At that moment, in Decepticon Headquarters, Megatron, Galvatron and Weapon were devising a plan.

"We'll send Shortstop into the forest to face another Lyacon. In the forest, he can't use his vehicle mode as effectively as in the city." Galvatron said.

"I like the forest idea but I don't think that would matter much." Weapon said.

"Shortstop is an Autobot and he'll try his hardest not to destroy his surroundings. But who will you send?"

"I know exactly who I'll send. I'll send Savage." Weapon replied.

Soundwave lifted his hand to the side of his head. He kept it there for a few moments then lowered.

"Something wrong, Soundwave?"

"RUMBLE AND FRENZY SNUCK OUT OF DECEPTICON HEADQUARTERS AND HAVE ENGAGED IN BATTLE WITH THREE AUTOBOTS."

"Such incompetence. Must I do everything myself?" Megatron said.

"Lets take care of these Autobots." Weapon said.

Megatron nodded. The docking tower rose, the door opened and a fleet of Decepticons took to the air to take on only three Autobots.

Meanwhile, back in Athens, Dustin and Sarah were just leaving a movie theater. They walked out of the theater with an arm around each other. Sarah held her head up against Dustin's body as they walked to Dustin's transforming car. He was enjoying his time off; he didn't get much of it with the Lyacons in town. Dustin hit the unlock button on his remote, then opened the passenger door to let Sarah get in first, and then he walked to his own side and got in.

"So what did you think of the movie?" Dustin asked as he turned on his car.

"It was a good movie, I really liked it." Sarah replied while fastening her seatbelt.

"I'm glad you enjoyed it." Dustin said.

He pulled out of the movie theater parking lot at headed home. The ride home was a quiet one. Just as Dustin was about to say something, he noticed that Sarah had drifted to sleep. He decided to let her sleep. She has gone through a lot in the past couple of months.

"Poor girl, she needs her sleep." Dustin thought to himself. He arrived at his house minutes later. He went over to the passenger side, opened the door and pulled out Sarah. Without waking her up he carried her to the bedroom and placed her in the bed. He pulled the sheets over her and then kissed her on the head. He quietly left the room and went into the living room and turned on the TV. He had to see if his football team the Pittsburgh Steelers were still undefeated. And they were. Just then his communicator watch beeped.

"This is Shortstop. Go ahead Prime."

"Shortstop, the Decepticons have engaged Gears, Skydive and Swoop at the Athens Karaoke Bar. You're the closest I need you to transform and we'll meet you there." Prime instructed.

"Got it. I'm on my way, Chief." He replied.

He walked back to the bedroom and whispered into Sarah's ear.

"I've got to go to go save the world. If you need me call me on my wrist comm. I'll be back later. I love you babe." He said as he kissed her on her forehead.

Sarah made a noise; Dustin wasn't sure if was in acknowledgment or if she was just dreaming. He just let her sleep as he left the room and headed for the karaoke bar.

Dustin arrived at karaoke bar. The building was destroyed. He jumped into the air and transformed into Shortstop. The battle was still raging but his comrades were severely outnumbered. He pulled out his duel pistols and started firing.

"Hey guys mind if I join?"

Moments later the other Autobots arrived. They all transformed into their robot mode. They joined in as well.

"Aerialbots merge to become Superion." Ordered Silverbolt.

They landed, connected together and formed the mighty transformer.

"Stunticons merge to become Menasor." Motor Master yelled.

The Decepticon land force connected together. The two getsalts fought each other. The battle raged. Plasma bursts from one side, Photon charges from the other.

Jazz ran up transformed into his Porsche mode; his speakers slid out and started emanating light and sound to disorient the Decepticons. The Decepticons covered their audio preceptors. They all stumbled around in agony until Savage came running out of the woods and pounced on Jazz. He lifted his claw to make a swipe into the Autobot, but Shortstop came running and tackled Savage.

"So you're the Autobot I'm going to tear apart?" Savage said in his growling voice.

"Well you got the first part right. But I think I'll be the one that will be doing the tearing apart here." Shortstop said arrogantly.

"We'll see about that Autobot."

Savage turned around and ran into the woods and disappeared. Shortstop ran after him. The fight continued without the two warriors.

Shortstop walked cautiously through the woods. He looked around with every step he took. As he stepped through the woods he was being watched by Savage.

"I can see you Autobot. Can you see me?"

"Obviously not since you are asking me this."

"You sarcasm will not save you, Autobot."

