Hey everyone! I'm back with chapter 14. I am sorry to say that this chapter is a short one, but I hope you all still like it.

Transformers Animated: Different Angle

Chapter 14: Rock Bottom

Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers Animated

(Third POV)

"No!" Bumblebee shouts as he rushes over to the edge of the cliff, still crumbling from the heavy fire by Blitzwing. He looks down, only to see nothing but darkness at the bottom. The autobot's face turns grim soon as he hears the sound of an impact down below.

"No," he murmurs, fearing the worse.

Both Decepticons look in shock at what just transpired. Not only did the femme they were suppose to capture get shot, but also fell off the cliff along with her smaller friend.

"You idiot!" Airstrike yells angrily at the triple changer, "Megatron wanted her online!"

"Zhat vas not my fault!" he argues, "she got in zhe vay!"

"Care to explain that to our leader?!" she sneers.

Anger came over the small autobot as he listens to them argue. Without even thinking, he rapidly turns around and fires his stingers at the two, letting out a battle cry as he charges at them.

The two cons are slightly taken back by the bot's outburst, but the electrical blasts don't even faze them. In return, the two Decepticons fire back in annoyance, causing Bumblebee to move side to side as he dodges them. He keeps firing his stingers, hoping to hit a weak point. This only irritates them even more as the fire fight continues.

"Hold still, bug!" Blitzwing barks at him as he fires two heat blasts at him.

Bumblebee dodges his attacks and charges at him. "Take this!" he exclaims as he gets close enough to Blitzwing and jabs one of his stingers into the triple changer's knee joint, sending an electrical shock through his leg. The con lets out a howl of pain as his knee buckles, causing him to fall into a painful kneeling position. Immediately he backhands Bumblebee away from him, sending the autobot flying back into a tree. The tree breaks in half from the impact, but the blow was hard enough to have Bumblebee painfully slump to the ground as he leans back on the bottom half of the broken tree.

As the pain slowly goes away, Blitzwing switches to his icy personality and fires a blast of ice at him. Bumblebee sees this and tries to get out of the way, only for the ice to form around him, freezing him in place.

Getting back up, Blitzwing walks over to the frozen autobot, fighting off what's left of the pain in his leg. Stopping in front him, he looks down at his opponent with a stone cold face. "And zhis is vhere it ends for jou, autobot," he says as he raises his pede, ready to stomp Bumblebee into a million pieces.

"Wait!" Airstrike tells him from the side, causing him to stop.

His head spins to his hothead face as he looks at her with a frown. "Now vhat?! I zhought jou vanted to offline zhe autobots?!"

A malicious smirk forms on her face. "Why settle for one, when I now have a chance to hit them all at once?" Walking over to the small frozen bot, she easily picks him up with one servo and begins walking away from the triple changer.

"And vhere are jou going?" Blitzwing asks her, his icy personality back in control.

"You do remember my mission, don't you?" she says as she keeps walking, "the trap's all set. The only thing I was missing was bait."

"Vhat about zhe femme triple changer?" he asks.

She stops in her tracks. "After a shot and fall like that, she's probably offline by now," Airstrike says, "Lord Megatron may not be pleased, but at least it's one less problem to deal with. In the mean time, search for Professor Sumdac. He will most likely be heading straight for the city."

Blitzwing nods before transforming and flying off.

Once he's gone, Airstrike scowls a little. She was hoping to later question the femme about the surge, only for Blitzwing to shoot her lead and send her falling to her demise. Letting out a vent, she continues walking, clutching onto her prisoner by his frozen arm. Remembering her mission, her scowl turns back into a smirk.

"Won't be long now."

(1 hour later)

(Jacy's POV)

"Jacy!"

I awake with a jolt from the sound of someone calling my name. All I see is pitch black.

Am I dead?

I immediately feel pain shoot through my entire body, especially in my chest as I let out a painful gasp. I blink a few times, making sure my optics really are open. I try to move, only for my efforts to be proven fruitless. I weakly try to feel around with my servo, feeling a lot of what I think is rocks. Why are there rocks around me? What happened again?

Wait... I remember. There was a fight and...

"Jacy!"

Is that Kylie?

I open my mouth, "K-Kylie.." I try to say, my voice crackling with static.

I hear the sound of rocks moving as I see cracks of light breaking through the darkness. I squint soon as a bright light shines its way through. Once it's gone, I see my friend's robot face peering in to see me. A look of worry and relief sweeps over her as she pushes away more rocks to get to me.

