And here's the next chapter. I'm real sorry about last chapter I knew it was short but I saw it fitting. Also the reason I have been unable to update one of my other stories, Feline By Nature is because... I may or may not of left the memory stick the story resides upon in the laser printer at school by accident. He-he. Whoops. Not my fault though. I'd had to stay behind to cut some stuff out and the caretaker kind of rushed me out the room before I could even grab it. Then me being me I forgot it was there until I got home half and hour later, about to begin the next upload and well. A few choice things were said that I shall not repeat. Anyway Oce, Marina and Aerith belong to me while transformers belong to Hasbro. Now then one with the chapter!
Chapter 11
Jack stared at Vince and then to Sierra. He was about to answer when the sound of a powerful engine roared behind him. He looked to his left and, if it weren't for his helmet, his jaw would've hit the floor.
For there in all its royal blue and silver decaled glory hummed a brand new Ford GT supercar. The window closest rolled down and the human form of Oce appeared, looking at Jack with a raised eyebrow. Vince Sierra and her friend were looking on in awe at the sleek new sports car with mouths agape, and in Vince's case a flash of envy and jealousy.
"Hey Jack. What's up?" She asked looking over at the red head male who was giving her a flirteous look. 'Sorry only got eyes for one bucko.' She though.
Jack spluttered slightly with his words trying to form a correct answer.
"I challenged mister burger joint here to a race! And he's too chicken to accept!" Vince called out looking Oce up and down from where she sat in the driver's seat. "Now what I want to know is how did a beautiful lady like you get your hands on such a sweet ride?" Vince asked, raising his eyebrow which would normally make a woman swoon. Oce however wasn't affected and just flicked her thick plait, which still contained the mass which was her brown with blue tips hair in place.
"Simple. This here is the Prototype Ford GT supercar. My mother, who is an influential member of the company gave it to me as a gift. Also I'm not interested so don't even try. Now Jack. You know the rules about no racing." Oce implored looking down at Arcee and sending a private com-link.
"Don't let what he says get the better of you Arcee. He's just a punk. We had then even back in Athens trust me. I killed enough of them to know." She got a silent confirmation back from the similarly coloured motorcycle.
"I know, I know Oriel. So how's your crush on Orion going?" Jack suddenly asked and Oce almost fell out of her car in shock.
"What!" Oce exclaimed.
"Miko figured it out. Seeing as how Orion held you those few nights ago and Miko saw how you look at him. Heck even I saw it, but Miko had to nudge me and bam! You've got a crush on the big guy!" Jack explained. Oce shook her head and looked at Jack and Arcee.
"Yeah I do. But there's no way in the name of the Mediterranean does he feel the same way about me. I've gotta go know. Mom wanted me back home in five hours and its already been four. See yah!" With that the GT's engine roared and Oce sped away, heading back to base.
The light had turned green some time ago and with that invitation Arcee sped away from the three humans. "Like Oce's new alt mode? Ratchet even gave her a working holoform." Jack looked down at Arcee in surprise.
"The car was Oce?" He asked.
"Yep. Also we aren't going to race. It's Optimus' number one rule. Never abuse power for personal gain. Especially horse power." It was at that point that the sound of a muscle cars engine roared behind them.
The next day
Jack grabbed both Miko and Raf and whispered in a voice to make sure no one heard. "You have to keep this on the down low, especially from Optimus and Oce." Jack explained. Raf then became curious.
"Why Oce?" He asked.
"Well she may or may not off told us not to race about a minute before I agreed to race. If she found out well. She's got enough on her plate already with her crush on Optimus." Jack explained.
It was Miko's turn to beam. "Yes! I knew she had a crush on the big bot!" She whispered punching the air above with her fist.
"Err Jack, I saw something yesterday when Oce got back." Raf spoke up. Both humans turned to him.
"Yeah?" The two older humans asked.
"Optimus was giving Oce the same look. I think they're crushing on one another, Optimus looks like he's going to tell her soon, but Oce, she looks hesitant. Almost like she doesn't know what to do with her feelings." He pondered sadly hoping he was wrong.
"Raf's right. Back in the security guard room Oce said at one point that the woman was bought by the highest bidder, love was seen as an atrocity and anyone found out to be in love were quickly executed for their crimes. I don't think Oce even knows what love feels like, seeing as even love between siblings was taboo and quickly destroyed by separation." Miko sighed her whole body slumping. Both boys looked at one another in worry. There wasn't much they could do. Oce and Optimus would have to do it on their own.
