Occurs some time after the previous chapter. Battle preparations are underway.

"Bridge ready at this end, Sandstorm," said Raf.

"Roger, Raf," replied the transport bot, from the vid connection on TFA Farside Beacon One, "three bots to transport." Standing by with Raf at the new transport hub deep inside Area 51 was Captain Sari.

The tunnel rings glowed blue, yellow and green. Three vehicles drove out: a small yellow coupe, a white and red jet emergency vehicle, and a green transport truck. Arriving, the Autobots transformed into bipedal mode.

"Welcome to Area 51," said the Skystriker Captain - with a special grin for the yellow bot.

"Hey, Sar! Er, Captain Sari," TFA Bumblebee corrected himself.

"Hey, Bee!" She smiled. "Thanks for coming.

"Oh! Uh, yeah, Captain Sari!" The big green bot saluted.

Sari returned the salute and chuckled, "you don't have to salute, Bulky."

The third bot held out a servo. "Glad to be here, Captain."

Sari shook servos. "Appreciate your assistance, Minerva!"

Bumblebee looked around the hub. "Wow! Amazing transport nexus you've got here, Raf!"

"Thanks! It was a cooperative effort between Unit:E, the Pentagon, and the Skystrikers. Ratchet - our Ratchet - and I did the final hook-up and wiring on the one working tunnel."

"Where are we, eh?" asked Minerva.

"About 150 meters underground, in Area 51 in Nevada," said Sari. The DOD reserved this entire area for the incoming Autobots from our dimension."

"Let me show you around," she continued, "while Raf works with Sandstorm. This level of the complex is equipped with rooms for 50 bots, plus a fully functional sick bay. Ratchet and Red Alert saw to it that you would have all the medical equipment you'd need, Minerva."

"Perfect!" the red medic replied. They arrived at her medical unit.

"This is excellent, Captain, thanks!" Remarked Minerva.

"Glad you're pleased. We wanted to make sure it was fully equipped. Greenlight will be arriving shortly to assist as your nurse bot."

"Beauty! I'll look around and familiarize myself with the sick bay, eh?" And the three left Minerva at her new medical unit.

"How big is this place?" Asked Bulkhead.

"One kilometer long, and 3/4ths of a kilometer wide," Sari responded. "It was originally meant to store top-secret experimental aircraft and weapons."

"Pretty cool!" Remarked Bee.

"The transport nexus will have 5 tunnels when it's completed. Construction bots are arriving tomorrow from Cybertron to do the basic construction on the other four tunnels."

"Bulky, you'll be in charge of supervising them in finishing the wiring and the console."

"Will do, Sari!"

"And Moon Base One has transported down sufficient Energon supplies. The storage area is over to your right," she pointed.

Next to the Energon storage area was a bot - sized office.

"Bee, with your experience managing Outpost Omega One, you can help by keeping things running smoothly around here, until the time comes when we need to respond to Megatron's attack. We've equipped this office for you."

"Sounds good, Sar!"

Raf's voice came over the PA. "Captain? Four more bots arriving from your dimension."

"OK, guys, let me go greet our new arrivals." And she flew up to give Bulkhead a hug and Bee a kiss, then headed back to the nexus.

Bulkhead smiled. "The Three Amigos are back!"

"Yeah, but wish it were under better circumstances, big guy," sighed Bumblebee.


The four vehicles transformed into bipedal mode just as Sari arrived.

"Greetings, Captain," smiled Jazz. With him were Springer, Dai Atlas, and Roadhandler.

"Thank you for coming, brothers," Sari replied, bowing to the Cyber-Ninjas.


The tourists aboard the pleasure boat were rounding the southern edge of Manhattan island. "Folks, to your right you'll see the Statue of Liberty," said the tour guide."

"This is wonderful, Frank!" said the tourist to her husband, squeezing his arm.

"I've always wanted to come visit New York," he replied.

"A perfect 40th anniversary!" she smiled, kissing him.

"Hey! What's that in the sky?" Yelled one of the other tourists, pointing to a circular vortex forming up above to the west. It quickly grew larger, then four flying figures came out, heading north.

"Dragons? With people riding them?"

"Huh. Probably something to do with that French circus group," said another.

"Here comes someone else! On a surfboard!"

"Oooh! The Silver Surfer!" Everyone clapped! The surfer heard the clapping and came down toward the boat.

