Kidnapped!
Ch.1: Capture
Summary: Lin gets kidnapped by the Decepticons because she knows the outcome of the series! Read to find out what happens!
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN THE TRANSFORMERS!!!
TheDrifterAuthor: YAY! A Cybertron fic! this story kept nagging at me to come out, so I obliged. Sorry if it's boring… Oh, guys, I'm sorry about the other story, but my hard drive got shot and I couldn't back up my files. I had to get a whole new hard drive and start all over again. -.-; It stinks, because I had like, 9 stories on that thing. But now I have a 1 gig. Flash Drive so I'm backing up my new stories on that. Again sorry for losing all my files; this story is coming to me pretty easy, so be sure to expect bimonthly (or later) updates. Bye, I'll stop griping now! Sorry…TT
"Is that her?" A Texan accented voice asked impatiently.
"Yes, she is a well of information. She will be very useful." a second high-pitched raspy voice answered.
Both were on a small hill, overlooking a High School field where Soccer was being played. The first voice was Thundercracker, an F-18 seeker mech. The second voice was Starscream, another seeker that turned into a futuristic bomber. Both were surveying a sophomore girl, Lin, and plotting means of kidnap; even if the easiest was the most obvious.
Lin is 16, wearing well, the usual P.E. uniform: a grey, baggy t-shirt and long, dark blue jersey shorts. She has long, flowing jet black hair and deep dark ocean blue eyes. She is skinny, but not too skinny that it shows her ribs. She just scored a goal, with her team winning 5-1 anyway. The P.E. teacher ushered the class into the locker rooms, but not before making them pick up the field. Both teams on the field Lin was on gone in any way, making her pick up the whole field by herself.
"Don't leave me here to pick this up by myself!" she yells, getting pissed, "Hey!! …" 'Why do I always feel like I'm part of the slagging background?!' she thought, using a Cybertronian curse that only she knew, to her knowledge, "You guys are no help… sigh" She proceeded to the farthest end of the field, picking up the cones one by one. Near the end of her clean-up, she had only one goal to pick up. She looks up from folding the goal, seeing everyone was out of sight. "Ugh. NOW I'M ALONE! Why am I the only good student? Slag…"
"Good, so I trust that you will not try to run away?" the scratchy voice asked, behind/above her making a big STOMP upon landing. Another STOMP could be heard farther back and farther to the right than the first.
'Oh, slag. I know that voice anywhere. Please don't tell me that's Starscream? His voice always sends chills up my spine.' She thought, turning around, seeing Starscream and Thundercracker behind her. "Oh, crap." She starts backing away, and then turns around in a full sprint. "Damn, damn, damn, damn! Why?! The series is supposed to be over! Let alone be real! And they look like they were in the first episode!" She kept on running and got to a fence; she looks back for a second then climbs it landing into the Elementary School that was adjacent to the High School, and starts running towards the park. Even with the growing pain in her side, she kept running trying to lose the two Decepticon seekers.
She got into the far side gazebo hiding in the dense bushes behind it to catch her breath. The pain in her side was making it hard for her to breathe; since every time she took in a breath, pain shot up most of her right side. She heard footsteps so she covered her mouth and began to breathe through her nose since it was quieter. 'I'm sure they can hear my breathing. It's so quiet here during school.' She decided to take in breaths, hold them, and let them out slowly to make it almost silent.
"Come out; come out where ever you are femme!" Thundercracker taunted about 15 yards from Lin's hiding place.
"Be quiet! Over there." Starscream called, his audio receptors picking up Lin's panicked heart beat. He swipes his hand at the gazebo, destroying it. No movement. Not even the slightest movement of a twig. 'Slag, I thought she would bolt after that. Smart.'
'They've found me! … Why haven't they grabbed me yet?' she thought to herself getting up to crouch and peer through the bush.
Thundercracker walks up, and puts his hand into the bush. Lin backs up since his thumb was in front of her bumping into his four fingers. 'Gotcha now, femme!' Thundercracker, feeling this, immediately closes his hand around her, and takes his hand out of the bush, Lin taking most of the damage from the protruding twigs. "I should fish here more often! This is the best catch I've had! Hoo wee!"
