AN: Well, this was quick to make. Enjoy
Let's Roll Out!
"You are now patched in with the rest of the team, Lieutenant." Fixit informed while got everyone on the screen.
"Hello? Is this thing on?" Grimlock asked, while tried the connection.
"Grim, it is on," Elena said, who was there with GaiaStar wearing winter outfits. Each Star was with their 'bot partner.
"Bee, can you hear me? I know we're checkin' locations where these Decepticon Scavengers might go to find old Cybertronian relics, but I'm all by myself on this mountain. And I don't think there's anything here for these Scavengers to, you know scavenge."
"We have to visit every site of Cybertronian activity on Earth, Grimlock." Bumblebee answered.
"Haven't there been hundreds of those, Sir?" Strongarm asked.
"At least. We don't want these 'Cons getting their hands on some ancient weapon or bomb that's been lying around." Bumblebee said.
"Fixit, we have initialized the Decepticon Activity Beacon you devised." Drift informed.
"Excellent! I am receiving your sig-sig-signal. Simply plant the beacon in the ground and I will GroundBridge you to the next location to repeat the process." Fixit said.
"I'm gonna be rusty and obsolete by the time we finish this," Sideswipe complained.
"No need to overreact." Flame said.
"Fixit, any word on Optimus' arrival? We could use the help." Bumblebee asked.
"No word yet, Lieutenant," Fixit answered.
"Hey, Bee? How come you only gave me one of these beacon thingies?" Grimlock asked.
"Given this morning's incident, Grim, I thought it best to restrict you to one mission. Where any damage might be limited." Bumblebee said.
"Is that the reason you asked me here?" Elena asked annoyingly.
"But you know what happened this morning was an accident! I said I was sorry!" Grimlock said
"And I appreciate that. But there've been a lot of "sorries" lately, so let's just take it one mission at a time for now, okay? Be careful out there. Bumblebee out." he said before he ends the call and so did others.
"He just got done sayin' we need all the help we can get! But he sticks me out of the way and says I can't go anywhere?! Not cool, bee!" Grimlock started to complain before shouted the last line, which echoes in the mountain monastery. "It was a mistake! Everybody makes mistakes. I'm not allowed to make one stupid mistake?" Grimlock said before he punches the wall of the monastery, while yells. This causes small avalanche near.
"Grimlock!" girls yell.
Grimlock tried to remove his fist from the wall before they all heard a kind chuckle.
"Good punch, my friend! The next wall that tries to attack you will surely think twice! Won't you come inside and have one of my pretzels? I sell them in the village. Come. Inside is much better than out here in the cold. Especially with all of these walls assaulting you." said the monk who stood behind them, with a kind smile. Realizing that there was a human behind them girls were all scared. "Come!" he invited them. Girls looked on Grimlock on what they should do.
"Okay. Two stupid mistakes" Grimlock admit.
"What we do?" Gaia asked.
"Well, since he asked nicely, we can't ignore it. Let's hope he can keep our secret." Elena suggested.
"How you can be sure?"
"Hello, monks are been here, since...ages. maybe they have seen the whatever we are trying to find." Elena suggested.
So, they agreed on that. Once releasing Grimlock from the wall and fix it, they followed the monk to inside. Without any of them realizing that avalanche revealed cave under them.
Girls and Grimlock followed the monk who introduced himself as brother Gunter. Girls tried to remind quiet and wait proper time to speak. Or that's what Elena suggested. That, however, didn't stop Grimlock trying cover-tell himself.
"No, it's true, I'm not really here. You only think you're seeing me. I'm a-a-a "hallumination?" "Hallucinosity"? Halitosis!"
"Hallucination." Girls corrected. Brother Gunter chuckled on that.
"Maybe you're imagining me 'cause you ate too many of whatever those are. I bet that's it."
Elena facepalms herself on that. Seriously?
"Eh, where you are from is none of my business, but I would like to know your names." brother Gunter said.
"Oh, I'm Elena. This is GaiaStar." Elena introduced herself and Gaia.
"It's Grimlock. I mean, it would be, if I was real." Grimlock tried again.
"Okay. Ah, yes." brother Gunter chuckled.
"Grim, I think he knows you are real," Gaia said to him.
"This isn't weird for you? Even a little bit?" Grimlock asked while transformed to his 'bot mode.
"I overheard part of your conversation before you punched my home. Heh, heh! I know you meant no harm."
