Simping for Bots

Hearing commotion, quiet, but loud enough for him to hear, Ratchet put down his tools he was cleaning up, getting ready for bots that would return wounded, surprised to hear anything at all. All humans under their protection were either in schools or work, so this was not right and to drop it on sounds from the ship was absurd. So someone was at the base, some one uninvited. Groaning, bot left his room, listening closely to the noise and sniffing the air. Group of three natives sneaking around and with what he can hear a faint cutting sound. Oh pit no! Running, he followed the noise, slowing down by huge room and sneaking to not scare humans in mid act, need to catch them in action. Carefully glancing over the corner, med bot let out a loud rev as he saw humans steal the stupidest of things imaginable – part of table, quickly stopping in their track and turning around at loud noise eyes wide and immediately running for their life. Oh hell no! With a loud siren, he ran after the slowest one, still pulling behind him a slab of table, to greedy to give up, gaining quickly on him and snatching human up, them squealing loudly and swearing him out.

“They got Dave!!!” sliding on metal floor at sharp turn, Bob stared with shock, worry and fear as huge metal bot easily caught up to the youngest of their group, poor lad not able to catch up to the rest as he refused to let go of precious metal. The huge red and white bot easily caught up to the lad, wrapping his huge palm around the kid and quickly lifting him of the ground, kicking and screaming. The rest of the group had no idea what to do, hoping that kid wont be hurt, but who knows. The giant robot stared at the kid, who by now dropped the bag of metal and was punching the hand of the bot, screaming and swearing while the bot just stared. Then he was suddenly lifted up, the bot changing to hold by the back of his clothes, poor young man instantly grabbing on for his collar to keep his neck from being strangled, furious anger replaced by confusion as he was lifted higher and higher, just above metal head. The metal humanoid then licked his lips and opened its jaws, dropping the human in to every ones horror. It didn’t even took the robot a seconds to gulp human down, visible distortion moving down its neck and then it turned to them. “Oh God, it ate ‘im!!!” screaming on top of his lungs Bob bolted first, the rest of three man crew close behind, dropping everything they had just to get away.

Gulping first human down, Ratchet quickly turned his attention on the rest of three men crew, groaning to him self. Right, this will be hard of they split up, which he fears might happen, opening panel on the wall and pressing a button, activating lock up protocol, main entrance and every vents closing down, cutting any escape routes for humans, rumbling deeply with excitement for a hunt. It is boring sometimes to seat in his med bay, constantly fixing bots, getting fed up with Wheeljack constant visits, so maybe a bit of action is a nice treat. Licking his intake, feeling first human he caught wriggle like crazy in his tank, medbot begun his hunt. As he suspected the rest of the group split, running different ways – more fun for him. Following fain trail of second human, bot kept sniffing the air, and listening closely to any noise, coming in to Prowls office. This law obsessed maniac really needs to get a proper rest and maybe clear his table up, which now served as a hiding spot to a human, that attempted to hide its presence with mouth covered, but still loud enough for him. Staying quiet, bot snuck up to the spot and quickly grabbed the human, them screaming and kicking. Opening his intake, he shoved human in, tilting his helm, savouring the flavour just for a moment before sending him down with few strong gulps, letting satisfied rumble when human joined their partner in crime and moving more wildly, riling the previous human up and sending pleasant chills down bots spine, rumble growing deeper. Now for the last human... maybe he can toy with this one a bit, make then squirm more.

Running for his life, Joe slid on metal ground, scattering up to his feet as he ran in this endless maze of hallways, looking for the escape. The main gate they all came through was now locked with huge metal slab and no matter how much he banged on the door, it didn’t budged at all, forcing him to look for another way out. Came here to get some metal to sell it in scrap yard so that they all can pay for their moms medical bill, knowing just how much this otherworldly metal goes for. They thought all bots be out, fighting, but no, there was someone left behind and now this robot ate Dave. Had no idea that bots needed meat so this is scary. If he gets out he needs to warn others about flesh eating bots. Sliding on another ground, he stopped, listening to every thing around him, the echo of his own heart deafening him, gulping air hungrily. Looking around with fear, he looked for a spot he can hide in or a hole to squeeze and get out of this wretched place. So far, everything he tried was locked up and he has no idea were to go now. Hearing thunderous footsteps, man panicked and ran again. He ran in to a room with huge table and big shelf, seeing small enough hole to squeeze in, running for it and squeezed him self in, praying to god that this thing wont find him. It took a few minutes for the bot to slowly walk in to this place, its footsteps heavy and sounds of steam hissing in the air, making man squeeze him self further in to the hole and try to force him self to calm down, even if his heart was loud as drums. He can hear the bot wonder about, moving things, thumping things.

“Come on, human, come out from where ever you are and you wont be in much trouble, promise.” The voice was stern and firm, reminding Joe of his dad when he would scold him and his brothers for something stupid “Breaking in to base, trying to steal. That is not such a good behaviour” the voice grew closer and Joe went still, eye peeled on opening, swallowing nervous lump in his throat. It went to quiet all of a sudden, stillness hung in air like deadly poison, man fearing that it found him, fearing that it can hear his heartbeat. All of a sudden a sound of footstep begun moving away from his hiding spot, letting men sigh with relief, slumping down a bit, calming down. Right, best to find a way out. Shuffling forward, Joe climbed out, leaning on his knees to catch some breath, eyes down... that’s a to dark shadow huh. Before he can react, red metal fingers quickly wrapped around him, sending his heart to his heels and scream scratching his throat as ground beneath his feet disappeared. This thing tricked him, made him believe it left in reality it was here all along. “Nice hiding spot, but I cant exactly let you go. Stealing from base is not a good behaviour" he was being lifted higher and higher, can see the face just below him, soft smile on strange metal face. “Can’t leave you just like that"

