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Leo Spitz Sam Witwicky Mikaela Barnes is an American teenager who is starting university. He helped the Autobots last year but now he just wants a quiet life. is Sam’s beautiful girlfriend. She loves Sam but she wants him to say the ‘love’ word first! THE AUTOBOTS The Autobots are good Transformers and they work for the US military. Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots. He wants to keep Earth safe from the Decepticons. is an important city in China. was in the military and helped Sam to fight the Decepticons. Now he works in a meat shop and looks for information about the Transformers in his free time. Major Lennox Bumblebee (Bee) is an Autobot and he can transform into a yellow car. He lives with Sam and is unhappy that his friend can’t take him to university with him. OTHER AUTOBOTS Ironhide Ratchet The Smithsonian is in Washington. It is one of the most famous museums in the world. 4 Galloway is a military leader and a good friend of the Autobots. is one of the most important men in the US military. He decides what to do when there is danger. THE DECEPTICONS The Decepticons are bad Transformers. They don’t care about the lives of the people on Earth. The Fallen He was part of a group of Transformers called the Seekers who came to Earth a long time ago, looking for something important. He could transform into a plane. Now he is in a museum. Shanghai Agent Simmons (Robowarrior) General Morshower Jetfire is a very old Transformer. PLACES lives with Sam at university. He is very clever with computers and has his own website. But he gets frightened when there is real danger. Y s' L er ON ch n ea tio r t ec Fo sp in PEOPLE AND PLACES is an important old Prime but he has become bad. All the Decepticons, including Megatron, do everything he orders. He is looking for something here on Earth. But what is it? The Great Pyramid of Giza is in Egypt. It is one of a group of pyramids. A long time ago, the Egyptians put the dead bodies of their kings there. 5 is an important man in the USA but he thinks he is cleverer than he really is. He wants the Autobots to leave the planet. Megatron was a leader of the Decepticons. He was Optimus Prime’s brother. Can he live again? OTHER DECEPTICONS Demolisher Devastator Ravage Wheelie The Pretender Starscream Doctor Petra, Jordan is a very old and beautiful city. The houses are inside a mountain. Y s' L er ON ch n ea tio r t ec Fo sp in chapter 1 Problems for the Autobots Prologue Many years ago, the planet Cybertron was the home of the Autobots and the Decepticons. These were giant robots that could transform into machines. The Autobots were good robots but the Decepticons were bad. They wanted to be the leaders on the planet. There was a long fight. Many robots died and finally, the planet Cybertron was dead too. The Decepticons came to Earth. They were looking for the Allspark. This had a special power. It could make new robot life. The Autobots could not let Megatron, the leader of the Decepticons, find and use the Allspark. So, they followed him to Earth*. During a terrible fight between the robots, a young American boy, Sam Witwicky, used the Allspark to kill Megatron. When Megatron died, the Allspark died too. Now, the body of Megatron lies in very deep water and US military ships stay near it. The last small piece of the Allspark is in a very strong box. It is safe under the ground. But the Decepticons have not left our planet. They are hiding in machines all over the world. The Autobots have joined the US Military to look for and kill the Decepticons. Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots and Megatron’s brother, knows that the Decepticons have got a plan. They want something from this planet. Robots from Cybertron are not new visitors to planet Earth*. Men and robots have met before, millions of years ago … Hundreds of people were running through the streets of Shanghai in China. They were holding their hands over their mouths and noses, and they were frightened. ‘Clear the area! There has been an accident. The air might be dangerous. Leave quickly!’ shouted a soldier. Motorbikes, cars and military trucks filled the roads. There was a big problem. But it wasn’t an accident. The soldiers didn’t want the people to know why they were really there. Carefully, the soldiers went closer to a big building. Everything looked fine. There were pieces of machines all over the ground. Then suddenly, the pieces of machines started to move. They changed quickly. The bits of metal came together with loud, screaming noises and quickly they transformed. They changed into a giant robot. It had * Earth is the planet that we live on. 6 7 *** 8 Y s' L er ON ch n ea tio r t ec Fo sp in a big angry head with black teeth, and heavy arms. It was Demolisher, a Decepticon. A deep voice came from his mouth as he crashed through the soldiers and threw cars into the air. The soldiers fired their guns as the Decepticon moved along the empty streets, but nothing could stop him. ‘Quick. It’s escaping! We need planes!’ shouted Major Lennox, the military leader. Motorbikes and cars transformed into Autobots and they attacked Demolisher but he was too big and too strong. They couldn’t slow him down. Soon he was in the busy streets of the city centre. His metal arms hit planes out of the dark sky. People screamed, buildings burned and the air was full of fire. A military plane flew through the smoke and opened its doors high in the sky. Something large and dark fell slowly to the ground. It was a big red and blue truck. It drove quickly after the Decepticon and then transformed into another giant robot. This was the Autobot leader, Optimus Prime. Optimus looked into Demolisher’s red eyes and with one strong arm he lifted him off the ground. The Decepticon couldn’t win against the strongest and cleverest Autobot on Earth. He crashed on his back, broken and dying. Optimus stood over him. ‘Any last words?’ he asked. Demolisher looked up at Optimus. His dark red eyes were full of hate. ‘The Fallen will live again.’ His words nearly disappeared in the wind but Optimus heard them. ‘Not today,’ he said and he pointed his gun at Demolisher’s head. ‘Hurry up, Sam,’ Sam’s dad shouted up the stairs. ‘We have to leave now.’ His mom was crying. She held a child’s pair of shoes in her hands. ‘My big boy – going to university!’ She cried even more loudly. ‘We’re happy for you son,’ said his dad. ‘Now stop crying, Judy. Think about our holiday in France.’ ‘You’re still my little boy!’ She put her arms round Sam. ‘You must come home for every holiday! Or we’ll come to you …’ Sam’s face was red. ‘Mom! Please!’ He went up to his room to get his bags. His mobile phone rang and he smiled. It was his girlfriend, Mikaela. While he talked to her, he put more clothes in his bag. ‘I’m going to take my old shirt,’ he told her. ‘You know, the one that I was wearing when we were in the Autobot fight last year.’ As he lifted the shirt, something fell out of the pocket. It was a small piece of metal. Sam picked it up 9 Y s' L er ON ch n ea tio r t ec Fo sp in but it was very hot. He dropped it quickly. Then a strange thing happened. It burned through the floor and fell into the kitchen. ‘I think a piece of the Allspark was in my shirt,’ he shouted to Mikaela on the phone as he ran downstairs. In the kitchen, even stranger things were happening. All the machines, all the knives and forks suddenly changed into very small robots. They were jumping off the tables and running across the cupboards. They jumped at Sam’s legs and pulled him onto the floor. Then they fired at him! Sam ran upstairs to escape them and jumped out of the window. The small machines were everywhere. Sam’s mom ran screaming out of the house. ‘Lie down!’ shouted his dad. ‘Not again!’ he said, looking angrily at his son. Suddenly, a yellow car came out of the garage and transformed into a big robot. It was Bee, Sam’s own car Autobot. It fired at the small machines until they all stopped moving. Everything was quiet again. Sam went into the kitchen and carefully picked up the piece of metal. He put it in a small bag. Mikaela arrived on her motorbike. Her long, black hair flew behind her in the wind. ‘Are you OK?’ She was worried. ‘Put this in a safe place,’ said Sam and he gave Mikaela the bag. He put his arms round her. ‘We can talk every day,’ he said softly. Mikaela looked at him. Her dark eyes were big and shining. ‘Just say it,’ she said. ‘I … like you very, very much,’ Sam said. But he wasn’t ready to say the ‘love’ word … yet. *** A long way from Earth, the Decepticon Soundwave landed on a US military satellite*. Its long metal arms went round the satellite. Now the Decepticons could hear every conversation between the military leaders on Earth. *** A military plane brought an important man, Theodore Galloway, to meet Major Lennox and the Autobots. He stood with Major Lennox in front of Optimus Prime. General Morshower, the most important man in the US military, was also listening to the conversation on the radio. ‘Lennox!’ Galloway said coldly. ‘You made big mistakes in Shanghai. Now everyone knows about the Autobots. They must leave Earth now!’ Major Lennox didn’t like this little man. ‘The Autobots are our partners,’ he said. ‘They have given us a lot of help!’ He pointed to Optimus Prime. ‘This robot is our friend.’ * A satellite is something in the sky that sends TV and radio to different places on Earth. 10 11