Hasbro owns Transformers, I don't, blah blah blah, STORY TIME!
We now return to The Transformers!
Chapter 6: Robots in Disguise Part 1
The natives of this world have only gotten a glimpse of who the transformers are. How long will they be able to keep their existence a secret, IF they can?
"So you say you met three natives of this planet, and then told them everything about us," Optimus asked the autobots. "Well... at least the important stuff," Bumblebee answered. "I hope you advised them to not tell the other natives of this world. I fear they might not be so welcoming." "Don't worry, I told them to keep our secret."
Meanwhile, at Isaac's house, there was a knock on the door. "Open up, this is the police!" As instructed, he went over to open the door, and was greeted by two officers. "Good afternoon officers, how can I help you today?" One of the officers began to explain. "Sir, we need you and everyone else in the house to come with us. We need to ask you a few questions about some recent events." 'Oh no, they found out,' he though to himself.
Transition to the decepticons.
All decepticons in their Earth headquarters were listening to Megatron about his next phase of attack. "Thundercracker, Scavenger, and Soundwave, head to Japan to retrieve the technology!" "Affirmative," Soundwave replied in his typical robotic tone. "Starscream, Slipstream, and Skywarp, head to the nuclear plant to retrieve the fuel rods." "On it, boss," Skywarp responded. Megatron then directed his attention to the stunticons. "There has been a rumor, that some of the natives know of our existence. Dispose of them before they retaliate against us in force!" "Understood," Motormaster complied. With that, each of the decepticons whose names came out of their leader's mouth split up to do their missions.
Do do do do do DO!
"Attention: human companions have been captured by local law enforcement," Teletraan 1 announced. "This is not good," Optimus said, "we can't let the other humans know of our existence, otherwise we'll ALL be in grave danger." "Me and Sunny can't go get them," Bumblebee pointed out, "they'll see us EVEN IN OUR VEHICLE MODES!" The autobots then turned their attention to Ironhide. "What? You mean I gotta go fetch their soft forms from local law enforcement? I'm already sick of babysittin'!" "At least some people haven't seen you out of vehicle mode," Sunstreaker argued, "unlike MOI!" "Wadda ya mean 'unlike YOU', you mean to tell me you showed off your pretty little robot behind to them on purpose?" "Actually, when you put it like that, especially when it came from YOU, you could say I did it on purpose." "Enough," Optimus ordered, "it is all up to you, Ironhide." "Shouldn't I go with him? You know, in case the decepticons show up?" "Perhaps..., but I suggest you bring backup." Ironhide rolled his head and scoffed. "Great... now I'm stuck with more to babysit!"
"Alert! Alert! Decepticons are en route towards a nuclear power facility." At the very same time Teletraan 1 gave the alert, Wheeljack and Rathcet woke up. "Ugh, what's with all the racket," the inventor asked as he then looked around and saw Teletraan 1 online. "Hey! I can't believe you got the place up and runnin', nice work!" "You can thank me later," Sunstreaker added. "Of... course I'd have to thank you..." "Great, everybody except Prowl is all here. Now all we need is someone to stay behind." "I ain't goin' outside, so I guess I'll stay here and continue fixin' up the ship."
"Very well. Ratchet, Wheeljack and Sunstreaker will stay behind." The inventor simply groaned at the fact Prime had ordered him to stay behind with two people he wasn't too fond of. "As for Bumblebee and Red Alert, you two will come with me to stop the decepticons at the power plant." "Absolutely NOT," Ratchet protested, emphasizing every syllable. "I'm with the doc on this one," Sunstreaker added, "you can't take my baby sister out there to fight them without me!" "The natives have already seen you outside your disguise," their leader retorted, "we cannot risk exposing our existence to them any further!" Sunstreaker merely responded by crossing her arms, followed by a "hmph". "I almost forgot," Wheeljack interrupted, "take this!" He then proceeded to hand over an interesting looking device. "This is my latest invention! It should prevent a meltdown or radiation leakage in case things go badly over there." "Thanks," Red Alert replied. "All right, autobots, roll out!"
Transition to humans.
"Man, this is all kinds of messed up," Dex complained, as he along with his other two friends were being interrogated by the police. "We are going to ask you a few simple questions, then we MIGHT let you three go." "Did we do something illegal," Beth asked.
"We're asking the questions!"
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry officer."
"Now, what do you know about the events that have currently been unfolding this week?"
"What do you mean," Isaac asked.
"Were you or were you not involved in the theft of a car?"
The three looked at each other and asked the officer, "what car?"
The police officer laid a picture of Sunstreaker in her vehicle mode on the table.
"OH," Isaac exclaimed, "THAT car! Uh, no." "But to me, it sounded like you recognized the car." "We do, but we had nothing to do with it."
"So by that logic, either the car must've been stolen by someone else, or magically drove off by itself!" The three laughed nervously. "What? Cars can't drive by themselves, at least not yet. You must be drinking too much coffee, officer," Isaac laughed nervously.
