All disclaimers are on the 1st chapter.
I'm sorry for the late chapter, however I been having a very bad week. First my Laptop battery died on me, had a can of soda spill onto my Nintendo DS lite system as well as on my laptop no thanks to a curious kitten, thankfully both of them are working just fine, and a lot of other problems came up at the same time as well. Lastly I also had a rewrite this chapter several times, and I'm still not one hundred percent happy with it. Might re-write this chapter at a latter date or add things to it. Anyways enough about that.
Please read, review and I hope you are enjoying the story so far.
Ratchet stared at Seth like he grew a second head or something. "You're joking right?" He asked slowly as he glared at him.
"Believe me, I wouldn't be joking about something like this. My cell phone's dead until I can get it recharged. I must have forgotten to recharge it last night, after playing one of the many videogames that I have stored away on it. Sorry." Seth said frowning as he looked down at his cell phone one last time before he put it away.
"I can't fragging believe this! I must be stuck with the one human on this entire planet, who can't remember to recharge his cell phone after playing a damn videogame on the stupid earth tech device!" Ratchet yelled in annoyance and irritation rolled into a single emotion.
"Hey, It was an honest accident! I wasn't exspecting to be pulled into another dimension, where I would need my cell phone in a life or death situation like this! Had I known I would have been ripped from my own dimension and dumped into this one, believe me my phone would have been fully recharged. No one is fucken perfect and everyone makes mistakes! Besides it's not like anyone ever calls me on this stupid thing anyways! The only person who has my cell number is my mother and trust me, I'm the last person she would ever call. However you most likely stored my cell number on your personal comlink incase you ever needed to contact me. Also if my hunch is right, I would need to be the last human alive in the universe, before you ever called me for anything!" Seth snapped at him as he sent Ratchet with a harden glare.
"I swear you're going to be the death of me, Gremlin. Primus, could this situation get any worse?!" Ratchet snarled in rage.
"Ratchet, you do know you should never ask that question out loud right?" Seth asked him softly as he stared at him in disbelief.
"Oh and why's that?" Ratchet grumbled in annoyance as he stared at the human.
Before Seth could answer a loud crashing sound was heared making Ratchet and Seth turn their heads in the direction of the sound. "Please tell me, that was just my over active imagination playing tricks on me." Seth said softly under his breath as Ratchet shot him a look that clearly told him to shut up so he could listen. Seth wisely fell silent just as they continued to listen to see what had made that nose. Suddenly they heard a voice talking from the same same direction the crashing sound came from just moments ago, along with the sounds of metal moving in the distance along with more crashing sounds that followed.
"Find the autobot medic! He couldn't have gone far with his injuries!" The voice yelled. Seth reconised that voice anywhere. That was deffinately Starscream's voice.
"Scrap!" Ratchet and Seth said at the same time.
"Way to go Doc, you just had to jinx us didn't you? Now we got fragging decepticons to worry about! This is the reason why, you never ask how could things get any worst because they usually fragging do shortly afterwards!" Seth growled as he looked at Ratchet in irritation.
I guess now would not be the best time to mension my bad luck streak with technology or how I end up killing electronics to Ratchet. Shit, this isn't good. We need a plan of action, and I can't exactly leave the grouch alone in his condition like this. He is in no condition to fight them off, let alone be able to transform to speed away from here. Think Seth...think. Seth's mind thought frantically as he tried to come up with a plan or something.
"Gremlin, you need to get away from here. There is no time for you to repair my injuries before the decepticons find me, and if the decpticons find you here with me they will not hesitate to kill you first." Ratchet said in a deadly serious voice.
"Listen here old man, I'm not leaving you here alone in your current condition, you'll be a sitting duck! A easy target for those Decepticons to offline, and I rather die fighting or die protecting someone. Other than just running away and leaving behind a injured being who desperately needs help, reguadless if that being was alien or human! That's just not my style nor was it the way I way brought up!" Seth snapped at him as he glared up at him. Ratchet looked rather annoyed at how stubborn and hard headed this human was. Didn't this human know or understand just how dangerous this situation really was?
"Gremlin, you are a human being! You would go squish, if you try to face the decepticons! You have no protetive shell besides the fact that you have no weapons on you that would be effective against my race, and i'm in no position to fight them let alone trying to protect you at the same time! You have to leave me behind and get out of here now!" Ratchet snarled at him. Seth was silent as his mind was sent into over drive trying to think of some way to help Ratchet and to keep the cons from capturing him or worse.
"Doc, tell me something if too many decpticons were in one area...would that catch the other the autobots attention to show up and investigate why they are there, seeing how all you cybertronains have tracking signatures on you or something like that with your advance technology?" Seth asked him quickly as he tried to come up with a plan. He just hoped this quick idea off the top of head would work, since he was basically going to just adapt and improvise on the spot while hoping for the best.
