Author's Notes:

Yes the title for the chapter is based off a Robots In Disguise episode. Why not?

Also another thing, for the beginning of this, its mostly gonna be calm, we'll be showing what our main leads have been doing in their absence and I've been hoping for some more character development and some things set up for future events.

Shadow Flame belongs Vakama95096.

Over at the Autobots base, the Autobots were busy at work. Some of them were training for combat, others were working supplies and others were trying to work on the main command console.

Soon enough, a green portal opened up and two forms came walking in through it. One was Optimus Prime, and the other was Sunset Shimmer. One Autobot who was working at the control console to let them in, looked to see the two enter in, and they gave friendly smiles.

"Morning Optimus. I believe no Decepticons have shown up in your vicinity?" Ratchet asked.

"Indeed old friend. However I fear for Sunset's state," Optimus said.

Ratchet looked to Sunset, "Another nightmare involving Megatron?"

Sunset gave a somber nod and bit her lip as she looked at Ratchet.

"Sunset you mustn't worry about Megatron's return. I do not believe he will return. Although I could be wrong..." Optimus said.

Sunset cleared her throat, "Um, was there something you wanted me to do?"

Optimus nodded, "I believe I found something to take your mind off Megatron for a bit. I need you to take some of our new recruits out for some training, and for scouting for any sights of Airachnid's pack."

Sunset gave a determined smile, "Of course. Let me just get my suit and I'll get right on it."

Sunset walked on her own, going to the spot she knew where her suit was being mounted. But as she walked to collect her armor, heels hitting against the metallic ground, she stopped when she heard a yell right behind.

"Fire in the hole!"

Sunset turned around to take a look but was met with an explosion that spread tons of black smoke. Once the smoke cleared, Sunset's hair was sticking up on end, there was black dust covering her face and her clothes, and she coughed black smoke. Stiffly, she looked and could see the evidence of what had happened. There was black dust centered around a control panel, several electricity sparks sizzling around an open panel, and two other bots near the explosion. Wheeljack was covered in dust on his body and on a bit of his face, and another bot was flat on his back near a wall, and above the wall there was a giant dent in it, almost as if he was tossed into it.

"Trailbreaker, I needed that!" Wheeljack said.

"Did anyone see where that bus went..." Trailbreaker trailed off, feeling dizzy.

"Wheeljack," Sunset interrupted.

The scientist turned to take a look to the orange and yellow skinned girl covered in explosion dust.

"What's wrong?"

Wheeljack groaned, "We've been trying to fix our communications system to contact our allies back on Cybertron to let them know that there's an army of Decepticons in possession of the last Allspark fragments. But we haven't had much luck since every attempt to leave hasn't worked."

Sunset scratched her chin pondering deep into her head, "Well what have we tried before?"

"We've tried to climb aboard Sentinel's ship but he literally tossed us off when he was done with our inspection, we tried repairing Road Rage's craft but we ended up blowing it up to keep the Decepticon fugitives from leaving, oh and Blurr said he totaled the one shuttle we had in our possession," Wheeljack said, fingers extending out counting every occurrence.

"Okay..." Sunset said, "What about Twilight's ship? Can't we fix up Canterlot Colossus to go into space?"

"I tried that too, but according to the blueprints that she put together, it needs a hyper-drive, and we don't have that part. She blew that part of up during her battle with Scorponok," Wheeljack replied.

"Well what about Shadow Flame? He transforms into a space shuttle."

Wheeljack scrunched his face as he was thinking, "Sunset, while he can turn into an Autobot transport shuttle, he doesn't have the speed or the energy to go that long a distance from Earth to Cybertron. That would take up all of his Energon."

Sunset nodded, "Alright, well just keep trying Wheeljack. We'll find a way to get back to Cybertron. Somehow..."

Sunset gave Wheeljack a salute and walked off to go grab her suit, but paused when she heard Trailbreaker yell. She turned around and this time Trailbreaker was positioned on his back, looking like he had fallen trying to get back up. His upper torso arched up and he raised a fist.

"I am able! Why just ask Firestar... she was all Mandrel before I... put a tiger in her tank!" Trailbreaker yelled, slurring. With the way he was speaking it sounded like had been drinking too much.

Trailbreaker fell back on the ground, leaving a worried Sunset.

"Is he gonna be okay?"

Wheeljack nodded, "He'll be fine. He just needs to keep his hands away from the open wires or else he turns into another customer at Maccadam's Old Oil House."

Sunset just gave a bit of a shocked look and then turned away to stare off to the direction she was going. This was an interesting morning...

