This is going to be the start of several… slightly difficult chapters for me to write. Please keep in mind that this is the first time I have ever gone into detail with a subject like this…
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Savannah groaned and opened her eyes. Hoping that what had happened when she was last conscious had only been a nightmare, but she knew better. Her violet eyes darted around the room and she tried to sit up, only to realize that she had been restrained to a table with thick metal straps. Though she knew it wouldn't do any good, she struggled against the binds.
"You know that it is futile to try and get loose… yet you do it anyway." A dark voice stated and Savannah's eyes widened before locking onto the figure of Megatron standing to the side of the room. "Why must you humans make capturing you so entertaining?"
"Let's just say that we've gotta try. Even though we know it won't work." Savannah stated in a quiet voice. "Why do you Decepticons have to capture humans?"
"Because humans do not deserve freedom." Megatron pushed away from the wall and walked toward her slowly. "And that is what we want to take away from all of you miserable flesh creatures."
"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings." Savannah stated, knowing that her comment was going to anger the war lord.
He only snorted at the saying of his enemy. He did not show his anger outwardly, though Savannah saw the flash of fury in his optics. She only glared back at him defiantly; she wouldn't give him what he wanted.
"Why don't you just kill me?" Savannah finally spat at him. "Isn't that what you want to do?"
"Oh, believe me, I want you dead fleshling." Megatron chuckled darkly. "But first, I want to know the clearance codes and what security systems the Autobots have on their base. If you tell me, I may let you live."
"As your pet? Get real Megatron, I won't tell you a thing." Savannah laughed. "You might as well just kill me now and save yourself the trouble."
Megatron's optics darkened and Savannah realized that she had just utterly pissed him off.
"If you will not speak, then we will make you." The war lord snarled. "Starscream, begin the tortures."
"As you wish, Lord Megatron." The silver seeker stated, coming into Savannah's line of sight.
Without warning, electricity tore through her body and she screamed; just as suddenly as it started it stopped and Savannah was left twitching on the metal slab.
"For every defiant answer you give, we will sent 100 volts of electricity through you human." Megatron stated. "If you still will not give the information, we will move on to something much more likely to make you talk."
"Never." She gasped. "I'll never tell you anything."
She screamed as the electricity was once again turned on.
~Diego Garcia~
"What do you mean you guys didn't put some sort of a tracer on her!?" Katrina asked shrilly. "Did you guys not think even for a second that she might one day be captured!?"
"Katrina…"
"Shove it Mirage! That's my goddamned sister out there!" The younger Price sister snarled. "Who knows what they're doing to her right now!"
"We did not place a tracer on her per her request." Prowl stated firmly. "We offered, and she refused."
Katrina whirled around and glared up at the SIC. She was pissed, and was not afraid to take it out on the Praxian.
"You should have fucking insisted!" Katrina hissed at him. "Is it not your job as SIC to think of every possible outcome? Well guess what buddy, you failed at your job."
Prowl—who normally came across as an emotionless and stoic mech—glared at her with the intensity of a sun. "Do you not think I realize this? I know that I failed at my duty to keep her safe. And that is why I am going through every possible action to take to get her back alive and safe. So you, her sister, could do something other than yell at us for something we did not foresee because we did not believe that Megatron or the others were still alive."
"Come on Katrina." Hound started. "We're looking for her. Jazz is out there right now looking for her, and Prowl hasn't rested since she went missing."
"Hound…"
"We are looking for her, Katrina, and I give you my word that she will return to this base." A voice that hadn't been heard for the four days that Savannah had been gone sounded behind her.
Katrina turned to look at Optimus, who she knew had to be taking Savannah's kidnapping just as hard—if not harder—than her. He had blamed himself for her disappearance, and it hadn't been until Jazz explained that the Autobot commander had feelings for Savannah that Katrina realized why.
"I know… it's just—"
"We will find her." Prowl cut Katrina off. "And we will teach the Decepticons to not take one who means so much to us at the same time."
Katrina glanced up at Prowl, and nodded. Feeling ashamed of her outbursts for the first time.
"What can I do to help?" She asked hesitantly.
"According to your files, you are a very well-known Private Detective; if you could somehow find information on any Decepticon sightings, or even anything that has not been explained with human logic that has occurred recently that would help." Prowl nodded.
"Okay. I'll need a computer, one that can do searches really quickly and then move on…"
"I will show you Teletran." Prowl stated and offered her his hand. "He should be able to help."
"He?" Katrina asked as the two left the room.
Hound and Mirage trailed after the two of them; leaving Optimus in the meeting room alone with his thoughts.
"I should have seen it coming." He stated quietly as he bowed his head.
"Not from what I could tell." A slightly dusty Sideswipe stated as he wheeled into the room, causing Optimus to startle and his battle mask to slide into place.
"Whoa, sorry boss." Sideswipe immediately held up his hands in a defensive motion.
He was ignoring the clearly visible beads of energon in his leaders optics.
"What do you have to report Sideswipe?" Optimus' voice held no indication of his feelings.
"Only that those tunnels don't run as far as we thought they did." Sideswipe stated, suddenly falling into a very serious side that he rarely showed. "They end about fifty miles from where Savannah was captured. So we can't use them to track how the 'cons got there."
"But, we did pick up traces of warp drive energy." An equally dusty Sunstreaker stated as he entered the meeting room. "This means that Skywarp was a key component in her capture."
"Therefore, if we get ahold of Skywarp…" Sideswipe grinned.
"We have a much better chance of finding Savannah." Sunstreaker finished with a matching grin.
Optimus nodded, it was rare for the twins to show exactly how intelligent they were. This conclusion only proved that they had that intelligence.
"Be sure to give this information to Prowl." Optimus finally stated after a few seconds. "And then get some rest; the two of you have earned it."
"Sir!" They saluted in unison, and left the room quickly.
Optimus stared after them for a few seconds, and then shuttered his optics and took a deep, shaky breath. He would get her back, even if it was the last thing he would do.
~Decepticon Base~
Savannah didn't want to open her eyes. Because the moment she opened her eyes her torturers would begin again, and she would once again be thrown into a world made of nothing but pain.
"Are you going to tell us what we want to know yet, fleshling?" Megatron's cold voice asked, he knew that she was awake.
"Never." She whispered.
"Very well. Starscream, let us see how much our human guest likes water."
Before Savannah could even open her eyes a strip of cloth was placed over her face and a few drops of water dripped on it. Her eyes flew open and she knew without a doubt what they were going to do next.
This time, she couldn't even scream.
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Now begins the torture…
Yeah… this is going to be a couple of really hard chapters for me guys… so the chapters may either come really fast, or really slow.
If you read it, please review it.
Until all are one,
Chistarpax