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A huge Pave Low flew down in front of an abandoned junk yard, and landed with a heavy thud. The helicopter then began to light up from the inside, and the sound of a t-cog could be heard. And the rotors suddenly came to life and folded back, and the entire pave low began shifting, until a huge figure stood, his head folded up from the cockpit and revealed his red optics, and four spikes he had above his head, and his mouth was hidden by a face mask. From the size and height, he could equal the build of Warpath, and equally menacing.
He scanned the area around him, before he looked down at the worn, scratched off Decepticon logo that once shone on his large arm. He then looked to see slight movement from around the corner, which he instantly followed. He turned the corner and saw a mostly black Cybertronian with both purple and yellow accents, and from it's build, it was a femme. But what caught his optic was the six extra limbs on her back.
He got closer, and she instantly tried to stand up, but failed to, making him wonder what had happened. He decided that this femme may be valuable and grabbed her by the back and with ease, lifted her to her pedes, but he learned quickly that she was near death when he noticed the large wound in her chest armor. She appeared to be in stasis, so he quickly activated a long tube and attached it to her spark chamber and started transferring energon to her spark, causing her optics to begin glowing again, in which they were dark purple.
She began to hum with life as her auto-repair system began working and started repairing her wound. He removed the tube, and kept his grip on her back to keep her standing. Her optics seemed to come to life though as they began to move, she finally realized that she was alive and hissed, remembering how she ended up near death.
"Who...a-are…you?" she asked him weakly, before her system repair started forcing her to go back into stasis, but right before her vision went dark again-
"I am Grindor." he spoke in a very deep, and threatening voice, as her optics went dark again.
(Jasper High, Nevada)
Blackwolf and Arcee were dressed in all shorts, as they both sat amongst the students in gym, the coach was speaking as if he was a drill sergeant. "Okay maggots, listen up! Today, we're playing-" he paused before lifting up a ball of some type and threw it at a random student and smirked, "Dodgeball!" some of them whined in complaint, most whooped in excitement, but Blackwolf and Arcee just sat their quiet, not knowing what this activity was or how to play it.
"Alright, since Mr. Smith and Ms. Nicole are new here, we're gonna go over the rules of the game, very simple actually. You grab a ball and throw it at anyone on the opposite team, if you hit them they're out, if someone hits you with a ball, you're out, if someone catches a ball thrown by the other team before it hits the ground, then everyone who's down on your team gets back up, if someone catches a ball you throw, you're also out, and you have to stay on your team's side of the line. Oh! And one more thing...No mercy!" he yelled, Blackwolf and Arcee looked at each other, suddenly very confident, but Miko only looked worried.
The two team captains was actually Miko and...to their shock, Sierra. Arcee told Blackwolf before about Sierra, but why was she still there at high school, shouldn't she have graduated? But that would be dealt with later, Sierra picked a random Jock out of the crowd, Miko's first choice was was Arcee. Sierra then chose another man who was obviously another member of the football team, Miko then chose Blackwolf. Most of the gym class thought she was being nice to them due to them being new, but the two former Cybertronians knew the real reasons why she was nice to them.
Sierra glanced at Blackwolf when he was chosen, he guessed she was planning to choose him next, for she didn't exactly give a very nice glance at Miko when she looked at the young Asian girl. The choosing went on about the same, Sierra got all the mostly athletic students, where as Miko's team consisted of people who didn't have a chance against their team except Blackwolf, Arcee, and Miko herself. But it finally came down to the last two people to be chosen, Sierra chose one, and the other came to Miko's side.
He was obviously a senior, but he was also of African origin. He walked into their group and sighed in frustration that he was the last choice...again. Blackwolf and Arcee didn't see why he was chosen last though, he was actually very muscular in build, and seemed like a good person. The coach left the gym and told the class he'd be back in about ten minutes, the former Cybertronians took the opportunity to talk with the man who was chosen last.
"Hey." Blackwolf greeted him, Arcee smiled at him, but he looked confused.
"Are you both actually talking to me?" he asked in a serious tone, confusing them.
"Yes...who else would we be talking to?" he grimaced and looked around before back at them.
"I woulda thought no one would wanna talk to the guy who gets accused of doing drugs." he answered coldly, not towards them but at himself.
This shocked them both, he was being bullied, "Who said you do drugs?" Arcee asked him. He then looked at Sierra, then back at them.
"Vince and Sierra, when I was a junior, she was a junior with me, and Vince was a senior. They were and still are the popular ones, when I kept them from bullying some poor kid who they were harassing, that's when they started saying things about me, about how I was just some black man who does drugs, and that poor kid couldn't even expose them because Vince threatened him against it." Blackwolf was enraged at hearing this, he suddenly wanted to go back to when he punched Vince and punch him even harder than he did!
He placed his hand on the man's shoulder and looked at him in a friendly manner, "Don't worry, I don't believe one word of what they say for a second." the man looked at them in a grateful way.
