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Previously: "once everyone was ready the autobots started their engines and drove out of Hoover dam, Optimus first while the others followed behind, on their way to the abandoned warehouse to meet Lightning.
Chapter 4: creepy warehouses
Lightnings POV:
Primus, and I thought that the twins were trouble makers. We've only been walking for twenty minutes and yet we've had to stop several times cos Lily-Ann saw something in the shop window, Angel then needed the bathroom and that took a good ten minutes finding somewhere and finally Oliver almost got into a fight with some kid that bumped into him and didn't apologise…really? I'm literally starting to get a headache because of these three, don't get me wrong I love them to bits but there are some points I just want to scream bloody murder.
"Light, you sure this is the place?" Angel asked as we stood in front of a load of abandoned warehouses, she looked a little uncertain. I placed my right hand on the door to the entrance "unstable infrastructure, dark and Cold with who knows how many bugs are crawling around, heck a serial killer could live here… Yep definitely at the right place" I said as I walked through the door "light!" Exclaimed Angel as they ran in after me. The warehouse was quite large and empty the windows were bordered up, which is probably a good thing, we made our way to the centre of the building and literally threw our bags to the ground. Don't worry I let Echo get out first before dropping her bag.
"Right, I'll look for some firewood then" said Oliver as he stretched his arms over his head "it's gonna get real cold soon" he continued as he walked back outside. I stared rummaging through the bags and found my sisters jacket before handing it over to her "put this on before you get ill again" I said as I handed the jacket to Lily, who was grateful for the extra layer before sitting down next to the bags. I looked over to Angel who just shrugged her shoulders and went to sit next to Lily, I shortly followed afterwards I didn't realise how tired I had gotten from walking "Echo don't go to far" I said over my shoulder to the little sparkling that was currently exploring our new surroundings "ok, Light" she said before she started exploring again.
It had been only a few minutes before Oliver turned up with some firewood, some of it were real tree branches and that while a majority of it were wooden planks "yo, Light give me a hand would ya?" He asked me "sure" I said as I got up off the ground and took about half the pile from his arms "Baka, you didn't need to carry it all in one go" I said as I realised that he had brought a lot more than he could of actually carried, he shrugged his shoulders and replied back saying he couldn't be arsed to do two trips. Lazy arse I thought.
After finally getting the fire started we huddled around the fire, Lily on the left of me Angel on my right and Oliver sat on the opposite side of the fire from me. Echo had finished exploring and was now settled sitting in my lap watching the fire with curious optics. "Don't touch" I said as I pulled her servo away from the fire " it's hot, you'll hurt yourself" I explained, she looked at me for a sec before nodding her head in understanding and went back to just watching it. "Seriously Light?" Oliver exclaimed "she's a frigging robot, like fire is gonna hurt her". "True she's a robot, but Sparklings are a lot more fragile then grown up cybertronian and their armour isn't as strong so I'm not taking any chances" I retorted back, my motherly instincts were kicking in.
"Moving on people" Angel interrupted "so Light what exactly do you want me to do" she asked me "well" I explained "we don't really have a way to get to Hoover dam or pass all the security which Has probably doubled since the previous events and so I thought if we can't go there let's bring the autobots here" I paused as made sure the kids understood me "I want you to hack the mainframe of Hoover dam, no I don't want you to take anything I just need you to get their attention, Glen is probably there and he's a hacker himself so you need to be careful." I continued. Angel, nodded her head in understanding, I could already see the gears going round in her mind on how's she's going to access the firewalls and get past their defences.
"All I need you to do is leave an email for me then withdraw from the mainframe" I finished. "That's it?" Asked Oliver "what's gonna stop them from just deleting the email?" He asked. "Easy, the email is going to be addressed to the autobots, asking them to meet us here tonight at midnight." I explained. "Ok" angel said, deep in thought "what's going to make them trust you and actually come here", "we have my laptop right?" I said, angel and Oliver both nodded their heads "well I have all three films on my laptop, so I was gonna send them a clip from the first film, what better way to attract some autobots Then to show them a clips of themselves being filmed when to them there was no one there to actually film it, like the saying goes 'curiosity killed the cat'" I finished explaining.
