Hello, bots and cons. Centurion here and welcome back to Dustformers (Myself included). The last chapter/episode was shorter, I admit, but that's because it was more of a filler chapter/episode. I hope people like the flashback in that chapter/episode. I admit that I didn't have much inspiration when writing the last chapter/episode.
OC Contributors: I'd like to personally thank these people for their contributions for this fiction. With a new contributor, it's time for a new OC to make their debut.
Spartan-100
SnowBranwen
PaperView
This chapter is for my OC contributor: PaperView for their OC as I said I would make an introduction chapter specifically for them as I did for Spatan-100 and SnowBranwen's OCs. As usual, please enjoy.
*Vale City. 22:50 pm*
It was a clear night, but loud noises could be heard. Those noises belonged to the cars of street racers. People who live off of high speed on the road. There has been trouble with a local street racing group. The four street racers met under a bridge with four other racers. Other people were gathered around the makeshift track and were cheering the racers on or anticipating the race to begin.
"Is everyone ready?" The racemaster asked. Suddenly, a black Cheve Impala with a white lightning bolt on it's right side pulled up, stopping at the starting line.
"Hey, who's the guy with the Cheve Impala?" one of the racers asked irritated.
"Let's see how he holds up against us." Another racer mocked.
"Well, well, well. Looks like we got an unknown contestant!" The racemaster announced. "This will turn out to be an exciting race yet! Racers! Star your engines!" The racers did just that.
"3!" The racemaster shouted.
"2!" The crowd continued.
"1!" The racers finished.
"GO!" Everyone shouted, and the race was underway.
One of the racers was driving a slightly souped wine red Corvette and was nearing the black Cheve Impala. The black Cheve Impala was just keeping ahead of the wine red Corvette. Suddenly, the Cheve Impala subtly dropped something on the ground. When the wine red Corvette passed over the hidden object, it suddenly shorted out. "What the hell?!" The racer exclaimed in frustration.
The black Cheve Impala was advancing to the top three fast. The other racers tried cutting off the Cheve Impala, but it didn't work as the Cheve Impala rocketed into first place and won a couple minutes later with the other racers following shortly behind. "We have a winner!" The racemaster shouted.
The wine red Corvette pulled up last. The driver hopped out angrily. "That's not fair! The driver in the Impala cheated!" He complained.
"He did what it took to win the race." The racemaster said. "May we have a name for our winner?"
"Just call me 'Shadow Lightning'." A voice from inside the Cheve Impala said a little dramatically.
"Then let's give it up for 'Shadow Lightning'!" The racemaster cheered along with the crowd. the Cheve Impala soon drove away after bathing in the cheering crowd for a few seconds.
"Really, Full-Throttle. I don't see why you have to do that." A second voice inside the Cheve Impala said.
"Do what, CLUTCH?" The now named Full-Throttle asked nonchalantly.
"Why must you always feel the urge to do something so irresponsible?" CLUTCH asked.
"Come on, CLUTCH. I was just blending in to human society." Full-Throttle chuckled.
"By participating in an illegal street race." CLUTCH asked rhetorically.
*Beacon High. 8:02 am*
As the eight hopped out of their Autobot friends, they were greeted by many other students chatting and reading the papers about a specific topic: Street racers. They didn't know what to make of all the chatter. Suddenly, a female student with jade green hair and brown eyes ran up to the group, clearly excited to be reading the paper for some reason. "Have you guys read the paper?" She asked in a good mood.
"No. Should we have?" Jaune asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Are you kidding?! It's all in the papers! There's this street racer named 'Shadow Lightning' that's been cleaning house with the other racers." The student sighed dreamily. "I bet the driver of 'Shadow Lightning' is a total hunk."
"Ok, then." Jaune said slowly. The eight then resumed walking into the school. "Shadow Lightning?"
"Like that girl said, it's apart of those street racer ruffians right here in Vale." Weiss grumbled. "They don't care about anything but high speed and the open road ahead of them."
"Really? Sounds like my kind of people." Yang grinned.
"Yang!" Ruby and Weiss scolded.
"Kidding, kidding!" Yang said holding her hands up. "Still, it does sound like fun." Ruby rolled her eyes at her sister.
"Oh, Renny! I wanna join a street race!" Nora cheered.
"Nora, no. It's dangerous." Ren partially scolded to which Nora pouted.
