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By Black Dragon Queen
Author’s note: Here you go. I hope this chapter delivers.
Chapter Seventy-Six: Knock Knock
Sam and Will re-entered the hidden room to find the cages open and the large mech calmly pulling out the multiple wiring. “I take it you were able to reach him.” the mech said simply glancing at Sam. Sam swallowed nervously but nodded all the same. “Good. I have many things to… discuss with the commander.”
Epps glanced over at Will puzzled. “Barricade is a commander?” he whispered.
“Yeah,” Rumble chuckled as he wandered over, Frenzy still hanging off his arm, clutching it possessively. He glanced over at Sam who was surprised to find he had to look down somewhat. “So when do we start busting out of here? I would love to get some payback.” There was an unimpressed “humph” behind him and the ‘Con looked over at the cat who had slinked over to Soundwave’s side. “What? You want a chance at these humans too!” The cat just stared balefully back at him before he turned to look at Sam.
Sam forced himself to remain perfectly still and suppress the urge to take a step back. If these ‘Con’s were anything like Barricade, showing he was nervous of them anymore than he already had would not be a good thing. He was Primus’ chosen for crying out loud! “Do you have any weapons functional or are they all offline?” he asked instead. “The others need to know,” he added at the mech’s curious glance.
“We do not need such things,” the cat suddenly hissed, gifting Sam with a rather toothy cat grin.
There was a huff from Rumble. “Sure, you don’t have to worry but what about us?”
“I’m sure we can manage,” one of the birds chuckled, Sam couldn’t tell which one.
“Well, whatever you’re going to do, get ready to do it fast,” Epps announced as he charged his own gun. “Because this will probably happen very quickly.”
“Finally.” The cat's hissing laughter came again and Sam twitched at the sound. What a creepy kitty.
“Do you know the way out from here?” Will asked, easily ignoring the cat as he looked up at Soundwave.
“I have a perfectly functional memory circuit,” Soundwave announced.
Epps gave Will a light punch on the arm. “Duh…” he snickered.
Soundwave glanced at the small human for a moment before he finally stood. Sam just boggled as the mech reached what was almost his full height. He actually had to duck slightly to avoid hitting his head on the stone ceiling. A dark red visor suddenly dropped over his eyes and a faceplate much like Optimus’ clicked into place. He nodded at the group. “Shall we then?” he asked, gesturing to the large doors.
Epps grinned. “Let the games begin!”
“Status report!”
“-We’re set,-” Jazz reported.
“-Ready as well,-” Hound added. “-I’ve got some of my holograms on standby too.-”
“-I can’t believe we’re doing this,-” Ironhide grumbled.
Optimus glanced over at Ratchet and the medic chuckled. Ironhide was on the opposite side of the compound with Hound while Jazz and Bluestreak took the right. Optimus looked left. “Guys?”
“-Yeah, we’re all ready,-” ‘Bee was the one to answer him.
“Any word from Sam yet?” Optimus asked.
“-Not yet,-” Barricade answered him this time.
“Well, let us know when he contacts you.” Optimus clicked off his comm. as he glanced at Ratchet who was shaking his head. “What?”
“Just what are we doing here Optimus?” Ratchet asked him softly.
Optimus stared at his friend surprised. “I thought it was obvious,” he said. “We’re on a rescue mission.”
Ratchet shook his head. “No, I don’t mean that.”
Optimus frowned. “Then what then?”
Ratchet stared at his long time friend for a long, long moment. “You’re still doing it.”
“Doing what?” Optimus huffed, becoming a little frustrated at the roundabout conversation.
“Thinking that everything can go back to the way it was.”
Optimus sobered instantly. “So?” he shot back. “Isn’t that what leader’s do? Try and ensure his people’s happiness?”
Ratchet frowned. “So…” he began as he looked back at the base. “You actually think it’ll happen?”
Optimus was quiet for a long moment. “Let’s face it,” he finally sighed. “If you had told me back in Mission City that Barricade would show up and actually want to join our side, I would have suspended you fearing you had caught one of the human’s computer viruses.” Ratchet snorted at this but didn’t say anything. “Now,” Optimus continued. “Here we are trying to rescue yet another Decepticon who may or may not help us in the fight against Starscream. Can you blame me for hoping a little?”
