The girls laughed as they ran through the woods.
"Whahoo FREEDOM!" Ava cheered, tripping over an exposed tree root she tumbled to the ground, getting back up she brushed herself off.
"Never seen you so excited before Ava." Miko laughed
"A week in a half of nothing but hanging with the Autobots, why wouldn't I be excited. Aren't you?"
Miko shrugged "Yeah, but its just not the same without..."
"Maybe if we go and drop off the stasis pods we can see if we can visit them." she offered
The two made it to the wall of the scrap yard and looked around. Seeing that no one was watching they scaled the wall landing on the other side. Walking the rest of the way to the section that housed the Autobots. As the girls grew closer to the gate to the base they were suspicious, surely one of the bots would have greeted them, by
now. Alarms blared and the defense systems started to fire in random directions causing both girls to hide behind stuff. Seeing BumbleBee and his team run to protect Denny and Russel or to find cover. They attempted to assist the team the best they could.
Fix-it was yelled at by BumbleBee for messing up the security system witch caused it to malfunction and affect everything else. When the clown statue started to laugh and after its head was blasted off and continued to laugh, sounding like an electric toy that can talk to you that was running out of batteries. Ava cringed away from it.
"Well that's not creepy at all." She mumbled to herself sarcastically while rolling her eyes.
After learning that it was an outside source, everybot yelled at Grimlock.
"It wasn't me." He protested from behind a rocket cut out "This time."
When one of the lasers started to fire straight towards Fix-it, Sideswipe jumped into action and pulled some of the wires out successfully stopping the lasers. Once they were all in the clear everyone came out of hidding. Not one person noticed that Miko and Ava were there, they were busy trying to figure out what had happened. Before the girls could make their presents known-en, a ship appeared above the group in the scrapyard and everyone of the bots relaxed.
"Prime force one." Strongarm said in aw
Miko looked at Ava and vise versa, both looking completely surprised, who was the prime at the helm of the ship. A group of Autobots exited the ship, reveling Jazz,
Ratchet, a female bot they did not reognnize, Drift and Optimus.
"Optimus!"Ava and Miko called out finally alerting Bee that they had arrived when he saw them run up to the Prime. Both girls running to embrace the prime. Miko wrapped her arms around the prime while Ava tossed her arms around, smacking her head against the Prime's leg.
Though their call was drowned out by Grimlock yelling "Teamie, your back." Crushing the samurai bot in a hug. Making both girls feel sorry for the warrior Autobot.
Seeing Bulkhead Ava covered her ears as Miko screamed "BULKHEAD." and ran toward her former guardian, who lowered his hand for her to embrace.
"Where's WheelJack?" Ava asked grinning and started looking around.
"Not here." Bulk said "They're still back home on Cybertron. Sorry." He added knowing who she was going to ask about next.
The brunette shrugged her shoulders "It's okay." She spoke softly.
"Relax kid. We had no idea that we'd be running into you guys." Jazz replied "Besides I'm sure they miss you as well. Who knows after this you might see they again."
It was silent till Ratchet yelled "I'm a medic not an inventor, so of coarse the clocking devise does not work that well. All though I did manage to make a shield that could be used for healing, and might be useful to you girls and your team as well." he directed that last part to Miko and Ava who were trying not to laugh at the medic's outburst.
After everyone got re-acquainted or introduced, Optimus started to tell them about what his mission on Cybertron was about. With Miko on Bulk's shoulder and Ava standing in the middle of the group.
"Wait so they blamed you for the war?" Miko asked sounding confused
"Is that why you did not get a higher place of nobility or welcomed as a hero, Lieutenant?" Strongarm asked
"A job as a street cop was the only work I could find."
Ava mumbled something underneath her breathe catching no ones attention.
"We thought the people wanted that so we didn't fight." Jazz added on.
"I'm guessing not." Miko said "So what's Earth have to deal with what's going on with... well what's happening on Cybertron?
"They are planning to invade Earth." Drift said "I heard the council brag about how they blamed Optimus for the war and their plains to try to conquer Earth."
Ava sighed "Figures. People always tend to blaim the hero."
