After taking the night to discuss it the three teenagers found themselves on the road to New York. Again Leo began to explain why this trip would be worthwhile.
"This guy, Robo-Warrior, everything about anything alien,he's supposed to time we revenge-hacked his site and maybe I saw some of your alien drawings or whatever."
Bumblebee let the voice of the teenagers fall into the background; he was still a little worried that this was just a wild goose chase. Finding RoboWarrior was easier said than done. Bee had been up all night hacking into RoboWarrior's page, each way he went he hit firewalls that took hours to dismantle, by dawn he had an address, according to the internet it was a deli shop in New York. Bee kept his scanners on, and his signal shielded, New York was crawling with Decepticons. Seekers flew overhead occasionally, not even bothering to hide anymore, flying in their bi-pedal forms.
By mid-morning Bumblebee pulled up to the Deli, everyone exited. However they didn't realize that they weren't the only one's looking for RoboWarrior another person was hot on the trail. This person recognized the yellow Camaro and the boy and girl that exited the car.
"Sam" the person called.
Sam froze, praying he imagined someone call his name, until it came again. "Sam"
He turned around and found the source quickly, "Shit" he muttered, walking towards him was his best friend Miles Lancastor. Mikaela eyes widened as she caught sight of Miles.
"Sam who is that?" whispered Leo, watching the blond man approaching them.
"My best friend."
Miles face was actually serious as he finally reached Sam. "Sam what are you doing here, the whole world is looking for you and you come to New York to get a sandwich. You, Mikaela, and your robot friend need to get out of the city."
Sam opened his mouth to argue, until he realized what Miles had just said. Bee realized at the same time, and was very interested but he kept quiet and commed the twins so that they didn't burst out with questions either.
"How?" he began before Miles cut him off.
Miles looked at him and quirked an eyebrow. "Come on Sam, I'm not an idiot. You told me that your car drove itself, the Mission City rumors, the new Camaro, and today's news saying that you are a wanted fugitive, it wasn't hard to piece together, now you need to go"
He tried to push Sam towards his car, but Sam stopped him. "I can't leave, not yet. I need to find someone that can help me, and he works here" said Sam motioning towards the deli.
Miles looked from the deli and then back to Sam and grinned. "RoboWarrior?"
Mikaela looked at Miles with disbelief. "How did you know that was who we were looking for Miles?"
Miles shrugged. "I've been searching for this dude for months. I wanted to know the real truth about what was going on. I've been trying to hack into his systems for months and last night I piggy backed on this other hacker's signal and found out where he lived He's supposed to know everything alien, and your car is an alien so I just put two and two together." Before Sam could answer, Leo did.
"Hey man, I don't want to interrupt this little reunion, but are we doing this?" demanded Leo, looking at Sam.
Sam took his eyes off of Miles and turned to Leo. "Ya go on ahead, we'll be right behind you" replied Sam. Leo nodded heading into the deli shop. Sam turned back to Miles.
"Miles you don't want to get mixed up in this stuff, it really dangerous, you better go home."
"You're not getting rid of me Sam, so who is that?" asked Miles watching the curly headed man enter the deli.
"My college roommate, Leo Spitz" said Sam as he approached the door, pulling the ball cap further down on his face.
"Leo Spitz, the creator of ?"
Sam stopped and looked at Miles with disbelief on his face, "You know about that site?"
"Why I'm I not surprised" muttered Mikaela, shaking her head.
Miles just grinned, "I'm a huge fan of Mr. Spitz's work."
"You're not right" muttered Sam as he opened the deli door, Mikaela and Miles right behind him.
Leo turned to look at Sam as he walked in, he pointed to a guy, "It's him! It's him! That's the guy right there! That's him!"
The guy looked up, his eyes looking at Sam. "No"
Sam looked at the guy with disbelief, gently taking off his hat. "You got to be kidding me." For the man standing in front of him was no more than Agent Seymour Simmons.
"All right, meat store's closed! Everybody out! Out, right now!" yelled Simmons at the customers. A lady second him.
"When he says to go, you go. That means you, lady, right now."
Leo and Miles turned to look at Sam. "Wait a minute. You know this guy?" demanded them both at the same time.
"We're old friends" muttered Sam, still looking at Simmons on disbelief.
