Hey there! :3 Look at this! A sequel! I hope it turns out half as good as the original story it stems from!
''Silas? Experiment no. 4.13.7 is acting strange''
''Is that so? Strange how?''
''She's just lying around, complaining about body aches and pains''
''Hmm… Have a scientist check her out and if there's something wrong with her, simply…remove the issue'' he said, gaining a small smirk at the end. The other man nodded, going to relay the news to the present scientist responsible for such things.
''413? 413 are you awake?''
This was her chance. If she acted sick enough, they would take her out of her room and she could break free and ditch this place. Just keep acting in pain.
''My head hurts!''
''Come on. Let's go get you checked out'' the man said, helping her to her feet and leading her out the room. Keeping her eyes peeled for a route of escape, she saw nothing. Before she knew it, she was in the science lab.
''Hello, 413. What seems to be the problem?'' the scientist asked.
''My body hurts…It hurts so much to even move''
''Alright. Let me go get my supplies out of the storage room and then I'll see what I can do''
''Okay. Thank you''
She looked around wildly for an escape route. Then, she spotted it. An air vent, big enough for her to climb into. All she had to do was get up to it, seeing as it was high up off the ground. Getting up nice and quiet, she pushed a chair over to it and stacked some boxes on top. As she was climbing up and removed the cover of the vent, she heard a gasp.
''413, what are you doing!?''
She widened her eyes as he reached for her. Scrambling into the vent, she clambered through it just in time. Then she heard it.
Weeeeeeeewoooooooo weeeeeeeeeeeewoooooooo!
He'd set off the alarm! She continued to crawl, until she saw light up ahead. It led into the control room. This was the only way! There was a sleeping guard on duty, so she would have to deal with him. Jumping out of the vent, she startled him. Too late though, she'd already punched him in the face. He was out cold, so she grabbed his Identification card and his gun. She saw a map of the building on the wall and studied it for a second before running in what she though was the directions to the exit. Unfortunately, two guards stood between her and the exit. All she had to do was take them out. Raising the gun, she plugged her ears as the gun shot exploded off the walls. She ran by the now dead guards, and out into the court yards. People were pouring out from everywhere, trying to get a good shot at her. She ran towards the outer fence, spotting a perfectly placed hole. Diving through it, she ran and ran and ran. She ran until she couldn't anymore. She didn't hear any trucks chasing her or anything, so she assumed she was safe. She forced herself to keep moving though. She had to if she wanted to live. That's all she knew. She had to keep going. Had to, had to, had to, had to had to had to had tohadtohadtohadtohadto…
Optimus walked over to the monitors when he heard an alert start beeping. He was being contacted by a ship out in space.
''Optimus Prime speaking, whose ship is flying towards this sector?'' he spoke loud and clear.
)) Hey OP! Jazz speaking and it's a ship filled with cool cats from all over cybertron!((
''It's nice to speak with you. Are you heading towards this sector to land?''
)) Yes Sir! ((
''We will be waiting for your arrival. May I ask who is accompanying you?''
)) Let's see…We've got Prowl, the other ninjabot. Blurr, the fast talking intelligence agent. Sunstreaker and Sideswipe, the terrortwins. Jetfire and Jetstorm, the Jettwins, and that's it other than me ((
''Okay then. I must make it known though. The war is over, the Decepticons stationed here on earth so far are dormant, and there is no fighting over energon any longer''
)) Well that's all good! Nice to know we don't have to worry about having our heads blown off all the time anymore! May I ask what led to the end of the war though? ((
''That's a story that you'll find both hard to believe and incredibly entertaining. I'll wait until you arrive to fill you in on that though''
)) Okay then, cool. Gotta go, OP. We are fast approaching your sector! ((
With that, the line cut. Optimus nodded, then commed his team to let them know of the newcomers about to arrive.
''You look like a monkey…Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand you smell like one too!''
Stella, Kiwi, and the whole ship of decepticons finished singing. Sarah, being mute, had a party horn and simply blew through it over and over again, which was highly annoying, but nobody cared. Megan had a stupefied smile on her face, then she squeeed.
''Aww! You guys remembered!''
''Of course we did. Why wouldn't we remember our BEST FRIEND'S birthday?'' Kiwi asked, as if it was stupid that she thought they'd forget. It was stupid she thought they'd forget. Megan smiled. She didn't know what to be happier about, the fact they had went through all this trouble, or the fact that the giant hunk of metal known as Megatron…had an itty bitty little party hat on. Actually, yeah, that would be the greatest memory she had on this birthday, Megatron's tiny little party hat. She saw Sarah walking towards her, holding a huge double layer chocolate cake with rainbow colored icing. It had delicately written cursive on it, reading 'Happy Birthday Megan!' in silver/grey icing. She grinned as she realized there was also the decepticon insignia drawn onto the cake.
