Authors Note: All of the chapters from Rising Darkness to Predacons Rising will take place before the first episode of The Owl House's Season 3
Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers, The Owl House or their Characters
On the planet Earth, the sun was beginning to rise up on the continent that was referred to as the United States, more specifically Connecticut. As some birds were flying above a dirt roadway next to a small forest, a red Dodge Challenger muscle car was driving it's way down it. But there was something very unusual about this car.
It had no driver.
"So there I am on the lookout when, out of nowhere, these bright beams light up my rear view." The muscle car surprisingly said to someone unknown. "And then it hits me. I'm illegally parked!"
"Another parking ticket?" A female voice asked, seemingly coming from a communication function on the car's radio.
"Better. The boot!" The muscle car replied, trying to make it sound more intense.
"Big metal tire clamp, impossible to remove." The female voice said.
"Bingo. So the local police do their thing and I let 'em tow me all the way down the block." The muscle car explained. "That's when I kick off my new shiny shoe and BANG!"
"New York's finest soil themselves." The female voice replied.
"You know me, Arcee." The muscle car said. "Mess with Cliffjumper…"
"And you get the horns." The female voice, now identified as Arcee, finished in an all-knowing tone, making Cliffjumper chuckle in response.
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In the badlands that were about a few miles away, a blue Kawasaki Ninja 250 R motorcycle was riding though the area with a 'female driver' on it.
"But I'm not sure how that complies with Autobot Rule #1, keep a low profile." Arcee admitted.
"What can I say? Patrolling for Energon out here near a pretty fancy town gets lonesome." Cliffjumper commented. "Almost makes me miss the Decepticons."
"Like Gravesfield, Connecticut's a party?" Arcee asked rhetorically. "We're alone wherever we travel on this rock, Cliff."
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Back with Cliffjumper, his radio began to make a beeping noise as the screen showed a small dot on a scanning radar.
"I've found something." Cliffjumper said.
"Need backup?" Arcee asked.
"Do I ever need backup?" Cliffjumper questioned in response before driving off the dirt road and into the small forest.
As he kept driving past the trees, Cliffjumper soon found his way out of the forest and he then parked in front of a large crater that had lots of giant blue crystals in it.
"I just found a whole lot of Energon!" Cliffjumper remarked.
But then, a huge shadow began to loom over Cliffjumper as he transformed from a Dodge Challenger muscle car to a red-coloured robot with horns on his head.
"Decepticons!" Cliffjumper realised.
He looked above to see a giant space warship that had black colourings and had a few spikes at the front. One of the ship's turrets aimed itself at Cliffjumper and fired a laser blast in front of him, causing the red robot to get blasted into the crater. As Cliffjumper soon recovered, a hatch at the bottom of the warship opened up and descending from it were a group of purple-coloured robots with purple highlights and red visors. These were Decepticon drone soldiers known as Vehicons.
Cliffjumper managed to stand back up and he glared at the Vehicons, who did the same to him.
"Arcee, about that backup. I think I'm gonna need it, after all." Cliffjumper told his fellow Autobot on the communicator.
"Copy that. Just try to stay in one piece until we get there." Arcee replied.
"No promises." Cliffjumper said with a chuckle before hanging up and turning his attention back to the Vehicons. "Fair warning, boys, I'll put a few dings in ya."
Transforming into his vehicle mode, Cliffjumper drove his way up the crater towards the Vehicons and leaped right into the air before transforming back into robot form and landing a punch on a Vehicon. Seeing that his powerful punch had caused the Vehicon to go offline, Cliffjumper turned his attention to the others as they prepared to attack him.
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Meanwhile in another far away area of Connecticut, a red and blue Peterbuilt truck was driving without anyone at the wheel until it received a call.
"Arcee to Optimus, the Cons are back." Arcee informed. "Cliff might be neck-deep in scrap."
"Understood." Optimus replied before switching to someone else. "Ratchet, do you have Cliffjumper's coordinates?"
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Driving across the snowy roads of Canada was an orange and white ambulance, which was receiving Optimus' communication.
"I'm locked on his signal, Optimus." Ratchet said. "But our team is scattered across time zones."
After hearing this, Optimus began to make a call to the other members of his Autobot team. First was the blue motorcycle in the badlands, Arcee.
"Arcee."
A white, red and green Lancia Fenomenon Stratos sports car.
"Wheeljack."
A dark-green SUV resembling a Lamborghini LM002.
"Bulkhead."
A white, red and blue Porsche 935 Turbo racing car.
"Jazz."
And finally, a yellow Urbana 500 with black highlights.
"Bumblebee."
"Rendezvous back at base and prepare to Ground Bridge." Optimus ordered as the five vehicles moved out.
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Back with Cliffjumper, he managed to knock a Vehicon into the crater and held his own against the rest of his foes by punching two more away. But, one Vehicon managed to get behind him and smacked him towards one of his comrades, who kicked him away and allowed another Vehicon to uppercut him on the face. This caused Cliffjumper's left horn to get smacked off as he crashed back into the crater of Energon.
The Vehicons jumped into the crater to finish off Cliffjumper, who was still standing strong.
"You want the horns?!" Cliffjumper asked before shifting his hands into duel blasters with three barrels. "You got 'em!"
He then started firing his blasters at the Vehicons and managed to shoot some of them down, causing the Vehicons to return fire at him. Cliffjumper was able to avoid their shots and continued firing, but all those energy shots ended up hitting the Energon crystals and they caused a gigantic explosion that engulfed Cliffjumper and the Vehicons.
