Episode 3
Transform and Roll out: Part 3
"So, you wanted to know who I am and where I came from, well then, let me tell you, but trust me, it's definitely something you haven't heard of before" Foxhyll said as his voice narrates a flashback
The scene opens to view a planet that wasn't Earth or Cybertron, but a planet that almost seemed entirely a large jungle.
"My ship and my crew come from a Cybertronian colony on the planet called Eukaris, a Jungle planet, we were forged with alt modes of vehicles from Cybertron for some tasks on Eukaris".
The scene then shows the surface of Eukaris, many Cybertronians with animal modes instead of vehicle modes, many in different locations, those with beast modes with wings are flying in the air and residing on the highest places like mountains or tree tops, those with more aquatic beast modes are swimming in the waters of the planet, those with arachnid beast modes are residing in large webs within the forests or mountains of the planet, sometimes in the deserts too, those with beast modes more reptilian and had scales residing in the forests and swamps and sometimes even deserts, finally, those with fur and were mammal beasts, resided anywhere they wanted as each beast mode had their own habitat somewhere on the planet, then the scene changes to 8 cybertronian vehicles traveling along some roads that were made for some small cities on the planet.
One of which showed to be a hovering red and grey vehicle that had a small trailer attached to it as it and the other vehicles drove slowly through the roads.
"We would eventually get new forms, but were not ready to scan animal modes as of yet".
The scene changes to Foxhyll before he met the Autobots, he was in robot mode and stared off in the distance as he saw Eukarian transformers running in fields or flying or swimming in lakes, Foxhyll had an unsure look on his face as he watched.
"You may not believe it, but my crew and I, we are from the future where there are no more autobots or Decepticons, only Maximals and Predacons take their place".
The scene shows the Autobot and Decepticon symbols, suddenly shattering to pieces, only to reform into the new symbols of Maximal and Predacon, the Maximals being the green beast head seen on the Maximal ship and the Predacon symbol being a navy blue and resembling an insect of sorts.
"Eukaris had Maximals and Predacons too, just like Cybertron and other colonies, only Eukaris had several tribes with Maximals and Predacons mixed in them, the tribes included The Scale Walkers, those with reptilian beast modes, The Fur Walkers, those with mammalian beast modes, the Wave Walkers, those with aquatic beast modes, The Cloud Walkers, those with avian beast modes or creatures that can fly and finally The Fateweavers, the supernatural tribe that transform into arachnid beast modes".
The scene shows the described tribe turning into said types of beasts like Alligators, Wolves, Hawks, Sharks and Spiders.
"I myself am a Maximal, both factions were peaceful, until my crew and I were sent on a mission from Cybertron, to stop a Predacon ship, filled with wanted Predacons who followed the philosophy of their own leader, a Predacon known as Galavar who went through a name change and referred to himself as, Megatron".
The scene then shows a purple and black transformer with glowing red eyes as he laughs evilly.
"We followed the Predacon ships, only to accidentally collide with one of them and our ship's Transwarp engine sent us many years in the past, judging from my ship's logs, just about 4 years before your ship crashed on earth."
We then see two ships coming out of a blue and purple portal before it closes, one was the Maximal ship while the other was the Predacons, it was navy blue and purple, both ships were currently shooting at each other with laser cannons.
"Our ship was damaged and we lost control of our navigation system, but we made sure to shoot down the Preds before we went down".
The Maximal ship was damaged and was falling to Earth, but the ship then unleashed a large blast of energy onto the predacon ship, causing it to fall towards Earth as well as both ships went down.
"We went into stasis pods to make sure we would survive, but not before I could send a message to the other Maximal ship we were supposed to help out, I sent the message to the leader of that group, his name was-"
The narration was interrupted by the past version of Foxhyll speaking into his crashing ships terminal as alarms were blaring.
"Maximal Ship Epsillon to Axalon, this is a message to the leader of the Axalon ship Optimus Primal, I'm sorry we couldn't help as much as we could, but I'm sending you coordinates to the planet me and my team, as well as the second Predacon ship crashed on, I hope you may find us, may we see eachother soon" Past Foxhyll then sent the message before he ran to his stasis pod and went inside, it closed on him as frost covered the inside, blocking the view from outside the pod.
Back in the present time, Foxhyll had finished explaining as the Autobots and Sari stood around him, oddly enough Foxhyll was now in his Beast mode, they were gathered in the Detroit public park as they had finished up business back from the ceremony from before.
"And that my friends, is my story" he said as he laid on the ground, his head resting on his front paws.
"So you're from the future, where Autobots and Decepticons have become Maximals and Predacons?" Optimus asked.
"Yep, we have more fuel efficient bodies so we don't burn out on energy as much as our ancestors, or I guess you guys do, so we can save much more energon" Foxhyll said.
"Talk about an upgrade," Arcee said.
"So what is Eukaris like Foxhyll?" Windblade asked.
"Oh it's great, it still is here today if my knowledge is correct, plus the planet is always protected by Chela" Foxhyll said.
"Chela?" Bulkhead asked.
"Chela is a Titan transformer" Foxhyll, at the mention of Titan, Windblade was immediately more interested.
"A Titan? An actual Titan?!" she asked.
"Yeah, although she lays dormant, she will awaken when the planet is in jeopardy" Foxhyll explained.
"I knew it! I knew Titans were real!" Windblade said excitedly.
"Settle down there Windblade, I get it you're excited" Optimus said, although he couldn't disagree that he was also excited to hear about something as an ancient race of transformers actually being real.
"So now you decided to scan a beast mode, while also gaining a vehicle mode?" Ratchet asked.
"Well I still have the circuits of vehicle mode abilities in me, so I needed a vehicle mode to go with my beast mode, speaking of which, my team will need them too, when they awake from stasis that is" Foxhyll said.
"And when will that be?" Prowl asked.
"I don't know, Esillion 12 will awake them when needed I guess" Foxhyll said.
"So, can Maximals and Predacons turn into mythical animals? Like Dragons or, oh! Maybe a gryphon! Oh maybe even-" Sari went on before Foxhyll stopped her.
