Chapter Fourteen

As Crystal gradually came round she held her head, "oooooh." She moaned feels like I got run over by a semi, what happened anyway? As she looked round she saw that she wasn't in the Autobot base, she knew every inch of it and this definitely wasn't a part of it. Where am I? She wondered. All her memories came flooding back and she gasped, she'd been captured by Decepticons.

"It's about time you onlined." A voice said "I don't have time before that idiot Shadowstrike comes."

"Shadow…" she began trying to place the name, she knew she'd heard it before somewhere. That's it! She thought as she recalled that he had been the Decepticon that was stalking her.

"Now you're going to tell me everything you know about the project you were involved in."

"I don't know who you are, other than a Decepticon, but I have no knowledge of working on any project." She hoped she sounded braver than she felt.

"Do not play games with me, Human." He said narrowing his ruby optics "you know exactly the project I'm talking about, the one where all your so-called friends suddenly disappeared."

Crystal tried hard not to look shocked and surprised but by the look on his face she assumed she'd failed. How does he know about that? No-one is supposed to know about that.

"Starscream." A voice called from the door "Strike and his minions are coming."

The red seeker growled, "Last chance, Fleshing, or you can join the rest of your 'missing' friends." He warned.

"N-no." she said shaking her head in refusal "it's not ready yet." She placed her hands over her mouth as if trying to take back what she let slip.

Starscream smirked, "that's all I needed to know." He grabbed her and headed towards the door only to have the black seeker rush in, "they're in the corridor!" "Well don't just stand there like an idiot, get us out of here!" They teleported just before the door opened.

"Let's see how our 'guest' is doing, shall we?" Shadowstrike said to no-one in particular a hint of evil in his voice only to yell in anger a few moments later making Beat and Stampede run over to him.

"What's wrong, Strike?" Beat asked.

"WHERE IS SHE?!" the BMW shouted

Both Decepticons looked to see an empty cell. "I put her in there, I swear to you I did!" Stampede said taking a step back.

The black mech grabbed him by the throat and pulled him over. "You're lying." He snarled.

"No. I swear to primus I put her in there!" the electric blue mech choked out as he held the black mech's wrists in a feeble attempt to stop him.

"Then where is she!" Shadowstrike asked angrily as he squeezed his hand around the mech's neck.

"I don't know!"

"It's probably those fragging Autobots, they tricked us into thinking we had the human when we really didn't." Beat said as he tried to come up with an explanation.

Shadowstrike thought for a moment before letting Stampede go, the mech coughed and spluttered as he walked back a few paces. "They'll regret messing with me." He said dangerously and walked out.

The electric blue mech looked at the iPod, "thanks Beat."

"I know you put her in there and I may also know who took her." He stated.