Hello, everyone. Centurion Maximo here and welcome back to Young Justice: Their War, Our World. In the last chapter, Red Tornado receives upgrades from Amalgamous Prime and returns to the good guys, and we meet Raquel Ervin/Rocket who gets attacked by Laserbeak, Red Inferno, and Red Torpedo only to be stopped by Red Tornado's intervention.

With the Machination however, specifically T.O Morrow, he isn't really bothered by Red Tornado's apparent defection from their ranks as he brings up blueprints of a new variant of Tornado, not to mention a small container holding part of the virus within Tornado's circuitry.

On another note, I know this story's gone for a long while partly thanks to reality (Me having to work), but I'm doing the best I can. I hope to finish this story before this year's over.

Now, back to the action!

*Happy Harbor. Mount Justice. 9:00 am*

It had only been one day, and the League was happy to have Red Tornado back, but they still checked him over for any sort of malware. When they found nothing, he was given the all-clear. With that, he told them what he knew regarding the Machination and Decepticons with the Team filling him in on what occurred during his absence as well as introducing Rocket to the rest of the Team, League, and Autobots. "The Machination is still growing its ranks from all over the planet."

"What about Vandal Savage?" Wally asked curiously.

"He and the other members of the Light have gone on the run. The Machination have been hunting them down." Tornado answered.

"Hunting them down?" Artemis raised an eyebrow. "I would've thought they would've convinced the Light to ally with them."

"Guess they don't want competition, especially since they still have to fight us." Cliffjumper pointed out. "However, I have a question: What is Project: Andromeda?"

"Now that I was never told, nor did I overhear anything regarding that project of theirs." Tornado lowered his head. "But I did learn that Bludgeon has convinced the one known as Shiva to their side."

"Shiva?!" Dick exclaimed. Hell, even Batman was a little surprised hearing this. Shiva was dedicated to Ra's Al Ghul's cause. To hear she was convinced otherwise was indeed troubling. "Shiva's with the Machination now?!"

"Affirmative, as his new student." Tornado repeated. "They've also spread to Mission City."

"Wow, they don't waste any time, do they?" Oliver crossed his arms.

"Indeed, Green Arrow." Tornado added before continuing. "They are moving faster than anticipated."

"Tornado, what about the people they took from those towns?" Diana asked with hope that their robot leaguer had the answer to her question.

"I am sorry, Diana, but I do not know the answer to that, either." Tornado lowered his head. "I was not allowed anywhere near the people taken."

"So basically, we've still got nothing to go on." Bishop said, frustrated. "As if the potential 'lead' in the Amazon Jungle regarding this Blackwatch wasn't enough of a bust."

"Did you just say Blackwatch?" Tornado asked suddenly. Bishop nodded. "Now, there's something that I do know. Blackwatch is a new front organization of the Machination that's made of mostly military soldiers not happy with the way the world is currently. They don't like that we've robbed them of their duty to Earth."

"In other words, they just don't like how useless they've become." Lois rolled her eyes. "Typical."

"Hey, let's try to be optimistic here. We got two new members for the Team: Rocket and Verdant, not to mention the Forever People that while back."

"That's not going to be enough against the Decepticons." Bishop remarked. "Admittedly, you guys have been holding your own against them with our help, but they're devious."

"Agreed, Bishop." Tornado cut in. "I am just feeling… happiness to be back with my friends." Everyone smiled at his words.

"How did you get these upgrades, anyway?" Bumblebee asked curiously.

"I acquired them from Amalgamous Prime." Tornado answered bluntly.

"WHAT?!" All the Autobots except Optimus Prime exclaimed. "YOU WERE VISITED BY ONE OF THE 13?!"

"Why do I not believe that for an astro-second?" Bishop narrowed his optics.

"Oh, here we go…" Jazz groaned.

Ratchet put a hand on Bishop's left shoulder strut. "Bishop, can you not dive into another of your 'I have no hope for anything better' rants? They're getting tiresome." Bishop merely rolled his optics.

"Who is Amalgamous Prime?" Dinah asked, obviously confused.

"Amalgamous is one of the 13 Original Primes, long before the time of the Autobots and Decepticons. Over time, the legends of them were forgotten. Amalgamous Prime was the father of transformation and he's the reason that we can scan alternate forms and change into said forms." Optimus Prime brought up.

"If that's the case, why did this Amalgamous visit Red Tornado when he's not Cybertronian?" Clark voiced.

"That I don't know." Optimus admitted. "He must've sensed Red Tornado has a soul despite being a robot built by T.O Morrow."

"Now that doesn't make sense to me." Cliffjumper shrugged. "Either way, it's good to have you back, Red Tornado. It sucks that you didn't have any more important information, but welcome back anyway."

