"WHAT!" Rafael shouted causing both girls to flinch and look around the room. Satisfied that no one heard Raf's outburst they returned to talking to their teammates/friends.
"Yeah, Bee's here." Miko said again "Ava saw and talked to him."
"He is the leader of the new Autobot team." Ava added
The two boys were speechless for a while. It was a big surprise. BumbleBee was one of the first to cut ties with Earth. According to IronHide before he cut the ties was that the council was keeping them busy and they were unsure when they could contacted them or visit as often as they liked. Later Ratchet had told them that it was best that they halt all communications with the rest of Team Prime because Optimus and his team were blamed for the war. That was before he was banished from Cybertron.
The only contact the four of them got from that planet was from the Cybertronian council. From what they witnessed the government seemed to hate Optimus as much as General Brise seemed to. Ava had volunteered to be the one handling the contacted with them being that she was the only one among the four of them that actually understood spoken Cybertronian.
"Ava, are you sure it was BumbleBee?" Jack asked
Lets see. About sixteen feet tall, paint color mostly yellow with two lines of black paint. Transformed 'into a Chevy windchaser that is similar to the camaro." Ava said with a smirk "Need anything other proof or are you satisfied."
"That's Bee." Raf said with a laugh.
"How long has he been on Earth?" Jack questioned
"Unknown. Next time I see him I'll ask." Ava said "He seemed surprised how much time has passed."
"Two years ago Cybertronian signals appeared, unfortunately we could not identify who they were only that they were Autobots or Decepticons." Miko added "No thanks to our commander."
"Ava, what are we going to do about this. Commander Brice will eventually find out. Right? What then?" Jack asked
"He might attack the bots?" Raf expressed, worried about the team of Autobots.
Ava shook her head "He might suggest it, but he won't. As much as he hates the Autobots he owes them, after all Bee's the one who killed Megatron. Not to mention all we have to say is that there are two younglings there. Hopefully the knowledge of that will stop him from calling an all out war on them. Besides I don't think that he will figure it out. He hasn't yet figured out that they are back on Earth and has not figured out what we all have been up too since the Autobots have left Earth."
"What's going to be our plan going forward?" Raf asked
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He was tempted to go to the college again and see Ava and Miko, he had just gotten done talking to Drift about more of his concerns with MECH. Fortunately Drift took it better than he hoped. The samurai had started to slowly build Jetstorm's and Slipstream's confidence back up, so that they could defend and fight without needing Drift's assistance again.
The yellow bot had to smile at the fact that everything was slowly getting back to normal. Hearing how far they had gone while he and the others were back on their home planet. Though he felt guilty that as soon as the council had gotten back, he and the other members of Team Prime slowly lost contact with their charges. He knew it was especially hard for IronHide who thought of Ava as his sparkling, he had just gotten her back after eleven years, and had to give her up all over again. While he knew it was really hard for everyone to leave as well. To him what was the worst was saying good-bye for what felt like forever. When he had gotten to Earth and they had not come through a groundbridge. It surprised him.
Instead of seeing Ava again, maybe he could pop over to Raf's school and surprise him. Shaking his head he sighed surely they would be upset when they find out how long he had been on Earth for and had made no attempt at contacting them. After hearing how many years had gone by he felt horrible. Had it really been that long? Walking to the Alchemore BUmbleBee wondered why Steeljaw attacked the college. He then froze, Ava had directed him to her campus, her dorm, and the location of their battle. The wolf-like con could know about Ava, and Miko. Steeljaw attacked their college, at their sisterhood house.
That thought shook him to his core. SteelJaw was getting more and more unhinged after every encounter they had. If Steeljaw knew about the human members of Team Prime, and who they were. Bee could not even think of what he would do. Another thought crossed his mind. Megatron had tried to make Optimus choice between the person who helped them so much and a five year old. What if Steeljaw did that to him. With Raf and Ava.
'Was that Ava that appeared in the scrapyard with that white car? If so then who what that bot that she was with?' he questioned himself. While he know lots of Autobots, the children knew very little, Ava and Carly was the exception knowing at least five more bots than the ones that were on Team Prime. Though Ava was too young when they were there so she might not remember them.
