Transformers Prime: Maximal Revolution

Chapter 4

In the Autobot base Ratchet watched the monitor waiting for the others to report in while Raf typed away on his computer. The young boy looked up, "Um, do you think their okay?"

"I'm sure their fine," Ratchet replied, "I'd be surprised if they find anything-" Suddenly Bumblebee's ID lit up. "I spoke to soon," the medic muttered before he answered, :Bumblebee what happened? Did you find something?:

Bee's signature beeps answered and Ratchet's optics widened in surprised.

:Your pursing two of the Predacons?: At Bumblebee's acknowledgement Ratchet felt like groaning :Fine, keep them in sigh, I'll send you backup: He first pulled up Wheeljack. :Wheeljack, come in. I need you to head towards Bumblebee's location:

:Sorry Doc, I can't:

:Why?:

:I'm a little tied up at the moment:

Wheeljack was currently on his back with his right hand around the fox's neck to keep it from tearing out his throat cables. His other hand and legs was tangled in it's other tails and he couldn't move much. He had quickly learned it's tails were not only flexible they were also very very strong.

All the while the fox Predacon kept snapping its jaws at him and growling fiercely, the claws on it's front legs scratching against his chest armor. How he was going to get out of this he hadn't quite figured out yet.

Then a noise made them both freeze. Wheeljack recognized it, a blaster was about to fire.

Ultra Magnus continued his pursuit of the two Predacons as they continued towards their unknown destination. So far they had been ignoring him because surly they knew he was there. Then the winged equine turned it's head to glance at him, it then turned to it's brightly colored bird companion and nodded it's head which the bird returned. The bird then stopped, hovered and turned towards the incoming ship as the equine flew a further distance away.

Ultra Magnus wasn't sure what was going on. Surly the Predacon wasn't going to attack the ship by it's self. He then noticed the wings were glowing. What was. . .

"AGH!" A bright flash of light rendered him blind for several minutes. Trying to recalibrate his optics Magnus realized his ship had begun a descent, pulling at the controls to steady the ship his vision finally cleared but Magnus realized it was too late. The Predacons were gone.

Bulkhead started at his small attacker as it glared back. It was small, a little bigger than the size of a small car. It looked kind of like a elephant but with long claws and pointed ears. It was mainly colored green and gold with some red.

And it kept trying to ram into his leg while bellowing angrily.

"Um," Bulkhead looked around not sure what to do. This was defiantly not what he had expected. Finally after it's fifth attempt to ram him he kneeled down and placed a finger on it's head to halt it's charge, it still dug it's claws into the ground as it tried to move. "Easy there little guy, you don't want to hurt yourself." It looked up and glared at him again, the look was more cute then threatening. Bulkhead couldn't help it, he laughed, "Cute little guy aren't you?"

If anything this seemed to make the small creature even angrier. It started up at the green Wrecker with an intense look and Bulkhead suddenly started to feel really dizzy. Before he knew it he passed out and landing on his back with a thud.

Luckily Miko's squeal wasn't loud enough to alert the Alicorn to it's audience as it continued scraping dirt with it's hooves like it was digging for something.

"Primus," Arcee whispered. She had never seen anything like it before. Everyone few minutes it would raise it's head and look around, the audio shells on it's head would flicking back and forth as it listen before resuming it's digging.

"So what do we do now?" Jack whispered.

Just then Arcee's comm. went off :Arcee: Ratchet's voice sounded urgent :What's your situation?:

:We have one of the Predacons in sight and it hasn't seen us yet. How should we proceed?:

:Stay out of sight and watch it, I'll check on the others:

:Understood: She turned to her companions, "Get comfortable, we might be here awhile."

Bumblebee continued his staring contest with the canine Predacon when Ratchet contacted him, :Arcee's found another one and Ultra Magnus is hiding his ship so he can join on foot. Bulkhead's not answering and Wheeljack's. . . indisposed at the moment so I'm sending Smokescreen:

Bumblebee answered as he waited for the other mech. The canine continued to watch him and Bee wondered where the bird was since it was nowhere in sight.

"Hey Bee!" The scout turned to see Smokescreen walking towards him, "The Doc said you needed help." Bumblebee didn't say anything as he stared, his optics double their size in shock. Smokescreen wasn't sure why Bumblebee was looking at him like that, it wasn't like he was covered in mud or anything. Then Bumblebee jumped to his feet waving his hands frantically, it took a moment for Smokey to understand what he was saying. "What? There's nothing behind Meeeeeeeeee!" Smokescreen cried out in a rather high pitched voice when he turned. . . and jumped at seeing the large panther-like creature that was following him. It was a light grayish-white color and it's wings were folded against it's back as it crept behind him.

The cat froze as it's cover was blown. Several moments passed before anyone did anything, the cat charged forward before either mech could move and leaped at Smokescreen. He didn't have time to move as the claws swiped towards his face. . . and missed by mere inches. Then the cat turned and took off in the other direction.

Stunned for a moment Smokescreen shook off his surprise and took off after it, "OH NO YOU DON'T!"

Bumblebee called out to him but much to his annoyance the other bot didn't stopped so Bee found himself running after him. They found themselves in a bazaar game of chase as they tried to corner the cat, but it kept giving them the slip. Sometimes they were chasing it, sometimes it was chasing them. Why it simply didn't fly off was beyond the yellow scout.

The black and yellow bot noticed the other Predacon settle in the branches of a tree watching the whole thing and seem to be enjoying the show. He was sure it was giving a wolfish-grin. Since he was paying more attention to it then where he was going Bee almost ran off a cliff. He dug his feet into the ground and stopped just short of the cliff edge.

Bumblebee gave a sigh of relief only for Smokescreen to collided with him. Bee was able to stopped them both from falling over the edge. . . only for the cat Predacon surprised at their abrupt stop tried to dig it's claws into the ground only to collide with them as well sending all three over.

Bumblebee who had been in the front landed on the hard ground first then Smokescreen landed on top on him and finally the catbot landed on top of them. As they laid there and groaned the canine Predacon looked over the edge and gave a good impression of a kicked puppy.

The three would of continued to lay there if a noise hadn't drawn Bumblebee's attention and he looked up to see a group of twenty Vehicons looking at them.

Smokescreen and the metal cat glanced at each other. "Don't look at me, this is your fault," he declared.

The metal cat answered with a growl.

"This is a waste of time," Starscream growled. As usual Soundwave ignored him as he worked at the monitor. Currently the two were on the bridge of the Nemesis directing the search teams for the Predacons, Soundwave had also deployed Laserbeak to survey the area. Starscream continued, "That area is to large, even with all the teams searching it will take too long to find the miserable beasts. I have half a mind to inform Megatron of all the time were wasting on this useless search."

"Oh really."

Starscream yelped and whirled to find Megatron standing behind them. "My lord, I. . . didn't hear you enter."

Megatron pushed the Seeker aside and stood behind Soundwave. "Any news?" Soundwave pulled up a image on the screen. "It would seem Laserbeak has found something."