"I just can't believe what I'm seeing." Raquel admitted with wide eyes. "Living alien robots…"

"It is quite the sight for the first time you see them." Artemis smiled.

"And based on how things are going, we'll need all the help we can get." Windstrike pointed out. "Things seem to be escalating faster than we thought."

*Unknown Time. Unknown Location*

"Finally. It's complete!" T.O Morrow grinned with intense pride All of the Machination members and Decepticons were either physically present or watching on the comm systems were witnessing a historic moment for them. "May we present Project: Andromeda!" The lights revealed a massive triangular battlestation that ws space-worthy, eight heavy laser cannons, four ion cannons, ten rapid-fire blaster cannons, twenty heavy laser turrets, four photon torpedo launchers, four three circular shield generators on each triangular point, two communications arrays on the top and bottom, a command center also at the top, layers upon layers of armor plating, and even hyperspace travel capabilities.

"Now, this is truly a technological marvel…" Ivo breathed, his eyes wide with admiration. Amazo was the exact same way.

"You Machination boys really don't do anything half-assed." Harold said.

"The only problem is that we don't have an energy source." Morrow lamented. "We figure the Dragon's Eye may be the source we need."

"But we don't have the other half of it." Firefly commented.

"Leave that to me." Black Mask spoke up. "We want to get this birdie up into space before the heroes find this out. Doesn't help that Red Tornado went rogue."

"Oh, I implemented a little surprise just in case of that." Morrow gained a sinister grin.

"Soundwave, how is the interrogation of the woman faring?" Dreadwing asked.

"Interrogation is proceeding within acceptable parameters." Soundwave answered.

"Excellent." Megatron grinned. "Now, another matter is KSI has developed their own version of a Vehicon drone called the Trax, but they can't get it to transform. Does anyone have any ideas on how to rectify this little hiccup?"

Everyone looked at each other until Ivo spoke up. "I may be able to come up with something, if I can scan a T-Cog."

"Very well. One of the Vehicons will be lent to you for analysis." Megatron relented.

Suddenly, alarms went off all over. "Incoming Cybertronian signal!" Skyquake informed.

"Decepticon or Autobot?" Skywarp asked.

"You really don't remember me?" A voice asked. It was revealed to belong to a 22-foot tall robot with a dark blue humanoid robot with lime green added in with yellow eyes. He had shark features all over his chassis.

"Blackfang? Is that you, mate?" Hammerstrike asked, hope in his voice.

"Indeed, laddie." Blackfang smiled. "You'll need all the help you can get for aquatic battles~"

"We do, cause we have something big planned." Hammerstrike revealed. "I'll be seeing you soon, laddie."

*Qurac. 10:23 am*

The next day, the Team was on another mission, but this one was smaller than the last one. Windstrike was also there as backup. They were in Qurac to meet up with Marie Logan who had been doing some investigative work. "Her place should be around this area." Windstrike voiced.

"I think I see it." Miss Martian lowered the Bioship near a single cabin. The Team exited while Windstrike hopped out in her human holoform.

"Well, this is it." Techwerx commented. "Nice, for a rural area. Very rural." She wasn't really into rural spaces.

Knocking on the door, a woman with long red hair, blue eyes wearing a beige jacket, and denim jeans answered it. "Hello?"

"Marie Logan?" Windstrike asked for clarification.

"Yes." Marie responded.

"Sorry to disturb you. May we come in?" Windstrike asked.

"Oh, yes." Marie gestured while Windstrike told the Team to go ahead of her. When out of earshot, she contacted the Autobots telling them that Marie was still alive for now. Unknown to her, a single Insecticon Swarmer drone was watching her, quietly chittering to itself. Soon, it ran off to tell its comrades where Marie was.

When Windstrike entered the log cabin, the Team were talking with Marie and her son Garfield who was marveling at the Team. Seeing this got her to smile. It reminded her of better times on Cybertron before the war. M'gann was talking to Marie with a wide smile on her face while Conner just smiled goodnaturedly. Meanwhile, her son just had sparkles in his eyes about meeting heroes.

However, she then heard small explosions occurring around the cabin. "No!" She ran outside to see Stormflow, Skywarp, and Skyquake in their vehicle modes shooting missiles to the ground. "They're here!" She shouted to the others.

Meanwhile, Garfield and Superboy were in the barn helping the animals when a stray missile hit a fuel tank, exploding on impact, sending Garfield flying back a couple feet. "GARFIELD!" Marie screamed at the top of her lungs. She quickly picked up her son and ran back inside the cabin.

"He's fading fast! The nearest hospital isn't close enough, even for me!" Windstrike brought up.

"No, no, no…" Marie had tears pouring out of her eyes.

"Do we have the choice of a blood transfusion?" Kid Flash asked frantically.