As the smoke died down, two surviving Vehicons were seen walking out of the fiery explosion as they were began returning to the Decepticon warship known as the Nemesis.
Within the Nemesis' main deck, a tall silver-coloured Decepticon with sharp claws, wings on his back and missiles on his arms. This was the Decepticons' second-in-command, Starscream.
"The Energon. It's worthless to me, now." Starscream said with a low growl.
He looked behind and saw that the two Vehicons had arrived on the main deck.
"We weren't able to salvage any piece of Energon, Commander Starscream." One Vehicon informed.
"And that blabbermouth Autobot, Cliffjumper? Did you find him?" Starscream questioned.
"He was nowhere to be found when the explosion died down, sir. It's safe to assume that he's been blown to pieces." The second Vehicon answered.
"Well, that's some bit of good news." Starscream said. "Let us leave this pile of rubble, now."
The Nemesis then flew away from the area until it was completely out of sight. Suddenly, a green swirling portal appeared from thin air and driving out of it was the blue motorcycle, the Stratos sports car, the dark-green SUV, the Porsche racing car, the Urbana 500, and the white and orange ambulance.
Each of them transformed into their own robot forms. The motorcycle transformed into a small female robot, the Stratos sports car transformed into a robot with swords on his back and a silver helmet piece, the dark-green SUV transformed into a large muscular robot, the Porsche 935 racing car transformed into a robot with a blue visor over his eyes, the Urbana 500 transformed into a young-looking robot with his mouth covered by his helmet, and the white and orange ambulance transformed into a middle aged-looking robot.
The last vehicle to drive out of the portal was the red and blue Peterbuilt truck and it transformed into a huge robot with a blue helmet and a silver mouthplate. Optimus Prime and the rest of his Autobots pulled out their blasters and searched the area, only to find nothing in the smoking crater that was once filled with Energon.
"An untapped Energon deposit." Optimus said as he and the others withdrew their weapons.
"What's left of it." Bulkhead corrected.
"Now it's just a burning hole of nothing." Wheeljack added.
"The first Decepticon activity in three years." Ratchet said.
"That we know of." Optimus replied, removing his mouthplate. "If they're scouting for Energon, they may be preparing for his return."
"Well, ain't that just perfect?" Jazz asked in sarcasm.
Arcee and Bumblebee went ahead of their teammates and they jumped into the crater, searching for any sign of Cliffjumper. After a few seconds, Arcee gasped when she saw Cliffjumper's broken-off horn on the ground and she bent down to pick it up.
"No." She said with a sad expression.
"Do you think Cliff could be…?" Bumblebee asked worriedly as he words sounded like bleeps.
But suddenly, the Autobots began hearing some painful groans and they saw a pile of rocks beginning to move. Something then rose out of the rock pile and it was revealed to be Cliffjumper, who had a few burn marks on his body.
"Hey, guys. About time you showed up." Cliffjumper said with a smile.
The others, especially Arcee, gained relived expressions as they approached Cliffjumper to help him up.
"Thank Primus you're alright, Cliff." Arcee said.
"You had us worried for a bit there." Bulkhead admitted.
"We thought those Cons scrapped you for good." Jazz commented.
"It takes more than a big burning bang to take me out." Cliffjumper quipped. "But, I think I'm gonna need some patching up before I can have a rematch."
"You're also going to need to get this reattached, partner." Arcee replied, showing him his horn and causing him to become surprised.
"Seriously? They broke off my horn?" Cliffjumper questioned. "That is so not a good look for me."
"You can say that again." Wheeljack chuckled humorously.
"Just be glad the Decepticons only tore your accessory off." Ratchet told the red Autobot. "We could have lost you today."
"Well, you didn't today, Ratchet." Cliffjumper said reassuringly.
"And we are glad you still function, Cliffjumper." Optimus replied. "Let us now return to base so that you can recover."
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Back on the Nemesis, Starscream was continuing to look out the main deck's window before he was approached by a Decepticon with a screen for a face and very thin arms.
"Soundwave. What is it?" Starscream asked in an unamused tone.
Soundwave began to play a recording he took from a certain female Autobot.
"Like Gravesfield, Connecticut's a party? We're alone wherever we travel on this rock, Cliff." Arcee's voice said.
"Ah, the one called Arcee." Starscream sneered, smiling sinisterly. "Why slay just one Autobot when we still have the advantage of surprise?"
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Meanwhile, the Autobots had arrived ontop of a large mountain as Optimus was addressing his team.
"We must not allow our fear and insecurity over losing each other to impair our judgement." Optimus explained. "For as long as we can remember, only we eight Autobots have remained on this planet. We owe it to ourselves, to the memory of Cybertron. To any Autobot in any Galaxy seeking safe harbour. To humankind. And we owe it to the memories of our fallen comrades, to survive. Till all are one."
"Alright, Cliffjumper, let's head inside so I can patch you up." Ratchet said while holding Cliffjumper's horn.
"Sure, Ratch." Cliffjumper replied. "Just try not to be too rough with my paint job."
"Relax, Cliff. You're in good hands." Bumblebee reassured.
"While you're getting yourself fixed up, Partner, I think I'll get back to protecting humankind." Arcee said as she began to leave the group.
"Alright. Make sure you don't have any fun without, Cee." Cliffjumper replied while smiling.
"Of course." Arcee nodded before she transformed and drove off the mountain.
"Do you think she'll be okay on her own, Prime?" Jazz asked.
"Arcee is a highly-experienced fighter, Jazz." Optimus answered. "She will be okay."
