In the Gravesfield museum.
Willow was busy looking through a bunch of ancient history books with Clover perched on her shoulder. She also made sure to hide her witch ears behind her braided pigtails.
"Wow. I had no idea that the Human Realm was filled with so many ancient landmarks." Willow said with an interested smile. "Just take a look at this, Clover. It says here that there used to be an ancient city living on the ocean and it was known as Atlantis. But then, some great catastrophe ended up sinking it into the bottom of the seas. How interesting is that?"
Clover buzzed happily in response, which made her owner giggle a bit. Just then, the two of them began hearing some rock 'n roll music outside through an open window they were standing near and they looked out it to see Bulkhead parking next to the library in his vehicle mode.
"There's our ride." Willow said, petting Clover on the head with her finger.
With Bulkhead.
he was listening to one of his favourite Earth tunes and singing along to it before Willow showed up with Clover. She opened up Bulkhead's door and tossed the book she had onto the passenger seat before she hoped.
"You know, Bulk, you could try turning the volume down on your music." Willow admitted. "The whole town can probably hear you."
"Sure, Willow." Bulkhead replied. "By the way, did you pay for that book?"
"Wait, you have to pay for human books in a human library?" Willow asked in surprise.
"You never knew?" Bullhead questioned, sounding a little disbelieved.
"I… I guess not." Willow said awkwardly before she noticed the librarian walking outside with a ferocious look on her face. "Uh oh, I think the human in charge of that place is pretty mad. Start driving, Bulkhead!"
Clover flew behind her seat and buzzed urgently for the muscular green Autobot to drive away before the librarian could seen them.
"Aw, Willow." Bulkhead groaned as he immediately started driving away from the librarian.
Once they were out of Gravesfield.
Bulkhead and Willow were now on their way to the Autobot Base.
"Willow, I'm supposed to be your Guardian. Not your getaway car." Bulkhead reminded. "You can't just take something without paying for it, first. What if your parents found out?"
"They're back in the Boiling Isles, remember? Willow said,"Besides, I was only interested in learning about Earth's ancient history. I didn't know that books needed to be paid for in the Human Realm."
"I know, but you should really be focusing on finding out what the promise day is." Bulkhead told her as they both arrived at the base and drove into the main entrance. "If you can't get back home, you'll never be able to graduate from Hex… Hexsee… uh, what was the name of your school again?"
"Hexside." Willow answered.
When the both arrived at the main room, Willow and Clover got out of Bulkhead and allowed him to transform back into robot form. Clover flew up to the hangout spot to play with Ghost,stringbean,scarlet,umbra,Emmiline and Flapjack while the Hexside Squad was busy helping out Ratchet and Wheeljack at the main console.
"To be honest, you're starting to sound like my dads." Willow told her Autobot Guardian.
"Aren't they both witches?" Bulkhead asked confusingly.
"You three may be a different species, but you say the same worrying things." Willow replied as she walked off.
"Because we want the best for you." Bulkhead told her, following after the plant witch girl. "And that means making sure you got back to the Boiling Isles, not jail."
"Uh, Willow, what exactly did you do while we were in here?" Luz asked, having overheard their conversation.
"I may have accidentally stolen a book from the Gravesfield library. But only because I didn't know it needed to be paid." Willow admitted while rubbing the back of her head, making her friends groan a bit.
"You guys should've let me go with her. I know a lot about libraries since I worked in one." Amity said.
"She's got a good point." Gus agreed.
"Look, Willow, before I became a warrior, I was a labourer. Construction." Bulkhead explained. "I can build stuff, I can break stuff. And that's it."
"But warriors are just like Flyer Derby players, only without the deadly weapons and killing each other and im gonna start one at hexside." Willow said with a smile. "Sometimes, I wanna be just like you, Bulk."
"Oh, why would you wanna be like me when you could be a… a medic like Ratchet?" Bulkhead suggested, gesturing to the Autobot medic.
"Being a warrior isn't so bad, Bulk. I could give her a few tips one day." Wheeljack replied, shooting a smile down at Willow.
"Not helping, Jackie." Bulkhead said.
As Ratchet continued working at the main console, something started showing up on the scanner.
"I'm detecting a fresh Energon pulse. From the nation called Greece, an ancient city." Ratchet told everyone. "Quite historic, I believe."
