Smugglers 2: Dimension Travel
Chapter 7: Decepticons
The Decepticons, Prime decided, couldn't have picked a worse time to attack. Not only were their forces stronger but now Prime had to contend with five new Autobots that he wasn't even sure if he could trust or not. He glanced behind him and saw that his troops, plus the other five, were still following him. He sighed heavily and prayed to primus that it was just a lone Decepticon or, better yet, a defector but somehow he knew that wasn't to be the case. And indeed it wasn't. When they finally arrived it was to find Megatron and what looked to be the entire Decepticon army. "Great," Prime sighed. "Just great."
"Why is it great?" The other Bumblebee asked innocently. "Shouldn't it be horrible or something like that?"
All the Autobots turned to look at the mini-bot, their optics wide and disbelieving expressions on their faceplates. "Is that bot for real?" Jazz asked.
"He's being sarcastic," the black-and-gold Prowl explained to his Bumblebee.
"Oh," the little bot absorbed that then said, "what's the point of being sarcastic? Why not say what you're really thinking?"
"We'll discuss that later," Optimus promised.
Bumblebee nodded then turned to Prime. "Why don't you just blow them all to smithereens?" he suggested.
"Because," Sideswipe began then frowned and turned to Prime. "Why don't we just blow them up?"
"Because," Prime explained. "We're Autobots. We don't do that kind of stuff."
"I don't see why not," Bumblebee grumbled. "It would be a whole lot easier not to mention fun."
Optimus sighed and rubbed a servo over his faceplate. "Bumblebee," he said wearily.
"Ok, ok. I'll behave."
"I'm terribly sorry about this," Optimus apologized, turning to his counterpart. 'We'll help in whatever way we can."
"Thank you," Prime said. "I assume all of you know how to fight?"
The five exchanged glances then Optimus nodded. "Yes we all know how to fight," he said.
"Good," Prime sighed. "Well I suppose we better start fighting." With that the Autobot commander transformed, his weapons coming online.
The rest of the Autobots quickly followed suit then walked behind Prime as he led them onto the battlefield.
"Well look who it is! The Autobots finally made it!" Megatron looked and sounded bored.
"Hey, 'Screamer, is that your faceplate or did you get a tailpipe stuck up your aft?" Sideswipe called jeeringly.
"Why you little!" Starscream started forward and had to forcibly be held back by the other members of his trine, Skywarp and Thundercracker.
"They are going to be the death of me one day, I just know it," Prime muttered.
"If it's any consolation I know exactly how you feel," Optimus said from behind him. "There are days when I feel like Bumblebee is out to get me and then…well I don't know," he shrugged helplessly.
Prime understood what his counterpart was trying to say and he nodded in thanks.
"Decepticons," Megatron ordered, "attack!"
Immediately the Seekers launched themselves into the air and began firing.
"Autobots, attack!" Prime ordered even as he began firing.
"This is the best part of the whole week!" Sideswipe yelled cheerfully.
"Just shut up and fight!" his yellow twin ordered.
"Why shut up when you can do both?" Bumblebee suggested, cutting off a Decepticon's head.
"Hey that's a good idea," Sideswipe cried then turned to his twin. 'Don't you think that's a good idea, Sunny?"
The psychotic yellow mech took the time to kill a Decepticon before answering his idiotic brother. "It's a much better idea for you to pay attention to what's going on around you then talkin to crazy there," he gestured towards Bumblebee then frowned when he realized that was pointing at their Bumblebee. "Where'd the crazy Bumblebee go?" he asked.
Meanwhile the crazy Bumblebee was on top of Starscream laughing manically as the Seeker desperately tried to shake him off.
"Get offa me!" the flier raged as he did another barrel roll, but no avail.
"What is he doing?" Prowl demanded, his door wings twitching as he watched the spectacle in the sky.
"I think he's enjoying himself," a new voice said.
Prowl spung around and came faceplate-to-faceplate with a slender black-and-gold bot.
"Who are you?" the tactician demanded.
"You or rather your counterpart," the bot answered, looking rather amused.
"I'm Prowl."
"So am I."
