Transformers Defecticons

by riddlerx

This is a prequel to my other Transformers stories aka The Shard of Life books. You don't have to read this in order to understand the others or vise versa but it helps to flesh out and explain some things in the mainline stories. Also there's a Transformers The Shard of Life 6 coming and I swear that'll actually be the last one. Anyways enjoy!

Transformers the Defecticons

By Aiden N. Whitley

Earth 2001

"This is Chopper reporting in for the day, I've found a great spot to establish a base. It's name is Ocala Florida. I'm sending you the coordinates now. I should also mention that I've befriended some locals, one in particular named Frederick is quite nice, but that's besides the point. You can send in the field team to establish the base, Chopper out." Chopper sent out his message back to his home world of Cybertron where it would be received by Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots. "All right everyone we have received confirmation from Chopper to send in a field team to establish our base. Now if our team could step up please." asked Optimus. Then 5 Autobots stepped out of the crowd and towards Optimus. "First we have the leader of this team, Spiderblade. Second we have the medic, Highbeams. Third is the weapons specialist in case something goes wrong, Heavy Loader. Fourth is our spy Bi-saw. And finally Hooligan." The group of Autobots then all took a collective bow before waving. "Brave Autobots, we are counting on you to establish a base on Earth. You are all extremely lucky as the only other Cybertronian on Earth currently is Chopper and he is on his own mission so it will just be you 5 on your own. Good luck soldiers." "We will not let you down sir. Everyone, let's go." said Spiderblade. The 5 Autobots then entered their ship and set off for Earth.

"This is quite exciting!" said Highbeams. "Don't get too excited, the planet could be barely habitable for all we know." replied Hooligan. "I for one am not expecting anything really outstanding." Heavy Loader joined in. "Is anyone really eager about this?" asked Bi-saw. "Can you all stop ganging up on Highbeams, the last thing we need is us turning on each other on our first day in the field. We're not even on the planet yet so just try to get along, it's just us out there after all so don't expect any real change in company, alright?" said Spiderblade. "Sir yes sir." they all said in unison. "Good, we should be there any minute now." After a few more minutes they arrived in Earths orbit. "And we're here." said Spiderblade. "My goodness, it's quite beautiful if I say so myself." said Highbeams. "Ok it's not quite an absolute wasteland so I guess it could be worse." replied Hooligan. "Still be cautious everyone. You don't know what's living down there." said Heavy Loader. "Whatever attacks us won't last long." said Bi-saw while grinning. "Alright we're heading down, it could get bumpy so hold on to something." They then started to enter the atmosphere and quickly descend to the surface. After a minute of flying they made it to the ground. The doors to their ship then opened revealing the sunlight of Earth. "Welcome to Earth everybody!" said Spiderblade. "It's uh...bright." pointed out Hooligan while covering his eyes. "I think it looks lovely! This is my first planet I've been to other than Cybertron." said Highbeams. Heavy Loader left the ship with his arm cannon ready. "Stay alert everyone, pretty things often use their beauty to lure in unsuspecting prey." "Way to be a buzz kill." said Bi-saw. "Well everyone, in celebration of our achievement I say we have a party!" suggested Spiderblade. "Eh why not." said Hooligan while shrugging. "Oh what fun!" said Highbeams excitedly. "I'll keep a look out for any possible threats." said Heavy Loader. "You do you I guess, we'll be having fun!" said Bi-saw. The Autobots then got out their stash of energon and played some music.

Cybertron

Laserbeak flew away from the Autobot send off with Ratbat and Buzzsaw. They flew through Cybertron before eventually arriving at the Decepticon base. "My drones, what information have you gathered?" asked Minesweeper. They then played the audio and footage of the Autobots. "Good job, you may now return." The drones then transformed and returned to Minesweeper. "So lord Megatron, what is our next move?" asked Crossbones. "I'm sending you and your team down to Earth with War Machine. Once you have arrived you will then track down and either capture or kill the Autobots, understood?" ordered Megatron. "Yes sir" responded Crossbones. "Loud and clear my lord." said Razorwind. "We will not fail you lord." said Stealthraid. "They will not make it out alive!" snarled Postal Apocalypse. "Good, now get going!" snapped Megatron. "Understood lord Megatron." they all said before leaving. They then arrived at their own ship as War Machine transformed into a ship with all of his crew aboard. Crossbones' team then turned on their ship and left for Earth.

