Nanosec was sure he'd reach Sumdac Tower in a quarter the time allotted. All he had to do was avoid any distractions. He suddenly lost control, slipped, and slid down the street on a huge puddle of oil slick. That counts as a distraction.
"Negative friction lubricant," Optimus Prime told the still baffled Nanosec, "And I've got a few other tricks." Optimus shot out his grappling hook which wrapped around Nanosec. He pulled him closer. Nanosec jumped up and ran around Optimus. The cable wrapped around his legs.
"I've got a few tricks of my own," Nanosec yanked Prime's feet out from under him. Optimus used his axe to cut himself free. Nanosec spun around, causing the cable to unravel its grip on him. He used it to whip the still down Optimus.
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"Autobots! I need backup!" Optimus alerted over the comlink.
"Ready to try it out?" Sari dangled her key in front of Bumblebee's face. Bumblebee finished strapping on the jet pack and the frictionless soles.
"Let's motor," Bumblebee grinned. Sari jumped on his back. She inserted her key into the jets. They spat out fire. Bumblebee started his run and suddenly found himself running faster than he'd hoped. The street blurred by. The wind was pulling his and Sari's faces and hair back. His feet were impossible to see. He turned a corner and was somehow running along the walls of buildings.
"Yourock!" Bumblebee exclaimed to Sari.
"Noyourock!"
"Noyourock!"
"Yourock!"
"Isaidyourock!"
"Isaidyourock!"
"You rock!"
"YOUROCK!"
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"Ya know, I could keep this up all day," Nanosec sneered, "I could do this all day. But I've got a schedule to keep." He twirled the whip one more time, but Optimus sliced through it with his axe so that all Nanosec had was barely a foot of cable. Optimus put Nanosec in a headlock.
"You seem to have a problem with taking stuff that doesn't belong to you," Optimus told him, "Care to tell me where you got the suit?" Just then, a rocket could be heard behind them.
"You want speed?!" Bumblebee was running as fast as Nanosec had been, "I'll show you speed!"
"Bumblebee! Stop!" Optimus ordered, but Bumblebee didn't slow down a bit.
"Can't you stop those things?!" Sari and Bumblebee panicked at once. They slammed right into Optimus and Nanosec. Nanosec picked up the Destronium and ran off.
"Sari! Shut it off!" Bumblebee demanded. Sari typed in the code on the control panel on the jets for the emergency override, but it didn't work. They kept speeding forward.
"I can't! it won't stop!" Sari screamed. Then, both Bumblebee and Sari screamed when they realized that they high-rise road, wasn't finished.
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They somehow stopped right at the dead end that was the road's cliff. Another step and they would've fallen. Sari and Bumblebee looked back to see Optimus's grappler hanging onto Bumblebee.
"Bumblebee! Shut off your boosters!" Optimus ordered.
"I can't!" he shouted. He tried to stop running, but his feet were stuck in a running loop, meanwhile, the rockets were still running.
"If you don't, you'll drag him over with us!" Sari reminded.
"I'll try to turn around!" Bumblebee turned his torso so that the boosters pointed him in the opposite direction. Optimus gave a relieved sigh, but gasped when he saw that Bumblebee was heading right for him. He trampled over Optimus and sped off.
"Sorry!" he shouted before he was out of ear shot. Sometimes being leader just wasn't worth it…
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"Aw great!" Nanosec breathed when he realized he was slowing down, "Now what?!" Nanosec tried to keep running, but he didn't move. He suddenly turned upside-down and saw that his feet were caught in a pink magnetic field.
"Too bad those wheels are attached to metal," Ratchet grinned. The Destronium container dropped down and rolled to Bulkhead's feet.
"Well, well. What've we got here?" he reached down to pick it up, but Ratchet stopped him.
"Don't touch it!" Ratchet activated his telescopic eye and used the x-ray function, "That's unstable Destronium! All that bouncing around has made it extremely volatile. If it detonated, it could take out half of Detroit with it." Bulkhead backed away then looked at Nanosec. His mask had fallen off revealing his gray hair.
"Didn't you used to be a redhead?" Bulkhead pointed at his head. Just then Bumblebee, still out of control, knocked down Ratchet and freed Nanosec. Nanosec picked up the Destronium and ran off yet again.
"That's two I owe ya lemonhead!" he laughed.
"Okay! Turboboosters! Badidea! Anyideasonhowtostopit?!" Bumblebee yelled while running around Bulkhead, Ratchet, and Prowl in a circle. Ratchet saw the key in the side of the boosters.
"Why don't you try pulling out the key first?!" Ratchet barked. Sari reached for the key and yanked it out. Ratchet used his magnetizers to pick up Bumblebee by the boosters and magnetically overrid the boosters. The fire weakened and died. Bumblebee dropped to the ground and yanked off the boosters and soles. Then breathed deeply.
"Thanks Ratchet," Bumblebee exhaled.
"Ratchet!" Optimus stomped over, "I suggest you shut off those turbo boosters. NOW!"
"No time! The Auto-Rover's parked just over there, and we've gotta move now if we're gonna catch him before he blows us back to Cybertron!"
"Right. Autobots roll out!"