Revenge of The Fallen
Summary: Sequel to 'Never underestimate a girl'. Two years after the events of Mission City, Sam and Kim went on with their lives on separated ways. What they didn't know was that someone else had different plans for them. (2009 Movieverse)
Disclaimer: Everything that doesn't have an owner, belongs to me.
Author's Note: Here it is. The sequel to 'Never underestimate a girl' is up! Revenge has come! MWUAAAAHHH-*cough, cough*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you think this is just a parody of the movie and will be just like it, then you're probably right. If you've seen 'Revenge of the Fallen' then you know how this will end. You may not know how things will go with my two characters! And if you want to know, I'll be right here to tell you!
Before we start, I have to say that Jazz and Sunstreaker are in this too, 'cause I love 'em too much!!!! And Sideswipe is still a Lamborghini, though a silver one.
Note:
"Talk"
Thinking
Nonverbal communication (comm. link, phone, radio, etc…)
Tell me what you think. Now, on with the story… enjoy! ;)
1- Two years later
Two years have passed since the events of Mission City, and in that time the Autobots have forged an alliance with the humans. New Autobots landed on Earth, bringing the hope of long-lasting peace with them. But Decepticons soon began to resurface as well. Thus the creation of the NEST, a secret military unit created to seek out and eliminate the Decepticons still remaining on the planet.
Following the disbanding of Sector Seven, NEST was set up under William Lennox, to create a combined United States Military/Autobot defense force against the Decepticons. However, seeing that there wasn't a continent without a Decepticon visitor, it soon expanded to include armed forces from other nations. The world seemed borderless, as soldiers from all countries were involved in some way.
Officially, the US government still kept the Transformers' existence a secret, gladly accepting the help from an old friend, who personally witnessed their goodness, and had a chance to fight side by side with them: Kimberly Anne Witwicky, Autobot's official public relations representative.
Meaning: she was a link between Autobots and humans, one to ask questions about both races. She'd eagerly spent the last two years learning as much as possible about her friends' costumes, with Jazz's and Ratchet's help. But she also explained all questions about human-related things the bots needed her to answer.
The young hacker was constantly travelling throughout the States along with her guardian, Jazz. Few months ago, she moved to Los Angeles, where she worked in a minor military base. Her parents decided to sell their apartment and to live in their old house, seeing that Sam wanted to go to college, and the house wouldn't have anyone to take care of it.
Samantha Jade Witwicky, in fact, decided she had had enough of giant aliens. She didn't envy her sister's job, and decided to attempt college instead. Although she didn't mind having Bumblebee hiding in her garage, she knew the Autobot needed more. Going to college was the best solution for both.
Bumblebee would have been free to go where he needed and wanted to, and Sam would have her normality back. She so much wanted to be normal again, to go to college and make friends – human ones, not holograms – talk to them about trivialities, and not things involving the fate of not just one world, but two.
So that's where their story begins…
*Shanghai, China*
Beneath the glowing moon, several soldiers probed a region of Shanghai, which was evacuated to allow the NEST military to deploy with a cover-up of an oil spill occurring.
Thousands residents fled, while helicopters from NEST hovered above the ground troops, who were helping the civilians to evacuate. They didn't know, but the true reason the soldiers were deployed there was because they detected Decepticon signature in that area.
Major Lennox and his men followed a radiation blip to a construction site. Everything seemed still in the cold Chinese night. Nothing moved as the humans flared out to search the place.
Upon hearing a familiar engine, Lennox turned his head to a black TopKick driving towards them. Ironhide transformed, and the humans approached him, his nostrils steaming in the cold.
"I smell Decepticon stench here." The black weapon specialist muttered.
"How many?" Lennox asked, turning to Epps.
"Sensors don't give an exact number, but he's right. There are traces of radiation. And whatever it is, it's still here." Epps informed them.
"I sent the twins to taunt the Decepticons in the area to show themselves." Lennox nodded at Ironhide's statement, radioing the twins.
