Chapter III: Rewrite

Chapter 3

What will become of us?

The walk lasted hours and Amelia was exhausted, Barricade hadn't let her sleep because he though it was "entertaining" to watch her shaking with fear, as he talked about his history. He mainly talked about the war, and how he slaughtered many of the pathetic Autobots, about how he tortured them for information and slowly killed them in front of their friends and loved ones. O, how he loved to here those bots scream for mercy. Amelia just looked up at him, nodded and waited. He told her that she would not speak unless she was spoken to, Amelia learnt this the hard way. She was worried about Abigail, the fact that she had still not regained consciousness was bothering Amelia. The only good thing about her being like that, was that she did not have to listen to Amelia's whimpering or yelps of pain as Barricade held her.

When it was about midday they arrived at, was she presumed was, there Decepticon base. The base was hidden in a rather large crevice on top of a colossal canyon Barricade had climbed up with ease. After he gracefully landed at the bottom of it, he walked forward into a cave looking hole in the rock's jagged walls. It was dark and damp and it smelt like wet earth. As they were walking through the long cave, Amelia heard Barricades footsteps, which sounded like small thuds, grow more intimidating as the ground they were waling was now plated with sheets of clean, thick metal. There were also lights on the celling of the tunnel, they emitted a soft eerie purple glow, which only dimly lit the rest of the way down the never-ending passageway. The further they went the lighter the tunnel became, this only added to Amelia's fear of what might happen to them.

"Barricade reporting to base, come in."

"Barricade, acknowledged. Where have you been?"

"Scouting. You'll never guess what I found."

"You found a big stash of energon?"

"You'll find out soon enough. I'll meet you and Knockout in med bay. Barricade out."

Barricade smirked to himself. Breakdown and Knockout would be very happy with their new test subjects, especially these ones because they were so young and fresh.

Amelia shuddered at the word 'med bay'. She hated hospitals, doctors, nurses and especially needles, the whole shebang just gave her the creeps. Needles were and would always be her sworn enemy and no one could change that. The fact that they were going to a so-called 'med bay' made Amelia want to scream and cry for help, but she knew that she stood no chance against this giant, if she so much a whimpered he would squish her painfully. Then they stopped in front of some kind of door, the door slid open and they entered. The room was big, in the middle of it were about ten or metal examining tables, to the side there were some as well, and there were a tone of scary looking tools arranged neatly on the walls. The place smelt of disinfectant and antibiotics, you know, the smell you usually pick up in a hospital or at the dentists. Barricade walked to one side of the room, with the two fleshlings still locked tightly in his grasp, he stopped in front of two other robots. One of them was red and the other blue, Amelia immediately identified them as Knockout and Breakdown. She felt the mec's looking down at her, Knockout had a glint of excitement in his blood red optics, and Breakdown wore a similar expression. She gulped, she did not like this at all. After Barricade had a little chat about Abby and Amelia he handed her to Knockout and Abby to Breakdown and left.

"Starglider hmmm?" Knockout said looking down at her small form. Amelia looked up at him and nodded.

"What this one called?" Breakdown said as held my friend up for Knockout to see.

"O, you can give it a name." Knockout said as he waved to his servo in his assistant's dismissal.

"OK…" Breakdown said thoughtfully

"What about Spaceout?"

"Yeh, sounds good" Knockout said sounding a little uninterested.

"Shall we put them with the others?" Breakdown questioned.

"No, lets keep these separate. Barricade wanted Starglider to be his pet, so just give them a separate room." Knockout said slyly.

"Ok." Breakdown agreed smiling to himself. This one seemed to be a nice one, it was not too strong and it was a female and pretty weak.

"Can I keep this one a my pet?" Breakdown asked, as he looked Abigail over in his large servo.

"Shure, as long as you keep it locked up." Knockout said

"Oooo, I will, don't you worry." Breakdown said grinning. This was going to fun. He now had his own pet he could do what ever he wanted with.