Chapter 13: No choice-No chance

It was an annoyance,being so much smaller then the height of the control panels-but then again,they weren't created with Humans in mind. Moving up his self made ramp,Devon went to the computer archieve of the ship where Grimlock currently called his home. Scanning the files,he found that in the past week he had been doing this more and more often,though it helped him understand the things he knew better,or at least thats what he kept telling himself. Behind him Grimlock was making a ruckas, probably looking for something but Devon didn't bother looking.

'Hmmm'

He opened a holographic image of a large old book,the location of the real book was still unknown but the hologram was just as good, he opened it to the first couple of pages that he had been able to decipher. It was barely even a dent in the size of the book but he hoped that what he had uncovered would be of some help to him now,the uneasy feeling in his stomach still hadn't left,despite the fact that he seemed to have managed to push the thoughts that came with this feeling away...for now. Glancing over the pages he frowned,he needed something,it wasn't like he could just flip a switch and move the ship to the Autobot base...or could he? No...He had been told more then once that it was basically a piece of junk now and that no matter how much they tried to repair it it would still just be junk. Though,Devon never ruled anything out,especially given the recent events of the past couple of days...there might just be a way...

'Grimlock,What are you doing over there?'

Devon finally asked as he found he couldn't concintrate with the dinobot making such a noise, there was a crash and the ship shook uneasily,creeking and generally sounding like it wanted to break in half and flood with the water of the river near by.

'Me,Grimlock looking for...fish'

Came the reply,in the time it had taken the pair to walk down the mountain and back to the small remote community where the ship was hidden and Devon lived,Grimlock had forgotten what Optimus had asked of him to do.And Devon was no help given that he hadn't heard any of the conversation that had taken place at that time.

'We'll go in a min-'

'Want go now!'

'We will, just-'

'Grimlock want fish now!'

Knowing that he wouldn't get any reading down either way now, Devon sighed and rolled his eyes,though they really didn't have anything better to do at the current time. He glanced back to the page he had been skimming,he caught the word 'Guardians' but the hologram flickered and turned off,which it did when the power on the ship was low,oh well the word probably was irrilivant to anything anyways. Devon then skidded down the ramp and dashed towards the impatient Grimlock-who was now thrashing his tail about excitedly.

'Calm down,Calm down, we're going-'

'Grimlock say fish are good brain food'

'Uh-huh'

Devon looked like he wanted to say something more but knowing that he was easily squishable at the current moment,remained silent. Maybe later,if he remembered he would bring up the matter of fish,brains and Grimlock.

'Little flesh bot hurry up'

'Okay,okay-hold your horses'

'Grimlock have no horses'

'Its a figure of speach'

'flesh bot hurts Grimlock's head'

'Its alright Grimlock,I hurt my own head sometimes'

'Why you do that?'

'I...Are we going fishing or not?'

Changing the subject again,Devon dashed away to fetch the fishing rods,though Grimlock really didn't need one. He also needed a moment to try and come to a conclusion on what the Autobots on the mountain could possibly be up to. But he was certain that if it were that important then someone would come to them,most of them knew where the ship was hidden...and if not...That was their loss. Devon quickly returned with fishingrods in hand,singing a jaunty but eerie tune he had heard from someplace,he could no longer remember where.

"And then from the heavens,brave warriors decended-to fight the growing darkness and protect the Guardians of the universe,sticking up for whats right and good,in a war that would seem to last an eternity."

She wasn't entirely sure how she had managed to do it,but she had gone nearly fortyfive minutes without being found by either Autobots or Decepticons. She'd seen a large amount of what looked like unmarked police cars and vans head up the hill but none stopped or appeared to have noticed her. That was another blessing,as she really didn't care for trying to talk her way out of having any connections to the giant fighting robots. Though as a vehicle passed she would tense,before her uncertintiy passed,it was annoying and she hated feeling so freaked out.

Finally,she saw a place to use as refuge,if for a little while-her work,she had friends there that would help her.Dashing across the parkinglot,she passed many cars,glad to see that her friends Brian and Richard were still working as both their cars were still in the parkinglot. His silver Subaru glistened as the rain on it looked more like diamonds encrusted into the doors and hood,with the way the street lights were hitting the car,it made it rather breathtaking. Not slowing her pace as she entered the kitchen,Holly nearly collided with Richard. Who gave her a curious once over before continuing on,he was almost done his shift and looked like he wanted to get out of there.

'Holly! What are you doing here?'

Came the loud call from a red head standing infront of the grill-grinning widely was Kenny,waving once with a scrapper in his hand. Having Holly randomly show up looking like she had just been mauled was normal behavior for her,so none of the friends and coworkers had reason to think that anything could be wrong.

