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Darkness Rising Part 2

Emmaline's P.O.V.

"And now that you know of our existence, I fear the decepticons know of yours." Optimus said to us.

"Right. Sight any strange vehicles, call 911. Can we…go now?" Jack asked hesitantly but before Optimus could answer,

"Are you insane! I'm living the dream here in Bot-swana! And I will not allow you or anyone else for that matter shatter it!" Miko yelled at him.

Luckily, Optimus came and stopped them before a fight could occur. "It is best if you 4 remain under our watch, at least until we can find out our enemies intentions."

"Optimus," Ratchet cut in, "the human children are in more danger here than anywhere else." Man, he seriously doesn't seem to like us.

"Children?" Jack said, slightly offended but Ratchet didn't listen and just continued talking.

"They have no protective shell. If they get under foot they will go… squish." He emphasized his point by stomping his foot a bit. The 4 of us humans took a step back, each wearing a small look of fear on our faces. Another note to self: don't get on his bad side.

Seeming to notice our discomfort, Optimus stood up for us. "Then, for the time being Ratchet, we must watch where we step." Almost straight after he said that, an alarm went off and I could here someone asking what it was. /Proximity sensor for the roof./ Bumblebee answered butJack and Miko looked confused so I translated for them, pointing up as I did.

"Proximity sensor. Someone's crawling up and about up there."

"Agent Fowler" Ratchet said, earning him 4 confused looks.

"Special Agent Fowler is our liaison to the outside world. It would be best that you do not meet him at the moment." Prime said. We all ran off and hid under one of the sets of stairs. I tuned out the conversation because honestly, I didn't like the way this "Fowler" guy spoke to the 'bots.

-Time skip to 30 minutes later-

"Blasted Earth tech," Ratchet said as he turned to us all, "Cliffjumper's signal just came back online."

"Who's Cliffjumper?" Miko asked.

"How is that possible?" Optimus asked, ignoring Miko's question.

"It isn't. The system is full of bugs." Ratchet said, glaring at the screens.

"if there's any chance he is alive-" Arcee started but got cut off by Optimus.

"Ratchet, open the ground bridge and prepare the med-bay."

"HEY!" He turned to look at Miko. "What can we do?"

He didn't even need to think as he answered straight away, "Remain with Ratchet."

"AWWW!" Was Miko's saddened and annoyed reply.

"Ugghhhh…." Was Ratchet's.

The ground bridge was activated and the other bots all drove through it, disappearing into thin air.

"W-What just happened?" Jack asked as the portal was shut down.

"I transported them to the designated coordinates via the ground bridge."

"What's a ground bridge?" Raf asked but Ratchet just sighed.

"A scaled down version of space bridge technology."

I raised my eyebrows at him after his comment. "You make it sound like it was the most obvious thing ever when it clearly wasn't." I said to him, a smug grin on my lips. He sent me a glare and it instantly fell.

"Since we don't have the means of inter-dimensional travel-"

"You're stuck here… on Earth." Jack finished.

"With the likes of you, yes. But I constructed the ground bridge to allow us to travel to anywhere on your planet." He said triumphantly.

"Wow," Raf said, "does it work for humans?"

"Naturally."

"You mean I could just shoot on over and visit my parents and family in Tokyo?" Miko asked in excitement.

"Within moments. In fact, allow me to send you there right now, all 4 of you!" I was going to say something about how he looked way too happy when Miko went all up in his face.

"Watch it Ratchet."

His face fell so quickly and I just started bursting out laughing, holding my arms across my stomach. I ignored the amused looks of Raf and Jack, along with a smirking Miko and glaring Ratchet. But although no one saw it, there was a smile tugging at his lips.

-Time skip to later-

"What's this do-hickey-thingy anyways?" Miko said/asked. She went to touch it-

"Broken don't touch." Ratchet intervened. She went to another item- "Don't touch that either." He said without even turning around.

"I swear that he has eyes in the back of his head." I whispered and Miko attempted to hold in her giggles. "Either that or he has cameras everywhere and always has access to them." That caused her to lose it and she started laughing out loud and I managed to calm her down after a few seconds, giggling to myself too.

"Is there anything we can touch?" Jack asked, ignoring our childish ways. I stopped listening for a while as I searched for cameras but came back to reality when I saw Ratchet giving Raf a look of complete disbelief.

"Ok, why is Ratchet giving Raf that funny look?" I giggled and looked towards Jack for an answer.

"Raf just owned him at fixing an error."

I had my own look of disbelief but it only lasted a second as I started to smirk at him and, by the way he looked at me, creeped him out a bit.

-Time skip again!-

We were all just standing around when Optimus called for a bridge. When it opened, we saw them all racing through and what looked like an explosion behind them. Once they were all through, Ratchet quickly closed the bridge and Optimus did something like a cool one-handed-cartwheel, causing Jack, Raf, Miko and I to say a variety of "wow". "Cutting it a bit close," Ratchet stated, "what about Cliffjumper?" He asked sadly. Their faces fell and Miko started babbling about explosions and fights, which ticked off Arcee.

