(Fun fact recently a friend asked me where I got the idea to write this but considering I started this fanfic almost two years ago I responded "I have no idea")

Soundwave was a dangerous cybertronian. This was proven by many things such as his autobot kill count, the fact he was on Optimus Prime's most wanted list, and he was one the three decepticons that defeated Omega Supreme. However the one factor that made Soundwave truly dangerous was his intelligence in a matter of a day Soundwave had managed to find out that local criminal Roman Torchwick, along with the radical faunus group White Fang, had planned to steal a large shipment of dust at the docks.

Thus Soundwave had conducted a plan, Soundwave would wait until the criminals arrived have Ravage cause a diversion while Laserbeak and Frenzy would cut into the shipping crates and steal as much dust as Soundwave could fit in his vehicle form and drive away.

This way Soundwave would maintain cover and the dust stolen for the decepticons would be believed to be taken by the white fang ensuring decepticon presence would remain secret.

The decepticons would have no witnesses.

Swindle was staring at four witnesses.

"Uhhh, we come in peace." Jaune said nervously

"Isn't it usually the aliens that say that?" Nora asks.

"Well technically to me YOU'RE the aliens." Swindle chimed in chuckling at his own joke.

Seeing that nobody else found it funny the decepticon gave a small cough before pointing his weapon at the huntsmen team much to their surprise.

"Wait!"

"Please don't"

"Seriously!? We just saved your life!" Jaune shouted.

"And while I appreciate the assist it doesn't change the fact you've seen me." Swindle replied.

"We promise we won't tell anybody about you." Pyrrah pleaded.

"Can't take that chance."

"We can make a deal!" Jaune Shouted.

A deal? Now that piqued Swindle's interest.

Lowering his weapon Swindle responded. "Oh? What kind of deal?"

Jaune's eyes widened at Swindle's compliance he hadn't expected that to work it was more of a last-ditch effort to plead for his and his team's lives, but now that the giant, now confirmed to be alien, killer robot wanted to bargain what could he offer?

"u-uh, well what do you want." Jaune asked.

"What do you got?" Swindle asked back.

This was going to be difficult. The only thing Jaune had that he could think of to offer was the money in his wallet that he shakily got out counting how much he had on hand

"I-I've got fifty lien." Jaune meekly held out in his hand.

"Lien? What the scrap is lien?" Swindle asked inching his blaster upwards.

"Currency! It's our form of currency." Pyrrah, sensing the danger, rushed to answer.

"Currancy? Why didn't you say so lemme' see." Swindle said with a hint of excitement. Changing his path blaster back to his hand kneeling down to the student holding his hand out expectantly.

Jaune cautiously put the contents of his wallet in the large metallic hand as if it were going to clamp up like a bear trap.

With the thin paper in the palm of his servo Swindle brought it close to his face.

"This all you got?" Swindle expectantly.

Team JNPR uneasily eyed each other before Ren, Nora, and Pyrrah took out all the lien they had on hand and gave it to the decepticon merchant.

If he weren't so terrified Jaune would realize that he and his team were essentially being mugged by an alien.

"Names?" Swindle suddenly asked.

"H-huh?" Jaune stuttered out.

"Your names, I want them now." Swindle clarified.

Jaune looked and received hesitant and nervous nods from them.

"Jaune arc."

"Pyrrah Nikos."

"Nora Valkyrie."

"Lie Ren."

Swindle nodded memorizing their names.

"Okay Jaune Arc here's the deal, since you and your team technically saved me I'm going to forget this meeting happened but if I find out you didn't forget about this I WILL find you, understand?" Swindle said standing up from his kneeling position.

"Y-yes I understand." Jaune said nodding his head.

"Good." Swindle said as he turned around to make way back to the Nemesis.

"Wait!" Jaune shouted.

"What?" Swindle asked turning back to face the team.

"Who no what are you?" Jaune asked

"My name's Swindle and you could say I'm a…." Swindle took a second to think to himself. What could he say that wouldn't incriminate himself?

"Refugee." Swindle finished.

Before anymore words could be said Swindle, much to the amazement of JNPR, transformed into his jeep mode and drove off.

Team JNPR was stunned in silence all four were trying to process what had just transpired.

Nobody said anything or moved from their spot until Jaune took a few steps in front of his team and turned to face them.

