"I wonder what we are going to find here! Oh oh oh! Do you think we will find ancient human bones?," babble a certain sports car that caused all of the team; except Optimus and Ultra Magnus, to groan in annoyance.
"Smokescreen… we are on an important mission right now. Can't this wait when we are done with the mission?" an annoyed Arcee said to the rookie of their team as she and the rest of the team continued to drive towards where the origin of the signal was.
The ground bridge dropped them off to the nearest location where the signal was coming from since it was extremely hard to track its exact location.
"Agent Fowler said that this place was a giant burial site? Well… it sure doesn't seem like it because all I can see is trees and more trees" said Wheeljack with annoyance in his voice they continue to drive towards their destination.
It did not take long for them to reach their intended destination and were now staring at what looked to be a giant hole that had opened.
"Well… that is one giant hole that I have ever seen… well not that I have eve… ok, I will shut up know", stuttered Smokescreen as he felt the glare that a certain femme was sending his way that would be promised to give a huge aft beating if he did not shut the frag up.
":[Well… it looks like we won't have to climb down atleast]:," said Bumblebee as he went to what looked like a natural rock formation of stairs.
" Excellent observation Bumblebee, it is time we begin our descent. Once we get to the artifact, I will give Ratchet our coordinates so he bridges us back. But, it is imperative we stay alert… we can not allow the Decepticons to get a hold on whatever is that we are going to find down there", with that they began their descent into the dark abyss.
While the team was descending towards their destination, some of the team members took the time to look around as they were able to see fossilized bones of various creatures that had lived a long time ago, and their remains have been preserved in limestone and other sediments.
The bones that they were able to detect look to be of saber tooth tigers, monkeys, pigs, plants, and other varieties that continue to surprise Optimus.
It is a testament to how resilient this planet is and how life still can continue to thrive even when a mass extinction occurs or changes in the environment occur.
While in his past life, Orion Pax was an archivist and had a passion for learning things from the past. It was no surprise that this trait would still live on in Optimus as he scanned the rock formations, and looked to what appeared to him to be lost ancient history from earth's past.
As time went on, they managed to reach the bottom of the hole. " I still can't understand how a signal could have originated from here. I mean… all I can see in rocks all around," an annoyed Wheeljack said as they continued to trek towards where the scanner that Optimus had in his servo was leading towards the strange signal.
"I don't know about the rest of you guys but… don't you think it's strange that this signal is of unknown origins? It could just be an ancient cybertronian artifact that we have yet discovered before. I mean there may be a lot of artifacts that we are aware of from our own history? ," proposed Bulkhead because he was still not buying into the idea that this signal is from another alien civilization since his kind have been visiting this planet before and they would have noticed if another civilization hid something beneath earth's crust.
~A half an hour later~
The team continued to trek towards the signal and the conversation had died down; they were now focusing on listening for anything that might be down with them. They were now coming very closed since the scanner was starting to beep like crazy.
" Autobots look around but stay on the alert" asserted Optimus as he and the rest of the team transformed their servos into blasters and split into three teams to cover more ground.
Arcee was with Ultra Magnus, Optimus with Smokescreen, and lastly, Bumblebee was with Bulkhead and Wheeljack.
Time went on as Smokescreen and Optimus trekked through the dark, to human eyes it would be complete blackness but to cybertronians they had night vision installed in the optics that allowed them to see in the dark.
As Smokescreen continued to walk he noticed something in the corner at his optic. "Oh wow… look at that", said Smokescreen as he approached what looked to be an almost complete skeleton of a hominid. Its skeletal structure looks different yet similar to that of their human friends that were a prime example of evolution.
As he continued to look around the walls he also started to see more skeletons of hominids that seemed to differ from each other. Optimus has also noticed what Smokescreen was looking at and secretly smiled at him but they needed to continue on their main objectives. He came over and put his servo on Smokescreen which made him jump but he got the message and continued to trek along the dark corridor.
Meanwhile, Bumblebee, Bulkhead, and Wheeljack continue to look around to where the signal may be coming from. While Wheeljack and Bulkhead continued to look around the cavern that they had found.
As Bumblebee was looking to see if the signal was coming from the walls and was waving around the scanner. As he continued to wave the scanner around he noticed that the scanner was beeping like crazy in a certain spot in the wall.
He began to tear through the wall until it led to an opening where it led towards a big cavern and what looked to be a structure that looked to a portal of some sort. "[: Hey guys I found where the signal was coming from!:], said Bumblebee through his commlink to alert the others to his location.
Bulkhead and Wheeljack rushed over to where Bumblebee was and could not help but stare at what they were seeing.
"Bulkhead informs the Boss bot and the rest of your friends because I for sure as scrap don't know what I am seeing here", Wheeljack informed his wrecker friend as he still had his optics glue to the strange structure that Bumblebee had uncovered.
Some time later~
"Okay… now that is not cybertronian but what could it be?" asked Smokescreen the obvious questions as they approached the strange structure.
Ultra Magnus was able to spot what looked like strange glyphs carved into the structure, and did a quick database to see if it was in any known language that they know off… but came up as unknown
"Sir… this language is not on any database to be translated and appears that this is the structure that was producing the signal," stated Ultra Magnus as he was looking at the structure with a scrutinizing gaze and was able to spot what looked like a pad with a strange glyph that he did not know what it meant. It appears that the structure was inactive no matter what they did to get it to jumpstart.
The structure appears to be some sort of portal but instead of having the portal upright as they have with the ground bridge it was facing down on the floor and was bigger than the Decepticon warship which was a large structure in its own right.
"Ummm… Optimus sir, how are we going to transport this back at base", asked the big green wrecker of their team because it was apparent that they would not be able to transport the artifact let alone be able to move it.
"Well, it's not like we can go ask the Decepticons and say please can we use your ships without you trying to offlines us", said Wheeljack in a very sarcastic voice because even he knew that the Jackhammer will not be able to carry a lot of weight and let alone be able to get in this location without having to blow a bigger hole through the ceiling in order to even be able to move the strange portal.
But… before they could ponder anymore, the roof started to collapse and giant rocks were sent tumbling right below as the team dodge the falling boulders by transformers back into their alt modes.
The opening towards where they have come from also started to collapse until they were trapped in.
As the dust started to settle light was coming through from above and all the Autobots looked up and were meant with the Nemesis flying right above them.
They could make tiny specks that started to become larger and transformed and came crashing down and dust has spread everywhere shielding them from view but a familiar voice came from the dust that sent worry into the sparks of the Autobots and their leader.
" Well if it isn't Optimus Prime, did you really think that you were the only one that has found that signal!" bellowed a familiar voice as Megatron and the Decepticons appeared from the dust.
" I will not let you get your hands on this artifact, Megatron, it does not belong to you. I will not let the artifact fall into your clutches to fuel your war!" bellowed Optimus as he had activated his face mask and turned his servos into blasters and the rest of his team followed soon after.
"Spared me your pathetic speech, Optimus, for once I have not come for you but rather the artifact that you were so kind to have found for me," mocked Megatron as his army activated their blasters and pointed at the Autobots.
" I will not let you and your pathetic team stand in my way!" bellowed Megatron as he and the rest of his Decepticons powered up their blasters with the Autobots as well and started running towards each other and met each other head-on as the battle began to commence.