"Hey guys! What yah doing?" A chirpy female voice came from somewhere. Startled the three teens spun only to see…
"Hi!" Chirped the five year old girl with pitch black hair with white splotches here and there in the mass of tangled locks. Her silver eyes shone with curiosity while her pale as snow skin dimpled with her wide smile, she wore a pitch black sun dress with large white splotches similar to those in her hair.
"Huh?" All three asked in confusion, Miko even turning her head sideways a bit to try and get a better look of the young girl.
Now the young girl frowned. "You don't know me. But you know my sister and big brother!"
Realisation dawned on the three as they looked at the once Orca now human. "Marina?"
"Yup! Heard you were talking about my big sisters crush on Optimus. Gotta tell yah she's a mess." The Orca turned human seemed to partially slump before picking herself up again and smiling at the three like she'd never been upset. It was clear to see Marina was quite bipolar.
"Uh yeah?" Jack guessed.
"Well mom told me to tell you to wait and just let it happen. Oce's never really been able to feel love before over than me and mom. But this is different. I don't see why those humans had to go and do that 'rape' thing to my sister though. Mom still won't tell me what it is. But she didn't say I couldn't find out what the other one was. Any of you lot know what miscarriage is?" Marina asked. During her ramble the three human's minds had come to a jerking halt.
"Wait, wait, wait! Are you saying that Oce was, was raped?! When? How?!" Jack asked not really understanding what was going on at the moment.
Marina seemed to shuffle her feet along the solid concrete, looking at it all the while in disgust and mumbling something along the lines of, 'this feels weird, I hate solid.' "Yeah apparently she 'miscarriage' four times as a human back when she was well a human. Apparently they stole something from her she could never get back. Whatever that means." Marina explained shrugging her shoulders slightly.
"Marina. Miscarriage is when a pregnancy goes wrong and the baby, or in some cases the mother as well, die from it. Its heavily damaging to the mother if she survives as her body had prepared for raising the child, only for the loss of the baby. Its sent thousands of good women into depression and sometimes on rare occasions suicide. Marina, look at me. Never talk about Oce having kids okay. It'll only make it worse for her and she's stressed enough as it is okay?" Jack explained, placing a reassuring hand on her shoulder. And at that point noticing the black strap which was tied around her neck with a metallic sphere against her jugular. "Err Marina, what's this?" He asked.
Marina looked to the best of her ability at where he was pointing, realisation once again dawned on her as she looked back up at the sixteen year old. "Oh that's just my own personal translator! Just like big sisters! Only not as pretty… but oh well!" Defiantly bipolar. Marina would've continued but before she could she grabbed her middle as a jab off pain shot through her. She'd been on land too long.
"Marina?" It was Ironhide. The large black and red mech walked up to the teens and knelt beside his much smaller sister. "Come on, we need to get you home. Oce's already reverted so you'll be turning back soon, and there's no way we'll be able to move you if you do." Once finished speaking softly to the young girl he gently picked up her hunched over form as she pulled herself into a foetus position, leaning against her older brother's thumb and index digit for warmth and support. Ironhide nodded to the three humans before turning and leaving in the direction of the ground-bridge.
The teens looked at one another again, the sisters had only been around a few weeks and yet they were already proving to be near impossible to understand.
The next day
Marina's tongue stuck out of the side of her mouth in concentration as she tried to compete against Raf at the racing game. 'Try' meaning she was going backwards and had crashed seventeen times.
Finally she spun out on more time and with a furious roar tossed the controller at the nearest wall. Shattering the device into tiny pieces, Marina's eyes widened as she sat back down on the couch with her head in her hands. Being on land with these humans was surprisingly fun, but still the fact the base was in the desert wasn't helping them on the inside. "Oh trenches I have a temper." She muttered to herself as she stayed in her position.
"Hey Raf, can I borrow Bumblebee for a bit?" Jack asked pointing to the yellow and black scout behind him.
"Borrow? You could've just said 'need the presence of me'?" Bumblebee rumbled. Marina for her worth gave a chocked laugh at the yellow and black scouts retort.
"Jack, you know racing's against the rules, what if Optimus found out?" Raf tried to convince the older teen.
"Optimus found out about what?" Oce asked as she walked up to the two human males in her bipedal form, making both jump at her unexpected entrance.
"Err…" Jack tried to come up with an answer while Oce's optic ridge skyrocketed into the mass of cables above her helm.
"We're planning Optimus' birthday surprise!" Marina cheered jumping up and down in a fit of giggles. Oce smiled warmly as she looked at all of them.
