Chapter 2
Facing aliens and the Government folk
~*~ Death of Ari Batchelder~*~
~*~Nile Hope's POV~*~
Time now
I watched the look on everyone's faces as a large casket is laid into the earth…
A friend… A brother had just died 2 days ago… It feels like 10 seconds ago…
He died fighting at our side… Oh God, watch over little Ari and his mother for us all… Yes, Ari had died, Max's half brother…
"Nile," Nudge said taking me away from my thoughts, "Say a few words?"
"Of course…"
I walk up with wings on my back, covered, and a heavy heart. I look at the hole in the ground, and spoke. "Ari, you were the spiting image of your father you know… When you were still a kid I mean…"
I gave a weak chuckle.
"I know deep down you wanted your father's attention… Something you were denied, something you longed for." I felt my own tears burn my eyes, but I blinked them back, I don't cry in public.
"But you were lucky to even HAVE a dad… Remember… We didn't have what you were gifted with… I just wanted you to know that you hear? And always know this kiddo… We always loved you… Even if we feared, or hated you, I know you just wanted a friend or two… I held you when you were born, and comforted you when Jeb wouldn't… I was there when you turned 4, when you said your first words, toke your first steps…" I paused when my voice started to crake, tears suddenly poured out like a river.
I harshly wiped them away, "And you were left behind… When we escaped… I turned for you… I called for you… but you were now where in sight, you derived to know that… You were never abandoned…"
I looked to the others, I was done with what I had to say.
Fang stood tall, and stood up to the grave. I walked deep into the small forest, brushing past Jeb with a glare that said, 'How dare you show your face here and expect yourself to be forgiven for what you have done…'
I finally stopped, with no one around, I gave a howl of pain, sadness, and anger. Ari… My OTHER little boy was dead, Gasman was suddenly at my side, and his eyes angry red from held back tears.
"I'm sorry you hurt…" He said, I shoke my head.
"No… I only hurt knowing that Ari is dead… And that I'll never see him be a grown man… Like you…" I gave a fake smile. He accepted it and hugged me, allowing my tears to stain his shirt. He allowed one or two tears to finally slid down his eyes.
My cries muffled into his shoulder, and yells unheard in the forest that seemed to mock my pain. Once able to pull myself together we flew to the others, waiting for the next part of the plan for our lives.
I only wished, Ari was with us…
"Max, what will we do now?" Angel asked. I used my wing to pull her to me, she of course pushed me away, not wanted to be comforted.
"We find away to help people… Now, we find our place in this world, you'll travel the world if we have to!" She plastered a smile on her face, only her eyes were filled with sadness. I felt the wind push against my back, shuttering I looked in the direction it went… South…
"South first." I say.
Max and Fang looked at me like I blew a vein. "I know what I want to do… I want to go south…"
Max smiled, "South it is then…" She was in too much pain to fight, and I knew she would listen to me, when pain toke her from us, I come in and point us the way we needed to go… Today… We needed to go south…
'May you rest in peace forever now Ari, know that I'll love you always…'
~*~Half a year later, After Ari's burial~*~
"Flying! You gotta love it!" Nudge yelled doing a flip in midair.
Laughing, I joined her. "Makes you feel alive…" I say to her. Slowly I breathe in and breathe out. Nudge laughed wildly as she did a dive into a cloud. I dared to laugh myself, my heart still dread for Ari, every night it would seem his soul is by me, begging to be with me again. I pushed all my thoughts away as Total, our awesome talking dog, spoke to me from my backpack. "You're thinking about him again…"
"Yes…" I sigh.
"He would want you to move on, you still have 3 others to look after, 4 including Iggy." He chuckled at his immature joke. Iggy being blind was nothing to laugh about!
"Total, watch it boy. It's 1,000 foot drop from up here you know." He instantly stopped and got to the point of him speaking to me about Ari.
"You know I only want you to smile again, we still have a lot to do, and that includes the others, no more dwelling on the past… What is done is done." With that said, he quickly retreated into my backpack again, away from the cold air around us. It gave me time to think about his words, it was like having a therapist in your bag, easy to carry, and too cute to ignore… Great…
'I won't give in to the quilt… I loved Ari, and he loved me back like a son… It was written in God's book on how we live… And how we die…' I thought to myself. For reasons unknown, I read the Bible when I could, I feel like I must. It keeps me calm, and I feel God is always there for me, I don't know much about him, only this… He allowed me to live for a reason… And I will fulfill my purpose.
I take a deep breath and give a mental prayer for my family's safety, and hope that we find… Families that will accept us for who we are not WHAT we are… (Fat chance Right?)
It was a few hours later till I saw the toll it was taking on the younger ones, Angel jolted to stay awake often, Nudge would give a snort like sound and soon realize she's flying and falling asleep at the same time, and Gazzy was holding my hand just to stay balanced with all of us. "Max, we need a place to land… Everyone's done for the week…" I moan. My body wasn't designed like theirs, I too, was starting to weaken.
"Okay guys… Down there, a small base, maybe we can camp our on the roof without them knowing." She thought out loud.
"No, keep looking, nothing on water!" I shout. She knows about my fear of water. I haven't been near it after what the White-Coats did to me… I dare never to think or speak of it again!
"Alright… Maybe somewhere~" She was suddenly cut off by a thundering sound, I started to feel a burning sensation on my left temple.
"NILE!" I hear Gazzy screech. I soon realized what happened, I was falling to the earth at an alarming rate… I was shot right out of the sky…
With that soon known, I felt my world go cold… And everything… Went black…
~*~ William Lennox's POV~*~Before Nile's fall~*~
4 years after meeting the Autobots, and 2 years after defeating The Fallen…
So far I think earth is kicking alien ass! I am Capt. Lennox, a husband and father, working for N.E.S.T.
