Me: Hey everyone who just happened to find this story. This is AK. No one is here but me but that's good because even though no ones going to probably see this, I have to say it any ways. If anyone finds this story, please read it. But only if you want to. I don't care if no one wants me to continue this series at all. I'm going to because I like writing this series and I'm not going to stop until it's done. So if you think this story sucks, that's your opinion and my stories obviously aren't for you. But if someone happens to find this story or me for that matter, please just leave me a review. I just want to know that someone out there has found me and is actually appreciating my work. No one else ever did. So thank you to those people who find me. That being said, here's chapter 6.
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The AutoKnights II: The American Knights
Chapter 6: Parties and Upgrades
(Smith Residence: 4:30 pm)
It had been a few hours since the message from Cybertron, and everyone was doing something different. Stan had begun to think the worst and started calling all his relatives saying that he loved them. Francine was just doing her own little cleaning thing in the kitchen. Haley left to go visit her boyfriend, Jeff. Klaus couldn't do anything except swim in circles in his bowl. Steve on the other hand, was completely mellow about the whole thing. He had a hard time grasping the reality of the situation. He just assumed seeing three giant robots fight in the middle of the city would be an awesome thing to see. Plus, he had already made plans for his party scheme in the base. And he had the perfect alibi to get out of the house. He had just finished putting everything he would need in his backpack. He grabbed his money filled wallet and started to walk out the door when Roger stepped in front of him.
"Where ya off to, Steve?" he asked in a cool voice.
Steve got a little nervous. "I'm just going to Snot's house." He answered as calmly as he could.
Roger smiled evilly. "Really? That's all?"
Steve was not only nervous now, but confused as well. "Why are you looking at me like that?" he asked.
"Steve, I know about your plans tonight, your REAL plans." Roger said.
"What 'real' plans?" Steve asked now even more nervous.
"Your little party your friends and you are planning in the AutoKnight's base, I know all about it. I was standing behind the door as you explained." Roger said still smiling.
Steve was now sweating like a pig. "What do you want to keep quiet?" he asked.
Roger's smile was now an innocent one. "I just wanna be the bartender at that party. I have officially fallen in love with that bar."
Steve couldn't believe what he was hearing. Usually Roger asked for bigger things, but this was just too simple. "What are you planning? I know you Roger. This is going to lead into something bigger isn't it?"
Roger still had the innocent look, but his smile was gone. "Steve, I promise you, I am not planning anything." He went on. "Look if there's one thing in this world I know that you don't its alcoholic beverages. Some of those bottles of booze that the Autobots left for Trevor and Violet are some of the rarest you will ever find in this world. I swear on my life, all I want is to be at that party serving up some of the best damn drinks I've ever made."
Steve knew Roger was telling the truth. Roger never lied when it came to booze. "Okay. You can be the bartender. Now come on. I already have an alibi set to get us out of here." Steve said as he walked out of his room. Roger went up to the attic to find the right disguise.
When Steve got downstairs, he went to the door and put his hand on the knob.
"Steve, where are you going?" Francine asked.
Steve froze. He turned around and faced his mother.
"I'm going to Snot's, Mom." He said.
"But he and the other two were just here a few hours ago." Francine said. "Besides, I don't want you going anywhere. This could be the last 30 something hours left on earth, and I want to spend them with all of us together."
"What about Haley? She's not here." Steve complained.
"She went to go breakup with Jeff again. Kinda her way of saying good bye if the Decepticon wins." Francine answered.
"Well I kinda wanna say that to my friends one last time. Please Mom? These are the only friends I ever had." Steve said with a fake sad look on his face.
Francine fell for it. "OK Steve. Just be back tomorrow first thing in the morning. OK?"
"OK thanks Mom. Roger, come on!" Steve called.
Roger came down in his disguise. He was wearing brown cowboy boots with blue jeans. He had on a plaid shirt and a cowboy hat to match.
"Why is Roger going too?" Francine asked.
"Hey I've had history with these guys too. I would like to spend some time with them if that's OK." Roger said.
"OK whatever. Have fun." Francine said before turning and walking away.
Steve and Roger smiled at each other in success and made their way to Snot's place. Only they weren't going there. As soon as they rounded the corner of their neighborhood, they found Snot, Toshi, and Barry all waiting there with a taxi parked on the street also waiting for them. They all got inside and Steve instructed the driver to go to, "Pier 32, Chesapeake Bay". The driver nodded and made his way there.