"We are ready to help defend Earth." BumbleBee said
"No, your mission is on Cybertron. My team and I are too recognizable for a stealth mission." Optimus replied
"I'm recognizable too, and I will not abandon my team." Bee countered "Not when they need me."
"You have learned camouflage by your team mates." Optimus reminded him
The girls shared a look of confusion before looking back to the former scout just as his paint job turned from a bright yellow and black to a dull yellow almost brown color and a darker black paint job.
"Whoa." Both girls replied in shock.
"You can take our ship the clocking devise should let you to get close enough to the council chambers." Optimus offered.
"I think we should split up as well, one of us go with them to Cybertron. The other will stay here and help out with the fighting here." Ava said
"Go, I'll stay and help out," Miko said with a big grin on her face "If you do go to Cybertron maybe you might run into IronHide or WheelJack."
"Cybertron is bigger than Earth Miko. I doubt that we will run into one of them." Ava countered "You sure you don't want to go?"
"Bulks here why would I need to go to Cybertron?" Miko asked
"Because of whatever reason you had to fallow the others into battle before." Ava replied "Or because you have always talked about going to Cybertron."
"You did too." Miko added "running out onto the battle field and created plans out of thin air to get a relic back to base or distract the cons."
"Only to get you." Ava said as Miko shoved her toward the ship. Shaking her head she ran towards the ship. To see if Bee would allow her to come along on the mission with his team.
Miko ran over to Optimus and lightly hit his leg to get his attention. When she saw that she had Not only the Prime's attention but the attention of his whole team she stated "Ava wanted me to tell, you that she was going to help see if they needed any help."
The ship left not long after Miko finished her sentence, the dust cleared and Ava was no where to be seen.
"Apparently they accepted her offer." Jazz said "That girl is too much like her father."
"Can I help you guys out?" Miko asked
Optimus was tempted to say no, like he always had done. But the humans had proven themselves when they went up against Sound-wave. Smiling he said "Yes, you can Miko."
"So, Whats the plan?" the raven haired girl asked
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Optimus' ship was in hyperspace on a course to Cybertron. Strongarm and Sideswipe went over the mission and recapped to each other what had happened recently.
Fix-it was piloting the ship, Grimlock was watching the stars and Bee was working with Drift on a plan.
"Lieutenant we have an intruder." Fix-it said in a panic
BumbleBee nodded and called a small group to go with him to look for the stowaway. Fortunately they did not have to go far, Steeljaw stood there with a smile on is face. Drift and Strongarm grabbed him and held him in place.
"You need me to get into the council chambers." the decepticon declared
"I too have infiltrated the council chambers." Drift countered
"Yes, you must have been talking about, they have upgraded their defenses since then. You need me." Looking behind the team he saw a human girl, with brown hair. "Do you happen to know a human girl?" he asked confusing the team.
"Why?" Bee demanded
"Because there is one standing right behind you." the wolf con replied
All the Autobots turned around to see Ava standing there with a sheepish look on her face. "Hey, guys. Looks like I'm going with."
"Ava?" Sideswipe asked "You snuck aboard too?"
"Not really my plan. I intended on seeing if I could go, and then after I got aboard we departed, I've been looking for the bridge ever since."
"You left Earth without a space suit." BumbleBee almost yelled
"What! No! This suit is one of the battle suits Doc. Greene made a few years ago. They act like space suits as well. My helmet is in my bag."
After she said that the team got a better look at her, and she was in fact in a different outfit than she usually wore. The matalic suit was all black with red and military green lines on it. The suits build was sleeker unlike most human space suits were. Knowing Doc Greene there was a high chance that the suit worked at a hundred percent.
Though not with out a few flaws or over looked details when it was first tested, after that it worked flawlessly or was put away forever. As Strongarm and Drift put a
patch on Steeljaw that blocked his voice they put him in a cell that was in the bridge. BumbleBee thought of what he should do, the kids had always snuk on some of the missions half the time contributing to the success of a mission other times they were sent back to base. While they did prove themselves capable of handling themselves, None of the human children had to handle a fight on Cybertron. Jack had come close but he used the scraplets against the insecticon. He knew personally that the scraplets were gone. He thought about sending her back but she was too stubborn for her own good. Just like her dad was.
