Transformers Prime: No Autobots Are Idiots.
Chapter 3: Meet the 12 Trines.
(Quadwal cluster Earth 192,182,834,756, Monday, October 1st, 2018, third person POV...)
A young woman called Amy Armstrong says as she plays the final mission of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron on the hardest difficulty, "Come on, come on, come on. Got to win. Bingo!"
After the final sword strike, Megatron is sent onto his back.
Optimus Prime approaches his evil former brother-in-arms and, raising his sword, he impales Megatron in the chestplate to his spark chamber, making the Decepticon leader yell in pain.
Everyone cheered as Optimus emerged victorious, but they decided to ignore the coming final cutscene of the Ark and the Nemesis being sucked into the unstable Space Bridge portal.
As the game continues in the background, a young man at almost the same age as Abigail by the name of Simon Sacks then says, "Let's do it, guys."
Simon started the chain reaction of their high fiving fist bumps and secret handshakes.
A young woman by the name of Jacqueline Jackson then says, "Boy, am I glad we get to go to San Diego Comic Con for a day this time around."
Sally Shaalan then says, "Yeah, after five years of failure, we're finally going to see what's available and we're gonna see what kinds of costumes people will dress up in."
Jacqueline replies, "Yeah, and we got Amy's parents to thank for it."
Amy replies before asking, "Oh, please, you flatter me. What's gonna be in Hall H this year?"
Jacqueline answers, "Some Marvel live action Netflix series based on Daredevil, Power Man, Iron Fist, and Jessica Jones."
Aurora Sabbatini inquires, "Anything else?"
Richard Raabe-Webber answers, "Trailers for Shazam, Aquaman, Godzilla, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and another Predator."
Amy then says, "Either way, we should all be thankful that I'm among the few but many to be born to two loving parents. Most children born in the years 2000 to 2010 aren't as fortunate."
Amy takes a sip of her vegetable and chocolate powder protein shake before going to the kitchen.
She then gets to work on making eighty pounds of baked macaroni and cheese, thankful that she and her parents bought one hundred and six point seven boxes of seven point twenty-five ounce macaroni and cheese, and thankful that they have extra pots, pans, and ovens due to the fact that her grandparents, her great grandparents, and her great-great grandparents come from a family line of chefs and bakers.
After baking all the pans in the conventional ovens for eleven minutes while doing sixteen pans at a time in the large assortment of ovens which includes fire wood ovens, everyone came into the large kitchen to see one hundred and sixty baking pans of baked macaroni and cheese steaming hot and ready for them.
Soon, the army of relatives, biological and adopted – literally adopted – began to dig in at a leisurely pace.
Amy thought back to her life before she met her adopted siblings and cousins.
She couldn't've anticipated that they would be the ones to help her out of the funk that was being an outcast due to her nerdy obsession with collecting transformable Transformers action figures from the Beast Wars days all the way to the upcoming Studio Series toys, reading Transformers fanfictions revolving around alternate takes on Transformers works where the Autobot, Maximal, and affiliated human hero casts made different choices which guaranteed total victories, and so forth that makes her a Transformers fangirl, or a femme Transfan, by fan terminology. Along with everything else that makes her a toy and comic book nerd.
While some of the relatives like Amy grew up in Minnesota, others grew up in New Hampshire, Colorado, Utah, Massachusetts, Washington State, Vermont, New Jersey, Iowa, Connecticut, North Dakota, Idaho, Wisconsin, Hawaii, Oregon, and Maine, sixteen of the best parts of the United States to live in.
But for some of their original elementary, middle, and high school friends who they often stay connected with, they lived in Washington, D.C., California, New Mexico, Maryland, Louisiana, New York, and South Carolina, said to be among the worst states to live in because of weather, natural disasters, rent being expensive, and high rates of crime.
Right now, they were in Las Vegas in an Airbnb mansion to prepare for San Diego Comic Con 2018, just two blocks north of her aunt's place that has the aforementioned amounts of cooking utensils and tools.
And so far, they've been relaxing while waiting and while making sure to exercise since one of the rooms of the Airbnb has gym exercise equipment.
And while they were at it, they made sure that everyone was fed adequately regardless of personal schedule.
