Chapter 10

The Stunticons

Back with Steve Natasha And the Autobots They finally arrived at The location of the Hidden bunker. Steve and Natasha got out And the Autobots transformed into their Robot mode. They were at an extremely old World War II training base that was Falling apart. Old World War II barracks roofs had caved in. The flagpole had fallen And was resting upon A military truck, Its Flag torn up Due to the wind conditions. Optimus ordered the Autobots to create a perimeter. As he and the two Avengers looked for the secret bunker Optimus noticed how Steve was acting like he had been here before.

"Is everything alright Steve?" Optimus asked.

"Yeah it's just," Steve Took a long look around the Barracks the flagpole The Field Everything "This is where I was trained Before I got the serum." Steve said as he Looked at his hand remembering the day he got the Serum, How he was just A small Skinny kid before he got the serum.

Optimus understood Before the war He looked up to Megatron and then something changed and he attacked him Trapping him under tons of debris for days. Eventually he had a vision Of Primus offering him the Matrix of leadership and when he took it. He woke 10 times more powerful with the wisdom and strength of the 13 original Primes. He eventually dug himself out and led the war against the Decepticons.

They arrived at the entrance to the bunker Without saying a word Optimus gestured for them to stay behind him. Both Steve and Natasha hid behind one of his legs As he pulled His ion Blaster out And shot the door down, Steve and Natasha walked in and Optimus remained outside. Optimus went on a patrol with the rest. After a few minutes Optimus Heard Jets And immediately understood,It was either Shield, Decepticons or both working together. Optimus transformed and drove back towards the bunker.

Over the comms Ironhide called out the Jets "2 Jets incoming!"

"I got 'em" Arcee Said over the comms, Several shots were Heard The sound of impact And then An explosion, Optimus couldn't see what was going on but from the sound of it Arcee Had taken down One of the Jets.

"One down!" Arcee Called out, " It's going to destroy the Bunker."

Optimus was there Almost there, He saw The fighter jet Coming in for a pass He used the side of the Bunker as a type of ramp And transformed and mid air Just as the jet fired off two missiles,Knocked one missile off course and then caught the other Which exploded Sending him flying To the ground. Optimus got to his feet and took a closer look at the Jet, It was mostly Gray And a red with hints of blue. "It's Starscream!" Ironhide Called out In the distance.

The Decepticon Seeker Commander transformed midair and remained hovering "You do remember me. I'm touched." Starscream said His voice Dripping with fake thankfulness As he placed his hand over his spark chamber.

Starscream remained midair, with his thrusters continuing to fire, as to keep him aloft. He was red white and blue, with his body being mainly white with blue lower legs and forearms. His upper legs were red, which continued up to his shoulders. Attached his forearms For his two signature weapons null-rays.

Optimus looked directly into Starscream's Optics "What are you doing here?" He asked with his ion blaster pointing it directly at the starscream's head.

"My allies have advised me that this place needs destroying." Starscream said as the other Autobots came running up And aimed their weapons at Starscream.

"Which allies Do you refer to?" Optimus Questioned.

"Why the good Folks at Hydra." starscream said Doing a flip onto the ground.

At this point Optimus was getting fed up with Starscream "All right Starscream, You would never work with humans what's your angle and where is Megatron." Optimus questioned As he began to squeeze the trigger.

"Well surely you must know in order to Stab someone in the back you must first get behind them," Starscream said slightly chuckling to himself "And as for Megatron,He's hiding out." This surprised the Autobots as they were not expecting starscream to give up so much information so easily. "But first before I go, I want To hear you," Starscream Spoke at first, then he screamed, "SCREAM!!" So loud It forced to the Autobots to drop their weapons and get knocked down.

Before the Autobots could recover Starscream Began to fire At the downed Autobots Who were able to roll out of the way And take cover Behind an old semi-intact Command Center, Starscream didn't let up He was slowly shredding Through the building. All of a sudden Something Caught Starscream's attention, he looked behind him to see jazz who was using a small hall as a ramp. Before Starscream could do anything to retaliate, Jazz rammed Starscream sending Them both To the ground.

Jazz Got on top of Starscream And began beating him. Starscream Blocked The punch and grabbed onto Jazz's head And screamed Causing Jazz to scream in pain. Starscream rolled Over to get on top of jazz And continued to scream. Jazz was in immense pain. He felt like his audio receptors were about to burst then Ironhide came running And punched Starscream Off. Ironhide kneeled it down over Jazz and said something That Jazz couldn't hear. Then Ironhide ran off To be replaced by Ratchet Who used a handheld scanner To see exactly what was wrong with him. And all Jazz could hear was silence.

Steve and Natasha finally made it out the door After dealing with Arnim Zola and were almost crushed By optimus As he stepped in front of the bunker door When he stepped out of the way They saw Red white and blue Decepticon Fighting off Ironhide Arcee and Optimus Meanwhile ratchet was tending to Jazz was Was leaking Energon through the ears. They washed as Optimus dodged Strike and uppercutted the Decepticon And Ironhide Kicked the con in the back of the knees Bringing it down Then Arcee had a gun pointed directly at the Con's face. And then the Decepticon Let out in ear piercing screen which nearly Made them deaf And sent the Autobots off him, He then transformed into a jet And flew off With Optimus attempting to shoot them down But missing every shot.

