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A barren region of large rocks, crevices and flat rocky plains should be a quiet place to be..... Except when 11 huge robots are running around trying to turn their enemies into scrap.
Earlier that morning, the Decepticon leader, Megatron, had sent a message to the Autobots to come and face the Decepticons in an immense battle for the fate of the Earth and all the minicons..... So, naturally, the Autobots accepted.
Seeing as the Decepticons had acquired both the Star Sabre Sword and the Skyboom Shield they had the upper advantage and had managed to break up the Autobot team across the vast wasteland.
Max Zordan, in her transformer mode, had made great progress in that battle. She had somehow managed to royally piss off Megatron, Cyclonus, Demolisher AND Sideways..... all at the same time.
"Aahhh!" Max cried out in pain as several missiles aimed by Sideways hit her in the back. She turned towards the purple Decepticon and gripped her sword tighter.
Sideways started laughing, Max wasted no time with small talk and lunged directly at him, aiming her sword straight at his pink eyed face.
The Purple bot quickly ducked under Max's attack and before the femme was able to react he had punched her hard and fast in the stomach.
Max fell to the ground and rolled away from Sideways. She got to her feet and re-attached her purple sword to it's spot just behind her shoulder.
"Does that mean you're giving up?" Sideways asked, "I don't blame you if you are."
Max activated the blaster on her arm, "Dude, does this look like 'giving up' to you?" she asked and began firing at him.
Sideways dove away from the laser fire and shot back at the femme. Max narrowly ducked underneath his blasts and stood to face him.
The two glared at each other and were about to start fighting again when an immense flash of light caught both Max's and Sideways's eye. They both looked for the source of the light as it rocketed skyward and saw Megatron and Optimus pushing the Star Sabre Sword and the Skyboom Shield together as hard as they could. Max could immediately see that the two weapons were the source of the bright light.
As everyone was staring in awe, silently begging for their own team's leader to be the victor, the light became to intense for any of the transformers to see what was going on between the two leaders. It died down and both teams were able to see the outcome of Megatron and Optimus's struggle, both leaders were holding one of the weapons each. Optimus with the Skyboom Shield and Megatron with the Star Sabre.
Megatron looked furious and ordered the Decepticons to retreat and then warped back to their base.
"Pathetic." Sideways whispered under his breath.
Max turned to the Purple Decepticon, "Run along now, I believe you just lost." She said, smirking at him.
"Just a reminder, my offer ends during our next battle. If you still don't willingly join me then, I will force you to." Sideways said.
"Damn it Sideways! Get this through that thick trash can that you call a head!" Max nearly screamed, "If it means betraying my friends and fighting with you, I personally don't care about what you have to tell me!"
Sideways frowned, "Suit yourself you stupid femme, but you wont be able to dodge me forever."
Max raised her arm, fist closed and blaster charged, "Dodge this." She said bluntly and fired at his face.
The Decepticon suddenly warped out and Max's laser flew through air and exploded on a rock. The femme sighed and walked towards Optimus and the other Autobots, who were all looking at her strangely due to her confrontation with Sideways.
"What did that creep want?" Hot Shot asked.
"His head kicked in." Max answered, not wanting to tell them about Sideways's behaviour because it might have brought up hard-to-explain questions.
Optimus frowned slightly, but the rest of the Autobots just shrugged and went back to talking about the Skyboom shield and the strange, bright light.
After they had all warped back to their own base Optimus ordered for all the Autobots to go to the control room for a meeting about the Skyboom Shield. The kids were told to leave during the meeting and reluctantly did so, and Optimus asked Max to stay after she was about to follow Rad, Carlos and Alexis.
The Autobot leader explained a plan he had thought about that involved Smokescreen launching the shield to any Autobot that needed it in the battlefield.
As they were discussing the possibilities that the strategy could have, when Rad's face appeared on the main screen. The boy explained how his minicon Highwire had intercepted a message from the Decepticon minicons who wanted to meet up with them.