"I TOLD YOU SO!"

Swindle wasn't sure why he agreed to the deal. On one hand if he needed it having the alien's form of currency could be useful albeit in an incredibly unlikely and specific circumstance. However small the possibility Swindle had a soft spot for money. And he supposed he was a little thankful for the assist they gave him.

Soon Swindle arrived back at the nemesis. As he arrived in the ship's bridge and was greeted by Vortex and Blastoff.

"Where the frag have you been?" Vortex asked.

With a wave of his hand Swindle made his way over to one of the pilot seats sitting and propped his feet on the command console. "I went out to look for more crystals and ran into some trouble." Swindle answered choosing to leave out the part of meeting JNPR.

Vortex marched over to the merchant and knocked his feet of the dash. "Quit lazing around we don't need Megatron to see that. I'm already stressing about the report I have for him the last thing I need is him thinking we spent the whole cycle screwing around." Vortex said.

"Oh? And what report would that be, Vortex?" The booming voice of Megatron asked causing the three combaticons to turn and instantly stand to attention to greet their leader and returning comrades, excluding Soundwave though.

"Forgive us lord Megatron we hadn't realized that you had returned." Swindle said rationalizing that they had arrived back at base moments before himself, Swindle silently prayed they hadn't run into the humans he had.

Unintentionally easing Swindle's nerves Megatron made no comment of anything of the sort. "Never mind that Vortex what do you have to report." Megatron said towering over the decepticon helicopter.

Vortex walked over to one of the terminals and typed on the keyboard until the screen lit up showing a list of decepticon name. Some names such as Motormaster, Grindor, and Sixshot were red. Other names such as Shatter, Dropkick, and Sideways were yellow. The third list had names such as Shockwave, Blitzwing, and Reflector that were black. And finally the names of all accounted decepticons I.E. Megatron and the rest were white.

"My lord I spent the time you were away giving a thorough search of the nemesis whilst also forming a manifest of the decepticons that died during the crash." Vortex began explaining before pointing to the screen.

"Here are the names of the crewmembers that I confirmed offline, the names in black are of the forces we left back on Cybertron with Shockwave or sent out into space to chase after autobots."

"And what of the names in yellow?" Megatron asked.

"The names in yellow are the crew members I couldn't find." Vortex said as he typed in a command on the console causing the screen to only show the large list of yellow names. "I couldn't find any trace of them which got me thinking we had a lot of decepticons aboard the nemesis during the fight with the autobots, and we were the only survivors?" Vortex asked as he continued his explination. "So Blasoff and I came up with a theory, I noticed a lot of hull damage while going through the ship so what if some of that space bridge energy leaked in and inadvertently transwarped our soldiers across the planet?"

"And there's also the simpler theory that they just got thrown out through the hull damager during our decent from orbit." Blastoff chimed in.

Megatron said nothing as he took a step to the monitor looking over the list of names. There were decepticons potentially all over Remnant.

The question is where?

Raven was standing in the burning crumbled ruins of her camp.

She had no idea what was attacking her and her tribe nor what sent it. Her tribe had been enjoying a peaceful night until their attacker fell from the sky like a meteor.

Its strategy was to burrow itself underground and pop above surface and attack.

This thing had killed fifteen of her men. And she'll be dammed is she lets it kill any more.

So here she was, Raven Branwen was face to face with a robotic deathstalker with drill like pincers and its trident-like tail twitching.

With a hand on her sword Raven charged at the monstrosity.

Sienna Khan had no idea what human-made death machine she and her white fang brothers were facing but it was more brutal and bloodthirsty than any man, faunus, or grimm she had ever seen before. At first she had assumed this was one of Atlas's new paladin mech she had received reports about, but it didn't match any pictures or description she had gotten. This mechanical menace had killed so many faunus she lost count how many had fell to this thing in brutal and horrific fashion.

Some of her men had been stepped on, blasted with an oversized gun, and even ripped in half. Sienna watched in horror as the robot bit the head off of another white fang member and spat it to the side before letting out an almost feral roar.

"I'LL SUCK OUT YOUR BRAINS!" The monster shouted causing some white fang troops to drop their weapons and run in terror. Sienna could hardly blame them.

Anger coursing through her veins Sienne gripped her chain whip and rallied what white fang members still remained determined to avenger their fallen brothers.

