"There has to be some way we can get BumbleBee to surrender!" SteelJaw screamed "Our benefactors back on Cybertron, wants BumbleBee in exchange for our freedom. What can we use against him?"
"We can try using the humans." the crab like con said
"We tried that already. the humans fought back," Thunderhoof stated
Underbite shrugged trying to think of what to use against the bot who put them back into cryostasis,
"True but we only used the humans he worked with, it has to be more personal." Quilfire said
The wolf-like con's optics widened at the comment. "That's right. We need someone from Team Prime."
"But, wasn't there only Autobots on Team Prime." Clampdown questioned
"True," SteelJaw smiled and showed his fangs "but if you look into it there were four humans that were part of the team. Unfortunately there was no other information about them in the database. We may need to figure out who were the humans."
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Sighing BumbleBee watched as Drift sent his minicons through the newly made obstacle course, he watched as the samurai bot walked alongside of them, just incase he needed to step in. BumbleBee was glad that both boys had calmed down and were not nervous when they were away from their master anymore. Jetstorm and Slipstream were now allowed to scout up ahead of Drift in the field now, but had to not go too far, then return back. Walking away from the three, Bumblebee went to check out on his other team members, he knew that Fix-it was working on fixing up the Decepticon tracking system on the Alchemor. Drift would have offered his ship to house them until they fixed up the scrapyard. Unfortunately he only had three rooms in the ship. Minus the med bay.
Seeing Grimlock was just staring at nothing, completely looking bored. Turing to the side he saw that the Strongarm and Sideswipe were fighting again. Deciding to break up the fight and then to go and see what was bothering Grim.
Fortunately they were not arguing. The problem was that when they decided to brawl instead of argue, and whenever they did that people tended to get hurt. Bee grabbed Strongarm as she was about to throw a punch at Sideswipe face. Looking at the two he could see that they both were dented up a bit but other then that they were alright.
"Ok, what were you two fighting about this time?" Bee questioned, dreading why the two had started to fight.
"It started out as a sparring match." Strongarm said as Bumblebee let her go. "Since Steeljaw is back we wanted to be able to be prepared for whatever he throws at us. I guess we got too out of control."
Helping Sideswipe up he said "While I'm glad that you two want to help eachother out, please just make sure you two are careful, next time make sure that someone is monitoring the sparring match."
After saying that he went to check on Grim before offering to monitor the next sparring session between the two. Once they were patched up.
"Hey Grim, you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm just trying to think of what to do till Russel gets back from football practice."
Though Bee thought there was something else he did not push it, he would find out eventually what was bugging the dino-bot. Denny and Russell were having a father son day so the bots had the scrapyard to themselves. They had spend the morning till noon organizing the place for Denny, now they were preparing for anything. MECH had not attacked since Jetstorm and Slipstream attempted kidnapping, that had him worried and he wondered how he tell Drift his fears. MECH had not known about minicons existing and now that the two had slipped from their grasp, MECH's leader, whoever they were, was not going to be happy and would try as hard as they could to get them back. He wanted to warn Drift about that fact, but the boys had just calmed down after what had almost happened and Drift had just lightened up on some of the restrictions. Was he really prepared to get him all worked up again over the safety of his students.
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Steeljaw's group was attacking the college that was near crown city. Everyone was running around trying to avoid being hit by the weapons that were being basted in random directions. Few brave students helped their fallen classmates, or guided people to safety.
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"Lutenite!" Fix-it yelled
The small group of Autobots came running, at the orange minicons call.
"Fix-it, what's going on." Sideswipe asked
The minicon replied "Steeljaw and his crew are attacking Crown City College, it makes no rinse...tence..." 'WHACK' "sense, since we do not know anyone there."
BumbleBee sighed "Well, he probably got bored attacking stuff that was automatically maintained and knows how the Autobots value human life." Suppressing another sighed he added "Let's head to the college and get this dealt before quickly, Rev up and roll out."
When they got there they were surprised to see the girl that they had been seeing attempting to stop Steeljaw and his crew. Launching his students Drift aimed near where the girl was, both landed in front of her halting the fighter in her tracks as she was about ready to swing at the wolf-like con.
"Leave this to us." Jetstorm said as he got ready to defend the person who had helped out the team on multiple occasions.
