The drive to the high school was quiet and tense. BY the time they got there, the PE field was torn up beyond all recognition and the football stadium was nothing but chunks of concrete and singed dirt. It seemed they had not made an assault yet on the main school building where all the students would have be. The Decepticons were now blowing holes in the lunch area, luckily lunch was already done and over with since it was basically the last period of the day according to the high school's schedule.
The students and staff had long since forgotten the golden rule of school disasters "remain calm and exit single file." When there is a real threat that no human could plan for intelligent people turn into a running screaming mass of adrenalin and nothing else seemed to matter. The scattering crying students and teachers filling the streets were running in every direction making it difficult to navigate the mob and actually get to the school to try and save it.
When Optimus saw the three forerunners he had sent to try and draw there fire, they were in bipedal form firing on the three military jets above. BY there unique signatures they soon discovered that two of the three Decepticons that had landed were Thundercracker and Skywarp. Starscream was firing back on the Autobots but was refusing to leave his position over the school to give chase. At the moment the three Autobots were only serving to slow the destruction of any of the main buildings or so they thought.
Optimus Prime finally blared his horn as loud as he could to make the frightened sparklings get out of the way before the Decepticons decided to concentrate fully on his small first group. With Ratchets sirens and their leaders horn the multitude began to part and allow them quicker access to the road.
In the chaos, people were still spilling out of the crowded school. The Autobots transformed and began to release a barrage of missiles toward the sky bound Decepticons. They dodged most of them and returned fire. But once Starscream saw the Autobots fanning out around the school to cover the fleeing people all three wingmates began firing into the high schools main buildings. By now most of the occupants had evacuated, but the few left inside were now casualties. The central building collapsed and the three fighter jets turned their attention not the running flesh piles that discussed them so. Skywarp and Thundercracker began running interference for their new leader and Starscream targeted a singer being on the ground. The dirt exploded as he vaporized at least three other squishies as well as his intended victim. He laughed to himself as the Autobots realized he was now after the humans.
There was no method to his madness as he fired on another group of escaping teens. The twins were closest to the sparklings and dove to scoop them up before the missiles could hit where they were standing. Sunstreaker cleared the blast zone but Sideswipe didn't and was blown thirty yards to the left. This drew his brother to his aide.
Soon Ratchet and Connors had set up a make shift triage center five blocks away from the blasting. Autobots brought wounded, dying and dead teens and teachers to them. As quickly as they dropped patients off in their laps they ran back to the fray trying to fend off aerial attacks of the three seekers. Optimus finally got a good shot at Thundercracker as he was trying to cover Starscream. He had hit his right wing and his stabilization gyros were having a hard time keeping him stable in the sky.
Jazz was moving slowly away from his bonded three partners as Starscream took another pot shot at a group of cowering girls caught by a fence so they couldn't get away. Ripping the fence from the ground Jazz caught the explosive projectile inside the fencing between two of the strong poles redirecting it to the pile of wreckage to their right. The maneuver had saved the girls but the explosion was to close for him to escape. It threw him back across the football field. Sam Mikaela and Bumblebee cried out as he flew. Bumblebee literally had to hold onto the humans so they wouldn't run to his aide. All three felt the impact inside them it had been jarring. Bumblebee was doing his best not to run in and try his luck at the wingmates killing humans on a whim.
As Jazz flew Chromia came out of nowhere brandishing her new weaponry that was high velocity and very powerful. Starscream barely eluded the powerful energy bursts headed his way. She had protected Jazz from being vulnerable to a shot straight to the spark. When Starscream veered off she helped Jazz up. With a smile and a nod of thanks he ran back toward the main buildings firing on the jets.
Optimus, Bluestreak, Hound and now Arcee and Hotrod were firing on the Decepticons flying over head firing at them and at random kids. The Autobots were literally taking shots for the humans around them and trying to either bring down the jets or get them to move somewhere less populated. However the jets wouldn't budge a nanometer from their seemed target. The five Autobots had surrounded the school on all sides trying to yell at the running humans to get out of the way and aim at the same time. Spread thin over the current decimated area Starscream was trying to keep them busy just a little longer to make sure they would not be close enough to save the male sparkling being held by Bumblebee at the moment. He watched them as they tried to protect the humans but kept throwing weary glances back at the yellow Autobot and the sparklings. Chromia also was staying just a step to the right of Jazz which was odd knowing she was sparkmated to Ironhide. Odd but not pertinent to his current objective he tucked the info away for another time to analyze. Just as his plan seemed to be flawless two very two very unfortunate events happened at once.
Chromia who had been coinciding her firepower with Jazz's had finally struck Thundercracker as he once again had come to cover his leaders aft. The whole in his wing had become twice the size it was now and some of his internal systems had been hit by the simultaneous blast. Thundercracker was going down if he didn't make a run for it. Starscream very angrily told him to head back to their makeshift base but called him every name he knew and then some in an angry outburst. The wounded seeker provided a brief distraction and small respite in the firing long enough for Prime to notice one thing, the twins were missing….
