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At the beginning, it was nighttime in Los Angeles as Arcee, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper drove into an alleyway with Luz, Amity and Willow riding in them. A Ground Bridge appeared in front of them and they drove into it as Willow was listening to some music in Bumblebee, while the Phase Shifter was next to her on the other side. Clover was seen sleeping in the backseats and wasn't bothered by the music.
"If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends!" Willow sang, synchronising with the music. "Make it last forever, friendship nev-"
Just then, Bumblebee turned off the radio while they continued travelling through the Ground Bridge.
"Hey!" Willow exclaimed with an annoyed frown.
"I'm not listening to this anymore." Bumblebee proclaimed.
"I'm guessing you and Hunter listen to different music?" Willow guessed.
"We just don't listen to songs that are so girly." Bumblebee replied.
"Well, it's been fun be paired with you and I hope I get to go on more missions with the girls. But I'm ready to get back to my regular Autobot partner, Bulkhe-AAAAAAAAHH!" Willow suddenly screamed when they arrived at the Autobot base and saw Bulkhead laying on the floor motionlessly.
When Arcee, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper came to a screeching halt, Willow and Clover immediately got out of the yellow Autobot and looked on in horror at Ratchet using defibrillators to try and wake Bulkhead up.
"Bulkhead, respond!" Ratchet ordered desperately before Wheeljack placed an Energon device on Bulkhead's forehead.
"Don't go offline, Bulk! Stay with us!" Wheeljack begged.
"Bulkhead? Bulkhead?!" Willow called out as she tried to approach her Autobot Guardian, only for Fowler to hold her.
"Oh my Titan." Amity gasped, holding her hands over her mouth.
"What happened to him?" Luz asked in worridness.
"Tox-En exposure, among other things." Ratchet replied while using his arm scanner on Bulkhead to see his Spark's condition. "Bulkhead has suffered a complete systems failure."
"Hold on, Tox-En?" Arcee repeated surprisingly.
"Where did Bulk find that nasty stuff?" Cliffjumper questioned.
"All we know is that he was coming back from his mission and then he flew through the Ground Bridge with a burn mark on his back." Gus replied.
Ratchet looked at Bulkhead's life condition and it wasn't very good.
"Help me get him into the medical bay, now!" Ratchet ordered.
Arcee, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper helped Ratchet and Wheeljack pick up Bulkhead and they all escorted him into the medical chamber. Willow broke out of Fowler's hold and tried running after Bulkhead.
"No! If I'd just stayed with Bulk instead of going to Los Angeles…" Willow said, feeling like it's her fault.
"There's nothing you could've done." Fowler replied. "Hardshell sucker punched the big lug while he was down."
"Who?" Willow questioned.
"Some Insecticon, it doesn't matter. Point is, it's not your fault. You got that?" Fowler told her.
"Got it." Willow muttered with a nod, turning back to Bulkhead and the other Bots.
Luz, Amity, Gus and Vee did their best to console Willow while their Palismen nuzzled against her legs, which still didn't make the Plant Witch girl feel better.
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On the Nemesis, the Decepticons were all lined up as Megatron approached them, furious with how most of them failed their missions.
"How is this possible?! Four relics, each within our grasp. And yet, only Soundwave and Wildrider have returned with something other than an excuse!" Megatron stated angrily before he stopped in front of Hardshell. "Tell me, Hardshell, what is yours?"
"I have none, my lord." Hardshell replied. "We failed to retrieve the Tox-En. But, the green Autobot has been…terminated."
"…Then perhaps this day is not lost after all." Megatron said, quite pleased that an Autobot has vanquished.
"Wait, you snuffed out Bulkhead's Spark?!" Breakdown questioned with a mad look. "He was mine to tear apart, bug! Not yours!"
"But if that is true, it has been a while since anyone has extinguished an Autobot Spark." Knock Out admitted.
"Because it has been a while since an Insecticon warrior has been provided the opportunity to do so." Hardshell retorted.
