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By Black Dragon Queen
Author’s Note: SORRY FOR THE LATENESS~! I couldn't get to the lab anytime sooner! Hope you enjoy!
Chapter Ninety-Eight: A ‘Con Conference
Barricade spent most of his time in the hanger that day, refusing to be a part of the madness that was taking place outside. Everyone was rather wound up from all the events that had taken place over the past few days and in his opinion, the Autobots were even crazier now than before. With a sigh, he leaned back against the wall and waited for his newest game to load on his hacked PSP while he enjoyed the quiet.
Bumblebee was out with the other Autobots helping gather up the necessary equipment while Sam and Miles were both out with their mothers shopping for what the women deemed were obligatory items of importance. Barricade wasn’t sure just how much they needed two extra coats and three pairs of boots, but whatever made the ladies happy. He was actually surprised that Mikaela wasn’t going but apparently she absolutely hated the cold.
His game had finally loaded and he was going through the tutorial when there was a knock at the door. Barricade sighed as he hit the pause button and stood. “If you’re looking for the bug, he ain’t here!” Barricade was already speaking before he had even opened the door all the way. “Oh. It’s you.” His tune immediately changed as he saw his guests were his fellow Decepticons and he stepped back to allow them entrance. Frenzy was quickly finding a seat on the couch though it didn’t seem as if Ravage really cared as he jumped up onto it as well and curled up at the other end, allowing just the smallest of spaces for Rumble. Rumble just sighed and quickly yanked Frenzy up off the couch before he sat down in the other mechs seat and pulled him back down on his lap. Frenzy snickered and Barricade shook his head.
“Barricade,” Soundwave greeted as he entered the hanger. “I apologize for just coming over.”
Barricade shrugged. “What do I care?” he asked the other mech as he sat back down on his boxcar. “Visit whenever you want.” Soundwave nodded all the while glancing around and Barricade tilted his head. “They’re not here.”
Soundwave turned to Barricade surprised but he nodded as he settled down on one of the other boxcars, the two birds perching on the balcony. “I came to get your opinion on all this,” Soundwave began slowly.
Barricade gave the other ‘Con a long, searching look before he sighed and turned off his game so he could give his friend his undivided attention. “Opinion on what?” he asked dully. “The Energon, the sparklings or our mutual friend over there?”
“Le-le-leave me out of it-it-it,” Frenzy called out from the couch.
“Everything in general,” Soundwave clarified. “Let’s start with why you’re with the Autobots to begin with.”
Barricade glanced back at his friend and wished for a moment that Soundwave’s visor was down so he didn’t have those bright, intelligent optics studying him so critically. However, as they weren’t currently in battle, both visor and facemask were pulled back and Soundwave was watching his every move as if he were trying to ascertain Barricade’s very thoughts. The mustang finally nodded and set the small data pad aside.
Soundwave did have a point. This was really the first time they were able to talk without the Autobots, or even the humans, present. “Well, if you want to know why, know first that it’s entirely Starscream’s fault.” Soundwave didn’t seem surprised at that announcement.
“What happened in the last battle anyways?” Rumble called out. “I think that should be the point where we start.”
Barricade nodded in agreement. “Indeed. We arrived just a few days before the Autobots, who had been scouting the planet, arrived and Frenzy managed to find a reference to our language in the government’s databanks. It all revolved around a Captain Witwicky.”
“The one Sam was speaking of,” Soundwave stated for clarification.
Barricade nodded and proceeded to tell his friends the whole story of what had happened in those few days that had encompassed the final battle with the occasional input from Frenzy. Soundwave and his team were silent throughout the story and the larger ’Con glanced over at Frenzy when they got to the part about Megatron’s revival. Frenzy just shrugged. “The hu-hu-humans didn’t re-realize that he w-was just sl-sl-sleeping,” Frenzy explained. “Qui-qui-quite easy to wake him up-up-up.” He gave Rumble a quick smile before he suddenly pulled himself out of his mates arms and stood.
A second passed and it was Megatron who was speaking. “I could feel the All Spark all those years they had me locked up in that dam with it,” he stated as he began to pace. “It was driving my almost completely insane.”
Barricade gave him a skeptical frown. “As opposed to the insanity you gained with the virus?”
Megatron frowned at him. “It was a hell of a ‘virus’,” he muttered as he turned in his pacing again.
Soundwave glanced down at him. “I highly doubt that it would have been a virus that would suddenly convince you to go to war.”
