*Part 10*
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What anyone didn't know was that the night before, two individuals had infiltrated the studio grounds. They were not terribly pleased with such a meagre job but they followed orders nonetheless as given. And as soon as one and two were in place, number three was put into hiding also.

Soundwave had offered an idea to Megatron, that perhaps the femme may show up somewhere, where that detestable human, Francine Deane, often visited in her daily rounds of work, as there seemed to be a connection between the two. This was something Soundwave had surmised after the concert attack. They still had their plans of vengeance for Miss Deane, but right now they were after someone else. A tall black femme that Megatron had set his sights on capturing.

While Soundwave, Thundercracker and some other cassettes were at other locations; Laserbeak, Ravage and Skywarp were here. Megatron had not been too thrilled at sending one of his better warriors into a full force battle right after he had been repaired from severe damage, but he admired Skywarp's loyalty and determination to get back to work and so sent him along with the two cassettes. It allowed him to utilise Thundercracker for the same plan, while Soundwave headed the mission overall.

Laserbeak quietly surveyed Ravage prowling around the grounds from his hiding spot with his scanners. 'Have you found anything yet?' He asks.

'Stop bothering me you insufferable bird.' Comments the mech jaguar, annoyed, 'Can you not see that I am busy.'

There was no comment from the mech vulture. He adjusted himself on his perch then went back to his lookout duties. He was also watching the goings on around the studio and reporting back to Skywarp, to give the mech an idea of the layout should he need to move from his spot.

Ravage in the meantime had found something useful. He had scoured around several warehouses and found plenty of things that he knew were not normal for a film studio. There were several energy signatures that were Cybertronian, unusual for this area, they were very faint like they were old or deliberately being covered, but he had sensors that were better than most and could find any smell.

Once he was done looking, after evading several fleshlings and their 'useless pets', the robotic guard dogs, he bounded over as quickly as he could to where Laserbeak and Skywarp were hidden and contacted them.

"Well?" Asks Skywarp of Ravage.

Ravage had originally scoped out Skywarp's hiding place. Being that the warehouse they were now in was full of replica aircraft used in filming, and he had found it wasn't used for much other than storage. Skywarp exhibited a modicum of distaste over having to repaint the entirety of his body in black, but he did so for the mission.

"There are definitely Cybertronian scents here." Ravage stated calmly. "But barely detectable."

Laserbeak was also curious as to what he meant but he had his duties on lookout, up above them in the rafters and so listened from his hidden perch.

Ravage nodded in confirmation. "There are also some familiar scents that I cannot place at the moment but…"

"Someone is coming." Laserbeak interrupted.

The two cassettes quickly got out of sight while Skywarp transformed into his alt mode.

Over by the hangar door, a female human walks in with another human, a male, walking right behind her. Both talk amongst themselves for a few minutes and comment on the black plane being in the back. They think nothing of it, afar from being just another prop plane for movie shoots and then leave soon after, locking up behind them.

After he was sure he couldn't hear them anymore, Skywarp transforms back to his root mode and comments, "Did either of you two scan the weird readings coming from the human female? Either my scanners are screwing up or I was getting a Decep' signal?"

"I received them also." The cat claimed.

"As did I?" Laserbeak added.

"Those particular humans warrant further investigation. Perhaps they are Decepticon Pretenders in disguise as humans." Ravage said with a fair amount of disgust.

"Why a Decepticon would want to disguise itself as a filthy little fleshbag, I don't know?" Skywarp snorted in disgust, but then he smirked, an idea forming in his sadistic mind.

Meanwhile at the front gate, some visitors arrive.

One after the other they line up at the front gate amongst the crowds, several of them being recognised. Jazz went out of his way to say hello to as many of his avid fans as he could after he had transformed into his robot mode to greet them. While Tracks and the twins did the same, soaking up the attention.

"Me no see point in all that attention. Some of those humans need kick in butt. Don't like all humans, most too noisy and stupid." He sniffled inside Vanguards rear cab, meanwhile she moves up the security check line to the staff entrance.

"Grimlock would you please sit down and stop fidgeting?" Comments Vanguard, her suspension groaning under Grimlock's weight.

"Me no care, Me want to explore film studio." He pauses for a moment and looks ahead in the line to where other vehicles were being checked for inspection. "Hurry up, me want out."

