The whole car ride was silent, except for Simmons talking no stop about the legend mixed with his own theories. I look out the window watching the desert around fly by. Once we stop, I quickly get out, putting on my hoodie feeling cold, even if it is about 90 or so degrees out.
"It's gotta be around here somewhere." Simmons says looking down at his device. We all stop and stare at a large temple like structure that's built into the mountain. We run towards the temple looking for the entrance. After a while we find it on the opposite side facing away from the sun.
"Do you guys see the size of this?" Leo asks craning his head up.
"You see this?"
"Spectacular." The twins comment. Sam and I begin to jog towards the large door way trying to look for any sign of the Matrix.
"It's here somewhere, guys." Sam say looking around the empty room.
"Yeah, why? 'Cause we're trusting Grandpa Blackbird who doesn't even know what planet he's on?" Leo says looking around.
"In his defense, this is the biggest doorway I've ever seen in my entire life." Simmons' voice bounces of the walls. Leo stands next to him looking at the doorway.
"Okay. Well, that's great. Let me do a quick search, all right?" Leo then does a three sixty spin. "Nope. Ever cross your mind, guys, that archaeologists have been here before? There's nothing here." I stop near an ancient painting, running my fingers over it, feeling a spark in my chest.
"Real life is heartbreak, despair, kid. Sometimes you get to the end of the rainbow and the leprechauns went and booby-trapped it!"
"I'm listening to you? You live with your mother!" I look at them after the stop bickering.
"It has to be here... I can feel it..." I take my hand away turning around to look at Sam sitting on the floor next to me.
"It's not over." Sam says looking up from his hands.
"It is over. It's done." Leo demands. I clench my fists in sadness and frustration.
'It's here I just know it. I'm not gonna let Optimus die.' I think to myself. Sam stands up looking at e with sadden eyes, placing is good hand on my left shoulder.
"Why are we still listening to, little punk-ass? I mean, what you ever done for us except ding my rim?" Mudflap says.
"Killed Megatron. How about that?" Skids adds in, arguing with his brother.
"Well, he didn't get the job done, you know what I mean, 'cause he's back now..."
"Are you scared?" Skids gets up into Mudflaps face.
"Guys, calm down!" I tried to calm them down but it doesn't work.
"Scared? Scared of your ugly face!" Mudflap starts to smack his brother.
"I'm ugly? Well, we're twins, you stupid genius!"
"Bring it, then!" Skids tackles Mudflap before getting pushed away. "Get off me!" The both start to fight in the small space, causing everyone to move out of the way.
"I'll change your face around!"
"I'll get all up in that ass!" Mudflap goes for a tackle but Skids back flips over him, landing in front of me. I jump to side and roll away, trying to avoid being crushed to death. Mudflap manages to get his green brother by the shoulders and throws him at the wall with the painting, leaving a hole and almost hitting Sam in the process.
"Stop it!" I scream out to them. " Bee!"
"You like the way that feels?"
"That didn't hurt."
"You like that, don't you?" Bee comes up behind Skids, grabbing him from his neck. "Come on, Bumblebee!" He starts to claw at Bee's hand trying to break free. Mudflap tries to back flip kick but gets grabbed by the neck in mid-air.
"Bumblebee, listen." Bee then smacks the two together before throwing them outside. I get up and dust my self off before looking up at him with a thank full smile.
"Thanks Bee." He nods in response. I walk up to the hole in the wall calling Sam over. The felling the same spark from earlier but stronger. Sam and I start to remove the broken pieces to see metal with the cybertronian symbols placed on them.
"Oh, my God. The symbols." Sam traces the lines before looking at Bee. "Bee! Shoot it." We all step away as Bee gets closer with his canon, shooting the wall, smoke and dust flying everywhere. We come back when the smoke sets and walking into the small cave, with the deceased Primes.
"This way." I say walking to the left going under the arm of a Prime.
"How do you know?" Mikeala asks. I look back at her for a moment before looking forward.
"I don't know... I just have this feeling in my chest." I stop in a chamber looking at the faces of each Prime.
'They kinda look familiar.'
"These are the bodies Jetfire was talking about." Simmons states.
