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CHAPTER FOUR: RECOVERY
Her screams filled the entire base as the groundbridge closed. Soundwave looked at the medic holding a small green tox-in piece in his hand and asked "Weren't you supposed to put her into stasis before getting the tox-in out?" Ratchet touched Rosalyn's hand with his finger confortingly as her screams ceased. "I-I did put her into stasis but, i wasn't expecting her to just wake up all of a sudden.." Boron and Soundwave interchanged glances for a moment then Boron said "You mean... She just waked up like nothing?" Ratchet nodded then Soundwave said "Then leave her alone..." Everybody stared at them as Bulkhead chuckled "You mean you're gonna let your own daughter die like that?!" Arcee nodded "She'll die if you leave her like tha.. DID THE BOTH OF YOU JUST ROLLED YOUR EYES AT ME!?" As a response they pointed their thumb at Rosalyn's berth and they saw what they meant.
Ro whimpered as smoke formed in her wound in the stomach. Making the smoke a little bigger until it dissappeared. They could still see her insides but the wound that was in her organs was gone... Ro screamed a little as more smoke formed as the hole showing her insides started to fade away leaving an ugly scar. Her arm was left intact though.
"Wether she remembered, she didn't want to die, or she had a purpose..." Boron said as all the Autobots looked at him then Wheeljack broke the silence "What do you mean?" Boron smiled at him and explained "Well... You see... When she was little she didn't know how to control her powers pretty well and... Always burned everybody accidentally... She even called herself a monster at times. Once i told her the reason why she was training... Even though it was her own decision she still didn't know why she was training for... She's training to protects those who she cares about. I don't believe that she didn't want to die... And her purpose i don't know..."
"D-daddy..." Soundwave set Boron on the floor as he walked up to his daughter and slowly Rosalyn's eyes opened. She weakly looked at him then turned away as an energon tear scaped her eyes, with her hand she touched her missing arm and then her eyes widened as she sat up "Where am i?" Boron looked at her "You are in a base..." She cocked her head "NO way! You're in here! I'll be dreaming if Onii-sama was here..." She looked at the Autobots with a smile then frowned. "Okaaay... What the hell is Soundwave doing here? Shouldn't you be with the Cons?" Soundwave transformed into his jet and flew out of the room. 30 minutes later he never came back "He's hacking your stuff..." Rosalyn said as a scream made Rosalyn laugh "UMM... HELLO! IM LOST!" Soundwave screamed as Bulkhead went to look for him. When he came back Bulkhead had a man with black hair, army boots, lether jacket, fire red sunglasses, and a white shirt under his jacket with the Decepticon insignea in a brilliant purple. With a sigh he said "I know, I know... but i thought being in my hologram would be better since i can't do anything in this form..."
"Anyways, what the hell happened to my arm?" Ro said as she touched the blue liquid leaking from the wound. "You mean you don't remember?" Bumblebee asked as Rosalyn cocked her head fom side to side "Not much... I do rember two Robots... Both of them with red eyes... One of them opened me up... The other one had the Tox-in with him and... I just can't remember much of it!... Then the next thing i know is that im here with you guys..."
Arcee looked at her and said "Oh yeah... It reminds me... Ro did you ever knew a Kiara Darby?" Rosalyn's smile faltered and her eyes widened while looking down. "Why do I feel weird..." Ratchet replied "You should sleep, you can't just wake up out of stasis like that..." "S-Stasis?" she asked while slowly falling asleep "It's the cybertronian version of a sedative..." Soundwave said while she closed her eyes "Better get to work patching her up.. I think she'll be fine by tomorrow... at least fine enough." Ratchet said. Optimus asked "So does she knows a Kiara Darby?" Boron slowly nodded "Yeah.. Tch... My wife was very, very preety, smart, kind and a good chef too.. She died by brutal hands and well... Ro thinks she killed her when its not true she just helped her deliver at least the only twin that survived" Optimus looked at him and said "Are you tired?..." Optimus asked as boron dropped to the floor with a thud.
