Author's Note

Why would she need a kidney--
To feed the cat Rose!

I hope I explained a good chunk in this chapter, because I feel like there's a few things I might have missed, but that's just me.

Interrogation

We now return to the Transformers...

A Groundbridge portal opened up for all of the girls. And stepping through the portal first was Sour Sweet who carried a bound and gagged Road Rage over her shoulder. Keeping her eye on the prisoner behind her was Sunny Flare and Indigo Zap, and lastly was Lemon Zest and Sugarcoat.

The portal closed behind them.

"Okay, now that we're here... its time we do a little interrogation," Sour said.

"Um, dearie? Sour? Sweetie? You uh... um... you want me to hold Road Rage for you? Its no trouble at all, honest!"

Sour just turned around and snarled, "I can hold her Sunny. Now lets get to work."

All five of them walked over to a rectangular shaped table that was big enough for a single Bot, and they threw the former Autobot's body down on it. Holding her down, a set of laser restraints wrapped around her legs, keeping her pinned down. Then, still wearing the Apex Armor suits, Sunny and Indigo held Road Rage's arms while Sour took the stasis-cuffs off of her, and the two strapped her arms down, and let two new laser restraints wrap around her wrists to keep her to the table.

One final laser bind came around, this time appearing in the middle, and wrapping around her chest and keeping it strapped down. Now she was completely tied down to the interrogation table.

Road Rage slowly moved her head to the side as she stared up at Sour Sweet's giant suit. She could feel the anger flowing through her veins as the suit's fists clenched tight, rattling and clattering.

"I could tear open your spark, right here, and right now...", Sour growled in anger. She had been wanting to unleash of all her anger, all of her pent up rage against the fembot for what she did to her girlfriend. But even when she started pounding her back over near the storage units, it didn't satisfy her.

"Okay... so... what are we going to do to her?" Sunny Flare asked.

"I say we open up this glitch and see what makes her tick," Sour grumbled, "Not that any of you heard me."

"I say we torture her until she talks!" Indigo Zap shouted, "She deserves as much torture as Smallfoot probably did when she was abandoned."

"Wait, wait, wait," Sunny Flare interrupted, "Are we sure torturing her is really the best way? Is this what we are? What do you think Optimus Prime would say if he found out we were using these kind of tactics? What if our guardians found out we were doing this? What would Smallfoot say if she found out you were doing this?"

Sour hadn't thought about that. All she could think about was how much she was hurt, and how much she could do to make her better. But she didn't think how she would feel about capturing the bot that hurt her and being merciless against her. Maybe hurting her wouldn't be the right thing to do.

"Fmhllfhht'f nhhr gnrlfrnmnd?" Road Rage asked, her voice muffled under the clamp.

"What did she just ask?"

"She just asked if Smallfoot was your girlfriend," Lemon replied.

"Wait, you can understand people when they're gagged?" Indigo asked.

"Uh-huh."

"Okay, here's my second question... how?" Indigo asked.

"Oh, uh... well, um..."

"Lemon... not now," Sour said, raising a hand up.

Sour just sighed, and she took a moment to think.

"Okay, fine, we'll try to be logical about this. We won't torture her. But if she's going to be difficult... and if she STILL doesn't give us any answers..."

"Then maybe that's when torture is actually effective," Sugarcoat replied.

"... Fine. We might as well get started then."

Sour slowly moved her hand towards Road Rage's face, but she just turned her head around away from her.

"Road Rage? I'm not gonna hurt you."

Road Rage didn't budge. She had been beaten so long that she didn't have any amount of trust for her.

"Allow me, maybe she'll cooperate with me," Sunny Flare said.

Sunny Flare tapped her by the head, getting her attention. She slowly turned her head to look at Sunny's face in the helmet of the mask, who offered a friendly face.

"I'm just trying to take that gag off so you can speak. Okay? Look, none of us are going to hurt you. Well... maybe Sour wants to, but the rest of us aren't going to hurt you. Okay?"

