28- Dark Emissary (part 1).
The space was totally in calm, with no trace of activity. Except for a bunch of little fragments of purple meteorites. But all these fragments seem to come from a huge asteroid composed of the same thing, also purple. And right at the other side of it, the asteroid was being pulled by the Decepticon warship through an energy anchor cable. On top of the ship's deck, Xiaxus was observing the huge space rock being pulled by their spacecraft.
In that moment Darkscream joined him, checking all his body parts. "Ah, it feels good to have all the power back."
"Is good that you possess the same link our master developed, but how is it that your body returned to your upgraded form?" Xiaxus asked curious.
"Not sure, but I remember I already infused myself with dark energon before I returned to my original body."
"It must be some kind of memory effect which dark energon saved in the moment you established symbiosis, good for you. How it's going?"
"The anchor is holding, general Xiaxus. Output readings remain stable." One Vehicon reported.
"Perfect. The dark energon contained within that meteor will soon be ours."
"I can't wait to start working with it." Darkscream expressed before both leaders entered the ship.
Leaving aside where did they found it, it seemed the Decepticons had intention of harvest the dark energon of that meteor for their sinister purposes. But they didn't know that was also detected by the Autobot base's instruments. In New Iacon, the alarms sounded.
"Everyone to the command center. Repeat, everyone report to the command center." Fixit called through speakers.
In seconds everyone was in the command center while Ratchet and Blaster were checking it on the terminal.
"What's with all the fuss? I was having a nice time driving around the beach." Sideswipe complained.
"We have a beach?" Iris asked surprised.
"The beach line which we have out of the outer rings can be considered one."
"Oh, I didn't know. We should think about making special events there for a chance." Misty suggested.
"We can leave it after we're done with this." Tracey called. "What's going on?"
"You sure those readings are correct, Clemont?" Ratchet asked.
"Absolutely. I can't tell what's causing it, but something's taking the dark energon readings right off the chart."
"And it's coming from the same place as all those Decepticon signals." Blaster added.
"But aren't they supposed to be cloaked?" Ritchie reminded.
"Maybe the dark matter is messing up their cloaking shield." Wheeljack deduced.
"And with our ground bridge capable to reach them now they will not expect a direct assault on their warship." Ultra Magnus suggested.
"Then there is no time to lose. Autobots, are you ready?" Optimus called.
"Just let me at them!" Arcee answered.
"Arcee, be careful out there, okay?" Serena asked, making her partner to wave at her as yes.
"Don't worry, I'll got her back covered."
"You surely will, Hot Rod." Ash nodded.
"Let's make scrap at of them." Warpath said crushing his fists together.
"You've said it, Warpath."
"And don't even try to come after us this time, May."
"Come on, I have learned from previous times. Now I know where I can be of greater support."
"Make sure to cheer for us from here, gals." Seaspray requested.
"We weren't planning anything else." Dawn announced in her cheerleader outfit.
"Pi piplup." Piplup said with a similar outfit.
"Moon, make sure you get back here in one piece." Bonnie asked.
"Don't worry, I have passed through worse and I'm still whole."
"Besides, with Predaking alongside us the Decepticons are the ones who should worry." Smokescreen added.
"We will be back before you noticed we're gone." Bumblebee reassured.
"We must know what their intentions are, so we will need as much time as we can get. Make as much damage as you can." Elita authorized.
"Since it is their domain, I will be more than happy to bring them the hurt." Predaking nodded.
"Ground bridge is online." Ratchet announced, opening the portal.
"Autobots, transform and roll out!" Optimus proclaimed.
Team Prime changed to their alt forms and drove into the portal. They appeared above the ship and landed on different parts of the Nemesis, while Predaking remained in middle of space thanks to his wings and started launching fireballs at the warship. Naturally, that alerted the Decepticons and hurried to settle up the defenses.
"Ratchet, do you read? We're on the Nemesis." Optimus reported.
"Ultra Magnus, you, Warpath and the Wreckers lead the front assault. Draw the Decepticons' attention. Bumblebee, lead the others, try to find any weak points in the ship's shelter and sabotage anything you can. We will focus on their main plan." Elita instructed.
"It seems the Decepticons have hauled an entire asteroid made of dark energon. Blaster, we need to disable the means they are using to keep it linked to the ship. Analyze the structure to find the source."
"There! That tow anchor! That's our target!" Blaster signaled as the Autobot leaders saw the source of the energy cable.
Optimus and Elita started to advance to the anchor, but immediately a Decepticon air trooper transformed and landed in front of them with guns ready.
"Everyone get ready, here comes the Decepticon foot soldiers!" Elita warned.
"Autobots, draw their attention. Make sure they not discover our intentions." Optimus ordered.
The Decepticon tried to shot, but Optimus ran at him to fast and disposed of him with a simple punch on the face. Two more air troopers tried to face him, but Elita managed to eliminate them so easily with her fists and quick kicks.
"Optimus and Elita are too hard to close range. Shoot them from the distance." One Vehicon in charged instructed to his companions.
"Wrong move." Elita One argued pulling out her heavy cannon from her back.
As he continued approaching the anchor, four Decepticon air troopers shot him from the distances. Elita fired at them back with her cannon, while Optimus elevated at their same height and did the same with his gatling gun, taking them down with only a few shots.
"Take out the tower's control and we will ruin the Decepticons' whole plan." Ratchet advised.
"Go for it dear, I'll keep them busy." Optimus instructed, earning a nod from his sparkmate.
Once at it, Elita used her swords to destroy the anchor's structure. Once done, the Autobots saw the asteroid starting to march in the direction down. But suddenly, the Nemesis shot three more anchors from its lower part that hooked the meteor.
"What was that? The asteroid was floating away, but suddenly it remains still as before." Smokescreen noticed.
"Scrap. The Cons have a backup plan." Arcee cursed through com-link.
Many of the Autobots tried to shoot at the anchors from one of the ship's wings, but they were too far to hit.
"This is useless, I can't get a good hit from here." Sideswipe complained.
"Optimus, the angle's all wrong for here. We can't get a good shot of those anchor lines."
"Understood, Wheeljack. We're going to have to leap across to the meteor itself."
"Alright. Once the lines are cut, I'll open the ground bridge to the asteroid. We'll take that rock right out of orbit." Blaster said through com-link.
"Autobots, prepare to jump to the asteroid!"
"We got to use our vehicle jumps." Elita advised.
"I can take you there. Get aboard." Predaking volunteered, allowing most of the Autobots to climb up his back.