"Just shut up and put her in to my cockpit! We have to meet Megatron in Colorado. He's suspicious that the Autobots are doing some thing there." Starscream ordered, transforming into his futuristic jet mode. Thundercracker does as ordered. The feeling of the freedom of flight during the trip dissipated in a matter of minutes once she cleared her head and remembered she was captive with the Decepticon seekers against her will. Lin lightly grabs Starscream's joystick controls to make it look like she's flying him just in case if an Air Force jet came around and tried to shoot down the two seekers.
They head for Colorado, meeting Megatron in the sky. Megatron, already in his robot mode floated there waiting for them with his arms crossed as usual. "I will await your return back at the base. Do not let me down in finding that Cyber Planet Key OR ELSE!!" He demanded opening a warp gate to the base, wherever it was, and gliding through. The gate closed after he went through leaving the two seekers in mid-air.
Thundercracker sped off in a random direction saying: "Megatron told old' Thundercracker to look for Autobots and darned didn't I just find me one! I can't just shoot I'm in the back, wouldn't be civil! I'll give I'm a heads up first then I'll shoot I'm in the back! Hey there! Autobot!"
"A talking plane?" Lori asks.
"Decepticon." Landmine answers.
"The bad guys?" Colby asked.
"Here's a little 'going away present'!" he shoots a couple of missiles at them.
"Get down!" Landmine shouts, covering Colby, Lori and Bud with his body to protect them. Thundercracker missing by mere feet.
"That guy's a lousy shot." Colby coughed, recovering from the blasts.
"Aw man, that was a waste of perfectly good missiles! I'll get 'em this time!" He mused rounding on them.
A small glimmer in the trees reveals a fire truck flying straight toward the seeker. "I hope you don't mind if I butt in!" he exclaimed ramming the seeker.
"Where the heck did he come from?!" Thundercracker shouts, tumbling out of the air then regaining balance.
"A talking flying fire engine?" Bud asked.
"I think that's the leader of the Autobots." Lori guesses.
"Landmine! Is that really Optimus Prime?" Colby asks.
"Yeah." Landmine said simply.
"Aw, man!" Thundercracker shouts, flying into a canyon to lose Optimus. "I gotta turn this here table!" he slows down to get behind the leader.
"Go ahead Thundercracker; give me your best shot!" Optimus taunted.
He shoots a couple missiles missing by a lot and hitting the canyon faces instead. "I got 'em! I got 'em! Whoa!" he slows down transforming through the blast and getting to the other side. He looks up seeing the leader in front of him.
"That was your best shot Thundercracker? That's just sad; now here is mine!" he shouted, pulling out his side guns and firing, hitting him.
"How's this?" Thundercracker asked, firing a couple more missiles.
"Gee, nice fireworks. Decepticon in the corner pocket!" Optimus shoots the missiles down, Thundercracker getting caught in the blast, falling to the ground. Starscream appears under him and catches him in mid-air in his robot mode.
"What do you think you're doing?! What made you do such a stupid thing?" Starscream asked, half yelling in his high-pitched scratchy voice.
"I just thought I could take out Landmine!"
"You fool! Come on Thundercracker. Let's just get back to base. You have plenty of time to mess with the Autobots. We need to find a room for our hostage anyway."
"Hostage?! Get back here Starscream!" Optimus yells, hearing Starscream's order.
"Not on your life Prime!" Starscream flies through a newly formed warp gate.
'What do they need a hostage for? I didn't see Starscream transform at all either… They have a human hostage!' Optimus thought to himself. But now, he had to worry about Landmine and the three humans that found him. He turned back to a cliff where his team was waiting along with the humans. He started introductions and after a little hesitant thought and some persuasion from Scattershot, explained about the black hole that was threatening the universe to the kids.
Back with Lin and the Decepticons, she was waiting in a makeshift steel cell on an extra table in a storage room nearest the Command Center, on Megatron's orders; and boy was it a long wait. She checked her watch seeing she has been in there for a couple hours. Knowing the second episode of the series, the Autobots were either still building their headquarters or helping disguise the civilian-bots. She has heard metal feet trample past her cell once, half an hour ago; then, twice again now. 'Megatron tried to find the Autobot base. But, of course, he and his troops were out numbered three to… what, seven? Besides Optimus and Megatron going mono y mono, it would be relatively two to one.'
