a/n: hey guys! so a burst of ideas hit me and i'm back from my slump! whoo!

alice: your slump of what? one day?

me: shut up! oh, guys, this is my alter-ego: alice! be nice and say hi alice

alice: hn.

me: =.= anyways! onward with chapter 9! it was you guys that helped me squeeze this one out of my tired brain :D

alice: so enjoy it, damnit!

me: calm down alice...


Chapter 9: Parents

It was undeniably the Fallen. How he looked so much like the bots we seen in the tomb not only a few minutes ago and how he looked so different. His eyes were red, blood red, and they looked greedy. My breath hitched in my throat, he stared straight at me. His face twisted into a sick smile and he reached for me.

"You," He hissed, a shiver running up my spine, "you're what we need. Come to me."

His fingers curled and beckoned to me. I glanced at Sam, who looked like he was going to have a coronary at any second, and looked back at the Fallen. I shook my head and hid more of my body behind the pillar.

"Oh, don't be like that," He tilted his head to the side and was speaking to me almost sickly, his tone dripped sweetness and made me feel sick, "Come to me, sweetie."

My jaw clench. I really wanted to scream right now. Glancing back to my brother, he was mouthing 'Run!' and 'Serpentine!' over and over. I blinked twice, telling him that I understood, and looked back at the Fallen.

"That's it, come to me," I could practically feel his hot breath. Ew. I heard Sam knock on his pillar once...

Twice...

Three times...

I counted to five and made a mad dash to my left, zig-zagging through the pillars. I heard Sam screaming 'Move!' over and over, probably to Mikaela.

"Grah! Where did you go, girl?" I heard the Fallen roar. He was probably more scary than freaking Megatron, and Megatron killed me!

A shiver ran up my spine. I don't really feel like dying this time, thank you very much.

Looking over my shoulder, I saw Mikaela and Sam struggling to catch up to me. I reached an arm back and felt Mikaela grip it, pulling both her and Sam to my side. The thud is what I felt next, a very large thud. Then the sound of turbines working. Looking up, I saw the Fallen flying over us. Fear gripped me, did he see us? He kept going, though, to my relief. Sam pulled Mikaela to the side and she pulled me with her. We reached a small house and Sam burst open the door. It was a dirty shack with a wall entirely made of glass bottles. Really? Who does that? Sam sat both me and Mikaela down on a crate and walked to the opposite side of the room. Mikaela grabbed and hugged me tightly, her grip like a vice on my waist. She put her head on my shoulder and buried it into the crook. I knew she was terrified, we all were. All I could do was smooth her hair and rock back and forth. She was trying to muffle her screams with my shoulder, I don't know if it was working. My ears were ringing to much. The adrenaline from earlier had pushed me, her, and Sam a lot closer to where Optimus was and I was kind of grateful for it.

I saw Sam pick up a sword and pushed it into a hole.

"What are you doing?" I whispered harshly. He put a finger to his lips and I watched as he brought the sword back. Looking through the hole, I watched him closely as he peeked through the hole. After a moment, I saw him jerk back and reach a finger into the hole (that doesn't sound dirty at all...) and pick something out of it. It looked like a... mosquito? Why were they here? It's to dry. It was squirming in his hand and he reached with his other hand, the index finger and thumb grasping the head. I heard a high pitch noise and Sam removed the bug's head. The footsteps outside stopped and Mikaela brought her face from my shoulder, all of us looking fearfully at each other.

The roof collapsed all of a sudden, Mikaela letting out an ear-drum busting scream. Seriously, it was like she was screaming bloody murder! I grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her out from a large piece of wood that fell on her. It wasn't that heavy but it did get quite a few scratches on her. I got clipped with pieces of debris, but nothing life threatening. Sam was already out of the house and down an alleyway. I followed him with Mikaela in tow. We hid in the alleyway for a moment and then ran across a street. A dreaded Decepticon stopped us. All of us flew to our backs and Sam pushed Mikaela to the alleyway. I didn't budge when he attempted to do the same with me.