"Yo! Yo!" Leo's voice echo's off of the bodies. I look down at a hand when my eyes widen. I start to pull on Sam's sleave catching his attention.
"Sam, we found it. We found the Matrix." Sam turns around pointing his flashlight into the hand before smiling to himself.
"The Matrix." Sam bends down, hands extended, ready to grab the Matrix. He hesitates before looking at me then the Matrix. I nod my head watching him pick it up gingerly before it turns to dust in his hands.
"No." I say bellow a whisper before falling to my knees staring at the pile of dust. Sam runs his hands through the remains chanting 'no' before looking at me with sad eyes. I look down at the dust, with tears welling in my eyes.
'This was the only way to save Optimus...' I close my eyes to keep myself from crying in anger.
"Thousands of years, turned to dust." Simmons says.
"This isn't how it's supposed to end." Sam lets it slip through his fingers before looking at me. I look around when I hear the sound of a plane in the distance.
"Hear that?"
"Lennox..." I say looking back down to the pile of dust. Leo and Simmons disappear, leaving Sam Mikeala and I alone.
"You can't bring him back, guys. There's nothing left." She says rubbing Sam's back.
"Look! Look around you! We didn't just go through everything we went through for no reason at all, to just have it end like this. There is a reason that we are here. The voices and the symbols in my our head led us here for a purpose." Sam says looking down.
"Sam, give me your sock. We're taking these remains with us." I say digging them up. He hands me his sock and helps me fill it up until there is nothing left.
"Everyone is after us because of what we know, and what we know is that this is going to work."
"It has to."
"How do you know it's gonna work?"
"Because we believe it." I tie the sock and hand it to Sam, placing it in his pocket. We get up and run out of the building and into the sunlight.
"Sam!" Simmons calls out. In the distance I could see Optimus' body being parachuted down into a near by city. We walk over to Bee, passing Simmons on the way.
"You think you can bring him back to life with that pixie dust?"
"Absolutely."
"Let's go boys." I hope into the drivers seat with Sam in the passenger and everyone else in the back, heading towards Optimus. A flare is shot up into the sky, signaling their location.
"That's them, right there. See the flare?" Sam says pointing in the distance.
"Yeah, I see it. Punch it Bee!" He accelerates faster before swerving to the right as a missile hits the side of the road.
"Katana!"
"Sam!" More missiles begin to attach us, making the dirt fly everywhere. Bee drives onto a construction zone with the twins not far behind. I look at the side mirror, seeing Starscream in the distance.
"Oh, God. Please, God! Please." Leo starts to freak out in the back seat.
"Leo, stop freaking out. Stop freaking out." Mikeala says trying to hold on to her seat.
"Shut this guy up, huh?" Simmons throws his hands up in annoyance.
"Give him a fucking break. We all freaked out the first time we did this." I say holding onto the wheel.
"Please, just let me live, just let me live!"
"Shut up and let him drive!"
"Everyone just shut up!"
"Just stop screaming..."
"All right, that's it!" I turn around to see Simmons taser Leo in the neck before he passes out. "I can't take that guy anymore." Starscream then transforms and lands next to us, shooting at the dirt, missing completely.
"Hide in the dust! Use the dust!"
"Stop fucking backseat driving Simmons!" Bee drives through the dust, loosing Starscream, before stopping next to a sand dune. We all get out coming up with a plan.
"We've got to split up. Bumblebee, you're the decoy." Sam says pulling Mikeala out. "You lead the Decepticons away, all right? We're gonna get Optimus." Sam points out behind us.
"I'll help draw their fire with Huey and Dewey there." Simmons points at the twins. "You get to those soldiers. I hope that dust works, kid."
"Thank you." Sam says before pulling Mikeala away.
"Be safe Katana." I look and smile at him.
"I will, promise." I take off in the direction Sam and Mikeala went. Hopefully this works. No, it needs to work. We run over a couple of dunes before we stop looking down at a village. A flare then comes out from the far side.
"That's them." I say out of breath.
"We got a couple of miles." We then start to run down the hill but I trip over my own feet, rolling down the hill all the way to the bottom, getting a mouth full of sand. I spit the sand out before groaning in frustration.
