Heyo again everyone! Okay, another chapter has been completed, so this one arrives! The last part is, I will admit, not my best, but I hope the rest is still good enough, I personally really enjoyed writing this chapter, now then, everyone not seen in the series belongs to me, unless their an actually person in real life that is, anyway, on with the chapter and I hope you all enjoy!
Chapter 12
Aurora groaned as she came too, front half of her body laying at the bottom of her pool bed, the other half resting on the pools edge and the side of the pool.
She blinked as a moray eel swam past her vision, the colourful creature completely at ease with her being there.
It was then that a sharp pain ripped through her skull, causing her horns to flare and clack against one another sharply, causing the pain to increase even further than before.
With a startled cry, she flailed for a moment before using her front limbs to push of the bottom of the pool, the force sending her entire frame out of the water and crashing onto the pool side, lying on her side as she panted, with a groan she pulled her head into the reach of her front paws, carefully rubbing her throbbing horns as the waves of pain continued to assault her.
She didn't even notice the door to her room being pushed open by a sleek muzzle, or the near silent footsteps which drew closer.
"Hangover?" Soundwave joked, peering at her best friend and she writhed on the floor, this was a serious hangover, apparently she'd drunk about a fith of the lake water, and then ingested energon, it was no wonder she'd been so drunk the night before.
Thankfully Aurora was neither a fun or violent drunk, she just cursed up a storm which led to Cliffjumper dragging Rya away to one of the training rooms before Aurora got too carried away with her extensive vocabulary. She was also almost as unstable on her feet as an elephant of ice skates and there was a lot of walls which were going to need repairing later because of that fact.
Aurora groaned, peering out from between her claws to glare at the smirking stealth class Predacon. "Oh shut the fuck up." She growled, only to wince and clamp her grip back down on her horns, rubbing gently to try and get rid of the latest burning pain.
Soundwave rolled her optics, understanding why Emily had called her other, she was quietest of all of them, Razor, no offense to the mech, was a massive bulk of metal and powerful cables, his every step literally shook the Earth even when he was trying to be quiet, Sonic's claws where known to clack a lot, the long thin claws making scrapping sounds with every step, Emily was just as loud when it came to walking, which was only a bit less than Razor's own ground shakers, and Rya was a little too heavy footed too.
Cliffjumper had a different reason, currently, Aurora hadn't allowed him passage into her room, that was something one earned through literally years of trust building.
Thankfully in Soundwave's case, she'd been able to build up that trust, and her close bond with her best friend over long distance, her on Cybertron, Aurora on Earth as she grew up, hence why the moment she'd been able to meet the Titan in person, she'd been given full access, thankfully as well, her siblings had also grown fond of Sound, especially after she'd lost her intended.
They'd all lost something, Aurora her sire, Rya lost Ig, Sonic lost Uri, Razor lost a whole village, and Emily lost her family in one swoop.
They all suffered the emotional turmoil of grief and loss, and it made them so much closer as a group, as a family.
And it was that very thing which prevented Aurora from swiping at her when Soundwave placed a large branch filled with octagon shaped leaves on the ground in front of her. "Straight from Emily's madhouse, quickest treatment for dealing with your hangovers yet, other than decapitation that is." She joked, shrugging her shoulder plates and causing the spikes there to rattle silently against one another.
Aurora didn't even sniff it, but her grimace was clear to seen, if it wasn't for the ridged blue bone plates which covered the top of her head, four in total, Soundwave could've seen her muzzle wrinkle up in disgust.
"Hell fucking no, I'd rather wait out the hangover." She whispered, but the guttural growl which accommodated it made Soundwave very much aware of how ticked Aurora was for having to eat the plant, she'd had it herself, and she fully understood why Aurora would hate it.
Soundwave let out an aggravated sigh. "Aurora. If you don't eat that, then it will take a good month for that hangover to pass, and right now, you cannot be out of it for that long. Eat it on your own, or I will force you to myself. If you want, I can make your mind register it as something nicer, say… roasted salmon?"
It was an instant reaction, growl shifting into a warbling chirp.
Soundwave couldn't stop the smirk, she was well aware of her younger companions love for the roasted fish, something Aurora and Uri had always shared.
