Chapter 4 : The Team Need You! Rosetta's Power!
-Location: Oogai Town, Golf Course-
It was an usual normal day. The place took place at the golf course. They were people playing some golf. One of the man, then catching his breath while admiring the view.
"What are great day to score for hole in one." the man spoke up. "A masterpiece. No, no, no, a 'grass'terpiece!" Nice pun.
He then jumped onto a golf cart and drove off. As soon he has drove off, something jumped out from the water and landed on the surface. It's another Con which happens to be a lobster-like.
"Yes! Three bodies of water across in nano-cycle!" the lobster Con hollered. "This planet is no match for-"
He then got interrupted by engine sounds. He looked and saw four vehicles and a green bot coming to his way. They were Autobots and the Cures! The Dinobot charged at him, but only to be shot by the lobster's blue beam coming from his mouth.
"Grimlock!" Rosetta yelled.
Grimlock then got blasted away and hit fall on top of Sideswipe. The Dinobot loss unconscious for a bit before he get off of Sideswipe.
"Sideswipe, are you okay?" Diamond asked him, with a thumb up from him in return.
"That's beam sure is something." Sword spoke up.
"With that beam of his, we could get hurt. We have to block that beam somehow." Heart then look at Rosetta. "Rosetta!"
Rosetta nodded in acknowledge of what she's about to do.
The lobster Con then cheered. "Woo hoo! Four more Autobot take downs and I will own the record!"
"Hate to ruin your day, Bisk, but that one you just threw is actually a Dinobot." Bumblebee and Strongarm pointed their weapons at him.
"Fine." the Con, who revealed to named Bisk, scoffed. "I can still tie the record." he then tries to shoot his blue energy beam at him but Rosetta created her Rosetta Wall to block it. But the beam of his is too strong as she is struggling.
"Heart! Diamond! Sword!" the yellow Cure called out.
"Okay!" the three Cures jumped and began to throw kick and punch at the Con, making him blast away.
With the blue energy beam has faded away from Rosetta Wall, Rosetta about to collapsed but Strongarm gently catches her.
"Are you alright?" the cadet asked her.
The Cure just gave her a weak smile and nodded. "I'm fine." she then look at her hands. Her power...is it becoming more weaker?
"Don't worry, Alice. We'll take care of him from here." Bumblebee spoke up before they all raced to the Con.
Sideswipe then tries to attack him with his sword as Diamond tries to kick him with her leg but Bisk used his claw to block them and reflect them back, and blasting the two away.
"This lobster is too tough!" Sideswipe retorts.
"Double defense mode! I am a master at this!" the Con bragged.
"You're really that annoying-quel!" Raquel argues.
"Look who's talking, shorty!" Bisk shot back. He then shoot another blue energy beam at them.
Rosetta quickly reacted and tries to create her Rosetta Wall. "Stiff and Strong! Rosetta Wall!" but...nothing happened. The beam hit them, knocking them back.
"Rosetta!/Alice!"
Bisk laughed. "Your defense are no longer for my power!"
Rosetta stands up and looked at her hands again. Did she...lose her power already? Whatever happens, she was horrified. Lance then looked at her in worried. "Rosetta-lance...?"
Growling, Bumblebee then com-link the others. "Sideswipe and Rikka cascade with Strongarm, Makoto, Mana and me! Grimlock, splash down manevour! Go!"
With that, they moves into the different direction. Strongarm and Bumblebee fires their gun at him with Diamond and Sword using the 'Twinkle Diamond' and 'Holy Sword' respectively. Sideswipe then appeared from the air and give him a drop kick.
Bisk then about to stumbles but remains standing up. "You think I don't know how to beat this attack?! It's just up, up, left, down, claw, claw!"
"No! But beat this!" the red bot smirked at him and then looked at Heart and she nodded.
She insert her Cure Lovead into the slot before drawing a heart on the Lovely Commune. The smaller heart in the middle blinks twice, and her heart brooch shines. "Reach Out to You! My Sweet Heart!" using her hands, she placed both of her hands on her heart brooch and released the pink light at him, which blind him for a bit.
"Ah! My eyes! Too bright!" the Con shouted as he shielded his eyes.