Earth

It was late in the night now and all of the Autobots except for Heavy Loader were now acting in a drunken fashion while talking to each other until Hooligan spoke up. "Hey everyone!" shouted Hooligan. Everyone kept talking to each other. "Hey! Hey!" Everyone kept ignoring him. Hooligan was now annoyed. "Everyone shut up!" he shouted. Everyone then got quiet. "I've got a dumb idea." "Well what is it?" asked Bi-saw. "Ok hear me out, what if we called Chopper and just joked around with him." "According to the research I've done on this planet what you are talking about is called "prank calling" said Highbeams. "So we're prank calling Chopper then." said Hooligan. "Won't this negatively impact our respect among the other Autobots?" asked Heavy Loader. "Maybe... but I don't care." replied Bi-saw. "Ok I guess we're doing this." said Spiderblade. "Alright I'm dialing, everyone stay quiet and follow my lead." said Hooligan. "This is Chopper, what is it?" asked Chopper. "Hey Chopper, just wanted to ask you a quick question." "How much energon have you been drinking recently, your speech is slightly slurred." "I'm fine, I'm fine. Now regarding my question, what does Earth look like exactly?" "Well it's about 70% water and 30% land with the land being mostly green and yellow with the water being blue, why?" "Ok just checking because the planet I'm looking at is blue and is surrounded by rings." "Sounds like Uranus." "Ha! We got you to say it! Oh my goodness it actually worked, I can't believe it!" Hooligan then started to burst out laughing along with the others, except for Heavy Loader. "Real mature. I will no longer be taking your calls. Goodbye and good luck." Chopper then hung up. "Holy crap he really fell for it. This just made my day!" "Ok everyone I think we should start our stasis for the night, we've had a bit too much to drink." said Spiderblade. "Agreed." replied Heavy Loader before going back into the ship. "It was worth it." said Hooligan before also heading inside. "That was great. We should do it again sometime." offered Bi-saw. "No." said Spiderblade as they both headed inside. "Goodnight Earth, you beautiful planet, far better than Cybertron right now." Highbeams then went inside. Within minutes everyone was in stasis.

Jacksonville Florida

4:00 AM

The Decepticons had arrived to Earth with War Machine landing in the bay. War Machine then scanned a nearby Aircraft Carrier and transformed. "Alright Decepticons, remember our goal?" asked Crossbones. "To find and either kill or capture the Autobots." the Decepticons said in unison. "Exactly. Now let's get moving." "I vouch for killing them." said Postal Apocalypse. "Should we scan a vehicle form?" asked Stealthraid. "Of course not!" snapped Crossbones. "Well why not?" asked Razorwind. "Because Earth vehicle forms could not be, in any way superior to anything Cybertronian and I will not taint my Cybertronian energon with Earthly filth." "Well are we allowed to scan an Earth vehicle form?" asked Razorwind. "If you want." replied Crossbones. "Alright Stealthraid, let's get a vehicle form." said Razorwind. "They better have something good." said Stealthraid. "I'll come with you." said Postal Apocalypse. "While you all do that I'll set up camp." said Crossbones. "Buzzsaw, Ratbat, Laserbeak, launch." said Minesweeper while releasing his drones. "Find the Autobot base and send back the coordinates." ordered Minesweeper. "I will set up traps around our camp so that anyone who finds us will die." War Machine then spoke up. "I have discovered an Earth military base. The vehicles there should be adequate for scanning." "Thank you War Machine, we'll check it out." said Razorwind. "This better be good." said Stealthraid. The two Decepticons then left. "The traps are set." said Minesweeper. "Perfect." replied Crossbones. Then a mail truck drove up to the base. "Human! Minesweeper set off the trap!" ordered Crossbones. "As you wish. Activating operation banging the front door." Then the mail truck transformed. "Wait! Wait it's me!" shouted Postal Apocalypse. "Hold that thought Minesweeper." ordered Crossbones. "Yes sir. Deactivating operation banging the front door." Minesweeper then deactivated the trap. "You nearly killed me!" shouted Postal Apocalypse. "Well I thought you were a human." "Still you nearly blew me up! You're lucky I am on your side or else you would be dead!" "Well I see you found an Earthly vehicle form. How's it working for you?" asked Crossbones with a hint of sarcasm. "Well it was working just fine till it nearly got me destroyed, thanks to you!" "Just calm down." "How can I stay calm?!" "Maybe kill something to blow off some steam." "Alright I'll do that. I'll be back in an hour." Postal Apocalypse then transformed and drove away. "First day and this is how it starts, how lovely." lamented Crossbones. "Remember, we have never failed lord Megatron before and we won't start today." Minesweeper reassured. "You're right, let's not disappoint our master." Then a A-10 Warthog jet flew down from the sky accompanied by a B-2 Stealth Bomber. The two planes then transformed. "Hello again." said Razorwind. "That base did not disappoint." said Stealthraid. "I'm still not getting a vehicle form from Earth." insisted Crossbones. "I think I shall get an Earth form. Show me to the base." commanded Minesweeper. "I'll take you." said Razorwind. "Good. Let's move." said Minesweeper. The two then left for the base. "Well Stealthraid, why don't you put that new vehicle form to use and provide some eyes from the skies." ordered Crossbones. "Yes sir." Stealthraid then transformed and started to circle the base from above. "Base established. Phase one of the mission is complete." Crossbones recorded his message and sent it back to Megatron.

