Autobot Outpost Omega-1...
The Rust Bucket and Arcee's vehicle mode just drove through the ground bridge.
Raf was doing his daily clearing of conspiracy websites.
He found a picture of his guardian one of said websites.
"Removing Bumblebee..." The picture was gone leaving a black rectangle. "And replacing him with..." Raf added a flash animation of a monkey in a top hat dancing.
"The tap dancing monkey strikes again!" Grey Matter said. He and Raf high fived.
"Bumblebee sighting on the world wide web are no laughing matter." Ratchet said.
Bulkhead was going through physical therapy, with Miko helping out. He and Miko were doing leg lifts.
"Seven, eight, nine..." Bulkhead couldn't make it to ten.
"Why can't I just drive from now on?"
"Because you legs will atrophy if you choose not to use them."
Grey Matter transformed back into Jack. "Hey Miko, I never was told what you did while Raf, Mom, and I were gone."
"Wheeljack and I blew up a bunch of insecticons."
"Cool. I fought this guy called Vilgax." Jack said. "He's kinda like Megatron, except he sounds like Starscream." Jack saw a picture of a meteor. "Wait, what's that?" Raf zoomed in on it.
"A cybertronian escape pod?"
"Here in earth's atmosphere?"
Raf put the image on one of the larger monitors.
"Autobot or decepticon?" Arcee asked.
"Impossible to tell due to the image resolution."
"In any event, this merits investigation." Optimus said,
"It could be a trap, and we're down one 'bot. Should we reach out to Wheeljack?"
"I can hear you." Bulkhead was a bit annoyed.
"I don't care if Bulkhead isn't combat ready; after that revenge stunt he pulled with Miko, Wheeljack can stay rouge.
"An autobot may be in distress, Ratchet, bring your medical kit."
"Diamondhead! Optimus, with all due respect, that might not even be an escape pod, it could be a chuck of Vilgax's ship. That thing was pretty high up when it went kaboom."
At the site of the pod crash,,,
Diamondhead, Optimus, Bumblebee, Arcee, and Ratchet exited the ground bridge vortex.
There was trail of energon heading down hill from the pod. The autobots and the Petrosapien approached the pod. Arcee whiled off some of the black stuff that was on the pod to reveal a red decepticon insignia.
"It is of Decepticon origin." Optimus said.
"And the 'con inside blew his way out."
They were shot at by red blaster bolts.
Ten vehicons and three insecticons were attacking them.
Optimus, Bumblebee, and Arcee fired at them while Diamondhead formed his left arm into a shield and used that to take deflect decepticon fire while he shot crystal shards at them
"All those 'cons from one pod?"
"Humans refer to the phenomenon as a clown car."
One of the insecticons flew over the stream of energon before transforming, engaging Optimus in hand to hand combat. He defeated the insecticon before charging at the enemy.
Another insecticon had Ratchet pinned up against a wall. He would've finished the medic off if not for Arcee punching its head. The robo beetle picked up Arcee and tossed her away, where she joined Diamondhead and Bumblebee in fighting it.
They were joined by a new cybertronian, one that was mostly white and had a blue chest plate.
"Incoming!" Arcee and Bumblebee pointed their blasters at the new contact.
"Down in front!" The new arrival said. He jumped over the trio and engaged the decepticons.
"Friendly?" Arcee asked.
"Don't know, but he sure is a show off." Diamondhead said.
The new 'bot was rammed by an insecticon. He fired at it, missing and hitting the energon, igniting it.
"You idiot!" Diamondhead slammed his fists on the ground. That caused a large dome of the material he was made out of to surround him and the five cybertronians.
Rumbling was felt. A few second later, the dome disappeared.
"Woo! To hot for y'ah 'cons?!"
"Friend of yours?" Ratchet asked Bumblebee. Bumblebee didn't know who this new 'bot was.
"Never seen him before. And after seeing that stunt-"
"You're glad you finally did sweetie. Right?"
"If I was able to vomit I would." Arcee said. "You're lucky Jack here was here to shield us from the explosion. And don't ever call me 'sweetie'."