Optimus took Elita with both hands before activating his jet-pack and fly into the asteroid.
"You know how to treat a girl properly." Elita complemented a little blushed as Optimus put her down.
Predaking passed flying above them, allowing the Autobots to land on different spots of the asteroid. Ultra Magnus and Warpath landed next to them.
"Wow. They look really mad." Warpath said, spotting another squad of Seekers flying at them.
"Autobots, hold the Decepticons. We'll destroy the anchors." Optimus commanded.
"Roger sir." Ultra Magnus nodded as they started to fire them.
Of course, despite the Autobots' efforts and Predaking, who remained in the space battling, a few Decepticons turned at Prime, they were not going to let him destroy the anchors without a fight. But Elita covered him engaging them in close combat.
"It's my turn to watch your back." Elita told him.
During that, he managed to shot at one of the anchors, destroying it. The loss of one anchor was enough to make them feel a sense of instability on the asteroid.
"That's gotta be our leaders." Hot Rod realized.
"Alright, we are having them on the ropes." Seaspray cheered.
"Let's ensure they can't intervene with Optimus's plan." Bee motivated.
With Elita taking care of the Decepticons without problem, dragging them from some distance from her sparkmate, Optimus managed to destroy the anchors sooner than expected. With the anchors gone, the asteroid started to move away from the Nemesis. Seeing that his plan was a success, Optimus was going to call Ratchet for transport, but someone came at him first: Xiaxus, who wasn't happy.
"We've had enough of your interference, Optimus."
"You know we're going to stop you, Xiaxus." Optimus said, aiming him with his cannon.
"I know you're gonna try." Xiaxus answered, doing the same with his fission cannon on one hand and pulling out his double scythe on the other. "You'll regret interfering with our plan! This will be your end, on this very rock."
Xiaxus started to fire his cannon at him, so Optimus activated his jet-pack and flew in every direction to dodge the shots. Tired that his opponent was dodging his attacks, Xiaxus charged against him. Optimus saw this coming and decided to wait for the perfect moment, just when Xiaxus was close enough he jumped, and while he was in middle of the jump, retrieved his jet-pack and punched the ground hard, making a shock wave that surprised Xiaxus. Optimus took that chance to hit him a couple of times, sending him backwards. Xiaxus decided to change tactic and charged against Optimus in his vehicle form. He fired his weapons at him, but that was just a distraction to tackled Optimus and make him crash against some parts of the meteor.
"You cannot defeat me in this place, Prime. The dark energon here makes you weaker."
"Perhaps, but you aren't free of its influence either."Optimus said as he cut a pillar of dark energon and threw it against Xiaxus, making him crash-land against the meteor's floor.
Optimus took the chance to jump over him with his axes ready, but Xiaxus reacted fast and dodged him. They ended clashing their melee weapons when suddenly the place started to shake.
"Guys, looks like something's wrong with the meteor."
Just like Moonracer told, a great earthquake started to invade the entire asteroid. Great cracks started to appear all around its surface, making the Decepticons retreat, and many small stones started to levitate.
"Guys, the dark energon readings are spiking. Be careful!" Fixit informed.
In that moment, an energy wave appeared in middle of Optimus and Xiaxus and created another crack. Optimus took a look to inside of it, and saw something disturbing: a pair of red lights in the dark deeps, looking at him, followed by a loud scream. Then, the asteroid exploded in pieces. Xiaxus changed to vehicle form and left the area. By the other hand, Optimus and his Autobots were dragged with the fragments, and unconscious into space. They, alongside the fragments, headed right into Earth's atmosphere. The last thing Predaking saw, who was the only one who escaped the explosion, was Optimus being grabbed by a huge hand, so he followed them.
"Optimus, what's happening? I'll get the ground bridge ready…" Blaster said until the link was cut.
Xiaxus, on the other hand, transformed back at the Nemesis' deck, where Darkscream was already.
"Cursed Autobots, they have ruined the whole operation."
"Cheer up, Darkscream. At least it's a shame they can't fly, and Prime seems not to be aware right now. We've just gotten rid of them all in one fell swoop. Quite ironic after all we have been through." Knock Out opined approaching them.
"You fool!" Xiaxus yelled as he grabbed him by the neck. "If the Autobots could be defeated by simply…picking them up and dropping them, our former master would have done that already." He released him.
"You wanna make yourself useful? Then get down there and finish them off!"
"Right away, general Starscream." Knock Out said, but decided to bow after realizing the mistake he made. "I'm sorry, general Darkscream, it has been some time that I… You've heard them, let's find those Autobots and make sure they're scrapped!"
"I can't wait to start, it has been a while since I had some action." A brand new Decepticon, who looked like a futurist tank, said smirking.
"Glad to know you enjoy with your duty, Quake." Xiaxus greeted.
"And sweep the areas where the meteor landed. It must be recovered." Darkscream ordered.
Meanwhile, at base…
"Optimus, Elita. What's happening? Does anyone read? No response." Fixit communicated.
"That meteor's energy output must be masking their life signals." Blaster deduced.
"I wonder what's going on up there." Ash said.
"Pikachu." Pikachu shrugged.
"Maybe the meteor exploded." Iris suggested.
"No. Guys, the meteor, it fell out of orbit." Clemont told.
"It what?" Ratchet asked.
"How do you know it happened that way?" Ritchie asked.
"I hacked into the atmospheric monitoring array, it tracks every major meteor that enters the atmosphere. And this one came down...here." Clemont showed on his laptop before Blaster transmitted the location to the main terminal.
"Well, right now we're blind. And if anyone came down with the meteor, they'll need help. I'll go take a look. Blaster, go check the meteor's last position, see if you can track any other falling trajectory." Ratchet said as he activated the ground bridge.
"At once." The Autobot communications' officer nodded before transforming and take flight.
"Ratchet, do you need we…"
"I'm sorry May, but not this time. You stay put. I mean it."
And he disappeared into the vortex before the portal closed.
"Looks like we are all in charge of the base. At least for now." Fixit said, trying to cheer up everyone.
"That's not helping much." Bonnie opined.
"Guys, I know Ratchet told us to stay put, but we can't just stay here and wait while everyone's missing."
"Ash is right, our friends are in trouble and probably in need. There must be something we can do to help." Serena supported.
Suddenly, the alarm sounded again.
"Hey Clemont, are those meteorites too?"
"No Dawn, those are Autobot life signals."
