A Tale of Two ninjabots ch 17

while the autobots delt with things, Mr. Sumdac introduced his new animatrons to the amusement park's new roller coastar ride, the wizard whiplash.  "I'm telling you, next to the fire-breathing dragon, this griffin is sure to be a hit.  What with the flapping wings, glowing eyes and realistic screech."  said Prof. Sumdac as the robot flapped it's wings and squawked.  "are you sure it's safe prof?"  asked the park owner.  "oh of coarse! I triple checked it myself." he replied as they walked away.  the griffin squawked again as an allspark fragment absorbed into it's metallic feathers.  "aah! huh?  what happened?  who am I?" it asked, looking down at the plaque at it's feet.  "grrr-iiff-innn... griffin... I like it!  now, I gotta find someone who can tell me what I am."  he said as the took a step forward, realizing he was held back.  griffin looked down to see black wristbands and chains restricting him.  "aaaw man!  now I'll never know what I am!" he said, glaring at the chains.  a yellow beam shot from his eyes and and zapped off the chains, leaving the wrist bands on.  "whoa! cool, what else can I do? huh?" he asked as he transformed into an eagle-winged robot with an eagle head on his chest, lion paws and tail, white helmet and blue visor.  "awesome!" griffin flapped his wings and flew aimlessly around the city.  after a while, he spotted a bright red jet that appeared
out of nowhere and decided to follow it.  "scarletwing to base, I'm being followed by a strange robot.  should I attack?" "no, allow him in.  if he is an autobot, I prefer to put it offline myself." replied starscream.  scarlet led griffin into the caves, landing in robot mode.  "hey! can you tell me what I am?"  he asked.  she turned and immediately, the other decepticons surrounded him.  "who are jou?" asked blitzwing.  "griffin.  who are you guys?" he replied, energetically.  "we are decepticons.  I am starscream, their leader." "scarletwing" "not ramjet" "sunstorm" "blitzwing" "frightflight" "and I'm skywarp." the blue-optic mech said, sheepishly.  "what are you?  a techno organic?  autobot?  or just a mech flying in the wrong place at the wrong time?"  asked starscream, aiming his null rays.  "uh... I don't really know, one minute I'm working at an amusement park and the next, I'm hit by this weird light.  next thing I knew, I'm  whatever I am now." replied the confused mech.  starscream lowered his weapons and signaled the others to do the same.  he nodded to scarletwing, who stepped forward.  she took griffin by the chin and raised his head to look into her purple visor.  "well... how curious.  an all mechanical 'bot with and alt mode, resembling and organic beast.  tell us, have you any... special powers?" she asked.  griffin pulled back, unaffected by her charm.  "well, one that I know of." he replied, walking toward a large boulder.  his optics glowed yellow under his blue visor as beams shot out of them, blasting the boulder to pieces.  "zat is quite impressive for an organic made mech." commented frightflight.  "indeed.  what do you say we sit down and talk over a few barrels of oil.  I'll tell you all you need to know."  said starscream.
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"this is so cool!  I thought these things only happen in movies."  said Casey, riding wolvesbane's wolf mode.  "keep your eyes open, we're on patrol 'for the boys back home' as you humans say, literally."  replied the racing wolf.  "right.  report in!" Casey said into her plumber's badge.  "all clear in the park!" said heatblast.  "harper and rodimus reporting.  all is well downtown." reported rodimus prime.  "sari and alex here. nothing out of the ordinary around sumdac tower." said Alex.  "all right, wolvesbane and I'll keep searching the forest.  I don't know why but, I have a feeling something big is going down." said Casey.
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"so let me get this straight.  these 'auto-bots' are the scum of the universe that chased you out of... 'cy-ber-tron?'  and you shrank 'em with a gun but had to retreat from... super organics?" asked griffin, taking and oil barrel in his clawed hands.  "oui!  unfortunately." said cold frightflight.  "we could use your help to be rid of them forever.  you said you're a tracker right?"  asked starscream, sipping some oil.  "yeah, that sumdac guy used some spare police-bot parts for me." he replied, sipping some of his oil. "wow, good stuff!" "plenty more where that came from, as long as you help us destroy those auto pests!" said scarletwing.  he shrugged. "sure, ok!" "zat vas easy." blitzwing whispered to ramjet. "no it wasn't." he replied, smirking.  "there is only one problem, there are still those super organics and the two autobots we have yet to shrink, which I'm sure will guard there little buddies with their sparks."  skywarp chimed in.  "that shouldn't be a problem to our powerful new friend." said sunstorm.  "yes, let's see what you can really do." said starscream, leading everyone outside.  griffin transformed into griffin mode and flew over the city.  "I volunteer to keep an optic on him, just incase he can't be trusted." said skywarp, bowing.  "hm, good point. granted.  scarlet and I will cover any ground he misses, the rest of you will be back up if needed." said starscream, flying off with scarletwing.  skywarp followed griffin with his own plans in his processor.
