Transformers

Chapter Seven : Cruel Irony

"What!!!" Kim yelled.

Ron back peddled a few steps with his hands raised in defense.

"Ok Kim now keep in mind that I had no idea who I was at the time"

Kim calmed down and sat on the hood of the 'car' ready for an explanation.

"Ok, when I first got this body, I freaked out. I didn't know who I was or where I was, I woke up surrounded by robots, I completely freaked out and I ran… at that time I didn't know how to control my new body properly and I ended up blowing off one of Ironhide's arms…" Ron said with a cringe.

"…anyway I kept running until I finally lost them and I spent the next few days hiding in a storm drain trying to remember who I was… until HE found me"

"He? He who?" Kim asked.

"Starscream…" Ron answered, "…he's one of the Decepticons who we met on our way here, the jet… anyway I ran from him as well at first, but have you ever tried to outrun a jet? I'll tell ya it's not easy… eventually I gave up, but instead of blasting me he offered to help me"

"…and you believed him?" Kim asked.

"Well when I first woke up everyone was trying to restrain me and Ironhide even had a gun in my face telling me not to move… Starscream was the first one who actually tried to give me a choice in anything, I reluctantly took his offer… he taught me how to control my new body, how to transform and even gave me a name… I became Zortron."

Kim hung onto his every word, she could hardly believe all this was happening while she was living her life as normal.

"Starscream lied to me, he told me that the Autobots destroyed their home planet Cybertron, I even fought alongside Starscream when we were found by the Autobots, this time I blew off Ironhide's left leg. After that me Starscrem and Barricade went into hiding for a while before Starscream figured out that the power inside of me was the power of the Allspark… then he came up with a plan to revive the Decepticons that were killed four years ago."

Kim thought for a moment.

"Then… you mean theirs more than two out there?" Kim asked looking a little worried. The holo-Ron nodded

"Yeah, we went out to sea and recovered some of the bodies of the Decepticons that were destroyed four years ago… we could only find two of them though, their names are Devastator and Blackout. Starscream was able to siphon energy from my spark and use it to revive them. We found another called Bonecrusher but his body was too badly damaged, we couldn't revive him and we found no trace at all of Megatron… that's probably a good thing"

"So… what do these other two look like?" Kim asked.

"Well… Devastator is a Tank and Blackout is a Black-Hawk Helicopter… anyway a few months later I had a dream… I saw a school, hidden high up in the mountains. I told Starscream about it and he said not to worry about it. Later that day I came back to the hideout and everyone was gone. I activated my tracker and saw that they were in Japan, I went after them as fast as possible but I was too late…"

Kim realized when he was talking about,

"A school in the mountains… Japan… YAMANUCHI!"

Ron once again looked upset.

"The dream was one of my memories resurfacing, Starscream was afraid that it may lead to me regaining all of my memories so… he took the Decepticons and attacked Yamanuchi… by the time I got there they were gone and the school was in ruins, I don't know if anyone survived… but seeing the school in person triggered something in me, at that very moment I remembered everything, my name, you, everyone at school and I remembered Yamanuchi"

Ron looked truly upset, he had dear friends at Yamanuchi, Hirotaka, Sensei, Yori… Kim felt an urge to comfort him somehow, she considered hugging him for a moment before she remembered the last time she tried to hug him.

"As soon as I got my memories back I realized I was fighting on the wrong side, I approached the Autobots and asked them to forgive me… Optimus decided to give me a chance but I am still on rocky terms with them… especially Ironhide, he tries to find any little reason put me down. Most of the Autobots just ignore me, the only two I really have contact with is Arcee and Bumblebee… anyway that was two months ago, since then I've been with the Autobots, and I chose a new name for myself, Ronimus"

Kim let out a deep breath she hadn't realized she had been holding as Ron came to the end of his story. Ron looked out a the lake a sighed.

"Strange isn't it… without all the toxic waste, this place actually looks nice…" Ron said.

Kim looked around in confusion.

"Toxic waste?" Kim took a quick look around and finally realized where they were.

"Lake Wannaweep?!?"

Ron nodded.

"Yeah, the Autobots needed a new place to hide, I suggested this place… ever since the second run-in with Gill this place has been abandoned, and with the leftover equipment from telecommunication camp Ratchet can keep us hidden from the Decepticons"

Kim laid there for a moment enjoying the moment before she finnaly asked.

"So, why do these Decepticons want me?"

Ron shook his head.

"They don't want you, they want me! The Allspark still exists in some way, in me. We don't know why they want it at the moment but they may come after you to get to me. So I tried to keep an eye on you and I found the perfect way, you needed a car and I am a car, it seemed like the perfect match"

Bringing up te car situation made Kim remember something.

"Ron, thank you"

Ron looked at her in confusion.

"For what" Ron asked.

"For stopping Josh" Kim admitted.

Ron smiled and shrugged.

"Ah no problem KP, what are best friends for?" Ron asked.

On the inside Kim felt her heart weaken a little.

'F-Friend?' she thought to herself.

Kim tried to hide her discomfort by changing the subject.

"So Ron… or Ronimus, whatever, what do we do now?" Kim asked.

Ron turned back to her.

"Well first of all, call me Ron… secondly we need to go pick up your family… they may still be in danger, so lets go"

With a flicker of light the hologram disappeared and the drivers side door of the car opened invitingly.

Kim jumped off the hood and walked around, she hopped into the drivers seat and closed the door behind her. She waited in the car for a moment and nothing happened.

"Umm Ron? Are we going or not?" Kim asked.

"Seatbelt Kim" Ron said sternly.

Kim stared at the dashboard for a moment.

"You're kidding, right?" Kim asked. She was answered by silence.

Kim put her hands in the air.

"Ok, ok geeze" Kim aid as she reached around and pulled her seatbelt down clipping it into place. As soon as she did the car roared to life and Ron started driving himself.

As soon as they were out of the old camp area they were roaring down the highway back towards Middleton. The trip seemed oddly quiet until they reached the city area. Then Kim had to say something to break the silence. But before she could stop herself she asked the first thing that popped into her head.

"So, you seeing anyone recently?" Kim said and almost ended up slapping herself across the forehead.

"Nah, with all the Decepticon Autobot business I really haven't had the time for anything like that" Ron said as if it was all normal. He Hadn't noticed her discomfort.

"Then again my track record really isn't anything impressive huh KP?" Ron said again.

Kim felt like her heart was about to break in half right there and then.

'Nothing impressive!' Kim fumed

"Well what about us? Sure it wasn;t all great but I think we made a good couple" Kim said quickly. There was a moment of silence befoe Ron spoke again.

"Umm Kim… you make it sound like we were dating"

Kim blinked a few time.

"Ron… we were dateing" Kim said simply.

There was another moment of silence before…

"Hahahahahahaha…." Ron laughed.

He continued laughing before he realized Kim wasn't laughing with him.

"…haha… oh, you're serious?" Ron asked.

Kim couldn't believe it… he had told her he remembered the accident a while back so that means…

'…He remembers everything… except the fact that we were dating… now THAT, is what I call a cruel irony' Kim though to herself

Kim was about to say something else, but before she could the car suddenly shook violently and the air was filled with the sound of an explosion. Kim looked around and noticed a building to there right had a huge hole in it now, Kim turned to look in the opposite direction hoping to see what had caused it further down the street to her left she saw it, a large green army tank with a now smoking barrel.

"Devastator!!!" Ron shouted.

To Be Continued…

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This is only a sort chapter to explain what Ron had been doing for the last year.

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