"Optimus, helping humans will only result in more tragedy." Ratchet told the Autobot leader.
"Your opinion is noted." Optimus replied.
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In the town of Gravesfield, the morning sun shined down on all the houses and many of the townspeople were wide awake so they could get their days started.
In one small house that had a light-blue roof and was resting in front of a forest, all the lights were turned on as it was clear that the humans who lived in it were wide awake, too. But, not all of the people who lived in this house were human. Most of them are from a world were fantasies are transformed into reality.
The scene shifted into the house's bathroom, where a 14 year old human girl who appeared to be Hispanic was washing her hands. She had tan skin, brownish-purple short hair that was a bit messy, hazel-coloured eyes, a small scar on her right eyebrow, a dark-red beanie hat, a white and light-purple shirt underneath a grey varsity jacket with pale sleeves, green sweatpants and a pair of red and white sneakers.
This was Luz Noceda, an energetic girl who had a thing for always using her wild imagination. During her school days, she was supposed to go to a summer camp so she could try fitting in with others, but she ended getting stuck in an entirely different world called the Boiling Isles, which was filled with witches and demons of all kind.
While there, she got to make a lot of new friends like Eda Clawthorne, her baby Titan companion, King, and their house demon, Hooty. Luz was even accepted into one of the Boiling Isles' magic school, Hexside. But while she may have had some good times in this world of magic, she also had some very bad times.
It turns out that the Boiling Isles' own dictating emperor, Belos, was a witch hunter who planned to kill every witch and demon on 'The Day of Unity'. As Luz and her fiends attempted to stop Belos' plans, he was suddenly taken down by an even more dangerous threat, the Collector. King was able to convince the Collector to play a little made-up game and the young boy from the stars began tearing up the mountain they were in with the portal to the human world along with it. Luz and her four best friends were able to make it through the portal and they were all taken in by her mother.
Now, Luz and her witch friends are trying their hardest to find a way back to the Boiling Isles so they can stop the Collector and save their loved ones.
As Luz finished washing her hands, she dried them off with a towel and looked herself in the mirror with a sigh.
"Well, today's another day." Luz said to herself. "And it's another day to try and get your friends back home. Let's just hope it'll happen."
"Luz! It's time for breakfast!" A voice called out.
"Coming, mom!" Luz replied as he tossed the towel away and exited the bathroom.
When she arrived downstairs, she found her mother, Camilla Noceda, placing some plates of fried eggs and toast on the table for her five friends from the Boiling Isles. There was her pink-haired girlfriend who was an expert in Abomination magic, Amity Blight, the confident and fun-loving Plant Coven witch with navy-blue hair styled into a pair of pigtails, Willow Park, the dark-skinned Illusion Coven witch boy who is known for getting excited over human stuff, Augustus 'Gus' Porter, the former Golden Guard and young boy who seeks to do some good for his new friends, Hunter, and the shapeshifting Basilisk girl who's been living with Camila for the past few days and now has a human form that doesn't resemble Luz, Vee.
Sleeping on the living room couches were their Palismen, Emmiline, Clover, Ghost and Flapjack.
"Hey, Luz!" Her friends greeted.
"Hi, everyone. Breakfast smells good, today." Luz said as she sat down with everyone.
"You can thank Amity for helping me cook it, Mija." Camila replied, making Amity slightly blush.
"It was nothing, Mrs Noceda. I'm just doing my best to help out." Amity admitted.
"You're doing a pretty good job of it to me." Luz told her girlfriend kindly.
"Thanks." Amity replied.
"So, Luz, are you at school again today?" Gus asked.
"Only when it gets to 7:30 am, remember?" Luz reminded. "It's still Six O'Clock."
"So she has an hour and a half before school." Vee added.
"Oh yeah. I guess the time that work in the Human Realm can be pretty confusing, sometimes." Willow chuckled in awkwardness.
"When you get back, are we going to work on finding a way back home again?" Hunter asked.
"Well… we can give it a try." Luz admitted with a small frown.
"Does anyone have any new ideas?" Amity questioned.
"Maybe we could go to the human library and read about magic portals?" Gus suggested.
"I don't think the library will have those kinds of books, Gus." Luz replied.
"Yeah, I guess." Gus sighed disappointingly.
"Too bad there's no one on Earth who understands what we're going through." Willow said with a sad expression.
"Yeah." Vee agreed, while the others simply dropped their heads down.
Luz became slightly depressed by seeing her friends from another world becoming so sad about being so far away from home.
"You know what? Why don't you five think about trying to get you home later and just have a relaxing weekend?" Camila suggested with a smile, trying to cheer them up.
"Well, okay." Amity said.
"I guess it could help us fell better." Hunter admitted.
"Good thinking, Camila." Vee complemented.
"Luz, do you think you could get the mail while we clean up?" Camila asked politely.
"Sure, mama." Luz replied with a nod, getting up from her seat and walking to the front door as the others were left to clean up their breakfast plates.
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Outside the house, Arcee was currently driving through the streets of Gravesfield with her holographic human image on the driver's seat. But when she took a look at one of her side mirrors, she saw a pair of purple sports cars driving behind her.
"Twins, Huh?" Arcee asked, already realising they were Vehicons.
She made a sharp left turn on the road before they could get any closer to her and parked next to a pathway that had a car behind her. Looking at her side mirror again, Arcee saw that the two Vehicons didn't spot her when they turned and drove away.
"I think I'll take five here." Arcee said before turning off her hologram and flipping on her parking stick.
