It took a little longer than a week but here is chapter 14!
I tried to make this chapter filled with action, so hopefully I explained what's happening well enough.
It flips from narrators quite frequently. Maybe not frequently but there's alot of narrators in this cahpter.
I hope yo enjoy!
Starscream
I had not expected them to do this. I had expected for them to allow me to take the human Autobots outside and to the ship. Instead they decided to blow the whole building sky high.
I felt the now steaming hot ground touching my vulnerable face. I flipped myself onto my back and just laid there for a few nano seconds.
I decided to sit up once I got a glimpse of a squad of jets flying above. I had to assume they were Decepticons and not human.
I got to my feet and examined my surroundings.
All I can really say is fire; there was a lot of fire.
Brick piles were scattered every few feet. Support beams were stabbing the burnt crust of the earth's soil. Metal plates from the ceiling were torn and bent up all over the place creating an eerie surrounding. I would say it was a beautiful sight if not for the current heat I was getting from the yellow and red flames.
A loud crashing sound brought me to look around for its source. The sound was continuous; I realized that it was from a cybertronian's footsteps.
Since I did not know if it was from and Autobot or a Decepticon I searched for cover.
The bent metal plates came in useful just for that purpose.
My thought to take cover came in useful, for the Autobot leader came trudging over to where I hid.
He kept scanning the ground; he was most likely searching for the femme and scout.
"Arcee! Bumblebee! Where are you?" The Prime called for his missing soldiers. He scanned the ground for a while longer before he strode away.
I slowly emerged from my hiding place. I looked up at the sky which was now turning black from the dark smoke emanating from the raging flames.
I scanned around for any familiar Decepticons. I didn't need to look long for it was then that Lord Megatron shouted for me.
I sprinted over to where my master stood; having my human shins getting scraped by sharp scrap that littered the ground as I did.
"Lord Megatron." I panted as I skidded to a stop.
"Ah, Starscream, I wasn't sure if you survived. It is fortunate though, now I have a distinct idea that the femme and scout survived the explosion." He said as he recognized my being there.
"Master, what if they were killed in the explosion, and then what shall we do? And why didn't you wait for me to get out, or take them to you even." I said possibly in a whiny tone.
Megatron's head swung to my direction.
"Stop your blabbering! Help the soldiers search for the human Autobots!" Megatron snapped.
I sank my head and saluted him. I then scurried after the rest of the soldiers; struggling to keep up with the over sized beings.
Bumblebee
It wasn't very fun coughing up smoke and ash. I wasn't very fun being thrown hundreds of yards away by an unexpected attack.
I began sitting up, still hacking up ash. How I miss the feeling of not needing to breathe air.
I got to my feet and looked around, I actually couldn't tell how far I was thrown, everything was unrecognizable.
Fire scorched everything. The light was escalated by the black sky.
Something hit us, and it was obviously Decepticon. Ratchet had said that the Decepticons were just outside of Nevada. I would of never guessed that they would get here this fast. I also wouldn't have guessed that they would turn the first lieutenant into a human just to get either Arcee or me, or possibly both.
I then got a sinking feeling in my stomach.
Where was Arcee, she was only a few feet away from me when the blast hit, she couldn't be that much farther away then I was now.
"Arcee!" I called as I began to scan and stroll around the area.
"Where are you . . . Arcee?"
I heard a foot hitting metal, it wasn't loud enough for it to be a cybertronian, Arcee before she turned into a human could even make a sound louder.
"Arcee?" I timidly asked whoever it was as I edged forward.
"No, I do not believe I am Arcee. But I'm sure that we'll find her soon enough."
Smoke cleared around a few Decepticon warriors along with pointed featured human Starscream.
"And it seems a certain somebody found a cheat to get his voice back; I thought I had heard you speak back at the school. I had just thought that was my imagination."
The warriors flung their guns in my direction and charged them showing they were ready to shoot.