The Lyacon charged at the Autobot. Shortstop turned around just in time to see Savage attack. Shortstop strafed to the side but was hit in the shoulder by Savage's paw. He watched Savage circle him. Then he attacked again. He jumped on Shortstop. The Autobot lost his footing and fell over. Savage pinned him down.

"Now Autobot you will die."

Shortstop struggled to gain some sort of advantage. Then he transformed into his vehicle mode and sped out from underneath of Savage. He transformed back into his robot mode and readied himself for another attack. Savage attacked again. This time Shortstop pulled out his spoiler and used is as a shield against the ex-Predacon's attack. He hit Savage across the face with it, knocking him over. Savage got up and stared down the Autobot.

"You think you have what it takes to beat me, Autobot?" Savage growled.

"Yeah I do."

Savage charged again. This time Shortstop pulled out his duel pistols stuck them together, flipped them around and hit Savage in the face with the handles. The Lyacon withdrew his attack and stumbled around. Then faced Shortstop and charged. He pounced on him; he drove his claw into the left shoulder joint of the headmaster. Shortstop punched Savage across the face then used his foot to push his enemy off of him. Savage attempted to get up but Shortstop kicked him in the face. The Lyacon fell over. Shortstop looked at his wound. Sparks flew out of the exposed circuitry.

"Damn, that hurt. I'm going to feel that in the morning." Shortstop thought to himself.

He looked over to his fallen enemy. Savage started to get up; he collapsed and lay there. Shortstop raised his spoiler to make a final blow but his arms wouldn't let him do it. He lowered his weapon and placed it on his back. He then picked up the fallen Lyacon and carried out of the woods. As he returned from the woods, the other Transformers stopped fighting to see what the headmaster was up to.

The Decepticons, noticed that they had lost this fight, left the scene.

"What are you doing?" Cliffjumper said.

"I couldn't just leave him there. I think when I bashed him in the head it messed up his personality and identity components and now I think we could repair him as an Autobot." Shortstop replied.

"Ratchet, transform."

The medic did as he was told and Shortstop placed the injured Lyacon inside. The victorious Autobots returned to their base, with the exception of Gears, Swoop and Skydive, they went to another karaoke bar to finish the song.

At the Autobot base, Shortstop was full of himself. Why wouldn't he be? He had just beaten two Lyacons: The Decepticons that never lose.

"That's two of them that I have beaten."

He raised his arm and dropped his hand as if he were shooting a basketball one handed.

"Count it." He said with a smile.

Meanwhile in the repair bay, Ratchet and Wheeljack were working on Savage.

"Can you repair him?" Prime asked.

"It can be done. I just feel weird repairing a Decepticon."

"He's no longer a Decepticon. He is an Autobot now." Prime stated while looking at the black panther.

"This gives me an idea. Prime, with your permission I would like to create new Autobots. Only this time they're animals and are able to take on Predaking." Wheeljack said with sound of a child asking its mother for a new toy.

Prime pondered the thought for a moment.

"Hmm, animal Autobots. You have my authorization."

Sunstreaker sat and sulked. He was perched atop of a hill overlooking Autobot City, watching the sunset. The burning light of the Earth's sun caught his newly redone paintwork, and reflected off of it with the magnificent glowing brilliance of a supernova.

"Wow, I'm just the greatest", thought Sunstreaker with a smile. His spirits were lifted. He took a deep sample of the cool twilight air with his factory sensors. It's good to be online, he realized with another smile

"Hey," a voice came from behind him. It was Tracks. "Nice up here, is it not?"

Sunstreaker's smile faded as he proceeded to ignore Tracks. The light of the sunset reflected off of Tracks' body now, directly into Sunstreaker's optics. He put a hand up to shield them with a sigh of annoyance.

"Oh, sorry about that. Look..." Tracks stopped as Sunstreaker raised his hand.

Looking into the flaming tangerine sky had made Sunstreaker realize that life was too short for petty arguments over magazine centerfolds. After all, there were plenty of other magazines, and he knew he was the better looking.

"Save it," Sunstreaker extended his hand with a smile. Tracks shook it, returning Sunstreaker's smile. Tracks the noticed a dust cloud in the distance on the road leading to Autobot City. Scanning the horizon he found the cloud to be from Gears, with Skydive and Swoop overhead

"Say, here comes Gears. Do you want to race down to the bottom to ask him about that Karaoke thing Eject has been telling everyone?" he asked Sunstreaker

Sunstreaker answered by transforming and bombing down the hill at top speed, crunching various sticks and twigs under his super tough tires as he went

"Hey wait!" called the irritated Tracks as he transformed. Gears was in for a very bad night...