The fireworks looked beautiful in the night sky. But a young man with red hair named Niño Sexton didn't have time to watch cheap effects. He had to get away quick, or else the police would surely find him. Just as he thought this, a police drone rolled in front of him.
"Attention, citizens! By the authority of the Detroit Automated Police Department, I order you to freeze," the bot said.
"I've got to freeze right here," he smirked. He jumped on top of the droid's head.
"Target lost. Searching. Searching."
"Man, these drones are dumb." He jumped off the head onto a cargo crate.
The bot turned around and spotted him. "Suspect sighted!" Niño then jumped onto the other side, and the bot attempted to pursue banging into the cargo. "Resuming pursuit! Resuming pursuit!"
Niño reached the docks and saw a yellow and striped car parked with its door wide open. Thinking that this was his lucky day, he jumped into the seat.
"Nice, some people are dumb as that walking refrigerator," he said.
The car door then closed, trapping him inside. "If I were you, I'd watch you you call a walking refrigerator."
The car turned out to be Bumblebee, who quickly transformed into robot mode. "But since I'm in such a good mood, I'll give you a running start."
He then placed Niño down on the ground, and he quickly ran off. However, Bumblebee skidded across the ground with his heel wheels and blocked his path.
"Too slow!" Sexton ran in a different direction but was once again intercepted. "Denied!" This time, Sexton ran between his legs, but then suddenly blocking his path was Bulkhead, who had just drove up.
Bulkhead then transformed and looked at Bumblebee disapprovingly. "Which showing off, Bumblebee. I'm trying to watch the fireworks."
"Cool your circuits, Bulkhead. I was just having a little fun."
"You mean the kind of fun that usually ends up with a speeding ticket and a chewing out from Prime?"
"Who went off-line and made you big bot?!" Sexton once again tried to get away, but Bulkhead launched his wrecking ball to block him.
"Ya mind? We're talking here." The floorboards cracked and splintered, "Uh-oh," Bulkhead said before he and Bumblebee fell through the boards into Lake Erie. Sexton held on by a plank. He could only hold on with one slipping hand so he wouldn't lose his hard-earned money.
"Help! Someone help me!" he called. The plank broke off, but Optimus had arrived in time and grasped his hand. He then raised him they could meet face-to-face.
"I'm still new to this planet, but I believe you're supposed to pay for those things before you run off with," he said.
Professor Sumdac was fiddling with the new component he was installing on Megatron, though sadly, it did not meet expectations.
"I could have told you that servo would be useless," said Megatron, making Professor Sumdac jump.
"I'm sorry. I'm still not quite used to you talking," he said.
"And I am not used to substandard components. My mechanics would acquire destronium circuitry."
"Then, my friend, we have a problem. Destronium may be plentiful where you come from, but so far, we have only managed to sympathise small samples of it here on earth."
"Unacceptable!" Megatron roared, and Professor Sumdac was taken aback by Megatron's sudden outburst.
"Couldn't I just ask your Autobot friends to help?"
"No! I do not wish them to see me on this, we can state. Besides, I wouldn't want to distract them from all the good they're doing."
The next morning, Ratchet had finished repairing the damage that Bulkhead and Bumblebee had received last night.
"Feeling refreshed after a midnight swim?" Optimus raised a brow at Bumblebee and Bulkhead the next morning.
"It wasn't my fault!" said Bumblebee. "I swear!"
"This is not about assigning blame Bumblebee," said Optimus. "It's about using your head instead of your thrusters. That's what I want you to work on with Prowl and Bulkhead.
Sari walked into the room, followed by Ratchet and Blackarachnia. "But I had plans with Bumblebee. Remember that prototype I told you my dad was building?" she pressed the garage door opener. The door lifted, revealing a box with a pair of yellow and black striped rocket boosters.
"Terrible boosters!" said Bumblebee, eagerly rushing over to them. "Sweet!"
"You're not actually thinking of hooking these things up to yourself, are you?" said Optimus.
"Oh, of course not. I was going to at the spider lady to do it for me."
