Me: Hey Bitches! The tenth chapter is here!
Takato: You're started this one sooner than usual.
Me: Well I wanted to get this one up by the end of the month.
Takato: Ah. Well I'm still happy over last chapter.
Rika: Me too.
Henry: Same here.
Trevor: Now all they need is experience. Then they'll be unstoppable.
Violet: Yeah. Ten AutoKnights found. Wow. It seems like only yesterday when it was only me and Trev.
Me: Well time goes on and now here we are. So lets' get rolling. I don't own the Incredibles, Transformers, American Dad, Digimon Adventure, Digimon Tamers, or Futurama. I do own Trevor Bauer and Takamon.
Trevor: One tiny little laugh about that fact…
Takamon: we'll strap your ass to an airliner as laugh as it takes off with you screaming.
Me: Jeez! What the fuck is the matter with you?!
Trevor: Yeah I have to agree, Tak. That one was just wrong. Come on.
Takamon: My bad.
(Current AutoKnights; Updated)
Trevor Jackson Bauer (My OC): Optimus Prime
Violet Parr (The Incredibles): Ironhide
Steve Smith (American Dad): Ratchet
Tai Kamiya (Digimon Adventure 02): Jetfire
TK Takaishi (Digimon Adventure 02): Bumblebee
Kari Kamiya (Digimon Adventure 02): Arcee
Phillip J. Fry (Futurama): Sideswipe
Takato Matsuki (Digimon Tamers): Jazz
Henry Wong (Digimon Tamers): Jolt
Rika Nonaka (Digimon Tamers): Chromia
The AutoKnights V: When Many Worlds Collide
Chapter 10: Problems
(Streets of Shinjuku; 9:45 PM)
Through the streets, all ten AutoKnights were driving down them as the people on the sidewalk cheered as they went by. Jetfire was flying right above them with Grindor's ripped up body hooked up to the underside of his SR-71 mode. A space bridge opened up in front of Jetfire and he flew right into it. The other nine knights on the ground along with the Digimon inside of them turned into the alley with their secret ramp entrance. The ramp angled down and they all drove into the tunnel that leads to their base. When they were they, all six Digimon got out as they all transformed into their human modes and saw that Jetfire was already in his when they got there. But most of them were worried about Takamon. He was offered to bring back his wife so he would join the Decepticons. Thankfully he didn't, but still they all knew there was a part of him that wanted to say "yes". Right now the Digimon was doing okay but they still worried. And Takamon saw that when he noticed they were looking at him with worried expressions.
"Guys I'm fine." He said.
"Physically yes. But mentally I'm not so sure." Ratchet said.
Everyone looked at Ratchet now.
"Takamon, you were offered to join the Decepticons and have your wife returned to you. I don't think your okay in your head." The doc-knight said.
"Ratchet's right. And I couldn't help but notice that you actually hesitated when you answered Megatron." Ironhide said.
"What do you want from me?! He said he could bring Blaze back!" Takamon shouted.
"And you thought he would be telling the truth? Come on, Tak! Think!" Jetfire said.
"Alright. Enough!" Optimus shouted.
Everyone looked at Optimus.
"It doesn't matter how he answered Megatron's question except for the fact that he threw his staff in his fusion cannon as an answer. Besides, it was his wife. Get off his ass."
They all looked back at Takamon who really didn't look happy with the rest of them.
"You have no idea what it's like to miss someone who was THAT close to you. Sure she's been gone for nearly ten years now but my heart still hurts like hell." Takamon said.
They were all silent.
"We're sorry, Tak." Ironhide said.
"Yeah. We're just exhausted is all. We didn't mean it." Jetfire said.
Takamon smiled a bit.
"It's alright. I'm tired too. But I'm more concerned for Jazz, Jolt, and Chromia." Takamon said.
Everyone then turned their vision to the three new AutoKnights.
"Why are you worried about them? They did just fine. And if it wasn't for Jolt and his electricity, we wouldn't have been able to pull off that railgun stunt." Sideswipe said.
"Their parents are probably going to kill them when they get home." Takamon said.