"But it was a good plan, right babe?"
"But it wasn't a plan, it was a random shot that almost fried us to a crisp. And don't call me babe. One more comment like that and I'll teach you a lesson you'll never forget."
"Okay hot stuff."
"Jack, Humungousaur." Arcee told her partner.
"Humungou-what?"
Diamondhead tapped on the dial to transform.
"Humungousaur!" The Vaxasaurian grew to his full size of sixty feet.
"Woah!" This new autobot was in awe. Humungousaur was about to crush this guy but Optimus stopped him.
"Thank you fellow autobot, your valor is to be commended. However, I would advise you not to get on Arcee's bad side."
"I don't believe it! You're Optimus Prime! He's Optimus Prime!"
"We know."
"Yes yes."
"It's not that big of a deal."
"What is your name soldier?"
"Smokescreen, sir." The autobot said. He saluted Optimus.
"Welcome to earth Smokescreen."
"It's an honor to be here, especially with you." Smokescreen said as he shook Optimus' hand.
"Now what?" Ratchet asked. "It's not like we can bring him back to base."
"Wouldn't be the first time an ally turned out to be a plant."
"Ahem." Humungousaur coughed. He tapped the dial again. "Swampfire!" But he wasn't swampfire, he was a new alien. It too was plant based, but this one had six fin like legs and a collar that resembled a venus fly trap. "Far out!" This new alien said like a 60s hippie. "Um, don't get so uptight, I'm a plant."
"No, not that kind of plant."
Optimus noticed the insignia on Smokescreen shoulder. It was an autobot emblem with some line through it. "I see you received your training from Cybertron's Elite Guard."
"True enough, though it was little more than a boot camp by the time I joined, never even go a proper graduation ceremony."
"There was a war going on." Arcee exhaled in frustration. "Jack, mind if I come on that fishing trip you and the others are going on?" She asked. "I don't want to be forced to remove bits of my fist from his head, by the what're you gonna call this alien?"
"No problemo dudette." In a flash of red light, Jack was in place of the new alien form. "And I think I'll call that one Wildvine. And what're you complaining about? I didn't want the Omnitrix and do you see me complaining?"
"Hey fleshie, all I ever wanted to do was be a soldier and serve the Autobot cause, but what I got was security detail at Iacon."
"The hall of records of all places? Optimus, do you not find this highly suspicious." Ratchet stated the obvious.
"Smokescreen, what was your assignment inside the hall?"
"Guarding Alpha Trion in what turned out to be the final days of the war."
"You served under the master archivist?"
"Eh, wasn't too thrilled to be watching the back of an old 'bot instead of kicking 'con tailpipe." He saw that the other autobots and Jack didn't like the way he stated his opinion of the task. "But make no mistake, the big A tuned out to be a great teacher, and a true friend. I mean, he was the one who petitioned Halogen and the high council to make you a prime."
Optimus thought about what Smokescreen said for a moment.
"Rafael, activate the ground bridge."
"That's it? That's all you need to hear before inviting him to the party?" Arcee couldn't believe how simple that was.
"If my former mentor shared this information, it is because he considered Smokescreen a trusted ally."
"Cortical psychic patch." Jack said whilst fake coughing.
Later, Autobot outpost Omega-1...
"We haven't had somebody new around here since wheeljack!" Miko said as she ran up the stairs to the elevated platform. "What's your story Smoke? Where'd you come from? How'd you get here? How many blasters are you packing?"
"So these are the life forms we're supposed to protect? Are they all like this?"
"Fortunately not but I too share Miko's fascination with how you came to arrive on Earth."
"In a Decepticon escape pod." Arcee still didn't like this guy.
"Still got trust issues, huh? Tough crowd. The main thrust of combat operations was at least twenty clicks from the Hall of Records, so things had been pretty quiet. But the situation went downhill fast. The Cons launched a massive surge that wiped out the last line of defenses surrounding Iacon. I was the only thing left to them back, and, let me tell you, I was pumped.
