Chapter 17: Journey to Cybertron
The drive home was long & very, very boring, the RS gang must've stopped at about ten road services until they reached home. At least some good news was going to come to them when they got home.
"Our town man, it's finished!" stuttered Fillmore.
"Woah, how did it get finished so fast?" asked Ramone.
"This isn't our home you lemons, it looks nothing like Radiator Springs, our hometown had no buildings in it and had giant robots walking around…." Said Lizzie.
Down the road were two Autobots, Grapple and Hoist supported by building drones.
"That's it Hoist, place that wiring just right, the wrong way and this town will never see Electricity again!" ordered Grapple.
"I'm trying Grapple, but this small wiring is hard to handle with my big hands!" but Hoist got it just right, every neon light that painted the stores in RS painted the night sky and radios filled the air with classic 50's music.
"Ahh finished, this town despite its size really is pretty don't you agree Hoist?"
"Yes I read about this town on the Earthling 'interweb' thy call it the crown jewel in the necklace of route 66, I would definitely agree!"
"Hey, did you two do all this?" asked Doc driving up with every other resident.
"Aahh you must be the residents, surprised are you? Yes me & Hoist, supported by building drones here finished off your town, Ultra Magnus and Optimus Prime were gone so me & Hoist decided to sneak down here and finish the job, although I couldn't understand why Prime didn't ask us before to help him, we would've finished this place in days! But seeming as Prime did most of the foundation work, we just fitted it together like jigsaw hologram." Said Grapple.
"Yes, it was quite easy really; we managed to do all this in just several hours. Building is our hobby you see." Said Hoist secondly.
"Wow, thank you, thank you both." Said Doc "My hospital even has that broken mirror still, you rebuilt everything to a tee, amazing!"
"Well thank you, we used photos we downloaded taken of the interior of each room in each building, we also downloaded the plans of each building from the California archives, so in other words yes we rebuilt your town exactly the way it was before" bragged Grapple.
"Wow Guido, our shop is-a-back to normal, the paint, the tires, the leaning tower of….AAGGGHHHH! OUR TOWER!" screamed Luigi with Guido screaming as well in Italian.
"What, what is the matter?" asked Grapple.
"Our-a-tower! You, you….you STRAIGHTENED IT!!" the leaning tower of tires was now standing upright, much to the Italian cars distress.
"Well of course its standing upright why shouldn't it be" asked Grapple.
"It's meant to be leaning! It wouldn't-a-be the Leaning tower of tires if it was up right!"
"Hey everybody, look at this, the news is on and it's about the fight at the Stadium!" shouted Flo, everybody rushed to her Café with Grapple and Hoist carefully walking over trying to not step on cars.
It was again ANN reporting on the scene, a Citroen C4 reported from outside the stadium where the battle had taken place, police & army vehicles and choppers could be seen surrounding the stadium with smoke fuming out the stadium. (A cameo there, this was the same car that appeared in the Citroen ad with the car transforming into a robot)
"Ladies and Gentlecars we bring you an update on the battle that took place at Los Angeles International speedway between the two factions of robots, I am being told that after the battle our news crews and several others were actually able to speak with the robots that fought with the intruders in the stadium, we are showing you the footage now."
The TV showed Ultra Magnus talking with Earthling press, his metallic face reflected the hundreds of photography flashes that assaulted him (not as much as questions however)
"Who are you? Why are you here?" asked a female reporter.
"My name is Ultra Magnus and these are my men called the Autobots, and I think it is finally about time planet Earth knows the truth, we are not from this world. Our home world of Cybertron has been decimated by war with the Decepticons, the Decepticons are the ones who attacked this stadium and the same robots responsible for the highway incident."
"Who are the Decepticons?" asked another reporter.
"The Decepticons are, as you've already witnessed, merciless monsters who are here to steal all of Earth's natural resources to fund their war machine and eventually colonize your planet throwing your entire species in chains, we are here to stop that at any costs because we believe your planet holds something very valuable to them and your planet will no doubt become the new frontline."
"But why are you Autobots here? Did you intend to bring war to our planet?" asked another reporter.
