Hot Rod drove in the old race track.
One red older robot walked there. "Still trying to break Blurr's record?" Hot Rod transformed and tried to stop but he crashed into the wall. Old robot laughed. "What was first Cybertronian racing rule?" he asked as Hot Rod walked dizzily there. "Never transform when you're driving," Hot Rod said as he fell on the ground. Red robot laughed more. "Then stop doing it when i see you racing!" he said. Hot Rod groaned and said:" I don't race...when you're not here anyway." Red robot helped him stay and said:" You know, trying to hide something from me doesn't work. Be honest with me. It's all what i ask." Hot Rod answered:" You hide your iron, Ironhide." Red robot named Ironhide laughed and said:" It may be true, kid. Now let's see how fast you can go." Suddenly he saw something flying in the sky. Hot Rod followed his gaze and asked:" Counqurers?" Ironhide nodded. "Go," he said to younger. He leaded Hot Rod away from the race track, holding his shoulders.
Suddenly purple young robot landed there. "Who..?" Hot Rod asked when Starscream landed there. "She's Slipstream," he said:" Counqurer of the wind shields." "The what now?" Ironhide asked. Starscream turned to the purple robot:" Show them what you got!" Slipstream transformed her cyan wings to rotors and activated them. "Escape!" Ironhide shouted to Hot Rod. Hot Rod started to run when Ironhide got hit by the wind. It was too sharp that it cutted through his armor. Hot Rod looked back and saw Starscream behind him. "Where are you going?" counqurer asked. Hot Rod slipped and fell into his stomach. Hot Rod looked at Ironhide, now silver, trying to fight off Slipstream. Suddenly Hot Rod felt sharp pain in his left side of the shoulder. Starscream held him high.
Ironhide shouted to gray robot:" Let him go!" Starscream said:" Not before you fall back." Hot Rod yelped as Starscream tightened his grip. Ironhide sighed and rose his hands. Hot Rod shouted:" No!" "Sorry, kid," Ironhide whispered as Slipstream attacked.
She rose and her wind now cut off Ironhide's head. Hot Rod shouted:" Ironhide! No!" Starscream let go of him, his hand was covered with energon. "We are going now," Starscream said as he and Slipstream transformed and flied away.
Hot Rod looked at the body of his friend. "No," he whispered.
He was checked out by Ratchet. "You will be alright," Ratchet said:" Small wound, nothing bad. But Ironhide wasn't too lucky. But i should say that...it was quick and painless death." Hot Rod looked at the covered berth next to him. Ratchet said:" Let him rest peacefully in the well of the allsparks." Hot Rod nodded.
Suddenly Hot Rod was waking up from his thoughts. "Thinking about...," Wheeljack asked but he wasn't able to say it. Hot Rod said:" I feel like i was able to do something." Wheeljack put his hand on his shoulder and said:" You did everything you were able, kid. Now we need to find the new base. Who knows, maybe we'll find Bumblebee safe and sound." "I hope," Hot Rod said.
Bumblebee walked towards the cave. "What's that?" he asked. Suddenly red sportscar flied over his head. "Look where are you driving!" the female voice came as light blue motorcycle drove there:" You almost cut off this guardian's head." Red guardian said:" Well, sorry that he was right under me." "Sideswipe," blue motorcycle sighed. Bumblebee looked at them. Motorcycle transformed and said:" I'm Chromia. He is Sideswipe... where's Sunstreaker?" Yellow sportscar drove there, cheetah on his roof. "Hello there!" he said:" I'm Sunstreaker." "And i'm Cheetor," cheetah said as he transformed into robot after jumping off Sunstreaker. Chromia walked beside Bumblebee and said:" Wow! You really need some repairs! What happened?" Bumblebee said:" I'll tell you later. But where am i?" "Safe," Sideswipe said as he transformed:" No counqurers can find us here." Cheetor said:" Trees are blocking our signals from everyone." There then flied green jet and said:" I found nothing." Then he saw Bumblebee. Green jet robot sighed from relief. "So that's what my scanner picked up," he said. Sunstreaker whispered to Bumblebee:" He's Acid Storm. He is our mechanic." "What are you whispering this time?" Acid Storm asked as he crossed his arms. Bumblebee asked:" Are you guys guardians or counqurers?" "Nether," Cheetor said as he walked closer to Acid Storm. Chromia said:" We are mostly guardians but we haven't choosed complitly." She looked down:" I had two sisters one of them is guardian but another... she was guardian but now she has changed. That's what made me go away and be neutral. Twins are trouble makers and now they are thrown away. Acid Storm was counqurer before but he wasn't able to destroy anything. Cheetor is newest of us and he has never choosen the side."
Bumblebee said bravly:" I'm guardian of electricity and i never change my mind."