Chapter 560: Surfboard

"Sam... Sam... Sam, wake up quickly..."

In a daze, Sam seemed to hear someone calling him. His consciousness not yet fully clear, he struggled for quite a while before he could barely open his eyes.

What met his eyes was a familiar young girl with long brown hair and a sexy face that did not match her age.

But at this moment, the face the girl revealed to Sam was one gathered with panic and anxiety.

She seemed to be shaking Sam's body violently, occasionally reaching out her palms to pat his cheeks twice.

With her efforts, Sam's consciousness finally began to recover.

"Mikaela... Right, I was driving on a date with Mikaela... We were suddenly attacked. A helicopter descended from the sky and used a hook shot down to grab the car into the air... After we were taken to an abandoned factory in the suburbs, we were thrown down from the sky... Then, I lost consciousness..."

The gradual recovery of his consciousness finally made Sam understand the danger he was in now.

He tried to stand up abruptly, only to find that he and Mikaela were still hanging upside down inside the car.

Just as he was about to unbuckle his seatbelt to escape, the harsh, screeching sound of a chainsaw rang out.

Then, in the terrified gaze of the two, a giant chainsaw easily sawed the car in half.

A terrifying mechanical giant with a ferocious expression, whom Sam found somewhat familiar, appeared in their field of vision.

"Are you... Blackout?"

After all, Sam had witnessed that fierce battle in Sector 7 and Las Vegas, and for that reason, he had had nightmares many times over the past year.

After all, while that experience was stimulating, he and Mikaela had narrowly escaped death multiple times, so it was not strange that he would have nightmares afterward.

Because of this, Sam clearly remembered the face of every Decepticon he had ever seen.

The "Blackout" appearing before him now was one of them!

"Blackout..."

That Decepticon gave a cold smile, grabbed Sam, and threw him heavily several meters away.

He was not Blackout at all, but an Advanced Replica Warrior from the Decepticon Aerial Combat Unit—Surfboard.

Yes, this Decepticon hardliner with quite impressive combat power was merely an Advanced Replica Warrior cultivated by Starscream.

His prototype was born as early as the Council of Ancients era; he was a hardliner of the former Cybertron Defense Force (CDF)—Aerial Combat Unit, and a professional soldier before the civil war broke out, which was why he was modified by Shockwave to become an even more violent Decepticon Warrior.

However, the cruel civil war led to the death of too many excellent warriors from both the Decepticons and the Autobots, and Surfboard's prototype was one of them.

After his death, in the first batch of Awakening Projects formulated by the Decepticon Legion to maintain air superiority in the battle against the Autobots, Surfboard was included.

It was just that, unlike the Awakening of the Autobots, the brutal Decepticon Legion needed an army.

And so, through the cooperation of Shockwave and Starscream, the once-terrifying Decepticon hardliner became a type of high-volume, mass-producible Advanced Cannon Fodder in the hands of the Decepticon Legion, referred to as Replica Warriors.

Walking once again to the side of the battered Sam, he bent down, pressed his hand on Sam, and amidst Mikaela's gasps and fearful cries, said unhurriedly: "I heard you are a friend of the Autobots? Heh, I really want to see the look on their faces when they learn of your death."

"Rest assured, there is still plenty of time... I will torture you slowly and make you die in great pain!"

"But before that, we still have some things to finish first!"

After speaking, he turned to look not far away at a piece of equipment that looked like some kind of discarded medical device, placed on a dusty, dilapidated table, and said softly: "Doctor, the rest is up to you!"

The voice had just fallen when Sam and Mikaela saw the medical device on the table rapidly transform into a strange Decepticon that looked like a metal spider but had two eyes like light bulbs.

The Decepticon called "Doctor" easily jumped several meters from the table and landed on Sam's chest.

In his panicked gaze, that Decepticon used an insidious and shrill voice to maliciously and earnestly warn Sam.

"I will scan you, first let's take a look at your brain."

"Let me introduce myself, I am Doctor, my Task is to search for information!"

"You have come into contact with a fragment, you must have received the information inside!"

It first scanned Sam's eyes and face simply, and then checked his nostrils for a moment.

Then it cruelly tore open his mouth, while simultaneously taking out a strange metal bug, about to stuff it into Sam's mouth.

"Woooo..."

Sam wanted to struggle but dared not resist; Surfboard was staring at him from the side. This cold existence, who looked exactly like a certain cruel Decepticon in his memory, kept looking at him with a pair of icy eyes that carried not a shred of emotion, as if he were already a dead man.

Under these circumstances, how could Sam dare to move.

He looked in terror at the strange Decepticon calling itself "Doctor" as it forced that weird metal bug into his mouth.

Then, that strange metal bug, like a snake, swooshed from his nasal cavity and extended its tentacles into his cranium.

Waves of nausea and dry heaving suddenly struck, and Sam's chest heaved violently, "I'm going to die!"

When the two segments of the bug's tentacles extended along his nasal cavity into the interior of his head, he had a terrible feeling that he was about to die.

Fortunately, this feeling came quickly and went quickly.

The bug only burrowed into Sam's mouth for less than ten seconds before it jumped out along with his dry heave.

The spider-type strange Decepticon calling itself "Doctor" caught the bug; the moment the bug's tentacles touched the Doctor's chassis, a blinding electric spark instantly erupted.

"Let me see what information you obtained from the fragment!"

Doctor said triumphantly, which left Sam in a daze.

Only then did he finally understand how he had suffered this ordeal.

"Fragment... information... so that's it..."

More than half a month ago, he had inadvertently discovered in one of his old clothes a piece of the AllSpark that had shattered and flown off when he shoved it into Megatron's chest during the Battle of Las Vegas.

That fragment somehow got into Sam's pocket. When he discovered it and picked it up to examine it, the fragment suddenly turned red in a bizarre way and burned him so that he couldn't hold it for a moment, causing the fragment to burn through their floor, falling from the first floor to the second, and even causing a panic.

Afterward, the fragment was snatched away by a strange Decepticon that could transform into a toy car, and Bumblebee had left to report the situation to Optimus Prime.

It was also from that time on that Sam would often feel like he was seeing some strange runes, many, many of them, making him feel like he was going to become neurotic.

He didn't expect that now, he would suffer because of this.

His eyes looked listlessly several meters away at his girlfriend, Mikaela, who was standing there with a face full of fear and panic, wanting to come over but not daring to move.

Sam muttered: "Bumblebee..."

As he was about to step into death, he couldn't help but miss this old partner from the Autobots.