"Did that midnight swim of yours what a lot of your circuits?" said Blackarachnia folding her arms. "These things are untested, incompatible—"
"…And totally wicked fast," said Sari.
Bumblebee grabbed the boosters and placed them against his back. "How fast do you think I can go with them? 200? 500?"
Ratchet then used his magnets to pull the turbo-boosted away from him. "Forget it, kid, I just got through pounding dents out of you; I'm not letting you put in more."
"And there's no way I'm going to install them until they are hundred per cent safe," said Blackarachnia firmly.
"What?" said Sari looking insulted. "My dad equipment is perfectly safe."
At Sumdac Tower, a pair of scientists were testing a new suit. Unfortunately, the field tester was unable to control the suit and was running around the wall, at the scene and across the floor at an astonishing speed.
"WOAHWOAHWOAHWOAH WOAH!" he yelled, unable to stop.
"Mr Sumdac, we're having some trouble with the Turboblade Cyber Suit!" one of the scientists reported over a vid-chat as two more of the scientists were knocked away after being run down by the field tester.
"Send me the design specs, and I'll try to work out the bugs," Professor Sumdac sighed. He cut off the chat. Megatron looked at the specs. "It's latest in bio-cyber interface technology. This suit can increase human muscle speed and reaction time a thousandfold."
"The Destronium, Sumdac. I must have it for my robotics body," Megatron reminded.
"Easier said than done, my friend. The only sample is all the way across town and extremely unstable. By the time it could be transported here, it would be useless, or worse, highly explosive. Unless you can, you can move it under 10 minutes, but nothing is that fast."
Megatron baked to different as an idea began to form in his processor.
Niño was now in a prison cell, and he was not expecting to be let out any time soon. A police pot then suddenly approached his cell.
"Niño Sexton," said the bot. "Your bail's been paid. You are free to go."
Niño was shocked. "I don't know anyone with that kinda scratch. Who paid?"
"I have no information at this time," said the bot as the doors to his cell opened.
Niño soon made his way outside, and then he was approached by a mail-bot.
"Niño Sexton?" it asked.
"Who wants to know?" The bot shoved the package into his arms.
"This is from a friend," the mail-bot then walked off. Niño took a peek inside to see his very own orange and black coloured cyber suit.
Bumblebee was with both Prowl and Bulkhead as they were attempting to teach him to use his head. Sadly the lessons weren't sinking in and
"Slow it down, Bumblebee. And not call attention to yourself," Prowl tried to convince Bumblebee.
"Two commands that aren't in my programming, Prowl," said Bumblebee.
"The point of this exercise is to blend into your environment."
"Right, cuz nothing says 'blend' like a motorcycle driving itself." Prowl activated his holograph generator, creating a hollow projection of a policeman.
"Happy?"
"Besides, why hide when you can accelerate?"
Bumblebee looked ahead and saw a traffic jam and quickly put on the brakes.
"What if you can't accelerate?" Prowl asked, looking back at him.
They then heard the sound of police sirens, and police cars drove by. Bumblebee then put on his own siren and began chasing after the police cars.
"What do you think you're doing?" Prowl asked.
"What it looked like, I'm blending?"
Meanwhile, at a bank, an orange and black blur shot into it and then exited out of it in seconds. The same thing happened to another bank.
"Hey! Where's my money!" one customer demanded.
"It just disappeared! In a nano sec!" the clerk answered.
Niño Sexton stopped outside the bank, carrying bag loads of money.
"Nanosec, I like that name," the newly named Nanosec sped off. He looked back to see some police cars following him.
"Good heavens, the police? How shall I allude them?" he asked sarcastically.
He then began skating away when suddenly Bumblebee appeared around the corner, transforming into his robot mode.
"You again?!" Bumblebee and Nanosec said at once.
"Definitely lose the suit. It makes you look 10 years older," said Bumblebee. Nanosec didn't bother to exchange banter and ran off.
"That's fast…" Bumblebee gasped.
Nanosec continued running across the town but then suddenly started to get exhausted.
"Why this stuff gotta be so heavy?" he asked aloud. He set the bags down to take a breather. Just then, a shuriken smacked him in his backpack knocking him down. He looked up to see Prowl standing on the high-rise road above.
