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Strike smirked and looked behind the Decepticons. He saw Skidplate, Blurr, Sideswipe and Mirage rolling up in their Cybertronian vehicles. They hadn't had time to scan any others. They hadn't had any action in eons. Right behind them was Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Jazz, Stalk and Optimus. All of them transformed and faced the Decepticons. Prowl, Strike, Arcee and Ironhide moved around the Decepticons to line up with their comrades.

One of the jets transformed into a purple Decepticon, and his face was normal looking with a monocle over one eye; it was Blitzwing. The tyrannosaurus rex transformed into a large red Decepticon bearing the name Cruellock. A police car, a large boxy car with a huge boom box on the back, and a sleek silvery sports car pulled up and transformed into Barricade, Soundwave and Sideways respectively. The tank transformed into the dark purple and grey Shockwave. The three helicopters became the black Blitzblade, the dark gray and black Blackout, and the black and purple and silver Diamondshard. The last one to drop in was a gray, black and dark blue muscle car with the engine poking out of the hood and wicked looking blades jutting out the front of it. This vehicle transformed into the crazy and dangerous Wolfstrider, the blades on the front of the car were now battle claws on her knuckles.

"Now this is a party!" Wolfstrider exclaimed as she looked at Strike, her former partner.

Suddenly, there was a scream. Prowl raced towards it when he registered Kiara's scream. He came upon Starscream glaring down at the three humans. "Give me the spark fragment," he growled, "or I'll rip it from your pretty little neck." Starscream stopped as a foot was put between him and the humans.

He looked up into Prowl's hard lenses. "You will do no such thing," Prowl stated. He lifted his foot and kicked Starscream back to his Decepticon minions.

"Get them!" Starscream yelled/ ordered as he lay on the ground. The Decepticons surged forward to engage the Decepticons. Ironhide, having left his post, went back to the humans and drove them back to base.

Bots and cons clashed. Diamondshard was face-to-face with Strike. Both fired missiles at each other, and both dodged. One missile caught Diamondshard on a rotor, and one caught Strike on the shoulder. Both cried out, but Strike was the one to land on his feet. He shot a plasma blast towards her, but she spun out of the way.

Wolfstrider brought her battle claws down towards Stalk, but she blocked it with her staff. They exchanged blows between staff and claws quickly, and then out of Wolfstrider's back came her mini-con, Shredder. He was a small, wolf-looking con with blue and black armor. Stalk growled and blades came form her wrists and extended past her elbow. Shredder leapt towards her and she sliced at him with one of the blades. He pulled back just enough so that it only grazed his armor. He landed and Stalk turned to Wolfstrider. Wolfstrider's lenses widened, and she screamed and raced away. Shredder gazed at her in confusion and ran after her.

"Is that a normal thing?" Stalk wondered and she went back into the fight.

Sideswipe and Mirage were battling side-by-side with Bumblebee against Cruellock, Blackout and Sideways. Blackout swiped at Bumblebee, and Mirage swiped at Blackout while giving Sideways a back kick. Sideswipe was locked in close combat with Cruellock. Cruellock might be bigger than him, but Sideswipe was definitely holding his own. Sideswipe gave Cruellock a nice uppercut as Mirage kicked Sideways back into him. "Sorry, partner," Mirage said.

Sideswipe smiled, "No problem." He swung Sideways into Cruellock and they went down in a pile together.

Soundwave opened his chest, and Ravage and Laserbeak flew out. "Get the spark fragment," Soundwave ordered them in his robotic monotone. The two raced off and followed Ironhide, who was carrying the children.

Ironhide dropped the children off at the base and drove off. The trio watched him from the garage, and shivered. What could they do against Decepticons? They raced to the edges of the garage and grabbed whatever weapons they could find.

Laserbeak and Ravage cautiously entered the garage as it went dark. They stood there, waiting to hear anything that might give away the children's location. There was a crash and some cursing as Bruce tripped over a pile of scrap metal.

"Scrap, Heather," he yelled, "why did you turn the lights off?"

"So they can't see us."

"Shut it you two," Kiara growled. "It's a little late now, Heather. Turn on the lights before we get killed." Ravage hurried towards the first voice, while Laserbeak swooped towards the other two. Heather turned the lights back on and everyone stopped for a minute to adjust to the new light. Then the Decepticons continued their assault.

