Transformers AutoKnights: Mecha Wars

by ValvraveRider17

Just when a reunion party was underway, 40 members of an Anime fan club get sucked into a portal as they arrive to a new world as they become. . . Mechas themselves? Not only that they are in a universal war between the freedom fighting, Autobots, and the tyranny dreading Decepticons. Now they must fight battles, uncover mysteries, and bring peace to the universe as AutoKnights!

12. Speed Metal

Unto the second one, with major twists this time! This has been the longest and hardest one I've made. Enjoy!

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Speed metal

(Snow forest)

The white snowy environment was silent as the night progressed, not an animal stirred. However not all was silent as a figure stood in the moon's basking light, eyes closed as if he were meditating standing up. The figure appeared to be a male human, around the age of a teenager with pale white skin and long spiked blue hair, wearing a blue sleeveless blazer with a black underside and purple highlights. He also had a separated black sleeve on his right arm while his left sported an orange armband and a couple of black wristbands. His pants were jeans with black boots cover over it.

Just then, rustling noises were heard within the bushes. More rustling sounded before a predator covered in black and white fur stepped out of the bushes, growling viciously at the teen. The wolf wasn't alone as more appeared from the bushes, surrounding the lone human. The teen opened up his eyes to reveal golden eyes glistening with the light before he calmly looks around, seeing the wolves surrounding him, ready to pounce. But he didn't panic at all. Instead, he grinned.

At that, the wolves began their hunt, they pounced toward the teen, ready to tear him apart with their canine teeth. One of them pounced on him, but once it got close he suddenly leaned back dodging its teeth before twisting his leg, spinning around to dodge another. One attempted to bite his leg before he jumped and flipped over. The teen kept on dodging the teeth smoothly and sleekly, not having a single scratch on him. The wolves glared as they panted. All of the moving has tired themselves, which gave the teen the opportunity to counterattack. When one tried to pounce again, he leaned back before he grabbed the wolf and threw a palm strike to the abdomen, sending it back. The other wolves too attacked, but when they exhausted their strength, the teen was able to swiftly dodge and strike every single one of them with his palm. The wolves laid on the ground, feeling pain all over their bodies before they stood up. Having been defeated, the wolves whimpered before they retreated into the forest. Seeing them gone, the teen took a deep breath before he stretched his body.

"I see you've been sneaking out again. What made you come out?" The teen turned to see a human girl approaching him. She was extremely curvaceous with pale skin, pink hair caught up in two pigtails with large purple bands and pink eyes. Her outfit follows the design of simple lingerie, with a black and pink striped bikini top covered with an open midriff jacket with puffed sleeves and neck. She also had pink gloves and incredibly short shorts unbuttoned with suspender straps attached to her pink stockings. Lastly, she had large triangle earrings and a pink choker with a red heart, while her shoes were black pumps.

"Eh, just bored out of my mind," The male teen said, circling his neck, making an audible crack. "Things have gone too quiet ever since we went under, and how deathly dull it has become."

The girl grinned, "What if I told you, I may have a cure for that boredom? According to Providence's intel, some interesting newcomers have appeared."

The male perked up at the news, "Newcomers?"

"They've been appearing ever since that huge explosion we detected above Earth's atmosphere and he reported that he caught a glimpse of them," she informed, "One of them holding an appearance of a Teigu, Grand Chariot."

That further interested the male. "Really? I say we greet these newcomers for ourselves."

"But Lazengann won't be happy if we're going on a reconnaissance mission without him knowing." She had a smile knowing that they were gonna go anyway.

The male smirked, "Don't worry, we can say it's to ensure whether if it's them." He stated, "And besides, I could kill for some fun to get out of this boredom." They walked out of the forest and onto a road, where a blue 2012 AC 378 GT Zagato and a pink 2015 Honda NSX parked to the side. The male got on the Zagato while the girl went for the Honda, starting up their engines before taking off, heading for their intended destination.

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(Desert Road)

Down a dirt road, a familiar Aston Martin DBS v12 was taking a midnight drive towards an event that he has become interested in. As he drove, he was listening to the radio inside his dashboard. "As metropolitan PD continues to crack down on illegal street racing, citing the danger to both drivers and pedestrians-" Getting sick of listening to the news, he turned off the radio. Knockout secretly got out of the Nemesis out of boredom. No doubt Starscream will give him a handful when he hears that Knockout got out, but since he heard about an illegal street race happening, he couldn't afford to his the thrill.

Up ahead, three cars were waiting at the starting line, drivers revving up their engines. The cars themselves looked modified for more speed and mobility with illegal parts. The referee walked up towards the middle just as Knockout pulled up in line. The driver with tattoos next to him looked over and saw Knockout's alt-mode design.

"Not from around here, European design?" The driver asked curiously. Though, Knockout didn't reply. The driver didn't like being ignored like that. "Sure is pretty, too pretty." The driver grinned as he tightened his left hand with a big ring into a fist. And with the ring, he scratched Knockout's side door, leaving a trail on the paint.

Knockout inspected the damage with his side view mirror before turning to the thug who, satisfied with his work, rolled up his heavily tinted windows. "Big mistake." Knockout gritted angrily as he changed gears. 'No one messes with my paint!' He scowled in his mind, and he was going to make the driver pay for it!

The ref held up a flashlight, signaling the racers to get ready before he turned it on. The cars immediately took off as the race began. The race was getting intense as the racers were neck a neck, the driver with the ring, however, got up in first. The driver smirked before he pressed on the gas pedal, making fire spit out of the exhaust pipe and going at a dangerous 7 thousand RPM, leaving the other two behind.

'This race is mine.' The driver thought, thinking that he won, but was brought back to reality when he suddenly heard squealing tires coming up from behind. When he looked at his rearview mirror, he saw Knockout coming up right behind him. The Decepticon then suddenly rammed himself into the driver's car. It was payback time!

"HEY!" The driver shouted.

However, Knockout's payback wasn't over as they turned at the corner before he rammed the driver again, but this time making him drive out of control and fall off the road and over the cliff. The car went straight down before it crashed into the ground.

The car was facing upward with the windshield destroyed, the driver moaning as he felt pain all over, "Uh...dude…"

Knockout peer over the edge, "You scratch my paint, I scratch yours." He sneered before he returned to the race, eager to get to the finish line first.

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(Cue Transformers Evo by Jam Project)

(Instrumental)

The scene starts with the 40 Chaos Energems in a circle formation with the background speeding past stars and galaxies until it reached Earth and the Energems glowed and emerged together to the title with the AutoKnight insignia behind it.

(Yami no Kanata seijaku wo hikisaki [Out in the darkness, someone is rending the silence]) The scene changes to Sonic Drive out in the desert fields, staring out into the open until he brought out his hand to reveal his Energem.

(Hoshi no nemuri yobiokosu no wa Doitsu da? [Who will be the one to awaken this planet from its sleep?]) Sonic Drive looks at it until he faces forward as the rest of the Autoknights in their vehicle forms sped past him and transformed into their robot forms, lining up next to him.

(Hora me no mae jaaku na tamashiitachi [Look, the evil spirits are right before you]) On the Nemesis, Megatron and the Decepticons face the screen with their evil smirks.

(Nigeba wa Nai massugu ni uketomero! [Take 'em straight on, as there is no place to escape!]) The camera pans out of the Nemesis showing Optimus Prime and the Autobots on the ground, with their weapons ready.

(Some tells me "Yowaki" ya "Osore" wo shoukyo shite [Someone tells me to erase my "worries" and "fear"]) In the Autobot base, Jack, Miko, and Raf get into their respective partners' vehicle form and drive through the Ground Bridge portal.

(Bokura wa ishiki kumikaeru [We reconstruct our minds]) In another room, Beast High is seen singing while shedding an Energon tear from her eyes.

(Sono te wo tsuyoku nigiri [Strongly clench your fists ]) A dark silhouette, with a dark red visor, holding a lance appeared with his visor glowing as 4 other robot silhouettes join in front of him with more silhouettes with a Decepticon looking insignia with a halo and draconic wings coming out to side glow behind them.

(Tagai no Kizuna shinjite [Believe in the bonds between us]) Sonic Drive stood in front of the enemy with Null Infinity right next to him as their eyes were glaring with resolve.

(Tatakae![fight!]) They then engage into their battle mode and charge forward along with the others with their weapons ready.

(Saa All I can do! And all you can do!) On the battlefield, both Autobots and AutoKnights fight against the Decepticons; while the others were facing the Vehicons, Sonic Drive and Optimus engage into a sword fight with Megatron. While Rave Rose, Bumblebee, and Incursio were dodging Starscream's missiles as Rave Rose drew out her katana and slashed at him.

(Habatake Transform [spread your wings and transform]) Arcee, Elita-One, and Vilkiss throw punches and kicks at Airachnid, while she retaliates with her claws.

(Sono mune tsuranuku Ikari wo chikara ni Kae [Take the heart-piercing anger and turn it into strength]) Gurren Lagann, Earth Impacter, Bulkhead, and the rest of the Valvrave team along with the Arzenal Team engage in close combats with Knockout and Breakdown who are with the Vehicons as well. While Soul Rider and the Evangelion team as well as Galaxy slash and his Majestic Prince Team cover fire at long distances.

(Ima All I can do And all you can do) We then see a giant silhouette behind Megatron with glowing purple eyes, firing lasers at Optimus and Sonic, pushing them back but not enough to falter them.

(Kagayake Transform! Shinka no Stage e! [shine and transform to the stage of evolution]) Optimus takes out his sword and swings it at Megatron who blocks it with his own. While Sonic Drive activates his Chaos Energem as he glows with a raging blue aura.

(Touch and Go!) He then Jumps and throws his fist at the silhouette as the opening ends with the AutoKnights, the Autobots and the humans lining up together in their Autobot base.

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Speed Metal

(The Next Day, Memorial High)

The school was normal today. Classes ended well as the students began their way home. Jack put on his helmet as he backed Arcee in her alt-mode out of the parking space.

"Hey, cherry moped," An annoying voice snarked.

Jack turned back to see, much to his annoyance, Vince, the school bully. He was around the same age as Jack with orange hair, green eyes, while wearing a white shirt with a green jacket over it, jean pants and boots. He was leaning on his own car, looking cool and all that.

Jack decided to show him up one with his own comment, "Uh, this moped has dual carbs and goes 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds," he informed proudly, before driving out of the parking lot. Vince frowned at the news.

Arcee and Jack pulled up at a red traffic light before the motorcycle had something to say, "Uh, Jack? A lady's vital stats are her own business," she stated calmly.

Jack only sighed.

Then on his left, a familiar Ford Mustang pulled up next to the two. The window rolled down, revealing his holoform looking out, "Hey, guys. What's up?"

"Hey, Sonic." Arcee greeted, "What are you out and about for?"

"Just taking a drive after the training spar I had with my brother and Fire Haze." Sonic Drive replied, "And Fire Haze does not pull back any of his punches." he winced at the pain he was feeling. After they recruited the two, Fire Haze and Silver Line immediately situated themselves right in before they were taken to get vehicle forms. Today Fire Haze sparred against the brothers on a hand to hand combat. Even though they matched each others' strengths, Fire Haze had too many barrages in his punches, like a certain Stand user in a certain show.

"What about you two? Finished school?"

"Yep." Jack nodded.

"Hey!" a female voice called out, Jack turned to his right to see his high school crush, Sierra, with her friend on the sidewalk. Jack blushed a little at the sight of her. "Nick, right?" she asked, trying to remember his name.

"Uh, actually it's Jack." He corrected.

"Jack, sorry." Sierra apologized with a sheepish smile, "I'm Sierra."

Jack smiled back with a light blush on his face,"I know."

Sonic Drive grinned, seeing the blush, "Who's that, your girlfriend?" he asked teasingly.

Jack flinched in embarrassment, "N-no, she's not!" he whispered. Though, Sonic let out a silent chuckle.

Even though she didn't hear what they were saying, Sierra smiled, "You once offered to take me for a ride?" she asked, remembering about the offer when she first met him.

Jack turned in surprise. He didn't think that his crush actually remembered that, "Uh… O-of course! I did. A-anytime."

Though, Arcee didn't like that idea. "I'm your guardian, kiddo. Not your wingman," she whispered to Jack.

That is until Sierra asked more, "So how about now?"

Jack was once again surprised, "Uh…" But before he could answer a car pulled up in between them, a very familiar driver grinning arrogantly at Jack.

He let out a toothy grin, "Hey Hey! Small world." Vince sneered.

"Who's that?" Sonic asked, already having a bad feeling about the newcomer.

"I'm having a conversation," Jack said with an annoyed look.

Vince ignored it and stood through the open roof of his car, "Cheer Captain here might enjoy watching you take on four wheels of muscle car." he smirked, motioning to Sierra and her friend who were gossiping quietly to one another.

Jack caught on to what he was saying, "Are you challenging me? To a race?"

"You catch on quick, ponch. What do you say?" Vince asked.

Sonic Drive, though, frowned at the challenge, "Jack, I would advise not to take it. It's not worth it."

"Uh," Jack thought about it. Sure, racing against the bully might not be something Optimus and the others might not be proud of. But when he turned to Sierra, she gave him an encouraging gesture to accept the challenge. This could be a great opportunity to shut the bully up and impress his crush at the same time.

However, he didn't get the chance to answer. As soon as the lights turned green Arcee immediately took off, surprising him. Sonic Drive also followed after, leaving the bully and the two girls behind.

"You didn't let me answer!" Jack protested in frustration.

"Nope," Arcee answered.

"Arcee, we can smoke him!"

"Yep," she said, still not changing her mind.

Jack sighed, "You just don't get it."

"I don't make the rules, Jack. Optimus does." Arcee specified, before stopping at another red light, "And Rule #1, in case you missed it, never abuse power for personal gain. And that includes horsepower."

Sonic Drive pulled up next to them, "That's why I told you it's not worth it. We all have to use our own powers for the right things. And showing off is certainly not one of them."

Jack sighed at their lectures. Just then, Vince pulled up next to him again, almost expecting for an answer. Jack sighed, thinking that the two were right, "Vince, maybe racing isn't such good id-"

Vince laughed tauntingly, "Figured." He gloated, "You ride around like your bike's something special. But's just a chunky, clunky, trike. And ugly!" And with that, when the light turned green, Vince took off and U-turned to gloat in front of the girls. However, he said the wrong thing in front of a certain someone.

*POP!*

Actually, make that two. For some reason, Sonic Drive felt a vein pop in his head at that insult to Arcee, "That guy did not just say that!" he gritted angrily as he looked back with angered, twitching face.

"That's it! The yahoo's going down!" Arcee proclaimed furiously before she and Sonic Drive then u-turned and went after Vince.

Jack held on in surprise, "Whoa, what happened to Rule #1?" he asked.

"Gets bent. Just. This. Once."