“No,” Ratchet replied. “I would love nothing better than to go back to our peaceful ways from before the war but you know things don’t work that way. The war changed everyone.” There was a pause. “Well, maybe not the twins.”
Optimus chuckled and Ratchet was glad that his friend had started laughing again. When they had been on Megatron’s tail, it almost seemed as if he would never smile again. Ratchet frowned as he remembered how Optimus had been that day, standing over the empty shell of his older brother. Megatron had once meant everything to Optimus and that made Megatron’s betrayal all that more harder to bear.
It seemed Optimus was thinking along the same lines as he spoke up once again. “He never explained it, you know. Megatron, I mean.”
Ratchet was quiet for a long time. “Did he need to?”
Optimus sighed. “Would’ve been nice.” Ratchet glanced over at his friend and went to say something more when their radio’s clicked on.
“-Sam said they’re all set,-” Bumblebee innocently interrupted the rather heavy moment.
“Good,” Optimus said. “We’ll go on my signal.”
“-Got it.-”
Ratchet glanced over at him. “Well? Shall we knock?”
Optimus chuckled. “Let’s go.”
Dr. Burgen was shaken out of his bead as the base rumbled suddenly, dust raining down on him as it was kicked loose from the ceiling above. “What the hell?” he snarled as he heaved himself off the floor and made his way to the small intercom. “What the fuck is going on out there?” he shouted.
“-Sir!-” a random voice answered him. “-We’re under attack!-”
“What?” Burgen shouted. “What do you mean we’re under attack? The military know nothing about this place.”
“-It’s not the military sir,-” the voice trembled. “-It’s more of those space robots.-”
Burgen’s eyes widened in shock and a slow smile slowly broke out. “Get the weapons out of hanger nine!”
“-Sir!-”
The smile soon disappeared. “Has anyone thought to check on the subjects in hanger one?”
“-Sir, I don’t believe that,--”
“Never mind, I’ll do it myself! Meet me there with two units!” Burgen snapped as he clicked off the communicator. “So Mr. Witwicky, you’ve come for your friends,” he said under his breath. “Pity that you will be unsuccessful.” The room rumbled again and Burgen frowned as he quickly snagged his glasses and took off out of the room and into the chaos.
“WOO HOO!” Ironhide crowed as he let loose another barrage of fire. Hound glanced over at the gunner commander and shook his head as he too opened fire.
“Don’t you think that was a bit much?” he asked as he glanced over at the smoking guard tower, half of it completely gone thanks to a well-aimed cannon blast.
“Got their attention, didn’t it?” Ironhide chuckled. Hound shook his head as he went back to firing over the human’s heads, taking out the random vehicles and machinery instead.
“-Remember, we can’t harm the humans,-” Optimus announced over the radio.
“Kind of hard when they’re running around like this,” Hound replied dryly as he fired again.
“-Well do the best you can,-” Ratchet announced.
“Got it!” Ironhide replied and fired at the buildings again.
Hound cringed as one of the smaller ones suddenly exploded. “What the hell do they have in those buildings?” he snarled.
“Something flammable!” Ironhide replied with glee and fired again. Hound just sighed as yet another building bit the dust.
“Where the hell are they?” Barricade snarled as he shot another blast at the mountainside.
“You tell me,” ‘Bee huffed. “You’re the one who knows this Soundwave.”
“You never met him?” Barricade replied surprise.
“Are you kidding?” ‘Bee chuckled as they dodged another blast from the mounted cannons on the wall. “Optimus and the others loved to keep me in the back during battle. I hardly ever saw any action.”
“And yet, you were taken to fight Megatron himself,” Barricade mused.
‘Bee paused at this. “Yeah, I never understood it.”
“Probably never wanted to let you out of his sight.”
“I suppose.”
There was a moment of silence before Barricade glanced back at the young Autobot. An evil grin soon spread across his features. “Or he just wanted to make sure you didn’t hurt yourself during a fight. Your aim sucks worse than Misfire.”
“I knocked you flat on your aft often enough.”
Barricade scowled. “Where the hell are they?” Bumblebee just chuckled.
Sam squawked as Mikaela grabbed him as the room began to shake, nearly pulling him over. “That’s some knock,” Mikaela groused as she righted herself.
