Note: It's still Saturday on the East Coast. This is when I said it'd be. Anyway, I wanna sleep and you wanna read this, so I'll make it quick.

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Game-Watch: Yeah. Thor's reason to finally appreciate the Cybertronian Great War for more than cool fighting: He would've been dead by now or something like that.

childofgod80809: Me too. I literally came up with a mini plot writing this chapter. Y'all might like it.

Yeah, just enjoy the chapter already.

Edit 5/9/22: Once again, color changes to minor characters (Q-scouts). Just to be in line with the rest of things.

The first two scouts seemed to pale as the last of their backup fell to the ground, dead. The purple one slowly shuffled behind his companion as the blue one lifted a servo to his comm unit.

"Midgets to Mother. Mother, do you read?"

"Yeah, we need pick up."

The group of heroes turned to look at the scouts.

"Preferably, Now."

They pointed their weapons at the scouts.

"Keikja!" the blue one whined in fear.

"Run, run, RUN!"

The two scouts made a break for it as a spacebridge appeared in front of them. Tony's eyes widened at the sight of the portal as the two scouts leapt through it.

"What kind of technology is that?" he asked, fascinated.

Thor beat Optimus to the question. "That is a spacebridge. Standard method of travel for mechanically based lifeforms."

"Any chance I - uh - we could get one too?"

"Our technology is very dangerous in the wrong hands," Optimus said.

Tony raised his arms in playful surrender. "I'm one of the good guys. I'd never abuse it."

"Unfortunately, we don't posses spacebridge technology."

"Yeah. Only the Cons do," Arcee grumbled, finishing her leader's point.

"You'll have to explain more of... you to us soon. If these were just scouts, I have a feeling Quintessa isn't easily defeated," Steve said, prodding one of the dead scouts with his foot.

"I could tell you all about them," Thor offered.

"Or we could hear it straight from the horse's mouth. From their barn, perhaps." Tony's message was implied.

Optimus weighed the pros and cons of inviting the humans to their base. On one hand, Agent Fowler would most likely want to hear about these powerful people. On the other, Ratchet wouldn't like having to watch over more humans. Of course, they weren't children. It was the suppressed excitement and twitching doorwings of his scout that helped him decide.

"Would you mind coming with us? We will have to inform our liaison that you know about us and it would be easier if he could speak to you in person," Optimus said.

Before anyone else could speak, Tony said, "Sounds like a great idea. Do you have a portal too? Or are we walking?"

:Optimus to base. We require a groundbridge.:

x

Ratchet gaped at the humans that trailed behind the others. "Optimus! Why did you bring more humans?! We have enough as it is!"

Raf, Jack, and Miko rushed to the railing to see who the Bots had brought back with them. They couldn't believe their eyes.

"Dude! You didn't say you were going to bring back the Avengers!" Miko exclaimed.

"Who?" Bulkhead asked.

"That would be us," Clint said as he and the others went up the stairs to join the children on the platform. Miko jumped up and down excitedly.

"Which one of you is the Hulk?" she asked. Bruce said nothing, but everyone pointed to him anyway. "Cool! How angry do you need to be to turn into the Hulk? What were you trying to do that got you turned into the Hulk? Are you really stronger than Thor?"

"Well-"

Thor cut him off by slinging his arm around his shoulder. This left Bruce in an awkward side hunch. "Ah ha ha! Of course not. Everybody knows I'm the strongest Avenger."

"That's not the password I programmed the Quinjet to answer to you with," Tony said, smiling. "Point Break."

"Damn you, Stark."

"Prime!" Everyone turned to see Agent Fowler stalking out of the elevator. "Tell me you have a handle on this 'robot empress' situation. 'Cause she just exposed you and the Cons to the whole world. The UN is freaking out over it and General Bryce is ready to-" He stopped his tirade when he noticed the extra humans in the room. "-flip out. The Avengers. I'd say it's an honor, but your being here makes this worse."

"We're helping the Autobots defeat Quintessa," Thor supplied helpfully.

"Leave to the space god to know what's going on," Fowler muttered under his breath. "Would you mind appearing before the UN later? I feel like they'd take the alien business better if it came from someone who at least looks human."

"No problem."

"Great. I'm... I'm going to go file some paperwork. Get my head on straight," he said before taking the elevator back up.

"So, what's your story?" Natasha asked.

"Yeah, that is what we came here for," Tony said, reaching one hand toward a piece of machinery.

"Ep, ep, ep! Don't touch. It's broken," Ratchet scolded him.

"Who stuck a pipe up his a-?"

"Don't finish that curse," Steve cut him off as quietly as Tony had whispered it.

"My pistons may be rusty, but my hearing's sharp as ever!" Ratchet called back.

"Good to know, Oscar the Grouch," Tony said loudly.

"Who?" Ratchet asked, not understanding the reference.

(Ooh! He called you a grump, Ratchet!) Bee buzzed and chirred in laughter. Ratchet just huffed and mumbled something about "canned sardines".

Optimus walked over to the railing to face the Avengers. "It is a long story."

"We have time until Quintessa strikes again. Lay it on us," Bruce said.

x

"I told you not to disappoint me," the Empress snarled. The statmech trembled violently before her. I see that you managed to allow over two hundred scouts to perish for nothing and we are no closer to taking over Earth than we were before!"

"My lady, I can explain!"

"Quickly then, Quaestio."

"This battle was a test of their skills. To see where their weaknesses are. How we need to train your troops. I now have even more data to use for my probabilities."

"And what are my chances? Give me a range. I will not be blinded by the vest case scenario like last time."

"60 to 99 percent. Though I can shorten the range to 95-99 if-"

"Make it 100," she growled, waving her hand to dismiss him.

"Yes, my lady," he squeaked, bowing low before scooting out of the room backwards.

"Punctio! Keikja!" The blue and green scouts came forward respectively. "I have a special mission for you," she purred creepily. They shifted nervously, then squawked in fear as chains appeared and wrapped around their limbs, holding them in place. "For your lady." The femme shocked them with waves of energy, making them scream in agony.

The two scouts looked at each in shock as their minds cleared for just a moment, then the fog came rushing back. They spoke in unison:

"All hail Quintessa."

Note: I have more reasons for "Oscar the Grouch". Based on Wikipedia, Oscar does like children. I will connect this to Ratchet liking Raf more than most humans (Ex: A certain Tony Stark).

Bee watches cartoons on Saturdays, thus his knowledge of Sesame Street. (I don't own that.)

Totally milking Thor the space god with the space knowledge for all I can. :)

I hope you all understood with cleared minds what the mini plot is. If not, it's just 3 1/2 paragraphs a over you.

Next update probably next Wednesday. Leave a review and I'll get back to you. Till next time!