Leanna casually walked down the sidewalk, counting every familiar bump and crack. She stopped all of a sudden when she heard something. It came booming over her head and was coming closer to her. 'Now I must be losing my hearing.' Leanna thought. She couldn't believe it, but she knew without a doubt she was hearing a helicopter. Suddenly the ground shook and knocked her to her knees. The helicopter noises became whirring and metal grinding sounds. Without a clue as to what was happening around her, Leanna sprang up and instinctively started running back to where she came. Leanna screamed at the top of her lungs when giant metal claws took her by surprise and lifted her into the air. The claws suddenly let go and tossed her around lightly before catching her by her ankle and lifting her up higher. Between her frightened gasps and screams, Leanna could hear her captor making remarks about her and maniacally laughing.
"It's not every day they run into your hands." Leanna heard the voice say. Leanna began to silently cry. She'd never felt so helpless before. Her heart was pounding inside her head. She reached up to try to free herself from whatever was holding her ankles. But a metal claw swatted her away, so she kept dangling there. She didn't hear, but her captor was discussing her execution at the moment. :Do not take me for a fool, Starscream! I realize that Megatron requests the Witwicky boy. But now that I have his mate, the boy will come shortly.: The Decepticon explained. He was interrupted by squealing tires and the sound of two clumsy Autobots tumbling into their robot modes. Skids and Mudflap charged at the Decepticon, but stopped dead in their tracks when they saw who the Decepticon was holding. The Decepticon smirked and showed the traumatized girl hanging from his hands. "I'm sorry. Does this belong to you?" Leanna was suddenly tossed aside and the Decepticon opened fire on the twins. Skids and Mudflap swiftly dodged and fired back. Mudflap transformed back into car mode and drove straight at the Decepticon, while Skids stayed close behind, still firing. The Decepticon shot at Mudflap, but Mudflap transformed and leapt at the Decepticon, seconds before the bullets hit him. He tackled the Decepticon and rolled him onto his back. Skids slid around the two and grabbed Leanna in his arms. Meanwhile, Leanna was absolutely petrified. She didn't make a sound when Skids scooped her up. She just stared out into nothing with obvious fear showing in her eyes. Skids took her around the corner and set her down in a driveway. Once Leanna realized she was on familiar ground, she moved her hands around on the driveway franticly. It was then when she decided she'd never missed the ground so much.
"You be safe 'ere fo' a while." Skids said. Leanna looked straight up at him and began crying again. A light bulb just turned on inside her mind.
"WHAT ARE YOU?" Leanna demanded.
"Imma friend o' Leo's." Skids replied honestly. A loud crash, and a painful cry from Mudflap reminded Skids of where he was supposed to be. But when he turned his attention back to Leanna, she was up and running back the way they came, which Leanna was smart enough to know was the way home. "Hey!" Skids said, grabbing Leanna and sitting her back down on the driveway. "Stay 'ere! I'm savin' yo life!" Skids turned and ran, not looking back to see if Leanna had listened to him.
Meanwhile, Mudflap and the Decepticon were locked in a merciless death match. The Decepticon pounded Mudflap into the pavement. While Mudflap was getting the slag beat out of him, he also had a clear shot at the Decepticon's spark. Mudflap freed his arm and tried to fire straight at the Decepticon, but the Decepticon was over twice Mudflap's size and used his massive height and weight against Mudflap. As soon as Mudflap was free, he was pinned down again. This time the Decepticon forced Mudflap's cannon arm behind his back, and put his knee down on Mudflap's chest. When Mudflap stopped struggling, he looked into the Decepticon's red optics. When the Decepticon looked back into Mudflap's, the Decepticon chuckled.
"I know you." Then the Decepticon began tracing Mudflap's facial features, to Mudflap's disgust. Mudflap growled in response. The Decepticon looked thoughtful for a few seconds. "No. I've never met you. But I knew your creator." Mudflap flinched with surprise. The Decepticon reached for Mudflap's throat and began digging into it with his claws. Mudflap kept still and endured the torture. He didn't dare struggle now. He had to know more about his creator.
"How?" Mudflap croaked.
"Skywarp never offlined your femme creator. He sold her!"
"No."
"He sure did." The Decepticon boasted, applying more pressure on Mudflap's chest and throat. "She was a slave for the rest of her days. And since you are about to die, I might as well tell you this." The Decepticon said as he picked at Mudflap's energon veins till he bled. "How do I know all of this? Skywarp sold her... to yours truly." Mudflap was scared stiff. He couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"Kindle." Mudflap cried.
"That's right. And you know what's funny? During her last cycles online, she'd been worked so hard for so long, she didn't even remember she had twins." the Decepticon hissed. Now Mudflap had had enough of this and began fighting again to get free. The Decepticon aimed his weapon for Mudflap's spark, but was thrown off of Mudflap when a green clunk of metal launched at him. Mudflap scrambled back to his feet and stared in awe at his brave brother wrestling the giant Decepticon to the ground and kicking aft.
"The power lines!" The voice came out of no where. Mudflap didn't think long enough to consider who was talking to him. He just charged at the Decepticon and followed the voice's command. He got behind the Decepticon while Skids fired at his front. Mudflap jumped up on the Decepticon's shoulders and knocked his head around. Skids firing became more intense, and just as Mudflap had sort of planned, the Decpticon collapsed backwards and fell into the power lines. As the Decepticon fell, Mudflap jumped over the Decepticon and shot straight down at his spark from up in the air. The dead Decepticon fell flat on his back and the power poles crushed his upper body. Mudflap fell beside him, not at all hurt by the power lines, but very banged up from the not so graceful landing. Skids ran to Mudflap's side, and picked him up.
"You okay?" Skids asked.
"Yeah. Fine." Mudflap assured Skids, with a pat on his back.
"Great idea bro." Skids said out loud. He gestured towards the fallen power lines.
"Dat wasn't me. Ah mean it wuz me. But, ah din' think o' dat." Mudflap confessed.
"He's right." A woman's voice answered. Skids and Mudflap turned around and were shocked to see Leo and Leanna holding hands in the middle of the street, and watching them. "I did that." Leanna said proudly.