FP's: More Than Meet's The Eye

Here is the teaser for my Transformers Fan Fiction, More Than Meets The Eye! Please share, like, and comment to let me know what you all think, because I have been working on this for years, and laziness has been getting to me.

Quick Summary:

Well, it's been fun, y'all. All I got to say is I really hope do enjoy it! And stay tuned, there may be more than meets the eye ;)

One human week later, Megatron is in the Kaon officer facility, Skywarp walks up to him and hands him two shards, “These are the only allspark shards Daytrader said he had.  I checked his diagnostics and he doesn’t seem to be lying.  He said we would give him his freedom if he gave us a shards is this true?”.  Megatron speaks, “Yes, just teleport him back to Earth!”.  Skywarp speaks, “Right, is there anything else you need from me, sir?”.  Megatron, intensely looking at the two shards, “Bring me the bodies of Shockwave and Soundwave if you could.  I know we have them around here somewhere!”.  Skywarp speaks, “Right away, Lord Megatron!”  Skywarp goes to leave, but Megatron grabs his arm.  Megatron speaks, “Not just yet, there's something extremely important I need you to find for me…”.  Skywarp stares at Megatron, “Find me the location of Optimus Prime!”.

Back on Earth, ten astro minutes later,  Overdrive and Coby are driving around at the old derby race track.  At the far right corner, they see Daytrader walking around.  Overdrive speaks with him, “What are you doing here?”.  Daytrader speaks, “The Decepticons teleported me here when I ran out of usefulness, now I’m just trying to figure out what I'm going to do!”.  Coby speaks, “Hey, why don’t you come back to the base with us?!  I’m sure Strongarm can figure out something to do!  What do you think, Overdrive?”.  He shrugs.  Daytrader speaks, “I guess I have nothing better to do!”.

At the new underground Autobot HQ located in the middle of the city, Overdrive and Daytrader drive in and transform back into their robot modes.  Strongarm walks up to them and Overdrive speaks, “Hey, what do you want us to do with the garbage man here?”.  Daytrader speaks, “HEY!”.  Strongarm speaks, “You, Red Alert, will help situate you!  And Overdrive and Coby, I need you to come with me and Annie because we are meeting an important assailant orchestrated by Cybertron high command!”  Overdrive speaks, “Great, where’s the girl?”  Strongarm speaks, “Sarah is going to get her at school!  She’ll be here soon!”

Annie is walking in the hallway to her locker.  She looks and sees James in the hallway talking to JR.  She blushes and rushes to her locker.  JR notices this and wraps his arm around James, “Dude, I think she's to you!”  James laughs, “Nah, you're just messing with me again!”  JR points at Annie, “My guy, I swear she just got nervous when she saw you!  And everyone knows I’m in a relationship right now!”   James continues, “You're serious?!”  JR’s hand making a directing motion towards Annie, “Why don’t you go over and ask her out or something, you pansy?!”  James’s face starts to sweat, “I don’t know, man!”  JR wraps his hand around James, and they walk over to her locker.  Annie frantically messes with stuff in her locker, and James and JR arrive.  JR speaks, “I’m sorry you’re Annabelle Harrison, right?”  Annie jerks up and looks towards the two of them and smiles, “Oh, yes, but you can just call me Annie!”  JR speaks, “Hey, I’m JR, and this is…”  James quickly jerks his body forward, shaking her hand awkwardly, “James, I am James!”  She laughs, “Yes, I think we have homeroom together!”  James speaks, “Oh, whops!”  They both laugh.  JR looks at them both, “Uh, okay…I heard that you do some private tutoring here at school.  Would you be able to help out my friend here?”  James looks at JR in complete shock.  Annie laughs, “I see what I can do for the big learner over here!”  James smiles.  JR speaks, “Great, he’s looking forward to it!”  James and JR walk away.  Annie goes back to putting stuff in her locker when out of the corner she sees her mom, Sarah, “Hopefully, I don’t see those two around the house that much!”  Annie speaks, “What’s up?”  Sarah looks her in the eyes, “Strongarm wants you with her again!”

One more Chapter, folks. It's gettin' real crazy!

Overdrive, Strongarm, and the kids walk into a dark building with the sun peaking through cracks in the walls.

As a group walks by, they are able to see chains on the ground, puddles of oil, dusty workbenches, and some cars here and there that have giant handprints and scrape marks on them.  They hear moaning from the corner.  They follow some tracks for a couple of seconds.  The voice yelps from the dark, “Help me, anyone, please!”.  Strongarm whispers to everyone, “All right, Overdrive and I are going to investigate while you stay right behind us, copy?”.  The kids nod their heads.  Strongarm and Overdrive pull out their weapons and move slowly towards the moaning.  They approach the dark corner.  Strongarm shouts, “ If there is anyone back there, come out or we will open fire!”.  Two figures slowly approach the armed group, Starscream, holding a knife to Daytrader's throat.  Overdrive shouts, “Let him go, Starscream!”.  Starscream laughs, “I’m sorry… a vehicon who is giving me orders, is working with the Autobots!”.  Strongarm speaks, “Oh really, that isn’t what my plasma blade is saying!  Give up now!”.  Starscream speaks, “Doesn’t seem like you should be threatening me at the moment, after all, I am the one with the hostage and the city-destroying bomb!  Especially with your purple friend there!”.  Coby shouts, “Hey, you know we outnumber you, buddy!”.  Starscream laughs, “Is the insect trying to talk to me?  Well, tell your pathetic slime sack you’re all in a losing battle!  Bring up the outside footage!”.  A computer monitor screen comes down in front of them, showing just what’s going on outside.  Superion is in a losing fight with Menasor.   Menasor tosses him all over the field, and Superion seems very worn out.  Red Alert, Hot Shot, and Swift are seen hiding behind a large broken metal chunk, protecting themselves from the turrets.  Starscream speaks into a microphone, “Increase the rate of fire on those turrets drastically!”.  Starscream looks at them all with a wicked smile.  Starscream speaks to Coby, “Sucks to suck slime sack!”.  Starscream continues to speak, “But look at me, vehicon, we are all practically on the same side!  You and me are both practically the same person!  I was cast aside by Megatron many times, and I assume you were as well!  Help me destroy this city and I will unlock whatever power held within these rocks!”.  Overdrive is quiet.  He looks at Strongarm who profusely shakes her head.  Then he looks at Coby who is very still.  Overdrive looks back at Starscream and speaks, “No.”.  Starscream speaks, “Quite unwise!”.  Annie notices that there is a large paint shelf rotting away at the bottom legs.  Annie shouts back to Starscream, “Hey shit, face!  Be nicer to my friend!”.  She kicks away the legs, and large cans of paint fall on Starscream.  Strongarm, Overdrive, and the kids end up having to dodge some of the other paint cans, but they’re safe.

Strongarm gets up and quickly gets to Daytrader.  He says, “Thank you for coming!”.  Strongarm speaks, “Don’t thank me till I get you out of-!”.  Starscream, covered in dents and paint, grabs her, “You know you are beginning to tick me off!  But it's important to keep your mind focused on your main goal at hand!”.  Overdrive them jumps up and punches and right in the face.  Starscream stumbles a bit, but he gets back on his feet, “You guys are just plain annoying!  Something is funny about you too. Do I recognize you both for some weird reason?  I just can’t put my circuitry on it?  Oh well!”.  Starscream's hands transformed into a knife and a bus saw, and he starts to slash at them with each hand.  Both Overdrive and Strongarm keep trying to dodge flashes, and he barely misses them each time, constantly getting more and more frustrated.  The kids are watching the corner with Daytrader.  Daytrader speaks, “So this is what it's like every day for a human?!”  Annie speaks, “No, but it’s starting to be for us!”.  Daytrader speaks, “Daytrader speaks, “That sucks!”  Coby speaks, “ Actually, it’s not so bad once you get used to it!”  Starscream then transforms and flies around the abandoned factory, shooting at them with his minigun.  Strongarm and Overdrive hide behind Starscream's work area.  Strongarm looks at Starscream.  Strongarm speaks, “Do you think you can try to throw me on top of him?”.  Overdrive speaks, “Um, I mean I uh?”.  Strongarm speaks, “Good, let’s do it when he gets lower!”.  Starscream keeps flying around, Strongarm gets up on a table ledge, in which Overdrive picks her up and barely manages to throw her on top of Starscream's left wing.  He ends up spinning around and crashing into the ground.  Starscream shoots a wire that wraps around Coby’s waist that grapples him and brings him into Starscream's hand, “All right, no more Mr. nice Decepticon, the bomb is going off or I’m killing this kid right here right now!”.  Strongarm screams at him, “ Starscream, you’re a homicidal coward, put him down. He has done nothing!”.  Starscream smiles as his hand turns into a knife.  Overdrive, the only one pointing his gun at Starscream, starts to tremble and shake.  But it’s not just him shaking as the entire building shakes suddenly, Megatron bursts through the wall with a large deployment of Decepticons.

Starscream drops Coby on the ground, who lands on his knees.  Overdrive rushes over to check on him, “ You all right, Coby?!”.  Coby speaks, “Yeah, just bruised up from the fall!  But fine.”  They all stare at Megatron.  Megatron points at Starscream, “You’re supposed to be dead, and you’re still here on this backwater planet plotting against me…”  Megatron laughs, “You truly are a coward!”  Starscream becomes angry.  Megatron speaks, “Lugnut, Blitzwing!  Destroy this pathetic attempt to take over the Decepticons!”.  Lugnut and Blitzwing destroy everything in the lab.  Starscream watches this in shock.  Megatron walks over to Daytrader and Annie, and he grabs Daytrader, “I’ll be taking you!”.  Annie tries blocking him, but he moves hers out of the way with his finger.  Megatron laughs, “Pathetic little fleshing!”  Megatron blasts his way out to the front entrance, where the original field is, and drags Daytrader with him.  His deployment of Decepticons follow behind him, and everyone else watches.  Superion has defeated Menasor with his foot on his back and a sword to the back of his neck.  But he gets off and both get up when they realize Megatron and the Decepticons are right in front of them.  Starscream freaks out and flies out into the field screaming, “AHHHHHHH!  MEGATRON!”  Everyone turns towards Starscream, including Megatron.  Starcream continues, “You’re nothing but an incompetent leader! You have led us to nothing but losing battles over the past decades with the Autobots. Why should any of us listen to you?  You have tried several times, and you still come back to life to call me a coward, call me pathetic!  No, it is you who is the coward!  If anyone is to lead the Decepticons, it is me, Starscream, the truly righteous one!  And you are the one who is truly the fool!  You are the weak fool who is keeping us in the energon crisis!”.  Everyone stares at Megatron.

Megatron looks down for a few seconds.  Megatron then speaks, “I guess now is a good time as any to reveal this!  MIXMASTER, come on out!”.  Mixmaster walks out in a new green and purple body holding a blue cube.  Starscream speaks, “Ah…yes, Mixmaster, are you NOW going to tell how you are not dead?!”.  Mixmaster speaks, “I did almost die, but me and the other Constructicons are alive because of Skywarp!”  Starscream speaks, “Is Skywarp here?!”  Skywarp steps forward.  Both Starscream and Overdrive are in shock.  Starscream speaks, “How have you been, old chum?”  Skywarp looks at Megatron, then back to Starscream, “Sorry, but I can’t associate myself with you any longer…”  Starscream looks at Megatron, who wickedly smiles, “If you see it that way, fine.”  Megatron steps forward, “And now because of Mixmaster, we have a new type of synthetic energon so that no Decepticon shall starve because of a silly crisis!”.  Starscream is shocked.

Megatron looks back at Starscream, “And one more thing, if you truly think you have what it takes to be the leader of the Decepticons, then prove it right here, right now!  I want you to fight me, better yet, I want you to kill me!”.  Starscream, “…uh”  Megatron speaks, “That’s what a true Decepticon leader would do right, am I right, fellow Decepticons?!”.  The Decepticons start to chant “fight” over and over again.  Megatron slowly walks over to Starscream.  Starscream speaks, “Look, Megatron, you can trust your old pal!”.  Starscream shoots several rockets at him.  They explode.  Megatron walks through the dust cloud.  Starscream transforms into a jet and shoots at him.  Megatron blasts him out of the sky with his fusion cannon.  Starscream falls onto the ground.  He transforms his right hand into a blade.  He tries to slice at Megatron, but Megatron catches his hand.  Starscream speaks, “Please, Megatron, have mercy, I beg of you!”.  Megatron grabs Starscream by the throat and rips his head clean off.  Megatron speaks, “Mercy and trust are two different things, and yet two similar things!  I did like your new look though!”