"Really, now? Because the bug under my recent command was utterly useless." Knock Out said insultingly.
"And Bulkhead's tougher to scrap than you think. He's probably still alive and you failed, just like that other dumb bug did." Breakdown added with a hard glare, causing Hardshell to snarl angrily.
"Enough!" Megatron shouted, making his three troops stand down. "Hardshell, are you certain the one called Bulkhead was exterminated?"
"By my very own hand, Lord Megatron." Hardshell declared.
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Once Optimus and Jazz returned from the Antarctic with Hunter, all the Autobots were watching over Bulkhead as Ratchet hooked him up to a medical table. Willow was sitting on the top platform with a sad expression as Gus and Hunter approached her.
"Don't worry, Willow. I'm sure Bulkhead's going to survive." Gus assured.
"He's managed to get through worse." Hunter said with a soft smile. "Ratchet and the others will make sure he gets better."
"What if he doesn't?" Willow asked sadly. "I'll probably never see him again. And it's all because of Hardshell."
Gus and Hunter looked at each other in concern, realising that Bulkhead's near-death condition was really effecting Willow. It's probably best for them to leave her alone.
"We'll just go back to Luz's house with the others." Gus said. "Do you wanna come back on your own, later?"
"…Sure." Willow replied, sighing to herself.
"Okay. Be safe, Willow." Hunter said as she placed a hand on Willow's shoulder, earning a nod from her.
Gus and Hunter walked down the ladder and they went through the main exit to meet up with Luz, Amity and Vee outside. On the other hand, Fowler was busy taking an important phone call.
"Yes, sir." Fowler said before he hung up and turned to Optimus. "Turns out highlights of your Los Angeles adventure got caught on security tape. The Pentagon needs me to run interference with the mayor. I tried to stall, but…"
"Go where you are needed, Agent Fowler. There is nothing more you can do for Bulkhead at this time." Optimus told him.
"Keep me posted, Prime." Fowler replied, heading into the elevator. "I mean it."
The special agent closes the elevator door and was taken to the base's roof, while Arcee received a message on one of the terminals.
"Seaspray's on his way." Arcee informed, which Willow immediately heard.
"I can't believe you're already giving up on Bulkhead!" Willow shouted in disbelief.
"It's not like that, Willow. Me and Bulk are close with Sprays." Wheeljack replied. "We just thought he'd wanna hear about what happened."
"I know what you meant!" Willow retorted angrily before she began to walk away.
"Willow, where're you off to?" Jazz questioned.
"Back to Luz's house! While Agent Fowler can still give me a lift." Willow answered with a glare, stepping into the elevator and leaving in it.
Arcee wanted to go after her, but Optimus placed his hand on her shoulder.
"She needs time." Optimus said.
A short moment later, Ratchet was finished hooking up Bulkhead to the life-support system and turned to the rest of Team Prime.
"Bulkhead is stable, for the moment. But I had to induce stasis." Ratchet informed.
"How long is it gonna take for him to wake up?" Cliffjumper asked.
"It's too soon to know." Ratchet replied.
Just then, everyone heard a motor noise coming from the entrance and they saw Seaspray showing up in his vehicle form. The aquatic Wrecker quickly transformed and approached the Autobots.
"Thanks for coming, Sprays." Wheeljack said kindly.
"Anytime. What's the damage, doc?" Seaspray asked Ratchet.
"Bulkhead's suffered massive trauma to his central neural conduits." Ratchet answered.
"I've watch your work. You're a maestro when it comes to repairing." Seaspray said.
"The Tox-En exposure has caused system-wide shut down on a sub-micronic level." Ratchet said solemnly. "I can't even begin to operate until Bulkhead regains some strength."
Seaspray's concerned expression turned to one of anger as he turned towards Optimus and Wheeljack.
"You two gonna tell me who did this to him?" Seaspray questioned.