Sighing BumbleBee nodded "Alright, you can help, but you stay with me, get your helmet on we are nearing our destination."
Running to the corner where she through her bag she pulled out her helmet and placed it on her head. Hearing the hiss of air she walked back to the others.
"What are my orders for now."
"Don't push your luck." BumbleBee stated and rolled his optics when Ava put a hand to her heart and pretended to not know what Bee was referring to.
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Optimus' new team was driving through the desert fallowing the directions that were being supplied by Ratchet, who held the portable tracker. Miko was sitting in the front seat of Bulkhead's vehicle mode. Stopping all the bots transformed and Miko looked at the ship that was flying away from the small isolated factory.
"An advance ship." Wingblade said
"Advance? They are starting already?" Miko questioned
Ratchet nodded "More and likely to stop an resistance from any Autobots that were on Earth or still in space not uner their control, comming to their aid."
The team walked into the abandon factory, with Miko staying close to Bulkhead in case they needed to get the human girl out of there when the fighting starts. looking around they noticed that there was nothing there and the place was covered in dust.
"They cleared this place out." Wingblade noticed
"Humans or the Cybertronians?" Miko asked "This place was not automated before it was abandoned."
"Girl's got a point." Jazz added "Why were they here. If the humans that ran this took everything out why would they come here?"
"They dropped something." Miko said running up to the big tablet.
Picking up the devise Optimus looked at it. "What is it Optimus?" Bulkhead asked
"This status that they plan to build a spacebrige receiver." Optimus replied
Receiving shocked and horrified looks from the team Miko looked around confused as to what they were talking about. While her knowledge of Cybertronian technology had increased she still did not know as much as Ava or Raf did.
"A spacebrige receiver?" She asked "So it will pick up a space bridge?"
"Not, quite. A spacebrige receiver collects spacebridge participial and uses them to create spacebridges." Optimus explained
"With all the space-bridges that have been appearing since Bee and his team started their mission. That Bridge is going to be big. Just what the high council needs for their invasion." Jazz added
The tablet dropped from Optimus hand and would have hit Miko had she not moved forward when she asked her question.
"Optimus! I needed that!" Ratchet yelled at their leader in a scolding tone "Why does everything I need break." he muttered
"Ratchet." The prime called "The energy signature that led us here is that the source of it?"
"Seems so." the medic replied looking at the Cybertronian tablet he brought.
Wingblade ran up to the devise. "It was a diversion." She said. Muttering to herself she added "it is connected to something. Crawling as she fallowed the cord she saw it was connected to a bomb. It was a Cybertronian bomb that had a human adition to it so as not to catch the attention of the Earth authorities. Giving Optimus a worried look she started to run to the Prime.
"Autobot's roll..."
The building exploded before the Prime could finish.
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When Cybertron was in site Ava looked out the window and stared at the planet in awe. It had been only seven years since she last saw the planet, but it felt like a life time.
"I'm just saying Bee, that this mission calls for sneakiness. No one is better at that than Steeljaw." Sideswipe said
Ava smiled, she was glad that someone was willing to give out second chances to people or bots that might not even deserve a second chance, even though she did not trust Steeljaw at all.
"Out of the question Steeljaw is a criminal." Strongarm yelled
Before Ava could point out that one of their Cybertronian connections that were still one Earth was a former decepticon someone beater her to it.
"So were my mini cons, Grimlock and I." Drift stated
Ava's eyes widened behind her blue shades. She had no idea that they were former decepticons on Bumblebee's team, and knew that her commander would not be happy IF he found out.
"Yeah, but we are better looking than him." Grimlock said loudly wrapping an arm around the samurai bot.
Ava laughed at what the dinobot had said, though it did not catch any attention from the Cybertronians. A blast from a ship caused Ava to fall when the ship shook, getting up she looked around.
"Get to the guns." BumbleBee demanded
The bots all ran to the controls and Ava fallowed looking for something she could use to get up there.
"Ava, get some where safe." BumbleBee yelled at the human.
She was about to comment when she remembered that Bee had not seen her fight, When she had helped out in the field it was like how she used to help out. She distracted them. Ava never had her weapons with her, like she did now, so she acted as the distraction to help out. Nodding her head she hid by the door, but remained ready to help out.