“Well, I think that’s Optimus’ signal,” Will said with a shake of his head.
“So let’s get the slag out of here!” Epps shouted as he ran towards the door that Soundwave had indicated. He went straight to the control panel. “So how the hell do we get this open?”
Soundwave looked at the small humans before he turned and indicated to Rumble. The smaller mech nodded as he made his way to the panel. “Let an expert at it,” Rumble said haughtily.
Epps frowned at the little mech but Frenzy beat him to it by smacking Rumble over the head before he shoved the other mech out of the way and yanked off the paneling himself. “You no know how to fix,” the silver mech snarled. “On Ea-Ear-Earth, not long enough.”
Rumble stared as the other mech began yanking out wires and re-attaching them in other places. “I could have done it…” he muttered. Frenzy made a disbelieving sound as he attached the last wire and the large bay doors started to creep open.
There was another sound of a far off explosion and the room shook once more. Sam reached out to try and find something to steady himself with when cool metal suddenly appeared under his hand. With a quick glance down, Sam was shocked to see the piercing red optics of the cat staring up at him. “Uh… thanks.” The cat said nothing.
The bay doors finally opened enough for the larger mech to step through when there was a sudden shout behind them. Everyone whirled around surprised to find a whole group of soldiers in the other doorway, Dr. Burgen right behind them. “Well don’t just stand there you idiots!” Burgen shouted. “FIRE!”
Sam was yanked to the side, as all hell seemed to break loose. “Let’s get the hell out of here!” Will yelled as he returned fire. The two birds were suddenly airborne, easily avoiding the human’s fire and causing mass confusion.
One of the beams suddenly hit Rumble and the mech actually went down, electricity clearly seen running up and down his body before fading away.
“What the hell?” Sam shouted, making his way to the mech’s side. “Mikaela, help me!” Mikaela was already at his side and they quickly pulled the other mech out from the line of fire.
“Their weapons are tuned for our systems,” Rumble growled as he sat up. “They momentarily shocks our cores.”
Sam whirled around to stare at him in shock. “What about your sparks?” he demanded and Rumble turned towards him surprised.
“SAM! WE NEED TO GO!” Will shouted from the other side of the hall.
Sam nodded as he glanced at Rumble. “You good?”
Rumble just nodded as he stood. “Let’s get the slag out of here!”
Sam and Mikaela moved quickly as they turned towards the other door. Soundwave shouted something in Cybertronion to his team as the cat managed to get a hold of one of the men who had apparently gotten to close. The cat let go as he turned and quickly bounded back after the group. Frenzy was cackling madly as they ran down the hall. Rumble looked over at him chattering away rapidly before he turned to Sam. “What the slag did you do to him?” he demanded.
“You mean he wasn’t always like this?” Sam replied in shock as they ran.
“Never mind that now!” Epps shouted. “Get those open!”
Sam turned to see yet another set of doors in front of them and one of those Cybertronion words left him before he could help himself, surprising Rumble. “Get undercover!” Will shouted, yanking Sam and Mikaela behind one of the machines and pulled out his gun and returning fire.
Burgen was right behind the soldiers, yelling at them as he too sought cover. “Never mind about them, shoot NBE-7! Get him down!”
Soundwave did not like that idea however and he shouted something in Cybertronion once more. One of the birds appeared overhead. “COVER YOU EARS!” he announced before dodging another blast.
The four humans did just that and not a moment too soon as there was a sudden screeching sound thought the entire base. Sam’s head felt as if his head was trying to explode as he could just barely see the Sector Thirteen guys falling over, dropping their guns as clamped their hands over their ears. His arm was suddenly grabbed and he was surprised to see Rumble there, yanking him towards the now open door.
“Move it human!” Rumble snarled as they quickly moved out into the light of the rising sun. It was chaos out there and Sam could see humans running around frantically, panicking even more at the sight of Soundwave and the smaller ‘Cons. He could just barely hear Ironhide’s voice from beyond the fence and quickly followed Will.
“We can’t go around to the gate,” Will announced as he glanced around for a way over the fence.
There seemed to be no need however as Soundwave bent down and simply yanked the fence right out of the ground. “Move!” Soundwave snarled as he calmly swatted at the humans around him, knocking them down and clearly not caring if they lived or died.
