I'm back! And it didn't take a month this time! (Granted it was the better part of a couple weeks.) I must apologize that his chapter is a little on the light side... coming in at barely at 1770 words...
I must thank my awesome beta Khalthar for helping me when my muse is being decisively difficult. You are the best!
Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers... Unless you count my action figures... *uses my Starscream for origami therapy* Enjoy the chapter
Word Count: ~1770 words.
Chapter 19: Knowledge Bombs
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~Sideswipe~
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"Excuse me?" Sideswipe blinked at Ron.
"You heard me. I asked you what you thought of Cassandra."
"Um... She's a sweet girl. Smart easy to get along with... except when she outright lies to me... That's probably the only time I have any problems with her." Sideswipe shrugged as he watched Ron mess with the grill. He sighed before taking a sip of the energon that he had swiped from Bee.
"You're not boinking her right?"
The energon caught in the holoforms throat as he choked, he had to pinch his nose to keep the substance from coming out. "Excuse me?" Sideswipe sputtered as Ron smirked.
"Consider yourself lucky. If you had Judy would probably take it out on your pretty car."
Sideswipe winced. "Say uh... Mr. Witwicky shouldn't the ladies be back by now? The 7-11 is only a five minute walk from here... Perhaps I should go check on them."
"I wouldn't. Judy took her bat with her so I think she wants to have some girl time with Cassie."
Damn that pit spawned bat. Sideswipe thought irately.
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~Cassie~
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Cassie woke with a pounding headache as she came to. Letting out a weak groan she shifted against the warm seat she was bound against. "What the-" she blinked down at the mix of seatbelts and ropes holding her. She frowned as she turned her head to see her aunt out cold next to her, and that they were in a police cruiser? She blinked at the cage fencing separating them from the front of the compartment.
"You have got to be kidding me." Cassie muttered as she squirmed. "Who knew he'd be so into bondage." The straps tightened around her painfully as an indignant huff emitted from the radio.
"Keep your thoughts to yourself fleshy."
Cassie raised a brow. "Or what?"
"Cassie Ah wouldn't piss him off." Jazz muttered from his position on the other side of Judy. She frowned before glancing around. "Crescent's not here. She went to get help."
A chocolate brow rose questioningly. Jazz sighed before answering, "She's a little better at white noise than me... Plus she said something about being able to find her way back because of her tether."
Cassie frowned. Crescent usually made sure not to try the strength of her 'tether' as they had dubbed their fragile connection... It was the remnants of their fractured bond and the only thing really keeping Crescent around... Her unfinished business being Cassie herself... something that saddened Cassie yet eased her at the same time... Crescent, being tethered to her dulled the hollow ache that threatened to drive Cassie insane with each passing day.
"Where are we?" Cassie sighed as she blinked at the trees as they passed by.
"Like I would tell you."
"In the woods. Not too far from where ya had da bonfire da other day."
"... Quite the chatterbox aren't you?" Cassie smirked.
Judy groaned as she came to, her eyes unfocused as she blinked. "Ronnie... How many times have I told you to not to tie me up?" She growled as she weakly fought the restraints.
"T.M.I." Jazz shuddered.
"Aunt Judy, I'm afraid that this isn't Uncle Ron's doing." Cassie said dryly.
"Cassie?" Judy blinked as her eyes focused on her niece... before noticing the ropes and belts. "What the hell?!" She growled and began to struggle.
"It's pointless fleshy I'm not letting you go that easily." Barricade grumbled.
"... Why did you kidnap us?"
The red eyed holoform in the driver's seat turned to glare back at her. Cassie eyed her aunt who blinked at the holoform. "I don't owe you an explanation."
Cassie glared at him for a few more seconds before he blinked out of existence. Judy let out a long low growl along with several crude words to end it. "No good son of a broken cymbal monkey. I swear when I get loose and I will sodomize you with my bat..."
A dark chuckle echoed out of the radio as the elder woman's curses.
Cassie blinked at Judy. "Interesting choice of words..."
"Wait a minute..."
"I knew that this would freaking happen! See this is what I get for playing stupid. Damn Sam and Bee argh!"
"Wait you knew-"
Judy fumed. "Of course I knew! It's kind of hard not to notice an eighteen foot alien robot in my freaking back yard at three in the damned morning. I've caught him stretching on more than one occasion."
Jazz chuckled as Cass stared flabbergasted at her aunt "Then was there any point in all of the sneaking around?"
"Well... Ronnie doesn't know. But I was afraid to tell him for fear he'd freak out even more than he has already." Judy shrugged.
"Argh will the two of you shut up already?" Barricade grumbled.
