We now return to the Transformers...

Sour had spent the rest of that evening by herself, looking after her girlfriend, keeping her calm. Luckily, Smallfoot was slowly calming down and she had stopped crying at that point, and she stopped eating all of the ice cream in the freezer. But Sour still couldn't help but feel terrible.

During the night, she could hear her girlfriend crying in her sleep, and she tried to snuggle her as much as she could to show her that she was still there for her, but even that didn't help. She didn't know what to do at this point.

The following day, Smallfoot was calm but she still had a depressed demeanor which saddened Sour. But today, Sour had just enough of it. It was time she find out where that Bot came from, where did she run off to, and she had to find out why she left her. She just had to. No one could have been so heartless as to dump their partner right in the middle of an open battlefield.

During lunch period at school, Sour opened up and spilled all of the beans. She told the girls everything. Needless to say, they were less than happy to hear what was told.

"You can't be serious dude... that girl... left her?" Lemon asked.

"Yes."

"In the middle of a battle on Cybertron?" Sugarcoat asked.

"Yes."

"And she just abandoned her while she presumably got captured, tortured, and used in the most disturbing way by Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp!?" Indigo shouted.

All of them turned their heads to Indigo with some frightened and disturbed looks.

"I uh... I read a dark book the other day, that imagery still stuck in my head," Indigo said.

Sour rolled her eyes, "The point is, she abandoned her in the field, and left her behind to be captured."

All of them just slumped back in their seats. They couldn't even believe what they were hearing.

"Poor Smallfoot...", Lemon whimpered.

Sour couldn't help but let out a snarl, "That... that Autobot... no, that's not an Autobot. That... glitch, left my girlfriend to be killed by Decepticons..."

Sunny couldn't help but tear up at what she heard, "That is so cold..."

Sugarcoat didn't react, but instead just stared at Sour dead in the eyes.

"So what are you going to do?" Sugarcoat asked.

Sour looked back up at the pigtail haired girl.

"Uh..."

"I said, what are you going to do? That rogue Autobot hurt your girl, so what are you going to do?"

Sour sighed, "Sugarcoat, is there anything I can do? That Autobot has a clawed out mark, those who scratch out their symbols destroy their tracking mechanisms, how can I--"

Sugarcoat's hands slammed on the table and she stood straight up, going over Sour. Sour and the other girls just lowered in their seats.

"I said... what are you going to do?"

"I uh..."

"You listen to me close!" Sugarcoat grabbed Sour by the shoulders and raised her up out of her seat and stared her in the eyes.

"You want to take down that girl who hurt your partner, correct?" Sugarcoat asked.

"Y-Yes..."

"I didn't hear you."

"Yes!"

"And you want to make Smallfoot feel better about herself so she's not a permanent well of sadness and depression?"

"Yes!"

Sugarcoat leaned in closer to stare her straight on.

"You're going to show her how much you care for her. You're going to suit up, kick butt, chew bubblegum, and beat. That. Robot. So what are you going to do!?"

"I am going to kick that robot's can!" Sour grunted.

"Then lets go beat up that coward of a robot!" Indigo cheered on.

Sour pounded her chest like an ape and let out a mighty roar, "Lets go kick her butt! Come on!"

Sour jumped out of her seat and she ran off from her chair and onto her feet. It wasn't until long that Indigo Zap got up from her seat, performed a roll on the table, and landing on her feet on the other side of the table and running after Sour. Lemon Zest was next to follow, as she jumped onto the table, and jumped off, kicking some trays off the table as she ran off, chasing after Sour.

The last ones left was just Sugarcoat and Sunny Flare, but instead of jumping on the table and rolling over it, just left their seats like normally, and left the cafeteria room.

While they did leave... they were only gone for a few seconds. The others in the cafeteria were confused, why did they leave so abruptly? But they forgot about it in a few seconds as the girls simply walked back to their table and sat back down like well-behaved human beings.

"After we finish school?" Sour asked.

"After we finish school," Sugarcoat nodded, taking a seat.

Once they finished school for the day, they all leapt into action and grabbed what they needed. With their guardians gone out doing other missions and jobs for the day, this was going to have to be something they need to handle by themselves

Luckily for them, they had prepared for these type of situations. They had a good amount of blasters to shoot their targets, electric poppers to stun their enemies, vehicles to drive in, and enough protective gear and gadgets to get them out of any situation.