Simmons scoffed "Old friends? You're the case that shut down Sector Seven, got the kibosh, disbanded. No more security clearance, no retirement, no nothing. All 'cause of you and your little criminal girlfriend. Look at her now, so mature" He sneered at Mikaela, who just smiled back.
The old lady that seconded him moment before, spoke up again "Moron! Where's the whitefish?"
Behind her a man carried a pig, accidently touching another employee that became upset. "Hey! Don't touch me with the pig!" Simmons shook his head, he wished he had followed his dream and become a shoe salesman instead of going into business with his mother, then he wouldn't have to listen to these petty arguments.
"Yakov!" he snapped.
"What?" demanded the man with the knife who had yelled about the pig, Sam assumed he was Yakov.
"You don't get Christmas bonuses standing around!" yelled Simmons, "You want those new teeth you saw on SkyMall?"
"It's my dream" replied Yakov.
"Then help Ma out!"
Mikaela smirked at Simmons as she watched the guy and the lady leave the store. "You live with your mama?"
Simmons frowned at Mikaela as Leo and Miles snickered behind their hands. "No, my mama lives with me. It's a big difference. They got your face all over the news, alien boy."
"Yeah, I know."
"And NBE One's still kicking, huh? How did that happen? Don't answer. I don't know what you're hiding, but I don't want anything to do with it. So, good-bye. You never saw me. I got bagels to schmear. Vanish" snapped Simmons waving his hands like a magician, except none of them disappeared. He walked away from the group heading for the back of the store.
Sam walked after him, "Can you give me five seconds?" he reached out and grabbed Simmons by the arm. "Look, hold on, I need your help."
Simmons rounded on Sam almost knocking into him. "Really? You need my help? Why don't you get that Army brother of yours to help you out" asked Simmons "He jumped to your aid at Hoover, why isn't he here know instead of your three sidekicks here?"
"Wait Tyrell knows about this to?" asked Miles. But Leo shushed him, shaking his head. Sam ignored his best friend and focused on Simmons.
"I need...Look, I am slowly losing my mind. Okay, I had a little crab-bot, plunged a device deep into the soft tissues of my brain and started projecting little alien symbols like a freaking home movie! And when my brother came to help me, I found out that he had the symbols in his head to. Not to mention that when we were attacked by Decepticons, Optimus Prime was killed Tyrell sacrificed himself again to save me and now he in the hands of Decepticons along with Barricade. And on top of that, I'm a wanted fugitive. So, you think you got it rough?"
"You said it projected images off your brain and your brothers?" asked Simmons, it seemed that he hadn't heard a word that Sam spoke except for those couple.
Sam nodded, "Right."
"Meat Locker, Now!" yelled Simmons turning towards the back of the shop. Everyone followed without question. As Sam tried to follow, Miles caught his arm.
"Sam is that true about Tyrell? That the bad robots, these Decepticons have him"
"Ya, he had me run, instead of staying with him. Who knows what's happening to him now" said Sam, tears showing in his eyes.
Miles hugged his friend, and not just a guy hug, but a full blown hug. "It'll be alright Sam. Your brother's one of the toughest boys I know."
Sam nodded as they broke the hug, scrubbing his eyes of tears. "Your right, know we better catch up with the others."
The meat locker was full of dead carcasses of sheep, pigs, and sides of beef. Simmons kneeled down on the floor and looked at all of them.
"What you're about to see is top secret. Do not tell my mother." With that he pulled on a hidden handle on the ground and a trap door was revealed and a metal ladder leading down. Simmons went down first and everybody followed after him.
The tv was on and two men were arguing as Simmons lead them deeper into his man cave. An entire city flat. How do you explain that? Are you saying you believe in aliens now?
"Okay, files, files" muttered Simmons to himself looking around "We're talking about symbols" He grabbed a file from a nearby stack.
Leo gazed and spotted the coolest thing an alien head under a glass dome, he reached out to touch it. Simmons turned around in time to smack his fingers with the file. "Hey, still radioactive. Hands off."
He turned to Sam. "Okay, Cube-brain. Any of these look like the symbols you saw?" he asked opening the file for Sam to see. Sam grabbed the file and brought it closer.
"Where'd you get these?"
Simmons smiled and began to climb a file drawers to reach a huge stack of papers. "Before I got fired, I poached S-7's crown jewel, over 75 years of alien research, which points to one inescapable fact." He paused to throw a brown wrapped package to Leo, before climbing down. "The Transformers, they've been here a long, long time. How do I know?" From the package he drew photos of sights all around the world of the same markings. "Archeologists found these unexplained markings in ancient ruins all over the world. China. Egypt. Greece." He rolled up a projector and showed a clip of movie of the same symbols. "Shot in 1932. These the symbols you're seeing in your head?"