"Kat come on. Get up." I quickly get up, leaving my hoodie behind and continue to run.
"We got at least a mile." Sam says pulling Mikeala along. We run in between buildings for cover, dodging all the Decepticons as we can. I look around trying to find us a better hiding spot but the structures are all falling apart. I look around, getting my cannon ready just in case something tries to sneak up on us. We run up the side of a building seeing Starscream circling above us.
"Guys, go to that building. I'll draw out their fire then head that way when the coast is clear.
"What, no your staying with us." Mikeala says holding onto my arm.
"Listen to me, Sam needs to get the Matrix to Optimus before the Decepticons get him."
"Their also after you, so your staying with us Katana." Sam then pulls me with him to the small hows with Mikeala going in first.
"Get down. Get down. Get down." Mikeala crouches near a window covered in color full glass bottles while Sam is across from her.
"Once it's clear, we run for Optimus as fast as we can, okay?" Sam says holding onto Mikeala.
"Don't worry, I got ya covered."
"What if it doesn't work?" Mikeala kept repeating but Sam calms her down. I hold out my cannon signalling hem to stay quiet as giant footsteps shake the ground. Mikeala places her hands on her mouth silently crying. I start mentally praying for our safety. Sam then grabs a bar and pokes a hole into the damaged wall, looking at what's outside. I can hear missiles being fired and things exploding near by. My breath hitches as the foot steps are right outside of the house. The sounds sounds the Decepicons make putting me on edge. Sam backs away from the hole before pulling something out. He shows it to me, looking for an answer. I take the small insect like bots head between my fingers before pulling it, ending it's life. Every stays quite before the roof of the building gets ripped off revealing a pissed of Starscream. I get up pushing Sam and Mikeala out of the way before he reaches his hand and tries to grab us. We fall back, breaking the wall behind us, staring at the con. I aim my cannon but Sam pulls me up, ushering us to leave.
"Run, run, run!" Sam starts to push Mikeala away as I turn around, shooting at the cons. We run up the steps at the side of the building before jumping off landing onto the next after the cons shoot at us making bricks fly every where. I groan a bit before getting up and firing at the cons again.
"We need to move, now!" I say grabbing them by the arms before falling through the roof of the house, landing in the sand. We get up and continue to run, pulling each other along into another building. Sam looks through a broken window, swatting away some chickens.
"We got a half-mile. I don't think the soldiers know we're here." I look at him before staring at the battle ahead of us.
"Trust me, they know where here." I pat him on the shoulder before running off, jumping over fallen items and cars. I look back to see Mikeala slowing down.
"Hey, come on." I say grabbing her hand and pulling her along. We jump over more objects before I stop and stare at the distance.
"Oh, my God. Sam! Your parents!" I yell out to him running to them, with the others not far behind.
"Sam! Katana!"
"Dad!" I hold up my cannon, trying to shoot the Decepticon behind them but it points it's gun at them making me scowl and transform back to my hand. Another con jumps over a building landing next to Sam and I causing us to fall into the dirt, and shooting at Mikeala.
"Wait, wait!" Sam says getting up and shielding Mikeala. I lay om the floor holding my side as the con faces towards Sam.
"Please listen to me! I want you to run! Run!" Ron says looking our direction. I get up in a crouch position holding onto my stomach as I cough into my other hand.
"Dad, just stop! They don't want you, they want me!" Sam holds his hands up looking at me before looking at the con. I stand up, limply making my way over to him before the bot slams his chain in front of me making me fall back again.
"Wait!" Sam screams out.
"Sam Witwicky." The con says his name facing away from me.
"Don't hurt them." He says puling out the sock. "This is what you want. You don't hurt them." I stand up getting ready to shoot the con as I see Bee come up from a building signaling me to be quite. I nod my head as I stare at the con waiting for the right moment.
"Go! Go!" Judy says pleading.
"Please, stop." The con then points its cannon at me smiling wickedly.
"Just don't hurt them. I know what you want." I say catching it's attention.
"Katana, don't." Sam says looking at me with his hands up.
"I know that you need me since I'm stronger than the Matrix." I say placing my hand on my side.
