Cybertron; our home world, once filled and beaming with great life and prosperity, is now in its most uncertain hour. A war has been ongoing for thousands of years, between the heroic Autobots and the destructive forces of the tyrannical Decepticons. Our fight reigned on our home planet before the devastating effect took us to many planets across the stars, and the conclusion to this conflict which eventually made its way to planet Earth. Our efforts to repel the evil forces of the Decepticons over a 14-year period have mostly been successful after we crashed landed in 2005. We have lost many allies, but gained new ones. We have conjoined our own forces with the local species on this planet called humans, and together, the Autobots alongside an official government experimental warfare group known as Mobile Armed Strike Kommand, as well as supporting the civilian population on this new world we have discovered. During the battle of Megladon City in 2019, the leader of the Decepticons and one who I used to consider a great friend before falling from grace, Megatron, has vanished without a trace, and what is left of his army, has spread wide and thin, hiding in the shadows. Many amongst our own forces and the humans believe Megatron has finally been defeated in battle and lays dormant in stasis somewhere on Earth, but I fear these thoughts are merely hopeful and not credible. The Autobots have since regained Cybertron and re-established an era of peace, which has been successfully held up to the standards for over 15 years. With this victory, currently in the Earth year of 2035, Cybertronians can reign free amongst Cybertron, and may live however one wishes to be, including the mass pardoning of all Decepticons who come forward. However, not everyone uses this clean slate lightly however, and some choose a life of anarchy and are full of misconduct and insubordination. On one such night, in the lowlight streets of a Cybertronian district, a sneaky break-in is occurring.

The small red Cybertronian figure of a blocky build, is using a hacking device against a panel of a wall. "Alright, the systems are currently down! I don't know how long it's going to be disabled for, and I'm not staying for the action, so get in a get out if you know what's good for you." A fairly tall, slim but bulky at the shoulders, female Autobot appears from the shadows with a cheeky grin across her face. "Thanks Picklock, I can handle this from here." She says as she hands him a small wad of credits. Picklock looks at the amount, transforms into a hovercraft and speaks. "Hey kid! Unless you want your name on a cell, get out of this kind of work whilst you can." The girl smirks. "Tsk, nobody is gonna put Stereo in a cell of any kind. Once I sell this load, I'm off this hunk of rock and finding the biggest party in the universe to crash!" Picklock simply sighs, "Look kid, I understand what happened on Caminus was bad, but trust me when I say that you have a good thing here. Walk away whilst you can.", and then they drive away. Stereo rolls her eyes and then walks into the reserve. It is a fairly small room but there are shelfs filled to the brim with Energon cubes. and begins grabbing as much as she can. "Aw yeah, even just a couple of these can set me up for eons!" As she is about to leave standing at the entrance of the reserve holding multiple Energon cubes, she turns around to see just a few left, with one in particular catching her eye. She thought to herself, she could really just leave it. "Hmm, maybe one more for the road? Being a billionaire is more than a millionaire after all!" She thought to herself before waddling over, trying to balance the load of Energon cubes she's already attempting to balance. She thinks to herself, 'Agh, there's no way I'm gonna balance this entire load of cubes and put that load on top…I'll put these cubes down first, and then put this one on top!' She approaches the one last cube she wants and places down her stack. As the bottom cube connects with the ground, a small spark emits off the ground! "Eep!" Stereo emits, before accidentality dropping the cubes. The lights turn red and a siren is blaring. "Warning! You are trespassing on a private reserve! The Elite Guard Police Force have been informed of your location!" Stereo jumps to her feet and grabs a much smaller amount of cubes panicking. "Scrap scrap scrap scrap scrap!" She shrieks to herself before jumping back outside through the opened door. She takes a quick look around and sees the all too familiar blue and red lights in the distance becoming more brighter as the second's pass. Not wasting any more time, Stereo converts herself into what appears to be a very robotic type of car, and she speeds away from the scene of the crime. She drives away quickly and hides herself away in alleyways on the quietest spots that she can find. Perhaps she might get away with it. 'Another clear mile and I'm home free!' she thought, nearing the edge of Iacon. She drives through a street without a second thought with the border in her optics, before unfortunately, driving over an electromagnetic pulse emitter. She yelps, and loses control before transforming back into her robot mode and rolling over spilling all the Energon cubes on the street. She stops rolling from the fallout and lays upward stunned. Protectobots, the police units of Iacon begin to appear, led by Prowl, the chief commanding officer. He walks over to the exhausted Stereo and rolls his eyes. "Again? Are you kidding me?" Stereo sighs in a massive annoyance.

TRANSFORMERS RENEGADES

"New Recruits: Part 1"

In Protectobot HQ, inside the interrogation room, there lays two big metal stools which look like chairs but of a cubic design, with a large table between them. Stereo is sitting on one of these chairs, her feet up on the table, arms crossed, and looking rather displeased with herself. The door opens and Prowl enters the room, sitting on the opposite chair, looking annoyed at what he now has to spend time out of his busy day having to deal with. "Take your feet off the table." He says in a stern and cold voice. Stereo retaliates by immaturely sticking her Cybertronian tongue out at him and making a raspberry. Prowl scowls and slams his hands on the table, startling Stereo as she reluctantly sits up. "I don't even know where to start with you." Prowl starts. "I mean, Energon robbery on a private reserve? This is low, even for a small-time crook like yourself. I can't even begin to describe how much harder you've made my job for me now." Stereo then opens her mouth. "Good for you officer, at least you idiots have jobs now. I bet you're really getting a kick out of putting me away time and time again huh? After all, that's what they pay you for." Prowl then stands up and points. "You wouldn't be getting put away time and time again if you'd act accordingly like the rest of us! You are reckless, immature and too full of yourself." Stereo responds by saying, "Pfft. Whatever Prowl, I don't care what you or the rest of this planet thinks of me. I had to immigrate here just like the rest of the Caminians, I'm just trying to get by." Prowl who is now agitated, says "That's precisely my point Stereo. We've had plenty of immigration programs and you could literarily have any functional occupation you want! You could be studying in the Iacon Hall of Records and actually make something of yourself!" Prowl sighs and shakes his head continuing his rant. "But no, you simply choose to become a burglar, and that's why you're being locked away with all these other weirdos and murderers because you can't think of anybody else but yourself. I mean for Primus's sake, nobody has been robbing Energon deposits since the war ended, are you trying to act like a Con?" Stereo huffs and looks away. Prowl stares at her and asks, "Are you not at least a tiny bit embarrassed at yourself?" Stereo darts her eyes to Prowl, clearly hurt by what he said, and simply snarls at him. "The only thing embarrassing here is how much of a kiss ass you are. Everything is all great if you follow the propaganda and follow the all too good Iacon P.D.!" Prowl simply sighs and rubs his optics. "I don't know why I bother. You've been given chance and chance again. I'm not sticking my neck out for you any more Stereo." He gets up and signals for 2 large bulky Protectobots to come in, one carrying an Energon baton, another with energon cuffs. Stereo tsks and hands her arms over.