"Now! Grimlock!" the Dinobot then leaped to the air and shouted, "Cannonball!" and smashed on top of him, knocking him out.
"You are so under arrest." the cadet told at the knocked out Con.
"Score one more for us. Good work, team. Let's get him into a stasis cell." Bumblebee ordered.
Sideswipe and Strongarm then carried Bisk and they headed off to their base. However, Rosetta looked down at the ground a bit before looking at her hands.
"Has my power...?" she muttered.
"Alice, are you coming?" Grimlock called her out which snapped her out from imagination.
She nodded. "Yes!" and followed them.
-Location: Oogai Town, Yotsuba's Mansion-
The team went back to the mansion and Bisk has now placed into the stasis cell.
"And Bisk is tossing us around with his claws!" Grimlock told the orange Mini-Con about what happened. "So, I nailed him with the dino demolisher! It was epic!"
"Sounds exciting." Fixit spoke up. "I think hearing about what all of you do is the most filling-billing-thrilling part of what I do! Gosh, I'd love to get out in the field in a strictly non-confrontational capacity of course."
"Rule 699 dash B: Mini-Cons must remain at their duty stations at all time-" the cadet reminded him but was cut off by her human partner.
"Now, it's not the time, Strongarm." Makoto giggled. "In fact, Fixit is part of our team, remember?"
"But doesn't build for the tough stuff anyway." Sideswipe smirked.
Rikka glared at him. "Sideswipe!"
"Hey, hey, I was just joking!"
However, Fixit look saddened at it.
"Now, now, Fixit. Don't feel bad about it." Mana reassured to him.
Bumblebee spoke up. "Yeah. That's not to say you don't play a key role on our team."
"Just not as key as me: tailpipe kicker. Am I right?" Grimlock asked.
The Mini-Con frowned at him. "Well, excuuuuse me." he then roll away.
Alice just watches them from the distance before sighing and began to walk away. But Grimlock noticed her and began to follows her. The girl then sat down at the couch and looked at her hands again. Lance was begin to get worried.
"Hey, what's the matter?" Grimlock, who was looking at her through the window.
Alice shook her head. "It's nothing, Grim." she fibbed.
Her guardian just stare at her, knowing that she is lying. "Come on, I know you're lying. Why are you sad? You can tell me. Is it because what the others said about Fixit?"
"Oh, it's not that. It's just..." she looked at her hands once more. "My Pretty Cure power..."
"What's wrong with it?" he raised his eyebrow.
"It's...gone." with that reply, Lance and Grimlock gave her a shocked expression.
"What do you mean it's gone-lance?" her fairy partner looked panic.
The girl looked at them. "When I use my Rosetta Wall on that Decepticon's attack, my power got weakened." she explained. "And when I try to use it for the second time, it just...disappeared."
Her fairy partner and guardian just looked at her in worried, unsure of what to say next. Then, the beeping sound got everyone's attention.
"Decepticon. A few miles away." Fixit announced.
Bumblebee nods. "Let's roll and recapture!" he tries another catchphrase but receiving no reaction.
"Really-sharu?" Sharuru sighed.
"Yep, not feeling that one either." he pointed out. "Come on."
The three bots transforms into their vehicles and letting their partners in. Grimlock then turn to Alice.
"What about you?" he asked her.
"I'm fine." she shook her head. "You go ahead, Grimlock." her guardian tries to argue with her but seeing his team already drive off, he transform into his DInobot mode and followed them.
The girl just watches them go and sighed. Without her Pretty Cure power, she can't help her team. Fixit and Lance notices her, feeling sad. Again, they are not sure of what to say.
-Location: Oogai Town, Airport-
They have arrived at some airport from the distance. They stopped our tracks for a bit.
"Strongarm and Sideswipe. Let's move in for a closer look. In vehicle mode." Bumblebee orders them.
Before driving off, Grimlock ask them. "What about me?"
"Uh..you're too dinosaur-y to sneak around big guy." Sideswipe pointed out.
"Hang back and secure the perimeter." the yellow bot told the Dinobot before driving off. Grimlock was confused on what Bumblebee meant by 'perimeter'.
The three vehicles drives across the hangar. "Split up. If you spot the fugitive, com the rest immediately." Bumblebee told them.