“Don’t eat me! Please! I ain’t gonna tell anyone” the man yelled, kicking as hard as he can “Please! I’ll stay quiet"

“What fun in it" the bot smiled wide, showing of the metal teeth. Opening his jaws, Ratchet dropped human in, snapping his intake shut and keeping human inside for a moment, feeling them struggle before he swallowed them down, putting a servo on his neck to feel them slide quickly down and join others. Well maybe he over did it, error popping in to his view, which he dismissed quickly, placing servo on his torso where fuel tank was, bringing another servo to his intake and letting out a huff. The movement inside his intake was still wild, but with how much space there was now, it was harder for humans to move freely. Flexing his tank a bit, he made sure to take more space away, letting a pleased sigh as faint pain subside and humans were forced to not move as much as they could. Letting out another sigh, bot headed in to his medbay, returning to his work.

Small human appeared, coming from behind a pile of data pads, dressed in warm clothing, but at the same time looking exactly how the role they have now. They wore a black dress and white apron, quickly making their way to the middle of table and quickly bowing down, arms folded in front in polite manner.

“Welcome back, Master Starscream” even if her voice was quiet, Kate spoke clear enough to be heard. Grinning, seeker walked over to the table, moving his chair and dropped the tablet by her side, making her flinch just a bit. “How was your day?”

“Busy as usual, tired as pits" rumbling, bot kicked his legs up, resting them on a table crossed, letting another, this time longer sigh, all air escaping though his vents with steam. “I need some energon" weaving a servo, seeker rolled back hill helm, melting in to chair.

Seeing how tired the bot was, Kate decided not to test waters and quickly did as he asked, walking over to a makeshift serving station, a huge cube under what looked like a water spout with chain, which was maid for her specifically. Checking to make sure cube was under, she grabbed the chain and pulled on it, bright blue glowing liquid immediately splashing down with force, sloshing around the cub as it slowly filled up and once cube was filled, she let go, chain rattling as it swung back in to its place, quiet signal for the huge robot that kidnapped her to grab his fill. Moving quickly, Kate jumped out of the way as huge clawed hand reached for the cube, easily wrapping his fingers around and lifting, bring it to his lips and chugging like a cold beer. Damn, she misses beer so much, would kill for cold desperados right now, infact she would kill for a burger, good juicy cheeseburger and fries as all she had ever since were simple plain and boring canned foods, with no heat source to heat it up, time to time being rewarded with sweets like fruit and candy. But for now she need to stay quite. It’s been months since she's been kidnapped and it was not fun at all. The first day he decided that she was not clean enough and is not capable of cleansing her self, degrading her to a point where she refused to look at him or even get out of the cage for sometime, until she was forced – dragged - to begin her training as his personal maid, well as much as humanly possible that is. This creep forced her to call him master, the glare and sharp talons are enough to scare her in to submission, not that it was needed. Something told her if she were to disobey her life wont last longer then she wanted, not that she could physically be mean to anyone unless they did something really stupid. Then he forced her in to maid outfit... to be fare she was looking it up before, interested in getting to shamelessly wear it in her own room, but now she was forced in to it with no choice. It took a lot as well to explain what humans needed to actually survive and be able to function, the small cage slowly becoming more comfortable and actually livable..... though the bot seemed no to keen that she would rather spend time in the cage then outside, which prompted with him forcing to learn tricks like serving him this “energon" and he refuses to let Kate go back in cage until he leaves.

Letting out a soft sigh as the empty cube was placed back under facet, Kate looked up at the bot with worry, not knowing what to expect next, hopping, now praying to who ever out there that he wont be handsy today. The quick movement of his red eyes with white dots told her everything, not even giving her time to brace as the free of cube hand quickly wrapped around her, not completely, loose, but enough to cage her in a makeshift cage while he laid to rest on table, his head resting against his arm, that sinister smile with sharp fangs stretching wide, his eyes squinting a bit, grinning like a toddler catching a much desired butterfly. Just be nice.

“Is something wrong?” Kate asked, trying not to anger the huge bot that literally was holding her life in his hands. “You look quite beat up"

Rolling his head a bit to the side, seeker can not stop him self from grinning, warm feeling spilling all over his frame, starting from the very same servo that held small human. Few months of training, few threats and this Katya is more then a good pet, listening to him, doing every bid she can do and listening to him when ever he has something to spill. No one on this ship cares about anyone but themselves, tossing others aside when ever they see no use in other. He knows it all to well, pit, he does it way to often, tossing countless vechicon under scrutiny just to be still in his position. It is hard to keep up his status, even harder when he is constantly beat down in front of every one, yet with his cunning processor he managed to slither his trust in to Megatron’s mind and keep his status. But still not enough, he wants the respect Megatron has, the fear in every ones optics, to scared to disobey him, dreams of luxury. But this dream is far away. And yet he is slowly getting it, in small doses, feeding his ego with what he seeks.

Yet there is thing that proplex him – like how this human was so easy to train, so easy to follow and respect him. Every human he had encounter with – they all the same, scared to death, lying just to stay alive, trying to wriggle to the escape with sweets and praises, yet their body betrayed them so quickly. Quick heartbeat, disgusting sweat, darting eyes, hitched breath, screaming like hell and he quickly found him self bored, dropping them off the ship and watching them fall to the pitiful planet they call home, screaming. Yet this human at first seems broken – scared, but far to quiet, not saying anything, scared to even look in his optics, constantly looking away, doing anything he wanted quickly. Respect. That what confused him in first. “Sir”, that what human first called him, nodding down when he asked their name. The training went far to smoothly and he just can not see him self get rid of such interesting toy. Deep rumble starting in his chest, bot closed up his digits just a bit, seeing small flinch, fear he wanted to savour just a bit more, bringing his index digit to her head, poking it slightly. The bright hair colours were a bit less vibrant, brown roots of their natural hair showing up with thick line, but still fascinating to him, letting his claws hook stray strand to stare.

