A/N I'd like to give Barricade his own little conflict as well as making him a lone wolf between cons and bots, some will disagree but i just feel that way when i've seen him in the movies as well as some comics


The Brig

Six Weeks on the Nemesis

Ellen went back to focusing on the will to live and that had pushed her past fear, to find answers, just to get home. Everyone is neither friend or foe, she had decided to acknowledge them as just being there and if they speak she will answer but that is it, but there was that small part that still wanted to be on friendly terms with Barricade, perhaps it was that human nature of being sociable creatures or its that similar comforting feeling she would get from the Autobots either way she couldn't tell what he was really thinking and it made her all the more frustrated.

her attempts of constant wanderings around the ship had gotten her no closer to getting home either, however Barricade had grown weary of merely picking her up and moving her back to her quarters, so instead let her wander the ship, he could stop her if she were to stumble upon those rooms that were not for her eyes, such as the main bridge. She eagerly swung her arms up and down as her eyes wandered like a wild animal finding a way out, looking left and right at every door, briefly stopping as she would invite herself in, only to find either quarters for many Decepticons at a time, a weapons room, storage or hatchling room but she took note of them anyway for future reference.

Barricade also took note of her seemingly fixed objective.

As she continued her quick run around the whole ship she had entered a more darkened section of the ship she thought maybe the power was out in this section but it looked kind of abandoned or maybe that was the intention, her eager walking had stopped as she beheld it, it was like a giant prison there were cells of course but it looked like it was part of history now, despite the look there was an eerie feel to it as well, she hesitated but knocked it back just as she found herself turning her head to behind her, she wasn't going to ask Barricade he's confused her enough emotionally as it is.

So she explored it without question, some cells looked as though a giant beast had torn itself from its shackles, she then looked inside some, most were empty, she poked her head in to this one cell that had caught her attention, there were these what she could see as electrified wrist shackles she counted on that they mess up there motor functions but what she didn't count on was the tiny gasp that escaped her as she hadn't expected to see the light glow from two pairs of blue optics. "o-oh." She said as she slowly cupped her hands around the bars as she beheld them, and upon closer inspection one was dead, his blue optics were merely sparking like a twitch.

The other had no will of life at all as he looked at her with optics of a soulless machine the set up gave her chills, "who are…is he and who was his comrade?" she asked Barricade still with eyes on the Mech.

"Autobots, they never told us there designations." He said.

She kept looking at the Autobot, his expression was empty as if she wasn't even there and was merely a hallucination, his optics were blue yet dull, will that be her as well? "i wonder if there are others thinking of him, if they had given up hope and merely forgot about him..." she let her hands slowly slide down the bars as her vision averted to the floor, she then whipped her head to Barricade, "how long has he been here?" she demanded.

"It was long ago since we interrogate them both." He said.

"Why won't you let them go? Look at him he's already dying, at least let him die without the shackles" she asked, "why won't..."

"p-ple..." Ellen slightly froze to how frightening that eerie voice sounded coming from the dying mech, "p-ple..." he repeated looking as deathly as a drone. "l-let me...let me..." he then stopped as she moved her own lips in what he was trying to say.

"Die?" she asked grimly, the way he was looking and the state he was in, he looked close to death. He nodded barely with a raspy sound escaping him, she whipped her head again to Barricade, "at least give him that." She said in a gentle hiss.

Barricade looked around him as to see if anyone was watching, "it was not instructed." He said.

"Think for yourself for a moment! Just because Megatrons your leader doesn't mean you have to follow him blindly, consider his choices and try to think before leading yourself off a cliff with the rest of these mindless drones!" she yelled at him as she grew solemn, "he's suffering and from his rust encrusted frame, he's been here for many vorns...many centuries. And the bot that lays there bare is identical to him, twins are not uncommon among Cybertronians but i have been told it's a great unbearable, physical pain on their sparks when one of them dies." She started as Barricade watched her head lower to the floor. "i..." she then said very quietly, "i don't, want to..." her eyes stared at the mech for a long while as for the first time both her eyes and his optics met.

His optics shut half way as he ever so slightly shook his head; Ellen took that as the mark of her own doom. He then gave a flat nod with a very long sigh, as Barricade took a step forward just behind her, he then transformed his arm into his choice of termination, "you may want to look away." He said to her.

