Golden Orb

As the night darkened the sky and the moonlight illuminated the city, a green and blue portal appeared on a deserted street, from which a large red truck, a green pickup truck, a yellow Camaro and a blue motorcycle emerged. The Prime team drove through the city, each taking a different route point to avoid attracting unnecessary attention from the populace and law enforcement.

The Autobots, in their vehicle modes to conceal their true appearance, surrounded a large museum that was closed, guarded only by a few security guards who were unaware of any invasion of the building. Each of the Autobots remained in position to defend the location long enough for Jack, Miko and Raf to steal the alien artifact that was inside the museum.

Ratchet opened a portal inside the museum, in a blind spot of the security cameras, allowing Jack, Miko and Raf to enter by piloting a small vehicle to safely transport the Golden Sphere to where the portal was originally activated. Upon seeing the golden orb on the statue of Zeus, Jack immediately used the lever to activate the vehicle's portable elevator, allowing them to rise to the height necessary to steal the alien artifact.

Miko, seeing the security camera pointed at the alien artifact, uses her creativity to fool the guard, who was distracted by reading his newspaper, not caring about the museum's surveillance. She takes a photo from the same angle as the camera and places her cell phone in the exact position with the screen facing the camera, so that when the guard looks at the camera, he will think he is seeing the sphere instead of a simple cell phone photo.

Raf took his laptop out of the backpack he always carried with him, when he turned it on, he connected his system to an audio recording of Optimus Prime, an audio in Cybertronian language with the security lock code that Lux had informed him of. When the code was spoken aloud in the native Cybertronian language, the golden orb glowed gold for a moment, mostly its old insignia, before returning to normal as if nothing had happened.

Raf, Miko and Jack looked at each other for a moment, seeing that something had indeed happened, but since they didn't understand Cybertronian technology, they didn't know if the orb was really in safe mode. Still, they both decided not to waste time and placed the orb in the vehicle they were using.

The moment of the robbery was suddenly interrupted when they heard the sound of metal colliding with metal. When the three looked out of the museum, thanks to the transparent glass, they saw Optimus Prime receive a large energy discharge directly to his neck, thanks to a red Decepticon carrying an electric baton.

"They got Optimus!" Jack stood on alert, wanting to help for a moment, but quickly remembering that he was just a simple human and could offer no help in battle.

"What are we going to do?" Miko asked desperately, feeling the adrenaline rush through her veins, but in an unpleasant way.

Jack looked at the orb and then at the Autobot leader, knowing their mission was to get the orb to the Autobot base so Optimus and the others could fight without worrying about it. "Let's continue the mission! Raf, tell Ratchet to open the portal!"

Raf quickly began synchronizing his laptop's communications network with the Autobots' private network in the direction of their secret base. Meanwhile, Jack lowered the vehicle's portable elevator to its lowest point for a quick trip to the same place they had arrived thanks to the portal.

[[Ratchet, this is Raf! We have the Energon Harvester, activate the portal quickly! The Decepticons are here!]] Raf warned, growing more tense with the tremors of the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons outside the museum.

Ratchet's bright blue eyes, waiting for the moment to lead his human companions out of the museum, grew even more serious. [[Understood, Raf. Activation of the earth bridge.]] He lowered the lever that activated the portal to the Autobot base, at exactly the same coordinates as the last time it was activated.

The portal quickly opened in front of Jack, Miko and Raf. None of them could help but smile at the chance to get out of this mess before the Decepticons began to invade the museum.

"That's our exit door, let's go..." Jack was quickly silenced as he saw a metal door leading to the museum's back doors being violently shattered from the outside, with each blow, not only the door but also the wall was giving way.

Not wanting to suffer the same fate as the door and be crushed, they entered the earth bridge passageway without looking back and left the place as if they had never been there.

Soundwave finally broke through the metal door and saw the Autobots' portal close in front of him, causing the silent Decepticon to clench his fists. The guard in charge of the cameras appeared as he felt the tremors of the battle outside the museum. As he looked to the side, he saw the imposing purple robot watching him without expression. Before the guard could scream in terror, Soundwave used his tentacles to electrocute the human, carbonizing his body with the electrical tension.

Meanwhile, Optimus Prime tried to recover from Knock Out's attacks while being distracted by Bumblebee. Arcee and Bulkhead fought fiercely together against Breakdown, who used his immense brute strength to counterattack. Unfortunately for him, Bulkhead had similar strength, though he was slower, and Arcee's agility made up for he teammate's weaknesses.

When Optimus regained his senses, he heard a radio transmission on his receivers. [[Optimus, our human friends have successfully delivered the artifact to us!]] Ratchet said, pride in his voice.

Satisfied that his human allies had obtained the Golden Sphere, Optimus looked around him, seeing the battle raging fiercely. He quickly regained his composure, ran toward Breakdown and landed a powerful right hook to the Decepticon's chin, knocking him a few feet to the ground.

Knock Out, seeing that the Autobot leader had fully recovered, decided to do the most practical thing to avoid dirtying the paint on his body. "Actually, the front line is not my style." Quickly jumping into his vehicle mode, he raced away from the battle, with his companion Breakdown following, seeing that he could not continue the fight without risking his life.

"Optimus, are you okay?" Arcee asked, concerned for her leader's health.

"I'm fine, Autobots, let's go home." Optimus looked up at the sky and saw Soundwave flying toward the horizon, suspecting that the Decepticon most loyal to Megatron had been sent to steal the artifact while they were distracted by Knock Out and Breakdown.