-Ten-Faced Paladin
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Moon Armada By Ten-Faced Paladin Chapter 2: Rini's new friend
The scouts were all gaping at the robot that stood on the table that they were all sitting at. To say that they were shocked would have been a mild understatement. They hadn't seen anything like this before. Evil monsters with magic powers was the usual with them, but child sized robots was a new thing for them. The robot itself didn't seem all that shocked with the people sitting around them. In fact, it seemed rather curious about the girls.
The robot then suddeny began speaking in a series of beeps. Some long and some short. After it finished speaking, it began to look at each of the girls in curiosity. It was obviously expecting some kind of reply. THe only problem was that the girls didn't have any idea what it had said.
Before any of the scouts could even try to reply, Rini beat them all to it.
"Hello Arvee," Rini smiled. "My name's Rini. It's nice to meet you too."
The pink robot chimed happily and bowed cutely.
"R...Rini," Serena sputtered. "Can you understand it?"
"Sure," Rini nodded. "Can't you?"
"No, we can't," Amy answered. "It's speaking binary. We can't understand a word."
"Oh," Rini spoke. "I can understand her just fine."
The robot stepped off the table and walked to the chair Rini was sitting in. It began speaking in beeps again. Rini listened and when the robot finished, she nodded with a smile.
"Okay," Rini nodded. She then turned to look at the other scouts and the two cats. "Everyone, this is Arvee."
The robot waved and beeped what the other scouts assumed to be a small hello.
"Arvee, these are my friends Serena, Amy, Mina, Raye, Lita, Luna, and Artemis." Rini introduced.
Amy stood up first and walked up to Arvee and kneeled next to her.
"Um...Arvee?" Amy asked, trying not to scare the tiny robot.
Arvee turned to Amy and looked at her curiously. She gave a small beep to show that she was paying attention to her.
"Umm... where did you come from?" she asked gently.
Arvee began going into a flurry a beeps of various tones and volume. Rini listened and her face became alight with wonder. As Arvee went further into her story and Rini's face grew a little darker. She was obviously getting depressed with Arvee's story. When Arvee finally finished, Rini took a deep breath before relaying what Arvee said to the others.
"Arvee says that she is a Mini-con. She comes from the planet called Cybertron," Rini explained. "The Mini-cons came to Earth to escape the war between the Autobots and Decepticons."
"Autobots?" asked Mina. "What are they?"
"Decepticons?" wondered Artemis. "I don't like the sound of that."
"What is going on with these Autobots and Decepticons?" asked Raye. "What about a war?"
Arvee looked down at the ground. This was obviously something that she did not like to talk about. Raye immediately began to feel guillty about bringing it up when she saw the look in Arvee's eyes.
Arvee began beeping again. This time, it was all in low tones. Rini began to look depressed when she heard what the Mini-con had to say about her history.
"Arvee says that the two sides have been at war for a really long time," she explained. "The Decepticons were the ones who started it. Arvee says that they want to take over the universe. All they do is destroy what the can't take and abuse what they do get. They're led by a really mean guy named Megatron. He's the worst of them all."
"What about the Autobots?" asked Lita.
"They're the good guys,' Rini replied with a smile. "The want to protect the universe from the Decepticons. They treat everyone nicely and Arvee says that they're really nice too. Most of them anyway. They're led by someone named Optimus Prime. He's the rightful ruler of Cybertron. He's also one of the strongest Autobots out there."
The scouts all listened intently to Rini's words. This was one strange day and it was getting stranger by the minute. The scouts seemed to have landed themselves in the middle of a war between to large factions of aliens.
"How many soldiers do each side have?" Luna asked Arvee in seriousness.
Arvee turned to the talkin cat and began beeping her reply. Rini's eyes widened in shock.
"Are you serious!" she gasped.
Arvee nodded. Rini turned to the girls who seemed a little bit frightened at the nature of Rini's response.
"Um...Arvee says that the entire planet has taken sides. Everyone on the planet are either Autobot or Decepticon. Only the Mini-cons are neutral."
"The entire planet!" Lita gasped. "The entire planet is fighting!"
Arvee nodded silently.
"Why did the Mini-cons have to leave their home?" asked Serena. "Was it really that bad?"
Arvee turned to Serena and began shuffling her feet while looking down at the floor. Her reply made Rini gasp. It seemed that whatever it was, the reason the Mini-cons left was a really good one.
"The Autobots and Decepticons are giant robots." Rini explained. "During the war, it was discovered that Mini-cons could powerlink with them and give them more power. I guess, both sides started collecting Mini-cons as fast as they could. The Autobots did it to protect them, while the Decepticons did it to get more weapons. The Autobots decided that this wasn't fair to the Mini-cons and sent them all into space to make sure they weren't mistreated like that again. Arvee says the battle has been in a draw since then."
The girls were all agahst with the story. They couldn't understand how anyone could use the cute robot like that.
In the streets of Juuban, Sideswipe and Red Alert had found each other at one of the parks in the city. Sideswipe had finally found himself a parking space. Red Alert seemed to have found one a while ago.
"So the Mini-con was here?" asked Sideswipe.
