TRANSFORMERS: Bumblebee's Boy

NEAR THE BREAKING POINT

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CHAPTER 40
Near The Breaking Point

Trevor woke up without his left leg, his eyes lowering to find his prosthetic leg had been removed. Trevor groaned, and tried his best to sit up and look around the area of the Rocky Mountains that they were on. It was very easily hidden from the looks of it, he was in a cage, that was immediately obvious by the fact that he was staring out of bars. He guessed that they had snatched it from the Decepticon base and used it to keep him nice and locked up. He crawled towards the cage door, but soon thought through his situation. His left leg was gone, and what's more, he was dizzy, dizzy and tired, like he wanted to take a long nap.

Footsteps quickly grabbed his attention as Barricade made his way towards him. "Don't struggle too much, we've got a good combination of drugs in you," Barricade noted as Trevor fought to keep his eyes open. "I figure one shot of our concoction every twelve hours should keep you asleep through most of this. Given there are human settlements in the Rocky's we can't risk you crying for help, now can we?"

"What about torturing me?" Trevor snorted. "You already wimp out of that?"

Barricade sneered a bit, looking at Trevor slowly. "My change of plans, remember? You were supposed to be in Africa right now, when we couldn't be found easily," He explained with a dark chuckle, seating himself beside the cage. "This makes it more fun anyway, you're so weak due to the drug that you're barely aware of everything," He explained. "It's wearing off now, so you'll be more aware, but it makes animals like you perfectly docile. Enough so that even if I didn't have the inhibitor inside that bond of yours wouldn't mean slag."

"Brain damage," Trevor murmured.

"We're an advanced race," Barricade sneered. "You think I'm stupid enough to envoke their wrath like that? No, it keeps your brain quite in-tact, the way it should be," He shrugged his shoulders. "At least until you've served your purpose. At which point you're about as useful to me as your human technology," He explained, a gleam in his red optics. "I plan to enjoy picking at your brain and finding out more about how it works then."

Trevor shook his head, Barricade seemed to have gone beyond losing his mind now. He was doing that, and at the same time, he was also being sadistic, enjoying watching him suffer. He liked watching him fighting to keep his eyes open, and too weak and tired to even send his family how he was feeling. The good thing was that he could still feel them though, with a strong emphasis on the love that Bumblebee was sending his way. A constant reminder that despite the odds, they were coming for him. Or at the very least, they were doing anything and everything he could to find where they had taken him. But above all else, it reminded him that his dad loved him more than anything, and would do whatever it took to get him back.

He was starting to get out of the haze slowly too, and return the love, however weak the return might be. "It amazes me how much you fight," Barricade noted, looking him over. "Even knowing that I will be injecting it back into you. You seem to just keep pushing," Trevor tried to balance his knees. "Haven't you figured out it's no use fighting anymore? The only way this would go bad is if Starscream were to contact Sunspot and tell him the truth. But I told the dolt that all communications with Starscream were going to be severed on his orders." He grinned slyly. "Seekers like Starscream and Sunspot are not too bright."

Trevor shook his head, Barricade was awfully cocky. A fault which made him wonder if the seeker he was talking about, the one that took him at Diego Garcia, he guessed, noticed anything off. "You're insane," Trevor finally spoke harshly. "You can't backstab your own kind and expect this to work out for you," Barricade snarled. "And you keep forgetting. My dad is Bumblebee, and my grandfather is Optimus Prime," He leaned forward into the bars. "They're going to find you, and make you scream the way you made me back there." He then added. "And if you think I'm not going to give you trouble, you're an idiot. They call people like me fighters," He added. "I dealt with an abusive father until I was five, and lived. I went through the battle of Mission City, and survived. I've lost my parents, and gotten through that..."