Chapter 9: Fixit and Sebastian's teamwork! Chaos in the jungle!

-Location: Yotsuba mansion, Autobots base-

Another day, another new stuff going to happen. Rikka and Raquel were chilling with Sideswipe while Grimlock just keep admiring his new Autobot symbol on his shoulder plates that Fixit just replaced it. He always continue to ask if the symbol fitted him.

"Do you think my new Autobot symbol look so awesome?" he grinned.

Sideswipe knew it that would happen. He couldn't help but groaned. "For the hundreth times, Grim. It really looks good on you." and he thought Strongarm was already annoyed him enough.

"I know!" Grimlock exclaimed. "It's pretty awesome!"

"It really is." a voice spoke up. It was Alice. At least Grimlock knew she always patience. "Glad for you to be back, Grim."

Her guardian grinned down at her while Sideswipe just rolled his optics. "Come on, Sideswipe. At least be kind and patience to Grim." Rikka told him.

"I know that but-" he was cut off.

"There shall be no excuses-quel." that made Sideswipe groaned in annoyance and pouted.

"Speaking of which, where's Mana and Makoto?" Alice asked.

Rikka looked up at her. "I think they went on a patrol or something with Bumblebee and Strongarm."

"But I thought Strongarm said she wanted to go on a solo patrol-quel?"

Sideswipe sighed once more before getting up and walks off. "Where are you going, Sideswipe?"

"I'm just gonna go and help Fixit with something so that Grim doesn't bother me or something."

"Hey!" Grimlock protested.

"Now, now, calm down, Grim." her human partner reassured her.

Lance looked at the blue dog fairy. "They went on the patrol without us-de lance?"

"They said they will be back soon-quel."

"Well, I'm glad everyone is getting together-de lance." well, actually...

They heard a crash or an explosion noise. "Well, almost-quel..."

"What's going on over there?"

"Let's go and check it out."

They all walked over to see what is happening.

-Location: At the road-

Strongarm was driving along the road at the other side of the forest. Raquel was right. She was on the solo patrol...well with Makoto and Dabyi, of course.

"Personal journal." Strongarm spoke up. "I have driven 2000 miles from the mansion, and my pistons are postively tingling."

"Uh, are you sure you want to do this alone, Strongarm?" Makoto told her.

"We should have tell Bumblebee and the others first before we left-davi." Dabyi sighed.

"Come on, you two." her guardian replied. "We can do this together. Successfully completing this mission might mean a promotion. Sergeant Strongarm and her friends, Makoto and Dabyi. Or Lieutenant Strongarm. Or President Strongarm!"

Both Makoto and Dabyi sweatdrops. They were about to speak up again until Fixit com-link them.

"Cadet Strongarm, come in." the Mini-Con spoke up. "Status report."

Strongarm groaned. "Hasn't change since you asked me 12 minutes ago, Fixit. Is it really necessary to-"

"Yes." Fixit bluntly replied. "When Bumblebee agreed, after weeks of begging and pleading on your part, to let you go on your first solo outing with Makoto and Dabyi, you promise to check in every 10 minutes. Anyway, how're you holding up, Miss Makoto and Dabyi?"

"We're doing alright, Fixit." Makoto answered.

"Except that we need to informed to others first before we left-davi..."

Although you can't see but Strongarm clearly rolling her optics. "It's a simple recon mission."

"What you are doing now is investigating a Decepticon signal." Fixit pointed out.

The girl just sighed and crossed her arms while listening to their conversation. "Possible signal, Fixit. If it is real, I'll call for backup, like I promised 37 times before I-" she didn't even finished her sentence when they all heard an explosion in the com-link. "Fixit..?"

"Oh dear...I'll, uh, be right back...!" Fixit ended in com-link, leaving them so confused.

"Hey, Makoto, Strongarm, you might wanna might look behind you-davi..."

The cadet adjust her left wing mirror car and spotted something coming towards them.

"Could it be Bumblebee?" Makoto wondered.

Strongarm groaned as she took a sharp turn to the left while going to the mountain. The smoky trail was the one who following them. She drove all the way on top of the mountain and stay hidden from it. And when the vehicle stops, she leaped up and recognized the vehicle. It was Bumblebee. "You!" and beside him were Mana and Sharuru.

"Mana?"

"Sharuru-davi?"

Bumblebee transformed into his robot mode as he chuckles nervously. "This isn't how it looks, Strongarm. I just forgot to give you something before you left." he look around and picked up the rock. "It's my good luck rock. Took it on my very first mission. Must've dropped it. Right?"

Everyone went silent and Strongarm does not buy it.

"Try again-sharu." Sharuru sighed, looking at Bumblebee.

Strongarm crossed her arms and frowned. "Lieutenant, this is supposed to be my first solo mission with Makoto and Dabyi. Isn't that correct?"