"No! That is the opposite from the truth, the Decepticons bought war to your planet, we have come here to defend you and I ask that the leaders of this world take the Decepticon threat very seriously but I also ask that you not mistake us for the Decepticons, remember this symbol!" Magnus pointed to the Autobot symbol on his shoulder "If you see this symbol, remember it as a symbol of peace and hope for this symbol also means your savior from the Decepticons!" and that was the point Magnus talked to McQueen, the reporter then came back up on the screen.
"It seems apparent that famous racing car Lightning McQueen engaged in conversation with this large robot calling himself 'Ultra Magnus' and Police are asking him to come forward with any information regarding about the 'Autobots' shortly afterwards units from the national guard and armored division tried to arrest the Autobots, but they were able to get away. But as for these Decepticon robots, not much is known about them except that it was them who attacked the stadium and were probably also responsible for tearing up the Carburetor county highway, joining me now are Piston cup commentators Bob Cutlass & Darrell Cartrip who claim they can show that the Autobots indeed mean to help us. How are you this evening gentleman?"
"We're shaken but okay Tom" replied Bob.
"You have a video which you filmed from your commentary booth showing the entire battle right?"
"Yeah, can you believe it how those guys can 'transform'? It's unbelievable!" harked Darrell.
"Yes Darrell, but as you can see from the video we caught Tom, two children were saved from being crushed to death after one of the Autobots held up the foot of the giant Decepticon long enough for Doc Hudson to rush the children to safety."
"And that's not all folks, check out this black robot here as he formed some type of force field around the stadium, this shield protected everyone in the stadium from a cluster bomb which as you know would've killed hundreds!" said Darrell.
"Yes gentelcars, as your video shows it does indeed show how the Autobots seemed to risk their own lives to save innocents, these videos definitely support the claims of the Autobot we interviewed, but….hold on….folks I'm getting news that the President is about to address an important announcement to the country in response to tonight's events, our crews are there live now at the white house…" and the screen switched to the president flanked by security cars.
"My fellow Americans, tonight bore witness to a tragic event that overshadows the Carburetor Highway incident. These evil robots for the second time have endangered the lives of innocents twice too many, but I would also like to send out my many thanks to the robot who calls himself Ultra Magnus and his Autobots. I have reviewed news footage of the whole battle that took place tonight and I am thankful for your services in protecting the spectators at the stadium, thousands more would've died had it not been for your efforts so I ask that the Autobots please come forward and contact us, I take the threat of the Decepticons very seriously and I wish to co-operate with you in forcing them off Earth.
"I promise that if you come forward we will respect you as visitors and not aliens. I am sure that if we work together we can end this carnage once and for all. Meanwhile every US Military base around the world has been put on high alert, Ladies and Gentlecars, I fear that we are now at war with an alien race, but I hope at least some of them are on Earth's side." And with that the President had finished.
"There you have it folks, a plea from the President himself to the Autobots, wherever you are please come forward, we need your help!"
"What the frag happened tonight, I had no idea that Ultra Magnus and Optimus were fighting the Decepticons!" said Hoist.
"Listen Autobots, much has happened tonight." Said Lightning "Ultra Magnus and his men took a serious pounding, Bumblebee was kidnapped and Optimus Prime is missing!"
"Optimus is missing?" shouted Hoist.
"Autbots were hurt? How badly!" asked Grapple.
"A lot of them are wounded and three maybe dying" replied Stickers.
"Aw slag Hoist, while we were wasting time building this town, Autobots are in need of our assistance we better get back right now!" and Grapple transformed into a dark yellow (mustard like) fire truck looking engine, but the ladder was replace with a crane, Hoist followed, turning into a green repair vehicle.
Suddenly there was a lot of noise on the horizon, many searchlights from the air lit the ground beneath and multicolored lights on the ground could be heard along with sirens hinting they were police cars.
"Is that the police?" asked Sally.
"Looks like it" replied Sheriff.
"They must be after me and McQueen" said Doc "We were caught on video helping the Autobots; they must want us for questioning."
"We can't let that happen" said Hoist "You can't let them know who we are, no doubt we'll be enslaved & stripped down and examined by Earthling scientists!"