"Look-" she started angrily before Jack jumped in.

"Hey, Miko, let's go see what the 'bots hide in their… sock draws." He started dragging her away and we followed, allowing them a little space but ran back over when we saw Arcee fall down.

"I'm fine, just dizzy." She said.

"Robots who get dizzy…" Miko said followed by me,

"Robots who feel pain…"

"Robots with emotions…" Raf continued with Jack whispering the last thing any of us said, which was what we were all thinking.

"Robots…who can die…"

Ratchet was scanning Arcee as the 'bots didn't seem to notice us still being there as we just kept looking at each other with sad looks.

Jack pulled out his phone and called Optimus over, complaining about no service.

"A security precaution." He said but Jack kept talking.

"Well if I don't call my mum like, now, I'm pretty sure the cops will be out looking for me."

"Have you broken a law?"

"No…curfew. It's after 10pm."

"I better get home too, or I'll be grounded for a year!" Raf exclaimed.

"Yeah, my host parents don't like me being gone for too long late at night." Miko put in.

"Earth customs. I hadn't considered." Prime said, looking deep in thought. "What about you Emmaline?" The humans all looked at me and I gingerly rubbed my arm.

"You can just call me Emz but yeah… mine don't really mind but they like me home at around… 10…30." I said, mentally scolding myself for having it sound like I didn't know. Optimus just gave me a curious look and hummed.

"Your safety remains an issue." He then started assigning us guardians; Bulkhead for Miko and Bee for Raf.

It was down to me and Jack.

"Arcee-" he started.

"Still dizzy." She sighed

"You're fine, says your physician." Ratchet called out to her. Jack walked over to her and… Oh man… that means…

"Ratchet." Optimus called.

"Busy!" He yelled back quickly. Optimus didn't listen though and continued.

"You will look after Emmaline."

"OPTIMUS! I can't look after her, I have work to do!" he pleaded to his leader.

"It can wait. As her guardian, you shall look after her as the others are doing with their charges." Optimus replied in a commanding tone. Ratchet sighed and transformed into his vehicle mode and I hopped into his passenger seat, then we headed off.

-Time skip to 20 minutes later-

"Pull up here." I said.

Ratchet slowed up and stopped. "Why are we at a park?" He asked and I started to fiddle my fingers nervously.

"My… house is just over there behind the tree line."

"Shouldn't we park closer?"

"NO!... I mean… no thanks, I don't w-want them thinking I-I got hurt because I a-arrive i-in an amb-ambulance." I stuttered out the lie, hoping he wouldn't notice.

"I have to protect you. If I can't see your house I can't do that, now can I?" He started to drive and I started to panic. He drove through a little gap in the tree line and saw a little, wooden shack. Silence filled the air as I bit down hard on my balled fist. Then he decided to break it. "So where is your house?"

I gulped and took in a shaky breath. "Y-You're looking a-at it." I managed to say.

"That isn't a house, it is what you humans would call a… "cubby house" except a little bigger!" He ranted and I took off my seat belt and opened the door before he could stop me. He flashed his headlights at me in question of my actions and I stopped after unlocking the padlock on the little door. I took in a deep breath and looked back at his alt. mode.

"G-Goodnight Ratchet. See you in the morning I guess…" I then turned and opened the door, walking inside and turning on the lanterns to light up my "home" and then closed the door and locking it. I put my things away and turned off all the lights except for the one next to my bed. I flopped on to it as it was literally just a mattress with a blanket and a pillow and instantly fell asleep.

Ratchet's P.O.V.

I was shocked. I couldn't say anything. She lived here, by herself! That must have been why she hesitated when I asked about her house. From what I heard she's only 14, yet she lives alone and nobody knew until now but she goes around acting like nothing is wrong in her life. I must inform Optimus. I thought and went into recharge.

-Time skip to the next morning-

Emmaline's P.O.V.

I woke up to the sound of honking and shot up straight. I was hyperventilating and had sweat covering my face. Another memory… more like a nightmare. I looked at the clock I had. 6:30am! I thought. He's a MAD man! I got changed into fluro green t-shirt with electric blue buttons, black long pants, black boots with fluro green buckles and black and electric blue fingerless gloves. I opened my door and ran up to Ratchet, jumping into his passenger seat. We drove to base in silence and when we got there, Ratchet started working on something so I started listening to music. If only I knew that there was something prowling around the base.

Hey there! That's the second chapter for you and there is more to come. I'll be sure to try and keep writing more chapters than what I've already finished and I'll see you next time!

Jazz: Hey 'ere peeps! I aint in dis sto'y bu' ah'm like da funny guy at da end!

Me: Jazz! What did I tell you about going on the computer when I have my fan fiction stuff up?

Jazz: Beats me. *Sees me glaring at him* uh… hehe… BYE! *Runs away*

Me: Get back here! *Chases after him*