-Ten-Faced Paladin
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Moon Armada By Ten-Faced Paladin Chapter 4: Meeting the Decepticons
Hotshot was swerving gracefully through traffic in vehicle mode. He had Amy, Rini, Jolt, and Arvee as passengers so he wasn't about to try anything risky for the sake of fun.
After they had successfully gotten rid of Sideways, Hotshot and Amy had both agreed that they needed to talk to Optimus Prime. Amy had already called the other sailor scouts while Hotshot had gone ahead and radioed the other Autobots. Arvee hd asked Hotshot if she could stay with Rini, but he had delegated that answer to Optimus.
Currently, Amy and Rini were telling the young Autobot a little more about themselves.
"So the me get this straight," Hotshot spoke. "You and a bunch of other humans are a group of warriors called the Sailor scouts?"
"That's right," Amy confirmed. "Each of us draws power from one of the planets in this solar system."
"Wow," Hotshot remarked. "Hey, Rini had mentioned something about princesses earlier. What's that all about?"
"Oh, each of us Sailor Scouts are the reincarnations of the princesses of each planet." Amy explained. "you see, there was once an entire kingdom that had the entire universe in a united monarchy. Every planet had its own ruler and kingdom of its own."
"So your human sparks were put into new bodies, I get it!" Hotshot answered with enthusiasm. "We Cybertronians can do that too. There's only one thing that I really don't get."
"What's that Hotshot?" asked Rini.
"You said that each planet had its own kingdom. When we got here, the only planet that could support life was Earth. What happened?"
Amy looked to the ground as she remembered what happened.
"The Negaverse," she replied. "They came and destroyed it all. We were lucky that Earth had survived."
Hotshot was silent. He really didn't know what to say to that. He hadn't even thought that there could be someone in Amy's position, yet here she was, riding in his passenger seat. Jolt lightened the mood by leaning from the backseat and patting Amy on the shoulder with a few beeps.
"Jolt says he's sorry to hear that," Hotshot translated. "He says that it must have been beautiful."
"Thank you Jolt," Amy smiled to the red Mini-con. "It was beautiful. I'm sorry you couldn't see it."
The new friends travelled on and finally reached where Amy had told Hotshot where the other scouts were going to find them. Hotshot pulled into a parking space and his passengers stepped onto the ground. They were at the beach. A quaint one that no large buildings were close to. Amy had picked it so Hotshot could transform away from prying eyes. All the people had left. No one wanted to be there at sunset except couples and none were in sight.
"So when are your friends going to get here?" Hotshot asked eagerly. "I really want to meet them."
"They should be here any minute now," Amy replied. "Though, knowing Serena, she'll probably be late again."
Hotshot laughed just as someone began calling out to his new friends.
"Rini! Amy!"
The two sailor scouts turned to the parking lot exit and saw their friends walking towards them.
"Hello everyone," Amy smiled. "Did you find any Autobots?"
"None of us did," Mina replied sadly. "They're good at hiding."
"That's why they're called robots in disguise, Mina," Artemis remarked from Mina's arms.
"Holy cow!" Hotshot exclaimed. "A talking cat!"
Everyone fell silent as their gaze fell onto the yellow car that was parked behind Amy and Rini. Serena was the first one to react.
"Wow! Talking car!" she exclaimed.
Rini began to giggle while Amy had her own share of laughs as Serena freaked out.
"Everyone," Amy spoke. "Rini and I would like you to meet our new friend Hotshot."
"HOTSHOT TRANSFORM!" the yellow car shouted.
The other sailor scouts eyes bugged out as the car shifted and changed. It had gone from a yellow sports car to a giant robot in the blink of an eye.
"Ahhhh!" Serena cried, making Hotshot cringe.
"Uh, sorry," Hotshot frowned. "Did I scare you?"
Serena trembled a little from the surprise, but she was staring at the Autobot in awe just like her friends.
"So you're one of the Atuobots?" Raye asked curiously.
"That's right," Hotshot smiled, pointing to his insignia. "Nice to meet you."
Amy stepped forward as she caught Hotshot's attention.
"Hotshot, I'd like to introduce you to my friends," Amy smiled. "This is Raye,"
The black-haired girl waved. "Hi,"
"My friend Mina,"
The blonde with the red bow smiled. "Hey there,"
"Next is Lita,"
The tall brunette waved. "Nice to meet you Hotshot,"
"And finally, there's Serena,"
The other blonde girl waved cheerily. "Wow, a real giant robot."