Ding-a-ling, come out an' get yo' ice cream… Mudflap's voice came out the small device.
…any bad robot out there better get ready for an aft-whoopin'!Skids added, as both trundled along the road, combined as a terrifying, menacing… beat up ice cream truck.
Will raised an eyebrow at the radio, then turned to Ironhide, who snorted with the look 'don't ask' on his faceplate. Lennox turned the radio off, and motioned for his men to scatter, and keep searching the place.
Suddenly, Epps threw up a hand, signalling them to come where he was. His handheld unit screeched angrily the closer he got to the giant excavator, that stood in the center of the site.
"I got a reading. Oh man, it's huge!!" Epps exclaimed as his scanner picked up the heat signature of the Decepticon Demolishor.
All the soldiers prepared their weapons upon hearing the Sergeant's statement. Noises of grinding machinery and screeching metal followed suit, as the excavator transformed, snarling angrily as the soldiers began their assault. In fury, the Decepticon smashed his arms on the ground, flinging concrete pipes to crush the approaching NEST troopers, before rolling away, on a gigantic single wheel, to the nearby freeway.
Ironhide motioned for Lennox to approach, as he reverted to vehicle mode, gunning his engine, and taking off in hot pursuit.
Unbeknownst to them, another Decepticon observed the scene from the shadows.
Time for the great escape… Sideways thought, as he watched Demolishor shrugging off the NEST's attacks. Being only a simple courier, he always teamed up with larger Decepticons, so that his companion took all the heat! Besides, delivering messages required intelligence, and stealth… and Sideways had plenty of them.
Unfortunately for him, he was not entirely undetected.
"There's another one!" Epps shouted.
Oh, slag! The silver and black Audi R8 cursed as it took off from its hiding spot between construction equipment, nearly running over several soldiers in its attempt to flee.
Sideways smirked to himself as he made it out of the construction site in one piece, but soon growled, after he rounded a corner, and was forced to slam on his brakes. A yellow Lamborghini Gallardo was sitting in the middle of the road, engine revving eagerly.
"Well, well, well, what have we here? A Decepticon with a paint job shiner than mine?" Sunstreaker chuckled. "Hey, punk? Want a head start?"
"Slag off, Auto-dork!" Sideways spat, tires screeching loudly as he took off in reverse.
The Lambo charged the Audi, but was forced to slow down to avoid blasts (and a damaged paint job) from his now transformed opponent.
The Autobot lost ground, groaning as the three components of Arcee sped past him. Soon after, Sunstreaker heard a noise that was slowly starting to get on his circuits. The creepy melody of the rusty ice cream truck filled his audios, as said vehicle appeared slowly behind him.
"Hey, pal?" Skids started.
"Need a servo?" Mudflap finished.
"No," Sunstreaker spat, though a bit less indignant than he really felt. "You need to look where you're going."
That said, the agile, fast and sleek sports car rounded a corner without losing a beat, but the twins' slow, ungainly choice of alternate mode left them unable to keep up with their comrade. When they rounded the same corner too sharply, they split apart from one another, crushing on the building in front of them.
Few kilometres ahead of the cussing twins, Arcee was fighting the retiring Sideways, covering him in firepower, as she surrounded him with her three components.
Unfortunately, Sideways jumped through a building, forcing Arcee to stop her chase as well. Sideways didn't get far, though. He hadn't noticed the silver Lamborghini waiting for him.
As Sideways managed to reconvert in his alt-mode, the silver Autobot easily caught up with him. Sideswipe transformed, unsheathing a pair of razor-sharp blades, and somersaulted over the fleeting Decepticon, throwing his right blade in Sideways's hood, and then dragging the blade in the opposite direction, slicing him lengthwise in half.
Sideswipe looked down at the Decepticon, giving Sunstreaker and Arcee time to catch up with him.
"Damn, I'm good!" he complimented himself, as his blade retracted to its hiding place in his forearm.
"Aw, stop gloating!" his brother glared daggers at him.
"What's the matter? Are you slowing down in your old age?" Sideswipe smirked smugly.