If one were to describe Amy and her extended family, that person would see that they all have various appearances commonplace in the United States before and after 1980, 2000, and 2010 that make them attractive and makes sure that their doctors know that they're living a healthy lifestyle.
Of course, Amy happens to be the tallest and the oldest of her family, excluding her parents.
Amy's phone then rings.
Amy picks up and asks before saying, "Hello? Yes? The plane is just about ready for takeoff at one in the afternoon tomorrow? Okay. We'll make sure to be there early. Thank you very much."
Amy hangs up.
Francis Faciane then asks, "That was the airport employees, correct?"
Amy replies, "Yep, you got that right. We gotta get to the plane early tomorrow morning so we don't miss it."
Richard remarks, "And then, we'll all be able to go to San Diego Comic Con."
In no time, they all went to sleep early so that they'd get up in the morning early.
(The next morning...)
Two faint voices said one after the other, "Amy, wake up." "#Oh, Amy, time to wake up.#"
Amy grumbles, but the grumbling turns to grumbling and giggling at the same time because her cat was rubbing his face against her exposed sides, as she was wearing a small short sleeve shirt to somewhat combat the heat.
Amy then wakes up with a big yawn before checking her analog watch, seeing that it was just after 5:50.
Everyone got themselves showered, brushed their teeth, brushed their hair, and shaved, got themselves dressed appropriately for the weather, and packed everything that they would possibly need.
After saying so long to Amy's family and to Richard's family, they made it to the airport, and after a one hour and fifteen minute flight, they made it to several hotel rooms close to each other.
Amy remarks, "Well, here we are. Nice place to stay in for the time being until our vacay at San Diego Comic Con is over."
Sally then asks, "So, who gets what room?"
Amy answers, "Whichever one satisfies whoever. But in all seriousness, I'd want to walk; staying on an airplane sitting for an hour and fifteen minutes in the exact same position is really unpleasant."
Simon then asks, "Would you like us to join you, Amy?"
Amy answers, "Sure, why not?"
The thirty-six siblings and cousins then finished unpacking for the time being and went for a walk, using Google Maps to find their way.
Amy then breathes in and out deeply, signifying that she's enjoying the fresh warm air.
The thirty-six relatives then start walking to their left, and eventually, they came across a True Food Kitchen restaurant, which Richard pointed out a few weeks ago serves healthy food.
After getting their meal of healthy food, Jacqueline remarks, "Thank God that this is one of the few restaurants in the United States overall that serves healthy food."
Simon remarks, "Yep. And here we were thinking that we wouldn't be getting anything healthy at all if we didn't look hard enough."
The relatives overall shared a hearty laugh at that.
Amy then takes note of how only fifty percent of the customers were wearing Transformers memorabilia, such as jewelry and clothing.
Amy then says, "Apparently, mostly everyone here must be here for San Diego Comic Con."
One of the adult men replies, "Oh, you bet we're here for the Con."
After Amy went outside to wait, she noticed her Autobot necklace slightly glowing.
Amy asks, "Hmm? Why is my necklace glowing? And what could it mean?"
Suddenly, she heard the sound of energy weapons being fired, the sound of teenage bullies screaming in terror, the sounds of a pair of mechanical cats and a pair of mechanical dogs hissing, snarling, roaring, growling, barking, and reloading their weapons, and the sounds of some mechanical kittens mewing innocently.
Amy grumbles, "Of all the worst times to prove that interdimensional travel between the Quadwal cluster and a specific Transformers fiction project on some versions of Earth is actually possible..."
Amy stealthily makes her way to the epicenter of the sounds.
She saw a group of teenage boys being menaced by a pair of mechanical parent cats protecting their litter of six mechanical male and female kittens, and being assisted by a pair of mechanical dog friends, all four of them being armed with some kind of energy weapon that happens to be powerful enough to potentially kill a human being, as evidenced by the scorch marks on the floor.
But then, one of the teenagers tries to rush the mechanical mother cat, only to get a laser blast in his forehead, and he dropped dead to the floor.
Amy mutters under her breath, "(Extremely quiet) Well, he was the first example of what happens to anyone that browbeats any kind of cat or dog, organic and/or mechanical."
The leader of the group calls out, "Come on, boys! It's just a laser weapon!"