"Word of advice: super speed doesn't equal super strength," Prowl leapt down towards Nanosec, chucking a shuriken. This time it hit him in the chest, knocking him over. Prowl approached him and pressed his foot against his chest, pinning him to the ground.
"Staaay," Prowl advised as Nanosec struggled to free himself.
"I don't do stay!" Nanosec said defiantly. He kicked Prowl's foot several times with incredible speed.
Prowl winced in pain began hopping around, clenching his foot. Nanosec used this opportunity to pick up the bags and once again ran off.
Bumblebee then arrived. "Step aside, ninja-bot! This calls for speed, not stealth."
Bumblebee sped past Prowl, who was still hopping around. He chased after Nanosec and managed to keep up. "I'm the fastest thing on wheels, and no two-bit crook is gonna take that away from me!"
Nanosec ran over some train tracks just as the road-blockers lowered.
"Bumblebee, remember Prime's orders!" Prowl yelled over the com-link. "Use your head and not your thrusters!"
"I can make it! I can make it!" Bumblebee repeated as he got closer and closer to the tracks. He saw the train coming and tried to skid, but he was moving too fast. "I'm not GONNA MAKE IT!"
He smashed through the blockers and skidded to a halt in the middle of the track. To make matters worse, the train was coming down on that same very piece of track. Bumblebee tried to drive away, but his front wheel was wedged in one of the tracks.
Suddenly the train came to a sudden stop, much to his confusion.
"I'm not scrap metal?"
The answer was pretty obvious as Bulkhead arrived just in time and grasped hold of the train.
"What are you waiting for? I can't hold this thing forever!" Bulkhead yelled.
By this point, Nanosec had put a considerable amount of distance between him and the Autobots
"I think I lost him," Nanosec looked back but couldn't see anyone. "If I don't see another giant robot again, it will be too soon."
"I see from the news reports that you have made a successful field test with my gift," said a voice.
Nanosec looked in front of him and saw the hologram of a giant robot head. He came to a stop in the head just simply vanished.
"What the? Who said that?" Nanosec shrugged and continued his run.
"This disturbing frequency can only be perceived by ultrahigh speeds," the holographic head explained. "If you receive this message, I need you to transport a package for me."
"I ain't anyone's errand boy unless the price is right."
Then suddenly appearing right in front of Nanosec was a series of numbers that accessed Professor Sumdac's saving account.
"Enter this code into any bank machine, and you shall receive your down payment."
Nanosec made his way to the nearest ATM machine and inputted the numbers. Then shooting out of the machine was a number of thousand dollar bills.
"That's what I'm talking about," he said as he bent down to pick up the cash. "Oh, yeah!"
Megatron's face then appeared upon the screen of the ATM machine. "I take that as your acceptance for the job. Here is all the information you'll require. Deliver the package within 10 minutes of its removal from the lab, and you shall receive the bulk of your payment."
Megatron shows both the location of the lab holding the Destronium as well as the place that was awaiting its arrival.
At the plant, Bumblebee was driving around the yard as Sari held a stopwatch. He wanted to improve his times that he could catch up with Nanosec.
"So…what's my time?" Bumblebee asked after he finished his lap. Sari shook her head. "Same as the last time?!"
"Same as the last twenty times," she corrected, holding out the stopwatch.
"Let's try clock it just one more time! I've gotta beat my record."
"Give it a rest, kid; you're just wasting Energon," said Ratchet as he walked by.
The orange blur flashed into and out of the containment facility within sixty seconds.
"Haha! Easiest 50 mil I've ever made!" Nanosec laughed, "Ten minutes and counting."
Bumblebee was now trying to convince Blackarachnia to install the turbo boosters.
"Come on, spider lady, help me out here," Bumblebee pleaded. "If I was just a little faster, I coulda caught him. So how about giving me that turbo-booster upgrade."
Blackarachnia looked at him strictly. "There are rules and regulations for installing modifications, and you're asking me to break every single one of them. I am not going to install those turbo-boosters, even if Megatron try to post me a blaster point. And there's no use asking Ratchet; he feels exactly the same way."