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(AutoKnight Base Main Entrance. Pier 32, Chesapeake Bay: 5:10 pm)
After paying the driver with the money they had brought with them. Steve, Roger, Snot, Toshi, and Barry all walked towards the Pier only to find there was a line of people extending from the edge of the pier all the way out to the street. When one guy noticed the five people standing there, another guy noticed, then another guy, until finally, as they walked up the pier, all eyes were on them. Steve got happier as he reached the end of the pier and Lisa Silver was there waiting for him. She approached him.
"Hey, Lisa." Steve said in a sly voice.
"Look Steve, this party had better be good or you will be nothing but a laughing stock by the time school starts up again. Now where is this place? I don't see anything." Lisa said.
Steve smiled and pulled out his key card. "Oh you'll see all you need to see in a few seconds. Jus stand aside." Steve said as he flicked the card.
Steve walked towards the phone booth and got inside it. Everyone was now watching him as he swiped it through a scanner on the box. Little lights on the keypad started to flicker. Then at the very end of the pier, in front of everyone, a small hole opened up in space, revealing a space bridge. When Roger went over to look inside, he saw that it looked like he was inside the living room of the house, which he was. Steve went over and did the same thing.
"Everyone! "Steve called out. "Just step inside this hole, put on whatever kind of freakin music you want, and enjoy the giant indoor pool, the bar, oh hell! Enjoy the whole damn house!"
Everyone cheered and started to make their way towards the space bridge. Steve went in with Lisa first. Followed by Roger, Snot, Toshi, Barry, and everyone else who was waiting for their turn to go through. When they all got inside, random people started setting up their own stuff. Speakers, videos, everything from food to drinks were set up.
"For anyone who would like a high quality drink along with a game of pool, please follow Roger here!" Steve called out pointing to Roger.
Roger than started to make his way to the lounge area with a group of people following. Lisa grabbed Steve's arm and pulled.
"If you play your cards right, by the time this party's over, you and I will be getting started." Lisa said with her hot sexy voice.
Steve just stammered while Lisa chuckled.
(Langley Falls Camping Resort: 9:30 pm.)
In the woods of the camping resort, two AutoKnights were doing whatever they could think of to prepare themselves for Starscream's arrival. Optimus was transforming from human mode, to vehicle mode, to robot mode as fast as he could. Ironhide was taking target practice on whatever large boulder she could find. After about five more minutes of this, they found a bench and sat down to take a break.
"Well, you're aim is getting a lot better." Optimus commented.
Ironhide chuckled. "And you're transforming in record time." She commented back.
Optimus then thought of something. "You know, I haven't seen your robot mode yet." He said.
Ironhide then began to think. "Well, I've never really found it necessary to try it out." She said.
"Starscream should be reason enough. Come on. I want to see." Optimus said.
"Fine." Ironhide said as she got up and backed away from Optimus. When she was back enough she stopped. "ROBOT MODE, ENGAGE!!" She shouted.
As soon as she did, her suit started to erupt with machinery and parts. The sound of gears grinding and metal locking into place was all that could be heard. In ten more seconds, her robot mode stood at 26 feet tall. The black body cover from her Topkick vehicle mode had now become her armored plating. The hood of the truck was split it two entirely and locked in at an angle on her chest. Optimus got up.
"Very nicely done." Optimus said as he clapped. "Now let's compare. ROBOT MODE, ENGAGE!!"
Optimus then transformed into his robot mode at a much faster pace then Ironhide did. He transformed in a minimum of five seconds. Optimus stood 32 feet tall, Ironhide stood 26. They then proceeded to draw their main weapons. Optimus took his right hand and pulled out his blaster and brought out his energon blade with the left. Ironhide brought out her cannons. She just looked at them and how much bigger they were in this new form. She then held her cannon up next to Optimus' blaster to compare the size.
"Hm. Mine are still just a bit bigger than yours." Ironhide said in a now robotic voice. But it could still be clearly identified as hers.
Optimus just laughed and transformed back to human mode while Ironhide did the same. They put their weapons away and went over to the bench to sit again.
Before he sat down, Optimus noticed they were standing on a hilltop looking over the forest. He then turned his head and saw a small pond. The water sparkled in the moonlight. Then Optimus began to recall memories. By the lakeside, he saw an image of him as Trevor, his twin sister Amber, and his father. Amber looked like Trevor. Same hair color and body structure, except her hair flowed down to her neck instead of being combed up like Trevor's. His father had black hair, a beard and mustache shaven look, and like Trevor and Amber, had sharp blue eyes. The image was of Trevor's father camping at a place like where he was now only his dad and sister were alive and he and his sister were younger. Amber had just caught a fish and reeled it in. Her father kissed her on her forehead and Trevor high fived her. As Optimus finally noticed Ironhide was standing next to him, the three images Optimus saw faded away and he turned his head to Ironhide.
