Meanwhile at the highway, the Autobots were still driving at full speed to try and reach the mine in time as they saw in their scanners that they weren't too far from where they were.
"The mine is not too far from here." Wheeljack said.
"Let's go then. We can't let the Decepticons steal all this Energon." Cliffjumper said as he was getting impatient and wanted to beat some cons.
"Patient. We must not let the Decepticons find us." Optimus told him as he sighed but complied.
"So what do we do? We wait and see what happens?" Bulkhead asked in confusion.
"Less waiting, more fighting. Let's go." Wheeljack said as he started to use more speed before the others could stop him.
Wheeljack turns right and drives faster. When he finally reached the place, he transformed and hid as he saw that there were many Decepticons below and working on the mine. The others finally caught up with him as they transformed and took cover to not get spotted.
"Looks like I was right. Cons dug the mine through the ground." Wheeljack said as they saw that there was a lot of Energon.
"That's a lot of Energon." Bulkhead said as he knew that from that amount if they got enough, it could last Team Prime for about an Earth year.
"Let's try to watch them from a safe distance." Optimus told them as they nodded.
The Autobots get closer yet quietly to try and watch how the Decepticons are digging through the rocks to get the Energon out of the ground.
"With one grenade, we can blow this whole thing sky high and rid this place of those Decepticreeps." Wheeljack said as he reached for his grenade but Bulkhead stopped him with a shake of his helm.
"We can't do that, Jackie. We need the Energon." Bulkhead said since they were running low on Energon right now with the extra teammates
"From this high, we could ambush them." Cliffjumper said as he scaled the pit of a hole before Bulkhead noticed something.
"Look." Bulkhead said as he pointed below them.
The Autobots all look to where Bulkhead is pointing only to see that Megatron had sent his best troops and if he sent his best troops the mining process was pretty big.
"Must be something big if the dark lord sent his gorillas out." Cliffjumper said as he joked as Optimus had a smile behind his mask at his joke.
"You're right, Cliffjumper." Optimus said as Bulkhead saw Breakdown, Knock Out, Airachnid, Skyquake, Dreadwing and Starscream.
"Breakdown is down there. I'm gonna show him by hitting his faceplate with my mace. Whoa!" Bulkhead said but he leaned too much and blew their cover before the others could even prevent it.
Bulkhead slides down by accident and makes some tiny rubble fall and hits some equipment. A Decepticon miner sees the rubble falling and when he looks up, he sees Optimus and the others as he signals the others of their little trespassers.
"Bolts. So much for our ambush." Wheeljack face palm at this.
"Autobots! Shoot them!" A Decepticon miner shouted as he pointed to where the Autobots were as the warrior class Vehicons started to shoot at them as the Autobots quickly moved out of the way of the shots.
"Take cover!" Optimus ordered as they quickly took cover in some boulders
The Decepticons are shooting at the Autobots without any mercy as Bulkhead, Wheeljack and Cliffjumper take the Decepticons head on and start to attack back as they are able to push them back as the others saw the Autobots.
"The Autobots have found us!" Starscream exclaimed as he and the others stayed back.
"We better be careful. I'm not risking my finish." Knock Out said as he didn't want to get his finish to get ruined again for who knows how long.
"I'll take care of them. I've been itching for a fight all day." Breakdown said as he switched his servo into his hammer and charged into battle as Bulkhead saw him and notified Wheeljack.
"You take care of those cons. I'll take care of Breakdown." Bulkhead said to him as Wheeljack nodded.
"Now you're talking." He grinned before taking down some cons with his swords and giving Bulkhead an opening to charge towards Breakdown.
"Look who we have here. I was hoping to bump into you. Ahhhhhhhhhh!" Breakdown said before letting out a battle cry and charging towards him as Bulkhead did the same with both of their weapons drawn.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" Bulkhead let out a battle cry as both of them swung their weapons against each other and were put in a standstill as they pushed against each other.
"Fancy meeting you here, Breakdown." Bulkhead said as he pushed against him as Breakdown smirked.
"You and your friends must be desperate if you came all the way here for Energon. Speaking of friends, where is your little human friend? She got scared?" Breakdown taunted as Bulkhead narrowed his optics on him. No one and he means NO ONE taunts Emily like that. She's fearless and won't back down from a fight.
"I can defeat you without her." Bulkhead said with a glare.
"We'll see about that." He smirked as he punched him.