Optimus, Hot Shot and Max followed Rad, Carlos and Alexis to where the Decepticon minicons had said to meet them. When they arrived at the co-ordinates it was a grassy clearing, a few kilometres away from the base.
"I don't like this." Hot Shot stated, "It's to..... easy."
Suddenly three minicons warped into the centre of the clearing, "There!" Rad yelled, and was about to walk towards them when the minicons disappeared.
".....Where'd they go?" Max asked and started slowly walking towards the spot where the minicons had been a few seconds before.
"Max, I don't think that's such a good....." Hot Shot started, but before he could finish his sentence, Megatron appeared so close in front of the femme that her nose was inches away from his chest plate.
"Holy S#&!!!" Max yelled and tried to jump away from the Decepticon leader, however, he had already seised Max's arm and within a matter of seconds had spun her around, held her arms tightly behind her back and pressed the Star Sabre sword to the femme's throat.
Max struggled in the obviously stronger Decepticon's grip, "Wow, de-sha-vu..." She muttered, remembering how Starscream had used nearly the same hold on her.
Megatron pressed his blade harder into Max's neck, she could feel the sword biting it's way into her wires, however the Decepticon stopped before he could cause a fatal wound.
If Max could move her arms she would have punched herself for being so stupid.
"So, Optimus. I came here hoping that you would rise to a challenge, however that was only hope. Now I know you will come and fight me." Megatron said to Optimus.
"Let her go Megatron!" Optimus said, clenching his fists.
"Oh I don't think so Prime," Megatron said, smirking, "It is pure and simple. You follow me and I may decide not to kill her, you don't and she won't stand a chance. Even you should be able to understand that."
"Don't listen to that freak!" Max yelled, "Optimus, a b child /b would be able to sense TRAP in anything he says!!" She managed to add before Megatron slammed the side of her head with the handle of the Star Sabre with a blow so hard that she started to see stars before the pain hit her.
"Quiet." The Decepticon leader snapped at Max, then he looked back at Optimus, "I will give you 5 human minutes, if you have not arrived through my warp gate by then, this useless Autobot will die." At that, Megatron warped out, taking Max with him and leaving the Autobots feeling more anger towards him than ever before.
The Decepticon's warping was even worse than the Autobot's. In Max's already dazed state she felt as if she was being taken apart chunk by chunk, thrown across the world and shoved back together. Had the femme been human she would have thrown up when Megatron threw her onto rocky area he had taken her to.
It also didn't help when Megatron decided to step on her back as he gave some orders to Demolisher, who was back at the base, about re-directing the warp gates. Max couldn't exactly make out what he was saying but got the gist of it.
As soon as the Decepticon finished ordering Demolisher around and stepped off Max, the femme rolled over and managed to get to her feet.
"Has anyone ever told you you're....." Max started to say, but was interrupted when Megatron raised the tip of his sword a mere few inched from her face.
"If you value your life, you will not finish that sentence." Megaton said calmly to her, he then glanced over Max's head, which was not a hard thing for him to do. Max turned in the direction that he was looking at, Starscream was leaning against a large rock, looking like he had just arrived.
"Optimus has just entered the warp gate, and all the areas are ready Megatron." Starscream reported, "The minicons are in place also."
"Good," Megatron said, "Make sure she doesn't escape," he added, pointing at Max, "If Optimus plays any dirty tricks I will be back to kill her myself."
Max glared at the Decepticon leader, "OPTIMUS play any dirty tricks?!" The femme started yelling before she could stop herself, "What do you think this is?! You would have to be one of the lowest forms of life I have ever met!"
Max was about to yell more insults when her mouth was covered by Starscream's hand and the femme was dragged backwards. Megatron's optics flickered with anger and he suddenly swung the Star Sabre at Max. The sword sliced half of her wing right off, the one that didn't form her sword.
It took all her might plus the pressure of Starscream's hand on her mouth to keep Max from screaming in pain. Megatron laughed, "Pathetic Autobot." He said, then he warped out, leaving Max alone with Starscream.
