Sorry for the wait! I've been flattening my fingers on my new story which is co created by my friend Dragonriderwarrior called Feline by Nature. In thirteen days nine chapters have been produced and so I have not had as much time to write the next chapters of this and edit Pure Spark. Anyway I hope you all enjoy!
Chapter 9
Museum
Ironhide and Optimus sat in front of the museums main entrance while the rest of the team fanned out around the building. The humans were already working on retrieving the harvester. All the while the two mechs were trying to figure out what the mural had meant. They got nowhere though so after a few minutes both mechs fell into content silence.
It was then that they both heard a supped up engine power up behind them. Shifting their wing mirrors they saw it was Knockout who was now parallel beside Optimus and Ironhide on the other side of the Prime.
"Sweet rims… 24 calibre, you're real heavy duty… Just like my friend here." Knockout said brining attention away from himself and towards the black armoured truck speeding towards them. Missile launcher primed and ready to fire.
Optimus acted first when the missile was launched. Catching the explosive device he only just stopped in time for the hard shell of the missile to crack the glance. Startled Optimus stole a glance in to see the three humans looking at him worriedly. Turning back he saw Ironhide in a brawl with the blue mech. But now Knockout.
He only needed to look down to see him. Energon pole primed.
Mediterranean
"I have to help them!" Oce declared as she watched what was going on. This was her harvester and she had to make sure it was destroyed safely.
Aerith sighed from her crystal prison in front of Oce. Her daughter was becoming relentless. She could do it but I would only last for so long. Her planet took most of her energy so she could only do so much… But she still didn't want to lose her daughter.
And she said that last bit allowed didn't she?
"Mother… You're not going to lose me. My home will forever be the ocean but I want to help my friends on land. With something I might as well of caused. Please mother. How about this I can have legs for… five hours a day and then it's back to my tail and back here. You're not going to lose me. Mother I love you and Marina with all my heart but I can't stay trapped here when my friends might just need me!" Oce said her words and tone pleading for her mother to understand.
Aerith gave a low sigh. However Oce couldn't see her slightly lower her face in resignation. If she were to move her helm any lower than the northern polar ice cap were likely to hit one of the continents surrounding it. She didn't want to start another ice age by accident again.
"Optimus!" Oce suddenly yelled. Aerith panicked looked towards the portal showing the events transpiring at the museum. It seemed a smaller red mech had electrocuted the Prime and knocked him unconscious.
It was now or never.
"Mother!" That was all Oce had to say before beams of energy shot her from her mother giving her the ability she needed.
And one other.
"Go my child!" Aerith called. Oce nodded and allowed herself to teleport. Good thing now she had pedes she could teleport on land as well.
Museum
Knockout was just about to shock the Prime again when Oce arrived. The femme not having used her legs in over two centuries fell to the ground with a sharp thud, but was still able to get upright quick enough to bring her palms forwards and shoot a nice large blast of artic cold water at the red mech. Preventing him from electrocuting the Prime. Who she would admit she did have quite a major crush on nowadays.
Freezing him solid.
"Don't you dare, hurt my friend!" Oce yelled making all stop and look at her.
Optimus who had been coming around at that point was certainly awake now. "Oce!" He cried out, not sure what to think about the fact that his friend now seemed to be the owner of a pair of legs.
Oce smiled before pushing of the ground with her servos so she could stand, all be it wobbly on her pedes.
"Whoa! This is gonna take a while!" She exclaimed as she had to wave her arms around like wind mills for balance. Even the webbed membrane between each of the three claw like digits on her pedes spread out to give as much traction as possible.
She would've said something but Knockout had been able to get out of the ice and charged at her.
No one saw it coming.
Knockout gave a strangled cry when he felt himself come to a jerking halt. Something had just gone right through him.
Looking down at the object he saw the femmes servos wrapped tightly around a golden staff. The other end coming out between the wheels on his back strut.
The femme had stabbed him with a fragging Trident!
He was then pulled close so Oce could whisper in his audio.
"Hurt my friend like that again and I'll make sure I don't miss your heart." He let out a pained cry when she twisted the Trident a full ninety degrees before pulling it back out leaving a jagged plus sign from where the hooked ends had caught the metal.
