Mi-chan: Hey guys, I hope you enjoy the first chapter of Con's Eyeview. I worked fairly tediously trying to get this in story format since it was mainly in a Roleplay format. There's more to come soon! So review, and tell us what you think after the chapter~! Thanks guys :)
Chapter One:
Encounter
Jack was working at the K.O. Drive-in once again, working the drive-thru before it came time for him to work one of the cash registers. Eventually, there was a prolonged familiar beep of a motorcycle beyond the door that led outside, toward the back of the store.
Jack rolled his eyes before he turned to his shy co-worker "Uh, Hey! Miu! Can you take over for me for a sec?"
Miu looked up quickly and nodded "Uh, sure Jack..." she spoke softly, walking up the cash register and taking over for him "Not a problem."
He nodded at her "Thanks." he said before he quickly walked toward the back, opening the door and closing it behind him with a slight sigh "Arcee..." he said with a slight whine in his tone.
The blue motorcycle before him shifted slightly, a feminine voice coming through the speakers of it "What's taking you so long? You know what today is don't you?"
Jack sighed again "I know I know... Miko's Birthday."
"And if we're not there at her birthday celebration, you can say goodbye to her excitement, and hello to her attitude when she comes to the realization you missed out on it."
Jack gave the motorcycle an exasperated look "Look, just give me about another hour or so. I'm doing this extra shift for a reason, and it's not because I enjoy it."
"I'll let the others know we'll be a little late then."
He nodded to the motorcycle "Thanks." he said before going back inside and running back up to the register, looking to Miu "Sorry about that... Hope I didn't leave you with too much." he apologized before picking his work station again.
Miu shook her head "It's alright Jack, I could handle it." she responded, moving out of the way before scampering off back to her own work station.
A girl with rust colored hair up in a ponytail, copper colored eyes, a pair of overalls covering her legs and hanging around her waist, and a having on a gray tank-top littered with grease, walked into the resturant.
"Are you alright working here when you're interacting with so many people, Miu?" asked the girl as she walked up to Miu "I know how nervous you are around people, especially since with what happened..."
Miu blinked at her slightly "Oh, yeah... I need to get into society, we both do... And I guess this is the best way to get over my... anxiety."
Once Jack was finished with a customoer, he walked over toward the two not far from his cash register "Hey Clover, how're things going at the shop?" he asked casually, knowing the grease covered girl since she always picked Miu up from work.
Clover looked over and smirked at him "Fine as usual, Jack. Just got a break so I thought I'd come see how Miu's doin'." she said wiping a smudge of grease off of her cheek "Stupid people don't know how to properly wash the undercarriage of a vehicle, so they send their vehicle to the mechanic and force them to work in all that mud and dirt and crap." she grumbled.
"Yeah... It's a shame people do that to their vehicles. I aways take care of my motorcycle the best I can." he told her.
Clover chuckled slightly "That's why I like you Jack, you know how to properly care for a vehicle. I've seen you on that bike of yours. She looks and sounds to be in great condition."
Jack rubbed the back of his head with a sheepish grin "She's a bit tempermental at times, but she handles like a dream."
She laughed "Aren't all bikes known to be tempermental? It's why I don't like workin' on some of the models when it comes to motorcycles, they'll fight you and some of them BITE. I've had a couple of chunks taken out of my hands by them. Some of them are just so cramped and the motor is forced into such a small space... it's annoying."
"Well, take care of the vehicle and it'll take care of you, in most cases anyways..." Jack smiled slightly.
Clover nodded, her head tilting to the side slightly in an almost, bird-like gesture "That is very true." she turned and patted Miu on the head "Well, I better head out and let you two get back to work. My break's going to be over soon. See you both later."
With that, Clover turned and headed out of the restaurant, and back over to the shop a few blocks down the street.
Jack and Miu both said their goodbyes before returning back to work.
***about an hour later
Jack quickly washed up, and then got his check from his boss on his way out of K.O.
He quickly jumped onto Arcee's seat of her alt-mode "Okay, to the bank we go."
Arcee let Jack take control of her alt-mode, and soon enough, they were on their way to Miko's Birthday celebration.
Clover had picked up Miu once both hers, and Miu's shift were over with. They were walking home at a leisurely pace. They both had the day off the next day, so they were planning on going for fly around the rocky canyons around Jasper. They knew their area in case the lab they escaped, ever tracked them down, as unlikely as that was...
Both of the girls watched Jack drive by, Clover waving at him as he drove by, and Jack only nodding in response before speeding away to a destination unknown to them.