"Sam, they want the both of us. I'm not leaving you!" I told him and he stopped. We both faced the Decepticon and a compartment in the front opened. It spat out two figures, "Mom! Dad!"

We scrambled to help them up. They gripped us and still had their heads down, so I figure they don't know who it was yet.

"Damn! We go to Paris and then get abducted!" Mom shouted, brushing herself off, "Next time, I'm picking where we're going, Ron!"

"You were the one to pick Paris, Judy," Dad said half-heartedly. The Decepticon roared and hit the ground.

"Mom, Dad, you guys have to get out of here!" Both their heads snapped up and they finally took notice of me and Sam.

"Jess!" Mom threw herself at me. I was carefully watching the Decepticon behind her.

"Mom, mom! You need to get off!" I pried her arms off of my shoulders and pushed her behind me. Dad ran up to Mom. Sam was in front of us, holding his... sock?

"Hey! Hey!" Sam yelled at the Decepticon. Mom and Dad were yelling hysterically behind me and I waved my arms at them, trying to shut them up.

"Shut up, you guys! Sam's saving our butts!" I growled over my shoulder.

"Don't look at them, it's this you want, huh?" Sam waved the sock. Did it.. Did it have the Matrix dust in it? Why would he do that? I caught a glimpse of yellow and my eyes glanced towards the alleyway Mikaela was in. On one of the buildings was Bee in his robot form, creeping quietly up on the Decepticon. I saw Sam tense and then relax a little, I think he saw Bee. Sam began to back up and the Decepticon followed him, "Okay, here it is. You want it? Come get it!"

The Decepticon lurched towards Sam.

"BEE!" I couldn't help it, I couldn't stand seeing my brother in harms way like he was. Bee took that as a cue and leapt from the building onto the back of the Decepticon. I stepped forward to yank my brother out of their way. So far Bee was winning, blasting him and punching the crap out of him. I wanted to cheer him on but my voice got stuck. There was something behind them, it looked kind of like a panther. It got into a crouching position and leapt.

"BEE!" It wasn't me this time, Sam screamed it while cutting off the circulation in my arm. It was actually really painful. Bee looked back at the last second and landed a blow to the panther's stomach. My breath was still being held, I wanted Bee to win desperately but the favors didn't look to good. He breifly stopped to let down his face mask. Now he was serious.

The panther slipped and gave Bee the upper hand. After wailing on it for a moment, Bee had one hand on the panthers tail, the other on it's hind legs, and ripped the spinal cord right out of it. I felt slightly sick as I watched their equivalent of blood run down the spine. Bee then turned and used the spine to his advantage on the other Decepticon. He wrapped it around the head and twisted, the Decepticon's head coming off with a distinctive 'pop!'. Then, it was all over. Gasping in a breath I had held for a while, my parents finally moved to grip Sam in a hug. Bee lifted his face shield and kneeled in front of me, a concerned whir emitting from him. I blinked several times and shook my head, looking up into his baby blue optics and smiling a little.

"I'm fine," My voice was a little hoarse but was there quietly, "You kick ass pretty well, you know that?"

His eyes light up a brighter blue and I saw his chest puff out a little. A smile tugged on the side of my mouth and then I saw Mom running to me. She tackled me in a hug and nearly took both of us over.

"H-hey, Mom," I patted her back.

"Oh Jess! You look so grown up! How've you been? What's wrong? What's going on?" Mom was firing off questions thirty at a time. Sam came over and grabbed her shoulder. He had Dad behind him.

"Mom, this isn't the time or place. You guys gotta get out of here!" Dad's head snapped up.

"No! Not without you!" Dad grabbed Sam by the shoulders. I grabbed one of Dad's.

"Dad, you guys gotta go! Bee will keep you guys safe!" I tried reasoning with him. He turned to me.

"No! You two are my children, I am not going to lose you! I won't!" Mom looked down at Dad.

"Ron, we have to run. They know what they're doing. We don't!" Dad blinked, taking in what Mom had just said. He looked at both me and Sam.