The red mech fell to the ground unmoving. Seeing this his partner breakdown charged at her forgetting Ironhide who was standing and watching in awe at his little sister.
In one swift movement she'd ripped his arm off.
"GAH!" He yelled as he clutched his shoulder energon and sparks flying from the injury.
He looked to her only to be smashed back by something solid. He collapsed to the ground with a pained moan. Looking back up wearily this time he saw what she'd hit him with.
She hit him with his own arm like a club!
"He's a lesson for you two. Don't mess with an Athenian warrior. MOTHER!" She yelled.
A moment later the two cons had vanished into identical flashes of light.
Oce moved quickly in sub-spacing the Trident and running to Optimus' side. By some miracle she didn't actually collapse.
"Oce?" Optimus asked stunned at the fact Oce had effectively beaten the slag out of two cons in her first conflict since her human life.
"Sorry. Would've gotten here sooner but I may or may not of accidentally teleported to he-he a shopping centre a mile away first… Yeah. Whoops." Oce said shyly as she helped pull the Prime to his pedes.
It was at this point that Jack and Raf came out. "Optimus! Soundwave got the harvester!" Jack cried making Oce's helm along with the other bots who had since joined them look towards the unmanned drone as it speed away. Harvester in its grasp.
"And security have Miko!" Raf followed. Oce then looked down at the humans in concern as her fear for the young female spiked.
"What!" Bulkhead yelled as he prepared to go in for Miko.
"Bulkhead wait!" Oce exclaimed as she pressed a webbed servo to his chassis. Stopping him from going further.
"Huh?" Everyone asked.
And then they realised she actually had pedes.
"Whoa! Oce! When the slag did this happen!?" Ironhide exclaimed as he rushed over to her and scooped the femme into his arms.
"Aww come on big brother! I can stand on my own just fine!" She said squirming out of his grasp and onto the ground with another loud thud.
"Wait could she do this the whole time?" Jack asked surprised about the little detail.
"Nope! Mother gave me these when we saw Op get electrocuted that first time!" Oce clarified as she began her transformation sequence.
Only not the one any of them expected.
In a flash of white light the form of Oce vanished and in her place sat an eighteen year old girl. Her hair was a deep chocolate brown with electric blue tips which travelled all the way down to the ground and along the floor by some way, her eyes once silver now were a light brown with a ring of silver in the middle of her irises. She looked up at everyone and the moment they looked lower the whole team turned round massive blushes on all of their faces.
Oce confused looked down at herself and gave a shrill squeak. To put it simply she'd reverted to the clothes she'd had on before Shockwave had turned her into a femme. Effectively a ripped piece of cloth around her private area. Everything was left bare to the world.
"MOM!" Oce yelled only to hear a chuckle over the bond and the burnt and tattered fabric was replaced by a mid-length royal blue sun dress with silver trim, her impossibly long hair tied up in a thick plait. "Sometimes she has too good a humour for my good." She muttered as she once again stood up seeing as her new found legs has a habit of collapsing in on themselves. She looked back up at the bots with a warm smile which was happily returned.
"I'll go get Miko you lot go find the harvester. I'll be back in about three hours tops." She saw them looking at her confused until she pointed at the torn leather sandals she was wearing. "A girls got to have shoes." Arcee smirked at that one and transformed allowing the young woman to clamber on and hold on for her life as the cobalt blue femme speed away.
"Well wasn't expecting that." Ironhide chimed in still recovering from the shock of seeing his younger sister walking around. If not like a drunk monkey but walking none the less.
2 hours later
She'd received some strange looks but finally Oce had a pair of shoes she was comfortable with. Her sandals which she had decided to treasure had apparently aged like they would've if they had been there for the past two centuries so of course an eighteen year old human female walking around like a drunk Manatee (That had been one hilarious birthday party.) and wearing sandals which looked like they'd been half burnt and have bleached by the sun would of course raise some eyebrows.
And there was the fact that Oce didn't even know what an automatic door was.
Four glass doors she'd walked into thinking they weren't there, multiple windows and she would admit she had mistaken a manikin for a human posing.
Thus came the need for Arcee's intervention.
And she thanked Aerith. She didn't even know what a 'trainer' was!