Miu tilted her head to the side in a bird-like manner "I wonder where he's going in such a rush..." she murmured curiously.
Clover chuckled "Don't know, don't wanna know. It's not our place to find out, Miu." she looked to Miu with a slight smirk "Come on, let's get home. I'm hungry and I want to get some good rest before tomorrow's...flight."
Miu looked to her and nodded "Yeah, me too. Let's go..." with that, the two headed to their home at the very edge of town.
***the next day
It was early morning when the girls exposed their wings unique to the each of them, and took off for their flight. They went flying so early in the morning so they wouldn't be seen... They were both clothed in open-backed halter tops and shorts, flying through the air and towards a rocky area just outside of Jasper.
"It feels nice to finally ruffle the feathers~" Clover thought as she soared along comfortably, playing around in her flight patterns as the day went on.
Miu soon pointed downward at a road they were soaring above "Clover... Isn't that Jack and his motorcycle?"
Clover looked down and lowered her altitude ever so slightly to get a better look "Sure looks like it... But where is he going..?"
Miu watched with a slight gasp and wide eyes as the rockface Jack drove toward opened up and Jack disappeared to the other side of it before it closed behind him "C-Clover... He just disappeared into that rockface..." she said astonished and dumbfounded.
"That's strange..." Clover frowned "Well, might as well fly around for awhile... Maybe we'll see him leave, and we can follow him after..."
Miu nodded slightly, her small swallow wings flapping slowly "Okay..."
With that, the pair continued on their way, sticking around the area incase Jack reappeared.
Meanwhile...
Knockout was nearby the area as well, cruising the open Nevada roads.
"Now that my finish is buffed up again, it's a good day to go out and let the sun reflect off of my wonderful frame~" Knockout said happily, his optic sensors looking up towards the sun and sky as he drove in a carefree manner. But it wasn't long before his optic sensors picked up something in the distance, soon running a video feed of what he saw to Soundwave "Well well, what do we have here? Never seen fleshlings do that before..."
At the Nemesis, Soundwave ran the footage for Starscream on the monitor.
"Hmmm... Those aren't ordinary humans..." Starscream thought for a moment, turning away from the monitor, before he looked back to Soundwave, the eyes and ears of the Decepticons nodding in a knowing manner, his silence and gesture telling Starscream everything he needed to know... as usual "Yes... Those two mutants could prove useful... maybe even my own covert super soldiers..." he said thoughtfully before he looked to some of the Eradicon soldiers in the room "Go! Bring them to me!" he commanded.
"Yes Lord Starscream!" the Eradicons said in obidiance before going off to retrieve their targets.
Clover continued to float along with the wind against her back, her large rust and white colored wings fluttering slightly to keep her in the air, Miu flying beside her "Ahhh... Free as a bird~. Who knew it'd become a reality?" she said thoughtfully before she flipped over and dove down before curving upward and doing a couple of tricks in amusement "Thank God we chose such a small town with such large and free skies all around~" she seemed to hum.
Miu nodded, giggling slightly as she watched her best friend play around "Yeah, no doubt... The air may be a little dry compared to the maritime air we were used to, but the open sky for miles is wonderful."
It wasn't long before out of seemingly nowhere, a few purple colored jets swooped down from the cloudbanks and headed toward them a good distance away from behind.
Clover and Miu heard the jets, and looked behind them, both having a jolt of panic course through their veins.
Clover flipped over "Shit! Incoming aircraft! Dive, Miu, DIVE!" she shouted before closing her wings around her and diving downward in hopes to hide before they could be seen, Miu following closely behind her.
The Decepticon Jets only swiftly and gracefully followed their movements in turn.
"C-Clover! They're after us!" Miu keened slightly.
"Damnit! Evasive maneuvers! STAT!" she ordered, taking off into the air with Miu hot on her tail as they took off for the more crowded canyons to lose the purple jets. "We're more agile, we can use that to our advantage." She informed Miu.
While the Decepticon soldiers were occupied with following the two in the skies, Knockout descreetly kept track of the two bird-girls from below.
Clover and Miu soon dove into the smaller canyons, hoping to get the jets to follow them. Luckily, they had practice losing jets from when they had escaped awhile back... They flew as fast as their wings could carry them, but they couldn't beat the jets' engines. Their only option was to lose them in the canyons...
"C-Clover... We... have to hide. I can't last much longer... I don't have enough energy..." Miu informed her.
Little did they both know, Knockout was soon under them in a sparkbeat, speeding onto the walls of the canyons and going fast enough where he was sticking to them. He soon transformed and used the canyon as leverage as he leaped toward Miu, snatching her out of the air and flipping gracefully onto the ground.
