Road Trip
Chapter 4
Rumble and Frenzy stared at the undercarriage of the SUV that lay before them. Just a few moments ago they used their powerful pile drivers to cause two cracks in the road and caused the car to roll. They both knew even with a crash like that the Autobot cassettes were still alive. "Come on out Autobrats." Rumble said pointing his pistol at the car.
Suddenly from the rear orange bursts of energy shot out at the two Deceptions causing them to back up is surprises. They looked over just in time to see Rewind holding his gun in one hand and an injured Kent in the other. They returned fire, luckily the two got behind the car.
"Ahh, my leg." Winced Kent as Rewind placed him down. He looked at his jeans and noticed the large red stain was now there. In the crash it was deeply cut by some loose metal as they rolled. Rewind had the grabbed him though in hopes keeping him as unharmed as possible
Rewind went back to the edge of the car and turned to fire, trying to keep to two twin cassettes at bay. "How did they know where we were? My leak was fixed." He asked himself. He quickly ducked back down as several blast rattled the car.
"Oh no Melina, where is she?" Kent asked ignoring his wounds for a second. He went to crawl towards the front of the car. She was driving he remembered. Suddenly he stopped as someone pounded a huge dent on the cars roof. Then it stopped, Kent watched as sudden orange laser shot out of the roof and then a metal hand punched a hole through it. Moments later a human woman crawled through the new hole. "Melina!" Kent exclaimed glad she was alive and relatively unharmed.
Melina looked over and ran at Kent and then had to quickly duck as more laser fire was shot at them. She ran over and hugged him and suddenly pulled back seeing the cut. "Oh my God you're hurt."
"Yeah but what about you? Are you ok?" He asked.
She nodded, "Yes airbags and a little Autobot help." She told him turning back as Eject climbed out of the car and quickly took up position at his side and started to fire as well.
"Oh man flag on the play." He said seeing his rivals of Rumble and Frenzy on the road in front of him. He took some shots only to duck back as the fired at him as well. He looked over to Rewind on the other side. "Any ideas?" He yelled over.
Rewind turned and fired a few more times before ducking back. He looked over, "You're the one with the game plans. I should be asking you." He returned. They both shrugged and then returned fire.
Melina had gone back into the care and returned to Kent's side with a first aid kit. He looked down and the kit, "I don't remember backing that?"
"You never do, now hold still." She commanded and placed her hand close to the wound. "This hurt?" She asked receiving a shake of the head. Then she moved down a bit more and asked again with the same result. She moved closer and asked.
"Yes yes, that hurts!" Kent yelled as a wave of pain hit him from that spot.
"Ok, good new it's not broken, bad news you need that stitched up and we can't do that here." She looked up at the two Autobots doing their best to fight, but she wondered how long they could keep it up. She opened the first aid kit and pulled out some gauze and pads. She began to tape up Kent's leg. "This will have to do for now."
Rewind ducked back and looked to Kent and Melina. He cursed himself seeing his friend hurt. He looked to Eject who ducked back, following Rewind's gaze he came to the same conclusion, they needed to get out and get out fast. He put his hands up and used his baseball signals again to Rewind. He nodded to and turned back and fired, while taking out his adhesion rifle. Eject did the same pulling out his overload rifle.
Kent caught wind of what they were doing. He remembered it from the first attack. "They are going to try the same play."
Melina looked up as she finished the wrapping. "What?"
Rewind and Eject fired at the legs of Rumble and Frenzy trying to get them close together. Same thing they did with Ramjet and Thrust. This should be easier though as the Autobots had cover and the Decepticons didn't.
The plan was working shot by shot Rumble and Frenzy were getting closer and closer. Eject leaned out from his hiding spot and took aim, "Just a little closer." But, that was a mistake, he made himself too visible and Frenzy let him know it. Frenzy quickly aimed his pistol and fired at the light blue cassette nailing him in the shoulder. "Ahhh!" He screamed falling over grabbing at his shoulder.
"Eject!" Rewind yelled. He then quickly ducked back as Rumble let loose a barrage of fire at him.
Melina rushed over to the mech and with all her strength pulled him in so Frenzy couldn't finish the job. She rushed over and looked at Eject's shoulder. The damage was very bad as she could see circuitry and some liquids leaking out of the wound. "Oh Eject." She whispered.
