Soundwave wasn't as easily rattled as Starscream and he quickly recovered from the intrusion into their base. He saw Bumblebee racing toward Starscream and fired on him before he could reach Sam. Bumblebee had been within inches of his bonded human when he felt the blast knock him back. By this time though Mikaela was out of Jazz and Miles had hopped off of Arcee. The Mikaela ran toward Bumblebee's fallen form to check if he was all right while Jazz, Arcee and Miles stormed forward.
Through the hole Bumblebee had created two twin lambos flew, transformed, and landed on their feet in unison. With a yell Bumblebee bellowed with rage as loudly as his slightly ragged vocal processor would allow him. A soft caress passed over Mikaela's head as he got up springing off the wall toward Starscream again. Starscream recovered from the shock of the intrusion into the base and began to back up just as he saw Bumblebee barreling for him. Thundercracker took a shot at him but wasn't fast enough to catch the smaller bot.
Thundercracker's blast missed him but skimmed Sunstreaker's yellow paint job. As if taking Sam wasn't bad enough they went and singed his topcoat. Bumblebee caught Starscream in the midsection was thrown to the floor by the yellow Autobot's momentum. Sunstreaker ran shooting at Thundercracker shouting "You slagging pit spawn!! You scratched my paint!" Sideswipe let hid twin go after the one flyer while he trained his gun on the other.
"Skywarp your mine," Sideswipe informed him. Skywarp sneered.
"You might think so Autobot but you'll have to get closer to prove it." Sideswipe had been challenged and he rose to it. But he lead with his gun rather than his body and managed to blow the forearm off of the Decepticon where he had been hiding his cerebral disrupter.
"Did you think I'd fall for that again slagtard? You need some new tricks 'Warp." His fist came in hard after his energy blasts right into seekers chest plates. He was aiming for spark damage. Jazz and Chromia were suddenly left with a very large and angry Soundwave. He looked down at the much smaller Autobots and a rare smile arranged on his faceplates.
"Ravage, Eject. Rumble, Eject. Lazerbeak. Eject. Buzzsaw, Eject," he told his smaller symbiotes. They one by one exited his large frame through a plate that had opened on his lower left side. Jazz looked at Chromia and she looked back. With a single nod while he let them disembark Chromia jumped onto the clasped hands in of her with one foot and Chromia was thrown high over Soundwave's head and landed on his shoulder. The mech was immense compared to her she was only twice the size of his smaller bot and her small size served her now. He reached for her dodged his large hands easily and let her large sword slide out from her forearm and sent it deep into his chest right behind his shoulder joint.
Soundwave howled in pain. Jazz was suddenly surrounded by four critters half his size. He could take out one of two easily but looking at the four of them he was in for a fight. Ravage resembled a purple panther in his robot form and Rumble was small and wiry like frenzy only a darker metallic color with sharp knife like projectiles he liked to throw. Buzzsaw was a mechanical buzzard that looked exactly like Lazerbeak except in his coloring. They circled over Jazz's head like vultures over a beast near death in the desert.
Barricade who had been out behind the building running maintenance on his systems came running inside. He saw the chaos going on and began to hunt down the small humans he had seen run toward the other side of the hanger. The other cons were busy keeping the autobots at bay. He figured if he could get the little squishy things the Autobots would stop fighting and give up to save their pets.
After another sharp stab toward his spark casing, Chromia did a flip off his shoulders launching toward the ground and landed with ease on her feet. Soundwave was enraged. He turned to face her when she landed he sent a large missile whizzing in her direction. It landed where she had been standing but she was quicker than the projectile and hopped to the right and rolled to where Bumblebee was on top of Starscream. After they had hit the ground Bumblebee had made a grab for Sam. Starscream pulled him out of the camero's reach. "SAM!!" he called to him.
Sam was awake just very weak. Chromia heard his call and looked at Starscream and where his hand was. If she timed it just right she could land on his wrist and grab Sam. But behind her Soundwave was bearing down on the three transformers two fighting one trying to calculate propulsion necessary to make her jump. When he took his next step he began to tumble forwards. If he continued on his current arch he would crush Chromia and Bumblebee and probably harm Sam also.
