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Cover Me
By Black Dragon Queen
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Chapter One Hundred Forty: Dropping the Bombshell
“Autobots dead ahead!” Thundercracker bellowed as he spotted the mechs standing around an extremely large hole.
“And it looks like they’ve been here a while!” Skywarp added as he took in the scale and depth of the circle in the ice.
Starscream didn’t hear anything that his teammates were saying however as his optics had zeroed in on two figures almost as soon as he recognized them, one of them in particular. “Barricade,” he snarled low under his breath. “Forget the Autobots!” he snapped. “Get the traitor!”
“What?” The other three mechs were confused for a moment until they all gasped as they soon saw who it was that Starscream was locking onto.
“Is that Barricade?” Skywarp asked surprised.
“I thought you said he was dead,” Thundercracker shouted angrily.
“He should be!” Starscream snapped. “But apparently he sought refuge with the Autobots! You three direct all your attention at Barricade!”
“You’re going to take on Optimus Prime all by yourself?” Misfire asked surprised.
“Of course not,” Starscream huffed. “I have another target in mind...” Starscream suddenly veered off course as he spotted the smaller figure standing beside the young Autobot scout. “The human.”
“The what?” Thundercracker screeched surprised.
“Just take out Barricade!” Starscream shouted. “That’s your main objective now!”
“But what about the Autobots?” Skywarp asked surprised.
“Secondary targets!” Starscream snapped. “Just get Barricade!”
“Guys,” Misfire started slowly, almost as if he was dreading to say something. “There was another Decepticon with them when I saw them on the road.”
“What?” Starscream screeched surprised before he finally saw the large figure climbing out of the hole. “Soundwave!” Starscream yelped in surprise. “Get him! Get Barricade! Get all those who would betray the Decepticon cause!”
“You got it,” Thundercracker drawled as he quickly banked left while Skywarp banked right and they quickly began to make a wide circle around the clustered Autobots.
“-Decepticons!-” Starscream called out over the radio. “-Engage!-” And all hell broke loose.
“Seekers!” Ironhide gasped in surprise as they all whirled around to see the jets on the horizon.
“Slag it! SPREAD OUT!” Optimus quickly shouted at everyone. “’Bee, get Sam and the others by the cliff and out of the open.”
“You got it!” ‘Bee nodded as he activated his cannons and provided cover as the humans quickly scrambled towards the cliff.
“Tell me you brought your own hand gun,” Will gasped as he looked over at Sam while they ran.
Sam just looked at him wide eyed and shook his head. “I left it back at the base.”
“The base?” Epps asked sharply and Sam turned to him with a panic-stricken expression.
“The base back in Tranquility!” he clarified.
“Slag!” Epps huffed as he quickly yanked out his own weapon and began watching the jets as they got into formation. “They’re surrounding us,” he shouted.
“No shit!” Will snapped.
“Perceptor! Get that slagging scanner dismantled and out of the line of fire!” Optimus snapped and the small scientist quickly moved to get his precious equipment out of harm’s way. “JAZZ!” Optimus turned to his second in command.
“On it!” Jazz shouted as he quickly moved around the hole towards the front and dropped down to the ground, his gun already aimed at the seeker dead center flying right at them. “Ratchet, you ready?”
“Do you really have to ask?” Ratchet shouted back, his own canons already primed and ready.
“’Hide! Don’t shoot until I say so!” Optimus bellowed.
“Take all the fun out of it why don’t you?” Ironhide called back.
“Barricade! What the slag is he doing?” Optimus demanded to know as he shot the ‘Con a dark look before he looked back at the incoming jets.
“How the slag should I know?” Barricade snapped back. “No one ever knows what the slag that nut is thinking!”
“Get ready for a fight guys!” Optimus called out to the group.
“And no pouncing on the seekers! Especially you Sunny!” Ratchet suddenly shouted.
“But it’s the most effective way of getting them down!” Sunny protested.
“And the most effective way of getting your own fool self hurt!” Ironhide snapped at him. “You stay in the back!”
“I could do it,” Side’s quickly announced.
“No!” Optimus barked, startling the younger mech before he addressed everyone. “Avoid direct hand to hand combat! See if you can shoot them down from the air!”
“But it’s easiest to defeat them when they’re on the ground!” Wheeljack called out, trying his best to figure out what in the world his leader was thinking.
“Not when we’re standing over a potentially lethal field of Energon its not!” Optimus barked. “Any incoming missiles, don’t avoid! Try and shoot them in the air!”