Road Rage wanted to shake her head no, but it didn't seem like she had much of a choice. Her tracking mechanism was destroyed and she didn't carry any communications on her. No one could possibly pick up her signal where she was. Slowly turning her head, she stayed still as Sunny moved her hand out and started to undo the gag around her mouth.

"Okay, I'm going to take that gag out of your mouth, and when I do, we've got some questions we need to ask you. Are you going to cooperate with us?"

Road Rage just simply nodded, wanting the gag to be completely off.

"Okay. I'm taking off the gag, but you better talk."

Road Rage cooperated, and Sunny Flare removed the clamp from her mouth, allowing her to speak. Once the clamp was off, Road Rage breathed heavily, finally being able to open her mouth.

"Alright, start talking. Where did you come from? Why are you here? How are you here? What possible reason could you have for showing up here on Earth? And most importantly, why did you leave my girlfriend?" Sour snapped.

Road Rage sighed, and she rested her head against the back board.

"Are you sure you want to know the truth?"

"Yeah, I do!"

"Well I'm sorry but YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH," Road Rage hissed.

"Tell me, NOW!"

"Okay, okay! I'll tell you the truth! Sheesh..."

Road Rage took a moment to collect her thoughts before looking back up.

"Look, I'm not here to attack any of your Autobot friends, and I didn't come here to scare your girlfriend... Smallfoot. Scaring her was the last thing I ever wanted to do...", Road Rage said sadly.

The girls exchanged some glances to one another. Her somber tone sounded a little odd. This was Smallfoot's ex-girlfriend. But it sounded like she was... sorry?

"Wait... what do you mean last thing you want to do?" Sour asked.

Road Rage took a moment to take a deep breath, and relaxed.

"Look... I... maybe I better tell you what happened. Back when Cybertron was still alive--"

"I know what happened, you met Smallfoot at a bar, you dated for a while, and then you FREAKING ABANDONED HER IN A BATTLE TO DIE SO YOU COULD RUN OFF AND JOIN THE CIRCUS!"

Road Rage glared at Sour with a frown.

"I have no idea what a 'circus' is, but I'm willing to bet that's not at all what I ran off to."

"Then what did you do?" Sugarcoat asked.

Road Rage took a moment of silence, but she looked at all of them the best she could.

"Okay. Everyone, gather around. You want to know what went down between us? I'll tell you the whole story."

"I'm going to get something real quick," Sour Sweet said to the girls, "I'm still going to be listening Road Rage, so you better talk."

Sour Sweet stomped through an open door, leaving Road Rage with the girls. Now it was time to talk.

"Now, you all know we've been together for a while now. But... after a while of dating I... I just didn't feel anything between us. We barely had anything in common as time went on. We had different interests, we had different views and... the fights. Sweet Solus, the fights... we kept fighting over little things that bothered us, and we barely even got through them. I honestly wanted to end our relationship within those fights but... I didn't have the heart to tell Smallfoot. I didn't want to hurt her feelings."

"And you decided that an open battlefield was a good time?" Sugarcoat asked.

Road Rage glared at Sugarcoat, "No, I decided a good time would be when we were both on tables ready to be cooked to Sharkticons!"

"Can you just get back to the point here?" Sunny Flare asked.

"Right, right. Anyways... After a while, we kept on fighting and fighting and... it was there that, I wanted to end our relationship. We had nothing in common, we had nothing together as lovers and... nothing sparked. But I didn't know how to end our relationship. But then during that night out in the battlefield... that's when I seeked my opportunity. I didn't plan on leaving Smallfoot out in the battlefield if it was full of Decepticons, in fact, when I looked around, there weren't any Decepticons in sight. Since Smallfoot and I were assigned one objective which to was to find someone, I thought it was a mission that Smallfoot could handle by herself. She didn't need someone like me standing in her way."

The girls stayed silent as they listened to her speak. And Road Rage didn't see it, but Sour Sweet had returned in the room with another person, and they continued to listen to what she had to say.