Amy growls under her breath and, relying on her self-taught skills from Kung-Fu Panda, Street Fighter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Ip Man, Rambo, Power Rangers, Superman, Supergirl, Injustice, Batman, Wonder Woman, Justice League Unlimited, Batman Beyond, the Shrek films, and so forth, Abigail tosses a smoke grenade and uses the small smokescreen to knock out the bullies and give them headaches that'll manifest when they wake up.
As the smokescreen dissipates, Amy mutters, "Freakish human teenagers don't care about the consequences of their actions and they don't care about the people they torment."
Amy was pulled from her rant by the male Cybercat rubbing its nose against her leg. And at the same time, the female Cybercat rubs its nose against her other leg.
And the Cyberdogs start pawing at her thighs, panting excitedly for being petted as well, and without annoying the Cybercats whatsoever.
Amy looks down at the mechanical cats, which were both the size of a Savannah cat as an adult cat. And the mechanical dogs were the size of German Shepherd puppies.
Amy kneels slightly and pets the Cybercats first, and a pair of purring sounds start emanating from them. And the Cyberdogs get petted as well, and they nudge her thighs, making her chuckle a bit.
Amy remarks, "Well, you're all warm to the touch despite being made of metal. But how are all four of you and your clowder of Cybercat children here? Cybertron doesn't exist in my reality."
The male cat meows in response.
Just then, Amy's siblings and cousins turned up, and after deliberations, even aside from the fact that the hotel they're staying at is one of the few that actually doesn't have rules about pets thanks to the robot vacuum cleaners and other kinds of robot cleaning, they decided to bring the Cyberdogs, the Cybercats, and their Cyberkitten litter to the hotel, even though they knew that unless the receptionist also watches Transformers, it'd be impossible to avoid questions that they either don't know or would rather not answer.
After making the journey back to the hotel, thankfully without being stopped by anyone including the receptionist, the one hundred and sixty relatives made their way to their rooms, with Abigail taking the Cybercat family unit plus the Cyberdogs to her room.
The Cyberdogs and the Cybercat litter went on to carefully explore their shared temporary holding place, and Amy went to join the others.
Richard then inquires, "So, does anyone have any theories as to how a family of Cybercats and a pair of Cyberdogs got transported to our universe without being turned into fictional life size toys of themselves that Hasbro may or may not invent as normal size toys in the far future?"
Harry Haberberger answers, "I believe that somehow, we're in an alternative universe of our reality wherein our lives could be described as a Transformers-themed fanfiction story where humans like us are transported to the Transformers Prime reality and are either turned into full Cybertronians or into techno-organics, and interdimensional travel is possible through the means of the power of the Primes, most primarily Vector Prime, the guardian of time and space who self-describes his ability as being able to traverse all over the Omniverse except for the Quadwal cluster, where Transformers are fictional."
The thirty-six relatives then look around and they see a computer camera recording them.
Alexander Abrams then says, "Well, as Shockwave would say, your theory was most logical."
The relatives shared a brief hearty laugh before Bianca Baccaro says, "But in all seriousness, we can't take any of them with us. The risks of any of them being exposed to even the public on the news and social media to the point where they would be taken away to a government laboratory for potentially unethical experimentation to salvage technology to upgrade human technology and weaponry or even potentially unlocking interdimensional travel despite not knowing the possibility for potential warfare if going into parallel universes similar to the Justice Lords Earth, similar to the Justice League Earth 3 from Crisis on Two Earths, and similar to Transformers Shattered Glass while also despite partially knowing and partially choosing to ignore the possible penalties for going against the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments of the Constitution – (Deep breath) – are all way too extreme."
Jacqueline replies, "Yeah, you're right about that. But we also can't send them out to the outside world on their own. Not only would they potentially drown in large bodies of water despite the fact that even Cybertronian animal life don't breathe air, but they'd also die of Energon starvation. So, will they be okay here by themselves while we're gone?"
Allan Abbott then answers, "Yes, they will be okay. The Cybercats are similar to Earth cats in most ways and more. And the Cyberdogs, well, they're mostly like different breeds of dogs that are easily trained and don't need to go for walks much due to sharing similarities with low maintenance dog breeds. The only problem is, without a proper way to teleport to the Transformers Prime universe after our adventures at San Diego Comic Con end and without having to worry our relatives back home about us vanishing into thin air or potentially being killed and not a trace of our corpses could be found, we don't exactly have the means to acquire Energon for any of the Cybercats and Cyberdogs."
