It was a nice day at the base. Raf, Jack, and bumblebee were looking at pictures of bee."Removing Bumblebee... and replacing with-" Raf put a dancing monkey.
"Tap dancing monkey strikes again." Jack high fived Raf.
"Pictures of Bumblebee, or any of us, on the World Wide Web is no laughing matter." Ratchet stated sternly as he keeps working.
Miko was playing Just Dance with Bulkhead and Grimlock who just wanted to join them since there was nothing better to do at the moment.
"Miko- did you have to choose the hardest dance?" Jack asked, concerned.
"C'mon- Rasputin is a great song! And it's historically accurate."
"Actually, Rasputin never had an affair with the queen of Russia-" Raf tried to explained but Miko interrupted him.
"Don't ruin the song."
Bulkhead was struggling a lot and then eventually falls down." Can't I just drive around?" He asked.
Grimlock just kept dancing and was surprisingly good at it. He was getting perfect each time.
"See, Grimlock can do it!" Miko beamed.
"Didn't know you can dance so well grim." Said Arcee with a small smile as she watches him dance.
"Hey guys- we found a cybertronian escape pod." Raf showed them the picture on his lap top.
"Here, on earth?" Ratchet was shocked.
"This requires investigation... Ratchet, bring your medical kit incase it is an Autobot in need of assistance."
"And I'll bring my fists just in case it's someone who needs punching." Said Grimlock as he smashes his fists together.
"Hey Grim, if breakdown shows up, punch him for me." Said Bulkhead as sits down.
Grimlock smiles and then nods.
They went through the groundbridge, finding the pod which had a decepticon signal on it. Before anything else, they were ambushed by Vehicons.
"All those Vehicons came out of that single pod?"
"Humans refer to this phenomenon as a clown car!" Ratchet said as he brings his blade out.
The Autobots fire at them. Breakdown was there and fires at the Autobots. He noticed bulkheads not there."Where's bulkhead at? Don't tell me I scared him off?"
Grimlock transforms and then roars as he charges at him." He has better things to do!" He rams into him and they both go far from the battle. The Insecticons go after Grimlock. Seems like Grimlock will have his hands full.
Arcee saw this and was about to go after them, but she's pin down from the enemy's fire." Scrap! Optimus, Grimlock might be in danger!" She said as she keeps firing at the enemy.
"We can not assist Grimlock while under enemy fire. We must hope that he can handle himself against the odds he will be against." Said Optimus as he shoots down a con.
Optimus was picking off at the cons one by one, the Autobots were being vastly out numbered since Grimlcok wasn't there.
Suddenly shots came behind the Autobots. Smokescreen came running in, guns blazing. He jumped over them, right into decepticon range.
He accidentally shot the energon pool.
"Fallback!" Optimus shouted.
Everyone who's there does so and runs like hell for cover. They get to cover and then BOOM!
The Energon pool exploded, killing all the cons there. Smokescreen stares at the dead cons and blue fire and then smiles." To hot for you cons?!" He asked
"Friend of yours?" Ratchet turned to Bumblebee, their chaotic behavior slightly resembling one another.
Bumblebee shook his helm with a few beeps, Arcee shrugging her shoulders." Never seen him till today."
Smokescreen turns and then jumps off the rock with a grin."Torching that Energon leak was a awesome idea." He said. In all truth, that was an accident.
"Accept that it wasn't your plan. It was a random shot that almost fried us." Arcee glared at him. He could have gotten them all killed.
"Well it worked didn't it?" He said to her, not even bothered by what she said.
"Thank you fellow Autobot. Your...valor is to be commended." Said Optimus as he greets the new Autobot.
"I-I don't Believe it! Your Optimus prime! He's Optimus prime!" He said as he turns to the others. You could tell that he's a fan boy.
Everyone nods and say they know.
"Now what? It's not like we can just bring him back to base." Ratchet asked.
"Not the first time an ally turned out to be an enemy..." Arcee remembered Makeshift pretending to be Wheeljack.
"You are correct Arcee, but perhaps we should let Grimlock decide since he was in a similar situation before joining our ranks." Said Optimus. He believes that this will be a good thing for Grimlock to do, even though he knows that he will let him come to base, but not before threatening to punch him probably.
"Who's Grimlock? Is he grimlock?" He asked as he points to bee who then shakes his head no.
A tree falls down and this was caused by Grimlock." I wonder who caused the explosion?" He said.
Smokescreen heard this and then turns around and sees Grimlock but doesn't notice the Autobot logo on him." A dinobot! Don't worry guys, I'll handle him!" He immediately jumps over the rock and starts shooting at Grimlock, but it did nothing.
Arcee runs over and then pinched him by the ear like a child... which he was."Hey- he's an Autobot and my boyfriend so you better stop or else!" Arcee scolded.
"Ow! Ow! Ow! What are do you mean?! He's a Dinobot! They all work for megatron! There's probably a dozen here! And what do you mean he's your boyfriend?!"Said Smokescreen as he tries to get out of this painful situation.
Grimlock transforms and then walks over. He then shows him his Autobot logo." I am a autobot and I'm probably the last dinobot there is. Oh and this is for shooting at me kid." He said as he punched him, sending him flying into a rock.
Smokescreen groans a bit." I guess I deserved that."
Optimus walks over to Grimlock." Grimlock, do you think we can trust smokescreen, even after what he did?" He wants to know how well grimlock deals with grudges, other than the one he has with Megatron which he doesn't judge.
