It's been weeks since Megatron's sudden demise at the hands of Optimus Prime. The Autobots have begun searching for Starscream and the remaining Decepticons that are currently staying on Earth. Unfortunately, due to the space bridge malfunction that caused a few of the Autobots to travel in time, Transformers sightings on Earth have increased with the humans worried for their planet. In order to destroy every Cybertronian whether Autobot or Deceptcon, an anti-Transformers organization known as TRF or Transformers Reaction Force was formed dedicated to eradicating Cybertronians from the Earth. It's become difficult for Optimus and his Autobots to hide in their vehicles amongst the public as nearly every large city has been destroyed in order to draw the Autobots out of hiding. In Detroit, a homeless man named Cade Yeager is wandering around in streets of Detroit, Michigan which TRF badly destroyed in order to find the Autobots. While looking for resources in order to survive, he stumbles across a Cybertronian ship.
"What the hell?" Cade asks himself as he's never seen a Cybertronian spaceship before. Cade begins climbing it and looks inside to find an unconscious Transformer.
"Jesus Christ, IT'S A TRANSFORMER!" Cade yelled fascinated by the sight of a Transformer.
"Looks like….it's dead." Cade says still staring at the Cybertronian and noticing that it isn't moving. Suddenly the Cybertronian re-activates and lunges it head towards Cade making eye contact with him. "HOLY SHIT!" Cade yelled getting scared by the Cybertronian and rolls off the space-ship and into the ground. He would get up after painfully landing on the ground and notices that he has gotten the attention of a TRF Sentry, a two-legged machine with a tank barrel and turrets attached to it.
"Oh shit, oh shit!" Cade said panicking since he has never seen a Sentry before in his life. The Sentry began giving out a warning. "Warning this is a restricted area, return to your home peacefully at once and stay clear from Transformers!" The Sentry kept on giving out the same warning over and over again.
"Okay so it won't hurt me!" Cade whispered to himself while staring at the Sentry which was repeating the same warning over and over again. Suddenly the Cybertronian busted out of the spaceship and began growling in its native Cybertronian language. "ALERT, ALERT TRANSFORMER HAS BEEN SPOTTED! SURRENDER NOW OR BE KILLED!" The Sentry gave out a warning and in self-defense the Cybertronian fired at the Sentry immobilizing it for a moment. Cade took this as an advantage and ran into the streets with the Cybertronian firing at him. The Sentry regained its balance and movement and fired back at the Cybertronian easily killing it. Cade continued running into the streets with the Sentries following him. During the chase, Cade trips on a pile of debris and turns around and notices a red mark glowing on his chest, he notices that it's coming from one of the Sentries. Cade covers his eyes with his hand waiting for his end to come until he hears a honk from behind him and the sound of a vehicle driving. He turns around and sees a red and blue Western Star truck driving towards him and then transforming into robot before his eyes.
"Take that TRF!" Optimus fires with his barrage cannon at the TRF Sentries, destroying two and immobilizing the other remaining two.
"Holy Crap!" Cade says constantly exhaling from the stress and shock. Optimus Prime hears him breathing and turns around aiming his gun at the defenseless human.
"No, no, no, no, NO, NO, NO PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!" Cade begged for mercy as Optimus began charging up his gun.
"You are unarmed….. (Optimus says to himself and pulls his gun away from Cade.) And defenseless!" Optimus moves his gun away from the homeless and defenseless man.
"What are you doing here human?" Optimus asked with a mistrusting and confused tone in his voice.
"I uh…" Cade wasn't sure what to say to the Autobot leader.
"You don't have a home do you?" Optimus asked.
"Well um…You see…."
"You don't need to say anything human!" Optimus felt sympathy for Cade seeing him as an unwilling victim of war and destruction.
"Please call me Cade….Cade Yeager!"
"Well Cade Yeager! My name is Optimus Prime!" Optimus introduced himself to Cade Yeager.
