Chapter 14

The Rogue AI

Bumblebee ran through The Sokovian forest. He was Currently Working with the Avengers as they were Raiding a hydra Intelligence cell base, Being the smallest and fastest Autobot Optimus had ordered bumblebee Flanked, while the rest and the Avengers performed a full frontal assault On the base. Supposedly this Hydra cell had obtained Loki's scepter, something that could be used to control minds. It supposedly was able to mind control Clint Barton, An Avenger.

Bumblebee continued to move Ignoring the sounds of battle Until he reached the side of the base. But there was a problem, A force field was preventing Bumblebee from getting through.

"Optimus we got a problem I can't get through,It's protected by some sort of Shield," Bumblebee said through the comms.

"Understood Bumblebee Tony should be taking the shield down now," Optimus said and just like that The Shield went down.

Bumblebee Deployed his new upgrade that ratchet gave him, On his hands claws appeared using these claws he began to scale The wall.When he reached to the top there were two Hydra Goons.

"Kevin," One said, Nervously, slowly backing away, While pointing at Bumblebee.

"Yeah I see him Steve," Kevin said With his gun slightly raised Pointing towards Bumblebee also backing away. And then Kevin pulled the trigger.

The laser shot his bumblebee Square in the chest and he was Surprised he actually felt it and it kind of hurt but he didn't let them know that, he just stood still and just stared at them Until they both ran off. Bumblebee ignored it and punched down a nearby wall Exposing a tank and a full Squad of Hydra soldiers, Both sides just stood there for a second and just stared At each other Until the tank fired Bumblebee managed to dodge the shot And Get on top of the tank he pulled out his Blaster and shot it a few times Before ripping the top off and throwing the two hydra goons out, Before hopping off and letting the tank explode behind him. The rest of the Hydra goons were Scared off.

Bumblebee didn't exactly know what he was looking for But if The war had taught him anything It's that if you want to find something important follow the bad guys, He followed the retreating hydra goons as he encountered more and more hydra goons Until he came across what must be the main command center And inside were at least 20 guys using regular guns, but They didn't waste their ammo On Bumblebee, but when Iron Man Burst Through the window, Every guy in there Fired everything they had at Iron Man.

But Every Bullet Just Bounced off The armor, " Guys please let's talk about this," Tony said as Two small pods Raised From the armor upon both of his shoulders and Fired a few small projectiles hitting each goon in the knee and causing them to fall, "Good talk," Tony said.

"No it wasn't," a goon said, still clutching his knees.

Bumblebee smiled as Tony got out of his armor and looked at bumblebee who was crouched in order to fit, "well you look comfortable," Tony joked with a smirk.

A look of annoyance crossed the bumblebees face "Haha very funny,You know you look a little pale yourself tony,"

Tony opened his mouth to Respond but nothing came out instead he said "good one." Before looking back at his armor and saying, "Sentry mode," Tony's suits eyes lit up As it is Repulsor and began to look around for any Hydra goons,

Tony walked over to a console And begin looking through the files, Bumblebee shifted to try and get comfortable And accidentally knocked a wall down revealing a staircase, Both Bumblebee and Tony looked down the staircase Which spiraled down.

It took a long time but bumblebee was able to get to the bottom although it was probably one of the most uncomfortable experiences he has ever had. At the bottom of the stairs was a room larger than Optimus Which gave Bumblebee A chance to stand straight up. Both of them looked around At the room, It was dark with the only light sources being some Flickering Lights barely holding on to the ceiling. Above them was a leviathan from the Battle of Manhattan. On the far right in the room there were two cells with clear windows Into them.

In one cell there Wasn't much more than Concrete slab sticking out of the wall with a Thin mattress and a couple blankets and a pillow, But interestingly There was a section of a wall that Seems to have caved in when something running at Super speeds slammed into it hard, The other one wasn't much different But this time Instead of a caved in wall, In the middle of the ground were Some Remains of wooden cubes bumblebee couldn't tell.

All of a sudden bumblebee felt a weird feeling on the side of his head but he ignored it He kept examining the two cells until he Heard the strongest weapon, he knows of, Megatron's Fusion Cannon Charging up, Bumblebee turned around just in time to see Tony Stark scream as he is destroyed by Megatron,The leader of the Decepticons.

Bumblebee slowly backed away as he realized that Megatron stood upon the corpses of his comrades And held Optimus's Sparkless body, He approached Bumblebeeand tossed Optimus away and he approached Bumblebee, Bumblebees knees gave out And he fell to them, Megatron stopped directly in front of Bumblebee.

