A/N a few things are happening in this one but mainly little things, like bit with Arcee, a bit with ratchet, a bit with silas and a bit with bumblebee of course.
with the depressing tone of this episode, i thought i'd add some comical scenes, seeing how most of my chapters have had there depressing bits, so a cheerful episode = a depressing chapter and a depressing episode = a not as depressing chapter lol.
and also i put both the episodes together as one chapter :)
Operation Bumblebee part 1 + 2
It was literally the next day after we had just got dad back and megatron didn't waste any time it seems as already ratchet picked up on an ancient autobot frequency.
With only ratchet and dad at base, they were the ones to check this out.
"Man the groundbridge, and try to contact the others for back up." Ratchet told me.
"Sure thing." I said.
With that they were gone, leaving me in silence as always, things are back to normal, kinda. I then sighed as i put on my wireless headset and patched through to Arcee, bulkhead and bumblebee.
"Hey guys ratchet and dad may require back up, any of you free?" i asked.
"We've just picked up the kids, want us to drop them off somewhere so you can groundbridge them to base?" bulkhead said.
"No need, I'll go." Bee then said.
"You sure?" i asked.
"Yeah, hey bulkhead mind taking raf with you?" bee asked.
"e-er sure." He said.
"Okay i'm out then, bumblebee I'll open the groundbridge for you then re-locate you to these co-ordinates." I said as i shut the conversation off, after a few typing at the control panel the groundbridge opened and bumblebee came driving through, he was so quick and hyped up.
"Where am i headed?" he said transforming and giving me a thumbs up.
"Well heres a surprise, a place of rocks." I groaned.
"Well if it's got lots of driving space that's fine with me." He said punching the air.
"Okay, well you're all set." I said as i re-activated the groundbridge.
"See ya!" he said before speeding into the groundbridge, that dude seriously needs to slow down.
For once i was alone in the base, and it showed, i sat in the chair drinking a milkshake as i waited by for the others to contact me, i was stuck at base, this wasn't a choice, because my motorbike is bust and i really don't want to walk seven mile into town that would be time consuming.
Then as minutes passed, bulkhead and Arcee came driving in with miko,raf and jack.
"Hey Ellen, still doing important stuff?" Miko said hopping out of bulkhead, staring at my milkshake and the comfortable position i was in.
"Yeah well someone's gotta do it." I jested.
"What was the back up for anyway?" jack asked, as they all made their way up the stairs.
"They found another autobot frequency, but that place has been checked over many times before so the decepticons may be digging up something." I said.
"Perhaps we should go too." Arcee announced like it was a direct order.
"If they want it they'll ask for it, don't worry." I said as i spun round in my chair.
"Ellen bridge me to their location." She then told me firmly, then i twitched slightly, i don't know what it is but when Arcee bosses me around, it really bugs me...oh yeah thats right because she's the only one that does it! besides dad of course.
"Sorry Arcee, no one has requested back up so i'm not bridging you anywhere." I said calmly.
"No doubt there probably outnumbered and haven't had the time to contact you, so ground bridge me there now." Her voice grew threatening.
"No, i will not." I simply stated.
She then let out a frustrated sound.
"You'll just have to be patient." I breathed out.
Arcee has always been a bit rash, and would get real nasty if she was denied something, like revenge for example. That was a terrible ambition and if one let it take control, you'd lose yourself entirely. And although her encounter with starscream seemed to make her realise this, i'm not entirely sure of this the next time she may encounter starscream or arachnid.
Okay nowadays i'm much more patient with her and maybe she is with me when we act like this, but not when she first arrived on earth, maybe it was because she was the only female autobot and we both like to be dominant over the other, and at the time i was 13 so i was going through some major puberty.
We were very vile to each other and knew what buttons to press, for example Arcee would on purpose get a bit too close to dad and jealously is a very flawed human trait, and will make people do the most craziest of things, like erm...well I'd rather not say heh.
But she in turn has done...erm the same level of bad stuff in retaliation, but in the end it got out of control and it was only until something dire happened that we came to be a neutral acquaintance, but that was it we've only managed to tolerate each other, we've never became any closer than that, sure she accepted me as the temporary leader but i mainly think it was only for dad's sake only.
"Ellen, re-activate the groundbridge." Dad then said over the comm link, snapping me out of those thoughts...oh no i spilt my milkshake.
