Chapter: 25
I slowly started crawling back into consciousness, feeling slowly seeping through out my body again. I blinked my eyes open groggily and was met with three worried faces looking down at me.
"She's conscious." Erica informed unnecessarily. "What happened? I couldn't pick up anything from you."
I groaned and tried to sit up. Erica instantly reached over and helped me into a sitting position. I stifled a hiss of pain as my head seemed to implode again. Erica didn't seem to have picked up on anything from touching me, for she frowned in frustration and her forehead wrinkled in concentration.
"What happened?" Prowl asked, looking unsure of what he should do.
"Where's 'Cade?" I asked, ignoring everyone's questions.
"He wasn't with us, remember?" Jazz asked, concerned.
"Is he nearby?" I asked, looking around the area.
"I'm not sure, he's more then likely not near—"
"You two have Alexis with you?" Barricade's question over the comm-link interrupted Prowl.
"Barricade?" Prowl asked in surprise, "You're nearby?"
"Of course, I couldn't find Alexis at the school, so I followed you." Barricade explained.
"Yes, she's here." Jazz answered for Prowl, "Had a little incident, but she's fine now."
Then I heard police sirens off in the near distance, and frowned. I looked over my shoulder to see a rapidly approaching police cruiser, red and blue lights dancing on top of it. It seemed to be going impossibly fast to be a normal everyday car.
"'Cade" I beamed, looking back over to catch Prowl and Jazz looking at me with curiosity. They quickly looked up at Barricade's approaching form when they noticed I was looking at them.
"Alexis!" Barricade shouted as he transformed close to our little group. I smiled weakly at him. "What happened!"
"We were just trying to find that out." Jazz informed, crouching next to me again.
"My jewelry felt like it was burning me, and the pain caused me to pass out." I half lied, not wanting to tell anyone about me meeting Oceansurface and Sapphire.
"That's not good..." Prowl replied, activating his holomater and having it come and crouch next to me. "Let me see."
Prowl slowly reached out to touch my necklace, and then carefully took the charm into the palm of his hand.
"So...?" Barricade pressed, pacing back and forth. "Anything wrong?"
Prowl frowned. "Not a single thing seems wrong." Prowl informed, letting go of my necklace and 'disappearing'. "I think you should take your jewelry off, Alexis."
"Why?" I asked, frowning.
"Because, I have a feeling something worse than what just occurred will happen, and that the jewelry has something to do with what just happened to you." Prowl explained.
"It shouldn't cause any harm unless every last bit of the power is reunited." I retorted, defending my only connection I had left to my mother.
"It may react to being near another piece of ore that holds some of the power captive." Jazz pointed out.
Erica, who was pacing to and fro behind me, suddenly came to a stop. I could sense curiosity radiating from her. She bent down and started rummaging through the debris of what was once probably a tall business building.
"Huh..." she muttered, awed by something she had found.
"What is it, Erica?" I asked, having known her long enough to know that she had come across something interesting.
"Someone seems to have lost a beautiful silver anklet." Erica trailed off, "Prowl," her voice was urgent.
Prowl bent down to see what Erica held in her hands. Erica reached up and Prowl carefully took it between his index finger and thumb, and his eyes widened in surprise and horror.
"What's wrong, Prowl..." Jazz trailed off as he noticed the markings on the metal. "Shoot..."
"Serenity?" Barricade whispered, reading the Cybertronian on the anklet. Barricade walked over to get a closer look at it.
"We should give this and the rest of it to Preceptor..." Prowl decided, moving the anklet to the middle of his palm.
Then there was a blinding flash of light from the anklet, and everyone shielded their eyes. When it was safe to look again, the anklet was gone.
"What the...?" Prowl looked taken aback. "Where did it go?"
Erica suddenly shivered. "It's alive, and it wanted to reunite with the rest of it." Erica announced with dread.
I immediately lifted up my pant leg to expose a shiny, silver anklet wrapped around my left ankle. I frowned, wondering how it had managed to wrap around my ankle without me noticing. Barricade was at my side in a split-second.
"That's not good." Jazz muttered, frowning at the anklet that was now refusing to budge, not wanting to be removed from it's new home.
"Your mother was wrong." Barricade suddenly muttered, looking at Prowl, "or it grew enough to be separated again, for there are two pieces of it still missing."
Jazz frowned, wondering how Barricade knew what my mother had claimed in the first place. "I told him." Prowl answered Jazz's unspoken question. Jazz frowned, then nodded.
"How do you know how many pieces are missing?" I asked.
"I can feel the power radiating from the metal, and it feels short of much more then a ring's worth of power." Barricade explained.
"He's correct." A familiar feminine voice sounded from behind Barricade. I looked up and saw Barricade was frozen with disbelieve. "I've heard that I've been missed. Thanks to Prowl, announcing that if he could go back and fix it he would do so in a Spark pulse, I've been granted leave to walk amongst the living again."
Barricade recovered, stood up, and turned to face the black-blue colored femme. Red eyes met almost-purple, visor-covered, light blue ones. Barricade almost stopped breathing.
"Oceansurface?" he whispered, utterly shocked and dumbfounded.
Oceansurface grinned, nodding her head. "It's nice to see you, too, Barry."
Barricade frowned, "You spoiled the moment." he muttered.
I giggled and Oceansurface looked a little surprised. "Told ya he didn't like being called that."
"I highly doubt that my sis could get away with 'Cade." Sapphire pipped up, coming from around a still standing wall. She flashed a smile at our group. "What's wrong, Prowl? You look like you've seen a ghost."
Oceansurface laughed. "'Course he does." Oceansurface walked over to Prowl and pulled him into a friendly hug. "What? Didn't you miss me?"
Oceansurface then came up to Barricade and gave him a hug, too. Barricade seemed to go stiff.
Erica slid up next to me to touch Oceansurface, then Sapphire, who had stayed behind her older sister. Erica seemed surprised when she touched Sapphire, and kept her hand on her leg a little longer then needed, probably asking a few questions of the Cybertronian telepath.
And then Erica brushed her finger tips softly against Barricade as she came to stand shoulder to shoulder with me.
She grinned over her shoulder at the two sisters.
"I, too, approve." Erica murmured.
I froze.
"Approve of what?" I asked suspiciously.
Erica grinned, "Your choice."
"What...?" I asked, confused. Erica waved it away, and I frowned.
"Let's do this thing." Sapphire grinned at her older sister.
"Why are you two here?" Barricade asked stiffly.
"We're here to become Erica's guardians." the two Cybertronian sisters announced at the same time.
Barricade frowned, and then sighed. I put a comforting hand on his leg, and he relaxed and smiled down at me. I grinned back up at him.
"Just to let you know, Jazz..." I turned my attention toward him. Jazz looked at me, then at Barricade, and then gave me a little smile. "Wink at me again and this," I pulled a golf ball, which I had slipped out of my backpack, out of my pocket, "will be replacing your eye so you can't wink."
Jazz smirked, "Ya know I was just playing." He pointed out, before winking his right eye at me, transforming, and driving off.
I growled and hurled the golf ball after the rapidly retreating Jazz. I heard shattering glass, and noticed that I had managed to hit his back window. Everyone started laughing as they transformed and followed the now cursing silver Pontiac Solace.
Authors Note: Sorry for the heck of long wait guys! But here you go!