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LOLz, what happened? Evil Barricade 3 AND CAUTION: TIME IN THIS CHAPTER IS OFF. DON'T MIND TIME.
AND CAUTION No.2: YOU have to figure out the POV's. I'm serious, I'm just too lazy.
And if you voice the speech, you're going to shiver. Trust me.
I was… groggy, to say the least. I hadn't even opened my eyes, and my head was dizzy.
I got up, from wherever I sat, and rubbed my eyes, ears and head. I opened my eyes and realized that I was in car.
Nicole was sitting in the front of the car, while I was in the back. It wasn't the fact that we were alone in a car, that scared me beyond myself.
It was the fact we were underground.
I inhaled and exhaled sharply, my heart wanting to escape my chest and this car at the same time. My head started to pound as I got to the front of the car and shook Nicole.
"Nicole! Nicole get up! Please, get up!" I screamed. She bolted from her sleep and looked at me worryingly.
"What is it?" She said, before looking around her. She noticed we were underground, too. "My God. We're… We're buried." She gasped. I calmed myself down. "We're buried alive." She said. "Why?"
"I don't know." I said, grabbing my head. "Where the hell are we?" I said, but I wasn't going to find my answer in the gravel.
"I don't know." She said. "How long were we buried?"
"I don't know. What do you remember last?"
She immediately said, "Barricade." I nodded. "He said that Bumblebee will meet his maker with my doom."
"He said that he should've killed me a long time ago." I replied. Was I going to die buried alive?
"My doom… my death? Meet his maker… what could that mean?" she searched for an explanation, but none came.
"Maybe that's like a parent or something?" I said with a strained voice.
"Meet his parents… but his parents are dead." She was silent for a few seconds, as realization seemed to dawn upon her. "Oh my… if I die, he's going to die for me." She looked at me worryingly. "And the Autobots will be crushed!"
"I know… but I'm more worried about getting out of here." I said, standing up and punching the roof of the car. A thud greeted me. "We aren't that deep. Maybe about a meter."
"It's still a long way to go if we dig our way out. We aren't moles or dogs or any other animal that digs."
"No, we're humans, and this is…" I sighed, "Damn, this is bad." I gripped my head. "How are they going to find us?"
"I don't know. We must have been stuck here for some time. That smoke thing that escaped from Barricade's speakers must have been some sedative."
"Well, better that than knocking us out, literally." I shook my head.
"Yeah." Was all she said before silence struck the car. The silence was frightening. We were trapped inside a car that was buried. Gravel was pressed on the windows and some of the gravel got in the car.
I sat back down on the seat. I was rerunning the scene in my head. How are they possibly going to find us? We have no phone with us, Barricade took us and now we're left abandoned on some construction site I didn't even know existed!
"He got us." She suddenly said.
"What?"
"Barricade got us. They're not going to find us."
"Don't say such things."
"It's true. Barricade's a scout, just like Bumblebee. He… Scouts learn to hide and keep things well hidden." She shook her head.
"They'll find us." I reassured, even though I knew those were just empty promises. "I promise."
"You can promise it?" she looked at me disbelievingly.
What could I say? If we die, we'd go to heaven and wait for our loved ones there, if we lived, my promise was complete. "I promise." I sternly said.
She sighed. "Okay." There was a long silence.
"You know what I don't understand?" I suddenly said.
"What?"
"Is why he wanted to kill me. I didn't even know anything about the Autobots, and yet he attacked me there."
"Where?"
"Never mind." I shook my head. She didn't know much about the attack and I preferred it stayed that way.
"Look, we can't be here forever." She said. "We're going to die because of lack of oxygen."
"And how would you know that?" I crossed my arms.
"Mathematics."
"Are you kidding me?"
"No. We were taught how much oxygen can fit into a certain amount of cubic space." She said.
"Okay, Einstein, how much oxygen do we have left?"
She stood silent as I presumed she did math. "We have around 24 hours."
"What?!" I dead-panned. "We… we don't have food! We don't have water! We're going to die because of lack of nutrition!" I yelled.
"Look, we're in this together. We're going to survive. We just need to be silent to preserve oxygen." She said, getting in the back seat with me. "Calm yourself, slow your heartbeat and breathe as less as you can."
"How is that-"
"And don't talk." She said, as she leaned into the seat and breathed slowly. I mimicked her.