“Acknowledged,” Soundwave nodded his facemask sliding into place with a clink.
“Aut-Everyone get ready!” Optimus quickly called out his own battle mask slipping into place and everyone quickly hunkered down and waited to see what the Decepticons were going to do. They didn’t have to wait long as suddenly there were six missiles headed right for them from the main three seekers. “Open fire!” Optimus called out and the battle was on.
They took out the first batch of missiles easily but it was the onboard machine guns that they ended up trying their best to avoid. It wasn’t until the next barrage of long range missiles were fired that Sam suddenly realized that they all seemed to be aiming at one mech in particular. “Barricade!” he yelped horrified and didn’t even realize that he had begun to move forward until Will had to reach out and snag him.
“You can’t do anything for him!” Will growled as he quickly shook the boy. “Do you understand.”
“But it’s Barricade!” Sam yelped, utterly distraught.
“Damn it!” Will huffed as he quickly spun around and practically threw Sam at his father. “Keep hold of him!”
“WILL!” Epps suddenly shouted and the ranger captain whirled around just in time to see one of the red jets headed right for them.
“SCRAMBLE!” he shouted and they all moved just as a hail of bullets was released. Wheeljack, the closest one to the humans quickly moved and dove in front of Sam, Miles and their fathers just moments before they would have been hit, taking the potentially lethal projectiles himself but not before he managed to get a quick shot off, forcing Starscream to break away from the attack.
“WHEELJACK!” Ratchet bellowed horrified. “Oh you die now!” and even Ironhide was staring as Ratchet began to methodically aim and shoot at each one of the seekers in turn, managing to clip the blue one on the tail.
“Nice shot!” Barricade called out sarcastically. “Now you’ve pissed off Skywarp!”
“Slag it!” Optimus yelped as the purple and black jet suddenly disappeared from view. “Where the slag did he go?”
“LEFT!” Perceptor shouted hysterically as his scanner, which he never even paused to turn off suddenly blipped.
Ratchet and Ironhide both quickly turned left while Bumblebee and Optimus continued tracking who they knew had to be Starscream. Jazz was keeping track of the other red mech who had to be the one Barricade had explained was a mech called “Misfire” that had so far only stuck to firing his Gatling gun. The blue one had quickly dropped altitude but hadn’t as yet looked as if he was about to crash and it took the Autobots a moment to realize that he wasn’t out of the game yet.
“Watch out for Thundercracker!” Prowl shouted as he quickly took aim at the blue jet.
Thundercracker seemed to know that he was being targeted however as he suddenly turned up his front and went right up into the sky. Prowl frowned as he tried to keep the other mech in his line of sight but the seeker turned sharply and Prowl cursed as he jerked around, trying his best to continue following the mech’s erratic flight pattern. He got out a shot but not before the blue seeker managed to drop a missile. “Heads up!” Prowl shouted before he could even process his words.
Most of the mechs quickly dropped as Barricade glanced up just in time to see the projectile headed right for him. “Oh slag,” he growled as he quickly dove out of the way.
“Barricade! Status?” Soundwave called out.
“Clear!” the other Decepticon called back. “And pissed off!” he announced as he jumped to his feet and quickly took aim. The other three seekers he could have cared less about, his fight wasn’t with them after all. Who he was aiming for was actually avoiding the main battle and seemed to be focusing on the small area where the humans were trying their best to stay out of the fray. “STARSCREAM!” he bellowed and the red jet instantly dipped as Barricade let out a large plasma blast, aimed right for where the red Seeker had been.
“You’re going to have to do better than that,” Starscream sneered as he turned his attention back away from the other mech and once again at the humans. “I will have that human’s head one way or the other!”
“Not if I shoot you, you won’t!” Barricade shouted as he brought up his other arm and began shooting with both barrels, ensuring to aim widely so that when Starscream dodged the first blast that would put him in the prime position for the second to hit him almost dead center. It took some very intricate maneuvering on Starscream’s part to completely avoid both blasts
“Damn you Barricade!” Starscream bellowed as he righted himself. “You will not manage to stop me this time! This time I will have the small human who denied the Decepticons their right in glory!”
“What glory?” Barricade shouted back between shots. “There is no glory in war! Megatron’s defeat should have at least taught you that.”
“I would have been ruler!” Starscream continued, completely disregarding what Barricade was saying. “I would have ruled and Cybertron would have been magnificent once again! We would have ruled the entire galaxy had it not been for the meddling Autobots!”
“And would have failed miserably!” Barricade shouted as he got another shot.