"I'm with you on that," Sonic said, having a vexed expression as he encouraged the two, "Show him who's he messing with!"

Sierra and her friend were walking when Vince stopped his car next to them, "Yo, girls. Your pal, Darby, he's-"

He was cut off by the engine behind him, turning to see Jack with an eager look. "Ready when you are, Vinny!"

Vince smirked, "Dirt road by Trucker's Ranch. One hour."

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(One Hour Later, Dirt Road)

One hour later, they met up at the designated road, with no one but Vince in his car, Jack on Arcee, Sonic Drive's holoform sitting on his alt-mode's hood with Sierra and her, waiting at the sidelines.

Sierra turned to Sonic, unaware of the holoform, "Aren't you racing?"

"Nah, I'm just gonna watch Jack beat the Vince kid's butt at the finish line." Sonic shook his head. He knew that Arcee was going to beat Vince in a speed race. He's seen her speed and he admits, she's fast as heck. He then faced Sierra with a smile, "I'm Shou, by the way, Shou Kagamine." he greeted.

"Sierra," She greeted back, "Nice to meet you."

"And you?" Shou turned to her friend.

"Kara," she replied.

"Nice to meet you." Shou smiled, "Do you hang out with Jack sometimes?"

"No, not that much." Sierra shook her head, "But he seems to be a good guy."

"Trust me, he is." Shou grinned, "Though, there are times he can get himself in trouble. Almost worrying me and my friends for a moment. But he sure has found his ways out of it."

"From here to the next mile marker. Ready, Go!" Vince yelled before he took off, getting himself a head start while almost leaving Jack, who immediately took off but was a few feet behind.

"That was fair," Jack remarked sarcastically. The two raced past the three, the girls keeping their skirts down from the tailwind as they watched.

Vince looked at his rearview mirror and smirked, seeing that Jack was still behind him.

Jack noticed that his charge wasn't gaining speed or trying to move, she just stayed driving at the same position, "Uh, Arcee?" Jack asked.

"Winning isn't enough, Jack." Arcee said, having a grin within her voice, "You wanna make him cry."

Jack smirked deviously, liking what she was saying.

Vince was still ahead, thinking that he was winning before he looked back at his rearview mirror, before double-taking to see the motorcycle, not in the mirror. He looked around only to see that his opponent was right next to him, waving casually before Arcee pulled a wheelie, swerved in front of him, and took off at an immense speed.

"Wha-?!" Vince gasped in shock, not believing his eyes.

Arcee honked her horn as she passed the mile marker, Jack whooping in celebration. "Outstanding!" he cheered, "Um, hey. Now might be a good time to offer Sierra a quick once around the block?" he asked, hoping that Arcee would allow it.

She didn't think so, "Don't push it." she said. Jack sighed, 'Well, it was worth a shot.' he thought as Arcee drove straight back to base.

Meanwhile, Shou and the girls saw Jack and Arcee won as the former pumped his arm in celebration, "YES! She won!" he shouted.

"She?" Sierra raised a brow.

Shou flinched, realizing what he said, "Um, Jack's motorcycle. The design and her spec is something that I helped Jack modify with, and she's something that I like about." he lied, though he kinda felt embarrassed saying that, even if it's about Arcee.

Beep Beep!

The three turned to the sound of honking, seeing a car arriving. It was a Nissan Gtr R34 with a purple frame color along with neon green highlights with some orange sidelines going across the frame. It honked again as it stopped a few feet away from them as if waiting to pick someone up.

"Oh! That's my ride." Sierra said before she and Kara went towards the car. Before she got in, she turned to Shou, "Can you tell Jack that I'll meet him at school?"

"Of course." Shou nodded.

"Thanks! It was nice meeting you!" Sierra thanked before she and her friend got in. the Nissan backed up a few feet before turning around and began heading back into town.

Sonic Drive smiled before he deactivated his holoform and drove back to base to meet up with Jack and Arcee, calling it a day.

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(Nemesis)

In the Nemesis sick-bay, Breakdown was cleaning Megatron's body with a rotary buffer, cleaning off every blackened spot and rust.

"Ah, Breakdown." he stopped to see Starscream entering the room, "Has there been any 'change' in Megatron's condition?"

"Hmm, only cosmetic," Breakdown grunted.

"Well, I am sure that you and the good doctor have been doing everything in your power." Starscream stated, before looking around for the said doctor, "Where is Knockout?"

He was answered when the sick-bay door opened up with an annoyed Knockout walking in, "Can you believe what some skin job did to me?" Knockout scoffed in disbelief, showing the scratch on his paint from earlier.

Starscream frowned as Knockout walked past him, "You have been street racing among the humans again, haven't you?"

Knockout grinned, "I'm not only an automobile, but I'm also an automobile enthusiast." he stated proudly.

"I do strive to keep a tight shift, Knockout." Starscream stated, "I would strongly suggest that you seek my permission next time you decide to disappear on one of your little jaunts."

"No worries, Herr Commandant."

Starscream made an annoyed face, "It is Lord to you."

"Only if Megatron takes a nosedive~." Knockout retorted dismissively in a singsong tone as he pointed at the unconscious Megatron.

Starscream growled before he walked and got his face into Knockout's, "The day our master emerges from stasis, I will graciously relinquish the title. But I believe that outcome is unlikely, something to do with the quality of medical care around here." Starscream sneered, but Knockout kept his smirk, "So continue buffing. We do want Megatron looking his best for the memorial." With that, the temporary leader left the sick-bay.

Once Starscream left, Breakdown continued buffing while Knockout… well, he flipped the bird at the retreating Starscream, "Buff this!"

As Starscream walked out the corridor, he passed Barricade, who let out a sneering smirk as he walked in the sickbay, "Really getting into his nerves aren't you, Knockout." Barricade snarked with a chuckle, "Frankly, I find it amusing."

"Well, with Megatron like this, you wouldn't believe Starscream taking over like that. He always wanted to be on top." Knockout commented as he began to monitor Megatron's vitals.

Barricade looked at Megatron's body before turning to the medic, "Any chance for recovery?"

"Hmm, I'd say his conditions are stable with the equipment, but his vitals haven't changed a bit." Knockout analyzed, "I'm afraid to say, he might be like this for some time."

Barricade narrowed his eyes before curling his hands and tightening them into fists, "To think, Lord Megatron would be in such state. And for an AutoKnight to do this." He has heard about the rumored warriors and from what Starscream said, one of them almost ended Megatron "When I find the Bot who did this, I will drag him to the pits of Kaon before I snuff out his spark." He turned back to Knockout, "Continue monitoring, I'll be on patrol." He turned away as he walked out of the room.

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(Omega-1)

Jack, Arcee, and Sonic Drive arrived at the base. When they reached the entrance hall, Arcee allowed Jack to get off before she and Sonic Drive transformed into their humanoid forms. "Not a word to anyone."

"Our little secret," Jack promised with a wink.

"Don't worry, nothing will be coming out of my mouth." Sonic assured. "Look, I know I'll let you off this time, but don't ever do it again. Got it? Some things are not worth it."

"I understand." Jack nodded.

Arcee smiled at both of them before she and Sonic Drive headed off, leaving Jack on his own.

"DUDE!" Miko called out as she went up to Jack, "Vroom! Vroom! Vroom! And the winner is….?" she started pointing at Jack, expecting an answer.

Though Jack had wide eyes and shock in his face, "Miko, w-who told you?" he demanded nervously.

"You kidding?" Miko dropped, before she jumped in excitement, "It's all over the school!"

"You beat the pants off of that blow-hard bully Vince!" Raf joined in.

Suddenly Miko yelped in surprise when Jack pulled her and Raf towards him and whispered, "You guys have to keep this on the DL. Especially from Optimus!" He really didn't want anybody else finding out that Jack raced with Arcee against the bully. Thankfully the two agreed to keep it a secret.

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(Meanwhile)

"I must say, it was nice seeing you beat that Vince kid at the race." Sonic Drive commented.

"Eh, it was more of payback for what he said." Arcee replied, "If everything Jack said about him is true, then he's nothing but a jerk."

Sonic rolled his eyes, "Personally I would wring that bastard for calling you ugly. You're too beautiful for that."

"What?" Arcee turned to him with a blush.

Sonic realized what slipped out of his mouth, resulting in a huge blush of his own, "I-I mean it's not like that! I didn't mean to say you're beautiful- I mean you ARE beautiful! It's just- uh…." Sonic stammered, "I'm gonna go spar with my brother! I'llseeyalater!" he bolted out of the hall, leaving a dumbfounded Arcee with a blush watching him go out of sight.

"What…. Just happened?"

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(The Next Day, Memorial High)

The school day just ended as Jack exited the school doors with an exciting smile on his face. Turns out because of the race, students were talking about how cool he was facing up against the bully and won! Guess his popularity began to rise ever since.

That wasn't the only best thing today, "Hey! I've been looking for you!" a familiar voice called out. Jack turned around to see Sierra standing in front of the door, making him smile at her, "The race! How great was that! I was like, 'Yeah! Go Jack!'"

Jack was surprised at the comments she was giving him, "I-It was no big deal." Jack shrugged, trying to keep it cool.

"You got that right!" Jack stiffened at the voice before he felt Vince shove past him. The bully then took a few steps up the stairs before turning back, glaring down at Jack, "If you think you can run with the big boys, The Circuit. Tonight, 11 pm." Vince challenged, once again.

Jack was stunned to hear this and was hesitant to answer. He glanced over Vince's shoulder to see Sierra giving him an encouraging gesture like last time. He sighed in defeat, "Sure..."

"Good. Meet you there." Vince sneered, before heading to his car. Jack drooped his shoulder, thinking Arcee was gonna give an earful when she hears this. He then felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned to Sierra giving a reassuring smile.

"Don't worry, I'll cheer you on." She encouraged, before she headed towards the same car from yesterday, that was parked in the lot. Jack couldn't help but let out a smile before he turned and got on his motorcycle and drove out.

Sierra looked back at Jack riding his motorcycle for a moment before getting in the driver's seat of her car. When she sat down, she sighed into the quietness that filled the inside. Until a voice inside called to her.

"Had a nice day?" The voice asked, sounding to be male.

Sierra sighed, not even surprised at the sudden voice. "More exciting than usual, I guess."

"Really? So who's the boyfriend with the motorcycle?"

"He's not my boyfriend!" Sierra retorted with a blush as she frowned at the… radio? Turns out no one was in the car but her, and the voice came from the radio itself.

"Are you sure~?" The voice said in a teasing way. Sierra just pouted and turned away. The voice let out a chuckle at how cute she was before asking, "So what happened?"

"Remember that race I told you about yesterday? Well, Vince challenged Jack into another one and this time at The Circuit!"

"Really, That bully?" The voice deadpanned, "And isn't street racing supposed to be illegal? Also, isn't it more like you made Jack agree to race? It looked like he did it to impress you."

"I know…" Sierra sighed, before perking up, "That's why I have to be there. To cheer for him to win!" she turned to the radio, "Can you drive me there?"

"Why, in your bright mind, would you think that I would allow you to go? Your parents could ground you and me for participating it!"

"Please? I'll buy you the keyboard that you wanted." Sierra pleaded, giving the radio a cute begging puppy eyes bored into the radio, the sight making him waver.

"...You know that even though I have a love for music, I'm not a kid. I'm older than you." The voice sighed, as he gave into at her plea, "As long as your parents don't find out about this, I'll do as you say."

"Yes!" Sierra shouted with glee.

"Just this once though. And this is our little secret, okay?"

"Got it." Sierra winked.

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(Later)

"You agreed to WHAT?!" Arcee heard what Jack agreed to participate in as she drove through town back to base, and she was not happy.

"It was some kind of…secret racing club." Jack stated defensively, "I don't know! I had no choice, Sierra was standing right there!"

"You always have a choice, Jack." Arcee reprimanded, like a mother scolding her own children, "And what part of 'Just this once' did you not understand?!"

"I know, I'm sorry. But, we're on, right?"

"We are not on." Arcee scolded, leaving Jack to sigh in his troubles.

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(Dirt Road)

Knockout's alt-form drove through the road. After hearing Starscream's complaining, he got tired and decided to drive off again, without Starscream's permission. As he was strolling, Knockout received a Com-Link transmission from his partner, "Knockout, Starscream's been looking for you again. Where'd you go?"

"Out for a little drive. I just roll from town to town, sniffing around until…" Knockout trailed off when he heard honking from behind. A streetcar that looked like it had modifications for racing drove past him, rushing to get to somewhere. Knockout had a feeling what it was, and piqued his interest, "...The next opportunity presents itself." he finished with a grin in his tone. He changed gears and rushed after the car, entering the borders of Jasper, Nevada.

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(Omega-1)

Everyone in the main chamber was doing their own stuff, Rave Rose was tinkering with her weaponry, Zone Runner was having a conversation with Fire Haze and Silver Line, and Raf was busy playing with his video game.

While the first former was running maintenance on her Vurutoga, Bumblebee approached her having a curious look on his faceplate.

"Whatcha doing?" he asked curiously, watching her reassemble her Vurutoga along with her swords.

"Fixing up my baby for the next battle. Takes a while to get this in shape. And it's my first time too!" Rave answered as she wiped the dust off of her swords with a dust cloth.

Bee tilted his in question at her statement. "You've never touched any weaponry in your life?" he inquired. He thought that Rave Rose was used to using and maintaining her weapons. But hearing her hear that it's her first going through its maintenance brought up questions.

Rave shook her head, "No. Mainly because I'm still a student who wasn't even allowed to touch one. I mean, I've been into engineering to somewhat satisfy my fanatic side." she stated. She then let out a gushing happy smile before hugging her Vurutoga like a teddy bear. "But now that they're real, I can tinker this baby as much as I want!" She then thought of an idea before turning to the scout, "Hey, if you want I can probably give you some new props to your wrist cannons!"

"Um, that's nice…. But I would like to keep them as they are for now." Bumblebee kindly refused, rubbing his arms where his cannons are stored. That made Rave Rose look down, disheartened. Bumblebee waved his hands to comfort her before stating, "But I'll make sure you're the first to know when I need an upgrade."

Rave perked up at that. "Yes!" she squealed, happy to hear there is gonna be a chance for you to make some upgrades.

Meanwhile, with every focus, Raf was playing the hardest setting of the race was close to winning the game, until he was approached by Jack, "Raf?" Raf turned for a moment, but that distraction caused his player car to crash. Jack flinched, feeling sorry that he made the little guy lose, but he proceeded to ask him something, "Uh, is there any way I could borrow Bumblebee for an hour?" he asked, pointing at Bumblebee standing behind him.

"To go racing? Scrap yeah!" Bumblebee cheered.

Raf looked at Jack with criticizing eyes, "Jack, you know racing's against the rules." he reminded, "What if Optimus found out?"

"Awww." He and Jack looked down disheartened looks.

