Knox: You got the touch! You got the power!

King: Enough of that. That's not happening in this one.

Knox: Aw...

King: Still, important note, the counterparts in this reality don't use their human names with each other, since they aren't. But, in the narration, the characters are addressed by the names we all know. You'll see what I mean. Anyway, hope you enjoy it.

Inspiration: Transformers

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With everyone back in their seats, King and Knox returned in their usual fireball forms. King floated over all of their heads, "Alright! Welcome back everyone! You ready for the next reality?" With everyone back in their places and ready to go, King chuckled, "Alright! Hit it!" Both fireballs disappeared again the screen began to light up again.

Yang tapped her foot on the floor as she crossed her arms, "Wonder what this one is going to be."

The scene opened to show a scene in the middle of an urban area. It reminded them of Vale, but a bit more futuristic. After a moment, they saw a yellow blur fly across the screen. The camera moved to catch up to and reveal a yellow sports car with a black accenting down the side.

Yang let out an impressed whistle, "Damn. That thing looks nice."

They heard a radio call from inside the vehicle, "Report." The voice sounded like Ruby, if a bit older.

They heard Yang speaking from inside the sports car, "Nothing so far. Been pretty quiet, actually."

"Alright. Kee- … -infor- …" Ruby's voice started to cut out into static.

"Hello? I'm not in a tunnel, what's going on?!"

"… -bee! Get ba- … -ase! Dec- …"

Ironwood's eyes narrowed, "Communication jamming."

"Hey! What's going…"

An explosion went off on the street in front of the vehicle, causing Yang to skid to a stop. They saw a massive shadow form before seeing something slam back onto the ground. The dust settled to reveal a large tank sitting on the street with heavy turret pointed at the yellow car.

"Wah-oh." The car's wheels slid across the ground and Yang got the hell out of there as the space it occupied was suddenly splintered into fragments.

Yang recoiled a bit, "What the heck is going on?"

Ren tapped his chair in thought, "Better question, why haven't we seen her yet?"

Nora turned to her childhood friend, "What do you mean?"

"It's just… all we've seen is a car and a tank. But we have yet to see the drivers."

"Another thing," Jaune interrupted, "How did a tank come up through the street?"

Yang tried to call back to Ruby, "We got bad guys! It's Blutschwur! Permission to engage?!" She heard nothing but static. "Damn it!"

Ruby's head tilted, "Blut-who? I don't recognize the name."

The tank fired another shell that knocked the car into the air. As another shell launched from the barrel, the world slowed to show the trajectory of the explosive. There was no way for a car to possibly dodge it midair.

Ruby panicked at the scene, "Yang!"

Yang got ready for an explosive end.

Only for the yellow car's front section to suddenly split apart up to the windshield, splitting in time for the shell to fly passed. The machinery continued to spin, lock, and unlock in various ways until the vehicle reshaped completely. It slammed into the ground and slid across the asphalt in a now bipedal robot form. In this new stance, they could see the robot had a slightly feminine form with a section of the car breaking back like a long mass of yellow hair.

Eyes went from screen to Yang and back. The resemblance was uncanny.

Ren was still stunned, but nodded with a sense of understanding, "That explains that then."

The tank moved forward, "Oh! The little Bumblebee finally gets serious!" The tank's machinery also unlocked, spun, and relocked into a bipedal robot form. This bot looked fairly similar to, and sounded an awful lot like, Weiss Schnee. She stood with her turret now mounted over her shoulder and pointed toward Yang. "Look what I found. A little bee all on her own~" She fired a shell that knocked the Yang-bot off her feet, forcing her to hide behind a barricade. "What's wrong? Where's your usual bravado, Autobot?"

Weiss jolted upright in her chair, "What on Remnant is going on?"

Knox popped back with a burst of golden fire, "Transform and roll out!"

"What?"

King appeared soon after, "In this reality, sentient robotic lifeforms exist that can transform between bipedal and vehicle modes. Said robots are further divided between the Autobots and Decepticons. You can tell between them through various means, but the symbol that appears is a dead giveaway."

The group looked up to the screen and finally noticed the helmet-like symbols on both bots. Yang's alternate had a red, more squared variation while Weiss's symbol was purple and more angular.

Ruby jumped a bit in her seat, "Wait! But who's that… bloot or whatever?"

"Weiss is." Knox answered. "And the Yang in this world is called Bumblebee."

Yang laughed to herself, "Seriously?"

Blake glanced to Yang, an eyebrow raised, "Like your bike?"

Yang just kept laughing.

The Yang-bot had to crawl up behind her cover to avoid the incoming shrapnel. She growled her herself, unable to move without risking serious injury. "Dang it!" She brought her hand to the side of her head, pressing on the communication button, "Prime! Come in! I need backup!" She was only met with static. "Come on! Work!"