In another part of Iacon, discussions are being held in a room full of senatorial figures. The Elite Autobot Council are the government of Cybertron, these members include Supreme Commander Ultra Magnus and the three Leader Primes; each designated a representative of one of the three largest city states on Cybertron, the capital city of Iacon controlled once by the wise mentor Alpha Trion before passing down the leader role to Vector Prime; the last of the Covenant Primes. Iacon's two border city-states are the energy-rich Vos lead by expansionist Nova Prime, and the military and industrial valley of Tarn controlled by Sentinel Prime, a figure of great controversy due to his lack of transformative thinking and lust for power by force. The three Primes and Ultra Magnus are sitting around a large table in a room full of data books, during the many discussions that happen in this room, Nova begins another conversation, "According to our latest public review system, it seems that not all is well in terms of the civilian opinion of the council." Vector nods his head in agreement, "I can sense it in the Blades of Time, they tell me of a path of possible violent revolution if we do not correct our ways going forward. We are a young, reformed council so it is of most importance that we act now and keep the civil interests of our population, a top priority." Sentinel rolls his eyes and scoffs in disagreement, "You lot have been drinking too much K-Juice. Take another look at the evidence and you'll see that the system works! Criminals are being locked away in our mighty brig and the low-level streets are safer than ever!" Nova shakes his head and refutes, "The evidence also shows a large increase in civil unrest. We don't want another war happening Sentinel. If we keep arresting everyone for every little wrong thing that happens without a chance at some form of retribution, then there is a high possibility that another revolution might happen!" Vector agrees again, "It is a waste to simply rot away Cybertronian life locked away behind bars. I see no logical argument to not offer a chance at retribution, or perhaps some sort of rehabilitation program?" Sentinel slams his hand on the table and bites back, "Not a chance! The law is the law and we can't change it! It's not hard to understand and it's not hard simply adhere to it! Do correct me if I am incorrect, but it does not cost a single shanix to not be a nuisance." The Primes then face the figure at the top of the table, Nova says "Magnus, what say you in this matter?"

Ultra Magnus wraps his fingers around his chin and thinks to himself, offering up his own opinions. "The data confirms our suspicions. I for one, believe that we certainly need to ease up on chucking people away for good. Like Vector Prime stated, we are a fresh new chain of command on this world, and we don't want to repeat the same mistakes of the older governments in the past." Sentinel scoffs. "Well, if we use the old ways-" He is immediately interrupted by Magnus turning around, shining his white body and glaring right into his soul with his intense sharp red eyes. "We are never, and I mean never, going back to how it was before Sentinel! Do I make myself clear?" Sentinel, looking rather embarrassed, responds with a weak nod. Magnus continues, "We want to improve life here on Cybertron, not make it worse. There's obviously something wrong with our internal structure as a government, or our economy or something! The Decepticons didn't just manifest from nothing." Magnus sits back down and further explains. "You all remember before the war how corrupt our government was after the Border Wars. The idea of forcing our civilians to act their only function that they were built for, still sickens me to my very spark. There was no equality, no evolution, no freedom. The second-gen Cybertronians were sick of it and rightfully so, I agreed that change was necessary. I lead the Wreckers during the final years of the Border Wars, and recognized for it by being promoted to Supreme Commander." Sentinel Prime crosses his arms and speaks back, "And where are your Wreckers now, Magnus?" Magnus responds, "They found their own ways of continuing life peacefully on here, and it would have stayed that way until Megatron sought violence and started this Great War." Sentinel scoffs and rebuttals, "Well, it's not exactly great now that it's over, what with Megatron biting the bullet for good." Nova points at Sentinel and speaks, "We don't know that for certain, and besides, there's someone who you can thank for that. He was the one who created the Autobot Resistance in the first place after all, if not for him, the Great War could have ended a lot worse than it did." Vector nods and continues, "Alpha Trion was defiantly right in giving him the title of Prime, I can see to that for absolute certainty." Magnus simply smiles and speaks, "Ah yes, my brother Optimus Pri-"

At this moment, the doors to the meeting hall open wide, and walking through the gap between was none other than Optimus Prime himself, teacher, mentor and honourable leader of the Autobots. "Ah, I apologise, I'll come back la-" he begins before being interrupted by Magnus. "Not to worry Optimus." He then turns to the Primes, "We'll continue this later my friends. This meeting has officially been adjourned; you are all dismissed.", he says. Nova and Vector stand up and leave, giving Optimus a small greeting before leaving peacefully to attend to other important things, whilst Sentinel with a stern snarl, walks by Optimus and whispers to him, "Your brother is getting snippy, I'd suggest you keep an eye on him." Optimus smiles and speaks back, "And I'd suggest you spend more time in the library." Sentinel scoffs, before exiting the council hall in a huff. As Sentinel leaves, Optimus then walks up to his brother. "Magnus, how have you been old friend?" Magnus sighs and cross his arms, "I only wish I could have been a bearer of good news." Optimus raises an eyebrow and speaks, "What seems to be the problem?" Magnus continues, "It hasen't been as smooth of a transition as I hoped it would have been Optimus." Magnus replies. "Cybertron is having an increasing civil discourse rate, and I'm not entirely sure what the issue is, and I'm really not keen on how our current system operates." Optimus then chimes in, "I too take particular issue with this current system.v It operates on a very harsh and over-complicated set of laws. I believe that locking away citizens for petty crimes and treated like Decepticons, is not really equality in my eyes." Magnus then responds, "Which is why I'm asking for your help Optimus." He turns to a data pad on the table and it displays a holographic image, displaying five different profiles of Cybertronians. Magnus then says, "We've got a few in custody right now. I believe these five could perhaps do some beneficial things if they weren't so...misguided." Optimus then turns to his right and looks through the large glass wall, out towards the Cybertron skyline, thinking to himself, before responding, "Have you ever thought about rehabilitation?" Magnus turns to look at Optimus and asks, "What do you mean by that?" Optimus then speaks to his brother, "There is one option I can think of. We're currently having some rocky relationships with our human allies. There is much controversy in the internal human governments about whether or not we are needed any more on planet Earth." Magnus scoffs, "Typical humans." Optimus continues, "They believe that we should no longer be welcome on the planet due to disappearance of the Decepticon leader, and there are some who believe us to be the reason as to why the few remaining Decepticons on Earth are remaining there." Magnus then rebuttals, "So what do you suppose we do Optimus?" Optimus then makes a suggestion.