“Let’s go!” Will shouted as he ran towards the direction of Ironhide and Hound who were firing rapidly.
“Captain! Watch your step!”
Epps’ call came a bit too late as the ground, disturbed by the sudden removal of the fence, gave way and Will yelped as he suddenly found himself falling. Dropping his gun, Will’s hands scrambled to find some sort of purchase. He could hear Ironhide shouting but he couldn’t try and figure out what he was saying as he finally managed to snag the edge of the hole and dug his fingers into dirt. “Slag…” he growled.
He tried to get some sort of purchase with his feet when he suddenly saw a shadow above him and he blinked in surprise as razor sharp talons suddenly swooped down at him and he could see the glow of the red optics of one of the bird-like ‘Cons. Squeezing his eyes shut, he waited for the pain of those talons sinking into his flesh when he suddenly felt his shirt pull against his chest as the bird grasped his clothes and yanked him upward.
“Thanks,” he gasped out as he finally was on solid ground but the ‘Con was already back to dive bombing the other humans, sending them scattering in different directions. With a shake of his head, he quickly turned to head back to the teens.
“WILL!” Sam cried out when he saw Will go down and he was trying to figure out a way to get to the fallen ranger when his arm was snagged by Rumble.
“You can’t get to him without showing yourself!” the mech snarled. “Your kind are way to easy to dismantle!”
“But!” Sam tried to protest.
“Sam, we have to go!” Mikaela insisted.
“But what about Will?” Sam demanded.
“We already got him!” Rumble announced. “Now move! I’m not getting captured again because you refused to listen to reason!”
“What?” Sam snarled before he looked back at where Will was and was surprised to see him now out of the hole. “What happened?” he demanded as Will quickly moved to their position, sans the gun that had fallen into the hole.
“Never mind,” Will snapped, “let’s move!”
Sam didn’t have to be told twice as he suddenly saw a yellow camaro appear around the corner and headed right for them. “’BEE!” he couldn’t keep the relief out of his voice.
“Hurry up!” ‘Bee commanded as his door swung open.
Sam was quick to obey as he dove into the driver’s seat, glancing over surprised to see Will and Epps jumping into Jazz. He looked around, trying to find where Soundwave and his team had gone when his eye’s widened in shock.
A huge camper-like truck had seemed to take his place, the words “Federal Bureau of Investigation Mobile Command” blazing across the side. Sam looked over at Mikaela who wore the same look of stunned surprise. “Where the hell did they land?” Sam cried out.
“Dose it matter?” ‘Bee was the one to answer as Sam had to grab the side of his seat as ‘Bee took off. “We have to go!”
Sam looked up to see Bluestreak and Barricade giving them cover fire as they pealed out of there. The blue and red of Optimus’ alt form could also be seen as everyone scrambled to leave. Ironhide raised his arm and let loose a cannon blast right at Sector Thirteen’s own cars and the resulting shockwave rocked the area.
“-Everyone move!-” Optimus shouted. “-Scatter and meet at the next town!-”
There were shouts from everyone as they all shifted and everyone quickly darted off in different directions. Sam just held on as ‘Bee gunned it and took off after Barricade while Bluestreak took off the other way. “I can not believe that we got away with that…” he laughed as they dodged rocks and the local wildlife.
“-It ain’t slagging over yet!-” There was a shout from Barricade. “-They have fucking air support!-”
“What?” Sam and Mikaela whirled around to see that a helicopter had indeed taken off and had decided it was best to follow them!
“What do we do?” Sam demanded. “Should we stop and fight?”
“-You do what you want. I’m out of here!-” Barricade announced and soon the mustang was pulling away in a burst of speed.
“What the slag? Wait up!”
Sam and Mikaela glanced at one another before scrambling for the seatbelts. “This is so not good,” Sam groaned as the helicopter suddenly open fire.
“Hang on!” ‘Bee shouted as he started to dodge and weave the blasts. Mikaela slammed her eyes shut as she held on to the dash in front of here but Sam just continued to stare straight ahead, watching as Barricade did the same evasion maneuvers ahead of them.
“-Oh Slag! ‘Bee they have a-,-”
Sam whirled around just as a bright yellow light suddenly filled the entire back window and he no longer could see anything but the light. Mikaela screamed as the blast hit and Bumblebee was suddenly whirling around like those teacup rides at theme parks. Sam cringed as he held on to the middle console as the world spun around him.