Slipstream on her other side helping create a barrier around the girl "Go and check to see if there are others around, and get them to safety." he told her
"There are only ten people on this part of the campus today, everyone is safe. What we need to do is lead them to the forest, away from the public's eye." She replied much to the surprise to the two. Normally when she helped out she was silent.
"Do you have any suggestions?" Slipstream questioned
Nodded she replied "Yes, I do."
While Bee fought Steeljaw he saw that his team were slowly leading Steeljaw's crew to the forest, the girl along with Drift's students attacking anyone that headed toward the college again. BumbleBee started to follow in on what his team was doing and started to walk backwards, the wolf like con fallowing him attempting to knock the yellow Autobot unconscious. When the human girl fallowed them into the woods surprised BumbleBee, normally she appeared and helped out a bit till they had a handle on the situation and then left, this time she aided in the fight and stayed alongside of any bot that needed the extra help.
Steeljaw changed tactics and went after the human girl who was distracting Quickfire so Drift could fight him and not get hit by one of the con's quills. Fortunately Jetstorm jumped in the middle of the attack blocking it with his nun-chucks getting knocked down in the process. Stopping the human from getting hurt causing her to jump and actually attempt to attack the wolf-con again with her bat. Only to be stopped when the con called for a retreat. Turning her attention to the fallen minicon she offered her hand to help him up, Slipstream joining her and helping up his fallen friend.
Once she was sure that they were safe she started to leave the clearing that the fight had been drawn to. Both minicons stopped her from running in one direction, one by one each Autobot stopped the girl from running away this time,trapping her in a circle. Picking her up BumbleBee attempted to calm the struggling girl. When sunglasses hat fell off she was glad that her eyes were still hidden by her hat. Unfortunately for her BumbleBee carefully brushed her hat off her head, as she looked up. Bee started at the familiar hair and light blue eyes, a shade of blue that closely resembles that of an Autobot sparklings.
His eyes widened and he could only saying one word "Ava." he gasped in a whisper
She gave an awkward smile, that looked almost guilty. "H-H-Hey Bee." she said with her voice full of guilt.
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The two rode back to the base together, neither of them saying a word. The others curious on how they knew each other. Once they were in the scrapyard she stomped away while Bee transformed.
"Why are you doing something so dangerous!" Bee demanded
Shaking her head the brunette fought to roll her eyes. Looking over her shoulder she saw BumbleBee's team, behind them and sighed. "Well, who else would fight the cons.?"
She asked "Team Prime left Earth remember. You said to contact you if we need anything, but whenever we tryed we never could."
Even though she said that calmly, Ava might as well have screamed it at in in tears, because that it how it felt for him. "What?"
"Before this goes on any further can anyone tell us who that is?" Sideswipe asked
Turning to his attention to his team he said "Guys this is Ava, she was a member of Team Prime. Usually staying behind and helping at the base."
"But I still came out on the field and assisted the team." Ava added "On occasions"
Bee shook his head "Surprising us when we saw any of you on the battlefield."
"So, are you going to introduce me to your team or not?" She asked not wanting to get into a fight during their reunion.
Offering Ava his hand she sat down, and he walked over to his team. "Ava, this is Strongarm" he said as he brought her over to a blue and white, police bot. "She is a cadet in the Elite guard police academy." Turning her attention to a red bot he said "Sideswipe here he came to Earth with the just for fun, but has helped us out on numerous occasions. He is often acts as our teams scout with how fast he is."
"Me next, me next." The dinobot screamed excitedly
Chuckling BumbleBee nodded "Ok, Grimlock here is our team's muscle." turning to the ship Bee pointed to the orange minicon "Fix-it, is our teams medic." Turning to the samurai bot who had to minicons by his side, "Drift was a bounty hunter before joining the team, he recently got back from a trip with Optimus, before you started to help us out." Lowing her to the ground she jumped off Bee's hand while she was still dangling a few feet in the air. Landing on the ground Bee waited to make sure she was alright "These are Drift's students Jetstorm and Slipstream."
Both Mini cons stepped forward and greeted the human girl "Was it you who rescued Slipstream and I from MECH?" Jetstrom asked
Taking a moment to think on what he said she nodded "Yeah, MECH was combing the woods looking for Cybertronians and when I saw you two I started to follow to make sure you two were going to be alright. When I noticed I startled you I was going to introduce myself, but MECH intervened. I had help with the rescue."
