Woohoo chapter nine!
Still love writing this story although i am trying to slow down a bit so its not rushed and i don't have to got back and add bits i think of later, that would really bug me.
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"Seriously girl I know you said your dad is a cop," said Epps as they all speed walked down a corridor. "But I didn't expect you to be packing that much… didn't really expect you to be packing anything really."
Sam snorted, "Fae does karate, Hapkido, Akido, archery, shooting and I think she even did fencing briefly."
Everyone turned to stare at her in disbelief, she ignored them and continued skating down the corridor, she'd managed to persuade the Nokia bot to transform back into a phone for safety thankfully, she didn't want to get distracted by worrying about him when anything could happen.
"Fencing wasn't the right sword style for me."
"All of that and that's all you've got to say?" asked Lennox smiling faintly.
She shrugged, "Weaponry has always fascinated me, I made about half of mine myself."
The soldiers and Keller all shot her impressed looks. "Seriously?"
"Yep," she said popping the 'p'. "Gives me a better connection to them, makes them easier to handle if I know every detail that went into making them."
"You are one hell of a girl," muttered Epps.
Sam grimaced, "Too true. She's my best friend but she's crazy, you know she attacked one of the Decepticons that had us pinned to a car."
They all gaped but she wasn't listening to them anymore, she could faintly hear something else. And it wasn't giving her the warm and fuzzies. It took her a few seconds to realise that she recognised that sound and when she did she froze for a split second before racing down the corridor on her rollerblades ignoring the calls behind her.
She threw the doors open and snarled at the sight in front of her.
Bumblebee was strapped down to a platform and being electrocuted, he was squealing in obvious pain! Her eyes narrowed on the agents still spraying him with liquid nitrogen and the two scientists on a control panel to her right, they were going to be a world of pain themselves in a few minutes, never mind about hurting Bumblebee.
The other all slammed into the room as she tackled the scientists in control of the electric shocks with a snarl and whipped one of her knives out slamming the end of the grip into the temple of one knocking them out. That seemed to be enough of a warning for the other one because he backed away with his hands held up in a non-threatening gestured as he backed away with wide eyes.
Sam ran at the agent spray Bee waving his arms frantically. "No, no! Stop! You got to stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!"
Banachek stepped forward to join him and back up the teen's commands. "No, no, stop, stop, stop!"
"You got to let him go! Let him go!" The agents backed off and Mikaela came forward to join Sam standing in front of Bee. "You okay?" he asked the bot looking worried.
Bumblebee made a whirling noise slowly sitting up a bit and looking around. Faelan elbowed her way through the others to join them and started looking over the burn marks in Bee's armour.
"They didn't hurt you, right?" asked Sam, Faelan gave him a look of disbelief, what the hell did he think they'd just walked in on?
Bee let out a static growl and snapped his mask down forming a cannon with his right servo. "Yeah!" Everyone froze as he moved his cannon over everyone in the room, they really didn't want him thinking they were a threat and firing that thing.
Sam gulped nervously. "Listen to me. The Cube is here and the Decepticons are coming."
Bumblebee paused for a moment and sat up properly never taking his eyes off the other humans.
Sam waved a hand reassuringly. "No, no, don't worry about them. They're okay. Right? They're not gonna hurt you."
Bee made some unfriendly sounding growling noises and quickly scanned over the three teens, after seeing them come to his defence before he really wanted to make sure they were ok. Faelan stepped closer and patted his leg in reassurance. Bee made a strangled squeal and leaned down closer to inspect her worriedly, he'd seen how they'd taken her down at the bridge and needed to make sure they hadn't hurt her too badly.
"I'm ok Bee," she told him with a grin. "I'm a bit tougher than that." She winked at him making him squeak happily and pet her on the head.
Sam breathed a sigh of relief seeing him calm down at least a bit. "Just back up a little bit. He's friendly. He's fine," he said to the soldiers and agents behind him. "Okay, come on. Put the guns down. They're not gonna hurt you."
Bumblebee looked at Faelan who nodded and he turned his cannon back into his servo and made a questioning sound.
"Here, come with me," gestured Sam stepping back a bit. "I'm gonna take you to the Allspark."
They all set off towards the huge chamber where the Allspark was being held ushering Bumblebee along who was a bit distracting looking around in fascination at all the human, even if some of them had attacked him. His optics widened when he saw the gigantic cube that filled most of the room and let out an awed whirling noise as he reached up his servos to touch it.