."How about we stop with question time now, ok? I wanna have a tour of this city and learn more about Earth" Foxhyll said.
"He's right, let's go exploring!" Bumblebee said.
"I guess it wouldn't hurt to look around, alright Autobots, and Maximal, lets go look around" Optimus said as they all left the park with the bots transforming to vehicle modes, leaving them to explore their new home.
The next day.
On one of the many motorways, a large traffic jam was taking place as many cars honked their horns in annoyance and impatience.
[I don't know if its motorway or highway, please tell me in the reviews]
One of the drivers pokes their head out of their car window, "Come on! Move it! I might as well be walking here!".
"Hey! Good idea!" Behind the driver was Bulkhead in vehicle mode, only to transform to robot mode and start walking through the traffic, setting off some car alarms from his heavy footsteps.
In one of the Detroit city parks, Prowl was simply standing by a statue with many birds resting on him, soon some people saw him, "Hey look! It's one of those Autobots!".
The noise alerted the birds as they flew off, with one of them leaving a substance on Prowl's head, to which he wiped off in disgust.
In a skate park, people were watching in amazement as Arcee, in her motorcycle mode, was doing stunts while driving on the skate ramps and in a skating bowl.
"Whoo!" Arcee yelled as she rode a ramp up into the air, quickly transforming into robot mode as she did a couple of flips, then landing onto the ground in, what the humans called, a superhero landing pose.
Many of the male skaters were jaw dropped while the female skaters went up to her and cheered for her.
"That was awesome Arcee!", "Way to go Arcee!" , "Can you show me how to do those stunts Arcee?!".
"Aw geez, it wasn't that great, I'm sure any bot or human could pull off those moves" Arcee said, although in her processor she was excited, normally on Cybertron she would get reprimanded for doing stunts like those when she did stunts, she even somehow got noticed by the elite guard once or twice and almost got arrested, if it weren't for some friendly bots she knew, but now she was getting praise and getting compliments for her little stunts.
With Bumblebee, Sari had him take her to a fast food joint called Burger Bot, the same place Captain Fanzone was getting his food before being called to the robot plant.
They were in the drive thru section of the joint as a bored sounding voice came from the speakers.
"Welcome to Burger Bot, may I take your order?"
"This is how we humans fuel up" Sari said to Bumblebee before she leaned out the window to the speaker.
"I'll have a Bigbot burger, large fries and a robo shake" Sari ordered.
"That'll be ten, ninety five please, would you like a pie with that?".
"Hmm, no thanks" Sari said.
Soon the menu stand turned into a robot as a one eyed head appeared with a hat and two claw arms appeared, a tray with her ordered food pops out of the menu stand.
"Bigbot burger, large fries and a robo shake, have a burgeriffic day".
Meanwhile, Ratchet is seen in vehicle mode, parked in a no parking spot, as there are dozens of tickets on his windshield, a police officer drives up and writes another ticket, thinking it was a normal ambulance, before slapping it on, before Ratchet suddenly transforms to robot mode in a grouchy mood.
[As if that isn't his set mood already]
"Hey! Can't a bot get a stasis nap around here?!" he said as he grabbed a handful of tickets, for him it was a lot, and chucked off away before he walked off to find a better spot to nap.
It was another day, as Windblade was flying above Detroit in her VTOL Jet mode, she wasn't going super fast as she took in the sights from above.
"The city is ginormous, even by Cybertron standards" she said as she flew right by Sumdac Tower, "Any ground bot could get lost down there, but not this bot" she said as she flew around some more.
Meanwhile in Detroit's Zoo and Aquarium, Foxhyll was in his beast mode walking around, occasionally getting pictures from visitors as he saw and researched the many creatures in the Zoo.
[Idk if Detroit has a Zoo or Aquarium, but hey, its Detroit in the 22nd Century, it could happen]
"So many interesting creatures, plenty to scan and to hopefully give to my fellow Maximals" Foxhyll said as he came across a pen that had some foxes in it, the foxes in the pen looked at him in wonder as even the female ones looked lovestruck as they looked at him.
"Who knew such animals could exist in the universe" he said before moving on, making the vixens sad as he left.
"Now all I need to do is gain some scans of vehicles and hope my crew wake up soon" Foxhyll said as he left the Zoo, with the zookeeper's saying goodbye and asking him to come again, he seemed to be very popular in their, with humans and animals.
He looked up at the sky with a nervous look, "I just hope no Predacons are online here on Earth" he said.
Meanwhile in a children's park, Optimus was observing the children play with Sari on his left shoulder.
"We Autobots are programmed to respect the source of life, and protect it at all cost" Optimus explained, "For us, that means one thing, the Allspark".
"Yet, you organics are life, which means we must protect you as well, but how is it you are able to make these new, smaller organics?" Optimus asked as he pointed to a baby human being strolled around.
Sari then whispers into Optimus' audio receptor, then he has a shocked expression, now he regrets asking how they make them.
Later on at night, Sari led the Autobots and Maximal to an old car manufacturing factory.
"You guys need a homebase, and two ships at the bottom of Lake Erie's way too far away" Sari explained before pointing to the factory, "Then I remembered this place, my dad got it in a merger, he doesn't even know he owns it" Sari said as the Autobots and Foxhyll activated their lights to look inside, it was old, filled with unfinished cars and ones that needed repairs and wires hung in certain places.
"So? What do you think?" Sari asked.
"I think, this is what you organics call, a real fixer-upper" Bumblebee said.
After going inside, Bulkhead sat down on the ground in a relaxed position, he seemed content with it.
"Anywhere I can powerdown for a few megacycles is okay by me" Bulkhead said.
Foxhyll laid down on a empty platform in beast mode as he seemed relaxed, "Mmm yeah, this feels nice, I can get used to this, better than trying to sleep in my ship like this" Foxhyll said.
Soon the group heard sirens coming from outside and nearby.
"Sounds like someone needs help" Optimus said, "Autobots!".
"I know, Transform and roll out" Bulkhead said before they all went into vehicle mode and drove to the emergency, Sari staying behind at the factory.
The Autobots and Maximal arrive at a massive fire emergency, a building is on fire on many floors as the Fire department try to put out the fire and evacuate the building.