There's a beat of silence, and the relatives checked the internet and their everything where Transformers related stuff was kept, and they saw that they were mostly unchanged. But they knew that sooner or later, that was gonna change.
After seeing that it was starting to get late in the night, they all went to sleep, with the Cyberdogs standing guard over the Cyberkitten litter, and the Cybercats went to sleep with Amy, trusting their dog companions to watch over their clowder of Cyberkittens.
The next day, at San Diego Comic Con, they saw many things related to DC Comics projects soon to come out at later points of the year 2018.
But at the same time, because BotCon had been discontinued, they saw something that they knew wouldn't be possible in some alternate version of their reality: Hasbro selling new modernized toy versions of the Transformers War for Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, Exodus, Exiles, Retribution, Prime, Rescue Bots, Robots in Disguise 2015, Robots in Disguise 2015 children's book, and Rescue Bots Academy characters in terms of the Autobots, Decepticons, Predacons, Star Seekers, Sharkticons, Junkions, Primes, Terrorcons, Maximals that were planned to show up but never did show up, Mini-Cons, civilians, and even Autobot opposites of every Decepticon, Star Seeker, Predacon, and Sharkticon of the Aligned continuity, vehicle mode opposites, name opposites assigned to opposite paint jobs, name opposites assigned to various other kinds of paint jobs, and even Aligned continuity iterations of Autobots and Decepticons that didn't show up as anything other than characters in books and video games, toy versions of every Transformer in the Aligned continuity who either show up in cartoon flashbacks, video games, and so forth who chose to join neither side of the civil war, toy versions of OC characters from Transformers Aligned Continuity fanfiction stories, toys of all the human characters, and so forth that people can name.
Of course, since the relatives have worked various high-paying jobs all throughout high school and college for three to five months while saving all of their excessive amounts of money for things like paying bills, groceries, birthday and Christmas presents, and even occasions like going to San Diego Comic Con, New York Comic Con, Hasbro Pulse, New York Toy Fair, and so forth, it was fair to say that they had more than enough money to buy even thirty copies of the various Melee Specialists, Artillery Specialists, Defenders, Captains, Medics, War Machines, Soldier Units, Soldier Tanks, Rocket Troopers, Protectors, Shotgunners, Fliers, Snipers, Cloakers, Brutes, Heavy Soldiers, Destroyers, Scouts, Scientists, Leaders, Titan Units, Titan Tanks, Insecticon Swarmers, Insecticon Spitters, Insecticon Bruisers, Marauders, Enforcers, Wall Crawlers, Mercenaries, Behemoths, Sharpshooters, Guardians, Leapers, Decepticon Miners, Vehicon Cars, Jets, Seekers, Tanks, Helicopters, Trucks, RID 2015 Vehicon Alchemor Prisoners, Ground Vehicon Generals, Captains, Gunners, Scorchers, and Bombardiers, MorBots, Alchemor Insecticons, Chompazoids, Cyclone Mini-Cons, Airachnid lookalikes, Sharkticons, High Council Troopers, Heavy Troopers, Flying Troopers, High Council Infiltrators, Cybertron Police Officers, and so forth to army build.
After buying their toys and other collectibles, they all went back to their hotel.
Amy then starts to ask before noticing everyone's necklaces, keychains, and other kinds of Autobot jewelry glowing, "What should we have for – what the?!"
Everyone else notices their Transformer themed jewelry glowing, and then, after five more seconds, the glowing stops and they all go outside to see that they were now in Jasper, Nevada, in the Transformers Prime universe.
Allan then says, "Looks like we really are in our favorite Transformers show of all time."
Everyone looks on the internet for everything related to Transformers, and they only get results of electrical transformers.
Amy remarks, "Yep, you were right, Allan; I've a feeling we're not in San Diego anymore."
Jacqueline then asks, "So, what's the plan for the time being?"
Amy answers, "We check out without arousing suspicions, and then, we find Energon for our mechanical pets. As for where we're supposed to find Energon, we pick out and cross-reference which caves or other similar places might be full of Energon, especially by listening to people's conspiracy reports about glowing blue crystals and purple and black lookalike robot drones."