"Um...which part exactly?" Gaia asked worriedly.
"Oh, about make sure someone won't get their hands on some old weapons or bombs." Brother Gunter said kindly.
"Well, yes. my… friends came here a long time ago and with them came also some mean bad guys and to make sure they won't hurt anyone, they hid some of the weapons different places on Earth. But now some greedy big guys want to find those things to gloat with them and cause damage around. So we want to make sure they won't find them and that, people won't get hurt." Elena explained. "And we are so sorry about the wall. Grimlock didn't know it would get 'stuck' to it."
"I'm sorry. I just get so frustrated." Grimlock admitted.
"What exactly is frustrating you?" brother Gunter ask, while they arrived in the kitchen. Elena and Gaia followed him to the table on the second floor where was dough and flour, while Grimlock stayed on the first floor.
"That my boss totally over-reacts every time I make a teeny mistake! Like this morning, I was helping some friends with a job and I started my part just a little early and messed things up just a smidge. A smidge!" Grimlock tells, while in last part hit the table, to make a bit of flour jump to the air.
"Hm. Are you sure the problem isn't that maybe you need to learn patience?"
"I guess maybe I do rush in without thinkin' sometimes. Lots of times. Lots and lots of times…"
"Make that mostly." Gaia cleared. "He gets over excited easily."
"Okay, patience! Can you teach me!? Like, really, really fast?"
"I can teach you. But first, you can help me make some pretzels." Brother Gunter suggested.
"But I want to learn patience right now! It's really important!" Grimlock complained.
"So is making pretzels." Brother Gunter said calmly before he started to make one pretzel. first spreading flour to the table, then picking one dough before started to move it on the table, until it turns into long line before picks it from its ends and moves between in the middle until there was one pretzel. Girls followed close to him, while watched him doing it. "Now you try. Remember: The dough wants to be a pretzel," he said to Grimlock.
Grimlock tried by picking the dough and let it drop on the table, then he picked the bowl full of flour and drop it on the dough, in which everything was covered by flour, even Brother Gunter, Elena, and Gaia.
"I think I did that backwards." He admitted.
"Try again." brother Gunter chuckled.
After some time, Grimlock tried to make pretzels. He almost exposed, when answered Bee's call, but luckily he won't pay much attention to it. Elena and Gaia tried to make some pretzels too. Their first ones came either too small or in the wrong shape, but Brother Gunter didn't mind. He even let Gaia taste one of the pretzels, since it was her first time. After tasting it she asked if she could get some with them when they have to return. Brother Gunter promised that they could take those they have made, said that having own made pretzels taste better when you know that you have made them yourself. However, Grimlock still didn't get it yet.
"This one looks like a Snaketicon swallowed a bag of ball bearings. I don't even know how that one caught on fire!" Grimlock said meaning one that has burned and luckily has cooled down thanks to Elena.
"I was wondering that myself." Brother Gunter chuckled.
"I think I stay a bit far, til it's safe to continue," Gaia said, who stood behind Elena. The fire accident got her by surprise. Elena however, tried holding her laugh. whatever happened, for her it was hilarious.
"I'm sorry, Brother Gunter I just don't think I'll ever get this right," Grimlock admitted.
"Friend Grimlock, do you really think I got this right on my first attempt? Or my second? Or my hundredth? Of course not. But I stayed with my task. I stayed…"
"Patient." realized Grimlock.
"Yes. Because when you do, what you can achieve is amazing!" Brother Gunter, while took another bite of pretzel.
"Either that was a very crunchy pretzel or something is not right," Grimlock said.
"It felt like it came from the catacombs." Brother Gunter said.
"Looks like someone hid something there." Gaia guessed.
"Can you take us there?" Elena asked from Brother Gunter.
Once they arrived at catacombs, they spot Decepticon and Dinobot mini-con. It didn't take long to guess what they are after. just like before, this con
"Decepticons! Brother Gunter, go back up." Grimlock said.
"Grimlock, wait! No one comes to this chamber because it is unstable. And if it conti…" Brother Gunter tried to warn.
"No time! Get to safety! Let me handle this!" Grimlock said before transformed into Dinobot.
"Did you say unstable?" Elena asked worriedly. For that, there was no need to answer when Grimlock hit Decepticon to one of the pillars, which caused rocks on the roof to fall. Grimlock tried to avoid them, but then made one hit the another wall, which started to crack through the roof.
