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In the Hands of the Enemy 2

Chapter 6: Sabotage

Unknown Planet

Kicker was not pleased. He had been landed in another fine mess, though he had to admit Rodimus was much more like the Optimus Prime than Megatron. Rodimus reminded him of the Prime he had met when he was younger, back when he had hated the Transformers. The flamed Autobot was very rigid and resolute, especially on what to do with Demolisher. Much to Kicker's reasons and protests, the ex-Decepticon has been escorted down to the brig on the damaged spaceship, thankfully with not to much resistance. Rodimus had posted the rather obnoxious Prowl as guard, much too both Transformers dislike.

After making sure Demolisher wasn't going to do anything rash, Kicker had wandered out back to the surface of the planet and decided to take a closer look at the ship. Under the hot rays of the sun a full circle of the craft revealed that it was much smaller than the one they had on Earth.

He began another rotation looking at the damage, both to the ship and to the surroundings. The trek was quite strenuous as Kicker had to avoid uprooted trees and snapped branches, though not much damaged seemed left on the ship. He could spot a few pushed out dents and new welding, but nothing serious seemed to be left on the outside of the ship. He came to the end of the second circuit, which brought him back to the rear of the craft and also brought him face to face with Rodimus, who he immediately scowled at.

Rodimus coughed and began, 'I have a favour to ask of you Kicker, would you be able to give us a hand fixing some of the wiring in the ship, with Prowl on guard we're a hand short'.

'Well if you hadn't of locked up Demolisher you wouldn't be in this situation', Kicker quickly retorted, anger growing.

'We cannot leave a Decepticon to roam free on our ship, they are our mortal enemy, nothing, and I repeat nothing, will change that', Rodimus replied, annoyance beginning to creep into his voice.

Kicker sighed, he just couldn't be bothered by this, 'It doesn't matter, I'll give you a hand, I can't wait to get off this planet, show me what needs done and I'll do it.'

In silence Rodimus led him into the ship, the air radiating the tension between them.

During the walk down the steel corridors of the interior of the ship Rodimus decided to place some trust in the human he had been looking for, to try to get him somewhat on his side.

'Since you have decided to help us fix the ship and you seem rather trustworthy for a human I will tell you the mission we are currently on, we are helping a being called Alpha Q revive Unicron.'

Kicker was shocked. He had heard the stories of Unicron from Rad and Carlos and adamantly agreed with them that Unicron was one evil Transformer that only knew how to destroy. He suddenly thought that maybe this Rodimus had a few screws loose, literally. And there was that Alpha Q character again, what the hell was he up too, it certainly couldn't be anything remotely good for the universe. If this is what Rodimus wanted him to help with than he was sorely mistaken.

Back on Earth

Kicker's family had been told the news of his kidnap and it seemed that his father took it the hardest. He barely saw daylight anymore as he worked nearly all the hours of the day to help the Autobots and to try and find some way to save his son.

But a plan was already under way to try and get Kicker back. Well not so much a plan as a likely suicide mission, but Ironhide had made up his mind. Although at times the relationship between Kicker and Ironhide had been less than good, they were friends and it was partly his fault that he had been captured in the first place.

The Autobots were having a whole group meeting so he wouldn't be missed in the crowd and he headed over to the part of the station that housed the space bridge controls. They had the coordinates of the last attack from the Decepticons and he had decided that was probably the best place to start looking. Ironhide fired up the bridge and left the room, feeling a bit guilty for not informing anyone, but no doubt he would be stopped if anyone knew of his plan.

He was coming up the door that would allow him access to the space bridge, but it slid open before he got there. Meisha had been waiting for him.

'Hi Meisha, what are you doing out here?' Ironhide asked nervously, Meisha looked like she meant business and Ironhide could guess what might be said next, she was already wearing her yellow suit.

'I've seen you wandering around suspiciously especially when you're meant to be in the meeting. So I followed you here and I'm coming with you. Don't you even try to talk me out of it or leave me behind' Meisha said in a controlled voice, holding back tears that threatened to escape her eyes, trying to keep her worry contained.

'I can't take you with me, you should know that, can't have two of our best people off base, and I'm not even airtight'.

She smiled thinly at Ironhide's small joke and nodded in agreement. 'I know I can't really go with you, but I'm so worried about him, good luck, and I'll keep my mouth shut, though I don't think it will take to long for Optimus to figure out what has happened'.

'Of course,' replied Ironhide, and with an encouraging nod from Meisha he made his way to the opening of the space bridge, tuned into his vehicle mode and sped away to the disappear at the end of the space bridge.

Unknown Planet

Kicker had been left to work on the ship in solitude, Rodimus saying that he had things to do elsewhere. All he had to do was connect a few wires back together that had burnt out due to the stress of the crash. He wasn't sure what this particular section did, but he was sure that doing a second class job the same damage would happen again sometime in their journey. There was no way he was going to make it easy for Rodimus to help bring Unicron back to life and doing it this way meant that he wouldn't look too suspicious. He was going to try and make similar 'accidents waiting to happen' in other parts of the ship, which hopefully wouldn't be too difficult, you didn't mess with Kicker.

In Space

The stars whizzed pass him, a million points of light illuminating the path that the space bridge was taking him along, to the destination that the coordinates had pointed him to.

He was spat out of the enclosed space suddenly, coming to a complete stop floating in the middle of space. He slowly turned around and his sight lay upon a planet that looked much like Earth, and where he would begin his search for one of his closest friends.

Ironhide slowly made his way toward the planet that the co-ordinates had led him to. Glancing around his gaze saw the star that gave the planet life much like the sun that the Earth revolved around. There appeared to be a black spot leaving the edge of the star, but Ironhide didn't give it even the shortest of glances as he began to approach the planet.

The part he hated most of entering a planet was coming next, travelling through the atmosphere to reach the planets surface and he was glad that he had an energon star to offer some extra protection.

His outer metal skin began to heat up as he increased speed from the planets gravity pulling him down and he was glad he had remained in vehicle mode, he was much more aerodynamic. He was soon in the clouds and moments later he was past them and could see the surface. What appeared to be a continent appeared, covered in forest with a few clearings and through a large patch of trees a large gash had been cut into the ground as well as what seemed to be an explosion sight. He began to descend to start his exploration, hope burning fiercely in his chest.

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