Eject looked up and smiled at Melina, "Hey don't feat. I have been tackled worse." He said and groaned and lifted himself up and leaned against the car's hood. He felt the pain from his shoulder and winced. "Ok, maybe I haven't."
They were in for it now. Rewind couldn't hold them off forever, not by himself at least. He looked back to the group gathered around Eject. He turned back and tried to fire his rifle, but the Decpticons dodged it easily. He ducked back, "Slag it!" He yelled.
Rumble and Frenzy smiled at each other, "Too easy, to think Thrust and Ramjet had trouble." Rumble told his twin.
"Yeah I say we finish this now." Frenzy replied and pointed to the fuel tank on the car in front of them. He pulled his pistol up and took careful aim, only to have it smacked down by Rumble. "Hey why did ya do that?!"
"Because, don't you want this to be fun?" He asked smiling evilly.
Rewind looked back, 'They stopped firing, that can't be good.' He thought. He quickly rushed over to the other three. "We need to move now." He told them.
"Eject and Kent and in no condition to go anywhere Rewind." Melina told him.
Rewind mind raced trying to think of some plan, some kind of out in this situation. His mind was full of so much information why was none of it helping him now. He didn't get enough time to feel guilty as he felt the ground begin to shake a bit. His visor darted down to see a large crack start to appear close to where Kent lay. Rewind quickly grabbed him and pulled him to safety as the crack pulled apart into a pit. Almost big enough to shallow Kent's car.
Rumble was using his pile drivers at almost full speed to spilt the team up. "Now, two for you and two for me." He told Frenzy.
Frenzy nodded, but looked unimpressed. "Yeah…But I still wanna blow up the car." He pointed his pistol.
Rewind had walked back to the rear end of the car with Kent limping behind him. He saw what Frenzy was doing. He grabbed Kent and yelled at the other two, "Move now!"
Eject was just getting back to his feet when Frenzy fired off a shot to the fuel tank. He instantly covered Melina and shields her from the blast, take all the force. The SUV exploded in a red and orange fire ball sending metal and shrapnel all over the area. The blast knocked Rewind and Kent over to the side of the road and into a ditch.
"Hey!" Rumble yelled and pushed his twin. "I thought we were going to do this my way!"
"Your way was too slow, now the job is done and Megatron is going to reward me for this." He told Rumble.
"Why you little…" He then stopped as he thought he saw movement on the side of the road. "Ha! You missed those two, looks like I gotta finish this myself." He said pushing his twin again.
"Ah whatever slag head." Frenzy said as he walked over to where Kent's car once stood. As he moved closer he thought he saw someone on the other side of the smoke. He walked over and saw Melina had survived the blast thanks to Eject and was trying to pull him away with little luck. Eject was in bad shape, from his shoulder wound, his back was burned from the fire.
Frenzy just smiled and walked over, Melina ran in between him and Eject. "You stay away."
"Stuff it meat-bag." He calmly said and pushed her to the side.
"¡Usted excedente grande crecido, feo, excusa de los pobres para un horno de la tostadora!" (Translation: You big over grown, ugly, poor excuse for a toaster oven!) She yelled at him.
Frenzy stopped in his tracks and turned around. "What did you call me?" He asked knowing it was something he didn't like.
"I think she called you a toaster oven." Eject said standing up behind Frenzy, and when Frenzy turned around Eject nailed his jaw with a large cross, knocking the cassette down. He looked to Melina. "I watch futball too you know." He said.
On the other side of the now small canyon, Rumble walked over to the ditch that Rewind and Kent had fallen into after the explosion. He had his pistol at the ready and jumped in. Rewind stood in front of him his gun drawn as well.
"Where's your human friend Auto-nerd?" Rumble asked not really caring.
"He's safe." Was Rewind only replay.
The two stared at each other each with their hands on their weapons wondering which was going to try and pull the trigger first. Red visor staring into red visor, their hands twitched and then suddenly two beams shot out from each gun shooting the others out of their hands. They looked at their hands and back, the guns landing between the two of them. Quickly they rushed each other and met in the middle switching course to go for a test of strength.
"What can't you Autobot scum just die?!" Rumble grumbled.
