Hey everyone, Here is the updated chapter of the first part of the Darkness Rising series. Hope everyone will like the new, improved chapter. See ya at the bottom of the Chapter.
Transformers Blue - The Jasper Chronicles
Chapter 3: Darkness Rising Part 1
Co-written and updated with B-128
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Blue Jacket (after getting the flame paint job off of his left side of his vehicle form) was driving around in his Pontiac Solstice vehicle mode. He and his partner, Arcee, were listening to Cliffjumper's story.
"So there I am on the lookout when out of nowhere, these high beams light up my rearview and then it hits me. I'm illegally parked."
"Another parking ticket?" Asked the motorcycle jokingly, yet not laughing.
"That's like the third one this week" replied BJ with a hint of roast.
"Better," The Plymouth Barracuda said, "The Boot."
"Big metal clamp, impossible to remove" sarcastically responded Arcee.
"Bingo! So the local police do their thing and I let them get all the way down the block. That's when I kicked off my shiny new shoe and… BANG!"
"New York's finest soiled themselves"
"You know me, guys, you mess with Cliffjumper-"
"And you get the horns"
The red vehicle started laughing. However, the motorcycle wasn't amused.
"Not so sure how that complies with autobot rule number one, "keep a low profile"?"
"I have to side with Arcee on that one, Cliff. You know that we're supposed to lay low when around humans."
Cliff answered with "What can I say? Patrolling for energon out here in Dullsville gets lonesome…"
"Almost makes me miss the Decepticons." He continued.
"Like Jasper Nevada's a party?" Arcee added "We're alone wherever we travel on this rock, Cliff'" It had been 5 years since the decepticons last showed up, like they just vanished into thin air, needless to say, things weren't as exciting.
"I'm not saying that I'm siding with Cliff about missing the 'Cons, but things have been slow since the war… We have to keep searching for Energon…" BJ replied sadly.
Cliffjumper's dashboard beeped, showing a nearby signal "I'm getting a signal"
"Need backup?" Arcee asked.
"Do I ever need backup" He answered.
After a few seconds, Cliff turned to the other direction and found something that almost knocked off his horns. "I just found a whole LOT of energon!"
That was when a huge shadow appeared right on top of him. Once he transformed into his robot mode, he knew what it was, or more accurately, who they were. "Decepticons!"
The starship overhead deployed 2 cannons from the underside, and shot the ground behind him, throwing him into the energon riddled sinkhole, crashing next to a crystal well over twice his size and height.
He then got up and saw the vehicons coming out of the ship, getting ready to fight the red autobot who got himself armed and ready.
"Arcee, Blue, about that backup…" Cliffjumper was about to say.
"Don't worry Cliff, we're on it"
"Fair warning, boys… I'll put a few dings in ya." The red horned-bot transformed into his vehicle form, drove up out of the sinkhole which got him into the air, transformed back into his robot form and landed a punch on one of the decepticon grunts.
Elsewhere, on a lonely highway, a red and blue Freightliner Coronado was driving by, when suddenly… "Arcee to Optimus, the 'cons are back! Cliff might be neck deep in scrap!"
"Understood," Optimus said before contacting the medic, "Ratchet, do you have Cliffjumper's coordinates?"
An early 2000's Medtech ambulance was dashing through a snowy road, answering through the intercom "I'm locked to his signal, Optimus, but our team is scattered across time zones"
The red and blue autobot then contacted all the autobots. "Arcee, Blue Jacket, Bulkhead, Bumblebee, Rendezvous back at base and prepare to ground bridge."
Back with Cliffjumper, he was still holding off against the 'Cons. He punched one into the sinkhole, and then another one onto the ground. However, he then got hit from behind by one vehicon, received a kick from another, and lastly, an uppercut from the next who also broke off one of Cliffjumper's horns.
He was pushed back by the impact, sent into the sinkhole, bouncing on impact with the ground and getting back up during the landing. The vehicons also started to enter the sinkhole as well, with the intent to finish the autobot off.
Cliffjumper had to admit, he was hoping that his team, or at least, one of them would hurry and save his tailpipe.
"The cavalry is here, Chevron eyes!" The vehicons turned around and saw a blue sports car approaching at high speed, transformed into his robot form and kicked one of the vehicons.
"Just came at the last second, huh, Blue?"
"You're the one who called for backup at the last second, Cliff." BJ said while joking.