I took a step back. I had to get away or else I'd be captured. If they went through all this then they really need one of us so capture isn't a smart thing to let happen to me.
"Come with us scout, and perhaps we will decide to take your partner with us instead of terminating her." Starscream persuaded with a slight chuckle.
By partner he meant Arcee, and when he said instead of terminating he was lying. They weren't going to terminate her anyway, it'd be much better to bring her with them and use us against each other.
I raised my hands in the air. All but one of the Decepticon warriors put their guns down and scanned their surroundings in case of Optimus or anyone else.
Starscream walked close to me.
"Smarter than you let on scout." He sneered as he looked me in the eye.
"Let's move out! We still have one more Autobot to uncover." The first lieutenant ordered as he turned around.
This was my chance; I had much more of a chance with only one Decepticon watching me rather than four.
I sidestepped to my left and sprinted as I felt shots coming close to hitting me.
I jumped off a small ledge and slid underneath it, hiding from them as best as I could at the moment.
I breathed hard as I listened carefully; all of them were searching for me. I heard Starscream throwing orders and complaints out like he was puking.
I set my head on the small wall behind me and shut my eyes calming down. I got even calmer when I heard a familiar voice.
"Bee?" I heard a feminine voice say to my right.
I turned my head to see a human girl with short black hair and a tank top.
"Arcee? Oh thank primus." I said as I gave her a hug out of instinct.
After a few seconds she pulled away.
"What exactly happened? I just saw a bright light and then. . . BAM! Everything is blown to Kingdom Kun."
I looked around. Her definition isn't that bad.
"The Decepticons found out where we were. The pointy guy is Starscream, and the bright light was a cannon from the Harbinger." I filled her in by saying.
She nodded her head.
"Hopefully nobody was still here, I don't know if anyone picked Jack, Raf, and Miko up." Arcee said sounding awfully concerned.
As if on cue I heard a familiar set of voices shouting a bunch of gargled words.
As they got closer I realized something, they were calling for us.
And they weren't Optimus or any other Autobot.
"Jack!" Arcee shouted as she began to get up.
I grabbed her arm and stopped her from proceeding with going to the kids.
I peeked over the side of the small little cave thing we were currently in. It seemed that Jack, Miko, and Raf had gotten their attention.
I felt vibrations as the Decepticons walked closer to us and them.
"Bee! Let me go!" Arcee ordered through clenched teeth as she struggled to try to get away.
"Just wait! I'm thinking." I said. The truth was I wasn't sure what to do, but I was too scared to let her run out there.
I was just as scared to let the kids stand there alone.
"Oh, it's just some human scum. Commander can I eliminate them?" I heard one of the warriors ask who I guessed was Starscream.
I heard a sigh, "These aren't just any children. They're the Autobot's pets. Oh, how long I've wanted to see them get blown up, do it swiftly soldier. We still have criteria." Starscream answered the soldier.
They all threw their guns up and pointed them at Jack, Miko, and Raf.
Jack pushed Miko and Raf behind him and edged backward.
As if my body thought by itself I jumped up and sprinted over to where they were and jumped in front of them with facing the Decepticons. My arms were spread out to my sides.
"Stop!" I shouted.
Arcee ran to my side and stood there as if trying to intimidate them with having more people.
"Ah here you are." Starscream said to himself with a grin.
He whipped his head to the soldiers and shouted an order.
"This time grab them!" He bellowed.
They lunged toward us.
I never felt impact though. I saw a streak of red and blue tackle them mid-air.
"Optimus!" Arcee shouted with relief.
He brought his gun out and shot the soldiers down with no problem.
I watched as he glared down at Starscream who was in the middle of cowering. Optimus slammed his foot down as he took a step toward him and sent Starscream running away in terror.
"Are you all alright?" He asked eyebrows still arched.
I peeked behind me to see everyone nodding ecstatically.
"Good. I will send word to Ratchet, he should be sending reinforcements. Smokescreen is already here." Optimus said as he lifted his hand up to his helm.
