Chapter Thirty-six: Dancing Among Decepticons

Duke looked up as Kamakura's face appeared on the main screen in the Sea Titan's bridge.

"What's the status of your mission Kamakura?" He asked the ninja student.

"Well, we are on our way back to the Sea Titan, but I have some bad news and some worse news for you," Replied Kamakura.

"Let me hear your bad news then," said Duke.

"The bad news is Stormshadow prevented us from searching for the Autobot," Kamakura told him.

"You know, I was some what expecting that to have had happened - and the worse news?" Asked Duke.

"Well, we kind of lost Rocket," Kamakura gave a sheepish grin under his mask.

"You what?!" Yelled Duke.

"Rrrocket?" Asked Frenzy, looking confused.

"Oh…," Said Rocket.

"Rocket?" Repeated Rumble, looking at her strangely.

"Er…," Rocket stepped back slightly.

"Rocket?" Soundwave stared at her, face unreadable.

"So…," Rocket looked around for an escape route.

"Rocket?" Starscream tilted his head at her.

"Um…," no one seemed to be guarding that door over there….

"Rocket!" Grinned Barricade evilly, strolled up rubbing his hands in anticipation.

"Got to go!" Rocket turned and ran.

"So you just left her at the base by herself?" Asked Duke, wondering why how he was managing to keep his anger in check.

"No - she has Mirage with her," replied Kamakura, feeling a school boy who hadn't done his homework.

"That's not the point!" Duke nearly yelled, "why didn't you go back in there and drag her out?"

"Sensei wanted to get back to base," Kamakura said.

"That's it! We are all going there now, because knowing her, she has probably turned the whole base upside down," Duke definitely yelled this time.

"All of us?" Asked Scarlett next to him.

"Yes!" Hissed Duke, "and when we get Rocket - I'm going to make sure she won't disobey another order for a very, very long time!"

Hi-tech pitied Rocket when Duke caught up to her.

"Sir!" A Trooper yelled up to Destro, "there seems to be a disturbance in the hanger, sir."

"Should we check it out?" Destro turned to Cobra Commander.

"Are there any working cameras in the hanger?" Asked Cobra Commander.

"Only one, but it is facing away from what is going on sir," replied the Trooper.

"Fine then," said Cobra Commander, "send Stormshadow and Firefly with a couple of Troopers to see what is going on."

"Yes my lord," replied Destro.

"Catch the squishy!" Yelled Skywarp to Thundercracker as Rocket ran near him.

Unfortunately, for the large Decepticons that is, they were larger than Rocket and so trying to catch her was like trying to catch a rat running around a room with your bare hands.

Rocket easily evaded Thundercracker's grab and ran through Bonecrusher's legs.

The only thing worrying her at that time were the Cassettes, they didn't have the same problem as the larger Decepticons had.

Ravage was on her tail, and he was fast catching up to her. Rocket saw Rumble moving to block her path and a small plan formed in her head. The chances of it working were not good - but how do you know if you don't try?

Rocket didn't move an inch and continued running towards Rumble, that should've given him a clue that something bad was going to happen to him.

Thanking Stormshadow's training for once, Rocket leapt over Rumble, and poor Ravage running at full speed to catch her - couldn't stop in time.

Rocket heard a crash and the sound of falling metal but didn't stop to look back at the accident.

The flying Cassettes squawked above her head and dive-bombed her, she barely managed to dodged out of the way of them when she saw a large metal foot coming towards her.

"Stop trying to catch the thing and just kill it!" Yelled Galvatron - to whom the foot belong to.

Rocket growled and moved away from the foot of death.

'If that's the way you want to play,' she snarled to herself, and took from her belt a small laser that she used to cut holes in air-vents if she had to.

Turning it on, the laser only came to be a few centimetres long, but it could work like a knife.

The next foot that came near her, belonging to Starscream, got sliced near the ankle joint as Rocket ran away from it.