"Getting stressed, Autobot?" The back section of Weiss's cannon cycled around to a different cylinder. A section along the barrel started to glow an ice blue. "I think you need to chill out a little." As she fired the shell, they could see a sparkling mist following behind the ordinance. On impact, it burst and the contents instantly froze into a pillar of ice.

Yang was frozen with a smile on her face, "Did… did she just…?"

The Yang on screen growled, popping up over the cover for a moment, "Hey! Mid-battle quips are my thing!" She then realized what she'd done and ducked back down as a new shell flew over her head, bursting into an explosion of ice.

Weiss laughed, "You sure its not getting frozen?! Because that's what it looks like from here!"

Yang recoiled as a more conventional shell hit her makeshift cover, "Focus! Think. Blutschwur is an attack bot. She can't scramble comms. So, who do you know that can?" She jerked up a bit, not hearing another volley of shells. "Oh no."

The wall beside her suddenly erupted, revealing the Weiss bot, now specified to be named Blutschwur, broke through the brick to slam her fist into Yang, "Oh yeah~!"

Yang skid across the paved road a bit before jumping back to her feet. She growled to herself, annoyed that she caught off guard like that. Her forearm seemed to spin around, replacing her hand with what looked like a stinger on the other end. Electric sparks started to surge from the device as the other hand followed suit.

Nora gasped, "Oh my gosh! That's so cool! Are they like giant tasers?! Can I do something like that?"

Yang shrugged. Personally, she preferred her concussive rounds to electrical rounds. But, then again, she wasn't a two-story transforming robot.

Yang pointed the stingers toward Weiss and fired two bolts of electricity.

Nora gushed again, "So cool~"

But the bolts bounced off of Weiss harmlessly.

Nora deflated immediately, "Aw…"

Ren patted her back in condolence for the electrical weapon.

Weiss laughed, "Was that supposed to hurt? That's the problem with you Autobots. You never realize when you're out gunned!" She leveled her cannon again and fired a cryo-shell toward Yang.

The yellow bot was able to get behind cover that was now frozen over. She growled and glanced back through the ice toward Weiss. She needed to keep an eye on her this time. She was pulled out of her thoughts by a droplet hitting her head. She looked up to see dark clouds had formed above her. "Oh right. There was a storm tonight." She blinked at a realization. "Wait… That's it!"

Weiss fired another shell with a laugh, "What's the matter?! Get out here and fight like a robot!" She fired a high explosive shell to weed her out from cover. Yang rolled away before impact and pointed her charged stingers toward Weiss. She fired the bolts at Weiss again. Weiss just laughed it off, "That's just sad."

But Yang was smirking.

Weiss raised an eyebrow, "Why is she smiling."

Ruby nudged her teammate and pointed to her counterpart.

Weiss was surrounded by electricity this time. Yang had lowered the output of her stingers, changing them from an offensive bolt to a concentrated pulse. The electricity surged around her rather than bouncing off her plating.

Nora jumped up onto her seat in an amazed realization, "Oh! I get it! She charged Weiss's metal body with the bolt! And with storm clouds overhead, she became a living lightning rod!"

Nora was spot on, point proven as the electricity around Weiss crackled faster before a bolt of lightning crashing down onto her.

As Weiss fried, Yang let out a laugh, "What do you think of that stinger?!"

As the bolt faded, Weiss twitched as her processor caught up with the rest of her. She shook her head, thoroughly pissed now, "That's it! I was going easy on you! Have fun with it! But now I'm mad!"

Weiss's comm link beeped as her fellow Decepicon called in to her, "Blutschwur!" The voice sounded an awful lot like Ren, "Autobot reinforcements are approaching from the north. And I can't hide our energy signatures forever."

Nora giggled to herself at how appropriate that was.

Weiss growled, not really hearing Ren through her rage. "I will end you, Autobot!" She fired another shell toward Yang, but got another lightning bolt her trouble. "AGH! I hate this planet!"

Nora gasped, "They're aliens too?!"

Yang shrugged, "Makes more sense than them being built by us."

"Blutswur!" Ren's voice came in to try to warn Weiss, but it was too late.

Weiss spun around to fire another shell at Yang, only to find a blue metal fist to her face plate. The camera tracked back to show a taller red and blue robot who seemed to resemble Ruby. The new robot jumped back next to Yang to get into formation. The Ruby bot glanced toward her, "I thought something was off when comms went out. Nice touch on the lightning."

Ruby chuckled, "Yes! Now I'm the tall one!"

Yang laughed a little and pulled her sister into a hug, "You wish, squirt."

"Thanks boss bot." Yang chuckled a bit, "I had her where I wanted her." She sighed and smiled.

"And I'm still the leader!" Ruby cheered.

As Weiss growled, Ren's voice screamed at her again, "Blutschwur! I'm serious! Get out of there!"

Weiss knew he was right, but she didn't move yet. She had to think this through. She laughed, trying to play herself up. "The mighty Optimus Prime. About time I met you."

Ren yelled at her again, "What are you doing?!"