"What we need to find out if this has any Transformer-related significance." Blake whispered to the rest of the group.
*The Ark. 8:18 am*
The Autobots were just going about their business. Well, mostly. They also got wind of the street race from last night, and were going over the information. "Why must the people of Remnant involve themselves with such dangerous sport?" Ratchet asked sounding disappointed.
"It seems we still have much to learn about Remnant, old friend." Optimus said putting a hand on the medic's shoulder.
"I don't know, guys. It kinda looks like fun to me." Wildfire said.
"Really, Wildfire?" Ironhide deadpanned.
"Ironhide. One must be able to adapt themselves to all challenges." Pursuit said sagely.
"P-Pursuit does have a point." Hightrail agreed.
"I don't think Zag and I'd be able to keep up." Zig said.
"I'm more interested in the Energon signature on one of the cars." Wheeljack pointed out. Pressing a few buttons, Teletraan 1 zoomed in on the black Cheve Impala. "More specifically on this car." He continued.
"Again, the only question is that if the car is Cybertronian, is it one of ours or Megatron's?" Wildfire asked.
"Why don't we find out?" Bumblebee proposed.
"What do you mean?" Ironhide asked.
"Well, I'm assuming if this car participated in a street race, why don't a couple of us enter that particular street race?" Bumblebee suggested.
"Bumblebee, that doesn't sound like a good idea." Wheeljack interjected.
"Wheeljack's right, kid. These kinds of races are illegal on this planet." Ratchet pointed out.
"Oh, come on, you old rust-bucket!" Wildfire retorted. "It could be fun."
"If it's illegal, it's not fun." Ironhide said.
"If we're going to find out if this is an Autobot or Decepticon, we have to participate in a street race." Wildfire said calmly. Inside however, she was partially squealing with happiness.
Optimus sighed. He didn't want any of the Autobots participating in any illegal activities on Remnant, but he did understand that in order to find some things out, they had to do what they didn't like.
*Vale City. 8:52 am*
The black Cheve Impala was sitting idly in a parking lot. "Full-throttle, what are you thinking now?" CLUTCH asked.
"What show to watch next, and when another race will be happening." Full-Throttle answered honestly.
CLUTCH sighed in exasperation. "Really, Full-Throttle?"
"What? Can you blame me, CLUTCH? You never let me do anything fun." Full-Throttle complained.
"I'm keeping you out of trouble, whatever it may be." CLUTCH reminded. "And I've been doing a damn good job."
"Come on! Let me enjoy myself for once." Full-Throttle said.
"No!" CLUTCH partially shouted. "You'll only get into trouble if I do!"
*Beacon High. History Class. 9:24 am*
Yang was in history class with Weiss. She wasn't really listening to the class mind you, but rather, she was listening to the conversation about the street racers, especially the parts about the racer 'Shadow Lightning'.
"Yang. Are you paying attention?" Weiss whispered.
"O-Oh! Sorry, Weiss." Yang whispered back. "I was zoned out."
"May I take a wild guess why?" Weiss asked rhetorically. Yang's eyes wandered off to try and avoid Weiss's question, but Weiss saw right through it. "You're thinking about street racing, aren't you?" She accused. "Yang Xiao Long. Need I remind you that street racing is dangerous and illegal."
"Ice Queen! You wound me with your baseless accusations!" Yang said dramatically falling over and playfully grinning at Weiss. The latter growled lightly at the blonde.
"What's going on here?" Their history teacher, Peter Port asked walking up to the two students. Peter was a man with large gray eyebrows, a gray mustache, a little bit of a big belly, and wearing a modified school uniform. There wasn't really much to his appearance.
"Nothing, Mr. Port." Weiss politely replied. Peter only kept his eyebrow raised as he began walking back to his desk. Weiss sighed in relief and frustration.
*Beacon High. Hallway. 10:09 am*
Weiss and Yang's class just ended and they met up with the others as they had a few minutes before their next classes. "Hey, guys. How'd history class go?" Ruby asked.
"Well, your sister almost got her and I into trouble." Weiss pointed a finger to Yang who just shrugged it off.
"Whatever, Weiss. I was listening to important information." Yang retorted.
"You mean you were fantasizing about street racing?" Weiss arched an eyebrow. Yang merely grinned.
"What worried me is that if this is a Decepticon or not." Blake voiced.