"You want the horns?" Said the red autobot, changing his hands into triple barrel blasters "...you got 'em". He then started shooting at them, being careful not to hit Blue Jacket by accident who just joined the fight.
Blue Jacket also started shooting with Cliffjumper as well, getting the decepticon grunts.
However, the 'Cons decided to counterback by firing and shooting at them. Both Autobots kept dodging the attacks, but it hit the energon as well. When Cliffjumper saw this, he knew he had to get BJ out of there.
"Blue Jacket… See you on the other side."
"Wait, Wh-?!" BJ was about to say until he got knocked out by Cliff. The red autobot then threw him out of the way before the energon sinkhole exploded, highly damaging him and destroying most of the vehicons. The rocks then fell on top of the almost passed-out blue autobot, who watched the two remaining decepticon soldiers carrying a damaged Cliffjumper to their ship before finally passing out.
In the Decepticon Warship, the second-in-command watched the battle from below and the results… "The Energon, it's worthless to me now… Grrr!" That was when he heard them coming from the elevator and saw them bringing him their Autobot prisoner.
"Cliffjumper… We meet again." The silver seeker said to the red autobot.
"Scream… It's been awhile." Cliffjumper said as he coughed up a little bit of energon. "So, where is your master?"
"Never mind him. I am my own master!" Starscream stated in anger as he extended his claws and stabbed Cliffjumper's spark, causing him great pain. "Anymore questions?"
Energon leaked out of Cliffjumper's wound as Starscream took his hand out of him, then Cliff's lifeless body fell to the floor.
"Clean that up!" Stacream ordered the Decepticon troops.
The Decepticon Warship then flew above the former energon sinkhole and left the area. A green portal then appeared and five vehicles came through.
The first one that came out was an orange and white early 2000's MedTec Ambulance, then it transformed into its robot form, revealing the Autobot medic and scientist Ratchet. The next was Bulkhead, who was a green SUV a moment ago before he came out and transformed. Then, a blue Motorcycle and a yellow and black Porsche 911 Carrera came out and transformed into their robot forms, revealing to be Arcee and Bumblebee. Finally, last but not least, a red and blue Freightliner Coronado came through, transformed into the one and only Optimus Prime! Every autobot was armed and ready, but there was nothing…
"An untapped energon deposit…" Optimus said.
"What's left of it." Bulkhead added.
"The First Decepticon activity in five years…" Ratchet stated.
"That we know of," Optimus said before getting serious, "If they're scouting for energon, they may be preparing for his return."
The autobots then approach the sinkhole with extreme caution, with Arcee and Bumblebee scouting in first, due to them worrying about Blue Jacket and Cliffjumper. That was when the two-wheeler saw one of Cliffjumper's horns… And she feared the worst.
"No… " Arcee said as she picked up the silver horn of her fallen partner. She showed it to Optimus, Bumblebee and Ratchet. Before the Prime could say anything, they heard Bulkhead calling out their names.
"Optimus, Ratchet, Arcee, Bee, I found someone!" The green autobot yelled out as he already got the rocks out of the way. He then picked up the knocked-out Blue Jacket.
Arcee and Bumblebee now had terrified looks on their faces… She didn't want to lose two partners on the same day while Bumblebee didn't want to lose his brother.
"Ratchet, can you scan him for his condition?"
The doctor does just that and makes an announcement. "He's only knocked-out… He'll live."
The blue autobot then opened his eyes a few seconds later, proving the medic's point. The two-wheeler and the yellow sports car were relieved to see him okay. However, Ratchet was the complete opposite.
"Blue Jacket, what were you thinking?!" The medic yelled at him, "You were supposed to head to base with the others!"
"I only did it to save Cliffjumper faster." BJ said, while telling Bulk to put him down gently. After that, BJ then sees Arcee carrying Cliffjumper's horn to the group. She gave it to Blue.
"Cliffjumper… No…" BJ was horrified to see the last of what remained of Cliffjumper.
"Ratchet, can you track Cliffjumper's position?"
Ratchet then opened a radar in his wrist and saw something that gave them hope, but that hope then disappeared as a dot just vanished.
"No… Cliffjumper's life signal… Just went offline."
The Nemesis
Starscream was on the bridge when Soundwave came in. Starscream was a little annoyed that the silent decepticon had to show up.
"Soundwave! What… is it?"
The silent 'con then started an audio recording of Arcee when she was talking to Blue Jacket and Cliffjumper, moments before the red autobot went offline.
