Chapter 5: Infiltration

Shockwave walked along the hallways looking for Soundwave. He'd never expect to see him sitting in the med bay being taken care of by a vehicon medic. Shockwave looked around but saw no one else in there.

"Uh Soundwave did you get into a fight outside or something?" Shockwave asked.

"No, I chose Kenny and Bloodbath to spar with me and well, Kenny won!" Soundwave said and the drones nodded.

Shockwave's optic flickered for a few seconds before he responded.

"Kenny...beat you? Illogical!" Shockwave scoffed.

"It's true, he smashed Soundwave's visor and punctured his tentacles!" One of the vehicons stated.

"It was in a fit of rage remembering his old life!" Another said.

"Wow, is he okay?" Shockwave asked.

"I hope so, he ran off crying to his room. Poor kid. Even after a year he can't get a break!" A third drone sighed sadly.

"Damn evil jets!" Shockwave growled and left.

Kenny layed on his berth thinking about what he did to Soundwave. He didn't mean to. What would Shockwave think? What was Shockwave going to do to him? Could Kenny be kicked out? After all he's done to earn respect? Damn he couldn't get a break. Bloodbath was walking towards his room when Shockwave came up to him.

"Bloodbath, is Kenny in his room?" Shockwave asked.

"I believe so! I'm going to check up on him." Bloodbath said.

"You should really talk to him. From what I was told, he was very troubled."

"You're not going to kick him out are you?"

"Primus no! Kenny is probably the best thing that ever happened to us. We don't want to get rid of that now do we?" Shockwave leaned in close to Bloodbath.

"No we don't. Surely my brother wouldn't mind a little chat." Bloodbath backed up.

Bloodbath proceeded to Kenny's room where the door wasn't completely closed. Bloodbath poked his head in and saw Kenny whimpering. Kenny felt a clawed hand touch his shoulder but he didn't look.

"Shockwave please don't beat me up." Kenny whimpered.

"Kenny it's your brother! And Shockwave isn't going to hurt you!" Bloodbath assured rubbing Kenny's shoulder.

Kenny looked up and mentaly smiled when he saw his brother beside him. He hugged him tight not wanting to let him go.

"You okay?"

"No...I wish I could take what I did back."

"Soundwave is fine! He's impressed at your strength! You're growing strong Kenny, a lot stronger than us. That's something to be proud of."

"Oh...I thought he'd be mad!"

"Never!"

Kenny and Bloodbath continued to hug each other like it was the last hug of their life. Kenny had nothing to worry about. But the same couldn't be said for Trapper, Trips and Jetstream who finally arrived back in Kaon. The place was still crawling with jets. Jetstream instructed Trips to fly towards Kenny's house and enter through the attic. Trapper was going to have to make his way to the back of the house which would involve fighting through some vehicons. And Jetstream was going to cause a few distractions. Trips flew through the sky getting closer and closer to the house. So far no signs of other jets and he felt relieved.

"Man, Blueshot is missing out on a lot isn't he?" Trips said to himself.

He noticed the attic window was open and he simply flew in and transformed. He looked around, no one was in there. It was just dark and cold since one vehicon busted all the lights in the house. However after a few minutes of looking around, grabbing as many data pads with Kenny's specifications and checking through boxes, he heard voices.

"Should we grab those data pads?"

"Yeah, Kenny won't miss them!"

Trips didn't seem that worried. He faced two drones before...but he didn't have to fight them. He safely concealed the small data pads into a compartment in his chest and then tried to hide. Two jet vehicons entered the attic and looked surprised.

"Hey, these boxes looked like they've been moved." One of them said.

"Huh, that's weird!" The other one stated.

Trips was hiding deep in a dark corner where no light could reach. He thanks Primus there was nothing over there to investigate. Meanwhile, Jetstream made his way to the house and thought he was in the clear. Suddenly, he was spotted by 5 jet vehicons who confronted him.

"HEY JET! WHAT ARE YA, LOST?" One snarled as the group advanced on Jetstream.

Jetstream had to think of a way to get through quickly upon seeing three of them cracking their knuckles and the other two were flexing their claws. He finally came up with one that could full even the smartest vehicon.

"Guys, guys no need to cause trouble, I'm one of you guys!" Jetstream said trying not to sound nervous.

The vehicons look at each other, shrug, and then look back at him.

"Why aren't you silver like the rest of us?" Another spoke out.

"I was just never into the whole silver thing. But I'm here to find out what Kenny is hiding like the rest of ya! I swear!" Jetstream said.

"Strange, Whirl never explained anything about us choosing different colors." One said.

"Really, Whirl never said anything?" Jetstream said hoping this was giving Trapper a chance to get in the house.

Trapper entered through a door in the ground that lead to the basement. But when he entered the dark basement, there were about 10 drones on guard and saw him.

"INTRUDER! A TRUCK!" One of the guards warned.

"HOW DID HE GET IN?" Another asked.

"Doesn't matter how I got in, what does matter is that you all are about to get smashed!" Trapper growled flexing his claws for the upcoming battle.

"GET HIM!"

Trapper was able to prove how strong he was as he began bashing and electrifying the drones mercilessly. But the drones did get in a few punches and swipes of their own. Back in the attic, Trips tried his best to stay quiet as the drones continued looking through things. Trips was getting very annoyed. He thought Jetstream and Trapper would be inside right now. Suddenly they heard a loud bang as Trapper was smashing drones against the walls.

"What was that?" One vehicon asked.

Suddenly, the noise jolted the house enough to make Trips stumble forwards revealing himself from the shadows.