"Hey! Wassup?" He yelled at the group on the boat as he casually circled around it.

"Cool board, man!" Called out one of the passengers.

"Cha! Thanks! I…"

"Scott! Where are you?" Came JoAnne in on his comm.

"I'm by this boat here, talking to some peeps!"

"Yeah? Well, get with the plan! You'd better be beside me ASAP!"

"OK," he sighed.

"And Scott?"

"Uh huh."

"Sink the boat."

"What?"

"You heard me! Now!"

"Aw, man!" And he turned to the cheering crowd. "Sorry, dudes!" And flying around the side of the boat, he used his acid digits to scratch and melt the hull, causing it to sink in the river. As he flew away, he heard their screams.


"About time you joined us," teased JoAnne, riding Skylinx.

"So, what's the plan?" Scott asked.

"JoAnne, Scott and Skylinx head over to Queens," said Skysword. "Osgood, you and Adam ride Darksteel and Lazerback over to Wall Street. Ripclaw and I are going to Gracie Mansion. You've got Soundwave's city maps and data pulled up in your processors?"

"Yes," they replied.

"Aim for the highest-value targets. You know the drill: terrorize and destroy. Go!"


Wall Street, the financial district of New York, had witnessed a handful of unpleasant historic events. Such as the Crash of 1929, Black Tuesday and the economic consequences of the September 11 attacks. But today it would experience a much greater wound.

Business people and passersby ceased in their tasks to look up in awe, then dread and finally panic. Two giant metallic draconic creatures and their humanoid metallic riders were here to unleashed mayhem.

"You ready, Lazerback?" Darksteel chuckled growly.

"Of course." Lazerback retorted drily. The two Predacons expelled a joint torrent of fire all over the street. It left a trail of molten concrete and metal, and ash that used to be flesh. People not affected ran away screaming for their lives.

"Hell yeah! Now this is what I call fun!" Adam laughed. Then he looked sourly to Osgood "But now Mr. Patience will tell us to be restrained and crap."

"On the contrary, Mr. Patience here says you and Darksteel can be as much of a berserk maniac as you want." Osgood retorted the same way Lazerback had.

"For real? You always bugged me that I had to wait and think before attackin'."

"Yes. In a fight. But this is terrorism; completely different. So go ahead and indulge yourself."

Both Adam and Darksteel roared in joy and flew off to wreck havoc at their leisure.

"Those two are of the same kind." Lazerback muttered derisively. Unlike the other Predacons, Lazerback was more inclined to ponder and think before leaping. Shockwave considered him a great improvement over Predaking's total savagery. "Now, about a high value target."

"The Stock Exchange." Osgood said. "The people in there are so deep in their work they probably won't even realize they're under attack – until it's too late."

"Then let's give them a wakeup call." Lazerback smirked viciously. Thoughtful as he was, Lazerback still enjoyed a good carnage scene.

The Predacon flew to the Stock Exchange and unleashed a firestorm, incinerating anyone inside unfortunate enough to be too close to the walls. Osgood flew on his own, firing red energy orbs at the base structure of the building, making it crumble even more. The Stock Exchange building fell apart, burying those still inside.

"Those orbs are quite effective. I wouldn't mind having them as a weapon." Lazerback said casually as they continued on to the Bank of New York.

"They're more dangerous than they seem, Lazerback. Shockwave told me they have a strange effect that he's still trying to study." Osgood answered in the same tone. To be having such a casual conversation while unleashing such monstrous hell upon hundreds of innocent civilians was almost surrealistic.

"Oh? What's that?"

"He told me that the first Decepticon Technorganic, Kālī, died because she ran straight into one of these orbs and was vaporized."

"So what? It's no more dangerous than superheated fire." for emphasis, the Predacon fired at the bank.

"No, Shockwave says there's more to it than that." Osgood was thoughtful. He had been studying Cybertronian technology ever since joining the Decepticons. "Based on his observations, he theorized that a fast moving object going against an orb opens an anomalous space-bridge."

"So this Kālī is somewhere else in the Universe?"

"No. This anomalous space-bridge is only 'half a doorway'. This is just a theory but, when a space-bridge opens, you automatically pass by an intermediary dimension. This dimension is in-between, in the blue and green space of the bridge. And it is in that dimension where Kālī is. In theory, of course."

