CHAPTER ELEVEN
He's Here – At Last…
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Karr looked at me. "Ella?"
I shook my head. "Karr…do you know…I have the All-Spark in me?"
She nodded impatiently. "Of course I know that!" She exclaimed.
"And the Decepticons are trying to kill me!" I cried, my voice rising.
Karr looked shocked for a second, and then she cried: "No, they're not!"
I gasped. "Astrotrain tried to hit me!" I informed her.
"He wasn't trying to kill you!" She said vehemently, shaking her head back and forth. "El, it would take a lot more to kill you! In fact," She added, turning seriously suddenly. "Do you and your Autobots know that…"
Suddenly, a stray missile came whooshing through the air toward us.
"KARR!!" Blitzwing shouted.
I lunged forward, and crashed tackled Karr, pushing her away, pushing us both away, and up.
I found myself clinging to one wall as I grabbed Karr around the waist, and pushing away from that building.
I jumped onto another wall, and then onto a building roof, where Karr and I both landed in a heap.
We scrambled up. I was gasping.
"El!" Karr cried.
"It must be the All-Spark…" I answered her, staring at my hands. 'Or else I'm Spiderman…' I thought numbly. 'I'm a freak. A freak among freaks...'
My necklace lay on the floor, and I scrambled to get it, holding it close to my chest.
Someone very precious gave it to me…but I wasn't so sure it was my father anymore.
Something was coming...no, someone.
And he was coming in fast...
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I didn't know how I had clung to that wall, and made my way onto the top of a building but, suddenly, it didn't matter.
A harrier jet flew toward us, and my heart began to beat faster.
Something welled up inside of me, stronger than I've ever felt before. I gasped.
"IT'S STARSCREAM!!" I heard one of my Autobot friends yell.
"STARSCREAM!!" Megatron shouted, from where he was battling against Optimus Prime. The fight looked pretty even to me. "GET THE ALL-SPARK!!"
"WITH PLEASURE!!" Starscream shouted, as he transformed, and suddenly my whole world turned upside down.
Everything that I'd thought before came crashing down – and a painful memory came crashing back to me.
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"Don't hurt him!!"
"He's a Decepticon, Ella, he's evil!!"
"Arcee, take Ella inside!!"
"No!! Starscweam!! STARSCWEAM!!!!"
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I came snapping back to reality in an instant. "STARSWCEAM!!!!" I shouted, felling my heart ache painfully. I had waited so long to meet him, why should I meet him under such terrible circumstances. When he'd been ordered to kill me, and I couldn't let that happen.
Why couldn't I say his name correctly?
Why did I want to say it again?
"STARSCWEAM!!!!"
I had never been able to say it correctly.
I hoped it wouldn't matter.