Few taps at the keyboard and the ground bridge opened with dad coming through then ratchet then bumblebee as he drove in his vehicle mode then transformed with a prize in his hand.
"What's that you got there bee?" raf asked.
"The spark extractor." Bee confirmed.
"You weren't that long, did your speed have anything to with it bee?" i asked.
"Hmm, hey raf can i borrow that for a minute?" bee asked raf as he pointed to his remote control car.
"Sure." He said handing it over.
"well it happened like this, megatron was going through his ground bridge with the spark extractor, so then i drove in there and did a mid-air transformation snatching the thing from his hand, the look on his face was priceless, so then i transformed again and sped off in front of him, then he pursued me as i ran laps around him and headed back out the groundbridge as he tried to run after me again, then i found myself in our own groundbridge, we were gone before he could even get out of his own bridge." Bee said using the car as an example of his movements.
"Loopty loop huh?" Arcee said.
Bee then handed raf back his car.
"Heh, you have some brass bearings bumblebee." Bulkhead said.
"Optimus." We then heard ratchet say from the other side of the room, as we made our way over ratchet was pointing to something on the screen, "here, the source of the ancient frequency we detected."
"An iacon homing beacon." Dad confirmed
"What's an autobot locater doing on that?" Arcee asked.
"The class A decepticon weapons confiscated during the war were sealed within the vaults below iacon." Dad explained.
"Where you once worked as an archivist." Bulkhead stated.
"Iacon was both a cultural centre and a strong hold, which megatron raided when autobot troops were at their nadir. It stands to reason, that in anticipation of iacon being overrun by enemy forces, these weapons were jettisoned off world to keep them far from decepticon reach." Dad said.
"Clearly the beacon was added as a safety measure, should the weapons ever be found by the undesired party." Ratchet added.
Bulkhead laughed slightly "well thanks to our hot shot stunt driver, this one's going in our vault."
"Do you think this is the only Intel you supplied to megatron?" Arcee asked dad.
"Arcee, you are right to ask and i am afraid i...do not remember." Dad said sadly shaking his head.
"Optimus, megatron clearly took advantage of your amnesia, but for all we know the spark extractor is the extent of it. Have you stopped to consider that he might have considered over wise merely to plaque your thoughts?" ratchet said, megatron been stirring again?
I then walk down stairs as i wanted to get some fresh air and some sunlight, this base doesn't exactly have windows. as i walked across the room i fell forwards and fell on my face.
"Ellen you okay?" jack asked from afar.
"E-r yeah." I then looked at my trainers one of the soles had completely fallen off. "That's right i need some knew footwear, i hate to be a bother but anyone mind giving me a lift into town?" i said shyly.
Dad then thought for a moment, "Arcee, accompany Ellen." He then said, i swear he did that on purpose, come on bumblebee's faster.
"No offence Optimus but i should really be in the field with the others, doing useful things not chaperoning for a pampered teenager." She said straight in with the insults, she doesn't mince her words.
"Pampered?" i said sounding offended.
"Ratchet will take your place, Raphael you can handle ground bridging." He then said. "Arcee you can also accompany her whilst searching for appropriate foot wear." He then said very casually, oh he is evil.
I then laughed slightly annoyed, "i don't need a warrior to help me buy some trainers." I said.
"It is not for that purpose, i believe you two should use this opportunity as a bonding session." He then said.
"Are you serious?" me and Arcee said in unison.
"Hold on." Jack then came in. "accompany her in the shops? Is no one else surprised by this comment?"
"Well remember Sadie? My driver?" Arcee said to jack.
"Yeah, the one i mistook for an actual person right?" Jack said.
"Yes, it's something similar to that where i can move around as a holoform." She explained.
I then sighed, "Let's just get going okay?" i then said to her.
"sure." She said sarcastically as she transformed.
The trip was silent to town, it was like she wasn't a robot at all just a bike...not that i would mind heh. we parked up in the disabled section, was she trying to get me in trouble or was she trying to say something?. Arcee powered down and seconds later she activated her holoform, she was now a young woman looking around about in her early-ish twenties, she wore denim jeans, a pink tank top and a blue/purple jacket, her hair was shoulder lenghed brown hair that had been tied up, with a highlight of blue on her fringe. "Let's get this over with so i can help the others already." She said shoving her hands in her jacket pockets.
