Disclaimer:Transformers belongs to Hasbro, Takara, etc . The only thing in this that belongs to me is Arcee's sister.
Jack was sitting on Arcee's motorcycle form with his helmet on in the desert, next to a stop sign, she revved her engine, "Tighten your grip, Jack," she said, before accelerating forward at a high speed catching Jack off guard as she did a wheelie.
""Hey, Hey what's with you, Arcee?" Jack asked, chuckling.
"Thought you might actually enjoy the ride if you weren't getting shot at," she explained.
"Oh, bring it," he challenged.
Meanwhile on a hill nearby, Bulkhead was in his alternate mode with Miko inside him, "ready…set…" Miko said.
"Miko, I'm supposed to be protecting you," Bulkhead said, not sure that dune bashing was a good idea.
"Bulkhead, I'm strapped tight inside 10 tons of metal muscle. I'm protected," she said telling him that she'll be safe. She convinced him and laughs as he went down the hill.
Meanwhile in another part of the desert, Bumblebee in his Urbana 500 form was playing racing video games with Raf inside him, he kept winning as he kept knocking Raf out of the race track.
"Aww!" Raf complained and Bumblebee buzzed a reply. "No fair, Bumblebee. You've been driving a lot longer than I have."
Meanwhile back at the Autobot base, Ratchet walked over to a Cybertronian microscope , "Thank goodness for peace and quiet." He looked into the microscope. "House guests can be such a bother.
Suddenly he heard the sound of metal falling onto the floor "What?" He mumbled and looked around before looking back into the microscope, then he heard the sound of metallic tapping , he looked around again "Optimus? Chromette?"
He turned around and gasps as he sees his manipulator arm approaching him and jumps up "By the AllSpark," he said as he sees his manipulator arm rushing to attack him.
He evaded the manipulator arm, which landed on the ledge where the microscope was, and jumps onto a tray that Ratchet was holding to shield himself from his own manipulator arm which flew above him.
The manipulator arm dropped back down to the ledge, Ratchet grabbed a metal cylinder shaped stick to fight off his Manipulator arm, as he tries to attack the manipulator arm but the arm evaded his attack and sliced the microscope in half, "I needed that!" He yelled at his manipulator arm.
The manipulator arm dropped onto the floor and jumped into the air, but just as it was about to touch Ratchet, it got hit by blaster fire from Optimus.
The manipulator arm was about to jump again, when Optimus crushed the arm with his foot. "And stay broken," Ratchet told the broken manipulator arm. "Now what could have cause that?"
"I have grave suspicion, Ratchet, Dark Energon," Optimus suggested as he deactivated his battle mask.
"What's all the ruckus?" Chromette said walking into the room, "I was taking a power down, when I suddenly heard screaming and sounded like we were under attack."
"I was just attacked by my own Manipulator arm that Bulkhead broke yesterday," Ratchet explained.
"You've got to be fragging kidding me," she said with disbelief.
Meanwhile on the Nemesis, Megatron was growling as the injection of Dark Energon into his system wasn't yet finished.
"Lord Megatron," Starscream chuckles.
"It's as if the blood of Unicron the Destroyer flows through my veins, as if I hear his very thoughts," Megatron said before grabbing another chunk of Dark Energon "I now know what I must do."
Starscream chuckles behind him "And what can I do to assist you, Master?"
"Quit Groveling and await my command," Megatron replied, walking out of the Nemesis and transformed, flying to a certain location.
Starscream watched as Megatron flew away by the window and noticed Soundwave approach him, he turned around "Soundwave! I fear that when our Master reaches for the stars, He came down with a touch of space madness. Lord Megatron has not been of sound judgment since his return. Increase global surveillance."
"Quit groveling and await my command," Soundwave said, using a voice recording of what Megatron just said.
"I'm not death," Starscream told him, "But if Optimus Prime lives, I believe it is in Lord Megatron's best interest that we ensure his enemies' destruction."
Back at the Autobot base, Chromette who was now fully awake, looked at Ratchet's former Manipulator Arm, which was placed inside a container, "If the residue Arcee found on Cliffjumper brought your broken equipment to life, it would stand to reason that the very same substance brought cliffjumper back from the dead," Optimus said as he closed the container.