"Yeah and I don't want to have a load of questions thrown at me either!" said McQueen.
"But where else can we go?" asked Sally "We have nowhere else except this town."
"Hmmm, well seeming as you all knew Optimus I suppose it could be okay if you all took shelter in our base." Said Hoist.
"In your base?" asked the residents.
"Yes and if you don't want to be held underneath a light being interrogated I suggest you come immediately!" said Grapple "Follow Us!" he and Hoist drove suggesting the others to follow which they did.
They went up the mountain until they came up to the wheel well motel, from the lookout point there the Cars could see police and FBI smashing down the doors to their homes looking for them.
"Those dang hotheads how dare they wreck our town when it was just finished!" fumed Doc "I should've stayed behind and told them to clear off I am the town's chief law figure after all."
"Come on Doc keep moving, they'll no doubt be looking for us in the mountain next!" Lightning pointed out.
Further up the mountain, the two Autobot trucks stopped with the Cars & Mack halting right behind.
"Here we are!" said Grapple.
"Where are we, I don't see anything." Asked Sarge.
"You don't see is because you don't believe man, touch your inner self and you too can see everything mother nature has to offer!" replied Fillmore.
"Aw shuddup Fillmore!" Sarge bit back.
While the Army/Hippy rivalry war continued in Sarge and Fillmore, Hoist moved forward a little and displayed a hologram out of his headlights, it presented the Autobot symbol and as the symbol touched a piece of rock, the rock moved and fell away revealing a passageway into the mountain, they all entered until they came to a door, Grapple said the password:
"Till all are one!" he said in Cybertronian and the doors opened to reveal the Autobots base.
Computer consoles lay everywhere, drones floated by, robots went around their daily routine in keeping the Ark running, Grapple and Hoist transformed back to robot mode, a silver sphere drone floated next to them with blue lights on the front.
"Welcome Autobots Grapple & Hoist." Said the Drone.
"And to you Teletran-one!" they replied, the drone then turned to the RS crew.
"Unidentified vehicles, state your purpose or be terminated!" the drone said activating drone guns from the walls in the hallway and they aimed right at the Cars, they all gasped in panic.
"Relax Teletran-one! They're with us, they're Earthlings!" said Grapple.
"Affirmative, welcome to the Ark Earth guests." Replied the drone and the guns slid back into their hiding positions in the walls, the Cars sighed with relief.
"Anyway folks, welcome to our Headquarters the Ark!" said Hoist.
"Wow!" said Lightning "This stuff looks so advanced!"
"Yes it is, but would you believe it's now all obsolete? This technology is millions of years old!" replied Grapple, the Cars grew even more stunned by that statement.
Grapple and Hoist met up with Ultra Magnus.
"Grapple, Hoist where the Frag have you both been?" he asked.
"Sorry Ultra Magnus, we thought we'd do Optimus a favor and finish that town next to the mountain, but as soon as we heard Autobots were hurt we got back here as quickly as possible!" said Grapple, Ultra Magnus saw the RS residents a few feet away.
"I see you bought guests, who gave you the authority to invite them to our base?" UM asked.
"I'm sorry sir but we had to let them take shelter in our base, Earthling police were arriving at their homes, no doubt to interrogate them about us, so we bought them back to not risk a compromise in security." Replied Hoist.
"Hmm if that's the case then I guess you did the right thing Grapple and Hoist, we already know them and I guess they can be trusted." UM turned to Lightning and friends; "Welcome to our base Ladies and Gentlecars."
"Wow such amazing technology!" said King.
"Haha, you should see what the technology is like on Cybertron now, it beats all this but Teletran-one is a reliable computer and we see no reason to get rid of him."
"What is Sabertron like?" asked Mater.
"It's 'Cyber'tron and I'm sorry but I can't answer questions right now, I have duties to tend to, Grapple, Hoist go help Ratchet, Wheeljack and First Aid at once!" UM ordered, the two Autobots saluted and ran for the medical bays.
Ultra Magnus was too busy to deal with guests, but Hound came over.