"What if we open a bridge to get her back, somehow?" Lazerback suggested "We need all the help we can get in this attack."

"Shockwave says it's impossible. The half-opened bridge can't stay open for longer than a nanosecond. Besides, the nature of that dimension is theorized to have no time."

"No time?"

"Meaning that time doesn't run in there. Kālī was sent screaming with energy burning her, so if the theory is correct, she's still like that, in the in-between dimension. In eternal pain, unable to escape - or even die."

"Eternal suffering?" Lazerback asked. "Well it's just a theory, right?"

"Yes, of course." Osgood shrugged. "Just a theory."


By this time Skysword and Ripclaw had landed on the front lawn of Gracie Mansion. NYPD SWAT teams were already out in full force, firing on the two. Ripclaw shot a blast of blazing fire on the front line of trucks, melting them and the officers inside, while Skysword took out more individual targets with his orbs.

The Mayor's security detail was bringing him and his family out the rear door. He got on his secure phone in a conference call to the Governor and the President. "We're under attack on multiple fronts! Monsters and robotic humans with deadly weapons!"

"Dear God," thought the President, "It's begun."

"The National Guard is on its way," said the Governor.

"I'm afraid that may not be enough, Michael," said the President.

"Not enough? Well send in the military! I'm getting word that the financial district is gone!" replied the Mayor.

"I've patched in the JCS already, John," replied the President, "but we're also going to need help from others."

"Others? You mean other countries?" said the Governor.

"No. Other planets." There were a few seconds of silence on the communications line.

"What the hell are you talking about, Mr. President?" asked the Governor.

"This attack on New York City is alien in nature," he explained. "Our forces may not be enough. Do you remember the attack from Kālī?"

"Her again?!"

"No, not her, but the ones who sent her. We are calling on the same allies who defeated the monster Kālī."

"Well hurry!" said the Mayor. "My city is being destroyed!"


"What the heck is that?" said passengers on the subway crossing the Queensboro Bridge, as it travelled west headed to Manhattan. They saw JoAnne riding Skylinx and Scott on his surfboard flying east into Queens. Everyone on the train crowded around the windows as the two TechnoCons sped by. Smart phones immediately started texting photos.

"So what's the drill?" Scott asked JoAnne.

"You heard Skysword! High-value targets!"

"Nuthin' here but run-down apartments and el-cheapo stores," he grunted.

"Look ahead!" said Skylinx. "What's that?" He spied the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Park.

"Good eyes, Skylinx!" said JoAnne. Looks to be about 10 miles away though. In the meantime, we can take out some of these elevated trains, eh?" she laughed. They descended down to the "El" subway trains speeding every which way. JoAnne snapped her whip on station platforms, causing them to burst into flames, while Scott scratched the sides of subway cars, melting the hulls.

"Damn! This is, I dunno, kinda, nasty," he remarked, listening to subway passengers' screams as they fell out of the collapsed cars, plummeting to their death onto the streets below.

"You got a problem, Scott? Because I'm sure Megatron will be glad to listen to your concerns," she teased.

"No, no problem," he replied meekly, remembering her description of the Decepticon leader crushing his body and feeding it to the Predacons.

"Good," she cooed, then turned angrily toward him. "Now get back to work!"


The Mayor got an urgent call from the New York City Transit Police Chief. "Subway trains full of commuters are being destroyed in Long Island City!"

"Dammit!" yelled the Mayor. "Mr. President, when will your alien friends get here?!"

Meanwhile on the Nemesis, Soundwave was relaying all of the secure phone conversations back to Megatron, as well as video from Laserbeak showing the TechnoCons' progress.

"Excellent!" the leader remarked. "Chaos has begun. Starscream! Are my sleepers ready?"

"Yes, my lord."

"We wait. Once the humans have dispatched their forces, and the Autobots have shown their faces, then, and only then, will we attack. Understood?"

"Perfectly, my liege."


"Prime! It's begun!"

"Where, Agent Fowler?"

"In New York City. Megatron has unleashed his TechnoCons and Predacons all around the metropolis, laying waste everywhere. Hundreds of innocent lives have already been lost."

"Then we must make haste and stop the threat before any more are lost."


A ground bridge opened up near the remains of Gracie Mansion. The Skystrikers flew out and surveyed the damage. Skysword and Ripclaw landed in front of them. "About time you showed up!" He mocked, getting off the Predacon.

