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By Chris Lilwall
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Admiral Lilwall hit the ground with a loud crash, his power bonds humming louder with the crash. The Decepticon guard closed and locked the door before leaving. "Admiral?!" A voice called with shock. Righting himself up, Admiral Lilwall turned and could not believe whom he saw. "Restore?!" He also noticed Lightning, Crevas and Cuffs with her, all were not in the best of condition and looked as if they could do with a week in the recharger, "What the hell are you doing here?" He asked somewhat confused. "That is what I was about to ask you, sir..." Cuffs said, as the group moved over to him. "Er, I was half way to Cybertron after stopping by Earth when a Decepticon warship jumped me. They caught me and brought me here. What about you four?" Lilwall explained. "Us five actually." Lightning said. "Yeah, Autumn Beauty is... was with us." Added Restore. "Was? Oh no..." Lilwall began. "Worse." Cuffs said. Admiral looked up at the group, "Worse? What happened?" "Autumn Beauty was carrying a Decepticon sleeper agent." Restore said, Lilwall was nothing but shocked, "What?!" "Yeah, that was our reaction too. Apparently a Decep criminal struck a deal with his commanders to avoid execution. He was to gather info from the Freedom's mainframe, but he never surfaced until the four of us went planetside at New Iceland shortly after you left." Restore explained. "The agent must have awakened around that time and snuck onto a shuttle. She... er, he, hijacked us with a blast of pure energon, shorting us all out." Cuffs added. "He brought us here, and wanted his mind placed back into his body so he could go free. They took his mind out, and then destroyed it. Autumn Beauty should be back to normal..." Restore said, trailing off. "But...?" "She was taken away, and we have no seen her since." Lighting said. "She has no doubt by now, been destroyed." "Oh. Where are we anyway?" Admiral Lilwall said, looking around the average sized room. It was completely empty aside it's inhabitants. Like a big box with a locked door and dim light. "A slave planet. Hard labor, mining materials mainly. We recieve a ten minute break every one hundred and seventy hours." Cuffs said. Admiral Lilwall sighed. "Well that's great. I guess this is one of those breaks?" "Yes, all slaves are rounded into their cells during this time." Lightning replied. Admiral Lilwall struggled to get out of his power bonds, but try as he might break free. "Ugh, why don't any of you have these things on?" "Because we've got mode locks on. You'll get yours as soon as break time is over. A few minutes. They give us independant movement, but as you might guess, weapons and transformation are disabled." Restore explained. Admiral Lilwall went to say something but was stopped when they heard the door unlock and open. A pair of mid level security Decepticons entered. "Slaves, return to work immediatly. Prisoner nine-nine-three-six, come with us." One of them stated. Restore, Cuffs, Lightning and Crevas left the room, but Admiral Lilwall stayed. "The name is Admiral Lilwall." "Your name is no longer Admiral Lilwall. You are now prisoner nine-nine-three-six. Come with us immediatly." The guard said more firmly. Admiral Lilwall submitted. For now. ~~~ It made him ill, watching countless robots, exhausted and in bad need of repair, pushed far past their limits for Decepticons. Everywhere he looked he saw the same thing. Some were being savagly beaten, others executed. The trip was short, and soon Admiral Lilwall was at what apparently was the commander's office. "So why couldn't you two just put a mode lock on me?" He asked the guards. "The commander wishes to do so personally with all new slaves." The first answered, "He likes to entertain himself by having new slaves beat themselves." Replied the second. "Swell." Lilwall said, still trying to break free of the bonds, but he had no luck. The door opened to the commander's room and the trio entered. Horror was all Admiral Lilwall felt when he saw what was happening inside. "Guards! What the slag do you think you're doing!? Can't see I'm busy!?" The commander screamed, the guards backing away in fear of punishment. "My... god..." Admiral Lilwall whispered to himself. In absolute shock, he watched as the commander Decepticon violently abused Autumn Beauty's interface atop his desk. Her body was badly beaten and broken, circuits were strung out everywhere, sections of her armor torn away completely. A large dent in the side of her face, a face that held an expression Admiral Lilwall could never possibly describe...it was... Admiral Lilwall had felt rage before. Only once was was it ever as strong as it were now. "You... how dare you..." He murmered. "Guards, get out of here! And take that over sized tin can with you, I'm not finished!" The commander bellowed. Admiral Lilwall's fists clenched so hard that had he been listening, he'd have heard his metal hands whine from the pressure. In one movement, he ripped the power bonds away as if they were paper, and let out a scream that stopped the flow of electricity within the commander cold. He leapt onto the commander, tearing him away from Autumn. The guards were quick to act and pounced on the enraged robot, which was their mistake. Reaching back, Admiral Lilwall crushed the head of one guard with a single hand. He swung around and dove his fist through the chest of the other, leaving a large hole that went all the way through. The guard went down and did not move again. The commander tried to escape, but he not fast enough. Taking his sword from subspace, Lilwall sent it racing through the air, and into the body of the commander. The sheer force sent him into the air and up against the wall, where the sword buried in, stopped only as the hilt pressed harsly into his body. He struggled to free himself, but could not. Admiral Lilwall slowly walked towards him, his eyes locked onto his own. The commander became overwhelmed with fear. Lilwall grabbed the sword's handle harshly, making the Decepticon wince. He turned the sword slowly, tearing into the Decepticon