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Drift and his students were walking in the woods on patrol. Following the path they took earlier that day. The path led them to the campus house that they had officially met Ava at. While Jetstorm and Slipstream walked ahead, Drift thought of how suspicious Ava was acting before, while she never out right hurt any of them she still acted like she wanted nothing to do with the team. Then again every time they saw her as the mysterious figure; BumbleBee was never around. It made sense, Ava did not know them at the time so not making contact with them, until she knew that she could trust them was a wise move.
Seeing that both of his students stopped he grabbed his sword, slowly making his way to the two minicons. Seeing a girl with black hair a pink strip through the parted bangs and the tips of the pig tails. Drift froze aswell, he was quickly thinking of some lie to tell the girl; who caught a glims at the right moment to see to see them walk by when he heard a voice.
"Miko, where do you think you are...going?" the girl said When the girl rounded the corner the three Cybertronians saw Ava.
"Uh, um...Ava?" Jetstorm asked nervously
"It's cool guys, she already knows." Ava explained "Guys; this is Miko, she was a member of Team Prime as well, Miko, this is Slipstream, Jetstorm and ,their sensi, Drift."
"Why is he their...?" Miko asked, she was going to add more but Ava elbowed her in her gut.
"So, what brings you back here?" Ava asked before Miko could start firing questions.
"We were just on a walk and passing by." Slipstream said
Jetstorm offered "would you two like to join our patrol?"
"Yes!" Miko cheered
"No!" Ava declared at Miko, then turned to the other two "While we appreciate to offer, but Miko and I have our work cut out for us here. The grass and stuff is already fixed, and we still need to be ready with cover stories. We have to come up with plans."
"Why can't you do that on patrol." Drift countered wondering why she was avoiding them. According to what BumbleBee had told him, during their discussion after they got back to base that day, he was told that Ava loved spending time with the Autobots. "We shouldn't impose. Besides we are needed here for the cover story, or stories."
Drift nodded her explanation was exceptional. It would make sense for her and Miko to be near by if people started to ask about what happened. They had come across some close calls during their fight against the Decepticons, so to have allies besides Denny and Russel to help out with cover stories was appreciated. Especially since they were from Team Prime and were used to things like that. Drift walked away thinking that his students were following, when he heard them start talking to the girls again.
"If we need you two' how will you know?" Jetstorm asked
"BumbleBee knows our contact info so, we will know." Miko said "Besides we will more and likely run into each other again. during the battles."
Drift had noticed that Ava walked away, but continued to watch his students talk to the over excited girl. When they met Ava, she was calmer than Miko was, but then again Ava was shyer than Miko according to BumbleBee.
"If you cannot reach Bee to contact us, we are in that house over there." Miko said in response to Slipstream's question "Ava's room is the one with the red curtain with the green and black vines in it, and mine is the one with the green curtain becareful though, we have roommates that do not know the Autobot secoret." After a second she added "Best to only use that option of contacting us in an emergency."
Both minicons nodded and were about to fallow Drift when Ava jumped out of a nearby tree, surprising the two, but they followed Drift since all she did was smile and walk over to Miko.
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It had been a few months since the small reunion between three members of Team Prime. The girls helped out once in awhile though it was far in between each time the helped. Since they had college and lived there they did not have much liberty to assist the team. BumbleBee understood and had encouraged them to continue focusing on school and that if they were needed he would contact them. They had re-captured Steeljaw's pack again and this time hoping that they would stay there, this time around. Unfortunately Steeljaw was still out there, and the more and more the girls spent time with his team put them in even more danger than they were already in.
Miko had called ahead and told Bee that after band practice the girls would be heading over to the base to help out for the weekend. The last weekend they could spare before they would have to study for exam week. Since the bots were on patrol he comed them to tell them what he was going to do.
"I am going to go and pick up the girls." he said "after that we'll met you guys at the base."
"But, Bee, you are nowhere near their college." Sideswipe countered
"I'm the only one they recognize in vehicle mode." the yellow leader declared
"Didn't they say that they had been watching all of us?" Strongarm asked "If so then they know all of our vehicle modes. I say the closest one should pick them up."
