Memory Resurrection
By: Flyby
(3rd in a series)
"...Oh,
I'm all, I'm all, I'm alright. It's a
beautiful day, not a cloud in sight, so I guess I'm doin' alright. Oh woh, oh woh, I'm a, I'm, I'm alright. Got
a good old friend here with me tonight, and I guess I'm doin' alright. Well, I guess I'm doin' alright. I'm doin' alriiiiiight. Hmmm-mmmmm," Flyby was singing.
"Could
you stop singin' dat?!" Rattrap called up.
"Sorry
if you don't like it, but it's the only earthling song that hadn't been
partially erased," Flyby replied.
"I
would have preferred scouting patrol with Chopperface, but he's not around
anymore," he muttered to himself. "Luckily, dis patrol's almost over."
"I
see the blast doors ahead," Flyby called down.
"I
don't see 'em."
"That's
because you're on the ground and I'm in the air. At this rate it should take us only a couple cycles to reach
them."
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It
was later that same day. Optimus had
called Flyby and Cheetor to gather some energon that the scanners had picked
up.
"I
have a bad feeling that Mega-butt is going to show his ugly face around here in
a few cycles," Flyby said.
"Yeah. I can't believe that such a large amount of
energon has gone unnoticed for this long," Cheetor replied.
Just
then Megatron, Inferno, Dinobot, and Rampage showed up, firing their weapons.
"Oh,
man! We'd better head back. I don't want to fight here!" Flyby
called to Cheetor.
Megatron
spotted a piece of energon. Hmmm, looks like the Maximals have found an
energon patch. The energon must be
destroyed, yess. He pointed his
cannon at the blue crystal and fired.
"Slag!"
cursed Flyby. She had returned to beast
mode because of energon build up. "The energon's gonna explode!"
The
explosion knocked everyone to the ground, including the flyers. Flyby crashed head-first into a
boulder. The pain was too much for her
circuits to handle. She passed out.
"Man,
that energon went with one big bang," groaned Flyby as she woke up some
time later.
"Good,
you're awake," said Starvix as she walked in, "you've been
unconscious for the past megacycle. I
was surprised by all the damage when Leemoun and I arrived. Want to know why it's a good thing you were
in beast mode?"
"Why?"
"Your
circuits would have been fried. You
should have seen Inferno. It looked
like he used his flamethrower on himself," laughed the vixen, "I
don't know if he survived."
"I
hope he didn't. You know what? I think my memory is coming back. Maybe it was hitting that boulder that did
it. I should tell Optimus."
She
transformed and walked to the command room. "Optimus, I'm awake. I
think my..."
"Flyby,
I need you and Depth Charge to get a pod that just washed ashore. I'll send Cheetor as back-up," Optimus
said as if he hadn't heard her.
"But
Optimus, there's something I need to..."
"Just
go!" he roared, clearly in a bad mood.
"Fine,
it can wait," grumbled Flyby as she went into beast mode and followed
Depth Charge out of the base. Cheetor reminds me of a friend and classmate
I had on Cybertron named Windracer. Wait a sec, Cheetor is Windracer! I know he boarded the Axalon, but didn't go into a stasis pod. Plus his uncle was the captain. Wow! We're getting close to the shore. I better keep an eye out for the pod. With that thought, she turned her attention to finding the pod.
After
a few more minutes of flying, they found the pod, but the Preds had found it
first.
"Oh,
man! Dinobot and Rampage have beat us
to the pod!" exclaimed Flyby.
"I'm
going down there," said Depth Charge.
Flyby
just sighed and dove after him. Rampage
took notice of the two Maximals and started firing. Flyby rolled to avoid the shots, then transformed and fired two
of her own missiles. I'd better get Dino-butt away from the pod before...
"Predacon
programming accepted. Protoform is now
Predacon. Scanning for compatible life
forms. Compatible life form found. Beginning replication process," droned
the pod's computer.
"This
is just freakin' great!" said Flyby in frustration.
The
pod opened and a bright blue dragonfly buzzed out. "Hmmm. Looks like a
battle. I should join in. Dragonite, Terrorize!"
Dragonite
transformed into a fairly small robot, about Quickstrike's size. He shot a blast from his shoulder cannons at
Flyby, which she deflected with her optic lasers. Taking advantage of her being distracted by Dragonite, Dinobot
fired with his optic cannon and hit her jets, disabling them. She crashed to the ground with a thud.
