Title: Partners - Hammertread
Characters/Pairing: Barricade and Frenzy
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: This here's for wingwyrm, creator of the mentally damaged, but well-armed Hammertread. He's awesome.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to Transformers except merchandise, and I am making no money off this story.


Barricade wasn't sure where the Autobot had come from. All he new was that he was very big, and very, very well-armed.

He had thought that he'd left the Autobots halfway across the country, so the last thing Barricade had expected was for a large red and black truck to transform and shoot him off the nearly empty stretch of road. Swearing loudly, he spun off the pavement and came to a sharp stop against a tree.

Well, that had hurt, but at least he hadn't taken much damage. The tree on the other hand… The collision had shaken Frenzy awake, and the small 'Con began gibbering from his compartment.

"Quiet! You're distracting me!" Barricade snarled. He barely managed to transform in time to leap out of the way of an incoming blast of energy. His partner fell silent.

Picking up the remains of the tree he had hit, Barricade chucked it at the Autobot and followed up with a barrage from his own guns. The tree caused the 'Bot to flinch as it struck his head, and he grunted in pain from the blasts, but otherwise he seemed unaffected. Oh slag. The return fire flung the 'Con backwards, his body crashing through the trees until he landed in a heap on the ground.

Barricade groaned in pain. He was out-sized, out-gunned, and had taken too much damage before he could get his act together. Things were not looking good.

"Barricade! You alalalright?" Frenzy asked.

"I'm… fine… Just need to… get up." Slowly, he forced himself up, ignoring the pain. He needed to get to the road. His best chance would be to just run away now. He didn't quite make it.

While he managed to duck under another energy blast, he couldn't quite avoid the large fist that glanced off the side of his head. Even an indirect hit caused part of his head to crumple, and knocked him to the ground. Trying to force himself back to his feet, Barricade was stopped by a heavy foot on his abdomen. He looked up in to the blue optics of the Autobot.

The black and red 'Bot pointed a cannon, no wait, make that several cannons at Barricade's head. How many guns did one mech need?! "Hmph," the 'Bot said, "Decepticon punk."

Barricade strained against the foot. "Argh, you slagging idiotic Autobot scrap-heap!"

The Autobot looked mildly offended. "My name is Hammertread."

The cannons charged, Barricade struggled harder, the end seemed inevitable…

And then Frenzy launched himself from his partner's chest, attaching himself to the Autobot's face. Hammertread stumbled back in surprise, and as soon as his foot lifted Barricade was up and the road was right there. He flung himself onto the pavement, transforming in mid-air. A second later and Frenzy was on his roof, clinging to his lights.

Then Barricade drove for his life.


Alright, updates are probably going to come slower from now on, as I've temporarily fallen to the art side of the fandom. I actually have one more part ready that I'll be posting on the tf2007fun lj comm, but it happens to be slashy and would up the fic rating to post. So I'm going to leave this version of the fic Gen and K+, and anyone who wants to read the other part can go find it or ask me for a link.