Jazz, Jolt, and Chromia then went into a panic. It was bad enough when their parents first found out about the Digimon. But now they're AutoKnights. How are they going to explain THAT?
"Okay. Let's just chill. How do we even know they found out anything?" Ratchet said.
Just then a ringing sound was heard. Chromia opened up a flap on her leg and pulled out her cell phone. She looked at the Caller I.D. and saw that it was her mother. Thinking it was alright, she hit the green button and answered it.
"Hi, Mom." She said.
Not even a second later, Chromia jerked the phone away from her ear and winced as she heard her mother shrieking through the phone. The other knights and all the Digimon also cringed at the sound. She slowly brought it back closer to her ear, but not all the way.
"Mom, slow down. What are you saying?" Chromia said.
"YOU ARE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE, YOUNG LADY!!"
They all cringed again.
"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW SCARED I WAS?!?! WHEN YOU GET HOME WE ARE-"
Chromia couldn't take it anymore. She hung up the phone. But she immediately regretted it.
"Oh I am so screwed when I get home." She said as she looked at Jazz and Jolt. "What about you two? You think your parents will be alright?"
As if on cue, Jazz's and Jolt's cell phones rang at the same time. They both looked at each other afraid. Jazz stepped away from Jolt.
"By all means, you first." He said.
Jolt went on the defensive.
"No freakin way! You go first!" he shouted.
"Rock paper scissors?" Jazz suggested.
Jolt sighed. "Fine."
The two held out their hands and rock paper scissored. Jazz had paper and Jolt won with scissors. Jazz looked scared.
"Best two out of three?" Jazz said.
"ANSWER THE FREAKIN PHONE!!" Jolt yelled.
Jazz quickly got out his cell phone and answered it. It was his dad.
"Hey Dad."
"Son. I saw everything. Are you hurt? Are you alright?"
"Dad, relax. I'm fine. I'm completely one hundred percent okay. We all are." Jazz said.
"Well that's good. Your Mom however jumped up and hit the roof when she saw the news."
"The news?"
"You mean you haven't seen the news reports. They're on every single channel."
"Hold on." Jazz took his phone away from his ear and put his hand over the mouthpiece. "Teletraan, can you turn on the news down here?"
"Yeah I can. Which channel?" Teletraan asked.
"Doesn't matter. Surprise me."
Teletraan turned on his gigantic screen and the news was on. There on the screen were the ten AutoKnights standing together. AS if that wasn't bad enough, Jazz, Jolt, and Chromia remembered that their friends had TVs too. So this whole thing wouldn't be over even after the parent's conversations.
"Oh that's just perfect. Just friggin perfect." Chromia said.
"Kazu and Kenta are NEVER going to shut up about this." Jolt said.
Jazz resumed talking to his father.
"Are you okay with this, Dad?" he asked.
"Well I wasn't really expecting this to ever happen, but I should have known there would have been the chance. So I guess you can say I'm fine. It'll take some time for your mother to get used to it though. Just get home as soon as you can."
"Alright. Bye, Dad." Jazz hung up the phone. "Huh. Apparently my Dad is fine with me being an AutoKnight."
"Alright, Jolt. It's your turn. Answer your phone." Optimus said.
Jolt sighed and took out his phone to answer it.
"I can't do it. I'm, too freaked out from when Chromia answered hers." Jolt said.
"Then give it to Terriermon and have him answer it." Jetfire said.
Jolt looked at Terriermon.
"That's not a bad idea." He said.
Terriermon looked scared now.
"What?! No way. I have way bigger ears than you. I don't wanna be deaf for life." Terriermon said.
"Either you answer the phone or the Miss Prettypants treatment when we get home. What's it gonna be?" Jolt said.
Terriermon was stuck in the middle now. Everyone else was just wondering what the hell Jolt was talking about. Terriermon angrily took the phone from Jolt and answered it.
"Hello. This is Terriermon." He said.
"Terriermon it's me. Put my son on." It was Janyu.
"It's your Dad, Jolt." Terriermon said.
Jolt quickly took the phone back from Terriermon.
"Uh hi, Dad." Jolt said nervously.
"Why did Terriermon call you, "Jolt"?"