"Yeah" answered Sam a little overwhelmed. Simmons reclaimed his attention by pointing back to the photos.
"Same ones over here, right? So, tell me, how did they end up all drawing the same things? Aliens. And I think some of them stayed. Check this out." Simmons produced another file with more pictures. "Project Black Knife. Robots in disguise, hiding here all along." Each picture he showed was of old time machines, an early model car, a WWII bomber each one labeled top secret. "We detected radioactive signatures all across the country. I pleaded on my knees with S-to invest"igate it, but they said the readings were infinitesimal, that I was obsessed. Me. Can you imagine that?
"Yeah. Megatron said that there was another Energon source here" said Sam to Simmons.
In the background Miles leaned over to whisper into Leo's ear, "Are you as lost as I am?"
Leo nodded before focusing on Simmons and Sam again.
"On Earth. Another source?" asked Simmons.
"On Earth" confirmed Sam, "Okay? And that these symbols, maps in my head, and in Tyrells, would lead him there."
"You talk to your Autobot friends about this?"
"No, no, no, the source is before them. Whatever the Energon source is, it predates them. It's before them."
"So, it comes before them."
"Correct."
"Well, then we're porked, unless we can talk to a Decepticon. I mean, I'm not on speaking terms with them."
"Actually, I am" spoke up Mikaela, "I caught him trying to steal the shard, I'll go get him from Bumblebee's trunk.
Mikaela left the speechless group of guys and headed outside where Bee was waiting.
"Hey Bee can you pop the trunk? I need to get my toolbox."
"Of course Mikaela, I take it that you found RoboWarrior?"
"Yeah we did Bee, its Simmons" said Mikaela quickly getting the toolbox and leaving, as Bee shouted.
"Simmons!"
She hurried back down to the secret room and set the toolbox on top of the table.
A muffled "Let me out!" could be heard from within the toolbox.
Mikaela fingered the lock, "This is going to be a little bit sad."
"Open it" replied Sam. Mikaela opened it and a small mech burst out, Mikaela had time to grab its chain as it launched itself at everybody around the table.
"I will have so many Decepticons on your butt!" it yelled.
Mikaela grew tired of this and brough out her mini blow torch pointing it at the Decepticon. "Hey, behave!" she demanded
"What is it, a Decepticon?" questioned Sam.
"Yeah" affirmed Mikaela.
"And you're training him?"
Mikaela nodded. "I'm trying to."
The mech ignored him and tried to gnaw on the chain.
Simmons looked at the mech in disbelief, "I spent my whole adult life combing the planet for aliens, and you're carrying around one in your purse like a little Chihuahua."
Wheelie stopped chewing on the chain and turned to face Simmons, he already didn't like this human one bit. "Do you want a throwdown, you pubic 'fro-head?"
Mikaela just smiled at Simmons, before turning to Wheelie and talked in her pretty girl voice. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry about your eye, you know, but, if you're a good boy, then I'm not gonna torch your other eye. Okay? I'm not gonna torch it. Just tell me what these symbols are, please." Miles chuckled and hid it as a cough, for getting offended about being called a dog, he sure responded like a dog.
Wheelie gave in pretty quick to Mikaela. "All right." He bent down to study the pictures and began to snap. "I know that. That's the language of the Primes. I don't read it, but these guys..." He turned his attention to the photos that Simmons had called project Black Knife, "Where the frick did you find photos of these guys?"
Sam held up a few for Wheelie to have a better look at. "Is this they?"
Wheelie nodded and pointed to the photos. "Yeah. Seekers, pal. Oldest of the old. They've been here thousands of years, looking for something. I don't know what. Nobody tells me nothing, but they'll translate those symbols for you. And I know where to find them."
"Show us" said Simmons.
"Yeah" said Wheelie, he cracked his fingers and swiveled to face the map Simmons had pinned to the wall. He turned on the program that held the information on it, and lasers appeared and pointed to where the Seekers were at on the map.
Simmons walked closer to the map and studied it. "The closest one's in Washington."
Sam felt a wave of hope wash through him, hopefully he could get the symbols translated and would be able to find the energon source before Megatron and the Fallen.
