193"Crapcrapcrapcrapcrapcraaaap!" I shout to myself over the howling winds rushing by me. Right now I am driving like a bat out of hell down the road and as far away from those things as I can, which unfortunately is not that far. Once I am on a nice straightaway, I look back to see them gaining on me. At first I was expecting to outdrive them but when I heard that familiar transforming noise, I was really surprised to see that they all transformed into vehicles and gained after me. The motorcycle was especially gaining after me, most likely since I shot her.
Admittedly, shooting a free-will able robot taller than me and could cave in my rib cage with a single punch or kick was not the best move I'll admit, but it was the only thing I could think of in the one second of thinking that was going through my head when I saw her staring at me.
*Bang*Bang*Bang*
"Argh!" Arcee cries out in pain as the bullets impact her face, forcing her to fall back and clutch her face.
"Arcee!" Optimus calls out her name in worry and runs forward to check on her. The rest of the Autobots follow as well to see what happened to their teammate.
Mason, after firing, holsters his gun and jumps on his bike. He hears the others coming to aid their comrade and as soon as they get close, he turns on his bike with a loud roar and hits the gas. His tire peels out for a second before gaining traction and he speeds out from behind the rock.
"What the—" Bulkhead says in surprise at the fleeing motorcycle.
"Arcee, are you okay?" Rachet asks her while kneeling down. She quickly pushes him and the others off.
"I'm fine I'm fine! It was that human!" She says as she points to the retreating form of the human.
"The human?" Bumblebee beeps his question to everyone.
"He knows of our existence. We have to stop him." Optimus tells his team.
"With pleasure." Arcee mutters with a smile and transforms into her motorcycle form.
"Arcee wait!" Ratchet begins to say in order to check her for any damage but she peels out and takes off after the human. "Urrrr! So stubborn."
"Autobots, roll out and catch that human!" Optimus orders and simultaneously all of them transform into their respective vehicle forms and take off after their friend and her target.
'This will not end well.' I can't help but think in my head as I speed down the winding roads. Various lifts and dips come up on the road and it takes some careful maneuvering in order to not crash but keep ahead of my pursuers. As the first hill comes up, I slow down a little but I still lift off the ground. I angle my bike mid-air to the left a little in the direction the road is going to. "Ugh!" I grunt as I slam into the ground but I keep the gas going and I only slide a bit before I continue driving forward again. The rest of the road goes up and down the other hills in a straight path so I don't have to do any more course corrections.
This time though, instead of slowing down, I increase my speed to the max. My engine blares very loudly and I do a wheelie as I hit the hill part. With the speed I achieved, my bike goes soaring high into the air, easily passing the next couple of hills on the road onto the straight and narrow of it. As I come back to the ground, I angle myself as best I can and to my luck, I hit the descending part of the last hill, giving me that much more control in getting back onto the road. I swerve a little as the road straightens out but I'm good to go. 'Yes! Haha! Got it! Let's see them catch up to— Crap.' My train of thought on my supposed victory but as I look in my rearview, the motorcycle shoots through the air even farther than I did and the rest of the vehicles come over the hill without any problem. With frustrated sigh, I try to increase my speed but I find I am going at my max. "Damn." I curse. To my horror and dismay, something yellow speeds by me. The yellow car bot thing moves in front of me and as I try to pass, it simply moves in front of me. I grit my teeth in frustration before the red and white ambulance moves in on my left, then the green truck does the same to my right. 'Oh I get it. Their trapping me.' Before I can stop to get out of this, the blue motorcycle moves in and rides alongside me without a driver, further proving that she is that blue bot I shot. The leader, which is a giant red and blue semi cab truck, blocks my last route of escape. 'And they did trap me. Great.' I tensely stare at the vehicles around me as we continue to speed along the straight road.
"Hey!" I look over at the motorcycle next to me, the source of the voice. "We just want to talk! Promise!" She tells me over the roaring winds.
"Talk?!" I balk at her. "After I shot you?! I doubt that!" I reply.
"Yeah, I wanna talk about that too!" She replies with a bit of annoyance in her tone.
"Autobots, slow down!" I hear the loud voice of the leader order from behind me. I look back at the semi behind me before looking forward and to my anger, the yellow car in front of me begins slowing, forcing me to slow as well. The others around me match the lead cars speed and it isn't gonna be long before I'm stopped completely.
'Crap, what to do?' I think for a way out. Quickly looking around, I kind of hope that they mess up with their synch but I'm wrong. They work together almost perfectly. Good for them, bad for me. 'C'mon think! Theirs gotta be…' My thoughts trail off as I see the front tire of the ambulance to my left. I smirk before reaching behind me and aiming with my gun.
