Episode 5
Total Meltdown
It was the afternoon in Detroit as the Autobots and Foxhyll were in their base, they were standing in what was established as the "living room" of their base as Sari put it.
"We still have a lot to learn about earth customs, and the best way is, to keep our optical and auditory sensors open" Optimus informed to team as all but Bumblebee was there, Prowl and Ratchet sat on the chairs made for them and Bulkhead stood, chucking a oil drum in the air before catching it.
"So let's get started" Bulkhead said before the back part of Bulkhead folds down and becomes a chair for him as he sits down and puts one foot on his knee, Prowl uses a remote to turn on the large TV.
Bulkhead then puts a sort of pipe into the oil drum and makes it a straw, "We got over five thousand channels to monitor here" Bulkhead said as he drank the oil through the straw.
The first thing they saw was a commercial for fuel for cars.
"So the next time you fill your tank, be sure to use Super Premium Mega Fuel!"
"That looks like that hurts" Bulkhead said as he winced.
The next thing to appear on the screen was a show of a demolition derby as two cars crash into each other, which made Prowl and Foxhyll flinch from seeing it, "Not as much as that!" Prowl said.
"Couldn't agree more" Foxhyll said, who was in his beast mode, Prowl then changed the channel once more as the TV showed a man inside a fighting arena.
"You ever dream of being thinner? Taller? Faster? Even stronger?" the man asked as the TV then showed 2 people with one looking old and another looking very much overweight.
"Well these people did, and they turned their dreams into reality!" the man said as the images flipped to show the old man was looking tongue and muscular with long blonde hair and the overweight woman looking thinner and beautiful.
"And you can do that too! With my biochemical makeover!" the man said as the TV showed a better look at him, he had a white suit, grey tie and black undershirt with blonde hair, tan skin and large shaded glasses as he wore a grey jacket over his shoulders.
"Ah, human upgrades, what will they think of next?" Optimus said.
"Biochemical makeover? Sounds dangerous" Windblade said.
"It can be in the wrong hands" Foxhyll said as they watched.
"Hi there, I'm Promethius Black and I can transform you" Promethius said, "If you're still not convinced, well then you better watch one of my greatest bioenhanced successors in action!" he said as the crowd cheered.
"You see them everyday, they clean your house, they teach your children and they take your jobs, but tonight! Men will triumph over machines in a no-host barge fight! To the finish!" Prometheus announced.
"What ram damaged, programming impaired bot would agree to be in such a degrading spectacle?" Ratchet asked.
"Yeah I'm kinda thinking what idiot would agree to be in a fight like this" Foxhyll said as they watched.
"Representing the machines, I give you…" Prometheus said as a large being in a big white sheet walked into the ring, before throwing it off, revealing, "Bumblebee!".
Bulkhead spat out his oil at this, "What?!".
"Oh scrap, that's our idiot!" Foxhyll said in surprise.
"Hey! Good evening Detroit!" Bumblebee said, only for most of the audience to boo at him, he looked back to Sari, who was with him and grabbing the sheet and had a pink towel around her neck, only shrugged at this.
"And representing the human race! I give you, Cyrus the Colossus Rhodes!" Prometheus announced as a scrawny little man entered, he a black jumpsuit on that left his feet and hands shown, his skin was sickly green and he had a long white mustache and 2 round pads on his back as well as green tinted goggles.
"Thats a human?" Bulkhead asked.
"Must be a new model" Prowl said.
"More like an old one" Arcee said as she saw the man looked somewhat old.
Bumblebee then approached Cyrus as he leaned down, "Good luck, and may the best man win!" Prometheus said as he walked off the ring.
"Don't worry little guy, I'll go easy on you" Bumblebee said.
"Don't do me any favours, machine" Cyrus said.
The bell then rang as the fight began, the pads on Cyrus' back revealed to be rods, before plunging into his back, sending jolts of energy into his body, soon the little mans body and muscles started growing, soon the little man was little no more, he was huge and had dark green patterns over where his veins are on his body as his goggles were now a mask over his eyes.