I mean, this was my chance to see real action for the first time to prove myself. Until everything went black. Cons took me prisoner and dumped me onto a transport ship. But I managed to give a guard the slip and hopped in an escape pod. Apparently, it was a long-distance pod, 'cause it knocked me into stasis. Next thing I knew, I'm hitting solid ground hard.
"The Decepticon warship must have picked up pod's beacon and guided it to Earth." Ratchet stated.
"Which would explain Smokescreen's welcoming committee. Bet those Cons were disappointed not to find one of their own inside."
"Smokescreen, do you know of Alpha Trion's fate, after the fall of Iacon?" Optimus asked.
"I wish I did. But that was the last I ever saw of him." Smokescreen moped. Optimus had a look of sadness on his face. "That's it, my life story."
"Not exactly the glory I envisioned for myself, until now."
"Wow, that was almost insulting how quickly he went from depressed to excited." Jack said under his breath.
"Being here with Optimus Prime I knew I was destined for great things. I mean, now that you have help, how hard could it be to end this war?" The sound of groaning, gasping, and scraping was heard.
"Take a good look, Newbie." Bulkhead showed the guy that it wasn't always easy. "This is how hard."
Smokescreen when wide eyed for a moment before Optimus drew his attention away from Bulkhead and his condition.
"Smokescreen, I would suggest that you take some time to become acclimated to your new surroundings." Optimus made an attempt to defuse the tension. "A tour of the base would be an excellent start."
"Sure thing!" Miko spoke up. She then heard her bff's dissatisfaction. "I mean Jack here offers a very informative tour."
At the Harbinger...
Starscream was using the computers of the crashed Decepticon warship to search the internet.
"This is what the humans call 'the information superhighway'?" Starscream groaned. On a side note, that seems like a Vilgax line. "A trillion gigabytes of data none of it's useful!" He passed by multiple images, some would catch your eye. One was of a gigantic red, blue, pink, and yellow robot with a T-rex head on its shoulder, another was of Heatblast fighting Vilgax, another was of a crude drawing of Chromastone, and one was the animation of the tap dancing monkey. "Though some oddly engrossing." Starscream chuckled. "What is this? Ah." There was a picture of red crystals that were at a dig site. He laughed as he knew what it was. "Ignorant life-forms have no idea what they've uncovered. Red Energon." Starscream placed his clawed hand on the screen. "If I can possess its power, not only will I be stronger but also faster. Significantly faster."
Back at Autobot outpost Omega-1...
Jack was giving Smokescreen a tour of the base. The two were walking down a hall with multiple garage doors."
"Phase shifter, Polarity gauntlet, spark extractor, immobilizer. This is where we store the Cybertronian relics we found buried on Earth."
"And talk about a small universe 'cause most of them came from the-" Jack was interrupted by Smokescreen as he looked in the room with the Phase Shifter.
"The Iacon hall of records. I remember these." He walked a bit further down the hall to see where Airachnid who was trapped in the stasis pod was. "Whoa. What kind of relic is she?"
"Who?" Jack turned into Stinkfly to get a better view. "Oh her, she's the kind you don't wanna mess with, unless you can fight her off."
"So you and her have a history."
"You could say that. Although, I'd rather not talk about it."
"So it's a don't ask, don't tell situation?" Smokescreen asked as he and Stinkfly continued down the hall.
Back in the main room...
"If you wanted to replace me, you should have called Wheeljack." Bulkhead sat against the wall with his arms crossed. "I could have lived with that."
"No one is replacing you, Bulkhead." Arcee said. "For one thing, Smokescreen's too green."
"Well, Bulk's as green as they get!" Miko exclaimed. "Well, Swampfire is a close second."
"What Arcee means is Smokescreen still has a great deal to learn."
"And once you got him trained, then what, huh? He's in. I'm a doorstop."
"Bulkhead, your place with us is not in jeopardy, but there is no dispute that we have long required additional firepower." Optimus assured the ex-wrecker "It is essential that our team learns to work with our new recruit, not against him."
"Better hope the hotshot's blasters are as big as his mouth." Bulkhead thought of the words that to the injured bot's audio receptors, sounded like insults. "'How hard can it be?'"
