I have returned to another chapter, everyone! Welcome back! Don't y'all are in for a long ride, because I got my best friend to co-write with me. On that being said, let's head to the story.


Transformers Blue - The Jasper Chronicles

Chapter 12: Deus ex machina

Co-written by B-128

Disclaimer: Transformers Prime doesn't belong to me nor B-128's. It belongs to HASBRO. The only stuff that belongs to me and my friend are our OCS.


Tuesday Morning - Decepticon Warship

The leader of the Decepticons wasn't happy at all. The troops were once again defeated by Optimus and his autobot and human allies. However, upon hearing from Rootwing that he knocked out Optimus Prime, the silver seeker was somewhat impressed. Unfortunately for him, he was annoyed when the vehicon started bragging that he, out of all the Decepticons (except for Megatron, of course), knocked the Prime down.

Anyway, he was finally greeted by a familiar decepticon.

"It's about time you showed up, Knockout," Starscream said, "I do not enjoy being kept waiting."

Knockout started walking towards the commander. "It's been a long drive, Starscream… I'm still picking bugs out of my grille."

"Yes… You're one of those…"

"Come again?"

"Never understood why any self-respecting Decepticon would choose an automobile as his vehicle mode when he can have flight."

"I like the way I look in steel-belted radials," He said proudly.

The two of them then started walking towards the door of the sick bay. "I take it Lord Megatron requires a laboratory assist?" Knockout asked.

"You… might say that." Starscream said as he opened the door to the sick bay.

"Woah." Knockout saw the warlord, hooked up to spark-support. He actually didn't think that Megatron, of all people, would be seen like this. "What happened to him?"

"Sadly, our inevitably former Lord Megatron has been like this for quite some time. But the crew took a vote, and it was decided that an expert might put him on the road to recovery." Starscream said.

"I know body work, Starscream, but I'm better at breaking them than fixing them," Knock Out stated as he transformed his left arm into a drill before transforming it back into his arm again. "It would help if I had my assistant."

"I've summoned the three of you, where are those two?"

"We were hot on a fresh Energon trail when you called," Knockout explained, "Breakdown and Slashmark will show when they're through scouting it." He added with a smile on his face.


Memorial High School

"Detention… " Miko groaned while 'reading' a world history book. She got detention for the umpteenth time. She really wished that she didn't have to stay at school all day. She saw Vince who was spinning his pencil, one girl who was secretly chewing bubble gum without the teacher watching, and Leo Fowler who was enjoying reading his world history book.

She didn't know why Leo decided to stay at school since he doesn't even have detention. However, before she could even ask, she saw another teacher coming inside the class.

The serious teacher got up. "Glad you're here. Keep an eye on these three for me," She said, pointing at Miko, Vince and the other girl, "I need to go do something." She then left, leaving the other teacher to roll his eyes and sit on the chair and started reading his book.

That was when he looked at Leo. "Why are you here? You don't even have detention."

"Oh, I know," Leo admitted as he continued to read his history book, "I just like getting a head-start on my assignments and projects."

Vince and Miko rolled their eyes when they heard what he said. While Leo wasn't really the star student of the whole school, he was a good student that even the teachers, even the rude ones, respected him.

That was when Miko and Leo saw a blue car at the parking spot that was near the entrance of the school.

"Welp, there's my ride." Leo said, getting up from his seat and heading out of the class, "Bye everyone."

Miko only huffs in boredom and in jealousy that Leo got to leave first.

...

Outside

Blue Jacket was listening to some rap music while he was waiting for Leo. Truth be told, he didn't know why his human partner decided to do his work at detention when he could've done it at the base, also because he doesn't even have detention.

Finally, Leo came into the vehicle by opening the right side of the door and getting inside. "Cool rap music!"

"Glad you're liking the music," Blue Jacket said before getting to the important topic, "Did you finish the assignment?"

"Almost, but not yet." Leo admitted before he put on his seat belt. "Alright, let's go!"

"Don't have to tell me twice." Blue chuckled before starting his engines and a left turn, leaving the school area.


Right now, Blue Jacket was going towards the base.

"I'm just happy that you don't actually have detention like Miko does," BJ said, "It would've been bad if the teacher tried to catch you."