"Oh yeah, Greece is famous for it's many mythological gods and Roman history." Luz commented. "I learned about that stuff in History lessons, which I did not really enjoy."
"Ancient Greece, Huh?" Bulkhead asked as he remembered how Willow was saying she was interested in Earth's ancient history. "Oh, field trip!"
"If Willow and Bulkhead are going, then we should join them for the ride, Jackie." Gus told his Autobot Guardian with an enthusiastic smile.
"Whatever you say, buddy." Wheeljack replied kindly before they did a fist bump.
Meanwhile on the Nemesis.
Starscream was standing at the main deck as he was expecting a new member of the Decepticon crew to show up.
"It's about time, Knock Out." Starscream said as he heard the door open. "I do not enjoy being kept waiting."
Stepping into the room was an average-sized Decepticon who was coloured red, had a white face and a body that showed that his vehicle mode was a car.
"Ah, it was a long drive, Starscream." Knock Out admitted casually. "I'm still picking bugs out of my grill."
"Yes, right. You're one of those." Starscream replied with a frown.
"Come again?" Knock Out questioned in confusion.
"Never understood why any self respecting Decepticon would choose automobile as his vehicle mode, when he could have flight." Starscream said, circling around Knock Out for a bit.
"I like the way I look in steel-pelted radials." Knock Out said.
A few seconds later, Starscream had led Knock Out to a room where they were keeping someone very important.
"I take it Lord Megatron requires a laboratory assist?" Knock Out asked.
"You… might say that." Starscream admitted before the doors opened.
Inside it was Megatron, who was still recovering from the Space Bridge explosion he survived and had loads of tubes hooked to his body as he breathed steadily.
"Woah." Knock Out said with a surprised expression.
In a ruin area of Greece,
a Space Bridge opened open and Bulkhead and Wheeljack drove out of it.
"Here we are!" Wheeljack announced as Willow and Gus got out of them, allowing both Wreckers to transform.
"So, what are we doing here again?" Willow questioned.
"We're scouting for Energon. You and Gus can learn a few things about the Ancient Greece history while we work." Bulkhead explained while holding a scanner device.
"I get a chance to learn about Greek human history? That sounds like fun." Willow said with a smile.
"Well if I'm gonna be teaching about things in the Human Realm, I might as well learn some ancient stuff about it." Gus shrugged.
Bulkhead held the scanner out in the open and it began beeping rapidly.
"Hmm. The signal's strong." Bulkhead said before he noticed a crater with a few construction vehicles neat it. "An excavation site."
"You figured out what that is in just a few seconds?" Gus asked, a little bit surprised.
"I know construction." Bulkhead answered. "According to my scanner, humans hit Energon veins."
"And by the looks of things, they didn't even know it." Wheeljack said with his arms crossed.
"Hey, check out their picture over there." Willow told the others, pointing in a specific direction.
They looked to where she pointed and noticed a stone painting of some Ancient Greek people standing beside a god, who was holding some kind of golden sphere. Bulkhead and Wheeljack took a closer look at the sphere and noticed something very familiar about it.
"Hold on, that sphere…" Wheeljack muttered, slowly starting to see a similarity.
"That's Cybertronian!" Bulkhead realised.
On the nemesis
.
"Sadly, our inevitably former Lord Megatron has been like this for some time." Starscream explained as he and Knock Out looked down at Megatron's damaged body. "But the crew took a vote and it was decided that an expert might put him on the road to recovery."
"I've done plenty of bodywork, Starscream, but I'm better at 'em than fixing 'em." Knock Out admitted, shifting his hand into a surgery drill for a short moment. "It would help if I had my trusty teammates."
"I summoned all three of you. Where are they?" Starscream asked.
"We were hot on a fresh Energon trail when you called." Knock Out answered. "Breakdown and Wildrider will show up when they're through scouting it."
Meanwhile.
Willow, Gus, Bulkhead and Wheeljack had gotten down from the ruined stadium to get a closer look at the painting that showed a Cybertronian artefact.
"Why would Ancient Greeks paint an Energon Harvester?" Bulkhead asked curiously.
"You know what that round object is?" Willow questioned.
"We learned about it on the artefact schematics during the war." Wheeljack said. "We weren't always busting up Decepticons when we were with the Wreckers."