Ripclaw rushed quickly to attack Jack again, whipping her tail forward, but Miko, still in "human" form, covered herself in Predacon skin and kicked Ripclaw's tail aside. "Get bent!" She yelled. Ripclaw let loose with a blast of fire at the Japanese girl, but Miko opened her mouth and returned a blast back. "Oh! So you're that half-Predacon!" mocked Ripclaw.

A yellow flash, and Miko transformed into her Predacon form. "Care to find out how much of a Predacon I am missy?" she hissed at the Decepticon and jumped on her, claws out. They tumbled around among the mansion ruins. Ripclaw tried grabbing Miko with her Siphon-Claw, but the Japanese girl smacked it aside with her own tail. She then grabbed Ripclaw by the neck and threw her hard against a brick wall. Jumping on top of the Decepticon Predacon, Miko opened her mouth and formed a huge fireball in her furnace, ready to deliver it onto Ripclaw's face. It was then that the Decepticon realized that, despite her slightly smaller size, Miko possessed the skills and physique of Predaking!

Frightened and confused, she looked up into Miko's optics. "Why do you fight the Predacons, sister? Why do you wear that Autobot insignia?"

"Because they're my friends! Why are you a slave to Shockwave?"


While this was going on, Sari, Jack and Raf went after Skysword.

"You ready for that second round, Jack?" The TechnoCon mocked. "Say, how's your Mom? She like the fact that we stole her humanity from her? I think some of her organs are still on Shockwave's floor. They're stinking up the place!"

"Jack, ignore him," Sari said to his Spark. "He's trying to get you angry again."

"Yes, Sensei," Jack replied. All three Technorganics ascended, Cyber-Ninjas and Decepticon glaring at each other, waiting to see who would make the first move.

Raf meanwhile stayed on the ground, moving rapidly yet surreptitiously until he was behind Skysword. Sari and Jack stayed in front. Raf knew that he had no Cyber-Ninja sense, and like a baseball pitcher having to deal with a base runner, would have difficulty paying attention in 360 degrees.

The TechnoCon was in a difficult spot; he knew that Raf was somewhere behind, but he couldn't take his concentration off of the Cyber-Ninjas. And Ripclaw was busy with Miko below.

"Stand down, Skysword!" Ordered Captain Sari. "You can't win."

He smiled. "Can't I?"

Suddenly, Miko's danger mod fired up. "Captain! More Cons approaching!" She said silently via her comm.

"That's your signal, Bulky," Sari relayed to the transport nexus at Area 51. And a tunnel opened up. Out came Jazz, Springer, Dai Atlas, and Roadhandler!

Skysword's optics opened wide! "Friends of yours, I take it," he said dryly, as Osgood and Adam arrived riding their Predacons.

"More than just friends," replied Sari, "brother Cyber-Ninjas."

Skysword's smirk disappeared, and turned into a scowl. "Lazerback! Darksteel! Help Ripclaw!" He yelled. The two Predacons roared and attacked Miko. "Pink and purple? What kind of stupid Predacon is pink and purple?" Mocked Darksteel, as he slashed the Autobot Predacon, knocking her off Ripclaw.

Though outnumbered, Miko was not giving up without a fight. She head - butted him back. "I like my colors, jerk!" She hissed. Still, the odds were heavily against her. The three did a pile-on, biting and slashing her, until...another bridge opened, and out came Grimlock and the Dinobots! They'd been summoned by Captain Sari.

"Dinobots! Help purple girl!" He commanded, and they all transformed into their alt modes. Slug charged at Darksteel, ramming him with his three horns, and picked him up, throwing the Predacon off of Miko. Swoop flew up and landed on the pile, picking up Lazerback by the wings, pinning them with his claws so he couldn't fly; he carried the Predacon high into the sky and shot hot streams of flames on his head. Grimlock chomped down on Ripclaw's tail, and would have crushed it, except she managed to strike him back with her Siphon-Claw, injecting him in the neck with her Mech - venom.

"Aaargh! Grimlock screamed, transformed into bipedal, and collapsed.

"Grimlock!" Yelled Miko, while Ripclaw laughed. "You're not much of a Predacon if you care for these primitive life forms."

Miko was furious! "I'll kill you!" She screamed.

