Chapter 10: Get Away
Hi Readers. Typical... I need to spend my New Years surrounded in white walls. Well... I guess it is kinda lame but Advance White New Years Day! That was supposed to be Snow Day... Brr... It is freezing here.
Hazeleyanna: I can't argue with that logic. But sure, I'll make it up when I am awfully better. So updates wait with readers? It is a so so...
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We both left the cubicle with my sister holding me up to portray that I still am in need of some assistance in walking. I needed to make them believe that I wasn't still capable enough to freely roam on my own so the others would let their guards down...
I did not mind different treatment they gave me than what they gave my sister. She was left to her own devices when I got Jazz to accompany me. And I knew for a fact that she, in the eyes of many, was called to be like an angel; humans that don't quite take full attention on her when they had been introduced to her thought that she wouldn't be able to hurt even a fly.
Oh, I think if ever the Decepticons are hiring squishy soldiers, they could practically earn a slot or two. They were good as Cons if they are able to put up like this, with all deceptions and lies…
Maybe they could find Gould and let them in the Decepticon plan before DoTM?
That will be another thing to process…
The night was chilly as hell since that the base is located at the middle of the dessert... I guess it was expected. I had memorized the movements of the bots and soldiers up to now so I was able to slip away quickly like a snake from the human quarters. I wasn't meant to be a scout or spy but I sure do fit for that category now. How? Well, frag if I know. Since we were thrown here, nothing seems to be the same anymore for us.
With a sigh, I kept my thoughts at bay and just waited for noises or steps... even vibrations to signal my advancements in the hallway. It was harder than I thought when the security cams were keeping tabs of the whole building but I gave more wonder on how my sister went and did her tasks.
We had our work cut out for ourselves. A week of planning and meeting in the ladies cubicle was all what we need to come up with everything as sound and prepared as possible to face what will come to us when we are off here.
I had managed to stealthily reach the rendezvous point we had set up. It was at the front of the hangar, off to the dark part of it where military vehicles that were getting ready for transport was there. This would be a great plan to make our escape.
She smiled at me and I smiled at her. In the dark, I could pick out that she was wearing someone else's white t-shirt and a knee cut military pants for our clean getaway. The flip flops, I don't know where she got them but I think that maybe it came from the fieldtrip she had with Jazz, Sir Will and Ironhide on a certain day that I had called 'Unfair day'.
As I said, she was the only one allowed to freely roam the mother base when the real TF fan was stuck and in reprimand on what felt like a brig to me. Where the heck was my freedom? Well, ask Ironhide of that…
"Here's yours..." My sister handed me a sack and I pulled out my pair of clothing that looks like the same as her, only bigger. I stared in ridicule at her asking for answers..
"Got them from the solicitation we got from them... and I kinda pulled out the birthday card." From her explanation, I snorted and rolled my eyes at her antics. Really, it was not that low to tell that it was my birthday when it really is not but it does not mean that we didn't commit anything wrong.
Yeah, this is how we got the money we would use to get live off from for a few weeks maybe.
"I plan to tell them when we get back..." She sheepishly said before disappearing at the side. She doesn't have to do that though because I didn't mind but if she feels guilty about it then, that is her choice if she wants to confess or not. I just went on to change my own outfit at the side. I wonder where I should put my old garments…
"I'll take that..." She suddenly appeared with a caravan at her person. Now, when did my little sister learn how to drive?
"Learned it when Sir Fig thought that it would be wise for me to learn… Something about not being able to drive once I get accustomed to a sentient metal being in the name of Jazz. And this was also for something about making a great escape…" She chuckled then grinned. "I know that he'll regret ever teaching me..." Her eyes glinted in mischief which I smiled at and shook my head again. Decepticon candidate…
"You really should stop being that chunky bit of yours... I don't know whether I had been the one to provoke that kind of behavior of yours or was it always in our blood to be badass?" I told her as I hopped on. Well... It wouldn't take long… Once the others revved their engines and go their way, we would be also on our way.
"Perfected that thing of yours with Rachet, sis?" She suddenly asked me before I grinned and push a button from the device I held.
"Yep... Although, Rachet might think that his student wasn't that great at memorization, he has mistaken... Questioning him about the way scouts hid their spark signature as well as my love for science and your connivingness... I guess it turns out to be deadly." I bit my lip as I tried to hid my pending laugh when her expression turned to somewhat like flustered and a little to 'yuck-my-sis-is-appreciating-me'.