Both Bulkhead and Breakdown started fighting while both Optimus and Cliffjumper were taking care of some cons of their own unaware that there were two seekers who saw an opportunity to take down the Autobot leader.
"Look, brother. It's Optimus Prime." Skyquake pointed with a smirk.
"Let us take care of him." Dreadwing said with a smirk as they both transformed and took to the skies to attack the prime.
"It will be my pleasure to kill Cliffjumper a second time." Starscream said but Airachnid shot a web fluid on his pedes and glued him against the ground much to his shock.
"What the...?" He gawked in shock before glaring at her as she smiled at him smugly.
"I'm the only one who will kill Cliffjumper. It would be a pleasure for me to kill another one of Arcee's partners." Airachnid said as she then charged right at Cliffjumper while his back was turned.
"How dare you do this to me?! Release me! At once!" Starscream shouted but Airachnid didn't listen to what he said and continued to charge towards Cliffjumper.
Meanwhile Cliffjumper and Optimus were holding their ground as they were able to push back against the Decepticons troops that were shooting at them. Wheeljack is seen surrounded but he was able to get rid of every Decepticon around him using his swords. Bulkhead and Breakdown were both giving it all they had against each other as they were exchanging hits against the other.
"Is that all you got? You've gotten soft. I'm starting to get bored!" Breakdown mock as he threw a punch at the wrecker who dodged it.
"I'll show you who's soft!" Bulkhead exclaimed as he tried to throw a punch at Breakdown but he dodged the attack and knocked him down as Bulkhead let out a groan of pain.
"Let's see if the other Wrecker breaks easily." Breakdown taunted as he rushed towards Wheeljack without the second wrecker noticing but Bulkhead got up and noticed it as he shouted to his friend.
"Jackie, look out!" Bulkhead warned him.
Breakdown was about to attack him but Wheeljack saw him coming with his hammer raised and ready to swing it. To avoid him and getting hit in the process, he did a reverse jump so that he could hit Breakdown from behind.
"I've taken down bigger cons than you." Wheeljack said as he smirked at the Decepticon as his mask slid over his mouth.
"I will tear you to shreds." Breakdown threatened him but Wheeljack wasn't phased by it and got into a fighting stance.
"Bring it, big guy." Wheeljack challenged him as both of them started to fight.
In the sky, both Dreadwing and Skyquake were about to attack Optimus and Cliffjumper from the air as they saw what was happening on the battlefield below them.
"Our troops are keeping Optimus and his lackey busy. He will never see us coming." Skyquake said with a smirk as Skyquake smirked as well.
"Let's send the last of the Primes to rust in the pit." Dreadwing said.
They made a u-turn and started to fly down and launch their heat seeking missiles at Optimus who didn't notice as he punched a vehicon trooper down but Cliffjumper saw it coming and shouted for him.
"Look out!" Cliffjumper shouted as he noticed the missiles heading straight towards them.
Optimus turns and sees that missiles are heading straight towards him and Cliffjumper. He acted quickly on instinct and pushed Cliffjumper out of range as he fell to the ground and took the full blow. Luckily it's nothing too serious. Cliffjumper gets back up after being pushed out of the way as he sees that Optimus is down on his knee and runs over to help him.
"Optimus!" Cliffjumper was almost there but Airachnid stopped him as she stood in front of him.
"Not so fast, Cliffjumper." Airachnid said as Cliffjumper got into a battle stance but smirked at her.
"Hey, Airachnid. Long time no see. You look good." He said as Airachnid smiled sinisterly at him.
"You look good too. For someone who came back from the dead." Airachnid hissed at him as they circled each other.
"If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're going to try and kill me." Cliffjumper said, since he saw through what she planned to do as she smirked.
"That's exactly what I plan to do." She said as they got ready to charge at each other.
"Let's dance." He said before they both charge at each other with weapons and claws ready.
Meanwhile Optimus was slowly getting back up after the attack from above as he held his helm and shook it while letting out a groan.
"Ugh..." He groaned as both Skyquake and Dreadwing transformed and landed in front of him as he stood back up.
"Optimus Prime. This is the last time you and your Autobots interfere with our operations." Dreadwing growled as he prepared to attack him.
"We'll make sure that you don't get up and while you're down, we will make you watch how we kill your comrades." Optimus glared at the two as he got ready to counter attack.
Skyquake attacks first and throws a punch at Optimus who stops him with one hand as he narrowed his optics at him
"You know better than I do. That as long as I live, I won't let you hurt any Autobots." Optimus said as he pushed Skyquake back.