Optimus used his own water reserves to put out the fire while Ratchet used his magnets to stop any falling debris he could.
"We're live on the scene downtown where the Autobots once again are earning their title as Detroit's newest superheroes." A news reporter saidas camera bots are recording the action as Bulkhead catches a massive piece of debris and uses it to smash any more falling debris, Prowl uses his jet thrusters to blow away any fire blocking the exit.
Foxhyll turns to beast mode as he uses his body to protect civilians under him from falling debris before using his back legs to kick any debris too big for him to take a hit from.
Windblade used her turbines to blow away the flames too as she saw some people still on the higher floors before the fire fighters came to their help.
Arcee used her arm blades to cut away any debris blocking the exits as Bumblebee did the same with his stingers.
After everyone was safe, they cheered for the Autobots and Foxhyll as they walked away from the building as the fire was put out.
Meanwhile watching the news however, was Starscream and someone hidden in the shadows behind him as Starscream smirked evilly.
"Enjoy it while you can, heroes, you're about to take a fall" Starscream said.
"Soon those Autobots and that filthy Maximal will be nothing but Scrap!" the figure said as he smirked evilly, his glowing red eyes showing evil intent.
It was a new day as a ceremony was taking place in Detroit.
"We at Sumdac Systems continue our commitment to moving Detroit forward with this fully automated, Raid-Transit system, capable of speeds over three hundred miles-per-hour" Professor Sumdac said as he spoke through a microphone to the crowd, standing near him was Captain Fanzone, the Mayor, who was dark skinned and had grey hair, a black suit and a red sash over his body, Sari and the Autobots and Foxhyll.
Bumblebee leaned over to Bulkhead and Arcee, "If humans wanted to move so fast, why don't they build any wheels like us?" he asked.
"I want to thank the Mayor, Police Captain Fanzone and especially our city's Cybernetic Superheroes for attending this magnificent, grand-opening ceremony" Sumdac said as the crowd cheered.
"They keep calling us heroes, but I don't feel like a hero more than I did repairing spacebridges on Cybertron" Optimus said.
"In my experience, heroes usually end up on the repair table or the scrapheap, and I'm not ready to join the Well of Allsparks just yet" Ratchet said.
"Come on Ratchet cheer up, try and enjoy the moment" Windblade said.
Meanwhile in the sky, outside of Detroit, 5 fighter jets were flying and in pursuit of 2 unidentified aircrafts.
"Unidentified aircrafts entering US airspace over Michigan, Identify yourselves or you will be treated as hostiles" one of the jet pilots said through radio, only to be met with dual purple lasers, one of the jets was hit and goes down, soon Starscream appears from the clouds behind the jets.
"You haven't seen hostile yet!" he threatened as he fired at the jets once more, destroying another one, thankfully the pilots ejected before the jets were destroyed.
Only 3 jets remained as they tried to attack, only for something to suddenly appear in front of them and take down one of the 3 remaining jets.
"What was that?!" appearing behind the jets once more was the thing that attacked, it was a massive bird like creature.
The creature was giant as it matched the size of the jets, it was what the humans called, a Quetzalcoatlus, an extinct creature that was suspected to live during when Dinosaurs ruled.
"Mayday! Mayday!" The two remaining jets went behind the creature and Starscream and began to fire at them, only for the shot to be useless as they bounced off their bodies, even from the creature's body.
"Stupid pests!" the giant creature said in a male voice as it flew around, revealing the Predacon symbol on his beak and chest.
"This is getting annoying" Starscream said before flying behind the jets with the Predacon, both he and the Predacon then scanned the jets in purple energy.
"Best to continue our search incognito" Starcscream said as he smirked.
"Great idea Starscream" the Predacon said before its organic looking body started to turn more metallic looking as parts of the jets appeared on his new form.
Back at the Ceremony in Detroit.
"If you would kindly direct your attention overhead" Sumdac said as everyone looked up to see 6 jets flying in the sky, each painted in crimson paint.
"Please enjoy the aerial acrobatics of the Crimson Angels!" Everyone watches in awe at the show as the jets did many tricks in the air, no one noticing 2 more jets joined the show, one with grey paint and crimson stripes with purple thrusters and the other grey with black stripes and grey thrusters and oddly shaped cockpit.
"For once something that flies that's not a Decepticon" Bumblebee complement, only to her Windblade clear her throat, getting his attention, "Uh, hehe, sorry" he apologises.
Sumdac then finally notices the increase in number of jets, "Odd, I thought I only paid for six jets" he said, as the jets did another loop and separate, the two new jets then started flying straight towards the stage and the crowd.
"Are those guys nuts?! They're heading straight for us!" Bulkhead said
Ratchet's optics widened in fear, "It can't be"
"What can't be Ratchet?" Windblade asked.
The group soon got their answer as the grey and black jet exclaimed.
"Thrustwing! Terrorize!"
Foxhyll's own optics widened in fear after hearing that phrase, "No!" he yelled.
Both jets then transformed, Starscream was now shown to have his new jet modes wings, cockpit and jet thrusters on his body.
The one known as Thrustwing, his cockpit had the head of his Quatzalcoatlus on his chest while both jet wings and Quetzalcoatlus wings were on his back, merged together, the legs of his best mode were placed on his shoulders as his feet also had thrusters for heels like Starcsream, he wore the Predacon symbol on his chest, on the top of the beast modes head, he bore fangs with red eyes, he had claws like any Predacon or Decepticon would have.
Starscream and Thrustwing fired their respective lasers as they blasted their enemies against the new train, the Autobots and Foxhyll fall to the ground as Starscream and Thrustwing land on the ground in front of them.
"Greetings Autobots and Maximal! Mind if we crash the party?" Starscream asked sarcastically as he and Thrustwing smiled evilly.
"A Decepticon? Here?" Optimus asked.
"With a Predacon?!" Foxhyll exclaimed.
"The name is Starscream! Exalted leader of the Decepticons!" Starcsream said pridefully.
"And I am Thrustwing! One of the deadliest Predacons you will ever meet!" Thrustwing said, introducing himself.
"I thought that was Megatron" Bulkhead said, correcting Starscream.
