Chapter Eleven: Knock knock. Who's there? Pain.

Soundwave was busy working on the Scorponok while Frenzy told Megatron what had happened while he was away.

"And then I thought, you know, we could sneak around the side while they were hiding behind the rock, but uh, well that's when the tank showed up and, shit just started blowing' up. I don't know," he concluded.

"Frenzy, do you have any Primusly idea how much this piece of equipment costs," asked Megatron.

"Ah, I don't know, what like uh, ten, ten twenty, twenty-five bucks, maybe? Uh, you, you're going to kill me now, aren't you," said Frenzy.

"Tell you what, Frenzy, I'm a fair man. I'll give you a ten second head start here before I let Soundwave do anything he wants to you."

Soundwave sat up from working and pulled his gun out.

"Guys, I just want you to know. I'm really, really sorry here, and"

"Five Megatron. Six Megatron."

"Okay uh, I guess I better get going then," Frenzy started running as Soundwave and Megatron fired at him, "Hey guys, that's not funny. Somebody could get hurt here."

Meanwhile at the Autobot base, R-C was busy practicing his targeting as Jazz explained their situation.

"That's basically it sir, they have five guys over there and a big jeep."

"And your disk," R-C added.

"Right, that too."

Jazz watched as the freelancer tossed a grenade.

"Uh, hey, R-C? I don't know what it's been like at your other bases, but we try not to use other soldiers as target practice here."

It turns out R-C was shooting at Bumblebee,

"I'm scared," he cried.

Jazz noticed something familiar about R-C's armor,

"So, you've got the Special Forces black armor, I see. Were you in the Special Forces at some point?"

R-C ignored him and reloaded his guns.

"Yeah, I used to have black armor too. It was black because I got this stuff all over it from th," before Jazz could finish, R-C ran off, "Oh, okay, you got to go? I'll see you later."

"I don't think he likes you," whispered Bumblebee.

"Thanks."

Jazz and Bumblebee followed R-C to the edge of their base.

"Where are you going," Jazz called out.

"Decepticon base. Kill everyone. Get the disk back," R-C responded and headed off.

"Uh... Okay! We'll just stay here and guard the trans... porter..," said Bumblebee.

Frenzy was explaining to Starscream what Megatron told him,

"So, Megatron thought my strategy had merit, but was poorly executed, probably because somebody didn't believe in it."

"Bullshit. He told me he thought you were a retarded droid, and he's going to suspend your weapon privileges," countered Starscream.

"Hey since I captured the disk, do you think they'll give me my own color armor now," asked Rumble who was also with them and holding the disk.

"What do you mean 'captured'? You thought you were buying it at the store, you idiot," Starscream remarked.

"Still, you think there's a shot?"

"Maybe they'll give you Frenzy's armor, since he destroyed the Scorponok."

"Hyeah, heh-wait... you don't... you don't think they'd do that, do you," wondered Frenzy.

Megatron watched Soundwave fix the Scorponok and decided to give some orders,

"Try connecting that hose to that metal thingy over there. I think that's what's making that rattle."

Soundwave just stood up and stared at his leader.

"Ah think I'll let you do it."

He returned to his work as an invisible R-C ran behind Megatron.

"What the... What was that?"

Frenzy noticed Starscream was looking a little nervous.

"Starscream, what's going on? What's over there," he asked.

"I thought I saw something there for a second."

It turns out R-C was hiding below the edge.

"Hey proto," Frenzy called to Rumble, "Tuck the disk somewhere safe until we can figure out what's going on."

"Good idea. I was sick of carrying this thing anyway," Rumble dropped it into the middle of their base.

R-C moved around to get a good range.

"Did you hear that," asked Starscream.

"Yeah," replied Frenzy.

"Hey! What's going on," whispered Rumble.

R-C tossed a grenade up to the top of the base.

Frenzy heard a strange noise and turned around, "What the fk?"

Rumble had grenade stuck on his head, "What?"

Starscream turned and saw it, "What is that thing?"

"What thing?"

"There's something on your head."

"What, is it a nanobot? Get it off!"

"No, it's not a nanobot, it's, like a... blue thing."

"What, like a blue nanobot? Get it off!"

"It's not a nanobot, calm down. It's some kind of, fuzzy pulsating thing."

"That doesn't sound much better than a nanobot."

"Does it hurt?"

"No."

"Maybe we should try to take it off."

"Good idea. Go for it."

"Me? By "we" I meant "you." Asshole."

"Well somebody needs to get it off. Look, it might be dangerous."

The grenade exploded and tore off parts of Rumble's head.

"Son of a bitch-bot," Frenzy and Starscream yelled.

The distraction allowed R-C to sneak in and attack the other Decepticons.

"Son... where'd he go," yelled Frenzy, "Don't kill me, I'm too good looking to die!"