Just then, Lin once again heard footsteps outside her cell. 'By the sound of it, there is more than one. It's most likely Megatron and Starscream or all three.' Before they went to find the Autobot base, she faintly could hear Megatron's orders. Like "Get to work!" or "You slag head! Those are the wrong co-ordinates! Have Starscream take over!" The door slid open revealing none other than Megatron and Starscream both with scowls on their faces. From what she could tell, Starscream had on an I-loathe-Megatron scowl while Megatron's was an I-loathe-my-troops scowl. Lin, not surprised, just looked up and got to her feet just in case.
"Tell me what happened out there! Why did I fail in seeing what those miserable Autobots were up to, human?" Megatron ordered, very furious.
"Let me hypothesize; YOU picked up Autobot activity on your long-range sensors up in the Rocky Mountains and went to check it out. Before YOU could find the exact location, the Autobots came out of nowhere and started forming a defensive line up in the sky before you could reach solid ground. You noticed this and decided to retreat when you did not have enough fire power for that kind of attack. Am I right?" Lin finished saying all this in a semi-mocking tone.
"Yes, now tell me what happened, femme!"
"Well, first off my name's Lin, not femme. Second, you were out numbered, so of course they would come out and defend their base when they were still trying to get the stealth-beam coating on it. Third, as I said, you didn't have enough firepower; even with your Armor of Unicron. And fourth, you retreated. Is that enough for you? You need to get more allies before you launch another attack." Lin said getting a bit smart-alecky. "Please, Megatron before you ask me, try to reason it out yourself. Or else, it will be a waste of your time. Honestly, I'm pointing out the obvious that you didn't see."
Megatron stomped out in a huff knowing he should have seen that coming; he was red in the face from anger. It was painstakingly obvious now that she mentioned it. Starscream stayed behind in the storage room with a smirk on his face leaning against a wall that Megatron got told out by a human. 'She knew exactly what we did…she may be a good ally in the future. With her knowledge, she will be a great help in battle. She will need to be protected when Thundercracker or I can not though. I can make her a companion for that. Maybe a small mech dog… yes, I will start working on it.'
He walked out of the room with Lin watching him. The door slid closed behind him and Lin plopped back down on the floor of her cell heaving a great sigh. "Man, the way Megatron looked at me after I told him… it looked like he was about to blow a circuit! I better have a low profile from now on. He was having a hard time holding back his anger by the looks of it. sigh But why did Starscream hang back? Was he thinking of something? Knowing him, it is probably another plan to overthrow Megatron… again."
She scoots back to the back of her cell leaning on the surface of the bars; which were about four inches apart each. Though it was a bit uncomfortable, she had leaned against bars like this before and felt for the spot that didn't affect her shoulder blades the most. Sighing again, she bows her head and pulls her legs in holding them tight and rests her chin in between her knees. She checks her watch again seeing as only two more hours have past since Megatron and Starscream tried to attack the Autobot base earlier, and the interrogation for her afterward.
She closes her eyes and slowly drifts off to sleep hoping above all hope that this is all a strange nightmare; that she is back in her bed at home. Or perhaps maybe in her sixth period class with some of the students staring at her. Possibly, hopefully, after she randomly dosed off on English 1 stuff she already knew from last year. She could almost hear the loud chatter of her class in the background getting ready to leave school in a few minutes. One of her nearby friends would be trying to shake her awake but she couldn't feel it or hear their cry of "The bell's gonna ring, you still need to pack up! Wake up!"
Yes, Lin could hear all this, but it was only in her mind where she so longed to be; at school the bell about to ring so she could hang back and have a small conversation with the teacher (most likely about moving Lin to AP English 2) who was retiring after the school year. That teacher happened to be her favorite teacher of that year; perhaps the nicest teacher on the High School campus. In the cell, out of her sulking mind, she could feel a single tear creeping down her cheek. She thought she couldn't cry any more after all the death she has seen in her short life.
Four grandparents, two fictional characters, and, the most devastating for her, her kitten that wasn't even a year old before it died of FIP in her sleep at an animal hospital, she counted off. Until she reached Junior High, she had her first boyfriend at the end of the school year. But, two months after summer break, he dumped her and rumors were flying around that he either did it out of sympathy, or he found another girl; leaving Lin devastated by the news at lunch. Then, third year of Junior High in her science period, her whole table decided to poke fun at her making tears well, but never fall.