"Great, they're still alive." Max celebrated.
"But surely they need help, which means we've gotta go help them." Iris decided while she pointed the ground bridge at the new coordinates and reopened the bridge.
"Whoa, hold on Iris. Ratchet told us to stay here, remember?" Clemont reminded.
"We better report to him or Blaster first." Tracey said as he walked to the terminal. "Ratchet, we found everyone's life signals. What do we do?" But no one responded. "Ratchet, can you hear me?"
"If he's with any of them then probably transmissions are jammed as their life signals at first. Probably because of all that bad stuff."
"Big brother, I'm worried about Moon. What if she needs help right now?" Bonnie asked.
"Maybe Bee is in the same situation, and the others too." Max supported.
"And currently we are the only ones who can do something about it. I say we split up to help each partner." Ash proposed.
"Fixit can bridge us to the different locations and keep everyone in touche in case anyone calls back or any news." Ritchie supported. "Right?"
"Well yeah, I can do it. But that's not acting out of protocol?" The Minibot asked confused.
"It's just helping friends in need, and who knows in which situation they currently are." Misty said.
With everyone asking to go and help their friends, there was no other choice.
"Okay. Ratchet's gonna be really mad at us, but alright. Let's go find them." Clemont gave up.
"Alright. Let's go, rescue team." Bonnie declared.
"Have you taken that from those video games about pokémon teams helping others in need in a world were humans don't exist and one of them is one?" May connected.
"Fixit, you stay here and command the ground bridge. We'll call you when we need transport." Serena requested.
"Aye aye, rescue team."
Arcee and Hot Rod fell in middle of Gringey City's industrial district. Fortunately it was in middle of the night so there was no one there to see them.
"Ouch, my head. I feel like I took a ride on a roller coaster, jumped in the top and landed right on the back of a Steelix." Hot Rod groaned waking up.
"Yeah, me too." Arcee added before looking at their surroundings. "What do you think, partner? Are we back in Kanto?"
"I think so, this place sounds me familiar. Must a jolt in our processors and wandered back here in a daze." Hot Rod supposed before trying to call the others. "Ratchet, Optimus? Commander Magnus, Elita? Blaster, are you there? Scrap, I can't reach anyone."
"Hello? Anyone at base?"
"Arcee, is that you? Thank the Allspark, you're fine. You are the first one who we have news since we lost contact with everyone up there."
"I think so too, Fixit. Hot Rod is here as well."
"Good, Ash and Serena are on their way to support you."
"What?!"
"Ssh, we are not alone." Hot Rod interrupted.
The Autobots heard the familiar noise of engines coming right at them. Then, they spotted a trio of purple motorcycles circling around before changing into some kind of light scout Vehicons.
"Two-wheeler Cons. Seriously, that's the best they have to send?"
"I'm surprised you just say that, partner. I thought you would take it as a mockery for two-wheelers like you." Hot Rod said surprised.
"It doesn't affect me, you know how tough I am compared to them."
The Decepticons tried to shot at them with their guns, but they managed to evade them all and get close to engage them in close combat. Since these were smaller and weaker than normal troops, Arcee only needed a couple of hard punches to knock them out, while for Hot Rod two or even just one was enough. Another trio came shooting their vehicle form's weapons, so Hot Rod climbed up to a building and jumped in middle of them, forcing them to return to robot form. Others tried to hit Arcee with fast moves, but she was faster and managed to counter them and shot them when they were distracted.
"You were right, these guys are more easier to deal with." Hot Rod opined.
"That's because we have been a great team for a very long time." Arcee said.
"So, wanna get the last one?"
Just one two-wheeler Vehicon remained, and he knew he wasn't a match for both Autobots. But before they acted, he was zapped by a Thunderbolt surprise attack.
"Is that what I think it is?" Hot Rod sensed.
"Arcee, Hot Rod, are you okay?"
"Ash, we have witnessed an electric attack leaving the last Con unable to battle. It was Pikachu's doing?"
"We've sent our pokémon to scout ahead to see if they could locate you first."
They saw Pikachu showing up on top of a building waving at them, so Hot Rod responded with a thumb-up.
"Fixit has told us you just spoke with him. Glad to know you guys are fine." Serena communicated by com-link.
"We are near a factory, find some huge chimneys and we'll meet with you right there. Fixit will open us a ground bridge back to New Iacon." Ash added.
"You shouldn't have bothered guys, but thank you." Arcee admitted.
"Of course, we are all partners, right?" Serena reminded.
"There, that must be the place they were referring to." Hot Rod said spotting the factory.
The Autobots advanced at it in their vehicle form to reach faster. Once there, they returned to robot form in order to allow their partners to locate them better. Unfortunately, they didn't knew they were heading into a trap, because someone fired laser shots. Fortunately, Arcee saw them coming and both dodged them jumping backwards. Once they looked above to a tower, they saw who attacked them.
"Roadkill?" Arcee recognized.
"And Dropkick." Hot Rod added.
"I'm glad you survived the fall, Arcee. It would have been so boring to find your spark extinguished." Roadkill mocked.
"You're about to wish you had." Arcee answered by shooting at her.
"I will let you two-wheelers deal with your business. The sports car is mine." Dropkick preferred evading the shots and jumping down.
Roadkill did the same to face her rival. Both female cybertronians pulled out their sharp blades and clashed them in a fast-speed duel.
"My face will be the last thing you will see, Autobot." Dropkick said as he pulled out his sword and tried to strike Hot Rod, who blocked it with his.
"Is that so? Tell me something then, Dropkick: have you ever looked yourself to a mirror? I'm sure if you do that you will die shameful of your looks."
Hot Rod's provocation worked, because Dropkick attempted to strike again, timing he used to counter and kick him against a wall. He also noticed the Decepticon was right under one of the factory's chimneys, and since it appeared it wasn't operational anymore he got an idea. He changed his blades for his guns and fired at it, causing it to go down, crushing Dropkick wholly. Back with the girls, Roadkill decided to jump back up the building. There, she pulled out her flamethrowers and unleashed big streams of fire, trying to trap her rival in a ring of fire. But Arcee saw a truck nearby which a sign indicating it was full of liquid ice, so she fired at it, making it to explode, causing lot of cold foam covered the flames, extinguishing them. Some of the foam also caught Roadkill off guard and allowed Arcee to take her down with a single shot. Before she could get up, Arcee pinned her against the floor, aiming her with her gun.
"Give it up, Roadkill. You're done." Arcee proclaimed.