At this point Grimlock had inadvertently touched her horn by accident and had gotten a mouthful from Vanguard about the noise, making Grimlock cower, "Me think me shut up now!" He shuffles further back and whimpers to himself. Vanguard was trying very hard to stifle a guffaw, this Dinobot leader was so much like a child at times.

The guard finally got to Vanguard and saw her holomatter form sitting in the driver's seat. Eventually waving her on as they knew she was expected, along with her entourage, explaining Grimlock and the other cars away as extras for a new film to get them in.

"Finally!" Sunstreaker whined. While the rest of them transformed, Sunstreaker breezed through ahead of them getting away from the crowd and its dirty fingerprints, as well as noisy chatter.

Francine was here today helping to finish filming for a movie that was on the work roster and was eagerly awaiting the extra help from Vanguard and Rusty. She was none too surprised when she was asked if some Autobots could tag along and so let them come. She'd said she may be able to make use of the extra cars for the stunt work as well.

Francine smiled when she saw them, "We have some things to take care of, so why don't you boys go for a wander around the studio and have a look see while we attend to it." She began to walk off but then turned and cautioned "And stay out of trouble!"

The Autobots found themselves a spot and spread out to discuss what they could do. For a while they all discussed about where to go first, as no one could agree.

"Me want to see fancy stuff in studio." The Dinobot muttered.

"And there's a theme park here too!" Sideswipe added.

"Should we all just pick an area and look around on our own?" Asks Tracks.
But then they all look at Grimlock and decided against it.

For the better part of two hours they wandered around the studio areas, chatting amongst themselves, looking around as well as being pointed at by some humans who were also present. There was the fact that they constantly had to keep an optic or two on Grimlock so he wouldn't wander off and cause trouble either.

But at some stage.

"Hey, were'd the twins go?" Jazz noticed. They were wondering why it had gone conspicuously quiet. Both had wandered off to a movie set close by that was currently filming.

"Heh!" Exclaims an amused Jazz, and he wanders over to where they are both watching the action, Grimlock and Tracks follow him.

But their attendance was attracting some fans amongst the crowd who were also watching the scene being played out. This crowd was from a tour group that had stopped to watch the filming in progress.

"Wow, Autobots!" Exclaims one human close to them.

Someone asks, "Can I get your autograph?"

"Are you guys gonna be in this movie?" Asks another.

"Yeah I reckon these guys'd be great in a movie!" Shouts another.

But before any of them can respond to them, a director close by filming yells, "Cut!" and then gets off his chair and proceeds to abuse the Autobots, "Who ordered these machines in here? I certainly didn't, get them out of here; they're ruining my creative genius!"

This got sneers of indignation from the twins who looked like they were about to go over the partition line and step on the director.

That's when Vanessa showed up. She talks to the director, "Take it easy Simon! These guys just want to see your creative genius in action."

Once the director saw who it was, someone who was a close friend of his employer, he shut up real quick, lest he got fired and not paid.

Aurora Sabre also showed up in her car, "Hey Vanessa, Simon giving you grief again?" She leaned out of the window of her Reventon and asked.

The director goes back to his work soon after and ignores the rest of them.
"He's cool, just being prickly like usual that's all." Vanessa mused.

Jazz waved at Aurora, she saw the gesture but ignored him. He was still trying to get Aurora to notice him, "No." She stated firmly.

Whereas his answer was, "But hey I didn' even ask for anythin'?"

She retorted, "I'm just stopping you in your treads before you do."
Rusty drove past with two passengers and they watch as they both get out at the film in progress some distance away. Once she was empty of any passengers, she drove off elsewhere.

"Hey where's she goin'?" Asked Jazz.

"Let's find out shall we." Vanessa stated. She got into the passenger side of Aurora's Reventon when the door was opened for her and the car drove off to follow Rusty, with the Autobots following not far behind.

They were led to where Francine now was. She was currently talking to a Director and an explosives Manager about effects for a scene they wanted to do. When she saw the group arrive she waived them over to her and left the Director and Manager to their conversation.

When the Director turned around and saw the transformers he had a great idea, "You know Frankie," He commented, "Those Transformers, would make for a great movie with lots of great explosions and effects." He was giddy like a little child.

