A/N: Second chapter of this! Yay! Bit of a warning, it may seem a bit boring because I followed the movie for most, but I have done some changes to some scenes.

Enjoy!

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Earth—Present Day

"Bee, I'm closing in on the bot now," Cade Yeager said through a radio as he drove a modified pick-up truck through a demolished section of Chicago, having been too active of an area after the Battle of Chicago nearly eight years before too rebuild. A 'Transformer No-Go Zone' the TRF(Transformer Reaction Force) dubbed areas like this. The had automated mechs guarding the area. Things looked like that thing from that one stealth game. It was going to bother the inventor. He knew the name of the game, but it escaped him.

Cade shook his head. Info about a video game was irrelevant at the moment. Right now, he had to find this bot that had crash-landed. With more and more bots coming each day, and most governments of the world banning the aliens after the Hong Kong incident and setting up their own TRF branches, Cade and the remaining Autobots after Optimus made it a mission to try to save as many as possible. They had nowhere else to go. Their home was gone, dead. Having been ravaged by war eons ago.

Turning a corner, Cade saw the downed ship. He also spotted two of TRF's mechs aiming at a group of kids that apparently wanted to see a Transformer. They were in danger. Those damn things word fire on them the moment they made any rapid movements. When he went to radio Bumblebee for assistance, he heard a shout followed by a little girl atop a ruined train car throwing some bottles through the air. Cade watched as one dumb mech followed the bottles to his buddy and fired. As the kids ran off, led by the girl, he radioed Bumblebee.

"Bee, we got an issue. Four or five kids, and they just pissed off those TRF bots. Circle around the other side, through the parking garage. I'mma go after the kids."

The inventor put his truck into drive and floored it. It wasn't hard to follow them. All he had to do was listen to the shouting and machine gun fire. A pile of rubble made a direct path impassable. Taking a roundabout detour, he heard the distinctive sound a fighter jet and the scream of a missile flying through the air before hitting a target with an echoing boom. Cade feared the worst as he scrambled for his radio to contact his Autobot friend.

"Shit! Bee did you see what they just hit?"

The other end of the radio crackled to life, and the Autobot scout replied. "A harmless bot that was protecting the kids."

"Damn it!"

Cade whirled around a corner and saw the sight of five kids, the girl kneeling and crying in front of a dying bot. Down the road, came another TRF mech. He pulled up next to the kids and hopped out, grabbing a human-sized Cybertronian gun from the back and a stun grenade. He tossed the grenade first, disorienting the mech. Immediately after, he aimed and fired once, twice, three times at the mech. While the mech didn't go down, Cade had no need to fire anymore. The wall of the parking garage next to the mech exploded outward and out came Bumblebee. He jumped on the mech, breaking off the mounted machine gun before delivering two shots from his arm cannon. The scout leaped off with a rolled as the mech exploded in a shower of metal and flames.

"I hate people messing with me!"

"No, Canopy…" The little girl cried, tears making waving streaks down her dust covered face. "Wake up. You gotta wake up!"

Cade hurried over and pulled the girl away. "Come on, it's over."

"No, I can fix him!" the girl pleaded.

Cade pulled again. "No one can fix him. He's dead. Hey! Look at me!" The girl did so between sobs. "Would he want you to die too? Let's go. Now."

He had piled all the kids into the truck and drove out of there at top speed. Cade made his way to the fence. He was gonna make sure the kids left this place. It was too dangerous here for them. To his surprise, the girl sobered up quickly by the time the got to the fence.

"Hey," one of the kids said as he gestured for them to get out of the truck. "You're that guy. You're like some sort of legend."

"Some legend," the girl remarked.

A third kid stopped Cade and said, "You know they have a really big reward for you."

"Oh, yeah?"

"Yeah."

"Well, do you you want to get punched in the face really hard?" With that, Cade ushered the rest of the kids through the whole in the fence.

The girl was the last one through. She pause a brief moment to say, "See ya around… legend," before calling for her little blue bot friend.

With the kids out of harms way, Cade hopped back in his truck and drove back to the downed ship. Reaching the ship, he pulled over, grabbing a set of explosive charges and climbing up the angled ship. Two charges were set in such a position that it would open up the cabin yet not harm the bot inside. After detonating the charges, Cade climbed back up to see an older looking bot with massive leak of Energon from his lower chest area.

