Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers Hasbro do, I only own Kathy Carter, Stargazer and Gemstar. Kara Bennett belongs to DaemonicKitten; Tina Summers belongs to KittenWITHClaws, And Chelsea Winters belongs to OPTIMUSFan, Kate Latcher belongs to Ratchet's Sparkling and all used with permission by them.
Chapter 64
The line of Autobots and Decepticons headed to free Optimus with the intention of not allowing anything to deter them from their objective now.
"Be alert all of you," Megatron ordered.
Everyone split up however the Bots that had their human femmes made them stay with them; and Bumblebee made sure he held onto Stargazer, Kara and Kathy as his adopted creator wanted. Ratchet found Optimus first and got to him; while Bumblebee came in with Kathy, Kara and Stargazer.
"Optimus," Ratchet said as he found Optimus Prime hanging upside down in some sort of trap.
"Optimus...?" Ratchet whispered as Optimus slowly glanced up; but his gaze went to Kathy as he gave Ratchet an order.
"Ratchet, get me the slag out of here, I am going to tear Lockdown the frag apart for this." Optimus growled. "Kathleen, your constant words were what I needed, thank you." Optimus said as he saw Crosshairs, Drift and Hound walk up then.
"Optimus, what's wrong?" Ratchet asked while the 3 Autobots had quietly approached once more having not left the ship at all yet.
"He's a fragging drone, Ratchet." Drift said with venom dripping off from each word.
"What...?" Ratchet asked confused by what Drift had said.
"He's a drone; this whole war all the energon spilled was for nothing it was his fault not Megatron's. He is no leader or prime; he's a fake, Ratchet; he's just a drone." Crosshairs remarked.
"Shut the hell up both of you, he isn't any drone! Lockdown lied and lied because of Unicron; use your damn heads for once Unicron wants Optimus out of the way and imprisoned." Kathy snapped.
Ratchet glanced at Optimus; he was not sure what was going on now. He knew one thing; and that was that Optimus had to get out of here.
Silence...
"We have to get Optimus out of here, help me." Ratchet ordered.
"No way," Crosshairs said.
"Think about your actions, he is not just your leader but a Prime and such actions could be foreseen as treachery and your punishment great." Sentinel said as he walked up and helped Ratchet get Optimus down.
Crosshairs, Hound and Drift knew better than to say anything now; they weren't sure how Sentinel Prime was alive but they knew better than to contradict the elder Prime.
Optimus caught sight of four beings locked up in a massive cage.
"Legendary warriors," Optimus said walking up to the cage.
"What, who are they?" Sam asked.
"I would like you all to meet Grimlock, Scorn, Swoop and Snarl and they are the Dinobots." Optimus said as everyone glanced up at the four massive beings.
"Optimus," Kathy said as the massive Autobot leader and Prime turned as he went to his mate in a heartbeat as Bumblebee gently placed her in his adopted creator's palm.
"Thank you, Bumblebee," Optimus said as he nuzzled his face against her. "You and our sparkling are safe, thank Primus.
"Optimus, we got contact from Ultra Magnus, we can get off this rock when he gets here. His ship is big enough to carry us all and any new ones that pop up." Sentinel said as Lockdown walked up with a sneer on his face.
"I will not give up The Seed so easily; you will need to pry it from my cold sparkless body, Prime."Lockdown said as Optimus gave Bumblebee Kathy to protect while he fought Lockdown.
"Do you want me to give you a hand, brother?" Megatron said just itching to kill something by now.
"It you wish," Optimus said as Megatron gave a fanged smile.
::::::::… Some of you others come with me, we are getting The Seed for Optimus….:::::: Sentinel said through his commlink to some of the others.
Optimus and Megatron battled Lockdown together; but as they battled however Bumblebee spotted several Vehicons which approached the two battling brothers who had tag teamed Lockdown.
Bumblebee placed girls down and told them to stay with Sam and Mikaela along with Stargazer. Kathy was watching the battle and she had every faith in Optimus that he could kick Lockdown's ass for him.
Suddenly though, the girls all froze as the sounds of several human guns went off; and Kara jumped when blood splattered on her as she glanced over at her best friend who had been shot multiple times.