Megatron frowned at him but nodded sadly. “Well, it all started when Orion and I were given our assignments,” he began and every mech within hearing range held onto his words with rapt attention. “When he became Prime and I gained the title of High Lord Protector, we were brought to the Chamber of the All Spark and were shown the history documents of the holy covenant.”
“You mean vid files?” Rumble asked confused and was surprised when Megatron shook his head.
“No, I mean actual documents. The documents of the first Thirteen.”
“You’re kidding,” Ravage stared at the other mech aghast.
Megatron nodded. “It was in these documents that we learned about a prophecy.”
“Oh. That again,” Barricade stated and Megatron turned to him surprised.
“You know of the prophecy?” he asked in disbelief.
Barricade nodded. “Optimus told us when Sam first spoke to Primus. We kind of figured that the last part might have been about Sam but we’re still a little unsure.”
Megatron thought about it. “Technically he did end the war. Though I think that had more to do with the fact that he destroyed the All Spark as opposed to killing me.”
“Will someone just explain this prophecy to us please?” Ravage demanded from where he was now sitting on the couch just glaring at the two.
Megatron nodded. “Let’s just say that when the First Thirteen spoke to Primus, he foretold of a civil war that would encompass our whole planet and the one who was to stop it.”
The other Decepticons just stared at Megatron surprised. “Wait. So you knew of a war that was going to happen and when you caught the virus, you just decided since it was going to happen anyway to start it a little early?” Rumble cried out in disbalife.
Megatron’s shoulders slumped slightly. “It was a bit more complicated than that but you got about the gist of it.”
“That was not what you told us when you first began recruiting us,” Soundwave said flatly and Megatron slouched a little further.
“Though what I told you was the truth,” Megatron sighed. “The ‘virus’ just screwed up with my through processing. When I learned of the Prophecy I was actually trying to take steps to ensure that it didn’t happen or that if it did, we would at least be prepared.” Megatron sighed as he looked back at the other ‘Con’s. “As it was, when I caught the virus, everyone around me became a possible enemy and I started to see conspiracies everywhere. The ‘virus’ twisted my desire to help my people and turned it into something ugly and bitter.” Barricade watched as Megatron held out his hands helplessly. “I knew what I was doing was wrong but I couldn’t stop it. I had absolutely no control over what I was doing.”
“You could have fought it,” Rumble snarled from where he was on the couch. “If you knew it was a virus you could have sought help from a medic or something. There’s always something you could have done.”
Megatron looked over at him sadly and shook his head. “No, I couldn’t,” he said sadly. “This particular ‘virus’ was like nothing you could have ever dreamed,” he replied as he resumed his pacing. “I had absolutely no control over myself. It was like watching the world go past you in a vid. I even sent away my own personal medic when he became suspicious and he was just as good as Optimus’ Ratchet. There was nothing I could have done.”
Soundwave and Barricade shared a look at this but Rumble still seemed rather unconvinced as he jumped off the couch and stood. “So you’re telling me that we went to war, that we saw hundreds of our friends die, slag, our whole world, die for pretty much nothing?” Megatron cringed at the words but nodded miserably. Rumble just stared at the body of his mate in disbelief and everyone cried out when he just suddenly lashed out and decked the other mech.
“Rumble!” Soundwave barked but the smaller mech showed absolutely no remorse in what he had done and Barricade sighed, knowing just how he felt.
Megatron went down hard and Ravage hopped off the couch as well and quickly made his way to the fallen mech, allowing Megatron to use him a brace to stand back up. Rumble was breathing hard as he glared down at the mech. “Frenzy, if you can hear me, I’m sorry I did that to you but slag it, someone had to!”
There was a twitch and the red optics of his mate lightened momentarily. “I k-k-know,” Frenzy nodded.
“Rumble,” Soundwave sighed and the small mech turned to his commander completely guiltless.
“It doesn’t matter anymore, it’s over and done with,” Barricade quickly interjected before he turned to Rumble. “It was a prophecy by Primus himself. I doubt that anything we could have done would have prevented it.”
Rumble frowned but let it go as he just pulled Frenzy back to him and dropped back down onto the couch. Soundwave sighed as he turned back to Barricade. “So Frenzy released Megatron from his frozen state and then what happened?”
Barricade nodded, glad for the subject change and got back to the topic of the battle that had happened Earth side. “We had been called as soon as Megatron was awake, obviously, but the Autobots had taken the All Spark and were trying to hide it in one of their own cities. Naturally we gave chase.”
