Hey everyone! Thank you so much for the reviews! Glad you are enjoying this story. This chapter is a bit short but like I said before, I don't want to give away too much at once. But anyway, here is chapter 5. I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers Animated

Transformers Animated: Different Angle

Chapter 5: A New Comrade

After several minutes of learning to drive, with a few crash courses (Seriously, I'm playing a montage of it with goofy music in my head), we finally make our way towards the city. It takes me a while to maintain my speed, but eventually I figure it out.

It's not long before we enter the city. When we do, I can only stare in awe. I see many buildings and stores with over and under passes stretched out as far as the eye can see. However, I see something that really gets me excited. I see robots! Not giant alien robots, but robots! I watch as a couple trash bots make their way down the side walk, picking up a piece of trash along the way. I glance up and even see a couple of robots on the side of a building cleaning the windows.

I have a big smile from within my truck mode as I look around. "This is so cool!" I squeal, "We're actually in Animated Detroit!"

"What's with the robots?" Kylie asks as she drives behind me.

"They were all built by Sumdac Systems. Its a robotics company that builds robots to help the community," I explain.

She chuckles, "With all these robots, we won't even need disguises."

"Don't be so sure," I tell her, "The Autobots may be well known, but they were quite a shock to the humans when they were first discovered. If they saw two new giant bots roaming around the city, it would lead to questioning, making the bots know of our existence."

"Is that such a bad thing?" she asks, "I mean, maybe they can help us."

I vent. "I think for the time being we should avoid the bots from seeing us. The last thing we need is to be asked questions we can't answer."

"But what if we come across a Decepticon?" she asks, "How would we defend ourselves?"

"Kick their shins and run like heck?" I suggest jokingly.

"I'm serious!" she exclaims.

"As long as we remain unnoticed, we should be okay," I assure her, though at the same time worrying about the possible outcome of us running into a Con.

She vents. "Okay. Though out of the both of us, I would think you would be the one wanting to meet the bots."

I grin. "You're not wrong, but right now I'm trying to be realistic. I think this is for the best. Besides, we need to find two AllSpark fragments, remember? Sooner we find those, the sooner we can go home."

We drive around, trying to familiarize ourselves with the city until we come to a controlled intersection. I stop at the red light, only for Kylie to bump into me from behind.

"Ow!" I exclaim.

"Sorry!" she apologizes.

Brushing the slight pain off, I look around and realizing something.

"That's weird. For a city, I was expecting more people to be around." I say, looking around the area. I'm not kidding when I say only me and Kylie are at the intersection. There are a few people walking on the sidewalks, however they're moving at a very fast pace.

"Now that you mention it, it kinda does seem pretty quiet," Kylie agrees.

I take one last glance and shake it off, "Maybe they'll be more people further down. Lets keep going."

The light goes green and we continue on.

(Third POV)

(Back at the edge of the woods)

Shortly after the girls departed from the woods, two jets arrive at the edge and transform. They look down at the trail they were following, only to see it disappear once it touches the road.

"Oh this is just great!" Starscream vents in frustration.

Airstrike looks over at the city where the road leads. "They must have headed for the city."

"Then it must be the Autobots," Starscream sneers, "Only they would hide in an organic contaminated area."

"We still don't know for sure if it's the Autobots we're following," she reminds him, 'For one thing, I didn't pick up any Autobot energy signatures, nor any stray Decepticons' either."

"One thing I don't get is how can something make such a big AllSpark energy reading then disappear without a trace? Explain that if you can, oh wise one," he says the last part with a hint of venom.

She frowns as she tries to think of a reason. "Maybe it has some sort of cloaking device to shield its energy. Still, it doesn't explain what could have caused such a reading." She looks back towards the city, "We should fly over the city and see if we can find anything suspicious."

He frowns at her. "I am the commander, and I shall decide what we do!" he barks, pointing his thumb at himself. He pauses for a moment before turning to look at the city, pointing at it. "We fly over the city and see if we can find anything suspicious,"he orders.

He transforms and flies off, leaving Airstrike behind.