"Hold on, I'll get you out!" she says as keeps working. Soon I am able to move slightly more as she frees me. I look around, seeing a huge rock wall surrounded by rocks and trees, Kylie's headlights being the only source of light for us. It's still dark out a bit, but I see most of the sky getting lighter, meaning it's almost sunrise.

I feel tired as I rest my helm on the ground, the burning pain in my chest throbbing as I lay there. Glancing down at it, I see the scorch mark on the left side where my heart is. How am I not dead yet?

Wait, I'm a bot now! That means I have a spark which should be located in the middle of my chest!

However I'm still sparking a bit with a few cracks and dents in me. Not to mention every part of my body hurts. I even see a bit of energon leaking in some places.

"Oh my gosh," Kylie says fearfully, seeing my condition.

"I'm okay, K-Kylie," I manage to say, the static still in my voice, "a-are y-you h-hurt?"

"I woke up in a big tree. I think it broke most of my fall," she says before wincing a little. She looks down at her leg, making me glance down to see a huge gash in it. "But I think it was still a pretty rough landing for me." She looks up at the cliff worryingly. "I don't hear any shooting. Do you think Bumblebee's okay?" She looks around up at the sky. "It's almost morning. How long were we out?"

I try to adjust myself, only to let out a whimper as more pain shoots through me.

"Easy! Don't hurt yourself!" Kylie says worryingly.

"Too late," I say.

"I'll go see if I can find help," Kylie says as she picks herself up to leave, only for me to stop her.

"D-don't," I tell her, "the c-cons will be out looking for the p-professor and you're injured. It's not s-safe." Carefully, I painfully get myself up in a sitting position, resting myself against the cliff wall.

"Professor?" she asks, turning around to face me, "wait, that man from earlier. He said you helped him. Stout with black hair and a green coat?"

I nod.

I see a look of worry and confusion grow on her face, "He said the Decepticons kept him prisoner. Is that true?"

Hesitantly, I nod again.

"But... what were you doing at the con's place?"

Knowing I'm busted, I let out a shaky vent, "I... I was g-going... after their fr-fr-fragments."

Her optics widen in shock. "You stole from them?!"

I shut my optics in guilt. "I was planning to. I w-was so close, but I h-hesitated. That was w-when I was discovered. I ended up helping S-Sumdac escape."

"But why?!" she exclaims, "why would you try to steal from them?! Isn't there more fragments out there?!"

"It w-would have taken us longer. We d-don't belong here, K-Kylie. I was afraid the l-longer we stayed, something bad would happen. I just w-wanted to get us home soon as p-possible."

"But stealing?! Jacy, you're better than that!"

"I didn't kn-know what else to do," I say shamefully, coolant tears now welling up in my optics as I try not to cry.

"We could have gone looking for other fragments together!" Kylie yells angrily. "We could have asked the autobots to help us instead of running away from them! I mean, why?! Why won't you let anyone help us?! Why won't you let me help you?!"

"Because Im scared!" I exclaim, allowing the tears fall. "I don't k-know what w-will happen if we intervene. I'm afraid it w-will take a turn for the worse for th-the autobots if we make any m-more changes. And I don't w-want you involved in all of this b-because I'm not strong enough to pr-protect you. I can't even d-defend myself from a con! We may b-be cartoon, but w-we still f-feel pain. We c-could even die if w-we're not careful. Seeing Pr-Prowl get hurt r-reminded me of that. That's why I br-broke into the Con base to get the fragments. B-but th-then I found out there are more ch-changes and it made me r-remember what you said the other night, about what if w-we're here f-for a reason. Honestly, that sc-scares me, especially because I have no idea wh-what to do." I try pulling myself together as I wipe away my tears, Kylie now looking at me with concern. I don't like crying in front of others, so I try to get myself to stop.

Limping her way over, Kylie sits down beside me. "It's okay to be scared, Jacy," she says, trying to comfort me.

"No, it's n-not," I tell her, wiping away the last of the tears, "you're right. We sh-should have asked the bots for help. But I was too w-worried thinking about what would happen. And now look at us. This is m-my fault."

"Don't say that," Kylie says, "come on. It's not that bad."

"We f-fell off a cliff!"

"We survived, didn't we?" she points out.

I vent heavily, the static making itself more known. "I'm so s-sorry, Kylie. I just wanted to g-get us home so bad."

Kylie leans back along the wall with me. "I know. I want to go home too. I know it's almost been two days, but I miss my family so much right now." She looks up at me. "But we have to work together. And you can't keep worrying about what will happen if we change something."

"But what if s-something goes wrong?"

"Then we'll fix it," Kylie says, "we'll figure it out... but right now, I think we need all the help we can get. And I'm not just saying that because I really don't want to sleep in a cave anymore."

