AN: I managed to make this one too. Enjoy!
Let's Roll Out!
While 'bots were in Egypt looking for the relic, Elena went with AshStar Japan visiting the same village, she took girls. As Star Supreme, with connection with Great Elk, she has gone to check local mythical creatures that actually exist there. Meanwhile, she also went visit people in the village. AshStar took a chance to visit the local dojo and try her new skills, while Elena visited elders. As usual, they treated her kindly. Showing pictures of their children and grandchildren or asked her for tea. After some time been there, Elena and AshStar needed to return back to base. Before they left some of the villagers gave some local treats and Bentō, aka. lunch meal in a box.
"They sure spoil you," AshStar said.
"What? You want them to pay me by handling local creatures?" Elena asked.
"Good point. The meal will do." AshStar said before ground bridge got active and they went through.
"We're back!" Elena said while they came to Scrapyard. "We brought some nice meals..." she stopped while sensing something was wrong. There was only Denny, Russell, Grimlock and Sideswipe in the command center with half cut H.E.P. generator.
"What happened here?" AshStar asked.
"Um… 'bots found that generator that could fry their brain and it got active by accident," Denny explained.
"Oh no! Did someone..."
"No, as you can see it was cut half by Sideswipe," Russell said.
"I sense 'but' coming," Elena said.
"But then Sideswipe made the question and answered it himself and then Fixit, Jetstorm and Slipstream got mad about it and Sideswipe said they are cute when they get offended and then..."
"Okay, thank you, Grimlock. We get it. Sideswipe offended mini-cons." Elena said. "What about others?"
"They told me I should apologize them and left," Sideswipe said.
"Even my Stars?" Elena wondered.
"Hey, my joke wasn't on them, but they still took it like it was," Sideswipe said.
"Well, be glad I was with elder sister. Otherwise, I would cut you into pieces. I'll go talk to Jetstorm and Slipstream." AshStar said and left things she carried to Denny and Russell. Elena tried to go through quickly by Star connection what happened. Yeah, she can totally agree with others. Sideswipe had crossed the line there.
"Sideswipe, I think girl got offended also because Stars also are in one way mini-cons too. So, when you made that 'joke' on mini-cons and it offended them, you did offended girls too." Elena said. "So, I agree with others with this; you SHOULD apologize them,"Elena said.
"Scrap!" Sideswipe said.
Sometime later all Stars are enjoying the food Elena and AshStar brought from Japan. Denny and Russell got some too and were eating it in the cafeteria near their trailer. AshStar was training with Jetstorm and Slipstream.
"Girls." Elena Started getting their attention. "When I pass through by Star connection on what happened today, I sensed that some of you had seen something. Like a sight of the past."
Gaia and Flame remained confused, but Young and Aqua knew what she meant.
"We did" Young confessed. "It happened when we got touched by those mini-cons."
"Mini-cons?"
"Yes. When Fixit and I tried to stop one called Sawtooth in the mountain of St. Hilary, I touched him when he was a weapon. That's when I saw it." Aqua explained.
"Mine was when that crazy lobster tried to break the pillar. I was somehow in the form of..."
"Lion made of lightings." Elena finished.
"Yeah. somehow when it's paw touched the mini-con I saw it too."
Elena remained thinking when Bumblebee and others came to the command center to Fixit.
"Fixit, any sign of Optimus approaching Earth on long-range scanners?" Bumblebee asked.
"Negative, sir. I'm sure he's on his way." Fixit answered.
"Oh, I hope so. I can't shake the feeling there's something bigger going on with these strange Mini-Cons we've encountered." Bumblebee said.
"Lieutenant, about those Mini-Cons, I was thinking…" Strongarm started before Sideswipe came.
"Uh-oh, Strongarm was thinking. This won't end well." he joked.
"Haven't you made enough enemies for one day?" Strongarm asked coldly.
"We're past all that, right, buddy-bot?" Sideswipe said. But Fixit ignored him and looked away and so did the Stars, except Elena who was still occupied on thinking.
"You never apologized," Strongarm said.
"Ugh! I'm sorry, or whatever. I guess. Okay?" Sideswipe said to them. But in this Fixit left his post to elsewhere in the command center where won't see Sideswipe.
"Excuse us. I believe we lost our appetite." Young said before she and girls left, while Elena still remained thinking.
"Huh. You think the shorties are gonna ignore me forever?" Sideswipe wondered.
"Not if you give them a proper apology." Bumblebee said.
"With sincerity." Strongarm finished.
Sideswipe looked bit confused. In this Elena decided to explain things to him.
"Sideswipe, do you even want to know how you sounded like when you 'apologized' just now?" Elena said while walked to them.
"Does it matter?" Sideswipe asked.
"A lot. This is how you sounded. 'I'm tired of this. Could we just forget about it? I didn't do anything wrong.' That." Elena said.
"I didn't say that," Sideswipe said.
"But you sounded like it," Elena said. "To apologize right, you must admit your mistake and that you didn't mean to offend them."
"Seriously?"