She rolls her optics. "Gee, why didn't I think of that?" she says sarcastically. Shaking her helm, she transforms and takes off after the SIC.

(Jacy's POV)

I still can't get over the fact we're actually here in Transformers Animated! Everything looks like it did on the show! I nearly leap with excitement when I see Burger Bot. Too bad I can't eat human food anymore.

Darn!

But still, I have this nagging feeling something isn't right. Why have we hardly seen anyone? We've seen the odd car and pedestrian come by, but still I feel like there should be more people around.

We continue to make our way down when I see a sign that reads, Sumdac Tower, next right.

I squeal. "Oh my gosh! Sumdac Tower is right around the corner! Lets make the turn! I want to show you it!" I tell Kylie excitedly.

"You mean the place that makes all those bots?" she asks.

"Not only that, but the main human character Sari Sumdac lives there, also her dad Professor Isaac Sumdac who made Sumdac Systems to begin with. Come on, lets go see!" I say as I turn right, Kylie close behind me.

"Who needs a tourist bot when I got one of my own," Kylie chuckles.

We continue down as I try so hard not to go over the speed limit. All of a sudden, my optics land on something I did not see coming. I stop in my tracks in shock, Kylie yet again bumping into me.

"Ow!" She says, "Why did you stop?" She pulls up beside me. "What the..."

There we see the tower…. Or whats left of it. The top half of it is gone with the bottom almost completely destroyed and burnt. Debris is everywhere as the area is surrounded with yellow police tape.

I glance over at the sign in front.

Sumdac Tower.

"What happened here?" Kylie asks.

"I, I don't know," I say, as I look at the mess before us. "I mean, this place has been a battle zone before but…. It was never this bad."

"You mean this never happened in the show?" she asks worryingly.

"No," I say, very confused. I look around the area again. Looking more to my right I see an overpass with half of it still standing and the other half crumbled to the ground. There are even buildings that are broken and destroyed, broken glass and bricks everywhere.

"I- I don't understand," I say in utter shock.

"Maybe this is why we've hardly seen anyone," Kylie guesses, "Maybe whatever happened here scared the people so much they don't want to step foot outside."

"Maybe," I say, a worried feeling taking hold of me.

Just then we hear a noise coming from within the area.

"What's that?" Kylie asks as she transforms and steps over the yellow tape.

"Kylie!" I exclaim, transforming as well. "The tape says do not cross! We can't just walk in there! It might not be safe!"

Kylie doesn't listen as she looks around. "It's coming from over there," she says as she rushes over towards the broken tower.

"Kylie!" Throwing my hands up in exasperation, I step over the yellow tape and go after my friend. Once I get to her, I start to hear the sound clearly. Sounds like struggling.

We make our way towards the fallen half of the tower, bending down to peer into the pile of rubble. To our surprise, we see a large dog trapped between a slab of concrete and brick, trying desperately to get out.

I look at the slab of cement and grab hold of one end. "Kylie, get the other end."

She does this as we hoist the slab off and set it to the side. Kylie bends down and removes the bricks away from the dog, allowing it to hop out freely. How the heck did it get stuck in there to begin with?

Its hard to tell what kind of dog it is, but it must be some kind of mutt. It has long thin legs, a short scruffy tail, short pointy ears with one perking up and the other flopping down, and a dirty white bushy mustache that nearly covers its whole mouth with white bushy eyebrows to match. I think its fur is gray with brown patches, though its hard to tell from all the dirt. Judging by the way it moves, it must be a fairly old dog.

"Oh, the poor thing is covered in debris," Kylie says sadly.

It looks up at us, almost like its studying us. I can tell it has its guard up as well as it stares us down.

Kylie reaches her servo out slowly towards it, "It's okay," she tells it.

Cautiously, it slowly approaches and sniffs her servo. After a moment of that, it backs away, looking at us curiously. Finally, it wags its tail and gives us a gruff sounding bark as if to say thank you.

"You're welcome," Kylie says, her face beaming.

I motion my servos, trying to shoo it away, "Okay, you're free now. Go home."