"Everyone!" Optimus ran in the room, "Nanosec's just rather research lab. He was spotted heading east on I-94. Let's put the brakes on this speed before he…" He then turned to Bumblebee. "…or anyone else, cause it any more damage. Transformer and roll out!"
All of them then immediately began to transform and drove off, everyone apart from Bumblebee.
"Like I even got a chance of catching him," Bumblebee frowned.
"Ya know," Sari walked into the room with a mischievous grin on her face. "There might just be another way to get that turbo booster upgrade."
"But Prime's orders?"
"Were to catch Nanosec, he didn't say how," she said, holding out her key.
Nanosec was currently speeding across the highway towards Sumdac Tower, and so far, everything was going smoothly. Then suddenly, he hit something and began to lose traction.
"What is this stuff?" he said, and then suddenly more the stuff hit him in the face. He saw that it was coming from a fire truck. "Are you nuts?"
Then suddenly, landing next to the fire truck was Blackarachnia. "Negative friction lubricant, my own creation. Specifically designed to stop any speedy individual."
The firetruck then began to transform into Optimus Prime. "And technically, I'm nuts, bolts and armour plating. With a few added features."
Optimus then fired his grapple, which wrapped itself around Nanosec, and he began pulling him towards.
Nanosec smiled and got his feet; he then began running around the two of them, wrapping the cable around their legs.
"I've got a few tricks of my own," said Nanosec,
Both Optimus and Blackarachnia were doing everything they could to maintain their balance. Optimus then pulled out his axe and slashed through the cable, freeing them. Nanosec spun around, and grabs the remains of the cable and swung it at them like a whip. He managed to strike Blackarachnia in the leg and Optimus at his hip.
At the plant, Bumblebee and Sari have installed the turbo boosters, and Bumblebee was in vehicle mode, ready for action.
"Autobots! I need backup!" Optimus alerted over the com-link.
"Ready to try it out?" Sari smiled.
"Let's motor," said Bumblebee.
Sari then inserted her key into him and twisted it. The turbo boosters then immediately activated, and seconds later, Sari found herself pressed into her seat as Bumblebee went 500 mph.
"You rock!" Bumblebee exclaimed to Sari.
"No, you rock!"
"No, you rock!"
"I said you rock!"
"I said you rock!"
"You rock!"
"YOU ROCK!"
Nanosec was enjoying himself as Optimus and Blackarachnia attempted to grab him as he manoeuvred them into position. He swung the cable, wrapping it around Optimus' leg and with a good yank toppled him over right on top of Blackarachnia.
"I could do this all day, but I've got a schedule to keep." Nanosec sneered, and he twirled the whip one more time, but Optimus sliced through it with his axe so that all Nanosec had was barely a foot of cable.
Optimus then leaned in towards him, and he smiled nervously and dashed off. Unfortunately, Blackarachnia fired some webbing and pulled him in, so now he was hanging upside down as the two Autobots looked at him.
"You seem to have a problem with taking stuff that doesn't belong to you," Optimus told him, "Care to tell me where you got the suit?" Just then, a rocket could be heard behind them.
"You want speed?!" Bumblebee was running as fast as Nanosec had been, "I'll show you speed!"
"Bumblebee! Stop!" Optimus ordered, but Bumblebee didn't slow down a bit.
"Can't you stop those things?!" Sari and Bumblebee panicked at once.
They slammed right into Optimus, knocking him off balance, and Blackarachnia found a self-paced against Bumblebee' windscreen. Nanosec found himself free from Blackarachnia and landed in front of the destronium canister.
He grabbed the canister and ran off. "Later lead butts!"
"Bumblebee hit the brakes!" Blackarachnia yelled.
"They're not working!" Bumblebee panicked. "Sari, do something! Use your key! Shut those things off!"
Sari tried to switch off the turbo boosters with her key, but nothing worked. "I'm trying! I'm trying!"
She then screamed as coming into view was a high-rise road, which was still under construction, and they were about to go over the edge.