Together, Sour Sweet drove in her new car/suit while the rest of the girls drove on motorcycles down an empty street, beginning their adventure.

"Okay girls listen up. I don't know who those Cybertronians were, but one thing's for sure. We've got to find out more about them, and we've got to take down that glitch," Sour growled.

"Lucky for you, we did get a good chunk of decent information about them when we first met them," Sunny replied, "We know their names, and we know what vehicles they transform into which should make finding them, very easy."

Sour only grinned a devious grin, "Perfect... now we just need to see if we can track their energy signatures. But be careful, our scanners may just pick up some Energon deposits, or some of our friends."

Just then, beeping on the radar that was hooked to each of their motorcycles were three flickering red dots, just a few miles ahead of them.

"I think we got a lock, we better slow down so they don't know we're approaching," Sugarcoat said.

All of them slowed down on the bikes and they pulled aside into a curb. Stepping off the bikes, the girls all grabbed tiny blasters to use and flipped their masks on. Sour Sweet stepped out of her car as well and she slowly walked out with the rest of the girls.

"They're very nearby," Sugarcoat whispered, "I say we surround the area so we can get closer looks at them."

"But wait, what if they have tech that can spot us?" Lemon asked.

"She's right, someone needs to distract them if they do. If they don't, then good. But it'd be best if they could be occupied by one of us for a bit, maybe get some more info out of them."

All of the girls nodded in unison. But wait, who would distract them? Who would be the one to deviate the group from their current plan? Four heads turned around and stared at Lemon Zest who quivered in fear.

"Aw... what does it have to be me?" Lemon whined.

Momentarily, Lemon carefully stepped out from the wall and took a peak, poking her head out the side of the wall. Her eyes widened when she got a good luck. The same porcupine hick-talking Decepticon and the skinny fembot that fit the description as Road Rage were both there. Around them were several storage units that were opened up, all were empty, and as far as her eye could she, she could see a few visible holes from some of the storage units, along with several drilling tools, shovels, buckets, wheelbarrows, and pickaxes. They must have been digging for a while. And not only that, there was a flatbed for a car to pull, and there were a few piles of... gold?

Lemon's eyes widened more when she saw the gold shiny material that was on the flatbed.

"Shiny...", Lemon drooled.

As Lemon observed the shiny material which sparkled in her eyes. Gold... real gold right in front of her... this was the most amazing thing she had ever seen... Oh how much she could do with it...

"Road Rage! I hit another lode!", Scatterspike called.

"Oooh... shiny!" Road Rage grinned.

Lemon carefully crept from the wall and slowly walked towards them to get a closer look at what they were doing, but she still maintained cover. There she watched as the two of them got a closer look at another stash of gold.

"Oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about! Filch would be so jealous!" Road Rage grinned.

Scatterspike chuckled, "That's the Road Rage I love! Tough, fun to be around, and an excellent tracker."

Road Rage chuckled too, "Y-Yeah... I guess so."

Road Rage carefully grabbed the small box in the pit, and she carefully pulled it up and placed it on the flatbed.

"Its hard to believe that so many treasures have been buried in this town," Road Rage said as she set the box down, wiping her hands clean of dust.

"I did a thorough search on what these humans call the information super highway," Scatterspike said, "Many old legends and myths told tale of pirates burying their treasures all around here."

"Nice...", Road Rage said, digging her white hand into one of the crates filled with gold trinkets and coins.

"Say uh, Road Rage?" Scatterspike asked.

"Yeah?"

Scatterspike took a moment to breathe and out, preparing herself for whatever outburst would come of asking this question.

"You're not still upset with seeing Smallfoot yesterday, are you?"

Road Rage's body froze, and her head jolted up. This wasn't a question she knew how to respond.

"Uh... are you alright? I didn't mean to upset you," Scatterspike said.

"No Scatterspike... its fine," Road Rage sighed, "I just... I... I just wish I didn't have to be reminded of her again."

Lemon Zest who remained hidden, did her best to stay quiet. Looking around her, she could see a few of the other girls who were hidden. They were in position, and ready to take action.

"I know you didn't like seeing her, but... I'm at least glad you're not going all wishy-washy on us," she said.