"Who's the little guy now?" Colossus Rhodes asked in a deeper voice as he towered over Bumblebee.
Bumblebee whimpered at this before he was grabbed by the head and thrown, only to spring back from the ropes of the ring at Rhodes, but then the massive monster of a man threw a punch at the autobot, making Bumblebee fall the the ground.
The crowd cheered as the fight went on, in a special viewing box, Captain Fanzone sat on a chair and watched the fight as he held a hotdog, then a robot vendor comes to him, "Please select your condiment" it said as Fanzone laid his Hotdog under the Mayo option and pressed the button, only for nothing to come out, he pressed it again and again as the machine asked him the same thing over and over, he then kicked it, only for the machine the shoot Mustard onto his hotdog and hand.
Fanzone groaned as he threw the ruined hotdog onto the robot and it bounced off, then a compartment opened on the robot, "Would you like a napkin?" it asked as it shot out napkins everywhere.
"This is why I hate machines" he said as he grabbed a napkin to wipe off the mustard from his hand.
"I knew we had something in common, Captain Fanzone" said Promethius as he walked in and sat next to him.
"Enjoying the Luxury box?" he asked.
"And not to mention the VIP Parking, the complimentary neck massage and the coupon for one free Bio-enhancement" Captain Fanzone said.
"You wouldn't be trying to influence the Detroit Police Department in any way now, would you Mr. Black?" Fanzone asked, he may hate machines, but he is still a good cop and tries to stay alert.
"Captain, I am a humble businessman, I merely wish to demonstrate my product under ideal conditions" Prometheus said as he looked shocked, although it was merely acting.
[At Least I think it was, correct me if I'm wrong]
"So uh, what's the trick?" Captain Fanzone asked.
Back at the fight, Rhodes was basically winning as Bumblebee was thrown into the ropes of the ring.
"Electronic pulses stimulate experimental steroids, that I introduced into his body" Prometheus explained as Rhodes walked over to Bumblebee, "As you can see Captain, my Biotechnology is far superior to robotic technology because the human brain controls it" Rhodes then stomped on Bumblebee as the crowd cheers.
"Picture a brand new police force, with bio-enhanced human officers instead of those mindless, Sumdac robot drones" Prometheus said.
"You know me, I've never been too crazy about sending a machine to do a man's job," Fanzone said.
"Well you don't have to Captain, if you choose my Biotech over Sumdac's robots" Prometheus said as Rhodes lifted up Bumblebee and threw him, Bumblebee laid flat as his head hung outside of the ring as Sari went up to him.
"Come on, you're getting your gears cleaned, you can take this guy!" she said as she inserted her key in Bumblebee's head, soon all the damage was gone as he tried to get up.
"Just, stay out of his reach" Sari advised as Bumblebee got up, however due to being punched around so much he was seeing more than one Rhodes.
"Which one? The guy in the middle or the two on either side?" Bumblebee asked.
"Just, swing at all of them!" Sari said, Bumblebee shook his head before charging at Rhodes, before going around him and activating his stingers, he then started to shoot electricity at Rhodes as he skated around with his wheels.
"Hold still Shorty!" Rhodes mocked as he blocked the electricity, only for a big blast to hit him.
"Now thats just wrong!" Bumblebee said as he put his stingers away, "I didn't make fun of your height when you were little" Bumblebee said before Rhodes charged at him.
"I said hold still!" Rhodes yelled, but then Bumblebee skated with his wheels once more, going under Rhodes and behind him, then jumping up and kicking Rhodes to the ground.
"Yes!" Sari cheered.
Rhodes then was getting back up, his rods started pumping again, making him bigger and stronger as he towered over Bee more, he then grabbed the yellow bot and raised him high, then he punched him hard rough to launch him out of the building, Sari gasped at this.
The crowd cheered at this as Promethius looked to Fanzone, "I believe this proves my point about Bio-technological superiority" he said.