Optimus then quickly fired his grapple hooking onto Bumblebee's rear bumper. He was able to pull them back just before they went over the edge, but Bumblebee's front end was hanging over the edge, and Blackarachnia was clinging onto him to dear life. Optimus tried to pull them back with all his strength, but the turbo boosters made that impossible.
"Bumblebee! Shut off your boosters!" Optimus ordered.
"I can't!" he shouted.
"If you don't stop, you'll drag him over with us!" Sari reminded.
"Maybe I should try reverse?"
Bumblebee then switched to his reversed gear, and for a brief moment, he stopped. Unfortunately, turbo boosters then pointed in the opposite direction, and now he was going superfast in the opposite direction. The sudden change in direction caused Blackarachnia to be thrown off Bumblebee.
Optimus gave a relieved sigh but gasped when he saw that Bumblebee was heading right for him. He then drove right over Optimus and sped off.
"Sorry!" he and Sari shouted.
Nanosec was still making his way to Sumdac Tower but then suddenly found himself slowing down.
"Now what?!" He said as he tried to keep running, but he didn't move. He suddenly turned upside-down, and his feet attached to Ratchet's magnets.
"Too bad those wheels are attached to metal," Ratchet said. The destronium container dropped down and rolled to Bulkhead's feet.
"Well, well. What've we got here?" he reached down to pick it up, but Ratchet stopped him.
"Don't touch it!" Ratchet yelled and activated his telescopic eye and used the x-ray function, "That's unstable destronium! Moving at high speeds makes it incredibly volatile. If it were to detonate, it could wipe out half of Detroit with it."
Bulkhead backed away then looked at Nanosec. His mask had fallen off, revealing his grey hair.
"Didn't you used to be a redhead?" Bulkhead frowned.
Just then, Bumblebee, still out of control, knocked down Ratchet and freed Nanosec. Nanosec picked up the destronium and ran off yet again.
"That's two I owe ya lemonhead!" he laughed.
"Alright! The Turbo boosters were a bad idea! They control my vehicle mode?!" Bumblebee yelled while running around Bulkhead, Ratchet, and Prowl in a circle.
"Then why don't you try robot mode?" Ratchet yelled.
"Oh," said Bumblebee and transformed.
He skidded towards a stop with Sari in her hands.
"Why didn't we think of that?" said Sari.
"Probably because you were thinking with your boosters instead of your head!" said an angry female voice.
Bumblebee and Sari twins as they slowly turned and saw a very angry and battered-looking Optimus and Blackarachnia approaching them
"Ratchet!" Optimus stomped over. "I suggest you disable those boosters. NOW!"
"No time! We need to stop Nanosec before he blows it all the way back to Cybertron!"
"Right. Transform and roll out!" Optimus ordered, and Bumblebee and Sari gave a sigh of relief, thinking they were out of trouble now. However, Optimus leaned in towards them, glaring. "In your original vehicle mode!"
They all transformed and began giving chase to Nanosec, though Sari was riding with Optimus.
"Listen up, we've gotta approach with caution," Ratchet told the Autobots. "He's carrying unstable destronium."
"Destronium? Why would a small-time crook; what would he want with destronium?" Optimus wondered.
"You think that's what turned his hair white?" Bulkhead asked.
"Not possible; it's not radioactive," said Blackarachnia.
"Why hair in organics is usually a function of age," said Prowl.
"Age? That's it!" said Bumblebee and activated his turbo.
"Bumblebee! What do you think you're doing?!" Optimus demanded.
"Using my head! And my Fosters!" he answered.
Nanosec could see Sumdac Tower over the horizon; he was so close. Just then, Bumblebee appeared alongside him.
"You're slowing down, old man. And now, you're going down!" said Bumblebee transforming his arm on firing his stinger in his back, causing him to drop the container. Bumblebee then shot ahead and grabbed the container.
"Hey! Come back here with my payday!" Nanosec yelled.
"You want this thing so bad, come and get it," Bumblebee taunted.
Bumblebee then drove off the highway and onto the rope below. Nanoesec quickly began chasing after him, but he struggled to keep up. They soon reached Central Park and began driving around, and the faster they went, the older Nanosec seemed to get; he'd already lost all his hair on the top of his head.
