Chapter 4: Diagnosing the problem.

It took another hour of the trip, but the plane finally landed at the autobot island airport.

Optimus Prime, bumblebee, crosshairs, and hound walked down a large pathway among a few autobot soldiers. Then they heard a familiar voice coming from a statue with it's arms slightly moving around.

Statue voice: "Welcome to autobot island! Catch our national war parade, it's a protected world after all. And the world famous space slugs!"

Then Optimus Prime, bumblebee, crosshairs, and hound walked up towards the statue.

Statue voice: "Optimus Prime, Bumblebee! It's you how marvelous!"

Suddenly, the statue's left arm swung out of control and knocked an autobot soldiers head off.

Statue voice: "Oh my gosh I'm so sorry!"

The autobot soldier angrily picked up his head and walked off with it snootily.

Bumblebee:(through radio) "Sounds familiar."

Then, the one who stumbled out from behind the statue was none other than….their old friend ratchet.

Optimus Prime: "Ratchet!"

Ratchet: "Optimus, bumblebee, good to see you guys again. What do you think of the island?"

Crosshairs: "Ratchet Sir, it's looking amazing so far!"

Ratchet: "Oh, and who might these guys be?"

Optimus Prime: "Ratchet, these are our new recruits. Crosshairs, hound…..

Then drift walked up carrying most of the luggage that they all brought.

Drift: "Phew, I thought I was gonna have to carry these all the way up to the hotel."

(Yes, the island has hotels for autobots)

Optimus Prime: "...and that one is drift."

Ratchet: "Excellent, the more autobots, the better."

Hound: "Hey doc, do you know if any of Prime's other old friends are here?"

Ratchet: "Not yet, but I'm sure some survived."

Crosshairs: "Well bee and I already met Dino on the plane. How's that for a start?"

Ratchet: "Not bad, but I have a problem I need to explain."

Optimus Prime: "For you old friend, anything."

Then the 5 autobots followed ratchet down the rest of the pathway towards the main island campus.

Ratchet: "well, the autobots that came seemed to act different while leaving."

Then the 6 autobots saw a bunch of autobot soldiers standing in a single file line getting ready to leave. And they seemed to hardly be moving an inch.

Hound: "They seem like perfectly well behaved soldiers."

Ratchet: "Yes, but look closer."

Then an autobot soldier with a Mohawk walked up to the female autobot soldier named carol that was at the front of the line.

Mohawk autobot: "Carol Hey, how's the island?"

Carol: "Are you tricking on me?"

Mohawk autobot: "Carol, it's brad. We've known each other since sometime before the war."

Then carol grabbed the bot that turned out to be named brad by the ribs on his chest and held him in the air while brad swung his arms and legs about.

Carol: "Back off my frill son!"

Brad: "Carol what are you doing!"

Drift and hound watched with surprised expressions on their faces as Carol tossed Brad away which he landed right in front of the 6 autobots. Then brad scurried of in fear.

Ratchet: "You see! The autobots that come off that plane, the soldiers I love the most, they're in danger."

Hound: "I'm gonna solve this one first!"

Optimus Prime: "Please autobots, let me solve this one."

Drift: "You 2 are gonna look like complete bucketheads when you're captured, and yours truly is the one saving you.

Then Optimus Prime, drift, and hound walked off.

Ratchet: "excellent! Maybe a little later, we can spend some time at the battle bowl."

Bumblebee:(through radio) "Not sure if I like the sound of this."

Later that night, hound was at a party some autobots were having at a base-like building. He was asking a soldier that looked pretty tough, even for an autobot. He didn't even notice that it had a decepticon symbol under the cape it was wearing.

Hound: "So you haven't noticed anything suspicious going on since you started working here?

Disguised decepticon:(Lying behind his back) "uhh, no."

Then some bursts of fire shot out of the ground behind the crowds of autobots that were standing on the bleachers.

Then more disguised decepticon soldiers came dancing in circles around the big fire pot that was in the center of the area.

Then a gray Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 coupe and a red and black pagani huayra rolled up on a large platform right in front of the building. When they both finished transforming, the gray Lamborghini started speaking.

Lockdown: "Welcome fellow autobots. My name is lockdown, and this is my right hand con... err, I mean bot, Stinger. You may recognize him from last months acrobatics club, he was even claimed most skilled athlete."

Hound sensed something fishy, so he slid sideways a little to try and blend in with the soldiers on the bleachers.

But while he was listening to lockdown's speech, he felt something climb onto his shoulder. When he turned to see what it was, it turned out to be their old friend brains.

Brains: "What up hound?"

Hound:(whisper shouts) "Brains!? You survived the human ambushing!?"

Brains: "I knew I'd make it."

Then lockdown and stinger stepped down from the platform while lockdown continued his speech.

Lockdown: "For years, a bunch of autobot titans have been roaming this island to claim it as their home. They engorged it by building an autobot hotel resort…."

Then lockdown turned towards hound, hound noticed this right away and started sweating in worry.

Lockdown: "...but one day, a powerful curse effected these poor beans and poisoned their minds to make the resort deadly."

As lockdown finished his speech, he, stinger, and a couple of disguised cons circled around brains and hound. Each with slightly evil grins on their faces.

(Except for stinger, because he doesn't really have a mouth)

Lockdown: "The titans are furious my friends. And someday, they may plot….their….revenge!"

As the disguised cons that were dancing around the fire raised up their hands as high as they could, the fire blaze grew as tall as an extra large tree. The fire blaze started showing a moving image of what looked like an autobot/decepticon titan with red glowing eyes, and it made growling noises towards the small crowds of autobot soldiers.

Lockdown:(whispers into hounds ear) "Someday, they will get you."

Then hound grew a smirk towards lockdown.

Hound: "They would, If it wasn't for the holographic projectors."

Hound then pointed to where the projectors were installed.

Lockdown:(nudging hound on the shoulder) "Smart one aren't you."

As lockdown, stinger, and the disguised cons walk away, hound rubs his sore shoulder in concern.

To be continued.