"Strongarm, if you are the closest one to them. I can't send you in. Your vehical mode is a police car. That is a college, some of earth teens that go there like to think it is a party because they are away from their parents. Not saying everyone is like that, but when I had to crash a college party to get my first charge I passed a lot of parties and..."
"So it would have to be someone with a civilian vehicle mode." Drift declared
"Right," he confirmed "Fix-it who is the closest to the girls' college?"
"Let's see," Fix-it said before going silent for a few seconds. "The closest Autobots to their location would be Drift, and Sideswipe."
"Alright, I'll get them." Sideswipe said in an excited laugh "Party."
"Just for that, I think Drift should get the girls." BumbleBee said
Why?" Sideswipe wined
"Drift will not draw attention to himself, like you would. Besides if you go to campus blasting a song, when they get into your vehical mode others will see that no one is there and be suspicious. Would you be willing to get them Drift?"
"It seem reasonable, that I get them." he replied
"Thank you, Drift." Bee said "I'm sure the girls will be grateful too."
BumbleBee received no reply after that, he thought nothing of it. Mostly because Drift was a bot a few words.
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When Drift got to the campus he rolled to the woods then transformed, Deploying Jetstorm and Slipstream he told them to keep an eye out for the girls. BumbleBee told him that since they were at band practice that they had to look for a stage. Either that or they should call Ava. Since she's nervous about getting on stage she would be the one between the two to actually have their cell phone on her. When Strongarm told them what happened with BumbleBee, during a story night, Ava immediately programed her number; along with the other three main humans on Team Prime's numbers into the Baltimore and asked Drift to contact her if Bee started to act like that again.
Drift was about to contact the brunette when he caught a glimpse of her on stage with Miko. Looking up at the right time both girls saw the samurai bot and smiled. Looking over to the others they said something to them and ran off towards the direction of their sister house. Walking over to met them they arrived to see the girls leaning against a tree with pink flowers on the branches. The walk back to the scrap yard was traveled in complete silence, when they reached the road Jetstorm and Slipstream undeployed surprising Ava and Miko. Drift transformed and opened his door for the girls. who still looked shocked.
"What?" Drift asked
Ava snapped out of it first, Miko was quick to fallow. Getting into Drift's vehicle mode, the samurai headed towards the scrap yard. Both girls looking from each other to the the mirrors that served as Drifts optics to look behind him. Miko jestered to him and Ava nodded her head toward him. Eyes narrowing behind her blue glass visor sunglasses. Both wanting to know what happened but did not want to be disrespectful to Drift.
When they got to the scrapyard the girls got out so the samurai bot could transform. After deploying his minicons he walked away ignoring the bewildered looks the girls gave him.
"Are you two okay?" Slipstream asked
"Y-yeah, we are." Ava answered "What just happened?"
"What do you mean?" Jetstorm asked
"You two just attracted to Drift and then, unattached just now." Miko said "What was that?"
Both boys looked at the girls like they were crazy, "You mean when we undeployed and deployed?" Jetstorm asked
"Yeah. That." Miko stated
"Sorry if we sound a bit intrusive, it is just that you two are the first minicons we've met." Ava stated "And...well..."
"Oh, then let us explain" Slipstream offered
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Drift watched as his students talked with both girls. He had heard Ava's question and knew that his students would be better suited to answer their questions. Figuring that was what shocked them in the first place. Listing in just incase he was needed, ever since MECH tried to take his students he was nervous about leaving them alone for a long periods of time and with people he barely knew. While BumbleBee vouched for both of them, he still did not trust them completely, though he was glad that they saved his students and helped protect them before officially meeting them. Remembering when Miko was first brought to the scrapyard, she ran right up to Grimlock and rapidly firing questions at him, and Ava just shook her head at that; and before she could question anyone else Ava put a stop to the questions.
A melody broke through the silence, both girls groaned at the tone. Answering her phone Ava began to talk.
"What now?" she asked
A voice Drift did not recognize answered "What do you think, the twins."
"What did they do exactly?" Ava questioned putting a hand to her face.
"What do you think they did?" the bot rudely snapped
With a smirk on her face she replied "They got you with another prank." receiving no reply she added "They were just having fun, Prowl, lighten up a bit. It's not their fault that you trigger most of the pranks."