"Hey, everyone. Check this out." Raf placed the same image Starscream was looking at earlier.
"Don't tell me it's another Bumblebee sight- oh my."
Optimus recognized the substance. "Red Energon."
"Here? On Earth?"
"What's Red Energon?" Raf was curious.
"An extremely rare and volatile form of Energon." On a side note, I've decided to leave this misspelling of Energon for your potential amusement. Energellum. "Refined into fuel, it provides the power of hyperspeed."
"We must have Agent Fowler clear the dig site of all human presence as it is unlikely we are the only ones who have discovered its location." Optimus said.
"Now you're talking." Smokescreen was pumped up. "Let's scramble up some Cons' circuits."
"Given your limited field experience, I believe further training is required before you are battle-ready."
"Optimus, with all due respect-"
"Furthermore, we Autobots live on this planet as robots in disguise. You will need to obtain an Earth-based vehicle mode."
"In order to maintain a low profile, if that's possible for you."
"If you're talking wheels, bring 'em on!"
At the dig site...
"The Red Energon is mine, humans!" Starscream leaped out of a ground bridge vortex. "For you are powerless in the face of the mighty Star-" He saw that there was no energon, only a bunch of knights with metal detectors. "What? Where is it?"
"We were just about to ask you the same question, Decepticon." One of the knights said. He had a slight english accent.
"Who are you?"
"We are the Forever Knights, and we seek this 'Red Energon' as you called it to fuel our efforts."
"Sire," a brown haired boy who seemed to be about fourteen said to one of the knights. "would it not be wise to forge a brief alliance with this Cybertronian so that when we obtain what we seek, we can it?"
"Hmm, the child has an interesting idea, Sir, um, what's your name?"
"Tyler, Sir Tyler."
"Sir Tyler, would it be at all possible to form an alliance between the two of us so that we might both benefit?"
"Very well." Sir Tyler spoke. "Knights, to battle!"
Somewhere outside of Alamo, Nevada...
Jack and Smokescreen were on top of a mesa, looking for an alt mode for the latter of the two.
They saw a Honda Civic pass by. "Nope."
Jack saw an old pick up truck pass by."How about that one?"
"Eh, it's more Ratchet's speed, don't you think?"
"Cement truck?"
"Yeah, if I were a Constructicon."
"Seriously, this is the best your planet has to offer?" Smokescreen asked.
"No, but this is Alamo."
"I feel for you." Smokescreen saw a green muscle car. "What about that one." He pointed at it.
"That one? Uh, I'd advise against that."
"Why? Got any problems with it?"
"That's Kevin's, and he doesn't like anyone messing with his car."
"Must be quite the jerk."
"No, he's actually pretty cool, he's just a bit on the angry side."
Bellwood; Night...
Arcee, Bumblebee, and Optimus drove out of a ground bridge. They transformed and had their weapons deployed as they walked through the shipping yard. The saw that the Red Energon was being stored in a crate that for some reason was still grasped by the crane.
"Fowler couldn't have the crane operator lower the thing?" Arcee was just as confused as I am.
"The humans must have been preparing to transfer the meteor to a cargo ship when they received his evacuation order.
"Run along home, Autobots." Starscream appeared out of nowhere. "That Red Energon belongs to myself and my temporary allies." He place on the Apex Armor and in a few seconds was in his armored form. "And we are more than willing to fight for it." Starscream assumed a battle stance.
"Secure the Red Energon and have Ratchet bridge it back to base." Optimus deloyed his face mask and prepared to fight Starscream. Arcee and Bumblebee ran to the crane tower.
"Hold on, allies, what allies?" Arcee asked.
A red blast of energy hit the ground in front Arcee. She was shot at by a Forever Knight that wielded a weapon called a laser lance.
"Return to your hovels Autobot scum." The Forever Knight said.
"Scrap." Arcee realized that the knight was not alone as twenty of them aimed at her and Bumblebee.
Optimus shot at Starscream as he advanced.
