Medieval England, 484 AD:
King Arthur and his knights are in a war against the Saxons, King Arthur while fighting waits for Merlin to arrive.
"We are losing this battle, where is your so-called magician?" Lancelot asked King Arthur.
"He will be here!" King Arthur replies as he watches the Saxons charging towards him and his knights as catapults are fired at them.
"You are my king, I would lay down my life for you but this Merlin is no magician!" Sir Kay said to King Arthur.
"He's a worthless drunkard!" Lancelot said. Far from the battlefield, Merlin rides his horse to find the Cybertronian knights, he makes his horse stop running after feeling like he needs to drink a little before continuing his journey. Merlin arrives to a giant cave on top of a hill to confront the Cybertronian knights.
"HELLO?!" Merlin yelled, his voice echoed on top of the mountain.
"It is I, conjurer of spirits…..Master of the dark arts!" Merlin says before drinking again.
"It is I Merlin…..The wizard!" Merlin said hoping the Cybertronian knights would notice him, Merlin then goes inside the cave to try and find them. "Hello anyone, oh for god sakes I know you fellas are here you never venture far from this… (Merlin is then slammed against the wall of the cave by a Cybertronian arm.) Cave!" Merlin says as he is being slightly crushed by the Cybertronian knight.
"STEELBANE!" The young knight called out for his leader.
"No Optimus please, not Steelbane!" Merlin begged for the young Optimus to not call for Steelbane.
"Optimus what is it…YOU AGAIN!" Steelbane came to Optimus and noticed Merlin inside the cave.
"Steelbane hear me out…hey, hey, whoa!" Merlin cried out as Steelbane using his pointer finger and thumb grabbed gently by the head and threw outside the cave.
"WE TOLD YOU NEVER TO COME BACK!" Steelbane yelled out loud as Merlin began getting up and recovering from the throw.
"Steelbane what is the problem?" Dragonicus the red knight walked by and asked his leader.
"Nothing Dragonicus get back inside!" Steelbane said to Dragonicus.
"Is that Dragonicus?" Merlin quietly asked himself hearing the red knight's voice and name.
"Is that the human?" Dragonicus asked.
"Yes it is!" Optimus answered Dragonicus.
"For Primus sake, Dragonicus, Optimus both of you get back inside!" Steelbane said in anger pushing Optimus and Dragonicus away.
"DRAGONICUS WAIT!" Merlin yelled running back to the cave.
"You get out!" Steelbane roared anger showing the human that he doesn't trust or like him.
"Wait just hear me out!" Merlin said.
"NO I WILL LISTEN TO YOU NO MATTER…"
"STEELBANE (Dragonicus puts his hand on Steelbane's shoulder.) Let him talk!" Dragonicus says to Steelbane who immediately calms down.
"I know you all told me that no matter what, you won't reveal yourself to the entire human race I get that but we Britons need your help!" Merlin said.
"And why is that human?" Optimus asked.
"The Saxons are invading our land, if they win they won't stop with killing King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table!"
"Then why don't you do it yourself "WIZARD"!" Steelbane said insulting the human.
"My king there is no magic, we retreat live to fight another day!" Lancelot said to King Arthur.
"NO without sacrifice…There can be no victory!" King Arthur said pressing Excalibur against the forest floor.
"This is madness!" Lancelot said.
"He will be here!" King Arthur said having faith in Merlin.
"ALRIGHT I ADMIT IT, EVERYTHING SAY SAID ABOUT ME IS TRUE! I'M A LIAR, I'M WORTHLESS…I HAVE DECIEVED MY WHOLE LIFE but if I could….change this world for the better, I would give up everything drink, money, women…drinking money!" Merlin said.
"Look good people, will die without your help. Women, children and many others. I know most of your people have perished during the war but please don't let all of ours die too!" Merlin said trying to persuade the knights.
"What do you say Steelbane?" Dragonicus asked the saddened Steelbane.
"I attempted to isolate all of you my brothers to keep you safe but now I realize how wrong I was to do so!" Steelbane said feeling bad for hating Merlin and the humans.
"Dragonicus you're in charge now!" Steelbane said walking inside the cave.
"Steelbane don't….."
"It's alright Dragonicus!" Steelbane said to Dragonicus.
"Very well, Guardian Knights transform!" Dragonicus ordered the Cybertronian guardian knights to transform and help King Arthur.
"The dragons are yours to command!" Dragonicus said kneeling down to Merlin and handing him his staff.
"Oh yes, that would be just the thing!" Merlin said as the staff shrunk down and Dragonicus gave it to Merlin, after grabbing the staff, Merlin began to spasm from a sudden pain as his DNA became imprinted in the staff.