"Still, they need to learn to be serious." 'Prowl' spoke
"Serious as you? I don't think that will ever be possible." She chuckled and when a growl happened at the other end she sighed "How bad was the prank, did anyone get hurt?"
"No, one got hurt." he answered "As for how bad it is the whole main lobby of the base is covered with paint and confetti."
"Any damages?" She asked her smirk widened like she knew how this was going to end.
"No, there is no damages. In fact all the equipment has nothing on them."
"How they managed to do that is beyond me, but since there is no damages and no one got hurt why are you bringing it up?" Before he could respond she added "You tripped the trap didn't you." it was a statement not a question.
"Maybe." he replied
Ava had to stifle a laugh at the image of, Mr. Rulebook, Prowl covered in paint and confetti.
"I'll deal with it when I get to the base latter today." Ava said after she could trust herself not to laugh.
As soon as she hung up both girls burst out laughing. Confusing all the bots who had just entered the scrapyard and the four Autobots that were already there.
"Did we miss something?" Grimlock ask
"Just Rulebook Prowl calling to tell Ava about the twins latest prank that they pulled. They got him good. He's covered in paint and confetti and it is on none of the equipment." Miko explained through her laughs, only succeeding in making both girls crack up more.
It did not stop till both girls had coughing fits, out of instinct Bee more closer to Ava. After a few minutes the girls calmed down enough to breathe normally only to start laughing again after Miko got a picture sent to her by one of the twins. Luckily they were not laughing as hard as they were. Showing the picture to the others brought them to laughter Except for Drift who narrowed his eyes at his students who were trying to stifle their laughter.
"What are you going to do about these twins then?" Drift questioned "And why were you contacted instead of the base commander?"
"She is the leader of the base." Miko blurted
"Co-leader." Ava corrected "Jack a-and I are co-leaders."
"But you take the lead mostly." Miko pointed out.
Ava just let out a breath of annoyance, refusing to argue anymore with Miko about who was the leader of their team.
"So, when are we going to met the others on your team?" Jetstorm asked
"Jetstorm." Drift scolded
"Aw, lighten up a bit Drift, he didn't mean any harm." Ava said waving her hand "Soon, probably over spring break depending if we have any missions. The reason Miko and I met up with you a lot on your missions is because we are stationed here while we are in school. Though whenever we can we go on missions around the world with the help of our groundbridge." The brunette did not seem to notice the glare Drift gave her.
"You have a ground bridge?" Strongarm asked
"Of coarse." Miko replied "Ratchet set it up after he got back from Cybertron and we moved to a new base. Then used it as a spacebridge to go back to Cybertron."
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Optimus stood before them, he had asked if it would be alright if he took Drift again for his mission, since Drift's services were needed again. Though this time it would be for hopefully a short period of time, unlike the months the three of them spent away from Earth. Bumblebee did not like his team being split up again, but it was Drift's decision. Thinking for a bit Drift nodded his head, Though Jetstorm and Slipstream who were behind Drift looked at each other in disappointment. Drift had told them that they would no longer be traveling so often after they made a permanent home with BumbleBee and his team. After being back for six months they were sad that they would have to leave all over again.
"Ava and Miko are going to be upset that they missed you, Optimus." Bee said as the Prime got ready to leave with Drift again.
"Perhaps when I bring Drift back we can visit then." Optimus said
BumbleBee nodded "Hopefully. The others will be excited to know that you are alive."
"You have not told them that I am alive yet?" Optimus questioned Bee in a semi scolding tone.
"It's never come up in conversations. I don't want to randomly tell them." BumbleBee reasoned "But I'll try to bring it up before you get back."
Optimus nodded his head, he had seen how heartbroken the children were when news of his death had reached them. Jack and Ava had conforted Miko and Raf, while holding back their own tears. He stood there in the Realm of the Primes watching as both humans walked away in different directions and cried to themselves after Miko and Raf had fallen asleep from crying. Months passed before they took his last words to heart and started to collect Cybertronian artifacts for the Autobots. The Prime could not be prouder of them, especially with how far the two eldest of the group of children had come; both agreeing to be co-leaders because they had a connection to him. Until a peniment leader could be decided. While he did not check up on the humans often, he could not help himself to watch when ever there was a performance from one of the children were up on stage.
