Strongarm continues to tend to his shoulders but refuses to look at him again, right now she can't stand the sight of him but she's tolerating him because they're stuck in the cell together. But another reason she can't look at him is that for some reason whenever she looks at him she gets this feeling in her spark that she never felt before and she knows it's not hatred. But she's not sure what it is.

She finishes applying the ointment to his shoulders and closes the medkit and puts it away. She could wax and buff his armor but she's not gonna be that nice, she's not even gonna give him the privilege of doing it himself. She tells herself it's to punish him and to show there's a limit she will go to with her kindness but she's not certain that's the whole truth.

Could she be wanting to keep a reminder of what he did? She's not sure but she sure as hell isn't gonna dwell on that thought. She gets up and walks over to the Energon pile and picks up a cube, she then walks back over to Steeljaw and hands the cube to him, "Here, drink up."

Steeljaw takes the cube and watches her as she walks away and sits down against the wall a couple of feet away from him. He feels a bit sad that she's not getting back into the spot she had been in but he knows that what he said triggered something in her and now she wants to be at a distance once again.

He knows she still hates him and no doubt that hate increased after explaining the whole biting thing but he will get her to love him back in time, he's determined to. He's not one to be patient but for this, he will be as patient as he can be in order to have her. He turns his attention back to the Energon cube in his servo and starts drinking it.

The two sit in silence for a few minutes until Strongarm finally speaks up, "I think I may know how we could get out of here."

Steeljaw stops drinking the Energon and looks over at her, "Yeah? How?"

Strongarm wills herself to look over at him, "On my way back here I saw a room where they have a ground bridge. I don't know how they got one but I'm sure we can use it if we can get out of this cell and get to it. It will be our ticket out of here."

Steeljaw's interest piqued even more, "Have any ideas how we can get to it?"

Strongarm looked away from him, "No, still thinking."

"Hm. I'll see if I can come up with something," Steeljaw then got back to drinking his Energon. Just as he downed the last bit of it the humans returned with their guns fixed on the both of them as they opened the cell. The leader walked in and pointed to Steeljaw, "You, you'll be coming with us."

Steeljaw growled at the human, "I don't take orders from you!"

"If you want your female to stay safe you best do as I say."

Steeljaw went silent as he thought it over, he doesn't want to follow this human's orders but he also doesn't want any harm to come to his mate. That protective side of him kicks in again and he gets the same feeling he had gotten earlier which drives him to this crazy decision, "Fine, I'll come," he then gets up and waits for the human to lead.

The guy turns and nods his head to one of the soldiers standing by then walks out of the cell with Steeljaw following suit and a few of his soldiers following close behind with their guns fixated on the mech. After they left the soldier that the leader nodded to walked over to Strongarm and pulled out what looked like a syringe, he stuck the syringe into the area where Strongarm's hip and thigh connected then walked away.

Strongarm watched the humans leave and close the cell door as she wondered what they just injected into her, "Wait! What did you just give me?"

The humans ignored her question and continued walking until they were out of her sight. She's not sure what they just gave her but she knew it couldn't be good.

Steeljaw followed the leader to a different cell that had a huge metallic door instead of a cell door. It didn't seem to have the electrical current the cell doors have but Steeljaw did notice the thickness of it and how heavy it looked, it would be very hard to break through, but at the same time quite possible if given the strength and right motivation.

As Steeljaw walked into the cell and the door begins to close he wondered what their motive was for doing this, "What is all this!? Why are you separating us!?"

"It's for an experiment I want to try out."

"What kind of experiment!?"

"You'll see," the guy said as he closed the door before walking away with his soldiers. Steeljaw didn't know what they were up to now but he didn't like where it was going, especially since it meant he had to be away from Strongarm. But all he can do is wait and see what's going to happen.

The rain came pouring down as a teenage boy stood up off the muddy ground, "You're slacking, Brendon! What have I told you about slacking!?"

"I'm sorry uncle. The ground is too slippery."