"Oh, that would account for his life signal inexplicably coming back online, but Dark Energon?" Ratchet said realizing that he was correct about the goo being dark energon. "It's so scarce as to be virtually non existent, since Cybertron went dark. What would it be doing here on Earth?"
"Dark Energon?" Chromette asked "as in the form of Energon that Megatron used to indict the core of Cybertron with, during the final days of the war on Cybertron?"
"You are correct Chromette,"Optimus told the femme before turning to Ratchet to answer your question, old friend It was transportedby… Megatron."
"For what purpose?" Both Ratchet and Chromette asked at the same time.
"To conquer this planet by raising an army of the undead," Optimus explained.
Ratchet immediately chuckles "Well, Megatron will need to break quite a few toaster ovens. I mean where on this world would he find that many cybertronian dead?"
"I'm with Ratchet on this one, Optimus, I've never heard of a graveyard filled with thousands of Cybertronian bodies on Earth," Chromette said.
Optimus was about to answer her, when they heard the sound of engines come through the base, telling them that the rest of the autobots were at base with their human allies.
Jack got off Arcee, while Raf exited Bumblebee and Miko exited Bulkhead, all three humans were laughing as they got off of their guardians,
"That was awesome!" Jack told Arcee.
"Can we go again?" Raf asked Bumblebee.
"Sweet!" Miko told bulkhead.
Bulkhead felt a grumble sound with in his torso, opened it and found a guitar and handed it to Miko.
"Sorry," Miko apologized, "Must have left that in the backseat."
"Autobots, Prepare to…" Optimus said, looking at the autobots.
"Roll out?" Arcee asked.
"Remain here," he told her and looked towards Ratchet, "Ratchet, you'll come with me. Arcee, we'll be outside communications range for some time, so I'm putting you in charge."
Miko looked at her guardian, "Dude, your biggest. You should be the boss."
"Um, he never picks me," Bulkhead told her.
"Optimus, with all due respect, playing bodyguard is one thing. Babysitting's another," Arcee said telling him that she didn't want to be in charge will he was outside of their communications range. "Besides Ratchet hasn't been in the field since the war."
Ratchet overhead this comment "My pistons may be rusty but my hearing is sharp as ever," he retorted.
"For the moment, it's only reconnaissance," Optimus explained.
"Then why do I hear an edge in your voice?" She asked him.
"Arcee much has changed in the last 24 hours, and we all need to adapt," he explained before turning to Ratchet "Ratchet, Bridge is out."
Ratchet activated the Ground Bridge and walked through the portal which turned off as soon as both of them disappeared into the portal.
"Okay, Chief, so, uh what's on the activities list?" Jack asked Arcee.
"I'm going on patrol," Arcee announced.
"But Optimus told us to stay," Bulkhead reminded her.
"When you're in charge, you can call the shots. Bee, Sis, with me," she told him.
Bumblebee buzzed a reply that sounded like a complaint.
"Coming, Sis," Chromette said as she walked towards her.
"Bulkhead,you're in charge," Arcee said as she, her sister and Bumblebee left to go on patrol.
"So, uh what's on the activities list?" Bulkhead then asked the humans.
A loud feedback whining sound went through the room. "How about Band practice?" Miko asked.
"But we're not a band," Raf said, covering his ears from the loud noise.
"Why so antisocial?" Miko asked Raf, chuckling "Come on, Raf. You play anything."
"Um...Keyboard?" He asked showing her his laptop.
"Laptop and samples. Good," Miko said before turning to Jack "Jack?"
"I sometimes mess around on the harmonica," Jack said.
Miko approached him "Do I look like I do country? Just cover yourself in fake blood and jump around screaming."
"Uhh…" Jack taid as Miko walks away.
Miko looked at her guardian "Bulkhead, percussion. We'll go for a big industrial sound. D.I.Y, we're a band. You just got to learn the songs. This one's a ballad, 'My fist, your fist.'" She suddenly started playing her guitar, it was so loud that everyone bit Milo had to cover their ears and Bulkhead covered his auditory sensors.
Suddenly the Proximity sensor started blaring "Whoa,Whoa,Whoa!" Bulkhead said to stop Miko playing her guitar.
"Come on. You can't handle raw power?" She asked her guardian.