"Why were you in the woods to begin with?" Drift demanded
Looking up at the samurai bot she answered "It is something I do from time to time, to get fresh air. I'm used to open places, like the little town of Jasper, Nevada. I really need to get back to campus right now."
Transforming the yellow bot opened his door "I'll drop you off." he offered
Both knowing that they needed to catch up Ava jumped into the passenger seat and Bee drove off towards the Crown City college.
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Tapping her nails against her bag Ava awkwardly sat waiting for Bee to say something. When he did not she took the chance start up the conversation. "It's good to see you again BumbleBee."
"You too Ava, I've missed you and the others so much." he replied "How are they?"
"They are fine, Bee."
"What about you, how have you been?"
"Okay, I guess."
"That's not to assuring. What's the matter?"
With a small smile Ava replied "Nothing, really. I'm fine."
"What have you four been up to?" he asked
"Jack is going to a community college near the new base; Raf, you would be proud of him Bee, got into a high tech college full scholarship. Miko is going to the same university as I am. All of us work together with visiting bots to stop Decepticons or recover Cybertronian artifacts. Those we find go into a storage unit that hides their signal till Autobots come to collect them."
"Sounds like you've been busy."
"We have. Thought the same could be said about you Bee." Ava replied "Things just haven't been the same with out the Cybertronian members of Team Prime."
"Still going by Team Prime?" BumbleBee asked in confusion. Wouldn't they change the name now that Optimus was no longer in charge.
"To remember Optimus by. Ratchet came back to Earth with the news that Optimus sacrificed himself for the future of Cybertron. To honor Optimus we kept the name. None of us had the heart to change the team name."
"How long has it been since we left?" Bee asked, when he thought of it the last time he saw his human friends they were children, now according to what Ava had said they were all grown up now. He did not expect an answer.
"Almost seven years." She almost whispered as she tried to hide the pain in her voice. Fortunately the yellow bot did not catch wind of the hurt in her words. The last thing she wanted was to make Bee feel bad about not visiting. "So what about you, how have you been? What have you been up to?" She added after a few seconds.
"Well as you can see I have a new team." Bee said "I'm the leader and it has been an adventure, We've spent our time recapturing escaped criminals of the crashed ship the Alchemor. Then we had to deal with Megatronus."
"The fallen?" Ava asked "Didn't you take care of him when Dad was alive?" interrupting what Bee was saying.
"Well,...yeah. When I don't know what happened when Optimus defeated him, but somehow he was able to come back. After dealing with Megatronus we had to deal with all the other escaped prisoners of the Alchemor only on a larger scale. Turns out the Algimore was bigger than we originally thought. When that was done we fought against Stunticons that could actually combined together."
"Let me guess and now you are dealing with MECH." Ava jumped in interrupting Bee again before he could tell her the other part of what happened.
"No,...yes...Kinda." Bee Stumbled over his words "We are dealing with MECH, but someone released a small group of Decepticon prisoners, from the Alchemor. The leader swore that I'll pay for his re-incarceration. The group that attack your college, they were the release convicts. The wolf-like one that you tried to fight. Was the leader SteelJaw. So how are Carly and Nurse Darby?"
"Same as usual Bee, they worry over their children. Gets upset when we come back to the base scratched up." Ava shrugged, as the two approached a good spot for Ava to get out, close by where her sisterhood house was, she added "I'll think of a cover story for what happened, don't worry. By the way what's with the scrapyard base?"
Laughing Bee replied "Denny and his son Russell help us out in keeping our cover. Denny offered up his scrapyard as our base. It was destroyed a few months ago, but we rebuilded it. Luckily there was not a lot damaged."
Bee watched as she ran toward the house he sighed 'I just hope SteelJaw does not find out about others or who she was. I don't want to lose someone I care about again.' he thought. Leaving the campus BumbleBee took the time to think of what was going to happen now that the human members of Team Prime were back in the fight.
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While BumbleBee was taking Ava back to her school Sideswipe, Grimlock and Strongarm were trying to figure out how Bee and Ava knew each other. They did know that she was a member of Team Prime, but it seemed as if there was more to the story than that. Drift had taken his students for a walk, while they did patrol, Drift did say that they could go out alone, but they opted to have Drift with them. Though they did split up just knowing that their master was out there if they needed him was comforting enough.
