Chapter 19:We can't take it!
(::Comm. speak.::)
:::PRIVATE COMM. SPEAK:::
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Thought
^Twin Comm Speak.^
PAY ATTENTION TO THE WORD
Note: Age is mentioned here, and not how I usually mention
"Oh, yes. This is what will happen, you will be splashed with ice cold water, then you will be tied together with duck-tape, rope, and some chains I found in one of the rooms." Ironhide said.
"This is going to be good." Chromia said.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
It was Agent Fowler. Optimus wasn't taking part in the little torture session so he answered. (:PRIME! We have an attack on a military base of-:) Fowler was distracted by the 'Bots fighting Illusion, Wasp, and Bumblebee. (:What are your people doing Prime?:)
"They are punishing those three." Optimus said.
(:Well, we have an attack on military base in Texas.:) he said.
"We are on our way." Optimus said Agent Fowler saluted and signed off. "Autobots, leave the three tied and keep them where Ratchet can keep an optic on them."
"Alright, if you say so." Sideswipe said. Ratchet put in the coordinates and everyone except him and the three tied up, left.
"Please Ratchet, free us. We did that for your own good." Wasp said.
"No."
"Everyone was still half in recharge."
"No."
"Please?"
"No."
"Pretty please?"
"I said no."
"You have a cold spark, you know that?" Illusion said.
"Yes, and if it were colder I would never fix you." he said.
"My brother didn't even help." Illusion said. "He's just usually invisible, so he's basically hiding all the time. He probably went with them on that mission. Left us here alone." he was mad at his brother, no doubt. Ratchet was on the monitor, when suddenly the three felt the rope loosen and the tape was starting to tear off.
"Thought I left you? Well, what kind of an older brother would I be to my little brother." he said.
"If I could only tell on you." Illusion wanted to punch his brother, but considering that he saved them, he couldn't.
"Don't be such a sparkling, bro."
"Let's run before Ratchet the Hatchet turns around." Illusion said. He, Mirage, Wasp, and Bumblebee went to Mirage's room to hang out.
"So, you never told us that you two were brothers. We never even knew back on Cybertron." Wasp said.
"Well, it just never came up in a conversation, In the last few vorns." Illusion said sarcastically.
"Does anyone else know? Does Ratchet know? Does Optimus?" Bumblebee asked.
"We don't think so." Mirage looked at his brother and back to the twins.
"I know you let them free Mirage." the voice came from outside. They were really surprised, Illusion hid behind his brother.
"Let me in. I'm not mad...yet. Look, the others haven't gotten here yet, and today I just noticed is check-up day." he said. "And if you choose not to open this door, I still have my wrench with me."
"Alright, we were going to open the door anyways." Mirage said. Sure enough Ratchet was there, with his wrench. They four walked out and to the MedBay they went. Took awhile to get them inside the MedBay, though.
"There that was all, Wasp, Bumblebee you can go back to whatever you were doing, Illusion, Mirage I need to speak with you." Ratchet said.
"What is it doc?" Mirage asked.
"Well, it seems that after I scanned both of you, your CNA had some similarities. So, anything you need to tell me?" he asked.
"No, nothing at all. Let's go Illusion." Mirage told his brother.
"RUN!" they both made a brake for the door, but Ratchet beat them to it and closed the MedBay door.
"Anything you care to tell me?" he asked again.
"Fine, Illusion's my younger brother. I didn't want anyone to know so I acted like Illusion was just a friend when I first got here. You see Illusion was sparked around the time Wasp and Bumblebee were. I didn't know at first, I wasn't even sure if our creators were online, but turns out they were hiding because of Illusion, they didn't want him to be terminated, or killed by the Decepticons. When Illusion was able to walk, they went to the closest Autobot post and told them to contact me. I was contacted and I went there, my creators told me that he was my brother, that I had to take care of him, I was around 11. I was aloud to fight. But only certain battles. My creators told me that I had to go back. I had to go to Optimus and tell them that they didn't have much time left, I asked them what they meant by that, and they told me that they had to hide. Optimus would know what to do, they had heard of other sparklings that were being protected. They left and I returned to base." Mirage explained.
"So, do you know what happened to your creators? Anything at all?" Ratchet asked.
"No, not at all. And when I returned to base, Optimus was waiting for me. He had gotten a message from the Autobot post that I had been there and was coming back with a sparkling. My brother. When I got there he told me to go to my room and wait for someone to come get me. So I did, I had to wait a while though. Finally Optimus came back for me, and told me to go to Red Alert with Illusion. When I got there with Red Alert, there were a few other sparklings. And well, RA did his check up on Illusion, and everything was ok. Then years passed and the war progressed. I had to leave to another part on Cybertron and Illusion couldn't come with me. That was the last time I saw Illusion on Cybertron. Now, I'm here with him again." Mirage said.
