When All Lights Go Out I (TFP)

Chapter 36

Raf was still rubbing the scraplet's head and still did not believe the bots as he glanced down at the scraplet. "Aw, he wouldn't hurt anything."

That seemed to wake the scraplet up as it lifts its head and blinked. It's bright purple eyes turn as it locked onto the sight to the three autobots and sparkling. It took only a second before it's face plates open suddenly, revealing a mouth filled with rows of sharp teeth that seemed to rotate within its mouth and the sound it made sounded like a very loud, powerful screwdriver. A sound that made Azura shudder, and when the scraplet jumped from Raf's arms, it's teeth chomp together quickly as it ran towards the bots quickly.

Azura tensed as Ratchet covered her with his other hand, shielding her from the scraplet's sight. Bumblebee and Bulkhead fire at the scraplet, which surprised her that they would do that within the lobby. But the scraplet seemed to take the hits and jump to the side very quickly, making it hard for the bots to get a good shot on them. The scraplet jumped at Bee's leg and she was horrified as she watched the scraplet begin to eat around Bee's leg. The scout fell onto his rear in both shock, fear and pain, staring the scraplet briefly.

He tried to grab the scraplet, only for it to seemingly eat through his hand. The scraplet seemed to freeze for a moment and turned its head towards Azura. Before it could do anything, Bee swipes his hand at the scraplet, flicking it off his arm onto the ground. When it landed on the ground, the scraplet got back up and proceeded to run towards the bots again, only this time the humans seemed to get the message that these things were dangerous.

Raf ran over to the scraplet and slammed a crowbar on its head, successfully stopping the bot and destroying its head. It was clear that these bots were weak against brute force to their body, especially when they were not expecting it. Azura trembled as she did not know what to think. If these things eat metal, they could be the reason why the bridge was down. But she wondered where these things even came from. Certainly not from Earth.

Raf took out his anger on the scraplet until Jack grabbed the crowbar, stopping the boy from continuing. "E-Easy there, killer," He said to the boy gently, taking the tool from Raf so he could calm down.

Raf took deep breaths before realizing his mistake and ran over to Bee. Ratchet kept a hold of Azura as he knelt down to check Bee's injuries. They didn't look bad, but the amount of damage done to Bee was extremely fast and clearly brutal, and it reminded her of piranhas. Which did not help at all, and the fact Ratchet was holding her said that she was the most vulnerable, and she hated that. She felt panic rising in her at that thought.

"I'm sorry, Bumblebee!" Rafael apologized with a worried expression.

Bee looked at him kindly, not taking offence that the boy did not know the danger. "Don't worry, it's okay, Rafael." Bee was too kind it would seem.

Raf was still worried, despite the confident response he got. He looked at Ratchet hopefully. "Is he gonna be okay?!"

"Only a mesh wound." Ratchet's voice was gentle as he responded, likely to not worry Raf any further. And to not worry her further either. "He'll live."

"Now do you believe me?!" Bulkhead asked in frustration. He was still worried and afraid as he spoke, but not as much as he was before. "All scraplets do is dismantle machinery and eat anything metal. Especially loving metal!"

Living metal...even me...oh, no. That means...oh scrap!

Jack looked at the bots sympathetically as he walked back over to them with Miko. "Well, bug squashed, game over, right?"

"No." Azura looked up at Ratchet with wide eyes as soon as the medic said that, making her shiver fearfully. "When it comes to scraplets there's never just one. And I fear I know how they got in here." He turned his head with a frown as he thought on how they got in here.