However, she didn't know that she had just parked in front of the Noceda residence as Luz walked out the front door and approached the mailbox.
"Okay, what did we get today?" Luz asked, opening the mailbox and taking out two letters. "A small bill and a shopping magazine? I guess that's okay."
But as she shut the mailbox and turned away, Luz's eyes were set on Arcee as she made sure to stay silent so her cover wouldn't be blown. Luz could only stare in fascination at the motorcycle parked outside her home before she approached it.
"Woah. This is one pretty sweet bike." Luz said with a smile. "It's got a neat paint job, sturdy wheels and the gauge let's it go 110 miles per hour at max."
Then, she noticed that Arcee had a little murky stain on her.
"Yeesh. A shiny ride like you doesn't deserve a stain like that. Don't worry, I'll fix it." Luz said before she took out a small white cloth from her jacket and rubbed the stain off with it. "There. Good as new. Whoever rides on you is really lucky."
As she placed her cloth back in her jacket, Arcee couldn't help but turn her right mirror towards where Luz had cleaned the stain off.
"Did she just clean me?" Arcee asked in surprise, keeping her voice very low. "Huh, that young human is a bit nice. She must have lots of human friends."
"Were you talking to that bike, Luz?" A voice questioned.
Luz yelped in surprise as she saw Amity standing behind her. As Arcee turned her mirror to the pink-haired witch, she couldn't help but notice some unordinary features.
"Wait, does that human have pointy ears?" She questioned.
"Oh, Amity! Uh, no! I totally wasn't talking to it!" Luz stated with an embarrassed grin. "And it's called a motorcycle! They're much faster than a normal bike!"
"Okay." Amity replied. "It does look good for riding on, though."
"Yeah, it does. As a matter of fact, it can fit two people on the driving seat." Luz told her.
"That sounds nice." Amity said. "Maybe if you get one of them when you're older, we could both go on a ride? It'd be just the two of us."
"I would like that." Luz said, beginning to blush. "Wanna take a seat with me to see if we fit?"
"That sounds awkward, but okay." Amity said with a giggle.
Luz got ontop of Arcee and grabbed onto the driving handles as if she was driving on her. Amity followed suite by sitting behind her girlfriend.
"This actually feels good." Luz admitted. "I can already imagine both of us riding down the streets as a couple of cool gals."
"Aren't we already cool? I mean, with our magic and all?" Amity asked with a sweet smile.
"I guess so." Luz chuckled as her face got a bit redder.
"Those two seem pretty adorable together. But can humans even be in love with the same gender?" Arcee asked in amusement.
But just then, she noticed that the two Vehicon cars from before had returned and were driving slowly towards her, Luz and Amity. It would seem they have found the Autobot in disguise.
"Oh no." Arcee whispered worriedly. "Come on, lover girls. Wrap this up."
"I'd like to go on a ride with you when you're able to boy one of these." Amity told her girlfriend, neither of them noticing the danger behind them. "Can you promise me that?"
"Maybe. That's if I manage to get you and the others home without having to destroy the only way there." Luz replied with a small frown.
"Hey, I'm sure we'll figure something out." Amity said reassuringly.
Suddenly, some bright lights shined onto them and this caused Luz and Amity to turn around, seeing the Vehicons shining their lights onto them.
"Scrap." Arcee muttered.
"Hey! What's with the bright lights, you weirdos?!" Luz questioned rhetorically.
"Yeah, we're having a private discussion!" Amity shouted.
The two cars didn't say anything and they drove straight up to them at high speed. Before Luz and Amity could do anything, Arcee started up her engine and began driving away with the two girls still riding on her.
"Gah! What's going on?!" Luz asked in astonishment.
"Wait, you're not driving this thing, Luz?!" Amity questioned.
"No! I'm too young to drive!" Luz yelled.
She and Amity screamed in horror as Arcee drove as fast as she could, just managing to slip past the Vehicons and get a far distance from both of them. The Vehicons made a quick u-turn before giving chase to Arcee, Luz and Amity.
But just then, Hunter walked out of the house with Flapjack perched onto his shoulder.
"Luz? Amity? I heard you two yelling out here." Hunter said, only to find that the two girls were nowhere in sight. "Weird. Where did they go?"
Flapjack began chirping to his owner, who was able to understand what he said and nodded.
"Yeah, we should go and look for them." Hunter replied. "But let's not ride on the broom or humans will start taking photos of us."
He and Flapjack then left the Noceda house to look for Luz and Amity, not knowing that they had been caught in the middle of something huge.
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Back with Luz and Amity, they continued riding on Arcee while the Vehicons chased them from behind.
"Luz, do something! We're going way too fast!" Amity shouted fearfully.
"I'm trying! But I'm more worried about those creeps chasing us!" Luz exclaimed.
"Do not let go!" Arcee told them.
"That's exactly what I'm doing, Luz!" Amity stated with a freaked-out expression.
"That's not my voice! I didn't say that!" Luz yelled.
"What?! Then who did?!" Amity questioned in shock.
The two Vehicons managed to catch up and they attempted to squish their targets in the middle, bit Arcee slowed herself down and caused them to slightly crash into each other before speeding ahead.
"Commander Starscream, target sighted." A Vehicon reported. "Accompanied by two human children."
"Destroy them all!" Starscream ordered.
Arcee kept driving with Luz and Amity on her before finding an alleyway and driving into it. Once she came to a stop, Luz and Amity immediately got off her and backed away in fear.
"Who are you?!" Luz demanded.
