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-Barricade POV-
He was staring into a roof of nauseating neon orange, light reflecting off of the metal and torturing his optics. He looked about him, his vision tinged with enhanced red, spying a medbot and some other mechs a little away as he flexed his talons. He sat up, bonds that held his wrists and upper torso down snapping effortlessly, mentally running a few scans over himself to see if they had changed anything, he gave a low rumble of pleasure as he felt his left doorwing, previously injured, functioning normally.
He growled when he found his sub-space empty and his internal weapons offline. He flared his small doorwings in outrage and felt Frenzy twitch in his compartment. He scanned the medical officer and gave a low rumble something akin to a laugh as this boxier looking Ratchet approached with a wrench in hand.
"Try anything funny and I'm going to smack you with my wrench got it?" the white and red bot snapped as his four optics watched him wearily talons giving an odd twitch every step the medic took towards him.
"It's true" he chuckled to himself in his native tongue, the odd chirps, whirls, whistles and clicks making the medic frown at him "All medics have terrible bed side manners"
"Talk properly Decepticon" Ratchet snapped as he went back to his holoscreen as vitals changed with the now active mech. "I know you can"
"Mores the pity" Barricade said lowly in English with a roll of his top two optics, his lower left keeping tabs on the group of mechs discussing something out of his current audio range, his lower right watching the holoscreen that displayed his schematics and vitals with keen rapture. "Why'd you help me Autobot?"
"We want to know who you are and why you are attacking both Autobots and Decepticons without discrimination" Ratchet replied as he shut down the holoscreen before turning to the sitting Barricade "You are taking all of this surprisingly well"
"All part of the plan" the Shock Trooper said offering the medic a fanged grin, his talons glinting as he flexed them
"Spare me the tough mech talk" Ratchet said rolling his optics as the group at the back of the medbay near the doors came further forward again "You got tossed into our dimension from wherever you are from thanks to the tinkering of our resident mad Scientist. I know you have no plan and nowhere to go"
Barricade growled his optics narrowing and tiny doorwings forming into a small 'v' "Touche" the interceptor snapped "Get out of my way"
"What?" Ratchet seemed surprised as Barricade attempted to stand, the tall Decepticon hunching forward showing Ratchet's previous theory to be true. The Shock Trooper needed to lean forward for balance to be able to stand properly thanks to the absence of his larger doorwings "No way! You're not fully repaired! Back on the berth!"
Barricade spread his talons launching forwards in a lunge that was often a killing strike "Don't order me around Autobot!" he roared back his talons slightly piercing the chest of the medic in a vicious warning "Or I'll rip out your spark"
He was tackled from the side by something rust red, and glaringly obvious in his red-tinted vision, both thrown to the side, Barricade's helm slamming into the wall, scrambling his processors before he could even think about what even hit him. In his surprised daze he felt someone tug wires in his neck and his vision turned black.
-The Brig-
Frenzy felt himself being ejected quite forcefully sending him tumbling onto his tiny aft as Barricade raged and paced in the Autobot brig, sometimes slamming his shoulder into one of the walls denting it severely. He watched as his partner eventually calmed and sat down on the recharge berth, raking his talons along the wall taking ribbons of metal with him as he went leaving small gouges in the nauseating orange wall.
Frenzy snickered finding the ribbons of metal amusing to play with, coiling and uncoiling and twisting around in a hypnotic pattern as he strung it between two of his servos. Barricade ignored him facing the wall, his arms folded in a huff and his doorwings tensing every time he heard movement outside of the energy bars at the front of the cell. Frenzy found the pink bars of glowing energy pretty and would shuffle closer only to get zapped by them if he tried to touch much to the amusement of the red and black armoured mech that stood guard.
After the twelfth time he got zapped Barricade forbade him from going over to the front of the cell clearly sick of his whining after the 'Pretty pink energy bars' gave him a new scorch mark. He looked up curiously as he saw a grey mech with a red chevron come into the brig with a tray. His optic stalks swivelled eagerly as he heard the sloshing of energon in a cube.
"Careful Blue" he heard the guard say "The big guy just stopped denting the walls"
"I'll be fine Sides" the red chevroned mech said flapping grey doorwings in reassurance "Besides I'm only here to drop off some energon because Smokescreen wants to play a game of that new one that Chip gave us."
"Aww… I'm going to miss the first game of Scrabble?" the red and black twin whined as Frenzy gave a quiet snort of displeasure, he wanted his energon frag it!
"Yeah, but I heard Prowl and Jazz had a game earlier before they went back to playing Risk. Apparently both Jazz and Prowl nearly had a processor crash after Chip explained the rules" the grey Praxian laughed with the guard "Apparently Risk is simpler for them both to…"
"Shut up!" Barricade snapped from the shadows of the cell "Some bots are trying to Recharge here!"
"You shut up!" the guard shouted back "I'm trying to have a conversation!"
"It's okay Sideswipe" said the grey Praxian sliding the tray through the bars "I need to get back, I'll record the match for you!"
"Thanks Blue!" Frenzy heard the guard call as he dived for the cube of energon only to pause when he saw inside it. The container was the same metal cube shape that most Cybertronians used only the energon in this was… pink.
Frenzy whistled and chirped to Barricade who turned and rolled onto his pedes, his usual hunched gait stopping when his pedes were nearly either side of the small silver hacker.
"It's Drone Grade energon" Barricade said picking up the cube and standing straight and swirling the liquid under his olfactory sensors. "Is this a joke?" he rumbled to the guard who was watching with interest as Frenzy scaled Barricade like a jungle gym to get at the energon "I can't survive on this slag"
"He seems to like it" Sideswipe replied pointing at Frenzy who had liberally stuck his whole helm into the cube that Barricade held, Frenzy's lithe frame balancing on Barricade's arm as the spy drank happily
"He's a drone" Barricade rumbled in annoyance as Frenzy looked up from under the energon, his helm a mass of dripping pink liquid "Of course he's going to like it you glitch"
"Alright then" Sideswipe sneered crossing his arms "What do you have?"
"Energon" Barricade said bluntly as his partner dunked his helm again "though I'm not surprised you lot are so easy to take down if you drink this"
"So…" Sideswipe said with a frown "How are you going to stay online?"
Barricade snorted "solar energon converter in my Sub-space, military issue. Your resident scientists probably have it. It probably has enough charge to get a cube out of it. That's what I drink" With that the Shock Trooper stomped back to his berth but not before lowering Frenzy and his unexpected treat to the floor with an odd gentleness before slumping back onto the recharge berth and going back to his graffiti on the wall.
He heard the Brig doors open and several pede falls approaching his cell. Frenzy looked up from the cube, shaking off the pink energon that dripped from him and scuttled back to Barricade, scrambling up the larger mech and tucking himself into the compartment in his partner's chest. Annoyed at what could have frightened his partner Barricade looked up; his four crimson optics leering out of the darkness of the cell, to stare at the three mechs outside of the energy bars, the red and black guard, a gold mech that gave him a thunderous scowl and a familiar boxy rust red mech with large cannons.
"You're coming with us Decepticon" the rust red mech that had tackled him in the medbay growled, fiddling with his cannons "Optimus Prime wants a word with you"
A/N: Hands up who actually knows how to play Scrabble 'properly' (aka follows the rules to the letter)! I had to play against my dad once and i swear there are waaayyy to many rules to follow for such a simple looking game. Doesn't really help that my spelling is a bit rubbish as well... XD anyway hope you all enjoyed this chapter!