Blair (Book 2)

by MELONYPRIMEINK

Now that Melony knows more of the truth she's decided to follow her heart and try to find out who she is. And to help do that she's taken up Lennox's offer and joined NEST. But it's not long before Melony is pulled into another war with Sam. Join Melony as she races to save not only Optimus but to find his daughter known only as Blair.

1. Military or College?

I was stuck at a crossroads.

It was the day of graduation and I was still conflicted on the decision. Do I go into the military like I had always planned or do I go to college with Sam? Sam had decided where to go and what to go for months ago. Mikaela had decided not to go at all yet so she could help her dad get back on his feet after being in prison for so long. But me? Nothing. I was stuck. Did I need to go to college? Nope. Did I want the experience of going to college? Possibly but I didn't need it. Did I want to go into the military? Yeah always have. Of course I would go with no question if I got into NEST instead. But we had heard nothing from Lennox or Epps in 2 years.

"Melony Witwicky." My principal said breaking me out I my thoughts. "Melony is still undecided as to what she-" he continued as I started to walk forward to get my diploma only for the doors to burst open and him to stop talking. I paused and looked towards the door to find Lennox and Epps walking towards the podium in full uniform. I glanced at them confused and Epps flashed me a grin as Lennox spoke quietly to the principal. "Sorry to interrupt the ceremony everyone. I'm Major William Lennox and this is Sergeant Robert Epps. Melony step forward please." Lennox said as he stepped up to the mic. I finished the walk to the podium and stood beside Lennox and Epps unsure. "We met you in Mission City almost 2 years ago and we told you then that we would be seeing you out on the field under my command. We're here to keep that promise. Melony Witwicky you have been offered once a once in a lifetime chance to join NEST and we'd be happy to have you." Lennox continued. "That is if you'll put up with us for awhile." Epps chuckled. Silence filled the auditorium as everyone waited for my response. "Yes!" I grinned as I hugged them both. After everyone calmed down the principal came back up and handed me my diploma. "Melony plans to join NEST after high school." He announced. I sat back down and they called Sam up and did his thing followed by the last few people in our class. "I now present to you the Class of 2009!" Our principal announced. I stood with everyone else and threw my graduation cap into the air with everyone else in my class.

That was all three months ago and after that day I had been told the Epps would pick me up the day Sam left for college and that was it. Well tomorrow was that day, Sam was leaving for college and mom and dad were heading to France for a month long vacation. I sighed as I looked up at the stars from my spot on the porch roof. "Hey Mel." Sam said as he crawled out the window to join me. "Hey Sam." I replied as he sat next to me. "Still set on NEST? Cause you know you can still come with me." He said after a minute. "Come on Sam you and I both know that we have separate plans in life. You want to go to college and live a normal life. But I could never be normal even if I wanted to." I replied. "Come on Mel it hasn't been that bad-" "2 years. For 2 years my powers have been

growing and I've been forced to hide them. All so I could be "normal". Well I don't wanna be normal! I wanna be able to do something with my powers and I can't do that like this! I need to find out who I am and the only clue I was giving is that I have to find Blair. Optimus is her father and he said he wanted to help me with this. I NEED to go." I interrupted him. Sam was silent beside me. "Fine. You go do normal. I'm gonna go find out who I am and actually help people." I huffed as I stood and made my way back inside. "Oh I'm sorry Melony. I didn't see you coming." Mom apologized after we ran into each other in the hall. "Sweetheart what's wrong?" Dad asked from behind her. I shook my head and ran to my room and slammed the door before throwing myself on to the bed. I lay there and shook as sobs racked my body and tried to ignore my parents talking to Sam just down the hall. I sat up at the sound of tapping on my window and looked up to find Ben just outside. I smiled a bit as I crawled off the bed and opened the window for him. Being that Ben was only Bee's holoform I knew Bee was probably in the "garage" and had heard me and Sam on the roof talking. I gave him a sad smile as I looked up at him through tear filled eyes and fell back onto the bed. Ben sat beside me and pulled me into his arms as he rubbed soothing circles on my back but stayed silent. "H- how could h- e be s-so mean?" I sobbed into his chest. "He just doesn't understand Melony. That's all. He doesn't mean it, he's your brother after all. He'd never hurt you on purpose." Ben replied. "B-but it s-till hurts." I replied. "Shh. It'll be ok. You'll see Mel." He soothed. The last thing I remember was the gentle circles on my back and the feel of Ben's arms around me as I drifted off to sleep.