Ocala Florida

7:00 AM

Highbeams was the first to awake from stasis. "Good morning Earth! It's nice to see you." he said while stretching. "Anyone else up?" he got no response. "Guess not." he said to himself while shrugging. "Guess I'll do the scheduled daily check up on the ship." He then walked around the ship, going to various parts and checking several things. "Alright the weapons are working. Medical bay is operational. Ships engines are freshly filled. And...that's all, everything's working." He said to himself. He then started to whistle while walking back and forth. "What to do, what to do..." "Here's an idea, why don't you do some bird watching." said a voice from behind. The voice startled Highbeams. "Oh Bi-saw, you're awake." "Yeah and?" "Well it's just that... you know what never mind." "Ok then, so...do you wanna do some bird watching?" "I thought you were joking." "Well I'm not doing it. I was just offering it to you." "Well thank you, I'll do some right now as a matter of fact." Highbeams then walked out of the ship. "Alright you can all wake up now!" shouted Bi-saw. "Finally, I never thought he'd leave." said Hooligan. "Good thinking. Using his fascination of this planet to get him to leave, simply genius." said Heavy Loader. "Remind me again why you got rid of him?" asked Spiderblade. "Simple, he's got a list of contacts in his storage compartment and we felt like doing what we did with Chopper last night!" said Bi-saw while grinning. "That was just rich what happened with Chopper so me and Bi-saw wanted to do it again." said Hooligan. "And were you involved?" asked Spiderblade while looking at Heavy Loader. "Well it wasn't my idea so I just decided to not stop them. Nothing more." replied Heavy Loader. "Ok then, well thanks for telling me." said Spiderblade. "Now then..." said Hooligan. "Where were we?" finished Bi-saw while rubbing his hands together. "Oh no you don't." said Spiderblade while grabbing Bi-saw and lifting him up. Spiderblade then shot a cable and tied it around Hooligans legs and started to pull him closer. "You two aren't doing any shenanigans on my watch. Heavy Loader, move those contacts into a hiding spot that theses two won't find." ordered Spiderblade. "You got it." He then grabbed the contact list and left the main room to hide them. "Alright you two, no more prank calls. You are supposed to be professionals so start acting like it." "Ok fine, will you untie me now?" "And let me down while you're at it." "I think you two need a few more hours in stasis to learn your lesson." "Oh come on!" shouted Bi-saw. "This is not how this day was supposed to go." said Hooligan. "In you go." said Spiderblade while tossing in Bi-saw and Hooligan. "Well that's that." said Spiderblade while walking away. "The list has been hidden. They shouldn't be able to find it for at least two days." said Heavy Loader. "Good job. Go on and do whatever you want to do, you're off the clock." said Spiderblade. "Thank you sir. I will savor this time off." Heavy Loader then walked outside. "Oh hey Heavy Loader, I'm back from bird watching." said Highbeams as he returned. "So what did you find?" asked Heavy Loader. "Well I saw plenty of things. Let's see there was a red one with a crest, plenty of white ones that were very noisy, lots of ones flying overhead while honking. Let's see what else...oh right! There was also a large metal one." "A large metal one?" repeated Heavy Loader. "What's wrong?" asked Highbeams. "There are no native species on this planet composed of metal." "Excuse me what?" "I'm not sure what you saw but it wasn't natural." "Oh shi-" Laserbeak flew overhead along with Buzzsaw and Ratbat and recorded everything before flying back to the Decepticons camp.

Jacksonville Florida

9:00 A.M.

The drones had arrived back at camp. Minesweeper had also returned with his brand new vehicle form, a MRAP. "My drones, have you found the Autobot base?" The drones then played the footage while showing the coordinates. "Good job, you may return now." "So what's our plan of attack?" asked Razorwind. "Will it involve killing?" asked Postal Apocalypse as he too returned from his hour of killing wildlife. "Alright so here's the plan, everyone huddle up." ordered Crossbones. "So Minesweeper will place mines beneath their ship so they can't escape, and if they try to then blow it up. The drones will not be necessary. Razorwind will provide aerial support. Stealthraid will come in afterwards and drop his bombs on them to finish them off." "What about me?" asked Postal Apocalypse. "You will fight them on the ground." "I'm fine with that." "And what will you do?" asked Stealthraid. "I will lure them out of their ship and into the open, that's when the rest of you will strike. Everyone understand?" asked Crossbones. They all nodded. "Good, let's make this quick." Then all of them except for Crossbones transformed and made their way to the Autobot base.

Ocala Florida

10:00 A.M.

