It's been a week since the battle against the Decepticons Leaders and losing the Allspark and some more familiar faces arrive on Earth. Hopefully, they're not hostile too...
The Elita Guard has finally arrived! In this story, Rodimus is Ultra Magnus' Second In Command and he's a bit different from his canon counterpart. Don't worry, he doesn't become like Canon Sentinel, but he is quite hotheaded and there's a reason for it.
Jazz is part of Rodimus' new team and so is Arcee and Blurr.
Longarm/Shockwave is here as well with something interesting to show his team... But which team?... And where is poor Starscream?
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"Hello, Soundwave. The Elite Guard is coming to Earth and I'm going to be with them. They wanted an intelligence officer to join the mission and I pulled some strings so I would be chosen. I have some important things to deliver to Lord Megatron and Lord Orion Pax. It please me that our original ruler's rescue has been a success. One last thing… Ultra Magnus and Rodimus Prime are on this mission. This will give the decepticons quite the opportunity if we take care of them… Speaking of opportunities, I hope you ready for our own personal meeting, I know I will be..."
"Soundwave: Will be ready as well."
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Megatron sighed happily, gazing down at his sleeping, cuddly lover. Orion had a big, goofy and satisfied smile on his face as he slumbered in their large, soft berth. The warlord gives him a kiss on the forehead and snuggles him closer, making Orion purr in his sleep.
He and Orion had spent an entire earth day interfacing in the cave and then an entire earth week interfacing in the Nemesis Ship. Soundwave has been leaving energon by their door, in case they needed to refuel. The entire experience of reuniting with Orion in both spark and body made his time imprisoned and used by the humans all worth it.
If there wasn't a war, he wouldn't mind doing this forever.
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Starscream woke up, as a maniacally laughing head surrounded by garbage on a boat.
"I'm… alive? But how?! Not that I'm complaining, but still how?!… Oh I see, a piece of the Allspark is inside of my head. Well, I would be a fool not to use this power to my advantage." He closes his optics and concentrates. " I desire a loyal minion that's stronger then Orion Pax ever was, someone powers that nobody will expect, something so dangerous even Megatron will fear it. Allspark create this monster for me!"
A bright light surrounded the garbage and a tall, savage creature emerged from the trash…
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Quite a lot has happened after the Allspark was shattered into pieces. First, Sari's dad was kidnapped by the decepticons, so she was forced to run the business herself. And even though Sari got her key back, it wasn't able to heal Bumblebee properly; Orion has cut Bumblebee's voice box clean out, so when Sari's key healed the minibot's throat it… grew wires and circuitry over the place where the voice box should be. Now all Bumblebee can do is buzz in a language which only cybertronains can understand him. Weirdly enough, Sari can understand him too. But other humans can't understand him anymore. Fortunately for Bee, he's got a good friend like Prowl whose been teaching the minibot and the rest of the team how to communicate through weird hand movements aka sign language.
But the best part of this whole mess is that not only do they have to clean up the destruction of the city, but everyone is now afraid of them, as if they're the ones that had caused this whole mess and not those stupid cons!
What Sentinel wouldn't give for some good news…
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Elita couldn't believe her optics.
An autobot ship.
She had mixed feelings about this…
One part of her was excited about the idea of going home, while another part of her was still unsure if Cybertron will accept her for who and what she is now.
She and the rest of the team gathered around the ship with the cautious humans and the ship opened to reveal… Ultra Magnus and Rodimus Prime.
Elita remembers Rodimus, he was the youngest cybertronian to ever enter the academy. A true prodigy. He always looked so happy and excited… but now, the red bot just looks tired and almost as stoic as Magnus himself. Did something happen to him?
She also noticed a white bot, a smaller blue bot and a pink bot with them, autobots that she has never seen before, though they look interesting.
Sentinel cleared his voice beside her and slowly walked towards the ship. "Ultra Magnus, sir? It that really-?"
"Jazz, bring the shield up. We can't have the organics enter the ship." Ultra Magnus interrupted, looking at the white bot.
Sari blinked. Wow. Okay, this guy is rude.
"Is that really necessary, Ultra Magnus? I wanna have a closer look at these organics." Jazz said, taking a step forward.
