Me: Hey everyone. Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter up. I've just been…ow….in a lot of pain ever since that fight between me, Stan, and Roger.
Stan: Hey now that part was your fault.
Roger: Yeah! You're the one who chose to fight us.
Me: After you scattered the remains of my dead grandmother all over my mom's hardwood floor!
Francine: AK does have a point you two. You did spread her ashes everywhere.
Haley: Yeah that does kind of give hive him the right to break both of your arms. Which he did.
Roger: Not before we broke some of his ribs. He he….ow.
Steve: Whatever Roger. AK I suggest you do the disclaimer now.
Me: I am in way too much pain to do it. Could someone else please do it?
Violet: I'll do it. AK does not own me, The Smiths or any other character in the stories. Just Trev there.
Trevor: Again, please no jokes or I'll kill you as Optimus.
Violet: Right. Now onto chapter four.
The AutoKnights II: The American Knights
Chapter 4: Dinner & Decepticons
It was 5:30 and Trevor and Violet were back at the base. They just finished dismantling Demolisher's body and were now getting ready to make the long drive back to Langley Falls to have dinner with the Smith family. Trevor just got out of the shower and put his clothes on.
"Wow. Taking that thing apart was harder than it looked." Trevor said to himself.
After combing his dark blonde hair back the way he had it earlier, he went to Violet's door.
"Hey Vi, are you ready yet? We have to get going soon." Trevor asked as he knocked on the door.
"Don't come in Trev. I'm still getting dressed." Violet called.
"Well hurry up. It takes a hell of a long time to get to Langley Falls and I don't want to be late for this dinner."
"Jeez Trev. You sound just like my mom." Violet said while chuckling.
Trevor just shrugged. "Very funny. But still, hurry up."
"I'll be right out." Violet said.
Violet finally came out five minutes later with slightly different clothes. She still wore her khaki pants, but the shirt she had on was a tight black blouse. When Trevor saw her, he was a little shocked.
"Well look at you. The girl from the sixties gets an upgrade." Trevor said smiling.
Violet just laughed and then looked at what Trevor was wearing. He had on black pants and he had a button up shirt that was unbuttoned. The shirt was red and orange with flames going up it but not all the way. He had a white tee shirt underneath that one.
"What is it with you and the flames?" Violet asked.
Trevor just looked at himself. "I dunno. I guess I just like the way they match my ring. The shirt you're wearing matches yours if you haven't noticed." He said pointing to Violet's hand.
Violet brought up her hand and looked at her ring, then at her blouse. The colors did match.
"OK you got me on that one." She said looking at the clock. It read 5:45. "We better get going."
Trevor nodded and they both headed towards the door that was an elevator to the Teletraan chamber. They both went down and got out.
"AutoKnight Transform!" They both shouted. (Not as loud as the other times)
They turned into their AutoKnight modes and then transformed to vehicle mode and drove out the exit tunnel to dinner.
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(At the Smith residence)
It was 6:15 and everyone was getting ready for Trevor and Violet to arrive for dinner. Francine was busy in the kitchen. Stan and Roger were cleaning up the inside of the house while Steve and Haley worked on the outside. Everyone was excited they were coming but no one could be happier than Steve. Ever since his father showed him the picture of Optimus and Ironhide pointing their weapons at an out of frame Shockwave, he had always wondered what it would be like to actually get to know them and be their friends. Plus he saw that Ironhide was kinda cute. And he thought it would be cool if he ever got the chance to ask her out. This was his chance. And it worked out all the better for him because they were still the same age as they were in the picture.
As Steve and Haley finished up the outside, they went inside to wait. About ten minutes later, they heard the sound of two trucks pulling up in front of their house. The engines died down and then more noise was heard which they now recognized as the transforming sound. Ten seconds later, the doorbell rang and everyone got up to answer it. When they opened the door, they noticed that the two knights had already reverted back into their normal forms wearing their rings.
"Hey guys." Trevor said.
"Thanks for inviting us." Violet said.