"IT'S AN INTRUDER! A HELICOPTER!" The other said getting in fighting position.

"Oh scrap!" Trips groaned.

"Heh, you newer advanced vehicons think you're so strong right? Well let's test that theory out shall we?" The first drones said as they advanced on Trips.

Trips would always fight if it meant to save his life. He came across jets plenty of times. Two shouldn't be hard. Heck he already saved a mech from two...but then again, he never fought them. The jets rushed him quickly and slammed him into a wall. Trips recovered and punched one away and clawed the other one. One of them stood back to let the other one fight Trips. Trips turned out to be a pretty good fighter as he dodged blows, got in many of his and made the drones begin to worry. However, Trips's speed was something the jets could take advantage of. While Trips was focused on one of them, the other one ran up behind him and placed him in a head-lock. The other jet took this chance to slam a fist into Trip's face knocking him to the ground where the jets eagerly began to pummel him without mercy whatsoever. By this time Jetstream had gotton access to enter the house.

"Now then, where is everybody?" Jetstream asked.

He heard scuffling below and above. but he didn't know which way to go. However, remembering Trapper could handle himself, he decided to go upstairs. He heard Trip's pain cries and rushed into the room.

"GET OFF HIM AND FIGHT SOMEONE YOU'RE OWN KIND!" Jetstream challenged.

"WHAT? WHO GOES THERE?" One of the jets asked.

Jetstream was confused. He then noticed no light shining on him and his black paint made him blend in without the green affecting him much at all. He mentaly smirked. The jets looked around but saw no one. Jetstream kept his optics squinted as he hunted them in the shadows. Finally he tackles one of them and severely beats the jet back in the darkness. The other jet looks around nervously while hearing the sounds of punches for a few seconds.

"SHOW YOURSELF!"

There was silence...the poor jet stood in the only little light in the room from the window. Suddenly a hand pops into the light and pulls him into the darkness igniting more sounds of punches before silence. Trips, severely beaten, coughed and looked around.

"Hello?" Trip coughed and look at the energon leaking from him.

Finally Jetstream emerged victorious from the darkness and went to Trip's aid.

"Trip's you okay? Don't worry I'll help you out of here! But we need to get to Trapper." Jetstream said picking Trip's up and wrapping an arm around his shoulders. "You're going to be okay kid. I know you fought with all your spark."

Jetstream then made a comm. link to Trapper while Trips slipped into unconsciousness.

"Trapper, how's it going?"

"You two might wanna get out now!"

"Why?"

"This whole time I've been building up enough energy to blast this house so no jet gets away with Kenny's stuff. It's better to destroy it now, then let them have it. Did you guys collect anything?"

"Trips did but he's been badly beaten! We need to leave now. Let's hope Kenny doesn't find out about this!"

"I agree...get out now!"

Trapper's energy tanks had created an orb of deadly electricity power that could kill everyone within a whole block. Luckily, everyone normal citizen had been run out. The orb grew and grew as the surviving vehicons crowded in corners.

"THIS IS FOR KENNY!" Trapper yelled.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! CRASH! THOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Trips, Jetstream escape just in time and Trapper, untouched by the blast thanks to the orb's sheild, simply walks out to the others.

"Well that was fun! OH SHIT IS TRIPS OKAY?" Trapper asked grabbing Trips from Jetstream.

"He's okay, just knocked out, let's get him home!" Jetstream said. "I'll stay with you guys for now!"

They looked back at what was once Kenny's house. It was now nothing but piles of metal. They believed all the Vehicon jets were dead...but...unfortuantely some jets had escaped before the blast but luckily without any info to give their leader Whirl.

"So, what will your friend Blueshot think about this?" Jetstream asked as he was forced to sit on top of Trapper to keep hold of Trips.

"Honestly, after how he's been treating me recently, I wouldn't say he's my friend right now so I don't care what he thinks!" Trapper grumbled.

The remaining few vehicons traveled to a secret location on the outskirts of Kaon. It was a small warehouse where the leader, the insane Whirl, usually met the vehicons at. There were only 6 remaining jet vehicons coming from their failed mission. They knew Whirl was going to be pissed. They found him sitting in a large chair in the main floor of the warehouse surrounded by over 20 more jet vehicons.

"I'm assuming you failed." Whirl spoke with his back against the jets.

"Yes sir. Some of those new vehicons ambushed us and blew up Kenny's house...along with all the information." One spoke up nervously.

"Ugh, you jets are hopeless. How am I supposed to help you when you keep failing. Mabye those trucks, tanks and helicopters were much better choices...if they despised Kenny. But no matter, there are plenty more jets where that came from." Whirl said in low slightly crazy tone.

Whirl's chair spun around to face them. His one optic glowed brightly and his claws snapped with thought.

"Kenny and his brother will soon be forced to give up their mysterious powers. And they will be mine, MINE, MINE I TELL YOU HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Whirl laughs loudly.

The jets look at each other confused. Some were questioning why Whirl was even helping them. Others thought somehow Whirl was going to lead them to defeat. Whirl was pretty insane and very sarcastic. They were glad this was only temporary.

"Um sir...you wouldn't happen to know Kenny in any way would you?" One asked what many others were wondering.

Whirl let out a little hiss and squinted his optic.

"Me and Kenny...have a history!"

To be continued...

So there's the answer! It's Whirl, the creepy, insane, one-eyed Autobot. Yes I know he's not a vehicon. But that doesn't mean he can't be their leader or helper! Prepare for Whirl to appear more in the story! SPOILER ALERT! THE OTHER COMBATICONS ARE ROLLING IN NEXT! Looks like Brawl will be happy!