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(Sorry it took so long! I was having trouble deciding who to dump Barricade and Frenzy with. hope you all enjoy!)
-Barricade POV-
The world was dark.
The world was quiet.
Barricade decided he didn't like it. He had the sensation of floating, the darkness was crushing but somehow soothing. He had no worries here, no depression, and no guilt. No overwhelming anger or urge to destroy.
The only annoying thing about this experience was the odd buzzing noise by his audio, that no matter how much he swatted at it wouldn't go away. A grey patch in the distance bobbed around somehow always in his line of sight whichever way he turned.
His back tingled, one of his doorwings giving phantom pains every time he flicked them curiously.
What the frag had happened? He wondered did Blackout drop me from a height again?
He vaguely recalled Frenzy was supposed to be around here somewhere. He probed their partner bond receiving the sensation of crashing into a reinforced wall.
"What the slag is going on?" he shouted into the void
-ARK medbay—
The scanner beeped as it began its run over the prone Black and White mech that lay on the berth. The green light of the scanner ran over the sharp contours and jagged edges finally ending its run over the black double chevron that shadowed the four grey optics.
"It's creepy" said Ironhide as he stood near the berth that held the strange mech "He doesn't have optic covers"
"He came from a different dimension Ironhide" said Optimus as Wheeljack finished repairing his arm "We could learn a lot from him. The only reason that Megatron brought him down was because he caught the damaged doorwing."
"And he was protecting that silver cassette" reminded Prowl flexing his own newly-repaired doorwings in some sympathy to the newly patched doorwing of the black and white mech laying prone on the medical berth "So he has some morals in there for a Decepticon."
"Speaking of doorwings, the doorwing was unlike any wing I've ever repaired before. It was tougher and more resilient than even Sideswipe's and Sunstreaker's armour, Megatron's fusion cannon only gave it a dent and charred the edges of the wound. Still despite that they were covered in additional armour they were incredibly sensitive so it knocked him offline." Ratchet explained as a hologram containing Barricade's basic shape and armour materialised. "Where is that silver cassette of his anyway? I heard Red Alert screaming down the corridor that it was loose when I was doing the patch job."
"He's still hovering around in the vents" Wheeljack said cheerfully pointing up at the grill that covered an opening to the medbay. "So far he hasn't done anything other than watched us repair his partner"
Four blue optics glowered at them from the shadows of the duct and a flash of silver as the cassette shifted to watch them closer as they gathered around his partner.
"How the slag did he get up there?" Ironhide asked bewildered "I though Steeljaw and Eject were watching it"
"He got away through a ventilation shaft" said Blaster as he stomped into the medbay "He's a slippery little thing, sharp claws too" he added holding up his mangled servo.
"I'm more worried about the big one" Ironhide said as they heard the silver bot in the duct hiss, chattering out some random snippets of what they presumed to be Cybertronian. "That thing tossed you over its helm Prime, no offence but you are kinda heavy."
"None taken old friend" the Autobot leader replied with a chuckle "He surprised me as well, he somehow knew me"
"'Cade" the silver cassette suddenly grumbled
"I beg your pardon?" Ironhide asked tilting his rust red helm up to look at the silver dart of a cassette as he flitted around the opening of the duct, clearly agitated.
"I want 'Cade!" it snapped down at him in fragmented speech, stamping its small pede and crossing all four of its arms.
As Ironhide was about to chew the silver bot out for being disrespectful an odd sound came from the prone Barricade. His chest armour shifted at the centre under where his spark was, revealing a storage compartment. Frenzy cackled in the vent slicing through the metal of the grill and dropping into the medbay.
"'Cade!" the spindly bot squealed gleefully clambering up the frame of his partner and scrambling into the compartment just as the rust red Ironhide made a lunge for him. The compartment snapped closed with a whirr and clank of shifting parts shielding Frenzy from the outside world.
Ratchet cursed as his holographic model of the Decepticon Shock Trooper he was doing notes on disintegrated and was replaced by a newer one that now included a folded up Frenzy sitting snugly in his compartment "Slag it, I'll have to re-do the notes again"
"I didn't know that Praxians could have Cassettes" Prowl noted in surprise
"Normally Praxians just do with their wings" Ratchet agreed as he tapped the hologram over where Frenzy was now re-charging, the scan zooming in to show the schematics of it "It looks like it was built in rather well. Though there is some scarring around the walls, clearly it wasn't a clean cut when they took the wiring and metal out of him to create that little spindly silver thing."
"They what?" Blaster cried in horror "You don't take metal from your own frame to create a cassette! Heck if I had done that I would have nothing left of me!"
"To be honest I think they built the cassette out of the large doorwings he once sported" Ratchet said with a frown peering closer at the hologram. "It says here that his basic frame design was supposed to be heavier at his back, he should have had two large doorwings. Not those thin things that they left on him. And then they took the wiring for the cassette's frame from underneath his spark where the cassette now stays. Poor fragger would have been in agony after that operation. Not to mention the stress of suddenly supporting a newborn cassette."
"Was it done as a kind of torture?" asked Optimus in concern
"We'll have to ask him, though I doubt it. He could have merely chosen to give up his doorwings, seeing them as a weakness and replaced them with a more useful cassette" Ratchet said as the figure on the berths talons suddenly twitched "I would stand back a little if I were you"
The other bots quickly backed up, away from the black and white frame as dark red lensed optics flooded with bright ruby light.
A/N: I just wanted to do a bit of a background for Frenzy's creation and why Barricade has such little doorwings... :) hope you liked it!