So I'm typing this and my goal was to give it as a Christmas presents to you my lovely readers. However that failed seeing as I got the stomach flu, sigh, well maybe next time. Anyway I'm trying to work more on description so there will be an abundance of that in this chapter…hopefully.
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Lizzie watched as the others herded Sentinel in. She had a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach. She noticed Anne climb up onto the green container she was standing on. Her arm was transformed into a gun but hidden by holoforms. They had not had the chance to explain Lizzie to Sentinel. Annie's curls bounced as she joined Lizzie. Her face was grim like when her goldfish had died.
"Something bad is going on," she mumbled. Lizzie nodded. She could not explain the feeling; it was as if she was a little girl again hidden from the Cons all by herself, almost ill. When Sentinel turned around holding a gun Lizzie did not hesitate to shoot him. She had kept watch for Cons and had been vaguely listening to the conversation. He stumbled enough for the others to take cover.
"Get AWAY!" yelled Lizzie when she saw a stray shot start to eat away the container they were standing on. "SHIT SHIT IT EATS METAL AND I'm METAL!" screamed Lizzie actually scared. She hadn't faced anything like this before. Lizzie did not fear being shot. Slowly being eaten alive was not on her list of things to do. Ironhide grabbed them, none too gently yanking them behind cover. Anne groaned.
"Lizzie you're really hard," groaned Anne as Ironhide held them tightly to his chest.
"Yes, it comes with being made of metal," grumbled Lizzie. Sometimes she missed being human. Cade and Prowl joined them quickly separating Lizzie from Ironhide. Both looked as panicked as bots could. Lizzie gasped as the breath was again pressed out of her lungs when Cade held her close. "I'm fine," she gasped. Cade loosened his grip slightly and she felt the tingly sensation of being scanned.
"Don't you ever scare us like that again!" exclaimed Prowl. Lizzie nodded and they finally set her down. Lizzie entered the base to find Optimus being yelled at by Mearing. Lizzie almost killed her. She had to fight down a bloodlust so fierce she wondered if she was part Decepticon. Maybe the serum injected in her all those years ago had been created from Megatron. Pushing away those inquiries for later Lizzie strode across the room to Optimus.
"She's a bitch Optimus. This is not your fault. None of us could have known that Sentinel was such an ass," she growled not fully in control of herself yet. He sighed in self-doubt. "Optimus! Save any doubts for later. Us bots need a leader and you're the best one we have," smiled Lizzie. She fought away her anger knowing it would do no good. He frowned.
"It would be best if we had never come here," he said softly. Lizzie clenched her fists frustrated.
"Optimus if you had not come to this planet I would still be the sad little girl locked away in her room every day. Barricade would be dead by now. Prowl would still be a prick. Frenzy would be locked in a jar!" Lizzie exclaimed knowing every word was true. Optimus didn't speak for a long time then he sighed.
"But your father," he started.
"Daddy's happy now, he's with mom, and he doesn't have to worry about failing at protecting you anymore, despite everything he always fought for you guys to stay," said Lizzie. Optimus smiled in understanding.
"Thank you Elizabeth," he nodded. Lizzie nodded convinced she had helped him. His whole figure seemed to lift up.
"Any time Optimus," she smiled. Wheeljack called her over and she quickly joined him and Anne. He handed her what looked like a backpack. It was black with white buttons and an Autobot symbol in red and blue sparkles. Anne was wearing a black one with a silver Autobot symbol.
"There is your jetpack, in disguise until emergency use. It even has a unique storage kit in the jetpack with some other useful inventions. A couple mini bombs, a grappling hook and some Energon goodies," explained Anne. Lizzie smiled.
"Thanks!" she replied putting it on. She ran off then froze when she saw all the bots looking depressed. She saw the news and nearly died. Everything was falling apart. What would happen to her if they left? Lizzie didn't realize Cade was beside her until he hugged her tightly. Tears broke through as he held her tightly.
"Shh, Lizzie hush, it'll be ok," he whispered. How could it be ok when everything was falling apart?
"Lizzie we will return for you when you can survive outer space. One year with Sam and Carly, I have made the arrangements," said Prowl's soothing tone behind them. Lizzie held out one arm and he joined their small little circle. She felt Ravage and Frenzy join them.
Lizzie stood side by side with Anne as they watched the ship take off. The further away it flew the more lost Lizzie felt. How would they stop the Cons alone? There was no question they wouldn't stop until all of them were dead. Anne gasped and Lizzie was brought out of her thoughts as the space ship blew up like a thousand suns igniting.