"I have an idea. That girl with the jade green hair? I'm gonna talk to her and try to get more information about these street racers. I'll meet back up with you guys when I'm done." Jaune said.
"Jaune, that's a good idea, but how are you gonna find her?" Ren asked.
"I have next class with that girl." Jaune replied. "I was partnered up with her. So it's perfect."
"Alright." Pyrrha said. "Good luck."
*Beacon High. English Class. 10:21 am*
Jaune was sitting in English Class on the right in the far back with his partner for an assignment. His partner was indeed the girl from earlier with jade green hair. "This is the perfect time to get information about the street racers." Jaune thought.
"You know something, we never got each other's names." The girl said and suddenly held out her hand. "I'm Tammy Goldberg." She introduced.
"Jaune Arc." He said shaking Tammy's hand. "So, Tammy. I'd like to ask you something."
"What is it?" Tammy asked, curious.
"What do you know about the street racers?" He asked quietly.
Tammy's eyes lit up at the question involving the street racers. "Well, what I know for now is that there will be another race this evening. Also, 'Shadow Lightning' will probably be there." She whispered back.
"Okay. What else?" Jaune asked.
"Well, besides the police constantly trying to catch them, they seem to always have someone recording the races every time and they make the profits from that." Tammy finished.
"Do you maybe know where the next race will be taking place?" Jaune asked.
"I think it'll take place on the Vale Freeway." Tammy said.
"I see." Jaune said to himself smiling lightly. "Thanks, Tammy."
"You're welcome, Jaune." Tammy smiled, and the two got back to working on their project smiling, but then he had one more question for Tammy.
"One more thing: Do you think 'Shadow Lightning' will be there?" He asked.
"The hunk in the black Cheve Impala? Oh, he'll be there." Tammy dreamily sighed.
*Vale City. 11:00 am*
Full-Throttle was driving around in the city, but safely this time. "Thank Primus you're driving safely for once given your track record back on Cybertron." CLUTCH remarked.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Full-Throttle asked.
"We haven't done much since we've been here." CLUTCH reminded. "We should be trying to find out if any other Autobots are stranded here and instead, y-you've been hanging out with illegal rabble."
"Oh, how dare you!" Full-Throttle retorted.
"You know I'm right." CLUTCH said.
*Vale City. Burger Joint. 11:34 am*
Jaune and the others went out for lunch, discuss the information Jaune acquired, and to talk to the Autobots. "So, what did you find out, Jaune?" Ruby asked.
"The next street race will be at Vale Freeway in the evening, and the racer 'Shadow Lightning' will be there." Jaune explained.
"Think we should let the Autobots know?" Nora asked.
"I think so. It could be another Autobot, so it could be another addition which would be nice." Weiss voiced.
"So let's call them." Ren said. They finished their food and then walked to an alley. Like the last time, they checked if they were all clear. when they were, they contacted their alien friends. Instead of Wheeljack popping up, it was Wildfire.
"Hey, guys. What is it?" Wildire asked.
"Have you heard about the racer 'Shadow Lightning'?" Yang asked.
"We have. In fact, we've been talking about the street racers, debating whether or not to participate in the street race taking place at Vale Freeway." Wildfire replied.
"Really? Then we should go!" Yang said excitedly.
"Yang!" Ruby and Weiss chastised.
"What? We're gonna end up going to the race anyway. Might as well take advantage of all of us knowing where it is." Yang reasoned.
Everyone except Nora and Wildfire sighed. Yang did make a good point. They now knew the location of the street race, so they could go there to find out if this 'Shadow Lightning'.
"We might as well go to the street race." Pyrrha said.
"Great!" Wildfire cheered. "Now who wants to ride with me?" She asked. They looked at each other with only Yang sporting a grin.
*Vale City. Vale Freeway. 7:12 pm*
It was evening. The sun had almost finished setting. This was it for the group. Tonight, they were going to find out about 'Shadow Lightning'. Wildfire was a little excited to be in this race. At the freeway, a large crowd had assembled for the race. People were ecstatic to be here. "Hello, everybody! Are you ready for another race?!" The racemaster shouted. The crowd cheered. The same group of racers from last time showed up.
"Now, we have the winner from the last race returning to defend his title. Please welcome back 'SHADOW LIGHTNING'!" The racemaster shouted as Full-Thrtottle drove up to the start. The crowd cheered louder when 'Shadow Lightning' appeared. A couple of the street racers groaned at hearing those words.
