Detained

Chapter 6

“You pathetic excuse for a Decepticon!”

CRACK!

“You should have been in that battle with Megatron, but no, you stayed behind like the coward you are!”

CRACK!

“Your punishment would be no different if Megatron was still alive!”

CRACK! CRACK!

Barricade whimpered again as the electric whip hit his back and his bio-lights again and again as the words sunk in with every blow. He couldn’t see Starscream, but he knew the Seeker was there, watching him whine and crumble at every dent that was placed into his back. All the pain that had gone away resurfaced and surged through the scout’s body. His door wings were stiff and limp from the whip. His arms were tied to the wall in front of him and over his face, so he couldn’t get away. Barricade didn’t move or say a word while the act was being carried out.

CRACK!

The whip hit him again and he heard a loud shattering of glass, which could only mean that the whip had finally broken one of his bio-lights. Barricade’s back was already numb with gashes, but the shattered bio-light seemed to apply more pain to his frame. He gritted his denta as the pain surged, trying hard to not let Starscream know he was succeeding in inflicting pain on him. The Seeker would lose interest at some point and go away.

Barricade heard a sigh of disappointment and footsteps grew near. A pede was pressed on his backside and the police car had to grit his denta again. “I thought you would have learned to disobey me. But it seems that all that trouble I went through to get you to behave was in vain. I wonder what Blackout or Frenzy would had thought.”

Barricade closed his optics to no coolant could fall from them. He felt the room start the close in around him as the Seeker started laughing hysterically at him. The pede was removed and the sound of the moving away echoed throughout the halls, but the laughter never stopped. It bounced off the wall in an endless noise that kept filling his audio receptors. The world around his seemed to blurr and shift as he felt dizzy.

Suddenly, his surrounded flashed and he was now in a pitch black room and had his limbs chained behind his back. He was kneeling on the floor and surrounded by shadowed figures, all with evil grins plastered on their faces.

“Fragger!”

“Piece of scrap!”

“Worthless junk!”

“Pathetic excuse for a mech!”

Barricade only heard the shouts of the mechs and their laughter. He couldn’t feel the floor beneath him, or anything at all around him. He couldn’t bring his helm up to look at them as some invisible weight seemed to force him to look down at the floor. The mechs laughter grew louder and swarmed his hearing and his sensors. His vents became hitched and his chassis clenched with a grunt-wrenching pain. Something was crushing him again, but this time, it was clamping down around his body and denting him inwards.

Panic ensued as the police car tried to break free of his chains, struggling and pulling at the restraints as he tried to escape. The bots surrounding him laughed even harder as Barricade failed to get away. The mech finally could look up at the cybertronians and recognized who was around him. The Autobot scout, the Autobot weapons specialist, Starscream, Frenzy, Soundwave, Blackout and other Decepticons he couldn’t remember stood there laughing to their spark’s content. Their optics glowed with a bright intensity that made Barricade wince and fear grew more and more. The tugging on the restrains did nothing, so Barricade just sat there in defeat.