Containment
"Keep that shield up! Whatever you do! We can't let the Seeker teleport!" Springer yelled to Hound.
Throwing on full power, the green Mech staggered with the effort of keeping such a large area shielded. He knew for certain, if he failed, the Seeker who'd been stalking the Autobots, would be able to escape them.
Bumblebee stood in front of his friend, trying to protect him as the rest of the Mechs engaged the grounded Seeker. The two of them stood there, watching the vicious fight.
Her optics burned with fire, as she kept the Mechs at bay. They circled her dangerously, trying to get past her swift defensive kicks. Rodimus jumped at her, at the same time as Springer from her opposite side – both Mechs hopeful to overwhelm her. But she held them off as she spun in a whirling roundhouse, hitting Rodimus squarely; then finishing her spin with a side kick, aimed at the green Flyer's face. Then her thrusters lightly touched the ground, just for a second, and then she was spinning again, desperately keeping the Mechs away.
As she stayed on the defensive, she quickly locked onto Hound, trying to get a swift shot on him. She was desperate to get him to turn of his shielding, so that she could teleport out of the Autobots' grasp. Bumblebee quickly shot her missile down, protecting Hound.
Soon, the other Autobots joined the fray, Bluestreak and the Dinobots moving in to help their two friends corral the dangerous Seeker. Looking at each other, they nodded, and then all of them jumped on her at once, their combined weight, finally tackling her to the ground. Rodimus and Grimlock got in quite a few punches before the Seeker finally quit struggling and blacked out.
In triumph, the Autobots slowly peeled themselves off of the prone Seeker. Springer swiftly opened one of her port panels, and then cussed as he realized her teleport and cloak circuits were on the other side. So he opened her Starboard panel, and removed those circuits. "Well, Scream made her back-aft backward; but now she'll not be getting away from us."
Using a crowbar, he opened up her weapon bays. With the exception of two Sidewinders, they were empty. He took those two out and tossed them casually to Rodimus, and then he did the same with her laser cannons. "I think she's fully disarmed now. She's safe to transport now." He told Rodimus.
Bluestreak looked at the beat up gray/green fuselage. The Seeker's red optics were still dark with unconsciousness. "Sloggers didn't realize we'd done that much damage."
"Yep, she was designed for hit and run; not for hand-to-hand with a bunch of strong ground Mechs." Springer replied, confident in his statement.
Possum
They had taken her by surprise, and much to her dismay Raptor had realized that the Autobots had figured out how to keep her from teleporting. The sloggin' green Jeep had covered the entire fray with a shield, and the little yellow one was shooting down every missile she sent toward them! The Seeker cussed in her mind, only her human martial-arts background enabling her to keep the other ground Mechs at bay.
She tried to angle towards her only opportunity for escape, but the big orange Mech conveniently put himself between her and freedom. Looking into those intense blue optics, she knew he wouldn't stop until he'd gotten her to either surrender, or quit functioning.
Hearing the sound of more Autobots joining the fray, she knew they'd get her this time. But she had one more trick up her sleeve that they didn't know about. As the powerful Mechs tackled her en masse, she activated her holographic projector, as she deactivated her optics and forced herself to go limp.
She listened as the Mechs slowly got off her, feeling fingers opening her panels. Inwardly she grinned as Springer griped about her apparently backward circuitry design, then she felt his fingers accessing her other side, as he removed some of her spare sensory circuits, completely believing they were her teleport and cloaking circuits.
They accessed her weapon bays, fully believing their optics when they viewed the holograms of empty bays. She did let them remove half of her Sidewinders, for they'd never believe she had no missiles! Her internal merriment increased, as she heard the comments regarding her banged up fuselage, knowing that the belief in her hologram was complete.
Limply, she let them lift her, placing her apparently unconscious chassis into Rodimus, for transport back to Metroplex. Rolling her helm, she forced her face to remain expressionless, as she felt the vibrations of his engine and his wheels, as he carried her to her imprisonment.
Decepticon Observer
Cyclonus watched in silence as the Bounty Hunter was ambushed by the Autobots. He was rather impressed at her fighting abilities and guts against such incredible odds. But he didn't show himself, didn't bother to intervene. For if this Bounty Hunter was truly good enough for the Decepticons to hire – then she was good enough to get herself out of this predicament.
He would be interested to see how she accomplished this feat.
Interrogation
Slowly, Raptor activated her optics, pretending to be rebooting. Rolling onto her belly, she let out a fake grunt, wanting them to believe she was truly as damaged as her hologram made her look.. She realized that her hands were chained in front of her, but her apparently heavily damaged legs were not. With apparent weakness, she lifted herself so that she was sitting, scanning her surroundings.
Looking up, she realized three big Mechs were standing silently, watching her reboot. Grinning inside, she decided to play her 'heavily damaged captive' routine to the max, since they seemed to believe what their optics were telling them. So she leaned back heavily against the wall, wincing as her 'torn' wing touched it.
"It seems we have finally caught our hunter." Optimus commented to Ultra Magnus.
The blue Mech nodded. "She doesn't fight as well on the ground as she does in the sky," he noted, locking her crimson optics with his own.
A defiant glare filled her optics, as she lifted her chin at his insult. She spat some dripping energon from her lips. "Only took ten of you fucking killers to bring me down," she insulted back in a hoarse, weak voice.
The Autobots eyed her at her use of human slang. Kup and Skydive had been so right about this one being sparked with a very angry human spark!
Rodimus became enraged at her having the audacity to call them 'killers'. Before the other two could stop him, he had strode up to her and kicked her hard, sending her sliding across the room. Ultra Magnus grabbed him before he could land another kick.
The Seeker merely grunted, refusing to allow him the pleasure of seeing her pain. Shaking her head to get the newly leaking energon off of her optics, she glared at the orange Mech. "You fucking bastard. If you were one of US, you'd now be in jail for false imprisonment and assault charges." Struggling to sit back up, she met his optics in an unflinching stare, "but your not. You fucking killers get away killing and maiming thousands, with impunity; with no fucking responsibility for your neglect."
Rodimus roared in anger at her words, almost breaking free of Ultra Magnus as he lunged towards her again. Optimus and Ultra Magnus exchanged looks, knowing they weren't going to get far with her at this time.
"We'll leave you hear to think about your options for a while. You're an intelligent Seeker, I'm sure with time you'll come to the right decision." Optimus stated to her, as he and the others left the cell.
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