Chapter 2: A battle and a rescue

Somewhere in deep space, in an Autobot ship, 6 Autobots are roaming around. These 6 Autobots are Whirl, Jazz, Perceptor, Hound and their CO's, Kup and Ironhide. Ironhide, in the bridge, asks Jazz if there are any energon signatures in this system. Jazz responds saying "Me and Percy found an energon signature down there. But there's a problem as small as Whirl's brain." Whirl says "Hey!", but Ironhide says "Shut up Whirl! Now, what's this problem?" Jazz says "Well…the energon signature is the life kind and not the consumable kind. And…it's a Decepticon life signature along with a ship." Kup tells them to shield their signature and head down. "We need that energon Ironhide. We have to attack." Kup says. Ironhide agrees but tells Jazz to instead use the ship's gun and do an aerial attack. Kup is hesitant for a bit, but eventually agrees.

Jazz shields their signature, and goes to the planet but suddenly a missile hits their ship and they crash land. They use the last of the energy in the ship to identify where it came from, and the missile came from the Decepticons who had actually already scanned them. They get a visual image for a few minutes, and they see the Decepticon who shot them down were 4 out of the 5 Decepticon Juggernauts. The members of the Decepticon Juggernauts were Tanktop who becomes a tank and is the leader, Triplecon who can divide himself into 3 and transformers into a spaceship, Pulse who becomes a truck and is the medic, Airstrike the jet and Techy, the smarty with a shoulder missile launcher. They saw Techy fired the shot and everyone was there except for Triplecon but they didn't mind it. The screen went out, they scavenged leftover energon and tried to configure a plan. Perceptor says he can send a mini satellite into the atmosphere that has enough energy to find the Juggernauts and send their location to them and we can launch an assault on them. Kup says, "Do you really think we can stand up to the Decepticon Juggernauts? Those guys are right up there with the con's leaders, phase sixers and triple changers. What chance would we have?" Hound says they actually don't have to fight, but instead just find a way to distract the juggernauts long enough to steal their ship but says someone will have to stay behind. Kup volunteers, saying "Welp, I've experienced too many battles in my lifetime. I think my time has come to help the next generation survive. I volunteer to stay behind and distract the Juggernauts for you guys to hijack the ship." They are all hesitant to let Kup do it, but eventually they decide to execute the plan.

A few hours later, they go near the ship and start firing to get the attention of the Juggernauts. They eventually do, and they tackle Kup but Kup gets farther while shooting. Meanwhile, in the Juggernauts camp, they get inside the beaten ship. Perceptor tries to fix it but he can't, suddenly they hear big footsteps. It's Tanktop right behind them. They show Kup's beaten body and throw it sideways. Ironhide says "Perceptor! Get it fixed or send a message! There might be an autobot nearby!" While shooting. Whirl and Hound also go outside the ship, fighting with Ironhide. Perceptor sends a signal calling for help. Eventually the Juggernauts decide to go all out and rampage the Autobots, destroying each and every one of them, but leaving them healthy enough to witness Tanktop's speech. Tanktop says "Well, well, well, looks like we got some Autobots in the house. Well autobots, we just have one question. WHERE IS YOUR SHIP? YOUR ENERGON?" Nobody replies and Tanktop show's Kup's body which is missing a corner of his head, a beaten chest and half of each limb torn from the body and says this will be them if they don't talk. Suddenly, a ship noise comes and it's some autobots! They fire, sending Techy, Airstrike and Pulse flying. Tanktop fights with an autobot that jumped out named Roller who was the template for the autobot brute armors. Roller luckily lands a strong sucker punch and knocks out Tanktop. Roller throws the unconscious bots to Chromedome who catches them.

Days later, they wake up to the sight of Kup in a repair tube, Roller and 2 other bots they've never seen before. Ironhide asks who they are and where they are. Rewind and Chromedome introduce themselves and Roller, saying "Oh I see you're awake. I'm Rewind, a memory archivist who learned how to pilot a spaceship from a manual I recorded reading before the war started. This here is my lover, Chromedome who is a mnemosurgeon. And finally, this is Roller. One of the biggest and strongest autobots you'll ever meet. Oh, and we're heading to Cybertron. We're heading there." Ironhide asks "Cybertron? What's on Cybertron other than cold and barren wastelands?" Roller says "Haven't you heard? Cybertron is alive again. The autobots won and they're rebuilding." Ironhide says they don't really check the Galactic News. They are now on their way to Cybertron while Kup heals from his injuries.