She felt her spark clench at the thought of the final member of their group, lost to them, in a place that not even Liara could locate.
Aurora stretched her neck out, mouth slowly opening, waiting for the smell wafting of the broken end of the branch to change into the delicious aroma of roasted salmon, the moment it had, half the branch was already down her gullet, the whirring of blades filling the air as the branch was torn to shreds.
It would be another hour or two before her hangover passed now, but it was far better than a solid month of head splitting headaches.
Aurora sighed as she rolled back over to face the pool, head slipping under the lapping waves, the slits along her neck opening to allow the warm water to slowly filter through.
Soundwave watched this for a moment, before settling down herself next to the larger Predacon, being weary of her swollen sides, they'd be coming within the next few weeks, ready to be laid that into the nest that she and the siblings had been working hard to make.
If only her intended was here, then he could be there, with her…
She shook her helm, turning her attention back to Aurora as she pulled her own helm back out fo the water with a content sigh. "Had to wash any residual taste out." She muttered.
Soundwave nodded, shifting slightly as one of her two unborns kicked her quite viciously. Aurora seemed to spot this as she turned her attention to her mid section, where the plates where no heavily distended. "They'll be arriving soon." It was a statement more than a question.
Soundwave nodded her helm. "Yes, I can't help but wonder what my intended would think… they're not his after all…" She muttered, feeling guilt twist uncomfortably around her spark, which only got that bit worse when the other one kicked out as well.
Aurora reached out and gently placed one of her front paws on her friends distended mid section… Sound, you know just as well as I do, how you two agreed that you would adopt if the species difference prevented you, this is pretty much the same thing." She tried to reassure, gently rubbing her friends stomach to try and help the little ones inside calm down.
Soundwave nodded. "I know, I know, but we didn't make the decision together, I was desperate, and Liara had the capability to do it… being what she is, I wanted to have a family with him, but Starscream took that from me…" She whimpered, feeling her horns lower and claws twitch.
Aurora began letting off a soft crooning sound, understanding that her closest friend was suffering through visions of the horrid lunar cycle. "It's okay Sound, I'll bring him back for you, remember, this is a promise I intend to keep, no matter what, I'd fly to Cybertron and find him now if it wasn't for my wings and the planets atmosphere." She admitted. "Neither of you deserved to lose the other like that, but I know that even in his dying moments, he still loved you, and when, not if, when I bring him back to you, he will love your little twins just as much." She tried to reassure, rubbing the side of her helm against Soundwave's instinctively knowing that it was a gesture of comfort in both Titan, and Predacon etiquette.
A shaky rumble left Soundwave as she rubbed her helm back, accepting the gesture of comfort willingly and leaning further into Aurora's side. "That glossa of yours really can work wonders for the mind Aurora." She muttered, lifting her helm away from Aurora's and instead draping it over the blue Predacons Shoulders, just before where her wings lay, focusing her attention on the expansive glass window which looked out into the massive gardens which surrounded the palace, the flowers slowly shifting in the lift breeze that the cavern had, the air flowing in through thin crevices which traversed all 25 kilometres straight up to provide enough air for the plant and animal life which thrived here.
Aurora chuckled, feeling the forked ends of her glossa flick inside her mouth for a moment as she turned her own neck to regard the garden. "You know me, I learnt from the very best, when you've deballed in politics as much as I have, you're bound to develop a silver tongue, and mine looks like a snakes to boot!" She joked, allowing said glossa to flick out and lick the air, the forked ends flicking the end of her muzzle as they where pulled back in.
Soundwave let off a chuckle. "You really are just a giant serpent with legs Ro."
"Don't forget the wing! …Huh, I think Em added something to that branch, I can barely feel my hangover now!" She exclaimed excitedly.
Soundwave felt an optic ridge go up. "You think she's finally perfected it?" She enquired.
Aurora shrugged. "She'll keep improving it anyway, hopefully she works on the taste next." She stated, glossa sticking out in disgust. "I'm getting sick of goats gall stones and dried hag fish, I will never understand why she mixed that into that poor trees fertiliser, it looks half dead!" She grumbles.
Soundwave chuckled. "There is a better way of dealing with a hangover you know." She stated.
Aurora perked at that. "The humans discover a new method?"
