Annabeth

Seemingly answering his command, the black rectangle on his chest flung open, and four rectangular prisms that resembled oversized cassettes flew out. There four cassettes were individually collared. One red, one red-orange, one blue, and one black

At first, no-one knew what he was doing. What were those cassettes? Why did they fly out at command? Why did he call them out by name? Eventually, we got our answer.

One by one, the cassettes that flew put of Soundwave's chest began to change shape.

The black cassette became a large jaguar, black with silver legs and peircing red eyes. Guns were mounted on its legs, as well as was the same purple symbol that Soundwave had on his chest. It began snarling and snapping at campers who got too close.

The red-orange cassette became a large condor with red-orange wings and a black head, with a silver rectangle and the same symbol as Ravage and Soundwave on its head. Similarly to Ravage, it had guns mounted on its back. It began attacking Roman eagles flying overhead.

The last two cassettes, the red and the blue ones, looked identical. They became a pair of identical, humanoid robots, about as tall as an fairly tall human, only distinguishable by color. One had a black torso with red limbs. The other was blue all over. Both had guns on their backs. The arms of the red one became large cylinders that began pounding the ground, causing a mini-earthquake. The blue one began screeching at the campers, disorienting them.

The sheer panic of it all sent all of us into chaos. He had just sent out for smaller machines who could change shape into cassettes, all of which are heavily armed. The transformations of his minions recontextualized the car and jet parts on his body. Those weren't for show, those were for his transformation.

His minions began attacking us, although, they were avoiding all of the non-violent campers. That included Percy, Jason, Piper, Frank, Hazel, Nico, Reyna, Will, Chiron, Hedge, and me, along with a few others. They seemed to only be targeting the aggressors.

As his ground-based cassettes repelled the demigod crowd, the condor flew into his hands, becoming a massive electric guitar. I had no idea what he would do with a guitar. Maybe he would use it like a club?

Instead, Soundwave strummed the guitar, sending sound so powerful it created a concussive blast. Strangely, like his cassettes, the blast only targeted aggressive campers, not affecting those who weren't attacking. Perhaps, he was controlling the sound to not harm us?

After the blast, the only ones left standing were us, Soundwave, and his cassettes. Everyone else was either unconscious or had the wind knocked out of them. As we waited, each of the cassettes took their spot at his side, and I began trying to connect names to the cassettes.

I assumed Laserbeak was the condor. After all, it did have "beak" in the name, and that was the only bird.

I connected the names Rumble and Frenzy to the twins, relating to each of their abilities. Rumble was the one with the pile-drivers, and Frenzy was the one with the screech. Although, now that they weren't using their abilities, I could only tell them apart by color. Which was difficult.

That left the jaguar as Ravage. A fittingly menacing name for a massive jet-black jaguar.

Almost immediately after taking their places at his side, the twins spoke up.

The red one yelled at the crowd, "That was for Soundwave you insects!" His voice sort of sounded like Soundwave's, but had way more attitude and less effects.

"Soundwave?" the blue one asked, "I've got a few questions for ya. First, where are we, and how did we get here? Also, why'd you tell us to leave these humans alone?"

"Yes, it is strange you asked us to spare these humans." Laserbeak added. It surprised me to hear the condor talk, as it seemed t. Its voice sort of sounded like a parrot, but lower pitch and more gravelly.

"Because," Soundwave began to explain, "these humans are friendly and hospitable to us. They only wanted to talk, and did not attack."

I apologised, "I'm so sorry Soundwave. I didn't think the campers would get aggressive. It's just, we're a bit used to giant weaponized strangers being enemies."

"You do not need to verbally apologize, Annabeth Chase. I heard your mental apology. That is why I chose to not harm you and your friends."

'So that's why the blast didn't affect us.'

I guess Reyna took the opportunity to apologize to him as well. "I would like to firmly apologize for the behavior of my campers as well. This behavior shall be addressed as soon as possible."

"Wait, your campers? What do you mean your campers?" the blue cassette questioned.

"I am-"

Soundwave answered for me, "She is Reyna, praetor of New Rome, head of Camp Jupiter. Her campers are the Romans with purple uniforms and SPQR tattooed on their arms."

"How did you know?"

"I encountered memories of you from the minds of Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase.

"Well," the red one spoke up, "you still need to answer Frenzy's other questions. Like, how in Primus' name are we here? This isn't the Earth I remember. Last I checked, centaurs didn't exist in anything else but myths!"

Soundwave simply responded, "We were sent here by the Lost Prime."

The cassettes began gawking at Soundwave when he said that. Apparently, this "Lost Prime" was a big deal for them.

"Logos Prime sent us here?!" Ravage shouted.

"What do you mean he sent you here?" Chiron questioned.

"When I met him, he sent me to this world."

Frenzy yelled, "But how, and why? Didn't he die eons ago?"

"Negative. He was trapped in an undead dimension."

Annabeth asked, "Wait, an undead dimension? What does that mean?"

"It means a dimension on the edge of collapse."

"Still, what do you mean dimension?"

"I come from another universe."

"Another universe?!" Frank shouted.

"Affirmative. I was sent here to find new information."

"How?!" Hazel shouted.

"The Former Prime sent us here."

"Former Prime? Do you mean the Lost Prime?" Laserbeak questioned.

"Affirmative. The Former Prime sought me as his heir."