"Don't do it, Katana, Sam..." Sam makes his way over to me holding up the sock. "They're going to kill us all anyway!"
"Here's what you want right here." Sam looks at me smiling before ducking down.
"Bumblebee!" Be jumps onto the cons back catching it off guard giving me time to shoot at it's weak joints making it fall down. I run over to Ron and Judy, getting them out of the way. I turn around and start shooting again as a counter attack so the damn con can't fight back. Bee then knees it in the face making it fall onto the floor staring at me. I take the opportunity and shoot it in the face but it moves and the shot hits it's arm. I turn to look at Bee but another con comes by and starts to shoot at him before climbing onto his back. Bee's tries to grab onto the cat like Decepticon but fails every time. I roll to the side, avoiding Bee's feet, and land behind him. I quickly shoot the con making it stop moving for a moment, giving Bee time to grab it, Pulling out it's spine before throwing it next to a building. Bee turns around and starts to fight with the other con. He picks him up before one punching it in the face killing it off for good. Be lifts up his battle mask and looks down at us.
"Bee?" I say.
"Yeah." I walk up to him and smile, before looking at Sam and his parents.
"Let's go." I say before running between more buildings, holding onto Judy.
"I don't know what's going on, but we've got to move!" Ron says looking around the corner, before an explosion is set off behind us making us run in the opposite direction. "There's got to be a way out of here!" More explosions go of around us making us back up into another building.
"Get back, get back!" I say pulling Ron and Judy away. "Against the wall! Against the wall!"
"Bee! Bumblebee!" Sam calls out. Bee appears next to us placing his hand on an arch way. "You get them somewhere safe, all right?" Sam looks over at his dad and holds onto him. "You've got to get in the car and get to safety."
"No, this isn't up for discussion! You're my son! You're my son!"
"I know. Dad... "
"We all go together! We all go together!" I walk up to Ron and place my hand on his shoulder.
"Dad, stop, okay? Get in the car. He's gonna get you to safety. You know, you run. You don't stop, you don't hide, you run. You hear what I'm saying, okay? We'll find you when you're safe." Sam says letting go of his dad.
"No."
"You've got to let me go, Dad. You have to let me go. You have to."
"Ron." Judy says stepping forward. "Ron. Ron, let him go." Silence falls over us before he looks at me and Sam.
"You come back! Come on." Bee transforms and waits with doors open.
"Ron! Mikeala! Mikeala!" Sam pulls me and Mikeala to the side once his parents got in.
"Go with my parents."
"I'm not gonna go without you." Mikeala says looking Sam in the eye. I look over at his parents before closing he door and smiling at them.
"I'll bring him back to you guys I promise. Bee take them away." I say before He starts the engine and drives off.
"I love you Bee. More than Anything in the world." I turn around and run towards Sam and Mikeala
"Let's go!" I yell grabbing their arms and running to Optimus. We stop in the open noticing Ironhide and Elita-1.
"Ironhide!" Sam calls out.
"Follow us to the pillars. We'll take you to Optimus." Elita says before getting shot by a con.
"Elita!" I scream reaching out my hand. Sam pulls me back as tears start to form in my eyes.
"Get out, Sam, Katana! Get to the pillars!" Ironhide demands as he stars to fire at the on coming cons. We look at each other before running towards Optimus' location. We keep our heads down and dodge the on-coming Decepticons. I stop into a knelling position firing my cannon at the cons closer to us before getting up and back flipping away from a falling con. Shots are being fired at us from all directions giving us the opportunity to use the dust as cover. When the dust clears I turn around and see Megatron heading for us.
"Megatron is on our tail Sam." I call out as I run fast passing Sam and Mikeala by a little. Once we see the other soldiers, Sam begins to wave his hand around. I hear a loud explosion behind us causing me to turn around to see Megatron shooting at us, the explosions catching up behind us. Everything seems to be in slowly motion as we continue to run forward, towards Lennox. Sam and Mikeala fall to the ground before groaning and getting up, and waving to catch the soldiers attention. I look at a group of Decepticons before shooting at a pillar, making it fall on top of them, killing them instantly.