"Okay,
that's it. Now I'm really mad,"
said Flyby. She fired her missiles at
Dinobot, but he ducked and they flew harmlessly above him. She looked and saw Depth Charge with his
hands full, battling Rampage. I could really use some help from Spots
right now. Where the slag is he? Dragonite fired and hit the femmebot in
the chest.
"You're
gonna pay for that," she growled. Flyby fired two of her missiles, each one clipping a pair of Dragonite's
wings. As he fell, the female blasted
him in the chest with her optic lasers, sending him into stasis lock. Dinobot blasted her in the left leg with his
optic cannon. She collapsed with a
falcon-like shriek of pain. Dinobot was
about to strike a deadly blow when he suddenly fell, a smoking hole in his
back.
"That's
what you get for messing with my friends," Cheetor said.
Flyby
smiled and said, "Let's get out of here," as Cheetor helped her
up. Changing to beast mode, she yelled,
"Depth Charge, retreat!"
"I'm
busy with X at the moment."
"NOW!"
"We'll
finish this some other time," Depth Charge said to Rampage as he kicked
him off himself. Transforming, he
followed the other two Maximals back to the base.
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Flyby
looked at the ground, trying to find somebody. She saw Cheetor lounging beneath a large redwood tree. Just
who I was looking for. "Look
out below!" She went into a stoop
and when she was close enough, she flared her wings to kill her speed and
landed neatly on a branch above Cheetor's head.
"Hi,
Fly. You feeling any better?"
"Yep. Hey, thanks for saving me today Race."
Cheetor's
eyes went wide and his body froze.
"Didn't
you hear me, Windracer?"
"H-h-how
do you know that name?" Cheetor stuttered.
"My
memory returned. I'm surprised you
don't recognize a fellow Trio member," she said.
"What
do you mean?"
"Don't
you remember the Trio?"
Cheetor
nodded. If course he remembered. The Trio was himself and his two best
friends from school, Stardancer and Strikeout. He hadn't cared that both of them were females. Stardancer was the brains of the group. She got the best grades all the time. Plus, she was a lot more mature than the
other kids in the class. Everybody
trusted her to keep their secrets. She
knew who had a crush on who and had the same restrictions on them as
secrets. Stardancer was the only 'bot
besides himself that knew about his crush on Strikeout. She was very into human culture.
Strikeout
was the lucky one. She lived with her
parents and was close to them. Windracer's parents died when he was only a couple years old and
Stardancer didn't have parents as far as he knew.
They
had never gone to each other's homes. By the time he signed up for the Axalon, he had lost track of where the
rest of the Trio was.
"Cheetor,
does anyone remind you of a Trio member?"
"Well,
you remind me of Stardancer."
"Ding,
ding, ding. Correct answer."
"Stardancer?"
"That
was my name, don't where it out," she replied.
"I
didn't think I'd see you again, after graduation," said Cheetor.
"Really? We promised to stay in touch."
"What
were you doing back on Cybertron?"
"I
was singing at Six Lasers during the day and sometimes at bars at night. The bartenders were great. They'd give us free drinks. I never had anything with alcohol,
though. Strikeout was my manager."
"You
worked at Six Lasers?" Cheetor asked.
"Yeah. I did songs from ancient earth. Strikeout and I even got in for free."
"What
happened to Strikeout when you joined the Axalon?"
"She
and her parents also joined up."
"Really?"
"Yeah. I haven't seen her though, so she must still
be in stasis."
Cheetor
looked at the sky. "We'd better be
getting back. The sun's going
down."
Flyby
nodded and took off. When she was in
the air, she started singing a song she remembered from earth. "I'm goin' out tonight, I'm feelin'
alright. I'm gonna let it all hang
out. Wanna make some noise, really
raise my voice. Yeah, I wanna scream and shout. The best thing about being a woman..."
When
the song was over, she thought to herself I
should download these songs to my computer. I'll do it when I have time.
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Megatron
was looking his new recruit over with a critical eye. "What is your name?"
"Dragonite,
sir."
"Dragonite,
go get yourself repaired in the CR tank. Then Waspinator will get you your quarters." Dragonite left. He seems loyal enough. I do need loyal solders, yess. Especially since Inferno died in that
energon explosion. Megatron walked
into his quarters and activated a R spa.