"No. They still have the same problem we do." Soundwave responded.
"Well then I'm stumped, unless someone on either side of the war accidentally made a concoction of pure hangover remover." Aurora grumbled.
Soundwave let off a bark of laughter. "It's simple Ro! Don't drink!" She cheered.
Aurora's helm snapped round to gaze at the laughing grey and purple Predacon, a look of utter horror on her face. "Don't…Drink? …HOW COULD YOU SUGGEST SUCH A THING?! Ooooowwwwww, stupid headache! Maybe not a perfected cure yet…"
Soundwave just continued to laugh like a mad femme.
"Shut up! And there is no way I'm giving up drinking!" She shouted, only to halt back as a duller wave of pain washed over. "Okay… maybe I should pull back a bit." She muttered.
Soundwave gave Aurora a warm smile. "That's all I ask, yah stubborn serpent."
"You do realise what my element form is right?" Aurora enquired, giving Soundwave a coy look.
Soundwave chuckled. "How could I? …Speaking of element form… I just wanted to check something with you, if I ever… truly lost it, you know, Starscream really pushing my buttons, would I shift? And my element isn't a physical state, what happens when my form try's to shift everything into well… minds? …A semi physical state? Would everything become sentient or something? Cause I could do without millions of sporks trying to ask me which they are." She grumbled.
Aurora frowned, that was quite the doozey of a question, and she tried not to snort/laugh at the example her best friend had given her. "Not all that sure, Liara said that Psychetralises like you were powerful, but thankfully, the ones who take the most to shift, Ignitralises like Rya being the easiest, and Aqulienguritas like me being around the middle ground, you shouldn't worry too much Sound, I trust your ability of remaining level helmed in these situations. My concern, is Cliffjumper…" She assured her friend, having calmed down again, only for her demeanour to darken as she addressed her own concerns.
Soundwave sensed it immediately. "You think he might slip?" She enquired, lowering her helm so that she could look up at Aurora, who'd tucked her helm into her neck slightly.
"I asked Liara, she said she hasn't seen anything definitive, but that we need to be careful, he's being kept from his intended, as is Arcee, either one could slip and we'd have either and Icrectilak, or Marenqulgiltar running wild… Ancients let us prey we're able to contain them before too much damage is done… erasing Rya going wild from the books and memories was bad enough, with social media and the like, you'd have to do a global mind/data wipe."
Soundwave nodded thoughtfully, only to wince as another kick was delivered to her midsection. "I swear, they're going to have some serious kicks to them when they're born, their nearly denting the metal!" She exclaimed, rolling her helm to the side in aggravation.
Aurora tilted her helm slightly, distracted from the previous discussion as the new one came forwards, gazing down at her friends midsection as well, before lowering the side of her helm to the swelled section, horns easily picking up the sounds of two strong sparkbeats, and then another kick, right where her mouth ended. Pulling back away slightly she then pushed the front of her muzzle into her friends side slightly. "Behave for your carrier little one, or I'll let Emily baby sit you." She threatened.
Soundwave gave her a slightly worried look. "You are joking right?"
Aurora didn't verbally answer, just giving a slight smirk and shake of her head, whilst raising a clawed digit to her lips in a shushing motion.
Soundwave rolled her optics. "It's going to be interesting dealing with you being their God mother." She rumbled, optics going soft as Aurora didn't even seem to pay attention, too busy nuzzling and crooning at her midsection. "You are going to spoil them rotten aren't you?" She enquired, optics narrowing in false anger.
Aurora's helm popped back up, wide smile on her face, her optics shinning in the light reflecting of the pool from the fire ball which lit the cavern, Soundwave actually froze for a moment at how filled with joy she was. "Yup!" She chirped, popping the 'p' before pressing her muzzle back into her midsection and continuing to croon and chirp at the two unborns within.
They sat there in partial silence for a while, Aurora focusing on the two hatchlings whilst Soundwave continued to watch, feeding her own adoration for the two through the creator/creation bond that had already formed.
That silence came to an abrupt halt when Emily practically fell through the doors in her rush, pedes sliding across the floor with little two no grip in her panicked stumble.
This instantly got the two Predacons up, Aurora moving quickly to brace herself up against Emily so that she could stand.
