A Ghost Town From The Past Ch. 5
A/N...Well here it is, the final chapter of someone's view point. After this there should be 1 or 2 more chapters, maybe more if you guys really want me to continue this story. I love all the reviews, follows and favorites. This was supposed to be an One shot but your reviews fueled this story so it became a what it is now. Thank you.
Strongarm's view
When the white and blue femme ran out of the ground bridge she stopped after her leader and looked around.She crossed her arms when all she saw was desert. 'If this is the 'beauty' of Earth, I don't see what the lieutenant sees.' The femme thought to herself. "See? Isn't it beautiful?" The lieutenant asked. She looked around once again, hoping something would change but to Strongarm's dismay, everything stayed the same way, boring. She checked her radar, looking for any lone Decepticons out here and she confirm her doubts when her radar shown nothing. 'This is a waste of time,' She vented softly, 'This isn't the time to go on this 'vacation.' The Cons could attack any moment.' Strongarm looked back at Bumblebee when he rubbed between his optics. She raised an optic brow at that, 'What was the point of that?' "Oh come on! This is great, you can go as fast as you want out here."
Strongarm frowned when she thought of going over 55 mph in this desert, that sounded dangerous. She was going to tell them about the legal speed limit in this area but she realized she had no idea if there was a speed limit in a desert. So she went with her second option, "You could if there weren't so many holes out here, they could cause a lot of damage." She nearly punched Sideswipe as he jumped forward and pointed at the femme, "Wait, so you don't like it out here?" Strongarm narrowed her optics dangerously and nodded, 'Where is he going with this?' Sideswipe grinned and transformed in his alt. mode, "In that case I love it here!" His tires spun and he shot off in a cloud of dust.
Strongarm growled and waved her hand to clear the dust around her faceplate. "Sideswipe wait! You don't know what's out here," she yelled. She jumped up and transformed into her alt. mode and sped off to try to catch up to the speeding Sideswipe. 'He is so irresponsible!' Strongarm growled in her mind. She floored the gas pede, trying her best to reach the stupid red mech. But she slowed down as she saw Sideswipe's brake lights turned on.
If she was in her bot mode she would have blink, was Sideswipe slowing down? She growled, was this some kind of trick? As she got closer to the red car she asked, "You okay? You're going really slow." Sideswipe's engine growled, "The only reason I slowed down is so I can see you can eat my dust!" The stupid red mech laughed and hit the gas pedal and a trail of dust followed, engulfing Strongarm. "HEY!" She shouted. It was a trick! She floored it again, that dumb, stupid youngling! She was just trying to be nice! "Get back here!" Strongarm shouted but she doubted that Sideswipe had heard her shout. The only thing that was proof that he was even here was his tire marks and a trail of dust that was slowly disappearing.
She vented, he was breaking so many rules right now. He ran away from the unit, isn't listening to a superior officer and probably went over the speed limit. That's three rules that were on the top of her helm. 'Why doesn't he ever listen to me? I'm his superior! Prowl taught me that order is everything for an unit. It's the only thing that holds an unit together.' She yelled in her mind. 'Oh well.' She looked over the landscape, over the rock plateaus and the cloudy blue sky. 'This planet wasn't so bad after all, it has much more color then Cybertron but it's not home.' Strongarm moved her side mirrors around, taking in the sites. 'I wonder how everyone left during The Great War, how could anyone leave their home planet. I wonder how the lieutenant did it? How could you leave your planet and go find another and call it home? Things must have been bad during the War.'
She hit the brakes and transformed. Strongarm crossed her arms and arched her optic brows. Why was Sideswipe just standing there? She walked up to him and looked at him, she followed his gaze, her optics widen and her arms fell to her sides. Further down the hill and road there was a human settlement. It was burn, damaged and destroyed. Buildings were black with what seemed like blasts marks. Some buildings had been blown apart and were laying on the ground, looking like grey fallen leaves from a long dead tree.
"What happened here?" She asked. Sideswipe shrugged, "I have no idea." He put his finger against his helm, "Hey Fixit, got a question for ya." A few seconds later the minicon answered, "But Sideswipe, you are on a vacation! You aren't supposed to be calling me unless one of you are blurt, skirt I mean hurt! You aren't hurt are you? Because they would be bad, should I open the ground bridge?"