However Rhodes roared as he leaped out of the ring and out the same hole Bumblebee was launched into, he wasn't done with this fight.
"Uh, you were saying?" Fanzone said which made Prometheus winced, this wasn't part of his plan.
Outside, Bumblebee laid in rubble in the parking lot as people ran, Rhodes had lifted up a large dumpster, ready to flatten Bumblebee who was damaged, having oil leak from an injury on his shoulder.
"Bumblebee! Heads up!" he heard Sari call him as he saw the dumpster fly at him, he quickly dodged as Sari ran to him.
"Hang on, I'll patch you up!" she said as she was about to use her key, only for Bee to be dragged away and lifted into the air by Rhodes, the giant monster of a man then threw Bumblebee into a nearby truck, Rhodes then lifted a car in the air as he roared, ready to finish the fight.
"I just hope there is something left of you to patch" Sari said worriedly, Rhodes threw the car, which Bee quickly dodged as he ran but then fell as Rhodes followed.
"Stand and fight, what are you, Yellow?" he asked.
"Well, duh" Bumblebee said, soon Fanzone and Prometheus ran to the scene.
"Call off your overgrown gorilla!" Fanzone ordered.
"It's not like he has an off switch!" Prometheus said.
Rhodes then lifted up a car and threw it, ready to end Bumblebee, however just in the nick of time, Ratchet appeared on the scene with his magnets as he caught the car.
"Looks like you're in over your head again kid!" Ratchet said.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Bumblebee asked.
Soon all of the Autobots and Foxhyll were on the scene, "Mute it, we got bigger problems!" Optimus said.
"W-What? Bigger than me?!" Bumblebee asked, feeling insulted.
"What are you talking about?" Optimus asked, confused.
Soon Rhodes was charging at them, only for Bulkhead to charge at him, "Time for the big guns!" Bulkhead said as he crashed into Rhodes and tackled him to the ground.
"Oh just rub it in, why don't you!" Bumblebee said, feeling even more insulted and thinking they were talking about his height and size.
"What? What'd I say?" Bulkhead asked, only to be kicked off by Rhodes and into some cars, setting off their alarms, the sounds of the car alarms made Rhodes green veins glow as he held his ears in pain, the rods in his back sparking electrical energy, Prowl sees this and fire two shurikens into them, damaging them to which made Rhodes shrink and turn back to a small man.
"Good thinking Prowl! Way to cut him down to size!" Optimus said.
Prowl then walked over to Bumblebee and then smacked him on the head, "Next time, use your head, find your foes weakness and strike there!" prowl advised.
"If you can reach it" Bulkhead said, which annoyed Bumblebee even more.
"Oh right, I get it, cause I'm short!" Bumblebee said, very annoyed.
"What? I'm just busting your bumpers, little buddy" Bulkhead, unintentionally annoying Bee more.
"Why does it have to be "Little buddy"? Why can't it just be buddy?!" Bee asked.
Ratchet picked up Sari as he asked Bulkhead, "What's with him?".
"Oh he's just mad cause he came up, a 'little' short!" Bulkhead said, intentionally joking as he, Ratchet and Sari laughed at the joke.
"OK NOW YOUR DOING IT ON PURPOSE!" Bumblebee yelled, not liking being teased.
"Thats it! I'm telling the Mayor to scrap your contracts! I'll pick those Sumdac rust buckets over this mess anyday!" Captain Fanzone said.
"You cannot do this! I'll be ruined!" Prometheus said.
"Not my problem Mr. Black" Fanzone said as he walked away, Prometheus scowls as he walks the other way.
"Filthy Machines!" He said before stopping to see a bit of Bumblebee's parts on the ground covered in a purple slime like fluid.
He picks it up and examines it before he smirks, "This is not over!" Prometheus said.
Later in Prometheus' lab, he is doing research on the part and fluid he found.
"Clearly, mere physical strength is not enough to defeat these machines" he said as the part was laid under a dripping liquid which slowly melts through the metal with every drop.