I woke up alone and to dad yelling from downstairs that it was time to get up. "Geez dad you're gonna wake the neighbors." I yawned as I walked into the kitchen. "Ha ha Mel. Are you packed?" He asked. "No, my room's just mostly empty for nothing." I replied sarcastically. "Well it's good to see that you're feeling better." Mom chuckled as she handed me a plate with pancakes, eggs, and hash browns on it. "Yeah Bee sent Ben up to cheer me up. I think he heard us from the garage." I replied as I sat down and started eating. "He always did try to cheer you up, didn't he?" Dad commented. "Yeah but that's just one more reason why he's better than some random car." I laughed. "Good to know." Sam said from behind me. "Now I know who to go to when I need help fixing my mistakes with you. I'm really sorry Mel, I didn't mean it. I know how much this all means to you and I hope that I can still help you with it." He added as he gave me a side hug and kissed my head. "You are forgiven. But stop being so thickheaded and you wouldn't have to apologize so much." I replied before starting to eat again. Sam rolled his eyes at me as he took his plate from mom and sat next to me. A half an hour later breakfast was cleaned up and we had started moving things. "Come on, let's go! All hands on deck! Frankie, Mojo, out! Come on, kiddo, we're on a schedule." Dad called out a Sam and I each carried a box by him. "Slow down, Dad. Why are you in such a hurry to get rid of us, huh? Did you rent the rooms out?" Sam asked. "No, I got other ideas for your rooms and it rhymes with home theater. Heh heh heh." Dad chuckled as we put the boxes of Sam's stuff in the back of the car. We walked back into the house to find mom sobbing. "Look what I found. It's your little baby booties." She said as she held up two pairs of baby booties. "Aw, Ma." Sam said as he hugged her. "My little baby bootie boy. You can't go." Mom replied. "You see this, dad, this is how you're supposed to react when the fruit of your loins goes out into the cruel world to fend for himself, okay?" Sam said to dad who was picking up more boxes. "Yeah, my heart bleeds for you, pal. College. Bummer." Dad muttered before leaving the house again. "You guys have to come home. Every. Holiday. Not just big ones. You have to come home for Halloween." Mom sobbed on. "Well we can't come home for Halloween, Mom." Sam replied. "I don't even know if I can come for any of them." I said quietly. "Well, then we'll come to you." Mom said. "You're not coming." Sam jumped in. "We'll dress up-" mom continued. "No, we're not going anywhere." Dad said as he reappeared and grabbed his golf clubs. "We'll be in costumes, you'll never know it's us." Mom rambled on. "You can't do that, Ma." Sam told her. "Would you let the kid breathe, for crying out loud? Come on, go pack. There's no way you're packed for a month-long trip. Come on, chop, chop! Let's go. March, young lady." Dad said before slapping mom's butt as he sent her upstairs. "Ooh. Oh, dad." Sam said as I exclaimed, "Dad!" "I love it when you call me young lady, you dirty old man." Mom told dad before heading upstairs. "Eh, you ain't seen nothing yet." Dad muttered. "Dad, Dad, Dad, whoa!" Sam exclaimed. "What?" "We're watching what you're doing, Dad. It's not a rap video." "It's like a coach thing." "I'm going to a military base. If the happens I will shoot them on the spot." I said as I light up one hand briefly. "That was a really creepy move just now, dad." Sam added. "Look. You, you, your, ah... your mother and me are really, really proud of you. I mean, you're the first Witwicky ever to go to college. And Melony you may not actually be a Witwicky but we still see you as one and that makes you the first to go into the military, let alone a top secret military division." Dad said changing the subject. "Now I'm crying again! This sucks!" Mom yelled from upstairs. "You're gonna be okay, Ma." Sam called. "I got her." I said before running upstairs and finding mom in the hall.