Stereo is sitting in a large cold secluded area with other imprisoned Cybertronians of all other shapes and sizes, all crime committers and all waiting for what's going to happen to them. Stereo looks around and sees if she can maybe try build conversation with the others. She is by herself, so she could probably do with some friends at least if she is going to get out of this. She looks over and sees a rather large looking bot, coloured with large black body parts and empty war cannons over his shoulders, skulking and minding their own business. 'Okay,' Stereo thought to herself, "If I make friends with the largest guy in here, maybe there's a chance I could get out of here in one piece.' She shuffles her way over to the large bot, this bot was large and had many war vehicle parts over him. This other Cybertronian looked like a war machine built for killing, emphasised by his stoic expression and stand-off attitude. Stereo then begins to open her mouth before she is suddenly whisked away around a corner by a slightly taller green bot with goggles on his head. "What are you doing, you idiot? Are you trying to get yourself killed?" The bot said, confused. Stereo doesn't know who this is, or even why they stopping her from talking to the larger Cybertronian. "Well, not usually." She smirks and responds in a cheeky matter. The green bot responds, "See if you spoke to him like that, then he's crush you into a stool." "Really?" Stereo replies, "What's up with him? He got shell shock or something?" The green bot then speaks, "I don't think so, but that bot? He's seen things and done things that aren't exactly… well, i'll be generous and say 'sanitary'. I mean, the guy used to be a Con after all." Stereo then pipes up, "A Decepticon?" The green bot quickly shushes her. "Shhh! Don't act surprised, a lot of these bots in here used to be, and to tell you the truth, loyalty dies hard with a lot of them here, and if they catch you chatting scrap about Decepticons, then you'll be first on their list, so word of advice? You'd watch that mouth of yours." Stereo nods slowly before restricting herself. The green bot shakes his head continues, "Ah, sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. My designation is Pinpoint. What's yours?" Stereo then introduces herself, "Stereo." Pinpoint then raises an eyebrow, "Stereo? Aren't you that auditorial pirate? The one who tried making a scene on Iacon, but it went nowhere?" Stereo then rolls her eyes, "Yeah I was, but it's a bit hard trying to give something to the people on a planet that doesn't seem to be too fond of radio, you've got no idea how much of a hassle it is." Pinpoint then responds, "Hey, Caminians aren't the only ones looking for some kind of purpose, me and the others get those feeelings as well." Stereo then speaks up, "Others?" "Yeah others, come on, we're all kicking back here."

Pinpoint directs Stereo to a different part of the room to where a red and green smaller bot with red cross markings and a white robotic tiger are chatting. Pinpoint and Stereo, walk up to them. "Mayday! Sabre!" Pinpoint says, the Medic bot then speaks, "Who's this?", whilst she's looking at Stereo. Pinpoint then talks, "This is Stereo, ya know, that rogue music maestro." Mayday continues speaking, "Oh yeah, surprised you'd end up in a place like this, sister." Stereo speaks, "Eh, bound to have happened one way or another." Mayday nods, "Don't we all know it." The robotic tiger transforms into a bot standing up on two appendages, with tiger features and goes up to Stereo. "Woah, you're a DJ? That's like music and stuff, right?" Stereo, taken aback by how inexperienced this bot seems to be, responds, "Uh, yeah, just like… music and stuff." The tiger featured robot then smiles with excitement. "That's really cool! I bet you throw massive celebrations and play at all the big recreational centres!" Stereo chuckles and responds, "If only it were that easy, kid." The tiger then backs up, "My name is Sabre! Nice to meet you Stereo." "Yeah, nice to meet you too Sabre." Stereo then looks at them closer. "You're alt-mode's one of those tiger things. Are you a Maximal?" Sabre then tuts. "Oh gosh no. There's no way I'd be a Maximal." Stereo then raises an eyebrow. "So, a Predacon?" Sabre then shakes his head. "Nah, that war is over. I don't gotta pick sides. I don't want to be stuck on either side, cause why bother making enemies at this point ya know?" Stereo then responds, "You'd make a good point Sabre, but maybe all our Autobot overlords aren't all their cracked up to be." Mayday shrugs, "You said it. I mean, we are ALL in here cause of the Autobots." Stereo nods, before looking around, she then asks, "What did ya'll do before getting thrown in here?" Pinpoint speaks first, "Well, I used to be a pretty good scientist, hell, I'd say still probably am. I want to do many things over my life, I really want to create spacecrafts that can take us right across the many worlds instead of just relying on Space Bridges." Mayday then sighs and continues, "Alas, the war had other plans for me. My enrolment was cut short and I was already an Autobot by then, so they basically forced me into fighting. Mind you, I refused many times and nearly got done in for mutiny." Stereo pipes in, "That's not really fair on you." Pinpoint continues, "Yeah it wasn't, when the war ended, I was allowed out on a technicality, but the second I got freed, I saw an oligarchical plague fly over this world. It shouldn't be like this. I saw many a bot in desperate need of supplies, so I stole as much as I could, and well, as you can see, I got caught in the end." Mayday then speaks up, "I supplied him, I used to operate a small Autobot treatment centre, before the Autobots clocked in that stocks were going and shanix wasn't rising." Stereo then turns to Sabre, "What about you, kid?" Sabre then talks, "Ach, it's uh, a long story." Stereo then crosses her arms, "Suit yourself." She then glances at the larger bot she seen earlier on. "So big, tall and gruesome over there used to be a Deception?" Pinpoint then talks, "Yeah, sometimes, Cons will go through the ringer with the rest of us. I guess the Autobots must have thought that they'll covert at some point. Doesn't usually work thought, so like I said, keep your distance. Especially from Warzone over there." Stereo looks back at the group, "Well, with a label like that, then you'll get your space, one way or another."

