AN: Ok, I was sitting there by the gate waiting to board the plane back to South Africa after I've been through passport control - when I got this horrible feeling I had forgotten my note book behind. Luckily I didn't, which means you lucky readers are able to read chapter 25!
Please enjoy and don't forget to review!
Chapter Twenty-five: Pain
Stormshadow had seen his former student leave the room with the three brats in tow.
She had dared to attack Cobra Commander!
For that she had to pay.
Before he could follow Rocket to exact his revenge, Snake-eyes attacked him.
"I guess I'll have to deal with you first brother!" He snarled as he moved to counter-attack.
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"Come on Mikaela - let's just go, okay?" Sam muttered as he dragged his girlfriend out to the parking lot.
"Not yet! I still have a score to settle with a blonde bimbo!" Mikaela snarled and tried to escape Sam's grip.
"Think about poor Bee, he wants to go home. This whole night has been a disaster," Sam said and glanced at a dejected looking holo-form walking next to him.
Bumblebee gave a nod in agreement. He'd rather face the entire Decepticon army than go through another experience like he had had that night again.
Mikaela gave a snort of annoyance and stormed off towards Bumblebee's true body.
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Wheeljack was laughing his head off, he didn't even realise that there were Decepticons standing behind him until it was too late.
Truth be told, it was actually one Decepticon.
"Give me Frenzy or die Autobot!" Soundwave hissed in monotone at Wheeljack.
Wheeljack could feel Soundwave's weapon digging into his back and it did not feel pleasant.
'Ah, slag!' Wheeljack thought.
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"Are you done yet?" Ratchet asked impatiently.
He didn't like being used as a changing room.
"Almost - just need to activate the Sigma link!" Rocket answered back.
She activated her body suit - hooking her up to the Sigma system, after it verified who she was first.
Rocket glanced down at her uniform - it was strange not seeing red and white but rather her old colours of black and lilac instead. Lilac - not pink as Tunnel Rat often joked about.
"Ready - you can let me out now," Rocket called out.
Ratchet's back doors swung open, allowing Rocket to exit him.
"Well, see you later then," said Rocket, before she turned and ran back into the hotel.
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"Why didn't you tell me my daughter was a spy?" Screamed Lady Jaye at Scarlett, ignoring all the battle chaos around her.
"Can we discuss this later?" Scarlett asked desperately as she dodged a hail of laser fire.
"You tricked me into holding this reunion!" Lady Jaye wasn't about to let it go.
"Yes! I admit it! Now please concentrate on the battle!" Scarlett screamed back.
"Fine! But don't expect to get away with this when the battle is over!" Lady Jaye picked up a chair and threw it at the nearest Trooper, taking some of her frustration out on him.
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"Soundwave? What are you doing here?" Wheeljack asked in surprise.
"Getting Frenzy - now hand him over!" Soundwave dug his weapon deeper into the metal of Wheeljack's back.
"You could ask me nicely," Wheeljack suggested.
"I think I'll stick with demanding," retorted Soundwave.
"You're outnumbered Soundwave," Wheeljack turned around to look at him.
"And yet your fellow Autobots are too busy laughing at Starscream to even notice that I am here," Soundwave replied.
"Hmm, that looks to be the case, but what about Barricade? Are you just going to leave him here after you get Frenzy?" Wheeljack asked, indicating to where Barricade was being sat on.
"Barricade is not my concern, Frenzy is - so hand him over now!" Soundwave glared at Wheeljack.
"Nnno, mmmust take Bbbarricade ttto!" Frenzy spoke up from Wheeljack's fist.
"Barricade will be taken care of Frenzy - just not by me," Soundwave addressed his small cassette.
"So there are more Decepticons lurking about?" Asked Wheeljack.
"Of course there are, you stupid Autobot!" Soundwave snapped back.
"Okay then," Wheeljack stepped back and drew air into his intakes, which was the equivalent to a human taking a deep breath, "Optimus!" He yelled, "Decepticons attacking!"