Starscream released Max and moved away from her. Max turned to face the Decepticon, who was looking bored.
"Aren't you going to try and escape?" Starscream asked.
"Yes." Max answered, "But I'm not going to run, and I'm not going to hide."
Starscream smirked, "I was hoping you would say that." He said and pulled off his sword, "Or are you to weak to go on?"
Max grabbed her own sword, it blazed purple as she raised it into attack stance, "You wish." She said, grinning.
Both jets lunged forward at the same time, Max ducked under Starscream's first attack then aimed her own at the Decepticon seeker. Starscream blocked Max's sword with his own then aimed a kick at the femme's side.
Max only just saw Starscream's foot shooting towards her and somehow managed to remove one hand from her sword and caught the Decepticon's foot. However, with both hands preoccupied, even only for a second this left Max extremely vulnerable on all parts of her body.
Starscream took advantage of this, and punched Max in the stomach. The femme tried to ignore the pain, let go of Starscream's foot and spun around to attack the seeker with her sword. However, Starscream predicted Max's move even before she made it and already had positioned his sword for a block.
The two kept exchanging attacks and blocks, they were getting faster and harder as Max became more confident in her abilities. After 15 minutes of solid fighting Max and Starscream both aimed a strike at the other's head in precise formation, both stopping just centre-meters before being able to cause a fatal blow.
The two bots stood there, swords outstretched as if a mirror image of each others stance.
"You learnt my moves." Starscream stated.
Max kept looking at the Decepticon's orange optics and then frowned at him, "You held back."
Starscream smirked, "Yes, I suppose I did. But do you really think you would survive if I tried my best?" He asked.
"Let's see." Max replied and pulled back her sword into a fighting stance and Starscream did the same. The two stared at each other for a second, then suddenly Starscream lunged forward with nearly twice the speed as before. Max had barely raised her sword to block when Starscream changed direction and swiped at her side. The femme dodged it and went to attack the Decepticon when she noticed he was attacking her again. Max couldn't move fast enough to make an attack of her own, so she just kept dodging and blocking Starscream's.
After Starscream had made several attacks, Max had managed to dodge most of them, one sliced down her face, leaving a cut across her cheek and another bit into her arm, exposing a couple of wires.
Max was taking in all of Starscream's moves, working out a pattern inside her head. She couldn't see any, but as the femme ducked to dodge a high attack, Max noticed the Decepticon's right foot move slightly. It was very small, but Max decided to go on a hunch.
Without looking up, she jumped backwards, just as Starscream swung his sword to where Max had been a split second beforehand.
Starscream frowned slightly, but continued attacking. Max kept dodging, but watching the seeker's foot at the bottom of her vision. For each attack Starscream did, his foot shuffled slightly in a different direction.
The femme was waiting for the right moment to attack, it came when Starscream's foot moved forward then to the right. Max jumped up just as the Decepticon sliced down in a diagonal that would have cut Max's chest open. The femme pushed herself off Starscream's shoulder and landed behind him.
Before he could move, Max grabbed his arm that was holding the sword, pulled it behind his back and at the same time pressed her own sword onto Starscream's neck.
Max realised her move didn't work almost straight away, before she could position her sword Starscream had grabbed hold of Max's wrist, preventing the femme from moving her sword closer or even further away from Starscream's neck.
Both bots just stood there, slightly shocked and breathing hard. "Why haven't you killed me yet?" Max asked, "You've had exactly four direct chances to."
Starscream was silent for a second, "I'm surprised you noticed them." He stated, "Why haven't you started running yet?"
Max let go of Starscream's arm and took her blade from near his neck and at the same time he released her wrist. "This is too much fun." She said.
The seeker looked at her strangely, "You are absolutely insane." He said and raised his sword, "Again?"
Max grinned, "Hell yeah." She replied, then to herself she thought 'Man, I know he's a Decepticon, but that bot is cool!'
The two were about to go at it again when suddenly, Megatron warped into the area between them looking royally pissed off. Max moved backwards and gripped her sword tighter.