"Ah, okay, here we go," muttered Epps fidgeting. "He doing something. He doing something."
Bee gently touched the nearest corner and lightning flickered across the cube before… compressing? itself bit by bit into a smaller version of the cube that had filled the room.
Sam whistled in awe and couldn't stop staring, "Whoa."
"Oh my God," whispered Mikaela bringing her hands up to cover her mouth.
Faelan just smiled and put a comforting hand over her pocket where the little Nokia bot was hiding, she could feel him fidgeting because he could feel the presence of the Allspark.
Bumblebee looked up from the Allspark in his servos. "-Message from Starfleet, Captain.- Let's get to it.-"
"He's right," said Lennox stepping forward. "We stay here, we're screwed with Megatron in the other hangar. Mission City is twenty two miles away. We're gonna sneak that Cube out of here and we're gonna hide it somewhere in the city."
Keller looked a little shocked after seeing that but seemed very excited that someone had an idea, "Good! Right!"
Lennox's face was completely serious, he was a soldier this was what he did best. "But we cannot make a stand without the Air Force."
Keller turned to Simmons who was still staring at Bumblebee and the Allspark in awe. "This place must have some kind of radio link!"
Simmons jumped startled before realising what he was being asked, "Yes!"
"Shortwave, CB!"
"Right! Yes!"
"Sir, you got to figure out some way to get word out to them," Lennox said before turning to his men. "Let's move!"
"In the alien archive, sir!" exclaimed Simmons looking excited.
Keller frowned slightly. "The alien archive-"
Simmons nodded. "There's an old army radio console."
Keller looked a bit sceptical, "Will it work?"
"I don't k- Anything's possible! Did you see that? Poof!" babbled Simmons gesturing with his hands.
Lennox directed his men and the S7 agents to the waiting vehicles and made sure that they had as much ammunition as possible. "All right, Sam, get it in the car! Mister Secretary! Get our birds in the air. When we get to the city, we're gonna find a radio, and I'll have Epps vector them in, okay?"
"Affirmative!"
The three teens waited while Bumblebee transformed into his alt-mode before scrambling inside with Faelan hugging the Allspark in the backseat while Mikaela and Sam got in the front.
"Set a perimeter around the yellow vehicle!" ordered Lennox getting into one of the Jeeps.
Simmons waved Keller, Maggie and Glen to follow him deeper into the dam to the archive room. "This way, this way, this way!"
Bumblebee sped out of the dam followed by the soldiers and turned his attention to the three teens inside him.
"-oh my god are you ok?-" he asked worriedly, he hadn't had time to ask before and he really was concerned after seeing those agents take down Faelan and Sam in his defence.
"We're ok buddy," reassured Sam patting the dashboard. "Fae kicked their ass as pay back any way."
Mikaela giggled. "I think Simmons is really scared of her, and those soldiers seemed very impressed."
Faelan shrugged grinning, "What can I say, I got mad skills."
Sam glanced back worriedly. "Cube's okay?"
Faelan rolled her eyes. "Yeah, it's fine."
"Put the seat belt on it," he said gesturing.
She raised an eyebrow. "Really? I'm holding onto it Sam, it doesn't need a seat belt."
He smiled sheepishly and turned back to face the front, the grin slipped off her face as she gripped the Allspark closer towards her body. She wasn't going to say anything, the cube was… pulsing in her arms and she felt as if a low current was running through her body. Faelan couldn't decide why the Allspark was reacting this way unless it was to do with the tiny Cybertronian in her pocket, but she knew that if she looked in the window her reflection would show her eyes glowing slightly and she did not want to have to explain that right now, it could wait until the world wasn't in danger anymore.
Sam pointed and said, "There's Optimus."
She looked up and saw the other four Autobots approaching them on the road, she grinned and pushed Sam out of the way so she could stick her head and an arm out of the window to wave at them. "Jazz! Finally caught up to us huh? I'm so glad you all got here ok!" she yelled over the sound of the rushing wind and cheered when he winked his headlights in acknowledgement.
Faelan pouted when Sam complained that she was squishing him and pushed her back into the back seat, she just wanted to say hi. They watched as Optimus sounded his horn and the four Autobots did an impressive U-turn and tagged on the end of the convoy. All of them headed to Mission city.
They were on the highway and almost there when Sam seemed to notice something in the wing mirror and turn to look back abruptly panicking.
