Transformers Prime: No Autobots Are Idiots.

Chapter 43: Returning Friend.

(Transformers Prime Universe #192,394,596,203,495,867,019,183, Tuesday, September 4th, 2007, third person POV...)

A single 19 year old girl was walking through the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada to investigate a former bear cave.

Recently, someone at her college had been spreading rumors about the cave in the national forest had some sort of treasure inside it, but she knew better than to believe rumors without cold hard evidence. She knew this from personal experience.

She had gotten herself her flashlight and she got less equipment than she normally uses so she can be further safe.

The girl in question enters the cave and walks through the tunnel.

The girl thinks to herself, "Well, come high heaven or low hell, here goes nothing."

The cave is just about getting darker the more that the girl walks into it.

The girl says to herself, "Whoever spread these rumors had better not be pulling my leg or wasting my time."

Suddenly, the girl hears echoing sounds and the ground shakes which both last a few seconds.

The girl knew that this wasn't like an earthquake, so she decided to look further before something goes horribly wrong.

The girl comes upon an open formation and she looks around, until she sees two giant robots fighting each other.

One looks like an armored Japanese kunoichi combined with an armored female knight who is taking cover behind some pillars, and the other looks slightly mismatched with a hook-axe on its right arm replacing its right hand.

The girl was almost immediately shocked into silence.

The robot says menacingly, "You will be coming with me, young femme. You'll be worth my payment."

The femme replies before jumping over the robot as she identifies him for the reading audience, "I ain't going to a Decepticon prison cell again, Bunkerlocker!"

In one swift movement, the female robot slices off Bunkerlocker's arms and legs before slice-ripping off his head and then ripping out his spark and crushing it until it fizzles out.

Then, the femme notices the human who was approaching her in concern.

The femme asks, "What's your name, human?"

The girl answers before asking, "I'm Sheikha Mirrison. And who are you?"

The femme answers before asking in response, "I'm Dingyblade. Are you alright?"

Sheikha answers, "I was about to ask you the same thing. You seemed eager to kill this '"Bunkerlocker"' before he could take you to an enemy prison cell."

Dingyblade answers, "(Sighing) Yes. Our people, the race of the Transformers, have been engaged in a civil war for nine million of your years, between the heroic Autobots and the warmongering terrorist Decepticons. Our war worsened to the point where the core of our home planet Cybertron was poisoned and thus had to shut down to repair itself, halting its production of Energon, our primary source of fuel, blood, and life. Us Autobots employ troops that transform into both civilian and military vehicles, but while we have an army of fliers, the Decepticons have thousands to millions of lookalike drones transforming into civilian cars and tanker trucks along with tanks, helicopters, and Cybertronian fighter jets, all of them of the exact same design because they're mostly clones. But the rest of the Decepticon army normally has troops that mainly transform into military vehicles, primarily military aircraft."

After a few minutes, Dingyblade explains everything to Sheikha, and she transforms into a 2007 Pontiac G6 sports car, taking Sheikha to the Autobot base.

(Present day, September 7th, 2010, third person POV...)

In Earth's middle atmosphere, a single customized Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fighter jet flies as the pilot inside the main cockpit flickers a few times.

The radar then detects a hotspot on floor level.

The jet makes a turnabout and flies off.

In no time, the aircraft is a few inches from the ground before transforming into robot mode, revealing itself to be Dingyblade.

Dingyblade enters a dark cave with very little light, and she scouts the tunnels.

Then she hears plasma bolts, metal bashing, and swords clashing.

Then, lights are turned on as the single Cybertronian Cyber-Ninja Triple Changer stands there, with several Decepticon Miners and Vehicon Troopers offline.

The white and orange Autobot sees glowing blue boxes of Energon stocked in piles.

Then, Sheikha comes out of the shadows and gives Dingyblade a thumbs up as she takes out her cellphone to contact the Autobots at Autobot Outpost Omega One.

In Autobot Outpost Omega One, Optimus and Ratchet along with Jack, Miko, Rafael, and June are in the base as Sheikha says, "Come in, Autobot Central Command. Sorry for the overly long delay, but we finished our assignment, and we're requesting a Ground Bridge for transporting the Energon cubes we located."

Miko asks, "Whoa! Who is that?"

Ratchet replies to Sheikha, "Opening the Ground Bridge to your coordinates. Stand by."

The Space Bridge opens to the coordinates.

The single robot and the human girl came through, with Dingyblade pushing a cart.

Optimus Prime comes up and says, "Great to see you again, Dingyblade. And great to see you again too, Sheikha."

Sheikha replies, "Same here, Optimus. And it's a good thing we found the Energon mine in my former home state as Dingyblade needed a guide of sorts. She did everything she could to handle the Decepticon Miners and Vehicon Trooper reinforcements, with honor and with great moral restraint."

Dingyblade takes a bow.

Sheikha then notices the army of humans.

Sheikha then says, "Oh, hello there. I'm Sheikha Mirrison, a recently graduated military college student. And Dingyblade here is my guardian. She has been ever since we met in 2007, around the time she destroyed Bunkerlocker, a Decepticon bounty hunter lieutenant and close advisor for Megatron's highly paid bounty hunter client, Lockdown."

Smokeedge asks, "So, Lockdown exists in this universe after all?"