The bot groans and struggled in place.

"Whoa, whoa. Easy there," Cade calmly said. "I'm just trying to help." He climbed in the cabin and began inspecting the wound. It was deep. The bot had lost a lot of Energon already. It wasn't looking good. When the inventor pressed a large rag onto the wound, the bot groaned some more. "You're hurt really bad, okay?"

"Protect," the bot struggled to get out, "protect from Quin… Quinte…"

Sighing, Cade looked down. "I'm sorry." There wasn't anything he could do for the bot.

A section of the bot's chest opened up and he reached inside. In his palm, he held a metallic talisman with old runes on it. "The talisman will protect you…"

"You don't owe me anything. You keep it," Cade said. The bot urged him to take it. "I can't."

Just then, the bot's optics flickered before going out and the rest of his body went limp as well. Cade sighed before kicking the inside of the cabin in frustration. Not only did one bot died today; two did. Both were dead, and he couldn't save them. He climbed out and down, beginning his walk back to his truck.

"He didn't make it, Bee," Cade said into his radio. "I'm coming out solo on this one," then to himself, "This is turning into one shitty ass day."

As Cade walked on, he felt eyes on him. Multiple eyes. It was made even more apparent by the three green laser dots hovering over his heart. With a mental curse, he slow raised his hands and set the radio and the backpack he had down slowly while raising his hands into the air. Several armed men and vehicles began to surround him. Cade took it as his cue to slowly get on his knees and placed his hands behind his head as the soldiers closed in on him.

A man, the TRF commander known as Santos, walked around and stood in front of him. "So, help yourself out here," he said. "Where are the others, the ones you're hiding?"

Cade looked Santos dead in the eyes. "I don't sell out friends."

That earned him a scoff. "Friends? This is an invasion! One day we wake up, and they're in charge."

"You see anybody in charge? They just keep falling out of the sky. Something's coming, and you can't shoot your way out of it."

Before anyone could speak, the sound of a modified muscle car came roaring towards the group. Cade turned to see his ally Bumblebee driving towards them.

The gunner of one of the TRF SUVs aimed the machine gun he manned and began firing on the Autobot. Bumblebee swerved out of the way of the bullets before transforming and rolling forward towards the SUV.

Bumblebee slammed into the vehicle, knocking it over with a groan of metal. Arming his cannon, Bumblebee placed the barrel to the ground and fired. A non-lethal pulse blast was sent out in all directions. It knocked over most of the TRF soldiers in the process. Bee fired at a second SUV, the pulse slamming into and flipping once. He swatted away three TRF that began to get up before taking out the third SUV. Another pulse blast at the ground knocked down more TRF. Cade took the chaos and sucker-punched Santos in the face. Before anyone could react, Bee pinned the TRF commander to the ground with his cannon.

"I'll burn you so bad, you'll wish you died as a child," Bumblebee threatened him.

"Shoot him," Santos shouted.

Cade, having now picked up his own gun, said, "You'll be dead before I hit the ground."

"Shoot him! Take the shot! Shoot!"

"Don't do it, Bee!" A new voice called out. From another TRF vehicle came Colonel William Lennox, former NEST operative. Former ally of the Autobots. "Hold your fire. Hold it. You. Drop it."

Without looking at him, Cade replied with, "I ain't droppin' shit."

Lennox took a breath and looked up to Bumblebee. "Hey, the military doesn't want it this way." Bee turned his cannon towards him. "You gotta believe that. It's a new world order now, and these guys are calling the shots."

Cade snapped his head towards Lennox. "All they want is a home, and you know it. You push them and they push right back." Bee made it a point to aim back at Santos, who struggled in a frustrated manner. He clearly didn't like knowing the Autobot easily took down him and his men.

A loud rumbling of metal drew the attention of some as the Autobot commando Hound rolled up and to the little meet-and-greet with his mini-gun primed spinning. "Alright, fellas. I love showing up to a gun fight. This round mound is gonna mow you down. Translation: sayonara, suckers."

Taking a glance around, Cade said, "Me and my crew are walking out of here. Let's go. They're not gonna touch us."

Cade began walking away. Lennox radioed in a negative for Decepticon targets while Santos begrudgingly told his men to stand down.

"You sure you don't wanna shoot?" Hound taunted, tapping his chest. "I'm a big ol' target. Wusses."

