TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED HEROES

Three's a Crowd

It was night time in the city of Detroit, when Bulkhead, Sari, Daniel, and Professor Sumdac were starting to build their own space bridge at the top of Sumdac tower. Sari: "Hey Professor, if you need a break, just ask." Professor Sumdac: "I would ask you the same thing as you're the one that needs to recover after what happened with Daniel's key." Sari: "Don't worry, I'm fine now, thanks to Ratchet's medical skills." Daniel: "If you say so..." Bulkhead: "I hate to interrupt, but we got to complete the space bridge so we can warn Cybertron that Long-Arm Prime is a Decepticon spy." Professor Sumdac: "And the top of Sumdac tower is a much better place to build it than the bottom of a mine." Bulkhead: "Yeah I know, what was Megatron thinking?, even a basic bot knows that heavy mineral deposits messes up wave transmissions." Professor Sumdac: "Oh tell me about it, I'm just happy that I can finally sleep in my own bed again." Sari: "Yeah, but now we need to figure out a way to find the Decepticons with those dampeners of theirs." Professor Sumdac: "That won't be a problem as in the last few nights, I managed to override those dampeners, I just hope that the others are able to track them down now." Sari: "Me too." that was when Bulkhead was holding what looked like an AllSpark fragment. Bulkhead: "This AllSpark fragment should give the power core a boost. Professor Sumdac: "Be careful, Bulkhead, we don't want to overload it like what happened in the mines." Bulkhead: "Relax, when it comes to space bridges, I know what I'm doing... [the floor starts to give way beneath them] but I'm not so hot at structural integrity!" luckily, Sari and Bulkhead managed to save the professor and Daniel from falling down as the floor falls down. Suddenly, the AllSpark fragment, which was at the bottom of the hole, started to glow and fused with what looked like a forklift, and once that happened, the forklift transformed into a robot and starts climbing out of the hole. Daniel: "What is that?" Bulkhead: "From the looks of it, I would say the AllSpark fragment has bright a new bot to life... and he doesn't look too friendly either..." said Bulkhead, as the new bot, naming himself Dirt Boss (voiced by John Mariano) spoke. Dirt Boss: "Alright you walking piles of scrap, this town is under new management, and that's gonna be my management, for I'm the boss here from now on." Sari: "And just who made you the boss?" Dirt Boss: "You got a problem with that little lady?" said Dirt Boss, before he points his finger at Sari, and some kind of device came out of it and was heading right for Sari. But Bulkhead took the hit for her and that was when the large green Autobot started to move against his will, as it seems the device that Dirt Boss has fired had some kind of ability to control other robots if it makes contact with them. Daniel: "Bulkhead!" Sari: "Let him go!" Dirt Boss: "You got a problem with me?, then maybe you should join him too!" said Dirt Boss, as he tried to fire another one of those devices on Sari, who managed to dodge it and takes both Daniel and Professor Sumdac away from the scene. Bulkhead: "Oh man... this isn't good..." Dirt Boss: "Stop talking... and tell me where a boss like me can get some oil around here..." said Dirt Boss with an evil grin on his face. Back with Sari, she reached the other Autobots and told them what happened to Bulkhead and about the evil forklift bot. Bumblebee: "So this Dirt Boss as he calls himself, can shoot some device from his fingers that can give him the power to control any bot it makes contact with?" Sari: "That's what it looked like to me... we gotta stop him before Bulkhead gets seriously hurt or worse." Optimus Prime: "Agreed, let's roll out." said Optimus Prime, before he and the others went to vehicle mode and drove off to find Bulkhead and Dirt Boss. Speaking of which, the pair have run into the Constructicons, Mixmaster and Scrapper, who quickly got under Dirt Boss's control and he quickly became the leader of the Constructicons. Dirt Boss: "Alright you morons, we got a lot of work to do, and that's to guzzle all of the oil this city has." Mixmaster: "That's a plan I can go with." Scrapper: "Me too." Bulkhead: "But you can't!, the humans need that oil!" Dirt Boss: "Do I look like I care?... no!, what those organics use the oil for is not my problem, now shut up and get to work!" said Dirt Boss, as he forces Bulkhead to follow him and with the other Constructicons. Of course that was when the Autobots came to the scene, and transform into robot mode. Optimus Prime: "Stop right there!" Dirt Boss: "Oh look at that, another bot who thinks he can boss me around... well he'll soon learn who's the boss around here!" Sari: "Oh no you don't!" shouted Sari, who fired her Null Ray blaster at Dirt Boss's arm, disabling his mod that shoots the devices which control other robots. Dirt Boss: "Well I might be able to control you... but I can still control these morons... get them!" ordered Dirt Boss, before the other Constructicons and Bulkhead went to attack the Autobots. Bulkhead didn't want to attack his own team, but he had no control over his own body, while the Autobots didn't want to hurt their friend either and tried to dodge the attacks. Ratchet then noticed the device on Bulkhead's forehead and used his magnets to pull it out of Bulkhead, who was now able to control himself again. Bulkhead: "Oh man... thanks doc bot..." Ratchet: "Don't thank me yet, we still gotta deal with the Constructicons." Mixmaster: "You got that right, Autobot." Bulkhead: "Wait!, Mixmaster, Scrapper, we're friends, remember?!" Scrapper: "What are you talking about?" Ratchet: "Forget it Bulkhead, they have no memories of you being their friend, remember?" Bulkhead: "Oh yeah... but still... I gotta help them somehow..." Dirt Boss: "Shut up you clown of a robot!" Bumblebee: "What's your problem?" Dirt Boss: "I'm not the one with the problem, it's the world that has a problem with me, the organics always make me do their work, bossed me around when I was a normal forklift... but now with my new power, I'm finally getting the chance to be the boss and nothing will stop me!" Prowl: "We shall see about that." said Prowl, before he and the other Autobots went to battle the Constructicons. It wasn't long before Ultra Magnus used his hammer to swat Dirt Boss and the other Constructicons out into the sky and out of the scene. Bumblebee: "Whoa... did you see that?" Sari: "Ultra Magnus sent all three of the Constructicons flying..." Ultra Magnus: "They won't be a problem anymore." Ratchet: "For now... but I have a feeling we have not seen the last of them..." said Ratchet, before he and the others noticed that Bulkhead was looking down in a sad face. Bumblebee: "Hey... are you okay?" Bulkhead: "I'm fine... but deep down... I wished there were a way I could get Mixmaster and Scrapper to be good bots for a change... but I guess that was a dumb old dream..." Optimus Prime: "Hang on to it Bulkhead, for the future is made from dreams, try hanging on to it just a little bit longer..." said Optimus Prime, trying to cheer up his big green Autobot friend, who had a little smile on his face.