"Hey I notice you guys are here, seeming as you are how about a little tour of the Ark?" the Cars and Mack nodded with excitement.
Hound showed them around the many rooms of the ark, the engines, the armory, the recreation quarters. Hound had to call if off though because the curious and clumsy Mater caused the highest security alarm to go off when he played with a computer console thinking it was a game, Hound escorted everyone back to the bridge when Doc stopped, while back in the Cars movie he told Lightning to stay out of places which said 'Do not enter' Doc himself now disregarded that rule and entered a room that was the medical bay.
There were many Autobots lying on metal operating tables, all of them were hurt and Sideswipe and Sunstreaker had been put on life support machinery, all the Autobot medics were frantically trying to save Cliffjumper as they crowded around him with surgery tools, none the like Doc had seen before.
"For Primus sake Wheeljack, seal that oil line before he loses any more!" shouted Ratchet.
"I'm trying but it's not doing anything for him, his life lines still the same and going fainter!" a machine showed Cliffjumper's life signs slowly decreasing.
First Aid was working on CliffJumper's face, the faceplate had been removed to reveal a metal skeletal structure underneath with circuitry and wiring, it seemed the Autobot was having trouble with something.
"Oh I don't understand what's wrong, I diverted his Energon converters back to his Spark but it's not doing anything!" he said out loud.
"That's because you're doing it all wrong" said Doc "if you don't get the Oil lines reconnected back to the Energon converters, it won't work at all."
"But that won't do any good, the Oil isn't strong enough to feed his spark to keep him alive and his Energon converters are too damaged to reformat oil into Energon." Replied First Aid.
"Then try diverting the Oil to his brain circuitry, the Oil should reactivate enough of his brain power to get his other bodily functions working again." First Aid did just that, Cliffjumper's brain wiring started humming to life.
"Now take one oil tube and connect it back to his Energon converters, the others are needed to keep his brain working." First Aid again followed orders, once the Oil line was reconnected, Cliffjumper's brain computers recognized the brain was connected to the Energon converters once more and the converters sprang to life.
"Hey Ratchet look, Cliffjumper's life signs are improving!" said Wheeljack, the machines showed the squiggly line increasing in width.
"Excellent work Doc and First Aid! Quick Grapple, get to work on sealing the wounds!" said Ratchet.
"Wow Doc, how did you know about that?" asked First Aid.
"Well First Aid, I got the basic ideas about Transformer bodily structure after working with Ratchet on saving some Autobots when they first came to my town, and it was similar to working on Cars, it was the same scenario as trying to get the engine working again by reconnecting the fuel lines to the ignition first then back to the engine, you can't start something if it's not connected to the component that starts it." And Doc stayed to oversee the work on Cliffjumper.
Hours later the Cars shouted for Doc, but when he finally came he was accompanied by Cliffjumper and Ratchet.
"Doc where did you go?" asked McQueen.
"He was saving my life kid" said Cliffjumper, he was walking slowly and had metal sheets patching his wounds like bandages "If it weren't for him, Ratchet said it was questionable whether I would live or not and thanks to him I get to kick Decepticans once again!" and he proceeded to pat Doc on the roof like a pet.
"Don't you for one astro second think you're going back out to fight Cliffjumper!" grunted Ratchet "But yes, Doc was a big help when he suggested connecting the oil lines to the brain which in turn then reactivated his Energon converters to fuel his Spark."
The Cars looked at Ratchet and they all went "Huh?"
"Oh never mind, what I mean is Doc did a great Job" said Ratchet who smiled at Doc and Doc returned the smile back.
"Is this true Ratchet?" asked Ultra Magnus.
"Yes sir, Doc really came through for us."
"In that case Doc you have my thanks, anyone willing to save my men is welcome abroad the Ark anytime and I also owe you big…." Just then Ultra Magnus was tapped on the shoulder; he got a fright and turned to see:
"Blaster!? What in the universe are you doing on Earth?"
"Hey Magnus baby, I'm glad I found ya, I came to Earth after you left and thought I would spy on the Decepticons. They didn't know I was here so I was able to steal me some cool and sweet info that you just gotta sink you're teeth into."