"Come on, Katana!" Lennox calls us over as we run to him. "Come on, get in here!" I slide into the sand before rolling over and staring up at Lennox. He offers me a hand, pulling me up to my feet.
"You're a sight for sore eyes." I say smiling at him.
"You better have a good reason for us to be here." He says looking at me and Sam.
"Where's Optimus?"
"He's right over there, across the courtyard." Lennox points to the side.
"I got to get to him right now." Sam says holding up the sock.
"Not with an air strike coming." I place my hand on Sam's shoulder looking Leonnx in the eyes.
"We can make it if we leave now." We fall silent as growling can be heard near by.
"Go. Back, back, back, back." Lennox says pushing us against the wall. I cover my head as some debris comes flying over us.
"Incoming!" I look up to see Jetfire transform in mid air, rolling onto the floor before attacking the Decepticons. "Behold the glory of Jetfire!" He yells slicing it in half with his cane. "Now let me show you how we brought the pain in my day!" He then punches the con in the face, pulling off it's head to finish it off. The ground starts to shake as a scorpion Decepticon comes out of the sand and attacks Jetfire, digging into his stomach. Jetfire manages to pull it out, falling to the ground and smashing the cons head in. "I'm too old for this crap."
"We're gonna make a break through the B's on my command, okay?" I nod my head holding onto Sam's hand, holding onto the sock filled with the Matrix dust. "You guys stick with me, you understand? You stay on my ass."
"Will do sir." Now we play the waiting game.
"I hope these F-16s got good aim." I hear Epps say.
"Yeah? Why is that?"
"I told them to hit the orange smoke." I look to my right and see orange smoke coming from a small container.
"You mean that orange smoke." I say sarcasticlay.
"It wasn't my best toss, okay." I shake my head getting up and pulling Sam.
"Run!" We all start to sprint across the yard as the missiles are being drooped right behind us.
"Incoming!" Epps calls out. I look to the left and see Optimus' unconscious body laying near by. I pull on Sams hand heading right towards the Prime, everything around me slows as I can hear my own heartbeat.
"Sam! Katana!" We continued to run feeling the heat of the explosions on our backs.
"Run!"
"Die!" I heard Megatron say from behind us before the ground next to use gets shot sending us flying into the sky. I let go of Sam's hand as I get flipped through the air not saying a word as Sam cries out to me, before landing on the ground motion less. I land next to him snapping my neck on the pillar, the last thing I see is Sam's face looking at me before everything goes black.
I wake up in an unknown place filled with nothing but metal. It's so colorful and pretty.
"Where am I?" I ask looking around hearing my voice echo.
"Katana?" I turn around to find Sam looking at me with sad eyes.
"Sam... are we... dead?" I ask walking up to him.
"We are." I pull him into a hug crying into his shoulder.
"We couldn't save him..." I feel his arms wrap around me.
"There has to be something we can do right?" I ask
"Kat..."
"We can't let him just die..."
"We have been watching you a long, long time." I pull away from Sam to see seven giant figures walking up to us.
'The seven Primes?'
"You have fought for Optimus, our last descendant, with courage and with sacrifice, the virtues of a leader, a leader worthy of our secret. The Matrix of Leadership is not found, it is earned. Return now to Optimus. Merge the Matrix with his spark. It is, and always has been, your destiny."
"I-I don't understand..." I say bellow a whisper before a female figure catches my attention.
"Look at how much you've grown."
"Mom? Mom!" I run up to her pulling her in for a tight hug. "Where have you been all my life." I say crying into her arms.
"I've been here waiting for you my little flower. But now isn't your time. You must go back now and save Optimus. The Matrix won't work if only one of you is present, now go and say hi to Ron for me while your at it." A blinding white light fills my vision before I wake up abruptly, breathing heavily before coughing. I sit up before looking over and smiling at Sam. He extends his arm out waiting for me to grab it. I latch onto his hand and slowly get up with his help.
"Welcome back stranger." I say jokingly.
"Same to you." I look at the Matrix in his hands, seeing it glow a beautiful blue.
