Sooo, happy late-ish Valentine's day3 The journey for our characters continues. So much craziness in this chapter...anyway here it is Chapter 10...getting closer to the end
Chapter 10
Bumblebee drove down the road that eventually led to a small village Simmons had said he'd seen the NEST team parachute in on. Suddenly a flare shot up over the village.
"That's them right there, see the flare?" Sam asked.
"Right over there, see it!" Simmons said.
Then, as if things couldn't have gotten worse, Rachel looked to the sky.
"Oh, God, no!" Rachel screamed as missiles streaked from the skies hitting beside the road.
"Whoa!" Sam exclaimed.
The missiles bombarded Bumblebee and the twins, forcing them to pull off the road. They pulled down into a construction area, trying to escape the missiles. The missiles still came at them, blowing sand everywhere.
"Oh, God, please, God please!" Leo cried.
"Leo, stop freaking out, stop freaking out," Mikaela said.
"Shut this guy up, huh?" Simmons said.
"Please, just let me live, just let me live!" Leo cried.
"Shut up and let him drive!" Rachel said.
"Just stop screaming..." Sam said.
"All right, that's it!" Simmons said drawing out his taser.
Rachel pushed herself against the back of the seat as Simmons reached across and tased Leo on the neck. Leo passed out and Rachel sighed, glad to have silence.
"I can't take that guy anymore," Simmons said.
Suddenly Rachel saw Starscream flying at them, he transformed and stood to the side of Bumblebee, as Bee sped away, shooting at them. Sand blew up everywhere as the missiles struck beside them.
Wow, Starscream, you have horrible aim, but I'm glad, Rachel thought.
"Hide in the dust! Use the dust!" Simmons said.
Bumblebee and the twins drove into the giant explosions of sand, losing Starscream. Bee drove past the sand, then pulled to a stop. Sam opened the door and he, Rachel and Leo -who had woken back up- climbed out of Bumblebee.
"We've got to split up. Bumblebee, you're the decoy, you lead the Decepticons away. I'm gonna get to Optimus," Sam said.
"I'll help draw their fire with Huey and Dewey over there," Simmons said jerking his thumb to the twins. "You get to those soldiers. I hope that dust works, kid."
"Thank you," Sam said.
Sam and Mikaela started to run.
"Sam! I'm coming with you!" Rachel called.
Sam stopped, "No, Rachel, its..."
"I'm coming! Okay, it was partially my fault Optimus is dead, I'm coming!" Rachel yelled running to Sam.
Sam nodded.
They ran for a mile or so until they came up to a sand overhang. Flares flew up from a village that wasn't extremely far away.
"Look, there it is, we got a couple miles," Sam said.
He pulled Mikaela after him, Rachel following shortly behind. They ran for another couple of miles, Rachel was getting tired, but she didn't slow down. Adrenaline was keeping her from dropping to the sand, but she doubted it would last for too long. They were approaching a few scattered buildings made of stone, but it wasn't the village that NEST was at.
"We still have a mile that way," Sam said.
They ran down the sand dune they had been crossing, into one of the ruined stone buildings. They came to a courtyard in the building, Sam hesitated for a second, looking where to go. Rachel caught her breath for the second they stopped, and then Sam pulled Mikaela on again Rachel following.
"This way, this way," Sam said.
They ran into another building and then something streaked through the sky above them. Rachel instinctively ducked, looking up.
"Oh, no," she groaned.
It was that same meteor-like object she had seen many times, but this time she knew it was a Decepticon, definitely not help. She heard others like it fly through the sky as she ran. They ran into another village, Sam stopped behind a building, looking around the corner. Rachel heard the sound of a jet, and had a feeling it was Starscream.
"Sam, Rachel," Mikaela whispered, opening a door to a house.
Sam and Rachel got inside and shut the door behind them.
"I don't think they saw us," Sam whispered. "Get down, get down, get down."
Rachel crouched down, hoping to avoid being seen, Mikaela did likewise beside her.
"Okay, listen," Sam whispered. "Once it's clear we'll run for Optimus, as fast as we can, okay?"