"However, by combining the autobots fluid sample with my steroids" he continued research as the dripping kept melting through the metal, he looks through a microscope at his progress.
"I have discovered, as they say, a chink in the armor" he said, to a benefactor of sorts.
[He does say chink right? I couldn't find any subtitles saying otherwise]
"Thus ensuring the superiority of my biotech over Sumdacs robotics" Prometheus said.
"All very well Prometheus, but your investors are still furious about the negative publicity from that wrestling match" his benefactor said, he wore a white suit, had tanned skin, grey and white hair and pink tinted glasses.
"I will make them forget about Colossus Rhodes, I just need time, money and a new human test subject" Prometheus asked.
"Not a chance! Not even the prisons won't give you test subjects anymore, we're cutting our losses and your funding".
"You can't do that!" Prometheus yelled as he slammed his fist on his desk in anger.
"I'm sorry Prometheus" his benefactor said before the screen shut off, further angering Prometheus.
"The fool!" he yelled as he accidentally threw his concoctions onto the ground, smashing the beakers and letting the liquids and gas mix together.
"I will show them, that I'm better than Sumdac and these crazy robots! Even if I have to take matters into my own hands" he said before noticing the mixture of chemicals and gases, an alarm goes off as the metal piece split into two, showing an overflow of the chemical that was dripping on it.
Prometheus struggles to breathe as he steps into the chemicals and inhales the gas as he felt his entire being was changing from the inside out.
He finally makes it out of the lab, showing his body was becoming a green liquid like substance.
"They'll pay for this! They'll all pay!" he said as he lifted his hand from a wall he was using as support, only to show it was melting into a perfect shape of his hand.
Meanwhile the next day, Sumdac was presenting a new model of Police drone to some investors, the Mayor and captain Fanzone, Sari was also there to watch the demonstration.
"Today we unveil the newest model of Sumdac Systems police drone, not only is it larger and faster, but it also has improved recognition software"Sumdac said as he activates the drone as it moves with its sirens going off.
"So we don't have a repeat of that, unfortunate incident with the captains wife" Sumdac said, embarrassed about that particular time as Fanzone glared at Sumdac for mentioning that.
The drone then aims at the target, however sparks fly from its arm as it then somehow exploded, Captain Fanzone had tackled down the mayor for safety before getting up after the explosion.
"This is why I hate machines" Fanzone said.
"Oh dear, it wasn't supposed to do that, I-I am so sorry!" Sumdac said.
"Call us when you get those bugs worked out!" Fanzone said as he, the mayor and the investors left the testing room.
As Sumdac waved everyone goodbye, he looks back to the wreck that was the leftovers of the destroyed drone, "How could this have happened?" he asked himself, Sari ran over to inspect before she noticed something, a piece of metal with green burns melted into it, she knew who could help with this mystery.
At the Autobot base, Foxhyll, Optimus and Windblade were currently bringing in the large stasis pods that held the Maximal crew into Foxhyll's room.
"Thanks for helping guys" Foxhyll said as he positioned one of the crew's pods on a pad.
"No problem Foxhyll, with the assembly line being reprogrammed into a security system, your crew should be safe from any trouble" Optimus said as he places a pod onto a pad as well.
"Besides, up here on the surface is better than in the lake," Windblade said as she placed the final pod onto a pad.
Foxhyll then goes to his computer terminal and starts going through a catalogue of animals he has encountered, "The stasis pods link to the crews processors, they should mentally choose which form to take, I have the drone from Essilion 12 scanning for any vehicles in the city to help with their vehicle modes" Foxhyll said.
"Good to hear, hope your crew wakes up soon, we could use the help around here" Windblade said.
"Same here" Foxhyll said.
In the main entrance of the base, Sari came running in holding the piece she found, "Hey guys! I need help with something!" she yelled.
Later, Ratchet was inspecting the piece she found as he scanned the burns.
