"Please tell me you copy." Epps begged into his radio.
All around me civilians and soldiers alike were yelling and shouting.
"Back up! Take cover! Bumblebee!" Ironhide yelled at us.
Bumblebee transformed and he and Ironhide picked up a tractor trailer.
"No, no, no! Move!" Lennox yelled.
Sam and Mikaela ran back towards the soldiers while I stood frozen where I stood staring up at Starscream.
"Back up! Back up!"
"Retreat! Fall back!"
"Melony!"
"Melony get back!"
Everything was echoing.
"Incoming! Unnnh!" Ironhide's yell came back into focus as someone tackled me and covered my body with theirs just as the missile hit.
"Anybody hurt? Everyone okay?" One of the soldiers called out as the dust and debris settled.
"Clear the area!" Someone else shouted.
"You alright Mel?" It was Sunstreaker's holoform.
"Yeah I'm alright. Everyone else?" I asked.
Bee's electronic whining met my ears.
"Oh my God. Bumblebee?" Sam said.
"Bee? Bumblebee!" I shouted as I pushed Sunstreaker away and tried to stand.
Pain shot through my side so I crawled over to where Bee was.
He gave another electronic whine as I got closer.
"No. Your legs! Your legs." Sam said as the dust finally settled enough to see what was wrong.
Bee's legs were missing from the knees down.
"No!" I yelled as I ignored my pain and got up to run the rest of the way to my brother.
Bee gave yet another electronic whine as I tripped over a piece of debris and fell against his arm.
"Bee- oh my god Bumblebee. I should have protected you. I should have done something to help!" I cried.
"Mel- none you this was your fault- if anything you- should have moved- with the others- not just have stood there-" Bee replied as he placed his hand to the side of my head.
"Now go- help those wounded-" he added.
I nodded and hesitantly moved away from Bee.
I stumbled and Sunstreaker's holoform was by my side in and instant. I nodded to him and he helped me over to Lennox and Epps before disappearing.
"What the hell was that?" Lennox was asking Epps.
They were sitting behind some rubble.
"What are you talking about?" Epps asked back.
"What do you mean, what am I talking about? They shot at us!" Lennox shouted as he hit Epps on the shoulder.
"F-22 pilots would never fly below buildings. That's alien. That ain't friendly!" Epps shouted back.
I collapsed beside them with a pained groan.
"Hey you alright Melony?" Epps asked.
"Something happened to my side when Sunny tackled me. I'll be fine though." I nodded.
"You sure?" Lennox asked obviously concerned.
"I'm fine." I replied shortly as I looked around us.
To our right a ways behind us I noticed a man laying face down.
"Melony?" Lennox called after me a I struggled to my feet and stumbled my way towards him.
"Sir?" I called out to him as I got close.
He didn't move.
I dropped to my knees beside him and check his pulse.
He was barely there.
I sighed and managed to get him up and his arms around my shoulders. I got to my feet and started back towards to others.
A tank shot rang out and I ducked on instinct.
"Whoa! Move out! Let's go!" I head Lennox yell.
Civilians were screaming and shouting as they ran away from the tank and the giant robots.
Epps ran up to me and helped me carry the guy a ways before two guys ran up to us.
"We'll take him." One said as they took the guy from us.
"You both just get back out there and keep others safe." The other added.
"Thank-you." I nodded to them before Epps and I headed back to the others.
"Blackhawks are inbound."
"Good. We're gonna need all the help we can get plus some more. And the prayers of every unpreoccupied person in the world." I sighed as we met up with Lennox again.
"Ironhide, Jazz, Sunstreaker, and Ratchet are handling the tank." Lennox told us when he noticed us.
"Go help them. I'll direct the civilians away from the fighting." I replied.
They nodded and rushed off with their team.
"Concentrate your fire!"
"This way! Head down this street and help as many people as you can! Don't stop! Don't hide! Keep running and get away from the fighting!" I yelled as I directed the screaming citizens in the opposite direction Lennox and his team had gone.
The screaming increased and I was nearly knocked over as more people ran past me.
"It's Megatron! Retreat!" I heard Jazz yell.
"Move!" Ratchet.
"Fall back!" Sunstreaker.
"Fall back!" Lennox.
Jazz's yelling.
"Get our guys out of the way! Get out of here! Go! Get them out of the buggy! Move out!" Lennox again.
"We need air cover down here, now!" Epps.
Megatron flew to the top of one of the buildings with Jazz in hand.
"I've gotta help him." I said to myself before running towards the building Megatron was standing on.
"That all you got, Megatron?" I heard Jazz say from above me.
"Come here, little cretin." Megatron said as he picked up Jazz who started shooting at the Decepticon leader.
"You want a piece of me? You want a piece?" Jazz asked.
