Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers or any of the characters mentioned in the story. They are trademarks of Hasbro and the other companies responsible for their creation. So pleeez don't sue me. Also, this story was inspired by the movie "The Dentist".
The White BoxChapter 1 – The Drug
Hook came back online to the feeling of pain.
He slowly sat up trying to remember what had happened.
A fight.
We merged.
Devastator.
But who did we------?
Omega Supreme!
A big blast!
The others!
Hook quickly stood up and looked around. He was in the middle of a forest. To his right he could see smoke rising from the area where they had battled Omega Supreme. He took stalk of himself as well. There were dents and dings everywhere with part of his green plating totally ripped off from his left leg. On top of that he was covered in dirt.
"Blast! Earth ground filth!" he muttered trying to wipe of some of the grime that had taken root on his armor, however the swabbing seemed to only spread it around more.
Suddenly he heard a rustling noise that seemed to come from all around him.
"Scrapper? Longhaul? Bonecrusher?!"
"Sorry to disappoint ya', but we ain't your little friends!"
Hook shifted to see Ironhide and Trailbreaker coming out of the forest shadows, guns aimed and ready.
"Well, well what do we have here? A lone combiner?" Sideswipe and Sunstreaker emerged from the forest.
"Where are your friends? Did they go off and leave you?" Sunstreaker gloated.
"How dare you speak of the Constructicons with such insolence!" Growled Hook.
"Well look who's talkin' with yer high and mighty tone, even though yer our prisoner." Ironhide snapped.
"Maybe we ought to teach this uppity Constructi-jerk a lesson in respect." Trailbreaker frowned.
"If you think that I'm afraid of you, then you Autobots have grown much to big for yourselves."
Hook suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his head as Ironhide's double fist impacted it. Then came the numbing effects of unconsciousness.
"And what happened to Hook?!" Megatron demanded the information from Longhaul and Bonecrusher. Scavenger and Mixmaster in furiously worked to repair a badly damaged and stasis locked Scrapper.
"Well." Longhaul spoke up rather nervously. "After Omega took out our right leg, Scrapper, he shot at our head module, y'know Hook. We separated an' we saw the Autobots commin' in on us and our leader was down, we were outnumbered an' out gunned. We just kinda……panicked."
"We grabbed Scrapper and took off, he thought that Hook was following us. I guess we were too distracted to notice that he….…wasn't." Bonecrusher finished gravely.
"Slag! How could you be so careless?!" Megatron pounded his fist into one of the workshop's walls leaving a fist-sized dent. Had Hook been there too see it, one would notice his optic band twitch slightly. However, Hook was not there.
"And where's Aviator?" Megatron spoke through a tight jaw.
"On the raiding/distraction mission with Starscream, remember?"
"Apparently not distracting enough." Megatron hissed, it looked that it was taking everything Megatron had to keep from blowing someone's head off.
Just then the communications screen in the workshop beeped. Megatron walked over answered it.
"Greetings, mighty Megatron." Starscream half sneered over the screen. "I'm pleased to report a successful mission of gathering energon cubes which is being loaded into Astrotrain at this moment and not an Autobot in sight."
"You succeeded because you yet again failed, Starscream!" Megatron roared. "You were supposed to attract the Autobots attention to keep them from discovering the Constructicons' work! Thanks to you, Scrapper is down and Hook is captured, and you have cost us a solar tower that could have brought us a thousand times the energy than what you've captured!"
Megatron had yelled so loud, his angry words could be overheard by the other seekers, who had finished loading the cubes. When the words 'Scrapper is down and Hook is captured,' reached Aviator's audios he immediately dashed over to where Starscream was standing.
"Oh look, now you've upset the poor child." Starscream sighed, and crossed his arms.
"Megatron, what must I do to help Hook and the others?!" Aviator looked frantic.
Megatron pondered for a moment. "Aviator, if Soundwave gave you the layout of the Autobot base, do you think you could sneak in and get Hook out of there, when provided a distraction fro the Autobots?" It was more of a demand than a question.
"Yes! I will do whatever I have to!" Aviator affirmed.
"Good. Starscream, do you think you could follow orders this time and actually provide a distraction, I will not have my surgical engineer in the hands of the enemy, and I don't think the Constructicons will either!"
"Damn right!" Bonecrusher could not help, but add his two cents in.
"I don't like the idea of using prisoners as lab experiments Wheeljack." Optimus Prime glanced over to the cell that held their comatose Constructicon captive.
"It's not a science experiment Prime. It's for interrogation purposes and the effects are only temporary."
"What exactly does this drug do?" The Autobot leader inquired further.
"It will drive up his fear and alert sensors, thus making him unnaturally nervous and paranoid, and more open to 'persuasion.'" Wheeljack answered matter-o-factly.
"So basically it'll make him more afraid of us?" Ironhide raised an optic brow.
"Pretty much." Wheeljack responded.
"Heh. I like that idea. I wanna see that smart-mouthed creep crawl!" Ironhide smirked.
"Those are some strong words Ironhide." Prime gave his friend a questioning look.
"Sorry Chief." Ironhide looked over to the occupied cell. "But all the same, I'm gettin' pretty darn tired of their high n' mighty hogwash!"
Prime turned back to Wheeljack. "I still don't like the idea of using mind altering drugs. What if it goes wrong and it does become permanent? Nobody, not even a Decepticon deserves to have their mind destroyed."
"Prime I assure you, it's temporary. It's like a tranquilizer the humans have. It takes effect, wares off and is gone."
"Also, Prime." Prowl calmly spoke up. "This is a Constructicon we have here. We can find out what Megatron has up his sleeve, and hit him first before more lives are lost."
"Well," Optimus Prime said reluctantly. "I still don't like the idea, but Prowl is right. It is imperative that we find out Megatron's plan. Wheeljack you have my permission to use the drug…."