Autobots 101 Chapter 7

Authors Note: Yes I did give away some spoilers with the new Summary, I'm sorry. I needed more people… I got lonely lol. Anyways I was talking the other day to my friend who read this and she called it crack fiction and I beg to disagree. This is not so potent as to be called crack fiction, marijuana fiction perhaps but not crack fiction. She said I got defensive… So What makes crack fiction? Slightly warping personalities… check. I admit I horribly abused Blackout's personality and stretched it beyond repair BUT I DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR STARSCREAM. STARSCREAM BEING A GIRL IS CANNON! German dub of G1 is proof. As per any other concerns I apologize for mildly twisting their personalities (though the word mild is debatable) for my own entertainment (and hopefully yours). To explain the first paragraph … well I can't. It's a stupid scene that has been running through my head since I saw a certain persons profile.

Frenzy scattered over to the injured Barricade who was now emitting a very unpleasant high pitched whine. "1010111101010101011!"

"Oh shut up! I do not sound like a femme" muttered Barricade as he was regaining his balance.

"101010111101010100010001"

"Oh like you would know how much it hurts! All you do is hack computers"

"00011001010110101000111"

"Hey, don't talk to me like that. I am not your woman!"

"10001001 0100010101001"

"That was strictly business… I needed the information about project ICEMAN and interfacing was the only way to get it… It was only a one time deal"

"2"

"Do you really mean that? Oh you are such a charmer!" said Barricade. He quickly looked around and saw that Megatron was still far away and out of listening range. "Fine… but we have to keep it secret from Megatron… you know he's a conservative cybertronian"

Jazz leapt at Megatron who caught him by his foot. This was too scary and familiar as it had been the cause of his previous near demise. Optimus was here this time and he quickly shot Megatron's hand.

"Slag it PRIME" said Megatron letting go of Jazz and pursuing a much more powerful target. The fan's were cheering.

"This is for the new Gundam series coming out" commented one nerd to his friend.

"Pssh are you retarted? Its for the new Movie!"

The battle raged on for 5 minutes until Megatron received a signal from Blackout "Target has been removed from battle, I await your further orders"

Megatron shot at the feeble Ratchet who amidst the chaos was still trying to shoot using his arm cannon. The blow hit and it sent Ratchet flying back several yards. "Decepticons! Fall Out!" yelled Megatron.

Optimus hurried over to his fallen comrade. "RATCHET!" yelled Prime. The Delicate drone responded.

"Sir, I am functional". Ratchet was too full of shame to speak to prime as a person so he would speak as a soldier.

Optimus burst through the doors of the base hurrying Ratchet to his own spark transferal machine. The Machine worked and Ratchet was soon back in his old body. Sam was in awe. He hadn't seen the handiwork of the decepticons for a while now and the see the crumpled drone that only a few moments ago was Ratchet brought back memories.

Ratchet then retreated out of his own medical bay without so much as looking prime in the optics. He wound up in his personal chamber though he didn't honestly know where he was going. He sat there for hours. How stupid had he been to risk his entire team just for the sake of having one day of freedom. The door slid open and there was Optimus on que. He probably wanted to dismantle Ratchet piece by piece and at the moment Ratchet would have let him.

"Ratchet…" said Optimus in his low voice. He put his hand on Ratchet's shoulder. "If you wanted to go outside I would have let you. Why didn't you tell me?"

"I'm sorry Optimus. Just for once I wanted to be… I wanted to feel like I was part of something"

"Ratchet you are always a part of our team"

"Am I?" asked Ratchet "Or am I simply a machine fit to improve the lives of everyone else, that's what machines do right?!?"

Optimus began to leave the room slowly "I never thought of you that way". The door closed and Ratchet felt horrible, absolutely horrible. He wanted to run up to that door run outside and apologize to Optimus but he couldn't now. Oh man he was in some deep slag.