A couple of military vehicles pull up along with Dr. Arkeville, Circuit Breaker, and some mercenaries appearing out of the vehicles.  Circuit Breaker looks around at all of the Autobots and Decepticons, and she speaks to Dr. Arkeville, “I already hate it here!”  Dr. Arkeville then walks up to Megatron and shouts at him, “Hey, you are Megatron, correct?”.  Megatron looks down, “Indeed, fleshling.  What do you want?”.  Dr. Arkeville speaks, “I have come to suggest a partnership that will heavily benefit you!”.  Megatron speaks, “A way to possibly take over both planets!  Let’s keep in touch to further elaborate!”.  Dr. Arkeville gives Megatron a large communication chip.  Dr. Arkeville walks back into his car, and Circuit Breaker gives him a nasty look.  Just before he gets in the car, he notices something off with Starscream’s body, a finger slightly twitching.  He smiles.  Dr. Arkeville gets in the car.

Sarah slowly walks around a corner and is shocked by all the Transformers.  Megatron makes a disgusted look at her.  She walks around him and then sees Circuit Breaker.  Sarah yells for her, “Janet, it's Sarah!”  Circuit Breaker looks up and has a slight smile.  Sarah runs to her and hugs her.  Sarah speaks, “Don’t worry, Janet, we’ll find a way to figure this out!”  Circuit Breaker looks back at Dr. Arkeville, smiling in the car.  Circuit Breaker pushes away Sarah, “Sarah, if I go with you, I’ll just get thrown into prison!  Plus, I have some personal scores to settle!”  Sarah panicking, “Janet, I can figure something out!”  Circuit Breaker gets in the car with Dr. Arkeville.  Circuit Breaker speaks, “I’m sorry.  And I go by Circuit Breaker now!”  They leave.  Sarah sobs on the ground.  Annie slowly walks over, hugs her mom, and walks her back over to their group.

The Decepticons start to group back up.  The Stunticons disassemble from Menasor and run to Megatron.  Motormaster speaks, “Oh great and mighty Megatron, please give us one last chance, we’re sorry that we betrayed you!  Please let us come back home!”.  Megatron speaks, “Fine, only because your team is valuable currently.  But if you do anything, and I mean, anything to piss me off again, I will personally kill you all!”.  The Stunticons all nod their heads.

Two left. We are definitely getting there...

A phone rings, Dr. Arkeville answers, “Sarah darling, how are you doing?”  Sarah lets in a deep sigh, “I want my sister back, Casey!”  Dr. Arkeville continues, “My dear Sarah, what are you even talking about?”  He looks at Circuit Breaker, who sits in the limo directly across from him.  Sarah speaks frantically, “Damn’it, be serious, Casey!  I’ve seen what you have done to her, and I just want her back!”  Dr. Arkeville frowns, “Fine, I’ll be serious!  Your sister is a psychotic murderer, and you think that as someone who enforces the law, she can ever have a normal life, you are ridiculous!  I gave her a new life, a chance to be greater, and now she’s a goddess among the machines of today!  And she loves it here, don’t you, my little ray of sunshine!”  Dr. Arkeville smacks Circuit Breaker, who mumbles, “Yes, it's great!”  Sarah continues, “Look, please, just let me see my sister once!”  Dr. Arkeville rolling his eyes, “Fine.  You meet us at the old abandoned car factory in a little over an hour!”  Sarah says, “Alright, I’ll be there!”  Circuit Breaker speaks, “Why do you want to meet her there?”  Dr. Arkeville speaks, “Because my little fury, that is where the rest of the Transformers are going!”

Ten miles outside of Cape Colloris, the Autobots arrive at the abandoned car factory, where Starscream has as a temporary base.  The Autobots and the kids stand in the middle of a large field in front of the factory.  There is a large 1960s-style sign that says, "Drive anywhere for less!".

Starscream sees the Autobots arrive through a view screen.  He gestures to Motormaster to go outside and engage the Autobots.  Starscream speaks, "You!  Get the other lackies and rid of these screwy Autobots!".  Motormaster stares at Starscream for a couple of seconds slowly walks away.

Swift walks around and analyzes the terrain.  Hotshot speaks, "Why do you think Starscream made this his main base?".  Swift continues walking around.  Coby notices a large, shattered chunk of dark energon, "Hey, there’s more of that purple rock stuff over there!".  Annie speaks, pointing her finger at him, "Dark Energon!".  Coby speaks, "Right, right."  Swift walks over to the Dark Energon and scans it, "You know this is big, guys, my data pad is showing me that Dark Energon is growing under this structure and it could reach a quarter of a human mile!".  Offroad speaks, "Very clever, tiny Autobot.  Now meet my fist!".  Offroad throws his fist at Swift, who barely manages to dodge out of the way.  Offroad destroys the ground.  He takes a few steps, and the rest of the Stunticons are next to him.  Motormaster smiles, "Stunticons, make them roadkill!".

The Stunticons surround the Autobots, aiming their weapons at them.  Then, a large meteor-like object the size of a house lands next to them.  Everyone stares at the meteor.  The Aerialbots jump out of it and each starts fighting the Stunticons.  The leader, Silverbolt, quickly walks up to Strongarm, "Sorry about the wait, ma'am, the Energon shortage on Cybertron has made everyone get desperate!".  Motormaster sees Silverbolt and pulls him into the fight.  Silverbolt shouts, "Go take care of Starscream!  We will deal with these fools!".  Strongarm salutes him.  Silverbolt uses his boosters to flip in the air and kick Motormaster in the face and making him fall back on the ground.  The kids cheer him on.  Sliverbolt looks at them and smiles, and gives them a rock on gesture.  Silverbolt speaks to the kids, "It's gonna get quite loud! You're gonna want to get out of here!".  Hotshot transforms, and Coby and Annie hop inside with their hands over their ears.  The Autobots team goes around the building.  Motormaster gets up and charges Silverbolt.  Silverbolt punches Motormaster in the face, knocking him backwards a bit.  Silverbolt then transforms into Concord SST jet and rams into Motormaster.  Motormaster gets knocked on his back again.  He gets up.  Motormaster shouts at his team, "Stunticons, link up!".  All the Stunticons start transforming into different limbs and body parts that resemble their vehicles.  Motormaster transforms into a torso, assembling all the limbs to create a sixty-foot-tall transformer.  A head transforms on top of the torso and speaks, "Welcome to the end of the road, courtesy of Menasor!"  Menasor points to the grouped up Arielbots and swings at them with a large sword.  The Arielbots manage to dodge.  Gatling guns pop out of Menasor's hands, and he starts shooting them with lasers.  They all barely manage to dodge them.  Silverbolt and the rest of the Aerialbots lie on the ground in exhaustion.  Menasor screams at them, "You are all cowards!  It seems Menasor is the superior being!".  Silverbolt speaks, "What do you think, boys, he seems to be asking for the special course!".  Menasor starts walking towards where the Autobot went.  There is a lot of clanking a transforming noises from behind.  Just before he can head around, he gets a tap on the shoulder.  He turns around and sees a transformer the same height as him, made whose limbs and torso are made up of the Aerialbots vehicle modes.  The robot immediately punches Menasor in the face, who stumbles back a bit, then the robot grabs and throws him to the other side of the field.  The robot shouts at Menasor, "It's a bot, it's a plane, it's Superion!".  Menasor gets up and starts to charge towards Superiorion with his sword.  Superion pulls out one of his wings and turns it into a sword.  He charges at Menasor as well.

Here is Chapter 18! Three more chapters to go!

Back at the port, next to the docks, a hand bursts out of the water, grabbing onto a nearby ladder.  Circuit Breaker flops back onto the port.  She gets up and puts her finger to her ear.  Back at Dr. Arkeville's lab, the Doctor is working on a micro chip when he notices on his nearby monitor that he gets a call from Janet Briggs.  He clicks it, "I'm busy!".  Circuit Breaker screams through the monitor, "YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A MORON!  WHY IS MY WEAKNESS WATER?!".  Dr. Arkeville puts down the micro chip and picks at some wires, "It's a minor bug.  Can be easily fixed!".  Circuit Breaker stays silent, then shouts, "A minor bug?!  I was splashed with water by children and it almost killed me!  And you know what, the thing I care about most right now is?  Her!".  Dr. Arkeville turns to Circuit Breaker, "So, what do you plan on doing now?"  Circuit Breaker speaks, "I am beyond angry.  Where are they?"  Dr. Arkeville speaks, "Janet..."  Circuit Breaker shrieks, "WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY?!".  Dr. Arkeville sighs,

There were a few people who saw the military enter the old Thompson building."  The Doctor looks up, and Circuit Breaker is gone.  

Overdrive sits down on the shoreline, watching over the town.  He looks over to his side, where Coby was sitting before.  

Meanwhile, Strongarm races on the street to the location.  At the Thompson shipping center outside town, the Autobots are locked up with Annie and Coby.  Six agents approach their cage.  Mr. Brown walks up slowly, looking at a picture.  His face swells up, and a single tear falls out.  Coby pays attention to the picture.  He notices that Mr. Brown is looking at an older man, but it's hard to see.  Coby speaks, "You know my mom passed away!  Did you have anyone close that you lost, Mr. Brown?".  Mr. Brown looks up and stays silent for a couple of seconds.  Mr. Brown pulls a handkerchief out of his shirt pocket and wipes his face, "My dad.  Do any of you know what his name was?".  He tosses the handkerchief on the ground.  There is silence in the cage.  Mr. Brown shows them the picture, "His name was Harold Attinger, he led a black ops group that hunted Transformers.  And one day, he was killed by the infamous Optimus Prime.  Now our job here as The Red Hill, is protecting humanity from the Transformers!".  Everyone in the cage remains silent.  Mr. Brown continues, "And that means each of you will suffer!".  Coby speaks, "Mr. Brown please!".  Mr. Brown shouts back at Coby, "Don't call me that you little shit!  My...name is Silas Attinger!  Prep the bots for a live dissection!  Make sure to load lethal rounds just in case anything doesn't go according to plan."  Annie and Coby scream as the agents take the Autobots out.  The kids run and try to push the agents away from the Autobots, but they both shoved right back onto the ground.  Silas looks at them both and laughs, "You're both lucky I'm letting you live!"  He walks away with the kids on the cage floor, watching the agents take the Autobots to a couple of large tables.

Strongarm drives into a desert-like area and sees the building approaching in the distance.

The agents hold guns up to the Autobot team.  The Autobot team gets up on the tables.  Swift gets up on one table, and the purple rock falls out of his grip.  One scientist notices and picks it up.  The scientist speaks, "Silas!  You need to see this!".  Silas rushes over and looks at the purple rock.  Its entire body shines, "Magnificent!  We need to see what secrets it holds as well.  Cut it open too!".  Silas takes the rock and hands it to another scientist.  Silas speaks to the scientist, "Figure out what this is...quickly!"  The scientist takes the rock over to a far corner and puts it into a gripping machine.  The scientist prepares a specialized saw.

