Right as the group hug ended, ice suddenly formed around Anna, Olaf, and every Autobot except Optimus and Ratchet.
"Wait, what? What are you doing?" Said Anna as the ice formed into a canoe that was on the verge of falling down the hill.
"Your desire to protect Elsa will only continue to cloud your judgment." Said Optimus as he deployed his right blaster and aimed it forward.
"Ah, bolts." Said Wheeljack as he realized what was about to happen.
"Optimus, no!" Pleaded Smokescreen.
Optimus shot the end of the ice canoe facing him, Elsa and Ratchet as Elsa generated a lengthy sheet of ice with a stomp of her foot. The blast didn't cause any damage, but it did make the canoe tip backwards and slide away down the hill, taking Anna, Olaf and the other six Autobots away.
"Elsa!" Called Anna.
"Just go! I will be in touch later!" Said Ratchet as Elsa looked on with a grim, apologetic look on her face as the canoe slid far away, leaving her with only him and Optimus. Optimus noticed her expression and figured out what she was thinking.
"Wisdom cannot be granted, Elsa. It must be earned. Sometimes, at a cost." He said.
Further away, the canoe slid along the ice at a blazing fast speed.
"Fine! Happy hunting." Said Bulkhead, who was less than pleased with the situation.
Anna put her hands on the icy surface beneath the boat, but it was moving too fast to stop.
"Olaf! Help me stop! Give me a hand!"
Olaf held out one of his arms. Anna pulled it off and spotted a low hanging branch.
"Hang on!" She said as she used it on the branch to swing them off the ice. They ended up sliding down the side of the hill and landing in a river.
"Wait, wait, no, no, no! Come on!" Anna yelled in frustration as the boat spun out on the river.
"Anna, this might sound crazy, but I'm sensing some rising anger!" Said Olaf.
"Well I am angry, Olaf! She promised me we'd do this together!"
"I knew where this was headed!" Exclaimed Bulkhead.
Bumblebee beeped. ("Why did she push us away like that?! That was so wrong! Promise-breaking promise-break-")
"Are you mocking your commanding officer?" Ultra Magnus asked sternly.
Bumblebee quickly decided that he did not want to anger Ultra Magnus, so he quickly beeped again. ("No sir!")
"Right decision or wrong, what's done is done." Said Arcee. Though she understood why Elsa did it, it still grinded her gears that she ignored her advice.
"Yeah, uh-huh. But what I mean is I'm sensing some rising anger in me!" Said Olaf.
"Wait, you're angry?" Anna said, confused.
"Um, think so? Elsa pushed me away, too, and didn't even say goodbye!"
"And you have every right to be very, very mad at her."
"And you said some things never change, but since then, everything's done nothing but change."
"I know. But look! I'm still here, holding your hand."
"Yeah, that's a good point, Anna. I feel better, you're such a good listen-" Anna suddenly gasped and covered his mouth.
"Don't shush me! That's rude!"
"No! Look!"
Anna turned Olaf's head around. Many slumbering, snoring Earth Giants were on either side of the river.
"Oh! The giants! They're huge!" Olaf half-whispered.
Anna quietly gasped as she found the source of a gust of air blown in their direction.
"Not good." Said Wheeljack.
They were approaching the nose of a giant as it was inhaling. Anna rapidly tried to paddle away from it as they got pulled closer. Right as they reached the edge of it, they were blown away to the side by the giant's heavy exhale. As Anna used Olaf's arm as a paddle, his smile dropped as they noticed that the path ahead was full of even more sleeping Earth Giants.
"Get outta here already!" Said Bulkhead.
Anna noticed another path that led into a small cave away from the Earth Giants.
"Hang on, Olaf."
Olaf grabbed onto the side of the ice canoe with his remaining hand as Anna paddled toward the cave. They made it inside.