Only for her to continue sliding around, her pedes leaving black smears across the floor, but her grip on her sisters neck kept her upright enough for her to speak. "I found out how Iyubi got out!" She exclaimed, tugging at Aurora's neck and resulting in her sliding between her sisters fore and hind limbs. "But first I need to clean this stuff off my pedes, sis?" She enquired, staring up at Aurora with pleading optics.
With a sigh she nodded, commanding a large orb of water to de-attach itself from her pool and sending it to envelop her sisters pedes, quickly removing the tar like substance. Once complete Emily was back on her pedes, tugging at her sister in an attempt to get her to follow.
With a sigh she turned to Soundwave. "You should probably get back to the Nemesis, Knockout and Breakdown are nearing the planet aren't they?" She enquired.
Soundwave looked upwards for a moment, optics glowing brighter as she harnessed her own abilities. "They're twenty breems from arrival, I should get moving. See you two soon." She stated, bidding goodbye as she transformed into her Bipedal form, her distended plating disappearing into the illusion, if they didn't know that she was a femme, they'd genuinely think she was a mech.
Aurora tilted her helm towards Soundwave. "Get a move on then, you can use me just for efficiency, before Em here drags me out." She stated, having to brace her front left leg against the wall next to the large doorway to prevent Emily from dragging her any further.
Soundwave nodded, visor blocking any verbal response as she strode over, raising a digit up and pressing it into the side of her helm, just where a humans temple was.
Her form seemed to almost be pulled in from that point, disappearing from view in a matter of seconds.
Emily chuckled nervously. "Err, I didn't interrupt anything did I?" She asked, a slight blush forming on her faceplates as she kept trying to pull.
Aurora stuttered for a moment. "Emily! Soundwave has a mech!" She exclaimed, taking a step back in mortification at what her sister was implying.
Emily just howled with laughter as she made a beeline down the corridor.
Her hasty exit was quickly followed by a roar of indignation as heavy pede steps followed behind.
Emily was quick to transform into her own beast form, pushing herself to keep her tail out of Aurora's jaws as they both took sharp turns and bolted up flights of steps, they passed Cliffjumper at one point, well, more like almost ran the mech over, had Razor not grabbed his tail and dragged him back into the training room he'd just left, saving the mech from being trampled by the two Predacons as they shot through the halls like rockets.
Finally though, she ran out of corridor, only a large balcony in front of her, without even hesitating she leapt into the air, spread her wings out and flapped hard, quickly getting out of reach of her sister who was forced to come to a screeching halt at the balcony, optics narrowed as Emily continued to soar away.
Aurora growled, wings tensing at her sides, but Harp forced them to stay shut, preventing her from making the mistake of trying to fly after the red and green predacon.
Instead, the growl slowly shifted into a tired sigh as she turned to walk back inside, only to halt when she realised what room they were in.
Ignial's room.
She felt her furnace flicker slightly as her legs began to shake, optics gazing around at the objects which lay scattered across the floor, at one point, long ago, they'd floated, up near the ceiling, pulling and pushing at one another.
But now, they lay across the floor where they fell, covered in a good meter off dust, which had been disturbed by them charging through without realising.
Tracks where even left in the dust from where some of the spheres had been pushed around, rolling with their heavy footsteps.
Her optics drifted over to the empty berth, the covers still laid out, yet like every other part of the room, covered in the dust accumulated by almost seventy years.
And above the berth, the picture of all of them, painted by a now famous artist, Michelangelo, of all of them, her, Rya, Razor, Sonic, Ignial and Uri, all of them in human form and posing like the family they were.
It had been painted in 1501, 76 years after she'd lost her flight… Ignial had won in their game of capture the painting, and so it had hung there ever since.
She felt her furnace flicker again as she remembered how happy they all where back then… well, as happy as they could in times of reprieve, she'd still been relatively bed ridden due her kinds slow natural healing, a curse of being so large, healing even the open wounds took a good decade.
If only one of them had been a Natufalinson at the time like Emily was, but she had been centuries away from being even born.
She could still vividly hear Ignial's voice, and Uri's too.
"Awww…come on Ro! Lighten up a bit and get your humongous ass over here!"
"Don't be an idiot Ignial! She's in the Royal court! Stop yelling through the window!"