"Oh no problem. Come on in." Stan said as he opened the door wider allowing the two teens to enter.
"Dinner should be ready in a few minutes. Make yourselves comfortable." Francine said as she headed towards the kitchen.
"Thanks. We will." Violet said as she sat down on the nearby couch.
Stan sat down in the chair nearby. "So did you guys dismantle the Decepticon body?" he asked.
"Yeah. It took a lot longer then I thought it would." Trevor said. "Is the CIA looking for us by any chance?"
"I don't think so. When I went back to check up on things earlier today my boss asked me where I had disappeared to after the two of you left. Apparently he didn't see me drive off with you. I told him I tried to follow you back to your base but I lost you in freeway traffic. I also told him the robot was an out of control experiment and it had been taken away to be scrapped."
Violet smiled. "So you told him the truth without giving anything about us away. I like it."
"Dinner's ready!" Francine called.
All at once everyone made their way to the dining room table where two extra chairs had been set up. The seating placement was like this. Stan was at the head of the table. To his left was Roger. Next to Roger was Haley. Then Francine next to her. Followed by Steve, then Violet, then finally, Trevor was between Stan and Violet. When the Food was served, Trevor and Violet saw the meal looked familiar. Too familiar.
Francine noticed their faces and thought they didn't know what was in front of them. "Oh I'm sorry this is an Italian recipe. It's called…"
"Rosemary Pasta in Butter Roasted Garlic Sauce?" Trevor and Violet both finished.
All eyes were on the two. "So you do know what this is?" Francine asked.
"Yeah we do." Trevor replied. "Where did you get this recipe?"
"Oh it was in a new Italian cookbook I got a few days ago. The recipes in there are all works of one chef."
"Would the name of this chef happen to be Aria Andreotti?" Violet asked.
Francine was a little freaked. "Um…how do you know that?"
"Me and her were good friends before we came here." Trevor said.
Francine was now calm. "Really? How did you meet her?" Francine asked.
Trevor froze when he heard the question. He did not want to tell how he met Aria because if he did, then they would find out about his family. So he calmed down and told the truth slightly altered.
"She worked at a place that I ate at regularly. She and I became friends and I got free specials every day." Trevor said.
"Interesting." Francine said.
Trevor sighed in relief and started eating his dinner. Then Steve talked.
"So, when you guys change, do your names change too?" he asked.
Violet looked up from her plate. "Yeah. His name is Optimus Prime, and I'm Ironhide."
"Interesting names. Who were they before they became your rings?" Steve asked again.
Trevor fielded this one. "Back in the first Cybertron war, Optimus Prime was the supreme leader and commander of all Autobots and the Autobot army. Ironhide was a member on his main platoon as his weapon specialist."
"Who's the leader now?" Stan asked.
"His name is Alpha Trion. He was created long before the war began. But he is doing fine as the leader. Another Autobot named Hot Rod took over command of the Autobot Army." Trevor answered.
"How did the war start?" Haley asked not liking war in any way.
"Yeah how exactly did it start? Even I don't know the full details of how it started." Violet said.
Trevor sat up straight and started explaining again. "Back before the war started, there were never two sides of robots on Cybertron. Transformers lived in peace. But Megatron was always going on about how they should expand their civilization out across the galaxy to become stronger. He went on until finally, he was allowed by the supreme leader of that time to go forth with his plan. But he let Megatron do it with only one condition; planets with life already on it are to be left alone. Megatron lied to his leader saying he would comply and set out. This leader, who I cannot name because I have no idea what his name is, was a little suspicious of Megatron. So he bugged his ship with a tracking device so he could keep track of him. And it turned out bugging him was a good idea. Megatron ended up trying to conquer an inhabited planed early on his game. This leader pursued his ship with a small group of lightly armed soldiers. But that wasn't enough to stop him. When they boarded the ship, they found Megatron had upgraded himself into a stronger form. He was larger, more heavily armed than all of the good robots put together, and he now had an ability that not a lot of Transformers had. The ability to fly. Needless to say, that ruler and his troops were blasted and killed by Megatron his group of soldiers. Megatron then named his group of soldiers, Decepticons. The leader was taken back to base on Cyberton and he was rebuilt into the first ever robot designed to both rule and combat evil. His name was Optimus Prime."