"Definitely Sabotage, but I've never seen a corrosive like this" Rather said as he took a sample and dripped it onto piece of metal for autobot repairs, Ratchet's eyes widened at this, "It can even melt Autobot Alloy!" he said before looking to the rest of the bots.
"I'd like to run some more tests, it should only take a few hours" he said.
"That long?" Bumblebee asked.
"His attention span is short too" Bulkhead joked.
"I heard that!" Bumblebee said, not at all happy about the joke.
"Apparently so is his fuse" Prowl said, also making a joke.
"Oh the ninja bot gets in a good one!" Bulkhead said as he held out his hand for a high five, which Prowl accepted.
Ratchet smirked at this, "Who knew he had it in him?".
Bumblebee was not at all happy about the teasing, "Yeah, aren't you supposed to be the strong silent type? Emphasis on the silent?" Bumblebee said.
Sari jumped off of Ratchet as she looked at the other bots, "Knock it off you motorheads, we've gotta warn my dad, he could be in trouble!" Sari said.
"Transform and Roll Out!" Optimus exclaimed as everyone transformed to vehicle mode.
"Vehicle mode!" Foxhyll called out as he transformed into his vehicle mode, soon they all drove out of the base, meanwhile in Foxhyll's room however, the terminals beeped as 2 pictures were shown on screen along with the words, "MATCH FOUND" blinking on the screen, then one of the stasis pods opens as steam pours out of it, green eyes glowing as the maximal symbol glowed through the steam.
Meanwhile at Sumdac tower, someone had walked in, leaving melted footprints in the metal floor as the being walked to the front desk, "I am here for Isaac Sumdac" came Prometheus' voice, but it was warped and sounded like he was trying to speak through water.
"Do you have an appointment Mr….?" asked the receptionist bot.
"The name is...Meltdown!" he said, his name now Meltdown, his body was now shown that his skin and hair was gone, his body made of a constant flowing green and black acid with goggles over his eyes and a acid proof suit to keep him contained and to use his abilities properly.
His glove then becomes covered in his acid before spraying that acid at the robot as it melted quickly.
Soon the alarms go off as Sumdac sees it and is surprised, "Oh not another malfunction!" he said before one of his screens turns on, showing Sari calling from inside Bumblebee.
"Dad! Those breakdowns from this morning were no accident! It was sabotage!" she informed him.
"Sabotage? But who would want to-" before Sumdac could finish, the door to his office let out a beep before corrosive gas seeped through the doors.
"Isaac Sumdac!" Came Meltdowns voice as he melted the door and walked in, "We need to talk!" Sumdac was now terrified as he was being confronted by someone using acid to break into his office.
Outside, the Autobots and Maximal were getting closer to Sumdac Tower as they sped up.
"Late one in is a rusted axel!" Bumblebee said, but Sari then saw something ahead.
"Wait!" Sari tried to warn Bumblebee before he collided with a force field the made Bumblebee turn to robot mode and Sari went flying in the air from bouncing off the shield, Optimus quickly transformed to robot mode and caught Sari.
"Gotcha!" he said before putting her down.
"What the spark was that?!" Bumblebee asked, completely shocked.
"A force field, when the tower is under attack it goes into auto defence mode" Sari explained as the rest of the team arrived and transformed to robot mode.
"What a dumb design, if your dads in trouble, how are we supposed to get inside to save him?" Bumblebee asked.
"Leave that to me!" Ratchet said as he activated his magnets and aimed the beams at the shield, the shield rippled before a hole was opened in it.
"I don't think so" the bots turn to see Colossus Rhodes as the old man powers up his steroid pumps, making him as big as the autobots, he then grabs a lamp post and uses it to attack them, he hits Optimus as Prowl and Windblade flew away tp dodge, Prowl threw one of his shurikens at the pumps, only for it to bounce off.
"The boss reinforced that little weak spot!" Colossus said.
"Bulkhead! You, Windblade and I will keep him busy" Optimus said as they charged at Colossus.
