Angel From A Dream

Chapter 8

"Fixit, what are you doing?" Bumblebee asks as he and Grimlock walk up to the Alchemor. They just got back from investigating some Decepticon activity and searching for any signs of what happened to Strongarm and where she could be. When they got back into the scrapyard the first thing they saw was Fixit frantically searching through the database.

"Ah, Lieutenant, you're both tack, lack, BACK. I just got a signal from Strongarm and then it disappeared again," Fixit responds as he keeps searching.

"Really? Where?" Bumblebee asks as hope rises that they'll finally find her.

"That's what I'm searching for... Aha got the location. She was in a forest a few miles from a sawmill," Fixit says as he brings up the location.

"Great, let's go!" Bumblebee says as he gets ready to transform and head out. But before they could a ship came flying in and landed. Bumblebee recognized the ship right away, it was Ultra Magnus' ship. The reinforcement has finally arrived.

The three go to welcome their visitors as the platform on the bottom opens up and the 'Bots inside descend from the ship. Ultra Magnus, Arcee, Wheeljack, Bulkhead, Knock Out, Smokescreen, and Ratchet were all there. Bulkhead joined in after hearing what happened and insisted on joining to find the femme who's like a niece to him.

Smokescreen was the first one off the platform as he ran up to Bumblebee, "Where is he!? Where's my son!?" He asks frantically as Knock Out joins them. 

"Before I take you to him I must warn you, you're not gonna like what you see. His condition had worsened over the past four days. We had to hook him up to machines to keep him active," Bumblebee says grimly before leading the way to Med Bay. Smokescreen, Knock Out, and the others follow him. 

When they reached Med Bay, Smokescreen's and Knock Out's sparks almost ceased, they saw what Bumblebee was talking about. Sideswipe was hooked up to all sorts of machines to keep him functioning, there were braces around his wrists to hold them together and cables and wires were attached to his spark chamber.

Knock Out looked over his son as Smokescreen started crying, "Primus, his wrist joints were dislocated and I see the inner circuitry damage you were talking about." Knock Out walks over to Smokescreen and hugs him trying to console him. It's rare to see his mate like this and he hates seeing him this way, "It's alright, Smokes. Ratchet and I will save him."

Smokescreen looks him in the optics, "I know you will."

Knock Out gives him a peck on the lips before turning to face Bumblebee, "Mind telling us which 'Con did this?" 

A loud clanking noise sounded throughout Med Bay as Bulkhead pounded his fist into his servo, "And who took Strongarm? I'm itching to give them a beating they'll never forget."

"As we all are," Magnus added in.

"I won't know for certain until Sideswipe wakes up, but I suspect it's a Decepticon named Steeljaw. He's a Wolf-Con that we had a couple of run-ins with so far and proving to be very tricky to catch. Sideswipe and Strongarm were actually the first ones to counter him. We had an encounter with him at a dam shortly before Strongarm went missing and Sideswipe became injured. Which is why he's number one on my suspect list."

"Have you got any leads yet?" Wheeljack asked.

"We actually just got Strongarm's signal and were just heading out to investigate when you guys arrived," Grimlock replied.

"Bumblebee?" Arcee questions, giving the hint that introductions are needed.

"Right, sorry. This is Grimlock and that Mini-Con is Fixit," Bumblebee introduces.