Optimus
"Ratchet, Ratchet are you there?" I said in to my comm link.
I did not hear any response.
"Ratchet if you hear me, we need a ground bridge immediately." I informed him in case the link on his end wasn't functioning.
I set my hand back at my side and observed my surroundings. I shuddered at the fact that under my feet may be the deceased human's corpses. I could only pray to Primus that all the humans got out safely.
I gazed down at my small human comrades and their human companions.
They had jumped in front of our human friends so willingly, not worrying about themselves for an instant. So brave. Still protecting their companions even after they change drastically to a frail state.
No ground bridge ever appeared. We couldn't continue standing around out in the open. If any Decepticon saw us they could easily come from any direction. I couldn't spot Smokescreen either.
Perhaps he chased off a hoard of Decepticon troops, at least, that's what I hope.
"I fear the Harbinger is most likely interfering with the signal." I told them with a slight sigh.
"Well, what are we supposed to do then? We can't exactly stay here waiting for trouble to find us." Arcee said up to me.
I knew I had to get them out of there. I thought for a few nano seconds.
"Okay, Arcee, Bumblebee, I want you to take Raf, Jack, and Miko. Try to find a place to hide far from here. I will hold them back."
Arcee stepped closer to me.
"You can't just be left here alone, try calling Ratchet again maybe." She said sounding as though she wanted to order me to come with.
I shook my head disagreeing.
In the distance I could hear voices yelling at each other. They were getting closer to our location.
We had been here too long.
"Arcee, you must go now. Or all of you will be in danger. Even Jack, Miko, and Raf."
I knew if she wouldn't leave for her own sake, she would leave for Jack.
I began to hear the clunking of the feet hat was getting closer by the nano second.
"Fine, I'll go." She said clenching her fists as she wandered over to the others.
I watched as they began running in away from me.
"Hey, Prime!" I heard a familiar voice call.
"Dreadwing, so Megatron decided to send you to this terrible scene." I said in response to him.
He watched me, waiting for me to make my move.
He finally spoke, but not to me. "Starscream, go after the others."
A skinny man walked out from behind Dreadwing's foot.
"Do not order me around! I am the first lieutenant, you are below me." Starscream screeched.
Dreadwing stomped his foot inches away from the first lieutenant.
"And yet I can squish you so easily." Dreadwing replied menacingly.
Starscream slouched down in a cowering position just before he scurried away.
I stepped after him attempting to stop him. But a hand grabbing my servo changed that.
"Let humans mind their own business for once."
I turned toward him.
"Very well, I trust them. They shall win."
Dreadwing and I then clashed.
Arcee
I didn't want to leave Optimus alone. But deep down I knew that he would have more trouble with us there then with us not.
Bee, Jack, Raf, Miko, and I all were running. The smoke started fading and we saw the desert. It was apparently on the other side of the town then our base.
We could see plateaus covering the surface.
"Bee, we should find somewhere to hide in those plateaus. Perhaps like a cave or something."
"Yeah, it'll keep us hidden for the time being." He responded.
We ran for a little while longer.
Suddenly I felt Bumblebee fall to the ground to my side.
"What happened?" I asked as I skidded to a stop. I saw a red brick topple to its side next to him.
He was cradling his head. His back was arched up and he had his head sitting on the ground.
"Bee, you okay?" I heard Raf say to the blond on the ground.
I saw a red liquid hit the ground next to his head.
"Oh, so sorry about that." I heard off a little to the distance.
I turned my head to see Starscream strolling over to our location. He was tossing a brick up and aching it continuously.
I called back to the kids. "Keep going In that direction we'll catch up."
I could hear them running on top of the rubble, they were safe.
"What do you want with us Scream?" I asked putting my hands into fists and holding them up. I was prepared for whenever he decided to come at me.
He stopped walking toward me and held the brick in his hand.
