Stinger slowly opens his optics, and he looks around a black void filled with fog, he slowly gets to his knees and actives his blaster as he walked around.
"Hello?" Stinger called out, his voice echoing, he did get a response, which was that of laughter, he turns to face it, but the sound was somehow everywhere yet nowhere.
"Woah, how the mighty has fallen." The voice said. "A great Decepticon lieutenant who is now an Autobot. You bring shame to us."
"Who are you?" Stinger asked.
"Well, it should be obvious." Chuckled the voice. "Geez, whatever must have happened to you fragged up that processor of yours."
As Stinger searched the area, he sees himself walking out of the fog, red glowing eyes instead of green, that was the only difference, everything else was spot on. "Who….who are you?"
"Well, I'm you." The Stinger copy said. "Or at least that voice in your head, the ones who are trying to lead you down the right path. We're better than all of the Stinger, and they should know it, we are their upgrade, we are the future."
"I'm not a Decepticon no more," Stinger said, and the copy lets out a loud laugh.
"Yeah, sure buddy, and am a Prime." The copy said sarcastically. "There's no reason for you to swap sides, nothing tragic happened, nothing sways your views, the humans made you protect, Galvatron gave us a better purpose. Why can't you see that?"
"We were forced into servitude because we were granted "free will" yet we threw ourselves at the Autobots, no questions asked, we were just puppets to someone else, and I don't need a big reason to change what I believe in with my true free will," Stinger says which angered his copy.
"Fool!" He shouted as he blasted Stinger launching him through the void, the copy slowly walks up to him as Stinger tried to get up. "I had enough of this nonsense, I'm taking charge this time, whatever happened, whatever brought you here must have made you, some morally good copy"
Stinger went to blast him, but the Decepticon Stinger kicks the gun away and he grabs his neck slamming him into the ground. The Decepticon smirks as he reached for his face.
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After the previous scuffle, Sam, Jack, and Sari found themselves in the Autobots base, each of them having a different emotional reaction to their current situation. Sari was barely able to contain her excitement, finding the giant robots cool. Sam was amazed, looking up at all of them, no words, just blown away by what he's seeing, and how extraordinary all of this is. Jack on the other hand seemed like he was on the verge of a panic attack. All the Autobots had their reactions to seeing the humans. Prowl, Arcee, and Ratchet being the ones who were not happy about them being in their face.
The other Autobots had some level of shock, some had no real reaction to them being there. They just thought it would've happened eventually. They have been planning on revealing themselves to them, mainly Sam, and it's not like they know where the base is exactly so there's no harm to it.
"So." Bulkhead says breaking the silence. "What now?"
Optimus looks at Sam and she gets onto her knees looking at Sam. "Are you Samuel James Witwicky, descendant of Archibald Witwicky?"
"Yes….." Sam slowly answered.
"My name is Optimus Prime, we are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron, but you may call us Autobots"
"What's cracking?" Jazz asked them as she leans against the wall.
"That is my first lieutenant, Jazz," Optimus told them before she points to Ironhide who flips her cannons. "My weapon specialist, Ironhide."
She aims at her cannons at the three kids, Jack flitching, Sam gulping, and Sari looking at them with aw. "Feeling lucky, punk?"
"Settle down Ironhide." Optimus sternly told her.
"I'm just kidding, I just wanted to show them my cannons," Said Ironhide as she lowers them and looks away.
"Our medical officer, Ratchet," Optimus says, Ratchet didn't attempt to say or do anything, she continued to work on Stinger, fixing the damages he had received.
'Um…. not to sound rude or anything…. but can we get a rundown of everyone's name, without their titles?" Jack asked, Prowl simply scoffs as she rolled her eyes while Optimus went about telling the children all the Autoboot names.
"Okay…. nice to meet all of y'all," Sam says. "But why are y-"
"Why are y'all here?! Why did y'all leave your planet!? Why do y'all look like a giant female with car parts!?" Asked Sari who was no longer able to contain her excitement and questions, Ratchet just looks at her raising an eyebrow.
"That one is rather annoying," Ratchet says. "Optimus, must we keep them?"
