Battle armor ready Part 5

After finding out that Optimus and the others are in dire need of help, they all start running back to the control center to try and communicate with them as Ratchet starts opening the comm-link to contact them.

"Base to team, does anyone read me?" He asked.

The team's biometric signature appears on the screen, meaning that they could hear Ratchet as a battle was being heard in the background.

"We hear ya, doc. Took your sweet time, didn't you?" Wheeljack answered the comm-link first as the others were completely relieved and worried at this.

"Wheeljack, thank the Allspark you're okay. Is Optimus alright?" Ratchet asked as Emily had a worried look in her eyes.

"I'm fine, Ratchet." Optimus answered next to their relief.

"What's the situation?" He asked as he started to type on the computer and saw that they were on the location of the mine.

"We're in deep trouble, Ratchet. That's the situation." Cliffjumper said with strain as if he was battling against a Decepticon trooper as Arcee got worried.

"The Decepticons have completely surrounded us. We need reinforcements." Optimus told them as Ratchet nodded with a serious look in his optics as he turned to Arcee, Bumblebee and Smokescreen.

"Arcee, Bumblebee and Smokescreen, prepare for departure." Ratchet said as he started to type in the coordinates of the location as the three nodded.

"On it." Arcee nodded as Bumblebee nodded and whirred in agreement.

"Finally some action." Smokescreen grinned excitedly before Emily stepped up with a determined look in her eyes.

"I'm coming too." This caused the four Autobots to look at her in shock and surprise even the trio.

"Are you crazy? You can't go out like that." Ratchet told her sternly as he gestured her left leg as Emily looked at her leg.

"Why not? I can help. I have the suit for it. I know I haven't used it yet but it's the perfect time for it." Emily told him as Jack was worried about her.

"You can't go. You forget that you hurt." Jack said as he didn't want her to get hurt or open her wound.

"Jack's right. You won't be of much help." Raf said as he didn't want Emily to get hurt even more.

"You're staying here at the end of discussion." Ratchet told her sternly as Emily looked at them all before looking at Ratchet.

"Ratchet, you've made this suit to protect me and so that I can fight. I know you're all worried about me but I can't stay here forever. Optimus and the others need help. Please, Ratchet, you gotta let me go. I'll be fine. You have my word that I will come back in one piece. Please." Emily said as she stood her ground firmly as she had a silent wish in her eyes.

Ratchet doesn't like the idea of letting Emily go back to the battlefield yet not after she was hurt back in the shadow zone but he knew it would be hard even for him to make her stay back at base knowing how stubborn she was and he already experience how she can be mature at times especially when he got on her bad side at the scraplet incident.

"Very well. The suit is very fragile. You must make sure that the brooch isn't damaged. You're still hurt but the suit will allow you to fight and it will protect you for a certain amount of time. Good luck to all of you." Ratchet said as he had worried in his optics as Emily nodded her reassurance and thanks to Ratchet.

"Activating the ground bridge." Ratchet said as he turned the ground bridge on as it came to life.

"Let's roll." Arcee said as she, Bumblebee and Smokescreen all transformed as Arcee drove up to Emily's side and moved her side mirrors to her.

"Hop on." Arcee said as she nodded.

"Sure." She smiled as a mask like Optimus appeared and clicked as it covered her lower face as she hops on Arcee as they all drove through the portal to help Optimus and the others as the others watched them leave.

"She'll come back right?" Raf asked worriedly as he turned to Jack, Miko and Ratchet as they were worried too.

"Let's not jump to any conclusion." Jack said as he put a hand on his head as Raf still looked worried.

"She'll come back. You'll see." Miko said as she had full confidence that Emily will come back just like she promised.

Back at the mine, Optimus and the others were all holding their ground against the Decepticons when suddenly a ground bridge opened up as the Decepticons all started aiming at it. Suddenly Bumblebee came out of it first and started hitting the cons in his vehicle mode. After him, Smokescreen came out next as he transformed in his robot mode and started shooting at every Decepticon. After him, Arcee and Emily came out last as Emily jumped off Arcee and started fighting with her plasma cannons out and firing at the cons as Arcee transformed and joined the fight. The others below the mine saw that the reinforcements had arrived as Cliffjumper grinned happily.

"Looks like we got company." Cliffjumper said as he punched a con on the face plate.

"The others are here to help us." Optimus smiled but blinked a little in surprise when he noticed Emily fighting as well in some sort of suit and a battle mask like his.

"Normally the Wreckers call for clean up not for backup." Wheeljack said as he dodged a con and sliced it's head off.

"Autobots, it is time to launch a counter attack!" Optimus ordered as they all started to fight back more.

"Let's do this." Wheeljack grinned as Optimus and the others all started to fight back.

"We're in trouble." Knockout said nervously as he dodged Bumblebee.