I work along side a race of advanced robot like beings, they came to earth 4 years ago in search for their 'Giver of Life' that was lost before my time, it was call the 'All Spark', within that time line of us discovering it with in the Hover Dam, a kid, Sam Witwicky, and his car, AKA Autobot Bumblebee, were able to transport it to Mission City, were Megatron, AKA Bad news, found it.
Sam, Bravely, stood up to Megatron and shoved the All Spark into his chest, instantly, Megatron died. The power of the All Spark was too much for the leader of the Decepticons. Destroying him and the All Spark along with it.
Decepticons are the bad guys, from where the Autobots were from. 2 years following Megatron's death, an All Spark shard was found and it did some heavy damage that following year it was found, Megatron was back, and madder than ever! The Fallen, was a Prime like a friend of mine, only he was crazy for power, like Megatron, only he lusted for power over everything, and nothing.
Sam is now bonded with whatever bits of the All Spark, and we are on our toes for Megatron, he was extremely pissed off that one of the Autobots killed his 'Master' the Fallen.
"William," A voice calls.
I turn to find an old friend of mine, who has saved my ass more than I could count. "Optumis Prime! How you doing man! Long time, no see!"
"I am doing well old friend, it is your friend Michael Phoenix who worries me… He is often distracted on this particular day, is he not?" I look over to him, he was a little off today…
I slapped my forehead, "Oh SHIT!"
Today was the anniversary of Kita's death, and the disappearance of his only daughter… Alexandra…
How the hell could I forget that!
"I'll handle it! It's nothing for YOU to worry about, just something for us to work through." He nodded, OP was the Prime who killed the Fallen 2 years ago, but he won't talk about it much. We never do…
"Mike!" I shout racing toward him. He turns slowly, I suddenly see the whiskey bottle in his hand unopened, how he managed to sneak it here I will never know... "Drinking won't help man, didn't Ratchet warn you about that?"
"I don't care, today… I just don't care…" He touches the scar on his face, I winced at the sight of it. It reached his eye to his cheek, he told me about what happened this day 14 years ago…
That was a battle scar on his face… Nothing but a reminder to him on how he failed as a husband… and a father…
"Don't let it get to ya like that! I know you tried, and I know you wouldn't have given up if they weren't cowards and flee!" I snatch the bottle and pop it open. "It won't help bring them back, but I know you'll drink it anyway."
Mike chuckled, "It's the only time of year I dare hold a bottle like this to my lips." He takes a quick swig before passing it to me.
"I don't drink any other time…" He sighs. "But on this day, everyone tries to give me beer instead!" He laughed.
I laughed along with him, and then suddenly an alarm went off! "This is gonna have to wait man!" He placed the whisky on the ground and we raced back inside, everyone gathering guns, or something to defend with base with.
"Prime!"
"Stay low, something or someONE is above the base by 1,000 ft in the air! We can't get any kind of reading on them yet!"
Mike was off in his world, and I was watching the sky half expecting Decepticons to rain from the sky, only to spot 7 specks in the sky. 'What in the world could they be?'
I suddenly hear a gun shot ring out! "HOLD YOUR FIRE!" I tried to get back control, but it was too late for whatever was hit…
"Something's falling out of the sky!" I hear from the sidelines.
Looking up I see he's not joking, one the specks was falling and it was headed straight for the Base! It closed in, but… It was… A BODY? One of the Arcee triples raced out and caught the person just before they hit the ground. Once she caught the body we all gathered around to get a closer look.
"Oh… my…" Was all Arcee could say… I didn't really blame her…
In her arms was one the most unbelievable things in the history of unimaginable things! (Other than aliens of course!) A teenage girl… With wings… actual wings sprouting from the back of her shirt… They were bright orange and yellow, almost like fire... I notice a long, angry graze on her head, a bullet must have clipped her from the sky. "Dude… I think I shot an angel from the sky…" The soldier suddenly bent down on his knees and started to pray for forgiveness.
Other than aliens on earth, angels were another thing you don't usually find...
I was hardly breathing, and neither was anyone else… If this child was one of the 7 specks in the sky… could the others… be like her?
The girl shifted slightly, her body started to tense as she sat up rubbing her head lightly. "Owww… That's gonna hurt in the morning…"
When she looked around… I think we spooked her…
"OH MY GOD! IM SURROUNDED BY ALIENS AND GOVERNMENT PEOPLE!"
I laid my gun on the ground and held my hands up to show her no harm, but I was soon kicked in the face by something in the air…
I hit the ground and looked up to see another girl, but with different colored wings…
"You're gonna pay for hurting my sister…" She growled in an evil tone.
I suddenly found myself asking the team behind me "Could this day get any stranger?"
Right out of the sky kids with wings landed behind the girl that kicked me and boy were they mad!
I think my day just got stranger, and worse…
Hola folks!
Sorry for the wait, i kinda lost my papers for this chapter! ^.^;
But i found them! Ha VICTORY IS MINE! SO here it is the 2nd chapter! I hope you enjoy it, i'm sorry if its short and i hope you comment on it and tell me if i need to fix anything, and if you have any ideas that will help me later on, i would happily think about putting them in cause to be honest...
I kinda have a brainfart later on... But I will never give up! And Ally Spark is my other concern! Stay close folks, I will rise again to finish a few chapters! THIS I SWEAR!
Do me a little favor and comment, i wasn't joking when i said i need um! laters ! look forward to the 3rd chapter!
Katie Gibbs out!
