Happy Easter Sunday Readers, hope you're enjoying your chocolate eggs!
Chapter Fifteen
Interrogation
Back at the Autobot base, the Hamato Clan had decided to entertain themselves for a bit until either Fowler or Optimus returned.
Pandora, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Casey were on the sofa playing Mario Party with Bulkhead watching from the side.
Raphael and Casey were one team whilst Michelangelo and Pandora were the other and were starting to get competitive, meanwhile Bulkhead just watched curiously at the game they played, as well as laughed at the antics of the mutants and human as they hurled insults at each other or encouraged each other when they played the mini games or rolled the dice.
Splinter was talking with April, and Donatello was reading a book on science.
Kemeko meanwhile was still leaning over the railing worried about her dad and she kept checking her shell cell to see if he had messaged her which he hadn't yet.
Just then an ear-splitting alarm rang through the base making everyone jump and cover their ears!
"What the shell?!" Raphael shouted over the noise.
"My ears!" Pandora complained.
Splinter grasped his head as he groaned in pain from the noise.
"Turn it off!" April screamed.
'What is it?" Donatello questioned in a loud voice.
"It's an SOS!" Bulkhead reported as he walked up to the computers to shut the sound off.
"From Fowler!" he exclaimed.
"What?!" everyone cried in worry.
"Can you trace it?" Donatello demanded as the thoughts of Monalisa and Leonardo came into his head.
"Mum!" Pandora cried.
"Monalisa!" Raphael paled.
"DADDY!" Kemeko screamed "NO!"
"My son! My daughter!" Splinter wailed.
Bulkhead studied the computer again.
"Location scan was incomplete." Bulkhead answered.
"They're in trouble!" April cried "The Decepticons may have them!"
"No!" Pandora cried "Those bastards!"
"They have Fowler, our brother and sister and Fowler knows your location!" Michelangelo shouted then he went pale as he remembered "Our location!" he squeaked in fear.
"And who knows what they'll do to them to get them to talk!" Casey cried "We have to help them!"
"But we lost the transmission!" Bulkhead cried "They could be anywhere!"
At once the Hamato Clan started to panic as they thought of Leonardo and Monalisa, as well as Fowler at the Mercy of the Decepticons.
"Can you track their Shell Cells Don?" April asked desperately and Donatello took out his Shell Cell to check only to see no location signals.
"No!" he cried "I think their shell cells were destroyed!"
"Destroyed!?" Michelangelo shrieked and everyone started to fear the worst and Kemeko started to cry, and Pandora also went pale.
Yet Donatello wasn't ready to give up and he narrowed his eyes before searching in one of his rucksacks near the TV and pulled out a laptop which he opened then started typing into it.
"Donnie?" Raphael demanded "What are you doing?"
"Bulkhead said he lost the transmission on Fowler, Leo and Mona." He said, "But I think that if I'm correct, a few years ago, the government started microchipping their agents, you know like owners do with their pets!"
He started typing on the laptop and Raphael blinked before a ray of hope shone in him that they would be able to find his brother, mate, and Fowler.
"Don!" he cried "You're a genius!"
"How did you learn that brainy bro?" Michelangelo asked.
"I saw it on TV!" Donatello explained as he continued to type narrowing his eyes as he concentrated.
"Anyway, if I can hack into the Fed's mainframe, maybe I can pinpoint Fowler's Co-ordinates!"
"You're a miracle Donnie!" Michelangelo cheered.
"I love you Uncle Don!" Kemeko cried as she hugged the purple masked turtle, hope welling within her that her father, aunt, and Fowler could be saved.
Splinter meanwhile prayed as he thought of his son, adopted daughter and Fowler.
"Be strong my children." He whispered softly "We're coming!"
Meanwhile, the metal bird that shot down Fowler's helicopter and grabbed him, Monalisa and Leonardo flew them to a large spaceship hidden in the Nevada desert amongst the rocks surrounded by giant black and grey alien robots, and Monalisa and Leonardo recognised them as being like the ones that attacked them back in the woods near Casey's farmhouse.
It was enormous, black, and grey with purple detail and it had the appearance of a giant jet with spikes.
All three hostages gasped as they saw it.
"Holy Shell!" Leonardo cried.
