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Chapter 25:
(Jenny's POV)
I was still in the maze after I walked through the wall. That got me to thinking, if I could walk through that wall, maybe I could walk through the rest.
So with a smile, I gave it a try, and was satisfied as I walked through the wall once more.
"Ha! And that voice said this would be hard!"I said smugly.
And then I jinxed myself because the next wall I walked through, I ended up in what looked like a garden. I frowned confused.
"Where am I now?"I asked aloud.
Shrugging it off, I walked forward, ready to get this over with. The garden was actually quite pretty. There were tons of flowers of all different types, colors and shapes. Then there were several different trees. Maple, pine, cherry blossom, and oak were among the many trees.
The path I was walking on was made of different colored stones. The shapes all seeming to meet up in a pattern. Pretty.
"Why would that voice send me to a garden?"
Suddenly, it went from being bright, cloudless day, to a gray, almost stormy night. It wasn't quite stormy yet. Thunder still sounded and I saw a flash of lightening. Then the flowers started dieing and the leaves starting falling off the trees. The grass went from a healthy green to a sick, dead brown. And before long, the pretty garden I had stepped into turned into a nightmare graveyard. Literally, grave stones popped up all around me.
"Well, that was unexpected."I mumbled.
BOOM!
I jumped as thunder boomed and lightening clashed. The rain started pouring down, but it never touched me. It was like I was protected.
I shivered in fear, having never liked thunder and pushed through. The ground was already squishy with mud that seemed unable to stick to my feet. That didn't stop the annoying squishing sound it made as I raised my foot up for the next step.
I looked around for some indication as to why the voice in my head would send me here. I saw nothing though, just endless gravestones and rain.
"This is major creepy."I said, shaking my head.
I halted suddenly though when a cold, merciless laughed echoed through the trees and caused a shiver to run down my spine.
I looked around, wondering if whatever made that laugh was what I'd have to pass through in order to pass this test. I shivered again hoping it wasn't. Whatever the hell that was, I didn't want anything to do with it.
I started to walk forward again, but this time more cautiously. I really did not want a surprise attack. The laugh sounded again, this time at the same time as the thunder and lightening, only fueling my panic.
"Okay Jenny, breath. Remember, this is all in your head anyway! The worse that would happen is you'd have to start you test over again! You can't die in your head. . . right?"
I shook my head to rid myself of those kinds of thoughts. I needed to be positive. I had so much waiting for me at home. They would be waiting for me, Optimus and Sunfire that is. My family. I also know my friends were waiting for me as well.
New determination gripped me as I walked a little straighter through the graveyard. I tried to ignore the laugh that seemed to sound every few minutes.
"Remember, ignore the scary laugh."I coached myself.
Then I froze when I heard the most agonized scream I'd ever heard. It tore through my heart and my heart stopped for a second.
Suddenly I found myself running through the graveyard. I had to find him, had to save him. The scream sounded again accompanied by the laugh.
"NO!"I shouted over thunder as I ran as fast as I ever had in my life.
I broke through the trees and came a crossed the most horrifying sight ever. Optimus was strapped to a table, pain filling his optics. Another mech stood beside him, one I didn't recognize. He was cutting through some of Optimus' wires and energon lines.
"OPTIMUS!"I yelled in horror.
He turned around when he heard me, surprise replacing the pain. The other mech did too, but instead of surprise, there was just a sadistic glint in his pitch black, soulless optics. I actually took a step back in horror and surprise.
The mech had the coldest aura about him, more than any decepticon I'd ever had met. He grinned sadistically at me.
"Ah Jenny, so nice of you to finally join us."He hissed.
I shivered once more from the sheer ice he spoke with. It was the worst sound I had ever heard. And the way he looked at me, I just wanted to run. But I looked over at Optimus and the strength to carry on pulsed through me with new courage.
"Let go of Optimus."I growled
He grinned once more.
"I like you, you'd have made a great decepticon, feisty."He smirked.
I scoffed.
"I wouldn't join the decepticons even if Hell froze over and pigs learned how to fly."I said venomously.
He didn't seem angry at ll though, instead he grinned nastily again. I tried not to show how much it bothered me, but I knew he could see through my facade.