"What are you—?" The ambulance begins to question but he doesn't finish.
*Bang*Bang*
"Arrr!" He cries out as my bullets hit his tire. They don't pop but hitting the joints and the rims forces him to swerve a little, giving my opening.
"Gotcha!" I shout in triumph and swerve at the small opening. Giving my bike as much gas as I can, I jet out of the opening, out of their trap and off the road.
"How did he—?" One of them asks behind me as I leave the road and head away from them. The dirty ground off-road section is a little bumpy and its testing the shocks on my bike pretty well but its relatively smooth so I'm still able to get some distance on my would-be pursuers. Looking in my rearview mirror, I see them all going off-road after me. Unfortunately for them, the rough ground section makes the larger vehicles unable to get ahead of me but the motorcycle keeps on par with me. She speeds her way straight to me and is able to barely keep up with me.
"Persistent, aren'tcha?" I mutter and turn a bit till I'm heading to another road. The road is slightly elevated so as I turn onto the road, I go into the air slightly and my tires drift a bit on the pavement before I continue forward straight ahead.
The pursuit last another minute or two and the rest of the autobots manage to catch up to Arcee but their plans take a bit of a hit as they see where exactly they are heading.
Jasper.
A quaint town that their base is nestled close to and because of the human population close by, they have to be extra careful of any humans spotting them. However now they cannot afford to let this human run off without proper explanations when he has seen a clear picture of all the autobots. Secrecy is their biggest advantage and if the general population knew about their existence, questions can erupt from the public, panic could ensue and worst of all, their decepticon enemies could use that fear to do irreparable damage to the humans in general, as well as painting all Cybertronians in a bad light.
"Arcee do you have him?" Optimus calls to the femme bot via the radio. Him, Bumblebee, Ratchet and Bulkhead are a fair distance behind both Arcee and the human since the drive through the rough ground work slowed them significantly. Arcee however is still able to keep up with the human so they won't be losing him anytime soon.
"Yeah yeah I'm on him." She replies as she makes her holographic human disguise, Sadie, appear. As they enter the town of Jasper, it would be a bit odd to see an unmanned motorcycle chasing after a human teenager through the city streets.
"Be careful then. We are entering the city limits." Ratchet as both the two wheelers pass the first building, followed by the rest of the autobots.
"Yeah I know the drill." Arcee drones off, annoyed at having to continue to abide by the secrecy of the humans.
"Heads up! We got an intersection!" Bumblebee beeps and whirs to the others. True to what he said, the long road they are driving on starts come upon an intersection of traffic lights. When they entered the town it was green so feels like the lights is due to change.
"Arcee did you hear that?" Optimus asks her.
"Yes I can see the light. Think he'll stop?" She asks out loud about the human. Her answer comes in the form of the human she's chasing revving his engine and speeding even faster. "Guess that's a no."
"You have to stop him before he gets hurt." Optimus orders Arcee.
"Sure. That would be a shame." She grumbles the last part to herself before speeding ahead of the others even further, gaining some distance on the human. They both speed ahead very rapidly as the traffic lights get closer and closer. Soon, the lights on them turn from green to yellow, then red. However the human doesn't stop. Instead he keeps his speed and leans forward, giving himself just a bit more speed. "Uhhh, Optimus? He's not stopping!" She calls back as she does what she can to keep up with the homicidal human.
"Arcee, fall back!"
"No! Hold on I'm almost there!" She replies and true, they are just a few feet away from each other.
To her and the others surprise however, an 18-wheeler semi truck comes out from the other street right in front of them, complete with a trailer carrying half-a-dozen thick cut tree logs.
"Whoa!" Arcee yelps in surprise at sudden appearance of the truck and hits the brakes hard, making her swerve and head along the back of the trailer to avoid collision.
Mason however, isn't deterred in the least bit. He keeps his speed and instead of having a face of horror, life flashing before his eyes… he smiles.
Before he hits the trailer, all the autobots can't believe their processing as their human target maneuvers his ride on its side, while in transit. He falls onto his side and in slow motion to the world, he slides under the trailer, sparks coming off the motorcycle as it slides on the paved roadway. All autobots hit the brakes hard to avoid collision with the trailer and any other cars from the other road. As the transformers all come to a stop at the light, they watch as the truck passes by and when they get a clear look at the other side, the human rights himself back onto two wheels and slides to a stop. He stops in the middle of the road and stares back at his pursuers.