"So... I took my chance, and I told her I was done. I was about to leave but then... Starscream and some of his Seeker friends arrived. I was planning on going back to help her but... when I looked up in the sky, there was an entire fleet on its way. There were only two of us, and hundreds of them. I didn't want to leave her but... I had no choice. So, with no other choice... I transformed, and I fled for my life. After I escaped, I... I destroyed my insignia with a knife to avoid being tracked, and I ran from Cybertron and stayed on Moon Base 1 for a little bit of time."

"And...? Any chance you can explain why you're suddenly now working with a bunch of scavengers?" Lemon asked.

Road Rage nodded, "After a bit of some time, I found a group run by Shadelock who were searching for mates for his crew. That's when he found me, Overload, and Scatterspike. And after that, I joined them and I found a new place in my life. Scavenging pirate/bounty hunter, collecting treasures across the galaxy, and getting paid to search for missing people and even those employed by mob bosses."

Everyone waited til she was finished, and they all looked to one another deep in their thoughts. But there was still some things they had to know.

"Why did you sign on with them?" Indigo asked.

"I signed with them because... they all think like me. In the entire war, we lose more people every day. I was tired of losing friends and family. I just couldn't take it anymore. They all took me in because they shared the same thoughts. We're all responsible for the war. None of us are innocent in this fight, and its all our fault. Everyone we know is gone all because of us. That's why I joined them... there's nothing worth fighting for."

"Nothing worth fighting for, huh?"

Road Rage's body shivered when she heard that voice. Tilting her head slightly, her eyes widened when she saw Sour Sweet... and Smallfoot standing right next to her with a cold glare.

"Um... how long was she standing there?"

"Long enough to hear you tell me why you left," Smallfoot snarled.

Road Rage gulped.

"Do you honestly believe there's nothing worth fighting for? Because let me tell you, there is. Our entire freedom, our entire planet, the galaxy is worth fighting for. All of the friends we lost, all of the families that are lost... all of us go out there and fight for our rights, our peace, our own freedom! All those Decepticons want is to dominate us all, living in fear and slavery! I fight with the Autobots because I believe that everyone deserves to be a free person, free to be what they want to be! But I guess you don't see that like I do," Smallfoot ranted.

Smallfoot turned herself around and she began to stomp out the door.

"And by the way Road Rage, if you didn't want to stay in a relationship as a couple... you should have just told me from the start."

Smallfoot converted into her pickup truck mode, and she drove out the door, leaving a cloud of dust behind and the rest of her friends to sit alone in silence. No one said a word. No one said anything else.

"Road Rage. Have you considered the possibility of just being friends with Smallfoot?"

"Can you really even do that?" Lemon asked.

"Actually, you can, depending on the person. Sunset and Flash Sentry are exes to one another, and they're friends."

Road Rage laid her head back on the table, letting out a small thump noise.

"So... what do we do now?" Lemon asked. "Do we call Optimus? Do we dump her on the streets?"

"I'm not sure what to do at this point Lemon," Sour Sweet said with a snarl, "I'm not even sure what to do with our little... prisoner."

The red pickup truck drove on the empty highway with a furious engine revving.

"Stupid... defecting.... DAGH!!! What is wrong with her!? There's always something worth fighting for! Maybe she needs to take her head out of her motherboard, and wake up! Ugh! Could this day get any worse!?

But as she made the turn, her wheels made a loud hissing noise as she bumped over some hard spikes on the road. The spikes were sharp enough that they poked through the rubber of her wheels, making the wheels grind into a halt.

Converting back to robot mode, she looked back at what she ran over.

"Road spikes? But, there's nothing to stop on this road."

"Oh, but there issssss..."

Smallfoot turned herself around to find the source of the voice, but instead she was met with a paralyzing shock of electricity, shocking her entire body! She groaned as she felt the agonizing pain within her body, and then she fell on her back she felt all lights around her slowly fading.

"We've got our bait guys. Road Rage is going to be very happy to hear we've finally got rid of the girl who tore her apart..."

The Transformers will return after these messages...