"Yeah… " Leo said, "Detention isn't really a fun place to be in." He chuckled in the end.

"So, once you finish your assignment, you can turn it in, right?"

"That's the idea." Leo stated. "Once I finish my assignments, get good grades and graduate from High School, I can go to college."

"Huh, College… "

The duo finally got to the Autobot base after 5 minutes. Leo got out of BJ's vehicle form and the blue bot transformed.

"Do you know which college you want to go to?" BJ asked.

"No, not really," Leo admitted, "Until then, I just have to get a job. I'm thinking of getting one at the Car wash. Speaking of jobs, have you ever got a job back on your planet?"

"No, never," BJ said in an instant, "I was born during the war so I couldn't get a job. However, if the war was over, I would be a delivery guy."

"Sounds cool."

"Yeah. During the war, I heard that there was an autobot that used to be a delivery guy before the war happened. He delivered energon, energon pizza, energon drinks, energon weapons, etc."

"Wow! Nice!" Leo exclaimed, "I'd bet you'd make a great delivery guy."

"Yeah… If it ever happens." Blue Jacket said sadly.

That was when they heard engine sounds coming from the tunnel, revealing Bulkhead driving through and stopped in the middle. Miko then got out of his vehicle mode.

"Look what the big guy dragged in." BJ joked around a bit.

"Ugh… You sound just like my parents." Miko exclaimed to Bulk.

"Don't they speak in Japanese?" Bulkhead asked while he transformed into his robot form.

"You may speak a different language, but you say the same thing."

"Because, we want the best for you," He told her. "And that means making sure you go to school, not jail."

"Uh-oh," Jack said from above on the catwalk, "What'd you do?"

"Miko's done many things, Jack. You got to be more specific." Leo joked along with him.

"Ain't that right?" BJ laughed a bit.

Miko gave the three a glare before turning her attention to Bulk.

"Look Miko, before I became a warrior, I was a construction laborer. I can build stuff. I can break stuff. And that's it."

"I love breaking stuff," she said as she pounded her fists together, "I want to be just like you, Bulk."

The green wrecker only sighed. "Why would you want to be like me when you can be a medic like Ratchet?" He said as he pointed at the medic who was searching important on the monitor.

"Blue Jacket, Bulkhead, I need the two of you back on the field," Ratchet said as he continued typing on the computer which showed an image of Greece, "I'm detecting a fresh energon pulse from the nation of Greece. An ancient city, quite historic, I believe."

"Ancient Greece, huh?" Bulkhead said he smiled and looked at Blue Jacket who smiled back.

"Who's up for a field trip?"


Ancient Greece

Blue Jacket and Bulkhead drove through the ground-bridge. "Here we are." Blue Jacket said as they stopped. The two human kids then got out of their respective vehicles. Once they did, BJ and Bulk transformed back into their robot modes.

"Sweet."

"So, this is Greece? Pretty nice." Leo agreed with Miko while admiring the view.

"So, what are we doing in Greco-ville?"

"BJ and I are scouting for Energon." Bulkhead said, holding an Energon tracking device.

Blue walked forward in front of them, holding another Energon tracking device as well. "You two are researching for your history projects."

"You tagged us? Not cool." Miko said jokingly with a smile.

Bulkhead looked at the tracking device that started beeping. "Hmmm… Signal's strong."

"Same here."

Both Bots moved forward and saw some construction vehicles in front of them. "An excavation site."

"Woah." Both human kids said.

"He knows construction." BJ told them before looking at his scanner. "Hmmm, according to our scanners, Bulk, humans hit energon veins..."

"And they don't even know it." Bulkhead said, finishing what Blue was about to say. That was when they both noticed a wall painting.

"Hey, Bulk. Look!" BJ said, pointing at the wall painting. Once the former wrecker looked at the wall very closely, he knew what it meant. "Woah, that's cybertronian."

BJ was shocked to hear that. "Wait, seriously?"

The four then looked at the wall painting closely. "Why would Ancient Greeks paint an Energon Harvester?" Bulk asked.

"An Energon Harvester? On Earth?" BJ asked as well.