"LOOK OUT!" Cade yells to Optimus noticing the two remaining Sentries re-activating. Optimus turns around and notices them. He then aims his barrage cannon at the human-made mechs and prepares to fire until one of the sentries gets destroyed by a bullet that hit it from behind. The Sentry collapses to the ground revealing a dark green M1 Abrams tank drove by firing and destroying the Sentries. After finishing off the remaining mechs, the tank transforms into a Decepticon.
"BRAWL!" Optimus said the Decepticon's name and grabbed Cade Yeager trying to keep him safe.
"OPTIMUS PRIME!"
"You will PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO MEGATRON!" Brawl yelled at Optimus swearing vengeance for his leader.
"Drift, where are you? I require assistance!" Optimus contacted Drift through the comm-link during Brawl's threat and whispered asking for backup.
"Sensei I'm nearly at your location. What's the situation?" Drift asked through the comm-link while driving in his vehicle mode.
"Is he going to hurt us?" Cade asked frightened at the sight of Brawl.
"Be quiet! (Optimus whispered to Cade moving his hand towards him trying to make him move back.) Brawl is here and has cornered me!" Optimus whispered to Drift through the comm-link.
"I'll be there soon Sensei!" Drift transformed into robot and climbed on the roof of a damaged condo. He sneaked up and roof and looked down seeing Brawl threatening Optimus and Cade.
"All right Brawl old friend…Time for a family reunion!"
"And Now Autobot…..You're GONNA PAY WITH YOUR LIFE!" Brawl said to Optimus and aimed bother of his shoulder missile launchers at Optimus and Cade. Drift quickly jumped on top of Brawl to distract him and to protect Optimus.
"Deadlock…..You Traitor!" Brawl called Drift by his original Decepticon name.
"My name is Drift!" Drift cuts off Brawl's left missile launcher from his left shoulder.
"Hey!" Brawl grabbed Drift by the head with his left arm which contained two sharp blades on his wrist. With one his swords, Drift swung his blade and severed Brawl's left arm. "OUCH!" Brawl yelled reacting to his left arm being severed. Drift jumps off of Brawl and lands in front of Optimus, Brawl watches as his left forearm falls to the ground and green energon pours out of his socket with a few sparks coming out.
"You are going to pay for that!" The angered Brawl ignored his severed left forearm and with his right arm aimed his ion cannon at the two Autobots. Optimus immediately fired at Brawl's left leg bring the Decepticon brute to his knees.
"Anyways Sensei are you…Is that a human!" Drift notices Cade behind Optimus and aims his swords towards the human.
"DRIFT…..He isn't aligned with TRF." Optimus told Drift.
"This is Cade Yeager!"
"Hi." Cade slightly moved away from Optimus Prime's foot and waved his hand at Drift, Drift still didn't trust the human.
"But Sensei…He's a…."
"A victim of war Drift!" Optimus said.
"He will stay with us until it is safe!" Optimus said, Cade looked up at Optimus thinking the giant alien robot was crazy.
"With due to respect Sensei (Brawl's right fingers re-activate and start twitching.) With us he won't be safe because of TRF and….and the Decepticons and uh…..mhm….Crosshairs being an asshole and all!" Drift explained.
"I understand what you mean Drift but….." Optimus stops talking and witnesses Brawl trying to get back up and struggling due to having only one hand left.
"If you think you're done with me Autobots…..Yeah right, even with one arm I can still kick your metal posteriors!" Brawl said struggling to get up though being cocky as usual.
"I'm going to kill y-UGH." Brawl gets shot in the back by approaching TRF Sentries. Brawl collapses to the ground and Optimus and Drift both see the Sentries heading their way and firing at them, Optimus fires his barrage cannon at the Sentries and Drift pulls out his swords and stands in front of Optimus to guard him and Cade. Suddenly the Sentries are destroyed when missiles from the sky land on to the ground causing the sentries to collapse and blow up. Optimus and Drift look up and see a helicopter and two jets flying towards them. The helicopter and the silver jet transform and land on the ground in front of Brawl revealing themselves to be Nitro and Blackout.
"Uh Sensei?" Drift said.