"Silence Autobot filth!" Starscream said as he fired his null ray at Bulkhead and Bumblebee, launching them into the building behind them, the impact caused the top of the building to break off.
Seeing where it was going to land, Optimus and Ratchet quickly grabbed Bulkhead and Bumblebee and pulled them away, just in time as the debris fell on to where they were standing, only to dodge a laser blast from Thrustwing.
"Stay down if ya know what's good for ya" The Predacon said
Prowl was quick to act as he ran towards the two enemies and tried to strike with his shurikens, only for Starscream and Thrustwing to take flight as they rained down laser blasts at the Autobot ninja.
"You can run Autobot! But you can't hide!" Starscream said as he fired at Prowl.
Prowl kept dodging the lasers as he then jumped up onto a building to gain higher ground.
Starscream sees this and charges at Prowl.
Thrustwing was about to follow, only for Foxhyll, who was sneaking by them in beast mode, to pounce him and tackle him to the ground.
"Pathetic Maximal!" Thrustwing said as he tried to fire his own lasers at Foxhyll, only for the Fox Maximal to bite onto one of his laser blasters and crush it, rendering it useless.
They both fall to the ground as Foxhyll keeps him pinned down.
"Alright Predacon! Tell me where your ship is, where are the rest of your team?" Foxhyll demanded, only for Thrustwing to smirk.
"Why should I tell you Maximal? Beast Mode!" Thrustwing then transformed into his beast mode, greatly towering over Foxhyll as the Maximal quickly transformed into vehicle mode to escape, but Thrustwing gave chase.
As Starscream was closing in on Prowl, he didn't see it was a hologram and the real Prowl was hiding behind the building and holding onto the ledge, as Starcsream charged right through the hologram, Prowl leapt up and latched onto Starscream's back, Prowl quickly pulled out one of his shurikens and stabs it into the Decepticons back.
Starscream almost lost control of his flight as he collided into some buildings, before grabbing Prowl and throwing him off his back and down to the ground.
Prowl crashed onto the ground, leaving a crater behind as he groaned.
"I expected a little more of a challenge from such great heroes" Starscream mocked, only to be tackled in the sky by Windblade in her VTOL Jet mode.
"How's THIS for a challenge Starscream!" she yelled as Starscream redirected himself in the air to see what hit him.
"Ah, a flying Autobot, and I thought they were only a myth!" Starscream said as he fired his lasers at her, she kept dodging his blasts as she was distracting him, long enough for Optimus' grapple claw to wrap around Starscream's legs.
The Decepticon noticed this and saw Optimus on a nearby building, trying to pull him down from the air as he pulled the cable.
Not willing to let the Autobot win, Starscream quickly flies up in the air, taking Optimus with him.
"Optimus!" Windblade exclaimed as she gave chase, trying to catch up to help Optimus.
Meanwhile, Foxhyll was still being chased by Thrustwing as the Predacon followed, he was really fast in this beast mode.
"To think this planet used to have such powerful creatures!" Thrustwing said as he kept chasing Foxhyll.
As Foxhyll made a turn around a building, Thrustwing followed, only to get kicked in the face by Arcee who made a surprise attack on the Predacon by using a large cable attached to a nearby crane tower to swing around the building and land the attack.
"Take that you giant bird!" she mocks as she lets go of the cable and quickly transformed into motorcycle mode and followed Foxhyll.
"Thanks for the save" Foxhyll thanked Arcee.
"Don't thank me yet, we still gotta get rid of him and Starscream!" Arcee said as they drove back to where Starscream was battling the others.
Starscream was slamming Optimus against many buildings and even dragged him across roads as he flew around, making sure the Autobot would lose his grip, but surprisingly he didn't as he started flying upwards to get as high as possible.
"I thought for sure you would let go by now!" Starscream complained, "Oh well, no matter" he said as he smiled evilly before firing a laser at the cable, severing it, making Optimus fall downwards.
"Prime!" Windblade yelled as she flew down, trying to catch him, as they were almost to the ground, Windblade quickly transformed to robot mode and tackled Optimus, hoping to break his fall, making them both crash down as they crash landed on a truck and bounced off it.
Ratchet and Bulkhead quickly arrived on the scene as they helped the bots up.
"You alright Prime?" Ratchet asked.
"I'll live," Optimus said weakly, "What about Windblade?" he asked.
"I'll be alright Prime" Windblade said weakly as Bulkhead helped her up.
""You call yourselves heroes?!" Starscream said as he flew down and landed on his feet on the road, "You think you defeated the great Megatron? You did no such thing!" he said.
"I defeated Megatron!" Starscream said with an evil and prideful smile, "I planted the device that overloaded his circuitry, his fate was sealed before he even reached your ship!" he said.
"He's Lying!" Bulkhead said, only to ask, "isn't he?" he asked just as Foxhyll and Arcee arrived.
"The explosion on the ship…" Windblade thought back, it would explain how an explosion occurred back then, but Megatron was only badly injured, not destroyed.
Starscream then aimed his laser at the Autobots, "Now bring me the Allspark, Autobot scum!" he threatened.
"I have no idea what you're talking about," Optimus bluffed.
"Really? Then I'll just have to destroy these puny creatures for no good reason!" Starcsream said as he aims his blasters at the Sari, Professor Sumdac, Captain Fanzone and the Mayor who were frightened by the threat of being destroyed by the Decepticon.
The Autobots and Maximal gasped, not wanting them to be harmed by Starcsream.
Starscream then fired multiple shots, narrowingly missing them as they quickly ran to the new train.
"Take cover! In here now!" Captain Fanzone ordered as they ran in, Sari however was slower as she was running from the lasers, Professor Sumdac sees this and tries to reach out to her as the lasers only got closer to her.
Bumblebee sees this and quickly acts, "Sari!" he runs up to her.
Sari turns around to see a laser blast is just about to hit her, only for Bumblebee to jump in the way, and take the hit, greatly damaging him as he falls to the ground, unconscious.
"Bumblebee!" Sari yelled in worry and shock as Bumblebee fell, she was about to help him when Thrustwing lands next to him, still in beast mode as he grabs the yellow bot with his talons, flying upwards with the bot in his grasp as he flies idly next to Starscream.