"Seriously?..." Soundwave said as he picked him up and started to walk with some effort "He probably drunk like 5 bottles of Moonshine before coming here..." Soundwave said as he shook his head. "Bulkhead take them to their room..." Soundwave looked at him and replied "Wait WHAT?!... I have to share room with him?..." Arcee looked at him and said "Unless you want to share room with Wheeljack..." Wheeljack winked at him while Soundwave sighed. He followed Bulkhead to their room as he set his father on to the bed Bulkhead asked "Why don't you like to share room with your father?" He looked at him as Soundwave took his glasses off. Bulkhead's eyes widened as he saw that Soundwave's eyes were a very bright blue color. "Don't tell anybody... even Rosalyn got it? I don't like to share room with Dad cause' he snores too much and it takes alot to go to sleep..."
Bulkhead frowned. "At least you can come into my quarters if you want to. i don't snore at all...Oh and... You... Are not completely one of them are you?." Soundwave nodded.
The next day...(June's P.O.V)
"Hello?... Oh Agent Fowler, what brings you to-... What?! where? Are the children there? Okay i'll be there in a while. Please make sure that they don't leave.." I hung up. Rosalyn, Boron, Soundwave in there... I wonder if they are treating them right.. I drove to base as soon as possible. I looked outside the window there was Jack, Miko and Raf. They looked exited as they seemed to be... Listening? To somebody standing right infront of them. I got out of the car and went strait for the stairs... Making sure i said 'Hi' to everyone that was present at the time.
When i finally got up the stairs... Two gentlemans and one was kind of cooking energon.. "You're not going to give that to the children..." I firmly said. He looked up at me as if i were crazy, even though all of his emotions were locked right under those red sunglasses. "Who said this was for them? This is for my sister... She just woke up and she's hungry" I looked that he finished making up to 20 plates filled with energon... "She isn't gonna eat all that is she?" He nodded "Five of the plates are for her, then ten of these plates are for Ro's zanpakuto Monkey/Snake or Zabi as i call them... Then the last five plates wich are the smaller ones are for Ro's guardian Scales." He explained as i nodded "Then... May i help you with them?" he gave a shrug as he piled five plates in one stack and the other five in another. He waited for me patiently as he guided me to our 'patient's' room...
As we entered "BUAGHHH!" I looked from behind the plates only to find him chuckle, put the plates down and say "You're looking better everyday Ro... By health that is..." He said as he finished pouring some energon into her cup and drinked with ease. "Umm..." He turned around and helped me with the dishes... Handing them out to Ro. She chuckled as she said to no body in particular "Yo! Monkey, Snake, Scales... Com'on out time to eat!" Three creatures appeared as my eyes almost bugged out. Two of them a woman and a child weirdly dressed and a lizard just went to have something to eat right away. The woman which was a little overexposed asked the man "So... (gulp)Soundwave when are we getting out of this place" Ro nodded as he said "A-About that... Since you guys don't wanna go back home we were going to talk to here present... If she wants to take you in for a while until Graduation day that is..." Ro looked at me and said "Really? Hey that would be cool... Going to school with other humans. Awesome..." She kept on looking at me for a while "How old are you anyways?"
"Seventeen and counting... So... Is that a Yes?" I had to nod at that... That's daddy's girl. "Of course you can stay as long as you want... Only if your dad is okay with it though" They looked at each other with a confused look on their face as Ro said "He's not my Dad... He's my bro Soundwave, Onii-sama. My Dad's in the main room i guess..." My eyes widened when i heard that "You mean the guy in the kimono is your father?" She gave me a nod. I looked at Soundwave for a while as he sighed "Ro... There's something else you need to know... She's your Aunt... I know, i know. Why didn't you told me this before blah, blah, blah... I didn't know she was until this morning, they told me if i knew a Kiara Darby Orihara and i seriously... I wasn't there at the time okay? So don't blame it on me." She looked at me and got closer "You... are mom's sister? Y-You knew her didn't you? I-" She stopped when Soundwave grabbed her shoulder. She stopped, got up and walked away.
"Let's go with my father... Im sure he would love to answer all of your questions..." I followed Soundwave all the way to the main room. Boron was still entertaining the children even the Autobots(Exept for Ratchet) with his stories of war.
