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Ironhide shot off one of his canon's at StarScream, making the powerful Decepticon jump out of the way and land near Jazz, giving him a punch to the face, causing him to fall over.
"We don't have the map, StarScream!" Optimus said as he ran forward to attack the Decepticon.
StarScream jumped out of the way, shooting off a large canon of his own. Optimus just barely managed to get back before the ground beneath him shook with the powerful wave of the blast.
"Perhaps you don't! But by this time, Barricade and BoneCrusher should have it!" StarScream taunted.
The Autobots snapped to attention after hearing this.
"What are you talking about, StarScream?!" Ratchet shouted.
"By spending all of your time trying to fight against me, you've let your guard down! And, by now, the girl should be in the hands of the rest of our little group!" StarScream returned with an "in your face" tone.
"What?!" Optimus shouted looking back towards where Bumblebee had taken the children.
"Optimus, Seven!" Ironhide reminded his commanding officer.
"Right! Ironhide! Ratchet! Go and find the children!" he ordered.
"Oh no you don't!" StarScream tore into Optimus and the others angrily went after the Decepticon.
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Seven was thrown to the ground, but stood quickly. She was covered in dirt and her sweat pants had been torn on her left leg from the knee-joints down. Her rapid breathing kept her from being able to jump as high or as quickly, but she managed to avoid attack after attack.
"This isn't going to get me anywhere very fast... But I've got no choice! I have to keep fighting!" The girl thought as she jumped up and struck BoneCrusher in the side of the face, then used his body to leap from him to the other Decepticon, punching him hard in the back. She landed on the ground, and then ran a little farther out to turn and survey the situation.
Sam turned to Bumblebee and ran over to his face, giving him a few hard knocks.
"Come on Bee, we need you!" he tried to get an answer, but to no avail.
BoneCrusher and the other Decepticon banded together and ran towards Seven. The girl prepared her arm as the sharpened blade that she had shown the Autobots earlier and ran forward, hoping to cut some major circuitry in at least one of two who were attacking her. Being within feet from tearing into them, the two Decepticons smirked and separated quickly, revealing Barricade behind them smirking as well, he quickly aimed the weapon on his arm and shot off a round. Seven couldn't dodge the shot quick enough and put up her robotic arm to shield herself, causing the arm to be torn apart upon impact.
"NO!" Sam and Mikaela shouted.
Seven was thrown back several hundred feet and skidded to a stop. She slowly stood up, her left arm cradling the scrap remains of her right arm.
"Now you have no choice but to come with us!" Barricade shouted proudly.
Seven ran towards BoneCrusher and shouted, "I've still got two, working, legs!"
She jumped at the Decepticon and his hand came up to swat at her. She jumped from his armor to his hand, which as he was still swinging to hit her, and it flung her farther up into the air towards where the other two were watching.
"Even with my legs this is going to hurt!" Seven realized as she hit the ground and rolled to a stop at the feet of Sam and Mikaela.
The two teens grabbed at Seven, seeing the deep cuts and scrapes on her back, they turned the unconscious girl over on her back, seeing blood running down her face.
"Now, hand her over and we might leave without killing the rest of you!" Barricade shouted as he stomped up to the four of them.
Barricade reached down to pick the girl up and swat the other two away when he was thrown back from a shot to the chest. He landed on the ground near the other two Decepticons and they looked up towards where the shot had come from. Sam and Mikaela looked back and saw that Bumblebee had gotten the shot off, as he pulled himself up.
"Bee!" Sam shouted happily up to his robotic friend.
Another shot came from another direction, striking one of the Decepticons down. The two humans looked over to see the other four Autobots running towards them, their weapons at aim.
"The others are coming too!" Mikaela suddenly felt a wave of relief.
"Stand down for now! But we'll be back soon enough!" Barricade announced as he and the others transformed into their alternate states, leaving the scene quick, just before the Autobots arrived.
"Is everyone all right?" Optimus asked as they arrived to the scene.
Sam and Mikaela looked down to Seven lying motionless, then looked back up to Optimus.
"We had a little problem..." Sam said quietly.
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"She knew what they were planning?" Optimus asked.
They had managed to find some quick shade near some small mountainous regions. Optimus was asking questions while Ratchet was figuring out how the hell to put a human back together.
"Well it only took her a short time before she had seen through their plan... She tried to warn us, but that's when they showed up..." Sam replied.
"She said something about the fact that they were using some sort of battle procedure... A ploy to get us away from the whole group. But by the time we realized what she was talking about we were surrounded!" Mikaela added.
"Well Ratchet? What can you tell?" Optimus turned to ask.
