Detained

Chapter 4

Barricade had been with his female human for one week, was just about ready to break himself again to get out of this stupid garage.

It had been almost one week since the whole "stasis lock" incident happened and as Barricade was, he did have some pros and cons about living with this human alliance he made for himself. Dorothy, who he had come to learn was the human's designation, was generally a nice person, which didn't sit with him somehow. Their first encounter with this human consisted of her threatening him with a large hammer, and now she seemed to never bring it up at all. Also, the human would freeze on any repairs she was doing when Barricade would making a physical announcement that there was pain.

The female human's brother, was another thing that didn't sit right with him. Maybe it was because of how much many times he had snuck into the garage with Dorothy was working to ask a million questions about what exactly she was doing. Dorothy, to the Decepticon's amusement, would yell out her brother's name, which was Darren, and tell him to "get lost", as she would put it. Shenanigans would insue until the human female would bring out a wrech from her toolbox and threaten to hit the male over the head with it if he didn't leave. The male did leave quickly and Barricade found her similar in many ways to the Autobot medic, Ratchet.

But, as much as he hated being in their housing unit's garage, the young mech did find some beneficial things about being with Dorothy for the time being. The human pair, as amusing and annoying as they were, had giving him a hiding spot from both the Autobots and Starscream. Their garage could fit two vehicles in it, even though Dorothy had been nice enough to keep her own and her brother's cars in the driveway to let him have his own personal space. Darren, of course, didn't know about Barricade, so he complained before agreeing.

Also, Dorothy's progress on fixing the rest of the plating and internal parts that needed repair, under his instruction, of course. He had found that his engine had been pierced in many places, which had cause the human to have to seal them with her high-pressured welder she had borrowed from her place of work. The week also consisted of her unbending most of the dents and replacing his sirens' glass bulbs and casing with a new ones, which felt weird at first since there weren't made of cyber-matter. That didn't matter as much since his self-repair systems would convert any new parts into their cyber-matter counterparts over time.

But today was a Thursday, which meant Dorothy had off from work and was in the garage virtually all day so that she could finish up all the work she promised Barricade she would by the end of the week. And after a few hours of being stuck in that garage with the human female looking inside his now undented hood to fix a crack in his coolant reserve tank began to get on his wires.

"My hood still hurts after you ripped it open, you know." the police car complained as he felt another wire move out of or back into its original position.

The human chuckled a bit, which seemed to be the usual response Barricade would get if he ever mentioned anything about anything that hurts. "Well, that's what happens when you jerk backward when I pull it open." Dorothy chided, grabbing another patch of mesh from the table next to her.

Barricade lightly growled, still slightly irritated with the fact that the human was still mocking him. "Something was caught! I didn't want it to hurt!"

"I thought Decepticons could handle a little pain." she recalled, seeming to remember a past conversation. "Or is that not true anymore?"

"You ripping my hood off its lock is not a little pain!" Barricade argued.

Dorothy look out from behind Barricade's hood with a sergeant's mask on and pair of lab glasses. Her brunette hair and again pushed to one side, but it was frizzy and pushed behind her ear. Barricade came to know that was how she usually wore her hair, especially during the heat of the day. He had also come to know that Arizona, during the summer, was even hotter than California was. Being in the garage all day didn't help Barricade keep his cooling fans down at all.