"I'm afraid we have to, the Decepticons attempted to take them. They are now targets." Optimus told her, then she turned her attention back to the kids. "We are here to retrieve a lost artifact that was launched into space eons ago. We cannot let the Decepticons get their hands on it, if they do, your planet will suffer."
"Decepticons?" Jack asked.
"Allspark?" Sam asked.
"The ones who were responsible for destroying our home. Their leader wanted the Allspark, with it she would've destroyed all of us, but we got rid of it before she could, and she went after it." Jazz explains.
"And she must have got drawn into this planet and was lost with the Allspark" Optimus added.
"Who was the one who destroyed your home?" Asked Sari.
"Megatron," Optimus told them. "But we need the glasses, it contains the location of the Allspark."
"How did you find out about the glasses?" Jack asked.
"eBay," Optimus answered.
"Um, it should be at my house still, if we were to go there, I could give them to y'all," Sam told Optimus.
"Autobots, transform and roll out," Optimus told them.
"Kid, give me the coordinates of your home, I will open a ground bridge." Ratchet told him.
"Negative, if we were to use a ground bridge the Decepticons may be able to track it. We must drive there, and you will also be accompanying us." Optimus said, she looks at the kids, then the Autobots.
Stinger moved off the table and walks to the Autobots. "Alright, time for me to show you how it's done."
"I'm afraid that you are in no condition to join us, Stinger," Optimus says. "Even if you were, this is a simple retrieval mission. You will stay here and rest when we get back Ratchet will give you a checkup."
"But I'm fine, I can handle a retrieval mission, it's not hard to drive to point B, wait, and then get to point A once we got what we need, in and out," Stinger says with an overconfident smirk. "Maybe an added 30 minutes depending on traffic."
"Optimus is right, I still need to run a few diagnostics on you. Mainly your processor, you're in no shape to come with us." Ratchet told Stinger as she grabbed his arm, but he ripped his arm from her grasp.
"I'm fine, a few headaches haven't stopped me, I'm stronger than y'all think" Stinger growled.
"You can not come, Stinger," Optimus told him more sternly. "Understood?"
Stinger glares at Optimus who was staring him down, Stinger soon calms down and he exhaled. "Maybe your right…..I'll just stay here."
"Arcee, you take Jack, Sam, and Sari, go to Bumblebee," Optimus says as she transforms, Arcee rolled her eyes and sighs as she walks to Jack and transforms, while Bumblebee transforms and opens her door allowing the kids to get in. When they were ready the Autobots all drove out of the base, Stinger looking at them as they left, and he sighs.
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"Let me get this straight, you idiots got into a fight with that mech….and he somehow got up after being "defeated" and was able to get what we needed?" Growled Starscream.
"On the bright side…..you now have a medic." Knockout says. "And a fabulous one at that."
Starscream just growls. "Incompetent, maybe I should have Thundercracker, and Soundwave goes and get the boy, they will get it done."
"If you are finished. I believe I have the perfect way to find the Autobots and get the humans." Shatter says as she walked up to her allies.
"Which is?" Starscream asked.
"These humans have some technology that may be able to find the Autobots. We simply allow the Autobots to find the glasses and then strike" Shatter answers.
"you said it may be able...but I don't need may. I need will, we have to find the Autobots, we already sided with these humans. Surely somewhat positive have to come from this" Starscream told her.
"Indeed. I'm close patching Soundwave up to a few satellites, once she is all hooked up, she would be able to find and track things more easily." Shatter told Starscream. "And if we were to stay here longer, we may figure out where the Allspark is, without the need of the glasses. The group known as sector 7 has been talking about a cube. It could be what we're looking for"
Starscream thinks for a moment, they would be able to finish their goals quickly. If the rumors are true and Megatron is on the planet, she will surely take the Allspark for herself and she'll be back in charge. Maybe she can get it before Megatron does and use that to maintain power, but there will be a chance that Megatron will somehow defeat her even if she did have the Allspark. She could either, have the Autobots take the Allspark first and free Megatron, or try to snuff her in her sleep. She still smirks at the news.