"A giant metal bird?!" shouted Spiderblade. "Yes." replied Highbeams. "That was probably Laserbeak. We've been found. Oh dear Primus we are dead!" Spiderblade was panicking. Heavy Loader then smacked him across the face. "Calm down! You are our leader, so lead." Heavy Loader said very matter of factly. "Right, right sorry. Ok get Hooligan and Bi-saw out of stasis." ordered Spiderblade. "I'll do it." said Highbeams while walking over to the stasis pods. "Rise and shine you two." The two Autobots fell out of their pods as they opened. "Oh so generous, allowing us to wake up!" Bi-saw started before Highbeams cut him off. "Shut up! We have a situation here." "Oh yeah and what's that?" Bi-saw said sarcastically. "You're little bird watching suggestion helped Laserbeak find our base and we think that Decepticons are on their way here right now." "Oh...Yeah that sounds kinda bad." "Get up you slow poke we gotta move!" said Hooligan while racing for the main room. "Alright someone tell everything I need to know right now!" commanded Hooligan. "Decepticons are coming." said Heavy Loader. "I know that. Tell me which ones." "We don't know that." "Whelp, we're dead." Hooligan said while shrugging. "Come on, be a little more positive." said Highbeams. "Look I'm sorry to say this but you can kiss this planet goodbye because one of two things is about to happen. Either we stay and get killed or we leave and live." "Or we stay and win." said Spiderblade. "How do you suppose we do that?" "Maybe we'll get lucky and get someone weak like Sand drifter or Recykill." "You think Recykill is easy?" "Easy enough for us at least." Then they heard a voice outside. "Autobots." There was a moment of silence. "It's been nice knowing you all." said Hooligan. "I think it's just one though, we can take him." said Spiderblade. "Not necessarily. If it's Megatron or War Machine or Starscream or Shockwave or-" Heavy Loader kept going. "Ok I get it!" "Maybe if we just stop talking he'll leave." suggested Highbeams. So they all shut up. "I know you're in there. Come out and we'll make this quick." the voice said again. "Yeah that didn't work." said Bi-saw. "Did he say we?!" asked Hooligan with a slight voice crack. "Ok look, since there's no point in hiding in here I'll just go out and talk to him ok? One of you contact Chopper and ask for back up. I'll stall for as long as I can so make it quick." ordered Spiderblade. "Good plan. Keep being the leader we need you to be." said Heavy Loader. "Ok I'm heading out. Wish me luck." Spiderblade then left the ship and slowly walked towards the Decepticon. "Hi there, what brings you here?" "Well it's certainly not by choice. The air is so moist I feel like I'm rusting away just standing here." "So which Decepticon are you? I don't recognize you." I am one of Megatrons most respected soldiers. My name is nothing you need to know." "Well I'm Spiderblade." "I know there's more in that ship." "What makes you say that?" Spiderblade was getting more nervous both visually and in his voice. "I heard you talking with others." "Oh well uh, you see the reason that you...well the thing is that...I like to...talk to...old recordings of voices that I have." "Have your companions come out or else." "Or else...?" "Or else you will all die rather premature deaths." "Well you make a good case." "Tell your companions to come out now." "Are you sure it has to be right now. It can't wait for five minutes perhaps?" "I said now!" "Ok you've made your point loud and clear. I'll just go ahead and radio them right now and tell them to come out." Spiderblade then pulled out a radio and pretended to talk to someone on the other end. "If you're going to lie then at least try to make it believable." "What do you mean lying? I'm talking to them and telling them to come out." "Your radio isn't even on." "Oh would you look at that. Isn't that just great." The Decepticon then fired a crossbow bolt at Spiderblade, hitting him in his upper leg. "Ow! Ok I can see you're getting a little annoyed with me. Wait a second... are you Crossbones?" Crossbones proceeded to casually walk towards the ship, completely ignoring Spiderblade. Spiderblade tried getting in the way but was promptly slapped away. Then as Spiderblade started to get up Postal Apocalypse ran into him before transforming and pinning him down. Heavy Loader fired a shot at Crossbones to slow him down. "Alright time to blow it up!" ordered Crossbones. Minesweeper had set up the explosives during Crossbones' talk with Spiderblade. He then set them off! "No!" shouted Spiderblade. Spiderblade then took the bolt in his leg and stabbed it into Postal Apocalypses shoulder before head butting him and knocking him off. Spiderblade then shot two bolas' around Postal Apocalypse to keep him down. He then started to run for Crossbones before getting shot with a missile courtesy of Razorwind. Spiderblade shot out two cables and wrapped them around Crossbones' arms and then he electrified them! Postal Apocalypse had managed to cut the bolas' with his blades and proceeded to run at Spiderblade and stab his shoulder! He then cut the cables. "Stealthraid, commence bombing." ordered Crossbones. Stealthraid then flew overhead ready to drop the bombs. Every Decepticon then left aside from Stealthraid as he bombed the former Autobot base. "Mission accomplished." said Crossbones with a smirk. The Decepticons then left the area.