"So Optimus and Red Alert are the only ones that know two are brothers?" Ratchet asked.
"Yes, and you guys since I just told you." Mirage said.
"True, and since your creators disappeared, what do you think happened to them?" Bumblebee asked.
Illusion and Mirage shrugged. "I barely remember them. I could barely walk or talk." Illusion added, all he could remember was that Mirage looked like their dad, and he resembled his mom.
(:HEY! We need a ground bridge. It's for Knockout.:) it was the monitor, and the voice was Rumble.
(:We need it fast! Is anyone even there?!:) now it was Frenzy. Ratchet, Mirage, and Illusion ran to the main computer.
"We hear you, I have your coordinates, I'll bridge him back!" Ratchet said. "Get ready to help him when he comes back in." he told the four others.
"Roger Ratchet." the four exclaimed at once. The ground bridge opened, and in came Sideswipe and Sunstreaker helping Knockout in, Sunny and Sides didn't look so good themselves.
"Help...him." Sideswipe gasped between each word. It looked like had had been hit, and clawed at, and his brother's leg had been shot badly, you couldn't even see the yellow on his leg.
"All three of you need to get to the MedBay. Wasp, Illusion you help The Twins, Bumblebee, you help Knockout, and Mirage, you go help Optimus." Ratchet told everyone what to do. Mirage and his brother and the bugs nodded and did what they were told. Mirage ran through the groundbridge and it closed behind him.
Elita-1 ran over to him. "Arcee is being attacked by Stormclaw. We need to help her." the two ran to her rescue. When they got there Stormclaw was firing away at Arcee, though Arcee was trying to get closer.
"COME OUT AND FIGHT ME YOU COWARD!" Stormclaw was very angry. When she saw Knockout, Breakdown, Soundwave and his deployers came through the Autobot groundbridge, she couldn't take it. "You guys tricked my only friends into joining you guys! Now FIGHT ME!"
"We never tricked them! They chose to join us!" Elita exclaimed as she got closer to Stormclaw.
"NO! YOU'RE LYING!" Stormclaw screeched, she quickly turned around, and ran toward Elita-1 and Mirage. Her claws extended.
"Stormclaw! Don't do it!" Rumble and Frenzy screamed. Them and the rest of the deployers came running/flying to Elita and Mirage's rescue. The deployers tackled her.
"NO!" Stormclaw exclaimed as she fell down. The deployers restrained her as best they could.
"Look, Stormclaw. We chose to join them, they didn't take us away from you!" Frenzy screamed.
"NO! I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!" Stormclaw got free, transformed and flew away.
Frenzy, his brother and the other deployers were shocked. "She might never trust us again. Lazerbeak, could you try and catch her?"
"No, leave her. She might need to think." Soundwave said. The Decepticons had retreated.
"We better head back to base. It's extremely late and everyone needs to see Ratchet in the morning." Optimus was coming down to the cave they were in.
(:Ratchet, we need a groundbridge.:) Arcee contacted the base.
(:Alright. Today is check up day, hurry.:)
The groundbridge appeared, and the deployers ran to the bridge and kept running past Bumblebee, Wasp, Illusion, Knockout, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, and Ratchet and straight to their room. The rest of the 'bots came walking in.
"Sorry. They were kinda shocked when we saw Stormclaw. She thought that you guys had tricked us and made us join your side." Soundwave said.
"She will never trust us again." Knockout said. The three ex-Cons left for their rooms, without another word.
"It's late, we'll do the rest of the check ups tomorrow." Ratchet said. He walked to his room.
"G'night guys, have a nice recharge." Wasp said, she walked to her room, everyone walked to their own rooms, some didn't fall into recharge. Some kept talking to their brother or sister.
^I wish the war would just end. What is the meaning of it anyway. I mean, we already lost our world. Shots don't hurt sentient beings, sentient beings hurt sentient beings.^ Bumblebee told his sister over their bond.
^I know. If only other 'Cons shared the same idea, it could be possible. We all lost our creators, friends, family, a world. What next? Our leader? Our home? This planet?^
^Don't think like that. We won't lose anyone else. Tomorrow morning, before or after we take the children to school, we ask Knockout, Breakdown, and Soundwave if they can help us contact Stormclaw, I think they said that was her name.^
^Alright. It would be better if we tell them after we drop off the children.^
NEXT DAY. ANDY AND KITHRA ARE WAITING FOR THE 'BOTS
"Andy, I'm going to miss you. Are you sure you actually have to go?" Kithra asked.