Hotshot laughed as he nodded to each one of the girls.
"It's real nice to meet you all," he smiled. "I was told that you girls are the princesses of the planets in this system. Is that really true?"
Raye smiled at the Autobot's enthusiasm. "Sure is. There are four more princesses that aren't here and Earth has a prince. Other than that, yep."
Hotshoot began to rub the back of his neck nervously. "Oh wow. Uh, should I be bowing or something?"
The scouts all laughed at how Hotshot was trying to be respectful of them.
"Don't worry about it," Mina laughed. "We aren't princesses anymore."
"Yeah," Lita agreed. "We're just warriors fighting against evil now."
Hotshot nodded as he sat down to get more comfortable. Soon, he and the scouts were talking like old friends. He introduced Jolt, who immediately got the glomping treatment from Mina and Serena. They both squaled like fangirls at how cute the red Mini-con was. Hotshot couldn't help but laugh. Jolt just resigned himself to fate and waited for the two girls to finish fawning over him. Raye talked to Hotshot intensly about the Decepticons and his battles with them. Amy talked to Lita, Luna and Artemis about her run in with Sideways. Rini just talked with Arvee while they watched Jolt continue to get glomped.
Suddenly. a chopping sound began to echo through the air. It continuously got louder until the girls could barely hear each other.
"Is it a helicopter?" asked Lita
Hotshot looked up and actually did see a helicopter. It was just hovering over them for apparently no reason. It wasn't close enough to start kicking up sand or dust, but the noise alone was annoying enough. Hotshot allowed his optics to zoom in and he gasped when he suddenly recognised this certain helicopter.
Hotshot looked back at the girls with a look of seriousness replacing his usual carefree one.
"Girls, run!" he cried urgently.
Before the girls could even ask why, an obnoxious voice from above answered their question.
"Too late autobum! Ha ha ha!"Cyclonus laughed.
The helicopter went into a nosedive and began shooting down at the sailor scouts and the lone Autobot. Hotshot leaped over the girls and shielded them from the blasts. Unfortunately, that meant taking the shots to his back.
"Hotshot!" Lita shouted worriedly.
"I'm fine," Hotshot grimaced.
"Not for long autobum!" Cyclonus laughed. "CYCLONUS TRANSFORM!"
The helicopter turned into a giant robot with an orange face. He landed squarely on Hotshot's back, making the Autobot groan in pain. Cyclonus smirked and tried to stomp Hotshot even harder.
"Go!" Hotshot grimaced in pain.
The girls reluctantly made their way out from under Hotshot. Jolt and Arvee were close behind them. The Autobot, seeing his friends safe, tossed Cyclonus from his back, putting the Decepticon in the dirt.
The scouts watched Hotshot's retaliation. They all felt the need to help their new friend.
"What are we doing here?" Raye asked heatedly. "He just took a shot for us! We can't just leave him there!"
"Yeah!" the scouts agreed.
"Oh no you don't," an arrogant voice spoke.
Everyone turned around To see a robot on a purple motorcycle and a blck corvette with a scarred Autobot insignia on it facing them. Amy and Rini were the quickest to react to it.
"I see you freed your wheel," Amy remarked.
"No thanks to you Mercury," Sideways growled. "I plan to make you pay for that humiliation."
The girls tensed at Sideways' threat. He definitely had no intention of letting any of them get away.
"Hey Sideways," The corvette spoke up. "They're just humans. Why don't we just leave them alone?"
"Hey!" Serena shouted. "You're an Autobot aren't you? Why are you so chummy with this guy!"
The corvette fell silent. Sideways started snickering at her outburst. He obviously found something amusing. He knew something about the corvette that the sailor scouts didn't.
"WHEELJACK TRANSFORM!" the corvette shouted.
The corvette transformed into a giant robot. It had a white head and and sad frown on it's face. Like it had a gulty conciense and lots of regrets.
"Sorry," Wheeljack remarked. "Look closer."
He pointed to the tiny Decepticon insignia that was located below his scarred Autobot one. The girls all gasped at the revelation and tensed slightly. Sideways threw his head back and broke out laughing.
"Surprised?" he laughed. "SIDEWAYS TRANSFORM!"
As Sideways took his true form, the scouts prepared to transform. It was they only way they would even stand a chance against the Decepticons at this point.