Starscream went down on one knee, clutching at his foot, "that slagging pit creature cut me! Don't kill it - I want to torture it now!"

Bumblebee sat watching as the small human ran around dodging the Decepticons, wondering if she had a death wish.

He would've come to her aid, if it wasn't for the fact that Blackout was pointing his weapon at Bumblebee's head to prevent the Autobot from doing so.

If he had any, he would have been biting his fingernails in terror as Rocket started dodging feet intent on squishing her.

He gave a small cheer as she started slicing back with her small laser, and got a growl from Blackout for doing so.

Rocket had no idea how she was going to get out of this mess. She wished she had borrowed a few grenades from Tunnel Rat before she had left - but of course, she wasn't on active duty and he would've asked questions. Still, grenades would be handy around about now.

She twisted and ducked, sending Laserbeak crashing into the floor as she missed Rocket.

Rocket turned and ran in the opposite direction, dragging her laser across Soundwave's leg as she passed him.

The majority of the Decepticons were limping slightly by this point.

Mirage stood invisible outside the hanger doors, his head against the door listening to what was going on.

It sounded as if the human had gotten herself into trouble, should he bash the door down and come to her aid, or should he send for backup and wait until they arrived?

Knowing the amount of Decepticons inside the hanger, the waiting bit sounded like the best plan - but he wasn't sure if Rocket could wait that long for help to arrive.

Deciding to combine the two plans together slightly, Mirage sent a distress signal to the Autobots - then he blew a hole in the door.

Bumblebee stared at the hole that appeared in the door - there was no one standing around to accept responsibility for the act.

Debris rained down around the hanger, the dust making it slightly hard for Rocket to breath.

A few of the Decepticons paused in their human hunt to stare at the door as well, until a sharp pain by their foot reminded them of their revenge.

Mirage stepped into the hanger and took in the scene before him. There was Bumblebee with Blackout threatening him with a gun - and then there was little Rocket playing tag with Decepticons. If the Decepticons weren't so set on killing Rocket, Mirage might have laughed at the scene.

First things first, Mirage made his way towards Blackout.

"Prime, we have received a distress signal from Mirage," Prowl said to Optimus over his comm-link.

"Do you know where the signal is originating from?" Asked Optimus, concerned.

"It is coming from the Cobra base, the one where all the Decepticons decided to hole up in," replied Prowl.

"Get a team ready, we are heading out!" Ordered Optimus.

"Yes sir!" Prowl answered and signed off.

One minute Blackout was standing over him, the next he was lying next to him in statis- lock. Bumblebee stared at the unconscious mech in surprise.

"Quit day-dreaming Bee," whispered Mirage next to him, "we have to help out the human!"

Bumblebee nearly jumped out of his armour when Mirage whispered into his auditory receptor.

"Mirage? What are you doing here?" Bumblebee asked in confusion.

"I'm here with the human - looking for you!" Replied Mirage.

"Oh right," said Bumblebee, and he turned to see how Rocket was faring.

She was currently dodging both Devastator and Galvatron at the same time.

"So that's Galvatron?" Mirage asked next to him.

"Yes," replied Bumblebee.

"Looks even uglier than Megatron was," commented Mirage.

Bumblebee stifled a laugh.

"They are sure making a racket," said Firefly to Stormshadow as they neared the hanger.

"Whatever," muttered Stormshadow and he opened the door leading into the hanger.

The two of them stood and stared at the scene before them for a few minutes.

They saw a hole mysteriously get blown into the main hanger doors, the Decepticon next to the yellow Autobot mysteriously fall asleep in the middle of a battle and most mysteriously of all - they saw Rocket.

"Hey, didn't you kill her last month?" Asked Firefly.

TBC…

A/N: Wow… almost 4:30am! I think I better go to sleep. Going to type up another chapter or two before I post this one as I'm feeling so guilty about all the late updates that I've been doing lately.

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