"No, Miko!" Yelled Captain Sari. "Get Grimlock to Minerva!" Jazz picked him up and laid him on Miko's back, and the two got in a ground bridge to the Area 51 site.

Freed, Ripclaw opened her wings and prepared to attack, but was set upon by Sludge and Snarl. "You ain't goin' anywhere, sister!" She tried using her Siphon-Claw, but Sludge immediately stomped on it with his huge foot. "Nuh-uh! That tail's not doin' anythin'!"

That left the three TechnoCons to deal with the Cyber-Ninjas.

"Wha'cha gonna do, jerks?" Said Adam, you've only got two of ya who can fly!" All three hovered above the TFA Autobots. Sari and Jack hovered near, palms out toward them. Raf meanwhile had positioned himself a slight distance away, hiding behind a broken wall like a sniper, pointing his plasma gun at them.

"You do have us at a disadvantage, Adam," said Springer. "And you have that all-powerful energy hammer, while Norman here, has his electric staff."

"Don't call me Norman!" Yelled Osgood.

"Shut up!" spat Skysword.

"I heard your desire to advance in university was rejected, Norman. That's a shame. But then again, the Decepticons do have much lower standards. I guess you are Megatron's - what's the military expression for the lowest of the low - plebe?"

"What's he doing, Sensei?" Asked Jack.

"Springer is an experienced warrior, and is an expert at getting in the minds of the enemy - doing to them what Skysword was trying to do to you."

"Don't call you Norman? Why? Isn't that your name? None of the universities wanted you, I hear. Are you a washout?" Springer continued. "Are you sure Megatron will give you a Decepticon name? What if he doesn't?"

"I'm better than you! I'm better than all of you!" Osgood spat back in fury.

"Osgood, stand down!" commanded Skysword, but the British TechnoCon was having none of it. "Piss off, Frank!" he yelled.

"Care to prove yourself - with me? I'm at a disadvantage, as you say. I can't fly like you. Or are you afraid I'll beat you and show you up as a loser?"

"Bugger off, you rat arsed plonker!" Cursed Osgood, and flew at Springer, electric staff crackling. Then, at the last moment, Springer did something unexpected! Unknown to Osgood, the Cyber-Ninja was equipped with jump-jet modifications, and he flew up and over the TechnoCon, landing behind him. Osgood slammed into the brick wall and crashed! Shocked, he looked up at Springer, now before him.

"That's the spirit, Norman! Springer yelled with a smile, and took out his light saber, holding it like a fencing sword. "Get up! En garde!"

Sari flew up to Skysword. "Your options are growing smaller by the nanoklik," she glared, "you are outnumbered."

"Screw you and your crew!" Yelled Adam, and charged at the Skystriker Captain, holding his energy hammer up high, ready to slam it down on her, when suddenly a plasma blast from behind struck it, sending the hammer flying up and out of his hands!

"What the f**k!" He cursed, then looked around to see where the shot came from and saw Raf in the distance. "I'll kill you!" he screamed, and flew towards the super soldier! But Raf was ready for him; the second Adam was near, Raf picked up a broken street light and swung it hard, hitting the TechnoCon across the helm, sending him careening into a nearby building, where he crashed through several walls before coming to a stop on a nearby street.

Sari turned again to the Decepticon leader. "Looks like you've lost control of your team, Skysword. What's your decision?"


Meanwhile in Queens, JoAnne, Skylinx and Scott had arrived at Flushing Meadows Park, when a ground bridge opened. Out stepped the two Primes, with several TFA and T:Prime Autobots.

"TechnoCons, stand down!" Ordered T:Prime Optimus.

"Or what?" Mocked JoAnne from up in the air, "you Autobots gonna fly? I don't think so!"

TFA Optimus turned to his team and nodded.

"Ready, brother?" Said the blue TFA Autobot.

"You first, brother!" Replied the gold one, and Jetfire and Jetstorm took off, attacking the Decepticons.

While the flying twins took on JoAnne, the Primes and other Autobots dealt with Skylinx and the surfer. Hound turned, and out of the corner of his optic, caught Scott flying towards him at high-speed.

"You don't look so dangerous...so kiss this!" He fired both pistols but the TechnoCon was agile, dodging each blast. He sped past Hound like a bullet, scratching him with his acid digits.