"You alright mom?" I asked a I hugged her. "I'll be alright Melony, thank-you." She replied as she hugged me back. "I'm so happy you decided to put all of the your not a Witwicky behind you and to stay our daughter." She said after a minute. "You still raised me and I'll always be thankful that you took me in and raised me as your own. You gave me a life to remember and lessons to live by. I love you mom." I said softly as I held her tighter. She squeezed me back before releasing me. "Ok you go start getting your stuff downstairs. Epps should be here anytime now." She said as she shooed me of towards my room. I sighed as I flopped on to my bed and played with the silver chain around my neck. When got home from Mission City 2 years ago I had found a small neatly wrapped blue and silver package with the chain inside and I've yet to take it off. I stood again and walked over to the wall where my painting and photos hung and just stared at them for a minute. I smiled as I grabbed another box and carefully placed the paintings and the pictures inside. I closed the box and set it on another box before carrying them downstairs. I grabbed a marker and wrote "Paintings and photos! Break and I will kill you." on the side before heading back up to grab more. By the time Sam and dad were done packing the ready of the car I had all of my boxes downstairs am my room was closed so mom wouldn't cry again if she walked by and say it mostly empty. "Fire!" I suddenly hear Sam yell from upstairs. "You've gotta be kidding me!" I exclaimed as I ran upstairs and burst into his room with a fire extinguisher before quickly helping put out the very small fire. "How the hell did that happen?!" I asked. "I found a shard of the Cube stuck in my shirt and I touched it and it was hot causing me to drop it." Sam explained. "Well where is it now?" I asked. "Down in the kitchen. It went through the floor." He replied. There was a noise at the door so Sam got up to open it only for him to fall backwards shouting in surprise and panic. "Come on!" I exclaimed in annoyance as the mini transformers entered the room. "What is all the racket? Sam?" Dad called out as Sam and I climbed out on to the porch room. "Dad!" Sam yelled as he basically fell off the roof as where I jumped and landed safely below. I cringed as dad face planted trying to get behind the newly repaired fountain with Sam while I stood under the porch. "What was that?" Dad asked. "That's the whole kitchen!" Sam replied. "Oh my... Bumblebee." Dad said as he peeked out. "BUMBLEBEE!" I screamed as I ran out and started blasting the mini robots. Bee burst out of the "garage" and transformed before shooting the mini robots with me. It was all great until Bee and I had to blow up Sam's room to kill the rest of them. I was thrown back by the blast only for Bee to catch me.