I shrugged my shoulders as i went into the shop, i was quick with buying things like shoes and cloths, i had no fashion sense and mostly went for the things that were most comfortable or looked 'cool', yeah i'm a kid when it comes to cloths.
I skimmed through the trainers as Arcee stood beside me, arms crossed and tapping her feet, "so, erm, nice holoform." i Said awkwardly.
"thanks." She said.
Again there was awkward silence, if i am ever going to find any common ground with Arcee i need to find something that we both do...well she always makes sure she's at the top of her game when going out to face decepticons in combat...hmm training?
"h-hey Arcee, you wanna spar against each other some time?" i asked, sparring with Arcee? That's really all i could come up with?
"You mean in the training room?" she said.
"Yes." I said.
"But, you can't spar against me, i mean you are human." She then said a bit too arrogantly.
Humiliating as it was to just say 'spar with you', i bit my tongue and carried on, "Arcee i would really like some pointers from you." I then said though it was a lie.
"Really? No sarcastic comments?" she said sarcastic herself.
Okay no more beating around the bush, "look both of us are as stubborn as the other but i guess I'll be the one to end this 3 year grudge, Arcee we're not like that anymore, that situation was like when June came onto base and no one liked the change, well i didn't like the change when you came to earth." I said.
Arcee then stood up straight, "Hey i can be just as admitting as you can be like how i didn't like the change that i was the only femme, the only female, and then i heard a human female was among our ranks. I guess i was so used to being around mech's i didn't like the fact of another female in the autobot barracks." She said as our tone of voices suddenly uplifted, it was like we were trying to admit things to each other but shouting them instead of sounding apologetic.
Forget dude's fighting, woman fights are terrifying." I jested.
"You're telling me, well why don't we put aside genders and just be classed as friends in training?" she said to me giving me her hand as i shook it.
"Sure, i can't believe it's took us three years to sort that out." I said.
"Well i guess we're both guilty of not being able to let go of a grudge." She said somewhat sad.
Yeah! That's how you apologize, wait three years and then abruptly and very quickly put it behind you, that's what the hardcore do!
I then saw my trainers, they were white but with flames running along the side, "here they are, i love these things." I said as they practically glowed.
"You have weird taste." Arcee said.
I then went to the counter bought them and flew out of there, well Arcee pushed me out of the exit.
as we went round a corner Arcee's holoform suddenly disappeared just as i was having a conversation wuth her as well, good thing no one was around. i then made my way to her true form.
I hopped on and we were off, "hey Arcee remember the time you acted like a right hussy with dad just to annoy me?" i said.
"Remember when you spray painted me pink and yellow?" she retaliated.
"Remember when you and sideswipe pretended to mate like humans in my house." I said a bit more loudly.
"Remember when you disabled my weapons when i was facing megatron?" she said louder as well.
"Remember when you tried to sell me to a decepticon drone for ransom?" i said louder and angrier.
"Remember when you put me into stasis and mailed me to Hong Kong?" Arcee then yelled.
"Oh details!" i yelled back.
The rest of the trip was an endless list of what we did to each other, friends? Not at this point no, friends in training? Perhaps, but i think the better word for it at the moment is rivalry, one upping the person when given the chance.
When we got back, the news update was that bumblebee was harmed on the field, well knocked out but still harmed in my eyes, we all gathered round to check the well being and health of bee. As he got himself on a table, ratchet scanned him.
"You can fix bee, can't you?" raf asked frantically to ratchet
"Bumblebee was hit pretty hard; the stun blast may have fried his t-cog." Ratchet explained.
"Is that like a t, bone?" miko pondered.
"Not exactly, it's the organ that allows us to scan vehicles and transform." Arcee explained.
As ratchet continued to scan he came up with a starling truth, "by the allspark, bumblebee's t-cog isn't damaged, its missing." Ratchet said.
Everyone's face was bewildered.
"But the decepticons transform too, why would they steal that?" jack wondered.
"Megatron may be known to raise zombies but he's no ghoul." Ratchet said.
"i beg to differ." i slipped in.
"But if megatron wasn't behind this, then who was?" raf said.
"The ones who cannibalised breakdown." Bulkhead said already knowing who the culprit was.