Sheikha replies, "Considering what you told us about the existence of the Cybertronian and human multiverses, yes, Lockdown does indeed exist in our timeline."

Optimus then says, "Regardless, we must hope and pray that neither Starscream nor Inkstorm nor Megatron if he ever returns won't recruit Lockdown any time soon."

Smokeedge then says, "If he does, we're gonna need to analyze Lockdown's arsenal and fighting style meticulously for any potential weaknesses, as only the Tyran cluster iteration of Optimus was able to bisect Lockdown thanks to some assistance from his universe's Bumblebee, Cade Yeager, Tessa Yeager, and Shane Dyson. Of course, Harold Attinger had to be executed in order for Cade to return the assisting favor before it would've been too late."

Optimus replies back, "All of that aside, your plan is sound, Smokeedge. As soon as Blaster is able to, we shall download from your memory banks all traces of Lockdown's fighting style and arsenal from all across the Cybertronian Multiverse for any potential vulnerabilities."

Sheikha then says, "I didn't know that children were involved this year."

Optimus answers, "Indeed, Sheikha. They are trustworthy to help, with them combining their Earthly and Cybertronian martial arts training with their knowledge of Cybertronian weaknesses and their weaponry in their Iron Man suits."

After the introductions, Miko then asks, "So, Smokeedge, can Dingyblade transform into a plane?"

Smokeedge answers, "Yes, she can transform into a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, but she prefers not to talk about it, as the experiments that turned her into a Triple Changer are a sensitive matter she prefers to leave behind in the past."

Miko nods in understanding.

Sheikha then says, "And Dingyblade is known to be a hothead when humans get involved in her scouting missions without permission or proper protection, so even if you used your Iron Man suits, you'd have to ask for her permission to accompany her while following her rules and listening to her orders. If you fail at any of those, she won't let you accompany her on any future missions."

Dingyblade nods for added emphasis.

Later, Dingyblade asks, "So, Miko, Sheikha, Jack, Raf, Benjamin, Boris, Duke, Duncan, Dustin, Dwayne, Dylan, Eamon, Gary, Gideon, Hakeem, Hamza, Harlan, Harlem, Harper, Hasan, Hawk, Hayk, Hector, Hendrick, Henri, Henrik, Herieberto, Hiram, Horacio, Humberto, Huxley, Eisley, Fabiola, Gemma, Goldie, Gracelyn, Grettel, Gwen, Hadassah, Hadley, Hailie, Halle, Halo, Hannah, Harleen, Harlow, Harriet, Hattie, Havana, Hayden, Hazel, Heather, Heidi, Helen, Henley, Hennessy, Holland, Holly, Hosanna, Husna, Ida, Ilana, Iman, Imogen, June, Eddie, Alexa, Bernice, Buster, Carmine, Casey, Allison, Cedric, Toshiyuki, Shizuka, Kinryu, Masashi, Atsuko, Suzuka, Tetsuya, Akifumi, Akihiko, Akihiro, Akihito, Aika, Aiko, Aimi, Akihisa, Akimasa, Akimitsu, Akinari, Aina, Aino, Airi, Akane, Palora, Pilar, Allegra, Juni, Oscar, Rosa, Alfredo, Vince, Avyanna, Ayesha, Edson, Eduardo, Ayla, Aylani, Edward, Eesa, Earlean, Emilio, Ayleen, Aylin, Efrain, Efren, Ayra, Ayva, Eiden, Eitan, Sierra, Ethan, Elan, Azalzea, Azaria, Eleazar, Eli, Azeneth, Azucena, Eartha, Eusebio, would you please provide me with assistance on my new scouting mission? I hear that each of you is formidable in your Iron Man suits in terms of your weaponry, military rank, and martial arts prowess while taking advantage of your sizes and any upgrades to your battlesuits."

The one hundred and thirty humans nodded in response before activating their Iron Man suits.

In the Energon mine, Dingyblade then says through human sign language, "Remember, stay silent, don't fire unless you're firing silenced rounds, don't make any sound at all, don't even whisper, don't shoot at the Energon unless you want a cave-in, and don't get spotted."

The one hundred and thirty humans nodded and they took up sniping positions.

After getting into position and readying their silenced weapons, Dingyblade gives them the signal and they all silently take out all Decepticons without being seen.

Dingyblade then activates her tracking jammer tuned to jam the tracking systems of the Nemesis and Soundwave so she can contact the Autobot base without accidentally revealing to the Decepticons that she's alive, and she says, "Autobot Headquarters, away team. Objective secured. Send reinforcements for Energon and corpse pickup."

Ratchet replies, "Coming up."

The main, secondary, and tertiary members of the original Team Prime rosters emerged from the Space Bridge portal and they start transporting both Energon cubes, Energon crystals, and Decepticon corpses to the base.

And along the way, Dingyblade showed the Iron Legion her Mini-Con companion, Spoilwreck.

It took a little time along with encountering some Shadow Raiders Megatron had in storage aboard the Nemesis to the point where Dingyblade relied heavily on the Iron Legion's powers, skills, and weapons to take them out, but not only did the Autobots get lots of more Energon, but Dingyblade also started learning all about the true meaning of unity.

But Smokeedge knew that by the time two more days pass, Dimsaber will be arriving to Earth in the most unconventional way possible: being brought to this universe by Primus.

The End.

(Author's notes: See you all in chapter 44: Enter Dimsaber.)