But finally they were back at the museum and Oce was used to walking again. Even with the odd stumble due to her new shoes.
When she made it there she put up her facade and walked in having heard Miko talking about a history report.
"Excuse me is a young… Miko! Why didn't you come home!?" Oce yelled surprising both the young female who whipped around to look at the human form of Oce in shock while the guard just looked dumbfounded.
"And you are?" The guard asked.
"Oriel Pridon I'm so sorry about this. Miko said she wanted to go out for some air and never came back. I've been looking for her for the last six hours. Miko when we get back home I'm going to teach you the importance of having your phone on you at all times!" Oce declared as she handed the girl the pink phone which she had found on the floor. Recognition dawned in the young girls eyes along with a great deal of relief.
"Hey Oriel! Sorry I wanted to work on my history report but I lost track of time and got locked in! Then this guy drags me in here!" Miko groaned pointing at the guard who suddenly didn't look all too pleased at Miko's jibe.
"Miko! Please show some respect for the man he is just doing his job." Oce scolded making the teen duck her head.
"I assume you know one another?" The guard asked to which Oce nodded.
"Yes sir. You see Miko here is an exchange student from Japan that I and my family are housing. She's been with us a few months and we've learnt she has a thing for getting lost and losing track of time. My deepest apologies but I must be taking Miko home. She has school in the morning. As well as a history report to finish." Oce spoke calmly but then a shiver of worry went down her spine when the guard grinned slightly.
"Well then perhaps you can tell me what this history report was about. Mrs Pridon. You must know plenty about ancient Greece." The guard said not knowing he was going to regret it.
It was Oce's turn to smile like a demonic shark now. "Why gladly." She growled out while Miko's eyes went wide.
Something told the human she was about to learn the darkest secrets of ancient Greece and then some.
3 hours later
The guard sat unmoving has he had for the past two and a half answers. Oce had been gentle with her facts at first but they had soon turned darker. The one most scared however, was Miko. Her eyes had happily widened to the size of dinner plates some time ago, when Oce was talking in way too much detail for the average human should know about an unknown torture device called the Kiga. Apparently there was a way of turning a human inside out using a long since extinct arachnid called a Kilenco spider which had a nasty habit of folding an animals body until it snapped and liquefying the internal organs. 'A two part bowl of bloody mess' were the older females exact words as she went into detail about how the spiders were used. Over the course of a full year to slowly rip the person in half. But only enough for the spiders to get in and slowly turn the victims organs to mush.
"I hope I've enlightened you to the ways of ancient Greek torture and executions now me and Miko must be on our way. With that Oce and an all too happy Miko left the stunned guard, who was unlikely to move for some time.
"Was all of that true?" Miko asked but then saw the look of mourning on the older teens face. "Oce?" She asked.
"My eldest brother was executed like that. For giving me a piece of bread during my seven weeks of starvation for defending myself. I was forced to watch for an hour each day as he was slowly ripped in half… He was awake and alive until the last month… And then it was just me being forced to watch him rot." Miko fell silent as the two continued through the museum and out towards their waiting transport.
When Miko saw Bulkhead her mood instantly sky rocketed. "Bulkhead!" She cheered happily as she jumped in but realised Oce hadn't followed. Looking back she saw why. Oce had reverted to her merfemme form and was dragging herself towards a large fountain out front. Her eyes almost bugged out of her head when she saw that the moment the blue and silver femme touched the water her whole form turned into water. Looking at her as she turned to look at the younger girl, Miko could barely back out the smile on the water beings face.
Miko gave a single wave before Oce's form fused and disappeared from sight.
With a relieved sigh that the ordeal was over Miko fell back in the seat and grinned at Bulkhead. "You would not believe what I'm going to be able to put in my report. Stuff not even the greatest architects or the internet knew! Oh and of course how ancient Autobots met the Greeks!" Miko cheered as Bulkhead drove away.
"Err Miko I don't think that's going to get you into college." Bulkhead explained, not predicting the torrent of facts the young Japanese girl was set to unleash.
And there you have it! My brain is mush from all the revision I'm being set and my parents are relentless in making me do it. Thank you all for reading. If you have any questions review and they will be answered. Thank you and I will try and get another chapter out soon!
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