"Oh, scrap!" Grimlock said before roof started to fall down.
"Gaia!" Elena ordered.
"I can see it," Gaia said before activated her guardian outfit and used her vines hold walls together and cover the cracks. Sadly, it didn't stop some of the rocks fall on Grimlock.
"Grimlock!" Gaia shouts and went to help him.
"Now we get what we came for," the 'con said, before shelf fall on them. Turns out, Elena and Brother Gunter did that. Elena was still in her human form but had her staff and Brother Gunter had his baking tools. "What in the name of the Sargassoid Sea?"
"Oh great! First a lunatic scorpion, now a crazy old pirate-lobster." Elena said looking bit annoyed.
"Now that I have retrieved my tools from upstairs, I am giving you both one chance to leave." brother Gunter said to the cons.
"Brother Gunter, get outta here!" Grimlock shout.
"Do not worry, my friend. I am more than capable of protecting my home from the likes of simple burglars. Even unusual-looking ones." Brother Gunter said.
"Oh, they are more than just burglars, they heartless greedy scavengers. They take anything they want without caring what kind of damage they cause." Elena explained. "It's our duty to stop them before innocents get hurt."
"Ye be brave, but ye stand between me and my treasure." con said. Elena went front of Brother Gunter to protect him.
"You can kiss the treasure goodbye. For I have already sentenced one of you to be arrested for damaging property and threatening innocents."
"For what rights of...Of!" Con asked before Elena shaped him with electricity.
"I'm Elena Prime Star Supreme. And I have rights for place sentence for likes of you." Elena said.
"Well, Let's make sure this squishy never stands again." Con said before looked on the mini-con."Now, ye poor excuse for a bilge pump!"
"Hey! That's not the way to talk to him!" Gaia shout.
Mini-con, however, did like was told and transformed into weapon and con pointed it at Elena and Brother Gunter. Elena was preparing to protect themselves from the blast, but luckily Grimlock managed to get up and throw a rock, which moved blast away. Sadly it did, broke the shelf, where Elena and Brother Gunter stood and they were falling. Grimlock luckily managed to pick Brother Gunter and move him to safety.
"I am all right. I landed on bags of flour" he answered.
"Good. Stay there. We handle this." Elena shout, who has managed to land well.
Grimlock was ready to face the con until he realized.
"Wait. Slow down. Bee, we got a problem!" Grimlock called before he felt something on his legs. "Hey!"
"I don't want to hurt you. Stand down, and we'll be on our way." said the mini-con. This made Grimlock wonder. Didn't want to hurt?
"Well, we may understand with you, but your pal there..."Gaia said and point the con.
"Don't chat with them! Attack them!"
Mini-con had no choice, but to listen and charged on Grimlock. Girls managed to move away. But by charging on Grimlock caused another pillar to break apart and the artifact came out. The 'con managed to pick up and activated it. Grimlock tried to get it back and artifact managed to make cons fists bigger and hit him hard.
"Grimlock!" Gaia shouts and runs to him, but Elena stopped her before she gets hurt. The con was ready to beat Grimlock more as in practice for something, but right then others arrived. Bumblebee and others went on the con, while Jetstorm and Slipstream went on the mini-con.
"No, don't hurt him," Gaia begged. Luckily, mini-con knew how to dodge them, but then went, transformed into a weapon and took over Sideswipe's body to knock out Drift. Then he tried the same on Grimlock, but something else. happened.
"Aaarggh! What are you doin'? Cut it out, cut it out, cut it out!" Grimlock shouts and lets go of the mini-con before it transformed back. "Your voice was in my head"
"How did you resist me?" mini-con asked.
Gaia tried to go talk, but right then Decepticon knocked out Grimlock and others before it runs away with the mini-con.
"Our enemies do not have much of a head start, so we should be able to…" Drift said.
"Is everyone alright, Grimlock?" Brother Gunter asked, while came out.
"Robots in disguise, Grimlock, robots in disguise." Bumblebee lectured, since they cover was exposed by a human.
"Do not be frustrated with Grimlock. I will tell no one that I have seen you." Brother Gunter said.
"I already told most of our story," Elena told.
"Elder sister!" other Stars yelled.
"Brother Gunter's cool, Bee. We can trust him." Grimlock said.
