Transformers Animated: The sparks of friendship
Allspark surprise
Load Full StoryNext ChapterThe atmosphere of the city of Detroit was still and peaceful. At the Autobots warehouse base everything was quiet but tense.
Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots, was the first one to break the dull atmosphere.
"Any Allspark fragments or Decepticon activity?" he asked anyone who was listening.
Prowl, the Autobots ninja and master strategist, answered, "No, not even a spike" he replied.
Bulkhead, the Autobots muscle and great fighter, was the next one to speak: "Are you sure the scanner is working?"
"Of course, it's working boltbrain" replied Ratchet, the Autobots medic and technician.
"Are you sure you didn't connect something up the wrong way round?" asked Bumblebee, best friend to Bulkhead.
"If I had I wouldn't be..." Ratchet was interrupted by an alarm from the scanner.
It interrupted Jazz who was meditating, he was a member of the Cybertron Elite Guard.
"Hate to say it but 'told you so'" Bumblebee said.
"Where is the signal coming from, Ratchet?" Optimus asked,
"It seems to be coming from the power plant" Ratchet replied, checking the readouts.
"Finally, some action" Bulkhead said, who had became so bored that even an Allspark fragment was enough action for him.
"Right let's go" Jazz said, he was a bit tired of doing nothing,
"Alright, Autobots, transform and roll out!" Optimus said, and with that Optimus and the other Autobots transformed into their vehicle modes:
Optimus Prime into a fire truck.
Bulkhead into an army truck.
Bumblebee into a yellow police car.
Prowl into a police motor bike.
Ratchet into an ambulance.
Jazz into a sports car.
Once they had transformed into their vehicle modes, they all drove off in the direction of the power plant.
Elsewhere in their old mine base, Megatron and his seven Decepticon troops: Blitzwing, Lugnut, Starscream, Starscream's clones: Thundercreaker and Sunstorm had also been alerted to the fragments location.
"We must not allow the Autobots to recover the fragment first" commanded Megatron, the Decepticon leader.
"Yes master" Lugnut said, the Decepticon's muscle and lieutenant.
"With the fragment's power we will.." Blitzwing began, his face switched to his aggressive face, "crush the Autobot scum into dust!" he said, before his face switched again, this time into his insane face, "then fuse the dust into glass and shatter them all over again!!!" he finished, with a maniacal laugh, before his face switched back to his first face.
Starscream, the Decepticon's second in command, rubbed his hands. "With the fragment's power I could destroy Megatron and became the Decepticon leader" he thought to himself.
Being a clone of Starscream, Thundercreaker represented Starscream's Egomaniac side, "The Autobots puny weapons are nothing compared to my weapons" Thundercreaker said to himself, whereas Sunstorm represented Starscream's Sycophant side "Brilliant observation, brilliant" he praised Thundercreacker.
"Enough talk" Megatron said, "Decepticons, to the air!" he barked.
Like the Autobots, Megatron and his men had their own vehicle modes:
Megatron into an alien helicopter.
Blitzwing into a fighter jet.
Lugnut into a bomber jet.
Starscream, Thundercreaker and Sunstorm all shared the same Harrier jet mode.
When they had transformed, Megatron and his men flew off as fast as they could to find the fragment before the Autobots.
Meanwhile Optimus and the other Autobots were nearing the fragment's location,
"Something doesn't feel right" Prowl said as they got nearer,
"What do mean Prowl?" asked Optimus,
"Its quiet" Prowl replied,
"Yeah too quiet" Jazz finished.
As Jazz ended what he was saying, the road in front of them turned to ice. Optimus and the Autobots had no time to stop. They quickly transformed back into their robot modes and looked up to see Blitzwing in his jet mode came flying straight at them.
"Well of course, it had to be you Blitzbrain" Bumblebee said.
"The name is Blitzwing remember it, insect!" Blitzwing said in his angry face voice, as he flew over the Autobots heads.
Blitzwing was followed by Starscream and Lugnut who attacked one after the other.
Starscream started firing rapid blasts from his Null-rays.
Lugnut attacked by firing his two massive atomic missiles.
"Megatron will crush you" Lugnut growled, as he and Starscream continued their assault. Lugnut, Blitzwing and Starscream transformed into their robot modes.
Optimus and the other Autobots engaged their attackers. After an hour of solid fighting, Optimus and his team were getting nowhere.
"It's like they're here only to slow us down" Ratchet said, using his magnet weapons to send Blitzwings attacks back at him.
"Yeah, no matter how many hits I land they won't go down" replied Bumblebee, using his stinger weapons to somehow blind or knock Starscream off balance.
"Maybe you're just not hitting hard enough" Bulkhead cut in. Bulkhead, being the strongest of the Autobots, was using his wrecking ball arm and managing to land some powerful blows on his attacker Lugnut. But Lugnut retaliated by landing some equally powerful blows on Bulkhead with his power mace weapon.
"How long can you keep this up, Autobots?" Starscream smirked, as he saw that Optimus and the other Autobots were beginning to grow weak.
"Long enough to do this" Ratchet said. Again, he fired his magnet weapons; Bumblebee fired his stingers at the same time, both the magnetic and electrical energy merged to make an EMP blast which hit Starscream, rendering him for a short time immobile.
"Lugnut, report" Megatron's voice sounded inside Lugnut's head.
"Starscream is hit and we are out numbered" Lugnut answered.
"Get Starscream back online and join me at the power plant" Megatron's voice replied.
"Yes, master" Lugnut finished and turned to Blitzwing, "get Starscream online and follow me" he commanded.
"Right, it would be wise to go and help Megatron" Blitzwing replied. He ran over to the immobile Starscream, "rise and shine" his insane face said as he shook Starscream.