"Yes but why do you want to know that?" Ratchet asked as Seth carefully got of his leg and dropped down to the ground as he hissed loudly in pain from his broken rib causing him griped his chest as the pain shot through his body. "You're injured?! Why didn't you inform me of this!?" He yelled in concern and irritation.
"It's true, that I'm injured. Seeing how I sort of snapped a rib when I fell off your shoulder, when I landed on your leg moments ago. Didn't say anything because we were both letting our tempers get the better of us while we been arguing with each other for Primus knows how long. Look I'm more worried about you, than I am about myself. Besides don't worry about me, there is not much one can do about broken ribs anyways. Lastly to answer your first question, I'm going to go play decoy and hope to survive long enough to have your teammates show up to help you. My life is not that important, nor do I have anyone that will miss me anyways. Stay alive, doc. Your team needs you." Seth said quickly before he sprinted off ignoring the pain that shot through out his chest.
It took Ratchet a few seconds to register what Seth said before his optics widen as he stared after Seth's retreating form just as he disappeared into woods in the direction of the decepticons. "I swear to primus, if that suicidal gremlin dies because of his stupidity, I swear will bring him back from the dead with dark energon just to kill him myself!" Ratchet snarled loudly under his breath as he looked at his injuries. "That damn miserable human is going to be the death of me." He grumbled as he decided to risk stasis lock as he started to fix his injuries himself. "Primus, watch over that suicidal boy, until I get my servos on him." He grumbled under his breath as he worked on his injuries.
Seth continued running until he had to stop and lean against a tree to force the pain away. Seth had a high tolerance to pain up to a point and in all honesty he felt like he was at his limit at the moment. The pain from broken rib was almost unbarable at this point. His eyes began to slightly water from the jabbing pain shooting up through his chest. "Not now...not now...I have to help Ratchet. Worry about the damn injury latter...come on Seth, Ratchet needs you." Seth chanted under his breath as he caught his breath before he continued running towards the cons. He than came running out of the bushes catching Starscream's attention.
"A human, way out here cover in energon?" Starscream questioned himself out loud as the human boy stopped to look at him.
Seth stared at the cons and quickly thought of a plan on the spot. He than groaned in dispair. "Not more metal giants! The ones I just saw at their hide out were bad enough! What is this the twilight zone?!" He complained loudly as he caught Starscream's full attention with his sudden out burst. Please let this suicidal plan of mine work, Primus or whoever is listening to me. Zen's mind begged.
"You know where the autobot base is!?" Starscream yelled as he stared at the human. Seth fell silent as he stared up at him like he grew a second head or something.
"If your talking about the metal beings with the face like signia that is more rounded compaired to yours than yes." Seth said keeping his attention on the group of idiots that were in front of him. He counted at least twelve decepticon drones, along with Starscream so there was thirteen cons in total. Not good odds but hopefully this would be enough to catch the autobots attention.
"Tell me where the base is boy, and I will spare your life." Starscream said as he stared down at him.
"How do I know you're not going to double cross me, and just kill me anyways?" Seth asked him as the drones came closer to Starscream. They were more interested in what was going on, rather than following the energon trail on the ground and locating Ratchet. So far so good. Just keep them distracted long enough for the autobots to show up. Seth's mind said softly as he hoped this plan of his would work out for the best. The series always showed the cons were easily fooled, and he just hoped it was true or else things were going to go horribly wrong for him.
"You have my word as the leader of the decepticons." Starscream said grinning at the boy.
"But commander starscream, you're only the second in command. Lord Megatron still lives even if he still in a coma." A drone pointed out in order to correct him.
"Shut up, the human doesn't need to know that!" Starscream yelled at him.
"But sir, you're not the leader of the decepticons and yet you are claiming to be. It is my duty to remind you that you are just the commanding officer at the moment since our lord is unable to lead us." The drone continued as Starscream looked ready to blow a gasket or something.
Yep..these guys are still the same lovable idiots, that are so easily to be fooled and manipulated just like the series made them out to be. Thank Primus, for small favors. Seth's mind said softly as he stared at them.
"You will obey my command as I see fit! Until Lord Megatron awakens from his coma, you are to follow my orders since I am the temporary leader of the decepticons! Do you understand me!?" Stascream yelled.
"Yes Commander starscream." The drone said.
"Good." Starscream said before he looked back down at the human. "Now boy, tell me the location of the autobot base. I swear I will let you live and you will also be aloud to leave unharmed."
"Look if your trying to find the red and white bot who was injured. He went offline shortly after I touched him, seeing how I have space rabbies." Seth said as he changed the subject completely on Starscream.
"Space-what?!" Starscream yelled looking deeply confused at the human.
"Space rabbies." Seth said calmly.
"What is space rabbies?" Starscream asked him in confusion. Seth couldn't help but reveal a purely evil mischevious grin on his face that honestly went unnoticed by the cons.