Suddenly the world came to a screeching halt as ‘Bee suddenly slammed into a tree sideways. Sam sat there for a long moment, shock rendering him immobile for the longest time. He finally glanced over at Mikaela. “You okay?”
The girl nodded, here eyes wide as saucers. “Yeah… I think I’m good.”
“Oh God, ‘Bee?” Sam turned to the steering wheel. “Bumblebee? Bumblebee!”
“Shit,” Mikaela muttered. “Whatever they used, I think overloaded his core!”
“What?” Sam whirled around. “You mean-”
“He’s in stasis!” She gasped.
“-SLAG!-”
Sam looked down at his watch surprised. He had completely forgotten about Barricade and now he whirled around to look out the window to see the mustang spin around back towards them at top speed. Sam’s eyes widened as he quickly spun around and looked out the rear window for any sign of the helicopter. Mikaela frowned as she too looked for the helicopter. “Where did they go?” she asked.
As soon as the words were out of her mouth the helicopter suddenly appeared behind a random cliff and Sam gasped as he saw the large cannon that was mounted on the side of the machine. “BARRICADE!”
There was the sound of gears moving and suddenly Barricade was standing in front of them, firing away at the helicopter. Sam turned away from the battle and looked over at Mikaela. “Can you get ‘Bee back?” he demanded.
“I don’t know,” Mikaela announced, climbing over Sam in order to get out since her side was the one pressed against the tree. “I’ll damn sure try though!”
“What ever you’re doing, do it fast!” Barricade snapped over his shoulder. “I don’t know how much longer I can hold them off.”
“What?” Sam looked up at him. “What does that mean?”
“It means I’m running out of bullets, that’s what! I’m not a walking armory like Ironhide!”
“Mikaela?” he asked whirling around.
The girl looked out from under ‘Bee’s hood. “It’s no good! I can’t figure out what it was that they did!”
“What about Ratchet?” Sam demanded. “How far away is he?”
“They’re coming but so is the helicopter!” Barricade announced.
Sam whirled around to find the helicopter coming around again. “Shit!”
Barricade instantly moved himself in front of ‘Bee and the humans. “Take cover!” he shouted.
“I’m not leaving ‘Bee!” Sam shouted back.
“Slag it, this is no time to argue!” Barricade snarled.
“Who’s arguing!” Sam shouted back.
“Shit,” Barricade finally said as the helicopter approached. He was almost completely out of ammunition and there was no way that the helicopter was nearly out of fuel. Unfortunately, he couldn’t get a clear shot as the helicopter continually disappeared behind cliffs and the larger trees. Barricade frowned as he continually flipped through his different frequencies, trying to find the machine to overload it but apparently Dr. Burgen had managed to come up with a device that completely camouflaged itself from their systems.
The helicopter suddenly appeared again, almost right on top of them and Barricade swore as he quickly swung around to shoot. His optics widened as he saw that they already had their cannon aimed and they were about to fire. There was no time for him to shoot. They would still get a shot off, even if his aim were perfect. Every scenario and every possible outcome flew through Barricade’s processor, almost as fast as the rock.
The rock came out of nowhere, flying through the air with perfect precision as it slammed into the side of the helicopter. The helicopter never stood a chance against the large rock as it whirled in the air before crashing down to the ground in a fiery explosion. Barricade came out of his stance, and turned surprised as Soundwave meandered over to their position.
Barricade stared as Ravage pranced, pranced to Sam and dropped the scrap of fabric from his toothy jaw. Sam just stared down at the cloth in shock before he glanced over at Barricade at a complete loss. Barricade just shrugged as he turned back to Soundwave whose expression was still as blank as ever as he spoke.
“Is life with the Autobots always this exciting?” the mech asked as his battle faceplate slipped back and he lifted his visor before offering a hand in greeting.
Barricade stared at the mech stunned before he chuckled and took Soundwave’s hand. “Well, I haven’t been bored yet.”
Soundwave then surprised Barricade as he broke out into a sly smile. “Starscream won’t know what hit him.”
-To Be Continued

Author's Note: Well there you go! I hope it made sense. Please join us tomorrow for chapter Seventy Seven: Unlikely Hero
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