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Flyby
was sitting in front of the computer in her room. She had already downloaded the songs from her databanks to the
computer's memory chips. Now she was
sorting them by artist/album/title. Most songs were by human artists like N'SYNC, Spice Girls, SHeDAISY,
Collin Raye, Lila McCann, etc. There
were some Cybertronian groups like Dreamgazer and the Femmebots, but not a
lot. She had just finished categorizing
the last song when there was a beep at the door.
"Come
in." The door opened and Starvix
walked in.
"Hi,
Vix. What brings ya here?"
"I
was wondering if you could give me some advice."
"Sure. About what?"
"Well,
I try to tell Leemoun that we should try a loving relationship, but the words
die in my mouth."
"Since
you can't tell him with words, tell him with a song."
"What?"
Starvix asked, confused.
"Give
him a recording of a song that has the message you want to give him,"
Flyby explained, "Here, I've got the perfect song. You're lucky. I just downloaded and sorted all the songs in my databanks to my
computer." Flyby typed a code into
the computer and a devise came out.
"What's
that?" the vixen asked.
"It's
a devise that plays whatever song is downloaded to it."
"What
song did you download?"
"How
Do I Get There," Flyby said.
"Thanks,
Dives. You've really helped,"
Starvix said, using one of Flyby's two nick-names.
"No
prob., Vix. Always eager to
help." Starvix gave her falcon
friend a smile and left.
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Starvix
was walking through the air vents. She
was in beast mode to prevent anyone from hearing her. Just another night in the
Ark. Rattrap asleep on night duty,
everyone else in their quarters except for B.A., she's with Silverbolt, thought
Starvix. She was carrying the devise
she got from Flyby and a note in her mouth, so she didn't have to
transform.
Finally,
she reached Leemoun's quarters. She
quietly slipped in and placed the two items on his desk. Starvix had to resist the urge to transform
and stroke Leemoun's face when she looked at him. Hopefully, I'll be able to
do it later.
Being
as quiet as she could, she snuck out of Leemoun's quarters and into her
own. She transformed, laid down on her
bed, and fell asleep.
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Leemoun
was walking toward Starvix's quarters. When he had woken up that morning, he had seen the note, listened to the
song, and figured out what she was trying to tell him.
When
he reached her quarters, he rang what served as a doorbell.
"Come
in," was the reply. He opened the
door, walked up to Starvix, wrapped his right arm around her waist, and kissed
her, all without saying a word.
"What
was that for?" Starvix asked when he broke away from her.
"For
sneakin' into my quarters last night. The song you left has given me the courage to tell you something I've
wanted to say for a long time."
"What?"
Leemoun
held her close and whispered, "I love you."
Starvix
was trembling when she replied, "I love you, too."
They
kissed.
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We've
always been the best of friends,
No
secrets and no demands.
Then
suddenly from somewhere out of the blue,
I
see a different light around you.
One
thing I haven't told you,
I
just wanna hold you,
And
never let go.
I
need to know.
How
do I get there from here?
How
do I make you see?
How
do I tell you what my heart's been tellin' me?
Lost
in your lovin' arms,
That's
where I wanna be.
You
know I love you,
How
do I get there?
You
probably think I've lost my mind,
Taking
this chance,
Crossing
that line.
But
I promise to truer than true.
Dreamin'
every night with these arms around.
I
can't wait any longer,
This
feelin's getting stronger.
Help
me find a way.
How
do I get there from here?
How
do I make you see?
How
do I tell you what my heart's been tellin' me?
Lost
in your lovin' arms,
That's
where I wanna be.
You
know I love you,
How
do I get there?
The
shortest distance between two points is a strait line.
But
I'll clime any mountain that you want me to climb.
The
perfect combination is your heart and mine.
Darlin'
won't you give me a sign.
How
do I get there from here?
How
do I make you see?
How
do I tell you what my heart's been tellin' me?
Lost
in your lovin' arms,
That's
where I wanna be.
You
know I love you,
How
do I get there?
How
do I get there from here?
How
do I make you see?
How
do I tell you what my heart's been tellin' me?
Lost
in your lovin' arms,
That's
where I wanna be.
You
know I love you,
How
do I get there?
From
here.
You
know I love you,
How
do I get there?
From
here.
You
know I love you
"How
Do I Get There"
by:
Deana Carter