Chapter 15: Along Came A Dinobot

A month had passed since the wonderful Christmas and it was now currently the first week of January, with all the snow melted away and replaced with Jasper, Nevada's, normal hot temperatures. Far away from the town and far away form the Autobot base, Miko was out on her own, holding her human-sized device scanner and searching for some Energon for her family, as they were very low on it. Even though Jazz and the others had come out there and managed to obtain one minor Energon mine, they found out that the mine didn't have enough to supply them or power their base/home.

And so with her Uncle Jazz's permission, Miko went out searching for more Energon since Ratchet was still having problems trying to find the other half of the formula for making a safer and less negative effects of Synthetic Energon.

"Any luck, little one?" Jazz asked, talking to Miko though the ear piece.

"No, not yet, Uncle Jazz, but I'll keep looking," Miko responded back with determination to help her lovable family as her mom and Aunt Windblade were out scouting the area form another state.

"Okay, but be careful, sweetspark," he said. "Your mom would kill me if you got hurt."

"I'll be okay," she promised, touched that her uncle cared. That was one thing she could never get tired of: her family caring about her.

After a few more minutes, she stopped when she found an Energon signal on her radar. Turning her head to the left, she noticed a cave that was kinda huge. Grabbing her flashlight, she went in to explore and have a good look. "Huh, I wonder what could cause this huge hole?" She thought to herself when hearing her scanner started going off again. Seeing she was now close to whatever was creating the signal, she went running to her destination and finally found it. To her surprise, instead of finding Energon, she found a huge pod laying down and facing her. "Cool, a stasis pod," she said in awe, getting closer to it and setting her device down before she started wiping the dust off the plate of the pod to read it, assuming it must be the name of the bot that's in there. "Grimlock. Hmmmm I wonder if you're an Autobot or Decepticon?" She asked herself, knowing that she should report back to her cool, awesome uncle on her discovery, but like always, she wanted to be the little adventurer and went to finding the open button to the pod, finding it. With a determined look, Miko picked up a nearest rock and banged on the button, causing it to open up. When that happened, she stepped back as the Bot got out form his pod and she could immediately tell that he was fifty feet tall and about Bulkhead's size as he stepped out of his pod and did a good stretch and yawned.

"Man, how long was I out? Felt like years," Grimlock said, noticing Miko in front of him right then. "Well, who are you?" He asked her.

The teenager swallowed hard. "H...H...Hi, Grimlock. My name is Miko, daughter of Arcee. And I'm an Autobot...what about you?" She asked, fear in her voice as was was afraid she might get hurt from the big bot.

Sensing her fear, he gently smiled down on her and bent down. "Well, organic Sparkling. you don't have to worry about being scared of me, because I'm an Autobot...but I go by Dinobot also," Grimlock said nicely, his kind voice putting her at ease before he picked her up and walked out of the cave, holding her gently in his hands.

Though no longer afraid, Miko was confused. "Dinobot? What's a Dinobot, Grimlock?" She asked as she has never heard of another faction from her mom.

Before Grimlock could explain, the two heard jet noises and saw some jets transform into low-ranking Decepticon soldiers with their weapons out ready to shoot. Grinning with a big smile, Grimlock set Miko down on a rock transformed into a Tyrannosaurus Rex! "This is call a Dinobot, Miko!" He told her as her mouth dropped open in awe.

"Ah scrap! A Dinobot!? Here!?" One of the Cons who was now scared to death, said.

"Kill him!" The other Con said as he went to shooting at Grimlock but his shots were bouncing off of the Bot, not causing any damage at all.

"Here comes the pain, Cons! Rrrrrrrrrr!" With that, Grimlock pushed the Con back and then use his long tail to hit the other one. Then he turn his attention back to the one in front of him and ripped half of his body out with his jaws and spit that part out before grabbing the last one in his paws and ripped the head off of its own body and threw it to ground,roaring in victory. After taking care of the Cons quickly, he transformed back to bot mode and turned back to his new friend, seeing she was still in awe with her mouth dropped open. After a moment, she spoke.

"That was freaking awesome!" She yelled in great excitement and happiness before getting on the comlink. "Uncle Jazz, you are not going to believe this!"

Hours later, coming back from their scouting routine...

Arcee and Windblade came through the groundbridge and saw that there was a new Autobot in their base and he was watching TV with Miko, Jack, and Raf while drinking oil. "Can anyone tell us who in the name of Primus is he?" Arcee asked, putting her hands on her hips.

"Yeah, cause I've never seen him before," Windblade pointed out.

"Well, if you two must know, this is Grimlock and he is a Dinobot. But this soldier is also an Autobot like us," Ultra Magnus said, before going out for a drive.

"Yes. It turns out that Grimlock was with Alpha Trion as his elite bodyguard, until the old bot for some odd reason put him in a stasis pod and shipped him off from Cyberton to here. But he didn't come here empty handed," Ratchet said as he held out a small green solid Energon cube in his hand.

"Synthetic Energon? Actual real non-steroid type version Synthetic Energon?" Arcee asked in shock as she remembered Ratchet using it on himself and he ended up becoming a jerk and knowing the formula was incomplete, until now apparently.

Ratchet nodded with a smile as he now could know the other half of the formula and would be able to produce more of it in both liquid and solid form. And it was all thanks to their new friend and new member to Team Prime and family.

"Welcome to Team Prime. Miko, darling, why don't you give Grimlock a tour of the base for me," Arcee requested to her daughter.

Miko had no problem doing so as she was excited to show her new friend around. Grimlock transformed back into his dinosaur form and picked up all three of the kids, placing them on his back and letting them playfully ride on his back to the hallway as Raf was greatly excited.

"This is so awesome! Now I can finally be like Fred Flintstone!" Raf said, cheering with excitement as he, Jack, and Miko screamed in fun and laughter!

"Fred Flintstone?" Crosshairs, who was playing chess with Prowl, said in confusion.

"I believe it's one of Earth's classic TV shows," Prowl said, making his move on the board, prompting his companion to consider his next move carefully.

Meanwhile, outside watching the clear view like they once did on Cyberton, Jazz and Optimus were catching up for lost time as it was good to be reunited with best friends that had each other's back though thick and thin and now they could fight Megatron and his army with no problem as they had the main squad of the best soldiers on Earth.

"I'm glad that you were able to finally follow my instructions on reaching this planet, Jazz," said Optimus, looking back at his lieutenant.
"Oh, well to be honest with you, Optimus, me and Ironhide deleted that message back on Cyberton due safety precautions. The reason that we even found this planet was because I upgraded the scanners on Magnus' ship to find the object that we shipped off form our home," Jazz said, lifting his shades to look at his best friend in the optics.

"It's here, isn't it?" Optimus asked, getting serious on the subject as he remember what Jazz was referring to.

Jazz nodded and looked at the horizon of the sunset, his voice uncharacteristically serious."Yes, homie, it's here on this planet, but I don't know where exactly is it. If we do find it, we will bring life back to Cyberton and end this war once and for all," he said, looking back to his best friend.

"I have no idea that this planet has Cybertron's main greatest treasure: the Allspark," said Optimus as both he and Jazz head back inside and called everyone including Agent Fowler on the big matter at hand as Earth was in great danger if the cube fell into Megatron's hands, all of them knowing that he would use the Allspark to create a whole brand new army of Decepticons and create a new Cyberton on Earth.

"Autobots, it's time to have our main focus on finding the legendary relic that gives us life: the Allspark," Optimus said, telling everyone as it was quite interesting to the kids, especially Miko as Arcee had told her about the cube a few times before.

Now it was on Earth and the battle for it lay ahead of them.

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