Ships fired at them causing the controls to burst making BumbleBee and his team fall to the ground when the static hit them, static hit her from a near by counsel causing her to scream in surprise. Her cry of surprise was drowned out by the cries of pain from Bee's team. Seeing his team knocked out he said "Scrud." looking at the radar BumbleBee saw the ships that were firing at them grew closer "Scrud, Scurd"
Fix-it was the next bot to wake up. "Fix-it can you get to a weapons council, I need you."
"I can't fly and fire the weapons." Fix-it replied
"We, need another bot." Bumblebee sighed and then remembered there was someone else aboard the ship. He call "Ava!" turning around only to stop when he saw Steeljaw out of his cell. "How did you escape, Steeljaw."
"You have another bot you know, and getting out of that cell was child's play." The wolf-like con replied "Let me help out."
"Why!" BumbleBee demanded
"Because if this ship is destroyed then so am I, now tell me luteniate do you think I would want that?" Steeljaw answered getting into the team leader's face.
Pushing him away as just as the controls exploded again Bee nodded "Alright, go." he demanded and watched as the con got to work firing the gun at the drones. With Fix-it flying the ship and Steeljaaw firing the gun the drones were being taken out at a quick pace. Steeling a glace at the deception Bee was giving' a smirk from the con. The shields started up again and all three turned to see Ava standing on the controls hitting the controlled to the shields. Looking up she saw three pairs of optics looking at her. "What!" She yelled in confusion. She could understand Steeljaw's confused look, but not Bee's or Fix-'s. They knew that she could read and understand Cybertronin.
The last drone was taken care of, the team was now heading to the planet below.
"Like I said BumbleBee I'm here to help." Steeljaw said "Do you believe me now?"
Stepping over Strongarm he grabbed something and stood back up, after he stepped over Drift BumbleBee stood before Steeljaw. "Like you said before if the ship goes down you go down. Self preservation." he said
"I could have stabbed you with my claws while your attention was on the drones."
Before Ava could remark Bee replied "But you didn't, like I said before your only triying to survive."
"We all are." the wolf con countered "Aren't we?"
Gasping in surprise he looked down to see that BumbleBee had cuffed him "Yeah, your right." he said before kicking him and knocking the con out cold.
"Feel better?" Ava asked in a teasing manor
Giving the human girl a playful glare he then dragged Steeljaw back to the cell. After getting the con in confinement "Sorry, Steeljaw, but self preservation and all.
You understand?"
Eventually the rest of the Autobots started to wake up.
"Glad you all could join us back in the land of consciousness." Ava said
"We are nearing the coordinates." Fix-it said
"Ava..."
"I know Bee stay close to you, or one of the others." she replied as she walked over to the leader of the team.
"Thank you." he sighed knowing that she would be safe.
Once Steeljaw woke up they all left to head to the council chambers. Passing by some zombie citizens Ava gave a low whistle "I thought Cybertron was going to be a happy, peaceful place. This is not at all how I imagined things were going here." she said "Everyone seems...dead inside."
"I agree with your human pet Bee."
"PET!" Ava said in a low voice that made BumbleBee glad that she was riding with him.
"Fine, I agree with the human, happy, " He reworded adding that last part to Ava.
"For now." she replied coldly
"Anyway this is why I want to leave, you Auotbots and all your rules control everyone way of thinking."
"If you get your 'Decepticon eutopia you would be just another dictator." Bee said "Just like you are trying to avoid here."
He was about to retort but stopped having nothing to say to the bot he stayed quiet.
Because they stayed in one spot for too long they were noticed and approached, eventually being forced to transform when they were found out. When BumbleBee transformed Ava had jumped and landed on the ground mid transform. A police force had stopped the scouts from alerting the others and said that. A bot that Drift and Ava did not recognize stopped them from taking them away and took over from there. Putting every one in stasis cuff that had no effect on Ava, they led them all away.
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The smoke cleared from the explosion, the dust and dirt settles to revel a light blue shield surroundings Optimus and his team, Bulkhead's hands were folded over top of each other lifting one up to revel Miko.