"One way or another, I'm getting off this boat!" Said Bulkhead as he jumped forward, right off the front of the ice canoe, only to suddenly drop over an edge. He screamed very loudly as he took the plunge. Anna looked at what lied ahead and saw that it was bad news, bad enough to make her gasp.
"Uh-oh." Said Arcee.
"Hang onto your hubcaps!" Said Wheeljack.
"Try not to scream!" Said Anna.
The ice canoe then fell down a waterfall, taking everyone else with it down the near-vertical plunge.
"YEE-HAW!" Yelled Wheeljack, who thoroughly enjoyed the thrill.
The falling ice canoe quickly caught up with Bulkhead, who continued screaming loudly as he free fell away from everyone else while Olaf quietly screamed halfway down as the bottom of the waterfall started rapidly approaching.
"Brace yourselves!" Ordered Ultra Magnus.
A moment later, they all plunged into the water below. One by one, everyone surfaced. Though they were soaking wet, they were all alive. Bulkhead was still screaming when he surfaced, but when he saw that they were already at the bottom, he stopped.
"Oh! Right!" Bulkhead said with a nervous chuckle.
The six Autobots reached the shore first. One look and they figured out that they were now in a cave system.
"Well, that didn't go exactly as planned." Said Wheeljack, who thought the waterfall would've led to an alternate lower area of the forest, still outside.
"That's because any first-cycle cadet knows better than to go into a confined space." Said Ultra Magnus as he approached the shorter Autobot.
"Even if she intended the "confined space" to get us away from the beasts?"
"Her actions continue to be just one step removed from getting us all scrapped!"
Ultra Magnus walked away while Wheeljack glared at him from behind. Deep down, he knew Ultra Magnus was right. Between trying to approach the wind spirit while Elsa and Optimus were fighting it, exposing themselves to, and angering the Northuldrans and Arendellian soldiers when they first encountered them, running into the forest fire during Bruni's attack, not backing down during the argument and forcing Elsa to send them away, and going into a cave that led to a much larger, unfamiliar system, her actions were just short of getting her and everyone else around her seriously hurt or worse. But at the same time, he knew her intentions were good and was not about to stop defending her just because Ultra Magnus didn't approve.
"Ratchet, don't ask how I got here. Long story!" Said Bulkhead. Instead of a response, he only heard radio static. "Ratchet, you copy?"
Wheeljack tried to send a transmission of his own, but he also only got static. He realized that hitting the water so hard damaged their communicators.
"That hit we took did some damage. We can't transmit."
"Scrap!" Said Bulkhead.
Anna and Olaf reached the shore a few moments later. Anna scraped some rocks together over a stick, turning it into a torch. Olaf rearranged his parts back into their proper order, but his nose was missing. Anna looked down at the ground and eyed a rock.
"No, that is a rock." Said Ultra Magnus.
"Found it!" Anna said a moment later as she found Olaf's nose laying on the ground next to the rock and put it back on his face.
"Thank you!" Said Olaf as he spat out some water and a fish.
"Where are we?"
"In a pit with no way out." Said Anna.
"But with a spooky, pitch black way in." Said Olaf as they went under a low-hanging rock that led into a long, taller tunnel. Bulkhead, Bumblebee and Smokescreen activated the headlights on their chests to help further illuminate the way.
"Come on, it'll be fun! Assuming we don't get stuck here forever and no one ever finds us and you starve and I give up." Said Olaf.
"This could be awhile." Said Bulkhead.
"How long are we talking?" Asked Arcee.
Bumblebee beeped. ("Who knows?")
"But bright side! The others gotta be doing a whole lot better than we are!" Said Olaf as they started their trek through the cave system.
"And how exactly would that be a positive?" Asked Arcee.
Bumblebee beeped. ("'Cause it means the truth is that much closer to being found. I just hope the Dark Sea isn't too much for them to handle.")
"Yeah, you and me both." Said Smokescreen.
"The boss will be fine." Said Wheeljack.
"It's not Optimus I'm worried about." Said Arcee.