“Just the usual,” wings flattering lazily behind, he allowed him self to play with human, nudging a them, optics glancing their clothing, proud of his decision to pick this one. Searched internet for something once he burned all the previous fabric human wore, to disgusted to keep them on his pet, not wanting to even thing what grime they had on them when he found her. “Countless meeting, boring talks about things, beaten up again for simplest mistakes"

“Why he keep hurting you" not able to stop her self, Kate blurted out, gently fighting of the claws, to close to her liking, still against being touched by ,even if warm, but still scary bot. “He sound like a dick.”

“He is" chuckling at how hard his pet tried not to show they cared, Starscream continued playing with her hair, the shimmer of colours hypnotising him. “I was meaning to ask you, pet,” the human reacted quickly, shifting her attention from his digits to his face, worry spilling like a waterfall, every flinch on face screaming emotions that she could not hide. So easy to read that it will be hard for them to hide anything unlike every one else “what’s with the colours and this skin decorations?”

“Why not?” frowning in confusion, Kate pushed back in to palm, worry spilling through her, chest going cold and tight with worry. Is this a good enough answer? Judging by expression of the bot, she was safe, for now. “I. I like it’s like this. And keep me safe"

“How so?” loosening his grip just a bit, Starscream stared at human with raised eyebrow, red eyes shifting slightly, scanning her for something she has no idea for, long claws ever so slightly rubbing up and down the exposed skin. Anyone in this situation would regret having tattoos and bright hair, yet she is still proud of it... can’t go back to her natural hair, something about seeing herself felt wrong. “And piercings? What’s with that?” letting a soft chuckle seeing human wriggle with discomfort, he can see them struggle for explanation looking around, small eyes moving quickly. Funny. “Don’t worry, I’m just curious. So, what is the answer?”

“I wanted it... because I wasn’t allowed?” shrugging, girl, answered with honesty, hopping it will satisfy the bot, and looks like she did.

“Hm... I think I might go for another drink”

Rolling on her side, Kate let out a sigh, staring at faint glimmer of light reflecting on airplanes body, trapped in the deadly grasp of sharp talons. It’s become a terrifying regularity for the bot to drag her to his hard metal bed, making sure to trap her against his chest so that he can sleep with ease, going deadly still. Recharging is what he called it. She is so bored most of the days when he is away that she found comforting being in his presence, strangely growing used to him by now, which made her worry that she was slowly developing something she heard about - Stolkholm syndrome, when kidnapped person fell for the kidnapper, the problem she is she knows she is ace, keeping her life more vanilla- fuck sake she even hated the idea of dating, thinking that being with someone was to much work, but would bend over to take care of her friends. So what is this? Does she worry about him because of every thing he told her? No, she just wants to stay alive, keep the bot happy, treating this like a job. Anything to keep him distracted, because she needs him to trust her. Rolling on her side again, she glance at the vent, thick metal bars and huge screws. This was her escape plane, try to break through, because as humans she can break anything, get out of this horrid place and back to her normal life. Letting a long sigh, she rubbed her head against her arms, brining feet closer to her chest, shivering under thin blanket. The whole “ship" was cold as hell, and even the clothes that Starscream provided were warm enough, it still bit through fabric, making her toes and fingers ache with chill. Yet the huge bot was warm and every time he touched her, she would unconsciously sink in to it, soak it when ever they would watch some show on her Netflix account bot managed to get and keep payment going through so that he can have acces to the show, shocked that something out of this world would find detective shows like Mentalist interesting enough to enjoy. But silly she needed to get out. Closing her eyes, Kate did her best to try and get some sleep, exhaustion catching to her after a day of trying to break the bars and unscrew the vents, so far unsuccessful, yet she is not giving up.

The weather promised to be nice and worm, sun finely heating the cold corners of UK, and subsequently, getting all the people out of their hot houses, either looking for cheep fans to help them could down or going out to lakes, parks and rivers to deal with heat wave. A group of people were doing the same, but instead of seeking cooling comfort of water they all decided it be nice to go explore local cave system, that reportedly promised cold temperatures and a fun day of understanding history. seating by the window, staring out in to the passing by huge trees of century old forest , time to time parting to give view of far away land of fame, a young woman sighed heavily, adjusting her square blue glasses to be able to see better and make sure the glare of rising sun will not get in her brown eyes with such force that it made her scrunch her face. The bus was loud with sound of cartoons and games, parents giving their kids loud destruction to try and shut them up, preferring to listen to this noise rather then their little crotch goblins screaming their lungs of and asking when they will arrive to their destination. Letting a grunt out, she turned to the side, catching an eye of a little girl, staring dagger at her with wide her green eyes, hogging a plush of teddy bear, blinking a bit before pointing up at her head. It took a second for things to click at what kid was staring, smiling softly and moving her ponytail to the side so that the kid can get a better look at it. The reason the kid was staring at her so hard is because of just how brightly and boldly her long hair was coloured, standing out in the sea of natural hair colours.

