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Just as they stepped outside, the three humans saw Optimus and Jazz pull up and transform, as well as Bumblebee, who had been watching the humans with amusement as he watched them smile and laugh just a few moments earlier, also transformed.
They all looked to the taller building and saw StarScream, looming over them with a taunting grin, and two other Decepticons standing at his side. The townsfolk began to run and scream, getting away from the area as fast as possible.
Optimus turned to the three humans and said, "Hurry and find shelter!"
Sam and Mikaela ran back into the diner as Cat ran out into the middle of the street.
"You must run, too, Catherine!" Optimus warned.
"I want to help!" she replied, staring up at the three giant robots in front of them.
StarScream jumped down to the ground, the three Autobots moving quickly as Jazz grabbed Cat and jumped out of the way.
"We don't have time for this!" Jazz said angrily as he put Cat down on the ground and gently scooted her away.
The familiar face of Barricade jumped down from the building and was about to hit Jazz with a blow to the back as Cat jumped from the ground and gave the Decepticon a kick in the chest plate, sending him in the direction of Bumblebee. Cat landed on the ground next to the stunned Jazz and looked up at him.
"You're right, I don't have time to sit here and argue with you about what I'm capable of! I know what I can do so just back off!" she scorned.
StarScream stared at the scene of Cat giving a kick to Barricade and said with a smirk, "Yes, I've heard tales of this woman and her fighting abilities. Let's have at it, shall we?!"
StarScream was about to run to the girl when he was stopped by Optimus shoving him to the ground, hard.
"You better just pay attention to your own problems, StarScream!" Optimus snarled as he stomped on the ground where the Decepticon was laying, causing the enemy to roll over several times until he could get to his feet again.
The third Decepticon, Bonecrusher, jumped down from the building and began firing off rounds at Jazz, who took a few hits, but countered the firing with some quick-thinking leaps, striking the enemy down with a strong punch.
Cat looked back to where Barricade had been thrown to, not wanting to keep any of the enemies out of her line of sight. She saw that the Decepticon had Bumblebee pinned down, giving him hard punches to the chest plate.
"Bee!" Cat ran to the two fighters and with a hard kick, managed to knock Barricade off of her Autobot friend.
Bumblebee stood quickly, standing side-by-side with Catherine, both in a fighting stance. They both looked to each other and nodded, Bumblebee shooting off his canons as Cat jumped from one side of the road to the other, using the buildings as points to jump off from. Barricade tried to swiftly avoid Bumblebee's shots, but was hit once or twice in the right leg, causing him to be knocked off balance. Cat made one last jump off of the side of a building and pushed the momentum that flowed through her body as she turned around in the air and struck Barricade in the face, knocking him temporarily offline.
Cat landed on the ground and turned, giving Bumblebee a smirk. Bumblebee nodded as he turned towards the other two.
Cat turned her attention to where Sam and Mikaela had fled, and ran to the front of the diner, which some of the windows had been shattered due to the
"Sam!? Mikaela?!" she yelled as she looked into the restaurant, seeing nothing. Not even a single unidentifiable human was seen.
Cat looked back to see that the Autobots were in good shape, battle-wise and she jumped into the diner through one of the broken windows.
"Sam? Mikaela?" she asked again as she looked around, walking through the dining room.
She got to the back of the room before she noticed that a storage room door was slightly open. Cat hoped that they had run through there and followed the path that the two had left for her. She opened the door and ran into the darkened room, seeing another door that had been left cracked open with a glimmer of light through the crack. As soon as she opened the door, she saw three trash dumpsters overturned, one, just a little farther beyond that, still upright.
"Guys! You here?!" Cat yelled down the alley.
"Cat!" Mikaela's strained voice could be heard, "Cat, help!"
Beginning to run down the alley, Cat came upon the upright dumpster and could hear sobbing from behind it. She quickly looked behind it and saw Mikaela, tears streaming down her face, holding an unconscious Sam in her arms.
Cat gasped and ran to the two, looking over Sam.
"What happened?!" she asked.
"We ran out of the diner!... There was a Decepticon back here too!..." the girl squeaked out between sobs, "It almost knocked me into the wall, but... Sam pushed me out of the way... and..." she cried.
Cat leaned over the boy checking the bleeding from his head.
"He's fine, just a concussion. Nothing broken I don't think..." she said as she looked back up around their environment.
"Where'd the Decepticon go?" Cat asked.
Mikaela shrugged, not being able to communicate a verbal answer.
They heard some sharp "BOOMS" and the ground rumbled for a moment. Mikaela looked up and screamed, pointing behind Cat, who looked behind her to see an unrecognizable robot standing on the roof of the shopping complexes.
"Decepticon! Must be, since I haven't seen him yet!" Cat thought as she turned around and jumped to the top of the dumpster's covering, hoping to lure the things attention away from Sam and Mikaela.
