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The AutoKnights VI: Knights of Chaos
Chapter 36: The Shikibu-Bauer Connection
(Cybertron; Iacon; Autobot HQ; 1:30 PM Earth Time)
The alarm was blaring throughout the whole dome that was Autobot HQ. In the main control room, the ten AutoKnights entered in their AutoKnight personas. Hot Rod and Ultra Magnus were at the main computer control board.
"What's going on, Hot Rod?" Ironhide asked.
Hot Rod and Ultra Magnus looked back and noticed the humans.
"We've just detected Decepticon Pretenders in the Energon Cube storage warehouse underneath the building. They're here for the cubes." Ultra Magnus said.
"Wait. What's a Decepticon Pretender?" Sideswipe asked.
"A Pretender is a special kind of Decepticon that can transform to disguise itself as any organic being it comes into contact with." Hot Rod said.
"So they're Decepticons that look like humans?" Arcee asked.
"Exactly." Hot Rod confirmed.
The ten humans smiled.
"That's right up our alley. We should be able to take care of these guys no problem." Ratchet boasted.
"Which way to the underground, Rod?' Optimus asked.
"Wait. You're all going down there?" Ultra Magnus asked a bit worried.
"Well why not? We can handle ourselves." Jetfire said.
None of the older experienced Autobots were at first all for letting them go down there. But they had been through a lot worse than a few pretenders. They could handle it.
"Alright. Prowl! Show the AutoKnights the way to the lift! Double time!" Hot Rod ordered.
Prowl came right over. "Follow me! We have to hurry before the whole stock of Energon is stolen!"
Prowl began to run. And there was good reason too. The Energon Cube supply in Iacon was greater than that of any other city on the whole planet of Cybertron. If the Decepticons got their hands on it, the results could be catastrophic.
Prowl opened the door to a giant elevator and the AutoKnights all rushed inside it. Prowl pushed a button and the door began to slowly close.
"Remember, be cautious. These Decepticons may be as big as you are but they can still be dangerous." The Autobot warned them.
They all nodded their heads.
"We'll be okay." Jazz said.
"Good luck, AutoKnights." Prowl said as the door closed up all the way.
The lift began to move down. As they did, the AutoKnights got ready. Optimus unsheathed his energon sword on his left hand and brought out one of his ion blasters with his right. Ironhide readied her twin cannons, Ratchet had his machine gun, and everyone else had what they had.
"I hope we're not rusty. It HAS been a while since we've been in a full on fight." Arcee said.
"That makes two of us." Chromia said.
"Yuriko was right." Ratchet said. "The Decepticons are getting as much energy as they possibly can."
"But how were they able to even get here in Iacon? We should have better defenses than that." Optimus wondered.
"They must have found a way to masque their energy signatures."
That voice came from all around them. And they knew who it was.
"Teletraan? Is that you?" Bumblebee said.
"Yeah it's me. I can see you guys."
"But how?" Jazz wondered.
"Look up and to the right."
They followed his instructions and then they found a camera looking right at them in the upper right of the elevator.
"There you go. Smile. We all can see you." Teletraan said.
"Wait a minute. All?" Jolt repeated.
"Hey guys."
That was Takamon's voice. Yes. On Mobius, everyone was still sitting in that booth in the restaurant watching the ten humans via holo-screen.
"We can see you perfectly." Sonic added.
"Well enjoy the view then, Sonic. It about time you got to see US in action instead of the other way around." Chromia said.
"Are you saying that brawl against the Starscream Triplets and those other guys didn't impress you?" Sonic asked a bit offended.
"Are you freaking kidding me? Sonic, you impressed the shit out of us. But it's time you see what WE can do." Optimus said. "In fact, Teletraan, do you think you can tell us what's waiting for us down there when the doors open up?"
He wanted Teletraan to access the cameras outside the elevator door. And he did just that. It was a long extending hallway that led right to the warehouse where all the Energon was. And there were plenty of pretenders waiting for them. There was even a whole wave of them with their plasma cannons pointed at the door.
"Knights, there are at least fourteen pretenders outside the door and I think they know you're coming. They're ready to fire as soon as those doors open up." Teletraan warned them.
