Please note that these characters belong to their original creators as do any songs used in this fiction, not me, this is just my take on what might happen enjoy and let me know what you think.

also i am still trying to fix any mistakes that i might have missed in past chapters (i.e spelling, grammar and so on)

Will rushed to the side of the now frantic woman who was screaming that she had been shot as Optimus went to the now unmoving body of Adam Leach. The Autobot leader reached out as gently as he could and turned the body over, the lifeless form flopped onto it's back from the movement and two staring eyes now empty and cold looked up at the leader of the Autobots. There was no doubt that Leach was dead as the hole in the right side of his head was larger then a human fist and all the brain matter that once held such vital information now lay scattered on the ground over a distance of six feet. With infinite gentleness Optimus ended the life less stare as he closed the lids to the empty eyes of Adam Leach. "it seems that he was able to escape with out telling us anything after all" said the Autobot leader as he stepped back and commed Ratchet to first check out the still frightened woman and to collect the dead form that now lay at his feet. The next transmission went out to Sam who was waiting to hear if they had caught the traitor. "sam, you were both right about leach but unfortunately he took a hostage an epps was forced to shoot him before he hurt anyone, so we will never know what he passed on to mega tech" commed Optimus. Sam who was sitting in his alt form out side a diner as his Avatar sat inside let out a deep sigh as if defeated in a battle. "so the best we could do in this was draw even, he won't be talking about what he knew but mega tech won't be using any of the data they took either once bumblebee's computer virus kicks in" replied Sam as he readied him self to tell the others.

Once Optimus finished relaying the details to Sam the Young prime was left with the task of informing the others that the best they had been able to do was draw in this mission. The look on the face of Sam's Avatar told both Bumblebee and Simmons that there was bad news on it's way and as the three huddled together so they could share the information none of them heard the Anchorman on the small television behind the counter. "we're here just fifteen minutes after the launch of the space shuttle discovery, this launch his been brought up due to the current problems now affecting the global community" said the Anchorman. As the camera panned towards the sky his voice continued speaking "as many of our viewers know our long range service has suffered along with any form of satellite communication and the crew of the discovery are braving the trip to resolve the issue in the name of the global community and it is hoped that they will soon restore the most vital satellites and then the others in this sixteen day mission". High above a small human craft was making its way into the orbital path assigned to it. "this is discovery to mission control we have finished our burn and are now entering orbital path, we should intercept the first of the satellites in two hours" said the shuttle commander. But he received no reply to his message and as he and the crew started checking their equipment for any malfunctions none of them noticed a flare of light in the darkness.

Hunger, never ceasing hunger was all it knew. The creature that had no real name any more cried out in the darkness as it searched for it's next meal. Once there had been energy in the numerous things that moved around this blue green orb so fast but now they were almost gone and the hunger still remained growing stronger with nothing to sate it. Below on the orb there was enough energy to feed the hunger but when the creature tried to reach it the orb burned it until the pain was to much to take and the creature was forced to back away. Now it hung in space like a puppet with it's strings cut as it searched for it's next meal in among the dwindling objects. Then a light rising from the orb caught it's attention and energy enough to ease it's hunger for a time came closer reaching past the point where the orb had burned it. The creature watched as it's next meal stopped climbing and settled level with it. It was close enough to taste and now it had a meal the creature rushed towards this new object at full speed. This thing was as helpless as the others, it did not move or run it just sat there the sent of it's power drawing the creature in like blood in the water. In a moment the attack was over, one massive deformed hand grabbed the front crushing the thing as another grasped the back stopping it's meal from trying to escape. Like the others this new thing did not move not even when it's power began to drain into the creatures body. The creatures need eased slightly and as it continued to drain power the thing that was no longer human did not notice that both the it and it's pray had started to fall towards the orb that had burned it's body when it tried to reach for more meals.