Strongarm gets very close.  She transforms, gets behind a rock, and scopes it out with a sniper rifle.  She sees several agents on the top of the building in sniper positions and a couple of agents on the ground.  The rifle shoots a grenade at the roof and the agents on the ground.  Each grenade stuns the agents with an electric pulse.  They all fall to the ground.  Strongarm runs to the building, she uses axes to climb to the top, and she looks into a window panel and sees the Autobot team on a table.  Overdrive whispers to her, "So, what's the plan, Sarge?".  Strongarm is startled silently.  She quietly yells at Overdrive, "BE QUIET!  WE CAN’T LET THE HUMANS KNOW OF OUR POSITION!"  Overdrive puts his hand on her, "Are friends captured and are about to die...could anything worse happen?!".  The scientist cuts into the rock with the saw, and it blows up a fourth of the building.  The roof material weakens, and Strongarm and Overdrive fall onto the floor next to their friends.  They get up.  Strongarm sees her friends, "Guys, you're alright!"  Hot Shot speaks, "Hey Strongarm, Hey two-timing asshole!"  Overdrive awkwardly waves.  Strongarm and Overdrive unhook them all.  Swift gets up and stretches, "Ah, that feels nice!".  Silas speaks, "Oh, Autobots!  We still have unfinished business!".  The Autobots turn towards him and see about thirty agents.  Strongarm smacks Overdrive in the back of the head, "Is this the worst thing you were looking for?!".  "No, this is!". Says familiar familiar-sounding voice.  Everyone then turns their heads to the center exit, where Circuit Breaker is standing in front of the vestibule doors.  Strongarm smacks Overdrive in the head again, he shouts, "Hey!".  Strongarm speaks, "Next moron, don’t screw us over this bad!".

Just before the explosion, back in the jail cell with Annie, she yells at the agent watching them, "Damnit, let us out!".  The agent leans on a chair, looking at his phone, against the wall of the cell.  He slowly turns his head towards her turns it back to his phone.  Annie turns towards Coby, who is sitting alone in a corner.  Annie laughs, "Can you believe this guy?  Talk about professional kidnappers!".  Coby sighs.  An explosion then goes off.  Everyone gets knocked down.  Coby gets up and walks over to Annie, "Hey Anne, you alright?!".  Annie slowly gets up, "Yeah...I'm fine!".  Coby walks over to the front of the cell and sees the agent in the back slowly getting up.  Coby then notices that the roof right in front of the cell is about to fall.  Coby then yells at the agent, "HEY SHE'S INJURED, I THINK SHE NEEDS MEDICAL ATTENTION!!!".  Annie gives Coby a confused look.  The agent gets back on his feet.  Çoby yells at the agent again, "SIR, WE NEED YOU HERE QUICK!".  The agent arrives at the front of the cell, "Alright, so what the hell did you want?!".  The chunk of the roof falls onto the agent, knocking him out.  Annie laughs, "You knew that would work?!".  Coby starts searching the agent's pockets, "No, but it was worth a try!".  After another pocket, Coby manages to find the keys to the cell.  They get out of the cell.  Coby speaks, "Alright, we should go help the Autobots!".  Annie grabs Coby's shoulder, "Wait, I saw one of the agents go into that room with a file labeled, RECENT CYBERTRONIAN INCIDENTS!".  Coby speaks, "So?".  Annie speaks, "So...we can maybe find out where the Decepticons are hiding?".  Coby points, "Right...".  They open the door to a small filing cabinet room.  All the files are marked classified.  Annie sees the file labeled RECENT CYBERTRONIAN INCIDENTS on a desk.  She grabs it, "Alright, let's go!".  Coby then picks up another file, "Wait, this one is crazy...".  Annie turns around, and her eyes widen.

Back with the Autobots, they are engaged in a heated battle with Silas and Circuit Breaker.  The Autobots and Silas engaged in an intense standoff while Circuit Breaker tries to weed out as many as she can from each side with her electricity abilities.  She hides behind some walls at the exit that protect her from the swarm of the attack.  Annie and Coby see the battle from a hallway behind the Autobots and slowly make their way up to them.  Strongarm shouts at Overdrive, "Hey, the kids are right behind us.  They seem okay!".  Overdrive turns slightly around and sees Annie and Coby smiling at him.  He turns back around and goes back to shooting.  He smiles as well.

Circuit Breaker sees a break within the bullets and jumps on the wall behind her, up to the top floor.  Silas yells, "Damn it!  I need half of you to start shooting at her now!  She's killed nine of you already!".  Then more of the agents lay fire on her.  Circuit Breaker continues using her electricity abilities on Silas's men and the Autobots.

Overdrive shouts at Strongarm, "So, now that we're all back, got any bright ideas, because the only way to get out is past that mini army!"  Overdrive points at Silas' agents blasting at them while guarding the nearest exit, the hole in the wall from the explosion.  Strongarm looks over to Swift, "Hey, Swift, you have any more of those flash charges you were working on?!" Swift speaks, "Ah...I have a couple...".  Strongarm picks up her rifle, "Give 'em to me NOW!".  Swift hands her a couple of weirdly designed shotgun shells, which she twists the shells and they beep.  She throws the shells into the chamber of her gun and primes the rifle.  Strongarm points to Swift, "Swift, give them the breakdown.  Swift speaks to the group, "This is going to fire light and sound that can paralyze humans temporarily.  A vehicle form should be strong enough to shield the children if it's a Cybertronian body!"  Strongarm speaks, "Alright, enough said.  Overdrive can I trust you to keep Coby and Annie safe?"  Overdrive nods his head.  Strongarm speaks, "Alright, when I put my rifle up, you take the kids, then I shoot, finally we book it!".  Overdrive smiles and nods his head.  Strongarm crouches into a sniping position.  Out of the corner of her eye, Circuit Breaker notices this.  She looks all over the place until she sees right above the hole in the roof from earlier.  She grabs onto the wall again and quickly climbs her way out.  Strongarm then nods to Overdrive.  Coby and Annie hop into Overdrive's vehicle mode, then Strongarm fires a blinding shot from the rifle that bounces all over the room.  When the light clears after about ten seconds, all the agents are unconscious.  The Autobots are in complete shock.

An hour later, Silas wakes up.  He looks around and sees that the warehouse is bare, and he's on a gurney.  An agent walks up to him, "Sir, most of our agents are still unconscious, and the Autobots and superpowered killer have escaped as well!".  Silas speaks, "Do we still have the rock?".  The agent speaks, "No.".  Silas continues, "Well, alright, show me more about this superpowered killer!".

Meanwhile, eighteen miles away from Thompson shipping, Circuit Breaker walks along a desert highway while profusely bleeding.  Then comes along three tactical Hummers with a white limo in front.  The white limo approaches her location slowly and stops.  Circuit Breaker comes face to face with the back window, which can't be seen through.  The window slowly rolls down to reveal Dr. Arkeville holding a bag of tools, microchips, and an expensive-looking first aid kit. "It's been a while, Janet!".  Circuit Breaker speaks, "How'd...you find me?!".  Dr. Arkeville laughs, "Oh, Ms. Briggs, I always keep track of my property!".  Circuit Breaker looks at him with disgust.  Dr. Arkeville laughs again, "Oh, relax, my dear, come home with me so we have all fixed up!".  Circuit Breaker gets in the limo, and the doors automatically lock.  Dr. Arkeville then pulls out a detention device, "You see this."  Circuit Breaker messes with the lock.  Dr. Arkeville screams at Circuit Breaker, "JANET!!!  THIS BUTTON CAN KILL YOU IF I PRESS IT!!  YOU ARE MY PROPERTY, SO DON'T EVER DO ANYTHING TO PISS ME OFF LIKE LEAVING AGAIN!!!".  Circuit Breaker stares at him in shock, "Ok."  He calmly tucks the device away.  They drive off.

Oh look, I just posted Chapter 17, I wonder how many more there are left...21, there are 21 chapters in total! Four to go!

Strongarm races through the cave.  The shouts of the agents dissipate over time until they completely go away.  Eventually, she sees a light appear.  She starts to increase her speed dramatically.  The light increases.  She then pops out of the cave outside, transforming into her robot mode.  Strongarm walks around for a few seconds.  She shouts, "Overdrive!  Where are you?!".  Overdrive shouts back, "Over here behind this rock!".  Strongarm hears his voice coming from the left.  She turns around and sees a hand waving behind a rock.  Strongarm goes around the rock and sees Overdrive panicking behind it.  She punches him in the face.  She almost goes in for another punch, but manages to hold herself back.  Strongarm screams at Overdrive, "You are nothing but a pathetic coward!".  Overdrive stares at her while gripping the ground.  "You do nothing but watch innocents lose their lives!".  Strongarm kicks some dirt on Overdrive's body.  "You truly are...a Decepticon!".  Overdrive looks down.  Then a faint buzzing noise comes in from the distance.  Strongarm looks in the direction of the noise and sees a drone, "They are deploying drones to come find us.  Our other alternative headquarters cannot be compromised. I hate to ask, but is there anywhere safe you may know that we can go?".  Overdrive speaks, "I always have ideas!".

They pull up to the secluded shoreline. They both transform into their robot modes.  Strongarm looks around, "Why take us here?!". Overdrive slowly walks around, "The kid took me here last time I was with him.  The only other two places I've been are here and a rundown shack...and I figured you'd not want to go there!".  Strongarm walks up to a large rock and leans her back against it.  Strongarm speaks, "Why run?".  Overdrive speaks, "You mean with the agents back there?".  Strongarm speaks, "No, I mean from Decepticons.  You’ve had your fair share of chances to leave and go back to them.  But you continued to stay with us!  Why?!".  Overdrive stays silent for a few seconds.  Strongarm gets up, but Overdrive speaks, "My friend died.  Right before he wanted to quit the Decepticons.  It happened about few years ago.  My other friend probably still blames me.  A few minutes later, Megatron throws me into a damaged escape pod, and now I’m here.  I'm never going back because I have nothing back there!".  Strongarm stays silent for a couple seconds then speaks, "You know how I became an officer in the military?".  Overdrive stares at her, "No, can't say I do!".  Strongarm speaks, "Many years ago I was just nameless scrap drone.  I was lonely and had no one to talk to except this strong worker bot named Strongarm.  He was funny, charismatic, and hated fighting!  Me and him were very close.  He kept things straight and always watched my back when we worked.  But like I said, he hated the fight a lot.  Surprised he didn't leave Autobots as well, he probably would have if Starscream's takeover of Cybertron didn't escalate to the point that it did!"  Overdrive stays silent watching her speak.  Strongarm continues, "Anyways the Autobots won against Starscream but many lost their lives in a very brutal fight that could have turned the war at any point!".

Oh boy! Here we go with this Chapter. It's short but crazy:

The Autobots arrive back at HQ.  Everyone's bruised and damaged.  Strongarm slowly walks to a corner and sits down.  Red Alert begins digging through his medical supplies and starts bandaging up the team.  Hotshot speaks to Strongarm, "Starscream's alive!  We need to contact the High Guard for additional support!".  Strongarm doesn’t move.  Hotshot shakes her, "Come on, answer me!".  Strongarm comes to, "Right!".  She activates a device on her left arm, "Iacon Command, this reconnaissance officer Strongarm, can you read me over?".  An Autobot soldier answers, "We read you, Strongarm.  Remain cautious, as many communication signals have been jammed due to the increase in Decepticon attacks.  What do you need from Command?".  Strongarm speaks, "I would like to report that Starscream is alive here on Earth with the Stunticons.  We request additional assistance to take them on in battle!  Please act with haste!"  The soldier speaks, "An Autobot team will be dispatched to your location whenever we have one available!  Please sta-"  The message cuts out.  Overdrive speaks, "Great, so what are we going to now?!"  Hotshot speaks, "Relax Overdrive, we'll get help soon!"  Overdrive speaks, "Yeah, but you heard them, it could take quite!"  Overdrive then walks up to Strongarm, "And now Autobot Command knows how desperate our situation has gotten!".  Coby holds Annie's hand.  Overdrive continues, "We're all gonna be separated!  We're all going back to Cybertron!"  

And here is Chapter 15. I hope you enjoy it as well!

At a port close to downtown, a couple of explosions go off.  The crew starts to run away and scatter.  After about thirty minutes, the ports are dead, and the Stunticons appear.

At Autobot HQ, a blaring alarm wakes up Overdrive in his cell.  He jumps up, looking shocked.  Swift, Hotshot, and Red Alert are busy gearing up.  Strongarm walks up to him, "Sorry, sweetheart, did we wake you up?".  Overdrive speaks kinda drowsy, "Shut UP!"  Strongarm pulls him out of the cell, "If things go right with this mission, I may let you go!".  Hotshot walks by, making kissing noises.  Strongarm picks up a wrench and throws it at his head.  Hotshot speaks, "Hey!  Watch where throwing that!".  Strongarm and Overdrive both snicker.