"Well then we'll be ready to return that fire." Ironhide said as she cocked her giant arm cannons.
"Actually, if you'll all let me, I'll take these guys myself."
Bumblebee was the one who said that. And no one could believe their ears.
"Are you out of your freakin mind? You can't take them all by yourself." Arcee tried to convince her boyfriend not to go through with it.
"Listen. I know what I'm doing. And I'll be fine. I'm not called the team badass for nothing." Bumblebee looked around to all the disapproving looks he got from his team. "Come on you guys. I'll take out his first wave like nothing, and then it'll be a cakewalk to the warehouse."
"Bee, use your head here, man. You against fourteen of them?" Jetfire asked.
"In case you've forgotten, these aren't full size Decepticons. Trust me. I'll be okay."
Optimus had to be the one to give the okay on this. And everyone, especially Arcee, was looking at him as if they were begging him to not do it. And he had to make up his mind fast. They were almost down there.
Optimus wasn't sure what to do. He was up against the wall here. But then the elevator stopped moving, his decision came out.
"Everyone on the side of the door except for Bee."
All of them gasped.
"Optimus you can't be serious!" Arcee cried.
"Listen, Arcee. Have faith in him. He's good. He's VERY good. I have faith. You should too."
Optimus stood on the side of the door and Arcee nodded and walked over to Bumblebee.
"I do have faith in you." Arcee then kissed Bumblebee quickly. "Be careful."
Bumblebee nodded and then everyone gathered on both sides of the door while Bumblebee stood right in the center of the elevator.
"I hope you know what you're doing." Jolt said.
Bumblebee smirked.
"Trust me. I do."
Then he reached for his hips and slots opened up on each side. A handle popped out of each one and he grabbed both of them and pulled. He unsheathed two red glowing energon swords and twirled them like drumsticks.
In the time that passed, a few of them got upgrades in weaponry as well as other things.
On Mobius, there were mixed reactions.
"Just him against all of them? Is he delusional?" Cosmo asked.
"No. He's one of the most level-headed people on that time." Patamon said.
"But it's just him against fourteen of them. He doesn't stand a chance." Antoine assumed.
"Oh yeah?" Takamon had a smirk on his face as he pointed to the screen. "Watch this."
All of them directed their attention to the screen. Outside the door, all the Decepticons had their weapons locked on the door ready to unleash hell when it opened.
And then it did and Bumblebee came rushing out of it. All the Decepticons began to open fire. Purple lasers flew at Bumblebee like a hailstorm. But none of them hit. Bumblebee was twirling his swords so fast it liked like there was a glowing red force field in front of him. None of the lasers got through. Bumblebee was deflecting every single one of them. As he advanced forward, the lasers were bouncing around all over the place they managed to come into contact with some of the Decepticons who fired them, taking them offline and killing them.
Bumblebee turned and faced on pretender as he passed by and reflected a laser back at him killing another one. Halfway up the wave, he stopped. As one of his blades passed by his eyes, he saw in the reflection that there was a pretender right behind him with his gun pointed right at his head. Immediately, Bumblebee turned around and right as the shot was fired, he stopped twirling his blades, and swung his right one down as the laser closed in on his face. The sword sliced the laser into two halves and both of them whizzed by Bumblebees head and went through the heads of two more pretenders. Then turned around and saw the con that just shot at him. He jumped up and swung both of his blades down chopping the con right up.
Then he looked down the hall again. There were only two more left. And they began to fire again. Bumblebee started to run forward twirling his blades again deflecting the lasers. Then when he was close enough, he tossed both of his swords up in the air. And then he jumped up to follow them. He was airborne over the laser fire and was doing multiple forward somersaults. Then he caught his swords and came down, and he swung both of them as hard as he could and took out the one on the right. Then he stood straight up and swung his left blade to take out the other one.
Bumblebee turned around to look back at his work. To him, it was beautiful. There were dead bodies of Decepticons everywhere. That's fourteen kills on the board for Bumblebee. He put his swords back where he got them and then called to his team.
"Its all clear, you guys!"
