Episode 4

Home Is Where The Spark Is

It was night time in Detroit, a bell tower went off indicating the time of night, an armored truck soon left Detroit City bank filled with money to be transported, as it does, a figure on a rooftop watched on.

This figure was dressed to look almost like the Earth legend known as Robin Hood, only this human had an orange mechanical gauntlet on his left arm and a green eye mask over his face, he also had 2 front teeth poking out of his mouth, as soon as the truck stopped at a stop light, he readies his bow with an arrow that had a metal gadget on the tip instead of being a normal arrow, before firing that arrow as he shouted.

"Tally-ho!" the gadget turns into a magnet as it attached to the truck while a rope was attached to the arrow, the archer then uses the rope to slide down like a zip line with his bow acting as handles, he lands on the truck as it then drives off, the archer then fires another arrow at the roof of the truck, its gadget became a laser cutter as it made a circular hole, the guards inside were to shocked to do anything as the archer readies 2 more arrows.

"Stand and Deliver, Old Sport" The Archer said before the arrow gadgets turned into metal fists, he fires them and knocks out the guards with the fist arrows.

The archer then takes many bags of money and ties them around his waist.

"Forsooth! The Angry Archer is victorious!" the Angry Archer exclaimed, only for multiple police cars to be following the truck with sirens blaring.

The Angry Archer tries to see any way of escape, he then sees a Firetruck with its own sirens going off, he quickly uses his magnet arrow on it, before his arrow bacg sprouted metal wings, he then jumped up and glided over to the truck, he lands before laughing in victory.

"Hahaha! Victory is mine! Young police would ner stop a fire truck, from speeding to an emergency!" he said.

"Only one problem with that theory"

The Angry Archer was confused with the sudden new voice before the Firetruck stopped in its tracks, launching the Angry Archer off before the truck started to transform, "You're the emergency!".

The Angry Archer gasps as the truck reveals to be Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots, Optimus grabs Angry Archer as the human criminal struggles in his grasp, "Unhand me! Metallic ruffian!" he then got his hands free before firing his magnet arrow onto a nearby lamppost, the rope attached to him starts pulling him away.

"Tally-Ho and fare thee well!" he said before flying out of Optimus' hand.

Optimus quickly acts as he throws his axe and cuts the rope, stopping Angry Archers escape, the archer grunts angrily before firing an arrow at Optimus, the autobot dodges, only for the arrow to hit a car behind him and explodes, setting the car on fire, Prime acts quickly as he puts out the fire with his fire extinguishers, he sees Angry Archer running, before firing his new twin bolas as they catch and wrap around Angry Archer.

Police soon arrive as Optimus has the criminal in the air, holding him by one of the bola ropes.

"Vexing fate be a harsh mistress! I was to be rich! I was to be famous!" Angry Archer yelled.

"Looks like you'll just have to settle with famous" optimus said as camera bots recording and took pictures of his victory.

The next day, Prowl is seen hanging upside down in a tree, in a park, watching a little yellow bird mind its business, he then sees a black and white cat quietly stalk the bird before laying on the branch, pretending to sleep as the bird sees it, after the bird turns away, the cat stays still as Prowl observes, then as the bird takes a few steps on the branch, the cat catches the bird by its tail as the bird panics, Prowl gasps at this, he was very impressed.

"Fascinating" he said, but then flashes of camera's appear, making the cat and bird flee in opposite directions as camera bots took pictures of Prowl.

"Hey everybody over here, its one of the autobots!" a man said before a crowd starts to approach, Prowl groans in annoyance before disappearing. Making the crowd of people look in confusion on where he went.

Meanwhile in the new autobot's base, the Autobots were placing some new stuff they got for their base inside.

"Our new home is coming together nicely" Optimus said as he and Bumblebee lifted a ginormous TV onto a stand they made from some large tired and a old metal canister, Bulkhead sets down some concrete that resembles a couch big enough for the autobots ti sit in.

Ratchet was working on some wiring for the massive TV.

"If we had it my way we would never leave!" Racthet said, "Its not safe out there! They're always watching, waiting" he said.

"The Decepticons?" Optimus asked.

"No! Those annoying camera bots!" Ratchet said before plugging two wires together.

"What?!" Bumblebee said as the TV was set down and on, showing Optimus' victory from the last night.

"No way! Being a star rocks! If the titanium alloy plating fits! Wear it! And, I make it look good!" Bumblebee said as he showed to like the attention.