'Ah, slag!' Thought Soundwave.
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"Kill them all! Let none escape!" Screamed Cobra Commander angrily, waving his arms about.
"What the bloody hell does he think we are trying to do?" Muttered Torch to Buzzer, "play ponies with them?"
"I heard that!" Cobra Commander screeched at him.
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"Do you know what it feels like to stare down the barrel of a gun held by your own daughter!" Flint yelled at Duke.
"I'm sorry, but she had to do it," Duke replied as he punched Machete.
"You couldn't even tell me what was going down so I could be prepared!" Flint threw a Trooper at Duke intentionally.
Duke dodge the Trooper, "but your surprised looks were a key element to this trap working!"
"That may be the case, but a couple of stashed away weapons would be handy right about now!" Flint replied angrily, throwing another Trooper - this time at Stone.
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"Optimus! Decepticons attacking!"
Optimus swung round in surprise (still giggling at Starscream), when he heard Wheeljack's yell.
Yo and behold - there was actually a Decepticon by Wheeljack - holding a weapon.
Optimus soon stopped laughing at that sight.
"Soundwave!" He snarled, and brought his gun online.
Starscream, seeing that the Autobots were no longer concentrating on him, decided to sneak off to die from his humiliation some where private.
But that was not to be.
Skywarp materialised next to him.
"Now's our chance Starscream! While they are preoccupied with Soundwave - let's charge those sitting on Barricade!" Skywarp hissed excitedly.
"I don't think that plan is going to work out so well," Starscream pointed out.
"Come on! You'll never know unless you try!" Thundercracker, who had crept up to them, whispered.
He and Skywarp each grabbed one of Starscream's arms and ran towards the group of Autobots sitting on Barricade, dragging Starscream along with them.
"Charge!" Skywarp yelled at the top of his voice.
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The drive back home was a very quiet one.
Bumblebee was still in shock over the events that had taken place during the dance, Mikaela was busy sulking angrily and Sam was too scared to say something in case he pissed her off. And he didn't want Mikaela to get angry at him after tonight.
Bumblebee pulled up by Mikaela's house and let her out, she didn't even say good-bye to them as she stormed inside.
"Are you going to stay in the garage tonight?" Sam asked Bumblebee, as Bumblebee started driving him home.
"I don't think so, Optimus might wish for my help with the mission," Bumblebee replied.
"Aw, come on Bee - admit it! You are too scared of those girls to sleep at my place alone and you just want to be near Ironhide's cannons so he can blast the girls for you!" Sam teased him.
There was silence for a few minutes, before Bumblebee begun swerving wildly around the road.
"Okay! Okay!" Screamed Sam, "I won't mention those girls again!"
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"Charge!"
Ironhide turned around from staring at Soundwave when he heard the battlecry. Only to get a face full of Skywarp.
Knocked off his perch on Barricade in surprise, he felt the others fall with thuds next to him.
"This has got to be the weirdest rescue I've ever seen!" Barricade muttered as he stood up.
"Stop complaining and just get out of here!" Snapped Starscream as he transformed and flew into the sky.
Thundercracker picked up Barricade and took off after Starscream, leaving Skywarp to carry Soundwave - who was at the moment "playing" tug-of-war with Wheeljack over Frenzy.
"He belongs to me let him go!"
"Not a chance you Decepticreep!"
"My cassette!"
"My prisoner!"
"Crazy scientist!"
"Toneless communications officer!"
"What sort of insult is that?"
"What?"
"Never mind - just hand over Frenzy!"
"Never!"
"Give me!"
"Ask nicely!"
"You'll hand him over if I do?"
"Not really!"
"You meanie!"
"I beg your pardon?"
"Mine!"
"No Mine!"
"He's not yours!
"At the moment he is!"
"Let go!"
"Never!"
"Look - a flying pumpkin!"