"Sorry, don't have an answer for you Rumble." Rewind returned.
Back on the other side, Eject walked over to Melina, not noticing Frenzy getting back up from the shot to his jaw. Eject saw Melina's face almost yell 'look out' before he pushed her away. Eject turned and got caught in the side by a blast from Frenzy. The cassette took aim again, but Eject moved in and gave Frenzy another punch, followed up by another.
"Frenzy is taking a beating folks." Eject started in between his punches. "A right cross, body shot, Frenzy tries a jab only to get it blocked, Oh nice counter from the champion." It seemed like Eject was making short work of his longtime rival. "And here comes the knock out!" He threw a punch, only to have it blocked.
Melina gasped when she saw Frenzy just get angry and punched the light blue mech in his newly injured side repeatedly.
"Not so tough now are ya!" Frenzy taunted and punched Eject again and let him fall to the ground holding his side. He pulled his other pistol off his back; he wanted to end this fight now. As he was ready to just fire until rock hit his head, then another, then a piece of the car. He looked up annoyed more than hurt.
Melina was looking for anything to throw at Frenzy. He on the other hand stepped over Eject's body and towards Melina. "I was going to kill you second, but you just made me mad." He said pointing his pistol at her. He suddenly froze where he stood as something was pushed into his back.
Thanks to Melina small distraction Eject had a small window of opportunity to grab his overload rifle. He placed in Frenzy's back. Frenzy looked over his shoulder behind him to see Eject smile a bit. "Down goes Frenzy." He pulled the trigger and watched as Frenzy's body jerked a few times before his cerebro-circuitry shut down. Eject watched and Frenzy fell face first in front of him before collapsing back to his knees.
Melina quickly rushed over to him. "Eject." She said keeping him stable and not falling over. Even though she has had any real medical training on Autobots she could tell he was not doing well at all.
Back with Rewind and Rumble it wasn't going well either. Rewind's energy was low and Rumble was fresh. Rumble had pushed Rewind to one of his knees before kicking him in his chest, Rewind turned to get on his hands and knees to push back up but was to the ground with a hammer blow to his back. "I am going to enjoy this." Rumble said transforming his arms into pile drivers. "Enjoy your trip to the pit."
"Not today!" Kent yelled from behind Rumble and smashed the cassette's head with a large stick he found on the ground. The club-like stick shattered on impact of Rumble's head causing the mech to stumble a bit.
Rewind moved up and sent an uppercut to Rumble as he fell forward a bit. The double attack was just powerful enough to send the cassette into a temporary state of unconsciousness. Kent walked over and stood next to Rewind and tossed what was left of his stick away. "I am honestly surprised that worked." He admitted.
"Speak softly and carry a big stick." Rewind told him, "Who said it?" He then asked.
"Theodore Roosevelt." Kent responded and then waved his hand. "We need to check on Melina and Eject."
Rewind helped Kent out of the deep ditch and looked up to see Melina holding Eject. She quickly waved her hands for them to come over. Rewind ran over, and Kent moved as fast as he could with his injury.
"How is he?" Rewind asked kneeling down next to his friend and looked over the damage.
"Not good he needs help and we are too far away from anything. We no car and no way to call for help." She told him tears welding up in her eyes a bit.
Eject looked over to Rewind, "Just leave me then, get the information to the Ark. That is what's important." He said weakly.
Rewind shook his head, "First you didn't want to be left behind now you do. Sorry we just can never seem to agree do we?" He told him. He was not about to leave his friend in this shape by himself. "We should move. Rumble and Frenzy won't be out for long."
"I don't think they are the problem anymore." Kent said as he watched a figure in the sky and land in front of the group.
"Soundwave." Rewind said starting up at the Decepticon that towered over them. Soundwave pulled out his gun and took aim at the four. Rewind bravely stepped in front of the group planning on fighting him by himself. "Get out of here." He told them.
"No way." Kent said limping up next to him.
Soundwave didn't care for this heroic non-sense and just took aim and was about to fire and end all of this when a steak of orange energy just missed him. The group looked up at five planes coming from above.
"Stand down Soundwave or my next shot won't miss." Yelled Silverbolt to the officer as he transformed and landed on the ground.