"Then you get out of that filthy river and come play yourself! And stop being polite! It's creepy!"
"…Really? And what's wrong with me not giving you a real verbal lashing from time to time when you mess something up with your monkey shitting brain!?"
"Oh! Right! Never mind normal Uri's back everyone! Forgot about the whole… I'll shut up now."
She still remembered how Uri hadn't spoken to him for a good month after that, no matter how many watermelons he threw at her partially submerged helm from any one of the many bridges along the River Thames.
As well as how she'd had to remind everyone in the court about what they'd been talking about before Ignial stuck his helm and neck through a formerly intact glass window, that had been quite costly to replace.
Sure, life as a whole wasn't the best, but having her family complete, that was enough for her.
But… it wasn't like that anymore.
With a sigh she looked around the rest of the room, hardly believing that she'd been so consumed by her efforts to get back at Emily for her comment, to not notice where they where, what they'd disturbed.
Even after seven decades of no one daring set foot within these walls, everything still smelt like Ignial, the room emanated it even after all these years, the walls all though slowly paling, still bore the colours he'd loved to use to spruce up everything thin.
"Nothing wrong with some colour! Now! How about some blue for those horns?"
Reaching up with her front left pede, she rubbed one of her horns, feeling the royal blue paint he'd skilfully applied, it had been permanent, mixed by Ignial himself, even now, after a good few hundred years since their application, they hadn't even chipped.
Slowly, she eased herself down, not caring about the dust flying in between gaps, or the cloud of it which rose around her and almost caused her to sneeze when it flew up her nostrils and tickled the edges of her concealed gills.
It barely registered though, as she regarded the room again, all the disturbed spheres, all the paint brushes and half finished canvases of stunning views and portraits he'd been commissioned for, Michelangelo had really taught him well, it was all there, everything, everything which had made Ignial, Ignial, and they'd disturbed it with their carelessness.
Harp had been silent this whole time, her wings grip not shifting with practise like they originally did with her emotions, she'd long since become unreadable when she was bracing her crippled wings.
In the silence, Aurora quickly became lost in the memories of times long since past.
Ignial's resurrection, the third to come back into existence, with a mighty below which partially deafened her for a good few minutes.
Him always loving to play with Rya, nudging the youngest with his larger snout, how he would teach her how to jump, how to use her head as the weapon it now was, how to fold her tail spikes down so they wouldn't get caught like they used to.
How she'd always walk in on the two, snuggling in their bipedal forms, Rya fast asleep against him, and Ignial just watching with a smile which only came from the love of a father.
His optics, the only one of the group to have amber yellow optics, always so… so him, full of life and excitement as they scanned the world for inspiration, or when they held such absolute adoration as he tried to wrap his arms around all of them, he never gave up trying to get Razor in on the hug, but, alas, with the rest of them already in the hug, there wasn't much arm space left. Even in the first few decades of their new lives.
The way he'd always forget about Uri's inability to join in, his love of throwing watermelons at anyone whenever he felt like it.
How one of them would suddenly levitate off the ground, and he'd just be smiling like a maniac.
How he'd always, always, be there for them when they hit a low point, he was there for Sonic when Uri disappeared, there for Razor when he lost his village, there for Soundwave when her intended was murdered in front of her, whenever she herself would slip into depression over the loss of contact with her sire, or when she'd been out of contact with any of them due to something coming up.
His smiling face as he kneelt down to lift Rya up into his arms so he could give her a better view of the crowd.
How both he and Rya had such relieved smiles on their faces, truly believing it was all over, they all felt like that, relieved that it was all over, that they could all return home and rest their tired bodies for more than a few hours at a time.
Rya had looked so happy as she'd wrapped her arms around his neck, Ignial's own joy as they rubbed noses as he began wrapping his arms around her, getting ready to hoist her up.
Then, he'd frozen, his posture shifting, putting his back to the crowd, blocking Rya from the view of the masses.
How the shot of a gun rang out a moment later.
And how Ignial's blood splattered over Rya's horrified face, the bullet not quite stopping in time.
Rya's horrified scream, as Ignial's blood then hit her own face from where she stood only feet away, she hadn't reacted in time to save either of them.
