Save Me From This Nightmare
Summary: While out on a mission, Arcee and Jack are attacked by Arachnid. Once Arcee and the others are knocked away, Arachnid kidnaps Jack. Will Arcee get Jack back before he's killed?
THIS IS IMPORTANT IF YOU WANT TO GET WHAT BUMBLEBEE IS SAYING WHEN HE'S USING HIS RADIO TO TALK!
When the radio people are talking and it's unimportant words, the words will be in Italics!
When the radio people talk and it's what Bumblebee wants to say, the words will be normal.
Chapter Four: Double The Kidnap, Double The Pain
The Next Morning At The Base….
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock… each second the big hand on the clock ticked it would anger Arcee even more. Each second she wouldn't know where Arachnid was hiding or if Jack was still alive.
And each second she'd worry about Bumblebee. He's never usually this quite. Even Raf's been even more silent than before. He wasn't really a talker since the start, but he'd always be talking to Bee… but since both of them haven't been talking, something had to be wrong.
But the defeated look in Bumblebee's eyes kept causing her to leave him alone and not ask why he's been so blue lately. The team was falling apart, and if they lost Bumblebee then they'd fall apart completely for sure.
Each autobot had a trait that kept them in balance, even the humans had a trait. Optimus' was the leader, he had the order and discipline that some of them lacked. Bulkhead had the strength, and Arcee had the determination to keep going.
Jack was stubborn, he wouldn't back down or leave his partner alone to fend by herself. Miko was courageous, she was just as brave as her guardian. Ratchet and Raf both shared the intelligence, but different kinds of intelligence.
And Bumblebee? He was innocent and enthusiastic, the perfect combination to keep everybody happy or on their toes. He was one of the main pillars that kept their house standing.
ARCEE! She jumped out her daze to see Ratchet by her door. He called, "Didn't you hear Prime? You've got to go! Decepticons are running amuck in the city!"
"Arachnid?"
"No..."
"Knockout?"
"Megatron and Starscream."
"Slag."
He chuckled at bit before saying, "Well what are you waiting for? You gotta get out there before they leave without you, you know they're going to need you!"
She nodded and ran past the grumpy medic and transformed into her motorcycle. As soon as the kids were ready to go, they set out for the city where two dangerous decepticons were destroying the city.
In The City….
Starscream and Megatron walked down the streets watching the people run into their houses screaming at the top of their lungs. They enjoyed the fear they put into the hearts of the humans.
Megatron growled, "I thought Prime and the yellow autobot would be here by now… I do not like waiting… especially for autobots."
Just as the leader was about to shoot a building he heard a familiar voice yelled, "Megatron, stop this right now!"
He turned around to see the autobots already transformed and ready to attack them. The humans ran into an empty alley to watch safely. Megatron smirked, one of the humans was missing and he knew exactly why.
Megatron laughed, "I noticed that one of your humans is missing, Prime. Did you get sick of him or did he perish already? Oh no, did Arcee fail to save him in the woods again?"
Optimus raised a mechanic eyebrow and asked, "How did you know he was taken in the woods, Megatron? Have you been following and watching our every move?"
He smiled and pointed at Bee saying, "You can blame that little traitor for that. He's the reason I know about everything that's happened."
Bee stepped away from his glaring team making beeping noises. He said, "No, I didn't tell them! I swear upon the Allspark that it's true!" The decepticon leader laughed aloud again, creeping Miko and Raf out even more.
Starscream explained, "He's telling the truth, he didn't tell us anything. His mother did. She told us all about her plan to torture Arcee and Bumblebee. As soon as she had kidnapped Jack, she informed us of her evil, little plan."
Megatron ran towards Bumblebee and snatched him from his team. He held Bee against his chest so that his team could still see him. The decepticon leader tightened his grip on the squirming autobot so he could speak to his enemies.
He growled to Bee, "You were raised by autobot who transformed into a decepticon! What does that make you, you pestering bug! That makes you a decepticon! You will destroy the ones you love and become like us! You cannot do anything about it!"
Bumblebee made beeping noises that sounded as if he was screaming, "No! Stop it, stop it, please! I don't want to be a decepticon! I don't want to be like you! NO! STOP IT! HELP ME! ARCEE!"
Raf yelled at the decepticon, "HEY! Leave him alone! Stop it! Stop hurting him!" Starscream glared at the human and was about to shoot him but was stopped by Megatron who whispered, "Let him suffer as his guardian is tortured before his very eyes."
Bulkhead looked at Prime and shouted, "We have to help him! We can't let him be tortured by Megatron!" The leader nodded and said firmly, "Autobots-"
Megatron said with darkness in his voice, "Oh no you don't, Optimus! This little bug needs to die! Since he doesn't want to become one of us like his mother, I'll kill him! It'll be slow and painful! I'll just rip out his spark and watch the life go out of his eyes!"