"ARRGGHHH! I'm hit! I think it's acid!" Hound tried to regain his composure, ignoring the pain in his chassis.

"Not so dangerous, huh Santa?" Scott taunted cockily.

"Alright, I gotta hurt you now, you're just too disturbing to live!" and Hound fired his machine gun at him.

"Zoinks!" Scott made his retreat from the barrage.

"Hello, little red bot," said Jetstorm, coming behind JoAnne, "why running through sky? She scared of us, brother?"

"Go f***k yourself, creep!" She yelled back, and turned to shoot a blast of fire at the blue Autobot. He blew her fires away easily with a huge burst of wind that threw her off balance, almost knocking her out of the sky. "Whoa! What the hell?" she cursed, on course to slam into the ground until she righted herself. Getting back her bearings, she came back at the twins.

"Ah! Little bot has flames!" Commented Jetstorm.

"Ya! From wrist shooting!" said his twin, pointing to his servo.

"Is cute! Almost looking like yours, but smaller, yes?" Jetstorm replied.

"What?" Said JoAnne, her optics open wide.

"Ya! My flames bigger, massive bursts, making enemies dis of abled! Like so!" And Jetfire let loose with a huge burst at JoAnne that would have completely enveloped her, if she hadn't made a quick U-turn and sped away. "S**t!" She yelled.

Your flames big! But wind, blow enemy too, yes?" And they idly chatted for several minutes, then stopped, looking around.

"Where little red bot go?" Jetstorm asked.

"Don't know! Got hidey hole?" In fact, she had found refuge in one of the suburban developments, where she transformed into "human" mode and hid until the twins left.


On the sidelines, stood a pair of emerald-green eyes studying the battle with intrigue and growing excitement. The two human-sized robots and the dragon were the bad guys. And the other metal titans, they must be the alien heroes he heard about on the news. The so-called Autobots.

"This is gonna be great!"


JoAnne spotted Skylinx flying by and spotted a middle-class apartment building. The three were highly outnumbered, so...they needed a distraction. A wicked plan formed in her processor. Transforming back into 'bot' mode, she flew onto her mount's back.

"Skylinx, Scott, disengage and fire everything you have on that building!" she shouted.

"Barbecue time!" Skylinx flew from the Primes and Autobots and Scott came around. The Predacon's fire did most of the damage but the red orbs also exploded on contact. The building began to burn and collapse, with hundreds of civilians trapped inside.

"Are you Autobots gonna keep fighting us, or are you gonna save those helpless people?" she asked with a smirk.

"Twins, rescue the humans!" TFA Optimus ordered and Jetfire and Jetstorm went to the rescue. The two Primes and Hound remained fighting. The chances were against the Autobots, knowing that their fliers were out of the battle.

"Time to burn!" she smirked and readied a flame-thrower.

"Yo, metal heads!"

Both sides looked to the left to see an unexpected sight: a brown-haired, emerald-green eyed teenage boy running toward the Decepticons!

"Get out of here! It's too dangerous!" TFA Optimus shouted to the teen before he got himself killed.

"Look, a suicidal moron. It's feeding time, Skylinx." JoAnne proclaimed.

"You got that right. Your lizard breath is about to get a taste of butt-kicking!" The boy talked back with no fear. He jumped high in the air and shouted "It's HERO time!"

And to everyone's shock and awe, a green light enveloped him. When it died out, he'd been transformed into a Technorganic robot! Taking a chance at their surprise, the new Technorganic flew at high speed and delivered a punch into Skylinx's face.

Hound, who recovered from the surprise as did the other bots, looked with a hint of pride at the cocky new Technorganic.

"Facing three enemies at once. That's a bad idea. But I'm ALL about bad ideas! Let's rock!"

And the three bots joined in the battle with their new, unexpected ally. The bots dealt with Skylinx and Scott. Ben took on JoAnne in the air. This new Technorganic's chassis was mostly white with light green stripes above his visor, in the middle of his chest, beneath his knees and on his pedes. In overall shape, his bot mode resembled Jack's a little. Except his helmet and his four stabilizers on his back displayed like an 'X'. His optics were blue like Jack's and Sari's, despite the light when he transformed being green. His forehead had a small prong-like structure split in two.

