Transformers Prime: The Second Chance

Darkness Rising: Part 1

I do not own Transformers Prime or any characters related to the property, I only claim ownership of my own character which have made myself. 

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Out in the middle of the desert, on an old sandy road, drives a powerful muscle car. The sound of its engine shakes the ground around it and the setting sun reflects light off of its red paint job with a brilliance unmatched by anything around it. The Dodge Challenger has a set of sharp and thick, bull-like horns, that could threaten even the toughest predator in the area with their sharpness and might. 

To the average bystander, it would seem like the owner of the car was taking it for a joy-ride, going on a nice relaxing drive. Little would any of them know that the car was currently on a mission. 

And there was no driver.

"So there I am on a lookout when out of nowhere these high beams light up my rearview. And then it hits me, I'm illegally parked!", Cliffjumper boasts over the comm-link to his partner. His voice deep and tough but it was very obvious that the owner of the voice was a laid-back 'bot who didn't really take anything seriously. 

"Another parking ticket?", asks Arcee. 

"Better. The boot." 

"Big metal tire clamp, impossible to remove." 

"Bingo!", replies Cliffjumper with a massive, booming laugh. "The local police do that thing and get me all the way down by a block. That's when I kick up my new shiny shoe and BANG!" 

"New York's finest soil themselves." 

"You know me, Arcee. - Mess with Cliffjumper..." 

"And you get the horns.", Arcee finishes with a chuckle. "Not sure how that complies with Autobot rule number one - 'Keep a low profile'?" 

"What can I say? - Patrolling for energon out here is dull and gets me all on my lonesome. Almost makes me miss the Decepticons." 

"Like Jasper, Nevada's a party?, Arcee adds with an apparent trace of humour in her voice. "We're alone wherever we travel on this rock, Cliff." 

Before either of them can continue the conversation, a sensor goes off on Cliffjumper, a sensor designed to detect one thing, energon. 

"I'm getting a signal." 

"Need backup?"

"Do I ever need backup?" With that, Cliffjumper swerves off to the left of the road and into the open expanse of the desert, driving in a straight line. His journey ends as he reaches a massive crater with huge, hundred-foot- tall, blue crystals. The crater was home a tons of energon. 

"I just found a whole lot of energon.", Cliffjumper answers into the comm-link as he transforms into his bot form, right before a massive, titanic flying ship moves over him and the crater. 

The ship was dark grey, almost black in colour. It had massive jagged spike jutting out towards the front and a few smaller ones point up at the sky. The ship was built like a tank and looked like it could take on the entire American military and come out on top without a scratch. The ship, was the Nemesis. 

At that point multiple smaller ships come flying out of the hangar, converging on Cliffjumper and the crater full of energon. They all transformed and surrounded him, vehicon troopers with blasters deployed and aimed at lone Autobot. "Decepticons! Arcee, about that backup?" 

The vehicon troopers move in an Cliffjumper, who simply smiles and adds, "Fair warning, boys. I'll put a few dents in y'all.", before charging into the troops whom open fire on response.