It was a bright electric teal roots down to middle of the length, which reached her shoulders, then slowly bled in to bright purple-pink, dropping down to her chest. Flexing her hair by moving it to make it wave, woman smiled as kids eyes somehow grew even wider, a wide smile with few missing teeth shining brightly as the kid tugged on her mom, loudly proclaiming that the girl indeed was a mermaid like she thought, making the woman smile with pride that she made some kids day a bit better with meeting a mythical creature, hidden in plane sight. Turning back to the window, she sighed heavily, then looked to the side again, gently elbowing a man by her side, who jolted awake and pulled up his cap up, sleepy brown eyes darting around for a second before focusing on life with a grunt, seating up and letting hum of question.

“Almost there, Nolan, you asked me to wake you up” Trying not to chuckle as the man still struggled with reality, blinking over and over, rubbing his eyes and face, slowly adjusting to the noise. “Need water?”

“Mh? Ah, yeah, please” Nodding the woman reached in to backpack in-between her legs, pulling a bottle of water out, separate from hers, to keep it clean and sanitary, passing it to the man, who happily drank the water with hunger, and the whole bus slowly started to wake up as well, parents getting their kids to put their loud toys away and the bus finally pulling up to a hidden path, the bus rattling as it drove on the rocky road, people holding for their deer life while kids screamed something about fun. Finally the bus came to a stop in the thick of the forest, doors opening and every one started piling out, standing up and grabbing their bags, while Nolan and mermaid coloured woman waited patiently for people to clear up so that they can get of without bumping in to anyone, pulling up their heavy backpacks and leaving the bus, making sure to not forget anything. The air in this dense forest was a little bit cooler then it was in the bus, but still hot that people were fanning them self with booklets while a tour guide tried to get attention of kids and established strict rules that needed to be followed on this two day trip and cave expeditions, reminding parents to keep their kids on tight leash and were the lodges are.

“Kind of excited for this trip, huh, Katya?” nudging the girl in her sides, making her smile from sensation of tickling and move sideways, quickly trying to create a space between each other. Yes, Nolan and her were friends, but right now she is hot and not in a mood to be touched by someone sweaty “So, what’s the plan? How it goes?”

“Well, from reservation information , we will go to our lodges first to drop off our things, get shower and what not and at 14:30 we will gather in the dining area to go for the cave expedition. After that dinner and campfire.” Shrugging, Kate wrapped her hands around her self, folding them o her chest, leaning on one leg for comfort, getting her self to rest after hours of seating on her ass, which was not the best feeling when your ass goes numb. The man nodded, agreeing to already arranged plan for the day, looking up to see what will happen now. With the wave and a name call, tour guide lifted his red flag up and begun leading group deeper in to the forest, in between wooden fence and gravel path, rocks and sand crunching loudly under countless footsteps. The Lodges were more deeper in the forest, surrounded by tall, centuries old, trunks and lush crown of leaves, birds song echoing loudly and adults rushing their kids in to old wooden buildings made out of logs, with windows clean and shiny, with build in mosquito nest. Walking up to their lodge after guide gave out the keys to every one, informing of charge if they loos them, Kate slid the key in to lock and turned it, letting her self in and Nolan followed behind. The place was not big or small, enough to have two separate bedrooms, simple room for shower and a room with sofa and TV. In whole the feeling it gave of some old lady that used to live here, soft carpet and white curtains to keep nosey people out, but over all a good place for the price they paid. Going to the room on the right, Kate claimed it as hers for two nights, closing and locking the door behind, dropping her bag down and laying onto the bed to rest after a long ride, her bones getting a bit of rest and time to change in to something appropriate for physical activities, pulling put a light cyan tight fit light workout shirt and black leggings, switching from heavy jeans and shirt, feeling already much lighter and slipping on soft sneakers, sneaking out of her room and taking a seat in a sofa, patiently waiting for the time to go into caves, getting a bit excited.

Finally the time for cave exploring came and every one followed the leading tour guide to the entrance, being careful to not slip and fall, relying on faint light of cheep lanterns to guide in the darkness, giving people a chance to get a glance at cave painting left by other guest as a fun activity. The cave was much colder then the hot air outside, letting everyone breathe with sigh of relief as they ventured deeper, making sure to not let kids run as the cave had a lot of paths and intertwined so widely it was compared to maze, only far more dangerous. Listening to the tour guide explain something about stalactite, Kate felt a gentle tag on her arm and looked at Nolan, who nodded to the side and begun walking away from the group, stepping over faint rope and going in to other cave opening, confusing Kate for a moment, making her constantly look between safety of a group and her friend, who stupidly decided to explore, meaning he will be alone, which she honestly did not wanted to happen, and mostly because she was not ready to deal with questions about her friend going missing. So she did something stupid – she followed him, whisper yelling his name, tripping on rocks and dark, pulling phone to light her path, just like Nolan did.

“Nolan, we need to get back!” angrily whispering, she reached for him, gripping his shoulder for safety and hopefully to make him to turn back, faint sound of rumbling echoing around. The sound of bats flapping made the girl jump in her skin, suddenly clinging on to man for safety, making him laugh at her fear. Ignoring the continuous worried rumble of the girl, the man continued walking forward, illuminating the path with his phone and noting on rocks and how fun they looked. The rumble grew louder, drawing him closer to it, with Kate constantly asking to turn back

“Come on, when will be the next time something like this will happen! Isn’t it adventurous!” laughing a bit, the man spotted a crack, going for it and forcing him self in, he disappeared between rocks, leaving Kate alone in the dark cave, with only light coming from her phone and no way back as she did not paid attention to the path and unlike Nolan, who was a notorious cave dweller, exploring all the small caves in their town, so she was left with no choice but to follow. Swallowing her pride, she squeezed in to tight crack, struggling with her chest, fighting for the breath as she forced her self forward, the sound of drumming growing louder and becoming more familiar, reminding her of work construction noises. Finally pushing through to the other side, she almost fell, taking heavy breaths as Noah caught her, his light blinding her for a second, slowly adjusting to the atmosphere, her eyes growing wide with shock. The tunnel they were in now was perfectly smooth, like it was dug by some kind of machine, which was a bit confusing but at the same time it explained the noises. What was strange is just how huge the tunnel was, going as high as a huge , five store building, cranking her head to be able to see the roof. The light struggled to illuminate such huge space, moving their phones all over the place to see where they were.