The other nine knights poked their heads out from the sides of the door and took a look around. It took a minute, and he was already done.
"Damn, Bee." Sideswipe said as he skated out of the elevator on those one-wheeled skates of his.
Everyone else followed him and Arcee ran up to Bumblebee and hugged him.
"Thanks for being careful." She said.
"No problem. Now let's go."
Optimus took the lead and then they all got ready for action again.
On Mobius, everyone had very wide eyes because of what they just witnessed. Everyone except for Patamon, Gatomon, and Takamon that is.
"And THAT is why Bumblebee is that team badass." Takamon said.
"Noted." Bunnie murmured.
The knights continued their advance to the door of the warehouse, but not all of them were really comfortable.
"You know, I find it kind of strange. Megatron sent his troops here to try and steal Energon from the only city that's still up and running. Don't you think he would have sent one of his bigger flunkies? Likes Starscream or someone?" Jolt asked.
Optimus froze on the spot when he heard that. Now he felt that same fishy feeling.
"You're right, Jolt. Something's up. Why would Megatron only a battalion of Pretenders to face us and not send someone stronger?" he said.
"Dude. Forget about it. Just accept the fact that he was stupid enough to do it and we can get an easy win." Ratchet tried to get his leader to look at the bright side.
"I wish I could, doc-knight." Optimus replied quietly. "I wish I could."
Despite his uneasiness, Optimus resumed heading for the main entrance to the warehouse. When he reached it, He found that the door was for a full sized Autobot to operate.
"Jetfire, would you mind?" Optimus asked.
"I got it."
Everyone backed up and away from Jetfire. Then his suit began to transform into his large robot mode. Jetfire's vehicle mode was an SR-71 Blackbird plane. It was a lot larger than everyone else's vehicle modes. So his robot mode was also larger. When the transformation was complete, Jetfire stood tall with those red glowing eyes. The original Jetfire used to be a Decepticon. So the red eyes were still there.
Jetfire got ready to open the door on Optimus' command.
"Whenever you're ready, Optimus." The flyer said.
"Hold up." Optimus said. "Teletraan, what's on the other side of this door?"
Teletraan accessed the cameras inside the warehouse and gave his answer.
"Just about six or so pretenders and that's about it. It should be…hold on."
Teletraan zoomed in on one of the Decepticons. It was a girl. A Japanese teenage girl with black hair.
"Guys, get this. Miki's in there." Teletraan said.
Everyone shared surprised glances with each other.
"Miki? What is she doing here?" Ironhide asked anyone.
"Why don't we go in there and find out? Jetfire! Open the door!" Optimus commanded.
Jetfire opened the door up and then quickly transformed down to his human mode again. Then all ten of them rushed through the door and quickly halted.
Miki was the first to notice them and then the other Pretenders saw their foes enter. Miki smugly grinned and jumped off a pile of pink Energon Cubes.
"Well well well. Long time no see, AutoKnights."
"I don't know what you're whole plan was, Miki. But it's over now." Optimus said. "Take em' out, knights." He ordered his team.
"Hold it right there, Prime." Miki stopped him. "You don't want to engage with us."
"And why not?" Optimus sneered.
"Look around you." Mike turned around. "We're in a room chock full of Energon Cubes. One wrong shot, we all go up."
Optimus growled. Miki was right. One badly aimed shot from anyone could accidentally hit one of the Energon Cubes and start a chain reaction. The explosion would be big enough to level Autobot HQ.
"Fine. But you're high off your ass if you think we're just gonna let you walk out of here." Optimus said.
"I'm aware of that." Miki started to walk forward. "Which is why I propose a duel to see who gets the stock of Energon."
Confused looks were shared with everyone there. Even the pretenders were a bit puzzled.
"A duel?" Ratchet repeated.
"Six on six. Team that wins gets the energon."
All of them were skeptical.
"Do you honestly think we're that stupid?" Chromia shouted. "You'll try anything to get all these cubes!"
"Regardless of what you think of me, girly, I still have some sportsmanship in me. My deal is honest. If you win, we'll leave. Now who on your team will fight?"
