Her Family is Gone
AB- I'm back and waiting for grades to post before summer classes begin hopefully you guys enjoy. Peace and Love
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Miko knew she would be late to pick Sari up, the teen had ended up getting detention for multiple missing homework assignments. The teacher gave her detention so she could catch up and the educator would be there to help if necessary. "Can you have them call my host parents? I have to get my foster sister from school, she's six and most likely waiting outside the school scared cause no one went to grab her. They won't keep her in the school and I'm pretty sure neither of us want to risk something happening to her, " Miko pleaded hoping the teacher would listen to her for once.
"Don't make up stories Miss Nadaki. Finish your homework and then you are free to go," Mrs. Guile responded ignoring what her student said.
In an attempt to have Sari picked up Miko opened her phone to send Jack a message. "Give me your phone Miko!" Mrs. G shouted, holding out a hand for the pink device.
"Fine." Miko handed over the phone with a groan. She had to do everything as quickly as possible and hold onto the hope that Sari would wait by the school for her to get there.
When the teacher released her and handed Miko her phone back, the girl nearly ran out to where her guardian sat waiting for her. Miko climbed in quickly anxious to get to Sari's school. "We have to go Bulk. We're late to pick up Sari from school," Miko breathed heavily from her run through the high school.
"How are we going to explain this to her? You aren't old enough for a license and Jack has a shift at the KO Burger," Bulkhead responded.
"She's six, I'll make something up. My host parents will kill me if something happens to her," Miko muttered, "Sari probably thinks I forgot about her." Even though Miko tried to hide it Bulkhead knew she was upset.
Instead of telling her something she already knew Bulkhead sped forward heading out of the parking lot and in the direction of the closest elementary school in silence, neither wanted any music playing and both were silently worrying about the child they felt responsible for.
Miko had Bulkhead park in their usual spot and she quickly climbed out heading towards the front of the building expecting Sari to be sitting there waiting on the steps by the door. To her dismay Sari was nowhere to be seen, but as she looked around Miko noticed two police cars parked near a crossguard, who stood nearby crying as she talked to the officer. The world seemed to slow down as she stepped towards the officer to hear what the woman said to him.
"I don't know her name, she's new at the school and she usually gets a ride I think, but today no one came for her. She looked terrified when a couple of cars pulled up next to her, a man yelled something at her and slowly the child got in before I could reach her." The woman was nearly shaking.
"What did the girl look like?" Miko questioned from where she stood a few yards away. The crossguard described Sari perfectly from her red hair to brown skin, even the clothes she wore to school. "I know her, her name is Sari Sumdac and she's my foster sister. What did the car look like?" The woman stuttered out something about a red sports car and a big boxy navy blue car. Miko felt her heart stop before she realized she moved Bulkhead already had the passenger door open. "Knock-Out took Sari, we need to get to base and tell Prime."
Meanwhile three people were calling Agent Fowler at the same time. Agent Mearing, the Jasper Police department and Miko Nadaki, he chose to answer Charlotte Mearing first. "Agent Fowler," the man spoke clearly into the phone.
"Sari Sumdac has been taken." From what he could hear Mearing could barely keep herself together, apparently the woman had the child's file and name flagged in the system to notify her if it appears in any police reports. "The decepticons took her Fowler and we are partially to blame."
"Is that why everyone is calling me?" Agent Fowler asked even though he already knew the answer. "I will handle this Mearing, try and enjoy the rest of your vacation; I will keep you posted when I find anything out," William promised before calling the Autobot's base.
"Agent Fowler," Ratchet's voice came from the other end, "Miko called you and couldn't get through. We've got a situation."
"I'm aware. I need a ground-bridge," Fowler responded, before listing off his coordinates. He stood up and stepped through the portal when it opened knowing he would be walking into a trainwreck. When William came out on the other side he spoke before anyone else could, "I know about Sari Sumdac, more than anyone else besides her family. If the cons have her one thing is certain she is in a world of danger."
Knock-Out seemed pleased at Megatron's willingness to let him operate on the girl. She had only roused a little when he took her through a ground-bridge but it was only a little mumble before she was out again. The only thing he couldn't do was permanently offline her, keeping her spark beating and her processor functioning which is something Knock-Out had a hard time doing since taking someone apart was easier than putting them back together. Lord Megatron said nothing about his plan to cut her open and seeing what he could remove until she didn't function anymore. Knock-Out followed his usual protocol of tying his patients down to make sure they didn't try and get away, Sari had her small eyes open trying to see what the mech was doing. "We can do this one of two ways, you can be a good little sparkling and relax while I work or you can fight me and I'll make it hurt worse. I'm going to put you under, you'll feel everything but not as bad as if I left you awake. Does that sound good to you?"
Terrified. Sari lay completely immobile, unable to fight back even if she wanted to. It felt like her body weighed so much more than it did and she didn't have enough strength to lift it on her own. Then the pain started, it felt like the red giant burned her from the top of her head all the way down her body, then things went completely dark. Sari still felt things shifting and moving but it didn't seem like she was going to wake up again. She was frozen, her pulse seemingly stammering out of control but there was more than one both trying to keep pace with each other. The only thing Sari had any control over were her thoughts which seemed clouded by the extreme levels of emotion and pain she couldn't express. The last thing Sari held onto hope for was the safety of the people she knew, not even her own rescue. Even though everything melted away, her emotions and body acted wildly in response to whatever the creepy giant did to her. The only thing that remained the same was the terror, it never moved an inch.
"You brought another human into this?" Bulkhead nearly growled at William Fowler, "After the hell you gave us when our cover was blown saving Jack and Raf, you actually involved another child! Do you have any idea what you are doing? Sari is SIX and probably scared half to death as we speak."
"We do not have time to discuss this until we retrieve Sari and bring her back to base," Optimus Prime spoke over the commotion. The leader began touching the bases computer attempting to track the Nemesis so they could bridge onto the ship and rescue the child. "This conversation is far from over Agent Fowler, but our first priority is to get the girl back safely. Contact Arcee and June Darby, we may be in need of their assistance if things go wrong."
Ratchet nodded before opening a portal for Optimus to lead Bulkhead and Bumblebee through. Prime gave out the battle cry and they sped through the ground-bridge. On the huge ship the group split up, Bulkhead went with Bumblebee and Prime went alone until Arcee caught up with them. Locating where they had Sari and try to bust her out without drawing too much attention to themselves. Ratchet commed to let everyone know Arcee joined them on the Nemesis and shortly after she caught up with the leader. The pair of them stood outside a chamber where a loud commotion happened on the other side, Arcee nodded as she busted the panel to open the door and Optimus Prime peered into the room finding Knock-Out throwing a tool to the floor and looking for another. When he observed the operating table further the mech nearly growled in anger at what he saw, the body of a small child restrained to the table having been sliced open and stitched back together hastily. Knock-out hummed to himself until Optimus stepped into the room, motioning for Arcee to help Sari and get her out of there.
"Optimus Prime to what do I owe this pleasure?" Knock-Out smirked knowingly. Optimus kept his blaster pointed at the red decepticon, he had no intention of shooting but the gesture proved to keep Knock-Out in check. "Taking the girl will make no difference, she's as good as a vegetable at this point. I promise her spark won't stop but she'll never be the same again." Prime slammed him against the wall for that remark, the leader turned to Arcee who gingerly cradled Sari in her arms adjusting her to keep her blaster at the ready.
"She's alive," Arcee answered Prime's unasked question, "We need to find Bulkhead and Bumblebee. Things are way too quiet here." Something almost maternal crossed Arcee's features but it quickly faded into the anger, the cons were going to pay for this especially if something happened to the six year old.