Knockout looked to Miu in his hand when he landed "A little birdie told me that humans aren't meant to fly...guess that birdie was wrong." he said in a menacing purr.
Miu screamed and held her wings tightly to her, staring up at him with wide eyes.
"MIU! NOOOOO!" Clover yelled urgently before she spun around and dove downward as fast as she possibly could to get her best friend back. They always stuck together... They were a two woman flock.
Knockout withdrew his electrical fork staff effortlessly and stabbed it at Clover when she was close enough, knocking the female clear out. He quickly put his electrical fork staff away before he caught an unconscious Clover with his now free hand "Hmm~ Two birds~ One stone~. Lucky me~" he said before he hopped onto one of the Decepticon jets since the Nemesis wasn't all that far away, the jet taking off into the clouds and headed toward the Nemesis.
"No! Clover!" Miu said desperately, squirming, trying to get free "Let go of me!" she pleaded to the red colored mech.
"Cut the dramatics girl... we're almost there..." Knockout stated in a bored tone.
Miu glared at him even though she was shaking, and tears were slipping down her cheeks "We won't go back to that damn lab... We just want to live our life free! Not as some God forsaken experiments!"
Knockout laughed in amusement and looked to Miu with a smirk "I may be somewhat of a medic...but I don't do disection... It would get blood stains on the finish."
Miu stopped "...W-wait... y-you... aren't with the Anima Testing Labs...? The people from the ATL... They didn't send you after us...?" she was confused, she thought it was the lab coming after them... But from the looks of it, she was dead wrong...
Knockout looked to her with a look like he had just started paying attention to what she was saing at the end of her sentence "Hm? What's that..? Food? We'll have you with some of the finest we can find." He used the finger from the hand he was holding Clover with, and patted Miu's head for a moment "Don't you worry your pretty little head kid."
Miu looked at him, still nervous and worried, calming only ever so slightly "O-Okay... Just... please... Don't ever turn us over to the labs... Never... please..." she said softly and pleadingly.
He looked at her with a raised optical ridge "Didn't you hear what I told you earlier human? Or do you have memory issues we need to upgrade?"
She frowned "Y-you haven't seen or gone through... what we have at the hands of... those horried scientists..."
Knockout was soon dropped off at the top of the Decepticon ship, the Decepticon soldiers following him into the ship "No...but I have gone through things much worse for mouthing off to my superiors... Now, I think it's best you keep your mouth shut kid... We're almost there."
Miu flinched and looked away slightly as they entered the ship, sighing slightly "Looks like this is the end of our freedom...Clove."
Soon enough, Knockout walked into the main bridge, the bird girls still in hand as she walked up to Soundwave and Starscream.
Starscream turned and smirked at the red mech "Well well, very well done Knockout...for once." he said, muttering the last part as he walked up to him.
Miu looked warily up at Starscream "Wow... He's more of a stick than Clover was after her starvation punishment..." she thought.
Starscream soon looked to Knockout with a slight glare "Put her down, she is our guest~ We have no need for this now that we can properly explain our actions." he said with a kinder and less threatening voice.
Knockout looked to Miu warily before he set her down as ordered, gently handing Clover to Soundwave, who soon walked off silently with Clover toward the med-bay.
Miu shuffled her feet slightly as she got set down, rubbing at the base at one of her wings worriedly as she watched Clover get taken away "...Clover." she said softly and worriedly.
Starscream smiled at her reassuringly "Do not worry my dear... 'Clover', is being taken to the medical bay to be examined for serious injuries of any kind."
Miu stoppped rubbing her wings and flapped them slightly, hopping into the air and flying up so she was at eye-level with Starscream "...O-Okay..." she said quietly, and nervously. Normally, Clover would be the one doing all the talking while she would just be standing beside or behind her, listening... She wasn't much of a talker.
The Seeker smiled and gently stroked a clawed finger under her chin and pulled it away with the stroke "You certainly are a fine force of nature my dear, it must be exhausting and somewhat emotionally tiresome to keep your identity hiden from the world." he said gently, putting a hand beneath her so she could sit on his hand.
She blinked it surprise at the gentle stroke, gently landing on his hand "...I-It's okay... it's better than what it was at the labs..."
"Now now, don't be so modest." Starscream said turning around to let her look out the front of the ship where she could see the nice fluffy clouds "I know how much you yearn to stretch your wings whenever you want to..." he said looking out at the clouds.
