Chapter 10: ghost
"Two years have passed since the Jasper incident and the police and the military are still looking for 22 year old Jackson Darby, 34 year old June Darby, 19 year old Miko Nakadai, 15 year old Rafael Esquivel, 21 year old Serra Justice, 22 year old Vince Satler, and Donnavon Peters. His age is unknown. In other news..."
"Arcee I was listening to that." Jack said as Shine Downs song Second chance came on. As the song starts playing, he decides to be quite and listen. The song goes like this.
My eyes are open wide, by the way, I made it through the day.
I watch the world outside, by the way, I'm leaven out today.
I just saw Haley's comet Julie, So why you always running place.
Even the man in the moon disappeared, somewhere in the stratosphere.
Tell my mother, tell my father. I've done the best I can.
To make them realize this is my life, I hope they understand.
I'm not angry, I'm just saying. Sometimes goodbye is a second chance.
Please don't cry one tear for me, I'm not afraid, of what I have to say.
This is my one and only voice, so listen close, it's only for today.
I just saw Haley's comet Julie, so why you always running in place.
Even the man in the moon disappeared, somewhere in the stratosphere.
Tell my mother, tell my father. I've done the best I can.
To make them realize this is my life, I hope they understand.
I'm not angry, I'm just saying. Sometimes goodbye is a second chance.
Here is my chance. This is my chance.
Tell my mother, tell my father. I've done the best I can.
To make them realize this is my life, I hope they understand.
I'm not angry, I'm just saying. Sometimes goodbye is a second chance.
Sometimes goodbye is chance, sometimes goodbye is a second chance.
"Glad I changed the station now?" Arcee asked with her innocent voice as they drove down the highway.
"I guess so. You know that song kind of tells me that we'll have a chance at actually getting our lives back."
"True but nothing will be exactly as it was before, you know that right?"
"I guess you're right. Now that the whole world knows about bot's and 'cons, who's to say they won't try to get our autographs once we get our lives back on track." Arcee gave a little laugh to that last comment before adding in...
"Then we'd probably be on the run forever."
"Ha, ha, ha, yeah. Hey what's that up ahead?" Jack asked as they started to near a parked, yet very familiar, Peter Build semi. There was a sign in the window that said make a right. So they did. After they had been going down the road for about half a mile, they saw an abandoned warehouse. The semi behind them turned on its turn signal letting them know where to go next. As they pulled into the warehouse the two saw five familiar faces.
"Hey burger boy, how ya doing." Miko said in an excited tone.
"It's been awhile Darby. So what did we miss?" Vince said in his usual tone of voice.
"Nice to see you guys again, and Vince. Hey where's Donnavon at?" Jack asked with a bit of confusion in his voice as he dismounted Arcee, allowing her to transform.
"My guess is he was either captured or didn't receive any one of the two signals we sent." Stingray said, further confusing Jack.
"Wait a second. There were two signals? All's we saw was Optimus sitting on the side of the road with a sign in his window."
"That's because the first signal was the song you heard before seeing me. I believe it was called Second Chance by a man that goes by the nickname of Shine Down. And I do believe that Donnavon had sent June and I a message other than the song." Optimus said as everyone started to look a bit confused.
"Donnavon sent us a code word threw the radio that he knew we could decipher easily. The code word was kryptonite shackles. Didn't Donnavon tell us that his weakness was a type of rock called kryptonite and that in the right amount it could weaken his powers exponentially." June said as to clear up what Optimus had just said. Just then they heard Second Chance start playing and knew Donnavon was there.
"That code word was to tell you that we need to get the team back together so we can disguise what our next move is." Donnavon said as he appeared in front of them with a puff of water vapor. William Fowler standing right beside him.
"Nice to see the whole team again." Bill said with a small smile.
"Nice to see you to Agent Fowler, what calls you to be in our presence?" Optimus asked as Bill turned around.
"Well I thought that I could help you with your current situation." he said as he pulled out a small file with the word M.E.C.H. labeled on the tab.
"We've had growing reports of M.E.C.H. sightings all over the U.S. the past couple of weeks now. And I'm hoping that I can convince Uncle Sam to wipe the kids records clean, and get you back on the allies list. Hang on a second who are those two?" Bill asked as he was pointing at Vince and Serra.
"For one the girl's Serra and the guy's Vince, there the two that left with us that day." Arcee said with a small look of disgust towards Vince. But just as usual Vince had no clue.
"Oh, well I don't really pay that much attention to the news. Okay the guys at the pentagon are going to start wandering where I am, everything about your past run ins with M.E.C.H. and everything we've learned about them over the past two years is in that folder. Let's go Donnavon, I don't want the higher ups to know about my little meeting with 'The enemy'." Bill said emphasizing 'The enemy' with finger quotes. It only took Donnavon a couple of seconds to get Bill back to the pentagon and back. This time he used his super speed to travel past Mach four in order to be there and back without drawing to much attention (if anything he called even more attention to himself by traveling 10,000 miles over the speed limit. I'd like to see a cop catch someone traveling that fast. Cops: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!).
Once he was back they started to discuss the plan, but couldn't come up with a good one. So they decided to get back on the road for the time being, and use the song when they need to get back together. Donnavon did have to remind them to listen to the tone of voice, because other people like the song too. After saying their goodbyes all autobots and humans left.
Meanwhile on the Nemesis
"I told you Soundwave our leader is offline, cu put, no more." Knockout said sure of himself that he was right. Soundwave only pointed at his master lying on the exam table and played back a part of a conversation he had recorded.
"Dark energon does wanders my liege, I wander why we didn't look for it early on in the war." Knockout heard himself say as the playback finished.
"Yes I did say that, what were you doing listening in on our conversation anyways?" The other bot only had a blank screen as the answer. Then he pointed at the body again, this time with a small menacing movement, telling Knockout that he had used his last warning. He gave out a small growl before moving to get a small shard of the blood of Unicron.
"As you wish, general." He came back a couple of minutes later with a shard of the diamond looking crystal. He then moved towards Megatron's life less carcass, stopping right beside his fallen leader and griped the shard with both hands, plunging it right into the center of the larger bots spark chamber. With a burst of darkness Megatron started to rise, knocking back his colleges a few inches. But his colorskeam automatically changed to purple with silver highlights around his pelvic, foot, hand, and face areas. Even the ion blaster on his right arm was upgraded. Then with a jolt Megatron came online.
"I AM GALVATRON!" he yelled at the top of his vocal possessors. Then everything went quit as he closed his eyes and leveled his head out with his body. Then his eyes darted open and he started to give out orders to Soundwave.
"Soundwave, tell me all of what happened while I was incapacitated." Soundwave's vid. screen automatically turned on a recording of the news. As Galvatron watched the reports, his normal facial features slowly tuned into a smile full of glee and deception.
"Soundwave, walk with me. You have to fill me in on more than that." With that Galvatron and his General exited the room, leaving Knockout to his thoughts. This just doesn't seem right, I'll have to bide my time.