"Good, Brawl, Bonecrusher, Barricade, Blackout, and Thundercracker, get into position, the rest of y'all stay here, if we do get any Autobot signals the rest of you will go to them" Starscream informed them with a grin. "This has gone on long enough. We will get our prize"
"So, when we do get the Allspark, will we bring the nemesis back?" Blackout asked.
"The Nemesis was busy; it will be back and we will have a proper base," Starscream told her. "However, there is one project aboard the nemesis, I can launch it here into one of the cities for a test run."
"What project?" Knockout asked.
"A very special drone, I will send out more from the Nemesis, however, the main one will be the last to show" Starscream purred, she then turns to Soundwave. "Soundwave, contact the Nemesis and request for the drones to have launched her immediately. The rest of you, either get moving or make yourself useful"
"Well, I could buff out some of the damages I got from my fight with that male Cybertronian, what's up with that anyway?" Asked Knockout. "I thought we were exclusively an all-femme species."
"Well, there were rumors that there were a few during the golden age, and if those are rumors, then who knows. Life finds a way" Breakdown told Knockout.
"Ah yes, that one. He's an interesting case. We want to get him alive. Run a few tests, part of the reason is how he's a Mech, the other part is the way he transforms and his components." Starscream said. "he's very interesting."
"I'll go back to work" Shatter announced as she turns and walks away.
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The Autobots drove up behind Sam's house, Bumblebee opening her doors as Sam got out of the car. It is now dark, the streetlights are on and moved everyone is inside, meaning that the Autobots would at least can move around in robot mode with a less likely chance of getting spotted.
"I need you two to stay here, all right?" Sam asked Jack and Sari. "You both have to stay here
and you're going to watch them."
"Okay, okay. We get it, calm down." Jack says.
"Just watch all of them, okay, do you hear what I'm saying?" Sam asked Jack again.
"Yeah, okay, okay," Jack says again. "Calm down."
"Will you be calm if a bunch of giant women will be in your backyard needing a pair of glasses that will decide the fate of our world?" Sam asked.
"When you put it like that, it makes this seem way worse than it is," Sari says as she leans out of Bumblebee's window. "Are you sure you even have the glasses?"
"Yes, I do, just give me five minutes," Sam told them before running to the back door and through the path, his dad was about to open the back door and Sam slammed against it.
"Thanks for staying on my path." His dad says.
"Oh, yeah. The... Oh, the path. I'm sorry about that dad, I forgot about the path." Sam says, things went into Sam answering all his dad questions while he kept the door close so he won't walk outside, he heard some loud thud and turns seeing Optimus who was slowly tiptoeing into the yard, Sam went about trying to end the conversation but after hearing the sound of another robot moving he turns to his right and saw Bumblebee looking at him which made him jump while she just puts a finger over her lips so Sam quickly went to end the conversation, Bumblebee just looks at her allies and moved her hand under her neck to signal for them to stop, which they didn't so she made a gesture which translates to "what are y'all doing" as Ironhide was now entering the yard and Sam had finally got his dad to leave the back door.
"What are you doing?" Sam quickly asked Optimus who was still watching her steps, but very badly as it seems she was purposely stepping on what she shouldn't. "What are you doing? No, watch the path! Watch the path! Watch the... Please, please, please."
Optimus was basically stepping around it, but when she got what he was telling her she took a step back, but right onto the fountain.
"No, no, wait. No, no, no! Oh, no!" Sam shouted upon seeing the destruction, the other Autobots just walked into the yard and looked around.
"Sorry. My bad." Optimus told Sam.
-"Oh, I... You couldn't..." Sam tried to find the right words as he was astonished by what had just happened. "You couldn't wait for five…You couldn't wait for five minutes? I told you to just stay! Just stay! God!"
Jack and Sari run into the yard while a dog from Sam's house comes from the doggy door and starts barking at the Autobots who just looks down at it.
"What is that thing?" Cliffjumper asked.
"Maybe what Ravage is to us," Bumblebee says.
"It sounds annoying," Prowl grumbled.