The main doors to the area opens and it catches everybody's attention, and out walks a tall white and red robot, holding a data list in his hand. "Alright, let's see here. Attention detainees, I need the following to follow me immediately. Designations Pinpoint, Mayday, Sabre, Warzone and Stereo." Other bots in the rooms start talking to themselves, gossiping over Stereo's name being mentioned. Stereo hides her face in embarrassment. Pinpoint sees her and talks, "Let's get a move on, quickly." They move as a group following the taller bot out of the room to a war table. Pinpoint then starts talking, "So, I take it you're taking us to get executed or?" The taller red bot, taken back turns around and scoffs, "Ugh, how absurd to assume such… ruthlessness! We are not the Decepticons you blithering idiot." Mayday takes a closer look at the medical bot and then speaks, "You're the Autobots head medic Ratchet, right?" The taller bot speaks, "I happen to be so, and as of this moment, you will keep your questions to yourself until we get to the briefing quarters." The group looks at each other in annoyance as they are led to an insanely large indoor area. It looks like a typical impound, filled with communications equipment, massive vehicles, and space bridges. "For those who somehow are unaware, what you're looking at right now is what remains of Cybertron's Spaceport." Pinpoint is looking around everywhere like a massive nerd, taking in all the details. "Oh wow! Is that the Autobot Ark? I never knew the Autobots had a Xantium! Is that an impounded Nemesis?!" Warzone then stares and growls at Pinpoint. "Has anybody ever told you how annoying you sound, 'Green'?" Pinpoint then snaps back, "Not my fault that your big bad warship got caught and stripped for parts." Warzone then snarls back aggressively before Ratchet pipes in, "Can we please, get to the briefing quarters before you disassemble each other? Ach! Blithering idiots, the lot of you." Ratchet scoffs and walks towards a large table. Pinpoint and Warzone huff before Stereo chimes in, "I had no idea this was all here...what is this place?" They reach out to a war table; a communications device which allows Autobot commanders to speak to their troops and provide overhead tactical information to the on-ground troops. Ratchet then speaks, "Like I mentioned, this is the Cybertron Spaceport. Many of our fellow neighbouring planets and moons also have ones like these, in many shapes and sizes. I'm assuming you had one on Caminus?" Stereo crosses her arms and mumbles, "Uh huh, we may have 'had' one." Ratchet tuts and continues, "As I was saying, this is the central hub for transport across the galaxy, usually cargo supplies and personnel." Sabre looks around, "It looks very quiet. Is there some kind of celebration I'm not in the loop on?" Ratchet then replies, "I wish it were that way, Sabre. Due to the complicated nature surrounding our current leaders, they have implemented a very restrictive immigration system which makes cargo transportation a lot more… difficult than it really needs to be." Mayday then smirks and pipes in, "Sounds like you aren't a fan of this." Ratchet darts his eyes to Mayday and then replies back snappily and quickly, "My feelings on this matter are impotent. This is a necessary roadblock to prevent any Decepticon spies from infiltration our ranks." Stereo then talks, "Hey, I thought the war was over?" Ratchet then continues talking, "The war may be over, but that doesn't mean the fight is. We have many reasons to believe our Decepticon enemies are lurking in the shadows. Believe me when I say that the rumours are true, we still to this day, don't know if Megatron is still truly gone or not." The bots look amongst themselves. "So why are we here?" Stereo says. Ratchet then responds, "You are here because somebody up in the top ranks decided to give you lot a chance. I quite frankly don't care for what you have done and I'd rather be off doing more important things than bot-sitting." The group scoffs and rolls their eyes. Ratchet continues, "But I do what I must for the security of our planet and I will do everything in my power to sustain that." Sabre then talks, "Who gave us the clear...and why?"

"Well, you can ask the very bot himself." Ratchet waves his hand behind them, and before them, Optimus Prime walks over to the group. The group stand in awe as his presence has entirely changed the room. He begins to speak, "My name is Optimus Prime, as you already may know, I am the leader of the Autobots." Sabre is looking up to Optimus in complete amazement. Optimus continues to speak, "You have all been imprisoned in the Iacon brig for many reasons under our current leaders. I cannot speak on behalf of our true leaders due to the many conflicting political angles, especially my colleague Sentinel Prime but I can speak for myself. The relationship between our Cybertronian leaders and Earth governments are a subject of controversy." Sabre then talks, "But I thought that you fought with the humans on Earth against the Decepticons many years ago?" Optimus then talks, "We have. During the end of the war, the Decepticons spread across the galaxies under a last-ditch effort to turn the war in their favour by ruling over and enslaving entire planets other than Cybertron. We Autobots attempted to try and repel these forces on these other planets, with mixed results. Earth is very important to us, because that is where Megatron was last seen, but the Decepticon threat still remains on Earth, and there are some humans who believe that all Cybertronians are the problem, and want us all gone from there. We used to help each other during the end of the war, we would exchange supplies and knowledge, but I fear this era of relations with Earth may soon cease to exist. I'm not going to be dishonest with you all, we are in a potentially risky development. So, I propose an agreement." The group are all ears. "This will be a covert operation. The rest of our internal Cybertronian government are not aware of what we are currently doing, and my friend Ratchet is one of the only few others who I trust enough to know about this current operation, as well as select others on Earth. If you will help us maintain our relationship with the humans on Earth, then we will grant you free asylum on Cybertron with a clean record. You will be stripped of all your charges against Iacon and once again live individually, or amongst other Cybertronians as free beings." The group look amongst themselves before Ratchet talks, "Ahem Optimus, a word?" Optimus walks over to Ratchet and talks privately with him. Ratchet then talks, "I'm having second thoughts Optimus. Should we be really asking these criminals to perform such a crucially important task? Surely you could ask one of the many already established Autobot teams on Earth to do this undercover mission?" Optimus then responds, "Times like these, call for less simple tactics, Ratchet. Our Autobot teams on Earth are still partnered with our Earth comrades and representatives. If they report us doing out of bounds activity on their planet, it may strain our, already shaky relationship with the humans more. Bringing in new recruits motivated by a mutual agreement minimizes the already gargantuan sized risk. But believe me when I say that Magnus and myself, see something in these recruits, they have a force driving them forward and there is potential in them. I do not like being secretive around the humans, but this is necessary if we want to fully bring an end to the Decepticon reign." Ratchet thinks to himself before looking back up at Optimus, he then talks, "You do make a very compelling point Optimus. I suppose this is why you're in charge and not that scoundrel Sentinel." Optimus then smiles, "I appreciate your understanding Ratchet, and I am grateful for your assistance in these troubling times." Ratchet then smiles back and pumps his hand on Optimus' arm, and responds, "Hey, what are old friends for?" Optimus smiles, then says, "I now entrust these bots into your care Ratchet, good luck." Optimus turns and leaves. The group of renegades talk amongst themselves. "What do you think they're talking about?" Sabre asked, before Warzone pipes in. "Probably having second thoughts about sending a little kitty cat down to Earth." Sabre scoffs, "I ain't no kid ya know!" Pinpoint then pipes up, "Yeah you leave Sabre alone or I'll thump ya Decepticreep." Warzone grins, "I'd like to see you try slime face." Stereo then snaps, "Hey, knock it off you two, let's just see wherever this leads us." Pinpoint and Warzone look at each other sternly before turning their attention back to Ratchet.