Sideswipe vented, "No Fixit, we are all fine but I need you to find out where we are." Strongarm smiled at that, Fixit always worried about them. Sideswipe's comm. came to life again with Fixit's voice, "The human data base says you are in a Nevada desert." Strongarm vented, she now understood why Bumblebee rubbed between his optics. It seemed Sideswipe did too as he said, "I kind of know that Fixit, but is there anything on a destroyed town?"
"I looked it up on a place called Google and there are different theories on what happened to the town of Casper, Asper," A metal on metal hit could be heard, did Fixit just hit himself again? "I mean Jasper. One report says it was a military project that went wrong and one says it was caused by someone called the Russians and one says, by the AllSpark!" Strongarm and Sideswipe looked at each other. She lifted her finger to her helm, "Fixit, what's wrong?" A few seconds later the minicon answered, "I don't believe it, in a report it says that Jasper was attacked by metal giant aliens and a few miles away from Jasper used to be a large metal structure that finally destroyed Jasper by firing some type of blast."
She looked back at the town, 'What in the name of Cybertron could do this? I didn't know the humans had this much firepower,' she thought. Fixit spoke up, his voice sad, "It says that over five hundred people died and many of the survivors were injured and had burns on them when they were rescued." Her mouth opened in shock, even through she wasn't of this world, that's still a lot of death. "Thanks Fixit," Sideswipe said softy. Strongarm looked over at the mech, he sounded sad. 'Who or what could cause this?' Her optics widen in shock as she realized something. Bee was on this planet years ago and this did look like a Cybertronian blast. Was this an old battle that Bee fought in? Was this a battle they lost?
"I think the others should see this," Strongarm said softly. Sideswipe nodded and raised his finger to his helm, "Hey guys, we found something," he said softly. "What did you find? A Decepticon?" Bumblebee asked. The femme looked over at the source of Bumblebee's voice. 'How could...how could he sound so excited over a fight with a Decepticon? Did the War really mess with him this badly?' Sideswipe vented, "Better see for yourself." She looked at the town and something in her snapped, all these years she thought she knew what War was but she was blind. Now she could clearly see. This was War, the fighting, the destruction, the death. That is War. What she has been doing all these years was nothing more than a joke compared to War. Was nothing compared to what Bumblebee had to experience as he grew up. She servos formed fists, she was angry and sad at the same time. Why would anyone kill so many people! What is the justice in that?
Sideswipe walked over to her and said, "Have you ever seen anything like this Strongarm?" She glanced at the red mech, "No, I haven't but I have read data pads on the War but it looks much worse it person. Doesn't it?" Sideswipe said nothing but nodded. And they stayed like this, looking at the destroyed human town until a loud engine was heard coming their way. "Well that was fast," she heard Sideswipe say. She nodded and was going to greet their leader but as he transformed he continued walking past the two of them. She blinked, that look in his optics, it was horrible. It was a look of total devastation, a look of lost hope.
She looked at Sideswipe and turned towards Bumblebee. Sideswipe asked, "Bee?" Strongarm resisted the urge to run towards Bumblebee, "Sir?" She ran up to him as he fell to his knees. She waved her servo in front of Bumblebee's faceplate and asked, "What's wrong with him?" The red mech scratched his helm, "I have no idea." The red mech got close to their leader and snapped his fingers in front of Bee's optics, no response. Strongarm was nervous now, what happened to him? "Hey Strongarm look at his optics. It's like he's seeing something that isn't there. Hey Boss-bot, you in there?" She looked in his optics and sure enough Sideswipe was right. Bumblebee's optics were glazed over.
Sideswipe waved his servo on front of Bumblebee's faceplate again. She narrowed her optics as Sideswipe leaned in closer as if listening to a whisper. When Sideswipe raised his helm she asked in a soft voice, "What did he say?"
Sideswipe looked at Strongarm and she could see all the emotions boiling behind his optics. He blinked and looked at the town once again. Strongarm followed his glaze once again. Sideswipe softly answered, "He said, a ghost town from the past."