Through Ash and Dust (ROTB)

Chapter 43

Upon seeing this rusty, looking, large Cybertronian shooting at the museum, Mirage panicked. He transformed quickly and armed his canon, knowing that Saphira was inside that building and being blasted at. He thought that this person was quite the coward, because the human has zero way to defend herself, and she now had to deal with the creepy, little guys that galloped into the museum and smashed through one of the windows into the lower level of the museum. Unfortunately, Mirage couldn't help her with that.

Mirage managed to shoot at the canon of the rusty, large Cybertrionian and get his attention. His orange optics glared at Mirage upon realizing that this girl had backup, and he had not been expecting it at all. "Uh...guys..." Mirage could hear Bumblebee, Mirage and Optimus approaching. "Any time now would be good, I can't take all three of these guys alone. And one of them looks super scary. They certainly are not decepticons!"

"We are here, Mirage!" Mirage turned his head and smiled as he saw Arcee and Bumblebee transforming, and arming their weapons as they run towards them. "No idea who the frag these guys are, but we need to protect the key and Saphira. Bee, with me!"

"Right behind you!" Bee responded through the radio, running towards the three bots as he narrowed his optics.

They run towards the enemy bots, shooting their canons as they knew they could not wait for them to start attacking. Optimus sped across the grass and parking lot before he transformed and ran towards the enemy. "Autobots! Protect both the key and Saphira!" He glanced at the larger bot, who was smirking as it seemed he was going to enjoy this. "I do not know who you are, or what you are doing here, but this is not your world."

"Heh, nor it is yours..." The dark, devious voice responded gleefully, watching Optimus arm his swords as he ran towards him. "And you are sweet on that little fleshling? This should be a lot of fun."

One of the other bots with broad shoulders and a bulky chassis swung his mace around and swung it out towards a stone column, which caused the mace to open and clamp onto the column. He pulled the column from the ruin and threw it at Optimus. Optimus narrowed his optics and cut through the column with his sword. He wanted to keep the leader focused on him so that the autobots could deal with his followers, though Optimus knew he did not know who this new enemy was.

Despite being unfamiliar with this new enemy, he was here for the key, and Optimus did not want to let him to get to it. And he would likely kill Saphira as well. Optimus raised his sword and swung it at the large bot, and he could not help but notice multiple Cybertronian badges on his shoulder, and it seemed that he was someone who liked to collect trophies. He could not help but feel disgusted by that, but he remained focused.

Though his swing seemed to be useless, as the bot dodged Optimus's swings, and he still had a smug expression on his face. He was clearly very used to fighting, and he has very good anticipation and reflex skills, which was not good, though Optimus was not about to give up. Especially as there was too much on the line right now, and he was not about to let his autobots and Saphira down by backing down. He kept swinging and observing this bot, while slowly getting more frustrated at the same time. Especially as the bot grabbed his wrist to block him and punched his face, causing Optimus to grunt loudly.

Bumblebee, Arcee and Mirage were keeping the other two bots busy. They were running and shooting at the bots, while also getting annoyed at the smug expressions on their faces. The bulkier bot swung his mace at Bumblebee, and he leaped over it. They found that keeping their feet moving while shooting at the bots was a good strategy at the moment, even though they were unfamiliar with them.

Though Mirage was engaged with the femme, and he was alarmed when she began to fly from the ground. "Oh, they're flying now?!" He fired at the femme who simply grinned at him, and flew around as she avoided the blasts he shot at her. "Who the hell are these guys?! They aren't decepticon or autobot, but they are Cybertronian."