asked.

"No, no I don´t, I don´t know anything. I just tried to survive here and waited for rescue", she answered him angrily.

"And I was told that you are a master spy. What kind of field agent are you anyway? Only sitting here and waiting to be saved?"

In that moment Camouflage exploded at him.

"Only waiting to get saved? Do you have any idea what had happened here?

First I am kidnapped by that damn organic haters, then I am transported to this dimension. I land directly before a group of native Autobots, who were wanting to run experiments on me and I have to flee. Then I get into a fight with another transorganic, my energon levels were down, I had to re-fuel myself.

Look I am a master spy, but I am in a goddamn foreign world, I don´t know the customs, I don´t know the culture or the laws. I don´t know anything about the technology and computer language, so I can´t hack into their systems and I don´t know anybody on this planet.

All I could do was running around and try to find some energon. So forgive me if I hadn´t done perfect work here, but I had a really bad day."

SixShot had listened to her entire rant without saying anything. Camouflage saw that several humans were starring at them. She was still in her human altmode and she was shouting at a robot about hundred times her size while they were still standing in the middle of the street.

She felt in her organic parts how the blood was rushing inside her head. In fact she didn´t even wanted to know how this was looking for others right now.

"What are you starring at?" She yelled at a group of humans who were standing in save distance to SixShot on the other side of the street.

"Are you finished now?" SixShot asked her. "Now that we have discused about how useless you are in this world, can we return to our duties?"

Camouflage was still embarrassed as hell, but she nodded anyway. A small part of her realized that SixShot could easily squash her if he wanted, even if she was sure that he hadn´t been allowed to do that.

"If you don´t know who is responsible and where to find them, we have to return to my Autobot "partners" and hope that they have found out more."

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Sumdac-tower

The versions of Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus who came from the other Universe had just listen to the explanations the native Optimus and his followers had been given to them. They informed them about the arrival of Karus and his group in their world and the story they have told.

"So that is it what Karus was planning", G1 Optimus said.

"Karus is a member of True Cybertron. There is no doubt now", G1 Magnus pointed out to him.

"Yes you are right. He had really managed to deceive as all."

"True Cybertron? You mean this terrorist group?" the native Optimus asked.

"Yes in our world Cybertron had been burned out by the millions year long war. All the energy resources were gone.

At the end of the war Cybertron was threatened by a attack. We, the Autobots and the Decepticons were forced to activate a ancient device called the plasma energy chamber.

It revitalized our planet. But what we didn´t knew at this point was that it also spread a radiation over Cybertron that overloaded the systems of all regular Transformers.

There had been many failed attempts to neutralize that radiation. Then this turned out to be impossible our scientists had developed a new form of Transformers, who were able to survive in that environment far better than us.

This robots have organic components intigrated into their systems and are called the Maximals and the Predacons.

We Autobots had per majority vote decided to leave Cybertron to them and settle on other planets. Whoever wanted to stay volunteered to be turned into Maximals themselves.

They called this event the great upgrade.

Most of the Decepticons had already left this part of space at that time", G1 Optimus explained to them.

The native Optimus, Ratchet and Jazz shared a look at the last part he had said.

"You mean that you had handed over Cybertron to them willingly?" Jazz asked him.

"We didn´t exactly had much of a choice, but technically yes."

"By what Sentinel had explained to us, this Karus had told him that this Maximals had taken over Cybertron by force and were now planning a invasion in our universe", Optimus said.

"That was a lie", the other Ultra Magnus cut in. "A few Transformers didn´t accept the things like they were. They blamed the Maximals and Predacons and our other organic allies for the loss of Cybertron and formed a underground movement. A few years later they started to commit terror assaults."

"I understand. This Karus had tried to convince Sentinel to start a preemptive strike against your Cybertron", the leader of the native Autobot group added.

"This is bad", G1 Magnus said. He looked his Optimus in the face. "Do you remember the last time a force from another dimension had started a campaign in our universe. I can tell you the people in our world won´t react well to this."

"You are right", G1 Optimus told him. To the others he said. "You must know, our world had encountered a group of visitors from another dimension once before. To make it short their interference had ultimately led to the devastation of an entire planet and caused great harm to a number of others.