Soundwave knew he was out gunned and if fought had no real chance of survival. He pushed a button on his shoulder opening his chest. "Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Operation; Cover." He said as two metal cassettes, one red, one yellow, shot out from his chest and transformed into bird looking creatures and engaged the Aerialbots. In the confusion he ran over and picked up both Rumble and Frenzy before taking off. Laserbeak and Buzzsaw broke off the attack and followed their leader.
"There're getting away, request permission to follow." Fireflight asked already looking to catch up to the retreating Decepticons.
"Negative Fireflight, we have wounded down here. Return at once." Silverbolt order and walked over and kneeled at the group.
"I'm I glad to see you Bolt." Rewind said looking up. "Eject is hurt we need to get him back to base now. I will explain the whole thing on the way." He told the much larger Autobot who merely just nodded.
Silverbolt transformed and opened his door. "Best get on and strap in then." He told them. Rewind helped Eject to his feet and brought him aboard while Melina did the same with Kent. Once inside Silverbolt closed the door and started his engines. A sound of thunder clapped the air and he took off as fast as he could.
Autobot Base…
"Silverbolt to the Ark, Silverbolt to the Ark is anyone there?" Silverbolt's voice came over the radio.
Blaster quickly turned and typed on the console, "Blaster here, give me the news."
"We found Eject and Rewind about 46 miles away from base with two humans. They were under fire from Soundwave and his team. They managed to take out Rumble and Frenzy before we got there." Silverbolt told Blaster. Prime and Prowl walked up behind Blaster and listened to the conversation.
"What was Soundwave after?" Prime asked.
"Information that Rewind and Eject found, seems they found a hidden stock pile of weapons and energon outside of a small town. Rewind patched into the computer and has a list of other stockpiles. I am sending it to you now." Silverbolt told them.
The computer screen next to Blaster turned on as the list was sent to Telatran-1. Prowl began to read it. He turned to Prime, "I will start getting teams together and get to these stock piles before Megatron has them moved."
Prime nodded to his second in command he then turned to the radio and Blaster. "What are the conditions of Rewind and Eject?" Prime asked.
"Rewind has some minor wounds but Eject is need of medical attention. Our ETA is three minutes." Silverbolt responded.
"I will have Ratchet meet you out front." Prime said he pressed a button and the intercom system came on. "This is Optimus Prime; we are going to alert status until future notice. Be ready to receive orders." He turned off the intercom.
Blaster typed, and the screen switched to Ratchet. "We've got incoming wounded, Eject and Rewind. We need you to meet Silverbolt out front." Ratchet nodded, and the link was cut. Blaster then looked to Prime.
Prime could clearly see the worry in the face of his officer and nodded his head saying he could go. Blaster quickly got up and ran from the control room towards the main entrance. A few moments later he was passed by Ratchet and First Aid in vehicle modes. Suddenly a blue sports car pulled alongside.
"You never are going to make it like that hop in." Tracks told his friend as he opened the door.
"I owe you one Tracks buddy." He said jumping and Transforming into his tape deck, once inside Tracks sped up to catch up with the two medics in front of him. The base began to almost rumble like a small earthquake as Autobots moved from location to location receiving orders and moving out. The four Autobots reached the main entrance the same time Silverbolt landed.
Tracks and Blaster transformed as soon as they reached outside. Blaster quickly rushed to Silverbolt as he saw his friends hurting and trying to get down the stairs. "Easy boys you had a rough day."
"We do good coach?" Eject asked showing signs of too much energon loss.
"I couldn't ask for better players." Blaster told him. He helped them both into the back end of Ratchet. Blaster turned around to see two human, one male and female reach First Aid.
"Blaster, I have been ordered out, are you ok?" Tracks asked walking up to him.
"I will be, do this for me. If you find Soundwave out there get him a shot from me." He told him. Tracks nodded and transformed heading out to meet up with Bluesteak. Blaster ran up to First Aid. "Room for one more?" He asked.
"I am only taking you as far as the outside the repair bay Blaster you know Ratchet's rules." First Aid told him.
Blaster transformed and picked up by Melina as she got in. "You must be the humans he have heard about." Blaster said to them.
"Names Melina, that's Kent." Melina responded and then pointed to Kent lying down.