"Its payback time!" The large green man said as he swung around the pole as he hit Prowl, Optimus ducked from another hit before he continued his plan, "Sari, see if you can deactivate the auto defence, Prowl, Arcee and Bumblebee will get to your father" he said as Sari, Bumblebee and Arcee made it through the hole, Bulkhead uses his wrecking ball and launched it, only for Rhodes to hit it away by using the pole like a baseball bat, launching Bulkhead into the whole, pushing Bumblebee in and block Prowl out, Bulkhead was now stuck in the hole.
"Bulkhead, move your oversized fender!" Prowl said as he tried to pull him out.
"I can't, I'm sorta stuck here!" Bulkhead said.
"I can't open the field any wider" Ratchet said before speaking to Bumblebee and Arcee, "Bumblebee, Arcee, you're gonna have to go on alone!" he said.
"Oh, lucky us" Bumblebee said sarcastically.
"No time for jokes bee, let's get in there!" Arcee said as they ran into the building and in the main lobby.
Sari went behind the reception desk while Bumblebee and Arcee opened the elevator doors, they looked in, but then the elevator came falling down, they avoided it in time before they saw the cause, the cables for the elevator were melted.
"Someone used acid on that cable" Bumblebee said before he smirked, "But it'll take more than that to stop yours truly!" he said before looking to Arcee, "Stay with Sari, I'll get Professor Sumdac" he said before leaping into the elevator shaft.
"Bee wait!" Arcee said before she saw Bumblebee use the wheels on his feet and shoulders to scale up the shaft, basically driving inside the elevator shaft, "Goin up!" he yelled, Arcee smirked at this, "Nice idea bee" she said before walking over to Sari.
Back in Sumdacs office, he was hiding behind his desk and Meltdown walked towards him.
"Prometheus why are you doing this?!" Sumdac asked.
"Because, your a fraud!" Meltdown said as he reached the desk before using his acid to melt the desk.
"I am smarter, better looking and more educated than you, and yet everything you touch turns to gold, while everything I touch" Meltdown said as he grabbed a trophy before it melts into a clump of gold, "Just look at me!" he said before throwing the melted trophy into the window, letting a strong wind in the office.
"I'm a freak! But I refuse to be beaten by some simpering nerd who merely got lucky!" Meltdown yelled in rage and Sumdac was terrified.
Back in the lobby, Sari was looking over the terminal for the defence system.
"This looks like the force field controls" Sari said as she used her key on the terminal, however the shield outside was making the hole smaller as Bulkhead struggled.
"Either I'm getting bigger or this things getting smaller!" he said, which got Ratchet to notice.
"Sari! Stop! Your making it stronger!" Ratchet called out before Rhodes whacked him away.
Foxhyll turned to beast mode as he tried to attack Rhodes, only for the large man to use his pole to whack him away too, however Foxhyll landed on his feet and charged again, this time grabbing the pole with his mouth as he growls while trying to shake the pole away from Rhodes.
"Let go stupid mutt!" Rhodes said before he let go of the pole, making Foxhyll fall to the ground.
Rhodes was about to slams his fists into Foxhyll until Bulkheads wrecking ball hit him, launching him away from Foxhyll.
"I got ya back Foxhyll!" Bulkhead called out.
"Thanks Bulkhead" Foxhyll said as he tried getting back up.
Back inside Sumdacs office, Meltdown was ready to take action for his revenge, "Are you ready to feel the burn?" he asked sarcastically, he got closer, only for Bumblebee, in vehicle mode, to come driving in and knocking Meltdown away and crashing through a wall.
"Need a lift?" Bumblebee asked as he turned his right door into his robot arm and grabbed Sumdac.
"He wanted to melt me!" Sumdac said.
Meltdown recovered and he walked back into the office, he fired his acid at them, he missed but a few droplets went onto Bumblebee's body.
"Ow! Hey! Watch the paint job!" Bumblebee said as he drove out of the office, Meltdown followed after them.
Bumblebee used his mirrors to see Meltdown catching up to them.
"You're not going anywhere machine!" Meltdown said as he sprayed more acid, sealing the elevator doors shut.
