Welcome back to Transformers: Remnant Wars. I want thank Centurion Maximo once again for the continued contribution to this story and use of Centurion Maximo's oc. Let's dive into the new chapter to see what wait for the Autobots and Team RWBY.

At this moment, The Autobots were fighting to obtain Catalyst's Minicon panel. "I fear for Yang Xiao Long's safety. She's about to face something no one should face alone. A possible future where the Decepticons have won the war, where Cybertron and Remnant is their playthings, but it's necessary for her to see it, that way this future can be avoided. Primus, I pray for Yang's protection from the Rhythms of Darkness. If you're wonder who I am, that will have to wait until near the end of these events to find out."

Anima Matus. 5:00 Pm

Normally, Lake Mastus was a nice place to take your family for a visit, but today is anything but peaceful. At the moment, it's a battle ground for the Autobots and the Decepticons. While this going on, team RWBY is looking for the Minicon panel. Ruby popped her head out a bush and looked at the sky. "Does anybody know why we aren't being attack by the Seekers?" Ruby asked .

"The most likely reason why the Seekers are not attacking us is because of the heavy amount of Gravity Dust in the area. See the small islands floating in the sky." Weiss pointed to the large pieces of earth floating in the sky. "My guess is that just like Remnant airship, the Gravity Dust is cause too much turbulence for the Seekers to fly through."

"I know that Turbulence is a bad flyer, but who knew she could affect the rest of the Seekers ability as well." Yang said jokingly which caused Weiss to just glare at her. "Is that why Soundwave and Stampede are the only con here at the moment?"

"Yang, Stampede can carry Soundwave in Cassette player Mode in his jet former until they reach here. That's when Stampede has to change into his bull mode. Don't forget that Soundwave has army of cassette Minicons on him at all times." Blake said from a tree she was climbing.

As team where searching for the Minicon panel, the Autobots were keeping the Decepticons busy. Redfang was fighting a purple ape Decepticon Minicon cassette name Beastbox. Redfang fired his twin blaster. Beastbox jumped into the air to avoid the laser. Then using the Momentum, Beastbox slammed his fist which cause the ground under Redfang to shack. That caused Redfang to fall. "I'm going ripe you in half and listen to your recorded screams." Beastbox reach for Redfang. Redfang responded by transforming into wolf mode and bit Beastbox's hand.

Lightdancer was having rematch with Stampede. "Stampede see you got your puny swords fixed." Stampede punched Lightdancer in the chin. Lightdancer stumbled backwards before she regained her balance. "Wheeljack did more the fix them." Lightdancer's twin blades turned red. She slashed Stampede on the chest and part of it was a tiny bit melted. "Bitscrew, powerlinx!" Bitscrew transformed into a drill and connected to Stampede's arm. He charged at Lightdancer with the drill spinning.

Mirage was in middle of fighting Soundwave and his ability turn invisible wasn't helping again the Decepticons communication officer/ Spy Master. Soundwave let loose a sonic attack that located the invisible Autobot. Soundwave shot his tentacles and grabbed Mirage which forced him turned visible. Mirage fire his Subsonic Repeater. The bullets hit Soundwave which he retaliate by throwing Mirage.

Night Tracer is dealing with Rumble and Frenzy. Frenzy had jumped on Night Tracer's back while she was trying get Frenzy of her back. Rumble changed his hands into Pile drivers. "If you find yourself on Decepticon's turf, prepare for a tumble because here comes Rumble!" Rumble began pounding the ground which caused an earthquake that knocked Night Tracer off her feet. " Frenzy, because of the earthquake created by Rumble was able to get to Night Tracer's head. "Time to say goodbye, Autobrat!" Before Frenzy could pull the trigger, a panther tackled him off Night Tracer.

"Long time no see, Frenzy." The Panther said in a female voice.

Frenzy's optics grow wide. "It can't be? Catalyst, you traitor! Once I get free, I'll rip off your arm before I give you to Megatron as a gift." Catalyst shook her head and transformed to robot mode she was a knockout femme fatale that had a panther head on the left shoulder and the right shoulder was a panther's backside with a tail on it but the most interesting thing was the Autobot insignia on the left shoulder and there was a faded and crossed out Decepticon insignia on the right shoulder. Catalyst did a quick kick to Frenzy's head which took him offline.

"Hey traitor get away from my brother!" Rumble charged toward Catalyst. Before Rumble got near Catalyst, a cryo beam hit the ground in front of him which cause Rumble to slip and hit a tree.

"Rumble never did use his processor before acting." Catalyst looked at Night Tracer. "I know we just met, but let's Powerlinx!" Catalyst transformed into a panther and connected to Night Tracer's shoulder. A EMP Shotgun popped out of her body. Nighter Tracer fired her EMP Shotgun. The shell hit Soundwave and his vision began to blur.

"Mission is a Failure. I suggest a tactical retreat. Soundwave's tentacles grabbed Frenzy and Rumble. While Beastbox transformed into cassette and entered Soundwave's chest compartment. After that, the Decepticons retreated from the area.

"Catalyst, it good to see you again!" Redfang gave Catalyst a big huge, and Catalyst eagerly returned the embrace. Team RWBY was happy seeing two friends reunited, but they couldn't help noticing the Decepticon insignia on her right shoulder.

"You will find that members on both side have switched sides on more than one occasion. Redfang and I have known Catalyst for a long time, not to mention Redfang and Catalyst have worked several mission together with two other Minicons. I trust her with my little brother's life. Lightdancer watched Redfang reconnect with an old friend.