"You know, Jackie, you sure do know a lot of stuff for a Bot who likes swinging his swords." Gus quipped while chuckling a bit.
"And you're smarter than you let on, Bulk." Willow complemented before she used her Scroll to take a photo of the ancient painting.
"But even dumber than he looks." A new voice said.
"And mister Con Crusher is all cheap talk with this kind of stuff." Another voice added insultingly.
Willow, Gus, Bulkhead and Wheeljack turned around to see two new Decepticons showing up on the stadium.
The first one was a muscular Decepticon with dark-blue and bright-grey paintings and an orange face, while the second Con was about Wheeljack's size and had two midget-sized bumps on the sides of his head, dark-grey and red colourings and a 37 racing car number on both his shoulders.
"Breakdown." Bulkhead said with a hard glare.
"Wildrider." Wheeljack scowled.
"Hey there, Wrecker boys." Wildrider greeted while smirking deviously.
"Heheheh. Miss us?" Breakdown asked.
"Like rust in my undercarriage." Bulkhead answered, tightening his hand into a fist.
"You two know these metal heads?" Gus questioned.
"We have a history." Wheeljack replied.
"And you both have pets. How adorable." Wildrider mocked.
"Do they play catch?" Breakdown asked as he grabbed a pillar and lifted it out of the ground, reeling it back for a toss. "Catch!"
He tossed the pillar straight at Willow and Gus, who quickly ran away from it before Bulkhead blocked it and made it shatter into dust.
"Willow, Gus, stay down!" Bulkhead ordered.
"We'll handle these two!" Wheeljack stated, pulling out his swords.
"Are you sure?!" Wildrider questioned before landing in front of Wheeljack and skilfully jabbing him before the swordsman Wrecker could attack.
Bulkhead attempted to help his partner, only for Breakdown to charge straight at him and bash him against the floor.
When they were both in midair, Breakdown tossed Bulkhead straight into the ancient painting and destroyed it in the process, with the green muscular Autobot groaning in pain.
"Oops. Hope the pretty picture wasn't too important." Breakdown said.
As Wildrider managed to disarm Wheeljack, he elbowed him in the gut and delivered a round kick to his face, making him crash against the cliffside and fall down next to Bulkhead.
"I doubt it was, Breaks." Wildrider admitted while dusting his hands off.
"Hey, ugly!" Gus called out, earning Wildrider's attention as he turned around to have a hammer whack him in the face. "Ha ha! I said ugly and you looked!"
Ow your gonna pay for that Wildrider said.
"You wanna play with hammers, fleshing? That's fine with me!" Breakdown stated before shifting his hand into a sledgehammer.
He charged at Willow and Gus in an attempt to hammer them into the ground, only for Willow to summon some vines and grab his sledgehammer before he could bring it down on them.
"I don't think so!" Willow replied with a smirk, commanding the vines to make Breakdown's hammer repeatedly hit him in the face. "Why're you hitting yourself, Huh?! Why're you hitting yourself?!"
But when she heard the sound of a weapon charging up, she looked next to Breakdown and saw Wildrider aiming a blaster directly at her.
"I've got you, Willow!" Gus shouted.
He quickly got in front of Willow and made a magic circle around them, turning them both invisible.
"What the?! Where did those insects go?!" Wildrider asked shockingly, looking around for the young witches.
Just then, some vines appeared below him and formed themselves into a thorny fist before it punched Wildrider in the face, making him tumble down with a loud thud. The vines that restrained Breakdown also tossed him next to his fellow teammate, while Willow and Gus reappeared with the vine fist on the plant witch's hand.
"And that's how we do it with magic, Cons!" Gus stated with a victorious smile.
"If we were you, we'd probably transform and roll out of here." Willow admitted smugly.
Breakdown and Wildrider groaned as they sat up, glaring angrily at the two children.
"I guess Starscream was right about magic organics being with the Autobots." Wildrider grunted.
"We'll get them, next time." Breakdown replied before they both stood up and ran away.
Breakdown transformed into a Plasan Sand-Cat Armored Van while Wildrider transformed into a Racing Stock Car that looked like something from NASCAR before the two Decepticons drove away. Willow and Gus walked up to Bulkhead and Wheeljack, who groaned painfully as they got back up.
"I'll admit, those two really took us by surprise." Wheeljack admitted.
