Chapter 9

A Missing Bee

It's been a year since Anything that happened That at least needed the Autobots attention Something was happening with Thor but It Ended before the Autobots could intervene The most that has been happening is The fact that the Decepticons have been annoyingly quiet Nothing Since The dock incident.

Bumblebee was Stuck at base with ratchet, For the entire year that had been nothing to do at all And then finally something came up Some Energon had been detected All the other Autobots were out doing their own thing Which left only Bumblebee and Ratchet And Bumblebee didn't exact Know how to work in the ground Bridge so he was the only option.

As Bumblebee exited the ground Bridge To see he was in a large cave he began to look around for the Energon There was supposed to be enough Energon to power the Autobots for the next Few centuries yet as he looked around There was not even a scrap of raw energon In sight. He looked at his Energon detector And it was definitely picking up insane amounts of Energon Just a few meters ahead of him.

Bumblebee moved forward to where The Energon detector Was detecting this amount of energy And he saw nothing Then it finally clicked in his brain. It was a trap. And then all of a sudden an entire human Army appeared And began firing.

Bumblebee raised his arm in an effort to defend himself while he tried to contact ratchet , "Ratchet this is Bumblebee there's no Energon it's a trap I need a Ground Bridge now!"Bumblebee said into the comms but got nothing in response, he must be too deep "Scrap!" Bumblebee said as he was forced to draw his pistols. He wasn't going down without a fight.

He didn't like to hurt humans but he would. Bumblebee begins to fire at the humans not trying to kill anyone just force them back. He made sure not to hit anyone but with each shot he fired an explosion would happen sending humans flying. The human weapons just pinged off his body. Slowly he began to force the humans back. Bumblebee watched as they ran out of the tunnel.

He thought it was over but it wasn't, all of a sudden he heard something shooting in from the mouth of the cave he wasn't able to dodge. It hit him directly in the chest and sent electricity all throughout his body, overloading his circuits and sending him into temporary stasis. Bumblebee fell to the ground unconscious.

The human Army Slowly walked in And approached The unconscious Bumblebee. Satisfied with Their handiwork The commander activated his comms "Pierce. we got one."

A few hours later and back at the Autobot base Ratchet was trying to contact Bumblebee "Bumblebee do you read." Ratchet spoke in To the comms again And again Silence. He knew for a fact that Bumblebee was still alive, his vital signs were Okay.

And then behind him heavy footsteps, Ratchet looked behind him to see Optimus Prime, "Is everything okay old friend?" Optimus asked, noticing Ratchet's distressed expression.

Ratchet sighed and explained That a few hours ago He detected a massive deposit of Energon and Bumblebee went off on his own to attempt to secure as much Energon Before the Decepticons got to it. "I haven't been able to contact him since." Ratchet finished. He looked down. He should Have gone instead of Bumblebee, He was Barely able to keep Bumblebee functional After that Scout mission that went wrong, And if something went wrong with this Mission he didn't know if he had the tools to repair The damage.

Optimus placed his hand on Ratchet's shoulder And said "We will find him." He said it in his most comforting voice trying to reassure his Friend and medic. He would not leave bumblebee on his own.

Optimus gathered the Other Autobots And Ratchet activated the ground Bridge still set to the very same coordinates bumblebee was transported to. They came out on the other side within a cave You got to watch spread out to look for anything that might have happened to their Scout. Then Arcee Spotted bumblebees tracks they followed them to a Deadend Ironhide took a closer look at the wall to see if it was possibly busted through by anything But it was jazz That noticed the patch.

"Yo,Optimus, come check this out." Jazz said as he called over the rest of the Autobots They all arrived and saw what he was talking about, It was a Shield patch. Optimus picked it up to get a closer look,It looks like it had been blasted off and the edges were burned. But it doesn't matter how this patch came off, all that matters is that Shield has something to do with bumblebees disappearance. In a rage he crushed the patch And tossed it Away. he was going to talk to Nick Fury In person About this.