"You know what that circle is?" Leo was amazed to hear what Bulkhead had said.

"You're smarter than you let on." Miko said as she took a picture of the wall with her phone.

Suddenly, from behind, someone said "And even dumber than he looks"

Bulkhead, Blue Jacket, Leo and Miko turned around and saw two decepticons that were standing over the of the stairs of a place that resembled a miniature Colosseum. One of them was blue with yellow optics and an orange face. Another was light blue, with a gray face and yellow optics. The only difference between them was not just the face but their appearance since the light blue decepticon looked more like a beast.

"Breakdown..." Bulkhead said, glaring at his arch-enemy.

"He, he, missed me?" Asked Breakdown, with a smirk on his face. Bulkhead replying with "Like the rust on my undercarriage"

"S-Slashmark?" Blue Jacket stuttered shockingly. He was actually surprised to see her.

The lighter colored 'con said "Long time no see, you backstabbing scrapheap" with visible anger.

"Backstabbing scrapheap?" Leo asked in confusion. "You two know these lunkheads?" Miko was the next to ask.

"You could say that." BJ said sheepishly. "We had a history..." Bulkhead answered in an angry tone.

"And I see you got yourselves some pets" Breakdown replied, reaching for a nearby column "Do they play catch?" He ripped a portion of it and tossed it towards the kids "CATCH!"

Both kids were terrified and started running before the column could hit them. Luckily, Bulkhead stepped in front of them, destroying the column in the process. "Miko, Leo, stay down!" That was when Breakdown tackled him.

"Bulkhead!" Before the blue autobot could make a move, he was tackled by Slashmark next.

"I'VE GOT YOU NOW!" She was about to slam her fist into his chest, until he transformed to vehicle mode to disperse the force of the impact, with a trashed hood, but still alive.

He then drove to the direction where Breakdown threw Bulkhead. The blue scout tried to catch him, but he was instead bashed into the wall painting along with Bulkhead after Breakdown threw him.

"Oops," Breakdown said, "Hope the pretty picture wasn't too important."

"Next time, I won't be so gentle" Slashmark added, dashing along with Breakdown as they drove off.

Leo and Miko watched them drive away. They then ran towards BJ and Bulk, happy to see that they were okay... Well, mostly Bulk was okay.

"You okay there kid?" Bulkhead asked, with a concerned look on his face, and Blue Jacket replied "Nothing Ratchet can't fix, but I think I broke my drive shaft back there"

Bulk then looked at the destroyed wall painting and looked at the kids who caught up to them. "Told you guys that I was good at breaking things."

"You don't say," chuckled Leo.

Miko smiled before walking up to Bulk. "I always got your back, Bulk," She then took out her phone, "I got us the picture of the picture."


Back at base, said pictured was being displayed on the monitor, as Optimus examined the image, he said "It is indeed an energon harvester, a powerful tool created by the ancients to remove raw energon from any source"

"Greek Gods knew Autobots?" Raf asked in shock.

"No" Optimus answered "The ancients often used art of a given era to conceal messages, this fresco was likely a signpost indicating a harvester's location, hidden somewhere on this planet"

"Uh, Optimus, if the harvester removes energon from anything, and you all have energon pumping inside you…" Jack started.

"In Decepticon hands," Optimus said, knowing what Jack was getting at, "The harvester would be a devastating weapon."

"Yikes," Leo said. He then turned to Blue Jacket who was getting repaired by Ratchet. "At least, you and Bulk destroyed the painting, Blue."

"See?" Said Miko with excitement "You were geniuses to total that painting"

Arcee smirked, "Leo and Miko aren't wrong. How can the 'Cons find the harvester without the fresco?"

Raf quickly replied "With high speed internet?" as he was typing on his laptop "If you do an image search for "Greek god and golden orb", this pops up, it's in a museum" he showed the screen to the others, with the same figure from the fresco.

"Is that the real deal?" Arcee asked.

"It sure is." Blue Jacket answered after he was repaired by Ratchet.

Optimus, with a plan on his head, told the aforementioned doctor to "Contact agent Fowler"

...

However, once Ratchet did contact Leo's dad, all everyone could hear was his voicemail. "You've reached Special Agent William Fowler. I'm currently on an intensive training retreat and unavailable until Tuesday."