"That might just work" Angel said "pass me your laptop, I'm gonna need to do several updates and defence systems before I try to hack the mainframe" she said. I reached into the bag next to me and passed her over my green laptop. I watched as she opened it up and started typing down some things, gotta love having a 13year old sister who's a brainiac "give me a few hours and we should be ready to go" angel said to me without looking away from the screen. I looked over to see Lily completely bored doesn't surprise me she is only ten years old "psstt" I said as I looked over to Lily, she looked up at me curiously, "your DS is the the backpack" I said as I watched a massive grin form on her face "YES!" She yelled as she took off towards the backpack.
As I watched Lily take off I noticed out of the corner of my eye that Echo was still sitting on my lap but was fiddling with something. "What you got there Hun?" I asked, Echo jumped as she didn't notice me watching her, clasped her hands together and held them close to her chasis "Echo?" I said again a little bit more sternly, she looked at me before she held her hand out, within her palms was a small piece of scrap metal about 5cm long, I gasped as I realised this wasn't just scrap metal but a piece of the all spark. "Echo, how did you get this" I asked
Echo whimpered and turned away from me. "Oh, Echo" I realised why she started acting like that "I'm not angry Hun, I just want to know where you got this from" I explained as I rubbed her back in small circles trying to comfort her. She sniffled once before speaking "after-after the fight with the big robots" she started "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to but but I had this urge that I had to pick it up" she said on the verge of crying, fearing that she was in trouble, I brought her in for a hug as I tucked her helm under my chin "oh you silly sparkling, I'm not mad at you Hun, no one is. But do you know what that is?" I asked as I pointed to the shard. She shook her head sideways.
I sighed. "That hunny was part of the all spark, the thing that gives life to all cybertronians, beings like you baby." I explained as I nudged my head with hers before continuing "that's why those robots from earlier where fighting, they both wanted the all spark the red optics, the meanies wanting it for evil while the blue optic robots wanted to protect it, however it was destroyed. you are holding one of the last bits of that all spark" I finished explaining. Echo's optics dimmed as she started thinking before she looked up at me and said "I want to be a good guy, I protect all spark", just as she said that her optics started to change colour. The purple was getting lighter and lighter until they turned into a beautiful light blue shade. I laughed as I realised that Echo has just stated that's she gonna be an autobot.
"Hey guys, guess what?" I yelled out, getting the attention of my three siblings without waiting for them to answer I continued "Echo's chosen to be an autobot", "seriously" Lily-Ann asked as she paused her game, "bout time" mumbled Oliver as he started fiddling with his phone again. I chuckled before looking down at the sparkling, "can I see it again" I asked Echo. She smiled at me before she reached out to my left hand, opened it up so my hand was facing Palm up and placed the shard in my hand. I'll admit I was a bit worried when she did, I remembered when Sam did it in the next film and it engraved all the information inside his mind, but nothing happened. Or so I thought …
The shard starting glowing but unlike Sam where it sent out that energy burst in his home, it just glowed, it felt like it was vibrating in my hand. I don't know what was wrong but as it did that I had this feeling of déjà vu, like it was trying to tell me something, it was really weird however all of a sudden wisps of gold tendrils shot out and wrapped themselves up my arm, I yelped as I stood up from the contact, Echo had fallen off my lap and by this point all three siblings stopped what there where doing and panic when they saw why I had reacted when I did
"light!" Oliver yelled as he dropped his phone to the floor and ran over to me. He grabbed the shard and threw it behind him. As soon as the shard had left my hand the gold tendrils had vanished. "Are you alight?" Asked Angel as she started looking over my arm, Lily went to Echo and picked her up off the ground. I think I was still momentarily dazed, when the tendrils touched me I was expecting pain, that's why I yelped but there was nothing just this warmth, it reminded me of home and as soon as Oliver tore the shard away I felt empty it was if the all spark was calling out to me.
Shaking my head I turned to see Angels worried face "I'm fine…I think" I said "you think?" She asked totally not convinced that I was ok, neither did I all I knew was was that I needed that shard. "I know this sounds crazy but I need that shard" I said as I looked at Angel trying to show her I was serious about this "what!" Oliver yelled, a look of disbelief showing on his face "I wasn't hurt" I tried to explain "I reacted that way cos I was expecting the same thing to happen when Sam touched his shard,ok" I finished as I walked to where Oliver had thrown it. "Light…" Oliver trailed off, I forget he's just protective of us as I am of them "Oliver, trust me" I said, he looked at me and slumped his shoulders in defeat when he realised I wasn't going to back down. I smiled before I reached down and picked up the shard with my right hand this time and left lying flat in my palm.
