Chapter 28
Fear ran through her veins like liquid ice.
She felt it weigh her down as she scanned her eyes over the battle zone. In her head, she counted off, Prime, Jazz, Bee, Ratchet, Ironhide...
Gears straightened her posture, and called, "where is she?"
"She," the same soldier that had given her grief before snarled, standing up to glare at her, "helped those bastards steal the cube!"
"Lies!" she snarled, clenching her fists, "Demona is not one of them!"
"She RAN with them!"
"Enough," Ratchet growled, sending the soldier a narrow-eyed look before fixing an almost sympathetic stare on her, "I fell and she came to my aid first, but Blackout found the cube and took it. I sent her to pursue, and when she did she was caught by Starscream."
"so...they took her?"
"Yes," he said, letting a ghost of defeat color his tone, "they are both gone."
"Horseshit!" the same soldier snapped, pointing a finger at him, "you saw her take off through that hole and fly after them! She probably gave her location away while she was here. We should have killed that worthless piece of evil-"
Before Gears could stop herself, she had her hands in his shirt and had slammed him against a wall. She narrowed her eyes into the coldest stare she could make, and whispered, "finish that sentence, I dare you."
He stared at her with wide eyes, but the shock left him, and he spit at her.
He spit at her.
"She's shit, and so are you and your poor little family. Especially that legless rat!"
Gears felt the fear turn into steel-like rage, giving her new strength as her brain caught up to speed and realized that he had insulted all three of her kids this time.
Momma was not happy.
But again, before she realized it, the soldier was jerked out of her grasp and a loud 'crack' filled the air as fist connected with jaw. She turned her wide eyes to Alec, his entire six-foot-two body rigid with the same rage she felt. His usually gentle green eyes were lit with fire.
The soldier began to fall but her boy caught him by the collar, and threw his body back against the wall and held him there. He said, voice lowered, "First mistake you made was raising your voice at my mother."
His chilled tone echoed in the sudden silence that had followed the punch, and eyes all over the room were locked on them in varying expressions.
"Second mistake was threatening Demona who," here he raised his voice so everyone heard loud and clear, "has done nothing but protect my family and love them."
"And third was dragging my baby brother into this," he all but snarled last, "I don't care for fighting, it's never gotten me anywhere, but I'll happily flatten your ass. Military or not, you don't have the right to talk to someone that way, so what in the hell makes you think that you can talk to my family like that?"
Gears watched her son, feeling her body slightly relax as he took over, and no one made a move to stop him.
"Demona has saved lives, human lives, while the decepticons have done nothing but take them in all of their destruction," he told them, once again raising his voice to address them all, "She may not admit it, but I know she loves my brother and will do anything to keep him safe."
He let the soldier slide to the floor and stepped away to cast his hard stare over them all, "before she took off to help you, she took the time to take all three of us and find a safe place to hide. When she couldn't find one, she made one, and then told us not to move from that spot until she came back for us. Show her some freaking respect, she's just as good as any of you, and she'll show it to you if you just let her."
He glanced down at the soldier and gave him a kick that was hard enough to make him yelp, "Don't ever let me catch you talking to my mom like that again."
Gears tore her eyes away from him when she felt little hands pull on her pant's leg. She automatically crouched down and took Alex up in her arms, letting him wrap himself around her and bury his face in her neck. He whispered, voice trembling, "Momma...where is she?"
"we'll find her, baby," Gears soothed, closing her eyes to fight back tears, "we'll find our Demona..."
"Don't let them hurt her, momma..." he continued, "We just found her...she's a part of our family now...and we can't leave her behind..."
"No," Gears agreed, "we can't."
:'(
Alec to the rescue! :D I wish he'd have beaten the crap out of that guy...
Anyway, I'm stiff, sore, and tired from herding kids around six flags all day...sorry for the short chapter. :/
Love to my readers!
Demona, Gears and her family, and the story all belong to me. Transformers does not.