"I hate talking to machines," Ratchet said.

BJ stated "Well, there goes plan A"

"So, what's plan B?" Leo asked.

Optimus replied "Without agent Fowler's direct aid, we will have to confiscate the harvester on our own", following which statement, Bumblebee loaded his right arm's blaster.

"Say what now?!" Leo asked in shock.

"Woah woah woah woah! Confiscate? As in "steal museum property"?" Jack responded, putting his hand on his forehead afterward.

"That sounds... illegal." Raf said with a worried look.

"I do not wish to break human law..." replied Optimus, understanding their concern "...but once the decepticons learn of the harvester's location, they will not hesitate to obtain it by any means necessary" which he then followed with "We must act covertly"

Jack then starts to chuckle very nervously. "O-Okay, no offense, Optimus, but covertly and giant robots don't really go together," He said before adding more, "Museums and public. And they have guards, and security cameras."

Jack was right, after all, how were a Freightliner, a motorcycle, two sports cars and a Warthog going to sneak past all of that? Unless...

"No problem!" Said Miko, adding "WE are small enough to sneak in, AND we're not a government secret"

"You're crazy, Miko," Leo said, giving her a shocking look, "If we get caught, they'll be taken to juvie or jail, brand us as trespassers and thieves, our families will find out, and we'll be grounded forever."

"You got a better idea?" Miko asked him with a frown. "Not really," Leo admitted.

Bulkhead followed with "Miko, I don't think that's wise" But then Prime stated "But it may be our best option, Bulkhead. The longer we debate, the more time we give the decepticons" to which Blue jacket replied "Mission impossible, here we go"

...

Speaking of the Decepticons, the spymaster, Soundwave, showed the same image to Starscream, Knock Out, Breakdown and Slashmark.

"Mhm, that's definitely it" said Breakdown, Starscream answering with "Then I'm afraid Megatron's wellbeing will have to wait" to which he followed with "It's harvest time"


Big City Museum

The Autobots have finally arrived at the museum at nighttime. Optimus drove to the front, being quiet as possible. "Autobots, confirm positions."

Arcee answered "West ward hoed" Bee and BJ continued "East under surveillance" and Bulk finished "South side covered" to which Optimus added "maintain your guard"

...

At the base, Miko, Leo, Jack and Raf were getting ready to help the Autobots.

"Jack, Miko, Leon, Rafael, I will have a clear view of you, once you secure the harvester, I will contact Ratchet to bridge you back to base" said Optimus as Ratchet fired up the ground bridge, with the kids going through riding a lift cart.

The autobot medic then looked at the four humans, "Now since you'll bypass all points of normal entry, you won't need to worry about setting off the alarm but take care to avoid any security guards."

They entered the museum through the ground bridge, stopping under one of the security cameras.

"Opa!" Miko said, and they saw Optimus blinked his headlights, giving them the go.

Jack raises the motorized scissor lift, which stopped when they were side by side with the security camera.

Miko took her phone out and angled it upside down to get a perfect picture of the statue holding the Harvester. She goes to where the photos of the statue holding the Harvester and places it over the top of camera positioning it to show the Harvester was there so they could confiscate it so a security guard looking at the security cameras in the museum's surveillance could see that it was still there.

Miko gave Leo, Jack and Raf two thumbs up and Jack moved the motorized scissor lift towards the Harvester.

...

Meanwhile, outside the museum, Optimus spotted an incoming vehicle, a red and maroon Aston Martin DBS, which soon parked next to him. "*whistle* Sweet rims, 24 gauge, you're real heavy duty, just like my friend here"

As soon as he finished, a blue S.U.V entered the parking lot at high speed, deploying a rocket launcher from its roof and shooting it.

Luckily, Optimus transforms into his robot form and catches the missile. However, despite the fact that he caught it, the missile kept on going until the tip of it made a crack on the window of the museum.

...

The humans were trying to get the Harvester off of the statue's hand with Leo on the hand trying to push it into the lift when they looked at the window and saw Optimus look at them. They then saw Knockout shocking him. "It's the cons. Leon said. "They got Optimus." Jack added.

...