"Well...technically, yes." he nodded. "But you're on a strange planet, in unfamiliar terrain. I just wanted to make sure nothing bad happened."

"But, sir. I have Makoto and Dabyi with me!"

"They aren't from this planet either!"

"Bee, Makoto has been here ever since I first become a Pretty Cure." Mana told him. "So, you don't have to worry too much."

"She has a point-davi." Dabyi nods.

"And the only bad thing happening is you are clearly demonstrating that you do not trust my abilities. Or my training." Strongarm said.

Makoto looked at her guardian and sweatdrops. "Strongarm..."

However, Bumblebee just sighed. "Okay, look, this is your mission. I'll leave you yo it."

"Thank you, sir!" she smiled, transforming into her vehicle mode and letting Makoto and Dabyi in and drove off.

Bumblebee couldn't help but sighed again. "I'm still not sure about this..."

"You worry too much-sharu."

"I'm sure they'll be fine."

"Let's...continue following them. Quietly." both Mana and Sharuru just stared in shocked as they looked at each other before sighing.

"This can't be helped-sharu..."

Bumblebee transformed into his vehicle mode and letting Mana and Sharuru in before droving off.

-Location: Yotsuba's mansion, Autobots base-

When Rikka and Alice went to check out what the explosion was, they saw that a machine blew up. Fixit was fixing Sideswipe up.

"It was Sebastian's idea to turbo-charge our spark plugs!" Sideswipe complained.

"You shouldn't be helping Sebastian with technology." Fixit told him. "He doesn't-"

"What's going on here?" Alice walked forward.

Rikka looked around. Some tools are scattered around the tools. "Everything's a mess here."

Before anyone could answer, they heard some clattering noise and turned around and saw several stasis pods falling on top of each other. They also saw Sebastian was stuck under there.

"Sebastian!" Alice and Rikka went to help him by pulling him out of the fallen stasis pods.

"And what have we here?" Fixit let out a smirk. Dang it, Fixit.

"You're not helping the case here-de lance." Lance gave him a unamused look.

"Seriously-quel..."

"Coming through." Grimlock, in his dinosaur mode, walked over and began to picked up the pods that Sebastian was under.

"Sebastian, I sincerely appreciate your efforts to improve upon our limited resources." Fixit told him. "But Cybertronian technology is simply too advanced for the human brain."

"Yeah, only big brains like ours understand complicated stuff." Grimlock added, holding a kazoo. "Like this." before handed to Rikka.

"Grim, that's a kazoo." the girl grabbed it and started to blow it, making it a sound. That startled the Dinobot a bit as Alice giggled.

Sebastian let out a 'ahem'. "Agreed, I'm no expert in Cybertronian science, but I'm a pretty handy guy and I can be a lot more help to you than just providing room, board, and a cover story."

"Well, if you really want to help, Sebastian, please fix the freaky dip-sneaky clip-*thunks*-leaky drip in your lavatory." Fixit told him with a frown. "It is frying my delicate auditory circuits!"

There was a moment of silence. However, Sebastian didn't get angry or annoyed, he only let out a soft smile and bowed. "I'll do my best."

Fixit 'hphm'ed a bit before left with Grimlock follows him. Sideswipe just looked down and shrugging before following too. Rikka looked at Sebastian.

"You didn't yell at Fixit."

"It is my duty to remain calm no matter what the situation is." he let out a smile.

"Well, some butlers are like that." Alice smiled before she and her friends followed. Sebastian just watched them walked off and frowns a bit.

-Location: At the road-

Strongarm was still driving and passed by the lake with Makoto and Dabyi still constantly hearing the cadet speaking to herself.

"Personal journal: Standing up to a superior officer was difficult, but I give myself high marks for respect and professional-"

"We don't even know what we're doing anymore-davi..." Dabyi sighed.

Makoto also sighed before she heard a signal beeping from the screen. "Is that...?"

"I am, I mean, we are, closing in on the signal. Any moment now we should-" before she could finish her sentence... "Ugh! Not again!" she drove behind the bushes.

"Let me guess, Bumblebee is still following you-davi?"

Makoto shushed her before a familiar yellow vehicle drive pass by them. Yep, it's him. Strongarm followed him behind. Later, she, in her robot mode, angrily walked towards the vehicle while peeking at the door with a frown.

"Is there a problem, officer?" he asked nervously.

"You know, it's kinda creepy when you stare us like-sharu..."

Bumblebee let Mana and Sharuru out before transforming into his robot mode.

"Sir, I thought we agreed that you had no business being on my tailpipe." Strongarm reminded him.

"He's probably cares about you-davi." Dabyi added.

"Dabyi is right." Bumblebee agreed. "Watching out for you is my business, actually."

As the two bots keep on talking, Makoto walked towards Mana. "Bee is being overprotective, isn't he?"