Just then, a second officer came in with a folder. Within said folder contained photos. "All right, we got some new Intel recently." The officer then put down the pictures of an oil field with Sunstreaker AND Bumblebee both in the picture in their vehicle modes.
"We got news that the same car you identified was present during a robbery of several gallons of oil. What do you have to say about that?" The jig was almost up! It was getting harder and harder to keep their new friends from out of town a secret from the world. "Well, why is that same car you identified in this picture as well?"
"It's part of an elaborate plan by the Soviets," Dex exclaimed.
"What?!?!"
"They sent spies driving cars such as THAT ONE to our home turf to steal all our oil!"
"How do you know this? Are you working for them?" Great, they were suddenly backed into a corner again. Then Isaac came up with an excuse. "The... uh... wars... in uh... Middle East!"
"The people stopped selling oil to them so they wouldn't sell oil to their enemies," Beth added.
The cop then rubbed his chin as he pondered the feasibility of their explanation. "Now that you mention it," the officer said, "it WOULD make sense for them to come steal oil from us. All right, you're free to go."
When the three got outside, they saw a red van waiting for them. "I'm here to pick up three troublemakers to take 'em home to their parents!" The voice came from the van, and it was obvious who it was. "Ironhide, what are you doing here," Isaac asked. "Just get in! We'll talk later."
One intersection they drove through, a truck suddenly ran into them at very high speed. "Wait a second," Isaac interrupted after observing the truck carefully, "get us out of here, NOW!" Ironhide was both confused and angry at what had just occurred. "Who in their right mind...?" "JUST DRIVE," his three human companions shouted.
It was obvious who just rammed into the autobot, thanks to the color of the cab, as well as the obvious insignia on the trailer. "I remember this guy, he tried to kill us a few days ago!" Beth pointed out as they were now trying to get away from none other than: Motormaster. "Oh, this guy, I HATE this guy and his little buddies!" Ironhide grumbled. And speaking of 'little buddies', the other four stunticons suddenly appeared out of nowhere to join the pursuit, like a pack of wolves hunting down their prey.
"I can't seem to shake him!"
"Quit driving in a straight line," Isaac suggested.
Taking his advice, the red van was drifting left and right at each and every intersection, tripping their pursuers up by making them crash into each other until they escaped the city.
All seemed fine, until they heard sirens. Dex facepalmed and whined, "we JUST got away from the cops and now they're after us again!"
"You want me to deal with 'em?"
"Dude, NO! We'll be doing jail time if you do!"
"What else could possibly go wrong," Isaac exclaimed, which was answered with a black and purple jet flying over them. "Oh, great, never mind!"
Of all the bad things that could've happened, Skywarp showed up; on the bright side, he got the police to stop chasing them. Coincidentally, Cliffjumper and Ratchet finally showed up to provide assistance.
"Need some help," Ratchet asked. "I don't need your help shaking a 'con off my tail, especially if it's THIS GUY!"
"I'll grab his attention away from you, then we'll pummel him!" Cliffjumper suggested.
"No, don't!" What Ironhide was trying to tell the young Autobot, was that Skywarp wasn't just someone you'd 'shake', especially very easily.
"I don't think he's interested in me."
"Of course he ain't, he's after ME!"
"So he's imprinted on you," Beth asked.
"No, it's more like he's following us with the intent to KILL! Like a... like a...?"
"Like a wolf hunting a sheep?"
"Uh, yeah, like that... Whatever that meant."
Then an idea came.
"Drive into a tunnel."
"Pardon?"
"If he likes following us, maybe he's dumb enough to follow us into a tunnel!"
"This guy is called Sky WARP, which means he'll probably teleport before he even tries to follow me inside."
Then Ratchet added onto the plan. "He probably needs time and lots of open space to do it!"
"Yeah, if only we could pull him into this canyon," Isaac thought aloud.
"Ratchet has special magnets that might be able to do the trick!" Cliffjumper pointed out.
As the autobots were nearing the tunnel, Skywarp was preparing to teleport to the other side when he figured out what they were planning. "Ha! You think I'm THAT stupid?" At that moment, Ratchet pulled the seeker down using his magnets.
"Hey, what's going on? Why do I feel like I'm putting on pounds?" And as planned, they made the 'wolf seeker' crash inside the tunnel.
"Did we do it," Cliff asked. To add insult to injury, the stunticons crashed into him when they finally caught back up, with the exception of Drag Strip and Wildrider. "Yup, we showed them decepticons," Ironhide cheered before they drove off to safety.
"I really wish I didn't go outside today," Ratchet complained.
The Transformers will return!
(Okay, this is perhaps the first time I ever did this sort of action scene (spoilers) so don't expect some Mad Max or James Bond style chases (at least until I get better at writing in general). This chapter was also made with the sole purpose to show off Skywarp's abilities and weaknesses (but his personality MAY need some tweaking though, but this is a bit based on g1 so...), and maybe his purpose/role(?). Anyways, leave your reviews on what you liked, or didn't like so you can help me help you help us all. Spoilers for a future 'arc': a few chapters sort of based on some episodes of the original g1.)