"Now let's try this again" Starscream said as Thrustwing threw Bumblebee to Starscream, who grabbed him by the arm and lifted him up by it.
"Bring me the Allspark Autobot scum!" he yelled, only to hear Thrustwing growl, "I mean, Bring US the Allspark!" he corrected.
"My name, is Optimus Prime!" Optimus said as he stood up, "And I am prepared to sacrifice my life to defend the Allspark!" he declared.
"But are you willing to sacrifice theirs?!" Starscream said before he threw Bumblebee to the ground, the yellowbot bounced off the ground and into the train with the humans.
"You Autobots and your pathetic heroics" Starscream said, "You have one mega cycle to bring me the Allspark!" Starscream said before he flew down and landed by the train, making Sari run the other way as Starscream picked up the train, "If not, this vessel and all its contents, human and Autobot, will perish!" he threatened before he flew up.
"Then we will tear this planet apart until we find the Allspark!" Thrustwing said before he follows Starscream to the Sumdac tower, where the Decepticon placed the train filled with hostages on the top of the tower, Thrustwing remains in beast mode as he guards the train while Starscream transformed to jet mode and flew around the tower, waiting for the Autobotos to make their choice.
"Give up the Allspark, or give up the Earth, how am I supposed to decide?!" Optimus asked, seeing no good outcome from either choice.
"Heros are the ones who make the hard choices," Ratchet said.
"Maybe Ultra Magnus was right," Optimus said, beginning to doubt himself, "Maybe I'm not programmed to be, a hero" He said.
"You're not alone" the Autobots and Foxhyll turned to see Prowl, walking out of the crater he made from his fall, "A wise bot once told me, a machine is stronger than its component parts, only I had to learn that the hard way" he said before putting his arm out while Bulkhead lifted Sari onto his arm.
Everyone nodded as they each put their hand on top of eachother, signifying they would work together, even Sari as she placed both hands onto Bulkheads.
She then looked to the bots, "Okay, so here's my plan".
A couple seconds later, the Autobots and Foxhyll, who was in robot mode, were walking towards Sumdac tower, Sari was behind them.
"What?" she asked as she ran to them, trying to catch up to them.
"Thanks but I think we'll handle this one Sari" Optimus said.
"But you haven't even heard my plan" Sari said as she began explaining her plan.
"You guys keep Starscream distracted while me and Prowl sneak aboard the train car, then I use my key to revive Bumblebee, free the hostages then catch Starscream totally by surprise-" before she could finish, Optimus interrupted.
"No, it's too dangerous," he said.
Sari frowns as her eyes tear up, "My dads on that train, and so is the best friend I ever had! And I'm not gonna lose both of them" she said as she tried to wipe away her tears.
Bulkhead points out the tears, "She's sprung a leak" he said.
"It's called crying" Sari explained, "It's something we humans do when we feel sad or scared, or totally helpless to save the people we care about most" Sari said before she started crying.
"Alright!" Optimus said, giving up some resistance, "I'll consider your plan" he said.
Sari quickly wiped her tears, showing a smirk, "It's also a really useful way for us to get what we want" she said smugly.
"I said, I would consider your plan," Optimus said.
"We're going to need to bring Starscream and his giant bird buddy to us, Windblade?" Optimus asked Windblade.
"You want me to be bird bait? You got it" Windblade said as she gave a thumbs up.
"Take me with ya" Foxhyll said, "He seems to be targeting me mostly, if he sees me in the air, he's going to give chase" Foxhyll said.
"That takes care of Thrustwing, but what about Starscream?" Arcee asked.
"There's only one thing that will lure him," Optimus said as everyone got worried about that, knowing what would bring Starscream to them.
Later on, Starscream was still flying circles around the tower with Thrustwing remind in Beast mode.
"Will you give those thrusts of yours a rest Starscream?" Thrustwing said.
"Not until I have the Allspark in my grasp!" Starscream said.
Thrustwing groaned, "I need to stretch my legs, Thrustwing, Terrorize!" he yells as he transforms from beast to robot mode, stretching out his arms and legs.
"Starscream!" Starscream stopped and transformed to robot mode as he heard Optimus' voice, he looks down to see the Autobot leader on a building, while Ratchet, who was in vehicle mode, Bulkhead and Arcee were on the motorway.
"We have what you want" Optimus said as Bulkhead and Arcee carried out the Allspark from Ratchet's vehicle mode and set it down, Ratchet transforming to robot mode.
"Now release the hostages!" Optimus said, meanwhile behind the tower, Foxhyll was standing on top of Windblade who was in vehicle mode as she silently flew upwards.
"You ok Windblade?" Foxhyll asked quietly.
"I'm fine, don't worry about me" she replied quietly as they kept going up.
"Leave the Allspark unguarded! Or we'll destroy them all!" Starscream demanded as the occupants of the train car gasped in fear while Thrustwing quickly transformed back to beast mode and let out a loud shriek to intimidate the autobots and frighten the hostages.
"Release the hostages now! Or I will destroy the Allspark!" Optimus said with his own threat.
"Don't try to deceive a Decepticon, Autobot" Starscream said as he started to fly down, not noticing one of the advertising blimps fly by with Sari and Prowl hiding behind the billboard, "We are the masters of deception".
Sari peaks out to see if Starscream sees them, seeing that he doesn't, she looks to Prowl and nods.
"Hold tight" Prowl said as he grabbed Sari, he then used his thrusters to fly up to the tower, making sure to keep hidden from Thrustwing.
You think I'm bluffing?!" Optimus said as he pulled out his axe, "Bulkhead, Ratchet, Arcee, step aside!" he said before he prepared to throw his axe.
"WAIT!" Starscream yelled in panic, believing Optimus as he flew closer t Optimus, "Let's not be hasty, shall we?"
Back at the top of the tower Foxhyll and Windblade make it to the top as Foxhyll begins their part of the plan, "Hey Predacon!" he called out, getting Thrustwings attention.
"What's the matter? Afraid to stray away from your bird keeper to chase little old me?" Foxhyll mocked.