Ratchet then moves back to his table. "Alright recruits, listen up." Pinpoint tsks, and Ratchet turns to him. "Are you for real? I haven't even started giving you your mission yet and you're already giving me attitude. You got something to prove smartass?" Pinpoint then responds, "Well, we're not recruits for one. Figured you'd be aware of that." Warzone discreetly grins at the comment. Ratchet then sighs, "Fine then. Renegades, listen up." He points to the holographic images that have arisen from the table, displaying a location. "We've got a fairly simple mission for you. I need you to investigate a small data centre about 15 miles north of our Earth-based headquarters. The centre should be filled with, ugh, humans… that are researching potential Energon signatures and places of Cybertonian interest around the globe. Our connectivity has been spotty recently, probably because the headquarters is centred in this vast forest area, the towers are in consistent need of repair. Typical stupid humans. Due to this, ugh, annoyance, we cannot simply cannot send it electronically. Instead, you need to collect the data from the centre and bring it back to the Earth Spaceport. This is a simple mission, so I don't expect you to screw this up easily." Warzone asks, "What's in the data files?" Ratchet sternly replies, "Classified information only certain individuals with a high enough rank to have access to them. Basically, none of you." Warzone grunts just as Pinpoint then raises a question, "Hey, hang on an astro-second! If we're supposed to be disguised amongst these humans, then shouldn't we have human alt-modes? You know, those automobiles and transporting things they have down there. I thought we were supposed to be robots in disguise after all." Ratchet responds, "Because this ordeal was orchestrated at very last minute, we don't actually 'have' the alt-modes for you to scan. If you complete this mission successfully, I will make sure that you all will be given appropriate alt-modes." Stereo responds, "Very... oddly generous of you." Ratchet points his finger at Stereo and speaks back, "Don't mistake my obligation to this cause as generosity. I only do what I do for the sake of Cybertron." Sabre then speaks, "I don't need an alt-mode Ratchet, I'm perfectly happy with my beast mode!" Ratchet with a raised eyebrow, speaks, "If it is so what you wish Sabre, now." He turns to the ground bridge station. "I'm going to be setting a ground bridge for a few clicks outside the Earth Spaceport. Remember, this is a collection mission only. I will be on comms with you the entire time. Report back immediately if there is any Decepticon activity and I will send a full Autobot squadron to assist you." Pinpoint says, "Pfft, no need, we'll kick all their sorry asses regardless." Mayday then responds, "Cockiness like that will get you killed Pinpoint." Ratchet then opens the ground bridge. "Come on, off you go." Stereo looks at the round swirls on the bridge as she sees an open large grassy area on the other side. "T-...this is safe right?" She says, before Warzone laughs and shoves her shoulder. "Typical newbie." he scoffs, as he walks through the bridge. "Dick." Stereo whispers to herself, as herself and the others walk through the ground bridge.

The ground bridge opens on a large grassy area in a canyon-like area, lots of rocky hills, trees and bushes, and the large abandoned Earth spaceport behind them. The Renegades appear from the ground bridge and hear Ratchet on comms, "Alright you made it through, which means the hardest part is over. I need you rookies to head about 15 miles north-west. That will take you straight to the facility. Now I have a lot of assignments to complete, so make it crucial that you only contact me back in case of emergency, or to report back what you found. We will be tracking your location as well, so don't even think about running off. Ratchet out." Stereo sighs, "Well that's handy." Mayday then looks around, "Wow. It's been a long time since I've been on a different planet, especially one that's as green as this one…" Sabre then gleefully looks around as well, "Look at all these pretty trees and all this life everywhere, it's so... peaceful!" Warzone scoffs, "Peace is boring and pointless. It's just nothing but quiet and dullness." Pinpoint then growls before he gets right up in Warzone's face and points at him. "Hey asshole! Ever since you've been piled with us, you've been nothing but a pain in the diode. What in Primus' name is your fraggin' problem?" Warzone then scoffs and shoves Pinpoint back, then continues, "I don't remember asking to get dragged along with you lot, so nothing that concerns you, geek." Pinpoint is fuming and shouts, "That's it! I'm putting this Con in the ground!", he lunges forward before being held back by Mayday and Sabre. Stereo then talks, "Can it! What are we doing? We're behaving like a bunch of idiots! Now, trust me when I say that I don't like the fact that I was put here because of things I've done, but I want this dumb shit to be over and done with as soon as possible, and I'd like to assume you all would as well, but that's not going to happen if we're at each other's vocal processors, so I propose for the meantime, can we at least pretend, to like each other?" Pinpoint calms down and Warzone looks away, pretending to not listen. Stereo then talks, "Right, now, let's try and stay focused. The data centre is only a few clicks north, so now would be a nice time of arrival!" Sabre then transforms into beast mode. "Let's go team!", as he happily hops along the grassy hills. The others follow Sabre by transforming into their Cybertronian based vehicle alt-modes, and driving into the forests.

Inside the data centre, there lays numerous abandoned computer desks, and loads of hard drive rooms. It looked like a cold war era research facility. Suddenly, a small door breaks down and a small blonde female human, wearing a grey hoodie, slightly ripped jeans, black converse shoes and a light pink t-shirt walks through it. "Woof, some creaky door." She says, as she enters and takes a look around. "There's got to be some form of cryptocurrency on these ol' things. Hopefully they'll be enough to save the orphanage" She then starts to take apart the dusty computer and inserts wires from a computer tablet into the hard drives. She observes the screen, showing no signs of any cryptocurrency whatsoever. "Agh, crap. Bust." She sighs to herself. She then suddenly freezes as her ears perk up, she is hearing big loud thuds, getting louder and louder as the room increasingly shakes more aggressively by the second. The woman, having no idea what is happening, hides underneath one of the desks. "Oh crud, oh crud, oh crud!" She says to herself. She then starts to hear voices, as a loud crumbling noise is heard. "Did you HAVE to tear down the wall Warzone?!" Stereo speaks. "What? It was in the way?" Warzone responds. "You tore it down like it spat in your face!" Mayday spoke, as Pinpoint reaches into the facility. "Let's just find what we're looking for and book it out of here. I hate the smell here." The woman peeks over the desk to see the giant huge machines, bickering to each other. She widens her eyes before hiding herself back under the desk. "Oh...my...God. T-t-transformers! W-w-what are they doing here?" Pinpoint then speaks, "Hey, my audio receptors caught something over here.", his huge metal fingers reach over and pinches the desk, and lifts it up, revealing the terrified human beneath it. Pinpoints sees the human and drops it out of shock nearby her. "O-o-oh scrap! U-u-uh, guys, there's a researcher here!" Warzone sighs, "Great, just great!" Mayday then berates Warzone, "Yeah, just 'great'. As in, you could have killed a poor human!" The woman is looking around, clearly afraid of what she is witnessing. Sabre notices this and approaches her slowly. "Hi there, please, don't be alarmed. My name is Sabre, and these are my friends. We are here to rescue you!" The woman speaks back, "Y-y-you're a... talking robot tiger." Sabre then nods, "I'm also a friend. Don't worry, we're going to get you to a safe place as soon as we get the information that you've been gathering on the Decepticons." The woman then slowly nods, "R-r-right yeah the eh...ahem...information…" The woman then begins looking around. "U-u-uhm...i'm not entirely sure...where it is uhm...t-t-the manager must have forgot where he put it! Ahaha, yeah, and uhm...h-he sent me to go look for it!" Sabre then nods, "Not to worry uh...what's your name human?" The woman stands up and fixes her hoodie. "Ahem, my name is Lucina and uh...i'm a technician and assistant here, yeah, totally! I-i'll just go find the data!" Lucina turns and uses her scanner on her tablet to find the information, whilst Stereo whispers to Sabre. "Hey kid." "Mhm?" "She seems pretty casual for a scientist. Watch yourself, I don't trust her." Sabre then raises an eyebrow, "Why not? She says she works here and she possesses what looks like Earth technology, and she's helping us out!" Stereo's eyes narrow, "Just keep an eye on her, she looks sketchy and acts way too casual to be an official." She speaks. Sabre scoffs, "This isn't Iacon ya know. People are different here, try and let them be." Sabre then walks away from Stereo to join Lucina for the search.

