"Guys just stop this right now! This is getting ridiculous!" his voice could be heard across the whole scrap yard. Strongarm and Sideswipe stopped yelling at the other for a moment as they both looked over at Bumblebee. "I am so sick of you two fighting over whose fault it is when things go wrong. You both should know by now that it's not specifically anyone's fault and you are both as good as the other!" "Said no bot ever." Sideswipe muttered as he crossed his arms. "With all due respect Lieutenant, he started it!" Strongarm whined walking over to him. "And you should know better than to encourage it." Bee said firmly. Sideswipe half glared at Strongarm.
Somehow she always made things his fault and always ran to Bee when things went bad. Bee would tend to side with Strongarm but he tried not to and Sideswipe always pretended not to notice his leader siding with his cadet. It wasn't Bee's fault Strongarm was very convincing. Admittedly things between to two teenagers had settled down but there was the odd flare up here and there. And as soon as they started, Bee pounced on them. But it didn't stop him wanting the attention from Strongarm.
Sideswiped looked to the ground preparing for yet another scolding from Bee. "You two are eighteen now. You both need to sort your own issues out. I'm not always going to be here to get you out of trouble Sideswipe and I'm not always going to be here to stop him from getting under your metal Strongarm. You both need to be able to sort your own love issues." He said walking off. "Love issues?!" Strongarm half yelled staring at Bumblebee but he said no more on the issue.
Bee leant against the Alchemor as he crossed his arms. "Did you really just say their 'love issues'?" Fixit asked looking at him. "Yes I did. What would you have called it?" Bee asked looking up at the minicon. "I would call it gate…mate…" Fixit hit himself. "Hate issues." Bee just smiled as he shook his head. "Nah they don't hate each other." He said as Drift walked over with Jetstream and Slipstream. "I agree they don't hate each other but I am unsure as to if I would go as far to say they have 'love issues'. They have an issue of some sort though." Drift said looking over at the two Autobot's who were glaring at the other from across the scrapyard.
"Hey bots. Miss me?" Bee looked up as Windblade walked over with Russell. "Windblade!" Sideswipe exclaimed running over to her. "Hey Slick." She greeted smiling at him. "Bet you missed me." Sideswipe nodded. "Totally missed you. It's so boring without you." He said as she silently giggled. "Except the constant fighting between you and Strongarm." Bee said, Sideswipe glaring at him in return. "So how was your trip?" Bee asked choosing to ignore Sideswipe. "Oh great. Loved every minute of it." Windblade said. "It's amazing how fast time goes when you're enjoying yourself."
Strongarm didn't move from where she was sitting near the diner, arms folded across her chest as she watched the others talking with Windblade. "What's the matter?" Strongarm looked up at the familiar voice of Grim. "Nothing's the matter Grim." She said before looking back over at the rest of the team. "Shouldn't you be over with 'Miss I'm So Perfect' like everyone else." Grimlock sat down beside her looking at her. "You're a bad liar. I thought you liked Windblade." He said as Strongarm sighed. "Look, don't get me wrong I do like her but…" she trailed off as she looked to the dirt. "But what?" Grim asked as he put his arm around her. "You can tell me. I won't say a word."
"I like her but everyone seems to think she's so special! She's not that great. I can't tell who's got the bigger ego. Her or Sideswipe! Yes we started getting along and she actually paid attention to the fact that I'm not a stupid baby. But then I see him fawning over her and things change in my head." She said, Grim fought back a smile guessing which 'him' she was referring to. "What kind of changes?" he asked. "Promise you won't tell anyone I'm saying this?" she said looking up at him. "I swear on Primus I won't tell." he said. "The second she walks in here and he starts fawning over her, I want to rip her head right off her circuits."
Grim half laughed and Strongarm glared at him. "It's not funny Grimlock!" she snapped as she got up marching across the scrapyard. "Strongarm wait!" Grim called out running after her. "I'm sorry but it's kinda funny. You don't normally rush to violence. Sideswipe and me, yeah sure. But you? You're more of a cuff them and prosecute." He said. "I mean I'm not sayin' you can't rip her head off. I mean I could do it for you if you wanted." Strongarm smiled shaking her head. "No don't do that. You'd get in trouble with Bee if you did." She said and Grim looked a little disappointed. "I was lookin' forward to breaking something." He muttered before looking back at her with a more serious look.
"You like Sideswipe don't ya?" he said and Strongarm shrugged. "I don't know Grim. I've never really liked anyone." She said looking at him. "Well have you ever liked someone so much that when they spoke to a pretty femme you've wanted to rip her head off?" he asked and Strongarm shook her head. "Then you like him. Like really like him." Grim said smiling. Strongarm stared at her feet before looking at Grim. "Then I'll stop liking him. Can't be that hard." She said walking off. Grim shook his head slightly at her stubbornness.
Grim glanced up as Denny drove back into the scrapyard. Denny then got out of his truck pulling a couple of bags of groceries out. "I'm going to start preparing dinner Rusty. Want to come and help?" he asked. "Sure dad." Russell said running over to his father. "We better do a perimeter check then." Bee said watching as they walked into the diner. "I call perimeter check with Windblade!" Grim called, Sideswipe shooting at death glare at him. "Okay. Sideswipe you're going with Strongarm. And if I hear ONE SINGLE COMPLAINT from either of you, I'm going to ground both of you for a week!" Bee snapped. Sideswipe groaned, Strongarm walking up to the hot head. "Yes sir. I'll focus completely on the job." She said before transforming and speeding out of the yard. "Hey wait up!" Sideswipe yelled speeding out after her.
Grim chuckled transforming into his dino-self and ran out with Windblade tagging along behind him. "Call me if you guys have any issues." Bee said looking at Denny. "We will Bee. But I'm sure we'll be fine. We've got protection here." He said. Bee and Drift then both transformed and sped off.
By the time it was dark, Denny and Russell were sitting on the couch watching TV while eating their dinner. Russell looked up hearing the sound of the team speeding back down the road and into the yard. Once all had come through, Strongarm transformed to her usual self and set the gates to close. "So how did it go?" Russell asked kneeling on the couch as he looked up at them. "No sign of anything out there so seems we're in the clear tonight." Bee said sitting on the ground. "We had better get some rest soon. We'll do some training tomorrow morning." The rest of the team agreed and sat down around the diner with Denny and Russell.
They sat up and talked a while before all heading off to rest for the night. Once they had all fallen asleep, a figure was stood watching from a distance. "We shall see how well you work Autobot's work as a team when you're whole world is turned upside down." They twisted a small item in their hands, a wave of light flashing out. "Have fun Autobot's."