Chapter 11
Now, let's get back to Gabby to see how she is doing.
I do not own Transformers.
"Get out!" The drinking glass crashed against the wall near Barricade, and exploded into a million pieces.
Gabby knew the glass would not hurt him, but it made her feel better mentally. She was surprised she still had that kind of strength left in her. It had been almost 2 weeks since the Decepticons took her, and she almost looked 6 months pregnant. The baby's growth had accelerated, and it had weakened her tremendously.
"Gabby, I just came to talk to you," he said looking down at the shattered glass on the floor.
Gabby turned and growled lowly in frustration. The stress of the situation she was in was taking its toll on her health as well.
"I have nothing more to say to you," she said in disgust.
Barricade was about to say something else when Deserae walked into the room in her holoform.
Gabby had to admit for being Megatron's spark she was absolutely stunning.
Gabby had to laugh to herself; did she expect Megatron's offspring to look like a troll?
Her dark hair fell past her shoulders in waives, and her skin was a perfect olive tone. She had the curves that could make any woman jealous, even Gabby who admitted it to herself. Gabby almost felt like her body looked a boy's around Deserae. But, it was her eyes that would make any human male melt. They were the brightest green Gabby had ever encountered, and they big and mesmerizing.
"I thought Decepticon's eyes were red," Gabby asked her after a scan.
Deserae laughed lightly. "I was sparked neutral, hence the green eyes, but I chose to follow my father's path."
"Why? Your medical training could do so much good."
Deserae shrugged. "We all choose our destinies correct? So to answer you, yes, my knowledge does a world of good."
Gabby sat up eyeing the medic steadily. "I don't know, sometimes I feel no matter how much we fight in the end our destiny is chosen for us."
"Well, you chose to give birth to a Prime, and I chose to help the Decepticons."
Gabby was a little suspicious of Deserae's real intentions, and said, "Are you doing this because of revenge on Optimus?"
Deserae's eyes flashed at the human. Bingo! Gabby thought she had gone too far, but the Decepticon femme seemed to calm herself.
"We all have our ulterior motives right?" Her eyes gave it away.
"Actually, no. I still to this day wonder what my motives were to crash into Barricade that night I met Optimus Prime for the first time. I really never thought that I would be bearing his child either."
Deserae looked at her captive and said, "We were under the impression that it was scientifically impossible as well to bear a hybrid."
Gabby's eyes flashed in anger. "My child is not a hybrid." How she wanted to hit her.
Deserae shrugged and said, "Think what you want Gabrielle, you are bearing sparkling from a different world. That is not normal for the universe."
"What is going on in here?" Deserae asked. She shot Barricade a look that could kill.
Gabby sank to the bed in defeat. She stayed quiet.
Deserae looked to her and Barricade.
"I thought Thunderwing told you to stay away from the human," Deserae said in a scathing manner.
"I came to see how she was faring," Barricade said defensively.
Deserae smiled and gave him a knowing look. "Right."
Gabby watched quietly as the two Decepticons stared down each other. God only knew when the guns would come out.
"With some of the stunts you have pulled do you think I could trust that?" Deserae scoffed.
"I have been nothing but loyal to Thunderwing," Barricade said his eyes starting to glow red in anger.
Deserae sighed. "Your feelings for the human will overshadow that eventually, mark my words."
With that Barricade left the room in anger, but not after giving Gabby another look of apology.
Deserae looked over at Gabby who sat there tense from the short confrontation.
The baby's eyes glowed from the emotion in the room.
"You are going to clean up that glass," she said. "We cannot have you hurting yourself."
Gabby shrugged. "It can stay there for all I care."
Deserae smiled brightly. "Have it your way Gabrielle. Like Thunderwing said, eventually you will be screaming for my help."
Gabby looked up at the femme, and wanted to tear her hair out, but said nothing else.
Instead, she lay down on the bed in a fetal position as best she could with her rapidly growing belly.
She had to give the Decepticons something, this facility wherever it was, was clean and warm and livable. They had this planned for a while before her capture. Her room was a former office, but she had a bed a nightstand, and washbasins. There were showers on the other side of the bunker or whatever this place was. The bathrooms were next to this office. So, when Gabby would get sick it was close by.
Gabby was free to move about whenever she wanted, and oh boy did she. Her engineering skills came into action as she looked around for somewhere that could provide an escape when Thunderwing and the others were not looking.
The only problem was she had no idea of her exact location in Siberia. How far in the tundra were they? Where was the nearest town?
Thank goodness for her interpreter friends back on NEST base, she had picked up some Russian from her friends. So, if she tried to make her escape she could communicate somewhat with some locals or soldiers.
Deserae came to give her Ratchet's supplements. Gabby took them and Deserae left without a word.
Gabby didn't like the Decepticon, but she had to admit begrudgingly that the femme was a good medic, and gentle with her.
She could give Ratchet a run for his money if she were an Autobot.
The Decepticons had also provided her clean clothes and warm clothes at that with the temperatures in this part of the world. The bunker could get cold during the night. They did have running electricity in here, which Gabby was surprised by, but with her giving birth they would need it.