Megatron placed a hand on Bumblebee's shoulder and said "Rise my lieutenant," Bumblebee didn't want to but his body forced him to. Bumblebee Rose to his feet and stared Megatron directly in the Optics, "Look at all we have accomplished," Megatron said, gesturing to the pile of remains of those he called allies, Friends even.

And then he snapped back to reality he's still staring at the cells, Bumblebee, looked back to where Tony Stark should be, And there Tony picked up the scepter And examined it. When Both Autobots and Avengers got back to their own bases, Ratchet stayed for a few days at Avengers Tower, He was extremely excited about the Autobots And Avengers obtaining the staff. Ratchet didn't do an extremely bad job at hiding his excitement but he did his best. Eventually after a few days Iron Man held a party and the Autobots except for Optimus decided to join.

After most of the guests to left the Avengers and the Autobots sat around the table and they all began to Try and lift Thor's hammer Which he claimed "Only the worthy can lift," So after the Avengers Each tried and each failed except for Steve who managed to Nudge the hammer, now It was the Autobots turn.

First up was Ironhide, The hammer was so small but he had to grab it with two fingers, His feet are beginning to sink into the ground as he tried his hardest to lift the hammer up After, Eventually ironhide's fingers slipped And he fell directly Backwards almost falling on top of Arcee Who managed to get out of the way just in time. Ironhide sat up and rubbed the back of his head, "ow," Ironhide said Which got a slight chuckle from Tony.

Next up was Arcee, She grabbed onto the hammer And begin to pull when that didn't work She decided that maybe pushing it would Work, She moved a little back And ran straight into the hammer didn't work either the only thing that happened was she flipped over the hammer and onto a bunch of Potted plants This caused both the Avengers and the Autobots to laugh.

Jazz was the next one to try, He tried something a little different, He Attached his Grapple to the hammer and then began to try reeling it in, The hammer Wouldn't budge but What nearly happened was Jazz's grapples Was about to snap If Arcee hadn't pointed it out Which caused Jazz to unhook his grapple and Reel it back in.

Next in line was Bumblebee, He got the same result as the others no matter what he tried.

And then finally ratchet, He walked up and lifted up the table The hammer going with it, "Work smarter not harder," Ratchet said tapping his head, Thor's mouth dropped to the ground and his eyes nearly popped out of his head Which made all of the Avengers fall down in laughter, Ratchet Placed down the table.

Behind Them There was a metallic scraping constantly getting closer. The Autobots and Avengers looked back and saw what the Autobots thought it was. A mini-con that was heavily damaged and somehow functioning, But the Avengers recognized it as the heavily Damaged Iron Legion drone.

This drone had wires tangling it up with the majority of its circuitry exposed It was a miracle that this thing was still walking, " Sorry I was asleep or I was a dream," The autobots and Avengers looked at it,

"Guys relax, it's just a damaged Legionnaire, A buggie suit," Tony said, trying to calm everyone.

"Covered in these… Strings," The Drone said looking at the constant wires Tangling around it. "Had to kill the other guy He was a good guy," The Autobots and Avengers Just Looked at the Drone,

"You killed someone," Steve asked.

"Wouldn't have been my first choice, But down in the real world We are faced with ugly decisions,"The Drone said.

"Who sent you," Tony questioned. The Drone played a recording Of Tony saying "Peace in our time,"

"Ultron," Banner said, completely shocked.

"In the Flesh or in the metal," Ultron said, With a choppy bow.

"How is this possible," Ratchet questioned.

"That's a question for later Now kill them," Ultron said as the rest of Iron Man's iron Legion Flew in and began blasting Anything in sight Ironhead covered the rest of the Avengers As Bumblebee turned his arm into a cannon And fired at Two drones Destroying them, Arcee engaged Arm blades and Sliced one In half As ratchet Took down Another one, Then they noticed that the remaining drone had grabbed the scepter and Flown off.

All of them looked back at Ultron who had not yet left, "Well that was dramatic," The autobots and Avengers said nothing as they Readied themselves for a fight yet Ultron still did nothing "I find you so confusing, You want to protect the world but not let it change," the Avengers is just stared and the other ones were in complete confusion on Ultron was saying "And you intend to do it With these," Ultron said as he picked up dark and drone there was still surprisingly mostly intact, "These puppets," he said as He crushed the drone's head before letting it drop, The pieces of the drone's head dropping out of his hand, It reminded the Autobots of the war on Cybertron where Megatron loved to do that to Autobots who surrendered.

"There's only one True path to peace," Ultron Said.

"And what's that," Steve asked angrily.