After a couple of minutes go by, Annie has laid out a large map of Cape Colloris on a table.  Everyone gets around it.  Annie speaks, "So, this is where your chase with Blackjack and Offroad went down.  Roughly a couple of miles away, there is a port here that Strongarm looked into."  Strongarm points to the port on the map, "Teletraan 1 alerted me that the Stunticons are there, right now."  Red Alert speaks, "What do Stunticons want with a human port?".  Swift walks over to the Teletraan 1 computer monitor and messes with the screen, "Because they found an energon deposit in the port!".  Strongarm smiles, "Anyone feeling a mood to transform?  That statement includes you both, Annie and Overdrive!".  Overdrive speaks, "What about co..the kid?".  Strongarms speaks, "Of course he can come!  But be quick!".  Overdrive speaks, "Thank you!".  Red Alert walks up to Strongarm and whispers, "Are you sure he doesn't need supervision?  He's a Decepticon after all!"  Strongarm speaks, "Sometimes even the most wicked beings deserve another chance."  Red Alert speaks, "But what I'm asking is do you trust him?!"  Strongarm speaks, "I never did!"  Red Alert backs away.  Strongarm continues, "Annie, let Coby know that Overdrive will be there soon, men, ready your weapons and vehicle modes, and Overdrive, don't ruin this, please!".  Overdrive looks at her and does two-finger guns, transforms, and leaves.

Fifteen minutes later, the Autobots arrive.  The port is dead again.  No humans, Decepticons, or Stunticons to be found.  Just the Autobots.  The Autobot team walks around for a couple of minutes and doesn't find anyone.  Hotshot leans on a shipping container, "Oh well.  Looks like they left guys!  Time to head hom-".  Just then, Hotshot gets hit in the side of the head with a bolt of lightning.  Hotshot screams, "Who did that?!".  The team turns and sees Circuit Breaker peaking from behind the shipping container.  She immediately ducks away once they notice her.  Annie speaks, "What's Circuit Breaker doing here?!".  Hotshot speaks, "Probably to get her grubby hands on the Energon!  It still may be here!".  Red Alert speaks, "Then how come there are no Decepticons!".  Motormaster speaks, "Because we were waiting for you all to show up so the real fun can start!".  The Autobot team turns around and sees all the Stunticons standing together, armed. Wildrider speaks, "But me thought, we couldn't find the energy thingy!".  Blackjack pats Wildrider on the head, "That too, buddy.  That too, buddy!".  Offroad laughs, pointing somewhat towards Annie, "Look, sir, they even brought me a pathetic little pet!".  Annie walks a couple of steps towards Offroad, "Hey!  I may look small to you, but I have a warrior's heart!".  Offroad continues, "Um, I'm talking about him!".  Points to Swift, who is standing beside Annie.  Circuit Breaker hiding behind a shipping container whispers into her microphone, "Hey Doc?  Doc!  Damnit, you didn't tell me there was going to be a million of these damn robots here!".  Dr. Arkeville speaks, "Ms. Briggs, your only mission right now is to obtain the Cybertronian energy source.  Please remember who or what we are using it to fight against.  Them!".  Circuit Breaker grumbles.  Motormaster yells, "Enough talk!  Let's bend some metal!".  Strongarm and the Autobots have focused eyes.  The Stunticons each have evil-looking smirks.  Autobots and Stunticons go into battle with each other.  Wildrider jumps on top of Hotshot and bites off a chunk of metal from his arm.  Hotshot screams.  Hotshot throws him into a shipping container several yards back, and Wildrider slams to the ground.  Red Alert, meanwhile, gets into a shootout with Blackjack and Dragstrip.  They are a lot faster at dodging his shots.  One from Dragstrips' blaster even manages to make a good hit on Red Alert.  Offroad starts chasing Swift throughout the port, screaming at him, "I'm going to eat your vehicle mode as a snack!" and, "I'm going to run over you, like your roadkill!".  Swift manages to evade him by hiding behind a container.

That just leaves Strongarm and Motormaster, who stare at each other intensely.  They run to each other and get into a fight.  Strongarm manages to land a few blows on Motormaster's face and chest.  She's focused heavily on dodging his strong brute attacks, but it is close to impossible when it is one-on-one against such a gigantic and fast foe.  Ultimately, she transforms for a brief retreat, yet is very beaten up.  Strongarm speaks into her communicator, "Local Autobots!  Meet Strongarm at the far right area of the port!  Over and out!".  After about a couple of minutes, the Autobot team arrives.  Strongarm speaks, "Alright, what we need is a better strategy for this!  Anyone have any ideas?!".  Hotshot speaks, "I...got nothing!".  Everyone frowns at Hotshot.  Hotshot speaks, "What?!".  Annie speaks, "We support right now, Hotshot!".  Hotshot speaks, "Well, I need bandages for my arm!".  He slaps Red Alerts back.  Motormaster speaks, "You're all going to need more than just some silly little bandages!".  When the Autobots turn around, they see they are surrounded by the Stunticons!  Strongarm whispers to Red Alert, "Damn, where is son of a spark?!".  Strongarm walks up to Motormaster, "Alright, what are your demands?!".  Motormaster speaks, "I'm a simple man... so no demands, only death!"  The Stunticons all charge their guns, when Dragstrip is hit in the face by the front bumper of a car.  The car transforms immediately, revealing Overdrive and Coby, who popped out of the driver's seat.  All the Stunticons turn around.  Coby speaks, "Sorry about our late arrival, but you know how we just love to make an entrance!".  Overdrive pulls out his gun and shoots Motormaster in the chest.  Overdrive transforms with Coby, hoping back in the driver's seat as they speed off.  Motormaster shouts, "After him!".  Dragstrip shouts, "Yeah, let's get this poser!".  Offroad shouts, "Death to the traitor!".  They all chase Overdrive and Coby after him, the only one staying behind being Blackjack.  Blackjack shouts and points at the Autobots, "Uh, hey guys, I think you forgot something!".  He turns around and looks at Hotshot, who punches him right in the face, knocking Blackjack out.  Overdrive transforms around the corner of a container with Coby.  Overdrive speaks, "Hey, are you guys going to wait here or are you going to fight with me?!".  Strongarm rolls her eyes, "There is so much I want to say right now, but we do need to finish this fight!  Coby and Annie go to one of those shipping containers behind us so you'll be safe!".  Coby looks at Overdrive, "Will guys be fine?".  Overdrive looks at Strongarm and leans down to Coby’s level, "Don't worry, bud, we will!".  Annie notices Circuit Breaker watching the team from the other side of the port.  Annie speaks, "Don't Coby, I have a mission for the two of us already brewing in my head!".  

They then break into groups, Coby and Annie walking behind the containers watching everything, while the Autobots go back to find the Stunticons.  Strongarm speaks, "Alright Overdrive...".  Overdrive speaks, "Alright, what?".  Strongarm speaks, "What's the plan?".  Hotshot puts his hand on Overdrive's shoulder.  Red Alert speaks, "I know you got it, you kid!".  Swift speaks, "Yeah, Decepticon versus Stunticon!  You know to outsmart those cretins!".  Overdrive smiles, "Alright, I guess, you three can take on what's left of them because they are brute and speed-related soldiers with the Stunticons!".  Red Alert speaks, "Any weaknesses?".  Overdrive speaks, "They are pretty cocky and can be overwhelmed with the right plan."  Strongarm speaks, "What about Motormaster?!".  Overdrive speaks, "Against one Cybertronian, he is a giant, unstoppable Decepticon.  But against two...it'll better the odds!".  Strongarm speaks, "That's good enough for me!".  The Autobot team breaks apart.  Overdrive and Strongarm both yell at Motormaster, taunting him to come after them.  He does, and he comes over to them, which starts another big brawl.  Meanwhile, the other Autobots are currently locked in another fight with the other Stunticons.  Dragstrip shouts, "Be careful little bots, because the streets are our game!".  Hotshot points to Dragstrip, "I'm gonna try and take off the speed demon!".  Hotshot shouts, "Hey!  Are you as fast as your mouth?!".  He transforms and speeds off.  Dragstrip grins wickedly. He transforms and chases off after Hotshot.  The chase leads to the opposite end of the port.  Both sides by side.  Bumper by bumper.  Hotshot is barely able to manage to get in front of him.  When Hotshot does, he transforms and trips Dragstrip, causing him to crash into a container and cement wall, knocking him out.  Red Alert sees this and gives Hotshot a thumbs up.  He looks at Wildrider, in which they are in the face of a standoff.  Red Alert and Wildrider charge at each other.  Wildrider jumps on Red Alert's upper body, punching everything.  Red Alert manages to take most of the punches very well.  At one point, Wildrider tries biting him like with Hotshot, but Red Alert can quickly grab hold of his jaw before it can do any damage.  But Wildriders' jaw gets closer and closer to Red Alert's face.  Then Wildrider screams and runs as he is currently on fire.  Hotshot ends up knocking him out with a punch after coming from behind a container.  Hotshot hands back Red Alert his lava surgery device from earlier.  Red Alert laughs.  Hotshot speaks, "So where's the little pipsqueak?!".  Swift runs towards the middle, where he gets trapped by a few shipping containers.  Offroad then corners him and laughs maniacally.  Swift's hand turns into a tiny gun.  Swift shouts, "Don't make me use this!".  Offroad walks closer and smiles.  Swift shouts, "It's dangerous!".  Offroad laughs.  Swift shouts, "This is your last warning!".  Offroad speaks, "You're a cute little Autobot!  Now get my belly!".  Swift screams and shoots his gun.  The plasma bolt ricochets off the containers a couple of times until it hits and breaks a belt holding down large metal cylinders, which fall onto Offroad, knocking him out.

Meanwhile, Coby follows Annie, walking behind the containers close to the edge of the port.  Coby speaks, "So where the hell are you taking us?!".  Annie quietly speaks while crouching, "Shh, I'm pretty sure I saw Circuit Breaker go this way, dipstick!".  Coby speaks, "Then shouldn't we have a plan in case she comes?!".  Annie speaks, "I'm working on it!  Just...go over there and continue looking for her until I figure out what to do!".  Coby walks over to a large puddle with some ripped open bags of oysters and clams that fell out of a box.  He picks one of the oysters, looks at it for a few seconds, and gently puts it back down.  He notices that a lot of the containers have been scorched by something.  Circuit Breaker then yells immediately from behind Coby, "Hey kid!"  Coby turns around.  Circuit Breaker continues, "We're getting real close, aren’t we?!".  Coby starts to back up.  Circuit Breaker walks closer towards him, "Why are you so scared, kid?!".  Coby backs up into a container.  Circuit Breaker continues walking closer, "Kid, all I just wanna do is kill ya!".  A little bit of electricity follows through one of her hands, which she teases Coby with.  She then horrifically starts screaming, with her body paralyzed.  Coby looks down and notices she's in the large puddle.  Circuit Breaker slowly starts approaching Coby.  Coby shouts, "Annie, help!".  Annie runs around the corner of the container.  Coby shouts, "Go find a hose or a large water source to spray her with!"  Annie speaks, "Um, ok!".  Annie leaves.

Coby also tries to walk away, but Circuit Breaker quickly grabs his shirt, "Where do you think you're going?  You still piss me off every time I see your face!".  Circuit Breaker charges a bolt of lightning in her other hand.  Annie then came back with a large hose, "Hey, Coby, you might wanna move!".  Coby then manages to pull his shirt from her grip, run around another container while Annie sprays her.  Circuit Breaker is soaked in high-pressure water.  Annie does this for half a minute, but Circuit Breaker throws a rock into the hose, clogging the water.  Circuit Breaker then looks at Coby and starts slowly walking towards him.  But Overdrive in vehicle mode pushes her onto a nearby loading dock, then rams her off into the ocean. Circuit Breaker sinks to the bottom.