And so, after one and a half hours, they made it to the K.O. Burger, where they discovered that in addition to Energon, the Cybercats and Cyberdogs can also eat animal meat of organic nature due to being partially techno-organics but without any fur and without having to vomit up hairballs.
The owner of the restaurant then asks, "And what about your pets? They look hungry."
Amy answers, "Oh, yes, but the thing is, cats like these can eat cooked beef, cooked chicken, cooked turkey, and small amounts of lean deli meats that are perfectly cooked. Dogs, on the other hand, can eat cooked chicken, cooked turkey, lean ground beef, and chuck steak slash chuck roast. And when it comes to feeding cats and dogs the kinds of meat I specified, one must always make sure that the meats in question are perfectly cooked. Any form of raw or undercooked meat can give them stomachaches or can poison them."
The owner of K.O. Burger by the name of William Hackman replies, "I see. Well, rest assured, we'll do everything we can to provide perfectly cooked meat for your pets. You said perfectly cooked meat, right?"
Amy nods before saying, "Yes. However, seeing as how this restaurant doesn't serve regular grilled chicken, I think we'll just have our pets eat regular perfectly cooked hamburger patties. And also, when feeding any form of meat to a cat, one must also make sure to remove all forms of skin and bone from the meat before serving the cat. But I trust you all."
William replies, "Nice to know you trust us. Jack!"
Jackson Darby comes up and replies, "Yes, sir?"
William asks, "Can you please cook some hamburger patties for their cats and dogs?"
Jack looks at the mechanical cats and dogs before asking, "But do they actually eat meat?"
Amy nods before saying, "Jack, cats and dogs are inherently carnivorous mammals, and while they eat small animals like rodents, moles, shrews, rabbits, small birds, voles, and insects, the difference between cats and dogs is that dog teeth and jaws are strong enough to eat the cartilage and bones of the corpses."
Jack looks disgusted, but Amy says before saying, "But don't worry, Jack; if you want to keep a pet cat and dog inside while making sure to feed them and if you can't afford big bags and cans of normal dry and wet cat and dog food, you can feed cats and dogs cooked meat such as cooked beef, cooked chicken, cooked turkey, and small amounts of lean deli meats that are perfectly cooked. But trust me, Jack, the process of inventing metal cats and dogs that can eat meat without suffering a system crash is a long story that involves revealing government secrets approved of by our President of the United States."
Jack nods in understanding, knowing from experience that it's not legal to reveal President approved American secrets without permission, and he goes to the grills to cook some hamburger patties.
After the thirty-six relatives paid for their food and for their pets' food, they enjoyed in silence while hearing some boys say that there was a cave of glowing blue crystals north by southeast up the road for about twenty-five miles from the town's southwest exit and leaving off the road to the center left.
The relatives came to a silent agreement to go investigate and snatch up some Energon for the Cybercats and Cyberdogs.
After finishing up, the relatives got in their cars along with the cyber-pets and they drove in the direction of the Energon mine.
Amy then says, "Uh-oh. I see Decepticon Miners and Vehicon Snipers, helicopter Vehicons from the Transformers Prime Wii U video game."
The others looked, and the Cybercats didn't look happy.
Richard then says, "Apparently, we're in some kind of alternate Transformers Prime universe where the events of the cartoon, the Wii U video game, the Transformers War for Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, Universe 2012, Online 2012, and Rise of the Dark Spark video games, the Exiles, Exodus, and Retribution novels, the Tales of the Beast Hunters comics, the IDW Primeverse comics, and the Rescue Bots, RID 2015, and Rescue Bots Academy cartoons practically happened and are beginning to happen."
Amy replies to that and then asks the cyber animals, "We'll worry about all of that later. Guys, gals, do you have reprogramming harpoon cannons in your bodies?"
Amy's response was the Cybercats and Cyberdogs firing long range reprogramming arrows at the Decepticon Miners and Vehicon Helicopters before following up with multiplication lasers that greatly multiplied the new Autobot Miners and Autobot Vehicon Snipers in groups of five thousand.
The Autobots spot the humans and pets before approaching them.
The first Autobot Vehicon then hands them two Energon cubes to feed the Cybercats and Cyberdogs.
While the Energon cubes were multiplied by the multiplication lasers, the Cybercats and Cyberdogs feed the Cyberkitten litter while accidentally dropping Energon onto the humans.