"Let's save Optimus." I walk over to his body, climbing up his arm and standing on his chest waiting for Sam. Once he's up, I place my hands on the Matrix making it glow brighter, and count to three with Sam before we plunge it into his chest were his spark would be. Optimus' eyes gain their beautiful blue hue and his body starts move. Sam and I quickly get off staring at Optimus as he get's into a kneeling position as he looks down at us.
"You returned for me."
"That's what families for." I say smiling widely. The moment is cut short as The Fallen teleport in front of Optimus creating a force push, knocking everyone down.
"My Matrix!" The Fallen takes the Matrix away from Optimus before looking in my direction and grabbing me.
"Let me go! Let me go!" I yell out as The Fallen teleport's to the top of the pyramid. I try to pry myself away but his grip on me tightens.
"Fallen, my master." I turn to look at Megatron.
"My brothers could not stop me from this." He places the Matrix into a small opening charging up the machine. "When the weapon is ready, this techno-organic will be more than enough power to fire it. Yes, now I claim your sun." The Fallen stares at me with power hungry eyes.
"I'll never do it!" I say struggling to break free. The Fallen's grip tightens on me more as he growls in my face. Missiles are being launched in our direction as the fallen forcefully places me into a cage within the weapon.
"In moments, we'll be at firing strength." I try to transform my hand into a cannon but my strength was leaving my body. I look out and see everything around us beginning to float before falling down the side of the pyramid leaving a ring of destruction.
"This planet will be dark forever." Rocks started to form a ring around us, creating a barier to they fling air crafts. In the distance I can see Optimus flying towards us.
"Optimus..." I say weakly.
"Hang on Katana." Optimus says before knocking The Fallen out of the way and taking me out of the machine.
"Thanks." I say as my strength slowly comes back to me. The Fallen comes back angry, getting ready to attack Optimus.
"Hold on." Optimus brings me near his chest telling me to hide. I nod walking inside, and hold onto a metal rode as he starts to fight The Fallen. Out of no where, I hear an explosion before I feel like we're falling. Crashes can be heard along with metal clashing against each other as we fall.
"Die, like your brothers." I hear The Fallen say before shots are fired.
"They were your brothers, too." I could basically feel his voice rumble through his chest. We were then tossed around for a few moments making me hit my head. The battle continues on as Optimus grunts and groans with every hit he makes or gets. I close my eyes and start to pray for Optimus until his voice catches my attention.
"You picked the wrong planet. Give me your face." I then hear The Fallen scream in agony as metal against metal can be heard before everything goes silent. "I rise. You fall." Light then fills in the dark space I was in, reviling Optimus' hand. I quickly go out and onto his hand happy that it's all over.
"Are you alright?" I nod my head in response.
"Yeah I'm good. Thank you." Optimus smiles at me before placing me onto his shoulder and walking towards the others as his armor sheds off. When we arrived with the others, Optimus placed me down on the ground before walking to his comrades.
"Katana..." I turn around to see be standing their with sad eyes.
"Bee... Bumblebee!" I yell out as I run up to him with tears in my eyes. He kneels down, picking me up, bringing me closer to his face. I place my hands onto his face crying out in happiness.
"I thought I- Lost you." I look into his eyes before placing a kiss on his forehead.
"You didn't. And I'm never gonna leave you ever again for as long as I live."
I stand on the edge of the ships runway staring off at the vast ocean.
"I'm glad you came with me Katana." I look at Sam as I place my hands into the jacket Lennox gave me.
"I'd never leave you with all the fun." I say chuckling.
"But you didn't have to. I mean, they wanted me..."
"They wanted me to but for completely different reasons." Silence washes over us for a moment.
"So, we're not really cousins?"
"No... we're not." I say looking down.
"No one has to know right?"
"Huh?" I look up at him completely confused.
"Even if we aren't related by blood you still are my crazy half-human, half-autobot cousin that happens to be dating my car... I'd like to keep it that way." I smile at him before turning around to hear Optimus walking up to us.
"Thank you, for saving my life." Optimus says standing right next to us, looking at the ocean.
"Welcome." Sam says smiling. "Thank you for believing in us." We stay silent as we enjoy the ride, staring into the waters bellow.
"Our races united by a history long forgotten and a future we shall face together. I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message so that our pasts will always be remembered, for in memories, we live on."