Disclaimer: Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, Shawn, or the story itself. Youko-kun was kind enough to allow me to continue the story Mechanic. My apologies if this turns out badly. I will be changing some things, but I will try to keep the original story that I fell in love with.
Shawn sat on a small worn couch at an old military base, thinking. After they had met up with the rest of the Autobots, Optimus had informed them that the military had given them access to an abandoned air base until they could make a proper base that could hold their size. It took only a few hours to reach but it seemed longer to Shawn with the mini-bots crawling around the back of the truck, chattering happily and playing without a care. Lennox had followed behind in an army jeep but Ironhide had demanded Sam and Shawn ride with him, not wanting to be alone with 8 rowdy bots inside him. The rollerblades had jumped from the hummer to the Topkick when they had pulled up to the remaining Autobots.
Sam was sitting with the tow truck girl, who he had learned was named Mikaela, and they were getting very touchy feely. Shawn pouted in his corner. Ratchet had demanded they stay on base until he could learn if the Allspark, for they had figured out the 'tingle' was Allspark energy, had changed anything else in them. All he wanted was to go home, have a nice long relaxing shower, and curl up in bed with a manga until he fell asleep, but instead he was stuck in a stuffy military quarter covered in enough dust to make someone without a dust allergy to have a sneezing fit. The mini-bots had been taken by ratchet for a check-up, to see if being made by earth materials had affected them. Supposedly Cybertronian metals had some kind of alloy to prevent an adverse effect from spark radiation and most earth metals didn't have that.
Lennox and his team had been taken by the government for a Debriefing minutes after they had arrived, most likely the government would try to cover up the alien escape and battle. Shawn snorted; with so much damage to the city Shawn wished them luck in that endeavor, it wouldn't be easy. The uneasiness around the mechs, as Ratchet adamantly demanded to be called instead of robots, had eased slightly after Sam had told him all their names and abilities. Instead of being around unfamiliar aliens and not knowing what they could do, he was now surrounded by aliens who he knew what they could do. Considering the destructive power displayed by most of them, this wasn't a very comforting thought.
The mini-bots had been spawned by most of the electronics in his lab that has complete circuitry, like the remote control car and the motor wires throughout the frame of the rollerblades. The ones without complete circuitry or had been dismantled and uncompleted hadn't come to life and Shawn was grateful for that. It would have been painful to become alive in that condition and Shawn wouldn't want that on anything.
The bots had told Ratchet that they were all brothers, having been made by the same creator, even though they all looked different. The only ones who were true brothers were the rollerblades, who adamantly believed they had a twin bond, whatever that was. Shawn hadn't seen a nut or bolt from them since Ratchet took them and Shawn was grateful. It gave him time to come to terms that his invention lab had come to life.
He glanced up as the door across the room opened, interrupting Sam and Mikaela's intimate time. Shawn snickered as they launched apart, blushing as Will Lennox walked through the door, a bundle behind him. "How's it going kiddies?" the man asked, grinning at them.
Shawn snorted. "I'll have you know I'm twenty two, thank you very much." Will just laughed and dumped the bundle on the floor. Shawn leaned towards it curiously. "What that?"
Will pulled back the tarp, revealing another bot. A gasp resounded from the teenager's corner. "Frenzy!"
Shawn raised an eyebrow. "Frenzy?" He noticed that the small bots head as almost severed in half, an optic almost detached from its head.
Sam nodded. "That little bot tried getting the Allspark from the Hoover Dam when we were leaving. Why is he here?"
Will recovered the bot. "The Autobots are gathering all the bodies of the Decepticons so they can bury them at sea. I'm just waiting for one of 'em to come get this one and we should have 'em all."
Everyone in the room nodded, keeping their eyes from the bundle, but Sam couldn't help but feel a draw to it, the tingle acting up. Leaning back to the bundle, Sam caught Shawn watching him, the 22-year-old matching his posture. Subtly nodding, the two crept over to the bundle. Mikaela watched them, curious.