"No." She said flatly as Barricades weapons charged up the Autobot gave a reliving nod and beheld his last shadow, however even though he wants to die his expression still bared that of fear. "t-thank Primus." He said as merely seconds later his spark chamber was shot at and then he laid there just the same as he did alive.

"Poor soul." Ellen said quietly as she thought of her own fate, then turned to Barricade, "maybe I'll be asking the same of you." She said flatly.

Barricade grinded his jaw as he grimaced at that thought, for one thing her frail and tiny voice was making her the hardest prisoner yet, as well as her very weak structure and a mind to match, but not because she is human but because she is a child, and that alone reminded him of his own...He cannot betray Megatron, yet he doesn't want to do this, it's pointless in his opinion she won't say anything, he should...just kill her now like he did the Autobot, offer a mercy, and... he prepared to do so, he deployed his weapon again as he pointed it her way, it charged up with a whisper of a hum he thought of the initial outcome and after four weeks of her declining nutrition, she is much thinner and she will only continue to deteriorate, but despite this he was hesitant and his arm slightly shook but he forced himself to an unemotional state as he was ready to fire... "Primus forgive me..."

"Do you mind doing something for me?" she then asked as he instantly hid his weapon away behind his back.

"I...am not your servant you know." he said retaining a normal tone.

"No, no, i don't want you to do anything like that..." she said.

"Then what do you mean by 'something'?" he asked.

"Well..." she started as she had come to terms with this whole situation but still couldn't help but feel lonely and frightened. "When i...if i die, could you somehow deliver a message for me?" she asked.

"A message." He repeated.

"You know, if you...ever come on the battlefield with the Autobots and N.E.S.T again." She forced a laugh.

"I don't know about speaking on your behalf but i could record a message for them." He said all in favour for her request.

"Thanks." She said, "but i won't record it now, i'm still going to...try, i will not die here."

The conversation had reminded him of what he had to ask of her everyday a series of questions, "Ellen, where is the Autobot base?" he said.

"I don't know." she said still looking into the cell.

"Name them, designations, abilities, weapons and fighting styles. There formations." He said.

"No." She said wearily the same answers she gives every time.

"Your government officials, there locations." He said.

"I'm not saying anything Barricade, i'm not revealing any of their medical techniques or, or any other 'mystical' secrets you think Dad might be a part of." She said annoyed.

He shook his head as he was about to speak but stopped himself as it felt pointless.

As Ellen let go of the bars to turn around another sound was heard from further inside the brig, a sudden groan and it sounded female by pitch but it could be something else, "what was that? You have another prisoner in here?" she asked now intrigued and distracted by recent events.

Barricade looked down towards the darkened prison right at the end as he subtlety retracted his weapon; he gave the hallway a hard stare before looking to her "nothing that is any of your concern."

"it is a concern, if i can hear it then it is a concern, i know that i am only going by first impression but, do you have a Femme here?" she asked.

"Mech or Femme, it still doesn't concern you." He said again this time a little more aggressive in tone.

"Why are you so defensive? Who is that in there? It can't be Fracture because she's..." she started before stopping mainly to how casual she sounded talking about a former Decepticon comrade of Barricades.

"Fracture? I had heard she had been terminated." He said.

"I'm sorry." Ellen said rather awkwardly.

"there is no point in being so, i keep my ties to my comrades on a professional level only, besides that Femme was not all, 'level' in the processor, she would face battle face on and so she led herself to her own demise, but what was she met with?" he said.

"She was run off a cliff; i heard it was during a chase so she was in vehicular mode when she was run off."

"And her destroyer?" he said.

"I'll not say, you'll only turn bitter and curse his or hers name, now back to the topic, who is down there." She said.

"Someone who is not your average bot." He growled.

"Not your average bot? What's so unordinary?" she said.

"I'm not answering anymore, you question and question to a point of frustration." He said. He clenched his fists because of this frustration but tried to contain it, any other decepticon he would have been quick to plant a gash across his spark, "Stupid girl." He instead said.

She lightly scoffed, "you're frustrated." She said under her breath before she found herself leaning up against the cell bars as she held a hand to her head, "w-whoa..." she said dizzily.

"What's wrong?" he said going through that phase again of constant change of heart kneeling down to her only to be shooed away with her free hand.

"get away." She hissed flapping her free hand up and down, "i-i'm dizzy, what did you expect?" she said in annoyance.

"So it is from lack of energy?" he said.