"You guys got it easy" Bulkhead said as he put tome tires together, "All people want me to do is break stuff, I got a sensitive side to you know" Bulkhead said, "...breaking stuff is kind of fun".

"Either way, there's a lot to learn about this planet, so we'll just have to roll with it" Optimus said before Prowl enters through the open roof, he grunts before walking away to his own room.

"I guess Prowl didn't get the memo about, rolling with it" Bumblebee said.

Prowls room was styled like a japanese styled room, with bonsai trees in plant boxes and a massive tree in the center, his room also had no roof as the tree rose above it.

The door, which was a paper door,rises up as Optimus walks in, "Prowl, you got a nano click?" Optimus asked.

Prowl stayed silent as he observes the tree with some birds in it, "Everything ok? I mean, you wanna talk?" Optimus asked.

"No" Prowl said immediately.

"Oh" Optimus said as he looked around the room, "You know, you could have another room, one with a roof" Optimus said.

"I like, this room" Prowl said, "All this organic life, this Nature, it refuses to be contained" Prowl explained.

Bumblebee peeks into Prowls room as he listening.

"Such a force of will, but everyone here is blind to it, they all rush to see everything, but never sit still long enough to experience what is around them, just this morning, I observed one organic creature, stalk another with such grace, such stillness" Prowl said as he slowly reached out to a brown bird on a branch of the tree, only to be interrupted Bumblebee pops in between him and the tre, scaring the bird away.

"Anybody else smell fried circuitry around here?" Bumblebee joked, "Heh get it? Fried circuitry, haha! As in yours!" Bumblebee teases before knocking on Prowls head, who was very much angry, "Uh hello? Anybot home?" he teased more before Prowl leaps away into the tree.

"What? What'd I say?" Bumblebee asked, clueless.

Optimus then heard his commlink go off, "Optimus come in, Foxhyll calling in" Foxhyll's voice came from the comm.

"I'm here Foxhyll, what's up?" Optimus asked.

"Could you and Bulkhead come over to the docks and help carry all the stuff from my ship to base?" he asked.

"Can't you just carry it one at a time?" Optimus asked.

"Prime, if Starscream is still around and a Predacon is on the loose, I'm not risking multiple trips and leading the preds to my ship, Besides, I want my crew safe, the ships defenses are offline so they have no way of defending themselves if the Preds or Starscream come back and find them" Foxhyll explained.

Optimus sighs before answering, "Me and Bulkhead will be over soon".

"Thanks Boss bot, also I should let you know, Arcee went to the skate park again" Foxhyll said.

"Again? Why does she keep going there?" Optimus asked.

"Don't know, but she loves driving over there, anyway, see you here, Foxhyll out" Foxhyll said before the comm went offline.

Meanwhile at Sumdac tower, Sari was outside her fathers private lab with a cup of tea.

"Dad? Dad, you in there?" Sari asked as she pressed the control panel next to the door.

"Access denied" The automated voice said.

"Duh!" Sari said, she knew she wasn't allowed in, "Dad?" she asked as the screen showed her father asleep on his desk, she saw a faint red glow inside the room, "What's that?" she asked as she leaned close, her key reacting as it tried interacting with the panel's keyhole, she saw this and grabbed it, "Whoa, check that out!" she said before smirking, she inserts the key as the voice starts glitching.

"Acces denied- Access-Access- Granted" it said before the door opens, Sari just sees the lab is dark, she only takes a few steps before being surprised by her father who yawns.

"Now now Sari, you know no one, including you, is allowed in my private lab, rules are rules" Professor Sumdac said.

"Good morning to you too dad" Sari said cheerfully as she presented the cup of tea to him, "I brought you a cup of tea".

"Oh thank you thank you, but I am not thirsty" Sumdac said before grabbing the cup and drinking the entire cup in one drink.

Sari looks at him skeptifully, "Hmm, when was the last time you ate?" she asked before Sumdac put the cup on the plate she held.

"What is today?" he asked, making Sari giggle, "Let's get you some breakfast" she said.

"Oh but Sari I am not hungry" Sumdac said before his stomach growled loudly, "Well, perhaps just an apple" he said as Sari led him out of his lab, "Or a banana, better put, a whole fruit salad, and waffles, with bacon, oh and cheese.." as they walk away, the doors close with left over allspark energy, the energy travels through the wires and circuits before entering Megatron's head, soon hs starts activated.

"A-Autobot-Mega-Mega-Megaaaa-zzz, I am, Megatron!I-I-I-on!" his voice glitched before he fully came online, he saw his new environment..