"Hey Dad! She has to ask you some stuff about mom... Should we stay here or should we go somewhere else for privacy?" He shook no. I smiled when i saw that he actually looked like a good man. "Nah... Come sit with the others i'll tell you this. Rosalyn doesn't talks with others about Kiara... After all she endured through that small period of time... I don't blame her at all.." He shrugged as he said this. "Kiara had given birth to Kalo the same same day we found Ro on the middle of the street...With nothing but the name tag just 'Ro-' the other part was broken but she was very healthy and we couldn't leave her like that so we took her in and made her think that she was Kalo's twin sister... It worked... Then two years later she gave birth to Em, then a year or so later she was pregnat again... with a pair of twins... During that time there was a 'Diesease' in Tokio. We all had it exept Rosalyn... We were taken to prison for not have said nothing in the first place... Which was kind of stupid mostly because they were taking to prison three little kids. There were scientists in there and... One day they took her away from us while Kalo,Em, and Rosalyn were playing in a playground. She fell and started to leak energon. Immediately they took her away, and returned with her the next day with her filled with a scar or two.
"Apparently we founded ourselves a babysitter when she didn't have 'appointments' it was like a way to try to hide her from them, but the guy was pretty apt for the job... He didn't have the disease , but they just took him in to check on him if he did or not... A boy,7 years old His name was Senji. She called him Senny for a reason or the other... Anyways everyday they returned her with more scars...
"Then there's the freaky part about the prison... They didn't put you to work for money... They made you fight for the money 'CAST POINTS' or CP as they call them. With them you bought candy, food, even clothing. Now you might be wandering 'why candy?' Well let me tell you the ones with the 'desease' were considered Death Sentenced. Which was everybody in the whole Damn prisoner facility. To win the CP you fought for the rich people... In a show in t.v called The Carnival Corpse. For our supposed security they nicknamed us. I became 'Owl'. Kiara 'Dove', Kalo 'Mokingbird', Emily 'The Hummingbird', and Ro... 'The Mockingjay'. Mockingjay's do not exist which is very weird as to why they nicknamed her like that.
"Once i asked her and she said that she was stronger than the others... Synthetic... They apparently have been testing the desease on her, but all those scars on her looked more insane than just a few vaccine injuries. I got very damn worried when she was playing 'Tag' with Kalo and from a sudden her whole damn arm falls off like nothing. Another 'appointment' more scars. Now about the candy if you were Death Sentenced like the ones that are not wore collars with identification number and GPS incase someone ran away, and with it they can kill you. The ones that are Death Sentenced eat the 'antidote candy' because the collar poisons you and you have to eat the Candy every three days. Until they feel like letting go of you.
"The cost of the candy is 10,000 cast. In the Carnival Corpse they pay you 30,000,000 and extra million depending on how good you perform. If you lose in the Corpse they take you away.. They roll one of those casino like machines with many body part pictures in it... You'll be Damn unlucky if you get the three slots with different body parts... But if you get only one... They'll take that part away from you without using anesthetic. They want you to suffer. They still pay you low price though 1,000,500 that's very damn low, i swear. But
"Kiara... She was killed by-"
"ME!" Ro? She stood there on the hallway as we all looked at her shocked by that answer.
Boron shooked his head and told Soundwave to take her away "I-I'm sorry... I didn't meant to... I didn't meant to kill her... I couldn't have..." I broke into tears as Boron sat down next to me. "She's lying... I saw when the real bastard killed her... They were a special force of guys who have killed people brutally...The Undertakers... They handled all the 'deseased' ones... She just did what Kiara told her to do... Take out my baby girl from there... That was it... They made her belive that she killed her for a reason or the other... That day Ro turned on fire... She had powers... Kalo and Em got captured and killed in the Mass-Prison break... Ro has asked me many times before 'What if they're still alive and need our help?' But honestly there's no way they could have survived something that... Stupid. She kept on waking me up for weeks telling me that she heard a llulaby and a story playing over and over in her head... It was very weird, but i ignored it for a while until i heard Rosalyn and Sari, her friend, sing that supposed lullaby.. It was something like this:
Naughty birdy, song is made
By pecking holes in trees
And prodoux reduced to cheese
Woodlin god saw this and,
What it pecks it poisons no,
Your food, your nesty, and your young
Falling at your feet...