"Yes!" Elena said bit irritated. "Seriously, even a con can apologize better than you! Even Ste..." She stopped there, realizing who she was about to say.
"Who?" Sideswipe wondered. This got other's attention too.
"Nevermind, forget it." She said and walks away.
"Please, tell me I didn't upset her too." Sideswipe worried.
"No, you didn't." Bumblebee said.
"Although, I won't be surprised if that happens," Strongarm said.
After some time Elena was in the Command Center with Stars talking about the mini-cons with Bumblebee and Strongarm. Bumblebee and Strongarm discuss how the new Mini-Cons seemed reluctant to aid their Decepticon partners as well as how powerful they are. Fixit notes that there is a strong symbiosis between Weaponizer and Bot; the host gets powered up, though it's unknown to what extent. And yet Bumblebee felt that the Weaponizer was holding back for some reason. Elena mostly listened to their conversation. Taking that on the note and what Young and Aqua saw through the flashbacks, there is something going on about those mini-cons.
"Elena?" Bumblebee called her. This interrupted her from her thoughts and looked at him and Strongarm. "What you think of this?" he asked, while Drift, Grimlock, Denny, and Russell came as well.
"I need more information," Elena admit. "By what I heard from AquaStar and YoungStar, they might learn the psychic touch of Stars."
"Psychic touch?" Denny asked.
"With it, Stars heal traumas or anything that is related to bot's mind. Like he knows something, but he can't tell because he is injured or he is brainwashed and he needs help to return back to normal." Elena explained.
"I know that." Bumblebee said. "Back then, during the war, FallStar thought Decepticons do it by creating the cortical psychic patch. Knowing this, Stars stopped using it, because they felt going low as cons."
"But you said Young and Aqua might have learned it. Did they saw something?" Strongarm asked.
"I believe, they saw the past of those mini-cons," Elena said. "I tried to look them through Star connection, but every time I did, I felt like it was incomplete because they couldn't handle the pain it holds."
"Pain?" Bumblebee wondered.
Right then, Sideswipe comes with one small flower.
"Autobots are good, Decepticons are bad. I'm so very sorry, that I made you angry." he read. Everyone stay quiet.
"Dude, you ruined entire poem," Gaia said.
"I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with 'bad' What?" Sideswipe said.
"How about 'mad'?" Flame suggested.
"Has Sideswipe sustained an injury to his cranial casing?" Fixit asked. Right, then they hear the strange sound before alarm came on and Fixit checks the monitors.
"We have multiple trespassers on the property," Fixit informed.
"Denny, Russell, take cover. Team, let's rev up and roll out." Bumblebee ordered before Denny and Russell hide to the command center and Bumblebee and his team went look what is going on.
Elena closed her eyes and passed through Star connection if one of her Stars was there. Luckily, there was, AshStar. And she could see who were trespassers. The mini-cons.
"Girls, we must go help them," she said. In this Young, Aqua, Flame, and Gaia activated their watches to get their outfits and followed Elena where others were. Fixit followed them too.
"What are you up to?" Fixit asked from Elena.
"I know who they are." she said.
"Really?" Fixit said and tried to make the contact. "Lieutenant Bumblebee, Miss Star know who they are. Lieutenant?"
"Must be busy to answer," Elena said while they kept going. At one point it was hard to tell where to go in a scrapyard.
"Split up," Elena ordered and they did. Young and Flame went with Elena, while Aqua and Gaia went with Fixit.
"Lieutenant Bumblebee, status report. If you can hear me, please respond." Fixit tried before self almost fall on them. That's when they found them. the mini-cons had managed to take control over Bumblebee, Strongarm, Sideswipe and Grimlock. and now they tried to take over Drift.
"No! Leave my master alone!" Ash shout before flaming feathers surrounded her and formed a flaming phoenix. This straddled bit the mini-cons but didn't stop their work.
"AshStar, Stop it! Before you burn us all." Drift ordered. AshStar looked all worried before flames fade away and Phoenix disappeared, while she passed out. This gave mini-cons chance to open Drift's hand and let one of them take him under control. Right then they spot, Fix, Aqua and Gaia.
"Oh, there you all are. Just came to tell you, if you need me, I'll be vacationing on Alpha Centauri." Fixit said before started to run away. Tricerashot tried to go after him, but Gaia went between him.
"Stop, I won't let you harm anyone," Gaia said. In this, Sawtooth who was controlling Strongarm let her go and went to him.
"Tricerashot, wait. Please, we only came for the High-Energy Pulse generator we detected," he said to him.
"You want the...?" Fixit heared and returned to tell the bad news. "I'm afraid it was destroyed."
"Then there is nothing for us here," Sawtooth said.
"Guys?! What's going on..?!" Elena called for them before found them. "By father Primus..."
"Elder sister, don't be harsh on them." Aqua tried to say. Right then, something flies above them and was about dive right at Elena. Flame and Young moved away, but whatever it was grabbed on Elena by her shoulders.
"Elder sister!" all girls yelled, while the mini-cons let go of the 'bots and run away.
