Transformers Prime :Miami
Chapter 2 : Hide and go seek.
The Medrano Cartel ruled the city and waters of Miami. During the early part of the 2000's when Homeland security closed in on shutting down most of the Cuban drug trade. What they actually did was to leave the Cubans vulnerable to a complete and dominant take over by the Colombians. The local Cuban families were helpless as Miami was nearly torn apart from gang warfare. In the end it was the Columbians that rules the drug trade and the extortion rings. So it immediately raised a red flag with the Autobots when they were making a shipment for someone rather than the other way around.
Three large Semis filled with various goods and illegal pharmaceuticals, chugged its way through downtown Miami. Only one of these Semis had a single Medrano soldier with a silver briefcase. He shook in fear for many things could go wrong tonight, Police could close in and shut everything down, the ship could be comprised ,but what he feared the most, were the Metal monsters that demanded the single shard he carried in the briefcase. He knew failure ment death on so many levels. His order were clear, protect the case at any cost, if it came down to it, the drugs were expendable . But the case he carried was to be protected the most.
Elita-One Took position near the entrance of Pier 34, It was one of the highways that one of the trucks had to come down. Her engines purred quietly but knew they could roar into action from 0-215 in 6 seconds.
"Ok boys this how it's going down. I'll cover the route to Pier 34, Mirage and Perceptor, hold position on the highway leading to Pier 16, and Pier 21, Sunstreaker cover the highway leading to pier 34."
"It's gonna be like shooting Sharkticons in a beryllium barrel!" Mirage boasted as he activated his stealth mode becoming invisible to his surroundings.
Mirage once had estates back on Cybertron. He came from an afflutental family. He enjoyed parties, Fine vintage Energon, and the company of a high end female Cybertronian. All that chnaged when the Decpeticons came to rule. He remembered turning his head at every news feed that came in when a district or city was taken by the Decepticons. He felt he was beneath the war, that it never could concern him. One by one, cites fell like domino's, until one day the Decepticons came for his family. The Decepticons wasted no time in exterminating the spark of each of his friends and family. He was found by Elita-one and taken to a young medic by the name of Ratchet. He was fixed up and had the chance to flee Cybertron. But something had change within him, Now nothing more he wanted payback for what the Decepticons took from him. When the time came to volunteer for Elita-one's task force he quickly jumped at the chance.
He liked his duty here in Miami, Sure he couldn't experience it fully like he did back on Cybertron, But he found his comforts. Like hanging out on south beach letting the cool seas air wash over his car frame. On weekends he would park out in front of the hottest nightclubs, where the hottest women would gaze lovingly at his frame. He loves to feel their touch every time they caressed his hood. Some lucky ladies would even hop up on his hood to warm their behinds in the cool night air. Something he didn't mind at all, Sure he could never experience a true relationship with these squishes, but it didn't mean he couldn't look.
"Mirage in position" He announced, " let the games begin."
Slowly over the bridge came the trucks each flanked by a Medrano car escort. The Autobot knew their intel about the Medranos is that they like to carry big automatics and go weapons hot at the first sign of trouble, Human bullets didnt matter much to them . Sure they stung a little but they bounced off, which was the main problem. A ricocheting bullet had a high probability of hitting a human, and a Human death was the last thing these Autobots wanted.
As soon at the last escort car passed by Sunstreaker he moved into action, He veered out of the alley he was camped out in and turned on his throttle. Smoke spat out as his tires screeched as he hit 0-60 in 3 seconds. As soon as they saw his high beams three Medrano soldiers leaned out the window each armed with AK-47's and opened fired. The round flicked off his hood like shards of hot sparks.
"Ow! Oh you just want to piss me off!" Sunstreaker threatened.
He hit his after burners and sped past the convoy so fast they had no time to divert course, Sunstreaker roared past them and within a few yeard ahead of them he quickly spun sound to face them and transformed. In his robot form he looked even more intimidating, He was a mix of yellow and black with grey metal all painted within, He had no face grill and black adored what almost looked like a helmet.
"He was skidding backwards on the road, gravel and sparks flying ahead of him. He got his body in position and grinned "Get ready for a surprise!"
He then leapt over the first car, Medrano's trying in vain to hit him, He landed on top pf the trailer bed ,his right hand transformed into a sword that resembled the blade of a Kurki, a blade that was curved forward. With two fast "X" swipes he split open the top like a can of tuna.
It only took him a nanosecond to scan the contents.
12 crates of ball bearings
14 crates of coffee
8 crates of Lidocane
30 tightly packed bags of black tar heroin
and 2 crates of "The Human Centipede Blu-Ray"
What he didn't see was the silver case of the alien shard, he knew he could trash the trailer, in fact he was doing humanity a favor.
Sunstreaker dropped in a red Energon grenade, "Hey what does this trailer and a Michael Bay movie have in common?" He joked,
"NOTHING YET!" He yelled as he leapt off and transformed into his Hennessy Vemon carm form and sped off just as a ball of fire engulfed the trailer. The trailer split in two as the entire contents were disintegrated .The front half of the semi stopped to a crawls as it was dragging a dead smoldering weight. The back half of the trailer slumped as the Medrano car tore right crashing into the barrier that nearly sent the car over into the Miami bay.