"The family that adopted my sister moved to Utah, and we are going to go ask them if she could move back with us." Andy said.
"And since your just going to ask them, do you really have to move there?" Kithra asked.
"Yes, my mom said that we're moving back until the next school year, and since we are already in February we won't be gone that long." Andy said.
"Well, I'm going to miss you. When are you leaving?" Kithra asked.
"Next week. Don't worry, it's not like we're moving, moving there. Just for a few months." Andy explained as Illusion and Wasp came speeding by.
"Hey guys." Illusion said.
"I HAD A MUSICAL SAUSAGE THIS MORNING!" Andy exclaimed.
"Just don't pay attention to her. She acts sillier when she gets nervous." Kithra told them.
"Why did you tell them?" Andy asked.
"Because I could. Lets go, we'll be late." Kithra said as she got in Wasp's front seat.
"Well, I can tell them any time I want to. I just don't want to." Andy said, and got in Illusion's back seat.
"So, Andy...why are you nervous?" he asked.
"Just a lot on my mind." she said. Kithra was begging Wasp to listen in on the other two. Wasp finally gave in, and they were listening in.
"I know that you two can hear, I saw that you contacted me." Illusion said.
"Wasp! Turn it off, turn it off!" Kithra exclaimed in a panic.
"I'm trying! Alright, there." Wasp was finally able to turn it off.
"We can still hear you." Andy said.
"TURN IT OFF!" Kithra exclaimed again in a panic.
"Now, now it's off. Yay, we're here!" Wasp exclaimed. Kithra quickly got out and waved good bye. Wasp sped away as fast as the speed limit could allow. Kithra ran as fast as she could inside the school.
"Bye Andy." Illusion said. Andy got out and followed Kithra, Illusion went after Wasp.
"How could you do that Kithra? And you got Wasp in it to. Not cool. I'm telling Arcee and Jack." Andy said.
"No! Please! Jack once gave me a lecture and I nearly fell asleep! Please don't tell him!" Kithra stopped running and dropped to her knees. Some girls passed by the two and stared at them.
"Move along. Nothing to see here, keep walkin'." Andy told them rudely.
"Hey, guys I saw that you were chasing Kithra and I wanted to see the end results." Miko came running.
"Nothing happened. I was just randomly chasing Kithra." Andy explained.
"Miko! Andy! Kithra! So glad I could find you three." came a very annoying voice from down the hall.
"What do you want Janina?" Miko asked with obvious irritation in her voice.
"Hey, I just wanted to asked you guys something about the school trip." she answered.
"Yes, we're going." Kithra said.
"Well, good. Now, I'm going to need some help with the project." Janna said.
"We don't need to do it. We kept our grades at exceptable B+s." Andy said. "So we don't need to do the project. Only the ones that have anything lower than a C have to do the Project."
"Fine. You caught me, I got an F. But, I mean really, who gets a good grade in anything these days." Janina said.
"It's not easy or hard to get a good grade in a class that you chose." Miko said. "Plus, the three of us are actually working harder then last year so we have better grades than last year."
"Fine, I'll go find someone else to do the project for me." Janina said. She turned away and walked away to the other end of the hall and turned.
"We better find Raf before she gets to him and tricks him into doing the project for her." Andy said. The three started to run to try and find Raf.
AUTOBOT BASE. 2 HOURS LATER
"I swear if we keep wussing out, I'm going to scream." Wasp said.
"Alright, we walk right to Knockout, Breakdown, and Soundwave and demand to talk with them." Bumblebee said.
"We demand that we speak with you three!" Wasp came in the main room, the three they were looking for were there, just sitting on the bot sized couch.
"Why?" Soundwave asked.
"We need to speak with you three now! No questions asked!" Bumblebee's beeps and buzzes didn't sound too happy.
"Alright sibs. You didn't have to demand it, we'd talk to you." Knockout said.
"This has to be very private. Can we go to my room? Or one of your rooms?" Wasp asked.
"We can go to my room." Breakdown said. They started walking to his room. "Come in."
"Your room is nice." Wasp beeped. Indeed, Breakdown's room was nice and simple.
"Thanks. What was it that you 'demanded' us for?" he asked.
"We can't take this war anymore. By choosing to join us, you guys lost a good friend. We've lost so many things, friends, family, we've even lost our home planet! We want you guys to help us contact that friend of yours. We want to talk to your friend..."
"Her name is Stormclaw." Knockout cut in before Bumblebee.