Amy shrieks as she gets splashed with Energon, "Hey! Stop eating your Energon like that! Energon is poisonous to organics!"
The Cybercats and Cyberdogs looked sheepish before they went back to drinking up the Energon cubes, but the thirty-six humans were already splattered with Energon.
After the Autobots refuel themselves, there was now sixty thousand Energon cubes.
Just then, the Autobots at Outpost Omega One Ground Bridged to the location, much to the humans' shock.
Optimus takes note of the new Autobots and asks, "Alpha Trion, did the Covenant of Primus predict this?"
Alpha Trion answers, "Actually, for the first time ever, I am certain that the Covenant of Primus did not predict this would happen. But I do think Primus and the other Primes are smiling down on us by granting us this opportunity to find a new Energon mine and more generic Decepticon troops to reprogram into Autobots."
The Autobot leader nods before noticing the humans splattered in Energon, and he says in dread, "Oh, no. Humans, splashed with Energon."
Just then, the humans convulsed before changing into Cybertronians in a brief flash of light.
Eleven of them looked like the Transformers Generation 1 versions of Air Raid, Airazor, Breakaway, Fireflight, Jetfire, Silverbolt, Skydive, Slingshot, Storm Jet, Alpha Bravo, and Barrel Roll, one of them looked like the Power Core Combiners Skyburst, twelve of them looked like the Generation 1 versions of Blitzwing, Astrotrain, Octane, Sandstorm, Broadside, Springer, Dropkick, Shatter, Fever Dream, and Galaxy Shuttle along with the Movieverse video game Shockwave and the Transformers Energon Shockblast, and the last twelve looked like the Generation 1 and live action movie versions of Arcee, Bluestreak, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Ironhide, Jazz, Kup, Optimus Prime, Prowl, Ratchet, Hot Rod, and Ultra Magnus.
After much confusion and adaption to the situation at hand, the new Cybertronians were given infusions of Energon and were given vehicle modes to scan.
When asked what they should be called now that they were Transformers themselves, they took on the names of Wheelstand, Ramracer, Spacebeetle, Skipjumper, Armorbumper, Snaphole, Nightimus Prime, Megaflame, Tailsnapper, Autotracks, Hailsplitter, Freesplitter, Quickstrong, Rumblemine, Cinderways, Grindstuff, Stormsling, Darkwar, Pyroflow, Rhinoworks, Speedwatch, Shadeblades, Divetrack, Stormglitch, Groundfight, Joltspot, Twindrift, Shockwise, Grizzcase, Hailspin, Bulkclutch, Apeblast, Meltswitch, Fistviper, Lunartracks, and Gloomcut.
Nightimus Prime then asks the male Cybercat, "What should we name you guys?"
The male Cybercat meowed in response.
Nightimus then says, "Okay, we'll come back to that later."
Optimus then says, "Come, Nightowl Trines, let's head to base."
And so, with everything explained and with training done thanks to the powers given by the working replicas of the Emberstone and the Forge of Solus Prime, the Nightowl Trines were ready to serve the Autobots to the bitter end.
After the training was done, Nightimus asks after raising her hand and after Ratchet asked if anyone had any questions, "So, if you don't mind my asking, the lecture you gave us about Cybertronian reproduction is similar to and way different from sexual reproduction?"
Ratchet answers, "Yes, but what most Autobots and other Cybertronians didn't know is that, under the right circumstances, and regardless of whether or not they're able to do so as full Cybertronians, any manner of Transformers can sexually reproduce, but that rule only works if it involves the romantical relationship between a mech and a femme."
Nightimus then remarks in response, "Just like how, in religious scriptures, it is said that only men and women are compatible enough to sexually reproduce."
Ratchet replies, "Yes, exactly."
Ratchet then releases the trines from the medical bay.
And in no time, the Autobot army posted at Outpost Omega One comes up to meet the Nightowl Trines.
Arcee then asks, "Are these the new recruits?"
Optimus answers, "Yes, and they have yet to completely adjust to their new roles, so I only ask that you all try to be patient with them."
Arcee nods in understanding before saying, "I hope you're ready to kick some tail pipe gates."
Tailgate exclaims in offense, "Hey!"
