Hot Shot and Red Alert had been on the speed planet for a long time now and so far there was no luck on finding the cyber key, but their luck was about to turn. They were tired of getting nowhere and so they walked around a bit and tried to figure out where was a good place to look for the key to be.

"I just can't figure it out!" sighed Hot Shot as he placed himself atop a rock. "It's just so hard to find. I mean we haven't even heard of it yet!"

"Be patient Hot Shot," said Red Alert. "It will come to us in time."

"Heh, you're starting to sound like Optimus there buddy," Hot Shot softly chuckled.

Red Alert then sighed and placed himself next to Hot Shot and then said-

"I guess Optimus rubs off on all of us."

Hot Shot just let out a heavy sigh and then stood up to walk around a bit. He then stopped as if to listen to something.

"What is it Hot Shot?" asked Red Alert standing up.

"Listen! . . . do you hear that?!" said Hot Shot.

"No I don't," said Red Alert trying to hear.

"But it's as clear as day!!" said Hot Shot. "Can't you hear their cries?!"

"Hot Shot what are you talking about?" asked Red Alert.

He then realized why he could hear the cries. He folded his arms and then said-

"Hot Shot I can't hear anything 'cause I don't have what you have."

"And what's that?" he asked trying to talk to Red Alert and hear the cries all at the same time.

"Unicron's hearing," said Red Alert.

Hot Shot then looked at Red Alert and focused his attention on him now.

"Red Alert I swear I'm not trying to use his powers. I didn't even know I could hear this good when . . ."

"I know," said Red Alert. "Don't worry I won't tell Optimus. You're not in trouble. I understand Hot Shot."

"You do?" smiled Hot Shot.

"Yes, there are just some abilities of his you can't help but to naturaly have," said Red Alert.

Hot Shot then jumped a little and then said-

"I have to go help them!"

He then sped off in the direction he heard them. Red Alert was left in his dust as he saw him leave.

"Hot Shot wait!!" he shouted transforming and speeding after him to try and catch up.

Hot Shot came to a halt as he saw the source of the cries. It was an elderly bot with a younger bot who were caught in the middle of two low life bots named Ransack and Crumplezone. Hot Shot watched helplessly behind a rock as the two were pushed and nearly shot at. He knew Optimus had told him not to get mingled in the local life, but he was an autobot, a protector of peace and he couldn't just sit there and watch Innocent bots get mugged . . . he had to do something.

"Err, TRANSFORM!!" he shouted as he sped out towards them.

"Why won't you guys just leave us alone?!" asked Clocker as he stood by Breakdown.

"Then can you imagine how bored we'd be?" laughed Ransack.

He was then hit by another vehicle and tossed next to Crumplezone. They transformed and looked at their attacker.

"What the . . . who are you?!" they shouted.

"The name's Hot Shot," grinned Hot Shot as he stood there transformed back into his robot form.

"Well Hot Shot, you picked the wrong bots to mess with," smiled Ransack as he stood up.

They then transformed and now sped around him shooting him from every angle. Hot Shot couldn't get a lock onto the speed demons and so was helpless. He tried to block the attacks, but they hit him too hard and there was nothing he could do about it.

"I told you blue boy!" smiled Ransack as he shot at him again. "You picked the wrong bots to mess with."

"No!" growled Hot Shot as his ager raged and his optics turned to red. "YOU DID!!!"

He then opened himself to attacks, but as the shots were fired at him he blocked them with an unseen force. He then summoned up organic wires and shot them at the two low lives to knock them of the ground and send them skidding. They then transformed and looked at the red optic transformer and said-

"Who is this guy PRIMUS?!"

"No," said Hot Shot turning to them with his red optics flaring and his force pulses leaping from him. "I'm Unicron!"

He then shot the wires at the two transformers making them scream like little girls.

"That's right SCREAM! . . . just like you made them scream!" smiled Hot Shot.

Red Alert then came in time to see Hot Shot brutally attack the two low life transformers and it was then and there he knew that Hot Shot was using Unicron's power again.

"Hot Shot NO!!!" cried Red Alert as he tackled Hot Shot to the ground throwing off his concentration so that he barely missed jabbing the two transformers.

"Uuuuh, l-let's get outta 'ere!!" cried Ransack as they transformed and sped away as fast as they could.

"GET OFF ME!!!" shouted Hot Shot as Red Alert put his weight into keeping Hot Shot down.