"What are you looking at?" Ironhide asked.
"Nothing." Optimus said sadly.
"Really?" Ironhide asked again.
Optimus knew she would keep this up so he sighed and began to talk. "Back when I was a little kid before my dad died, he used to take me and Amber camping at places like this. We had SO much fun with him. He taught me and Amber how to fish, how to play the guitar around a campfire, and he always told us stories about my mom. Then IT happened." He then said in a very sad voice.
Ironhide knew why. His father was M&M'd (Mugged & Murdered) when he was just about eight to nine years old. He must have taken it hard. Ironhide put her hand on his shoulder.
"You really had a great childhood going for you until all that stuff happened, didn't you?" Violet asked in a quiet tone.
Optimus put his hand on hers and smiled sadly. "Yeah I did." He said.
Optimus and Ironhide just stood there for thirty seconds in that same pose looking at the small sparkling lake until they finally decided to break apart and get back to what they were doing.
"So, now what?" Ironhide asked her leader.
"I don't know really." Optimus said. "I mean I guess we could just switch what we were doing around. I mean you transforming and me shooting instead of the other way around. But what after that?"
Ironhide just shrugged. "Maybe you're right." Ironhide said. "But maybe we can upgrade ourselves." She said with a growing smile.
"What do you mean?" Optimus asked.
"Well think of it, Prime. The weapons we currently have, though powerful, may not be enough to defeat Starscream. I noticed in my workshop there were a few other weapons that could fit onto us perfectly. We could go back now and get them." Ironhide explained.
Optimus thought about it, and it turned out Ironhide was right. They're going to need more than what they have now if they hope to even stand a chance.
"Alright, let's transform and roll on back to base. Let's see what kind of weapons you got, Ironhide." Optimus said as he begun to walk to the road so he could transform.
Ironhide did the same and soon, they were on the road back to base, completely unaware of what was currently going on there.
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(AutoKnights Base: 10:10 pm)
Steve's party was now officially at the highest level of insane. There were drunk people everywhere, music blasting so loud it caused the ocean to make little ripples on the surface, and the place was just trashed. But Steve really didn't seem to care. He was to busy spending time with Lisa.
"I gotta hand it to you, Steve," Lisa said. "This party is will put you at the top of the popularity food chain for sure. This means I can finally be seen with you in public. Also I have plans for later tonight." She said that last sentence a little devilishly.
Steve was now in think mode again. He was about to say something when some wasted guy walked up to Steve.
"So, Smith, when are the AutoKnights gonna get here?" he asked. "I read the E-vite, and it said the real AutoKnights are going to be here. So where are they?"
Lisa was now looking at Steve. "Yeah, Steve. Where ARE they?" she asked.
Steve now was a little nervous. He knew where the AutoKnights were, but he needed to string them all along for a bit longer until he could figure out a plan. So he did what anyone would have done in that situation. Lie.
"You know what? I don't really know myself." He said as he got up. "They said they would be here. Let me just go and call them." He ran off to think of his next move.
He ended up in the bar room where Roger was enjoying himself making cocktails. Steve then started to proceed in to talk with the alien until he noticed a bunch of empty martini glasses were right next to Roger, which means Roger had been taking a few drinks too. He then started to notice the signs. Roger was having difficulty standing up straight, his eyes had started to wander, and whenever he tried to talk, all that came out was misunderstood noise. So talking to Roger was immediately scratched off Steve's list of ideas. He just stood in the doorway horrified what these people would do to him if they found out he lied about the AutoKnights showing themselves. He then got an idea. Roger may be drunk, but not enough to stop making drinks. All he had to do was get Lisa drunk, and she would forget about the whole thing. He then proceeded inside and ordered something. As he exited the room drink in hand, a drunk guy fell off his barstool and made a huge THUD on the floor.
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(AutoKnights Base, Teletraan Chamber: 10:15 pm (five minutes before Steve goes to the lounge))
The main door opened upwards to the Teletraan chamber and Optimus and Ironhide drove in. They transformed to human mode and made their way to Ironhide's weapon shop. When they got there, they noticed a variety of weapons at their disposal, but couldn't decide which ones to use.
"Boy, where do we start?" Optimus asked.
"Beats the hell out of me." Ironhide replied.
They kept staring for another minute until finally, Optimus moved towards two square looking things. They were obviously a set because there were tow and they were exactly alike. There were holes in the center of them as if something came out of them.
As soon as he touched the things they started to glow and two hatches on his wrists opened up. He got the idea and placed one on each side. Soon after, the two things sank into the hatch and disappeared completely. Optimus was just confused.