Such was the creatures need to ease it's hunger that the thing did not notice the brightening orange glow that was now starting to envelope the two of them. As the last amps of power were drained from the creatures latest meal the thing that was once human started to notice that it was falling towards the blue green orb. But the thing had been to interested in it's meal to notice that they had now fallen past the point where it could pull out. The creature tried to move off the back of the rapidly heating object that it sat on only to have the engine mounted on it's back glow bright red then burn off as the arms that held it in place were destroyed by the heat. The creature let out a cries of pain as the arms were burned away leaving a thick trail of deep purple liquid running down it's back. The injured thing pulled as much of it's self into the center of the crippled shuttle as the outer edges started to break apart from the uncontrolled re-entry. Discovery was now out of control and as more heat built up due to the atmospheric friction the orange glow turned quickly to red while the edges of the crippled shuttle turned white as they started to break apart further. The creature and the falling shuttle were now a fire ball streaking through the sky and as they fell lower the people of earth got the first view of the destruction that was going to change everything.

On the back of the flaming mass of warping metal that was the shuttle Discovery the creature was starting to feel the heat more and more. The thing tried it's best to make it's self smaller as to avoid the white hot edges of the burning mass that had shielded it from most of the heat on it's way to the surface of the orb below. A loud crack and the sound of tortured metal filled the air as the frame of the shuttle could no longer take the strain of ploughing through atmosphere at high speed. Feeling that the heated mass beneath it would soon explode the creature did what it could to leap from the wreckage before that happened. The thing made a clumsy jump off the back of the failing shuttle and after a few seconds of passing through the heat trail that followed in the flaming masses wake it found it's self falling as the fireball carried on it's own path. For a thirty seconds nothing happened then the fireball that was the wreckage of the shuttle began to split apart into smaller fireballs that each made their way towards the planet below leaving trails of smoke behind them as they went. The creature watched the display for a few seconds as it did not realise that the force that was pulling the wreckage of the shuttle also had an effect on it's body as well. The more it fell the more the cool clouds took away the pain it was feeling in it's damaged limbs, but the cooling effect of the clouds only lasted so long as soon it was falling through clear sky towards a massive green area on the ground below.

Everything started to get closed and as the creature approached the last few hundred feet of open air it instinctively curled it's self into a misshapen ball ready for the impact with the ground below. The whistling sound of something falling with great speed filled the air then the very ground shook as the whistling was replaced with the sound of something colliding with the earth it's self. Trees were flattened and a hole large enough to swallow three whole houses and their gardens was carved into the centre of a dense wood. Out of the devastation came a pained cry from something not human then a metallic sound filled the air as foot then another and another took their first steps on the ground. The creature now with fresh injuries from the fall lumbered forward knocking over trees and smashing anything that ended up under one of its three massive legs. All the energy had allowed it to change though now most of the over grown limbs were damaged and leaking the thick purple liquid on the ground. But it's pain was nothing to the hunger that drove it on, the sent of power was close by and it could almost tease the sweet relief that came with the act. The lumbering mass moved forward towards a broken power line that was arcing against the ground it's pole having been knocked down by the force of the impact. The creature grabbed the downed cable and began pulling power from the line faster and faster, it's pain eased as new and more misshapen structures grew into damage caused by the fall and the impact. As the wounds closed the power stopped when a weak spot further up the line gave out under the strain. The thing that was once human looked at the now powerless line and howled before it moved forward following the cabled until it found a live section so it could once again begin feeding.

