****Ok the nice thing about babysitting to really young kids is they tend to take naps and I can write out stories and type them when I get home. Happy Days
***Enjoy the new chapter.
Chapter 4: Unlikely Help
"Predaking, stay out of this," Tarn warned the predacon.
"This involves my fellow predacons, so I have all right to be here," the predacon stated before turning his attention to Amber, "And if this girl is associated with the predacons here the she too is part of my concern."
"If you want her, then you'll have to take her," Tarn taunted. With his free hand Amber watched him tap the side of his helm and spoke, "Tarn to the rest of the D.J.D. I've found Predaking."
On that mark Amber observe the one called Predaking change into his beast mode, a mighty looking mechanical dragon. He suddenly came charging at Tarn and pounced on him hard. Amber heard herself scream when she felt them all hit the ground. Tarn's grip tightened on the tiny human. Despite being knocked on the ground, Tarn was bound determined to keep a hold of the girl. He knew that she was the key to convincing the two swimming predacons to make a wise choice, to serve under Lord Megatron. Especially now if the sighting were true. If they were, it meant that Predaking already had two predacons already in his pack.
With his free hand Tarn made sure that Predaking couldn't blow fire or bite him in the face. He had to admit and give Predaking credit he was a strong son of a bitch. That's when Tarn heard a familiar sound approaching and he smiled under his mask. His back up just arriving.
Amber had two choices at this point. Either hold tight and pray not to get crushed or struggle to no end and pray Tarn loosens his grip long enough for her to away. She was hoping Predaking could get Tarn to let her go. When she looked up to see what was happening. She saw Tarn holding Predaking's head away from his own. The hand that was holding Amber had been pinned to the ground by one of Predaking's talons. The two giants looked like they were in a stale mate. Just then at that moment Amber heard engines approaching. The only ones she saw was a red sports car and the other was another large, but alien looking tank. She could hear more of them, but didn't see them.
Suddenly Predaking got literally dragged off Tarn, but not without making one last ditch effort to grab Amber. She felt the heat of the dragon predacon's breath as he came close, but Tarn pulled her out of the predacon's reach.
"Cutting it close aren't we," Tarn said as he stood up. He looked down at the little human. He could feel her heart rate through her his hand. She was scared out of her mind. Tarn would have figured that she would have been used to close calls with a predacon's jaws, especially if she was as close to the two predacons as she so seemingly clamed.
"Shit!" yelled a blue mech who had pulled Predaking off Tarn by the tail and was now on the receiving end of the predacon's jaws. Before Predaking could attack him a shoot rang out. Everyone looked to see a one eyed mech with a cannon on one hand raised in the air and from the looks of the smoke coming from the end it just been fired. Predaking roared at the mech before about running over the blue mech and into the forest.
"Impressive, but weird" a larger red mech joined the blue one where he stood, "He has wings. Why go off into the forest?"
"He's not done. He's proven predacons are smarter then they look," the one eyed mech spoke, "He'll be back. It will most logically be sooner rather than later. We should head back now."
"Good point Shockwave. The sooner we get those predacons on our side the better," the shorter of the two red mechs spoke up as he looked at up Amber. She was avoiding eye contact with him.
"Is this her?" he asked Tarn.
"Yeah. She hasn't told me her name or what her connection to the two predacons is yet, but I'm sure she will eventually," Tarn told him, as they started to head back towards the beach. Amber looked over in the open forest at the right moment to see familiar optics watching. She didn't think the mechs saw them. When she blinked they were gone. After that she knew the one called Shockwave was right. Predaking wasn't done. If he was anything like her brothers then it was far from over. All Amber could do from then on for the time being was watch and listen as the mechs talked on what to do. She managed to get some of their names as they spoke. The one called Shockwave kept looking back at her from time to time, like he was studying her.
"May I see her Tarn? I curious to know why see why the predacons are so protective of her," Shockwave asked Tarn as they walked side by side.
"Sure. Maybe you'll have better luck then me. She's a handful though," Tarn stopped and began to hand her over when suddenly he felt teeth enter his wrist. His yelp of pain got the other mechs attentions. They turned to see Predaking's dragon head attached to Tarn's arm.
Amber watched in shock as the predacon squeezed even harder. He seemed to be drawing more and more of Tarn's energon. Amber felt Tarn's grip loosen with every squeeze of the predacon's jaws. She suddenly felt someone grab Tarn's hand and brayed it open. She felt herself fall into someone else's servo as they shouted at Predaking, "Come on."
The predacon looked surprise by the help, but he took the hint and let go of Tarn's wrist and followed Amber's rescuer into the forest once again. She heard the mechs behind them.
"This is not how I wanted to spend my day," said the mech holding her now. Amber looked up to see a white mech with blue optics holding her now and looked to completely panicked.
"Then why did you interfere Autobot," said a now transformed Predaking in an annoyed tone.
"Sorry your majesty, but I'm an Autobot that's my job," he said. Amber heard Predaking just growled at the white mech.
"Hey girl do you know where we can hide at or any short cuts," said as he looked behind to see were there procurers where.
"Well if you keep going the way you are and you'll find a short cut straight down to the ocean in no time," Amber said after recognizing where they were at.
"Is that where the two predacons are at?" Predaking asked her. She shook her head yes.
"Then we're going," he ordered.
"Whoa who made you the boss? I need to find Optimus and she needs to come with me for protection," the mech ordered Predaking back.
"No he's right. I need to get back to my brothers. I need to know their ok and likewise," Amber spoke up. Both mechs just stared at her then each other. Except the look they gave other looked like they were ready to kill one another, "It's a long story. As long as you don't threaten me like those guys did maybe I'll tell you."
"Fine, but the first predacon to look at me funny and we're gone," the white mech finally agreed.
****Who can guess the mystery Autobot?