"What happened?" he asked, "Where am I?" he asked before seeing his severed hand, "Where is my body?!" he demanded.

"How long have I been offline?! What kind of antiquated system am I hooked up into?!" he asked before one of the screens in the lab turned on to show the battle between Starscream, Thrustwing and the Autobots and Foxhyll from a week ago.

"I defeated Megatron! I planted the device that overloaded his circuitry, his fate was sealed before he even reached your ship!"

After hearing that, Megatron sent a massive electric charge through the many wires attached to him in rage, "STARSCREAM!" The electrical charge shatters the lights above him as well as make many machines in the room let out smoke from his charge of anger.

"...They don't even know I'm alive" he realised as he watched more recorded footage, "This cannot be happening, the Allspark finally within my reach, and I have no hands to grasp it!" he said before one of the smaller robotic arms in the room moves to his will, he moves it to pick up a small robot on Sumdac's desk, "Hmm, perhaps I'm not as immobile as I thought" he said, "There might be more than one way to locate the Allspark" he said as he brought the small robot over to his head as he studied it.

"And destroy all who dare oppose me!" he said as he then managed to take control of the small robot, it had four legs and a single optic as its eye glows red.

Meanwhile at the docks, Foxhyll was in vehicle mode with a trailer attached to him as it carried some gadgets from his ship, while Optimus, who had a trailer attachment now, carried some bigger gadgets from his ship and Bulkhead was carrying some more gadgets before putting them in Optimus' trailer.

"Thanks for helping me out Optimus, this stuff will let me communicate with Essilion 12 back at the base and keep tabs on my crew without going to the ship directly" Foxhyll said.

"No problem Foxhyll, you're a part of the team now, we help each other" Optimus said as Bulkhead loads up the last of the devices.

"That's all of it," Bulkhead said.

"Thanks Bulkhead" Foxhyll said.

"Why don't you bring your crew back to the base? Wouldn't it be easier to keep tabs on them at the base rather than leave them in the ship?" Bulkhead asked.

"Well...I will eventually, when the base is, more equipt I guess" Foxhyll said, "Now let's get Arcee and head back to base" Foxhyll said as Bulkhead transformed to vehicle mode and they drive away from the docks, heading to the skate park.

At the Detroit Skate Park, Arcee was once again doing stunts with the park's ramps, quickly transforming in the air and posing before going back to vehicle mode and driving around.

"Arcee! Do the bigger ramp!" one of the skater kids said as they point to a large ramp, Arcee sees it and she revs up.

"Heh, no problem!" Arcee said before her tires screeched before she drove towards it at full speed, as she climbs up the ramp, she flies into the air, she quickly spins in the air before coming back down, perfectly landing onto the ramp and driving onto solid ground, the kids in the skate park cheered as Arcee turned to robot mode and smiles at the attention before a truck horn gets her attention, she sees Optimus, Bulkhead and Foxhyll waiting by the parks entrance she turns to the kids and waves.

"Gotta go, see ya" she said before running to the bots and transforming to vehicle mode.

"Had fun?" Optimus asked.

"Optimus, I haven't had this much fun in ages, Cybertron wasn't as fun as Earth is" Arcee said as they drove on the road, she popped a wheelie in excitement.

"Easy Arcee, I know you're having fun, but you still need to keep a low profile, the Decepticons could still be out there" Optimus said.

"Don't worry Optimus, I'm being careful, what kind of Decepticon would hang around a Skate Park anyway?" Arcee asked.

Back at Sumdac Tower, Sari was being taught by her tutor bot, she was very bored.

"The quadratic formula can best be expressed in terms of, X= -B + or - the square root of b squared - 4AC over 2 A" the tutor bot explained.

Sari had no idea what that meant before she pulled out her phone and inserted her key into it, suddenly she was able to call Bumblebee through the autobots commlink.

"EH?!" he felt his commlink go online without him activating it as he heard Sari.

"Bumblebee? Cool, it's me Sari" Sari said through her phone.

"Sari? How did you get in my commlink frequency?" Bumblebee asked, confused.

"With my key! It's wicked cool!" Sari said before noticing the tutor bot was staring at her, "Um, gotta go, see you tonight!" she said.

"Sari, please give me that key" Tutor bot said before Sari smirked and grabbed her key and it configured, already knowing what she was gonna do with it.

Back in Sumdacs lab, one of the two little robots was roaming around his desk.

"For weeks I could not get these pocket bots to work, and now" he said as he picked it up and examined it, "Hmm, I must have fixed it in my sleep" Sumdac said to himself before he set the pocket bot done, "Or…" he then went to one of his monitors as it turns on, showing his daughter.