"If this is about the wrestling match, then I'm retired from the ring!" Bumblebee said as he drove away to find another exit.
"Fasten your seatbelt, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!" Bumblebee said as he burst through a door to the stairwell, he then started driving down the stairs as Sumdac had to endure the bumpy ride.
Meltdown, knowing he wouldn't catch up by following directly, decided to melt through the floors to catch up to them.
Back in the lobby, Sari struggled to deal with the force field controls.
"Its not working! Try another data port!" Ratchet spoke through the comms link.
"She's trying Ratchet!" Arcee said as she kept guard.
Soon Sari used her key on a different port, then the force field disappeared, freeing Bulkhead.
Soon Bumblebee made it down the stairs and into the lobby and let Sumdac out who was still dizzy from the turns and bumpy ride, "I believe this is your stop?" Bumblebee asked.
"Dad! You're alright!" Sari said as she ran to her dad and hugged him.
However the moment was over as Meltdown finally appeared.
"But not for long!" Meltdown said, however Arcee got in front of Sari and Professor Sumdac.
"I don't think so!" Arcee said as she activated her arm blades while Bumblebee drove in front of Arcee to protect them too.
Meltdown charged, only for Bulkhead to run in the building.
"Leave them alone!" he said as he grabbed Meltdown.
"Ah you wish to give them a hand?" Meltdown said as he used his acid to melt Bulkheads hand, "So be it!".
Bulkhead screamed in pain as he felt the acid burning his hand, he struggled to not let go while also enduring the pain.
Outside, Optimus, Prowl, Ratchet, Windblade and Foxhyll struggled to fight Rhodes as many cars and street lamps were destroyed in the fight, the Bots were using some wrecked cars as cover.
"We've tried everything, what's it take to bring this guy down?!" Optimus asked.
"More than you've got tin can!" Rhodes said as he leaped up and punched the ground between them before launching Optimus away and punched the others away too.
Foxhyll managed to get up but groaned as he couldn't handle the strength the monster of a man had, "We can't keep this up, we need help!" Foxhyll said, before suddenly his com link activated.
"Someone said help?" came a female voice.
Then the bots heard a roar of an engine approaching, they looked to the source and saw what it was.
Approaching was a brown and orange Dune Buggy, on the hood of the buggy was the Maximal insignia.
"SandSpring, Maximise!".
The Dune Buggy's front end splits into two before the front end slams against the ground, making the Dune Buggy flip into the air, the back end then opens up before arms shot out of the sides, the roof of the dune buggy reforms to make breastplates and showing the Maximal insignia above the chest, soon a head with green eyes appears from the back end, the doors of the buggy then move to the back of the now transformed robot with the front end of the vehicle turning into large boots.
The new Maximal, SandSpring, while in midair launches a kick at Rhodes, knocking the large man down as she flipped off him and lands next to Foxhyll.
"How's it going?" she asked as she held her hand to him, to which he accepted and she helped him up.
"So, what's gonna take to take down this guy?" SandSpring asked.
"We're not sure, we've tried all we can on him, nothing is working so far" Foxhyll said as they saw Rhodes get back up, he thrashed in anger as he knocked away a nearby car wreck, which made its towards the bell tower, smashing against the bell which rung, the loud noise made Rhodes stop as he yelled in pain, the markings on his body glowing as the loud sound went on.
Prowl noticed this and quickly made a connection, "The bell, hit it again!" Prowl said.
"I'm on it!" Sandspring said as she ran to the bell and make a giant leap, landing next to the bell as she then let loose a bunch of kicks onto it, ringing it loudly ring, which was effecting Rhodes.
"The frequency must disrupt his techno-organic circuits!" Ratchet said as he used his magnets to take the bell from the tower and bring it right above Rhodes, to which Sandspring followed, Optimus took over for ringing the bell with his axe as the loud ringing messed with Rhodes, the green man started to shrink back down as he was back to looking like a frail old man, Ratchet put the bell down too.