Road Rage simply turned head back at the porcupine and gave one a nod.

"Look... it bound to happen sooner or later. But right now, my only focus is just capturing Fracture, maybe search for some more gold... and that's it. Its not like we're going to be staying here."

Lemon Zest thought long and hard at what she had seen, and she just gave one quiet grunt to herself. She had heard enough. She slowly backed away from her hiding spot, trying to make it to the entrance. But as she tried to tip-toe herself away, her foot stepped on a rock, sliding it.

Both Cybertronians froze and their heads jolted up and they turned around to face the front entrance. Standing there, afraid, was Lemon Zest with her arms out.

She tried backing away, but she felt her back walk into something metallic and hard. Slowly looking up, she was staring up into the red eyes of a black colored Decepticon. The Decepticon just carefully grabbed her, allowing her arms to be free as she was raised up, and brought her up to his eye level.

"Oooh... who do we have here?" Overload smirked. "Wait a minute... you're one of those humans that we met yesterday. What was it... Lemon Zest?"

Lemon gulped and she slowly nodded.

"Y-Yeah... And y-you're Overload..."

"Aw, you remembered me... that's sweet of you," Overload said in a rather calm voice, "Its nice to see an adorable face that remembers me."

"Uh..."

Scatterspike huffed, "You call that human adorable?"

"I think we're off-track here," Road Rage said getting on her feet and walking over with Scatterspike. She gave a cold stare into Lemon's eyes as she talked down to her. "What were you doing spying on us?"

"Uh... I wasn't spying," Lemon said.

"Then explain why it looked like you were trying to flee the skies," Scatterspike asked.

"Oh, well, I was actually locking up one of the storage units here, and I saw you guys working, and I tried to quietly walk away so I wouldn't bother you. You don't need someone like me causing too much noise... hehe," Lemon chuckled nervously.

Scatterspike moved in a little closer and gave a sniff.

"Ah, she's lying. I can smell it a mile away," Scatterspike growled.

"That part is true, ya hick!"

The three of them turned around to see where the source came from, and they were quite surprised. So surprised that Overload's hand let go of Lemon, letting her drop and land on her butt. Luckily, it wasn't too big of a fall.

"Ow... that hurt...", Lemon said, rubbing herself.

She took her chance and ran towards the others, now regaining a serious look. Standing with the group was Sugarcoat who wore some military armor, and she carried a small machine gun with her. Right above her was Sunny Flare and Indigo Zap who were now wearing Apex Armor suits; suits that covered their bodies in indestructible armor that couldn't be penetrated by anything.

And standing in the middle of them with a Transformer suit, was Sour Sweet herself who was very, very, mad.

"Remember us?" Sour asked sweetly, "You'd have to be brainless not remember us from yesterday," she replied sourly.

All three of them stood straight and tall as they faced the five of them.

"Why are you girls here? What are you, some kind of military fighting force?" Road Rage asked.

"That'd be one way to put it dearie, but the simplest way to put it is we're working with a fighting force who can and will beat you if you don't surrender now and tell us what you're doing," Sunny Flare retorted.

Overload's eyebrows furled as he glared at them.

"You girls are working with those Autobots, aren't you?"

All five of them exchanged looks with one another with some confusion, before looking back at the former Con with a serious look.

"YEAH!"

"I strongly suggest you stop your relationship with those Autobots... well, maybe not all of you, I guess probably not the sour and sweet one who's standing in front of you all. From what I believe, she's got a free Bot... free from my hands."

Sour's suit raised a gun and pointed at them, "Are you threatening to hurt Smallfoot?"

"I never said I wanted to hurt her, and I have no intention to. In fact... you are dating her... correct?"

"And if I am?" Sour asked.

"I only wanted to say congratulations to you for finding love. But I am going to warn your friends this... you may believe those Autobots are your friends... but they are just as guilty as the Decepticons. And now they've brought their war upon you humans... and none of you deserved to be roped in our war..."

Indigo's eyes snared, "Back off, Overload. The Autobots are our friends."

"Friends... enemies... we're all the same here. All of us responsible for Cybertron's death. All because of our relentless war, death, and destruction... when the day finally comes, I will see to it that ALL Cybertronians perish for their crimes against Cybertron."