"In Cybertronian please Blaster?" asked UM.
"What I mean is I've been tracking Decepticon communications for several days now and I know where their base is and more importantly I know where Optimus and Bumblebee are."
"You know where Optimus is? Tell me immediately!"
"Of course baby, like Bumblebee Optimus too is being held captive by the Decepticons!" Ultra Magnus' head hanged low when that was said.
"Oh no, Megatron has Prime and the Matrix. What will I do? I can't command the Autobots all on my own and now that Megatron has the Matrix all hope is lost!" and he slumped into a chair in depression.
"Now sir, with an attitude like that how do you expect the Autobots to keep Moral up when they see their leader accepting defeat already!" said Prowl, as someone used to being in command he felt angry at Ultra Magnus for acting defeatist so suddenly.
"That's easy for you to say Prowl, you're used to being in command and when Prime left me to lead the battle at the Stadium after he went to help Bumblebee, our forces got thrashed, and I'm not Optimus Prime…"
"But you are his brother, you're everything like Prime through and through, you're both brave, noble and respect all living things and I know you can be as good a leader as Prime is, you just have to never say die. And the Decepticons haven't won yet, they have the matrix, but its a dead Matrix and it is useless, if we act quickly we can get Prime and the Matrix back again and I am sure we can, please Optimus and your men, maybe the entire Universe need you to take command now….Sir!" and Prowl gave a salute, Ultra Magnus stood out of his chair standing proudly.
"Blaster, did you find out where the Decepticons are holding Optimus and Bumblebee?" UM asked.
"You bet folks, they took them both to Cybertron already, they have a space bridge somewhere on Earth, I don't know where that is but I do know they went to Cybertron with the prisoners, that's why I came out of hiding to come tell you as quickly as I could!"
"Alright, Prowl get in contact with Cybertron and tell Omega Supreme to get here now and warn our forces about Prime's captivity….no wait don't tell them that, that will only destroy moral, just tell Omega to get here, say he's needed on an urgent secret mission!"
"That's more like it Ultra….I mean sir!" Prowl saluted and went to contact Omega.
"Alright Autobots" shouted UM "Load up on weapons and ammo, we're going to Cybertron! Jazz, as chief special operations officer I want you to organize a commando unit at once!"
"You bet chief and I guarantee you're coming Blaster old pal!" said Jazz.
"Alright Jazz my man, we'll play music so loud the Decepticons' audio receptors will burst to our groovy tunes!" said Blaster giving Jazz five.
"Wait you're going to Cybertron?" asked McQueen.
"Of course! Prime is there and he needs us" replied UM.
"Oh oh oh Can we come!" shouted Mater frantically.
"I'm sorry, but the fighting on Cybertron is more dangerous then any battle you've encountered here on Earth so far. You'll be risking your lives stupidly."
"Oh come on, none of our species has ever been to another planet before, except the moon, but that's a moon not another planet with living life at least allow us that honor!" said McQueen.
"Tsk tsk tsk McQueen, you just want to get your name into the record books don't you?" said Sally rolling her eyes and smiling at the race Car.
"Hey I already am in the record books, world's fastest, most handsome and charming in the world…." Ultra Magnus just stared as McQueen listed records he (wished he had) set in the record books.
"That's amazing Lightning really, but I don't want you to set the record for being the first Earthlings to die on Cybertron, so the answer is no!" replied Ultra Magnus.
"Aw come on now Ultra Magnus, you said you owe me. Surely a visit to your home planet is a simple way of showing your thanks…" said Doc.
"Doc! Of all people you want to go?" asked Lightning.
"You bet, who wouldn't want to have the chance to go into space and see other worlds?" replied Doc.
Ultra Magnus meanwhile tried to come up with a response, but he did say to Doc that he owes him. Finally he conceded.
"Aw very well, but not all of you can go, we need all the space in the ship for men and supplies, plus we'll be heading to Iacon one, it's pretty secure there and it's far from the frontlines so it should be safe, whoever wants to go please step forward."