"What are you?!" Amity asked loudly.
"Listen, I'm not going to hurt either of you." Arcee told them. "Just get away from here as fast as you can, act like I don't exist and don't tell anyone about me. Got it?"
"Right!" Luz and Amity replied before they ran away through another part of the alleyway.
Arcee saw the two Vehicons had found her in the alleyway and began to drive away in hopes they would only chase her. Unfortunately, she noticed one of them turned to where Luz and Amity had ran off to.
"Scrap!" Arcee scowled before she quickly turned around and jumped over the Vehicon.
Luz and Amity continued running away before they looked behind to see the other Vehicon chasing them.
"What do you want with us?!" Amity demanded in fear.
"We don't even know that talking motorcycle!" Luz yelled.
But just then, Arcee showed up from behind the Vehicon and rode right over it before slowing down next to the girls.
"Hop on!" She ordered.
"You don't need to tell us twice!" Luz replied before she and Amity got back on the female Autobot.
Arcee increased her driving speed and managed to drive out of the alleyway, while the Vehicons regrouped with each other outside and they suddenly revealed a pair of blasters from their fronts. They began firing at their targets, but Arcee was able to avoid them and she drove onto a roadway that led to a slightly high bridge.
"Why in Titan's name are those guys trying to kill us?!" Amity asked, beginning to freak out.
"Did we do anything to make them mad or something?!" Luz questioned.
"I don't think so, kids. And they're no guys." Arcee replied.
As the Vehicons swiftly drove past a number of civilian vehicles, coming out from the right roadway was Bumblebee and Jazz. Both Autobots drove beside the Vehicons and then bashed them into each other, which luckily didn't harm any bystanders.
"Ha! Those Cons never saw if coming!" Jazz chuckled.
"True." Bumblebee agreed.
"Are those friends of yours?" Luz asked as she and Amity looked behind them.
"Family." Arcee replied.
She went faster and got herself, Luz and Amity a far distance away from the Vehicons, who were coming up behind Bumblebee and Jazz.
"Here they come, Bee!" Jazz warned. "We can't let 'em get past and catch Arcee!"
"Sure thing, Jazz!" Bumblebee replied as he and Jazz began driving from side to side respectively to keep the Vehicons from driving past them.
But one Vehicon was able to slip by them and rammed them out of the way, allowing him and his partner to drive past them and continue their chase for Arcee and the girls.
"Scrap!" Jazz scowled with a painful grunt.
He and Bumblebee were quick to recover and they drove after the Vehicons.
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Meanwhile, Hunter and Flapjack were at an abandoned part of Gravesfield that was underneath the bridge, searching for Luz and Amity.
"Still no sign of them." Hunter said with a sigh. "I wish they would just call me or the others back at the house. Or at least just show up when I least expect it."
Flapjack chirped in response before both of them began hearing motor noises. Suddenly, they looked above at the bridge to see Arcee jumping off it with a screaming Luz and Amity riding in her before they safely landing near him.
"Huh. Those only happen in the movies Luz show me." Hunter muttered in awkwardness.
Luz and Amity panted heavily as they slowly got off Arcee.
"Okay, that's enough crazy joyrides for one day." Luz said.
"Yeah. I don't want to be shot at by evil Earth vehicles, anymore." Amity replied in agreement. "It's a little more than what I'm used to back at home."
"Are you two okay?" Hunter asked as he approached the girls. "And where did you learn how to drive like that, Luz?"
Before Luz or Amity could give him an answer, they all heard some loud engine noises and looked to see the two Vehicons had found a way off the bridge, driving up to them before transforming into robot form.
"Holy Titan!" Amity gasped in awe.
She, Luz and Hunter heard more noises behind them and they saw that Arcee had transformed, too.
"Get somewhere safe!" Arcee told the three kids, who quickly complied by running to the side before the female Autobot glared at the Vehicons. "This ends here, Cons!"
The Vehicons fired their blasters at Arcee, who charged at them and avoided their shots before striking them both with a swift kick.
"What are they?" Hunter asked as he and the girls watched them battle.
"Talking vehicles that transform into giant robots. Or the other way around." Luz answered, wanting to believe it was all a crazy dream.
Arcee repeatedly struck one of the Vehicons with impressive attacks and lighting-fast reflexes.
"This! Is! For! Cliff!" Arcee stated with every hit she landed.
Unfortunately, the Vehicon seemed to be unfazed by her attacks and began firing his blaster at Arcee. The female Autobot did some backflips and avoided some shots, but one managed to hit her in the torso and she skidded against the ground.
"She got hit!" Luz exclaimed.
"Should we do something?!" Amity questioned worriedly.
Before any of them could make a decision, they looked up to see Bumblebee and Jazz driving off the bridge as they both transformed into robot form.
"Surprise, Decepti-Creeps!" Jazz called out before he landed a powerful punch on a Vehicon during his fall, making it fall down.
The other Vehicon tried to strike Jazz, but Bumblebee landed in front of him and he delivered a huge punch to the face. The Vehicon collapsed onto the ground as Jazz rushed up to Arcee and helped her up.
"I've got ya, Cee." Jazz assured with a smile.
"It's about time you showed up, Jazz." Arcee admitted, causing Jazz to simply shrug.
Bumblebee stepped back from his seemingly defeated enemies before turning towards Luz, Amity and Hunter.
"Hi. Are you kids okay?" Bumblebee asked.
"Yeah. We're not hurt." Hunter replied, while Flapjack chirped in agreement.