This amused Francine, "Now Micheal, keep those explosive ideas for the folks down in Hollywood, this is just a low budget action film we are doing here, not a big time action blockbuster, this is one that you agreed to help me with because you owed me a favour."

"Okay okay, I got it. But can I at least use those two Lamborghini's for something?" He asked. "They'd be great in this scene I have an idea for. I really don't think it would work with those two hatchback's your vehicle despatch gave me. Oh and I'll take the blue Corvette too if he's willing, he'll be better than that silver Stingray concept car I've got here."

Frankie looked up at the three grinning 'Bots bursting at the seems waiting for her response, "So long as they behave I guess and don't break anything or themselves. I've had their Medic call me from their place and threatened me with grievous bodily harm if any of them are returned damaged."

"Well hey what 'bout me an' the Dino?" Jazz thumbed to Grimlock who was wagging his tail eagerly.

The Director thought about for a moment, "Don't go anywhere ok, I may have a use for you."

They watched them wander off with the Director who was going over some ideas with the twins and Tracks.

"Oh boys!" Francine called out to them, "Watch out will you, he has a penchant for blowing things up in a spectacular fashion and I'd like to return you 'bots in one piece to Ratchet."

Francine noticed Aurora watching them. "Think of it this way," She commented, "At least he won't bust up any of your precious Lamborghini's for once."

"True." She murmured. She found herself a seat and sat back to watch. This Director was a friend of Francine's who quite often came up to Oregon for the facilities. He was also one the could be trusted with the information of some individuals that Francine dealt with, including Rusty, whom was used by the director for daring car stunts that couldn't be done with the safety of a human driver on the line. Plus Rusty was near indestructible, and that gave him some room to use explosives for very dangerous stunts that he knew Rusty loved to get involved in and was paid extra for.

What annoyed Rusty was that she had to stay in her vehicle mode for the filming as most of the crew were only aware of the known Cybertronians. At the moment though, a trusted aid of Francine's, had a fake radio control unit in their hand and was using it to make it look like Rusty was just a car. It was the way it was always done when Rusty worked on a film.

Aurora in the meantime was looking back at Jazz who was with Grimlock, getting very fidgety because he had been in one place for two long.

Francine had come over to where she was and asked, "I wonder how your T rex friend would do against him in a fight?"

Aurora had another mecha friend who just happened to have a Tyrannosaurus for an alternate mode. Aurora grinned at the thought, not thinking the Dinobot would fare very well at all.

Grimlock however had overheard part of what they said and was curious. "You have other Dinobot like me?"

"Not a Dinobot like you Grimlock." Francine answered.

"You humans have robot dinosaur then?" Was all that seemed to sink in to the Dinobots brain. The information certainly had piqued his interest and wanted to know more. He moved around to get close to the two females and in the process knocked over several things with his tail, getting yelled at by several film technicians, as their equipment had been damaged. "When you human introduce Me to robot dinosaur?" He asked eagerly, swinging his tail like a happy little puppy.

Jazz couldn't help but laugh about the situation.

"Shut it you, you're not helping." Aurora then looked at Francine, "Now look what you started?" She complained, "He's going to be as bad as Jazz now, pestering us continuously."

Francine snickered as she wandered off to help the technicians sort out their equipment.

Jazz had quietly been sitting on the grass aside the trailers watching the goings on with Tracks and the twins being asked to do this or that. Rusty, he could tell was getting annoyed at being in vehicle mode, and Vanessa was grateful that Francine's excuse, that Vanguard was busy elsewhere, was believed by all of the Autobots bar Jazz.
Vanessa was still very aware that Jazz knew who she and Aurora really were. Prowl was the only other one that knew about her, but not Aurora. She was grateful both had decided to keep quiet till either Aurora or Vanessa were ready to reveal their secret to the others.

Jazz had a familiar buzzing in the back of his processor that told him that something was about to happen. And he was right.

Not long after he got his sensation, Skywarp showed up. He set down right in the middle of the filming and transformed, making all the humans scatter, and the Autobots got their weapons out in defence of the humans.

"So this is how you Auto-dolts have fun. Hanging around with a bunch of fleshbags and letting them stink up the place." He bellowed.

