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(sorry for the delay, I got hijacked by the one-shot bug. Enjoy!)

Barricade squared off against the two seekers

"You attacked my partner" he rumbled flexing his energon encrusted claws so that some dripped morbidly onto the pavement as the humans surrounding them took off running, some screaming at the top of their lungs. "To do so is an insult to me personally"

"And what you going to do about it?" snapped Skywarp still cradling his cockpit where Barricade's talons had slashed through the glass and circuitry "You can't fly"

Barricade's optics glinted maliciously "you think that will help you? Flying away like a frightened bird will not save you from me. You attacked my partner and now you are going to pay for it with your spark!" he roared charging forward.

Startled Skywrap disappeared in a blink of his teleportation as Thundercracker jumped into the sky using his thrusters. Barricade worked quickly, transforming his hand into his flail and managing to wrap it around the blue jet's ankle drawing a startled cry from the seeker. With a firm tug the jet crashed head first into the asphalt, totalling the left thrusters on his heel as the spiked flail dug deep into ankle wiring and energon lines.

Barricade sneered advancing on the crippled Seeker, withdrawing his flail and sub-spacing his rifle. The weapon hummed into life, the inside of the barrel glowing a bright sizzling orange tinged with blue electric pulses. He turned the seeker over with his foot aiming the rifle on the seekers stunned face. The Decepticon reached down flaring his talons and pressed down harshly into the seekers chest, drawing forth a wail and bright pink energon that swelled around his long talons that dung deeper towards the spark of the flyer.

"Stop!" The blue jet shrieked struggling valiantly "'Warp! Help!"

Barricade heard the popping noise of the purple and black jet appearing again and turned sub-spacing his sniper rifle and wrenching his claws free of the immobilised seekers chest to bat away the steel girder that had been thrown at him.

Skywarp wearily circled the Shock Trooper as the black and white grinned and chuckled like a madmech. "You came back little birdie" the interceptor chuckled optics alight with a predatory glee. "Time to play"

Skywarp took off running as the mech folded down into his alt mode, tyres squealing as it erupted after him.

Barricade smiled inwardly as he tracked the jet, his sensors sweeping wide before him. He wasn't going to escape.

-The ARK medbay-

Prowl sighed as he sat in the Med-bay for the second time this afternoon. Ratchet had nearly blown his vocaliser shouting at him, demanding to know who done it and had given him the extra work.

Prowl had remained silent through the rant that was just now coming to an end "Are you quite finished Ratchet?"

"I'd smack you over the head with my wrench if it wouldn't scramble your battle computer" the medic finally huffed tapping his wrench on the med berth. "Fine, I'm done now"

"Good, Has Wheeljack notified Prime about his experiment returning?" Prowl asked

"Oh so you were listening were you?" Ratchet scowled "Yes, he has, the base is now on full alert in case whatever that thing brought back is what attacked Bumblebee. Now on your front"

The Tactician sighed flopping over onto his front as Ratchet gave him the sedative so the medic could repair his damaged wing. "I know what came back" he muttered resting a helm on his hand feeling a little drowsy "Doesn't seem like a bad mech, just confused"

He heard Ratchet stop working on his wing and rush to stand in front of him "Prowl!" the medic snapped at him as he began to doze off "What was that about a mech?"

"He doesn't seem bad, just confused" Prowl repeated a little slurred as Ratchet ran a hand over his face in frustration.

"Who Prowl? Who came back!" the medic coaxed the sleepy SIC

"Barricade" the Praxian said as the sedatives finally made the SIC drop off.

Ratchet frowned opening a comm. line to Optimus "Prime, we have a situation"

-Somewhere in town-

Spike hated shopping with Carly. The woman was bouncing from shop to shop like the typical kid in a candy store, regardless that he often offered her a withering, longsuffering look begging to be allowed to rest.

So far, the only thing interesting that had happened had been Skywarp running round the corner full tilt and leaning against the street corner his back flat against the building, his plating charred in places and his thrusters on his heels sparking and useless. Right where Spike was currently standing with Carly, having won the argument about the amount of bags the woman was accumulating, waiting for the bus. The Decepticon seeker was currently looking panicked and peering back the way he had come, vents puffing and shaking in exertion.

"Uhh, Skywarp?" he asked looking up at the purple and black seeker

"Shut up!" the jet hissed down at him desperately "He's right behind me!"

"Who?" asked Carly looking down the street from where she was standing "I see nothing but the usual traffic and a snazzy new Police car. I wonder if that's a new model on the market soon? Should I take a picture for Prowl, so he can update his ?"

"That's him!" the seeker almost shrieked taking off again slipping down the next side-street as the highly polished Black and White car cruised around the corner. Spike paled as it swept by, that was the thing that had taken out Bumblebee.

Why was it after Decepticons? Was the thing really that deranged to attack his own faction?

Carly whistled appreciatively as it waited at the lights a few feet down the street where some people had ignored the Decepticon seeker running full pelt down the street not moments ago. "Nice detailing" she praised giving it a once over "Hang on… what kind of phrase is 'Punish and Enslave'?"

"Carly, that's a Dececpticon" Spike finally managed out dumping the bags that Carly had made him carry and whipping out his phone.

The lights changed and the Police car sped off with a squeal of tyres, the smoke making the pedestrians cough. "Road hog!" someone shouted from their car window as the cruiser disappeared in the direction Skywarp had been running.

"Blaster? Yeah, it's Spike. We have a bit of a problem"