Soundwave looked up sharply at that. “They took the All Spark, knowing that there were Decepticons right on their tail that had absolutely no regard for them or anyone else, to a heavily populated area?”
“That was stupid,” Ravage sighed.
Barricade chuckled. “You’re telling me. You would think that since they wanted to hide their own presence, the Autobots would have taken it to another location.”
“So?” Laserbeak asked, now captivated by the story. “What happened?”
Barricade shrugged. “What else would you expect? Complete bedlam ensued.”
“And your companions were lost in the fight,” Soundwave asked softly and Barricade quickly dropped his head, a small wince crossing his face so quickly that Soundwave thought he had perhaps imagined it.
“All of them,” the commander confirmed softly. “Bonecrusher was taken out by Optimus himself.”
There was silence for a moment. “It was a death he would have wanted, going down in battle. He should have been proud,” Soundwave said quietly.
“How did the other Constructicons take his death?” Barricade inquired, curiously.
“Typical reaction. They all freaked,” Ravage said with a sigh.
“He was a good mech and a fine fighter,” Soundwave stated loudly. “Though he was a little on the slow side.”
Barricade snickered a bit as Rumble turned back to him. “And the others?” the smaller mech inquired.
“Taken out by the Autobots along with Will and his team,” Barricade sighed. “Brawl was taken down by the Autobit.”
Ravage cocked his head in puzzlement. “‘Autobit’?”
“Bumblebee,” he clarified and there were shocked gasps all around.
“What?” Rumble shouted in stunned surprise. “He took out Brawl? By himself?”
“Bumblebee was able to take out one of the most temperamental, egotistical, arrogant, and cruelest member we’ve ever had in our ranks?” Buzzsaw asked in disbelief. “And he took him out by himself?”
Laserbeak chuckled. “No wonder you haven’t done anything to the bug. You’re afraid of him, aren’t you?”
Barricade glared at the bird. “I am no such thing,” he announced firmly. “I just feel it prudent not tell him those specific details, less he get an even bigger swollen processor.”
“What? That he managed to take down one of the top three hardest ‘Cons?” Megatron chuckled before allowing Frenzy to take control again.
Rumble frowned at the mech in his lap. “Will you stop that?”
“H-h-how?” Frenzy asked. “It’s not like I can con-con-control him.”
Barricade just groaned in the background at Megatron’s words. “Just don’t tell the Autobit that!”
There were a few chuckles before Soundwave turned back to his friend. “And the others?”
“Actually, from what I know Scorponok is still out there in Qatar somewhere, though I think he’s in recharge. Blackout himself was taken down by the humans,” he explained.
There was a low whistle from Ravage. “The humans took out Blackout?”
Barricade nodded miserably. “He’s actually one of the few Decepticons who we could use right at the moment. The two of us had spoken prior to landing on Earth and we both suspected Starscream of foul doings.”
“Starscream’s foul no matter what he’s doing,” Buzzsaw chuckled.
“True,” Barricade agreed. “Still. Autobots or not, Blackout would have enjoyed seeing Starscream being taken down a peg or two.”
“Or all of them,” Rumble muttered and a few nodded in agreement.
“Blackout was the only other mech on the Decepticon high council that I could speak with and not have to worry about getting my aft shot the second I turned around,” Soundwave suddenly announced, surprising the other ‘Cons with his admittance. He let out a sad sigh. “Blackout was a Decepticon warrior at his finest. May he find happiness in the realm of the fallen.”
There was a moment of silence as the seven Decepticons remembered their lost comrades. “You knew them better than I and I wish that I had the time to know them as you did,” Barricade said quietly.
Soundwave nodded before he glanced over at Barricade suspiciously. “And where exactly were you when all this was happening?” he asked sharply.
Barricade immediately straightened. “Well I wasn’t avoiding the battle if that’s what you’re implying,” he bit out defensively.
“Then where were you?” Ravage asked with no censure in his voice, just the honest question.
Barricade looked down a bit embarrassed. “Would you believe I got caught up in the human’s police barricade as they were trying to evacuate the area?” he said quietly.
The other ‘Cons stared at him a full minute before it was Frenzy who broke out in hysterical laughter. “I to-to-told you th-that for-for-form would get you into t-t-trouble!” he cackled.
“It wasn’t my fault!” Barricade snarled embarrassedly. “Though, I did destroy a good chuck of their force before I finally got out of there.” He chuckled a moment before he became serious once again. “By the time I had finished them off and reached the main fighting, everyone was dead and Sam was off killing Megatron.”