"If anyone is stinkin' up th'place, it's you 'Warp!" Jazz retorted. While he kept the Seekers attention, he issued orders without taking his optics off Skywarp. "Sideswipe, you an' Tracks go an' make sure th'area is clear of any humans. We can take care of this Decepti-bozo!"

Vanessa ran off after Sideswipe and Tracks when they left, to help them out. Rusty transformed the moment most the humans were out of sight and offered to join in with helping the Autobots.

"Grimlock pound Decepti-bozo into scrap metal." The Dinobot leader roared as he charged the grounded Seeker.

"Grimlock wait!" Called Jazz, but it was too late.

Skywarp teleported as soon as the Dinobot had charged. "Aww! Widdle Dinobot too slow!" He cackled from up in the air as Grimlock crashed headlong into equipment.
Skywarp knew he was already in enough trouble for breaking cover and showing himself when this was an undercover mission to find that femme's location and grab her. But when the Autobots had shown up and proven to be too much of a distraction, and he had contacted Thundercracker and Soundwave about it. Neither of the other two had had any success at their own missions and so had radioed back that they would come to Skywarp's location and assist. If the Autobots were there, then the femme may very well be close by.
After having reviewed the video Laserbeak had recovered, it was surmised that the femme's form was likely a black Lamborghini. They had already gathered that every time since the emergence of the black and orange femme, that they had interfered with Deane Corp, that something had happened. Francine Deane herself being kidnapped and then the concert, had brought out various and previously unknown femmes. It had led to one loss after another and Megatron's temper was getting worse and worse with every loss and they needed to give him something to ease that furious temper.

The point of the mission was to draw that particular femme out after being at a Deane Corp location. Currently Skywarp's location was the only one that had brought some action, but no sign of that femme, or so they thought.

But Aurora, hiding in her human form, was already on the scene. She had noticed that the Seeker had already taken an interest in her black Reventon, whose appearance she did on occasion replicate for an alt mode, even though it wasn't her true form, like the one she wore now.

Her car was capable of moving itself around without a driver, but it wasn't like Rusty, it was something else, that had been told by Aurora to stay out of trouble. All it could do was to get itself out of the way when it looked like a fight was imminent. Unfortunately that action had attracted the wrong attention.

She figured that they being here had something to do with her. Either her true identity had been discovered or that one of Soundwave's cassettes had infiltrated the Autobot base after the concert battle and seen her resurrection. She figured the latter was more likely and settled for staying in her human form for as long as she was able to.

Jazz, Sunstreaker and Grimlock were keeping the Seeker comparatively busy for now, but the odds tipped to evens when Soundwave and Thundercracker showed up. Then they tipped in the Decepticons favour when Soundwave ejected all his available cassettes. It was auspicious that Tracks and Sideswipe then returned shortly after.

Ravage and Laserbeak joined them soon after, with both informing Soundwave of their recent discovery.

Ravage indicated the female in question whom they had discovered earlier. Soundwave was very curious about the information that had been given to him and so had made a decision to take the human female back to the Decepticon base and have her studied. As he too could perceive the signal coming from her, but not only that, he was now detecting a signal coming from a human male that was under some rubble very close to her.

"Ravage. Rumble. Frenzy. Retrieve those two humans." He ordered, pointing at the two in question. The twins didn't understand why at first, but obliged their Master willingly and went to carry out their orders.

Elsewhere, Aurora had found her niece and nephew who were elsewhere amongst the film crew when the trouble started. Victor, in the process of protecting his sister, had been knocked out cold from a stray blast and buried under some pieces of concrete when the blast hit the ground and covered him in debris. Violet in her already weakened state was trying to remove a heavy slab of concrete that had come down on her brother, when Aurora had rocked up to their location. She herself was sporting more cuts and scrapes.
"Thank God you're here, help me, I can't move the slab, it's too heavy for me." Violet pleaded.

Aurora didn't even have a chance to do anything as she was set upon by Ravage who was trying to keep her away from the other two while his companions took them into their custody. She couldn't clear the debris and keep Ravage occupied at the same time.
While the two Seekers had been keeping the Autobots busy, Soundwave had gone to check out this car Skywarp had mentioned to him, but had found more than he bargained for. Like the beast that had accosted Blitzwing and Starscream previously, this car was very similar, only it had this car as an alternate mode. Soundwave came running out from the backlot with this beast on his peds.