"Wait, you understood what that yellow robot said?" Amity asked in surprise. "But all he spoke out were some weird bleeps."
"I learned how to speak different types of languages back at the palace." Hunter explained. "But, none of them were Earth languages."
Suddenly, Bumblebee was blasted away by the Vehicons, who had just recovered from the hits they got from him and Jazz. Bumblebee collapsed onto the ground as one of the Vehicons stomped on him and then they both aimed their weapons at the yellow Autobot.
"Leave him alone!" Hunter yelled, earning the Vehicons' attention as this caused him and the girls to pale in nervousness. "… please?"
"That probably wasn't a good idea, Hunter!" Luz admitted worriedly.
A Vehicon began to walk towards the three children to make sure there were no witnesses. Thinking fast, Amity got in front of Luz and Hunter and formed a purple energy circle around her hand before some purple goop shot out from a pot attached to her belt. The purple goop wrapped around her hand and formed a spiked fist before the pink-haired witch shot it at the Vehicon, hitting him in the face and making him stumble back. Seeing this was quite surprising for Arcee, Bumblebee and Jazz.
"Now's our chance! Run!" Amity ordered hastily as she and her two friends began to run away.
The Vehicon who got punched by Amity's Abomination fist wiped off the goop on his face and began pursuing the kids.
"Oh no, you don't!" A voice called out.
The Vehicon suddenly got grabbed by some kind of energy cable and it was revealed to have come from Jazz, who used it to pull him back and crash onto the ground. While Jazz was distracted and the other two Autobots were down, the other Vehicon used this opportunity to go after the three organics.
Luz, Amity and Hunter continued running away from their pursuers before they found a large concrete pipe in a construction site and they climbed into it.
"Come on! Come on!" Luz stated in an urgent tone.
The Vehicon that was chasing them had caught up and he reached his hand into the pipe, attempting the grab the kids.
"It's gonna get us!" Amity panicked.
"Keep moving!" Hunter replied.
But before the Vehicon could grab them, it was suddenly pulled away and some fighting sounds were heard. Luz, Amity and Hunter looked behind them to see Bumblebee showing his face from the hole.
"Don't worry. You three are safe, now." Bumblebee assured.
"Thanks." Hunter replied with a smile, while Flapjack chirped in a friendly way.
"You're welcome. Take care." Bumblebee said before he left to help Arcee and Jazz.
"Okay, we should be heading back home now." Luz told her girlfriend and other friend. "Those evil robots might wanna come back to stomp on us, later."
"What did the three of us even see, back there?" Amity asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I don't know, but it definitely didn't have anything to do with magic." Luz replied as they all jumped out the concrete pipe and ran back to the Noceda residence.
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Back with Arcee, Jazz and Bumblebee, they weren't exactly doing well. Jazz tried to punch one of the Vehicons, but he simply moved back to dodge it and then gave the Autobot a knee to the face. Arcee and Bumblebee moved out of the way as Jazz crashed beside them, helping him up on his knees.
"Okay, this is a but tougher than I thought." Jazz admitted as the Vehicons approached them for another fight.
The three Autobots prepared to take them on. But then, some honking and beeping noises were heard from behind. They then looked to see Bulkhead and Wheeljack driving towards them in vehicle mode before they jumped up, transformed and landed beside their teammates.
"Who's ready to rumble?" Bulkhead asked, smashing his fists together.
"It's your call, Cons!" Wheeljack stated.
Seeing as they were now outmatched, the two Vehicons transformed and drove away. The Autobots eased up as Bumblebee sighed in relief, while Jazz rubbed his sore arm.
"What took you two?" Arcee asked Bulkhead and Wheeljack.
"Traffic." Bulkhead answered.
"It was a nightmare." Wheeljack said.
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Later at an unknown location where there were a few monitors, some metal equipment and a steel portal-like machine, the Autobots were explaining what happened with them in Gravesfield to Optimus as Cliffjumper approached them, now completely patched up due to Ratchet.
"And the Cons would have been scrap metal if I hadn't been distracted by the humans." Arcee explained.
"Humans?" Cliffjumper repeated.
"Two young girls and one boy, to be precise." Bumblebee said.
"Two girls and one boy." Optimus said in an interested tone.
"I guess the boy caught us in the middle of the action." Jazz shrugged. "I don't know, we were kinda busy at the time."
"One of the girls did seem a bit nice." Arcee admitted. "She cleaned a small stain off me and it looked better when she was done."
"Really? Are you already picking a new partner, Cee?" Cliffjumper questioned with a chuckle.
"I never said I was replacing you, Cliff." Arcee replied.
"Don't forget that the other girl and that boy had pointy ears." Jazz said, remembering how he noticed that Amity and Hunter had not done anything to hide their witch ears from them.
"Pointy ears? I don't remember humans having those." Ratchet added while working with some machinery.
"Neither did we. But one of those girls hit a Decepticon with some kind of purple goo." Bumblebee explained.
"Seriously? There's no way humans can do that." Cliffjumper commented.
"I get the feeling those other two are more than just humans." Arcee told her partner.
"Either way, if the Decepticons are targeting us, anyone assumed as our ally will be at grave risk." Optimus said. "We must bring them here for safety."
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It was now 12:25 PM at Gravesfield. Luz's friends were waiting for her outside her school due to Camila having to work at the hospital today. Gus made sure to use his Illusion magic to make their pointy ears look like normal human ears. After a few minutes, Luz walked out the main entrance and approached her friends.
"Hey, Luz. How was school?" Willow asked.
"It was fine. I just had a few casual lessons and then it was over." Luz answered.