Miko jumped in with an excited plea in her face as she looked at Raf, "But Raf, he's gotta get the girl!" she encouraged. She knew that Jack was in a situation about the boy trying to impress his crush and make her his girlfriend, it was like a romance coming to life! Though, Raf had a deadpanning raised brow to show the opposite, not buying it. Jack and Miko shared a look before they turned back to the kid, "And beat the bully?" she added. That reason should satisfy him more.

"That sounds like a good reason to attend." Zone commented nonchalantly.

"Zone!" Silver chided with a scolding look toward the Jehuty.

"What? He agreed to attend the race, and it could be worth it to get the girl of his dreams and at the same time shut that Vince jerk up." Zone reasoned.

"Well…" Raf went into deep thought.

"C'mon, Raf. Just this once?" Jack pleaded sincerely.

Raf thought about it a bit more before he sighed, "Oh, alright." Bee pumped his arm in glee.

---

(Night, The Circuit)

Jack arrived at the circuit, looking very intimidated by the other drivers there with their cars ready to race as he rode in Bumblebee's Urbana 500 mode. Turns out The Circuit's starting line was at a storm drainage outside of town as some cars lined up on the sloped while the rest lined up at the starting line, ready to race. All the cars had neon colors and designs to make them look flashy and fast along with the modifications applied for fast speed. Jack spotted Vince's car, putting up a straight face as he pulled up next to him. When Vince turned, he looked surprised to see his rival in a new vehicle.

"Bike's in the shop," Jack stated with a cocky grin. Though, Vince had a sneer of his own, arrogantly thinking that Jack's car was a junky and won't beat his. Jack glared back before looking forward, becoming ready for the race to start. Bumblebee himself shuddered in excitement, ready to run the race. This was like the video game, he and Raf played, but in real life. Jack turned forward before he noticed a beautiful form in front of the starting line. Jack smiled in surprise to see Sierra innocently waving at him.

He leaned back as he saw the beauty in front of him. Before a voice interrupted his daydream, "So what's this about agreeing to attend an illegal street race?" Jack and Bumblebee flinched at the voice, slowly turning to see Sonic Drive's holoform heavily frowning at him. Jack saw that Sonic Drive was in his alt-mode, stopped at the right of him with his blue highlights somehow glowing. He wasn't alone as Jack saw that Zone Runner's alt-form lined up on Sonic's opposite.

"Son- uh, Shou!" Jack gulped in surprise, looking like he got caught, "H-How did you know."

"Shirou, here, was nice enough to share some of news about the street race." Sonic stated, motioning to the Porsche, who's holoform looked down in shame with crocodile tears streaming down his face, keeping his glare, "And he said something particular about you attending it." Jack nervously waved his eyes around before looking down.

Sonic sighed at the sixteen-year-old, who was in trouble, before putting up a scolding tone, "Jack, what did I tell you about doing it again?!"

Jack let out a frustrated sigh, "Look, I didn't have a choice okay?"

"You always had a choice, Jack." Sonic said, almost sounding like Arcee, "It's not worth trying to show up against the bully for your pride! And Bee, what were you thinking, attending the race?!" The Urbana 500 whirled in shame.

"Look, I'm sorry, ok?" Jack apologized, "Its-"

"Hey, Darby! Who's your friend?" Jack was interrupted when Vince called out.

Jack turned to him with an annoyed look, "Um, He's-"

"Trying to prove he's part of the big boys? Cuz his car looks like it can only go 10 miles!" Vince laughed. That made Jack, Bee, and Zone look at the guy in shock.

The words that came out of Vince's mouth, struck a nerve from Sonic Drive, his eyes twitching before he glared intensively. First, he insulted Arcee, and now that he's got the gal to insult him? Now that just crossed the line.

He made his decision before he smirked, "Actually, I've decided to race to show you that my 10-mile car and Jack's Urbana can beat your muscle car. Which to me looks like it has up to the speed of an electric toy car." he shot back, earning a shocked look from Vince. Jack looked at him in surprise, as Shou was… challenging Vince to the race? That was unexpected of him.

"Ooooooooh. Burn." Zone and Bumblebee whirled. Sonic's holoform, satisfied with his challenge, leaned back into his seat before revving up his engine.

"Shou, I'm-" Jack began but was cut off.

"What's done is done." Sonic intervened, "Jack, I'm allowing you and myself to race this once. But after that, no more, got it?" he warned as he got ready.

Jack nodded, "Yes sir."

"Circuit drivers, are you ready?" The announcer shouted over the loudspeakers, getting every racer revving up their engines, "Make it mean, but keep it clean!"

"Hoo boy, this is gonna be fun!" Zone hooted, elated, as he revved up his engine.

"Fire em up in 5,"

'Arcee's gonna kill me for this but hopefully, it'll be worth it.' Sonic thought as he changed his gears.

"4,"

Vince kept his foot on the pedal, ready to go. Right next to him, the purple and green Nissan Gtr R34 pulled up, fully participating.

"3,"

Jack focused at the front, confident on winning the race. However, he didn't notice a new car entering the race behind them as the Aston Martin pulled up, engines already running to go. He wasn't the only as blue Zagato sports car and a pink Honda NSX sports car pulled up.

"2,"

Sierra raised up her arms.

"1!"

Immediately Sierra brought them down and crouched low, signaling "go"! The cars took off as they raced past her. The girl jumped and turned around to watch them go as she spotted the yellow and black Urbana in the distance before it turned at the corner, "Go, Jack." she hoped for him to win.

The race was underway as Jack and Vince were in the lead going neck to neck at each other with every turn alternating their position. At this point, they didn't care about the other drivers, they were aiming at seeing who's gonna win on both of them. That changed quickly when the familiar Porsche drifted past them at a turn and sped ahead of them with immense speed, shocking them.

"Eat my dust, Bee." Zone taunted. Though he didn't notice the Ford Mustang bolting past him, making him in the lead. "Not so fast, Zone." Sonic shot back.

Seeing the two in the lead, Jack and Vince forgot about their rivalry and sped up, intending to take back their lead. Meanwhile, the Nissan brushed past every car in his path, getting closer up the lead. Behind him, the Honda and the Zagato, they were catching up quickly, racing past every car behind the Nissan at surprising speeds. For Knockout while he was racing for first, he noticed a familiar vehicle form in front of him.

"The Autobot they call Bumblebee." Knockout remarked, surprised to see an Autobot in the open.

Vince was too focused on catching up on Jack and the other two when Knockout went up next to him. When Vince noticed him, Knockout rammed him to side, almost knocking him out of control.

Bumblebee noticed the vehicle behind him and immediately recognized him, "Oh, Scrap! We got company!"

"What was that, Bee?" Jack asked, not understanding what he said as he looked back at the approaching vehicle.

"It's Knockout!"

Jack looked back at the rear view mirror and recognized the design, "Wait, I know that car." Bumblebee suddenly took control as he swerved onto the slope. But the chase began as Knockout followed after before pulling out blasters from his sides and fired at the Urbana.

Sonic Drive and Zone Runner heard blasting shots and used their rearview mirror to see what was happening, they immediately recognized Knockout as he was chasing Bumblebee, "Wait, is that Knockout?" Sonic recognized, "What's he doing here?!"

However, it seemed like Knockout didn't notice the two and mainly focused on Bumblebee, chasing after his tail. Jack himself was starting to get worried. Just when he was attending a race to get Vince off his case and impress Sierra at the same time, he was now being chased for his life by a Decepticon. Being in the state of danger, Bumblebee veered off the wall, going off the race course.

Sonic and Zone saw the two going off course, "Zone! Ditch the race, we're helping Bee and Jack!" Sonic called out, as he and Zone drifted a U-turn and followed pursuit after the chasing cars.

"Got it!"

Vince saw his rival and his friends going off the course, confusing him for a moment, "What the-?!". This was not part of the deal that he had with Darby! Thinking that Jack was ditching the race, he decided to follow after, to get what he deserves for breaking off the challenge.

What went unnoticed was that the Honda and the Zagato saw everything, "Interesting. Must be one of them." The driver for the Zagato noted.

"Shall we follow?" the other driver of the Honda asked.

"Better not lose them." They then veered off the wall, pursuing the chase.

The Nissan saw the shots fired and the pursuit, seeing it as a bad sign, "This is bad!"

The chase continued on the freeway road as Knockout kept shooting at Bumblebee, the scout swerving left and right trying to dodge the bullets.

"Can you lose him, Bee?" Jack asked.

Bumblebee replied, "Probably can't! I'm gonna call for backup!"

"What'd you say?"

"I said I'm calling for backup."

"I hope that means yes." Jack said nervously, "Cause I'd rather not call base for backup."

Behind them, Sonic Drive and Zone were catching up, "Hold on, Bee! We're coming!" But before he could change gears, he felt something ram him to the side. "Nanda?!" he looked to the side to see the Zagato from before slamming into him once again, while the Honda bumped into Zone, throwing them off the road.

"More Cons?!"

"Don't think so!" Sonic shouted. He couldn't quite recognize their aura as the Decepticons. In fact, he was sensing something different, but he couldn't pinpoint what it was.

Zone looked at their designs and recognized them from the race, "Wait, aren't they the racers from before? What's their beef with us?"

"I don't know! Probably friends of Vince!" Sonic shouted as they tried to lose them while going in a different direction from Bumblebee.

---

(Omega-1)

Meanwhile, the rest of Team Prime and the AutoKnights were the human kids playing video games when Arcee walked in, looking for someone, "Anyone seen Jack?" Raf and Miko froze before looking at each other.

"Not since… we last saw him." Miko said nervously while Raf shook his head.

However, Arcee had a feeling on where he is, since Bumblebee isn't here, "They're racing, aren't they." she frowned.

"Just this once," Raf confessed.

She turned to the Bulkhead, "Did you know about this?"

"No…" Bulkhead lied, turning away, not even looking at her. Though her dirty glare didn't even help him, "Maybe...a little." he admitted.

Arcee then turned to the AutoKnights to which Silver Line answered, "That's why we told Sonic Drive about it and he and Zone went to get him back. Speaking of which, they should've been back with him by now."

"They're probably racing themselves." Fire Haze shrugged with a scoff.

"Not likely for Nii-san." Incursio shook his head, before another thought popped up, "Unless Vince insulted him for something, and made him change his mind."

Suddenly the Com-Link popped up before Bumblebee's beeping came through, "Guys, I need backup! I'm being chased by Knockout!"

"You're being chased by Knockout?" Raf translated in surprise.

"Yep!"

Miko jumped to her feet, "That sounds like a Decepticon!"

"Bee, do not engage." Arcee ordered, "Your first priority is to keep Jack safe. Until I get my hands on him," she growled at the last part, making Incursio and Rave Rose flinch in fear.

Silver Line turned to the Com-Link, "Bee, Where's Sonic and Zone?"

"They were right behind us for a moment before two of the racers dragged them out!"

"Racers dragged them out?" Rave Rose tilted her head, confused on what he said, "What's their deal with them?"

"I don't know, but it sounds like they need help." Incursio remarked, before turning to the others, "Let's go help them." Upon that, the rest of Team Prime and the AutoKnights got into their alt-modes and took off through the entrance.

---

(Back at The Circuit)

Sierra waited patiently while anticipating on who's winning the race. In her mind, she was hoping for Jack to be the first to win. When she heard oncoming engines, she got up excitingly as she waited to see who was at first. When the car got into view from the curb, she thought that Jack's car was in first, only to be disappointed when she saw it wasn't as a normal racer crossed the finish line.

"And we have a winner!" The racer got out of his car cheering in victory while others followed after before they gathered around, congratulating him. Though, Sierra looked upon with disappointment and sadness, thinking that Jack didn't win. Though she noticed that the guy she was looking for, wasn't back yet, neither was Vince. That began to confuse her. Where were they?

"Sierra!" Sierra was out of her thoughts when she turned to see her own car screeching his tires as he pulled to a complete stop in front of her before opening up his side door, "Get in!" he called in an urging tone. Hearing that tone, Sierra immediately registered it as something important before she got in. Once the door closed, the Nissan's tires squealed before it took off at the direction of the pursuit.

Sierra turned to the radio, "What happened? Where's Jack?" she asked.

"Jack's in trouble, I saw one of the racers pulling out guns and fire at him." The Nissan told her, shocking her.

"What?!" she shouted in worry.

"Didn't look normal too. Guess I'll have to jump in."

Sierra noticed the tone, contemplating what he was thinking, "Are you going to-?"

"I'm willing to do anything to help out your friend. His life is at risk!" He urged with resolve.

Sierra nodded after hearing his urge, "Let's hurry then!"

---

(Road)

Bumblebee and Jack were still driving they kept on dodging the bullets from Knockout, having a hard time shaking him off. Having enough of it, Bumblebee opened up a compartment behind him, releasing oil slick onto the road behind. Knockout saw it too late as the friction on the oil made him slip out of control.

"Slick," Jack smirked as he watched Knockout spun out.

Bumblebee then went back to the track of The Circuit before he backed up under a bridge, turning off the headlights and engine in the process. He and Jack stayed there hidden, as they heard Knockout's engine getting closer. The Con's alt-mode drove on top the bridge before he stopped. The Con looked around, searching for any sign of the Urbana. With the Bot nowhere in sight, Knockout proceeded through the bridge as he went to a different area.

"I think we lost him, Bee," Jack whispered in relief.

But that relief didn't stay long when a familiar car went up in front of him, with an angry looking driver coming out, "Oh, you've gotta be kidding me!"

"Darby!" Vince shouted angrily as he stomped towards Jack.

Knockout screeched to a stop as he happened to hear the engine sound. Using his rearview mirror, he looked back, spotting the lights of the bumper lights. He then began backing up towards the spot.

"Vince! You have to get out of here! You win, okay? Congratulations! Now go!" Jack pleaded, but Vince didn't listen as his thick-headedness got the best of him as he pounded his fist onto Bumblebee's hood.

"No, no. start to back up loser, we're finishing this race!" Vince demanded angrily, "Don't wanna take it to the finish line? Fine! Then we got something to settle right here, right no-AAAAAH!" he was cut off when a giant hand grabbed him. Jack's eyes widened in shock as he saw Vince being thrown into the air. He screamed as he fell before he found himself in a car seat, the roof closing over him, before the seat belt strapped around him tightly, giving him no means of escape.

"Wha-what's going around?!" Vince panicked in fear before a taser appeared in front of him. He was then zapped as he felt the Energon take effect on him before he slumped down, unconscious. With his victim unconscious, Knockout switched on the ignition and took off.

Jack got out of Bumblebee and went up the bridge to see the Decepticon driving away with Vince 'oh no!' Jack gulped as knew that he got Vince in trouble!

"Breakdown, you'll never guess what I'm packing." Knockout gushed happily as he Com-Link to his partner, "Bumblebee's human friend!" He thought that he got Bumblebee's human companion because it looked like Vince was talking to Bumblebee, and not Jack. "And when the Autobots attempt to stage a rescue…" he trailed off, waiting for Breakdown to finish.