The small nurse who had been forgotten in the craziness had found a high-tension wire running through the large hanger loosely over the ground. To large mechs this was not a problem however once she realized it was attached to a device three feet off the ground she ran to it hoping to pull it taught enough to stop Soundwave's progress toward the bots who had come through the side of the building. She cranked the handle until she couldn't turn it any more and held on to the handle as hard as she could. She managed to keep it locked long enough to set the large transformer off balance and send him falling but the high tension on the crank sent her flying in the direction of a near by wall.
Barricade followed the wall trying to look for places the small organics had gone. He finally saw them out of the corner of his optic
Mikaela was with Miles moving around the outskirts of the fight trying to find a way to help. Mile's job at this moment was to guard Mikaela part of the Allspark. He held tightly to her hand like an older brother leads his younger sister through an unknown place. They saw a small blonde woman run across the ground to the other side of the hanger and pull on a lever. She set her feet against the wall several and hung on to it as hard as she could. When the large Decepticon hit it with his foot the tension on the wire broke it and sent her flying when the stress gave. She flew 40 feet and directly toward them. Miles ran a few more steps and let go of Mikaela's hand long enough to catch the girl in his arms.
Barricade followed the wall trying to look for places the small organics had gone. He finally saw them out of the corner of his optic run to catch the flying femme. Barricade made a quick jog to the other side of the hanger to intercept the human. Mikaela saw him and pushed Miles to run. Carrying the girl in his arms and making sure Mikaela was behind him they ran towards a pile of scrap metal that had been strewn about after they had repaired themselves after the last battle.
Barricade began throwing metal left and right pulling it up off the ground trying to find where they had hidden. Pulling up a large piece he saw them huddled together and reached for the black haired girl. Miles pulled at her to begin running again but he was a fraction of a second to late as Barricade's claw like hands skimmed her flesh ripping into her arm. She screamed.
Starscream was trying to pry a determined and tenacious Bumblebee off his chest. Chromia sensed the danger heading her way and with a quick backwards glance she launched herself high in the air toward Bumblebee and Sam. Starscream had just gotten his hand free from underneath the yellow Autobot and was about to clasp one of his 'wings' when Chromia landed on Starscream's left shoulder grabbing Bumblebee by the back of the neck and with one hard pull used the thrust to give herself the ability to move forward down the Starscream's arm and to Sam. With her free hand she extended her sword into his wrist twisted it painfully successfully cutting the cables that kept his fingers clenched and pulled Sam by his arm up over his shoulder and with one last jump curled herself around Sam let Bumblebee fall where he would and rolled until she hit the wall hard.
Sunstreaker who was almost as tall as Thundercracker was giving him a run for his money. The yellow Lamborghini was possessed. He kept pounding the deception's chest furiously letting several shots off. Thundercracker finally shoved the Autobot off of him and blasted him in his lower right midsection. A main energon line was a few millimeters away from where there was a gaping hole in his armor. Thundercracker made a grab for it but was intercepted by a dagger that sliced his hand clean off.
It fell to the floor sparking and covering the whole with a hand Sunny brought his foot up and kicked the seeker backwards onto to the floor where he slid into piles of stacked beams. With the force the Autobot had put into his kick it sent the long piece of metal behind him right through the Decepticon's body. The jet shook fiercely for a moment and then went into stasis lock because of damage one to core systems. His spark was still intact.
Sideswipe was just as violent with his con. He bent low and swept a leg under Skywarp sending him to the ground and the Autobot dove on top of him. With his energon dagger he went for his spark casing without mercy. Skywarp caught the blade and pushed it away from his chest with all his strength. The threat of imminent death must have caused his body to reroute energies to his arms to throw off the red Autobot. The seeker managed to roll him off to the side where he took the chance to roll onto Sideswipe and turn his weapon on him.
"Do you really think you can turn my own weapon on me??" Sideswipe asked incredulously. The dagger charged and sent a small pulse through Skywarp's that temporarily made his hand go lax. It let the dagger drop harmlessly next to them. Just as the blade dropped to the ground an enormous explosion blew the hanger doors inward. Optimus ran into the hanger followed by Ironhide and Ratchet in robot mode storming into the building brandishing energy blasters and laser guns, saws, and rocket launchers. Ironhide's cannons were charged ready.
Soundwave landed on top of Starscream a split second before the doors exploded inward and Starscream, enraged, he threw the other Decepticon to the floor as he stood up trying to find where the femme had rolled to a stop with his prize. Once the blast had caught his attention he looked on as Optimus Prime stood in his base. Jazz had managed to shoot Buzzsaw when he swept down close to him the third time but he couldn't keep Ravage and Rumble at bay any longer and Ravage pounced onto the Autobot taking him to the floor with a crash. The small Decepticon didn't waste his chance because as he jumped onto the Autobot he skidded toward a pile of long metal poles and caught one straight through his right shoulder.