"Your Extinction," Ultron said, gesturing at Everyone in the room.

Just then Mjölnir Came flying through and smashed to the Drone to bits Everyone looked back at Thor as he said "Boring conversation anyway."

The head of the now destroyed drone said, "I had strings now I'm free there are no strings on me." before Steve crushed it under his foot.

A few hours later the Autobots are back at base and they had informed Optimus of what had happened. As much as the other one to help they could do nothing until they were told where this AI was and what they were doing.

After a day The Autobots get a message from Steve Rogers. "What is it captain,"

"We found Ultron, he's making an arms deal With someone named Ulysses klaw for something called vibranium Transmitting the coordinates," Steve said.

"Coordinates received," Optimus said before shutting down the comm's off, Optimus turned towards ratchet and said "Ready the ground Bridge," Ratchet pulled the level to activate the ground bridge and the Autobots ran in as they often did.

They appeared on top of an old rusted Cargo ship that appeared to be on a beach beside them with two more rusted ships There was a hole in the hall that Let the Autobots see inside, Below them Was a small army of guys Who were heavily Armed And they were also an army of robots, They definitely were not cybertronian But they looked like they could pack a punch. A man walked into view and he was followed by a massive robot Who's the Autobots guessed was Ultron who was flanked by a boy and a girl. The Autobots Were to far away to hear anything, But they watched as The group walked over to a seemingly inconspicuous wall That opened up there several thousand capsules Full of what must have been vibranium.

Ultron grabbed a capsule and examined it. Then after a short conversation They heard Ultron Shout "DON'T COMPARE ME TO STARK!" As he grabbed the klaw's hand and Chopped it off, klaw screamed And fell to the ground Holding where His arm once was. Ultron Kneeled over and looked like he was apologizing. And that's when Tony, Steve and Thor landed right behind him.

"Oh Junior you're going to break your old man's heart," Tony said jokingly, Ultron turned around As The man he was with Tossed a capsule of vibranium to the side

" If I have to," Ultron said, slowly walking towards the Avengers, The Autobots Stayed right above the interaction able to hear this for some reason And waited for The right moment to drop in.

"You won't have to break anything," Thor said, attempting to pick up on the joke.

"Clearly you've never made an Omelet," Ultron shot back. This made Thor develop a sudden interest in the ground.

Tony looked back at Thor and said, "He beat me by one second," And this time, the Autobots decided it was time to reveal themselves, Optimus pulled out his iron blaster And shot The ground beneath them Bringing it down and causing the five Autobots To land on either side of The Avengers.

"Autobots! It's a pleasure for you to join us," Ultron said with a mock bow, "Fortunately for me I have my own Transformers," Ultron said and several Silver Vehicles Grand through the wall and into the Autobots sending them all out to the other side of the wall.

They very quickly realized that these weren't cybertronians, they weren't built like them. There was metal plating Covering tons of exposed circuitry. There's no autobot or decepticon symbol on them anywhere but they fought just as hard as a regular cybertronian, But were easier to kill.

Bumblebee Rolled to a stop And ran at the false cybertronian, he Turned his hand into a blade He slid under a strike from the False cybertronian And cut the back of the knee, The False cybertronian Didn't even react As it stood back up And tossed a large Stone back at Bumblebee Who Turned his hand into a gun and blasted it into pieces Before running at the false cybertronian and jumping over it shooting it multiple times Before landing and kicking it in the back Knocking it to the ground He then Turned his hand into a blade And cut the False cybertronians head off.

Optimus Prime used the star saber to stop himself from moving Back too much, The False cybertronian rushed at Optimus Who used the cosmic shield to Flip the false cybertronian Over his head And slice it's back Open, Optimus then used the star saber to jump up and split the fake cybertronian straight down the middle.

Jazz After getting knocked back use his grapple to attach to the boat and swung at the still transforming false cybertronian Kicking it in the face, Just then landed right behind the falling false cybertronian And shoulder rammed it in the back Causing it to fall down, Jazz Rooms to stop and jumped up, Taking out his gun He directly landed on the back of the false Cybertronian and shot it in the head Destroying it.

Arcee Was pinned down by the false cybertronian, Getting rammed had caused her to Let down her guard Allowing the False cybertronian to get an advantage But that Advantage wouldn't last for long, Arcee Kicked up with getting it off of her, The false cybertronian got to its feet And swung at her But ArceeGrabbed the punch engaged her arm blades And cut its arm right off. The false cybertronian Stumbled back as it looked at its missing arm, And when it looked back at Arcee it saw her swinging its own arm directly at its face Knocking it down. Before Arcee came down upon it and Stabbed her blades directly into the things Chest and when she pulled them out She also Pulled out its power core.