"Pretty much." Mana nods. "After all, it's his job as a leader, just like me watching out for you." she let out a smile. Makoto just stared at her for a while.

"I guess you're right." she smiled back.

Bumblebee continued to talk to her. "If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't be on Earth for the first time. I-" he sighed. "I feel responsible for you."

"Lieutenant."

"I know you don't like it, but I'm coming along. Strictly as an observer."

Just then, Sharuru's ears twitched a bit as she perked up a bit.

"Sharuru, what's wrong?" Mana asked, looking at her fairy partner.

"I think I heard something-sharu..."

"Decepticon, maybe-davi?" Dabyi wondered.

"It could be it." Makoto agreed.

However, Bumblebee and Strongarm were too busy talking to each other. "You won't even know I'm there. Deal?" he said.

Strongarm just sighed. "Do I have a choice?"

"Hey, Bee." Mana called out for her guardian, catching his attention. Bumblebee looked and bend down at her.

"What is it, Mana?"

"Sharuru said she heard something."

"It could be a Decepticon."

Bumblebee stared at them for a while. "Where is it coming from?"

Sharuru's ears twitched again before looking behind her. "It's coming from over there-sharu."

"Then, let's roll." he transformed into his vehicle mode, letting Mana in before drove off.

Makoto look at her guardian. "Let's go, Strongarm. Sharuru said she sense something and we suspect a Decepticon."

Strongarm looked down at her. "But this was supposed our first solo mission and finding the Decepticon signal!"

"Sharuru can sense anything with her rabbit ears-davi." Dabyi pointed out. "I can't even do that-davi."

"It's better if we just follow them. After all, I don't mind if Mana look after me even if she's the leader of our own team. She's still my friend." the girl smiled. "Don't you consider Bee as your friend too?"

Her guardian was taken back by her words. She didn't even thought of it. She couldn't help but sighed. "Alright." she transformed into her vehicle mode and let Makoto in before following Bumblebee and Mana.

-Location: Yotsuba mansion, Autobots base-

Raquel and Lance were with Grimlock and Sideswipe, watching some television in the living room. Rikka and Alice were helping Fixit stacking some stuff until they heard a drilling sound. They turned to look Sebastian was the one doing the drilling. Unsatisfied, Fixit went over and unplugged the device, glaring at him.

"I believe we had a discussion about you and Cybertronian technology." the Mini-Con told him. Rikka and Alice went over to them, to stop them from arguing.

"Now, now, let's not started another fight." Rikka sweatdrops.

"That's right." Alice nods. "We are supposed to be a team."

However, like usual, Sebastian didn't get angry or frustrated. He just bowed. "My sincerely apologies."

The fairies, Sideswipe and Grimlock looked over at them.

"There they go again-de lance..." Lance sighed. "They are just like another version of Strongarm and Sideswipe-de lance."

"Except that Sebastian is more polite and patience, unlike Sideswipe-quel." Raquel pointed out.

Sideswipe shot them with a glare. "Hey!" he feel offended by that. Grimlock just giggled, before looking back at Fixit and Sebastian.

"I am well-versed in human emotion, based upon my viewing of a certain doctor on your television." Fixit spoke up. "He would say you have an unhealthy need to prove yourself. He would also say that you should tune in every afternoon at 3."

The fairies and the two Autobots shrugged as they all looked back at the television.

"Calm down, Fixit." Rikka reassured him. "He's trying to help."

"Isn't that right, Sebastian?" Alice asked her butler.

He nods. "That is true. After all, this is my place too."

"Well, Cybertronian technologies are very complex and complicated, so I suggest-" Fixit tried to protest.

"I understand but at least let me assist you with these."

As both Fixit and Sebastian continued to argue, Lance just yawned. "When are they gonna end the fight-de lance?"

"Probably, forever-quel..."

Sideswipe groaned. "All those fighting and quarrel really interrupting our tv shows..."

Grimlock grinned. "Can I-?" he didn't finished his sentence as they said 'No.' at the same time. He pouted. As they trying to continued to watch their show, a loud explosion can be heard from the same spot. They turned to look that Sebastian and Fixit were already covered in ashes. Rikka and Alice managed to get out of safety before the explosion happens.

"Seriously-quel...?" Raquel sweatdrops.

"Why can't we just watch our show in peace-de lance...?" Lance sighed.

-Location: In the woods-

Mana, Makoto and their Autobot guardians were walking around. They were told that Sharuru heard something because of her ears twitching.

"Hear anything yet, Sharuru?" Mana asked.

"Not yet-sharu..." her ears twitched again. "Wait, I sense something-sharu!"

"You see? The ancients have judged me worthy and bestowed upon me their roll." she heard a voice.

"Right there-sharu!" she pointed to her right. They went towards the voice is and quietly following the voice.