"I'm only two breems older than you." Sunstreaker narrowed his optics, folding his arms across his chest.
"Stop bickering you two!" the pink Arcee scowled them, and they both pointed one finger to each other in a very child-like manner, pouting with a "He started!", to which Arcee just sighed. Two sets of twins were just too much.
Arcee to Lennox, the purple one radioed their human commander, pressing a small button on the side of her helm. Sideways has been dealt with. What's your status?
Not good, Lennox informed her. We're gonna need the big guy for this one! he said, as he watched Demolishor's oversized tire crushing dozens of cars that sped down the highway.
"Optimus at three o'clock!" Ironhide informed Lennox as he tailed the Decepticon. The Major smirked as he spotted a C-17 Globemaster III overhead.
The rear hatch of the airplane opened, and Optimus Prime himself parachuted out of the NEST cargo plane. He landed in vehicle mode, and maneuvered around debris and traffic with precision, driving to intercept the still fleeting Decepticon.
"Pull over!" Optimus demanded, as he leaped from an overpass onto Demolishor's head.
The mountainous Decepticon declined Optimus' order, and an enormous explosion swallowed both aliens, as Demolishor destroyed the bridge.
Lennox's eyes widened at the sight, and he let out the breath he didn't know he was holding when the two battling robots emerged from the smoke, debris and flames their fighting sent flying all around them.
Still not complying Optimus' demand, the crimson and sapphire leader fired his Ion blaster into the Decepticon's head, jumping off of him, as the titan crashed into a warehouse district.
The crippled Demolishor laid helpless as Optimus Prime and Ironhide advanced. His enormous rubber wheels bore numerous gouges, and his armour was torn beyond repair. The weapon specialist transformed after letting Will out, and approached the severed Decepticon along with his commander and few NEST soldiers.
"Punk-ass Decepticon." The black Autobot muttered.
"Any last words?" Optimus asked, aiming his cannon to the enemy's head.
True to his Decepticon nature, and in defiance, Demolishor started to chuckle, as Energon oozed from several holes in his broken armour. "This is not your planet to rule." He smirked at their expressions, and his optics shone with glee as he delivered the most important message Sideways gave him. "The Fallen shall rise again." The Constructicon declared with his dying 'breath', and the Decepticon's body went slack amidst the rubble.
Silence fell after that last statement. Ironhide looked up at his leader, waving Lennox and his men forward. From the look on the flaming truck's face, a serious conversation needed to be held by the higher-ranked officers, when they returned to the base.
*Diego Garcia, Autobot base*
Ratchet turned his head from a console when the rest of the team returned from their mission in Shanghai. He had to stay behind and assist a still recovering Jolt, whose impulsiveness almost cost his life during the last mission. The CMO swore that if trouble didn't find the young prankster, he would be pretty able to find it.
Ratchet shrugged off those thoughts, and gave a little smile, seeing that none of the Shanghai team was in need of immediate medical assistance.
"Welcome back," he greeted, "If you're not too tired, there's someone who would like to say hi." He smiled uncharacteristically, moving so that they could see on the screen the image of a young woman laughing with Jolt.
The blue Autobot moved so she could see the look of surprise on the returned Autobots. Looking over, humans and robots smiled at the young Kim Witwicky. Lennox and Epps hadn't seen her in months, since the last Autobot arrival. The young woman had been present at every, new, (friendly) landing to lend a hand at the newcomers, and help them settle down. She was even responsible of covering up the mess some of them made while landing, or battling the Decepticons.
"Hey, girl!" Epps greeted, smiling.
"It's good to see you again, Kim!" Will echoed.
"Hi, guys!" Kim waved from the screen, smiling amiably at them.
Her straight, brown hair had grown, and was now reaching past her shoulders, but she held it back with a green band. She wore a white sundress with a wide ribbon of pale green running under her bust.
"Hey there, girlie!" Sideswipe was the first Autobot to greet her, smirking back at the screen. "Heard 'bout our latest success?"