Most of the Cars fell back, they didn't want to go to a planet where there was a war raging, Sarge had seen too much of it and Fillmore never wanted to see any. Six did step forward however:
"Oh you bet I wanna go, I'm going to show Cybertron that it too will be amazed by the faster than fast, quicker than quick Lightning McQueen!"
"Well someone has to look after stickers, so I'll be there to protect him when the giant robots try to step on him!" said Sally, McQueen shook his head, disagreeing with what she said.
"Hot Dog, you bet I wanna go! I can't wait to try out the video games on Cybertron!" said Mater joyfully.
"I hear the technology on Cybertron is amazing, I would like to learn about Cybertronian law and medical studies, perhaps there is information there that could further our own science and medicine, plus I owe Optimus Prime an apology. I want to be there when he gets freed." Said Doc.
"Well I'm a person that likes to travel and going to another planet is an offer I can't refuse!" said King "Would you like to come honey?" he asked Mrs Weathers.
"Oh no honey I'm fine, I'd prefer to stay here on Earth, it sounds scary on Cybertron." She said.
"Well someone big and strong has to look after everyone and it's the weekend so I'm off work so I'll go to." Said Mack.
"So it is agreed, you six will come to Cybertron with us, once we reach Iacon one I will assign you a guide and guardian, in case of trouble." Said Ultra Magnus, the six Earthlings cheered with excitement, they were going to another planet!
At roughly about three in the morning Earth time, the Autobots selected to go to Cybertron along with their Earth visitors waited in a field behind RS and the Mountain that dominates it.
"What are we waiting for?" asked McQueen.
"We're waiting for Omega to come to Earth" replied Ultra Magnus who along with his Autobots were in vehicle mode and along with UM was Jazz with Blaster in his passenger seat in radio mode (like Soundwave), Wheeljack, Hound, Mirage, Jetfire & Springer (who both flew overhead to make sure the coast was clear from the police), Trailbreaker and Ironhide.
"Who is he? His name sounds awesome, Omega Supreme that surely means he's powerful, of course that name isn't as good as 'Lightning!" asked McQueen
"Yes he is, one of the strongest Autobots there is" laughed Ultra Magnus "and he was the same Autobot that transported me to this planet in the first place, you know that one that whooped the giant Decepticon combiners?"
"Oh yeah!" replied McQueen "That dude was massive, he made those Decepticon giants look like children!"
"Hold on McQueen" said UM "Omega just radioed in, his ETA is fifteen seconds!"
"Fifteen seconds? Wouldn't we see him by now?" asked Doc, but Omega wasn't going to land on Earth like a regular spaceship like the Earthlings has been expecting.
No, exactly on time a large flash of red light emitting thousands of streaks of electric bolts ripped open in the air and out of the portal came the rocket version of Omega Supreme, his thrusters fell silent as he finally landed.
"Woah where did he come from?" asked Sally.
"Internal Space bridge" replied Ultra Magnus "Omega was big enough to have a device installed in him, it's perfect for warping past ground radar installations so hopefully Omega wasn't detected when he entered this planet's atmosphere."
"Wow, we are living in a real Sci-fi story!" replied McQueen.
"Omega, we have some Earthling guests that are going to be riding with us today."
"Greetings Earthlings, Welcome Aboard"
"Woah that guy sounds like a Monster truck but worse" said Mater nervously.
"You need not worry; it is only the Decepticons that need to fear Omega and Omega has a Spark of gold to his fellow Autobots and their friends." Replied Ultra Magnus.
"Talk unnecessary, Mission important, Optimus' must be rescued."
"Of course Omega, everybody get aboard quickly!" and everyone climbed aboard the rocket, once they were all inside Ultra Magnus shouted out orders to Omega (there was no need to operate computers, Omega did all the flying, computing, etc).
"Omega, activate internal space bridge warp, fly us to Cybertron at once!"
"Order acknowledged!"