"Now, please tell me, is Doradus near?" they heard that voice again.

They went to have a peek from the bushes and saw a huge statue. "It's a statue." Bumblebee gasped.

"A statue talked?" Makoto blinked her eyes. But Dabyi spotted something from her right. "Look-davi!"

They turned to look and saw a frog like-Cybertronian talking to the statue. "What do these markings mean?"

"A Decepticon?" Mana wondered.

"Please share your secrets." the frog Cybertronian asked again but received no answers. "Can't speak? Or won't? Maybe this will loosen your tongue?" he used all his strength to destroy the statue, as the team cringed. "Deceiver." He then jumped to another statue. "You saw what I just did to your friends? Now tell me. Where lies the Lost City of Doradus?"

Sharuru thought this frog is out of his mind. "He's literally talk to the statue-sharu...!"

Mana just stared at the frog for a moment. Lost City of Doradus? She thought to herself. Strongarm quietly walked forward until she accidentally stepped on the twig, causing it to make a noise.

The frog quickly turned around in alarm. "Thieves! You think you can follow me to the treasure? And then what? Wrest it away? Never!" he croacked. Mana look and saw an insignia. Yep. He is a Decepticon alright.

"We're not thieves-davi!" Dabyi shouted as she floats up.

"And we aren't going to get treasure by ourselves-sharu!" Sharuru followed. "That's quite selfish-sharu!"

The Decepticon looked up and gasped. "You...! You must be the protectors of the treasure!"

The two fairies blinked their eyes in confusion, looking at each other. "Is he talking to us-sharu...?"

"You must take me to Doradus and we will share the treasure together!" the frog exclaimed before he grabbed the two fairies with his tongue and leaped off.

"Hey! Let us go-davi!" Dabyi struggled.

"Sharuru!"

"Dabyi!"

The team run to chase after the frog as he leaped from branch to branch while the two fairies screaming for help.

"Who is that?" Strongarm asked.

"A relic hunter, apparently." Bumblebee replied. "We aren't letting him getting away!" he and Strongarm transformed into their vehicle while Mana and Makoto both get inside of them and drove to chase him again. However, the Decepticon managed to jumped over a huge cliff as the two bots has to stopped immediately, before they almost fall in.

"Hurry up and save us-sharu!" Sharuru's voice called out to them from the distance.

Both Bumblebee and Strongarm transformed into their robot mode, before looking at the other. "Scrap. Looks like we're taking the long way around."

"But Sharuru and Dabyi are-!" Mana and Makoto looked worried.

"Don't worry. We'll get them back." Bumblebee reassured them. "We just need to ask Fixit about this Decepticon."

They look and saw the frog transformed into his vehicle mode and drove off.

Strongarm com-link Fixit. "Fixit, our Con looks like an Earth frog. Anything in the Alchemor's prisoner manifest fit that bill?"

At the mansion, Fixit was looking at the Alchemor's database until the image of the frog that they faced appears on the screen. "The description matches that of an escaped amphiboid, Springload." he said. "Human word for his mental state would be 'bonker'." Raquel and Lance secretly overheard everything.

"Sounds about right. He was babbling to a statue, wanting directions to-"

"The Lost City of Doradus." Fixit knew it. "Springload is obsessed. A fabled Cybertronian land and home to the Fountain of Energon, granting eternal power and energy to whomever finds it."

"Sounds a bit selfish-de lance." Lance whispers to Raquel.

Raquel agreed. "You're right-quel." The two fairies decided to ignore everything else until...

"Myth or not. Springload believes Doradus exists. And no doubt think he's on Cybertron." Bumblebee spoke up before he went silent for a second. "And oh, he has Sharuru and Dabyi."

...that made Raquel and Lance in shocked as they frantically floats towards the com-link. "What happened-de lance?!"

"Why did they got taken away-quel?!"

"...because Springload thought they were some kind of protectors of the treasure and wanting them to guide him to it."

"Protectors of treasure-quel?!" Raquel couldn't believe his ears. "We can hardly protect Trump Kingdom when the Jikocchu Army took over-quel!"

"You just had to say that out loud, did you, Raquel..?" Lance sighed and sweatdrops.

Back with Bumblebee and Strongarm, they were kinda shocked when the two fairies shouted into the com-link all of the sudden, even Mana and Makoto began to sweatdrops awkwardly. However, it's very unclear to them but Fixit managed to shove the fairies away from the com-link.

"Anyway, do not take Springload lightly." Fixit continued. "Many museum personnel, historians and law enforcement have paid the mice-lice-*thunks*-price! I'm dispatching the rest of the team to assist you."

"Copy that." Bumblebee nods. "We'll keep tabs on Springload until the others arrive." he ended the com-link.

"That was my call to make." Strongarm seems a bit frustrated about it.