"How can you be so sure?" Bumblebee asked and looked at the monk. Well, why not trust a man who serves high mighty? "Yeah okay. Uh Hey, back to business! Let's rev up and roll out!" he said before they went to follow the con.
"Sorry I rushed in to attack that Decepticon. You tried to tell me the room was unstable." Grimlock said.
"Heh-heh-heh! Never think about the pretzels you have already baked, Grimlock. Only think of the next one." Brother Gunter said.
"Time to ride, Grimlock!" Bumblebee informed before Grimlock went with them.
"Um.. sis, can you stay here?" Gaia asked.
"Why?" Elena asked.
"Well, to make sure that con won't return here just in case and well… also so he won't use as hostage and..."
"You want me to make more pretzels for home?" Elena guessed.
"Pretty please," Gaia begged with puppy eyes. Brother Gunter chuckled on that. Who knew Star girl, out of space likes now pretzels.
"Okay. But make sure no one will get hurt or sees you." Elena said.
Gaia smiled before went with Grimlock after others.
Others have managed to spot Decepticon and his mini-con before they went after him. Decepticon, also known as Thermidor meanwhile contacts Clawtrap, his college to find that his ship's GroundBridge is out, leaving him and mini-con, Tricerashot to fend for themselves. Grimlock and Gaia emerge on the mountainside and try to tell Bumblebee to wait for them before he starts to get down from the mountain Gaia on his back. However, the other Autobots are already pursuing the scavenger. Thermidor manages to take out Drift, Sideswipe, and Strongarm with their Stars before there was only Bumblebee and YoungStar left. Thermidor tried to get rid of him by drive difficult way, but Bee stayed behind him no matter what.
"He's stickin' with me like a bad-luck Albatronus!" Thermidor complained. "But maybe if I give him somethin' else to think about," he said before stopped and transformed, in which Tricerashot fell into the snow.
Right then Bumblebee and YoungStar came prepared to fight.
"You're going down, Decepticon," Bumblebee said while getting his Decepticon hunter ready.
"I don't think so, Autobot In fact, if you take one step closer, it's gonna be a whole lot of squishies goin' down!" Thermidor threatened and had his weaponized Claw ready to cut pillar, which belongs to the ski lift, which people use.
"How dare you?! If elder sister finds this out, you will curse the day you choose this planet." YoungStar said while small lighting spikes fly around her and her teeth became bit sharp.
"You're just going to make it worse for yourself, Decepticon." Bumblebee said.
"Aw, your concern for me be touchin', so it is," Thermidor said. YoungStar started to growl, but it sounded more like the growl of the lion, before...
"No, Bee, don't rush in. Wait for me! We'll take him together!" Heard Grimlock's voice behind. YoungStar looked behind and spot Grimlock and Gaia coming. But right then Bumblebee tried to charge but got knocked out easily.
"No!" YoungStar shouts and went to check him. Right when she has managed to notice that he is just passed out, she heard something else.
"What are you doing!? You've won! No one else needs to get hurt!" Tricerashot said.
"That Autobot has partners, remember? And they'll be after me soon enough unless they're busy with a different problem. Heh, heh!"
"How...DARE YOU?!" YoungStar roared before lighting started to take a form of the lion. inside the lighting lion, she moved on four just like in Decepticon island. She tried to jump on Thermidor, but Tricerashot was between there. Right when lion's shining paw went through him, YoungStar started to see flashbacks. They were almost same like Aqua's, but with more details. Middle of the war, mini-cons kidnapped by Decepticons, mad experiments with them, yell, pain.
Seeing the flashback, made the lion disappear around YoungStar and she collapsed in shock.
"What happened to her?" Tricerashot wondered.
"I don't care, but it sure made her quiet," Thermidor said. "Any other objections?"
Tricerashot looked down feeling bad for the Star. He didn't know what made her collapse. But he could tell she didn't want innocents to suffer. And either didn't he.
He was ready to stop Thermidor before he heard a roar behind him and noticed big Dinobot coming at the big lobster and managed to get him far from the pillar before started to hit him with his tail.
"Down, lobster! Mean lobster! Bad, bad lobster!" Grimlock said, while kept hitting the con. In this Gaia joined the hitting and got down to smack at his face.
"This is for my sister,...for threatening innocent humans,... threatening Brother Gunter,….." Gaia said while smacked him.
Sadly, Thermidor managed to move away from both of them, so he could get up and started to fight with Grimlock.