None of them were entirely sure about this. They may be smaller, but they were still Decepticons. But they all saw how Bumblebee handled himself against fourteen at once. SO this should be cinch.
So they agreed. Now they had to choose who to send out there to fight. Optimus already had his decision made.
"Jazz, you've dealt with her before. Think you're up for this?"
Jazz smiled. The last time he saw Miki was on Earth. And the two of them threw-down against each other when she first revealed herself to be Techno-Organic.* And Jazz used his newfound ninja moves to overpower her. He would have killed her if Yuriko and Hikaru didn't intervene however.
(* Chapter 11 of the AutoKnights V: When Many Worlds Collide)
"I think I can take her."
Jazz slowly approached his opponent. As he did, he held out his arms and his nunchucks shout out of the sides of his legs and into the palms of his hands.
He stood across from Miki while the other five Pretenders lined up next to her. Then their opponents approached them. The other AutoKnights fighting were Optimus, Bumblebee, Arcee, Jolt, and Sideswipe. The six best melee fighters.
"Hold it." Miki said to Jazz. "Move, little boy."
Jazz looked offended. "What did you call me?"
Miki ignored him.
"I don't want to play with you." She looked at Optimus with a scowl. "I want HIM." She pointed right at the leader.
And Optimus along with the rest of his team were unable to determine what kind of bone Miki had to pick with him. But he was sure going to find out.
"Alright. If that's the way you want it, then bring it." Optimus said determined.
He and Jazz switched places. Optimus looked Miki dead in her eyes. This freak of a Decepticon actually knew his name. But no one knew why. Only she did.
Miki made a blue glowing blade extend from the side of her arm and past her hand. Optimus unsheathed his right energon sword and turned up the intensity of power. The blade grew brighter orange.
The other pretenders had blades like Miki did. Then the knights chose their weapons.
Jolt readied his electro-whips and let them out a few feet. Sideswipe unleashed his giant battle blades from the top of his arms. Bumblebee took out his twin red swords again. Jazz twirled his chucks.
Arcee reached behind her back and took a two-foot staff like object out of the back of her robe. Then she pressed a button. The top of the staff began to transform. Two large flat heads formed and in a few short seconds, a giant red glowing hammer was formed.
Another upgrade. All of them courtesy of one Ironhide.
Sonic was watching and took notice of that weapon. It made him think of something.
"Let's see. She's pink and she's got a hammer. Now WHO does that remind me of?"
He looked back at Amy with a smirk. She teasingly punched his arm.
"Very funny. But there's only one of me."
"I know."
The two of them pecked each other and quickly got back to what was happening on Cybertron.
"I still can't believe Miki's there." Takamon said.
"Wait." Blaze said. "You've met that psycho bitch before?" she asked her husband.
"Only once." Takamon answered. "It's a very long story."
In the warehouse. It was pretty much a stare down. Then Optimus raised his sword up to his face ready to either attack or defend himself. Everyone else got ready too while Jetfire, Chromia, Ratchet, and Ironhide took cover behind a stack of Energon.
Then Miki lunged at Optimus and tried to slice him down the middle. Optimus was quick to block and then he and Miki became locked in a full on sword fight.
The other pretenders began to attack their respected targets as well and they drifted off in their own directions.
Jazz was having no problem at all with his Decepticon. He was blocking every single punch and kick with one had behind his back.
"Man, this isn't even a challenge for a ninja. So I'm gonna this quick for you."
Jazz's boots began to transform. The soles opened up and then there were five round nozzles showing. Much like Shadow's rocket shoes. In fact, they were exactly like Shadow's shoes. It was another upgrade Jazz had received.
(Another plothole that will be explained in 6.5)
His shoes turned on and then he dashed away from his con and began to run in circles around him. The pretender didn't even know what to do at this point. Then Jazz jumped at him and swung his chucks. The con exploded and Jazz stood up straight.
"Well that was incredibly easy. Might as well see how everyone else is doing."
"I'm doing fine." Bumblebee walked over to him.
"You kill yours?" Jazz asked.
Bumblebee looked down. Jazz followed and saw that Bumblebee was holding the head of the pretender he was fighting in his hands.