"Uh…it's a long story, Dad." Jolt said.
"Would this story involve how you, Takato, and Rika are all AutoKnights now?"
"…………maybe."
"Well then all I can say is that…I'm proud of you."
Jolt was not expecting that in a million years.
"You're…proud of me?"
"Very. I watched you on the TV how you fought. I must say it's pretty much impossible for me to be angry with you after you just helped save this city from disaster."
Jolt smiled out of happiness.
"Thanks, Dad. You should tell that to Chromia's mother."
"Who is Chromia?"
"Oh that's Rika, Dad. Our names change when we become AutoKnights."
"Oh. Is that why Terriermon called you Jolt?"
"Yeah."
"Well then what's Takato's name?"
"Jazz."
"Oh. Well alright then, 'Jolt'. I'll…see you when you get home."
"Kay."
Jolt hung up and took a deep sigh of relief.
"My dad is way more reasonable them my mom." Jolt said.
"I heard that. If my mom had been the one called me I would have been bleeding from my ears." Jazz said.
"Dammit." Chromia muttered.
"Alright. Now that you guys got that out of the way, there's one more thing we have to do." Optimus said.
"What's that?" Renamon asked.
Optimus turned around.
"Teletraan, contact Cybertron right away." Optimus said.
"Patching you through now, Prime."
The screen fuzzed out from the news and then the image of a robot was in its place. This robot was white with red and green stripes on his chest. And on the sides of his head were two panels. His mouth was covered by a faceplate.
"Optimus. It's good to hear from you again." The panels lit up perfectly in sync to what he said.
"Same here, Wheeljack. And I'm sorry I forgot to contact you after our last battle." Optimus said.
"Last battle? What happened?" Wheeljack asked.
"A few days ago, Blackout and another Decepticon named Swindle attacked. Blackout managed to take out some soldiers here but we managed to destroy both him and Swindle." Ironhide said.
"Well that's good. And the reason you're calling now?" Wheeljack said.
"Just a few minutes ago a battle between us and even more Decepticons finally ended. Those Decepticons were Megatron, Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker, and Blackout's twin brother, Grindor." Bumblebee said.
Wheeljack was shocked.
"You guys took on all of them and you're all still alive?!" he said.
They all smirked.
"Thanks to the arrival of three new AutoKnights, yes." Ratchet said.
Jazz, Jolt, and Chromia stepped forward. Wheeljack looked at them.
"So what are your names?" Wheeljack asked.
"I'm Jazz."
"Jolt."
"Chromia."
Wheeljack tried to remember who the originals of those names were back in the day. He soon did.
"Now I remember. First off, Chromia was the third spy of Team Recon. And she was damn good one too."
Chromia smiled.
"A spy huh? Not bad." She said.
"Welcome to Team Recon, sister." Arcee said as she held out her fist.
Chromia bumped her fist with Arcee's.
"Second, Jolt was the team's electrical expert. He was also Ratchet's aide in medics."
Ratchet and Jolt looked at each other.
"Cool. I have an assistant." Ratchet said.
"That's cool. But if you call me "Nurse Jolt", I'll send ten thousand volts right through your body."
"Well I wasn't really thinking about that until now." Ratchet said jokingly.
"And finally, Jazz was an elite ninja." Wheeljack said.
Everyone was a little surprised.
"A ninja?" Jazz said.
"Yes. A Cyber Ninja. And I must say one of the finest ever trained."
Jazz looked at himself. Then he brought out his chucks. He twirled them around gently and smiled.
"Oh I need to learn about these ninja skills." Jazz said.
"And you will in time." Wheeljack said. "But except for the three new AutoKnights, what else happened?"
"Well we managed to kill Grindor but no one else." Takamon said.
"Well that's good. So should I open up a space bridge and send you guys to the next ring?" Wheeljack said.
"Hold off for now, Wheeljack. We have to take care of some things here first. Besides, we don't even know where the next ring is yet." Jetfire said.
"I'll just prep one up so it'll be ready. Is that okay with you guys?"
"You do that." Optimus said.