"At least they didn't destroy you guys." Gus said in relief, until he noticed the painting that Bulkhead broke apart. "Well, apart from the picture that showed as that round thing."
"Told you I'm good at breaking things." Bulkhead replied.
"Don't worry, Bulk. I always have your back." Willow reassured as she pulled out her Scroll and showed the picture she took earlier to him. "I've got a picture of the picture."
After they arrived back at base.
Willow showed her picture to Optimus and the others.
"It is indeed an Energon Harvester, a powerful tool created by the ancients to remove raw Energon from any source." Optimus explained.
"So, does that mean that human gods knew ancient Autobots?" Amity asked.
"No. The ancients often used the art of a given era to conceal messages." Optimus answered. "This fresco was likely a signpost indicating a Harvester's location, hidden somewhere on this planet."
"I guess that means the ancient humans thought it was a gift from beyond the stars." Hunter theorised.
"Uh, Optimus? If the Harvester removes Energon from anything, and you all have Energon pumping inside you…" Luz started to say.
"In Decepticon hands, the Harvester would be a devastating weapon." Optimus finished.
"Then that means it was good of you to destroy that painting." Willow told Bulkhead with a smile.
"Willow's not wrong." Cliffjumper said in agreement. "How can the Cons find the Harvester without the fresco?"
"With high-speed internet, they just might be able to." Marcy replied while searching for the Harvester on her laptop. "If you do a search for 'Greek God' and 'Golden Orb', you'll find this. It's in a museum outside of Connecticut."
Everyone took a look at the picture marcy was displaying on her laptop, which was a statue of a Greek God holding a golden orb in it's hand.
"Is that the real deal?" Arcee asked.
"It looks legit to me." Jazz replied before tuning to Optimus. "What do you think, Prime?"
When Optimus realised that the golden orb was really the Energon Harvester, he knew that they needed to make the first move before the Cons could.
"Contact Agent coulson." Optimus ordered.
Ratchet immediately started calling Fowler on the main console, but all he got was a voicemail.
"You've reached Agent coulson. I'm currently on an intensive training retreat and unavailable until Tuesday." The voicemail said.
"I hate talking to machines." Ratchet mumbled in annoyance.
"So, what now?" Wheeljack asked.
"Without Agent coulson's direct aid, we will have to confiscate the Harvester on our own." Optimus told everyone.
"Woah, wait! Confiscate?!" Luz repeated, very shocked by what the Autobot leader was suggesting. "As in steal museum property in the middle of the night?!"
"That sounds a bit… illegal." Amity admitted in concern.
"We're supposed to be protectors of the Human Realm, not fugitives of the Earth law." Kim reminded.
"I do not wish to break human law. But once the Decepticons learn of the Harvester's location, they will not hesitate to obtain it by any means necessary." Optimus said. "We must act covertly."
"Look, Optimus, I don't mean to offend any of you, but covertly and giant robots don't really go together." Luz told him. "Museums are public. They're full of guards and security cameras."
"They're never just going to let us go in there and take the Harvester away." Hunter admitted.
"But, that won't be a problem for us." Willow reassured. "The ten of us are small enough to get inside without causing too much noise. And we're not kept secret by the human government. All we have to do is get inside the museum, find that Harvester and escape with it while the Bots lookout for any Decepticons.
"Willow, I'm not sure that's wise." Bulkhead said, showing a bit of concern about her idea.
"But it may be our best option, Bulkhead." Optimus replied. "The longer we debate, the more time we give the Decepticons."
I can just hack the cameras with my powers Chris said.
And we can use the cyber virus apollo said.
On the nemesis.
The Autobot leader was absolutely right as Soundwave was currently displaying the same image of the Greek God statue holding the Harvester on his screen face to Starscream, Knock Out, Breakdown and Wildrider.
"Yep, that's definitely it." Wildrider said.
"Then I'm afraid Megatron's well-being will have to wait. It's harvest time." Starscream declared with a sinister smirk.
At nighttime in a fancy city that was far away from Gravesfield,
Team Prime drove their way up to the museum in their vehicle forms. Optimus stayed at the front of the museum while Arcee,chromia,drift,Bulkhead, Bumblebee,Cliffjumper,Wheeljack and Jazz went separate ways.
"Autobots, confirm positions." Optimus said.