"And tried to gut me." Arcee said following bulkhead.
"M.E.C.H" ratchet confirmed. "And it would appear their knowledge of cybertronian bio-tech is grown more sophisticated."
"But, why would they want bumblebees part?" raf asked.
"Whatever it is, they won't have time to use it because i'm getting it back." Bumblebee said as he got himself off the observation table and proceeded forward.
Dad then stopped bumblebee from proceeding further, "Bumblebee please, you are not presently, equipped to handle this." Dad argued.
"You don't understand what it's like to lose a part of yourself." Bee said.
"You are mistaken my friend, i do know what it's like to lose a vital part of one's self. And as a result, i know the value of putting ones faith in the strength of those around you." He said, did he somewhat quote me? That is awesome! "We vow to do everything in our power to make you whole again."
"And if not, ratchet can just make you a new...cog thing right?" miko tried to be reasuring.
"What? Oh no!" bumblebee said slumping down and sitting back on the table.
"What did i say? Miko shrugged.
"Miko, a t-cog is a bio mechanism not a scrap yard find. If it were that easy don't you think i would've replaced bumblebee's voice box by now?" ratchet said.
"It's bad enough i can't speak your language, now without my t-cog, i'm utterly useless." Bee said, as ratchet placed a hand on his shoulder in sympathy.
"You're not useless bee." Raf said trying to be reassuring.
Though bee thought for a moment he didn't feel convinced as he slumped into his knees.
"Alright, alright i say none of us transform until bumblebee gets his cog back." Bulkhead suggested.
"Your sparks in the right place bulkhead, but i don't think now is the time to be limiting ourselves." Arcee spoke realistically.
"Not with megatron potentially seeking other doomsday devices, and i fear not while mech uses bumblebee's t-cog for their own sinister purpose." Dad said.
It was the next day and bee had still been at base, he did all my chores he was that bored and alphabetised my DVDs, no idea how with his fingers. He cleaned the whole base and did maintenance, even fix the wall ratchet trashed when he threw bulkhead through it.
But now he had run out of things to do, and now ratchet was the victim, although my attention was set on the TV as we played a bit of racing.
"I'll play winner." I said as miko's controllers hit me in the nose as she flailed it about, "take note that if the winner is miko, there will be no mercy." I then said.
"Well I'll be spared this time because raf is thrashing me." Miko said about to fall off the edge of the seat.
"Will someone keep him occupied so i can get some work done!" ratchet suddenly yelled a few metres from our position.
"Hey bee, how about a video game?" raf said.
"Alright." Bee said.
I then felt bumblebee looming over us as he watched the game.
"Guyyys, they've got wheelsss" bee moaned.
"Ooooh, bad call." Miko said as her whole body tensed.
"Sorry." Raf said.
"Hey no big deal, that's games lame." Miko said throwing the controller behind her, "what do you say we watch some TV." She then said turning over the channel.
We were lucky enough to catch it during a commercial, a silver version of bumblebee's vehicle form was being advertised, as very exaggerated shots of the car were made.
"The new Urbana 500 it won't just rock your world, it will transform it." The advertising man said.
Oh my god!
We were all silent, the zipper on my jacket mysteriously unzipped itself, even my jacket wanted to escape this situation.
"I can't take thisssssssssssssssssss!" bee exclaimed with his hands pressing against his head.
"Taking the auto out of an autobot is so not a good thing." Miko said.
"Especially bumblebee." I added.
Raf then got up from the couch to confront bee, "bee, come on, your just as amazing without wheels, i mean speed isn't everything." Raf said.
Bee nodded understanding as the sounds of a motorcycle engine was vastly approaching.
Arcee and jack then came driving in as Arcee swerved 360 degrees leaving a lot of smoke and dust in her wake, jack then removed his helmet, "personal best Arcee, you hit one-twenty easy!" jack said.
Bumblebee stared at the too as numerous whirls and clicking sounds came from his optics as you didn't need to be a genius to figure out bumblebee was, well for a better word not happy.
"Uh oh" Arcee and jack said in unison.
"Urghhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Bee vented as he walked off towards the exit with his winged doors drooping down.
"Bumblebee! Where do you think you're going?" ratchet said confronting him.
"I'm going for a walk." He said.