"Protect the staff. One day a great evil will come for it!" Dragonicus said warning Merlin to protect the staff at all costs.
All of the Knights in their Wyvern forms headed straight to the battlefield and behind them a large mechanical three-headed dragon named "Dragonstorm" followed them, Merlin followed the dragons and watch from afar as they soared down to the battlefield and attacked the Saxons killing many of them and sending the rest to retreat.
"By god!" Lancelot said.
"What are they?" Lancelot asked as he, King Arthur and the other knights gazed at the Guardian knights.
England, 2017:
"Grimlock are we almost there?" Hound asked getting tired of climbing the mountains.
"We are nearly there just a few more minutes!" Grimlock yelled as he along with the Dinobots and the Autobots kept climbing towards Dragonstorm's cave.
"Why am I not surprised?" Crosshairs said out loud. As the Autobots kept climbing Sideswipe looked below and saw Hot Rod looking down mourning Hurricane. Suddenly Sideswipe slipped.
"You okay Sideswipe?" Hot Rod asked hearing Sideswipe panicking.
"Yeah it's just kind of hard climbing when you have wheels for feet!" Sideswipe replied.
"You doing okay buddy?" Sideswipe asked.
"What? Oh yeah….yeah it's just…."
"I know how you feel about Hurricane!" Sideswipe said interrupting Hot Rod.
"He was the only companion I heard on Earth before Bumblebee arrived!" Hot Rod said.
"What about Bulldog?" Sideswipe asked.
"Bulldog? I like that bot but…..he doesn't remember anything!" Hot Rod said.
"Hurry up you two!" Dino yelled out at Sideswipe and Hot Rod who immediately began climbing up. The Autobots reach the top of the hill where they come across a cave.
"Here we are…..Dragonstorm's cave!" Grimlock said as the Autobots and Dinobots began walking towards it.
"We need somebody to go inside to check!" Cade said.
"Bee come on let's go!" Hot Rod said as he and Bumblebee began walking inside the cave.
"Guys I wouldn't….."
"We'll be fine Sideswipe!" Hot Rod said as he and Bumblebee continued going inside the cave to find Dragonstorm.
"Hello?! Is anybody there?" Hot Rod yelled out-loud in the cave, him and Bumblebee flashed a light from their weapons trying to see their surroundings.
"Dragonstorm where are you, we need your help!" Hot Rod yelled out loud.
"Bumblebee I don't think anybody is here!" Hot Rod said to Bumblebee just before they hear a growl and then feel something pushing them away.
"Hey what the?" Hot Rod yelled confused by what happened.
"GET OUT!" The Cybertronian yelled swinging his mace at Hot Rod and Bumblebee.
"Bee….RUN!" Hot Rod said to Bumblebee, both of them ran outside to the Autobots as the Cybertronian began attacking them.
"What happened?" Grimlock asked.
"Somebody is trying to attack us!" Hot Rod yelled as he and Bumblebee ran straight towards them.
"GET OUT NOW! What do you want?" The Cybertronian ventured out of the cave and noticed the other Autobots.
"I don't think he's going to hurt us!" Dino said.
"Are you sure about that?" Crosshairs said lying on the ground completely scared.
"Hello uh….we are the Autobots and we wish to speak to Dragonstorm!" Hot Rod said.
"You wish to what? Why?" The Cybertronian asked then noticed Grimlock next to them.
"Grimlock?" The Cybertronian yelled recognizing the Dinobot.
"Hello Stormreign!" Grimlock said.
"What have you done? Now somebody knows where I and Dragonicus are at!" Stormreign said.
"Stormreign I understand but…"
"As for you Autobots, you wish to see Dragonstorm? Very well!" Stormreign said to the Autobots.
"Dragonicus transform!" Stormreign yelled as Dragonicus ran towards Stormreign and they both transformed combining into the three-headed Dragonstorm.
"By the Primes!" Crosshairs said crawling away from the combiner.
"Dragonstorm wait!" Grimlock said as Dragonstorm turned around and with his tail whipped Grimlock causing him to fall down the mountain with his fellow Dinobots.
"GRIMLOCK!" Hound yelled as he looked down at the Dinobots who were recovering from the fall.
"I don't think they can help us now!" Drift said moving back with the other Autobots as Dragonstorm walks towards them.
"BUMBLBEE DON'T!" Hot Rod yelled as Bumblebee transformed his right hand into a plasma cannon and fired at Dragonstorm. Dragonstorm quickly retaliated by breathing fire at the Autobots.
"All of you get back!" Ratchet gets in front of the other Autobots to defend them and gets burned in the process.
"RATCHET!" Sideswipe yells to his injured friend.
"Come on Hot Rod think!" Hot Rod said to himself.