"I'll do it…" Miss Martian declared. "Get everything ready!" Miss Martian actually shifted her blood type to match Garfield's. Preparing an IV tube that Windstrike brought just in case, Miss Martian transferred some of her blood into Garfield.

Garfield's eyes slowly opened, quickly realized he is naked in front of a beautiful redhead alien girl and covered himself with M'gann's cape. "Uh…." Was all he could say at the moment.

"We have to get you and your mother somewhere safe." Miss Martian reminded which Garfield nodded, his face bright red.

"We'll have to take these two out of here for now, including the livestock!" Windstrike shouted. I know a place I scoped out with Sidewinder that looks good for a potential forward base!"

"Let's do it, then!" Artemis agreed. The Team and Marie left the cabin, Garfield still in Miss Martian's arms. A ground bridge opened while Skyquake, Stormflow, and Skywarp were still firing missiles at the group. "Go, go, go!" They barely made it through the ground bridge as another explosion hit where they just stood.

*Jasper, Nevada. Autobot Forward Base Omega-1. 14:13 pm*

The Team, Windstrike, Marie, and Garfield, not to mention their livestock were at the hidden forward Autobot base known as Omega-1. "This place is amazing..." Marie breathed.

"It's still a work in progress, but it's coming out to be really something, and it's mostly inconspiccuous." Windstrike smiled.

Marie turned to Miss Martian with a smile. "Thank you very much for saving my son." She thanked profusely.

"It was my pleasure, Ms. Logan." Miss Martian smiled.

"Call me Marie." Marie smiled back.

"Well, we should get back to base. I'll let Optimus know you two are in Omega-1." Windstrike brought up. A ground bridge opened up and they were ready to go.

Before they left however, Robin gave Marie and Garfield communicators. "Anything happens, keep in touch." A minute later, the Team and Windstrike entered the ground bridge.

*Happy Harbor. Mount Justice. 20:12 pm*

The Team and Windstrike were back at Mount Justice, happy that they left on good terms with Marie Logan and saved her son Garfield. However, a couple minutes later, Garth, Tula, and Ronal hap jumped out of the zeta tube to Atlantis. Ronal's tail changed into a pair of legs as he came onto land "Kaldur!

"Ronal? Garth? Tula? What are you three doing here?" Kaldur asked, confused as to why his three Atlantean friends were here right now.

"Atlantis was attacked!" Tula exclaimed, tears starting to leak from her eyes.

"Attacked?! Was it Ocean Master?" Kaldur immediately asked.

"No, it was some kind of blue metal shark that could fire electricity from its mouth." Garth answered.

"Ragebyte. The Machination is behind this." Conner growled.

"That group of humans and alien robots you told us about?" Garth asked.

"Yes, them." Kaldur nodded.

Just then, Blurr drove in and transformed to his robot mode. "Sorry I'm late."

"It's one of them!" Ronal exclaimed as he, Tula, and Garth prepared to attack.

"Hold it! He's one of the good guys!" Kaldur held up his hands.

"What?" Tula asked, now confused.

"You see, there are two factions of these robots. The ones you saw were Decepticons. This one here is an Autobot." Kaldur explained. "They're at war with each other."

"Kaldur, they've got Nanaue, Blubber, Coral, Wyynde, Topo, and La'gaan." Garth lamented.

"They've even got Lori." Ronal added sadly.

Speaking of said captives, they were being held in the brig on the Stormtide. "What do you all plan to do with us?" La'gann demanded.

"We're gonna see what makes you Atlanteans tick." Icicle Junior smirked.

Hello, everyone. I hope you all liked this chapter of Young Justice: Their War, Our World. Quite a bit happened in this chapter. Red Tornado has let his friends know of all the information he has regarding the Machination. He also lets it slip that he was upgraded by Amalgamous Prime, shocking all the Autobots except Optimus.

The next day, the Team along with Windstrike visit Qurac and meet Marie Logan and her son Garfield. During the Decepticons' attack on the small cabin, Garfield is injured

With the bad guys, Project: Andromeda is finally complete. All it needs is the Dragon's Eye and it will be ready to take off. Now, a new Decepticon called Blackfang has appeared.

In the end, Ronal, Garth, and Tula from Atlantis arrive at Mount Justice. Once there, they let everyone know that Atlantis has been taken over by the Machination somehow. Several have been taken aboard the Stormtide for 'analysis'.

As usual, if anyone has any ideas for this story, or its planned sequel, please let me know in the comments/reviews, or personally PM me.

PS: Blackfang is the first OC of Doc Fossil that I'm using in this story.

PS #2: If you haven't heard, Kevin Conroy has passed away at the age of 66. He has done work as the Dark Knight the longest. Life is made up of meetings and partings, that is the way of it. I'm sure we'll never forget Kevin Conroy. We shall remember you forever, Kevin Conroy.