"You think I don't know that?!" she furiously responded.

"Hey, you two. Behave." the blue motorcycle ahead of them sternly alerted, "Now it's not the time for conflicts."

"Apologies, ma'am. "

"Sorry 'Cee."

Thankfully, the two cars finally stopped fighting, Arcee sped up and went to the truck which was guiding the entire group, "Optimus? How are you feeling?"

"I am functioning well Arcee, please do not be concerned, at the moment we need to be focused on our main target of finding a source of signalization to our base and our friends as soon as possible." the Autobot leader returned.

Before they could even reach the top level of the hill, Grimlock tiredly asked again, "Still got nothing?!"

The cadet groaned in frustration, "Grimlock, I swear to Primus if you ask one more-- WAIT!" she hit her brakes, drifting to a stop, the others did the same. Grimlock almost tripped in his own giant pedes in the process. The white-blue femme transformed into her robot form and pressed a digit on the side of her helm, "Strongarm to base, can you hear me? Hello?! Fixit?" she repeated several times, the rest transformed into their bot-forms. She was positive she heard a voice through the telecommunication system just a second ago.

Optimus stepped closer to her, "Let me." he suggested and also turned on his comm-link, "This is Optimus Prime, do you read?" following his lead, the rest activated their comms and listened carefully.

::Ca...you- hea...bot- this...i-it...::

Everybot's optics went wide when they heard the mini-con, then Arcee spoke, "I can hear him. Fixit, it's me, Arcee. Do you copy?"

::Es...an- now... am...::

...

...

...

The Autobots waited, listening to the static sound but with each passing second they got worried that they may have lost him, "Fixit?" Smokescreen called for the mini-con.

They all glanced at each other, not a single response was received.

Until-

::...-AN ANYBOT HEAR ME?!:: everyone yelped out of pain from the sudden shout and held their audials, ::Oh, my apologies! I did not-- wait... sweet Solus Prime it worked!:: Fixit exclaimed happily when he realized the comm-link system was finally working.

"Fixit! Oh, I am so glad to hear your voice!" Strongarm answered back with a smile.

After that, Optimus ordered, "Fellow mini-con, we require an immediate Groundbridge to the base, we need to locate our captured allies at once."

::The others-- captured?! By the Decepticons?! Oh, this is no good...::

Out of nowhere, a tiny feeling inside the smaller blue femme's chest began to trouble her and thought about something, if they were able to hear him loud and clear, she could have heard from her charge too by now, "Fixit, is Twilight with you?" Arcee enquired.

::I um- well, this is awkward... uh, you see- she just... left?::

The femme was stunned and in disbelief at what she just heard, "Left?! Ratchet was supposed to keep her safe in the base!"

::S-she was willing to go alone!::

"Can you call Ratchet?" questioned Optimus.

::I-it's static, sir.::

"Scrap." cursed Arcee as she began to pace in worry, "They are in so much trouble."  the femme thought to herself, a mixture of concern and anger expressed on her face-plate, "Do you know where they went?" she asked the mini-con again.

She waited for a short time until he apprehensively replied, ::After unknown Decepticon signal, ma'am.::

The moment the 'Bots heard his answer, they stared at one another with widened optics of realization, Arcee quickly gave a command out of panic and fear, "Groundbridge us to those coordinates! NOW!"