Everyone shares a hearty laugh at that except for Optimus, but he appears to be struggling to keep his poker face.
Nightimus then says, "Oh, trust me, Sideswipe and Drift here ground us down in training and downloaded photographic reflex and fighting style mimicry programs into our CPUs. And that combined with the fact that we spent 13.7 million years in the past and only two thousand years in the future training without accidentally changing the timeline in any big or small ways was a bonus. And we'd be happy to teach you all some of our new moves."
Wheelstand then proceeds to explain the true story of the Nightowl Trines, using information from an authorized recursive fanfiction version of their stories BUT without being Cybertronian at birth, only to get sent to the Quadwal cluster and be reborn as humans to be safe from Unicron and Megatronus Prime in his brief tenure as The Fallen.
Even Optimus was shocked at the backstory of the Nightowl Trines, even though it was mostly a replica of an origin story from elsewhere in the Multiverse.
Twindrift then asks as he spots a familiar object, "Wait a nano, is that a cortical psychic patch?"
Everyone else looks at it and Optimus answers, "Yes, we kept one once stolen from Shockwave's laboratory during the war if in the event we ever required it."
Optimus then asks, "Nightimus, would you be willing to test it out?"
Nightimus' optics widened before she asked, "W-why would I want to test it out?"
Optimus answers, "To collaborate your shared origin story."
Twindrift then says, "It's your call, cuz. Just know that we'll be here to support you."
Nightimus then looks determined as she says, "Let's do it."
In no time, the Autobots got the whole story.
Ratchet then says, "Now, if it is okay with all of you, we need to have your weapon systems checked out."
And they all piled into the literally gigantic missile elevator.
Darkwar felt like she was going to be fine in spite of her nature as a Seeker giving her claustrophobia due to being unable to fly below ground.
Darkwar then asks, "Ratchet, correct me if I'm wrong, but is it true that Seekers have claustrophobia due to being in confined spaces and being underground?"
Ratchet answers, "Yes, Darkwar, it's true."
In no time, the Autobot forces arrived at the first basement.
There was just as much big space in the SAFE as much as in the cargo elevator, which also takes the Autobots and humans to the second basement.
And as Fallback and Alpha Trion had explained earlier in the midst of everything, they asked for Optimus' unit to do a search of the second and third basements for a live nuclear bomb and for a relic bomb to put away somewhere where the humans soon to come or already in the know would never find it.
Ratchet then says, "This is The SAFE. It's where we train for battle and where we train new recruits. Now, all we need to do is test your weapon systems first and foremost."
The Autobot Nightowl Trines then go to the shooting range.
Darkwar went first, and she manifested first an anti-gravity gun and an Aquasting missile launcher.
She blew up two trucks and sent two old biplanes into the ceiling before sending them crashing in pieces.
Darkwar then says, "Ooh-kay, I better make sure not to use this anti-gravity gun at full power."
Ratchet replies comfortingly, "Hey, don't worry; not everything can be expected on the first attempt."
Darkwar then manifests, much to her surprise, an atom-smashing blaster, and a blowtorch blaster.
Darkwar tries it on a few old drones, and she succeeds in destroying them without difficulty.