A clawed servo landed on her shoulder, jerking her out of her memories as she stumbled to her pedes, the claw falling off and coming to rest in the shadows pluming from the form it was attached to.
"Aunty! Don't scare me like that!" Aurora exclaimed, stumbling back and disturbing more of the dust, some of it flying into both of their mouths, causing both to cough.
Liara fell into a coughing fit, plumes of shadow cascading out like smoke. After a moment, Aurora's tail whipped round, the blunt side of the blade smacking the back of her aunts neck.
It seemed to do the trick as after one last hoarse cough, she was able to speak. "You were falling into bad memories, you know how dangerous that can be." She warned, regarding her niece with a slightly irritated yet mostly worried look.
Aurora shuffled. "I couldn't stop myself, there were too many, all at once, I… miss them." She muttered, turning her gaze out towards the balcony. "Ig always wanted to see me fly again, he could've, if I'd been quicker… I'm a speed class Titan for crying out loud! I'm meant to be able to react faster then any over class… yet, when I needed it most, it was almost like it had abandoned me, leaving me frozen, as I just watched… I'll always hold myself responsible for that, and Emily's family, and her mental instability back then, and now…"
A large clang rang out through the room, as Aurora's helm was jerked to the side, optics wide as she stared at one of the spheres, made of brass.
Liara frowned at her, lowering her paw back to the ground. "Never allow yourself that… never… I refuse to lose you like I did the rest of our kind! Do not follow in your mothers footsteps Aurora!"
If possible, her optics widened further, Liara never spoke of her mother, her aunts sister… twin.
She could feel the tiny droplets falling to the ground, her aunt was crying.
"I lost them… to their own weaknesses… I refuse to allow you to do the same! You are our kinds last hope! You are the only one who can rekindle our race! You cannot lose yourself! I won't let you Sion!"She bellowed.
A moment later, Liara crashed into her, wrapping her front limbs around her and coiling her neck round so that they were locked together.
Aurora stood their frozen, before slowly rearing up herself and doing the same, feeling lubricant of her own forming behind her optics. "I… I'm sorry aunty… I just… I feel so lost sometimes… I… I don't know what to do… I don't want to loose anyone else… Not again… I've lost too many who were close to me, even Hedric, I've lost so many… to the whims of man, and in Uri's case… to forces not even you know…"
Liara's grip tightened on her. "We'll find Uri some day, her disappearance wasn't your fault." She reassured, before tensing. "I have to go, I can't stay any longer, good luck with the sun harvester."
With that said, Liara let go, melting away back into her own shadows until all that was left was the disturbed dust where she'd been.
Aurora nodded at thin air, turning to look around the room one more time before walking towards the door, once she stepped out, she carefully grabbed the open doors handles, and pulled each closed with her mouth. "Rest well Ignial, it isn't the same without you and Uri."
Museum of human history (Completely made up) Washington A short time later
Jack and Miko grunted as they tried to shift the large gold orb from its pedestal, attempting to get it onto the machine lift.
They didn't even notice the figure walking up towards them, completely ignoring the giant robots fighting outside.
"Need help up there?"
The unexpected voice caused all three to jolt, spinning to find the figure of a woman, by looks of it around nineteen in age, peering up at them from under a blue sunhat, why she was wearing that indoors and at night though was beyond them.
Jack sent a weary glare at her, not trusting her whilst Miko and Raf looked outside, the bots and cons where fighting in clear view for the woman to see.
"Oh? Those lot, don't worry, my position means I know a lot about them that I can assume you don't even know, Jackson Darby, Miko Nakadi, Rafeal Isquival, my name, is Rosaline Tinuma, but, you can call me Ro. Everyone at work does." She greeted, bending at the waist in a mild bow, showing of the intricate sea serpent design which was embroided into the back of her deep blue over coat.
Straightening she clapped her hands together. "I'd be happy to help you move that, it's one of my jobs you see, one I was just appointed. Now, don't worry about lowering yourself back down, I'll come up to you."
Before any of the three could respond, Ro vaulted forwards, leaping up and using her momentum to flip into a standing position at the top of the lift, landing in such a way that the medium heels of her shoes made only the slightest 'click' when they made contact with the metal.
The three stared at her for a moment before Miko peered over the edge, they're were at least ten metres in the air, how had that been possible?