"He has a…. breakdown!" Breakdown chuckled, catching onto his partner's plan.

Jack watched the Con getting farther and farther, "Bee, he's getting away!" Jack cried as Bumblebee drove up next to him.

"Don't worry, backup's coming." Bee beeped, but Jack didn't understand what he said at all.

"I-I-I can't understand you!" Jack said in frustration, "Look, I'm not Raf. Can't you just… honk once for bad news, honk twice for good news?"

Bumblebee seemed to understand what he was talking about before he honked… thrice. Jack then saw Arcee, Bulkhead, and the AutoKnights arriving. Fire Haze and Silver Line were in their newly obtained vehicle modes as the former was a 2008 Dodge Challenger with his crimson and silver design showing, while Silver Line was a 2010 Toyota Celica with blue and silver designs going across her frame. Upon transforming, the first of the former had a frowning scowl.

"Jack, we need to have a little chat." Arcee reprimanded, scowling with her hands on her hips.

"Later, Arcee. Vince got snatched by that slick sports car Con!" Jack announced.

Arcee raised a brow, "What would Knockout want with a random human?" she asked.

"He probably mistook Vince for Bumblebee's human friend. I'm not even Bumblebee's human friend! I-I don't know, it doesn't matter why he took him, Vince is in trouble!"

"Oh well, tough break for Vince." Bulkhead shrugged, earning looks from everyone else.

"Bulkhead!" Jack, Incursio, Rave Rose protested at the same time.

"What? I hear the guy's a jerk!"

"No argument there." Jack pointed out wholeheartedly, "But the guy is also innocent. Vince doesn't deserve to get crushed by Cons!"

"He's right." Incursio nodded, turning to the group, "As much as the guy is hated, we can't just let him suffer for us!"

Arcee sighed, agreeing with both of them. She transformed into her alt-mode, "Hop on." she said.

Rave Rose turned to Bumblebee, "Where's Sonic and Zone?"

"I don't know, I lost them when Knockout was chasing me. I think they're still in trouble as we speak."

"Great." Incursio sighed. He turned to Silver Line and Fire Haze, "You guys accompany the rest while Rave and I will try finding Nii-san and Zone Runner." The couple nodded. "Alright, let's roll!"

---

(At a different area)

Sonic Drive and Zone Runner were still running as their pursuers were being persistent. "Okay, what is it that these guys want?!" Zone cried, getting tired of playing cat and mouse. They were currently driving around one part of town as the blue and pink cars were still behind.

"I don't know, but I'm ending it here!" Sonic proclaimed before he turned around, heading towards the two. He didn't stop for a moment as he rammed straight in between, spinning them out of control. They spun around before they came into a complete stop, with Sonic Drive and Zone runner, pulling up next to him, facing the other two. As a moment passed, Sonic Drive's holoform stepped out of his alt-form.

"What the frag is up with you two?!" He demanded, "First you were racing against us and now you've been chasing us when he got out of that race! Why were chasing us? And what did we ever do to you?!"

The two cars in front of them just stood there in silence before the blue Zagato opened up its driver's side door as a blue-haired teen stepped out of it. For some reason, the teen's appearance looked familiar to Sonic Drive, "Because, you seemed to be having fun racing." The teen announced with a grin. The Honda's opened up before a pink haired girl got out, "Thought, we could join in and have some fun ourselves. Nice race by the way. A pity we didn't get to find out who would win within us."

Sonic frowned, "Then why did you ditch the race and go after us?"

"Believe me, the racing was fun, we just wanted to see what it was like racing against others. Besides, that wasn't our prior objective."

Zone raised a brow in confusion, "They're not racers?"

Sonic was confused too, "Then what are you after?" He asked.

"Scouting." The girl answered, further confusing the two.

"For what?" Zone asked,

"To see if you, and your friend here," The male teen grinned, showing a few his teeth, "are truly the AutoKnights."

"!" Sonic and Zone's eyes widened in shock. How did they know about the AutoKnights!? Could it be that they are… "Um, what are you talking about?" Zone asked, feigning like they don't know anything.

"Please, you don't have to put up an act." The girl smirked, "We have been monitoring your activities ever since we detected you." "The Space Bridge explosion in the atmosphere, combating against human terrorists while stopping a train holding a destructive device, even the battle in Greece, leading up to the destruction of an Energon Harvester!"

Sonic Drive began more shocked at the information. 'How could they possibly know all that?! No human should've known that! Unless…' He frowned, being suspicious about the two, "Who are you? Are you guys... human?"

"Humans? Sorry to say, but we are something beyond humans." The male teen scoffed before he and the girl took out… cubes? They were different colors too as the boy was holding a blue cube with zigzag line markings on it, while the girl was holding a pink cube with a heart shape marking, but the upper part of the cubes was not aligned. The two then twisted the top part of their cubes like Rubik's cubes, aligning the markings as they announced a distorted voice.

AMAROK!

MALKIN!

They then pushed a button on the center top before lifting them up in the air. "Abreaction!" A sudden bright light glowed immensely, making Sonic and Zone cover their eyes from blindness. When the light dimmed, they looked back, before their eyes widened up the size of dinner plates in shock as they looked up at what they were seeing.

"What the?!"

"No way!"

Their mouths were open in shock to see two giant robots towering over them. One of them had a thin dark blue body with black armor that covers his torso and legs. His armor on his shoulders and sleek forearms have spikes that protrude in sets of four. His abdomen was very skinny compared to it upper and lower body, but the surprising thing was that he had a gaping hole there holding at appears to be the blue cube the male teen had. His legs were bulky and bigger than his arms with squared dark blue armor. he has sharp solid flaps sticking out of his collar while his white head looks similar to that of a wolf skull, with glowing red eyes.

The other one was femme with a pink body having a rabbit-like appearance with her head having prolonged ears. Her faceplate had a white mask over her red eyes. Her shoulders protruded spike with the same design as the first one while having another pair on her side of her waist along with a pink steel skirt. She had a chest armor covering her "bust". Her arms and legs were sleek and slim, while her pink cube was located at her lower abdomen.

Sonic and Zone were appalled in extreme levels at the robots in front of them. "Amarok?! Malkin?!"

"Ah, so you know us?" Amarok piqued, "Then that proves you're not really humans. How about you take off the disguise?"

Sonic gritted his teeth, "Zone, transform and be ready!" He warned as he and Zone Runner transformed into their Grand Chariot and Jehuty forms. They took a stance, being prepared for anything that could come from the Kiltgangs.

Amarok grinned as he craned his neck, "That's more like it. Let's get this party started!" He crouched down before he dashed towards the two at an immense speed! In fact, he was too fast that Sonic Drive realized too late that his face was already up close to his!

"NANI?!" He reacted too slow as he failed to block a knee strike to the abdomen, the impact sending him to fall onto his side! "GAH!"

"Sonic!" Zone turned towards Sonic Drive, becoming distracted as he didn't notice Malkin already under him and double kicked at his chest, sending him flying. She then boost-jumped over Zone before ax kicking him down to the ground, next to Sonic Drive, who just got up and shook his head to get the pain out. He ran with his sword arm out and he swung at Amarok but was blocked by his arm, before receiving an uppercut and a hard palm strike in the stomach. Zone brought out his blade and energy shield as he charged at Malkin, who just lifted up her hand and conjured a gear-shaped energy shield, blocking his blade. She then suddenly brought up her other hand and conjured another one, but charged it up with energy.

"What the-?!" Zone's didn't register fast enough before a beam shot out, hitting him at point blank, that wasn't enough as Malkin spun and back kicked him, sending him down next to Sonic.

The Grand Chariot looked at his partner, "Zone! You okay?!" He was replied with Zone getting up, albeit a little bit shaken.

"They're fast." Zone groaned, still feeling the pain. They painfully faced the Kiltgangs who merely grinned.

"Is this the best you got?" Amarok taunted, "We're just getting started, boys."

Sonic and Zone gritted their teeth as they prepared for a very difficult fight before they charged at the two with their battle cries.

---

(Omega-1)

Raf and Miko were waiting impatiently at the computers for the others to return, or at least give them a call. But seeing that they got nothing got Raf worried, "They should've called by now! You think Bumblebee's okay?"

Miko placed a reassuring hand on Raf, "Don't worry, Raf. Bulkhead won't let anything happen to Jack or Bee."

Though, they suddenly accompanied by footsteps, making them turn to see Optimus entering the main chamber. The leader noticed the lack of persons in the base, making him curious.

"We should just tell Optimus the truth!" Raf whispered.

"Absolutely not!" Miko hissed, "We made a deal! Just act completely normal."

"Raf, Miko." Optimus called, getting their attention, "Do either of you know where the others have gone?"

"Why, no, sir. We do not know." Miko lied, though her tone was… unconvincing to say the least. Sounded a bit robotic ironically.

"Miko is correct." Raf said, also sounding robotic, "We do not know."

"Why would we know?"

"Hm." Optimus raised a brow, sensing some suspicion on the two.

---

(Jasper Town)

The team raced down the road Knockout took, leading up back to town. They entered the premises while looking around for the Con when they stopped at an intersection. Only for the Aston Martin sped past in front of them. Recognizing the car, they gave chase. Knockout saw that Bumblebee called for reinforcements, "Bumblebee brought company," he said before pulling into a facility.

The Team saw Knockout going inside, "On your guard, guys. Could be a trap." Arcee warned, thinking that it was too easy finding Knockout and cornering him.

"Remember, no shooting." Jack reminded, he didn't want to get Vince in the crossfire.

Arcee then veered to the sidewalk, "Speaking of safety, this is where you get off." she advised, prompting Jack to get off. Once he did, Arcee followed after the team.

As they drove around the place, the Team noticed a huge burnt hole through the wired fence, showing that Knockout was here. Seeing that they're on the right track, they transformed into their humanoid forms. They pulled out their guns as they walked steadily, preparing for any attack. Meanwhile, Arcee was climbing up a nearby water tower, keeping a bird's eye view of the area while being ready to attack from the high ground.

Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Fire Haze, and Silver Line trodded carefully through the parking lot. Suddenly, headlights flashed temporarily blinding the group, before the wall next to them burst. Out of it, Breakdown charged at the group with his fists ready. He slammed it into the ground, making the group flip away from him. Bumblebee landed before he got up and got into a boxer's stance, preparing himself. But he wasn't able to throw a punch as he guarded a driving fist, the impact sending him down. Bulkhead was able to get close and throw a couple of his punches. Eventually, Breakdown did the same with Bulkhead.

Breakdown proceeds to give his arch nemesis full beat down when he was suddenly tackled by Fire Haze to the ground, "Round 2, Fragger." he announced, throwing a punch at Breakdown's face, followed by another one and then another. Soon it became a barrage of punches as Fire Haze was screaming, "ORA, ORA, ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!" The barrage was stopped when Breakdown caught his fists and threw him across the parking lot.

While Knockout was watching the fight, he looked around, noticing that someone was missing, "Hmm, where's the two-wheeler?" He asked himself. Arcee suddenly jumped on top of him before putting a dent on him, "HEY, WATCH THE PAINT!" He shouted angrily before he rolled out, with Arcee trying to hold tight like a rodeo.

Jack tapped his foot patiently when he heard screeching tires. He looked up to see Knockout drifting out of the area with Arcee on him. Knockout managed to get her off by suddenly turning at a corner, the force making her fall off. But she managed to stick the landing before transforming into her alt-mode, chasing after the Decepticon medic.

Jack grinned, "That's my girl-!" Suddenly headlights flashed behind him, surprising him before he turned around. He saw that it was a police car that was a Saleen S281E design with its headlights on, and the siren lights flashing. Jack gulped, knowing that he was in trouble.

"Freeze! Put your hands where I can see them!" The driver shouted over the loudspeaker.

On instinct, Jack raised his arms, "Wait, Officer, I can explain!" But before he could continue, the car suddenly chuckled,

Jack was confused at the chuckling, "Just kidding." The car chuckled before it suddenly transformed in front of Jack, causing him to fall to the ground in shock and fear.

The fight inside continued as Team Prime surrounded Breakdown. The Con was almost getting tired fighting four on one, which seemed unfair for him. Certainly if Knockout stayed, it would've helped him. "Um, Breakdown, in case you're looking for me, things got messy. So I hit the road." Knockout informed through the Com-Link, "One scrape is enough for today." But since he went running he had no choice but to fight them himself. The group was about to attack when someone shouted, "Freeze!"

Everyone halted before they turned to see Barricade standing, sneering at the Autobots, "Don't move."

Breakdown narrowed his eyes at the newcomer, "I didn't expect you to help, Barricade." he admitted. The name shocked the Autobots as they looked at the same Con in surprise.

"Barricade?!" The Autobots recognized the name.

"You know him?" Silver Line asked,

"Barricade was known for being an informant to Megatron. No one was able to track him down due to him being off the grid. Not to mention he's downright loyal to Megatron, willing to do anything for that buckethead!" Bulkhead explained.

Barricade grinned, "I was minding my own business, patrolling around, with Starscream's permission mind you. Until I happened to stumble upon…well… this." He held up Jack in his hand, the human struggling to get out, "Let me go!"

Everyone's eyes widened in shock at the hostage, "Jack!" Silver Line moved forward to rescue him but was stopped when she saw Barricade squeeze his hostage a little, making him groan.

"I thought Knockout had their human friend," Breakdown questioned.

"Either there's two of them or he got the wrong human." Barricade shrugged, "Either way, you Bots shouldn't move unless you want this fleshie turned into a pulp!" he grinned.

"You lowdown coward." Fire Haze glowered.

"Hey, winning is everything. So I'm willing to do anything to win."

Bulkhead, Bumblebee, Fire Haze and Silver Line, became tense as they stood, not knowing on what to do. They want to save Jack but given their position, they can't move without Barricade squeezing him more. What are they gonna do?!

BEEP BEEP!

"Huh?" Barricade turned to see an incoming Nissan Gtr R34 before it drifted and rammed his legs, causing him to fall to the ground,

"OOF!" Because of that he accidentally released his hold on Jack, sending him flying.

"WHOA!" Jack flailed his arms and legs around, thinking that he was gonna hit the ground before he landed on a car seat. Jack looked around in confusion, trying to figure out what just happened as the roof closed above him. He jolted up in surprise when he felt a hand on his shoulder. When he turned, to his confusion, Sierra was at the driver's seat, having a worried expression.

"Jack, are you okay?!" She asked worriedly.

"Sierra?!" Jack got out, confused to why she was here, "What are you doing here?!"

"I'll explain later!" Sierra said before turning to the radio, "Soul, get us out of here!"

"Roger!" Jack turned in surprise at the sudden voice, wondering where it came from. He didn't get the time to think when the car suddenly backed up and took off.

Barricade shook his head from the impact before seeing that the car was running away with his hostage. "HEY! Get back here!" he shouted, before transforming into his alt-mode, sirens on, and pursued after it.