"Don't tell me you've already forgotten our last encounter, Prime." Starscream had tossed Optimus into the stacked shipping crates.
"Bee, get the Red Energon, I'll deal with these guys." Arcee fired at the Forever Knights as Bumblebee started to climb up the tower.
"Destroy that bug!" Starscream pointed at the climbing Bumblebee.
A knight stood on top of the stacked crates and had a blaster that was placed on his shoulder.
"Not so fast Forever Knights!" A human male shouted.
"Huh?" Everyone paused what they were doing and turned their attention to the source of the noise.
"Who are you?" One of the forever Knights shined a flashlight on the new arrival to show him to be a human teen about Jack's age that had brown hair and green eyes and wore a white jacket with a red 10 on both sides, a green t-shirt under it, and brown pants. He had on a Buckle that was metallic blue and chrome silver.
"I am the famous Ben Tennyson!" The boy said.
"Never heard of you." Starscream deadpanned.
"Wait, aren't you Jack's cou-oh no." Arcee realized who this was.
"Now, evil hater alien and For Never Knights, time for you to feel ten types of pain!"
"Is it wrong to find this funny?" One of the Forever Knights asked the one next to him.
The knight shrugged. "How do you plan on fighting us? We outnumber and outgun you."
"We'll see about that." Ben placed what looked like a toy motorcycle in his belt buckle. "Let's... transform!"
"Signal Bike! Rider! Mach!" A loop of music was played. Ben gained the armor of a being that in another Universe was known as Kamen Rider Mach.
Everyone was completely speechless.
"Tracking... terminating, all done at ten times mach speed. I am Masked Rider Mach!"
"This is turning out to be a very weird day." Arcee turned her head to face someone who wasn't there. "And that's saying alot coming from me."
This Masked Rider leaped off of the container he stood on to fight the forever knights using a gun that looked like the front section of a motorcycle to do so.
Autobot Outpost Omega-1...
"Optimus, is something wrong?" Ratchet asked as Optimus' voice came over the comm system.
"Starscream has come for the Red Energon, and he has brought along assistance from a group called the Forever Knights. And I fear they will not be deterred in their quest."
"Starscream? I heard stories about that stiletto-heeled creep back on Cybertron." Smokescream wanted to join the fight. "Send me in, Doc."
"When Optimus requires backup, he will ask for it."
"Aw, come on." Smokescreen was more than a bit disappointed. "I got my V-mode and everything, I'm souped up and ready to roll!"
"Eh! Eh! Eh! What part of 'further training' did you not understand?" Ratchet was about to crush the nearest inanimate object.
"Ratchet, open a ground bridge." Optimus reguested.
"Alright! Time to roll-."
"And send Jack to our location." Optimus added.
"Better luck next time. But right now, it's hero time!" Jack selected his newest alien. "Wildvine! Or Fast Track, Fast Track is good."
At the shipping yard...
Bumblebee was climbing up the tower while Arcee, Optimus, and Ben 10 fought off the Forever Knights.
"Signal Bike! Signal Exchange: Danger!" The 10 that was on the 'wheel' that was on Mach's right shoulder changed into a warning sign with a bullet that had an exclamation point over head. He fired at the knights, careful not the kill them, just injure them.
A ground bridge opened. Fast Track ran out of it. He ran up the tower with everyone failing to notice him.
Starscream climbed up after Bumblebee. "The higher you climb, the harder you fall." He laughed as Bumblebee shot at him. Autobots such slow learners.
"At least they learn!" Fast Track shouted.
"What? A Citrakayah? Arcee, I think Cliffjumper would be against having a cat."
"Why you-! Jack! Get him!" Arcee shouted as she tossed one of the Forever Knights into the bay.
"Got it!" Fast Track jumped and delivered a sidekick to try to knock Starscream down, but that only resulted in a hurt foot. Starscream just tossed him to the ground. Before he landed he transformed again. "Goop!" When Goop landed, he went splat, but quickly reformed into a humanoid shape. He hardened his fist and ran up and punched a Knight, denting his face plate and making him fall unconscious.
