Chapter 17
AT SAM WITWICKY'S HOUSE…
Bumblebee: OK. Now you can wake up.
Skids: I thought we'd never be allowed to wake up. *he yawned and stretched and walked over to Silverbolt and Cheetor* Wake up. Wake up. Wake up Sleepys.
Cheetor: You're one annoying robot, Kids.
Skids: The name is Skids, not Kids!
Cheetor: Whatever.
Skids: *he kicked Silverbolt in the foot softly* Hey! Wake up!
Bumblebee: Just let him sleep Skids.
Cheetor: Yeah, he's flown from wherever the Decepticons used to be to my home. I say he's flown roughly two hundred miles.
Skids: Wow.
Bumblebee: So just let him sleep.
Cheetor: Sometimes he even talks in his sleep.
Skids: I don't care.
*the shed door opened and Sam came in, followed by Mikaela*
Sam: Bee, you're back without even telling me?
Bumblebee: Sorry Sam. Hey look at what Skids and I found. *he showed Sam Cheetor and Silverbolt*
Mikaela: Where did you find them?
Skids: In Montreal, Canada. They were being arrested from the Decepticons, so Bee, Mudflap, and I went to go stop them. Then we rescued these two and…
Sam: Where's Mudflap?
Skids: *he started to sob* Dead! Devastator sucked "Muddy" into his mouth of death!
Mikaela: Oh no.
Sam: Are you going to tell Optimus?
Bumblebee: What do we tell him?
Skids: We saw a group of Decepticons arresting two Maximals and we made a reckless decision by rescuing them and then the Constructicons combined into Devastator and sucked Mudflap into his mouth of death while Bee and I fled with the two Maximals.
Mikaela: What's a Maximal?
Cheetor: A peaceful team from Cybertron who are at war with the Predacons.
Sam: So you're like Autobots who transform into animals?
Cheetor: Basically.
Silverbolt: *he yawned* What did I miss?
Bumblebee: Nothing really, except that Sam and Mikaela came to see us.
Silverbolt: Oh, so that's what a human looks like.
Mikaela: What? You've never seen a human before?
Silverbolt: Nope!
Sam: So, what are your names?
Cheetor: I'm Cheetor, you know like a cheetah?
Mikaela: I get it. Your name is Cheetor because you transform into a cheetah.
Cheetor: Precisely!
Silverbolt: My name is Silverbolt.
Sam: I like that name. Silverbolt.
Skids: So, who wants to go for a drive?
A PORTAL OPENED UP NEAR ALBANY, NEW YORK…
Blackout: We're here! Now we'll split up into teams and try to find them. Mudflap, you're on your own and you lead us to the Autobots.
Mudflap: I don't want to be a traitor!
Barricade: Perhaps you can settle being a dead robot then?
Mudflap: Why me?
Blackout: Because you are one of the mother f***en Autobots and I'll destroy your worthless spark myself if you refuse!
Hook: So get going!
Hightower: Yeah! Be off with you!
Blackout: And signal us when you find them, or we'll hunt you down and rip the spark out of your chest!
Mixmaster: Now get!
Mudflap: I'm a getting! I'm a getting! *he transformed and drove off*
A Shadowy Decepticon: Isn't that not wise? They think he's dead and they'll know that he couldn't fight us all by himself.
Blackout: *at once he fell to his knees along with the other Decepticons* They're Autobots, my lord. They tend to be stupid.
Shadowy Decepticon: Let's hope so Blackout for your sake. Remember Megatron doesn't settle for failure.
Blackout: I understand, my lord.
Shadowy Decepticon: Do not bring those two Maximals to Megatron. Bring them to me. I want to examine them myself.
Blackout: And if Megatron asks, I dare not refuse!
Shadowy Decepticon: Just tell him that his lord has them in safe hands.
Blackout: Yes my lord!
Demolishor: And what if this mission turns out into a failure?
Shadowy Decepticon: A failure?
Mixmaster: Yeah, what if Optimus Prime defeats us?
Shadowy Decepticon: Leave Optimus Prime to me. I will break him!
Barricade: None are as powerful as you, my lord.
Rampage: We'll do what you've requested, Hailer of the Fires of Hell!
ON THE HIGHWAY…
Mudflap: I can't betray my friends! I just can't! What would Optimus Prime say?
*he has a quick vision of Optimus Prime who says, "Get out of here Mudflap! You're no longer an Autobot! You've betrayed your friends just to save yourself from death. The Autobot code is to fight with honour and you broke that code! You can now go linger with the Decepticons, for eternity!*
Mudflap: GULP! I'll have to Optimus the truth. The Decepticons will never find out, I hope!