"No, no, no, no, no," he chanted with wide eyes.
"What?" asked Mikaela looking back trying to see what he'd spotted, Faelan also looked curiously.
"It's the same cop!" he moaned. "Block them, block them, block them."
Now they could see Barricade and an unfamiliar military vehicle that seemed to be with him so must be another Decepticon behind them. Apparently the Autobots could all hear through each other's radios because they tried to block the two other vehicles after Sam said that until the military vehicle transformed mid driving. Once it had transformed it almost seemed to be skating along the highway and had no concern for the humans around it, throwing them out of the way and in the case of one bus just driving through it causing it to burst into flames as it did so.
Faelan whistled impressed as Optimus skidded slightly and also transformed mid driving before hurling himself at the Con and throwing them both over the edge of the highway onto the level below.
"Oh my God," Mikaela squeaked in shock as they disappeared from view.
"He'll be fine right?" asked Faelan turning to Bee's radio.
"-Affirmative-" he replied.
"Don't worry about Prime, he can handle himself," growled Ironhide's voice through the radio making them all jump, they hadn't been expecting that. "Now get going, he'll catch up!"
Bee made a noise of agreement and sped up continuing on to Mission city.
They entered Mission city and stopped when Lennox gestured for them to pull up outside a Pawn shop. "Come on, let's go! Mount up!" he called running into the shop.
"Move out! Move out! Go! Go!" shouted a soldier as they got out of the cars and formed a temporary perimeter around the vehicles.
Faelan grinned at Jazz who had pulled up alongside Bumblebee, she pushed Sam out of the way again ignoring his protests, so that she could pat his door through the window. "I'm glad you found us Jazz."
"And I'm glad you're ok lil lady, can't believe you're still wearing your skates though," he replied rolling his window down so they could hear his radio. "We got really worried about yeh."
Lennox came charging out of the pawn shop and jumped into the buggy again. "Here, I got shortwave radios."
Epps stared at them in his hands in disbelief. "Wait. What am I supposed to do with these?"
Lennox flushed slightly at his friend's incredulous look at started up the buggy again. "Well, use them! It's all we got!"
"This is like RadioShack dinosaur radios or something, man," he complained turning them on. "I'm only gonna get 20 or 30 miles out of these things." Everyone looked up as a jet screamed over head. "Are there any aircraft orbiting the city?" They carried on driving for a few minutes without any reply until Epps suddenly pointed up at the sky. "F-22 at twelve o'clock."
Lennox pulled the buggy to a stop and jumped out and started shouting orders. "All right, I want planes for air cover and get Black Hawks on station to extract that Cube. You got it?" He waited a few minutes until the soldiers and agents had set up a perimeter around the vehicles, trying their best to ignore the many civilians who had all stopped to watch what they were doing. "Air Force has arrived! Pop smoke!"
"Raptor, Raptor, do you copy?" said Epps into the radio. "We have you visual. Green smoke is the mark. Provide air cover and vector Black Hawks for extraction."
The three teens got out of Bee as the soldiers set off the green flares and peered up at the sky looking for the jet. As the jet passed over, way too close to the buildings Faelan shuddered slightly and gripped the Allspark tighter to her, her gut was practically screaming at her that something was wrong. She reached down a hand to make sure the Nokia bot was still securely in her pocket, she'd never forgive herself if something happened to him now after saving him at the dam. Everyone turned around as a mechanical tone rang out and they saw Ironhide transforming up into his bipedal form.
"It's Starscream!"
"Please tell me you copy," begged Epps into the speaker never taking his eyes off the approaching aircraft. Civilian started screaming and shouting seeing the jet head straight for them and the soldiers and agents tried getting them out of the way.
"Back up! Take cover!" ordered Ironhide waving the soldiers near him to a further distance. "Bumblebee!" he called motioning to the scout who transformed and joined him at the Furby truck he was stood by.
Lennox paled as the jet didn't slow down and jumped forward yanking Faelan back. "No, no, no! Move!"
"Back up! Back up!" shouted Ironhide as he and Bee lifted the truck at an angle.
"Retreat! Fall back!" yelled the soldiers moving the civilians further away and encouraging them to run.
Faelan glanced around looking for Sam and Mikaela who she'd become separated from when she spotted them a bit away near Jazz. She started skating towards them ignoring Lennox yelling at her to come back.