"I'm online, you downgrade!" Starscream yelled, as soon as he was able move his limbs,
"Megatron commands us to assist him in finding the fragment" Lugnut barked,
"Then we must go" Starscream said and he, Blitzwing and Lugnut transformed back into their vehicle modes and rocketed off towards the power plant.
"We have to follow them" Optimus said, staring after them.
"Yeah, and fast" Jazz replied.
Optimus and the rest of the Autobots tranformed back to their vehicle modes and drove as fast as the could after the three Decepticons.
At the power plant, Starscream, Blitzwing and Lugnut landed, transformed to robot mode and joined Megatron, Thundercreaker and Sunstorm in the main reactor room.
The Allspark fragment was lodged in between two of the reactor cooling rods. As the three Decepticons entered, Megatron turned to face them,
"Ah, Lugnut, just as loyal as ever" he said,
"I live to serve you master" Lugnut replied kneeling before Megatron,
"Yeah, well groveling aside which one of us should do the honors of collecting the fragment?" Starscream cut in. He was getting a bit annoyed at Lugnut praising Megatron like he was a god.
Megatron turned to his second in command, a smile on his face "I was just waiting for you to volunteer, Starscream".
"Oh this is an honor, Megatron" Starscream replied, starting to get overly confident.
Thundercreaker and Sunstorm stayed quiet, they knew better than to question Megatron's orders.
Starscream stood in close to the main reactor trying not to dislodge any of the cooling rods, which he managed with ease.
Once the fragment was dislodged, Starscream handed it to Megatron, "Now we must return to our base to power up our space bridge" Megatron commanded.
"Stop right there, Decepticons!" called a voice.
Megatron and his men turned to see Optimus and his team blocking the exit.
"Hand over the fragment nice and easy" Jazz said, drawing out his energy chucks,
"Sorry, but I can't stop I'm late for conquering Cybertron" Megatron said. He fired a blast from his arm cannon at the roof of the power plant, knocking a ton of debris on top of the Autobots.
"That should hold them for a while" Megatron said. He and his men tranformed into their vehicle modes and rocketed off through the hole Megatron had made.
A few seconds after they had left, Optimus and his team managed to dig themselves out of the pile of debris they were trapped under.
"We have to go after them" Optimus said,
"How? They could be anywhere" Bumblebee said,
"I think I might know where they went" Prowl said after some thought.
"Where on earth would they possibly go!?" Bumblebee shouted,
"There's an old mine shaft outside the city, that's the only place I can think of" Prowl replied. He was used to his teammates being a little stupid.
"Right, let's go! Prowl, you lead on" Optimus said,
Prowl made no reply but transformed into his vehicle mode and zoomed off.
"Hey Prowl, wait I'm your leader!" Optimus yelled after him.
Optimus and rest of his team quickly transformed into their vehicle modes and rushed off after Prowl.
Back at their mine shaft base, Megatron and his Decepticons were putting the Allspark fragment to good use.
"Allow me to do the honors of powering up the space bridge, lord Megatron" Starscream said, bowing before his leader.
"You may, Starscream" Megatron replied, a bit surprised that Starscream hadn't turned on him.
"Why are you giving him that job!?" Thundercreaker cut in, "with somebot of my genius I should be the one to do it"
Thundercreaker was met with a murderous look of anger from Megatron. He quickly backed down, Sunstorm made no comment.
Starscream placed the fragment into the space bridge's generator. The machine immediately sprang to life, it began to hum with energy.
"Input the coordinates for Cybertron", Megatron commanded,
Starscream obeyed typing in some commands on the space bridge's computer.
He pulled a lever and the space bridge portal activated.
"Decepticons, we are on the verge of absolute power" Megatron said, turning to his loyal soldiers.
"Our takeover of Cybertron is nigh" Starscream said.
"That's far enough, Megatron!" cried a voice.
Megatron and his Decepticons turned to see Optimus and his team.
"But how?" Megatron said, shocked that the Autobots had found his base.
"Let's just say that we had a hunch" Optimus replied,
"No matter! Blitzwing, Lugnut, Thundercreaker, Sunstorm, destroy them all" Megatron barked.
Megatron turned to Starscream "protect the space bridge" he commanded.
"At once" Starscream replied, he began firing null-ray blasts at the attacking Autobots.
"We'll fight till the last spark to stop you, Megatron" said Optimus as he and Megatron engaged in battle.
"Such a waste of life" Megatron smirked as he dodged Optimus's Ion-axe attacks.
After few minutes into the fight, both the Autobots and Decepticons were almost at a standstill.
"You're not taking over Cybertron, not while I'm still standing" said Optimus defiantly. He hurled his Ion-axe at the space bridge control panel.
The panel sparked and fizzed. An alarm sounded, "He's damaged the space bridge transport control" cried Starscream.
"So now what happens!?" asked Bumblebee, he was panicking.
"I have a feeling we may just find out" Optimus replied.
A wave of energy erupted from the space bridge it hit both the Autobots and the Decepticons.
"Arr, I'm feeling kinda funky in my processor" Bulkhead said,
"We're beginning to fade away" Ratchet cried, seeing that his hand had began to turn to nothing.
Optimus felt his muscles going limp, "Am I dying?" he asked himself.
What was happening to the Autobots was also happening to the Decepticons.
"Starscream, what is happening!?" cried Megatron.
"I have no idea, Megatron" Starscream replied. Then he noticed that the Allspark fragment was fading as well. Starscream tried to move his limbs but they had gone limp too.
"Getting...dizzy" was all Optimus could say before his vision became darker and darker, the base fading before his eyes, his strength depleting. Optimus, his team, Megatron and his Decepticons all fell unconscious, succumbing to the unknown force.
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