And once again within seconds the gold tendrils came out and wrapped themselves around my wrist and slowly up my arm, there wasn't any pain it was just a bit tingly. Soon the tendrils started going further reaching across my chest to my left arm and down my legs. Once the tendrils had literally wrapped themselves round my body the shard started hovering in my hand and slowly floated up in front of my before two more gold tendrils shot out of the shard and wrapped round my neck forming some sort of chain that was connecting to the shard. As soon as the two tendrils had morphed together, there was a flash of light, momentarily blinding me so I shut my eyelids and held my hands over my eyes "LIGHT!" I heard my siblings scream.
I waited a few seconds before I removed my hands and opened my eyes the tendrils that were once wrapped around my body were gone apart from the one tendril that morphed together around my neck and at the end of the chain was the all spark shard. " uhh… What just happened?" Asked Lily-Ann as she kept staring at what happened "I'm not too entirely sure sis" replied Angel, who was just as confused "how do you feel light" my brother asked me. I stared at my hands for a few seconds before clenching them together "I've never felt better" I honestly replied with, I had no idea what the all spark did to me though. However I turned to my right and looked at this pile of debris that was just lying there.
I'm not quite sure what happened next, it was if someone was telling me what to do… No wait it was if I already knew what to do. Raising my left arm out towards the debris, I took a few breaths before focusing on my target… The debris. Next thing I knew those tendrils that were wrapped around my left arm appeared again and small sparks of electricity were flickering over my arm, I could feel the energy I could hear it waiting to be told what to do, I closed my eyes again and mentally thought of the electricity forming a small ball of energy in my mind. I opened my eyes and saw that the electricity had done exactly what I thought. Without hesitating I fired the energy ball into the debris and watched it explode in front of me, granted it was a small explosion but big enough to destroy whatever was in the small pile of rubbish.
I watched as the gold tendrils disappeared before I lowered my arm, released a breath I didn't realise I was holding and turned to face four very shocked faces, I chuckled nervously and rubbed the back of my neck "umm…" I started, I wasn't quite sure how to explain what happened. Lucky for me Lily broke the silence first "that was totally AWESOME!" She yelled and started blabbering on about how cool it was, Angel just stared her brain trying to compute what happened and Oliver just stared. I was a bit worried about what he thought. "Well" he started "at least we have another reason to call you Lightning now" he said. And I laughed, glad my family wasn't freaking out too much. This is gonna be a long night I thought.
Normal POV:
It had been a few hours since Lightnings interactions with the all spark shard and that lovely little explosion she showed off but it seemed her family was taking it well, a little confused by it but with weird things happening All the time because of lightning they were used to it now…sort of.
"Arghh" Angel exclaimed as she ponded her fist on the ground, she's spent the whole time working on the laptop but it just wasn't doing what she wanted, "what's up?" Asked Lightning as she went and lied down on her stomach next to her younger sister, the 'all spark necklace' still hanging around her neck, she refuses to take it off now. "Your stupid laptop won't calibrate with the algorithm I want to set up on here, without I can't hack the mainframes or get past the firewalls" angel explained, rubbing her tired face, it was nearing nine o'clock in the evening and was starting to feel the fatigue, think about it the kids got up went to school, came home and watched a movie then went through portal which landed in the early hours of the morning, the poor child's gone with over 24 hours of any sleep. Lightning thought for a sec before speaking "let me see" she asked as she held her hand on top of the keyboard, once again the gold tendrils appeared over her hand and seeped into the laptop.
I don't think I'm ever gonna get used to that thought Angel as she watched her older sister, "try now" said Lightning as she pulled her hand away. Angel sighed and tried applying the algorithm that she's been trying to upload for the past few seconds, however unlike all the other times this time it actually worked. Angel just gaped at the computer screen before turning to her sister "what did you do?" She asked, light just shrugged her shoulders "not sure really, it was like someone was telling me what to do" light explained before she got up and went over to her youngest sister who had fallen asleep by the fire, Light grabbed another jacket and smiled as she saw that Echo had also curled up next to Lily, placing the jacket over the youngest two she placed a kiss on the top of their heads before heading back next to Angel.
"Right then, I'm ready when you are" said Angel as she turned to Lightning, the algorithm was done, the email was ready with the attachment with it. Now she just needed Lights nod of approval. "Let's get this show on the go then" said Light as she pumped her fist in the air. With that Angel typed a few buttons and started the hack. I hope this works prayed Lightning as she watched her sister work.
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