"Incoming!" bellowed Ironhide as Starscream fired several missiles. "Unnnh!"
The missiles impacted with the truck sending the two Autobots flying backwards from the force of the collision and the explosion from the explosives. The shockwaves from the collisions and the Autobots also being blown back knocked all the humans off their feet in a wave of heat and debris.
Faelan who had been in the midst of skating at the time, and so wasn't exactly stable on her feet, was knocked further than most, she flew back through the air in what seemed like slow motion thinking that she should have hit something by now, and then she did. She crashed into the ground painfully and rolled a few more meters from the momentum, she'd hit her head a few times and looked around groggily for a moment. She was in an alley? Where was everyone else? Oh god her didn't have the Allspark anymore! was her last thought before her head dropped to the ground and her vision turned black.
"Anybody hurt? Everyone okay?" called a soldier as they all started getting back up.
"Clear the area!"
An electronic whining noise was heard and part of a wall crumbled revealing a battered Bumblebee.
"Oh my God," whispered Sam wide eyed. "Bumblebee?" He whined again and tried crawling forward allowing them to see that his legs below his knees had been completely blown off and he leaking energon everywhere. "No. Your legs! Your legs." Sam and Mikaela both rushed forward although they had no idea what they could do to help. "Here. Here, back, back, back, back!" cried Sam pushing back Jazz's hood since he'd inched forward out of concern for his comrade. "You all right?"
Bumblebee was still trying to crawl forward and let out another pained cry as he put too much pressure on a damaged line, his optics were filled with pain and Sam was pretty sure that he'd be crying if he could.
"Please get up," he begged on the verge of hysterics, he knew that Bee couldn't do that but he wanted him to, to prove that he was alright. "Bumblebee? Get up! Ratchet!" he screamed looking around for the Autobot medic who was nowhere in sight. Mikaela watched with her hands held to her mouth fighting back tears, he was their friend! It hurt seeing injured like this!
Meanwhile Lennox was organising his men to help evacuate any civilians that where still nearby and berating Epps.
"What the hell was that?!"
"What are you talking about?" asked Epps looking disgruntled at being told off.
"What do you mean, what am I talking about?" yelled Lennox hitting him in the shoulder. "They shot at us!"
"F-22 pilots would never fly below buildings," he told him in defence. "That's alien. That ain't friendly!"
"You got to get up," begged Sam to Bumblebee. "You're okay. You're okay. Come on!"
Meanwhile Jazz had been quietly panicking as he scanned the area and kept coming up empty on one human.
"Where's Faelan?!" he cried transforming up to his bipedal form and carefully scanning every human in range. "I can't find her!"
The two teens, Bumblebee, Lennox and Epps all froze for a second their eyes darting everywhere in vain, but she wasn't anywhere to be seen.
"Fae!"
"Faelan!"
"Find her!"
Faelan blurrily opened her eyes and tried to look around as much as she could without moving her head, oh god she had a killer of a headache. Eventually she lifted her head slowly so as not to jar it and glanced around, ok she was in some alley way… where was everyone else? Her ears were ringing and her head was spinning, she pushed herself up gingerly and got to her feet clinging to the wall next to her.
Ok, she was completely disorientated, there was no way she was going to be able to walk straight like this. She dragged herself down the alley using the wall as a support, taking deep clear breaths seemed to clearing up her head thankfully and she didn't feel so dizzy anymore, although the ringing in her ears was still there, probably from the sound of the explosion. She came to an abrupt stop and frantically patted her pocket breathing a sigh of relief when she felt the Nokia bot was still there and that he didn't feel to be broken in any way.
The relief seemed to sober her up even more and her head cleared fully as the ringing faded away, she looked around again and was able to hear the sounds so shouting and crashes but the sound was echoing off the buildings making it hard for her to tell where it was coming from. She jerked up when she heard the roar of a car engine a bit ahead and ran forward hoping someone could tell her something.
She screeched to a stop in front of a Saleen Mustang in police car colours.
"Oh shit."
The car skidded to a halt inches from her and seemed to be as shocked as she was at meeting this far from the battlefield. She didn't have long to consider this as the Mustang backed up a bit and transformed up into the familiar sight of Barricade's bipedal form. The two stared at each other in silence for a few minute not sure if they wanted to make the first move.
"I thought Bumblebee killed you," Faelan mused before realising that that probably wasn't the smartest thing she could have said. Sure enough he scowled and looked rather annoyed, although she was curious to not that he didn't look truly angry.
