Paige had to admit that the bots looked completely different from how they appeared in the cartoon. While some of Bumblebee's features were definitely different, he still had close to the same look from before. Sideswipe wasn't nearly as pointy or angular as he'd been portrayed and Grimlock was much sleeker and more terrifying looking. That also meant that the Cons were more dangerous looking. Paige watched as the bots brought back Sharkticon. She had to laugh when Grimlock punched the barrel that was holding him. Grimlock might look dangerous now, but his attitude was still very playful. They also brought in Chop Shop and some other Cons over the next two weeks. Bumblebee seemed to be struggling to keep his team together, but when they were watching the news on the television in the diner, she knew he'd be gaining a confidence boost when the news reporter did a segment on the pod that held TerrorShock. The bots, Denny and Russell left to go to the Crown City Museum of Natural History and Sciences to retrieve it.
By now much to her delight Paige had nearly doubled in size and she had switched her clothes for the mother dolls silver sequined dress, as the baby's outfit was now too snug. Why the vintage housewife doll was wearing a sequined dress, she didn't know. Maybe the advertisers back in the day were trying to glamorize being a housewife and were trying to appeal to them. Housewives did tend to be the shoppers back in the early years.
Paige needed a way to move around without being in danger and she wrote and asked Russell for his help. She could only look at him incredulously when he brought her a clear hamster ball. It wasn't like she would be trapped in it because there was a door that she could get open, but having to walk around in a hamster ball was ridiculous. It was better than nothing she supposed and at least she could move around freely. She had had it much worse when she was a giant and stuck in a cave. She still had to watch out for the bots and any potholes while she was out so she didn't go too far, but at least she could explore the scrapyard a little. Bumblebee had tried extremely hard not to laugh at her when he first saw it, but he couldn't help it and burst out in laughter. Paige could tell that the others were amused as well and she really couldn't hold it against them.
While she had a general sense of what was going on, there was nothing she could currently do about it. She had seen Strongarm demonstrate the Decepticon Hunter on Denny's vintage fridges leaving them in pieces, but she never knew which episode they were on until Fix-it looked up the Con in the database. At that point usually the team was already out dealing with it. Unless their behavior gave it away, Paige supposed that she'd just have to wait until she got bigger if she wanted to interfere.