"Then off we go!" She said before she started the engine and we silently by passed the towers and barriers as we joined others in their exits. They didn't know what hit them. That is WHEN they know what hit them...
They just got duped by two teens. I wonder what would the others think about us once we cross paths again. If ever this was like the first time we got here, wherein we were going in loops and loops until we had no choice but to join the battle, I can already see the shocked, angry, worried optics of the bots.
That will be another problem in the near future.
Ugh… too many pit spawned problems…
We were a good hundred miles away from the base when we decided that it was safe to talk. We were now out of the scanners range as I activated the device in my hand. The vehicle had immediately disappeared without notice or alert from the others and we swevered sharply to a crossing. The light might be red but no one will see us pass the toll gate without a fee.
If you wanna know who was driving up to this point now, it was me. I had change to take the driver side and continue our journey as my sister rested slept. We both had overworked ourselves to the pit but we weren't out of dangerous waters yet.
It was when the sun rose up at the distance when we decided that it was the right time to get a flat iron on our plan.
"What do we have?" I had asked her since she was the one to take in the inventory.
"Good morning to you too, Sis." She retorted with my lack of greetings first then yawned and picked up a clock that she had manage to snuck in.
"Are you sure that we don't have anything within this jeep that can make them track us?" I asked her with a sigh. She might have snuck in other things that could give off waves and signals that would likely give us away. The device I had built could only be used for a certain amount of time before it needs recharge. Once the shield is off, we are gonna be goners for sure.
"Yep! I did check every item that we have... although I think that they wouldn't be happy to lose their personal things..." She said with a laugh as she rummages at the back. She had pack quite a lot from the clang of metals and pots there as well as the big looking knapsack was there.
"What did you get?" I asked her with a raised eyebrow but not turning my attention away from the road we got onto. If even we cross a military vehicle, we would be already hiding in our device. Once the bots know we are missing, they'll be able to trace us with satellite feed and give out orders to search for us.
I hate thinking that we are something priced and precious that we have to be stored in a slagging base. I do not like that idea too much… and if I don't like it, so will my sister.
"Do you have something in there that acts like a subspace or something, sis?" She asked me out loud. That sister of mine had always wanted something like that since Jazz had manage to fit every single thing she get to buy, it his alt form or bipedal form until they reach our quarters back at the base.
"Be greatful that I had manage to ask Rachet about this but please, do not insert anything that could rot in there like food or something; only metallic things. They couldn't be molecularly modified when we take it out later." I told her over the shoulder. Within the next minutes, she was gasping in pure joy as she tested it out.
I didn't bother to take away her fun for neither me or she would want that. But when it stood time for us to get serious, she was all ears again.
"We should move to another vehicle once we get to the city. I'll leave this in a junk yard, okay? By then, you should be finished already. I also need you to be ready with the necessary things that wouldn't make us look like we are too suspicious." I warned her. Both of us doesn't need others to get suspicions of who we might be.
"Got it... You're thinking what I've been thinking..." She smirked as I saw her from my peripheral vision and rolled her eyes.
"…Too much watching with papa?" I asked her with a smile thinking the same thing she was. She was thinking of something like a survival trip.
"Yeah... too much... and your tolerance to watch every single discovery channel, geographic channel, TLC, survival channel and other things that really creep me out on how you get your knowledge from and this paranoid-ness..." She laughed as she teased my habits.
"Figures... You all had thought I was crazy when I watch them, what more could I ask for when I react..." I said and snickered as I remembered their profanities whenever they saw me watching something lame in their standards.
Also, time check, it will soon be 6 and the base would probably be on high alert by now.
"Get ready, dude, I'm flooring it..." I said as I checked the gas and the speedometer before launching it forward at the outmost speed that the vehicle could take us. I already passed a welcome sign. That means we're almost there. MISSION CITY, a good place to hide then disappear. If they were lucky enough, they could do something first here to get extra money before going.
We were secure enough to get there, so maybe we could be spared a little time to get to know what we will be facing out here.
When we had reached the city in no time and got out of the jeep at the junk yard, it was then when we first encountered out problem.
This place we had found was a great place to park the jeep for them to see... I've known too much justness that lead to abandoned buildings with creepy residents. At least here, I won't worry about getting mob by a Decepticon in broad day light... I would only worry about these dudes that don't like their territory being invaded.
