Nightmares and Monsters

Part 11

Previously in Chapter 10:

What none were expecting was what happened next; the black Pick-up started to transform behind them and yelled, "It's Starscream!" Caliene was now worried, who or what was 'Starscream' and apparently Epps was of the same mind as he asked into the radio, "Please tell me you copy."

Now Chapter 11

Cali's POV:

We all turned to face a noise behind us as the black GMC Topkick transformed the whole way and started to shoo people backwards whilst saying the whole time to, "Back up! Take cover!" and then he turned to face the Camaro that was Bumblebee and called out his name as if to get him to help, which is exactly what our yellow and black striped friend did.

He walked over to where the GMC was now stood and helped to lift up a 'Furby' truck as if to try and make it into some sort of shield or screen to block the missiles and rounds coming from the enemy. I turned when I heard Will panicking slightly as he said, "No, no, no, no, no! Move!" I couldn't tell if he was talking to the Mech's lifting the truck or if he was talking to us who were standing around.

I soon realized that Lennox was talking to all of us as a group, especially when the black GMC Topkick-now-a-Mech turned and told Bumblebee who was still trying to lift the 'Furby' truck up mind you to "Back up! Back up!" I shook my head and yelled to him, "He's trying to you black bucket of bolts! Now either help him move it or shut the hell up!" As you could probably tell my temper was by now starting to fray somewhat, and Will and the guys knew that was not a good thing, especially during a battle zone like Mission City was starting to look like.

For a quick second or two my mind flashed back to the village in Qatar where we faced the Scorpion robot and I shuddered, there was no way in hell I was going to lose any of my Squad or the two teens that we were here to protect.I came back to the present when I heard Lennox yelling "Retreat! Fall back!" I was about to tell Will in no uncertain terms that I was not retreating for any reason, when I was shocked to hear one word nobody in the Armed Forces wants to hear on a battlefield; "INCOMING!"

Looking in the direction I could see everyone else looking in I swallowed as best I could considering what my eyes were seeing had caused my mouth to dry up. Coming straight at us all were a small group of Missiles - AGM-65's if my guessing was anything to go by (and AGM-88's were for hitting Radar batteries on the ground from the air), and was sure we would find out in a few I remember after the Missiles hit was 'where the hell was the ringing coming from?' and 'I'm alive!' Then the fun thought of 'OWWW!' hit as I tried to sit up, figuring out just where I was feeling the 'OWWW!' from, I touched my head and found a slight bump near the top of the back of my head.

'Great! I have a minor concussion!' I thought to myself as I slowly stood up to look around for the rest of the Squad and the teens along with the Mechs.I watched whilst I looked around as everyone started to shake off the effects of the explosions and debris covering them. Spotting Lennox and the rest of my Squad, I headed on over to see if anyone required a medic or not; we really didn't need anyone being out of commission right now. As I slowly and carefully made my way over to them I heard a metallic sound, almost like a whining sound, so I stopped and looked around through the dust clouds that were still floating around and spotted Bumblebee trying to crawl towards where I assume Sam and Mikaela were. Therefore, I decided that my Squad mates could deal with anything that came up without my help, thus freeing me up to help the teens if they were injured.

Hearing one of the Squad yelling out to "Clear the area!" and then hearing Lennox call out "Anybody hurt? Everyone okay?" I replied that I was fine and was going to look for the rest of the I got over to where Bumblebee and the teens were, I was appalled at the state that Bumblebee was in; he was missing his legs from the knees down. He was in definite pain if the whining was anything to go by. Almost like the noises he was making back at the Dam when he was being experimented on. Reaching them and squatting down in front of Bumblebee, I pulled out Anubis, effectively waking up the poor baby so that he could help me figure out what was going on with 'Bee.