"FALL BACK….NOW!" Optimus yelled grabbing Cade and transforming into his truck form. He drives off with Drift transforming into vehicle mode and following Optimus with Nitro and Blackout firing at both of them.
"Bunch of Cowards!" Nitro said mocking his opponents for retreating. Blackout hid his wrist-mounted and machine gun and walked towards his injured friend Brawl.
"Brawl are you alright?" Blackout asked lifting Brawl up by the head.
"Blackout….Never thought I'd see you again!" Brawl said before lowering head down and leaking energon from his mouth.
"Nitro go after those Autobots!"
"I'm on it!" Nitro transformed into a silver Cadillac Cien and drove after Optimus and Drift.
"You'll be alright, I'll take you to Africa. Bonecrusher can repair you there!" Blackout said to Brawl, he would then drop Brawl's head on the ground to let him wrest and Blackout begins searching for Brawl's severed left forearm. Blackout finds it, grabs it and hides it inside his back (where Cybertronians store all their equipment). Blackout transforms back into his helicopter form and impales Brawl with a grappling hook and lifts him in the air.
"Nitro! Mindwipe! Dispose of the Autobots and head back to base immediately!" Blackout ordered Nitro and Mindwipe.
"Blackout I'm catching up to them! Mindwipe, block their path!" Nitro said to both Blackout and Mindwipe while in pursuit of Optimus, Cade and Drift. Mindwipe transforms into robot and blocks the Autobots's escape route. "End of the line Autobots." Mindwipe says to Optimus and Drift who are driving straight to him, Optimus then transforms dropping Cade Yeager, Drift would open up the hood of his vehicle form and catch Cade Yeager this way. Optimus pulls out his energon axe and swings to Mindwipe's face. The blade of the axe hits Mindwipe's face damaging both of his optics. Mindwipe collapses to the ground with his hands rubbing against his damaged optics, he groans and moans in pain. "Uh Scrap!" Nitro says to himself in annoyance as he transforms into robot mode while driving and jumps in front of the Autobots and grabs Mindwipe. "You're unbelievable Mindwipe. (Nitro picks up Mindwipe and looks back at the Autobots.) This isn't over Optimus Prime….Megatron shall be avenged!" Nitro activates his jet engines and flies off carrying the blind Mindwipe back to Africa. Optimus stares at the Decepticons for a brief moment before remembering that he had dropped Cade.
"CADE! CADE!"
"Relax Sensei!" Drift opened his car door and let Cade get out of him and allowing Drift to transform into robot.
"We should be probably chain Crosshairs to a rock of some kind!" Drift said worried for how his best friend will react to a human aligned with them, this joke manages to make Optimus, (the very Autobot that hasn't shown any sign of having a sense of humor) smirk. In Africa at the Decepticon's current campgrounds. Bonecrusher is repairing Brawl by placing the forearm back in its socket. "Well I did the best I could!" Bonecrusher explained. "Your left arm should be operational Brawl, I'd recommend staying behind in the campgrounds in order for a full recover!" Bonecrusher told Brawl who kept clenching his left hand into a fist to check its functionality. "Sure thing Doc!" Brawl replied back.
"What about Idiot-Wipe?" Nitro asked causing all of his comrades to uncontrollably laugh.
"Mindwipe's healing was easy-His optics just blacked out….Can't confirm to you fellas if I fixed his brain or not?" Bonecrusher said causing all the Decepticons to laugh.
"I have had enough of all of you insulting me!" Mindwipe said annoyed by the Decepticons constantly insulting him.
"We can't help it, you're just so…..laughable!" Hooligan told Mindwipe.
"I wouldn't recommend mocking me my brothers because some day….I will become leader of the Decepticons!" Mindwipe boldly said in front of all the Decepticons whom all but Starscream immediately broke down laughing.
"You…you honestly think that you would lead us?" Onslaught asked while constantly laughing with the other Decepticons.
"Shockwave might not have any emotions-But even I know that he would cringe over how illogical you sound right now!" Nitro began insulting Mindwipe.
"How dare you!" Mindwipe said to Nitro.
"Well we did fail to destroy Optimus because of your incompetence….think of it as getting even!" Nitro said.