"Like Jasper Nevada's party? We're alone wherever we travel on this rock, Cliff."
"Ah… The one called Arcee… Why slay just one autobot when we still have the advantage of surprise?" Starscream smirked darkly.
The top of the Autobot Base
As the sun was setting behind them, the Autobots held a memorial on the cliff for the fallen comrade.
"We must not allow our anger over the loss of Cliffjumper to impair our judgment… As of today, only we, six Autobots, remain on this Earth." Optimus said before continuing his speech, "We owe to ourselves, to the memory of Cybertron, to any Autobots in any galaxy seeking safe harbor, to humankind… And we owe to the memory of our fallen comrade, to survive."
Arcee then laid Cliffjumper's horn on the ground gently as she was about on the edge of crying. He then felt someone's touch on him and he turned to see Blue Jacket who was also filled with sadness, understanding how it feels to lose someone they cared about. She then hugged him then let him go.
They started walking together in sadness, with Optimus trying to get their attention.
"Arcee… Blue Jacket…" Optimus was about to say until he got interrupted.
"W-We just need time to think."
Arcee nodded, "If Cliff's gone, standing around sulking won't bring him back. So, unless anyone minds, think Blue and I'll get back at protecting humankind..."
The two former Delta members then transformed and drove away from the area, with the rest of the autobots watching them drive away.
"Optimus… Protecting humans will only cause more tragedy…"
"Your opinion is noted."
Jasper, Nevada
A 16 year old boy working at a fast-food joint called the KO burger. He had slick black hair and blue eyes and was working at the drive-in window and was taking someone's order.
"Welcome to K.O drive in, where every patty is a knockout," The black-haired teenager said, "May I take your order?"
"Two super combos, extra fries." Someone in the car said.
"Okay, dos número two's. Anything else?"
"Yeah, some advice: how do I get an awesome job like yours?" the customer asked sarcastically before laughing it up with his friends.
"So, that's two "We're not as funny as we think we are combos" with a side of "BITE ME!" replied Jack.
The customer stopped laughing after hearing that. "What did you say?!"
"$5.59, sir. At the window." Jack spat out.
A car drove up and when Jack wasn't looking, the driver took the meals and disappeared.
"Hey! Now I have to pay for that."
...
In another area, there were two people inside the Jasper Car Wash Station. "Thanks for cleaning my car, sir." The middle-aged man said, placing $33 bucks on the desk.
"You're welcome, have a good day."
The middle-aged man nodded before looking at his nephew who was sitting on his phone, playing app games. "Okay kid, let's go!"
"Coming Uncle Dennis!" The 15-year old said, getting off the chair and followed his uncle. However, that was when Dennis checked on his phone.
"Aw man, my girlfriend is calling…" Dennis said, "Leon, wait here. I've got to take this"
"Got it, Uncle Dennis."
The teenager waits for his uncle to finish whatever business he's talking about on the phone. After a few minutes.
"Leon, I have to pick up my girlfriend real quick, I promise I'll get back here, quick."
"Alright."
On the other side of the town, Arcee and Blue Jacket were scouting the area together.
"A-Arcee, are you okay?" BJ said.
The two-wheeler didn't say anything back. She was in deep thought right now. However, BJ thought that she wasn't saying anything to him because of what happened.
"A-Arcee… I'm sorry about Cliff. I truly tried to save him."
Finally, Arcee spoke, "Blue Jacket, that wasn't your fault. I know how hard you tried to save him… If you ever need to talk about it, I'm right here." she calmly said at the end.
"Thanks for understanding, Cee," BJ said sadly before continuing, "First Tailgate, then Firewing, next Stormcrusher and now Cliffjumper."
"It'll be okay." Arcee said.
That was when two vehicons appeared driving behind them.
"Arcee, we got company."
The two-wheeler indeed saw them.
"Twins… Like Blue Jacket and Bumblebee." Arcee said to herself, "You go that way, I'll go this way."
"Alright!"
Blue Jacket parked at a car wash and Arcee parked at KO Burger. That was when the 15-year old boy came out of the car wash. He realized that his uncle had to take care of something with his girlfriend, which was why the uncle left him. But the uncle did promise that he'll pick him up very quickly once he picked up his girlfriend.