"I told you to watch them. I told you." Sam told Jack.
"I know that, but they are in a bit of a rush to try and find those glasses, so we couldn't keep there forever," Jack says.
"Three minutes didn't' even pass, how are they that impatient to find the glasses?" Sam asked, he turns seeing Mojo the dog pee on Ironhide's foot, upon feeling the liquid she grunts and slightly kicks the dog as she then hovers her foot over it. "Oh, this is bad. No! Mojo, Mojo! Off the robot!"
"Eww, gross," Ironhide grumbled as Sam picks up the dog and moves back.
"Hold on! Hold! This is Mojo. This is Mojo. He's a pet of mine. He's a pet. Okay? That's all. If you could just put the guns away..." Sam told Ironhide who was aiming her cannons at him. "Put the... Put them away. Please."
"You have a rodent infestation," Ironhide informs him.
" A what?" Sam asked her.
"Shall I terminate?" Ironhide asked.
"No, no, no, no. He's not a rodent, he's a Chihuahua. This is my... This is my Chihuahua. We love Chihuahuas! Don't we?" Sam asked looking at Jack and Sari.
"Huh? Oh yeah sure, we all love those things." Jack said.
"But Chihuahua's are very annoying and aggressive," Sari said before Jack nudged her. "I mean, yeah we do."
"He's leaked lubricants all over my foot," Ironhide told him.
"He peed on you? Bad Mojo. Bad Mojo!" Sam chastised Mojo who was just looking at him, his face almost had a look of "I peed on her foot, and no one will do anything" Ironhide just grumbled.
"Bad Mojo!" Ironhide said, Cliffjumper just chuckled.
"Hey Ironhide, maybe it can clean your foot, probably buff that out." She chuckled.
"Oh, haha," Ironhide grumbled.
"I'm sorry. He's got a male dominance thing. That's all it is." Sam told the Ironhide, the Autobots just looked at one another not understanding the male dominance thing, so they kinda just shrugged it off.
"My foot's gonna rust," Ironhide mutters to herself.
"Okay, look just shut up and go hide!" Sam told them.
"Just hurry. Autobots, recon." Optimus told Sam as he ran into the house and up the stairs. The moment he entered the room he starts to mess up the place looking for the backpack which had the glasses.
"Where are they? No, no, no, no, no." Sam said, slightly panicked. "Come on, come on." Sam stopped once he heard another robotic footstep, and he turns to his window as Optimus had Jack and Sari in her hand as she moved it closer to the window so they can get inside. "What? What is this?"
"Time is short." Optimus simply told him.
"They want those glasses," Jack told Sam. "I guess the best way for us to find it is for all of us to search together.
"Please hurry," Optimus told the children before leaving.
"Okay. So, we have a problem…. the glasses are gone." Sam told them.
"I'm sorry….what?" Jack asked.
"My glasses were in the bag. They were in the backpack and now the backpack isn't here." Sam says. "I don't know how I could tell them that, they're already very impatient and are acting like kids in a restaurant."
"Well, they're going to be pissed," Jack said. "We have to find it fast, so where do we search?"
"Okay, so I will check this whole area over here, and you will check the area over there, just do a very clean sweep of the place. Sari, you can stand by the windows in case the Autobots may have something else to say." Sam told Sari.
"Got it," Jack says as he went over to the area he had to search in and he started moving things around, Sari jumps up and leans on the window to see out of it.
"Um…. Sam, we may have a tiny problem." Sari said.
"Okay. What now?" Sam asked as he walked over to the window and saw each of the transformers in their vehicle mode in random spots of the yard.
"Makes you wonder how they stayed hidden if this is how they hide." Jack joked to try and lighten the mood…. which did not work.
"No. No, no. No, no, no." Sam quickly said. "This isn't hiding. This isn't hiding. This is my backyard, not a truck stop."
The moment they went back to searching Optimus transforms and walks over to the window.
"Sam, she's back." Sari whispers and Sam groans as he ran over to the window.
"I can't deal with this. I can't..." Sam groaned as he made it to the window and looks down to see her standing in his mother's flower bed. "What? Oh, no, no, no. My mother's flower..."
