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Chapter 32: Situation Gone Haywire

Barricade left not without an aching spark as he hurriedly replaced Hook's post with Knockout serving as the attendant for medical needs while their CMO was gone to check out the femme. He didn't need to be told twice earlier about what he was supposed to do but anger still grew in his spark for their leader. The crowd made his mood worse as they kept on trying to leave the hangar while their gathering hasn't been dismissed.

Starscream was screeching for the lot to shut up and stay put but the seeker's voice was drowned out by the noise around them. Even Shockwave had resulted in violence before his part of the crowd stood still in their positions and came to shut up.

Being the mood that he was in, he too, had resulted to violence. A mech that was about a helm bigger than him had come up and screamed at him to moved was the unfortunate one as he got a bitter taste of his foul swing, leaving the other with far greater damage the others thought would been an advantage in battle.

The unfortunate mech was on the verge of off-lining when Barricade growled loudly and tossed the mech into the crowd, effectively shutting all of their vocal processors for fear of being the next subject. "Fragging shut up or you'll be the next! Permission to terminate had been approved…" The black and white Con's tensions never wavered as he gritted his dentas with a glowered. Even if Megatron hadn't really given that order clearance, he was not in the mood to tolerate all of this slag.

After that little tantrum, that enabled all of the main original Cons to tone down the disaster as Knockout sighed and treated the heavily damaged mech in the center. Barricade was still keeping his post as he dared the mechs glancing towards his direction which were still intent on going but had to and stay where they are in fear of him. If it were any other day, he would be amused at this sight before him but this isn't just some 'day'…

The new arrivals couldn't think of a reason why the he was so agitated but the original ones who had stayed far longer and before this all knew too well why as they had received the message loud and clear from just watching how the mech acted. No need for announcements, no need for the other to voice it out… One look at how the black and white mech was all it had taken to figure what had just gone in their Lords absence along with Hook's.

They should have known that it was really inevitable to keep the femme away from harm even if they had locked her in that little box she calls quarters. With the femme gone now… They knew that their Lord expects them to be able to secure their duties. The question now was, had they done the right decision to approve of such act as to take the femme out of the equation when this was all for her? They hope that this won't slap them back in the face plates when the time comes as the human's say about Karma.

For Barricade though, he couldn't help hate the femme for being the human she was. That human femme was too nosy for her own good and couldn't just stay in place for just a joor! If she hadn't, then Megatron wouldn't have to send her away. A personality like hers is what they had been trying to subtly handle as this plan had run along but no matter how planned it had been, they should have foreseen that she would still be able to escape what they had done like the smart girl she is.

He couldn't also help get angry at Megatron for deciding on that… They had so many choices in order to carry out their plan… And what had they chosen? To slagging take the femme back to their planet! That was the only place that she could be hidden as the Lord had elaborated. It would hide her from prying eyes of those still rogue cons in their ranks but that means doesn't mean that she wouldn't come barreling back in to them! He had given them insight that the femme was hard headed as slag and would stop at nothing to come back and step into the field even if she didn't know what in the pit is going on. And with her presence uncertain and unmonitored, that just gives them load of slag to take care of once the plan is in session… And what of the Autobots… surely, they would want her back…

A growl escaped him in his anger driven thought as he gave off a threatening aura. The next con to him -the one who had seen Shein out of it- whimpered and cowered in fear but never left his own post. It was awful to know that his image had change even if it was the slightest but for sure, it was reestablished again right here, right now… And when he meant that he was a Decepticon, he was a deadly one for sure.

Currently, his spark felt like it was being torn apart for the nth time this lunar cycle. For another moment, he felt numb and emotionless, same like what he had felt when since the war turned for the worse and the planet had fallen. His processor was playing all those files where Shein was there with him, again and again and again… A never ending cycle… Every memory file popped in to remind him what had the femme had given back when he was sure that he could have just squished her offline.

That corrupted side of him that Shein managed to fix was awfully cracking again but this time… It was faster than what he had anticipated. Loss… That is what he had not wanted for her to be. He bought her here, she stayed, she endured, she mended… She brought them back and opened them all to one another. He would be damned if what she had done would be gone to a waste if she were to just disappear. His spark knew something he cannot comprehend no matter how many times he computes.

He was so lost in his own processors until he was snapped away when he heard the familiar voice that had screamed in pain from the distance... If it weren't for the fact that he was near the entrance, he wouldn't have heard it. That thought made his spark grow colder by the minute before he heard laughter echoing after that fading scream. With a swift look at the one who had alerted them of Shein's condition, he growled a 'stay' before he tore away from the door way and into the halls.

The poor mech he had left was stunned shock as his processors stopped for the duration as his own systems seemed to halt. Now only was he the only one but almost all of who had been paying attention to the black and white mech had done the same. Some couldn't help lubricate from that look of Unicron and some just went into stasis, creating another chaos that was never ending.