Sunstreaker loved to use red energon, It was regular energon infused with various explosive elements found only on Cybertron, making a batch was his specialty. Elita-one didn;t like it when he used it in the city limits ,so that's why he save some for "special occasions" he knew he would be getting an earful when he got back to base, there was no way out of that.
"That's for making me miss the Heat game!" He yelled as he sped off.
Off at the other Bridge Mirage and Perceptor could see the fireworks caused by Sunstreaker. Perceptor was already in his car form. A candy red and sapphire blue Saleen S-7 Turbo.
"It would appeared Red Energon has been deployed..." He said stating the obvious.
"You know ,Either Sunstreaker needs a vacation or we REALLY need to get his brother Sideswipe to Earth from his post at the Asari homeworld of Thessia." Mirage said, But even he knew leaving a planet full of blue female aliens would be tough for any Cybertronian!
"Is this going to take long, I have experiments to tend to." Perceptor complained.
"All we need to do is Disable the truck and check it to make sure that Alien Artifact isnt on it and trash any illegal pharmaceuticals on it," Mirage said as the second Semi with escorts pulled off from the bridge into the Pier.
Perceptor didn;t even wait to hear Mirage's plan before he raced off toward the Semi. He transformed , And moving with surgical persicion. He aimed the round cylinder that sat on his shoulder it was his main tool to use in his scientific experiments and day to day workings. It could be used as a telescope that could view the outer reaches of this galaxy, or use it as an instrument to analyze and conduct readings. For this moment however he opted to use it's energy beam function.
He fired the intense beam of energy as in one swipe it sliced through the tires and undercarriages of the lead car, the Semi, and the rear guard car. Before the Medrano's could get out to engage the giant robot , Perceptor used his makeshift Polarity gauntlet on one of the discs on his wrists to collect all of the automatic weapons the gang members possessed . With one energy spike he melded them all into one ball of slag.
Mirage transformed and glared at Perceptor."Really? Really,"Re-ally?, Couldn;t leave me anything to do!"
Your complaints are noted" Perceptor said dusting his hands "You can disposed of the Heroin in the trailer of which the shard is not in there."
Mirage shook his head as he aimed his arm cannon at the trailer, as it powered up he yelled to the gang members.
"THIS IS THE PART WHERE YOU RUN!"
The Medrano's all scrambled away as Mirage exploded the trailer.
Mirage called out to Elita-one " Hey boss lady, we got our and judging from the light show earlier, Sunstreaker got his. "
"Do you know you guys are the reason I started drinking Energon..." Elita-one said flatly," Did you find the case?"
'Negative boss lady" mirage said
"Nada" Sunstreaker called in.
"Well thanks to your show my Semi took off ,I'm in high speed pursuit west on I-195" Elita called out as she dodged a third rocket that was launched at her.
"Seeing how they are throwing some major hardware at me, Im' thinking I have the one with the Alien metal!"
"We're on our way boss!" Mirage called out.
Elita-One continued pursuit through the twisting roads of the Port, Normally the Colombians would use this port to import their drugs, but seeing how this was an export, she could only guess the Medranos were expanding their business worldwide.
She saw the Semi slow and then stopped near the edge of the marina. Boats were lined up all along the pier.
"Thats' weird shouldn't there be more protecting the shipment" She said as she saw no more of the Medranos near the truck. The Blip on her dashboard answered her inquiry as two object were closing in fast from above.
Elita transformed into robot mode just in time to see the jet transform into a tank and the Space shuttle transform into a Decepticon, Astrotrain.
Blitzwing fired his tank cannon as the blast hit Elita square in the chest and knocked her into Astrotrain,
"Autobot slag!" He said as he gripped her by the head and slammed her into the ground.
Elita sent out an urgent distress signal to her other Autobots
"Triple changers have arrived, get here,NOW!"
Blitzwing transformed into his menacing robot form, He looked to see the Medrano liutenant, with the silver briefcase still handcuffed to him.
"Complete your delivery of the spark,Human insect. Or the loss of your drug will be the least of your problems!"
Astrotrain stood over Elita-one with his arm cannon primed and ready to fire.
"Prepare to be one with the All-Spark..."
Writer's notes- Whew! What a chapter, I hope I was able to convey how this team is eccentric due to the nature of how they operate. I showed a bit into Mirage's past and I will do so with the other bot's in the coming chapters. I want to dedicate this chapter to MISCrasyaboutfanfics, who was kind enough to give me my first review on this site in over FIVE YEARS. "I was away and now im back"
Let's answer some comments.
Femaleraptor- I was hoping Mirage didn't come off that way and if you re-read that part you'll see he is blue and white his G-1 colors, also he was relaying the Spanish part of the chatter to Elita one. In taking some liberties with Mirage I am kind of basing him off Sam Axe from Burn Notice. But thank you again for the input, I will be more mindful in the coming chapters.
Trailwave- Thank you so much for the input, please keep reading them!
I also threw in some other references to other franchises, let see how many of you all cal spot them!
NEXT TIME: Elita-one is facing down two triple changers, as the Shard Spark is off to it's owner. What will Miami PD have to say about the carnage, and Team Elita will gain two new members in a most unexpected way!