"Look, Sprays, I wanna takedown the Con who hurt Bulk as much as you do." Wheeljack said with a soft sigh, slightly looking away for a moment. "But, I know he wouldn't want that right now."
"Wheeljack is right. At the moment, I believe it is best to focus our attention on Bulkhead's recover, rather than revenge." Optimus proclaimed, hoping Seaspray would see to reason.
"…You do that." Seaspray replied before he walked away and transformed, exiting the base.
"Seaspray will most likely do something rash, you know." Ratchet admitted in concern.
"And I am not sure we could stop him if we wanted to." Optimus added.
"Don't do something too drastic, Sprays." Wheeljack said quietly, sadly looking in the direction his Wrecker friend left.
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At the base's roof, Seaspray flew his ship away from the area and began setting coordinates for a place that might help him find Bulkhead's attacker. He set the FlashFlood to autopilot mode, but then he heard a noise from behind and activated his torpedo launcher for whoever had stowed away on his ship. When Seaspray looked down, he saw that the stowaway was none other than Willow.
"What are you doing here?" Seaspray asked.
"Going after the Con who tried to kill Bulk." Willow answered firmly. "What do you say?"
"I'm taking you back." Seaspray replied as he sat back in his seat.
"No, don't!" Willow protested, rushing towards the passenger seat and climbing onto it.
"Kid, I get it. You want payback, and so do I." Seaspray said.
"Well, he was my best friend, too!" Willow stated.
"Trust me, when I find out which one of Megatron's lackeys tried snuffing out his Spark, I'll take care of him. My way." Seaspray declared as he made a charging noise with his torpedo launcher.
"…I know who did it." Willow told the aquatic Wrecker, knowing he couldn't turn down an offer like that.
"Really? Who?" Seaspray asked curiously.
"Bring me along and I'll tell you." Willow replied as Seaspray could see the vengeful look in her eyes, knowing she was dead set on avenging Bulkhead.
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On the Nemesis, Hardshell was walking along the corridors with two Insecticons by his side.
"You should've seen the Wrecker's face as his Spark expired, knowing that he perished at the hands of a true warrior." Hardshell boasted, passing two Vehicons along the way. "Lord Megatron now understands that the difficult tasks are best assigned to an Insecticon."
"Pit-bound scavengers." One of the Vehicons scoffed once they walked by.
"Scrap eaters." The other Vehicon insulted.
Unfortunately for the two Vehicons, Hardshell and his Insecticons heard him and they turned around with furious expressions.
"What did you say?" Hardshell questioned angrily.
At the same time, Knock Out and Wildrider walked out of the medical room as the Decepticon doctor had just gotten his paint job cleaned.
"I don't know why Breakdown said he needed some alone time." Knock Out admitted. "Do you think it's because we didn't bring back that Phase Shifter?"
"No, he's probably still mad about Bulkhead getting destroyed by Hardshell when it was meant to be him." Wildrider replied.
"True." Knock Out said in agreement before he noticed Thundercracker and Skywarp carrying some Energon boxes towards the storage room. "And where are you two going with that cargo?"
"Lord Megatron said we're supposed to take these newly-transported Energon boxes to storage." Thundercracker answered with a look of unhappiness. "And they're really bending my back servo."
"Heavy-lifting was so much easier when Brawl was around." Skywarp grumbled.
"I'm sure you two will get used to it." Wildrider said with a smirk.
Thundercracker and Skywarp were still frustrated and continued with their heavy-lifting assignment. Just then, Knock Out and Wildrider started to hear some blaster fire nearby and then the area began to shake.
"What is going on out there?" Knock Out questioned.
He and Wildrider arrived at a door and they heard the noises coming from the other side, opening it up.
"What in the name of the Quintessons is all this-AAAHHH!" Wildrider exclaimed shockingly as he and Knock Out immediately got behind the door, causing an incoming Vehicon to crash into it.