Trevor paused for a minute and let that information soak into everyone else's heads.
"How do you know all that?" Violet asked.
"Hot Rod filled me in when he was training me on Cybertron." Trevor replied.
"Okay, so is there more to the story?" Roger asked.
"No not really. Its pretty self explanatory from there. More combat bots were created, Prime became Megatron's arch enemy, and the two factions of Autobots and Decepticons arose. The rest you all know." Trevor said showing his ring.
"That's an awful lot to put on your shoulders." Francine said. "How did your families react when they first found out?"
Once again, Trevor froze. He turned to Violet in hopes she would get him out of this one. Which she did.
"Our families took it a lot better than we expected them to. Sure they freaked out a little but in the end, they knew we had to do what we had to do." Violet said.
"Their a lot stronger than I'll ever be." Francine said. "I tell ya, if one of my kids ever became what you two are, I just don't think I can handle it. I mean no offense what you two are is completely cool, but you're putting your lives at risk. You shouldn't be doing that yet. You're just not old enough to have that kind of responsibility and pressure." Francine now had a worried look on her face.
Everyone was now looking at her with sympathy. Stan tried to calm her down.
"Francine, trust me. You have nothing to worry about. These two alone are a great team. You should have seen them earlier today. They took that giant excavator down with little to no effort at all. They are more then capable of looking out for themselves."
Francine looked up at her husband.
"And who knows," Stan went on. "Maybe one of our kids will become the next AutoKnight. And sure I will be worried about them, but I will also be very proud of them." Stan said with a smile.
All of them went back to eating until finally, all of them were done.
"How was it?" Francine asked.
Trevor and Violet turned towards her and smiled. "Just like Aria's."Trevor answered.
Francine smiled back as she took the empty plates over to the sink. Everyone else got up and made their way towards the living room where they sat down and just talked about other things that didn't involve Autobots or Decepticons for a change. They talked for a long time until they looked at the clock and saw that it read 11:30pm.
"It's that late already?" Violet asked.
"Sure doesn't feel like it." Trevor responded. "We better head back to the base now."
"Oh come on. Don't leave yet." Steve said trying to get them to stay.
"We have to." Trevor said as he stood up. But as he did, he noticed it was a little harder this time. He was tired. As was Violet when he looked at her.
"I am so exhausted I couldn't even transform into a pile of junk." She said not getting up.
"Why don't you stay here for the night?" Stan asked.
Trevor and Violet looked at him with surprising looks.
"Are you sure? We don't want to impose." Trevor said.
"No no no I insist." Stan said. "Look, you're base is more than half an hour away and its pitch black dark outside. Do you really want to make that drive or at least attempt it?"
Trevor looked at Violet. "He does have a point." He said.
"What about the base?" Violet asked.
"Don't worry. Before we left I took this." Trevor said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out Teletraan. The Smiths just looked at the device. "I can just program the alarm system from here with this. And if another Decepticon comes down, we can pick up its energy signature with this too."
"Then it's settled." Stan said. "You two can sleep up in the attic with Roger. He has two extra mattresses up there."
The two sixties teens then looked at the large headed alien. "You sleep in the attic?" Violet asked.
"Yeah. But it's not all that bad. Come on I'll show you." Roger said as he got up.
Trevor got Violet to her feet and started to follow Roger upstairs. "Thank you all for this." Trevor said before he disappeared upstairs.
Everyone else decide to do the same thing and go to bed. But inside Steve's head, he was cheering so loud the world could hear him. He never got the chance to make a move on Violet, and now he has an extra day to try.
When Roger, Trevor, and Violet got up into the attic, they saw that it really wasn't that bad. There wasn't much stuff up there so Roger arranged the things that WERE up there into his own little chamber. He even built his own fully functional bar.
