Chapter 24: New Look and New Danger

After two weeks of bringing in a new human at the base and getting a full promise from her that she was not going to tell anyone, Cindy was currently in both Miko and Arcee's room doing Miko's hair since the Japanese girl had requested of her to do so, as she said she wanted a brand new look and so Cindy, who was a good best friend, couldn't say no.

First, she gently undid her pigtails before brushing all of her hair down and then grabbed her hair gently and using some items that she took from home and smoothed her friend's hair down completely. "Now, the final touch," Cindy said, pulling out a blue hairband piece and fitting on Miko's head.

"Ooooo, can I look now?! I'm just too excited!" Miko said, practically vibrating with excitement.

Cindy chuckled before showing her best friend the mirror and in return hear the girl scream in excitement, getting in for a hug. "Thanks, Cindy, I love it!. You're awesome!" Miko said before running out to show her new look to her family.

"Hey, wait for me!" Cindy called out with a laugh, running after her.

When the two reached the main part of the base where everyone else was, they had just finished with their meeting about somehow finding access to the Deception warship and raid it to take over and finally end Megatron before evening thinking about taking the Allspark to their dead planet to revive it back to life, all of them knowing that if Megatron learned that the Allspark was on Earth and in their possession, then he would do everything to take it and conquer Earth.

"Hey, guys, check out my new look!" Miko said, getting everyone's attention.

Arcee took a good look at her daughter's new look and smiled brightly "Oh, sweetspark, it fits you so well. I hope you're keeping it that way, I trust?" She said, truly liking her daughter's new hairstyle.

Miko nodded and smiled hugely before seeing Bumblebee take a call from Raf, who was at nerd finals at school after beating Cindy in the semifinals last week, who didn't mind losing to her boyfriend. "Yeah, Raf, I'm coming to get you. Hang tight," Bumblebee said before heading out to go get his best friend.

It didn't take long for him to pick Raf and drive around the town of Jasper to just talk and maybe race around a bit since summer was approaching very soon. "Any ideas besides hanging around at the base for the summer?" The yellow Autobot asked his best human friend.

Raph gave some good thought on that question and it didn't take long for him to answer. "My mom wants me to fly with her around the mountains and go on a cave hiking trip," he told him with a smile.

"Huh, I guess Windblade has everything planned out for you. I don't mind tagging along, but not the fly part," Bumblebee told him before looking at his side mirror and noticed a black police car behind him. He looked at it real good and noticed that something wasn't right about the car and could tell that it was going after them with bad intentions. "Raf, sit tight and hang on," he said urgently.

Sensing something wrong, Raf looked behind them and saw the police car in hot pursuit of them. "Are we going over the speed limit Bee?" He asked his guardian.

"No, we're not. It's a Con," Bumblebee said seriously before hitting his accelerator hard and making fast turns at a fast speed to get away. Raf held on as he kept quiet, fearing that this might not end well, though he trusted his best friend to get them out of this jam.

The police car followed them hard and wasn't holding up nor slowing down. It roughly bumped Bumblebee hard to give the scout a familiar message, which told Bumblebee exactly who this Con was and he didn't like the feeling he got that this Con wasn't alone on Earth. "Bumblebee to Autobot Base: do you copy? This is an emergency," The scout said urgently, hoping someone would pick up.

Ratchet received the call and could tell from the Scout that this was urgent. "What is it, Bumblebee? I'm detecting a Deception at your location," the medic said.

This caught everyone's attention, especially Cindy who was new about the so called 'Deceptions' and was very worried for her Raf and didn't notice that she was shaking in fear. "Ratchet, it's Barricade. I never forgot how strong he is when he starts to bump bots and cause serious damage," Bumblebee informed him before making a sharp turn to the clear open road to get clear from civilians.

Which would have worked if Barricade hadn't unfortunately speed jumped over the yellow Autobot and spun around to stop him in his tracks. Bumblebee hit his brakes, coming to a squealing stop as suddenly Barricade transformed out from his car form, not caring if people in Jasper spotted them now while it was still daylight. Bumblebee knew that Barricade wasn't going to move out of the way nor leave until he got what he wanted and that was for him and the scout to trade blows.

Knowing the rules that Optimus has given them, in which one of them was to not reveal their true form in a civilization area no matter what, the scout knew he had no choice this time but to break that rule since this was Barricade that he was dealing with. "Scrap. Raf, I need you to get out and find cover. Now," Bumblebee ordered gently, but urgently.

Raf didn't argue and jumped out, running away from the two to find cover. "It's been too long since we crossed paths, Bumblebee. It's been too long since I killed me an Autobot," Barricade said, cracking his knuckles.

Bumblebee transformed, also cracking his knuckles. "But you never once killed me and today you won't," he said firmly.

With that, the two ran towards one another and started trading blows in the face, kicking and blocking with each other. Raf looked on, seeing how the two know each other's moves and even knew exactly when the other started pulling out their blasters at one another. Barricade automatically picked up and hit Bumblebee with a long light pole that was just laying around and sent Bee flying to the other side, but luckily, the scout caught himself to slow down and charged right back at his enemy.

"How did you get here, Barricade?! How did you know that the final fight is on this planet?!" Bumblebee asked when kicking him in the chest.

Barricade held his pain, but quickly shook it off and ran back to fighting. "Easy! Me and the others had tracked the energy signature of the Allspark weeks ago and made contact with Starscream and met up with Lord Megatron. He will have that cube," the Con said with a smirk.

"Not as if we have anything say about it!" Bumblebee said before letting out a battle cry and shooting at the Con.

Raf was shock to learn that the Con had found out about the Allspark being there on Earth and knew good and well that Megatron wouldn't stop until he got his claws on it. What got the boy worried was when he heard that there were others besides Barricade and he didn't at all like where this was going. "First this and now what? What's next?" He asked himself before moving out of the way at seeing a flying Bumblebee about to land on top of him. Bee slammed a hand down to stop his fall and landed in a crouch.

"Raf, you okay?" He asked the boy.

"Y-Yeah," the boy said. "I hope the others get here soon. I'm afraid of what might happen next."

"Me too, partner," the scout said before leaping back into battle.

Little did they know that the next part was going to be even worse than they thought as neither one knew that satellites from Sector 7 were watching the fight between the two aliens while tracking the stolen cube and most of all, trying to find and arrest Miko.

Agent Simmons was ready to see that little girl again and this time decided he wouldn't get kicked in the jewels again as it was very embarrassing, but he was also impressed on how bold Miko was. Currently, he and his men were all loaded up in both cars and helicopters with weapons just in case they encountered the Bots and he was well enough prepared.

"Alright little girl, let's see if you can dance with Agent Simmons again. I'm going to get you and that Bot who broke in and took my only alien and my Allspark. Game on," he said.

He got in the front seat of the lead car and lead the way out of the base, heading straight for Jasper, Nevada, ready to get what he wanted without any issues.

But ever since he encountered Miko, he started to pull up information on her and the other kids and was impressed on how the girl was adopted by a female alien and couldn't wait to learn more when meeting the girl again. "Miko, the daughter of the female alien named Arcee. Huh, that little girl was desperate to have a mother in which I don't blame her, given her past. When we get her, I'm getting her therapy. Growing up with abusive foster parents, that just makes me sick," he said to himself, truly feeling terrible about Miko's past. No kid deserved to be abused.

But little did he know that in his efforts, he would be facing some very protective Autobots who would do anything to keep the kids, especially the teenage girl they were fond of, safe from both Cons and anyone that wanted to take the kids away.

Well, things are about to get even more tense.

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