"Uncle Dennis, you better keep your promise, this time. Last time, my dad had to force you to pick me up. Don't worry, just take care of your business, an-" That was when he saw the most amazing car that ever existed, "You're awesome…. Oh, I meant you were awesome, Uncle Dennis. Right, I'll call you back."
Leo then approached the blue car. "Wow… Awesome. I don't know how this little guy became so lucky to have such cool features," He starts touching the car's left door. He then opened it and got inside of the car, "I might have to get a part-time job to earn some money, but it'll be worth it once I own this ride."
"Well, look here.. If it ain't Leo…" A seventeen-year old girl said, with her boyfriend.
"Hi Nora…" Leon said in a grumpy way, "What are you doing you? And who's he?" The guy you cheated on me with?"
"That's right. Unlike you, he's much cooler." Nora smirked at him.
"Still mad about the past, huh?" The seventeen-year old boy said.
"Oh, shut up, Andy…"
Blue Jacket felt bad for this kid as he kept listening to the argument. That was when Arcee contacted him.
"Blue, move, move, move!"
BJ didn't understand what she was talking about until he saw his two-wheeler partner driving away with a boy in tow. That was when everyone around saw three purple cars coming at them.
"Run!" Andy shouted as he and Nora ran away, while Leon was still in the car. Before he could open the door to get out, the doors automatically locked and the car drove off by itself.
"Woah!"
"Don't do anything!" Blue said, advising him.
"Who said that?!" Leo asked in shock and fear. He didn't know what was happening. He especially didn't know who was talking to him since no one was in the car with him! However, he also didn't know that it was the car that was talking to him. He then turned the window down and saw the purple cars, who were still following them. He turned the other way and saw someone riding the motorcycle.
"Leo?!"
"Jack?!"
That was when the sports car and the motorcycle took the two boys into a hiding spot.
"Who are you?" Jack asked in confusion
"I have to agree with Jack, what the heck are you two?!" Leo asks in shock.
The motorcycle readjusted itself to face them, "Listen to me, we don't exist. Tell anyone about us and I will hunt you two down. Understand?" she barked at the young humans.
"Y-Yeah." They said before running away from sight. The vehicles then started driving away.
"You didn't have to be too hard on the kids, 'Cee." BJ said in concern.
If the two-wheeler was in her robot mode, she would've rolled her optics out of annoyance at her partner. That was when they tried to get the decepticon's attention, but the other two followed the two boys.
"Scrap!"
They turned around and followed the con who was chasing the two boys.
"Stop chasing us! We're not with them!"
"We don't even know them!"
The boys tried to tell the cars that were after them, but that didn't convince them. Arcee suddenly drove on top of the Vehicon and got to Jack. Blue Jacket then bashed the con into the wall and got to Leo Fowler.
"Hop on!"
"Get in!"
Jaco got on top of the-wheeler's vehicle form while Leo got inside of the blue sports car's vehicle form. The Vehicons then chased after them, and soon the two autobots drove onto a road that leads to a highway, and the purple cars activated their blasters and started to shoot at them.
"Why are those guys shooting at us? And who's the blue car with you?" Jack asked.
"There's no 'us', kid. The blue car is Blue Jacket and those guys aren't 'guys'."
"Boy, she has an attitude," Leo said.
"You have no idea." Blue Jacket said.
"I heard that!" Arcee said.
The Cons were chasing them on the road for a while, but suddenly they were smashed out of the way by the yellow sports car, without harming any human drivers.
"Bumblebee! Glad, you're here, bro!" BJ said.
"Friend of yours?" Jack asked.
"Family." Arcee stated.
"So, he's like your brother, or like a brother figure?" Leo asked.
"Well, he's my twin brother, but, yeah, he's like a brother towards everyone." Blue Jacket said.
The two then speed off down the road. The cons tried to follow them, but Bumblebee blocked their way. When one of the cons finally went past him, Bee rammed and slammed him.
Meanwhile, nearby underneath the highway in an underpass, which was a drainage tunnel, a preteen boy with glasses was playing with RC toy cars, when a phone in his pocket rang.
"Yes mom?" The preteen asked, once he answered his phone.
"Where are you, and what are you doing?" the mother asked.
"Racing," he answered, referring to his radio controlled cars, "Right up the street."
"You need to head back home, it's almost past your bedtime."
"Ok, just five more minutes?" he said before ending the call and resumed playing with his remote car.