"So 'whut do ya' choose, girly? Be mine or we beat you up and still be mine...?" They were a group of monkey in my sight. The one who had spoken up, I could tell that he was the gang leader here.
"Hey boss... I like that other girl in the vehicle. Can I play with her and my friends here?" Another monkey that had no spines had approached. By my assessment, I can say that they rely on weapons…
Is it fear that compels you to run, insect? I could hear Megatron's voice echo in my head.
I ignored them as me and my sister continued on getting our stuff. It was then when she yelped from being pulled suddenly caught my attention.
"Don't you ignore us, sistah... A fine looking gal like ya' doesn't want ta' be diced." I felt the cold metal blade of the knife a lacky held on my neck pierced my skin.
I twitched. Nothing will come out good once they sign up for their own demise.
"Come on now... let's get ta' business shall we?" The leader was really not my type and heck do I want to be under mr. buff monkey. I was so going to mess with his gangster life.
When I felt the knife withdraw, I made my move. Elbowing the guy at the face, hard had knocked him out cold as the knife flung into the air. With another move, I kicked Mr. buff monkey in his crown jewels before catching the knife and pulling in to his own face... I think the fear kinda made me proud... With this, I can't help feel sadistic… wew... I am turning back again to my old self...
"S-sTOP! O-Or... I-Ill... kill her, BITCH!" Me and mr. buff monkey's attention went to the other buffy holding my sister. I glanced at him bored as I stayed on top of the other in a sitting position. How I dared for him to get up or do anything bad as I threw the knife in the air. I think I was spiking his fear even more as the knife goes down in front of his eyes before catching it.
I placed my hand below my chin and raised my eye brow at him.
"Sorry... I didn't catch what you were saying..." I inclined my head to the right where the knife was being tossed and caught. "Can you please repeat that?" I asked him with a smile that would have been perceived as none threatening... well... not really.
"I-I- i-" Poor man hadn't been able to stop himself from wetting his under wear. I knew that it was because of the face I had put on… It always does the trick but I think I am using it way over board as I saw my sister looked away in hurt.
She was over reacting again to this… *sigh*
Soon, she was released as we went away peacefully. I ordered them (more like threatened to dig their graves) to get away from there and be off; to never ever come back from there for I know that they would be the one s to be hunted for once they knew we had interacted with them.
My sister was silent… I knew why but I can't blame her. It was something that I didn't think would happen too… that I would use such face again with her looking. I had sworn but the resolution was currently breaking as you see.
We took a cab and went to the other side of the city and then stayed for breakfast at a cafe. The bag pack we carried was waiting for us in a storage room in the cafe that provided us with some clothes that were for the workers. The ones that entertained us were the main owners of the said diner. I didn't mind for they were too kind to us when we had come in.
They also had managed to give us some dollars to from working for 3 hours. It was morning rush and they need services badly. This made me wonder how their customers could stand the wait but then, found out that they old couple were the ones clearly were the kindest.
Customers with free coffee? Great and quality food in spite the long wait? They have it checked.
I had tied my hair into a bun and then proceeded in working on with helping the old man and her wife with managing the crowed with my sister in the same disposition as me. As soon as the crowed thinned, we went to the isolated part of the dinner and talked.
"I thought that you weren't gonna use her again..." This was her first sentence since we had reached this place. I knew that she was bound to get over it.
"I said I wouldn't but circumstances had provoked me to use the only force I have to get us out of that place as swiftly as possible without being reached by our designated pursuers..." I told her as I drank my free coffee like nothing was wrong.
"You didn't have to... I could have taken him down my own..." She said again with determination and defiance this time which made me smile before reaching out to her and petting her head.
"I know squirt, but I think that it is my job to protect my siblings for as long as I can... Can you at least give me some pride in what I do for you guys?" I told her as I stood up and went to the old couple to bid them farewell and thank you.
Her expression didn't go unnoticed as far as I can tell... She was wallowing again on what could have been and her independence and defiance was once again crushed by me.
I wasn't sorry though because I know that it was my role to protect them. It was my will to stay with them... It was all my choice that I change for them... Nothing will make me change whatever value I have installed within myself.
Even if life and death appears, I'll protect them, darkness or light of mine, protect is my mission for now in this dimension.