"No!" Megatron yelled as he started to rip Jazz in half.
"NO!" I screamed.
I ran up the set of platforms I had created and threw my hand up.
Instead of the usual blast of energy, electricity shot out from my hand and nailed Megatron in the chest making him drop Jazz.
Jazz grabbed the building to keep from falling and Megatron roared in pain above him. Megatron looked down and spotted me, I was the only one not running and screaming and I was standing on a platform of blue energy after all.
He growled as he flew down towards me.
"Melony run!" Jazz yelled as he started down the building.
"Shit!" I yelled as I jumped down and sprinted off in the opposite direction of the warlord that was closing in way too fast for comfort.
"Stupid human legs!" I complained.
I couldn't run any faster and my side was killing me. I was so screwed.
Wait a minute, I'm a techno-organic.
I kept running as I focused on what I was thinking and almost in slow motion I became taller.
I hadn't grown any though, I had transformed into my bipedal form.
"Yes!" I cheered as I skipped to a stop.
Turning as I raised my hand, now inline with Megatron's face, and shot an energy ball at him.
He roared in pain again as he diverted his path upward.
I let his foot phase through me before I watched him fly off.
"Haha Uncle Megsy." I laughed before I ran back to the others in less than half the time it had taken me to run in human form.
"Whoa who's that?" Lennox asked as he saw me.
"Definitely a Decepticon." Sunstreaker joked.
He must've recognized my energy signature or something.
"Hey I can actually reach your face to punch it in this form so watch it!" I snapped at him as I came to stand by him.
"Easy blondie, I'm just kidding." He replied as he held up his hands.
"Melony?" Epps questioned.
"Believe it or not." I nodded before I transformed back down into my human form.
The soldiers mouth's hung open.
"I'm full of surprises." I laughed at the shock on their faces.
Lennox seemed to snap out of it first as he smiled at me and I returned the smile.
"I'm going to go find Sam and Mikaela. I'll be back." I told him before I headed away from them.
I found them working on a tow truck next to Bee.
Definitely Mikaela's idea.
"Melony!" Mikaela gasped in surprise after I had walked up behind her and touched her shoulder.
"Tell me what you need me to do." I told her.
She nodded and began instructing me on where to place the cables.
"Wrap it around the head." As he handed us down another cable.
"Sam! Where's the Cube?" Lennox asked as he ran up to us.
"Right there." Sam said as he pointed to the cube.
It sat a few feet from his feet on the truck bed surrounded by a force field. It wasn't going anywhere.
Lennox ran off again without another word.
I shrugged it off as Sam continued, "And take that and wrap it around the base and then put it around his neck, okay?"
I did as he instructed before Lennox ran back up panting.
"Okay." He said.
"What?" Sam asked.
"All right, I can't leave my guys back there, so here, take this flare. Okay, there's a tall, white building with statues on top. Go to the roof. Set the flare." Lennox instructed Sam.
"No." Sam said as he leaned down towards Lennox.
"Signal the chopper and set the flare-"
"No, no. I can't do this!"
Lennox had had enough.
He grabbed Sam by the collar of his sweatshirt and yanked him down to look him in the eye.
"Listen to me! You're a soldier now! All right? I need you to take this Cube. Get it into military hands while we hold them off, or a lot of people are gonna die." He ordered as he picked up the cube and thrust it into Sam's hands.
Sam nodded in fear and Lennox turned to Mikaela and I.
"You got to go. You got to go." He told her.
"No, I'm not leaving." She argued.
"You need to go. No, get out!" Lennox repeated.
"No, I'm not leaving till I get Bumblebee out of here, okay?" Mikaela told him before she returned to getting the tow truck ready.
"Lennox just let her. She's not gonna listen to anybody so at least let her do this. Trust me, if Bee wasn't injured she would've grabbed one of your wounded's guns and would be fighting right beside you by now. This is a safer alternative so just let her." I spoke up as Lennox went to argue with her.
He sighed but nodded anyway before he ran back to his team.
"Sam, we will protect you." Ironhide was telling Sam.
"Okay." Sam nodded before he started away from us.
"Epps, where are those planes?" Lennox yelled from behind us.
"Sam!" Mikaela called out before she ran after him.
He stopped and let her come up to him.
"No matter what happens, I'm really glad I got in that car with you." She told him.
"Sam! Get to the building!" Ironhide yelled interrupting the moment.
"It's alright Kaela. I'll go with him and be his part human shield." I smiled as I walked over and placed my hand on her shoulder.
"Stay safe and come back to me. I don't need to lose my only actual friend today." She said as she hugged me.
"Same to you. Take care of Bee for me. I don't need to lose my long lost brother today either." I replied.
"Move!" Ratchet yelled.
She nodded before the three of us parted ways.
"Decepticons, attack!"