Gaia meanwhile, went check YoungStar.
"Young, What happened?" Gaia asked from her. Young simply looked shocked tears falling from her eyes.
"Pain...torture..." Young mumbled in shock.
"I...I didn't touch her. Her beast went through me and..." Tricerashot explained.
"Beast? What beast?" Gaia asked.
Right then both of them heard how Grimlock managed to give good smack at Thermidor. However, it wasn't enough to knock him down. Thermidor wasn't happy.
"What's the matter with ye, ye lube-livered coward!" Thermidor yell to Tricerashot, but he did nothing. "Ye want a Dinobot destroyed right, do it yerself." Thermidor decided and hit the ground causing huge impact, which caused Grimlock to fell, before Thermidor hit him far.
"Grimlock!" Gaia yells and went to him.
"And once I'm done with him, MiniCon, I'm gonna twist you into a sheepshank knot!" Thermidor threatened.
"Twist like a pretzel Like a pretzel!" Grimlock realized.
"Patience," Gaia said, before she closed her eyes and touched the ground. Even if there was snow, it didn't bother her having contact with the ground.
Thermidor started to walk at them, but Tricerashot couldn't let that happen. So, he decided to buy some time and run between, making Thermidor stumble.
"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to…" Tricerashot excused.
"Oh, watch where you're goin'!" Thermidor shout, while Grimlock got up and Gaia opened her eyes fully green."Sorry to keep ye waitin', Dinobot but now it's time for ye to walk the plank!" Thermidor said before charged.
"Be patient. Wait for him..."Grimlock repeated his lessons until Thermidor tried to charge, but Grimlock managed to dodge and grab him and push him down, in which he lost hold of the artifact.
"You wanted to be a pretzel!" Grimlock said.
"Well, here's the last touch. For bad talking about that cute Dinobot." Gaia said before gave one final hit Thermidor. No one couldn't notice the vines that surround her hand, which made smack big enough knock him out.
Once doing that Grimlock and Gaia went check Bumblebee and Young. None of them didn't notice Tricerashot move to Thermidor, before portal appeared and two claw grab both of them and moving through the portal.
"No! Don't let them…" Bumblebee tried to say, but it was already too late. Portal had closed and the only thing that was left was the artifact. "Well, it's not a total loss The criminals got away, but we saved the artifact," Bee said while picked the artifact.
"I'm not so sure that Mini-Con is a bad bot, Bee. He wasn't on our side, but he didn't seem crazy about that Decepticon, either." Grimlock said.
"I agree," Gaia said.
"I hope you're right, but let's not jump to any conclusions. That MiniCon was very powerful. We can't afford to let our guard down." Bumblebee said while others arrived.
"Nice work, Lieutenant," Strongarm said.
"Don't look at me. This was all Grimlock." Bumblebee told.
"Yeah? Walk us through it, big guy. How did you single-handedly beat those Scavengers?" Sideswipe asked.
"I guess I finally learned some patience," Grimlock said proudly.
"I'd say you learned it pretty well. What, is there some kind of secret patience academy up here?" Bumblebee asked.
"Something like that," Grimlock said, while he and Gaia looked at the monastery.
In night time, Grimlock and Bumblebee wherein the monastery with Brother
Gunter, Elena, Gaia, and Young. Young did learn quickly the baking but never could make the right shape. Kindly Brother Gunter told girls they can take them with them, since it was nice to teach them.
"Aw, and how did that one catch on fire?!" Bumblebee asked, who made the same mistake like Grimlock. Young was surprised and took cover by Elena and Gaia, who had got used to it.
"I was wondering that myself. Don't worry about it." Brother Gunter said.
"The last pretzel has already been baked. Think only about the next one." Grimlock said before he tried next. this time he managed to do it all in right way. Sure, pretzel didn't come out perfect, but it still had the same shape. It was even bigger one. Brother Gunter smiled knowing that Grimlock has finally learned his lesson.
"The dough wants to be a pretzel. It wants to be a pretzel." Bumblebee tried to remember, before did another mistake like Grimlock did. He picked the dough and drop it to the table and then picked the bowl of flour and drops it on the dough, which all flour spreads everywhere, covering everyone to it. "Uh, I think I did that backwards." He admits.
In this, everyone, except Young and Bee laughs and say. "Try again."
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AN: Okay! Done! Let's see how long it will take with next Chap