Saved
(Authors Note: Let me know what you think of the chapter title and if I should continue with naming them. Any and all feedback is appriciated.)
A door swung open and a tall tan and blue mech walked in to examine his subjects. The mech looked over them and said "bring the big silver one". Megatron began to struggle as two of the drones the scientist had with him, drug him out of his cell. They took him to a back room and wouldn't be seen again for most of the day.
"What's going to happen to him" asked Blackarachnia?
"Our glorious leader will escape" shouted Lugnut.
"I don't know if he can", a quiet voice stated.
"Who are you" asked Sari?
"My name is Sunfire, I am a Sercumstancial and I was captured a thousand years ago when I was only four stellar-cycles old. They haven't done anything to me yet but, as for your friend I have not the slightest idea of what they'll do".
In the back room, Megatron was restrained with his arms over his head and feet bolted to the floor. The guards also removed his armor plating on his back and front exposing the protoform skin underneath. As he looked around, he saw all kinds of torture devices.
"Enjoying your last moments as a free mech" a strange voice said.
"Who are you" asked Megatron?
"My name is Wildstorm and I am going to break you one way or the other". He began to beat Megatron with an electro-whip, tearing the flesh drawing energon to the surface while his screams could be heard from the holding cells. Later that evening, the bots and cons were sitting in their cell wondering what would happen next. The sound of a door sliding open made everyone tense, they heard the sound of metal on metal and when the guards threw the prisoner back into the cell, the sight they saw was horrific. Megatron was brought back with torn protoform flesh, energon slowly seeping out and some even was dripping from his intake. Ratchet rushed over and began to repair his wounds the best he could despite Megatron's goans and watching him shiver in pain. He watched Megatron fall into recharge as his core temperature slowly rose to fever levels.
"I have done all I can for him and Prime if he doesn't get proper medical treatment he will die". The guards returned to give them energon rations that were stale and expired. "Prime, I need you to give Megatron his ration since he is to weak to move and feed himself".
Optimus went over to retrieve the cube and walked over to the hard metal cot on which Megatron was resting. The heat he was giving off could be felt even before Optimus sat down. "Megatron, I have brought you some energon that Ratchet has ordered you to drink" he said in a calm voice.
Megatron growled and said, "I will not take any fuel from an Autobot".
"Okay then, you can starve then and never return to lead the Decepticons" replied Optimus
"Alright fine, I'll take the cube but I will not be fed like a sparkling" replied the warlord. He sat up and took the cube from Optimus and slowly but surely drained the contents. "Here" he said while handing the cube back to the prime, and when Optimus got to his feet he felt something grab his wrist. "Thank you Optimus Prime, for the energon" said Megatron with a smile on his face.
"Your welcome" he replied.
Later that night the guards returned, to retrieve Megatron again, but Sunfire had other ideas. He stood between him and the guards; not even bothering to ask they hit him and dragged the little grounder out and shot him. Sari and Blackarachnia screamed and the mechs stood there shocked to the core. The guards left them alone to think about what had just transpired.
The two strange mechs from the border slowly made there way to the holding cells beneath the city, "wow, this smells worse than the training barracks" said the smaller of the two mechs.
"You need to be quite or you are going to attract attention before we have a chance of finding them" said the other one. The door to the cell block was only guarded by one guard and he fell to the ground before he had the chance to scream.
It was until later that evening until Ratchet broke the silence, "Optimus; Megatron's fever is getting worse, and we risk the chance of rust infection every second he stays here, we need to get out of here".
"If you need a rescue, I am your answer" stated a strange voice.
"Who are you" asked Blitzwing?
"No time for formalities", said a tall brown and sliver mech. "Stand back" he said. The door to the cell began to creak and groan and was finally forced open. When all of them were out of the cell, they were about to set off when Prime stood in front of the strange mech.
"We are not leaving without Megatron" he said.
The mech looked at his condition and determined the best course of action "Your friend will not survive the journey back I'm sorry" replied the brown mech.
"We are not leaving him behind" Optimus said with a growl; everyone looked at them and slowly backed away from the coming fight. The Autobots knew of Optimus's protective instincts when it came to the injured and knew the fight would not end well for the stranger.
The brown mech said "alright, we'll take him too". They put Megatron on a metal cart after the smaller of the two strangers found his armor and covered him with a mesh sheet, and headed towards the city gates. As they silently made their way out of the city and across the plain they came across on their way there, the sound of engines startled them and the same guards who captured them came charging.