I literally finished this chapter moments ago. I'm not sure if it does it justice but I do quite like it :D
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Chapter Eleven: Help Me, Help Me
Flash Bang managed to pull a servo free of the chains, after which she took to pulling them from her body. Mercury wriggled her servos free and would have sighed in relief as the chains fell free had it not been for the mouth clamp. After both femmes were freed, Mercury pulled clamp away and rubbed her chin.
"I hate those things," she remarked. "Gearshift put one on me once when he was up to something sneaky."
"I dread to think what you're talking about," the younger femme said as she stood up. She turned around to look out the window, but instead came faceplate to faceplate with a vibrant pink Autobot. Flash Bang yelped in surprise and tripped over as she took a step back. As she crawled backwards, Mercury stepped towards the berth to take a look at the Autobot.
"She's offline," Mercury said, waving a servo over the femme's optics. "You ought to recognise her, Flash. Arcee here was one of your teachers when you were just a little sparkling."
"Really?" Flash Bang asked curiously, but then shook her cranial unit. "I really don't think that's important right now. We need to get out of here!"
Mercury put her purple servos on the young femme's shoulders and pulled her up from the floor. Flash Bang didn't seem to want to move from Mercury's side as they both looked over their surroundings.
"So how do we get out?" Flash Bang asked. Mercury took a look at the door. There was no obvious release switch, and if it was opened by one of the consoles in the room, well, they were stuck there as they were all offline.
"There isn't an obvious way," Mercury mused. "And I don't fancy trying to batter through the window."
Flash Bang laid a servo against the glass. "Blurr's gonna be freaking out," she mumbled. "What are we going to do?"
"We need to find out what Megatron's doing on the Moon," Optimus said to the crew.
Bumblebee smirked. "Who'd be crazy enough to volunteer for that mission?" The group stare told him exactly who.
"I want to go," Blurr demanded, arms folded. Ratchet glared at him.
"You're not going anywhere," the old medic growled. "You're into too delicate a state to go bounding off into Decepticon territory."
Blurr growled and stormed off to his room as a transmitter was handed to unfortunate little Bumblebee.
The door hissed open, sickeningly slowly. Flash Bang readied herself to bolt passed whoever was opening it, but found a gun pointed right at her as soon as the door slid all the way open. Shockwave stepped inside, canon level with the two femmes, keeping them rooted to the spot.
"One move and I blast you to pieces," he snarled. He stalked forwards, and at first Flash Bang thought he was going to grab her. But then he walked passed them, gun still trained on them, and scooped Arcee from the berth. He didn't bother to explain what he was going to do with her as he flung the unconscious femme over his shoulder, but his and Megatron's brief conversation earlier gave Flash Bang and Mercury a few ideas. None of which were correct, thankfully. The door hissed closed once more.
"We have to get out of here!" Flash Bang groaned after a long winded attempt to pry the door open with her bare servos. She slumped against one of the consoles and buried her cranial unit in her servos, sobs threatening to overcome her. She was terrified, not so much for herself but for Blurr and Mercury. She hadn't ever thought that going on an adventure would entail actual danger – she'd just thought it'd be fun.
Well, shot down there, eh?
Mercury was about to console her sparkling when a faint whoosh came from outside, simultaneous to an orb of blue light forming and vanishing. A transwarp field. Who would transwarp up here? Unless it was another Decepticon. Mercury and Flash Bang peered out the window, and Flash Bang's spark gave an involuntary little leap of joy.
"Bumblebee!" she cried, clapping her servos together.
"Who?" Mercury asked, looking down at the little yellow mech curiously.
"A friend of Blurr's – from the Earth team," Flash Bang exclaimed. "What's he doing here?"
Bumblebee held onto the transmitter like his life depended on it, but he didn't expect a large chunk of metal to come cascading off the Nemesis and fall right to where he was. He transformed in a hurry, dropping the transmitter which was subsequently destroyed when the metal fell on it.
"Oh no, the transmitter!" Bumblebee whispered to himself. But he couldn't stop, so quickly he found a way into Omega Supreme – a small service hatch with just enough room to squeeze through. He crawled through the web of wires and cables, trying his best to make as little noise as possible. He had no idea where the 'Cons where – he could be literally right under their support servos.