He grunted but refused to cry out looking toward the doors that now held the visage of his leader. He used the moment of confusion that caught the attention of Ravage and pulled the pole free from his shoulder and wielded it like a bat and knocked the robotic cat 30 yards across the hanger. Bumblebee cried out the instant that Jazz had been hurt as did Mikaela and Sam moaned slightly. Miles put down the woman he had caught and moved to pull Mikaela to her feet. She seemed to recover quickly as she adjusted the sensitivity to the bonds.
"STARSCREAM!!" Optimus Prime shouted into the hanger. "WE have come for our sparkling!" It was a challenge, a statement and a declaration of war all in one sentence. Starscream narrows his optics at him.
"Not if I get him back first Prime. There is something about the fleshling he is special. I felt the power pulse inside him when I took my time torturing him for your viewing pleasure…" he was cut off by a shot toward his head. He ducked and shot back. Optimus was unfazed by the cons lousy aim and ran onward hands extended toward Starscream. Ratchet ran to help jazz with the several smaller Decepticons. Ironhide looked around for the kids. While Optimus and Ratchet and the others took on the large mechs Connors and Will were stealthily moving along the wall trying to find the kids l also. Ironhide suddenly spotted Chromia curled into a ball not moving well trying to release Sam.
He ran over toward his fallen sparkmate pulling her into his arms. He helped her unfold relieving her of Sam. Bumblebee got to his feet after falling hard on the ground but he ran to Ironhide pulling Sam to his spark. Bumblebee also knelt next to Chromia. She was banged up quiet a bit from her tumbling but she seemed to be all intact. Ironhide helped her to her feet and she gave Bee a slight nod and smile. Bumblebee looked down at Sam in his hands.
Amidst all the fighting and explosions and insanity around them there was a small moment that their eyes and optics met and the world fell away and Sam gave him a tired smile. Bumblebee's optics leaked a little energon. "Sam…" he whimpered.
"Hey Bee.." he said softly. "Missed you…" he said tears running down his face. But a blast above their head broke the touching moment. A shriek from Mikaela inside the bond and out caught all the bonded's attention including Chromia's. They all ran toward the huddled humans that the now functioning Ravage and Barricade had backed into a corner. Miles gave the metal con a kick that sent it staggering sideways but bit the swung around and bit into his arm. He didn't seem to know pain as he hammered on the metal cat. Mikaela screeched again.
Barricade had had enough of her audio piercing noise and went to grab a hold of her. Mikaela however was quick witted and found an electrical outlet near her shoulder. When he went to grab her she moved slightly to the right to make it look like she was going to try and get away but he ended up adjusting his grab so that his finger sliced into the plug and he received a jolt of electricity through his systems. To avoid getting electrocuted herself she dropped to floor and the other woman pulled Mikaela toward her out of harms way guiding her to Miles and the three met up with Will and Connors half way across the other side of the hanger.
Will took the opportunity to launch a saber round into Barricades back to make sure he couldn't follow them any longer. It hit him next to his energon pump and knocked his finger loose from the electric outlet. He fell to the floor and energon began to pull beneath his short-circuited body.
Chromia was the first to reach them. She launched herself unto the Decepticon and rolled with it pulling her sword arm up to its chest plates and ripping upwards. A screech that sent chills up the backs of the humans and threatened their hearing filled the hanger. Chromia had ripped through his spark casing and divided it in half. The blue light she saw flickered inside him once and then went out. Ravage was offline for good.
Bumblebee who had seen the shot over his head looked to find Soundwave moving in on them fast to try and retrieve the boy. Bumblebee was infuriated, pulling Sam protectively against his armor over his spark and cupping his hand over him Bumblebee launched several shots straight into Soundwave. There were so many blasts that one of them should have hit home but the small Autobot was trying to find a way out of the corner they had been pushed into. Ironhide was next to him firing with him with out ceasing he pushed the smaller Autobot behind him pulling him with him along the wall.