"You can't just go for a walk!" Ratchet exclaimed. "We are robots in disguise, leaving the base in this form puts you at risk of being seen and of us being discovered. You'll just have to remain in the silo until..."
"Yeah! I know! Until you can fix me!" bee yelled slapping ratchets hand away and walking off.
"Yes bumblebee, until i can fix you." Ratchet said sadly.
The next day at school i stayed behind for about half an hour, to use the gym. The school had a bit more of a variety of equipment then back at base, but unfortunately i sprained my ankle during a few routines on the horse, i got my foot caught on the handles and it twisted as i fell back and with my bike still in needs of repair i relied on pick up for definite now as i nagged ratchet after he had just picked raf up, so he literally had to come back after dropping raf off, my bad.
And with school practically empty now, i casually made my way up to the ambulance that parked on the curb, i walked up like a dog hiding its pain but not doing a good job of it.
"Thanks ratchet, i appreciate you going out your way to give me a lift." I said in the best grovelling voice i could muster.
"y-yeah well...you can walk next time." He grumped.
"Yeah right many things you are ratch but never cruel." I said.
"Try me." He said evilly.
"...You've sprained your ankle." he then said after a few minutes of silence.
"Your scanners must be faulty, there's nothing wrong with my ankle." I said, being ill, or have a bit of a bleeding wound is fine i can still carry on, but when you have a sprained ankle or any kind of broken limb, ratchet looms over you like a thunder cloud. I hate it, well i never used to because well, ratchet would never tend to me on those issues because he never studied human medicine so it was normally a human doctor from the government who would tend to broken limbs and twisted ankles.
But now, ratchets knowledge of human biology has vastly improved and he is very obsessed now, when any of us are damaged, and demands we come to him for treatment.
"My scanners are absolute and you have a damaged ankle, this is a perfect opportunity for you to be my first human patient with a sprained ankle, i can tick that off the list." He said a bit too happy, creepy.
I then threw myself to the back as i banged on the back window, "noooooooooo!" i screamed, as the sound of sirens were heard.
And i swear i heard ratchet laugh slightly.
When we got to base, ratchet was carrying me like i was dying or something, as raf ran up to us he was frantic upon our arrival, "ratchet! Bee's gone!" he panicked.
"What?" we both said.
"I checked the hallways and up top, he's gone, everyone's gone." He said.
"I'll contact bulkhead, he and bumblebee were the last ones here." Ratchet said putting me down on a table, activating his comm link. "Bulkhead, where are..."
"Ratchet we need a groundbridge, quick, bumblebee is out cold!" bulkhead replied back.
Ratchet frantically opened the groundbridge as bulkhead came walking in carrying a knocked out bumblebee.
Ratchet had contacted everyone else to come back as well, normally he was very calm when one of the others were down but this time he was all other the place.
"Place him here, now!" ratchet said. As he gave him a once over with his scanner, he then sighed relived "he's fine, just a bang to his head gasket nothing serious" he then spun around "but it could've been! Of all the scrap brained idea's, taking bumblebee into a potential chase scenario when he no longer has the ability to access his wheels!" ratchet yelled at bulkhead.
"He improvised." Bulkhead argued.
"Hey! Bee's waking up." Raf announced.
"Woahhh, m-my headddd." Bumblebee said holding his head as he made slight sparking sounds.
"You've already lost your voice box and your t-cog, were you really trying to add your spark to the list?" Ratchet said to him.
"I'm a burden as well as useless." Bee said.
"Don't say that bumblebee you're not useless." Raf said.
"look, i hate to break up the pity party, but the cons just added unknown iacon payday number two to their armoury." Arcee said.
"Neither blame nor praise will modify past events, but we cannot afford to take further unnecessary risks. Bumblebee, you, are not to leave our base. Not until we can retrieve your missing bio mechanism". Dad told bee.
I hopped my way towards bumblebee as i perched and sat on the table he was on, "hey bee check it out." I said pointing to my ankle. "Now we can be useless." I jested.
"At least your leg will heal; i can't exactly grow a new t-cog." Bee said wallowing in pity.
"They'll get it back, now stop being so unhopeful." I said poking him.
"I've always wanted to do my part for the team, whenever i can and when someone tells me otherwise, i can't help but feel useless...i'm the scout, but i want to show that i can do so much more." Bee said.