Once Sunset got up into her Phoenix Prime suit, she walked over to the main entrance where the Autobots would enter in and out. She gazed out into the open stretch of desert sand, watching some tumbleweeds flail around in the sand, and listened to the sounds of the wind. It just looked absolutely breathtaking.

However Sunset's amazement of the open stretch of land was quickly drawn away to Optimus Prime walking and standing right beside her.

"Sunset. I meant to ask you earlier, with the Decepticons that you and your friends encountered so far, do you have any status to report?" Optimus asked.

"Nothing so far. Outside of we're now in possession of two Decepticon prisoners, there are still Decepticon fugitives out on the run, and Weirdwolf is still living peacefully by himself in the forests outside of Camp Everfree," Sunset replied. "Oh, and Strongarm and Tracks still haven't stopped fighting."

Both of them were interrupted by the sounds of yelling breaking out right behind them. They looked and they saw a female Autobot with white and blue colors wrestling on the ground with a blue male Autobot with rockets sticking out the sides of his shoulders.

Sunset scrunched her face when she saw them continuing to fight.

"Not this again..." Sunset said. She looked back to Optimus, "I'll handle this. Hopefully I can get some ideas to calm them down."

Optimus nodded. He began to walk away leaving Sunset to deal with the two cadets roughing it up, but stopped for a moment to look back at Sunset one more time.

"And Sunset?" Optimus said.

Sunset looked back.

"You will be alright Sunset, as long as we're around. And I know you can protect yourself," Optimus smiled.

Sunset gave a bit of a smile back. She wasn't sure, but it was nice knowing Optimus and the others still had her back.

Once Optimus walked away, Sunset looked back to the two recruits continuing to fight and snarled.

"Strongarm! Tracks! HALT!"

The two immediately froze when they heard Sunset's yell. It was never good whenever she or any of the other bots yelled at them. Especially when the two where fighting. Both of them retracted away from each other and stood on their feet standing straight and tall.

Sunset sighed, "What are you two fighting about this time?"

"Officer Strongarm here was in possession of my paint gun," Tracks gritted his teeth.

"I was just borrowing it! I was gonna put it back!" Strongarm protested.

"Enough. Look, its bad enough the Decepticons are in possession of the Allspark fragments, we can't be in a situation where are own teammates are trying to tear themselves apart. We don't even have a ship or a way to get off this planet to chase them, but we need everyone to at least get along with each other and stay intact."

Tracks huffed, "Coming from the girl who let a Decepticon roam free on this planet."

Sunset zoomed right up in Tracks' face with a cross look, "What did you just say to me?"

Tracks pulled back, "Nothing, nothing!"

Sunset sighed, "If you're referring to Weirdwolf, he's been sentenced to live freely in the Everfree. And he proved to me that he wanted to be left alone in peace."

Tracks said nothing.

"Was there something you wanted, uh, ma'am?" Strongarm asked.

"Yes. I'm taking you and some of our other new recruits out for training. And checking for any Decepticon activity," Sunset said as she hit the side of her head, "Road Rage, Wasp, Shadow Flame, come here at once!" Sunset said through her communicator.

Three Autobots came running to where Tracks and Strongarm stood. Road Rage was a female Autobot, having the same body type as tracks. But her skin was white, and she was covered in red, blue, and black metal, wings on her back, and tires for her shoulders.

The second Autobot was Wasp. He had a similar but still different body type to Bumblebee. His body skin was mostly green, he had tires on his shoulders and the front hood was formed into his legs, and his eyes were dark pink.

The final Autobot approached, but this one wasn't like the others. His body type was reminiscent to that of the Guardian Spay-C, and it clearly shown why. There were wings on the sides of his legs, and there was a cockpit on the back of his head, along with another wing sticking on his back. He was mostly colored in red, with yellow eyes. And on the wings there were Autobot symbols on both of them with the words USA tattooed as well. And there was an Autobot symbol on his chest.

"Good morning guys," Sunset said.

The other three gave friendly smiles.

"So what's on our agenda for today?" Road Rage asked.

"We're going out into the desert for some training, and if there's another Decepticon fugitive out on the run, we'll go get them. There's still fugitives loose and at large."

The three nodded.

"You're seriously taking a bounty hunter with you?" Tracks said in a snooty voice.

"And someone who's a fugitive?" Strongarm snarled.

"Not to mention an inexperienced warrior?" Tracks said.

The other three snarled towards them but Sunset raised a hand to tell them to stop. They immediately stopped snarling, but they still had heavy glares and anger on their faces.