"Um, hi dad" she said nervously.

"Sari, have you tinkered with anything in my lab by any chance?" he asked.

"I never tinker with your stuff" Sari said half truthfully, it was true she never messed with his stuff, only just recently has she begun with her key, example being her tutor bot was glitching thanks to her key as she used the key on it.

"U-Um besides, I've been too busy helping the Autobots and Foxhyll settle into their secret lair" Sari said.

As soon as she said that, Megatron secretly turns on his left optic to spy in the conversation.

"I was just going over there now," Sari said.

"And where is this secret lair?" Sumdac asked.

"If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret" Sari said before she noticed her tutorbot getting even more glitchy, "Uh, gotta go!" she said before the screen turned off.

Sumdac then notices one of the Pocket bots was missing, "I could have sworn there was one more of these Pocket Bots" he said, searching in a nearby trash can, "Where could it have gone to?" he asked himself.

Little did he know, the Pocket bot was under Megatron's control as it traveled through a vent, and used a laser to cut through the grate, then it scurries around in the room Sari was, she was packing stuff in her backpack before she got bored of the tutorbot glitching, she used her key to turn it off, not noticing the Pocket Bot snuck into her bag as she puts her flashlight in her bag.

"Secret base, here I come" She said as she put her bag on her back.

Later on Sari arrived at the base as Foxhyll was setting up his devices from his ship with help from Ratchet and Windblade, the others were watching a program on the TV as Prowl was watching a documentary, explaining nature, he was currently watching a part about a caterpillar.

"As the caterpillar hangs very still in the chrysalis, inside the cocoon, a marvelous transformation occurs" the Documentary narration explained as Prowl watched.

"Fascinating" Prowl said, as he watched, the program suddenly changed to something loud and bright, Prowl growled in annoyance.

"Mind if we watch something that won't bore us into stasis lock?" Bumblebee said as he changed the channel, "Don't be such a stick Prowl!" he said as he posed playing air guitar, "Oh wait, I forgot, your all about stillness" Bumblebee said, not noticing Prowl crouched on his arms and legs, when he turned, Prowl then pounced, pushing Bumblebee to the ground as he was on top of him.

"You should try it sometime," Prowl said before leaping into the air and landing on top of a crane with a large magnet on it.

"Whoa, looks like someone forgot to defrag his hard drive" Bulkhead said.

"Don't get your circuits in a bunch Prowl! It's just a Slammer Party" Bumblebee said.

"That's Slumber Party, also known as, the sleepover" Sari said as she set down her bag and took out her sleeping bag and went to the autobots.

Inside the bag, Megatron spied through his controlled Pocket bot, "It's where a bunch of friends get together and hang out all night" Sari explains as Megatron listens in.

"So, where do we hang, this out?" Optimus asked as he held Sari's sleeping bag.

"You don't hang it out, you sleep in it" Sari said as she giggled a bit from the autobots misunderstanding what she meant, "Only the first rule of a sleepover is, no one sleeps!" she explained.

"This Earth stuff is hard," Bulkhead said as he scratched his helm, confused, not noticing the Pocket bot sneaking past him.

"You Autobot fools are the keepers of the Allspark? This must be some cosmic joke" Megatron said to himself, "Search mode!" he ordered, the Pocket bot doing as he said as it started to search all around the base.

It then sees Prowl on top of the crane, standing in a meditating pose, before the ground shook, disrupting him as he tried to keep balance, only to fall to the ground, he sits up from where he fell and sees Bulkhead, struggling to, for some reason, get inside Sari's sleeping bag as he hopped around on one foot, Sari than walked over with a big bag in her hands.

"Bulkhead that's My sleeping bag, THIS is yours" she said before opening the bag, shooting out a large sheet that covered Prowl before she ran off, Prowl groaned in dismay as he just wanted some peace and quiet.

Arcee walked over to Bumblebee, "Hey Bee, don't you think your being a little harsh with Prowl? He's just trying to enjoy the planet, like I am, maybe you should lay off him for a bit?" She asked.

"Oh come on Arcee it's just a joke, it's not hurting anybody" Bumblebee said.

She sighed at this, "Alright, fine, but don't come crawling to me when he has you wrapped in your own circuits" she said before walking off to her own room in the base.

An hour later and Foxhyll's equipment was finally installed in his room thanks to Ratchet and Windblade.