All it does is look up at me.

"Go on! Shoo! Go home!" I tell it.

Instead it just sits down, not moving an inch.

I vent heavily. "Fine, we'll leave."

I start walking away with Kylie beside me. Its not long before she looks back and says, "Uh, looks like someone didn't get the message."

I stop and look behind to see the dog tagging along, stopping when we do.

"Oh no!" I say, trying to shoo it some more. "You're not coming with us! Go on, beat it!"

All it does is lay down and rolls over side to side, as if trying to play cute or something.

"Aaaaaaaaaw!" Kylie exclaims sympathetically as she pets it. "Jacy, let him come with us."

"First off, no. Second, what makes you so sure its a him?"

We look to see it run off to a piece of broken cement. It sniffs for a moment before it goes beside it and lifts up its leg. Both of us quickly shield our optics and look away.

"Yep, its a boy," Kylie confirms.

I roll my optics. "Kylie, we can't keep a dog. He probably belongs to someone else. Even if he is a stray, we don't have food or even shelter to take care of him. Not to mention, what will happen to him when we go back home?"

"So we make sure he finds a family by then," she says with a smile, the dog now walking back towards us.

"Kylie, we still need to find a way to take care of ourselves here, and the last thing we need is a pet to look after," I tell her, "I'm sorry, but my answer is no."

At that moment, I hear the dog whimpering, almost like he understands what I'm saying. I look down, only for my optics to meet a big sad pair of brown eyes.

Oh that's just playing dirty!

"Don't look at me like that," I tell him, "Look, we can't take care of you okay? Go find a nice human family to be with. Chase a squirrel, go sniff a fire hydrant, anything!"

He doesn't listen as he starts to whine while putting his front paws on my stabilizing servo, keeping his gaze on me.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw!" Kylie exclaims sadly.

I try to look away, only to look back at those sad eyes.

Don't give in, don't give in, don't give…..

Dang it!

"Okay, fine!" I exclaim, holding my head in my servos. I let out a big vent. "He can come with us for now, but only until we find him a home. Alright?"

"Yeeeeees!" Kylie cheers before looking down at our temporary comrade, "You hear that boy? You get to come with us!"

The dog's tail starts to wag as he gives us a bark.

I scratch the back of my helm, letting out another vent. "First things first, we need to get this dog some food and water." I look back down at him, scrunching my face. "And a bath."

(Third POV)

Starscream looks down at the city below him. Airstrike went to look around the south end while he covers the north. They had been searching for over fifteen minutes, but still no sign of anything. This makes the SIC very frustrated.

He tunes in on his commlink. "Airstrike, report," he orders.

"Nothing yet," she responds.

Starscream growls to himself, "If we don't find the source of that energy spike soon, Megatron will have our heads on a silver platter."

"You… yes," Airstrike clarifies casually, "Me…. Probably will only get a warning."

This made Starscream fume. "Don't think that just because your Megatron's personal intelligence officer means that you get a free pass to..."

He doesn't finish when he looks down and sees something intriguing.

"Hello, what do we have here?" he says to himself.

"What? What do you see?" Airstrike asks from the other end.

Starscream ignores her as he watches a red truck and a small blue vehicle drive away from a demolished site surrounded by yellow tape. He recognizes the spot that once held the ever popular Sumdac Tower where is current master was held captive for so long. His curiosity begins to stir.

"That's strange," he mumbles.

"What are you mumbling about?!" Airstrike asks impatiently, still on the commlink.

Remembering he still has his commlink open, he decides to end it. "Nothing important. Keep searching," he orders before turning off his commlink. However, he keeps observing the two vehicles down below. They're not any human construction vehicles he's seen, nor military for that matter. They're civilian.

"Now what business would those organics have at that dump site?" he asks himself.

Thinking he might be on to something, he begins to follow them, wondering what he might discover.

Uh oh! What's gonna happen?! Also what happened to Sumdac Tower?! All will be revealed in time. Hopefully I can get chapter six up soon. And you will be happy to know, the bots are coming up very soon XD!

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