"Come on Strongarm, what does it say." Sideswipe asked
The two had gotten into files that told about the war, and were currently reading them. When Strongarm had said that she might have found something. Sighing Strongarm went back to the beginning of the paragraph she was reading. "It said that while on Earth Team Prime got the help from humans on Earth, and that a team was sent into space to look for more Autobot refugees and the team split up. They met up with three humans years later and then were joined by a fourth. By the end of the war six humans knew the secoret that were outside of the government." She paraphrased
"So Ava was one of those six humans?" Grimlock asked
Strongarm nodded "Seems like it. Though I think she is hidding something. Wasn't it a coincidence that the same day she was fallowing Jets and Slips that they were captured by MECH. Not only that but she seems to be popping up everywhere we are?"
Shrugging off his teammates concerns Sideswipe waved his hand downwards and said "Strongarm, relax. We just met her and you are already thinking she is a double agent. Bee said she was a member of Team Prime right? Well they had access to a ground bridge. So maybe they are using it."
"True, but what if..."
"Know what I think." Sideswipe interrupted "Now that Ava is here you are threatened."
"No, I'm not jealous!" Strongarm retorted
Narrowing his optics Sideswipe replied "Never said you were."
Before she could reply to the red bot the door opened causing them to jump and exit out of what they were doing.
Noticing their faces Drift asked "What is going in here?"
Turning around they saw that it was Drift and his students returning from their walk. "Nothing, Sideswipe, things I'm jealous of Ava because I find it, suspicious that the first time they met each other Jetstorm and Slipstream were taken by MECH." Strongarm explained
Looking at each other the two minicons looked confused.
"That was not the first time we saw her. When we were doing solo patrol, we saw her." Jetstrom replied
Slipstream added "She was looking around like she was either looking for someone or listining for something. That girl we saw, we think it was Ava."
BumbleBee entered the scrapyard and saw his team standing together, only to watch Drift walk off and his students to follow him.
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Ava entered the house and looked around there was not much damage and she knew that she would have to come up with a cover story for what those Decepticons were and the Autobots. Running up the stairs she ran to the door next to her and Chelcey's room, knocking on the door she waited.
"Come in." the voice replied
Opening the door she was met with a girl with jet black hair. "Miko you are never going to believe who I ran into a few minutes ago."
"Let me guess one of the Au ahh...one of your family members." She said
The four of them had gotten used to calling the Autobots Ava's family. On a count that half of the bots, Ava's dad knew and considered them family or were related to those who were considered the girl's family. Making calling the Cybertronians her family while talking about them in public a good cover story.
"Yeah, it was." She smirked still not used to being used to being the only one to be related to the bots. According to Optimus they were all family. While she did know where they were coming from. Technically she knew the bots longer than they did, but calling her their only human family hardly seemed fair in her opinion.
Jumping off her bed that was decorated in green with a pink blanket draping across the center she grabbed her friend/teammate in excitement "Who?" she asked
"Someone from Team Prime." The brunette whispered.
A few months after Optimus and his team went back to Cybertron a few Autobots had come to Earth as they were moving the base to a new one. That the Decepticons would not know about so that the four of them could start keeping Earth safe. Unfortunately over time their contact with the Cybertronian members of the team dwindled down to nonexistent. Only two bots checked in once a month and that was Ratchet and Elita. Other than that there was practically no contact. Once they were told of Optimus' passing the four of them grieved and then took Optimus' last statement to heart. All four of them took on the role of leader, and agreed among all four of them and Agent Fowler who was going to be the primary leader.
"Who was it." Miko demanded
Looking around to make sure that no one was listening Ava said one word "BumbleBee."
"Really?"
Nodding her head she added "Yeah, ad he's the leader of a team of...his own."
"We have to tell the boys about this." Miko said
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THAT HUMAN RUINED THE PLAN!" Steeljaw yelled "WHO DOES THAT SQUISHY THINK SHE IS!"
The wolf-like con was tearing apart their new base in rage. the human girl had fought and distracted them long enough for the Bee team to get there and stop them.
Clampdown was confused and asked "Why did she not run away like all the others."
"She's probably used to it." Thunderhoof shrugged "Maybe she is a member of Team Prime."
Underbite questioned "If she is why did the Autobots not recognize her. I say she was just someone trying to protect her copanions"
SteelJaw nodded. Both statements were true.