He just sighed. "You're right. Force of habit. But you would've said the same thing."

"No." the cadet protested. "I would not have!"

"Strongarm-" her human partner got cut off by her.

"Our team is 2000 miles away." Strongarm continued. "I have an opportunity to make the capture right now."

Mana stepped in, trying to settle this. "Now, now, we're all in this together. There are no need to argue right now. We have to get that Decepticon and get Sharuru and Dabyi back."

"Mana's right." her guardian nods. "Now that we know we're facing an unstable Decepticon, we need to go back to standard procedure. The solo part of your mission is over." he walked off with Mana following him.

Strongarm frowned at frustration while Makoto stared up at her. However, her guardian had another idea. She decided to com-link Fixit.

"Fixit, good news." she spoke up. "Springload fell into my lap. I've made an arrest. No need to send backup."

Makoto gasped in shocked when her own guardian did that. She began lied to Fixit so she can do this mission alone! She just couldn't believe it!

"All this happened since we spoke 60 seconds ago?" Fixit was confused.

"Yes. Remember, we're in a different time zone."

The girl began to frowned and looked down on the ground. Why did Strongarm has to do that?

"Oh. Well, good. Congrats and see all of you when you get back." with that, Fixit ended the com-link.

Strongarm smiled. Her plan worked. "Alright!" she looked at the girl. "Makoto, let's go-" before she could finish her sentence, Makoto just walked off, ignoring her. That caused her to get confused. "Makoto...?"

The girl didn't even bother to look back at her or even replied back. She just keep on walking. Her guardian was completely in shocked. She never seen her like this before. "Did...I do something wrong...?" yes. Yes you did. But she reluctantly followed anyway.

-Location: Yotsuba mansion, Autobot Base-

Rikka, Alice and their Autobot guardians just stared at the garage and the backyard as the tools and machine were all scattered all over the place.

"My, what a terrible mess." Alice commented.

Rikka sighed. "This could take forever to clean up."

"Do not worry." Sebastian walked in, holding a Decepticon Hunter as he wiped it with a cloth. "I will clean all of these up after."

Everyone had a surprised reaction when he was holding that weapon. "Uh, Sebastian, that's..."

"The Decepticon Hunter!" Fixit shouted as he quickly trying to grab from Sebastian. "That's very dangerous. Let go!"

"Oh, please, I just wanted to clean it." the butler politely said. "It was kinda dusty so I figured I should wiped it up."

Fixit ignored him as he keep tugging it from him. "Give it here!"

The others just watched as the two fairies floats by. "Are they still fighting again-quel...?"

"Sebastian is still kinda polite-de lance."

"Uh, should we go and break it up?" Grimlock asked.

"Uh, should we sit and watch?" Sideswipe answered. The two bots just grinned at each other and sat down to watch.

Rikka just facepalmed. "You two are not helping..."

Fixit and Sebastian still tugging on the Decepticon Hunter until both of them loose a grip and the weapon landed in front of the girls. Alice picked up and stared at the weapon. She looked at the two of them, with Fixit scolding the butler but Sebastian just bowed apologetically.

"Alice...?"

Alice thought for a while before she had an idea. "I think I have a solution for this."

-Location: At the old temple-

Mana, Makoto and their Autobot guardians arrived at some abandoned temple. Strongarm kneel down and saw some footprints that lead inside.

"Track and freshly disturbed vegetation to the door." she said.

"Our best plan is to wait for Springload to come out." Bumblebee suggests. "Then tail him."

"I disagree." Strongarm told him, before pulling out her holographic book. "And so does the manual. Regulation R65 states: 'When performing a surveillance operation, every effort should be made to keep the perpretrator in sight.'

Makoto just listen to her words but stay quiet and didn't even bothered to look up at her. Mana noticed her as she was feeling concerned.

"There could be another way out of there, for all we know. If we simply watching the Decepticon, there's no reason this can't still be my mission, sir."

Bumblebee went silent for a while before nodding. "Lead on, Strongarm." that made Strongarm smile but not for Makoto. "After all, who knows what could happen to Sharuru and Dabyi."

The two Autobots then walked forward the entrance as Mana look back at her friend. "MakoPi, are you alright?"

Makoto didn't answer for a while before she snapped out of it. "Huh? Oh, I'm fine." Mana was sure she's not alright.

"If you have any problem. Just say it. After all, I'm your friend." she smiled at her before walking in. Makoto was surprised by her words before let out a small smile and followed.

When they have went inside, they quietly hide behind the wall as they took a peek and saw Springload was checking something on his holographic screen while the fairies just stand there, afraid to move.

"These markings do not match my scroll!" he then turning to look at the fairies. "Or do they?"

Both Sharuru and Dabyi gulped in fear, afraid to speak up too.

