"Okay, that's the last of it," Sumdac turned off the stasis pod and let Optimus out.
"Not exactly battle grade, but at least we're back on our feet," Optimus said.
"We weren't exactly Autobot Academy material to begin with," Prowl admitted.
"Guess we are just lowly repairmen," Bulkhead sighed.
"Well what'd you expect from a bunch of 'undisciplined, insubordinate idiots' anyway?" Bumblebee quoted.
"I was outta line when I said that. Okay?" Optimus admitted, "And uh, maybe you repairmen can teach this Academy guy to repair a few friendships?" Optimus held his hand out. Prowl and Bulkhead put theirs on top. Bumblebee was hesitant but then slapped his hand down on top.
"Prime! It's Ratchet! We got three Decepticons on our tail!"
"Do not engage! Do not engage! We need to lead the Cons off planet first and keep Earth out of the crossfire!"
"Copy that Prime! Over and out."
"Let me come with you!" Sumdac insisted.
"No, it's too dangerous."
"But I insist! I am the one responsible for unleashing Megatron in the first place! There must be something I can do!"
"Think he can be trusted?" Prowl whispered to Bulkhead.
"And even if he can, how's he supposed to fight Megatron?" Bulkhead added
"And what about Sari?" Bumblebee injected.
"What about me?" Sari appeared from the hole in the wall with the Autobot's ship waiting for the others. "If you think I'm letting you guys outta my sight, you're nuts." Just then, Sumdac Tower shook. The Decepticons fired and blasted at the ship and tower.
"No time to argue! Decepticons in targeting range!" Ratchet alerted. The Autobots and Sumdacs jumped onboard the ship and flew away with the Decepticons close behind.
"The AllSpark is still aboard that ship!" Megatron pointed.
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"Everybody hold on tight!" Ratchet called. The ship dove upward throwing everyone into the wall.
"Oh dear this is all my fault!" Sumdac put his head in his hands.
"What? It's not like you made Megatron in your lab or anything," Sari laughed. Sumdac looked away and tapped his fingers uncomfortably. "YOU MADE MEGATRON IN YOUR LAB?!"
"On the bright side, now I don't feel so bad about losing your key," Ratchet muttered. Three rockets then blasted into the ship and sent it diving down.
"Propulsion system failure. Navigation system failure. Stabilizing system failure," the computer reported.
"That thing ever report any good news?" Bumblebee joshed. Another blast shook the ship.
"Prime! We might have to rethink that 'lead them off planet' strategy!" Ratchet announced. The ship dove towards Dinobot Island and crashed into the wall of the caldera.
"Everyone in one piece?" Optimus breathed. Everyone nodded. Two more blasts rattled the ship.
"Not for long!" Bulkhead declared. The Autobots ran for the door.
"You two stay with the ship," Optimus said to the Sumdacs, "We'll hold off the Cons as long as we can."
"And then what?" Sari asked her dad.
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"If we go down, we go down fighting! Together!" Optimus rallied the Autobots at the top of the caldera wall, "And I can't think of a better band of Autobots I'd be prouder to fight alongside!"
"Not even the Cybertron Elite Guard?" Bumblebee asked, "Cuz I wouldn't mind having them here now."
"Autobots! We must protect the AllSpark at all costs!" Optimus activated his armor followed by the rest of the Autobots. Lugnut swooped down.
"I got this guy!" Bulkhead cried out, jumped and grabbed onto Lugnut. The two wrestled all the way down and crashed in the forest. Then, Blitzwing attacked.
"Kid!" Ratchet charged his magnetizers, "Electromagnetic pulse!" Bumblebee nodded and charged his stingers. They fired at Blitzwing who's propulsion system died.
"Curious," Blitzwing observed, "My electrical systems have gone offline. Which means—" Blitzwing went into a nose dive heading towards the beach. "I'M FALLING! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
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"FOOL! Nobody challenges the rule of Megatron!" Lugnut threw Bulkhead through three trees then activated his Punch. "In the name of the glorious Decepticon race! I—!" A wrecking ball smashed into the fist. The explosive blast launched Lugnut halfway across the island.
"You talk too much," Bulkhead frowned.
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"I thought I saw him go down somewhere along the shore," Bumblebee told Ratchet and Prowl. Missiles then bombarded the area around them.
"The only one going down IS YOU!" Blitzwing emerged from the tree line and shot at their feet while laughing. The Autobots ran away as fast as they could while Blitzwing happily blasted without even aiming.
"Woo wee!" Blitzwing shot up and flew, "I wanna try it from the air!" Blitzwing fired ice missiles around them, creating large, frozen pillars.
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Megatron fired at Optimus. Optimus ducked and dodged, but soon received a direct hit which knocked him down.
"And now nothing can stop me from reaching the AllSpark!" Megatron flew towards the ship. Optimus's grappler wrapped around his legs.
"Nothing except me!" Optimus was dragged through the air, by Megatron's flight. Optimus threw his axe. The axe struck Megatron in the back sending him into a dive.
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"Optimus! No!" Sari gasped and ran towards the door.
"Sari," Sumdac set down the project he was working on and stopped her, "I'm afraid we may not make it out alive. There's something important I have to tell you."
"They need my key to fix them. Or something else!" Sari ran out before Sumdac could talk to her.
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"So what are we supposed to do? Lure him to the ship and fire that super cannon thing like last time?" Bumblebee suggested.
