On the farthest outskirts of Iacon, a fair distance away from the brewing Decepticon uprising, a young, blue-hued civilian racer was speeding across one of his favorite raceways. He was blissfully unaware of the chaos surrounding the Citadel of the Primes and Sentinel Prime's assassination at the hands of Megatron. For the moment, all he was concerned about was beating his previous speed record. He let out a cheerful "Wa-hoo!" as he launched himself off of a ramp at top speed, clearing a large gap in an elevated portion of the track. He continued to speed down the road until he crossed the finish line, causing the display above it to show his time. The speedster transformed and looked up. "Aw, yeah! Fifteen cycles off my past record!" he gloated out loud before catching a glimpse of a vaguely familiar figure being dragged along the road. "Wait...Is that...Ultra Magnus?" he asked himself before reverting to vehicle mode and speeding off in the injured Supreme Commander's direction.
Soundwave, who was still dragging Magnus' unconscious body along the ground with no regard for the bot's dignity or safety, stopped suddenly when his sensors picked up the civilian speeding toward him. "Operation Disposal: Interference detected," the Deployer droned before opening his chest compartment and readying one of his drones in its missile-like alternate form. "Laserbeak, deploy. Operation: Elimination." He proceeded to launch his minion, who transformed into its avian form mid flight and began firing on the interfering blue mech, who quickly swerved out of the way of each shot before transforming and launching himself at his assailant, his speed generating enough force to knock the diminutive machine off-course. Laserbeak continued to careen out of control until he hit one of the support columns holding up the elevated part of the Iacon Raceway, exploding on impact.
Soundwave, noticing that his first drone had been effectively destroyed, prepared to deploy another. "Ravage," he began before being tackled by the speedy blue mech that had taken out Laserbeak.
"You're too slow!" taunted Soundwave's assailant, who proceeded to kick the Deployer in the chest and send him skidding backwards. The Decepticon responded by firing a missile from his shoulder cannon, which the feisty racer dodged as he jumped over to Ultra Magnus' side to tend to the injured Elite Guardsman as best he could. "I'll play with you some other time, buddy. Right now, I gotta run," he called out as he grabbed Ultra Magnus and sped away, leaving Soundwave behind to contemplate his next move.
As the speeder continued to run with Ultra Magnus in-hand, the Elite Guard Supreme Commander began to groggily come to. "Where...Who..." he groaned as he turned his head to look at his rescuer.
"Name's Blurr, Ultra Magnus," the blue bot responded. "I saw that drone draggin' you down the road like you were a piece of scrap metal. I'm just a civilian, but I couldn't let him keep that up."
Ultra Magnus smiled. "You...have the makings of a great Guardian, Blurr. Ever thought of...enlisting?"
"I'm a racer, sir, but...my speed seems to have gotten the better of that bot and his pet. Considering the condition you're in, something big must be going on, and you might need all the help you can get."
"It's...a Decepticon uprising," Magnus explained, still weak from his injuries. "Sentinel Prime's...been assassinated. I tried to stop the assassin, but he overpowered me."
"Slag...sounds like a tough customer," Blurr commented as the sound of a roaring engine and demented cackle approached him from behind. "Fracture," he grumbled, having recognized the insane femme's signature laugh. Like him, Fracture was once a racer, but unlike him, she was not one to play fair. Instead of relying on speed and skill to win, she'd employ dirty tricks and aggressive tactics, including violently attacking other racers. This naturally led to her being banned from the racing circuit.
"Hello, Blurr," the Decepticon madwoman greeted as she transformed into robot mode. "Miss me?"
"Yeah, like I miss Scraplets," snarked Blurr. "What're you doing here?"
"Lord Megatron asked me to help Soundwave dispose of that piece of scrap metal you're carrying," Fracture replied with a wicked grin. "It'll be just as fun to send you BOTH to the junk heap," she cackled as she unleashed her Seismic Stomp on Blurr and Magnus. Unfortunately, the added weight of the Supreme Commander slowed the speedster down enough that he found himself stumbling into the fissure caused by the Decepticon femme's attack. The energy wave that traveled through it then struck him, sending him flying into the wall of the nearest building with a hole in his chest.
Still weak and injured, Ultra Magnus grimaced as he launched his shoulder-mounted missiles at the wicked femme, who dodged one, but was struck and knocked away by the other. Fracture simply continued to laugh as she pulled herself back up, shrugging off the hit, which only caused some minor damage.
Blurr, despite having suffered injuries of his own from the crazed ex-racer, pulled himself back up onto his feet and charged at Fracture, going into a somersault and slamming into her back, knocking her onto the ground before jumping away to allow Magnus another opportunity to fire, which he immediately took, smiling at the speedster as he did so.
Fracture, still caught off-guard by Blurr's surprise attack, was struck by both of Magnus' missiles this time, which produced enough combined explosive force to create a dent in her chest armor. Blurr followed this up with a charging punch aimed at the hole left by the missiles, sending Fracture off into a ditch before wiping imaginary dirt off his servos. "Heh...We make a pretty good team, don't we, Magnus?"
"We do," the Elite Guardsman agreed with a smile. "You even fought despite injuries...like a natural-forged soldier."
As the two bots spoke, a white and red mech stepped out of the building into which Blurr had been slammed during the fight with Fracture. "You bots are in pathetic shape," he commented before grabbing both bots and taking them inside. "Better get you patched up ASAP. I got a feeling Cybertron's gonna need you."