Kim's face became serious, almost sarcastical. Not a good sign. "Y'know, when I answered the phone, I thought it was a drug-addicted, or something. Then I realized that it was our new director…"
Lennox sighed. "So, how is he?"
Kim groaned. "He'd be pretty able to make Gandhi empty his gun on him!"
Epps gave a little chuckle, along with the others. "What did he want?"
"Oh, the usual." Kim waved a hand. "He wanted me to tell you that he'll come to meet you, and Optimus." She shook her head. "Word of advice: you have to do a better job of cleaning up your messes."
"Oh, I get it." Sunstreaker replied, crossing his arms. "You still don't approve the Seattle mission. It wasn't my fault if the Decepti-creep wouldn't hold still!" He pouted.
"And did that authorize you to slice almost every Autobot come there to help you?" she raised an eyebrow. "Including your twin?" Sideswipe snorted at that.
Sunstreaker threw his hands up in frustration. "There you go again. You'll never let this down, do you?" he glared at both of them. "I told you Bombshell was controlling my processor!" he defended himself.
"And that damn bug was sooo hard to root out from your processor!" Kim sighed, remembering when they detected a Decepticon signal in Seattle.
NEST was deployed, and decided to split to cover a larger area. Soon the Insecticon Bombshell made himself known, attacking Sunstreaker, and forcing him to go on a rampage against his comrades. Only his red twin was able to stop him, being severely damaged by the yellow warrior.
"Ugh! Don't remind me," Sideswipe shivered. "And I have to thank the Hatchet for this new look." He glared at the CMO, who gave him a little smirk.
"Oh, shut up! You like it." He snorted to the silver Autobot. Ratchet would never admit it out loud, but Sideswipe's damaged body had given him a chance of revenge from the prank the twins pulled on him when they arrived.
"I know," Sideswipe said nonchalantly. He indeed adored the new blades, but he still had quite an issue with his new paint job. "Why in the world did you have to paint me silver?!"
Ratchet narrowed his optics. "Be thankful I didn't paint you pink!" Sideswipe gulped.
"At least your alt-mode is agile, unlike someone else's…" Kim stated, drawing the attention back to her, as she typed few codes on the computer she had on her lap, and a screen with the battle in Shanghai popped up.
"Hey, that's us!" Skids exclaimed when the part where they fell out of the chase played on the screen.
"Oh, yeah. That's really you." Kim's voice held a tone of scowl.
"I think the Goddess of Cyberspace is mad at us," Mudflap whispered to his brother, using the nickname they gave her when they first acknowledged what she could do with a computer. She liked it so much she used it as her username!
"Well," Kim started, pausing to choose the right words to continue. "Y'know, it's nice that you don't want to be separated, seeing that you're twins and all – unlike Sam and me." She muttered the last part under her breath. "Anyway, maybe in battle this could work against you." She said, replaying the moment both twins were split apart, and making them flinch at the memory. "So we decided to give you new, individual, alternate forms to make sure another 'incident' like this never happen again." She pointed to their left, and the twins' optics fell on the two new cars sitting there, almost waiting for them.
"It's upgrade time!" Skids exclaimed, as he approached the two shining vehicles, a green Chevy Beat and an orange Chevrolet Trax.
"Green is mine! I call green!" Mudflap stated, approaching the car, and doing a dance.
Skids tackled Mudflap, and a fight broke out between the two of them, as they wrestled over which vehicle they wanted, among a not amused audience of Autobots. In their brief match, they didn't notice that their bumper sticker had detached from them, and slapped itself on the webcam on Kim's screen. Skids eventually flipped Mudflap over his shoulder, stating that he got the green model.
"That hurt, man!" A struggling Mudflap commented as he tried to sit up.
"No slag!" His brother simply retorted as he transformed into the green Chevy.
After Mudflap was relegated to the form of the Chevrolet Trax, they heard Kim's voice reading the twins' bumper sticker. "Decepticons, suck my pop-" but before she could finish, a rather embarrassed Sunstreaker removed the sticker from the webcam. "Oookay… those two watched too much T.V." She commented, looking at the mech.