When the door reopened to let both Decepticons get a better look at the scene, the Vehicon stood up and fired his blaster at Hardshell. The Insecticon warrior was unaffected by the blasts and charged at the Vehicon for an attack, causing him and Wildrider to get out of the way and Knock Out ended up getting struck by Hardshell's claws. Knock Out crashed against the door and saw that his chassis had a large scratch mark on it, making him gasp in shock.
"I JUST BUFFED THAT!" Knock Out yelled in anger.
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Meanwhile, Seaspray and Willow were hiding in the edge of a forest and spying on a Vehicon exiting a cave, indicating that inside it was an Energon mine.
"You know where to find Decepticon mines?" Willow asked, slightly surprised.
"I wasn't just driving along this planet's oceans, you know." Seaspray replied.
"But, shouldn't we be at an Insecticon hive?" Willow questioned since their target was indeed an Insecticon.
"The bugs are bound by a single mind. Trying to draw just one of them out is nearly impossible." Seaspray explained. "So we're gonna cause a little bit of Decepticon property damage."
"And get the Cons to hand over Hardshell to us." Willow added.
"Now, you're better suited to sneak in that place and scoping out how many Vehicons are inside." Seaspray told her.
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Inside the mine, Willow hid behind a large rock and used her Scroll's camera to show everything that was inside, like Vehicons, a drill machine and Energon crystals. She was fortunate to have connected her magical device to Seaspray's camera system in the FlashFlood.
"I'm seeing five or six troops in the main cavern. And two more keeping watch on the second floor." Willow whispered.
"Good job, kid. Keep going." Seaspray said on the Scroll's communicator.
"I can see another chamber." Willow informed before she quietly walked closer to the chamber and saw some Energon cubes in it. "Looks like it's just being used for storage.
But this time, all Willow got was static.
"Seaspray, are you there?" Willow asked.
Suddenly, an explosion was made through the mine walls and a Vehicon was blown down from it, causing Willow to jump out of the way. Seaspray then jumped out of the hole and he used his sickles to slice down a Vehicon miner from the drill machine before jumping down and tossing one of his sickles onto a Vehicon's head. Willow saw another Vehicon charging at Seaspray while shooting his blaster at him, causing her to summon a large vine that grabbed the Vehicon and slammed him hard onto the ground. Willow started running towards the storage chamber as Seaspray destroyed any Vehicon that got to close to her, allowing the Plant Witch girl to take cover in the Energon pile. A Vehicon suddenly landed in front of Willow and he tried to get up, only for Seaspray to land ontop of him and stab his sickles into his back. With all the Vehicons offline, Seaspray put his weapons away and deactivated his battle mask.
"What now?" Willow asked.
"We give bucket-head a call." Seaspray answered, walking towards the mine exit.
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Back on the Nemesis, Knock Out, Wildrider, Hardshell and his Insecticon soldiers were standing in front of Megatron to discuss the problem they had earlier.
"Just look what they've done!" Knock Out stated, still furious about the damage Hardshell did to his paint job.
"Spare me the dramatics, Knock Out. It's merely a scratch." Megatron replied.
"This isn't about Knock Out's stupid paint job, Lord Megatron! The Insecticons are creating dissection among the ranks." Wildrider told him.
"These savages are a threat to this warship and it's crew." Knock Out added with a despised frown. "They should be confined, restrained even!"
Hardshell approached the two Decepticons from behind with a menacing growl.
"You could not produce restraints strong enough to hold us!" Hardshell proclaimed.
"Lord Megatron, we're receiving an emergency transmission from mine TVC-15." A Vehicon informed from a communication terminal.
"What seems to be the problem?" Megatron asked.
"Unclear, my liege. The called will speak only to you." The Vehicon answered.
Megatron approached the terminal and pressed a button to start receiving the transmission.
"What is it?" Megatron questioned.
"Nice operation you've got here, Megatron." A familiar voice said as the terminal identified who the called was. "Unfortunately, you'll be disappointed to hear that it's under new management."