"All troops fire at will. Show the Autobots no mercy." Dreadwing ordered as both sides started to fight back with more strength.

Meanwhile, Starscream was still trying to get out the thick web he's trapped in when Megatron contacted through the comm-link.

"Starscream, has the Autobot been dealt with?" Megatron asked through the comm-link with a sneer as Starscream looked to the battlefield to see what was going on.

"Well not yet, Lord Megatron. The Autobots have called for reinforcements. They took down most of our troops." Starscream said nervously before he jumped slightly when he heard a growl from the comm-link and he could tell that Megatron was really pissed off from how the sound was.

On the Nemesis, Megatron growled and turned the comm-links off and turned to Soundwave who stood in position for orders.

"Enough excuses. Soundwave, open a ground bridge. I shall deal with Optimus and the Autobots myself." Megatron ordered as the silent mech nodded and opened one up in the coordinates as Megatron walked towards it and disappeared through it.

Meanwhile back at the mine Arcee, Bumblebee and Emily got rid of the Decepticons that were shooting at the others from a high altitude.

"This place is full of cons." Smokescreen said as he sidestep a shot and shoots the one that almost hits him along with a couple of others.

"Yeah but there's a mine to protect. Let's go." Arcee said before she and Bumblebee jumped down and slid down the wall along with Smokescreen and shooting the cons along the way.

"Whoooo-hoooooo!" Smokescreen whooped in excitement.

"Hey, guys, wait!" Emily tried to catch up but they didn't hear her since they already jumped and meant that she had to jump too.

"No fair. Come on, Emily, you can do it. You can do it." Emily said as she walked a few places back before starting to run towards the ledge and gaining speed.

Then suddenly the soles under her boots transformed into hover skates much to her surprise and it caused her to hover in place.

"Whoa!" She yelled in surprise as her newly discovered hover skates allowed her to hover and skate at the same time all the way down.

"Hover skates? Something tells me that I'm going to love this suit." Emily grinned as she got into a skating stance and dashed down the cliff side to the ground below.

She was soon able to join the others and knock down a few Cons on the way as Arcee and Bumblebee were helping both Cliffjumper and Optimus hold the enemies back.

"Took you long enough." Cliffjumper joked as he fired at a Decepticon.

"Sorry we're late. Looks like we missed quite a party." Arcee smirked as she shot down two cons.

Without them knowing it, Airachnid was lurking behind them and waiting for the right chance to strike. She soon saw an opening and took this opportunity to go straight for Cliffjumper to kill him but that wasn't about to happen. Emily saw that and changed direction towards Airachnid quickly.

"Look out!" She shouted and Cliffjumper ducked quickly as Emily aimed and shot a plasma shot at Airachnid who was sent a few feet from them.

"Thanks, kid. Nice suit." Cliffjumper said before raising a curious optic ridge as she stood beside him as he was a little amazed since the mask was like Optimus'.

"Thanks." She said with a smile behind her battle mask as she started to fight the cons with Cliffjumper.

"Well, look, who finally decided to come to play with us." Knock Out said as he had a smirk as he saw Emily.

"Looks like she's been busy. She brought her own suit. Let's see what it's made of." Breakdown smirked as he brought out his hammer.

"Can someone help me get free of this ridiculous predicament?" Starscream said as Knock Out turned towards him with a shrug as he turned to his partner.

"You go. I'll help out the screaming diva before he blows off a neural chip." Knock Out told him as he went towards Starscream as Breakdown nodded.

"With pleasure." Breakdown smirks as he runs back to the battlefield.

The Autobots were able to drive off their enemies and with any luck they could repel every Decepticons troops without any casualty or losing the energon mine in the process.

"Haha, we got them on the run." Wheeljack smirked triumphantly but Arcee happened to look up and her optics narrowed.

"It's not over yet." She said as a ground bridge opened up above them.

The both Autobots and the Decepticons all stop firing and asking whose portal is it unaware as Breakdown used his shoulder cannon and aimed it at Emily with a grin.

"Hey, little girl. You got a new suit huh? Let's see how it can protect you against this." Emily turns towards him just as Breakdown shoots and hits her directly at the chest and causes her to let out a pained cry.

"Ahhh!!!" This caught the attention of the Autobots and Optimus felt his spark stop cold when he saw what happened as his optics widened in shock and fear.

"No!" He yelled in shock and anguish as Emily was sent flying towards the wall of the cliff.

Suddenly unaware, the brooch started activating some sort of energy shield and it started scanning the terrain around Emily as if acquiring some sort of new download sequence. Just like that, Megatron came out from the ground bridge portal and started shooting at the Autobots including Emily whose shield was holding on but started fading but one of Megatron's shots hit the wall above her and it made rubble fall down towards Emily as she looked up in fear and shock.