Such a sad, sad, little birdy...
And set you free...
Sari mentioned that the lullaby was meant for her and the story was meant for Ro but everytime i mentioned 'STORY' to Ro she would just run away and come back at five."
We all stared at him, I was going to ask him something, but im glad Ratchet spoke our words for us "What about the 'Desease'... What kind of desease was it anyways?" Boron sighed and said "The only reason why they called me Owl was because of this..." He grabbed his sword and made a gash in his arm. It started to bleed immidiately, but then his blood started to rise up and formed a ball of blood as it stayed like that in mid-air. "This is that 'Desease' it's called 'Branch Of Sin' but that term was very damn old for all of us so we called it 'Dead-man' just like whole Damned facility 'Deadman Wonderland'. And the prison break, you might have heard of it..."
Agent Fowler looked at him as if making a big decision as he said "What kind of prisoners were in Deadman Wonderland?" Boron looked and sighed as he got up "Most people there were innocent until they came there... You can say that it was for other's security, but what about our security? They make us fight to death and even if we don't get killed in the Carnival Corpses, they'll open us up without any hesitation... Agent Fowler if you tell anybody about Deadmen or anything similar to that you can worsen things up." Agent fowler nodded. "Hey Where's Rosalyn and Soundwave at?" Miko asked as Ratchet looked through all the cameras "Nothing... Maybe..." He looked at a Camera that was hiden in the roof and Rosalyn appeared fighting Soundwave. Soundwave dodged and sometimes even kicked. Ro was breaking a sweat as she fought with her sword out and when she lost her sword she turned on fire from the fists and started to fight hand-to-hand in this little combat they were having. "Should we stop them?" Bulkhead asked. "Nah.. Let them... It's been quite a while since they tried to beat the crap out of each other... And they're training too so... They'll be fine."
IN THE ROOF...
"I've seen Starscream do better at this Ro... C'mon! That's what happens when you're gone over six months!" Soundwave yelled as he dodged an attack from her. "As if it was my FAULT!" She yelled back as her arms got out the deadly looking swords. A slight grin crossed her face as she swinged them and threw them at her brother. Dodging a few swings he grabbed the chain when it got close to him and pulled it causing Ro to trip over. She got up and pulled the chains closer to her as they dissapeared. Her arms transformed into blasters as she shot at him.. Once again missing target. "ARGGGHHH!" She yelled as her hands turned into diamond like hands and she started to punch towards Soundwave. He dodged as if it was just some kind of joke. He looked back and grabbed Ro's foot as he threw her to the other side of their little battle field.
As he landed a hit in her stomach, he went for another hit, but a sudden reaction made him stop. Ro caught his fist and threw him to the ground. As Soundwave got up Ro stood there grinning from cheek to cheek... Her eyes were black and like the brightest of yellow rings. In her lower jaw a mask forming. "Uhh... Dad?" He shakily called out as 'Ro' grabbed her sword and attcked Soundwave with it "WOA! HEY RO... RO IT'S ME YOUR BROTHER... SOUNDWAVE... DON'T YOU REMEMBER ME?! UHHH... DAAAAAD?!"
He kept dodging helplessly the sword swings wich somehow got stronger and faster. As he dodged the mask covered her hole right jaw and right eye. She got a lucky hit on his shoulder as it started to bleed. He kept on calling for help until he fell. 'Ro' looked at him still grinning. She raised her sword ready to kill. She stumbled to the side as Boron appeared "AHHHHRRGGGAAAAAA!" 'Ro' screeched as Boron landed a kick in her stomach and pinned her to the ground.
With his sword he broke the mask as Ro's eyes turned blue once again. She looked at them as she saw her sword filled with blood "D-Did i do that?..." Boron nodded as he went to check on Soundwave, whom was on the ground bleeding. "Ouch..." He said as Boron touched the wound. Ro stood close to them trying not to make much eye contact with her brother. "Calm down Rosalyn, it's just a small wound... Nothing to worry about." Soundwave reasurred with a smile, as Ro said cheerfully "Im going to be a nurse... The patient just became the nurse." He stared at her for a while as he said "I rather have Aunt Darby for a nurse, 'cause she has... I dunno... More Experience" Ro smacked the back of his head as they got in another argument... Again. "Let's take you back inside son... Mrs. Darby will get you all fixed up in no time." He shrugged as they walked back inside.