"Proximity sensor," he explained, "quick hide!"
The humans hid behind Bulkhead's left foot while the elevator opened and Fowler walked out, "Prime!"
"Agent Fowler, uh, he's not here. Nobody's here… except me of course," Bulkhead lied, while chuckling a little.
"Well, where did he go?" Fowler asked, "Wait. Don't tell me. He's out pancaking a mini mall. Now I don't know what language you bots speak on your planet, but Prime promised he would handle the Decepticons, and blowing a crater in the middle of Nebraska is not what the word 'handle' mean in English. So you tell Prime…" suddenly he notices Miko' amplifier moving, "Since when you bots electric?"
The humans figured that they'd better meet the special agents, "Hey. How you doing?"
"Contact with civilians!" Fowler said "Team Prime has really gone off book this time. Wait, don't tell me. You're running a daycare center."
"Uh, Okay," Bulkhead said, not knowing what to say.
"Yeah, we're interns," Jack said.
"Student interns," Raf added.
"Uh, earning extra credits in auto shop," Jack said.
"Robotics," Miko said at the same time.
"Okay," Fowler said as he walks down the stairs, "Let's move. I'm taking all three of you into federal custody. It's for your own protection."
Bulkhead stomped his foot between Fowler and the children "we're protecting them," he explained.
"Is that so?" Fowler asked as he walks over to a phone, "Well, maybe you could explain that to my superiors at the Pentagon." He grabbed the phone.
"Don't use that phone," Bulkhead advised before placing his finger into the phone booth "It's… out of order."
Fowler let go of the phone "this isn't over, big butt, not by a long shot!" He walked back up the stairs and exited the base using the elevator.
Meanwhile in a remote region Optimus and Ratchet were walking down a pathway "Optimus, what do we hope to find here?" Ratchet asked him.
"The site of the largest Cybertronian battlefield in this galaxy," he explained.
"On Earth?" Ratchet said with disbelief, "You must be joking, Chromette said that she's never heard of a cybertronian graveyard on this planet."
"Do you recall the period late in the war when both sides began hiding their energon spoils off world?" Optimus asked Ratchet.
"Of course," Ratchet answered "it's the reason Energon deposits exist on planets such as this one."
It is also the reason battles came to be waged on planets such as this one, and I fear Megatron's memory is as long as history. Anyway this graveyard we're going to isn't common knowledge," he explained "that's why Chromette doesn't know about it, only the higher ups of the Autobot and Decepticons knew about it."
Fowler began to fly a Huey helicopter off of the helipad of the Autobots base and flew away and activated a message to one of his superiors "Sir, Agent Fowler. We have a situation. I'm en route from the Autobot base. I'll brief you in person."
Meanwhile Soundwave suddenly received a recording of Fowler of what he just said "Agent Fowler. I'm en route from the Autobot base. I'll brief you in person."
"Autobot base, Eh?" Starscream asked "Humans, always the weak link. Fetch me this Fowler so that he may brief us instead."
Soundwave suddenly deployed his Mini-Con Laserbeak from his torso to fetch Agent Fowler.
As Fowler was flying his helicopter, his helicopter's alarm started blaring, as it's tracking system noticed Laserbeak chasing him. "Hey big bird, I'm flying here," he said, "What in Uncle sam's beard?" He said As Laserbeak appeared in front of the helicopter.
Laserbeak tried to clip the helicopter's tail, which Fowler tilted the helicopter up to avoid the attack, "First the freeways aren't safe, now air travel?" He asked, soon Laserbeak flew at the helicopter scratching the paint, causing the helicopter to tilt a bit. He soon reached a dead end as a rock wall was in front of the helicopter and he flew upwards.
Laserbeak followed him and soon Laserbeak was in front of Fowler, "You want to dance, 'Con?" Fowler asked "I'll lead." He pressed a button on the control stick and he began shooting at Laserbeak with bullets from the helicopter which wasn't even denting him. But soon the gun started to make a clicking sound as it was out of ammo and Laserbeak flew upwards and clipped the helicopter's tail.
"Never an Autobot around when you actually need one," Fowler said as the helicopter's alarm started blaring as the helicopter began to spin out of control as it began to fall.
