We were led into a giant room where Bumblebee was being held down and hosed at. I ran towards him with Sam "No, no! Stop! You got to stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! No, no, stop, stop, stop! Let him go! Let him go!"
Bumblebee immediately got up when he was freed, putting his shield over his face and holding his arm which had now turned into a gun protectively in front of him. "Are you okay?" Sam asked. "They didn't hurt you, right?" Bumblebee stated the negative. "Listen to me. The Cube is here and the Decepticons are coming."
Bumblebee was clearly torn, looking at the people behind us "No, no, don't worry about them. They're okay. Right?" I tried to appease him, glancing behind me. "They're not gonna hurt you."
Sam tried to shoo them backwards "Just back up a little bit. He's friendly. He's fine." The guards steadily put their guns down.
I turned back to Bumblebee "Okay, come on. Put the guns down. They're not gonna hurt you."
"Here, come with me. I'm gonna take you to the All Spark." We led Bumblebee to the Cube and he immediately touched it, which made it shrink down to fit snugly into his giant hand.
Bumblebee looked really pleased with himself, sending me a wink "Message from Starfleet, Captain."
"Let's get to it"
"He's right. We stay here, we're screwed with Megatron in the other hangar. Mission City is 22 miles away. We're gonna sneak that Cubeout of here and we're gonna hide it somewhere in the city. Good! Right. But we cannot make a stand without the Air Force. This place must have some kind of radio link!" Lennox seemed to be in his element, and I admit that his plan seemed like the best option we had.
As the rest of the details were planned out, Sam, Mikaela and I were pushed closer to Bumblebee who handed me the Cube before he transformed.
"All right, Sam, Charlotte, get it in the car!" Lennox opened the back door for me, and basically shoved me in. The next thing I knew we were on the road, Mikaela and Sam in the front seat kept giving me anxious glances as I was still holding the Cube.
Sam gave me another look "The Cube's okay?"
"Yeah, it's fine." I hugged it closer to my body.
"Well, put the seat belt on." I didn't even notice that I hadn't had it on, and before I could so much as move to put it on myself, it automatically moved across my body and clicked into place.
"Thanks Bumblebee"
We rode peacefully, well as peacefully as we could, until Sam started freaking out.
"No, no, no, no, no."
"What?" Mikaela asked, looking back at the Cube.
"It's the same cop!" My eyes widened, and I moved to look out of the front window. My seatbelt wouldn't let me up though so I remained, looking behind to see that along the way, the other Autobots had joined the line.
Optimus drove in front to meet the approaching Decepticon transforming a few feet ahead, from what I could see the two robots had tumbled off the freeway and were now fighting underneath it.
We carried on driving until we reached the city, we piled out of Bumblebee as the soldiers tried to make some sort of sense of the radios there were given, which Epps gave a disgusted look. The three of us didn't really know what to do and I felt awkward just holding the cube.
"Hey, you three find some cover" We resorted to huddling near Lennox, listening to all of the chaos around us.
"Air Force has arrived! Pop smoke!" Green smoke immediately filled the air.
"Raptor, Raptor, do you copy?" Epps held the ancient radio to his mouth as he listened for a reply. "We have you visual. Green smoke is the mark. Provide air cover and vector Black Hawks for extraction."
"It's Starscream!" Rachet shouted, Sam and I exchanged worried looks.
Epps sighed "Please tell me you copy."
"Back up!" Rachet yelled "Take cover! Bumblebee!" The two Autobots lifted a truck between them, then the air was filled with fire as Starscream bombed the ground.
"Anybody hurt? Everyone okay?" I looked up from my position on the ground, where I had been thrown from the explosion, catching the eye of Lennox who was next to me. I stumbled to my feet, looking around for my brother. Arms wrapped around me from behind.
"Charlotte!" I turned and gave Sam the biggest hug I have ever given anyone. Sam took my hand and led me over to where we believed Bumblebee was.
I gasped "Oh, my God."
"Bumblebee? No. Your legs!" Sam had also noticed that Bumblebee's legs were no longer attached to his body. "Please get up. Bumblebee? Get up!" I swallowed noisly as Bumblebee made increasingly pained noises to which I could feel my eyes watering. He dragged himself over to the Cube and handed it to Sam.
"Ratchet!" I shouted. The medic stumbled over, still firing at every Decepticon he could see. I saw Mikaela coming over with a tow truck, making Bumblebee get onto it. Rachet tried his best to stem the flow of whatever liquid was inside his body.
I helped secure Bumblebee's body to the vehicle as he kept giving me small smiles which I tried to return.
Lennox came over "Charlotte! Where's the Cube?"
"Right there." I pointed to where it rested on the two truck.
"Okay." He grabbed it and turned to Sam "All right, I can't leave my guys back there, so here, take this flare. Okay, there's a tall, white building with statues on top. Go to the roof. Set the flare." I looked at Sam's terrified face.
He shook his head, panicked. "No."
Lennox ignored this "Signal the chopper and set the flare."
"No, no. I can't do this!"
"Listen to me! You're a soldier now! All right? I need you to take this Cube. Get it into military hands while we hold them off, or a lot of people are gonna die." Sam stopped shaking and nodded, making his way over to me, giving me a fierce hug before kissing the top of my head.
"Go get 'em" He shakily smiled at me, I turned and went back to Mikaela seconds before Lennox reached us.
"You got to go. You got to go." He insisted, trying to push us into the car. Bumblebee wasn't properly strapped up yet, and I frantically sped up my work.
I grit my teeth as I answered him "No, we're not leaving."
He gave me a look "You need to go. Go."
Mikaela glared at him "No, we're not leaving till we get Bumblebee out of here, okay?"
Once we had managed to strap Bumblebee up properly, I got into the front seat, I decided that Mikaela would probably be a better driver in a crisis as I had a tendancy to panic. I thought she was in the car too, but as I looked over she wasn't there.
"Sam!" Mikaela shouted, running over to him. I could just about hear what she said "No matter what happens, I'm really glad I got in that car with you."