Arcee screamed, "I won't let you!" Before she could say more Optimus said, "Do you even hear how insane you sound right now! Just give Bumblebee back and we'll make a truce and-"
"I don't want to make a truce with you, Optimus!"
"The war will finally be at an-"
"The only thing I want to end is his life!"
"Megatron, trust me you don't want to do that!"
"And why not?"
He glared at the decepticon leader before answering, "You'll have to deal with the wrath of Arachnid when she finds out that you ended her son's life! She'll tear you apart or maybe she'll just melt you with her acid."
But all Megatron did was laugh at Prime's seriousness. Starscream chuckled, "Who is she going to believe, Prime? You backstabbing autobots or her family of decepticons? You stand no chance, she'll listen to our story and believe us instead of you."
Bumblebee moved around in the stronger bot's grasp trying to find some way of getting free, but it was hopeless. He was much stronger than a little scout like Bee. His eyes flashed to Arcee, his eyes begged for her to save him.
She whispered, "Jack… No… not again… BUMBLEBEE!" She ran at full speed, ignoring all the yelling she was getting from Bulkhead and Optimus. All that mattered was Bee's safety. She lost her partner, she wasn't about to lose her best friend too.
Arcee charged at the dangerous leader and fired her lasers at his face. Each one kept missing until she finally got his shoulder, causing the larger bot to almost fall backwards. But his grip on Bumblebee didn't loosen, instead it got tighter.
The blue autobot was about to karate kick Megatron in the face when she was shot back by a missile shot by Starscream. He walked over to Megatron's side and aimed at Arcee again, she gasped and looked back at the decepticon.
He walked forward and smirked, he was finally going to end her life. CRASH! The second in command of the decepticons was slammed into a brick wall by Bulkhead. The large autobot smiled as he heard Miko cheer, "Yeah, Bulkhead! Show them what you got!"
He gave out a battle cry as he ran at Starscream. Optimus ran over to Arcee and helped her up, it was going to require the two of them working together to stop a bot as powerful as Megatron. They looked at each other and nodded.
Prime ran to the right side of him as Arcee ran to the left side of Megatron. The decepticon laughed, "Are you really going to try that on me? It won't work, what foolish autobots…"
Surprisingly, Optimus jumped over Megatron at the same time as Arcee. They got their guns out quickly and fired at him. But to their surprise, their plan didn't go as planned. Megatron lifted Bumblebee up into the air as a shield, causing Bee to feel the pain instead of their original target.
Arcee growled furiously, "Why didn't that work! It would've worked so well against an-"
"An autobot, yes that would've worked on one of you. But not on a decepticon like me."
"And what do you have that Starscream doesn't have?"
"A brain. You see, for that to work, you would've had to think like a decepticon, not an autobot."
"Think like a decepticon?"
Megatron nodded and smirked as he said to Bumblebee, "You would know since you went into my mind and understood how I think. You'd make a perfect decepticon if you switched sides. I like the way you think, you're much smarter than Starscream."
"HEY!" shouted the other decepticon. SMASH! AHHH! Starscream was punched into another wall by the powerful Bulkhead. Megatron sighed and whispered, "See, this is what I have to deal with, but if you swapped sides, you'd be my second in command."
Second in command did sound awesome, but he'd rather be Optimus' second in command instead of being Megatron's. He shook his head no at Megatron's offer, causing the bigger bot's grip to tighten so much it was difficult for him to move one inch.
Megatron yelled at the yellow autobot, "What? Are you too good to be a decepticon! I give you the world and somehow that is not enough! What could possibly be better than destroying everyone in your path!"
Bumblebee made a faint beeping noise, but it could clearly be heard… "My friends and family are better."
The decepticon's eyes widened at what the scout had said. Friends and family? Megatron's eyes returned to normal as he said darkly, "What family do you have? Your father is dead and your mother is a decepticon, you have no family."
"Family or friends, which do I choose? They're both equal, my friends are like my family…"
"HA! Your friends are your family… pathetic autobot."
"And I suppose you've got a family too? Or do you just sit at home like a loser?"
"I offlined my family eons ago, they are worthless to me. Meaningless, useless."
"That's why you're such a loner, you sit in your closet and play your DS all day and night."
Megatron's nails dug into Bee's arms are he got angry. He shouted, "You better just keep your stupid, little mouth shut right now or I'll just offline you right here, right now!"
All the autobots and the humans screamed, "NO! LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Starscream limped over to his leader and said tiredly, "If this autobot means so much to them, we should just take him with us and get all his information out of him before we destroy him."