"You know, Hot Rod kind of made me believe that these pretenders were tough. They're not."
Jazz had to say amen to that. Then the two of them walked off.
Arcee was still engaged with her fight. But she was actually doing pretty good. She hadn't made one offensive move yet, and there were no scratches on her. When the pretender swung the blade at her, Arcee evaded it quite gracefully. She was quite flexible. Then the blade went for her legs and she jumped over it like a professional ballet dancer. That's when she thought to make this quick. As she landed after that jump, she twirled around on her toes and swung her hammer. She connected with the pretender and it went into the wall. Then she ran over to it and smashed it into the wall killing it for sure. As she pulled the hammer away, little bits of scrap fell to the floor. She giggled.
"Thank god I never missed a single dancing class in junior high."
"Nice moves you got there."
Sideswipe skated over.
"I wish I knew how to dance like that." he said.
"You kill yours?" Arcee asked.
"Yeah. I tore him apart one limb at a time. It was a beautiful thing."
The two of them walked off.
Jolt was having a bit of trouble. His main weapons weren't exactly the best ones to go into battle with. But he liked them. He was swinging his whips like crazy but nothing was working. Then the pretender found an opening and ran up to Jolt kicking him in the chest. Jolt crashed into a pile of Energon cubes and his whips automatically retracted and transformed away revealing his hands again. The Pretender approached ready to bring his blade down on Jolt and he held out his hands bracing himself.
But then the pretender was thrown back as a huge wave of electricity came out of nowhere and hit him. Jolt got up wondering what it was. Then he noticed his hands. They were sparking with blue bits of electricity. Jolt had just discovered a new ability.
"I can shoot lighting out of my hands? But…how? Wait. Now I get it. It must be some kind of electrokinesis. I can control electricity with my mind. And if that's true…"
Jolt looked at the pretender who was still on the ground. Then he looked up. There was an overhead light right above him. He smirked as an idea came to his head. An idea to put his newfound power to the test.
The pretender got back up and saw Jolt with his right hand raised in the air. The light overhead began to flicker. Then Jolt brought his hand down. Out of that light, a huge bolt of blue colored lightning came down and struck the pretender sending thousands of volts through his circuitry. A few seconds later, the overload made the thing blow up.
Jolt had gotten the result he had hoped for. He could control electricity in his AutoKnight persona.
"That was SWEET, Jolt!" The other four that were finished came over to him. Bumblebee still had the head of his pretender in his hand.
"Thanks you guys. Where's Optimus?"
"My guess is he's wrapping things up right about now." Jazz suggested.
But then Optimus and Miki both came crashing through a distant pile of Energon cubes. The two of them got right back up and picked right up where they left off. Jazz was wrong. Optimus was nowhere near done. It was too hard to tell which one of them had the upper hand. When it came to swordsmanship, Optimus and Miki turned out to be pretty evenly matched. It kind of reminded them of a lightsaber fight in Star Wars.
Now all nine other AutoKnights were watching as the two continued. Optimus was walking backwards and that meant he was the one doing all the blocking while Miki was the one on offense. Miki swung at his legs and Optimus backflipped. When he landed, he swiped his sword at Miki's head and she evaded it. Then she brought her own blade in contact with his and pushed it to the ground along with his arm. Then she was swung her other arm and backhanded Optimus right in the cheek.
Optimus stumbled backwards almost falling over off balance. But he regained it and then saw Miki's arm blade coming down. He blocked it with his sword and then the two became locked in their swords. Miki started to push hard on her arm and Optimus' blade started to get closer and closer to his face.
"Die. Just like your sister."
Optimus gasped. Those words. The way she used them. How could she possibly know about that?
It was enough of a distraction to give Miki the chance to get in a few good shots. She punched him in the stomach and then gave him a hard kick in his chest. Optimus skidded on the ground a bit before stopping.
"I'll finish you another day, Bauer."
Miki started to run off. Everyone ran to their leader.
"Optimus! Are you alright?" Ironhide asked worried.
"I'm fine. Get her."
Bumblebee already had a plan. Miki wasn't too far out of range. But he wasn't planning on shooting Miki. Oh no.