Everyone was too busy looking at the map to notice when Frenzy's optics brightened. For when Sam felt that wave of hope, he had released some of the power of the All Spark which had reawaken Frenzy. Frenzy peered through the glass, recognizing the people outside of it. There was Ladiesman217, the girl who had chopped him in half, and the idiot S-7 man. The mech he recognized as Wheelie , an old acquaintance of his. The third and fourth boy he didn't recognize.
After he examined the people in the room he began to inspect the room. It was full of files, and a ladder in the corner, making Frenzy suspect that they were underground. One thing that Frenzy did know was that he had to get out of there and find his partner if he was still living. He focused on the bond he shared with Barricade. He was relieved to find that it was still alive, Barricade had not perished.
With determination he inspected the glass and found a small flaw, using all his strength in his tiny body, he drove one of his claws straight into the flaw. The glass shattered instantly, making everyone in the room turn towards the sound. Leo screamed when he saw the head, alive and pointing a gun at them. Frenzy was tempted to shoot this one, but decided against it. All the humans, including Wheelie put up their hands, not daring to move.
They all stood in silence until Sam spoke gently lowering his hands, "Can you put the gun down so we can talk Frenzy."
The movement brought a scent to Frenzy's nose, he tightened his grip on the gun, Sam saw the movement and raised his hands again.
"Why do you have Barricade's scent on you LadiesMan?" asked Frenzy in a deadly calm voice. His stutter seemed to have fixed itself.
"Put the gun down and I will tell you" replied Sam, with an equally calm voice.
Frenzy debated for a moment and finally set the gun down. Everyone let out the breath they had been holding. Sam then explained to Frenzy everything that had happened at Mission City till now. Frenzy listened carefully not speaking till the very end.
"I want to speak with Autobot Bumblebee"
Frenzy was fully aware of Barricade's past with the Autobot. Sam nodded to Frenzy's request, he had expected this.
"Sam, how is he going to get to Bee?" pointed out Mikaela, motioning towards the ladder. Sam looked at Frenzy who just transformed into Mikaela's cell phone.
"I always wondered how he got to the Hoover Dam, turns out that I carried him there" laughed Mikaela.
"So it was your fault" yelled Simmons rounding on Mikaela. Before she could yell back at him, Miles interrupted.
"Hello, trying to save the world, no time for petty argument!"
"He's right" added on Sam as he placed Frenzy in his coat pocket and headed towards the ladder. "As strange as it is to say it, Miles is right."
"Whats that supposed to mean?" demanded Miles as he followed Sam up the ladder.
"You know what I mean, Miles. Do I have to count the times that you were wrong" asked Sam as he exited the shop with everyone close behind.
Bee saw Sam stride towards him and he gently clicked open his doors, Sam crawled into the front seat behind the wheel. Everyone piled in after him. Mikaela took the other front seat putting the Decepticon in her lap in his truck form. And Leo, Miles, and Simmons crawled into the back.
"I take it that Simmons was RoboWarrior" asked Bee (even though Mikaela had already told him) with barely concealed rage in his voice. Miles jumped slightly at the sound of the car talking but relaxed almost at the same time. Though he did look at Simmons funny.
"So what did you do to the Camaro that he hates you so much?" he asked.
"I kinda took his prisoner and began to experiment on him" muttered Simmons, sinking down in his seat.
"Indeed, you did Simmons" said Bee in the same voice before his voice changed to happy. "I'm so glad to finally meet you in person Miles, I'm Bumblebee."
"Same here Bumblebee, you being alive explains so much stuff that's happened in the past couple of years" Bee chuckled in response.
Frenzy began to get tired of this talk and began to vibrate in Sam's pocket.
"Well Bee," said Sam drawing the attention back to himself. "I know that you hate Simmons, but he has proved too useful in this case. He has seen the symbols I've seen, and we have a lead on someone in Washington that will be able to translate them."
"That is wonderful Sam..."
"Wait Bee there's more, we also found someone else"
Bee clicked, "Who else did you find."
Sam reached into his pocket and drew out a cell phone, that Bee recognized as Mikaela's. "Sam why do you have Mikaela's cell phone?"
"Because Bee it isn't Mikaela's phone, it's Frenzy"
Upon those words, the phone vibrated and Frenzy transformed. "Autobot Bumblebee."
"Frenzy, I thought you were offlined."