As the four bots went up into Optimus' ship the minicons waved good bye to the others, the minute the ship was in the air it cloaked itself to avoid any questions by the human authorities. When they were sure the ship was gone the team got to work, looking for SteelJaw. BumbleBee feared what would happen if the con happened to run into humans again. They were lucky last time, that there was two people there that knew the Autobot secoret and could help with cover stories. Though they knew that at some point their luck would run out, they just did not know when it would or what would happen when it did.
Two weeks, that was how long that the girls would be gone for. While he was excited for the probability of seeing the other human members of Team Prime again he feared that SteelJaw would use them against him. Though now he had no doubts that they could defend themselves so his fears were not as strong as they were before. Unfortunately no matter how skilled of fighters they were he would never stop worrying over them. Throughout the first week that the girls stopped visiting they were tracking Steeljaw and attempted to capture him. Unfortunately he always managed to get away from them. They had found very few relics and kept them with the supplies that they took from Windblade cashes.
A decepticon prisoner that escaped the Alchimore and re-capture attacked the scrap yard and stole some energon cubes. While defending their base the Strongarm, Sideswipe and BumbleBee were hit with a virus, once the con left the bridge opened up to reveal an old friend.
"Hey...Bulkhead." Bee wheezed sounding out of breathe. He interduced his team to his wrecker friend.
"Hey Bee." Bulk said slowly "What happened?"
"A...Decepticon...infected us...with a...virus, I'd shake...your hand..." BumbleBee traled off.
"Do I need to shut my battle mask?" Bulk asked
"Scanners show that the toxins are no longer in the air." Fix-it said
"How come me and you are not affected?" Grim asked
"Because of our Physiology, we could be immune." Fix-it trying to simplify it.
"Is this fatal?" Strongarm asked in a weak childish voice.
"Unknown, I will need more data. From what we are witnessing it appears so." Fix-it replied
That shocked all of them.
"NO." Grimlock wined
"I'd put you in stasis to stop the progress if the illness, but our last pods were used on Steeljaw's pack."
BumbleBee was glad that the girls would not be here to watch his possible death, and he was even more glad that Drift and his minicons were not here. He did not think he could watch Jetstorm and Slipstream watch Drift slowly die. Keeping calm he turned his attention to Fix-it.
"Perhaps knowing a bit more about this con will help us find a cure."
"Looking on the Alchimore prisoner manifest..." Fix-it replied "Her name is Wingcode and she is an energon vampire. Just like Nightstrike. She was also part of the war. I can not seem to find a cure."
Fix-it, Grimlock and Bulkhead talked about what was going on, and how to fix the situation. Bulkhead had to follow Grimlock to keep him from doing something stupid. Multiple times he had acted too hastily and made the situation worse. He had to make sure that Grimlock would not make the same mistake. Unfortunately without anyone there to stop her, Strongarm had run off though thankfully she had transformed into her vehicle mode before exiting the scrapyard.
Both bots fought and Bulkhead had tackled Grim to the ground, both of them tumbling down the mountain side and landing in front of a group of humans. Thinking quickly Bulk said "Nice, exosuits huh? Sorry about that, I guess we got carried away with the fight. You can rent theses down by the lake." Picked up Grimlock and walked away.
When they got back to the scrapyard and Grim woke back up he went into panic again because Strongarm was missing and he was going to try to find her.
"Denny and Russle will look for her. They are out there right now." Bulk said
After a brief smashing session for Grimlock so he could calm his nerves, the two able bots tried to think of a plan, but could not come up with a clever solution.
"Please bring all cooling divices, they are getting worse." the orenge minicon called over the coms.
After they brought the fans they saw that Strongarm had been brought back, as the two were setting them up Denny felt their armor and pulled back his hand as the heat from them had come close to burning his hand. Sideswipe was busy whining about how much pain he was in, and how hot he felt after Denny made his comment on BumbleBee's and Strongarm temperature.