"Nice moves cuz." Mach said. "But try this one on for size!" The Rider fired up in the air. A portal opened and an entity that resembled a bullet dropped out of it.
"Bwah ha ha ha!" Three Forever Knights laughed at what they saw. It approached them and after taking a few steps grew to the size of the vehicle known as the Marauder. It had teeth like a shark. It grabbed the three knights with its jaws and shook them around a bit. The Bullet Beast tossed them into the bay, to this day, the fates of those three knights remain unknown. [On a side note, if you ever wanted to see something that makes you both worry and not care about your general surroundings, take a look at the Top Gear Marauder segment.]
"Cool. But let's see if you can beat..." Goop tapped the dial again. "Big Chill!" Big Chill exhaled, freezing several of the knights in chunks of Ice.
One of the Forever Knights fired a grappling hook at the crate the Red Energon was in.
"Oh no you don't!" Ben jumped and used the 'wheel' that was on the front of his gun to cut the cable that the Forever Knight was pulling on. Big Chill side kicked that Knight, his wings splayed out to allow him to be more flexible.
Back at base...
"Optimus, what is your status?" Ratchet tried to reach Optimus. All he got was static.
"Ratchet, they need me. I can do this." Bulkhead was just a few steps away from begging.
"Arcee? Bumblebee?" Again, only static.
"Did you hear what I said?"
Ratchet turned around to face Bulkhead. "I heard, and I'm ignoring you." Ratchet said as he approached the injured bot. "This may be your opportunity after all, Smokescre- Where is Smokescreen?" He looked around and couldn't find him. Ratchet went down the hall and found him in the relic storage area.
"That's the one." Smokescreen said with a tone of voice that sounded less than friendly. He had just opened the chamber that was to the storage area for the Phase Shifter.
"You, there! What in the name of the Allspark do you think you're doing?" Ratchet questioned.
Back at the docks...
Bumblebee was walking backwards and firing at Starscream, again, to effect. Starscream eventually got to the point where he was within striking distance of the autobot. He swung his fist, but Bumblebee dodged his blow and caused Starscream to stumble. Bumblebee tried to reach for the crate but found that it was out of reach.
"Time to unload some more deadweight." Starscream said as he reached for Bumblebee. Bumblebee glanced up to see Optimus climbing up another crane.
Optimus leaped off it, using both his own strength and the acceleration of the fall to deliver a punch that caused Starscream to lose his balance and fall off. He didn't hit the ground as he managed to grab onto the crated the Red Energon was in. He tried to grab the energon, but when he did, only half of it broke of. Starscream fell to the ground. When the energon landed, one of the knights used a pickaxe to hack off half of the chunk that fell.
"We have what we came for!" That knight announced. The rest of the Forever Knights heard this and decided that now would be a good time to cut their losses and head home. "Forever Knights, fall back!" The knights started to leave the area.
"No!" The armor clad decepticon screamed as he fell. Optimus pulled up the crate by tugging on the cable. Starscream grabbed the bottom of the crane. "Watch your step, Autobots!" He evilly laughed as he started to tip over the crane. "Huh?" He saw a ground bridge open. Out of it drove a white racecar with blue trim around the wheels. On the doors was the number 38.
"Apparently, no one defined 'low profile' for him." Arcee said as she kicked one of the knights in the air and punched him into a contained.
"So, the Autobots have a new recruit."
"And you must be Starscream. I thought you'd be taller."
"That's Starscream? I thought that we were fighting Vilgax, 'cause the Starscream I've heard about and seen is more yellow then Bumblebee." Big Chill taunted.
"This will not end well."
"Aw, you really do like me." Smokescreen said when he heard Arcee's concern.
"I was talking about Jack. He can scrap you for all I care."
"Smokescreen, stand down." Optimus ordered. "You are no match for Starscream's Apex armor."
"Any last words, Smokescreen?"
"Just four, kiss your armor goodbye." He activated the Phase shifter before running at Starscream. He jumped and kicked the flightless seeker out of the Apex Armo- wait how is that possible? We learn in a later episode that the feet of whoever uses the phase shifter are solid, preventing you from falling through the ground.
