Subi: n-n ... (despite headache, is still happy/amused for some odd reason)
Anonymous: Oo? ... What're you so happy about?
Subi: No idea. n-n;
Anonymous: oo; Okay...
8. The Battle
I was shaking. It wasn't from fear, no, it was more than that. I found myself staring at Ravage, hanging limply from the Cat-mech's powerful jaws. Even though the cassetticon was now off-line, the piercing mental scream of pain was still raw in my mind. I froze as the mech's jaws suddenly parted, and Ravage fell to the ground beneath, Energon slowly seeping out of the punctures left by the cat-mech's fangs. Its fangs themselves were dripping with the dark transformer blood as well, and the mech let out a hissing roar before taking a few steps so that it was facing me.
I struggled to my feet. If I have to fight it, then I will not appear weak! My grip on my blaster tightened, and my orange-yellow optics flashed. I frowned slightly as the other mech suddenly stilled. 'Enabling weapons... Activating sensors... Combat systems online... Force fields online... Error: Long-range weapons not responding... Readjusting combat functions...' I heard it telling itself. What in the world? I wondered. Its thinking process seemed simpler than Ravage's and Laserbeak's thought processes combined. I raised my blaster, making sure it was set on stun as I targeted the cat-mech standing in front of him. Its optics flashed a bright blue and it crouched slightly, as if preparing to jump. I mentally calculated the different paths it could take for a quick second shot. I had one rather irregular thought before I pulled the trigger: Looks somewhat cute when its dangerous...
I was a little stunned when the cat-mech picked the least likely path to escape, and I was completely unprepared for the amount of speed it had. I wasn't able to snap off the second shot before it was past me. I turned to retarget it and belatedly remembered the tail. I felt it lash into my side, and pain exploded in my mind once again. Falling to one knee, I put my left hand on the gash in my armor and applied some pressure to make sure it hadn't cut anything vital. My optics never left the mech, and it skidded on all fours to stop, turning sideways and looked back at me before it'd even stopped completely. As it seemed to wait for me to stand up again, I got a better look at its overall frame.
Compared to the white and green cat-mech I'd fought before, this one was a lot thinner and lacked the twin barrel rifles on its back. Another thing I noticed was the six blue spikes floating near it's shoulders. With a jolt, I realized that they were battle-claws. If those get stabbed into me, I'll have trouble moving... Those are long enough to hit major circuits... I thought. I struggled to stand again. Pain seared through my side, but I pushed it out of my mind. The black and light-blue cat-mech watched me from a distance, its tail slowly swaying from side to side. I paused as I remembered something it'd thought earlier. 'Force fields online'... I cautiously began to look the cat-mech over again, but it abruptly twisted around to face me and shot towards me at an incredible speed. This time its jaws were parted open, and it hissed as it barreled down on me.
Needless to say, I underestimated its speed again, and it knocked me over. Standing on top of me, it hissed in my face, its jaws open wide. My optics went wide as the mech started a downwards slash with its fangs and I barely managed to block the bite to my neck with my arms. Its tail lashed at my legs as it fought to get past my arms to my neck. Something out of the corner of my optics flashed light-blue, but my arms were blocking my sight to see what it was. I felt the cat lift its right foot suddenly, and my memory kicked in again. No...! I thought in alarm; not that it did any good. The mech sharply drove its fangs directly into my arm. Its now clawed-paw was pushing against my arm in the opposite direction that it was pulling with its jaws. Once again, pain flashed through my mind as I struggled to free my arm. I'll not be your chew-toy, girl! I thought angrily, finally managing to shove the cat-mech off of me onto its back.
"Rooarrw!" She hissed, twisting herself sharply so that she was on her feet again and glaring at me. I somehow managed to sit up using only my right arm and glared back at her. There was a sharp yell back at the other battlefield and we both turned to look. I froze in astonishment. There was a brown-red lion-like cat-mech running around in circles from one Decepticon to another, its fangs even longer than the black mech's. It ran to the center of the 'circle' and roared, revealing smaller teeth further back in its jaws. Another one of the mechs screamed in pain as there was a sharp crackle of lightning between them all from the friction of winds against each other. I saw Blastwire was the Decepticon closest to me, and watched as he raised his blaster and pointed it at the cat-mech. A sharp movement near me caught my attention and a dark streak shot towards him.
"Blastwire!" I yelled, struggling to my feet. A moment later, I heard a cry that I'd never heard before. My head snapped up to look, afraid my warning was too late. I blinked in surprise to find the black cat-mech glaring at me from halfway between Blastwire and myself. I blinked back at her blue optics. Did I actually warn him in time? I wondered vaguely, shifting my gaze towards the older Decepticon to find him kneeling on the ground holding his upper right arm, his blaster limp in his hand on the ground. I faintly heard him swearing in his mind at the brown cat-mech, completely unaware of the black one behind him. Saved him from her, I guess... I thought, forcing myself to stand at my full height despite the pain.
"I am your challenger, not them," I growled at the black mech. Her tail flicked from side to side as she simply looked at me. I frowned slightly. She isn't thinking anything... Without warning, she suddenly ran at me, once again catching me off guard. I crashed backwards to the ground, and bit back a cry of pain as her tail lashed into my damaged left arm. Now mentally swearing to myself, I rolled onto my stomach and targeted her again- to find she hadn't stopped. Her long thin legs slanted out to the left and she ran in a wide circle to the right and past me towards the circle of Decepticons again, making it impossible for me to hit her.
"Argh!" I cried as her tail lashed at my shoulder and grazed my back. Cursing, I gave up on trying to catch her as I crawled over to where Ravage lay. /Decepticons, Retreat.../ I sent, gathering Ravage into my right arm and struggled to stand. I turned slightly to look back at them and found the four reinforcements hurrying toward me. I quickly found Blastwire wasn't among them. My optics immediately flashed back to the other battlefield to find him struggling to hold off the lion-like mech.
"Blastwire!" I yelled, catching sight of the black and light-blue mech barreling down at him from the side.
"Go, Soundwave!" He shouted back, barely dodging the lightning-fast mech as he managed to throw the brown one back a few feet. Blastwire staggered forward a few steps as the black mech's whip-like tail lashed into the back of his legs. Blastwire... I thought with a pang of regret and understanding. Forcing myself to turn away, I lead our shattered, damaged group back to the shuttle we'd taken to come to this painful place... ... ...
Subi: Yay! I wrote most of this chapter- for once... >>;
Anonymous: Break for the minion! n-n
Subi: Right... >>
Anonymous: But I thought you weren't going to update this... Oo?
Subi: I'm giving up... I'm terrible at not posting stuff like this... n-n; I think its too good.
Anonymous: Oo; seriously?
Subi: n-n Would I be posting if it wasn't?
Anonymous: True... n-n;