Then, everyone heard a noise near to them. They looked to see Ash and Serena coming from an access through the factory.
"You guys made it." Ash saluted.
"Uh-oh." Serena said at seeing they weren't alone.
In that moment Dropkick emerged from the rubble, sending some debris to the Autobots. Roadkill took that chance to kick Arcee back, and something else unexpected.
"Serena!" Ash exclaimed seeing his girlfriend grabbed by the female Decepticon.
"We came for you, but I guess we can satisfy with one of your humans here." Roadkill said with Serena in one hand.
"Let me go!" Serena demanded.
"Release her!" Hot Rod demanded charging against her.
But before he could reach her, Roadkill passed Serena to Dropkick, who immediately changed to his helicopter form, with intention of leaving.
"Oh no, you don't." Ash said running and jumping into Dropkick's copilot seat.
"Scrap!" Hot Rod cursed as he was about to go after them. "Guys, give me a hand."
Sylveon jumped into him after he transformed and proceeded with the chase. Roadkill followed him and tried to stop him with the weapons of her vehicle form, until she saw Arcee pursuing her with her rear view. The female Decepticon made two lines of flames to appear from her sides to prevent her from over-passing her, but Arcee simply pulled out two cannons at her sides and fired, making Roadkill to try to put more distance between them.
"You think you are winning, but you guys are not aware we are never alone." Arcee said, revealing that Pikachu was on top of her. "Go buddy, take her out of the way."
"Pika." Pikachu nodded.
Pikachu launched his Thunderbolt, hitting the female Decepticon and making her lose her balance and derail out of the path. Meanwhile, Sylveon was using Fairy Wind to slow down Dropkick. Also, Ash managed to crawl to the pilot's seat and take the steering wheel and push it one to side to another to destabilize the Decepticon's flight.
"Hey, release that! You're interfering with my flight!" Dropkick demanded.
"Let Serena go and I will!" Ash demanded back.
"Ash, be careful!" She said, restrained in a seat by the seat belts.
Sylveon and Ash' collective work made Dropkick to descend enough for Hot Rod, who jumped while he transformed and grabbed him by the tail, pushing him down more. Arcee caught up with them and performed like her partner, firing at Dropkick. At the end the elite Decepticon had enough and decided to eject the seat where Serena was, allowing Arcee to catch her.
"Serena, are you okay?" Arcee asked.
"I think so."
"Serena." Ash called before hugging her. "Thank goodness you are okay."
"It is thanks to you, Ash."
"Not just me." Her boyfriend corrected looking at the Autobots, right before the two pokémon joined their hug. "And you too, of course."
Roadkill reunited with Dropkick, still with some sparks around her. "You should rename your human pets, Autobots. If I were you, I'd call them strategic weakness."
"You like to keep underestimating pokémon and humankind, and you still haven't learned from your previous lessons." Hot Rod reproached.
"Keep it like that and you may end losing the war sooner than you expect." Ash supported.
"We shall see it, specially after tides turn once we acquire your same field advantage." Dropkick swore before he transformed again, allowing Roadkill to hook on him and leave.
"Fixit, we have everyone here. Ready for that ground bridge back home."
"Understood Hot Rod."
"Any word from the others?" Serena asked.
"Not yet, but I'm checking growing activity to where Ratchet bridged. I'll show you back here."
While this happened, far from there, in the desert of Mandarin Island, Moonracer was starting to wake up, finding Smokescreen waking up right in front of her, with their faces really close.
"Em, I am dreaming? Because if it is I'm glad you star in it."
Moon got speechless, not expecting this confession. "Well, thanks."
"Hey lovebirds." Someone called, Wheeljack, who just arrived. "I decided to go scout ahead to know exactly where we landed after checking you were still picking, but I guess I should have come back a little later to give you some time alone."
"What? No no, we weren't…" Moon defended.
"Yeah, we just woke up and…" Smokescreen supported. "Wait, why you came back?"
"Because someone else came concerned for us." The Wrecker revealed as showing part of the rescue group, also surprised by the scene.
"Did you guys actually…" Iris started in disbelief.
"Oh, how romantic." Dawn, on the other hand, expressed.
"How embarrassing." Moonracer said blushing.
"I wish anything could break this moment." Smokescreen hoped, right before they heard a recognizable sound from a mount near them, right where Kickback stood looking at them, with lots of Insecticons beside him. "Not what I wished."
Kickback shrieked loud, making the Insecticon swarm flew right at them. The Autobots immediately forced a circle around the humans and their pokémon to cover them, although the knew they didn't have many chances against so many enemies. Fortunately for them, a couple of fireballs took down a few of them, making them to break the swarm and land. Kickback and Hardshell, who reunited with him at the hill, saw who was the responsible one: Predaking managed to track them from space and arrived at the most needed time.
"Just in time, Predaking." Moon saluted.
"That guy is such a killjoy, isn't he?" Hardshell complained.
"Let's see if he's tough too." Kickback proposed.
The swarm understood what their alpha wanted to say with this and charged against the Predacon when he landed.
"Bring it on, bugs." Predaking challenged, roaring back.
Most of the Insecticons attempted to charge first, but Predaking made them trip on with his tail, leaving them upside down and at the mercy of his flames. More tried to scratch him with their claws and jaws, but the Predacon's weapons were sharper and stronger, breaking most of them in pieces with just a few hits.
"Not bad at all, but how about this one?" Kickback announced, making a Bruiser emerge from the ground. "Oh look Predaking, one big and tough as you, you, you."
"Brute strength is not always reliable." Predaking responded after pushing back the giant Insecticon and spreading his wings.
He moved them to create a strong wind which sent a cloud of dust which covered the Insecticon's optics, blinding it and allowing the cybertronian dragon to grab it by the neck before throwing it.
"Smart strategy, Predaking. Let's give him a hand, guys." Iris announced.
Iris sent her pokémon to assist Predaking against the Bruiser: Dragonite used Thunder Punch on the Insecticon's abdomen, affecting its charge-up procedure, while Fraxure attacked its optics with Scratch, marking it and affecting its vision, allowing Predaking to terminate it cutting off the head with his jaws.
"Haven't we seen this before? I mean it looks like some deja'vu, vu, vu." Kickback recalled.
At the same time, as Wheeljack used his electric whip, Moon her sniper rifle and Smokescreen the use of the phase shifter to evade the Insecticons' attacks, Piplup and Pachirisu rode on Togekiss and used Ice Beam and Discharge while Togekiss flew dodging the Insecticons and making them smash against each other while using Safeguard.
