Find Me (You Saved Me Series Book 3)

The Dead

Shelby holds her weapon close to her body, pointed down the ground, but finger on the trigger. Dreadwings voice rang in her mind. 'I can't lose you again.' She knows he isn't happy with her going, but she needs to do this. This has to end. She walks in between the Autobots. Optimus leading the way, his blaster pointed, ready for action. The woods are thick until they come to a clearing and there stands a building in the middle. It's quiet. There isn't a sound besides the footsteps of the giants stalking towards it. Not a person in sight. Apart of her wonders if they are in the right place.

Optimus makes a signal for them to spread out. Arcee, Smokescreen, and Bumblebee go towards the left to the back of the building and Optimus, Shelby and Bulkhead go towards the front. There is a large garage door and it's opened. The sight they come upon is unsettling. Bodies litter the floor. Blood seeping into the concrete. Shelby covers her nose, hoping to stop the scent. She tries hard not to gag. Wounds deep, body parts splayed around. No one could have survived this kind of attack.

"Optimus, they are all dead." She states the obvious, but the only one to say it out loud. 

She walks further in. Her weapon hanging loosely at her side. She kicks the arm of one of the M.E.C.H. members. Optimus and Bulkhead walk in carefully behind her. The silence of the damned looming over them.

"What happened here?" Bulkhead wondered out loud. 

They look up to see a large medical table standing upright with straps broken upon it. Other pieces lay scattered across the floor in front of it. Something large was being build. 

"It's happened." She says stopping in front of the table. 

"What happened?" Bulkhead asks still searching over the bodies. 

"Are you sure?" Optimus looks down at her. 

"He became breakdown. This has to be where they were building him." She says quietly, taking in the damage of the situation.

"Optimus, there are tons of parts back here. They were building something. There are a bunch of dead bodies back here as well. Whoa." Arcee comes from behind. She stops quickly, looking around.

"He is probably aboard the Nemisis by now." Shelby mumbles to herself, walking around, taking in all the bodies. 

Bumblebee comes in, arms waving, going on about something Shelby couldn't understand. He's pointing to the back. 

"Shelby stay here." Optimus orders and starts to follow Bumblebee into the back.

"What is he saying?" She yells after him. 

She follows anyway. There can't be anything worse than this. Optimus puts his blasters away as he walks. There is no one alive here. They would have shot at them already. The sound of shallow breathing hits their ears/ audio receptors. A hiss can be heard from the pain the person must be suffering. 

"Oh no." Optimus stops in his tracks.

"Who is it?" Shelby asks not stopping. 

"Shelby! Go back!" He orders, but it's to late. 

"BRANDON!" She screams.

She drops her weapon, rushing to his side. He sits leaned up against the wall. A large gaping hole leaks blood from his chest. Shelby rips off part of her shirt and slams it over the wound. His masks dangles from his face, hair a sweaty mess upon his head, blood covering his lower half. She moves his hands to his side. Ripping off another piece of her shirt, she leans him forward, looking for the exit wound. More blood begins pouring out the back. She places the other part of her shirt behind him and leans him back quickly, so not to lose anymore blood.