"OK. What the hell did I just do?" he asked.
"You must have put in a new weapon of some sort. But what?" Violet replied.
"I don't know. Let's find out." Optimus said.
He opened up the hatches on his wrists and the things flapped open like head lights on a car. Then out of the holes came metal four pronged hooks. Optimus then realized what they were.
"These are grapplers." He said as he pointed his right wrist at the ceiling. He launched the grappler at the ceiling and it soared attached to a metal cable. The grappler made contact with the ceiling and held solid. Then Optimus started to reel the line in. Only he got pulled up to the ceiling instead of the hook coming loose like he expected. He stopped halfway between the ground and the ceiling the hook was attached to, and pulled his on his arm to try and make the hook come loose. He was dangling there swinging back and forth very slowly while Ironhide was trying her best not to crack up. Optimus finally pulled his arm as hard as he possibly could and the hook finally came loose. He then fell twenty five feet down. He landed nicely on his feet and Ironhide was slowly clapping trying to hold back laughter.
"Go ahead." Optimus said knowing she had a hard time.
Violet then burst into laughter. "Oh my god! You should have seen yourself! You looked like Spider-Man in training!" she said still laughing.
"Very funny. I just need to get used to them. Now lets find something for you." Optimus said as he walked over to the weaponry again.
Ironhide stopped laughing and approached with him. Then Optimus thought of something.
"Hey can you still use your natural powers in this form?" Optimus asked her.
Ironhide forgot all about her original superpowers. "I don't know. Lets see." Ironhide said.
She stepped back and tried to make herself invisible. But nothing happened.
"That's weird." She said.
"Try your force fields." Optimus suggested.
Ironhide tried to make a force field appear in front of them, but nothing happened again.
"Well that sucks. Now I REALLY need to find a good upgrade." She said as she searched through her pile of weapons.
She was just about to go through all her weapons when something caught her eye. She saw something that looked like a belt buckle in the shape of the AutoKnight Insignia. She grabbed it and put it on her waist where a belt buckle usually goes. Then the thing started to glow and it disappeared. Ironhide then scanned her systems and found the newly installed component. She made it appear again and activated it. Then before anyone could say anything, a clear yellow orb began to surround itself around Ironhide from top to bottom. Ironhide wasn't sure what was happening, but Optimus did.
"Well I'll be damned. You found a force field generator." He said as the field now completely surrounded Ironhide.
"Awesome! Let's see how strong it is. Shoot at me." Ironhide said.
Optimus was a little nervous but he took out his blaster anyways. He shot a blast at the force field and the shot disappeared entirely. Not reflected, disappeared. Ironhide then de-activated her new force field and looked at Optimus.
"Well I guess that makes up for one of my powers." She said.
"Now all you have to do is find something that will make you invisible and you'll be set." Optimus said with a smile.
Ironhide thought about what he said and decided something. "Nah. I don't think invisibility goes with the powers I have now. I mean sure when I'm a not like this they suit me perfectly. But as a weapon specialist, I don't think so."
"True. You're normal powers are somewhat in the defensive category while these powers are offensive." Optimus said.
"Yeah they are. My parents sometimes thought my powers weren't really the best to go into battle with." Ironhide sighed. "My family." She said as here head hanged down.
Optimus looked at her concerned. "You're not gonna start crying again are you?" he asked. "Because it was hard enough to calm you down the first time."
Ironhide looked at Optimus and chuckled a small chuckle. "No, Prime. I'm not gonna let you see me cry again." She said smiling.
Optimus smiled back. "Good. Now lets get back to that camp site and get used to these new upgrades." He said.
He and Ironhide walked towards the exit tunnel ready to transform.
"Transform and roll…"
*THUD*
Optimus and Ironhide looked up at the ceiling where the noise came from.
"What the hell was that?" Ironhide asked.
"Whatever it was, its up in the house." Optimus said.
"Ya think something just fell over?"
"Maybe. But let's take a look just to be safe."
Ironhide agreed and they both walked away from the exit tunnel and over to the elevator. Optimus activated it and the doors closed on them, and the lift moved upwards.
As they were slowly getting closer to the top, they started to hear the very dim sound of music slowly getting louder.
Wait. Music? "Do you hear that? Optimus asked.
"Yeah what is that?" Ironhide replied.
They got their answer when the lift stopped and the doors opened. What they saw was something they would have never expected to see. Their house was over run with high school people standing or moving around with drinks in their hands. The two knights slowly walked out of the elevator with very surprised looks on their faces. They now were looking around at the house itself. There was trash everywhere, things knocked over, they were not happy at all. But they knew how the crazy partiers got into this place.