"It worked." Ratchet marveled "Seems to be a susses."
"Nice work Ratche." Miko praised the medic "Thanks."
A few seconds later the shield disspaeared. I needed that." Ratchet cried "Guess it was not a successes after all."
"It kept us alive." Wingbalde pointed out. "So, I wouldn't complain."
As the team exited the abandoned factory Autobot ship signals started to appear on Ratchet's tablet and Miko's phone rang.
"It's Raf," She said "and my guess is that they picked up what ever you picked up."
Answering it she talked to Raf as they headed in the direction of the signals.
"Why are a majority of your missions associated with train car boxes?" Miko demanded
Bulkhead shrugged as the team watched the group set something up.
"We need to get out there." Miko said and started to run out only to be stopped by Optimus.
"What we need is a plan, Miko, we can not run out there." Ratchet said
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"It is a good thing that we got to you in time." Dropforge said as he lead Ava and the others away from the scean and to where they needed to go.
"What's going on?" Strongarm questioned
"They have cracked down on the rules ever since BumbleBee and you took a space bridge to Earth with out authorization." the blue mini con stated to Bumblebee
"Wow, Bee did not know you had it in you." Ava teased
Ignoring Ava's quip he added "You and your team have jumped to number one on the most wanted list." Once they reached the ally behind buildings the police team had cuffed the team and Ava handed back the cuffs that she had gotten out of earlier. Noticing that the bot that he lead was a human he said "Keep and eye on this one. The council might use the fact that she is a human against you."
"This is an old friend of the lutenette's, sir, and we did not plan on bringing her it just sort of happened." Strongarm explained
"Names Ava" the brunette added
"Dropforge." the minicon replied to the human and then added to the others "This door will get you to where you need to go, we will say that you escaped." The minicon explained
"Thank you, sir." Strong arm said
"No problem scoots. ." Dropforge said with a smile "It was nice meeting you miss." he said to Ava and ran off with his team in another direction.
"Who?' Ava started then asked and then noticed that someone was not with them "Where.."
"Dropforg was Strongarm's old police force academy teacher before she was assigned to me." BumbleBee said. "Okay Steeljaw get to work."
Noticing his old teammate's behavior as she looked around he did the same wondering what she was looking at. Then realized that she was not taking in the cites as he assumed
Steeljaw was missing.
"Where's Steeljaw?" Sideswipe said "HE was here a second ago."
"I knew he'd run." Bee said
Steeljaw appeared behind them in a door way.
"Like I promised I will be a team player until this matter is resolved." the blue wolf con explained
The team walked in passing Steeljaw with BumbleBee picking Ava up as the two pf them past the Decepticon wolf, and walking into the room that the council was in.
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Wingblade shot by as Jazz and Bulkhead stormed in fallowed by Ratchet Optimus fallowed in from the sky and the battle for Earth commended. They had tried to distract them long enough for one of them to get an opening to destroy the receiver but it was not looking good. When Wingbalde was shot out of the sky she transformed into but mode and was caught by Optimus who held her with one arm as one of her arms was draped over his shoulder.
"IS Eliita the jealous type?" Miko asked
"I don't know." Jazz replied
"Then maybe it is a good thing she is not here." Miko sighed
Miko had wanted to help but Bulkhead was overprotective over her and refused to let her help as much as she wanted to, at least she was able to distract the bots while they fought them. As Ratchet worked on destroying the Space bridge receiver. Ten minutes later the receiver exploded along with the opened space-bridge causing it to disappear,as if it was never there to begin with.
"This will be a long and difficult explanation." Miko muttered bitterly, usually Ava or Jack handled dealing with the commander.
She was not looking forward to the upcoming debriefing she knew was going to come. Since the commander was more of a no nonsense kind of person, kind of made it hard to explain cretin Cybertronian artifacts to him. By human standards some of Cybertrons relics of the past were filled with mystical properties, while to other Cybertronians it was just normal science. They had all lost count of how many time commander Brice had sent them to get a phyic evaluation. Just because they mentioned stuff like mystical properties, of mythological beasts. That was one of the main reasons why they hated working with Commander Brice. He knew that Team Prime were aliens and he still did not take that into account. Mystical may not always mean magical, to could also be used to describe something explainable.