The Autobots were not idle during all of this and many of them were paying more attention to what Barricade and Starscream were saying as opposed to their own fight. Something that Thundercracker instantly took advantage off as he managed to get off one of his last few missiles. “Heads up!” Perceptor shouted but it was too late. No one managed to aim at the missile in time and it slammed into the ground just feet from the hole.
The explosion was enormous and a few of the Autobots were tossed aside as if they were nothing more than rag dolls. Thankfully the blast fell short of actually setting off the Energon crystals but it was large enough to make an impact. Optimus flew the farthest as he had been closets to the blast and one mech watched in horror as the Autobot leader landed hard on the ground with a sparkwrenching “thud”. “ORION!” Megatron shouted hysterically as he leapt to his feet to get to the fallen mechs side, his mind and spark focused on only that one limp figure.
He made nearly three whole steps before he was suddenly tackled around the midsection and brought down hard to the ground. “Are you crazy?” Rumble shouted at him as he struggled to keep a hold of the thrashing mech.
“Let me go! I have to get to him!” Megatron shouted frantically, struggling to try and get out of Rumble’s arms. “Orion!”
“No you don’t!” Sam suddenly shouted as he appeared at his side. “Ratchet’s already with him, he’s going to be fine!”
And indeed, with Ratchet’s help Optimus was sitting up within moments, and dodging another frontal assault in the next. Megatron’s entire stance went from taunt as a bowstring to limp as a noodle in milliseconds. “Oh thank Primus,” he groaned and he slid to the ground almost as soon as Rumble let go of him.
“Forget about that!” Rumble shouted surprised. “Take cover!”
Sam looked up horrified as he spotted the large red jet headed right for him and he quickly spun around and bolted, unsure where to go but knowing he had to get away from where he had been. He quickly realized that there was a mech in front of him and Sam quickly dove between Soundwave’s legs and the large mech fired at his once leader. Sam could hear the impact as the blast connected and Starscream let out a screech unlike anything the humans had ever heard.
“Traitor!” Starscream bellowed as he quickly moved back away from the mech to get a little breathing room.
Skywarp and Thundercracker were suddenly right there and both aiming right for Soundwave. “Oh slag,” Sam heard the taller Decepticon mutter before there was even more cannon fire. This time however, it was from the ground as Sideswipe and Bumblebee were suddenly at the Decepticon’s side, firing back at the two seekers.
“Sam! Are you all right?” Bumblebee shouted frantically as he looked down at the small human.
“Good!” Sam called back out.
“Get under cover! NOW!” Soundwave barked and Sam wasted no time in following the mech’s direction.
He quickly moved and headed back towards the cliff only to stop short as he realized that the other humans were no longer there. “What the slag?” Sam yelped as he whirled around and tried his best to figure out where the heck everyone had gone.
It was then that he spotted Barricade already headed towards him, a look of complete alarm on his face and it took Sam a while to realize that the reason for that expression was himself. “Sam! What the slag are you doing?” Barricade shouted loudly as he put on some speed. “MOVE!”
Sam could only watch as if it were in slow motion as Barricade dove towards him and suddenly snagged him off the ground and quite literally hurled him through the air. Explosions and flashing lights whizzed by him as he felt himself go almost weightless, as he was nowhere near the ground. Sam cringed and braced himself for impact when he was suddenly caught, the hand holding him moving back with Sam’s own momentum in order to cushion the contact.
Sam opened his eyes an looked up surprised to find out it was Bumblebee holding him in his hand before the mech brought him close to his chest and Sam could no longer see what was going on around him. The noise was defining and unable to see what was happening, Sam was completely lost as to how the fight was actually going. Worse yet, he hadn’t seen what had happened to Barricade.
Bumblebee had nearly frozen on the spot when he suddenly had spotted Sam standing all by himself by the ice cliff nearly clear across the battlefield from him. Optic’s brightening, Bumblebee felt the dread creep up his wiring as he suddenly had a flashback to all those months ago in Mission City. It was the same. Sam was in trouble and there was no possible way for ‘Bee to get to him in time.
It was then that he heard Wheeljack give a shout and ‘Bee almost didn’t want to turn around but did anyway just in time to see the second, smaller red jet, Misfire, finally drop one of his missiles. Bumblebee guessed that the aim was originally for Soundwave as he was the mech most directly in the line of fire but the missile, it seems, had other ideas. It warbled terribly and ended up completely missing Soundwave by nearly half a length. Instead it was headed straight for Sam.