“Where are we? Is it some kind of tunnel for trains? Mining?” moving her phone around and getting her balance back, she pushed away from Nolan, eyes wide from shock and heart beating a bit fast with worry of being caught as the idea of being caught by miners when they probably should not be here at all. “I don’t tink—Nolan!” Scream whispering as Nolan started going forward, Kate chased after him, trying to keep up with him, stumbling over rocks left behind, her light moving eagerly all over the place, slowly getting worried for battery life. The rumbling by now was loud as hell, mixed now with sound of clanging, luring Noah closer and closer, dragging girl behind her with his curiosity. The tunnel was long, with many other branches weaving of to the left and right, staying as big as the main tunnel. Finally it reached the end, opening in to another hole, bathed in bright light, the noise here was by now deafening, with mix of sound of rock falling, hitting ground heavy and voices. It felt wrong, making her hair on her arms and neck stand up with chilling cold, lowering her self down and sneaking after Nolan, who let her far behind, constantly calling his name to try and get his attention and get the fuck out of here, not wanting to get in to trouble with who ever was drilling. Sneaking up, she placed a hand on his shoulder, making jump and turn, fist high ready to strike, claiming down quickly and dragging Kate down, placing a finger to his mouth, eyes wide. His whole expression radiated fear and worry, making Kate worry for her self as well, following his finger pointing to the side and mouthing “look", while forcing her phone down to hide light.

Keeping down to the ground, Kate shuffled closer and poked in to hole, her heart dropping immediately at the strange sight in front of her. The whole cave was clearly carved out in circle pattern, with glowing blue crystals growing out of the ground here and there, providing the light to the dark cave. There were countless entrances, round and manmade, but what made Kate’s heart drop is what was moving. Between the huge blue crystals was strange huge metal creatures, moving along the cave like they knew what they were doing, using huge drills to dig in to rock and collecting the Crystal’s, cutting them in to cubes, which then they wheeled towards a certain round cave. There was a lot of them, all looking somewhat similar, with something red glowing on their face, and sound of voises echoing around. Well not all of them. In the middle of this “mining” operation stood a strange robot that looked so much different to all the bots around, having more light grey colours and taller, with thin arms constantly moving, clearly screaming commands and strange triangle thing behind his back, constantly moving up and down like wing.

“What the fuck is this?” whispering with fear, Kate breath become ragged, gripping on the man for support, her brain trying to process what it is she was looking at, blinking and fixing her glasses over and over. “Nolan, what the fuck is this?! “

“How the fuck should I know? Aliens? Government?”

“Yeah, right government—Duck!” quickly diving behind the rock, Kate let out a quiet scream as one of the bots suddenly looked up, the one that looked different to others, his red eyes momentarily connecting with Kate’s brown eyes, making her fear for her life as she practically fell on the hard ground, letting out a swear as it hurt. “Shit, I think it saw me!”

“What?!”

“I think, I think it saw me" stumbling over her word, Kate gripped on his shoulder, scared to fuck, cold sweat forming on her forehead, her breath even more fast, heartbeat echoing in her head “Nolan, please, we need to leave!!!”

“Okay, okay, just let me-" despite Kate’s constant please to leave, he turned the light off on his phone, switching to camera and sneaking closer to the opening and reaching his phone over the edge and pressing a button, taking a picture, pulling back and turning to leave, grabbing Kate by hand and leaving the exit, moving quietly, dragging her behind in hurry to get away. Reaching a fork, Nolan suddenly froze as huge foot landed in front of him, forcing him to back up, Kate letting out a yelp as the huge robot slowly moved from behind the corner, forcing two humans to look up with fear. The long sharp face looked down at them with malice, a sly grin slowly spreading on it as red eyes zeroed on them, swiftly switching between two of them, long thin metal hand clasped behind as it was slightly bent, the triangle wings twitching up. Up closer it looked quite thin and slender, making its appearance even more terrifying as it blocked one of the paths, slowly chuckling.

“Well well well, what do we have here?” its raspy voice echoed from all over the cave, making Kate literally claw at Nolan’s arm, panic completely overtaking her “Two pest wondering in? Tsk tsk tsk" its red eyes scanned them both, mostly focusing on the girl, making her slowly regret bright colours she chose to die her hair. “Well, we can---"

A sudden push from the side made Kate violently stumble forward, tripping over her own feet and falling down on her knees, hitting the rocky ground with quite a force to make her let out a swear, catching her self with arms before her face could connect with ground, fear now replaced with confusion, quieting the echoes of beating heart, and the bot, who audibly choked on his words and took a step back, his footstep echoing loud around and sending small shockwaves through rock. The silence hung like dead air, leaving both girl and strange bot with red eyes and sharp chin confused, while a faint echo of footsteps running away echoed around. Blinking a bit with wide eyes and frowned brows, Kate looked up at the bot, her glasses sliding bit down, which she instinctively fixed, staring at the huge robot with confusion, the same confusion as the bot stared at her with same expression, his red eyes focused on her then up. What... what just happened? Turning to check behind, she could only see Nolan’s back, growing smaller by the second, his legs moving fast as hell, light swinging up and down... did he just pushed her in front of the bot as a sacrifice to save his ass. Getting up slowly to her feet, she just stared at him, as he turned a sharp corner, completely bewildered by his actions.. after every thing he spoke about, constantly saying how strong he is, talking about going to gym, how he was a gentleman and constantly showing of his car, gold neckless and every thing else. Looking up at the alien, she can see it confused as well, staring at her with wide eyes, frozen. Was he shocked as well. Turning back to the corners behind which Nolan disappeared, Kate looked back and forth, trying to understand just what to do, her brain buffering and refusing to put two and two together, finely breaking from the strange stupor, taking one step, then another, before bolting away from the bot, anger bubbling inside while giant bot with triangles behind begun slowly chuckling before erupting in to loud cackle.

