The speakers in the warehouse crackled into life, grabbing the attention of all the bots in the warehouse.
"Attention, we have Decepticon sightings in an old abandoned amusement park in Denver, Colorado. Requesting Optimus prime for the mission"
As quickly as it came, the announcer cut off his microphone. The bots looked at themselves as many had been waiting for this moment.
"Finally!" Roadbuster exclaimed. "We're finally going to get to kick some Decepticon ass"
"It's about damn time" Ironhide said, his cannons whirring into life on his forearms.
"Optimus?" Ratchet asked. He wanted to know what their next phase of action would be.
"I'll take Bumblebee and Ironhide on this mission. I trust you can Handle Hound and the Wreckers old friend."
"It will be tough, but I'll give it my all to ensure that they do anything unwise"
"Thank you Ratchet" he said with a nod. "Ironhide, Bumblebee. We roll out in five"
"Raaahh!" Bumblebee roared from his radio. Finally he was going to get some action.
"Damn it! It should've been us" Roadbuster said in outrage.
"You'll have your chance very soon" Ratchet tried to assure him but the Wreckers were too pissed to care.
Optimus, Ironhide and Bumblebee hit the road and were on their way to a private airfield to be flown over to Denver. As they left, SUVs, APCs and modified vehicles with machine guns arrived with Cemetery Wind soldiers. The same went for the Bots in Bismarck, vehicles and men clad in black camouflage and skull face masks arrived. The team was immediately suspicious of them.
"I don't like the vibes of these guys" Sideswipe whispered.
"They give me the tick" Crosshairs added.
"Let's keep our eyes peeled. I have a feeling something is about to go down" Jetstream advised.
"I recommend you start packing up your equipment Que. You never know what might happen" Drift said.
Wheeljack got the memo and nodded.
The Wreckers on the other hand weren't a fan of things at all. They had already begun cussing out the men and making things tensed. They were just too eager to catch a bullet. The men and their vehicles rolled into the warehouses, taking up strategic positions within their confinement and men standing on guard with their fingers hovering above their triggers. Helicopters could be heard flying around not long after and the bots knew something was up.
Jetstream walked around, his eyes marking the men and their vehicles. He used his thumb and pointed to his eye before tapping the side of his helm lightly and then using his index finger to make a circular motion. The message was clear, 'Eyes on all the heads around'. Que got his things packed up and Jetstream Stood in the center of the facility with the bots standing around him. Ratchet had managed to get through to the Wreckers as they finally reduced their brash tone. Their weapons were being cleaned and anything they had lying around was cleaned up.
Prime, Ironhide and Bumblebee had touched down in Denver and were on their war to the Amusement park. Choppers flew overhead as they were escorted by a long convoy of vehicles. They drove to the outskirts of town, with the old dilapidated amusement park up ahead. A large ferries wheel stood out from afar with tracks for a rollercoaster circling around the entire park. The road leading there had cracks on them as well as some potholes. The walls surrounding the place were crumbling, the gates were rusted, and old fliers were placed on the walls. The stench of moss and moist rotting wood filled the air. Plants grew through the ground and on buildings; the place looked like it hadn't been used in over ten years.
Now that the bots and their entourage had arrived, Cemetery Wind operatives asked the bots to check ahead for the Decepticon. They were going to fan out and surround the area to ensure that the Con wouldn't escape.
"Wouldn't it be better to make use of your aircrafts for surveillance?" Ironhide suggested.
"Our birds aren't equipped for that type of thing. They're here to shoot that thing down when we find it. Right fellas?" Savoy said with an arrogant tone.
His men chuckled as Ironhide huffed. "These men are so incompetent, NEST were always prepared for anything" he said with a low tone.
"We must make do we what we have Ironhide" Prime advised. "Bumblebee, scout a route ahead. Let's find this Decepticon" Optimus said as he reached for his shotgun.
The scout nodded and moved on as the bigger bots tagged along loosely.
"They're on the move. Get ready" Savoy said through his walkie-talkie.
Harold Attinger sat in the monitor room, all the screens on giving him visual of all three places with the Autobots. He was on edge, everything had to go perfectly. Optimus received a message from Ratchet telling him about the situation, the humans were up to something and they were being surrounded with weapon carrying vehicles. Prime advised him to be on guard and prepare for anything. Just then, Bumblebee came back with his report.
"I didn't… find… anything out there… boss" he said, his radio going static each time he changed frequency.
"But they told us there was a Decepticon here. Something is definitely going on here" Ironhide spoke.
"Coupled with the message Ratchet sent to me, I suspect that these men are about to try something very unwise" Prime said.
"Unwise would be an understatement if I think it's what you think they're trying to do" Ironhide said with a grunt.
Attinger watched all Bot interactions from his screens. It was clear that the Autobots were on to what they were doing.
"Mr. Savoy, they're on to us. I fear we may lose our element of surprise" Attinger said.
"Well, it's now or never" he replied confidently.