The two stared at each other before the gold Prowl said, "Might I suggest we target the ground mechs? Specifically the ones that aren't high up in the chain of command?"
"Why? It isn't logical. We should target the high-ranking officers first," Prowl protested.
"But if we kill all the soldiers then the officers will have to fight twice as hard and they will be distracted, thus giving us an opportunity to get closer than normal," his counterpart argued.
"That's brilliant and quite logical too I must admit. Do you think you can handle those over there?" the tactician gestured to a group of five Decepticons who were beating the slag out of Beachcomber.
"Of course," the slender bot sounded offended and withdrew a small gold projectile from his armor then threw it. One of the Decepticons shrieked and fell down, the projectile returning to Prowl's servo.
"Impressive," his black counterpart said then returned to fighting.
"That bot's crazy," Sunstreaker declared.
"I know, isn't he great?" Sideswipe beamed.
It was then that Bumblebee happened to look down. "Hey, twins," he cried happily. "This is fun!"
"Look, Sunny, there's two extra fliers. Can we?" the red mech begged.
"I take it back; you're both crazy," Sunstreaker muttered then heaved a sigh. "Okay, Sides, we can help Bumblebee with the fliers."
A few minutes later cries of, "Jet-Judo!" rent the air along with curses and shrieks from the Command Trine. Skywarp tried warping but no avail; Sideswipe merely clung tighter to the Seeker while his brother dug his digits into Thundercracker's wings causing the flier to yelp in pain. Bumblebee was still atop Starscream much to the Decepticon second-in-command's dismay who was still trying to throw the mini-bot off.
"You're insane!" Starscream yelled.
"I know," Bumblebee cried then, turning his right servo into a sword and his left into a stinger, drove both weapons into the Seeker's wings. Starscream screamed in agony as his right wing was now dangling by a thread and his left was numb. Rapidly he plummeted down, shrieking at the top of his vocal processor.
Bumblebee jumped off the flier, landing on Bulkhead's shoulder, startling both the big green mech and the Decepticon he was fighting. Bulkhead took advantage of the distraction and sent the Decepticon flying across the desert and into a pile of rocks.
"You might want to move," Bumblebee advised. Bulkhead looked up and saw the injured Decepticon that was hurtling straight towards them and hastily moved out of the way.
"Incoming!" someone yelled. Every bot looked up then turned tail and ran so that they weren't in the line of fire. Every bot that is except for Megatron. The Decepticon leader stood there; supremely confident that he wouldn't be hit. Decepticons and Autobots alike all winced as Starscream collided with Megatron, both bots sliding a good twelve feet before they stopped, the impact leaving a deep trench in their wake. There was complete and utter silence for several minutes as they absorbed what they had just seen. The silence was eventually broken by the sound of Starscream moaning in pain.
The moan snapped the twins out their shocked reverie and they exchanged glances as they realized what Bumblebee had been up to; they decided to follow suit. Sideswipe used his sword to chop one of Skywarp's wings halfway off while Sunstreaker took care of disabling Thundercracker. The two mechs hung on for dear life as their rides plummeted towards Earth. Once they were close enough to make out the stunned expressions on their teammates' faceplates, the proud one on Bumblebee's and the exasperated one on Prime's they let go of the fliers and jumped to the ground, just barely missing both of the Prowl's.
They watched as Skywarp and Thundercracker crashed into Megatron and Starscream, both of whom had just stood back up.
"Wow," Sideswipe said, wincing as the four Decepticons came to a stop against some jagged rocks. "That had to hurt."
"That was fun," the crazy Bumblebee cried. "Can we do that again?"
"No," Optimus and Prime said at the exact same time causing every bot, except for the Prowl's, to snigger.
"We need to gather up the injured and head to the ship where both of the Ratchet's can patch them up." Prime said, eyeing the Decepticons cautiously.
"You may have won today, brother, but the war is far from over," Megatron hissed then the Decepticons transformed, well most of them did, and soon had disappeared into the distance.
The Autobots slowly made their way back to the ship, feeling exhilarated by their victory.
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A/N/N: The next chapter will be extremely late tomorrow night as I am going shopping tomorrow and then to the movies.