Now that they had Sam he wanted to get him and get out. The boy didn't look that well and he knew he needed medical attention soon. Soundwave moved through the smoke the energy blasts stirred up and tried to make a grab for Bumblebee. He managed to maneuver around Ironhide low and quick and snag the smaller bot's foot. Bumblebee was harder to pull backward though when he ran his free hand into the wall to hold himself where he stood and Ironhide bought his fist down onto his head. The force of the blow caved in the left side of Soundwave's head.
The Decepticon seemed to not have been affected as he brought up his own weapon into his undercarriage and blew a gaping whole threw his lower chest cavity. Sparks and energon came spilling out. Ironhide sputtered the corner of his spark casing had been damaged. He looked behind him at the sparkling whom he had taken care of since he had been sparked and said one word, "RUN!" But Bumblebee was no longer a sparkling and he refused to leave Ironhide as he slumped against the wall. Soundwave began to get up. Bumblebee jumped into his waist sticking his cannon deep into the nearest crevice and shot three times hard and fast. With Sam still safely cupped against him he rolled off him and bounded to his feet.
The blasts had set off a chain reaction inside Soundwave. He had pumped three energy blasts inside his lower left side and his leg was now in several thousand pieces all over the ground around him. The screaming and groans of pain seemed to echo off the walls in the large enclosed space. Ratchet had made quick work of the two flying Decepticons that were ganging up on Jazz. As he leaped to the autobots aid his twin saws caught a wing on Lazerbeak that sent him crashing to the ground squawking like a dying bird.
Buzzsaw had taken longer as he tried to be allusive flying just out of his reach but freeing his lasers at Ratchet and Jazz. Ratchet detached one of his saw blades after taking a few laser hits to his body and launched it like a ninja star toward the still functioning Decepticon bird. It hit home right into the center of his chest. It immediately offlined midair and dropped like a stone.
Jazz was circling Rumble who had turned his upper extremities into large pile drivers. The 'con made a few lunges at Jazz that made him jump backwards but he hadn't had contact with him yet. Rumble lunged again and Jazz grabbed for his upper arm but missed the smaller mech's arm and was nailed in the shoulder by a pile driver three times as the force tried to pound deeper into his body with a loud roar he pulled forward against the pile drivers overloading it and destroying the mechanisms in his arms. Rumbles arms were useless.
Sideswipe got a message from his brother to shove Skywarp up as high as he could and to stay clear. Sideswipe trusted his brother and moved a foot between he and Skywarp and threw his torso and head up rather backward onto the floor. As he reared back Sunstreaker launched a long pole like a javelin toward the mech. His aim was true and Sunstreaker had sent it straight through his spark casing. The screeching was almost as horrible as Ravages had been but it didn't stop. He wasn't dying. The pain he was in was excrutiating however the damage to the casing hadn't been leathal yet…
Optimus Prime launched himself into Starscream with his hand aimed for his neck. He wanted to snap the head off the rogue Decepticon. He'd done this to his pod, his sparkling, his family. They fell to the ground in a rolling scuffle. Starscream began to punch Optimus hard in his armor over his spark casing. This made the Prime pull one hand up and off his neck and he reached back to get his gun. Starscream had a chance to then push the Autobot leader off of him but as Optimus rolled off he did so up to his feet gun blazing in his direction. It hit the seekers wing and blew a hole straight threw it. Another quick shot ripped through the same wing a bit closer to his shoulder. He screamed.
Looking around ducking a few more shots from Prime. His forces were depleted and three looked dead. Another of Optimus Prime's shots hit him in the wing as he turned to face him. Prime moved in for the kill he was tired of fighting these Decepticon. As he strode towards Starscream, the Decepticon roared deeply and pointed to the on coming Autobot.
"This ends now Starscream!!" he shouted as he aimed his hand toward his chest. His sword was out and swinging for his spark casing.
"Not today Prime!" he screamed back at the Autobot leader. He jumped into the air making the sword nick his leg during his transformation into a jet. "Decepticons retreat!!"
Skywarp still pulled the pole from his chest and ran to grab his wingmate. Yanking him from the pile of beams he jumped and took to the skies not changing in to his other form. Soundwave gathered what was left of the symbiote Decepticons and transformed into his alt mode and his small bots made a grab for Barricade that seemed to be function but offline. Buzzsaw and Ravage's bodies were left where they fell and the Decepticon's rounded the back of the building making a new exit on their way out. Optimus looked at the way they had escaped but took stock of his pod about him and decided that there would be another day to finish this but today would not be that day.