Believe me, our galaxy won´t react friendly if your people actually do that. They will have forces of two galaxies against them. It could be the end of your world."

The small group of Autobots looked slightly afraid now.

"We have to go to Cybertron and stop them", the native Optimus Prime said.

"Yes we will and we start now", the other Optimus announced.

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In the Autobot capital Iacon, in one moment everything was the way it used to be, in the next it was absolute chaos.

A group of Decepticons appeared out of a transwarp sphere, right before the stunned inhabitants.

The defence systems of Cybertron couldn´t stop this technology. It couldn´t even register it. Many Autobots were looking at the Decepticons in shock.

"How far is it to the main target?" The leader of the group, Take Off, asked the minibot next to him.

"Three miles in that direction", Wipe Out answered and pointed with the finger.

"Good", Take Off stated. "Terrorcons attack", he ordered.

"With pleasure", Hungrr, the Terrorcon leader, said. It was a long time ago that he and his team had been in a real battle.

A moment later they opened fire at the Autobot civilians before them. All of them flew in panic, as the Decepticons started to shoot.

The Terrorcons lived for fighting, killing and destruction, like no other Transformer group. Even far more violent than the other Decepticons.

They were meant to be a group of brute and mercyless killing machines.

When the war had been over, they had lost their purpose and in opposite to other Decepticons, they were not able to adapt either.

They refused to accept the end of the war and went out to fight Autobots on their own.

Years later they joined True Cybertron. Take Off was aware that they didn´t do it because they believed in their cause, like their other followers. They did it for the chance to attack Autobots and cause random destruction. But he didn´t care as long as they served their purpose.

They had already crunched a few buildings and caused some damage a number of Autobots.

Sinner-Twin, who had a similar two-headed dragon mode like Hungrr, had actually grabbed one of them with his two maws and was slowly tearing him apart.

Let them have their fun, he thought. While the Terrorcons destroyed everything in their path, they came slowly closer to their true target, the hospital complex where the leader of this Autobots, the Ultra Magnus off this world lied.

But Take Off also had another aim. He may hate that damned organics as much as Karus did, but despite that he was still a Decepticon.

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In the Autobot headquarter a panicked mech was running through the rooms to his leader.

"Sentinel Prime Sir", he called out, "the city is under attack."

"Who is attacking? What happened?" Sentinel yelled at the robot.

"It is a group of Decepticons and a large number of techno-organics. The Decepticons have come through a transwarp gate, right in the center of the town and the techno-organics have suddenly appeared on the planet", the intimidated Autobot explained.

Was it possible that Karus had been telling the truth? Have the techno-organics allied themselves with the Decepticons and were now attacking them?

He hoped his people would find out the truth.

"Mobilize all our forces and defend the city", he ordered. "Where are our guests? Bring them to me."

"Sorry sir our guests are not longer in their quarters", the Autobot answered his leader.

"What do you mean, they are not longer in their quarters? They were restricted to them." Sentinel screamed at the poor mech.

"Their room was hit in the attacks", he answere. "It looked as if someone shot right through the walls and they are not longer there, they have probably fled as the building was attacked."

"Damn", Sentinel cursed. Now he could only hope that his boys would do their job right.

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At the side of the place, the Decepticons had appeared on, another Autobot was hiding between a few destroyed buildings. But he wasn´t a inhabitant of this world. He was one of Karus group.

What nobody knew he was, like the legendary warrior Hound, had a mobile holo projector.

As he activated it and pointed it at the battlefield, several Transformers with organic components and organic looking alt modes appeared between the attacking Decepticons, Maximals.

The plan had worked perfectly. As soon as Take Off´s group had started to attack, Doubledealer had used the chaos to sneak into their headquarters and blow a few holes in the walls of the quarters that fool Sentinel had given to them.

The Autobots had of course blamed the damage on the Decepticon attack and now he was here to let magically a few Maximals appearing between the Decepticons.

Later they would return to Sentinel and tell him that their rooms were hit by the attackers and they went out to fight them off.

