Transformers - Slag hits the fan - Part 2

Part 1: 

Velocity lays all his seats down flat in the car so Sam and Rattrap can pile into the back with the injured Vance to rush him to base to be cared for by the resident medics. By the way, you'd be surprised how roomy the back of a Honda Fit is when you put the seats down. I should know. I piled the majority of my personal belongings to the ceiling and drove 3500 miles across the country from South Carolina to Washington.

Rattrap asks for Sam's shirt, unexpectedly revealing something Sam has been hiding himself since the incident in Mission City and his resulting exposure to the allspark radiation/power prior to its destruction. Sam is going techno organic much like they've discovered Vance is.. but Rattrap doesn't notice the silver scaling down the line of Sam's spine right away until they get to base. They're all kind of distracted with trying not to lose Vance to blood loss both external and internal before he can be treated.

...needless to say, Rattrap lowers his visor and performs a deep scan and finds more than anyone bargained for and is communicating via live transmission to the Primes, Optimus Prime and Primal... Since this is a crossover of Movie verse Transformers and Beast Machines, Rattrap and some of the other Maximals, namely, Cheetor, calls Optimus Prime "Big Bot", while he calls Optimus Primal "Boss Monkey" (while all others just refer to him as "primal" so as not to confuse who they are referring to, considering that they're both Primes and Primal is from the future who fell through another time vortex and stumbled unto modern day earth in the past and the one and only Optimus Prime aka Orion Pax, is technically Primal's ancestor he was named after...). Rattrap's "boss monkey" nickname was something he started back on primordial Earth during the Beast Wars series. As for the time vortex thing. In my crossover universe, the vortex closed and the Maximals are stuck on modern day Earth indefinitely, but they're fine with that because hey, this is an alternate time line and who doesn't want to hang out with the Autobots?!

...Things are getting interesting....

More "nifty things to know" about Part 1!!!

That car in the background on "Slag hits the fan - Part 1" is my royal blue 2008 Honda Fit Sport made into my OC Transformer, Velocity. I wish my license plate actually said "VMCHN" because I refer to 'him' as 'the V Machine'. sadly, I have a very boring and ordinary license plate because vanity plates cost more and just adds that much more onto the cost of a yearly registration fee. BAH! Maybe some day ..a woman can dream...

..I mentioned in the past that I've had a huge desire to work on a Transformers Live Action Movie Verse / Beast Wars/Machines crossover and lately, my muse has refused to leave me alone so I'm writing down ideas and filling my sketchbook with various doodles, only this one became much more than a silly old doodle and I couldn't resist drawing two of my top favorite Beast Machines (I know, I know, I'll get around to drawing more of my version of Beast Machine Dinobot).

The kid in Rattrap's arms is my fan character Vance McCartney (yes, he also plays a completely unrelated part in my "Integration" story, I just wanted to reuse him for this particular story too, just with a completely different backstory), who has recently discovered is not exactly human anymore. In a car accident, Vance lost his mother and his legs and suffered a series of serious internal injuries and despite all attempts to save him, is unresponsive and remains comatose and is kept as functional as possible with the use of life preserving machinery. His father, unwilling to accept the both the loss of his wife and his son to a coma, which he may never wake from, happens to be a member of sector seven. He contacts his close friend, Tom Banacheck, who is the head of Sector Seven's Advanced Research Division and like an uncle to Vance. He cares very much for Vance and shares Mr. McCartney's desperation to save his comatose son from life as a vegetable. Tom assembles a small team of scientists and they perform the unthinkable. After using the allspark to experiment on different machines (phones, televisions, etc), they voted to attempt to transform a human for the first time in hopes of saving a life. The Six Million Dollar Man (the bionic man) inspired me to do this. "We can rebuild him. We. HAVE. The TECH-NOLOGYYYYYYYYY!!!!" The only big difference that can't be easily explained is that the transformation turned his brown hair and eyes electric blue. He later realizes that embarrassingly, ALL his body hair has turned blue, heh... Try explaining THAT to your Andrologist (men's health Doctor), kiddo!

I have always been fascinated by the techno-organic nature of the Beast Wars/Machines. A set of prosthetic legs were attached to Vance's stumps and after using the allspark to zap him, all the metal throughout his body, including the prosthetic legs, assimilated and transformed into living metal (techno - organic). Vance awakens. However, the experiment is kept classified and Vance never discovers what he has become and is led to believe that he is something of a real life 'bionic man'.

It's not until later that the Transformers show up (TF Movie 2007) and Vance is involved in an altercation with Decepticons (a bit after the end of the first TF live movie), that he is seriously injured and in being maliciously toyed with, has his legs snapped off. Vance actually feels the pain of them being ripped off as if they were his own and from his wounds and mangled legs, bleeds a mixture of human blood and neon blue energon. The Autobots/Maximals realize that this kid needs their own medics to deal with this... Rhinox and Ratchet. Sam and Bumblebee happened to be hanging out with Rattrap and Cheetor when the incident happened and were the first on the scene shortly followed by Vance's newly appointed guardian, Velocity (Vance was not yet aware of the fact that the car his father 'gave' him is an alien assigned by Prime to protect him). It just so happened that when the Decepticons attacked Vance, he was with his father in his father's SUV and naturally, Slag hit the fan. Velocity feels guilty that the one time he wasn't there to keep an eye on Vance, the Decepticons showed up... Shit happens, folks. Being fast on his wheels, Velocity is appointed by Cheetor to take Vance to base along with Rattrap and Sam. Cheetor and Bumblebee stay behind to kick some pit-spawned Decepti-afts.

Velocity - Voiced by: Vin Diesel 

Vance McCartney - Voiced by: Chester Bennington (lead singer of Linkin Park)

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Integration, Vance McCartney © Me 

Beast Wars/Machines © Hasbro, Mainframe Entertainment and Universal Pictures

Transformers © Hasbro

Transformers I, II, II, & IV [films] © Michael Bay, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman Stephen Spielberg