"Westward secured." Arcee,chromia and Cliffjumper informed.
"Eastward's clear." Jazz added, while Bumblebee bleeped in agreement.
"Southside covered." Bulkhead,drift and Wheeljack said.
"Maintain your guard." Optimus ordered, turning off his headlights.
Back inside the base
.
the realm defenders were standing on a yellow forklift while waiting for the all-clear.
"Luz,kim,Chris,Amity,Apollo,Willow,Gus,Hunter,veeand Marcy, I will have a clear view of you." Optimus told them on the communicator. "Once you secure the Harvester, I will contact Ratchet to Bridge you back to base."
Ratchet then turned the Ground Bridge on for the children.
"Now since you'll bypass all points of normal entry, you won't need to worry about setting off the alarm." Ratchet explained. "But take care to avoid any security guards."
"Don't worry, Ratchet. We have a solution for that." Vee reassured, pulling out her own mobile phone.
At the museum.
The Ground Bridge appeared inside the museum and the realm defenders rode the forklift straight through it, arriving in the building with no signs of any guards.
"Okay, does anyone see the Harvester?" Amity asked quietly.
"Up there." Gus replied, pointing towards the statue holding the Harvester.
The children then noticed Optimus outside as he was blinking his lights towards them. Luz nodded and raised the forklift up to one of the security cameras, while vee took out her phone and held it upside down before taking a photo of the statue. She switched onto the phone and placed it onto the camera, making it look like the same footage as a security guard looked at the footage and simply went back to reading his newspaper.
"That's the first step done." Willow whispered.
"Now let's grab that orb and get out of here." Hunter said.
Luz steered the forklift towards the statue as Optimus kept watching them, until he noticed some lights coming from behind and the sound of two engines. He looked at his side mirror to see Knock Out and Wildrider driving beside him in their vehicle modes. Knock Out appeared to be a red Aston Martin DBS V12 car as he whistled from checking out Optimus' vehicle mode.
"Sweet rims. Twenty-four gage." Knock Out commented.
"You're real heavy duty, Prime. Just like our friend here." Wildrider said.
Right after he said that, Breakdown charged forward in his own vehicle mode and a cannon appeared on his roof before firing a missile. Optimus immediately transformed and caught the missile in his hands, skidding back from the force of the projectile as he tried to his best to stop it from hitting the museum. He soon managed to stop it, but made a huge impact crack on the window before looking towards the realm defenders, who were busy getting the Harvester as they noticed Optimus saving them from the missile.
Optimus turned his attention back to Knock Out and Wildrider, but didn't see them anywhere. But then, Knock Out showed up right in front of him and thrusted an electric staff straight into his throat, causing the electricity to greatly damage him as he stumbled forward, dropped the missile and collapsed on the floor.
Wildrider suddenly stepped on his left arm and made two Cybertronian blades pop out of his wrists before jabbing one of them into the Autobot leader's shoulder, causing him in shout in pain. To make sure he wouldn't try to get up, Knock Out jumped on his back and once again electrocuted him with his staff.
"Decepticons!" Vee exclaimed nervously.
"They have Optimus!" Luz added.
As Knock Out and Wildrider kept Optimus on the ground, they flashed their headlights towards Breakdown as a signal for him to charge forward. Breakdown got the message and drove straight up to the museum, only for Arcee,chromia,Bumblebee,drift,Cliffjumper and Jazz to drive out of the museum sides in an attempt to stop him.
In response, Breakdown fired a missile at Bumblebee and Jazz and successfully got them as they transformed and rolled across the pavement. Next, the muscular Decepticon aimed his cannon at Arcee and Cliffjumper before firing. The two Autobots just manages to avoid the explosion with a pair of grunts, but they unfortunately crashed into Bumblebee and Jazz and transformed back to robot form before falling unconscious.
Wheeljack then jumped down from the roof and pulled out his swords to prepare for a fight with Breakdown, but Wildrider wanted to have a second battle with his rival.
"I've been waiting for a round two with you, Jackie!" Wildrider remarked sinisterly before charging at Wheeljack, clashing blades with him.
"Hey! Only my pals call me that!" Wheeljack retorted as he kicked Wildrider back, who responded by swiping his wrist blades at the swordsman Wrecker.
Hey your not fighting without me drift said taking out his blade.
