Autobot Base...

"Welcome back, Bumblebee." Ratchet greeted Bumblebee as he exited the ground-bridge, "How was the mission?"

"Uh, it was... Great." Bumblebee said suspiciously, before transforming. He stood with his hands behind his back, as if he was trying to hide something. Ratchet took a good look at the scout, noticing his worried expression,

"Well, I should get going now, to my uh... quarters." Bumblebee said before walking away. But Ratchet stopped him,

"Wait!" Ratchet boomed. Bumblebee stopped in his tracks, and turned to face Ratchet, hands still behind his back,

"What's behind your back?" Ratchet asked sternly,

"Behind my back?! Ha! Nothing's behind my back! If there was something behind my back I would have showed y-"

"Quit your nonsense!" Ratchet yelled,

"What, what nonsense?!"

"Show me what's in your servos."

"What, why? It's not like I'm hiding anything!"

"Now!" Ratchet demanded,

"Alright!" Bumblebee moved his arm, before showing Ratchet his empty hands. There was a moment of silence, as Ratchet facepalmed,

"Show me your other servo."

"If you say so..." Bumblebee put his hand behind his back again, then showed his other hand, which was also empty,

"By Primus! Show me both of them, at once!" Ratchet ordered,

"You're really gonna make me show you, aren't you?"

"Yes, I am. And that's an order!"

"Okay, fine... but, uh Ratchet, can I ask you to do something?"

"What?"

"Don't freak out." Bumblebee said,

"Freak out? Why would I fre-" Bumblebee then showed Ratchet what he was holding, a human. Ratchet's optics widened as he looked at the small human,

"Hey." The human greeted,

"WHAAAAAAAT?!" Ratchet exclaimed,

"I told you not to freak out!"

"Is that what I think it is?!"

"Yep, this is Spike Witwicky. He's my new human friend." Bumblebee introduced,

"Bumblebee! Optimus told us that we are not to be seen by a single human! Protocol R.I.D.!"

"Yeah, yeah, I know..."

"And you're a scout! It's your job not to be seen by anyone!"

"I know. But, can you please keep a secret?" Bumblebee asked worriedly,

Ratchet sighed, "Fine... but only if you tell me how the scrap this happened."

"Alright, this is how it happened: I was on scout duty, and-"

"Yo, what's happenin' in here!" Jazz greeted as he entered the room, interrupting Bumblebee's story,

"Uh oh..." Bumblebee mumbled, as Jazz noticed the human in his hands,

"Hold up, what is that?!" Jazz shouted,

"SHHHHH!" Bumblebee silenced him. Bumblebee sighed, "Jazz, this is Spike, my human friend,

"Human? We aren't supposed to be seen by humans." Jazz replied., walking up to Bumblebee, and examining Spike,

"I told him." Ratchet said,

"He can keep a secret, right Spike?"

"Yup." Spike answered,

"Whoa, they can talk?" Jazz said,

"Of course we can! And we have plenty different languages too." Spike replied,

"Whaaaaaat." Jazz was clearly intrigued by this discovery,

"So I guess the secret's out..." Bumblebee said sadly.

"Nah 'Bee, my mouth is shut, I won't tell anyone. As long as I can learn more about these, humans." Jazz replied,

"Yes! What about you, Ratchet?"

"Nope, there is no way I'm keeping it between us three." Ratchet responded,

"Oh come on, Ratchet. Don;t you wanna know more about this mysterious species?" Jazz asked. Ratchet thought for a moment,

"Fine! But again, only if I know how exactly you found this human-"

"Spike!" Bumblebee corrected,

"Right, Spike."

"Okay then, this is how it happened..."

Twenty-five minutes earlier, in Mission City...

Bumblebee sat on a hill not to far away from the building that housed the Decepticon space-bridge, but just far enough that he wouldn't be seen. He was on a mission to spy on the building, with Cliffjumper.

"Wait, Cliffjumper was there too?! Where is he?!" Ratchet questioned,

"Oh yeah... I'll get to that part." Bumblebee replied suspiciously,

After what felt like hours, the two began to get bored, until they saw five Decepticons exit the building, two of them carrying something, or someone. Those five were the Combaticons, and what they were carrying was a human,

"Hey let me go!" the human demanded, as he struggled, trying to escape,

"Stop squirming you little insect!" Swindle shouted angrily,

"Ay, boss! Why don't we just kill the little thing right now! It's starting to get on my nerves!" Vortex whined,

"Hey, I'm not an it! And I have a name, Spike!" the human yelled,

"In case you haven't noticed, I don't give a scrap!" Vortex replied,

"As much as I agree with you Vortex, Shockwave wants the human alive, so he can use him as a test subject for his rather, questionable experiments." their leader, Onslaught answered Vortex,

"So why are we taking him out here?" Vortex questioned again,

"Because the little brat wouldn't stop whining, and it was disrupting Shockwave's work." Onslaught answered,

"Understandable. But why us? those Stunticon guys looked pretty capable of doing this."

"Oh, quit complaining! You're almost as annoying as the human!"

"Hey!" Spike said, offended.

Meanwhile, the two Autobot scouts watched the situation,

"What are they doing to that human?" Bumblebee said,

"I don't know, but I know that those are the Stunticons, and I'm gonna kick their cans for what they did to Rollbar and his squad!" Cliffjumper replied,

"Don't tell me you're gonna go down there." Bumblebee said, standing up,

"No, we are."Cliffjumper answered,

"Are you crazy?! There's five of them, and only two of us, not to mention that they killed a squad of four Autobots! There's no way we can take 'em!" Bumblebee argued,

"Yeah, but this time we expect it." Cliffjumper finally said, as he ran towards the Decpeticons,

"That doesn't make any sense! At least call for backu- oh for Primus sake..." Bumblebee said, "Well, here goes nothing..." Bumblebee then followed Cliffjumper into battle.