"I was, yet something woke me up. Your human has told me that Barricade has switched to the Autobot side and is now the guardian of his brother. And they are both in the custody of Megatron and the one known as the Fallen."
"That is correct Frenzy, Barricade has been an Autobot for almost two human years. He was trusted by Optimus Prime, and even Ironhide. And he and Tyrell were captured yesterday by Megatron."
Frenzy nodded, "That is all I wanted to know, thank-you. I have to go know."
"Where are you going to go Frenzy?" asked Wheelie, transforming out of his truck alt-form.
Frenzy looked at Wheelie, "I am going to go find Barricade and this organic Tyrell and save him from Megatron. I owe Barricade that much."
"How will you do that, I don't even know where the base is at, and you've been dead for two years how are you going to find him?" asked Wheelie.
"I will use our bond to locate him" replied Frenzy.
"You have a bond with Barricade? He never mentioned that to anyone" said Bee.
"That's because he is not aware of it, it has only developed in the past orn, it is kinda like a sibling bond, but no quite. He's not even aware that he has it."
Mikaela nodded finally understanding the grief Barricade had shown when he found out that Frenzy was dead, he had been suffering from a broken bond and he didn't know it.
"Bee we have to go with Frenzy, we have to get Tyrell" said Sam looking at Frenzy.
"No" said Frenzy before Bee could answer. "I must do this alone Samuel, you must continue on you mission, if I am successful and manage to free Barricade and Tyrell then we will meet you in Washington, if not you must continue on and stop the Fallen from destroying this world."
Leo spoke up from the backseat of Bee, "He's right man, I'm sorry about your brother but the world is at stake."
Simmons spoke up "What fro boy is trying to say is that you got to stay on task Sam, your face is been posted all around the world. From what I saw two years ago was that your brother was a good man, he wanted was best for you. He wouldn't want you to put the safety of the world behind saving him. Those military men are tough, and they know the priorities, in which they themselves are always last."
Sam sighed defeated, he knew that what they were saying was true. He knew that Tyrell would be saying those same things, but he wanted to run to his brother. Mikaela leaned over and gave her boyfriend a hug, she knew what he was feeling.
Sam was too busy wallowing in his thoughts that he almost missed what Frenzy was telling Bee.
"…take me to the nearest point of ocean. They are not on the continent of North America."
"What are you going to do, swim there?" asked Leo.
Frenzy just blinked his optics in answer. Nobody spoke as Bee started his engine and drove off, Skids and Mudflap behind him. They had heard everything that had been said, Bee had just spared the group there comments. Bee managed to get to the docks area undetected.
"Good luck Frenzy" whispered Sam as Bee opened the door to allow the mech to climb out.
"Take care, Sam, Bee and everybody else" answered Frenzy as he walked out. The group watched Frenzy approach the water and calmly walk in.
Frenzy powered up his boosters and took off through the water like a shot following the pull of the bond.
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Frenzy swam for hours, the bond becoming stronger with each passing miles, until it sang with life. Frenzy checked the coordinates on the internet, concluding that the base was on the island of Greenland. Despite its name, the land was covered in ice, and largely unknown the ideal place for a Decepticon base. He cursed his small body as he picked his way across the ice, it would take him hours to cross, or so he thought. As he picked his way along, he tripped on the ice causing him to slid several feet. That when he discovered if he sat down and pushed himself, he found that he covered more ground faster. For hours he pushed himself, until coming to the barely concealed entrance to the base. It was sparkling play to disarm the door and have it open. The hallway that it revealed was long, and big, made for someone larger than Megatron. Shielding his signal he began to make his way through the maze. Freezing when a pair of mech passed near him.
"How long do you think the Fallen will keep that organic alive?"
"Shorter than the traitor Barricade. The Fallen plans to crush the organic in front of the traitor, since he is the things guardian. I hear that the Fallen is keeping the organic in a cage in the throne room, like a pet of some sort. Can you believe that?"
"I hope when he finally kills them both that he will allow everyone to watch."
"Yup…" The mechs voices faded as they got farther and farther away.
Frenzy thanked the mechs for the information that they had unknowingly shared, as he headed to where he was certain the throne room would be and he knew he had the right one with the high level security that locked the door. It took him longer but he got it cracked and had the door open just enough for him to squeeze through.