"You have done much more, things that didn't require your weapons or wheels." I said.
"Name one time." Bee said.
"Um, there is a time i just can't think of it on the spot." I said, well i was good at reassuring him.
The bee slumped into his knee's again as ratchet then approached him, "bumblebee i have found a way for you to transform again." He said.
"Really?" bee said as his optics widened.
"A transplant, i will give you my t-cog." Ratchet told him sounding so sure.
"But then you won't have a t-cog." I said.
"i don't rely on my t-cog, i'm mostly here, where my hands are most useful, not my weapons or wheels, bumblebee needs to be in the field with the others, our ranks are short as it is." He argued.
"But, ratchet it's still your t-cog, you don't realise what you have until you lose it." Bee said.
"No arguments i'm giving you my t-cog, but before that... Ellen i brought bandages." Ratchet said ejecting a role of bandages from his arm, "hmm, i think i'm going to need this." He said picking up a buzz saw twice the size of me.
"No, no, noooooooooo!" i yelled as he approached me.
After that...traumatising experience, i looked at my ankle although not too tight, ratchet wrapped it up so much it looked like a marshmallow, "how am i supposed to walk in this?" i asked.
"You're not; now back to the matter at hand, obviously since i am the other patient involved, i will be unable to perform the surgery. Therefore, one of you much serve as my proxy." Ratchet said to Arcee and bulkhead who were standing at attention.
Ratchet first studied over bulkhead, "uh-uh, better then breaking things." He said as he moved onto Arcee.
Bulkhead let out a big sigh of relief.
"Arcee." Ratchet confirmed.
"Optimus has steadier hands." Arcee argued.
"Steady, and much too large to be rooting around beneath my hood." Ratchet argued back.
Arcee sighed heavily.
"Arcee you can do this, your steely as they come." Jack reassured.
"On a battle field, not in an operating theatre." Arcee argued.
"Same thing as long as you're behind the knife, not under it." Jack said.
Arcee sighed again.
"does this mean bumblebee will transform into an ambulance from now on and be all cranky? Because that would be weird." Miko said.
"Well let's not waste any time, lets proceed to the laboratory." Ratchet said as we all made our way there, "Arcee, these are all the tools you'll be needing." Ratchet said as he had them all ready for her. He then laid himself on one of the two tables that stood there.
I hooked them both up as Arcee brought up there assemblage on screen, "inducing stasis." She announced.
"Ratch i wanna tell you something." Bee said.
"Eb, eb, eb, you can thank me...when... it's over." He said rather drowsily as he went into stasis.
"Okay bumblebee, your turn." Arcee told him.
Then a high pitched alarm suddenly went off as we were all suddenly alarmed ourselves at the noise and panic ensured.
"ahhh!" i yelled hopping in a circle.
"What's happening?" raf said.
"Ratchets flat lining!" miko panicked as her hair stood on end.
"No he isn't!" Arcee said as a flashing icon came up on screen.
"It's an iacon homing beacon." Dad confirmed, where did he come from?
"If we're picking up the signal, it means the cons just unearthed another relic." Bulkhead said to dad.
"Autobots! Prepare to roll out!" dad then announced.
"Yes!" Arcee exclaimed.
Then bumblebee got up from the operating table and started punching the air, he was getting his hopes up.
"Except for our patients." Dad said symbolising reality.
Bumblebee flopped back down on the table as his doors wings slumped as well.
"It would be best to interrupt stasis." Dad said to Arcee as she did so.
with everyone out i leaned against the banister as i stared upon the screens, boring as it is, i guess its something.
"Prime! Breaking news." Fowler popped up on screen, his sudden enlarged face startled me slightly.
Bumblebee ran to the computer screen, "what kind of news?" he said.
"Huh? Where's prime?" fowler asked.
"He's not here." Bee answered him.
"Look. Let him know i, just, received, access, to, satellite, imagery, which i believe, pinpoints the centre of operation, of mech." Fowler said as slowly as possible.
"Agent fowler, bumblebee's voice box is broken, he's not mentally challenged." I said, i mean how patronising can you get?
"Where abouts are we talking about?" bee asked.
"Oh for the love of! Get me someone who speaks other then 'bleep!'" fowler vented.
"I can help." Raf said.