"You know I had enough of this. Starscream, I challenge you for the right to lead the Decepticons!" Mindwipe challenged Starscream.
"Not going to happen Mindwipe!" Starscream replied not making eye contact with anyone as he is still mourning Megatron.
"Yeah why would we follow a coward like you?" Nitro began defending Starscream.
"You dare call me a COWARD?" Mindwipe began arguing with Nitro.
"Ever since you had that hypnosis cog implanted into your metallic cranium. You relied on hypnotizing others to do the job for you, YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ON YOUR OWN AND YOU ALWAYS FLEE EVERYTIME YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN AND ARE FORCED TO FIGHT!" Nitro said to Mindwipe how much of a coward he is.
"My Hypnosis cog has helped me achieve many things!" Mindwipe explained.
"Oh yeah like what?" Nitro asked.
"You want to know why Optimus went insane…..well let's just say I hypnotized him in doing so therefore IT WAS I WHO KILLED…..Megatron!" Mindwipe explained the reason behind Megatron's demise. All the Decepticons gasped in shock and anger.
"WHAT?" Starscream turned around to face Mindwipe.
"You….killed….MEGATRON?" Starscream yelled at Mindwipe in anger.
"You traitor!" Nitro whispered as he backed away from Starscream and Mindwipe.
"How could you?" Starscream said to Mindwipe deeply angered over Mindwipe's treachery.
"I had planned to kill Megatron ever since the war started….I have realized that with this Hypnosis cog, I am a more superior Decepticon then Megatron and would be a better leader then him!" Mindwipe said to Starscream angering the current leader even more.
"Prove to me you are worthy of being a leader like you say so Mindwipe! Fight me one-on-one without any of your fancy tricks!" Starscream accepted Mindwipe's challenge if only to rip his spark out and drink the fresh energon from it.
"Very well….Commander Starscream!" Mindwipe pulled out his knives and swung them at Starscream. Starscream easily evaded them and hit Mindwipe in the shoulder with his buzz saw.
"Come on Starscream!" The Decepticons kept cheering for Starscream motivating Mindwipe even more. Mindwipe flew straight towards Starscream and fired his missiles as the Decepticon commander. Starscream managed to dodge a few but ended up getting hit by one and collapses to the ground. Starscream attempts to get up but Mindwipe lands on him and pins him to the ground.
"Yield!" Mindwipe said to Starscream. Starscream still attempted to get up but Mindwipe's foot on his back was still keeping him down. The Decepticons kept cheering for Starscream to get up but to no avail.
"I….yield!" Starscream said causing Mindwipe to get off of Starscream. Starscream walked towards his Decepticon brethren. "All hail…..Lord Mindwipe!" Starscream said with a disgusted tone in his voice. The Decepticons were forced to bow down to Mindwipe and pledge their allegiance to him. Back in Arizona at the TRF headquarters. Santos, a high ranking soldier and TRF's leader returns back to base after an unsuccessful hunt in which he and his soldiers failed to capture or kill Ratchet, Dino, Sideswipe, Wheeljack and Jolt in an abandoned cruise.
"Santos… you're back already!" A TRF scientist said.
"I failed to kill five Transformers-Show me what you have created!" Santos said to the TRF soldier.
"Of course!" The TRF scientist replied. "This way please." The scientist and Santos both walked in the laboratory where all the machines they use to fight the Transformers are being constructed.
"You've built me TRF sentries, gliders and none of them have helped me achieve our goals!" Santos explained.
"I am well aware of that sir which is why we have collected the parts of a few Transformers that we have killed and found dead…and we are using their parts to our advantage!" The scientist explained.
"I'm interested." Santos replied.
"You might want to look behind me." The scientist said, Santos immediately looked behind the scientist and noticed a Transformer being built before his very eyes.
"Oh god." Santos says as he kept staring at the Transformer being molecularly assembled.
"You like what you see sir?" The scientist asked smiling while staring at Santos who was amazed by the sight of it.
"General Santos, I present to you-Project: Galvatron!"
TO BE CONTINUED…..