"We want to talk to Stormclaw and ask her and try to convince her into talking Megatron-"
"She's Megatron's daughter." Soundwave said.
"WHAT?!" Wasp and Bumblebee exclaimed.
"She's actually better then you would expect. She's always been nice. We've all been friends since we've met. But she doesn't trust us anymore." Knockout said.
"We can help her build her trust again. Please guys. We don't want to make you guys lose something important to you because we're all fighting this stupid war. Please." Bumblebee begged.
"Come on, let us speak with her. Just in case you guys haven't noticed, we're irresistibly cute." Wasp said. She and her brother made the cutest faces they could make to show the three.
"Fine. We'll just have to wait until it's night to contact her. We can't during the day, especially while the children are around." Breakdown said. "Andy still kind of confuses me."
"How? She can't be like Miko." Knockout said. "Have you been in a long conversation with her?"
"Have you been in a conversation with all six of the humans? The two oldest boys aren't to bad, the the other four are just confusing. Especially Miko. She always asks so many questions." Soundwave said.
"We got off track. So, do you guys agree?" Bumblebee asked.
"I like the idea." Breakdown said.
"I'll help." Soundwave agreed.
"I'll do it. We can't be still living in a world where we have to fight for a cause thats been forgotten for so long." Knockout said.
"After everyone has gone to their rooms, we go to the nearest forest and contact them from there. We could get discovered if we do it here." Wasp said.
"Deal. Now, this is how the plan will go." Bumblebee buzzed. "Soundwave you have to find a place for us to contact Stormclaw. Knockout, or Breakdown, you will help him, and who either of you who isn't helping him has to make sure that we can sneak out tonight without anyone noticing."
"I'll help Soundwave, Knockout would be better at making sure we can sneak away quietly." Breakdown spoke up.
"Alright, now that things are set up, who wants to play a prank on Ratchet?" Wasp asked.
"ME!" Bumblebee exclaimed.
"I'll help." Knockout said.
"We'll start working." Soundwave said.
"Let's go then. I have the perfect idea for this." Wasp said.
"What's the plan evil genius?" Bumblebee asked.
"Don't call me that, and all I need is paint and a bucket." she said.
"What color?" Knockout asked.
"Pink would do nicely." she responded."So I'll just ask Sunny if I could have any. Let's go ask him."
"OK. Knockout you get the bucket." Bumblebee said. Wasp and Bumblebee left for The Twin's room to ask Sunstreaker about the pain. Knockout went to the nearest storage closet to look for a bucket he found one in the moment he opened it.
"This should be about the size Wasp needs." Knockout said to himself. He started walking to where his brother and sister went to.
"Hey Knockout. Have you seen my brother?" Sideswipe asked.
"No. Wasp and Bumblebee went to talk to him." he answered.
"Well, then. I'll talk to him later." Sideswipe said.
"Well, bye." Knockout waved and kept walking. He didn't know that the prank was actually for him...
Author:Procrastination! Lazyness! Writers Block! School! Bubble Wrap! Chores! Video Games! Homework! Cookie Sales! Yes, I am a Girl Scout. And, YOUTUBE! I have finally finished this chapter. After so long. I started so long ago on this chapter. First chapter for this story this year. I'm going to let everyone get mad at me, i deserve it.*sobs*. I feel so bad. But now that I finished my other story I'll have more time for this one.
Wasp:No, you're lying. You started another story. And it's not even about me!
Author: Hey, you already have this story named after you.
Wasp: But you made me a femme in this one!
Illusion: And me a mech!
Author: You guys are never going to let it go are you?*makes a face like T3T*
Optimus: Calm down you two. She makes the disitions here, so no one is to give her a hard time about it.
Andy: Actually she said she would let everyone get mad at her, so LET THE ANGRY FEST BEGIN!
Author: Actually thats for the readers, SO NO MAD FEST!
Kithra: Been a while since I've been in one of these.
Author:Say something now, cause I'm about to end it.
Kithra: SEND US CHOCOLATE THROUGH YOUR REVIEWS!
Author: Um, no. Now, any suggestions for what should happen to Knockout in the next chapter? Any thing to tell me I'm doing wrong? No flames, just constructive criticism. ;D
Kithra:*whispers* still send us chocolate. She never lets us have any candy, says we get hyper or something.
Author:*Runs from Stormclaw* Don't hurt me! I put you in this story again didn't I?
SC:Yes, but you made me look like a crazy bot!*Stops running*
Author: Does anyone else want to try to kill me*her sister walks in*
Sister:What are you doing?
Author:*Hides under bed covers* Neep, have to go now bye *hides from sister again.*