Both sides stare at each other for a tense few seconds before Mason gives them a salute, and takes off driving.
None of the autobots say a thing, unsure of how to properly take what they just saw.
"Okay, I'll admit. That… was impressive." Arcee comments.
"Yep." Bulkhead agrees.
"Uh-huh." Bumblebee beeps his agreement as well.
"This… may present a problem." Optimus grumbles in a disappointed tone. For as long as they've been on earth, the autobots have keep up as covert appearance as they can while living on this planet and they were successful… until now.
"Impressive or not, we have a human who saw us and knows exactly who and what we are! Our entire cover could be in jeopardy!" Ratchet yells to them all over their radio.
"Ratchet is right. Who's knows the amount of information that human could leak, especially since he was able to get away from us." From what they've seen of the humans they've observed, some of them can perform extraordinary feats but it's not every day they see one perform like the one they just saw.
"We can only hope he's not off telling someone right now." Arcee says grimly, both at the consequence of their reveal, and how the human who shot her and ratchet just got away from them.
"Ahhhhhh!" I hiss in pain as the water stings against my cuts.
"You alright kid?" A guy washing his hands asks.
"Yeah… yeah. Just some scrapes from falling on the ground." I reply as I pat dry the scrapes on my leg before pulling my pants sleeve back down and standing up.
"Hope you feel better." He says as I walk out of the bathroom.
"Yep." I reply and head back out into the restaurant. Because of that move I did with the trailer of that semi, my pants leg got lifted as it was dragged on the ground and I got a few scrapes on my leg. Soon afterwards, I hid my bike in an alleyway and went into a nearby fast-food restaurant place to wash the dirt off. KO burger I think it was called.
Regardless, as I walk out of the place, passing by another teenager I think was a couple years younger than me, I take a quick look around in case I was followed. Satisfied, I calmly walk around to the alleyway I have my stuff stashed so I can get out of here.
"Yo, man look at this stuff! Can't believe someone left this here!" I hear some voices around the corner.
"God damnit." I grumble annoyed and with a head shake as this is happening again.
"Whatever man. Just grab the bag and hotwire the bike before—"
"Can you please not steal my stuff." I tell the two sketchy looking older guys ogling my gear and ride. From what I can guess maybe early 20's but that's about all I care about.
"Oh man he's—" One of them starts but as they turn back to see me, they look confused. "A kid?"
"No way. This stuff ain't yours." The second guy says unconvinced.
"How old are you? 16?"
"18 to be exact." I answer. "And that is my stuff so please walk away." I say without a care. This isn't the first time I left my stuff alone and some guys try to come and steal it.
"Ha ha ha." The first guy lightly chuckles and calmly walks over to me. "Look kid, if you know what's good for you you'll just walk away and let us—" He goes to push my right shoulder but I move it back, making him miss completely and stumble forward a little, leaving him completely open. After bringing my shoulder back, I open the palm of my hand and thrust it forward right at his throat. "Ghk!" Using the open part of my hand between the thumb and my index finger, the guy gags as my hit chokes him a little. He falls to the ground clutching his throat and I stare at him for a second before bringing my right knee forward into his face. Without another word, he falls back in a daze.
"Joe! Alright you little—" He begins to say and advance on me with an open pocket knife but I stop him cold, in the form of me pulling out my pistol and aiming at him lazily. "Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Easy there kid." He stops and puts his hands in the air. "Listen, we're sorry we tried to steal your stuff and you don't need to—"
"Drop it."
"What?" He asks confused at my question.
"The knife. Now." I demand. He hesitates before letting the instrument fall to the ground. "Thank you."
*Smack*
After pistol whipping on the side of the head, he falls down unconscious to the ground. I grab his knife before pulling my bag onto my back and starting my bike up. As I roll out of the alleyway past my wouldbe muggers, I look up into the sky and notice it's starting to get dark. "Hmmm, I should probably find a hotel to sleep. It's not the best idea to go out in the dark, especially if my… pursuers are monitoring the outskirts." I rub my head a bit at the information still rolling around in my mind. 'Giant warships… giant talking transforming robots… what heck did I walk into?' I question in my head and head off towards the nearest most decent hotel I can find.
I should be prepared to leave town and get as much distance as I can from the last place those… 'autobots' saw me, or be prepared for anything new that might happen.
Starting to like how some of this is starting to come together. As I was writing the chase scene part, I couldn't help but listen to some form of chase sequence badass music that just made me feel goose bumps in imagining it in real life.
Hope it was to your guys liking and as always, have a great day and have fun reading.