"There, your now connected to your ship and its AI" Ratchet said as Foxhyll tested his new terminal as it came to life and showed a live feed to the stasis chamber in his ship, "Thanks Ratchet, and you too Windblade, I wouldn't have been able to set this all up without you" he said.

"No problem Foxhyll" Windblade said.

"Well for your sake and your crews, you better bring them here to base soon, that ship of yours has been there longer than ours, who knows how long it will take to start a leak" Ratchet said, warning Foxhyll to bring his crew to land.

"I know Ratchet, I will, just, when the time is right" Foxhyll said as he made sure the rest of his devices were working.

Windblade and Ratchet soon leave his room, "Hey Ratchet, have you noticed that Foxhyll seems, nervous? Anxious even?" she asked.

"Well ever since Starscream appeared, including being accompanied by a Predacon Foxhyll thought were gone for good, perhaps he just wants to be sure no threat is around, remember his team is in stasis, vulnerable to anything outside the pods, Processor corruption, data tampering, anything" Ratchet explained as they went to the main area of their base, seeing the rest of the bots trying to understand what the sleepover was that Sari was teaching them about.

Soon it was now the evening as the orange sky of the sunset casted over the base.

The Pocket Bot was still searching around the base, not being able to find the Allspark.

"The Allspark must be there somewhere…" Megatron said to himself as he watched through the Pocket Bots live feed.

The Pocket bot then sees Foxhyll leave his room, which intrigued Megatron, as he had not seen this robot before.

"Interesting" Megatron said to himself as he commanded the Pocket Bot to enter Foxhylls room, once coming to his terminal, the Pocket bot then turned its arms into USB poorts and plugged itself into its database, scanning through its files and showing Megatron.

"Fascinating" Megatron said, "It's not the Allspark, but this data on these Maximals and Predacons will be most useful to me, return to searching for the Allspark!" he commanded as the Pocket bot did so, leaving the terminal and continuing its search.

In the main room of the base, Sari was using her phone to make a projection of a game big enough for the bots to play.

"Ok, left hand on purple" Sari said as Bumblebee and Bulkhead struggled to move on the multicoloured tiles on the ground as they had each hand and foot on a different tile.

"So this is some kind of training exercise to boost, dexterity?" Optimus asked as he, Ratchet, Arcee and Windblade watched.

"It's a game, for fun" Sari said as her phone was choosing a colour again before it stopped on a colour, "Right foot on green" she called out before pressing a button on her phone again, making the colour wheel change again.

Bumblebee then notices Prowl walking around, about to leave the room, "Hey Prowl, your all into that balance and agility garbage, you want in on this action?" he asked, Prowl sighed, knowing he was just going to ask/insult him more if he didn't, Prowl then leaped into the air as soon as a new colour was picked, Prowl then easily landed on the colours selected as he showed great flexibility and balance, as he landed on the squares correctly, he won the game as the tiles flashed in all colours, he then leaped back up and landed on his feet before walking away to his room.

Bulkhead fell to the floor, accidentally crushing Bumblebee as Bulkhead called out to Prowl, "Hey come back!".

Bumblebee squeezed out from Bulkhead as he asked, "Whats the matter? We're not "still" enough for you?" he asked, "Y'know what fine, have a great time in there, watching the grass grow!" Bumblebee said.

Soon it was getting darker as night approached , the Pocket Bot had searched all around the base with nothing else to report other than the info from Foxhyll's terminal.

"The search is futile, no sign of the Allspark anywhere" Megatron said as the live feed showed an overview of the Autobots and Foxhyll, minus Prowl, sitting around as Sari held a flashlight under her face, "Better to destroy you Autobots and download its location from your lifeless shells, and perhaps examine the inner workings of your Maximal friend" Megatron said.

Back at the Autobot base, it was night time as Sari was telling the Autobots a scary story, "And the old man suddenly vanished! With a cackle of evil laughter" Sari said dramatically.

"And the point of this story is?" Ratchet asked.

"You're always supposed to tell scary stories at a Slumber Party," Sari said.

"Well, I-I'm not feeling scared" Bumblebee said, covering up his fear with bravado.

"Wait for it" Sari whispered to herself as she secretly used her key on one of the assembly line machines, controlling a nearby robotic arm, "With the old man gone, the three children were now all alone in this spooky house!" Sari said dramatically, there was a horrible scraping noise" she said, making the arm grind its claw against the hard floor, making the scraping noise she described.

"You guys hear that?!" Bumblebee asked, getting even more scared.

Sari turns her key more as she extends her control on the machine.

"And behind the kids, the old man's clips, sneaked up and-" she said before the arm grabbed Bumblebee who was shaking like a leaf.