"Now then, let's see if we can get this thing moving huh?" Ro enquired, unparsed by their untrusting looks, she proceeded to step up onto the statue and opposite to Jack, placing her hands onto the surface of the orb.
'I haven't seen this thing in millennia, personally at least, I'm going to have to hide everything else deeper.' She thought internally.
However, something caught her eye, turning she spotted Optimus skidding towards them, missile in servo and pushing him closer and closer towards the glass front.
She felt herself tense, along with the other three, but they tensed for a completely different reason to her, they'd been distracted as well, just as they'd been about to object to her helping.
Thankfully, all the tip of the missile did, was crack the glass, leaving an almost spider web crack across on of the large panes.
The sigh of relief wasn't even out of her when Ro spotted the red mech, the Medic Knockout, charging forwards with his energon prod.
With her head facing away from the other three, they didn't see her pupils shift to the blue hue, narrowing into slits with the surrounding iris taking over from the white and beginning to glow.
Just before he could strike, the red mech froze in place, a startled look in his optics as his hydraulics suddenly became unresponsive, giving the Prime time to recover and give the medic a hefty punch to the faceplates, sending the rigid mech flying.
With the deed done, her eyes returned to normal just as she turned back to the three. "Ok, on three, lift."
Jack and Miko nodded, each holding part of the orb.
"One, two, three!"
With one strong huff, the orb rolled onto the lift, with a loud 'thunk'.
Ro was practically beaming as she hopped down onto the lift after the two teens, regarding the orb for a moment. She still remembered when Kronus used this as a weapon against her, during the first time she'd tried to reclaim her necklace.
Who knew it was just as effective at mining her own live blood?
But she guessed she also had to thank it, had it not been for this orb, she wouldn't have her siblings.
She turned back to the three teens. "Ok you lot, get this golden ball outta here, I'll deal with all the red tape. I've already sorted out the right documentation." She assured, before simply stepping off the edge of the lift, landing easily again and making her way towards the back door.
The sound of the lifts engine soon followed behind as she pulled down on the lever, only to jolt when Miko stepped up into her face. "Who are you?!" She half yelled, half whispered, excitement and intrigue.
"That's what I wanna know too." A male voice called just as a flash light came on, blinding the two for a moment.
Not even flinching, Ro stepped forwards, reaching into the inside pocket of her over coat a flipping open a small wallet.
"Rosaline Tinuma, Royal advisor of the British family and member of MI5, I was called here to confiscate the Orb of Orpheas, it needs to be taken to be examined due to… complications in documentation, apparently, some whack job believed it would be a good idea to put an object which emits Beta level radiation into a public museum. One crack and that thing could give radiation poisoning to ever visitor of this place. All the transfer documents have already been completed, this big boy is to be shipped to a lab in Scottish highlands where it can be safely disassembled and have the radiation source removed, it will be returned to the museum once that is done. And she, is a student from the Kensington school of Law, she's working with me and the other two due to their excellence in their studies, these three are the possible future of the British parliament. Now, we'll be on our way, Jackson, steer that thing to the exit bay, there is a helicopter waiting for it to be transported, and remember, one crack and we're goners."
The guard stood there openly staring at her for a good few moments as Jack took the cue and drove forwards.
Ro regarded him for a few minutes before patting him on the shoulder. "Continue you're good work sir, now then, have a good night shift." With that, she walked after the lift, thin heels clacking against the hard ground.
Once they were out of earshot, Miko asked. "Did you mean all of that?" She asked.
Ro nodded. "Yes... Well most of it, the helicopter should be landing in about two minutes, from there it'll be shipped to the nearest airport and I'm going with it back to the UK, such an object is far too dangerous to stay out in the open like this." She answered.
Raf spoke up then. "But the bots need it!"
Ro regarded the twelve year old with a soft look. "That is true, but imagine what would happen if the Decepticons got a hold of it, don't worry, I'll personally select the personale to guard it, no one with ill intent will ever get their hands on it."
Jack shook his head. "This will be interesting to explain to Optimus." He muttered
Ro nodded. "Yes, but for now, lets get this orb out of here. I trust you'll stay out of the cons sight once I've taken the orb with me?"