"Well then, I'll do my best to keep Optimus off your case. Oh and Marina, it's just a game, don't let your temper take over like that again, because I know none of the humans have the strength to hurl such an object with enough force to break it like that." Oce reprimanded the Orca calf turned human child, Marina's head lowered so her black and white bangs fell over her eyes and with a nod and a quick confirmation picked up the destroyed controller and threw it in the bin, the device being far too gone to even try and be repaired.
With a quick nod Oce walked off down the corridor to the training room. The humans and bots waited until the sound of her trident stabbing a heavy, solid object could be heard.
Raf looked uncertain about letting Jack race when Miko piped in. "But Raf he's got to get the girl." Miko tried to explain but Raf just raised his eyebrow at the Japanese girl. "And beat the bully." She added trying to sweeten the deal.
"Wwweeellllll." Raf sighed knowing Miko had him there but he still wasn't completely sure it was a good idea in the first place.
"Come on Raf. Just this once?" Jack begged walking up to the young boy.
"Yeah! Bee can smoke the guy and then we can all move on with our lives! Like how I once sunk a whaling ship or impaling me harpoons once. No man ever returned to their loved ones from that doomed vessel." The other teens looked at the youngest of the group with slight wariness and fear as she began to smirk. Remembering the agonizing shrieks of the men as she dragged them below and ate them.
She may like these three but every other human on the planet was still on the menu in her mind.
The next day
"YOU DID WHAT!" Oce's voice bellowed throughout the base, shaking the very ceiling with her atomic bomb loud voice. She was positively fuming, her cables were lashing around violently wherever they did so please, some even striking the ground and leaving gouge marks.
Her victim being a certain sixteen year old black haired and blue eyed male.
Jack visibly winced as Oce gave him a glare not even Megatron would be able to stand up to. Bumblebee was hiding somewhere in the base while Arcee had disappeared into the Sahara, where she hoped the femme would not be able to go due to her need to be in close proximity of water most of the time.
Oce began to pace in front of the human, she was visibly steaming, her normally damp armour actually producing steam. "Not only did you go off racing, breaking one of Optimus' top rules, but you also endangered the life of a human being! I don't care what he's like no one should be put in danger like that! Marina do not comment like you normally do or so help me I will kick you across the Pacific to Russia." Oce growled seeing as the human girl had been just about to open her mouth and say something.
Her gaze then returned to Jack who seemed to of turned a few shades paler. "You endangered the very secret which is the Autobots, allowed someone else to get to you when I exactly told not to race and what did you do within the hour? RACE! The you had to let that boy get to you again and endanger the lives of countless humans!" Oce sighed, her anger spent as she placed her webbed servo to her helm as she tried to cool down, getting angry and losing water were not good for her body in any way. "I'm done, Optimus if anything happens come by later and tell me okay. I need to go and get my water levels back up." With that she walked over to the large tank of water they'd installed into the base in the main hall. It wasn't enough to support her but the merfemme and Orca calf could use it to get back to the sea without wasting precious Energon on a ground bridge.
A minute later Oce was gone. Optimus looked down at the young human with a sympathetic look, along with a slightly disappointed one. Normally he would say something, but seeing as Oce had effectively already done that for him all he could do was walk over to the computer and begin work again searching for Energon deposists.
"Well. That was eventful. Hey! Big bro! Can you take me out for a drive? I'm bored." Marina asked Ironhide. Said black and red meh chuckled as he transformed and open his door for his little sister. Marina was soon inside and the oldest and youngest of the Pridon family siblings were driving out of base.
"Finally, peace and quiet." Ratchet sighed as he walked away to get recharge.
With the rage of the merfemme still fresh in their minds and processors the Autobots wtill on base set to work with their normal every day routine.
However every now and then the Prime would cast longing looks over at the large tank. Wishing to join the femme once again beneath the waves. But alas he had work still to do before he could allow himself a break.
And there we go. Yes Oce does not like people going behind her back. Marina still has her human hating ways and I doubt I'll ever change that. Gives an kind of twisted edge to her normally bubbly behaviour. Oh and look out for the next few chapters. This is when it gets good. If you have any questions feel free to ask. And any readers of Feline I am terribly sorry, I plan to never let it happen again.
Leona:: You better! I want to know where my sister is!
Me:: Okay calm down! Tomorrow I promise! It will be updated tomorrow and you'll be able to find out where your sister is. Along with some over stuff.
Leona:: 'growls low as she stalks up to Moon' you better or that pretty little head of yours is going to be fed to the bullet nano bots.
Me:: 'leans back away from slightly psycho femme' you got it! Bye guys! If I don't publish any more just know Leona has likely gone through with her threat and the only thing I regret is forgetting about that troublesome memory stick. Bye!
Moon