"Good to know." Amity replied with a smile.
"Hey, you three? Could you please let me, Luz and Amity talk alone for a bit?" Hunter asked Willow, Gus and Vee.
"Sure. We'll respect your privacy." Gus said.
"We'll just be over there if you need us." Vee added before she and the other two left the other half to talk.
"So, guys, about what happened yesterday. With the giant robot vehicles that were fighting to the death." Luz said while rubbing her shoulder. "Has it been on your mind since we got back a few hours ago?"
"It sure has. I wish I knew what they really were and where they came from." Amity admitted. "We don't have anything like them in the Boiling Isles."
"Are you sure giant robots aren't common here?" Hunter questioned.
"Only in the movies. They don't exactly show up in real life." Luz replied. "Let's just forget about it and focus on finding a way back to the Boiling Isles."
But when Amity looked at the parking lot, her eyes widened when she saw something familiar.
"Uh, I don't think we can forget about it." Amity said before pointing in the parking lot.
Luz and Hunter followed the direction of where she was pointing and saw the exact same blue motorcycle from earlier parked in it.
"Oh boy." Luz muttered worriedly.
Suddenly, Bumblebee drove up behind them and beeped his horn to gain their attention. Luz, Amity and Hunter quickly turned around to see Bumblebee.
"That car's here, too?" Amity questioned in a quiet tone as Bumblebee opened his door.
"Come on in, young man." Bumblebee told Hunter.
"It… wants us to get in?" Luz asked.
"No. Just me." Hunter replied.
"Oh yeah. You can understand what it says when it bleeps." Amity said in realisation.
"Are you really sure that's a good idea, Hunter?" Luz asked with a concerned expression.
"He seems friendly, so I'm sure we can trust him." Hunter replied reassuringly before climbing into the driver's seat.
Bumblebees closed the door and he drove off with his passenger.
"Hunter! Wait!" Luz called out.
"Don't… go." Amity said, sighing in annoyance.
Luz and Amity looked back to see Arcee was still in the parking lot and they then looked to each other in concern.
"Let's just walk along and act like she doesn't exist." Luz whispered. "That's what she wanted us to do, remember?"
"Good idea." Amity said in agreement.
She and Luz began walking down the side of the pathway, while Willow, Gus and Vee were checking our Arcee from the other side of the school.
"That human bike looks pretty cool." Gus commented.
"It's called a motorcycle, Gus." Vee told him.
"I heard they can go really fast." Willow said. "Faster than a witch's broom, even."
"That's so cool!" Gus remarked in amazement before looking past the two girls. "But, what happened to the others?"
Willow and Vee looked behind and saw that Luz, Amity and Hunter were gone.
"I don't know." Willow answered. "Maybe they went home without us?"
"Probably." Vee said with a shrug.
But when they turned back to see the the motorcycle, they saw that it had vanished.
"Okay, why is everything disappearing on us?" Gus questioned with a raised eyebrow.
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Back with Luz and Amity, they managed to find an alleyway to walk in so they could hopefully lose Arcee. However, the blue motorcycle drove past them and stopped in front, showing that she had her holographic driver on.
"Relax. I just wanna talk with you two." Arcee said assuringly.
"I? Don't you mean you and your new friend, here?" Luz questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, we don't understand how you found another human to ride in the past few hours since that crazy battle." Amity admitted before Arcee made her hologram go away.
"Kids, there's a lot you don't understand." She told them.
"No no, me and my awesome girlfriend absolutely get it. The first rule of robot fight club is that it doesn't exist." Luz replied as she and Amity turned away. "We've already got enough problems with trying to find a way back to a place that means a lot to us. The last thing we need is for a bunch of giant robots driving around as vehicles, trying to get us killed in the middle of your death battles!"
But before they could leave the alleyway, Cliffjumper showed up in his vehicles mode and blocked Luz and Amity's paths before he and Arcee transformed for the conversation to be more personal.
"Look, Luz and Amity, is it? Your personal safety is exactly why Optimus Prime has requested your presences." Cliffjumper explained.
"Wait, Optimus who?" Amity asked, looking back and forth at the two Autobots.
"You're both in danger because you're some of the few, some of the only people on Earth who have ever seen us." Arcee said.
"Really? The entire planet doesn't know about you guys?" Luz questioned in surprise.
"Not at all. You could say we're robots in disguise." Cliffjumper answered.
"Luz? Amity?" A voice asked as the four of them looked to see Willow, Gus and Vee watching them from nearby, with the disguised Basilisk being the one who spoke. "What's going on here? With the giant robots?"
"Scrap." Arcee and Cliffjumper said.
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Later on, Arcee, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper were driving Luz, Amity, Willow, Gus, Hunter and Vee to their base in the rocky outlands of Gravesfield. Luz was riding on Arcee, Hunter was riding in Bumblebee, and the rest were riding in Cliffjumper.
"So, why do we also have to bring Willow, Gus and Vee?" Luz asked curiously.
"Rules." Arcee replied.
The kids looked ahead and saw that the three Autobots were driving towards a large stony hill.
"Woah, Woah, don't drive over there!" Amity exclaimed.
"We're gonna crash!" Willow stated nervously.
But instead of them crashing into the hill, a secret door revealed itself by opening up to the Autobots and this allowed them to drive right in before it closed up behind them, causing the young witches to sigh in relief.
Inside they were all inside the secret base, the kids got to look around the whole place in absolute amazement as there were so many computers and gadgets that weren't very Earthly. Bulkhead, Wheeljack, Jazz and Ratchet watched as their teammates drives in with the children before they got off.