The Team Prime and Breakdown stood there, dumbfounded at the sudden ordeal, "What just happened?"

Fire Haze got out of his confusion before turning to Silver Line, "Kasumi! Go after the corrupt cop! Make sure Jack is safe! Bumblebee, you too!" His girlfriend and the scout nodded before transforming into their alt-modes and took off after Barricade and the mysterious Nissan. Fire Haze then continued the fight as he pounced on Breakdown, who caught him and tossed him to the ground. After rolling a bit on the ground, Fire Haze immediately jumped to his feet before pulling out his brown colored Energem.

He gripped onto it as it glowed brightly. With the energy, Haze brought his fist down, creating a shockwave after it hit the ground. Breakdown wobbled a bit from the shockwave but regained his balance as he tried to marched towards the AutoKnight, only to feel light all of a sudden. He looked down and noticed that his body was lifting off the ground on its own! As if the gravity surrounding him became less.

The culprit of the gravity change, Fire Haze, shouted as he held Breakdown in place. "Bulkhead, now!"

The sound was like something was being torn apart accompanied with some flickering lights.

Breakdown turned his head around only to get smacked in the face by a light post, sending him out of the gravity field and into the wall.

"Home Run!" Fire Haze commented as Bulkhead shouldered the light post like a baseball bat.

---

(Meanwhile, a few minutes ago)

After the group split up, Incursio and Rave Rose drove through town, searching for Sonic Drive and Zone Runner. Though, they searched everywhere and couldn't find a single trace of them anywhere. "Uh, this is getting ridiculous! Nii-san shouldn't be this hard to find!"

"Maybe his Com-Link broke?" Rave Rose suggested.

"Still, he should've been able to call before any danger fell upon him." Incursio sighed, before his sensors detected something, "Hold on, I'm picking up movement from there." The detection was coming from a large factory. Incursio and Rave Rose turned and went inside the area. But all they found was silence and no movement.

"There's nothing here." Rave Rose spoke too soon before a wall suddenly exploded and a body flew across and crashed to the other side, dust flying everywhere. The dust cleared up to reveal Sonic Drive, groaning in pain with scratch marks on his body.

"Gah!" Zone Runner too came flying in as he tumbled next to Sonic.

Incursio and Rave Rose looked in shock at their friends and brother, "Nii-san!" They transformed and rushed to them. They helped them up before Incursio asked, "What happened?!"

"They happened." Sonic gritted as his eyes looked forward at the hole.

From the hole, Amarok and Malkin stepped out. They noticed the two arrivals, "Oh? Guess more came." Malkin noted, Incursio and Rave Rose widened their eyes in recognition and shock.

"Nii-san, are they?"

Sonic winced in pain, "Yeah, Amarok and Malkin, two of the Kiltgang members!"

"Perfect timing. Let's let them play around with these." Amarok smirked, before pulling out a couple of individual white and blue orbs. He suddenly scattered them across the ground. "Kirschbaums, Mon-soonos, Deploy!"

At the command, the orbs glowed before multiple marking seals appeared. From the seals, two types of robots emerged, like rising from water. Half of them were Kirschbaums, which were almost the size of the Decepticons Vehicons if not for the huge width. Their main body consisted of white armor with blue highlights covering the joints of the limbs and the wings on the shoulders along with their elongated arms which fingertips can reach the ground. The said arms were gray while the hand digits were white with fingertips having openings like a gun barrel, making them literally 'handguns'. The chest itself was broad with a cannon sticking out of it. The legs were bulked and curved with huge pedes grasping the ground. The head was smooth and round with red eyes glowing on their white faceplates.

The rest were Mon-Soonos, which had blue and gray with the build almost exactly like Breakdown's but with the squared heads with one red eye being attached near the right shoulder. There were turrets on each side of the shoulders while they sported missile launchers on their backs. Each Mon-Soono held a rifle in their hands.

The AutoKnights were in shock at the army, "Nani?!"

Rave's jaw dropped, "Are those… Kirschbaums from Valvrave and Mon-Soonos from Eureka Seven?!"

"Eureka Seven?" Malkin tilted her head, confused to what she meant, "I don't know what you mean, but it seems like you're familiar with these troopers. How about we play a game?"

"A game?"

"If you beat all of these," Amarok motioned to the drones, "in or under 10 minutes, you win. If you don't, you lose and we'll take your lives and your Chaos Energems."

"Our Energems?" Sonic Drive raised his brow, "What do you want with our Energems?!"

"That would be classified." Amarok remarked, before holding his arm out, "Now, let the game begin!"

The drones activated with their eyes glowing before they charged at the four. Thus the battle began, the AutoKnights prepared themselves, Sonic Drive drawing out his sword and blaster, Zone Runner unfolding his arm blade, Incursio drew out his sword, and Rave Rose unsheathed her katana. They charged towards the force, before clashing their weapons onto theirs.

Rave Rose swung her katana down at a Kirschbaum, however, it was suddenly blocked as the drone lifted up one of its hands, the spheres on it glowing, as it generated a shield. "What?!" Rave Rose yelled in surprise. The drone put up its other hand, connecting its fore and middle finger which made a gun motion. From the fingertips, energy charged up inside before it fired. Rave leaned back just in time to dodge the beam, flipping away from the drone.

"They're just like the ones from the show!" Rave warned. She pulled out her Japanese sword to deflect a beam before slashing at a Kirschbaum's armor.

The Mon-soonos heavily marched small steps as they aimed their rifles and turrets and fired a rain of bullets onto the four. Zone acted quickly as he deployed his energy and protected Sonic Drive and Incursio from the barrage. However, it didn't last long as the bullets suddenly began breaking through the energy barrier until it shattered. "Gah!" Zone let out in surprise as the bullets hit his armor letting out sparks. Thankfully, he was saved by the brothers who moved him out of the way and behind a nearby dumpster container. The two then boost jumped into the air before swinging down their blades on one of the Mon-Soonos. However, just when they made contact, the Mon-Soono grabbed the blades, shocking the two inside before swinging them back towards the rest tumbling onto the ground.

Sonic gritted his teeth as he and Incursio got up, "This is not gonna be easy!" At this point, Sonic knew that they were in a huge hassle.

---

(Road)

Meanwhile, Barricade was still on the Nissan's rear, chasing through the streets of the town. They have been going through twists and turns of every corner, one trying to lose the other. The passengers inside were holding on tight as they could, one of them still contemplating what's happening.

(Wait! Before we continue. Let's add some nice music.)

Insert BGM: Touhou Eurobeat: Preserved Vampire by SoundHolic

"Ok, Sierra! What is happening? Why is your car driving on its own?!" Jack asked, seeing that Sierra was not holding onto the steering wheel at all and that it was turning by itself!

"Look, Jack. I know you have some questions about what is happening. Especially if you're confused on what that monster behind us is! What happened to Vince? The race ended like 30 minutes ago but you guys never returned!"

"About that, do you know about a red sports car entering the race?"

"If you're talking about the Aston Martin, then yeah."

"Well, turns out that car and the cop car are aliens that can disguise themselves as Earth vehicles and took Vince hostage by mistake. Look, I don't think you know what's happening right now. I mean, it's just that I know I mean it's not like I have secrets, or actually, I may have secrets of my own that I've been holding, especially since there's a Decepticon behind us!" Jack stammered, "It's just, you weren't supposed to see any of this!"

"Sheesh, do you ever calm down, kid?" The radio spoke.

"What?"

Sierra let out a nervous smile, "Well, you're not the only that has holding secrets."

Jack looked around, trying to find the source of where the voice was coming from until his eyes went to the steering wheel, having a very familiar emblem on it. The same face symbol, the long swords behind it.

Jack had surprised look on his face before turning to Sierra. "You had an AutoKnight with you?!"

"A what?" Sierra and the voice asked. However, their conversation became short when blaster shots hit the ground near him, "Ok, less talking, more driving. Soul Rider, lose the cop! Go, go go!"

"You got it!" The now named Soul Rider changed his gears and pressed the gas pedal, upping more speed as he drove through town. The passengers held on tight as they felt the G's on them.

The chase continued on as the Nissan turned and drifted every corner, trying the lost the Cop Car behind him.

"Oh god! We're gonna die!" Jack panicked, having a sense of deja vu for riding a vehicle that moves on its own. For Arcee, he was used to it. But for an AutoKnight he hasn't met yet? That's a different story.

"Don't worry, we're not gonna die. He's a kick aft driver." Sierra assured over the shouting. But, the car suddenly took a turn and was charging near a glass wall of an abandoned warehouse!

Sierra immediately took back her words. "No wait, stop stop stop! We're gonna die!" Jack and Sierra shouted as they prepared for impact.

Thankfully, Soul Rider only broke through the glass wall, shattering the glass as Barricade following behind. Inside, he made a sudden drift, knocking down a few boxes which caused splinters and dust flying in Barricade's windshield blocking his view. Blinded, Barricade spun out of control and slammed his side to the wall.

Jack and Sierra calmed down from the ordeal before the latter hit the dashboard, "Soul, are you out of your mind?!"

"You were the one who got us into this situation!" Soul retorted, as he exited the building and drove into another part of the facility, "And besides, how else am I supposed to lose the guy?!"

Back inside, Barricade moaned a little bit before regaining his sight and continued his pursuit, "You're not getting away that easy!" He shouted, tracing the Nissan.

End BGM

---

(Dirt Road)

Back with Arcee, she was trying to catch up to Knockout, who still had Vince hostage. She went full throttle as she became closer and closer to Knockout's rear. However, the Con just pressed more on the gas pedal, going faster than before. Arcee couldn't catch up as she used up too much of her strength, not having enough speed. She let out a frustrated groan as she saw Knockout pulling away.

Knockout smirked at his victory, "Eat my dust."

HONK! HONK!

Until Knockout turned in surprised at the noise to see the familiar Peterbilt truck coming out from the side. Optimus acted before Knockout could as he slammed into the side of the Aston Martin, causing him to spin out of control once again before falling into a huge ditch. Knockout tried backing up, but he was stuck into the ditch as the rear wheels only kicked up dust.

"Optimus, Knockout has a hostage." Arcee alerted through the Com-Link as the leader transformed and approached the stuck Decepticon.

"Understood." He called back, before he grabbed Knockout and lifted him up with his hands and, without any warnings, ripped off one of Knockout's side doors from the mainframe.

"YEOW!" He reached in and carefully grabbed the unconscious Vince in his hand before safely pulling him out, freeing him from the straps. He then felt Knockout squirm out of his grip as the Con flip-transformed.

Knockout looked horrified as he inspected his left arm, missing a door frame armor, "Do you know how hard that is to replace?!" He asked angrily.

Optimus only glared at the Con. Just then, Arcee arrived with Bulkhead and Fire Haze, the two joined up after dealing with Breakdown. Seeing that he was outnumbered, Knockout knew he had no chance to fight back. So he decided to take this chance to retreat, transforming into his alt-mode and took off with his tail between his legs.

With Knockout gone, Optimus disengaged his battle mask as he turned to the three approaching. Though Arcee and Bulkhead looked like they were gonna get an earful from Optimus for sneaking out without him knowing. But then Arcee remembered something before turning to Bulkhead.

"Where's Jack?" Arcee asked. She noticed that Jack wasn't with Bulkhead and Fire Haze, nor was Silver Line and Bumblebee.

Bulkhead had nervous sweatdrop, "Uh, about that, he almost got into a hostage situation by Barricade."

"What?!" Arcee screeched.

Bulkhead recoiled in fear, "Calm down, he's fine… I think?"

Fire Haze shook his head, "I wouldn't say he's fine. Some civilian car tripped Barricade and took Jack away from harm, but the corrupt cop chased after. I sent Silver Line and Bumblebee to chase after them, but they lost them somewhere in town."

Optimus listened as he turned towards Fire Haze, "And the rest?"

"We don't know. Incursio and Rave Rose went out to find Sonic Drive and Zone Runner, but they haven't replied back yet."

Suddenly, the Com-Link opened up with Silver Line's voice coming through, "Fire Haze, can you hear me?"

Fire Haze replied to his girlfriend, "Loud and clear, Silver. What's happening?"

"We were able to track down Barricade, but he's having a fight over with another bot."

Arcee raised a brow in confusion, "Another bot? Is it Sonic Drive?"

"No, someone else. Though, about Sonic Drive, I got a call from Incursio. They're in trouble!"

Everyone turned at each other, worried about what was happening.

---

(Back with Sonic Drive's Group)

Meanwhile, Sonic's group was having the hardest time of their lives. The Kirschbaums and the Mon-soonos were completely different to the Decepticon's Vehicons. Their weaponry was more advanced than the Cons' simple blasters, while also having shields for the Kirschbaums. For the Mon-soonos, they were hard as tanks! With armed rifles, they appeared to be the most sturdy of the drones. The team was only able to take down only two or three but there were like nine more than they had to face! Not to mention, Rave Rose looked the most tired as her vents were heating up. She panted, sluggishly blocking a strike, "There's too many and they're too strong, stronger than those Vehicons!"

Sonic and Zone were back to back as they were surrounded, the former looking like he ran a mile fighting. "This is bad, man! These things hit harder than Vehicons, almost impenetrable shields, and those Kiltgangs are just watching us suffer! Also, Rave looks like she's close to overheating!"

Sonic gritted under his mask, "Guess I'm gonna have to overcharge." he took out his Energem, "Please, lend me strength." As if responding to his call, the blue Energem glowed, covering Sonic's body into blue aura flames, "HRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" He screamed as he felt more strength increase. Once he was powered up, he boosted at a Kirschbaum before kicking it multiple times and sending one last strike to the chest, causing it flying and explode!

"Guess I'll do it as well." Zone took out his own turquoise Energem, clenching into his fist as it glowed before the energy transferred to his blade, lighting it up with sharp laser edges. He brandished his blade before charging at two Mon-soonos and swiftly pierced their armor and sliced them into small pieces.

Incursio joined Rave's side as the latter fell on one knee while holding her katana down for support, "Rave, can you still move?"

Rave panted, "Yeah...probably for a while before I overheat." she slowly got up before opening up her chassis and pulled out her red Energem, "Better end this quickly." She grasped her Energem tightly before it's glow covered her body. The Mon-soonos fired upon her, but then in the blink of an eye, she bolted at superhuman speed before she began cutting off the Mon-soonos arms and then head, resulting in them to short circuit and explode.

"Yosha! Makeru ki ga shine! (Alright! I don't feel like losing!)" Incursio smirked as he pulled out his silver Energem and clenched it in his fist. He then rushed at a Kirschbaum, who had shields up, before throwing his fist at the shield, breaking it as it drove into its face, the impact sending it flying before exploding.

Amarok and Malkin just watched the battle from the rooftops as they saw the AutoKnights use their Energems. "Well now, guess that proves that they're the AutoKnights." Malkin remarked with a grin.

