*Is dusting off the words* Wow, that one took a while to clean, mostly because of laziness on my part, but still.
Disclaimer: Transformers belongs to Hasbro. I only take credit for this story and my OCs.
Unknown Date
Jasper, Nevada
Being weightless is the best way to describe my brief trip between realities. However, as I said, it's brief. One second I was standing in a desert, the next I was in an alley.
I recognized this place from the show.
Jack started down the alley a few seconds after my arrival.
From where I was standing, I could see him but he couldn't see me.
Jack was relatively tall, standing about six feet with jet black hair and steel blue eyes. If you overlooked the height difference and hair color, we looked like brothers.
The blue and pink motorcycle that was Arcee wasn't far behind.
Before Jack had walked twenty feet into the alley, she did a perfect one-eighty, blocking his path. She started the conversation. "Relax, I just want to talk to you."
"Don't you mean you and your new friend?" Jack said, referring to the hologram.
"Kid, there's a lot you don't understand," Arcee replied, dismissing her hologram.
Jack started backing up. "No, I get it. I get it. The first rule of robot fight club is you don't talk about robot fight club." He continued as he walked away, "What you need to understand is, I don't want a bunch of crazy talking vehicles following me around trying to get me killed!"
Arcee did a mind-bending transformation as Jack went on his rant. Thousands of Arcee's parts were changing shape and mass. Each gave off a little mechanical whirl, reminding me of the movies. It was very difficult to follow what was happening because of its incredible complexity. After just a few seconds she finished changing into her true form.
'Now that is going to take some getting used to,' I thought. A new voice, which I knew was Miko, made me realize I had spaced out and missed the rest of the conversion.
"Dude, what are you waiting for? Go with her!" She said, obviously excited.
There was a short silence before I broke it. "I agree with her, you would be a fool not to go," I said, walking toward them.
The look on their faces when they turned to me was priceless. "Ah slag," Arcee cursed, lifting a finger to to the side of her head. "'Bee, I need you to pick another one up," she sighed.
Miko was much shorter than Jack or me. She stood around five feet tall, her hair was reddish brown with part of it dyed pink and tied in a narrow braid at the back.
She ran right up to the three of us. "This is so cool! Don't you guys think this is cool?" she said to us. She then asked Arcee questions at a speed I didn't think possible. "Who was that 'Bee guy you talked to? Is he nice? Where are you taking us? Is it a metal concert?! Do you like music? How did you change like that?"
Arcee's optics looked like they were about to pop out, but Miko hadn't stopped talking. "How fast can you go? Have you ever been pulled over? Do you use gas?"
I stopped listening even though the questions continued on and on. I just sat down at the curb, waiting for Bumblebee.
The yellow and black custom muscle car Bumblebee chose as his alternate form arrived less then a minute later. The driver's side door opened and I climbed in. After Bumblebee closed the door, I saw a young boy with glasses and spiky brown hair.
"Hi, I'm Raf," he introduced himself. I was already aware of who he was, but I was waiting to explain that information until everyone was present.
"Nice to meet you Raf, my name's Zechariah, but I prefer Zech".
He nodded and tried to say something, but Bee cut him off with a series of beeps. "He said his name's Bumblebee," Raf translated. I looked to the dashboard.
"Guess that explains the paint job. Nice to meet you." He beeped once in response. Genuinely curious, I turned to Raf and I asked, "How did you understand him?".
He shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I don't know, I just do".
Before I could comment, Bumblebee drove off the curb and I heard Arcee's high-pitched motorcycle engine following behind us.
The drive to base went by fast. Raf, Bumblebee and I conversed about various video games and movies. I found it odd to be talking to a car's dashboard, but Raf proved to be an able translator. We were still talking when the terrain changed from asphalt to sand and dirt. As I looked out the windshield all I saw was a rock wall.
"What are you doing, 'Bee?" Raf asked, with a little fear in his voice. I didn't know what Bumblebee's exact response was because only Raf could understand him.
I think he said something like, "Going to base."
As the wall of rock got closer, I couldn't stop bracing myself for the worst. My fears were very short lived as the rock suddenly slid into the ground to reveal an enormous hidden door behind the rock face. Once we drove through the door, we found ourselves in long, well-lit tunnel. It led into a massive room that easily could have held a skyscraper.
Bumblebee opened the doors for us, and Raf and I climbed out. On the right side of the room was a white and red mech which could only be Ratchet. He stood in front of several computer monitors and gave us a mildly annoyed look.
Directly in front of us was a green and black mech as wide as he was tall looking down at us with a curious expression. On the left was the Ground Bridge. It was much larger than I expected. A football field would easily fit between me and the end of it. Both Arcee and Bumblebee transformed to their true forms after Jack and Miko got off Arcee.
Now that Arcee wasn't crouched over, I guessed her height at roughly two thirds of Solus's. Like all the Autobots, she had blue optics. After years of seeing my brothers hiding their pain following combat tours, I knew Arcee held a lot of regret behind her optics.
Bumblebee was around twenty-eight feet tall, making him around four feet taller than Arcee. Just by looking at his optics you could tell he was much younger than the others.
