Escaping Reality

Chapter Fifteen: Navigating a Season's End

Nightblade didn't move from his position as he and the humans stared up at the towering Decepticons, both of which seemed happy to see him, yet it was clear they were also tense, especially Midnight.

         "Nightblade! Oh thank Primus- This makes things so much easier," chattered Sasori, the stealth bot clasping her servos together in excitement.

         "How does this make things easier? We don't have to chase the humans, sure, but I doubt they're going to be happy with Nightblade once, you know, plot rolls around," Midnight noted, the femme then glancing around the small town before cringing. "We're also really exposed. I'm going holoform for now."

         Once Midnight had said that, the femme took a moment to activate something and allow her form to shrink, changing into that of her holoform. Thank Primus Sasori had followed her lead, because while they were both recognizable to the Quotevian mech, he did feel more comfortable with talking to them in their human holoforms, and he was sure the humans would probably feel the same way.

         "Uh, Nightblade, who are these guys-?" Jack asked, only to then lean away from the window as Midnight approached it, the windows flanking Nightblade's holoform as well as Jack rolling down to speak with the two Quotevians.

         "Hey! We're Nightblade's friends! Well, two of them. The other one's on the warship and is kind of being held hostage because of course she is," Sasori rambled, Midnight then letting out a sigh.

         "Yeah, Sasori's right about that. Either way, we've got ten minutes to carry this out and you know how the plot goes," Midnight told the mech, the three humans then exchanging glances.

         "What's she talking about? Also hey! You guys should come with us if you're Night's friends! I heard you guys are all from another universe!" Miko exclaimed, though despite her upbeat tone, there was some underlying suspicion there. Certainly not a lot, but definitely some. Never trust a 'con, after all.

         "Yeah, the Decepticons kind of guessed that might happen, but we kind of can't considering Darkfin's being held hostage right now. Like I said, ten min- Ow! What is it?!" Midnight quickly pulled away from the sports car an held a hand up to her ear, the girl looking extremely irritated as a faint yet familiar voice began yelling at the angry Quotevian. "Yeah, we got em! They're just a pain in the aft to catch!"

         And then it became clear to the humans as to why the Decepticons were there, though it wasn't like they hadn't guessed this already; the three had dealt with Decepticons quite enough times in the past after all.

         "Nightblade! We've gotta go!" Jack urged, the teen quickly trying to roll up the windows, but to no avail. Miko and Raf then made an attempt at rolling down the windows and even unbuckling their seatbelts, but when those endeavors also failed, it dawned on them that the situation was worse than they'd thought.

         "Nightblade-?" Fearful of their situation, Raf then attempted to reach out and tap the mech's holoform, only for it to fizzle out of existence before he could do so. It was clear where things were headed, and Sasori knew that well.

         "Okay- Guys, I know this looks really bad, but-"

         "We won't cooperate with you, con! Right you guys?!" Miko shouted, Raf gulping in response while Jack simply gave Sasori a look of disdain and fear.

         Sasori, when she heard those words, simply flinched a bit in response, only to then let out a sigh before looking back at the transformed Autobot. "I don't think they're going to come on their own."