Ironhide Recovered quickly after being knocked down Now he and his False Cybertronian got ready for a fight, Ironhide rushed in first And delivered A devastating punch To The false cybertronian's face, The false cybertronian stumbled a little bit before Punching Ironhide in the gut, it Attempted to Strike Ironhide again But this time Ironhide blocked it and Delivered 5 strikes, Two to the body, Two to the gut, And the last one to the face, Locking the false cybertronian down, Before it can get up, Ironhide with one foot Crushed its head.

The Autobots took a breather and then behind them they heard tires squealing to a stop, The Autobots turned around And I saw an army of ultron's knock off cybertronians, And then The Autobots Heard massive a Roar From around the corner they all Spotted the Hulk leaping towards the city, And in an instant the Autobots knew what was going on.

"Bumblebee, deal with the Hulk, we will hold them," Optimus ordered.

Bumblebee was already extremely tired, He had wasted a ton of his power when he killed his knockoff Cybertronian. But if he didn't do it, the Humans in the city would most likely die. "You can count on me, Optimus," Bumblebee said as he transformed and drove off to the city.

When Bumblebee got to the city, He saw a lot of devastation almost As much as the Battle of Chicago But he saw nothing related to the Hulk no big green Force of devastation, Then all of a sudden bumblebee couldn't move And then something lifted bumblebee up and threw him against a wall Building, Bumblebee transformed And fell onto the ground directly on his head, Bumblebee got up And looked at Hulk, Hulk seemed more Angry than usual, more insane. But still Hulk was Bumblebee's Friend and he was going to try and talk him down.

Bumblebee put his hands up and began talking to the hulk, "Easy Hulk, It's me bumblebee your friend," Bumblebee May have been Taller than the Hulk and could probably beat him at any other time but He was tired Those shots he fired at the knockoff Cybertronian Lowered his energy Reserves.

He took a closer look at Hulk And realized his eyes were cloudy and confused but most of all Angry, Bumblebee Realized Hulk wasn't in control here. He remembered back when Captain America explained to him about the two enhanced powers, The boy was fast Almost like Blur, And the girl had Telekinesis, Energy manipulation And the power to control minds or mess with Minds, And Bumblebee assumed It was the girl who gave him that vision Back at that Hydra base And he assumed that she was doing the same thing to Hulk.

He saw that hook was beginning to calm down so he continued to talk, "That witch is messing with your mind but you're stronger and smarter than her, You're the Hulk the strongest there is, At the same time you're also The smartest there is, Bruce Ba-" Hulk roared in rage, In his head bumblebee chastised himself, It was a stupid mistake, Hulk hated When Bruce Banner Or as the Hulk called him puny Banner, was mentioned, It made him even angrier.

Hulk charged at bumblebee who was barely able to dodge. Bumblebee did not want to kill his friend, so even when he had the perfect shot he refused to take it.

Bumblebee Grabbed a traffic light pole and used it to hit Hulk back, He Tossed the pole away, And attempted to punch Hulk hoping to knock him out but Hulk managed To dodge the punch and get behind Bumblebee, He then lived on to Bumblebee and began tearing pieces of His back off, Bumblebee Thinking quickly Slammed the hulk into a wall behind him Before turning around And grabbing the Hulk by the shoulder And punching him down, Bumblebee Slammed Hulk in the back as he tried to get up. Bumblebee then grabbed onto the hulk's shoulder and began Repeatedly punching the Hulk in the face over and over and over again Trying to make him fall unconscious.

Bumblebee eventually stopped punching, he thought the Hulk was finally unconscious But instead Hulk just spit out a tooth And stared up Bumblebee with more rage than bumblebee thought possible. "Scrap," Bumblebee said but before he could even do anything Hulk send him flying across the sky Bumblebee landed creating a massive crater, As don't be attempted to get up he looked in the sky and saw Hulk crashing down towards him, Bumblebee raised his arms in defense But it didn't matter As what appeared to be a flaming hulk Came Crashing Down Punching bumblebee in the face so hard That it nearly broke bumblebees neck, badly damaging his voice box.

After that Bumblebee decided to stop going easy. sure he was going wast to most of his energy but their fight was causing way too much damage Some Humans might get harmed so he decided to finish it, He transformed and rammed directly into Hulk Got on top and begin punching full force holding nothing back, Although he wouldn't kill hulk He punched over and over until he finally noticed that the Hulk was starting to turn back into Bruce Have to noticing that bumblebee got off the Hulk and Collapsed right next to him.