This is horrible. Really. We were going to die if the Autobots didn't find us. How were they going to find us?
The two sides of my brain started to attack and reassure each other at the same time, asking different questions. I wanted to slap myself at the stupid things I was thinking.
I knew that in hard moments in life, you have to think positive. I thought about the times Ron and spent together. How happy I was then.
And how I disobeyed him now. How now, we fought.
A silent tear trickled down my cheek. I wiped it away quickly. I have to be strong. If not for me, then for Nicole. But it's so hard to be strong. Especially in helpless situations.
I closed my eyes and hoped and prayed that this would be over soon. In any way possible, I just want this to be over.
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"Bumblebee, we should collect Melissa and Nicole." The black truck said through the communications link. The young yellow scout revved his supercharged engine in approval and soon, the big truck and the muscle car rolled out of the parking lot and in the direction of the dorm where Nicole and Melissa would be. "Has Nicole informed you of their whereabouts?"
"Yes. I'm sending you the coordinates." The sporty car replied and sent him the location of the party. Because Nicole had a bad feeling that night, she told her dearest where she was going to be. It was about time the two of them showed up, but they never came.
Shortly, the two vehicles arrived at the location, only to find a big amount of human police vehicles parked.
"…Ironhide?" the younger transformer asked his former mentor.
"Yes, youngling?" the other replied, assessing the situation at hand.
"What happened?"
"I'm not sure, Bumblebee."
The two cars slowly approached the police vehicles. Inside the black Topkick a man came out of nowhere and as the car stopped, the man exited the truck and walked up to a fellow policeman. "What happened here?" Ron asked.
"Just another party. Psh, these kids, they never learn." The cop waved his hand in the air.
"Have you seen two female women exit the facility?" Ron asked in his military stature.
"Uh…" The officer was caught off guard with this kind of question. "Actually, yes. Yes I have."
"Do you know where they have gone to?" Ron asked patiently again.
"They went with our officer, Barry Cade, I think. He got them out of the dorm. Though, I don't remember a Saleen Mustang being part of our vehicles, but yes, they went with him." The officer nodded as he went to his own regular Dodge Charger vehicle and went to scrabble on a bunch of papers.
Ron stood there, assessing what the officer just told him.
Barry Cade...? An unknown police Saleen tuned Mustang… Melissa and Nicole weren't here… Which can only mean one thing…
"Frag."
Ron rushed to his truck, the engine roaring wildly as he surged forwards. The small Camaro behind him roared, trying to catch up. That truck wasn't built for speed, but when he wanted to go fast, he could go fast. "Ironhide, what's going on?!" Bumblebee quickly asked.
"We need to meet with Prime NOW!"
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The silence was deafening. It shouldn't be like this. My life shouldn't end like this.
"Mel…?" Nicole whispered. It was getting more difficult to breathe in the car. Oxygen was being replaced by carbon-dioxide and we were slowly feeling more tired.
"Hm?" I moaned just as quietly.
"Do you… do you know how much time we have left?" she managed to say. "I'm thirsty." She said. Unfortunately, my throat was dry too.
"I'm thirsty, too. We maybe have… twelve more hours." I said. Twelve hours in the car, no food, water and the deafening silence. I slept during that time.
"Time is running short." She said. I nodded with an 'mhm' and closed my eyes. How long was I going to endure this? Maybe, I would die in my sleep and make it peaceful and serene.
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Fortunately for Ironhide and Bumblebee, Optimus Prime and Ratchet were nearby the college. But it still took them good six hours to meet up. After Optimus Prime and Ratchet received Ironhide's message, all the vehicles sped to an unpopulated area, and drove into a forest.
All of them transformed quickly. "Where is she… Where the frag is she?!" Ironhide yelled through the forest.
"Ironhide, speak calmly." Optimus said.
"Calmly? You expect me to act calmly when I don't know where my fragging charge is?! What the frag is wrong with you all?!" Ironhide's optics briefly turned purple, as he punched town several trees to the ground.
Bumblebee took over the situation as the 'now having a meltdown' weapons specialist was too much to handle. "Prime, Barricade has taken Melissa Lennox and Nicole Witwicky."
"So I heard." Optimus briefly glanced to Ironhide, who was now kicking the trees, venting out his anger. "We need to triangulate their position." The Prime responded to Bumblebee.
