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The Ark laid in rubble, dirt and rocks on the side of the volcano. The Autobots inside were doing their average business inside.
“Come on Ratchet, come get it!” Sideswipe yelled across the lab.
“I’ll turn you into a scrap heap if you don’t give me my wrench back!” Ratchet yelled back at him, leaning across the table trying to grab the item from him.
“Sideswipe, Sideswipe, over here!” Sunstreaker called behind the medic.
“GO LONG!” the red Lamborghini got ready to throw.
“For the name of Cybertron, don’t you dare do it”
The twins threw the wrench back and forth, nearly knocking items off the shelves.
Sunstreaker threw the wrench across towards his brother, but Ratchet caught it.
“Hey, that was my catch!” Sideswipe grumbled.
Ratchet turned and faced him “I’m going to give you two 5 seconds to get your tailpipes out of here”
The twins nodded and left the lab with quick speed.
Optimus Prime stood in front of Telteletraan 1 screen.
“Any news?" Spike walked up beside him.
“Nothing yet” he didn’t look away, the radar on screen was still blank.
Behind them, the twins dashed off into some other rooms. Not questioning why they were running, Spike walked off and decided to talk to Bumblebee who was sitting on the counter behind them.
“Guessing nothing?" Bumblebee asked.
"Not yet" Spike sat on the counter with him.
Both sat back and watched the other guys do their things. A large crash noise arose in the room next to them.
“Grimlock!” Cliffjumper yelled from inside the room to the left of them.
The giant robotic dinosaur stumbled out of the room, wires tangled around his body.
"How many times have I told you not to play with the panels?!" The small red Autobot yelled.
"Not Grimlocks fault, Dinobot bored" he huffed.
"Yea yea, stand still so I can rip these off you, then go back with the other Dinobots"
Cliffjumper looked at Bumblebee "a little help?"
Bumblebee hopped down and helped his red counterpart.
"There, now go and play with the other Dinobots" Cliffjumper snapped at him.
"Hmf, me Grimlock only trying to help" the dinsoaur walked off.
"Yea, well maybe don't next time yea?"
"Don't be so harsh on the guy Cliff, remember he has a brain of a fossilised creature that use to rule the earth" Spike joined.
"Pfft yea, no wonder they went extinct"
Before anyone could say anything, Telteletraan 1's system went off.
"What's wrong, Prime?!" Bumblebee ran up to him.
"Telteletraan, what's happened?" He asked the monitor.
"I have located some sort of distress signal in the area. Unknown to be Decepticon or Autobot" the monitor showed an area near their location, the brown dusty dirt, some rock structures around it.
"An unknown distress signal? Not from an Autobot or Decepticon? How strange" Bumblebee observed the screen.
"No matter, we need to investigate, whoever is sending this signal may need our help" Prime turned around "Bumblebee, you, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker and Jazz discover who is sending that signal"
"On it Prime" Bumblebee transformed "coming Spike?"
"You know it!" He climbed into the vehicle.
"Can Grimlock come?" The Rex reentered the room "me heard about distress, me wanna come!" He whined.
With a sigh Prime aloud the dinosaur to go with them.
The team left the Ark.
"I see you're lacking speed there Jazz" Sunstreaker laughed as he zipped right past him.
"Hey man, this ain't no race"
"Well it is now" Sideswipe over took him, leaving a dust trail behind.
"Trust us to be stuck with those two" Bumblebee chuckled.
"Heh yea, don't forgot about Grimlock too" Spike added.
The dinosaur tried his best at keeping up with the two Lamborghinis but didn't succeed.
"Ohhh, why you two fast? Me Grimlock can't catch you"
"That's the point big guy" Sideswipe made a circle around the dinosaur.
"Me Grimlock no like this game!" He roared.
"Come on guys, we're nearly there" Bumblebee tried to make everyone focus.
"He's right, seems that signal is only up ahead" Jazz added.
