Transformers Prime: A New Adventure.
Chapter 19: The Transformer Guerilla Corps.
In an undisclosed part of the United States where there are abandoned suburbs leading to a nearby forest and a nearby assortment of caves, a woman was taking a walk, whistling cheerfully to the tune of Chubby Checker's The Twist.
She was tall and muscular for a woman, standing at six feet and three inches tall, with jet black flowing hair reaching her shoulders, emerald green eyes, fair skin, and 60% muscle mass without being overly muscular and without looking like she's gaining too much weight.
This woman walked while doing a Saturday Night Fever strut down the street and while also doing the Spider-Man 2 Peter Parker dorky walk.
After a few minutes, the whistling stopped, and she glanced around, hearing nothing.
Suddenly, she could hear the Charlie Puth song Attention playing on her cell phone.
She pulls it out of her back pocket and looks at the caller I.D., seeing it display as "Overfight."
She answers it and asks, "Yes, Overfight?"
Overfight states, "Ram Shop, a cluster of Autobot and Decepticon life signals are converging on your coordinates. We can't take any chances, but we also have to find a way to get in touch with Optimus Prime's forces."
Ram Shop questions, "Are these signals coming from west by northeast?"
Overfight answers, "Yes, ma'am. Orders?"
Ram Shop answers, "See to it that our Ground Bridge connects with the Autobots' Ground Bridge, see to it that our communications are linked with the communications of the Autobot base, and see to it that our duplicated Energon Locaters and Energon Refiners are given to the Autobots. I'll give you further orders after I make contact with the Autobots."
Overfight replies before asking, "Yes, ma'am. I'll be standing by should I hear word from you. And I already have Acidgazer, Iongazer, Novagazer, Acidscare, Ionscare, Novascare, Highspin, Flydome, Highmercy, Circuitswitch, Sunpower, Eclipsecrusher, Shadowcase, Rapidmine, Stormpest, Tiga High, Skyhowler, Critterpyro, Boltshift, our Air Defenders, our Fliers, our Arachnicons, our Artillery Specialists, our Brutes, our Captains, our Cloakers, our own Combaticons, our own Constructicons, our Defenders, our own Deployers, our Destroyers, our Harbinger Destroyers, our Convoy Destroyers, our Throwback Destroyers, our Gladiator Destroyers, our Guardians, our Heavy Soldiers, our Slayer Infiltrators, our Scrapper Infiltrators, our Insecticons, our Insecticon Bruisers, our Insecticon Spitters, our Insecticon Swarmers, our Heavy Rig Leaders, our Laser Guards, our Medic Rig Leaders, our Armored Rig Leaders, our Elite Rig Leaders, our Spy Rig Leaders, our Tactical Rig Leaders, our Leapers, our Marauders, our Medics, our Melee Specialists, our armies of Mini-Cons, our own Protectors, our own Protectobots, our Rocket Soldiers, our Air Defender Scientists, our Interceptor Scientists, our Skyraider Scientists, our Energon Seeker Scientists, our Stalker Scientists, our Retaliator Scientists, our Vanguard Scientists, our Wingman Scientists, our Jurassic Scientists, our Buzz Scientists, our Stinger Scientists, our Shotgunners, our Speedster Scouts, our Runner Scouts, our Sprinter Scouts, our Dragster Scouts, our Enforcer Scouts, our Racer Scouts, our Tracker Scouts, our Shifters, our Snipers, our Soldier Units, our Defender Soldiers, our Protector Soldiers, our Crusher Soldiers, our Destroyer Soldiers, our Eradicator Soldiers, our Titan Units, our Steel Crusher Titans, our Annihilator Titans, our Wall Crawlers, our own Wreckers, our Miners, our Seacons, our Stunticons, our Car Vehicons, our Jet Vehicons, our Tank Vehicons, our Helicopter Vehicons, our Motorcycle Vehicons, our Artillery Vehicons, our Dragster Vehicons, our Stealth Jet Vehicons, our Armored Vehicle Vehicons, our Demolition Vehicons, our Scrapmetal Vehicons, our Car Vehicon Generals, our Vehicon Seekers, our Jet Vehicon Generals, our