1 Hour Later

The dust from the bombing was finally settling with the Autobot ship still smoldering from the blast. Spiderblade was barely conscious with his ears damaged to the point where he couldn't hear anything. His optics were partially damaged as well, leaving his vision blurry and glitchy. He could see a figure rising from the rubble of what was once his ship. He started to crawl towards his ship at a sluggish pace. The figure took a few shambling steps before falling over and slowly and fumbily getting back up. After repeating this stumbling process several times with little bits and pieces falling off every time. Once the figure got close it held out its hand. Spiderblade reluctantly took the hand and was lifted up by the figure. Spiderblade could see the figures mouth moving but he couldn't hear it or read the lips due to his damaged optics. The figure snapped his fingers a couple times seemingly to try to test Spiderblades hearing but to no avail. The figure then gestured at the wreckage with another figure emerging while dragging out a third. A fourth figure then came out of the ship and limped over to Spiderblade. The first figure then slowly let Spiderblade down to the ground while the fourth had arrived and talked for a few seconds which Spiderblade still couldn't make out. The fourth figure then knelt down and began tinkering with various parts of Spiderblades body which occasionally caused him to jerk and twitch. Once the figure reached the face Spiderblade got very defensive and smacked away the figures hand. The first figure then came over and pinned his arms down so that the fourth could work with no interference. The last thing that the figure worked on was Spiderblades optics. Once the process was done through very gritted teeth Spiderblade could see and hear again! He could now make out the figures as Highbeams being the one who fixed him with Heavy Loader pinning his arms down. He then looked over to the other two figures and identified them as Hooligan and Bi-saw tending to each others wounds. Heavy Loader then released his grip on Spiderblade. Heavy Loader then snapped his fingers again this time with Spiderblade gesturing for him to stop, reassuring Heavy Loader that he could hear again. "He's fine." said Heavy Loader while getting up and walking back to the others. "So just checking you can hear and see me right?" asked Highbeams. "Yes I can." He replied. "thank goodness. Thought we lost you there for a minute." sighed Highbeams. "Well good job making me good as new." said Spiderblade while also starting to stand up. He was wobbly at first while using Highbeams as a brace, leaning on him for support. "Alright I think I can stand again." Spiderblade said while taking big and slow steps. "Hooligan! Bi-saw!" shouted Spiderblade. "What is it?!" Hooligan called back. "Is he still alive?" Spiderblade shouted while pointing to Bi-saw. "Yeah I'm alive!" said Bi-saw while raising his hand and meekly waving. "It's a good thing they didn't check that we were dead" said Heavy Loader. "So is back up coming?" asked Spiderblade. "Nope!" Hooligan shouted. "Well why not?" "For starters Chopper didn't answer and our contact list was hidden and we couldn't find it before the ship blew up." "Heavy Loader why didn't you get the list?" Spiderblade asked. "I was busy slowing down that Decepticon while they did the rest." Heavy Loader replied. "Well crap, guess we're on our own then." Bi-saw then got up. "So what's our plan then?" he asked. "Currently there is none. I need some time to process what happened over the past...what hour?" "Approximately." Heavy Loader chimed in. "I need to get to work on everyone's injuries." said Highbeams. "Well for now let's just rest and recuperate." The Autobots then continued to tend to each others injuries and discuss what to do next.

Jacksonville Florida

11:00 A.M.

The Decepticons had returned to their camp and started to kick back and relax. "Well that was easy!" said Razorwind gleefully. "Best part is they all died!" Postal Apocalypse said with very obvious joy in his voice. "Don't forget who actually killed them." said Stealthraid while walking by. "The mission was a complete success." said Minesweeper. "Megatron should receive my message any minute now." said Crossbones. Then Ratbat self ejected herself to play a message from Megatron. "Crossbones, you have disappointed me. I'm still picking up energon signatures from the area after you left. Unfortunately we've lost the signature so I need you to go back out there and find them and make sure they stay dead!" That was the end of the message. Ratbat then reentered Minesweeper. "What!?" Crossbones yelled in confusion. "How did they survive?" asked Stealthraid while being utterly baffled. "That doesn't seem possible." said Razorwind. "So not only did you not kill a single one of them but none of them died in general!" Postal Apocalypse yelled. "I've done the calculations of this happening and they are 0.034%" said Minesweeper. "Looks like we need a new plan." said Stealthraid. "War Machine, can you help us out?" asked Razorwind. "I have different orders. I am tasked with spreading Decepticon troops across this planet for colonization." said War Machine before sailing away. "Well then what's our new plan?" asked Stealthraid. "I need some time to think about it." Crossbones snapped back. "Perhaps you could get a vehicle form for faster travel?" suggested Razorwind. "I will not repeat myself, I am not getting a Earth vehicle form!" Crossbones doubled down. "Whatever our next plan is let's make sure that they actually die this time!" Postal Apocalypse said. "Don't worry they will." Crossbones replied. "Send out the drones and make sure they find the Autobots and send back the information they get." ordered Crossbones. "So the same thing as last time." said Postal Apocalypse. "Don't start with me!" Crossbones retaliated. "Just saying that your plans are very repetitive." "I'd like to see your plan. Minesweeper hold the drones, let's hear what Postal Apocalypses plan is." "Give me some time to think of one." "Exactly!" "Calm down you two. I'll do the plan." Minesweeper intervened. "Fine then, have fun." And thus the brain storming began.

12:00 P.M.