"To think that they would appear after all these vorns." Amarok nodded, "With this, we can report to the others and set our plans in motion."

---

(Facility, during Knockout's chase)

Barricade strolled around the facility, having lost sight of the Nissan. But he patrolled, searching for the runaway car, having a feeling that he was here somewhere.

'I know you're here, boy. Come out wherever you are!' Barricade scowled as he searched.

Meanwhile, Soul Rider's form was currently sitting back in a dark warehouse with his engine and headlights off, hiding in the dark. After all that madness, He and the passengers stayed silent as they saw the Con's headlights moving around outside the building.

"...He's still there." Jack whispered silently.

"I know," Sierra whispered back.

"I wonder if my guys got Vince back. They're probably worried over me as well." Jack wondered before he sighed, "What was I thinking, this is all my fault. I attended an illegal race, Vince got kidnapped, and now we're being chased by a Decepticon cop. All because I wanted to get Vince off my chest and impress you." he confessed, he felt guilty for all the trouble that has happened because of him. In hindsight, He knew he should've listened to the others.

Sierra looked at Jack, sympathetically, "Don't blame yourself for all of that, I should be the one to blame." Sierra admitted, "I'm the one who encouraged you to participate. It's just I wanted to see how cool you were when you won the race, just like the one from yesterday. Sure, there may have been other guys that may impress me. But you seemed to be someone that is cool with a lot of things; someone who stood up against that bully Vince, someone who trusts his friends as much as himself, someone who I like more than anyone." She blushed a little bit at the last part, "I just admire the way you are, and can't help but be more drawn towards you. I'm sorry I got you into this."

Jack stared at Sierra with his mouth open, surprised at her confession of dragging him in this race, "N-no, it's not your fault. I'm just doing this on my own accord to show how cool I am to you, and to others."

The two sent silent as they both had light blushes on their faces.

They failed to realize that they weren't alone though as Soul Rider cut off the silence, "...Are sure you two aren't together?"

Jack and Sierra flinched, "N-No we're not!"

"You positive? Cuz, it sounds like you actually are. You guys would actually be a good couple, to be honest." he stated, bluntly.

"Soul!" Sierra hissed. God how she hated how her car is a teaser.

The moment vanished quickly when they heard an engine coming closer than before. They looked forward to see Barricade's alt-mode strolling past the entrance of the warehouse. The Con stopped just a few feet away near the entrance, sensing that the AutoKnight was close.

Seeing him gone, this was a chance to move. "Ready Soul?" Sierra whispered,

"...Let's roll." Soul stated before turning on the ignition and headlights. He then took off with squealing tires towards the exit. Barricade heard the engine and immediately backed up but was too late as the Nissan bolted out and passed the cop car. Barricade switched gears and followed pursuit.

Jack turned back to see Barricade, "He's right behind us!" he shouted.

"Guess I've got no choice than to fight him." Soul gritted before he drifted a 180 stop while opening the side door, "This is where you two get off." He instructed. Before the two could ask, they did as they were told.

Once they were out, the Nissan car's frame split apart and shifted as it transformed into a Cybertronian humanoid. With the colors of purple and neon green still there, the robot was more human looking than any other Cybertronian as it's sleek and slim body. His upper body was broad as purple and green armor covered his chest on the collarbone, his arms were covered in black and green color while his hands were purple up to his fingertips. The lower part of his body was covered with purple and black armored skin with a few green and orange highlights, while his abdomen was covered in green armor.

His shoulders sported pylons that were mostly black with a few green highlights covering the tips while having a familiar AutoKnight emblem on them. Finally, his head was crowned with a round helmet that had a horn over his yellow sharp eyes, while having an oversized chin and his neck colored orange. Many would know him as the Evangelion Unit-01 from Neon Genesis Evangelion.

He took a stance with his fists up as the two covered behind him. They saw Barricade coming at them as Soul Rider prepared for a fight. And he got one.

Barricade transformed before he jumped at the AutoKnight, "You're mine, Autobot!" He tackled Soul Rider, flying the humans as they tumbled down the ground. As they tumbled, Soul kicked him away, putting some distance in between them. The two turned and glared at each other, the wind blowing in between as they took a tense stance on the ground, frowning heavily at each other in the cold silence.

"You've got some nerve, jumping in and taking what's mine." Barricade growled as he got up, glaring at the Eva.

"Funny, cause it seems like you were torturing the poor guy." Soul shot back, he too getting up. "Something that a cop shouldn't be doing for the law."

Barricade scowled more before noticing the emblem on Soul's shoulder, "You're an AutoKnight, aren't you?" he asked with a raised brow.

"Me? Well, the name's Soul Rider. Just letting you know."

Barricade grinned evilly, "Soul Rider, huh? I'll be sure to remember to write that on your gravestone after I pulverize you!" He grabbed his right arm and pulled on it, shifting it into a rotating blade with a chain connected to the arm. He swung the mace around like a nunchuck before taking a stance.

"Nice threat, for me I got one thing to say to you." Soul warned, before his left shoulder pylon opened up, a handle sticking out, before he grabbed the handle and pulled it out, taking the Progressive Knife, "Try picking on someone your own size!"

(Insert BGM: A Cruel Angel's Thesis)

Barricade charged, swinging his mace as he roared., "Don't think a knife is going to help you!" He swung at the the Eva dodged and parried with his knife. With every parry, Soul stepped back before he jumped over an understrike while flipping over over Barricade at the same time. He tossed his knife before catching it in a reverse grip before slashing backwards at the Con, who blocked it his mace. Now it was Soul's turn as he took the offense. He slashed at Barricade, pushing him back as he aimed for every open spot. Barricade had his mace blocking every as he spun, being agile for a broad body. He then twirled into the air as he swung the rotating blades down at Soul.

Soul stepped back as the blades hit the ground, picking up dust. Using the opportunity, he uppercut Barricade's chin with his fist, before driving his elbow into his abdomen, Barricade gagging at the force. But Barricade managed to counter before his fist connected with Soul's face, chipping off the armor as the Eva recoiled.

Soul shook off the pain, wiping off the loose scraps before he turned to see why it hurt so much, "Bass knuckles, eh?" Soul pointed out, the rings on Barricade's fingers shining, "Guess we can do this the hard way!" He threw the knife away, cracked his knuckles before he opened his chest chassis and took out an Energem glowing purple. He curled his fingers around it before he tackled Barricade to the ground.

Once he got Barricade under him, he began throwing a barrage of punches at the Con's face, each one leaving a purple wave of energy striking him as he blocked with his arms. Barricade ended it by grabbing both of his fists before he twisted down, making Soul fall. They two were roughhousing as they rolled down a hill, getting deep into the facility. Jack and Sierra, who were standing at the sidelines, ran up to the edge, seeing Soul Rider tumble with Barricade. They looked at each other before they steadily went down the hill, following after.

The two got into the deeper part of the facility before they rolled apart from each other and stood their ground, facing each other with harsh glares, ready to tear each other apart. Just when two were gonna clash again, they heard screeching tires. They turned to see Silver Line and Bumblebee coming from a corner before they transformed. When they saw Barricade, they immediately brought out their Energon cannons and aimed at the Decepticon.

While aiming at the Con, Silver Line noticed the Eva, double-taking with wide eyes, "Wait, Soul Rider? Is that you?" She gasped in surprise.

"Silver Line?" Soul recognized, "You're here too? And who's that yellow guy?" he asked, pointing at Bumblebee. Bumblebee whirled a 'hi' at him.

Barricade gritted his teeth, "So they caught up, huh?" Seeing that he was now outnumbered, he had no choice but to retreat. But before he decided to book it, he faced Soul Rider, "We'll hold this fight until later, AutoKnight! But next time, I'll win and rip out your spark!" He claimed, before he transformed into his alt-mode and drove away to the Nemesis.

(End BGM)

"Always the bad guys' last words before they flee." Soul deadpanned, watching the Con flee. He turned to the two, who deactivated their weapons. "Thanks for arriving by the way. Things were tense with that guy."

"No problem, but we came after that guy with more important matters." Silver stated, "Have you seen Barricade chasing a Nissan that had a boy riding it?"

"You mean Jack? Well, he's over there." Soul inquired, pointing behind Silver. She turned around to see Jack and Sierra arriving on foot.

"Whoa, more of them?!" Sierra looked alarmed as she froze at the sight of the two.

Fortunately, Jack placed a hand on her shoulder, calming her down. "No, they're the good guys! They're my friends." He assured before running towards them.

Silver Line "Jack! Thank goodness, you're alright!" Silver sighed as she knelt down to Jack's level. "The others were pretty worried when you got caught! We contacted them earlier, they should be coming here by now."

Just like what Silver said, they heard incoming engines as they turned to see Team Prime and Fire Haze approaching. The motorcycle sped up near them first before she transformed, "Jack!" Arcee gasped as she knelt down next to Jack, worriedly, "Are you okay? What happened? Where's the car that took you?!" she bombarded him with questions as the others transformed into their humanoid forms, Fire Haze holding onto the unconscious Vince in his hands.

"Um, you're next to the car that saved his life, you know?"

"Hm?" Arcee perked at that, turning to Soul Rider who was waving fingers. "You?" she inquired, before she got up and got into his face with an scolding look, "Then what were you doing there?! You could've got him hurt while being chased by Barricade!"

"Um...well." Soul let out a nervous smile as he had his arms up. Jack looked at his partner scolding Soul like his own mother as Sierra walked up next to him.

"Um, Jack? What's she doing here?" Bumblebee asked, noticing Sierra next to him.

"She's with me." Soul answered.

"What?!" Arcee screeched, making him cringe, "So not only did you risk Jack's life on a wild chase, you let yourself be exposed by a civilian?!"

Soul held up his hands in defense, "Hey, it wasn't like I knew what was happening at that time, okay! It was-!"

He was cut off when a giant body flew into the air before it fell to the ground under it. They turned to see at what appears a Kirschbaum short-circuiting before it became motionless, dead.

"What the?" The Eva was confused before he saw another one coming out it the open before something tackled it to the ground and drove his flame coated fist into its head, offlining it. The Grand Chariot panted as he got up, using up too much of his strength and Energon. The rest finished up the last of the Kirschbaums and Mon-soonos with the bodies scrapped and everywhere, barely made it at the ten minute mark, albeit drained from the intense fighting they had to go through.

They heard clapping, turning at the Kiltgangs on the roof, "Bravo." Amarok and Malkin clapped, "You managed to beat them all in time. Congratulations!"

"Enough games!" Sonic barked, "Now tell us, Amarok! How are you still able to transform?! I thought Robin Goodfellow destroyed your Ego Block!"

"Robin Goodfellow?" Amarok inquired with a head tilt, "I don't know what you're talking about. But I do see you know about our Ego Blocks. Guess, Providence's intel missed a few things. But I'll tell you this; even with your Chaos Energems right now, you wouldn't be able to destroy it!"

Sonic's anger subsided as it was replaced by confusion at the first part, 'He doesn't know Robin Goodfellow?' He then caught onto something else, 'And did he say Providence? As in?' He shook away the thought before looking back at the Kiltgang"Then why don't you tell me what your objectives are, why were you monitoring us?!"

"Maybe for another time. Like we said, we're only here for scouting." Amarok stated, before suddenly a violet swirling portal appeared behind them.

The AutoKnights looked in surprise at the portal, "What is that, a GroundBridge?!" Zone barked in shock.

"Guess they caught onto us." The Wolf Kiltgang scratched his head, knowing full well what the portal is, "Oh well, we'll meet again someday. You're lucky to be alive now, but next time, I'll be the one to fight a match with you." Amarok warned as he pointed at Sonic Drive, "So prepare yourselves. Ciao~." With that, Amarok and Malkin walked into the portal, disappearing before the portal itself disappeared. The AutoKnights gaped at the shocking revelation.

"Sonic Drive!"

Sonic Drive turned to the side, seeing the Cybertronians running towards them, his body relaxing at the sight, "Oh, Arcee, Minna (everyone)." He then noticed the Evangelion, making him double take, "Shinji?!"

Soul Rider took notice of his voice, knowing who it belongs, "Shou? Man, what happened to you?" He asked, looking at the scars, before looking at the rest, "Actually, what happened to all four of you?"

He wasn't answered as Silver Line and Fire Haze approached Sonic "Shou-san, was that?"

"Yeah, Amarok and Malkin." Sonic nodded, "They were disguising themselves as racer before they chased us out and fought us. Not only that, they knew about us."

"Mr. Kagamine? Is that you?" a surprised voice reached his ears before he looked down, noticing Sierra next to Jack, the former having wide eyes in shock at the sudden revelation. "I didn't think you were an alien."

Sonic himself was flabbergasted, "Sierra?! What are you doing here?!"

"Don't worry, Shou. she's with me." Soul stepped in calmly.

Sonic sharply turned to him, before looking back at Sierra, then back at Soul. he then realized the same color of the car that she was with back at the dirt race earlier. "You?" He gaped pointing a finger at Soul, "You have a human charge with you?"

Soul made a sheepish look, "Well-" He was cut off when the red and blue Autobot approached the two.

"Explanations will come later, For now, we must get this boy to safety." Optimus remarked, gesturing to Vince who Fire Haze held.

"Vince?" Zone cajoled, "What's he doing here? And why's he unconscious?"

Jack stepped forward, having guilt all over his face, "Optimus, this is all my fault." He confessed.

"As I said, explanations will come later…." he said before he sternly looked at everyone, "from all of you."

Everyone groaned as they looked down, feeling like they were gonna be for long night of explaining and answering for the actions.

*Thud!*

Until they heard someone fall. They turned around to see Rave Rave suddenly sprawled on the ground, heavily panting on the verge of exhaustion.

"Rave Rose!" Sonic, Incursio, and Silver rushed toward the fallen Valvrave. Bumblebee too went to her, looking worried for her.

"What happened?!" he beeped with concern.

Silver Line gently lifted Rave's head onto her lap as placed her hand on her forehead before recoiling at the heat that she emanated. "She's overheated!" she exclaimed, "We need to cool her down!"

"Have Ratchet bridge her back to base. We can cool her there." Sonic stated, as Zone Runner opened up his Com-Link to contact base. He then turned to Vince, "In the meantime, let's get this kid back to where he belongs." Everyone nodded before he turned to Soul Rider and Sierra, "You two are gonna come with us. You guys have a lot of explaining to do as well."

Soul Rider and Sierra turned to each other, wondering where they were gonna go.

---

(Shortly)

Vince twitched and winced as he groaned, waking up from his unconscious, before finding himself in the Urbana's passenger seat with Jack at the steering wheel, "How did?" Vince turned to Jack, looking confused as scrap, "What happened?" He asked, confused to what happened.

Jack looked over, "Some guys jumped you under the bridge." he lied convincingly "They tossed you into their trunk. Must've been some kind of initiation."

