Trapped

chapter 3

Knockout opened his optics the dust had finally cleared now, and looked down immediately. "NO! Not the finish! Breakdown just buffed this!" He yelled out. He was very vocal about this kind of stuff, he loved to speak his mind, and didn't care if anyone judged him over how much he cared about his finish. He loved looking his best.

The human coughed, and sat up. Arcee moved off of him. "Jack, you okay?"

"Yeah, I think so." He said in his normally bored sounding voice.

"Well I'm not!" Knockout exclaimed, " this will take forever to buff! And I have dents now!" He looked up to them both frowning. "What?"

"Nobody asked you." Arcee raised an eyebrow at him.

"Now there's no need to be so rude."

Arcee stood up, then rolled her optics at him. Such a rude autobot, he thought.

She brought her out blasters, directing them at knockout, "Come on Jack, let's get out of here."

"Shouldn't we see if Miko and Bulkhead if are okay?"

"Yeah, your right."

"You have fun with that, I'm getting out of here."

All Arcee did was glare at him, as he transformed into car form, and began to drive to get out of there. He sped up in the cave, after all it was pretty much just one big straight line. Wasn't it. . . Longer? He had to stop about halfway, because the road was completely blocked.

"Are you kidding me!" He yelled. Turning back toward the autobot, maybe he should check on breakdown?

He drove up right behind arcee and the human. Transforming back into himself. They looked at him with confusion, Jack stumbled back a little bit.

"Turns out we're trapped in here. The entrance got blocked by some debris, quite a shame really." He put his hand on his hip, waving his other hand in the air. Adding a bit of attitude to what he was saying. "Say, have you seen breakdown anywhere around?"

She just frowned deeply at him, blasters in the air, pointing at his face. "Hey, whoa whoa, easy there. We can't fight in here or this whole place could come crashing down. And my poor finish doesn't need that right now. Oh and also your human pet would be crushed." He added.

"Fine, but I have my optics on you." She said, barely lowering her blasters. "You go in front." She moved to the side to let him get past.

"Fine, since you clearly don't trust me."

"I don't." She said has he slid past her.

"Good riddance." It was his turn to role his optics. They wondered down the path, Arcee padding slowly behind him, blasters out and aimed. They got to the intersection of the cave, and they turned down the way breakdown went. But the path also blocked. "Okay, so what now?" He said outloud, but feared for breakdown. I hope he's okay, hopefully he wasn't crushed. Maybe I could drill my way through, but my drill isn't made for this kind of thing.

"I. . . Don't know." Arcee choked, trying to sound confident, yet clearly was scared.

They heard a faint slamming sound from beyond the rocks. All of their eyes widened, staring and thinking. It didn't sound like a fight, but that meant that someone was alive on the other side.

Breakdown

Bulkhead arms stained to hold up the ceiling, he groaned at the pain. Struggling to keep his arms from failing him.

Miko hit his foot one more time with the rock. Her arms faltered, she tried to take a deep breath as she leaned over his pede.

"Miko, its okay. You have to stop!" Bulkhead was worried about her.

"Wha . . What if... they . . Didnt," she gasped, "hear?"

Bulkhead shook his head, "it fine, just take a break. You need to breath!" His arms made a screeching metal sound, and he grunted in pain.

"How much longer can you hold that up?" Breakdown asked.

"Honestly, I'm not sure. . ."

Silence.

No one knew what to say, all of them were obviously in pain and didn't know what to do. They all just had to hope that someone heard them. The sound wasn't even an obvious call for help, but if they yelled they weren't sure how the cave would react. And what others were crushed? Its not like that wasn't a possibility, and he wasn't sure if the bots here even thought about it, but he didn't want to be the one to bring that up. He didn't want to focus on knockout, and his possible demise. But he also didn't want to be stuck here in this cave with this. . . Autobot. He might've helped breakdown once, but he didn't like Bulkhead now.

Thats when they heard a whirring sound.

Knockout

The sound faded into the background. Did he imagine that?

"You guys heard that too? Right?" The human asked.

"Yeah. . ." Arcee knodded. She still had a blaster directed at knockout, yet quickly shifted it toward wall. Before knockout could even think about what he was doing, he grabbed her arm and pushed it down, gritted his teeth and shook his head.

"You idiot! If you shoot the wall the whole thing could come tumbling down!"

She pulled her arm away and snarled, but he was right, and she knew it.

"Fine, genuis! What do you think we should do?"

"I don't know! Just not that!"

The two glared at one anothor. "Fine, don't touch me again!"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I was trying to stop you from crushing us!"

"If I did that to you, you would've screamed about your finish! Such a narcissist!"

"Yes, I suppose your right. . ." He thought for a moment, he would've done exactly that. "But I didn't almost crush us, so at least I thought ahead." He smirked, glad he found a way to twist it just a bit, he really was a narcissist, too bad.

"Guys!" The human squeaked, was that really the loudest it could be? "I think I figured out a way? Knockout . . ." He hesitated for a second as the decepticon turned his eyes to look at him, he was glaring, but he was clearly annoyed. "Uuuh... maybe you could use your screwdriver to move the rocks?"

The con thought for a moment, then smirked. Raised his arm and changed it into his screwdriver. A wild look in his optics. He knodded. "Not the worst idea flesh bag." He turned towards the rocks that they had heard the faint sound from a moment earlier.