As he tried to gain control of the helicopter, Laserbeak broke the window and grabbed him, but not before pressing a button to send an SOS to the Autobot base and soon the helicopter fell to the ground and blew up.
An alarm started blaring at the Autobot base "My ears," Raf said as he covers his ears as the alarm was loud.
"It's an SOS," Bulkhead said walking towards the supercomputer "from Fowler, he tries to determine location but the scan was incomplete.
"Did you trace it?" Raf asked him.
"Location scan was incomplete," he answered, "Oh, well."
"'Oh, well?' Seriously?" Jack asked, with confusion.
"Fowler's a jerk," bulkhead explained.
"Whoa! Whether you like the guy or not the Decepticons may have him," Jack said.
"And Agent Fowler knows your location," Raf added with fear and gulped, "our location."
"And did we not just witness how fast Fowler backs down from a bot," Miko added, "the 'Cons will totally make him squeal."
"But we lost the transmission," Bulkhead told them, "Fowler could be anywhere."
"Maybe I can narrow it down," Raf told them, holding his laptop, he sat down and flipped it open, "About five years ago, the government started microchipping their Agents, you know, like owners do with pets." They all looked at him with confusion as he began typing on his laptop. "What? I saw it on TV. Anyway If I can jack into the fed's mainframe, maybe I can pinpoint Fowler's coordinates."
"You know how to hack?" Miko asked him with confusion "But you're like 2 years old," she added commenting about how small he was.
"12, and a quarter," he told her.
On the Nemesis, Vehicons were taking Fowler to Starscream, inside an interrogation room, "Welcome… Agent Fowler Starscream said, greeting him.
Fowler brushes the dust off his coat, "You treat all your guests this nice?" Fowler asked him.
Starscream chuckles as he said that, "Any friend of the Autobots…"
"Autobot? That one of them coin-operated, wash-my-own-car places?" Fowler asked, pretending to not know what he was talking about.
"So that's how it's going to be,hmm?" Starscream asked the human, "Apparently, no one has told you I have no appreciation for Human humor. Make our guest comfortable."
Back at the Autobot base Raf has finally located Agent Fowler, "Latitude 39.5, Longitude -116.9."
Bulkhead types the coordinates in and activates Ground Bridge, "Okay, wait here."
"Aw! Don't break up the band!" Miko said.
Bulkhead walks towards the portal before turning around "Uh, Jack you're in charge." He then ran through the Ground Bridge.
"Guess we three have the run of the place," Jack said, he looked around and couldn't see Miko, "Miko? Miko?" He called.
The Ground Bridge portal appeared somewhere near the center of Nevada, Bulkhead jumps out, "Fowler?" He called, he then looked up and saw the Decepticon warship "the whole Decepticon shebang." He ran towards a boulder to hide as he saw a Vehicon patrolling the area.
A Vehicon walked past the boulder the Autobot was hiding at, "All right! What's the plan?" He heard Miko say and saw her behind a nearby boulder.
"Miko!" He said quietly and made a shush gesture with his finger at his mouth.
She looked around when suddenly a Vehicon noticed her and aims his blaster at her, "Ohh, unwise," she said.
"Miko, get down!" Bulkhead yelled and she ran from the boulder, as the Vehicon fired at the boulder destroying it instantly. The Vehicon saw her run and aimed his blaster at the fleeing human, when Bulkhead clobbered the Vehicon and started punching him, his arm clashed with the vehicons's blaster, and he punched his face and the Vehicon scratched Bulkhead's paint which caused him to punch him really hard, and clobbered him again.
Miko picked up a rock, "Hold him still," she said, and hit the Vehicon's head with the rock, and pull head moved her out of the way.
Both Bulkhead and the Vehicon started battling each other by pushing against each other, "Miko, look away!" He told Miko as she was watching him.
"But," Miko started.
"Turn your head away!" He said before pulling the Vehicon's circuitry out of its chest, Miko watched this with awe.
Meanwhile somewhere in the desert, Arcee, Chromette and Bumblebee we're driving down a road with the twins having their holographic drivers on when Bulkhead contacted them, "Arcee, Chromette, Bumblebee, do any of you three read me?"
"Loud and clear,Bulkhead," Arcee said.
"I have a situation," he said.
"Bulkhead, they're children, humans. Just do whatever," she added.
