Chapter 46
Mikaela's eyes lit up instantly. She rushed back into the bedroom and came out three minutes later, fully dressed.
Tight jeans, Martin boots, and the tactical vest Yang Jian had bought her last night.
"How do I look?" She did a quick spin.
"Ready to fight aliens?"
Yang Jian chuckled lightly: "More like you're about to play CrossFire."
Outside the hotel, the freshly upgraded yellow Camaro was already running.
The moment Mikaela opened the door, the radio auto-tuned.
"Emergency situation."
"We already know, Bumblebee." She buckled her seatbelt.
"Yang Jian told me." She paused, then added.
Bumblebee's engine let out an unhappy rumble. A line of text flashed across the dashboard: "How does he know?"
Yang Jian slid into the passenger seat and tapped the steering wheel: "Super vision. I can see anywhere I want—including outer space."
Mikaela's eyes widened in shock: "So last night… you were watching the whole time?"
"Pretty much." Yang Jian shrugged.
"Counted how many Decepticon spy satellites are orbiting Earth while I was at it."
Bumblebee's dashboard screen flickered wildly before finally piecing together: "Incredible."
The car suddenly accelerated hard, heading out of the city.
Mikaela pressed herself against the window, both nervous and thrilled: "So who exactly are the Decepticons? How did they find us?"
"The other faction from Cybertron." Yang Jian adjusted the comm device.
"As for how they found us…" He pointed upward.
"There's a Decepticon called Soundwave up there playing peeping tom."
Mikaela followed his finger, seeing only clear blue sky: "Wait—you're saying there's an alien satellite watching us right now?!"
"Relax." Yang Jian patted her knee.
"When the fighting starts, you'll be too busy to think about it."
Bumblebee suddenly veered onto a remote highway. The car stereo switched to AC/DC's "Thunderstruck."
Mikaela gripped the handle tightly, heartbeat racing with the drumbeat.
In the distance, four vehicles waited quietly on the barren plain.
As they drew closer, the vehicles began transforming. The red giant at the front stepped forward, optics locking onto the approaching Camaro.
Optimus Prime's voice was deep and steady.
"Human, the war has begun."
"Last night we were ambushed by Decepticons."
"Soundwave is monitoring Earth from space. Starscream already—"
"I know." Yang Jian cut him off directly.
With a thought, black nano-armor instantly covered his body.
Optimus Prime's optics contracted sharply.
Before he could react, Yang Jian raised a hand and waved.
Buzz!
Three massive golden portals unfolded across the plain. The other sides clearly showed the steel structure of Hoover Dam.
The raging Colorado River surged below the dam. Sector Seven's secret base was fully exposed.
"This is impossible!" Ratchet's scanners screamed in alarm.
"Spatial jump technology? But the energy readings don't conform to any known physics!"
"Because it's magic." Yang Jian's bio-field wrapped around Mikaela; the two slowly floated upward.
"Let's go give the Decepticons a lesson."
Mikaela clung tightly to Yang Jian's neck, watching the Autobots shrink beneath them: "What about them? They can't fly!"
"There are ways."
...
Above Hoover Dam
Yang Jian hovered among the clouds, black cape billowing without wind.
Mikaela floated beside him, wrapped in his bio-field—nervous yet thrilled as she looked down.
"What now?" Mikaela asked.
"Simple. We go in." Yang Jian's eyes flared red.
Optimus Prime and the other Autobots had just stepped through the portal when the sight before them left them stunned.
The entire dam structure had been precisely sliced open by Yang Jian's heat vision, exposing the hidden Sector Seven base underground.
Alarms blared across the valley. Falling rocks and steel beams rained down. Personnel inside panicked and fled.
"Autobots—prepare for battle!!" Optimus Prime ordered immediately, looking up at the sky.
Several fighter jets were approaching at high speed, but their flight paths were unnatural—clearly not controlled by human pilots.
"Starscream!" Ironhide roared, shoulder cannons locking on.
But Yang Jian merely glanced at them. His eyes suddenly blazed with blinding red light.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Heat vision tore through the sky. The three jets disguised as fighters exploded into fireballs mid-air.
Starscream transformed in the last moment to escape, but half his wing was melted. He crashed toward a distant ridge in disgrace.
Yang Jian carried Mikaela straight into the exposed base interior.
Sector Seven agents opened fire. Bullets stopped meters away, then were crushed to powder by the bio-field.
Yang Jian didn't even lift a finger—armed personnel along the path simply dropped dead one after another.
"This is insane!" Mikaela muttered.
They moved unimpeded all the way to the core laboratory.
The massive AllSpark cube floated in the center, radiating eerie blue energy waves.
Even more shocking was Megatron, frozen beside it.
His silver-gray frame was encased in thick ice, but the menacing contours of his faceplate were still visible.
Sector Seven director Simmons raised a pistol, face pale: "Stop! This is top national security—"
Yang Jian glanced at him. A single heat vision blast sent him straight to the afterlife.
Scientists in the lab screamed and fled.
Bumblebee moved quickly forward. His metal fingers touched the surface of the AllSpark.
Complex Cybertronian code flowed across his optics. The cube visibly shrank at high speed until it became a palm-sized metal block.
"That's it?" Mikaela stared in disbelief.
"Not yet." Yang Jian turned toward the frozen Megatron. His eyes flared red again.
"The Decepticon leader won't go down so easily."
Shhh!!
The ice layer vaporized instantly under extreme heat. Megatron's optics snapped open with scarlet light.
"Autobots… you dare…"
Before he could finish, Yang Jian adjusted the power of his heat vision. The blinding beam pierced straight through Megatron's chest.
The Decepticon leader's armor melted instantly. His core energon chamber overloaded and exploded!
BOOM!!!
The shockwave was effortlessly blocked by Yang Jian's bio-field.
Bumblebee stared in shock at the scene—the once terrifying Megatron reduced to a pile of charred slag.
When Optimus Prime and the other Autobots rushed into the lab, the battle was already over.
The AllSpark rested quietly in Bumblebee's palm. Megatron was nothing but blackened wreckage.
"This…"
Ratchet's scan beam trembled as it swept the site: "You took down Megatron… by yourself?!"
Yang Jian's armor melted away like liquid, returning to normal clothing: "Just something I did on the side."
Optimus Prime and the others stared in disbelief—they couldn't even imagine how strong Yang Jian truly was.
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