"Oh no." She muttered before the rubble fell down on her. The shield was able to hold up but she was buried under tons of rocks.

Optimus clenched his servos into fists as he turned his optics to Megatron who landed and transformed as he was feeling an uncontrollable rage building up inside him.

"Megatron... you will pay for this. Ahhhh!!!!!" Optimus glared at him before he rushed towards the warlord to attack him. But instead Megatron just kicked him in the abdomen and sent him flying to the ground as the others watched in worry and shock.

"Optimus, no!" Arcee yelled in worry.

Optimus was struggling to get back up from the hit when suddenly Megatron started aiming at him with his fusion cannon and he was about to fire at him.

"We have to help Optimus!" Smokescreen said.

"Let's go." Bulkhead nodded as Cliffjumper agreed.

"You guys go. Bee and I will go help Emily." Arcee said as Bumblebee whirred in agreement.

Bulkhead and the others went to help Optimus as Megatron sent out the rest of his troops against them all as Arcee and Bumblebee ran to the rubble to get Emily out.

"Destroy them!" He ordered as the Decepticons all started to shoot at the Autobots.

"Everyone, take cover!" Bulkhead exclaimed as they quickly took cover while firing back.

"You guys stay back. I'll go help Optimus." Cliffjumper said as he jumped out of his hiding spot and started running to save Optimus from Megatron.

"Cliffjumper, wait!" Smokescreen tried to follow but was forced to stay back with Wheeljack and Bulkhead.

While Cliffjumper started running to help his leader, Knock Out had finally released Starscream from his rather sticky captivity before he saw Cliffjumper running towards Optimus.

"Ah, finally. Would you look at that? Someone's desperate to help his leader." Starscream mocked as Knock Out noticed it as well.

"We better shoot him down." Knock Out said as Starscream rolled his optics.

"Oh really? Whatever gave you that idea?" Starscream asked sarcastically before he took aim at Cliffjumper.

Meanwhile both Arcee and Bumblebee were trying to get Emily out of the rubble as Arcee was praying to Primus to not let Emily get even more hurt than she is now.

"Hang on, kid. We'll get you out of there." Arcee said just as Starscream launched a missile and it hit Cliffjumper, knocking him down to the ground with a pained and surprised cry.

Both Arcee and Bumblebee heard it as Arcee looked over and became horrified and worried for Cliffjumper.

"Cliff!" Arcee shouted in worry and fear as she was about to run to help him but she got hit by Airachnid's web fluids.

The next thing she knew was that she was tied up as Bumblebee tried to release her but he got attacked by two Vehicons that were restraining him.

Bulkhead, WheelJack and Smokescreen tried to hold their ground against the enemies but Breakdown hit them hard with his hammer and his brute strength. Cliffjumper was getting back up painfully when Megatron was aiming his weapon at him. Optimus saw this and knew that he had to get Cliffjumper out of there.

"No." He whispered in shock.

Optimus was about to get up but Skyquake and Dreadwing started attacking him to weaken him more. After that, they pinned him down as Megatron looked back and smirked evilly as Optimus stared at him with narrowed yet worried optics.

"At last. Your defeat is at hand, Optimus Prime. I would like to kill you right here and now. But first I will make you watch how I kill your comrades one by one." Megatron sneered sinisterly as he took out his blade and was about to swing it down to kill Cliffjumper for good.

Arcee watched in horror from afar on how she was about to lose her partner and friend once again right in front of her. This can't be it. She can't lose Cliffjumper again! Not like this!

"Nooooooo!!!!!" Arcee cried out in horror in fear as lubricant started to well up in her optics.

Just as Megatron was about to hit CliffJumper with his blade when suddenly out of nowhere a shield made out of rocks and earth started appearing in front of Megatron as if protecting Cliffjumper from him. His blade made contact with the shield but only bits of the shield were chipped away as everyone was surprised to see it.

"What? What is happening? Rahhh!!!" Megatron growled in confusion and anger as he decided to use his fusion cannon but his shots were only being blocked by the shield. He growled as he looked around since he knew that the earth composed shield can only be made by someone.

"Who dares to defy me?!" He growled in anger before he heard someone as if it was coming from above.

"I do." The familiar voice said

Megatron heard the voice and when turned around, only to get punched so hard on the face-plate and he was sent flying to where Dreadwing and Skyquake were standing.

Emily landed in front of everyone who could not believe what they were seeing. Emily got out of the rubble without them even realizing it. Her suit was completely different as if it allowed her to absorb the rocks around her and adapt the suit to it's condition.

Her hair was still the same and the suit even had a new color with magma yellow highlights along with her arms starting from her elbows were covered in rocks with what look like magma in between some sections and the last thing that they noticed that changed were her right eye as it was a molten golden magma yellow color.