"Hello there!" it said in a jeering voice, "I've been ordered to take you back to StarScream!"
The robot reached down to grab Cat but she managed to jump quickly from off of the dumpster, jumping to the top of the Decepticon's head and jumped from there to the top of one of the buildings. The robot peered up at the girl as it turned and jumped up as well, following her. She ran quickly but was knocked another direction by the quick-handed skill of the enemy behind her, nearly throwing her off of the flat roof of the shopping complexes.
"Cat!" Mikaela yelled as she watched her friend hang off of the side of a four-story building.
Cat looked down to Mikaela, holding on with her weaker, human arm, barely able to hold on for too much longer.
"...Run!... Get you and Sam... Away from...here!" she gritted through her teeth.
The Decepticon laughed as he reached over the side and grabbed onto Cat, holding her tightly within his grasp.
Mikaela figured that Cat was putting up an act to give her time to get away. She quickly put Sam, sitting up, against the wall, put her back to him and pulled his arms over her shoulders, hoisting him up onto her back. She looked back to see the Decepticon jumping away, still laughing, holding Cat so tightly that she almost couldn't breathe.
Mikaela ran with Sam on her back, until she reached the front of the diner. She looked around and saw that down the street the Autobots were battling with the Decepticons, the battle not looking, at all, good. She put Sam down carefully on the ground sitting up against the building and ran back to the back.
"Cat?!" she yelled, seeing nothing, not even the Decepticon that had taken her.
"Hasn't she gotten away by now?!" She thought as she looked around for any sign of their friend.
The ground shaking and rumbling interrupted the girls thoughts as she shakily ran back to the front of the diner. The noises were, apparently, from the sounds of Ratchet and Ironhide arriving at the scene. Ratchet was already looking over Sam, Ironhide set his optics to Mikaela as she ran to them.
"What happened?!" Ratchet asked.
"We were... attacked! Sam... took a hit for me!..." she started to sob once again.
"He'll be fine, just a little concussion..." Ratchet declared as he overlooked the boy.
Ironhide ran off to fight with the others, Ratchet about to do so as well as he looked to the scene in front of him but then looked quickly back to Mikaela and Sam.
"Where's Cat?!" he asked.
Mikaela looked back to the diner and sobbed even harder, then looked back to Ratchet and cried, "Decepticon got her... Took her away!" she pointed behind the restaurant.
Ratchet's optics widened as he turned his cranial unit back to the fight and turned on his verbal communicators.
"Optimus! We have a breech!" he yelled in their native language.
"Kind of busy here Ratchet!...What's the problem!" Optimus asked.
"The Decepticons have captured Catherine!" Ratchet yelled over the communications relay
Optimus kicked StarScream away and looked up to the others with wide optics. He looked back to StarScream and yelled, "Where have you taken her, StarScream?!"
The other's, having a moment to ponder, looked back to Optimus.
"Took who, Optimus?" Jazz asked, knocking Bonecrusher to the ground.
StarScream gave a taunting look about him. The smirk so wide and menacing that the Autobots grimaced. They knew who it was.
StarScream went over his communications relay and said aloud, "Blackout, this is StarScream!"
An audible voice shouted from the communications relay so that everyone around StarScream could listen in.
"Blackout here! I've got the girl, sir!" a voice replied.
The Autobots tensed up as they gained intensity in their anger.
"Have you managed to get any information out of her?" StarScream asked, nearly laughing.
"No sir! She refuses to say anything at all with the location of the Allspark!" Blackout replied.
StarScream's smile went a little dim hearing this.
"Have you shown her the reasons not to lie to us?!" he asked, somewhat angered by the lack of answers.
"Yes sir, I have! I've practically broken every bone in the portions of her body that are human, and she still won't say anything! She hasn't even made a scream from the pain of my attacks!" Blackout replied, sounding frustrated.
"She doesn't know where the Allspark is!" Optimus yelled, getting ready to attack StarScream over the punishment that they were making the human endure.
"Oh? Is that so?" StarScream asked, his eyes narrowing, Blackout still remaining silent to listen for his commanders next order.
"She has seen it before, but she doesn't know where that was!" Optimus replied.
StarScream looked away for a moment to think and then lifted his head high with a wide, evil grin.
"Blackout..." he said quietly.
"Still here, sir!" the Decepticon replied.
"...Kill her..." StarScream said as he lashed forward at Optimus, the others following in suit.
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"I'm afraid the news isn't good..." the medic replied, his facial expressions looking grim.
Mikaela didn't need an answer, her mind already knew what he was trying to say.
"Cat..." she said softly.
"Wait... What was that?!" Ratchet asked, looking back to the fighting just down the road from them.
The fighting stopped briefly, and there, in the middle of the road, stood a figure that seemed familiar.
Ratchet looked down to the girl with wide optics and an astonished face.
"It couldn't be her..." he said strangely.