Sabre wonders the halls with Lucina. "I hope you know what you're looking for, Lucina." Lucina nervously chuckles, "Y-yeah, aha, Decepti-thingy data, right?" Sabre nods, "Mhm!" Lucina scans through more computers in silence before Sabre decides to break the silence. "Are all humans like you Lucina?" Lucina then turns back, "Pardon?" Sabre talks, "Like you! Do all humans have that same colour of fur on your head? Stereo has the same yellow stripes on her!" Lucina then brushes her own hair, "Heh, erm, nah. Humans have all different types of shapes and sizes and colours." Sabre is amazed, "Wow! You humans are so unique. I bet you all must love to get together and do amazing things together as a species!" Lucina stops, and thinks to herself before responding carefully, "If only it were so, Sabre." Sabre then tilts his head, "How come?" Lucina then turns to Sabre and sighs, "You know how you fight other big robots sometimes?" Sabre responds, "Oh yes, the Decepticons, not very friendly people." Lucina continues, "Humans, are kind of like that sometimes as well." Sabre expresses disappointment, "I see, would there be...any reason why?" Lucina again, carefully chooses what words to use. "Ach, well, let's just say that humans are kind of hypocritical sometimes. We encourage evolution but sometimes we get aggressive when that happens, and people…" She pauses for a few seconds. "...people don't really like when people change for the better." Sabre responds, "I wish Cybertron was a very nice place. It's full of just weird corruption right now, but I'm not going to let the same happen to your planet Lucina!" He smiles with pure innocence at Lucina, which she can't help but smirk a little bit back at, but before she could respond back to give Sabre the hard truth, her tablet beeper goes off. "Oh shit! I've found it!" She and Sabre excitingly gather round a small PC. Lucina connects the PC to her tablet and begins transferring the data. As it completes, Lucina severs the connection. "Let's go!" She says as she follows Sabre back to the bickering Renegades.

Sabre speaks to the group, "Hey everyone, we found the data!" Pinpoint speaks, "Good, now we can get back before square-face over here wrecks more of this forest." He says before smacking Warzone over the back. Warzone grabs Pinpoint, "You want to go pipsqueak? Cause I will melt you down into a fraggin mag clip!" Sabre worryingly sets Lucina down and pipes up, "H-h-hey that's not very nice!" Stereo starts arguing with the group, "What the hell is all of your problems?" "MY problem? What about YOUR problem?" "You're a fraggin annoyance." "Idiots, we're wasting time here!", as the group snarl and hurl insults at each other, Mayday turns to the sky and notices something heading towards them. "U-uh...hello?" She tries to get the group's attention, to no avail, as the object gets closer. "H-h-hey uh...guys, we've got a problem!" She tries, to physically tap Stereo on the shoulder, but it utterly ignored. Mayday crossly stamps back and yells at the top of her voice, "PLEASE CAN SOMEBODY FRAGGIN ACKNOWLEDGE ME?!" The group all turn round and exclaim, "What?" Mayday points to the sky to the approaching object. Pinpoint uses his goggles to zoom in on the object. "Oh scrap, Mayday's right guys." Stereo talks, "Why? Who's that?" Pinpoint talks, "Some kind of Earth airborne combat unit?" Lucina looks closer at the incoming F-15 Fighter jet, it's purple and cyan and sporting a very familiar purple insignia on its wing gasps, "...t-t-that's not from Earth…" The group turn to look at the quickly approaching fighter jet, sporting its colourful look, with Decepticon logos on the wings. "Seeker!" Warzone shouts before the jet transforms into a larger robot figure and punches him away with a swift forward jab. Mayday tries to swing a punch at the figure before the Decepticon grabs her arm and drags her over its own body and slams Mayday into the ground. Sabre takes Lucina on her back and yelps to the group, "Guys! I'm taking the data back to the Spaceport, cover me!", he shouts as he darts off into the woods. Stereo and Pinpoint put their fists up, as the figure turns to them and laughs. "Do you measly little twerps think you can take on the mighty and all-powerful Slipstream?" Pinpoint grins and responds, "Maybe you'd be worth the fight if you were one of the famous ones!" Slipstream snarls, "Why, how dare you! You, insignificant little pile of scr-" Stereo interrupts, "Save it! Nut up or shut up, glitch." Slipstream, with a twitch in her eye, blasts her air thrusters, making her slide over effortlessly and grabs both of them by the necks, and holds them high up, both of them swinging their arms at her and trying to break free. "My, what robust talk from such unworthy brats." She says, as she slams the two together before discarding them away to the side, before wiping her hands. "Now that the waste has been dealt with.", she transforms into her jet-mode and blasts away after Sabre and Lucina.