As he crawled forwards, Bumblebee saw a small square of light – a hatch into the ship's corridor. He slowly pushed it open, conscious of the fact that Decepticons could be all over him in a second. He wouldn't stand a chance if he was caught. As the hatch opened he looked up and down the corridor. No-bot was there, so he pushed it further open and climbed out.
"What am I gonna do without the transmitter?" he moaned.
"Bumblebee?" someone called. Bumblebee jumped and threw his servos in the air, thinking he'd been caught. But then he ran the voice clip through his processor again. It was Flash Bang.
"Flash Bang?" he called out quietly. "Where are you?" A series of loud thuds answered him.
"Behind this door," the femme replied. "Can you get us out?"
"Us?"
"My femme creator's been caught, too," Flash Bang explained. A quiet "Hello" followed this. Bumblebee took a look at the door.
"This is a security door," he explained. "You can only open it with the pass code and my bet is Megatron's changed them all." He tried using his own pass code, but, like he'd guessed, it didn't work.
Bumblebee had a thought. "Can you open up your comlink so we can listen to what's going on back on Earth?"
"My comlink's slagged," she replied. "It's not worked properly in stellar cycles."
"What is it with you and communication devices…?" Bumblebee moaned. The little yellow mech stiffened as he heard footsteps coming down the hall. "I have to go, but don't worry, I'll tell Blurr you're here."
"Bumblebee, Shockwave's using me as bait to trap Blurr," Flash Bang told him. "Whatever happens, don't let Blurr come here!"
Without another word, Bumblebee slipped back into the tunnel and closed the hatch, later popping up in the room where Arcee was now being kept.
"I found her!" Bumblebee said as he charged into the base. "Blurr! I found Flash Bang!"
Blurr was literally there in a flash, blue after images trailing behind him. "Where is she?" he demanded, servos spread wide in anticipation.
"She is on the Moon!" the yellow bot replied. "She's stuck in a security room onboard Omega Supreme with her femme creator!"
"Then that's where I'm headed," Blurr snarled, preparing to run.
"But she said you shouldn't go!" Bumblebee protested. "It's a trap!"
But neither of them said another words as the sky outside darkened rapidly as the Sun's light was blocked out by three enormous purple Supremes, each and every one with the face of Lugnut.
"What in the Pit are those?" Blurr mumbled. Theories began pouring out of Ratchet (who had emerged from his med bay when he'd heard Bumblebee's ecstatic cries), and it was decided it was Starscream's cloning technology in Supreme shells.
Slag it, now Blurr had to help protect the city.
Although it didn't turn out that way. Ratchet had managed to put together a jetpack for Optimus, which the either brave or foolish Prime – take your pick – used to fly up to the Lugnuts, Magnus Hammer in hand and Prowl by his side. Sari and the others made their way to Sumdac Tower, all the while conscious of the gunfire and rapidly appearing and disappearing clouds and thunderbolts over head. Blurr stuck close to the others, running at their speed. He sped up, however, when he heard the loud whistling of an incoming missile.
BOOM!
The ground shook violently as the missile hit the ground just metres away from Blurr. The speedster was blown to the ground as the air rippled with the force of the explosion. He leapt back onto his support servos in a flash and a plan quickly formed in his processor.
"I'll lead away their fire," Blurr declared. "You guys get to the Tower and ready the space bridge. I won't be far behind you."
"But-" Bumblebee began only to be cut off by Blurr.
"GO! Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!" the speedster roared as he darted out into the road, zigzagging back and forth as the ground exploded around him. Bumblebee didn't move, he wanted to help his friend, but then Bulkhead's huge claws laced around his arm and pulled him away.
"C'mon, Bee," he said firmly. "Blurr knows what he's doing."
Blurr wasn't going at full speed; he wouldn't be able to successfully distract the Supremes if he did. But every rapid change of direction, every application of the breaks, every soggy leaf that flew up in his wake reminded him of his racing days. There was something deep in his spark that wanted him to forget about the fights, the war, Flash Bang, something that told him to just run.