Foxhyll smiled as he looked to SandSpring, "Nice of you to join us at the last minute" he said.
"Eh, I like to make an entrance" SandSpring said and she winked.
Back inside the tower, Bulkhead dropped to one knee as he was struggling to keep a hold on Meltdown who laughed maniacally.
"See how easily I bring you to your knees?" he said as he freed one of his arms and aimed his hand at Bulkhead.
"I will melt you down to molten slag!" Meltdown said before he fired, however Bumblebee quickly transformed and jumped in the way.
"No!" he yelled as he took the hit, hitting the ground.
"Bumblebee!" Sari yelled as she ran over to help him, Bulkhead couldn't keep a hold as he fell down, Meltdown walked over to Sumdac, however Arcee stood in his way.
"Now its your turn!" Meltdown said threateningly.
"Your not getting him without getting past me!" Arcee said.
"So be it" Meltdown said as he sprayed his acid at her, Arcee was quick to grab Sumdac and dodge.
"I will melt you and your little autobot buddies until your nothing but scrap metal!" he yelled.
"I don't think so!" suddenly running in was Optimus, carrying the bell, which he threw and managed to cover Meltdown, trapping him.
"There, that should hold him" Optimus said as the rest of the team entered the building, however soon a hole was melted through the bell.
"I guess you ddn't get the memo about the acid that melts through anything?!" Ratchet said alarmingly.
Meltdown walked through the hole with a scowl, "Fools! Nothing can hold me!" he then fired more acid, to which the bots avoided.
"Suggestions on how to stop him?" Prowl asked.
"Hey, how about using the one thing that stopped us?" Optimus said, to which Ratchet got the same idea and called out to Sari, "Sari! The auto defence field!".
Sari was next to the front desk as she understood the idea, "Gotcha!" she said as she leapt over and activated the controls, Ratchet fired a wire into the control panel.
Meltdown was about to fire his acid when Ratchet quickly created the force field and surrounded Meltdown in it, trapping him inside as he fired, Meltdown quickly realised his attack did nothing.
"You can't melt what you can't touch!" Ratchet said as Meltdown kept trying, soon the force field kept shrinking and shrinking until it was now a floating sphered, keeping him inside.
"I say let him stew in his own juices" Ratchet said.
After Bulkhead and Bumblebee were fixed up, the small yellow bot was quick to gloat, "Big hel you were Bulkhead, why don't you just draw a big bullseye over that oversized chest plate of yours" Bumblebee said.
"Gotta admit kid, for a little bot, you got a great big spark" Ratchet said with a smile.
"You showed a lot of courage taken that hit for Bulkhead" Optimus said.
"Sorry about yanking your crankcase, I was just having a little fun" Bulkhead said.
"Little?" Bumblebee said, "Did you say little?" he asked, which Bulkhead was quick to defend himself.
"N-No! I-I mean, yeah, no but I didn't mean-" before the big bot could explain, Bumblebee interrupted.
"I may be small, but I'm scrappy! And I can run circles over your big old rusty chassis!" Bumblebee said as he transformed to vehicle mode and proceeded to drive circles around the bots, "You know! I got major skills!".
"He's gonna be impossible to live with now, isn't he" Sari said.
"Oh yeah, big time" Ratchet said with some annoyance.
As Bumblebee kept on with his ego trip, Foxhyll and Optimus looked to their newest member, SandSpring who watched Bumblebee.
"If it wasn't for her, we'd probably be scrap right about now" Foxhyll said.
"I know, and I'm glad she is part of the team, that will be the same for the others when they wake up" Optimus said.
However, little did anyone know, a space bridge opened just above earth, flying out of it was a broken ship, which slowly drifted to Earth, Detroit was gonna have some new visitors, question is, will they be able to handle them?
HOLY SCRAP! This is finally done! So much work and other stories to work on and now this chapter is done! Next chapter is gona be a big doozy tho, I can tell you that, hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and the new maximal, SandSpring, her beast mode will be revealed later on