"Is Doradus near? Speak!" he croaked angrily. "You can tell me! I have deemed worthy!"

"We don't know-sharu!" Sharuru protested.

"We are not the protectors of the treasure-davi!" Dabyi does the same. "We're the legendary warriors' fairies-davi!"

"Legendary warriors? Doradus has legendary warriors?!"

"That's not what we meant-sharu/-davi!"

Strongarm act quickly as she pulled out a handcuff and went straight towards the Decepticon. "Strongarm, don't!" Bumblebee tried to warn her.

"Decepticon, you are under arrest for-!" she tried to grab him but her servo got burned his skin. His acid skin! "Argh!"

Springload grinned. "Try to keep me from my treasure and you'll get burned. And worse!" he then gave her a kick to the statue while wrapping the fairies with his tongue and sprint off.

They all walked up to the cadet. "You okay?" Bumblebee asked.

Strongarm looked at her burned servo. "Acid. Coating his armor. Built-in defense mechanism."

"Acid?" Mana blinked her eyes. "Wait, if he's all coated in acid, why doesn't it burned Sharuru and Dabyi...?"

"Maybe because they are not Cybertronians." her guardian answered. "I think his acid skin only harm Cybertronians."

Makoto look at where the frog went and leap into action. "MakoPi!" her friend called out to her.

"Where are you going?!" Strongarm also called out for her. "Come back! It's dangerous!"

She stopped for a while before replying. "I'm not leaving without Sharuru and Dabyi! Even I'm not a Pretty Cure, it is my duty not only to be a hero but to protect what is important to me: my friends!" she look at Strongarm. "Don't make the same mistake I did once when I first met Mana and the others."

Her guardian was taken back by her words before the girl keep on running forward. 'Don't make the same mistake as her...' They look up and saw the temple is about to fall down. "Looks like the temple has some defenses of its own."

Strongarm didn't say anything as she keeps looking back where Makoto went. As the girl kept on running and dodging all of those rubbles, Daybi saw her coming towards them. "Makoto!"

Springload turned around and saw her. "I won't let you near Doradus! Ever!"

"I'm not here for the treasure! The treasure that I want are my friends that you stole from me!"

The frog glared as he looked and saw a giant hole and make a leap of it, and without noticing the two fairies slipped out from his tongue. ...not that way, you dirty-mind readers. The girl followed them before the wall fall down completely. With Bumblebee, Strongarm and Mana, they managed to get out to safety.

"What about MakoPi?" Mana asked.

"We'll figure that out later." Bumblebee then turned to look at Strongarm. "Because of you attempted an unauthorized capture, we've lost the element of surprise. Now we have to plan an immediate confrontation. We can't wait for the rest of the team." Bumblebee sounded angry.

Strongarm looked down in shame. She remember what Makoto said back then.

"Don't make the same mistake I did once when I first met Mana and the others..."

She did made a mistake. That's the reason why she is so distance from her. The cadet have to tell the truth about it. "Actually, they're not coming." that caused them to look at her in shocked. "After you spoke to Fixit, I commed back and told him not to send the others. I...didn't want time to give Springload time to get away."

The girl looked up and said, "No wonder Makoto was so distance from you."

Bumblebee was not impressed and crossed his arms. "Your reckless behavior was bad enough. Then you lied to a superior officer. To me." Ouch, that stings. No puns intended.

"I know I did wrong and...I made the same mistake as Makoto told me..."

Mana stayed silent for speaking up. "It's okay to made mistakes." that caught her attention. "Everyone made mistakes sometimes, no matter how big or small they are. Making mistakes is part of learning. In my term, I called it a 'happy accident'." she winked. (Sorry if this part is kinda cheesy-)

Strongarm looked down at her in shocked before smiling. "Thanks, Mana." she looked at Bumblebee. "Please, sir. One more chance to complete the mission solo. Let me take the lead, you observe. I'll do everything by the book."

He went silent for a bit before nodding. "You're on a very short leash."

"Thank you, sir!"

"But...you have to make amend with Makoto after this mission is over."

She nods. "I will!"

-Location: Yotsuba mansion, Autobot base-

Alice has instructed the two Autobots to follows her plan: to messed up the Decepticon Hunter for a bit so that Fixit and Sebastian can work together to fix it. Once again, no puns intended. Rikka and Raquel were looking out for the Mini-Con and the butler to make sure they are on the same place, before facing at Alice, giving a thumb up.

"Let's test it out."

"Are you sure this will works?" Sideswipe asked.

"Just follow Alice's plan-de lance."

"Yeah, she knows what to do." Grimlock really know what Alice capable of. They walked towards Fixit and Sebastian with a Decepticon Hunter as Alice placed down to the ground, making some noise.

Both Fixit and Sebastian looked at them and then to the Decepticon Hunter.