Sunset gave Tracks and Strongarm a look of disapproval, "First of all, they have no where to go which is why they're with us. Second, they're part of the Autobots, which means they're part of us. Also, they proved to me that they can be trusted in a field situation that requires teamwork. That's something you two still need to work on. If we're gonna stop the Decepticons, we need to learn to trust each other. You understand?"

Tracks and Strongarm held their heads down somberly.

"Yes ma'am," The two said disappointingly.

"Okay. Now come on, lets go practice. Autobots..."

Tracks snickered, "Here comes another stinker."

"Nope, this time, she nails it," Strongarm said with a hopeful smile.

Sunset turned and swayed her body around in a silly motion with a big smile, "Lets rev, rock, and rumble!"

Tracks facepalmed and the others stared awkwardly.

"Really? I kind of liked that one," Sunset said.

They just gave shaking head and looks of disappoint.

"Okay fine, just transform please. Autobots! Transform!"

One by one, they each transformed and Sunset called out their names as they changed form.

"Tracks! Strongarm! Road Rage! Wasp! Shadow Flame! Lets move!"

Tracks and Road Rage changed form into 1982 Chervolet Corvettes, both gleaming in blue and red. Wasp transformed into a small green Volkswagon Beetle, Strongarm changed into a blue and white police truck, and Shadow Flame changed his appearance into a red space shuttle.

All of them zoomed out into the desert with roaring engines and the sound of thrusters booming.

Out in the desert, there was the sight of several cars and a space shuttle hovering above, all moving together out with heavy engines roaring and tires grinding against the path that had been paved before them.

Sunset was up in the front, with Wasp and Road Rage on her left and right, up above was Shadow Flame, and right behind was a fuming Tracks and Strongarm. It was easy to tell they were still fighting since every once in a while the two of them kept slamming into each other onto the sides. Sunset adjusted the rear-view mirror and sighed heavily as she scrunched her face.

"Phoenix bot, alright?" Wasp asked.

Sunset sighed, "I'm fine Wasp. I just wish I knew how to deal with those two since they're still fighting."

"Wasp never fight with allies," Wasp said through the radio.

"Me neither," Road Rage said.

Sunset stared at the radio as she continued to talk with her teammates that weren't bickering with each other.

"Well let me ask this, how come you guys don't fight with each other?"

"Wasp told about Decepticon have Allspark shards. Wasp also believe sometimes Wasp must show kindness to Autobots," Wasp said.

Sunset nodded, "Okay, but what about you Road Rage? I mean, how come you're getting along with us, I mean we blew up your ship. But you don't seem be that mad."

"Interesting question Sunset. First of all, Airachnid's pack were planning on commandeering my ship either way and we couldn't let them leave. Second, I know how small your numbers here on Earth are and so I thought it'd be best to lend Optimus Prime's crew an extra fighter. I have no where to go and no way to leave this planet. Besides, ever since I came here Smallfoot and I have made up, and I've been interested to learn more about this world," Road Rage said in a warm voice.

Sunset gave a smile to Road Rage's response, "That's very kind of you. Although it is a little weird coming from someone named... Road Rage."

Road Rage just let out a chuckle, "Well you've got a strange name yourself. What kind of name is Sun... set? Isn't that something we see off into the end of the day?"

Sunset chuckled, "Okay, okay. Lets just keep the name calling down to a minimum and focus on--"

At that moment a small little alarm was going off in Sunset's cabin, along with a small red light flickering.

"Uh oh. I'm receiving a signal, definitely Cybertronian," Sunset said, "Shadow Flame, can you see anything from above?"

Just up above, the space shuttle soared above the clouds. From the glass cabin, it could look down below to see an armored truck driving by itself in the desert just miles in front of them.

"I see it. From what I can see, its an armored truck, and there's a giant pair of horns near the front of it."

Sunset scratched her chin, "Okay. You have all of the mugshots and the files of the fugitives?"

"Yes."

"Look up in the database for anything that matches that description."

Inside of the main control deck of Shadow Flame's space shuttle mode, several images were flashing around a screen, all of them resembling files from a prison manifest. Each figure that appeared on the manifest were covered in shadows, and they kept on flashing around as the files kept moving fast and fast. Eventually, it came to a stop and selected a shadowy figure that was gigantic. Its shadow was cast away revealing its form.

He was mostly colored in dark brown, with horns on his head resembling a bull, and his pose was in a slouched position.