"What's the matter, old-timer? Running out of gas?" Bumblebee asked.
Nanosec was completely exhausted until finally he could take a single step and collapsed. The moment he collapsed, Bumblebee transformed into robot mode and approached him. He turned him over, and Nanosec had an extremely long white beard; he had to be at least over a hundred years old now.
The other Autobots arrived and transformed into their robot modes.
"What happened to him?" Sari asked, looking down at Nanosec.
"The suit didn't just make him look older. It made him turn older. The more he used it, the faster his body aged until he finally ran out of time," Bumblebee explained.
"That suit of his seems to have sped up his metabolism; he probably would have been fine if the use in short bursts," Blackarachnia theorised. "However, we've been chasing after him throughout town all day."
Ratchet used x-ray eyes to examine the destronium, and he could tell it was getting dangerously unstable. "That stuff is going to blow and take it all with it in 30 nano clicks!"
"I can move it somewhere safe asked!" Bumblebee volunteered.
"At this point, the only safe place would be the upper atmosphere!"
"Bumblebee, your turbo mode is fast, but it can't fly," said Optimus.
Bumblebee had an idea. "Maybe it can. With a little help…"
It only took them a few seconds to get ready, it was a long shot, but at this point, they had no choice. Bumblebee and Prowl were standing on Bulkhead's wrecking ball.
The idea was rather simple, Bulkhead launched them into the air, and Prowl would use his jump jets to give Bumblebee a little more altitude before he used his turbo boosters. Hopefully, with enough thrust, he would be able to reach the upper atmosphere and toss the destronium where it would do no harm.
"Ready for liftoff?" Bumblebee asked, activating his battle mask.
"Ready for liftoff," said Bulkhead.
Bulkhead then launched them into the air, and 10 seconds later, Prowl activated his jump jets, getting even higher.
"Just hope these turbo boosts work just as well in robot mode!" said Bumblebee.
When they were far past the city's canopy of building tops, Prowl threw Bumblebee upward. Bumblebee charged his boosters and released them in a huge blast.
He shot upward like a jet; he went past clouds, past jets, and was soon enough staring into the stars. Bumblebee threw the canister with all his might. He floated and watched as the explosion silently travelled outward and blew him backwards.
The explosion could be seen from Detroit. The Autobots watched in worry hoping that Bumblebee was all right. They then saw him plummeting down towards the ground.
"He's not gonna make it," Sari whimpered.
Bumblebee had just flown past the clouds and was only going even faster. His entire body started to become red hot as he entered the atmosphere, and his turbo boosts broke off.
The Autobots finally recognised one of the falling comets as their friend.
"Ratchet, we need to slow him down and cool him down! Stat!" Optimus shouted to Ratchet.
Ratchet activated his magnets and surrounded Bumblebee in the magnetic field. They managed to draw him closer to them while still slowing him down a bit. When he was close enough, Optimus shot a highly pressured stream of foam from his foam cannon at Bumblebee. The foam managed to coat him and cool him down. Bumblebee landed safely in front of them.
"You alright, little buddy?" Bulkhead asked.
Bumblebee was now completely charred, and he then collapsed to the ground, falling on his back. He then deactivated his battle mask, looking exhausted.
"What a ride…" he breathed.
"It was double duty heroics today for the Autobots. Not only stopping the speed theif known as Nanosec but also averting a catastrophe of epic proportions," the anchorman said.
"How did this Nanosec person get my suit anyway?" Sumdac wondered as he and Megatron watched the news.
"I believe it was an inside job," Megatron suggested.
"Looks like you found a good use for those turbo boosters after all," Ratchet smiled.
"Looks like you got a few new against the pound into me after all too," Bumblebee chuckled.
"Nice work, Autobots," Optimus congratulated, "Now let's transform and roll on home."
All of them, apart from Bumblebee, transformed into vehicle mode.
"Race you to the plant?" Prowl challenged.
"If it's all the same to you," Bumblebee sighed with a smile, "I think we'll walk."
Bumblebee and Sari then watched as the Autobots drove away. Bumblebee then picked Sari up, and they began making their own way home.