"I've stopped the bleeding, but she has some broken bones. The legs need a bit of work on the knee joints, and I'm not sure exactly sure how long it would take to reproduce another working arm like what she had. For the type of technology that these humans have, they were very close to decent armor. You said she used it to shield herself from a blast of Barricade's canon?" Ratchet asked.
"Yeah... She used her alchemy to change it into a shield quickly and the blast just blew it apart. She didn't have time to get out of the way because the other two had tricked her," Sam replied.
"If she fought the way that you two had described, then she really is a well trained soldier!" Ironhide declared.
"Yeah, but I don't think that she was trained to handle this kind of attack! I think we're lucky to be alive as it is..." Mikaela snapped back.
"So uh... How did you guys get rid of that other guy?" Sam asked.
"It was strange. He just stopped attacking and transformed into the airborne structure, leaving us," Ratchet thought aloud.
"He must have thought that he had distracted us long enough for the others to have taken Seven," Ironhide replied.
"Yes, I believe he thought that as well," Optimus agreed.
"But wait... How did the Decepticons know where to find us? And how did they know that Seven may know the location of the Allspark?" Mikaela asked.
The Autobots looked to one another, Optimus looking back to the teens, "Good question..."
"The girl is awake!" Ratchet announced.
All eyes turned to her as her own slowly batted open. She looked around slowly to see everyone with concerned looks on their faces.
"W-What's... going on?" Seven asked in a raspy tone.
"You hit the ground pretty hard back there, and it knocked you out," Sam replied, looking to Mikaela and Bumblebee.
Seven snapped up from lying down and said, "Are they still-?!"
"No, they're gone. Just relax," Mikaela assured.
Seven realized that she had just sat up with only one arm and looked to her left shoulder, seeing the shredded remains of her robotic arm.
"Damn it... I should have known what they were doing! I'm trained for shit like this!" Seven shouted at herself angrily.
"From what we understand, "Optimus began, "You fought bravely."
"It wasn't enough though was it?!" Seven replied sourly.
"It was enough to keep the others alive," Optimus tried to reason.
"...Barely..." Seven looked over her bent up legs.
"Do not be discouraged, what's important is that you and the others weren't fatally injured," Ratchet replied.
"Yeah... I guess... But now I'm useless... Yay... Hoorah... Good for us..." Seven sighed.
"Hey come on! That was some real kick-ass stuff you did! Who else, born on this planet, can say that they could do what you can?" Sam said happily.
Seven froze from looking over herself and growled, "If you remember correctly, I didn't ask for this..."
Mikaela spoke quickly to try and rectify the situation, "That's not what he meant! He was trying to say-"
"I know what he was trying to say!..." Seven stopped her dead in her tracks.
After a second of tension, Seven sighed and explained, "Yeah, I know what I can do. But it's not what I chose. I didn't tell someone that this is how I wanted to be... These guys, "she looked around to the Autobots, "know that when they see themselves, they are who they were meant to be. I wake up and see myself and remember that I was someone's science experiment..." she finished coldly.
Looking back to the other humans, Seven could easily see that she harmed their feelings in some way.
"I-I'm sorry... I didn't mean to blow up at you... This isn't your fault..." She said quietly.
"...No it's okay. I'd probably be upset if I were you too..." Sam replied.
Seven wanted the subject to drop so she changed it.
"So... What happened?" she asked.
"Bumblebee managed to fend off the Decepticons that you were battling," Optimus began, " and we arrived in time to aid him."
"So then... Everyone's okay?" Seven asked honestly.
"There was some minor damage, but none as great as yours," Ratchet answered.
"Oh," Seven replied looking back at her arm.
"It may take some time for us to rebuild your arm," Optimus advised.
Seven gave a slight chuckle and said, "Ironic... If I had my arm I could use Alchemy and rebuild it, as well as repair my legs back to one hundred percent."
Everyone looked to the girl again and Jazz spoke before the others, "You mean you can r'pair anythin' back to it's original state?"
"Well, almost anything. I can't repair human flesh," Seven replied.
"If you can do this, then could you not repair the original map?" Optimus asked.
"Well if there were certain markings on the glasses, then I couldn't guarantee that it would be the same. Hell, with glasses, they require certain degrees of bends in the lenses. And I couldn't reproduce those exact specifications unless I was shown what those specifications were," Seven replied.
"Well I guess we just have to find another way to find the Allspark..." Sam spoke as the others grunted in disappointment.
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Chapter Teaser!
As Ratchet worked on Seven's legs, with the girl protesting the entire time of course, Sam realized that Mikaela was no longer with the group.
She had gone to a part of the small rocky area that gave her an overlooking view of the interstate, watching cars roll through on their daily treks.
"Mikaela?" Sam asked, nearly startling the girl.
She turned and looked to him with a small smile and then turned back to watching the nearby road.
"Hey, what are you doing up here by yourself?" he asked quietly.