Dreadwing rushes in to attack him but Optimus dodges his every attack and takes an opportunity to strike him down to the ground. Skyquake gets up and rushes toward him with a battle cry.
"Rahhhhh!" He throws a punch at him but the Prime stops both of his hands.
Without Optimus knowing it, Dreadwing was preparing to stick a bomb behind Optimus as Skyquake had to do was keep him occupied but Optimus was way ahead of them. When Dreadwing was about to plant this bomb onto him, he let him approach him but when he got close he pushed Skyquake as he crashed against Dreadwing and landed on his brother. Dreadwing gets back up with the detonator in his servo as he smirks.
"Too slow." He said as he pressed the button.
The bomb started beeping but no one knew where it was coming from as Optimus had a small smirk behind his battle mask.
"Am I?" He asked.
Dreadwing quickly realized that the bomb wasn't planted behind Optimus but Skyquake had it on his back as he panicked.
"Take it off!" Skyquake exclaimed as he tried to shake it off as it was beeping red.
Dreadwing quickly takes it off him and throws it up in the sky as the bomb explodes without anyone being hurt by it. Meanwhile Bulkhead was struggling to get back up from the hit that Breakdown inflicted on him. When he got up, he saw that Wheeljack was fighting against Breakdown.
"Jackie!" He called as Wheeljack heard him as he dodged another punch from Breakdown.
"It's about time you got up." He joked as Breakdown uses his hammer to attack Wheeljack but he stops him with his two swords as he glances at him.
"A little help here, Bulk!" Wheeljack exclaimed as Bulkhead got back up and rushed at Breakdown.
He slides to make Breakdown stumble and allow Wheeljack to knock him down on the ground.
"You've just been knocked down Wrecker style. Good work, Bulkhead." Wheeljack said as he smirked at his friend.
"You got him good." Bulkhead smirks back.
"We did." Wheeljack said but both of them duck down as some Decepticon troops start shooting at them.
"Cons are persistent. Let's show them what we're made of." Wheeljack slid his mask back on as Bulkhead grinned at that.
"With pleasure." He nodded as both of them charged and started to attack the cons with their brute strength.
Meanwhile Cliffjumper was struggling to avoid Airachnid's web fluid to trap him so he just moved around to avoid getting stuck with the sticky substance.
"This is too easy." Cliffjumper laughs as he dodge yet another web fluit heading right at him.
"Not for long." Airachnid sneered as she decided to use a different method.
Airachnid stops shooting her with web fluids at Cliffjumper and starts attacking him with physical attacks as acid drips from her claws and Cliffjumper quickly dodges it to avoid it.
"Whoa!" He exclaimed in surprise as one of her clawed servos almost hit him with acid.
"Had enough?!" Airachnid hissed as she was getting annoyed and Cliffjumper saw this and decided to toy with her.
"No way. This is getting fun." He smirked as this made Airachnid super mad.
"Rahhhh!" Airachnid let out an angered yell.
Airachnid starts getting angry as she really wanted to kill Cliffjumper but he doesn't give her any chance before he was able to grab one of her spider legs when she didn't notice it.
"Got you. Time for you to go for a spin!" Cliffjumper grinned as he knew Arcee would love to see this as he started to spin Airachnid around and around as she let out a surprised yell since she didn't expect this.
When he had gained enough speed and momentum, he threw her as he let her spider leg and she was sent flying. She soon landed hard on the ground as she let out a groan as she felt like purging her tanks empty. Meanwhile Starscream was still struggling to get free from Airachnid's web when suddenly he started receiving a communication through his comm-link as it was Megatron.
"Starscream, report. What's the situation?" Megatron asked Starscream to stop struggling for a moment.
"The Autobots are attacking us. We need reinforcements immediately." Starscream said as he could hear a small growl from Megatron.
Back at the Nemesis, Megatron growled at this as he turned to Soundwave who nodded and opened up a ground bridge as some reinforcements entered to help the other cons deal with their enemies.
"Rest assured. The reinforcements are on the way." Megatron sneered as he turned the comm-link off.
Back at the mine, a ground bridge opened up as more Decepticon troops started coming out from it and when they saw the Autobots, all of them started to shoot at them from the cliffs as the Autobots all tried to take cover.
"Cons must've called for backup." Bulkhead grumbled but ducked down.
"The more, the better." Wheeljack said sarcastically.
