Ooh my bleep, I can't believe it's the 20th chapter already! This is the farthest I've ever gotten with any fic! ^__^ yay! Now, here it is, chapter 20:

Chapter 20

Rescue

"Laserbeak, can you find where Billy and Fred are?" Alexis set the little spy bird on a post.

"Man, where are we?" Carlos scratched his head.

"The middle of No-where." Hot Shot revved his engine impatiently.

"Oh, Courage, come back here!" A little short, and plump lady with a yellow apron ran by.

"Stupid dog!" An old, lanky man followed.

"Nuh uh!" A little purple dog ran away from the strange old couple, shaking his head.

"Hoohkay....that was strange." Rad watched the group disappear off into the horizon.

"What was that?" Red Alert came up to ask him.

"I don't know." The boy looked up at the Autobot.

"Whatever it was, it was oddly drawn. Not as sophisticated as us." Alexis stated, crossing her arms.

"Alright already! Enough with the funny farm, let's do this!" Hot Shot spun in circles.

"Let's go, but don't do anything hasty." Optimus cautioned his men.

"Ready for a little search and rescue?" Rad rubbed his hands together.

"Yeah!" The three humans clapped hands in an exchange that was known as a high-five.

Emrial came through the warp gate in time to see the crew already leaving. She quickly flew to catch up with them, burning her rockets on full throttle. She saw that they were coming up on an old abandoned town.

"Hmm." She smiled. "Time to have a little old-western fun."

"Yehaw!" She yelled as she flew over the Autobots.

"What the?" Optimus began.

Emrial looked back over her shoulder plating. "Try to keep up now, boys." She called back to them as they fell steadily behind her, along with Chopper and the kids.

"I have no clue." Red Alert started to break the silence.

"I don't want to know. As long as she's still on our side it's fine with me." Hot Shot thought. "Hmm. She's kinda cute in metal...." His train of thought trailed off.

Emrial's eyes slanted to a sliver under her yellow-orange visor. "Let's get it on, Mega-freak. We've got a little score to settle."

There was a large sonic boom as Emrial flew over the ghost town. The wind turbulence caused by her flight path ripped some of the old buildings to shreds. Some of them collapsed completely.

Emrial swooped down to make another run by the buildings.

"What on Cybertron?" Cyclonus hopped back to avoid being knocked down by the forceful winds.

"I'm pretty sure that's not from Cybertron. I'd say it's more like 'What on Earth?' or 'What in the universe?'. Yeah, that'd probably be more grammatically correct." Demolisher rubbed his chin as he thought.

"I don't care where that thing came from." StarScream pushed past his comrades. "But if it's with the Autobots, it's going down." He transformed and flew up in his jet mode.

Emrial saw laser fire brush narrowly past her. "Huh?" She turned her head. "Drat! I'm being followed!"

She turned around in mid air and headed full speed right at the red jet.

"What? I don't get it." Star Scream transformed and hovered in the same spot.

"This is for Hot Shot, and what you did to him!" Emrial plowed into the Decepticon's stomach.

"Ugh." Star Scream fell backwards for a moment.

"And this is a little something from me." She paused in the cloudless sky, smirking at the confused bot.

"Huh?" Star Scream looked up.

Emrial thought for a moment, and a weapon began to form in her hand. She held it up in front of her face, inspecting the sword with a satisfied eye.

"Hiyah!" She flew once more full throttle at the bot.

Star Scream also drew his sword, and prepared to defend himself.

"Hm." Emrial smiled. "Fooled ya."

She pulled down a bit, and off to the edge.

"Have a nice fall!" She beamed as she launched one of her missiles from off of her wing.

"Agh!" Star Scream was knocked senseless from the blow, and now fell helpless to the ground.

Emrial straightened her self up. "Direct hit!" Her face radiated pride.

She looked down to see what it was like on the ground. She was horrified to see Megatron holding the kids and the minicons in his grasp.

Her eyes narrowed.

"And this is for Trice." She began a swift descent, sword in tow. She readied herself to make the attack.

"Well Optimus. It seems you don't have a choice. Hand over the mini cons or else!" Megatron demanded of the other faction's leader.