'Hide me!'

Holly yelped,running around the back wall and onto the front half of the kitchen,she promptly forced herself into a small cube shaped space betweent the counter and floor. Brian and Don were both online and stopped what they were doing to watch Holly spazzing out over nothing as far as they could see. Narrowing his eyes Brian quickly noticed that there was a slight difference in Holly's behavior,and apperance,he just didn't know what.Moving away from the grills,he wanted to confirm a thought,moving past Holly as if to go around to the back freezer-his mind was elsewhere,the way she acted was like she had met...one of the Decepticons...or even possibly an Autobot,Holly would probably react the same way. He did know that there was a person in the city that was desperatly sought after by the Decepticons-could Holly be that person? Or was she just unlucky or stupid enough to get in the way...he decided the latter was probably the better assumption.

'Holly,what are you-'

Kenny had been laughing at how Holly looked very cramped in the small space,but something at the back door caught his attention. His smile wavered for a moment as he saw a strange person standing there,he assu;med it must have been one of Holly's friend in costume and the one Holly was hiding from. He had to admire at how real the costume looked and wanted to know where the 'friend' had bought it.

'HI! And who are you sappoused to be? Terminator's demon child?'

He chuckled but was drowned out when the 'friend' made a loud squeeling noise,sounding more like it was dying cat of some sort. Brian no longer had to move towards the back to know who...or what exactly was standing there.

"Frenzy!'

He growled,having met the bot once before-Brian lurched foreward and grabbed Holly around the arm,pulling her from where she had hidden herself. Moments later Frenzy lept through the window over the grill and latched himself around Kenny's upper body.

'What the...aaaah!'

Kenny yelled, stumbling back,he tried to catch himself as he half fell back-landing with one arm behind him,right on the back grill. He yelled in pain as the smell of burning flesh filled the air, Frenzy seemed to enjoy this and momentarily forgot the whole reason why he was there.

'BRIAN GET OUT OF THERE,NOW!'

Came an angery voice from almost the same direction Frenzy had come from. Brian was already on the move,still toting Holly behind him,now she was starting to fight him.

'Brian let me go! Stop it! you're hurting me!'

Holly wasn't sure what was going on or how Brian fit in with any of it but her struggling was in vain,Brian was much stronger then her. He managed to pull her outside,where his Subaru had its doors open and engine revving impatiently.

'Brian...wait...'

'NO!'

He pushed her into the passanger side,the door snapping shut instantly-Brian ran to the driver side. The moment he was inside,the car backed up before peeling out of the parkinglot.

'Fuckit Brian! Let me out!'

'I can't'

'You can!Let! Me! Out!'

'I can't! Because I'm not in control!"

There was a pause,Brian looked pissed but Holly knew him long enough to know he was concerned and trying to make sense of what was going on.

'Stupid Autobots'

'Shut your voice box stupid human!'

Snapped the Subaru as it turned on the main road heading towards the car dealership district of the lower hillside area,it was going to use the cars and other assorted vehicles as cover to get away without any difficulty. Brian slowly glanced to Holly and tried to keep his voice calm and even,wondering just how well she was taking to this.

'So,you know about the Autobots...what about the...'

Brian began slowly, they were passing the Budget (a storage,car rent store) when the Subaru came to a skidding hault,slipping over the wet cement and causing both humans to hold onto their seats for life.

'Get out-'

the Subaru demanded,the two didn't need to be told twice as they both crawled out the passanger side,what had caused the car to stop was yet to be seen.

'Pomperous! What the hell'd you-'

'Blackout!'

The Subaru transformed moments before a large nasty looking blackish Decepticon appeared-it was the propeller blades down his back that made Holly realize that she knew this one,she had seen him briefly one before when Starscream had been talking to her.

'Finally...Hey over here!'

Holly began to walk towards Blackout waving her hands with a relieved look on her face,Brian however was not sure what his friend was doing but he grabbed her by the elbow and pulled her back again. He glared at her,he wasn't about to give her a choice in this situation,she would go with him and Pomperous, he wasn't going to take the chance that the Decepticons just wanted to kill her.

'Stop it! Brian let me go-'

'Holly,he's one of the bad one's-'

'I know-Now let me go!'

'No!'

Brian's grip tightened,he was not surprised that Holly wanted to go with the evil robots-what he didn't know was that she'd already joined them. She again tried to free herself from him, but he only held on tighter and didn't seem to care that he was hurting her. Blackout swung one arm around and connected with the Subaru,tossing him into the Budget buliding-destroying most of it. There was an obvious huge difference in strength between the two and Blackout was the stronger. He moved foreward,his only goal now was to destroy the Autobot and he didn't seem to care that he almost stepped on the girl he had been sent to retrive...