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Bulkhead was tempted to call the four human members of Team Prime, he knew they could help, but decided against it. Mostly because he was unsure how well they would react to Bee and him being on Earth or how well they would react to this situation, given what they had been through. Once they started thinking again BumbleBee said something that gave Grimlock an idea.
"I'm not sure about this." Bulkhead said "Moving the stash of energon seems risky."
Grim waved off Bulkheads concern "It will be fine."
"Last bot that told me that, during a dumb idea, he ended up falling of a cliff." Bulkhead replied still unsure.
Walking behind the trailer and pushing it Grim said "I will save my friends."
Following the dino bot Bulkhead feared that they would be spotted with Fix-it now sick and Denny and Russell having their hands full dealing with four sick bots. As time ticked by both of them grew anxious. They have not yet found Wing-code and did not know how long their friends had left. They were glad when she attacked them, because it meant that they had time.
Going after the energon the Decepticon attacked them resulting in the energon going over the edge of the cliff. Grimlock lead the con inside a cave with a few energon cubes. Pretending not to know where the energon was he tricked the con into staying long enough for Bulkhead to get into position. Defeating her by knocking her out cold. Taking her back to the scrapyard Denny extracted the cure from Wing-code, and giving the shot the BumbleBee first.
BumbleBee jolted up in pain causing Bulkhead to react. "It's hurting him." Running over to Bee he grabbed his former teammates shoulders. About ready to contact a more qualified person to handle the situation.
"Wait, let's give it another minute." Grimlock said calmly
Sighing Bulkhead nodded and waited. Seeing BumbleBee in pain was one of the things that got Bulkhead worked up. Mostly because during the war, Bee was just a kid. The green Autobot smiled when the yellow and black bot relaxed. Denny then gave the cure to Strongarm, Fix-it and then Sideswipe.
"Let me guess, I was last to be helped." he said bitterly.
After making sure that they were all cured fro the illness that Wing-code gave them, and being cleared by Fix-it the team went and retrieved the stasis pod that the con escaped from and put the unconscious con back into stasis.
"I might as well stay, since Optimus has not showed up yet." Bulkhead said
"Your welcome to stay with us. Any ideas on what the mission he is on?" BumbleBee questioned
"No, sorry. When I ran into him on Cybertron he asked me to met him here." Bulk relied
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It was almost the end of exam week and SteelJaw was not captured yet. BumbleBee had hoped that they would have captured Steeljaw before they were done. they had said that the y would be spending their entire Spring break helping them out. While he was grateful for their help, the wolf-con was extremely unstable and if word got out that they were two of the humans on Team Prime then SteelJaw would drop finding ways to turn him into the ones that released him and o after the girls.
Right now they were right behind Steeljaw, Bee hoped that tonight they would finally be done fighting SteelJaw. Turning left down a street, that thankfully for the Autobots led away from Crown City, Steeljaw made his way to where ever he was going. Before the Bee team could follow Autobot cops appeared from the road on the right and transformed.
"Autobots we need to transform to avoid colliding with them." BumbleBee said.
All of them transformed stopping right before the other Autobots.
"Hey, "BumbleBee said to be friendly "We are kind of chasing a fugitive right now, we can talk later."
The police bot said "We are as well." then snapped a pair of cuffs on BumbleBee. "You are under arrest. BumbleBee."
Listing the charges against BumbleBee, Sideswipe attempted to come to Bee's aid, only to get cuffed and having a few of his crimes listed off as well.
"Arrest him for the prison break." One of the police bots said
Grim shook his head "You see, I did not break the prison. I just escaped when it broke...wait that came out wrong." he said as he was being cuffed
Before Strongarm could protest, some one came over that made her smile. Attempting to save her friends she tried to talk reason to her old teacher at the police academy. He would not hear her out, though he seemed focused on protecting her. Promising that he would put in a few good words with the people in charge.
Activating his decepticon hunter, BumbleBee demanded that his team be let go. Dropforge complied not wanting to get into a fight with someone with a decepticon hunter. Once he freed his team Sideswipe broke him free of his stasis cuffs. His team minus Strongarm who volentered to stay behind to try to talk to Dropforge, on the account that she knew him and he would listen to her. Once her team was gone Strongarm turned to try to reason with Dropforge, only to have a piece of tape go over her mouth.