Overdrive transforms and looks down towards the depths.  Both Coby and Annie walk up behind.  Coby speaks, "Hey, uh, thanks!".  Annie speaks, "Yeah, thanks!".  Strongarm shouts from behind, "I could use my backup again!".  Overdrive then transforms and speeds off.  Strongarm faces off against Motormaster alone, in which he beats her senselessly, throws her to the ground, and just about when he makes a kill blow on her with his axe, Overdrive speeds up, transforms, and uppercuts him in the face, knocking Motormaster onto to ground.  He also drops his axe in which Strongarm steps on and destroys.  Motormaster easily gets back up.  Overdrive in a fighting stance, "You ready to tango, big guy!".  Motormaster has a confused look, "Don't I know you from somewhere?".  Overdrive speaks, "Why don’t you recognize the bottom of my foot?!".  Overdrive gives Motormaster a swift kick to the chest.  Strongarm also tries attacking, but Motormaster picks her up and throws her into Overdrive.  Then Hotshot jumps on Motormaster's back, Red Alert picks up both Overdrive and Strongarm, and whispers to them, "We have a plan!".  He starts directing them on where to go.  Overdrive and Strongarm rush back to Motormaster, holding down his limbs.  Then, Swift rushes over, applying a small EMP charge to Motormaster's leg.  This stuns him, and he falls to the ground.  Motormaster starts looking around and sees that all the Stunticons have been knocked out.  Motormaster speaks in an annoyed tone, "Voice command, contact Starscream!".  Strongarm immediately turns around and looks concerned.

At the Decepticon Earth HQ, Starscream sits in a makeshift throne, looking at a handheld digipad.  The digipad lets him know he is getting contacted, "Incoming transmission from Motormaster, Incoming transmission from Motormaster!".  Starscream speaks, "Alright, ALRIGHT!!!".  Motormaster speaks, "We, um, need help.".  Starscream speaks, "What do you mean need help?!  I thought you could get the job done like I said! YOU'RE THE STUNTICONS!!!".  Motormaster speaks, "Well, Stunticons are captured!  So can you get your sorry ass over here and help us out?!".  Starscream speaks, "Fine!".  Motormaster ends transmission.  Starscream walks outside with the digipad still in his hand.  He transforms and blasts off.  He blasts off at extreme speeds that many Autobots can compete with.  Strongarm runs up to Motormaster and screams, "Confirm that you just made contact with the sky commander.  PLEASE...TELL ME STARSCREAM ISN’T ALIVE?!".  The atmosphere begins have a more thunderous noise.  Motormaster wickedly smiles, "Run, little Autobot".  Bullets and missiles start to rain from the sky.  The Autobots run and huddle over the kids.  The bullets and missiles stop after about ten seconds, leaving behind thick dust.  Starscream, in his robot form, emerges from the dust and confronts Strongarm.  Starscream hands a purple rock to Motormaster.  A piece manages to fall off.  Swift pays attention to the rock piece.  Starscream then walks up to Overdrive and taps his chest, "You seem familiar!".   Overdrive speaks, "I unfortunately have that effect on people!".  Starscream looks at Strongarm, who gives him a stone-cold stare, "And you are even more uncomfortable to look at as well!".  Starscream walks off, "So I’ll be leaving now, bye!".  Strongarm tries to say something but is immediately cut off by Starscream, "Oh, and if you do try to come stop my plan to help the crisis on Cybertron, I'll have no choice but to order another Decepticon invasion.  Starting with this Earth city!  Have a good day!".  The Autobot Team is completely horrified by what Starscream has informed them.  The Autobot Team then departs.  Starscream speaks, "Contact Cybertron Space Bridge HQ!"  Mixmaster speaks through the microphone, "This Mixmaster who is speaking?".  Starscream speaks, "Mixmaster, you're still alive?! It's Starscream!".  Mixmaster speaks, "I could say the same about Star.  But, no, I was-". Starscream cuts him off, "Yeah, yeah!  Nobody cares about your life story!  Look, I need you to teleport me and the Stunticons back to these coordinates!  Got that?!"  Mixmaster speaks, "Sure thing, pal!"  Starscream speaks, "Oh, and one more thing, don't say about to anyone!  I don’t want Megatron finding out I'm alive!".  Starscream ends the transmission.  Mixmaster turns around with Megatron and several Decepticon soldiers standing beside him.  Megatron smirks and walks away.

Twenty minutes later, at the port, it is filled everywhere with military men, one of the men being Mr. Brown, who examines the scorch marks and dents in the containers.  Sarah walks up to him and shakes his hand, “Hi, are you Agent Brown?”  Mr. Brown speaks happily, “Yes, I am, and you must be Detective Harrison!  It’s a pleasure to meet you!”  Sarah speaks, “The pleasure is all mine!  I am actually on the case following Janet Briggs, right, might be in unnatural situations.  She’s showing up at a lot of these our town throwdowns, so any information will help Agent Brown!”  Mr. Brown looks around, “Well, I don’t know too much about Ms. Briggs, unfortunately, but I will tell you that some of these shipping containers have the weirdest scorch marks.  And I found some of these shards interesting phrases on them, if you wanna look back at the station.”  Sarah looks at the agent and leaves, “Thank you for everything, Agent Brown.  This was helpful!”  Mr. Brown smiles at her and watches her leave.

Hey everyone, here is Chapter 14! I had to quickly repost it. Hope you enjoy!

Bumblebee speaks into a mini holoprojector, "Preceptor, beam down Silverbolt and Hot Rod.".  Preceptor speaks, "Right oh!".  The two Autobots are transported into Autobot HQ.  Overdrive freaks out, "What the hell just happened?!".  Strongarm speaks, "Experimental Autobot transportation tech, thanks to Preceptor.".  Bumblebee says, "We wouldn't have most of our tech without Preceptor!".  Bumblebee says, "Strongarm, give Hot Rod the two human children's home coordinates so they can leave.  This official Autobot business.".  Strongarm says, "Copy!".  She hands Hot Rod a computer chip, and he transforms into a sports car.  Hot Rod speaks, "Sorry, kids, but orders are orders.".  Coby speaks, "We'll see each other later, Overdrive!".  Overdrive watches as the kids leave.

On the way to Annie's house, Hot Rod breaks the silence, "Two kiddos like you with us weird machines, like what's the deal?!".  Annie speaks, "Well, Strongarm knew my family and came into my life right around my birth.  And Coby, on the other hand...".  Coby speaks, "I met Overdrive in the woods after he came out of a frozen sleep!".  Hot Rod speaks, "So you're birth friends with an Autobot and you’re friends with a Decepticon!".  Coby speaks, "Yeah, so?!".  Hot Rod speaks, "So, nothing!  Bots and cons always struggled to solve their differences, but maybe we just need help from another fellow life form...".  A few minutes later, they arrive at Annie’s house.  Annie speaks, "Thanks for the ride, Hot Rod!".  Hot Rod speaks, "No prob, kiddo!".  Annie gets out and walks over to Coby’s side.  Annie speaks, "Here's my number if you ever need anything.  Feel free to call or something. I've got an extra car if you ever need a ride!".  Annie leaves, and Coby looks at a sticky note with Annie’s number.  Hot Rod and Coby leave.  Roughly fifteen minutes they arrive at Coby's home.  Coby speaks, "Thanks for the ride!".  Hot Rod speaks, "No prob, little dude!  Maybe I’ll see you again!".  Coby then watches as Hot Rod leaves.  Coby steps up to his front door, seeing his mobile home.  He enters.  He sees his dad, Ray, working on some food in the kitchen.  He notices James and his friends are in James’s room.  Then Ray rushes over immediately to Coby.  Ray shouts, "Where the hell were you?!  I was out looking for you!".  Coby quickly speaks, "Woah, Dad, didn't Sarah tell you I was going to be late coming home with Annie on some days because she's tutoring me?".  Ray speaks, "Who are these?  Look, it doesn't matter!  I don’t want my son going to see strangers at any time of day or night with all the recent activity that's been going on in the city!".  Coby speaks, "What are you talking about?".  James cuts in, "Didn't you hear about the crazy ass drivers in Downtown or at destruction at the old racing tracks, you shit stain?!".  Coby stays quiet.  Ray speaks, "Don't be rude to your brother James!".  James’s friends giggle, and James gives Coby an evil eye.  Coby continues, "But Dad, I need to go out to see them.  We had plans to study for an upcoming test!".  Ray speaks, "I don’t care! You must be safe!".  Coby shouts, "DAMNIT!".  Ray speaks, "Coby, that's enough, I don't want to...".  Just then, Ray's phone rings with the caller ID "manager".  He looks at Coby and speaks, "BE.  QUIET!".  Ray goes into his room.  James walks up to Coby and speaks, "You’re a joke within this family.".  His friends stare at him.  Coby stays silent.  James continues, "Every day I wake up and see your face, I feel sick too my stomach.  And you know dad feels the same!".  Coby starts to clench his fist.  James sighs, "You are nothing but a disappointment to Mom's existence!".  Coby then punches him in the face.  James falls on the floor with Coby hitting him as hard as possible.  Coby screams, "I hate you so god damn much!".  James manages to land a few punches on Coby.  Then Ray comes rushing into the room, pulling Coby off James.  Ray slaps Coby and speaks, "What the hell were you thinking?!".  Coby is barely able to hold back his tears.  He sprints out of the house as fast as he can run.  He runs for a few minutes until he gets back to the old shack.  He finds a picture of his mother in a desk drawer and hugs it for a minute.  He then sits down.  He has a black eye and bruises on his body.  He digs into his pocket and finds Annie's number.  He calls it, and Annie picks him up, "Yes, who is this?".  Coby speaks, "It's Coby!".  Annie speaks, "Oh hey Coby, what's up?!".  Coby speaks, "Annie, I need you to pick me up now.  It's an emergency.  I'm on the corner of Third and Madison Street!".   Annie speaks, "Oh, ok.  Be right there!".

Fifteen minutes later, Annie arrives in a yellow jeep.  Coby storms into the car.  Annie speaks, "Dude, you alright?!  You're all bruised up!  What happened?!".  Coby speaks, "It's not important!  What is important is why you or your mom haven't told my dad about the tutoring thing?!".  Annie speaks, "Look, dude, I don’t know.  One thing led to another, we just forgot because we've been getting busy lately!".  Coby speaks, "You just got...busy?".  Annie continues, "Um, yeah!  My mom's a detective, we are protecting an Autobot recon group, and the tutoring thing for me isn't a total lie!".  Coby speaks, "It's not?!".  Annie continues, "Yeah, I do a little on the side for early college credit.".  Coby stays silent for a few seconds and continues, "Well, look, I just like hanging out with you guys, and I don't want this to be taken away so soon.  Right now, my dad feels extremely uncomfortable with me constantly going out with recent events happening in town!"  Annie speaks, "I understand how nervous he is, Coby.  And unfortunately it is his decision with watching over you right now!".  Coby speaks, "Look all I'm just asking is, for you have your mother talk to my dad as soon possible so things stay the same!".  Annie continues, "I'll see what I can do."  Coby speaks, "Oh, and one more thing...I want to see Overdrive real quick!"  