Frenzy crept into the throne room; he immediately detected the organics heartbeat far above him. Aiming his grapple hook, he fired it at the bottom of the cage. The sharp point sinking into the metal, without so much as a ping. Connecting the gun to his small body he pushed a button that had him zipping up into the air. Within seconds he was on the underside of the cage. Frenzy disconnected himself and began to walk upside on the cage, he was happy to discover that the bars were just wide enough for him to slip through.
Ty had been awoken by a sharp crack; at first he thought Ravage had reappeared, but as his went to the door he saw that no one was there. He was confused as he glanced towards the door of the room and saw no one either. He wondered if he was imagining things until he heard metal striking on metal and the bottom of the cage tremble slightly underneath his hand. Ty slowly climbed to his feet as he heard tapping of the thing on the bottom of his cage beginning to move towards the edge. His heart began to pound, as the sound reached the edge. He backed as far as he could as the source of the noise climbed into his cage. It was a mech, that Ty recognized from pictures Barricade had shown him.
"Frenzy" he breathed looking at the mech. How was it possible? Frenzy was dead.
Frenzy cocked his head/body to the side as he studied the human. He looked just like Ladies Man, except older, his cranial hair was a darker shade than his spark brothers. Dark circles showed under his optics, which were bright with confusion. He was as farthest from the where Frenzy had entered as he could be.
"Tyrell Witwicky" asked Frenzy.
"Yes, how?"
"Explanations will have to wait Tyrell, we need to find Barricade and escape this place"
Tyrell nodded, "Of course, but how I'm I going to get down from here?"
"Come here" said Frenzy motioning him with one of his tiny claw feet. Tyrell pushed away all the memories of what Sam had told him of this mech, instead focusing on what Barricade had told him.
Frenzy could see the hesitation cross Tyrell face, and he wondered briefly what Ladiesman had told him, as Tyrell started forward. Frenzy took a moment to climb on the bars and record time he bypassed the codes and had the door open in a matter of seconds, even before Tyrell had reached the far side of the cage.
"Barricade wasn't lying when he said you were the best hacker in the business" muttered Tyrell, he was impressed at the level of skill Frenzy had just showed.
"No indeed he wasn't Tyrell, now would you please hold out your arm."
Tyrell did as he was told holding out his left arm. Frenzy jumped from the bars and landed on Ty's arm. From there he snapped his legs together to form a type of bracelet. He turned his head to look at Tyrell.
"This is the tricky part, you will need to jump, so that I can shoot a grappling hook into the bottom of the cage, allowing me to slow our descent."
Tyrell look at the mech and the edged to look at the ground far below him. He never made such a jump without a parachute on his back. But he had to trust Frenzy to save both of them, with a nod to Frenzy he jumped, twisting in midair so that Frenzy had a better shot at the cages bottom. Frenzy took aim and let out a shot, the grappling hook shot true and it dug itself into the soft metal of the cage. Ty's arm was jerked quite painfully as they slowed down, but Ty didn't cry out. Within moments they had reached the ground safety, with a snick Frenzy unclasped himself releasing the grapple line. He positioned himself onto Tyrell's shoulder.
"We must hurry and free Barricade before the Fallen discovers your absence, once you exit the door turn left."
Tyrell did as he was told as he squeezed through the transformer sized door, sticking close to the wall's he ran as quick and silently as he could only stopping when Frenzy whispered to stop in front of a large door. Frenzy climbed off of Ty's shoulder and scaled the wall to the lock. This lock took longer to crack, but Frenzy managed to do it, the doors opened with a swish, accompanied by a strong smell of energon, that overpowered Ty's senses. Without waiting for Frenzy he rushed in, coming to a halt at the edge of the energon pool that lay below his guardian. A steady stream of energon still dripped down his legs.
Barricade was hanging from his wrists, his peds inches from the ground, unable to touch the ground. The armor on his chest, back and stomach had been ripped off showing his bare protofom, that had been shredded by Megatron's energon whip.
"Oh my God, Barricade" whispered Tyrell, he didn't expect any response so he was surprised when Barricade's optics onlined, and looked down at him.
"Ty-rell" he whispered, static filling that one simple word. A rattling cough followed, fresh energon flowed from the wounds that unclotted with the force of the cough.
Tyrell took one look at the energon on the floor and began to walk through it, ignoring the dangers Ratchet had warned him about energon.
