Shadowzone

Chapter 5

Raf looked up, "Uh, can you text and run?"

I looked in the direction he was and used my right arm to stand myself up. Jack, Miko, and Raf went underneath the Decepticon. Because I was too tall to follow them, I jumped up onto the rock we were hiding behind and flipped over him. 

Warning: Right arm mobility failed.

"Scrap.", I muttered again.

I started running right behind Jack, Miko, and Raf. SkyQuake kept growling behind us causing me to think he was getting closer and closer.

"Deja vu!", Miko exclaimed.

I looked at her, confused, "What?"

"Doesn't this look familiar to you?", Miko questioned.

"Not really.", Jack answered.

"Dude! We just ran one big circle!", Miko exclaimed.

I looked back behind us to see SkyQuake getting closer. When I heard my friends yell, I looked back ahead of us and the next thing I knew, I was flat on my faceplate. Groaning, I sat up and looked at what I had tripped over. My eyes widened at the sight of the arm on the ground. Was this from a past Autobot that had gotten trapped here? Come to think of it, SkyRise disappeared at one point before the war. Could he have gotten trapped here, too? And perished after loosing his arm?

"It must have gotten trapped in here during the explosion, too.", Raf said.

"Well if it's solid, we can use it. Think you can help, FireBlast?", Jack asked, I shook my helm.

"I'm far too weak to really do anything.", I lied, not wanting them to know I was dying.

"It's okay, Fire.", Raf said, I smiled sadly.

I watched as they pushed the severed arm up right. Miko started to examine it.

"Anyone know how to fire this thing? I don't see a trigger.", Miko said, smiling.

"Starscream did something with his fingers.", Raf said.

"Wait - that's Starscream's arm?!", I asked, "He's still alive?!"

They just looked at me then went back to their task. They all got into position as SkyQuake got closer.

"We have one shot. We need to make it count.", Jack said.

"How would you make a shot count? I was unaware shots could count.", I questioned.

"He means - uh, never mind. I'll explain it later.", Raf said.

Jack pulled on Starscream's pointer digit causing the missile to activate. It hit SkyQuake causing a bunch of smoke to form.

"How do you like us now?", Miko questioned.

When SkyQuake growled, Miko gasped. His right arm fell off and landed on the ground. Jack, Miko, and Raf looked at it curiously while I did my best to stand. Once at my full height, I watched as SkyQuake's fingers twitched on the fallen servo. He made a fist then opened it quickly. The servo flipped over so the sharp ends of the digits pointed toward the ground. It started coming toward us. Fast. They just stared at it for a couple seconds.

"Come on, come on!", Jack yelled once it got too close.

I ran directly behind them.

"How can the zombie arm move faster than the actual zombie?", Miko asked.

We continued running. I didn't even bother looking back as I could hear the servo pounding on the ground. I gasped when we found the arm again.

"Come on! This place is like one big merry go round!", Miko exclaimed.

"What's a merry go round?", I asked.

"Later.", Jack said.

"SkyQuake, your master summons you!", Starscream's loud voice echoed, I gasped.