From the tip of the rocket shot a light, it fired into the sky that activated the same red colored Warp Omega used to get here, the rocket Omega launched himself and his passengers into the warp, from inside the rocket McQueen looked out of a small observation window, he couldn't see space, the moon or stars, it was all weird colors and electricity bolted everywhere, big enough that it looked like it could tear this ship apart but thankfully didn't, McQueen didn't know it and many Earthlings never will but they were traveling through the fabric of time and space itself, time outside of this void halted so when they exited the warp time would barely had a chance to move. As quickly as they had entered it, they exited it; from outside the window they could see space.
Strange new star constellations greeted them and there were not one but two moons.
"Wow, we're in space!" said King.
"Holy macaroni, how far are we from Earth?" asked Mack.
"Distance from Earth, fifty million light years, estimated distance in miles, five hundred billion billion miles." Replied Omega, the Cars nearly died, they can definitely say they have never been that far away before.
"WHAT!?" shouted Doc "And how long did it take us to get this far?"
"Five thousand Astro seconds, Earth time, twelve seconds."
"Amazing, we must've gone faster than the speed of light to get this far into space!" said Doc.
"Even better Mr. Hudson, faster than the speed of time, Space Bridge travel allows such fast transportation that time itself stops, only just after we arrived here did another second pass on the clock." Replied Ultra Magnus.
"Pfft is that all?" said McQueen "They'll have to make a whole new term to describe speed greater that Time and that is the speed of 'Lightning McQueen" said Stickers cheekily.
"Sarcasm not Appreciated" replied Omega.
"Hey, what do you mean Sarcasm?" roared McQueen.
"If you'll stop arguing Lightning you may wish to see this, it is the first time your species has seen anything like this if you'll all look out the observation window." Said Ultra Magnus.
Lightning, Sally, Mater, King, Mack and Doc looked out the small window and in the distance there was a strange looking planet, it was about twice the size of Earth and unlike Earth there was no Sun but the entire planet was in light as if everyday was daytime, the surface also had huge towers and buildings sticking out of it, Cities which made Earth cities look like toothpicks, the most obvious feature of the planet that it seemed to be made of metal, just like the Transformers.
"Earthlings, welcome to planet Cybertron!" said Ultra Magnus.
The Cars marveled at the planet, many aircraft could be seen flying to and fro around the planet.
"Alright we're going to be landing soon, you better put these in your passenger compartments." Said Ultra Magnus as he displayed large metallic weights.
"What are they for?" asked Lightning.
"The gravity on Cybertron is light compared to Earth, it helps support our large metallic bodies, you however might float off the surface!" the cars of course didn't want that happening so they opened their doors and Ultra Magnus placed two metallic weights in each vehicle.
"Won't we need breathing apparatus?" asked Doc.
"Don't worry, while we Transformers don't necessarily need to breathe, we have machinery that produce artificial oxygen which we can use to cool down our internal electronic hardware, it also allowed Organic traders from other worlds to sell their wares on our planet, that was before the war of course….but you should be able to breathe fine so don't worry" said UM.
Minutes later Omega finally docked, random Autobots rushed supplies to and fro Omega much like staff at an Airport. The door opened to reveal the Metallic landscapes of Cybertron.
"Man, this is the first time I've been back home for four million years!" said Mirage.
"Whoa, it looks funky and futuristic!" said McQueen.
"Yeah, a planet made entirely of metal, our scientists would have a field day here!" said Doc, the other Earth vehicles stared in wonder at the beauties of Cybertron, they breathed its air and despite the fact it was artificial, they could taste the cleanliness in it.
As they kept gazing in wonder, four Autobots greeted Ultra Magnus, Kup, Broadside, Arcee and the headmaster Chromedome.
"Ultra Magnus, glad to see you back so soon!" said Kup.
"You too Kup, I trust everything was okay in my absence?"
"Yes sir, everything is….is that who I think it is? IRONHIDE!" shouted Kup, Ironhide turned to see his old friend.
"Kup old buddy!" he said in joy.
"Ironhide it's been four million years, where have you been sleeping?" said Kup as he locked his right hand with Ironhide's
"Something like that old friend, but I still have five hundred years more fighting experience than you do so don't go around saying you're now more experienced than me!"
"Aw drop it Ironhide, you couldn't fight a work droid never mind a Decepticon! Anyway I hope you've been looking after Hot Rod!"