"By the way, what's your name?" Arcee asked him.
"Name's Johnson, John for short." he answered, Blackwolf thought of how he matched that name. They heard the gym door open and close.
"Alright kiddies, it's time for some Dodgeball, teams at your sides of the gym!" the coach ordered, there were twelve dodge balls' in the center of the gym, each team would have to run and grab as many as possible and give them among their teammates. They lined up, ready for when suddenly-
The whistle blew.
Arcee, Miko, Blackwolf, and John were in a full on sprint, Arcee and Miko made it to the dodge balls before anyone else and grabbed two each. But just as Blackwolf was about to reach them, he was cut off by Sierra and two other girls, he looked to Arcee who passed him a ball, and Miko who passed one to Johnson while the other eight members of their team just stood back, waiting to be pelted.
And it came, they were quickly getting outed, as the dodge balls came quick. But the four in front of them kept dodging and weren't backing down. Blackwolf however kept blocking their repeated pelting with his own ball, but he saw an opening, readied his arm, and threw his ball with incredible force, and downed one of the eight jocks on their team. Arcee and Miko were side by side, going for the girls who could move around faster than the men on their team. Arcee threw her ball and hit the girl right next to Sierra. The downed members of their team saw their effort and started to get encouraged as they chanted them on, Miko noticed someone throw a ball at Arcee, and dashed to beat it to her.
Just as it was about to blind side Arcee, Miko intercepted it, and grabbed it in her arms, causing the thrower of it to groan and step to the side, as all the downed members of their team moved back and finally tried. Anyone who could grab a ball helped them out. Arcee finally saw Sierra wasn't blocked by jocks where she was, aimed her ball, and threw it at the head cheerleader, and the ball found its mark as it hit Sierra on her right rib.
Johnson and Blackwolf were tag teaming, whenever one ran out of balls to throw, the other would move in his place. There was suddenly only two jocks and one girl on the other team, and noticed that there were no dodge balls on their side. But every one of the twelve people on Miko's team had a dodge ball, and for the first time, they were pelted by dodge balls, a taste of their own medicine.
The whistle finally blew, the game was over, Arcee and Blackwolf's team had won the game. And they even made a new friend as they were joined by Johnson. "Dude, that was awesome!" he held his fist out, Blackwolf noticed this and realized what it was, and bumped his fist with John's.
"Smith, Nicole, Nakadia, and Ajax, that was brutal, keep it up." the coach smirked at them, they assumed that Ajax was was Jonnson's last name. As they exited the gym and headed to their final classes of the day, they were joined by Raf in the hallway.
"So how was gym for you guys?" Blackwolf, Arcee, and Miko looked at each other with smirks on their faces.
"Awesome, we destroyed Sierra's team." Arcee grinned, remembering Sierra's priceless reaction when she got hit by a ball, thrown by Arcee.
The rest of the day went by fast, and before they all knew it, they were getting their stuff and leaving. But before they left, a man approached Sadie, Blackwolf wanted to be protective, but he knew that unless they started something, he didn't need to worry. They recognized the man from their gym class, he was one of their teammates.
"hey sadie." he greeted her.
"Hey...Wilson right?"
"Yeah, so I'm throwing a party tonight and wanted to know if you'd like to come?" she thought about it, her first party as a human, but then she knew that if Blackwolf couldn't go, she wouldn't either.
"On one condition, I can bring my friends." she gestured to Blackwolf, Raf, Miko, and John. He looked over them, he then eyed Johnson, true he wasn't friends with any of them, but due to her attractiveness, he felt he had a crush on her and wanted her to be there. (HA! Say that to Blackwolf's face! Sy, go back to the story)
"Sure, they can come, I guess." they left and were eventually picked up by Bulkhead and Bumblebee, while as Johnson said he walked home, as much as Blackwolf and Arcee didn't like the fact that some people walked home, they saw how close he lived to the school and guessed he had no trouble getting there. Arcee was excited about the party, however Raf decided to stay out of it, because he wanted to get some studying done, and go to the Arcade with Bumblebee. And Miko actually had too much make up homework to get finished, so it would be just Blackwolf, Arcee, and John, if he even came.
Hours passed, they decided to just walk to Wilson's house instead of bothering the bots about driving them there. When they finally arrived at the house, it was clear there was a party going on due to the music coming from inside.
She knocked on the door, and moments later, the door opened, revealing Wilson, and dozens of people behind him, either talking, or bouncing off the walls.
"Hey you guys, come on in!" he shouted over the music, they followed behind him into the house. Arcee looked at the one interesting thing she saw really…the food table. Blackwolf wasn't hungry however and just grabbed a cup and poured some of the red liquid drink into his cup. But then someone else knocked, and inside came Johnson.
"John!" Blackwolf called, the African man looked around, trying to track the source of the call, but then spotted the two former Cybertronians and mad his way over to them.
"Hey you two, where's your friends' Raf and Miko?" he asked them in a loud voice.