"There are only five other people in this world who know about this place." Optimus said.
"Yup." Ironhide said.
"And all it took was only one of them to get all of these people in."
"Yup."
"And when I find out which one it was, I'm going to kill him or her."
"If it's a her, I'll do it." Ironhide said.
"Agreed." Optimus said as they slowly started to move forward.
As they did, the people who weren't as drunk as some other ones took notice of them. One guy approached.
"Are you two the AutoKnights?" he asked half-drunk.
"Uh yeah." Ironhide said.
"Well I'll be damned. Smith wasn't lying about you two being here." The guy said.
"What are you talking about?" Optimus asked angrily.
"How do you think he got us here? The invite said you guys would be here so we all came." The guy said.
Optimus took note that the guy said "he" instead of "she". So he knew this wasn't Haley's or Francine's idea.
The guy started to look at Violet in a weird way. "So you're the hot one with the big guns." He said as he slowly took small steps toward her.
"What is it to you?" Ironhide asked a little creeped out.
"Do you know how many people wanna get with you? I'm one of them, toots." He said as he tried to make a grab for her.
Ironhide backed away completely disgusted. "Get away from me, asshole!" she shouted.
The guy didn't stop coming. "Ah come on sweetie. Open up to new things. And why don't you open up to me. He he ha ha ha ha." The guy said in a perverted way.
Ironhide got the jest of what he meant by that statement and jumped back away from him as he try to make another grab. Before he could try again, and hand caught his shoulder and it pulled him back away from her. He looked at the hand and saw that it was Optimus'.
"Hey, asswipe, didn't you hear her? She said back off." Optimus said in a mad tone.
The guy tried to act tough. "Yeah. Or what?"
The next thing that guy knew, there was a two and a half foot long blade coming out of Optimus' other hand. The people around him gasped at what they saw. The blade was glowing orange with energy and it was herd up to his face.
"Or this." Optimus said.
The guy looked at Ironhide. "Why don't we let the lady decide?" he asked in a nasty voice smiling.
Ironhide walked towards him and paused two feet away from him. Instead of trying to help him out like the guy thought she would, she was making something come out of her right arm. In a matter of seconds the guy was scared shitless as Ironhide now had her orange glowing cannon pointed directly at the guy's face. Once again the people gasped.
"I choose to kill you myself." Ironhide said. "Unless you want to apologize."
The guy was sweating like crazy. "I..I'm sorry. Please don't kill me." He said in a high pitched voice.
Ironhide put her arm down and Optimus did the same with his blade. The guy started to walk away until Optimus noticed the drink he was holding. It looked like one he saw get made earlier today by someone he knew. Before the guy got out of his reach, Optimus grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and pulled him back.
"Who made you that drink?" Optimus asked.
The guy was still nervous, but he answered the question. "Some guy in the bar over there. He was weird looking though. His skin looks grey."
The two knights knew who he was talking about. Optimus got angry and pushed the guy away. "If you want to leave here with your body intact, I suggest you get the hell out of here."
The guy ran away screaming while the people he passed just laughed at him wondering what was up with him.
Optimus and Ironhide walked into the lounge and immediately looked at the bare. And sure enough, there was Roger. They walked up and Roger only seemed to notice someone was there, but he didn't know who.
"Hey what can I get for ya?" he asked in a drunk tone.
Ironhide answered him. "Oh, I'll take your dead body after I blast it all the way back wherever you're from." She said in a harsh voice.
Roger immediately recognized the voice and turned white. He slowly turned to see Optimus Prime and Ironhide standing there at the bar glaring at him. Optimus grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him over the counter.
"Roger, would you mind telling us what the hell is going on here?" Optimus asked as calmly as he could.
Roger couldn't think he was too scared. "A party?" he said.
Optimus shook him violently. "I can see that! Can you tell me why you are having a party here?" he asked loudly.
Roger calmed down a little bit. "Don't ask me why! Ask the guy whose idea this really was." He said.
Optimus put Roger down.
"What are you talking about?" Ironhide asked.
"I''ll give you hints. He's a Smith, he's short, and he's a sleazeball." Roger said.
Ironhide and Optimus just stood there knowing who it was. Ironhide was simply shocked that he would do something like this. But Optimus was something different. Something had just snapped in his brain. His fists were clenched and they were shaking violently. His right eye had started to twitch for he was more pissed off than he ever was.
"SSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!"
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Me: Well, there's chapter six.
Violet: I am going to kill Steve
Trevor: No need. I already kicked his ass after last chapter.
Me: Yeah he did. I do not own the incredibles, Transformers, or American Dad. So until chapter seven, peace bitches.