Chapter 6: Worst Nightmare

Night soon arrived and the agents needed to find someplace to sleep. They were tired and hungry, they hadn't stopped off to get some energon for awhile. They had transformed and were walking across a field somewhere near the highway. Shockwave was about to collapse.

"We...need...to find...energon...and someplace to rest!" Shockwave panted.

"Yeah, I need to recharge badly. I wish something exciting would happen!" Bee said.

Soundwave looked around to spot any buildings. What they didn't know was that they were walking right into insecticon territory. Once they did find out they shuddered at the thought of waking one up.

"Oh no, insecticons!" Bee said.

"We need to get back to the highway, I rather take a long way than risk waking one of these up!" Shockwave said. His fear of them jumped him right out of his sleepy state.

"I remember when Megatron accidently woke up Clawswipe one night...didn't look good for him later on." Soundwave said.

They continued to walk slowly around the sleeping insecticons. Some would reach over and nearly swipe their legs. The agents didn't say a word. Finally after a few more minutes they reached the end of the territory and a fence was in the way so they jumped it. However, they didn't realize they had been going up a hill. Once they got over the fence they fell a few feet landing in dirt waking all the insecticons.

"SCRAP!" Bee yelled.

Some insecticons thought there had been trespassers. Others thought their own kind woke them up. Bee, Soundwave and Shockwave scrambled away before the insecticons could spot them. Majority of the insecticons began a huge brawl as each one blamed another. The dirty agents ran back to the interstate and transformed. Shockwave remembered to take out the mini trailer from his chest. But Bee and Soundwave were already zooming away. Shockwave coupled to the trailer and went to catch up. But he was tired. Bee and Soundwave came to a fork in the road. The right path led to a little hotel that was just a few minutes from Tyger Pax. They were nearly there. However, Shockwave's speed was slowing down. Suddenly he began to swerve.

"Bee! Soundwave!" Shockwave called out but they didn't hear him.

Shockwave waited until he could see Bee's exhaust pipe flames shoot up but they never did. Suddenly, Shockwave went to the left side of the fork in the road that led to a graveyard. Shockwave still didn't see any flames yet.

"GUYS! GUYS! WHERE ARE YOU?" Shockwave yelled to no avail.

Meanwhile, Bee and Soundwave ran past a sign that said: Welcome to Tyger Pax! They stopped to transform and take a break.

"Man I'm tired!" Bee said.

"Yeah, what about you Shockwave? Shockwave?" Soundwave asked looking around.

"Where is he?" Bee started to panic!"

"OH SCRAP WE PROBABLY WENT TOO FAST AND HE WENT TO THE LEFT INSTEAD OF RIGHT!" Soundwave yelled.

"COME ON, NO TIME FOR SLEEPING!" Bee yelled as they transformed and raced back.

Shockwave couldn't see much as it was too dark, his headlights and body lights weren't helping. He felt a slight jolt knocking him nearly airborn. His tires smacked the road making him and the trailer bounce. Then crashed through a broken metal fence leading inside the graveyard. He smashed gravestones and sideswiped a tree sending him spinning. He smashed through another fence sending him off a cliff forcing him to transform. He landed on a hill and slid down on his stomach and screamed the whole way down. At the bottom of the hill was some railroad tracks and a train was coming nearbye. Shockwave found a way to transform and raced over the tracks just a train rolled by narrowly missing him, but the trailer wasn't so lucky as it was smashed to pieces by the train. He proceeded to continue finding the others. But the impact from the tree, fences and all the dirt blinded his headlights. Little did he know he was taking a shortcut to the weapons industry building where the agents objective was. He decided to transform again so he could see better with his optic.

"Oh man where are they?" Shockwave wondered as he ran through the Tyger Pax Desert.

Soundwave thankfully was tracking Shockwave's every movement with a map on his face-plate screen. They were actually close by. Shockwave's sleepy state caught up with him and he began to crawl on all fours. He saw a black cube-shaped building that looked like a hotel. He sighed with relief as he sat against the building. He tried to com-link the others but only got static. His signal was being blocked by Soundwave using his tracker to find Shockwave. Shockwave, finally too tired to do anything else, went into stasis. It wasn't long after that Bee and Soundwave found Shockwave laying against the building. They carefully picked him up and looked at the building that they were in front of. They smiled as they were looking at a hotel.

Meanwhile, all the way back in Iacon, Brawl, Cliffjumper and Wheeljack were talking in an alley. They seemed to not notice a pair of red optics staring them down. Once they did they growled.

"HEY! WHO'S THERE?" Brawl yelled.

"SHOW YOURSELF!" Cliffjumper yelled.

The mech slowly walked into view revealing himself to be Starscream who was someone the gang didn't know!

"HEY! NO SEEKERS ALLOWED HERE WHO ARE YOU?" Wheeljack yelled.

"Your worst nightmare!" Starscream said.

The gang laughed and Brawl came up to the seeker.

"You? Please! Like you can do anything!" Brawl teased.

"Wanna bet?" Starscream snarled.

Brawl and his gang knew this seeker was trying to start a fight. Cliff and Wheeljack growled but Brawl blocked their path.

"Stay back guys, I got him!" Brawl said. "You got a lot of circuits trying to pick a fight with us!"

"Scared?" Starscream asked.

Brawl growled and proceeded to take a swing but Starscream dodged it and punched Brawl into his gang knocking them all down. Brawl got up first stunned.

"How did you-"

"Brawl, I'm sure you recognize me!" Starscream said.

"No, I don't!" Brawl growled.

"Then does this remind you of someone?" Starscream asked as his body parts began to change.

The gang watched in horror as Starscream's whole body changed. His claws extended, his plating turned to complete black. His optics turned white, wings sunk into the body and was replaced with spikes all around the body. The gang gasped. "Starscream" was really Makeshift.

"MAKESHIFT?" Cliffjumper said.

"That's right, and my gang is here too!" Makeshift said as Barricade, Ironhide and Hound appeared behind him. Ironhide was new to Brawl and the others.

"You guys are going to pay for what you did to Breakdown, and you'll will face prison time too." Makeshift said. "Ironhide, Hound take care of them two!" Barricade ordered pointing to Cliff and Wheeljack.

"No need!" A voice boomed through the alley from the other side.

They all turn to see two new mechs walking up. They were the size of Breakdown and looked menacing.

"And who are you two?" Makeshift asked.

"I'm Bulkhead and this is Lug Nut. We came all the way from Kaon to teach these guys a lesson for beating up our friend Breakdown." Bulkhead said and Lug Nut evily chuckled.

"You can have these two but Brawl is with us!" Barricade said.

"Oh we aren't taking them anywhere, in fact, we are just going to beat them right here!" Lug Nut snarled at Cliffjumper and Wheeljack.

Brawl and the cops watched as the big mechs beat on the two bullies. Brawl looked at the others.

"I've been wanting to talk to Breakdown, if he's still here!" Brawl said.

"He's going to Tyger Pax with some of the agents. Why do you care?" Makeshift snarled.

"I've been wanting to apolagize!" Brawl said. "Mabye through com-link?"

"You? Apolagize? Seriously?" Barricade asked sternly.

"Yes...please!" Brawl said trying not to look at the beating behind him.

Barricade and Makeshift looked at each other with confused looks. They thought.

To be continued...