Sentinel´s Autobots will believe the Maximals were allied with the Decepticons and responsible for the attack and the public opinion on this Cybertron will finally be like they need it.

Everything was going perfectly.

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"Are we ready?" Optimus asked his team and the three Autobots from the other dimension.

"Yes we can go", the other Optimus answered him.

"Wait", Jazz called out, "there are two objects coming in."

A few moments later they saw that it were SixShot and the techno-organic Decepticon.

"Oh you are coming back", Ultra Magnus stated, "and as I see you have the reason you came with us to this dimension in the first place with you", he pointed out sarcastically.

"She is one of our agents who was kidnapped by the terrorists", SixShot informed him. "But I think we all have other worries right now. Right Autobots? We have to get the ones who were responsible for this."

"Yes you are right and you don´t even know the beginning of what is happening here. You two can come with us. We will explain everything to you", G1 Optimus told him. "And keep an eye on them",he said quietly to Ultra Magnus and his own counterpart.

"It is really wise to take them with us?" the Optimus of this world asked.

"This way we at least know halfway where they are and what they are doing. SixShot has a transporter too. If they want to Cybertron, we can not stop them anyway", G1 Prime answered.

Doctor Sumdac, who was standing at the controls, was activating the space bridge and they all vanished.

In the next moment they appeared on Cybertron. What they hadn´t expected was a full blown battle going on on the planet.

"That are the Terrorcons", Goldbug called out.

By now stronger Autobot forces had appeared in the city to fight the Decepticons. Hungrr saw this. He ordered his team to transform into their combined form.

"Terrorcons merge", he shouted.

Before everyone´s eyes the group went through a transformation sequence that they had never seen before and their forms connected to each other, forming a single giant robot.

The Autobot defenders were now beyond shock. They had never seen anything like this before.

"What by the allspark is that?" Ratchet asked. Only Omega Supreme was larger as this robot. But otherwise the Autobots had nothing to even match this.

"The Terrorcons are a combiner team. They are able to transform themselves into a single super robot. This ability is one of the reasons you would have never won a war against our dimension", Goldbug told him.

"How many of this things exist?" Optimus asked frightened.

"We Autobots have three", G1 Optimus answered him, "and the Decepticons have six. Beside that we have even larger warriors."

Now every native Autobot was starring at him.

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Sentinel starred at the super robot in horror.

"Send Omega Supreme in", he shouted at his subordinates.

"Impossible Omega Supreme was shut down at the order of the high council after Megatron was captured."

"Then reactivate him", Sentinel screamed.

"That will take a long time", the Autobot replied.

"I and this council idiots will have a talk then this is over", Sentinel sneered.

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"Hey", G1 Ultra Magnus suddenly called out.

SixShot had just transformed and blasted off again, with Camouflage with him.

"Does he always do that?" Sari asked the foreign Autobots.

"It seems so", Magnus answered her.

"Why is she here anyway?" Goldbug asked Optimus. "This mission is dangerous after all."

"Because if you hadn´t taken me with you", Sari informed him, "I would have jumped with you over the space bridge anyway."

Goldbug looked at the native Optimus after Sari´s statement, who just nodded with the head. Great, he thought. In addition to everything they had also to deal with an hyperactive halforganic teenager who was putting herself into danger.

"Let us go now and find Karus and the others", G1 Optimus suggested. "We can detect them easily because of their molecular structures."

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"My plan worked perfectly", Karus said to the two transformers with him. "Soon this Cybertron will be at war with ours and I will get everything."

He, Theta and Doubledealer were standing on one of the many skyscrapers of Cybertron. From there, they could overlook the entire battlefield.

The ground was now covered with the bodies of dead or injured Autobots. Abominus had ripped apart entire building complexes, in short the district was lying in ruins.

"Good, if everything worked out perfectly, you can give me my payment now", Doubledealer demanded and approached him.

Karus looked in disgust at the binary bounded Transformer.

"Of course", he said and forced a smile.

Then he draw his gun and shot the mercenary. A moment later, Theta, who was standing next to him, did the same thing.

The Decepticon powermaster took nearly lethal damage in only a few seconds. Doubledealer lost hold and fell over the edge of the building into the dark alleys.