In Prowl's room, he heard Bumblebee scream in fright as he sighed, not even in his own room can he get peace from Bumblebee.

Sari laughed as Bumblebee struggled in the grasp of the robot arm, "Too sweet! You shoulda heard yourself scream Bumblebee, you big scaredy bot!" she teased as Bumblebee was freaking out,the other bots were confused, with Arcee struggling to not laugh while Windblade shook her head.

"Laugh now child, I will show you true fear!" Megatron said as he commands his little spy.

The Pocket Bot then goes over to an old Factory terminal, its hands turn into drills before digging into the control panel.

Sari used her key to release Bumblebee, not before the claw smacked him on the head.

"Sari, how are you doing that?" Optimus asked.

"Its my key, it doesn't just fix Autobots, I can do all kinds of other stuff with it too" Sari said.

With the Pocket bot, its wires were now plugged into the holes it made as Megatron took control of the machines, turning them on, while suddenly turning of the base's lights, scaring Bumblebee as he covered his head for anything to happen.

Everyone looked in confusion, Sari then said, "Uh, THAT wasn't me".

Soon, purple laser lights activated and many of the factory's robot arms started moving.

A hydraulic press activates as it pressed down onto the assembly line, not really pressing anything down, then a machine that has a bolt gun attached to it, starts firing nuts and bolts everywhere.

"Take cover!" Ratchet said, before he and Bumblebee were grabbed and thrown into a hard wall, "What's happening?!" Bumblebee asked as they laid on the ground.

As a laser passed Bumblebee, he dodges a stream of flames that was from a flamethrower attachment on one of the robot arms, only to dodge incoming bolts from the bolt gun arm, Sari runs away from one of the laser lights, only to be chased by another as she tries to escape, however she didn't notice a bolt gun aimed at her, she notices too late as it fires its contents, miraculously, she manages to dodge every bolt and screw fired at her before she ran, the bolt gun kept firing atheras she tried to escape, then Optimus ran in and grabbed her and held her in his hands as he escaped the incoming bolts.

Sari looked to her key before saying, "Ok, this id definetly NOT me!" she said.

Optimus passes Prowl who had come to see what all the noise was as Prime hid behind the wall.

"This party is getting out of-" Prowl didn't finish as he narrowly dodged the incoming bolts before Ratchet came and used his magnets as he generated a shield to block the bolts, letting Optimus and Prowl run to avoid getting shot.

Two robot arms then grabbed some gas tanks before they set them off, shooting them like missiles.

[Idk if they are gas or propane tanks or whatever so don't ask]

The gas tanks then flew at Ratchet, who couldn't block it as he received massive damage, parts of his body cracked and sparking.

Optimus and Prowl came over to him, "Ratchet! You alright?" Optimus asked.

"Forget about me! Somebody's got to shut down that assembly line!" Ratchet said.

Bumblebee then used the wheels attached to his feet to drive and avoid anymore incoming attacks, "This looks like a ob for wheels on heels!" he said, before an incoming gas tank crashes in his path, sending him in the air before he crashed on to one of the assembly lines, the arms try to keep him down as they surround him, only for the yellow bot to transform to vehicle mode and escape, driving off the assembly line and doing his best to avoid being shot by bolt guns, only for his rear to get burned by the flamethrowers.

"HOT! HOT! HOT!" he said as he turned to robot mode.

Arcee had transformed to Vehicle mode as she drove away from any attacks drawn to her, she used one of the conveyor belts to outspeed some robot arms trying to grab her, before quickly transforming to robot mode and grabbed one of the arms to flip into the air, dodging more attacks before landing and ran, "Can't keep dodging these for ever!" she said.

Windblade saw some gas tanks coming for her before using her turbines to blow them into different directions.

Foxhyll had transformed to beast mode as he tried to avoid being attacked, only to be grabbed by some of the robot arms, he growls before turning to vehicle mode, destroying the arms that grabbed him in the process before driving away and turning back to Beats mode.

Bulkhead used his strength and size to overpower the robot arms that attacked him as he rips them apart, "Who needs sensitive! Smashing stuff IS fun!" Bulkhead said.

"Thick bolted moron, let me crush that smile off your face!" Megatron said as he commands the machines.

"Lasers pointed at him before more robot arms tried to grab him, Bulkhead smashes the first ones, only for more to grab him and slam him onto one of the assembly lines, the one with the hydraulic press, the assembly line starts bringing him to it as the arms kept him in place.