"Who are you?"I asked stiffly.
"Ah, how rude of me, I know who you are, but you don't know me. My name is Unicron and you, my dear, is my dear brothers incarnate."He answered.
I raised my eyebrow.
"Great. Now, why the hell are you torturing my mate?"
"Oh my, you sure do have a lot of questions don't you? I guess you deserve to know. I brought him here to draw you here. Your no longer in your little test world, my dear. Here it's just you and me."
"And what is it you want?"
"Why, to get rid of the only thing stopping the decepticons from taking over this inferior planet and restoring Cybertron. That is, to get rid of you.
I glared.
"I won't go down easy."
He chuckled.
"I figured as much. But you won't have much time to defeat me. ." He slashed one of Optimus main energon lined. ". . . before your dear mate is taken from the world once more. This time permanently."
"Optimus!"I yelled.
He met my eyes, but didn't say anything. I glared at Unicron and then used my powers to freeze time all around us. Which seemed to surprise Unicron and myself.
"Whoa, didn't know I could do that!"I said, before turning back to my foe. "Well, let's do this."
He shook the surprise off and looked back at me grinning.
"Let's go then."
(Normal POV)
An hour earlier, back at NEST base . . .
Mandy sat beside her friend in the med bay, as she had been for days now. There still hadn't been any change in her condition and everyone was afraid that this time she wouldn't wake up.
Ratchet was afraid that it was too late to bring back the young girl laying on the berth. He'd done every thing he could to try and bring her back, but had had no luck. He was getting restless about it and nearly refused to get any recharge.
It didn't help that Mandy was always with her, clearly upset about this whole mess. Ratchet had been surprised to learn that he felt more for the young femme than just simple friendship or mentor. He was falling in love with her and seeing her so upset hurt him.
Then there was Optimus. They were all worried about him. He rarely left the med bay, which was really pissing the government off cause they always wanted him for something. But Optimus refused to leave his beloved.
He rarely got recharge and Ratchet had threatened him plenty of times to sedate him if he didn't get his recharge. Optimus always did begrudgingly, but was up and about it only a few earth hours.
No one could blame him though. He and Mandy had known Jenny the longest and it was only right they wanted to be by her side.
And that's how Ratchet found them when he walked in the room to do his daily check up on Jenny. Optimus was holding one of her hands and Mandy just looked at her friend, tears threatening to pour from her eyes.
"How she doing."Ratchet asked softly.
Mandy jumped when she heard the mechs voice while Optimus just vented sadly.
"No change."He admitted quietly.
Ratchet approached the three Cybertronians and went through his usual procedures. Like he suspected though, there was no change to the young femme. He vented and looked over at his friend and leader.
"I'm sorry Optimus. I really don't know what's going to happen to her. I've never seen anything like this before."The medic admitted.
Optimus didn't answer but Ratchet was distracted my the small sob he heard from his other side. He looked over at the femme who hand her hand to her mouth as tears poured freely from her optics. It was the most heartbreaking thing he'd every seen as his spark clutched in guilt and despair.
"Mandy."He whispered.
Mandy turned around to face the CMO before throwing her arms around his waist and hugging him tightly. Ratchet was caught off guard and froze for a second before sitting down and hugging her back as Mandy hid my face on his chassis.
They stayed like that for a few minutes, the only sounds being Mandy's sobs and the occasional vent from one of the mechs.
Then something happened that none of them were expecting, Optimus fell to the ground and offlined. Ratchet and Mandy stood there for a second dumbfounded before jumping up and shouting the mechs name.
"Ratchet, what's wrong with him?"Mandy cried.
Ratchet scanned the mech, but nothing came back. He feared for a second that the mech had offlined. But he could still hear his spark thrumming inside his chassis.
"I-I think he was forced into stasis lock, like Jenny."Ratchet answered, overwhelmed.
Mandy had to hold back more tears as Ratchet commed Jolt and told him to come in here and help us. Jolt was just as shocked as they were as he walked in with Maggie by his side.
"What happened?"Maggie asked, surprise and disbelieve evident in her voice.
Mandy and Ratchet shook their heads.