Meanwhile,

"Wait a minute, what is that?" Brawl said, pointing at two approaching bots in the distance. Everyone looked that way,

"Autobots!" Onslaught said, "ATTACK!"

"Wait, what about the human?!" Vortex asked,

"You can handle one measly human, can't you?!" Blast-Off replied with a chuckle,

"But, I'll miss the fight!"

Blast-Off shrugged, before charging forth towards the Autobots,

"You scrap-head!"

"Come at me 'Cons!" Cliffjumper shouted, taking on Onslaught head on. Bumblebee joined the fight, and was surrounded by the rest of the Combaticons immediately,

"Uh oh..." Bumblebee mumbled,

"Uh oh indeed!" Blast-Off remarked, kicking Bumblebee to the ground, then unsheathing his dual katanas, "Let's squash this bug!"

Bumblebee got up and ran, chased by the Decepticons. Meanwhile, Cliffjumper was putting up a good fight against Onslaught, and his small body-shape made it easy to dodge attacks, and soon enough, he managed to gain the upper-hand,

"The boss is in trouble!" Swindle shouted, still chasing Bumblebee,

"I got it!" Brawl replied, transforming into his tank mode, and firing a round at Cliffjumper, knocking him back into the wall of another building,

"Thanks, but I had it under control!" Onslaught said,

"Didn't look like that!"

Bumblebee, still being chased by both Swindle, and Blast-Off, transformed, and grabbed one of his stun grenades, which he armed, and threw into the air. The grenade exploded mid-air, stunning both Decepticons,

"Yes, haha!" Bumblebee shouted excitedly, then he ran off to help Cliffjumper, who was trying to fight Onslaught and Brawl at the same time, though he couldn't manage to land a hit on either of them. Luckily, just as Brawl was going to finish off Cliffjumper with another explosive round, Bumblebee kicked him down, causing him to shoot at the ground beneath him, sending him flying into the air, until he fell, knocked out,

"Thank's 'Bee!" Cliffjumper said,

"Don't menti-" Bumblebee was interrupted, as Onslaught grabbed him by the head, and threw him forward, leaving Cliffjumper to fight him alone,

"I'll kill you both!" Onslaught shouted, slamming the ground, knocking Cliffjumper back, then tried to punch Cliffjumper, though his attack was dodged. Onslaught slammed his fists into the ground once more, though this time, his servos were now stuck in the ground, leaving him vulnerable to attacks. Cliffjumper took the chance, and jump-kicked Onslaught, freeing him, but knocking him to the ground.

Meanwhile, Bumblebee opened his optics, to see Vortex standing in front of him, pointing a gun towards him, holding Spike in his other hand,

"Whoops, did I wake you?" Vortex said. Bumblebee tried to stand up, only to be kicked back down by Vortex, "No you don't. Try again, and this human goes, splat."

"Ugh, put me down!" Spike demanded,

"You shut up! Or I will shoot!" Vortex responded, now aiming his gun right at Spike, "Hmmm, Now I'm starting to wonder, what would become of this human if I were to pull the trigger? What do you think, Autobot, ash, or splash?" Vortex then slowly began to push on the trigger, but just as he was about to shoot, and kill Spike, Bumblebee kicked his arm, causing him to shoot his own shoulder instead, "OW! Scrap!" Vortex cried as he stumbled backward, dropping Spike. Bumblebee caught Spike, and dropped another stun grenade on Vortex, before running away. But as he ran, he saw that Cliffjumper was now surrounded by the rest of the Combaticons, as the effects of the stun grenade wore off. Bumblebee was shocked to see this, and was prepared to rescue him. But Cliffjumper stopped him,

"'Bee, no! Get back to base! I'll- I'll be fine!" Cliffjumper said, as he was picked up by Onslaught,

"But-"

"GO!" Cliffjumper continued, as he began to received multiple punches from all of the Decepticons. Bumblebee stopped for a moment, before he ran, Swindle transforming and chasing him. Bumblebee transformed as well, Spike in the front seat of his car mode, as he drove away, eventually losing Swindle, and calling for a ground-bridge...

"So, Cliffjumper got captured by the Decepticons?" Ratchet asked. Bumblebee nodded, "and you chose to mention that last?"

"Well if Cliffjumper's been captured, then we need to get him back fast!" Jazz said,

"Indeed. I will inform Optimus." Ratchet said,

"Wait!" Bumblebee stopped him,

"What is it now, Bumblebee?"

"Don't tell him about Spike."

Ratchet rolled his optics, "Fine, fine." then he left to tell, Optimus what happened.

"You lost the human?!" Shockwave questioned in disappointment,

"Uh, yes, sir, but-" Onslaught replied,

"Not only that, but you lost it to two tiny Autobots! I find that very, illogical, especially considering how you were able to dispose of a squad of Autobots before."

"Well. We may have lost the human, but we have at least gained something that may be of more use to us." Onslaught said,

"Well then, show me what you speak of, and I shall decide if you are correct." Shockwave ordered. Blast-Off and Vortex then brought Cliffjumper into the room, dropping him onto the ground,

"Here he is, the Autobot Cliffjumper." Onslaught said,

"A captured Autobot. I find your statement... logical." Shockwave commented, slightly impressed, "Bring him to the cell for interrogation..."