"Yujuu! Looks like we managed to control the situation."
But Dawn's celebration was ephemeral, because suddenly from beneath her the ground started to shake, right before Host emerged in his alt form, grabbing her with one of his pincers.
"Haha, you haven't seen this coming. We may not return with your heads, but this little human will make a fine test subject for Shockblast." Host declared.
"What?! No, let me go, you ugly bug!" Dawn demanded.
Host pulled out his wings with intention to leave flying with Dawn as his prisoner.
"Hey, have room for a passenger?" Smokescreen said jumping on the Insecticon's back.
"Hey, get off! Get off!" Host demanded.
Smokescreen grabbed Host's wings and acted like a cowboy riding on him, making him to change his course right at his companions. With the use of the phase shifter he recovered Dawn right before the Insecticons crashed together.
"Uff, that was close. Thanks Smokey." Dawn appreciated. "That's a very useful gadget indeed."
"I don't separate from it at any time."
"I hope you came with a way to get out of this mess, because this is a lot of clean up to handle." Wheeljack said.
"Predaking can take us for a ride, right?" Iris suggested.
"He may be able to carry us all, but I doubt he's faster than bugs." Moonracer recalled.
"I have an idea for that." Dawn announced.
The group got on Predaking and took flight, thing that Insecticons observed.
"Pursuit them, don't let them get away that easily!" Host ordered.
The Insecticon swarm started chasing them, firing them lasers trying to take them down. Smokescreen took the precaution of sharing the shifter's effect on Predaking to make him invulnerable to the attacks.
"So Dawn, when are you going to put your plan into action?" Iris reminded.
"Just wait a little longer, until we reach the sea."
It didn't took them much time reach the ocean.
"Alright guys, it's show time. Piplup, Whirlpool, Buneary, Ice Beam."
Following their trainer's instructions, the two pokémon combined their moves, making the whirlpool froze, exploding into multiple ice pieces and cold dust which caught the swarm without warning. That allowed the group to put enough distance until they lost their chasers. At the same time, at the Grand Spectrala Islet, in the Decolore Islands, Misty, Tracey, Sparky and Ritchie were on their own looking for any teammates nearby.
"Are you sure they are here?" Misty asked.
"Fixit said a couple of life signals were detected around in the Decolore Islands, and he bridged us right at the point closer to the majority." Tracey repeated.
"Well, that's gonna be a problem because most of these islands are huge and separated far away. It may take us a while to find at least one of them." Ritchie opined.
"Hello?! Anyone out there?!"
"Hey, that sounds like…" Misty started.
"Sideswipe!" Ritchie recognized. "Hum, it has been sooner than expected."
"It sounded somewhere nearby." Tracey calculated.
"Stranded Autobot requesting for pickup! Anyone there?!" Sideswipe repeated.
"Look, over there!" Misty pointed.
The group looked to a side of the island and spotted the young Autobot attached to a rock in middle of water.
"Hey Sideswipe!" Misty saluted.
"Over here! We're here!" Ritchie waved.
"I see you, I see you! Thank Arceus so much for...wait a minute, why are you guys here?" Sideswipe corrected.
"Coming for your rescue, you're welcome." Misty answered sarcastically.
"Sorry. And...exactly how are you gonna pick me up?"
"I'm sure a normal size Autobot would not be border for Gyarados to carry."
"Have you ever seen anyone else, Sideswipe? Fixit saw it could be other nearby." Tracey asked.
"No clue, you are the first ones I see. I wonder where they could be."
Suddenly, they heard a sound of an engine and water splashing.
"What's that sound?" Ritchie wondered.
"Pika pi." Sparky said pointing.
The little pokémon detected something approaching at them from the ocean at high speed. When it got closer they group could see better who it was.
"Hey, it's Seaspray! He's here too." Misty identified.
"Isn't he coming too fast?" Ritchie noticed.
"Guys, get away!" The aquatic Wrecker yelled almost reaching them.
The group was about to ask him why when suddenly they spotted something more which it appears it was following him from a while: a whole squadron of planes flew their way for the group, following the Wrecker's trail.
"Oh scrap, the Seekers!" Sideswipe recognized.
"Let's get out of here!" Tracey nodded.
Misty called out Gyarados in order that everyone ride aboard the big pokémon since Seaspray passed near Sideswipe, allowing the young Autobot to jump on him as his way of transport. They started their getaway while their attackers launched missiles continuously which failed, making huge explosions in the water.
"Ha, too easy. This is like shooting scraplets in a cage." Acidstorm laughed.
"Red Wing, that new equipment which we talked about in our way here inside the ship, when do you think it may be a good time for a test run?" Ion Storm asked.
"Giving the fact we are flying above a huge amount of water, through which electricity can be channeled pretty easily...yes, seems like the perfect timing."
"Ha, perfect." Ion Storm said before positioning himself over his sibling, changing to robot form and landing on him. "Time to test my new signature weapon."
One of Ion Storm's hands turned into some kind of cybertronian weapon which emanated electricity, an E.D.K Techvolt, which it fired a stream of electricity in middle right at the group.
"Gyarados, watch out!" Misty warned.
Fortunately, the water pokémon evaded the beam in the last moment. But the Seeker didn't seem very annoyed by the reaction.
"Just like the reports of the old days of the war specified, I like it." He said about to aim and fire again.
"Sparky, counter it!" Ritchie instructed.
Sparky managed to block the electric stream with Thunder Shock, which he had to use lot of power for it. Meanwhile, the rest of the Seekers continued the attack, launching missiles expecting one of them to impact at one of their enemies or close to stun them. Sideswipe decided to fired his guns to intercept them, but he only managed to dispose of some, not all of them.
"This is too big for me, I'm going to need some support!" Sideswipe requested.
"Take care of it, Scyther. Use Razor Wind." Tracey said pulling out his poke ball.
Scyther used his move, intercepting most of the Seekers' missiles, helping Sideswipe to deal with the ones he couldn't handle.
"We can't keep like this much longer!" Ritchie shouted, assisting them in taking down the missiles with his cybertronian gun.
"We need to find a safe place where we can call a bridge safely." Misty suggested.
"I think I know where." Seaspray started. "Look, up ahead."
What Seaspray spotted was the entrance of a cave through the sea on an island they were approaching
"Nice idea, there we can shelter and return to base." Misty suggested.
"Way ahead of you, losers." Hydrostorm surprised, before him and his fellow Seekers accelerated.
