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Chapter 2: Close Call

The girl dropped down fully into the water and inched around to see what the mech was up to. All he was doing was staring off into space almost. He seemed to have lost interest in finding her. Normally she would have freaked out, but from being around her brothers she was use to seeing these giant robots. Just never ones that looked like him. Suddenly the feel of something roughly nudging against her side. She looked over to be greeted by the smaller of her two brothers, Thresher.

Thresher looked like a large mechanical hammerhead shark. He was brown and black with a white underbelly, something very traditional of Earth sharks. Both him his brother shared the bright green optics and a very devastating bite. The girl just scratched the shark's head. He was twice the size of a normal hammerhead, his brother was even bigger. Sixgill looked like a robotic great white that could almost pass for being a robotic megalodon. He was big and very protective. Sixgill was a dark teal and black. Sixgill was calm and collective, Thresher not so much.

"How bad did you get them?" she whispered to Thresher.

"Bad enough. Sixgill got one of them. I only shredded one of them, but his allies helped him to get away," he said still in his beast mode watching the mech and his brother pace the water, "You know Sixgill wants you to go home for now."

"Not without you guys," she argued.

"Amber you and I both know that you'd be in danger here if you stay. If it makes you feel better I'll take you back," Thresher argued back knowing that his brother would bite his head off if he didn't get their little sister away safely.

"Only if he comes with us. The sharks that live here will most likely follow your lead on attacking these guys. Who are they anyways?" Amber asked the large shark.

"Don't know, but they don't smell right," Thresher said as he began to swim forward, "I'll go ask Sixgill."

Amber watched Thresher swim off up to meet up with is older brother. Swimming close to shore as a tool of intimation to the masked mech on the beach, who only watched him closely. He let his tail fin splash the mech. Thresher has always been cocky. Amber just hoped that it wouldn't get the better of him this time.

Tarn watched one of the two possible predacons swim by him and threshed its tail in disrespectful way at him. He was tempted to pick up the beast, but he was no fool. If it was the one reasonable for the damage to the vehicon, then he didn't want anything to do with the creature's jaws. The clear water made it easy to see the beast. It looked like some sort of fish. Big and mechanical it was defiantly a predacon. He could only imagine what the other looked like, turning his attention to the other fin pacing in the water.

"Tarn," a voice called Tarn from behind. The voice belonged to Kaon.

"Ah, glad you made it," Tarn turned to greet his team as they walked up. Tesarus seemed to have a little trouble managing the sand; Vos wasn't too keen on it either.

"So what's the problem?" Helex asked the masked mech.

"Them," Tarn answered him as he pointed out the two fins gliding in the water side by side, "Breakdown and a group vehicons went down to check out an energon signal and got attacked badly."

"We saw the wounded one. Do you really think we're dealing with a couple of predacons?" asked Kaon watching the fins.

"I think so. Not only that, but I think we have a visitor over in the rocks there," said Tarn as he motioned his head in the direction of the rocks. Amber was listening in and she didn't like where this was going. She sank deeper in the water. She watched the mech pull his group together and obliviously telling them something she couldn't here. She needed to the get her brothers' attention now.

"Sixgill I think we should get out of here. Something about that mech makes me nervous," Thresher said staying alongside his brother.

"I think your right. Is Amber safe?" Sixgill asked him,

"Yeah. She's hiding in water by the rocks. She wants us both to leave with her," his brother said.

"That maybe a good idea, because looks like he has more friends with him," Sixgill said staring at the shore, his head above the water just enough to clear his vision. They watched them closely only to notice the masked mech walked into the forest and the others began to walk into the water. They spread out. Suddenly Sixgill noticed Amber jumping up and down it the water waving her hands to get their attention. Something was wrong.

Amber tried to get the two sharks attention as soon as she saw the robots being to walk into the water right at them. Her mind really began to race when she noticed that the mech with the mask wasn't with them. She swam around the edge of the rock only to see that he wasn't there.

"Shit, where is he?" she whispered to herself as she inched back behind the rock.

"Right here, sweetheart," a deep baritone voice chuckled behind her. She turned around quickly to see the mech right behind her. She could see the smile in his optics as he spoke, "And who might you be?"

Amber could only stare at his towering figure as he knelt down, his knee cutting off her escape route. Her only other option would be to try and swim to one of her brothers and risk one of this mech's friends grabbing her.

"I won't ask nicely again," he gave her a warning. They then heard a loud yell and the sound of ripping metal.

"You son of a bitch," yelled a mech with an "X" on his face. Amber knew by the coloring it was Thresher. Then the glimpse of Sixgill coming was a sign of relief.

Tarn watched with a small twinge of fear as Tesarus struggled to remove, the same predacon that swam by him earlier, from the back of his lower leg. He then noticed the other one swimming toward him. Then it hit him the human. They were protecting her. He went to reach down to grab her when a large set of jaws about took off his hand.

"Back off. She's ours," the predacon flat down growled at him. In instinct he stood up. This predacon had guts for facing him. The sound of water drew his attention back to the human. She was swimming away and the predacon backed up making sure to keep himself between him and the human.

"Protective aren't we," he sarcastically commented before observing the predacon make a sharp turn he splashed his tail causing water to squirt up in Tarn's face. The salt water blinded him for a minute. He looked back up and saw both predacons swimming away. The human was sitting on one of their backs as they swam away.

Tarn turned his attention back to his men. He walked back up to the beach and over the rocks to meet his team back on their side of the beach. Tesarus was leaning on Helex. Unlike the vehicon, his leg was only torn open really bad. He wasn't missing a chunk.

"Damn that one got you good," Tarn said as he observed his teammate's leg.

"Should I get Knockout or Shockwave?" asked Kaon as he pet the top of his sparkeater.

"Considering the situation I'd say Shockwave? Tell him to bring Predaking with him. Maybe he can talk some sense into those two," Tarn said as he looked in the direction the predacons and the human had gone. He couldn't help, but wonder why they protected the girl. She was only human.

**Second chapter's up. I hope you all enjoyed it.