"Tyrell" whispered Frenzy from the door; he too stopped as he caught sight of Barricade. Barricade's optics flashed to the door as he heard the voice, his intakes hitched as he saw who it was.
"Fren-zy" whispered Barricade not believing what he saw.
"Barricade" exclaimed Frenzy, walking forward.
"Frenz-zy g-t Ty out of he-re" managed Cade.
"Not without you" declared Tyrell. He turned to look at Frenzy. "Frenzy can you get those cuffs off."
"Not without help" rang a voice. Everyone whipped around to the open doorway, there standing in the doorway was Ravage.
"Ravage" whispered Frenzy.
"Frenzy!" purred Ravage, bounding forward and began to greet the mech. "They said you were dead." The bond that had been dead for a long, came back to life overflowing with happiness and love.
"I was; this human's brother brought me back" replied Frenzy, nodding to Tyrell. "But enough of this, we need to escape, will you help us?"
Ravage's only answer was to take a running jump and launch himself onto Barricade's shoulder, he climbed to Barricade's wrist and began to work on the cuffs.
"No-o" whispered Barricade.
"Barricade, we are not leaving you so stop trying to convince us" snapped Tyrell walking close enough to Barricade to lay a hand on one of his dangling peds. What happened next, no one was able to describe.
It seemed if a bolt of blue lightening sprang from Ty's hand to Barricade's body as soon as his hand made contact. The lightning spread up Barricade's frame, as it passed his wounds, it healed them instantly. Within moments all of Barricades wounds had been healed, including his vocal cords. A strand of blue lightning seemed to hang in the air near Barricade's side, and suddenly Frenzy's body appeared out of thin air. It flew down to Frenzy and he was reconnected to his body.
In less than two minutes the strange blue lightening had disappeared. Tyrell's hand dropped away from Barricade's ped. He felt light headed, as he staggered away, suddenly his eyes rolled back into his head and he fainted.
Frenzy moved quickly on his new legs and caught Tyrell before he collapsed into the pool on energon. Unseen by all the mark on his hand glowed with the strange blue light the same color as the lightening. It glowed for a few moments longer before faded to the blood red that had filled it.
"Frenzy what happened" demanded Barricade, as Ravage worked on his bonds. With a snick they released, Barricade landed lightly on his feet, the lightening had given him back his strength, before immediately kneeling down. He gently took Tyrell from Frenzy.
"I don't know Barricade, but he healed you somehow, that was him" replied Frenzy climbing into Cade's hand.
"How could he do that?" asked Ravage jumping in next to Frenzy.
"I don't know" whispered Barricade as Tyrell began to stir. Tyrell slowly opened his eyes, blinking at the five optics that stared down at him. "Are you okay Tyrell?" asked Barricade.
Tyrell didn't answer except to try to sit up, and found that he couldn't. "Barricade I can't move!"
Barricade felt panic rising, but didn't let it show, Tyrell's heart-rate began to climb faster than Barricade had ever recorded. "It's alright Tyrell, it'll pass." His words had the desired affect and Tyrell calmed down a little, Barricade began to stand up, when he caught the sound of someone approaching from the outside. "Slag!"
Ravage hissed as his scanners told him who it was. "Barricade, its Soundwave."
Barricade looked at Tyrell, no matter what he had to get him out of there. Ravage knew what was going through Barricade's head, he was thinking the same thoughts. He had grown attached to the human in the short amount of time that he had been here.
"Barricade, I can manage Tyrell on my back if Frenzy will hold him. I'll make sure that he stays safe as we escape."
Barricade nodded, he handed Tyrell to Frenzy who mounted Ravage. Barricade onlined his weapons and took his position next to the door, Ravage at his peds prepared to leap out into the corridor. Everyone held still as Soundwave punched the code to unlock the door. Soundwave appeared in the doorway not looking up until he was all the way through the doorway, he was shocked when he did look up and discovered that Barricade wasn't there.
Barricade used that moment to attack, as Ravage ran out the door. Barricade had the advantage of surprise and managed to knock out Soundwave in a matter of minutes. Then he went to run after Ravage, comming him along the way.
:Ravage Soundwave has been neutralized, which way out of this hell hole: yelled Barricade as he fought his way through a group of mechs at the end of the hallway.
:Take a left, then right:
Through the maze of halls Ravage guided Barricade, blowing past mechs. Shots rang out as it was realized who was blowing past them.