"That can't be good," Bulkhead said as the press then tried to crush him, only for Bulkhead to stop it using his arms and legs to push against it.

"Hang on Bulkhead!" Optimus said as he ran to the assembly line and jumped before transforming to vehicle mode, he landed on it before turning his cabs sides into his robot mode arms and holding onto the bottom of the machine, he started to drive on the conveyor belt.

As he drove on the machine, he started to bring back Bulkhead as the conveyor belt was pulled back and flying off the machine.

However the tower with the magnet attachment comes over and started to magnetize Optimus, it was strongly pulling him off the conveyor belt, Optimus had to transform to robot mode fully to resist, only to be pulled into the air and onto the magnet, preventing him from moving.

Bulkhead was than dragged back under the press before he once again pushed against it, stopping it from flattering him, "Nuts and bolt!" Bulkhead groaned as he struggled.

Meanwhile, Prowl stood absolutely still as nothing attacked him, "Everyone! Stand still" Prowl informed everyone, however Bumblebee sped past him.

"Forget stillness! We need action!" He said as he skated along, only to miss some gas tanks before some arms targeted him.

"Its all connected to motion sensors! Stand still!" Prowl said.

Those who weren't grabbed or trapped stayed still, Ratchet strained as sensors laid on him and his injured body, two arms above him then suddenly grappled each other, he looked to see Sari using her key to mess with the machines as he walked away from the arms.

"About time you used that thing for something useful" Ratchet said with a thankful smile as the arms pulled themselves apart.

The pocket bot watched on as Megatron commanded, "Zoom in on Quadrant 45-67".

The pocket bot's optic zoomed in on some tankers filled with oil in the corner of the room surrounded by fire.

"Lets finish this!" Megatron said as he made a robot arm open one of the oil tankers, leaking oil as it slowly traveled towards the fire.

"If I can make it to the control panel, I can shut this all down!" Prowl said as he stood still, with motion sensors on him as he focused on a path to the control panel, with quick movement, the sensors left him before he leapt with speed, before landing on the ground as sensors landed on him, "Stillness" he said before the sensors left him, "And strike!" he then ran and jumped, quickly transforming to narrowly avoid some sensors, he landed and transformed back to robot mode and crouched as sensors laid on him again, "Stillness…" the sensors left, "And strike!" he then jumped up before using the piping above him to swing around, he avoids some sensors and lands on the ground, just in front of the control panel, where the Pocket Bot laid as Megatron watched as more sensors laid on Prowl.

"The motion sensors may be blind to you Autobot, but I am not!" Megatron said as he commanded some robot arms to fire some gas tanks.

Before Prowl could move, the gas tanks head straight for him, Foxhyll, who was standing still, saw this and panicked, "Prowl! Look out!" he said as he reached out his paw on instinct, accidentally touching a motion sensor before it grabbed him by his neck and threw him to a wall.

Prowl noticed too late as the gas tanks blasted him away, more robot arms appeared and grabbed his entire body and lifted him into the air.

"NOOOO!" Prowl yelled as he struggled to get out, he sees Bumblebee still free as Arcee and Windblade were busy pushing against some robot arms that managed to catch them.

"It's up to you now Bumblebee, remember, Stillness" Prowl said.

"From Bumblebee?! We're dead!" Bulkhead strained to say as he still pushed against the press.

"N-Not the time for jokes Bulk!" Arcee said as more arms tried to grab her as she did her best to escape them while stoll holding back the one pair of robot arms trying to grab her.

"Go for the control panel! Stillness, and strike, just like the earth creature!" Prowl said.

"Incase you havent noticed, I'm not the one who spends all his time staring at Earth creatures!" Bumblebee complained

"Not the time Bee!" Windblade said as two robot arms tried grabbing her by the turbines, only to be destroyed as she used her turbines to crush the arms that grabbed them.

"Just, listen to me, and focus! Wait for the right time!" Prowl said.

Bumblebee then focused, he waited for the signal.

"Ready" Prowl said, then the lights that were on him moved, "Go!".

Bumblebee then moved, skating around as he avoided any nearby lasers.

"Stop!", Bumblebee did so as some motion sensors landed on him, then they left, "GO!" he then sped off before lying back first and used all four of his wheels to get to the control panel faster.

"Antiquated Machines! Destroy him!" Megatron ordered as gast tanks exploded infront of Bumblebee, making a smoke cloud, then Bumblebee drove out in vehicle mode as he zoomed through.

Bulkhead was started to lose his strength as the press slowly was coming down on him.