"NO!" screamed Anne. Lizzie froze in shock. Anne watched her for several seconds as an internal battle fought within her. Her eyes went cold, hard as steel.
"Stay safe Anne," her voice was cold too and Anne shuddered at the sound of it, cold as ice.
Lizzie had made her decision. She didn't care what happened now. She would die avenging her family. Neither Epps nor Sam said a word when she climbed into the car with them. Watching humans run for their lives, Lizzie felt a dull pain in her Spark. It was overwhelmed by the grief and anger towards the Cons. As Lizzie watched children flee the battlefield she finally noticed that Epps friends had joined them. All looked nervous about entering the city.
"No one's going in," declared Epps.
"I am," said Sam following Lizzie who had never stopped.
"Sam do you have a death wish! You'll never find her in there!" yelled Epps. Sam shook him off. "Lizzie, you can't go in!" started Epps but froze when she turned on him glaring.
"And why not! My whole family is dead! I'm a freak among both our kinds! I have nothing left so I will do everything to avenge the ones I love!" She yelled dropping her holoforms. Epps frowned. He was about to say something when a large ship attacked them. All of them fell flat to the ground. Lizzie fired at the ship causing it to miss hitting them. She stood and continued firing. Larger shots hit the ship, causing it to go down. Lizzie spun around to see Optimus reloading a gun as big as his arm.
"We will kill them all," he growled. Lizzie was still as the others walked up to her. She was still going to fight no matter what. No time to break down in relief. They still had Cons to kill, and she had a bot to save. She ignored Prowl and Cade and joined Sam and Bumblebee on the ship. Before Cade could catch her they took off for the skies. Lizzie carefully stuck behind Sam as they tiptoed through the house. Sam jumped out pointing a gun at a man. Lizzie aimed at several body guards with her arm gun and a pistol she had taken from one of Epps friends. Lizzie saw Laserbeak transform and fly at them. Sam was sent off the balcony. Lizzie ran to the railing and jumped, down onto the ship Bumblebee flying. Carly broke free of the bodyguard and jumped onto the ship with them. Once she was clear Bumblebee fired all gun into the house. Carly slid inside with Bee just before Laserbeak attacked. The ship was going down but Lizzie had made a promise. She tackled Laserbeak and fell of the ship holding Laserbeak tightly to herself. Lizzie barely heard Sam's scream of her name.
"Choose now, join your brothers or stay with the Cons and die," whispered Lizzie as they fell down, down, down.
"Soundwave," came the garbled reply.
"I'll do everything I can to save him," Lizzie whispered. Laserbeak nodded once. Lizzie activated her jetpack and flew them safely to the ground beside where the others had crashed. Laserbeak was immediately tackled by Ravage and Frenzy. Lizzie nodded to herself a small smile on her face. She nodded to Sides and Sunny. Sides quickly scooped her up and off they went.
After downing multiple Cons they were caught. Lizzie was on her knees between the twins who growled whenever a Con casted a glance at her. No one realized she was a threat because of her holoforms. She was waiting to strike as the Cons hadn't taken her jetpack or weapons. When they went to kill Wheeljack Lizzie struck. A bomb in one hand, her other hand a gun she flew up and planted the bomb in the drone before firing on the bots and freeing Wheeljack. Bee attacked Soundwave and Lizzie swooped down to his shoulder, whispering not to kill him. Soundwave was cornered, alone.
"Soundwave, My name is Elizabeth Bot. I have rescued Ravage, Frenzy and Laserbeak. I don't want you killed but you have to either join the Autobots or at the very least become neutral," explained Lizzie. The bot studied her and she felt him scanning her mind for lies. She thought of the small bots pleading faces.
"I will join your cause, if you help me find the rest of my children," replied Soundwave. Lizzie nodded.
"I will help you. Know that your children will not turn on us, and if you do I will not hesitate to bring you down," growled Lizzie. Soundwave nodded and Bee lost some of his tension.
"You're a bit young to be fighting," said Soundwave looking perfectly comfortable. Lizzie dropped her hologram and Soundwave swore quietly. Lizzie tried to ignore the metal lacing into flesh noticing the fingers on her left hand were now metal. Lizzie frowned bending her fingers back and forth. "Your becoming one of us," murmured Soundwave. Lizzie nodded.