"SOUNDWAVE!" Optimus grabbed him. "HEY! LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Ro said as Optimus putted him down "What's the meaning of this?" He said as the monitor played back a recording 'Megatron to Optimus Prime... I'm glad you came to an agreement with my communication's chief, since he's going to be gone for quite a while. No energon hunting or anything brutal for our cause... And we will leave quite some stuff in some mines for your autobots. Energon ,not poisoned, just plain Energon. We will proceed with our war when my communication's chief has come back.. And thank you for your cooperation.' He stared at the wound in his shoulder as he said "Well... Isn't that good? You'll be at conditional peace with Megs for a while until i go back... Or do you want me to go back right now?" Everyone yelled "NOO!" As he high-fived his sister in victory.
Agent Fowler walked up to Ro and smiled as he told her "Speaking of good news.. Ro you'll start going to school tomorrow first thing in the morning... And do not worry about the stuff you need for school. They'll let you one week to get all the materials you need okay?" before she could say anything Soundwave spoke "I'll pick you up after school.." Everybody looked his way as he said "What? Im her brother after all... I can pick her up... No worries! If it's easy to fly around then it'll be easy to drive a car! Right Ro?" She scratched the back of her head as she said "I don't think so... And even if it is you don't even know where this 'School' is located at." Everybody looked at her now in disbelief "You have never gone to a school before!?" June said as she looked at Boron "I have... but an academy... Martial arts academy to be exact... They though me quite alot too."
"We know that... but don't you know any english, math, social studies, at the least Science?" She tilted her head as she explained "Well dad thought me how to read and write... But he was kind of always busy... So i went to the Division's library where the vice captain picked out some books for me.. They all talked about it. and they also contained some exercises, whenever i was finished i always went back and placed them in her cubby. Then the next day she would tell me wether they're right or wrong." June nodded "Who was training with you back then... any old buddies, friends, pals?" She nodded as she started to name them "For a while it was Nel, Zyra, Sari, Nala,Tai-Lung. Then it was Ggio Vega. Those were all the ones that were training back then." June nodded
"Who tought you all?" Ro and Soundwave exchanged glances again as they both said in unison "An 18.5 FOOT TALL FOX LIKE DUDE!" June looked at them as she sighed "And your father always allowed you to go with him?" She said as she raised an eyebrow "Ewww... What are you trying to think about?" Soundwave said as he putted a hand over his sunglasses "Nel would beat the crap out of him if he ever did that... PLUS! It's against protocol! Unless being possessed or something" She shook her head "Well then... Soundwave you'll drive Ro to school tomorrow and you'd better pick her up" What Soundwave said next made everyone look at him "Yes, Aunt Darby"
They stood quiet for a long while until he said "What?" Wheeljack chuckled as he said "What do you mean what?! I mean its nice to have you in here and all, but come on! You're still the enemy! If it wasn't for Ro's sake we would have killed you a long while ago. Just look around Soundwave... Just take a look around... You don't belong with the Autobots... But really? Calling people by what they aren't part of... Your family. Specially yours! If i were to-"
"ENOUGH!" Soundwave yelled as he touched his forehead and walked off.
End of Chapter 4.
SAJIN KOMMAMURA, Rosalyn's teacher
NALA FON, Once training in the same academy as Ro (Soi Fon's daughter)
TAI-LUNG KUCHIKI,The flirty friend of Rosalyn (Rengi and Rukia's son).
GGIO VEGA, Fraccion who served under Barragan Louisenbairn. Still alive.
Damn Wheeljack!... What will happen to soundwave next... Will he get over it or will it just accumulate it to his dark past... Spoiler! It'll be in Soundwave's point of view aaaand it'll be in the past! BE READY FOR CHAPTER 4.5! THE REAL TRUTH AS TO WHY HE JOINED THE DECEPTICONS!