"No Hot Shot, you're not yourself!" said Red Alert looking into Hot Shot's red angry optics.

After a while of struggling Hot Shot finally calmed down and his red optics once again turned to blue. Hot Shot then went limp and shut down for a minute.

"Hot Shot, Hot Shot?!" said Red Alert trying to wake Hot Shot.

Hot Shot then jumped up into Red Alert's face and screamed scaring the tailpipe off Red Alert. Hot Shot then began to laugh so hard his stomach ached with pain.

"HA HA!! you should have seen your face!! HA HA!!!" he laughed.

"Hot Shot I otta! . . ." mumbled Red Alert having half a mind to beat some sense into the young immature bot.

Then as Red Alert helped Hot Shot up he said-

"You're lucky Unicron didn't take over you when you did that."

"Hey, Primus had placed just enough of himself in me so a thing like that won't happen remember?" smiled Hot Shot trying to make Red Alert not worry so much. "And I can't help it. They were getting me mad."

"So your anger controls this?" asked Red Alert. "Maybe you shouldn't be here then."

"No!" said Hot Shot. "I can control it . . . sometimes, but that's not really anything to worry about."

They then heard a young voice ring up between them and turned to see a young transformer staring at them with thankful optics.

"Thank-you," he smiled.

"Oh great," said Hot Shot gazing at the young bot and Red Alert.

Red Alert then leaned into Hot Shot to whisper to him saying-

"Do you think you have mind erasing powers?"

"I don't know let me try then out on you!" whispered Hot Shot through his teeth.

They then shut up as an elderly bot came to them and thanked them as well.

"Thank ye very kindly strangers," he smiled. "I don't think I've seen you around before, are you new?"

"Well, uh, we're just driving around and saw you in trouble and , uh," tried Hot Shot.

"We couldn't resist but to help you," smiled Red Alert trying to help Hot Shot out. "Now if you don't mind we have to be going."

"Wait please," he said stopping them.

Then as they turned to them again the elderly bot introduced themselves.

"I am Breakdown and this is my young grandson Clocker. We are greatly to invite you to our home. It is the least we can do," smiled breakdown.

Um, we can't," said Red Alert. "We're very sorry."

"But why?" asked Breakdown.

"We're looking for something," said Hot Shot.

"Hot Shot!" mumbled Red Alert trying to get him to stop.

"No Red Alert! They could help us!" said Hot Shot.

He then looked back at the transformers and said-

"Who is the leader of this planet?"

"That's Override," smiled Clocker. "She is racing at her personal race track as we speak."

"Can you take us to her?!" smiled Hot Shot.

"Sure," smiled Clocker. "It is the least we can do."

They then transformed and sped to a large mountain and on top was were the leader of Velocitron was.

Megatron found out that the speed cyber key was on Velocitron the speed planet, but he had no idea were to look first and he knew that the autobots were also looking for it. He had recruted two new decepticons: Ransack and Crumplezone and they told him that Override should know where the key was. He then decided to confromt the leader of the planet for more information on the key, but he soon found that she knew nothing of the key and wanted nothing but to race.

"If I race you then will you tell me where the key is?" asked Meagtron to the red and white femme.

"Maybe," she smiled as she placed her hands on her hips. "Look I'll tell you what you want to know IF you race me."

"Very well," said Megatron. "Three rounds that's all."

"That's all I need," she smiled.

And so they raced, but soon Hot Shot and Red Alert found them and saw Megatron.

"Oh no, he got to her first!" cried Hot Shot.

"How are we going to talk to her now?" asked Red Alert.

"I"ll find a way," said Hot Shot.

Red Alert then noticed Hot Shot's strange attention to the race. He could easily read his mind.

"You're not thinking on joining that race are you?" asked Red Alert gazing at Hot Shot closely.

"Who me, why would I do that?" smiled Hot Shot as he kept his optics on the race track.

He then couldn't take it anymore. If Megatron won then they'd lose and Hot Shot couldn't lose . . . not to him. He then jumped in and joined the race that Red Alert forbid him to do.

"Mind if I join?" he smiled as he drove up beside Override.

Override was a bit confused by all this. Who was this bot and why did he want to join in? He was a good looking bot though, and he had . . . speed.

"Go right ahead," smiled Override. "But I'll still beat the both of you."

Megatron wasn't to happy with an autobot joining in the race and he wasn't to happy that he was being beat by him as well.