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"Lets have a few bots bots see what they are saying." BumbleBee said as he sat Ava back on the ground and Drift deployied Jetstorm and Slipstream.
Without a word being said both had ran off to were the council was, Ava followed unbeknownst to any bot Jetstorm noticed something on the only girl's leg and pulled it off.
Gasps escaped the whole teams mouths, they were not Autobots at all. The bots that amde up the council were all Decepticons.
"They used light benders." Strongarm observed
Jetstorm and Slipstream were currently running from the con that was firing at them. The leader of the council kept firing at them and encouraged the others to join in when the others came out and started to help the minicons.
"Fix-it get to the controls." BumbleBee demanded "Find a way to shut off the mind control." The orange wheeled minicon headed for the controls "Ava, I want you to help Fix-it." He said and looked around for the human "Where did she go now?" he asked in a half worried half 'why now' tone.
Jetstorm and Slipstream met up and started to run to where they could link back up with their master. Unfortunately their backs were turned to the fight. They were blasted to the ground not moving.
"Jetstorm! Slipstream!" Drift cried out in a mix of panic, concern and worry.
The leader of the high council that shot them smiled. "AHHH!" he cried out in pain . Looking down Cyclonus saw Ava, her weapon was unfinished. It was a pole that could shot electricity. Her look of anger and determination slowly fell as she looked into his angry optics
"Probably should have thought that out a bit more." She said as she started to run. She was quickly picked up by BumbleBee and tossed over to where Drift was with his students.
"Check on the minis." Bee said only to have Ava fallow him as he ran off
"They are fine just got the 'wind' knocked out of them." Ava replied "I'll be more of use helping you guys."
"Then help Fix-it." BumbleBee said "I want you no where near this fight."
"But..."
"NOW, AVA" Bee demanded causing the only human on the planet to jump back in suprise.
Sighing at Bumblebee's overprotective attitude towards her. she nodded in defeat, runing over to where the mini con was to help out. When she reached him Fix-it was having a panic attack not knowing what to do. She didn't either but between the two of them they should figure it out, typing on the control she made her presents know to the mini con.
"Ava? You can read Cybertronian?" he asked
"Uh...yeah...I can also understand it." she said as if it was perfectly normal that she could understand an alien language.
"I don't know how we are going to stop this?"
"The camera is still going they are seeing the decepticons." Sideswipe stated "Why haven't they started to help?"
"Mind control." Ava yelled back "Haven't exactly turned it off yet."
Fix-it and Ava both screamed in surprise when Steeljaw slammed his claws into the controls causing them to spark and deactivate the mind control.
"Consider this my contribution to the fight. We are now even." The con said as he started to leave. "See you back back on Earth, without you Autobots there
it will be easly to take over."
The Bee team was tossed over to a corner making Ava and Fix-it pause "Oh no." Ava muttered looking extremely worried for her friends.
The decepticons combined together causing Ava to look at them with wide, surprised eyes. The combined decepticon started to attack the five bots. causing Ava to have to sit on the ground before she passed out as her knees buckled from shock. "Wha...How...When...?"
The two combines bots fought, the camera that the female decepticon was using caught all the action.
"I was the one who released Steeljaw and his pack to take care of you on Earth." the combined Decepticon gloated "I sent Dropforge to arrest you."
"You also put a bounty on Bee's head." Ava mumbled
"What was that? Fix-it asked
"Nothing." She said with a sigh
BumbleBee and his team combined casing the human's jaw to drop. "They...They...What...How..." She stuttered pointing at the Bee team combined
"What? Didn't the tell lutennaite you?" Fix-it questioned innocently
"No!" Ava snapped jumping up from her place on the ground.
The fight resumed with BumbleBee and his team slowly gaining the upper hand. Ava and Fix-it watched as the fight insured, like on Earth whenever BumbleBee got knocked around Ava's hands were curled over her chest, right where Fix-it knew a necklace lied beneath the space/battle suit. As she looked at the combined team in a mix of worry, pain, and fear. When Glowstrike started to fight back against Cyclonus giving the Autobots the advantage Ava started to Pull Fix-it away from the controls, just in time for the combined
Decepticons to go hurking throught the air, right where the ywere standing mounents ago. The Bee team had a more graceful time uncombining from eachother. Tempation urged
Ava to run up to BumbleBee and hug him, but her training forced her to stay where she was untill they were back at base on Earth.