"Uncle Sam's Beard!" Fowler exclaimed.
"We're in trouble..." Monalisa muttered as they were flown to the entrance of the ship and were dropped before a robot that stood before them and the metal bird flew up in front of him and attack itself to its chest!
No sooner were the dropped than they found themselves picked up again by a couple of black giant robots and taken on board the ship.
The two mutants and human struggled at first but as they did, they felt themselves get squeezed painfully by their captors forcing them to stop or risk getting crushed to death.
The Faceless Decepticon lead the way through some large foreboding hallways until finally they entered a room where several chains hung from the roof, and one light shone down leaving the rest of the area in shadow, and the middle, they saw a grey Decepticon with spiked wings on his back and heeled feet standing with his back to them with his clawed hands behind his back.
"You have them Soundwave?" the Decepticon asked.
"We have, Lord Starscream." The Decepticon holding Fowler said before dropping him ono the floor and the other Decepticon did the same to Monalisa and Leonardo.
Starscream turned around and the mutant turtle and lizard instantly recognised him from when he attacked them in the woods.
Starscream smirked as he looked at his hostages.
"Ah, welcome agent Fowler." He said then looked at Leonardo and Monalisa "And yes, I recognise you two, you're of that group of weird Earthlings we spotted in those woods yesterday!"
Leonardo instantly got close to Monalisa and held her close to protect her, meanwhile Fowler got up and brushed off his suit.
"You treat all your guests this nice?" he asked.
Leonardo and Monalisa looked over at the Agent who was being brazen and fearless to this giant robot who could easily squish them like bugs and they couldn't help but feel admiration towards him yet they felt their blood run cold as Starscream looked down at the three of them.
"Any friend of the Autobots..." Starscream chuckled.
"Autobot?" Fowler rolled his eyes "That one of them coin operated wash my own car places" he asked with a shrug and a smile.
"How is he so calm about this?" Monalisa asked as she watched the agent talk and Leonardo held her closer.
"Defensive mechanism." He explained to which the Lizard Lady then realised why Fowler was making jokes in the presence of the enemy.
"Oh, so that's how it's going to be?" Starscream asked "Apparently, no-one has told you I have no appreciation for human humour!"
He looked at the guards behind Fowler.
"Make our guest comfortable!" he ordered to which Leonardo and Monalisa gasped in horror as the guard picked up Fowler and began to attach him to the chains hanging from the ceiling above twenty feet high from the ground.
"No!" Leonardo shouted as he drew his katana and went for the Decepticon.
"Leo! NO!" Monalisa screamed but the blue masked turtle in a desperate attempt to save Fowler drove his swords into the Decepticons's exposed wires in his ankle making him yell in pain as well as sparks fly from the wound.
Leonardo smirked in triumph that he had hit a weak spot but that was short lived as he felt himself get snatched up by another guard and he heard Monalisa scream as she too was grabbed.
"You little freak fleshies are going to regret that!" the injured Decepticon growled as he reached for Leonardo, yet a servo appeared and stopped him, and he soon saw the Faceless Decepticon Soundwave who shook his head.
"Not now!" Starscream's voice was heard "Those two are more useful alive than dead right now." He smirked at Leonardo and Monalisa and they felt terrified as they wondered what would become of them after he was done with Fowler.
Back at the base Donatello typed away until he managed to get through the Fed's computers.
"I got it!" he said, "I got in!"
"Great job Donnie!" April cheered whilst the others looked on anxiously.
Donatello chewed his lip as he continued then he found the coordinates of Fowler's Tracking chip.
"Okay! I got them!" he said looking at Bulkhead who got ready to type them into the computers.
"Latitude: 39.5. Longitude:-116.9!" he reported.
Bulkhead nodded and he activated the Ground Brige "Okay I'm going after them!" he said "You stay here!" he ordered.
"No way!" Raphael and Pandora cried out at the same time making them look at each other in shock but then they focused on the task.
"We're coming too!" Raphael snapped.
"But it's dangerous!" Bulkhead argued "You saw what Starscream tried to do to you when we found you in those woods! You'll be scrapped like...like!" he tried to think of what to say at the end but Raphael talked over him.