"Wait, wait, wait... Let me get this straight. You want to kill off every Cybertronian?" Sour asked.

Overload just nodded.

"Okay, but what about the ones next to you? They're Cybertronians too."

Overload smirked, "One thing you forget... there are exceptions to the causes of war. Ever since I departed from the Decepticons, that's when I ran into these two... my new friends. Unlike your Autobots, Scatterspike here is only a scavenger, and Road Rage? Well... lets just say it makes me happy to finally found someone who shares my same views."

"We're getting off-topic here!" Sour growled.

Sour's suit pulled out a gun from its fist, which began to charge up with energy and pointed it at the bounty hunters.

"What exactly are you punks here for?"

"Oh, don't worry about that sister," Scatterspike sneered, pulling out quills from her back, "None of you varmits will live long enough to find out about our big strike!"

"Now you hold on there Scatterspike. They're humans. And I've got a rule about harming organic life... Cybertronians may mean nothing to me, but it doesn't mean I'm going to slaughter organic life!" Overload snarled at the porcupine.

Turning his head, and putting his hammer back to his side, he cracked his knuckles, smirking.

"I'm not going to need my hammer for this job. Its just a matter of making sure they aren't able to fight back," Overload chuckled.

Road Rage groaned, "Fine. As long as we can keep them away for us to leave, then its fine with me."

Sour growled some more before her foot pounded the ground.

"Shadowbolts, attack!"

All five of them charged at the group of three and they began a fight, and a cloud of fire and dust flew up into the sky as they fought.

Scatterspike had to hold her own against Sugarcoat and Lemon Zest who had handheld weapons to fight the Cybertronian hick.

"You varmints aren't coming after me, or our gold!"

"You need to shut up!" Sugarcoat said as she pulled the trigger of her gun, sending a laser blast into Scatterspike's foot. The scavenger just winced in pain and she held one hand onto her foot while she tried to use another arm to swing at them with one of the quills she popped out of her back. She threw a few slices and dices at them, but the two girls kept dodging every last one of them without any difficulty whatsoever.

"You really suck at your aim!" Lemon laughed.

"Aw cool it ya little vermin!" Scatterspike said, flailing her arm around and landing on her belly.

Overload on the other hand was holding up on his own. While he knew no Cybertronian could handle the Apex Armor suits, he at least planned strategies and moves to avoid getting hurt. Every time Indigo tried to throw a punch, Overload just dodged the punch by simply moving out of the way. Whenever Sunny would retaliate from another side, Overload would duck down to avoid the swing. He moved like a ninja, and he was swift with each one of their attacks.

"Why aren't you going to kill us!? We're with the Autobots, and you made it clear you hate Autobots," Indigo said, trying to throw another punch.

Overload chuckled, "You forget, I said I hated Autobots, I didn't say I hated humans. In fact, I think I'm rather fond of your kind. You humans have a very good taste on this planet."

Indigo didn't reply, but instead kept on throwing some punches. Behind Overload was Sunny Flare who was smirking. She had just found a perfect way to finally get a punch thrown. Once Overload dodged the next punch, Sunny slammed him on his back, which tossed him onto his chest, making him groan. But he didn't stay down long, as he just got back up on his feet.

"What a punch... I've never met another person who could fight that hard," Overload chuckled. "You've got guts kid."

"I'm not a kid, Decepticon. And you're about to become my next target if you don't surrender right now!"

"Surrender is something I never do, even when the odds are against me," Overload said, blocking another punch, "But lets see what you're made of."

Road Rage on the other hand, wasn't having as much luck as the others. Sour Sweet was ruthless with her, and she didn't get any chance to recover from any of Sour's attacks. Each one of her blows kept surprising her after the other.

But as Sour got ready to swing her left fist at Road Rage's chest, she blocked her punch, and deflected it with a punch to her suit's face which nearly sent her flying backwards. She caught her balance within seconds, and got back up to see Road Rage rubbing at her wounds and snarling.

"Do you have some obsession with me kid? You must be really obsessed if you haven't stopped pounding on me," the fembot snarled.

Sour just let out a growl as she went back to slamming Road Rage's face some more, without end.

“You…”, Sour growled as she punched Road Rage’s face, “Hurt,” another punch, “My,” another punch to the face, “Girlfriend!”