For the group horror, they saw the Seekers launching a huge storm of missiles at the cave's entrance, making it collapse. The entrance was completely blocked, leaving no other place for the group to go and forcing them to stop, allowing the Seekers to surround them.
"Did you really think a bunch of Bots, young natives and their pets could be a match for a whole group of veterans of the War for Cybertron?" Thundercracker mocked.
"Yeah, we are way more experienced than you will ever be in all your lives." Skywarp added.
"That's what you get by defying the best team ever existed in the Decepticon ranks." Nova Storm pronounced as they were about to finish them, charging up their weapons.
But before they could proceed with it, as a miracle, a ground bridge appeared behind them and Blaster emerged from it, transformed and started kicking the Seekers down, jumping between them one to another.
"Blaster! You are fine too." Tracey saluted.
"And you saved us!" Ritchie added.
"Come on, we don't have much time before they recover. Follow me!" Blaster commanded.
The group followed Blaster's guidance, breaking through the Seekers while they were stunned. Ion Storm was the one who recovered first, seeing their enemies leaving.
"Oh no, you're not getting away like that." He said, preparing to launch an electromagnetic missile instead of the ones Starscream used to use.
The missile was approaching them fast, but Blaster opened a ground bridge close to them, and after everyone jumped in it closed, making the missile miss. The portal brought them back to the place they appeared at first place.
"Sorry for choosing this location, but I had little time to open an escape ground bridge and this location was the easier to triangulate since I followed your signals." Blaster apologized.
"Well, it saved us, so its fine for me." Sideswipe appreciated.
"Now what?" Misty asked.
"We must locate where the others may ended and bring them back home." Blaster decided.
"That's why we came here. We know where they landed, so we divided to search and help them." Ritchie explained.
"Then we better get back in case they might encounter problems like us."
Meanwhile…
"Warpath, wake up buddy. Wake up!" A familiar voice for Warpath called him.
"Aw, May?" The Autobot tanks asked, waking up.
"Oh good, you're awake. Are you okay? Does it hurt anywhere?"
"No, I…I'm fine. But…hem…where are we?"
"Deep into the Desert Ruins, back on Hoenn. Don't you remember? You all fell from way up in space. Surely you made a big hole through which surely you got in."
"Oh, so that's why it feels like my dents have dents on them. Where is everybody else?"
"They are still searching for the others. Speaking of which, I better tell Fixit I found you, so we better head back."
"You're surprisingly intact for having dropped out of orbit. If only your processors were as well built as your chassis."
The duo looked up to see the new Decepticon standing on an upper level.
"Who's that? I've never seen that Con before." May said.
"Me neither, but I have seen his file: Quake, a brutal demolishing machine, one of the toughest Decepticon tanks." Warpath revealed.
"So you know about me. I'm flattered." Quake said sarcastically.
"Come down here so you can know me the same as well."
"I think I will remain up here, it will give me a clear look of your destruction."
Quake changed to his alt form, a cybertronian tank, and fired his cannon.
"May, get in." Warpath told him as he changed to vehicle form.
Quake continued firing them missiles until they got inside a passage. Unfortunately, Quake's handiwork started to cause a cave-in, forcing Warpath to drive as fast he could to get out of the temple. Sometimes, rubble blocked their way and Warpath had to use his cannon to clear it.
"Shot the rocks to break them up!" May reminded.
As they made their way out, they noticed the place was full of holes.
"Be careful, don't fall!" May shouted alarmed.
After passing a narrow passage, they spotted sunlight right at the end of the path.
"Look, there's the exit!" Warpath spotted.
Unfortunately, the path started to tear apart.
"Watch out!" May warned.
"We have no other choice. May, hold on tight!"
Warpath speeded up the best he could, heading for the exit while the surroundings continued crumbing down. He jumped into the air as he changed back to robot form. That made May came out flying, which she enjoyed.
"Whooo!" She yelled as Warpath grabbed her. Once the Autobot landed, he left May in the ground. "That…was…awesome!"
"Uh, May…"
What Warpath was seeing is that Quake wasn't the only Decepticon around: a few Vehicon troopers arrived in vehicle form and changed to robot form, ready for combat.
"Looks the party just started." May said, knowing what was going to happen.
"Find some cover."
"You got it."
"Quake has ordered us to destroy you." One of the Vehicons announced.
"Then you have taken a one-way ticket to the Allspark." Warpath responded crushing his fists.
The Vehicons tried to approach and hit him, but Warpath was already waiting for them and employed only his fists to knock them down, using his chest cannon to finish them off.
"Alright. Who wants to get Kablam next?!" Warpath challenged.
"This one is too tough. Call in our tanks!" One Vehicon requested.
Immediately, a Decepticon tank appeared in front of Warpath and covered himself with his shields.
"Seriously?"
The tank fired his cannon from behind his shields, forcing Warpath to dodge the impacts. Fortunately, because it was just one, the Autobot managed to fire back. The shields protected the Vehicon, but Warpath used it just as distraction, because once the smoke cleared he charged against him at full strength, pushing him down, grabbing him by the shields and pulling from them, tearing them apart. That left the tank without defenses against Warpath's weapons.
"Is over, for now. Come on, May. Let's get to a secure zone."
Warpath picked up May and they marched through a canyon. But it passed not much time when more Decepticons appeared to fire at them. Warpath had to cover May with his hand while he pulled out his gatling gun on his other arm and returned fire. After disposing of them, they decided to advance in vehicle mode, being safer, disposing of the Decepticons they found on their way. After a few minutes, they reached a peaceful part of the desert, if it wasn't for the Decepticon tanks, firing from the distance in their vehicle form.
"Warpath, they're firing from over there. Across the valley." May spotted.
"May, get behind those rocks and don't come out until I see it's safe."
Warpath transformed again and while he drove parallel to them, firing them back with his cannon, taking down one. That forced the others to return to robot form and display their shields, time that Warpath took to accelerate, jump to the other side and land over one of the tanks. The other was about to fire his cannon but he reacted first and used the closest one as shield, eliminating him. Suddenly Blaziken hit the last tank right on the face with Blaze Kick, drawing his attention, allowing Warpath to approach with the Hammer of Primus at hand and stroke him down with it once he was close.
"Ha, how do you like that?" Warpath said triumphal before turning at the pokémon. "Thanks for the assist."
"Blaziken." The fire pokémon nodded.
"Our troops are all scrap? We got to report to Quake." Another Decepticon said alarmed through com-link.