As he was standing on Optimus, Knockout began flashing his headlights to signal Breakdown to ram him.

Then Bumblebee and Blue Jacket came from the east side of the building ready to bash into him, Breakdown countered with a rocket before they could even get close to him.

Bumblebee transformed before the missile could hit them, but rolled out of control, kicking his brother in the process.

Arcee then came from the west side and tried to bash him, but she was then hit by Slashmark who was in her vehicle mode.

The impact sent Arcee flying into the other two, leaving them trashed on the ground behind Breakdown, to which she stated "Cheap shot, young lady"

Bulkhead then arrives at the front by climbing the museum, without breaking it, and jumped down onto the parking lot and ran towards Breakdown, who transformed and punched him as he saw him approaching him, the wrecker flew back towards Knockout, Slashmark and into one of the museum's pillars.

The impact was strong enough to snap the pillar in two, causing the three of them to fall back far enough to break the window and sound the alarm.

...

Back in the museum, the kids finally got the Harvester onto the lift. Unfortunately, the guard woke up from it and saw something that looked fishy.

...

Knockout then saw The Prime trying to get back up. The slick 'con grabbed his weapon and tried to shock him, but Optimus punched him from behind, causing Knockout to fall to the other side.

...

Jack lowered the lift, and Miko said "C'mon, time to make our exit, boys" they went down the hallway, with Miko running in front to open the door, unfortunately, she got found by the guard "Uhh... wassup?" The guard replied by saying "Better come with me, miss" he took her by the hand and pulled her over to the security room.

Leon saw this and didn't like it. "Mi-?!" He was about to say until Jack grabbed him. "Dude, what are you thinking?!" Jack said quietly. "We can't just leave here." Leo added.

However, the guard heard one of their voices. "Hey, come out!" Jack and Raf gulped, not wanting to be turned into the police and have their parents chew them out afterwards. That was when Leo whispered to them. "Go, I'll stay." Before Jack could say anything else, the black-teenager showed himself to the guard. "Hello, sir... Heh" The guard wasn't amused and sent Leo to the security room as well.

After Leo entered the room and sat down, Miko said "Smooth move, chocolate bar" with an evident hint of sarcasm.

Leo playfully rolled his eyes and commented, "It was your plan, vanilla shortcake".

Outside the room, Jack and Raf spotted a bot walking towards the door, being able to see just their legs.

"Arcee!" Jack said, they ran towards the door and, then the bot kneeled down and opened it, just to reveal that... "gulp It's Soundwave" said Raf.

Luckily for them, Soundwave didn't seem to want to destroy these two. After all, they're not that much of a threat to him. The silent mech then picked the Harvester up, transformed into his alternate mode and ascended upwards.

Optimus stared behind him, seeing Soundwave turn around and take off with the orb. Knockout saw him leave and said "Hmm, that would be "game"" following which, the 'cons changed to vehicle mode, turned around and left, one after the other, with Arcee in hot pursuit.

That was when Jack and Raf came out of the back of the museum. "The Cons have the Harvester!" Jack said. "And Security has Miko and Leo!" Raf added.

"What!? I'm going in after them" said Bulkhead, slamming his fists together, before Optimus stopped him "Bulkhead, Miko and Leo may be detained, but they're safe from harm"

"For now, they're safe physically... But they're not safe legally." BJ stated, "But he's right, Bulk. We have to wait for the right moment to get them back somehow."

...

Back with Miko and Leo, the guard wanted to know what the heck they were doing in the museum in the late hours.

"Look kids, if this is some kind of prank, you need to know that the authorities are on their way, it'd go a whole lot easier for you if you just told me what happened to the sphere"

That was when Leo started to 'explain', "Well, sir, my partner and I were doing our history project. Unfortunately, she's more interested in music than history." Miko looked at him before she 'explained' her side of the 'story'. "Yeah... Anyway, we were researching our history project. We just lost track of time and got locked in here after closing."

The guard then replied with "So what's your history project about, I would love to know" After which Miko tried to think about something to say.


Some time later, at the autobot's base.