"I recall telling both of you the plan unfortunately. But I don't think you caught any of what I said. You were too busy being unconscious."
I felt anger rising in me. To my side I saw Bumblebee get to his feet. I spotted a streak of blood running down his face from his forehead. He got into the same position I was in.
He chuckled right before he chucked the brick in our direction.
It missed drastically. I toppled to the ground a few feet away from us. Me and Bee both looked at the brick confused.
That was until we heard Starscream running with a loud battle-cry toward us. He sucker punched Bee then jabbed me in the stomach.
I stumbled a little and took a deep breath.
Starscream stood there ready for me to strike.
I sent my foot flying toward him but evidently failed.
He caught my foot in his hands. Grinned at me, he put my foot in one hand and brought his other elbow down on my knee hard.
I let out a scream and tumbled to the ground.
"Arcee!" I heard Bee call to me.
I watched as Starscream came stalking over to me.
He was grinning.
Then Bee grabbed him around the waist and pulled him away from me. I began to sit up.
Bee dodged a punch and then landed one on Scream's in the shoulder.
Starscream swung his leg behind Bee's legs and tripped him. Bumblebee landed on his back.
Starscream crouched on top of Bee holding the collar of his hoodie. He swung his fist and plunged it straight to Bee's face. Again, again, again, again.
I struggled to get myself up. I couldn't move my leg and every time my leg got pressure on it, pain burst through my knee.
Starscream wasn't giving Bee a break. He kept punching one after the other.
I reached for a brick to my side. Then I tried balancing myself on one leg to stand up.
After awkwardly struggling I managed to get up. I lunged toward Starscream and wacked his head with the brick. He toppled over to his side.
I quickly crawled over to Bee.
"Are you okay?" I asked.
He had blood coming out from his mouth along with the blood that was already there from when Starscream threw the brick.
Bumblebee paused before he let out a stiff, "Yeah. You?"
I let out a small chuckle.
"Well, if it wasn't for not being able to walk, I'd go run a mile." I told him with a smile.
He smiled as he began to get up. Instead of getting up all the way Bee crouched down with his back facing me.
"Get on, you're not going to be able to catch up by crawling." He said.
I got on carefully top wanting to hurt my leg anymore.
Bee stood up fully and began walking after the others.
Smokescreen
"Take that con!"
I shot the final Decepticon that had surrounded me.
He fell to the ground along with the others.
All these Decepticons in one place. I didn't quite know what they were doing here. My guess is that they came for Bumblebee and Arcee. Or they just realized how dangerous I am to them and decided to get rid of me.
I turned into my vehicular form and drove off. All the smoke had began to fade and the fire was dying all around me. I knew Optimus was around here somewhere. I wasn't sure where but I knew he was.
I turned back into my robotic form and stomped over to two Decepticons who were lying on the ground.
I didn't ever recall bringing down these two cons. Optimus must have been here.
I suddenly heard a cry. Turning in that direction I saw a bright light coming my way. It was a shot from a cybertronian gun.
I dodged it by just a little.
Quickly I ran over to the site it came from.
It was awesome! Optimus was laying into a crowd of cons. Dreadwing was one of them. None of them stood a chance against him.
Next thing I knew Optimus was knocked down. It wasn't from any of the Decepticons though.
"Ah hello Prime, how are you faring this evening?" A sinister voice said from inside the blinding smoke.
Megatron strode over to Optimus. He kneeled down and looked Optimus in the optic.
"Your little comrades seem to have escaped the premises." Megatron informed him.
He informed me too. At least I knew now that Bee and Arcee made it out of this disaster alive. But this was a whole other mess.
"You wouldn't happen to know where they went do you?" Megatron asked with a sneer.
Optimus got to a knee.
"I do know where they went. Far away from you Megatron!"
The leader of the Decepticons growled. He turned his hand into a gun and aimed it at Optimus' helm.
He stared intently at Optimus, hate in his optics.