"Nope. I don't think he'll fall for that one again," Ratchet said, "No one gets that lucky twice."
"Perhaps we can make our own luck," Prowl said, "Blitzwing's multiple personalities make him mentally unstable. Perhaps we can use that weakness against him. But, we'll have to use Bumblebee's greatest strength."
"What my stingers? My turbo speed?"
"Your obnoxious personality."
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"Hey Blitz-brain!" Bumblebee called. He flew next to Blitzwing using his turbo boosters. "Ya know, this flying this is pretty easy. I don't get why you couldn't even fly a straight line."
"I'll show you a straight line!" Blitzwing fired his fire cannon. Bumblebee easily dodged around it.
"And you couldn't hit me if I stood still!" Blitzwing fired several rounds of red laser bullets, but Bumblebee easily maneuvered out of each one. "Correction: you couldn't hit me if I stood still, and you tried!" Bumblebee laughed. Blitzwing roared at him, and then fired as fast as he could. Bumblebee dodged the rounds then shot at Blitzwing with his stingers.
"Oh, you were trying? My mistake. Well, can you at least keep up?!" Bumblebee darted away.
"I'LL RIP YOU INTO PIECES!" Blitzwing followed right after him, blasting wildly at him all the way.
"You're really just not good at this are you?""
"I'm going to blast you apaht!" Blitzwing fired a missile. Bumblebee dodged and caught it. He then held tight onto it. He made a u-turn and flew right under Blitzwing. Blitzwing turned around to blast him, and didn't notice the incoming volcano. He slapped into the rock wall.
"Wow, you make Bulkhead seem like a genius," Bumblebee tossed the missile into the mountain. The explosion created an avalanche of rock and snow.
"OH SLAG!" Blitzwing tried to fly away, but was swallowed by the avalanche.
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"Come on! Open up! I know you're in there! I need you to charge something so I can help my friends!" Sari banged on the AllSpark's container. "Why won't you help me?! Why'd you choose me in the first place?" The AllSpark then opened up and gave her a vision. A strand of DNA with a blue orb at the center. "I don't have time for charades!"
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"You are merely a distraction Autobot. As are your pathetic friends," Megatron looked down at Optimus's body. Optimus weakly got up and charged at Megatron. He knocked Megatron through the ship's storage bay door and into the wall.
"Our struggle ends where it began Autobot: aboard this ship," Megatron smiled. He kicked Optimus away. Optimus fired his grapplers, but Megatron caught them and wrapped them around Optimus. "Only this time the AllSpark is mine!" He threw Optimus away then walked to the AllSpark. Sari stood in front of it and valiantly blocked it. Megatron simply pushed her out of the way, then opened the casing.
"I've waited years for this," Megatron lifted out the AllSpark orb, "With the power of the AllSpark, I shall reclaim Cybertron for Decepticon-kind! But not before I lay waste to the miserable world that held me captive for soo long." He pushed the glowing orb into his chest. The energy surged through his body. He started to walk away, but a huge shock knocked him down to the floor, and caused him to drop the key.
"I spent twenty years looking into your mind!" Isaac Sumdac clenched the electric cattle prod he'd created tightly. "I know your weaknesses! Your Achilles heel if you will."
"You are clever Earthling," Megatron commented and stood up, "But, I have been reborn. I have no weaknesses. I am stronger, faster, and younger than I was before. And with the AllSpark, I am all powerful. Now, let's see how you like being crushed under this 'Achilles heel.'" Megatron concentrated the some AllSpark power into his cannon and aimed it at Sumdac. Optimus jumped onto him, but Megatron blasted him into the wall and held him there with a continuous blast of AllSpark energy.
"You appoint yourself protector of the AllSpark yet you have no concept of its true power!" Megatron got up close to strengthen the blast.
"Optimus!" Sari threw the AllSpark key into Optimus's hand. Optimus caught it.
"You want power?" Optimus jammed the key into Megatron's chest, "HAVE YOUR FILL!" The energy of the AllSpark and key collided and caused Megatron to burst into blue flames. Megatron screamed in pain. Optimus charged at him and knocked him out of the ship. He floated mid air. The energy burst in an explosion that could be seen from across the lake. The huge amount of smoke floated upward.
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"Did you…destroy the AllSpark?" Sari asked Optimus.
"No. more like I, dispersed it," Optimus shrugged, "Which means this key is the most powerful Cybertronian artifact in existence. And much too valuable to be kept in the hands of mere Autobots." He dropped the key into Sari's hand. "If the AllSpark chose you, it must've had a good reason."
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"There, good as new," Sari smiled.
"No sign of the Decepticons," Ratchet flexed his arm. The pain had disappeared. "But I doubt we've seen the last of 'em."
"You all fought like Autobots!" Optimus congratulated, "I can't begin to tell you how proud I am of each and every one of you."
"Go on, tell us!" Bumblebee urged, "We can take it!"
"Wait, has anyone seen my dad?" Sari asked.
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"I trust you're comfortable," Megatron growled at Sumdac who he dragged along through the forest. "It appears, professor, that our destinies are intertwined once more."
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Well this has been SOOO much fun. Now, I am unfortunately tired. I'm going to be taking a break for a week (give or take, but a week at most) to rejuvenate and come up with ideas for season two. Meanwhile, I'll be posting drawings of the Humanformers on DeviantArt under the name of TheWeasel027. I hope my fans will be able to survive until then. Anyway, peace out.