"The traitor Barricade is escaping" was the cry that went up. Soon Barricade had caught up to the trio and together they ran side by side.
"We're almost there" hissed Ravage as a shot hit close to them.
"We just need to get out of here before the Fallen teleports here" muttered Tyrell nervously.
"We'll worry about that when it happens" yelled Barricade dodging another shot.
"There to the left" shouted Ravage.
Barricade turned on a dime, heading towards the doors at the end, only to come to a stop when Megatron walked through the door.
"Barricade" he snarled, then he eyes roamed downward and saw Ravage with Frenzy and Tyrell on his back.
"Traitors" his eyes glittered, "You will all die."
"You first" yelled Barricade as he drove towards the tyrant. This caught Megatron by surprise, enough so that Barricade managed a lucky shot that caught Megatron near the spark, slowing the might giant.
"Come on" yelled Barricade jumping to his feet, leading the way they blew out of the door. The four were greeted by the dawn as they blew out of the Decepticon's base. Barricade passed just enough to transform into his Mustang form, throwing open his door for Ravage to bound in. He drove across the ice, heading towards the ocean, he knew that they would be safe if he could reach him as Decepticons poured out of the base. Barricade soon left all the other Decepticons behind in the dust reaching the ocean. Without even pausing he drove into ocean. He was great full that he had his armor treated to withstand long periods of being under salt water.
"Is everybody okay?" demanded Barricade as he drove through the sea.
"We're fine" said Ravage, seconded by Tyrell and Frenzy. Frenzy grabbed Ty and hauled him to the front seat to allow Ravage to spread out. Ty still couldn't move as Frenzy position him behind the driver's seat before he settled in the passenger seat.
Barricade let out a sigh of relief, they were all safe. They all relaxed, Ty soon falling asleep, followed by Ravage and Frenzy leaving Barricade the only one awake. Barricade couldn't believe all that had happened in the past few hours. He wondered how Frenzy was alive, and how he had found the base. Also what was the blue lightening, and how did Tyrell do it, for it had to be Ty that did it. He kept driving, knowing that he wouldn't get any answer's until everybody woke up.
The ocean was so peaceful and so clear, Cade could see for miles ahead, and nothing alive except for a few fish. For close to two hours he drove in silence, Ty the first the wake up.
He gave a huge yawn and stretched his sore muscles and he stopped mid-yawn. "Barricade! I can move again!" This of course woke Frenzy and Ravage up, they gave a cheer as Ty demonstrated his ability to move.
Ty was so relieved to be able to move again, he had been afraid that he would never move again. It had been the worst thing to wake up and not be able to move a single limb. It reminded him of Mission City when he woke up to find himself a broken man and like then his thoughts went to Sam.
"Barricade, we need to find Sam, Mikaela, and Bumblebee" said Ty, looking out the window at the silent world they were in.
"Autobot Bumblebee is waiting in U.S city Washington D.C." stated Frenzy.
Ty turned to him, "You meet up with Bumblebee, do you know if my brother Sam, and Mikaela are alright"
"They are fine" assured Frenzy. Tyrell nodded letting his body relax, the seat adjusted under him to further his relaxation, Ty patted the seat under him but said nothing.
Barricade spoke the next question. "Frenzy how are you online, and where did you meet Bumblebee at, and how did you find us?"
"I am not sure on how I have come to be back online; I awoke to find myself under a piece of glass with a bunch of humans on the other side. It was Sam, Mikaela, the Sector Seven agent Simmons, a young man named Leo, and Miles and a mech, Wheelie. After a bit of confusion I learned of the circumstances of the past two years. I requested to meet with Autobot Bumblebee, and I confirmed their story, I then set off to find you. As to how I found you, it is because I have formed a small bond with you Barricade, it matured only an orn ago. It allowed me to find you."
This shocked Barricade, "A bond?" He began to search for it within his spark and he found it, a piece of Frenzy that he didn't know he had. He gave a small tug and smiled to himself when Frenzy gave a tug back. "Well that was useful."
"Indeed, now you must hurry Barricade, after Bee finds the person who can translate those symbols that Sam has seen in his head he won't stick around for long" said Frenzy.
"Well were ten minutes from shore, if you would send out a message Frenzy to wait for us then we'll meet them shortly."
"I'm on it Barricade."
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Sorry for the long wait, my life has been hectic. Whoever said Senior year of high school was easy was lying, but I've graduated and should have more time to write. So please review.