The next morning Paige stuck to Sideswipe like glue. Wherever he went, she would follow. Her dress had been too damaged to fix, so she was now wearing one of Russel's smallest shirts. Considering she now came up close to Russel's knee in height, it was like a large billowy dress on her. She had used a shoelace to make a makeshift belt. She was currently watching Sideswipe from a place high on one of the aisle shelves of the scrapyard where she had climbed and it was starting to freak him out. He glanced at her in confusion and asked Bumblebee about it, but he only shook his head and told him to tolerate her for now.

"She's on edge and stressed out. I think she knows something is going to happen," explained Bumblebee after Sideswipe continued to pester him.

"That involves me?" he asked looking in her direction in alarm. "So what's going to happen? Is it something bad?"

"She hasn't told me," said Bumblebee. "She was right about Nightstrike so I'd give her the benefit of the doubt. You are not to leave this scrapyard unless she is with you," said Bumblebee seriously. "You also need to be extra careful when she is with you. Paige will put your welfare over her own."

"Okay, okay, I got it," said Sideswipe waving him off.

When the bots headed off to do reconnaissance, Paige rode with Sideswipe. Going at speeds that most cars couldn't reach, he went ahead of the group while playfully taunting them. Paige sat silently clutching the seatbelt, but she was smiling. She couldn't help it because she liked to go fast too, but had never had the guts to go over the speed limit. Tangling with the police was not on her allowed list. Sideswipe quickly pulled into a train tunnel and let her out. He transformed and placed her securely on his shoulder while boasting to the other bots about getting to their destination so fast. As a train approached, he jumped onto the platform and continued his banter with Strongarm who argued that she had to haul three tons of Dinobot.

"This is a mission and not a contest if I may remind the two of you," said Bumblebee.

Behind Sideswipe another train car pulled up and slowed to a stop.

"Sideswipe, behind you!" cried an alarmed Paige.

Sideswipe spun quickly around to see the single rail car finish its transformation. He quickly dodged when the Con struck at him, but he was hit with an electric charge from the end of its long tail that knocked him out. As he fell forward, he saw Paige leap from his shoulder onto the Con. He was instantly horrified at what he'd allowed her to do, but was unable to help as he went unconscious.

Paige was very lucky. Her shoes were rubber soled so she didn't get shocked when Sideswipe did. She was also already propelling herself at the Con at the time. Paige used all four limbs to cling onto the mad scientist's neck for all she was worth even as his tail whipped around and started to come at her. She already had a small round device clenched in her mouth. She spit it on him and slammed it against his neck with a free hand. He suddenly crumbled as the disrupter activated and she rode him down as he collapsed onto the ground. Her heart was beating like crazy and she tried to control her breathing. All she needed to do now was keep him down until the others arrived. She quickly looked over at Sideswipe, called his name repeatedly, but he was still out. He wouldn't lose his body this time if she had anything to say about it. She clearly remembered the day that she'd first seen the episode. She'd been in a highly sensitive mood and had wanted to relax by watching an episode or two. Usually the episodes got a chuckle out of her, but this episode had struck her the wrong way. First, it was a filler episode that was only used to teach Sideswipe's humungous ego a lesson. From what he said at the end it was unlikely he learned anything from the incident though and Fix-it hadn't quite repaired him correctly after either. That just didn't sit well with her. She had found the whole cutting off his head and stealing his body a macabre storyline. It was something ripped straight from a horror movie that only belonged in the unbelievable world of cartoons not in real life which is why she tried her hardest to prevent it now. It didn't make sense that Sideswipe could lose his head and still be alive. If anything she knew about Cybertronian anatomy was true, then the only reason Sideswipe had survived was probably because it was a kid's cartoon. Though it was true that the cartoon's creators had killed other characters before there hadn't been a whole lot of deaths in the episodes she'd watched. More had died in Transformers Prime if she recalled. The episode had probably caused her more trauma than even Sideswipe. She could pinpoint her hatred of the storyline to a horror movie she wished she could unsee where people were dismembered by a mad scientist and this episode had brought up those memories again. At the time she'd been completely disgusted and right now that feeling of revulsion was strong and clear. Being stuck in Transformers in real life was complicated, but this episode made her feel like she was living in a horror movie. Right now though all her emotions had gone numb as she listened intently for any sign that the monstrosity she was sitting on top of was waking up. She already had the second disrupter in her hand ready to go. Long ago when she could only write as a means of communication, she had asked Fix-it to make the disrupters for her. After some trial and error, he had actually succeeded.