Optimus didn't have a way to contact Nick Fury So he had to drive there Along with the rest of the AutobotsThis time including ratchet. They were on the way to the Shield HQ When they saw Captain America driving away on his motorcycle fast. They didn't think much of it Until a shield quinjet Hovered in front of Captain America and began firing At him. This caused an intermediate reaction from Optimus Who transformed And pulled out his iron blaster And fired several shots into The wing of the quinjet Disabling one and blowing the other off.Unfortunately The quinjet crashed into Captain America's bike Sending Captain America flying. Optimus reacted quickly by catching him and transformed Back into his vehicle mode Saving Captain America and getting as far as possible from The Shield HQ The other Autobots close behind him.

"Are you alright Steve?" Optimus asked Steve who's still recovering from what he just saw.

Finally snapping out of it Steve replied "Yeah yeah I think so." He said still trying to catch his breath.

Arcee Pulled up next to Optimus "Mind telling us why Shield is trying to kill you?" she asked.

"Nick Fury was killed in my apartment And they believe I have something to do with it and when I refused to give them any information they tried to kill me." Steve said, looking down.

"Okay but why was he in your apartment in the first place?" Jazz asked Pulling up on the other side of Optimus.

"Shield is Compromised." Captain America said Unable to fully remember what Nick told him that night.

"Is there anyone else who knows about this and we can trust?" Optimus asked.

"Yeah Natasha she knows we were supposed to meet up at a mall later we'll get some information there."Steve Answered.

"Is there anything else we should know?"Ratchet asked.

"Yeah there is," Steve said, still unable to believe what Nick showed him, "Three Helicarriers all armed to the teeth,Fortunately only Nick Knows the code to activate them." And then Steve had his own question "Why were you guys heading there anyway? And Where's Bumblebee?"

What's that an easy silence fell over the Autobots now Not only was Bumblebee MIA, Shield was now the bad guys and they have three helicarriors All armed to the teeth.

"A few hours ago Massive Energon reading was Detected." And Ratchet began to explain, "Bumblebee Went in on his own we lost Contact with him a few Minutes after." Ratchet said his voice is still racked with guilt he felt he should have Gone with him, maybe old but he can still fight, "We went to investigate there was no Bumblebee only a skid mark where he must have been dragged and then A shield patch, Shield took Bumblebee." Ratchet said, the guilt In his voice now replaced with anger.

"Easy old friend, it's not your fault." Optimus said in an attempt to Calm Ratchet down.

"That's bad if Shield has Bumblebee they can supercharge their carriers Using bumblebees Energon." Steve said.

"Okay that's really bad So why don't we turn around now And destroy their helicarriers?" Jazz questioned and all the other Autobots were in agreement.

"Because before Nick died he gave me a USB And he wasn't able to tell me what it was before he died." Steve said. Steve looks out the window as they pass the mall he's supposed to meet up with Natasha, He pointed it out And the Autobots pulled into the parking lot And waited, They waited for around 30 minutes Until finally Steve and Natasha finally came out. Steve got into Optimus, and Natasha into jazz.

"So what did you two find there?" Arcee asked.

"There's a secret Shield bunker In New Jersey. We have to go there." Natasha reported.

"If anyone's curious I'm still in full support of attacking right now I'm getting Bee out of there." Jazz said Although no one really paid attention to him.

"Autobots, roll out!" Optimus Prime and then they Drove to New Jersey.

Bumblebees blue Optics Flickered weakly to life, He groaned as he came out of stasis. He took a look around. He was in some kind of Chamber. Tried to take a step forward but couldn't, He realized that both his arms and legs were restrained, He tried to transform to Escape But all he ended up doing was nearly pulling himself apart. So he began to take a closer look at everything. The containment He was trapped in was transparent he could see outside although it was very yellow. Behind him was a turret aimed directly at his back probably if he tried to escape. The walls of his containment chamber were transparent, There were several Consoles surrounding him, But in front of him were big double doors with the shield insignia on it. The doors opened To reveal an older man. And when the man saw that bumblebee was awake he signaled to someone that was out of bumblebees View. And then behind him the Turret shot And began overloading his circuits. Bumblebee screamed in pain till he finally went into stasis.