"Wait a minute, I have a new form and that means my weapons are upgraded!" Hot Rod realizes this and gets up pulling out his new weapons. He has two new and powerful side-arm shotguns.
"What is this?" Hot Rod said noticing one of his shotguns has 7 missiles glowing blue.
"Interesting!" Hot Rod says examining his weapons while Dragonstorm keeps beating all the other Autobots that are battling him.
"HOT ROD SHOOT HIM!" Crosshairs yelled.
"Oh yes, yes!" Hot Rod aiming his gun at Dragonstorm.
"EVERYBODY MOVE BACK!" The Autobots jump off of Dragonstorm while Bumblebee is thrown away by Dragonstorm, Hot Rod fires the missiles at Dragonstorm.
"Is he down?" Drift asked. They all look at Dragonstorm who is frozen in a time bubble.
"No way, Hot Rod your new weapons can create time bubbles, you can stop the freaking time!" Dino said as he and all the other Autobots watched at Dragonstorm who was still frozen inside that time bubble. Suddenly Grimlock and the others climbed back up the mountain.
"Alright what did we miss?" Slug asked as he and his Dinobot brethren reached the top.
"Um…..we took care of Dragonstorm!" Sideswipe says pointing at the frozen Dragonstorm.
"Great now we just need to calm him down once he's out of that bubble!" Scorn said.
"You mean like right now!" The injured Ratchet points at Dragonstorm who bursts out of the time bubble and attacks the Autobots. The Dinobots transform into their dinosaur forms and get in front of the Autobots to defend them. Grimlock and Dragonstorm have a stare down until Dragonstorm calms down and realizes that they aren't threats. Dragonstorm transforms causing Stormreign and Dragonicus to separate.
"You said you need our help, why is that Autobots?" Dragonicus asked walking towards them.
"Optimus Prime has been kidnapped and we require a staff of some kind of save him!" Hound said.
"Optimus? Staff? Oh Primus she caught him!" Dragonicus said.
"Who has Optimus?" Sideswipe asked.
"Quintessa!" Dragonicus said.
"Who's Quintessa?" Cade asked.
"She is a metallic witch (Dragonicus pulls out his sword), she is the goddess of the Infernocons (Dragonicus proceeds to swing his sword around in anger.), She is….the great DECIEVER!" Dragonicus slams his sword to the ground in front of the Autobots nearly hitting them.
"So she has caught Optimus? Then the first stage of her plan has been complete!" Dragonicus said to himself.
"Forgive great, powerful, noble kn….." Drift said before being interrupted
"Spare me the compliments, I am not in the mood for them!" Dragonicus said
"Knight…Anyways how is Optimus the first stage of her plan?" Drift asked.
"It didn't have to be Optimus! The first stage of her plan for Earth's destruction was too corrupt a knight!" Dragonicus explained.
"But why?" Hot Rod asked.
"So then she could use the knight to lure her to the staff!" Dragonicus explained.
"And what does the staff do?" Crosshairs asked.
"The staff has the power to control all of the Cybertronian knights and to absorb the energy of a planet to save another one!" Grimlock explained.
"That is why we must recover the staff before she and Optimus do so!" Stormreign says.
"Well then where is it?" It is located in an underwater structure in the Atlantic ocean not far from his country!" Dragonicus explained.
"We need to head there immediately to recover the staff, I don't know how much longer it will be until Quintessa arrives with her Infernocon horde and their home planet UNICRON!" Dragonicus said.
"Great first the Decepticons and now a corrupt goddess. Can things get any worse?" Crosshairs said annoyed by how many enemies they now have.
"Nobody said that winning this war was going to be easy, we were expecting more alien races to try and kill us!" Sideswipe explained.
"Oh crap!"
"Life is a b*tch Crosshairs!" Hound said to Crosshairs.
"Bumblebee and I will head to the underwater structure to retrieve the staff!" Hot Rod said.
"You? We were certain that the prophecy was referring to Optimus!" Dragonicus said.
"Well apparently it's meant to be either me or Bumblebee!" Hot Rod said.
"That can't be right!" Stormreign said to Dragonicus. Dragonicus then proceeded to stare suspiciously at the two brothers.
"We will argue about the prophecy later, right now we need to retrieve the staff immediately before Unicron begins merging with Earth!" Dragonicus says as he combines with Stormreign into Dragonstorm and flies away from his cave.
"We have to follow him!" Hot Rod says.
"I agree with Hot Rod!" The Dinobots said.
"Alright let's roll out!" Sideswipe says as they all climb down the mountain and follow Dragonstorm.
TO BE CONTINUED:
So this was Chapter 19, let me know what you guys think of this version of Steelbane and Dragonstorm and also thanks for reading and stay tuned for Chapter 20