"In all likelihood, Starscream will use the Harvester to gather as much energon as quickly as he can from the planet's otherwise unmineable energon deposits. Approach with extreme caution. Starscream will not hesitate to turn the Harvester on any one of us," Optimus told them before sending Bumblebee and Arcee to two separate locations. He then reactivated the Ground-Bridge and looked at the green wrecker and the blue scout. "Bulkhead, Blue Jacket, it is best that the two of you will remain here."

"So we can bust the kids out of the museum?" Asked Bulkhead with excitement, to which Optimus answered "So you can help Ratchet, you may be their guardians, but they require human assistance. Agent Fowler remains our best option" Optimus left through the ground bridge, leaving Bulkhead baffled.

Raf tried contacting the Special agent but he kept getting his voicemail, "You've reached Special Agent William Fowler. I'm currently on an intensive training retreat and unavailable until Tuesday."

"Still no answer," Raf told Bulkhead.

"Fowler's lounging around some poolside cabana," Bulkhead said and he smashed one of Ratchet's tools with a fit of rage.

Ratchet angered exclaimed "BULKHEAD, I needed that!" BJ then said "Woah, take it easy, big guy" following which, Bulk said "We can free Miko and Leo if we return that harvester to the museum" after which Ratchet asked "So the decepticons can steal it all over again?"

"I am so dumb!" Bulkhead said, gripping his head. "Whoa, whoa, Bulkhead. You're not dumb. You just made a mistake, that's all." BJ insisted while he patted Bulkhead's right shoulder.

"So, how ARE we going to help Miko and Leo?" Jack asked, to which Ratchet said "By returning this replica to the museum,".

The construction of which would be going a whole lot faster if Bulkhead hadn't just mangled my frame welder!" The medic added.

"We're already trespassers and thieves," Jack said, "Why not add forgery to the list?"

Bulkhead groans, "I wish Blue Jacket and I never took Miko and Leo to the-" He suddenly realizes something, "The painting of the Harvester isn't the only thing we found in those ruins."

"I'm sorry?" Ratchet asked him, with confusion.

"Starscream's not dumb," Bulkhead told him, "No matter what kind of tool he has, he's gonna take the easy route." Blue then knew what Bulk was talking about, "Then that means that Starscream and his group of con-chumps are at the construction site!"


Later at the ruins, 3 vehicon troopers were guarding the area, as Starscream approached a chunk of energon with the harvester in hand "Why move mountains now when we have a motherlode of energon right here for the taking? Courtesy of this gift from ancient autobots"

"Uh, actually, Commander Starscream, it was a gift from Breakdown, Slashmark and myself," Knockout said.

"Yeah, but, y'know, wouldn't want to take ALL the credit" Slashmark added with a nervous chuckle, following which Starscream pointed the harvester at them, leading them to back away as he fired it up, staring in abject horror as the device began to syphon the energon of one of their comrades, to the point of falling to the ground, lifeless.

Starscream smirked, happy that the 'test' went great according to his plan. Once he deactivated it, he replied "All that energon in such a tiny vessel."

Knockout turned around along with Breakdown and Slashmark, still shaking on his ankles, "Those ancient autobots never missed a trick, Lord Starscream"

Starscream then aims the Harvester right back at them. Slash, K.O and Break cower in fear, hoping that their leader wouldn't do it. Of course, Star wasn't actually going to do it. Besides, it was more fun to scare them than kill them. He then aims the Harvester at the Energon veins and activates it, causing the Energon to go through.

Slashmark turned back to the corpse, crouching down to put her hand on its cold, slowly graying shoulder "..you didn't deserve to go like this.." she said with sadness.

Slashmark wasn't the only one who was sad for the poor guy. Bulkhead and Blue Jacket were spying on them from behind the rocks and they saw Starscream did to the decepticon soldier. Blue Jacket truly didn't like what Starscream did to that vehicon. While Bulk doesn't even like the grunts who joined the 'Cons, even he felt bad for the dude.

"Poor guy..." BJ sadly whispered.

"Let's go" Bulkhead got closer to the edge of the path and jumped, Blue Jacket followed suit, running towards the decepticons, when all of a sudden... * CRASH * Bulk stepped on a pot.

Breakdown, Knockout and Slashmark heard the noise and saw the two autobots that were trying to sneak up on them.