Back at HQ, Overdrive speaks, "So you're the infamous Bumblebee."  Bumblebee speaks, "And you're the Decepticon scumbag my recon team has decided to keep as a pet for some reason, even though you're holding them back from important duties?!".  Overdrive speaks, "At least I have a reason for not being a prime, a Decepticon scumbag, but what's your reason, as you're the leader of the Autobots and everything?".  Everyone stares at Bumblebee.  Bumblebee sighs, "This is not why I'm here."  Bumblebee walks up to Strongarm and speaks, "Nothing significant has been discovered here besides this moron."  Strongarm speaks, "We have learned that the Stunticons are here!  They may be in the city."  Bumblebee speaks, "That maybe true and if they are I'll bring another team to deal with them!".  Overdrive speaks, "Isn't that an unnecessary waste of time and resources when you have a team specifically designated to be on earth?!".  Everyone looks at Bumblebee as if waiting for a response.  Bumblebee walks up to Overdrive angrily and speaks, "Look, I don’t know what you’re assuming, Decepticon, but your opinions mean nothing in this conversation, especially with all the hindrance you cause to the mission!".  Overdrive laughs, "Hindrance?  Bumblebee, Optimus Prime's choice to lead the Autobots has made them worse acting militia than before!  If Optimus were around, he would be disappointed by this choice!".  Annie drops off Coby and leaves.  Coby walks in and sees Bumblebee grabbing Overdrive's shoulders and throwing him on the floor.  Coby runs over to Overdrive and stands in between them, "What are you doing, you're an Autobot?!".  Strongarm speaks, "But Coby...".  Coby cuts her off, "But nothing!  Your Autobots!  I don't care how angry he makes you, you're supposed to be smarter than your enemy.  Reason with them!  Don't try to kill them every chance you get!".  Bumblebee speaks, "Coby, sometimes we need to kill the bad guys.".  Overdrive speaks, "And what if an Autobot ends up being the bad guy?".  Strongarm sighs, "Overdrive, you need to leave so me and Bee can finish our conversation."  Bumblebee speaks, "Yes.  That would lighten the load."  Overdrive speaks, "Whatever.  Hey, kid, let's get out of here!".  Coby speaks, "Yeah, that's probably for the best.  Coby and Overdrive leave.  Silverbolt speaks, "The kid will be fine, right?". Strongarm speaks, "The con shows a lot interesting emotions to towards the kid.".  Silverbolt speaks, "Reminds me of someone else I used to know!".  Everyone looks at Bumblebee.  Bumblebee speaks, "The kids going to be fine right?!"  Strongarm speaks, "Of course."  Bumblebee speaks, "You have one week to figure out what the stunticons are doing here and if nothing significant happens everyone's going there separate ways on Cybertron, and that con is going to a prison!".  Strongarm sighs, "Understood."  Bumblebee continues, "Now on to other news, Preceptor has a possible solution for the energon crisis on cybertron!”.

The afternoon sunset is shining through a few cedar trees.  Coby speaks, "Hey dude, pull up here!".  Overdrive pulls to a secluded shoreline with a view of Cape Colloris on the other side.  Coby speaks, "It's alright, you can transform here.  This area is pretty remote!".  Overdrive transforms into his robot form, and his visor glares and glistens off the sunlight as he stares at the distant town.  There is then rustling in a couple of nearby bushes.  A deer then pops out.  Overdrive gets defensive, but Coby whispers to him, "It's not a threat!"  Coby pulls some leftover popcorn from a ziploc and pours some in his hand.  The deer slowly walks up towards Coby.  Overdrive watches.  Coby puts his hand slowly close to the deer and lets it feed for a few seconds.  Coby then gestures to Overdrive, "Give me your hand!".  Overdrive looks at it and quietly moves it towards Coby.  Coby puts the rest of the popcorn in his hand and pushes it closer to the deer.  The deer eats the rest of the food from Overdrive.  Overdrive watches as the creature finishes and leaves (the deer is visible through the glare on his lens).  Overdrive and Coby continue sitting together and watching the sunset for a few minutes.  Coby starts fidgeting with a small rock.  Coby speaks, "You know, my mom took to this area when I was younger."  Overdrive speaks, "I see your dad and your brother around the house when I come on occasion, but where is your mother?".  Coby tilts his head down and throws the rock into the water.  Coby speaks, "She got cancer a couple of years ago, which is just a disease that can kill humans."  They both stay quiet for a few seconds.  Coby pulls out his phone, "My mom liked a lot of the simple stuff in life.  And some of the more complicated things as well.  But one thing I'll never forget about her is her love for movies and music.  And her favorite movie was the "Wizard of Oz".  Overdrive snickers, "That's some name."  Coby stares at him then looks back at his phone, "...her favorite song was, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."  Somewhere Over the Rainbow plays through the phone as Overdrive and Coby lookout on Cape Colloris.  Overdrive looks at Coby then back at town.  The song ends.  Overdrive says, "Well, that's some song."  Coby speaks, "So, what did you think?".  Overdrive says, "I think I'm taking you back to your house.".  

Coby says, "You're joking, right?!  Look at what my brother did to my face!  My dad was going to take me away from you!".  Coby starts crying.  Overdrive says, "Hey, look at me!". Coby tilts his head up.  Overdrive speaks, "You gotta be tougher than this kiddo!  Times are only going to get harder, but you gotta push through them! Now this is your earth family! And as a human, you love your family right?!".  Coby was still sobbing, "Yes?".  Overdrive speaks, "That's good enough for me!  Anyways, whatever happens, happens kiddo!  If you do get taken, from it's probably for the best, after all I'm a Decepticon!".

Overdrive and Cody arrive within a quarter mile of his house when they start to notice several stagnant siren noises.  Coby says, "It's pretty close from here, so you don't have to worry about the rest of the ride!".  When Coby makes it to his house, he sees two patrol vehicles right.  Then, right as he approaches the front of his house, Ray walks out with Sarah and Sheriff Costello.  Ray then sees him sprint towards him and hugs him tightly.  Ray is in tears, "I'm sorry about what happened before.  Please don't run away like that again!".  Ray lets him go, and Sarah walks up, "Sarah told everything about the tutoring program with Annie, and I couldn't be happier!".  Coby speaks, "Um, oh thank you very much!".  Sarah speaks, "My pleasure!".  Coby sees James talking to someone of his friends.  He flicks off Coby.  Ray says, "Oh, and don't you worry about him, I have a special punishment for James!".  Coby speaks, "Great.  I don't know if that's good or a bad thing!".

Hey, everybody hope your doing great! I'm back with Chapter 13 of More Than Meets The Eye!

A few hours before her shift ends, Sarah comes to Annie and Coby; Sarah, Sheriff Costello, and a man in a flannel shirt walk into a police office, and they each take a seat.  Sheriff Costello grabs a water bottle out of a mini fridge and leans back in his chair, “Would you like a water, Mr…uh?”.  The man in the flannel shirt leans forward hastily, “It’s Todd Cromwell.  No, I just want to get to the point of why I am here!”  Sheriff Costello looks over to Sarah, who looks down at her paper and adjusts her glasses, “Alright, Mr. Cromwell you are the only non-hospitalized witness to see happened today, so what we are going to is ask you some brief questions, and you provide answers for us in anyway you see fit.”  Sarah continues, “What happened?”  Todd Cromwell speaks, “Alright, so get this, I’m heading to the bank to deposit birthday money, and this crazy ass lady freaking superpowers comes in and screws up the entire place.  She walked up to the damn ATM, and it started spitting out all kinds of cash for her.  She left right after that, in and out, five minutes!”  Sarah continues, “There wasn’t anything else at the crime scene that you thought weird, Mr. Cromwell?”  Todd Cromwell speaks, “Well since you asked, I did briefly notice a purple car that almost sounded like it was talking to itself, but it probably nothing!”  Sarah speaks, “Thank you for your input Mr. Cromwell we will take note of all that you said!”.  She then looks at Sheriff Costello, who leans forward and speaks, “So Mr. Cromwell, one of the reasons you wanted was because of these pictures you sent us?  These are captured on a phone, I assume?”  Todd Cromwell, “Yes, I risked my life for those pictures!”  Sheriff Costello continues, “And we are grateful for your service.  We will look over the pictures and the rest of the information and give you a call if we need anything else from you!”  Todd Cromwell speaks, “Well, this took way too long!  I’m going home to take a nap!  See ya later, buckaroos!”  Todd Cromwell leaves.  Sheriff Costello looks over to Sarah and smiles, “He was an interesting guy.  You know, I think going to miss him!”  Sarah giggles, “Whatever can pull up the images he sent on your phone?”  Sheriff Costello, still smiling at her, “Can do, buckaroo!”  They both laugh.  Sheriff Costello looks at his phone in shock, “Sarah, come here!”  She walks over, still smiling, and then sees the disfigured face of her sister Janet robbing the bank, and is in complete shock as well.

In the present, at the Deception Earth Headquarters, Motormaster speaks over a transmission, "Blackjack!  Offroad! Starscream's plan is not going well, so I'm going to have to request some additional assistance.  Are you in?". Offroad speaks, "Oh, we're in.  Ain't we, Blackjack?".  Blackjack speaks, "For the Stunticons!".  Motormaster speaks, "I'll have someone teleport you into the human city where you’ll need to get your alternative forms without being seen!".  Both salute, "Copy, sir!".  A vehicon comes up behind them, "preparing jump to earth...".

Blackjack and Offroad arrive on the outskirts of Cape Colloris late that night, next to a highway with a couple of cars.  Offroad sneaks up to the highway, "Alright, so I think I'll take this form while you take the other." Blackjack speaks, "Alright, sounds good".  Blackjack transforms into a black and gold Porsche 911, and Offroad transforms into a gunmetal gray 4x4 double-cab pickup truck.  Offroad speaks, "Now let's meet with the others and-".  Blackjack speaks, "Or we could have some real fun".  They both smile at each other and look towards the town.

Back at Autobot HQ, noontime, Annie, Coby, and the rest of the Autobots chat in the main meeting room while Overdrive stands next to them, silently handcuffed.  Strongarm comes in.  Overdrive speaks up, "Where the hell were you?". Strongarm speaks, "Brief recon mission!  Which is where my Autobots are going!".  Strongarm beams a video onto the wall with her eyes, Red Alert sits back against the wall, Hotshot sighs, and Swift sits more forward and enhances his lenses.  The video shows two cars running around, creating wrecks, injuring humans, and causing mass panic.  Strongarm speaks, "At first, I thought these were normal criminals your Earth police could handle, but after doing a bit more research, these are Decepticons."  The Autobots look at Overdrive.  Overdrive speaks, "What?!  I didn't bring them here!".  Hotshot speaks, "Dude, just give us details on who they are and what they want, kinda thing?".  Overdrive points at the video, "That's probably, Blackjack and Offroad, two recruits of the Stunticons.  Both as dangerous and cruel as the others".  Strongarm looks at Overdrive, then sighs.  Strongarm speaks, "You're going with them!".  Overdrive speaks, "What?!  Why me?!".  Strongarm speaks, "Because I said so!  And your Decepticon intelligence may be useful."  Overdrive speaks to Hotshot, "Is that the first time she called me useful?".  Hotshot speaks, "Yeah dude, I think she's totally into you!".  Strongarm speaks, "You wanna know what I think, I think you all need to get the hell out of here!!!".  Coby and Annie stay behind.

Red Alert, Hotshot, Swift, and Overdrive arrive in their vehicle modes in the middle of downtown Cape Colloris.  Swift speaks, "Is there any possible way to reason with them?".  Overdrive speaks, "There are two things the Stunticons crave more than anything, Energon and chaos.  And there was no energon on earth, last time I checked.".  Overdrive drives forward.  The rest of the Autobots follow.  But just in the nick of time, Overdrive manages to dodge a gray pickup truck going about 130 miles per hour.  The Autobots freak out.  Red Alert speaks, "In the name of Primus?".  Swift speaks, "What human drives like that?".  Overdrive speaks, "That was no human!".  He speeds off after the truck.  Hotshot speaks, "Overdrive, wait up, man!".  The Autobots try to chase him down, but he is too fast.  The only one managing to catch up to being Hotshot.  Overdrive sees the pickup truck go around a corner and follows it.  He gets a quick kick from Blackjack, which flips him on his side.  Blackjack and Offroad quickly leave when they notice Hotshot coming up.  Hotshot speaks, "Dude, you alright?".  Overdrive speaks, "Yeah, I just need to get them!".  Continues to drive after them.  Hotshot speaks, "Damnit, Overdrive!".  Overdrive goes faster and faster, gaining on their bumpers.  Blackjack notices, "Oh yeah, try one of these bad boys on for size".  Blackjack shoots an axe out into Overdrive's bumper.  Overdrive screams, "Damn, I hate those guys!".  He rips the axe out while the rest of the Autobots manage to catch up.  Red Alert speaks, "Kid, you need to take a breather, with that good licking you have there!".  Swift speaks, "Yeah, I wouldn’t keep going if I were you!".  Hotshot puts his hand on Overdrive's shoulder, "Come, dude, be smarter!".  Overdrive gets mad and goes back out.  He drives every single street until he sees a familiar Porsche.  He chases it.  The chase is intense, both cars crashing into nearby lampposts, stop signs, and various other properties.  Then suddenly, Offroad rams into Overdrive out of an alley, causing him to flip over several times.  This almost knocks him out.  Offroad and Blackjack bring Overdrive into the alley.  Blackjack speaks, "So, we found Decepticon traitor, Offroad!".  Offroad speaks, "Yeah, we did!". Blackjack speaks, "And, on earth would it seems like Overdrive loves hanging out with Autobots!  That's just the lowest of the lows."  Offroad speaks, "Oh, is it because Rotorbolt died and he doesn't know who to blame?".  Blackjack speaks, "You should be an emotional supportcon Offroad!".  Blackjack leans in closer to Overdrive, "And guess what, buddy, every Decepticon knows about you and Rotorbolt!".  Overdrive speaks, "Might as well end me now.".  Offroad pulls out a gun and aims it at him.  Blackjack speaks, "It would be our pleasure!".  Then the rest of the Autobots show up and manage to outnumber and disarm them.  Swift barely manages to pick up his gun.  Red Alert speaks, "As a senior officer with the Autobots, there are several hundred crimes I could charge you with just for your time on planet Earth.  I'm considering an immense execution.  But if you both promise to leave this earth city, I'll turn the other way!" Blackjack and Offroad look at each other and drive away.  Overdrive speaks, "Wow, that Doc was incredible! I mean every speech always needs to be improved, but I'm not dead, which is always a plus!" Strongarm speaks frantically, "Everyone needs to report back to base right immediately!".  The team looks at each other, confused, and they transform and leave.

