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What seemed like only yesterday, the Optimus and his crew where just warp bridge technicians. Then they were fighting Megatron, in some new land, battling a giant roach creature, and making friends with a local girl who is daughter to the richest man in the city. Now they were being blinded by flashing cameras and deafened by the sound of cheers and clapping.
"I would like to thank the Autobots for their acts of bravery yesterday and welcome them as Detroit's newest super heroes!" Isaac announced on a microphone. Optimus walked to the shorter man and shook his hand.
"And to think, Ultra Magnus had told us not to be a hero. Is this what it was like back in your day Ratchet?" Optimus asked.
"The Decepticons never left us a whole lot to cheer about..."
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"Twenty years of searching, but the AllSpark is close. I can feel it!" Starscream mumbled to himself, "And once I find it, the Decepticons will have no choice but to follow me! I will be the most powerful being in the universe!" The computers then began to beep wildly.
"An energy signal?" The computer displayed a map of a state called Michigan and a beeping dot near a city called Detroit.
"Looks promising. Extremely promising..."
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"Come on move it! I might as well be walking!" an old man shouted from his car.
"That's a good idea," Bulkhead said. He stepped off the bus and walked through the traffic jam while humming to himself.
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"Look! It's an Autobot!" a bystander pointed at Prowl. Prowl, in his attempt to remain still, attracted a bird who dropped a small turd on his head earning an audible moan from Prowl.
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"Are you sure this is edible?" Bumblebee asked while poking his Burger Bot burger.
"Well, this is what we eat in Detroit. Just try it, I'm sure you'll love it," Sari assured. She took a bite of her burger. Bumblebee took an unsure look at the burger and took a bite. It was the most delicious thing he'd ever tasted. He wolfed down the burger in three more huge bites.
"You okay Bumblebee?"
"Mph mmm mm!" he answered.
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"Uhh, sir?" a police officer tried to awake some guy that had been sleeping on the bus stop bench for roughly over an hour, "Sir, you've been here for hours and haven't even attempted to get on a bus. Sir?" The old man named Ratchet stirred.
"Guh! Can't a guy get a nap around here?!" he barked, "Well if this is how you treat your guests, then I'm gone!" He pushed the officer out of the way and stomped off. The officer confusingly scratched his head.
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"Okay, you guys need a secret base. A super hide out. A fortress of solitude," Sari told the Autobots.
"A whozzawhat and a who now?" Bumblebee questioned.
"Nevermind," Sari sighed, "And some ship at the bottom of Lake Erie is way too far off. But then, I remembered this place." She pointed her flashlight at a broken down building.
"What the heck is 'this place?'" Bulkhead asked.
"It's an abandoned auto factory my dad got in a merger. But since my dad got Sumdac Tower, he never really ever needed this place. At this point, he's probably forgotten that he even owns it," Sari explained. Bulkhead lifted up the sliding wall. The others pointed their flashlights throughout the building.
"Looks like a real fixer-upper," Bumblebee commented.
"Well as long as I can just sit down and have a quick nap, I don't care where I'm staying," Bulkhead replied, making a small couch out of some tires and sheeting. Before Bulkhead could doze off, however, sirens could be heard in the distance.
"Sounds like someone could use some help," Optimus said.
"Does this mean I'm not gonna have that nap?" Bulkhead groaned.
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The sirens had been for a fire in a downtown building. An apartment building unfortunately. When they arrived, they immediately got to work. Optimus used the foam shooter in his gauntlets to put out some of the fire. Ratchet used his magnetizers to save the people on a falling balcony from falling to their doom. Meanwhile Bumblebee, Prowl, and Bulkhead ran inside.
"Bumblebee, you go down that way," Prowl directed, "Bulkhead, you take that way. I'll head this way." The others nodded and went their respective ways: Bumblebee went up the stairs, Prowl took the left corridor, and Bulkhead went right.
Within minutes, most of the fire had been put out thanks to Optimus and the fire department. And just when he was beginning to worry, Bulkhead walked out carrying several children in his arms and on his back. Following behind him was Bumblebee who had saved a girl roughly his age and was carrying her in his arms. When he assured her she was safe, she gave him a kiss on the cheek (he then blushed redder than a raspberry and gave a very satisfied smile). He put her down, and then she ran to her parents.
"Hey, where's Prowl?" Optimus asked. And on, "where's" Prowl leapt out of a second story window and landed gracefully, carrying a baby. A mom ran to Prowl, thanked him a thousand times, and then ran back into the crowd.
"Uh, Bumblebee, your hair's smoking," Bulkhead observed.
"What?!" he cried. He patted madly at his hair until he was sure the smoking had stopped.
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Meanwhile, the Autobots were unaware, that somewhere amongst the ruins of a Decepticon warship, Starscream was watching them.
"So, you Autobot's believe yourselves to be heroes? Pathetic," he commented. He got out of his former master's throne and went into the armory and began to suit up. "Well then prepare yourselves Autobots." He attached his null ray blasters to his forearms, the final component to his arsenal. "You're about to take a fall!"