Then the humans made their presence known "Who was that?"Steve asked, looking at The smoke Trail left by the jet.

"That was Starscream, Seeker air commander and second in command to Megatron."Optimus said, placing his ion blaster on his back.Then Ratchet, who was supporting Jazz, walked up. Optimus Looked at his Old friend and most trusted lieutenant. "Are you alright jazz?" Prime asked but got no response from jazz instead they got a response from ratchet.

"His audio Receptors are barely damaged, But repairable." Ratchet reported.

"Ratchet, Bring Jazz back to base we'll finish it." Optimus ordered. Crashing just nodded Signaled to Jazz transform and they both rolled Back to base. Optimus then looked at Steve and Natasha. "What did you learn?" Optimus questioned.

"There Is an algorithm. The Helicarriers Work on it. we weren't able to learn what The algorithm is for though." Natasha stated.

Optimus was forced to consider his Options. On one hand he Wanted to destroy these helicarriers Immediately. On the other hand, They needed to figure out the algorithm. In the end he chose the algorithm. "We must find out this algorithm. Autobots, Transform And roll out."

The Autobots transformed and begin moving. Without a destination in mind. "Prime Why do you think that the Deceptichumps Are even bothering with Hydra?" Ironhide asked.

"I wish I knew Ironhide but it's nothing good I'm sure of that." Optimus answered. He then asked the two Avengers Who were currently riding with Ironhide "Where are we going?"

"First we need to stop at a Friends Place, Then we need to track down and interrogate A hydra mole," Steve said.

Then Arcee Asked, "how will we know who's Hydra and who's shield?"

"We know, just Trust us." Natasha said.

A few minutes past They had already stopped at Steve's friend's Place And watched a man followed by Steve and Natasha, got in his car and Drove away Now the Autobots Were Watching all sides of a building While Steve and Natasha And their friend Who came flying in with a jetpack that for some reason was equipped with wings Interrogated a Hydra agent. Since they weren't getting any information out of the Hydra agent. They decided to bring him Into Ironhide Where they could interrogate him easier.

And when he finally woke up the questioning started.

Natasha splashed a bunch of cold water onto him. The Hydra agent awoke with a gasp "Where are we?" The Hydra agent questioned looking around Taking notice of The fact that he was Now in a car.

"You told us the algorithm Was to identify and Destroy potential Threats, How do we stop it?"Natasha questioned but before the hydra agent Could answer, The sound of a bullet Was Heard And then The Hydra agent screamed in pain And then fell out of Ironhide. Steve, Natasha And Sam jumped out as well to go check on the agent As the Autobots transformed.

Optimus and Arcee Looked back at Ironhide Who held Where the bullet had Broken through. They helped Ironhide up as they looked in front of them. In front of them Stood A small Squad of what must have been hydra agents and in front was a man, he had black goggles and a mask To cover his face, He wore a black military bulletproof vest All the clothes on him were completely black except for his Right arm which was Completely replaced by a Silver metal one And on its shoulder was a red star. The Autobots got ready to attack When the squad parted ways for Four Race cars to Get in front And Optimus knew exactly who they were The stunticons.

The first to transform was Drag Strip, who transformed from a yellow F1 race car. He stood at 15 feet, and was mostly yellow with two red stripes on his arms and feet. His face was blue with a purple helmet, and his Optics glowed red and the Decepticon insignia glowed bright purple on the top of his head.

Next up was Breakdown who Transformed from a gray Race car with a spoiler to a 15 foot robot. He was mostly blue and white, with his shoulders, sides, upper legs and feet being white. His lower legs, upper arms, hands, helmet and torso were blue while his face was orange.

And then dead end Transformed From a Red Muscle car.

And then finally Wild Rider Who transformed from A red and black Lamborghini.

It was a standoff, three Autobots, Two Avengers, And an Air Force Paratrooper Who had a jetpack that he could use but accidentally left it inside of Ironhide, VS four Decepticons, A small Squad of hydra agents, And according to what Natasha called him the winter soldier.

Optimus shot first, he pulled out his iron blaster And shot Deadend in the Shoulder And then all hell broke loose. WildRider charged towards Ironhide but was quickly Intercepted by Arcee, Before Ironhide could do anything A punch across the face from Breakdown sent him to the ground. Optimus tried to move to help but then Dead end got up and looked at his shoulder Which was turned completely black from the blast, Upon seeing this Deadend Screamed in rage and charged straight towards Optimus Who was knocked off the overpass and onto the ground, Optimus managed to get dead and off of him When he saw drag strip Falling On top of him ready to Knock his head off When Prime rolled to the side and kicked Drag strip into dead end Sending them both down As Optimus got to his feet. The Autobots didn't pay too much attention to The Avengers were doing But they knew they could handle just a few hydra goons.