With that, they split up into different direction. Bumblebee and Mana were looking out for some suspicious activities until the girl heard something.
"Bumblebee, did you heard that?" she asked her Autobot guardian as he stopped his track for a bit. He heard it too. It's coming from one of the hangar.
They followed the noise and they saw a giant maroon Decepticon, who is searching for something inside of the plane.
"Where are ya, ya stinkin'?" this Con seems to have some sort of Cockney accent. "There ya are, ya little beauty!"
Bumblebee then shines his headlight at Con as he noticed. The yellow bot then pulled out his gun and pointed at him. "Playtime's over!"
The Con then placed the small part down and smirked. "Do ya really 'hink you can 'ake all ov us, copper?"
Mana who was hiding behind the wall, blinking her eyes. "Us? What does he mean?"
"I know I can take you, Decepticon." Bumblebee paused for a bit before realizing on what the Con just said. "Wait. Did you just say 'us'?"
The Con smirked as his body parts began to de-attached and take forms into giant ants. "Eh?!" Mana and Sharuru were surprised at this.
"He can split into ants-sharu?!"
The robot ants then pounced on Bumblebee and began to sting him. It was a painful sting! "Mana! A little help!"
"Bumblebee! We're coming!" the girl shouted as she grabbed her transformation device. "Pretty Cure, Love Link!"
Her head is showing and a yellow light surrounds her hair. First, it takes a shape of a heart and then her long yellow hair appears along with her hair ornaments. The yellow light then creates her dress. More yellow light creates a pink heart on her chest and then her arm warmers and boots. She landed on the ground and began to introduced herself.
"The Overflowing love! Cure Heart!"
Heart then charged at the robot ants and kicked two of them away. The rest of the ants part looked at her.
"An' who migh' you be?" one of them asked in annoyance.
"With the strength of love, I, Cure Heart, will get back your heart-pounding excitement!"
"Cure Heart, eh? 'as a nice rin' to it but havin' two ov you have no ma'ch faw us!" They began to pound at her but some blue diamonds blocked them.
"Make that four!" they looked and saw Diamond, Sword, Sideswipe and Strongarm arrived just in time!
The Con growled. "There's mawe ov 'hem! But no matters!" they all began to pounced the bots and the Cures.
"Be careful! They stings!" Bumblebee warned them. But it was too late! The two bots got stings! Diamond dodge its pouncing while Sword just slashed them away.
"Diamond! Sword!" Heart called out. "If only Rosetta was here." she muttered to herself.
Then, Grimlock came rushing from the wall like he was trying to impersonate that 'Kool-Aid man'. "Oh yeah!" but one of them landed on his face and began to stings him.
The Con laughed before turning to the others. "Oi, bring it in!"
They obeyed him as they took the part and escaped from where Grimlock made the wall.
"They're escaping-sharu!"
Bumblebee quickly get up as he and Heart tries to catch them. The Con looked at them. "Down the hatch." and jumped into the hatch. Bumblebee tries to grab but he already escaped.
"Scrap! Who is this bot?!" he wondered loudly.
-Location: Oogai Town, Yotsuba's Mansion-
Alice was looking at the moon while Fixit was carrying his stuff. He stopped as he look at her.
"Miss Alice." the caretaker robot called her out. "Is everything alright? You seems quiet."
"I'm fine, Fixit." she lied again. "Don't worry about me."
He then rolls to her side. "But you didn't go on a mission with the others. There's must be something wrong with that."
The girl sighed. There are no point of telling lies or avoiding these kind of question anymore. "I kinda lost my Pretty Cure power..."
"Oh dear..." Fixit gasped. "How did this happen?"
"It happens when we're fighting against Bisk..." she told him. "His beam somehow managed to break my Rosetta Wall..."
The caretaker about to speak up again until they saw the team has back.
"Oh, you're back!" he greeted them. "Did you get the fuga-fugitives?"
"Unfortunately, no. He, I mean, they escaped." Bumblebee spoke up. "Could you find some information about this fugitive?"
"It's a Decepticon that can split into ants and sting-sharu!" Sharuru explained the detail about that Con.
