Road Trip

Chapter 2

Eventually, Trust and Ramjet had to report to Megatron about what had happen at the secret stockpile. Megatron was furious at this news of course, so he sent out one of his few loyal soldiers he knew could stop this disaster from growing any further. That soldier was Soundwave, who on arrival sent out Laserbeak to see if he could track the Autobot Cassettes down.

Hours had gone by as the seekers just watched the communications office stand at the computer terminal listing for transmissions in silence. Nothing was coming up to which Soundwave concluded they are staying radio silent or they can't communicate with their allies for the moment. Then the sound of something flying in caused all three mechs to turn in that direction. It was Laserbeak returning with information, and without a second thought Soundwave opened his chest as the cassette transformed and gave him what he asked for.

"Autobots are no longer in the area." Soundwave said coolly as he always does. "They are traveling north-east on the highway." He stated matter of flatly. "Set your scanner to search for amounts of leaking energon." He finished and turned around. "I will continue to monitor for any transmissions."

The seekers just looked at each other and nodded walking out of the cave and transforming, there was no need to explain what they had to do. Megatron didn't want the Autobots to know about the stock piles which meant they needed to eliminate the two little Autobots. Meanwhile two small figures emerged from the shadow. Both were identical looking except one was a light blue while the other was black and red.

"Hey Soundwave, why are you letting those two idiots have all the fun." Rumble asked in crossing his arms.

"Yeah, let us go, I have been itching for some pay back at those two since our last meeting." Frenzy added.

Soundwave turned and looked over at his two comrades. He was no fool, as simple as this task was for the seekers he knew that could still screw it up. That is why he always has a back-up plan. He turned to the computer and typed on a few keys pulling up a map. "Operation, Intercept. Head to this location and wait for a message from me." He simply told them.

"Hey all right some action at last. Come on Rumble last one there is a stinking Autodolt." Frenzy said quickly running to the cave door with Rumble not far behind him. Soundwave watched them leave and went back to work at the computer.

Meanwhile…

"Ah feels good to be on the open road." Kent said driving his SUV on the highway. Melina sat next to him with an open map looking for the best route, while Rewind and Eject sat in the back. Considering their size, they laid the seats down for them to fit without transforming. Eject had slipped into a 'sleep' to recharge his energy a bit and have his system do some minor repairs. Rewind on the other hand was busy working on his com-link trying to get it working again with little success.

"Ok," Melina suddenly said. "Mount St. Helena is here and we are somewhere here." She said pointing on the map. Rewind turned his head to look at the map, "That is at least a full day and night of driving, if not more." She finished.

"Why so long we aren't that far away?" He asked looking a little over as if to try and view the map.

"Well, there isn't only one road on the opposite side and that is no small mountain." She answered and then pointed to the line on the map.

"Sounds like fun," Kent told her and looked back a little bit "Right Rewind?"

"I think our ideas of fun are a bit different." Rewind told him.

Melina smiled and turned around in her seat and looked at the dark blue mech, "And what does a handsome figure like you do for fun?" She asked him.

Rewind would have blushed if he could at the handsome comment. "I search for knowledge."

Melina blinked a little bit, "You search for knowledge?" She repeated back, "I thought you all were like soldiers and alike."

Rewind shook his head, "No, before the war I use to work in an archive on Cybertron. But, I am now adding Earth information as well. I have learned so much, do you know how long it takes light from the sun to reach the earth?" He asked the couple.

"Is it like 7 minutes?" Kent answered.

"Approximately 8 minutes and 18 seconds." He corrected his new friend. "Try this one. How many flowers are in the design stamped on each side of an Oreo cookie?" He waited to see if they had an answer. After a few moments the two gave up. "Twelve. Each has four petals."

Kent and Melina looked at each other and smiled. "This is fun, gives us another one." She told him.

"Another question." He thought for a moment to find a good one. Rewind loved playing these trivia games, though some of his friends got sick of them right away. "How many times a day must you take medication if your prescription reads 'q.i.d.'?"

"Four." Melina answered simply and smiled as Rewind who looked like he was about to answer realizing she was right. "I am a nurse after all." She laughed.

"Boy, remind me never to play you in Trivial Pursuit." Kent told the two with a small laugh.

Rewind was intrigued, "What is that?" He asked.

"It's a board game we sometimes play; it comes with a box full of trivia questions like the ones you're asking. When we get you back remind me, and I will teach you to play." He said.

Rewind mood picked up, "I would like that Kent. Thank you." He turned back around and just thought about the idea of a game full of trivia. Though he didn't see what was closing in behind the car.

Kent did though. After checking his review mirrors, he noticed two jets closing in and he remembered at the house where they got a bit freaked at the sound of them. "Um Rewind? Those seekers you were running from. They weren't by chance a red jet and a white jet?" He asked slowly speeding up.

The question brought Rewind out of his dream for a moment. "Why yes, but how do…" He then saw out the rear windshield the two seekers closing in. He quickly turned his head. "Drive as fast as you can now."

"Guys." Melina chimed in to try and settle them down. "We don't even know if it is them they could be from the Mill…" Melina was able to finish her sentence as a blast of purple laser fire exploded next to the car, causing Kent to turn it swiftly and press on the gas.

The sudden commotion caused Eject to awake from his 'nap' "The pit, what inning are we in?" He asked confused.