The team stopped, nothing but dirt and sand.
"This is the place?" Spike asked as he climbed out of the yellow vehicle.
"That's what Telteletraan said" Bumblebee transformed.
"Looks pretty empty to me" Sideswipe looked around "maybe it was a glitch?"
"I don't believe it to be a glitch, let's just have a good look around" Bumblebee wondered off, Spike following him.
"Good idea" Jazz agreed.
After minutes of searching, they found nothing.
"Hmm...maybe you're right Sideswipe, maybe it was just an error" the little robot sighed.
"Unbelievable, me Grimlock got dragged out here for nothing?!"
"You dragged yourself here buddy" Sunstreaker tried to wipe the dust off his fingers.
"Hmf, well you still wasted Grimlock's ti-" the Dinobot tripped over "-iimmeee!" He landed with a thud on the dirt ground.
"Hey, what's that?" Spike ran towards the strange structure sticking out of the ground.
"Is it a pipe?" Sunstreaker asked.
The structure seemed to be bent into a curve.
"Doesn't look like any pipe I've seen before" Bumblebee stated.
"That's no pipe" Spike digged further into the ground. As the dirt became less and less covered they saw that this thing seemed to have joints, and a head.
"A robot" Jazz announced "that's what the distress signal is about"
Sideswipe picked up the robot and placed it on a smoother surface. The body was somewhat slim, and had three joints on it's body, no arms or legs, and presumably a tail?
"Never seen a robot like this guy before" Sideswipe observed it.
"And they don't seem to share any symbol to us" Sunstreaker brushed some dust off the creature.
"Does that mean me Grimlock can eat it?"
"No, they may not share our symbol, but they don't seem to have any Decepticon symbols either" Bumblebee kneeled down.
"Should we take it back to Prime?" Spike asked.
"It would be a good idea, maybe we can help whoever this is" Jazz transformed.
"Grimlock, you can carry them" Sideswipe instructed.
"What? Why? Me Grimlock not some carrier"
"Well you're the only one here with two arms while transformed"
The dinosaur mumbled some stuff under his breath. He picked up the creature, they seemed a bit heavier than what the Dinobot expected. The team headed back off the the Ark.
"Optumis!" Bumblebee called out.
"What is it Bumblebee? Did you figure out what was causing the signal?" Prime asked.
"Indeed we did”
Grimlock walked in with the robot in his hands.
"The heck is that thing?" Huffer asked.
"We don't know, what we do know is that it doesn't seem to share any symbol of the Decepticons" Sideswipe leaned against a wall, Sunstreaker joined him.
"Hmm... Send them to Ratchet and Wheeljack, if we can repair whoever this is, then we could get some answers"
"You sure we should revive that thing? What if it’s some trick?"
"Cliff, you gotta ease up buddy, besides even if this guy is trouble, theirs more of us then there is of it" Mirage tried to calm the tension.
Grimlock brought the creature into Wheeljack's lab, Spike followed.
"Grimlock, what on Cybertron is that?" Ratchet asked.
"Me found it" he placed it down on the table.
"Never seen a robot like them before" Wheeljack observed the long robot.
"It looks like a snake" Spike brushed some dirt off the creature.
"A snake?"
"A limbless reptile, they sliver by moving side to side to move"
"Fascinating. Well, Ratchet and I will see what we can do"
"I'll leave you two to it" Spike left the room.
Hours went by, the place was quiet.
"How are they?" Prime walked in.
"Seems pretty good, only some dust, dirt and what seems to be some plants that got caught in this buddies gears" Wheeljack closed the snake's chest compartment "only took a good scrubbing"
The robot laid deactive on the table, the green on it's body really stood out, as well as the yellow on its underbelly.
"Are they awake?"
"Not right now, not quite sure how to wake them up honestly, they seem to have a different system setting then us"
"Hmm...we'll leave them be for now, you and Ratchet take a break"
"Okay Prime" the Autobots left the lab.