Airachnid was running with Sideways trying to keep up next to her clutching his abdomen.

"Bludgeon isn't answering his commlink I think they got him." Sideways said in slight panic.

"I can't believe these insects got the drop on us. Airachnid growled. "I knew the three of us should have kept moving instead of making camp."

"Wait. Please. We need to stop." Sideways pleaded causing the two decepticons to come to a stop.

"What is it?" Airachnid asked in annoyance and frustration.

Sideways removed his hand from his side revealing a blotch of bright blue liquid staining his hand. "Oh primus, I'm losing too much energon. I can't won't be able to keep going." Sideways said with desperation.

"Well then I suppose there's only one thing to do." Airachnid said. Before Sideways could question what she was thinking Airachnid shot webbing at Sideways causing the decepticon to become immobile.

"What are you doing?!" Sidways shouted.

"Sorry Sideways but I need to look out for number one and you'll buy me the time I need to get away, if it makes you feel any better out of all the decepticons I disliked you the least." Airachnid said with a devilish smirk before transforming into a cybertronian helicopter and flying away.

"YOU NO GOOD SCAVENGER WHEN I FIND YOU I'LL RIP YOU APART PIECE BY OILY PIECE!" Sideways yelled all while struggling in attempt to free himself from his sticky confines.

Sideways' struggling abruptly stopped when he heard the sound of weapons being cocked. Turning his head as far as it was allowed to the last thing Sideways saw was the sight of this new world's inhabitants gunning him down.

Flying away Airachnid thought she was in the clear until a rocket shot her out of the sky causing her to crash into the ground. When Airachnid transformed back into robot mode she immediately realized she was missing an arm as well as several of her spider legs.

She also quickly noticed that she was surrounded by her attackers weapons aimed.

Airachnid raised her remaining arm. "Wait I-" Any plea, threat, or deal the decepticon was about to utter was cut off by a blast of dust rounds to her head causing half her faceplate as well as bits of her processor to separate as if a bomb went off inside her head.

Seeing that the target was dead the humans in white body armor approached the deceased cybertronian before pulling out his scroll. "Target naturalized. What are our next orders?" The soldier asked.

"Gather up every piece of these things, I don't care if it's a bolt the size of a faunus' I.Q. I want every. Piece." The voice from the scroll said.

"Yes sir." The soldier asked.

A purple aero fighter jet with light blue accents soared through the air above Emerald Forrest, miles away from the nemesis crash site, descended down into a small opening devoid of trees.

Transforming Slipstream touched down greeted by the sight of the other three decepticons she had the displeasure of being stranded with.

"Hey wad'up boss bot." A nasally voice greeted.

Rolling her optics Slipstream looked down to gaze upon one of the decepticons smallest and yet without a doubt most obnoxious scouts, Motorhawk.

"What are you doing here? I thought I sent you out scouting." Slipstream asked.

Waving a hand. "There ain't nothing out there but trees and those ugly aft critters, I didn't see the point." Motorhawk answered with a shrug.

Without any warning Slipstream reached down the pick up the two-wheeler by the head lifting him up to eye level.

"Motorhawk, do you know why I'm in charge." The female seeker asked.

"Cuz I've never been able to say no to a femme with a nice aft." Motorhawk shamelessly guessed.

Unsatisfied with his answer Slipsteam let go of the small decepticon causing him to fall face first back on the ground. "It's because I'm the highest ranking officer out of the four of us and as the highest ranking office I CAN order your deactivation for insubordination. So unless you want to be turned into scrap metal I suggest you get out there and START SCOUTING." Slipstream ordered before kicking Motorhawk hard enough to send him flying in an arch in the direction she had ordered him to scout.

Breathing in and letting out a sigh Slipstream made her way further into the camp walking up to a small tower cluttered with mishmash of parts stripped from Remnant technology.

"Scalpel, how is the long range transmitter coming along?" Slipstream asked looking at the tower.

In response a high-pitched growl and the sound of metal being aggressively thrown down followed by the sound of rapid clacking led to without a doubt the smallest decepticon in history climbing up the small tower and perching himself on the top to be eye level with Slipstream.

"For ze last time it is DOCTOR scalpel, I am a DOCTOR!" The tiny decepticon angrily shouted.