Something changed his mind. Megatron put his gun down and sneered again.
"It doesn't matter where they went for they will come to me." Megatron stated.
"What do you mean?" Optimus asked being held down now by Dreadwing.
Megatron stood up fully still glaring down at Optimus.
With a mighty roar Megatron ordered the surrounding Decepticons with, "Take the Prime aboard the Harbinger."
Optimus began to struggle, trying to get free from Dreadwing.
Megatron held his hand up to his helm.
"Soundwave, open a ground bridge." He ordered.
I watched as the green and blue swirl appeared.
Dreadwing forced Optimus up. Optimus wasn't going into the ground bridge though.
Megatron strode up to Optimus and hit him upon the head viciously. Optimus then hung limply by Dreadwing's arm.
I took a step closer, what was I doing just standing here. I had to go rescue Optimus.
Dreadwing dragged Optimus through the ground bridge followed by the swarm of Decepticon soldiers.
Megatron stopped one of the soldiers.
"Go retrieve my lieutenant, he should be lying around somewhere in that direction." Megatron said before he walked into the ground bridge.
I quickly ran after him.
The ground bridge began to close as I engaged it.
"No stop!" I yelled.
The ground bridge closed and I skidded to a stop.
I stomped my foot on the ground with a yell of anger.
"Frag it!" I yelled.
"Freeze Autobot." I heard someone say.
I turned to where the voice came from. It was the Decepticon soldier that was ordered to retrieve Starscream. He had his gun facing me.
"Don't you have something you have to do?" I asked irritably.
He jumped at that.
"Uh yeah. . ." He said taking a step back.
Before he could fly off I swung my arm toward him, turned it into a gun, and shot him.
He fell to the ground limply.
I sighed. This was a mess, and now the doc back at base was going to nag my audio receptors off.
I had to get Optimus back. Without him we don't stand a chance.
And what did Megatron mean by they will come to him.
That reminded me; I had to go get Arcee and Bumblebee.
I turned into my vehicular mode and drove in the direction Megatron had pointed to.
After a while driving I saw a figure lying on the ground. I stopped immediately hoping it wasn't anyone I knew.
Well, it was someone I knew, it was Starscream.
His face was all red and his nose was bleeding.
"Seems like someone roughed you up pretty good Scream." I said to myself with a grin.
As I picked him up I noticed there were foot prints in the sand that led to the desert. Those must have been Bumblebee's and Arcee's prints.
I turned into my vehicular mode and had Starscream in the backseat with seat belts wrapped around him.
I then started following my comrades tracks.
Bumblebee
Arcee and I eventually caught up with Jack, Miko, and Raf. Needless to say they were shocked to see the condition we were in. But we continued until we found a small cave that we took cover in.
Jack was crouching on the ground trying to start a fire with his magnesium fire starter that apparently was only one necessity that was included in his multi functional pocket knife of which he was quite proud of.
"You seem too happy about doing this Jack. . ." Arcee told Jack.
Jack looked up after the wood we had collected close by burst into flames.
"You just don't want to admit that for once my magnesium fire starter and multi functional pocket knife are useful." He replied with a chuckle.
Arcee shook her head with a smile on her face. It was nice to see her smile even after all that has happened.
"I just realized something Bee. You talked back when we were about to get roasted by that con." Jack stated to me.
Raf and Miko looked up at me from where they were sitting on the ground.
I wasn't sure if I was supposed to tell them or not about the device ratchet had created. I didn't see any harm in telling them.
"Yep, Ratchet made a communicator thing so I can talk now. In a way." I said a bit uncomfortably.
"Sweet!" Miko exclaimed with a big grin.
"So are we just going to stay in this cave all night?" Raf asked from next to Jack.
"Well, until we're for sure that out there is safe." I replied to him.
He looked back at the fire with a solemn look on his face.
"Don't worry Raf, I'm sure that Optimus has already beat all their sorry butts. They'll be looking for us in no time" Miko said optimistically.