Vehicon Captains, our Vehicon Scorchers, our Vehicon Bombardiers, our Vehicon Gunners, our Hunters, our Commanders, our Warriors, our Bosses, our Sentries, our Shadow Raiders, our Steeljaws, our Infernocons, our Guardian Knights, our Dinobots, our Air Strike Patrols, our Battle Patrols, our Battle Squadrons, our Gladiator Corps, our Firestormers, our Micromasters, our Off Road Patrols, our Phantomstrike Squadrons, our Powerdashers, our Race Car Patrols, our Rainmakers, our Rescue Patrols, our Sports Car Patrols, our Astro Squadrons, our Battlechargers, our Clones, our Coneheads, our Hot Rod Patrols, our Metro Squadrons, our Military Patrols, our Race Track Patrols, our Build Teams, our Commandos, our Destructicons, our Spychangers, our Team Bullet Trains, our Amphiboids, our Buffaloids, our Chompazoids, our Corvicons, our Crash Combiners, our Croctobots, our Cyber-Ticks, our Lobstercons, our Ronin, our Scavengebots, our Scavengers, our Sharkticons, our Allicons, our Skunkticons, our Snaketicons, our Light Units, our Medium Units, our Heavy Units, our Command Units, our Guerilla Units, our Rollarm Units, our Spider Tanks, our Jet Laser Units, our Jet Sniper Units, our Artillery Units, our Construction Teams, our Air Teams, our Destruction Teams, our Omnicons, our Battle Ravage Terrorcons, our Command Ravage Terrorcons, our Divebomb Terrorcons, our Cruellock Terrorcons, our Insecticon Terrorcons, our Railbots, our Aerialbot Scout 1s, our Aerialbot Scout 2s, our Aerialbot Warriors, our Combaticon Scouts, our Combaticon Snipers, our Combaticon Warriors, our Omnibot Scout 1s, our Omnibot Scout 2s, our Omnibot Warriors, our Protectobot Scouts, our Protectobot Snipers, our Protectobot Warriors, our Seeker Scouts, our Seeker Snipers, our Seeker Warriors, our Stunticon Scout 1s, our Stunticon Scout 2s, our Gold Stunticon Scout 2s, our Stunticon Snipers, our Air Sharks, our Autobot Tactician Captains, our Autobot Melee Warriors, our Autobot Ranged Warriors, our Autobot Sergeants, our Autotroopers, our Blue Drones, our Chevy Troopers, our Class Alpha Drones, our Class Beta Drones, our Constructicon Scouts, our Constructicon Warriors, and our other forces awaiting word from you if you need reinforcements. Do you need me to send you a Ground Bridge?"
Ram Shop answers, "No. I can handle things for the most part."
Another voice asks, "Do you need me to pick you up?"
Ram Shop answers, "No, Moonbox. I intend to stay hidden and observe the fight while finding a way to get in contact with the Autobots."
Moonbox questions, "But what if you get spotted by Decepticons?"
Ram Shop replies, "As long as I maintain caution, they won't be able to notice me. Besides, I've had millions of years to practice acting like a human."
Moonbox replies, "Understood."
Ram Shop hangs up and activates her full human form.
The sounds then became louder and more clear.
Ram Shop could easily hear blaster and gunfire, heavy pede falls, the clanging and slashing of metal against metal, the snapping of trees, and the crunching of soil and plants.
As the Autobots took on the Ground Vehicon Troopers and the Ground Vehicon Generals, Clippoint backflipped multiple times to avoid a Vehicon General's advanced combat moves.
As Fortressimus came up to reprogram the General, much to Clippoint's surprise, she took a glimpse at the road and did a double-take when she saw the human standing there with a look of awe, apparently dressed in a metal suit of armor and carrying what appeared to be a human-sized Cybertronian stun blaster with the setting set on kill.
Clippoint says into her commlink, "Optimus, this is urgent. We've been spotted by a human behind us, by the road."
Optimus replies, "Acknowledged. Protect the human; I will rendezvous at your position."
Suddenly, the human looked up towards the sky, and Clippoint does so, only for the both of them to spot the Decepticon Ground Bridge opening above them.