"Nice shot." I said as I fist bumped him. "Oh- Nine- Nine-one-one!" Dad yelled. "Bumblebee! Get in the garage. Go!" Sam yelled. Bee set me down and started complaining to Sam. "What the fuck just happened!?" Mom yelled as she took a waffle iron off her head. "I'm about to have a nervous breakdown. Just go in the garage quietly, please." Sam told Bee. "Holy Mother! Oh, my God!" Mom exclaimed as she saw the house. "Whatever." Bee squealed as he pushed an old tv out of his way as he crawled into the "garage". "Get in the garage now!" Sam yelled. "Sam it was my fault, don't yell at him." I said stepping in. "Stop babying him Mel." Sam snapped at me before heading back into the house. "Firemen! Firefighters-" I heard mom say as I stood there shocked followed by dad's, " ...Dogs out! Get the dogs out!" "This is it! Come on, you guys. What are you waiting for?" Mom yelled as the fire trucks pulled up followed by, "My house is on fire!" a few minutes later. "What happened?" Mikaela asked as she ran up to me. "Shard transformed the whole kitchen and Bee and I took care of it." I shrugged. "He snapped at you again didn't he?" She asked. "Twice in less than 12 hours." I sighed. "Mikaela! Come here. Listen, I need you to take the Cube sliver and put it in your purse." San said as he came up and ignored me. "Sam Witwicky? Melony?" Mom said as she walked up to us. "Yes, Mom." Sam said as I said, "Yeah mom?" "A word with you?" She asked. "Yeah." Sam answered. "Hi, Mikaela. I have a bald spot-" mom greeted. "Hi. Oh." Mikaela replied. "An old furnace, I think." I heard dad tell one of the firefighters. "-from a waffle iron. When you go, he goes. I cannot live with a psychotic alien living in my garage!" Mom finished. "He's not psychotic! It was mostly me!" I exclaimed. "Calm, calm- You two, national security. Look. If we stay quiet, they're gonna take care of everything. Just consider this the official start of our remodel, 'kay?" Dad said as he came up to us. "Fine. If the government's paying, I want a pool. And a hot tub!" Mom said as she started back into the house. "Fine. 'Kay." Dad replied. "And I'm gonna skinny-dip and you can't say shit about it!" Mom yelled. "Wow demolition gone wrong Mel?" I heard from behind me. I turned to find Epps standing there with one of his grins on his face. "Epps!" I exclaimed as I hugged him. "Ha ha. Hey girl. So what happened?" He asked as we separated. "Kitchen transformed into mini robots and Bee and I took care of it. Sam's room missing is mostly my fault even though no one seems to believe me." I replied. "How so?" "2 years of you know what's laying dormant. They're a lot stronger now so I don't really know my own strength till I practice a bit." "Well there's lots of room for that at base. Don't you worry, we thought about ya." Epps chucked. "You got your stuff together?" He then asked. "My paintings!" I exclaimed as I ran into the house and to the stack of boxes. I slowly opened the box and sighed in relief when I saw that they were safe. "They alright?" Epps asked. "Yes thank god!" I smiled as I gently touched one of the paintings. "What are they of?" He asked as he squatted next to me. "Optimus said that they were of Cybertron. I got them on my 16th birthday but I still don't know who sent them or who painted them. I love them though, they're my most prized possession." I explained. "Well they're beautiful. I can see why you love them." Epps smiled. "Ok well then I'm all good since this is all fine." I said as I put the paints back and we stood. "Well what you plan on bringing is less than most do so bonus. But… I don't know if it'll fit." Epps said as we walked out to see that indeed the car was too small for them boxes. "Hey Mel?"Bee asked. "Yeah Bee?"I replied. "Sam says he's not taking me with him to college. You think I could get a ride back to base with you and Epps?"Bee asked. "Course Bee. Don't worry you still got me and I'm sure 'Kaela would love to see ya still even if Sam doesn't." I smiled before he was gone. "That won't be a problem. Bee's coming back to base with us. Sam's not gonna take him to college apparently." I sighed. "Seriously? That's a shame, Bee really loved protecting both of you." Epps said as he shook his head. "Yeah well Sam's kinda tossing away everything that'll prevent him from having a normal life. Me and Bee included." I huffed as we walked outside with a load of boxes that we set in Epps' car before heading over to my parents. "I love you guys. I'll call as soon as I can." I promised as I hugged them. "Love you too honey." Mom replied as she hugged me back. "Stay safe sweetheart." Dad said as he hugged me. "Keep her safe please." Dad added to Epps. "I'm not sure she'll need it but if she does I swear that the Autobots and every soldier on that base will do everything they can to protect her." Epps promised as I walked over to Sam. "Love you Sammy." I whispered as I hugged him. "I love you too Melony. Stay safe." He whispered back. "I swear in you cheat on 'Keala I will hand her to loaded gun and hold you down for her." I then threatened as I looked over his shoulder at said girl. "Wouldn't dream of it." He chuckled. We parted and he got into the car with mom and dad as Mikaela and Epps came to stand by me to watch them leave as we waved.

We watched till we couldn't see them anymore before I sighed and turned to face my two companions. "Wanna help with the rest of the boxes?" I asked. Mikaela laughed and rolled her eye but nodded as we want back into the house to get the rest of the boxes. We came back to find Bee sitting at the curb and Ben waiting to help load the boxes. Once the boxes were loaded I hugged Mikaela as we said our goodbyes. "Keep in touch." I said. "Don't die." She replied. "Deal." I laughed. She laughed with me as we parted and I waved bye to her as I got into the passenger seat of Bee and he followed Epps to where the plane was waiting to take us to base.