Miu looked out a the clouds... Remembering back to her first time flying through ones very similar to the clouds before her with Clover "Y-yeah... but safety is more important than wants... If anyone found out about us... ATL would track us down... and capture us... in a heartbeat."
"This...ATL...is an organization that's after you two for your...gifts, correct?" the Seeker asked.
She closed her eyes "Not really... They made Clover and I, and dozens of others, the way we are now... ATL is AnimaTestingLabs... Clover and I... were ordinary humans before we were taken... Clover and I worked together, and escaped with a couple of other Anima's..." she opened her eyes and looked out a the clouds agian "We've been hiding out for the last four years since our escape..."
"So they don't want the truth getting out...I see." Starscream looked to her "What is your designation, little one?"
She nodded slightly before looking back at him "Miu..."
"My dear Miu...you don't have to worry about your safety any longer...for I am going to offer you sanctuary, food, and whatever else you desire."
She looked to Starscream a bit baffled, soon frowning slightly "What do you want in return...? Why do you want Clover and I around..? From the way you had your... soldiers... come after us... clearly you have some other... alterior motive..."
"In return, all I ask is for your cooperation Miu. When I call you to aid me, you should come as soon as you can." Starscream looked at her sadly "Surely this isn't too much to ask my dear... I am going to give you everything you ever wanted, and I only ask for something so little in return."
Miu closed her eyes and looked away from Starscream "Th-that's just it... it's too little... I'm not gullible or stupid... I know... when something is too good... to be true... You're being too vague... How do we know... that you won't call upon us to kill one of our own kind...? Or our previous species? And... I must speak with Clover before I decide... anything."
Starscream chuckled slightly and rubbed the top of her head slightly "I will never ask you to kill your own kind...if anything, they could find sanctuary with you here...with us." He placed her down on the ground gently "Knockout will show you to the Med-Bay...she should be conscious by now."
She nodded "A-Alright..." she folded her wings comfortably against her back as she looked to Knockout, glancing at Starscream "My intuition keeps telling me not to trust him... and it hasn't been wrong yet... Clover and I better keep our distance... And what's with him in petting our heads? ! We're not pets! We're sentient beings too ya know!" she sighed ever so slightly "Th-thanks..."
Knockout smirked at her "Follow me kiddo..." he said, soon leading her to the Med-Bay.
Miu followed after Knockout quietly to the Med-Bay, and when they had just reached the Med-Bay doors, they heard in a loud and demanding tone "WHERE THE HELL AM I? WHERE'S MIU?"
The doors opened to reveal Clover standing on the berth, fists clenched, wings spread out to their full fifteen foot wing span, feathers spiked out in anger.
"Whoa... Someone needs to take a chill pill." Knockout stated.
Soundwave gently stroked a pressure point in each of Clover's wings, causing her to calm down, soon pointing towards Miu.
Clover relaxed, and when she noticed Miu, she let a sigh of relief pass her lips. She jumped offf of the berth and soared to land in front of Miu, hugging her protectively, whispering "Good timing... Otherwise, someone would've lost an eye..." after she whispered what she did, she spoke in her regular vocal volume "Thank God you're okay Miu... Where are we? And what the hell is going on?"
Breakdown walked out from a dimly lit area of the Med-Bay, walking over toward them "That's a funny way of saying thank you mutant... Soundwave just repaired you."
Clover turned around and glared at him, a hand on her hip as she gestured a thumb toward Knockout with her other hand "If Genious over here hadn't shocked me in the FIRST place... there wouldn't have been any repairs to do at all!"
"Ouch, fiesty one here..." Knockout commented.
"He did what he had too." Breakdown stated "You two were too busy trying to avoid him and the others that you wouldn't of come with us peacefully anyways."
Clover rolled her eyes "Miu and I have been on the run and hiding out for the last FOUR YEARS, so EXCUSE US for assuming it's the asses that are normally after us." she snapped.
"Calm down, I was only stating the reasoning for Knockout bringing you here like he did." Breakdown told them in an emotionless voice.
Clover huffed in annoyance, turning to look back at Miu "Anyways, why are we here? I take it you talked to these guys' leader already? The guy who sent them after us?"
Miu nodded "Yeah, I spoke with him. He wants us to stay here, where he'll supply us with everything we want... just for the small price of backing him up when he calls."
Clover narrowed her eyes and looked intensely at Miu. Miu nodded ever so slightly at the silent conversation "That doesn't seem like much for doing so much for us... This just doesn't seem right... Too good to be true after all the shit we've gone through..."
Knockout smirked "It's the truth, believe it ladies." he said with a casual hand on his hip.