For the original mechs present that were left behind, were suddenly stunned by this. But as they gaze at where the commotion had started, they saw that Barricade wasn't present. Wondering what happened but never leaving their post, they tried to subdue them all again until there was a plasma shot ringing from the direction where Barricade had gone along with a loud war cry that made every single one of them cringed in pain for their audios blared from the high frequency it had brought.

Shein felt completely empty and shattered for the first time in her life. This pain and emptiness was far worse if she compares it to what she had felt before. Her resolution tightened on the thought that the pieces she had tried to patch back can never be repaired again as the now hollow spot in her heart ache so badly she wanted to just let the air space drift her off the end of the galaxy where she could cry herself out.

She didn't feel Hook take her out of the Lord's quarters as he placed her into the table and scanned her. She was still with not a single emotion coming over those soft features of hers. The state she was in had gripped Hook's spark in such a way that he felt so useless and slagging tired. He could not determine what had been going on in the girl's limp state if she does not talk to him. With all these machines around him, he did not know for the first time what he was supposed to do.

As a medic that the girl had adored so much, and had helped him so much, he was helpless to reciprocate those but once again, her voice echoes in his processors. He did not need to be told twice by that imaginary voice, he got the idea and what he was supposed to do now. As soon as determination went through his frame, he turned and left the med bay sealed in order to confront their Lord. He needed to talk with Megatron even if he knows that the other wouldn't like their soon to be topic but he needs the mech to understand something they had been critically doing to her while they tried to hide her condition that had slowly was deteriorating her mental state. This drastic action to pull her out would give likely depreciate her even more…

By the time that Hook had left though, Shein was mentally awake while her hands crumpled the sheet that had her tucked in. Her eyes slowly opened and remained hooded without focus as her body felt so light and non-existent.

"I thought that I had gotten myself the greatest family I could ever be given. I thought that you guys love me the way I do… I thought you were the ones that Primus had given me in reward for enduring my whole life full of difficulties… You guys had been the bestest gift I could ever have… I-I had come to love you lot to the deepest part of my own spark… I'm sorry I wasn't good enough… I'm sorry… I'm sorry" As her little speech died from her lips, tears sprung from the corners of her eyes. The thousand needle pain was all too much for her that she couldn't help to let it all out as her heart thumped rapidly in her chest and her breathing become ragged.

Stiff and heavy was her body but she moved to the side and slid out of her sheets. Her feet hanged on the edge before she leaned her body and let herself fall. Letting go was the hardest thing she could do with white knuckles gripping everything she can but she should have known better that not all things can be held in such small things.

Shein had dropped down to the floor with a loud thud and a broken ankle from the little dip. Not even cringing in the slightest as she got a look and noticed that she was in Hook's med bay. Her head eyes turning back to the door, she made herself trudge. She could not care less as she started her way out while limping. The emotional pain over shadowed the physical one as she staggered and slid into a small entrance she had made for herself in times like this where Hook was shouldn't be bothered for such a simple things like her.

She used the walls to support her frail frame with every step she made in order to reach her little house. At least, she could wallow in her anxiety silently there. If the Lord wanted her out, she wouldn't let Hook stop the decision just because she was having another mental breakdown.

Just a few more turns, Shein would have reached her destination… Until she felt the air slammed out of her lungs and her body went flying. Her vision was blurry but she did manage to get a look on what the heck had she been hit with. It was a pede… A pede had kicked her in her durable state.

"Looky here! There is one of those fleshy insects! Maybe this one got out of its cage!" A mech that was certainly a new face here on the Nemesis said as he enthusiastically called over his surprised friend at the side. With mirth, they went closer to look at the broken form as Shein's body slid down with her blood trailing her path south and to the floor.

"Ohhhh… Let's see how she would go boom when I use my new weapon that I had swiped from their lab…!" The other said as he held up what looks like a power saw or pizza cutter that was larger than the normal human one but not as large. It was in the size of the mech's servo with a handle on it as it spun its blades with a little hiss.

"It isn't dead, is it?" The mech which had kicked her had asked as he noticed that Shein hadn't screamed or moved as the events transpired. The mechs knew that humans are terrified of them, so why isn't this one? It just stayed there, over a pool of red pinkish liquid. One of her limbs were twisted in such a horrid way as arms were on the sides and unmoving.

The mechs didn't know that she was in an extensive repair state as her system tries to seal all the cracks and holes that leaked out her blood. The bruises were ignored for now as they worked on the cracked skull and the punctured part of the brain. The broken leg was being shifted slowly so they could mend it while every little thing was ignored. It took a lot out of her energy and left her drained to the extent that she could not really show any emotion. Numb was her body and blank was her mind.