Ironhide, Jazz, Bumble Bee, and Sam had been as quiet as possible with Optimus gone. Nobody dared to be the first one to speak. Optimus finally re-entered the room. He looked everyone in the optics and eyes in Sam's case. "It appears that a threat has appeared yet again. I feel it is in the best interest of the entire world if we were to pull out of college"

"But you guys can't!" yelled Sam.

"Sam" said Optimus gently " The world needs us too, We will always be your friends and feel free to visit us anytime. We'll always be here for you, but we can't be here all the time…"

With that Sam began to leave, running blindly out of the base. Bumble Bee slowly followed. "He'll need a ride home". Optimus nodded and the Robot transformed into the yellow Camaro and began to follow Sam.

Katie was at school on Monday only in body. Her mind was lost somewhere between the chaos. Had all that been real? This weekend she had gone to that convention. Her costume was strewn out on the floor. What the hell had happened? Why did aliens want her boyfriend, well no he wasn't her boyfriend. Not that she hadn't thought about it. Her conscious was re-awakened when she heard a familiar voice.

"Katie?... Katie?"

"Oh hey Sam"

"Are you alright? You look like you haven't slept in days"

"I slept fine last night"

"Oh… well did you have a fun weekend?"

"…"

"Katie?"

"Oh sorry, um hey can I talk to you some other time when I'm feeling better?"

"Oh… Sure"

With that she walked away. Sam watched her and she seemed so… distant. Suddenly out of the corner of his eye he saw some quick movement. He turned around and believed he saw some papers get pulled under a table set up under one of the pavilions. Today was the day clubs were trying to recruit new members so Sam decided he should probably go pick up the papers for whatever club had lost them. As he approached he saw they were gone. Turning to walk away he saw one of the pamphlets that had been apparently missed by the caper. Sam bent down and picked it up. 'School Elections: Change your School by becoming your class' president'

Suddenly from above something hit Sam and made a snatch for the pamphlet. Lucky for Sam he was still carrying all the others in his left hand and could not use both to grab at the pamphlet. Sam managed to break the small robots hold on the flier and began to try to fling him off of himself. Frenzy knowing that such a commotion would soon attract spectators hit Sam down onto the ground where they began to wrestle. A pen fell out of Sam's pocket and seizing the moment he grabbed it and stabbed straight through one of the small robot's Optics. The robot squealed in high pitch pain.

Sam ran out of the pavilion and into a crowd of people. "I believe you have something that belongs to me" said a familiar voice from behind him. It was a tall athletic Male who looked very angry. Beside the man stood that girl from the other day, Karen was it?

"Aww you don't recognize me? I'd expect someone to remember who he kills"

Bumble Bee's phone rang and instantly he knew it was Sam. He wanted to tap that button on his ear and begin transmission but he knew that it would probably be Sam begging again and he just couldn't take it.

It rang again

And Again

And Again.

Bee picked up the phone and before he could even say hello Sam's voice came shouting through the phone "Bee you gotta help me!"

"Sam what's wrong?!?"

"Decepti…" the phone cut out but Sam didn't even have to finish the word for Bee to know what he was trying to say. He began transmitting on Autobot frequencies.

"Optimus, we have a problem"

"Just try and relax Sam" came the voice of Megatron though it was much clearer coming through a human drone. "It's not like I would attack you here in the middle of the campus in plain sight is it?"

"What did you do to my phone?" asked Sam.

"It's not my fault your cheap phone cut out… it must be the service" laughed Megatron. "I've come to liberate you of that slip you have in your hand but don't think I'm so heartless, I'm willing to trade for it"

"What do you mean?" asked Sam cautiously, this robot was much smarter and much more devious than he could imagine.

"Well Sam isn't it just a shame that your friends have no more time to hang out with you? You do consider the… Autobots your friends" Megatron had to watch out from adding a habitual adjective before the word Autobot slipped from his lips.