"Great. 'Shadow Lightning' is back." One of the racers sneered.
"Now, that's not all, folks." The racemaster continued. "We have a new contestant tonight. Please welcome the newcomer for tonight's race: WILDFIRE!" Wildfire drove up to the starting line with Yang inside.
"Never thought I'd actually participate in a street race." Yang said.
"Neither did I. I never even ran a street race on Cybertron." Wildfire admitted.
"Wait? You were never in a street race back on your planet?" Yang asked, surprised.
"Yeah. Though I was a legitimate racer back on Cybertron." Wildfire revealed.
"Really?" Yang was getting interested.
"Yeah, but that's for another time. Right now, let's win a race." Wildfire said with determination.
"Yeah. Let's do this." Yang smiled.
By now, the racers were all at the starting line. The racemaster took his position. "Is everyone ready?" He asked.
"YEAH!" The crowd cheered.
"READY!" Everyone shouted.
"SET!"
"GO!" With that, the racers were off with the crowd already starting to make bets on who would win. Little did they know, Ruby and the other seven were in disguise in the crowd while Bumblebee, Jazz, Pursuit, Zig, and Zag were in their vehicle modes a bit away. They actually formulated a plan.
"Alright. Let's get started." Jaune said quietly. "Who has Snapshot?"
"I do." Blake said holding the Mini-Con in his alternate mode.
"Good. With him, we can take pictures and record everything." Jaune said. "Now, someone needs to call the cops."
"I'll do that." Weiss said. "So, I'll be with the Autobots. Contact me when it's time to call the police."
The other six nodded in acknowledged of the plan. Pyrrha then noticed Ruby looking worried. "What's wrong, Ruby?" She asked.
"I just hope Yang doesn't get hurt." Ruby sniffled.
Pyrrha put her hand on the younger girl's shoulder for comfort. "Ruby. Your sister's going to be alright." She said.
"Pyrrha's right, Ruby. In the time we've known Yang, she may be reckless, but she's careful enough not to get herself injured." Blake added.
"That doesn't stop me from worrying." Ruby said.
"Have faith in your sister, Ruby." Ren said. "She'll be okay."
Back with the race, Yang and Wildfire were competing with the other racers to the lead position. Needless to say, Wildfire was ecstatic to be racing, even if it is illegal. It was a little difficult to get there, and 'Shadow Lightning', despite having a slow start this time was catching up fast. "Wildfire!'Shadow Lightning' is catching up! See if you can scan the car!" Yang shouted.
"I'm on it!" Wildfire shouted back. Activating some internal scanner, she scanned the black Cheve Impala and found something on the top of the car. "What!" She exclaimed.
"What is it, Wildfire?" Yang asked.
"The car's an..." Wildfire didn't get to finish as an energy blast exploded right next to her, causing her to swerve out of the way.
"What was that?!" Yang exclaimed.
"Energy blast! That can only mean Decepticons are here!" Wildfire shouted. Turns out she was proven right as Flamewar in her motorcycle mode was speeding towards Wildfire and Yang. Firing another energy blast, this one hit Wildfire which made her drive off to the side. The other racers were either knocked out of the way with the energy blasts or kept going on with the race. Flamewar wasn't the only Decepticon here however. Skywarp was here too as he transformed to robot mode, dropping right in front of Wildfire.
"Well, well. If it isn't Wildfire." Skywarp sneered.
"Scrap! I can't transform and put Yang in danger!" Wildfire thought to herself.
Flamewar transformed to robot mode and aimed her weapons at the Autobot. "Mistake coming out here alone, Autobot." She said.
Suddenly, the black Cheve Impala sped towards the group. "Leave them alone!" It shouted. When it was close enough, it transformed into Full-Throttle. Inside Wildfire, Yang went wide-eyed seeing Full-Throttle.
"Another Autobot?!" Skywarp shouted angrily. "Prepare to die!" He fired missiles at the new Autobot, who dodged by jumping up out of the way of the projectiles. Full-Throttle ran to the Seeker, delivering a punch to the face. CLUTCH, who was attached to his back started firing rounds at the two Decepticons. Skywarp winced at the small rounds, so he didn't see Full-Throttle perform a sweep kick, knocking Skywarp off his feet. Full-Throttle then kicked Skywarp in the face, which made him transform and fly off.