"You come back, you hear me?" We both smiled and nodded, pushing them towards Bee.

"Don't stop, Bee!" Sam said when he saw Bee drive off. He looked at me and Mikaela ran over. He clasped her hand in his right one and mine in his left, "Let's go."

Mikaela gulped and I nodded, now determined to make sure that my parents were okay. If it had just been me, my brother, and Mikaela, I probably wouldn't be as pissed at the Decepticons. But they had sunk to a new all-time low in dragging my parents into this. I really wanted to sock them now. Sam led the way and we all ran straight into where we heard the gun-shots and explosions going off. We ran behind a wall and I peeked out. I saw Major Lennox. Waving my hand, he caught sight of it and nodded. I turned to Sam.

"We need to run across."

"What?" Mikaela all but shrieked. I covered her mouth with my hand.

"Are you nuts?" My brother hissed.

"Yes," I nodded, "Lennox and Epps are over there and they'll tell us how to get to Optimus. We need to go. Now."

I released Mikaela's mouth and they looked at each other before looking back at me and nodding. I nodded in return and crouched at the side of the wall. Lennox held up three fingers.

"Okay, when I say go, follow me!" I whispered harshly. I felt Sam's hand on my lower back and I knew he understood. Lennox held up two fingers now. Watching in bated breath, a Decepticon flew by us and landed with a thud to our left, his hand reaching up where his head used to be. Lennox held up one finger and jabbed his thumb in his direction quickly and repeatedly. I nodded to him and took off.

"Go!" Sam and Mikaela were right behind me. I slid on the hot sand and got up close to the wall where Lennox was. Panting heavily, I felt a slight tingling in my side. I so did not need this right now! Lennox turned to my brother.

"You got the Matrix?" Sam held up the sock, "What the hell is this?"

"It turned... to dust..." Sam said between pants.

"And you're sure it will bring him back?" Epps questioned. Even I doubted my brother right now. We needed the Matrix, not some freaking pixie dust!

"Positive," My brother said with more confidence than I had right now. Lennox told us to hush and pressed us all against the wall. I heard something talking, like in a foreign language, and the words sounded jumbled but somehow, I understood. He was speaking to fast, but I heard 'Harvest', 'Matrix', 'Optimus', and 'Fallen' loud and clear. It sent liquid ice through my veins. Lennox and Epps shot at it but did little.

"I told them to bring the rain," Epps said as he sat back down. Lennox nodded and turned to us.

"We'll take you to Optimus, but you guys need to keep up, okay? Stay on my ass," He turned back around, "What did you tell them to hit?"

"The orange smoke," There was billows of orange smoke beside us. You've got to be kidding me. Lennox and Epps shared a look, "What? It wasn't my best shot!"

They were quiet again and all I heard was 'Run!'. I gripped Mikaela's hand and Lennox grabbed ahold of her other one. Sam veered off to the side.

"Sam!" I screamed but Lennox held me back. I saw a Decepticon aim his blaster at my brother, "No!"

It hit him. Sam did a flip in the air and landed about 2o feet away from initial lift off with a thud. I stared wide-eyed at him as Mikaela made a mad dash towards him. Shaking my head, I got up and ran to him. Mikaela was talking to him while Lennox was doing CPR. I gripped Mikaela by the shoulder and shook her.

"Mikaela, Mikaela! Stop!" She struggled against me but it was in vain, "He's gone."

I don't think I've experienced anything worse. I guess this was how Sam felt when he lost me. So hopeless, so guilty, so... angry. Not just at the Decepticons, but at myself, at the situation. No wonder Sam wanted to be "normal". After losing a sibling, you don't want the situation to repeat itself. Well it did, but with the wrong sibling. I touched Sam's arm and gasped, the tingling in my side increased 1o fold. Gripping my side, I felt myself lose conciousness. I fell to my side beside my brother and I heard Mikaela scream before I blacked out.


Shaking my head, I'm going to give someone a stern talking to about all this damned sand! Correcting myself, I stood up. Shaking my hair out of all the sand, I heard something.