"I'll tell you all about it if we survive this," replied Lizzie as the battle began again. Lizzie took off and found Laserbeak, Frenzy and Ravage battling two Cons 3 times their size. She fired her weapon taking down one then planted a bomb in another's optic. She flew down and pushed the three out of the way before the two dead bots could land on them. She ended up in a stare down with another gun, gun to gun. In the time it would take either to fire the other could fire too causing an explosion that would kill all 5 of them. "Well, we're in a pretty pickle here," said Lizzie. The bot merely growled.
"Grr? Wow that's real talented," said Sides before decapitating the bot. Lizzie nodded her thanks before shooting down a Bot behind Sides.
"Call us even, I do not owe you one," said Sunny joining them. Lizzie nodded.
"Don't shoot Soundwave, he's joined us," explained Lizzie. The smaller bots cheered and Lizzie shot down another bot then hissed in pain when a shot hit her gun arm. It sparked and leaked Energon.
"Slag, Lizzie, will you be ok?" asked Sides kneeling beside her while Sunny killed the bot that hit her. Lizzie swore hissing in pain.
"Yeah, but I'm a little defenseless," mumbled Lizzie rising to her feet. Her arm was useless and she couldn't transform it without extreme pain. Ravage lowered himself beside her.
"Ravage will take you to Rachet," said Frenzy. Lizzie shook her head.
"Soundwave needs you," she said softly her, before concentrating. Her fingers turned into small guns. She sighed. "Lame but it'll do," muttered Lizzie. Sides set Lizzie on his shoulder and they started up again killing Cons. Lizzie spotted Soundwave being joined in battle by his creations. Lizzie also spotted Optimus flying through and killing Cons. He finished off the one Lizzie had been firing at, gave Lizzie a nod, then took off. Lizzie spotted him take on Sentinel before she was suddenly dropped to the ground. She caught herself with her jetpack just in time. The twins were oblivious that she had been separated from them. Lizzie gulped when she was surrounded and began firing. Two went down before Soundwave finished off the rest. He scooped her up and found herself secured to his shoulder.
"Twins: irresponsible," grumbled Soundwave.
"Already knew that," muttered Lizzie downing several more Cons before they ran out of baddies.
"Lizzie!" Sides frantically cried from somewhere far off. Lizzie sighed as Soundwave gathered his younglings and followed the voices to the others.
"You lost her! How can you lose her when she was on your shoulder?" Prowl was yelling at Sides when Soundwave rounded the corner.
"Drop her!" ordered Barricade spotting Soundwave first and aiming all weapons at him.
"Frag off Barricade, he's on our side, doing a better job than some bots," growled Lizzie glaring at Sides. Sides frowned but looked guilty. Lizzie made no move to leave Soundwave and he made no move to remove her as they headed back to base. She was angry with the others. They hadn't told her they weren't really leaving and that hurt, to know they hadn't trusted her enough to not tell anyone. Soundwave easily navigated his way to Rachet's med bay deftly avoiding a wrench.
"What the slag happened to you?" exclaimed Rachet after Soundwave set her on the edge of one of the large medical berths. Lizzie was silent still not speaking to the bots. She wasn't happy with them.
You're going to have to forgive them sometime, Soundwave's voice whispered in her mind. Lizzie didn't even flinch well aware he was a telepath.
Key word, sometime, she replied flinching as Rachet stuck a needle in her arm. Lizzie studied the wall until she felt a hand slip into hers. She glanced into the red eyes of Soundwave's holoform. He wore a blue button up shirt and black jeans, as well as a white trench coat. His hair was a shiny blue that was slightly spiked.
"You'll be easy to find in a crowd," smiled Lizzie. Soundwave nodded then glanced at his alt form on the floor below. Lizzie smiled at the sight of Frenzy, Laserbeak and Ravage curled up together beside it. When Rachet finished with her arm Lizzie changed it back to a metal hand.
"Prowl wants you," said Rachet, sounding slightly guilty, "We didn't want to hide this from you Lizzie, it was for the best." Lizzie shook her head and slid down the ladder to the floor taking off out of the room. She entered her room to find Barricade and Prowl waiting for her.
"Lizzie, I'm sorry we…," started Barricade but Lizzie merely hugged him tightly feeling her tears finally fall free. She sobbed into his chest as he wrapped his arms around her.
"I thought I lost you. I thought I lost both of you forever," sobbed Lizzie. All her pain poured out into sobs as Prowl hugged her as well.
"We're sorry Lizzie; it was safest you didn't know," said Prowl.
"Don't ever do that to me again!" yelled Lizzie.
"We won't, I promise you we won't," replied Cade.
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Yay a chappy! Um…I'm not really sure where to go from here, uhh I'd love some ideas.