"Our last if we don't do something." Rewind told his longtime friend pulling out his gun from his space-pocket. Eject looked back and quickly followed suite. He was suddenly pushed down, "Everyone Down!" He yelled.

Thrust flew almost inches away from the car, the sound of his engines breaking the cars glass. Kent grabbed Melina and ducked when told by Rewind. They were lucky and only scratched up a bit.

Rewind and Eject quickly popped back up and began to fire on the seeker as he flew away. They ducked again as Ramjet made pass and firing on the four. Kent did his best to swerve the car as not to get hit by the laser shots. The Autobots fired on him only to fall over as Kent dodged a concussion bomb that Thrust dropped in front of them on the road. The explosion caused a deep hole that they just barely avoided. Kent was no stunt driver, but he was doing everything he could to keep the SUV upright and on the road.

Ramjet joined Thrust in the air, "This is great we get bust up these two and two humans at the same time." Ramjet laughed. "Soundwave doesn't know what he is missing."

"This isn't working! We are going to be slag if this keeps up." Rewind yelled taking a few well aimed shots at the Deceptions.

Eject agreed and then snapped his fingers. "It's 2 on 2, we need to make it 2 on 1." He said before giving his friend some baseball hand signals and pointed to the roof. "Kent kept dodging those two."

Melina looked up, "What are those two doing?" She asked.

"Either Ejects got a plan, or he just told Rewind to steal second base. Hang on!" Kent yelled taking a few more quick zigzags to avoid Thrust from hitting him.

Eject leaning over, "Nice dodge." He complimented, "Now can you keep this thing straight? I'll be right back." He said and before Kent could answer the Autobot carefully climbed on to the roof of the SUV, doing his best to spread his weight as not to fall off or accidently step a hole through the roof and began to fire at Thrust left wing. The blasts just missing the jet.

Melina watched and leaned her head out, "Would you stop missing him already!" she yelled at the bot.

"Why, would I want to do that?" He returned and smiled back at the girl. He then turned to continue firing.

Thrust kept moving to avoid getting his wing clipped by the blast. Not knowing he wasn't in danger from been hit, his movement though brought him closer to Ramjet. "Watch where you're flying Thrust!" He yelled over to his partner.

It was however too late. As Thrust moved not to be hit and Ramjet concerned about getting hit by Thrust either of them saw Rewind take aim with his adhesion rifles and blasted the two jets with his metal-bounding glue. The glue bonded them together on their wings.

The Seekers a bit confused by the attack at first didn't think much of it. "You think some glue is going to stop me!?" Ramjet yelled at them.

"No, but this might." Eject added and aimed his electric overload rifles at the seeker and fired. "The kick is up!" Ramjet tried to move out of the way but Thrust was going in the opposite direction which caused them to not move anywhere. The blast nailed the white jet square in the chest. "And it's good!" Eject put his hands up in the field goal position.

Ramjet's engines started to sputter and then all out fail. With the extra weight there was no way Thrust could stay air born and instead crashed into the ground behind the car as the Autobots and humans sped away as fast as they could.

Eject carefully climbed back into the back of Kent's care met with a hug from Melina and then a slight push. "Mind letting us in when you're going to do a stunt like that next time." She yelled at him.

"Hey personal foul, I did. The hand signals?" He told the girl who just shook her head at the response. "What?"

Rewind went over and placed a hand on Kent's shoulder, "Mighty good driving there."

"Yeah thanks, guess you learn some new things we people are trying to kill you." He joked but weakly. Rewind could tell that this attack might have done more damage that just some broken glass and cuts. "I think I am going to slow back down. They aren't coming after us for a while."

Rewind looked out the back window. "No, they won't." He said sitting down in his spot again and pulling out his com-link. "Where is Wheeljack when you need him?" He whispered and returned to his work.

Back with Soundwave…

Soundwave was still looking to see if the Autobots tried to contact their base yet. Outside of normal radio chatter he found there was nothing from the cassettes. This would mean the Autobots still don't know about the stockpiles. As he was going over this information the computer picked up a transmission from Thrust.

"Soundwave….this is…Thrust." The voice of the seeker came over the computer, in obvious pain.

Soundwave pushed a button and responded, "What is the situation?" Not caring that he sounded hurt.

"Ramjet is down and out; I am uhhhh, too wounded to follow the Autobots." Thrust told him. Leaving out the part he is glued to his partner now and couldn't transform. "Request a pick up for us…I mean Ramjet."

Soundwave stared at the computer screen and then turned off the link between him and Thrust not giving him an answer to his request. He typed on a few buttons and suddenly Megatron's face appeared on screen. "Status report Soundwave."

"Thrust and Ramjet failed. Rumble and Frenzy are waiting to strike." Soundwave responded quickly and honestly. "Suggest starting moving stock piles if Autobots receive information." He added. If it had been anyone else Megatron would have dismissed such an idea, but Soundwave was rarely wrong in his calculations.

"I will get the Constructicons to start working on that. But, Soundwave I want these Autobots spies termination do you understand? No more failures." He said then swiftly broke the link.

"As you command Megatron." Soundwave responded, even though he was no longer talking to him. He typed a few more times. "Rumble, Frenzy targets heading is your direction. Proceed with operation. Eliminate on site."

To be continued…