Meanwhile, back on the highway, in front of Arcee and Blue Jacket was a blocked road, so the the motorcycle and the blue sports car made a detour and jumped a ramp and landed on a steep hill that lead to the same place where the preteen boy was playing with his RC cars and drove down the hill and landed a few feet from the boy.
"Woah!" Raf exclaimed.
"Ugh…You have no idea." Jack replied very peaky.
"That… was… Incredible!" Leo said, getting out of the blue car. That was when he saw the kid, "Oh, hey Raf."
At that moment, the two same purple cars drove down the hill, over the ramp and transformed mid-air. Just then, Arcee and Blue Jacket transformed as well.
"This ends here, Cons!" the two-wheeler exclaimed to them.
"Bring it on!" the blue scout said.
The kids ran away to a safe distance while Arcee and Blue Jacket rushed toward the Decepticon troops. The Con troops began to fire laser shots at the two Autobots which they avoided by dodging before they got close to them and started fighting them. Jack, Leo and Raf only could look on in some strange mix of fear, terror, awe, confusion and excitement.
"W-W-What are they?" Raf asked.
"Talking vehicles that turn into robots… or the other way around." Jack responded, still unsure himself.
"W-Whatever they are… They're so cool!" Leo said, amazed.
Arcee managed to knock out one of her enemies and now she was facing the other. "This…is…for…Cliff!" she said while she punched his face.
Blue Jacket then finally took down the two Decepticons as well. However, that was when he saw the two-wheeler getting hit by one of the decepticon's blaster shots in mid-air.
"Arcee!" He shouted, running back.
That's when Bumblebee appeared right above them and transformed in mid air, landed between the decepticon troops and punched one of them in the face. Meanwhile, Blue Jacket went to Arcee and helped her up.
"You okay, Arcee?"
"I'm fine." Arcee assured him.
Bee had his foot on the Decepticon troops. After taking him out, Bumblebee heard a crunching from under his foot. He looked under to see the human child's toy car crushed.
"(I'm so sorry; I didn't know it was there!)" Bumblebee apologized, speaking through some kind of noises.
"No problem. Really." Raf said.
Jack and Leo were going to ask him how he understood that, but immediately Bee was shot by the two recovered car Decepticons. He was about to get up, but the third Decepticon troop put his foot over him, and Bee could only turn around to look at the Decepticons charging their weapons.
"Leave him alone!" Raf said to them with great courage. But when the Decepticons saw him he changed his expression to a nervous one. "Please?"
"Uh Oh". Leo stated.
"Bad call." Jack said taken Raf.
That was when the Decepticon troops started walking towards them.
"Run!" Leo said, taking a head-start.
"Come on, come on!" Jack encouraged Raf as the Vehicon went after them.
They tried to escape by getting inside a service tunnel. The Decepticon troop tried to catch them reaching in his hand.
"Keep going!" Leo yelled.
But before he could reach them, he was dragged out. The kids turned and saw the friendly face of the brown robot.
"(Don't worry, you're safe now.)" Bumblebee said.
"Thank you." Raf said.
"(Take care.)"
"Keep going and don't look back, guys." Leo said.
"What did we just see?" Raf asked them.
"No idea, and I'm not sure I wanna find out." Jack said while they went to the other side of the tunnel.
With the humans safe and very far away, Arcee, Blue Jacket and Bumblebee could beat the Decepticonss with ease now, but they were outnumbered and already beaten. The four Decepticon troops approach them, until both sides hear honking noises from behind. A dark green SUV arrived and transformed into the green wrecker Bulkhead.
"Who's ready to rumble?" Bulkhead said with eagerness to bash some heads.
However, upon seeing the wrecker, the decepticon troops transformed, turned around and drove away, knowing that they're no match for a wrecker.
"Nice for you to show up, Bulkhead." BJ said.
"What took you?" Arcee asked.
"Traffic." Bulkhead confirmed.
Autobot Base
Shortly after that, they all were at the base, reporting the current situation.
"And the Cons would have been scrap metal, if it weren't for the humans." The two-wheeler finished explaining the events to Optimus.
"Humans?" Optimus asked.
Bumblebee held three fingers, referring to three humans while his twin explained.
"Three boys," Blue Jacket said, "Two of them are teenagers while the other is more of a pre-teen."
"I guess the third one caught us in the middle of the action. I don't know, I was a little busy at the time." Arcee responded.
"So was I." Blue Jacket reminded her.
"If the Decepticons are targeting us, anyone who seems as our ally will be at grave risk." Optimus concluded.