"We were just messing around with it and it started to make noise." Alice told them.

The Mini-Con looked at the Decepticon Hunter carefully. "Might be a frequency or a systems overload. Or it could be resulting in a catastrophic explosion! It needs to be disarmed." he picked up the weapon.

Sebastian knew Fixit doesn't want him to help so he just turned around.

"To access the Decepticon Hunter's motherboard, the outer casing needs to be removed." Fixit said. "The Decepticon Hunter must be kept completely immobile. I cannot do it myself."

"Well..." Rikka began. "We need 'someone' who is much older than us to do this kind of stuff."

Sebastian heard what she said and turned around. Fixit looked up at him and nods. The butler smiled and bowed. "I'll be gladly to help you." he and Fixit went to find some tools to fix the weapon.

The others looked at each other and grinned. "It worked-quel...!"

"Now, all we have to do is to see if they can work together."

-Location: With Makoto-

After the wall has collapsed, Makoto groggily opened her eyes and woke up. She looked around her surroundings. "This is..."

"Makoto-davi!" her fairy partner went up to her as the girl hugged her closer.

"Dabyi, thank goodness you're okay! Where's Sharuru?"

"Right here-sharu!" they saw the fairy coming out from the rubble and went to them. "I'm fine-sharu."

"You!" they turned around and saw Springload was in front of them, croaking angrily. "You are not worthy to have all the treasure from Doradus! The spirits chose me!"

"We don't want any treasures-sharu!" Sharuru shouts. "You're being quite selfish-sharu!"

Dabyi has another idea. "Remember when we said that we're the legendary warriors' fairies...of Doradus-davi?" she explained. "Then, here it comes-davi!" she turned into the Lovely Commune as Makoto nods and began to transforms.

"Pretty Cure, Love Link!"

"The blade of courage, Cure Sword!"

Springload backed away in shocked and fear. "I-impossible! The spirits never told me about the legendary warriors of Doradus!"

"Sorry, Doradus isn't here right now." a voice spoke up and it is revealed to be Strongarm. "Can we take a message?"

Sword looked at her and let out a smile a bit. While Sharuru went to Mana. "Mana-sharu!"

"Sharuru!" she hugged her fairy partner.

"It's not possible!" Springload croaked. "You were buried alive! Unless...you're ghosts. Yes!"

"He's still out of his mind-sharu..." Sharuru sighed as she transformed into the Lovely Commune. "Let's go, Mana." Mana nods and began to transforms.

"Pretty Cure, Love Link!"

"Overflowing love, Cure Heart!"

The frog let out 'hmph'ed. "Unworthy spirits and legendary warriors, still seeking to foil me! Never!" he transformed and drove off with the two Autobots does the same as they went inside and chased after him.

Sword just sit there quietly, didn't say anything. "Look, I know what I did was wrong and you were right. I did made the same mistake as you. I only care about this being our first solo mission and never cared about others' and your feelings too. I was...being so selfish. I'm sorry. You are still my friend, Makoto." the girl turned to look at her. "I promise, I'll be a good friend to you. To everyone."

Her human partner stay silent before let out a smile. "Alright. I forgive you." she nods. Dabyi heard their conversation and smiles. "Now, let's get him-davi!"

Everyone drove further to chase him. Strongarm followed his trail while Bumblebee drove to the left. He managed to catch up to him but Springload transform and uses his tongue to whack him with his acid. Bumblebee screamed in pain and drove backward.

"Bee, look out behind us-sharu!"

"Lieutenant!" Strongarm managed to stop him from falling from the cliff. She transformed and started to shoot at the Decepticon thought he managed to dodge it.

"Pathetic spirits!" he mocked but Sword leaped up and prepare to attack.

"Holy Sword!"

She launched her attack at him as Springload yelped and tries to dodge them before sprinting off, escaped from their sight.

"We lost him-davi..."

Bumblebee let Heart out before he transformed. He noticed that she was feeling all woozy and dizzy. "You alright?"

"C-carsick...!" all that spinning from him makes her feel dizzy. Sword went to her.

Strongarm walked towards Bumblebee. "Sir, would you relinquish your role as observer and officially assist?"

He went silent before looking at Sword as she nod and let out a smile. "I'd be honored, cadet." he replied back.

-Location: Yotsuba mansion, Autobot base-

Back at the mansion, Fixit was unscrewing the top as Sebastian hold the weapon still so it doesn't move. The others just watched them from afar. As the Mini-Con has successfully unscrew, he take a look inside and there are no bomb inside. "There's no bomb here."

But Sebastian noticed something. "Look. There's something lodged in there." Fixit also noticed. He reached out his hand in there after his hand changed into a picker and picked it up. They tried to brace themselves when Fixit pulled it out but nothing happened. When they look inside, they saw a kazoo.

"What's this?" Fixit was confused.