"Yes, and I've been wasting time, damn." She cursed as she had to sit down her eyes shut slightly as she reopened them in realisation, "i see, this is not just to render me physically and mentally vulnerable during torture but to force me to stay in my quarters, if i am to save my energy." She said holding her head.

Barricade held his own helm as he grinded his jaw and made a growling sound, Ellen shot her head up as she wondered if he were in pain, "H-Hey Barricade? Are you okay?" she said slightly wary of his behaviour.

"N-o." He said in an instant growl, "what am i doing? i have my orders, i need to help our cause, but i don't want to destroy weaker life forms in the process b-but it's not that i can't, this is...i can threaten and intimidate but...perhaps i am developing that Autobot trait to protect instead of destroy? No it's not the same its more...i think i..." he then looked at Ellen who still had one hand on her head but still showing a concerning look for him, he turned hesitant as his mouth slightly hung "D-Did you know that i used to..." he started babbling as a whisper.

"W-What?" she said cocking her head to one side too fast in doing so and fell dizzy again "...w-whoo, that went all black that time." She said putting her head between her knees.

"I knew i should have trained myself in fasting." She said slightly muffled.

With a flat expression Barricade slipped his hand under his arm, into a compartment, and pulled out another one of those white packages, "what am i doing?" he thought at his mindless acts without thought he just...did it. "Here." He said to her rather gruffly.

She lifted her head up as she looked at the package, like an animal she had been reinforced that white packages had food, "huh?" she said looking him over.

He shoved it into her lap but as a simple gesture of force, "i thought that when a starving human would see sustenance you would grab it without a second thought." He said with a gentle growl.

"W-What, what are you doing now? Is this mental torture? You help me, you don't help, you help me, you don't help me, i mean what are you doing?" she said.

"I don't know, i do follow blindly because i don't know what to follow anymore, and I have become a mindless drone." He said.

"h-hey look i didn't mean to brand you as 'wrong' in your beliefs who i am to say what you can believe in, that's not for me to say." She said.

"But they are not my beliefs." He growled as she became silent, "when-when we first begun i wanted so, badly to-to just destroy anything that was not our race."

"What do you mean anything that wasn't your race? Weren't you at war?" she said.

"Life before the War wasn't as peaceful as your Sire has told you, no, there were other races out there who wanted our technology, specifically they wanted the Allspark." He said.

"What race?" she asked.

"That is irrelevant, but we would endure hostile attack each time and simply flick the threat away as flys but one day this one race went further and performed an attack on the actual surface of our planet, back then we had two factors, defense and science, the defensive factor are now known as Decepticons and the science factor are now the Autobots. However when the defensive factor changed their name to decepticons as well as what they stood for some were having second thoughts and joined the Autobots, such as Ironhide." He said.

"That...makes allot of sense." Ellen said furrowing her brow as she nodded as again she held her head making a hissing sound.

Barricade scoffed at her as he took the package from her himself and unwrapped the slagging thing, after destroying the packaging and getting a ball of smushed sandwich he then pressed it against her mouth, "just eat it, stupid girl." He said.

"mmm." She said muffled as she tried to not choke on the ball of bread, "m-now." she started as she held the rest of the bread in his hand. "What happened during these attacks?" she asked.

He looked to the floor as he recalled all those sounds of panic and explosions, "we had, built a temple around the Allspark but they knew of its location, they attempted to steal it of course, they failed. However the end result was that our cities were heavily damaged and we had lost...many of our civilians among them..." then he looked at her again as she sat with the sandwich in her hand still, "eat that now." he said sternly.

She looked at the sandwich as she frowned, "Barricade, you're always confusing me; stop confusing me! god damn it my heart is hurting enough." She said the pitch of her voice raising and falling.

"You have affectionate feelings for the Autobots correct?" he said.

"Of course." She stated hitting her knee with a fist.

"Then think of them, I'm just...the enemy." He said.

"But you don't...H-Hmm..." she groaned again holding her head.

"You're becoming stressed; let's just return you to your quarters." He said kneeling down to her.

"Yeah but, whoa!" she exclaimed as he abruptly scooped her up, "i c-can walk."

"No you can't." He said.

she just sighed long, and held her head again. "what the hell is happening right now?" she puffed.


A/N Fracture is a female con i was referring to her when she appeared in the IDW movie comics, next chapter will probably be about Barricade and revealing a little bit more about himself then we'll be seeing some little Ravage kittens, all the while i've put up a timer :p