Sabre is scurrying across the grassy fields and through the trees, hurrying as fast as he can whilst Lucina grips on for dear life. A missile flies past them and explodes in front of them. Sabre jumps over the explosion. "Keep your head down Lucina! We'll get through th-" Another missile explodes on the ground right beside Sabre, sending him tumbling over, as well as Lucina falling off Sabre and rolling onto the ground aggressively, dropping the tablet and sustaining injuries. Lucina has hurt herself pretty badly, and she tries to get up back towards the dropped tablet, before she hears the engines of a jet place approaching. Slipstream has arrived, and she transforms and lands near the tablet. "Hah, such futile efforts. Another classic example of filthy Autobot mingling." She kneels down to the damaged tablet and exposes a finger near it. The tip of Slipstream's large metallic finger opens up to reveal a mishmash of wires that entangle themselves with the tablet. The wires glow, appearing to transfer the containments of the tablet inside into Slipstream's memory. "Oh, yes, this will serve the master well!" As the transfer completes, she disconnects from the tablet, stands up straight and crushes the tablet beneath her giant metal foot, completely obliterating the tablet. Lucina then tries to run away, creating loud scrunching noises, alerting Slipstream. "Tsk tsk tsk, you arrogant humans never learn! ~" She speaks, as she aims her null ray towards the struggling human, before a leaping Sabre in tiger alt-mode, jumps and sinks his tiger teeth into Slipstream's arm, gnawing it down. "Gah!" Slipstream squeals in pain as she punches Sabre off, and grabs her arm in pain. "My arm! My beautiful arm!" She turns and growls at Sabre, also weakened in front of Lucina. Slipstream turns her snarl into an unfazed smirk. "No matter, I have what I need. Enjoy what remains of this ball of dirt, whilst it lasts!" She cackles as she transforms and blasts away from the area. She is way too quick for any of them to visually track. Sabre looks at Lucina as she collapses. "Lucina!" he yelps, and puts his hand on comms, "Mayday! Mayday! We've got an... i-injured...human and…" He puts his hand across his open wound and falls to the ground.

Sabre slowly awakens to a dusk sky, and sees himself being attended to by Mayday and Pinpoint, with a faint Lucina beside him. "Hey hey, easy now 'stripes', you've just been in a state of self repairment. We almost lost you in stasis there." Sabre starts to talk. "W-...what happened?" Warzone growls and responds, "We got our asses handed to us, that's what." Pinpoint talks back, "Yeah, we get it Warzone, you don't have to rub it in our faces every five astro-minutes." Warzone grunts and keeps talking, "I knew this whole idea was stupid from the start! So fraggin stupid! What a waste of time and resources, we should just call Ratchet now and tell him everything and get our embarrassment over and done with." Stereo sits near Lucina. "Hey." She says to the human. The weakened Lucina looks up at Stereo. "I... uh...erm, want to apologize for giving you a really hard time back there. I shouldn't have assumed things about you. You helped us out, without really knowing us." Lucina smiled, "Hey, don't worry about it, 'big blue'. You're just looking out for your people; I would have done the same...in fact uh…" The group turn to Lucina, "What is it?" Pinpoint asks, as Lucina begins to spill the beans. "I'm not actually a researcher." Warzone tilts his head, "You're not?! Oh brilliant, just brilliant. Now we got to babysit some nobody civilian human!" Lucina snaps back, "I'm not a nobody, teapot." Warzone raises an eyebrow and speaks to Mayday, "What's a teapot?" Lucina continues to talk, "I've grown up in an orphanage, but it's struggling to keep itself afloat. Budget cuts and so on… nobody wanted me, so I stayed with them despite being old enough to make myself a living. When you're as poor as me, you gotta learn to dumpster dive, and I just to happen to be smart enough to dumpster dive in the right places." She looks up at the large machines. "I've always been...fascinated by you guys." She says, "Fascinated?" Sabre asks, Lucina then responds, "Yes, maybe not you guys specifically but, maybe your fathers or your brothers have been on this planet before? Our governments said it was drone experiments gone wrong, but I never believed them for one second. I knew Transformers were on this planet." Lucina looks down at herself and Stereo notices this. "You, ok?" She asks, before Lucina lifts herself up. "I... I was ridiculed for that quite a lot back at the orphanage, growing up. I always wanted to help in whichever way I can, but I've always been picked on cause of who I am." Stereo looks at her, inspired by Lucina's words, as she too, also relates to Lucina's feelings. "It's really shit when the world doesn't accept who you are, but I've learned to keep going, and I keep fighting on. There's nobody else I'd rather be but me after all.", she continues. Pinpoint raises an eyebrow, "Yeah? Well, we've been put on balls of rock for some reason or another. You don't see me making a big deal out of it." Mayday smacks his arm. "Pinpoint, let the girl speak." Lucina smiles, "It must have been nice on your planet." Stereo sighs, "To tell you the truth, we're all here cause we're all screw-ups. We've all been victims of the system back home and it's put us in an awful spot we didn't ask to be put in."

Stereo shakes her head and stands up, "And you know what? I'm tired of it. I'm TIRED of it!" Warzone responds, "You don't have to yell it. Just nap it off whilst you have green grass to lay on." Stereo speaks, "No, you don't get it! Don't you all see? We've all been put in this situation before! We're all up shit creek and all feeling sorry for ourselves! Well, I' sick of feeling sorry for myself, I say we get up and fight!" The group look up to Stereo. "You know what? Lucina inspires me. She's been through a lot of bad things in her life, but she continues to be what she wants to be, then I say we can all do the same! If we don't want to be screw-ups, then let's work together, find Slipstream and get that data back!" Pinpoint nods, "You make a mighty fine bargain, kid." Mayday nods and clenches her fist in agreement, she then says, "Stereo is right, it's time we start making ourselves useful!" Warzone scoffs, "Uh, Cybertron to Stereo, even if we did want to go look for Slipstream, just where, or better yet, how on Earth do you think a scrawny little scout like you, is going to find one of the deadliest Decepticons?" Lucina sticks her phone up, "Oh, I think I already got that already covered." Warzone looks at her confused, "What do you mean?" Lucina shows her phone with a tracking signal on it. "I may be no scientist, but I like to keep tabs on my hardware using a digital tracker. You'd be surprised how easy it is to lose these things." Pinpoint rubs his head and looks at her, who says, "Wait, so you mean to tell me that when Slipstream downloaded all that data, she also downloaded your tracker?" Lucina smirks, "Hell yeah, dude." Pinpoint faintly smiles and responds, "That's actually kind of clever, well, for a human at least." Lucina smiles back, "Alright, you guys go track her down and beat her ass for me?" Mayday crouches, "I'm going to stay here and keep an eye on Sabre and Lucina. I need Pinpoint to stay too." Pinpoint pouts, "Aw man, I wanted to go and give that seeker a piece of my mind." Stereo speaks to Warzone, "Hey big guy. Let's go and catch ourselves a Con eh?" Warzone grins and smashes his fits together, "Let's get some!" he shouts, as they turn to the location and start running towards the tracker beacon.