"What happened Megatron?" Starscream asked, but was completely ignored by the Decepticon leader.
Megatron turned towards Max, who glared at him, "Let me guess," Max said, "Optimus played a 'Dirty Trick'?"
"Any last words Autobot?" Megatron snarled, raising the Star Sabre.
"Gee, someone's mad. I guess he REALLY must have kicked your ass." Max replied, smirking at the enraged Decepticon.
Megatron let out an angry yell and raised his sword to strike Max. It was about then when the femme realised she was in a lot of trouble.
Max raised her sword in attempt to block Megatron's attack, but as the two blades were about to clash together, most likely destroying Max's sword in the process, Max felt something take over her body for a split second. It was as if something was giving her energy.
The two swords suddenly made contact, however Max couldn't feel a thing. She could see sparks erupt from both blades but for a few seconds it was as if she had taken the back seat inside her mind.
Max began to feel herself take control of her body again and the femme pushed back against the Star Sabre. Max gave one final heave, and with the help of some new found strength, sent the Star Sabre flying from Megatron's grip.
Max stared angrily into Megatron's optics before for a few seconds before realising that both him and Starscream were staring at her in awe. Max glanced at her arm that was holding her sword and noticed that both it and her entire body were letting off a brilliant purple light.
The femme swung the blade in front of her and watched it leave a trail of purple light, she could have stared at it for ages but Max suddenly felt a strange tingling feeling in the ½ of the wing left that Megatron had sliced off earlier. She looked at it and her optics widened.
"Woah!" Was all the femme could say as the missing half materialised to form an undamaged wing. Max also noticed that all the cuts Starscream had caused were glowing brightly and healing.
When the purple light faded, Max was left standing in front of a stunned Megatron and Starscream, completely undamaged. The femme felt a new power surge deep inside her, something seemed to control Max's movements although she could see through her own optics.
It was as if something had partially taken over her transformer body just before Megatron was about to kill her. Max swung her sword in a downwards arc and pulled it back up near her head, "Let's dance." She said, standing tall.
Starscream stepped forward and raised his sword, Max grinned and was about to start fighting him when a noise behind her caught the femme's attention. She turned just in time to see all the Autobots warp in behind her.
Megatron glared at the group who all had their weapons locked onto him and Starscream. "You'd better watch your back." He snarled at Max before warping out. Starscream gave her a blank look that the femme couldn't read before following his leader.
The Autobots ran over to Max and surrounded her, "Are you alright buddy?" Hot Shot asked, looking deeply concerned.
"I'm fine." Max answered, however none of the other bots looked convinced, "I am!" She exclaimed, "How did you guys go?"
They all explained to Max about how Megatron had split them all up to battle Optimus on his own. After Optimus had shown kindness to the Decepticon minicons they had turned to fight Megatron. The other Autobots had warped in and fought off Megatron using the Skyboom shield and then he warped off.
"And Alexis had found your location, so we came as soon as possible." Blurr finished.
"What I want to know is why on Cybertron aren't you even scratched?" Hot Shot asked, "I mean, Megatron was pretty peeved when he left, we all thought..... well never mind." He added, not wanting to finish his sentence.
Max was about to start lying through her teeth when Optimus interrupted her before she had a chance to, "I don't think that really matters, she is safe and that is what we wanted." Optimus said, "Max, do you think you could turn human or minicon and ride with me?" he asked.
The femme was about to ask why, when she noticed the strange look Optimus was giving her, "Sure." Max replied and was surrounded by a bright light. When it cleared she was standing in her human form.
All the Autobots transformed and Max climbed into Optimus's front seat. They had been driving for less than 10 seconds before Optimus spoke.
"Max," He said gently, "I want to know exactly what happened."
The girl was taken slightly aback by this question, but decided to answer truthfully, "Well..... after Megatron took me with him....." Max started and told Optimus the whole truth, all the while wondering how the hell he could manage to get her to say it after only asking once.