"This isn't your fight," Wheejack sighed. "Just give us the Mini-cons and we'll leave you alone."
Arvee and Jolt gave a quivering beep and hid behind their friends. Jolt hid behind Raye while Arvee hid behind Rini.
"No way!" Serena shouted. "You can't have them!"
Wheeljack sighed dejectedly. Sideways began to chuckle at the scouts resistance.
"Told you they were like Autobots," he laughed. "Starscream! Thrust!"
A whine of some kind began to cut through the air as Sideways said those words. It ecoed louder and louder. The girls were wary, but they couldn't see anything coming. It was Raye who saw something first. She saw it coming out of the corner of her eyes.
"Duck!" she shouted as she and the others hit the dirt.
A split-second later, two jet fighters roared over their heads. Their engines left a ringing noie in all their ears.
"Blast!" the black plane hissed. "THRUST TRANSFORM!"
"STARSCREAM TRANSFORM!" the red plabe shouted.
Both planes transformed into two large robots. They both had the purple Decepticon insignia on them.
"Now," Thrust spoke. "Would you be so kind as to hand over the Mini-cons? It would be most wise if you did."
The scouts stood up again to face the four giant machines. They were effectively cornered. They were faced with the four Decepticons here and the fifth one was making sure the only Autobot who could help them was occupied. They also had to protect Arvee and Jolt.
"Just try and take them!" Lita shouted angrily.
While Thrust and Starscream snickered, Sideways' gaze narrowed on them. He knew about Mercury, but it didn't take a genius to figure out that the other humans she was with may be transformers as well.
"Don't underestimate them," he spoke darkly.
"How dangerous could they be?" Starscream laughed. "They're only human."
He then reached out for the girls. He wanted to grasp them in his hand and crush them all in on squeeze. What he wasn't expecting was for all of them to take ot either a rod or a pendant of some kind.
"Sailor star power!"
"Moon prism power!"
"Moon celestial power!"
Starscream stepped back in surprise as the girls became engulfed in light. Wheeljack's jaw dropped at the sight while Thrust was rendered speechless by is shock. Sideways had a small amount of shock, but he had seen this before.
"I knew it," he spoke darkly.
The sight had even distracted Hotshot and Cyclonus from their fight. They both stared at the sight in wonder. They hadn't seen anything like that before.
As the light died, the Decepticons weren't faced with six humans anymore. They were all faced with six Sailor Scouts.
"What-What are they?" Thrust gasped.
Serena took the lead as she stood in front of her friends and team mates.
"I am Sailor Moon!" she spoke.
"Sailor Mercury!"
"Sailor Venus!"
"Sailor Mars!"
"Sailor Jupiter!"
"Sailor Mini-Moon!"
"We are the Sailor Scouts!" Serena continued. "Champions of Justice! We right wrongs and punish evil, and in the name of our planets, we will punish you!"
At this point, the witnesses of this little transformation all had various reactions. Sideways knew better than to disregard it altogether. The other three Decepticons weren't sure what to make of it. Hotshot could just tell that those girls were battle vetrans. Cyclonus just found their little speech amusing. Arvee and Jolt were in awe about their new friends abilities.
Starscream was the firs one to regain his composure, "So you want to punish us eh? Just try it!"
Thrust got his senses back quickly. He theen quickly barked out an order.
"Open fire!"
All four Decepticons began shooting at the scouts without mercy. Fortunately, they were also firing without aim as well. The girls all spread out in different direections to avoid the attack.
"After them!' Sideways growled. "Don't underestimate them!"
The four Decepticons split up and zeroed in on their targets. Starscream chased after Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars, intent on destroying them. Sideways went after Sailor Mercury. He wanted payback from her and he aimed to collect.Wheeljack silenty went after Sailor Venus. He didn't want to hurt her, but he didn't really have a choice. Thrust targeted Sailor Jupiter with a strategy already forming in his mind. Sailor Mini-Moon, along with Arvee and Jolt, raced over to try and help Hotshot with Cyclonus.
The battle had begun. The Sailor Scouts were now official enemies of the Decepticons.
To Be Continued
A/N: There we go. Chapter four is finished. Ireally didn't think many people liked this story. I guess I was wrong. I hope I hear from my reviewers again. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. The next one is going to be the battle royale and things will get dicey. Just where are Optimus and the others? I know, but I'm not telling.