The school on most sides was open to clear air and a clear view; however the back side of the school was set close to a very tall business building. 15 stories up, it was home to many doctors' offices and other similar small business operations. The twins had seen this and developed an idea once back up arrived. They scaled the building from the back so the Decepticons wouldn't see them and once the got to the roof they could look down on the jets hovering over the school firing on their pod and the humans. The twins were not known for their rational decisions or slow tempers. They had had enough of the firing from the ground and they were about to even the playing field or battle field as it were.
"Let's give these seekers some lessons in right to life for all sentient…" Sunstreaker stopped and looked at Sideswipe questioningly. "Is that how it goes?" Sideswiped just rolled his optics.
"Your hopeless just jump and kick some winged aft will you? My jet judo is rusty anyhow!" Sideswipe looked at Sunstreaker and he looked back and with a nod they both jumped on the two remaining Decepticons' backs before they could start firing. This time there was only two jets and two jet judoers and they were in for some payback. Sunstreaker pulled hard on Skywarp's tailfins making him swerve into a spiral dive. Sunstreaker let out a loud shout "YEEEEEEEEEHHAAAAAAAAAA!!" Sideswipe was hanging on to Starscream's underbelly and got a good hold of one of his engines and swung toward his midsection and sunk his fist into the plating and then through it.
Skywarp's circular nosedive was coming close to the ground. The Decepticon didn't have enough time to transform before the yellow Lamborghini Autobot pushed himself off the back of him pulling his tailfins all the way to the right and locking them in position with a loud pop and crack making it impossible to pull out of the dive. Hound and Optimus let out cheers as a large yellow shoot opened up above him and he began to float down to the ground. Skywarp teleported at the last minute, to where they didn't know because they didn't seem him afterward. Sideswipes fingers penetrated Starscream's extensive strong armor and they came out holding sparking vital wires that prompted a high pitched scream from the flying Decepticon. Jazz was laughing so hard he almost could stay standing. Starscream suddenly turned sharply twice and shook the red Lamborghini loose and his red shoot opened up.
Starscream in a last desperate attempt to save any visage of his plan banked to the right in a tight circle barreling straight for Sam. Bumblebee had a hold of the boy as he saw the F15 dove for them. Bumblebee was quicker than the injured mech though, he wrapped his hands around the two teens like a tight cacoon yelling at them on "their" channel to hang on to each other. He then let himself drop backward into a back summersault to roll away from the oncoming jet. Chromia as if she had known what was going to happen before hand was already with in range and firing her powerful matter guns toward the hole that Sideswipe had made. She came close to hitting him but Starscream was flying so irratically it was hard to aim for the small target. She settled for a few good wing hits instead. Another scream echoed across the sky. "I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE AND THAT SLAGGING FLESH BAG!!!" he wailed as he suddenly flew upward so high that the jet disappears to the human eye.
He had fled and was gone but the devastation he left behind was overwhelming. The Autobots looked around taking stock of the sparklings, and then of their comrades and then to the rubble and bloody humans about their feet. Other ambulances were arriving at the make shift hospital Ratchet and Connors had set up. Optimus ordered Hound, Bluestreak, Sideswipe, and Sunstreaker to start sifting through the building's to find any remaining survivors.
Just as Starscream took off Will arrived with his team a little too late to help fight but they were going to need their community liaison to help them with this mess. How they were going to explain another attack only about a month and a half after the first was going to be a difficult task. More military came to set up a perimeter around the attack site to contain any witnesses, survivors, and media that might be trying to get in on the top secret war. The soldiers were all accustomed to dealing with the Autobots and began helping them in their rescue efforts. They now transferred all the wounded to the triage center and they took over that also as they gave Ratchet a chance to slip away with Connors before they were caught by any civilians or news reporters.
Bumblebee unrolled and opened his hands to check on the kids. They were dizzy but unfazed. They smiled gratefully at Chromia their guardian really proving her worth today. Sam surveyed the damage around him and behind a bus bench across the street was a battered, bloodied but very alert face he recognized. His eyes were wide and the shock of being in a battle zone seemed to be wearing off as he half stumbled half walked toward the yellow Autobot holding Sam and Mikaela. Chromia followed their glances toward the small creature walking toward them. She rushed to pick it up to save it any more strain. She was about to take it to the soldiers to run him to the hospital but Bumblebee's chirp waylaid her. She turned slowly her hands were level with Bee's. The small form in Chromia's hands looked out at the two sparklings with hazel eyes. Sam reached for him as he spoke his first word since the whole situation began, "Sam?" he asked about to break down. Sam looked at him sadly, "Aw Miles I'm sorry…"