Halfbreed:
A/N: Hey I'm on a roll with these updates :) Here's chapter 7 I hope you like it. Pweease review! It's what keeps me going!
Chapter 7: Prime
"It seems that your wrist is indeed broken and that you cracked three of your ribs," Ratchet explained analyzing me with his optics.
"I had assumed...," I mumbled not really listening but more preoccupied with all the curious stares that I got.
I was sitting on another medical table in my sweatshirt and jeans as Sam, Cain, and two soldiers that had come over to see who the new comer was were staring at me with wide, curious, eyes.
I was used to people giving me seconds glances because of my face but the all out staring was starting to creep me out just a little bit. You could have cut the tension with a spoon as the medic bot finished and stepped back with the others. For a long minute there was an awkward silence and I tried my best to not look people in the eye but I couldn't take it.
"Alright I'm guessing you have some questions...so go ahead and ask 'em," I sighed and sat up straighter and crossed my arms over my chest.
Everyone looked at each other for a moment and didn't seem to want to be the ones to ask...atleast until Sam piped up.
"So umm...to put it bluntly what the Hell happened to your face?".
"Sam!" Ratchet said warningly poking the man with a finger.
"What? She said I could ask!" he said back defensively.
"No Ratchet, it's okay I've been asking myself that same question for years," and at this I laughed.
This lightened the mood drasically and I could see everyone exhal their pent up breathes. Soon I answered some questions about my pat to the two soldiers that had come over, their names were Will Lennox (Ann's dad apparently) and Robert Epps. And after getting past their military like outisde they seemed like nice guys. After another few minutes of questions there was break in the conversation and Sam spoke again.
"So do you know what happened?" this time he asked more politly.
I shook my head, "No I'm afraid I don't. Last this I remember is a giant eye looking down at me and then I woke up a few days later but I always assumed that is was the Decepticon doctor that did it,".
Sam looked almost a little disappointed but Ratchet came forward, "No I do not believe that this is the work of that doctor, it's too...seemless I guess you could say not as grusome or haphazard as his experiments usually are,".
"Seemless?" I said shocked for a moment feeling the smooth metal that melded into my flesh with only a small ridge of scared skin that separated it.
"Yes it's quite remarkable...almost like..."
BOOOM!
The explosion interrrupted the medical bot halfway through his sentence. From above glass rained down along with hunks of concrete that crashed down. The lights above our heads flickered and died then from above came the sounds of gun fire along with the tangy, burned smell of gun smoke. All around people screamed and rushed towards the exit as at the far end of the gigantic room two bots jumped down with their weapons drawn.
"DECEPTICONS!" Rachet boomed making all the Autobots around him reveal their weapons and turn to face their enemies.
I swore and ducked underneath the table I was sitting on and that was when all Hell broke loose. The humans rushed around, some yelling orders while pulling out AK47s while others rushed forward to the exit in a frenzied panic. Again from above more huge crashes sounded and I felt a piece of glass bounce up and cut my cheek, the warm feeling of blood ran down my face but I ignored it.
Suddenly from behind I felt something grab my ankle and yank me out from underneath the table. I screamed bloody murder as I felt myself rushing upwards towards the face of one butt ugly Decepticon. His red optics glared over me and I could feel hot, oil scented, wind on my face. He growled something in Cybertronian and then his tiny gear-like pupils constricted as he focused on something behind me.
There was a whoosh as a small rocket came out of nowhere, it missed me by a few inches but hit the Decepticon right in his shoulder. Although it did next to diddly squat except make him even more pissed off then he already was. I looked down (or would it be up from my position?) and saw that another soldier had fired that rocket.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" I bellowed so loud that my voice cracked.
But he didn't havce time answer as I felt my the hand around my ankle release and I plummeted head first towards the ground. I tried to scream again but my throat was so raw nothing came out. I closed my eyes waiting for my body to become possibly the world largest pancake.
Something large connected with my side making me lurch to a stop and brusing my already damaged ribs. But I shot open my eyes and saw that Cain had grabbed me around my middle. He hoisted me up and deposited me onto his massive shoulder next to his head.
"Hang on!" he bellowed making my ears ring.
I took his advice though and gripped a metal plate directly in front of me so hard that my fingers turned white and braced me legs underneath me. The navy blue bot the doged to the side as the same Decepticon growled and came forward shooting blasts of energy with a vengeful look in his optics.
I was amazed at how agile Cain was, being a large metal robot and all that, he ducked and wove about the wreckage of what used to be the Haven and finally was able to take down the Con with a well aimed shot to the head blowing bits of metal and circutry to the sky.
"Cain!" a voice called out over the dull roar of the battle.
The Cybertronian turned and saw that Ratchet was battling several mini con cats, ripping them apart as if they were made of paper.
"What is it?" he called back swiping a mini con aside himself.
"You need to go with...rrggh...Sideswipe and Wheeljack, take the remaining hu..arrhh...humans to saftey!" he said as he fended off the next wave of mini cons that attacked.
"What! No you'll be the only one left!" he argued back ducking another shot from a nearby Con.
"GO NOW! That's and order!" Ratchet yelled.
Cain gave a pained groan, I myself didn't want to abandon Ratchet to battle alone but I know I couldn't do anything by myself. But reluctantly the blue bot doged away towards the exit along with two other bots that I assumed were Sideswipe and Wheeljack.
I hung on for dear life as I was jerked forward as Cain ran towards the exit jumping and ducking as shots were fired and missed him either by a few centimeters or pinging off his armor and almost hitting me. Suddenly Cain skidded to slow himself and he scooped something off the ground deposited Sam next to me on his shoulder.
"Holy crap!" he yelled his eyes wide in fear and surprise.