"A Phase shifter?" Starscream was as confused as I am,
"Now, that was a plan!" Smokescreen triumphantly shouted.
Arcee face palmed.
"No that was dumb luck." The voice of Upgrade, now coming from the Apex Armor said. The armor turned black with the blue circuit pattern. The visor had a blue circle on it. "This is a plan." The Omnitrix timed out. Leaving Jack holding the collapsed form of the Apex Armor in his hands. "Make that was, this was a plan."
Starscream saw what was left of the Red Energon. He also saw that the forever knights were gone.
"You and Arcee's partner aren't the only ones who are sporting a fancy wrist-mounted device. He held out his arm and fired a missile at the two autobots that were on the crane. "Think fast!"
"No!" Smokescreen and Jack shouted. The crane blew up. The four good guys thought that Optimus and Bumblebee perished in the crash, but after the debris fell and the smoke cleared, they saw that they were alright. But Starscream had gotten away with what was left of the red Energon."
Autobot base...
Ben, Jack, Miko, Raf, and the Autobots were listening to Smokescreen's explanation behind what he did.
"Told you I just needed to borrow it for a while." He said. "Doc here thought I was trying to steal your relics."
Ratchet took the phase shifter out of Smokescreen's hand. "Only until you explained your plan, which I then sanctioned. It's called protocol."
"Ratchet is correct. Standard procedure must be observed by every member of this team." Optimus stated. "Even the human ones." Smokescreen hung his head in shame. "However, I believe we must also commend Smokescreen." Optimus placed his hand on the newest bot's shoulder in a way that showed commendation. You have proven to be a quick study by choosing to place strategy above bravado."
"There is gonna be no living with him now." Arcee said.
"You got that right." Jack replied.
"While this may lack the pageantry of a proper elite guard ceremony, I wish to welcome you to team Prime."
Bulkhead entered the room via the hallway that led to the medical bay. "The Newbie did all right." He admitted.
"Don't worry, Bulk. He's got nothing on you." Miko ran up to try to ease her BFF's stress. But Bulkhead turned around and headed back to the Medical bay. Seriously, once we get that leg of yours back in shape, old Smokey's gonna learn real quick who the top wrecking ball is run here." Miko had a look of sadness on her face. "Bulkhead?"
"Um, could somebody please send me back to bellwood so that I can get home?" Ben asked.
"Very well Benjamin." Optimus said, but why not stay for a while longer?"
"Nope! Nope! Nope! Send him home right now." Jack shouted. "I don't want to have a migraine before our fishing trip tomorrow."
Chapter end.
A.N. And there's Smokescreen, a character, who despite having him shake up the status quo, his purpose down the line makes me scratch my head, I'll tell you why later when we get closer to the finale. And I had him hit on Arcee at various point, not because they're gonna hook up, no, it's because I have an interesting idea for a duel, and it's gonna be between him and the only dinobot from Age of Extinction whose design I liked.
And I brought in the Forever Knights and Ben because it would make sense if somebody found out about the Red Energon. As for why this was in Bellwood, I wanted for Ben, the one that Gwen said went by the name Mach to have a reason to appear.
And in my original idea for Smokescreen's introduction, he was going to be sorta a fanboy when it came to Jack having the Omnitrix.
And wait a few years, in story, not IRL, just wait, 'cause that won't be the last we see of Ben, or the concept of humans that use belts to transform, in fact, I have an idea for one already, and he's gonna appear along with someone who some may think I had forgotten about.
New Aliens:
Wildvine: Omniverse design and style of speech. Dial is on his chest.(Though he may talk normally if I decide to change it.)
Next time, we're going fishing. But remember, there's always a bigger fish. And sometimes, there's something else living under the water.
Another A.N. There's gonna be a gap in time between Red Flash and the next TFP inspired chapter. And when we get back to TFP, it'll be after the third time Animo reappears.
{Update: Edited this chapter to refer to Ben's alter-ego as Masked Rider Mach as opposed to Ben 10 in order to fit in better with what I have planned out.}