Miko nodded.
"I know you crossed your fingers Miko." Ro stated. "I have two younger sisters who try to play that on me every chance they have."
Miko deflated at that.
Ro placed a hand on her shoulder, shaking it lightly. "I just don't want to be responsible for leaving you to get in trouble with those cons."
They arrived at the back exit then, the door sliding open in less then a minute, just in time for a Black Hawk to land, rotors whining quietly for a few moments before slowing to a moderate speed.
Four fully armed men hopped out, saluting to Ro each before making their way over to the now lowered lift, hefting the heavy orb up between them, carefully carrying it over to the helicopter.
Once it was safely secured to the floor of the helicopter, Ro turned to the three. "I'll be seeing you all soon okay?"
The three exchanged looks, but before they could answer, she'd hopped into one of the seats, replaced her sun hat with a helmet, and waved to them as the military vehicle returned to the skies, and within a few minutes, had disappeared around a group of sky scrapers.
With nothing else to do, the three ran towards the front, seeing as the sounds of battle had long since quieted down.
"Optimus!" Raf yelled, catching his and the rest of the Autobots attention.
"Yes Rafeal?"
"Where's the Harvester?" Bulkhead asked.
The three exchanged glances, Jack being the one to answer. "You wouldn't believe us, even if we tried to explain."
Miko interrupted then. "Here's a hint, Rosaline Tinuma."
They Autobots all exchanged looks, before Optimus spoke. "The British Politician?"
"And member of MI5, she took the Harvester in a helicopter! And, she knows about you guys, she wasn't even bothered when she saw you all!" Raf exclaimed.
Arcee shook her helm. "We need to get a hold of the Harvester."
"No go team Prime, I just got off the line with General Brice, the top brass have handed the artefact over to British custody, their trails already been wiped clean, I doubt even Sopundwave would be able to find the Harvester now." Fowler interrupted suddenly.
Optimus frowned. "What were the grounds of the extraction?"
"Classified, ie, I'm not of a high enough rank to know, all I know is that I've been told to inform you not to follow, the Harvester is to be dismantled and smelted down into tooth fillings or something like that, now get back to base, I don't want to explain to early rises why there are Giant alien robots in the middle of a city museum parking lot."
The next day
"Sound? What yah doing here?" Rya asked as she walked up to the robbed figure, the hot sun bearing down on the two as they stood upon the Jaspar High school.
Soundwave cast a look over to the robbed thirteen year old. "Just giving Miko a mental boost." She stated, placing a hand on her heavily distended stomach, thankfully hidden from view by the robe, making it look like she wasn't even carrying twins.
Rya frowned for a moment before realising what Soundwave was implying. "Really Sound? Isn't that cheating?"
"She already knew it, I just opened up the mental block she'd put in place in an attempt to be bored. Just a boost, no cheating involved." Soundwave declared, smiling in the darkness of her hood as Rya huffed. "What are you doing here?"
Rya placed her hands behind her hood covered head. "Bored, Emily's experimenting, Sonic's still locked himself in his room except when he needs to eat, Razor's training Cliff and Aurora's getting herself back together after seeing her sire."
Soundwave frowned at the last point. "I'll have to go talk to her later, oh, and juicy detail, Knockout and Breakdown are in a secret relationship."
Rya very nearly fell over herself, once she'd regained her balance she hissed. "I thought you didn't probe people's processors anymore!?"
"Correction, I don't probe you and the others minds anymore, everyone else is fair game, Rya I'm a Psychetralises, it's kind of what we do, well, what I do." She shrugged, before turning to watch as the young teen exchange student run out the front door, towards her guardian, who'd been easy to control so that he didn't look up and see her, or Rya on the roof, being the 'Mindmaster' had it's perks for staying out of sight.
Rya rolled her eyes, before grabbing the older woman's robes and combusting the two into flames, quickly arriving back at the palace.
Hopefully Razor would remember to burry all the relics deeper, or better yet, dig them all up and seal them in one of the vaults in Qylatia.
Hope that all made enough sense? Well nothing really to say here... umm... yeah, a new chapter will hopefully be posted much sooner then this one was! Well until next time! Say bye everyone!
Everyone (minus a few I can't be bothered to list): SEE YAH!