"They're expecting a hello. What better time to say goodbye!" Weiss leapt up and pointed her cannon to the ground and blew up the road beneath them, causing the road to collapse. Where Yang and Ruby were both ground-bound bots, Weiss had a secondary mode as a fighter jet and used it to escape.

Ironwood nodded, "Smart move as a distraction… though a bit destructive."

Weiss flew up over the storm clouds, revealing another jet over the clouds with a communication array on the top. Weiss growled as both jets flew off. "I don't believe this! I had her!"

"Regardless." The other jet was revealed to be Ren. "Right now we need to return to base while our signatures are still scrambled."

Both jets flew off and out of the city limits. The camera tracked as they showed the two jets approaching what looked like a mountain but was actually a hidden warship. They flew through a hidden hatch and transformed back into robot mode. Inside, the ship seemed perfectly normal for the robots.

Roman whistled in amazement, "How big must that ship be?" This got eyes toward him for him to explain, "Think about it. Those robots are like… what? Two stories tall? The ship must be massive."

Ren erupted in an emotional outburst, "We failed! We couldn't even pick off one of them! Megatron will be so angry with us."

Weiss groaned, "Let's hope that's all we get."

Both walked into a large room, the bridge of the ship. A monitor showed what looked like a robot Roman on the screen, "Pleasure doing business with my favorite customers! Let me know if you need anything else. And tell the old war monger I said hello~!" The screen cut out soon after.

Roman smirked, liking what little he saw of his counterpart. He seemed like a man that knew how to make a buck while looking out for number one.

Another robot stood in the room, the image of Nora with a set of helicopter blades on her back. She groaned and shook her head, "I say we can never trust him." She turned toward the two as they approached, "Welcome back, Blutschwur. Sky Break."

Ren glared toward Nora, "Storm Runner."

Nora wanted to giggle about her name and how cool it was, but she was hung up on the idea that this version of her and Ren didn't like each other.

Nora smirked, "So… how did it go?"

Ren scoffed, "I've no reason to report to you! I answer only to our glorious leader!"

"Well I'm in charge on the bridge until he returns from the lower hanger!"

The two glared at each other, sparks flying as the growled at each other.

Weiss got between them and split the two apart, "Enough! You're stupid competition to be Megatron's favorite is getting old."

"Oooh…" Nora felt a little better that they didn't hate each other. It was competition between them.

They jerked up as the heard the door open. The camera fell to the ground at the door as an armored foot fell onto the steel flooring. The camera tracked for a moment before flowing up to the back to show the back of the robot that stood full heads above the three others. A set of wings rested on either shoulder with a what looked like helicopter blades rearranged like a pair of swords. A large cannon rested on his right arm as well. As he walked passed them, the three stood at attention before their leader.

He moved to a chair at the center of the room, sitting in his command seat. "Storm Runner, were you able to acquire the materials from Swindle?"

Neo laughed a bit, as if she just knew that was the Roman counterpart.

Everyone else simply turned to their counterpart of the Decepticon leader, Jaune Arc. Jaune just blinked, not sure what to think about the scene.

Nora snapped to attention, "I have, oh glorious leader! I just finished the communication."

"Good. Blutschwur! Sky Break!"

Both bots locked up in fear, their mission failed in removing any of the Autobots on the planet.

"You've done well."

Now they froze in surprise. Weiss blinked in shock (too soon?), "We what?"

Ren just looked elated before bowing to his leader, "Thank you my liege! I live to serve you and your glorious vison!"

Ironwood tapped his chin in thought, "I can't tell if he's a suck up or a zealot."

Jaune looked back to the screen. "You're distraction was most helpful for our cause."

Ren praised the genius of his leader, but Weiss wasn't so happy, "Distraction? But our mission was to eliminate at least one of the Autobots."

"An assurance that you'll not hold yourself back. Now, the Autobots will, no doubt, run themselves ragged for the foreseeable future. And, with your work, we're one step closer to our goal on this miserable planet." Jaune pressed a button on his chair's console and a gold spike appeared on the screen.

Weiss was awestruck, "A Piece of Eternity? Here?"

"And soon, it shall be without our hands. And with it, Cybertron will submit to my rule. Now, go and rest for now. We have preparations to make." As the three left, Jaune changed the image on screen to show Ruby from Weiss's mission camera. He stood again with his hands behind his back. "It is only a matter of time, Prime… Our final battle is approaching. Where one shall stand, and one shall fall." The world faded until only his glowing purple insignia remained, cutting out soon after.

Yang fell back in her chair, not quite realizing she had been sitting on the edge, "Well… that was different."

Nora huffed, "I'm just disappointed we didn't get any more action."

Ren reassured her with a pat on her back, "There is the archive. We might return to it later."

"Oh yeah!"

Jaune groaned, not quite sure if he wanted to see it again. Sure, the transforming robot thing was cool, but it was clear the world was setting something big. Likely something horrible.