"We know." Raphael said, "But we're not just gonna sit here whilst some giant evil robot aliens have Fowler, my brother and my mate and mother of my child and pick them to pieces!"
"Yeah!" Michelangelo joined in "And if anything, given we're ninjas, we might be able to sneak past them to get to the prisoners whilst you take out the big guys!"
Everyone was surprised at Michelangelo's comment as the orange masked turtle never always had a good plan when it came to missions.
"Nice plan there, Mike!" Raphael said looking at his brother "Maybe there is hope for you after all!"
"Hey!" Michelangelo countered.
Bulkhead stared at the Hamato Clan in silence as he took in what they said.
"Well um..." he said scratching the back of his head as he tried to think of what to say back to discourage them from joining him as he knew he faced big trouble from Prime and the others if anything happened to the Earthlings they were supposed to be protecting.
"We're not taking no for an answer Metal Head!" Raphael said as he ran down the stairs, Pandora not far behind him and Kemeko and Michelangelo joined them.
Donatello looked at April, Casey, and Splinter.
"You guys wait here." He said, "We'll be back as soon as we can!"
"Be careful my children!" Splinter warned.
April and Casey nodded.
"I'll set up the medical equipment here for when you return." April offered.
"Much appreciated April!" Donatello said grateful and he ran to join the others.
Bulkhead was at a loss.
He didn't want the Earthlings to come with him as he knew dangerous the Decepticons were, and could easily crush them as he mentioned earlier, but on the other hand, given how skilled they were as ninjas, if by chance they could help with the rescue, then maybe that would work in their Favour.
"Okay." He said admitting defeat "But if Prime gets on my tailpipe about this, I need you to bail me out alright?"
"You got our word and honour Bulkhead!" Donatello promised.
"Right!" Bulkhead said, "Then come on!" he transformed into his vehicle mode then everyone jumped inside, and he drive through the ground bridge whilst April, Casey and Splinter watched worried.
"Stay safe..." Splinter whispered softly.
Meanwhile back on the Decepticon Warship Fowler hung from the chains in the ceiling surrounded by guards, one of them holding Monalisa and Leonardo in each hand.
The Agent was hanging his head in pain from being held up by his arms in the chains, as Starscream walked around him, yet he didn't show the Decepticon any fear.
"Agent Fowler." Starscream said slowly "I have one simple request that will save your family the pain of grieving."
Monalisa and Leonardo glared as they watched.
"Coward!" Monalisa growled and Leonardo nodded in agreement they both jumped in fear as they saw Starscream place a clawed finger under Fowler's chin making him look up.
"Tell me the location of the Autobot base!" he ordered.
Fowler glowered at Starscream.
"No Problem!" he said, "But I need to ask you something first!"
"Yes?" Starscream smirked as he leaned closer to Fowler "I'm listening."
Leonardo and Monalisa also leaned forward.
"Don't tell him!" Leonardo whispered under his breath as he thought of his family back at the base "Don't...don't!"
"I got an issue with the customer service around here!" Fowler shot at him with a forced smirk "Can I speak to the manager?"
Both Monalisa and Leonardo gasped as they took in how even when suspended by his arms wrapped in chains and the giant alien robot who could especially rip him apart could still mock and be defiant.
If that wasn't bravery, they didn't know what was!
Starscream glowered and gritted in denture, frustrated that he was getting nowhere with the stubborn Fowler.
"I make the decisions here!" he bellowed furiously "I am in charge!"
He then vented a few times to calm down and turned to a guard "Bring the Prod!"
"Prod?" Monalisa and Leonardo asked in unison as they saw the guard leave the room for a moment and Starscream turned to Fowler.
"Let's see if you're still as brazen when you've had a taste of what's about to come!" Starscream growled then he looked up at Leonardo and Monalisa before smirking.
"And if that fails." He muttered making Leonardo and Monalisa's blood run cold as they realised what the Decepticon was thinking.
"There's always another way to make you talk!"
Fowler, Leonardo and Monalisa have been brought to the Decepticon Warship to be interrogated! So far no-one's spilled the beans, but will that all change?
Meanwhile, Bulkhead, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, Pandora and Kemeko have left the base to rescue them thanks to Donatello managing to pinpoint Fowler with his hacking skills!