"Hmm… Nah, it's still awake! Maybe it's just scared of us already?" The other grinned as he looked over at the other. "I can't wait for us to start the plan! I want to do this more…" The mech said as they both agreed with one another.

The weapon of his went straight through Shein's abdomen. The mechs saw her unfocused eyes went wide as the same red liquid trickled down the end of her lips before she screamed. Amusement was all they could feel as they continued on, planning to slice her in half then at least decapitate one of the legs that was mangled.

But before they could really deliver out the plan, their laughter was short lived as Barricade barreled down on them. Without second thought, the newly arrived mech had aimed his cannon on the first mech he had seen close to Shein.

The other's companion saw the cannon and was alarmed that it looks like no ordinary blaster. It looks stronger with the energy it is building up in such a small period of kliks. It was also larger than the average size of a wrist blaster but who was he to judge now when he saw that it was aimed at his companion's spark. He pushed him immediately but he was not as fast as he liked when the shot went silently and pain flared in his systems.

The one with the new 'weapon' had lost his whole arm with the equipment as the other had his own appendage gone with his shoulder melted widely. The blast was strong enough that it had disintegrated those parts and the horror of reality suddenly had fallen the two as they thought that if it were to hit them directly, they would have been gone the minute it had explode.

Barricade's newly developed 'protection' protocol had activated the upgrades on his weaponry system that were given to him by Shein. A deadly weapon indeed was his arm cannons, only if the situation calls for high priority to save or defend an object of value. That was the perk of this upgrade since Shein does not really trust them to not make sound killings when she is not looking.

Soon, another shot came and this time, it was loud and truly scary as it hit another appendage and blew it in scraps until the mech's optics turned black and the frame fell forward. The one surviving one stared in fear at whom that shot belonged to. His optics fell on the one mech that he wouldn't want to defy even for a lifetime… The Lord, Megatron, standing in front of Barricade now.

His intakes froze as he stared widely when the cannon went to his direction and started humming again. The lord's face plates screaming bloody murder of death… only to be stopped in mid release when they all heard a series of soft coughs and a large intake of breathe.

Barricade shoved Megatron's cannon away as he came towards the two damaged mech, holding up in the air and snarling profanities with a promise of deactivation towards them. Megatron looked over the black and white mech's shoulder wishing that he had not. The sight he had seen was something he did not want to see for the years to come. His spark turned colder each minute as his stare never wavered seeing so much of Shein's blood that was losing its pinkish glow, pooling around her. For the second time, he had was seeing the girl so battered up and on the verge of offlining from the looks of it.

This was Barricade's 3rd time to see her like this and for him, this was the last straw. He let the mech plop down with a hard sound to the ground as he shot his arms and ripped the other's leg from the main frame with the straight he hadn't known he had. The other mech that had been taken out earlier should have never awakened since once he had, he felt more pain as his own legs had been done the same.

Screams filled the air but this time, it was their screams with the feral growl coming from the pissed off-which is an understatement- guardian. Megatron didn't stop Barricade as he watched but he did order Hook to get there in an instant. Once the mech was there, he had dove for Shein and wires went into her skin knowing that it was her giving her some of the lost blood and life support.

Shockwave who had just came in, saw them and the girl. All of his systems stuttered but he did not move to even stop the onslaught of the police cruiser over the two new mechs. That serves them right… That was what he thought as a dark air loomed around his processor. The status of the femme would have been too much if she were an ordinary human. She should have been offlined the minute that she had apparently collided hard with the metal wall from the large trajectory of blood scattered.

He thank Primus that the nanocides work as he saw her still breathing and under life support. She is not immortal though for the nanocides had only prevented her from offlining from such heavy damage. They only serve as a way for her to survive sudden deactivation.

The mechs who had done this, does not deserve the life they had now… He thought as he turned to what had Barricade had left of them. He stomped towards the pile of the two mechs and data bursted all of his plans for the two to Megatron, Barricade and Hook for approval. With a demented grin, he let Hook handle the femme and gathered the two to his lab for the extensive experimentation he would do to them for the next joors to come.

Megatron watched Shockwave leave with energon trails being left behind. He sighed in irritation, anger, and frustration from everything that has happened but he needed to collect himself and do some damage control for this time, he knew that the new mechs would not leave it down what had happened and that would likely ruin their plan.

He commed Skywarp to get over there as fast as he can and take action on the removal before he turned to Barricade and nodded in acknowledgement for his immediate action that he had done. The plan hasn't even started and here they are, almost losing the purpose that started it.

As soon as the seeker is there, they had to fill him in but they didn't know that another problem would be coming in the form of the new mechs raging in.

Next Chapter: How Shein Came To Be With the Lord of the Army

Don't know when but yep... That is the next.