"No it's not that," he said.
"What's the problem?" Chromette asked,
"I'm on a mission to rescue Fowler from the Decepticons, but Miko followed me, he explained.
As he said that the three autobots put their brakes on, as their tires screeched the road "you're where? She's where?" Arcee asked the former Wrecker.
Meanwhile back at the Autobot base, Jack and Raf were asking each other what to do, "What should we do? Bulkhead may not have even realized that she followed him," Raf said.
"Miko hasn't seen the 'Consin action like we have," Jack said, "She has no idea."
Raf walks up to the supercomputer and typed on the keyboard and saw that the coordinates were still locked in, "Those are the coordinates. Their destination's still locked in.
Jack sighs, "Um, you're in charge," he told Raf.
"In charge of who?" Raf asked him, before using the keyboard to activate the Ground Bridge and followed Jack through the portal as it appeared.
Meanwhile back with the twins and Bumblebee, Arcee contacts base "Arcee to base, come in. Jack listen up. We need you to bridge us back. Hello?" She got no reply and sighs. "Sis, Bumblebee metal to the pedal."
Back in the interrogation room on the Nemesis, Fowler was chained up as Vehicons surrounded him and Starscream walked up to him, "Agent Fowler, I have one simple request that will save your family the pain of grieving " he said as he puts one of his fingers under Fowler's neck, "Tell me the location of the Autobot base."
"No problem, but first I need to ask you something first," Fowler said.
"Yes? I'm listening," Starscream asked.
"I got an issue with the customer service around here," Fowler said, "Can Ispeak time the manager?"
Starscream growls as he heard this, "I make the decisions here! I make the decisions! I am in charge!" He turned towards a Vehicon, "bring the prod."
Bulkhead and Miko hid behind another boulder "What's taking Arcee, Chromette andBumblebee?" Bulkhead asked
"Dude, the 'Cons could be putting the clamps on Fowler right now. Let's just storm the joint!" Miko suggested
Suddenly they heard a wielding sound as the Ground Bridge opened," There here," Bulkhead said but Jack and Raf came through the portal, instead of the rest of the autobots.
"Why don't those guys hang with their own bots? This is our one-on-one time," Miko said.
"Whoa-Oh," Raf said, as he walked with Jack, "Are your bones vibrating?" They then saw the Nemesis.
"You there," Vehicons on the ship said as they noticed Raf and Jack and Aimed their blasters at them.
"Scrap!" Both Bulkhead and Miko said at the same time.
Back on the Nemesis, in the interrogation room, Starscream approached Fowler, "I ask nicely one last time, the Autobot base."
"Sure thing buddy," Fowler said, "Right after you eat my Star-Spangled shorts."
Starscream took out an Energon Prod and zapped Fowler with it, which caused him to scream in pain, "As I imagined," Starscream said, "Energon and human nervous systems don't mix."
Back with Optimus and Ratchet, they were still walking down the pathway, when they saw thousands of metallic bones. "For the first time in my life, Optimus, I had hoped you were wrong." Ratchet told Optimus as he looked at the bones of their fallen Cybertronian brethren.
They suddenly heard the sound of a cybertronian jet fly by and immediately transformed as the jet approached a cliff. "Optimus, been well?" Megatron asked him from the cliff, "Insee you brought your trusty watchdog. I was certain he'd be convalescing in a scrapyard by now."
"Why don't you invite him down for a chat?" Ratchet suggested, pounding his fists together.
"I know why you're here, Megatron," Optimus told the warlord.
"Hardly a surprise, Optimus," Megatron replied "After all you and I have been at this a long time, and your time has come to an end." He added as he took out the Dark Energon he took from the large crystal of Dark Energon from the Nemesis and threw it onto the ground in the middle of the graveyard, causing the ground to rumble and open apart. While Megatron's spark chamber flows with dark Energon "Rise my dark Army!" He added as deceased Cybertronians began to appear from the ground.
"By the AllSparks," Ratchet said.
A few seconds later a few more Cybertronian undead rose up from the ground and carried swords, "Behold… the power of Dark Energon!"
To be continued
please review, if you criticize please don't be harsh as this is my first Transformers Fanfiction and I'm trying to match this up with the games and novels as they are all in the Aligned Continuity..