Dead man's curve
Barricade/???? plus some Frenzy
"Won't come back from dead man's curve"-The Beach Boys
The strip of road a few miles outside of L.A. city limits was well named and in the recent month, seemed to be living up to its fame. The sharp, looping curves of the road leading to a sudden hair pin twist at the lookout. Barricade laughed at the pair of headlights rounding the first bend, he came here often to frighten the squishies and their childish game of drifting. A phantom cop car descending upon teenagers with lights and sirens blazing had been enough to cause quite a few.... accidents.
Barricade descended to road level, his new toy should be rolling past the billboard any second now. he waited and waited
"what the slag is taking that carbon form so long?"
The decepticon growled and pulled out of his hiding spot only to suddenly be flooded in the glare of high beams. A two-tone car was sitting in the middle of the road in the dim moonlight the paint seemed to be ivory and blood.
For an despicably breakable and backwards species, barricade had to admit the squishies were capable of making things with a certain...class to them. The primitive human engine was a growling purr through dual mufflers, the chrome grill seeming to mimic, impossibly, barricades logic circuits told him, Lord Megatrons snarling mouth.
The engine reved in challenge loud music spilling from the open windows.
/Well I'm not braggin' babe so don't put me down, But I've got the fastest set of wheels in town
When something comes up to me he don't even try,Cause if I had a set of wings man I know she could fly/
Barricade laughed silently at this sheer audacity; so the fleshbag was willing to challenge a member of its authority division? so be it. He'd give them a race to remember.
The red and white suddenly lunged into first gear rich unburned fuel whipping across Barricade's windshield as he heard a odd toned voice call "Let's go for a ride, big guy... let's cruise!"
Arrogant meatbag, you'll regret that!
The decepticon accelerated, closing the distance between the two of them trying to gain the lead.
but at the first curve instead of slowing as the previous human drivers had, the vehicle increased in speed pulling farther and farther away from him.
I'd rather bow to starscream than be beaten by an organic
He thought angrily, The display of the speedometer nudging its way up to 110.
/Now you can't catch me, baby you can't catch me 'Cause if you get too close, you know I'm gone like a cool breeze!/ from the car as it pulled ahead once more. The hairpin was swiftly approaching and even Barricade wasn't sure if he could keep control at these speeds.
Frenzy skittered into the front seat "wh-what's go-go-going on?"
"It seems I've challenged the racing version of the autobots bumbling scout"
'L-lol, 'cade can't b-beat a s-s-squishy?"
"Silence!" the cruiser snapped "If you wan't to due something useful why don't you try scaring the driver and saving both our decepticon pride?!"
The cop car finally pulled alongside the older vehicle, frenzy half hanging out the window to spook their squishy opponent.
"huh?, Barrri-c-cade! there's no one the-there!" Frenzy screeched "it's empty!"
"What?!"
The car swerved into them as they hit the turn.
Sparks sprayed from Barricades sides as he was sandwiched in between the rocky cliff and several tons of metal. Only to pull away and repeat the bludgeoning until the cliff ended, speeding toward the highway on ramp: the finish line.
Barricade had had enough He sideswiped the rear of the two-tone as it accelerated past him, causing it to swerve and decelerate. At the safer speed, gears whirred and clicked into place as he transformed before bringing the metal flail down onto the fishtailing car.
The glass shattered and one of the tires burst, deep gouges appearing in the cherry colored metal.
The car came to a screeching halt as they both reached the ramp, turning a 180 to face him. He let out a roar as he dug both claws into the hood and roof and tore with all his might, flinging the car into a nearby lampost. Only when the head lights had been extinguished did he stop his onslaught.
Pathetic scrap, nothing of this mudball's creation shall beat me. The Decepticon thought smugly.It was only then when Frenzy noticed the highbeams had come back on...
"uh-uh 'Cade! Cade! Looklook-look!" the silver bot was pointing frantically at the battered heap
The missing hood of the car had began to reappear, from the windshield down, the raw metal drew itself out of nothing, gleamed steel grey and then darkened to red as if filling with blood. The cracks in the windshield began to run in reverse leaving unflawed glass behind as a hollow punk! punk! punk! sound filled the night as the metal popped back out in gleaming unblemished smoothness. The chrome stretching and reforming into a flawless mile wide grill. Shredded tires inflating to plump fullness. The entire car looking like it had rolled off the creation line In less than minutes. There was no Autobot or Decepticon created that could repair itself like that, not even the Prime, not at that speed.
His energon ran cold as he was circled by something his logic circuits could not grasp and brute force could not beat.
/ I broke a thousand hearts, before I met you, I'll break a thousand more baby, before I am through
I wanna be yours pretty baby, yours and yours alone, I'm here to tell ya honey, that I'm bad to the bone!/
Drifting through the air as the vehicle made mad loops around the transformer lunging towards him ever so often, The music reaching painfully loud volumes, before finally peeling off into the darkness of the highway.
"Ca-can we g-go now Barricade?" Frenzy was clinging to the back of the drivers seat.
The Saleens tires left fat streaks of rubber on the black pavement as he fled back to the city and the safety of its lights.
He wanted nothing more to get off of this planet and return to Cybertron
and in a comm channel he knew he did not possess the message echoed as crisply as the first transmission,
Let's go for a ride, big guy... let's cruise