Meanwhile, Optimus was locked in battle with Starscream. They exchanged blows lavishly, with Starscream taking the worst of it. He didn't have the battle experience Prime did, and it didn't look good when he was trying to be the leader of the Decepticons. Starscream lashed at Optimus, and he blocked the flailing hit easily. Prime related with sharp uppercut to the mid-section, and Starscream doubled over. Prime brought a hard knee right into his chin. Starscream's face dented in a little and energon leaked slightly from the dent. Optimus grabbed his throat, and Starscream made a choking noise. Prime cast him to the side and jumped back into battle.

Ravage snuck towards the deeper voice, which he assumed was the male. He spotted movement behind a pile of scrap metal and leapt. Bruce heard the clatter as Ravage knocked over a piece of scrap, and reached for a crowbar. Ravage landed on him, and Bruce jammed the crowbar into the steel jaws of the Decepticon. Ravage snarled, biting down on the steel bar. Bruce took a daring reach for another weapon, leaving one hand on the bar.

Laserbeak locked in on Heather, and dived towards her. She grabbed a steel bat and swung out at the Decepticon, but he dodged. Kiara jumped up behind him, yelling, and swung at him with a wooden baseball bat. She landed a solid blow on the tail, but it only dizzied him for a minute. He turned and flew at Kiara. She screamed and fell to the floor with the 'con on top of her.

Ravage snapped the bar in half and went for Bruce. There was two screams, and Ravage was knocked from his stomach. Heather was standing above him, breathing hard, with a broken bat hanging from her tightly clenched hands.

He hefted himself up, "Thanks."

"No problem," Heather gasped, and the bat fell from her hands. Ravage shook his head and stood up, back on the offensive.

Kiara screamed again, and they both turned to her. Laserbeak got off of her suddenly and turned, flying out of the door. Kiara scrambled to her feet with the help of Bruce and Heather and looked after him.

Ravage scanned the room and flicked his tail. Something flew out of it and stuck to the wall; then it began to blink. He snarled at the trio and ran out of the room.

"They're running!" Bruce cried, grabbing a pipe and racing after them. Heather and Kiara followed him in excitement.

No time for losers, cause we are the champions, Laserbeak played as he flew over the Cybertronian battle field. A plasma blast came out of nowhere and blasted his wing. He zigzagged towards the ground and landed in Soundwave's outstretched hands.

"Shut that racket off," Ironhide growled.

Blurr was in a fast-paced battle with Blitzwing. He exchanged fast blows with Blitzwing's slower yet heavier blows. Blitzwing's third head was a hefty looking one with a large chin and sunglasses covering his eyes.

"Get back here you bug," it growled in a deeper and more gravelly voice than the other two heads.

"Why, when you can't make up your mind?" Blurr retorted.

Blitzwing's head flipped to its crazy jack 'o lantern face, "Why you little-"

Blurr stopped long enough to get in a punch hard enough to get Blitzwing bending backwards. He looked over his shoulder and saw black specks on the road. He focused his lenses and saw Ravage with Bruce, Kiara and Heather following behind. His lenses widened and he jumped on top of Blitzwing to get a better vantage point. "Optimus!" he yelled over the sounds of metal against metal. "The kids!"

Prime heard Blurr and stopped in the middle of hammering Barricade, and turned towards the voice. Bulkhead turned around and Optimus jumped onto his shoulder. He focused his vision and saw the same scene Blurr had, except that Ravage was way out in front. Optimus jumped down and turned to the sky, "Autobots retreat!"

At the exact same moment Starscream screeched, "Decepticons, retreat!"

The Autobots transformed and rolled toward the kids, while the Decepticons ran the other way in robot form. Soundwave stayed, though, and waited for Ravage. Ravage jumped up and transformed into a cassette. School's been blown to pieces; he played as he landed safely in Soundwave's chest. Soundwave turned, took one step, and the Autobot base exploded behind him.

A.N: I hope you enjoy this story. If you would please review this story, I would appreciate it. I might not put up a new chapter until I get a review, so keep that in mind. This is a good place for a bribe xD