Paige realized that the tiny Decepticon, Minitron, had taken control of Grimlock the moment he started attacking the other bots, but no matter what she did she couldn't gain anyone's attention so she let them figure it out themselves. Grimlock restrained himself when Minitron tried to make him attack Russel and Paige quickly hid so that Minitron wouldn't try to force him to attack her. She knew that Grimlock doted on Russel like most of the other bots, but she was still an uncertain player in their midst and he might not have enough restraint where it concerned her. Grimlock and the other bots quickly left the scrapyard. When Grimlock returned, now free of Minitron's control, he was made an official Autobot much to his delight. The bots all came back with more dents than they left with, but at least they were victorious and Minitron joined their collection of frozen Cons.
Not long after, Denny and Fix-it had a fixing war that misplaced items and short circuited others. Paige stayed in the safety of her house and out of their way because she remembered the episode and no amount of shouting or talking was going to deter the two morons. Regardless of the species, hardheaded idiocy was universal. So instead of watching them fight, she went back into the house and secluded herself. She clearly remembered that the only good thing that resulted from this episode was that in the end they would decide to replicate the Decepticon Hunters, which the Autobots would need in the future if they hoped to save Earth and Cybertron once again. Paige looked up at the ceiling above her and sighed. The ceiling was far closer than it had been before. It wouldn't be long before she outgrew this house, but that would also mean that she'd need new clothes.
Paige was in heaven. Russel had stopped up the sink in the trailer and made it into a bubble bath for her. It was shallow enough for her to stand in, but she could still swim from one side to the other. She hadn't had a real bath in forever so she relaxed in the water until the water became tepid and then got out and dried off with the wash cloth that was towel size for her. When Russel finally came in to retrieve her, he brought her laundered underclothes and a dress that had obviously come off a Barbie. The dress was a bright pink spaghetti strap gown with three layers of ruffles over the pink billowing skirt. It wasn't something she would ever wear even as a Halloween costume, but beggars can't be choosers. The dress didn't entirely fit because she hadn't quite reached the correct height yet so she simply knotted the straps to pull it up more and picked up the edge of her skirt every time she walked. She was now at the size where she could be heard if she was held near their ears and she was yelling, but she kept it to a minimum so she wouldn't damage her vocal cords.
She was in the trailer with Denny as she had now outgrown the doll house when Denny stuck his head out the door and yelled for Russel. He and the bots were in the diner watching a movie.
"Russel, time to pack it in," called Denny.
A few moments later Russel entered the trailer yawning. Paige settled down to sleep on a folded towel on the counter, but suddenly they were all disturbed by the sounds of a struggle outside. Paige latched onto Russel's shoulder as he passed by and they quickly left the trailer. They all looked over to see a new bot surrounded by the others. Sideswipe was sitting on the ground.
"Jazz," said Bumblebee in recognition.
"Bee," said Jazz retracting his visor. "What are you doing in this dump?"
"Whoa," said Denny covering Russel's ears. "Watch the language!"
"It's a scrapyard Jazz," said Bumblebee for Denny's benefit. "Nicest one on this planet."
"Don't get too close," said Jazz gesturing to Sideswipe. "This one thinks he's dangerous."
"His name is Sideswipe and he's with me," said Bumblebee.
Jazz gave Sideswipe a hand up off the ground and he reluctantly accepted. "Whatever, he just caught me off guard," said Sideswipe. "What do you call that takedown?"
"I don't know actually. I was just going with the flow," said Jazz. "Hey Bee, you know anything about a prison ship name the Alchemor? The big bots on Cybertron sent me to check out a distress call," said Jazz.
"Actually, I know a lot about it," said Bumblebee. "One day I'm on patrol in Kaon city and the next," continued Bumblebee as he led Jazz into the open area by the diner where he continued to fill him in on what was going on.
"That's Jazz. Thee Jazz," said a starstruck Sideswipe.
"Jazz is cool," agreed Paige from Russel's shoulder.
"So you've met him before?" asked Denny.
"No, but I've heard a lot about him," said Paige shrugging. "He's a good bot." Paige huffed suddenly. "Russel, can you please bring me back inside?"
"Sure," he said heading for the trailer. "Is something wrong?"
"Nothing you need to worry about," said Paige. Paige already had a bias against the High Council on Cybertron from watching the show, but now her anger flared up because they had sent a single bot to investigate a prison ship distress call. It was common sense that you didn't send out a distress call unless there was a dire need and their lackluster response just showed how weak the Council actually was. They were so tied up in petty internal affairs that they were allowing the external ones to fester. It was the reason Starscream and several other dangerous Decepticons still moved freely in the universe. There was a threat building against Cybertron from the outside this time and they were ignoring it. Paige could plainly see Cybertron heading for another war sometime in the near future and it made her heart ache for her Cybertronian friends. After all they'd been through, trouble was heading their way once again.