"I say we can Optimus. The kid doesn't seem that bad." Said Grimlock with a grin.
Optimus comms Raf and haves him bridge them back.
Later...
"We haven't had someone new here in ages!" Miko was excited, overwhelming him with a plethora of questions.
"So... these are the life forms we protect? They're very small." He ruffled Miko's hair which made her laugh a bit.
"So... how did you arrive on earth?" Ratchet questioned.
"In a decepticon escape pod." Arcee was suspicious of Smokescreen. Even though grim says they can trust the kid, she doesn't. Not yet anyway.
Smokescreen explains his whole backstory on how he got here to earth in a con escape pod.
"The Decepticon warship must have guided the pod to earth." Deducted Ratchet.
Optimus looks at smokescreen."Do you know of Alpha Trion fate? After the fall of Iacon..." Optimus was hesitant to ask.
Smokescreen looks down." Wish I did, but that was the last time I ever saw him." Smokescreen said. There was a moment of silence, but then he spoke again." That's my life's story. Not very glorious, until now! The chances of ending this war has gone up! How bad could it be?"
Bulkhead trudged in, still struggling to move around. "Take a good look, noobie..."
"Smokescreen, you should take some time to get accustomed to this planet. A tour of the base would be an excellent start."
"Got it!" Miko raised her hand excitedly.
Bulkhead sighs as he leans against the wall for support.
"I mean... Jack here can do it." She ran over to keep Bulkhead company.
Later...
"If you wanted to replace me then you should have called wheeljack. I could have lived with that." Said Bulkhead
"We would never replace you buddy." Said Grimlock
"Yeah,No one's replacing you Bulk..." Arcee put a hand onto his shoulder.
"Smokescreen still has a lot to learn." Ratchet explained.
"What about after you got him trained? He's in, and I'm a door stop!" He said as he looks away in anger.
"Bulkhead, your position on the team is not in jeopardy. But we could use the additional help. But he will never replace you bulkhead."Said Optimus. Optimus would never replace one of his own.
"Hey everyone, check this out!" Raf uploaded a picture of a human dig site.
"Oh my... Red Energon." Ratchet gasped.
"Cool! Let's head out there and snag it before cons get their greasy servos on it." Smokescreen was pumped.
"Easy there rookie. You gotta wait awhile till your first mission, like I did." Said Grimlock with a grin.
"And you will need a Vehicle Mode." Said Optimus.
"Vehicle mode, huh...?" Smokescreen pondered.
Later...
He was out with Jack just scoping the highway for cars. "Nope. Too bulky. Too slow. Too skinny... is this the best your planet has to offer?"
"Nope. But it's the best we got in jasper." Said Jack as he watch more vehicles drive by.
That night...
The rest of the Autobots ground bridged to a cargo sight, seeing the crate of red energon.
"He didn't bother lowering it...?" Arcee was kind of annoyed.
"They must have been in the middle of transporting it when agent Fowler told them to evacuate." Said Optimus.
"I can get it down." Said Grimlock starts walking to it. He was gonna jump and get it but was stopped
"That's MY red energon." Starscream put the apex armor on. He then punched Grimlock down.
Grimlock kicks him away, sending him back a bit. He then smashes his fists together." You may have some armor, but it won't stop me from punching you." He said.
"Arcee and Bumblebee. Retrieve and protects the red Energon while I provide some assistance to Grimlock." Optimus said as he starts firing at Starscream.
Arcee and Bumblebee ran off, Starscream getting back up from where he was flung to start hand to hand combat with Optimus, he then ends up throwing him into a pile of crates. "You're next, Dinobot!"
Grimlock punched him down to the ground and then grabs him by the leg and then picks him up by the leg starts slamming him down repeatedly and then tosses him away." Had Enough screamer?" He asked with a grin.
Starscream shrieked when he was grabbed and slammed into the concrete repeatedly, getting dizzy. He was about to hurl but kept it in. "You... I'll tear you apart!"
He noticed Optimus was missing, looking around. "What the- where did he go?"
Optimus had climbed up high on the crane and jumped, body slamming Starscream like the WWE champ he is.
Due to there fighting, it caused the container holding the red Energon to fall and break open upon impact. The Energon breaks into two pieces.
Starscream didn't notice and still thought it was up there. He picked up the tower and began tipping it over, until Smokescreen came along and kicked him out of his armor using the phase shifter.The pieces of the red Energon were next to Starscream. He saw this and Grins and then grabs one of the pieces for himself.
"Nice job rookie." Said Grimlock as he picks up the armor and then tosses it away from Starscream.
"No problem, non-decepticon!" He fist bumped Grimlock.
Starscream grabs the other piece and throw's it up at the crane and then pointed his missile at it, blowing up the red energon. Starscream then retreated with what was left of it.
"You guys ok up there?" Grimlock asked as he looks at Arcee and bee up on the crane. He hopes they didn't get hurt from the blast.
Bumblebee gave a thumbs up as Arcee jumped down to land in Grimlock's arms.
Back at base...
"Smokescreen... you have proven to be a quick study. Your plan showed creativity and ingenuity I have not seen before." He put a hand on Smokescreen's shoulder.
Smokescreen looked like he was about to squeal like a fan girl.
"Don't let it go to your head rookie. You still need training, and I'm the bot who will train you?" Grimlock said with a grin as he grabs him and starts dragging him away to train him.
"I kinda feel bad for the rookie." Said Bulkhead as he watches him be dragged off.