As the three of them went to another space for their blade battle, Bulkhead showed up on the roof and jumped down from it. He attempted to Breakdown while he had the opportunity, but then his arch-enemy transformed and punched him away.
Unfortunately, Bulkhead ended up crashing straight into Knock Out and they bashed into one of the museum's pillars, causing the entire structure to shake and the alarms got set off.
"Things just went from bad to terrible!" Gus panicked.
The security guard heard the alarm going off in his room before he looked to the statue screen and saw that it was truly a fake picture.
"We need to get this thing out of here, now!" Luz stated urgently.
Apollo pushed the Harvester with ease and it rolled straight onto the forklift. Outside the museum, Knock Out sat up and gasped when he saw Optimus was starting to regain his strength. He quickly grabbed his electrical staff and jumped towards the Autobot leader, only for Optimus to smack him away with the last amount of strength he had.
Luz has the forklift lower down to allow her and the others to reach down at the floor.
"Come on. Let's get out of here while the Cons are busy." Willow told her friends before leaping off the forklift.
After getting out of the main exhibit room, Willow led her friends towards the back entrance as they rode on the forklift with the Harvester on board. The plant Witch found a button to open up a metal door and immediately pressed it, making the door slowly open up. Willow ran over to the door and ducked down to the other side, only for a flash light to shine on her.
The plant witch gasped worriedly as she saw the security guard eyeing at her, while fortunately not noticing her witch ears due to her pigtails hiding them.
"Uh… hey there." Willow said with a nervous smile.
"Better come with me, miss." The security guard said as he grabbed Willow by her arm and took her into the room for questioning.
"That's not good." Hunter whispered, watching the whole thing with the others from the other side.
"I guess we should have gone the other way." Gus admitted.
Just then, they all noticed a pair of thin-looking Cybertronian legs appear behind the metal door that led outside, which was slightly open.
"Arcee!" Luz stated, thinking it was her Autobot Guardian.
The realm defenders ran to the door to meet up with Arcee. But when the door was lifted open, the Cybertronian behind it was revealed to be Soundwave.
"Not Arcee!" Amity stated as she and the others stopped in their tracks.
"It's Soundwave!" Vee said, gulping nervously.
"Don't come any closer, pal!" Gus ordered, attempting to make a magic circle.
But then, Soundwave used one of his metallic tentacles to swiftly smack the realm into a wall, making them fall down with painful groans. Soundwave reached into the museum room and grabbed the Harvester before transforming into his drone form, flying away with the Harvester.
As Optimus managed to get back up and prepared for battle, he, Knock Out, Breakdown and Wildrider noticed Soundwave flying away and the Decepticons knew that he had completed their mission
"That would be game." Knock Out said, putting his electric staff away.
"Too bad you Autobots weren't going all out, today!" Wildrider mocked as he kicked Wheeljack back from their duel.
Knock Out, Breakdown and Wildrider then transformed and drove away from the area. Team Prime attempted to chase after them, but they noticed the realm defenders running out of the museum.
"The Decepticons have the Harvester!" Hunter told the Autobots.
"And security has Willow!" Amity added.
"What?! I'm going in after her!" Bulkhead announced, only for Optimus to halt him.
"Bulkhead, Willow may be detained, but she is safe from harm." Optimus said reassuringly.
No worries i have an idea Chris said taking out a cybervirus
Back inside the museum.
Willow stood nervously in her seat as the security guard was looking at her with a suspicious glance.
"Look, kid, if this is some kind of prank, you need to know that the authorities are on their way." The guard told her. "It'd go a whole lot easier if you just told me what happened to the sphere."
"I was doing a history report with my friends. But then I lost track of time and got stuck in this place." Willow answered.
"So what's your history report about? I'd love to know." The guard said, leaning his chin on his hands.
"Uhh…" Willow said as she started to sweat a little bit, knowing that she was gonna be here for a long time.
Meanwhile,
Optimus had transported Arcee,chromia,Bumblebee,drift,Cliffjumper, Wheeljack and Jazz to different parts of the planet so they can search for the Decepticons and the Harvester.
"In all likelihood, Starscream will use the Harvester to gather as much Energon as quickly as he can from the planet's otherwise unminable Energon deposits." Optimus explained while working the Ground Bridge controls, while Ratchet was busy with the children on something. "Approach with extreme caution. Starscream will not hesitate to turn the Harvester on anyone of us."