"Why did you help us?" BumbleBee asked "Not that I'm complaining or anything?"
"We...Why does there half to be so much destruction. Why can't we all live together in peace?" She asked "We are all Cybertronians...why can't we work together to make Cybertron a better planet?"
"Cause life does not always make sense and is curler than any deception." Ava deadpanned getting looks from everyone that was conscious she added "What? Its true."
"You are not Cybertronian, yet you fight along side of them. Why do you risk your life for the Autobots when they are not your species?"
"Well it was kinda easy being that the first Decepticon I formally met tried to shot my head off." Ava said casually "I've never really thought about it as hosing a side though. I thought of it as choosing between my family or the ones trying to destroy my family."
Glow-strike was going to say more but she passed out from exhaustion. The Decepticons were pulled out of the council room, the Bee team exited as well and stood before the cheering Cybertronians. Optimus joined them with Miko by is side. "Cybertron is pretty cool huh?" Miko asked
"Yeah, now that it is put back together and restored to glory. Arcee was right, it is nice." Ava said "Every story was right it is magnificent."
"It seems as if a new council is in need, until we can set up a more permanent government." Optimus explained
"Will you lead the new council?" The yellow bot questioned
"I am a military leader, BumbleBee, it would be unwise of me to take apron the role. But There are some bots that would be a perfect temporary stand-ins." Optimus explained looking at the team that he came with.
"We would be honered Optimus." Ratchet said.
"But, if they are leading Cybertron, what are you going to do?" Bee questioned
"I will stand by until I am needed." Prime explained
"Sir, when do we leave for Earth?" Strong arm questioned "We are ready whenever you are."
"What do you mean? You guys are hero here. Cybertron is safe. I know I am more at home on Earth these days but..." he trailed off catching the hurt look on Ava's face.
"You are not getting rid of us that easy boss bot." Sideswipe said "So, when are we leaving?"
Smiling BumbleBee said "Right now. If you all want to that is."
"My place is with the Algimore, and the part of the ship is still on Earth. Functioning as your base." the orange mini con explained
Receiving nods form the rest of his team they all took a space bridge to Earth.
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"So let me get this streight." Russle demanded "Your staying on Earth? Here at the scrap yard?"
"If you still want us here. Since we met your lives have been in danger. You've been nearly blown up, shot at, and you were homeless for a time." The former scout listed
"Ah, memories huh Miko." Ava said with a smile catching the attention of the Autobots and other two humans.
"OK, so it happens a lot." Bee added sheepishly "I would not blame you if you wanted us to leave."
"Are you crazy!" Russel yelled "It's been a blast. The most fun I've had ever."
"Besides, you have more help now." Miko added
"And another base to go to." Ava commented
"You know we need to set up a chain of command." Strongarm stated "Since we are going to be staying here."
"Not with you as second in command." Sideswipe yelled and the two started to fight again.
"This is a perfect example of how team mates should NOT behave students. Do not fallow their example." Drift said
"Yes, master." Jetstorm and Slipstream said together.
Before BumbleBee could get a chance to break them up a howl sounded in the background, successfully stopping the fight between the two.
BumbleBee smiled "Back to work. Autobots Rev up and roll out."
Each bot transformed
"I'll get the discgises" Denny said
"No, we will be in charge of the cover story." Ava said as she go into Bumblebee's vehicle mode along with Miko.
The team drove off to where the sound of Steeljaw's howl was.
"He's not wasting any time is he?" Miko asked
"Not at all, we will discuss the chain of command after this mission." Bee explained
"Since your the leader, think we should tell the commander that you guys are back permanently?" Ava asked "Commander Brice will start asking questions and there are only so many cover stories and things we can keep hidden from him for so long."
"Then tell him. If we are going to be here we are going to need Earth's government. It would be nice to officially work with Unit E again."
"Alright Bee, we will tell him when we have the meeting tomorrow."