"What if it doesn't work?" Mikaela asked.
"It's gonna work," Sam said.
"Yeah, but what if it doesn't?"
"It's gonna work, it'll work," Sam insisted.
A loud blast sounded outside. Rachel flinched, ducking back down. She could hear heavy, metallic footsteps outside. She clamped her hand over her mouth, trying to muffle the sound of her labored breathing. Rocks crumbled from the ceiling, whatever was walking outside was over them. Sam looked through a hole he had poked in the wall with the rusting remains of a sword. He jerked back and picked something out of the hole. As he turned Rachel saw a little bug bot between his fingers. It squirmed, trying to get free of Sam, but before it could Sam pulled its head off. Suddenly the roof was torn off. Rachel and Mikaela screamed, covering their heads with their arms. All three of them back against the wall and looked up, it was Starscream. Starscream reached out at them, and they backed up even more. He swiped at them, missing, but collapsing the wall behind them. They all fell backwards to the ground.
"Up, up, up!" Sam yelled.
He grabbed Mikaela and Rachel, helping them to their feet. They ran up stairs leading out of the building, another Decepticon stood to the side of that. Rachel ran in front of Mikaela, Sam behind Mikaela. Something slammed across the stairs behind Sam. They came to the end of the roof, and a huge gap separated them from the next building.
"Get ready to jump!" Sam said.
"Jump?" Rachel exclaimed.
Sam pulled both of the girls back, they ran and jumped as Starscream shot the building behind them, dust billowing up behind them. Rachel landed and rolled on top of the next roof, she didn't stop at the end of that one though. Mikaela rolled into Rachel, pushing both of them off the roof to the ground. They crashed through a makeshift roof made of palm leaves covering an alley. Sam dropped beside them. Sam immediately got up and pulled Mikaela and Rachel along with him.
They ran over another sand dune, it seemed like NEST was a lot further away than it had seemed at first.
"Sam!" the call came from around a building.
Rachel stopped beside Sam, shocked. It was his parents running toward them, Rachel wondered how they had gotten there.
"Dad!" Sam called back.
There was an odd noise, Rachel and Sam both looked in the direction of it. Suddenly a Transformer jumped over the building, landing next to Sam. Rachel dove to the side, away from it a shot hit beside her.
"Wait! Wait!" Sam yelled.
The Transformer was red, and its legs were a giant drill. It pointed a gun at Sam's parents, who were cowered on the ground.
"Please, listen to me, I want you to run! Run!" Sam's dad yelled.
"Dad, Dad, just stop! They don't want you, they want me!" Sam yelled.
"Wait!" Sam yelled at the Transformer, which Rachel could bet was a Decepticon.
"Sam Witwicky," the Decepticon rumbled.
"Don't hurt them, this is what you want, you don't want them," Sam said pulling out his sock filled with the Matrix dust.
"Go! Go!" Sam's mom yelled at Sam.
"Stop!" Sam said to his parents.
"Just get out of here!" Sam's dad yelled.
Rachel looked up to see a yellow leg behind where she had fallen. It was Bumblebee, he was in the alley next to building, hiding. Bumblebee whistled quietly, Sam turned to see him.
"Just don't hurt them. I know what you want," Sam said to the Decepticon.
"Just go! Just go!" Sam's dad yelled.
"And I know that you need me, because I know about the Matrix," Sam continued.
"Don't do it, Sam!" Sam's dad yelled.
"Please, Dad," Sam said.
Rachel looked back at Bee as he climbed onto the roof of the building.
"They're gonna kill us all anyway!" Sam's dad yelled.
"Here's what you want right here," Sam said.
The Decepticon whipped the ground with a belt containing bullets.
"Bumblebee!" Sam yelled.
Bumblebee jumped from the roof, kicking the Decepticon down. The Decepticon hit Bumblebee a few times. Sam backed up away from the fighting. Bumblebee flipped on his battle mask.
"Kill him, Bee, kill him," Sam said.