"That's no excuse! You will have to overcome many obstacles in battle! If you can't overcome the smallest thing like mud then you will be defeated! Now get into your fighting position!"

Brendon rose his fists into position in front of his face like his uncle had shown him. Silas gave a hard swing and Brendon blocked it with his arm then countered with a swing that Silas caught. Silas held the boy's arm while he brought his leg up for a swift kick to his side, "Don't put yourself in a position where you're open to your enemy because they will take advantage of it!"

Brendon clenched his arm over his side as he fell to his knees.

"You're as pathetic as your father. He was just as weak, never was able to hold his own in a fight. I always had to get him out of trouble."

Brendon clenched his fists so tight his knuckles turned white. He always hated being compared to his father. He never met him since he died when he was still a baby but he's heard a lot of stories about him from his uncle, and all of them were about how weak he was. Brendon doesn't want to be weak, he wants to be strong and a great fighter.

Brendon pinched the bridge of his nose as he pushed those memories away. He hates thinking of the past with his uncle and all the training. Sure he's upset about his uncle's death, but if he's to be honest he always hated that man. He was always harsh with him about everything, not just training.

Though he does still give his respect and gratitude to the man for teaching him all the fighting techniques. He's now one of the toughest guys in the military thanks to his uncle. In a sense, Brendon was a bit happy and relieved when he heard his uncle was dead, but in another sense, he was upset and grieved for his uncle's death. Despite how much he hated him and his ways he was still family and was the only family he had.

Brendon can still recall when he heard about his uncle's project that had to do with these alien robots from another planet. Cybertronians as he read that they were called. He thought his uncle had finally lost his mind and was going batshit crazy. But after Silas was killed and he found out it was at the hands of these Cybertronians he decided to look into it and see if it was true or if his uncle actually did go crazy.

He found as much of his uncle's research as he could find. Documents, recordings, everything. Whatever hadn't been taken by Agent Fowler and his team, luckily Silas had many hiding places where he could keep his most secretive stuff. Brendon knew all the places and he got everything that was hidden. He looked over everything and saw the recorded footage and started to see that his uncle was actually onto something.

As he looked more into it he discovered that some of them were on the planet, either never left or had returned. He was able to get access to security footage in the museum in Crown City and witnessed the Autobots fighting a robot that looked like a bull. The Autobots and their companions tried to get rid of the footage of course but Brendon still was able to see it. His men would even say they had seen some of them while out on patrol or on a mission.

And that all lead up to this point. When Brendon's men came across the female Cybertronian he gave orders to capture her. Then the male one came along and they captured him as well, which is a bonus. Now Brendon can try the research his uncle never got around to trying out. It all caught his interest and his curiosity so he's doing his own studies to see what he can find. Getting revenge on them for the death of his uncle is just a bonus.

He looks over at the two monitors that are displaying the two Cybertronians in their own space. The male looks angry but still calm. No reaction on his end yet.

But the female...

The female however seems to be feeling the effects of the substance they injected into her. Brendon's not sure what it is exactly, he found it among Silas' stuff. But judging from the papers he read that was with it, the stuff had to do with one of the experiments he wanted to try out but couldn't. So now he is and he can see the female is starting to squirm.

Hot!

It's getting so hot.

Strongarm squirmed as she felt her core temperature start to rise. What is going on? The only time the core temperature would rise like this is when one is sick or when...

Wait.

No. It can't be.

It began to dawn on Strongarm what it is when she started getting this funny feeling in her port area. She's going into heat. Somehow whatever they injected into her caused her systems to push her into her heat cycle. But how is that possible? How could they have something that could do that? These humans are very mysterious. Either way, she just hopes it passes quickly and that...

Primus, Steeljaw! He's a Wolf-Con which means he could easily smell her in heat. If he smells her he'll go crazy, he'll most likely kill these humans just to get to her. He'll be worst than he was earlier.

Primus help us if he smells this...