When Max had finished, Optimus was quiet for a few seconds, "We're nearly at the gate," He finally said, "I'm guessing you don't want me to tell anyone else?"
"Yeah, it was just to strange, if that didn't happen I would surely be dead by now."
"Alright," The Autobot leader answered, "No-one will know until you want them to, is there anything else you want to tell me?"
Max thought about several things that she was dying to tell Optimus, about Zord, Sideways acting EXTREMELY weird and even that she was beginning to see Starscream as a nice guy. "No," Max answered, "Nothing at all."
After they arrived at the base and all the Autobots had apologised to Rad, Carlos and Alexis for not including them, Max decided she would walk home to think. What she would think about the girl didn't know, but she had decided to try and make sense of her current life.
Wether it had been minuted or hours since she had stretched across her beanbag, Max didn't know. She was only brought out of her trance like state when she heard someone walk into the room. Max sat up to see James standing in the doorway.
"I've been banging on your door for the past 5 minutes." The boy stated, "I thought you might be unconscious or something."
Max looked confused, "How did you know I was in here?" she asked, getting up and stretching.
"Saw you come in." James replied, "Want to go for a walk?"
Max smiled, "Sure." She replied.
The two had been walking for about two hours, talking non stop when Max suddenly halted and grabbed James's arm.
"What is it?" The boy asked.
"Shhh," Max said, putting a finger to her lips, "I heard something."
Max strained her ears to try and hear any strange noises, suddenly a deer leapt in front of the two, scaring them half to death.
The deer paused for a second, looking at Max and James, pure fear lit up it's eyes as it glanced behind it and kept running.
"Holy cow." James exclaimed, moving to the spot where the animal had been standing, "That thing looked twice as scared as we were."
As soon as James finished his sentence, something clicked inside Max's head, if that deer was running so scared..... then something must have been chasing it!
Max's world was put into slow motion, she looked over to where the deer had ran from and through the trees, she could see a glint of metal from a gun. The girl didn't know how she could tell, but the gun was aimed straight at James, whoever was holding the gun would only be able to see the boy's shirt, which just happened to be brown.
Max suddenly rushed forward, not bothering to yell at James to move, she dove right at him just as a shot sounded out. Max impacted with the boy, sending the both of them tumbling through the dirt.
They stopped rolling, Max was lying on her back and James was on his stomach. The girl felt a fuzzy feeling crawling all the way through her, however she ignored it and got on her knees to look at James.
As soon as she touched him, James groaned and pushed himself up, Max couldn't see any blood and gave off a sigh of relief. She looked into James's face and could see that he was trying to talk to her, however, all Max could hear were low muffled noises.
The girl stood up and was overcome by a sharp pain in her stomach. Max put her hand over it and felt something strange, her shirt felt different to the soft material she had put on earlier that day. It was then that Max noticed that James was looking at her stomach, eyes wide and face whiter than snow.
Max lifted her hand slowly up to her face, for some reason it had become extremely heavy. The girl looked at her crimson hand, dripping with precious red liquid.
Max looked at James again, she suddenly realised what had happened. The girl's hand dropped and her legs had lost the ability to hold her weight, she fell towards the ground and lay in the dirt..... barely even noticing James kneeling over her, tears dripping down onto her face.
Darkness was clouding Max's vision and James's face began to disappear, covered by the black beginning to spread across her mind.
Max attempted to hold onto the last strands of light she could see, Max knew what was happening, but she also knew she needed to hold on for just enough time to say one last thing to James.
"I love you." She whispered, barely loud enough for James to hear, but he somehow managed to catch her weak words.
Just as the boy held her tighter, Max stopped struggling against the darkness and stopped the impossible fight to stay awake. Max felt as if she was falling into a black void as she watched the small amount of light she could see dim, and let go of her last strands of life.
End of chapter or story? Please tell me if you want this to continue or if you think it is a waste of space. I do have something planned in my head if people actually want me to continue.
Yes, I know I have been slack with this story, and it's probably a really bad chapter, soz people!!!
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