Walking away, Bee made chicken noises at the soldiers. The group began making their way out of the No-Go Zone and back to South Dakota… but not before a TRF sniper shot a tracker into the spoiler of Bee's alt-mode.

Several hours later

A custom law enforcement 2016 Ford Mustang Saleen drifted around a corner before stopping, lights flashing and siren blaring. Transforming, the Decepticon enforcer Barricade lumbered forward into a delivery area of an old factory. He activated a high-powered light on his shoulder as he stepped in, scanning it over the darkened area.

"My lord," he said.

Sitting upon the wreckage of an old and burned out pile of cars was Megatron himself, using the pile as a makeshift throne. The Decepticon leader shielded his optics from Barricade's light with his hand as he scowled.

"Get that out of my face," he ordered. After Barricade did so, he continued. "Report. Were the rumors true? Did the Knight possess a talisman?"

"Yes, my lord. Right before expiring, he gave it to a human male. I could not retrieve it. There was too many TRF in the area."

Megatron rose to his feet and grasped Barricade by the throat, pinning him against a wall. "I do not care about the TRF! You let the talisman escape! It could hold the means to lead us to the Staff."

Barricade groaned under the pressure being applied to his throat. "Lord Megatron… I know how we can be led to it."

The Decepticon leader's glare lessened as he dropped his lackey. "Speak. Quickly."

From a hidden compartment in his arm, Barricade grabbed a truck door and tossed it to the ground at his master's feet. "The TRF."

Megatron looked to the door then to Barricade. A malicious smirk grew on his face. The human military group placed a tracker on the Autobots. "Yes." Then he laughed. "Send out a call to Swindle and Vortex. Time to assemble a crew."

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Cybertron Orbit

"Optimus Prime… re-entry… Cybertron…"

He awoke from stasis to find himself being pulled towards a planet. Pulling the shield from his back, he used to protect himself as he made landing on the planet's surface. Slamming into solid ground at terminal velocity can hurt even a Prime without a means to protect oneself. After years away

A trench was carved into the ground upon contact with the surface. He regained his senses slowly, moaning in pain as he began to move his stiffened body and look around. He wished he hadn't looked up. He wished he had kept his optics closed What he saw around him was something out of a hellish nightmare. It was enough to send a pang of sadness and hopelessness through his Spark. Even rising to his feet, he could not help but stare around in shock.

"My world…," Optimus Prime muttered. "What has happened to my world?"

"Your world is dying, Optimus Prime," a feminine voice echoed from within the entrance to some kind of chamber directly ahead.

Prime jerked his head to look inside before marching in with a burning determination. He suspected who was inside. The one who brought him here. His Creator. Upon entry to the chamber revealed it to be much larger than anticipated. In the center were two massive statues of Cybertronian knights kneeling with their swords in front of them. Between those giant swords was a floating being.

"I've been waiting for you, Optimus," the female being said. "Come meet Your Maker."

Prime narrowed his optics as he got closer. "You are my… creator?"

She opened her eyes to reveal two blue optics. "I am Quintessa, the Prime of Life."

With roar of anger, Optimus began to approach at a faster pace. "What have you done to my home?!" He pulled his sword off of his back and was ready to swing when Quintessa turned around and hit him with a blue pulse of energy. The Prime was sent rolling backwards, using his sword to halt his slide across the ground.

"You dare raise a weapon to your god?!" Quintessa roared. "Infernocus! Teach Optimus what happens to those who threaten me."

A large and horned bot lumbered from the shadows. It let out a roar that invited anyone to try and test it. It's armor was jagged and angular. Its aura gave off a sense of evil and dread. It stood nearly doubled Optimus' height and showed of sharp claws.. Red piercing optics glared at the Prime as he rose to his feet and angled his sword in ready to attack pose.

"Do you know who I am?" Optimus demanded before snapping his battle mask into place.

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A/N: The end there was a bit different from the movie, huh? Prime just doesn't get instantly chained up. That's too boring. Instead, I set up a fight between Infernocus and Prime! Also, you may have picked out that I didn't have Bumblebee do that disassemble thing he did in the movie. While it looked cool, it just doesn't seem logical.

Anyway, if you enjoyed, leave a review. Maybe a follow. Maybe a favorite as well. Next chapter is gonna be a fight between Quintessa's guard dog and the last of the Primes.