"No." Optimus optics darted back and forth from the minicons by his feet to those that were in the grip of Megatron. He sighed. "Go to him." He nudged his minicons. "I'm sorry, my friends."

"No!" The kids protested.

"Hm hm hm." Megatron chuckled. Suddenly, he screeched with pain, and released the kids, and they went sailing through the air.

Megatron winced as he reached out a hand, and gingerly felt his back. He groaned with pain as he found the deep gash in his back armor.

"Who would dare to do such a thing?" He glanced throughout the Autobot ranks.

"I would."

"Hmm?" Megatron turned around. "Who-who are you?" He studied the flying figure cautiously.

"I am me, and that is all you need to know." Emrial straightened her sword out in front of her.

Megatron laughed. "Such a puny bot behind such a puny weapon. It was by pure luck that you managed to injure me."

Emrial's stance remained unwavered. "No, it is not luck. It is the lack of skill on your part."

"What? How dare you!" Megatron drew his cannon up beside him. "How dare you insult me! No one insults Megatron and lives to get away with it! Leader One, transform and combine!" He shouted to his mini con.

"Wee lee bleep beep." Leader One grumbled as he began to transform.

(For those of us who don't speak mini con, Lead One said "Sheesh. You don't have to yell. I'm right here on your shoulder, don't you know?")

Megatron shot his cannon at Emrial, but she nimbly dodged his attack. She was preparing herself to attack when she suddenly crumpled to the ground.

"Hmm?" All eyes looked up at the space behind where Emrial had been.

Star Scream was panting. His sword was still poised from the attack.

"What?" He cocked his head as he straightened up. "My fall was crummy, but I hope you enjoyed yours!" He yelled down at Emrial as she lay, unmoving, on the ground, far below.

Megatron smiled. "I guess this was not all just a waste. Men, retreat back to base!"

"Emrial!" Hot Shot ran to the fallen mech girl.

He suddenly stopped and looked up. "You know, with all the falling this girl does, you'd think she'd come with a parachute."

He then continued running. He was about to scoop her up when Red Alert stopped him.

"Wait." The blue bot held out his red arm to stop his buddy. "She might have something broken. It would be best to run a quick scan to make sure it's safe to pick her up."

"Oh." Hot Shot backed off.

Red Alert pulled out a small sensor thing and began waving it over Emrial's body.

"Dudes." Carlos addressed his friends. "That looks just like something from Star Trek."

"Would you get a life?" Alexis slapped him in the face.

Red Alert nodded his head to the yellow bot, and Hot Shot scooped Emrial up into his arms.

"Let's get back to base." He duly noted as he began walking off.

"So......." Billy and Fred looked at their human friends expectantly. "Could you please explain what in the world just happened?"

"Heh heh..." Rad rubbed the back of his head.

"C'mon guys, let's go." Alexis climbed into Red Alert and the other kids followed her example.

A/n: sry it took a while to update ^__^..... I hope you like this chapter.

Flamstrike0- I hope that you'll be pleased that I remembered to do this episode before the ones where scavenger and sideways comes in.^_^

And I hoped the rest of you like this chappie too. And don't worry about Emrial. She was in her suit of armor sorta thingy. She's not hurt, but she will be able to feel that in the morning ^___^

If you didn't figure it out already, the little incident with the old lady, the old man and the purple dog? That's just a little joke I put in. see, Hot Shot said that they were in the middle of No-where. Courage the cowardly dog, Mariel and Ustice live in the middle of No-where. ^__^ and for any of you who are fans of Courage the cowardly dog, don't be mad. I like courage too and I would never insult him.

Okay, plz review! But no flames

*cries* you see, I've started a new story, an SD Gundam one. The only problem is that there is no SD-Gundam category to post it under, so I posted it under Gundam UC. Man, did I get a lot of nasty, really awful flames. I didn't even know what Gundam UC was! I'm glad you guys are nicer and more forgiving than most others. So thanx ^___^ the reviews you leave me usually make my day. Criticism of the story is accepted, as long as you suggest what im doing wrong and what needs to change. That, I accept.

Otherwise....*shivers* man, I hope I've never left a review like that in somebody's inbox. If I ever have, plz slap me now!

Okay, g2g ^_^ plz review! (hmm....that rymes....)