NO! thought Megatron. I will not lose the cyber key to this autobot!

He tried to regain ground, but he kept hiting the curves to hard. Hot Shot was racing with ease and was going to beat Megatron and, perahps, Override herself.

"You're fast," she said seeing the fast transformer come right next to her.

"Thank-you so are you," smiled Hot Shot. "But aparently not fast enough."

He then sped forward and passed her.

"What?!" gasped Override as she saw his tailpipe before her.

Ransack and Crumplezone saw that their master was going to be beaten and so they knew they had to do something. They decided to shoot the young bot and their was nothing anyone could do about it. Hot Shot had to swerve to miss the fire, but it made him lose. Override saw the two bots that shot at Hot Shot and wasn't too happy about them interferring into her race.

"HOW DARE YOU RUIN MY RACE!!!" she shouted, chasing them off.

She then came to Hot Shot and apologized for that.

"I'm sorry about that," she said helping him up.

"Hey, no problem," he smiled. "I'm kind of . . . used to it . . . Sadly."

Megatron was angered. Once by losing and twice by the idiot men of his ruining the race. So he decided to leave.

"I will be back!" he growled stomping off.

"What's his problem?" she asked watching him leave.

"Well it could be that he's Megatron leader of the decepticons. The most evil bot in the universe!" said Hot Shot. "He's trying to get the cyber key. Do you know where it is? 'cause it would be a great help to the autobots, my people, when . . ."

"Hhh, not again," sighed Override heavily. "Look, I told the other guy you'll just have to beat me for that cyber key of yours, and that's IT! I will treat you no different"

She then began to walk away, but she turned to give a little smile to him and say-

"No matter how cute you might be."

She then drove off. Hot Shot stood there just clueless.

Did she just put me up with Megatron? He thought. And did she just call me cute?

"Hot Shot, Hot Shot!" cried Red Alert as he and Clocker ran to him.

"What is it Red?" asked Hot Shot.

"Do you realize what you have just done?!" cried Red Alert.

"No, but I'm sure you're going to tell me," sighed Hot Shot crossing his arms.

"You have disobeyed Optimus' command TWICE in a day!!" he cried. "Wait till Optimus gets here now."

"Wait, what?!" started Hot Shot at hearing his commander going to arrive. "He's coming here?!"

"Yes," said Red Alert. "When he asked for an update on the mission I couldn't just lie to him so . . . I told him."

"EVERYTHING?!" gasped Hot Shot.

"Everything," bowed Red Alert. "And mark my word he wasn't pleased with the both of us. Exspecially with you using Unicron's power again."

"YOU TOLD HIM ABOUT THAT?!" cried Hot Shot. "Oh no!! What am I going to do now?! Optimus is coming here and I have nothing to show for my disobeying him!! ERR, this is just GREAT!!!"

"I'm sorry Hot Shot you were getting out of control I had to tell him," said Red Alert.

Hot Shot just stomped around with his hands on his face hoping that everything would just go away, but it wouldn't.

"OOHH!! He is going to take me off the mission I KNOW it!!" he cried. "I still don't know where the key is!!"

He then stopped in front of a poster telling about a great race for the planet cup. Hot Shot gazed at it for a long while till he figured it looked alot like a key. Could it be the planet key?

"What is that?" asked Hot Shot pointing at the planet cup.

"That's the planet cup," smiled Clocker. "You get that if you beat Override."

Hot Shot then came to Red Alert and said-

"Red, I think I found the key!"

"Where?" asked Red Alert looking around. "I don't see it."

"Then look a little closer," smiled Hot Shot as he turned Red Alert's gaze to the planet cup.

"That?!" he said.

"Yes," said Hot Shot. "Now all I have to do is win the race and we can have to key, and Optimus won't be mad at me."

"But Hot Shot you're not fast enough to beat her," said Red Alert.

"Then make me fast enough!" said Hot Shot. "You're a doctor. You can do it."

"Hot Shot I," started Red Alert.

"Please Red Alert," cut Hot Shot. "It is the only way I can prove myself to Optimus."

"Well . . . alright, but you'll have to hurry 'cause they have just found the loctaion of the omega lock and once they get it they are coming here," said Red Alert.

"Then what are we waiting for?!" smiled Hot Shot. "We have to get going, and fast 'cause that is was this planet expects . . . speed."