After that, her heart hardened more and more eventually shutting out all but her friends and lessons trying to keep up her attitude. To fool people into thinking she was fine, that she got over it; it worked. But she could still feel this deep chasm inside that she knew had to be filled no matter how hard she pretended to be fine. Lin thought all about this in her dark cell thinking, thinking about all this in her sleep trying to keep herself occupied. 'But' she thought to herself, 'that is my past. What I need to do now is think about the here and now, how to get out of here, how to arrange an escape plan from this Decepticon base no matter how much I wanted the Transformers to be here in real life.'
And she kept on sleeping for what seemed like hours having flashbacks of her life. How she has a new boyfriend waiting for her, all her friends, and her family on Earth that probably had just gotten word that she was just… gone. No one knew, not even the neighbors that were supposed to be home during the day. Like her parent's most trusted ones that are graveyard shift security guards for a near by local jail in Corona. Of course, since most people were at work or in school; she hoped that even one person heard the loud footsteps of Starscream and Thundercracker and called the cops, or better, the Air Force. How could Colorado's Military base let the Decepticons slip by so easily? Perhaps they weren't within radar.
She awoke perhaps two hours later, telling by looking at her watch, with the feeling of being nudged in the right side by something very big, very cold, hard and flat; about the size of her torso. She looked up to the dim-witted person who dared interrupt her sleep; her eyes glaring. She could see bright orange optics about twelve feet from the top of the table. The jet wings and huge gun on his right hand was a dead give away. Slag, she really wasn't dreaming. It was Thundercracker standing in front of her cell with the door wide open; for what reason she didn't know nor cared until he spoke.
"The Big Boss wanted me to bring you some organic food so you don't die on us. He'll need you until he uses the black hole to create his own universe…or somethin' like that. And Starscream has somethin' for you tomorrow morning." He says in his Texan accent walking out of the storage room.
She looks at the plate that was at her feet. It had a small sandwich with some Ruffles Chips and a small pint of water. There was something next to the plate too; taking a closer look, it was her backpack, not that she had any use for it. She didn't trust the offered food, but she hadn't eaten since breakfast and still ate it; besides, they had no reason to poison her… yet. They still needed the vital information she had when she watched the Transformers series they were from. And, she was more or less like the Golden Disks from the Beast Wars series that had recorded images of the future of Earth, only she was for as far away as other, alternate universes.
They only needed her until Megatron rules all, which would be in, judging by the time lapse of the show, around three months or so. She thinks for a couple hours of an escape plan none of them working either ending in death by a 50 foot tall man-eating plant on Beast Planet, or getting killed by Megatron or the traitorous Sideways when he makes his appearance in the span of three to five weeks. Even if it did come down to Sideways, he's a klutz and she could probably easily trick the demented bot. She grabs her backpack opening it up for any missing property; not that anyone wanted the types of things she liked. She took out a piece of paper, her Algebra 2 text book and a pencil writing down what happened today, of all days:
Dear…Capture Time Log I guess, (Decepticon Headquarters: First Day Captured)
This has been one of the strangest, sad, and perhaps eh, tense days I have ever had. I am here at the Decepticon base (Yes, the Decepticon base I'm not crazy!) sitting in a cell nearest to the Control Room. Why don't I just escape you ask? It's because I don't have a plan and these are BIG fricking robots that you seriously don't want to piss off. No, wait, the Gigantions are BIG as in capital letters w/ italics big and the Cybertronians are capital letter w/ italics Big; which means the Gigantion Transformers are bigger than the Cybertronans. Anyway, Megatron is as Ugly (and Maniacal evil dictator) as ever, and Starscream is as plotting-against-Megatron-to-rule-the-universe-before-he-does as ever, scowl and everything. Thundercracker came in… roughly three hours ago on orders from Megatron to give me food. How they managed to make it is beyond me. I've been really bored this passed… seven hours, jeez. Mostly I have been dosing off and I only realized I got my backpack back an hour ago. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I wish I was back at school. My parents MUST be worried sick since they don't know where the hell I am. Even this is a pathetic attempt to keep myself occupied... it's working, as long as I do it at the end of the day like now.
Anyway, got to sleep for the night,
Lin Kibo,
Captured-human-in-an-enemy-of-the-Autobots-base.
Finishing the Log, she puts everything away in the backpack finishing the last of the water, and slips the plate between the bars and lays it next to the door of her cell along with her cup. Thinking to herself for another hour to try to reason this out once again, Lin, finally truly tired drifted off to sleep laying on her back her left arm supporting her head and the other laying limp to her side. Oh the floor was so comfortable…
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