Trapped

A/N: Inspired by a Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic I found and decided to apply to Transformers Animated. If you want a time reference this takes place after "Black Friday" and before the two part Season Two finale "A Bridge To Far".

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Enjoy.

"This is all your fault you know." "My fault? Excuse me, but I didn't cause a cave-in." "Who knows this world better? Me or you?" "You, but-" "Exactly. So unless you've got something helpful to say stop complaining and help me fix my arm so I can think of a way to get us out of here." The arguement around that topic had been going on for a while and had become a fairly common occurrence since they had been trapped together.

Optimus had been stupid, yes he would admit that, but he and his friends had been ambushed by the Decepticons in a cave system in search of a pair of Allspark fragments. When they could run no more, stopping after the Prime had literally run into Blackarachnia as she too had picked up the fragment readings, they had made a valiant stand against their larger and more agressive foes. Unfortunately, Lugnut had attempted to use his P.O.K.E move to try and bring the Autobots to their knees.

By a stroke of good luck Bulkhead had manged to use one of his wrecking balls to uppercut the mammoth mech and send him straight into the ceiling. That good luck however quickly turned into bad luck as the Punch detonated on the roof of the cave and brought it crashing down on friend and foe alike. Optimus had gotten hurt tackling Blackarachnia out of the way of several large rocks.

More than one of those had landed on his various limbs including severly denting his legs. That also led to him getting a broken right arm and Blackarachnia having to use her webbing to patch him up until his internal repair systems, which had kicked in immediately before the dust had even settled, could get his injured limb repaired. Unlike the times when he was often more civil to the Decepticon femme give who she used to be, the whole thing had made him irritable and bad tempered.

This meant he absolutely wasn't in the mood for "catching up" as his former fellow Elite Guard trainee had taken to calling their little meetings. Those had been a somewhat off and on happenings often when he was out on night patrol and took to watching their night sky. She would turn up out of nowhere and start a mostly one sided conversation of which he tried to ignore, especially when it came to when he and Sentinel had "abandoned" her on Archa 7 all those stellar cycles ago.

His thoughts were interrupted as Blackarachnia's voice cut in. "There. It'll heal correct... ish. At least until your IR finishes up and we can get out of here," she said, finishing tying up a makeshift sling with long strands of her webbing. Optimus inspected the damaged to his arm with an experimental squeeze. That was a move he instantly regretted in doing as it stung like anything and he immediately gave a hiss of pain.

"Don't do that you tin-headed idiot! There's at least one broken finger in that servo if not more," the femme reprimanded him sharply. The red and blue mech simply rolled his optics having expected such a response. "Sorry, I didn't feel anything. Now I do," he answered with a hint of sarcasm in his voice as he rose to his peds and began to inspect the wall that effectively blocked their escape.

Mentally he thanked the fact that Sari hadn't come with them as unlike them she would have most likely run out of air. "So what's the damage?" Blackarachnia asked from the centre of their rocky prison. Optimus rubbed his one good servo against the rock wall in front of him. He felt a few loose stones and pulled them out. Unfortunately he ran out pretty quickly. Not for the first time, his intellect failed him. He didn't know what to do.

"I don't know. Hopefully the others weren't crushed. They can break their way through this stuff eventually. Best I could do is hopefully pull this things out one by one but that may probably cause another cave-in," Optimus answered. "Well then... I guess we wait." And so they did. With no way to tell how much time had passed they had no idea how long they waited. Optimus tried his best to keep track in his head but found the endeavour to be fruitless after an hour.