Sorry guys, Ive been busier over break than I expected. So, now we are gonna learn just what happened to Rachel and company. Lol here you go, Chapter 8
Chapter 8
For a split second everything was dark and then the world tilted around Rachel as she flew through the air. She screamed as the ground dropped below her, she started to fall, hoping she wouldn't break anything or worse, die. She landed, and she landed on something hard. She groaned, every part of her body hurting. Then she realized what she landed on.
"Oh, Bee, I'm sorry!" she exclaimed seeing the Autobot under her.
She pushed herself off Bumblebee, and rolled on to the ground.
"You okay, Bee?" she asked.
Bee made a positive noise and Rachel took it as a "yes."
She laid on her back in the sand, for it was yellow-brown sand on the ground. The second thing she realized was the scorching heat.
"Oh, God," she groaned pushing herself up.
She sat up and looked around, trying to figure out where they were. She looked around for only a few seconds and realized they were in a desert. There were random outcroppings of rock scattered around the desert floor. Then she saw Sam he was groaning in pain and holding his right hand, which Rachel noticed looked severely burned. She got up, her legs trembling, and ran over to him.
"Sam!" she called. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I think so," Sam called back.
She got nearer to him, she saw his hand was burned, and it wasn't good.
"Sam!" Rachel heard Mikaela yell, it sounded further away.
"Where are we? Simmons!" Sam called back.
"Hey! Yeah!" Simmons called back from on top of dune.
Rachel ran after Sam as they ran toward Mikaela and Leo.
"You guys okay?" Sam called.
"Yep!" Mikaela called back.
"Hey! I think we're in Vegas!" Leo yelled.
Rachel rolled her eyes
They climbed up a outcropping of rock where Jetfire was standing. Simmons met them up there. Rachel watched as Mikaela wrapped Sam's injured hand with a piece of cloth.
"That really, really hurt. You're just lucky that I didn't get hurt. People could have gotten killed, okay? And if I would gotten hurt you would have heard from my-" Simmons said to Jetfire.
"Oh, shut up," Jetfire said leaning down to Simmons."I told you I was opening a space bridge, it's the fastest way to travel to Egypt."
Egypt! Rachel thought.
"What? When did you...When did you tell us? You didn't tell us anything! You didn't tell us anything! Why are we in Egypt!" Sam yelled, angry.
"Don't you get snippy with me, fleshling! You were duly informed!" Jetfire said sitting down on the rock.
Rachel decided at this point Jetfire had to be ADD or something. One minute he talking the next he's opening a space bridge and transporting you to Egypt.
"Can you just stop for a second? Can you focus? Can you tell us why we're in Egypt, so we can all have a bit of semblance and peace of mind?" Sam said in a level tone.
Jetfire started to get up.
"This planet was visited by our race once before, by our earliest ancestors, millennia ago. They were on an exploratory mission to harvest Energon, the life blood of our race. Without it we'll all parish, oxidize and rust, like my wretched self!" Jetfire said. "Do you have any idea what it's like to slowly fall apart and die!"
Rachel rolled her hand, trying to hurry Jetfire, but it was clear, he was in no hurry.
"Let's not get episodic, okay, old-timer?" Simmons said.
"Beginning, middle, end. Facts. Details. Condense. Plot. Tell it," Simmons said making various hand motions to emphasize his point.
"Somewhere, buried in this desert our ancestors built a great machine, it harvests Energon. By destroying suns," Jetfire said looking up at the Sun.
"Destroys suns?" Sam asked.
"You mean blow 'em up?" Leo said.
"Yes, you see in the beginning, there were seven Primes, our original leaders. And they set out in the universe, seeking distant suns to harvest. The Primes set out with one rule, never destroy a planet with life, until one of them tried to defy this rule. And his name forevermore was the Fallen," Jetfire said.
He held up his hand, creating a hologram image showing a Transformer that must have been the Fallen. He was still in a Cybertronian form, so Rachel guessed it was before they started to scan cars and such.
"He despised the human race, and he wanted to kill you all by turning on that machine," Jetfire narrated.