"Yes," Red Alert replied. "Unfortunately, we've seemed to have missed it."
"You mean the Decepticons beat us to it!" Sideswipe sighed.
"No," Red Alert replied sternly. "I think a human might have picked it up. That or it woke up on its own and managed to get away."
"Oh man," Sideswipe muttered "Then we'd better find it fast!"
"Right," Red Alert agreed.
The two Autobots turned on their engines and began searching for the Mini-con again. They both knew that the stakes had been raised to a new level. If a human found that Mini-con then their secret might be blown. That was something that they couldn't allow.
"Oh my gosh," Amy whispered. "That's horrible."
Rini got out of her chair and hugged Arvee. The Mini-con didn't seem to fully understand her gesture of comfort at all.
"So what are you Mini-cons going to do now that you all are here on Earth?" asked Lita, her affection for the cute robot quickly growing.
Arvee began her reply and Rini's gaze quickly darkened yet again.
"Arvee says they'll hide," Rini replied. "When the Mini-cons started waking up, the Autobots and Decepticons started coming to Earth to try and find them."
"Oh no!" Mina gasped. "The war is coming here!"
Arvee shook her head. She was trying to calm her new friends. She began to go into another series of beeps of high and low tones. Rini relayed the message.
"Arvee says only a few of them have come. Not enough to spark a war on Earth. Just a battle when they find a Mini-con."Rini spoke.
Luna stepped forward and looked at Arvee from her position on the table.
"How exactly do you plan to hide yourself Arvee?" she asked.
Arvee beeped a high tone of delight. If her mouth ws visibe, the scouts would have seen her smiling.
In the skies above Juuban, Starscream passed over another section of the city. The Mini-con signal had vanished.
"Just perfect," Starscream growled. "Couldn't there at least be any Autobots I can crush?"
"Keep your mind on the job Starscream," a voice spoke.
Starscream's sensors jumped to life and he saw Wheeljack driving the streets below him.
"Oh shut up Wheeljack!" Starscream hissed. "The stupid Mini-con isn't even giving off a signal. How does Thrust expect me to find the stupid thing!"
Wheeljack sighed as he swervd past slower moving cars. "We have our orders Starscream. Complainig about it won't make the job end any sooner or make it any easier."
"I said just shut up!" Starscream shouted as he swerved into a new direction.
Wheeljack just fell silent as he continued his search.
Arvee just made onother high-ptched beep before running from the room and towards the stairs leading to the rooms upstairs.
"Hey!" Serena cried. "Don't go into my room!"
The scouts quickly gave chase afer the Mini-con. Arvee was fast despite her size. She quickly skidded to a halt in front of Sam's room and darted inside.
"What would Arvee want in Sam's room?" Raye asked Rini, who just shrugged.
Their answer came when they found Arvee riffling through some car magazines that Sam had collected. She stopped on a picture of a cherry red corvette. She seemed to stare at the picture before she mad a clicking sound. Her head then began to spin rapidly in a circle.
"What is she doing?" gasped Mina.
As Arvee's head continued to spin, her form began to change. Her forearns and legs began to take on the appearance ofa car. The front for arms and the back for legs. The top of the car appeared on her back. When her head stopped spinning, Arvee finally stood up again. Suddenly, she transformed into a sports car like in the picture. The only difference was that this one was pink.
"That is so cool!" Serena cried.
"Yeah!" Rini agreed. "Can all Mini-cons do that?"
"More importantly," Raye spoke over the two girls. "Can the Autobots and Decepticons do that?"
Arvee transformed back into her robot form and nodded sheepishly.
"You said that the Autobots and Decepticons were giant robots," Raye pressed. "Are they big enough to pass for the real thing?"
Arvee nodded yet again.
"Great," Lita sighed. "How are we supposed to know if we are seeing an Autobot or Decepticon in disguise."
Arvee began to beep again as she raced out of Sam's room.
"What's with the running?" Serena whined.
The scouts followed Arvee as she made her way to Serena's room. They found Arvee there doodling on a piece of paper on Serena's desk. She worked away merrily until she announced she was finished with a high tone beep. Arvee then got out of the chair and revealed to the scouts what exactly she was working on. It was a pice of paper still, but it hand three symbols on it. One was box-like and red mad in the form of a face. The second was a different face that was pointed and purple. The thrid one was the M symbol that was on the plate that Arvee came out of. As she showed it off, Arvee began to explain while Rini translated.
"Um...Arvee says that the red symbol means Autobot while the purple one means Decepticon. The green one means Minicon. Arvee says that all Cybertronians have one of these symbols on them. It applies to their vehicle forms too."
Luna looked at the three insignias and she then turned to the other scouts.
"Girls," she spoke. "We don't know how powerful these Decepticons are. I would suggest we try and find an Autobot or two. We may need their help."
"Right," The girls nodded.
"I'll stay here with Arvee," Rini volunteered eagerly.
"Then I'll stay with you Rini," Amy added.
"Okay," Serena nodded. "All right scouts. Let's find some Autobots!"
A/N: Chapter 2! Yay! I've gotten to chapter two! I hope you readers are enjoying my writings. If not, then just don't read it. I'm not forcing you.