"Uh oh..." BJ gulped.

Bulkhead reached for the top of his head, regretting his most recent action "Oh, scrap..."

"Back for seconds?" Breakdown smirked once he turned his hand into a hammer. Knockout grabbed his Energon Prod and Slashmark readied her claws. They then start running towards them.

They charged straight at Bulk from the sides, Knockout with the shock rod on the right, Breakdown preparing a hammer on his left, and Slashmark running like a lion ready to pounce dead center.

That was when Bulkhead ducked, which caused Breakdown to KO Knockout. But it also caused something else. BJ looked up and saw Slashmark. He was about to move, but he got pounced on very quickly.

BJ jokingly said "Uhm, WHERE exactly were you aiming, Big Foot?" leading her to reply with, "Who was in front of you, smurf?" She then gashed at his chest ripping off his grill, causing great pain, which he retaliated to with 5 shots to the face.

While Blue Jacket and Slashmark were fighting each other, Breakdown saw that he ko'd Knockout by accident. Before he could check if he was okay, Bulk grabbed the shock rod off the floor and shocked his archenemy. The wrecker then saw the fight between BJ and Slash, and it wasn't going well for the blue autobot because he was getting his butt kicked.

Suddenly, a beam of light hit him before he could step in, Starscream used the harvester on Bulkhead, causing him to fall forward to the ground. "You're a big one, this might take a while" Starscream said with a grin on his face.

Bulk then slowly got back to his feet, approaching Starscream, leaving the former air commander nervous and confused as to what he was planning.

"W-What are you doing?!" a shocked and terrified Starscream asked.

Bulkhead then got closer "What I always do best..." he grabbed a hold of the orb in his hand, ready to deliver a blow "...Breaking things!" He then punched Starscream dead center in the face, ripping the harvester from his hand and squeezed it, he then turned left and tossed it into the sky, catching the attention of everyone in a 12 mile radius.

After all of that, he then fell down, unable to move another inch. Breakdown and Knockout, who got up after getting hit, came up to the green wrecker. "He's a glutton for punishment," Knockout said, holding his shock rod which was crackling with electricity. Breakdown then chuckles evilly. That was when they heard Slashmark beating the literal heck out of Blue Jacket, and even they were terrified to see it.

Blue Jacket wasn't doing well at all. He was leaking lots of energon due to the attacks Slashmark was giving him. She then grabbed him by the throat and slammed him into the wall.

She spat out a piece of a panel, courtesy of his leg, and charged her blaster "This time, I'm not letting you get away" It was then that a ground bridge opened and rolling out came Prime, Bumblebee and Arcee, who then jumped into the air with guns blazing.

"Fight?" Breakdown asked his partner.

"MM. Drive." Knockout said and the two Decepticons transformed and drove away leaving Starscream and Slashmark to fend for themselves.

Seeing herself outnumbered, Slash' dropped the autobot and ran off like if she was Sonic the hedgehog, grabbing Starscream on the way out.

After Slash and Starscream got away, Optimus checked if Bulkhead was okay while Arcee and Bumblebee went to see if Blue Jacket was alright.

Dizzy from the loss of energon, Bulkhead simply said "hEy" meanwhile, looking at BJ's injuries, Optimus called back to base "Ratchet, prepare sick bay, we've got a flickering spark..."


After a few moments, back at the Autobot base

Bumblebee had a concerned look on his face, more than when Megatron shot him point blank when the ark and the nemesis were headed towards the space bridge on their way out of Cybertron.

Arcee also had a concerned look on her face as well. After all, she watched her own partner get killed by that glitch. Her next partner got killed thanks to her pushing her old teammates away after the death of her first partner. Next, Cliffjumper died while saving BJ's life. She couldn't bear to lose another partner.

Ratchet was finishing welding scraps of metal to Blue Jacket's frame, patching up any leaks "He's gonna pull through, but it'll take a few days before he can try to change form again, let alone move that arm"

BJ sighed in disappointment and relief "Beats rusting under rocks at 812..."

Bulk, who finished drinking/eating Energon cubes and regained his strength, felt remorse for not protecting BJ back there. "Sorry, kid. This is my fault... I should've protected you."

