Finding Rewind
A secure Cobra warehouse and underground laboratory, in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere with only one road and two directions to go in.
"What are you typing, Ripcord?" Scarlet asked, looking over at the paratrooper cum metamorphic plant base shock trooper.
"The events that lead up to our demise." Ripcord said with a grin that flashed white in the darkness. "I'm keeping track of our 'adventures' so that when I publish my memoirs, I can have them both accurate and interesting. Also, this way we have proof that we weren't the ones that started the fighting at these places."
"No one is going to take that, or you, seriously." Tunnel Rat snarked under his breath.
"Is everyone in position?" Duke asked over the radio, all involved answered in the affirmative. "Lets' move in."
Cue in breaking and entering, general sneaking and particular ninja creeping, and sirens going off after one or another trips the laser beam that sounds a really loud and informative alarm. While five of the Joes are engaging the Cobra security guards, Roadblock is already in the R & D part of the underground lab, with Tunnel Rat swiftly escaping the security to help him.
"Man, this place is huge." Roadblock marvelled to himself. Unusual projects, weapons, and unidentifiable miscellaneous objects were scattered on work tables, lab benches, shelves and in the occasional trash bin. Roadblock picked up what looked like his laser cannon, and hefted it to check the sight. "Not a bad piece of work." he muttered, before noticing it had no power coupling. He set the cannon down and moved on to the next area.
Tunnel Rat came out of a vent in the wall and looked around. He spotted Roadblock heading towards him and waved, before he noticed the cages behind himself.
"Hey Roadblock, look at this. They're doing research on animals."
"That is all kinds of low. What are they…researching on?" Roadblock trailed off as he looked into the small cage.
"What is that?" Tunnel Rat asked eyes wide and very confused. "It looks like a..a.."
"A baby robot." Roadblock supplied, when Tunnel Rat's brain failed him. "Hey there, little guy, are you awake?" Roadblock opened the door to the cage to pat the little robot on the shoulder.
"What are you doing? It's a Cobra thing, it'll probably fry us with laser vision or something!" Tunnel Rat shouted then jumped when the little robot burst into electronic wailing and actually cried bright blue tears.
"Aw, now see what you did ? You scared the poor thing. Don't you worry, we'll get you out of here." Roadblock said, trying to sooth the baby into silence. "Grab that bottle. We'll get it more from the other tables. Lets' get outta here." Roadblock and Tunnel Rat gathered up everything they could that had even the smallest resemblance to the baby robot, and high tailed it out of the lab and back to the Coyote. The others were already there and waiting for them.
"What took so long? It was an in and out mission and you two took almost fifteen minutes. What is that in your hands? A new weapon?" Scarlett demanded.
"No. It's a baby." Roadblock said proudly, "And he's coming with us." he added when both Scarlet and Ripcord began to object. Tunnel Rat had long since resigned himself to his fate.
Hours later, long after dawn had finally come. Roadblocks' robo-baby had cried every few hours, only placated by the bottle, which should have long since been empty, and Roadblocks' heavy metal music.
"That's not a baby, that's an alarm clock with legs and power speakers." Ripcord said tiredly. He had been asleep each time the baby had woken up and started to wail.
"Has that transport been there long?" Scarlet asked, checking the passenger mirror and finding a large eighteen wheeler coming up on their sixt, everyone was a little more than tired and on edge, due to interrupted sleep intervals. "I didn't notice till now."
"'Bout as long as that vehicle trailer's been in front of us." Duke said, not bothering to be concerned that they were almost completely boxed in.
A very large truck was making a good attempt to sidle up on the drivers side of the Coyote, while a Military Police car came up to the passenger side. Before anyone in the Coyote could react, the carrier in front of them dropped the back ramp and slowed enough so that the Coyote rolled right up into the holding area. The ramp went up and auto locks engaged, holding the Coyote in place, even as Duke attempted to reverse off the carrier. Then, they noticed that the transport truck and the other vehicles had come up and closed off any escape route, if they had managed to remove the clamps on the tires of the Coyote, they would have no exit off the carrier.
"What's going on?!" Scarlet demanded, as she tried to open her door, only to find it locked. "Unlock the doors, Duke!"
"I can't, everything's dead!" Duke said, trying to start the Coyote and getting nothing in response. "Check your phones, this could be a Cobra trap."
"What would they want us for? We didn't take nothing' from that warehouse." Ripcord said in confusion and a little panic.
"It's not what we took. It's what Roadblock took." Tunnel Rat said, looking at Roadblock and the robot baby huddling in his arms, looking scared and ready to cry again.
"Don't you worry, little guy, we won't let the bad guys take you away again." Roadblock said, tightening his hold on the baby protectively.
First and only disclaimer from me. Clearly, no one on this site owns Transformers or G. . So it is obvious that I do not. I own only my characters and this fictional work.