Bumblebee was moving even though he knew it was impossible for him to reach the small human in time. Thank Primus he wasn’t the only one to take note of the boy’s impending danger as he spotted Barricade suddenly jump towards the boy and slid on his front until he managed to scoop the boy up off the ground. With amazing precision, Barricade turned and managed to lock optics with Bumblebee just as he brought his arm back and launched the boy straight for him. “SLAGGING ‘CON!” Bumblebee roared as he dove for the flying boy, praying to Primus that he wouldn’t get caught in a blast or worse yet, that ‘Bee would miss him.
It was almost as if he had flicked his optics once when suddenly Sam was in his palm. Bumblebee didn’t even realize that he had done it but he had miraculously caught Sam and as the boy looked up at him he was amazed to realize that Sam didn’t have so much as a scratch on him. It was then that he finally looked up to see what had happened and he quickly brought Sam to his chest to protect the boy as he saw it.
The missile that had been flying for Sam had slammed into the ice cliff and instantly created an avalanche. Bumblebee knew within moments that there was no possible way for Barricade to get out of the way. He only saw the mech drop to the ground before he was engulfed in a cloud of white and brick of ice rain down on him. He cringed as he ensured that Sam didn’t see what was happening behind him.
He could hear a mad cackle above him and he realized that Starscream was laughing. Actually slagging laughing. Bumblebee wasted no time in whirling around and taking aim at the cackling seeker and let out a barrage of powerblasts. The cackling stopped dead as Starscream cursed and quickly dodged out of the way before he turned to fire on the annoying yellow ‘Bot but Bumblebee had already moved, trying his damn best to keep his precious cargo safe.
The numbers were against the seekers but the flight mechs had the advantage as they zipped and dodged almost all of the ground mechs blasts. It almost seemed as if the situation was dire and that they would never be able to beat the odds or the seekers for that matter. Optimus was yelling, Prowl was yelling and everywhere Bumblebee looked chaos reigned. The situation was very grim indeed.
It was then that a sudden barrage of the human’s sabot rounds suddenly flew through the air and Bumblebee whirled around surprised to see five more military Earth jets careening towards them, their aim solely on the four more colorful mechs. He could just barely hear Knight shouting at everyone to hold their fire and that the new group of jets, all still their original boring shade of gray, were friendlies. The tables turned.
With the assault from both the ground and the air, Starscream and the other seekers were completely out matched and they knew it. It was with a sigh of relief that he heard the new Decepticon leader shout the order to retreat. The jets quickly turned to follow, apparently to assure that the jets really were retreating before the ‘Cons, using their higher burn rate to take off, leaving the humans in their dust.
Bumblebee sighed in relief as he sank down to his knees, looking down at the human still clutched to his chest. Sam blinked as he raised his head to look up at Bumblebee in askance. Bumblebee gave him a small relieved smile, the best he could do under the circumstances. “Reinforcements,” ‘Bee told him.
Sam could only stare up at his friend in complete surprise. “Reinforcement?” he repeated stunned as he quickly began looking around for them. “What reinforcements? Other Autobots?”
“Humans,” ‘Bee told him and Sam looked up surprised again when his name was suddenly called out.
Looking down Sam nearly started balling when he saw his father climb over the broken and melting blocks of ice to try and get to where he and ‘Bee were positioned. “SAM!” Ron called out again and Sam was instantly wiggling, trying to get down to his father.
“DAD!” he cried out hysterically, tears finally falling freely down his cheeks as Bumblebee set him down just before Ron swooped the boy up in a near bone crushing hug.
“God damn it Sam, don’t you ever do that again! Do you hear me?” Ron said half relieved, half angry as he just clutched his son.
Sam let out a near hysterical laughter. “Damn Dad, if this is how you react to this fight then thank Primus you weren’t in Mission.”
“I don’t want to know, I don’t ever want to know,” Ron quickly growled. “And for the love of God don’t tell your mother!”
“Is everyone all right? Is anyone injured?” Optimus suddenly shouted as he quickly ran over to where Bumblebee was along with Sam and Ron. Optimus was already looking over Bumblebee critically before he quickly turned around and did a head count of his team. He nearly collapsed in relief as he realized that he came up with all eight of the other Autobots. “Is anyone hurt?” he shouted louder. “Sunny? Jazz? Ratchet?”
“Fine!” Jazz instantly called back from where he was engulfed in Prowl’s arms before he went back to reassuring his distraught husband. Optimus could see that Sunny was busy with his own mate while Ratchet was going over each and every one of them one by one to double check and ensure that they were all indeed all right, Wheeljack playing the over attentive nursemaid.
