Hello Mechs and Femmes! and Welcome to Transformers Prime Gate Crasher: Cracked Reflection!

A Shattered Glass side story to Transformers Prime Gate Crasher! Now this is merely a Pilot chapter so don't expect it t be long, it will introduce a taste of what this story has to offer, this takes place during the chapter "So close...yet so far" in the main story. This was inspired by the stop motion picture Transformers Broken Mirror on Youtube by Crosshairs Productions.

I recommend you watch it it is really good!

So with that out of the way.

Let's Roll Out!

TransformersPrime Gate Crasher:

Cracked reflection

See the opposite of what you once saw

I woke up and found myself in a forest and sat up to take in my surroundings. WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!

"Where the hell am I?" I asked myself as I stood to my full height and noticed I still had Rhisling in my hand. "Dad?! Mum?! Arcee?! Bumblebee?! Ironhide?! Bulkhead?! Where is everybody?!" I called out but was left to the silence and the rustling of trees. I sighed and looked at Rhisling once more and saw the green glow in the blade then faded. I tried making a couple of swings with it like Vector Prime did in the Cybertron cartoon but nothing happened. "C'mon throw me a bone would ya?" I said to the sword and sighed again and stored it in my subspace so that it wouldn't be sticking out like a sore thumb. I then trekked through the landscape.

I kept walking through the terrain due to me not acquiring a 4X4 vehicle mode. But luckily I was in the woodlands of wherever I was so getting spotted wasn't too much of a hassle. I kept going until I heard metal bashing against metal and booted towards the source. When was getting there I something that didn't seem right to me.

I saw Jack, Raf and Miko running away. I dunno what but it seemed strange for them to be here when we're currently deployed in Australia. But I saw the source that they were running from and it was none other than Wheeljack, but his colour scheme was all off. His main colour was black with added purple on his pin stripes.

'The kids were running from Wheeljack, Wheeljack should be somewhere else on earth, the Kids should be in the base when we left…' I thought to myself but it came to me, I really wish I was wrong…I really did. I followed them and saw that the kids were trapped.

"Looks like you got nowhere to run. I'm gonna have fun squishing you under my foot, but first-," He was stopped by yours truly as I shoulder barged into him and turned to the kids. "You kids ok?" I asked them as they nodded in response. "Good get to safety now, I'll take care of this". I then turned to Wheeljack as he got back on his feet and looked at me. "You got brass bearings to do that, imposter!" He snarled at me but I then realised that he said imposter because I looked like Optimus.

"I'll give ya one warning Wheeljack, turn around and walk away otherwise you're gonna have to deal with me, and those who stood against me were nothing but scrap". I warned pointing at him in which he chuckled quietly as he spun his swords within his hands. "I'm gonna enjoy cutting you into tiny pieces". He chuckled manically. "Don't say I didn't warn ya". I replied as I activated my battle mask.

[Now Playing-Devour-Shinedown, Sound of Madness]

We both charged at each other he brought his swords down at me and I parried them with P.O.K.E Beta and delivered a solid kick to the chest before firing my Path Blasters rapidly at him and shoulder barging him a second time. Wheeljack kneed me in the face and slashed his swords across my chassis and stumbled back a bit. I then saw that his swords were serrated and not smoothly sharpened, I looked at myself and saw that my body had Energon dripping from my wounds, Wheeljack took the opportunity and fired his blaster into me and aimed at my leaking wounds which added salt into the wound.

The bot walked up to me and chuckled again. "I told you I was gonna cut you into tiny pieces, and that's exactly what I'm gonna do". Then raised his swords and brought them down but were caught with my bare hands and I looked at Wheeljack. "I won't give you the satisfaction". I seethed. I swiped the swords out of my way and activated my Knuckle busters, the same ones Optimus used in the third movie against Shockwave and started delivering blow after blow to the supposed Autobot. I then grabbed his head and bashed his face in all the while my knuckles were still active and after the 5th punch his battle mask broke.

Devour! Devour! Suffocate your own empire!

Devour! Devour! It's your final hour!

Devour! Devour! Stolen like a foreign soul!

Devour! Devour! What a Way to go!

As Wheeljack staggered back I kicked upward at one of his hands releasing his hold on one of his swords and caught it. I swiped the sword repeatedly against Wheeljack giving him a taste of his own medicine, I then bashed him on the back of the head with his sword and tossed it away. I heard several aircraft coming this way and saw several fliers that looked like the Decepticon Drones but they were more bulky and had the Autobot Symbol on them. They took aim and fired their weapons at me but I picked up Wheeljack and used him as a shield to protect myself, Gears of War Style.

What a way to go!

"Catch some bullets for me". I said aloud as I then used my Path blaster to fire at them and started picking them off one by one. As there were 3 left I pulled the pin on Wheeljack's grenade. "Say hello to your friends for me!" I said as I then let him go and kicked him into the crowd and a second later the grenade detonated. Taking the bots out in a ball of blue fire.

All but Wheeljack.

As he got back up he turned to me with a murderous glare. "You almost had me, but luckily I don't go down like a pathetic Decepticon would!" He snarled as he then charged at me with his remaining sword and I did the same with a Chainsaw on my right hand.

Diving Down! Round and Round!

As we clashed blades sparks scattered everywhere

Diving Down!

But I managed to overpower him and staggered him and left his back facing me.

Round and Round!

I then rammed my chainsaw into his spinal area and ran the blade up and across his torso and out the other end before kicking him into the dirt with the top half of his body showing it was visibly severed from the rest of his body, with Energon gushing out of both parts of what was left of Wheeljack.