Giving her some kind advice Dropforge was placed back down and one of his officers cuffed Strongarm and took her back to the ship with them. Once in the ship the tape was yanked off of her mouth she was shoved into the cell that held Fix-it. The group of officers wnet after BumbleBee and the others.
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Bulkhead had attempted to block Steeljaw from going to where ever he was going and failed. After catching up to a power plant that was automated, the wrecker decided to sneak in through a pipe that was big enough to fit him in. Walking through the tunnel he made his way to where the decepticon was, wondering what was taking BumbleBee and his team so long to get there.
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Looking on a monitor at the right time he almost missed it but the decepticon noticed that he had a visitor. After finding the microphone that was for that pipe he contacted the former wrecker. The conversation lasted a few minutes before Steeljaw blasted the pipe Bulkhead was in.
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BumbleBee was speeding down a road, trying to get to Bulk to help him re-capture Steeljaw. After noticing that his Sideswipe and Grimlock were not catching up, he turned back to see what was going on. Turning a corner he transformed when he saw them cuffed and on the ground. Grabbing out his decepticon hunter Bee got ready to fight. Before BumbleBee even got a move in Dropforge jumped up and started to attack him with his staff. Moving swiftly as he dodged Bee's attacks hitting him and as he dodged. Succeeding in taking down the former scout. Dragging the three of them to their ship they put them into one of the cells and left. Giving Denny and Russell a chance to come out of hidding. The two worked together to figure out the code to open the cells. After a while Strongarm said to try Dropforge badge number. Once the number was locked in the doors opened.
Once they were all free Strongarm grabbed something from the medkit on the ship. After Dropforge and his men got back to their ship and saw the prisoners out. He gave them one last chance to come quietly. Everyone else was preparing to fight when Strongarm surrendered, giving her a surprised look BumbleBee noticed that she winked at him. Hitting her police academy trainer over his head with the medical device she knocked him out cold. The rest of the team knocked out Drop-forge's team and placed them in the cell. Leaving to go help Bulkhead with Steeljaw.
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"I almost got blasted all the way back to Cybertron." Bulkhead stated to BumbleBee's question as he looked at the pipe that was curently smoking. "I punched my way out of the side of the pipe before it happened."
Giving BumbleBee the coordinates Bulk made his way to where the wolf con was. Once the full team was there, they were interrupted by Dropforge who demanded an explanation, then after Bee and Steeljaw started to explain different stories he told them to shut up. When the device Strongarm had went off she looked at in and gasped.
"Put it down." He said "I don't want to hurt you Scoots."
Strongarm tried to reason with him, but it seemed useless. He did not believe her about the mind control. Activating something that created a sonic blast that hurt the Autobots Steeljaw began to escape, Dropforge destroyed the device and then Steeljaw field with BumbleBee attempting to fallow before the con transformed. The mini con commander attempted to take them into custody again when Strong arm activated the device that Steeljaw left behind. Scrambling the signal, surprising her teammates with her actions. When the other Autobots came to, Strongarm explained what happened. After getting back to the scrapyard Dropforge promised that he'd look into what was going on, on Cybertron, and left.
"Ava and Miko are going to be upset that they missed this." Sideswipe said with a small laugh.
This surprised Bulkhead "Wait, you know Miko?" he questioned then added "and Ava?"
"Yeah, we met them a few months ago." Strongarm replied
Turning to Bee he snapped "And you did not think to tell me why?"
Holding his hands up in surrender Bee stated "They were in the middle of testing week, and I thought it would be a good surprise."
While he was still made at Bumblebee for not telling him that Mio was here, he understood that the former scout did not want to interrupt their studying.
"Besides they will be here tomorrow, and for the next week in a half we can spend all the time we want with them." Bumblebee added
"I'm going to show them my sculptures I made while they were gone." Grimlock cheered
"Aren't you upset that..." Bulkhead trailed off not knowing what to say next
"A bit, but you know those two. They are stubborn and will go whether we like it or not."
Bulkhead nodded, multiple times Ava and Miko had worked together and left the base just to help them fight, or retrieve a relic that they uncovered. Now they seemed to fight alongside of them.