Slipstream flies near an abandoned outpost, and she transformers to robot mode some distance in front of another seeker there, with blue, grey and red highlights. She walks up to the other seeker and speaks, "Starscream, I have found the vital information." Starscream turns around, "Excellent work Slipstream. Perhaps you are of use to the Decpeticons after all. Now hand it over." Slipstream snarls, "It's not on a hard drive. I had to transfer it to my memory banks, because I got caught off by Autobots." Starscream pouts, "Oh that simply won't do. We we've got two options here Slipstream, ether I cut off your head and I take your memory banks directly to our leader by myself…" Slipstreams eyes widen at the thought of that, whilst Starscream grins evilly, " … or you can simply transfer it to this data core I have right here." Slipstream nods, "The latter is, ahem, much more of an effective route I say." Starscream sticks a finger up, "On one condition." Slipstream listens as Starscream smirks, "You never speak of word of this, and I will take the entire credit." Slipstream's jaw drops and she laughs, "Yeah right, in your dreams!" As she begins to walk away, she suddenly is zapped to the ground in a seizure like fit. "GAAAH!" she screams in pain. "You forget your place, girl." Starscream walks over, with a ring glowing over his finger. "I assume you must have forgotten where you stand on the hierarchy. You are one of MY seekers. You must obey my every command or there will be consequences." The zapping stops, then Slipstream gets off the ground, "Grrr, you're a slimy bastard…" she retorts, as Starscream continues. "Transfer the information into the data core now Slipstream. We wouldn't want to cut off that pretty little head of yours, now, would we?" He says as he extends a hand. Slipstream angrily growls as she takes his hand as he helps her up. "Good girl." He says, as she with a stern look, places her hand on the data core, and begins transferring over the data from her data banks, the information from the tablet. Starscream grins in victory, before he looks over her shoulder and sees both Stereo and Warzone running towards them. Starscream's eyes widen and he stops the data transfer, leaving it incomplete. Slipstream worried asks, "Why did you stop?!" Starscream points, "Autobots! They've found us! How could they have found us?!" Slipstream turns around, "Pfft, I've dealt with these pesky Autobrats before. I can handle them." Starscream speaks, "You better. The disconnection has left this core unstable; it is of most importance that I mend it before I transport it. Defend this post!" Slipstream then transforms and flies towards the charging Renegades.

Slipstream flies towards them, firing her null-rays at Stereo and Warzone. Stereo yells at Warzone, "Okay big guy! Time for a slam dunk move!" Warzone grins, "You got it girl!" As Slipstream hovers above them, Stereo is thrown by the hulking Warzone onto Slipstream's jet, and she grabs on. "Grah!" Slipstream yelps, "Get off me!" She tries to shake Stereo off her as Stereo tries to rip off her null rays. Just then, Warzone pulls out a minigun and aims it at Slipstream. "Time to put some holes in you!" he shouts as he rolls the barrel and fires it at the flying Slipstream who is now dodging the bullets and evading Warzone's fire. Starscream, continuing in trying to fix the data core, speaks to himself, "Oh, yes, our glorious leader will be most satisfied with thi-" He noticed something odd in the data transfer before closing it. Slipstream then turns around and flies above Warzone performing an aileron roll flinging Stereo into Warzone toppling them over, as she transforms again and lands in front of Starscream. "You see that Screamer?! I'm the best damn seeker there is!" She turns and faces the Autobots on the ground. "Let's finish 'em off!" She is suddenly then grabbed from behind as her wings are crippled. Starscream has destroyed her jets and means of flying, as she falls to her knees in pain. "GAAAH! S-S-Starscream...w-w-why?!...I-I-I did what you asked!" Starscream snarls at her. "You are an utter fool." He points to the surrounding trees and sees Pinpoint, Mayday and a newly healed Sabre running towards them. "You downloaded a tracker, and lead them straight to us!" Slipstream is at a loss for words, and she stutters, "I-I-I-I didn't know! P-p-please! Starscream! H-have mercy!" Starscream takes off his ring. "I can't believe I've had to scrape dirty human prints off this data core." He crushes the ring with his bare hand right in front of her eyes. "You are disgusting, filthy, and filled with horrible human data running through your energon blood!" Slipstream is on the verge of tears, "P-p-please! D-d-d-don't leave me here!" as she extends an arm out, only for Starscream to swat it away. "Get your nasty human hands away from me!" He turns to the Renegades, "You can have this one! Her services are no longer required. I have ALL I need." Starscream kicks Slipstream down towards the grassy areas before transforming into a jet and blasting away. An extremely weakened Slipstream slowly gets up as she is surrounded by the Renegades. Stereo begins to speak, "Hey, let's not get violent here, you are surroun-" Slipstream screams at them, "You little brats have ruined my life! I'll kill all of you!" She runs frantically swinging her arms at Sabre before she is swiftly tackled down off her legs by Sabre knocking her down, as Mayday and Warzone hold her down. She weakinly tries to shake out of their grip, and she shouts, "Unhand me you, horrible little freaks! I am a Decepticon, and I will rule over this world!" Stereo walks over to her, "Yeah, sure, we'll see.", as Stereo puts a silencer over her mouth, and Pinpoint places energon-cuffs over her wrists.

The Renegades, with Lucina sitting on the shoulder of a robot mode Sabre, lead a cuffed Slipstream through the woods, towards the abandoned Earth Spaceport. Mayday makes contact with Ratchet over the comms and begins explaining away what happened, whilst Pinpoint activates the Spaceport's war table and sits Slipstream down near it. "Alright, we're just gonna take a look inside that pretty mind of yours. Behave yourself and maybe, I'll see if you're doing anything after this." Slipstream growls through her silencer as she is forced to sit down, whilst a wire is hooked up to her head towards the holograms. Sabre and Lucina look from afar. "You did great today, Lucina. You helped us out a lot." Lucina smiles, "You were really awesome too Sabre." Sabre smiles as he looks at the rest of the Renegades at the table. Sabre talks, "Bad news is that the Decepticons managed to secure vital information towards their cause, but hey! On the plus side, we've got that information too AND we've also caught a Decepticon! Not everyone can show that off on their first mission." Lucina smiles, "Exactly! Give yourself more credit Sabre." Sabre with a worried expression looks at the table, "Still, I can't shake this weird feeling." Lucina raises an eyebrow, "What's that?" Sabre talks, "When Decepticons talk about leaders they usually...well mostly, they're talking about...uhm...ech, nah. Never mind, that guy hasn't been seen for years. I doubt he'll be behind all this. Come on Lucina, you can help Pinpoint fix this base up, if you can tinker with computers, you can fix ground bridges, right?" Lucina awkwardly laughs, "I can try!", as Sabre walks over back to the base.

Starscream lands in an undisclosed area, and converts to robot mode. He enters a small factory, and is greeted by two other seekers, who stare at him. Starscream sees a weakened grey and square-like figure. He then immediately bends a knee. "Master, I have managed to collect the sensitive data for you! This, will be most beneficial for you!" The figure looks at Starscream with two of the sharpest red eyes you can imagine. "You may be of use to me yet Starscream." The figure stands. "Decepticons, soon...I shall return."

END OF PART ONE