With the main threat out of the way, Bumblebee began taking his team on trips all over the USA as they continued hunting Cons. On one trip he even took them to the old destroyed Autobot base in the desert. Paige sat in the scrapyard reminiscing about those times. The majority had been unhappy because she'd been trying to survive the elements, hunger, Cons and Unicron. There were good memories there as well because she had gotten to interact with the Autobots, but she didn't want to go back to the remains of that site because most of her memories were filled with anxiety about their future and her own. At the site, Bumblebee and his team had their first encounter with a new type of minicon. Since Bumblebee disclosed to the others that old weapons were still stashed on the planet, they started to go on missions to retrieve the old weapons as well in order to keep them out of human hands.

"Paige, what do you know about the minicons?" asked Bumblebee when he caught her in the scrapyard.

"You can form some type of link with them," said Paige thinking back. "They can take control of you, but they also can provide a power up. You should be careful. They have their own agenda, but ultimately what they want is freedom."

Bumblebee walked off in thought and Paige headed toward the racks in the back of the scrapyard. She was nearly Denny's height now and she was giving him a hand organizing things in repayment for her staying here. She was also using an old laptop to sell some of his items over the internet. She had to get his permission to sell them though because he was weirdly attached to certain items. So far she had sold quite a bit for him so she didn't feel like a complete mooch at this point.

It wasn't long before the new minicons invaded the scrapyard. Slipstream and Jetstorm who were training at the time took them on, but there were six of them so they were outnumbered. Drift in his car form knocked the invading minicons over and the rest of the bots joined the fight. Unfortunately the minicons turned into weapons and took over the bots by linking to them. The minicons were quickly defeated so they fled and the Autobots went after them leaving Slipstream and Jetstorm behind.

Unfortunately the Scavenger bots that were currently using the minicons showed up at the scrapyard and took Fix-it, Slipstream and Jetstorm hostage.

"Bumblebee, they took them," said Paige over the comm system. "Fix-it, Slipstream and Jetstorm are gone."

Bumblebee and his team pulled into the scrapyard not long after.

"Bee, Decepticons took them," said Russel running up to him.

"It's worse than that," said Paige walking over. "They were capturing them on the order of Starscream."

Bumblebee looked at her in alarm, but Paige simply nodded.

"He survived and he doesn't want Fix-it, Slipstream or Jetstorm," explained Paige. "He wants to link with those other minicons, but now that he has ours, he knows you're here. He's going to trade them for you."

"I understand," said Bumblebee resolutely.

"Why does he want Bumblebee?" asked Strongarm.

"Revenge probably," said Paige. "Though if I were bigger, I would take him on for you. Starscream is still stuck on wanting to destroy Megatron. He wants to be leader of the Decepticons. It's funny because even with Megatron missing, he still holds power over the Cons and that fact must just kill Starscream."

Suddenly there was a holographic message projected from Starscream and Bumblebee negotiated for the release of the minicons in exchange for himself. Once he stepped through the ground bridge portal that appeared, the rest of the team started to panic and plan about going after them.

Suddenly a ship appeared over the scrapyard and Paige sighed in relief. Optimus has arrived.

"Now we're all set," said Strongarm resolutely.

"What's going on?" asked Optimus.

"It's Starscream," said Paige hurriedly. "He has the minicons and Bumblebee. He's after this set of seven modified minicons. If all seven power link with a bot, they'll have more power than a Prime."

Optimus turned to regard her.

"This is serious," said Paige. "Starscream has the dark star saber so be very careful. I wish I could help, but I'm not big enough to take him."

"That will not be necessary," said Optimus.

"We didn't expect you to get here so soon," remarked Sideswipe.

"I intercepted your message as I was not on Cybertron nor have I been since I left," explained Optimus. "The situation on Cybertron is fluid and I'm working with some old friends to resolve it."

The Autobots left to go rescue their captured comrades and to defeat Starscream. The minicons were then given a ship and allowed to leave while Optimus took Starscream prisoner on his ship after his defeat. Everything was resolved, but Optimus' words still bugged Paige. It was getting harder and harder to remember the episodes as more time passed. She knew that the situation on Cybertron was unfavorable, but she couldn't recall exactly what was happening. Her usefulness was once again coming to an end.