Ratchet was about thirty feet tall, just over Bumblebee's height and seemed to have an annoyed look etched permanently on his face.
Bulkhead was the largest of them. I estimated him at the same height as Solus or perhaps a bit taller.
He was looking at us as if we would break if he stepped on the floor too hard.
"I thought there were two humans, not four?" Ratchet asked looking at Miko then me.
"Haven't you heard? Humans multiply," Arcee said with a hand on her hip as she walked away.
"Not that fast," I said under my breath.
Raf tried to introduce himself to Miko. "I'm Raf," he said, holding out a hand.
Miko, however, was transfixed on the Autobots. "I'm Miko," she said, walking up to Bulkhead. "Who are you?"
"Bulkhead," he answered simply, but it was enough for Miko to start asking questions again.
She took in a sharp breath. "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?" She had asked all of this in the space of three seconds. Bulkhead looked at me and Jack for help.
I just mouthed 'Good luck.'
"So if you guys are robots, who made you?" Raf asked, looking up at our hosts.
"Plllleeeeease," Ratchet scoffed, making that short word sound twice as long. Very loud footsteps behind me caused us all to turn toward the Ground Bridge.
The unmistakable form of Optimus Prime was walking towards us. He was at least forty-five or fifty feet tall and towered over the rest of his soldiers. He reminded me of Prima. If I was in a battle, outnumbered twenty to one, and he was all the reinforcements I would get, I think we would win.
"We are Autonomous Robotic Organisms from the planet Cybertron. We are also known as Autobots," he spoke in a deep voice filled with wisdom and experience.
Jack boldly stepped forward. "Why are you here?" He asked, looking up at the Autobot leader.
Optimus answered without hesitating, "To protect your planet from the Decepticons".
Arcee added, "The jokers that tried to bump us off last night".
"Okay..." Jack said, not sounding like he really understood, "Why are they here?"
Optimus leaned down to be more at our level. "A fair question, Jack. In part, they are here because our planet is uninhabitable, ravaged by centuries of civil war."
Raf asked, "Why were you fighting a war?" His voice was saddened to hear their planet was basically a dead world.
The question was again answered by Optimus. "Foremost, over control of our world's supply of Energon, the fuel and life-blood of all Autobots and Decepticons alike." The look on his face grew distant and he continued, "The combat was fierce and endured for centuries." His tone became regretful, "In the beginning, I fought along side one whom I considered a brother... But in war, ideals can be corrupted and it was thus that Megatron lost his way."
I heard a sigh off to my right. "Is there going to be a quiz?" Miko asked in a bored voice.
I was very temped to yell at her for being so rude but I held my tongue.
Jack gave Miko glare, then looked back at Optimus. "So what does Megatron or any of this have to do with us?"
The last of the Primes said, "Megatron has not been seen nor heard from in some time, but if his return is imminent as I fear, it could be catastrophic."
'Now is as good a time as any,' I thought, stepping forward. "My name is Zechariah Taylor, and before I say anything, do you all know of The Multiverse Theory?" I asked, looking around at everyone in the room.
Jack and Miko got confused looks on their faces but Raf and all the Autobots nodded.
I took a breath and let it out. "It's not a theory anymore, I'm not from this reality. Where I come from, the Autobots and Decepticons don't exist. They are just works of fiction".
There was a long silence. Everyone other then Ratchet and Optimus seemed to have some form of shock on their face. Raf, Jack and Miko's jaws looked as if they would fall off. Bulkhead's optics had doubled in size, while Bumblebee and Arcee were just blinking rapidly.
"Can you prove your claim?" Optimus voiced, not revealing any shock if he had any.
I nodded. "In my reality, this one was just the latest cartoon called 'Transformers Prime'. I had just started watching the first season when I came here. I only got to episode three".
"Latest cartoon?" Ratchet asked me curiously before I could finish.
"Yes, I think there was a total of...". I paused for a second counting in my head, "I want to say nine different cartoons came out since the original one in the eighties, There also was a Live-Action film trilogy," I looked back at Optimus. "To prove my claim, I know the tunnel behind you is not a tunnel but a Ground Bridge which is a scaled down version of Space Bridge Technology." I walked off to his left, looking at the massive device. "Ratchet constructed the Ground Bridge to enable travel from here to anywhere on earth instantly." The surprise in Optimus's optics was clear. "I also know that your computer system is filled with errors since Human tech is very primitive compared to your technology", I said as I looked at the computer monitors
. Before I could say anything else, Optimus held up a hand. "That is enough. I believe you." He looked at me and asked, "Can you explain how you came to be here?". I sighed and said, "Make yourselves comfortable, this will take awhile".
*Looks at the song he had as his credit song, "Immediate Music - With Great Power"* *Is confused why he chose that as the credit song back when he wrote the chapter* I think I just chose credit songs based on how I liked the song, not if it suited the ending of the chapter, because this song is way too epic for a chapter like this. So I think I will keep this song for later.
Anyway, I hope anyone reading this for the first time enjoys it enough that they will stick with Fate Calls for a while, it will get better, since this is an early chapter where I was still learning how to write. Goodbye for now.