"Oops," Optimus said as she takes a step back.
"Okay Optimus, you have to listen to me carefully, all of this moving around like this and destroying things isn't going to work, sooner or later someone will come outside and find you which won't end badly," Sam told Optimus who rubbed her forehead.
"Sam, we must have the glasses before the Decepticons locate us," Optimus told him.
"I know you need the glasses. I've been looking everywhere. They're not here. They're not here" Sam told Optimis.
"Keep searching," Optimus told him.
"I need you to be quiet for five minutes. Ten minutes. Okay? Please, I'm begging you." Sam begs, with them keeping transforming, moving around his back yard and Optimus constantly destroying things and coming to the window to talk is extremely stressful when they don't need to be seen and you must give them glasses which decides the fate of your world. "You got to... You're making a racket. I can't concentrate. You want me to look, and I am, I'm looking but I cannot concentrate."
"Calm down, I understand," Optimus told Sam and she turns to the Autobots. "Autobots, fall back."
"Thank you." Signed Sam. "Please, for five minutes."
"Move!" Ironhide shouted as the Autobots got up.
"What's the matter with you?" Optimus harshly whispers upon Ironhide yelling. "Can't you be quiet? He wants us to be quiet."
"And yelling that at night will surely draw people to our attention." Ratchet told Ironhide as she was walking to a power line. "You have to be more careful, and Optimus, surely there was a better way-"
She was cut off the moment her head hits the line, tons of volts going through her body causing her to light up with electricity and spaz out before falling over into another yard.
"Wow! That was tingly!" Shouted Ratchet. As Ironhide and Bulkhead walk over her. "You got to try that!"
"Yeah, that looks fun." Ironhide sarcastically says.
"Um, Prime." Jazz calls, when Optimus turns, she points into the sky as a few meteorites were coming down into the atmosphere.
"The Decepticons must have called for backup," Optimus told her.
"A few vehicles never slowed us down," Bulkhead told her as she pounded her fist together. "And I'm glad they're here, I was starting to get antsy waiting to punch something."
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While touching the powerline could've been nothing more than a mere accident, the cables landing on her neck and head was enough to send a signal throughout each of the powerlines, and straight to sector 7 who had picked up the massive surge of energon.
"Found them." Shatter says with a smirk. "Lady Starscream, I have the exact coordinates of the Autobots and presumably the boy"
"Good, send me the coordinates, and be prepared, if this is in a dense area, the wheelers may need to try and take them out. I will mobilize the drones to cut them off and give them some setbacks." Starscream told her.
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The Autobots had continued to hide from the parents, and they had begun searching outside through the windows after they had blown out a transformer. They weren't exactly close to finding the Autobots, but they did have to hide either under the patio of the house, on the side, or trying to squeeze as close as they can to the house itself.
"The parents are very irritating," Ironhide mutters as she points her weapon to the window, the volts of electricity must have done something to Ratchet since she puts her hand on her cannon and jumped up and down slightly saying.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah"
"Shall I take them out?" Ironhide asked.
"Ironhide, you know we don't harm humans. What is with you?" Optimus asked her sternly.
"I'm just saying we could," Ironhide mumbled as she looks down in slight shame. "It's an option."
"Well, you don't have to worry about the options, because somethings coming," Arcee told them while she was atop the roof. "I see three cons and some human vehicles."
"Great, so they're working with the cons." Prowl drawled. "What now? They're coming here?"
"They must be after the kids," Bulkhead said.
"Autobots fall back, Arcee, stay here and see which way they will go and follow after them, if they take the kids we will go after them," Optimus told the Autobots as they quickly left while Arcee lays on the roof out of sight.
"Optimus, what will do next if they do take them? They have some Decepticons with them." Bulkhead asked.
"We would have to distract them, Jazz, Bumblebee I will need you two to distract the humans long enough for us to escape. Prowl, Cliffjumper see to it that you lurk behind them and in case Decepticons target them, I want you to go stop them."
"Yes, Ma'am." Prowl said as the Autobots transformed and waited for Arcee to contact them, close to five minutes passed before Arcee contacted them.