Chapter 12: The House Guests

Here is also Chapter 12 of More Than Meets the Eye!

Back at Earth Autobot HQ, Red Alert wheels in Overdrive on a gigantic gurney back into his previous electronic cell.  He starts fidgeting around with his medical tools when Coby walks up to him and speaks, “Excuse me, sir…um ...Red Alert, I was just wondering if my friend Overdrive over there is going to be fine?  Because I mean he’s in pretty bad shape!”.  Overdrive is lying down unconscious on the gurney with the helicopter blade sticking out of him.  Red Alert laughs and speaks, “Don’t worry, kid. I’ve been doing this for about a few million stellar cycles, and I rarely let a patient die on me, even if they are Decepticon.”.  Coby speaks, “All right, but when I come back, you promise me, he’ll be alive and well?”.  Red Alert puts his hand on his chest and speaks, “As long as the matrix continues to shine brighter than any star out there, I promise!”.  Strongarm walks up, “All right, I’m putting you in charge, Red.  Do you and the rest of the crew think you can hold down the area?”.  Red Alert salutes her, “Of course, sir, absolutely!”  Strongarm speaks, “All right, don’t break my trust again!  Come on, Coby, there's a place I wanna take you by before I get you back home!”  Coby speaks, “What is it?”.  Strongarm speaks, “You’ll see.”.  Coby and Strongarm leave.

A few minutes go by.  Overdrive wakes up on the gurney.  He sees Red Alert messing around with his tools.  In the corner of his eye, he sees Hotshot and Swift sitting in the back to the wall with weapons, just watching him very carefully.  Overdrive turns to Red Alert and speaks, “So, um, Red Alert…how long have you been a medic for the Autobots?”.  Red Alert turns around to Overdrive, stares at him for a couple of seconds, and then turns back around and continues working, “Hotshot, when did Optimus Prime uh…become a prime?”.  Hotshot speaks, “I don’t know how old you are, man!”.  Swift jumps up and down sporadically, “Oh, oh, pick me!  I know the answer!  Orion Pax became Optimus Prime approximately nine million stellar cycles ago!”.  Red Alert speaks, “Yeah, there you go!”.  Overdrive speaks, “Scrap your old.  You know what you’re doing right?”.  Hotshot laughs so hard he almost falls over.  Hotshot catches himself and speaks, “You better be praying to Primus, because even Red's optics barely work!”  Red Alert throws a tool at Hotshot, and it hits him in the head.  Hotshot screams, “The hell, man?!”.  Red Alert speaks, “This old geezer's optics work just fine!  And as old as I am, maybe, you shouldn’t worry about yourself, Overdrive, even if you are, Decepticon.  All my patients recover just fine.  It’s not about the age, it’s about the experience!”  Overdrive speaks, “Whatever Doc, just do what you gotta do!”.  Red Alert speaks, “That’s a much better mood than before.  Let’s get started with the surgery, shall we!”.  Red Alert pulls out a large, scary looking mechical blow torch that freaks out Overdrive and makes Hotshot burst into laughter again.  Overdrive speaks, “Woah, you’re not gonna get near me with that thing are you?!”.  Red Alert speaks, “The first few steps of the surgery are always the most intimidating.”.  Overdrive speaks, “Intimidating?  Look at that thing!  I wouldn’t be surprised if you were trying to kill me right now!”.  The blow torch drips, oozing lava drips of the end melting onto the floor.  Red Alert speaks, “Oh boy this isn’t going to be easy with you is it?”.  Overdrive speaks, “What a part of this looks easy?!”.   Red Alert points to Swift and speaks, “Hey come over here for a nanoclick.”.  Swift rushes over there and speaks, “What do you need, boss?”.  Red Alert then immediately uses the blow torch to cut through the helicopter blade stuck in Overdrive’s chest.  Red Alert gets the cut close to Overdrive's chest, so it burns his metallic skin a lot and causes metal damage.  Red Alert cuts through the blade, but Overdrive is screaming in pain.  Overdrive speaks, “What the hell is wrong with you, dude?!”.  Red Alert speaks, “Swift, get the rest of the blade out from the back!”.  Swift speaks, “Yes, sir”.  Swift runs to the back of Overdrive and starts sliding out the blade inch by inch.  Red Alert runs over to his table of Cybertron medication and grabs a couple of different things.  Swift pops out the blade from Overdrive's chest.  Overdrive still screams in pain, but Red Alert sticks him with a needle.  Swift speaks, “Would you stick him with?”.  Red Alert, “Cybertron amnesia dart, he can be out cold for one regular cycle to an orbital cycle”.  Overdrive's eyes fade.  Overdrive speaks, "You couldn't have done that before...".  He passes into a deep sleep.

Strongarm pulls up to Sarah’s house with Annie standing in the driveway.  Coby speaks, “What are we doing here?”.  Strongarm speaks through the radio, “Why don’t you ask her?  It was her idea anyway.”.  Coby then gets out of the car and goes to see Annie.  Coby speaks, “So, what’s with this whole thing…why bring me here?”.  Annie said, “I felt like this would be a bit more of a relaxed way for us to get to know each other.  Don’t worry about anything, it's all cool here!”.  Coby speaks, “ You call kidnapping me cool?  I don’t know about this man…”.  Annie speaks, “Decided to go with Strongarm.  It’s not like she took you.  Anyways, it will be cool here.  We can stay up late and have pizza if you want to, or we can have you back home early.  Coby speaks, “I don’t know…”.  Annie speaks, “Oh, get this, my mom works at the local police department as a detective, so she knows all kinds of stuff about the Transformers”.  Coby speaks, “Does she know about Strongarm?”.  Annie speaks, “Of course she does, and if you always need someone other than me to talk to, she’s not too bad!”.  Coby speaks, “Alrighty, I guess I’m staying.  But, I should still check with my dad to see if it’s okay”.  Annie speaks, “I’ll make sure my mom has it taken care of quickly.  She usually says something like I’m tutoring you, it’s for an internship or whatever!”  Coby speaks, “I guess if it works.”  Annie speaks, “It always does, Coby.  Now let’s head inside, there’s so much to do with such a little time left in the day.

A couple of hours go by, and the kids sit in the living room eating pizza, watching TV, and laughing.  Annie speaks, “I still can't believe that you haven't seen him before, like he’s been online for years!”.  Coby speaks, “I’m just more into watching crafting videos and travel vlogs.”.  Then Grandpa Kelly walks in through the door and sees Coby and Annie.  Grandpa Kelly speaks, “Annie, who’s your new friend you have here?”.  Annie speaks, “Grandpa Kelly, this is Coby.  He will be spending the night with us because I uh-”.  Coby cuts in, “-because the advanced tutoring program we are doing, right?!”.  Annie speaks, “Right, yes, silly of me, got cut on my tongue.”.  Grandpa Kelly speaks, “An advanced tutoring program!  Wow, Annie, I’m so proud of you.  Look at you growing up so fast!”.  Annie speaks, “Right, I know, I’m practically moving out of the house already!”.  Grandpa Kelly speaks, “Geez, don’t say that that’s the last thing I need with all these alien robots running around!”.  Coby whispers to Annie, “Does he know?!”.  Annie shakes her head, saying no.  Grandpa Kelly continues, “In fact, I might as well do this while we’re here!”  Grandpa Kelly runs over to a kitchen drawer.  Annie face palms herself and speaks, “Oh, god!  Not this!”  Coby speaks, “Why, what’s going on?”  Grandpa Kelly runs back over and starts wrapping their heads around it with tinfoil.  The tinfoil quickly unravels.  Grandpa Kelly speaks, “Wait right here, I think I've got some spare in the backroom!”  Coby speaks, “He isn’t talking about what I think he’s talking about, is he?”.  Grandpa Kelly rushes with a suitcase, full of tinfoil hats, “Look at what I found!”.

Ten minutes later, Sarah arrives home.  She walks and sees Annie, Coby, and Grandpa Kelly all sitting on the couch, each wearing a tinfoil hat, looking at pictures of stereotypical UFOs.  Grandpa Kelly speaks, “Now don’t let anyone tell you that these are the normal type of aliens that you see because the robot aliens can hide among us and be anywhere at any time!”.  Annie speaks, “Ok, grandpa…”.  Grandpa Kelly speaks, “Listen to me when I’m talking to you, these things are always watching you, ALWAYS!”.  Coby gets a bit startled.  Sarah quickly jumps in, “All right, that’s enough of that, don’t think, Dad?”.  Grandpa Kelly speaks, "But Sarah, I need to inform them on the effects of oxidation and temperature behavior regarding attitude!".  Sarah speaks, "Dad, look, it's late and at the very least we need to start getting to bed, right?".  Sarah looks at Coby and Annie.  Grandpa Kelly looks at both of them as they nod their heads.  Grandpa Kelly speaks, "Alright, fine.  I know when I'm not wanted.  But that's okay".  He goes upstairs into the bathroom.  He comes back down a couple of minutes later wearing an alien morphsuit.  Grandpa Kelly speaks, "Just so you know, I had this incredible finale for our discussion, but since no one wants to hear it, that's okay, I guess!".  Grandpa Kelly goes into his room in the basement.  Annie speaks, "Grandpa-".  Sarah cuts her off, "This alien addiction of his is getting to be too much of an issue.  I just don't know what to do anymore".  Coby speaks, "Well, he's family, you have to figure out something, even if that something is patience".

Chapter 11: Situations and Circumstances continued...

