Escaping Reality

Chapter Twenty-Six: Pursuit

"On your left!" Katrina didn't even have to finish her sentence as Sasori darted off in the direction of the blaster fire, taking out the vehicon with precision that Katrina didn't even know she had. All around them, blasters were firing, even as they continued to run. And as they ran, they fought, Bumblebee and Smokescreen taking out vehicons left and right along with Sasori and Katrina herself. But, occasionally, they had to try and wrangle their other problem: Midnight.

         "Traitor!" Midnight's blaster nearly hit Katrina's helm as she rounded a corner, Bumblebee having just taken out the few unfortunate foot-soldiers that had been ready to face them.

         "I thought you said they were friendly!" Smokescreen cried, running alongside Katrina as the four sprinted through the halls.

         "I mean I don't know her super well, but she was nice at the- Ack!" The duo quickly jumped apart as another blast came their way, this time from vehicons at the front, which Smokescreen and Bumblebee got to firing at. Similarly, Katrina also pulled out her weapon, the bow lighting up as she conjured an energy arrow to fire. It was so easy now, especially compared to back at the base. She'd barely known what she was doing, yet now it felt completely natural. A cyberwolf princess on the battlefield. That was what she was, and while she slipped into her role, Sasori fought against hers.

         While the three Autobots jumped to handle the next onslaught of vehicons, Sasori knew that they still very much had Midnight on their tail. On one hand, that was a good thing; this was a rescue mission, and Midnight was part of the group getting rescued. But Midnight was attacking them. Midnight was out of her mind, so Sasori decided to turn around and knock some sense back into her.

         Sasori and Midnight had been in training for a while, going up against vehicons, better trained cons, and even Megatron himself in Midnight's case. Both knew how to fight, and they knew what each other wielded, what their strengths and weaknesses were. So when Sasori bounced back, she knew what to aim for, and she knew a few throwing stars would be enough to temporarily knock her off her game.

         As the stars flew, Midnight took cover behind a cover in the wall, allowing Sasori the chance to dash towards her for another attack. But once the femme was close enough, all it did was prompt the larger femme to jump out and attempt to cut her down, her blade glinting in the low-level lighting. It was expected though, just enough for Sasori to jump to the side, a jump that she made sure would keep her close to Midnight but not dangerously so.

         "Midnight! It's me! Don't you recognize me?!" Sasori once again had to move to dodge as Midnight attacked again, her aggression nearly catching the stealth bot off guard, but thankfully, muscle memory was helping her stick with this.

         "Oh I know who you are," Midnight snarled, lunging at the femme once again. But she dodged, ducking under her arms and kicking her away. She... wasn't fighting back. How foolish... and frustrating.

         "Does anyone happen to know Midnight's real name?!" Sasori called out.

         "Not really!" Katrina shouted right back, an energy arrow flying from her digit-tips before she turned around. "Midnight and I didn't talk much!"

         "Same here-!" Sasori dodged yet another attempted attack from Midnight, the stealthbot wracking her processor on what to do next. "I don't really know what to do though-! Midnight, please just listen to me-!"

         "I am listening." Another punch dodged, and not even an attack from Sasori when she had an opening. Pathetic. "You and I were found by the Deceptions. You and I were retrained under Lord Megatron himself!" An opening. A blow. Sasori was too focused on Midnight's words. "And now, you've turned traitor!"