"Afraid?!" Thrustwing said, getting angry before he smirks, "So you want a chase huh?" he said before transforming to his jet mode, "I'll give ya a chase!".
"Alright then, hit it Windblade!" Foxhyll said before he grabbed onto her vehicle mode, she quickly flew away, making Thrustwing chase after them.
"What is going on out there?!" Captain Fanzone asked as they saw Starscream get close to Optimus and Thrustwing leave his position.
"A rescue, that's what" Sari said as he appeared outside the windows.
"Sari! How did you get up here?" Professor Sumdac asked before Prowl's face appeared by the window.
"Same way you're getting down," Prowl said.
After getting them out of the train, Prowl held Sumdac,the Mayor and Captain Fanzone as he was about to jump down.
"This is why I hate machIIIIIIIINES!" Captain Fanzone said, turning to a yell as Prowl jumped.
Sari remained on the train with Bumblebee to help the yellow bot, she climbed up his body as she brought her key to his head, a part of his helm opened to show a slot for her key, she inserted it and turned it as Allspark energy coarse into him.
"Come on Bumblebee, wake up" Sari said as she teared up, thinking it might be too late, just then Bumblebee groaned, only for his wheels to suddenly spin, making him drive up and hit his head on the roof, he slid back down and held his head.
"When you wake up,you really wake up!" Sari said in relief.
Prowl landed on a blimp, Captain Fanzone almost fell off, "WHOA!" he let out before Prowl quickly grabbed it and set him back on his shoulders.
Unfortunately Captain Fanzone accidentally caught Starscream's attention as he saw Prowl on the blimp.
"What is this? Someone tampering with MY hostages?!" Starscream said before flying up, only for Ratchet to grab his feet with his magnets.
"Not so fast Fly boy!" Ratchet said as he tried to kept Starscream down, unfortunately Starscream starts to increase his flying speed as he flew in circles, breaking away from Ratchets magnets and flying up, only to be sprayed with foam by Optimus, the foam latches onto his thrusters, blocking them and causing Starscream to fall as Bulkhead launches his wrecking ball, hitting Starscream dead on, however the Decepticon quickly transformed to jet mode and flew straight past Bulkhead.
However Arcee quickly jumped up and grabbed onto his jet mode and used her arm blades to slash him.
"Get off me Autobot scum!" Starscream said as he started to barrel roll, which worked as Arcee tried to hang on, only to fall off and land on a building rooftop.
Starscream quickly flew to the top of the Sumdac Tower, only to be attacked by Bumblebee shooting lightning bolts at him and Prowl, who used his thrusters to fly up, launched his shurikens at Starscream, the Decepticon quickly redirected himself to fly over the tower and saw his Predacon ally missing.
"Where is Thrustwing?!" he said as he quickly realised what happened, "So, you Autobots want to fight dirty do you?! Then you better be prepared to go all the way!" he said as Bumblebee shot more bolts at him, only for Starscream to shoot his lasers, pushing the train, which still had Sari in it, off the tower.
Bumblebee and Prowl quickly act as they grab the end of the train to stop it from falling.
Starscream transformed as he laughed evilly at his actions, watching as the two Autobots struggled to keep the train from falling off the tower.
"Guys?" Sari called out, scared but hoping her friends can save her.
Meanwhile Thrustwing was chasing down Foxhyll and Windblade as they led him away from the tower.
"Hey Rustwing! I thought Predacons were prideful about their speed, your the slowest Pred I've ever seen!" Foxhyll mocked.
"Its THRUSTWING You miserable Maximal!" Thrustwing yelled as he shot his lasers at them, only for Windblade to make a quick U turn and dodge the lasers, Thrustwing quickly avoided from crashing into them before giving chase once more.
"We need to get back to the others, they should have saved the hostages by now" Windblade said.
"Right" Foxhyll said as they flew back.
"Get back here Maximal and Autobot scum!" Thrustwing yelled.
Back at Sumdac Tower, Starscream took aim at the tower, before firing his laser, hitting Prowl and Bumblebee, pushing them and the train off the tower as the train began to fall.
Starscream laughed evilly at this.
"SARI!" Prowl and Bumblebee yelled as they and the train fell with Sari screaming in fright.
Starscream then turned to Optimus, "There, the train is released, I kept my end of the bargain, now its your turn to keep yours!" he said.
Starscream then flew down to get the Allspark, Optimus quickly leapt down the building so he could protect the Allspark.
"Bulkhead! Ratchet! Arcee! Help the others!" Optimus commanded.
They quickly transformed to vehicle mode as they rushed to the tower.
"What are we supposed to do? Catch it on the first bounce?" Bulkhead said as they drove.
"We do what we can, Bulkhead!" Arcee said.
With the falling train, Bumblebee and Prowl crawled to the other end of the train so they could get Sari out.
Bumblebee started using his Stinger to cut a hole open while Prowl used his shurikens like a buzzsaw to open up the train.
"Hangon Sari!" Bumblebee called to her.
Inside, Sari is flying in the air as she quickly grabbed onto a pole to hang onto, "You think I didn't think of that?!" She yelled in a angry but scared tone.
Finally Bumblebee cut open a hole big enough for him to get in to help Sari.
"Reach out! I'll grab you!" Bumblebee said as he reached his ar inside, however Sari was too scared as she shook her head, not wanting to let go.
"You can trust this face, can't you?" Bumble said with a smile, slowly, Sari reached out as she grabbed his hand.
Back on the ground, Optimus grabbed the Allsark and ran just as Starscream landed on the ground.
"Nice grab Autobot! But even you can't outrun me on foot!" Starscream said before turning to jet mode and taking off in the air, chasing optimus and firing lasers at him as Optimus leapt off the bridge and down to the streets below.
"Why don't you set down that heavy load and transform to vehicle mode?" he asked sarcastically as he kept chasing and firing at Optimus.
Prowl positioned himself at the falling end of the train as he fired his thrusters at maximum, trying to slow down the train's descent.
Bumblebee quickly drove out of the train in vehicle mode with Sari strapped inside him.
"Do they have shock absorbers on Cybertron?!" Sari asked as she braced for impact.