My oonly responce was a nod as I was too preoccupied by not getting thrown off.
Finally we had made it to the exit. By now most of the humans had made it through and into the warehouse above, unfortunetly though not all of them had made it. Several burned bodies lay on the wreckage scattered around the enterance and I had to concentrate on not throwing up as we passed them. Cain's hand came up nad picked Sam and I up and then carefully deposited us on the ground at the feet of the two other bots and with several other humans that the Autobots had rescued.
"I need to go back and help Ratchet, you'll be able to escape from here right?" he said and turned.
I gave a small nod of approval as he fully turned and left but I had no idea that we were far from out of the thick of it, I was just gald for the moment to not be in a fight. The remaining soldiers shouted for us to gather around and to move forward and up into the warehouse tunnel. Just then there was another crash from above and a deep voice growled at us all as some were shot backwards by some energon cannon blasts. Megatron had arrived.
"You lowly worms thought that you all could evade me?" he came forward and his red optics landed on me seeming to pin me in place with fright.
"There you are...little scum thought you'd lost me 'eh," he rumbled and then started forward with his claws reaching for me.
The next few seconds seemed to move in slow motion, like God had hit the slow-mo button on his universal remote. The human soldiers brought out puny looking handguns and fired useless bullets at him while he swatted a few of them away like flies, meanwhile I stumbled backwards until my ankle hit something behind me and I fell backwards into a hunk f concrete making my side flare with pain. Then there was a yellow blur that came out of nowhere and hit Megatron in the stomach with a blast that made him stumble back.
"BUMBLEBEE!" I heard someone yell and I saw Sam aving his arms in the air.
The yellow bot roared over in his camero mode and scooped Sam and several surviving humans into it's seats but as he turned to try and rescue me I realized that he'd be too late. Megatron already had gotton his balance back and was charging right at me a snarl etched into his face.
I squeezed my eye closed and felt a tear slip through and down my grimy cheek. I screamed again as anotehr huge crash came from above and glass rained down again. I rolled to the side as something gigantic landed right in front of me.
'What is a piece of ceiling? Another Decepticon?' I thought sheilding my face with my arms.
There was a moment of calm and then I heard something I'd never thought I hear in my life...ever.
Megatron's flabberghasted voice was deathly quiet, "You! You've decided to come out of hiding,".
I looked up and my jaw dropped, standing directly in front of me was a huge bot that was just as big as the Decepticon leader. His armor had faded blue and red flames on it and his gigantic cervos were clentched into fists. He didn't reply to Megatron's question but just started circling around to try and get to his new opponent.
The Con leader quickly tried to hide his shock behind a sneer and he copied his enemy's movments so that soon they were circling around each other.
"Not diplomatic come back today Prime?" he gloated.
Still the bot, (Prime was it?) said nothing but just glared at Megtron. Without warning they jumped at each other with an explosive clash of metal on metal. The Decepticon snarled as they exchanged blows to each other. Each more destructive than the last. I rolled to the side ignoring the pain in my chest and arm as a huge robtic foot landed where I had just been.
'I need to get out of here before I get killed!' I thought and ducked underneath a out stretched slab of crete that was propped up like a lean-to.
There was a roar of pain from one of the mechs, (which one I wasn't sure), followed shortly by a massive boom as someone fell to the ground. I peeked out cautiously and saw to my horror that Prime had been pinned facedown to the ground and Megatron had his huge foot planted directly on his back.
"Ha you're even more pathetic then you used to be Prime huh...no herioc speeches to day? Nothing?" he cackled pushing Prime's head into the rubble with his clawed cervo.
The red and blue bot struggled but couldn't move the Con's foot from off of him. He groaned and heaved until there was the shrieking sound of bending metal but he was stuck. I covered my mouth in fear as MEgtron went to deliver a fatal blow.
"I guess I won't need that girl now that's you've decided to come yourself!"
There was a sudden shooshing sound and a small blast came from Megatron's side throwing him off balance. Prime took the chance and pushed upward throwing off his attacker. I looked over and saw that Bumblebee had shot the Decepticon right in the side.
Megatron gave a growl of displeasure as he back off and observed the situation. Two of his bots had fallen, their remains lifeless apon the ground while the rest of his forces were being held as bay by the remaining bots and soldiers.
His optics flickered over everyone in the now destroyed Haven and he backed up into the exit tunnel, "You haven't won at all Autobots! You haven't even scratched the surface of my forces and next time there will be NO survivors!" and with that the Con transformed into a giant jet plane and took off destroying the tunnel in the process.
His followers took his lead and either escaped the same way or up out through the remaining ceiling. Within a few moments they were gone. A small cheer went up from the soldiers but mostly everyone was staring at the big blue and red bot...Prime.
"So you've come back Optimus?" everyone turned to look at Sam who had stepped forward.
Blood ran from a cut on his forehead and from his lip but besides that he looked unharmed. Optimus turned and knelt in front of the man and looked at his closely.
"Time had been good to you Samuel Witwicky,".
"Sorry but I can't seem to say the same to you Optimus," Sam replied no humor in his voice despite the jest.
I gasped as I saw that the bot had only one optic his left optic was missing. He stood back up and looked aroun feeling slightly odd I guessed that everyone was staring up at him.
There was the crunch of stone underfoot and I turned to see Cain approaching his eyes on Optimus but he seemed dreadfully preoccupied.
"Cain! Do you know..." I started to ask but he held up a cervo and looked over the crowd.
There was a moment of dreading silence where everyone looked over at him.
"What's wrong Cain?"
The blue bot hung his head and then said in a low monotone, "They've taken him...they've taken Ratchet,".