"Hm...that sounds familiar..." Fixit then opened Alchemor database to find the detail of Decepticon that Sharuru explained. "Ah, here he is. He's the Combiner named Chop Shop." A Combiner Decepticon? That's new. And Chop Shop, huh? Has a nice ring to it. "A one man heist crew with a list of crimes as long as Alpha Trion's beard."
"Alpha Trion...?" Mana blinked her eyes.
"It's a long story. Have you seen that beard? It's more of a steel carpet. The way he-" Fixit got interrupted.
"So, Chop Shop's a thief up to his old tricks again?" Bumblebee wondered.
The caretaker continued. "I snacked-waxed-hacked local law enforcement database and found a list of properties stolen within an appropriate radius. A list of properties stolen within an approriate radius." he continued. "At first there didn't seem to be a pattern. Copper wire, kerosene, space heater, insolation, storage tanks, computer chips and now an aircraft gyroscene. But taken together there's really only one thing Chop Shop would need all those parts for."
Within the explanation, the fairies were almost fall asleep by that.
"This is much worse than Joe's lecture-quel..." Raquel muttered under his breath.
Bumblebee heard him and rolled his optics. "A space ship." he told Fixit.
"That means, he wants off this planet!" Makoto blurted out.
"Can't say I blame him." Sideswipe shrugged.
Fixit look at the monitor. "Chop Shop appears to have everything he needs except fuel." he continued. "A manufacturing plant in the country synthesizes liquid oxygen. Security's tight though. Too tight for oversized aliens to just walk up to-"
"So, we don't send any of them." Bumblebee interrupted him. "Alice, would you be up for-"
When he looked at the girl, she turned away from them with a bit depression expression on her face.
"What's wrong with her?" Strongarm asked in concern.
"Uh...let just say that she somehow lost her Pretty Cure power." Grimlock explained, grinning nervously.
The others looked at him in shocked. "What?!"
That caught Alice's attention. "Oh, don't worry about me, all of you. I'll be fine." she smiled.
"Are you sure-lance?" Lance questioned her in worry. The girl just nodded.
The others looked at each other before turning to the girl. "A-alright, if you say so."
"Alice..." Mana muttered in worry as well.
Bumblebee then turned to Fixit. "Fixit, we might need your tech expertise too."
The Mini-Con's optics widened. "Me?"
"You said you wanted to get out in the field." Rikka told him. "So, this is your chance."
Strongarm denied. "Though it is against regulations."
Makoto sighed. "Strongarm. It'll be fine. Fixit is under our protection after all."
Fixit looked at Alice as the girl looked back at him. She smiled and signaling a nod to let him go. "How dangerous are we talking about?" he turned to the others. "Say ranging from I don't know one to forty."
"If Chop Shop makes it off this planet, who know what trouble he can cause." Bumblebee explained. "He needs to be brought to justice."
Grimlock then fist pump. "Boom! Let's go bug hunting!"
"Throttle down, Grimlock. You're staying here." Bumblebee told him. "Without an Earth based vehicle mode, you'd stick out like a sore cyber car pole. Besides, you can stay here and accompany Alice."
"I know that but, Fixit doesn't have a vehicle mode." the green bot stated.
"He's not gonna need one." Makoto pointed out. "And in fact, Dabyi can handle the guard's situation."
Dabyi nodded as he created a purple smoke surrounding her and then revealing herself that she transform into a human. "You may call me in this from, D.B."
"Woah! She can do that?!" Sideswipe gawked.
"We all can-quel!" Raquel pointed out.
D.B then spoke up. "Now, let's get down to business!" receiving some nods from the others.
-Location: Oogai Town Factory-
They have arrived at some sort of factory. D.B. riding with Makoto, Fixit and Strongarm, showing her ID card to the guard and saying she's part-time guard here. The guard stare the ID for a bit before nodding and let them through.
"Field work is fun." Fixit admitted it. "Let's find more human we can fool."
"Fixit, this is not the time for-" Makoto got interrupted when Strongarm suddenly stopped her tracks. "Hey, what gives-"
They look and saw a bunch of Chop Shops's part were up to something with that fuel truck. However, one of them spotted Strongarm.
"We've been made. Bug out!" he alerted the others.
"Chop Shop is making a break for it!" D.B. exclaimed.
"On our way!" the two vehicles then blocked in front of them.