I look down at my friend, finally calming down as I chuckle a little, her chuckling along as well. It takes a while, but I finally manage to release a big vent as her words sink in.

"You're right," I say, feeling a bit better. "We do n-need help. But..." I glance down at myself and her. "That may be impossible r-right now. We can barely move, and I d-doubt someone is just g-gonna show up around th-the co..."

"Are you two okay?!"

We both jump a little and immediately look over to see Sari, Professor Sumdac, and Waldorf come running towards us.

"...Okay, that w-was weird," I say, slightly surprised. I notice Sari's key glowing as it shines a ray of light at us, like it guided them here.

"Waldorf!" Kylie says happily as the dog runs up to us, wagging his tail while he gives Kylie a wet kiss on her servo.

"What happened?!" Sari asks.

"We fell off the cl-cliff," I tell her.

"Where's Bumblebee?"

"Bumblebee was still up there fighting two cons," Kylie tells her.

"Slag! Hang on, let me patch you two up," Sari says, removing her key from around her neck.

Kylie looks at her, confused. "What's that for?"

"You'll see," the young human says as she rushes over.

I look at her weird. Not that I don't want the pain to go away, but I'm slightly confused by her willing to help two unknown bots. "Why d-do you want to h-help us? I mean, you d-don't even know who w-we are."

She stops in front of me and looks up with a smile. "You saved my dad. That's good enough for me."

My expression softens after she says this as I look over to see Sumdac smiling at me. Touched, I give him a smile back, happy to see he's okay and with his daughter.

"Soon as you two are fixed we have to..." all of a sudden, the key lights up and shoots itself out of her hand, surprising her as it goes straight towards us. This catches me off guard as well as it stops between me and Kylie, hovering in the air as it continues to glow. Next thing I know, the light from around the key engulfs the two of us as it shines brighter. Everything goes white.

Soon as the white fades, I see the autobots rushing over to an unconscious Bumblebee laying in the centre of what looks like a football field. A stadium. The bots try waking him up. It takes a while until he finally opens his optics.

"Bumblebee, are you alright?" Optimus asks him.

Bumblebee rubs his helm before looking up at his team, his optics going big in fear. "You all can't be here! Airstrike is ...!"

Just then an explosion goes off, sealing the exit. Multiple shots follow shortly after, attacking the team as it rains down on them from the side. The bots try to get away as Ratchet and Optimus quickly help Bumblebee up, only for another explosion to go off, blocking their path and wounding them in the process. I fearfully watch as they try to take cover in the centre as the shooting continues. An explosion sends the score board falling to the ground, revealing somebot flying above the smoke.

Airstrike.

I see her smirking down at the bots as the smoke rises up around her. "Time for the heroes to fall," she says, holding up a round device with a flashing red light on it. To my horror, she throws it straight at them, the light rapidly flashing as it approaches. The last thing I see is Optimus trying to shield his team as the device explodes.

I gasp as a immediately snap out of it, finding myself back in the woods with Kylie and the others. I'm venting heavily as I hold my helm.

"What was that?!" Kylie asks.

"You saw that too?" I ask her, my spark racing in my chest.

Kylie looks at me and stares in shock. "Jacy... your wound."

I look down, seeing the wound now completely gone. I feel a whole lot better as I stand up, moving the rest of the rocks off me. I look over, seeing the shocked expression of Sari and a confused look on Sumdac. Waldorf only sits there with his head tilted to the side.

"Okaaaay, my key never did that before," Sari says as she rushes over and picks up her key from the ground.

Kylie looks down, seeing her leg fully healed. "Whoa! How did that happen?!" She asks, holding it up while moving it around.

"It's what my key does," Sari says, "It can heal bots and do other things as well. Though it never healed two bots at once before." She looks up at me and Kylie. "Come on. We have to find Bumblebee."

Thinking about what I just saw, I start dreading the worse. "I don't think we'll find him here," I say.

Sari looks over at me, "how do you know that?"

"The key...I think it showed us something. A vision."

Sari looks at me weird. "You mean... like the future?" she asks.

"I.. I don't know," I say, "but I just saw the autobots finding Bumblebee, only it was a trap... set by Airstrike."

"But... if we really just saw the future," Kylie says worryingly, "then that means..."

"The autobots are in serious trouble."

Uh oh!

Hope you all enjoyed this chapter despite it being short. I hope it wasn't too rushed. Next chapter I guarantee will be a looooong one.

Anyway, all of you take care and hopefully I update soon. Until next time! God bless!