JoAnne used her whip to attack him but the unknown Technorganic deployed a Skyboom shield in his left arm to protect himself. Next he transformed his right arm into a sword-like javelin much like that of Sentinel Prime. The teen fired up his pede boosters, intending to attack the TechnoCon with his javelin. But he wasn't counting on her shooting flames at him. Fortunately he used the Skyboom shield to protect himself.

"Wowa! When you're hot, you're hot." he commented.

"You! I don't know who you are, but you're fighting on the wrong side." JoAnne spoke calmly and extended him her servo. - "Ditch the Autobots and join us. Join the winning side."

"The winning side? Yeah right, how can you be the winners if you're getting your butts kicked by the end of the day?" he retorted with a grin.

JoAnne smirked malevolently: "Something you should know about me, rookie. I don't handle rejection well." - like lightning, JoAnne was upon him and delivered a torrent of punches and kicks in the teen's face and chest. She finished by grasping his pede and hurling him against a building. But the teen collected himself before hitting the building.

"Okay, that was some beat down, I'll give you that."

JoAnne deployed her whip and flew at him with murderous intent. The teen fired green orbs from both his hands which stopped JoAnne dead in her tracks. The last thing she wanted was to run into an energy orb and wind up like Kālī.

"Time to wrap this up." the teen created two more orbs, one on each servo, merging them together. The super-orb kept growing until it was the size of a small car, as he chanted. "HAA-MEE-NA HAA-MEE-NA HAA-MEE-NA-HA!"

He threw the giant orb at her but JoAnne dodged it with ease. However it did hit Skylinx who had been distracted with the Autobots. The Predacon didn't go down but that blast damaged him.

"Scrap!" JoAnne cursed. And to make matters worse, Jetstorm and Jetfire were back, having rescued all the surviving humans in the apartments. She was left with but one option "Retreat!"

Scot surfed away but JoAnne escorted Skylinx, who was having trouble flying.

"And that my friend, is how you save the day!" the unknown Technorganic boasted. Making sure all enemies were gone, T:Prime Optimus approached the teen Technorganic cautiously:

"We thank you for your aid in the battle, friend. Though an explanation should be delivered at a more propitious time, I must know: who are you?"

The Technorganic transformed only his head, the rest remained in bot mode. It was a strange thing; while his optics were blue, his human eyes were green. The other Autobots came near as well.

"Me? I'm your average super-hero, Ben Tennyson!" he gave a wide grin. "And you guys are the Autobots, right? I saw you on TV after that Kālī disaster."

"Your assumption is correct, Ben. I am Optimus Prime and these are my fellow Autobots." while Optimus was curious to carry on and obtain some answers, the battle had barely begun. And the TechnoCons would surely report to Megatron about this new development. "We must rejoin our allies in the battle. You should come with us for your own safety."

"Big O, didn't you see me kick that metal dragon-breath's butt just now? I can take care of them." that attitude reminded him of some other novice Autobots he had known, such as Smokescreen when he had first joined Team Prime.

"The Decepticons now know of your existence, Ben. And Megatron will stop at nothing to capture you. Neither side expected a new Technorganic to just appear out of nowhere." TFA Optimus explained patiently.

"Technorganic? That's what I am?"

"Yeah, but explanations can wait, kid." - Hound said. Both Primes gave the 'Transform and roll out' order and all Autobots transformed in their alt modes. While Ben marveled at the collection of robots turning into vehicles (Jetfire and Jetstorm transformed into their wedge-shaped Cybertronic jets), he transformed his head back into his bot helm and activated his plasma jets. Together they all traveled to Gracie Mansion.

"So you guys know what I am, huh?" as he flew beside T:Prime Optimus' truck.

"Yes. And in due time, we will both be able to have many questions answered."

Another cooperative chapter written by yours truly FictionFan1024 and TheSealer!

War has begun, but Unit:E, the Skystrikers, and both dimensions' Autobots were prepared. Autobots from both dimensions are joining forces.

And there is apparently an ally from an unexpected corner – who knew!

Thanks to another artist, CheshireP, for the idea of this new, emerald-eyed Technorganic; no, this one doesn't have an Omnitrix, but our story's Ben Tennyson has much in common with that other one's bravery and personality (T:Prime Optimus may have correctly sized him up, thinking he reminds the Prime of a young Smokescreen). See CheshireP's excellent artwork for her depiction of this Technorganic Ben. Many questions need to be answered about Ben – stay tuned!

Much more to come in this battle!

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