“Nolan, you fucking dick!!!” screaming on top of her lungs, Kate run as fast as she could, forcing her body to move, navigating in the dark with the phone, the thunder of laughter calming down, replaced by thuds and mocking that she was left behind so easily, making her fear for her life, though it did not take much from giant monster to catch up and wrap his long talking metals fingers around her with such speed, it left her breathless when wind whistled in her ears as she was lifted quickly, ground disappearing from beneath her feet, scream ripping out her throat, quickly quieting when she was forced to face the metal face, squeezing her self in to hand, tears slowly forming in the corner of her eyes and bitter lump choking her. The creature squinted, tilting its head side to side, turning her, while she was frozen and feeling her soul being burned by the red gaze. It hummed, squinting, reaching with other talon, poking at her head, humming.

Screaming command at vechicons, Starscream huffed angrily, glaring at the countless copies of what seemed like the same bot working around, moving cubes of energon from one side to another, making sure that they were doing a good job. Even if this planet was reach with energon, the last command of Megatron before he left for Primus knows where was to make sure that autobots would not get even a shard of it, meaning that they would have to mine all of it out, which was not easy as this dirt planet seamed to grow more and more of it by the day. Now with his master back, seeker was doing his best to avoid the warlord, using his “responsibilities” as to get away from constant fear for his wellbeing. Wings twitching as one vechicon tripped, catching him self quickly, Starscream barked and him to be carefull, when sudden faint but clear flash of light caught his attention, lifting his head and spouting a small human with bright hair quickly ducking down... great, one of the Earthlings found the mining site. He does not need this right now, but also might be a bit of fun as from last report he heard autobots got them selves some human pets. Grinning, he barked for vechicons to continue their job and not slack off, left the middle of the huge cave, going through the caves towards the spot where he spotted human. Able to hear them scramble with what he can assume another human, he quickly stepped forward from behind the corner, slamming his foot down and scaring organics as he slowly walked from behind the wall, servos folded behind, looking on them with disgust. Great – two of humans, male and female, the ladder quickly clinging on to the other gender, eyes wide with fear. Though he was a bit flabbergasted by such vibrant colours of the female, standing out against the dark and normal hair he has seen so far, smiling a bit as he begun mocking them, though quickly stopped when men suddenly and violently shoved the woman forward with such force they fell on their knees in front of him, legging it away and abandoning what probably was their mate to his mercy. The woman looked up at him with confused look, fear replaced by shock as they stared back, slowly getting up and just switching between staring at him and the man, who disappeared by now. Letting out a scoff, Starscream frown in confusion before completely losing it, laughing as they booked it, swearing the man out for leaving them behind so easily.

“Wow! He really just let you behind so easily!” mocking running away female, he followed them, giving just a bit of hope before catching up to them with few steps, swooping down and catching them with a simple swipe, his digits easily wrapping around them, feeling their soft body thrash in his grip as he lifted them and freezing up once at his eye level, eyes wide and only able to let out squeaks of fear. Letting another scoff, he squinted, moving them side to side, examining their bright hair. Was it one of the female courting tactics to get partner – strange tactics, but interesting, which does make them standout against all the dull colours that were usually ranged from black to blond, with time to time being reddish brown, though not as bright as this ones, basically giving of peacock vibes, where they show of vibrant colours to get attention. The female by now was silent, tears rolling down silently, probably waiting to be hurt. Lifting his other servo, he poked at their head, scooping thick braid and examining the colour with quite a curiosity. This human was rather strange, quiet, when usually humans would be screaming their little brains off, begging to be freed and spared, which annoyed him so much he would quickly despose of them. Letting a grunt, he examined her even closer, noticing metal ring hanging from her nose and a small metal ball in the right corner under her lip and two golden ring hanging from her ear. The left arm was completely decorated, from palm to shoulder with black lines, visible of sun, chains with flowers and what he can see some king of snakes. Clearly they did their best to look their best to impress the male. Speaking of, looking back, not able to hear or even smell the male, Starscream grimaces in disgust at how easily they left they mate behind, thinking of just how pathetic human race is. Back on Cybertron, before war, conjux were much stronger bonded, not leaving one another behind in dangerous situation and staying till their last moments. Before he can mock woman about it though, a sound of blaster echoed around and he turned around quickly, wings lifting up as he quickly recognized what it was

“Autobots” hissing out, he moved towards the hole, glaring down at the battlefield of red and blue blasters, able to see vechicon losing quickly, falling faster then flies as the autobots did their best to capture this mining vain to get their servos on precious energon.. hold on where is... hearing blast charge behind him, Starscream quickly turned around, extending his servo with human in front of him, getting a shrilled whimper as she gripped on to him, legs kicking and the sound of blaster quickly cooling down. Grinning, he stared down blue fembot, who was scowling at him with such hate it ranked with hate that radiated from Megatron, stance ready to fight but frozen because of one simple rule they had – No harm come to human. Chuckling darkly, Starscream quietly mocked the autobot, cocking his head with a grin.

