Wow… this is the story where my inspiration is going right now…
And I can't leave Savannah in Megatron's grip for too long now can I?
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Everything seemed to freeze in those few seconds. Why the Decepticons had attacked, or better yet, how Megatron was once again alive and kicking, was unknown at that moment. But Savannah wasn't thinking about those questions right then. No, she was trying to figure out how in the hell she was going to get out of Megatron's grip.
"Put her down, Megatron."
Savannah turned to see that Optimus had approached the very large silver mech, and was now in the process of figuring out how to get Savannah away from him.
"Now Prime… why would I do such a thing?" Megatron sneered.
"Because you want to do something nice for once?" Savannah snarked before she could stop herself.
Both mechs stared at her in silence for a few seconds while she proceeded to look as mortified as possible. Megatron growled and tightened his grip. As her bones ground against each other, Savannah realized that being sarcastic wasn't such a good idea in her position.
"Okay, no more sarcasm." She gasped out.
"Megatron…" Optimus looked ready to lunge at the Decepticon leader.
"I would stay where you are Prime." Megatron growled darkly. "Unless you would rather me kill her."
Savannah gave another pained gasp as Megatron once again tightened his grip on her.
"What do you want Megatron?" Optimus ground out, though he never took his optics off of Savannah.
"I want your spark extinguished." Megatron responded. "But at this moment I only want to know one thing."
"And what is that?"
"How much do you care for this fleshling?" Megatron asked and released his grip enough to allow Savannah to breathe. "And do not lie… you never were good at deception."
Optimus looked torn all of a sudden; he knew that if he answered truthfully Megatron would kill her. But if he didn't the same outcome would become reality.
"I mean nothing to him." Savannah stated once she had gotten enough air in her lungs.
"I asked him, girl." Megatron tightened his grip once again and Savannah couldn't get enough breath in her lungs to retort.
"She is a close friend of mine, Megatron." Optimus finally responded.
"Close friend, Optimus, or is she more to you?" Megatron chuckled darkly.
"Megatron…"
"Oh, have you not told her?" The war lord laughed. "I can see it in your reaction, in the way you cannot take your optics off of her. You flinch every time I squeeze her."
As if to prove a point, Megatron tightened his grip again and Savannah cried out as a rib gave way. True to the Decepticon's observation, Optimus flinched.
"Do you love her Prime? Have you become enamored with a human woman?" Megatron growled. "You do, don't you? And I will destroy that which you love."
"Not on your life." Savannah ground out, and then stuck something against one of his fingers.
The Decepticon Commander yelled in pain and dropped her as if she had tweaked one of his pain receptors. Optimus dived forward and caught her before rolling away from Megatron, who had collapsed and was now twitching uncontrollably on the ground.
"What…"
"Wheeljack gave it to me before we left… it takes solar energy and releases it in highly concentrated waves of electricity directly into the systems of any Cybertronian it comes into contact with…" Savannah winced as she explained. "I have no idea what he calls it, but it saved my life and that's where I'm going to leave it."
Optimus stared at her and then gave a relieved sigh. "How…"
"I had it hidden in my pants pocket and couldn't reach it until I could get my arm to move over there…" She gave a pained laugh. "It took a broken rib to be able to do that though…"
At that moment Ironhide pulled up and Will jumped out of the driver's side just before the Weapons specialist transformed and leveled his guns at Megatron's helm.
"Fraggit Prime, do you have to get into trouble every time you leave the base?" Ironhide snapped. "Alright you Fragging 'cons! Stop what you're doing or I'll blast this glitch's helm off right now!"
All activity stopped as the Decepticons got a good look at what was happening. They all froze and then slowly backed away from the Autobots they had been beating the slag out of not even ten seconds earlier.
"Damnit Savannah…" Will stated as he ran over and gently took the human woman out of Optimus' hands. "Ratchet is going to confine you to the med-bay and you'll never be allowed to leave base again."
Savannah gave a half-laugh, and then winced when that caused her pain.
"What in the hell happened?" Will asked immediately after noticing her wince.
"Megatron had a hold of me and broke a rib?" She asked feebly.
Will only stared at her, before shaking his head and helping her over to where Katrina was standing with her gun pointed at Megatron's optic.
"Who are you?"
"Katrina Price, Savannah's younger sister." Katrina didn't take her eyes off of the still slightly twitching form of Megatron.
"You have a sister?" Will asked Savannah in surprise.
"She's standing right there Will." Savannah sighed.
"Sorry… that was a stupid question."
"No, it wasn't." The sarcasm was almost dripping from her tone. "I get asked that all the time, especially after she's met the person and introduced herself as my sister."
Will only gave Savannah an amused look. "I didn't know you knew how to use sarcasm that well."
"I'm in fucking pain Lennox." Savannah snapped. "My damned rib is broken and I just had the hell squeezed out of me by a mech with a dominance problem. I might be a bit sarcastic right now."
Everything in hearing vicinity paused and stared at Savannah. Lennox couldn't help but grin, though he did try to hide it…
"Savannah—"
"Don't you DARE apologize Optimus Prime." Savannah snarled at the Autobot commander before he could even get past her name. "I do not want to hear it and you will not say it. Am I clear?"
Optimus looked slightly surprised by her words, but then every single mech near him could see the smile that formed, even though it was hidden by the facemask.
"Yes, Savannah, clear as a crystal." The Autobot CO chuckled, and then looked over at Ironhide, who still had Megatron at gunpoint.
"I've got him Prime. If he so much as twitches I'll blast his helm off." Ironhide stated lowly, his optics glinting dangerously down at the Decepticon Commander.
"This has been fun and all…" Savannah growled. "But are the others on their way… because I really want this to be done."
"They're heading to our location now." Jazz grinned as he sauntered over. "And those three are in stasis cuffs, so we don't need to worry about them right now."
Savannah only nodded, she suddenly looked very tired. "Good… if you have any that'll fit that pain in the ass put them on him."
Jazz grinned and subspaced a fourth set of stasis cuffs. "You don't know how much I like that idea kitten."
"You move, you get blasted." Ironhide growled and charged his cannons to prove his point.
Megatron only glared at the black mech as Jazz put the cuffs on him and then forced him into a sitting position.
"You will pay for this fleshling." The war lord snarled at Savannah, who shrugged and then winced when pain shot up her spine.
"Sorry tall, dark, and ugly… but I don't think you'll be able to do anything to me." She rolled her eyes and looked up at Optimus once again. "You and I have some things to discuss Optimus."
Now Optimus looked wary of the woman. But when she motioned for him to pick her up, he leaned down and lifted her to his shoulder.
"You know, while I was in that assholes grip… I realized something." She stated thoughtfully.
"And what was that?"
She gave a shrug and a warm smile. "I realized that at any given moment something could happen to me… and that I didn't want to die without letting you know something very important."
Now Optimus stared at her out of the corner of his optic, he was unsure of where she was going with this.
"And that was…"
She laughed quietly. "I love you Optimus Prime."
The words had no more than passed her lips when the ground exploded once more. Only this time another animal-like Cybertronian appeared just underneath Optimus' feet and knocked him over. A metallic panther leapt out of the hole, shouldered Savannah onto its back, and took off toward the purple-ish seeker, who seemed to disappear the moment the panther reached him.
Megatron smirked as he and the other two seekers fell into large pits in the ground and were gone.
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She confesses, and then all hell breaks loose.
That's right folks… Savannah has just been kidnapped. Next chapter we get to see why she was taken, and where she was taken to.
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Until all are one,
Chistarpax