"What?" ratchet suddenly yelled from his bedside, "do i hear a fusor in need of voice box repairs?"
"What's a fusor?" fowler yelled. "What's going on over there?"
Ratchet then drunkenly sat up from his bedside, "i-i am able...jus-t ask bentour, he was alllll mandrill before i put a Tagore in his tank!" he then flopped back down on the table.
"raf, i'm going to those co-ordinates." Bee said as he approached him.
"But bee you heard what Optimus said about leaving the base." Raf reminded.
"This may be my only chance to get my t-cog back." Bee argued.
"Send the co-ordinates agent fowler...we'll, see that Optimus gets them." Jack then said.
Fowler raised an eyebrow at him, "hmm alright but make sure he contacts me for confirmation." Fowler said as jack nodded. Fowler then went off screen as the co-ordinates popped up instead.
"Bee i'm going with you." I then said to him.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because along with getting your t-cog back, this may be the only time we can haul silas in, you get the goods and we deal with mech at the same time." I said.
"But, your ankle." bee said.
"But, your t-cog." I argued.
"Ah touché." He replied.
"raf." I then hinted to him.
"...you two be careful." He said as he flipped his laptop up.
"Contact us if anything goes wrong." Jack said.
"What kind of wrong? The wrong where it can be handled or the wrong we're screwed kind of wrong?" i asked.
"Ellen." Jack said seriously.
"...we'll contact you when its necessary." As i said that raf opened the groundbridge and bee picked me up, "sorry bee, but at least my arms are able." i jested as bee dived through the groundbridge.
And it was pitch dark on the other side; i think we were in a forest, i could see the outline of the tree's when i looked to the sky. we then made our way towards a grey coloured building that stood at the edge of the forest.
"That's it?" i whispered to bee.
"Must be, it's in such a remote place." He replied.
There was a bit of a hill down to the building as bee carried me down it and ran to the closed entrance on the building, there were no guards on the outside. "okay, you stay here, i'm going in." Bee said.
"There's going to be a whole building full of mech agents, you're just going to go in there?" i asked,
"they won't expect it, and the time they get there weapons ready i've would've knocked them all cold." Bee said clenching his fist.
"okay fine, but just make enough chaos to force them to retreat the building, so i can deal with silas." I told him.
He nodded to me as i stepped to the side as bumblebee broke his way in, what came next was a series of guns being locked and loaded.
"No t-cog, he's unarmed." I then heard the voice of starscream as a sudden boom sound was heard, what's he doing here? Has he allied himself with mech?
With many mech agents and starscream, bumblebee had his work cut out for him, but he is swift and agile and can dodge the strongest of attacks, the properties of a scout.
Allot of gun fire was heard, followed by men yelling in terror, i don't think bee would kill them, i hope.
Then i heard a single shot be fired, as the firing had ceased altogether after it, "so close and yet." Starscream said hinting that bee was down. I hid myself in the shadow of a wall as mech agents exited the building and fled to the forest.
"Our location and prototype have been compromised, destroy the intruder and meet me at the rendezvous point, with my t-cog." I heard the voice of silas, i then looked at my ankle.
"Please hold out for me." I thought as i shuffled against the broken door entrance, as silas came running out i tripped him over, he fell on his knee's as he quickly recovered.
"Who?" he spat as he looked at me, "ah, Ellen, round 2 is it?" he said mockingly.
"I'm taking you in silas." I said as i sweaped my leg under him, as he fell he smacked his head on the ground,
He did a back roll as he knelt on his knee's, "well you're in a much more state of mind then our last encounter." He then got up as he put his fists in front of his face, "come at me." He said arrogantly.
We were both fighting boxing style as i landed a few hits on his face i think he was a tad bit surprised of how i could actually fight, (not that i blame him i mean i was an animal last time). Then i uppercut him in the jaw as he stumbled back slightly, as he brushed a finger over his slightly bleeding lip, the surprise in his expression had darkened, now he was serious. He then come at me as his punches had become faster and he even landed a few hits on my face, but i upped my game as i punched him in the face again harder as he stumbled again, his eyes glanced me up and down as he then smiled, my eyes narrowed in confusion as i decided to finish this.
I then punched him in the stomach and uppercut him the jaw again, he went down like a ton of bricks.