"You're not going anywhere, Chop Shop!" Sideswipe told them.
"We're here to stop your cruel and selfish behavior!" Heart hollered.
Behind Chop Shop, Makoto who is now Cure Sword and Fixit were standing behind them, not letting them escape.
One of them growled as they started to stack up to each other and form into Chop Shop. However, his right arm is missing because its currently fighting with Strongarm.
"You no good widgets. What am I suppose to do now?!" Chop Shop groans. He then looks at Fixit and smirked. The Con grabbed him.
"Fixit!"
Chop Shop then attaches him into his arm socket. "Nonononono!" Fixit yelled.
"He got Fixit!" Diamond exclaimed.
"I'm not supposed to be here!" the Mini-Con complained.
"Fixit, hang on!" Strongarm then tries to leap up to grab Fixit but the Con notices her and punch her with Fixit.
"Strongarm!"
"That's gonna leave a mark!" Fixit pointed out.
"Righty, take ta' wheel!" Chop Shop told his right arm part, named Righty. What a cute name. He obeyed and went inside the truck and began to drive away. Chop Shop then climbed at the back of the truck.
"He's getting away-quel!"
"And he has Fixit-sharu!"
"Actually, Fixit is now part of the suspect." Strongarm pointed out.
"Well, we aren't losing him!" the others then transformed into their vehicles and letting their partners in and chase after Chop Shop.
"Sideswipe, Strongarm, get Chop Shop left flank. I'll try to pitton manuver!" Bumblebee ordered.
The two bots obeyed and they went to the other side while Bumblebee was at the other. Chop Shop notices Sideswipe and give him a kick, making him lose control. "Sideswipe! Are you okay?" Diamond asked him.
"I'm fine! What about you?" the girl just nods. "Incoming-quel!"
With that, Chop Shop used Fixit to make half of the bridge collapsed on them, forcing them stop.
"Is everyone okay?" Heart spoke up. Her teammates just nods. They look and they already lost Chop Shop.
"Can't win em all." Sideswipe pointed out.
"And we can't use our Pretty Cure attacks on Chop Shop, or else it'll might hurt Fixit as well." Sword explained. If only Rosetta was here...
"We haven't lose them yet." Strongarm spoke up. With that, she used her ultraviolet headlights and revealing the tracks that Chop Shop left. "First rule of perp identification. Memorize the suspects tire tracks."
"Amazing-quel."
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get them and Fixit-sharu!"
-Location: Oogai Town, Yotsuba's Mansion-
Grimlock was like walking forward and backward repeatedly, not knowing what to do. He then stopped when she sees Alice was staring at her hands.
"Alice..." he sighed. "You're worrying yourself again..."
The girl then looked at him. "I'm sorry, Grim. It's just...my Pretty Cure power..."
"I know that. But that doesn't mean you should give up as a Pretty Cure." he pointed out.
"Grim...I'm sorry but I can't..."
"Alice..." Lance spoke up. "You're worrying about your Pretty Cure power more than your team-lance. It doesn't matter if you lost your power-lance. Our team needs you-lance!"
"He's right, Alice. Our team will not be completed without you creating those shields thing!" Grimlock explained. "You're you, Alice. You're part of our team. They need you out there!"
Alice just stared at them for a while before looking down. Were they telling the truth? Without her Pretty Cure powers, she can't do anything but her team needs her! She's part of the team! The one and only Cure Rosetta!
"Grim, Lance, thank you. I feel more confidence growing inside of me." the girl told her. Those words bring the smiles to their faces. "Our team really needs me. Grim, you stay here. Lance, let's go!"
-Location: Oogai Town, Train Station-
They arrived at some sort of abandoned train station. The Autobots let their partners out first before transforming to their robots mode.
"The trail leads inside here, sir." Strongarm told her lieutenant.
Bumblebee nods. "Keep your optics open. We're on Chop Shop's turf now."
They walked forward for a bit and peek inside and saw a large rocket.
"Sweet ride." the red bot muttered.
"Okay, so not so much his turf as his mission control." Bumblebee spoke up.
Then, right behind us, Chop Shop was standing as they turned around. "You don't want us on this rock and we don't wanna be here, so what's the glitch, coppers?!"