The Autobots were heading north trying to meet up with Chopper without him knowing since they had no means of communication. The Autobots still hadn't scanned any vehicle forms so there journey was a slow one. "So where is Chopper anyway?" asked Highbeams. "Some military base in Virginia." Spiderblade responded. "Is that all we have to go off?" asked Hooligan. "Unfortunately yes. Due to the destroyed radio we can't exactly ask him for any further directions." Said Heavy Loader. "Oh isn't that just great." lamented Bi-saw. After many hours of walking with little to no interesting events they finally decided to take a break. "Alright everyone let's stop for a bit and rest." said Spiderblade. "So once we get to Chopper then what do we do? Does he have a ship we can take?" asked Hooligan. "No, actually he doesn't, he came in a one man pod." replied Spiderblade. "So what is our plan once we get there?!" Hooligan yelled. "I don't know!" Spiderblade retaliated. "Then think of one!" "What do you think I've been doing?" "Well clearly not coming up with a plan to save our skin!" "Do you know how stressed out I am right now? Just a few hours ago I thought you were all dead and I was on the verge of joining the All Spark! So thinking clearly is kind of hard right now." "Well excuse me for expecting that our leader would be able to handle any situation and to bounce back and help lead us, emphasis on lead." "Why don't you try this out for a day huh? Everyone, I'm officially appointing Hooligan as our team leader for the next 24 hours." "Well maybe now we'll make some actual progress on our little mission." "You two need to calm down." came a voice from behind that no one recognized. "And who might you be?" asked Hooligan. "An international man of mystery!" said the voice from the shadows. "Why don't you show yourself?" "Alright, no reason not to." then a Transformer emerged from the shadows. He was wearing a hat and a trench coat and was tan in color. "Here I am." he said while posing. "Are you an Autobot or Decepticon?" asked Spiderblade. "It's...complicated." "What does that mean?" "I'm neither really." "When were you sent to Earth?" "About 80 years ago." "You've been a here a while. Why were you sent here?" "Well it wasn't as some kind of exciting mission that would change the war or anything like that. I'm not exactly the hero type." "Are you a criminal?" "Maybe I am, maybe I'm not. Like I said I'm a man of mystery." "What can you tell us about yourself?" "Well I worked for the mafia before they were taken out. Then I started helping various criminals throughout history. Currently though I'm not helping anyone, too many close calls with the government." "Wait a second I think I know you." Highbeams spoke up. "Oh do you? Alright surprise me." "You're Valentino aren't you. Famous outlaw, gunslinger and all around bad guy without being a Decepticon." "Ding ding ding, you got it!" "Wait so you are a criminal?" asked Spiderblade. "To put it bluntly yes." "And that's why you were sent to Earth isn't it, as punishment." "Maybe you're smarter than I thought." "Shouldn't we turn you in then?" asked Highbeams. "Well we're not exactly in the position to arrest someone." said Hooligan. "Well since we can't arrest you do you mind helping us out?" asked Spiderblade. "Let me see..." Valentino then started to stroke his chin. "I think I shall my dear Watson." "Excuse me but who is Watson?" "You know, from Sherlock Holmes." He was met with confusion. "Do you not know about Sherlock Holmes?" They all shook their heads. "How?" "We've been on Earth for only a few days now." "Oh so you're new, makes sense. Well here's what I'll do, what is your current mission?" "Get to a military base in Virginia and meet up with another Autobot to get back home." "Ok here's the deal, I'll tell you how to get there and you'll tell everyone you know back on Cybertron that I am no longer an enemy of the Autobots and if they want to come here and get me off of this planet then I'll gladly accept the offer." "Ok then, give me the directions and we'll be on our way." Valentino then gave them the directions they needed to get to Virginia. "Alright you're good to go." "Thank you." The Autobots then continued their journey as Valentino transformed into his classic 1920's car and drove away.