"It ends here silas." I told him as i hovered over him.
"Well played Ellen...but" he then grinned again, "I don't like to lose!" he yelled as he pulled a knife from his back pocket and stabbed it into my leg, he was surprisingly quick i didn't have time to react.
It was then me who fell down like a ton of bricks as my hands hovered over the knife as silas fled. "Next time be sure you're in perfect health before taking on an opponent." He called to me.
I then looked at my ankle the knife was just above it, he saw the bandage huh? Ratchet needs more practice, but this is my own doing. "Damn it! I let him go again!" i hissed as i slammed a fist into the ground, "i can take on vehicons but i can't take on silas?"
i grit my teeth as i used my arms to push myself off the ground, then i balanced on one leg as i hopped towards the building and leaned against the wall, the knife was deep and i don't think i could call it a sprained ankle now. I let my leg dangle there as it dripped with blood..."i...am accident prone." I said to myself.
Then in front of me a groundbridge opened up as Dad, Arcee and bulkhead came running out of it.
"Ellen!" Arcee called to me as she ran up to me, she had worry in her optics,she was closely followed by the others, she then knelt down to me, "what happened?" she asked.
"Just silas seeing an opportunity and seizing it." I said, Arcee's hand hovered over the knife.
"we better have ratchet take a look." She said.
"Ellen, you are currently recovering from an injury, but still you choice to put yourself in risk of further harm and paid the price for it." Dad lectured pointing at my ankle.
"it was an opportunity to get bee's t-cog back and bring in silas, with every moment we would've had to wait for you, mech gains further knowledge of your assemblage, so i took that risk...but" I said as footsteps could be heard, bumblebee sadly came out of the building, cradling his t-cog.
Dad then opened the comm link, "ratchet, re-open the groundbridge, and prepare for surgery."
Bulkhead then sighed, "thanks to me, megatron has the forge." He said.
"While we would've put the forge of Solas prime to valuable use, i do not believe we have reason to fear Megatrons possession of it." Dad said.
The groundbridge opened and Arcee picked me up bridal style, "knife, in leg, careful, pain." I begged.
Ratchet had fixed me up first...and though i was lucky enough not to have him perform surgery on me (perish the thought)...i have to be on a crutch for 5 weeks, the knife had crushed my ankle, and i chose to sit down most of the time then stand up and have to use that...tiny Tim prop, but it was good for poking and reaching the remote.
Then ratchet took the t-cog from bumblebee, though he was hesitant as he was unsure he could fix it, but he got to the task at hand immediately as he worked on it into the late morning the next day. Everyone had gathered, raf especially, as bumblebee had just gotten his surgery done and had just came online.
"I...did what i could." Ratchet said wearily.
"Our scout could not have been in better hands old friend." Dad said reassuringly as he placed a hand on ratchets shoulder.
"And we didn't stick with plan A and let ratchet donate his cog why?" miko asked.
"Bumblebee wouldn't accept it." Jack said.
Bumblebee got up off the operating table, "whoa." He said.
"Bumblebee, easy." Ratchet said.
He then twisted his body round and punched the air a few times. "Yeah, i feel great!"
"Please. Recovery takes time." Ratchet pleaded.
Bumblebee then attempted to transform, "huh?" he said in confusion as nothing happened.
"The damage was...severe." Ratchet said gravely bowing his head.
Bee tried again...no luck as he let his arms fall to the side, then suddenly tried again putting every amount of effort into it. He transformed perfectly.
We cheered for him as he revved up loudly and swerved slightly leaving lots of smoke and dust, "Where shall we drive to raf?" he asked as his door opened and he honked a few times.
"Ha, anywhere...just, drive." Raf said hopping into bumblebee, as he sped off through the others leaving allot of smoke in his path.
"Go easy!" ratchet called out, he then laughed. "And here to stand in break in procedure!"
"W-oah! Bee's t-cog looked like it was ready for the scrap yard." Bulkhead said.
"Hard to believe the doc repaired it." Arcee said.
"That is not all that ratchet repaired today." Dad said as ratchet stood there confidently.
"God bless us, everyone." i Said holding my crutch as jack punched me in the arm shortly after.
A/N although it took work with this chapter, i can't help but feel that i screwed it up a bit, hmmm, i don't know what do you think? :)