"What were you doing with Rewind and Eject?" Blaster asked. Melina went into the story of Rewind and Eject finding them, then the first attack, and the road trip.
When Blaster asked about Kent's injury she then told him about the attack by Rumble and Frenzy. She then got to the point where she was explaining the attack by Frenzy on the car. "He saved my life, is he going to be ok?" She asked with some tears forming.
"Listen they are both tough little bots. And we have got the best two medics this side of Cybertron. They are going to be fine." Blaster told her. "You need to worry about getting him fixed up as well. We should take you two to a human hospital."
Melina shook her head, "I have my kit, just get me a place to work."
First Aid came to a stop, "Ok you two out." He said. Blaster complied and transformed out. Melina on the other hand didn't.
"Oh no, I am not leaving him." She said.
"Look only Medics are allowed in the repair bay right now you need to…" Before he could finish Melina brusted in.
"Listen I didn't go through all those years at medical school to get shafted when my boyfriend needs medical attention. I go in with him and that is finale." She said and finished with a huff.
"Ratchet is going to kill me." First Aid whispered and drove into the repair bay. A few second later Blaster clearly heard Ratchet's familiar yells, only this time he heard Melina answer him back almost as loud and assertive and with some added Spanish for good measure. Then silence, First Aid then popped his head out to Blaster, "Wow, she's good." And quickly went back in.
Sometime later…
Blaster wasn't sure how much time had passed since getting to the repair bay. He just knew that both Melina and Kent walked through not long after going in. Once she was done with the stitches to his leg Ratchet all but pushed them out the door. The three waited for any news from inside.
Prowl then walked by the repair bay to see how things were going. "Any news yet?"
"Nothing yet, how's the hunting going?" He asked.
"Megatron was able to move some, but we were able to find and capture at least Seventy percent of the stockpiles and the items in it." He told Blaster and then looked down to the humans. "We have you to thank for it."
"All in a day's work." Kent told him, before getting lightly elbowed in his side from Melina.
The doors to the repair bay opened and out walked Ratchet, then First Aid, and Rewind. Upon seeing him Melina ran over and gave the cassette a hug. "Rewind you're ok. Where's Eject?"
"Eject is doing just fine, we are going to keep him here, just to keep an eye on him now. He is recovering well, you're lucky you arrived when you did. He was in some bad shape and lost a lot of energon." Ratchet explained to the group. "You may now come and see him."
Blaster, Kent, and Melina walked in and over to the berth that Eject was laying on. Blaster kindly lifted the humans up onto it to see their friend. Melina ran over to him and gave him a hug as well.
"So, did we win?" He asked and looked to Blaster.
"We crushed'em." He replied.
"Indeed, you did," Came a voice from the door way. Optimus Prime seemed to always know when to enter the repair bay to visit his recovering friends. He walked over to the berth. He looked over the group, even though his face was covered with a shield they could tell he was smiling. "Good to see you two back." He told them.
"Good to be back coach." Eject returned. Rewind just nodded.
Prime then scanned over to the two humans. "I should thank you two as well for returning our friends to us. Please stay with awhile until you are healed." Prime told them.
Kent was in awe of the massive Autobot leader before him. He had seen him on the news but to be in his presence was just breath taking. Melina smiled, "It was no problem sir. We will take you up on that offer." She finally spoke up.
"All right, visiting time is over, Eject needs some rest." Ratchet finally broke in. "I got some other wounded coming in and this placed needs to be cleared. I will let you guys see him a bit later."
They all nodded, Melina went over and gave Eject another hug and Kent shook his hand. Blaster helped the human friends down. Prowl waited for Eject outside, he knew they just had a bad day, but he still had his duties.
"Rewind, I am going to need you for debriefing." Prowl told the cassette.
"Yes sir, Prowl. I will catch up with you two later. Perhaps a game of Trivial Pursuit was it?" Rewind told them and walked off.
Blaster then showed the humans to a room for them to stay. The Autobots in fact had added 'guest' rooms for friend of Spike if they stopped by. Kent limbed over to the bed and sat down. Melina walked over and sat down next to him. "So, what do you think?"
"Best road trip ever." He commented and lay down to get some rest himself.
Note: I would like to thank everyone for reading this little fiction of mine. This has turned out to be my most successful one to date, thanks everyone.