Fourteen Decepticon Fliers took on a fingertip right formation and a V formation, but Ram Shop immediately fired on the lead UAV that happens to be Soundwave, taking everyone by surprise.
Soundwave immediately dodged the stun blasts, but 2 Vehicon Jets weren't so fortunate to evade the stun bolts in time.
As the Autobots took up a defensive circle around the human, a Vehicon broke off a nearby tree near the roots.
Fortressimus takes out his flaming sword and swiftly slices the tree into big and small chunks of wood before decapitating the drone.
But then, a Ground Vehicon General smashes Fortressimus with a lance of its own, even though the drone didn't know Fortressimus was invulnerable.
Soundwave stepped back in fear as he saw Fortressimus deploy an Energon Axe and bisect the General before the two halves exploded.
As the remaining Vehicons were offline, Soundwave hightailed it through a Ground Bridge.
Optimus questions, "Where is the human?"
Ram Shop answers, "On your lower right."
Optimus looks down in the direction of his lower right to see the human looking up at him, but more specifically at his dented right shoulder plate.
Optimus questions, "Are you alright?"
Ram Shop answers, "Yeah, considering the fact that I almost got captured by Soundwave if I hadn't shot at him with my stun blaster."
Everyone looks at the human femme in shock, not anticipating that she would know who Soundwave was.
But any questions were lost when she asked, "What about you? Are you okay? Your right shoulder plate looks like it was dented by a drone using either a hammer or a tree ripped out of its roots, and it appears to be bleeding."
Optimus' optics widened before he felt his shoulder plate, only to feel his servo wet with his Energon.
Optimus replies, "Now I see what you mean. Anyway, we mean you no harm and bear you no malice, but we cannot simply leave you here. Our enemies will possibly return to harm you if they manage to find you. Will you please come with us? We will explain everything to you in our base."
Ram Shop replies back, "All right. Let's go."
Clippoint says into her commlink, "Ratchet, we need a Ground Bridge. Optimus has a bleeding dented right shoulder plate that needs looking over."
Ratchet replies, "Coming up."
Everyone goes through the Ground Bridge to the base.
Ram Shop takes note of everything in the base, and notices that the Autobots' equipment has undergone vast improvements, thanks in part to the Forge of Solus Prime.
Ratchet asks, "Fortressimus, can you help Optimus' repairs finish up?"
Fortressimus nods and does so with his powers.
Ratchet notices Ram Shop and snarls, "A human?! What's the meaning of this?!"
Overscreen answers, "She saw us fighting the Decepticons, and when Soundwave and a few more Vehicon Jets noticed her, she tried to immobilize Soundwave with a human-sized Cybertronian stun blaster."
Ratchet whirls around to look at Ram Shop in shock.
Ratchet questions with interest and suspicion, "Where did you get a stun blaster?"
Ram Shop replies, "Hhhaaa. I was hoping you wouldn't find out until I was ready, but..."
Ram Shop proceeds to switch to her Cybertronian form, much to everyone's collective shock.
Everyone could see that Ram Shop's robot mode was standing at 29 feet tall, her armor was in amaranth red, frostbite pink, French sky blue, and French lime green, her frame had wheels on her backplate alongside the car doorwings on her backplate, she had car wheels on the backs of her calf guards, she had a car front arranged in 2 different configurations flawlessly without making her chestplate look like a mismatched jigsaw puzzle, she had a grayish-silver faceplate, and she had a medium-sized helmet with trident prong-shaped horns.
Ram Shop says, "My designation is Ram Shop, and together with my one hundred and two thousand, seven hundred and twenty-nine friends and surrogate relatives, we have remained hidden from Autobots and Decepticons alike as the Transformer Guerilla Corps."
Optimus and the others looked at each other in shock, but before anyone can say anything, the Autobot Ground Bridge opened and out came Ram Shop's troops.
It took a lot of convincing, but eventually, the Autobots got new recruits even further.
But of course, Fortressimus knew that it was a matter of time before the Darkness Rising Part 1 episode came to be.
He wanted all hands on deck to be ready.
The End.
(Author's notes: See you all in chapter 20: Losing Part of Your Soul.)