As Optimus was preparing to go to his destination, he stopped to have a discussion with Bulkhead.
"Bulkhead, it is best that you remain here." Optimus told him.
"So I can bust Willow out of the museum?" Bulkhead asked hopefully.
"So you can help Ratchet." Optimus corrected. "You may be Willow's Guardian, but she requires human assistance. Chris cyber virus remains her best option."
Bulkhead was left speechless as he watched Optimus transform and drive into the Ground Bridge before turning his attention to Marcy, who was trying to call Coulson.
"You've reached Special Agent phill Coulson. I'm currently on an intensive training retreat and unavailable until Tuesday." Coulson's voice said on the voicemail, just like last time.
"There still hasn't been an answer." Vee admitted.
"Coulson's lounging around some poolside cabana!" Bulkhead said in frustration before he slammed his fist on one of Ratchet's tools.
"Bulkhead! I needed that!" Ratchet shouted.
"I'll be honest, that's a pretty perfect catchphrase for Ratchet." Gus whispered to his friends, who all nodded to him.
"We can free Willow. If we can just return that Harvester to the museum." Bulkhead protested.
"So the Decepticons can steal it all over again?" Ratchet questioned.
"That's actually had a good point." Amity said in agreement.
"…I am so dumb!" Bulkhead stated while clenching his head.
"So, how are we going to get Willow back?" Hunter asked.
"By returning this replica to the museum." Ratchet replied, holding an incomplete copy of the Harvester. "The construction of which would be going a whole lot faster if Bulkhead hadn't just mangled my frame welder!"
"Will that really work?" Apollo asked as he rose an eyebrow.
"We're already trespassers, thieves and otherworldly outcasts." Luz commented. "I guess it's okay to add forgery to the list."
"True." Gus agreed.
Bulkhead could only sign to himself, feeling like it's his fault that Willow was currently museum custody.
"I wish I'd never taken Willow to the…" Bulkhead said before he began to realise something important about the Greek ruins he was in. "The painting of the Harvester isn't the only thing we found at those ruins."
"I'm sorry?" Ratchet asked in curiosity.
"What do you mean, Bulk?" Amity questioned.
"Starscream's not dumb. No matter what kind of tool he has, he's gonna take the easy route." Bulkhead explained.
The Greek ruins.
As a matter of fact, Starscream was currently at the Greek ruins himself with Knock Out, Breakdown, Wildrider & a Vehicon trooper that was keeping guard. His reason for coming here was very obvious.
"Why move mountains now, when we have a motherlode of Energon right here for the taking?" Starscream asked as he was holding the Harvester. "Curtesy of this gift from ancient Autobots."
"Uh actually, Commander Starscream, it was a gift from Breakdown, Wildrider and myself." Knock Out replied.
"You're welcome for that, by the way." Wildrider said.
Starscream only sighed annoyingly before aiming the Harvester at the three Decepticons, causing them to step back worriedly. When Starscream fired a blue beam from the Harvester,
it missed his loyal followers and struck the Vehicon that accompanied them as it started draining his Energon. Knock Out, Breakdown and Wildrider watched in shock and horror, while Starscream had a sinister smile on his face as the Vehicon groaned weakly and collapsed to the floor, her Energon drained entirely.
With all the Energon collected, the Harvester closed itself and Starscream was more than satisfied with the results.
"All that Energon in such a tiny vessel." Starscream said with a smirk.
"Those ancient Autobots never missed a trick, Lord Starscream." Knock Out admitted, making sure to correct himself this time.
Starscream once again aimed their Harvester at him, Breakdown and Wildrider and caused them to shield their ears fearfully. Fortunately for them, Starscream was only bluffing as he turned towards some large Energon crystals that were encased in rock and began using the Harvester to drain it.
As the Decepticons were preoccupied with gathering Energon, they didn't notice that Bulkhead was sneaking up behind them from the hills.
The muscular green Autobot jumped down and quietly began to charge to his enemies, only for him to step on a vase and gain Knock Out, Breakdown and Wildrider's attention.
"Oh scrap." Bulkhead muttered, facepalming himself.
"Back for seconds?" Breakdown asked as he pulled out his sledgehammer, while Knock Out got his electric staff and Wildrider activated his wrist blades.