"Wait, where's May?" Warpath recalled.
"Look, over here. Looks like it's the exit of the canyon. Come over here." She said waving at the end of the canyon.
Warpath and Blaziken went to reunite with her.
"May, how did you get all the way over there?" Warpath asked surprised while she returned her pokémon back to his poke ball.
"It wasn't hard, I took the chance after sending Blaziken to help you and I spotted it. Come on, let's get out of here."
They managed to get out of the canyon, but once there, in some kind of ancient arena, Quake appeared out of nowhere in vehicle form firing at them. Warpath had no choice but to put May next to a hole in the wall.
"Find some cover." Warpath instructed.
"Understood. Be careful." May asked before he went to face the Decepticon.
"You're a stubborn one, are you?" Quake asked as he continued firing from the distance.
"No fair, he's firing from the distance. But you also can, wait behind some rocks and fired at him when you have the chance. We will provide it to you." May advised.
"That you what?" Warpath asked confused.
Quake was too busy bombing the area with his shots that he didn't noticed Blaziken was approaching him silently until he was surprised with an Overheat attack from behind. That made Quake turn his attention at where the attack came and who it was, the chance Warpath was waiting to get out in vehicle form and fired him back, hitting him and making him fall from his upper position.
"Okay, you ask for it! Time to crush and quilt!" Quake declared mad changing his hands for some kind of wrecking balls.
Warpath was not yet being spotted, so he used some of the structures to hide, although the Decepticon started smashing everything on his way. Blaziken jumped continually from wall to wall to get the Decepticon distracted. He guided the Decepticon to the corner of another wall, when Warpath waited until he took the chance to hit him on the face with his hammer.
"Go get him, Warpath!" May cheered.
Warpath continued hitting his rival with his hammers, which he tried to block with his wrecking balls, until Blaziken managed to make a break on his defense with Sky Uppercut and Warpath took the chance to give him a hard blow, which seemed to knock him out. As victory, Warpath posed in a heroic way.
"Whoa, you looked great. A shame I didn't bring a camera and take a few snaps." May said celebrated.
Warpath was about to thank her, but instead… "May, watch your back!"
Right behind her there was a Decepticon soldier staring right at her, and before May could get away the Con grabbed her.
"Hey, get your hands of me! Warpath, help!"
Warpath was going to rescue her, until a storm of shots forced him to cover himself and Blaziken. There was a lot more of Decepticons aiming at him as Quake stood in middle of them.
"You almost had me beaten, but almost isn't good enough. I will be taking this flimsy little creature with me." Quake said as transformed and left with the other Decepticons and their little prisoner.
"May!"
In the meantime, Bumblebee was thinking he was having the worst luck ever: of all places he could have landed it had to be into a subterranean energon mine below Chargestine Cave, in Unova. One currently occupied by Decepticons, who found him while he was unconscious, dragged him into and he woke up hanging up in chains.
"Definitely this is not my day."
"Bumblebee." A familiar voice called.
"Over here." Another voice followed.
Bumblebee looked around the cell looking for the voices' owners, until he looked to the air vent above him and saw the youngest members of the human group.
"Max, Bonnie. What are you guys doing here?" The yellow Autobot asked.
"We came to rescue you." Bonnie answered.
"On your own?"
"Not just us." Max said, revealing Clemont was with them.
"There you are, finally. Are you okay?"
"A little better now that you are here." Bee responded.
"Hold right there. Dedenne." Bonnie started.
The little pokémon jumped to one of the cuffs and used Nuzzle, electrifying and disable them, releasing him.
"Thank you, buddy." Bumblebee appreciated as he returned the little pokémon back to the humans.
"Don't worry about us. We'll move through the air vents. We will try to help you any time we can." Clemont said.
"Sounds like a good idea."
"We will meet very soon." Max saluted as they disappeared into the vent.
Bumblebee opened the door and exited his cell.
"Bee, big brother has hacked into the mine's network, so he will guide you." Bonnie communicated with her Pokétch.
"I found the elevator, head right down the hall. I think we can use it to get out of here, come on." Clemont said through com-link.
"Got it. I'm on my way." Bumblebee nodded.
But once Bee reached to a bridge inside the mine, the alarm sounded.
"Alert, alert! The Autobot has escaped!" One Decepticon shouted as he and others went to stop Bumblebee.
"Don't let them overcome you, Bee. Take them out!" Bonnie encouraged.
Bee had lots of canisters to use as cover as he tried to shot down the Decepticons. Also something weird happened: some of the canisters floated around and rammed into them.
"What...what exactly happened?"
"Bee, if you are seeing some metallic objects floating down there it is not your mind playing you tricks. Clemont is taking advantage of the magnetic field of the cave to create some alterations to use against the Decepticons." Max communicated.
"I guess the Cons are as surprised as I am, glad to know why."
Some of the affected material even made some of the Decepticons to fall into the abyss.
"Bee, get going straight." Clemont indicated.
"The Autobot is heading for the elevator." One Decepticon warned as he and others blocked the path.
Bumblebee decided to transform and use the weapons of his vehicle form, disposing of all the Decepticon he found on his way, until he reached to a huge chamber used to store energon and had forced to find cover because of a few snipers aiming at him.
"I'm not gonna let him go any further. Take care of him here!" One Decepticon ordered.
"Autobot elimination in progress." One of the snipers said.
"Bee, my sensors detect strong energon signals near your current location. There must be some big mounds around, look for them. Maybe they can be of use to you." Clemont reported.
Bumblebee saw the piles Clemont talked about, right behind or close to the Decepticons, so he aimed his weapons and fired at them, causing huge explosions which consumed them.
"Nice advice Clemont."
After seeing all enemies were gone, Bee continued advancing to the top, where he found his friends next to the elevator.
"Bumblebee, thank Arceus you're fine." Max said hugging his friend's foot.
"Come on. Let's take this elevator and get out of here."
They got the elevator, but when it stopped, they route looked the same.
"We're still underground? Aw, this cave looks eternal." Bonnie complained.
"Just as I thought, it seems the elevator won't let us leave, unless we took control of it. But the security is too tight to get any further." Clemont realized.
"Then we will need to disable the security system." Bee decided. "I'll go, you stay here. Watch the elevator, I also need you to be my eyes and ears."
"You can count on us, Bee." Max nodded.
"Alright, there's gonna be a hub somewhere on this floor, but there is not going to be easy. Try to find it, Bee." Clemont said.