“I am right here you know,” Megatron drawled but Frenzy quickly came back to the forefront before Rumble could shove his once-leader off his lap.
“And Starscream?” Soundwave asked, though he wasn’t sure he wanted to know the answer.
“Doing what Starscream does best. Running away,” Barricade said with a shrug.
“Typical,” Ravage snorted.
“What happened after that?” Soundwave questioned.
“Indeed. How did you come to be with the Autobots?” Buzzsaw added. “I must say I am very curious about that.”
“What did Starscream do after my defeat?” Megatron made a quick appearance to ask.
“First he insisted that he didn’t run away and leave you high and dry,” Barricade chuckled. “Like I really cared what he did, then he went on to talk about how we couldn’t leave the Earth yet until we had managed to get the human who had killed you and gain revenge on the Autobots.”
Megatron took control again and quickly scrambled out of Rumbles arms before he could be tossed on his aft again. “This isn’t making any sense,” he announced with a small frown. “Starscream is a maniacal, vindictive S. O. B., but for him to actually take action in revenge for my death is not something I would have expected of him.”
“I don’t think it’s really for your benefit,” Barricade told him. “I think he’s just pissed at the humans and Autobots in general for not only defeating us, but the destruction of the All Spark as well.”
Ravage glanced at Megatron puzzled. “What is an ‘S. O. B.’?”
“A slagging pain in my aft,” Megatron muttered as he began pacing again. He turned to Barricade once again. “So he’s leading my Decepticons against the Autobots for absolutely no reason other than petty revenge?”
“That’s what I told him,” Barricade nodded. “It was stupid for us to remain when we should have been out searching for our next primary need; Energon.”
“Although I suppose it was a good thing that you didn’t leave considering we found it,” Ravage said lazily.
“That was a lucky accident,” Barricade huffed.
“However… it may explain why the cube landed here in the first place,” Soundwave spoke up. “It’s possible that it was drawn to the Energon.”
“Or in the thousands of years here, the Cube was able to change this planet to sustain Energon,” Barricade’s optics brightened as he thought. “It makes sense! The All Spark had to have been leaking at least some energy into the planet! It would stand to reason that it would have been the All Spark that created Energon.”
“But why would the Energon show up in the Arctic as opposed to where it had landed?” Rumble asked puzzled. “That doesn’t make sense.”
Barricade shrugged. “Who knows? That may have been the only place capable to sustain it. This planet has a whole range of different temperate zones and so on and so forth.”
“It was certainly cold enough,” Megatron groused as he found a lawn chair shoved in one of the corners and yanked it out to seat himself in.
“So what happened with Starscream next?” Ravage turned back to Barricade. “You argued with him and…”
“He went postal,” Barricade growled. “Accused me of being disloyal to him and Decepticons in general and outright attacked me.”
“But you’re a crack shot,” Rumble frowned puzzled by this statement. “How in the world did you miss him?”
“The slagger waited until I was in recharge to shoot,” he announced and there were gasps all around, though none of them were really surprised.
“I’m amazed you weren’t killed,” Soundwave said seriously.
“I almost was!” Barricade yelped angrily. “I managed to get out to Tranquility and to Sam just moments before I was thrown into Stasis Lock.”
“WHAT?” everyone screamed again.
“Whoa-whoa-whoa! How did you end up at Ladiesma-ma-man217’s?” Frenzy asked.
“We had his address, remember?” Barricade told him. “That was what I had refused to give Starscream. He wanted to just take him out and when I didn’t give it to him, he accused me of being a traitor.”
Soundwave gave his friend a long look. “And why did you not just give him the address?” he asked slowly. “I wouldn’t have thought you to be so soft as to allow the human to live. One would think you would have been right there with Starscream wanting revenge.”
Barricade was quiet for a long, long moment before he sighed. “I don’t know,” he said honestly. “All I know is that for some reason, I just knew that I absolutely could not give Starscream Sam’s location no matter what he may have done to me.”
The other ‘Cons though about this while Megatron looked at Barricade for a long moment. “Perhaps it’s better to not criticize Barricade’s motives,” he stated to the room at large. “It was a good thing he didn’t give in to Starscream considering Sam was the one who brought me back.”