"This time, we're making sure you stay scrapped!" Wildrider declared before they charged straight at Bulkhead.
Bulkhead started to panic a little bit as the three Decepticons ran opposite directions in an attempt to strike him at the same time. But then, he quickly ducked down and this caused Breakdown to accidentally smack Knock Out in the face with his hammer and make the Decepticon Doctor drop his electric staff. Bulkhead grabbed the staff and thrusted it straight into Breakdown's face, making him fall down as the staff kept zapping him.
Wildrider attempted to thrust his blades into Bulkhead, but then the muscular Wrecker grabbed him by his arms and tossed him onto the ground hard before pulling out his wrecking ball, smashing it onto Wildrider's face and making him fall unconscious.
When Bulkhead turned around, Starscream immediately fired the Harvester on him. Bulkhead grunted as he began to get weak and fell down, starting to run low on Energon.
"You're a big one. This could take a while." Starscream admitted, smirking evilly.
However, Bulkhead refused to stay down and mustered all the strength he had inside of him to stand up and slowly rush up to Starscream.
"Wait, what are you doing?!" Starscream asked in shock.
"What I do best." Bulkhead said, grabbing the open part of the Harvester to block of it's draining beam. "Breaking things!"
He then punched Starscream straight into the cliff by his face and made him lose his grip on the Harvester before he weakly stumbled back and closed the Harvester's lid shut.
But because of all the Energon he lost, Bulkhead fall down and was unable to do anything else. Knock Out, Breakdown and Wildrider were shown to have fully recovered as the Decepticon Doctor aimed his electric staff at Bulkhead.
"He's a glutton for punishment." Knock Out said as Breakdown chuckled deviously.
"I'll get the Spark, you guys take the head." Wildrider told his teammates.
Suddenly, they heard a Ground Bridge appearing behind them and they turned around to see the other Autobots driving out of it before transforming. They all began firing their blasters at the Decepticons.
"Fight?" Breakdown asked.
"Hmm, drive." Knock Out replied.
"There's always next time." Wildrider muttered before the three of them transformed and drove away.
Starscream tried to fire back at the Autobots, but he was too outnumbered with Knock Out, Breakdown and Wildrider gone. The self-proclaimed leader of the Decepticons growled angrily and transformed into his Jet form before flying away from the ruins. As the Autobots withdrew their blasters, they all approached Bulkhead as he kept laying down on the ground.
"Hey." Bulkhead said weakly.
"Next time, you might wanna tell us where the Cons are before you go by yourself, Bulk." Wheeljack told him with a smile.
"No promises, Jackie." Bulkhead replied.
"On the bright side, you managed to get the Harvester back." Cliffjumper said, taking the Harvester from the muscular Wrecker's hand. "This'll look pretty good in our base's vault."
"I'll let Ratchet know." Arcee replied.
The museum.
The sun started to rise over the museum, where the security guard was stand still do to the cyber virus on his head.
Just then, they both heard a knock on the door and it opened up to reveal Agent Coulson(but it was actually Chris), who showed his badge to the security guard.
"Special Agent phill Coulson. The stolen property has been located and restored to museum premises." Coulson said.
The security guard looked towards the screen showing the Greek God statue, which was now holding the Harvester replica that Ratchet was able to fully built.
"The girl comes with me." Coulson said as he pulled Willow on her feet and gave her Vee's phone, which the young Basilisk obviously forgot. "Your friend dropped her cellphone. Found it on the floor, right next to your history report."
Once they were out of the room, Willow and Chris walked out the main entrance as the plant witch smiled happily from seeing Bulkhead parked in front.
"Off we go." Chris said turn back to his human form.
Willow nodded in response before rushing up to her Autobot Guardian and hopping into him, strapping into the front seat.
"Good timing, Bulk. I was getting tired of standing there but can't leave with the item brought back." Willow said with a relived smile.
"Guess you know more about Human history than you thought." Bulkhead commented.
"Yeah, when I'm in an intense situation." Willow replied.
"Me, too." Bulkhead agreed before he started driving away to get back at the base.
"I can't wait to get back to the Boiling Isles." Willow said. "I'm gonna tell all my friends back there about how the Autobots interacted with ancient Humans."
"Uh, I'm not sure that's gonna help you graduate from Hexside, Willow." Bulkhead replied