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about causing you no more trouble for the rest of your days boy, I'll leave you and your … Autobot friends to do whatever you wish"

"And what about the other humans" asked Sam

Hmm the boy was asking questions. This showed he was at least interested. "I could care less about physically harming them, it's simply the fact that I don't mind doing it to obtain my goals. You think of me as a heartless monster who comes to destroy you but you forget my real desire. I am not a killing machine, I kill only to further my goals and will gladly do so at any opportune moment."

"That doesn't answer my question" said Sam. He had almost bought that distraction for a moment.

"Very well I agree not to physically harm the humans" said Megatron. "and now we shake?"

"What are you getting out of this Megatron?"

"A promise that you or any of your associates will run for campus positions"

"That's not what I asked, You didn't even discuss how long this truce would last"

"It's good forever" said Megatron attempting a smile but still looking incredibly evil.

Bumble Bee arrived at the scene in human form and came to Sam's side. "I wouldn't try anything Megatron we have the campus surrounded and we didn't see any of your minions"

"Oh? Why would you think I would need minions for a negotiation? Well now that you have ruined Sam and I's little party I suppose we should leave Starscream."

With that Megatron walked away turning back only to smile and wave at Bumble Bee.

"What exactly is your plan Megatron? So what if the Autobots try to get elected to campus offices?"

"You fool Starscream! You are too narrow minded"

"My Most Sincere Apologies Megatron. Do elaborate"

If only mother hadn't made him promise he wouldn't kill Starscream. "If you must know it is the first stepping stone to becoming President of the United States"

"WHAT?!?! Why would you want to do that?"

"With the All Spark gone there is no hope of raising a robot army Starscream and truly great leaders will not let some minor flaws ruin their chance at conquest"

"Are you insane! These humans are weak and stupid!"

"Ah but with my technology and their expendable numbers an estimated total over 6 billion not to mention Earth's natural resources… Well quite frankly it's the makings of an empire"

"Hmm I may see your point, but are you sure you can pull this off Megatron"

"OF COURSE I CAN STARSCREAM! I AM UNSTOPPABLE"

"Sam are you O.K.?" asked Bumble Bee in a frantic mode as they were walking towards one of the campus exits.

"I told you I'm fine. I suppose the next question you'll ask is where he touched me…"

"HE TOUCHED YOU!?!?"

Students turned and began to walk away from the vicinity

"No I was being sarcastic sheesh"

"Sam this is important, What did he want?"

"Look… I just want to talk to Optimus"

Sam didn't realize the bullet he had just shot through Bumble Bee's heart. They were best friends. Sam even said so with Miles in the car (though Bumble Bee suspected Miles had no clue that Bee was a transformer). That was symbolic, what did Optimus have that Bee didn't? Importance? Leadership? Hmmm Leadership…

Blackout had been instructed to approach Katie and to comfort her and to ensure her mental stability. Blackout was more than willing to comply after all he did want to see the human again. It was an easy mission, that's all. Nothing beats easy missions right? He had improvised a little and bought the comfort flowers out of his own will as he assumed said task would be easier with them. He picked out yellow flowers because supposedly they were "friends" and she was to be kept available as further bait for Witwicky should the time arise.

Ding Dong. The doorbell rang and the door opened slowly. Katie ushered him inside her dorm and onto the way too small wooden chair that the school had provided for each dorm. She sat on the bed. " I brought you some flowers" said Blackout helpfully.

"Thank you Mark"

"… Are you feeling O.K."

"I don't know anymore. What secrets are you hiding from me Mark?"

"What do you mean?" asked Mark coolly

"A robot shot you in the back Mark! You got up after that and you took me away. Why Mark? Why did they want you?"

"Katie, there are things even I don't understand and" Blackout was taken by surprise as the girl forced her lips into his. His reactions told him to defend himself against this assault but much to his surprise his limbs didn't counter. There was no parry or dodge. He was defenseless.

Authors Note: Wow that was a long chapter… whew. Not as much comedy as I would have liked but I did label it under Humor/ Drama and I do have a plot to further.