"Seaspray, the one who enjoys water-based combat." Megatron identified.
"What can I say, bucket-head? I like to ride the waves." Seaspray quipped. "And right now, I'm sitting ontop of one of your big, juicy mining ops."
"The loss of one asset is hardly a blow to the Decepticon cause." Megatron replied, unfazed by the Wrecker's attempt to spite him.
"Maybe, but I'm gonna keep on hitting them, one by one. Until you give me what I want." Seaspray told him.
"And what, pray tell, would that be?" Megatron asked.
"The Insecticon scum who tried to frag Bulkhead." Seaspray answered, much to the Decepticon leader's surprise.
"Tried? Are you saying the Autobot lives?" Megatron questioned, turning around to Hardshell.
"He is bluffing!" Hardshell stated.
"I'm a lot of things, but not a liar." Seaspray replied. "So here's the deal. I'm gonna transmit the coordinates of my next target. If Hardshell cares to meet me there, maybe he can save save you from another loss."
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"And, Megatron, just in case you ever wondered what three tons of exploding Energon sounds like…" Seaspray began before he pressed a red holographic button on the FlashFlood's controls, with Willow closely watching.
Two missiles shot out of the FlashFlood and they flew into the cave, making contact with the Energon inside and causing a ginormous explosion. Seaspray flew his ship far away from the explosion.
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Megatron heard everything on the terminal and he was extremely mad, now.
"You allowed the Autobot to live?!" Megatron asked, looking at Hardshell in anger.
"Hmph, bugs." Knock Out scoffed smugly. "Not all they're cracked up to be."
"I can't wait to tell Breakdown about this." Wildrider chuckled.
"Lord Megatron, I swear upon the Allspark, the Autobot could not have survived his wounds!" Hardshell said protestingly as Megatron started walking up to him.
"Then you owe me a Spark. And if it's not the one belonging to Bulkhead, it had better be Seaspray's." Megatron replied with a firm glare.
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Seaspray flew his ship to the next destination where he would be expecting to face Hardshell, until he noticed Willow starting to fall asleep on the passenger seat.
"You might wanna get some shut eye, kid." Seaspray advised.
"I'm alright." Willow replied before she gained a slight frown. "Do you think Bulkhead's going to make it?"
"No question, girl. Bulkhead's the toughest Wrecker I've ever known." Seaspray commented. "And Ratchet's a great doc. He'll get him back into fighting shape."
"Yeah. Bulk would never miss all of the things we had planned. Mountain driving, Flyer Derby games, my graduation from Hexside." Willow said, hugging her knees to her stomach. "We made a complete list."
"Like I said, Bulkhead's too stubborn to get his Spark snuffed out. I know it and so do you." Seaspray said before noticing Willow had fallen asleep.
Soon, the FlashFlood arrived at the coordinates Seaspray had set and it landed on the ground, causing Willow to wake up from her nap.
"I'm awake!" Willow exclaimed, turning towards Seaspray. "So, what's the plan?"
"Kid, if anything happens to me, I want you to press this button." Seaspray instructed while pointing to a blue button on the holographic controls. "It'll have my ship set to autopilot and take you straight back to the base."
"What?! But we had a deal! You said I could help!" Willow argued in disbelief.
"And you did." Seaspray replied, standing up from his seat. "But it ends here."
"This is my fight, too." Willow said protestingly.
"Sorry, kid, but Bulkhead's gonna wake up at some point. And he'll pound me into barnacles if you're not there." Seaspray admitted while walking towards the back entrance and going outside.
"Seaspray, stop!" Willow called out, only for the door to close.
The Plant Witch girl looked out the window to see Seaspray transforming and driving towards a nearby cave entrance, stopping in front of it.
"You in there, bug?!" Seaspray asked loudly, hoping Hardshell would be in the cave.