Far away in a small town, in an equally small dinner three individuals sat so deep in conversation that they noticed little of what was happening around them. The tv that was in the middle of a commercial break suddenly sprang to life as the Anchorman from before appeared on the screen his face gray and grim. "ladies and gentlemen, everyone please pay attention, we have just learned that the shuttle discovery has been destroyed" he said and the room fell silent as all human eyes and those of two Avatars fell on the tv. "reports are sketchy at the moment but we can confirm that the discovery has been destroyed in an uncontrolled re-entry, the shuttle reached it's planned orbit path though ground control was suffering from a strange loss of communication with the craft" the news man continued. He took a moment to compose him self then said "at the moment it is believed that whatever was affecting the satellites also affected the shuttle and this is the cause of the disaster, though how it could have happened so quickly remains a mystery". The Anchorman covered the microphone he had been speaking into as he was handed some papers and spoke silently with someone off camera. When he spoke again his voice was shaky "it seems that we have a video of the shuttle burning up in the atmosphere that was sent in to one of our sister stations, it will take us some time to get the video on our transmitter so please bare with us in this time of tragedy".

The diner was silent as everyone kept their eyes glued to the screen. The Anchorman looked at someone behind the camera and nodded slowly then he said "apparently the video is being cued as I speak and should appear on your screens any moment", as he said the words the screen changed and the image of a pretty young woman replaced that on the Anchorman. She looked ready to give a report of her own when a cry echoed through the scene and the camera tilted upwards. For a moment the sky filled the frame then something like a ball of fire came into view. "as you can all see this looks like a repeat of the columbia disaster and I know it hard to imagine that this could happen again after all the..." his voice trailed off as the camera zoomed in. In the middle of the fireball something moved like it was traveling with the shuttle. Then to the horror of those watching a dark object glowing red round the edges leapt away from the falling shuttle remains. The voice of the newsman sounded over the footage once again "I cant explain this it looks like there's something jumping form the shuttle, now I must remind you that on this scale this could not be a human being in a space suite as it is far to large". The man's voice cracked as he said "it almost looks like a transformer jumping from the shuttle before the final breakup, I, I can't even begin to think what it was doing there". There was silence for a few seconds then the Anchorman's voice returned as the image started to replay the few seconds of the strange object jumping from the ruined shuttle as it blazed across the atmosphere "judging by the size our video department can confirm that it was a transformer and that it was with the shuttle as it made re-entry, now the question is what was it doing there and why did it attack, are we faced with another attack from space like before and if so how many more will suffer".

The diner was still silent as the report continued but Sam, Bumblebee and Simmons did not see it as they sped out of town Sam coming Optimus for any information. "optimus have you heard about the shuttle?" asked Sam over the com, the Autobot leader quickly replied with "yes we received the news from the pentagon as soon as they heard". "do they have any idea where that thing landed?" asked the younger Prime, "no sam at first they were asking if we had anything to do with it, I fear that this is the start of something major as megatron would not make such a public move without good reason" replied Optimus. "whatever it is we'd better deal with it before this gets any worse, give me all the data you have and we'll check it out" commed Sam. The old Prime did not respond for a few seconds then he commed "sam maybe you should", "I know what your afraid of optimus and I'll admit that it scares me to but we can't let this get any further out of control, send me what I need so my team can at least asses the size and strength of whoever this decepticon is before the rest of you get there" interrupted Sam. Optimus simply gave in to his brothers request and hoped that he the other Autobots could get therein time to deal with the threat.

Mean while in Tranquility the new leader of the Decepticon's was also sending com messages but his were receiving no answer. "dam it soundwave answer me" commed Fury as punched the ground hard, "I though that there were no other decepticons in the system?" asked Unseen as he looked at the video once more. "there aren't" replied Tank as his large form leaned against the side of the old building causing it to groan with strain. "no answer from anyone" said Fury as he clenched his fist tightly with a sound of scraping metal. "tank can you work out where this guy landed so we can remind him who gives the orders round here?" asked the young Decepticon leader, "I think so" replied Tank as he began working out the landing zone of the unknown Decepticon. After a few minutes the heavily armored Decepticon said "my best guess is that he landed near the moors cliff nuclear power plant maybe twenty miles away, if we hurry we could get there before anyone else as the Autobots have this new base and even with air transport we should have about an hour before they get there". "good" said Fury as he transformed into his jet alt "then we get there first, deal with this guy and get out before anyone knows we were there, decepticons transform and rise up".