The Decepticons were heading south to find the Autobots and to finish them off. "You are absolutely certain that you're not getting a vehicle form?" asked Razorwind. "I am getting sick of this question, when will you stop asking me?!" Crossbones snapped back. "I keep asking because it would make things easier if you had one." "Well I already said that I would repeat myself for the last time...last time." Everyone was in their vehicle forms except for Crossbones who still didn't have one, hence why the question/proposal to get one kept coming up. "You are a stubborn man." said Stealthraid. "According to my calculations our chances of success if you got a vehicle form would be-" "Don't tell me that, I don't want to hear it." Crossbones stopped Minesweeper before he could finish. Just then two jets flew up to Razorwind and Stealthraid. "Unknown aircraft please identify yourself." said the man in the first jet. "We got no word of an A-10 Warthog and a B-2 Stealth Bomber taking off." said the second man. Then the two men looked down and saw Crossbones in all of his robotic glory. "What the hell is that?!" the two men were understandably surprised to see a 20 foot tall robot casually walking around. "Land your aircraft immediately and we'll talk on the ground." And so Razorwind and Stealthraid landed near Crossbones, as did the two jets. Then all of the Decepticons transformed at once in an attempt to intimidate the two men. They were successful. "So you wanted us to identify ourselves?" asked Razorwind with more than a hint of sarcasm. "Due to protocol yes." "Well I am Razorwind. Come on everyone it's their protocol, let's get acquainted." "Well since you addressed me directly I'll go next. I am Stealthraid." "My name is Minesweeper." "And I'm Crossbones. Now what?" "What are you?" asked the second man. "Do you want the short version or long version?" "Short?" "We're aliens. Now why don't you go ahead and leave us alone, unless you want to die!" Crossbones raised his voice made a sudden movement to emphasize the ending to scare them away. The two men got back in their jets and flew away. Crossbones then aimed his crossbows at each jet and fired. Both bolts hit and then promptly exploded. "Well that was fun." said Postal Apocalypse. "That's another reason to get a vehicle form." said Razorwind. "As I was saying our chances of success are-" "I said I don't want to hear it! Alright fine I'll get one Ok? No more talk about vehicle forms once I get this one. Let's find a military base and get one." "Those jets might lead us to one." said Stealthraid. "Let's go check them out." The Decepticons started heading over to the jets. "I can't believe I'm doing this." Crossbones muttered. The Decepticons reached the jets and examined the crash site. "Here we go!" Minesweeper called out and waved everyone over. "It says Norfolk here, perhaps it's a base or location of a base." "Well what are we waiting for? Let's go there, get a vehicle for Crossbones, kill everyone and then leave." said Postal Apocalypse. "Indeed, let's go." said Crossbones. The Decepticons then headed out for Norfolk.

Virginia Beach Virginia

5:00 P.M.

War Machine was arriving at a port in Virginia Beach to drop off some troops. "Recykill, this is where you get off." said War Machine. "Understood, will do." he replied. "Good luck soldier, my team is being stationed somewhere called the Middle East, where ever that is." said Cytrax. Cytrax and his team, consisting of himself, Death Hand, Rotor, G-Force and Sand Drifter were also on board War Machine and were scheduled to head to the Middle East near Egypt. "K9 get over here, why don't you say goodbye to our fellow soldier." said Death Hand while gesturing over K9. K9 then came running over and gave Recykill a couple licks before walking away. "Try not to die." said Rotor in a very emotionless manner. "What's gonna kill him, the humans?" asked G-Force. "I'd hope not, that would just be embarrassing." Sand Drifter chimed in. "Well regardless you should be leaving now, so get to it!" ordered Cytrax. "I'm on it." then once War Machine boarded a dock Recykill quickly scanned a temporary vehicle form (a forklift) and drove away. War Machine stayed at the port though, waiting for someone to arrive.

Norfolk military base

Still Virginia

10:00 P.M.