“An, does Captain Manning know how to send back up or what?” Knight sighed as he finally caught up to the larger mechs.
“They certainly came at the right moment, that’s for sure,” Ironhide stated as he was making his way towards the group, Will and Epps in his hands.
Sam’s eyes widened and he looked around for his friend and he sighed in relief as he saw both Steve and Miles headed for them, Soundwave’s team right beside them. “Soundwave!” Sam’s eyes widened as he looked around only to see the larger Decepticon already getting back up. “Are you all right?” Sam called out and Optimus turned around surprised and completely ashamed to realize that he had forgotten all about the Decepticon.
Soundwave nodded as he made his way over and when his battle mask slipped back, all the Autobots were stunned to see that the mech was wearing the biggest smile they had ever seen. “I must thank you Optimus Prime,” Soundwave chuckled. “I haven’t seen Starscream overpowered like that in a long time.”
“You’re welcome… I think,” Optimus replied a bit surprised but not willing to question it.
“Where’s Barricade?” Sam suddenly asked as he realized that he didn’t see the surly black and white Mustang anywhere near them. He quickly whirled to face ‘Bee. “Where’s Barricade?” he yelped, hysteria threatening to creep up yet again.
Bumblebee’s optics brightened and his jaw dropped as he suddenly whirled around. “Slag it! He got caught in that damn avalanche!” he bellowed over his shoulder.
“HE WHAT?” Optimus gasped as everyone quickly went after the yellow mech.
“What avalanche?” Ironhide demanded before they saw it. The mounds of snow and ice that was almost as tall as they were just looming before them. Everyone just gaped up at it, completely at a loss as to what to do. “How the slag did he get caught in that?”
“Never mind that! Just dig!” Optimus snapped even though he himself was just staring at the monumental task before them, not even knowing where to begin. There was no way that even a Cybertronion could get out from underneath all those tons of ice and snow and Optimus didn’t even want to think that Barricade might have been damaged and was now lying under that snow in Stasis Lock.
Sam stared at the piles of snow completely horrified as he tried to figure out where Barricade could possibly be under all that snow. He felt a hand drop on his shoulders and instantly knew that it had to be Will, trying to comfort him knowing how Sam felt about the Decepticon. Sam didn’t want comfort at the moment however, what he wanted was action, but where to begin?
Sam could only stare at the piles of snow even as the mechs began to methodically begin to search through the snow. It was then that he heard it. The faint call of his name and Sam’s head snapped up as he looked at the pile of snow before him. He froze; trying his best to listen before he heard it again and this time Sam was able to pinpoint it to an area to his left. “THIS WAY!” he suddenly bellowed as he shook Will’s hand off his shoulders and began climbing up onto the snow pile. He could just barely hear it but he knew instantly that it was Barricade calling him and he wasted no time trying to find exactly where the mech was buried.
The mechs all watched the boy climbing the snow pile looking for all the world as if he knew exactly where he was going, Miles struggling to keep up with him as he climbed after him. “What in the world?” Ironhide growled as he looked over at ‘Bee. “How does he know where he is?”
“The watch,” was all ‘Bee could think of. “It has to be that slagging watch that Barricade made for him.”
“Err…” the mechs all glanced down surprised to find Frenzy holding up a small black item, his optics bright with surprise. “I f-f-found it at the hot-t-tel,” Frenzy told them stunned. “He ne-ne-nearly l-l-left it so-so-so I g-g-grabbed it!”
“Then how in the world dose he know where he’s going?” Perceptor asked with a frown as he turned to look back out at Sam.
“Guys! I can hear him! He’s over here!” Sam began waving frantically from where he had stopped and all the mechs froze as they just stared at the boy.
“What does he mean he can hear him when even we can’t hear him?” Prowl said slowly as he shot Optimus a sharp look.
Optimus could only stare at where Sam was waving at them frantically while Miles finally made his way to his friend. “GUYS! HURRY! HE’S OVER HERE!” Sam called out again frantically, completely at a loss as to why they were all just standing there. Almost as soon as he finished talking, Sam was on his knees, digging through the snow himself even though he had no hope of reaching Barricade anytime soon just digging with his hands, despite the fact that Miles was digging right there beside him.
“Holy Primus,” Optimus gasped as he just stared at Sam completely and utterly stupefied. “They’re Linked!”
And Bumblebee felt as if the world had dropped out from underneath him.
-To Be Continued
Author's Note: O.O! RUN AWAY!
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