They both transform, and Strongarm places Overdrive restraints back on.  Overdrive speaks, “You know when get this close it almost feels like you like me!”.  Strongarm speaks, “And when we get this close, I just wanna put you in a cell even faster!”.  Strongarm screams.  Overdrive looks around her and sees Circuit Breaker electrocuting her.  Overdrive kicks her more into the beam so he can escape.  Overdrive shouts, “Run kid!”  Coby runs with Overdrive to a close building where they watch Strongarm get electrocuted.  Coby yells at Overdrive, “Why didn’t you help her?”.  Overdrive speaks, “Are you serious kid, I’m not helping a cop.  She’s better off on her own”.  Coby speaks, “Yeah, she looks like it!”.  Coby sits on the ground.  Coby speaks, “You don’t know what causes are going to come looking for you, as sometimes you go to looking for them!”.  Overdrive stares out at her then looks back at Coby, “You got to be joking right now!”.  Coby says, “I know you’ve seen a lot of people die in war, even though she’s on the other side, please try to make the right decision”.  Overdrive looks back at Strongarm.  He looks at Circuit Breaker, then lets out a sigh.  Circuit Breaker continues electrocuting Strongarm, who screams in immense pain.  Then Overdrive runs into Circuit Breaker full force and slams her into a wall.  Overdrive runs back over to Strongarm, who’s on the ground in pain.  He speaks to her, “Hey, uh, miss Sargent lady, are ya dead?”.  Strongarm punches him in the face, “That’s for running away as an escaped convict”.  Strongarm then kicks him in the shin, which causes him to fall over on the ground, “That’s for almost leaving me for dead”.  Overdrive speaks, “You do it like it’s personal or something”.  Strongarm pulls him back up off the ground, back on his feet, and uncuffs him.  Coby, who is now just below them, speaks, “Whoa, what is that for?”.  Strongarm looks Overdrive, “It’s temporary, but it’s for coming back”.  Circuit Breaker speaks, “Aren’t you two the cutest shit stains I have ever met.  No hold still so I can kill you!”.  Both Overdrive and Strongarm speak, “Run, kid!”.  Circuit Breaker speaks, “Oh no, you don’t”.  She charges her electricity and fires it directly between them.  Everyone manages to dodge it, but it leaves a large crater, bursting a pipeline near Circuit Breaker.  Strongarm tries, pulling out her cannons, but Circuit Breaker hacks into her system, temporarily only controlling her for a few seconds, causing her to fire at Coby and Overdrive.  She almost hits them several times.  She then notices Circuit Breaker’s nose starts to bleed; she doesn’t take too much concern about it, though.  Circuit Breaker speaks, “I've got to be much sharper with my decision-making”.  She starts looking around and notices the wrecked helicopter.  She smiles.  She rips off one of the blades with her metal manipulation and chucks it at Coby.  Overdrive sees this, dives, and takes the blade into his chest.  He screams in pain.  Circuit Breaker speaks, “Not what I was going for, but it will do just as fine!”.  Strongarm speaks, “Team, whenever you’re available and get here as soon as possible because I’m going to need you!”.  Red Alert speaks, “Don’t worry, Sarge will be there soon!”.  

Circuit Breaker steps backward into a puddle of water leaking from the pipe.  She screams.  Coby notices this.  Circuit Breaker is out of breath for a couple of seconds but gets right back on her feet.  Circuit Breaker speaks, “So… you’re ready to tango, well then, let’s dance!”.    Strongarm speaks to Coby, “Your human dialect will never cease to confuse me”.  Strongarm charges towards her, and Circuit Breaker does a series of enhanced flips on top of nearby buildings and structures, jumping over Strongarm.  Strongarm speaks, “How did you do that?”.  Circuit Breaker says, “It helps to have superpowers like this”.  Circuit Breaker then electrocutes Strongarm again.  Strongarm screams in pain while Circuit Breaker laughs.  Circuit Breaker walks toward her, but then steps and more of the leaking water, and starts shrieking in pain.  She stops electrocuting Strongarm.  Coby starts waving his hands at Strongarm and Overdrive, “I know how to feed her. Her weakness is water! You've got a find a lot of water.  It’s because of her earth electronics!”.  Strongarm starts looking around and can’t find enough water.  Overdrive starts looking around and asks, “So, Coby, what should I look out for?”.  Coby speaks, “ Water tower, which is pretty tall and often in the distance, or a fire hydrant, which is red and like a weird-looking stump thing!”.  Overdrive looks around for a couple more seconds and finds a fire hydrant.  Overdrive shouts back, “Uh, Coby, look here!”.  Coby sees the fire hydrant and Strongarm back, “Hey, uh, Strongarm, over here!”.  She runs over there, Overdrive rips out the fire hydrant, and Strongarm pushes the ripping current with her foot onto Circuit Breaker, causing her to short-circuit and pass out.  A couple of minutes go by, and the rest of the Autobot crew shows up.  They load Overdrive on Red Alert, and Strongarm walks up to Overdrive and says, “You know you’re still going to jail, right?”.  Overdrive says, “After all this, I really couldn’t care any less”.  The Autobots leave.

Hey EVERYONE! It has been a while. And yes, I can say that I am a busy person, unfortunately, I am just lazy. But no matter what, this story will be in the back of my head till it is finished, and so I give you Chapter 11 of More Than Meets The Eye!

A couple of minutes later…

Swift works on Overdrive's restraining bolts while Red Alert sits down, taking guard to watch.  Swift speaks, “Now, I just got a release your leg restraints real quickly, please remain docile”.  Overdrive says, “My friend Decepticons are the definition of docile”.  Swift then releases Overdrive's leg restraints.  Overdrive quickly sweeps his leg, kicking Swift while also grabbing hold of his neck.  Red Alert unholsters his pistol and fires a single shot, almost hitting Swift as Overdrive is using him as a shield.  Swift screams, “The blazes ya doin Red?”.   Overdrive then chucks Swift at Red Alert, knocking them both out.  Overdrive looks around and then makes a break for the exit.

On the other side of town, a woman with a black hoodie and sweatpants walks down a dark alley.  She stumbles across a strange, tall man who flirts with her.   The strange man speaks, “Dang girl, you have one hell of a nice body!”.  She removes her hood from her head, revealing an extreme amount of circuitry on her face.  The man screams and runs away.   On a closer look, the woman is revealed to be Janet Briggs.  She presses two fingers up against her ear, and starts speaking, “So, Doc, I have my powers. What do you suggest now?”.  Dr. Arkeville from his lab, while sipping a cup of coffee, said, “Well, I suggest we do a test with them in the morning. It may sound a little cliché, but my suggestion is…”.

Strongarm, as a Blue Hummer, continues riding back to her base.  She received a call from Red Alert and Swift.  Strongarm speaks, “Copy team, don’t worry. I’m heading back to the base right now”.  Swift speaks, “Actually, there is a tiny bit of slimmest little possibility nothing majorish news of the sort”.  Strongarm speaks, “Come on, Swift, what is?”.  Swift speaks, “ I mean, it might be a bit of an issue, but I mean it’s nothing too bad, I mean it might have emergency status, I don’t know”.  Strongarm speaks, “Red?”  Red Alert speaks, “The con got away”.  Strongarm speaks, “You’re kidding me, right?!”.  Strongarm sighs.  Strongarm speaks, “Hotshot, I’m sending you back to the base to help clean up stuff back there.  I’ll look for the con by myself.  Understood?”.  Everyone else speaks, “Copy!”.

The next day, around nine in the morning, Coby gets a couple of local forum posts of Janet Briggs robbing a bank by ripping some of the smaller vaults out with a metal control ability.  She even walks up to a couple of ATMs, taps on them, and they spew out money.  A couple of security guards try to stop her, but she electrocutes them.  She walks out of the bank with a sack full of cash.  The Coby watches another video and sees another video of a familiar purple car heading to a place that makes him jump out of his seat.  Coby rushes out of his room.  A few minutes go by, and James walks out, stretching his legs.  He looks around, very confused.  James speaks, “Hey, who the hell stole my bike?!”.   Coby rides James’s bike on the side of the road.

Coby pedals through the woods, through mud, all the way to the escape pod, where he first met Overdrive.  He sees Overdrive lying down in the spot where the escape pod landed.  Coby speaks, “The pod, how does something that big just disappear?”.  Overdrive speaks, “Beats me a kid anyways, how did you know where I was?”.  Coby speaks, “The Internet”.  Overdrive speaks, “The what?!”.  Coby speaks, “Not important, what are you even doing out here?”.  Overdrive speaks, “Kid, I’m a Decepticon without a leader, A Cybertronian without a cause, and just a downright worthless piece of scrap!  I came out here to rust alone and hopefully have some peace with that.  I don’t know kid, I just don’t know”.  Then there is muffled talking heard about a hundred yards away.  It starts to get closer quickly.  Overdrive speaks, “There are people out here, when were their people out here?!”.  Coby speak, “I don’t know probably right around when your little ship disappeared!  Look, just transform and get us out of here!”.  Overdrive transforms into the purple muscle car.  Coby quickly reaches for his brother's bike, and another arm reaches out for it as well.  He looks up and sees a person in a yellow hazmat suit breathing directly in his face.  Coby screams.  Another person with a hazmat suit tries to grab him, but Overdrive backs into them and shouts, “Leave the bike!”.  Overdrive pops up in a door, Coby hops in, and they speed away.

After a few minutes of driving, they arrive back on the main road.  Overdrive speaks, “So what do you think that was all about?”.  Coby speaks, “I heard there’s a large portion of the government that hunts your kind.  That could be them”.  Overdrive speaks, “Damn”.  Coby leans back in his seat and speaks, “Hey, can you turn on the radio for me?”.  Overdrive speaks, “ You got fingers, turn it on yourself, you dipstick”.  Coby speaks, “But you are a Transformer, can you control the knob with your mind or something…”.  Overdrive speaks, “Can I do what?”.  Coby speaks, “Forget, I’ll turn it on myself!”.  The radio turns on, and the DJ speaks, “Thank you for the weather forecast, Teresa, in other news, there’s a shootout with apparently an enhanced individual on the corner of Third and Front Street, so be careful, people around that area”.  Coby speaks, “Overdrive, take me there”.  Overdrive speaks, “Are you kidding me?!  Why do you want to go on into battle that your news is calling the person the authorities are fighting is enhanced?”  Coby speaks, “Mostly for learning and experience, and so I can face off against that crazy Janet girl again”.  Overdrive speaks, “You’re talking about the girl from the bridge?”.  Coby speaks, “Oh yeah.”.  Overdrive speaks, “I guess that could be interesting.”.  Coby speaks, “Yes, sir, it could be.  And great practice if you meet…uh… the Stunticons again!”.  Overdrive speaks, “Damnit, I’m a dumb scrap for agreeing to do this.  OK.  I want you to stay inside my vehicle mode no matter what, unless I transform, and then run to the nearest building.  And if things get really bad, just keep running”.  Coby speaks, “Copy that, chief, over and out!”.  Overdrive lets out a big sigh.

Overdrive and Coby arrive at the shootout.  They witness a cop point-blank try to shoot Janet in the back head, and she barely even flinches.  She grabs to cop's neck and easily snaps it.  Overdrive speaks, “Well, this has gotten a bit more tricky”.  Coby speaks, “What did you expect when the news was saying she’s enhanced.  She’s freaking strong is a transformer”.  Overdrive speaks, “Whoa, whoa, now let’s not get too hasty with ourselves.  Sure, miss girly girl here can be easily put down”.  Overdrive drives up to her and starts honking his horn while speaking, “Ayo, lady!”.  Janet turns around and looks at Overdrive.  Her eyes widen as she sees the purple muscle car with the kid inside.  She looks up and sees a news helicopter, and using her abilities, she manipulates metal, allowing her to pull towards it.  Overdrive quickly backs away, protecting Coby.  They backed up into a corner.  Janet walks towards them and speaks, “You know, I think I recognize you from the bridge, kid.  Yeah, that is you.  There’s no way on earth you would be safe with just a normal car…hm, anyways, a normal car would’ve kept my partner alive.  Too bad I’m going to have to kill your pet Tranformer!”.  Janet charges a large bolt of electricity.  Overdrive speaks, “When the hell could she do that?!”  Coby speaks, “Oh, I forgot to mention that…”  Janet speaks, “You know what the news has been calling me nowadays, the Circuit Breaker!  I kinda like it actually!”.  She slow starts to charge a bolt.  Coby speaks, “Jesus”.  Then Strongarm rams into Circuit Breaker.  Coby jumps in shock.  Overdrive speaks, “Appreciate the heart attack Strongy, now where are my damn cuffs!”.  Strongarm speaks, “You’re seriously not making a joke right now in this kind of situation, you almost could’ve killed Coby”.  Overdrive speaks, “Look, I understandably know I made a poor decision but this is something personal between me and the kid”.  Strongarm speaks, “I don’t care.  Revenge is a highly unimportant issue.  Coby, you’re coming back with me to your house.  And as for you, you’re going into custody on Cybertron.  As of now, law enforcement has seemed to die down because of this predecessor, and I scrambled all of the media outlets within the area for the next couple of hours, so it should be fine to transform into your robot mode.  So, again, I am placing you under arrest by the order of the Autobot High Command on Iacon”.