He walked over to a pile of Energon cubes and found one. It was a smaller one the size of a soccer ball. Perfect.
"Hey, Jetfire."
Jetfire looked up and at the yellow knight. Then he knew what he had planned when Bumblebee started to kick the cube up and down like a ball.
"Pass it here, Bee."
"For the goal."
Bumblebee kicked the cube and it headed right for Jetfire. He got up and then he jumped.
"Bicycle kick!"
And he performed a perfect one. All those years of soccer had finally come into play. Jetfire kicked that cube as hard as he could and it headed right for Miki.
As it did, Bumblebee armed his plasma cannon and steadily waited for the right time. Then he fired a single shot and an orange ball of plasma energy flew right for the cube.
Miki looked back and lost her smirk when she saw an Energon Cube fly up to her. When it was right by her face, Bumblebee's shot collided with it and the cube exploded.
Miki was sent flying into another pile of cubes and Optimus got up in time to see it.
"Nice kick, Jet." He said.
Jetfire nodded. Optimus told Ratchet to go and get her. The doc-knight walked over to Miki. She had just got up and was about to make another break. The right side of her face was smoking and wires and circuitry could be seen. But then she froze when she saw Ratchet with his EMP pointed right at her. And it was on his left arm. The one she was responsible for having been replaced with a robotic arm.
"You're done running, Miki." Ratchet said.
"Yeah yeah. How's the arm treating you? How does it feel to be less of a human?"
That was enough for him. Ratchet shot his EMP and Miki collapsed in a heap on the floor. Ratchet then used his electro-magnets to pick her up.
"Let's get her back up to HQ and get her in holding. We can question her. Chances are she knows what Megatron is up to." Optimus said.
Everyone agreed to that. Optimus looked up.
"Tak? Can you and everyone else still see us?" he said.
"Yeah. We saw and heard everything. It's good to see you guys are still in fighting shape." Takamon said.
Optimus wasn't so sure about that. He just got beaten. But it all fairness he was distracted. And he needed to know about that. How the hell did Miki know about Amber?
"Yeah it is. Teletraan, do you have a lie detector built into your systems?"
"Yes."
"Good. Because I need you to read Miki when she gets interrogated. Can you do that from where you are?"
"Of course I can."
"Good. Let's go, Knights."
They all walked out of the warehouse with Miki captured and headed back to the elevator.
On Mobius, there were a few questions in the air. They heard everything Miki said, so they heard her say that line about Optimus' sister.
"How does she know about that?" Takamon wondered.
"Yeah. None of us knew until a few months ago." Gatomon added.
"Wait. What are you guys talking about?" Sally asked.
Patamon, Gatomon, and Takamon looked at each other.
"It really isn't our place to tell you." Takamon replied.
"Well if its concerning Trevor, then don't you think I'm gonna find out about it sooner or later since he's going to be my new leader?" Sonic asked.
Sonic made a good point. Everyone on the team knew. And Sonic was now part of the team as well. But everyone else shouldn't really know. But they were probably going to find out from Sonic anyway.
"Alright." Takamon decided to spill. "The truth is, Trevor is a lot like Cosmo."
Cosmo was the one most confused by that.
"What do you mean, like me?" she repeated.
Takamon sighed.
"I mean his the last one in his family alive."
No one understood. Well…yeah they did. It was easy to. But they didn't understand why.
"The last one alive? How?" Bunnie asked.
Takamon sighed again. He hated telling sad stories.
"Well, Trevor is a great fighter and a great leader and all. But…when it comes to his personal life…he's had a rough past."
Their expressions softened.
"How rough?" Blaze asked.
Takamon looked at his wife, then Sonic, then Amy, and so on.
"Trevor lost every single member of his family when he was very young." He told them what he remembered hearing. "First his mother died in childbirth, then his father got killed, his grandparents died, and then the most recent one for him was his twin sister, Amber."
Everyone slowly gasped. Sonic just frowned.
"He had a twin sister?" Sally asked.
"Yeah." Takamon answered. "He took it pretty hard. By the time his grandparents died he and Amber were living on the streets. But yet…I admire the fact that despite all that happened to him, he still woke up every morning and kept on living his life no matter how bad it was. He's a strong kid. He deserves to be our leader."