[End Track]

"I really didn't want to have to do it Wheeljack…but you force my hand". I sighed looking at myself coated in both mine and Wheeljack's Energon I looked at the remains of the Wrecker and shook my head with my optics closed. I was blasted in the chest and I was sent flying back into a rock making me dazed and was looking for the source as to what hit me, but before I could see what it was, a hand grabbed my head and tossed me across the ground and turned around to see who it was that was wiping the floor with me.

It was Bulkhead.

The very last bot I wanted to see was right here and was ready to pound my face in with his wrecking ball, Bulkhead was blood red with marron secondary colour it just made him more menacing. I only had one chance of escape, and I needed to time it right. "You just made the biggest mistake of your LIFE!" He roared at me as he then kicked me in the side with that much force I was sent skidding across the ground. "You killed my partner! My friend! And I'm gonna do to you, what you did to him!" He said as he raised his wrecking ball to strike, which gave me my opening I fired several rounds into Bulkheads face and quickly transformed and sped off.

I drove through the woods and came to a road where my vehicle mode will be better on and accelerated as fast as I could trying to get some distance between me and Bulkhead. 'I can't believe this! I'm in a fucking Shattered glass version of Transformers Prime! How the hell am I gonna this if I can't contact base? If I drive there I'll just lead the Autobots to the Decepticons! And I can't believe I actually thought of that when it came to mind'. I mentally ranted.

As I kept driving I saw I was coming up to an old bridge that hasn't been used in a while giving me the perfect opportunity to get away. I floored it and tried to make my way to the other side of the bridge, I then heard the sound of an engine coming up from behind me and heard something transform. I felt heavier on the back of my vehicle form and serpentine side to side trying to get this person off me. "Get the hell off me damn it!" I cried as I then hit the brakes and transformed to see who it was.

But my spark skipped a beat as I saw who was hunting me. I really wish I didn't have to deal with this, the only thing blocking me from my path to freedom…

Was Arcee.

Her colour scheme was black with a purple secondary and her red optics really would make me sweat bullets if I were human again. 'No, no, no, no! Why did it have to be her!? Why Arcee?!' I mentally screamed in my head as Arcee got back on her feet and her red optics bored into my brown ones.

"You may as well accept your fate Decepticon, submit…and trust me-," She said before activating her wrist blades before finishing her sentence. "I will make it hurt if you don't". "I'm not a Decepticon, I don't want to be part of all this-," I said but Arcee's Shattered glass copy cut me off. "What I saw you do to Wheeljack says otherwise". "HE FORCED MY HAND AND MET HIS FATE! I NEVER WANTED TO DO WHAT I DID BUT HE GAVE ME NO CHOICE!" I roared back at here and strangely she reeled back in surprise.

But my train of thought was cut off as several Autobot fliers landed behind me and aimed their weapons in my direction. As well as Arcee. "Halt! Both of you are under arrest under the order of Optimus Prime!" One of the drones said to us. Great…I also forgot that there's an evil version of Dad as well is this some sort of game I have to play in order to get home?! I looked at Arcee and saw that she had her blasters out and fired in my direction, I braced for impact and felt the shots hit my wounds making them hurt even more. I was then kicked in the face and was now on my back and about to go into stasis lock.

But the sound of a ground bridge entered my hearing and was followed up by blaster fire. I tried to see who the three figures where towering over me but I couldn't see due to my vision being blurry and being somewhat colour blind I tried to stay awake but it proved too much as my whole body went into stasis lock.

(Normal pov)

As the Decepticons forced Arcee into retreat they turned their attention to the other individual and upon first sight he looked like Optimus Prime, the very leader of the Autobots. Megatron kneeled down to have a closer look him, and his optics widened upon realisation as the bot was merely a Mechling, the Cybertronian equivalent of a teenager.

"Megatron, we finally have a chance to take a captive and get some vital Intel from the Autobots". Starscream suggested but Megatron shook his head before answering. "Something doesn't add up Starscream, if he were an Autobot, where is his insignia? Plus he looks much like Optimus Prime. There are questions to which I don't know, and this young mech has the answers we need".

"Megatron's right, I saw the same bot who rescued the children from Wheeljack and literally sawed him in half". The Decepticon scout of the group who's designation was Treadshot, who had a bright blue paintjob and a secondary yellow on his limbs. "Treadshot's right, there are answers that we need to understand the gravity of the situation and our young mech here is holds the answers". Megatron replied as he then lifted the wounded Green and Silver mech in his arms. "Soundwave we need a bridge". The Decepticon leader said as then the green vortex appeared in front of them before walking through.

Megatron's mind was conflicted, an Optimus Prime look alike that had single handily killed Wheeljack only to be driven off my Bulkhead then cut off by Arcee as to what Treadshot reported before they bridged to his scout's location. He then looked at the damaged Mech's body with curiosity. 'Who are you young one? And why are you here?' He thought with so many questions, and soon he'll get answers.

Whoa, who woulda thought that fighting the evil twin counterparts of your family can be exhausting yet terrifying at the same time? Now as in regards to this story I will need to finsish the multiverse arc i put in Gate Crasher and then I can continue it.

If you've seen Transformers Broken Mirror, then you'll know that I just couldn't resist not putting Treadshot in here. And he's viced by none other than Joe Powell! The very creator of Broken Mirror, which is a true work of art on youtube and I highly recommend if your into shattered glass.

So until then, I'll see ya Next time!

Cronus Prime Out!