"What? Where?"
"You were supposed to let go and look for it idiot!"
"I'm not that stupid!"
"Really, so why do all your inventions explode?"
"Leave them out of this!"
"Let go!"
"No - you let go!"
"You Autofreak!"
"Deceptimoron!"
"Pppoor Fffrenzy!"
"You shut up!"
"Don't tell him to shut up!"
"I will if I want too!"
"Just let him go for Primus sake!"
"Never!"
"I hate you!"
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Skywarp stood next to Optimus Prime, both of them watching the argument with their mouths open.
Looking at each other, they both had an unspoken agreement that their comrades were embarrassing.
"While they are fighting like sparklings, can the two of us come to an agreement like adults?" Said Prime to the one mech he never thought he would ever say that too.
"Fine, whatever," Skywarp shrugged in boredom.
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Stormshadow kicked Snake-eyes off him and watched the other ninja go flying across the room in satisfaction.
He turned to survey what was going on in the rest of the ball room and saw Rocket re-enter, dressed in her Sigma suit.
Stormshadow grinned mirthlessly as he made his way towards her.
Usefulness or not when it came to finding Power Stones, Rocket was going to die tonight.
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"Wheeljack!" Optimus called out.
"What?" Yelled back Wheeljack, not taking his optics off Soundwave.
"Let Soundwave have Frenzy!" Optimus commanded.
"What!" This time Wheeljack turned his head to look at his leader in shock.
"But I'm winning!" He sulked.
"I don't care, I'm ordering you to do as I told you!" Prime's voice held a do-not-mess-with-me tone in it.
"Fine," Wheeljack let go of Frenzy and sent Soundwave flying backwards off balance.
"I win!" Yelled Soundwave triumphantly.
"Wow, I could've sworn his voice held emotion just then!" Hot Shot remarked to Ironhide.
"Whatever," Skywarp grumbled and grabbed him, flying off to follow the other Decepticons.
"What gives Optimus?" Demanded Ironhide, "you just let a couple of Decepticons go free!"
"Not quite, Skywarp has do something for me," Replied Prime, grinning evilly.
"Eh, what?" Asked Elita.
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After depositing a still gloating Soundwave with the other Decepticons at the location Starscream suddenly decided was going to be their base, Skywarp flew off to find something.
"I'll let Frenzy go if you do someting for me," Primes voice rang through his head.
"I heard that you are the resident prankster in the Decepticon army - I want you to…"
Skywarp shook his head - he couldn't believe that Prime, the Optimus Prime had asked him to pull a prank like that on his fellow Decepticons for his freedom.
But what really worried Skywarp at the moment was finding the specific materials that Prime had told him to use.
"What the slag is bovine waste product?" He muttered as he flew on.
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Rocket rushed into the room, she really should have been more careful, kept a watchful eye out, taken in her surroundings. But all she wanted to do was to make sure that her parents were all right.
So when Stormshadow's katana plunged through her, she was taken totally by surprise. She looked up to the masked face of Stormshadow and then down to where the katana was buried in her chest.
She knew that it had gone all the way through, she could feel the pain of it.
Rocket slowly sunk to her knees, before Stormshadow laid a hand on her shoulder - to use as a leverage to pull out his katana.
She watched him pull the blade out of her, dripping with her blood.
All she felt was a warmth from her blood pouring out and staining her lilac dark purple.
After that came pain and coldness - then darkness…
TBC…
A/N: And this is why I put the story on hiatus - wouldn't you just have killed me if I left you hanging for two months on that?
Anyway - 'Not My Day' is now off hiatus! Yay!
I must admit that I was suffering a bit from jet lag as I wrote the last half of this chapter - so excuse me if some parts seem… odd - like Soundwave and Wheeljack's argument.
Hope you like and hopefully next chapter will be up soon but I really need to sleep now (yawn).
Don't forget to review please - and thanks for reading!