The Ground Bridge opened up. The Autobots and team RWBY entered the portal. Yang was the last one to enter it. For some unknown reasons the Ground Bridge began to shake. "What going on?" Yang saw that the Ground Bridge was starting to collapse on itself. "I better get out of here! So. She ran to get out of it."

Vale. Vale City. Beacon. 7:30 PM

Once Yang exited the Ground Bridge, it collapse on itself. "Why did I get sent to Beacon instead of the Ark? Wheeljack knows better than set it to Beacon's courtyard where anyone could see it." That's when Yang noticed how damaged the courtyard was. The statue was damaged, the weeds and planets had grown out of control. Yang had a horrible feeling in the pit of her stomach which cause her to run toward the dorm buildings. As Yang ran by the other building, she noticed all the damaged they had on them. But Yang stopped running once she arrived at the Dorm buildings and what she found made her fall too her knees. Where the Dorm Building once stood was rubble. You couldn't even tell that a building once was stood there.

"Ruby! Blake! Weiss!" Yang fumble getting her Scroll out. She dialed Ruby's number, but it went directly to voicemail. "Ruby, I'm at Beacon Academy and dorm building is completely destroyed and the rest of the school looks like it was attacked. Please, tell me you're safe. I'm going assume that you, Blake and Weiss are at the Ark. Have Wheeljack open up a Ground Bridge for me. If I don't hear from you in a few minutes, then I'll walk to Mt. Glenn."

Unknown Location. 7:35 PM

Yang was unaware that her call was received but not by her sister or friends. Soundwave detached his cable from a giant audio ray. Soundwave began typing on a keyboard and holographic image of Starscream appeared. "What do you want, Soundwave?" Soundwave began playing the audio file. "Ruby, I'm at Beacon Academy and the dorm building is completely destroyed and the rest of the school looks like it was attacked. Please, tell me you're safe. I'm going assume that you, Blake and Weiss are at the Ark. Have Wheeljack open up a Ground Bridge for me. If I don't hear from you in a few minutes, then I'll walk to Mt. Glenn. Why are you playing me an audio file of a dead human?" Starscream asked.

"This audio was taken five cycle ago." Soundwave informed the Air Commander.

"That's not possible?! She been dead for four Stellar Cycle!" Starscream exclaimed in shock.

Then a hand grabbed Starscream and toss him out the way. Then, a image of Megatron appeared but gone was the stealth bomber vehicle mode and replace with tank vehicle mode. He was now grey with tank treads on his legs. "I knew Orion was still alive. He tried to fool me by faking his death. Soundwave, send the Vehicons, but order them capture Orion alive!" Megatron said. Then, Megatron image disappeared and Starscream reappeared.

"You heard our Glorious Emperor of Destruction's orders!" Starscream said in sarcasm. "Go send a group of Vehicons to Vale city." The whole time in the background, Soundwave could hear Megatron mad rantings.

Vale City. 8:00 PM

Yang was walking through Vale city and noticed that a lot of buildings were damaged. What freaked her out was how quiet the city was. It was completely silent. There no Human or Faunus moving about the city. Until see heard sound of car engines coming toward her when four purple Porsche drove up to her. They transformed into identical robot mode with red visor cover their optics, but on their shoulders is the Decepticons insignia.

"Human, you're in violation of the mandatory curfew." The leader of the Vehicon squad said. "Now return to the human and Faunus sleep facility before we take drastic measures!" The Vehicons changed their hands into a blasters and pointed them at Yang.

"Right, I'll just go back to the sleep facility." Yang said.

"Hey, doesn't she look like the human that Soundwave wants us to capture and bring back to New Kaon for interrogation?" The second Vehicon asked.

Before anything else could be said, a blue jet flew toward Yang and the Vehicons. The jet transformed into Thundercracker. Thundercracker fired his seeker arm lasers. The lasers hit the first two Vehicons in the head, take them permanently offline.Then Thundercracker grabbed the last two Vehicon's heads and slammed their heads together. "Nighty, Night Vehicons." Thundercracker then looked towards Yang and shock came over his face.

Yang was confused by what just happened. Thundercracker was a Decepticon but he just took down these Decepticons to save her life. But she noticed that Thundercracker's Decepticons insignia were replaced by the Autobots Symbol. "Why do you have the Autobots insignia?!" Yang shouted in shock.

"Yang, I could answer your question now or I can take you to your sister and she can answers them. All I need to know If you can trust me enough to take you where you need to go?" Thundercracker said nervously.

Yang thought everything over. This could easily be a Decepticons trap. It seem too obvious to be a trap, and if she keeps traveling like this, then the Decepticons would capture in no time at all. "Ok, I trust you." Thundercracker transformed into F-22 Raptor, Yang got into Thundercracker, and he took off toward Mt. Glenn and the Ark.

Mt. Glenn. The Ark. 9:00 Pm

Once inside the Ark, Thundercracker and Yang were greeted by Ruby Rose, but it was much older Ruby Rose. She is nineteen years old with long hair. She wearing a red, long sleeve shirt and black shorts. But what shock Yang the most was the fact that both of Ruby's legs were mechanical. "Ruby, What happened to your legs!?" Yang screamed in a worried tone.

Ruby narrow her eyes. "I would stop worrying about me and start worrying about yourself!" Ruby pointed a gun at Yang."Who are you?! Because you're definitely not my sister, Yang! She's been dead for four years!"

I hope you enjoyed the first part of Rhythms of Darkness. This based on one of my favorite Marvel Transformers G1 comic by the same name. Now tune into next time to see what will happen to Yang. Will she find what she's looking for or will Yang get shot by her sister?