A/N: okay now, who is ready for an intense chapter.

Chapter 25

Lennox stood frozen in place, looking up at the brick building that was about to fall on him, he faintly heard Epps screaming his name. Before he could even react to the situation, he felt a Cybertronian servo wrapping around him and got yanked out of the way. He felt his heart literally beating out of his chest, holding onto his gun tightly, he looked up to see Mirage and beside him was Elita, the femme Commander. "Are you all right?" Elita asked, as Mirage safely put him down on his own two feet.

"I will be," Lennox breathed. He looked at Epps, giving his friend a reassuring nod that he was indeed all right given the circumstances. Lennox took a breath. "Where's the others?"

"Helping Jazz with the other side," Mirage said. "We are helping here."

Lennox checked his weapon to make sure he still had bullets left. "Taking control here, is what you need to do," he said, getting confused looks from the two Autobots and one from Epps, when he was reloading his weapon. "Nightfire is out there and he has nothing to protect him," he said. "I'm going out."

"So am I," Epps jumped in. The two Autobots were silent, probably talking on their comm link about if they should let them go. "It's not an arguable debate. Plus would you rather tell Prowl and Jazz that their son is dead."

Mirage was silent and so was Elita; the femme spoke up, "Would you rather us telling Nightfire that the both of you are dead?"

"Worth the risk," Epps murmured.

Lennox looked out at the damaged city; streets were torn apart, buildings were barely standing and somewhere among the chaos the boy was out there. Him and Epps had promised the boy when he was little that nothing would will ever harm him; they had failed on some occasions when they either weren't state side or they didn't know about since Nightfire didn't tell them, but the older humans had made it right to the boy. They did everything they can to make sure that he knows that he wasn't alone and that he could always go to them. In a sense, Epps and Lennox was just a human version of Prowl and Jazz. He looked back at the Autobots, standing in front of him, unsure if they should let them go. "He's worth it."

Elita nodded, understanding the human. "Be safe."

Epps and Lennox nodded, before gathering their gear and headed into the chaotic streets. They were going to find the boys.

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Sam and Nightfire had finally found an alley that wasn't destroyed nor was on the Decepticon's radar…yet. They ran to the dumpster, trying to catch their breath. Nightfire shifted the Allspark in his arms, he was surprised that none of the Cybertronians had picked up the Allspark's signal, but then again, the thing didn't show any signs that it was even online. He went to the edge of the building, and looked for any signs that they were being followed until his eyes caught a tall building that was still intact. He knew about the building; it used to be a factory until several years ago and now it was abandoned and that was the place that they needed to get to. He looked back at his friend whom was leaning against the dumpster, and waved him over. "Sam," he whispered. Sam pushed himself off and quickly headed over. "See that building right there?" Nightfire pointed, Sam nod. "It's abandoned and we need to get to it."

"Are…you…sure we are going to…. make it?" Sam said in between breathes.

Nightfire nodded. "If we get separated or if you feel like you can't continue, hide. Once I have the Allspark safe, I will come and find you."

"You have everything planned out, don't you?" Sam looked at his friend.

"Barely."

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Lennox and Epps had some minor delays thanks to the Decepticons but it was quickly resolved by the Autobots. Prowl, Hound, Optimus Prime, Sunstreaker and Sideswipe had taken on their Decepticon problem. When he had a chance, Lennox had quickly filled in why they weren't back with the others, and Prowl wanted to go with them, they denied the help and Prime denied him from going at the moment but assured him he will eventually catch up to the humans. The two soldiers pushed forward, shooting and bringing down Decepticons along as they go. Their next scene with the Decepticons was when they found Smokescreen on the ground holding his side as a Decepticon was ready for the kill shot and Bumblebee was fighting two more to get to his friend. Epps and Lennox pointed their weapons at two of the Decepticons and started firing at them, making the 'cons stumble back in surprise. Bumblebee killed the 'con that was holding on to him and the other that was blocking his way to get to Smokescreen while Lennox and Epps killed the 'con that was about to kill the scout.

Bumblebee collapsed down near his friend, checking him over for any more damage. Lennox and Epps ran to them. "Are you two okay?" Epps asked, as he stared at the scouts.

Bee was surprised to see the human soldiers leave their post, Smokescreen was to busy dealing with the pain at the moment to freak out at them. "If you two weren't here, we'd be dead," Bee admitted. The soldiers gave the yellow scout a 'you're -welcome' nod. Bee looked at the energon that was seeping through Smokescreen's servo as he was putting pressure on the wound. He removed his friend's servo, Smokescreen hissed in pain. The wound was deep, but Bee couldn't tell how deep it was due to the energon that was leaking out of it. "Scrap. I need to get you to Ratchet."

"I'll be fine," Smokescreen said, trying to brush off the fact that he could be dying.

Bee rolled his optics and helped his friend up. "Do you know which direction Nightfire and Sam went?" Lennox asked in desperation.

"I saw them go straight," Smokescreen said, wincing at the idea that Nightfire and the other boy could be dead and the fact that he would have to see Ratchet. "I don't know where they went after that."

Lennox nodded, Epps grabbed his arm and dragged him along. "Where are you going?" Bee turned around with Smokescreen as the humans ran off.

"To find them!" Epps shouted back.

"We need to fall back!" Bee called out, hoping that they would turn around and come back with them.

"Negative!" Lennox and Epps shouted. Right now they were on a race against time. They had to get to the boy before something bad happens and right now all the two soldiers can feel was a sick feeling deep within their gut.

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So far the boys were keeping pace with each other. Nightfire had to keep his grip on the Allspark as tight as he could, and it was starting to become impossible now, but they were almost to the building. They could still hear guns being fired. Sam was looking around their surrounding and noticed a semi had been tossed in the air and was about to land on them. "Holy shit!" Sam panicked and separated from Nightfire.

Nightfire looked back and didn't see his friend anymore and mentally cursed. However, he did notice the semi coming to him and that made him pick up his speed. He ran inside the abandoned factory, the semi had just landed and crashed the entrance way. Nightfire backed away a bit before putting the Allspark down to catch his breath.

"Well, now," he heard a voice, making him to straighten up in alert, "what a surprise." He knew that voice all too well. It belonged to Galloway. Nightfire watched as Galloway walked out of the shadows with a gun in his hands. "I believe we are overdue for this."

A/N: oooooooooooooooooooooou. Reviews. Reviews, my friends.

Now, I had to rewrite this chapter a few times because I wasn't sure how I wanted it and how it would end but I think I did a pretty damn good job XD

It's a race against time now. Will Epps and Lennox make it to Nightfire on time to take down Galloway?

We shall see.

*evil laughs*