Clover raised an eyebrow at him "It could sure enough be the truth... but nothing is ever that good... and your leader is clearly being very vague on the whole backing him up when he calls thing... He could have us do anything... just depending on how he words it."
"Oh but it is." Starscream said walking into the Med-Bay "And what I ask of you may be vague, but you're just going to have to trust me." he said smiling "I wouldn't lead you astray. And seeming as we all have so much in common, those of us here can understand what it's like to be an outcast. All of us that remain here do our fair share of work, and I ask so little of you... Your obediance to what duty I assign you. Call it, a chore to keep the 'house' functioning the way it should."
Clover narrowed her eyes at Starscream, wrapping a rust and white colored wing around Miu protectively "You haven't really done anything that gives us any inkling that we can actually trust you..." she said before sighing and looking to him with a monotone look "Miu and I will stay... for a few days... to see what it's like. If we don't not like it, we have the right to leave... If we like it, we will stay and do our part. That good enough for you?" she said in a slight bitter tone.
"I understand" Starscream said, soon looking to a soldier that walked up from behind him and nodded at the two "He will show you both to your quarters. I hope you don't mind sharing a room, seeing as we Cybertronians are much larger than humans, you should have enough space."
Clover nodded "That's perfectly fine. We'd prefer it actually."
Clover looked to Miu, and then to the soldier before both Clover and Miu lifted themselves into the air, following the soldier to their quarters by flight.
The Decepticon Soldier/Vehicon led them to their quarters, and once the two females were inside their new quarters, he closed the door behind him when he left and went back to his duties.
The room had two beds made of Cybertronian/Transformer sized sheets folded up a bunch of times and then having a cloth as a pillow and another cloth as a blanket. They also noticed something resembling a little furrball in the middle of one of the beds...
Miu noticed the little furrball and floated over, lowering herself to land beside the bed, peering at the furrball with Clover nearby.
The furrball suddenly twitched. A small furry tail with a big poofball of a different color of furr on the end of it's tail coming out from under it.
Miu gives Clover a look of "Uhm..."
Clover shrugged slightly, moving over and lightly poking it before bringing her hand back.
The furrball suddenly hid it's tail from view, large and adorable lavender eyes opening up from the middle of the furrball, looking at them curiously and slightly fearful.
"Awh...Hi there~" Clover said kindly with a slight coo in her voice.
The furrball's eyes opened up all the way, it's tail coming back into view, horns suddenly coming out from its head, the two girls hearing it sniff the air sightly, the nose clearly hidden under the poof of furr.
Miu giggled slightly "You need a haircut..."
The furrball tilted it's head at her with a slight sound that sounded like "Er?" in a cute voice.
Miu smiled slightly and patted the furrball's head, avoiding the horns "You are too cute~"
The furrball began to make gentle Er-like purrs, shuddering slightly it was purring so happily.
Miu giggled and sat down on the bed, cuddling with the cute little furrball.
Clover chuckled as she moved over to the other bed, sitting down, and watching Miu cuddle with the furrball.
The furrball cuddled with Miu, closing it's eyes happily, enjoying the company.
Miu yawned and snuggled with the little furrball, letting her wings lie gently on the bed as she fell into a doze, exhausted from all the excitement and flying she had done.
Clover smiled at Miu, lying on her own bed, and glancing at a tattoo of the names of her family engraved into her forearm. She shut her eyes and remininced of the times with her family, before she was taken from them... and before she went to see them with Miu... before they shunned her as an abomination...
Before long, she fell asleep, a lone tear slipping down her cheek in sadness of the loss of her family...
***the next morning
The sound of loud munching could be heard.
Clover jolted awake, looking around for the source of the sound, poised to move quickly if need be.
The furrball was eating Miu's blanket, half of the blanket already gone, the furrball munching on it innocently and happily.
Clover facepalmed and hopped onto her feet, walking over and lightly smacking the furrball on the head "Bad. Don't eat that." she scolded.
The furrball growled slightly, its horns protruding from its head and its tail suddenly having spikes protrude from the round furry ball-like part of its tail, munching more of the blanket in defiance.
She sighed "You're just going to be a headache waiting to happen aren't you?" Clover shook her head before sighing again" Alright, fine, eat it for all I care... Our wings keep us warm for the most part anyways..."
The furrball soon finished off all of the cloth Miu used as a blanket. It burped slightly before retracting its horns and spikes before cuddling against Miu again with a purr, Miu cuddling into the furrball subconsciously.
Clover shook her head as if to say "God..." she turned around and flew up to the window, peering out of it with a quite hum in thought.
Mi-chan: More to come soon! Please review! :)