Detained

Chapter 29

::This is Dragon-One and Zubat, calling in that Flying Insect and Cop are in position.::

::We're all good here, Dragon-One. We are in position.::

::Copy that, Cop. Ranger-One and Ranger-Two are in position with the cavalry?::

::This is Ranger-One calling in with troops stationed in positions. Ranger-Two is...what the heck are you doing, Epps?!::

::Okay. Nevermind then. Um...OP and Black Death, you in position?::

::What the heck is the 'Black Death' and why am I called that? Why are we usin' code names anyways? These are private comms! No one's gonna hear us!::

::Yes, Dragon-One. We are in position for distraction.::

::Thank you, OP. I appreciate that you're playing along. I will comm back when I have infiltrated and located targets. Over and out.::

Dorothy took her finger off the comm in her ear and looked over at Ratbat sitting on the ground next to her. He was watching the collection of warehouse carefully as the guards were walking the perimeter of the metal fence. His ears were twitching and moving, picking up the conversations between them and recording them in his processor. He smiled as he was doing this, since he was a spy in the first place and this reminded him of working with his creator.

"You ready, buddy?" Dorothy asked, leaning down to let the little Decepticon on her shoulder. The little bat nodded happily and climbed up from her hand to her head, clinging around it and perking his helm up to watch. "You remember the plan?"

"Find family." Ratbat replied seriously as the human carrying him walked closer to the treeline. He thought for a minute and soon gasped in excitement as a thought entered his processor. "Carrier gonna meet Sire! Carrier gonna meet siblings!"

Clawed thumbs dug into the woman's head as the little bat became very excited. She groaned and stopped moving to unhook Ratbat's wings from her scalp. "Shhhhh! Stop yelling! This is a stealth mission, not a reunion." she whisper-yelled at him, trying to keep her voice down.

Suddenly, a bush moved from in front of her and a light appeared through the treeline. She froze and felt Ratbat moved down to her back so he couldn't be seen. The woman looked at the tree next to her and jumped up for the lowest branch and climbing up a ways so the two men coming through the bushes wouldn't see her immediately. She took the little metal bat off of her back and placed him on the branch she was crouching on. The woman motioned Ratbat to stay there and looked back at the men.

"I'm sure I heard a kid back here." one of them mentioned, scanning the dark forest in front of him with his flashlight.

"You sure? Maybe it was just a bird of something." the other one commented, only to be tackled to the ground seconds later.

He was incapacitated in seconds, his shoulder being dislocated and his gun taken for his hand and slammed into the side of his head. The other guard flinched backwards and raised his gun to point it at the attacker to find that they were pointing two guns at him. He froze, not knowing what to do, but was too late to attack as the intruder dropped a gun, grabbed his and slammed the butts of both guns against his head, making him fall over. Both of the guards were down and the attacker smiled.

Ratbat glided down from the trees and landed on Dorothy's head as she picked up her own rifle and one of the guard's assault rifles and placed them on her back. The woman looked down at the two men and smirked. "Caw caw." she replied and walked away from the scene.

The two came to the large fence and looked down the path to see that there was a gate on the far left and unguarded. Dorothy trotted over and looked at the gate, thinking about how to get it open. The little Decepticon seemed to already be five steps ahead of her as he flew over the fence and to the other side to pull down the manual level for the gate. He grabbed the handle with his feet and flew backwards to get it to move. The level started to budge, but the gate seemed to open enough for Dorothy to get through.