"They decided not to come, they had work to do! Wow, never thought I'd say that about Miko!" he laughed along with Arcee, and Johnson couldn't help but laugh with them as well.
They eventually moved to a more secluded spot and could at least talk without yelling, "I'm gonna go get some more of this to drink, okay?" she asked Blackwolf who nodded, and she went back to the food table and poured more fruit punch, but when she drank it, it tasted different than her last cup, it was strong and left a burning sensation in her throat.
But it didn't bother her and she quickly began drinking it. Back to Blackwolf and John, who were sitting and just talking. Blackwolf took a sip from his cup, but nearly spat it back out, for it tasted awful due to the odd after taste. He took a whiff of it, then gestured John to it.
"Does this smell right?" John took a whiff himself and suffered a similar reaction, but then his face changed to shock.
"That's alcohol...The drinks were spiked!" Blackwolf knew what humans called alcohol and knew it wasn't exactly a very good thing if drinks were spiked by it. He realized Arcee went back to the table to drink some more, and was instantly on his feet and pushing through the crowd of people, until he finally got to the food table. And there, sure as day was Arcee, but she wasn't acting like herself, instead of sitting up straight, she seemed to barely be able to stand at all.
He was at her side in the blink of an eye, "Okay, we're done here, c'mon Cee let's go!" he pulled her along with him.
"Not yet...I don't wanna go back to base yet...I don't wanna get yelled at by...Ra-" she was cut off by him when he put a hand over her mouth and pulled her with him.
"Okay! Time to go!" he looked at John, "I need you to tell Wilson that the drinks were spiked, I'm gonna take her home." John nodded and went back in the house while Blackwolf held her as if she was a wounded soldier, her arm around his shoulder as he supported her.
They were about half way to Jack and June's house when she stopped walking, she was awake, but he knew she wouldn't get any better, so he hoisted her in the air at surprising speed and held her in a bridal way and carried her. When they finally reached the house, Jack was already home from base, he was surprised to see Blackwolf carrying Arcee in as if she was knocked out.
"What happened?" he asked with shock in his tone.
"Someone spiked the drinks at the party, and she had a little TOO much. Now please don't tell your mom about this, please." he pleaded as they suddenly heard a car pull into their driveway.
"Okay, get her to your room." he didn't need to be told a second time, he carried Arcee into their bedroom and laid her on the bed, but when he tried to remove his arms from her, she grabbed him by the arm, yanked him onto the bed, and laid down upon him. As much as he loved her and loved being this close to her, he didn't want June to possibly walk in the room and see her like this. He slowly pried himself from her grip, laid her head gently back onto the bed, and stepped out of the room, closing the door behind him.
When he entered the living room, he was greeted by June, "Hello Blackwolf, how was school?" she asked him, he tried not to make eye contact.
"Oh it was fun, we played Dodgeball in gym class today." June then looked as if something was missing.
"Where's Arcee?" she asked, and he had to quickly thought up a story to cover up what actually happened.
"She's...not feeling good! That's it, she was just not feeling well and wanted to sleep." he almost had a heart attack from the stress. But she actually seemed to be content with his answer.
"Hmph, well I bet she'll be happy to know tomorrow's Friday, then the weekend comes." she smiled, and he actually seemed somewhat relieved about this.
A couple days from everything could have been what they just needed.
(Disclosed Location)
The femme awoke again, but found herself in an empty cave, so she thought, until her purple optics met with two menacing optics. She was on her feet in the blink of an eye, but to her regret as she felt a surge of pain go through her, causing her to double over.
"Stay seated, you're still weak." Grindor warned her, she looked up and scanned the huge mech. She didn't know who this giant was but knew he must not be her enemy.
"Why did you save me?" she asked, he looked back and would have been smirking if not for the metal covering his mouth.
"I'm hunting a mech...the same mech who took the life of my best friend, Thundercracker." she remembered WHEN Thundercracker died, but not how or by who.
"Who killed him?" he looked into her optics with his, and she could tell that his expression was serious.
"Blackwolf." he growled.
But he was surprised to hear her giggling in a very demonic tone before looking at him again.
"I may be able to help you find him...but on one condition..." his optics had widened at hearing her words.
"Anything." he answered.
"You help me take the life of Arcee, and his head is yours." she smirked, she raised a servo and offered him it.
"Do we have a deal?" he raised his huge servo and gently shook hers.
"Deal." he answered.
Okay guys, that's it for chapter four, I hope it didn't bore anyone, now if anyone did get bored, it's because I don't wanna put all my best future chapters up yet and I'm running out of some things to put in between them ya know? Fill the gap. So if anyone wants to help out, suggest some ideas because I'm aiming for at least twelve chapters. So I need at least 4 ideas, I can't promise they'll be used, or if I don't find any to replace them, but it's a very big help if you guys helped me and suggested some ideas. And I'd be very grateful. But anyway, hope you all enjoyed, see you all in the next chapter!