Prowl quickly moved away from the train as he flew for a bit as the train crashed into the ground, Bumblebee would have crashed as well, only for Bumblebee to freeze in the air, as Ratchet caught him.
"Those are some shock absorbers" Sari said in relief as Ratchet brought them down slowly.
"Guess there's still some spark left in the old bot after all!" Ratchet said as he set Bumblebee down.
Ratchet! Think fast!" Optimus called out as Ratchet turned to see Optimus being chased by Starscream.
"Aw crud" he said as Optimus quickly threw the Allspark to him, Ratchet used his magnets to catch it, only to throw it away as Starscream transformed and landed in front of him, the Allspark slid down the wrecked train before Bumblebee caught it with his robot arm in vehicle mode.
"Hang on!" he said before hitting the gas and drove away as Sari strapped in the passenger seat.
As Bumblebee drove away with the Allspark, Sari realised something.
"I know this game, its called keep away!" She said as Bumblebee drove with Starscream on his tail, Sari sees him in Bumblebee's rear view mirror, "Can you go any faster?" she asked.
"Its not about how fast you can go" Bumblebee said before throwing the Allspark over to another bridge as he turns to a stop, "But how fast you can stop!" he said as Starscream chased after the Allspark.
Windblade and Foxhyll see Starscream chasing the airborne Allspark while Thrustwing was right behind them, Foxhyll then realises something.
"We can't let those two get near the Allspark, if one of them gets it, we're all doomed" he said before he carefully positioned himself on Windblade, "Foxhyll, what are you doing?!" she asked.
"Evening the odds!" he said before leaping off her and landing ontoThrustwings jet mode.
"Hey! Let go Maximal Filth!" Thrustwing commanded.
"Make me!" Foxhyll said as he pulled out his blaster and shot one of Thrustwings jet wings.
"GAH!" Thrustwing yelled in pain as they went down, Foxhyll jumped off as Thrustwing crashed onto one of the bridges while the Maximal rolled onto a rooftop of a building.
Prowl quickly used a car as a ramp to drive up and catch the Allspark before quickly putting the Allspark in an empty pick up truck and kicking it, sending the truck downhill, Starscream however kept chasing it as the truck crashes into a fire hydrant, launching the Allspark out of the truck.
"I got it! I got it!" Bulkhead said as he tried to catch the Allspark, however Starscream quickly snatched it in midair as he held the Allspark before gloating.
"Fool! Did you really think you could keep the Allspark out of the hands of-" Starscreamwas cut off by Bulkheads wrecking ball hitting him and launching him away as Bulkhead grabbed the Allspark and reeled in his wrecking ball.
"I said I got it!" he said, however he was soon being attacked by lasers raining on him, Thrustwing had recovered as he was in robot mode, although one of his wings was smoking from the blast from earlier, he was firing his lasers at Bulkhead, "Surrender the Allspark Autobot!" he demanded.
"How about you?" suddenly he was kicked in the face by Arcee who had spin kicked him, ceasing his fire.
"Thanks Arcee!" Bulkhead said as she leapt down and the other Autobots, including Foxhyll who had caught up to them in vehicle mode and Windblade who landed and transformed next to them, appeared.
"Nice teamwork bots!" Optimus said as Bulkhead handed the Allspark to him, "Now lets get the Allspark somewhere safe before" before Optimus could finish, the Autobots and Maximal were all blasted by Starscream with a larger laser beam which caused nearby windows to shatter.
"I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF TOYING WITH YOU PUNY AUTOBOTS!" Starscream yelled as he ceased fire, Optimus, who was in the middle of the beam, collapsed to the ground, Starscream quickly grabbed the Allspark and flew up to the sky, Thrustwing joined him as he flew next to the Decepticon.
"At last! The Allspark is MINE!" Starscream said before the Allspark suddenly fired a massive beam, creating a massive dome of destruction, destroying anything the dome came in contact with.
"IT'S MORE POWERFUL THAN I EVER IMAGINED!" Starscream yelled in delight as Thrustwing smiled evilly, they now had the Allspark and no one could stop them.
The dome expanded as it was nearing the Autobots and Maximal.
"Its our worst fear come to life, the Allspark in Decepticon hands" Ratchet said.
Optimus saw the Sumdac Tower and how close Starscream and Thrustwing were to it and became determined.
"Not without a fight!" he said before quickly running to the tower, he then used his axe to climb up the tower, climbing high enough to Starscream and Thrustwing as they fired another beam from the Allspark.
"Now nothing will stop me from ruling the Decepticons! And crushing the Autobots forever!" Starcscream laughed evilly.
"Remember our deal Starscream! You also use the Allspark to help the rest of my Predacon brethren become strong enough to crush any and all Maximals that stand in our way!" Thrustwing said to him.
"Oh I will Thrustwing, just as soon as we get rid of those Autobots!" Starscreamsaid before Primes axe hit his wing, he recoiled in pain before the two fliers turn to see Optimus handing on the building before he leaped off it and tackled Starscream out of the air.
"Starscream!" Thrustwing exclaimed as he was about to go help him, only for a blast of fire just missed his head, he turned to a building rooftop to see Foxhyll ontop with his blaster at the ready.
"Don't even think about it, Predacon!" the Maximal yelled.
Optimus and Starscream tumbled in the air before crashing onto two building rooftops, the Allspark landing infront of Optimus, the Autobot leader quickly grabbed it as he saw Starscream get back up, Optimus then used his grapple claw to attach to one of the nearby building before leaping off and using his cable to swing away, only for Starscream to grab him in the air and crash through the building all the way through.
Starscream now had the Allspark, but then Optimus leapt up and grabbed his leg, Starscream struggled to fly straight as Optimus climbed up him and retrieved his axe, then Starscream tries to fly around to throw Prime off, but Optimus then fired his foam cannon in Starscream's face, obstructing his vision as they then crashed into a flying blimp billboard.
The dust cloud clears to show Optimus on his back, pulling one side of the Allspark while Starscream was pulling the other, stood up as they tugged on the handles, trying to get it from the other.
"Let! Go! Autobot!" Starscream strained.
