AN: This is the Prequel to my story Soul Stealer...It will explain a lot of things and even why the story is called Soul Stealer...unfortunatly it's long enough to be broken into 2 maybe three parts
So... with that being said:
I do not own Transformers...Hasbro does...but I do own NiteFire...so yeah...
Only a few weeks passed after Barricade somehow managed to get lost. Fortunatly He gathered his beerings and decided that Frenzy needed his help, so he tore off to Hoover Dam. To his surprise he met an old friend along the way, actualy to be accurate, a young friend.
His name was NiteFire and he was the first of his kind. A Biological Transforming Cybertronian, Bio-Former for short. Unfortunatly his birth didn't take well, and he was outcasted for several years. To Barricade, NiteFire had always been a Decepticon, but what he didn't know is that the first one thousand years was spent training and being raised by the Autobot leader, Optimus Prime, who later sent the devious creature to be a spy. Unfortunatly the beast took a liking to torture of others and quickly called the Decepticon team, home sweet home. That still doesn't stop NiteFire from wishing he was still an Autobot though, but his devilish heart keeps him from returning.
Shockingly, Barricade was the only to ever accept NiteFire's annoying personality, and after years of recon missions together, they have become very close. But when Megatron crashed on the planet Earth, NiteFire went looking for his "master" despite how he loathed that word, he loyally searched for Megatron, and loyally found himself frozen deep within Loch Ness for thousands of years. Somehow, the event of global warming and the constant probing of the lake, he returned from his animated state and swam the lake for at least another ten years, hence more sighitings of the famous "Loch Ness monster".
Eventually he caught up to where the action was but found himself to late. So he hunted Barricade down and rejoined the small faction of remaining Earth Decepticons.
"Hoover Dam, eh?" The perched NiteFire said as he glanced over at a large object that looked like a giant wall, or at least to him it did. "I do smell the lingering stench of those Autobots, but I don't smell Frenzy. Then again his scent blends with yours, it's hard to tell." The large creature teased as he stretched his large ruby wings. Barricade snorted at his comment and NiteFire couldn't contain his laughter. "Why must you always make fun of me?" Barricade said coldly, not bothering to glance over in his partners direction. A small grin slowly made it's apperance on NiteFire's feline like face. Barricade shook his head and ignored the devious grin.
"What are your plan on getting in?" NiteFire quickly spoke to lighten the mood. His head drifted over and looked back at the Dam. To his luck it was a moonlit night and the lake below the Dam made NiteFire easily relaxed. Barricade on the other hand was nervous, he didn't like water any more than a pampered house cat, so he wanted NiteFire just to get in and get out. But due to the young beasts age and dependance, he knew he was going to get dragged along inside. Which meant he would have to get close to the water.
"Our plan is simple. We get in from that entry way there" he paused to point out the small water duct that Megatron had slipped through only weeks earlier "And then we rip this hell hole to peices until we find Frenzy!" Barricade finished with an almost excited growl. There was nothing more than he enjoyed than tearing a human settlement apart. NiteFire snarled demonicly at his partner's enthusiasm.
"Well. What are we waiting for then? Let's find that little peice of shit and put him back together!" NiteFire growled as he leaped from his perched rock and landed on a nearby road. The pavement cracked and split like a dried up river bed under his weight. Barricade soon tromped after him as they approached the small entrance. To make enough clearence for his wings, NiteFire happily leaped down into the water leading out of the duct, making sure to splash water on Barricade, who snarled angrily at the bio-former's young and rash actions.
The water was cool and clear and it was just the right depth for the playful creature to swim along side his grouchy partner. After a good while of what they thought to be undetected walking, they finally reached a large empty chamber. The reminants of machinary lay scattered all over the metal floor. The chamber was certainly large enough for both of them, even with NiteFire's large wingspan. "Certainly is roomy." NiteFire said in something that resambled a whisper, but to human ears it was just a loud as if they were talking.
Although the humans were ordered to leave the premises and forget about Sector 7, they disobeyed orders, in hoping to catch an "NBE" for interigation and further examination that they never got to complete with NBE-1. To the humans, fate was kind enough to send two, one of which seemed more living than the other. They had picked the two on a sensative radar and had been preparing fro their capture. They even had EMP rounds ready to immobilize the large robotic beings. When the humans got word of thier approach they hid in all sorts of crevices, waiting for the biggest to drop it's gaurd.
Yet what they didn't know, is to NiteFire, there is always something to play with, and that means to never let your gaurd down. He pawed at a peice of the metal with his left hind foot, gathering information just by looking at it. For the human nearby, he prayed that his scent wasn't picked up. "Hmm..Megatron was here. I suppose we are in the right place after all." NiteFire said after sniffing the metal hunk breifly. Barricade only rolled his optics as he continued to scan the ground and send hypersonic frequencies to try and pick up Frenzy's location. NiteFire was doign the same, only in a more sophistocated manner. His large horns that prtruded off his head acted like a sonar. With it he was able to see just about anything that touched ground, hence why it was so valuble to him during the human's activity hours.
Even the hiding humans were no match for the alien sonar. When the beast picked up the vibrations of a human heart and started heading in the poor man's general direction is when he sounded the alarm to bring them down. Humans from every part of the room appeared out of nowhere and launched as many EMP rounds as they possibly could. Barricade was soon overwhelmed and his circuts fried as he collapsed to the ground squirming and writhering in pain. NiteFire was affect, but fortunatly his muscles did not give away. He screeched and began launching exploding black fireballs from his hands. Eventually the entry way from which the two giants entered, collapsed, trapping the two Cybertronians. An undetected shout ordered a small squadren equipped with Nitrogen freezers, ambushed the attacking predator. First they blasted it's legs with the vapor which soon formed a growing coat of ice over the massive t-rex like feet.
NiteFire tried to get it off, but a rope lassoed around one of his arms as an overlooked crane tried to drag him down. The resistance was almost to much for one crane so another arrived and expertly flung another around the behmoth's neck. With both cranes tugging in the same direction, the giant fell, but not on what they had hopped. Instead it fell on the other monster, Barricade, who groaned from the sudden weight that mainly centered around his back. Within seconds more of the Nitrogen equipped blaster troops arrived and soon both found themselves unable to move. After a short period of time being frozen, both had powered down to save any remaining energy. Little did they know that they were in for a hell of a torture.