"We're completely surrounded." Cliffjumper said as Optimus saw that they were vastly outnumbered.
"Autobots, take cover!" Optimus ordered as they all took cover behind some boulders as Optimus quickly used his comm-link to call base for back up.
"Optimus to base, we're completely surrounded. We need reinforcements." Optimus said but there was only static and he realized what it meant. No one was answering the comm.
Meanwhile back at the base, Ratchet took the kids at a safe area to watch how the suit works.
"Whoo-hoo! Front row seat!" Miko cheered happily.
"Looks like we're V.I.P." Jack agreed with a smile.
"Awesome." Rad was just as excited as Miko for this.
"Hope you're ready for the show. We're about to begin." Ratchet said as he activated the room intercom system to supervise the training.
"Arcee, do you hear me?" He asked.
In the S.A.F.E. room, Emily, Arcee and Bumblebee were warming up for the training as Arcee answered.
"We hear you, Ratchet." Arcee said as Bumblebee whirred the same thing and did some punches as he was moving lightly on his pedes as Emily just smiled at the young scout.
"Let's get this thing started." Emily said excitedly as she cracked her knuckles.
"Activating holographic terrain." Ratchet said as he pressed a button.
The S.A.F.E starts creating a holographic terrain for Emily to try the suit on as it looks like a canyon.
"Remember, Emily, this suit will protect you but you must never let your guard down. We will start with something simple. Arcee and Bumblebee, you will attack Emily. Emily, I want you to defend yourself." Ratchet said as they nodded and got into a battle stance to get ready.
"Okay, but how will I know how the suit works?" Emily asked curiously.
"You'll see. Commence test on 3... 2... 1... begin." Ratchet said as the training begins
Both Bumblebee and Arcee start rushing towards Emily as she gets ready. Arcee attacks first but Emily stops her with one hand and pushes her back as Bee grabs Arcee and attacks Emily next but she was able to dodge his attack but she's being pushed back. She's about to get cornered as the others see this and starts getting worried.
"Uh oh... this is not good." Jack said.
"Look out, Ems!" Miko shouted.
"They're cornering you!" Raf joins Miko and cheers Emily on.
Emily is still avoiding Bee's punches while being pushed until she's cornered and has no way to get out of it as she glances around to see an opening as Ratchet comes on.
"Emily, I want you to listen very carefully. Bumblebee and Arcee will run towards you. I want you to jump as high as you can." Ratchet told her as she nodded and got ready.
"I'll give it a try." She replied as she shifted her stance to a jump.
"Ready, Bee?" Arcee asked Bumblebee as he whirred and nodded.
"Now!" She exclaimed as both of them ran towards Emily who was waiting for the right moment to jump.
In the sidelines, Miko starts receiving a call from Bulkhead which interrupts her recording process as she groans.
"Aw man!" She groaned as she answered the call.
"Bulkhead, whatever the reason you're calling me, I hope it's a matter of life or death." Miko said but stopped when she heard a battle going on in the background of the call as Bulkhead replied.
"Miko! What's going on out there? No one's answering the comm-link. Tell Ratchet that we need back up! I repeat we need-" The call was interrupted and the call ended there as Miko stared at her phone in shock and worry.
"Oh scrap." She cursed under her breath as she was starting to get seriously worried.
The others needed backup and she had to tell Ratchet but seeing as they were focused on testing Emily's suit they couldn't hear her when she tried to catch their attention but she had to keep trying. In the S.A.F.E, both Arcee and Bumblebee were getting closer to Emily as she was waiting for the right moment to jump like Ratchet told her to do.
"Guys! Guys!" Miko shouted to get their attention but she didn't succeed as Emily was preparing to jump but the training was interrupted by Miko shouting at the top of her lungs.
"GUYS!"
Miko's scream was heard through the intercom as it caused a slight feedback. Both Arcee and Bumblebee slip off and hit each other on their head and Emily gets out of the way as she blinks in bewilderment at what just happened. Who knew Miko had that strong set of lungs to shout like that. Enraged and annoyed, Ratchet asked Miko what went through her head to interrupt the training session.
"Miko, what in the name of Primus is wrong with you?" Ratchet asked in annoyance but grew concerned when he saw the worried and concerned look on Miko's features.
"We have problems. Bulkhead just called. He and the others are in trouble." Miko said as their eyes and optics widened at this.
"Oh no." He said as they all ran back to the main room.