Roger found the two extra mattresses and set them up. He then got some blankets for the two teens and handed them to them. Trevor and Violet set them up and went to sleep as soon as they were comfortable.
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(Meanwhile in underground Cybertron)
A robot with wings coming out of its back made his way down a long series of tunnels in the underground base. His torso area was very broad and wide and slightly in the shape of an upside down obtuse triangle. This robot was not an Autobot. The symbol he wore was different and purple. His optics were glowing red instead of standard Autobot blue. He was a Decepticon. He finally came to the end of the tunnel and stood in front of a large door. The door opened and behind it was a large chamber. There was a very large screen on the side wall. At the far end of the room sitting in a large chair was a large robot 35 feet tall. His large feet had treads on them as if they had come from some kind of tank. His fingers were extremely longer than any other bot in the room. And his right arm had a huge fusion cannon attached to it. The winged bot kneeled down in front of the chair.
"Lord Megatron, I come bearing news of Demolisher's mission." The bot said.
Megatron looked down. "Ah Starscream. Give me the news. Was he successful in locating the signal?" he asked.
Starscream looked up into Megatron's red glowing eyes and did a mechanical "GULP" knowing he was not going to like the news.
"I'm afraid the mission was a failure, my liege." Starscream said.
Megatron stood up angry. "What happened?" he asked coldly.
"Demolisher…..was destroyed by the humans." Starscream said.
Before he even had a chance to move, Megatron grabbed Starscream by his metal throat and slammed him against the wall.
"What do you mean he was destroyed?!" Megatron loudly asked. "Those pathetic humans don't have the technology to even break through our armor!"
Starscream was struggling to break loose of Megatron's grasp. "But sir, their technology did not destroy him." He said.
Megatron loosened his grip on Starscream and brought him closer. "What are you talking about? Who exactly had the power destroy Demolisher?" he asked calmly this time.
"Two young humans armed with Cybertronian weaponry." Starscream said. "Master, I have no doubt in my hard drive that these are the same two humans that destroyed Shockwave all those years ago."
Now Megatron was interested in these facts. He let go of Starscream and let him fall to the ground in front of him. He then started thinking.
"So, the boy possessing Prime's power has gotten wind of our plan. His Autobot allies above must have gotten hold of our space bridge design and used it to transport him and his friend from the past."
Starscream looked up. "What are we going to do master? If those two could take down a load like Demolisher, how do you expect them to lose against something smaller then him?"
Megatron got angry again and grabbed Starscream in the same place and lifted him up.
"You greatly overestimate them, Starscream." Megatron said quietly as he tossed Starscream over his head. Starscream landed on his face. "Demolisher was never the brightest of our faction. So his destruction at the hands of these two humans comes as no surprise to me. Besides, those two may have the power of the Autobots, but they do not however have their skills."
Starscream got to his feet. "Then let's just send someone else to that planet and wipe them out!" Starscream suggested.
"No you fool!" Megatron snipped. "There is one small problem. Demolisher's destruction is no surprise but if they did have the power and skill to defeat such a large bot as him, we should be cautious. So we should not overestimate them but at the same time, we should not underestimate them so quickly. Demolisher may not have been the smartest Decepticon but he WAS one of the more powerful ones. And as for Shockwave, he was both powerful and witty. But yet those two humans still had the power to defeat him. Shockwave would have won if it hadn't been for the boy's female friend. We will have to wait and plan out our next move on them."
Starscream was now a little angry. "Our next move should be to simply go to that planet and destroy them."
"Silence, Starscream!" Megatron yelled. "Unlike you, these humans learn quickly. We shall not attack until we learn the full extent of what they can do. We shall remain here in the time being. I want to know everything there is to know about these humans. These………AutoKnights."
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Me: Well? What did you think?
Steve: Not bad. I like how you introduced the Decepticons.
Stan: I just like the fact that we were in there for most of it.
Roger: Yeah. When are you going to start on the next one?
Me: When my wound heal. Which shouldn't be that long. Until then. Peace bitches