Chopper was well known amongst those at Norfolk and had developed a friendship of sorts with the humans, most notably with Frederick Wilker. Chopper and Frederick were inside of a hangar that kept various jets and helicopters, including the one that Chopper scanned. They were in the middle of a conversation about sea life on Earth. Chopper was fascinated by most of it though he did find starfish to be very boring. "I've encountered plenty of sharks in my day. Some as small as my hand and others about the same size as you! The ocean is pretty crazy." "Sounds like it. Any near death experiences with these 'sharks'?" asked Chopper. "No not yet. Don't know whether that's a good thing or not." "Why do you say that?" "Well I'm a bit of a thrill seeker you see. That's partly the reason why I joined the navy. So while it is nice to have not nearly been killed by a shark, it's also a little disappointing I guess you could say." "Interesting way to look at it I suppose." "What about you?" "What about me?" "Are you a thrill seeker?" "Not really, I do what I am told and that's it. If that involves something extremely dangerous then I'll do it. I just don't go out and actively search for those kinds of activities." "Makes sense. I for one love being on the front lines in battle." "That is something I can agree with." The two kept talking and eventually left the hangar with Frederick heading towards his barracks and Chopper transforming and entering stasis on the helicopter launch pad. Then came the Decepticons. Razorwind, Stealthraid, Postal Apocalypse, Minesweeper and his drones along with Crossbones had finally arrived at Norfolk. "Alright once I get a vehicle form then we're leaving and dealing with those Autobots, understood?!" Crossbones asked expecting yes to be the only answer. "Yes sir." they all said. "Good, now let's pick something out." Crossbones slowly approached the base, looking back and forth, trying to find something he deemed to be worth scanning. "This little side mission is by far one of the most unnecessary things I have ever done." Crossbones mumbled to himself. Finally he found something that he thought was satisfactory. A V-22 Osprey helicopter. He scanned it and transformed. After transforming he hovered in the air for a minute trying to figure out how to move in his new vehicle. He eventually got the hang of it and transformed back. But he was spotted by a guard. "Stop right there!" ordered the guard. "Or what?" replied Crossbones. "Are you friendly?" "Not really." "What are you doing here?" "Well I came to find a vehicle and now I have. Now I'm here to kill you." Crossbones said before firing a crossbow bolt at the guard. He managed to barely avoid it and radio in for backup. "Attention, we got something that looks like Chopper but isn't friendly, I repeat not friendly! Focus fire on it!" Soldiers then came pouring out of their barracks ready for combat. All of the commotion awoke a barely asleep Frederick. "What's going on?" he asked. "You know Chopper?" asked a random soldier. "Obviously." "Well we've got an evil version of him outside." The soldier then left the barracks. As Frederick got out of bed he heard hundreds of bullets being fired every second along with the occasional explosion. Frederick grabbed an M-16 rifle and put on some Kevlar and a helmet. He approached the door with another soldier running ahead of him. As soon as the other soldier made it outside he was snatched up by Laserbeak and carried away before being dropped onto a Humvee, killing the soldier. Frederick then made it outside with Ratbat swooping down and taking out a small group of soldiers. Buzzsaw was pecking another soldier to death, her beak piercing the Kevlar. Razorwind flew overhead performing a fly by shooting. Minesweeper activated one of his famous traps and ended up destroying all of the barracks with his explosives. Postal Apocalypse was slicing helicopters and soldiers in half as if they were butter. Crossbones was firing explosive crossbow bolts at the soldiers and their vehicles, blowing them all up. Then Stealthraid flew by and dropped his bombs on the base. Frederick ran like hell to get away from the blast, just barely making it out before the whole place was leveled in seconds. The Decepticons transformed and left the base before the explosion before transforming again to admire the destruction. "It's beautiful isn't it." said Postal Apocalypse. "I can always appreciate a good explosion, especially one made by me." said Stealthraid. "Drones return to me!" ordered Minesweeper. The drones listened. "Well we've got that mission out of the way." said Razorwind. "I still think this whole thing was a massive waste of time. Now let's get back to our actual mission." said Crossbones. "Look over there!" Postal Apocalypse pointed at the smoldering remains of what was once the Norfolk Naval base. Something was emerging from the smoke. It was a forklift that then transformed and looked up at the Decepticons. "What did I miss?" shouted Recykill from among the rubble. "Not much, just the destruction of whatever this place was called." replied Razorwind. "We were just about to leave and find those Autobots and deal with them. Why are you hear?" "War Machine sent me to help you out but I'm not sure that I'm necessary." Replied Recykill. "You're not." said Crossbones. Chopper and Frederick were hiding behind a destroyed building and were listening to the Decepticons. "Well I gotta say we are not in a very good position." Said Frederick. "I do agree with that. We are as you humans say screwed." replied Chopper. "So what's the plan?" asked Frederick. "Get out of here. We can't take them all on, we'd be slaughtered." The unlikely duo were discussing how to leave the area unnoticed while the Decepticons argued over whether or not Recykill should stay. Little did they know of who was approaching from behind.

The Autobots had arrived at the base only to see that it was nothing more than a flaming pile of rocks and debris. "What happened here?" asked Spiderblade. "I think it might have something to do with them." said Heavy Loader while pointing to the Decepticons. "Why are they here?'' asked Highbeams. "No idea but I see no reason to stay and find out, so let's get away from here!" said Hooligan while speed walking away. "I'm with him. No way am I staying here." said Bi-saw while following Hooligan. "Hold it right there Autobots!" called a voice from the base. Crossbones then flew down and landed in front of Hooligan and Bi-saw, cutting off their escape. "I believe we have some unfinished business." He then snapped his fingers and the rest of the Decepticons approached from behind. "Now because you gave us more challenge than the standard target we'll treat you with a bit more respect." The Deceptions then pulled a pair of handcuffs for each Autobot. The Autobots didn't bother resisting and were promptly captured and taken back to the Decepticon ship. "Hey Postal! War Machine wants you at the docks." said Recykill as he scanned a recycling truck and driving away. Postal Apocalypse then headed for the docks. "What do you want?" asked Postal. "To send you to England." he replied. Everyone had left the destroyed base at this point other than Chopper and Frederick. "Well then, I'm assuming that what just happened over there wasn't good." guessed Frederick. "No it wasn't.'' replied Chopper. Then a car from the 1920s drove up to the scene and transformed. "Alright boys I decided to come with you guys and-" Valentino stopped after opening his eyes and seeing the destroyed base. "Oh, something tells me that the plan went ary." He then saw Chopper and headed towards him. "Hey you're an Autobot right?" asked Valentino. "Yes, why?" "Great, so you see-" Valentino then explained himself to Chopper about wanting to be an Autobot. Meanwhile back on the Decepticon ship they had landed back on Cybertron and took the Autobots to Megatron. "Lord Megatron, we captured the Autobots as ordered. What should we do with them now?" asked Crossbones. "There's a program that I've been wanting to start for a while now that I like to call 'The Defecticon Program' and I believe that these Autobots will make a fine first batch to test it out." Megatron then began The Defecticon Program.