''Cake decorating credit belongs to me!'' Kiwi said proudly.
'' 'Tis beautiful, fair maiden!''
''No worries, Madame!''
''Alas, it is a shame that such a beauty should not last forever!'' Stella said with mock exasperation. Sarah simply nodded. Then the three girls who weren't mute burst into loud laughter, and Sarah simply grinned hugely. The decepticons looked thoroughly confused.
''What's a maiden?'' Knockout asked. They just laughed even harder.
After they ate the cake, the decepticons eating little energon goodies that Breakdown made – even though he swears Airachnid (A/N Yes, I did finally figure out her name isn't actually Arachnid, but AIRachnid) forced him to make them- Stella announced it was time for Megan to open up her presents. Stella, of course, wanted hers opened first. Megan agreed, and she smiled as she pulled out what was in the horribly wrapped box. It was a…thing. Actually, what the hell is this thing?
''Stella, what… is it?''
''Starscream helped me make it. He made us all one, but we wanted you to get yours first''
''Uh, that doesn't tell me what it is''
''Oh yeah, uh, it's a comm link! Basically like a Bluetooth that the decepticons and other cybertronians can connect to. Yours is the best though, it was designed especially for you instead of just chips to go on our ears.''
It was true. It looped around her ear and fit perfectly. The part that went into her ear had a delicately carved purple metal flower that, when her hair was arranged correctly, it looked like a hairclip. She smiled.
''Thank you. I love it''
Then, she jolted as static crackled, then she heard Starscream's voice directly in here ear.
))'Is it working?'((
''Yeah'' she said aloud, not sure how to use it.
)) it has a built in microphone. All you have to do is talk to respond to a comm. To send a comm, just click the button in the center of the flower and say the name of who you want to contact.((
That easy? She clicked the button and whispered 'Megatron' and she heard a bit of static.
)) Congratulations, you managed to work the simple machinery ((Megatron responded to the comm sarcastically. Ugh, the nerve! She hadn't even spoken yet! She still smiled though, because she was happy.
''My turn!'' Kiwi said, shoving Stella out of the way and handing Megan her present. It was a box wrapped artfully with shimmering red rapper with black lines all over it. It made it look similar to a red and black chess board. As she unwrapped the present as easily as she could – there was no easy on Stella's, it had been wrapped enough to cover it and then given up on- and then opened the box. She smiled as she pulled out the object inside. This time she knew what it was. It was a shimmering grey one-shouldered dress that was designed in a way that would cling to her upper body but would fan out at about her waist and trailed behind her. At the bottom of the grey dress was a pattern of carefully sewn purple. The purple was sewn to make it look as if the dress had purple flames spreading up it (A/N again. Think of Katniss Everdeen's fire dress only with grey instead of red and purple fabric flames instead of orange chemical flames).
It was downright beautiful, and she loved it.
''Thank you, this…this is gorgeous. You made this?''
''Yup. Without a sewing machine too!''
''Wow. It's amazing!''
''I'm glad you like it!''
Sarah raised her hand.
''Yes Sarah?''
Sarah walked forward, holding simply a gift bag with music notes drawn all over it. Opening the bag, she was greeted with a set of grey headphones with the purple decepticon insignia painted onto each ear piece, a new iPod with purple case, a 50 dollar iTunes gift card, a pack of colored pencils, and a sketch pad.
''Whoa…Thanks!'' Megan said, pulling her three best friends into a hug. She was surprised when she saw Soundwave handing her something. Once again, it was in a gift bag, though much larger. Pulling out the contents, she saw it was what looked like a bike helmet. It was grey with a purple lily painted onto the side, and it had a purple visor. She cocked her head curiously. Starscream stepped up, and when she opened his present it held a pair of grey combat boots with purple laces. Once again she tilted her head. Knockout just gave her a first aid kit, which made her laugh. Megatron had the most confusing present though. She opened up the purple box and was greeted with the sight of a grey backpack.
''It's a backpack!'' she said excitedly though. Who doesn't love a new backpack? Now she could carry around her new presents!
''That's not all it is'' Megatron said. She looked up at him, confused. It looked like a plain, ordinary backpack.
''See that string on the side?''
She nodded, seeing the odd purple string that was the only colored thing on it.
''Pull it''
She pulled the string, and it disappeared! Tilting her head, she suddenly heard a whirring come from it. She jumped back as the backpack transformed into a jetpack! It was still grey, but now it had wings sticking out on the sides with the decepticon insignia on them. Now the presents from them all made sense! The helmet so that she wouldn't have to eat bugs, the boots so that she could land well and the first aid kit in case the boots didn't work.
''The helmet is specially designed so that you can breathe at high altitudes with thin oxygen.'' Starscream said.
