Anything's Possible

Chapter 7: Weakness

I was still curled up in Sideswipe's lap and he was softly stroking my hair. It was still dark out; currently about three in the morning. Wheelie and Brains had stayed asleep during my whole mental breakdown episode and were still sleeping. Sideswipe and I were the only ones awake. I don't exactly know if he knew I was awake, but I was perfectly okay with the silence. It wasn't one of those awkward scenarios where there's tension in the air, no, there was no tension in the air, just peaceful silence.

Sideswipe took an exit on the highway and a couple of minutes later, we came to a stop at a cliffside overlooking the ocean. Sides gently ushered me out of him and onto the grass. He picked up Wheelie and Brains and put their sleeping forms on the ground next to me. Sideswipe transformed and began to stretch out his limbs from being in his car form for a while. I wondered what it must feel like to be cooped up in car form like that.

"Does it hurt?" I asked.

Sideswipe gave me a confused look, "Does what hurt?"

"Being in your alt. mode for a long time."

Sides made a so-so gesture with his hand, "It doesn't really hurt. The better word would be uncomfortable. It gets uncomfortable after a while."

I nodded and watched as he leaned against a nearby tree. I got up and walked over to him slowly. He looked down at me and watched as I climbed up his leg and sat on his thigh, my back leaning against his chassis. Sides had taught me a little bit about their anatomy a little bit back before this whole Cemetery Wind fiasco happened. He seemed a little bit surprised at my sudden action but he soon relaxed and cupped a hand over me to make sure I didn't fall.

"So, what do you do?" Sideswipe asked.

"What do you mean what do I do?" I questioned.

"I mean do you have a job or something?"

"Oh, no, I don't have a job. I'm a dancer though. Remember when you drove me somewhere the day Cemetery Wind found us? Yeah, I went to my dance studio to practice."

Sideswipe's eyes widened slightly, and he smiled, "Can you dance for me now?"

I choked on air, "No, Sides, it's late right now. Maybe later though."

"Sure thing, Princess." He smiled cheekily down at me.

"Princess?" I questioned. First sweetspark, and now Princess?

"Mhm! Fits you nicely."

I smiled lightly and leaned my head back on his chassis, "Thanks, I guess."

I suddenly had a thought about Sideswipe's brother, Sunstreaker. Was he the same as Sideswipe? Did he have a different paint color? I wouldn't know, I've never met him or heard barely anything about him, but maybe Sideswipe would tell me.

"Hey, Sides?"

"Yeah, Sky?"

"Can you tell me about Sunstreaker?"

His head snapped down to me, and we made eye contact for a bit before he looked away to the ocean and smiled.

"Ahh, Sunny." He chuckled lightly. "He always hated that nickname, but I still call him that anyway. We've never been separated this long, though. He's always hated humans; he thought they were oily and squishy. Which you are, but- "

I punched his stomach armor, "Hey!"

Sides chuckled and ran a thumb over my back lightly, "I'm just joking with you. Anyways, like me, he's very protective of the people he cares about. When you meet him, he'll definitely need to get used to you, but I think he'll like you."

Before I could respond, there was a loud roar of a high-performance engine. Down the road, there was a black Lamborghini, five other cars and a van.

"Shit." I hissed.

Sideswipe picked me up and set me down next to Brains and Wheelie, who had awoken when you could hear the engines.

"What the frag is going on here?!" Wheelie yelled.

"Yeah, we were trying to recharge!" Brains added.

"Not now, Cemetery Wind found us," Sideswipe growled. He transformed and motioned for us to hop in and we hurried to do so. He sped away from the cliff, Lockdown gaining on us very quickly.

Eventually, Lockdown got close enough to ram into Sideswipe, sending him skidding off the road. Sides transformed and stood in front of the three of us, his twin blades sliding out. Wheelie and Brains skittered in front of me as well.

"What are you two doing?" I whispered.

"Protecting you, warrior goddess." Wheelie said proudly. "You remind me of Mikaela. I called her warrior goddess, so now I'm calling you that."

Sideswipe stiffened when Lockdown transformed. "Give me the girl, and I won't kill you," Lockdown hissed at us.

Sideswipe snarled and pointed his blades towards Lockdown. "Never gonna happen. Also, we both know that's not true."