But then, Hardshell appeared at the top of the rocky mountain above the cave and he roared viciously before jumping down, causing Seaspray to reverse out of the way. When Hardshell looked ahead after smashing in the ground, Seaspray drove straight up to him and transformed before delivering a powerful drop-kick to the Insecticon warrior that made him crash against the cliff wall. Seaspray attempted to use his torpedo launcher, but Hardshell immediately recovered and bashed the aquatic Wrecker into a boulder, making him drop his weapon in the process. Hardshell then tackled Seaspray through the boulder and he laid down in a pile of rocks.
"Thanks to your crippled friend, I am all too familiar with your Wrecker tricks!" Hardshell proclaimed as he cracked his neck and prepared to hit Seaspray with his fist.
But then, Seaspray did a backflip to avoid the attack and he brought out his sickles before rushing straight at Hardshell. The aquatic Wrecker sliced at Hardshell, kicked him from underneath his feet and made him trip back before delivering some more quick attacks with his sickles, even doing a spin drill move. Willow could only watch from inside the FlashFlood, hoping Seaspray wouldn't get hurt like Bulkhead.
"What's wrong, Hardshell?!" Seaspray asked tauntingly, tossing a rock at the Insecticon warrior and attacking some more. "Is it too hard for you to take on a Bot who hasn't been infected by Tox-En?!"
After enduring a slice to his face, Hardshell roared out in anger before he grabbed one of Seaspray's sickles with his bare hand.
"Talk during battle is a sign of weakness!" Hardshell said, punching Seaspray in the face.
He then attempted to attack Seaspray with his extra appendages, but Seaspray deflected them and backed away before blocking both of Hardshell's insect-like arms.
"Only when you're too primitive to do two things at the same time!" Seaspray retorted.
However, Hardshell used his main hands to knock Seaspray away, making him lose his sickles in the process. Hardshell transformed into his flying bug mode and tackled straight into Seaspray, causing him to fly upwards and crash back down in a painful position.
"Go for your torpedos!" Willow called out worriedly.
Although he didn't hear her, Seaspray looked at his torpedo launcher nearby and attempted to grab it, but Hardshell knocked it away and transformed before using his appendages to attack. Seaspray was slightly able to avoided the appendages before he was kicked away and tossed into the air by Hardshell, who then brutally dragged him across the ground. To cause even more damage, Hardshell slammed Seaspray straight into the ground while holding him by the head.
"SEASPRAY!" Willow yelled while banging on the window.
Hardshell held up Seaspray and punched him in the gut, emitting a huge shockwave that was sent throughout the area. The Insecticon warrior did this two more times before throwing Seaspray up and delivering a massive punch to him, making the Wrecker crash against the ground and lay a few feet away from Hardshell. Seaspray tried to get back up, but only laid on the floor with a painful groan as Hardshell slowly approached him.
"No." Willow whispered as she looked on in despair.
Seaspray laid down and turned his head to look at the FlashFlood, seeing Willow watching from the window.
"Go on, kid. Get out of here." Seaspray said weakly.
A single tear escaped from Willow's left eye as she turned around sadly and got onto the driver's seat, looking at the holographic controls and reaching for the blue button. Hardshell stood right over Seaspray with the intent to finish him off.
"Your Spark will now belong to Megatron!" Hardshell announced, reeling his claw back for the killing blow.
Just when he was about to bring his claw down on Seaspray, Hardshell suddenly stopped when he was inches away from his chest as the Insecticon warrior let out a painful gasp. Hardshell looked down at his chest to see a large thorny vine had stabbed him from behind. Suddenly, the FlashFlood flew off the ground and it fired two missiles at Hardshell, who was unable to do anything else but get hit by the projectiles and be completely destroyed in the distance. Willow was shown to have pressed the red button instead of the blue one and there was a green magic circle in her other hand. When Seaspray got back up, he shook off a piece of Hardshell from his shoulder and looked to see the Insecticon warrior's smouldering body before turning to the FlashFlood.
"Good one, kid." Seaspray said with a proud smile.