Paige heard a slight unfamiliar noise before the Con's optics even lit up. She immediately slammed down the second disrupter and activated it as something slammed into her sending her flying off the platform. She landed roughly on the cement below crying out from the pain. She had instinctively protected her head and rolled with the impact to lessen it, but the initial landing still hurt a lot. One of two rails stopped her momentum and luckily for her this wasn't a subway so there wasn't a third rail to be fried on. She tried to get her bearings as quickly as she could and looked above in concern, but she could still make out the collapsed form of the Con. She sighed in relief. The second disrupter had done its job. She groaned in pain as she pulled herself to a sitting position. She hurt all over, but she didn't think anything was broken. Suddenly she heard a sound she didn't want to hear. The sound of an approaching train. "Oh no," she said. She quickly got to her feet ignoring the pain that shot through her body and went to the side, but there was no way she'd ever make it up to the platform not at her height. She couldn't outrun the train either so trying was futile. There was only one choice left. She was still small enough so hopefully there'd be enough clearance. She immediately lay between the rails clutching her arms as close to her sides as possible and away from the rails. The train was getting closer and she wanted to block her ears from the sound, but she forced her arms to remain where they were. She squinted her eyes and then it was over her. The sound of the tires squealing on the tracks made her grit her teeth and the engine of the train thundered over her. She couldn't help it and she let out a scream as it passed over her. The train was quick, but it seemed like an eternity. She finally sat up stunned as she heard vehicles approach from behind. The first to pull up was Bumblebee with Fix-it. Strongarm pulling Grimlock appeared soon after. Bumblebee immediately transformed and came over to her. "Are you all right?" he asked in concern.

She was still in shock so she didn't answer at first. Then she only pointed up at the platform and Bumblebee jumped up there leaving her with Fix-it while Strongarm and Grimlock transformed. Grimlock joined Bumblebee in restraining the still unconscious Con, while Strongarm brought Fix-it and Paige up onto the platform in order to check on Sideswipe.

It didn't take long before Sideswipe came online. He immediately looked around searching for Paige. She was sitting against one of the platform pillars silent tears running down her face. "What's wrong with her?" he asked quickly to the nearest bot who happened to be Bumblebee.

"Humans leak water from their eyes when they're sad, hurt or happy," explained Bumblebee. "She's damaged and in shock right now. It's best if you leave her be for awhile. She saved you, you know. The Con's designation is Vertebreak and he's known for stealing bodies from his victims and other unlawful experiments. Paige had to knock him out twice before we arrived, but the Con managed to throw her onto the tracks and she nearly got hit by the train. She's lucky she survived."

Sideswipe had the sense to look thoroughly chastised. He had failed in his task of guarding her something he'd never failed with when he was with Russel.

"Don't take it too hard," said Bumblebee giving him a pat on the shoulder. "She did act on her own accord and she's done this before. I can see that her reckless streak hasn't changed. Strongarm will take her back and Grimlock has the prisoner," he continued. "Paige says the Con has a lab down here so you, me and Fix-it will check it out before we head back."

When they finally got back to the scrapyard, Denny was waiting for them. Grimlock and Strongarm were in the back securing the prisoner. "Hey Bee," said Denny in greeting. "What happened with Paige?"

"Where is she?" asked Bumblebee glancing around.

"She's in the trailer resting," said Denny. "I gave her some children's pain reliever and from what I could see, she was terribly bruised on one side. She didn't explain what happened only that she'd be okay since nothing was broken. What happened?"

"We were tracking a possible Con signature and she must have known about him," said Bumblebee. "She never told me what was going to happen, but for some reason she had to be there. It might have been a fear about the future that she needed to overcome. She managed to knock the Con out, but he knocked her onto the train tracks. She nearly got hit by a train, but she was small enough for it to pass over her. She nearly gave me a spark attack when I heard her scream." Bumblebee turned to Fix-it. "You gave her those disrupters, didn't you?"

"Yes, I created the disrupters for her. It gives off a charge to a bot's processor putting the bot into stasis for a while, but you have to be really close to set it off," said Fix-it. "She requested them not long after she first appeared."

"Which means she knew this was going to happen from the beginning and she was preparing," said Bumblebee shaking his head in disbelief.

"She was on my shoulder before I was attacked and tried to warn me," said Sideswipe suddenly. "I saw her jump on the Con before I went into stasis. I don't know if that's really brave or just stupid."

"I can't believe she did that," said Bumblebee sighing.

"I believe it," said Denny and Bumblebee gave him a curious look. "She may be tiny, but she's a grown woman and Russel's mother is much the same. If there was something she really wanted, she'd go to great lengths to get it."

"The only grown women I knew when I was here last were Paige who was reckless and polite and June who was practical and overly protective," said Bumblebee. "The rest were only kids so I never really figured out how most human women act."

Denny laughed. "You and me buddy. I'm sorry to say that human men are still trying to figure them out. Each one is different from the next and you'd have to spend a life time trying to figure them out and that still may not be enough time."