"Why don't you make us?" Cassie snarked before she really could stop herself.
"Cassie-"
"Fragging humans." Barricade muttered before a gas began to fill his cabin.
"Jerk." Cassie coughed as the damned chemical began to take effect.
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~Crescent~
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Now... Not much really took the energy out of her, but the current distance from Cassie was taking its toll and fast. The farthest she'd been from Cassie at this point had been the two miles to the school, and that had been an irritating drain on her... but this... Crescent was tired when she finally made it back to the Witwicky household.
Sideswipe was pacing anxiously next to his altmode, grinding his teeth. "They should have been back by now..."
Crescent slammed into his driver's side door causing the holoform to hiss and shiver.
"Gah Jazz... That felt weird..." He shivered as she ghosted her way into his cabin and began to fiddle with his speakers. "H-hey!"
"NOT JAZZ." His speakers hissed with her weak voice.
Sideswipe froze as he stared at his speakers... "Now that is creepy... How in the Pit-"
"NO TIME. ROBOCOP HAS CASSIE AND-" His speakers chose this second to fritz out as the white noise took their toll on them. Crescent cursed vehemently.
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~Cassie~
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Cassie came to once more in Barricade's grip but this time he was in his Bipedal mode tromping through the dense forest. It was full dark out, and the only light was coming from his red optics and the stars above... Great this was looking even more like a bad slasher film in the making... Just what the hell did he want with the two of them?
There was a high pitched chirping noise as Barricade finally came to a stop before leaning down to place Cassie against a tree.
"Tell me something Robocop." Cassie said as he gently lay the tightly bound Judy on the ground. "Is there a particular reason you kidnapped us, or are you just wanting to piss off the bots?"
"Quiet." Barricade growled before he let off a sharp pitched whistle. Something brushed against her ankle, causing her to squeak. She peered downward into the shadows as she watched Barricade kneel, laying his palm open onto the ground.
"Impossible..." Jazz gaped as he moved closer to peer at the little metal creature in Barricade's servo.
"What is that?"
Barricade growled lowly as he brought his servo closer to his chassis and out of her view. His armor almost appeared to puff out a bit as he glared at her with his four red optics. If she didn't know any better...
"It's a sparklin'..." Jazz was clinging to Barricade at this point to get a better look at the little creature... Barricade growled lowly his plates bristling at the spirit's touch. "Where'd he get a sparlklin...?"
"Is that what I think it is?"
"She." Barricade spat angrily before running a soothing hand down the sparkling's back.
"It's a baby..." Cassie whispered before smirking. "Wow... I didn't peg you as the daddy type."
A weary red glare was shot her way. Cassie opted for being quiet while watching Jazz. His form had begun to flicker between that of his human guise and his original form. Cassie's eyes itched trying to keep up.
"So tineh... but how've ya been feedin 'er?" Jazz murmured as he ghosted a servo over the sparkling who purred... Jazz grinned at that. "Ah think she can see meh.."
"It's possible..." Cassie muttered.
"Hm?" Barricade retrained his focus onto his conscious captive.
Cassie shook her head. "Um... question and correct me if I'm wrong but if that's a baby... just how in the heck have you been feeding her?" No answer came from the black and white mech prompting Cassie to continue. "That's why you kidnapped us isn't it? To barter me for that energon stuff that your kind eats isn't it? Why didn't you just ask for help?"
The mech regarded her with a cautious gaze before replying, "I'm not exactly on speaking terms with the Autobots."
"And the guys from your faction?"
"They've barely enough to feed themselves let alone a sparkling..."
"Most Cons would kill da sparklin without a thought Cassie..."
"Have you tried to ask the Bots for help?"
Barricade snorted. "Most of them would shoot me without a passing thought. I doubt that Prime would even listen to me. There was only one mech that even trusted me the slightest and he's offline now..."
"Jazz?" Cassie blinked. "Why Jazz?"
"Wouldn't you like to know."
Cassie blinked at him before shifting her gaze to Jazz who smiled sadly at the black and white. "He's mah older brotha."
She raised a brow. Now I didn't see that one coming...
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~Sideswipe~
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He could almost swear that Crescent was beating her head on his dashboard with the pattern that she had established. He already commed the others and set off to search the town for Barricade. He growled in annoyance, gritting his holoform's teeth. With his speakers out he was left to resorting to using his holoform to try to keep the spirit calm.
"Look I know there is a good reason you came to get me instead of Jazz. And I know that this is going sound weird but if you want to try to direct me towards them do something like tap on my steering wheel for left and the glove compartment for right. How does that sound?"
He soon found himself enveloped by the ghostly equivalent of a hug.
"I'll take that as a yes then."
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