"H-Hurry...little buddy!" Bulkhead said weakly.

"Hurrying's what I'm good at!" Bumblebee said before he drove up the steps to the control panel, then transforming to robot mode and landing on top of the control panel.

"From one machine to another, eat crankcase oil!" Bumblebee said before punching into the controls, then ripping out its wires, soon all the machines of the assembly line shut down, freeing all the bots in the room.

"Everyone ok?" Windblade asked as Arcee helped up Foxhyll, who coughed, still in beast mode.

"Hang on, Foxhyll, Maximize!" Foxhyll said before turning to robot mode, rubbing his neck before saying, "I'll live" he said.

"Not for long Maximal, you and the Autobots victory shall be fleeting!" Megatron said as the oil from earlier inched closer to the fire.

"The Fuel tanks, they're gonna blow!" Optimus exclaimed, getting everyone to notice as they acted quickly.

Prowl launched his shurikens on the support beams of the fuel tank, separating it from the frame, then Optimus used his grapple hooks to grab it, then launch it into the air, Bulkhead, punched it into the air further before Ratchet used his magnets to launch it out of the skylight, breaking it as the fuel caught fire, the flames spreading to the trail to the tank in the sky before it exploded.

Everyone then relaxed as the Assembly line was trashed, Sari looked to hey key and wondered out loud, "So if my key didn't do this, then what did?" she asked.

Soon she notices the Pocket bot trying to walk away before Optimus grabbed it.

"Whatever it was, it was smart enough to merge the security motion sensors with the assembly line" Ratchet said before Optimus showed the Pocket bot.

"I think this might be the culprit" Optimus said as everyone saw the Pocket Bot.

"A robotic design merging organic and mechanical, fascinating" Prowl said before it escaped from Prime.

"Catch that thing!" Windblade said.

"We need to examine it!" Optimus said, just as the Pocket bot was about to leave the room, Bulkhead jumped onto it and slammed his hand over it.

"Got it!" Bulkhead said as he brought it up, only to reveal with was now just broken and small parts, "Oh, right, examine it" Bulkhead said.

"Well, I'm just glad it's over" Foxhyll said as he sat down on the ground and let his body relax.

Back in Sumdacs lab, Megatron was furious as his energy broke many parts of the machines in the room.

"I had them! They should have been destroyed! I cannot remain in this unacceptable, operational status, I need a body!" Megatron yelled in fury before calming down, "Perhaps it is time I revealed a little more of my Cybertronian technology, to Professor Sumdac" Megatron said, already hatching new evil plans for the future.

The next day, Prowl and Bumblebee were playing the game Sari showed yesterday.

"Be still, focus, relax" Prowl said.

"I am all about, Stillness" Bumblebee said as the game played on.

"Right servo on orange" Sari said as Bumblebee did so.

Foxhyll then turned to Optimus, "Prime, after last night, I did some thinking, perhaps I should bring my team mates stasis pods here." he said, surprising Optimus.

"Really? Even after what happened last night?" he asked.

"Well it got me thinking, if the factory itself gave us this trouble, if we modified it to be a security system FOR us instead of AGAINST us, my team would be very protected against anyone who would want to harm them" Foxhyll explained.

Optimus thought about that, the Assembly line did make short work of them if it weren't for Prowl and Bumblebee, if used against Decepticons and Predacons, their base would be very protected.

"Hmm, I see your point" Optimus said, "So, when will you be bringing your team up?" he asked.

"Soon Prime, soon" Foxhyll said as they watched Prowl and Bumblebee play the game.

And there we have it, the fourth chapter is done.

Now to explain some things, I may not be able to post Along Came a Spider on time with Halloween as it is the Halloween episode, due to my job and work and how long these chapters take to make, plus I want to get to making some original chapters too with some new characters.

Also for those who asked, no Beast Wars Megatron will not be appearing in this, as the Maximals and Predacons in this story, aren't directly a part of the Beast Wars cast, only partly, I might make some type of crossover episode with Beast Wars when it comes to it.

Now to explain something else, I've been looking through the Allspark Almanac and notice many characters with missed opportunities in this Animated universe, so I will be using some of them, plus I will be changing most outcomes in this story, more so on the end of the series and such, but no spoilers until it comes to it, and I have been looking through some Transformers Animated comics, so I will be referencing those when I can.

Also to point out, this is not the only story I work on, I work on others and want to get those stories chapters done too, so don't pester me on if this stories chapters are done yet when I'm writing something else

Anyways thanks for reading and hope you will like the next chapter, Total Meltdown.