"We're not sure, it happened out of no where. He seemed as fine as he could in this situation, then he just fell down."Ratchet admitted.
Everyone exchanged looks before they picked Optimus up and sat him gently on a berth beside Jenny. Now they had two friends in forced stasis and no one knew why. This was going to be a long week.
(Optimus' POV)
Right after he was forced into stasis.
I was scared. Scared for Jenny and right now, scared for myself. I don't know what happened. One minute I was sitting beside my mate, worrying over whether or not she was going to survive, the next I heard a strange voice in my head.
It didn't sound friendly though. The voice hissed in my head, growling and telling me to come at once or that it would kill Jenny.
I demanded to know who he was and what he was doing with Jenny. He just laughed mercilessly and told me to come and he'd show me. I didn't know what he meant by that, how was I too come to him if I didn't know who he was or where he was at.
Then I felt a weird pulling in the back of my processors. I knew instantly that if I gave into it, I'd be taken to my beloved. So I allowed it to take me away.
The next thing I knew, I was surrounded by gravestones. The sky was dark and stormy, rain fell through the sky without hitting me. The grass was brown and the trees dead. It was sorta depressing. I walked through though, intent on finding Jenny.
What I found was something I never expected too. . . Unicron. He smirked at me. I found myself unable to move as the mech inched his way towards me, a sadistic smirk planted on his face.
"Optimus Prime. How nice it is to finally meet you."He hissed. "Welcome to my own world. Here, you will face nothing but pain."
He was right in my face now. But everything once again grew dark again.
I woke up several hours later, and looked straight into a pair of cold, black optics. I wished I could slink away from him, but I found myself strapped to a table.
"Don't worry, this will only hurt a lot."Unicron sneered.
And then the pain started. At first, it was something I could disregard. But I think this guy musta taught scalpel everything he knew because soon the pain intensified so much that I screamed in agony. Unicron laughed as he continued to cut, sever, and slowly dismantle me.
"OPTIMUS!"I heard a familiar voice yell.
I recognized it after a second, it was Jenny. I turned to look at her, surprised she was here. She looked really horrified and pissed as she saw what Unicron did to me.
"Ah Jenny, so nice of you to finally join us."Unicron grinned.
"Let go of Optimus."Jenny growled
He grinned once more.
"I like you, you'd have made a great decepticon, feisty."He smirked.
Jenny scoffed and I felt hate fill my spark.
"I wouldn't join the decepticons even if Hell froze over and pigs learned how to fly."Jenny said venomously.
He didn't seem angry at ll though, instead he grinned nastily again. I narrowed my eyes and watched, knowing he was going to do something I wasn't going to like.
"Who are you?"Jenny asked stiffly.
"Ah, how rude of me, I know who you are, but you don't know me. My name is Unicron and you, my dear, is my dear brothers incarnate."He answered.
Jenny raised my eyebrow as did I.
"Great. Now, why the hell are you torturing my mate?"
"Oh my, you sure do have a lot of questions don't you? I guess you deserve to know. I brought him here to draw you here. Your no longer in your little test world, my dear. Here it's just you and me."
"And what is it you want?"
"Why, to get rid of the only thing stopping the decepticons from taking over this inferior planet and restoring Cybertron. That is, to get rid of you."
Jenny glared.
"I won't go down easy."
He chuckled.
"I figured as much. But you won't have much time to defeat me. ." He slashed one of my main energon lines. ". . . before your dear mate is taken from the world once more. This time permanently."
"Optimus!"Jenny yelled.
I didn't hear anything as pain once again took over my whole body. And then everything froze and I felt no pain.
Surprised I looked around and noticed that everything was frozen except for Jenny and Unicron. Wow, she has gotten stronger. I must have been frozen too. I watched helplessly as Jenny and Unicron both got into a fighting position. I knew what was about to happen . . . and there was nothing I could do to help her.
(So I hope this chapter gets me out of trouble for taking forever with updating. I don't know much about Unicron, this is just my version of him. Sorry if he's a little OOC. Hope you liked and please R&R! I'm soooo close to 100 reviews! This will be my first fanfic to hit 100 and I will probably squeal when I do! SO PLEASE R&R!)