''Well, put the stuff on!'' Kiwi said, excited to see how the things worked. Megan nodded, slipping the helmet and boots on. Then, she pulled the backpack on and clipped the latchy thingy around her chest.
''It's solar powered, so you don't have to worry about it running out of fuel!'' Knockout said. She nodded. Megatron picked her up, and the others picked up their respective charges as they went out to the landing area thing. Megatron told her how to use the thing.
''You press this button right here…yep, that's it. Now, you grab the handles and guide it like…one of those lawnmower things'' (A/N yet again. One of those lawnmowers that you just sit on and pull around the guidey stick things that make it go in a certain direction. I think it's called a zero turn?)
''Oh, that's simple enough.'' She said as she pressed the 'go button', as she called it. It made her go above the ground, hovering. Megatron transformed into his alt mode and waited for her to take off. She went higher and then took off, going left. She heard Megatron following her and watched as he got right beside her and matched her pace. She tried going right, and somehow ended up going up.
''Whoa!'' she yelled, laughing the entire time. She suddenly remembered a song she heard a long time ago, called 'Galaxies' by Owl City. As she got the hang of it, she suddenly heard more jets approaching. Starscream got right beside her on the opposite side of Megatron, and Stella stuck her tongue out at her. Megan copied the action. Soundwave also caught up, as well as SkyBlue, Dreamcatcher, and Sandstorm. Knockout obviously wasn't flying with them, but his holoforms was riding with Sandstorm and Kiwi. Megan grinned, and then she saw something in her peripheral vision. Looking towards it, she slowed down. There was an incredibly huge ship coming into the atmosphere, and it was coming fast. She watched as it went down to the ground, and then watched it land, and so did the others. It had the autobot symbol on it.
''Let's head back'' Megatron said. Soundwave opened up a bridge and they all went back into the command room in time to see a call coming through to them from the autobot base. Megan answered it before they could say anything, and they were greeted with Miko.
''Dude, we've got new bots! You should totally come and meet them. Besides, they totally want to meet you after finding out how you guys ended the war!''
''Cool! I'm wondering how you guys got introduced, told the story, and called us in a matter of seconds though!'' Megan responded just as excitedly.
''So you knew they were here!? Hey, cool get up! Did they give you that?''
''Yup! It's my birthday!''
''Cool!''
''Cool!''
''Cool!''
'''What are we doing!?''
''I don't know!''
''We'll be over in a little bit!''
''Okay! I'm gonna get Bulkhead to take us all to the mall! I'm sure my host family won't mind when they find out it's for your birthday''
''You don't have to''
''Yes I do! How old are you?''
''I'm seventeen now!''
''Cool. I'm still 16. I turn seventeen two months from now!''
''In October?''
''Yup! October 13th!''
''October 13th is on a Friday this year…''
''Cool!''
''Totally!''
''Um, I hate to break up this glorious chat, but aren't we going to go visit them?'' Knockout interrupted.
''Oh yeah! See you in a little bit! Is Jack there?'' Megan asked.
''Yeah, why?''
''Just wondering.''
''Mmhm… Okaaaaay~'''
''Miko, I don't know what ideas you have floating through your head, but destroy them right now''
''How do you know I have ideas?~''
''Oh my gosh I'm on my way over there right now''
She hung up and hopped off the monitor via ladder they had set up for them. Stella grinned.
''Why were you wondering if Jack was there?'' she said evilly.
''Oh my gosh, you two are horrible! I was just wondering if he was going to be there!''
''So why didn't you ask about Raf too? After all, you just wanted to know if they were there!'' Kiwi teased. Sarah was just grinning her evil grin.
Oh, don't forget, we all still hate Smokescreen Sarah signed, remembering the time he almost killed Soundwave. The girls nodded.
''Just not as much, but still a considerably large amount of hate'' Kiwi said.
''Yes'' Stella and Megan agreed. The decepticons fired up the bridge, and they walked through to be greeted with a flurry of new bots. Jack waved at them and the girls, now including Miko, giggled and all stared at Megan. Jack climbed down, walking over.
''What's so funny?'' he asked.
''Nothing!'' every single girl, except Sarah, chorused. He shrugged and walked back over to Arcee. Megan turned around and gave them all the finger.
''I hate you all. So much''
''Sure you do~''
They all spun around when they heard Optimus start talking. After introductions went around, the Jettwins decided to ask how they ended the war. Megan grinned.
''Well, you see, it started when we were kidnapped by this group of vehicons…''
And so concludes the first chapter of Heart of Music, the sequel to Soul of Music. The actual musicky stuff will start either next chapter or the chapter after that.
In case you're confused,
Jazz:TFA
Prowl: TFA
Blurr: TFA
Jetfire and Jetstorm: TFA
Sunstreaker and Sideswipe: G1