Attinger let out a deep breath before broadcasting his next words over the entire Cemetery Wind frequency.
"Engage the aliens"
At his words, all weapons in both facilities pointed towards the Cybertronians and began to fire. The Choppers above the three in Denver fired missiles at the bots.
"Incoming!" Ironhide cried as they ducked for cover.
The missiles hit, Causing their bodies to fly cross the ground.
"Move in! Move in! Move in!" Savoy yelled.
The vehicles that were to supposedly surround the area for the Con not to escape began swarming towards their position. They quickly got back on their feet and their first task was to take out their air support.
"Ironhide, Choppers. Bee and I can hold off their ground units" Prime instructed.
"I'm on it" The back bot replied as he darted off towards one of the tall buildings, holding up a ride.
The weapons went off in the Bismarck facility and the Autobots returned fire and tried not to kill anyone directly.
"Take down the vehicles!" Jet yelled.
Drift slid down on one knee as he used on of his blades to cut through one of the machine guns. Sideswipe and Crosshairs expertly took down the two more as Jetstream prepared an attack of his own. He modified his EMP to take down human technology alone for this round and not fry Cybertronian communication lines. The triple changer released the EMP frying all human forms of communication, technology, cameras and vehicles in a three mile radius.
Attinger lost visual on them and tried talking to them but there was no answer.
"Shit!" he said as he slammed his fist into the desk in front of him.
"We're busting out of here" Jet said as his plasma cannons whirled to life.
He raised his two hands towards the entrance into the facility as the nozzles began to glow blue, steadily increasing in brightness. He fired off his cannons, blasting through the steels panels' hell bent on keeping them inside.
"Let's move!" he yelled, sprinting towards the door.
"You don't have to tell me twice" Crosshairs said as he transformed.
The bots drove out of the facility with great haste, they weren't spending another second in that facility under human protection anymore.
The Wreckers destroyed every single machine gun that shot at them and were even more pissed that the humans thought they could take them down with such weapons.
"The audacity to come at us with such. What do they take us for?! The Decepticons?!" Roadbuster said outraged.
"We're blowing every one of em' up" Leadfoot added.
"Its time to blow this joint" Hound said as he took out five grenades and pulled out their pins.
He rolled them towards the closed exit in front of them.
"Fire in the hole" He cried.
The grenades went off and then a wave of gunfire erupted. The Autobots exchanged fire with them as they made their way out. They managed to break through their lines and hit the road as their simple mission turned into a car chase straight out of a movie.
"We have to lose them" Ratchet said.
"The only way we can do that is by splitting up" Topspin answered.
"Sticking together is just making us a big target to shoot at. Plus they got birds circling us" Hound said as he swerved to the left and avoided being hit by a missile.
"Alright. We draw them out to the city and then we go our separate ways. They won't possibly want civilians getting in the mix of things" Ratchet hatched out.
"But what about those choppers?" asked Hound.
"I got them" Roadbuster said.
The weaponized NASCAR vehicle turned around on a dime, facing the large amount of vehicles and helicopters chasing after them and opened fire. He sent two missiles at the helicopter up ahead. The pilot managed to dodge the first one, but the second was a direct hit. The missiles hit the tail of the helicopter and caused it to spiral down into the ground. His machine guns rang as he caused the cars to crash and some to go up in balls of flames. He could care less about the people trying to turn him into spare parts right now.
"Birds are down. We can comfortably make our way out of here" he reported.
Prime and Bumblebee fought off the Humans closing in on them as Ironhide got in position on top of the building. He set his aim and fired at the helicopters, taking out their back rotors and cleared the skies for them.
"We got clear skies" the bot announced.
"Affirmative. Bumblebee, let's roll"
Bee answered with a whir as the two unleashed multiple rounds on their human aggressors as they fell back and transformed. Ironhide jumped down from the building and landed with his two hand mounted cannons hitting the ground just as he fired, releasing a wave of plasma that took out the tires of their enemies. The three of them drove through the wall with Bee going stealth force mode to create an opening for them.
"Calling all Autobots, we are under targeted attack. Cease all contacts with Humans" He broadcasted to them.
Every single bot on the frequency got the message and went off into hiding. The Wreckers, Hound and Ratchet split up. Hound headed towards Texas as the Wreckers moved towards Kansas. Drift and Crosshairs were on their way to Pennsylvania while Que opted to go to Idaho to hide out the rest of his days. Optimus set up a rally point for him to meet with Jetstream, Sideswipe and Ratchet and get to the bottom of things. Their allies, turned on them unprovoked after spending so many years fighting side by side. Why?
"You're not going to like this" Savoy said through his walkie-talkie.
"You let them get away" Attinger said full of rage and fury.
"You and your men had the best equipment available yet the Autobots managed to escape your grasp"
"I'm sorry sir"
"Sorry doesn't cut it. I need Prime"
"You will have him sir. I promise you. We have an idea on where they might go and who they might go to meet" Savoy said cunningly.
"I'll have our asset on ground next time. We cannot fail again"