“And now that we know he’s able to speak to Primus directly, can you imagine what he would have done if we had gotten rid of him?” Barricade added with a slight chuckle. “That and I was more concerned at the time about how much the Autobots had come to like Sam and the other humans. I knew if we killed him then they would have not rested ‘till they saw us dead. And considering at the time there was only the two of us, I calculated the odds and played my best hand.”
“A wise decision,” Megatron nodded. “Sam has apparently become rather embroiled in this and if he is the one mentioned in the prophecy… I highly doubt that Primus would be too happy. He seems to have taken a likening to the boy.”
“And the way the Autobots like to drag him into the thick of things, not to mention Sam’s own stubbornness, it’s a full time job making sure nothing happens to him.”
Soundwave looked at the other ‘Con suspiciously. “You seem to be rather fond of the boy yourself…”
Barricade shrugged. “I’ve gotten use to him. That and I still owe him my life.”
“Hmmm…” Soundwave frowned.
“So you got to Sam but what happened then?” Ravage asked. “Clearly the Autobots took pity on you.”
Barricade cringed. “Another reason to dislike the Autobit. I was in stasis and it was his mercy that allowed my continued existence. Sam and his friends knew that they couldn’t bring me to Ratchet so they repaired me themselves as best they could.”
The ‘Cons just stared at him. “You’re kidding,” Rumble gaped and Barricade just nodded miserably.
“I stayed with Sam’s family for a few months before Sector Thirteen attacked him and then it became essential to bring him back here for safe keeping. That I wasn’t shot upon my arrival is again, thanks to Bumblebee.” Barricade paused. “And Ratchet,” he added almost as an afterthought. “Playing the injured card with him really helped.”
“You would take advantage of that, wouldn’t you?” Laserbeak chuckled.
“I’m still standing here aren’t I?” Barricade shrugged. “So that’s what happened from beginning to end. I’ve been staying with the Autobots and when we learned about Frenzy we also found you.”
“And I, for one, am glad you did,” Buzzsaw proclaimed.
Barricade smirked before he became serious once again. “The rest you know.”
“Still, everything that’s happened,” Rumble chuckled.
“Seems like something right out of a Soap Opera, doesn’t it?” Barricade snickered.
Frenzy just nodded enthusiastically as Soundwave turned back to Barricade. “What is a ‘Soap Opera’?”
Bumblebee shook his head as Barricade went into detail about the horrors of Soaps while Frenzy added on his own opinion of the rather tasteless shows. He leaned back against the wall beside the door and just listened with half an audio sensor as the ‘Cons began going over the latest madness of the Autobot base and what the Arctic Circle was going to be like. As Barricade retold his stories of ‘The Horror of Snow’, Bumblebee turned away from the hanger and began walking back to the group of Autobots still stacking various equipment in the courtyard.
He had known that the reason Barricade had been beaten and had run to them was because he had refused to give Starscream Sam’s whereabouts, but apparently there was more to it than that. Starscream was adamant about going after Sam and amazingly the ‘Cons had all just basically confirmed that they would protect the boy themselves if need be. Bumblebee didn’t know wheatear to be shocked or baffled by the realization.
He knew that Barricade had to have more of a reason for why he didn’t just turn Sam over, but what did he mean when he said that he just knew he couldn’t? Just what the slag was going on around here? And why did Bumblebee suddenly have a feeling of dread when it came to Barricade and Sam?
Barricade was way to overprotective of the boy for just simple worry and Sam it seemed was spending a lot of time with the ‘Con and not just standing up for him when it came to the other Autobots. Bumblebee could understand that they were friends. Hell, even he and Barricade were “friends” now on some level, but there was something about seeing Sam and Barricade together lately that was starting to just nag at Bumblebee and he couldn’t for the life of himself figure out what it was.
They were never really alone together since Bumblebee was always right there with them but ‘Bee still couldn’t get rid of the feeling of anxiety from the bottom of his core. He would have to watch them on this trip very carefully. He wasn’t sure if Barricade was telling the whole truth and Sam could be completely oblivious as to the ‘Cons true intentions.
With a sigh ‘Bee wandered back over to where Ratchet was waiting for him. “Well?” Ratchet asked him at his approach. “Did you get Ironhide’s tow cable?”
Bumblebee stared at him in surprise before he groaned and turned back around to head back to the hanger. “I knew I was forgetting something…”
Ratchet shook his head as he handed Red a loop of climbing rope. “Kids.”
-To be Continued
Author's Note: Finally Barricade got to talk to the other 'Cons about everything. Hope you join us next time for chapter Ninety Nine: Back in Action
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