Mikaela is waiting for 'Cade. She turns to each and every black car, hoping that the decepticon will show up. She is mad at him, for not giving her a way to contact him!
And then, when she almost has lost her hope, she finds him parked in front of her door.
She runs to him, "Where are you been? Damn, Barricade, we need a way to contact you!"
"Calm down little human, or you will have a glitch, or whatever your species can have…" is the annoyed answer of the decepticon.
"Bumblebee was in a mission for Prime, no reason for me to stick around… Is he back, by the way?" Barricade's tone pretends easiness, and in any other moment Mikaela will just enjoy how cute the black mech is, but not today.
"Barricade… He's back, but… but…."
"But what?" the decepticon growl, and she knows that that is partially because his patience is short and partially because now he starts to be scared from her comportment. She forces herself to breath, and then she gives him the news "He is back, but he was injured in the battle…"
The only answer she receive is a painful rev of his engine and then, in a screech of tires, they are running away from her house.
Everything is blur and then they are in front of Sam's house, and almost on the top of said boy.
"What the….?"
"Come inside ladiesman217!" the decepticon all but order.
"Sam" she calls, trying to reassure her boyfriend.
"So you find him.." is the timid greeting from the boy to her.
"Yep" she answer
"What now?" Sam asks puzzled.
"Take me to the autobot HQ" is the order from the black Mustang. To Mikaela he sounds both scaring and scared at the same time.
"No way decepticon!" is the quick and unespected retort from her boyfriend.
"Sam!"
"What? He is the enemy!"
"He is Bee's boyfriend!"
They yell a bit longer but she wins this match, and that is the name of the game.
They don't arrive any close to the entrance of the NEST. Even with Cade's stealth ability, the alarms go off at the first gate and by the time they are in the car park, Ironhide and Will's team are aiming at them.
Sam is the first one out of the car, very high hands and very harmless attitude.
Mikaela follows suit, and the two of them position themselves between their friends and the decepticon.
"Hold your fire" calls Bee, and Mikaela and Sam are synchronized in sighing in relief.
It last only a moment. Bee's looks tired and ready to collapse, and Cade's instinct is to run to him for helping is mate.
In a blink Hide is pointing his weapons to the decepticon, so close that he cannot miss, and then Bee is putting himself in the shot's trajectory, so close that he cannot be missed. He forces the cannon toward the ground, and so the shot, that the weapon specialist cannot restrain, hits the younger mech in the leg instead that in the chest.
But with all the injury he already receive, the hit takes his toll on the yellow bot, that starts to crumble on himself. Only Cade's arms saves him from a severe fall.
"Bumblebee!"
Mikaela watch helpless as the black decepticon cradles her friend in his arms, and then the red optics shine ferociously as he yell "where in the pit is your medic?"
Slowly a weak hand makes its way to Cade's battle mask "you came…" is the feeble remark from Bumblebee.
That tames completely the black mech "Of course I came, little one… Now hold on as your lazy doctor arrives and fixes you, ok?"
Bumblebee chuckles weakly "If he finds out that you define him lazy you will be so dead!"
"Bumblebee, you're not supposed to leave the berth!" Ratchet yells as he approaches.
Mikaela can see the exact moment when the docbot realize that the mech that's holding their young scout is not a friend, and that all the others got their weapon strained on the couple, and he braces himself for a fight.
"Ratchet, please, he will not hurts me, or anyone in this base, right Bad Boy?" Bee would sound maybe more reasonable if his optics weren't fading, and all his being shivering.
Mikaela knows that that will not be enough. The situation is critical, and Sam is just standing there, useful as a screen door on a submarine.
So she runs to the docbot. "They are together!" she says, hoping that will help everyone to understand.
"What do you mean with 'together'?" Asks Will, from his position at the feet of Ironhide.
Sam decides to became useful fo once, and intervene "Like they're screwing each other, you know?"
"They are in love" She yells. She can hear Will asking Hide if they species really can have sex, but her attention is trained on the doctor.
Ratchet gives a long glare to her, and then a even longer one to the couple behind her. Then he sighs and murmurs something about horny younglings under his breath.
Then he stand up in front of the couple, just on Ironhide firing line. "Let's take the youngling inside, ok? And if your little decepticon's brain believes that you will be able to arms anyone here, I will dismantle you down to the screws."
Mikaela can only watch as a scared Barricade, with a weary Bee in his arms in a bridal style, follows the docbot into the NEST base.