"Yang! Get somewhere safe!" Wildfire shouted. Yang complied and ran to another part of the freeway away from the fight. This allowed Wildfire to finally transform to robot mode and join in on the fighting. She sent a roundhouse kick to Flamewar, who barely dodged. Flamewar retaliated by firing her weapons, but Wildfire transformed back to vehicle mode while heading towards her opponent. At the last minute, she transformed to robot mode, uppercutting Flamewar sending her a couple feet in the air. Wildfire then jumped up to slam her back to the ground, but Flamewar kicked her to the ground first. Full-Throttle saw this and ran towards the smaller Decepticon. Fortunately, he got to Flamewar before she could fire on Wildfire and sent a flurry of punches to keep the Decepticon from fighting back. Flaewar transformed and drove off. After that, he helped Wildfire up off the ground.
"Are you okay?" Full-Throttle asked.
"Yeah. Thanks, but who are you?" Wildfire asked back.
"The name's Full-Throttle." He introduced, bowing his head.
"Oh, now you actually be courteous." CLUTCH remarked.
"Oh. I almost forgot. the other voice with me is my partner drone named CLUTCH." Full-Throttle said.
"Well, it's nice to meet you both." Wildfire said. She saw Yang walk over. "Oh, this is my human friend, Yang."
"So, you're the infamous 'Shadow Lightning'. Nice to meet you." Yang greeted. Suddenly, her scroll went off. She answered it and saw it was Ruby and the others.
"Yang! Are you okay?" Ruby asked worriedly.
"I'm okay, sis." Yang smiled, which let Ruby sigh in relief.
"What about the plan?" Yang continued.
"It all went well." Jaune said suddenly. "The police are wrapping up the street racers, and are thanking us for our help. What about you? Did you find our about 'Shadow Lightning'?"
"Yeah. He's an Autobot named Full-Throttle with a partner C.L.U.T.C.H drone named CLUTCH who's somewhat snarky." Yang remarked.
"Hey! If it wasn't for me, Mr. Speed Demon here would've been offline stellar-cycles ago." CLUTCH remarked back.
"Hey!" Full-Throttle yelled. Wildfire and Yang just burst out laughing at the exchange between the two.
Hello, everyone. Here is the newest chapter/episode of Dustformers. I've finally gotten around to using PaperView's OC: Full-Throttle who is somewhat of a speed demon. So again, I'd like to thank PaperView for this OC. I was excited to write this chapter/episode. We also get street racers in this chapter/episode. Also, Peter Port finally makes an appearance. It felt right to include him as Beacon's history teacher. Furthermore, Wildfire kind of has a need for speed, with a tiny reveal of her occupation back on Cybertron before the war broke out. This chapter/episode may be a little comedic and once again not show the Decepticons in a good light and for that, I apologize to any Decepticon fans, but I do aim for this story to have dark tones in it. This chapter/episode is a little longer, but I hope PaperView (Full-Throttle's creator) likes this introduction for the character.
A new OC of my own creation (This one wasn't planned) has made their appearance. This OC of mine is named Tammy Goldberg. Not much is known since she was just introduced to the story besides her knowing about street racers. More will come later on. That reminds me, some OCs that appear in the story that are made by me may not be planned.
Full-Throttle is an Autobot who kind of has the craving for speed and is a nerd as he has been on Remnant for quite a while. So, he's developed the personality of Dean Winchester from Supernatural. He also has a snarky partner CLUTCH drone with the personality of Sam Winchester, also from Supernatural. He loves high speed, so CLUTCH honestly does his best to reign him in, though it frustrates him every time. This is just his introduction, but he'll get more time as the story goes on. Credit for this OC goes to PaperView.
Also, special news: Star Wars: The Clone Wars is coming back and I'm super excited for it's return. From what we saw from the trailer, we're getting the Siege of Mandalore with Ahsoka helping out and facing off against Maul, the Bad Batch (Experimental Unit Clone Force 99) which is a nice homage to the physically deformed clone 99 who unfortunately died in the beginning of season 3 episode 2 Arc Troopers. Anakin and Obi-Wan have their Revenge of the Sith looks. Poor Captain Rex though, reminiscing all of his brothers that were killed during the war.
Also, a special message. I think at some point during the story, I will be making an actually posted information dossier for the Transformers original characters. Again, a special thanks and credit for OCs goes to all my OC contributors in this dossier and this fiction as well as myself for my own OCs put into the story.