The leader smirked and said, "Not a bad idea, Starscream… you're smarter than you look sometimes. Well, I'd hate to leave just as things were getting good, but I think we'd better return to the ship and offline this worthless little autobot."
The autobots ran at Megatron but they were too late. Starscream and Megatron had flown away with Bumblebee. Raf came running out with tears streaming down his face. He screamed, "BUMBLEBEE! NO!"
Miko rushed to his side and got down on her knees. Raf fell to his knees and wrapped his arms around her as he cried on her shoulder. Drip, drop, drip, drip, drip, POW! Rain poured down and thunder started to boom loudly.
No matter how loud the thunder boomed, Raf's cries could be heard over it. Arcee covered his eyes fell to her knees as well. Oil like tears fell down her face, Bulkhead rested a hand on her shoulder as she and Raf continued to cry over the loss of Bumblebee.
The next thing they knew, Miko's shoulders started to shake. And soon enough, tears came. They were slowly breaking down, one by one.
On Arachnid's Ship….
Just as she was about to punish Jack for his recent failed escape plan, her computer screen flashed the image of Megatron's face. She glanced at it and walked over to her computer.
Jack gasped as he heard Bumblebee's beeps of pain in the background. He thought with panic flowing through him, 'No! No, no, no! They got Bumblebee too! They're going to kill him for sure! They won't wait like Arachnid, Arcee! WHERE ARE YOU! I need you! BUMBLEBEE NEEDS YOU!'
Arachnid glared at him and asked with a bit of attitude, "What do you want now, Megatron?" He said with fake sadness, "It appears that the autobots have gotten upset with Bumblebee's recent actions and decided to beat him and offline him."
She gasped and asked, "Why haven't you done anything to stop them?" Megatron sighed and lied, "I tried, but it I couldn't stop them. Since I got injured by the one named Arcee I had to flee from the battle."
He continued lying without emotion, "Believe me, it was the last thing I wanted to do. A son of a decepticon is like a son to me. I've come accustomed to your little autobot, I could never harm him even if I tried. But I will do everything in my power to get revenge on them. Trust me."
Arachnid's glare became dangerous as she growled, "Why do I hear Bumblebee's screams in the background then? And don't tell me I'm insane because I know my son's voice when I hear it!"
The male decepticon explained, "That noise is not Bumblebee, it is merely Knockout working on Starscream. That is the beeping sound of his heart monitor. See?"
She rolled her eyes as she saw Starscream's heart monitor and heard it make beeping noises similar to Bumblebee's. Arachnid said, "Fine, I'll teach those autobots a lesson. They're mine, leave them to me!"
Before Megatron could protest she turned off her computer and raced out of her ship, leaving Jack alone to sit and think of the evil things the decepticons could be doing Bumblebee now.
Back At Base….
Raf did not stop crying, and Miko did not stop holding him. He needed her, and she knew she couldn't leave him now. Bumblebee was Raf's best friend, his everything. He was the only one who really understood and listened to Raf.
And Raf was the only one who could understand Bee was he made beeping noises. He didn't know why, and he didn't know how he could, but he figured it was because they had a connection.
Arcee had stopped crying, and it was the first time she cried in a long time. Bee was like her brother, if either of them got hurt, the other would be right by their side protecting them… comforting them, making the other feel better.
Bee and Arcee had a special family connection that was stronger than both of them combined. If she needed him, he was coming through. If he needed her, she was right there beside him. They were a powerful duo that nobody wanted to mess with.
She walked angrily into her room and sat in a cold, dark corner. Her eyes softened and then flooded with tears. He pulled her knees up to her chest so that nobody could hear her crying.
She contemplated, 'Why can't I protect anyone! Jack needed me! And I couldn't save him. Bee… oh Bee! He cried for me! And I wasn't strong enough to save him. They needed me, and I couldn't rescue them. Why is that?'
Arcee whimpered a bit before thinking, 'Cliffjumper needed me and I wasn't there. But I went after him, I tried to rescue him… but it was too late. But I didn't give up on Cliff, and I won't give up on Jack and Bee! I will save them, I swear it upon the Allspark!'
'I'm coming Jack and Bee, I won't fail you two again. I promise!'
Ooh! Did anyone see that coming? Yeah, I like this chapter a lot and I hope you all do too! Thank you for reviewing last chapter, so I'm going to reward you with another chapter! Hopefully you'll all like this chapter!
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Chapter five! Will Bumblebee and Jack be rescued in time or will one of them be killed before Arcee can get there? Will Arachnid listen to the autobots or will she destroy them before they get a chance to tell her the truth? STAY TUNED AND REVIEW FOR THE ANSWERS!
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