“What’s the matter? Afraid you’ll harm this human?” shaking the human just a bit, forcing another whimper out of them, second in command took a step back, his red eyes focused on the blue fembot, knowing well that she was out for energon after Cliffjumper deactivation and Megatron twisted idea of using him as first experiment to see if he can raise dead. The fembot grumbled something under her breath, here blue eyes constantly shifting between him and human, clearly contemplating striking him, not that he has a human actively in his grip, where even a slightest squeeze was fatal. And they both knew this “Well come on then, do something, save this little human?”

“Let them go, Starscream!” grunting out Arcee took a hesitant step forward, squinting, her blasters still glowing blue, but not hot enough as to pose danger, and decepticon knew it well. “Let them down now!”

You can see Prime’s blue optics focused on you with such hunger you actually got worried for your own well being. You got used to him “snacking" on you, the intervals growing more often then you would like it to be, not that you had a say in it because of your verbal agreement after first time, still you would like it to be less frequent. What made you worry even more is that this “taste for human" pandemic seems to spread among bots, now that you’ve been inside Bumblebee and Ratchet, doing your best to not piss off the medick as you really don’t want to end up inside his fuel tank for another forced sleep because he believes you have some health issues after another forced check up. Exhaling deeply, you tried to focus back on your computer, enjoying an old movie you used to watch – Dragon heart, the movie on the scene where sir Bowen was in maw of last dragon Draco, refusing to be beaten while they both exchanged banters. But the gaze just was so intense you just could not focus back on the movie.

After having a word with Ratchet about human, Prime got a bit concerned for the human he cared so much, taking a notice just how easy they were targeted, even if by those who he trusted - they were an easy prey, which made his plating rattle with worry. Just how easy it is to capture humans? He had no issue sending them down the first time, even when they did try to fight back. And how easy it is for every one else to do it, especially for Bee, who is not the biggest between all the members, but not the smallest, still managed to easily gulp them down, even refusing to let them out despite discomfort, but still had more power over human. Which worried Optimus a lot. What will happen when he can not get to them in time and they are in hands of the decepticon, what will they do then? There must be a way human can fight back and be best to start showing them how to, hopping that Ratchet worries about something kicked out of place is true. Letting all the air out of his system, he called over Y/n, intending to take them to one of the old buildings he scouted before hand. Transforming, he knew non of the soldiers will interfere, to focused on their own things, to busy to even notice him leave with his human, or care. Driving through city, he can feel y/n get concerned further away they got, entering less populated area. Perfect spot for “training" and secluded enough to not be interfered. Stopping by one of the malls that were left to rot, he let the human out, transforming and told them to follow him, stepping inside and getting a look around. This place had enough good hiding spots, more then plenty small crevices human can lodge them self in and enough space for him to move freely.

Following Optimus inside the old mall, you could not shake off the tight felling inside your chest, not used to silence from the bot like this, where he does not tell you anything. Still, you followed him, making sure to be careful of the broken glass scattered around, it crunching under your shoes. Thank god you were wearing good shoes, meaning your feet were safe from accidently being cut open by shard of glass. Following big bot, you tried to calm down, yet you felt something was off. Finally he stopped in the middle of the building, right by old escalators, rusted and half broken. Optimus turned to face you, his blue gaze staring right at you, his machinery working quietly, yet in this place it echoed loud enough to make your heart beat faster. But you knew him better then this, taking a deep breath to try to calm your fast beating heart. And gathering enough courage to ask just why he brought you here.

“Mr Prime, why are we here?” praying to god that is something about humans not trusting them again, which you sure would be fixed by now after Fallen, were they did not trust them and it turned out bad. Worst though that agent Galloway did not got in to any trouble because of this. You hated that guy with your guts and you can tell non of autobots like him either. “Is something wrong?”

“I’m getting quite concerned for your well being, and how easily you are... captured" he tried not to frame it to harshly, but he can see confusion in your face, brows frowning and eyes darting, trying to find meaning “It is come to my attention how easily you are to catch, so I believe it be best to teach you how to avoid being captured in case we are not there in time... and what to do to force them to let you out in event if they decide to---

“Eat me?” you sighed heavily, realising what he meant. Yeah, you kind of guessed it was about it, especially with how easily you were being gulped down by three bots, even if you tried to fight back. So there was a very good concern of what will happen if you were to get captured by opposite side and what best to do in this situation, though how he’ll teach you worried you a bit. Why not to tell you this at the base – was he to worried about someone walking in? “ is this why we are here?”

“To hopefully teach you to hide better.” Moving shoulders back a bit, Prime sighed heavily “ I believe you humans would call this a game of cat and mouse and if I to catch you, you must fight the best you can, got it?” human nodded quickly, tensing a bit. Right, it’s only fare for them to tence up. “Alright then, I’ll give you a head start till 30. Run"

“Huh?” you blinked about at the wording, but the look he gave you answered every thing. Backing up a bit, you turned and bolted away from bot, looking frantically for some small place, falling on your ass as you slid when you turned the corner letting out a loud swear. Okay, why the fuck this games feels more like he is hunting you, giving you a head start like some kind of fucked up serial killer. Turning another corner, you spotted a good hiding spot behind small shop, running for it and going through it, straight for further away corner, shoving your self under the table and setting down, placing mouth over your mouth. Right, you know transformers have keen smell, especially with how Megatron taunted you the first time, giving away what could have been the most useful secret weapon to him, which must have been not a smart move, but now it gives you a good chance to win the game. You do not want to be in any ones fuel tank today, thank you very much. Right then, how to mask your sent, looking around, you have quite a lot of things to mask your scent as this place hundred percent used to be some kind of place that sold perfume with all half empty bottles of cheap perfume laying around. Picking closest one, you sprayed as much as you could, freezing when heavy foot steps started echoing through building. Listening closely, time to time poking out, you listened to where he was heading, clearly hearing him going straight for you.... yeah nope, not losing quickly... but maybe you can trick him? Taking off your jacket , hoping that the scent on it will lure him here, you sprayed your self a bit more and sneaked out, gunning further down the corridor and making sharp turn, looking for another spot to hide, or maybe it be best of you constantly change your location until this games ends, which you have no idea when it will end.

