Detained

Chapter 28

Barricade and Bumblebee were cuddled up in the corner of the hangar, Ratchet was still working on the antidote for Frenzy, Optimus and Ironhide were talking about the lack of Decepticon activity that was going on and Dorothy was sitting in her desk chair with Ratbat curled up on her chest. Today was a good day.

This had been relatively very easy and quiet in the base the last week and Dorothy was almost wary of it. Only a few days ago, Barricade and Bumblebee officially announced to all of the Autobots and N.E.S.T. that they were dating and Ironhide almost killed Barricade. Everyone kinda expected this since Ironhide still didn't like the idea of Barricade being here in the first place, but Ratbat and Frenzy got scared so Dorothy had to step in and confront it. Yelling and rifle shots induced and Ironhide soon apologized to Bee and left them alone.

The antidote for Frenzy was almost done and the little mech had been feeling better since he was first affected by the poison. All the medical grade energon he had been taking was lessing the pain, but it made him sleepy all the time. Ratbat was being a good sibling and watching over his older sibling when Dorothy either had to leave to go and work at the police station or had to go somewhere with Barricade. The two kids were very well-behaved and you really couldn't tell if they were Decepticons or not. Well, Ratbat did like to pull small pranks on Ironhide, but that was it.

Dorothy sat on her computer, reading a file that the police station issued her saying that her job with the police had been shifted a bit so she didn't have to come in as much. That made her happy since she could stay with Ratbat and Frenzy more and take care of them. Ratbat was recharging on her front and his ears were twitching. He was also making clicking noises, which meant bad dream or he was hurt. Dorothy subconsciously moved her hand to rub the little bat's back and he stirred a bit.

"Morning." she said as she felt Ratbat yawn and nuzzle his helm into her shoulder. "You okay? You were clicking again."

"Soundwave..." Ratbat sleepily answered and looked up at the woman with dimmed red optics. "Miss Soundwave..."

"I know you do, bud." Dorothy reassured the metal bat. "Frenzy does, too. Optimus and Ironhide are already trying to find him and figure out why the Decepticon have been so non-existent as of late." The woman sighed as she looked down at the little bat. Ratbat was the youngest, which meant all his other siblings were older and probably stronger than him. Where were they? Where they with Soundwave, where ever he is? She remembered Barricade and Frenzy mentioning that Ravage was the oldest, so was Ravage not worried? Hopefully not.

Suddenly her computer flicked and shut off. Dorothy leaned back at bit and stared at the screen. Ratbat had perked up and looked at the screen, tilting his helm at it. "Computer do that?"

"Not supposed to." Dorothy answered and looked over at Optimus, who was staring at the main terminal computer as it turned completely white. She stood up, cradling ratbat in her arm and walked over to the railing of the catwalk. Ratbat, not liking his position, climbed on top of Dorothy's head and clung on from there as he wrapped his thumbs around some pieces of the burnette hair on the humans had. Dorothy smirked at the little bat as he climbed and looked over at Optimus. "Hey Prime? What's going on?"

"I do not know. The terminal has never done this before." he answered back and looked over at Ratchet, who was looking over at them. "Could this be a malfunction?"

"Ironhide, did you step on something again?!" Ratchet yelled at the weapons specialist.

"Why do ya always blame me?" the black plating mech spoke up. "What did I ever do to ya?"

Everyone one was very silence for a few moments and Ironhide just growled afterwards. Dorothy chuckled, but went silent as the terminal screen fizzled and showed a company logo on it that was a moon with a crossbow going through it. The name, "ARTEMIS", popped up under the logo and Dorothy went stiff. She knew that company from the recent police reports he had been reading and they deal with weapons and other inventions for the government. She also found a file on the company in Ryder's computer.