Vince raised an eyebrow at the statement, "Really?" he said, somewhat believing the story.

Jack looked surprise at the belief before he nodded with a grin, "Yeah, I found you knocked out on the side of the road." They stopped over the bridge where Vince's car was parked under. Vince got out before turning to Jack.

"Look, I gotta be honest." Jack began, "After what I saw tonight, I'm thinking, racing isn't my thing." After going through what happened tonight, he thought it was best to end racing for good. At least it was worth it, since he got the girl… somewhat.

Vince leaned through the window, "I hear ya, Darby." he said, before he sneered, "Hard to win a race driving a pedal car!"

Wrong thing to say.

Bumblebee's burned rubber at that statement, throwing dust at Vince's face before bolting back to base, leaving the bully behind.

"I still hate that kid."

---

(Nemesis)

On the Nemesis, things were not going great when the three returned. They were called to the bridge to see Starscream and when they did, he didn't looked pleased at all.

"KNOCKOUT! Was I not clear?!" Starscream shouted angrily, having seen the scratches and the missing door panel on Knockout, "You have defied my orders yet again!"

"My mistake, Commander Starscream." Knockout admitted, "But I've learned my lesson… and paid the price." he grumbled as he rubbed his arm, missing the door on his beautiful frame.

Starscream glared heavily in annoyance and anger as he brought his face at Knockout's, "It. Is. LORD! And you have paid, when I say you have paid!" He proclaimed as he brought out his sharp metallic claw, Knockout widening his eyes in fear of what's going to come, "Do not worry, your punishment shall be merely… cosmetic."

"No, not the finish! Anything but the finish!" Knockout pleaded pathetically. But his plea has fallen into deaf ears as Starscream's claw touched the surface and began scratching a loud screech out of it, Breakdown and Barricade cringing at the sound. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"That's gonna leave a mark." Barricade remarked as he turned to leave the room, leaving Knockout to suffer his punishment. Once the door closed behind him, and no one was around, he clenched his fists before punching it at the wall, creating a huge dent.

"Soul Rider, eh? I don't know whether it was you or someone else." Barricade reminisced the name as he growled, "But I swear upon the AllSpark, when I do find out. I will snuff your spark out for turning Lord Megatron into his weakened state!" He pulled his from out of the dent, before walking through the corridor.

---

(Omega-1)

Raf and Miko sat at the couch, looking really despondent with worried looks. For some reason, Ratchet received a call from the others, saying something happened to Rave Rose. when the GroundBridge opened up, Zone Runner and Silver Line came in with Rave Rose in their arms, the latter looking really exhausted while the vents were tinted red like a heater. Ratchet placed her on the medical table while applying coolant into her system, lowering her heat temperature as she rested. The humans became concerned that something happened to the Autobots but were given news that they were fine.

They perked up when they heard the front door entrance open and the cars coming back. They jumped out of their seat and moved to the rail, welcoming back the Autobots, AutoKnights, and Jack, who got off of Bumblebee, before they transformed into their humanoid forms. "Welcome back! Did you win the race?" Miko asked excitedly, hoping that Jack managed to finish the race.

However, they were given the scary looks of disappointment from mostly everyone, who were displaying a dark aura while giving them unforgivable glares at the two.

"Uh, nevermind." Miko gulped as she shrunk down at the scary faces. Raf let out a nervous smile at everyone before noticing the purple and neon green Nissan entering the main chamber. His changed from wonder into utter confusion when Sierra stepped out, looking around her surroundings.

"So this is where you've been hanging out, Jack?" She asked in amazement.

Jack nodded, "Yep, welcome to the Science Fiction Club."

Raf was still heavily confused, "Um, what is she doing here?" he inquired.

"She's part of the witness program." Arcee stated.

Miko jolted up, shocked, "What? She saw you guys?!"

Sonic Drive stepped up with scarred body shocking the two humans, "More like she saw him first." he pointed at the Nissan which frame shifted and transformed into his Evangelion form.

"Heya." Soul Rider greeted. Raf and Miko gaped with dropped jaws at the new AutoKnight.

Though there gaping were cut short when Optimus stepped in front of everyone with a scolding frown, hands on his hip, fingerings tapping like a father about to scold his children for doing something bad. Everyone except the newcomers noticed his demeanor and gulped before looking down, "So, do you mind giving an explanation of what happened tonight?" he asked sternly.

And so began the explanations.

---

(After a few explanations)

Optimus listened to everyone's explanation of what they knew and what they did. Arcee and Jack took part of a street race against Vince for Sierra's attention, Sonic Drive was there to prove his point. Then Jack took Vince's challenge to participate in the illegal street race, but Arcee denied it, so he took Bumblebee with him instead. Sonic and Zone tried to stop him but Vince's words struck the former and made them participate. Sonic Drive knew it was no excuse and apologized Optimus for it Then Knockout got in and chased after Bumblebee, making both of them drive out of the race to help him but got caught by Amarok and Malkin. Then Vince got caught in the trouble, leading him into a hostage situation after Bumblebee called the rest for backup.

"I see. I cannot say that I am pleased with your actions tonight. You let your pride get the best of you, and kept it hidden instead of consulting me about it. Especially you two." he stated, motioning at Sonic and Zone, who were being treated for their wounds along with Incursio. "You acted on your accord because of a few words from Vince wounding your pride."

Sonic looked down and nodded in understanding, "I understand, Optimus. It won't happen again."

Optimus sighed, "However, you all are to be commended. You realized the consequences of your actions, and tried your best to amend them, thus not allowing Vince to fall into the Decepticon hands. Therefore you all shall go unpunished." he stated, knowing that they have learned their lesson. Though, he turned to Sonic with a questioning look, "Sonic, can you explain about the adversaries you have encountered?"

Sonic nodded, "Sure thing, the two that we met were Amarok and Malkin, two members of an alien force called the Planetary Gears, or also known as Kiltgangs, that travel to different planets for one purpose; sucking the inhabitants libido dry as their food source. But the surprising thing is that when they stumbled upon the Solar System, where the humans didn't exist yet, the Kiltgangs' saw it as a potential place for lifeforms with a mass of libido. So they decided to let them evolve to become filled to the brim and sent into deep sleep, waiting for the opportunity to harvest and feed on the lifeform. When the time came, they were still dormant when a company called the Macbeth Enterprises created genetically modified children to pilot weapon machines. But the thing was that the children were created with the genetic conscious of the Kiltgangs."

Raf seemed to get what he was talking about, "So wait, you mean they're?"

"Yeah, the children were human avatars of the Planetary Gears, waiting to awaken with their previous memories. Amarok and Malkin were the first two awaken while finding the other Planetary Gears."

Jack gulped, "You mean… there's more?"

"Yeah, there's a total of eight Kiltgangs that form the Planetary Gears: Amarok, Malkin, Zinbalt, Aiatar, Liban, Bugbear, and Siren. The last one is the leader of the group, though since we didn't see her, it's likely that she's either dormant somewhere as her avatar, or she hasn't decided to appear yet. When they awakened and regained their memories, they manipulated the company, using the machines they created to turn back into their Kiltgang forms, and planned to feed upon the lifeforms. Thankfully, there were humans who had created weapons to combat against the Kiltgangs, one of them who was a father that sacrificed himself fighting against them, and his son piloted the weapon to defend Earth."

Sierra raised a hand, gaining his attention, "Yes?"

"Um, you said that there were eight, right? But you only list up to seven." She noted.

"Oh, that's because one of the Kiltgangs defected from the group and helped the humans defend Earth." Sonic stated, shocking the Autobots and the kids, "His name was Albion, and he fought to protect the child he considered as a friend, even sacrificing his body and reduced him into a mortal human."

"You know a lot about these guys." Miko remarked.

"Well, in our world, they come from an anime show called Captain Earth, where the main character pilots a giant space robot to combat these Kiltgangs." Sonic stated before he chuckled, "Frankly, one of our own has a codename based on that show." He then frowned as another thought came into his head, "Though that's not the only thing. The troops we fought were Kirschbaums and Mon-soonos, Mass-produced mechas that were supposed to be from different shows. Yet they were there, and the Kiltgangs knew about them." He gasped as he remembered something a while back. "And they weren't the only ones. Back during the incident with M.E.C.H. I saw someone watching us at a distance. I thought it was my imagination, but it looks almost like a... a Gundam."

The AutoKnights widened their eyes, while the others had confused looks. "A Gundam?"

"What's a Gundam?" Miko asked.

"A giant armored mobile suits that were used in space colonial wars." Zone answered, "Two of our friends have code names based on it."

Sonic continued, "When the Kiltgangs mentioned about monitoring us ever since the Space Bridge explosion. I had a suspicion that the Gundam had something to do with it. What I don't get is that, normally, they're from different shows. Yet they looked like they are working together, as if moving as an organization. Like the Decepticons." Sonic heavily frowned as he thought about it. The Kiltgangs were usually independent for their own good, yet they summoned an armor that didn't even exist in their own world. Not only that they said that the Gundam from before told them about the AutoKnights. So what in the world was happening here?

His thought was cut off when he felt Incursio place a hand on his brother's shoulder, getting his attention. "We can think about this another day." He reassured, sending comfort to him. Sonic Drive smiled, glad to accept his brother's comfort.

"Now that we're covered about the Kiltgangs. Mind explaining to me what happened to all of us and how'd you guys met?" Soul asked, being the new guy in the room for what happened in the past month.

---

(One explanation later)

"So let me get this straight, we're these so-call AutoKnights, who are prophesied warriors for some destiny, our charm pendants are actually super powered items called Energems, and you shot down an evil tyrant in space?" Soul recounted, pointing at Sonic Drive at the last one.

Sonic nodded, "Yep, but the Decepticon forces are still at large since Starscream is in the lead. And he's seemed to getting new allies like Barricade."

"Huh. guess that explains a few things." Soul nodded in understanding.

Incursio turned to Soul Ride before asking something on his mind, "So, how about you tell us why Sierra knows you?" Soul and Sierra looked at each other before the latter nodded, thinking that it was a good idea to explain.

"Well…" Soul began, "After that giant portal sucked me up, I felt myself flying all over the place before I lost conscious. And then I felt myself crash into some mass before I woke up, finding myself in a public scrapyard. When I looked around, Sierra was the first person I saw."

---

(Flashback, about a Month ago)

It was during the night, as Sierra was walking on the sidewalk of the town street. After she finished her school, she decided to take a walk across the street even though it was past her curfew and she kinda left without her parent's permission. But the thing was that she was bored out of her mind. Just the normal school life while trying to do her best to fulfill her parent's expectations and whatnot just didn't cut it. She did want to hang out with Kara but she was the typical school girl who followed the rules and stayed home. All she was asking was some excitement in her life. Thankfully her prayers was answered when she heard a loud crash nearby.

*CRASH!*

She turned to where the sound came from, seeing that it was over the fence of the public scrapyard. Wondering what it was she snuck in by jumping over the fence, landing on her two feet. She looked around for any guards before she tiptoed her way in. When she got in deeper, her eyes widened and gasped in shock and surprise. What she came upon was a pile of car scraps, but what surprised her was the thing that was laying on top of it. A giant purple and neon green robot sprawled on its back.

'What is that?' She wondered as she slowly went up to the robot, trying not to wake it up, while at the same time getting a closer look. That is until it's closed eyes twitched and it let out a moan, making her flinch and scurry behind a small junk pile before peeking over to see.

The giant sat up, shaking his head while placing hands on it, groaning, "Ohhhhhhh. Man, whose truck was it that ran me over?" He opened his eyes a little bit, before widening wide as he turned his head around, looking at his surrounding. "What the?! Where the frag am I?" He stopped himself before raising a brow in confusion, "Wait, 'frag'? Where did that come from?"

As the giant was contemplating on where he was, Sierra peeked out more from her hiding spot, before her hand moved a piece of bolt which fell to the floor, making a clang.

That got his attention, turning to see Sierra looking at him with wide eyes, which soften in amazement. "Uh...hi?"

Soul tilted his head staring back at the girl curiously, "...Hi?"

"Who are you?"

"I'm… Shinji. Shinji Shimada." he answered.

"And… what are you?"

Soul looked confused at the question, "Um, human?"

"Really?" Sierra inquired, looking up and down at his body, "You don't look like one."

"What? Look, I don't know if you're blind or something. But as you can see, I'm 100% huma-!" he trailed off when he noticed his arm, being metallic and robotic. His eyes widened in shock before he touched his body, feeling all the changes. "WHAT THE?! WHAT THE FRAG HAPPENED TO ME?!"

"Hey, hey! Down here!" Sierra called, hands out as if to calm the giant down, "Okay, how about you take a deep breath and calm down?" Soul did as told as he took deep breaths, ceasing his panic. "Okay, how about we sit down and talk about what happened to you?"

Thankfully, Soul agreed and explained what he remembered to Sierra, who was sitting down on a rusted safe box as she listened to his story.

"So, let me get this straight." Sierra began, "You were a human."

"Hm-hm." Soul nodded.

"You were just having a reunion party with your friends at the orphanage."

"That's right."

"Until that gem you have along with others created a giant portal and sucked you up."

"Yep."

"And now you found yourself here as this body?"

"That pretty much sums it up." Soul responded.

"That sounds…. Awesome!" Sierra suddenly gushed.

Soul Rider sighed, "I know it sounds crazy, but it's the-" he paused, processing what she said, "Wait, what'd you say?"

"This is awesome, I mean, I just met a guy who turned into a giant robot! This has gotta be a once in a lifetime thing that no one has ever experienced!"

Soul raised a brow, "So, you believe me?"

Sierra looked up, "What? I mean, yeah I do. It's just I've never been this excited to see someone this amazing." Excited would be an understatement, she just met someone that sounded like he has come from another world and became a giant futuristic looking robot! And to think she was the first one to meet one made her even more amazed, even humbled!

"Oh, I guess that's great." Soul shrugged before he stood up, "Well, it was nice talking with you, miss. I hope we meet somewhere. He then took steps as he headed for the entrance.

Sierra turned to see the giant head for before she widened her eyes and ran in front of him, stopping him, "Wait, what are you doing?"

"Well, there's a chance that my friends could be somewhere after that portal transporting us in the middle of….nowhere." Soul said, "So I thought it would be best to look around."

"Do you even know where they are?"

Soul opened his mouth to reply before he thought about it, before closing it and drooped his head in shame, purple wavy lines covering his head, "...No."

"Well… do you at least have a place to stay?"

"Other than the scrapyard, which looks really uncomfortable and probably be seen by civilian eyes in this form." he deadpanned, signifying that he had no place to stay.

Sierra went into thought, before she had an idea. "If you want… I can let you stay at my home." she offered. At first, she didn't think about allowing a giant robot into her home, but hearing his story and not having a place to stay, made want to help him in any way.

Soul looked at her in surprise, "You… you sure? I don't want to be a bother."