Raf gave her a slight smile.
Over time the three children fell into recharge. It had turned night time. Arcee and I still sat by the fire Jack made watching the flame wobble back and forth.
We sat in an awkward silence. I didn't hear anything from outside; we were far enough away though that sound would be muffled anyways.
"It's warm." I heard Arcee say from the opposite side of the fire. She seemed like she
I looked up at her. She had a small smile on her face but her eyes looked tired.
"You should recharge Arcee; your leg will get better sooner if you do." I tried to persuade her.
"I know . . ." She said but she did not move an inch.
I just continued to sit there, she apparently did not want to recharge so I wouldn't make her.
This whole situation was a mess. Because of that strange relic we were turned into humans. Now because of that, actual humans were harmed.
"Bee." I heard Arcee trying to catch my attention. Looking up I saw Arcee looking at me.
"Yes, what is it." I asked.
She paused for a while.
"Bee, we need to get back to normal." She said with emphasis on need.
I didn't say anything, it was obvious that we needed to, but this was the first time I heard her say that. She was at the point where she was fed up with being human.
"It's gone too far, it's gotten to dangerous. That needs to be our top priority now. Not necessarily for us, but for humans period."
That was just like Arcee. Not giving two frags about herself, always worried about others. Her losing her partners added that trait to her personality. She didn't want to lose anyone else.
"Who knows what will happen next, you've already broken your ribcage, now I obviously broke my leg. Next one of us, or even Jack, Raf, or Miko could get killed. Even everyone back at base is at risk."
She wrapped her arms around her one good leg and set her head down on her arms staring into the flames.
"I don't want to lose anyone due to our choices" She sounded as though she was finished.
I put on a smile and looked up at her, "To be fair one of your choices saved my aft back there."
She jolted her head up and smiled.
"You've saved mine more times than I can count, so I'd say we're far from even." She told me with a slight chuckle.
A honking sound distracted us from our conversation.
"Room service! Your limo has arrived."
It looked at the entrance of the cave.
There sat a white, red, and blue car with double 38's on the doors.
"Smokescreen?" I heard Arcee ask.
"The one and only, c'mon wake the sleeping beauties up and hop in."
Arcee turned her head to look staright at Jack, Miko, and Raf.
Miko and Raf were leaning against Jack, and Jack had his head tilted up against the wall.
"Hey kiddies wake up!" Arcee bellowed to Jack, Raf, and Miko on the other side of the cave.
Jack jolted up making Raf and Miko hit their heads on eachothers.
"Our rides here." I told them as I stood up.
I walked over to Arcee and picked her up bridal style.
Jack, Raf, and Miko got up.
"Shotgun!" yelled Miko as she ran to the driver's seat not the passenger's seat.
Jack got into the passenger's seat.
Raf waited as I opened the door.
I was a bit surprised by what I found in the back seat.
"We meet again Autobot's." Starscream said from his awkward tied up position.
I sighed, "Oh, this is going to be fun."
I put Arcee next to Starscream.
"Smokescreen why do you have Starscream?" I asked.
"I found him just lying in the middle of nowhere, I thought we could take him back to base. We could get some info out of him." Smokescreen answered as I watched Starscream getting pushed into the trunk.
I got in next to Arcee and Raf.
"What did Optimus think about this?" Arcee asked.
"Yeah, about that."
Hoped you liked it.
Please leave reviews. Give ideas, or advice, really anything.
I made a reference to the Transfomers Prime episode Preditory.
That's when Jack says he has the multi functional pocket knife and magnesium fire 's why I chose to use those words.
Next chapter will be up in a few days, top number of days should be 5 or so.
Preview of next chapter
Smokescreen reveals the fate of Optimus
The Autobots plan their next move
Megatron speaks to Optimus about some political matter
Ratchet and June pass around ideas about the miraculous healing ability of Bumblebee and Arcee
The Autobots set their plan n motion