"I've got the profile now. His name is Terrashock, one of the most brutal enforcers on Cybertron. Hired by a Decepticon named Contrail to go hunt down any bots that he wanted hunted. Eventually he was arrested until he was broken out of jail on Cybertron. I'm willing to bet we can guess who?", Shadow said.

"Starscream. I thought so. Okay, well lets put a stop to him before he moves anywhere else. Use only small attacks, we're Autobots. We value all life and we don't kill. If you want to try and stop him, just blow out his tires."

"Yes Phoenix Prime!", everyone yelled.

"Okay then. Shadow Flame, set yourself into camouflage mode. Everyone, roll out!"

The engines roared and the turbos began to thrust with flames as they sped off chasing after the armored truck. While no one knew what this fugitive's plan was, it wouldn't be good if he succeeded in his mission. Up above, the Autobot space shuttle's colors instantly changed from blazing red into bright blue with a few mixes of white blended in.

"Any idea what he's after?" Strongarm asked.

"No idea, but we got to stop him," Sunset ordered.

"So, how are we gonna stop him? Commander?" Road Rage asked.

Sunset giggled a bit, "I know how to stop him. Applejack and I had dealt with him before and I know how to stop him. You got to steer him away from the area like a real bull. Do like I do. Its a little silly, but Applejack I made this work. Ready?"

"Ready!", everyone yelled.

"YEE-HAW! Yippie-ki-yay!" Sunset cheered as she sped up even faster.

"YEE-HAW! Yippie-ki-yay!" Road Rage hollered as she sped up too.

"YEE-HAW! Yippie-ki-yay!" Wasp cheered after.

Sure enough, even Tracks and Strongarm were on board and they cheered as well.

"Yee-haw! I'm on a runway!" Tracks called.

"Yee-haw! Zippy highway!" Strongarm yelled.

"That's the spirits guys! Come on, lets go get him!" Sunset called.

The vehicles slammed on the pedal and gained more momentum as the wind blew right past them. No stopping now, and they had to succeed. And sure enough they were moving even closer and closer to the armored truck.

"Pull over!" Sunset yelled as she slammed onto the left side of Terrashock, trying to steer him off the road. Once Sunset made a bang onto the side, Terrashock skidded off the road and started driving in the sand still trying to get away from them.

"After him! He's getting away!"

Strongarm and Tracks sped faster and moved onto the left and right side of Terrashock, trying to box him in. If he was steered into where they wanted, they could stop him.

"WHOO!!!" Road Rage hollered.

Road Rage pulled up right behind Terrashock and made a slam onto the back of Terrashock making him grunt. Violently and unexpectedly, he transformed into robot mode and began leaping like a cheetah across the desert still trying to run.

Sunset watched as her teammates were working together to try and box him in. At least they weren't arguing while they were dealing with the fugitive. But her happy moment quickly went away when she looked ahead.

"Uh oh... Autobots, slam on your brakes!"

Everyone followed her orders and immediately slammed on the breaks, while Terrashock kept on jumping away. However his leaping about came to a halt when he made a jump... right into a canyon. He made a singular jump and fell straight down between canyon walls and his body fell like a pancake as he slammed onto the ground.

Everyone transformed into robot modes and paused when they saw the canyon.

"Huh... good eyes Phoenix," Tracks remarked.

Road Rage let out a smirk, "Ready... wrestle!"

Road Rage made a running jump and performed a wrestling body slam down into the canyon. They listened and they heard the sound of Terrashock grunting and Road Rage yelling.

"3! 2! 1! You're out of there!" Road Rage called.

Sunset just chuckled, "Okay Road Rage, that's enough. Lets get him back to base for interrogation."

Wasp looked back to Sunset, "Phoenix bot no interrogate. You go have picnic with Autobot friends."

"Are you sure? I mean I can lend a hand--"

"Sunset. Just go have fun with your friends, we'll handle this!" Road Rage called out from the canyon.

Sunset breathed in for a moment to calm down, and eventually came to a smile, "Okay. But if you need help, call me or any of the other Autobots."

Sunset's robot form transformed into its alternate truck form. She stuck her body out the window for a moment to give them a wave off, and they responded with some smiles and a wave off to her. Sunset moved back into her driver seat and backed out from the canyon area, speeding off into the desert to go for some much needed quality time with her friends. They had been busy with Decepticons for so long she had forgotten to calm down and take some time off.

But as she sped off into the desert, she could see in the rear-view mirror that the Decepticon was dragged up by a bunch of cables coming from the hovering space shuttle and the few Autobots clinging onto the rope that was pulling them up. It looked like her work was done for the day and they had finished the job. Now, it was time for relaxation...