"This place is bigger than Hexside." Amity whispered in awe as Arcee, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper transformed.
"So, that's them?" Bulkhead questioned.
"Yep. They're the ones." Jazz replied with a nod.
"I thought there were three of them?" Ratchet asked.
"Haven't you heard? Humans multiple." Cliffjumper quipped.
"Technically, I'm the only human here. But we'll explain all of that later." Luz said. "I'm Luz. Luz Noceda."
"Amity Blight." Amity introduced with a smile.
"My name's Willow Park." Willow said kindly.
"Hunter." Hunter added.
"Call me Vee." Vee said.
"And I'm Augustus Porter. But you can just call me Gus." Gus explained before he quickly rushed up to Wheeljack. "What's your name?"
"Wheeljack." The white Autobot answered, a little surprised.
"Where did you come from? What human vehicle can you turn into?" Gus asked enthusiastically. "Do you like studying humans, as well? What kind of food do you eat?"
All of these questions were too much for Wheeljack and he only stared at Gus in confusion.
"So if you're all robots, then who made you?" Willow asked with a curious expression.
"Ugh! Please." Ratchet groaned.
Just then, the six children began feeling massive stomps near them. They turned around to see Optimus Prime approaching them.
"We are autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron. Also known as Autobots." Optimus explained.
"Alien robots from another planet?" Amity asked.
"That's incredible!" Vee gasped.
"Why are you here?" Luz questioned.
"To protect your planet from the Decepticons." Optimus answered.
"The jokers who tried to bump us off last night." Arcee added.
"Okay, why are they here?" Hunter asked.
"A fair question, Hunter." Optimus replied as he bent down to the kids. "In part, they are here because our planet is uninhabitable. Ravaged by centuries of civil war."
"War? That sounds terrible." Willow admitted, frowning sadly.
"Why were you guys even fighting a war?" Gus asked.
"Foremost, over control of our world supply of Energon, the fuel and lifeblood of all Autobots and Decepticons alike." Optimus explained as he began to have memories of the Cybertronian War. "The combat was fierce and endured for centuries. In the beginning, I fought alongside one whom I considered a brother. But in war, ideals can be corrupted. And it was thus… that Megatron lost his way."
"Okay, this is a lot to take in." Amity commented.
"I know. And we're used to dealing with crazy stuff." Willow said in agreement.
"If you ask me, this Megatron sounds like an even worse tyrant that Belos." Vee whispered nervously.
"He sure does." Gus replied.
"So what does Megatron, or any of this, have to do with us?" Luz asked, raising her scarred eyebrow.
"Megatron has not been seen or heard from in some time." Optimus told her. "But if his return is imminent, as I fear, it could be catastrophic."
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Meanwhile, the Nemesis was currently flying around Earth's outer rim. Starscream was busy looking out the main deck's window into the vastness in space.
"Are you still staring out into space, Scream?" A voice asked.
"We thought you'd have something better to do." A second voice admitted.
Starscream turned around to see two other Decepticons standing on his left. They both had the same body appearance as him, but one of them was blue and red while the other was black and purple.
"Thundercracker. Skywarp. I would not expect either of you understand my way of seeing the future I shall create one day." Starscream said. "With our master still away searching for his 'magnificent army', someone must takeover to ensure the Decepticons win this war."
"I doubt your ego's gonna help you with that." Thundercracker replied with a snicker.
"If that red Autobot from earlier managed to survive that Energon explosion, I'd say you're gonna be waiting a long time before you're in charge." Skywarp said.
Starscream grunted in annoyance and decided to ignore his two Seeker lieutenants.
"You should've let me take care of him!" A brutish voice stated as the three Decepticons saw a muscular Decepticon that was coloured dark-green, had a yellow visor, tank tracks on his arms, and a large tank cannon on his back area approached them. "I'd have his horned head stomped into the ground! And for a bonus, I would've liked to blast some puny humans!"
"Do not worry, Brawl." Starscream told him. "You'll get your chance to destroy those insects, soon enough."
"I hope so. Walking around in this piece of metal with nothing to blast is boring." Brawl muttered in complaint.
Just then, Soundwave walked towards his fellow Decepticons and his face screen was displaying waving features.
"What's that you're showing us, Soundwave?" Skywarp questioned.
"Those transmissions are emanating from deep space." Starscream realised.
"That means he's officially coming back." Thundercracker said with a sly smile.
"Does this mean we're bringing him here with the Space Bridge?" Brawl asked.
"I would hate to waste the Energon." Starscream admitted. "Unless you are absolutely certain, Soundwave?"
Soundwave simply nodded in response.
"He's never wrong about anything." Skywarp told his commander. "It'd be best for you to make the smart decision, Starscream."
"What smart decision is that?" Brawl questioned in confusion, causing Thundercracker to simply groan and facepalm himself.
"Ugh. Then lock on transmission coordinates and activate the Space Bridge." Starscream ordered a Vehicon at the controls, who nodded and started typing on the some codes.
The scene changed to show a large metallic ring that was floating in the middle of space. Suddenly, a ginormous green vortex appeared in the center of it and soon, a futuristic-looking jet flew out of it.
When the futuristic jet was at a far distance from the vortex, it transformed into a menacing Cybertronian who was covered in gladiator-like armor, had blood-red eyes and a blasted cannon on his left arm.
"DECEPTICONS! I have returned!" The mighty leader of Decepticons, Megatron, declared.
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