"Yeah, they look kinda cute too!" the pink female bot chirped.
"I agree with Arcee and Jazz, they may seem small and weird, but I think we might be able to learn a lot from-"
Rodimus sighed at Blurr speedy chatter and was forced to interrupt him.
"Sorry guys. Rules are rules and we gotta follow them, unless we end up like Sentinel." The red prime finishes his sentence glaring at the flinching blue prime.
Jazz looked disappointed but nodded and obeyed the order.
The shields were activated, surrounding the ship and both autobot teams and leaving Sari outside.
"Hey!" Sari shouted in outrage.
"Don't worry, little monkey." Sentinel comforted. "We'll be back before you know it."
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"So you mean to tell us that Orion Pax and some of his decepticons are here on Earth, Megatron is alive and you've found the Allspark, but you were forced to shatter it so it wouldn't fall into Megatron's hands." Ultra Magnus raised an optic brow. "And you expect us to believe all of this."
"Umm… Yeah, pretty much." Sentinel stated. Bumblebee shrugged with a nervous smile and a buzz.
There was slience for a moment, until Rodimus spoke up. "I think we should investigate this, sir. I don't like Sentinel and I don't want to believe him, but if there's a possibility that Orion is here, we need to attack."
"Rodimus..." Ultra Magnus began calmly. "Even if Orion is here, we can't just attack him. He's too strong."
"Trust me, sir. I've been training for a long time. I can handle him now." Rodimus grabbed his bow and twirled one of his arrows.
"Wait a minute, you fought Orion too?!" Bulkhead gasped, surprised.
"...Yeah." Rodimus answered quietly. "And it looks like I'm fighting him again. But this time I'm gonna win."
Ultra Magnus thumped his hammer. "No Rodimus, I can't allow you to do this. We can search around for proof of decepticons being here, but if Orion is here do NOT fight him. Understand? "
"Yeah, facing Orion right now without a plan or an army isn't a good idea." Arcee agreed, tapping some notes on a datapad, unaware of Ratchet gazing sadly at her.
"Plus, didn't you say we had to follow the rules." Jazz hummed, Blurr nodding fast beside him.
Rodimus growled, snapping one of his arrows in half with his hand. "Fine."
Ultra Magnus looked at Rodimus with sympathy. "… Rodimus… I know you miss your old team, but-"
"I SAID I'M FINE!" Rodimus shouted angrily, storming away from the room.
"Wow, and I thought Cliffjumper was temperamental sometimes." A new voice said entering the room, a voice that caused both Bumblebee and Bulkhead to perk up and turn around.
Longarm Prime smiled warmly. "Hey Bee. Hey Bulkhead. It's been a long time."
"Longarm!" Bulkhead said happily.
Bumblebee lets out a happy buzz and runs to hug Longarm. The third-eyed bot chuckled and gladly returned the hug. Bulkhead joins in on the hug, accidentally crushing the smaller bots in his arms.
"It's a good thing we don't need to breathe." Longarm squeaked out.
Prowl tilted his head in confusion. "Do you guys know this bot?"
Bumblebee buzzed to everyone that Longarm is their old friend from bootcamp and began talking about all the crazy adventures they had together.
Sentinel and Elita walked up to Ultra Magnus while everyone else was distracted.
"Sir, can we talk alone please?" Sentinel requested. "There are a few things I didn't add to my report that I think only you should know right now."
Ultra Magnus paused. "Alright then, what is it?"
Elita silently pointed to a door. Ultra Magnus nodded and followed them.
Once out of the command center, Ultra Magnus asked. "What are the things you left?"
Sentinel closed his optics and took a deep breath. Inhale. Exhale. Opened his optics. "Well, the first thing is that Elita and Optimus didn't die in the explosion on Archa 7. They survived and have changed, Elita downloaded the spider's DNA and became half spider." Sentinel gestured to Elita, who gave Ultra Magnus a peace sign.
The bigger bot tried his best to hide his shock at this news. "And what happened to Optimus?"
Elita answered for Sentinel. "Our Optimus became Orion Pax."
Ultra Magnus didn't hide his horror this time.