"Never! The Allspark is life!" Optimus said.
"Then let it, end yours!" Starscream said as he aimed one of his blasters at optimus, just then, the Allspark's casing opens up, showing the true Allspark before the energy lifted them both up as they still pulled, the Allspark then unleashed a massive amount of energy as Starscream screamed in pain before a massive explosion enveloped them.
Energy waves spread across the entire city of Detroit before the smoke clears to show Starscream was gone and Optimus was hanging onto his axe while holding the allspark, his axe was planted into one of the billboards.
"Starscream!" Thrustwing exclaimed, seeing his partner disappeared, he quickly took advantage of the distracted Maximal before transforming to jet mode, even with the damaged wing, he took off quickly, hoping to find Starscream.
Optimus was badly damaged as his axe slid down the billboard, before finally giving out as he fell down to the city below.
"OPTIMUS!" Windblade yelled as all the Autobots quickly changed to vehicle mode and drove to him to hopefully catch him, Foxhyll leaped down from the building he was on to transform to vehicle mode as he followed the Autobots.
Optimus yelled as he fell before crashing into the bridge below, a massive dust cloud covering his crash site.
The bots finally made it, but they were too late, they all transformed to robot mode as they approached Optimus with Sari running to him.
"Optimus?" Sari asked, hoping he was ok.
Optimus groaned in pain as the Autobots grouped around him as Foxhyll arrived.
"Foxhyll Maximize!" Foxhyll announced as he transformed to robot mode and ran to the group.
"I-is he ok?!" Foxhyll asked.
"S-So this, is what it feels like, to be a hero" Optimus said, before his colours faded and all signs of life disappeared from his body.
"Oh no…" Foxhyll said sadly.
Ratchet used a device to find any remaining life in Optimus, only to find nothing, no spark beat at all.
"There's nothing we can do now, his Spark's extinguished" Ratchet said.
Prowl kneeled by the Allspark and placed his hand on it, "He went, saving the Allspark, thats what matters" Prowl said.
"No…" Sari said as she teared up, "He can't be gone, he can't!" Sari said.
Bulkhead noticed her tearing up again, "I don't think that leaking thing's gonna help you get what you want" Bulkhead said sadly.
Sari looked to Optimus sadly, before remembering what was around her neck, "But I know something that can!" She said as she climbed onto Optimus' body.
"Sari…" Arcee began, but didn't have the spark to tell the girl that nothing could be done.
"He can't be gone now…" Foxhyll said to himself.
Sari placed her key against Optimus' chest plate, it glows before the chest opens, to reveal where Optimus' spark used to be, the key transforming into a perfect sized and shaped key for the spark chamber.
"Sari, there's something that just can't be fixed, even by your key" Bumblebee said sadly.
Sari inserted the key as blue energy sparked from it.
"Prime didn't give up, and neither will I!" Sari said determingly as she turned the key.
Suddenly, the Allspark shot out a beam of energy, the beam went into Optimus' spark chamber, soon after a few seconds Sari removed the key and the beam disappeared, and in the Spark chamber, was a Spark, Primes spark, as the spark beats and grew, the chest closes up as lights shined through the windows of the chest plate, Primes whole body glew in a white light.
All the damage disappeared and his colours came back, before Optimus groaned and opened his eyes and gasped.
"Is this, the well of Allsparks?" he asked, only to see Sari, crying tears of joy at seeing him alive again.
"No, its Detroit" Sari said as she hugged Primes face.
Bulkhead leaned down and asked, "Hey, I thought you only did that leaking thing when your sad".
Sari giggled a bit as she wiped her tears, "You guys have so much to learn about humans" she said.
"As Detroit recovers from this devastating Clash of the Titans, The Autobots and their Maximal friend prove themselves even greater heroes than first imagined, not only saving the city and perhaps the world, from the Decepticon and Predacon menace, but repairing damaged structures and damaged lives with their reassuring presence" a news report explained as camera bots showed the Autobots helping fix any damage caused by the fight with Starscream and Thrustwing.
"Fixing bridges, isn't this where we started out?" Bumblebee asked as he helped put together steel beams with his stingers while Bulkhead lifted it up.
Meanwhile in Sumdac tower, inside Professor Sumdacs personal lab, Professor Sumdac was watching the news report on his own television.
"Speaking for a grateful city, this reporter can only offer two words to our giant cybernetic protectors, thank you".
Sumdac turned off the television as he sighed in despair, "I wouldn't know where to begin thanking them," he said as he was sitting in a rather large robotic hand that seemed damaged.
He got off the hand chair before walking to leave his lab, "But if they learn the truth behind my robotics empire, will they ever forgive me?" he asked himself as he turned off the lights to his lab before leaving it.
Inside the lab sat a massive robotic head that has been tampered with through experimentation and observation, a head that belonged to only one robot in history, Megatron, it remained inactive as a single circular red eye glowed ominously.
And there ya have it, another chapter made, I hope you liked it and the first new Predacon on this story, Thrustwing, as it showed, his alt modes are a Quetzalcoatlus for Beast mode and fighter jet for vehicle mode.
Now to answer some idea questions people asked in the reviews.
Sorry about this but I will not be adding the Witwicky family as part of the main cast nor will I be adding Jack Darby, the only thing I added from Transformers Prime for now was Arcee's design.
The reason for not adding them is because I don't really see them working in this story, the same as how they weren't really important to be main characters in the actual show of Transformers Animated.
Now I will be adding more Decepticons in the future and same with Autobots, maybe some that were shown in the Allspark Almanac books, there's some interesting characters in those I tell ya and some got me very intrigued.
Now for an explanation, both Maximals and Predacons of this will have both Beast Modes and Vehicles modes to fit in better with this world I'm building, you already saw Foxhyll the Maximal who has a Fox Mode and Camaro mode and Thrustwing with his Quetzalcoatlus mode and Jet mode.
Also if your wondering these Maximals and Predacons are from Eukaris, so they don't know the entire history of Autobots and Decepticons before their time, as Autobots mostly rule Cybertron in the Animated world.
Anyways, thanks for reading and Hope you ike the next one that comes soon, make sure to add your ideas for any future chapters