Takamon ended up smiling as he said that last part.
"He IS a good kid." Sonic agreed. "It's a shame he had to go through that."
"But that still doesn't explain how Miki knows about it." Patamon said.
"Well then we'll just have to find out now won't we?" Amy said.
"We'll leave that to them. The interrogation has started." Teletraan said.
Nicole fuzzed in.
"Did I miss anything?" She asked Teletraan.
"No." he replied.
On Cybertron, Miki was now sitting at the far end of a table with her hands and ankles in stasis cuffs. She was being interrogated by Prowl.
"Listen here. We all know that you're one of Megatron's top generals in the pretender army. So he keeps you in the loop. We want to know right now. Why is he gathering all this energy?"
Miki just laughed.
"Like I would tell someone like you."
Prowl slammed the table and stood up.
"Listen, either way this isn't going to end well for you, Shikibu. So you can either tell us right now what Megatron's planning, or we can throw you in prison for the rest of your days! Choose!"
Miki laughed again. But then she gave an answer that Prowl didn't see coming.
"I want to speak with Trevor Bauer."
Prowl stood right above her.
"Why do you want him?"
"You want me to talk? Get Bauer."
In the main control room, everyone had transformed back into their normal human selves. And everyone was looking at Trevor. Then he started to walk out of the room. But Violet cuahgt up to him and grabbed his arm.
"You're not actually considering this, are you?" She sounded scared.
"Yeah. I want to know how the hell she knows me." Trevor replied.
"But she could kill you." Tai said also a bit worried.
"Then you guys can stand outside the door. Just in case something happens. Alright?"
They all shrugged. That was reasonable.
"Fine lets go." TK said.
As they walked out, Yuriko and Hikaru came up to them.
"We just heard Miki's in holding. I want to see her!" Yuriko demanded.
"Well right now she wants to talk to me." Trevor said. "But you can go in after I'm done."
"You're not going to kill her. Are you?"
Hikaru just looked away still unhappy with her sister's view on Miki.
"She wants to speak to Trevor Bauer. Not Optimus Prime."
Yuriko knew what he meant by that. As an AutoKnight, he was a robot killing machine. But normal Trevor was unarmed. Bluestreak led them to the holding cell where Miki was. And Prowl was standing outside the door.
"Open it up, Prowl." Trevor said.
Prowl opened up the door and Trevor walked through it alone. After he was inside the room, Prowl closed it back up.
Trevor eyed Miki across the giant table. This girl wanted to see him for a reason and he knew it wasn't to discuss Megatron's plans.
"Prowl said you'll only talk to me." Trevor started. "Why?"
Miki's smug looked remained.
"Because out of everyone on this planet, you're the one I have a close relationship with."
That made Trevor forget about Megatron and anything else. It was time for the beans to be spilled.
"Alright, you wicked bitch. Stop screwing me. You know who the hell I am. And I want to know how you know me!"
Miki chuckled. She was getting a kick out of hearing him yell.
"It's very simple really. I know you one through that prophecy on the Junkion moon, and two through your family."
(The prophecy of which Miki speaks is another plothole that 6.5 will explain in time)
Trevor froze when he heard, "your family".
"How could you know me through my family? I've never met you before in my life until that day in Japan."
"You and I go farther back than that, Bauer." Miki replied. "Tell me something. What were the last words your sister said to you right before she died?"
That got Trevor fuming and he stormed over to her.
"How the hell do you know about my sister?" he hissed.
Miki smirked. She had been waiting to tell this for a long time.
"Who do you think was responsible for her death?"
What? That didn't make any sense. Trevor knew damn well what killed Amber.
"It was a couple of stupid gang bangers. I know who killed my sister."
Oh he had no clue.
"Who do you think told them to do it in the first place, Bauer?"
Trevor lost his breath. There was only one reason she would say something like that.
"You…you mean…"
Miki grinned even more.
"That's it, Bauer." Then it all came out. "Your family's deaths, aside from your mother, was all MY doing. So in a way, I killed your family."