"It basically causes technology to malfunction and to die shortly after contact with a infected being. I should know, the red and white bot began to hallucinate after I touched him, he began talking about random things that weren't there, than his head spun around unnaturally, his body began twitching as his metal armor began peeling backwards as though someone one was slowly ripping him in half or peeling back his armor, he began leaking more and more of this blue stuff from his body. He couldn't scream as the blue stuff bubbled up in his mouth violently making him choke on it. The blue stuff than flew up into the air as it twisted and spiraled in the air as though it had a mind of it's own, before it came crashing back down where it drenched me as you can clearly see. His wires sparked as they thrashed around violently as they began to rip apart on their own. His optics than shattered outwards in a frightening way. Than his spark chamber crunched inward as it naturally caused the spark to exstingish itself. I wouldn't suggest trying to touch me, if I was you. Most humans end up catching this rare illness, it's not recorded since doctors don't want to frighten the public with this knowelege." Seth said in a deadly serious voice as he tried to make his story sound like he speaking the truth.
Besides trying to make his story sound like it was a common everyday occurancence that would happen. He watched as the cons seemed to actually believe this story since he was covered in so much energon. Starscream took a step back from him in fear when he stepped foreward. "Stay where you are human!" Starscream yelled in fear of him. The cons were focused on Seth besides his obvious lie that they never noticed the groundbridge opening up behind them as the autobots finally arrived much to Seth's relief. The autobots looked alarmed when they noticed Seth covered in so much energon.
"By the way, I wouldn't look behind you if I was you Starscream." Seth said grinning as Optimus came up behind Starscream silently.
"Oh and why's that?" Starscream demanded as he turned around to see what was capturing the boy's interest. Only to be suddenly decked hard in the face by Optimus Prime.
"That's why." Seth said just as Prime's fist made contact with Stream's face. Seth watched asStarscream spun around as he started to collapse to the ground out cold. Seth wisely dived out of the way and did a tumble like roll to avoid being squished by starscream's falling body. Which caused more pain to shoot up through his chest to the point it made it very hard for him to catch his breath. He staggered to his feet even though he was almost gasping for air from the pain as he wisely moved away from the fighting where he leaned up against a tree as he tried to catch his breath. The drones were taken out quickly by the autobots sudden attack before they had a chance to really understand what was happening.
Starscream regained consciousness as he jumped to his feet, when he noticed he was out numbered by the Autobots. He snarled in annoyance before he jumped up into the air as he transformed and flew away completely forgetting about the young human who was only a few feet from him. Seth ignored the fighting as he tried to fight off the pain shooting through his body as he managed to get his breathing under control. Once the fighting was over with the bots looked at the young human a he hissed in pain holding his ribcage as he was leaning against a tree.
"You're hurt." Optimus said in concern as he watched how the boy seemed to be trying to block out his pain. Seth feeling a bit defensive and agitated narrowed his eyes at Optimus.
"Never mind me!" Seth snapped startling them at how harsh he must have sounded at that very moment. "Ratchet, is the one who really needs help. Besides there is nothing one can do for broken ribs anyway even though it's just a snapped rib." Seth said between gasps for air. His ribcage was hurting worst than ever and his vision was beginning slip in and out of focus. Besides the feeling of being light headed as well.
"Where's Ratchet?" Arcee asked him in concern as she glanced around.
"Follow me...I just hope he didn't offline since he was loosing so much energon." Seth said as he pushed away his pain as he lead to bots to Ratchet as quickly as he could before any of the bots could carry him or something. Since he knew Optimus's hand appeared ready to pick him up or something. He dully noted that Optimus didn't look too thrilled about him moving around as injured as he was. However the bots followed him. When they got there Ratchet was just barely getting up to his feet. "Doc, you shouldn't be up and about with your wounds are you trying to offline yourself!?" Seth demanded as he sent Ratchet a cold glare that seemed to harden as he stared at him.
"You little suicidal gremlin! You shouldn't even be up about either with your wounds, so do not even start with lecturing me about my wounds!" Ratchet snapped as relief set in when he saw the kid was still alive.
"Least, I don't look like i'm about to kick the bucket, old man!" Seth snapped back at him.
"The kid's got you there Ratchet, you look like-" Bulkhead started but fell silent as Ratchet glared at him almost daring him to continue with that sentence. Bulkhead wisely fell silent and took a few steps back. Especially when Ratchet took a step towards him and nearly collapsed had it not been for Optimus catching him so quickly.
"Let's head back to base, and get you fixed up." Optimus said softly. Seth was than carefully scooped up by Bumblebee, when he noticed the human swaying on his feet looking ready to collapse. Seth would have protested about being picked up, however the pain and the fact he was ready to pass out seemed to be getting to him. Bumblebee beeped and clicked something to the others in concern. However Seth didn't pay them much attention as he allowed exhaustion to take over as he suddenly passed out in Bumblebee's hands completely unaware he just scared the living daylights out of the bots.
To Be Continued...