Chapter 10- Rumble

Shalom! Well young buttercups, I'm back! I would have updated yesterday but I, once again, had by baby brother. He's lucky I love him; otherwise we would not have this problem. This is one of the final three chapters, so I'm gonna try to make it long. And you guys are some of the best buttercups ever, by the way. My original goal was 20 favorites and I reached it! So I bumped it up to 30. Then I reached that! So you guys are awesome. Now my goal is about 45 favorites and 40 follows. Tell your friends! Spade would love that!

Spade: I sure would!

Me: See? Here are your warnings: Violence and of course universal.

Spade: And here are your disclaimers: Denali Prime only owns me. Not any of the Transformers. So don't borrow me in one of your fics without her permission.

Me: Thank you Spade. Tell it like it is.

Spade: Of course, Creator.

Roll the story! And from now on, I'll only put the universal warning in the first chapter of my fanfics.

After Simmons finally gave in, the other soldiers armed themselves for the upcoming battle while he led us to Bumblebee. Some of us speed-walked and the others ran. We were led to a large set of doors. From a distance, I could hear Bumblebee's pained cries and whines. I ran a little faster and beat everyone else towards the door. Pushing the doors open, I looked at the sight before me in shock, then anger. The little yellow bot was on a large table with several scientists inspecting him and soldiers freezing him to keep him from moving.

"Stop!" I yelled. They looked at me in confusion before going back to their jobs. I growled and moved forward a little bit more. "Let him go!"

He didn't even fight back! A shock went through his body, causing him to arch up. Sam and Mikaela caught up to me and gasped in shock. The three of us bolted to all of the soldiers with the freezing guns and shoved them out of the way. Sam and I got up on the table and pushed the scientists away before checking Bumblebee over. He looked at us with pain in his eyes. I glared at the soldiers and scientists who dared to continue what they were doing. The others ran into the room. Banachek and Simmons shouted at them.

"No, no, no! Stop, stop, stop!"

"Let him go, let him go, let him go!"

"Bee?" Sam asked. He whirled and clicked in response. "They didn't hurt you, did they?"

"Yeah!" Bee replied. He sat up as a mask came over his face and aimed his cannon at the ones that were keeping him prisoner. Lennox, Epps, Maggie, and Glen stood there, mouths agape.

"Listen to me. The Cube is here and the Decepticons are coming. No, no, don't worry about them. They're okay. Right? They're not gonna hurt you. Just back up a little bit. He's friendly. He's fine," Sam said. Bee began to calm down. "Okay, come on. Put the guns down. They're not gonna hurt you. Here, come with me. I'm gonna take you to the Allspark.

Once again, we ran towards the room where the Cube was being held. After entering it, we humans stood back as Bumblebee moved closer to it. He gazed up at the Allspark, marveling its glory. He put his hands on either side of the corner that was facing him and concentrated.

"Okay, here we go. He doin' somethin'. He doin' somethin'," Epps said nervously. A jolt of electricity went through the Cube as it folded in on itself, creating a mini cube. The transformation was just as incredible as the Autobots', pieces adjusting and fitting into place. Mikaela gasped in astonishment while I looked on, mesmerized. After the conversion was complete, the Allspark looked like a decorated box and fit in the palm of the Autobot's hand.

"Message from Starfleet Captain," Bumblebee said through the radio. His head fins flew up as he looked around the room.

"Let's get to it," Simmons said.

"He's right. If we stay here, we're screwed with Megatron in the other hangar," Lennox agreed. "Mission is 22 miles away. We're gonna sneak that Cube out of here and we're gonna hide it somewhere in the city."

"Good, right!" Keller said.

"But we cannot make a stand without the Air Force," Lennox replied. Keller's face dropped and he looked at Simmons.

"This place must have a radio link!"

"Yes!"

"Shortwave, CB!"

"Right, yes!"

"Sir, you got to find some way to get word out to them." Lennox looked him in the eye. Keller turned back towards Simmons, continuing with their strange conversation

"In the alien archive, sir!" Simmons exclaimed.

"The alien…"

"There's an Old Army radio console."

"Will it work?"

"Anything's possible! Did you see that?!"

Simmons used weird hand gestures and sounds to prove his point. I giggled a little bit.

"All right, Sam and Spade, get in the car!" Lennox barked. Sam, Mikaela, and I got in the car with the Cube. Sam and Mikaela sat in the front while I hopped in the back. They handed be the Cube and I sat it in the seat in the middle.