The Con then tries to slam us with Fixit but they all dodge it. Diamond and Sword then kicked him from the other side. Growling, Chop Shop then use Fixit to slam them away.
"Sorry, Rikka, Makoto!" Fixit apologizes.
Strongarm then pointed her gun at him. "Don't shoot, Strongarm! You might hit the rocket fuel and Fixit!" Heart warned her.
"Mana, look out!"
Chop Shop grabbed Heart with his left arm and bring her to his face. "You 'hink you're so 'ough, are you?" he chuckles as his left arm stings her.
"Heart!"
"Let her go!" a voice yelled at him from behind.
They turned around and saw a familiar face. It's Cure Rosetta!
"Rosetta!" her teammates were happy to see her. Chop Shop then just dropped Heart on the ground but Sideswipe catches her in time.
"An' what are you gonna do about it?" the Con smirked at her. He then uses Fixit again to tries and slam her but she easily blocked it with her only one hand.
"Anything I got." she replied. Then, she uses her knee to give him a powerful kick on the stomach, making him flinched in pain.
"She still have her Pretty Cure powers...?" Heart wondered. "I thought she has no powers left."
"I may not have more powers but thanks to Grim and Lance, the warmth in my heart finally realized that my team really needs my help!" she announced.
Her orange heart brooch then start to glow. "That's..." Lance gawked. Something form from the brooch, it looks like a Cure Loveads but the shape looks like an Autobot symbol with a bow in it.
"Did she...?" Fixit wondered.
Chop Shop growled. "Why you little witchet." he raised his right arm again to give her another punch but Rosetta was ready.
"Love Heart Arrow!" she summoned the weapon that looks like a bow and arrow. She grabbed it and then inserts her Cure Loveads and touches 4 different coloured hearts and after the top heart shines yellow. Then, she takes the arrow and pushes it. "Pretty Cure Rosetta Reflection!" she makes a circle and form a yellow clover and immediately blocked the punch.
"What?!" the Con's optics widened.
"Woah!" the others was just amazed by it.
Then, the punch was reflect back as Chop Shop was in shocked. "How did you-?"
"I'm the legendary warrior, Pretty Cure: Cure Rosetta. It's my duty to protect that I love the most especially my team!" Rosetta explained. "Fixit, the team needs you as well!"
Chop Shop tries to hit her again with Fixit but he freezes. "You work for me, palie. Don't listen to her!"
Fixit then glared at him. "I work for my team!" he then punches his face multiple times. "Why you hitting yourself? Why you hitting yourself?"
The Con growled. "Get off, ya mangy skid!" and he detached him from his right arm.
The Mini-Con then roll to Bumblebee. "You can handle the field work from here, right?"
Bumblebee nods. "We'll manage. Thanks, Fixit." he then turned to Heart as she nods as well. With that, they both uppercut him on the chin, making him crash into the truck and became frozen solid.
"That was brutal-lance." Lance spoke up.
"At least we got him-davi." Dabyi pointed out.
"But, wait where did other part of him go-quel?" Raquel asked them. They looked and saw that Righty was nowhere to be found.
-Location: Oogai Town, Yotsuba's Mansion-
They went back to the base while Chop Shop was placed into a stasis pod as Fixit told the story to Grimlock.
"Wait, wait, wait. You did what? And Alice got a new power?" the green bot asked in confusion.
"Yeah. That's right. Punched Chop Shop a couple of times." Fixit stated but the red bot nudged him to stop doing that. "It was epic. I mean, it doesn't need to be repeated but it was epic."
"If it wasn't for Alice's new power and Fixit, we never would have captured Chop Shop." Bumblebee stated.
"You did it, Alice." Mana and the others smiled at her and she smiled back. "You did a good job."
The others nodded in agreement. Later, Alice was in the living room, drinking some tea while Lance is fast asleep.
"Alice?" Grimlock's voice called her from the open window. The girl looked and saw him. "I knew you wouldn't give up as a legendary warrior."
She smiled at her guardian. "If it wasn't for you, Grim, I wouldn't able to get new power and help our team."
The green bot grinned at her words before spoke up. "Oh, speaking of new power, would you show to me someday? I would love to see it!"
Alice paused for a bit before nodding and smiling. "Sure!"
END OF CHAPTER 4