Lockdown chuckled darkly before the familiar form of Savoy stepped up, "You don't know what that girl is capable of." He shot a look to me that made me want to crawl into a hole and hide, "Hand her over without trouble, and this will all be over."

"I'm not letting you take her for your sick experiments!" Sides sneered at them.

Savoy shrugged, "Very well," he pointed at me, "we'll take her ourselves."

Everything happened in a blur. Lockdown charged at Sideswipe, sending them both crashing down to the ground with a loud sound. The Cemetery Wind agents closed in on me, Savoy in front. Their guns were pointed at me, and I was frozen in fear and shock. They started advancing on me, guns pointed at my head. Some of the guns were pointed at the two Cybertronians positioned in front of me, though.

Lockdown slammed his fist down in front of me, sending me scrambling back away from his fist. He growled and swiped at me, knocking me down to the ground. Sideswipe growled loudly and tackled him, swinging his blades at his face. One of his blades found purchase in Lockdown's shoulder, ripping out cables and spilling energon onto the grass.

Three soldiers came up and grabbed at me, pinning me to the grass. I struggled against them, trying to free myself, but they didn't budge. I let my body go limp under them after a second before I realized something. My powers.

Okay, Skylar, focus. I brought my hand up as much as a could under the soldiers' weight and thought about which soldiers, I wanted to do this on. I swiped my hand up and to the right, my hand glowing, and then the weight on my body was gone. No soldiers, no nothing. They went flying into one of the cars, blue light surrounding them while they flew. I gasped, getting as much air as possible into my lungs. More soldiers came at me, but I flung them away with my powers.

Savoy picked up a walkie talkie and said something in it before a loud static, high pitched sound came from it. Sudden blinding white pain filled me to the brim. My vision turned blurry, my mind not being able to focus on one thing. I screeched and covered my ears with my hands, trying to get away from the sound. None of the other humans were affected by this sound though. Through my blurry eyes and ears that felt like I was underwater, Savoy looked to be ordering something to the soldiers.

"Skylar!" I made out the familiar voice of Sideswipe calling out to me.

Suddenly, the ringing stopped, and my vision cleared slightly. I could pick up sound clearer now, and the pain was subsiding. I rolled onto my side and looked at the slightly blurry figures of the Cemetery Wind soldiers. Some were rummaging around in the backs of the cars, others keeping their guns trained on me. When I looked over to the massive robots fighting, my vision cleared, and my ears didn't feel like I was underwater anymore. Lockdown was about to blast Sideswipe with his blaster, but I pushed one of my hands forward towards Lockdown and he went flying. He landed with a loud crash a good ways away from us. Before he got up, I slammed him into the ground for good measure.

Sideswipe looked over at my small form on the ground and rushed over. The soldiers started to shoot at him, but he growled and slammed one of his blades in the ground next to them. He picked me up and cradled me to his chassis, sparing cautious glances towards Lockdown's seemingly unconscious form.

"Are you okay? I head you scream, and I thought something was wrong." He looked over my form worriedly.

"Something was wrong. Some weird sound frequency came from a walkie talkie and then I was in so much pain that I couldn't see or hear anything. It didn't affect the other humans though, and that's- "

I cried out as I heard the sound again and the pain came back. I covered my ears with my hands and curled into myself. Sideswipe kept saying my name and asking if I was okay from what I could hear.

"Give… girl… our weapon… special..." I made out of some agent speaking to Sideswipe presumably.

I felt his chassis vibrate as he growled at them. Suddenly there were muffled gunshots and then I was falling. I hit the ground painfully, groaning from the combined pain. Hands grabbed at me and dragged me towards a car.

"Sideswipe!" I desperately yelled for him, my voice sounding weaker than normal. Suddenly I was shoved in a car, the sound dying down enough to let me see and hear a little bit clearer. There were two guns pointed at me as we drove away from Sideswipe. He was down, being tased by the looks of it. Suddenly, there was a prick in my neck, and I started to get sleepy very quickly. The last thing I saw was the form of Lockdown getting up slowly.


Sorry for that cliffhanger, but a new chapter will be out very soon, I promise. A little more information about Skylar's weakness will be mentioned next chapter, so stay tuned.