She could only hope that would not come to pass. The tears started flowing as she rubbed her stomach. She had imagined so many times about giving birth in the med bay at NEST, where she would be happy and comfortable. This place seemed so cold, and sterile for something like that, and she hated every moment of it.
Gabby was starting to get cold, and luckily the portable heater Thunderwing had brought into her kicked on.
She sat and wondered what Optimus was doing right now. Hopefully, looking for her. HA! However, in reality they were in another part of the world, and who knew how long it would take him to find her.
She was to have no access to anything electronic for her stay here. Well, anything that she could toy with to send a signal to him.
Every time she would even walk near a piece of electronic equipment Thunderwing would roar at her to get away from it.
"I know your engineering background femme," he growled.
Gabby would look innocent, and say, "I am a mechanical engineer not an electrical one nor someone who knows a lot about IT."
Thunderwing looked over at her confused. "IT?"
"Excuse me, information technology, the building of computer information systems on Earth," She said. It came out more sarcastic than planned, but she didn't care.
Thunderwing growled, but ignored her sarcasm.
They had also brought her books to read. Though they had no idea what to get her. Gabby looked in amusement at the wonders of Kama Sutra. They must have picked up anything at random.
For being a prisoner they were not treating her badly, probably because of the baby, but how much longer? She could feel Thunderwing getting restless already. He would have Deserae check Gabby a lot, and get annoyed when Deserae would state the birth is not ready yet.
"It takes the average human female nine months to give birth to a child, we are lucky this is accelerated," Deserae said.
Thunderwing sighed loudly, and said, "We could have sparked a new Prime by now."
Ugh! This sucked. Gabby got up and turned the lights off. The fluorescent lighting was horrible. She had no idea whether it was night or day sometimes, as she had no windows. She looked up to the air duct in the middle of the room. She wondered where that led.
She knew they were above ground, as there were windows high up in the building. This seemed to be an old military base, from what she gathered. Kind of like when she was held hostage by Starscream. However, Starscream's led underground, this place did not.
It was very secure though. Thunderwing had barely fit into the place, and complained about it a lot. Sometimes he would just stay outside and use his holoform to come inside.
The doors and the building were obviously reinforced steel and were made to take a good blow if war came. This was a cold war era facility that was abandoned when the Soviet Union fell.
Gabby wondered how they had managed to get this place set up. It was obviously a human contact, and probably a Russian one at that. Galloway was dead so, no, it wasn't him. She witnessed his death with her own eyes.
She had a chair and a desk, and knew she was taking a chance. She also had a small lamp, so she lit that, and tried as quietly as she could to move the chair over the air duct.
She hoped they would not scan the room to see what she was doing, that is why she would be as quiet as she could.
The baby started to move inside her belly, and she placed her hand there to calm her.
This was a small office so she could easily reach it. She got up on the chair and held the lamp as best she could to the duct.
Damn! All she could see was dust. Besides the opening was too small for her to fit herself through with her pregnancy. If she got stuck, then she would be in trouble.
She sat back down on the bed breathing deeply trying to calm her emotions down.
If only she could get some kind of signal out to the Autobots and Optimus.
But how?
Gabby sat there with her eyes closed, and they flew open as she heard the roar of an engine.
She knew that sound by now that was Thunderwing. There was some commotion outside and she could hear Deserae and Barricade talking loudly.
Gabby got up and dressed herself again. She could still hear them talking loudly.
The sound of the jet took off and left the area.
Optimus?
Gabby could only hope.
She moved to the door and opened it to see the two robots arguing on the other side of the main room. Both were in robotic modes.
Gabby tried to focus on what they were saying, and tried to stay in the doorway as to not be noticed.
"You are not staying alone here with the human!" Deserae said angrily.
Barricade look flustered. "So, who will guard the area and make sure she doesn't escape?"
Deserae laughed loudly. "You? I doubt that, now get moving!"
Suddenly, Barricade charged his guns, and pointed them at Deserae who took a few steps back in surprise. "I don't take orders from you, I take them from your mate," he growled.
Deserae just laughed at the gun pointed at her. She had spotted Gabby standing there watching them.
Deserae charged her cannon, and pointed them right at Gabby. Gabby gasped and backed away.
"Alright we can play this game, you shoot me, and I kill your human friend," she said lowly.
Gabby sighed a little on the inside. Here we go again! A gun pointed at her, threats to shoot her, when would that stop?
However, she didn't know Barricade would react; he might just let Deserae do it, whereas Ironhide would have tried to protect her.
After a few tense moments, Barricade discharged his guns, and turned. He stared down Gabby for a moment, and transformed and left silently. Deserae discharged her guns, and looked over at Gabby, but to Gabby's surprise didn't say a word.
What was going on? Were the Autobots here?
Gabby decided it would be best to keep her mouth shut, and she was feeling nauseous.
She walked over the bathroom and vomited her meal. She sat on the floor for a few minutes praying Optimus would get there soon.