They all saw Wheeljack press some buttons on a huge keyboard on his end. Then he pressed the button that should have finished it. But when he did, the board and the screen he was looking at, all exploded in sparks. Wheeljack shielded his face and the AutoKnights and Digimon looked at each other confused and worried.
"Wheeljack, what's going on up there? Are you okay?" Optimus asked.
"I'm fine Optimus. Blaster go and check the network mainframe!"
"What's happening, Wheeljack?!" Ironhide shouted.
"I'm not sure. But I do have hunch. I just hope I'm wrong."
Everyone was silent until Blaster came back and told his report to Wheeljack. Wheeljack banged his fist on the control board where he sat in front of.
"DAMMIT!!" he shouted.
"What's wrong, Wheeljack?" Gatomon asked.
"It's just as I feared. The Space Bridge Network has been sabotaged."
They all gasped.
"Sabotaged?" Jetfire said.
"Yeah. You know. Busted? On the fritz? Fried? In other words, I couldn't pull up a space bridge even if I diverted all of Iacon's power to the network."
All of them were silent.
"How could this have happened?" Ironhide said.
"It had to have been the Decepticons. There's no other explanation." Optimus said.
"How would the Decepticons know how to sabotage the entire Space Bridge Network from a distance?" Ratchet asked.
"Because back before the war started, Megatron helped build it." Wheeljack said.
Once again, there was silence.
"He what?" Jazz said.
"Back before the war started and the Decepticons were formed, Megatron helped design and create the Space Bridge Network from scratch. He knows it inside and out. I just can't believe I didn't see this coming." Wheeljack said.
"Wheeljack, how is it going to take you to fix the network?" Jolt asked.
Wheeljack looked at them with a not so happy look in his blue glowing optics.
"A couple of months. At minimum."
The level of shock was now to the max on everyone in the room.
"A couple of months?! We can't wait that long, Wheeljack!" Jetfire shouted.
"I'm sorry. But it's the fastest I can do it." Wheeljack said.
"And what if we DO find another ring? How are we supposed to get to it before the Decepticons do without a Space Bridge?" Optimus asked.
"I'm afraid you're going to have to figure out the answer to that one yourselves. But in the meantime, I have a network to fix. I have a network to get back up and running. I'll let Alpha Trion know about the new developments with you guys though. Good luck, you guys."
"Same to you, Wheeljack." Optimus said.
The screen shut off and Optimus banged his fist on the control board angrily.
"DAMMIT!!"
"OW!!" Teletraan cried.
"Sorry about that, Teletraan." Optimus said.
"Well at least we have all four rings from this city now." Ironhide said.
"Yeah but we're all still stuck here. If we find the twelfth ring, how are we supposed to get to it?" Optimus said.
"I'm not sure." Takamon said. "But we have to remain calm right now."
"He's right, Prime." Ironhide said. "Look. I may not have met Wheeljack in person, but I do know that he is the best at what he does. We just have to trust him and believe that he is working as fast as he can to get the Space Bridges working again. In the meantime, we just have to lay low here."
Optimus sighed and looked at Ironhide.
"Damn, she's good at making me feel better."
"Thanks, Hide." He said.
"Anytime." Ironhide said.
"Alright then. Here's what we're going to do." Optimus said. "Jazz, Jolt, Chromia, you guys should head home and make sure your parent's haven't flipped out. Jazz and Jolt I know will be okay, but Chromia, I pity you for when you have to walk through your door."
"Yeah. Thanks for that." Chromia said bitterly.
"The rest of us will remain here and try to figure out what the Decepticons next move will be. We also have to find out where that next ring is. With our main method of international transportation in repair, there is a good chance Megatron will try to find it before we do. We have to make sure that doesn't happen. Agreed?"
Everyone agreed.
"Alright then. Jazz, Jolt, Chromia, you guys better head on home. We'll talk to you guys later." Optimus said.
"Will do." Jazz said as he, Jolt and Chromia got ready to transform.
"Oh and guys?" Optimus said.
The three new knights looked at him.
"You guys did a great job today." Optimus said with a smile.