Road Rage screamed in pain as Sour was going all ballistic on her, not sparing any second she had. She tried fighting back, but it was no use. Sour Sweet was winning every second, and she blocked every move she could throw.

“You know for a bounty hunter, you sure are weak!” Sour Sweet said, “But at the same time, you’ve got an amazing figure! I can see why Smallfoot dated you!”

Sour punched Road Rage in the groin, sending her down on her hands and knees, coughing and breathing heavily from the pain, coughing up a bit of some blue blood, presumably Energon. But as she stared back up at Sour, she could only stare right up at an angry face.

“You hurt my girlfriend you coward. You left her to die out in an open battlefield, and you never even came back to save her. You are a disgrace to the Autobots…”, Sour snarled.

Road Rage breathed some more as she tried to calm down from the pain.

“I… never… wanted… to hurt her!”

“Then you shouldn’t have abandoned her!” Sour kicked her hard in her stomach, knocking her down onto her back.

Once she was down, she moaned in pain and she slowly tried to move back up, but instead she felt her arms clamped down by two big gray arms. As she looked up, she could see the faces of Indigo Zap and Sunny Flare in her sight as she pinned her down.

“We’ve got her! So… what are we doing now?”

“I know the first thing I’m doing,” Sour said, pulling out a small tool from her side. In her hand was a small U-shaped clamp, which started to move towards Road Rage’s face.

“No, no, keep that away from me, no, Mmmf! Mmm!”

Sour Sweet held the clamp over her mouth, and she tightened the screws on the side of the clamp, tightening it. Now she wouldn’t be able to speak.

“You’re mine… and you’ve got a lot of explaining to do, Road Hog.”

Sour swung her fist way back, and she threw a mighty big punch into her face, making her scream into her gag. The scream was so loud, it got the attention of Overload and Scatterspike who were occupied with Sugarcoat and Lemon Zest.

"No... Road Rage!" Overload shouted.

"Come on! We've got to get moving before they throw any more of that stuff at us," Scatterspike said, pulling on Overload's arm.

"No, we can't leave her!"

"She can protect herself, lets go!"

Overload turned himself around and grabbed Scatterspike by the shoulders, raising her up and staring at her dead in the eye.

"You listen to me close, porcupine... Road Rage is my best friend, and friends do NOT leave each other. We're not leaving without her, and that's it. Understood?" Overload nodded.

"A-Alright...", Scatterspike said.

Overload set her back down, and he turned himself back around with his hammer in his hand ready to swing.

"Just one throw to that Autobot, and that'll buy some time," Overload said.

Before he could make the swing, a large pulsing sting of electricity surged through his body, sending thousands of volts through his bloodstream making him scream in pain, and dropping his body down on the ground.

"No... gotta... save her...", Overload said as his eyes slowly closed, setting into unconscious. His left hand slowly opened up as his body shut down on him, descending into sleep mode.

Scatterspike just shook her head, "I'm sorry Overload. I know you're not going to like this, but we have to go. I'm sorry..."

Road Rage's eyes widened and her emotion changed to frightened.

"Fghttmrfpngm! Plmhfm! Dhn't lmhvm mm!" Road Rage tried to scream. Her gag was tightened enough that she couldn't even cry for help.

Scatterspike somberly looked back at Road Rage and shook her head.

"I'm... I'm sorry..."

With Overload tossed onto the flatbed unconsious, she transformed into her jeep mode and hooked up with the flatbed. Her tires swerved, and she sped off far from the group of girls, leaving Road Rage tied up and left with the girls.

"Nh! Whnt, plmhfm!"

Sour Sweet just grabbed her and turned her on her back, staring her dead in the eye with her head unit's visor.

"Not so fun when you're left for the enemy, is it?" Sour asked, "Now you know how my girlfriend felt when you abandoned her for dead."

Road Rage tried her best to keep her face far from Sour's head unit, but she couldn't. Sour's arm clenched her head tightly, making her unable to move.

Sour turned her head to the side, staring down at Sugarcoat who stood by.

"Sugarcoat, call Highbrow. We're going to need to borrow the interrogation table for a bit. Only this interrogation is going to be a bit... deadly."

The Transformers will return after these messages...

Author's Note

So things are now heating up.

Sorry for this being late guys!