*he turned off the highway and drove down the road*
Mudflap: I just hope none of those Decepticons get there before I do!
*he drove past a really nice home and he thought he saw Sam and Mikaela*
Mudflap: Was that who I think I saw?
*he backed up to the house and glanced at the humans and sure enough it was Sam and Mikaela talking to Bumblebee, Skids, and those two unknown robots*
Mudflap: I knew it! I knew it! It is Sam and Mikaela! I found them! Uh oh. Skids and Bee are there. And they think I'm dead! What do I say? I was just hanging off of Devastator's mouth and the Decepticons let me go free? No, I won't do that. I'll just have to tell the truth. OH NO! Optimus Prime just came with his lieutenants Jazz and Ironhide! They'll accuse me for being with the Decepticons for sure! Wait a minute. Is that a Decepticon insignia on Jazz? Ironhide has one too! I'm too late! Those two will tell the other Decepticons for sure and then Blackout and the Constructicons will come and kill everyone except me! What do I do?
*he listened in on the ongoing conversation*
Optimus: I just found Jazz and Ironhide. They really want the Decepticon insignia removed from them.
Sam: They were with the Decepticons?
Jazz: Yeah. I admit it. We were captured and then forced the Decepticon insignia on us. We don't want it! Take it from us!
*the Autobot paramedic, Ratchet, came over to the group*
Ratchet: I'm sorry Jazz. The only way to rid of it is to fight it.
Ironhide: We've tried! It won't come off!
Skids: Hot water!
Jazz: What makes you think that hot water will work? Don't say stupid things, bitch!
Bumblebee: OK. Just calm down. We'll get it removed.
Optimus: *he gazed at Bumblebee, then at Skids* Where's Mudflap?
Skids: He's dead, sir.
Ratchet: Dead! What happened?
Bumblebee: Devastator sucked him into his mouth of death. He's no longer with us.
Ironhide: Of all stupid ideas, how the f*** did you find Devastator?
Bumblebee: It's my fault, Optimus. We were just driving through Montreal, minding our own business when we saw the Decepticons forcefully arresting two robots much smaller than us. I came up with the plan that we'd save them and Skids and Mudflap would provide cover fire while I rushed in and grab them. Unfortunately, Blackout was the leader of the operation and he ordered Soundwave to release the Communications team after me after I had grabbed the two smaller robots. Then I signalled Skids and Mudflap to come out of hiding and attack Soundwave's minions who realized that they were no match for us. They retreated and then the huge Constructicons began to advance on us. Then Mixmaster ordered them to combine into Devastator who started his vacuum-like mouth and sucked up everything, including Mudflap.
Optimus: Do you have the two smaller robots with you?
Skids: Certainly. Their names are Cheetor and Silverbolt.
Ratchet: Those are the names of two Maximals!
Bumblebee: Bingo! *he motioned for the two Maximals to come out of the shed*
Optimus: You're right! They are Maximals. Good job Bumblebee in your part of the rescue and you too Skids though we lost a great comrade.
Mudflap: *he transformed and walked over to the group* Actually sir, I'm still here and not lost yet.
*everyone turned around and watched wide-eyed as Mudflap approached them*
Sam: That's impossible! No one could survive Devastator!
Mudflap: I did. At the last second, I grabbed onto his mouth and held there until Blackout ordered him to stop.
Optimus: There's no way you could've took on all those Decepticons all by yourself!
Mudflap: I didn't have to. They tried to torture me into telling where you were!
Ironhide: You led them here?!?
Mikaela: Oh great.
Mudflap: Actually at first I didn't know where you were, so I led them to the old base and they searched there. They thought I didn't give them the right location and I was keeping it a secret so they tried to search my memory files. Then Screamer came and opened a portal to this location and Scalpel downloaded the coordinates so here I am, forced to tell them where you guys are or I'm dead!
Sam: So you're here to betray us?
Jazz: I knew you were bad news ever since you got here!
Ironhide: I'm gonna scrap you…
Mudflap: But I don't wanna betray you guys! I'm telling you that the Decepticons are here and they mean business.
Optimus: What is their goal this time? To destroy the Autobots?
Bumblebee: That's always been their main goal.
Jazz: Maybe the found out that Ironhide and I are trying to get their stupid insignia off us!
Mudflap: They don't want any of us!
Sam: Not even me?
Mudflap: Not even anyone!
Sam: What a relief!
Mudflap: They just want those two robots that Bumblebee and Skids got away with! No one else!