"You bet Kup, although that little twerp is still a pain in the rear bumper wouldn't you agree?"
"You bet!"
"Wow, such camaraderie!" said Doc, he now knew these robots were as Sentient as he was.
"Chromedome, it's been long since I saw a headmaster, how are Cerebros and the others?"
"Just fine Ultra Magnus, yesterday we managed to…" Chromedome suddenly noticed the Earthling cars.
"Eeww, what are those things?"
"Relax Chromedome, they're natives from the planet Earth, one of them saved the life of an Autobot please show some respect." Said UM.
"But they're vehicles that have eyes and mouths, they're freaking me out!"
"Oh is that a fact?" said UM as he transformed, he still had his Earthling truck alt-mode.
"I just happen to look like one of them too Chromedome, so if you still think they look like freaks then you must think I look like one too and I'll have you put on maintenance duties if you do, is that understood?"
"Yes Ultra Magnus sir, it won't happen again!" and Chromedome snapped into a salute as UM transformed back to robot mode.
"Good, now Arcee, you used to be a Cybertronian representative to other planets, how would you like to act as a guide to our guests from Earth?"
"Of course Ultra Magnus." And Arcee walked over to Lightning and friends "Hello my name is Arcee and I'll act as your guide to Cybertron, it's nice to see Earthlings for the first time." Arcee was a femmebot with a pink and silver color scheme, it is unknown how femmebots came into existance because Transformers were not meant to be gender specific.
The sexy robot design and pink/silver color scheme caught the attention of Lightning.
"Wow!" he said.
"Did you say something?" asked Arcee.
"Oh no, you just stand there and let me look at you…Ka-choooow!" Lightning said in a pleasing tone, Sally came up behind him and kicked him with her wheel.
"Oowww!" said McQueen.
"Don't mind him he's just annoying, wow a girl Autobot I must say it's nice to hang around with a fellow female rather than all these muscle head males." Said Sally and Arcee giggled in agreement.
"Yes I know what you mean, we girls must stick together, and what's your name?"
"The name's Sally." She said and Arcee shook Sally's wheel with her hand "And his name is Stickers."
"No, my name's Lightning McQueen!" he said agitated.
"Hey I see Miss Cybertron has gotten even prettier!" it was Springer, Arcee smiled at him and she locked him in a great big hug, metal scraped as Springer did the same.
"Oh Springer you're back, how was Earth?"
"It was great I got to kick major Decepticon tail, but nothing beats the sight of you Arcee."
As greeting were exchanged between transformers and Earthlings, Ultra Magnus went his separate ways from the Cars as Arcee took them to see Iacon-One and its architectural wonders. Ultra Magnus and the group he traveled with aboard Omega Supreme entered a top secret room inside the Autobots HQ at Iacon One.
"Alright Autobots take your seats, we know that somewhere here on Cybertron, the Decepticons are holding Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. We don't know exactly where but that's what we're going to find out, over the next few days we will launch recon sorties which will consist of Mirage, Hound with their special camouflage abilities and they will be joined by Blaster who will monitor Decepticon communication frequencies.
"This however will require operations behind enemy lines and will require the highest secrecy so no-one outside of this room must know about our mission, the fact of Megatron holding our leader and the Matrix hostage will destroy Moral among our ranks and that MUST not happen at any cost.
"Once we get the details about his whereabouts, Jetfire will survey and photograph the area for defenses, number of enemy troops, troop movement, enemy units nearby the area that might be able to reinforce the area in the case of attack and scan for any weak points, does anyone at this moment have any questions?"
"Yeah I got one, why are we sitting here wasting time when that creep Megatron has our leader behind bars?"
"That Ironhide, is the attitude I exactly want, so it is settled then. Hound, Mirage, Blaster, prepare to move out immediately."
There we go; we're finally on planet Cybertron! Ultra Magnus has accepted his responsibilities as the temporary leader of the Autobots and he is prepared to do anything to get Optimus, Bumblebee and the Matrix out of the hands of the Decepticons and as for Lightning and the gang their adventures on Cybertron are just starting, what sights will they see? And what trouble will Mater cause?