"Understood. Barricade has shielded his signature." Bumblebee said after scanning the surroundings for Decepticons. "They have been missing for at least six hours."
"I presume they didn't carry any communication device?" Optimus patiently asked.
"No. They aren't dependant on technology." Bee replied.
"And I don't think they brought any water with them?" Ratchet asked Bumblebee a question.
"Ratchet, they went to a fragging 'party'. Why would they carry water?" Ironhide impatiently said, rotating his cannons in anger. The anger powered up his cannons. "I can't believe I let Barricade fragging take them!" The black menace spun around, allowing his anger to take the better of him, shooting half the forest down in one swell shot.
His leader shook his head disbelievingly, knowing far well that Ironhide would shoot down anything that could be merely counted as a target. His trigger-happy nature was like that. But that's one of the things that made the weapons specialist unique.
"Calm down, old friend. We will find your charge. And Bumblebee's mate." Optimus assured, putting a friendly hand on Ironhide's shoulder. If there was one thing Prime was good at, it was filling Autobots with hope.
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"Mel." Nicole called for me. "It's getting hard to breathe."
"I know." I tiredly said.
"They're not going to find us. Not if Barricade dug us here." She sighed.
"No. Ironhide will find us. So is Bumblebee." I assured. I knew this was hopeless. There was absolutely no way they were going to find us. Not a chance. We didn't have any tracking device on us, no phone and no water. We didn't even tell them where we were going.
"You have a lot of faith in Ironhide." She smiled.
"Yeah. You have a lot of love in Bumblebee, you know."
"I know." She sighed. "He's going to be devastated. At least I told him where we went."
"You told him what?" my eyes widened.
"Yeah. I told him where the party was. I always tell him."
"Well that's just great. At least they'll know where to start looking. That's a first step."
"But it's not going to help us much, is it?" she asked a rhetorical question, but I still answered it.
"I don't know. Maybe."
"So, the answer is no."
"I said I don't know. Preserve air. We don't have much time left and-" I suddenly remembered something. "Hold on a second."
She started to stretch. "Huh?
"Can't you use your powers to blast our way out?" my face lit up, "That could be our way out!"
"You only thought of that now? I thought about it as well. I can't."
"Why?"
"It'll take too much of my energy. I'd pass out. And not only that, it may kill us in the process."
"How?"
"Well, it's pretty simple. It has to be big enough to blast the roof. I'm no superman, but I can do it. The problem is, I don't think I can get past the gravel. We're buried too deep."
"But-"
"Even if I blast the roof, I can't get past the gravel, and in the end the gravel will collapse on us and we'll die, just like that." she snapped her fingers.
"So the roof that's protecting us, is our only way out, and if we blast our way out, we'll die." I repeated everything she told me in a short version.
"That's pretty much it." She sadly nodded. "There's nothing much we can do. He got us cornered."
I stood silent, thinking about the situation. "We don't have much time left. We have to do it."
"What?! We'll die!" she defensively yelled, even though we were lacking oxygen.
"Do you see any other way out? Do you just want to give up, or do you want to do something about it?"
She lowered her head down. Eyes looking from left to right, as if she was choosing two paths. She brought her head up and nodded. "Alright. We'll do it. Just… Let's just do it when there's absolutely no more oxygen."
"Understood." I sadly smiled. I looked away and shifted in my seat as my lips started to tremble. I couldn't panic. As long as I, or Nicole, didn't panic, we'd have more oxygen. And right now, oxygen is crucial.
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"How are we going to find them? Barricade knows how to hide things well." Bumblebee asked all the present in forest. His voice was fixed a long time ago. It had a very slight British accent. "What if we don't find them? What if Barricade killed…?" Bumblebee shivered at the thought.
"Do not fret, Bumblebee." Prime put a hand on his top scout's shoulder. "We will find them."
"Hello, Autobot scums." A growling voice said from out of nowhere.
I know right? I'm just damn epic. XD
How will they ever get them out? Luckily, that's where I step in.
I have to say, this chapter is designed not to make sense, time-wise. Because, one minute they have 24 hours, the next they have 12. I'm sorry, but that's just the way my brain works. And I HAVE TO FINISH this story. But there are so many things I have to do! :D
Also, even if they are buried alive, this part isn't what I wrote the whole story about. You'll see when it comes.
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