Bumblebee turned, punching the Decepticon, dodging an attack and then kicking the Decepticon. Bumblebee dodged another attack, and then jumped on top of the Decepticon, grabbing its face, and then standing on it as it fell to the ground. Bumblebee jumped off of the Decepticon, kicking its arm. They fought each other back and forth for a minute before something jumped from behind the building shooting at Bee. Bee made distressing sounds as the tiger-looking Decepticon jumped on him. Bee recovered quickly from the surprise attack and pulled the Decepticon apart, turning to punch the other Decepticon. Rachel crawled over to where Sam, Mikaela and Sam's parents crawled together. Rachel watched as Bumblebee jumped over the Decepticon. He grabbed the Decepticon by the arms from behind, and kicked its body away from its arms, snapping them off. The Decepticon fell, not getting back up. Bee turned to them, his battle mask retracting.
"Bee?" Sam said.
"Yeah," Bumblebee said.
They all ran between the building, getting out of the open.
"I don't know what's going on, but we gotta move!" Sam's dad yelled.
An explosion hit behind them, and they ran forward, Sam's mom screaming.
"There's gotta be a way out of here!" Sam's dad said an explosion hitting in front of him making him turn.
"Against the wall! Against the wall!" Sam yelled.
Rachel pressed herself against the wall next to Mikaela as explosions hit everywhere.
"Bee! Bumblebee!" Sam yelled.
Bee appeared at the end of the alley by an arch, he looked around for danger. He looked at Sam.
"You get them somewhere safe, alright?" Sam said.
Bee nodded. Sam leaned over his dad who was leaning on a car parked there.
"You've got to get in the car and get to safety," Sam said.
"No, no, this isn't up for discussion!" Sam's dad yelled. "You're my son! You're my son!"
"I know," Sam said. "Dad..."
"We'll all go together," Sam's dad said.
"Listen..." Sam tried to say.
"We're all going together!" Sam dad yelled.
"Dad, stop, okay? Get in the car, he's gonna get you to safety. You know, you run, you don't stop, you don't hide, you run. You hear what I'm saying? I'll find you when you're safe," Sam said.
"No," Sam's dad said.
"You've got to let me go, Dad," Sam said. "You have to let me go."
"Ron, Ron, Ron, let him go, let him go," Sam's mom said.
"You come back!" Sam's dad said.
Bumblebee pulled up as Sam's parents ran up to him.
"Go with my parents," Sam said to Mikaela and Rachel.
"I'm not going to go without you," Mikaela said.
Sam knew better than to argue, Rachel nodded. She wasn't going to abandon them now. They continued to run.
They ran for a mile or so and then hid behind a building. Rachel's eyes widened at what she saw ahead of them.
"Ironhide!" she called.
The Arcees were with him.
"Spotted Sam," one of them said.
Ironhide turned, "Hey! Sam!" he called.
"Ironhide!" Sam called.
One of the Arcees drove up to them. Rachel was never so glad to see Ironhide in her life, it meant they didn't have to fear being shot at. Rachel knew Ironhide would do anything to protect her and now Sam.
"Follow us to the pillars, we'll take you to Optimus," the Arcee said.
As soon as she had finished a shot came from somewhere and she was thrown down. Ironhide shot the Decepticons that were over-taking them. He was taking on some pretty bad shots as well.
"Ironhide!" Rachel cried out, but she knew he could take care of himself.
"Get out! Get to the pillars!" Ironhide yelled, returning fire.
"Let's go!" Sam said pulling Mikaela and Rachel behind him.
Rachel was reluctant to go, she wanted to make sure Ironhide would be okay, but she knew she had to go.
Like I said, craziness... we see Bumblebee ninja-mode(wish I could portray half the coolness of movie, but sadly words aren't as good as Hollywood CGI) Sam's parents kidnapped and used for ransom against Sam(and man does he have faith that the Matrix dust just might work)... one thing, though, Ironhide and Arcees could have finished off the 'cons and transformed back into their truck/motorcycles and it would have been much easier than Sam and Mikaela running on foot through -and I quote- "the middle of a war-zone." Chapter 11 coming soon...