Leo's House
Later that night, Leo came back into his house. It took him a few hours to run while he, Raf and Jack split up after they just witnessed huge robots fighting each other.
"Woah… Th-That was something…" Leo said, getting tired from running. He then went up to the door and opened it.
Once he entered the house, Dennis, who was sitting in the dining room, sat up from his seat, ran up to his nephew and hugged him. "Oh, thank god, you're safe Leo!" Uncle Dennis said, happy that his nephew was safe.
"Where were you?" Dennis's girlfriend said, who was looking at her phone.
"Ummm," Leo said, trying to find a way to explain without mentioning any strange things like huge robots. Before he could though, he was interrupted.
"Was Andrew and his friends chasing you again?" Uncle Dennis asked, showing concern.
"Um, yeah. He really has it for me…" Leo said, not really happy to bring up that guy, but it was better than saying something about huge robots.
"If you want me to teach that punk a lesson, I can do that, Leo."
"No! No, no, no!" Leo quickly said, knowing that his uncle would go all out at them. "Uncle, look, I'm glad that you want to defend me, especially since I told you how Nora dumped me for that bully, but I can handle this problem peacefully myself… Besides, you told me how you used to teach boxing classes…"
Dennis nodded, "True. Sorry, kid. I just don't want you getting hurt."
"It's okay," Leo smiled before heading upstairs to his room. However, before he actually went upstairs, he asked his uncle a question. "Hey, uncle Dennis, is my dad home yet?"
"Oh, sorry Leo. He's still not home." Dennis said sadly.
Leo only groaned in disappointment. "Thanks for telling me, Uncle Deniss. Goodnight, you two." He said, finally heading upstairs to his bedroom.
The Next Day - Jasper High School
The next day, Jack was walking outside the school, when he saw Raf saluting him.
"Raf, hey." He said walking to him. "Have you seen Leo?"
"He's right behind you." Raf said, pointing behind. Jack turned and saw him.
"Hey, guys." Leo said, walking to them.
"Hey, Leo." Jack said before getting into the point, "Guys, look, let's just…keep this between us and forget anything that happened, okay?"
"A-Agreed." Leo said.
All of the sudden, a car's horn sounded, catching their attention.
"Jack. Leo." Raf said, surprised and happy.
At that moment, Bumblebee pulled up in front of them and opened its back door.
"Oh, not again." Jack said, nervous.
The yellow sports car then opened the right side of his vehicle form.
"I-It wants the three of us to get in?" Leo asked.
"No, just me." Raf said.
"How do you know that?" Jack asked.
"It said so."
"What?" Both boys asked in shock.
"Yours is over there." Raf said pointing at the blue motorcycle that was parked on their school parking lot.
Leo then saw a blue sports car next to the blue motorcycle as well. "And I'm guessing the blue car is mine."
"Yep." Raf then started walking away from his friends and heading towards the yellow sports car.
"I…I really don't think…?"
"How's it going?" Raf said, getting inside Bumblebee.
"Raf?"
Before Jack and Leo realize it, Raf had already stepped in and the car took off.
"Raf, stop! Hold on!" Leo shouted after them, but they were gone. He then looked at the blue sports car. "Welp, better face the impossible." He was about to walk there, until Jack gently grabbed his shoulder.
"Woah, Leo. I don't think we should go with these… ummm… people." Jack said, trying to find a nice way to say it.
"Jack, I agree with you. I really do, but I have to admit, I want to see how this goes."
Leo then proceeds to walk towards Ble Jacket and gets inside of its vehicle form. The blue sports car/autobot then drives off the school area.
Jack took another look at Arcee before he started to walk home.
Outside the school there was a 15 year old Japanese girl with weird hair who had been drawing a picture of the motorcycle parked on the school parking lot.
"Coolest … bike…ever!" Said said in awe before her phone caught her attention. "Host parents? Ignore." She silenced her phone and continued drawing, only to see that the motorcycle disappeared. Then, she saw it driving around the corner and she knew had to catch up with it.
...
Meanwhile Jack was walking carefully in a closed street, hoping that he will not see that thing again, but he found the same vehicle in front of him coming from the other side of the street.
"Easy, I just wanna talk to you." Arcee said.
"Don't you mean you and your new friend?" Jack said angrily, thinking that her hologram is an actual person. That was when she deactivated it, showing that it was indeed a hologram.
"Kid, there is a lot you don't understand."