But he wouldn't do that. The rest of his spark was completely dedicated to what he was doing, to saving Flash Bang. The thought of the young red femme in Shockwave's clutches made something in his processor click, and suddenly his was speeding as far away from the Tower as possible.
BOOM!
Blurr thought he was to go flying through the air again as another explosion tore through his audio sensors, but he didn't. Instead, two Supremes came cascading down from the clouds. Blurr skidded to a halt and watched as the enormous purple robots fell down, down to Dinobot Island. He looked up; there was Optimus and Prowl, congratulating each other before dashing off for the last Lugnut Supreme. He smirked as he watched them go, and then turned and dashed for the Tower.
The space bridge roared into life as Bulkhead indelicately tapped a few commands into the console, and as soon as he did Blurr flashed onto the scene, having speed-climbed up the lift shaft rather than wait for it to take him up. Ratchet gave the speedster a kind grin.
"Nice work there, kid," he congratulated. "Looks like you're up to more than I thought."
Blurr gave a small smile back before turning to focus on the space bridge.
"Is it ready yet?" he asked. Bulkhead tapped a few more things into the console.
"Should be," he said. "We'll try not to lose you this time." Bumblebee chuckled slightly at that, a nervous undertone to the sound.
Blurr crouched, preparing to spring. Bumblebee and his friends did likewise, though Bulkhead's thick legs weren't particularly suited to bending. Blurr's engine revved loudly and he jumped, flying through the air and into the pulling force of the space bridge. Had he changed his mind, he wouldn't have been able to get out of the pull; it was stronger than Earth's gravity.
Everything went blue and for a moment Blurr felt completely weightless as his body was transported through space. His body felt slightly tingly, like a bad line of code had got into his processor, as his surroundings changed from blue light to a grey and barren wasteland. They were on the Moon.
There was a tremendous screech of protesting tyres as Blurr shot off, having seen Omega Supreme straight away. Bumblebee, Ratchet and Bulkhead were left in a cloud of grey dust, and only Ratchet seemed to comprehend that Blurr had shot off.
"Blurr! Get back here! You don't know where she is!" the old medic shouted, but Blurr felt he knew what he was doing, and he didn't notice Arcee stood off to one side.
Oddly enough, the ship's door was wide open. Blurr dashed through and into the ship's main corridor. He didn't care about being seen, no-one would catch him here. He ran and he ran around the ship, suddenly conscious of the fact that he didn't know where Flash Bang was. He really needed to remember to think before diving into a situation, hadn't he been better that that before his memory loss?
Help!
Blurr skidded to a halt as a voice screamed through his processor. What in Primus' names was that? It had sounded just like Flash Bang, but… in his processor? Had he lost his sanity or was something else going on here?
Oh, Blurr, please don't be here!
Flash Bang?
Blurr?
That clinched it. He wasn't insane; he could hear Flash Bang through his processor!
How come you can hear me? My commlink doesn't work!
I… I don't know! But that's not important, where are you?
You shouldn't have come, Blurr! Shockwave will kill you if he finds you!
Where are you?
But his repeated question need not have been asked. He shot a glance down another corridor and the response from his spark was almost crippling! It felt as if he was physically being drawn down the corridor. The sensation was incredible, like a magnet or a tow cable was pulling him forward. Without thinking, he began to run the way he was being drawn, unable to resist. What was happening to him?
Blurr was suddenly aware of a loud banging as he rounded a corner. He skidded to a halt in front of a door – a thick metal door with no obvious release and something on the other side banging away relentlessly. Blurr put his servos flat against the metal and called out, "Flash Bang?"
"Blurr!" the femme replied. "Get out of here!"
"Not without you!" he replied. He flung out an arm, his chainsaw buzzing as it flicked out and ready to tear through the obstacle before him. There was a horrible, audio sensor-splitting screech as the rotating weapon sliced through the door like a knife through butter. He quickly set to carving a hole in the metal. He'd made a large slit in the door, and was wondering if it was worth trying to push it open, but he didn't get the chance to try.