But the moment of relief was short lived when a bunch of Insecticons showed up ontop of the mountains. Seeing that Hardshell had been destroyed, they all began to hiss in anger.
"Seaspray, run!" Willow shouted.
Seaspray started to quickly limp his way back to the FlashFlood and picked up his torpedo launcher nearby before all the Insecticons began to pursue him in their flying bug forms. Seaspray eventually made it into his ship and Willow got back into the passenger seat so he could fly them out of the area.
"I told you to hit the autopilot." Seaspray reminded, starting the ship's engines.
"Bad things happen to the people I care about when I leave them." Willow replied, looking away depressingly.
The Insecticons started to fire their horn blasters at the FlashFlood and Seaspray got his ship flying, quickly flying away from the area to try and get back to the Autobot base. The Insecticons chased the FlashFlood and continued firing at it, which Seaspray saw on the ship's monitor.
"Too many for me to pick off at once." Seaspray admitted. "I'll need something that makes a bigger explosion and wider blast radius."
Setting the ship to autopilot, Seaspray got to the back of his chair and pulled out a crater that continued a lot of torpedos.
"But I thought-" Willow started to say.
"I only carry four at a time." Seaspray replied as he dragged the crate up a ladder.
A hatch opened up at the top of the FlashFlood and Seaspray emerged from it with his torpedo crate. Opening the crate up, Seaspray got a little idea and tossed the crate straight at the Insecticon swarm before firing a torpedo from his launcher. The torpedo hit the crate and caused a massive explosion and destroyed every single Insecticon that was too close. With their pursuers now destroyed, Seaspray sat back in the driver's seat and began flying himself and Willow back to base.
"Welcome to the Wrecker's, little plant." Seaspray said, giving Willow a kind grin. "I'm sure Bulk would be pretty impressed with you."
"…Then why don't I feel any better?" Willow asked in sadness.
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At the Autobot base, Team Prime was still checking on Bulkhead's condition before they heard a metal noise coming from the main entrance. They all turned to see Seaspray limping into the room, with a still-depressed Willow beside him.
"Sprays…" Wheeljack sighed in disappointment as everyone gave him the same looks.
"Willow, you okay?" Arcee asked, bending down to the Plant Witch girl.
"She's fine. The girl's a really tough one." Seaspray replied assuringly.
"I wasn't talking to you." Arcee retorted sternly, quite mad about him putting Willow in a life-threatening situation.
"How's Bulkhead?" Willow asked.
"Well…" Jazz started to say, not wanting to break her heart.
"Not very good." Bumblebee said while looking down.
"Bulkhead will survive. He may never be fully functional again." Ratchet admitted remorsefully.
"He should wake up in a few hours, though." Cliffjumper admitted.
After hearing this, Willow's lips began to tremble and she ran straight towards Bulkhead, who still laid on the medical table in an unresponsive way.
"Willow, I don't think it's wise for you…" Ratchet said before Optimus halted him.
When Willow reached Bulkhead, she climbed up to his chest while the Autobots watched her in sorrow. They then turned their attention to Seaspray, with most of them having quite mad expressions.
"I'm…not sure I wanna see Bulk, right now. Not like this." Seaspray said softly as he started to walk away. "Make sure he gets better, Jackie."
Wheeljack simply nodded without saying a word as Seaspray transformed and drove away. Willow could only look down at Bulkhead's unresponsive face in sadness and guilt.
"I'll never leave you again." Willow whispered, quietly sobbing to herself.
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Meanwhile, a few Insecticon survivors had brought the deceased body of Hardshell to Megatron on the Nemesis.
"The Autobot did this?" Megatron questioned, very outraged to see the Insecticon warrior was no more.
"No, my lord. It was…one of those Witch younglings you told us about." An Insecticon replied.
This truly surprised Megatron as he stared back at Hardshell's body with a curious expression. He was beginning to think these Witches are far more powerful than he had thought, but just how powerful can they become?
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