"Optimus, they took the kids and parent, splitting them up, I'm following the convoy which had taken the kids," Arcee said.
"Nice work Arcee, Autobots roll out," Optimus told them as they head towards Arcee signal.
Cybertronian extra
"The parents are very irritating," Ironhide mutters as she points her weapon to the window, the volts of electricity must have done something to Ratchet since she puts her hand on her cannon and jumped up and down slightly saying.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah"
"Shall I take them out?" Ironhide asked.
"Ironhide, you know we don't harm humans. What is with you?" Optimus asked her sternly.
"Why can't we harm a few of them?" Ironhide asked. "Some may deserve to die."
"Ironhide, I am not even going to get into why that question was wrong, but we don't' harm humans, we protect life," Optimus told her.
"Says the woman murders Decepticons in the most brutal ways," Prowl muttered.
"Got something to say Prowl?" Optimus growled.
"Hey!" Shouted Sam's dad having looked out the window and saw them. "What is going on down here and who the hell are y'all!?"
"Why couldn't y'all just stay hidden on the road?" Sam asked them but the Autobots ignored them.
"You happily massacre our own, yet we can't kill a signal human who deserves it," Prowl says.
"Being annoying is not a reason, and their weapons don't hurt us." Growled Optimus. "But what to expect from the fake hard ass cop who woose out during firefights. What's going to happen when a human shoot you with tiny bullets, you're going to spring a leak like before?"
"That was years ago, and I told you that in confidence!" Prowl shouted.
"I'm just going to check downstairs," Sam muttered as he walks away.
"Hey, do you have an opinion of if killing humans who desire it is right?" Ironhide asked Sam's dad.
"Asking him doesn't count!" Optimus shouted.
"I….I don't have an opinion." Sam's dad mutters.
"Come on you got to have an opinion, do you think all human-" Ironhide was cut off by the sound of her cannon going off and the blast going into the window and to the parents, blowing them into nothingness while blood splattered on the closet Autobots. "Oh!"
"What the fuck!?" Optimus shouted as she rubbed her face.
"Oh shit….I shot the parents in the face." Ironhide mutters.
"Why the fuck would you do that!?" Optimus roared.
"Well, I didn't mean to do it," Ironhide mutters.
"I've seen crazy things in my time, and this is the worse," Optimus muttered.
"Somehow I agree." Ratchet said as she rubbed her face. "Why Ironhide?"
"Chill out…maybe I went over a bump or something," Ironhide said.
"You're standing in a yard, there's no fucking bump!" Optimus shouted.
"Well look, I didn't mean to shoot the sons of a bitches in the face…my cannon went off, I don't know why," Ironhide says.
"Well look at the damn mess, woman! We're in a neighborhood, they will see this type of shit and us!" Optimus growled.
"I don't believe it," Ironhide mutters.
"Well believe it now mother fucker, we got to clean this up before someone else sees this. I'm calling Stinger." Optimus said.
"Wait, you are worried about this with us, but we killed Sam's parents." Bumblebee said. "How will he-"
And then they heard a scream of anguish, despair, and hurt. "No! Wha- What happened! Why!?"
"…. Whoops," Ironhide muttered.
"This is the bot you left at the base, wh-"Optimus cut Stinger off.
"Shut the fuck up, can you clean up human blood? Or just good at cleaning?" Optimus asked.
"Do I look like a cleaning bot to you?" Stinger asked.
"Well, you're a male, just come here and figure something out," Optimus told him.
"How the hell does that work, wouldn't it be-"Optimus hung up.
A/N Hey everyone, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, sorry for the long wait, I've been drawing and have been busy. Check out IceEmeperor26 to see some of the designs I have created.
Besides that, I have two new transformers stories to do, another one with a male traveling to this universe, possibly with a more known bot, and then another universe where the males are kind of natural, but not since it's just a handful they are seen as rare.
That and a new kaiju girl story and a possible story with Xenomorphs since I am a fan of the species and series.
Anyways see you all next time, IceEmeperor26 out