Jazz, Jolt, and Chromia all smiled back and transformed to their vehicle modes. Guilmon, got in, Jazz's Pontiac Solstice mode. Terriermon hopped into Jolt's Chevy Volt. And Renamon just ran alongside Rika and her Mustang GT mode. As they went out the exit tunnel, Teletraan closed the door behind them.
"Oh and Teletraan. We owe you thanks too." Arcee said.
"For what?" Teletraan asked.
"For that railgun plan of yours. You must have done a lot of research to know how that works." Arcee said.
Teletraan pulled up an image of a real railgun. (Yes. They exist.)
"It wasn't really a lot of research, really. I just had to figure out how you guys could pull it off using the right tools." Teletraan said.
"Like my blades." Sideswipe said.
"And my magnetism." Ratchet said.
"Jolt's electro-whips." Optimus said.
"And my giant cannon." Ironhide said.
"Put them all together, you get a railgun baby." Teletraan said.
"Thanks for helping us out Teletraan." Optimus said.
"No problem. Thanks for thanking me this time." Teletraan said.
Optimus nodded and turned around.
"Alright knights. Let's power down."
All of them turned their suits back into their rings and they became their normal selves with their normal names again.
"I need to rest. That was a heavy fight." TK said.
"I think it's safe to say that we all need to rest, TK." Tai said.
"It just sucks that our date was cut short." Kari said.
"Same here with us." Gatomon said.
"Oh well. There's always another night." Patamon said.
"There's still tonight." Gatomon whispered.
Patamon got the hint and smiled.
"That there is." He said.
Takamon sighed and simply walked off without a word. The others just watched him leave.
"Are you sure he's gonna be okay?" Violet asked.
"I'm certain he'll be fine." Trevor said. "We just have to make sure we don't mention Blaze that much. We might make him upset."
"Did WE make him upset just now?" Patamon asked Gatomon.
"I wouldn't be surprised. But we didn't do it intentionally." Gatomon said.
"He must miss Blaze a lot." Fry said.
"Of course he does. She was his wife." Kari said.
"I guess seeing Patamon and Gatomon together makes him remember what it was like with him and Blaze." TK said.
"Poor guy." Steve said.
There was silence until Steve had an idea.
"You know, he did seem kind of happy when we were watching Star Wars a few hours ago." Steve said.
"You guys were watching Star Wars?" TK asked.
"Yeah. Trevor and Violet cam from the sixties so they never had a chance to see it. So we showed them the very first one. Takamon watched it too." Fry said.
"And there are still five more movies in that saga to go." Tai said.
Trevor thought about it.
"I suppose we could watch one more before we call it a night." He said.
"Good idea. Besides, it might cheer Takamon up." Violet said.
"Then let's go and try to enjoy the rest of the night." Trevor said.
They all went up to the living room and joined Takamon. The golden Digimon agreed to watch the next Star Wars. Apparently he did seem interested in seeing it. They all gathered around TV on the furniture and on the floor and had their own little AutoKnight movie night.
Jazz, Jolt, and Chromia all went home to their parents and showed themselves while still in their AutoKnight selves. Jazz and Jolt managed to explain everything to their families calmly and there was no trouble at all. Jolt's brother and sister's were thrilled that he was an AutoKnight and even Jazz's Mom was okay with it. Chromia however, was not so lucky. Her mother was on the brink of having a nervous breakdown. She had no desire to have her daughter using big guns to destroy giant robots. But thanks to her grandmother, Rumiko, calmed down and Chromia got the chance to explain. But all three sets of parents had something in common. They were upset by the fact they soon, their kids would have to leave to go somewhere else. And they did not look forward to that. After powering down and becoming their normal selves again, Takato, Henry, and Rika called it a night. But this night was only the beginning for them.
Takato: Not a bad way to end the chapter. With even more Star Wars.
Henry: Do bad we weren't there to watch it with them.
Me: Get over it. I'm going to end it here cause I feel to lazy to have anyone else say anything right now.
The Space Bridge Network sabotaged by the Decepticons, and it will take months to repair the damages. Sounds like the adventure isn't over in Shinjuku for our heroes. What kind of surprises lie in store for the AutoKnights? Find out in chapter eleven. Until then, peace bitches.