It didn't help matters any when Starscream showed up to survey the situation. He had been sent by Megatron to be backup, only for him to find the ensuing battle.

He had been watching quietly from atop a nearby warehouse some distance away when several shots had been fired at him, and that was his cue to then get involved.

The beast had given up chase on Soundwave when it saw Aurora trying to get to Victor but was currently being warded off by Ravage. The beast came up so silently behind Ravage, that the Jaguar had barely enough time to get away when he was surprised by its sudden appearance.

"Thanks Reaver." Aurora said as she patted the mechanical animal. The beast gave a light purr of its intakes and proceeded to offer her a spot to sit on top of it to go and help her niece and nephew.

Unfortunately the cassette twins already had these two in their possession and were being held by Soundwave, one in each hand.

"What in the Pit do you need those two fleshlings for?" Screeched the Wing Commander when he noticed what Soundwave had.

Skywarp managed to get out, "Use your scanners and you'll see why." Before he had to teleport to get away from shots being fired by Jazz and Tracks and avoid being fire balled by Grimlock. "We may not have the black femme, but these two will be an interesting enough prize."

The Dinobot turned his attention to Soundwave when he saw the Decepticon standing there.

"Stop or I will hurt the humans." He stated as the Dinobot advanced.
"Grimlock no care about humans, Grimlock only care about whooping Decepticon butt." He roared at Soundwave.

Jazz yelled at Grimlock to stop. He knew Soundwave would hurt the humans to get the Autobots to stop fighting, and he wasn't going to risk the lives of two young adults. This fight just wasn't worth it.

Aurora wasn't too pleased with the situation either. Reaver was also keeping his distance so that Violet and Victor wouldn't be hurt any further than they already were. They were unfortunately as fragile as humans could be, despite what they really were.

Starscream, after doing what Skywarp had suggested, discovered what the rest had. He also had his scientific curiosity piqued and wanted to find out more about these two strange humans, but he preferred them to be in one piece when they were examined, and decided to use them for more than what Soundwave was doing. "You heard him Autobots, cease fire or these two measly fleshlings are going to bite the dust, as they say in their language!" He prostrated.

Grimlock wasn't going to abide by anything and instead started walking towards Soundwave, who in turn put pressure upon the two humans by squeezing them, making the female squeal in pain.

Jazz yelled, "Cease fire." He'd had to make that choice. He was hoping that they would win over these Decepticons and perhaps drive them off and rescue the now captive humans, but that wasn't going to be today.

Somewhere else, Starscream could see his wing mate being beaten up by the Autobot twins.

"Perhaps you two didn't hear your superior's orders." He queried.

Jazz saw what he was referring to, being that after he had issued a cease fire, the twins had continued to beat Thundercracker, but stopped reluctantly when Jazz once again ordered them to.

Skywarp teleported over to his friend and helped him up, "You ok to fly TC?" He asked.

The blue Seeker coughed and spluttered fuel from his intakes but got out an affirmative answer. He had gotten worse beatings than what the twins could dish out before.

Starscream issued the orders the transform and fly out, grabbing one of the humans and shoving it into his cockpit as he transformed and gave the other to Skywarp.

What got the Autobots attention was that they took the two humans with them. Ordinarily they would just dump their bargaining chips then leave. Jazz ordered Tracks to follow them with Grimlock tagging along, they could find out where they were heading.
Jazz looked over and saw a very irate and frustrated Aurora Sabre. He had been surveying energy signatures coming from both the young humans and guessed there was something unique about them. "Somethin' ya wanna tell us 'bout those two?" He asked Aurora.

She got down from the beasts back but didn't answer Jazz's question. "I was supposed to keep them safe and out of trouble, but now the Decepticons have found out what they are and have taken them." She blurted out without realising what she'd said.

"What's so special about those two?" Sideswipe asked, leaning against a wall trying to survey his battle damage not having heard what Jazz had said.

Jazz mentioned it again and then they turned to Aurora and started asking questions to which she just ignored them all, lost in her own thoughts.

Vanessa, who had just turned up, sighed after realising she would be the bearer of information yet again, "While those two have the appearance of two young humans, they are actually both Cybertronian underneath, more specifically of Decepticon design."