"Yeah," the yellow mech chuckled nervously.
"Although, that was… awesome… in a very vulgar way." She trailed off, hoping that one of the other Autobots would change the subject. Fortunately or unfortunately, the twins learned fast what was to know about the humans.
Luckily, Ironhide cleared his throat. "Did you have any luck with finding information about The Fallen?" he asked, knowing that Optimus had already asked the human hacker to seek any source she had.
"Well, I've searched every inch of the World Wide Web, but found absolutely nothing. Nada. Zero." Disappointment filled her voice.
"That's 'cause you searched the human net!" Sunstreaker said indignantly.
Kim glared at him, but then grinned. "Yeah, 'cause the human net can't have a powerful artefact just waiting for someone to buy it, can it?" she said, referring to The Glasses her sister sold on eBay.
Sunstreaker winced at that, and Jolt and Sideswipe snickered as she continued. "Anyway, looks like even Teletraan doesn't know who this Fallen is…"
"That could be a problem…" Jolt muttered.
"Yeah." she said sadly. "Tell the sleek and sexy flaming truck I'm sorry," she added, referring to Optimus.
"Huh, Kim…" Ratchet tried to cut her off, to prevent her from saying what she and her sister thought about Optimus the first time they saw him.
"Thank you for your help… And for the compliment, Kim." Optimus Prime himself came to the screen, walking among his Autobots.
Kim stared, wide-eyed, blushing madly at the red and blue Autobot leader. "Oops," she muttered, covering her mouth with her hand.
"Did you see him, Mudflap?" Skids asked his twin, starting to babble. "That-th-that's Optimus!! I could spring a leak, I'm so excited!" he exclaimed, before fainting, falling in the arms of his twin, and dragging them both to the ground.
The Autobots shook their heads at the goofy twins, and Kim just chuckled at their behaviour. "I guess you have another admirer beside my sister and I," she gave a small laugh.
"Hey, speaking of twins…" Sideswipe turned to the screen, and let the sentence hang in the air.
Kim groaned, blowing the hair of her fringe aside. "Don't make me start. Sam is in 'Sunny-mode' right now, so…"
The other Autobots, aside for the yellow and silver twins, stared at her perplexed.
"'Sunny-mode'?" Jolt asked, raising an optic ridge.
"Oh, Sides and I dubbed the mood when Sam's so asocial 'Sunny-mode'." Kim explained.
"A tribute to a very special Autobot…" Sideswipe grinned, wrapping his arm around his twin's shoulders.
"Knock it off you two." Sunstreaker growled.
"I'm so sorry that she doesn't like to hang with us," the blue Arcee said.
"Oh, it's not that she doesn't like to hang with you," Kim corrected her. "It's just that… she's trying to have a normal life again. Y'know, one that doesn't involve giant robots from outer space. But she still likes you all!" she paused briefly. "And now that I think about it, I'd better tell her I'm gonna see her before she leaves for Princeton. I'll tell her you said hi, and I'll keep searching things about The Fallen!" she waved.
Optimus nodded. "Thank you again, Kim." He said, and the girl disappeared from the screen after she bid them goodbye.
Optimus stared at the black screen for a moment longer. He knew what Sam wanted. It was the same thing everyone of them longed. To be normal, to be free, to be safe. But eons of war showed him how that can be just a dream, fragile as glass… and as glass it will shatter.
As a Prime and a leader, Optimus only hoped that Sam could enjoy this short period of 'normality'. Because he knew it wouldn't last long.
So here's chapter 1. Tell me what you think!
Ps. For the prank the twins pulled on Hatchet read my fic 'Twins'. I thought about a way to explain Sideswipe's look in the movie (even though he still is a Lamborghini, 'cuz Italian cars rock!!), and came up with Sunstreaker slicing him under Bombshell's control. I hope you like it…
Until next time… see ya!!!!;-)