Rachel saw a massive metal Cybertronian-looking machine. The image changed and Rachel saw seven Cybertronian figures standing over a piece of metal that was in a twisted shape and had a blue middle that was glowing.
"The only way to activate it is with a legendary key called the Matrix of Leadership," Jetfire said.
Then the glowing piece of metal -that Rachel thought was very beautiful, if you could describe it that way- floated to the Fallen, who grabbed it. The image changed to many Cybertronian figures fighting each other on the desert around the machine.
"A great battle took place over possession of the Matrix. The Fallen was stronger than his brothers, so they had no choice but to steal and hide it from him," Jetfire narrated as Rachel saw the seven Primes stabbing the Fallen with their metal-rod weapons and grabbing the Matrix.
The image changed again to the seven Primes standing on a ledge on mountain in the desert.
"In the ultimate sacrifice, they gave their lives to seal the Matrix away, in a tomb made of their very own bodies," Jetfire said.
The Primes huddled together, melting together, and an explosion followed. The Primes had disappeared and only rock remained.
"A tomb, we cannot find," Jetfire finished.
The hologram ended and Jetfire turned back to them.
"Somewhere, buried in this desert, that deadly machine remains. The Fallen knows where it is, and if he finds the tomb of the Primes, your world will be no more," Jetfire said.
"Well, that's encouraging," Rachel stated sarcastically.
"Okay, so how do we stop him?" Mikaela asked.
"Only a Prime can defeat the Fallen," Jetfire said.
Sam looked at him curiously, "Optimus Prime?" he said.
Jetfire leaned all the way down, looking Sam in the eyes.
"So you've met a Prime? Why, you must have met a great descendant, is he alive, here, on this planet?" Jetfire asked excitedly.
Sam looked downcast, "He sacrificed himself to save me," Sam said.
"So, he's dead. Without a Prime it's impossible, no one else could stop the Fallen," Jetfire said, Rachel thought he sounded sad as well.
Now Rachel really missed Optimus, she looked at the ground, so many things had gone wrong. Then she looked at Sam and she could almost see wheels turning in his head: he had an idea. She hoped it was a good one.
"So, the same energy that's gonna be used to reactivate the machine, could that energy somehow be used to reactivate Optimus, and bring him back to life?" Sam said.
Rachel's eyes widened and suddenly her optimism rose, it was a good idea!
Now only if it works, though, don't get your hopes up, she thought to herself.
"It was never designed for that purpose, but it's an energy like no other," Jetfire said looking at Sam.
"So, then how do you get us to the Matrix before the Decepticons get to me?" Sam asked.
"Follow your mind, your map, your symbols! What you carved in the sand, it's your clue. When dawn alights the Dagger's Tip, Three Kings will reveal the doorway!" Jetfire said.
Rachel repeated that in her head, so as not to forget it, it was a riddle. Riddles weren't always easy for her, and this one was just...
"Find the doorway! Go now! Go! That was my mission. It's your mission now. Go before the Decepticons find me and find you," Jetfire said shooing them away.
Rachel followed Mikaela, Leo, and Simmons down the rock, trying not to fall, she could hear Sam behind her. They all found Bumblebee and the twins parked not far away -as cars- and got in.
As they were driving Simmons called someone on a phone. Rachel was again in the backseat between Leo and Mikaela. There wasn't really a road, just a wide flattened line on the sand that was much like a dirt road. Simmons ended the call.
"Okay, so here's what my CIA contact says. Ancient Sumerians used to call the Gulf of Aqaba the 'Dagger's Tip'," Simmons said.
"So, that's the Dagger's Tip," Sam said.
"It's part of the Red Sea, it divides Egypt and Jordan like the tip of a blade. Twenty-nine-and-a-half degrees north, 35 east, here it is," Simmons said showing Sam a GPS.
Now things started to make sense to Rachel, they had to go to this place to figure out the rest of the riddle. However, she was still confused on how Sam wanted to pull this all off.
"First thing we've got to do is get Optimus to the Dagger's Tip," Sam said as if reading Rachel's mind.
"How are you gonna get him halfway around the world?" Leo asked.
"I'm gonna make a call," Sam said looking at Rachel.
Rachel smiled, knowing what he meant.
"I think I can help with that," she said.