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"wait, now you're telling me the 'cons are evil and the autobots are the good guys?  now I'm confused." said griffin.  "yes, but I'm a spy for the autobots, sent to foil any plans the 'cons make so they don't take over the universe.  starscream only wants you to think the autobots are bad so you will help him."  replied skywarp.  "so, I need to help the autobots and protect these organics?" "that's right. when you see a 'bot with this symbol-" skywarp held up an autobot insignia. "-you help them.  when you see a -bot with this-" he pointed to his decepticon branding. "-you fight them.  with the exception of me of coarse." the blue-opticed 'con continued.  the mechanical griffin nodded and looked down into the forest.  a blurr of black and brown caught
his attention and he flew toward it, skywarp following.  griffin landed in robot mode as the wolf stopped at his feet.  "why'd ya stop wolves-bane?" asked Casey, looking up at griffin and skywarp.  "don't worry, he's a friend.  I'm sure you'll find him very useful toward the autobot cause."  said skywarp, taking off.  "hi, I'm griffin!"  the 2 just stared open-mouthed at the enthusiastic mech.
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mini prowl and cometracer meditated in prowl's tree.  after a while, they turned to eachother.  "the view is beautiful up here."  said comet, not taking her optics off prowl.  "even more so with you." said prowl, smiling warmly.  they slowly leaned inward to eachother until they were almost kissing when... *flash* the ninjabots pulled apart fast to see bumblebee and the jet twins with a camera and devilish grins.  "prowl and cometracer be sitting in a tree-" "k-I-s-s-I-n-g!" the troublesome trio sang.  comet jumped down at the three laughing hyenas.  they stopped to look up at who was making the winged shadow.  they saw a very ticked off darknova glaring daggers at them.  "don't you have a videogame to play or something?" she asked, red optics narrowing.  "oh hey, look at the time. I promised sari a rematch in ninja zombies 3." said bee, running off.  "uh, we play winner!" "me first brother!" the twins followed close behind.  darknova transformed back into cometracer as prowl approached.  "he's like the little brother I never wanted." she said. "which one?" prowl asked.  "pick!" prowl smiled and put an arm over comet's shoulder.  just then, a large shadow passed over the open ceiling and the sound of something big landing was heard at the front, garage door.  the mini autobots ran outside as a huge griffin, ridden by Casey and sari, landed.  wolvesbane, carrying harper and alex, ran  up next to it.  rodimus and heatblast walked up, smiling shyly.  "hey guys, this is our new friend griffin." said Casey, like it was no big deal.  the mini autobots however, gawked at the robotic earth creature.  griffin flapped his newly branded autobot wings and let his passengers off before transforming.  "heh, yeah I seem to get that a lot."  he said, seeing their reaction.
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"what do you mean you lost griffin?!" yelled starscream.  "we were ambushed by the autobots and organics, sir.  they've gotten stronger, I had no choice but to leave him." said skywarp, trying his best not to blurt out the truth.  (he's a coward, not a liar.)  "no matter, we'll continue the plan without him.  blitzwing, frightflight, sunstorm and ramjet will take are of phase one.  skywarp, scarlet and i will handle phase 2."  replied the aggrivated jet.  the four parting on phase 1 bowed  respectfully and flew off.  "oh, I just love it when you take charge, super star." said scarlet, stroking his wing.  "only the best for my little scarlet letter." he replied, rubbing her chin.  skywarp headed for his room to wait for the signal, trying to hold down his oil from the love fest behind him.
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wolvesbane and griffin sat in the living room, talking. they seemed to have taken to eachother quickly.  "so, what made you prefer us over the 'cons?" asked wolvesbane, twirling griffins tail in her fingers.  "well, that oil was tempting but, I found something more tempting over here." he replied, stroking her head and smiling.  "oh griffy, you're such a sweet talker." "not as sweet as you, wolfy." he replied, making her giggle.  "yo lovebirds! get a cage!" said Alex.  "how can you like that organic
freak anyway?  you're all 'bot, she's not!" blurted sentinal, receiving a slap from Alex and harper.  "heads up guys!  the 'cons are making their move!" reported rodimus, looking up from the monitors.  "where are they?  how many?" asked optimus.  "downtown, near the bridges.  3 of them.  all right autobots... and humans, roll out!" "wait, we can help." said bulkhead.  "no dice.  at your new size, your weapons and powers are only a fraction of the strength they were before."  said Casey.  "right, the best thing for you is work on that shrink ray.  ratchet, how far have you and Casey gotten it?"  asked rodimus.  "it should be ready in a few solarcycles.  whoever shot it, really scrambled it's circuits" replied the docbot.  "Casey, you stay here and see if you can help speed up the progress.  as for the rest of you, roll out!"  he said as he lead the group out.  Casey looked
suspiciously at the monitor, which blipped with four decepticon signals.  "what is it Casey?" asked Bee.  "I don't know, something just doesn't seem right.  according to this camerabot's footage, those decepticreeps aren't stealing anything.  it looks like they're destroying just for the sake of destruction."  she replied, scratching her chin in thought.  "that's the way they are, Casey."  said bulkhead.  "no, not these creeps.  they've been on earth long enough to know they need a strategy but, here it looks like there's no plan at all and unguided.  it's almost like... a distraction."

*to be continued*