"I knew you couldn't resist," came a snarl. Blurr looked up just in time to take a shot from Shockwave. He was flung backwards into a wall, jarring his processor painfully and momentarily disorientating him. The Decepticon advanced on him just as Flash Bang and Mercury pushed on the tear in the door, folding the metal to the side and out of their way. Flash Bang was about to call out to Blurr but Mercury clamped a servo over her mouth.
Blurr shook his dizziness away and pulled himself up, supporting himself against the wall. This was going wrong already. He wasn't going to back down, however. One of them, whether it be either him or Shockwave, was going to need some serious repairs after this.
"Such a valiant little bot, aren't you?" Shockwave taunted. "Did you really think it would be as easy as waltzing in here and taking back your dearly beloved?"
Blurr could only glare at the giant mech, his systems going wild from the hit he'd taken. He wasn't built for taking such a hit. He wasn't built for taking particularly severe damage, full stop, as proven by the compactor. But there were bots' who could've taken that easily.
Ironhide, anyone?
Blurr's spark began pulsing quickly in fear as Shockwave stalked towards him, claws of one servo extended and the canon on the other raised. Warning messages were relaying themselves across Blurr's heads up display, warning of the internal and external damage done to his systems. So Blurr did what he'd been built to do and ran. He dashed round the mech, but Shockwave had seen the move coming, and turned his canon on Flash Bang the second Blurr moved.
"Don't go anywhere," he hissed. "Or she dies."
Flash Bang shrank back at the sight of the canon, pushing Mercury back into the room and throwing her a warning look. Mercury understood instantly what her sparkling was preparing to do, and retreated back into the room.
Blurr knew he was done for. If he fled then it would be then end of Flash Bang and Mercury, so staying and giving himself up was all he could do. Shockwave would have smirked if he'd had a mouth.
"You're more obedient than I recall," he purred mockingly. Shockwave raised a servo and backhanded Blurr across the faceplate. Blurr fell to the floor, out cold and limbs splayed all over. Shockwave took a step towards him, lacing his claws around the speedster's neck and pulling his limb body from the ground. He pointed his canon directly at Blurr cranial unit, preparing to fire.
"STOP!" Flash Bang shouted. Shockwave turned to her, but that was one of the biggest mistakes he would ever make. Flash Bang threw a servo out, and with it a flash bang charge. Shockwave recoiled as the thing hit him directly in the optic and roared in agony as it exploded, the thunderous boom tearing through his audio sensors as the light burned in his vision. He clawed at his faceplate, desperately trying to rid himself of the pain.
To the unconscious Blurr, the bang was a faint, resounding boom, just loud enough to rouse him from his unconscious state. He pushed himself up stiffly before taking in the sight before him. Shockwave was clawing at his single optic, so if Blurr was going to strike it had to be now. He leapt to his support servos and dashed at the towering mech, chainsaw buzzing on his arm. The serrated, rotating blades ran through the Decepticon easily, and everything seemed to stop for Shockwave as his entire frame was wracked with an intense, crippling pain. Energon spurted from the wound, leaking down his chassis and along Blurr's chainsaw. Mercury looked out from the room to see what had happened, and gasped at the sight. Flash Bang only glared on coldly. Shockwave had crushed Blurr. He deserved this.
There was a sickening crunch as Blurr pulled his chainsaw free, Energon dripping to the floor from the blades. Shockwave fell to his knees, wrapping a servo around the wound. The pink liquid seeped through his claws, running the length of his arm before dripping from his elbow joint. The Decepticon stayed stock still, and for a moment the three Autobots assumed he'd gone into emergency stasis. But then the canon came up once more.
BOOM!
The explosion didn't hit any of them directly, but none of them knew if that was the intention. The explosion did, however, rock the corridor and disorientate the three of them, knocking them all to the ground as they blacked out. The last thing anyone of them heard was a slow, yet urgent clatter of heavy support servos fleeing the scene.
I was thinking this would be the last chapter, buuuut I changed my mind when I wrote it up. So, there will be ONE MORE CHAPTER after this, then I'm done... sadly.
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