She then manifests alongside her siblings practically every gun and other weapon familiar to most Cybertronians: Triple-Barreled Phalanx Cannons, large cannons, ion gun, Quad-Barreled Shotguns, Pentagon cannons, Single-Barreled Machine Guns, large pistols, small double-barreled guns, regular guns, an assortment of flamethrowers, different kinds of pistols, harpoon cannons, small cannons, nonuplet guns for each of them, railguns, triple-barreled guns, double-barreled guns, Bicep-Mounted Missile Arrays, ammo whips, heavy cannons, quad-rifle guns, triple-barreled shotguns, hyper guns, handheld razor guns, cluster bombs, poison bombs, heavy sniper rifles, wrist guns, double-barreled shotguns, hyper machine guns, sound wave cannons, ultra machine guns, healing laser beam emitters, beam fusion energon guns, Energon Multi-Beam Guns, Sticky Grenade Launchers, buzz saws, micro-missile launchers, radial missile launchers, energy cannons, multi missile launchers, rocket cannons, iron shotguns, Heavy Iron Assault Rifles, Heavy Iron Battle Rifles, Plasma Cannons, Machine Guns, Shoulder-Mounted Missile Launchers, Laser Cannons, crab claw launchers, battle hammers, crescent cannons, magnetic claws, toe guns, double-barreled hand rocket launchers, back guns, electrical whips, boom stick bombs, turbo guns, naginata staves, electric machine guns, miniguns, rapid fire machine guns, time guns, shotgun blasters, World War II routed machine guns, brawn blasters, reverse brawn blasters, electric blasters, electro-blasters, electro-kinetic blasters, electron blasters, electroshock blasters, freeze beam blasters, gyro-blaster rifles, hurricane air blasters, ion impulse blasters, light-pulse blasters, neutron blasters, overrider blasters, plasma-energy blasters, proton blasters, sandblaster guns, shatterblasters, shrapnel blasters, solid sonic energy blasters, sonic blasters, sonic blaster pistols, super blasters, thermo-laser blasters, titanium shott blasters, titanium shredder blasters, barrage cannons, energon swords, Foldspace warheads, fusion cannons, ion blasters, death-lock pincers, energon hooks, null ray cannons, photon missiles, sonic cannons, void scepters, Decepticon Hunters, Energon bazookas, boot guns, Energon repair grenades, Howitzer pistols, K-Bar Knives, Magnum Shotguns, Atomic Maces, Energon Maces, Energon Spears, Energon Hammers, Energon Shields, Energon Clubs, Energon Axes, EMP shotguns, EMP grenades, Energon Battle Pistols, Energon Repair Rays, Fragmentation Grenades, Ion Displacers, Magma Frag Launchers, Neutron Assault Rifles, Nucleon Shock Cannons, Null Ray Sniper Rifles, Photon Burst Rifles, Scatter Blasters, Thermo Homing Mines, Thermo Rocket Launchers, X12 Scrapmakers, and so forth on all Cybertronian weapons.
After about three hours, the trines were finished with testing out their weapons.
And after thirty minutes of sparring, Optimus concluded that the Nightowl Trines were on par with his level of combat expertise.
And after the trines completed the obstacle course flawlessly, Hot Shot couldn't help but say in a sort of decent impression of Shang Tsung's voice from Mortal Kombat, "Flawless Victory. For the obstacle course: Fatalities!"
Everyone laughed at Hot Shot's impression, and once again, Optimus couldn't keep a straight face for long.
In the ops center, Nightimus is consuming her Energon when Ratchet comes up and asks, "Nightimus. How would you like to learn how to be a medic?"
Nightimus asks in response, "Me?"
Ratchet answers, "Yes. I couldn't help but notice you're somewhat reluctant to fight despite knowing that it's absolutely necessary, and we did see that you in particular risked your own life and the lives of your relatives to feed your cyber-pets."
Nightimus looks steely into Ratchet's optics as she explains, "That is because I remembered and always tried to uphold biblical values in my lifetime, particularly this from Book of Galatians Chapter 6 Verse 2: Carry each other's burdens and so you will fulfill the law of Christ. And in particular as well, these phrases from the Book of Hebrews Chapter 13 Verse 16, Book of Luke Chapter 6 Verse 30, and Book of John Chapter 15 Verse 13: '"And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased."' '"Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back."' And '"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."' Basically, if I hadn't risked everyone's lives, my own included, our cyber-pets would've died of energon loss and starvation."
Ratchet looks into Nightimus' optics, and he could see that she holds true to her religious virtues very seriously.
Nightimus then says, "So, to answer your question, yes, I'd be honored to become a medic."
Ratchet replies, "Then let's get started."
In no time, three days had passed and Nightimus proved to be an adaptational fast learner.
And along with that, Smokeedge had safe debates with his few teammates about whether or not knowledge of the future should be used carefully to ensure that the Decepticons don't become more ruthless.
Smokeedge says, "Nevertheless, Jumpbee, we cannot take any chances if it looks like Megatron would try to find any further replicas of Solus Prime's Forge to use with Liege Maximo's grafted right arm from his original frame's corpse to increase his army's arsenal."
Mosssound replies, "I hate to say it, Smokeedge, but you may be right."
And thus that brought the debate to an end.
The End.
(Author's notes: Yes, I made sure to lessen the amount of OCs to be shown in this story. Sue me.
See you all in chapter 4: New Arrival: Pipelock.)