"Jess!" I felt my brother practically tackle me to the ground, "W-what are you doing here?"

"Well, I don't know Sam," I shrugged and turned to him, "All I know is that you're dead."

"I'm what?" He asked, not really believing me. I shrugged.

"Don't believe me all you want, talk to them," I pointed to the Primes that were walking up to us.

"Samuel Witwicky," The one in the middle with the deepest voice called out. Sam squeaked and gripped my arm. Did my brother have to be such a girl sometimes? "You have fought for our last descendant with courage and dignity-."

"I had a little help," Sam nudged me. I just shook my head.

"-We know. We've been watching you both for a long, long time," The leader smiled. Sam looked confused and I just laughed softly, "You're sister and you are very special, moreso than you think. And Sam, you haven unlocked your destiny."

My eyebrows knitted. Sam already unlocked his?

"Your destiny was to defeat the Fallen. By resurrecting Optimus, you are defeating the Fallen. You have found the Matrix to have it turn to dust," The leader pointed to the sock that was still in Sam's hand, "But that was it's purpose. The Matrix is not found, it is earned."

Well, that explains a lot.

"Now, return to your friends and family. Go back and merge the Matrix with Optimus' Spark. It has and always will be your destiny."

I saw my brother begin to disentegrate as well as I was. I looked up at the Leader of the Primes, "What is my destiny."

Before me and Sam flashed out, I heard a faint 'Only time will tell.'


Gasping, it was like Mission City all over again. My lungs ached for oxygen and suddenly I was wrapped in someones arms, their face buried against the crook of my neck.

"Didn't I tell you specifically to not die on me again?" I choked out a laugh and brought my arms up to hug Bee back, "I thought I lost you again..."

He pulled back and I saw tears flowing easily from his eyes, relief in his eyes. I wiped them away and smiled.

"I'm not going anywhere," He smiled and kissed me passionately. I pulled away and looked at my brother who looked like he was just getting up. Bee helped me up and I nodded at Sam, who looked at me, "Do it, Sam."

Sam looked at me, nodded, and ran over to Optimus. I walked forward a step or two and watched, hopeful that it would work. Sam lifted both his hands above his head and brought down the Matrix into Optimus' Spark. I saw the gears begin to turn and a breath of relief escaped me. Optimus coughed and rolled to one side, looking at Sam who had scrambled to the ground.

"You brought me back?" Sam nodded, "Thank you boy, for keeping your faith."

Sam smiled and nodded, I heard the noise of turbines and looked up, gasping. The Fallen was coming and coming straight for Optimus.

"Optimus, watch out!" Unfortunately, my warning was in vain. Optimus was still to weak to move out of the way. The Fallen pressed a foot into Optimus' back and pushed him down. My eyes widened, it was my night mare. The Fallen cackled and snatched the Matrix. He turned and locked eyes with me. Before Bee could reach me, I was snatched into the Fallen's hands and he took off.

Well, dreams do freaking come true!


a/n: well, it wasn't the best...

alice: the whole movie itself isn't the best! don't worry, this one's got a head full of plot bunnies for the third installment (pats my head)

me: Shut it! you'll give crap away!

alice: oh boo-hoo. I won't ruin anything!

me: uh-huh

alice: anyways, the poll! old rust bucket ironhide is still in the lead with 15 votes, dr. hatchet has 11, sides has 7, sunny and sides together has 6, jazz has 5, and sunny by himself has 3

me: yep! oh, i just realized something...

alice: whats that?

me: you share the same name as the decepticon that was trying to attack sam and them at the beginning of the movie

alice: ...

me: DECEPTICON!

alice: no, no, no! wait!

me: (gets out Ironhide plushie and activates the cannons)

alice: (starts laughing) what is that little thing gonna do?

me: (aims and shoots a very large hole in the wall next to alice's head

alice: what the frag? (runs and hides)

me: (begins to laugh) oh, before I leave you guys, here's another question since Ironhide won last time!

Who's better: Ironhide or Optimus

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