"That certainly explains the weird signal I was getting from both of them?" Sunstreaker added. "Isn't that female the one that was at our base yesterday?" He added.

Vanessa nodded then looked to her friend Aurora who was murmuring to herself, "I wish I'd had the energy to fix her completely at the Ark yesterday, otherwise she wouldn't have been so vulnerable to get hurt again today. They never would have been able to discover either of them if they were still under the cloaks protection?" Aurora berated herself. "I shouldn't have even brought them to the studio today."

"Wait a click?" Sunstreaker piped up, and Aurora realised in her haste she had spoken aloud. "Since when were you at the Ark?"

Vanessa and Aurora looked at each other, and Aurora slapped her head realising what she had done. Vanessa maused that it was now her friends turn to make a mistake.

Then it dawned upon Sunstreaker, "Wait? You're one of those femmes, a Pretender or something are you?"

Both ignored him.

While Jazz knelt down and tried to help, "Easy, we'll get 'em back. We'll do all we can t'help ya, ok."

Sunstreaker further questioned the situation, "You knew about this already didn't you Jazz?" But before anyone had a chance to say anything further, someone else had arrived, ever so quietly while they were all distracted by conversation.

"What is this I hear about Violet and Victor." Came a deep female voice with a thick Russian accent. She was tall as Aurora but with a more calculating and ruthlessly intelligent look about her.

Jazz had to look twice for a moment there as the female human kind of reminded him of a Russian spy at first.

"Well?" She asked, crossing her arms. "Is someone going to tell me what has happened to my children?" It didn't take them long to put two and two together from the humans statement about the two kidnapped youths.

Hidden behind one of the closest buildings was Ravage. By his Master's orders, he had remained behind to seek out more information about the femme should she show after they had left, but what he found was evidently more interesting.

When he thought he couldn't get any more information, he crept away and followed the signal belonging to his Master.

The Decepticon base, hours later.

Violet had been stuck in a holding cell along with her brother. He was resting along one wall. He was conscious now but very sore from his injuries. His internal healing system had healed most of the minor damage as did hers. He was luckier than his sister in so far that he had a stronger body shell at the time while she did not, a reason why he had pushed her aside when the walls began to collapse around them at the film studio.

When they had been taken, she realised straight away that the sensor cloak they had on them must have stopped working and had given their identities away, otherwise they never would have been taken to begin with, they believed. But both felt they wouldn't be at the mercy of the Decepticons for long, someone would be trying to organise their rescue, hopefully before both were dissected or worse, by their new captors.

Not too far away they could hear the voices of some of the Decepticons. By reputation and also through listening to their mother's stories they knew a few Decepticons by name. The only ones they knew by face were ones that were lucky enough to have been seen by news crews or had been told about.

"You had better have a good reason for bringing this human filth into the base Starscream. Not that I doubt Soundwave's reasons, but you will explain why to me, right now." They could hear one yelling at another.

They could barely make them out in the next room, but they could see that the one called Starscream was being berated by another taller mech, who looked much stronger than the red, blue and silver flyer, and much deadlier too. A conversation was going on but they didn't hear all of it.

"But they are not as they appear to be!" The flyer screeched. When the tall grey one dropped Starscream, he said, "Go and see for yourself if you don't believe me!" As he rubbed his nearly crushed neck cables.

The grey one stated as he left that room to come into this one, "You were supposed to make sure that the black femme was retrieved and brought back here, not bring me this rubbish…" He stopped when he noticed something peculiar. "Well what do we have here?" He knelt down to get a closer look at the two humans and grinned at them both maliciously. "I take that back, perhaps you have brought me something interesting after all."

This only made the flyer grin, "Didn't I tell you?" He exclaimed.

Violet and Victor could feel those blood red optics glaring at them and they both didn't like it.

Megatron examined them with his scanners. They were indeed giving off a Decepticon core signal and also smelled like two of their own, and he wondered how they had come to be, especially for all intents and purposes they were both human in size and form and appeared to have no transformational capabilities.

All these two could do was sit and wait and hope that no harm would come to them, but with both of them being prisoners on the Decepticon base, it was unlikely. They didn't know where they were and couldn't risk exposing their other abilities. So they both hoped they would be rescued some time soon.