who screamed in agony. "Pinned like a butterfly. It's time to pull off the wings." Lilwall said in a cold, flat whisper into the audios of the Decepticon. Admiral Lilwall took out his blaster, and fired on the Decepticon's own interface port. The Decepticon screamed. Admiral Lilwall ripped off one of the Decepticon's arms. The Decepticon screamed. Admiral Lilwall took the mode lock off of Autumn Beauty, and placed it on the Decepticon's forehead and took control of the lock's remote. The Decepticon took the sword by his remaining arm. The Decepticon realised. The Decepticon pulled at the sword until it was free of the wall and his body. The Decepticon fell to the floor screaming. The Decepticon raised the sword to his head. The Decepticon begged, pleaded. Adimral Lilwall stared. He raised the remote once more. He pushed the enter key. The Decepticon's arm fell to the side of the body to which it belonged, having speared the head of it. Admiral Lilwall set the remote to disable all the mode locks of the compound, and then crushed it. Very soon, there would be a riot. He took he sword from the Decepticon's head and placed it and his blaster back into subspace. He took Autumn Beauty in his arms, "My god...what have they done..." He could hear commotion beginning to erupt, and he knew he had to find the others as soon as possible. ~~~ Having now been able to take their weapons from subspace, Restore, Crevas, Cuffs and Lightning fired relentlessly at their captures. Scores of slaves had turned on the Decepticons, and while they had the advantages of numbers now, it wouldn't be long before Decepticons from other areas filtered through and overwhelmed everyone. No doubt everyone would be executed for the rebellion. Admiral Lilwall forced his way through the crowd, finally managing to find his comrades. "Restore! Lightning!" He yelled above the noise, his group turned to him. "Admiral! Autumn?! By Primus, what happened?!" Restore exclaimed, "I'll explain later, we have to get out of here! I don't think the 'Cons would have had much time to dismantle our shuttle." Admiral Lilwall lead the others in escape, forcing their way through the crowd. "I hope not, our shuttle was recycled pretty quickly." Cuffs added. ~~~ There were robots everywhere outside, racing for the nearst ship they could find to escape with. The small group of LONAC exited the mines, dodging weapons fire coming from all directions. Admiral Lilwall spotted the shuttle. "Crevas! There's the shuttle! Get over there and get it ready for take off, you're the only one who can get there without being hit!" Lilwall ordered, Crevas beeped his acknowledgment and zoomed off. The others too headed for the shuttle as fast they could in the crowd. A small robot crashed into Admiral Lilwall, tripping the large robot over. Autumn Beauty also crashed to the ground. The smaller robot was in a panic, much like every other robot around. "Help me! Someone help me!" He called. Admiral Lilwall put Autumn over his shoulder and grabbed the smaller robot before heading for the shuttle again. Ahead he could see Restore almost at the shuttle, glancing behind him he couldn't see Lightning or Cuffs anywhere. He turned in all directions, but could not see them. Restore was almost at the shuttle, most of the crowd had ignored this area of the spaceport, but there were a few. Right by the shuttle, was a Decepticon, with his hands around the neck of a female robot. No doubt trying to kill her. Restore fired her weapon into the face of the Decepticon, and he fell to the ground. The female also fell to the ground, exhausted. "Come on! This way!" Restore said her, motioning her to the shuttle, they both entered. Admiral Lilwall knocked down a Decepticon with a swift kick before looking around again for Lightning and Cuffs. "Dammit, dammit, dammit! Where the hell are they?" He said to himself, the small robot he carried was screaming all the while in a panicked frenzy. Again turning around, Lilwall spotted them at last. "Finally! Lightning! Cuffs!" He yelled, but the noise from the crowd's screams and the Decepticon's weaponary prevented them from hearing him. Within an instant, Cuffs and Lightning blew to pices along with dozens of other robots in a massive fiery explosion. "NOOO!" Lilwall screamed, he turned and saw that large cannons had now been set in place around the area. "Oh, fuck..." Another blast ripped through a section of the crowd, killing more. Admiral Lilwall ran for the shuttle. He climbed inside and closed the door behind him. "Crevas, Restore! Hit it!" The shuttle lifted off and dashed for the skies, taking a few minor hits, and barely escaping the larger attacks. Weaving through various Decepticon warships, the managed to slip through the hurriedly put together blockade. There weren't persued, obviously the Decepticons were more concerned with preventing others from escaping than catch those that did. "Set course for the Adelaide System. And contact Autobot Command, let them know there's a slave planet that needs help." Lilwall ordered. He turned to the two robots that joined them, "We'll be more than happy to get you both back to full operating status once we get back to our ship. The pair, too exhausted to speak, just nodded in agreement. "Wheres Cuffs and Lightning?" Restore asked. Admiral Lilwall was silent. "Oh no..." Restore said. She moved down to Autumn Beauty, "Primus. What she must have gone through...her mind is frozen, I don't know if she'll ever recover from this mentally..." She said. Admiral Lilwall motioned to the back of the shuttle and took Autumn in there for Restore to work on her. Restore entered and saw a half built robot on the ground. "What the..." "I'll explain that later, right now do what you can for Autumn." Lilwall said. Restore nodded and went to work with what she had. Returning to the main section of the shuttle, Admiral Lilwall sat down at the controls and took over. The female robot looked out the window with curiosity. "Where did you say we're going?" She asked. "A ship where we can be safe." Admiral replied. "What is it called?" The small male robot also asked. "Freedom. We're going to the LSS Freedom. We're going home." |