Slipstream had to keep herself from crushing the small doctor between the tips of her fingers. Out of all the decepticons she had to be stuck with the two smallest in the entire army. The only reason she put up with this scrap was because despite their sizes Scalpel was one of the decepticons best medics and, even though she hated to admit it, Motorhawk was an excellent scout when he knew to shut up.

"*sigh* Okay, Doctor Scalpel how is the long range transmitter coming along?" Slipstream asked.

With a grunt Scalpel flipped his lenses back down and returned to his work. "Not as vell as you'd like, remember I DID mention I am medic NOT an engineer, plus zis technology is very foreign to me. Honestly zis is a job fit more for Soundvave." Scalpel absentmindedly commented as he continued to work.

The mention of Soundwave brought a smile to Slipstream's faceplate. Oh if only she had been stranded his him rather than these idiots. Then Slipstream would be able to properly show off her skills and he'd praise her for her tenacity and-"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Slipstream's fantasizing was interrupted by pained screaming from the other side of the camp.

"Is he toying with the prisoners again?" Slipstream asked earning a shrug from Scalpel's stubby arms.

"Vaht do I look like his sparkling sitter?" Scalpel answered back.

"I'll go check you keep working. And remember we NEED to know where the other decepticons are, we don't have the energon to fly off without knowing where to go." Slipstream said.

"Yes yes I know." Scalpel said not bothering to look at the female seeker.

Slipstream made her way to the final group of her misfit squad. The largest and quite possible most lethal member of her group was the heavily armed Nitrozeus.

The one eyed seeker was a unique kind of decepticon. Shockwave had experimented on Nitrozeus altering his CNA allowing him to operate multiple weapon systems at once whilst also having his primary weapons on top of his arms rather than transforming his entire limb into the weapon. His weapons consisted of twin shoulder mounted gatling guns, rockets mounted on his back thruster, a small version of a riot cannon on his left arm, and a gear shredder on his right arm.

Nitrozeus was currently holding a white fang, or at least what these creatures referred to themselves as, up to his single red optic squeezing his captive in his hand whilst several other white fangs where kneeling on the ground with their hand on their heads.

Slipstream made a small cough to make her presence known.

"Hey boss what's up." Nitrozeus joyfully said raising his free arm up with a fist expecting a similar action.

Slipstream stood sternly whilst keeping her glare on him.

Nitrozeus, realizing he wasn't getting a fist bump back, let his arm fall to the side. "That's cold boss."

For one of Megatron's top headhunters Slipstream thought Nitrozeus acted far too much like Motorhawk. No wonder the two got along so well.

"Nitro, how many times have I told you not to kill our captives." Slipstream reminded him.

"Hey hey ease up this one ain't dead, see?" Nitrozeus said holding up the white fang to show her. However the faunus simply flopped around in his hand before becoming motionless.

"…."

"…."

"Well he WAS alive." Nitrozeus simply said.

Resting her faceplate in her hand Slipstream once again resist the urge to kill her teammate.

"Nitro remember when we found this camp?"

Casually throwing the white fang over his shoulder like trash Nitrozeus answered. "Of course it's how we got our new alt forms." Nitrozeus said as it was obvious. Nitrozeus vaguely remembers the white fangs saying something about stolen atlas jets but paid it no mind.

"And remember why I wanted to keep them alive?" Slipstream prodded further.

"Uhh somethin' bout' chips?" Nitrozeus said unsure.

"Bargaining chips. So that if more of these white fangs show up we can bargain using the captives, however we can't bargain with dead captives."Slipstream angrily explained.

"Ohhhh right, sorry." Nitrozeus apologized rather unconvincingly.

"Just don't kill anymore." Slipstream tiredly said as she turned to walk away.

Hopefully she and her team would meet up with other decepticons soon. Maybe if she was lucky one of them would be Soundwave.

It was night in Vale and Soundwave was in vehicle mode by the docks and the criminals had arrived just as planned. Soundwave was about to release Laserbeak and Ravage and gather dust with no complications.

"Brothers of the white fang. Why are you aiding this scum?"

Until that happened.

(A/N: Wow pretty sure this is my longest chapter yet I hope it makes up for the last one. Anyway please leave a comment and see y'all next time, oh and if anyone was confused Raven was fighting movieverse Scorponok and Sienne was fighting TLK Berserker)