Death Defying Acts

Chapter 1

A/N Hey guys! Thank you so much for reading this story! It starts at the end of ROTF just after the war. And for the sake of the story, Will is not married and he doesn't have a kid! Also it will always be in Max's POV unless it says differently.

Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride or Transformers. :(

On with the story!

-Erin

3rd Person POV

"Why did they put us on clean up duty?" Growled Iornhide as he radioed back to their temporary base and gave them the co-ordinates of yet another dead Decepticon. Epps sighed and looked over at Lennox before he answered for the third time.

"It's not like they can just have anyone cleaning up Egypt after an alien war,"

"And besides, we might have missed a con." Continued Lennox trying to prove to the Cybertronian that they were in fact doing an important job.

The trio continued to walk around the many crushed buildings, Iornhide not hesitating to crush them some more. Lennox decided to let it slide, the bot was not used to clean up duty, hell, he was usually the one that made the mess in the first place.

After an hour of slowly searching through the dusty rubble they decided to split up to cover more ground. Using this method, they quickly saw progress.

"Hey, we got a body part over here!" Epps called to the rest of the group who were both on the other side of the used-to-be road searching for cons.

"What do you mean a body part?" Asked Iornhide who was tensely making his way over to Epps with his cannons buzzing.

"I mean, there's an arm, but that's it." He replied nervously as he too slowly raised one of his many guns.

"The rest of him is missing?" Questioned Lennox rushing over with his gun also at the ready. They both reached Epps and the metal arm in record time. The two humans were looking around with their guns raised for any sign of the body belonging to the arm, dead or alive. Iornhide took a quick look at the arm and suddenly let out a booming evil laugh, making Lennox and Epps to jump in surprise.

"That's Sideswipe's arm!" He laughed. The soldiers lowered their guns and sighed in relief.

"Should we radio it in or just take it back to base later?" Lennox asked the group.

"You forgot the other option," Replied Iornhide with fake sweetness. "We could just leave it here."

"Just because he pulls a pranks on you doesn't mean you shouldn't reunite him with his arm."

"Just last week he discovered 'super glue' and stuck me to the floor!" He growled. "It took Ratchet hours to remove my aft from the ground!"

"Come on Iornhide no matter how many times he glues your ass to the ground he is still one of the best fighters we have." Iornhide grumbled something quietly and swung Sideswipe's lifeless arm over his shoulder.

The trio continued to scour the rubble, Iornhide occasionally talking about the pros of not giving Sidswipe back his arm. All of a sudden he stopped in his tracks and turned towards Lennox and Epps.

"Live energon reading." He whispered to the humans.

"Where from?" The pair asked at the same time.

"Behind the pyramid on the left."

"Radio base." Urged Epps.

"Already have, they're meeting us there." Iornhide swiftly transformed into his alt mode and opened his doors. The soldiers jumped into his cab, they had bearley closed the door before the massive black truck sped off towards the pyramid.

The closer they got to the Decepticon the more noises they could hear, it was mostly screaming. It was a horrible sound, Iornhide almost felt sorry for the con whatever was causing him that much pain was major. The key word in that sentence was almost, a dead decepticon is a good decepticon. One that's in pain is almost as good.

When they arrived at the pyramid and Lennox and Epps jumped out of Iornhide's cab with guns at the ready. Iornhide quickly transformed and ran around the pyramid with no idea what he was going to see. Lennox and Epps followed Iornhide as fast as they could on foot, they raced around the corner of the pyramid and ran smack bang into one of Iornhide'ssolid feet.

He was frozen on the spot staring straight ahead. The two humans followede his gaze and looked at the scene in front of them. They threw questioning looks at each other then at Iornhide, who didn't take his eyes off the Decepticon in front of them.

If a Cybertronian was to go mad, this is what it would look like. The con in front of them looked like he was doing some sort of complex dance. He was hopping on one leg and trying to reach his back furiously, but his thick arms wouldn't let him. While this was going on, the con was screaming in total horror.

That's when the rest of the Autobots surrounded him. The ones that had a clear view of the Deception's back were leaning on each other so that they didn't fall down from laughing.

"I wonder what this does!" Yelled a feminine voice from the con's back. Iornhide burst out laughing and lent on the pyramid to keep himself upright. Lennox and Epps still had no idea what was going on.

"Don't you dare pull that!" Yelled the con angrily. "ARGHHHHHH!" He continued to reach for his back with new found anger. A few seconds later the voice came again.

"Hey, this one looks important!" There was a loud crunching noise and the con froze, in a split second his optics changed from murderous red to a lifeless grey. First his knees collapsed, then he fell face first into the sand causing it to fly in all directions obscuring the humans vision.

When the dust cleared slightly Lennox and Epps could see a human figure standing on the dead con's head. Epps began to laugh uncontrollably, but Lennox, ever the cautious soldier slowly walked up to the figure.

"I told you not to mess with me." It said before falling to her knees just like the robot had.

"Hey! Are you alright?" Lennox asked loudly catching the attention of the Autobots who were still laughing. That's when he, and all the Autobots noticed a large piece of shrapnel sticking out of the female's left shoulder. The black hoodie she was wearing blocked the view of the wound, but it was dripping with her blood.

She slid off the robots head but before she hit the ground Lennox caught her. He was surprised by how little she weighed, but that could wait until later. He rushed the unconscious girl over to Ratchet.

"We've got to get her back to the temporary base!" Yelled Ratchet, as he transformed into his alt mode, a red and yellow search and rescue ambulance. The back doors opened and Ratchet's holoform stepped out. He took the girl from Lennox and placed her on her stomach on the medical table in his interior.

"Will! Get in here!" Yelled a frusterated Ratchet.

Lennox rushed in through the doors, as soon as he was in they slamed shut and Ratchet started driving to the base where there was a medical bay set up.

Ratchet was rushing around and grabbing the medical supplies that he would need from different draws all over the place.

"What do I do?" Lennox asked.

"Cut off her jacket and top, we need to remove the shrapnel as soon as possible!" He replied as he hooked her up to a heart rate machine which started beeping rapidly. Lennox grabbed a pocket knife from one of his numerous pockets and carefully cut the material from the bottom to the top and carefully peled the blood soaked material off her back, he gasped in shock at what he saw.

"What are you doing get rid of the fragging clothes!" Yelled Ratchet when he noticed that Lennox had frozen on the spot.

"Ratchet."

"Hurry up!"

"Ratchet!"

"What is it?"

"She has wings."

A/N Please review if you liked it. XD