"Autobots, give chase." Ordered Bumblebee said bit tired because of the control of mini-cons.
"Students, remain with Fixit and Stars in case our enemies return." Drift said and left Jetstorm and Slipstream with girls and Fixit before they left the scrapyard.
"I suggest we retreat to the Command Center before…" Fixit suggested before Groundbridge appeared and three cons came from it. "...something like that happens!" he yelps.
"Mini-Cons. Just what we were looking for. Time to get paid." said one of the cons while they surrounded the mini-cons and Stars.
"Over our dead bodies, Bountyhunter!" YoungStar shouts. Right then, all girls got huge sap on them and they collapse to the ground and their outfits return back to normal.
"Stars, huh? We might just get a bonus as well."
In no time the Groundbridge opens inside the cave and bounty hunters pass through it with the mini-cons and unconscious Stars.
"Well, there is no need to push. We're not resis-sis-sis-" Fixit says before notice someone coming from the shadows. "This... This isn't possible. Starscream? Your configuration does not match the visual references in my database. Have you been working out?"
"Just like you ordered, Starscream." the bounty hunter said.
"I'm curious, where did you capture them, Shadelock? At the lost-and-found depository?" Starscream asked annoyed before pushes Shadelock to the wall. "You brought me the wrong Mini-Cons!"
"But we tracked their energy signatures to the..."
"Ah, I believe I understand the confusion. You see, other Mini-Cons departed Denny Clay's scrapyard just before..." Fixit tried to say.
"Denny Clay? Is he your superior officer?" Starscream asked.
"Oh, no. That would be Lieutenant Bumble- Bumble-Bumble-Bumble- Bumble-Bumble-Bumble..."
"Bumblebee? Bumblebee is here?" Starscream realized.
"Bumblebee! Oh, no." Fixit realized too what he had just split out.
"This just gets better and better," Starscream said grinning evilly.
"We also found these." other bounty hunter known as Roughedge said and pushed Stars front of Starscream. Starscream wasn't first impressed before noticed the Star symbols on them.
"Stars here as well? This has to the best day ever." Starscream said before started to laugh evilly.
Meanwhile, Bumblebee and others returned to the Command Center. Since they couldn't find the weaponizer mini-cons and Elena they tried to contact Fixit, but he didn't answer and neither didn't the Stars, which why they returned. But when they did, they heard the bad news that some cons took them.
Right then a hologram message came to them.
"Hello, Bumblebee. Nice to see me, isn't it?" heard a familiar voice from a familiar con.
"Starscream? But we thought you were..." Bumblebee said.
"Yes, I'm sure you did. Your Mini-Cons and Stars are with me, and they're functional. For now." Starscream said, while in hologram message appeared five cylinders, which each hold one unconscious Star.
"Release them, or I shall…" Drift said before Bumblebee stopped him.
"What do you want?" Bumblebee asked.
"You." This shocked Bumblebee. "Lay down your weapon and surrender to me. Or your Mini-Cons will pay the price. And Stars,...well, we both know what has happened before..." Starscream said smiling evilly and placed his sharp finger on one cylinder which holds by coincidence YoungStar.
Bumblebee looked down before came to a decision. With any possible luck, Starscream doesn't know that Elena is on Earth as well. Plus, Optimus is probably on his way there, but how long he can't tell. But he can't risk the mini-cons and Stars. He must have faith. In this decision, he drops his weapon.
"Bee, what are you doing?" Sideswipe said.
"Lieutenant, no," Strongarm begged.
"I can't let the Mini-Cons and Stars suffer." Bumblebee said.
"Oh, so noble. They'll sing songs about you when you're gone, Bumblebee. Come, now." Starscream said before hologram message ended and Groundbridge appeared. In this Bumblebee started to walk to it, but before he entered, he looked on his team.
"This isn't over." he said before entered the bridge before it closed.
"Fixit, track Bee's signal. Oh, yeah. Scrud." Sideswipe said before realized they are in a hopeless situation.
"If my students, Fixit, and Stars are harmed, there is no place in the galaxy where Starscream will be safe from me." Drift said angrily
"I'm not waiting around for that to happen. I'm going after them." Sideswipe said.
"Wait. This isn't some average 'Con we're dealing with. It's Starscream." Strongarm said. "The four of us aren't experienced enough or equipped to…"
Right then alarm came on again. Denny went to check what it was, now that he and Russell had learned something about how to use cybertronian tech and because Fixit wasn't there to do it.
"What now?" Grimlock asked
"Contact coming in by air," Denny informed.
"Might be Starscream looking to finish the job. On guard, team." Strongarm said while they all took their weapons and were ready to fight when ship float above them.
Right then it's door opens and someone comes down. No, not just one, if not four. Team realize it is not an enemy if not an ally. It was Optimus Prime and three remaining Stars, PeaceStar, StrengthStar and SweetStar.
"I think we just got a lot better equipped," Grimlock said.
TO BE CONTINUED
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AN: Done! Hey, I just realized only two chapters are left before I start on next Story. T_T how quickly it's done.