Paige woke the next morning to the sound of the Decepticon digger, Ped, attacking the scrapyard in order to steal all the Autobot's energon. After the noise had quieted down, Russel came in to take a shower because he was covered from head to toe in dirt. He had almost been pulled into one of Ped's collapsing holes, but was saved by the bots. Denny came in as well and explained what had happened. He told her that the bots had gone out to look for Ped.
Later after the bots returned, they set a trap for Ped by building a wall of real and fake energon in front of a stasis pod. Paige sat in the diner watching the show as there was no reason for her to interfere here. When he finally arrived, Ped acted like the Graboids in the movie Tremors as the ground under the energon shook and then stilled. No one was sure where he'd come up and they all looked around silently. Suddenly all the bots were pulled down into a deep hole that opened beneath them. It took a few minutes, but Sideswipe managed to escape and keep Ped busy while Denny used his magnetic crane to pull the others out of the hole with the exception of Grimlock. The cable on the crane had snapped before he could be freed. Sideswipe continued to insult Ped luring him to the stasis pod. He was going to sacrifice himself in order to trap the Con, but some intervention from Jazz allowed the two of them to escape and Denny finished Ped off by dropping the crane magnet on his head.
"My ship's a couple of klicks away," said Jazz. "I'll clean up your mess with the council when I get back."
Paige left the diner quickly and knocked on Strongarm's foot armor to get her attention. Strongarm bent down to pick her up.
"I have something to say," said Paige focusing on Jazz. "I have a message for your High Council. You may want to record this," said Paige straightening as her pink skirt billowed around her in the wind. When he nodded at her, she started. "I, the human Paige, representative of Earth have a message for Cybertron's High Council that Earth is not happy about this debacle. First off, when Optimus Prime's original team left here after protecting Earth and saving Cybertron, they made a promise that we could call on them if any Cybertronian issues arose on Earth again. That is the sole reason that Lieutenant Bumblebee and the others are here and you need to remove any unjust sanctions that you've leveled at them. Humans are short lived so we couldn't wait for you, the High Council, to take its time on an issue that is solely Cybertron's responsibility. It was your prison ship with your dangerous criminals that crashed onto our planet. Our people are in danger because of it and the Cybertronian allies currently here on Earth are the only thing standing in the way of Earth's decimation by rogue Decepticons. Perhaps you think that humans are not worth saving and you may keep your discriminatory opinions to yourself, but I will remind you of one very important fact. Earth is Unicron's prison. Should the Decepticon's plans come to fruition, Unicron will be inadvertently revived and he'll be coming for Cybertron next. So as a farewell, I wish you good luck because you're going to need it."
Finished, Paige turned to see the other bots around her gaping at her. "What?" she said shrugging. "You needed more of an excuse than a unilateral decision. You needed a legit reason to be here and now you've got one. It's far more plausible than Optimus sending you here truth or not. You're protecting Earth and I'm grateful for that. The High Council can go jump in a smelting pit for all I care."
"You don't know the council," protested Bumblebee.
"I see the results of their policies and I'm not impressed," said Paige. "You'll see some more of the damage they do in the near future as well."
Bumblebee frowned and Jazz looked at her in confusion.
"I'm not sure I follow," said Jazz.
"Ever since Paige first appeared back during the war, it was like she knew the future," said Bumblebee. "She correctly predicted what was going to happen on more than one occasion. Please don't mention that to the Council."
"Interesting," said Jazz examining Paige closer.
"I'm sorry if you have friends on the Council, but when a dire emergency call from a prison ship was received, all the Council did was send one bot to investigate after all this time. No offense Jazz. I'm not trying to diminish your capabilities, but it's obvious the the Council is not taking this seriously," said Paige. "One bot against a full prison ship is not acceptable."
"No offense taken," replied Jazz.
"The point is that those on Earth that know you're here are grateful for you and your team Bee," said Paige catching Bumblebee's attention again.
"I agree," said Denny from below. "We'd be in a whole lot of trouble without you."
Bumblebee rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment and Sideswipe, Strongarm and Grimlock straightened in pride at the compliment.
"Can you take Minitron, Filch and Ped with you when you leave?" asked Paige shifting her attention back to Jazz. "It would serve as proof of the situation as well as reduce the number of Cons on Earth. As you might have noticed, the scrapyard isn't exactly a secure place." Paige knew that those three didn't appear in the later episodes so removing them wouldn't change anything.
"I think I can handle that," said Jazz.
"The only one you have to worry about escaping is Minitron since he'll try to control you," said Paige. "But I'm sure a mech with your reputation has the intelligence and means to protect himself." Strongarm passed her down to Denny at her urging so they could head inside for the night. Paige rubbed her sore throat. She couldn't wait to be bigger so that she could be heard without yelling. She glanced down at her dress and grimaced at the thought that it was now immortalized on a Cybertronian video. The message was being delivered, but hopefully they wouldn't think that all Earthlings dressed like her.
"I like her," said Jazz to Bumblebee. "And her testimony will definitely help your case."
"Safe travels," said Bumblebee clasping his arm.