Chapter Thirty Two
23rd December
1508hrs
Any concept of rationality had passed from his CPU, somewhere within him he was aware of it, but that somewhere, something, wasn't in any position to over ride the insanity that had claimed him. His foot was chained with links of energon preventing escape, but he didn't seem to be realising it, and even if he did, he just didn't care. He was nattering to himself; to anyone else who overheard him he was speaking the words of an insane mech.
"Seriously, bro, Percy is giving me a major jolt of the heebie-jeebies".
Sunstreaker turned and looked at his brother.
"What? Where the hell did you pick up that term?"
"Oh, it's a human term, it means, you know, gives you the creeps, weirds you out, is scary basically".
"Now I know Percy has been described as many things, but scary?"
Sunstreaker groaned irritably.
"Well… eh he he he he… you should be scared… hehehehehe".
The scientist spun around at an unnatural angle to face them, a shadow of something… unpleasant was dangling from his optic ridges.
"Okay, now that's scary".
"YOU HAVEN'T SEEN SCARY!!"
The scientist's voice seemed to drop several octaves and almost sounded as if there were multiple individuals speaking at once. His optics went from the usual Autobot blue to a dark maroon which expressed a deep evil.
He lifted his bound legs and the energon chains snapped.
"What the Pit?"
Sideswipe was up off the floor from his sitting rather quickly, his twin just looked up from the rock he was perched on, Springer was pinned against the wall by rather large shackles. All of them felt a shudder of intense cold pass along their linkage. Perceptor lifted up his arms and flung pieces of the feeble scientific equipment that lay scattered upon the table at the twins.
"Woooh not cool!"
Sideswipe was already at the door.
"Sides you arse!"
Sunstreaker growled as he began to get up.
The scientist suddenly turned towards the golden twin, his mouth snarling and lubricant dripping from his soft metallic lips which were now cracking from the force of which is grimace was taking upon his face plates.
"What's the matter, Twin? I thought you two liked to make funnies! Don't you find my actions amusing?"
He leapt upwards and smashed on Sunstreaker. The golden mech attempted to push the possessed scientist off his form. His hands connected with chilled steel sending yet another shudder through him, he pulled back and then got his left foot in between the two. He pushed upwards but found the slight scientist could not be budged.
"Do you perceive a quandary? Are you perplexed at my subsequent increase in mass, or are you simply contemplating on your lack of strength?"
The voice grated his audios and Sunstreaker felt that uncomfortable twinge of fear creep into his processor and then it seeped down into his spark. On his peripheral he noted a black and red blur coming towards him. His brother landed a forceful kick to the head of the possessed geek. He seemed unaffected by it, but regardless turned his attention to the sudden nuisance.
"Oh, my apologies I grant to you for not considering your inclusion".
Perceptor hunched upwards, until he was standing on the golden one's chest plates.
"What a delightful time we are enjoying".
His voice was far from sincere and his optic had now progressed to a shade of black. He jumped up on Sunstreaker, when he came down he used the force to propel himself towards the other, leaving a savage dent in the narcissist's casing. Sideswipe suddenly wondered if this method of going about saving his brother was the right one as the crazed scientist ploughed into him, slamming him against the rock wall twenty metres behind them.
Perceptor gripped the red twin's head and began smashing it into the wall, laughing evilly with a voice that was obviously not his.
"NO!"
Sunstreaker screamed with a sudden fury that wasn't directed at his ruined paint job. He rushed the back of the geek bot and slammed both fists down on the back of Perceptor's head. It took the victim by surprise and Perceptor ended up flat on top of the brother. Sunstreaker unaware of the loss of consciousness he'd just caused grabbed the Autobot genius and tossed him across the room until the table he'd once worked upon broke his progression.
"You alright, bro?"
Sunstreaker asked as he reached down and offered a hand.
"Yeah bro… just a bit… wobbly in the head".
"Wobbly in the head?"
"Yeah, the CPU is glitching a bit… let's just get the hell out of here, we can find another way to sort this out".
"OH NO YOU DON'T!"
Perceptor screamed as the things inside him bought him back to functioning within the world around him. He stood and grabbed the large metal slab that was the table's top. He held it above his head, a feat that the twins and the aerial commander had to know was impossible for such a peaceful (usually) mech. The table top was then hurtling towards them.
"HOLY SHIT! MOVE BRO!"
Sunstreaker screamed as he grabbed his brother and the two plunged to the side out of its way. The metal table slammed into rock face above the entrance before it fell down collapsing on an odd angle to obscure the exit.
There was a crack.
The twins turned and looked up from where they were.
The crack spread along the natural grain of the rock that housed them.
"We should probably move".
Sideswipe stated rather thoughtfully as he watched the crack start to break into smaller fractures and spread around the top of the ceiling. Small pebbles started to drift down onto them.
"Yeah-huh".
His twin nodded as the two stood up.
Perceptor picked up one of the legs of the table, a rather large metal square and he threw that at the two fleeing twins. Sunstreaker was at the blocked escape and was trying to dig away several large rocks that were tightly packed next to the metal. Sideswipe was trying to pull the actual table top from where it had fallen, but was distressed to find it was marginally covered by a large amount of rock.
"LOOK OUT!"
Springer roared, not sure really why he should given it was their fault that he was down here. Of course, he didn't want them getting splattered or the exit truly destroyed else he'd be down here a lot longer. Both twins turned simultaneously and both jumped simultaneously to see the object speeding towards them… but strangely it was going higher then them, they moved easily enough towards Springer.
The table support didn't hit the table top, nor the sides of the exit; it struck the ceiling above it. And it hit with such force that the whole roof caved in, as the huge rocks struck the ground below it gave way, sucking the twins and the still shackled triple changer down into the bowels of the earth below.
The three lay in a mess of rubble and metal looking up towards the hole they'd just descended through, Sunstreaker was the only one who had not been knocked immediately into stasis and he could hear the cackling of the scientist. Before the dark took him he was able to see those morbid optics glowing somewhere above him.
"I'm coming for you, oh yes I am".
Perceptor called down towards him.