Episode 7 Plus One

Shadow Storm POV

Dad had Bumblebee and Smokie go with him leaving the girls at home with Ratchet in the event another bone was detected. While Arcee and I waited I practiced with my new weaponry which was nice. I had acquired a bow and actually knew how to fire it. Which was cool to say the least I soon became so focus on training that I didn't notice anything was happening around me until the ground bridge was activated and Wheeljack came through alone.

"Wheeljack? What happened? Where are the others?"

"Having a swell time taking the long way home on Ultra Magnus boat I'm sure, Miko included."

"I wondered what was taking so long with those sodas."

"Did you secure the Predacon bone?"

"The, uh, Beast Hunt kind of imploded, Doc."

"Well I just got wind of another 'Con Hot Spot' Right outside Taos, New Mexico. Since Prime's unit isn't back from oil country…"

"Raf set a bridge for Fowler's location." I headed toward the bridge, but when Arcee wasn't following I turned around and waited "You, roll with us"

"Not today, alright."

"If you're alright with sending Storm and I out there alone."

"Alone is how I prefer to roll." I got the idea that Arcee was trying to help Wheeljack out of the dumps.

"Wheeljack, you do not want to make me abandon a complex equation to venture outside my comfort zone."

"Fine." he followed Arcee's lead. "But in case you hadn't figured it out…" we went through the portal. "...I don't play well...with...others."

"Scrap" Arcee and I said at the same time as we found out that we were surrounded by Decepticons Vehicons.

"Know what I love most about Vehicon troopers."

"They're easily distracted." I smiled at Wheeljack and knew what he was planning when he lowered his hand. Allowing Arcee to put her foot in it he immediately gave her a boost over the heads of all the gathered Decepticons distracting them. Using that distraction Wheeljack and I took out our sabers and defeated a few cons that were surrounding us.

And once Arcee landed she too took out her fair share of cons behind her the fight continued until Wheeljack got suckered punched by one of the cons. but what the con didn't know was that I was right behind him and I went all ninja on him.

"Sure you two weren't Wreckers?"

Sure you don't play well with others?" Wheeljack smiled before returning to the same stone face as before. We walked for a while in silence moving toward the cave where the bone should be then Arcee breaks the silence.

"You're awful quite, Wheeljack"

"I've never been one for chit chat."

"Why do you pretend? If you really wanted to roll alone, you would have hit the open road today, but you didn't. You called for a bridge back to base."

"Hey! Don't assume you know me."

"Wow, we're not assuming." Arcee steps in front of Wheeljack and I stand to her side also in front of him.

"Now care to chit chat about what happened out there?" Wheeljack sighs and quickly explains happened. As he talks the three of us drilled into the rock so we could get to the bone.

"Guys like Magnus, I don't let them peel my paint; I peel theirs."

"So if it isn't the new commander that's grinding your gears, it's Bulkhead." Arcee hit it right on the head, Wheeljack sighed

"It just burns me up when a wrecker goes soft."

"Look, you'll always have the wreckers as you knew them, in here." Arcee touched right above her spark chamber.

"Wheeljack, Bulk has not gone soft not at all."

"She's right, times change, players come and go, but if you can adapt you'll rust. Like the bones we're digging for...don't push Bulkhead away. If something happened to him you'd never forgive yourself." I knew what she was talking about and so did Wheeljack. "Trust me, I know." We worked hard for a few more minutes before uncovering the bone which was huge. So Wheeljack attached a chain and dragged it behind him as we made it out of the cave.

"Ugh, ok running from Bulk, shutting down like that, pretty spineless of me."

"On the bright side you have plenty of backbone now." The three of us glanced at what Wheeljack was dragging behind him and couldn't help, but give a small chuckle at the predicament we were in at the time.

But then Arcee touches her audio receptors as she receives a call. Wheeljack and I keep quiet until she's done. We walk through a ground bridge just as she finishes the call.

"Agent Fowler's and June are in danger they went to retrieve a predator bone, but they took too long to get back to base so Jack bridged to their last known location and found his mom's cell phone crushed under recently made tire tracks."

"Sounds like the Decepticons got wind of the very same bone."

"Let's roll" we rolled and followed the track the con left and soon we caught up with him that's when we found out that the con that took them was no other than Knockout. Arcee was the only one out of the three of us who could maneuver easily besides the tracks and that was really great when a ground bridge opened up behind us and a four Insecticons came through it. As soon as they saw us they started shooting the three of us each took down one leaving one left who blindsided Arcee and forced her to fall, but seeing how she wasn't injured in her tumble we continued on our way.

"Get Fowler and June." we put metal to the pedal and just as Knockout transformed releasing his prisoners so did we each grabbing a human and as soon as they were secure we stopped and allowed Arcee to follow Knockout before continuing behind her at a safe distance. Knockout escaped through a bridge before Arcee could get to him we stopped right before her not transforming.

"Where are they?"

"In back" Wheel jack and I said at the same time lifting our trunks releasing our friends. Arcee requested a ground bridge and as soon as we went through Jack hugged his mom really happy to see her. As was I to see my husband and dad back safe though looking a bit down in dumps.

"I'm guessing that you didn't retrieve a bone."

"No, we retrieved one, but not all of it the cons got what they needed, what about you how was your hunting."

"Good and bad we found one bone, but lost the other all in all it wasn't a bad double mission."

"Where did you go?"

"Well, the first mission was to a cave where we dug up an old back bone, then Jack called and we had to go and save his mother and Agent Fowler from Knockout."

"Yeah, that was a big day"

"Yeah it was now if you don't mind I'm going to go and rest before the next emergency occurs that might stop me." Smokie smiles at me before kissing me on the forehead. I excused myself and went to go and sleep for as long as I could