"What are you two doing?"
Sam shrugged while Shawn turned to her. "I donno. The tingle is acting up, like it wants us to do something about the body."
Reaching over, Sam uncovered the body and placed a hand gently on the bot. The tingle doubled in intensity but nothing happened. "Come on Shawn, you touch it too."
Shrugging the mechanic leaned over and touched the Bot's shoulder. Immediately a bright flash of blue released from their hands and into the bot. The boys screamed and tried to pull away but their hands seemed glued to the body. As they watched, the head slowly re-stitched itself and became whole, its optic realigning itself. When the glow around Frenzy faded, Sam and Shawn pulled back, hands still glowing and the tingle at full force. The room went back to its regular lighting and the humans watched the bot. An anxious silence crept into the room.
The little bots arm suddenly began to spasm and the humans gasped, flinching back. Lennox grabbed a small pistol from his side, aiming it at the bot. The optics slowly on-lined and looked around. Spotting the humans, it jumped to its feet and backed up, spying the gun in Lennox's hand. Looking at Sam and Shawn, the bots optics seemed to widen. Quickly dropping to its knees in front of the boys, the small Decepticon said something very surprising.
"Allspark!"
The small Decepticon jumped up again and rushed over to the boys, who quickly back up into a wall.
"Megatron will be pleased, very pleased!"
Shawn snorted and glared at the bot. "Megatron's dead, where have you been?"
The bot gasped and unsheathed a shuriken. "Lies! The great Megatron lives!"
A shot rang out and the bot flinched back, hole in his shoulder armor from where Lennox had shot him. Frenzy jumped back and ran quickly for the door. Springing out of the room, Frenzy launched himself down the corridor, only to be stopped by a large cannon. Ironhide put his cannon right to Frenzy face and growled, "I'd stop right there if you knew what was good for you Decepticon."
Frenzy growled and twisted his wrist, launching a shuriken into Ironhide's arm. The Topkick yelped and drew back, allowing the hacker to escape up the wall and into a vent. Lennox ran up to the bot, scowling. "Nice going Ironhide." The Topkick just growled and yanked the weapon out of his arm.
Barricade had lost contact with his partner hours ago and had lost hope of retrieving him and giving him back to Soundwave, to save his own skin of course. No one messed with Soundwave's cassettes and lived long to tell about it. He was driving around the desert, trying to find cover until he could track down the remaining Decepticons on and around the earth when he suddenly picked up Frenzy's distress signal from Hoover dam. The Cop cruiser would have smirked if he was in bipedal mode, maybe his aft could be saved yet.
Shawn grumbled to himself as a large finger poked and prodded him. Sam was getting the same treatment beside him. After Frenzy had escaped, Ironhide had immediately contacted Ratchet and demanded that they have their check-up now before any more weirdness happened. So far all they could find was that Sam and himself radiated Allspark energy and that it wasn't really affecting anything. It was acting like it was in hibernation or something. Since Ratchet could not find anything wrong with them, he had to let them leave to temporary med bay, but he demanded they not touch anything Cybertronian until the energy had left them, not that Shawn needed much prompting to do so.
Frenzy was excited. Not only had he found the bearers of the Allspark but he had managed to hide out near the Hoover dam undetected and hack into sector sevens databanks, uploading everything they had on Megatron and the Allspark. He giggled gleefully in his alt-mode while waiting for Barricade to arrivel—he knew the mech would come, as the Saleen would be a fool to ignore his distress signal while Soundwave was still online. Once he was out of the humans' radar, Frenzy planned to re-establish contact with his creator. Information had to be exchanged for Megatron to rise again. Frenzy had the knowledge for such an act to become reality in the right hands.
Frenzy giggled again, only to quickly cut himself off as a couple human children walked past him. All they needed was time, and with the Autobots clueless about the limitless energy right under their optics, they had all the time in the world.