Bee started to explore the floor, starting with the room which lead to the objective. But a few Decepticons appeared and tried to stop him.
"I found the fugitive, is in the first basement." One of them reported.
They tried to strike him, but Bumblebee managed to keep them on line with his boxing moves.
"Guys, I think I've found the objective, but the door is locked."
"Bee, it seems the artifacts that are blocking your way in are in both sides of the main room. They must be security boxes, if you destroy them, you can enter the main room." Clemont communicated through com-link.
"What about the guards? Those rooms may be heavily defended." Bonnie deduced.
"I will assist him with the same strategy."
Clemont performed the same procedure with the items of his backpack, creating more magnetic anomalies which caught the Cons' attention. Bee took chance to get into one of the rooms and destroyed one of the boxes with his guns, giving no time for the Vehicons to react until he was out of the room and blasted the door's panel, locking it. In the second room the Decepticons spotted him already, so he used a different strategy: he used the floating objects as platforms to jump between and evade the Decepticons' shots, allowing him to surpass them. He even kicked one right to the security box and destroyed it too.
"Okay, both boxes destroyed. That should unlock the main hub's room." Bee supposed.
But first, Bee had to pass an entire corridor with security lasers, not so hard to evade. And the last room had the security hub on top of it, guarded by lots of Decepticon snipers.
"Intruder! Guard the security generator!" One Decepticon told the others.
Bee decided to wait after the snipers missed and acted when they were reloading, shooting them down one by one. Once there were no more, he punched the generator until he reduced it to scrap. Bee looked proud how he left the generator, but his victory was short, because the alarm sounded again.
"Oh by Primus's shake, what now?"
"Bee, we need help! They found us!" Bonnie called.
"You gotta get back here and fast! Clemont and Dedenne are doing their best to hold them off but they're breaking through the door, hurry!" Max shouted as he and the others saw a Decepticon guardian trying to smash the door.
"Hang in there, I'm coming!"
Bee did not waste time in changing form and drive as fast as he could back to the elevator. He found the guardian and another Decepticon trying to open the door by force.
"What? How did he get here?" The Decepticon asked before Bee used an amazing attack changing back to robot form, knocking him against the guardian.
While lying on the floor, Clemont changed his cybertronian weapon, expanding it, and it generated a huge ball of energy which was launched at the Decepticons, causing a huge explosion which obliterated them. That seemed to be another of the modifications he made on it: acting like a rocket launcher.
"Whoa, I admit that was impressive, big brother." Bonnie admitted.
"Thanks, but I couldn't do it if it wasn't for our savior."
"He's right, Bee. Thanks, you saved our lives."
"You're welcome, Max. Now let's get out of this place."
The group entered the elevator, this time, surely to get them out of the mine. When it opened, they could see the light of the sun right at the end of the road.
"Ah, finally. We're back on ground level." Bonnie said relieved.
"Wait guys, I'm not sure about this, it seems too easy. Let me check it first, then you can follow."
"We will hang back if you said so, Bee. But I think you worry too much." Max nodded while he and the others waited behind him.
Bee started heading to the exit, until he reached to the middle of the road. Once there, he heard a familiar sound, and it was not from a friend: it was Stinger, in vehicle form, driving right at him. He tried to run over him, but Bee grabbed him.
"Clemont, get into the elevator, now!" Bumblebee ordered.
"Understood, we'll keep the doors closed." He nodded, taking the little kids with him inside.
Bee grabbed Stinger by his lower part and threw him backwards. During the flight, Stinger changed and landed in robot form.
"Leaving so soon? What a shame, the bosses will be displeased if I let you go so easily." Stinger bragged.
"Wanna me put a few dents in you as goodbye? As you wish."
Both adversaries ended colliding, trying to hit the other who blocked the moves and tried to counter back without signs of advantage by none of them.
"Looks like your creators didn't exactly make right their job when they were suppose to make a better version of me." Bee mocked.
"You still don't know me too well either." Stinger said before activating his battle mask and headbutt him.
While his opponent retrieved a few steps, Stinger's mask showed like a quick scan of Bee's body, pointing some parts. Immediately, he approached the Autobot and hit him quick and hard on those points, causing him great pain.
"Haha, didn't you know? My sabotage programming doesn't reduce to buildings only, I have learned a lot of the cybertronian body."
"Argh, I see. But programming isn't everything, Stinger."
Stinger went after Bee, who looked like he was trying to get away from him, but actually he had something in mind: as he saw Dedenne waiting for them up on front, he ran to a wall and turned back at him, launched again, rotating completely at high speed, surprising Stinger with a strong double kick which sent him backwards. Irritated, Stinger pulled out his plasma cannons and fired at Bumblebee, but he didn't try getting away. On the contrary, he ran at him dodging the shots, while Dedenne climbed up to Stinger's back and surprised him with Thunder Shock, all while Bumblebee transformed to his car form and inflicted a precise kick on Stinger's foot after transforming again.
"You're not the only one who has learned a few things." Bee proclaimed, with Dedenne now on his shoulder.
Stinger recovered with a quick jump. "Don't get too cocky, we're just getting started."
Stinger pressed a button on his wrist and generated some kind of energy wave.
"A repulsion wave? Seriously, that's the best you got? That just works by being surrounded by lots of enemies and at short distance." Bee replied.
"That was just the beginning."
While it was recharging his new ability, Stinger pressed another button, making some kind of antenna to approach from the ceiling and turned on. And when he used it again, this time the pulse traveled to the antennas, generating huge electrified fields around the area. Dedenne tried his electric attacks again, but this time the electricity was attracted to the antennas.
"This ends now!" Stinger declared charging against Bumblebee.
The red Decepticon grabbed Bee and tried to push him against one of the fields. Bee tried to push him back, with Dedenne trying to support him but with no difference, but Stinger's determination was strong enough to push him harder. Almost at it, Bee was almost tired of pushing when an idea came to his mind: instead of pushing, he simply put aside and made Stinger to enter the field, zapping himself. Seeing Stinger dizzy on the ground, Bee aimed his gun at him, ready to finish him, when suddenly…
"Bumblebee, the Decepticons grabbed May. Is Max there with you?" Warpath asked through com-link.
That made Bumblebee widen his eyes in fear. "Oh scrap. Clemont, Max, Bonnie!"
Stinger took the chance to transform and escape, while Bee and Dedenne went back to the elevator and opened the door by force. But when he took a look inside, the three humans were gone.
To be continued…