Ironhide Got to his feet And Delivered Two quick punches to the Side And then one Uppercut To the stomach Breakdown Fell to his knees and grabbed his stomach. Quickly getting back to his feet Breakdown turned his hand into a hammer And attempted to hit ironhide who Raised his arm and grabbed the hammer And delivered full force punch to the face And then a punch to the knee And finally a kick Which Took breakdown down, But not out. Breakdown turned his other hand into a hammer and slammed it against the back of ironhide's knee Which brought Ironhide to his knees Ironhide looked back up to see Breakdown bring the hammer down on to his face Which almost knocked Ironhide out But instead all he got was a face full of Concrete He rolled over Just in time for breakdown to get on top of him pounding him with both of His hammers in the face. Breakdown was having much joy in killing the Autobots specialist Until Ironhide stopped reacting to the punches It was then that Breakdown realized he was just being toyed with. Breakdown backed away as Ironhide got to his feet. Breakdown looked around and realized that Once his teammates were done with the Autobots they would kill him. His hands would work with them Along with his pistol. So he made the smartest choice Breakdown had a Breakdown, Transformed and drove away as fast as he could. Even if he killed Ironhide, his teammates and his hands and his gun Would kill him. Ironhide stepped out of the way as Breakdown drove straight towards Allowing breakdown to pass, He Thought breakdown would come around for a second attack but he just continued driving.

Arcee after Tackling Wildwider Off the overpass Engaged her arm blades and attempted to Slit Wild Riders throat But wildRider Grabbed her and tossed her into a support beam for the For the overpass. When she finally shook off the dizziness She saw wildRider Charging at her screaming insanely, She looked it behind her and saw That she couldn't Dodge if she did he would destroy the support Pillar Bringing down the overpass Which would Most certainly kill them both, So she waited until the last second Then she jumped up and Delivered a roundhouse kick To wild Riders face Redirecting him Away from The pillar. Wild Rider Spit out a piece of concrete And grabbed a nearby car He then threw the car at Arcee And then another And then another, Wild Rider began grabbing all the nearby cars and throwing them Towards Arcee. Arcee Jumped over the first car and slid under the second, She used her arm blades to cut through a third She Then rolled out of the way of a fourth. Wild Rider Attempted to grab another car but felt nothing, He looked around and sawThat there were no more cars left to that were nearby him And by the time he refocused on Arcee She was already there. he made a desperate attempt to grab her But she slid Under the grab And jumped up And cleaved Wild Riders hand off.But what she didn't expect is wild Rider to turn his missing hand into a blade And sliced Arcee across the chest Before kicking Her into a car And flipped Over it, Arcee Got up and held The slash mark, She looked down and realized it wasn't much it was only a scratch. She looked back at Wild Rider and saw that he had already looked away Thinking that she was dead So Arcee Used this to her advantage, She transformed And used a Upside down car that WildRider threw at her As a ramp And transformed mid-air Engaging her Wrist blades. By the time Wild Rider Heard Arcee and turned around to investigate, Arcee Was already bringing her blade down on his neck. Arcee Rolled to a stop and put away her blades As wildRiders head fell off and the body collapsed.

Optimus Prime Waited for Deadend and Dragstrip To get to their feet. They were both about half his size, When they finally did They both saw Optimus, Nodded to Each other and went in for the attack. First up was deadend Who Ran in And attempted a right hook. Optimus countered by Catching the punch And flipping him over his shoulder Prime went to stomp down on Deadend's head When dragstrip Was about to interfere From behind, prime simply kicked behind him And turned around Delivering a punch to Dragstrips head Knocking him down. Optimus Blocked an attack from deadend who was still enraged about his paint job. Optimus headbutted Deadend before elbowing dragstrip who Made an attack On him from behind. Prime sidestepped the attack and grabbed his head before tossing him backwards. Deadend turned his hand into a blade and attempted to cut Optimus straight down the middle but Optimus caught the blade and broke it off and cut deadend before turning around and stabbing the blade into dragstrips chest before turning around and delivering two quick punches and then a kick to deadend sending him skidding away, then refocused to back to dragstrip, who was still processing the fact there was a blade in his chest, Optimus kicked dragstrip back. Deadend got up and looked at his ruined paint job and in a rage ran at Optimus, deadend kicked at the back of Optimus knees which caused him to fall to the ground. Before dead end could land another hit Optimus elbowed him in the face and got to his feet, deadend attempted to throw another punch when Optimus caught his arm and flipped him over his shoulder slammed him into dragstrip who was getting ready to attack Optimus from behind somehow deadend got up and tackled optimus who rolled with the impact and kicked deadend off him. Optimus then heard drag strip get up he turned around to just in time to see dragstrip leap at him optimus didn't have enough time to react, drag strip latched onto him in an attempt to hold him still so deadend could get the kill however optimist turned his hand into a gun put it up to dragstrips chest and fired. The shop went straight through dragstrip, and dragstrip went limp. Optimus dropped the body off him and looked at deadend, giving a clear message to surrender now. However deadend did not surrender instead he rushed towards Optimus in an attempt to avenge his fallen teammate. Optimus sighed In disappointment, took aim, and fired. Deadends body fell to the ground dead.