Both Grimlock and Sideswipe burst out laughing as the girls just giggled. Both Sebastian and Fixit were even more confused. The butler knew it was a stun all along but he decided not burst his bubble.

"I can't believe that worked!" Sideswipe spoke up.

"You started to working together!" Grimlock added.

"Thank goodness you two stopped fighting." Alice said.

Rikka nods. "It was all Alice's idea."

Fixit blinked his optics in confusion and Sebastian just smiled before looking at the weapon. "Fixit, shouldn't that cable be...?" that caught the Mini-Con's attention.

He looked at the weapon. "Attached to that terminal?" Sebastian nods. "Yes. Hold it very still." Fixit place the wire back where it belongs before secure it tightly. "Now, that's that."

"Great work." Sebastian smiled again.

"Say, Sebastian." Fixit called out to him. "You are very calm whenever I tried to bold-cold-*thunks*-scold you."

The butler just chuckles. "Being calm is my priority. Even you scolded me, I never wanted to shout back or get angry at you because that is not what my job as a butler is." he went silent a bit. "I see you as a part of the team or a friend of mine, Fixit."

Fixit was surprised by his words while Alice just smiled. "I'm sorry for you know...being kinda selfish to you." he rubbed the back of his helm.

Sebastian chuckled and smiled. "Apologies accepted."

Everything was quiet for a bit before Fixit spoke up. "Perhaps we should work together more."

"I will glad too." the butler bowed, before having another idea. "Perhaps we can duplicate this Decepticon Hunter so everyone on the team may have one."

"Sounds like a plan!" Fixit grinned before he and Sebastian walked off. The others watched them go as the girls smiled at each other while the two Autobots fist bumped also at each other. However, the fairies wondered about Mana, Makoto, Bumblebee, Strongarm, Sharuru and Dabyi.

"I wonder if they're okay-quel..."

"We can only hope-de lance."

-Location: Back with Bumblebee and the others-

They were hiding behind the stone pillar, watching Springload from afar.

"Please! Guardian of Doradus! My whole life, it must be near! Where is it?!" he cried. "I will destroy you all! Where is it?!"

"So dramatic-sharu..." Sharuru thought to herself.

Bumblebee looked over and saw some coffins behind the frog. "Those stone containers look just about Springload's size. Now, we need a plan to get him in there."

Sword looked around a bit and saw a statue not far from them. She had an idea. "I got an idea." she beamed.

"What must I do? What? What?!" Springload croaked in agony.

Both Heart and Sword was right behind him. "We're sorry but you're not the right Decepticon for this stuff."

The frog turned around and gasped. "You! Impossible! The spirits chose me!"

"The spirits didn't said so."

"Unworthy..." came a ghostly voice. Springload croacked in shocked.

"Who said that?!"

He then saw a statue moving beside him. "The spirits of Doradus have decreed. You do not deserve the treasure. You are unworthy." that voice sounds like Strongarm.

"We, as the legendary warriors of Doradus, told the spirits that the treasure doesn't deserve to anybot who is selfish." Sword spoke up.

Springload backed away and hide behind the coffin with a scared expression. "But...I've worked hard! Tirelessly!"

Heart looked at Bumblebee who was hiding. "Bee, now...!" she whispered at him as he nods.

"And you're long overdue for a rest." when Springload turned around, he sees Bumblebee charged towards him while holding a the coffin lid and pushed him into the coffin before putting on the lid.

"No! Let me out! Let me out!" the frog cried, trying to break free. "I am worthy!" Bumblebee tried his best to push down the lid while Heart and Sword helped him, so as Strongarm. After a while, everything started to quiet down.

"Nice collar, cadet." Bumblebee complimented her.

"Some solo mission." she sighed.

"You led the pursuit, dealt with every obstacle, and used the perp's own fear against him." he continued. "But most importantly, you made two decisions that really showed me everything."

"The ghost's voice, right?"

"Putting aside pride to ask for help. That's no rookie move. And you made an amend with Makoto." he looked down at Sword before they both let out a smile while Heart wrapped her arm around her and smiled as well.

Strongarm went silent a bit before smiling. "You're right, sir." she looked at her human partner who was smiling along with Heart. "She taught me a lot. After all, she's my friend. And...you're my friends too." she went quiet once more before speaking up. "Maybe I won't stay a cadet for long, huh?"

Bumblebee let out a playful smirk. "Not if you continue to prove yourself worthy!" he said that with a spooky voice. But after that, the coffin lid still trying to budge open, that means that Springload is still not knock out yet.

"Let's go back." Heart told them as they all nods.

Strongarm turned to look over at Sword. "Thanks, Makoto, for sticking with me. And you too, Dabyi."

Sword smiled. "It's what friends are for." while Dabyi just nodded.

END OF CHAPTER 9