Nightmares and Monsters

Part 9

Previously in Chapter 8:

"I'm gonna count to five. Okay." said Simmons, hoping that Lennox and the others listened to him and let them all go. "Well, I'm gonna count to three." said Lennox as he aimed his gun with the safety off over Simmons' heart. "And I'm gonna count to two and half." responded Cali as she aimed her handgun at Simmons' head, she swore she saw his eyes widen slightly and that she saw a sweat drop form down the side of his face.

Now on to the next installment:

Key:

"Italic" = Anubis talk/Text

'Bold' = Bumblebee sound clips / noises

'Italic' = facial expressions / thoughts

"normal" = Normal Speech

As the 'Mexican Stand-off' continued for what seemed like hours but was in fact only minutes, Cali kept her gun trained on Simmons' head. If he said anything further derogatory about her group or the teens that were there she was going to shoot him on basic principles. She was brought out of her musings of shooting the annoyance by the SecDef asking, "Simmons?""Yes, sir?" came the timid reply as he looked from the two guns aimed at him, towards the at Simmons, the SecDef just gave him the 'Are you really going to be as stupid as I think you are?' look. "I'd do what they say. Losing's really not an option for these guys."

Still looking at the SecDef, Simmons replied quickly and with as much courage as he could muster, "All right. Okay. Hey you want to lay the fate of the world on the kids Camaro? That's cool."Cali let out the breath she hadn't realized she had been holding when Lennox let Simmons go and placed his sidearm back into it's holster. She looked around and noticed the relieved look on the teens face at the prospect of seeing his car again, she smiled slightly at the thought of 'boys and their cars!' and she headed on over to them and decided that since they didn't like Simmons, she was going to protect them incase he tried anything. Catching up to them as they headed to where the car was being held, Cali decided that introductions were in order. "Hey there again, sorry about the tension back there, but the idiot that is Simmons really rubbed meh the wrong way. Name's Caliene Meredith, Captain in the US Army. I work with Captain William Lennox - the guy who held his gun to Simmons' chest.

What are your names and why are you here, anyway? Thought it was strange for the Government to drag in a couple of teens for something like this." she said as they made their way through yet more drab tunnels towards an area that had some really weird whines coming from."Thanks for helping us back there, we really appreciate it, so far we've been given the run around and nobody would tell us anything about a friend of ours, which is why we need Sam's car." came the reply from the leggy brunette walking the other side of the lad. "Yeah thanks for that, Captain. We really owe you for putting yourself in danger against Simmons and his goons. As Mikaela just said my name is Sam, Sam Witwicky, and she is Mikaela Banes. The reason for us being here is in the room we're heading to right now." came the lad - 'No' she told herself 'Sam's' response as they finally reached the they stood outside the door and waited for the others to arrive they could hear what Cali deemed to be metallic whining and groaning sounds, looking down at her shirt pocket when she felt a sharp pinch, she saw Anubis waving his arms at her.

She picked him out of her pocket and held him whilst Sam and Mikaela looked on in disbelief at what was going on between the cell phone-bot and the Captain, "So what is it, Anubis? What is going on in there?" Cali asked the small bot as she tried to calm him folded down into cell phone mode, surprising Cali with what came next; 'Hurt... Scared... Bigger... Guardian... Pain... Help!'came the reply in the form of a text message on the screen. Cali showed Sam and Mikaela the text and all three had a quick moment of understanding, they were hurting someone in there and it was scaring the poor phone-bot to the point where he was shaking as if he was set in vibration mode - what ever was going on in that room Cali was going to try and stop it, she never did like seeing or hearing anyone being tortured and from the sounds still coming from the room next to them they were torturing an even bigger version of as the rest of the group made it up to them, Cali watched as Sam pretty much slammed through the doors and started yelling at the idiots in the room to "No, no! Stop! You got to stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!"