"No, I get it, I get it. The first rule of Robot Fight Club is you don't talk about Robot Fight Club. What you need to understand is that I don't want a bunch of crazy talking vehicles following me around, trying to get me killed!"
Arecc had transformed to be more personal. "Look. Jack, is it? Your personal safety is exactly why Optimus has requested your presence."
"Optimus? W-What?"
"Jack, your safety is at risk because you are one of the few. One of the only ones to have ever seen us!" the two-wheeler explained. However, that was when they heard a voice behind them.
"Dude, what are you waiting for? Go with!" Miko exclaimed from the corner.
"Scrap." Arcee said, couldn't believe that someone else just saw her in her robot form.
Moments later, Arcee, Blue Jacket and Bumblebee were taken the kids to the Autobot base, Raf riding Bumblebee, Leo riding Blue Jacket, and Miko with Jack riding Arcee.
"Whooo!" Miko exclaimed in excitement
"And Why exactly are we bringing her?" Jack asked, annoyed.
"Rules." Arcee responded.
They were getting very close to a hill, but suddenly a secret entrance just opened. Inside there was a military base built inside the hill, and they saw a lot of advanced mechanical structures and two robots with the same blue eyes. They got out of the vehicles and allowed them to transform.
"I thought there were only three?" Ratchet inquired.
"Haven't you heard? Humans multiply." Arcee said.
"Hi. I'm Leo."
"I'm Raf."
"I'm Miko!" She then ran up to the green autobot. "Who are you?" She asked immediately.
"Bulkhead." He replied hesitantly.
"Are you a car? I bet you're a truck, a monster truck! Do you like heavy metal? How much do you weigh? Ever use a wrecking ball for a punching bag?" Miko asked, no leaving time for Bulkhead to answer.
Leo then chuckled, "Heh, sorry about this one, Big guy," Leo said, "Once Miko sees something cool, she asks anything just to get it."
"Got that right!"
"So if you guys are robots, who made you?" Raf asked.
"Ugh! Please!" The Autobot medic said.
From behind them came the tallest of all those robots. Besides his huge appearance, his face's expression reassured the children, he was a kind soul.
"We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron. Also known as Autobots." Optimus explained to them.
"So, why are you guys here? On Earth?" Leo asked.
"To protect your world from the Decepticons."
"The jokers who tried to bump us off yesterday." Arcee added.
"And the ones who tried to grab the three of you." Blue added as well, pointing at him, Jack and Raf.
"Okay… What are they here?" Jack asked next.
"A fair question Jack. In part, they are here because Cybertron is now uninhabitable, ravaged and consumed by eons of civil war." Optimus explained crouching down to the children's height.
"Woah, woah! A civil alien robot war?" Leo exclaimed in shock.
"Why were you fighting a war?" Raf asked.
"Foremost, over control of our world's supply of energon, the fuel and lifeblood of Autobots and Decepticons alike." Optimus said, explaining one of the reasons why the Cybertronian Civil War started. "The combat was fierce and endured for centuries. In the beginning, I fought alongside one whom I considered a brother. But in war ideals can be corrupted. And was thus… That Megatron lost his way."
"Is there gonna be a quiz?" Miko simply said, twirling with her hair.
"So, what does Megatron or any of this…have to do with us?" Jack asked.
"Megatron has not been seen or heard from in some time. But if his return is imminent, as I fear, it could be catastrophic." Optimus said.
Outer Space
Meanwhile on the Nemesis, Soundwave approached Starscream to communicate something to him.
"Those transmissions are emanating from deep space. It could be a bug… And I would hate to waste the energon. Unless you are absolutely certain." Starscream said, earning a nod from Soundwave. "Then lock on these transmission coordinates, and activate the space bridge." Starscream ordered a Decepticon soldier.
In another part of Space, near the Earth's atmosphere a giant circular device activated and a green and blue light came from it and a Cybertronian Jet exited the space bridge. The Leader of the Decepticons, Megatron, has returned.
"DECEPTICONS… I have returned." He said triumphantly.
I hope you guys liked the new, updated chapter! I also truly hope that you guys like the new cover and the new story title as well. They were made by B-128 himself. Check out his deviantart and check out more of his art gallery.
As you can see, Leo is having some trouble with his life before he just met the Autobots. Let's see how this will bring him up into the measures.
I'd like to thank B-128 for writing and updating this with me! Thanks bro! You're awesome!