"The bug didn't check to see if he did the job properly," he sneered. "He was more concerned about you squishies, lucky for me I guess." He crouched down so that the light from his optics was reflecting off her face. "What are you doing so far from the Autobots squishy?"
She scowled at him. "I told you, my name is Faelan. Not squishy." He waved a servo dismissively. "Starscream attacked and I got blown away by the blast, I was disorientated… I think I headed in the wrong direction." She peered up at him curiously, considering she was alone and relatively defenceless she'd expecting him to have just attacked her, why was he talking to her? "Why are you so far away?"
Barricade grimaced and looked away for a moment. "None of your business."
"Hey I told you!"
"Doesn't mean I have to."
They glared at each other for a few moments before Barricade sighed heavily and mumbled something.
"What was that?"
"I said I'm tired," grumbled Barricade slouching slightly. "I'm tired of war."
She stared up at his face taking in how pained his optics were, she couldn't see any injuries so she didn't think he was in physical pain but… it was a deep aching pain that he had carried for a long time, it was wearing him down and he was reaching his breaking point. From what she'd gathered from Optimus's explanation when they met, this war had been going on for eons, even though they were a naturally long lived race she still bet it wasn't normal to have to live at least half of that life fighting a civil war.
He seemed to be lost in thought and had forgotten that she was even there, she bit her lip and reached forward to rest a hand on his face startling him out of his thoughts. She stared into his optics and reflected the sadness and pain she saw there back on her own face while he stared in still awe as her eyes started glowing golden again.
"What do you want to do?" she asked gently rubbing his faceplates.
He stared at her for a moment more. "To stop fighting."
"You won't fight in this battle?"
"If I can get away with it."
There was a moment of silence.
"Why?"
"I-I want to rest, I don't even like most of the other Decepticons anymore," Barricade struggled to explain. "I don't want to fight my family anymore."
She jerked and blinked up at him. "Family… you have family on the Autobots' side?"
He nodded but remained silence refusing to say if she knew them already. She stared into his optics for a moment longer before nodding to herself.
"Ok. Once the battle's over, come find me if I survived."
He gaped at her in disbelief. "What?"
"Come find me. If you don't want to be a Decepticon anymore you don't have to be, the Autobots will give you sanctuary," she glared at him when he went to interrupt. "And if you don't want to fight at all then we'll hide you. I promise."
He just stared at her. Her eyes were still glowing and he knew there was something different about her other than that, she almost felt like the Allspark and he truly felt that her eyes could see into his spark. Right now everything about her aura was saying that she could be trusted, that she would keep her promise, she would protect him if that was what he truly wanted.
He nodded absently. "I will find you."
A smile lit up her face and her eyes glowed brighter for a brief second before turning back to their usual grey making him blink in surprise.
"I will be waiting."
A loud boom made them both jump and broke the peace that made surrounded them.
"Damn, I better get back to the others, Jazz will be having a spark attack," she grumbled checking that she had all her weapons still on her and that her guns were fully loaded.
Barricade smirked with amusement and pointed down the alleyway that she'd come out of. "They should be at the other end of the alley and down the street to your left a bit."
She gaped up at him. "Son of a bitch! I walked in the opposite direction?!"
Laughter rumbled through his chassis as he poked her in the right direction and transformed back down into his alt-mode. "Get going squishy, I'll find you later."
Faelan stuck her tongue out as he peeled away in a screech of tires. "Asshole! It's Faelan!"
She grinned and started skating back down the alley at full tilt. Right, back to the battle now, there was no way she was letting everyone else have all the fun.
A bloodthirsty grin split across her face, time to show those Cons just these puny fleshies could do.
Well, what did you think?
I wanted to show that Faelan isn't all violence and craziness although she is a lot of that, but the glowing with her eyes ties into her abilities which will be explained in a few chapters, after the battle anyway.
Did you like the little moment between Faelan and Barricade? Before you ask, yes those two are going to be close but she is also going to be close to Jazz, I always planned to have Jazz as her guardian and psuedo big brother and nothing is going to change that.
You don't win anything but yay if you guess which Autobot is related to Barricade, they weren't in the movies but I will make it so! Most people tend to say these two are related so its nothing new but I've always loved the idea and I am determined to add more G1 characters so they will be in the story... although probably not until between movie 2 and 3... but they will be there!
Please review and let me know what you thought!