Blue Jacket responded with "Even if I died back there, you still saved everyone from that vampire ball"

Bulk gently gave him a hug then looked at the medic. "How long will he have to wait to transform again?"

"Until his body finishes absorbing the patches in 28 astro cycles, sorry to disappoint" responded Ratchet, putting the finishing touches on the aforementioned patches. Arcee then added "Guess you'll be stuck using the hologram for the next 2 days" BJ nodded towards his old Delta Team leader.

"Alright," Bulk said, who was just relieved that BJ was okay at least.

Optimus then walked in, getting his attention "Bulkhead, I got an assignment for you"


Back at the museum, the sun was coming up while Miko and Leo were telling the guard about their history project.

Miko finishing with "... and, of course, there's the whole principle of "deus ex machina", uh, the god from the machine, it's that part in Greek storytelling when some character shows up out of the blue to make everything right"

The guard yawned a bit, considering that the kids' talk about their history project was either true and boring, or fake and boring. He then smirks, "That so, kids? Well, I'm sure the police will want to hear all about your history report."

There was a slam on the door, then in walked agent Fowler, briefly showing his badge the guard "Special agent William Fowler, the stolen property has been located and returned to museum premises" the guard then looked at the camera and saw that the statue was, in fact, holding the "ball", then Fowler took Miko's hand and pulled her up, with Leo getting up from the chair "The kids come with me" he then reached into his inside pocket, holding Miko's phone and giving it to her "You dropped your cell phone" then the three of them headed out as he continued "Found it on the floor, RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR HISTORY PROJECT" they then left the room, closing the door.

Despite this, the guard was still shocked to see the sphere back to its rightful place, let alone finding out that the two kids were innocent all along.

...

Anyway, once they got out of the museum, Leo hugged his dad. "Thanks, dad! I thought we were actually going to jail."

"No problem, Leon" he added "By the way, looks like our ride arrived" Miko then gasped in happiness as Bulkhead arrived in front of the building.

"Off you two go now" Fowler told them. They didn't have to be told twice. Leon and Miko raced to Bulkhead, with Leo getting in first once he got in the back. "Glad you're back, Bulk! Thought Miko and I were goners."

Miko then got in, riding shotgun "Good timing, Bulk! I was running out of history factoids, stuff I didn't even know I knew!" Bulkhead happily said "looks like you're smarter than you let on"

"Under pressure" Leon said, making Miko laugh.

To which Bulk replied "Me too" getting ready to leave.

"I can't wait to finish my history report," she added, "I'm gonna write all about how the Autobots interacted with ancient civilizations."

"Um, I don't think that'll work," Leon said.

"Yeah, I don't think that'll get you into college, Miko," Bulkhead continued as they left.

Leon then remembered something, "Bulk, where's Blue Jacket? I'd at least thought both you and him would pick the two of us up."

To which Bulkhead answered "Right, forgot to tell you, he got into a scuffle last night, Ratchet said he can't drive until Thursday afternoon"

Leo was shocked to hear it. However, he was still happy that BJ was safe. "Cool, cool." he said with a smile.


And that's a wrap! Hehe, see what I did there? Anyway, I want to thank B-128 for co-writing with me to make this awesome chapter! He's a really cool friend of mine that I met on Deviant-art. You can check his stuff out on deviant-art.

Slashmark has made an appearance, and she has a bone to pick with Blue Jacket! (Hah! See what I did there too?) Heh, you guys will have to wait for the full story behind their rivalry at a future chapter. Also, Slashmark is B-128's OC as well.

Due to BJ getting a beat-down, he won't transform for awhile. He'll have to wait until Thursday. Also meaning that Speed Metal won't be the next chapter. However, there will be a special chapter that will happen before the events of Speed Metal. I won't spoil anything else because it'll be a surprise that B-128 and I are planning.

You know, I also want to give a HUGE thanks to MelSpyRose, B-128 and Autobot0294! They really inspire me to do this great story of mine, and I can't thank them enough.

Don't forget to make suggestions and ideas and they might be added to the plot of the story.

Comment, review and God Bless everyone!

Btw, B-128 and I just updated the story title. Hope y'all like it.