"Mr. Secretary! Get our birds in the air! When we get to the city, we're gonna find a radio, and I'll have Epps vector them in, okay?"

"Affirmative!"

Bumblebee peeled off. As we rode, I heard over the P.A. system, "Warning! NBE One cryo-containment failing."

"Set a perimeter around the yellow vehicle!" Lennox shouted.

We exited the hangar and got onto the interstate. Sam put his hands on the wheel and gripped it until his knuckles turned white.

"The Cube's okay?" Sam asked me.

"Yeah, it's fine," I replied.

"Well, put the seat belt on," he said. I looked at him oddly. Shaking my head, I turned towards the alien artifact and adjusted it. As soon as I put my hands on it, a jolt went through my body. I jerked as information poured into my head. I saw the deaths of several Autobots and Decepticons, Megatron and Optimus battling. Things from Cybertron's past. Then, I saw Jazz and Megatron on top of a building. The sky was blue, so I assumed it was on Earth. Megatron shouted some inaudible words and ripped Jazz in half. I gasped in horror. Jazz was still with us, though. I guessed that what I just saw was the future.

I sat the Cube down and wrapped the seat belt around it, effectively ceasing the visions and images. I started panting and tore my attention away from it. The road we were on was a two-way. In the other lane, Optimus and the other Autobots were driving in the wrong direction.

"There's Optimus," Sam pointed out. Once they noticed us, they began to turn around and follow us. Jazz got behind us first, being the smaller vehicle. Once they all of them turned around, Optimus ended up at the back. After a few minutes, we got onto the highway. The Autobots flanked us and made sure the Cube was protected. Suddenly, I heard sirens. I turned around and looked behind us. Barricade was following us and was catching up quickly. Wait. How did I know his name?

"Oh no, it's the same cop," Sam said. Mikaela looked back too. "Block em, block em, block em." The Autobots split up and slowed down to block the other Decepticons.

Bonecrusher (how do I know their names?!) transformed into his bipedal mode while he was moving. He slammed his fists together and skated across the road. Without flinching, he ran into a bus, making it explode and splitting it in half. Optimus took notice and transformed as well. He broke apart and walked on the road, narrowly missing some cars. The Decepticon came his way and smashed into the leader, knocking him down onto a lower level of the highway. I gasped in shock. After that, I could no longer see them. For some reason, I began to worry a lot more than I thought I would. Sure, Optimus was a big bot and was more than capable of taking care of Bonecrusher, but what if the Decepticon got an edge? I turned back in my seat and put my own seat belt on, gulping in anxiety.

Suddenly, a metal hand appeared on the edge of one of the lanes. Optimus pulled himself up and walked towards Barricade. He picked up the car and tossed it into a different direction, away from the highway. I sighed in relief and sat back in my seat.

About ten minutes later, we arrived in Mission City. The three of us climbed out of Bumblebee as every Autobot, excluding Optimus pulled up. None of them transformed, though. I took a quick look around the city. I'd never been to Mission city before. Some of the people that were walking around paid us no mind, while others looked at the strange vehicles questioningly. Distinctly, I heard Lennox and Epps talking.

"Here, I got shortwave radios," Lennox said. I turned my head to the military vehicle next to us. Epps was holding some radios that looked like they belonged in a museum. He looked at them and grimaced.

"Wait. What am I supposed to do with these?"

"Well, use them! It's all we got!"

"This is like RadioShack dinosaur radios or something, man." I couldn't help laugh at his situation. "I'm only gonna get 20 or 30 miles out of these things," he said. He looked at the radios one more time before holding one of them up to his mouth. "Are there any aircraft orbiting the city?" A jet flew overhead, but strangely, there was only one.

"F-22 at 12:00. All right, I want planes for air cover and get Black Hawks on station to extract that Cube. You got it?" Lennox said. He hopped out of the vehicle and looked at the sky. "Air Force has arrived! Pop smoke!"

"Raptor, Raptor, do you copy?" Epps said. "We have you visual. Green smoke is the mark. Provide air cover and vector Black Hawks for extraction. The F-22 flew overhead again. To me, it flew a little oddly. Why is it so low to the ground? Suddenly, Ironhide transformed.

"It's Starscream!" he yelled. My eyes widened.

"Please tell me you copy."

Cliffhanger! I hate the damn things, but they're so useful! To be honest, that was as long as I could make the chapter without changing the POV. I don't want to do that because that makes it a lot harder to write. So, I'm sorry if it's a little short. Reviews make Spade and me happy. Tell your friends and share it with the world! See you next chapter!

Denali Prime out!