Counting to him self to 30, Optimus begun his part of the training, walking forward, inhaling deeply to trace the scent human left behind, picking up notes of something he learned by now was fear. To him it smelled a bit of metallic, and notes of something else he cant quite place his digit on, only that he enjoys it for some reason. Following the trail, he came to a small room, that was drowning in all sort of fragrances, making him grimace for a second, crunching his nose as he bent down to get a look inside, taking a note of butt load of empty and half empty small bottles that seemed to exude strong notes of flora, which covered your scent, but not strong enough. He can smell you behind table, probably hiding under it. Reaching quickly, he lifted wooden furniture only for his optics to grow wide for a second as his vision came in to focus on clothes you wore, laying on the ground. Smart, using something that can hide your scent to give yourself more time to hide. Putting table down, he got back up, trying to listened to anything. Besides occasional bird flatter and chirps, he can hear glass creaking somewhere, faintly.

“Good trick with leaving your clothes behind" calling out to them, he praised them for smart move, his voice echoing loud enough to make sure they can hear him, continuing his hunt. “But this will not buy you much more time, you need to be more resourceful. I can guess you trying to also hide your scent with another. Just don’t go with something floral next time. It leaves a much stronger trail then before.”

You are shitting bricks, listening to Optimus voice echoing through huge building. The fact that he can tell immediately you used perfume to try to mask your scent, though it seems like it made you an easier target. It is very nice of him to let you know of the mistake, just not in this situation. It be alright if he explained it you in normal circumstances like a normal talk, not when he actively haunts you in this twisted game of cat and mouse, trying to teach you how to hide from his kind more efficiently. Swearing under breath, you continued moving, changing your hiding spot as soon as you hear Prime getting to close to it, praying that constantly switching spot will confuse him and the trail of flowers you so stupidly put on will mix. Sneaking up to the corner, you peaked to check your path before head, quickly diving back behind wall as you saw blue ped. Right, this is not a path for you to take, moving back to go around him... to be fare this is sort of fun, like actually playing a game of hide and seek, your heart pounding and adrenaline rushing in your veins, making you jittery with over abundance of energy. On the other hand you were also scared to fuck because of how Prime was acting, tossing some things when ever you were not there, grumbling, worried he might not be as gentle when he’ll scurf you down. Going past another corridor, you immediately let out a scream as huge hand swoops in, you dropping on the ground to avoid it, letting it grasp air. Yep, time to run. Bolting up to your feet, you ran for the cover, diving in to narrow corridor you pretty sure once lead to restroom, feeling something behind you. Slamming in to wall on a turn, you momentarily looked back, letting out a pant of relief as the hands kept grasping air, hearing last of Primes grunting as he tries to reach for you, mumbling in their language, concrete crumbling where hand slammed in it. Gathering lung full of air, you bolted further.

Just missing them by inch, Prime grunted with displeasure, getting up from his knees, listening to anything, trying to get some kind of hint where they’ve could run to now. “You are not allowed to leave the building. In the open you’ll be much easier target!” should be good enough warning, because if they do run outside, he will catch them easily, which means so as decepticons. Hearing a faint thanks, he snorts a bit, forgetting how kind they are. The scent of flowers by now was slowly wearing off, their scent coming through and he can tell they are running on adrenaline. Listening closely, he can hear the glass crack, quickly heading that way, getting more in to the role of decepticon that he wanted. Slowing down and listening, he can hear them literally walk toward him. And this time he will be more swift. As soon as they were in servos reach, he moved, slamming his servo down and caging human in-between his digits, able to feel them wiggle like crazy to try to get out. Good, maybe next time they’ll be able to slip out, not this time though, quickly scooping them up and bringing out to see them. They are scared, heart hammering against chest with incredible speed, moving all ways human can possibly bent, hitting his digits and pushing on them, grunting and panting. “Nice try using the layout to your advantage, though be best to stay in narrow spaces next time, maybe even find some spot that will be hard to reach. Though with how your human structures are -it still will be easy to break to get to you" oh he can’t wait any more, coolant pooling to much behind his intake, swallowing a few times to try and keep it somewhat dry. As for next part “I believe the more you’ll move the harder you make it to consume you, got it?” not waiting for reply, he moved them to his intake, shoving quickly behind and basically melting as soon as he can taste them. And when they started wriggling he just could not help him self, tossing his helm back and pushing them closer to the intake tube and swallowing hard. It took one gulp for his system to get grip on them and hungrily drag down, rumbling deeply with pleasure. Best - he can feel them so much, just like the first time, if not even more then, trying to slow their descend. Pit, he can feel them slow down in the middle of his neck, coming to a halt as they pressed against the neck with every thing they could, making few error pop up come in to vision. Good, mean they can fight back, but for how long? Swallowing again, he can feel it move a bit, buckling just a bit, yet still refusing to give up. Moving his servo, Optimus pressed against his neck, swallowing at the same time and immediately blockage got dislodged, sending human down and he sighed. And soon felt them in fuel tank, their weight flagged. Looking around for a spot to rest against and enjoy him self, he moved to the wall, seating down and resting against it, placing servo on his body, engine rumbling even louder now.