"It's okay. I'll make sure that no one knows about you." she promised, "I'm good at keeping secrets."

Soul stared at her, before he let out a smile, "Well then, I guess I'll be in your care then. Sierra, right?" she nodded, "You can call me Soul Rider. My friends call me that as a codename."

(End Flashback)

---

"And that's how I met her. Before we left, I scanned a nearby car, which took me by surprise, before we went to her home." Soul finished explaining, everyone including Rave Rose, who woke up from her overheating, having their eyes widened in surprise.

"So after that, you've been acting as Sierra's bodyguard and her car?" Jack inquired, remembering how he has seen Sierra's car a couple of times and wondered where she got it.

"Well, she's supposed to be my responsibility for her parents." Soul stated.

Everyone jolted up, "Wait, her parents know about you?!" Sonic shouted.

"At first they were surprised when they found out. but when we told them the truth, they surprisingly seemed to take it very well and are trustful to me. When they found out, they promised to keep my secret and, in exchange, I have been watching over her ever since to keep her out of trouble." Soul stated, before he rethought about the last part, "Well, most of the time." he corrected.

"Keep her out of trouble, huh?" Sonic deadpanned, remembering where he saw Sierra at The Circuit.

Soul pointed at Sierra accusingly, "Hey, it was her idea to join the race, not me." He received a jab on his leg.

Sierra glared at him with a pout before she smiled, "But, he's been looking after me ever since, he's like an older brother to me."

Sonic looked at their interactions before he let out a sigh, understanding their connection. "Well, I'm glad that you've been looked after. Especially when you attended the race."

"Well, luckily I'm not gonna go to another one now that I found you guys. But you do know this wasn't the first time I took part of a street race, right?" Soul retorted as he pointed at Sonic Drive, "And neither did you."

"What?" Everyone looked at the Grand Chariot with questioning looks.

Sonic sighed, "It's true. I did attended some illegal street racing in the streets of Tokyo. But that was merely out of entertainment. I certainly didn't do it to show off."

"So that's why you were so fast." Jack surmised, "But, why did you advise me not to?"

"Because doing it to show off and looking down a bully is low, and makes you deemed no better than them." he said, before turning to Jack, "Listen Jack, I've done things to those that tried to ruin my siblings' day, but I'd never retaliated against them for my own pride. You know why? Because I knew that if I did the same thing to them, I would be no better than them."

Optimus nodded understandingly, "Great words of wisdom, Sonic Drive." he complimented before turning to Soul Rider, "Now that we have heard about your story, and the knowledge of the new adversaries that we've encountered, I would like to offer you to assist us in our war against the Decepticons and defend mankind from their threats. Along with that, we will assist on finding your lost comrades."

"One question," Soul inquired, before pointing at Sierra. "does she get to visit and stay?"

"Indeed. As long as she can keep our existence a secret." Optimus nodded, though Ratchet rolled his eyes in annoyance. More bother to ruin his peace and quiet.

"Then count me in."

"Sweet!" Miko shouted before she went up in front of Soul and began asking questions as usual, "So what are you, Soul? You look different than the others. Do you have a hobby? What kind cool gadgets do you have?"

Soul backed up a little, surprised by how close she was, before he placed a hand on his chin, "Well, for a start, I'm an Evangelion, a robot who fought aliens based on the biblical epics. I like to play music. I played up to ten instruments, mainly guitar, keyboard, and piano. Interested in pop and rock, a little bit of classical, and some Japanese traditional."

"You play music? That's even cooler!" Miko gushed with joy, raising her fists up. "How about we party?!"

At the side, Sierra watched her guardian being pestered with with questions by Miko, she saw Jack approaching her. "Welcome to the club, I guess." he rubbed the back of his head.

Sierra smiled, "Thanks. Though, I didn't peg your motorcycle to be an alien." She motioned to Arcee, who was looking over and scolding at Sonic Drive getting healed by Ratchet. "Kinda like me, when I found Soul."

"Yeah." Jack agreed. When he first found Arcee, he was amazed to meet an alien. "But I found her first as a motorcycle before I found her." He remembered how chaotic it was when he first met Arcee, "You were there when I first met her."

"Really?" Sierra asked with a confused look. Before it hit her. "Oh, so at that time the motorcycle wasn't really yours."

That made Jack blush in embarrassment, "...yeah." He looked at Sierra, before he let out a smile, "Thanks for saving me back there." He thanked her for the quick rescue from the Decepticon grasp. As embarrassing it was during the chase, Jack was still thankful for Sierra.

Sierra smiled back, "I'm just looking out for others, especially someone that I like as a... friend."

The two stood there, Before they continued their conversation, Soul called out to his charge, "Hey Sierra, wanna do a musical number?"

"What?"

"I was thinking we should do a song." Soul repeat what he said, "Miko here wanted me to play one so that she can see how good I am with the guitar." He stated before pulling out a guitar and a microphone from out of his compartment.

Zone and Sonic looked at each other with sweat drops on their heads. "Where the frag did you get that?" Zone asked.

"I borrowed it from her dad." Soul looked at them with a grin before turning back to Sierra, "Whaddya say, Sierra? Just this once."

Sierra had an unsure face. "I don't know…" she said crossing her arms. She considered herself good at singing when she's been to karaokes, but doing it in front of her cru- I mean, friend is nerve-wracking.

Seeing the nervous Sierra, Soul decided to remind her about their agreement, "You still owe me for getting me into that race." He said teasingly, before widening his grin into a more mischievous one, "Or how about I raise the stakes a little and tell your dad about it?"

That quickly made Sierra flinch and drop her arms, "Alright fine!" She submitted with a scowl. Seeing her agree, Soul turned into his alt-mode and got out of it as his holoform which a young man looking around the same age as Sonic's holoform while at the same time looking almost exactly like the Shinji from the show, having short black hair and brown eyes, while he wore a purple and green, collared, dress shirt, black, long pants, and blue and white shoes. He handed Sierra the microphone before strapping the guitar.

Miko had an exhilarating face, eager to listen. "Ooh, what are you gonna play?"

Soul Rider's holoform smirked, "A cover of Bad Apple."

Incursio perked up, "Hey, one of my favorites! Is it the English version?"

"You guess it. Let's hit it!"

(Insert Song: Bad Apple: English RichaadED Version sung by Sierra)

[Instrumental]

Soul began strumming a few chords rapidly, plucking every string with the pick. He kept on playing on playing the same pattern before it gradually became louder. Just then he intensified it as the melody played at the intended dynamic. He played his solo part while adding a few long chord strums in between before turning to Sierra, prompting her to sing her part.

And boy was she good!

Ever on and on, I continue circling

With nothing but my hate in a carousel of agony

Till slowly I forget and my heart starts vanishing

And suddenly I see that I can't break free- I'm

Slipping through the cracks of a dark eternity

With nothing but my pain and the paralyzing agony

To tell me who I am, who I was, uncertainty

Enveloping my mind till I can't break free

And maybe it's a dream, maybe nothing else is real

But it wouldn't mean a thing, if I told you how I feel

So I'm tired of all the pain, of the misery inside

And I wish that I could live feeling nothing but the night

You can tell me what to say, you can tell me where to go

But I doubt that I would care, and my heart would never know

If I make another move, there'd be no more turning back

Because everything would change and all will fade to black

Will tomorrow ever come? Will I make it through the night?

Will there ever be a place for the broken in the light?

Am I hurting? Am I sad? Should I stay, or should I go?

I've forgotten how to tell, did I ever even know?

Can I take another step? I've done everything I can

All the people that I see, they will never understand

If I find a way to change, if I step into the light

Then I'll never be the same, and it all will fade to white

[Instrumental]

Ever on and on, I continue circling

With nothing but my hate in a carousel of agony

Till slowly I forget and my heart starts vanishing

And suddenly I see that I can't break free- I'm

Slipping through the cracks of a dark eternity

With nothing but my pain and the paralyzing agony

To tell me who I am, who I was, uncertainty

Enveloping my mind till I can't break free

And maybe it's a dream, maybe nothing else is real

But it wouldn't mean a thing, if I told you how I feel

So I'm tired of all the pain, of the misery inside

And I wish that I could live feeling nothing but the night

You can tell me what to say, you can tell me where to go

But I doubt that I would care, and my heart would never know

If I make another move, there'd be no more turning back

Because everything would change and all will fade to black

Will tomorrow ever come ? Will I make it through the night?

Will there ever be a place for the broken in the light?

Am I hurting ? Am I sad ? Should I stay or should I go?

I've forgotten how to tell. Did I ever even know?

This time you're not hurting me, this time I will take a stand

All the hatred in my eyes building up an evil plan

Standing lonely in the night, with the darkness by my side

Looking deep inside myself and revealing only fright

If I make another move, If I take another step

Then it all would fall apart, There'd be nothing of me left

If I'm crying in the wind, If I'm crying in the night

Will there ever be a way? Will my heart return to white?

Can you tell me who you are? Can you tell me where I am?

I've forgotten how to see, I've forgotten if I can.

If I opened up my eyes, there'd be no more going back

'Cause I'd throw it all away, and it all will fade to black

So I'm back here once again, so I'm back here once again

Can I ever make a change ? Will my heart begin to mend ?

Would you love me if I go, it feels like a heart attack

But still everything's the same, and it all just fades to black

After the last strum. Soul and Sierra pants in exhaustion from playing and singing vigorously. Miko, after hearing the song, stared with her jaw unhinged before she let out the biggest smile she ever had, "...Wow. That… WAS AWESOME!" Soul blinked before he jumped in surprise to see the pigtailed girl already up to his face.

Jack was so surprised himself that he had his jaw dropped to the floor. "You're… pretty amazing." He praised Sierra.

Sierra smiled while having a light blush, "Thanks. Soul taught me that one."

"And you loved every bit of it!" Her charge shouted from across the room. Sierra rolled her eyes as she shook her head at her charges antics.

As the day ended, Team Prime and the AutoKnights relaxed for the night after the new encounters, unexpected allies, and lessons learned. What they didn't know, was that the encounter was merely a step towards an inevitable fate that they must face. A fate that will test their will and limits.

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Dark shadows lingered within darkness. Not a single sound present, only silence. However within the darkness, dim eerie lights lit up lighting the room as it revealed a huge chamber with cybertech walls. In the center, Amarok and Malkin were seen sitting on one knee with their heads bowing. In front of them, laid a set of stairs with five empty thrones sitting on top of it. However, no one sat on them, not even a few figures standing in front of the kneeling duo. They were all different compared to the Kiltgangs.

One of them has a feminine structure with a black and white color scheme with a yellow human-like face with black slits for eyes framed by an arrow-decorated helmet. She is adorned in a long flowing cape that is actually made up of many 'WISPs'; missile-like drones with smart-homing capabilities that serve a dual purpose: as typical missiles or to grab faraway objects and pull them in.

Next to her was sleek robot with a black body that had a giant pod attached to her back who seemed to have a manta ray motif. Her chest was was curved cone like a plane's nose while shoulders sport short alien liner wings along with her abdomen being red down until the pelvis. Her arms were slim up to her digits while sporting gauntlets that had scythe-like claws on each arm. Her legs were slim as well while her feet were sharp pointed at the toes. Lastly her head was entirely black with horns pointing forward on the sides while sporting a dorsal fin on top with her red eyes peering through the helmet.

The next one was more organic than metallic as the mech's body would've been entirely white if it did not have the blue lines covering it like veins. His build looked similar to Sonic Drive's while his shoulders were huge spikes curved two pairs of sleek strands dangled from it. His arms and legs were covered in armor while the waist held a pair a swords. His helmet had a mask faceplate as the blue veins covered it in a rhombus shape, however though the mask, you could see a glimpse of sharp blue eyes peering through.

Another one stood with his arms crossed. His most of his armor was gray with his torso having dark blue armor with yellow vents on the chest while his shoulder armor were spread outward. His legs legs covered by titanium armor including with the feet being square shaped with red outlines on the bottom. His head looked similar to a samurai helmet with two spiked pointed outward over his green eyes while a mask cover his mouthplate. Another notable feature would be the giant wheel like pod attached to his back holding multiple cannons.

The last one was a mech with a sleek build similar to Soul's Eva form but a fully black body that had multiple red colored holes all over while having tail. On his chest is what appears to be a pair of sharp eyes. His head was adorned with a horn as his face carried a hard cold expression with red bags under his yellow eyes as he bore a frowning stare into the two. "You wandered off into the open without reporting to us and you went on a worthless street race for your own amusement. Because of that, you could have risked our existence being seen into world eyes. What do you have to say for yourselves."

Amarion and Malkin bowed admittingly to the tailed Bot, "We have no excuse, Lazengann." Amarok confessed, "But we were just scouting to prove Providence's intel."

The robots in the room looked at each other before Lazengann questioned them. "Which intel?"

"The intel on the sightings of the Mechanians spotted in certain areas, including Nevada."

The one crossing his arms surmised on what they were getting at as he raised a brow along with a 'smirk'. "I suppose you came upon contact with them?"

"With our own eyes, Yep. We had them engage ten Kirschbaums and Mon-Soonos and they managed to defeat them all."

"And you are certain it is them."

Amarok smirked confidently, "Most certainly."

Lazengann thought about this for a moment before he nodded, "Well, even though you have evidence of reconnaissance, you still went against our orders. But with this new information, I will let you off this time. However, do not go off on your own next time. Instead report to us about them, and we will decide whether we should send you or not."

He turned to the rest. "Ardjet," The one wearing the cape flipped a part of her arrowhead, the piece making jingles. "TheEnd," The black armored femme's flicked her gauntlets in anticipation. "Jiart," The faceless robot's eyes gleamed through the mask. "Providence," The one crossing his arms dropped them. "Even though they haven't awakened yet, we shall commence our plans." he declared with a sneer before looking behind the thrones, where…. A Decepticon looking emblem was depicted on the wall? It may had the face emblem of the Decepticon, but it had more eerie sharp edges along with a halo hovering over the insignia with draconic wings spread from the side. "All for the glory of the Triniarks, and foremost to our Overlord."

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Bet you weren't expecting that were ya? Finally, this took forever to make. And Ta-da! Sierra joins the team along with a new AutoKnight! Quite the twist ain't it? Again sorry, I had some real life things to go through, had some writer's block, college. But I made it! And, once again, yes, Barricade is in this story! the reason was mainly because someone suggested on adding him, and I was like "eh, why not?" so with the addition of Barricade, there's probably gonna be a few characters from the Transformers series that I might add along with introducing the rest of the AutoKnights

Credit to Just Four One for editing this. He helped me a lot on this. Go check out his profile to see his stories.

Again, thanks for reading this, review, favorite, follow, and I'll see you in the next chapter. Ja ne!

Current AutoKnights:

1. Sonic Drive

2. Zone Runner

3. Carmilla

4. Incursio

5. Rave Rose

6. Fire Haze

7. Silver Line

8. Soul Rider

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